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The Role of Elementary Dimensions in the Creation of the Source of Elementary Particles
It is agreed that before the creation of particles, space was completely devoid of matter and radiation. In this study, we assume that the absolute void comprises 4 dimensions, namely 3 spatial dimensions and a force equivalent representing the factor of change among the elementary dimensions. Our hypothesis is based on the expansion of the spatial dimensions and the subsequent space instability. We demonstrated that when the equivalent outward force strength exceeds a critical limit, it collapses inwardly to restore the equilibrium of the system. Subsequently, the void inside the collapsed force equivalent acts as a void in a confined system, and the energy of the system remains conserved at all stages. With the decrease in the spatial dimensions owing to the collapse, the energy density increases, and at the final stage, the energy in the confined system becomes concentrated, thereby forming a solid state of energy. In this solid state of energy, a particle becomes the source of the elementary particles. The created high-energy sources are controlled by the internal and external forces of the source and all the entities in its external force field until equilibrium is reached. This article gives a summary of the Big Bang theory and its problems, which are further discussed in detail. This article will help in understanding how elementary dimensions play a role in the formation of elementary particles. Quark-gluon plasma, inflation, gravitational collapse, and gravitational lensing provide evidence that supports the elementary dimensions theory presented in this paper.
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End of Year Expectations
The following links will give you a detailed breakdown of what the end of year expectations are for each of the year groups 1-6 in reading, writing and maths.
Within each document there are 2 pages for each subject. The first page gives the end of year expectations exactly as they appear on the national curriculum. The second page gives the end of year expectations in the form of 'I can' statements so that they are easier for children to use and understand. This is the format that many teachers use for creating targets with children.
The source of information used to create these documents is 'Key Assessment Criteria' created by Focus Education UK Ltd 2014. This document is used by the teachers at Elton in order to plan for progression in the subjects they teach.
Please use the attachments below to find information for each year group.
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This episode of Living History series features part one of two interviews with Robert R. “Bob” King to mark the sixth anniversary of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on human rights in North Korea. Ambassador King served as special envoy for North Korea human rights issues from 2009 – 2017, leading efforts to advance human rights and humanitarian conditions in North Korea, secure the release of U.S. citizens held in North Korea, and represent the United States in international organizations dealing with these issues.
Ambassador King recounts what it was like to visit North Korea and to raise human rights issues with North Korean leaders. He discusses the important role of the United Nations in calling attention to human rights conditions in North Korea and coordinating efforts to make progress on these issues.
As part of these discussions, Ambassador King shares his thoughts on the nexus between human rights and broader security concerns like denuclearization. He concludes with an assessment of progress made since the release of the UN COI Report in 2014, remaining challenges under the current administration, and the role that human rights should play in U.S. foreign policy.
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Teeth that are not aligned properly create what we dentists call a malocclusion. Left untreated, malocclusion can lead to periodontal disease and can create abnormal amounts of stress on the teeth and jaws, which leads to premature wear and tear that will worsen over time.
In addition, it is difficult to remove plaque and bacteria found on misaligned teeth. This condition can cause gum inflammation, soft tissue damage, loose teeth, gum pockets around the teeth, bone loss and sometimes tooth loss.
When your teeth are properly aligned, the benefits for your dental health are clear:
Healthier gums. It is easier to brush and floss properly aligned teeth, and the likelihood that pockets trapping bacteria will grow is lower.
Better hygiene. Straight teeth reduce plaque retention, cavities and the risk of gum disease.
Less wear and trauma. Correctly aligned teeth reduce the risk of chipping, fracture and tooth wear, all of which can be costly to repair. Proper alignment also reduces stress on the bone and jaw joints.
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Live Fire Training for Emergency Incidents
This demonstration of fire behavior using live fire in an acquired structure is designed for fire service trainers and officers responsible for emergency incident strategy and tactics. The training is delivered using, slides, video, acquired structures, scientific instruments, fire, smoke and various tools available to the fire service craftsperson. Participants will learn to size up a structure to estimate the intensity and location of a fire in a building. During fire demonstrations thermocouples are placed throughout the structure to help students' correlate visible exterior queues to actual fire conditions and temperatures inside the structure.
The classroom portion includes instruction on fire behavior that will be visible during the live fire training. On the fire ground participants will learn the techniques of a walk around size up, and observe fire behavior from ignition, to extinguishments. Students will learn to identify the differences between a contents and a fire that has extended to the structure. Participants will have the opportunity to observe the extinguishing characteristics of various types of fire service nozzles.
The class provides a rewarding, highly interactive environment where participants reinforce their own skills and learn from the instructor as well as the other participants. Students rate the instruction and training as outstanding, among the most valuable training they have experienced.
Below is a list of videos associated with this training
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In Ireland, people should make almost €450 a week to have comfortable life
New research published by the Living Wage Technical Group discovered that people in Ireland need to earn €11.50 an hour to be able to afford an acceptable standard of living. This amount is one-third higher than the minimum wage in the country, which is set at €8.65 an hour for an adult. In Ireland, around 83,000 people are estimated to earn the minimum wage. The study showed also that the cost of living increased 5 cents on the 2014 rate.
It was calculated based on the cost of 2,000 expenses including accommodation, food, energy, transport, clothes and services. Over the past 12 months, there have been reductions in the cost of health insurance and transportation. Food prices have also fallen.
The research showed the villain of the Irish´s cost of living is the housing costs. Rising rents, in particular in Dublin, were the main driver of the hourly increase.
A study published in May showed that Ireland is the fourth highest minimum wage behind Australia (€8.44), Luxembourg (€8.18), and Belgium (€7.58). Meanwhile, at the bottom of the pile is Chile (€1.96), Latvia (€1.29), and Mexico(€0.90).
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Enthymeme (en’-thy-meem): 1. The informal method [or figure] of reasoning typical of rhetorical discourse. The enthymeme is sometimes defined as a “truncated syllogism” since either the major or minor premise found in that more formal method of reasoning is left implied. The enthymeme typically occurs as a conclusion coupled with a reason. When several enthymemes are linked together, this becomes sorites. 2. A figure of speech which bases a conclusion on the truth of its contrary. [Depending on its grammatical structure and specific word choice, it may be chiasmus].
1. You better take an umbrella. It is raining outside. (Possible implied premises: you want to stay dry. The umbrella will keep you dry because it is specifically designed to do so [if you use it properly].)
2. If virtue is an ideal that should be pursued, vice should be avoided. (Vice is contrary to virtue.)
- Post your own enthymeme on the “Comments” page!
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu). Bracketed text added by Gorgias.
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undermeans less, lower, not enough, beneath, or below. So when you attach it to some words, it will change their meanings. For example,
undergroundmeans beneath the ground.
Underdevelopedmeans not developed enough. In this lesson, we will build our vocabulary base with words that start with the prefix
under. We will look at words like
understate, and more. Do not
underestimatethe importance of learning new vocabulary! Vocabulary underlies good communication skills in any language. Don’t forget to do the quiz after watching to test your understanding.
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How to Insert a Spring Pinby C.L. Rease
Spring pins use tension created by compression to lock tight in a hole drilled through two or more components. Before installation, the diameter of a spring pin measures slightly larger than a drilled hole. The diameter of the spring pin shrinks as it enters a drilled hole. This provides the tension necessary to keep a spring pin secure in a material. Numerous designs of spring pins are available but no matter the design, they all use the same methods of installation. Incorrectly installing a spring pin will cause its body to deform and lodge in a part before the pin seats in the material.
Spread lightweight oil over the exterior surface of the spring pin.
Grasp the spring pin with the jaws of a pair of needle-nose pliers. Ensure that at least 1/8 inch of the pin sits past the top edge of the pliers.
Align the spring pin with the appropriately sized drilled hole. Tap the end of the pin extending beyond the jaws of the pliers with a ball-peen hammer. Release your grip with the needle-nose pliers when the spring pin sits tightly in the hole.
Set the tapered end of the spring pin set on the end of the spring pin. Hit the flat end of the spring pin set with the ball-peen hammer to drive the spring pin flush with the top surface of the drilled material.
Things You'll Need
- Lightweight oil
- Needle-nose pliers
- Ball-peen hammer
- Spring pin set
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1. Markets are relationships.
2. Crowds are not a mob, chaotic, nor a mass, homogenous, they are plural groupsorganized through networks.
3. The collective intelligence is not determined by the individual intelligence of each member of the group.
4. Add and filter individual opinions is only a primary crowdsourcing form that enables confronting simple problems.
5. Complex and undefined problems require communities of practice working through a connected environment to generate real collective intelligence.
6. Communitiescan be excellent in producing efficiency and quality and are therefore a model of the industrial age in its own.
7. When considering a group as a homogeneous mass only statistical data can be analysed instead of the intelligence produced by such group .
8. Having an apparently secure market share but losing our understanding of the society will lead, sooner or later, to to failure.
9. The company of the XXI century cannot stagnate in a security perimeter but should explore the adjacent environment.
10.A business may be closed or open to the outside world, it may drown or transform itself.
11. Businesses must exploit what they know to do, but also explore what might come to know.
12. Be permeable to allow future to sneak into the walls of the present.
13. Facing harsh realities in a liquid society, companies must be capable of adapting to survive.
14. Business connectivity is not about connecting dots, or creatingnetworks … it is about establishing networks to think, develop and access jointly the market .
15. Businesses should be a platform to build an ecosystem promoting opportunities.
16. Crowd companies transform collective knowledge in relationships, organizations and business.
17. Corporate Social Responsibility is the past, business and social involvement are already two inseparable parts of the same strategy.
18. The crowd company transforms competition in competitiveness and rivalry in cooperation.
19. The crowd company is open to the entire world.
20. Hierarchical and efficiency-oriented organizations disconnect emotionally from their employees and their innovation strategies become expensive and slow.
21. When understanding a group as a diverse crowd, true innovation and collective intelligence may arise.
22. Learn to appreciate the emotional intelligence of companies and organizations.
23. In a world continuously changing, continuous innovation is a necessity for survival and no longer a business option.
24. Outsourcing diversity increases innovation and reduces costs but does not solve the pathologies within organizations.
25. True open innovation requires involvement and leadership from the organization.
26. Innovation implies to listen and to open to external inputs, in a gradual way.
27. The reason for a company to exist nowadays is organic, involving continuous innovation through nternal and external agents
28. The classical and linear R & D model is only as small part of the innovation strategy of a few sectors.
29. The new R & D strategy involvesinnovation and design, which areincorporated throughout the whole team of staff.
30. To innovate we must tolerate failure.
31. Failure is just finding solutions that do not work yet.
32. Those who do not fail when seeking innovation strategies have not dared enough.
33. For a business, the best proof of its willingness to innovate is their ability to reward bold failures.
34. The consumerization of technological capacity destroys the competitive advantage of large organizations.
35. It is not smartto nottreat consumers as smart citizens.
36. A small action with many followers will bring great changes.
37. The power of the consumers is very high. When they cannot contribute, they organize and weave their revenge in networks.
38. An effective brand must incorporate into its narrative the emotional relationships with the stakeholders.
39. The governance of a complex ecosystem involving different stakeholders should be the main concern of any organization.
40. The current complexity cannot be controlled by planning, but can be managed by designing structures to allow interactions. .
41. To exploreis essential, over controlling isn’t..
42. A good story indicating the direction is worthier than an outdated plan imposing goals.
43. Users search services and personalized experiences rather than products.
44. The customization requires the active intervention of the user, otherwise it is perceived as false.
45. The user is already a co-designer. We need interfaces that facilitate such capacity without overcomplicating the process
46. Innovation requires ecosystems of collaboration and therefore it requires spaces and platforms for interaction.
47. Global Transformation: spaces (coworking), methodologies (design thinking), innovation (crowdcreating) and financing (crowdfunding).
48. Business incubators (twentieth century) are outdated. Open innovation spaces (XXI century) are born.
49. Every innovation is collective and arises from interaction scenarios.
50. Motivated, dynamic and open spaces and interaction between members promote the distributive innovation.
51. In the crowd-society, the culture of use replaces the culture of possession.
52. The ‘commons’ culture is a form of relationship, management and governance and therefore requires rules. It does not have and ideology in itself, but it is not neutral.
53. Collective funding provides commitments, talent and motivation, as well as money.
54. The Knowmads are the artisans of the XXI century: they generate knowledge, create environment and develop processes.
55. Diasporas contribute to creative openness and diversity, therefore, they connect networks.
56. Only from action and experimentation learning (and innovation) is possible. Learning is to undertake and undertake is to learn.
57. The citizen capacity of innovation increases with the access to infrastructures like social technologies and production laboratories.
58. Technologies can be social if they are designed for empowering the citizen, facilitating their autonomy and production capacity.
59. Social technologies increase growthby facilitating the development of new infrastructures by citizens.
60. Communities and networks involved in manufacturing processes are alternatives to the activities that were previously only possible through formal organizations.
61. Communities and networks fulfill the social mission which institutions no longer exert.
62. Contemporary communities are based on practice and multiple free choices.
63. Communities of practice need a ‘commons’ culture that states its objectives, working methods, governance and technology.
64. States and markets are incomplete solutions, the ‘commons’ is essential for a feasible governance of a complex world.
65. We are currently experiencing the transition towards a system of social movements capable of addressing complex problems and generating forms of civic innovation.
66. Only when innovation emerges from citizens thengovernments and enterprises can meet the challenges of the Network Society.
1. Markets are relationships.
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Parent Conversation Guides
Part of the joy of dancing is feeling the air move around us. Help your child notice and experiment with how it feels to move through space.
- Did you know that our bodies always move through air? It isn’t empty space; it’s filled with air that surrounds us. Wave your hands in the air. Can you feel it?
- Give your child a feather. The soft part is like our hair. Can you turn in a circle without having the feather flutter? Why do you think that happens?
- When we really feel the air moving around us, it can feel like flying
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As the Crow Flies
The distance between Vienna and New York City is 6,806 kilometers (4,229 miles).Vienna (Population: 1,714,142) is located in Wien, Austria. New York City (Population: 8,244,910) is located in New York, United States.
The driving distance from Vienna to New York City is kilometers ( miles).
The driving time is estimated to be .
The time zone of Vienna is Central European Time (CET), the local time is 3:28 PM. The time zone of New York City is Eastern Standard Time (EST), the local time is 9:28 AM.
The time difference is 6 hours.
The currency of Austria is Euro.
The currency of United States is US Dollar.
The exchange rate is EUR100.00 = USD121.65 and USD100.00 = EUR82.20.
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The fruit of this new annual garden plant lends itself to many different food uses either raw or cooked. Developed in Guatemala but adapted to Iowa and the Midwest, seed of the Mayan husk tomato now is available.
Melhus, I. E. and Smith, Frank O.
"A Tropical Fruit Comes to Iowa,"
Iowa Farm Science: Vol. 7
, Article 7.
Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/farmscience/vol7/iss11/7
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Plasma is characterized as an electrically neutral medium of unbound positive and negative particles, with an overall charge of roughly zero. Like a gas, plasma has no defined shape unless enclosed in a container. To generate plasma, we apply an electrical field to a gas, with the goal of removing electrons from their orbit around the nuclei. This creates a mix of ions and free-flowing electrons, which give the plasma key properties, including its electrical conductivity, a magnetic field, and sensitivity to external electromagnetic fields.
A key requirement for producing and sustaining plasma, is continued energy input. Induction is an ideal means of providing that continuous energy input for plasma generation. Some typical industrial applications for plasma include:
- Plasma welding
- Metal cutting
- Surface treatments (plasma spray coating)
- Etching in micro-electronics
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Author(s): W. J. Gardner
Cheviot Hills, an 84,000 acre North Canterbury sheep run, was a symbol of vast and impregnable wealth to nineteenth-century New Zealand. But in the 1890s it became the first 'big estate’ acquired by the Liberal Government and broken up into small farms.
Jim Gardner, a former Canterbury University historian, tells the fascinating story of the first great battle of a government championing the rights of land-hungry New Zealanders. But it is also a story about the emerging supremacy of Cabinet government and the development of modern politics.
List of tables and maps
1. William Robinson and Cheviot Hills
2. The Robinson inheritance
3. Harry Bell – Between Wellington and Cheviot
4. Harry Bell – Between Sara and Emily
5. Towards a private sale of Cheviot
6. Towards the public sale of Cheviot
7. 'Bursting up the big estates'
8. 'Putting the small man on the land'
9. The decision to acquire Cheviot
10. Turning Cheviot into cash
11. The politics of Cheviot – Cabinet and parliament
12. The politics of Cheviot – A settlement for Canterbury
13. Preparing the site
14. The Cheviot settlement
15. The Cheviot settlers
16. Cheviots to come
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It’s January 14th and here are some reasons why this day matters in rock history:
In 1967, over 25-thousand people attended one of the first ever major, outdoor rock concerts. It was called the Human Be-In: A Gathering of the Tribes and took place at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park where Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company were among the performers.
In 1978, The Sex Pistols played their last live gig. It took place at Winterland in San Francisco.
In 1999, Metallica sued Victoria’s Secret, claiming that the lingerie maker infringed on the band’s trademark by marketing a line of “Metallica” lip pencils. The lawsuit was eventually settled.
And in 2004, The White Stripes’ Jack White was in court, pleading not guilty to assaulting the Von Bondies singer, Jason Stollsteimer, a month earlier. Jack originally said he was acting in self-defense but in March he changed his tune, pled guilty and was fined 500 dollars and court costs. He was also ordered to attend anger management classes.
And that’s what happened today in rock history.
(H/T This Day in Music)
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For this introductory example, you will simulate a standard non-inverting operational amplifier circuit (shown in Figure 1). The gain of this non-inverting amplifier is calculated by the expression Gain = 1 + R1/R2. Therefore, if R1 = R2, then the gain is equal to 2, which you will verify when you run interactive simulation in Multisim.
Figure 1. Non-inverting amplifier circuit.
Begin by drawing your schematic in the Multisim environment.
Figure 2. Select a Component window.
The Component Browser organizes the database components into three logical levels. The Master Database contains all shipping components in a read-only format. The Corporate Database is where you can save custom components to be shared with colleagues. Finally, the User Database is where custom components are saved that can be used only by the specific designer.
Now place the remaining circuit components using the techniques discussed in the previous steps.
Figure 3. Selecting the operational amplifier.
Note that this component is a multisection component, as shown by the A and B tabs.
Note: you can rotate a component before placement by using the <Ctrl+R> shortcut on your keyboard when the component is ghosted to the mouse pointer.
Figure 4. Components placed on the workspace area.
Multisim is a modeless wiring environment. This means that Multisim determines the functionality of the mouse pointer by the position of the mouse. You do not have to return to the menu to select between the placement, wiring, and editing tools.
Figure 5. Wiring the schematic.
The last key step is to connect the power supply terminals to the positive and negative power rails of the opamp via a virtual connection using On-page connectors.
Figure 6. Schematic with On-page connectors.
You are now ready to run an interactive Multisim simulation; however, you need a way to visualize the data. Multisim provides instruments to visualize the simulated measurements. Instruments can be found on the right menu bar and are indicated by the following icons.
Figure 7. Instruments toolbar.
Figure 8. Connecting the Oscilloscope to the schematic.
Figure 9. Simulation results.
We are now ready to transfer the Multisim design to Ultiboard for PCB layout. In preparation for this we need to take into consideration that sources (power, signal) and ground are virtual components and, therefore, they cannot be transferred to Ultiboard. Also, all components must include footprint information. It is a good practice to replace power sources and ground with connectors.
Figure 10. Connecting the terminal block.
Figure 11. Schematic with terminal blocks.
Figure 12. Default board outline and parts transferred from Multisim.
For this exercise we will use a 2x2 inch board. Follow these steps to resize the board outline.
Figure 13. Design Toolbox.
The Layers tab of the Design Toolbox allows you to move between layers of your design and control the appearance of the layers.
Figure 14. Select toolbar.
The Select toolbar contains the functions used to control selection filters. In other words, these filters control what can be selected by the mouse pointer.
Place components inside the board.
Figure 15. Parts placement.
For this exercise you will place traces on both the Copper Top and Copper Bottom layers.
Figure 16. Placing a trace.
Figure 17. Routed board.
Figure 18. 3D Preview.
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These lesson plans are designed for English students and based around short films and other media. They can also be used to explore with the students the different themes of the film through debate and discussion.
This film looks at math, numbers & English math vocabulary.
Level: Intermediate (B1) and above
Time: 60 – 70 min
Language: math, numbers & English math vocabulary
Additional resources: none
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A normal dry blood sample shows a healthy, even red color, no white open areas and a distinct, interconnected fibrin network.
1. Dr. Okker R. Botha, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2012.
Normal Dry Blood
Red blood cells (RBC's) are floating freely, are roughly
the same size, their shapes are regular and circular. The white blood cells (WBCs) are active and healthy and within the normal range. Some platelets are observed in the plasma, which is clear and free from fibers, crystals and microorganisms.
"For the life of the flesh is in the blood..."
"The blood comes into contact with almost every cell in the body. It carries vital nutrients and oxygen to the cells and carries waste away from the cells. If we understand why the blood is sick we then understand why other cells in the body are sick and if we are able to improve the quality of the blood we will be able to improve the quality of almost every cell in the body." 1
Normal Live Blood
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You’re well on your way towards finishing you next piece of content. Your fingers tap away merrily on the keyboard.
All is well.
Then suddenly, your good mood fades, the clicking of your keyboard comes to a screeching halt.
You have come up against your age-old nemesis.
Punctuation. Not the period at the end of the sentence kind of punctuation. This is a complex case.
Where does that comma go? Do I need a period and a comma?
These are the questions that often bring content creators to a screeching halt.
As small as the actual symbols are, punctuation plays a huge roll in the credibility and clarity of your content. Improperly placed punctuation can change the meaning of a sentence. Proper punctuation will not make your content the next big hit, but it will prevent it from being an eye sore.
This is not necessarily a normal lesson on punctuation. This post goes into some more advanced elements of punctuation that have a place in more complex writing.
If you write every day, you likely come across some of these punctuation problems. If you don’t but are planning to, consider this a good starting point for some of the punctuation complexities you might face going forward.
Abbreviations Followed by a Comma/Period
This example encompasses two very common conundrums that content creators often face when it comes to creating content. When you have a period abbreviating a word, it doesn’t affect the comma. The spelling of the word doesn’t change just because it is followed by a comma.
However, when a word is abbreviated with a period at the end of the sentence (e.g. “I work for Company Corp.”), you do not put both periods. It would be redundant.
Parenthesis and Terminal Punctuation (Sentence-ending punctuation)
When parentheses ending a sentence are used as an aside, the period goes outside of the parentheses. Basically, if you can remove the parentheses without changing the meaning of the sentence, then the period goes outside of the parentheses.
But there is yet another rule to this. If there is a full sentence inside the parentheses, then it is acceptable to put a period inside the parentheses.
E.g. Her report is worth reading. (You’ll be shocked.)
But it is also acceptable to say:
Her report is worth reading (you’ll be shocked).
When it comes to alternative punctuation, such as exclamation points and question marks, both a period and whatever punctuation needs to be left intact.
E.g. She is running late (isn’t she?).
Semi-colons are used to join two independent clauses that are closely related. This means that instead of the semi colon, they could be separated by the period. Often, writers will attempt to use a comma in place of the semi-colon, which is incorrect. This error, called a comma splice, is very common but easily avoided.
If you aren’t feeling confident about using a semi-colon, a coordinating conjunction with a comma can be used in its place.
E.g. He had a question, but she didn’t want to hear it.
Dash vs. Hyphen
The hyphen is used to connect two words without causing confusion. It’s important to consult your current style guide and/or dictionary to see which words are hyphenated and which words are connected by eliminating the space in between.
As for dashes, they are used for connecting parenthetical statements or commentary. These informal devices are good for showing your reader you are going to make a remark without deviating from the current topic.
Quotation marks and Terminal Punctuation
In the American style of writing, periods are always placed inside quotation marks. But in cases of alternative terminal punctuation, the punctuation is outside the quotation marks if it is not part of the quotation.
E.g. Did you know she loves the movie “Gone With The Wind”?
The more content you write, the more likely you are to run into these common punctuation problems. Those moments of hesitation and confusion are costing you valuable time and resources. Instead of letting them derail you, remember these tips for content with perfect punctuation. Your content will be better for it.
Is there a punctuation problem that you often encounter that we have not covered? What is it? Let us know in the comments section.
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Fighting Against COVID 19 outbreak
Microorganisms are generally known for their numerous functions in life one of them being their capacity to taint different creatures with various hurtful infections. A microscopic organisms contamination is normally described by limited torment importance, torment is generally knowledgeable about the injury region just and not on some other aspect of the body. The following are a portion of these contaminations that are achieved by microorganisms.
One of the most well-known microscopic organism’s contaminations is the ear disease. The condition is ordinarily seen when torment is experienced from one ear while the other ear does not encounter the equivalent. The disease is additionally portrayed by certain discharge being delivered from the ear that is difficult. An early appropriate consultancy from a specialist would be prescribed with the goal for you to be given the correct sort of anti-infection agents to treat the contamination before much harm has been done to the ear.
Another microbe’s disease is the lockjaw infection. This sort of contamination is generally obtained when you get cut or pricked by a corroded object. The microorganisms around the item gets the opportunity to enter the injury through the open skin brought about by the article and will in general colonize the territory. The patient will in general experience some torment and expanding around the tainted zone and if the injury is not taken care of in legitimate time, you might be needed to remove the body part. A straightforward lockjaw infusion from the medical clinic would be sufficient to treat this issue.
Tuberculosis is another microbe’s contamination accepted to be probably the deadliest disease that can be available in human beings. The disease is brought about by pathogenic sorts of microscopic organisms. The microscopic organisms are supposed to be communicated through air and numerous contaminations occur in clogged spots like penitentiaries and pummel regions in Shincheonji. Numerous HIV positive patients are additionally supposed to be likely casualties of this disease. The patient will be believed to hack much of the time and when the contamination arrives at a further developed stage, blood beads will in general beginning going with these horrendous hacks. Like different microbes diseases, tuberculosis is treatable and with legitimate medicine, the contamination should be possible away totally without living behind any hints of it in the patient.
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Wetland plants are any plant that can survive and sometimes even thrive in very wet soil or standing water. Such plants are great for use in bio-retention ponds, near streams, or heavily saturated areas. Bald Cypress and Cephalanthus are great examples of water-loving plants.
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A very rare species in Belgium, seldom recorded.
See also bladmineerders.be
The adults fly in one generation a year; from late May towards early August. They come to light.
The larva lives on different species of Luzula and Carex. It makes a erratic meandering gallery and during the following spring it expandes and becomes an irregular elongate blotch, it often occupies the full width of the leaf. It pupates in a loose cocoon external.
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1. Population is the entire group of objects about which information is wanted.
2. A sample is a part or subset of the population used to gain information about the whole.
3. A sampling frame is the list of units from which the sample is chosen.
4. Convenience sampling refers to selections of whichever units of the population, not necessarily random, that are easily accessible; samples obtained in this way are often not representative of the population and can lead to misleading conclusions about the population.
5. Biased is the term for when a sampling method produces results that consistently and repeatedly differ from the truth about the population in the same direction.
6. Simple random sample (SRS) of size n refers to a sample of n units chosen in such a way that every collection of n units from the sampling frame has the same chance of being chosen. It is fair or unbiased.
7. Table of random digits is a list of the ten digits like 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 having the following properties:
a. The digit in any position in the list has the same chance of being any one of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9.
and b. The digits in different positions are independent in the sense that the value of one has no influence on the value of any other.
8. A parameter is a numerical characteristic of the population. It is a fixed number, but we usually do not know its value.
9. A statistic is a numerical characteristic of the sample. The value of a statistic is known when we have taken a sample, but it changes from sample to sample. Put simply, parameter is to population as statistic is to sample. Example: If out of 1,220 people, 1098 of this sample size responded "yes" to a question, then p equals 1,098 of 1,220 equals 0.90. It is reasonable to use this proportion p equals 0.90 as an estimate of the unknown population proportion p. But if a second sample size of 1,220 were taken, it is almost certain that there would not be exactly 1,098 positive responses. So the value of p will vary from sample to sample. This is called sampling variability.
10. A probability sample is a sample chosen in such a way that every unit in the sampling frame has a known non-zero chance (or probability) of being chosen.
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Why use Eco-friendly products?
Living sustainably by using eco-friendly natural products is just one of many ways we can save our planet from total destruction. We are already experiencing some of the adverse effects we have on the environment and if we donít make the change now, it might be too late for us. Understanding why we should change with the way we live is key to saving our planet.
With the growing demand for bottled water and beverages globally, current estimates show that about 22,000 plastic bottles are sold every second worldwide. Thatís a staggering number considering how many of these plastic bottles end up in landfills and oceans.
Not only that, there are other products that are non-biodegradable and takes hundreds if not thousands of years to decompose. Most of these products are not made ethically, have higher carbon footprints and use higher energy during their production. The alarming rate could double or triple a few years from now and we have to do something in order to help save our environment.
Using eco-friendly products at home is a good start. By simply switching to plastic-free toiletries, kitchen wares and even for your babyís toys goes a long way in preserving our environment. You can also choose to buy locally-made and ethically sourced products. There are outlets and stores that offer refills or offer bulk items. In this way, you can bring your own container or have bigger items bought.
Making lifestyle changes is a great way to start living sustainably, too. Ditch plastic bottles for reusable ones that are made from stainless steel or silicone. There are plenty of options and variations that you can buy. Klean Kanteen offers wide selection for adults and for toddlers to use. When going for shopping or buying groceries, Shared Earthís Jute Bags are the comfiest, sturdiest and most gorgeous bags that you can ever bring. These bags are made from jute which is a plant-based material and durable enough to last for years.
Furthermore, instead of buying plastic toys, why not give them wooden toys and cotton dolls? Tegu has a collection of magnetic wooden blocks that your child can play and learn about magnetism and cause-effect relationship. The Eco-buds dolls from Rubens Barn are fantastic dolls that are made from eco-friendly materials. These dolls do not contain harmful components so they are safe for little ones.
Advantages of using plastic free or eco-friendly products
There are many advantages to using eco-friendly products. Most people are discouraged from using them because of the upfront cost. However, due to the increase in demand for these products, they have become affordable and easily available on the market. Most of these products are designed to last longer and reusable for years to come. For instance, buying a silicone menstrual cup for monthly flow management has an upfront cost of between $20 to $50. You can buy disposable pads for a cheaper price but silicone menstrual cups last for at least 10 years which means you do not have to buy monthly supplies of tampons. Buying eco-friendly products at the start is a big investment and may take a big portion of your income but in the long run, it is for bigger savings.
Eco-friendly products are also durable which means you do not have to buy them as often as you would. Take stainless steel water bottles as an example. Most stainless steel water bottles are made from high quality stainless steel and have protection added to them against chipping. These stainless steel water bottles are also made to withstand drops so they are worth every penny. Not to mention, they do not contain BPA which is one of many harmful chemicals found in plastic bottles.
Go for green
By going green, we can help save the planet and live a clean and pollution-free environment that we, humans, will most likely benefit from. It is a wise decision to always preserve the beauty of our nature because if it is inhabitable, we will all cease to exist.
The start is always the hardest yet we must take into serious consideration the effects of our actions. If we promote a healthy and sustainable living, we are also protecting the environment. Every one of us is responsible for protecting and preserving our environment.
Start at home or start within yourself. Challenge yourself to go green and preserve the beauty of our environment. Itís now or never
NEXT: How do Eco-friendly products help the environment?
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Whenever a person borrows from a lender, be it a personal loan , business loan or education loan, under an agreement, it is with the express intention of paying back. This act of paying back is called a repayment. Repaying your Loans is not an option but a compulsion.
Components of Repayment:
I. Repayment is periodic in nature- This means that the tenure as well as quantum is periodic. So single repayments can be made on monthly (EMI), quarterly, half yearly or yearly basis, spread over a year up to five years.
II. Each repayment/ installment consists of a principle component and an interest component. At the beginning interest component is larger and as repayments are made principle component becomes larger of the two.
Repayment of Student Loans:
Student Loans have the following advantages-
a. Repayment deferred till after the completion of the course.
b. Government gives interest subsidy in some cases.
c. Rate of interest is lower as compared to personal loans.
d. Taxation benefits on interest payment.
e. Sometimes at the borrower’s discretion, the EMIs can be adjusted as per the borrower’s income.
f. Repayment might be deferred if the borrower, after completing his education is not able to get a suitable job.
It is important for students to take advantage of the above mentioned facilities. They can choose to supplement their income and start repayment sooner so as to lower their interest component. They can even take up some odd jobs during their course to generate savings.
Repayment of Secured Loans:
1. The repaying your Loans is usually spread over a longer period of time.
2. These loans are in majority cases taken for fixed or long term depreciable assets.
3. Rate of interest can be fixed or floating. This means that the interest rate can either remain constant over the whole period of the loan or can change as per changing government monetary policies.
4. Early repaying your Loans or foreclosure usually entails a penalty. This can be a fixed fee or a higher rate of interest.
5. If the borrower is unable to repay then mostly the bank recovers the loan amount by selling off the asset.
As important it is to know the sources of loans it is also important to know the rules of repayment. Repayment on time enhances the borrower’s credit rating and also eases financial burden in a staggered fashion.
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A Folk Art Walking Cane With a Carved Head of Sir Walter Scott
Most gentlemen in the 19th and early 20th century would have carried a cane. Canes would rarely been used as a walking aid, as anybody at this time who had problems walking would have used a crutch. The cane was mostly used by gentlemen for affectation, or as a form of defence against dogs and ruffians.
Folk art cane with a carving of Sir Walter Scott, the 19th century author. The carver has used the shape of the natural blackthorn branch to carve the face in detail.
In good condition with no losses to the features, and a good patina.
Dimensions: 85cm long
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Although the town had been water-soaked, the ends of beams catch most easily, dragon-fire having been applied to them.
- 14.015 and wooden beam-ends
“Beam-ends” is a nautical term, the bits of wood likely to get a dunking on a vigorous beam reach. I’m going to call this a JRRT-original way of using this term, since he is referring to the buildings of Lake-Town.
“beam, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
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The Student Activities Manual engages students with hands-on opportunities to demonstrate knowledge acquired through the student edition. Students learn to think critically and creatively as they apply unit concepts. Skills pages reinforce the development of literacy skills and the use of social studies tools. Students participate in both reading and creating maps, charts, bar graphs, timelines, and graphic organizers. Activity pages promote project-based learning. Unit study guides are included to provide systematic review of key concepts and to prepare students for unit assessments.
The answers are in the Student Activities Answer Key.
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The list of mechanical engineering interview questions is listed here for an idea of job interview questions for the mechanical engineers. However, these are the Most Asked Interview Questions For Mechanical Engineering. This list of mechanical engineering interview questions contains the various subjects of mechanical engineering. Mostly the questions are comprised of technical questions which help you in your technical round interviews.
For more mechanical engineering interview questions with answers, you must read our mechanical engineering interview questions and answers by clicking on it or at the below previous button.
Mechanical Engineering Interview Questions
Q1. What is annealing?
Q2. What is ductile-brittle transition temperature?
Q3. Which theories of failure are used for (a) ductile materials and (B) brittle materials?
Q4. What does thermal diffusivity of metals signify?
Q5. What is enthalpy?
Q6. What is a positive displacement pump?
Q7. Which parameter remains constant in a throttling process?
Q8. Which reactor produces more fissionable material than it consumes?
Q9. Which reactor uses natural uranium as fuel?
Q10. Which reactor uses heavy water as a moderator?
Q11. Which reactor requires no moderator?
Q12. What is ferrite?
Q13. What is the difference between projectile motion and a rocket motion?
Q14. Explain Otto cycle.
Q15. What is a converter reactor?
Q16. Explain nuclear reactor in brief.
Q17. What is gear ratio?
Q18. Which heating value is indicated by a calorimeter and why?
Q19. What is annealing?
Q20. What is fuel ratio?
Q21. What is ductile-brittle transition temperature?
Q22. On which analysis is based the Dulong’s formula for the heating value of fuel?
Q23. Which element causes a difference in higher and lower heating values of fuel?
Q24. What is a uniformly distributed load?
Q25. How is martensite structure formed in steel?
Q26. Which two elements have the same percentage in the proximate and ultimate analysis of coal?
Q27. What is an orthographic drawing?
Q28. Which reactor has no moderator? Ans: Fast breeder reactor
Q29. What is representative elementary volume?
Q30. Ultimate analysis of coal is elementary analysis. What is it concerned with?
Q31. Why are LNG pipes curved?
Q32. Quantities like pressure, temperature, density, viscosity, etc. are independent of mass. What are these called?
Q33. What does angular momentum mean?
Q34. What is the effect of inter cooling in gas turbines?
Q35. Can you use motor oil in a hydraulic system?
Q37. What is the effect of friction on the flow of steam through a nozzle?
Q38. What causes white smoke in two-stroke locomotive engines?
Q39. Out of electric heater and heat pump, which is economical in operation?
Q40. What is the role of nitrogen in welding?
Q41. Which furnace burns low-ash fusion coal and retains most of the coal ash in the slag? Ans: Cyclone furnace.
Q42. What does Greenfield project mean?
Q43. Why is boiler purged every time before starting firing of fuel?
Q44. Is it the stress that, produces strain or strain produces stress?
Q45. What is the principle of mechanical refrigeration?
Q46. How does iron ore turn into steel?
Q47. What type of boiler does not need a steam drum?
Q48. What is the mechanical advantage of a double pulley?
Q49. Why are large boilers water tube type?
Q50. What is extruded aluminum?
Q51. What is the difference between hard water and soft water?
Q52. What is a Newtonian fluid?
Q53. What is caustic embrittlement?
Q54. What are the points in the stress-strain curve for steel?
Q55. When is maximum discharge obtained in nozzle?
Q56. How much is the work done in an isochoric process?
Q57. What does F.O.F. stand for in the piping design?
Q58. Explain Otto cycle.
Q59. What is the mechanism?
Q60. State the laws of thermodynamics
Q61. What is Hess law?
Q62. What is PS?
Q63. What is a bearing? What are the different types of bearings?
Q64. What is a time and motion theory?
Q65. Which is the hardest material on earth?
Q66. One unit of BTU is how many Joules?
Q67. What does a pump develop? Give the reason to support your answer.
Q68. Explain the difference between pipe and a tube.
Q69. What is Bauschinger effect?
Q70. List two effects of manganese in plain carbon steels.
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Health Crush Contributor
1. Low calorie on packaging is good for diets.
Common Food Misconceptions: Most nutritional labels and facts are based on a 2,000 calorie count, always keep in mind personal bodily needs when making caloric decisions.
2. Fat-free means I can eat more of it.
A huge misconception is that fat-free foods may carry less calories or be more beneficial for your diet, when in reality, if you eat more of it without proper intake considerations, Fat-Free may end up being counter-productive.
3. Small packaged foods make the perfect snack.
Common Food Misconceptions: Small packaged foods are easily mistaken for one serving, when many of them clearly state serving sizes on their nutritional labels. In addition, always pay attention to the calorie count on the nutritional label, 500 calories per serving is high and 100 calories per serving is reasonable.
4. “Natural” Food is a better choice.
Common Food Misconceptions: “FDA has not developed a definition for use of the term natural or its derivatives” found on www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm214868.htm
In short, “Natural” carries very little meaning. Make your decisions based on ingredients rather than Buzz words.
5. If you’re following a healthy eating plan, can you eat an empanada ?
The nutritional facts on one of your favorite snacks normally isn’t enough to be disproportionate to a overall healthy diet, consistent reading, understanding of ingredients and smart decision-making. Feel free to grab an empanada every now and then!
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Use cubes as a way to graph precipitation data to compare the precipitation averages and... Learn More
NASA Science at Home Activities
Find activities for all interests and ages.
Earth Science, Grades K-8
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Use recyclable plastic bottles to build an instrument that could be used to measure rain.
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Edit a Book
You cannot edit System Books directly. If you would like to modify a System Book, first make a copy of the System Book using the Copy button in the toolbar. You may then edit the book copy from the student’s Books tab.
1. Select the student’s Books tab.
2. Select the book you would like to edit.
3. Select Edit. The Book Editor will open.
4. Use the left and right arrows to navigate between pages. Select the right arrow to move past the cover page.
5. Select in the text field and type to change the text.
6. Select the target word, then select Make Target. If the target word already exists in the ALL system, that’s all you have to do. If the target word does not yet exist in the ALL system, the Create Word dialog will open. Add an image and make the recordings, then press OK.
7. Place your cursor in the target word. Select Add New Target Image? The image you add will be the image that appears for the target word. Browse to the image you would like to use, then select it. Press the green Select button. If your device has a camera, you may also select Camera... to take a photo.
8. Place your cursor in any part of the page text that is not a target word. Select the page background image. The Select Background dialog will open. The image you select for the background is the image that will appear when the page first opens and the page text is read. Browse to the image you would like to use, then select it. Press the green Select button. If your device has a camera, you may also select Camera... to take a photo.
9. Select the Delete button to delete the current page. You cannot delete the cover page.
10. Select Add Page to add a new page after the current page
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In ancient Babylon, the women brewers were also priestesses. Goddesses Ninkasi and Siduri were patronesses of beer, and certain types were exclusively brewed for temple ceremonies.
Beer mugs over 3,000 years old were uncovered in Israel in the 1960s. Archaeologists said the find at Tel Isdar indicated Israelis’ beer drinking went back to the days of King Saul and King David.
An Assyrian tablet from 2,000BC lists beer among the foods Noah used to provision the ark.
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Palaeontological observations have been documented as far back as the 5th century B.C.E. The science became established in the 18th century as a result of Georges The lineage that produced land vertebrates evolved later but very rapidly between and recent discoveries have overturned earlier ideas ... Read Article
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Bayani: Andres Bonifacio
Andres Bonifacio is best remembered for being the “Father of the Philippine Revolution” ✊🏾 He was born on November 30, 1863 in Tondo, Manila to a working-class family. He grew up in a poor neighborhood and experienced the class struggles and injustices in a colonial society first-hand.
Andres and his siblings were orphaned at an early age, as the eldest he was forced to dropout of school to provide for his family. As a young breadwinner, Andres Bonifacio worked many jobs, such as being a messenger, a salesman, working in a warehouse, and as a clerk for foreign commercial firms in Manila. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
On July 7th 1892. Through the ancient tradition of a blood-compact, Andres Bonifacio and his fellow revolutionaries founded the Katipunan, or the “Kataas-taasang, Kagalng-galagnang, Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan” (“the Highest and the Most Respected Society of the Nation’s Children”). It was a movement that sought Philippine independence from Spain through an armed revolution, to shed blood for freedom and equality for its people. It was the first to wage an anti-colonial and nationalist revolution in Asia. And the rest, as they say is history.
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Uvdal Stave Church, as it stands today, does not have its original appearance but is a result of steady expansion and modifications until the 1800s. Each century has added something to it, and so the Church has become a beautiful and quaint example of how building style and decoration from several periods may merge into a rich and harmonious whole.
In 1978, excavations were conducted in Uvdal Stave Church. One found among other items over 500 coins beneath the floor. From these we can conclude that the church was probably built at the end of the 12th century.
Another interesting discovery was distinct holes in the ground made by pillars from an even older building, that also probably being a church. In one of these holes were two coins from the beginning of the same century, which may indicate the age of the first church.
We do not know how this church might have looked or indeed its size.
Church Distance: 7.4 km.
Time: 7 min. / car
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An Alternate Energy Proposal For Cape Bird Antarctic Research Station (2004)
AuthorsHume, D., Bodger, P.S.show all
Cape Bird is a narrow strip of stony coastline at the foot of Mt Bird in the north-west corner of Ross Island, Antarctica. Situated at latitude 77:22oS and longitude 166:43oE Antarctica New Zealand have built a comfortable eight person research hut used by scientists over the summer months. The hut, measuring approximately 85 square meters, consists of 2 bunk rooms, a kitchen/dining room, pantry, store room and laboratory. The hut is continuously occupied during the summer months from mid October till the end of January. During this time the hut is entirely dependent on the use of fossil fuel for both its thermal and electrical energy requirements. This paper, in conjunction with Antarctica New Zealand and the Electric Power Engineering Centre at the University of Canterbury, investigates the renewable energy potential for Cape Bird hut before describing the current renewable energy design that is to be installed during the 2004/05 summer.
CitationHume, D., Bodger, P. (2004) An Alternate Energy Proposal For Cape Bird Antarctic Research Station. Kathmandu, Nepal: International Conference on Power Systems, 3-5 Nov 2004. 6 pp.
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Keywordsenergy efficiency; renewable energy; solar energy; photovoltaic; wind energy
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Spectral analysis and Assessment of a net-zero base-shear energy dissipation approach for seismic energy mitigation Roland, T.; Rodgers, G.W.; Chase, J.G.; MacRae, G.A. (University of Canterbury. Civil and Natural Resources EngineeringUniversity of Canterbury. Mechanical Engineering, 2011)Combining passive and semi-active damping has unique benefits that cannot be achieved through other damping techniques alone. Passive high force to volume (HF2V) lead dampers offer high energy dissipation, but have no ...
Tromop, R. W. (University of Canterbury. Mechanical Engineering, 1991)Building energy systems and the use of energy in an institution, (The University of Canterbury's Ilam campus) are .investigated in this report. The existing installed systems are analysed and alternative "State of the Art" ...
CAE (Centre for Advanced Engineering, University of Canterbury, 2006)The Study aims to articulate the critical issue facing the region, and to explore the trade-offs that will be required to reach a balanced perspective on the current situation. It is hoped that by so doing, there will be ...
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An energy-saving feature
Don’t confuse standby (or sleep) mode and the screen saver. The computer goes into power-saving standby after a certain amount of time of inactivity, but the computer is still available for immediate use. The screen saver feature darkens the screen or displays an image after a certain amount of time of inactivity. Contrary to popular belief, the screen saver doesn’t save energy or make your monitor last longer. To really save, you have to turn off the monitor, or use the computer’s standby mode.
With standby mode, you save time and money—and protect the environment
- Eliminate reboot waiting times.
- Shrink your desktop or laptop’s environmental footprint.
Take two minutes to configure your computer
It’s simple. Just follow the instructions for your operating system.
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About Ängsö National Park
Ängsö National Park is situated in Stockholm’s archipelago in the heart of Roslagen.
The island features a picturesque cultural landscape with flowering hayfields, pastureland and pollarded trees. The park, one of our oldest national parks, was formed in 1909 to preserve the beautiful environment.
During spring and early summer, the full splendour of the land is on display, with flowering meadows and pastures. But Ängsö is more than that. The varied nature, with deciduous groves, old coniferous forests and inlets, provides popular habitats for birds, and part of the island consists of a bird sanctuary.
The national park, one of the smallest in Sweden, encompasses 190 hectares, of which 73 hectares are land. The land portion is made up of meadowland, grazing land and hillsides of broadleaved trees, coniferous forest, deciduous forest and areas with fields and reeds.
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Byron’s unfinished mock-epic flips its hero’s character. In other famous representations Don Juan is aggressive and arrogant, yet here we find a softer, more naïve manifestation. We are privy to his childhood and upbringing and the adventures he falls into – shipwreck, slavery, and war among them. With so much drama within it may come as a surprise that it is the digressions of the narrator that leave more of a lasting impression.
The narrator and Byron are hard to separate, expressing many of the same views. The dedication, which was suppressed at the time of publication, is a biting critique of many of his contemporaries – Southey who he suspected of spreading rumours about him, and Wordsworth and Coleridge who many of the younger Romantics believed had sold out, all come under his scrutiny. Each canto digresses into the narrator’s views on political and religious figures including women pushing for more independence. These tangents are so frequent that it becomes difficult to follow the thread of the tale of Don Juan.
It received a difficult reception on publication. Being published serially, as was the norm at the time, it fell to two separate publishers to continue to bring it to the public, as the irreverent language and content put some off. Unsurprisingly, Wordsworth was not an advocate, but Byron’s friend Percy Bysshe Shelley believed it to be quite remarkable. Today, it is a book that students struggle through and not many choose as their entry into Byron’s work, as I did. Lengthy and rambling, you feel at times as though you’re sat next to a gossipy aristocrat at a dinner party. Interesting for its insights into Byron’s own life and opinions, it is at times enjoyable and at others a bit of a slog.
Pick up a copy:
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Alocasia macrorrhiza Dark Star (elephant ear)
A tropical plant that grows up to six feet tall and five feet wide. It is a cross between four different varieties of the Elephant Ear. The leaves are toxic to humans and animals.
- Plant in bright indirect light
- Best in well-drained soil, potting mix or crumbly loam
- Allow the top two to three inches of soil to dry between watering. During the winter they go through a dormancy period and requires less frequent waterings.
- Native to Asia
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List of Maps and Plates Preface Acknowledgements Conventions Abbreviations Genealogical Tables Prologue Part 1: The Establishment of the Dynasty of Gospatric and of the Earldom of Dunbar (c.1072-1182) 1. The First Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria: From Bamburgh to Dunbar (c.1072) 2. The First and Second Gospatrics: Father and Son, The Hidden Years (post-c.1072) 3. The Second Gospatric: Earl Gospatric, the Brother of Dolfin (d. c.1138) 4. The Third Gospatric: Earl Gospatric, Father of Waltheof, Magnate and Entrepreneur (c.1138-66) 5. The Third Gospatric: Earl Gospatric, Benefactor of the Church and Founder of Coldstream Priory (c.1138-66) 6. Earl Waltheof: Lord of the Dunbar Estate and Counsellor to the King (1166-82) Part 2: The Earldom of Dunbar in the Time of Patrick I (1182-1232) 7. The Earldom of Patrick I in the Reign of William I: The Years 1182-1214 8. The Structures and Symbols of Lordship 9. The Earl's Family 10. The Earl's Lands and People 11. The Earl and the Church: Benefaction, Cooperation and Conflict 12. The Earldom of Patrick I in the Reign of Alexander II: The Years 1214-32 Part 3: The Earldom of Dunbar in the Thirteenth Century (1232-89) 13. Patrick II: The King's Loyal Knight: The Years 1232-45 14. Patrick II: Social and Economic Changes in the Earldom 15. Patrick II: The Military Leader and Crusader 16. Patrick III: A Leader in Government 17. Patrick III: A Territorial Lord 18. Patrick III: An Establishment Figure Epilogue Maps Map 1. Map of Eighth-century Northumbria Map 2. Map of Cumbria Map 3. The Shire of Dunbar Map 4. Map of Dunbar Lands Map 5. Dunbar Lands in England Map 6. Coldstream Estate Bibliography Index
Elsa Hamilton graduated in history from the University of Glasgow and worked as a teacher of history and politics. She gained a PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2004. Now retired, she focuses on writing and is involved in charity work and politics.
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Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide
by Graphic Guide, A Author, Oscar Zarate Author and Ivan Ward Illustrator
Sigmund Freud, for better or for worse, challenged much of our understanding of how the mind worked and how we can heal people with mental illness. His theories ushured in a new field of psychoanalysis, a narrow branch of psychology that looks at how the unconscious mind works in tandem with the conscious mind. This little book provides a lot of information about famous psychoanalysts and the controversies and questions about its legitimacy.
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Can physiology give more insight into the living human organism than the mere facts reveal at first? Is the level of activity the same for all organs? Are the vital qualities at work in organs unique for organisms and limited to biological activity? Can we find a scientific basis to research the coherence between organ systems?
By enhancing the current scientific method with the 4-step approach we can find meaning in the facts and understand them as an expression of life itself. The 4-step approach makes the relationship between organs visible and comprehensible. It approaches scientific facts from the point of view of their coherence and can give totally new insights this way.
What emerges is a grasp of the interrelations between biological processes, consciousness, and nature.
Also available in German.
€ 15,00 (excl. shipping)
Download for free!
Author(s): Christina van Tellingen
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In Today's Post, You Will Learn About What Is Hash In Cryptography? And Other Small Queries Related To Hash.
So, Let's Start Our Post With Some Basic Queries
Introduction Of Hash Algorithms
Q 1. What Is Hash Salt?
Ans. In Simple Words, Hash Or Salt Is a Special Technique That Allow You Only Encryption Of Data, Means Hash Algorithms Not Allow Decryption Of Hashed Data. Basically, In This Concept Hash use Specially Design Mathematical Random Algorithm That Always Provides Same Encrypted Cipher Of Same Data, Every Time. But Interesting Thing is That, Because Of Its Special Random Design, Reverse Of Hash Algorithm Is Nearly Impossible. And Another Important Point Is, Hash Algorithm Takes Input of arbitrary length but output is always of fixed length. So, That's Why Hash Algorithms Are Extremely Useful In Cryptography.
Q 2. Importance Of Hash Algorithms?
Ans. Hash Are One Of The Most Popular Facility In Modern Cryptography because With The Help Of These Hashes, Anyone can Store Its Confidential Password And Other Login Data In Any Database Using Cryptography Hash Algorithms Without Worrying About Data Leakage. In Short, Modern Websites Use These Types Of Hashes To Store Login Passwords In Database Because With Hashed Database, A Hacker Can't Get Real Password In Plain Text That Much Simply Even After Hacking Any Database. Basically, A Website Create A Hash Values Of User Passwords And Store That Value In Database as a Reference Of Password and Whenever, User Enter Its Login Password, Website Again Calculate Hash Of Its Enter Password and Then Match That hash value With Saved Password In Database. This Process Makes Password Verifying Process More Secure And Easy. Even Every Security Expert Always Preferred Hash Algorithms Again Plain Text Password storage.
Q 3. Types Of Hash Salts?
Ans. Well In Modern World Cryptography Is Actively Developing And Increasing Its Power Of Security And That's Why Their Are Several Types Of Hashes Are Available But Here, I Am Only Representing few Most Popular Hash Algorithms.1. MD5 (Message Digest 5)2. MD4 (Message Digest 4)3. SHA256 (Secure Hash Function 256-bit)4. WhirlPool
Hash Algorithms Are The Best Way To Store Password In Database Against Plain Text Storage.
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All Civil War battles in Washington. There was only one battle.
Civil War Battles in Washington D.C.
Other Names: Washington
Location: District of Columbia
Campaign: Early’s Raid and Operations against the B&O Railroad (1864)
Date(s): July 11-12, 1864
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright and Maj. Gen. Alexander McD. McCook [US]; Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early [CS]
Forces Engaged: Divisions
Estimated Casualties: 874 total
Description: On July 11, Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early’s exhausted Confederates reached the outskirts of Washington near Silver Spring. Skirmishers advanced to feel the fortifications which at the time were manned only by Home Guards, clerks, and convalescent troops. During the night, veteran units from the Union VI Corps disembarked from troop transports and marched north through the streets of Washington to bolster the defenses.
On July 12, Early was finally in position to make a strong demonstration, which was repulsed by the veteran Union troops. In the afternoon, VI Corps units sortied against the Confederate skirmishers, driving them back from their advanced positions in front of Forts Stevens and DeRussy. President Lincoln watched the action from Fort Stevens and came under fire from Confederate sharpshooters.
Recognizing that the Union Capitol was now defended by veterans, Early abandoned any thought of taking the city. Early withdrew during the night, marching toward White’s Ford on the Potomac, ending his invasion of Maryland. We didn’t take Washington, Early told his staff officers, but we scared Abe Lincoln like Hell.
Result(s): Union victory
Source: https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battles.htm# No protection is claimed in original U.S. Government works
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The subteam Aerodynamics deals with the airflow around the racecar. It essentially, has two tasks:
1. Reducing air resistance
2. Generating contact pressure, or downforce, in order to increase driving stability.
Concept & CFD Simulation
In the development phase of our race car, we begin with the simulation of the concepts we have in mind. There are almost no limits to our creativity. Based on the simulation data, the components are then perfectly adapted to the racing car. The complexity lies in the variation and interaction of all components on the vehicle. A particular challenge for us is differentiating between the designs of each of our two racecars, and maximizing the downforce, both for the combustion and the electric.
To meet our goal of lightweight construction, we manufacture all components using in-house, fiber composite materials. To ensure the right balance between weight and rigidity, we simulate the layer structure of the components before production.
Testing & Wind Tunnel
After the production we test the cars and their aerodynamics and compare the simulation results with experimental data. A special highlight is the wind tunnel tests, with which we further refine our active aerodynamics (Drag Reduction System - DRS).
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Achieving Your Goals
Published by: LifeWorks,
Identify your goal.
Set a clear goal for yourself that has personal meaning. Think about why it’s meaningful, why you care about it, and why it matters. Write down your goal. Try to stay mindful of your goal as you work to achieve it.
Use “small wins” to reach your goal.
Small wins are a way to chunk a bigger goal down into small, more easily achievable steps. They help you stay motivated. For example, your big goal might be to complete your degree. Your “small win” might be to complete one module this term. You’ll feel happy when you see yourself making progress.
Share your goal with a trusted friend, relative, or colleague. People’s support and encouragement will help keep you on track, especially during setbacks, which are bound to happen when striving for a goal.
Give yourself time to achieve your goal.
But not too much time. Research shows people tend to be most productive when they feel some degree of urgency about achieving a goal, but not so much that they feel stressed. Set a time frame that’s realistic — and motivating!
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The Federation of Riders Infant and Junior Schools
Standing together with our community to unlock opportunity and secure achievement for all.
Welcometo our Federation
Executive Head TeacherMr David England
Over 30,000 domestic electrical accidents happen every year, this video gives tips and advice to help prevent electrical accidents. It covers overloading soc...
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St Patrick's Primary School
Together Everyone Achieves More. Journey to Learning
1. To revise the spellings of the long vowel sounds,
2. To understand how to split a word into syllables using a line.
Revise how to identify the vowel sounds and how to split a written word into syllables with a line.
Click here for more information.
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This panel will discuss the increasing importance of global education in today's classrooms. The four National Resource Centers at UPENN will share the latest trends in global pedagogy and resources available for Educators to facilitate a global curriculum.
During each of the six breakout sessions throughout the weekend, a large number of conversations will take place. This site will help you organize your plan for the weekend and provide the relevant information for each conversation. After signing in, search through the conversations below and mark the sessions you are interested in to populate your personal schedule on the right (or below if on your mobile phone).
This conversation will introduce participants to writing and making as an interactive and engaging process. Presenters will share resources, strategies and web links, for the Boys Write Now and Save Our Skills summer literacy programs for grades 1-12.
In this session we will talk about how to manage a classroom so that students can be in charge of their own learning. We will look at how teachers can use technology to encourage student choice and explore how to manage a classroom where students are sometimes using different tools.
Engagement doesn’t have to be elusive. In this interactive session, we will design a learning environment to maximize cognitive engagement. Synthesizing current research about the brain and best practices in instruction, we will continue an ongoing reflection about what school means and our roles as educators.
Why is it that the people making the decisions are rarely the ones having to live with them? Join a conversation led by students at the NYC iSchool to learn how we can make schools and our classrooms places that are created both for and BY students. Find out what it’s like to be in a community where student voice and student choice are a main priority and walk away with plans (both big and small) to incorporate student voice in to your school community and classrooms.
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Influenza vaccines and antivirals that target the conserved hemagglutinin stem
Influenza is a major public health threat, and pandemics, such as the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, are inevitable. Due to low efficacy of seasonal flu vaccines and the increase in drug-resistant strains of influenza viruses, there is a crucial need to develop new antivirals and vaccines to protect from seasonal and pandemic influenza. ...
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What You Need
- Paper or sketchbook
- Coloured crayons, pencils, or marker pens
- A garden, field, or other interesting open space
What You Do
- Go outside and find an interesting place to explore. Look around it thoroughly. If there are any hills or banks, get as high as possible.
- Imagine what the place would look like if you a bird looking down on it.
- Draw what you think the bird can see from high in the sky. How big does everything look? Where is it?
- If you like, you could collect natural items from around the place and show were you found them on the map.
- Give names to all the different parts of the map.
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Find the right shoe size in 4 simple steps!
1. Place the larger foot on a sheet of paper and, with a pencil, mark a line on the big toe and another on the heel.
2. Draw a straight line between the two marked strokes on the sheet.
3. Measure the straight line you drew on the paper to determine the size of the shoe in centimeters.
4. Use the chart to find the most appropriate shoe size for the child’s foot. The measurements given refer to the measurement in centimeters of the inner sole and the corresponding size dimension.
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Bible passage: Ezekiel 34:13
Written: Between 593-571 BC
Like Jeremiah, the prophet Ezekiel also lived during the time that the Babylonians ruled over the people of Judah, and he too was one of the Jews who were taken to Babylon as captives. In Ezekiel 34:13, he prophesied that God would gather the exiles from the various nations to which they had been scattered and that he would restore them to "their own land."
- Research and commentary is based on the book 100 Prophecies. © Ray Konig and AboutBibleProphecy.com.
Here is Ezekiel 34:13:
I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.
(New International Version translation)
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Redesigned in the 16th century, the Town Hall is one of Poland’s most beautiful Renaissance buildings. Poznań’s residents wanted their authorities to manage the city effectively. City officials were therefore expected to live up to high standards. Seats in the city council were entrusted only to the most deserving and experienced candidates, to ensure the city’s prosperity and, consequently, that of its residents. The Town Hall’s façade figuratively depicts the qualities expected of public servants. Its ground floor adornments refer to the allegories of the virtues, while its upper floor decorations represent heroes from antiquity who embodied ideal citizens. Added to the façade in modern times were depictions of rulers from the Piast and Jagiellonian Dynasties. Timeless sayings were inscribed in Latin. One of them reads: The city is what it is because its citizens are what they are (Pythagoras). Another states: Nothing in the matters of humans is more difficult than governing well (Diocletian). The biggest attraction of the town hall are the Poznań goats As legend has it, the Poznań billy goats saved the city from a fire. The fire was spotted by a cook who had chased the goats up the tower on which the animals put on a show, butting their heads together.
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Disease Threatens FL Roses
Florida’s $20 million rose industry is threatened by a disease that’s devastating the flower across the Eastern United States.
Researchers are working on a cure before the disease spreads in Florida, the nation’s fourth-largest producer of roses.
The disease is rose rosette. It’s appeared in three north Florida nurseries and a retail store.
Mathews Paret of the University of Florida is part of a national team of researchers working on a cure.
“The problem is that it takes some time for symptom expression. It takes sometimes about a year or two. It takes three or four years for the plants to completely die, and people could wrongly assume that this is due to some other problem.”
Infected plants become discolored and grow elongated branches and extremely thorny.
The disease is spread by a microscopic mite. So far the mite has not appeared in Florida
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A visual overview of the different Scoliosis curve types.
Scoliosis Rib Rotation
With scoliosis, the spine curves from side-to-side in varying degrees. As the scoliosis progresses, some of the spinal vertebrae may also rotate, making the hips or shoulders appear uneven. In severe scoliosis, the twisting in the spine can pull the rib cage into the rotation.
Adams Forward Bend Test
The Adams Forward Bend Test is commonly used at doctors offices and schools to check for early signs of scoliosis. The patient bends forward and the the doctor, nurse or coach examines their back and spine. If the patient has scoliosis, their back often has a prominent line where the spine is, and one side is higher than the other. If the patient’s back is completely straight they do not have scoliosis. Please consult with your doctor for more information on scoliosis.
• Lateral curvature of the Spine
Adams Forward Flexion Test
• View from posterior
• Checks for Spine rotation
• Checks for Rib asymmetry
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1. An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn. A prince III to whom the epithet worthless seems best applicable. (Hallam)
2. Term; expression; phrase. Stiffed with epithets of war.
Synonym: epithet, title.
The name epithet was formerly extended to nouns which give a title or describe character (as the epithet of liar), but is now confined wholly to adjectives. Some rhetoricians, as Whately, restrict it still further, considering the term epithet as belonging only to a limited class of adjectives, viz, those which add nothing to the sense of their noun, but simply hold forth some quality necessarily implied therein; as, the bright sun, the lofty heavens, etc. But this restriction does not prevail in general literature. Epithet is sometimes confounded with application, which is always a noun or its equivalent.
Origin: L. Epitheton, gr, fr. Added, fr. To add; upon, to – to put, place: cf. F. Epithete. See Do.
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sqrt(16) - how many answers?
By Murray Bourne, 21 Sep 2005
I had a heated debate with some colleagues yesterday when I claimed that √16 = 4. They were strongly advocating that there are 2 answers, ±4.
I pointed out that there is a difference between this question:
Solve for x: x2 = 16
and this question:
Evaluate x: x = √16.
The first has 2 solutions, the second has one answer.
See the 39 Comments below.
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Which Article of the Constitution says the below The executive power of the Union shall be vested in the President which shall be exercised by him directly or through officers subordinate to him in accordance with Constitution.
Among the below mentioned criteria for electing the President which is correct
1. He should be a citizen of India and must have completed the age of thirtyfive years.
2. He must not hold any office of profit under the Union, State or local Government.
3. He should have the other qualifications required to become a member of the Lok Sabha.
4. His or her name should be proposed by at least ten electors and seconded by another ten electors of the Electoral College which elects the President.
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Wildfire smoke is an environmental disaster. It can cause serious health issues, mainly in people with certain medical conditions like asthma. Different parts of the world including Africa, Europe, and California are undergoing hazardous air quality due to wildfire smoke. There can be different adaptations or procedures that can make you survive the effects of a local wildfire or any other risky air occurrence. Some of such solutions to polluted air include full gas masks, bandanas, and universal N95 respirator masks, etc.
However, people must seriously protect their lungs while living in extreme air occurrences at any cost. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) informs that besides causing irritation and inflammation within the lungs, wildfire smoke can also increase the risk of attaining Covid-19 illness. So people are advised to make the use of masks more and common. For example, N95 masks provide good protection against smoke and air pollution but not wholly.
There are different types of masks depending upon the quality and filtration levels:
Gas mask. It is a kind of respirator; however, it comprises a filtration medium to stop incoming particles and various gases also. These gas masks are usually having filtration cartridges that are supposed to be changed with time as they get saturated with contaminants. Air passes through filtration media by the user's inhalation.
Surgical face masks.
These are the type of masks comprising delicate pieces of paper or cloth stretched loosely crosswise the nose and mouth portion. They are used for ensuring that no infectious particles are passed between patients and medical staff. Rather than filtering dissolved particles in the air, they stop droplets of liquid from passing the mouth or nose during exhalation and inhalation.
Power Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR).
It works on a battery with a fan attached to it that pushes away the air through the filtration cartridges. It is more like a mask, so people with lung issues can have better breathing with these PAPR masks. It is a much healthier choice rather than a standard and normal gas mask for prevention to prevent excessive pressure on the lungs.
It is a device that works by making a seal around your mouth as a shield to protect you from incoming particles through the air. The N95 masks are one of its types. These have special designs to filter small particles from entering the lungs through either nose or mouth. These mainly comprise domes of fibrous clothing stuff that stretches tightly over the mouth and nose portion.
These are the most common and premium kind of respirator masks. N95 masks are widely available and are quite abundant. The “95” in it stands for the capability of the mask for filtrating of 95% of particles having a small size of even 0.3 microns. Furthermore, the “N” in it stands for the inability of these masks to be oil resistant. Masks are rated differently depending upon the percentage of their ability to filter air pollutants. Some masks might be ranked as N99 or even N100 for their different filtration quality.
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA).
It is a very costly and heavy device. An SCBA mainly provides oxygen as a basic function. It contains a weighty oxygen tank (approximately 31 pounds); therefore, it is not recommended for every person normally with no proper training regarding its usage. It is mostly used by experts working in fields like firefighting when they enter a place with a very low amount of oxygen.
Benefits of N95 masks
N95 surgical masks offer supreme protection against viruses and most of the air particles. These are famous for being the topmost and effective health care tool. It filters very small particles efficiently including even viruses when these are exposed to the air. N95 masks’ demand has been increased globally since the outbreak of Covid-19 to fight the virus’ crisis.
N95 masks cause filtration of approximately 95 percent of even the tiny particles present within the environment. However, these N95 surgical masks are testified to be restricting breathing in normal as it causes a decline in oxygen intake by almost 5 to 20 percent overall. Besides, during the filtration of all the particles, N95 masks affect normal breathing and cause suffocation.
N95 Respirator masks
N95 masks are the most trusted masks by the majority of people. These particulate respirators are highly demanded by many people who want to sustain the good condition of their lungs even in severe air conditions such as wildfire smoke. It is mainly essential to choose masks with the proper rating and reviews. However, there are some masks with R ranks, meaning they are resisted to oil. While others may be ranked as P for they are oil proofs. The N95 mask is the greatest opportunity for most of the people as masks with more oil-resistance and increased ratings also causes difficulty in breathing.
Gas masks are comparatively costlier. These require a separate filtration cartridge. People having extreme lungs condition such as asthma and chemical sensitivities are advised to use a gas mask. It ensures better breathing by providing cleaner air for the lungs.
It is still probable that some non-N95 masks may prove to operate more efficiently. Some have designs that can filter out more particles or viruses than others. Some are more efficient than others. However, it must be argued that N95 masks are way more convenient and practical to use than many other masks.
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What is Nrf2 : A protein that controls how certain genes are expressed. These genes help protect the cell from damage caused by free radicals (unstable molecules made during normal cell metabolism). Free radicals may play a part in cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other diseases of aging. Also called NFE2L2 and nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2.
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Extensive range throughout most of the southern half of the United States, and down to central Mexico.
This species prefers open areas such as fields, prairies, sparse pine forests, and sand dunes.
A long, thin snake with smooth scales and a narrow pointed face. It has large eyes with round pupils, and a conspicuously long, tapered tail that resembles a whip. It comes in a variety of colors to match the environment in which it lives, but is generally darker or more patterned at the front of its body, with a lighter tail. The pattern of the scales often creates a braided appearance. There are 6 subspecies and some have overlapping ranges. They range in size from 50-100 inches when full grown, and can weigh 2.5-4 pounds.
Learn more with Schechter Natural History's Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians
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On 4 January 1876, the first meeting of the Christchurch Drainage Board took place.
Two years earlier, Christchurch had achieved the unflattering title of being the unhealthiest city in New Zealand. We also had the highest death rate as diseases such as Typhoid were rife. The population of Christchurch at that time was 12,000 people.
With the passing of the Christchurch District Drainage Act, a board was formed to improve the drainage of the city and the disposing of sewage. Unbelievably, most of the city’s waste water was being drained into the Avon and Heathcote Rivers, both of which were still being used by some to bathe in!
The city’s first drainage engineer, Mr. Carruthers, suggested an underground sewer which was met with a thumbs down by rate players as the system would be expensive and pump houses weren’t wanted.
Despite public opinion, the city’s first pump house – situated in Tuam Street and pictured here – began operating in 1882. The next problem the city faced was getting people to actually use the sewer system that was now in place! By 1889, Christchurch was considered the healthiest city in New Zealand.
* Image courtesy of Envirohistory NZ http://envirohistorynz.com/
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Magic Trick : Read the spectator’s mind and draw a similar picture
Ask a spectator to draw a simple shape on the back of a card while you turn away. You even put it into an envelope so that you cannot see it. You read the spectator’s mind and draw a similar picture.
A good place to perform this effect would be at a dinner table. You need a reflective item that can act as a mirror, yet few people would realize it. For example, a metal spoon, a cup of black coffee, etc. You also need a pen, a piece of blank card and an envelope.
Give the pen and the piece of blank card to the spectator sitting to your right, say Smith. Draw a simple picture thats easy to visualize. Saying so prevents him from drawing an elaborated picture that is difficult to reproduce and takes up too much time. I prefer using blank cards instead of papers because people are less likely to fold cards.
You take out an envelope and give it to the spectator on your left, say Parry. You take the card back from Smith and hold it above your cup of coffee. Say to Parry, Can you help me put this card into the envelope? I don’t want to see. I don’t even want to touch it. Meanwhile, you are glimpsing the reflection of the drawing in your coffee. You are all set.
After Parry has put the card into the envelope, begin to act like you are reading Smith’s mind. You are receiving impressions pieces by pieces, much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Pick up a pen and start drawing slowly. Let everybody sees what you are drawing. Pretend to be uncertain and hesitate with every stroke. Finally, complete a picture that looks 70% like Johns.
Avoid being 100% correct. That looks fake. Also, act weary. You can have an excuse not to perform this feat the second time, which might give away your methods.
Experiment with different reflective surfaces at a dinner table.
The effect seems simple and it is. Remember – it doesn’t matter HOW you get your information, it’s how you use that information to make yourself look like a mind reader. You can turn anything into a complete miracle.
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Evaluating these questions takes us into the world of Metaethics, a branch of ethics
focused on three areas:
The origin of ethics.
Do ethical principles have an objective foundation or basis on human convention? Since ethics
is not a physical truth such as a rock, is it a transcendent truth from god or man? Is it a social invention or
expression of individual emotion?
The psychological motive for ethical behavior.
What motivates humans to be moral? What is wisdom? Are motives rational or merely emotional?
How does selfishness, pleasure, and altruism fit in?
What does the term "good" mean? How does one describe a transcendent truth in a manner
that can be logically accepted as a prescription for ethical behavior?
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Born: December 2, 1670, Gandersheim, Harz Mountains, Germany.
Died: February 12, 1739, Stadtgottesacker, Halle Stadtkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.
Buried: Stadtgottesacker, Halle Stadtkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.
Freylinghausen studied theology at the Universities of Jena (1689), and Halle (1692). In 1695 he started work at the orphanage and Pädagogium (educational institute) of Halle an der Saale.
He married the director’s daughter and himself became director in 1727. He was also pastor at St. Ulrich Church in Halle.
Freylinghausen wrote and composed 44 hymns. In 1697, he published the first edition of his Geistreiches Gesangbuch (Spiritual Hymnal). The 1704 edition had 683 hymns (83 of them by Paul Gerhardt) with 174 tunes. This was the most important hymn collection of the Pietistic period of Lutheran hymnody.
In the following decades, more hymns were added, and by 1741 it had 1,581 hymns with 597 tunes.
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Working Benevolent Society Hospital
This hospital, first known as St. Luke Colored Hospital, was a two-story frame building. Founded in 1920, it served patients for 28 years. A registered nurse and a graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Mrs. M.H. Bright was the hospital’s first superintendent.
Marker erected by the Green Avenue Area Civic Association, 2003.
KEYWORDS: HOSPITAL, GREENVILLE
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Mallarmé, Stéphane stāfän´ mälärmā´ [key]
, 1842–98, French poet. Mallarmé's great importance is as the chief forebear of the symbolists
; the influence of his poetry was particularly felt by Valéry
. Many poets and other writers of the mid-1880s drew inspiration at the Tuesday evening gatherings where Mallarmé expounded his theories. Mallarmé held that the poet should express the ideas of a transcendental world, that poetry should evoke thoughts through suggestion rather than description, and that by combining words in new and surprising ways it should approach the abstraction of music. Though he often used traditional French forms, mainly the sonnet, and meters, often the 12-syllable alexandrine, his content is revolutionary and radical; his language defies traditional syntax and is frequently so obscure that it must be read with commentary. His best-known poems are Hérodiade
(1869), L'Après-Midi d'un faune
(1876; The Afternoon of a Faun
), which inspired a composition by Debussy
, and Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard
(1897; A Throw of the Dice Will Never Eliminate Chance
). Editions of Mallarmé's poetry were published in 1887 and 1899, and a selection of prose, Divagations,
in 1897. Mallarmé earned his living by teaching English.
See selected letters, ed. and tr. by R. Lloyd (1988); biographies by A. France (1967), G. Millan (1994), and R. Pearson (2010); studies by T. A. Williams (1970), D. H. Morris (1977), M. Bowie (1982), L. W. Marvick (1986), and G. Robb (1996).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Identity access management (IAM) is a critical part of any organization’s IT department and overall security. IAM systems can be used to manage people, specifically their digital identities, as well as software applications and hardware. But what is IAM precisely? An IAM solution is less of a specific group of activities and more of a collection of possible functions depending on an organization’s needs.
Put simply, the IAM role in an organization is to keep information secure and to provide access to privileges only to authorized user accounts. An employee login system is an example of identity management. While it used to be common to rely on legacy systems, meaning on-premises IAM technology, it’s become more common for organizations to rely on third-party cloud providers. This actually provides security benefits thanks to modern data encryption, not to mention the reduced costs and convenience. Here are the most important functions of an IAM solution.
This is the process of ensuring a digital entity is who they claim to be when they request access to protected information or systems. Authentication could include a simple username and password check to gain access to a user account, or it could involve higher-level privileged access management to ensure only appropriate access is granted for executive functions.
These days, it’s relatively common for organizations to use multi-factor authentication (MFA). This describes any system that requires two or more steps in the authentication process. In addition to a password, for example, a user may have to provide a smart card or biometric scans for access control.
This function is performed after authentication, and it provides appropriate access to the user based on their provisioning. Provisioning is where the identity management system specifies what resources a user will have access to and their level of user access. An entry-level employee, for example, will have a different level of access from an administrator.
Conversely, deprovisioning is the process of removing a user’s access rights. This is generally done after an employee leaves the organization, but deprovisioning may also remove high-level access from an employee who is no longer authorized. This is done to close off security risks from unauthorized users who may wish to harm the organization.
Not all IAM systems include SSO, but it is becoming more popular and is frequently included with cloud solutions. This allows users to access multiple applications within the organization with a single login. The approach has several advantages, and it can improve productivity and reduce password fatigue. The fewer time people spend entering passwords, the more time they have to focus on other tasks. SSO can also increase security by reducing the number of usernames and passwords that could become compromised.
Of course, the major downside to SSO is that if someone with malicious intent obtains login information, they may be able to access multiple systems. Fortunately, cloud providers generally have entire teams dedicated to ensuring their services are secure and remain running 24/7.
An identity management system can also be used to gather data for reports that show compliance with any necessary laws and regulations. For example, if a company collects and uses customer data, they’re required to safeguard that data against security breaches. Proper access management ensures that only the appropriate users within the company can see such data. Marketing campaigns often use customer data to create personalized offers or perform other marketing strategies.
IAM oversees each user’s life cycle within the organization and adheres to industry best practices to ensure that everyone’s information is kept safe.
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The series of large prints are data visualizations of income inequality in Los Angeles and Chicago. They are printed on matte Somerset Velvet paper and mounted on thick wooden boards.
The images are abstract height maps on a high-resolution matrix of cubes. The height of the cubes corresponds to the income in the respective output area. The intention was to show income segregation through striking images that retain the visual footprint of the city’s street grid.
It is part of the design idea to inspire the viewer to look for their own neighborhood or other areas that interest them. I want to trigger thoughts about the potential causes of income inequality and correlations to ethnic segregation and other related problems. Chicago’s South Side for example is a mostly black populated part of the city. Here a higher black population correlates geographically with low-income-areas.
As we witnessed in 2016 racism is deeply rooted in our society— in the US as well as in Europe. A diminishing middle class leaves us with both poverty and wealth within small geographical areas. More than ever it is utterly important to try to unveil the inequalities and the segregating mechanisms that we got used to live with.
Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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19 June 2013 – Alteria’s minister of energy and mines, Yousef Yousfi, says the country plans to build its first nuclear power station in 2025. The country has sufficient uranium reserves enough to run two nuclear power plants with a capacity of 1,000 MW each for 60 years, according to the minister. The country also recently established a nuclear engineering institute.
In November 2008, Algeria announced that it is working on building its first nuclear power plant in 2020, and would install one new plant every five years. The country is struggling to keep up with electricity demand and the plans for nuclear power are part of a program to diversify away from fossil fuels.
The country sources some 60% of its electricity from natural gas.
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Our busy lives mean that our landscapes and gardens often end up the last task on our giant to-do lists. This makes finding the absolutely toughest yet easiest to grow plant a high priority for most homeowners.
Bees and other pollinators are a significant part of our world today. Without pollinators, our food sources, as well as the food sources for many other animal species, would look very different.
With the decline in the pollinator population, we all must step up to help make a change. And, whether you have a single container, landscape, flower garden, or acres of land – we can all make a difference. Here are some simple ways to help create havens for pollinators.
Ornamental Pear was once the most sought after tree. The abundant white flowers, dark glossy foliage, and spectacular fall color made this tree undeniably desirable. In recent years, the Missouri Department of Conservation has been stringently working to alert people to the pitfalls of these pears. So what is all the alarm about? Find out why this one-time darling of street trees is now considered invasive and what you can plant instead.
There are times when incredible plants are lackluster in their containers. Hummelo Stachys is one of those plants.
Planted in a landscape, Hummelo holds the anticipation of bright pink flowers. Its glossy green foliage, low growing, concealing the ground. But the plants at the garden center are often only a handful of low-growing leaves.
Boxwood is, quite possibly, the most versatile and perfect plant that you can add to your landscape. Many varieties are compact by nature but with the ability to take large amounts of pruning, can be kept at any size necessary. Boxwood can be either formal or kept natural. It is the one plant that you can easily integrate into any style of landscape, regardless of form.
But what happens when the much-loved boxwood appears to be under attack? Here’s what you need to know about Boxwood Blight.
I don’t know if you’ve heard yet, but Endless Summer® is releasing a brand spanking new hydrangea this year. And why exactly should you get excited about yet another new hydrangea? With this hydrangea, the gloves are coming off! This insanely colored hydrangea is giving the standard ho-hum baby blue and pretty pink hydrangeas one serious kick in the pants!
Berries brighten holiday decor, much like holiday lights. Bright red berries tucked in glossy, evergreen foliage or standing alone in stark contrast to a tan stem. Nothing says holiday like holly berries.
But the abundant berries don’t just appear on their own. Winter may be the time of year that we adore our holly, but spring is the time when all the magic happens. We’re talking about the birds and the bees.
Autumn in Missouri is packed full of pumpkins, sweaters, fall colors, and apple cider. But, one adventure that you should add to your autumn to-do list is a visit to the garden center. With the warmer days and cooler nights, fall creates the perfect environment for planting. And, most importantly, for creating root growth.
Autumn allergies abound this time of the year and the leading plant to take the blame is goldenrod. But, my friends, goldenrod is not the culprit of your sniffles and sneezles. In a case of mistaken identity, goldenrod takes the full blame for fall time hay-fever. The real culprit hides, camouflaged, behind the blooming beauty that is goldenrod. What is behind your autumn misery? Ragweed.
Overwatering is a common reason why newly planted trees and shrubs die and need to be replaced. If you diligently water your new trees and shrubs, you probably already know how easy it is to do! Learning why plants die from too much water and what signs to look for will help even the most meticulous waterers walk away from their plants.
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The tale of a bottle fly – Shakespeare connection? Importance in the field of forensic science?
Bottle fly is more amazing than you think, read on..
(Do zoom into this picture on a large screen and you would see tiny dots on and around the fly. You guessed it right, this image was made during a light drizzle.)
Bottle flies, also called blow flies, are common, large flies known for their metallic blue or green colour. The one you see here is a green bottle fly (correction in ID would be appreciated), found almost all across the globe.
These tiny fellows are commonly known as blow flies, carrion flies, bluebottles, greenbottles, or cluster flies. They are a family of flies with 1,100 known species. A female bottle fly can lay upto 2000 eggs in it’s lifetime, crazy isn’t it? Bottle flies are also excellent pollinators.
Some trivia from wikipedia – The name blow fly comes from an older English term for meat that had eggs laid on it, which was said to be fly blown. The first known association of the term “blow” with flies appears in the plays of William Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Tempest, and Antony and Cleopatra. Now you know the Shakespeare connection! 🙂
Bottle flies, specifically few species from this family are considered very important in the field of forensic science. The immature flies are used to estimate the minimum portion of the post-mortem interval, in a multitude of settings. Sources revealed, these are one of the first insects to arrive at a corpse.
They are also known to have medical and veterinary importance.
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Coal in the United States
Coal Production and Consumption
What is Coal?
Minerals in Coal
Why is Coal So Complex?
Biological and Chemical Processes
Swamp Geometry, Location, and Climate
Determining the Quality of Coal
Coal Quality and Public Health, by Robert B. Finkelman
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Balkan Endemic Nephropathy
Appendix 1. Federal Agencies With Regulatory or Research Responsibilities for Coal and Coal Quality
1. Graph showing trends in U.S. coal production from 1900 to 1999
2. Diagram showing energy consumption and production in the U.S.
3. Photograph of the coal-fired Navajo power plant near Page, Ariz.
4. Map showing coal fields of the U.S.
5.–7. Photographs showing—
5. Uses for coal-combustion byproducts
6. Okefenokee Swamp, Ga.
7. Examples of peat and coal beds
8. Block-diagram models illustrating peat-sediment-climate relations
9. Chart showing the periodic table of the elements
10. Diagram showing hypothetical structure of a lignin-like organic molecule in brown coal (lignite)
11. Photomicrograph of pyrite filling fractures in coal
12. Photograph of a coal ball specimen from the Carbondale Formation, Illinois basin
13. Photograph and photomicrographs of Pennsylvanian bituminous coal
14. Scanning-electron microscope photomicrograph of a fragment of pyrite infilling plant cells in coal
15. Photographs of mineral deposits on boiler walls and pipes
16. Photograph of cross section of calcareous coal ball from Murphysboro coal bed equivalent, Indiana
17. Diagram showing classification of coals by rank in the U.S.
18. Carbon-13 nuclear-magnetic-resonance spectra of coals of increasing rank
19. Chart showing divisions of geologic time
20. Photograph of an in-situ fossilized tree stump in the roof of a coal bed in an underground mine
21. Reconstruction of a tropical peat swamp of Middle Pennsylvanian age
22. Reconstruction of fluvial swamp and peripheral, bottom-land vegetation of Late Cretaceous age
23. Sketches illustrating a possible evolution from a planar peat deposit to a domed peat deposit
24.–28. Photographs showing—
24. Lens-shaped parting in a coal bed in the highwall of a strip mine
25. Face cleat in an exposed coal bed
26. Collection of a channel coal sample from a coal bed in an underground mine
27. Core-drilling rig and a collected core
28. Coal scientist at work identifying coal macerals
Centerfold. Illustration showing coal byproducts in tree form with basic chemicals as branches and derivative substances as twigs and leaves
1. Common minerals found in coal and their elemental compositions
2. Procedures and purposes of ASTM International (ASTM) methods for testing coal
3. Analytical methods and individual techniques used in research on coal quality and their purposes
4. Results of standard ASTM International (ASTM) analyses and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research analyses of a sample (USGS 212277) of Pennsylvanian bituminous coal from the Mary Lee coal bed, Walker County, Ala.
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
URL: https:// pubs.usgs.gov /circ/c1143/html/contents.html
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C is a general purpose language with standards specified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). This course demonstrates how to work with various built-in functions and use format specifiers. It covers storage classes, volatile variables, data modifiers and dynamic memory allocation (DMA). It also covers how to use the C preprocessor to optimize C programs. In this course, the instructor uses some non-standard Microsoft extensions. In these instances, the instructor uses quotes around the library names rather than the standard <> symbols.
Programmers who want to learn how to use program iterations in ANSI C and use C functions and pointers
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What is business operations?
Business operations are the daily activities that organizations conduct in order to make profits. Successful business operations are characterized by increased profits. The main aim of starting up any business is to make profits, according to the business operations manager at Auto Towing. Business operations should aim at all times to cut costs and increase profits. They involve the processes of a product or service before reaching its consumer who is the customer.
Business operations cover a broad area that requires a business owner to have certain qualities such as dedication and hard work for them to be achieved successfully. A product has to go through certain stages from manufacturing, accounting to the marketing of the product.
Manufacturing a product
Manufacturing is an operation that involves turning of raw materials to final consumable products. It involves searching for quality raw material from reliable suppliers. Due to this, it will help improve the quality of the final product which helps sufficiently satisfy the needs of the customers. This helps retain and attract more customers of the product which therefore leads to increased sales. This leads to increased profits and continuous manufacturing of the product. The manufacturing process has its own costs. Labor, power, and transportation of the raw materials are some of the factors that cause a business to spend its capital. Resources at this stage need to be utilized efficiently as well as avoid misuse.
Marketing is a very important business operation that helps create awareness of products or services to consumers. Different products and services can be marketed differently according to consumer-targeted. It involves mainly the advertisement for a product or services. It is important to create good relations with customers to have a competitive market advantage over a competitor. For marketing to be a success conduct research on the target group which helps identify the right channel to use.
Accounting involves a constant review of books of account. A business should account for expenses in other business operations. This helps the business identify areas to invest more and where to cut on expenses. A business should have a running department that helps monitor the business transactions and at least conduct annual auditing.
Ways of improving the performance of business operations
To improve the performance of business operations, businesses have to conduct performance reviews. This shows continuous monitoring that helps increase accountability and hard work. This helps increase sales of products and services which leads to increased profits to the organization. Business operations require efficiency to avoid wastages and increased profits.
If you want some information regarding the family business, read our other article on the subject.
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Comparison of Microbial Count on Various Surfaces in Operating Rooms at Different Times of the Day
The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of microbial contamination of surfaces in the operating room (OR) and to understand the relationship between time and location of contamination. Five OR surfaces were sampled at two time points on three consecutive Mondays and Thursdays. Each sample was cultured on a blood agar plate and introduced to a liquid nutrient broth. The most sterile surface was the OR lights with only one positive growth sample at each time. At both times, the most commonly contaminated surface was the staff keyboard. Coagulase-negative staphylococcus was the most common isolated species. Contamination rate of OR surfaces was not affected by time of day or day of the week. Simple cleaning and daily decontamination of staff keyboards can significantly reduce bacterial burdens and should be of primary importance to optimize OR sterility. (Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances 27(4):281–285, 2018)
Key words: bacteria, contamination, operating room, time of day
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How many horns? 1 or 2?
Indian rhinos have got only a single nasal horn. Both males and females have got a single horn, baby rhinos are born without a horn. The horn of Indian rhinos in captivity is often worn down to a thick knob.
They have a thick skin and large skin folds . Their upper legs and shoulders are cover edwith wart-like bumps. Indian rhinos have very little body hair, aside from eyelashes, ear-fringes and tail-brush. Males develop thick neck-folds. They live in protected areas in Northern India and Nepal. Indian rhinos are also known as Greater one-horned rhinoceros, Asian one-horned rhinoceros and Rhinoceros unicornis.
You can find rhinos in Africa, too. They are called Black rhinos and White rhinos. They have no large skin folds and no wart-like bumps. They have got two horns on their nose. White rhinos are also called Ceratotherium simum. Black rhinos are also known as Diceros bicornis.
Indian rhinos have a wide variety of vocalizations like rumbling, honking, bleating and snorting. They “talk” to other rhinos this way but also to their keepers. At Zoo Vienna you can hear Sundari often snorting and bleating around.
Listen to Sundari at Zoo Vienna (MP3, recorded at Zoo Vienna 2011):
You can also download this MP3 for free: Panzernashorn Sundari Laute
Indian rhinos in zoos
Have you ever seen an Indian rhino in a zoo? Find a list of all zoos in Europe where you can see Indian rhinos on the website –> Rhinos-in-Europe
Rhino horn is no medicin!
Some humans think rhino horn might be some very special medicin. They are wrong. Rhino horn consists of pure keratin like your finger nails! You can’t just cut off the horn, you have to kill the rhino to get its horn. Lots of rhinos are killed because of their horn every year in Africa. Many baby rhinos get orphaned.
Please, don’t buy any products made of rhino horn!
© Fotos: Jola Belik; Mag Cornelia Belik; MP3: Jola Belik
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U.S. Goat population Changes
According to the 2007 USDA-NASS, the U.S. goat population is little over 3 million heads. Goat numbers have increased more than 5 percent annually from 1985 to 2007 (Figure 1). More than 83 percent of goats in this country are meat goats, 10 percent are dairy goats and 7 percent are fiber goats (Table 6). While meat and dairy goats have increased in numbers, fiber goats numbers have been reduced by almost 50 percent and represent only 69 percent of their 2002 numbers.
Figure 1. U.S. goat population changes from 1985 to 2007.
Table 6. Goat industry profile in the U.S.
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- Reflects the 2007 USDA-NASS sample data.
Keywords: goat industry, meat goats, dairy goats and fiber goats
For more information on meat goat numbers in the U.S. please click: http://www.extension.org/pages/26267/top-states-for-number-of-meat-goats
For more information on dairy goat numbers in the U.S. please click: http://www.extension.org/pages/26207/top-states-for-number-of-dairy-goats
For more information on fiber goat numbers in the U.S. please click: http://www.extension.org/pages/26206/top-states-for-number-of-fiber-goats
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When you want to document a computer bug or share a gaming moment, a screenshot is extremely useful. There are a few different ways to turn whatever is appearing on your computer screen into an image file. Our guide to taking screenshots on a PCs will help you to accomplish this task regardless of which version of Windows your PC uses. Learn how to take a screenshot on a PC in just a few easy steps.
How to Take a Screenshot on a PC in Easy Steps
1. Display the area you want to screenshot on your screen. Keep in mind that you will not be able to screenshot a window if it is minimized or partially obscured.
2. Locate the Print Screen button on your keyboard. It is normally in the upper right-hand corner, and it might be abbreviated to “PrtScn,” “Ps/SR,” “PRTSC,” or “Prt Scrn.”
3. Pressing down on the Windows key while hitting the Print Screen key will automatically save it to a Screenshots folder on Windows 8 or 10. If you have an older version of Windows, skip this step and continue to the next steps.
4. Click the Print Screen button to copy the screenshot image to your computer’s clipboard. If the key has other functions too, you might need to press the Alt button while pressing the Print Screen button.
5. Open the Paint program if you have an older version of Windows without the Windows key.
6. Press the paste button to place a PNG file version of your screenshot in Paint.
7. Save the screenshot file to save your screenshot on your computer.
If you are using a smaller keyboard without the Print Screen button, you can still use these steps by opening your onscreen keyboard to press the Print Screen button located on your computer. For further help using Microsoft products, you can contact them through their online support website.
This guide explains how to take a screenshot on a PC. If you have a Mac, these instructions will not apply. Take a look at our guide on how to print screen on Mac for Mac instructions.
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placet (plural placets)
- A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
- The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shipley to this entry?)
- J. P. Peters
- The king […] annulled the royal placet.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for placet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
- Expression of assent to a vote in the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
placet m (plural placets)
- “placet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
placet m (invariable)
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Oxford University is famous for creating one of the biggest English dictionaries (with 600,000 entries).
More importantly, their experts have also created the Oxford 3000. This is a list of the most useful, and most-frequently used, words in English-speaking countries. According to these experts, once you learn these 3,000 words, you can understand 80-90% of English conversations, websites, newspapers, etc.
These 3,000 words also allow you to understand every word in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, a special dictionary for students who wish to attend an English-speaking university. The newest edition includes 60,000 words and 109,000 examples.
The OALD includes a lot of special features that you can’t find in other dictionaries — like synonyms and collocations. You can also download an app version on your smartphone that allows you to speak the word you want to look up (in case you don’t know how to spell it — which is a common problem with English words).
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24 Heartbreaking Photos Of What Child Labor In The U.S Once Looked Like
Did you know that children as young as 14 can apply for their working permits in the U.S.?
Any child worker under the recommended age is considered illegal and goes against the U.S.’s strict child labor laws. Despite these regulations, it might surprise you to learn that over 200 million children around the world, under the age of 10, are still being put to work in 2016. Of that number, more than half of these children are slaving away in hazardous work environments such as factory jobs or other places where they are forced to operate advanced machinery.
While child labor in the U.S. has become an almost silent issue, during the height of the Industrial revolution, putting your son or daughter to work was the only option for staying afloat during tough economic times. Children as young as three put in long days for very little pay. And while schooling was an option for many of these kids, their parents were living below the poverty line and needed them to work to help set off living expenses. These 24 heartbreaking examples of child labor from the early 20th century showcase the struggle of children who were forced to grow up too fast.
1. Most child workers put in 10 hours days, six days a week, and would bring home just $1.50 a day.
2. When children turned three, they were considered old enough to work in the fields and pick fruit.
3. Most supervisors didn’t care if you were a boy or girl, the work still needed to get done, whether or not you were fit to complete the task.
Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/us-child-labor/
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Sustainable Prospects – Considering Others – Gertrud Arndt
In 1930, out of ‘boredom’, Gertrud Arndt decided to take photographic self-portraits, which she called the ‘Mask Portraits’. Arndt later described the way in which she took the photographs.
“This was the way I sat down, on a chair without a back, of course. The camera was in front of a large window, we had gigantic windows in Dessau. And then I attached a black thread of twine to the old camera – it didn’t have a self-timer – which I ran through a round stone underneath, so that the camera couldn’t fall over. Tripods were still so wobbly then, they didn’t have a metal spike yet. I sat very carefully and looked into the camera. I placed a brush with a sheet of newspaper attached to it behind me so that I could adjust the focus; I gave the brush a push so that it fell over, and then I pulled the shutter. Quite simply, that was how they were all made, the Mask Photos.”
– Arndt (Bauhaus100.de, 2017)
All are composed in a similar fashion. Due to the set up she used, the self portraits are all os Arndt’s upper torso and head. Arndt was an amateur photographer who was interested in experimenting with disguises and the transformation of herself in front of the camera. Although it is unclear exactly what her motivations were, it appears that her work was not about exploring her identity, but were about the drama that could be created in a photo.
Figure 1: Arndt. Self Portrait, Self-Timer. 1930
In each image, Arndt transforms her face. For example she closes or crosses her eyes o alter her face. By doing so, she is questioning the notion that the camera produces an accurate image of us. Instead, the photograph is the representation of her. In Arndt’s words “you just need to open your eyes and already you are someone else, or you can open your mouth wide or something like that, and a different person has already appeared. And if you dress up in costume as well … It’s like looking into the mirror and pulling faces … Basically a mirror image.” (Bauhaus100.de, 2017)
Figure 2: Arndt. Maskenfoto, Dessau. 1930
Arndt’s work was a predecessor of work produced by photographers including Gillian Wearing and Cindy Sherman. Her theatrical self portraits, like those of Sherman, Arndt does not seem to have a specific narrative in her images. Also there does not appear to be a central theme even. The images appear to be purely moments of emotion captured on film. Whatever her intention, the viewer engages with the images to interpret them in their own way.
I relate to Arndt’s work in the way that I produce work. Like her, I enjoy experimenting with photographic images. I have been using different facial coverings and grimaces during this module to transform the face in front of the lens.
Bauhaus100.de. (2017). Mask portrait No. 13, Dessau : Bauhaus100. [online] Available at: https://www.bauhaus100.de/en/past/works/photography/maskenportrait/ [Accessed 4 Dec. 2017].
Figure 1: SELF PORTRAIT HISTORY. (2017). gertrud arndt Archives | SELF PORTRAIT HISTORY. [online] Available at: https://www.selfportraithistory.com/tag/gertrud-arndt/ [Accessed 4 Dec. 2017].
Figure 2: Morley, M. (2017). The Many Disguises of Bauhaus Photographer Gertrud Arndt. [online] AnOther. Available at: http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8976/the-many-disguises-of-bauhaus-photographer-gertrud-arndt [Accessed 4 Dec. 2017].
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Researchers throughout the world are focusing on tissue engineering. As readers are well aware, it is also being applied to dental research. Though the term “tissue engineering” is generally used, the exact translation of the Japanese term would be “tissue reconstruction.”
The editors at the Journal of Oral Tissue Engineering asked me to write a review in English. Since many college professors are included in the readership, I have chosen a topic relating to English education for dental students.
Communicative English is very popular among students. For an effective learning experience, a number of teaching skills need to be considered. A combination of phonetics and Oral Anatomy is used to help the students understand subtle differences in pronunciation. To improve articulation, interpreter training methods and essay writing are implemented to teach linear thesis development. To deal with the problem of passivity, students are encouraged to practice asking questions in English.
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The difference between inotropic, chronotropic and dromotropic is that inotropic is a cardiac drug that affects cardiac contraction, chronotropic is a cardiac drug that affects heart rate whereas dromotropic is a cardiac drug that affects conducting tissues of the heart.
Inotropic vs. Chronotropic vs. Dromotropic
There are many types of cardiac drugs, inotropic, chronotropic and dromotropic are the types of cardiac medications. There are many cardiac problems, and each medicine is made for a specific kind of cardiac problem. The inotropic cardiac drug is used to treat cardiac contractions; the chronotropic cardiac drug is used to control heart rate whereas dromotropic is a cardiac drug works on conducting tissues of the heart. If we talk about Inotropic, there are two types of inotropic drugs. The positive inotropic drug increases the force of myocardial contraction whereas negative inotropic drug decreases the force of myocardial contraction. Likewise, there are types of chronotropic cardiac drugs that is a positive chronotropic cardiac drug that increases the heart rate whereas negative chronotropic drug slows the heart rate. If we talk about cardiac dromotropic medicines again, there are two types of cardiac dromotropic medicines, a positive dromotropic cardiac drug that increases the rate of conduction on the other hand negative dromotropic cardiac drug slows down the pace of conduction. The difference between these three drugs is by their function in our body.
What is Inotropic?
There is a force that is always applied to the muscles on heart and Inotropic is a cardiac drug that controls that force of muscles on the heart. Our heart undergoes contractions, and these contractions are also controlled by Inotropic. There are two types of inotropic cardiac drugs that are positive inotropic drug and negative inotropic drugs. The functions of both positive inotropic and negative inotropic drug are different, positive inotropic drug increase the muscle contraction whereas negative inotropic drug decreases the muscle contraction. Myocardial contractility is a process that controls the contraction of heart muscles. If we talk about the benefits of the inotropic cardiac drug, one of the main advantages of this drug is to control muscle contraction. The use of positive and negative inotropic drugs depends on the condition of the patient. Positive inotropic cardiac drug and negative inotropic cardiac drugs have different functions and use. The use of both depends on the condition of the patient.
- Positive Inotropic Drug: Positive inotropic drug increase the rate of heart contractions, an increase of heart contraction mean pump more amount of blood to the heart in a few heartbeats. A patient who faces a heart attack is treated with this drug. This drug is best for a patient with cardiomyopathy.
- Negative Inotropic Drug: Negative Inotropic drug slows down the contraction of the heart. Patients with high blood pressure are treated with a negative inotropic drug. Basically, this drug deals with hypertension.
What is Chronotropic?
Word Chronotropic means “heart rate of human”. Chronotropic is a cardiac drug that affects the heart rate of a human. Two types of chronotropic cardiac medication are positive chronotropic drug and negative chronotropic drug. The positive chronotropic drug increases the heart rate whereas negative chronotropic drug decreases the heart rate.
What is Dromotropic?
Dromotropic is a cardiac drug that affects conducting tissues of the heart. Dromotropic improves the condition of heart impulse. Dromo word means long distance. There are two types of dromotropic cardiac drug that are positive dromotropic cardiac drug and negative dromotropic cardiac drug. The positive dromotropic cardiac drug increases the electric impulse conduction whereas negative dromotropic cardiac drug decreases the electrical impulse conduction. An example of positive dromotropic is phenytoin, an example of negative dromotropic is verapamil. These drugs are given according to the condition of the patient.
- Inotropic is a cardiac drug that affects cardiac contraction, Chronotropic is a cardiac drug that affects heart rate. Dromotropic is a cardiac drug that affects conducting tissues of the heart.
- Types of the inotropic cardiac drug are the positive inotropic drug and the negative inotropic drug. Types of chronotropic drugs are the positive chronotropic drug and the negative chronotropic drug. Types of the dromotropic cardiac drug are the positive dromotropic drug and the negative dromotropic drug.
- Inotropic are the medications that help in changing the force which is connected to the muscles. Chronotropic drugs are the ones that are utilized to deal with the heart rate of a patient. Dromotropic drugs are the ones that help in improvements in the state of electrical driving forces of the heart.
- An example of the inotropic cardiac drug is Digoxin, an example of the chronotropic cardiac drug is Dopamine whereas an example of the dromotropic cardiac drug is Phenytoin.
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Understanding Honing Compound
What is honing compound?
Honing compound is extremely fine abrasive used in the final polishing stages of sharpening. These abrasives are sometimes loose, but are usually held in a medium like a wax bar, a paste or a spray. The particles in our selection of compounds range from 6 microns, roughly equivalent to a 2500 grit water stone, down to .5 micron, or about 30000 grit. Various materials are used for the abrasive particles such as aluminum oxide, chromium oxide and diamonds.
How do I use honing compound?
Honing compound must be applied to a surface in order to be used. Many surfaces can be used with compounds, leather strops being one of the most common. The compound is applied to the surface and then the edge is passed over it.
Note that honing compound is the final abrasive used in the sharpening process. The abrasive particles are extremely small and will polish an existing edge to a mirror finish, but are not aggressive enough to bring a dull edge back to sharp. The edge being sharpened must have been taken through the finest sharpening stones before the compound is used for it to be effective.
See our article Understanding Strops for more information about strops and how to use them.
We have honing compounds available in wax bars, powders, pastes and sprays.
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Today in History for March 21: MLK begins march from Selma to Montgomery
Here are some memorable moments of this day in history:
1965: Civil rights demonstrators led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It happens weeks after marchers pushing for voting rights in the south are attacked in Selma. The marching leads to the passing of the Voting Rights Act months later.
1960: In South Africa, police fire on a crowd of black people in what becomes known as the Sharpeville massacre. Sixty-nine people are killed, 180 are injured.
1989: Wrongly incarcerated Randall Dale Adams is released from prison following a dozen years behind bars. Adams' conviction of killing a police officer was overturned after the documentary, "The Thin Blue Line," challenged evidence in the case.
1685: Musician Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Germany.
Check out more about historic March 21 moments in the video above.
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Women in the labor movement
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Abstract Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York, was founded in 1921 as an experimental college for labor-specific classes. It was a residential college different from traditional colleges. It only lasted until 1937 when it fell victim to the Depression. The collection documents students, faculty and other labor leaders affiliated with the school, as well as the buildings and grounds of the Brookwood Labor College. Classes, Brookwood Labor Players performances and other student activities are...
Dates: 1921 - 1937
Abstract Katherine Pollak was active in workers' education from 1927-1934. She worked at the CIO national office from 1935-1937 as an assistant to the director. Her papers include original notes and minutes of the earliest CIO meetings. She returned to the CIO national office from 1942-55 as Associate Director of Research, she focused on Social Security, manpower, farm labor and women and children. At the AFL-CIO national office (1955-61), she was assistant director of the Social Security Department and...
Dates: 1921 - 1989
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Cravings: What They Say About Your Health
Sometimes you crave something sweet when you’re feeling particularly stressed. Sometimes you’re in the mood for a salty snack or want a cold and creamy treat. These cravings are normal, but other times, obsessing about certain foods may mean your body is trying to tell you something.
Talk to your doctor about these, or any other, intense and unexplained cravings:
1. Craving: Water
May Signal: Diabetes
Sure, you could just be a little dehydrated and need a tall glass or two of water. But if you’re feeling thirsty all day every day, it may be a warning sign for diabetes—particularly if you’re also urinating more frequently. When you have diabetes, excess sugar builds up in your blood, forcing your kidneys to work harder to filter and absorb it. If the kidneys can’t keep up, the extra sugar is sent out of your body through urine. The more your pee, the more water your body craves.
2. Craving: Salt
May Signal: Addison’s disease
This is a condition where the glands that are located just above your kidneys—called adrenal glands—don’t produce enough of certain hormones. These adrenal hormones regulate blood pressure, balance minerals in your body and help your body respond to stress. Chronic fatigue, feeling weakness in your muscles and less hunger are some signs of Addison’s disease; so is a new, persistent and extreme craving for salty foods. If you experience any of these symptoms, see your doctor—left untreated, the condition could cause your blood pressure to drop too low.
3. Craving: Ice
May Signal: Anemia
Though scientists don’t totally understand why, ice-eating (called pagophagia) is common in people who are iron deficient. We’re not talking about chewing the half-melted ice at the bottom of your glass. In some extreme cases, people with iron deficiency anemia consume multiple trays and bags of ice every day. One study suggests that gnawing on ice increases blood flow to the brain, which can provide a quick pick-me-up for those who lack iron. Fatigue is the most common symptom of iron-deficiency anemia.
4. Craving: Dirt
May Signal: Pica
Paper, soap and chalk also make the list of odd cravings that indicate the eating disorder pica, which is a constant desire to eat these and other non-food items. Pica can affect anyone, but it’s seen more often in young children than adults and may be associated with a mental disorder, like autism or schizophrenia. Pica can also occur during pregnancy; in some cases, it may be a lack of certain nutrients, like iron or zinc, that may trigger the unusual craving. Continually eating these nonfood items can lead to poisoning, intestinal problems or infections.
5. Craving: Everything?
May Signal: You’re Dehydrated
Those tummy rumbles may just be your body’s way of saying drink up. Before you grab a snack, sip on a tall glass of water and wait a little while to see if your cravings pass. Plus, keeping your body well-hydrated can help you manage your appetite and weight. One study found the people who upped their water intake by even just one extra cup a day consumed fewer calories, as well as less fat, sugar and sodium.
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“THINK SEPSIS” is a Health Education England programme aimed at improving the diagnosis and management of those with sepsis.
123,000 cases of sepsis occur in England each year with approximately 37,000 deaths annually: this is more than breast, bowel and prostate cancers combined. Prompt recognition of sepsis and rapid intervention will help reduce the number of deaths occurring annually.
Think Sepsis: a film for all healthcare workers involved in the care of sick children
E-Learning materials: The learning materials support the early identification and management of sepsis. You will find resources for sepsis in primary care and sepsis in paediatrics.
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If you’ve ever wondered how musical circuit boards like the Makey Makey Invention Kit or the Ototo experimental PCB-based synthesizer work, this video from BBC Earth Lab breaks down the science.
To read more of this article click here!
This blog is for elementary age students. The posted devotions, news articles, videos and other materials are gleaned from websites by my student advisers. They believe this material would be of interest to other students of their same ages.
Student Advisers (grade):
N. Shackleford (6 Technician),
J. Crawford (6) "Tech and Science"
E. Unthank (5) "DOGO News"
J. Wood (4) "TKSST"
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Search and compare thousands of words and phrases in American Sign Language (ASL). The largest collection online.
How to sign: cause to come out in a squirt
"the boy squirted water at his little sister";
How to sign: the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
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Electronic Stress as a Guiding Force for Chemical Bonding
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In the electron-preceding picture of chemical change, the paramount problem is identifying favorable changes in electronic structure. The electronic stress tensor provides this information; its eigenvectors represent electronic normal modes, pointing the way towards energetically favorable (or unfavorable) chemical rearrangements. The resulting method is well founded in both density functional theory and the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM). Stress tensor analysis is a natural way to extend the QTAIM to address chemical reactivity. The definition and basic properties of the electronic stress tensor are reviewed and the inherent ambiguity of the stress tensor is discussed. Extending previous work in which the stress tensor was used to analyze hydrogen-bonding patterns, this work focuses on chemical bonding patterns in organic reactions. Other related material (charge-shift bonding, links to the second-density-derivative tensor) is summarized and reviewed. The stress tensor provides a multifaceted characterization of bonding and can be used to predict and describe bond formation and migration.
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10 Interesting Indonesia Facts
Indonesia facts give you the interesting information about one of the largest archipelago in the world. There are 6000 islands inhabited by the local people of Indonesia. Some islands include Java, Bali, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Madura and many more. Find out more about Indonesia by reading post below:
Indonesia Facts 1: the largest archipelago
Indonesia is considered as the largest archipelago in the world. It has 17,000 islands. There are two islands from Indonesia included as the top ten Largest Islands in the world. Both are Kalimantan and Sumatra.
Indonesia Facts 2: Java Island
Even though Java Island is not a big island in Indonesia, it is inhabited by 150 million people. Therefore, this island is considered as the most populous island in the world.
Indonesia Facts 3: Borobudur temple
If you visit Indonesia, don’t forget to visit the largest Buddhist temple in the world. It was included as the seven wonder of the world. The name of the temple is Borobudur temple. It is located in Muntilan, Magelang.
Indonesia Facts 4: Marco Polo
The first European person who came to Indonesia was Marco Polo. This man travelled to new countries to search for spices. In Indonesia, people can get different kinds of spices.
Indonesia Facts 5: colonization
Indonesia was colonized by Dutch for almost 350 years. However, on August 17th 1945, the Indonesian people proclaimed their independence.
Indonesia Facts 6: The Ring of Fire
Indonesia is prone to volcanic eruption. It is due to the fact that more than 75 percent of the volcanoes located in the ring of fire are here.
Indonesia Facts 7: Mount Tambora
The most powerful volcanic eruption in the world occurred in 1815. It was the explosion of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.
Indonesia Facts 8: bio-diversity
Indonesia is a good place for the people who want to learn more about the different kinds of bio-diversity. One of the famous animals that people can find here is Mudskipper fish. This fish can breathe on land.
Indonesia Facts 9: Rafflesia Arnoldi
Rafflesia Arnoldi is the famous flower from Indonesia. People call it corps flower. It is a very big flower for the weight can come in 7 kilogram with the width of 4 feet and height of 5 feet.
Indonesia Facts 10: Komodo Island
Another place to visit to know more about the unique animal is Komodo Island. This lizard has the length up to 3 meters.
The culture of Indonesia is also rich. There are 583 different languages spoken here. The ethnic groups in Indonesia are around 300. The official language is called Bahasa Indonesia. Are you wondered with facts about Indonesia?
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Written by David (mrloferlofer)
First, some details on Magnetic Portals or what S0 occasionally calls the 'Earth Footprint' referring to the Sun-Earth Variable Magnetic Connection.
Since 2008 NASA has asserted that every 8 minutes, "A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the Sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particles may flow through the opening before it closes again...It's called a flux transfer event or 'FTE.'"
The article also outlines how FTE's form:
"On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth.
The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through."
The 8 minute variable connection:
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The discoverer of Neptune’s rings, Andre Brahic has passed away in Paris, France. He was 73 year old. In 1984, Brahic with US astronomer William Hubbard, first spotted the rings around the gaseous planet Neptune. Mr. Andre was also on the imaging team for the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft.
Mr. Andre was a French astrophysicist and also a member of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and a professor at the University of Paris. In 1990, a minor planet numbered 3488 was named Brahic in tribute to his work.
So let’s discuss some questions related to this post :
1. Name the person who has discovered the Neptune’s rings along with US astronaut William Hubbard ?
2. Mr. Andre Brahic was from which country ?
Courtesy : BBC News
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