At the end of this lecture, you’ll be able to:
- Identify the steps of hashing (convert to hash code and compression).
- Enumerate the properties of a good hash function.
- Describe the job of Java’s
- Define what a hash table is.
- Explain what collision (in the context of hashing) is and when it happens.
- Describe Open Addressing with Linear Probing as a collision resolution.
- Understand and apply the tombstone mechanism when removing an entry from a Hash Table with open addressing schemes.
In this lecture, we'll cover the following lessons:
- Hash Table: Motivation
- Hash Table: The Big Picture
- Hash Table: Hash Function
- Hash Function: Java's hashCode()
- Hash Table: The Challenge
- Hash Table: Collisions
- Collision Resolution: Open Addressing
- Open Addressing: Linear Probing
- Linear Probing: Exercise I⚡
- Linear Probing: Exercise II⚡
- Linear Probing: Lazy Deletion
Lessons marked with ⚡ contain exercise/activity.


‘Transfats’ from processed foods may increase ovarian cancer risk
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) issued the announcement at the end of a study of nearly 1,500 patients suffering from the disease, which is the eighth most common cause of cancer death in women.
New #IARCpaper published today in @CEBP_AACR suggests that higher intakes & circulating levels of some trans fatty acids from industrial processed foods and from deep-frying fat may be associated with a greater risk of developing #ovarian #cancer https://t.co/DvaQU8DTVuIARCWHO
Previous, smaller studies have suggested a link between these industrially manufactured fatty foods and ovarian cancer, but the evidence has been “inconclusive” until now, said IARC’s Dr Inge Huybrechts.
“This is the first Europe-wide prospective study showing a relationship between intake of industrial trans fatty acids and development of ovarian cancer,” added the scientist from IARC, which is part of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Obesity and inflammation
Although there is limited research into the effect of transfatty acids on cancer development, previous studies have suggested that industrial trans fatty acids affect obesity and inflammation.
These are “known risk factors” for ovarian cancer according to IARC scientist and study co-author Dr Véronique Chajès.
This could explain, “at least partly, the positive association between these fatty acids and ovarian cancer”, she added.
There were nearly 300,000 new cases of ovarian cancer in 2018 and more than 184,000 deaths worldwide.
It is eighth most common cancer type and the eighth most common cause of cancer death in women.
Because the incidence of ovarian cancer is rising worldwide, prevention strategies are urgently needed; however, few preventable factors have been identified.
“These new findings are in line with the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to eliminate industrial trans fatty acids from foods”, said Dr Marc Gunter, head of the Section of Nutrition and Metabolism at IARC.
“This study provides new evidence that reduction in the consumption of industrially processed foods, including fast food, could help reduce the risk of ovarian cancer and many other chronic diseases, including other cancer types, that are related to higher consumption of industrial trans fatty acids.”


Bol's "House in the House" tells the story of the resistance of poor farmer Marko
When we say Bol, is probably your first association Zlatni rat. But Bol is not just a beach, sea and sun - this place hides a handful of interesting valuable research.
One of those curiosities is definitely House within a house, a unique protected cultural monument from the XIX. century.
The story goes that the land on which the house was built belonged to a family Vukovic which numbered six brothers — three priests and three naval captains. The captains sailed their sailing ship and traded the entire Mediterranean, and when three sailor brothers married three Spaniards, they decided to build a large house (Paloc) on their land. But there was already a house on that land heavy Mark.
The brothers offered Marko a lot of money to buy it, but Marko did not want to sell his house. The brothers of the then chief were hired Vuzic to help them mediate, but Marko quarreled with the chief and threatened to kill him, and for fear of retaliation he had to flee from Bol to Republic of Dubrovnik.
The Vukovic brothers then began construction around Marko's house, which they later planned to demolish. But when Marko heard this, he returned to Bol and placed explosives under the walls of the palace, but they prevented him from blowing up and forced him to flee again.
The Vukovićs continued construction, raised three floors and only needed to install floors and a roof, so they traveled to Venice. They loaded the ship with timber and headed back to Bol, but on the way back they were caught in a big storm and sank the ship, and no one escaped from the crew. As none of the six brothers had children, the Vuković family died out, and Marko Sila returned to live in his home, known today as the "House in the House", a few years later.
After the peasant Marko died, this unusual object was abandoned.
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Format-List - Powershell 1.0 CmdLet
Microsoft Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting tool based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is designed for system administrators, engineers and developers to control and automate the administration of Windows and applications.
More than hundred command-line tools (so called "cmdlets") can be used to perform system administration tasks and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). These cmdlets are easy to use, with standard naming conventions and common parameters, and standard tools for piping, sorting, filtering, and formatting data and objects.
Description Format output as a list of properties, each on a new line Usage Options -property Object The object properties to display (in order) Wildcards are permitted. You cannot use -Property and -View in the same command. -view string The name of an alternate format or "view." -groupBy Object Format the output in groups based on a shared property or value. -force Override restrictions that prevent the command from succeeding, without compromising security. Force will override read-only attributes but will not change file permissions. -inputObject psobject The objects to format. (a variable, command or expression that gets the objects) -expand string Where string is either EnumOnly (the default), CoreOnly or Both 'CoreOnly' will format and display properties of the collection object itself, while 'emumOnly' will enumerate and display the object properties. (designed around the ICollection (System.Collections) interface.) -displayError Display errors at the command line. -showError Send errors through the pipeline.CommonParameters The common parameters: -Verbose, -Debug,-ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutVariable. Example(s) Print a list of running processes, incuding the process name and path: PS C:\>get-process | format-list -property name, path Print a list of running processes, incuding all the properties: PS C:\>get-process | format-list -property * Print the objects stored in $My_Variable in list format: PS C:\>format-list -InputObject $My_Variable


Japanese culture has undergone great changes over the centuries, from the country’s original culture, called Jōmon, to modern culture, to the hybrid combination of Asian, European and North American influences. It is a culture different from any other oriental culture.
For today’s Japanese, social and family relationships are still steeped in tradition and every moment of life is linked to a way of dealing with it with a certain ceremonial. In this way, the supremacy of laws over individuals is affirmed and the individual must strictly respect the established rules and rites for the passage of the various stages of his life.
There are particular oral greetings and particular gestures, such as bows, in addressing others with extreme deference and appropriately for each role, which serve to reaffirm the respect that the individual has towards social hierarchies.
Japanese formalism is also expressed in dressing: for example, in the workplace men dress strictly in a jacket and tie, even in the height of summer.
According to tradition, the Japanese calendar is made up of a six-day cycle (sensho, tomobiki, senpu, butsumetsu, taian and shakku) each of which can be auspicious or inauspicious or suitable for something specific. For example, butsumetsu and shakku are unlucky days and you shouldn’t do business on senpu day.
The New Year, which lasts five days, is a very heartfelt holiday. It includes various purification rites that are a prelude to the renewal brought about by the new year. We go to the sacred temple in the best dress, the signs of purification are affixed above the door of the house, we visit the tombs of the dead.
Between March and April there is the celebration of the hanami or the “visit of the flowers”: it is not a religious festival, but a tribute to spring during which you lie down under the flowering trees and drink beer or saké (liqueur of rice).


Workflow technology made its presence first in the 1980’s. It was first incorporated in the insurance industry, where it drastically brought down the documentation involved. It was also used for imaging in case of various business processes. Since then, there have been several industries that have incorporated its services. Healthcare has also recently joined the other industries in incorporating the benefits of workflow technology in creating a more effective work environment.
Workflow typically deals with the responsibilities, assets, and triggers related with a definite procedure. Workflow technology deals with the computerization of these processes. They are able to synchronize and supervise the various actions related with distinct procedures. It is able to implement the various related business rules by the presence of a workflow engine.
Certain procedures do not adapt very well to automation. Processes that involve sequential or parallel steps, in their implementation are able to suit rapidly to such computerization. These processes are also found to require automation at specific points, communicating the tasks as well as alerting mechanisms. Task communication, if not carried out properly, leads to serious mistakes and expensive delays.
The common features of automating any process involve user adoption. For this, specific systems need to be integrated into the existing workflow. It is imperative that the systems have the ability to coordinate a multidisciplinary association of processes. It is also necessary for the system to have decision maintaining abilities. Thus, installation of such a workflow system is not simply the incorporation of software but should be a means of automating and if necessary bring alterations to the process.
There are several benefits of workflow automation such as cost cutback, enhanced operational efficacies, reduction of mistakes, superior communication, and audit of the procedures. Automation should aim for and bring about improvement. Hence, it is also important to make the related manual processes effective to enhance its effect when automated. It should also be aimed at streamlining and enhancing the current procedure.
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After our initial evaluation in 2011 that showed many students had a negative attitude toward elephants, we have seen a tremendous improvement in their perception and knowledge of elephants. We can safely attribute this to the use of fun, inspirational and empowering techniques. Next, we went a step further to connect students with nature through game drives into Samburu National Reserve. Children who have never seen elephants from a safe distance were fascinated and able to learn so much more as they snaked round the park with Save the Elephants and Disney.
The journey continues, and the vision we see on the horizon is one where our modest steps in forming new attitudes in these young minds produce a generation of leaders who have an intrinsic love for elephants, and indeed wildlife and their rich environment in its entirety.
Our Conservation education officer reported: In 2013, the Living in harmony lessons have yielded good results. 72% showed in their stories of elephants encounter showed fear, 22% relief, while 4% showed hatred or dislike. Another study was carried out during the field trips. 32% were happy, 18% showed admiration, 32% said they were similar to humans and 36% felt they are important to humans. Following such an impressive turnaround, all students in our focal area will be taken into the parks to experience the wildlife firsthand.
In 2016, the Living in Harmony with Elephants lessons yielded good results with 61% of students showing appreciation for elephants up from 39% before the lessons. Additionally, the proportion of students acknowledging the roles of elephants in shaping their landscape rose from 8% to an encouraging 53%. As part of our coexistence lessons, we also take students into the protected areas to experience wildlife first hand.


verb (used with object), cer·ti·fied, cer·ti·fy·ing.
- to attest as certain; give reliable information of; confirm: He certified the truth of his claim.
- to testify to or vouch for in writing: The medical examiner will certify his findings to the court.
- to guarantee; endorse reliably: to certify a document with an official seal.
- to guarantee (a check) by writing on its face that the account against which it is drawn has sufficient funds to pay it.
- to award a certificate to (a person) attesting to the completion of a course of study or the passing of a qualifying examination.
- to declare legally insane and committable to a mental institution.
- Archaic. to assure or inform with certainty.
verb (used without object), cer·ti·fied, cer·ti·fy·ing.
- to give assurance; testify; vouch for the validity of something (usually followed by to).
verb -fies, -fying or -fied
- to confirm or attest (to), usually in writingthe letter certified her age
- (tr) to endorse or guarantee (that certain required standards have been met)
- to give reliable information or assuranceshe certified that it was Walter’s handwriting
- (tr) to declare legally insane
- (tr) US and Canadian (of a bank) to state in writing on (a cheque) that payment is guaranteed
mid-14c., “to declare the truth of,” also “to vouch for or confirm” (an official record, etc.), from Old French certefiier “make certain, witness the truth of” (12c.), from Late Latin certificare “to certify, to make certain,” from Latin certus (see certain) + root of facere “to make, do” (see factitious). Also used in Middle English in broader senses of “inform, give notice; instruct, to direct; to designate.” Related: Certified; certifying. Certified public accountant attested from 1896.


Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Middlemarch is perhaps her most famous book.
She was born in Nuneaton, the youngest child of Robert and Christiana Evans. Mary Ann attended Miss Latham's boarding school and then Mrs Wallington's Boarding School in Nuneaton in 1828.
In 1850, Evans travelled the first time to the continent of Europe. There, she translated the book Essence of Christianity into English. This was the only book she published under her real name and not under her pseudonym George Eliot.
Evans became ill in on December 19 1880. Later, her kidney problem started again. Due to this illness, she died on 22 December 1880.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Eliot's biography". Archived from the original on 2009-12-02. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Georg Eliot". online-literature.com. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
- ↑ "About Evans". victorianweb.org. Retrieved November 22, 2009.


HSE produces emergency multilingual aid for healthcare professionals
The Health and Safety Executive has published an emergency multilingual aid for healthcare workers; this initiative hopes to improve communication between medical professionals and those who speak little or no English.
The aid is not intended as a replacement for interpreters, but rather as a communication tool for use on initial contact with a patient. People with limited English may find it difficult to describe any pain or symptoms that they are experiencing. In an emergency situation this can be extremely distressing for the patient and the health worker alike.
Alice O’Flynn, speaking on behalf of the HSE, outlined the purpose of the aid:
“We have had a lot of interest … from our colleagues who deliver healthcare in the community, such as primary care teams – GPs, public health nurses, dentists – mental health and social workers, where they would see many patients and service users who do not speak English as their first language.”
Having spoken to the patient, a health professional will then be able to arrange for an appropriate interpreter to help the patient communicate. A professional interpreter is vital in the health and medical sector. Time and accuracy are paramount in medical dialogue; miscommunication could lead to a potentially fatal misdiagnosis. Only through the use of a skilled interpreter can a non-English speaking patient communicate their problem effectively.
The emergency multilingual aid is available to download in 17 different languages, including Arabic, Chinese, French, German and Russian.


- Unconventional computing, Self-organization
- (Abelson et al. 2000)
- Wikipedia, CSAIL’s website
Amorphous computing was coined by Abelson, Knight, Sussman et al. It refers to computational systems composed of a large number of identical parallel devices (processors) with limited computational capacity. The processors interact locally, without particular knowledge of their position in the medium.
From (Abelson et al. 2000):
A colony of cells cooperates to form a multicellular organism under the direction of a genetic program shared by the members of the colony. A swarm of bees cooperates to construct a hive. Humans group together to build towns, cities, and nations.
This research was quite active in the late 90s and 2000s.
[…] this paper argues that now is an opportune time to tackle the engineering of emergent order: to identify the engineering principles and languages that can be used to observe, control, organize, and exploit the behavior of programmable multitudes.
Cellular automata can be seen as a kind of elementary amorphous computing device. In this paradigm, computation has to emerge through the progressive self-organization of the medium.
- Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas F. Knight Jr, Radhika Nagpal, Erik Rauch, Gerald Jay Sussman, Ron Weiss. . "Amorphous Computing". Communications of the ACM 43 (6). ACM New York, NY, USA:74–82.


While working on the Emmet Co., Michigan death records, things started to fall into a pattern. Most records groups are that way and you develope an understanding to some extent of how things were handled within a record grouping.
In these recrds from the late 1860s and early 1870s, we see a lot of Native-sounding names and several European ones, both English and French. Some people have last names, but their parents don’t, which is to be expected of people born around 1800 or even in the 1700s in upper Michigan.
In most cases, the surnames of the children match at least the surname of the father, but there are a few rather confounding exceptions.
These are of note because the parents have European surnames, but the children, who are the ones who died, did not.
For example, Rosine Osawmankekk, an Indian, died at the age of 1 year of unknown causes. Her parents were William Flinn and Margaret Flinn. How did we go from Flinn to Osawmankekk? Even if the native people were somewhat confused, the people in the resigtrar’s office know how surnames worked. Apparently so did Rosine’s parents as they both has European first names and carried the same last name. Was Osawmankekk a nickname that somehow was mistaken for a surname? We’ll never know.
This goes to show that sometimes the old saying about “one step forward and two steps back” comes into play in the most unusual of circumstances.


The steam ship Pedrinhas was launched on the 17th of January 1935 at Lithgows, Port Glasgow. At 3,660 GRT she was 350.7 feet long and 50.2 feet wide. Here triple-expansion engine propelled her at nine knots. Here original owners were the Cia de Cabotagem de Pernambuco of Pernambuo, Brazil, then she was sold to the Companhia de Carbonifera of the same port. (Clydeships.co.uk). She was sunk on the 26th of June, 1942 north of the Virgin Islands at 23.7N/62.6W by U-203 under Rolf Mutzelburg. At the time of her loss she was en route between load ports Santos and Pernambuco Brazil with a general cargo of cotton and castor beans for New York. She was roughly 300 nautical miles northeast of Puerto Rico. Her master was Captain Ernesto Mamede Vidal and she had a crew of 44 civilian and four military personnel.
The attack began at 23:17 hours German time with one torpedo and continued with 22 rounds of the deck gun. Mutzelburg justified the attack on a neutral ship by observing that the ship carried a 120 millimeter deck gun aft (Uboat.net). All forty eight officers and crew survived – according to Wikipedia (Portugal edition), there were four armed guard and 44 crew, and they were adrift in lifeboats for 84 hours. American patrol vessels then discovered and rescued them, taking the crew to San Juan, Puerto Rico on the 30th of June. (pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Pedrinhas_(navio) / Sander, Roberto, Brazil in the sight of Hitler: the story of the sinking of Brazilian ships by the Nazis, p.165, Objectiva, Rio de Janiero, 2007)
The history of the US Navy tug Mankato is available at navsource.org/archives/14/09734. She received the American Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.


A few months ago, the New Castle Generating Station, an hour northwest of Pittsburgh, was named one of the most contaminated coal-fired power plant sites in the country.
A few months ago, the New Castle Generating Station, an hour northwest of Pittsburgh, was named one of the most contaminated coal-fired power plant sites in the country. Polluted with arsenic and other toxic chemicals, the facility sits between the village of West Pittsburgh, population 821, and the Beaver River, a tributary of the Ohio River, which serves as a drinking water source for more than 5 million people.
Although the plant, owned by GenOn, largely replaced coal with natural gas in 2016, the site still retains 3 million tons of ash, a mixture of feather-light dust and rock-laden material left over from burning coal. Over the last century, U.S. coal-powered electricity generation has produced at least 5 billion tons of coal ash, enough waste to fill a line of rail cars reaching the moon.
Nearly 60 percent of U.S. annual coal ash production was recycled in 2021, mostly for cement and concrete, according to the American Coal Ash Association. But massive amounts still fill at least 746 coal ash impoundments in 43 states nationwide, with waste sites mostly occurring in rural, low-income areas and often in communities of color. A recent report reveals that, despite federal rules enacted to remediate these sites, very few of the nation’s almost 300 coal plants have done so. Nor do they have any plans to.
Read more at: Yale Environment 360
The James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant and coal ash pond in Mobile County, Alabama. (Photo Credit: Mobile Baykeeper)


Lions and Other Animal Representations Found in Funerary Contexts in Archaic Macedonia
Animal Iconography in the Archaeological Record - New Approaches, New Dimensions - Laerke Recht
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Museum of Nogent-sur-Seine in France
This article aims to present and discuss some of the animal representations found on grave goods dated from the sixth and fifth centuries BC in the region of ancient Macedonia. The burials excavated in this region contained numerous grave goods, but gold sheets are one of the few types of objects that were locally produced, specifically for funerary purposes. Different figures were engraved or embossed onto these prior to attachment on different items of clothing, shoes and armour (notably helmets, gloves and pectorals), equipping the deceased for their final voyage. The omnipresence of lion figures is particularly important as it is characteristic of the region. Lions were often depicted in symmetrical motifs, of which they occupied a central position, forming sometimes a heraldic composition. The variations in style observed could indicate the presence of different craftsmen in the region. Many aspects pertaining to the function and symbolism of these sheets are still to be explored, especially the way in which they could emphasise the social status of the deceased.


Compose a 500 words essay on Czech Political Parties. Needs to be plagiarism free!
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The upper house, or Senate, elects members every two years for six-year terms (81 total). the lower house, or Chamber of Deputies, has 200 members who are elected for four-year terms. The political parties often join together in coalitions to form a majority or other bloc of votes in the government. Five parties have 10 or more representatives in the Chamber of Deputies. one deputy is an independent (Czechcentrum.cz). More parties hold seats in the Senate, but only two hold more than 10 seats, the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and the Coalition of Four (tykoalice), a coalition of four smaller political parties.
The country’s oldest political party is the Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD), formed in 1878 under the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. According to the official Czech government website, the CSSD helped in the formation of Czechoslovakia after WWI and merged with the Communist Party in 1948. It favors a “social market” economy but has also led the drive to privatize former state-owned industries, including the country’s large telecommunications system. It is considered left-of-center. The CSSD is most popular with working-class voters in industrial centers, trade union members and public service employees. It is similar to the Social Democratic Party in Germany and the British Labour Party and strongly in favor of the European Union, which the country joined in 2004.


Scientists at the Chandra X – ray Observatory have converted light from explosions into the sound of musical instruments.
There are no explosions or collisions in space, but thanks to NASA’s new “Ultrasonic Data Processing” program, you can get an idea of what the most intense phenomena in the universe will look like. This was reported Space.com.
The Moon X-Ray Observatory, which has been observing distant galaxies on X-rays for 20 years, is converting light into sound. As part of a new project, researchers on the moon selected three iconic images and turned different frequencies of light into sounds.
The Crab Nebula, a remnant of the Supernova SN 1054, was the first to be transformed. In the ultrasonic processing of the nebula, X-ray light (blue and white) brass instruments were represented, while optical light (violet) string instruments and infrared (pink) wood brass instruments …
The pitch of the notes made by each device increases from the bottom of the image to the top. Noises converge in the center of the nebula, where a rapidly rotating pulsar emits gas and radiation in all directions.
NASA posted two similar videos. One shows the bullet galaxy cluster, where two galaxies slowly collide with each other 3.7 billion years from Earth. According to NASA, this collision is the first direct evidence of the existence of dark matter, and through the process of gravitational lensing, distant galaxies appear larger and closer to the blue areas of the image. The blue regions of the dark matter are represented by the lowest audio frequencies in the video and the highest by X-ray light.
The last video showed a supernova explosion, Supernova 1987A, which first appeared on Earth in 1987. The supernova is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 168,000 light-years away.
The supernova image in the video is gradually transformed, showing the evolution of the eruption from 1999 to 2013. The light becomes brighter, and the louder and louder the sound. According to NASA, when a supernova shock wave passes through it, the gas ring reaches its maximum brightness, resulting in the loudest and loudest noises at the end of the video.
Prone to fits of apathy. Unable to type with boxing gloves on. Internet advocate. Avid travel enthusiast. Entrepreneur. Music expert.


2018 Taipei International Art Fair
Exhibition venue｜Taipei World Trade Center, Exhibition Hall 1
About the work
In mathematics, a sequence of n real numbers can be understood as a position in an n-dimensional space. When n equals 8, the set of all such positions is called an eight-dimensional space. This kind of space is usually studied as a vector space without any concept of distance. Simply put, it is an energy field condensed into a geometric structure.
Medium: An octagonal column formed out of various Iron Men ranging from 20-80cm in size, with two people-shaped holes in the sides to allow audiences to enter. At the top of the column is an eight-dimensional see-through plane composed of lines, with a motor that rotates every minute and LED color-changing projection lighting.
Work Concept:A plane is defined by multiple points. If we view the universe as a point, then an eight-dimensional space is a plane in which several universes coexist. If we consider the various duplicated Iron Men of assorted shapes and sizes to be points within this art piece’s universe, then the octagonal column formed by these multiple points symbolizes the eighth dimension of the universe. As if standing in the future but displaying the face of today’s industrial age, this work signifies the existence, fluctuation, and disappearance of the value of things as time passes us by, manifesting one’s inner feelings of uneasiness towards life in concrete form.


DAY – Democratic Activation of Youth
The aim of the DAY Project – Democratic Activation of Youth coordinated by Eurochild member Albero della Vita is to create and institutionalise mechanisms of child participation in democratic life at the local level in Italy.
The DAY project is set in the city of Naples and involves children and young people (14-18), schools, local public authorities, and policy makers at local, national and European level and Civil Society Organisations.
The partners of the project will engage with 9 schools in Naples, including high schools, vocational schools and technical institutes. The pilot is targeting three districts of Eastern Naples with poor social and economic indicators in relation to early school leavers, educational, poverty and social exclusion.
The specific objectives are:
- To pilot a child participation mechanism in the metropolitan city of Naples
- To increase youth soft skills and awareness on children's rights to participate in the policy making process
- To advocate for children and young people's participation in the decision-making process
- To facilitate connections and integration with EU level child participation mechanisms and peer to peer mutual learning
|- Fondazione L'Albero Della Vita||Italy||Coordinator|
|- CIDIS - Centro Informazione Documentazione Iniziativa Per Lo Sviluppo||Italy||Partner|
|- Municipality of Naples||Italy||Associated Partner|
- Alice Hagger-Vaughan, Eurochild Child Participation Coordinator
- Ciaran O'Donnell, Eurochild Partnerships and Programmes Officer


Ventisquero Colgante - The Hanging Glacier
Ventisquero Colgante, the Hanging Glacier, the world-famous glacier of Queulat National Park in Patagonia, is a spectacular sight with its awe-inspiring glacial waterfall, lagoon and river.
After hundreds of years in frozen form, after coming into contact with the majestic Andes Mountains, a continual supply of amazingly pure glacial melt releases downward as a towering glacial waterfall, in its original untouched liquid form, as it was hundreds of years ago. Unfortunately, this amazing supply of pure glacial water not only goes to waste, flowing into the nearby fjords, but in doing so, it can potentially disrupt the underwater ecosystem of the countless saltwater species in the vicinity.
Imagine having the ability to play a role in protecting this pristine environment and the nearby ecosystem of saltwater aquatic life, while also bringing this extraordinarily rare and abundant supply of pure glacial water to those in need of it worldwide.
Glacial Lagoon of Ventisquero Colgante
Endless Flows of
Pure Glacial Water
Air, Water and Environment
Protecting Local Wildlife and Ecosystem
Our registered consumptive water rights total over 130 liters per second, allowing us to capture and utilize over 4 billion liters of glacial water annually from its pristine source, while helping the local dolphins, sea lions and countless other saltwater species in the area.


The early years are learning years! A child’s first 5 years are a crucial window of opportunity for a successful future, both for individuals and for our community.
The brain is the foundation for all future learning, and this base is literally built and wired during infancy. Early childhood is a time of rapid cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional and motor development growth, with neural connections forming at a pace of 700 per second! The brain’s capacity for making connections for vision and hearing peak at just 4 months; for language at 9 months; and for higher cognitive functions at 1 year.
The very architecture of our brains – and even our long term physical health and well-being – is significantly shaped by our earliest experiences. Genes are only part of the story. So, keeping in mind how early experiences actually build brains, think about the many children in our community who do not receive the high-quality early education, support, nourishment, and interactions with caring adults that they so desperately need. It’s easy to understand how the achievement gap is evident long before children start school.
However, it is also during this time that there is the greatest opportunity to make the most powerful impact that will change the trajectory of a child’s path. You can make that impact today with your gift to the Partnership!


The “Keep Well” campaign is aimed at showing people of all ages how we can mind our own physical and mental health and well-being by adding healthy and helpful habits to our daily and weekly routines. It will provide guidelines, information, and tips on things that will help us keep well through the coming months. All of this will be available on gov.ie/healthyireland
The “Keep Well” campaign is focussed on five main themes:
- Keeping active – keeping active and being outdoors, even during the winter, is important to help physical and mental health and well-being.
- Staying connected – staying connected with people, addressing isolation, supporting volunteerism and initiatives that support person-to-person connection is important to our well-being.
- Switching off and being creative – switching off and being creative or learning something new, getting back to nature and finding ways to relax can help our general well-being.
- Eating Well – by nourishing our bodies and minds, we can develop a better connection between the food we eat and how we feel and positively impact our physical and mental well-being.
- Minding your mood – equipping people with information on where to go if they need support. This will also be linked with the local community helpline to ensure that people can access the support they need.


【Current status of kidney diseases and potential of cell treatment】
Most kidney diseases have a potential of progressing to chronic renal failure and main causes of kidney diseases are considered to be diabetes and high blood pressure.
Although currently available therapies for kidney diseases, such as dialysis and administration of hypotensive or immunosuppressive agents, can suppress the disease progression, there is no effective cure for renal failure except kidney transplantation. The number of patients is increasing about 10,000 per year and there are many patients who cannot receive medical treatments due to a chronic lack of donors or expensive costs of treatment.
Recently, however, it has been reported that injection of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells improved the symptom of acute renal failure model mice. Stem cell transplantation therefore has been proposed to become one of the alternative approaches for the therapy of kidney diseases.
【Institutes conducting with animal experiments or clinical trials】
◆ Okayama University ◆ Nagoya University
◆ Tokyo University ◆ Osaka University
【Case : Nagoya University】
It has been reported that administration of adipose-derived stem cells was efficacious in animal model of intractable kidney diseases.
【Case : Tokyo University】
Stem cell infusion has been reported to reduce the elevated blood urea nitrogen and creatinine levels in acute renal failure model mice, suggesting that stem cells contributed to improve renal function in mice and that regenerative therapy using stem cells may be a feasible and useful approach in patients with renal failure.


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Yeast , vegetative & budding, 630X
Yeasts do not form a single taxonomic or phylogenetic grouping. The term “yeast” is often taken as a synonym for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but the phylogenetic diversity of yeasts is shown by their placement in two separate phyla: the Ascomycota and the Basidiomycota. The budding yeasts (“true yeasts”) are classified in the order Saccharomycetales. Yeasts, like all fungi, may have asexual and sexual reproductive cycles. The most common mode of vegetative growth in yeast is asexual reproduction by budding. Here, a small bud (also known as a bleb), or daughter cell, is formed on the parent cell. The nucleus of the parent cell splits into a daughter nucleus and migrates into the daughter cell. The bud continues to grow until it separates from the parent cell, forming a new cell. The daughter cell produced during the budding process is generally smaller than the mother cell. Some yeasts, including Schizosaccharomyces pombe, reproduce by fission instead of budding, thereby creating two identically sized daughter cells.


Interview a close member or members of your family about how they identify and navigate institutional systems, such as work, school, church. The premise of these questions is to discover specific experiences and narratives that offers insight on how ideas around identity are formulated. For example, inquire about:
- Experiences with discrimination at work, school, church
- Experiences with sexuality, identity formation, unorthodox lifestyle changes
- An experience where they held biases
- Experiences feeling excluded
- How they feel about their own cycle of socialization
- Was oppression discussed or addressed in the household in any way? If so, what was discussed? If oppression was not addressed, ask them why they believe it was not part of family dialogue?
- What was said about gender roles in their household?
- When did they first learn about gender roles?
- Did they ever feel something wasn’t right but continued to follow the status quo anyway?
- If they could change any ideology, religious practice, policy, social contracts, etc., what would it be?
- Were they ever challenged on their beliefs and ideologies? Explain.
- How do they feel about current civics and government?
- Students can develop their own questions related to the above examples or they can choose the above multiple questions to conduct an interview.
The interview should be at least 30 minutes. Take thorough notes about questions and responses.
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Financial stress is widespread
Money worries are common. They existed before COVID-19 and now with changes in our employment and society, financial stress has become more widespread.
The Australian Psychological Society reports that financial stress is one of the major causes of stress in adults, and recently published research on the Financial Stress Index (FSI) from Financial Mindfulness, indicates an escalation of financial stress symptoms due to COVID-19 including negative impacts on relationships.
Financial stress is personal and impacts all areas of our lives. It is something we experience regarding our financial situation today or our financial future. It also involves our thoughts about money and finances and what we do in terms of spending and saving, and how we manage our finances. Financial stress can arise during short term specific financial demands such as change in employment, or from a chronic and long-term financial concern, such as increasing debt with interest repayments or difficulty repaying a home mortgage.
The problem with financial stress is that it does not just impact our finances, it can have a significant effect on our wellbeing including our physical and mental health along with our relationships, work, behaviour and potentially our environment.
Some signs that financial stress is affecting your health, work and relationships include arguing with the people closest to you about money, becoming aggressive to others, difficulty sleeping, feeling downhearted, overwhelmed, angry or fearful, mood swings, tiredness, loss of appetite, and withdrawing from others.
While these reactions affect your overall wellbeing, if they continue for a prolonged period of time, they could turn into serious health issues. The important thing is to seek appropriate help.
People from all walks of life may experience problems with their finances at some stage in their lives. It is not something to feel embarrassed or ashamed about, especially as those feelings can stop people from getting the assistance they need.
Financial mindfulness means being aware and paying attention to your finances, and that may mean seeking help. The help required will vary from individuals. It may be practical financial support, or learning budgeting skills, or seeking assistance to manage the stress of money worries.
The first step to being financially aware is to determine how stressed you are by your finances. Our unique Financial Stress Index (FSI) designed by a team of Neuropsychologists and financial experts works out your financial stress levels and potential symptoms. You can start this process by downloading our app and completely your FSI.


Saint Obitius Biography
Saint Obitius Profile. Born: N/A in Italy, Europe. Worked in Italy. Died: 1204 AD in N/A. Feast Day is celebrated on February 4.
St. Obitius Biography, Feast Day, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Beatification Date, Canonization Date
|Date of Birth||N/A|
|Country of Birth||Italy of Europe|
|Matrimony/Holy Orders||Saints who were Monks|
|Place of Work||Italy|
|Date of Death||1204 AD|
|Place of Death||N/A|
|Feast Day||February 4|
|Beatification||Beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1900|
|Canonization||Canonized by N/A|
|Patron Saint of||N/A|
St. Obitius Biography
St. Obitius narrowly escaped drowning and during that period, he had a vision of Hell which changed his life forever. He became a Benedictine monk in Italy as well as doing penance.


101 P2 Water Level Meter: Operating Instructions
- Turn sensitivity dial fully clockwise.
- Clockwise rotation of sensitivity dial turns meter on and increases sensitivity.
- Always set switch to highest sensitivity position, then decrease if necessary.
- Depress the Battery Test button to test the battery and main circuitry (does not test the tape or probe).
- Submerse the probe in tap water. This completes the circuit and activates the buzzer and light.
The Tape Guide
The Tape Guide has been designed to:
- Improve accuracy when reading water levels,
- Easily obtain repeatable measurements,
- Prevent tape being cut by well casing,
- Allow the tape and probe to hang straight from the side of the well.
- Fit the small end of the Tape Guide onto the edge of well casing 2" (50 mm) dia. or larger.
- For small reels only, insert the leg of the Water Level Meter into the hole on the Tape Guide and rest the Water Level Meter on the side of the well casing. (See diagram below).
- To store the Tape Guide, simply clip it onto the support bracket located on the back of the Water Level Meter.
Water Level Measurements
- The Model 101 Water Level Meter P2 Probe zero measurement point is the tip of the needle in the center of the probe.
- For ease of operation the Tape Guide can be used to support the Water Level Meter. (See diagram above).
- Feed the tape into and out of the well using the groove in the top of the Tape Guide. The light and buzzer activate when the needle tip enters water. To ensure accuracy, lower and raise the probe a few times and then record the depth measurement from the tape at the top of the well.
- When using the Tape Guide, the measuring point is offset from the top of casing. To adjust your measurements to the top of the casing, simply subtract the amount indicated on the front of the Tape Guide (ie 6 cm or 2/10 ft).


By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
August 31, 2017
A common treatment for prostate cancer may increase the risk for heart disease.
A study in the British Journal of Cancer identified 7,637 men in California who had new diagnoses of localized prostate cancer from 1998 to 2008 and followed them through 2010.
About 30 percent of the men received androgen deprivation therapy, or A.D.T., a drug treatment that deprives prostate cancer cells of male sex hormones, which encourage their growth.
Men who did not have pre-existing cardiovascular disease who underwent A.D.T. had an 81 percent increased relative risk for heart failure compared with men who did not get the drug regimen. They also had slightly increased risks for heart rhythm disorders.
Men treated with A.D.T. who already had cardiovascular disease were also at higher risk for heart rhythm and conduction disorders compared to heart patients who did not get the drugs.
The study controlled for race, age, prostate tumor characteristics, other medications and cardiovascular risk factors.
The lead author, Reina Haque, a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena, Calif., said that the results could be particularly important for prostate patients who have risk factors for heart disease. The study, she said, provides “a way to begin a conversation about whether A.D.T. is a treatment you should use.”


If you’re unvaccinated, you may be at risk for a more dangerous COVID-19 variant, experts say
Experts worry people who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 might face more dangerous variants
The U.S. surgeon general has issued a massive warning for those who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 — you might be at risk for a more dangerous COVID-19 variant.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told CNN that unvaccinated people could allow variants to develop, too.
- “For those who are unvaccinated, they are increasingly at risk as more and more variants develop,” he said.
- He added, “The news about the Delta variant is evidence of really why it’s so important for us to get vaccinated as soon as possible.”
Concerns over Delta variant
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser on the coronavirus, said the U.S. should be concerned about how the Delta variant, which was first discovered in India, spread so fast.
- “In the U.K., the Delta variant is rapidly emerging as the dominant variant. ... It is replacing the B.1.1.7,” Fauci said, according to CNBC. “We cannot let that happen in the United States.”
The Delta variant currently makes up about 60% of COVID-19 cases in the United Kingdom. The variant makes up about 6% of cases in the U.S. at the moment, CNBC reports. The Alpha variant — which originated in the UK — is the most dominant variant in the U.S. right now, according to The New York Times.
- As I wrote for the Deseret News, Fauci suggests people get vaccinated against COVID-19 to stop the new variant from spreading.
- He said the Delta variant’s spread is “such a powerful argument” to get vaccinated.


The first step to being a successful nursing student is to go out and buy a digital recorder to tape the classes. Get one that will record at least 24 hours so you dont have to constantly battle with space issues. Digital recorders have a USB port that transfers the data to your computer in the form of waves or MP3's, that can then be burned to CD and listened to on your commute. The next step is to know how to record. In your classroom, teachers may speak through microphones. If they do, then make sure you sit directly under a speaker (you will see them in the ceiling), because if you dont get a good recording, then there is no point in taping it in the first place. Aim the microphone of your device right at the speaker in the ceiling. Dont just sit it there in front of you. We want to get the best recording possible. If you cannot sit under a speaker, then make sure your recording device does (you dont have to sit near your recorder). If there is no mic system, then ask your instructor to allow you to place your device on their podium, or as close as possible. Getting a good recording is vital to it's usefulness later. In the case that your recorder is not near you, you will need a stop-watch or some kind of timer. Now onto note-taking. If you have your recording device in front of you, then it will display the elapsed time of the lecture. If your device is elsewhere, synch your stop-watch with the recorder when you begin the recording. Now, as you take notes, every 5-10 minutes, mark the time elapsed at that point in your notes. The reason for this is that you will not be able to listen to your recordings from beginning to end each day, as they could be 5 hour days or even longer. Now when you study, you will have the classroom lecture as a back up. When your notes get confusing, you can go straight to the recording within 5-10 minutes of where the lecture was at that time, and quickly find the clarity that you need. Good luck!


In your lifetime or in some moments you must feel nervousness, some fear, worry or apprehension and so on, the combination of all, is jointly called anxiety.
No doubt, some sort of fear or worry is not that serious or it is quite obvious like if you are worrying about your loved one or you are worried due to some quiz or test or any exam, all is well as there is no such serious matter to consider your situation as anxiety.
The problematic anxiety interferes with patient’s ability to sleep or any other functioning. Mostly it is seen among the teenagers who are quite hypersensitive to have irritability in a number of emotional issues.
Sometimes, in some cases anxiety can occur without any reason or due to a real situation but not out of proportion of expectation. But the serious anxiety can put a severe impact on our daily life.
Most of the anxiety symptoms are related to the heart, lungs, gastrointestinal system and nervous. Sometime the patient can be upset due to stomach, diarrhea, breathing, heart attack or any other.
But in most cases it develops due to our daily life events which have no particular cause of worry. People, having anxiety always tend to disaster and they always do worry about health, money, family, work etc.
Thus, for them daily life becomes regular state of worry and later it starts dominating one’s thinking by interfering with daily functions such as work, school, social activities and other relationships.


In our previous two articles, we discussed Pioneer 10 and 11, its need and working. Today we will cover briefly The Pioneer Plaque, which was sent in both the Pioneer missions in hope of finding extra-terrestrial life.
The Pioneer Plaque
The original idea, that the Pioneer spacecraft should carry a message from mankind, was first mentioned by Eric Burgess an English freelance consultant, lecturer, and journalist, who wrote about the Pioneer program of space missions since the first tests in 1957. Carl Sagan and Frank Drake designed the plaque, and the artwork was prepared by Linda Salzman Sagan, who was Sagan’s wife at the time. The first plaque was launched with Pioneer 10 on March 2, 1972, and the second followed with Pioneer 11 on April 5, 1973.
Hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen
At the top left of the plaque is a schematic representation of the hyperfine transition of hydrogen, which is the most abundant element in the universe.
Figures of a man and a woman
On the right side of the plaque, a man and a woman are shown in front of the spacecraft. The right hand of the man is raised as a sign of goodwill. Although this gesture may not be understood, it offers a way to show the opposable thumb and how the limbs can be moved.
Sun and galactic landmarks
The radial pattern on the left of the plaque shows 15 lines emanating from the same origin. Fourteen of the lines have corresponding long binary numbers, which stand for the periods of pulsars, using the hydrogen spin-flip transition frequency as the unit. Since these periods will change over time, the epoch of the launch can be calculated from these values.
At the bottom of the plaque is a schematic diagram of the Solar System. A small picture of the spacecraft is shown, and the trajectory shows its way past Jupiter and out of the Solar System.
Silhouette of the spacecraft
Behind the figures of the human beings, the silhouette of the Pioneer spacecraft is shown on the same scale so that the size of the human beings can be deduced by measuring the spacecraft.
Source for all images: NASA
The next article will be on the third artificial object to leave the Solar System!


Between 2014 and 2018, six children under 10 years of age drowned in Manatee County, which, according to the Florida Swimming Pool Association, has one of the state’s highest rates of child drownings. Each year, according to the group, 78 Florida kids 10 or younger will die from drowning, and the Association, a trade group that represents the pool industry, wants that number to go down.
To do that, the Association and its Florida Swims Foundation are hoping for an appropriation from the State of Florida to fund childhood swim lessons in places where the drowning rate is high, like Manatee County. The group is requesting $200,000 be allocated to expand current childhood swim programs in Manatee, Broward, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Paso and Pinellas counties.
A specific plan for implementing the requested appropriation is not currently in place, but the overall goal is to make childhood swim lessons as accessible as possible for kids before they enter kindergarten. “The solution is right in front of us, but three things we always look at are money, time and transportation,” says Swimming Pool Association government affairs manager Dallas Thiesen.
Swim lessons can make a difference. In 2009, a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that participating in formal swim lessons lowered the risk of fatal drowning by 88 percent in children between ages 1 and 4.
To learn more about the Florida Swimming Pool Association, visit the organization’s website.


Expanding foam, also known as insulation foam, is a product that provides airtight insulation around materials, joints and components. The foam acts as a filler to seal cracks and holes around parts and fittings. These sealants form a barrier to repel moisture, insects and air from creeping into gaps.
Expanding foam normally has a mousse-like consistency, which hardens via a chemical process when it comes in contact with atmospheric humidity. Once cured or hardened, the foam will not expand or shrink, being durable against damp and other weather effects.
There are different packaging types available, such as spray cans and cartridges. There are also various sizes available, including 300ml, 500ml and 750ml.
Expanding foam can be applied using a foam gun, a handheld can or a spray can:
PU foam (polyurethane foam) requires moisture to expand and cure. It is advised to lightly spray the area with water first. Then apply the expanding foam. Once cured, any excess can be cut or sanded off or additional foam can be added.
Expanding foams have many uses across industry and retail, for both indoor and outdoor use. The foam sealant can be used to fill the openings and insulate around window frames, window sills and awkward gaps, and to seal pipes and hoses.
Expanding foams are also applied in indoor building activities and in repair work to ceilings, walls and cavities. The foams are rot-resistant and can be used to bond and seal the rings around manholes.


Quick overview: The FreeSound website contains thousands of pre-recorded sound effect files that can be used within your SMART Notebook presentations. A free account signup is required to download files from the site.
How can it be used in the classroom? The FreeSound website (www.freesound.org) allows you to search for sound effects of animals, nature, household noises, ambiance, vehicles… pretty much whatever you can think of! These sounds can then be used with the SMART Notebook software so that if your student taps on an image or word, they will hear a specific sound effect played back. These sound effect files could also be used with other ICT applications too. Great for language classes!
Copyrights: Please note that the sounds on the site are freely available for download under a Creative Commons license, which you should quickly consult before you start using these sounds in your classroom. (Don’t worry, it’s not a long read!).
Important note: If you’d like to know how to insert these sounds into your SMART Notebook presentations, please refer to my earlier ICT Blog posting on “Inserting pre-recorded sounds into your SMART Notebook presentations“.
Video Tutorial: To see an on-line video overview of how to create a FreeSound account and get started with the website, click the large play button below:


NASA Moon landing for humans now delayed! Know why
NASA has delayed the moon landing mission to 2025 from the earlier set date of 2024. The recent lawsuit involving the Blue Origins has a larger role to play in the delay.
NASA has delayed the moon landing to 2025! Originally scheduled to put man back on the moon in 2024, the delay in the program now prepares for 2025. Originally directed by the Trump administration, the Artemis program involves space vehicles designed by SpaceX and NASA itself. This time, NASA has plans to send the first woman on moon along with people of colour.
NASA says that the delay has been caused due to multiple factors, the primary one being the recent flurry of lawsuits regarding the lunar lander. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic as well as a couple of other NASA projects have contributed to the delay.
NASA Moon landing delayed
The new lunar missions will oversee use of modern and complex space vehicles to put man on the Moon safely. The Artemis project involves the SLS vehicle, or Space Launch System rocket. NASA has been working on this powerful rocket for over a decade now and although it was originally planned to be launched in 2017, the SLS rocket will take to the skies in February 2022. This time, it will have Orion capsule, which itself can carry crew members into deep space and near the moon.
Then there's the lander developed by SpaceX, called Starship. These vehicles will be put to test in the upcoming Artemis test flight, called Artemis I. This mission will carry the Orion capsule to the moon with no crew onboard. Once this is deemed successful, the Artemis II mission will do the same journey, albeit with a manned crew onboard. However, Artemis II will take off in May 2024, which is still a while away.
The crewed missions will also seek modern space suits designed for the task, which NASA is yet to work on. On the other hand, SpaceX is building the Starship prototypes for orbital tests at its launch site in Texas.
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Ukraine war could soon cause global food crisis that may last for years
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war had worsened food insecurity in poorer nations due to rising prices
Russia's invasion of Ukraine could soon cause a global food crisis that may last for years, the UN has warned, BBC reported.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war had worsened food insecurity in poorer nations due to rising prices.
Some countries could face long-term famines if Ukraine's exports are not restored to pre-war levels, he added, BBC reported.
The conflict has cut-off supplies from Ukraine's ports, which once exported vast amounts of cooking oil as well as cereals such as maize and wheat.
This has reduced the global supply and caused the price of alternatives to soar. Global food prices are almost 30 per cent higher than the same time last year, according to the UN.
Guterres said the conflict -- combined with the effects of climate change and the pandemic -- "threatens to tip tens of millions of people over the edge into food insecurity followed by malnutrition, mass hunger and famine".
"There is enough food in our world now if we act together. But unless we solve this problem today, we face the spectre of global food shortage in the coming months," he added, BBC reported.
He warned that the only effective solution to the crisis was reintegrating Ukraine's food production, as well as fertiliser produced by both Russia and Belarus, back into the global market.
Russia and Ukraine produce 30 per cent of the world's wheat supply and -- prior to the war -- Ukraine was seen as the world's bread basket, exporting 4.5 million tonnes of agricultural produce per month through its ports.
But since Russia launched its invasion in February, exports have collapsed and prices have skyrocketed. They climbed even further after India banned wheat exports on Saturday.
The UN says around 20 million tonnes of grain are currently stuck in Ukraine from the previous harvest which, if released, could ease pressure on global markets, BBC reported.
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It will be a modernized version of the humanoid robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) that is expected to be the first to fly to outer space on board the state-of-the-art manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation), Yevgeny Dudorov, technical director of the Russian robot manufacturing company Android technology, told Sputnik.
"It will be the next version of FEDOR which will be created on the basis of technology that has already been developed […]. It will most likely get a different name," Dudorov said. At the same time, he did not rule out that the new robot may be called "FEDOR-2" or "Test Engineer."
Dudorov explained that during the flight, the robot will be tasked with collecting data so that the developers can then assess the possibility of controlling the spaceship with its help both in the autonomous and the copying mode.
READ MORE: Russia Top Space Designer Says Work on Potential New Station, Moon Trips Ongoing
The Federatsiya was designed by Russian Space Corporation Energia to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit and the moon. The spacecraft is capable of staying in the autonomous flight mode for up to 30 days and up to a year as part of a space station system.
READ MORE: Who Takes the Rap for Robots? Robot Developer Probes Tech's Moral Side
The first Federatsiya spacecraft, which will be 80 percent made of composite materials, is due to be commissioned before the end of 2021.


International Law is a normative system that governs international relations between equally sovereign States and it exists to carry an idea of Justice at the service of the human person. The role of international law "is to provide an operational system for securing values" (Rosalyn Higgins, former President of the International Court of Justice, 1995).
The United Nations Charter enshrines the purposes and principles of this organisation in its Chapter I. Ultimately the UN exists to maintain international peace and security by, inter alia, taking effective collective measures in conformity with the principles of justice and international law and by achieving international co-operation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction (Article I UN Charter).
Likewise, the European Union claims to be "founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights" (Article 2 TEU).
The reality of international relations, however, does not always live up to the commitments made by States and international organisations, and we are currently witnessing an unprecedented erosion of declared values and existing international law.
The forum on "International Law for International Values" constitutes a space for analysis on matters of international law and values with a specific focus on international organizations, as it is through the latter that the former is shaped by States acting as the international community.
The forum is currently engaged in two projects:
Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law, which examines issues arising in relation to asylum and migration and the EU.
2. International Law as a tool to the service of humankind.
Director: Professor María Teresa Gil Bazo, Professor in International Law and International Relations, Member of the International Law Association (British Branch), Fellow of the European Law Institute, and Associate Member of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges.


Red Clover Flower Details:
- Common Name: Red Clover (or Purple Clover)
- Scientific Name: Trifolium Pratense
- Origin: Europe, western Asia, northern Africa
- Current Status: Naturalized in many locations
- Honey: Clover honey is one of the most common in the world
Red Clover Facts:
The Clover Lifecycle
The Red Clover is considered an annual in New England and generally flowers in the fall, after growing during the cool spring.
Red Clover is commonly used by farms to give back nutrients (especially nitrogen!) to the soil and as food or fodder for pasture animals.
Local Pollinators Love it
Eastern Blue-Tailed butterflies often feed on red clover in the fall and some will even use clovers to lay their eggs!
- Clovers with similar leaf patterns can also be white (different scientific name: Trifolium Repens.
- Clovers will grow in just about any soil, although it prefers clay.
- White clovers occasionally have 4 leaf shamrocks!
- Full sun! Replicate a meadow with other grasses & wildflowers where ever possible.
- A blog we love… Wellness Mama has also posted unique ways to use Red Clover Flowers as an Herb!


Democracy in action
Millions of Germans get involved in voluntary work in their free time - facts and figures about their commitment.
Many things simply wouldn’t happen without them: Volunteers run clubs and associations, teach young people sports or music, look after children and senior citizens, help refugees, put out fires and rescue accident victims. Millions of people in Germany spend their free time taking responsibility for and helping to shape society. One could also say that volunteering is democracy in action. After all, a strong democracy relies on people wanting to get involved and shape it. Volunteers enrich society and are important for its cohesion - what is more, many people simply find volunteering fun.
What does volunteering mean?
The term encompasses various forms of civil society engagement. People voluntarily take on tasks that benefit society as a whole. They are not paid for this work; if at all, only their expenses will be covered.
How many people volunteer in Germany?
Roughly 40 percent of Germans aged 14 and above – around 29 million people – regularly volunteer in their free time for the good of society. This proportion has risen continuously in recent years.
Where do volunteers typically get involved?
The majority of volunteers devote their time to sports,culture and music, social and environmental projects, schools, nurseries and churches. This was revealed by the so-called Family Survey published in 2021 - the largest study of voluntary and unpaid work in Germany. Statistics are compiled every five years, most recently in 2019. Exactly how the coronavirus pandemic affected volunteering is not yet clear, in other words.
One particularly important job is done by helpers in rescue services, voluntary fire brigades and disaster protection organisations.
Many people also devote their time to helping refugees. According to the Family Survey, more than twelve percent of those aged 14 and above in Germany were involved in voluntary activities to support refugees and asylum seekers between 2014 and 2019.


Lawmakers are introducing the Student Mental Health Rights Act during Mental Health Awareness Month, which would require the Department of Education to issue guidance to colleges and universities on how to better support students with mental health disorders, address substance use disorders, and comply with federal civil rights laws. The act would also direct the Secretary of Education to collect data on the prevalence of these disorders in academic settings and assess current policies.
A report from the Healthy Mind Network stated that 44% of college students suffered from depression and 37% from anxiety in the 2021-2022 academic year, but barriers such as financial costs and lack of available appointments prevent many from accessing care. Students with disabilities are protected by civil rights laws, yet continue to report discrimination and denial of reasonable accommodations.
Senator Edward J. Markey and Representative Katie Porter emphasized the need for more resources to support students experiencing mental health crises and substance use disorders. Co-sponsors of the bill include Representatives Suzanne Bonamisi, Joe Courtney, and Darren Soto. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, American Psychological Association, Anxiety and Depression Association of America, and other organizations endorse the act.
Senator Markey has convened public health leaders on expanding access to mental health care and substance use disorder care, introduced the Community Mental Health Recovery Act, and called for research on technology and media protection for children and youth. The Student Mental Health Rights Act is intended to make campuses safer for students at risk.


The Internet never forgets! - Paul Davis speaks to the STS community
On December 6, Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School hosted Paul Davis, nationally recognized expert on social media and online safety. With two sessions during the day, Paul spoke to our older Elementary School students and our Grades 7 to 10 students. Using the framework of Accountability and Responsibility, his powerful and engaging presentation went beyond standard topics such as Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and Cyberbullying to force our students to look at the digital trail they leave when accessing social media on their smartphones and computers. Our students were challenged to consider how standard practice may leave their private information vulnerable.
Later in the evening, Paul spoke to an enthusiastic gathering of parents eager to learn more about the increasingly complex online world our children experience. Paul shared many tips to help those in attendance to better support their children in this online world. All those who attended were very pleased with the tools and strategies shared, leaving them feeling a bit more empowered to keep their children safe.
If you were not able to join the presentation yesterday, ask your children the following questions:
- What is the difference between a digital footprint and a digital trail?
- What does Paul mean when he says, "The Internet never forgets"?
- Ask your child what he/she may do differently to protect their privacy?
- Why did Paul suggest that students do a Google search for pictures of themselves?
Here are a few suggestions to our parents about managing technology at home:
- Talk to your child and establish clear guidelines
- Establish a "handheld check-in" each evening when your children place their handheld devices in a pre-determined place until they are "checked out" again in the morning
- Disconnect your modem at night or purchase an app-enabled modem
- Consider using apps that will limit Internet access during certain hours of the day (night time)
- Check out and follow Paul Davis' Facebook page for updates and more tips: https://www.facebook.com/pauldavistips/


Calathea is a tropical plant from Brazil, Guyana, Colombia and Nicaragua. The handsome leaves are the attraction for tropical gardeners and indoor plant lovers as well. They are easy to grow indoors. Simple provide bright, indirect light and keep evenly moist, not wet or dry.
The Giant Bamburanta is a bushy evergreen perennial that grows up to 3 feet tall and prefers warm, sheltered, shady, and humid conditions. It is a colorful tropical houseplant and has attractive variegated foliage and inconspicuous flowers. The plant is a member of the Marantaceae or arrowroot family. They are frequently called the prayer-plant family. The plants in this genus typically fold up their leaves at night as if in prayer. The leaves unfurl during the day.
Another common name for this plant is the Never Never Plant. The cultivar, 'Tricolor,' is most commonly available and has creamy white and green leaves with a reddish color beneath.
The plant is native to Northeast Brazil. They are adapted to shaped tropical forests and jungles.
The genus, Ctenanthe, was first described in 1884. The name, Ctenanthe, is derived from the Greek word ktenos, which means "comb." and anthera meaning "anther."
The Giant Bamburanta requires bright indirect sunlight, moist and well-drained soil, and high to medium humidity. Brown leaf margins and curled leaves may indicate underwatering. Yellowing leaves may result from overwatering. The plant is intolerant to mineral and salt build-up from the use of tap water which may result in brown leaf tips. Distilled or filtered water is recommended. Drafts should be avoided. No pruning is required. It is recommended that the plant be fertilized monthly during its growth cycle. The plant should be repotted annually, preferably in the spring or early summer. It may take 5-10 years for the plant to reach its ultimate height.
Prefers bright, indirect light
Keep evenly moist, not wet or dry
Easy to grow house plant
Proper name: Calathea concinna
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Using unmanned aircraft was just part of the job for Bob Lawless when he was a noncommissioned officer in Afghanistan. Now a strawberry grower in Polk County, Fla., Mr. Lawless would like to use the technology to make his farm more productive.
Driving through his company’s 18,000 acres is time-consuming and strawberries have a short, three- to five-day window for harvesting. With a drone relaying aerial imagery, Mr. Lawless figures he could deploy his staff more efficiently and harvest more crop.
The agricultural industry is just one of dozens of potential users of unmanned aerial systems, or UAS. Biologists at the University of Florida in Gainesville already are using a small cameraequipped drone to survey brown pelican populations off the west coast of Florida, manatees in the Florida Keys and pygmy rabbits in Idaho.
“The question, whether you are working on possums or something exciting like whooping cranes, is how many there are? It is the toughest question biologists have to answer. If you have images, you can determine vegetative types and what kind of habitats there are, and you can measure change over time,” said University of Florida researcher Franklin Percival.


nineteenth Century Education In Britain And America
Editor’s observe: This week our Google for Education workforce can be becoming a member of 1000’s of educators at the annual ISTE convention. Reconceptualizing STEM Education explores and maps out analysis and improvement ideas and issues round five central observe themes: Systems Thinking; Model-Based Reasoning; Quantitative Reasoning; Equity, Epistemic, and Ethical Outcomes; and STEM Communication and Outreach. Quality and educational outcomes: It is troublesome to generalize concerning the high quality of private faculties. Because early little one care and education are big expenses for practically all families with young children, the case for providing subsidies for quality little one care and education seems sturdy.
So there are critical flaws within the college and school based education system and if someone opts out of it and decides to go it alone, there’s nothing improper with it. In Finland, a rustic whose educational system is envied world wide, formal reading instruction does not begin till age 7. Moreover, studies show that youngsters who learn to read when they’re older usually tend to read for pleasure than those that realized after they have been younger. Simply called RSP teachers, they either ran a studying heart, co-taught a course with a normal education instructor, or taught core subjects on their very own.
I haven’t written much the previous couple years, so I’d like to put in writing a bit concerning the greatest change I’ve seen in the education debate during that time. Operation HOPE helps 5 million children to know that education and learning the language of cash are two of the keys to success in life on their Banking on Our Future website. That time has now come, and it’s as much as us – and our education programs – to take advantage of it. I actually have had experience with all three …nineteenth Century Education In Britain And America Read More


Submitted by Sara on 23 April 2010 - 11:12pm
Paper: 15cm square of red/green kami
Model: 5.5cm long, 6.5cm wide, 3.5cm high
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Sara can you please help me
Sara can you please help me with step 28 ? Ireally can't understand the wrap around and the mountain fold so please help me!
Submitted by Sara on 15 June 2010 - 7:42am Permalink
28a. Mountain fold all the tips as indicated by the mountain fold. This enables the wrap, for which only enough paper exists to wrap around if those points are out of the way.
28b. Do a normal wrap around all layers of the leg.
29. Release all layers by pulling on the small corners you mountain folded in 28a.
30. Now rearrange the layers, so that they are flattened and separate. This requires you to change the direction of folds, somewhat like sinking two edges as mentioned in the diagrams. I pull apart that the section until it is almost completely flat to get the small diagonal folds inside the model into a precise position. Also, I find it easier to work from the white side in this step, rather than the colored side as shown in step 30.
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Why do we only think of frankincense at Christmas?
Mention Frankincense and most of us will think of the Three wise men and the Christmas story.
But the wise amongst us will know that Frankincense shouldn’t be confined to Christmas – it is a wonderful ingredient that can bring anti-ageing skin care benefits the year round.
Also known as Olibanum, Frankincense comes from resin of the Boswellia sacra tree.
Frankincense has been valued and traded for more than 5000 years and is shown on the walls of the temple of the Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings.
In ancient times, Frankincense was harvested from trees in southern Arabia. The gum was extracted from the tree but this was a dangerous process due to venomous snakes that lived in the trees. Some of gum of the tree was burnt to drive the snakes away before safe harvesting could take place.
Boswellia Sacra trees start producing resin when around 8 years old. Harvesting can take place 2 or 3 times a year but needs to be managed because over-harvesting is known to affect the tree populations by reducing germination rates. These tree populations are also being affected by conversion to agriculture.
You will find Frankincense in several products in the Nourish ‘Treatment’ range because it brings anti-ageing benefits. It will help to tone and firm the skin whilst promoting the regeneration of healthy cells; it helps to balance the water and oil levels in the skin and can reduce the appearance of scars and blemishes.
Our Golden Glow Toning Body Shimmer: infused with golden resins of organic frankincense and myrrh plus super-hydrating hyaluronic acid and light reflecting particles, this unique iridescent shimmer locks in moisture, tones and firms the skin and imparts a natural, sun-kissed radiance.


The Gouvernements Burgerlijke Ziekeninrichting (Government Civil Hospital) at Mataram, was situated in the principal town of the department Lombok. The sovereigns of the principality of Mataram ruled Lombok before the last Lombok war (1894). The hospital is mentioned in the Government Decision of 27 April 1920 no. 67 and in the Bijblad van het Staatsblad van Nederlandsch-Indie (Supplement of the NI Statutebook) 0f 9 February 1937 no. 13808, in which this GBZ was assigned nursing class 4 (Nursing fee ƒ 1,50).
In the 1930s, Mataram was the principal town of the Division Lombok and of the subdivision West-Lombok and homonymous district of the Residency Bali and Lombok. Before the ultimate Lombok war, the realm of Mataram dominated the whole island. The well-known Islamitic realm of Mataram originated from the Madjapahit realm. In 1575, the regent of Mataram (Soetowidjojo) was declaring his independance. He settled his reign on the small princedoms of Demak, Padjang, Kediri and some others. When the Dutch arrived, Mataram was one of two big realms (the other was Bantam) on Java. The panembahan of Mataram (Sepati) ruled over the largest part of Java and Madoera. In 1755, the Dutch East India Company divided Mataram into two still existing principalities: Soerakarta and Jogjakarta (Gonggryp 1934, 822).
See also General hospitals 1940- Google maps, for the location of town and hospital.


The Fish with Three Lines of Defense
To hear evolutionists tell it, millions of years of chance mutations, combined with natural selection, produced all manner of living creatures. Now, let's look at just one creature – the porcupinefish – and see how the theory of evolution works out in real life. If the theory fails the test, it's a strong indicator that the theory lacks the power to explain the existence of any living creature.
The porcupinefish is blessed with not one, not two, but three lines of defense. The first comes into play when a predator is near. The porcupinefish quickly swallows a large amount of water, practically doubling its size. This makes the fish too large for some predators to swallow.
The second line of defense comes into play as the fish transforms itself into a football-sized balloon covered with menacing barbs. Its scales stand on end, turning it into an aquatic version of the land-dwelling porcupine. The very sight of these sharp scales protruding in every direction scares off many predators.
The third line of defense for some porcupinefish species is the neurotoxin in their internal organs – a toxin that's at least twelve-hundred times more potent than cyanide. As Wikipedia points out, "As a result of these three defenses, porcupinefish have few predators."
Now, can evolutionists explain how this unique fish came to have these three lines of defense? No, they can't. Not even Darwin tried to explain it when he wrote about the porcupinefish in his book The Voyage of the Beagle.
Notes: 1000 Wonders of Nature, p. 120 (Reader's Digest, London). Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupinefish.
Photo: Courtesy of Gihan Jayaweera. (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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The first ever Citizen’s Debate on Space for Europe is slated to be held on 10 September and it is an unprecedented event that highlights one very important thing – that space is for everyone. The point we should probably be debating is why it has taken so long.
At the event, the opportunity to learn, debate and participate will be offered to around 2000 citizens. In this very positive move, the ESA Member States will ask their people what their priorities are on all aspects of current and future space programmes, and will gain a different perspective on what really matters to the everyday person in space. The whole event will take place simultaneously across all of the 22 ESA Member States, with around 100 people per state at various locations. Those selected will have been chosen according to socio-demographic criteria, giving a good cross section of society a say.
Space, for some, is not a priority and there is the belief that vast amounts of money are wasted on space projects that will not benefit people in their everyday lives. It is initiatives such as this that can help to bring these views out into the open and to debate them. For many of those that think that space doesn’t matter, it is also a chance to point out that space affects their daily lives far, far more than they think – and will do so even more in the future.
Enabling the laypeople to have their say is critical and I for one applaud ESA for making this debate on space possible. People do not want to feel alienated from what is going on in their country’s space agencies and yet many feel utterly detached when they should be engaged. Space agencies across the world should be doing the same thing and encouraging their citizens to look at the positives – and negatives – of their space programmes, and to air their views on how space programmes should be shaped going forward. This is healthy dialogue, and it should be encouraged. It is this kind of talking that will determine where we go in space in the future.
ESA Director General Jan Woerner said: “Spaceflight, space science, exploration, Earth observation, telecommunication, satellite navigation, space technology and innovation can all help respond to societal challenges and be a source of inspiration to future generations. European citizens can help us better assess our priorities”.
Never a truer word was spoken.
Join the debate: http://www.citizensdebate.space/en_GB


HOWARD, a new county in the N. N. E. part of Iowa, bordering on Minnesota, has an area of about 430 square miles. It is drained by the head streams of Turkey river, and the northern part is intersected by the Upper Iowa. The slope of the county is south-eastward. It contains extensive tracts of timber, interspersed with prairies. This county is not included in the census of 1850; county seat not located. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)
HOWARD COUNTY Is situated in the northern tier of counties, and the third west of the Mississippi River. It was organized in 1855.
The Turkey River heads in the centre of this county. The south fork of the Turkey or Crane Creek, as it is generally called, flows through the centre of the county in a very direct southeasterly course. It is a clear rapid stream, furnishing good water-power, which has been improved in many places. The Upper Iowa River pursues a winding course through the northern tier of townships running with a generally eastern direction. The southwestern portion of the county is imperfectly drained by the head waters of the Wapsipinicon, which flow through a level and rather marshy region; it is, however, through this low country quite heavily skirted with timber. The region between the valleys of the streams is gently rolling prairie, destitute of timber, which is generally confined to the edges of the streams. The soil is usually very fertile.
The McGregor Western Railroad, at present completed to Conover, in Winneshiek County, is located through this county, and it is expected will soon be in running order. (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer..., 1865)


Priority areas for the conservation of coastal marine vertebrates in Chile
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In the past decade, there has been growing concern about the rapid degradation of marine ecosystems due to anthropogenic causes. Consequently, identifying priority areas for the conservation of marine biodiversity has become a crucial conservation issue. Taking into account the influence of human population density, we performed complementarity analyses to identify priority areas for the conservation of all coastal marine vertebrate species in Chile (265 species), and evaluated congruence among the different target groups. The distribution ranges of all species were digitized in a geographic information system and analyses were performed on latitudinal bands of 0.5. Our results show that 12 latitudinal bands (similar to 16% of all latitudinal bands) are necessary to conserve at least one population of each species. Ten of these bands are irreplaceable, whereas two are flexible. Many of the irreplaceable sites lie within areas that have high human population density. In order to conserve all threatened and endemic species, six and three latitudinal bands are needed, respectively. Four latitudinal bands are needed to represent all species of fish, reptiles, and mammals, whereas nine bands are needed to protect all bird species. Taking flexible sites into account, reserve networks that meet the minimum representation goal for each taxonomic group, and for threatened and endemic species, represent subsets of the 12 latitudinal band network selected for all species. Spatial congruence among reserve networks selected for each target group was relatively low and only significantly higher than random in 9 out of 2.1 pairwise comparisons. However, with the exception of reptiles, conservation areas selected for different surrogate groups represented other groups relatively well, compared to randomly selected sites.
Quote ItemBIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION Volume: 126 Issue: 3 Pages: 420-428 Published: DEC 2005


One of the most important regulatory measures of wind turbine siting are setback distances since they may prove an effective measure to mitigate visual impacts, noise pollution, and reduce concerns about safety and protected areas .
As far as visual impacts and noise pollution is concerned, setback distances can be established in the planning phase, during the permitting/authorization process, and may be part of the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA, 2011/92/EU).
Wind turbine setbacks from inhabited or protected areas are quite a controversial issue, which is also to be dealt with from the planning phase, according to national, regional, or local regulations. The WinWind project analysed regulations and/or recommendations in Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Spain and found that they vary considerably either as far as their binding force is concerned (prescriptive /discretionary) either for the territorial level of the (national/regional /local ) competent authority.
Timely, accurate, and transparent communication about setback distances, as established in the wind farm project, and about their implementation is recommended, and will prove a crucial tool for creating trust between market actors and the community.
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The WinWind project analysed the environmental regulations of the partners’ countries. Here below further readings.
On regulation frameworks in the six countries partner (technical aspects)
Screening of Technical and Non-Technical regulations, guidelines and recommendations pages 6-29


Preeclampsia is a complication of pregnancy that refers to the presence of high blood pressure (hypertension) and protein in the urine (proteinuria) in a pregnant woman.
Women with mild preeclampsia may not have any signs or symptoms of the condition. Those with more severe cases of preeclampsia may have signs and symptoms in addition to the characteristic high blood pressure and protein in the urine. These other associated symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, abdominal pain, decreased urine output, altered mental status, and fluid in the lungs (known as pulmonary edema). Changes in reflexes and vision changes may also be present.
Causes of preeclampsia
Doctors do not understand the exact cause of preeclampsia, but it may be related to a disorder of the lining of blood vessels. A major risk of preeclampsia is the development of eclampsia, in which seizures occur.
Other preeclampsia symptoms and signs
- Abdominal Pain
- Altered Mental Status
- Changes in Reflexes
- Decreased Urine Output
- Fluid in the Lungs (Pulmonary Edema)
- High Blood Pressure
- Protein in the Urine
- Vision Changes
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Research published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that direct payments to low-income families appear to significantly affect the brain development of newborns.
Here’s how the experiment, called Baby’s First Years, worked: Researchers recruited hundreds of low-income mothers of newborns and separated them into two groups: One group received $20 per month for several years, while the other group received $333 per month over that same period. The difference in income was $3,756 annually.
Over the study period (which is ongoing until the kids reach at least four-years-old), the researchers measured the infants’ brain waves by strapping them into a baby-friendly, brain-scanning cap.
What they found is striking: Babies in houses getting more money show more high-frequency or “fast” brain activity than babies in houses getting less money. That’s a sign that the cash gifts directly changed brain development, according to Kimberly Noble, a professor of neuroscience and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and co-author of the study. “As kids get older, they tend to have more fast brain activity,” Noble said. “And kids who have more of that fast brain activity tend to score higher” in subsequent tests of cognitive ability.
The researchers say this is a game changer: “This is the first study to show that money, in and of itself, has a causal impact on brain development,” Noble said.
And the paper is especially relevant as Congress debates reauthorizing the expanded child tax credit. While we can debate how handing out cash to parents would affect those parents’ choices, Noble argues that the study “shifts attention to the children, who are blameless in terms of how they got to their life circumstances.”
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Accepted Abstracts: J Biomet Biostat
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it is estimated that each year foodborne disease is the cause of roughly 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths among American citizens. Of the 31 known pathogens that contribute to domestically acquired foodborne illness, Salmonella is deemed the leading pathogen causing hospitalization and death. Although there has been greater implementation of government regulations, the CDC has confirmed that since 1998 the rate of infection of Salmonella is slightly increasing rather than decreasing. For this reason, Salmonella presents itself as a public health concern that needs to be addressed immediately. Because statistical models are essential in detecting outbreaks, this research performed a model comparison, which focused heavily on using a Bayesian statistical methodology to determine change-points using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo computational method, as well as a Bayesian Poisson Analysis. In order to determine how well the tested models were able to successfully identity outbreaks, a simulation study was developed to examine their accuracy. In addition to model efficiency, the simulation study also provided insight to how different factors affect the model results. Results showed that the Bayesian Poisson analysis was the best at detecting outbreak trends of Salmonella. Furthermore, the simulation study showed that the two most influential factors in detecting the correct number of outbreaks are the frequency of outbreaks and a user-specified parameter value.
Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics received 2835 citations as per Google Scholar report


When growing indoors it’s usually necessary to use at least some artificial hydroponic lighting, and with the technology today there are a wide variety of lighting options (bulbs, fixtures and systems, etc.) available. Most widely used are High Intensity Discharge (HID) lights, also known as Metal Halide (MH), and High Pressure Sodium (HPS).
The larger wattage the bulb the more light, and generally speaking, the better plant growth will be. However these lights (as well as all the components of the lighting system) create heat.
MH and HPS lighting systems produce a lots of heat, this heat needs to be properly managed in a way to continuously maintain the optimal temperatures for your plants. Environments that are to hot and/or dry will stress the plants, and stressed plants just won’t produce well.
For most indoor growing situations the plants will produce better, and have better quality when the temperatures don’t reach above 85°F at the tops of the plant (nearest to the light, and heat source). Some of this heat can be vented from the lights using ducting with inline hydroponic exhaust fans, and/or using fans directly on the plants, or even by adjusting the height of the lights.
Listed below are some exhaust fans to get you started, also read through our article on Getting Bigger Yields from your Hydroponics Plants with goes over how to use the exhaust fans.