Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Knapweed Nightmare was the first dog trained "to locate a plant within a plant community" which enabled her to track down low densities of invasive non-native noxious weeds.
Nightmare is a sable shepherd dog trained by Montana based, Rocky Mountain Command Dogs.

Description

The concept that detection dogs could be used to sniff out invasive non-native weeds in the same manner they can be trained to locate drugs and bombs came from Kim Goodwin, weed prevention coordinator at Montana State University Bozeman.

Goodwin pitched her idea of using dogs for locating spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe) to a local dog trainer in 2003 and the two started working on the project. Nightmare, a shepherd dog in training for scent detection, was chosen to detect the invasive weed.

Process

For scent work training, her trainer Hal Steiner uses largely positive dog training methods. Without employing food rewards to entice the dog to search for the knapweed, a technique called "game theory" is employed. The dog's attention is fixed to a particular object, like a towel or a piece of plastic tubing that has knapweed wrapped inside. When the dog responds to the scented toy, handlers give her praise. The toy is then concealed in increasingly difficult-to-find locations.

The knapweed detection dog was taught a little differently than normal scent detection dogs- spending at least 10 seconds digging at a rosette of knapweed allows the global positioning system (GPS) attached to her collar to indicate the location of a knapweed find.

Since Nightmare was expected to work on her own out in a large pasture locating small rosettes of knapweed as it invaded an area, she needed to be able to cover the field without chasing after wildlife or stray scents.  As her proficiency increased, the trainers added various distractions, to help Nightmare learn to stay focused solely on her task.

Accuracy

Phase One of the knapweed detection program was successfully completed and field-tested in the fall of 2004. Nightmare has a 93 percent success rate overall in locating the invading non-native spotted knapweed. She followed it up with 98% in the final trials in open fields, demonstrating that dogs can effectively detect low densities of invasive plants.

References

Further reading

Individual dogs in the United States
Detection dogs
Libor Gerčák (born 22 July 1975), is a Czech futsal player who plays for 1.FC Nejzbach Vysoké Mýto and the Czech Republic national futsal team.

References

External links
UEFA profile

1975 births
Living people
Futsal goalkeepers
Czech men's futsal players
Harry Garvin Truby (May 12, 1870 – March 21, 1953), was an infielder in the Major Leagues in 1895 and 1896. Truby played for the Chicago Colts and Pittsburgh Pirates.

In 70 games over two seasons, Truby posted a .281 batting average (73-for-260) with 31 runs, 2 home runs and 50 RBI. He recorded a .944 fielding percentage as a second baseman.

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1870 births
1953 deaths
Major League Baseball second basemen
Chicago Colts players
Pittsburgh Pirates players
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Austin Senators players
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Gmina Kościelisko is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Tatra County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its seat is the village of Kościelisko, which lies approximately  west of Zakopane and  south of the regional capital Kraków.

The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 8,035.

Villages
The gmina contains the villages of Dzianisz, Kościelisko and Witów.

Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Kościelisko is bordered by the town of Zakopane and by the gminas of Czarny Dunajec and Poronin. It also borders Slovakia.

References
Polish official population figures 2006

Koscielisko
Tatra County
La Chevrolière (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Population

International relations

La Chevrolière is twinned with Lyndhurst, United Kingdom.

See also

Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department

References

External links

 La Chevrolière 

Communes of Loire-Atlantique
The forest islands refers to atypical topographic and biologic features of tropical forest within's South American's Amazonian savanna. One hypothesis supported by research Umberto Lombardo in Bolivia's Savanna argues for anthropomorphic origins, those forest islands being earlier human farming of diverse useful, food-producing tropical plants and trees, collected and willfully inserted in suitable points of the grassland.

Description 
Forest islands are found in between the Andes and the Amazonia forest, in large, rather flat grassland area with savannah vegetation as the dominant biological feature. This plains are irrigated by yearly Spring melting of Andes snow cover. Within this grassland landscape, thousands of tree-covered mounds are known, standing above the nearby grasslands. Forest islands are typically described as raised, wooded areas of about 70 meters in diameter.

Hypothesis 
These atypical mounts were first assumed to be the differential results of modern extensive animal farming on surrounding grasslands, loosing soil materials yearly along recent centuries, while those tropical forest islands kept at their initial elevation.

Apêtê

The ability of local Amazonia inhabitants to engineer their forestrial ecosystem has been previously defended. Darrell Posey among the Gorotire Kayaps Indians of the Brazilian Amazon, described willful, astute engineering of the forest. Defecations along circulation lines as well as active collection and spread of beneficial plants to increase future generation harvests and repel pests are documented.

Anthropomorphic origins

Lombardo & co identified over 6600 forest islands in their target area of Llanos de Moxos, examining 82 of those mounts, 60 shown visible traces of human occupation. Radiocarbon dating returns human occupation from as far as 10,850 years ago. It is now believe the mounts are the fruit of thousands of years of accumulation of biological wastes. As the soil raised, trees eventually occupied the mounts.

Implications 
Lombardo's dating of early forest islands to over 10,000 years puts South West Amazonia among early adopters of agriculture, together with Middle East, China, south-west Mexico and north-west South America. Lombardo study shows the oldest evidence for squash and maize cultivation from human activity in the Amazon basin. It also change the view for historical human impact on the Amazonia. While impact was though to be minimal, Lombardo study and dating shows over 10,000 years of extensive forestry engineering in this area of Amazonia's margin.

Posey argued for the apêtê, or forest islands, composed of useful plant species, to be used as a viable locally-based model for reforestation of Amazonia.

See also 

 Forest gardening
 Forest farming
 Pekarangan
 Hügelkultur
 Terra preta

References 

Amazon biome
Cnemaspis thachanaensis is a species of geckos endemic to Thailand.

References

Cnemaspis
Reptiles of Thailand
Reptiles described in 2017
Michel Moreau (October 2, 1931 - September 4, 2012) was a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He was most noted for his short documentary film Xénofolies, which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992, and his feature documentary A Childhood in Natashquan (Une enfance à Natashquan), which was a Genie nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993.

His other films included Jules the Magnificent (Jules le magnifique), about a man with cerebral palsy, and The Three Montreals of Michel Tremblay (Les trois Montréals de Michel Tremblay), a documentary about writer Michel Tremblay.

References

External links

1931 births
2012 deaths
Canadian documentary film directors
Film directors from Quebec
French emigrants to Canada
The London Telephone Region was an administrative unit of Post Office Telephones in Britain formed in 1936. It comprised all of the London Telephone Area (the area covered by the 01 telephone area code at the time) plus the charging groups adjacent, for example: the Romford Charge Group, comprising Hornchurch, Ingrebourne, Purfleet, Rainham, Romford, South Ockendon, Stapleford and Upminster telephone exchange areas.

The LTR was divided into Areas, such as East and North. East area included the Romford charging group, as above, plus the east sector of the London Telephone Area.

see http://www.btplc.com/thegroup/btshistory/btgrouparchives/majorcollections/british_phone_books_final2013_01.pdf

History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
Aquaporin 3 (AQP-3) is the protein product of the human AQP3 gene. It is found in the basolateral cell membrane of principal collecting duct cells and provides a pathway for water to exit these cells. Aquaporin-3 is also permeable to  glycerol, ammonia, urea, and hydrogen peroxide. It is expressed in various tissues including the skin, respiratory tract, and kidneys as well as various types of cancers. In the kidney, aquaproin-3 is unresponsive to the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin, unlike aquaporin-2. This protein is also a determinant for the GIL blood group system.

Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) (a HDAC inhibitor) increases expression of aquaporin-3 in normal skin cells (keratinocytes).

Clinical significance
Aquaporin 3 levels are often lower in psoriasis than in healthy skin.

Aquaporin 3 is expressed more in atopic eczema.

Recent studies indicate that aquaporin 3 is overexpressed in many types of malignancies such as melanoma and primary effusion lymphomas as well as cancers of the lung, colon, stomach, esophagus, mouth, liver, and pancreatic duct. Based on these as well as cell culture studies, it is suggested that this overexpression contributes to the growth and spread of at least some of these cancers and therefore may be a therapeutic target for the treatment of these cancers.

See also
 Aquaporin

References

Further reading

External links
 GIL blood group system at BGMUT Blood Group Antigen Gene Mutation Database at NCBI, NIH
 

Integral membrane proteins
Blood proteins
Transfusion medicine
Blood antigen systems
Rolando Bragaglia is an Italian former competitive figure skater. In the 1970s, he won the national title and represented Italy at five ISU Championships. He finished in the top fifteen at the 1974 European Championships in Zagreb.

Bragaglia has worked as a technical specialist at skating competitions in Italy.

Competitive highlights

References 

Italian male single skaters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Distal promoter elements are regulatory DNA sequences that can be many kilobases distant from the gene that they regulate.

They can either be enhancers (increasing expression) or silencers (decreasing expression). They act by binding activator or repressor proteins (transcription factors) and the intervening DNA bends such that the bound proteins contact the core promoter and RNA polymerase.

References 

Genetics
Haripirala is a village in Warangal district, Telangana state, India. Haripirala is a mid-sized village; the village is  away from the highway connecting Andhra and Nagpur (Maharashtra state) with close proximity to two major Telangana cities, Warangal and Khammam. It is an education hub for surrounding several small villages with Zilla Parshath High school. It is surrounded by lakes and mountains . Although the source of transportation is public sometimes people seek private transportation 

Languages spoken: Telugu (Telangana Yasa, a mixture of Urdu and Telugu), Lambade, Hindi.

Villages in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district
John Berryman VC (18 July 1825 – 27 June 1896) was a British Army non-commissioned officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Victoria Cross action
Born in Dudley, England, Berriman was 29 years old, and a Troop Sergeant-Major in the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 25 October 1854 at Balaclava, Crimea, (see Charge of the Light Brigade) Troop Sergeant-Major Berryman, whose horse had been shot under him, stopped on the field with a wounded officer amidst a storm of shot and shell. Two sergeants (John Farrell and Joseph Malone) came to his assistance and between them they carried the wounded officer out of range of the guns.

Further information
Berryman later achieved the rank of major and transferred to the 5th Lancers in 1880.

He died at Woldingham, Surrey

References

External links
Location of grave and VC medal (Surrey)

1825 births
1896 deaths
People from Dudley
British recipients of the Victoria Cross
Crimean War recipients of the Victoria Cross
British Army personnel of the Crimean War
17th Lancers soldiers
17th Lancers officers
5th Royal Irish Lancers officers
British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War
British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
Military personnel from Worcestershire
Burials in Surrey
Kenneth Good (born 4 September 1942) is an anthropologist most noted for his work among the Yanomami and his account of his experiences with them: Into the Heart: One Man’s Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami (written with David Chanoff). While researching and living with the group in Venezuela, Good married a Yanomami woman named Yarima, who emigrated to the United States with Good when he returned home. Their three children were raised in the United States, but Yarima, finding adapting to life in the United States too difficult, returned to her village when the children were young.

Good is currently associate professor at New Jersey City University. He appeared in the film Secrets of the Tribe, which documented his work with the Yanomami.

Personal life 
Good studied anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University. His graduate study was principally under William T. Sanders, a Mesoamericanist (Master's degree), and Marvin Harris (PhD). Some other members of his PhD committee were Charles Wagley, the acclaimed South Americanist and Robert Carneiro,  curator of the American Museum of Natural History now deceased. After several years in Venezuela, he returned to Pennsylvania State to join the field project of Napoleon Chagnon and began his field study of the Yanomami tribe in 1975. He developed good relations with the tribe and learned the Yanomami language. 

In 1978, while he was doing fieldwork for the Max Planck Institute of Munich, Good was offered a wife named Yarima by her brother, the headman of the village. He accepted her in accordance with local customs. In keeping with community wishes, he was betrothed to his future wife when she was about 9 years old. They began living near each other and consummated the marriage when she was about 14, as is typical in Yanomami culture. However, the Yanomami people do not record individuals' ages beyond two years, making her exact age difficult to determine; Good himself later estimated these ages to be closer to 12-13 and 15-16, respectively.
The two lived in the tribal communal house, with Good traveling back and forth to Caracas for one year. Later, Yarima followed Good to the United States where she lived for several years in Gainesville while he completed his Ph.D. before deciding to return to her tribe. The two have two sons and a daughter, all of whom grew up in the United States. His daughter Vanessa was born in her mother's village. 

In 2011, one of their sons, David, returned to the jungle to visit his mother and later started a non-profit named The Good Project, dedicated to helping support the future of the Yanomami people.

References

External links
 Kenneth Good (archived in 2014) at New Jersey City University, Department of Sociology
Radio Story about Good, his Yanomamo wife and his son (Soundcloud.com version of NPR podcast cited above).

American anthropologists
Living people
New Jersey City University faculty
1942 births
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Globočica is a South Slavic toponym, that may refer to:

Globočica, Moravče, Slovenia
Globočica, Struga, North Macedonia
Globočica, Dragaš, a settlement in the Gora region of Kosovo - see List of populated places in the municipality of Dragaš, Kosovo#Globočica
Globočice pri Kostanjevici, named Globočica in some of the older sources
Jacob "Jaap" Oudkerk (born 2 August 1937) is a retired cyclist from the Netherlands. He competed in the 4000 m team pursuit at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and finished in fifth and third place, respectively.

He was also active in motor-paced racing. After winning the world championships in the amateurs category in 1964 he turned professional and won three more world championship medals, including a gold in 1969.

He was the husband of Marianne Heemskerk, a Dutch Olympic swimmer.

See also
 List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

References

1937 births
Living people
Dutch male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in cycling
People from Landsmeer
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
Cyclists from North Holland
Dutch track cyclists
20th-century Dutch people
21st-century Dutch people
Tricholoma fumosoluteum is a mushroom of the agaric genus Tricholoma. First described by Charles Horton Peck in 1875 as Agaricus fumosoluteus, it was transferred to the genus Tricholoma by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1887.

See also
List of North American Tricholoma

References

External links
 

Fungi described in 1875
Fungi of North America
fumosoluteum
Taxa named by Charles Horton Peck
Sorry Bhai  is an Indian Hindi romance drama film starring Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Sanjay Suri, Sharman Joshi and Chitrangada Singh. It was directed by Onir and released on 28 November 2008.

Plot
Siddharth Mathur (Sharman Joshi), a shy young scientist, travels to Mauritius for his elder brother Harsh's (Sanjay Suri)  wedding. Accompanying him is his mother Gayatri (Shabana Azmi), a reluctant traveller since she is angry at Harsh for deciding to get married without consulting them. Also travelling is Siddharth's cheery father Navin (Boman Irani), whose sole entertainment is pulling Gayatri's leg. Harsh, pre-occupied with work, can spend little time with his family and it is left to his fiancée Aaliyah (Chitrangada Singh) to show them around Mauritius before the wedding. However, Ma's anger at Harsh ensures that she takes an instant dislike for Aaliyah, and it is Aaliyah and Siddharth who end up spending loads of time together. This, added to the fact that Aaliyah feels neglected by the career-obsessed Harsh, leads to them being irresistibly drawn to each other. A horrified Siddharth battles this attraction desperately, but Aaliyah has fallen madly in love and pursues him with single-minded determination. When Siddharth's defences start crumbling and Ma starts getting suspicious, all hell breaks loose in the Mathur family.

Cast
 Sharman Joshi as Siddharth Mathur
 Chitrangada Singh as Aaliyah
 Shabana Azmi as Gayatri Devi Mathur 
 Sanjay Suri as Harshvardhan Mathur
 Boman Irani as Navin Mathur 
 Gaurav Nanda as Student

Soundtrack

References

External links
 

2000s Hindi-language films
2008 films
Films set in Mauritius
Parocystola acroxantha is a species of moth of the family Oecophoridae. It is endemic to New Zealand, but has been introduced in Great Britain.

Larvae feed have been recorded on Eucalyptus and Berberis species.

References

Oecophorinae
Sir William Thomas Gustavus Cook (1834 – 26 January 1908) was a British industrialist and Liberal politician who was active in local government in Birmingham and sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886.

He was the second son of Anselm Cook of Kingscourt, Stroud, Gloucestershire, where he was born. He took up an apprenticeship to the pin and wire trade in Birmingham and subsequently set up his own business as a manufacturer of tacks and shoe rivets.

In 1872 Cook was elected to Birmingham Town Council, and in 1875 became chairman of the Borough Health Committee. He was made an alderman in 1882, and served as Mayor of Birmingham in 1883/84.

In 1885 he was selected as Liberal candidate for the newly created constituency of Birmingham East, and won the seat at general election of that year. He was only a member of the House of Commons for a brief period, however, as he was defeated by his Conservative opponent when another election was held in 1886. He was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for the Bordesley constituency of Birmingham at the 1895 general election.

Cook was a justice of the peace for Warwickshire and the City of Birmingham, and made his home at Ashley House, Birchfield, Staffordshire, on the outskirts of the city. He was knighted in 1906.

William Cook died in Blackpool in January 1908, aged 73.

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1834 births
1908 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1885–1886
Mayors of Birmingham, West Midlands
Knights Bachelor
English justices of the peace
Jason Fred Brown (born 10 October 1974) is a cricketer who has previously played for Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, England A and Staffordshire.

Career
Jason Brown made his first-class debut for Northamptonshire against Yorkshire at the County Cricket Ground, Northampton in September 1996. Up to the end of the 2008 season, he has played 126 first-class matches for Northamptonshire as well as 3 matches for the England A team during their tour of the West Indies in January 2001. He also played on the senior England team's tour of Sri Lanka in 2000–01.

In these 129 matches, Brown has taken 414 wickets, with 22 instances of taking 5 wickets in an innings. His career best bowling was 7–69 against Durham at the Riverside Ground in 2003. He was released by Northamptonshire at the end of the 2008 season, and subsequently joined Nottinghamshire on a two-year contract.

However, injuries limited his playing time at Nottinghamshire and he was released after just one year, ironically after Nottinghamshire signed Graeme White, another spinner from Northamptonshire.

References

External links

1974 births
Living people
English cricketers
Northamptonshire cricketers
Nottinghamshire cricketers
Sportspeople from Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire cricketers
Cricketers from Staffordshire
Eric Wilborts (born 20 June 1964) is a Dutch former professional tennis player.

Wilborts was a left-handed player from Tilburg who was ranked as high as three in the world junior rankings as a 16 year old. He was runner-up to Mike Falberg in the boys' singles final at the 1980 US Open.

While competing on the professional tour he reached a career high singles ranking of 269. His Grand Prix (ATP Tour) appearances include a win over Pat Du Pré at Rotterdam in 1981, where he was beaten in the next round by Jimmy Connors. He was a singles quarter-finalist at the 1981 Tel Aviv Open.

Between 1981 and 1983 he competed in four Davis Cup ties for the Netherlands, winning five of eight singles rubbers.

See also
List of Netherlands Davis Cup team representatives

References

External links
 
 
 

1964 births
Living people
Dutch male tennis players
Sportspeople from Tilburg
Bober may refer to:

German name of Bóbr river
Bober (surname)
Johann von Böber (1746-1820), German teacher, entomologist and botanist
Bober (drone), a Ukrainian long-range loitering munition

See also