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Closed cell spray foam insulation is a modern approach to continuous insulation. When compared to more traditional options such as XPS rigid foam board, spray foam insulation offers a range of installation, cost and performance advantages that surpasses other options available on the market. This simple infographic gives a high level overview of the benefits of spray foam insulation in a continuous insulation application compared to traditional XPS rigid foam board.

This project will focus on the production of an in vitro human disease tissue platform technology to enable and accelerate the development of regenerative medicine therapies for a diverse range of diseases. The concept will be realised by the in vitro generation of 3D human tissues cultured from human induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells. Initially a library of adult cells will be generated from patients with a range of genetic diseases. These cells will subsequently be used to generate iPS cell cultures in optimised conditions, with the resultant cells being differentiated into key cell types. These differentiated cells will then be integrated onto 3D tissue bioreactors operating in an optimised variable perfusion environment producing the 3D human tissue disease cultures. The bioreactors will be constructed using a range of innovative microfluidic techniques to produce systems compatible with analysis systems commonly used in laboratories worldwide. The development of a platform technology producing 3D human tissue disease cultures will enable the generation of fully differentiated cell types and thus allow diseases to be effectively modelled at a population relevant scale in 3D human tissues in vitro. The resultant major benefit of the system is that it will allow regenerative therapies to be developed and tested on batteries of human tissues in the laboratory in a rapid, cost effective manner relevant to the in vivo state. To develop and validate the platform technology within the lifetime of the project liver hepatocyte cells and tissues will be generated due to their scientific and commercial significance from a population relevant range of patients with inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs). Therefore this project will significantly advance the state of the art and constitute a significant step forward for the regenerative medicine industry producing a key platform resource.

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Kingdom of Thrace, Lysimachos, 297-281 BC. AE 19. Denomination : 17 mm bronze. Size : 16.9 x 17.1 mm. Weight : 5.16 grams. Grade : Fine / good Fine but some fine scratches on the high points. Brown with slightly brassy high points (not as brassy as the image suggests). Obverse : Young Male head wearing a crested Corinthian helmet. Reverse : Lion leaping right, with BASILEWS above and LUSIMACOU below, with a spear head below the lion. Only part of BASILEWS is on the flan.

During the reign of Ahkenaten and Nefertiti, the royal family showed images of the royal family playing. In fact, the artwork of this period is unlike that of any that came before it. Nefertiti and Ahkenaten orchestrated a complete departure from earlier forms of expression. It is surmised that she must have been about four feet, six inches tall, the height of an average Egyptian woman of the time. It is known from her depictions that she often went about scantily dressed, as was customary in the warm climate. Otherwise, she appeared in the traditional garb of a clinging gown tied by a girdle with ends falling in front; at times, she is depicted coiffed with a short wig. She probably had a shaven head to improve the fit of her unusual tall blue crown. It is known that she identified with her husband’s heresy and that, according to Akhenaten’s poetry, he loved her dearly. It is also known that her beauty was legendary (3). "The royal apartments were built on an especially grand scale: the king’s bedroom, for example, measured nearly 8 metres by 5 [26 feet by 16.5], and this excludes a raised recess to house the royal bed. The floor in the great hall of the king’s palace was painted to represent a pool in the marshes and that in the palace next door a pool with plants and water birds. The entire ceiling of the great hall was patterned with flying vultures; that of the king’s bedroom with a row of vultures. The ceilings of many rooms in the palace were painted with spirals and interweaving designs, combined with naturalistic forms such as flying birds (151). "As part of his religious revolution, Akhenaten decided to leave Thebes and move to a virgin site that would be dedicated to his new cult. The new city was located in Middle Egypt, and called Akhetaten, `Horizon of Aten’. It was laid out parallel to the river, its boundaries marked by stelae carved into the cliffs ringing the site. The king himself took responsibility for its cosmologically significant master plan. In the center of his city, the king built a formal reception palace, where he could meet officials and foreign dignitaries. The palaces in which he and his family lived were to the north, and a road led from the royal dwelling to the reception palace. Each day, Akhenaten and Nefertiti processed in their chariots from one end of the city to the other, mirroring the journey of the sun across the sky. In this, as in many other aspects of their lives that have come to us through art and texts, Akhenaten and Nefertiti were seen, or at least saw themselves, as deities in their own right. It was only through them that the Aten could be worshipped: they were both priests and gods (39)." "In her role as part of the divine couple, Nefertiti may also have been co-regent. Akhenaten joined his cartouche (his seal) with hers as a sign of equality and there is evidence that she took on the traditional duties of pharaoh while her husband busied himself with theological reformation and architectural renovations."

When Staff Sergeant Felicity Monroe becomes the target of a killer, Westley James vows to protect her with the help of his K-9 partner. But with a ruthless murderer determined to make Felicity his next victim, can Westley keep the woman he’s falling for alive? Joachim Burkholder never expected to find an Englischer hiding in his buggy, but now he must rescue Sarah Miller from her abductor. As they grow closer, can he keep her safe…and convince her to stay with him and join his Amish faith? On the run after witnessing a murder, single mom Zoe Marks must rely on Secret Service agent Jude Brauer for protection. There’s a killer on their trail, and safeguarding Zoe and her little boy may be harder than Jude anticipated.

A survey from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE) has found that graduate jobs are set to rise across a number of sectors in 2018, with employers expecting to boost their number of graduate job vacancies by 11 per cent. The annual Student Recruitment Pulse survey asked 103 UK student employers about their hiring intentions for the year ahead and found that the graduate jobs market will be returning to double-digit growth for the first time since 2015. According to the survey, an additional 1,423 graduate jobs will be offered this year. Last year, there was just a 1 per cent increase in graduate jobs, whilst the number of graduate jobs in 2016 decreased by 8 per cent. In 2015, the number of graduate vacancies increased by 13 per cent. An additional 1,501 apprenticeships are also expected to be offered this year, up by 32 per cent from 19 per cent in 2017 and 13 per cent in 2016. The gradual increase comes as a result of the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy. The study also showed that employers have put more effort into filling graduate vacancies, with just 38 per cent of employers failing to fill vacancies last year, down from 52 per cent in 2016.

We encounter miniaturized objects in our daily life, as they are present, for example, in integrated circuits, cell phones, flexible displays, or various miniaturized sensors or actuators, in the form of thin films, conducting wires, or more complicated structures. And we are used to the fact that these objects get ever smaller and cheaper. However, once material dimensions are reduced to the micron- and sub-micron range, material properties are subject to significant change. Thus, mechanical properties start to depend on the sample size. Moreover, due to the large surface-to-volume ratio of small structures, deformation mechanisms are subject to change. To unveil the basic mechanisms governing deformation in small dimensions, we use advanced techniques to structure such small samples and perform quantitative miniaturized experiments directly inside electron microscopes like the SEM or TEM . The direct observation of the sample deformation in combination with the mechanical data allows for a comprehensive understanding of the governing processes. Experiments range from simple uniaxial compression or tensile tests to bending, fatigue and fracture experiments on a broad range of materials, ranging from single crystals over thin films and layered systems to nanocomposites or nanoporous materials. Moving into the TEM for mechanical testing, direct correlation between the mechanical behavior of nanostructured materials and the dynamics of individual crystal defects can be established.

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This article presents a comprehensive study on the mechanical behaviour of composite laminated plates undergoing a low-speed impact of an external body while they are subjected to in-plane preloads. The effect of such preloading was investigated by means of finite-element analysis of several impact events on laminates with three different span-to-thickness ratios. Tensile and compressive preloads, both uniaxial and biaxial, were considered; in the case of compression, the impact on buckled specimens was also studied. The results obtained show that the span-to-thickness ratio is a fundamental parameter in determining the effect of initial strains. Under a tensile preload, the impact-caused peak stresses were higher than in the case of no preload, and their increment was higher in thicker laminates. Under compression, the most dangerous influence of initial stresses was found at medium span-to-thickness ratios for preloads comparable with the buckling load, whereas, in other cases, negligible or even beneficial effects were observed. These results can justify some experimental findings from the existing literature, even if they were obtained without modelling the material degradation due to damage. Also, they allow us to conclude that the explanation of other phenomena strictly related to damage, as well as an accurate prediction of the extent of damage, requires a failure model.

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The Card: Three enrobed women are each lifting a cup high, facing each other. One in red, one in white, and one in Brown and white. Vegetables are growing in the soil. The sky behind them is blue. Interpretation: The 3 women are saluting, holding their cups high in a celebration of the feminine, fertility and life. The ground is covered with an abundant harvest, we are being nurtured with everything we need. You can see them saying, 'see my cup is full, and I offer it all to the common good, to sustain us all. Or you can see them saying, 'life provides everything, if we hold our cup forward it will be filled to the rim and more. Perhaps they are dancing, celebrating the harvest. The cup receives and the cup gives, it is a vessel. The feminine principle of the womb. Prediction: Enjoy, give and receive, it is time to celebrate. Dance and be free you need not worry about the future. Seasons come and go, but right now the barn is full, you can relax and sing. Keywords: The feminine, nurturing, abundance, giving and receiving, harvest-time.

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Is that the first three quarters of a good game are meaningless. The teams spend three quarters feeling one another out, then in the fourth quarter everything happens. Sometimes, admittedly, a game is decided in the third quarter. But that’s by definition a bad game, and not worth watching. Compare to baseball or football, where the early going is often decisive, even in a good, competitive game. I.e., there’s a reason to watch the whole thing. Yes the fourth quarter is the most exciting in football, the 7th, 8th and 9th the tensest in baseball. But specifically: the preceding quarters and innings have often contained the key moment of the game. In a good basketball game, you’d never say that of action in the first 3 quarters, unless there was an injury. Which is to say, does anyone really enjoy the first three quarters of a basketball game? I’m not sure what the solution is. Maybe changing the scoring system, to a set system, ala tennis, and have five ten-minute sets and a team wins when it wins 3 out of 5. That would make you watch.

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Very helpful...I discovered this week that I enjoy wedges of purple cabbage drizzled with salad dressing. What a great snack. That sounds tasty, Maggie Ann. Do you cook the cabbage first? Ok... now lets be serious... IS there ANYTHING on earth besides chocolate pecan pie??? I think not!

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The increased complexity of ink formulations and the sensitivity of modern print head designs, may lead them to potential blocking by particulate and microgels, this means effective filtration is paramount. Working with leading manufacturers of Digital Ink we have developed a dedicated range of filters designed to provide optimum filtration for all print head technologies. The hybrid filter design of the SupaPleat Plus Ink combining high depth melt blown media and pleated technology ensures that small microgels and agglomerates are effectively removed while maintaining high flow rates and capacity. The configuration of filtration layers also provides excellent classification to ensure high transmission of pigment while at the same eliminating unwanted contamination. In applications where prefiltration of ingredients prior to formulation mixing is required, the SupaSpun II provides optimal prefiltration.

Good: It will get you in touch with locals and small hotel owners for your trip. When you wish to travel to an entirely new destination, you would like to get good views on it. You might want to ask friends and relatives for advice but their advice will be based purely on hearsay. Hence, it is not to be trusted completely. If you wish to find all the travel information you need under one roof by connecting to other fellow travelers, the Touristlink web app is just the right choice for you. Here you can share information from your personal experience, meet other travelers from across the world, make suggestions for tourist attractions and also create and share you own favorite lists with your friends. There are many features of Touristlink that make it so special and unique. You can create a list of your favorite travel destinations and then share it with friends. You are allowed to share new suggestions for attractions with fellow travelers, and also post photos of your own travels. Based on reviews and rankings by members, the site offers a list of top attractions in a given city. Thus, users can discover hot spots and attractions on their own. As a user of this app, you can also place requests for guide trips and taxi pickups. With your request placed, guides and travel agents can view your request and send offers to you. You can also pose questions to hotel owners and guides to get a better idea of the place. Touristlink not only links you with fellow travelers but also acts as a social connect with travel agents, homestays, local guides, vacation rentals and others in this network. As a traveler, you will want nothing but the most authentic glimpse of culture and a memorable experience. This app will give you exactly that. It will get you in touch with locals and small hotel owners for your trip. Besides, if you cannot make a decision yourself, then there are recommendations and reviews by members to rely upon. These are the voices that speak from experience and can hence be trusted completely. Besides offering its own deals, Touristlink also offers deals from tour guides and travel agents. At present, this offering is quite limited but is expected to see rapid expansion in the near future as it widens its group deals by tapping into the resources of tour guides and travel agents who are its members. The present focus of the team is to provide adventure travels and target deals to its users in the markets of south-east Asia. Group travel really works out well in this region. With plans to launch a mobile app soon, which shall allow member requests with regards to travel services, the web app is making good progress. Guides can make offers according to the preferences and the tastes of the requesting member. It will then become simpler and more useful. Touristlink – social travel market place creates a value added environment that has reviews and updated, relevant content. So, if you wish to get in touch with others who love travel and those that offer these services, no other platform will serve this purpose better. Fun Football-Euro 2012- Go Support Your Team!

This is a PC/ABS compound, a good candidate for Laser Direct Structuring applications. Polycarbonate + ABS compound with colorable, good plating, surface and mechanical performance, a good candidate for Laser Direct Structuring applications. Flame retardant(halogen free),black color only,LDS. improved flow, colorable compound based on PC copolymer resin developed for applications that require LDS for antenna, or electronic circuit manufacturing. a colorable PC based compound with stable plating and RF performance, colored LDS material solution, good surface and processing window, high impact strength. It is a general purpose product available in internal and external parts for Laser Direct Structuring applications. This is a PC based compound with good plating, surface, mechanical performance and flame retardant (Halogen free), a good candidate for Laser Direct Structuring applications. PPA base glass fiber filled compounds, good for LDS application. Additional feature is high heat. Celanese Vectra LCP E840i LDS (MID/LDS),Plateable. *The compound is intended specifically for the use in the process of manufacturing conducting path designs according to the German application of the patent 101 32 092 of LPKF Laser & Electronics AG. Please address straight to LPKF Laser & Electronics AG (www.LPKF.de).

With the rapid development of photothermal therapy (PTT) in cancer treatment, it is necessary to obtain effective plasma-responsive tunable photothermal transducing agents. Inspired by the peptide-directed hierarchical mineralized Ag nanocages (Ag NCs), scientists designed a new duel-template cascade preparation method, and novel unique multi-branched gold nanoshells (BGSs) were successfully prepared under mild conditions using green strategy. The length, density and diameter of the branches were tuned, which led to the adjustment of the surface plasma response of the nanostructure. Because of the hierarchical structure and anisotropic surface, an obvious red shift of the local surface plasmon resonance spectrum was observed for the branched Au nanoshells. The excellent photothermal conversion efficiency (70.9%) and photo-induced heating responsive curves proved the superior photothermal conversion performance and photothermal stability of BGSs. The in vitro and in vivo results indicated that the heat generated by the intense NIR absorption of BGSs can selectively destroy cancer cells under laser irradiation. The nanostructures with ultrastrong absorption have promising prospects in tumor therapy.

(6) proposed apportionment of cost, if any, between the improvement district and the city at large. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time and until the governing body shall have made findings by resolution as to the advisability of the improvement, the nature of the improvement, the estimated cost, the boundaries of the improvement district, the method of assessment and the apportionment of cost, if any, between the district and the city at large, all as finally determined by the governing body, except that the area of the improvement district to be assessed may be less than, but shall not exceed, the area proposed to be assessed as stated in the notice of hearing without giving notice and holding a new hearing on the improvement. The governing body may proceed without such notice and hearing, to make findings by resolution as to the advisability of improvements as provided in this section whenever the proceedings are to improve sanitary and storm water sewers. (A) A majority of the resident owners of record of property liable for assessment under the proposal; (B) the resident owners of record of more than one-half of the area liable for assessment under the proposal; or (C) the owners of record, whether resident or not, of more than one-half of the area liable to be assessed under the proposal. (7) a request that such improvement be made without notice and hearing as required in subsection (a). For purposes of subsection (c), the term "entity" shall mean and include, but shall not be limited to, any municipality, any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, trust, association or other form of business or charitable organization. (d) Upon filing of such petitions, the governing body may make findings by resolution as to the advisability of the improvement, the nature of the improvement, the estimated cost, the boundaries of the improvement district, the method of assessment and apportionment of cost, if any, between the improvement district and the city at large, all as determined by the governing body. With respect to any petition filed pursuant to subsection (c), such findings shall include a finding that the improvement district does not include all the property which may be deemed to be benefited by the proposed improvement and the persons who signed such petition are willing to pay the costs of the proposed improvement as set forth in the petition. Thereupon the governing body may proceed without notice and hearing to order the improvement as provided in K.S.A. 12-6a06, and amendments thereto, except that no protest shall be received as provided in such section. The area of the improvement district finally determined by the governing body to be assessed may not exceed the district proposed in the petition unless notice is given and a hearing held as provided in subsection (a) of this section, in which instance the proceedings shall be subject to protest as in other cases. (e) Whenever adjoining parallel streets have been improved, and the city proposes to improve the intervening connecting street to the same extent as the streets to be connected, or when two portions of any street have been improved and an intervening portion not exceeding two blocks has not been improved, and the city proposes to improve such intervening portion to the same extent as the improved portions, in addition to the notice required under subsection (a), notice of public hearing on the advisability of such improvements shall be given by certified mail to the owners of record of such property. Such notice shall include the information required under subsection (a). History: L. 1957, ch. 99, § 4; L. 1959, ch. 72, § 2; L. 1967, ch. 86, § 1; L. 1997, ch. 97, § 1; L. 2003, ch. 120, § 2; July 1.

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Few-layered tungsten disulfide (WS 2 ) with a controlled-phase ratio (the highest trigonal-phase ratio being 67%) was exfoliated via lithium insertion. The exfoliated WS 2 nanosheets were then anchored onto three-dimensional (3D) graphite foam (GF) to fabricate free-standing binder-free electrodes. The 3D GF can increase the interfacial contact between the WS 2 nanosheets and the electrolyte and facilitate ion transfer. Without the nonconductive binder, an intimate contact between the WS 2 and GF interface can be created, leading to the improvement of electrical conductivity. In comparison to the pure WS 2 nanosheets, the overpotential for a hydrogen evolution reaction is significantly decreased from 350 mV to 190 mV at 10 mA/cm 2 , and no deactivation occurs after 1000 cycles. The density functional theory computations reveal that the efficient catalytic activity of the trigonal-phase WS 2 /GF electrode is attributed to the lower Gibbs free energy for H* adsorption and higher electrical conductivity. Guo, X. and Ji, J. and Jiang, Q. and Zhang, L. and Ao, Z. and Fan, X. and Wang, S. et al. 2017. Few-Layered Trigonal WS<inf>2</inf>Nanosheet-Coated Graphite Foam as an Efficient Free-Standing Electrode for a Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 9 (36): pp. 30591-30598.

Sharing insights, suggestions, tips and almost anything which will help you, and me, become better writers. Who doesn’t want to be a better writer? However great you think you are, there’s always scope to improve your writing further. I would like to share a few interesting blog posts full of sensible advice to writers and would be writers:- Read “The One Book That Shines” which details the 5 Characteristics Of A Great Book. The first fact mentioned puts things in perspective. Most literary agents receive 2000 or more submissions every year and only 1 % of the agent’s “slush pile” is rewarded with an offer of representation. Also that publishing is a business like any other where the owner of the publishing firm wishes to see fair return on his investment. Keep these two points in mind whenever you sit down to write. You cannot afford to forget them. Janet Reid needs no introduction to writers and would be writers, does she? She’s a literary agent with FinePrint Literary Management and her blog must be one of the most widely read of them all. I happened to see a contest that’s playing out there a short while ago. The task is to tell a story in 100 words or less, using five words selected by her. This was my first shot at an exercise of this kind. I decided to give it a go. As required, we pasted our “stories” as comments under the blog post in question. You can see my effort along with those by many others. It doesn’t matter whether you win something or not, it’s an interesting experience and I look forward to taking part in more such contests if I come across them. Try it for yourself. It is fun, isn’t it?

The T660 is ideally suited for the quick, non-destructive determination of moisture distribution in near-surface areas to about 4 cm. Based on the T660's integrated material pre-selection function for anhydrite and cementitious screed the measurement results (indicative) can on demand be shown directly in mass % or CM % on the colour display of the T660. The integrated conversion of measured values is a practical tool, in particular for floor layers to quickly check the readiness for covering. In addition to the preliminary check of the building materials' readiness for covering for CM measurements the T660 is also suited for non-destructive wood moisture measurements according to the dielectric measurement method (indicative). The T660 comes equipped with particular display glass ensuring high-contrast presentation even in bright sunlight as well as enabling the quick and reliable detection of the moisture distribution in wall or floor areas when combined with the large-digit, real-time measurement value display. Handy and time-saving: Prior to measuring you can define an individual limit value in the T660's settings. Should this alarm limit value be exceeded in the course of measuring, an acoustic warning signal is emitted automatically. The T660 comes with a continuous surface made of highly scratch-resistant Blanview special glass and capacitive touchscreen control panel. Owing to the combined measurement of near-surface moisture with the T660 and of sub-surface moisture with the T610, complex correlations can be distinguished, narrowed down and classified, e.g. hygroscopic humidity occurrences resulting from salinization or leak detection. In the course of this the T660 captures the topmost two to four cm of the construction material and the T610 measures the volume moisture values to a depth of 30 cm. Significant results regarding a multi-dimensional moisture distribution can be obtained via grid measurement based on surface and sub-surface moisture measurement values. With an active USB connection to the measuring device the MultiMeasure Studio software included in the scope of delivery provides a convenient assistance function for the creation and visualization of grid measurements. As optionally available Professional version MultiMeasure Studio offers yet more possibilities and is not only perfectly suitable for fully compatible devices like the T660.

Candidates can check their TS EAMCET result and download their rank card by logging in through registration and hall ticket number as well as their date of birth. Meanwhile, no hard copies of TS EAMCET result 2018 will be sent to the candidate. At the same time candidate needs to take printouts of TS EAMCET result/ rank card, as the document needs at the time of document verification.TS LAWCET Result 2018 can be accessed through online mode only. After the completion of the entrance exam, the result has been announced. Candidates can also download their rank card with answer key. Candidates can check their results from the website. TS LAWCET rank card contains the overall or category rank of the candidate and overall marks secured by them. TS EAMCET 2018 entrance exam is a state level exam conducted for the candidates from the newly formed Telangana state. TS EAMCET 2018 popularly known as Telangana State Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test is a state level entrance exam for the admission to agriculture, Medical and Engineering courses such as B.Tech, B.Sc (Hons), B.V.Sc, B.F.Sc, B. Pharma and Pharma-D. The Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (TS EAMCET 2018) is being conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH) on behalf of Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE). Candidates appearing for TS EAMCET 2018 should belong to the state of Telangana/Andhra Pradesh. There is no upper age limit for any courses. Candidates should be passed for class (10+2) with Mathematics, Physics and chemistry. For Diploma candidates aspiring of TS EAMCET 2018 should have passed or appeared at final year Diploma Examination in Engineering conducted by the state Board of Technical Education and Training, Telangana/ Andhra Pradesh. A point often overlooked, the candidate’s of TS EAMCET2018 should have completed 17 years of age as on 31st December of the year of admission to the above Course. JNTU, Hyderabad has opened registration for the TS EAMCET 2018 practice test to be held on April 19 & 20. The authorities have also released the exam pattern for all the candidates appearing in the exam. Candidates can know about the type, nature, number and pattern of questions asked in the exam. Also, Candidates can check the complete TS EAMCET 2018 exam pattern for all the full article given below. It is important for candidates to practice sample papers or question papers of the previous years to understand the TS EAMCET exam pattern of 2018 and the format of the exam better. The exam will be conducted in English, Telugu and also Urdu language. Candidates, who wish to appear in TS EAMCET in the Urdu language, will have to appear at the Hyderabad exam centre only. The time allotted for the examination is 3 hours. The test, to emphasize, will be conducted online only. The Mathematics paper will have a total of 80 questions, while the other two subjects – chemistry and physics will have 40 questions. The total marks of the entrance exam will be 160 marks for 160 questions. Must be remembered, each correct answer will be given 1 mark. There will no negative marking in TS EAMCRT 2018. JNTU, Hyderabad has opened the window for TS EAMCET application for on April 6. Candidates can make changes in application particulars till April 9. To make corrections in particular, for the application details for TS EAMCET, registered candidates have to enter their application number, payment reference number and date of birth. Candidates belonging to general category have to pay Rs, 800 while candidates belonging SC/ST category have to pay Rs, 400 as the fee for an application form. To know all the details including each step to fill the TS EAMCET application form 2018 and other information which the candidates have to fill. furthermore is given below. How to fill TS EAMCET Application Form 2018? The exam centres of TS EAMCET were the venues where the entrance exam held in online mode. Based on the choice opted by the candidate and the number of candidates for that particular regional centre, allotted a particular TS EAMCET 2018 exam centre. In fact, Candidates must note that centres are allotting on the first come, first serve basis and were subject to availability. The hall ticket of TS EAMCET carried a name, roll number, exam centre address, date and time of the exam. The list of regional centres of TS EAMCET 2018 where the exam will be held, accordingly, are given below. TS EAMCET 2018 Admit Card is available on the official website of TS EAMCET 2018 from 20th April 2018. All registered candidates were able to download their hall ticket of TS EAMCET till May 1 by submitting their registration number, qualifying examination hall ticket number and date of birth. TS EAMCET hall ticket 2018 also available in online mode. Accordingly, It was important for all candidates to produce their hall ticket of TS EAMCET 2018 at the examination venue. To begin the exam, the first thing to remember, if failure to produce their hall ticket lead to the disqualification of the candidates. TS EAMCET 2018 hall ticket / admit card will consist of the name, examination venue, timings and more information. It was to be noted that hall ticket of TS EAMCET not be damaged and should be kept safely until all of the admission procedure is over. The successful candidates comparatively will have to take part in the counselling process which will begin at the end of June 2018. counselling process for TS EAMCET for candidates on the basis of their Merit Ranks in the entrance exam. 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This study investigated the effectiveness of strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) beams with pre-stressed near surface mounted (NSM) carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) systems was investigated. Eight RC beams were tested under four-point loading tests. An un-strengthened control beam was used for reference. Four beams were strengthened with pre-tension NSM CFRP bars. The last three beams were strengthened with post-tension NSM CFRP bars. The test results showed that strengthening with a pre-stressed NSM beam enhanced the flexural behavior of the beam compared to that of the control beam. The post-tension NSM systems provided the best enhancement to beam performance for the concrete cracking, steel yielding, and ultimate loads. The test results of post-tension NSM beams were compared with the finite element analysis (FEA) model to validate the proposed model. The reinforcement length and pre-stressing force were used as parameters to analyze the effects of the strengthening performance in the proposed numerical model. Pre-stressed near surface mounted . Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer . Reinforced concrete beam . Fracture . Strength . Post-tension system . Finite element analysis . Mechanical testing.

In this paper, a coupled volume-of-fluid and level set (VOSET) method is developed to simulate the two-phase flows. To improve the calculation accuracy of two-phase flows and reduce the cost of computer resources, the dynamically adaptive octree grids are used to refine the grids near the interface. For the deformation of a sphere, the numbers of cells and the CPU time are analyzed. The number of cells for the adaptive grid system is less than 550000. To keep the same resolution, the number of cells for the uniform grid system would be 4096000. The CPU time for the adaptive grids is less than 300 min, while it is 650 min for the uniform grids. The results demonstrate that using the adaptive octree grids takes less storage and time to achieve almost the same accuracy as employing the relevant uniform grids. A static drop in equilibrium without gravity is numerically simulated, and the results show that this method can accurately calculate the interfacial force. A rising gas bubble and the coalescence of two bubbles are simulated, and the results are in good agreement with the previous results. Wang T, Li H, Zhang Y, Han W, Sheng T, Zhang W. Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flows Using 3D-VOSET Method on Dynamically Adaptive Octree Grids. ASME. International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Volume 4: Radiation Protection and Nuclear Technology Applications; Fuel Cycle, Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Coupled Codes; Reactor Physics and Transport Theory ():V004T10A012. doi:10.1115/ICONE22-30355. Computer Simulation Software as Test Equipment?

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A new three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear micromechanical analysis is proposed to predict the overall mechanical response to damage evolution of the vertebral trabecular bone (VTB) highly porous microstructure. Towards that goal, a nonlinear micromechanical model, based on the 3D parametric high fidelity generalized method of cells (HFGMC) micromechanics, is extended to include progressive damage. The damage is initiated at the local subcell and its evolution is carried out using a strain-softening method. The nonlinear HFGMC behavior including damage evolution is first verified by examining its ability to predict the experimental nonlinear compression stress-strain response of printed polymeric VTB highly porous microstructure. Next, predicted HFGMC pre- and postultimate failure for native VTB representative unit cells (RUCs) harvested from different vertebrae of human cadavers (n = 10) are carried out. Some of the latter predictions were compared to reported values found in the literature. The proposed nonlinear HFGMC micromechanical model with evolving damage can predict the overall nonlinear behavior, including postultimate range.

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A graphite-polyimide mixture was used as a conductive coating for sheathless electrospray emitters. The coating procedure described is simple and inexpensive compared to previously described methods. An investigation of the stability of the conductive coating carried out by electrochemical methods revealed good performances during oxidative stress. In addition, no decrease in emitter performance was seen during continuous electrospray in the positive electrospray mode for two weeks. Fast capillary electrophoresis with attomole sensitivity demonstrated the excellent performance of the described sheathless interface when used in conjunction with an orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The overall simplicity, stability and low cost of this type of sheathless emitter make the described approach highly suitable for any on-column coupling of low flow rate separation techniques to a mass spectrometer. In microscale separations, such as capillary electrophoresis and -liquid chromatography, the liquid flow rates are in the order of nanoliters per second. If such flow rates are to be interfaced with a mass spectrometer (MS) using electrospray (ES) ionization, without loss of separation efficiency, each fraction of the analyte zone must remain undisturbed by the high voltage contact necessary for ES. One design that accomplishes this is the pure sheathless approach, where a thin, vapor deposited metal film covers the outside of the electrospray emitter tip. This thesis describes the development of such sheathless emitters. The lifetimes of polymer embedded gold (“fairy dust”) or graphite (“black dust”) emitters were shown to by far exceed those of previously used conductive films. In addition, the production of emitters with these coatings was substantially simplified. The increase in durability was found to be due to enhanced resistance towards the electrochemical processes associated with ES. In analogy, the reasons for the limited durability of previously used methods were correlated with their tendency to oxidize, or be mechanically removed, during electrochemical reactions. Electrochemical processes associated with the electrospray potential were also found to seriously disturb analyses in which porous graphitic carbon was used as the separation medium. A proper choice of grounding point locations eliminated these disturbances. At last, the differences regarding analytical performance of several sheathless interface configurations, used in capillary liquid chromatography, were examined. The best performance was obtained when a pure sheathless emitter with a conductive layer of polyimide and graphite was coupled to the LC column through a Teflon sleeve. Institutionen för farmaceutisk biovetenskap, Uppsala. This thesis describes the current status and novel aspects of the analysis of the molecules of life, i.e. peptides and proteins, using capillary electrophoresis (CE) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) via (sheathless) electrospray ionization (ESI). Early reports of sheathless CE-ESI-MS were plagued by limited lifetimes of the electrospray emitter. In this thesis, two new approaches, the Black Dust and the Black Jack methods, utilizing polymer-embedded graphite instead of noble metals are presented. These emitters have shown improved long-term stability and proven excellent for sheathless electrospray operation. Failure of an emitter is often caused by electrochemical reactions occurring at the emitter-liquid interface. The electrochemical properties of the graphite coated emitters were therefore evaluated by classical electrochemical methods, such as cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry. The graphite coated emitters showed excellent electrochemical stability and properties compared to noble metal and polymer configurations. Analyte-wall interactions have long been known to cause problems in the CE analysis of biomolecules. This can be circumvented by internal modification of the capillary walls. Additionally, it is of outermost importance to have a stable and sufficiently high electroosmotic flow (EOF) to sustain the electrospray, when using a sheathless approach. New monomer and polymer coatings are presented for rapid and high-efficient CE-ESI-MS separations of peptides and proteins. Furthermore, the use of CE-ESI coupled to Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FTICRMS) shows great potential for rapid proteomic probing of human cerebrospinal fluid. The results are comparable with more established techniques, such as liquid chromatography and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled to MS. However, the CE-ESI-FTICRMS analysis has significantly lower sample consumption and faster analysis time compared to the other techniques. The applications and use of CE-ESI-MS is expected to have a bright future with continued growth as current trends of multidimensional hyphenation and microfabricated devices are further developed and explored. Health Science Center, University of Tennessee, Memphis.

Let’s face it, the Amish know how to shave! They are always sport perfectly formed beards around the chin and sideburn area and keep the rest of their beard area spotlessly smooth and hair-free. Bearing this in mind, they should be able to tell you a thing or two about maintaining the beard so we thought we’d take a lesson from these religious guys and find out which is the best safety razor for beginners. Do you know why the Amish wear a beard? The tradition goes back to the early Amish when they wore really fancy mustaches. However, they were victimised by other military groups who also wore elaborate mustaches. The Amish wanted to distance their look from these military groups so growing a mustache was soon forbidden, but beards remained a requirement because they related to biblical men. The Amish man will only start to grow a beard once he marries and from then, he stops shaving that area of his face, only concentrating on his upper lip, keeping it hair-free in honour of the early days of the Amish. For starters use a Safety Razor for Beginners! Now, as the Amish men take their beard really seriously, they insist on using a good quality razor because they can’t afford razor burn, aggravation or irritation. Neither do they want razor bumps or cuts and nicks so they usually use safety razors. This protects their skin and the way they sculpt their beard is part of their identity so they have to look pristinely groomed. Bearing all of that in mind, the Amish know how to look after their facial hair really well so we picked out a list of the best safety razor for beginners that are used by the Amish and tell you why you should be using them too. This complete shaving kit set comprises of organic shaving soap, aftershave balm, a wood shaving bowl, 100% pure black badger shaving brush and a double-edge safety razor which is great for beginners. It’s entirely hand-made and brings you everything you need for the best type of shave. The aftershave balm is made out of good quality ingredients, including Argan oil (great for softening beard hair and kind to skin), cocoa butter (a good hydrator) and Aloe Vera (known for its soothing properties). Shaving using this kit is simple, no irritation or aggravated skin, no razor bumps and because the razor is a safety razor, it protects against cuts and nicks. It’s a good quality shaving kit although it’s not easy on the pocket but if you’ve got the cash, it’s worth the investment. Gentleman Jon is a name synonymous with quality shaving. For a mid-price safety shaving kit, we’d recommend this set which comes with a set of six different shaving items, a safety razor, badger hair brush, alum block, shave soap, Astra razor blade and stainless steel bowl. So you have everything you need to start shaving. This set gives you a good quality product and will really last. The shave soap is gentle on the skin and foams up nicely to allow the safety razor to glide over the skin, the badger hair brush distributes the foam neatly and generously, it doesn’t scratch either and the razor blade is designed to protect the skin from abrasion so it passes the test for a place on our best safety razor for beginners list. This shave set is definitely aimed at the beginner and comprises of four different, useful items that give you everything you need to start on your shaving journey – safely! Set contains a 100% pure badger hair brush, monogrammed apothecary mug, hypo-allergenic shaving soap and a combo brush & razor stand. It’s easy to use, just put the soap into the mug, wet the brush using warm water and apply the lather using the brush. Then rinse out the brush once finished and place on the stand to dry. We do like this kit for beginners but it won’t last for a very long time as the hairs on the brush tend to fall out after a while. The soap has a very strong scent and the razor is kind enough to skin so we’d recommend this for the first few shaves to get to grips with using a razor. This is a decent set at a mid-price and comes with the accessories that you need; badger shaving brush with a smart chrome handle, a chrome shaving bowl with a Colonel Conk Shaving Soap and a long-handle safety razor which made the cut for our best safety razor for beginners pick. The brush is basically an average brush, but it spreads the soap relatively easily. The bowl is small however if you’re patient with it, you get used to it. The soap contains glycerine which is kind to the skin. As we said, it’s a good all over beginner kit but once you know how to shave properly you may want to move on to another set. Here’s a good kit for the money, it gives you all the tools you need for a safer shave and a close shave as well. The products are good quality (what you’d expect from Gentleman Jon) and the products really last. The kit contains a safety razor, Badger hair brush, canvas and leather dopp kit, shaving stand, alum block, shaving bowl, soap and razor blades. The soap smells fantastic and the razor is a premium product, delivering a smooth, comfortable shave and protecting the skin. The only downside may be the bowl which is on the small side but other than that, this is a decent starter set. The stand holds all your gear perfectly well and is strong enough to stay put in one place! The brush is made out of badger hair and distributes the foam evenly and because the razor is a safety razor for beginners, it discourages ingrown hairs. All in all a good little beginner’s kit that gets our vote for the list of best safety razor for beginners list.

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Produce weld samples with oxides for further evaluation. Detailed characterization of the composition, thickness, discoloration, semiconductivity type, and corrosion resistance of the oxide at specific distance from the fusion-line. Evaluate different post weld cleaning methods for removal of oxides at manufacturing conditions. Evaluate the corrosion properties of the parent metals as well as welds with and without oxides.

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John F. Kennedy, it turns out, thought well of James K. Polk. The thirty-fifth President’s fondness for the eleventh is one of the lesser revelations, to be sure, in “The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,” published (and possibly lost) last week amid the deluge, the anniversary glut, of Kennedy lit. But the Polk disclosure is, indeed, in its small way a revelation—an insight into Kennedy’s conception of Presidential leadership and, perhaps, into our own, half a century later. The passing reference to Polk, who held office for a single term, from 1845 to 1849, was recorded by Schlesinger, Jr., in a letter to Schlesinger, Sr., dated August 12, 1962. The father—like the son, a scholar—had asked a group of seventy-five historians to rank the Presidents (excepting, of course, the sitting one) as great, near-great, or various shades of not-so-great, and published the results in the New York Times. JFK said that he talked a lot but didn’t do very much. He could not see why TR rated above Polk or Truman. What is most interesting is that his criterion is obviously that of concrete achievement rather than political education. People who educate the nation, without achieving all their goals, like Wilson and TR, evidently seem to him to rate under people with a record of practical accomplishment, like Polk and Truman, even if they do little to transform the intellectual climate of the nation. The irony is how precisely this anticipates one of the critiques of Kennedy’s Presidency: that he talked a lot but accomplished little. This is plain wrong, as Alan Brinkley, Robert Dallek, and many other historians have established. Kennedy’s achievements were institutional (the Peace Corps, the space program) and existential (the narrow escape from nuclear war), and his effect on the public mindset, on everything from religious tolerance to public service, cannot (or at least should not) be understated. Yet there can be little denying that fifty years after his death, J.F.K. is remembered more for what he said than what he did, and that his words—and what the Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison called “that ringing, virile voice”—have not only outlived but in some ways outdistanced his other achievements. Ted Sorensen, Kennedy’s speechwriter and senior adviser, later reflected that during the postwar period, no other public figure’s “words and phrases [had] become as large a part of our national memory” as J.F.K.’s had. None of this was inadvertent. Kennedy began his political career as an ineffective speaker (one of his early speechwriters complained that after all had labored over a draft, J.F.K. “would not do it justice” at the podium, draining it of life and rhythm), but he worked assiduously at it for more than a decade: studying recordings of Churchill, consulting a voice coach, and devouring, again and again, a volume of great speeches that Sorensen had given him, marking passages for future use. The power of political oratory was, to Kennedy, self-evident. A speech, to Kennedy, had no inherent, incantatory power. He never believed, as romantics do, that oratory is alchemy—that if he got the words just right, he could change water into wine. Speech was, instead, an augury, a precursor of action, never a substitute for it, and Kennedy was disinclined (sometimes, as in the case of civil rights, much too disinclined) to say anything until he was ready to do something. Otherwise it was just “talk”—and talking too much, he once cautioned Sorensen, would only bore the public (and, one suspects, Kennedy himself). Kennedy was relieved to learn that Franklin Roosevelt had given few fireside chats. “Words alone are not enough,” Kennedy planned to say that day in Dallas, ina speech he never had the chance to deliver. “If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.” Polk could not have said it better himself. In this (as in remarkably few things), Kennedy seems a relic of a distant age. Our Presidents, like T.R., talk a lot. They talk, they tweet, they offer daily color commentary on international affairs, congressional negotiations, pop-cultural events, and national anniversaries. To choose a recent month at random, in October of 2011 President Obama honored the 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears and the 2011 N.C.A.A. women’s basketball champion Texas A. & M. Aggies, issued statements on the deaths of Steve Jobs and Muammar Qaddafi, proclaimed Leif Erikson Day and National Character Counts Week, and appeared on “The Tonight Show,” among numerous other examples of talking and not doing. This is not to pick on our current President. Consider the one I served, Bill Clinton, and compare his “Public Papers” to Kennedy’s at the same point in their Presidencies, one year in. For J.F.K., 1962—not an uneventful year (Ole Miss, John Glenn, the Cuban Missile Crisis)—fills a nine-hundred-and-three-page volume, minus appendices and the index; for W.J.C., 1994 takes up two volumes, for a total of two thousand one hundred and fifty-nine pages. In fairness, Clinton, like Obama, inhabited a 24/7 news cycle; Kennedy had the benefit of an 8/5 one. Presidents no longer have the luxury of going quiet. For if they do, they create a vacuum their opponents rush to fill—recall the Tea Party Summer of 2010. At the same time, we have strayed farther than we need have from Kennedy’s more restrained, more purposeful use of the bully pulpit. We have allowed the connection between speech and action to attenuate. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., told me in the late nineteen-nineties that political speech had become “a particularly low form of rhetoric.” What he meant was not simply that the quality of writing had diminished since the Kennedy years, though it had; he also meant that the power of Presidential words had declined as their volume increased, cheapening the currency. Of course, that devaluation is also due to the erosion of faith in the institution of the Presidency (along with the institution of pretty much everything else) in the long wake of November 22, 1963—yet another reason this anniversary has resonance. But “Kennedys don’t cry,” as the family used to say, and neither should we. Let us instead evoke something of the era. Let it not be Kennedy’s clipped cadence, or the “reversible raincoat” sentences (“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate”), or the cheap resort to the imperative “let.” Let it, instead, be the idea that Presidencies are above all for practical accomplishment, and that words, by and large, ought to be reserved for moments of meaning. Jeff Shesol, a former speechwriter for President Clinton, is the author of “Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade” and is a partner at West Wing Writers. Follow him on Twitter at @JeffShesol.

As a man who is involved in advertising for your business, you likely thoroughly understand how much is involved so that your company becomes a success due to your efforts with marketing. There are numerous tools which you may utilize and you are able to decide which ones work better for you personally. You will think nobody can write your advertising content any greater or”place on” than you can write it. But there are instances in life (and in business) if it’s worth paying another person to do exactly everything you don’t need to do or don’t have enough opportunity to perform. Needless to say, it isn’t like you don’t have anything else to worry about when it comes to your organization. It may be an excellent idea to outsource that part of what you’re sharing with other folks In regards to your marketing material. But it goes without saying that you need to proceed carefully when it comes to selecting the ideal individual or company. When it makes sense for your company and your particular situation, Obviously, you can outsource your content creation. The odds are good which you are not. If you just happen to be working together with different people (spouses, executives( top-level supervisors ), you are going to want to acquire the agreement of those individuals prior to making your final decision concerning outsourcing your business’s content creation. You will want to establish a united front, which will stay throughout the entire procedure. Obviously, that implies that you need your people’s arrangement not only when it concerns the concept of outsourcing your material creation but when it comes to selecting which company to hire to perform the work. The individuals on the outside and around the inside are all extremely important and without becoming everything you require for your company on either side will indicate that you likely won’t achieve the success which you ought to achieve. There are a number of reasons. A few of those reasons were mentioned previously yet another rationale that was valid is the thought that outsourcing may present your content generation outlook or a twist. That’ll definitely help keep it interesting. Mixing up that you present your data can be exciting and enticing. When it comes to looking at the agencies as possible options to outsource your own content production, you owe it into your company and to be as cautious as you can. Doing the research before you make any decisions is critical. There are various agencies that state if they fall short in some specific 25, that they have the capabilities to perform all sorts of things. Ask the prospective agency to see a portfolio of what they are doing for other companies. Request to see some samples of content marketing strategies which they have created. This will offer you a sign of creative capability. Determine if they are capable of creating an entire campaign or should they believe to a lesser scale and only make programs. It is very important to keep in mind that your content promoting effort is a long-term strategy for being a short-term idea. Before you hire anybody, you have to look at knowledge and the abilities that are required in order to successfully finish your content advertising campaign. Once those skills have been recorded by you, you can decide which ones should be outsourced and which ones will be handled. Naturally, you will have close and frequent interactions with whichever service you go with but you need to make sure with everything you choose them to do that they may do a great job. It is the reputation at stake of your business. As was mentioned here, it is critical for the professional achievement that you share the most effective advertising and advertising when outsourcing which really is a smart, smart thing to do, and there are several times. You should proceed and follow the following steps. You will see that it was the ideal decision for you and to your business Should you make the decision in a manner. You may focus on other priorities which you can create success. It’s essential that your marketing content (in reality, all of your content) is fresh, unique, and compelling. Outsourcing your advertising content will give you a greater chance of that. Tap into exciting thoughts and fresh views and your target audience members will probably thank you and are going to want to continue reading and interacting with you.

Cold spray is a technique for depositing powder particles in the solid state by accelerating them towards a surface within a supersonic gas flow. Cold spray can be used to coat a variety of materials (metals, glass, ceramics, polymers), for repair of worn or damaged metal components, and to build large components layer-by-layer, i.e. additive manufacturing. Since melting is not involved, cold spray can deposit oxygen-sensitive materials without the need for a vacuum chamber. The challenge is adapting this sophisticated manufacturing method to create solutions for real world problems. Each material and application is unique, requiring careful understanding of the relationship between process conditions, particle acceleration and deposition. The team has developed sophisticated models of the supersonic gas flow through the cold spray nozzle. We have published detailed studies of particle bonding mechanisms, characterisation of the cold spray microstructure and property evaluation. Our cold spray facility has two dedicated spray rooms, each housing a full-scale, industrial system – the CGT Kinetiks 4000 and Plasma Giken PCS 1000. Deposition rates are kilograms to tens of kilograms per hour. Both systems are controlled by ABB robots which can perform complicated manoeuvres for free-form fabrication.

My research primarily deals with the application of advanced transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques to study energy materials and devices such as batteries. I am particularly interested in studying battery electrodes via in-situ TEM in a sealed liquid cell (during charge-discharge cycles) to probe the degradation mechanisms at play at a micro-/nano-scale. My work also involves carrying out a complementing detailed study of pristine as well as cycled battery materials in parallel, which might further help understand electrode degradation. Prior to Cambridge, my research at Oxford focused on fabrication and characterisation of polymer-nanocomposite based dielectrics for more-electric aircraft, and electron microscopy based studies of electrodes for super-capacitors and Li-ion batteries. Spray printing of self-assembled porous structures for high power battery electrodes, J. Mater. Chem. A, 6 (2018), 13133 (DOI: 10.1039/C8TA02920B). Production of hollow and porous Fe2O3 from industrial mill scale and its potential for large-scale electrochemical energy storage applications, J. Mater. Chem. A, 4 (2016), 2597 (DOI: 10.1039/C5TA09141A). Engineering the nanostructure of a polymer-nanocomposite film containing Ti-based core-shell particles to enhance dielectric response, Nanoscale, 7 (2015), 15727 (DOI: 10.1039/C5NR03824C). Fe3O4/carbon nanofibres with necklace architecture for enhanced electrochemical energy storage, J. Mater. Chem. A, 3 (2015), 14245 (DOI: 10.1039/C5TA02210J).

Wafer temperature is one of the key parameters during epitaxial growth. It influences the growth rate, the composition of ternary and quaternary compounds and the doping level. Wafer temperature also has an important impact on the quality of the grown layer and its roughness, thereby influencing the performance of devices based on such epitaxial layers. As a result, careful monitoring and precise control of wafer temperature throughout the entire growth process are indispensable. We call this Emissivity Corrected Pyrometry (ECP). This screenshot demonstrates the difference between the uncorrected temperature (blue) and the True Temperature (TT) measured by the method of ECP. The ECP is combined with growth rate measurements in all LayTec's systems that contain the EpiTT module: EpiTT family, EpiCurve® TT family and Pyro 400.

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I went to the Tower of London to see the poppies. It’s moving in photographs but in real life it practically winds you it’s so powerful. If you are anywhere near London this year – go. It was one of those days when London’s transport system was all messed up – I tried and failed to reconoitre with Jessica Adams twice – and it seemed impossible to get anywhere. So I got the boat from Tower Bridge to Embankment. Riding along the Thames, looking over at the Globe Theatre, Golden Hind, Tate Modern and all that, never fails to thrill me. While I was standing in line waiting to board the boat at Tower Bridge pier, I watched two young swans on the sand beech preening out their cygnet down. They are probably descendents of the swans which would have lived in just that spot when Henry VIII, Elizbeth 1 – and less fortunate passengers, such as Ann Boleyn – would have arrived at that very spot on the river. you can buy one of the poppies, after Remembrance Day, proceeds to a Charity benefiting service personnel in need…;.. a very worth cause, as I can’t be there in person, owning a poppy will make me feel a part of a wonderful experience…. The whole thing is just beautiful. And they’re all made by hand.

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Gerald M. Foes, 75, of Sheffield died on Monday, April 1, 2019 at Liberty Village, Princeton. Funeral Mass will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, April 8th at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Sheffield. Father Mark Miller will officiate. Burial will be in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Sheffield. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday at Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Service, 339 E. Chestnut St., Sheffield, where a Christian wake service will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. Memorials may be made to Sheffield-Mineral Rescue Unit. Gerald Morris Foes was born August 4, 1943 in Kewanee, IL the son of Morris E. “Morry” Foes and Laura F. Rakestraw. He was raised and educated in Mineral area graduating from Mineral High School in 1961. He served in the U. S. Air Force during the Vietnam Era from 1962 to 1973 working as a mechanic on jet engines. On January 15, 1965 he married Mildred Witte in Arlington, VA. The couple returned to the Sheffield area in 1973 where they farmed in rural Sheffield. He was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Sheffield. He was passionate about farming and airplanes. He was an avid sports fan and had a great love for History. Survivors include his wife, Mildred; two daughters, Cristy (John) Stupegia, Oglesby, IL, and Cathy (Joel) Soto, McHenry, IL; a son, Daniel Gerald (Bridget) Foes, Princeton; five grandchildren, Ben Stupegia, Tianny Soto, Braeden Soto, Grant Foes, and Morgan Foes; brother, Tom (Cynthia) Foes, Annawan; sisters, Joyce (Raymond) Dixon, Peoria, Marlene (Thomas) Etheridge, Princeton, and Connie (Thomas) Jaggers, Manlius. He was preceded in death by his Father and Mother.

"In the process of a progressive failure of steel structures in a post-earthquake fire, real-time assessment and prediction of structural behaviors are of paramount significance to an emergency evacuation and rescue effort. However, existing measurement technologies cannot provide the needed critical data such as large strains at high temperature. To bridge this gap, a novel optical fiber sensor network and an adaptive multi-scale finite element model (FEM) are proposed and developed in this study. The sensor network consists of long period fiber gratings (LPFG) sensors and extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) sensors or their integration. Each sensor is designed with a three-tier structure for an accurate and reliable measurement of large strains and for ease of installation. To maintain a balance between the total cost of computation and instrumentation and the accuracy in numerical simulation, a structure is divided into representative/critical components instrumented densely and the remaining components simulated computationally. The critical components and the remaining were modeled in different scales with fiber elements and beam/plate elements, respectively, so that the material behavior and load information measured from the critical components are representative to the remaining components and can be used to update the temperature distribution of the structure in real time. Sensitivity studies on the number of sensors and the initial selection of an updating temperature parameter were conducted. Both the sensor network and the FEM were validated with laboratory tests of a single-bay, one-story steel frame under simulated post-earthquake fire conditions. The validated FEM was applied to a two-bay, four-story steel building under the 1995 Kobe earthquake excitations. Based on extensive tests and analyses, the proposed sensor can measure a strain of 12% at as high as 800⁰C (1472⁰F) in temperature. Within the application range, the LPFG wavelength and the EFPI gap change linearly with the applied strain and temperature. The proposed updating criterion and algorithm in the adaptive FEM are proven to be effective. The number of sensors is sufficient in engineering applications as long as the sensors can adequately represent the material behavior of the instrumented components. The predicted structural behavior is unaffected by any change in a low temperature range and thus insensitive to the initial selection of the updating parameter"--Abstract, page iii. Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-149). © 2012 Ying Huang, All rights reserved. Huang, Ying, "A progressive collapse evaluation of steel structures in high temperature environment with optical fiber sensors" (2012). Doctoral Dissertations. 1966.

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Titanium and its alloys are widely used in medical implant industries due to their unique structure, excellent mechanical properties, low density, high chemical resistance and excellent biocompatibility. Porous titanium inherits the excellent mechanical and biological properties of titanium. Porous titanium i.e. Ti foams potentially use as functional and structural material for making implants as this structure provides lower young modulus and provides better cellular attachment. In the present studies, titanium NaCl syntactic foam was prepared by varying the size of NaCl particles by powder metallurgy route. In order to ensure sufficient handling strength in cold compacted pallets, 5 wt % of PVA solution (10 wt % PVA dissolved in water) was mixed with the mixture of Titanium and NaCl particles prior to cold compaction. Pressure less conventional sintering was carried out at 800 ºC and 1200 ºC for 2, 4 and 6 hours. The microstructural and morphological analysis was done by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and phase purity by X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD). The effects of NaCl particle size, sintering time and temperature were also studied in details. The Ti-NaCl syntactic foam thus produced in this process is found to be an effective process for implant material fabrication.

III-V semiconductors are promising materials for a wide variety of electronic and optoelectronic applications due to their high electron mobilities as well as direct band gaps which can be tuned by changing the elemental composition of the material. However, they are limited in their application space due to two main factors: cost and the need for a lattice matched epitaxial substrate upon which to do growth. In this talk, I will discuss a growth method which we have developed entitled templated liquid phase (TLP) growth which enables the growth of high quality III-V semiconductors directly onto amorphous substrates. The growth method is generally applicable to a wide range of III-V semiconductors including binary as well as ternary compounds. Methods for in-situ doping during TLP growth to tune the electronic and optoelectronic properties will be discussed. In addition, preliminary transistor device results as well as demonstrations of scalability, and 3D integration will be shown.

A series of Na3V2−xGax(PO4)3 (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6) with in situ catalytic formation of graphene-like graphitic layer decoration are synthesized via a solid-state reaction process. It is shown for the first time that the substitution of gallium for vanadium in Na3V2−xGax(PO4)3 (x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6) enhances its energy density by about 4.4% (from 355.5 W h kg−1 for Na3V2(PO4)3 to 371 W h kg−1 for Na3V1.6Ga0.4(PO4)3) and particularly increases significantly its power density to up to 11 075 W kg−1 at 50C for Na3V1.6Ga0.4(PO4)3 compared to 5060 W kg−1 for Na3V2(PO4)3. The optimal composition Na3V1.6Ga0.4(PO4)3 is able to deliver a reversible capacity of 96.3 mA h g−1 at 30C and 80.6 mA h g−1 at 50C. After 1000 cycles at 5C, the reversible capacity of the Na3V1.6Ga0.4(PO4)3 electrode can still reach 101.1 mA h g−1 with a capacity retention of 97.3% (a very slow capacity decay of 0.0027% per cycle). These excellent electrochemical performances can be attributed largely to the highly graphitic carbon coating. Combining the analyses of transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy, it can be concluded that the Ga-doping in this series of electrode materials increases the proportion of sp2-type carbon. The development of these Na3V2−xGax(PO4)3 powders provides a promising cathode material for high power sodium-ion batteries.

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With its global infrastructure and diversified portfolio, Wilhelmsen is much more than a shipping company. It’s a maritime powerhouse. Thomas Wilhelmsen has a vision. The fifth-generation leader of his namesake company wants it to be a center of excellence for the entire industry. He wants it to offer something – a product, a service – to all 50,000+ merchant ships sailing the seas today. Wilhelmsen serviced 26,000 of them in 2015, so he’s well on his way. But more than that, he wants his company to be a moral and ethical leader as well, a model corporate citizen, shaping the industry in areas like sustainability and the environment, workforce diversity, accountability and openness, and the ability to add value for customers, employees and the global community. It’s a tall order. But he knows how to get there, and he’s already delivering results. The company today operates car and ro-ro vessels, produces a wide variety of maritime products, has ship agencies all over the world and oversees an extensive ship management business. It also has subsidiaries involved in maritime safety, logistics, insurance and training. Few, if any, companies can match the extent and depth of its services. On the corporate citizenship side, it’s been running its fleet on low-sulfur fuel for many years now, entirely on its own initiative and expense. In 2013, Wilhelmsen began publishing a Sustainability Report in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative to accompany its Annual Report, one of the few companies in any industry to do so. And there’s more, but let’s start at the beginning. In 1861 Morten Wilhelm Wilhelmsen established a small ship chandlery and brokerage company, which he aptly named Wilh. Wilhelmsen, in the small town of Tonsberg, Norway. In 1865 he bought his first vessel, the Mathilde, a wood sailing ship, and twenty years later his first steamship, the Talabot, which quickly proved to be a huge success. Named with the letter “T,” Talabot initiated the Wilhelmsen nomenclature. As the business prospered, it continued to modernize with the newest and smartest ship technologies of the day. Wilhelmsen soon became the largest cargo carrier in Norway as well as a major transporter of crude oil and petroleum products. During World War II, the company lost twenty-six cargo ships and fifty-two sailors. While operating mainly in Europe, it also sent ships to the Pacific theater to transport U.S. troops to the Far East. After the war, many of the ships returned to commercial service to assist in the massive task of rebuilding a war-torn Europe. In the 1960s, a sea-change took place at Wilhelmsen as it invested in a fleet of roll-on, roll-off (ro-ro) vessels to take advantage of the new and growing export trade in automobiles. At the time, autos were transported on ordinary cargo ships and simply stowed on top of the other cargoes or lifted onto the ship by a crane using special slings. The new ro-ro vessels had side-ports and shipborne ramps to allow easy access to cars and other drivable units. In 1999, the company formed a joint venture with Swedish company Wallenius Lines, which was the prime exporter for Volkswagen, and expanded its fleet to more than seventy auto carriers and ro-ro vessels. It marked the beginning of a long and beautiful relationship. The joint venture was called Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines, later renamed Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL). Other joint ventures and partnerships followed, including EUKOR Car Carriers (a joint venture with Wallenius, Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation) and American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier. Today, the company and its partners control roughly a quarter of the global car carrier business. Joint ventures and partnerships have been a way of life at Wilhelmsen over the years, allowing the company access to additional resources – and revenue – through local expertise. During the 2000s the company’s strategy expanded to buying and consolidating well-known brands and then renaming them. It bought Unitor and merged it with Barwil Agencies to become Wilhelmsen Ships Service. Barber Ship Management became Wilhelmsen Ship Management. The Callenberg Technology Group was added to Wilhelmsen Maritime Services. In 2010, at the age of 35, Thomas Wilhelmsen became CEO of the parent company, a position he laughingly acknowledges he has been “brainwashed for” his entire life. Taking the helm at a difficult time for the industry, which has only gotten worse, he has demonstrated a steady hand and a compelling vision. Operating on six continents, in seventy-one countries, and employing 23,800 employees, the company posted revenues of $3.3 billion last year and operating income of $165 million. It has operations in 2,200 ports around the world and handled 75,000 ship calls last year while transporting more than 74 million metric tons of cargo. With 310 offices worldwide, Thomas Wilhelmsen is determined to make the most of his far-flung and deeply embedded infrastructure. The ups and downs of the international maritime industry are a perennial concern and danger, and the company has structured its portfolio of offerings to include as many different products and services as possible. Why? To minimize the impact of downturns and maximize the benefit of upturns. It doesn’t always work, but most of the time it does. “While many people think of Wilhelmsen as a shipping company,” Thomas Wilhelmsen likes to say, “more than 50 percent of our operating profits came from maritime services and logistics in 2015.” And they will be a major focus for the future, he adds. One of his major goals is to maintain a balanced portfolio so that the company is not too reliant on one particular business area. The service businesses are all grouped under Wilhelmsen Maritime Services and include ship management and agency, technical solutions, and third-party services such as health and safety, quality assurance, vessel accounting and purchasing, drydocking, newbuild supervision and green recycling. Almost all are industry leaders. The ship agency business, which is part of Wilhelmsen Ships Service, is the largest in the world and recently added a new Panama and Suez Canal service to facilitate clients’ operations in those two newly expanded and heavily travelled waterways. The first client for the new Wilhelmsen Panama Canal service, Avance Gas, is a major operator of VLGCs. Its Neopanamax gas carriers Passat and Breeze were two of the first ships to transit the new third set of locks. Wilhelmsen Ships Service also includes marine products, and the company has integrated some of the industry’s best-known brands including Unitor (est. 1943), Timm (est. 1772) and Nalfleet (est. 1986). The company’s products are globally distributed to the cruise and shipping industry and include cleaning solutions, chemicals, gases and cylinders, refrigerants and maintenance supplies, welding equipment, traditional and new high-performance ropes, and water treatment solutions. If it exists, Wilhelmsen probably has it. Corporate governance has long been a focus for the Wilhelmsen organization. Along with issuing an annual Sustainability Report, the company says that ninety-five percent of its land-based employees and eighty percent of active seafarers have participated in the “I Comply” campaign, which is formalized training on subjects like anti-corruption, theft and fraud. Wilhelmsen recognizes that, in today’s marketplace, human resources and management talent are vital strategic issues for multinational companies. It’s all about competency, he says. To be a leader requires competency in everything you do. Last year the company sent its first group of executives to the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University to assist managers in their understanding of global economic trends and their development of the leadership skills needed to run a diversified and balanced portfolio of businesses. And all employees receive at least four days of job-related training each year. Nearly 30 percent of the company’s total employees are women, an unusually high percentage in what is traditionally a male-dominated industry. Wilhelmsen says improving the overall diversity of the company will enrich future management teams and help the company achieve its global ambitions. The philosophy is that a learning organization with motivated employees contributes to efficient operations and has a positive impact on revenues, earnings and the global environment. When asked about his biggest challenge right now, he replied, “We have quite a few challenges.” But he also recognizes that, in a global economy that is limping along and a maritime industry that is under water, there are significant opportunities. The way forward requires patience and continued investment in people and new businesses. It also means unlocking the potential of the company’s unrivaled infrastructure. Tony Munoz is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of The Maritime Executive.

In thin film photovoltaics, BTU leverages its experience with large-scale, custom, in-line thermal processing solutions. These systems can be extremely large and include specialized features like coating capability and novel atmospheres. BTU’s continuous processing systems are known worldwide for their superior thermal uniformity, both across the belt and during the entire process. BTU’s Thin Film Process Equipment can be designed for glass substrate processing or to be web compliant. The system design is scalable and systems are being sold for lab, pilot and production sized applications.

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This laboratory investigation was conducted with the purposeof determining the applicability of the Hveem Stabilometer to the testing of open-graded bituminous mixtures. The study was divided into two major sections. The first of these investigated the validity of the Stabilometer displacement measurement when applied to open-graded specimens having large surface air voids. The second portion of the study had two specific purposes: (l) to investigate the stress-strain characteristics of open-graded mixturestested in the Hveem Stabilometer and (2) to determine whether surface voids on the ends of Stabilometer test specimens influenced Hveem stability values. To check the validity of the displacement measurement, Stabilometertests were, conducted over a wide range of displacement values forduplicate specimens molded from three different mixtures. Displacement readings were varied by altering the surfaces of test specimens andby adjusting the quantity of air inside the Stabilometer oil chamber. In studying the stress-strain characteristics of open-graded mixes, Stabilometer values and specimen deformation readings were obtained for two mixtures. The first of these open-type mixes was well-graded, but the second was essentially "one-sized" in gradation. Results of this investigation showed that the final displacement value, when substituted into the Hveem stability equation, did notcompensate for the variations in lateral pressure caused by large changes(one or more turns) in the final displacement measurement. Stress-strain relationships for the well-graded, open-type mixture indicated that the quantity of strain permitted a Stabilometer test specimen conformed closely with the amount of strain developed at the maximum shearing strength of a rational triaxial test specimen subjected to confining pressures similar to those present in a Stabilometer test. Strain measurements recorded for Stabilometer specimens of the one-sized mixture used in this study were much lower than those obtained at the peak value of shearing resistance for triaxial test specimens ofthe same mixture and for similar confining pressures. Surface air voids on the ends of Stabilometer test specimens hada small effect on test results. When these voids were filled, Hveem stability values were not significantly higher, but the reproducibility of test results was greatly improved by coating test specimens.

RCI Bank & Services Italy is the Italian branch of the international group of the same name, which finances the activities of car manufacturers in Europe and worldwide. Direct customers include both Renault, Dacia, Nissan and Infinity dealerships who are granted loans and banking services through network credit activities; and the dealers’ end-customers who purchase cars and services through various financial arrangements (such as financing, leasing, renting). RCI Bank & Services had to strengthen the technological equipment of the acceptance platform, where a group of credit analysts analyse funding, leasing and rental requests coming from dealerships’ customers. In particular, 35 analysts, from the headquarters in Rome, manage a total of about 16,000 requests on a monthly basis, with an average annual volume of about 200,000 credit applications and a business volume exceeding 2 billion Euros. RCI Bank & Services chose to introduce Colt IVR IN Geo and INteractiv systems in October 2016. This allowed them to track all inbound and outbound calls, and to create a system of phone groups made up of 2 to 3 analysts linked together. In this way, it was possible to effectively decrease the dropout rate, quickly reaching the threshold of 20%, which was their minimum target. The INteractiv management of IVR with response groups drove a more efficient and timely management of inbound calls from dealers, improving the service level, which was clearly perceived by all the dealers networks.

This summer Jackdaws will be hosting their popular activity week from Monday 27 to Friday 31 July for children aged 11 years and over. The Summer Production is always a fun, stimulating and exciting way to spend a week in the summer holidays, discovering how to create a show from scratch! The project will be led by Jackdaws Artistic Director Saffron van Zwanenberg. Working with composer/conductor William Carslake and an artist/designer, the team will help to create an original production from initial ideas through to a live performance for an audience of family and friends. The children will be asked to consider three options pitched by each of the production team and then vote on which they think will make the best combination of music, plot and staging. Then the work begins! Then, assisted by the production team, the group will create the show over the course of the week and perform it on the Friday. The Summer Production runs from 9.30am – 4.30pm every day. Friday ends with the performance in the village hall at 5pm.

Oysters Bingo, baby back ribs and Chili-Lime “Brick” Chicken are a few of the satisfying comfort-food menu items that have made this classic roadhouse a favorite since the ’30s. The warm dark-wood bar with red leather booths is a popular spot for cocktails, conversations or a light meal. Known as “that great restaurant in the Travelodge,” India Palace is a favorite with the takeout crowd; eating on site is also a treat. Mexican Joe’s serves up fish tacos, burritos and enchiladas as well as more unusual items like Mexican pizza, tofu tostada and crab tostadas. A colorful interior and quick service make this a fun, easy stop. Drawing inspiration from travels and the fresh, flavorful cuisine served on the playa, Peter Schumacher and Bill and Vanessa Higgins have developed a menu that blends locally sourced, organic and sustainable ingredients with a bar highlighting a selection of exceptional tequilas and mezcals.

In order to investigate DME combustion in a heavy duty diesel engine, a three dimensional CFD study was performed. Following parameters were investigated; injection timing, injected fuel mass, umbrella angle and EGR amount with respect to combustion attributes and emissions formation. It can be concluded that a large amount of EGR effectively suppresses NO formation and that the low heating value of DME can be balanced by a larger amount of injected fuel without any penalties in combustion efficiency and CO emissions.

A novel design of monolithically integrated diplexers and triplexers for fiber-to-the-home applications is presented. A bilevel etched asymmetrical 2×2 optical coupler is analyzed for efficient couplings of both upstream and downstream signals. The design of the diplexer is extended to a triplexer by adding an etched diffraction grating as an additional downstream demultiplexing element. The total size of the integrated diplexer and triplexer is smaller than 500 μm×500 μm.

$120 million for the dislocated workers assistance national reserve with $20 million available for training and employment assistance for workers dislocated from coal mines and coal-fired power plants ($100 million below the FY2016 enacted level and $110 million below the Senate-recommended level; the Senate bill includes $19 million for coal-impacted workers). The bill also includes language preventing DOL from implementing its rule making changes to regulations governing overtime pay. The final rule issued in May raises the executive, administrative, and professional salary exemptions to $47,476 per year. This entry was posted in Latest News and tagged appropriations, Featured, workforce. Bookmark the permalink.

Cruise N Groove “Elvis Meets the Legends” will be a once in a lifetime experience. With over 30 live acts, Cruise N Groove 2018 features a line-up of the best Elvis tribute artists in the world ever assembled on the water for an array of concerts showcasing Elvis through the years. Together with concerts from more blockbuster legends of the era, this once in a lifetime experience will take you on a trip down memory lane. * All prices quoted are for the cruise departing on 06 November 2018. Prices for alternative departure dates may vary.

Black Cherry Hickory 3/4" x 3¼" Hickory (Carrya spp.) is a textured wood with visible growth rings. Its colour varies widely in tone, going from golden brown to full-bodied brown. This species also has pronounced knots that accentuate its natural character. It has a Janka hardness rating of 1820. Available Dimensions: 3¼", 4¼" Fuego Hickory 3/4" x 3¼" Roma Hickory 3/4" x 3¼" Sepia Hickory 3/4" x 3¼"

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The Greater Freeport Community Chorus will present “Missa Kenya and Songs Inspired by Africa” in concerts May 4 and 5 in Brunswick and Yarmouth. The 75-voice chorus will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at the Brunswick United Methodist Church, 320 Church Road, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at Sacred Heart Church, 326 Main St., Yarmouth. The group is directed by Virgil Bozeman IV and accompanied by pianist Kellie Moody. Three guest musicians will be joining the chorus for the spring concert: Annegret Baier and Shirsten Lundblad, percussion, and Caitlin Ramsey, French horn. Residents of about 15 Midcoast towns make up the Greater Freeport Community Chorus. Concert admission is $10 for adults, free to anyone under 18. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Visit the chorus on Facebook or at www.gfccsings.org for more information.

Garment printing with plastisol ink. Blue one part pure photopolymer emulsion resistant to plastisol ink, abrasion and humidity. Exposes 8X faster than typical two part emulsions.

LightInject.WebApi provides an integration that enables dependency injection in Web API applications. This adds a reference to the LightInject.WebApi.dll in the target project. This will install a single file, LightInject.WebApi.cs in the target project. Although filter attributes are instantiated by the MFC infrastructure, LightInject is still able to inject dependencies into properties. This example shows how to do Web API self hosting using OWIN. Create a standard console application and run the following command from the package manager console. Add a OWIN startup class. // Configure Web API for self-host. Modify the Main method to start the OWIN host. Press F5 to run the application and browse to http://localhost:9000/api/values. Modify the Startup class to enable LightInject to be used as the dependency resolver. Note: LightInject.Web can be uninstalled as it is not used in the self host scenario. Scopes are handled by Web API itself and services registered with the PerScopeLifetime or PerRequestLifetime are disposed when the web request ends. The following code will be included as part of the next version of LightInject.WebApi. The first thing we need is a handler that can keep track of the current HttpRequestMessage. The HttpRequestMessageStorage class is simply a "holder" class for the actual HttpRequestMessage. Next we modify the Startup class to support injection of a Func<HttpRequestMessage>. Now, if we need access to the current HttpRequestMessage, we can just inject a function delegate.

Last weekend I was in the mood for some instant gratification projects, so I took some time off from working on my clothing projects and made myself and Frankie some collars. A while back I was lurking around on the Colette Patterns blog and found this tutorial for a Peter Pan collar. I used the free download as a template, but instead of using the ropes I used a hook and eye for closure. This project was so quick and easy, it didn't take long to make at all and now I have a cute new accessory for my high neck tops. On a random note, have you guys noticed how much I love this animal print? I feel like I have a never ending supply of it. Years ago Luke and I had a futon and covered it in this fabric. Shortly after we bought a couch and didn't have use for the futon cover. I saved the fabric (I didn't even sew at that point, so smart move for me!) and have been using it for various projects ever since. We reupholstered our chairs in it too! One of the things I love most about where I live is the location. We are 4 hours south of San Francisco and a little over 3 hours north of Los Angeles. We love going to sporting events and when customers give us tickets to football games we don't turn them down! Such a cute collar! The leopard print is so perfect for you - I loves it, I do! Frankie is going to look so chic! And on a totally random note, are your sunglasses prescription? Thanks! At the walk a lady stopped me because she liked it. It made my day! You could totally rock it! I too am a HUGE fan of leopard print. It's my neutral. I love your Peter pan collar. I think I may see one in my future. And those seat covers........beautiful! It's so funny that you say that, I always say that leopard is a neutral too!

One of the most swiftly expanding niche verticals of polymers space, metal and ceramic injection molding market has found extensive popularity across myriad business domains. Predominantly utilized to manufacture miniature products in end use sectors along the likes of aerospace, automotive, healthcare, defense, and electronics, metal and ceramic injection molding technologies have transformed remarkably over the recent years. The rising demand for complex parts that require high-performance materials, particularly stainless steel and silicon, has further boosted the commercialization potential of this business space. In fact, as per reliable estimates, the total remuneration portfolio of metal and ceramic injection molding industry exceeded USD 2.5 billion in the year 2017. The world’s largest manufacturer of powdered metals has named the latest venture as Customization Technologies which would be a part of the Hoganas Industrial segment. Reportedly, the firm would work on customized solutions across the entire metal injection molding and additive value chain under the newly launched product venture. It would be prudent to mention that the latest undertaking is in addition to its recent acquisitions of Metasphere Technology, the Swedish spherical metal powder producer and America Makes partner H.C. Starck Surface Technology & Ceramic powders. The aforementioned instance demonstrates the significance of acquisitions and product expansions that have assisted major firms like Hoganas AB to consolidate their stance in metal and ceramic injection molding industry. Bearing in mind its varied end use spectrum and massive profitability scale, the prominent metal and ceramic injection molding market participants have been focusing on instituting new product ventures to gain competitive edge in this business sphere. For instance, the Swedish producer of powdered metals, Hoganas AB, has recently developed a cutting-edge product venture which aims at the metal injection molding and additive manufacturing processes. Citing yet another instance in the similar context, one of the most renowned metal and ceramic injection molding market giant, Inmatec Technologies GmbH, has recently expanded its product portfolio to include polyoxymethylene based ceramic injection molding feedstocks. The latest product range consists of feedstocks, namely INMAPOM K3008, INMAPOM K3017, INAMPOM K3012, INMAPOM K3030, with excellent surface quality and numerous applications across diverse business verticals. Elaborating further upon the characteristics of the newly unveiled feedstock by Inmatec, it has been reported that the end users have confirmed that the materials are easy to inject, and the overall feedstock works quite seamlessly. Moreover, the green part quality of the latest feedstock displayed less flow line effects than other systems prevalent in the metal and ceramic injection molding market and has been equipped with high stability, cite sources. Speaking of the geographical growth landscape of metal and ceramic injection molding industry, the Asia Pacific region has been the forerunner in the past few years. This is primarily attributed to the presence of numerous automotive, medical, and electronics sector biggies across developing nations of the region. Analysts cite the rapid expansion of automotive vertical across emerging nations like China and India to further fuel the Asia Pacific metal and ceramic injection molding market, which apportioned over 40% of the total revenue share of this business sphere at the end of 2017.

Before its release on the Xbox, ToeJam and Earl 3 was hyped as the long-awaited Dreamcast sequel to the SEGA Genesis classics. Unfortunately, the game ended up missing the Dreamcast due to the console’s poor sales and early death, and ending up on the Xbox where it saw even worse reviews and sales. Luckily though, it seems history has smiled in favor of ToeJam and Earl 3, as a previously-unreleased early beta of the game (with more attributes like the original Genesis games) has been discovered and released online for free, for those looking to get a taste of what the game could have been like if it were on the doomed (but much-beloved) Dreamcast. Found by ZakhooiTM, a user on Assembler, after buying an old Dreamcast console and discovering the early beta on the console’s hard drive, he asked permission from the game’s creators to release the code for the game online, with the creators acknowledging the request as long as no money would be involved with the game’s code being released (as SEGA still owns assets for the game). You can check out the link here for the early beta version of ToeJam and Earl 3 for a nice blast into the past, of simpler times where the Dreamcast was still an exciting and revolutionary new device…even if that isn’t the case any more. NOW THIS IS PODRACING! The classic Star Wars Episode I: Racer is back for all to enjoy on PC in celebration of Star Wars Day.

We bill you once per calendar month. Your billing cycle will be set the day you activate your SIM card and we will charge you for your mobile service that same day of the month every month. This means that if you activate a service with us on days 1-28 in a given month, we will bill you on that same date each commencing month. Where your service is activated on days 29-31, we will bill you monthly on the 28th day commencing the following month. For example, if you activate your service on the 30th January, we will bill you on the 28th of each month thereafter. If you activate on days 29-31, a pro rata credit will be applied to your account for the days not used.

Mini-Tiles 8 - NUMBERS. Simply printed with the numbers 1-8. Useful for Scene labelling, preset numbers, or anything else you want. These tiles are Glow-in-the-dark.

This simple unit cell model of a single port Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter allows rapid simulation of device performance. This allows a very wide range of designs to be explored before moving to more complex full 3D simulations. The model comprises a pair aluminum electrodes on a piezoelectric substrate. The substrate can either be Lithium Tantalate (LiTaO3) or Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3). The model is set up to simulate a Y-cut, which can be rotated to the desired angle. The base design generates an SH mode at 1.5 GHz using a finger pitch of 1.3 µm. The base model allows the following design variables to be adjusted. By default electrode thickness and electrode aspect ratio are set as design variables to be swept (indicated by *). Thank you for this great example! I am new to piezoelectric modelling and have a question: Why do we need the bottom layer of "ltstruct" with only mechanical and electrical properties and no piezoelectric properties? That is a great question. The material on the bottom is lithium tantalate ( the same material as the main body) but without the piezoelectric properties. It is used in this example because in OnScale it is not possible to place an absorbing boundary on a piezoelectric material.

Researchers have developed a technique with which bone implants that are precisely fitting, stable, and variable in dimensions can be 3D printed from a special plastic. In the printing process, individual layers are treated with a cold plasma in order to improve the bonding of bone-forming cells. The new method makes it possible to apply a cell-growth-promoting coating to the interior of the implants. The device blows a cold jet of plasma containing reactive groups directly onto the printed layers. The amino groups bond with the surface and ensure that bone cells find a convenient substrate to which they readily adhere. The 3D printing and coating processes are combined in one device. The scaffold around which the implant is built is made from a special copolymer that is modeled on the natural bone. The mechanical stability of the implant can be controlled not only via the density of the printed scaffold structure, but also via special fillers that are added to the copolymer. Active drug ingredients can be incorporated in the filler to reduce the risk of infection.

Manny's Appliances & Bedding in Wilbraham, MA is an authorized dealer of Speed Queen Products. The history of Speed Queen, from its humble beginnings in 1908 as Barlow and Seelig Manufacturing to the present is a fascinating change of events. And today, as in 1908, Speed Queen continually strives to provide you with quality products that are backed by superior customer service. With over 100 years of commercial quality and expertise they bring to you a line of washers and dryers built with a no-nonsense design and performance-based construction for your home. These products will get your clothing cleaner. After all, it's what you expect from a company that only does laundry! So if you are looking for Speed Queen products in Wilbraham, Canton, Claremont, Leominster, Hadley, Springfield, Greenfield, West Springfield, Westfield, Longmeadow and Ludlow, or if you have any questions about Speed Queen products, please feel free to call us at 1-800-501-3168 or simply stop by Manny's Appliances & Bedding at any time and we would be glad to help you.

Radical Candor is about communicating clearly with teams to drive effective team performance. Join us for a discussion on leveraging radical candor to create a high performing team. Here is an overview of the concept and youtube video.

Mari and Bob are talking at a coffee shop. Mari: Well, I have to go now. I have to be at my part-time job by 4 o’clock. Mari: I work at an Italian restaurant. Bob: What do you do there? Mari: I serve the dishes. Mari: Not really. I get tired every time. But the pay is pretty good. I can get 1200 yen per an hour. Bob: Do you have any purpose to do that? Mari: Yes, I’m going to study English in America. So I need a lot of money. Bob: Oh, I see. Keep up the good job.

PASSAGE/PowerCAST casting simulation software is a 3-D Finite Element program for predicting the manufacturability of cast parts. Convective and conductive energy equations, and the Navier-Stokes equations are solved for the filling and solidification processes, allowing engineers to analyze design parameters from concept to production without being finite element experts. A user-friendly, pre-processor with capability to read meshes from other mesh generation codes, permits the entering of material properties, process conditions and numerical control parameters interactively. The interactive, dynamic postprocessor displays interpreted color graphics of standard casting variables in contour, vector and x-y graph forms. Coupled flow and energy equations. Prediction of temperature distribution of the casting and mold at every time step. Convection/diffusion phase-change: solid, liquid and mush regions. Interface with thermal stress analysis programs for: elastic and thermal strains. Interface with stress analysis for structural integrity of parts under external static and dynamic loads. Materials database - metals, cores, risers and sand types. perform filling and solidification analyses and graphically visualize results and model conditions. PASSAGE/PowerCAST casting simulation software was developed and is offered exclusively by Technalysis, Inc.

You are here: Home / Figures / Did you know? / How many babies born in Brussels between 1995 and 2015 were named Astrid? How many babies born in Brussels between 1995 and 2015 were named Astrid? 109 female newborns in the Brussels Capital Region were named Astrid.

The PREFORMA Project consortium has elaborated and agreed on the following Glossary of Terms and Definitions to support the project’s research and development and to make clear to any interested user the meaning of the most important concepts that have been introduced in PREFORMA or that are relevant for the project. The glossary has to be considered a living tool and it will be constantly updated and improved, throughout the project’s lifetime, with the help of the PREFORMA community members and the visitors to the PREFORMA website. If you would like to suggest a new term or a revision of an existing definition please send us an email at info@preforma-project.eu. Standard created by the National Information Standard Organization that defines a set of metadata elements for raster digital images to enable users to develop, exchange, and interpret digital image files. The dictionary has been designed to facilitate interoperability between systems, services, and software as well as to support the long-term management of and continuing access to digital image collections. An Information Package, consisting of the Content Information and the associated Preservation Description Information (PDI), which is preserved within an OAIS. An organization that intends to preserve information for later access and use by a Designated Community. Generally an Assertion is a boolean expression, i.e. it may be evaluated to true or false, used in software testing. Evaluating the Assertion involves examining some property of the item under test. The information describing the content of an Information Package. The essentials TIFF specifications that all mainstream TIFF developers should support in their products. The order of the bytes that compose a digital word in computer memory. It also describes the order of byte transmission over a digital link. Words may be represented in big-endian or little-endian format. an input stream read directly from memory. A particular byte sequence is identified by combining its length in bytes and the SHA-1 Hash (derived from its contents). Codec Encoding for LossLess Archiving and Realtime transmission, a working group formed within the Internet Engineering Task Force to standardize Matroska, FFV1, and FLAC media formats. Document which sets forth the overall challenge for long term preservation of digital files to be addressed by the PREFORMA Research & Development actions, i.e. two strategies that empower memory institutions to gain control over the technical properties of preservation files: development of an open-source conformance checker, and establishing an ecosystem around an open source ‘reference’ implementation. A PREFORMA term that defines a generalised (i.e. not concerned with a particular file format) open source validation toolset for conformance checking of digital files, intended for long-term preservation in memory institutions. to perform automated fixes for simple deviations in the metadata of the preservation file. Reports created during examinations. These reports may provide feedback to the Suppliers during the Prototyping files and may be helpful investigating errors and other messages from the conformance checkers. Such use should however be considered as a type of “training”, and consequently, an examination file whose report has been shared with a Supplier can no longer be used as an evaluation file. The role played by those people or client systems, who interact with OAIS services to find preserved information of interest and to access that information in detail. This can include other OAISes, as well as internal OAIS persons or systems. A container or wrapper format is a metafile format whose specification describes how different elements of data and metadata coexist in a computer file. See also: Wrapper (format). In the context of PREFORMA, the information within and functionality of a fixated and delimited information resource, e.g., text using the PDF functionality “transparency” in a PDF/A file with metadata in the XMP format. The Data Object, that together with associated Representation Information, comprises the Content Information. A set of information that is the original target of preservation or that includes part or all of that information. It is an Information Object composed of its Content Data Object and its Representation Information. The information that documents the relationships of the Content Information to its environment. This includes why the Content Information was created and how it relates to other Content Information objects. A re-interpretable representation of information in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing. Examples of data include a sequence of bits, a table of numbers, the characters on a page, the recording of sounds made by a person speaking, or a moon rock specimen. A delivery of media or a single telecommunications session that provides Data to an OAIS. The Data Submission Session format/contents is based on a data model negotiated between the OAIS and the Producer in the Submission Agreement. This data model identifies the logical constructs used by the Producer and how they are represented on each media delivery or in the telecommunication session. The set of information, consisting primarily of Package Descriptions, which is provided to Data Management to support the finding, ordering, and retrieving of OAIS information holdings by Consumers. First phase of the PREFORMA Pre-Commercial Procurement. It is intended to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed concepts for new solutions. An identified group of potential Consumers who should be able to understand a particular set of information. The Designated Community may be composed of multiple user communities. A Designated Community is defined by the Archive and this definition may change over time. A PREFORMA member subject who has been designated to: receive files from providers, and storing them in the PREFORMA vault, administrate, organize and structure the PREFORMA vault, and dispatching training files from the PREFORMA vault to the PREFORMA repository. Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation establishes, maintains and adds value to repositories of digital data for present and future use. This is often accomplished by archivists, librarians, scientists, historians, and scholars. an understanding that full control and responsibility over all aspects of the transfer resides with the OAIS. An object composed of a set of bit sequences. Digital preservation is defined by the DigitalPreservationEurope project as “a set of activities required to make sure digital objects can be located, rendered, used and understood in the future”. Files used for presentation purposes by the PREFORMA Consortium and by the suppliers during the outreach phase or later by third parties for miscellaneous purposes, such as, assessing the PREFORMA Conformance checkers. An Information Package, derived from one or more AIPs, and sent by Archives to the Consumer in response to a request to the OAIS. The Dublin Core Schema is a small set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe web resources (video, images, web pages, etc.), as well as physical resources such as books or CDs, and objects like artworks. The full set of Dublin Core metadata terms can be found on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) website. Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML) is a binary XML format. EBML supports the Matroska file format specification. A Byte Sequence embedded into the PDF Document such as an image, font, colour profile, or attachment. A third-party tool which can parse and analyse Embedded Resources, for example a JPEG2000 validator or font validator. A Machine-readable Report produced by an Embedded Resource Parser containing information about an Embedded Resource. Files used for testing by the PREFORMA Consortium during the evaluation phase. These files must be different from those that have been used as training files during the prototyping phase, but they need to belong to the same category (i.e. they cannot introduce new failures, challenges and issues that were not included in the training set). Files used for testing by the PREFORMA members/network during the prototyping phase. The tests can be done locally, “in-house”, or within any other environment. The files can be provided later either for training or for evaluation. Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. The specification uses the following existing file formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG discrete cosine transform (DCT) for compressed image files, TIFF Rev. 6.0 (RGB or YCbCr) for uncompressed image files, and RIFF WAV for audio files (Linear PCM or ITU-T G.711 μ-Law PCM for uncompressed audio data, and IMA-ADPCM for compressed audio data). It is not used in JPEG 2000, PNG, or GIF. TIFF extensions to baseline TIFF not recommended for general data interchange. Files that use such features shall be designated “Extended TIFF 6.0” files, and the particular extensions used should be documented. A Baseline TIFF 6.0 reader is not required to support any extensions. Free open standards markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. ISO standard, originally created by Adobe Systems Inc., for the creation, processing and interchange of standardized and custom metadata for digital documents and data sets. XMP standardizes a data model, a serialization format and core properties for the definition and processing of extensible metadata. It also provides guidelines for embedding XMP information into popular image, video and document file formats, such as JPEG and PDF, without breaking their readability by applications that do not support XMP. FFV1 (FF Video Codec 1) is a lossless intra-frame video codec. In the context of PREFORMA, computer file storing an information resource in a format, or claims to be in a format, of the type PDF/A, TIFF/A, Matroska, which in turn can contain one or more information resources. PREFORMA member, PREFORMA network member, or third parties who provides files to the designated PREFORMA dispatcher. The ground truth determines uniquely which classes a document/file belongs to. A report generated from a Machine-readable Report in a format suitable for human interpretation (eg. HTML or PDF) and containing messages translated according to a Language Pack. In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium (ICC). Profiles describe the color attributes of a particular device or viewing requirement by defining a mapping between the device source or target color space and a profile connection space (PCS). Data structure used to store an image data information and metadata inside a TIFF file. Data structure, located in the first 8 bytes on a TIFF file, used to identify the TIFF file defines the byte order and the offset to the first Image File Directory. The execution of a discrete Validation Test for a particular file. This module verifies whether a file has been produced according to the specifications of a standard file format. A characteristic of information that is sufficiently complete to allow it to be interpreted, understood and used by the Designated Community without having to resort to special resources not widely available, including named individuals. Any type of knowledge that can be exchanged. In an exchange, it is represented by data. An example is a string of bits (the data) accompanied by a description of how to interpret the string of bits as numbers representing temperature observations measured in degrees Celsius (the Representation Information). The Information Interchange Model (IIM) is a file structure and set of metadata attributes that can be applied to text, images and other media types. A logical container composed of optional Content Information and optional associated Preservation Description Information. Associated with this Information Package is Packaging Information used to delimit and identify the Content Information and Package Description information used to facilitate searches for the Content Information. That part of the Content Information as described by the Information Property Description. The detailed expression, or value, of that part of the information content is conveyed by the appropriate parts of the Content Data Object and its Representation Information. Information structures, metadata, profiles, wrappers and other formats for example text, image, audio, audiovisual, such as fonts, encoding, ICC, XMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WAVE, MP3, Matroska, PDF/A. An ISO committee managing one or more ISO standards. For example, ISO TC 171 SC 2 WG 5 owns ISO 19005 (PDF/A) while WG 8 owns ISO 32000 (the PDF specification). A set of information, incorporated by a person or system, that allows that person or system to understand received information. Files which can be traced back to their original format (if converted) and/or the software that generated the file. A file or set of files which specify all string constants for a given language as well as additional localisation (such as date format). A period of time long enough for there to be concern about the impacts of changing technologies, including support for new media and data formats, and of a changing Designated Community, on the information being held in an OAIS. This period extends into the indefinite future. The act of maintaining information, Independently Understandable by a Designated Community, and with evidence supporting its Authenticity, over the Long Term. Lossless compression is an algorithm that represent data without losing any information but minimizes file size. LPCM is a linearly uniform method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals. A structured report, independent of language and localization, generated for automated processing rather than human readability. The role played by those who set overall OAIS policy as one component in a broader policy domain, for example as part of a larger organization. Matroska is an open standard, free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file. MediaInfo is an open source program that displays technical information about media files, as well as tag information for many audio and video files. MediaTrace is a technical report that expresses the binary architecture of a file. An organization maintaining a repository of public knowledge, a generic term used about institutions such as libraries, archives, museums, sites and monument records, clearinghouses, providers of Digital Libraries and data aggregation services which serve as memories for given societies or mankind. Metadata standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The standard is maintained as part of the MARC standards of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation (DLF). Depending on its use, a METS document could be used in the role of Submission Information Package (SIP), Archival Information Package (AIP), or Dissemination Information Package (DIP) within the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. A simple alignment of the file’s internal metadata with the actual validity status (as determined by the Conformance Checker) of the file. This module performs automated fixes for simple deviations in the metadata of the preservation file, leaving the original bitstream untouched and created a correct copy of the object to be preserved. A Machine-readable Report generated by the Metadata Fixer containing details of Metadata Fixes carried out and any exceptions. United States non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications. It was founded in 1939, incorporated as a not-for-profit education association in 1983, and assumed its current name in 1984. XML schema created by The Library of Congress’ Network Development and MARC Standards Office, in partnership with the NISO Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standards Committee and other interested experts, for describing a set of technical data elements required to manage digital image collections. The schema provides a format for interchange and/or storage of the data specified in the Data Dictionary – Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (ANSI/NISO Z39.87-2006). This schema is currently referred to as “NISO Metadata for Images in XML (NISO MIX)”. MIX is expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. MIX is maintained for NISO by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress with input from users. Quality assurance at Ingest, validating (QA results) the successful transfer of the SIP to the temporary storage area. Generate AIP at Ingest, transforming one or more SIPs into one or more AIPs that conform to the Archive’s data formatting standards and documentation standards. Archival Information Update at Ingest, providing a mechanism for updating (repackaging, transformation) the contents of the Archive. Monitor Designated Communities for Preservation Planning, interacting with Archive Consumers and Producers to track changes in their service requirements and available product technologies. Develop Preservation Strategies and Standards for preservation planning, developing and recommending strategies and standards, and for assessing risks, to enable the Archive to make informed tradeoffs as it establishes standards, sets policies, and manages its system infrastructure. Establishing Standards and Policies by the Administration of the Archive system and maintain them. An Archive, consisting of an organization, which may be part of a larger organization, of people and systems, that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a Designated Community. It meets a set of responsibilities that allows an OAIS Archive to be distinguished from other uses of the term ‘Archive’. The term ‘Open’ in OAIS is used to imply that this Recommendation and future related Recommendations and standards are developed in open forums, and it does not imply that access to the Archive is unrestricted. License enabling that anyone that has adopted the software has the right to freely read, use, improve and redistribute the source code for such software. In the context of PREFORMA, all software developed in the project must be licensed under the two open source licenses “GPL v3 or later” and “MPL v2 or later” and all digital assets produced in the project must be released under the open access license Creative Commons CC-BY v4.0 and in open file formats, i.e. an open standard as defined in the European Interoperability Framework for Pan-European eGovernment Service (version 1.0 2004). Open Source Software (OSS) is software which as a whole is licensed by one or more licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative, see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/. Based on the definition of open source software from Kammarkollegiet, the Swedish organisation responsible for all public procurement(Dnr. 96-34-2014, in the document “Allmänna villkor”). Non-normative implementation. Data actually managed by memory institutions for their preservation duties. The information intended for use by Access Aids. The information that is used to bind and identify the components of an Information Package. For example, it may be the ISO 9660 volume and directory information used on a CD-ROM to provide the content of several files containing Content Information and Preservation Description Information. A Byte Sequence claiming conformance with ISO 32000-1:2008 (for PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3) or to the Adobe specification of PDF 1.4 (for PDF/A-1). A programmatic model of a PDF Document created by parsing a PDF. The model encapsulates applicable PDF syntax, any PDF Metadata, plus details of PDF Features. The model can be serialised as a Machine-readable Report. Any property of the PDF Document or any of its structural elements such as pages, images, fonts, color spaces, annotations, attachments, etc. A Machine-readable Report containing details about PDF Features including PDF Metadata and other available XMP metadata packages. PDF document-level metadata stream containing the XMP package and the entries of the PDF Info dictionary. A software component that reads a PDF Document and constructs a PDF Document Extract. The PDF Association Technical Working Group attended by industry members to discuss and decide matters pertaining to PDF Validation. A Byte Sequence claiming conformance to a specific PDF/A Flavour. Possible PDF/A Flavors are: 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2u, 3a, 3b, 3u. The part of the XMP metadata in a PDF Document that identifies the PDF/A Part (1, 2 or 3) and conformance Level (b, a, or u) to which the PDF Document claims to conform. Level a, b, or u conformance as defined by the PDF/A Part. The process of testing whether the PDF Features of a PDF Document conform to the requirements for a particular PDF/A Flavor. The PDF/A Validation process generates a Validation Report. A Machine-readable Report containing the results (all errors and notifications) of PDF/A Validation. Institutional acceptance criteria for long-term archiving and preservation of files and metadata, including requirements beyond those specified in ISO or other 3rd party standards. The execution of a discrete Policy Test for a particular file. The Policy Checker carries out Policy Tests when enforcing a particular Policy Profile. This module verifies whether a file matches the acceptance criteria for long-term preservation by the memory institution. A file that expresses institutional Policy as a set of formal Policy Tests. Enables the discovery and exchange of Policy Profiles between institutions. A Machine-readable Report containing the results of Policy Checks performed as defined in a Policy Profile. A Test Assertion that is evaluated by examining a Feature Report to ensure a file complies with institutional Policy. Competition-like procurement method, which enables public sector bodies to engage with innovative businesses and other interested parties in development projects to arrive at innovative solutions that address specific public sector challenges and needs. The new innovative solutions are created through a phased procurement of development contracts to reduce risk. A PREFORMA term for an interactive component: “which allows a conformance checker to interface with other systems, allowing for interfacing multiple conformance checkers at the same time”. Aim of this module is to ensure interoperability, enabling the integration of different conformance checkers into one single application. The information which is necessary for adequate preservation of the Content Information and which can be categorized as Provenance, Reference, Fixity, Context, and Access Rights Information. The role played by those persons or client systems that provide the information to be preserved. This can include other OAISes or internal OAIS persons or systems. Second phase of the PREFORMA Pre-Commercial Procurement. It is intended to develop prototypes from the more promising concepts delivered by the selected suppliers in the design phase. Implementation of a standard specification that is to be used as a definitive interpretation for that standard specification. Methodology or objective frame of reference to interpret and implement the standard specifications against the background of the current variations of interpretations and implementations by software vendors, aimed to determine whether a file is what it claims to be, i.e., in this context, what makes a file a valid file that conforms to the specifications of a standard file format. A template file that defines the layout and format of a Human-readable or Machine-readable report. These are used by the Reporter to transform Machine-readable Reports into alternative formats. This module reports in human and machine readable format which properties deviate from the standard specification and acceptance criteria. In the context of PREFORMA, the official logical location where the training and demonstration files are stored and from where the Suppliers and third parties can access and use the files. The information that maps a Data Object into more meaningful concepts. An example of Representation Information for a bit sequence which is a FITS file might consist of the FITS standard which defines the format plus a dictionary which defines the meaning in the file of keywords which are not part of the standard. Another example is JPEG software which is used to render a JPEG file; rendering the JPEG file as bits is not very meaningful to humans but the software, which embodies an understanding of the JPEG standard, maps the bits into pixels which can then be rendered as an image for human viewing. The Representation Information that further describes the meaning beyond that provided by the Structure Information. A cryptographic hash function that creates a digital fingerprint for a byte sequence, referred to as ‘message’ in cryptographic documentation. File that has been produced according to the specifications of a standard file format, In the context of PREFORMA, the following standard specifications have been selected for inclusing in the Challenge Brief. ISO (2005). Document management — Electronic document file format for long-term preservation — Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1). ISO/TC 171/SC 2, ISO 19005-1:2005. ISO (2008). Document management — Portable document format — Part 1: PDF 1.7. ISO/TC 171/SC 2, ISO 32000-1:2008. ISO (2011). Document management — Electronic document file format for long-term preservation — Part 2: Use of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/A-2). ISO/TC 171/SC 2, ISO 19005-2:2011. ISO (2012). Document management — Electronic document file format for long-term preservation — Part 3: Use of ISO 32000-1 with support for embedded files (PDF/A-3). ISO/TC 171/SC 2, ISO 19005-3:2012. ISO (2001). Electronic still-picture imaging — Removable memory — Part 2: TIFF/EP image data format. ISO/TC 42, ISO 12234-2:2001. ISO (2004). Graphic Technology — Prepress digital data exchange — Tag image file format for image technology (TIFF/IT). ISO/TC 130. ISO 12369:2004. MKV: Matroska – Technical Details. http://www.matroska.org/technical/index.html. OGG: Ogg – Documentation. https://xiph.org/ogg/doc/. JPEG2000: ISO (2004). Information technology – JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004. FFV1: FFV1 Video Codec Specification, http://www.ffmpeg.org/~michael/ffv1.html. Dirac: Dirac Specification Version 2.2.3 (2008), http://diracvideo.org/download/specification/dirac-spec-latest.pdf. LPCM: IEC (2014). Digital audio interface – Part 1: General. IEC/TC 100, IEC 60958-1 ed3.1 Consol. with am1: 2014. The Representation Information that imparts meaning about how other information is organized. For example, it maps bit streams to common computer types such as characters, numbers, and pixels and aggregations of those types such as character strings and arrays. The agreement reached between an OAIS and the Producer that specifies a data model, and any other arrangements needed, for the Data Submission Session. This data model identifies format/contents and the logical constructs used by the Producer and how they are represented on each media delivery or in a telecommunication session. An Information Package that is delivered by the Producer to the OAIS for use in the construction or update of one or more AIPs and/or the associated Descriptive Information. Normative implementation. Data created with the specific purpose of pinpointing some specific compliance problem or critical issue for a given preservation format. Synthetic files are synthetic in the sense that they are purposefully created to test a specific functionality of the validator. ISO Recommendation to optimize the TIFF file format definition for archival purposes. The TI/A recommendation define a subset of standard TIFF tags which are either required, optional of forbidden for the purposes of long term archival. Within this context, the goal must be that; The image can be opened with standard software even in the far future and the image data does not contain features that are not documented and therefore cannot be understood and rendered correctly in the future. Conforming to the TI/A recommendation will guarantee that the essential digital information of a image file always can be read and interpreted correctly. Since TI/A is a subset of the TIFF standard, all current TIFF readers are able to correctly and completely render TI/A just out-of-the-box. A Test Assertion is a testable or measurable expression for evaluating the adherence of an implementation (or part of it) to a normative statement in a specification. Third phase of the PREFORMA Pre-Commercial Procurement. It is intended to test the applications developed during the protototyping phase by the memory institutions of the consortium. Files used for testing by the suppliers during the prototyping phase. These must be distinguished from the evaluation files. A Digital Migration in which there is an alteration to the Content Information or PDI of an Archival Information Package. For example, changing ASCII codes to UNICODE in a text document being preserved is a Transformation. Files which are not traceable to a specific origin, that is, it is not known how the files were created. Label assigned to documents/files according to their characteristics. In general classes may intersect but the correct class must be separate. A formal definition of all PDF Document objects, their properties, and relationships between them expressed in a custom syntax. A structured file describing the set of Validation Tests to be performed during Validation for a particular PDF/A Flavour. A Test Assertion that is evaluated by examining a PDF Features Report to ensure a PDF Document complies with a requirement expressed in a specific PDF/A Flavour. In the context of PREFORMA, the logical and physical storage location for all files submitted by a Provider to a designated PREFORMA dispatcher. The PREFORMA vault is only accessible to a designated PREFORMA dispatcher. The veraPDF application programming interface defines the operations, inputs, outputs, and types that form the protocols for interacting programmatically with the veraPDF Library. The command line executable(s) providing access to the veraPDF Library API and functionality via a command line interface. execution config: settings unique to a particular invocation, such as files or URLs to check, names of output report files. An executable program that provides access to the veraPDF API and Library on a desktop computer or workstation. A software library that provides a lightweight framework based on open standards for use by Conformance Checker developers. The software library that provides the functionality and APIs for PDF/A Validation, Policy Checking, Metadata Fixing, and Reporting. RESTful web service API that provides HTTP access to the veraPDF Library functionality. This is a REST layer on top of the veraPDF API. Provides the user interfaces to manage and operate the Conformance Checker, handling issues such as workflow control and scheduling. Browser based HTML user interface that calls the veraPDF Library through the REST API, which in turn calls the veraPDF API. A container or wrapper format is a metafile format whose specification describes how different elements of data and metadata coexist in a computer file. See also: Container (format). Description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself.

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