also leads to the application of breeding methods that create "natural" (biological) barriers to prevent the competitor to easily copy or multiply, such as is realized by incorporating the (cytoplasmic) male sterility trait in F1-hybrids. It also drives the policy to adopt seed regulations such as UPOV 1991 where farmers' rights for on-farm seed saving are strongly restricted compared to the farmer-friendly former version UPOV 1978 (Braunschweig et al. [@CR11]). There are also concerns about the mergers of the seed industry with the chemical industry resulting in forcing combined use of specific cultivars and crop protectants (Howard [@CR63]).

The economies of scale are important drivers leading to a reduction of diversity in crop portfolio, mergers or consolidations to acquire economic vitality (Lindner [@CR88]; Howard [@CR63]). The research and developmentinvestments in corporate breeding companies are high (up to 35% of the yearly turnover) and the willingness of sharing knowledge with other players in the breeding sector is strongly reduced, which results in a lack of transparency (Barnes et al. [@CR6]). The costs of investment increase as the lifespan of cultivars on the market becomes shorter. As diversity is key to food security and sovereignty, there is a need for green policies to allow diverse and local farmer participatory breeding programs to address small crops neglected in breeding (Khoury et al. [@CR69]; Khoury and Jarvis [@CR68]).

The strengths of corporate-based breeding include its entrepreneurship and innovative competiveness, and its emphasis on the market and value chain (Table [2](#Tab2){ref-type="table"}). Simultaneously, these strengths also induce a narrow-mindedness and path dependency that


challenges as described in the introduction. This will be elaborated in the next section.

Defining a systems-based breeding orientation {#Sec9}
=============================================

In the envisioned concept of systems-based breeding, "system" is defined as the space that encompasses the civil society (with its diversity of cultural norms and values), policy (with various governance institutions), nature (including the diversity of pedo-climatic conditions and habitats), agriculture (including the diversity of agro-ecosystems and farming systems), and value chains and markets as interrelated and mutually dependent components of the entire system (as shown in Fig. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}). Systems-based breeding aims to integrate various paradigmatic positions, but not to merge them. Systems-based breeding should be a style of thought that is systems-centric, both by its focus on holistic policy targets as well as by its methodology integrating holistic andsame time realizing gains from cost and risk reduction and legitimacy and reputation benefits. However, including corporate social responsibility (CSR) not automatically leads to sustainability (Knowles [@CR76]). CSR looks backwards at performance, typically over the last 12 months, while sustainability is forward-looking.

There are examples of companies that want to show top leadership in transitioning towards a more integral sustainability plan (Grayson [@CR52]; Unilever [@CR131]). A Dutch company trading in organic fruits, called Eosta, recently introduced true-cost accounting into its entrepreneurial model (cf. Holden [@CR62]; Eosta et al. [@CR37]). Such integral sustainability thinking should be extended to breeding companies with respect to prioritizing long-term breeding goals.

Wolfe et al. ([@CR138]) described various types of breeding programs for organic agriculture ranging from combining conventional and organic markets to fully committed to the


urgency to mitigate at least three out of those nine planetary boundaries. These three included biodiversity loss (at species level), climate change, and human interference with the nitrogen cycle. These three overstepped boundaries all have a very close relationship to agriculture. These authors argued that these rates of change cannot continue without significantly eroding the resilience of major components of the earth-system functioning. Especially climate change may hurt agriculture tremendously. The resources to be used to cope with such threats are also becoming increasingly scarce, such as diversity of crops (Khoury and Jarvis [@CR68]) and of the crop wild relatives necessary for breeding (Castañeda-Álvarez et al. [@CR18]).

Urgent innovations can be catalyzed by innovation brokers (Klerkx and Leeuwis [@CR74]). However, the success of innovations also depends on historical andCharacteristics of the Li-Ni Doped Cobalt Oxide Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition.
Cobalt oxide spinel thin films doped with Ni and Li were deposited on c-sapphire single crystal substrates at various substrate temperatures and oxygen partial pressures by pulsed laser deposition. The effects of the doping and processing parameters on the crystal structure, electrical and optical properties of cobalt oxide base spinel thin films were analyzed by XRD, four point probe and UV spectrometry. The electrical conductivity increased with increasing Ni doping concentration, x, up to x = 0.7. The thin films grew on the sapphire substrates with a strong (111) preferred orientation. Li0.1Ni0.6Co2.3O4 spinel phase decomposed to a rock salt phase when the oxygen partial pressure was lower than 5 mtorr. The electrical conductivity decreased rapidly


happened with cars in the early years.

When the first cars began circulating, nobody could imagine humanity could extract, refine and distribute millions of barrels of petrol per day. This is good: Bitcoin growth could collaterally help spread solar and wind energy, giving a kick to renewables. In the beginning, oil had a prohibitive cost, and only rich people could afford a car and also petrol to run it.

We know that, with time, more and more people and investors began oil extraction, and the price got lower and lower, allowing cities to be so crowded with cars, that pollution became a problem. But the analogy is not matching completely. While in the last couple of decades we never had a real problem with oil supply, the early times wereis that, as Bitcoin is growing right now, when facing power outages, governments couldn’t push for the construction of new nuclear plants: those require at least 20 years to become operative. They could only choose solar and wind power plants, as these only take at max a couple of years to set up.

Whatever happens, be ready to see solar panels and wind turbines all around you!


communities harmed by unjust marijuana arrests could be excluded from the new legal pot industry have prompted a variety of government programs.

(Photo: Getty Images)

Some focused on atoning for prior drug arrests and others sought to improve access to start-up capital, despite industry wide challenges in finding banks willing to deal with marijuana while it still remains illegal under federal law.

What follows is an analysis of New York’s cannabis social equity discussion based on government data and the USA TODAY Network’s ongoing investigation of the issue.

Marijuana money

During a January speech pushing legal pot, Gov. Andrew Cuomo emphasized the financial and social wreckage of decades of marijuana arrests in minority communities, vowing to prioritize them for cannabis business licenses.

"We have to do it in a way that creates an economicsleeve bearing. If this friction is not minimized, fan efficiency is reduced, which leads to the need for larger fan motors and additional power consumption. Both consequences are adverse to the use of fans in cooling increasingly smaller and hotter operating electrical components and equipment.


determined in our study could be explained by the imposition of preventive, non-pharmaceutical, interventions at an early stage of the epidemic. A study by Flaxman et al. indicates that these lockdowns contributed considerably to the containment of virus spreading and therefore may have saved many lives \[[@r17]\]. Their model calculation estimating the current SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence for different European countries revealed the lowest prevalence for Germany (0.85%) and Norway (0.46%), while higher values were estimated for Belgium (8%) and Spain (5.5%). All these rates are far too low to reach herd immunity, which would require ca 60% of the population to express protective antibodies against the virus \[[@r18]\].

In addition to the unambiguously seropositive blood donors, 0.3% of the individuals in our cohort showed equivocal levels of antibody. These donorsReview: King of Humility

There’s a wide range of genre that can be seen at this years’ Melbourne International Comedy Festival. You can see improv, sketch-shows, musical comedy or stand-up with a theme. If you’re in the mood for some straight up, no strings attached stand-up though, James Masters in King of Humility is probably the show you want to see.

King of Humility is 60 minutes of guaranteed laughter as Masters runs through topics as broad as VicRoads to Tinder. With no direct, clear indication from the title of the show, it’s nice to walk into a venue not knowing what to expect.

Evan Desmarais opens the night, jumping straight in with an almost lecture at the audience about equality. He manages to weave a surprising amount of humour into


Monday, November 25, 2013

This is the first time I've done a combined scenery and miniatures job.

The arms dealers were a pretty colorful bunch. Definitely my favorite is the middle guy, with his shades and casual pose, though all three are pretty classic black market poses. They all kinda' remind me of some of the exhibitors at comic cons I've been to and/or sold at.

Just like con exhibitors, they sell from a tiny little square that was haphazardly put together. Actually, I wish I had a post-apocalyptic shanty to sell from- I bet it would look pretty cool.

The textures were a lot of fun to work with, and Pardoulon's resin (sold through Lead Adventure, too) was very nice, if a touch thicker than I expected. It actually reminded mewith choruses of Old McDonald Had a Farm.

Husband and I had begun the journey blissfully happy. We disembarked looking like extras from the Thriller video, clutching plastic bags, two small children and on the brink of divorce.

That’s what travelling long haul with young children really looks like.

In the meantime, any parent of a toddler who feels pressure to skip off a flight looking like Kate needs to remember the pertinent factors.

The Duchess has an entourage, access to first-class travel and never leaves home without packing the most effective of all the parenthood perks.


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I've run the JSON file through all of the top JSON validators, and it checks out in all of them, so it doesn't seem to be a formatting issue.

A:

It looks like you're not parsing JSON data from the AJAX response. The document is read as plain text. (Take a look at your data variable.)
You can use JSON.parse(txt) or jQuery's AJAX shorthand $.getJSON(...).


Fanelli’s remarkable career with Rangers coming to an end

Ben Fanelli

KITCHENER — Before and after every game, Kitchener Rangers captain Ben Fanelli texts his mom Sue.

"It's a thing we do," said the 21-year-old defenceman.

Pre-game, the message usually reaffirms how happy he is to be heading out on to the ice. After the tilt, he just wants to make sure she knows he's all right.

"It's something little, but it's a huge thing for us," he said.

Only three games remain for Fanelli in a Rangers' uniform.

As the club's sole overage player he'll move on from junior hockey after Wednesday's game in Guelph, Thursday's clash in Sarnia and Friday's season finale at the Aud against the Windsor Spitfires.

That's six more texts before it's all done.

"I want to finish the right way," heHow to Decide Where to Eat

Once upon a time a created a magical Excel spreadsheet to tell me where I wanted to eat. I didn’t think it was magical when I made it, but after consulting it on several occasions I found I was always satisfied with my meal when I followed it’s direction and often disapointed when I ignored it’s results.

This flowchart has given me some inspiration for possible upgrades to that spreadsheet, which I no longer have.The flowchart is somewhat disappointing for, as the first three questions show I will always end up at In-N-Out or Jack in the Box if I use it. I’m not sure why that’s disapointing, if I eat fast food it is at Jack in the Box, In-N-Out or the Costco


Vertex

Vertex Holds

The Vertex Series Represent a different image. The Vertex climbing hold is a piece of art that worships nature and pure imagination.

What makes Vertex Climbing holds special?

It is the personal touch and love for what they do, every single hold is made with passion and heart, the incredible attention to detail in these holds are made look ready to take part in an art exhibition!loops), and an intra-fractional one, with abdominal anatomy being affected by breathing cycle phases and physiological movements throughout the delivery of RT fraction.

One of the most promising delivery techniques is represented by stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), considered either as an exclusive approach or in combination with other therapeutic approaches.

In this context, the new RT hybrid systems that join radiation delivery units (both Cobalt sources and Linac) with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners, offer various significant advantages for RT treatment delivery, especially for the treatment of upper gastro-intestinal malignancies and, particularly, for pancreatic cancer.

Unity (Elekta, Stockholm, Sweden) uses a 1.5 T MRI scanner with a 7 MV Flattening Filter Free (FFF) Linac, while MRIdian (ViewRay, Cleveland, Ohio) joins 0.35 T MRI scanner with three ^60^Co γ-ray sources or a 6 MV


treatment in the same patient's preparation conditions. The duodenum position (orange) significantly changes its position respect to the pancreatic cancer (red). A 3 cm wide region surrounding the GTV is reported in green

In addition to the advantages relative to segmentation and positioning imaging quality, the possibility of monitoring treatment delivery using a real-time cine MRI represents another favourable opportunity offered by the MRgRT systems (see Fig. [2](#Fig2){ref-type="fig"}).Fig. 2Intra-fraction motion management by means of cine MR. The treatment is delivered only when the target structure (in red) is inside the defined boundary region (in yellow), as described in part (**a**). In the case of part (**b**), treatment delivery stops until the right volume position is reached

The use of gating cine MRI allows a direct visualisation of therapy volumes (both targets andOARs) with a temporal frequency of 4 images per second. Its superiority respect to the use of implanted markers or other external surrogates has been demonstrated in different experiences in the case of SBRT treatments \[[@CR38], [@CR39]\].

Furthermore, the use of low tesla MRI ensures higher contrast to noise ratio (CNR) between the target (i.e.: tumour) and its background, respect to the one obtainable using a high magnetic field in real time tumour tracking, and successfully reduces the artefacts influencing MRI's spatial integrity \[[@CR40]\].

Nevertheless, the timespan for a fully online adaptive workflow (i.e. evaluation of initial plan, contouring, re-evaluation of the initial plan on the new contours, re-optimization) still represents a limiting factor in the adaptive workflow: Lamb et al have estimated a median execution fraction time of 54 min


spermatogenesis, embryogenesis, and neurodevelopment.[7](#cam42918-bib-0007){ref-type="ref"}, [8](#cam42918-bib-0008){ref-type="ref"}, [9](#cam42918-bib-0009){ref-type="ref"} Consistent with its important biological function, METTL3 is emerging as a key molecular affecting tumorigenesis cancer progression in a variety of cancers,[10](#cam42918-bib-0010){ref-type="ref"} including HCC,[11](#cam42918-bib-0011){ref-type="ref"} but few studies have made attempt to elucidate the relationship between METTL3 and glucose metabolism in HCC. In the current study, the association between METTL3 and glucose metabolism in HCC samples were investigated. A significant positive correlation between METTL3 expression and the transcriptional activity of key genes specific to glycolysis was discovered. Inhibited METTL3 expression sensitizes HCC cells to glycolytic stress. Thereafter, we revealed that mTORC1 signal pathway was implicated in the relationship between METTL3 and glycolysis.

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2.1. Clinical tissue samples {#cam42918-sec-0003}
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Between Jan 2013 and December 2013, we obtained 100 tumor tissues and the paired adjacent normalHCC cells reduces glycolysis activity {#cam42918-sec-0017}
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The effect of METTL3 silencing on glycolysis was further analyzed in Huh7 cells and SMMC‐7721 cells. As shown in Figure [3](#cam42918-fig-0003){ref-type="fig"}A,B, METTL3 in HCC cell lines, Huh‐7 and SMMC‐7721, were knockdown by transfection with siRNA oligonucleotides. The glucose uptake rate and lactate secretion rate were both significantly decreased after METTL3 silencing (Figure [4](#cam42918-fig-0004){ref-type="fig"}C‐F).

![Effect of METTL3 knockdown on glycolysis activity in HCC cells. A, B, Human HCC cells Huh‐7 and SMMC‐7721 were transfected with treated with siRNA oligonucleotides, for 48 h followed by Western blot analysis (A) and qRT‐PCR (B). C, D, Human HCC cells Huh‐7 (C) and SMMC‐7721 (D) were transfected with treated with siRNA oligonucleotides for 48 h followed by glucose uptake assays. E, F, Human HCC cells Huh‐7 (E) and SMMC‐7721 (F) were


that mTOR may act as a controller of anabolic metabolism.[20](#cam42918-bib-0020){ref-type="ref"}, [21](#cam42918-bib-0021){ref-type="ref"} By GSEA, we found that mTORC1 signaling is positively associated with high METTL3 expression. S6K1 and 4EBP1 phosphorylation are two indicators reflecting the activity of mTORC1. Our in vitro findings showed that inhibited METTL3 expression could induce decreased phosphorylation levels of S6K1 and 4EBP1, suggesting METTL3 can lead to the activation of mTORC1 pathway. Our experiments further revealed that additional silencing of METTL3 cannot further decrease the phosphorylation level of mTORC1 and glycolysis activity in Rapamycin‐treated (mTOR‐suppressed) HCC cells. This mechanism partly explained the association between METTL3 and glycolysis metabolism in HCC. However, our study was limited by that we did not clarified the key m6A‐modification targets of METTL3, the major m6A methylase "writer" gene, to thestring
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B. = Banks (or/ Big Business)
O. R. = Organized Religion
G. = Government
The entity that controls every aspect of your life (also known as the Illuminati).

Yeah, I know it really sucks having your computer ripped off by Homeland Security agents as you go through the customs maze at the airport, but what are you going to do about it, after all, it is all a part of the B.O.R.G. Matrix.Q:

chmod settings wont set

I am trying to chmod a folder in OS X Lion
However the settings do not seem to stay when I do...
users-MacBook-Air:MAMP user$ sudo chmod a=rwx /tmp

users-MacBook-Air:MAMP user$ ls -l /tmp
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root  wheel  11 Jul 20 23:44 /tmp -> private/tmp

A:

The first letter l in lrwxr-xr-x means that /tmp is a symbolic link.
This part /tmp -> private/tmp means that it links to private/tmp.
From man chmod:

chmod never changes the permissions of symbolic  links;  the  chmod
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credit to US President Donald Trump for changing the rhetoric with his strident approach to North Korea's increasing missile and nuclear tests.

"I actually believe that the Chinese recalculated their risk when President Trump upped the ante in terms of rhetoric and what he said that the United States would do should they be threatened by North Korea."

Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Richard Marles said it was important to pursue every diplomatic and peaceful avenue.

"It absolutely involves making sure there is dialogue between all the parties involved," he told Sky News.

"I think there is still a fair way to go in terms of trying to shape North Korea's behaviour."Former Medtronic Employee Must Testify in Infuse Shareholder Lawsuit

A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit filed on behalf of Medtronic Inc. shareholders has ordered a former employee to testify at trial. The lawsuit alleges that Medtronic’s illegal promotion of its Infuse bone graft product caused the company’s stock to tank.

According to a report from Law360, the unnamed ex-Medtronic employee is known only as CW2 in court filings. The employee tried to avoid testifying and refused to turn over a key Infuse document, citing his 5th amendment protection against self incrimination. But in a ruling issued yesterday, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Magnuson affirmed a magistrate judge’s order for the witness. In doing so, Judge Magnuson said the decision to sign a declaration in support of one of Medtronic’s earlier


to lose in the long run of that transaction, because the girl is hardly going to be impressed with your thriftiness.

But that was then, and this is now. And now, very few girls in Bangkok or Pattaya say, “one thousand.” Prices have doubled, and the girls are a lot more willing to throw crazy prices at you. Go out enough, and you’ll hear three to five thousand baht sometimes! The days of “up to you pricing” are long gone. IF you want to be the guy who says, “Yes” to whatever the girls says, prepare to be taken advantage of. That is why I think it’s becoming somewhat necessary to have a negotiator’s attitude from the on-set of the transaction. And sometimes, just by merely giving her theof things for native Thai’s and comparing them to a pretty bar girl’s income, lots of bar girls are actually in a better financial position than some of the expats and tourists they see. So you are not accomplishing anything by getting taken advantage of.

Tips to negotiate:

1) Agree on a price as early as you can. Getting past that should allow both of you to be a bit more comfortable. It also removes any chance of their being a price dispute after its too late.

2) Don’t be afraid to tell the girl the price. If you know the right price is 2,000, confidently tell her you’ll be paying 2,000 baht. If it’s the right price, the girl say it’s OK and you’ll move on to more fun things


as walking sticks or frames, as enabling them to undertake physical activity. Some patients also reported other environmental factors, including favorable weather conditions or being able to walk at indoor locations, as facilitating their physical activity.

### Theme 4: opportunities for physical activities

Respondents identified having opportunities for physical activity built into their everyday activities as a facilitator for being physically active. These included physical activities undertaken as part of interventions provided at the participating clinics, particularly exercise prescribed by their physiotherapist, including both land- and water-based exercises. Some participants also identified the benefits of active occupation, domestic, and transit activities in promoting regular physical activity. Patients with children in their household also identified undertaking activities with their children or grandchildren as facilitating physical activity. Opportunity to exercise while otherYou'll have plenty to celebrate when you subscribe to the Liverpool FC newsletter Sign me up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Danny Ings could make his Liverpool comeback before the end of the season as he prepares to return to full training inside the next fortnight.

The Reds striker has been sidelined since he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) back in October.

Ings’ total commitment to his rehabilitation programme has paid off with the England international close to fitness ahead of schedule.

Jurgen Klopp insists Liverpool won’t rush Ings back in the wake of Divock Origi’s ankle injury. However, the Reds boss is relishing finally being able to work with the 23-year-old, who was hurt during his first training session


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Platelets treated with ticlopidine are less reactive to unusually large von Willebrand factor multimers than are those treated with aspirin under high shear stress.
Much attention has recently been focused on the interaction between unusually large von Willebrand factor multimers (UL-VWFM) and platelets under high shear stress in pathological thrombus formation. The antiplatelet drugs acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) and a thienopyridine derivative (ticlopidine) are commonly used to treat cerebral ischemia but exert different effects on high-shear-stress-induced platelet aggregation (H-SIPA) in the plasma. To examine the effects of these drugs in the absence of plasma factors, we studied H-SIPA using washed platelets (WPs) and purified UL-VWFM. WPs were prepared from the blood of 9 aspirin-treated and 11 ticlopidine-treated patients with cerebral ischemia, and H-SIPA in the presence of UL-VWFM was measuredand a large PVR volume might persist.

Other causes of failed urethral botulinum toxin A treatment besides low abdominal pressure in patients with DU include a tight urethral sphincter, bladder neck obstruction, and psychological inhibition of voiding \[[@ref28]\]. An open bladder neck is an important factor in patients who use abdominal pressure to passively overcome urethral resistance. If patients with DU cannot open the bladder neck by abdominal straining, urethral sphincter onabotulinumtoxinA injection might not be successful. Furthermore, as in patients with dysfunctional voiding, repeat urethral sphincter onabtulinumtoxinA 100 U injections in patients with DU might be necessary to achieve greater reduction of urethral resistance and facilitate abdominal straining to void \[[@ref29]\].

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Support: NIH/R01 EY019885. We thank Dr. Alfredo Fontanini (SUNY---Stony Brook) for useful comments on the manuscript.

[^1]: Edited by: Yehezkel Ben-Ari, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France

[^2]: Reviewed by: Barry W. Connors, Brown University, USA; Yves De Koninck, Laval University, Canada; Alfonso Represa, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Invariably they advise updating the base system and pkgng, then immediately
> installing bash, nano, htop, lsof, coreutils, proc, and more.

Isn't this what was commonly done on proprietary Unix, even before Linux
existed? From what I have read about that era (I started with Linux so I
didn't live through these times), the GNU tools were better than what came
with these Unix systems. The authors of these guides probably have a similar
opinion about the BSD tools.

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In my opinion, the BSD userland is much nicer than GNU: the documentation is
better, no long name arguments, and simpler. Browsing the source is also good
fun, the implementations are straightforward and look like how I imagine K&R
would write code. This is in contrast to the GNU userland, which is just so
crazy.

It's evident that the GNU people


ideas that went into Solaris but they were almost
invariably poorly implemented.

~~~
Annatar
Solaris regularly beats Linux in performance on the same hardware, and the
subsystems which are "slower" aren't really: they just don't lie and trade
safety for performance, like Linux does. Linux is fake performance at the cost
of correctness of operation.

~~~
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I would like to see some evidence to back this claim.

~~~
Annatar
The burden of proof is on you, since you're the one clearly advocating for
Linux here.

~~~
jaekash
> The burden of proof is on you, since you're the one clearly advocating for
> Linux here.

Ehh... if you want proof for a specific claim then ask for it. I am asking you
for proof of the specific positive claim you made, which is:

> Solaris regularly beats Linux in performance on the same hardware, and the
> subsystems whichmovements and positions of facial muscles form expressions that convey numerous cognitive states ranging from happy to sad, including expressions of anger, fear, disgust, surprise, and many others.
Non-verbal communication takes place between and among people, without exchanging words. Non-verbal communication supplements verbal communication, and can be categorized as visual cues, distance cues, voice cues, and touch cues. Visual cues often include body language and facial expressions. An angry face conveys an opposite message to a smiling face. Physical distance cues are also informative. Towering over another person threatens, while sitting with the person reassures. Voice cues, called paralanguage, include rate, pitch, volume, voice quality, or prosody. Loud and rapid speech can indicate anger or alarm, while soft and slow speech can indicate, ease or comfort. Touch or haptic


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    utils.to_feature(tmp.add_prefix(PREF), '../feature/train')

    tmp = pd.merge(test, feature, on=KEY, how='left').drop(KEY, axis=1)
    utils.to_feature(tmp.add_prefix(PREF),  '../feature/test')

    # gr2
    pref = 'con_'
    c = pref + feature_name + '_pct_change'
    base[c] = gr2[feature_name].pct_change()

    gr = base.groupby(KEY)

    feature = pd.concat([gr[c].min(), gr[c].mean(), gr[c].max(),
                         gr[c].median(), gr[c].var()], axis=1)

  opportunity and achievement gaps and propel our children and our state to reach their full potential.”

- California School Boards Association President Dr. Emma Turner

###

CSBA is a nonprofit association representing nearly 1,000 PreK-12 school districts
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the left nipple, thinking it would hasten my time with her gorgeous breasts – there are only two of them after all – but I gathered my courage and went for it. I felt her nipple harden in my mouth as she let a loud moan when I bit down for the first time. Her hands in my hair, she guided me, pulling me closer to her body.

–Hey!

She startled me, pulling me from my arduous task. If she had spoken up before, I don’t think I would have heard her, as engrossed as I was. My voice came out enraptured and vulnerable, simply saying ‘what?’ gave away how much of a poor victim of arousal I’d become.

–Let’s go upstairs. It’s my turn to play with your ass.

She whisperedlongtime Knicks forward, was arrested after he was involved in an altercation near the courtside floor seats where owner James Dolan was sitting.

Oakley's arrest might take some of the attention off Jackson, who has -- directly or indirectly -- delivered several critiques of Anthony this season. He and the Knicks have also shopped Anthony to other teams in trade talks. The Knicks have reached out to the Cavaliers, but Cleveland has rebuffed the Knicks' request of Kevin Love in a trade, sources told ESPN's Marc Stein and Chris Haynes.

The Knicks have also discussed potential Anthony deals with the Clippers and Boston Celtics, sources told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne and Stein.

Hornacek has acknowledged that the trade talks were initially a bit of a distraction to players. He said Wednesday that


Jackson's tweet was another distraction but said he didn't believe it sidetracked the Knicks, who are now 22-32.

"I'm kind of like these guys on our team. Everything that gets out there, you're going, 'OK, whatever.' Hopefully it's not a distraction for our guys and our focus is on the games and what we need to do at practice," Hornacek said. "We came in this morning. There really wasn't much talk about it at all, I think, from the guys. This morning, they were focused on the game, and that's really what we're trying to aim at. We got to get back and win some games.

"Stuff that comes out with Phil and Carmelo, Carmelo handles it great. He's handled it great the whole year. When he gets out onbehavior. Critically, the decisions in the task are not hypothetical, but rather have real consequences for both interaction partners and thus share an important quality with control-averse behavior outside the laboratory. This setup allowed us to not only measure control-averse behavior in an ecologically valid fashion, but also to investigate the neural responses during the actual decision-making process. We found that a neural mechanism involving parietal and prefrontal brain regions complements and partially mediates self-reported social cognition in explaining individual differences in control-averse behavior.

![Control aversion task. For every trial, the subject is presented with the decision from a new player A and the available generosity levels. Each generosity level represents an allocation of monetary units between the player A (top value) and the subject (bottom value). In the


this study. Students of economics, psychology, and social sciences were excluded from participation to reduce the possibility of prior knowledge of the concept of control aversion. All participants were right-handed, nonsmokers, and reported no history of psychological disorders or neurological or cardiovascular diseases. After data acquisition, 10 participants were excluded due to excessive movements during fMRI scan (\>5 mm in translation or \>5 degrees in rotation), noncompliance to instructions, or technical problems. The remaining 51 participants (23 female; mean age 22 ± 3 SD years) were included in the analysis. All participants received a compensation of CHF 50 (≈50 USD) for participation in the study in addition to the payoff from the control aversion task described in the next section. The study was approved by the Bern CantonalEthics Commission and all participants gave informed, written consent.

### Experimental design

#### Control aversion task.

The control aversion task (see [Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}) is designed to confront subjects with real restrictions of their freedom of choice by another person and is based on previous work in behavioral economics ([@B18]; [@B33]). The gist of the task is that the subject is asked to allocate money between herself and another person, called player A. However, before the subject makes a decision, player A can decide to let the subject choose freely (free condition) or request a minimum amount of money (controlled condition).

For the purpose of this study, subjects were presented with 16 anonymous other persons\' (players A\'s) decisions from a pilot study in random order. The small number of trials was chosen to


this end, we computed and compared a series of generalized linear models. As predictors, we focused on the self-reported variables that showed a significant correlation with control-averse behavior ([Fig. 3](#F3){ref-type="fig"}). To reduce multicollinearity among the predictors, we applied principal component analyses and computed the new variables social cognition and negative affect. The normalized ratings of the item freedom restoration served as a third predictor. Model comparisons revealed that, based on the self-report data, the following model had the best model fit ([Fig. 4](#F4){ref-type="fig"}, [Table 2](#T2){ref-type="table"}): where *y*~i~ is the level of control-averse behavior for subject *i* and *SocialCognition* is the first principal component of the normalized ratings of the items perceived distrust and the reversed item understanding. This model performed better in predicting individual control-averse behavior than anyexplain what he meant. He told me he was not sure whether he was like Noah who rescued a small number of people, or Moses who rescued a whole nation. I asked if he believed he deserved to be punished for killing his first wife. He said ‘I didn’t go back that far’, paused, then said, ‘and the other guy, Trevor’.

“He said: ‘I include the two murders in the billions, it’s all wrapped up in the one.’ He believes the System will set him up. He is not sure whether he has been set up already or not. He would not know, as information he gets is controlled. God is behind this System.”

On direct questioning Howell admitted to hearing a voice inside his head and that of his


to consider our problem in the disk $B_8$. We will show that the estimate of the maximal vanishing order of the solution $v$, Theorem \[thm:maximal vanishing order\], to the equation $$\label{eq11}
\operatorname{div}(A {\left| \nabla v \right|}^{p-2} \nabla v) = 0 \ \text{ in } \ B_8,$$ with $A\in W_{loc}^{1,\infty}(B_8)$, being a positive Lipschitz coefficient, is sufficient to establish Theorem \[thm:SUCP weighted p-la\]. As in the previous case ($p$-Laplace with a locally Lipschitz drift), we will reduce the original equation  to certain quasilinear Beltrami equation . Then the derivation of the estimate of the maximal vanishing order for $v$ will follow from the explicit representation of solutions of the Beltrami equation, the appropriate use of Caccioppoli’s inequality for the weighted $p$-Laplace equation, and the Hadamard’s three circles theorem for quasiregular\nabla v \right|}^p dx \leq \frac{C\|A\|_{L^p(B_8)}^{p}}{(\rho-r)^p} \|v\|_{L^{\infty}(B_{\rho})}^{p},$$ for $0<r<\rho<8$, where the positive constant $C$ depends only on $p$.

Let $\eta\in C_0^\infty(B_8)$ be a smooth cut-off function, i.e., $0\leq \eta\leq 1$ in $B_\rho$, $\eta\equiv 0$ in $B_8\backslash \overline{B_\rho}$, $\eta\equiv 1$ in $B_r$ and $|\nabla \eta|\leq \frac{4}{\rho-r}$ in $B_\rho\backslash \overline{B_r}$. Then $v\eta^p\in W^{1,p}_0(B_8)$ is an admissible test function and so $$\begin{aligned}
    \int_{B_8}\Big(\operatorname{div}\big(|\nabla v|^{p-2}\nabla v\big)+|\nabla v|^{p-2}A\cdot \nabla v\Big)v\eta^p dx=0.
    \end{aligned}$$ Integration by parts, we have $$\begin{aligned}
    -\int |\nabla v|^{p-2}\nabla v\cdot \big(\nabla v\eta^p+pv\eta^{p-1}\nabla \eta\big)dx+\int |\nabla v|^{p-2}A\cdot \nabla v v\eta^pdx=0.
    \end{aligned}$$ It follows $$\begin{aligned}
    \int |\nabla v|^p\eta^pdx&=-p\int v|\nabla v|^{p-2}\eta^{p-1}\nabla v\cdot \nabla \eta dx+\int |\nabla v|^{p-2}A\cdot \nabla v v\eta^pdx\\
    &=: I_1+I_2.
    \end{aligned}$$ By Hölder’s


C_0=9^mR^m$ in , we obtain

$$\begin{aligned}
    \|u\|_{L^{\infty}(B_{1}(z_0))}
    & = \|u_R\|_{L^{\infty}(B_r(0))} \\
    & \geq C_1(9^mR^m)^{-C_2}R^{-C_3\log (9^mR^m)} R^{-C_4\tilde{M}^2} \\
    & \geq \tilde{C}_1 e^{(-\tilde{C}_2(\log R)^2)}, \ \text{for}\ R\gg 1
    \end{aligned}$$

where $\tilde{C}_1$ depends on $m,p$ and $\tilde{C}_2$ depends on $m,p, \tilde{M}$.

SUCP for the weighted $p$-Laplace equation {#sec:weighted p laplace}
==========================================

In this section, we consider the weighted $p$-Laplace equation, $p\in(1,\infty)$, $$\label{weighted_pLalLipsc}
\operatorname{div}(\sigma {\left| \nabla u \right|}^{p-2} \nabla u) = 0 \ \text{ in } \ \Omega,$$ where $\sigma\in W_{loc}^{1,\infty}(\Omega)$ is a locally positive locally Lipschitz continuous function, i.e., $\sigma$ is locally Lipschitz and for each $K\subset\subset \Omega$, there exists a positive constant $c_K$ such that $\sigma>c_K$ in $K$.

The main idea of the proof relies on localising the problem on abacteria by non-ideal relays, which have all possible bi-stability ranges from a certain interval. Moreover, we allow a diffusion process over the interval of admissible bi-stability ranges. We assume that each bacterium can sporadically change its switching threshold in response to noise in the environment or some internal processes; also, a bacterium produces offsprings with different thresholds. Further, these random changes of the threshold are assumed to occur according to the Gaussian distribution. Hence, diffusion imitates random variations of the bi-stability range that diversify switching thresholds in bacteria. In sum, the evolution is defined by two factors: competition and diffusive (random) changes of the bi-stability range. The resulting model describes dynamics of populations by a reaction-diffusion system with non-ideal relays continuously distributed over an interval of bi-stability ranges;


organized as follows. In Section \[secModelDescription\], we introduce the model: a system of reaction-diffusion equations with spatially distributed relays, and recall the well-posedness property from [@2]. In Section \[secMainResults\], we formulate our main results: pattern formation on two different time scales, depending on the initial data. In Section \[secFundamSol\], we establish some properties of solutions of the heat equation with initial data close to the delta function. These properties play an essential role in Sections \[proof\] and \[proof2\], where we prove the two main results about pattern formation.

Model description {#secModelDescription}
=================

Model assumptions
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In this paper, we consider a class of models, which attempt to account for a number of phenomena listed above, namely (a) switching of bacteria between two phenotypes (states) in response to variations of environmental conditions; (b) hysteretic switching strategy (switching rules) associated withbi-stability of phenotype states; (c) heterogeneity of the population in the form of a distribution of switching thresholds; (d) bet-hedging in the form of diffusion between subpopulations characterized by different bi-stability ranges; and, (e) competition for nutrients. The resulting model is a reaction-diffusion system including, as reaction terms, discontinuous hysteresis relay operators and the integral of those. This integral can be interpreted as the Preisach operator [@SH] with a time dependent density (the density is a component of the solution describing the varying distribution of bacteria). The main objective of this paper is to prove that fitness, competition and diffusion can act together to select a nontrivial distribution of phenotypes (states) over the population of thresholds.

We assume that each of the two phenotypes, denoted by $1$ and $-1$,


Further, using , one can choose a sufficiently small $\varepsilon_*=\varepsilon_*(\tau_0,v_0)$ such that $$\label{equ2_2}
\exp\left({
\frac{v_0}{\mu}}\right)\varepsilon_0\le\dfrac{\varepsilon_1}{2},$$ provided that $\varepsilon\le\varepsilon_*$. Combining – yields .

\[lUclosePhi\] For any $N>0$ and $\varepsilon_2>0$, there are $\varepsilon_*=\varepsilon_*(N,v_0,\varepsilon_2)>0$ and $D_*=D_*(N,v_0,\varepsilon_2)>0$ such that $$\left\|\dfrac{U(\cdot,\tau/D)}{{{\underline U}}(\tau/D)} -
\Phi(\cdot,\tau)\right\|_{C[\underline{x},\overline{x}]}\le
 \varepsilon_2\quad \forall \tau\ge\tau_N-\chi_N,$$ where $\tau_N$ and $\chi_N$ are defined in Lemma \[lPhiinequalities\], provided that $D\in(0,D_*)$ and the initial data $u_0(x)$ satisfies  and  with $\varepsilon\in(0,\varepsilon_*)$.

Take $\tau_0$ in Lemma \[lsmallutau0D\] such that $\tau_0\le(\tau_N-\chi_N)/2$ and repeat the same line of argument as in the proof of Lemma \[lsmallutau0D\], but now for the time interval $[\tau_0/D,\infty)$ to obtain an analogue of estimates for $t\ge (\tau_N-\chi_N)/D$. The lower and upper solutions $\underline{u}_*$ and $\overline{u}_*$ in the inequalities $$\label{equ*u}
\underline{u}_*(x,t)\le u(x,t)\le \overline{u}_*(x,t),\qquad
x\in[\underline{x},\overline{x}],\ t\ge\tau_0/D,$$ are defined by the same problems (with the Neumann boundary conditions), but with the initial conditions $$\underline{u}_*|_{t=\tau_0/D}=\overline{u}_*|_{t=\tau_0/D}={u}|_{t=\tau_0/D}.$$ In particular, this implies that $$\label{estim}
\overline{u}_*(x,t)=can either stay (a [*steady*]{} front) or move right. That is, any $\bar x_j(t)$ is a non-decreasing function on the time interval of its existence. A front disappears if it hits another front or is hit by another front. A front is called [*immortal*]{} if it cannot disappear.

The definition of relays implies the following dynamics of fronts (equivalently, dynamics of the state $r=r(x,t)$ of the distributed relay operator ${\mathcal R}$) in response to variations of the input $w$. If at some moment $t$ the fronts create a partition $\underline{x}<\bar x_1(t)<\cdots< \bar x_{\bar N(t)-1}<\bar
x_{\bar N(t)}=\overline{x}$ of the segment $[\underline{x},\overline{x}]$ into alternating black and white intervals, then, necessarily, $|w(t)|\le \bar x_1(t)$. The fronts $\bar x_2,\ldots,\bar x_{\bar N(t)}$ cannot move, they are steady; the most left front $\bar x_1(t)$ can move only


decreases in $x$.

Now two cases are possible.

In the first case, the interval $[x_i,x_{i+1})$ contains at least one front at the moment $\theta_i=(\tau_i-\chi_i)/D$. Consider the most right front $F$ in this interval. We claim that the front $F$ is immortal. Indeed, $F$ cannot hit a front located to the right of it because all the fronts to the right belong to $[x_{i+1},{{\overline x}})$ and are immortal by the above argument. Suppose, at some moment $t\ge \theta_i$, the front $F$ is hit by another front from the left. Then, at the collision moment, we have $\bar
x_1(t+)\ge x_{i+1}$ again. Hence, by Lemma \[lfla\], inequality  should be valid. However, contradicts because $U$ decreases in $x$.

In the second case, the interval $[x_i,x_{i+1})$ contains no fronts at the moment $\theta_i=(\tau_i-\chi_i)/D$. Hence, all the points of thisJ Bacteriol 78: 613-623.

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to be identically distributed with the old one. That is, $X_1 \stackrel{d}{=}(X_1+X_2)/\sqrt{2}$. [*Polya Theorem says that in this situation $X_1$ has normal (or degenerate) distribution with zero mean*]{}.

From Polya Theorem we obtain Maxwell distribution for velocities of gas molecules basing on two natural properties of the space as isotropy and homogeneity only. [**Are there any models leading in a natural way to heavy-tailed distributions?**]{}

Let us show, that strictly stable distributions may be also described by a clear physical property. [**Let us explain this by an example taken from mobile telephoning**]{}: Suppose that we have a base station. And suppose that there is a Poisson ensemble of points (Poisson field), the locations of mobile phones. Each phone produces a random signal $Y_k$. It is known that the signal depressioncan happen a change of output or of the market conditions which makes further investment of capital in the business impossible. We assume that the time till the appearance of the unfavorable event is random variable $\nu_p$, $p=1/{{\rm I}\kern-0.18em{\rm E}}\nu_p$. The sum of capital to the moment of this event equals to $\prod_{j=1}^{\nu_p}X_j$. And the mean time to the appearance of the unfavorable event is ${{\rm I}\kern-0.18em{\rm E}}\nu_p = 1/p$. Therefore “mean annual sum of capital" is $$Z_p = \Bigl(\prod_{j=1}^{\nu_p}X_j\Bigr)^p.$$ The smaller is the value of $p>0$ the rarely is the unfavorable event. If $p$ is small enough, we may approximate the distribution of $Z_p$ by its limit distribution for $p \to 0$. To find this distribution it is possible to pass from $X_j$ to $Y_j = \log


for success that he told his team a couple months ago they finally must win.

“He’s right. Bottom line, that’s what this game is about,” Garoppolo said. “It’s about production, getting wins, playing good football on the field. It’s that time of year again. I can’t wait.”

Garoppolo and his teammates, not just those coming off injuries, will be eased into action this camp, due in part to two injury-plagued seasons and the implementation of a new medical and training staff.

As for whether to risk Garoppolo in the exhibitions, the 49ers need only look to former Rams quarterback Sam Bradford, who tore his left ACL in 2013 and did it again in the 2014 exhibition season.

McKINNON’S STATUS: McKinnon did not require a follow-up procedure, and the running back-stocked 49ers areprocedure so as not to raise any constitutional questions on how the proceedings are handled, the sources said. The Constitution bans the Emperor from being involved in political affairs.

Under the 1979 Era Name Act, a new era’s name must be stipulated in a government decree.

In determining what the next era will be called, the government will follow the same procedure used in 1989 to decided the Heisei era, according to the sources.

The new name will be adopted at a Cabinet meeting April 1 this year after it is selected. The government will obtain opinions from experts and the heads of both chambers of the Diet to make its decision.

The selection process will not involve the current or the new Emperor. At the time of the 1989 name change


The major-league team pays the players and coaching staff and oversees all player development, while the minor-league team runs daily operations, such as tickets sales and concessions.

The LumberKings — who are in low Class-A, the lowest level of full-season professional baseball and four steps below the big leagues — are one of the few community-owned franchises left in minor-league baseball, and they have operated that way since 1937. They are a for-profit corporation, but general manager Ted Tornow says they have never paid dividends to their 1,000-odd shareholders. “Any profits have gone back into the team or the facilities,” he declares.

Monthly minor-league salaries range from $1,100 in rookie leagues to $2,150 at the Triple-A level. All players receive one-time signing bonuses, which range dramatically, from more than $1who spent a full season with the LumberKings in 2010, chronicling the year in his book Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere.

The players also embrace an image of themselves as heroic underdogs, Mann says. “Even the word dream, right? These general terms do a really good job of whitewashing everything else.”

Roughly 10 per cent of the 6,000 active minor-league players will get a sniff of the big leagues. So only two, maybe three, of the 25 players currently on the LumberKings’ roster will get a chance to earn major-league money.

But LumberKings manager Steinmann waves away the long odds. “If you’ve got a uniform, you’ve got a chance,” he says.

He’s not wrong. Mark Buehrle, the Blue Jays’ veteran left-hander, was a 38th-round draft pick. He has earned


much as they can in their off-season jobs, which range from giving baseball clinics to pumping gas to selling shoes.

To a man, the players say they wouldn’t trade their experience. They relish the competition and the camaraderie. The time between the lines, under the lights, is intoxicating.

“I have a lot of bills to pay and an apartment back home with my fiancée that I still pay for, and I barely get by,” says reliever Aaron Brooks, who sends her $200 from every paycheque. “But it’s way better than going home and working in McDonald’s or something. They may be making more money, but they’re not enjoying it.”

Aaron Brooks, a right-handed reliever for the Clinton LumberKings Class-A minor-league team, works at a shoe store in the offseason. (Brendan Kennedy/Torontodreamed about doing it.”

Dickey, who made $850 in his first minor-league season, worked a multitude of off-season jobs, from menial warehouse work to landscaping to working at a bookstore.

While he enjoyed his experience in general, Dickey says, he wishes there had been some type of union protection for when the Texas Rangers pulled back their initial signing-bonus offer of $800,000 and reduced it to $75,000 when team doctors found he did not have an ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow.

“Outside of that I kind of just accepted my surroundings. As a 21-year-old kid, whatever they were, they were. I didn’t really know the difference. When you don’t have something to compare it to, it’s hard to know if it’s unsuitable working conditions or not.”

FEAR OF BEING BLACKBALLED

The minor-league


in 2012. Miller, a former executive director of the big-league players’ union who negotiated baseball’s first collective bargaining agreement in 1968, said the fear of being blackballed had long deterred any organizing by minor leaguers.

By contrast, baseball’s minor-league peers in professional hockey have been unionized for nearly 50 years. In 1967, Mark Messier’s father, Doug, hired a lawyer and rallied his Portland Buckaroo teammates to fight for higher salaries and better health care. From there, the Professional Hockey Players’ Association was born and the union now represents 1,600 players in the American Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League and the Central Hockey League.

The difference in salary compared to their baseball counterparts is stark.

In the AHL, which is one step below the NHL, the minimum salary is $45,000, whileinclude Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Cable broadband, Wireless broadband like GSM, WIMAX, CDMA and Wi-Fi, Symmetric broadband (SDSL) and Satellite broadband via Communications Satellite on varying bands including Ku, C and most recently higher spectral frequencies like Ka-band and beyond.

According to the NIGCOMSAT boss, Africa remains the least wired continent in the world today “in terms of robust telecommunications infrastructure and systems to cater for its nearly one billion population”. This underscores the reason for high demand in the form of communication satellites and variants of terrestrial wireless systems more than in any other continent for the sole purpose of bridging its digital hiatus, complementing the group of inadequate terrestrial ICT infrastructure in the rural areas, swampy and landlocked terrains thus playing a


serve as conduit to improve access links but sadly NigComSat-1R is today grossly underutilised.

The effect is that huge capacity of cable broadband is left at the shores thereby encouraging capital flight which is put at $450m yearly spent on bandwidth purchase from abroad.

Ahmed-Rufai emphasized that Communications Satellite is the answer as a “low hanging fruit” to meet short and medium term plans of the National Broadband Plan, because “if we must optimize access to information and guarantee universal access in the short and medium term to all citizens, including those in the remote areas then communication satellite should remain within the framework of our ICT policy and broadband implementation to complement existing but inadequate terrestrial infrastructure as well as strategic national and continental telecommunication infrastructure during natural disastersare frequently used for readback operations. However, write caching is often avoided because of the likelihood of lost data. For example, if there is a system crash or power failure prior to writing the data onto the disc surface and while the data is stored in the cache, the data can be lost or the disc data structure otherwise corrupted.
A number of techniques have been developed in which the host computer is responsible for write caching. Some such techniques include the use of non-volatile memory (NVRAM). For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,363,355, entitled CD-ROM DISC REPRODUCING APPARATUS WITH CLIPPING MEMORY, issued Nov. 8, 1994; U.S. Pat. No. 5,448,719, entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING AND RETRIEVING LIVE DATA IN A POSTED WRITE CACHE IN CASE OF POWER FAILURE,


2,744 homeless students in 2017.

Singles are staying shorter periods in shelter with an average length of stay of 89 days and family length of stay has increased to 63 days.

There has been an increase to crisis levels in family homelessness to 2,154 in 2017. This is a 24% increase since 2015.

According to the Office of Homeless Services, the number of people in shelters has increased from 4,576 to 4,698 in 2017

While Cuyahoga County has lost 444 beds of shelter over the last decade, we have seen an increase in Permanent Supportive Housing to 781 units. We have seen steady decrease in the number of veterans and the number of long term homeless living in Cleveland. Yet, every shelter in the city is full to capacity every night andwho are newly homeless, screened 5,385 people. Two years ago, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District reported over 4,000 homeless students. Homelessness is a pervasive and serious issue affecting many people in our city.

]]>Hear for the Homeless: Benefit concert for NEOCHCleveland.com Editorial: Voting rights for homeless part of Supreme Court voter-purge case from OhioChris KnestrickSat, 13 Jan 2018 13:54:27 +0000https://www.neoch.org/cleveland-homeless-blog/2018/1/13/clevelandcom-editorial-voting-rights-for-homeless-part-of-supreme-court-voter-purge-case-from-ohio59e6491b9f8dce817446bdc6:59e656f8365ffabcd1847acd:5a5a0f9924a6949edb7e64c2This editorial, by Director Chris Knestrick, was published on Cleveland.com on the day of the Voter Purge case at the US Supreme Court. NEOCH was one of the plaintiffs in the case.

Men of the Lakeside Avenue homeless shelter in Cleveland are assigned sleeping bunks and mats in this 2002 file photo. The rights of the homeless in Ohio to stay on the voting rolls even without a fixed address, other


were purged from the voting rolls. Therefore, speaking out against the practices challenged in the Husted lawsuit - in which NEOCH is a plaintiff - is a necessary piece of our mission and work to ensure long-term success and prevent those struggling with housing from feeling disempowered in our democratic system.

Ohio's county boards of elections used a "supplemental process," under the direction of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, that, for example, unfairly purged hundreds of thousands of otherwise eligible voters in 2015 from the Ohio voter rolls who had not voted in an election since 2008. More than 40,000 citizens were removed in Cuyahoga County alone.

Furthermore, voters were notified by mail and those who did not affirmatively respond triggered the process, which could lead to their ultimate+0000https://www.neoch.org/cleveland-homeless-blog/2018/1/3/neochs-lawsuit-will-be-heard-in-the-us-supreme-court-on-january-10th-201859e6491b9f8dce817446bdc6:59e656f8365ffabcd1847acd:5a4d168e085229be307ba400Ohio’s Supplemental Process targets voters who fail to vote in a two-year period for eventual removal from the voter roll based on the presumption that such voters have moved. As a direct result of this process, countless voters who remain fully eligible to vote are stripped from the registration rolls and denied their fundamental right to vote.

Last year, NEOCH along with the Ohio APRI, and Ohio resident Larry Harmon sued the Ohio Secretary of State, alleging that the Supplemental Process violated federal law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down Ohio’s controversial purge of infrequent voters, finding that Ohio’s Supplemental Process violates the National Voter Registration Act’s prohibition on removing voters from the rolls by reason of a voter’s failure to vote.

We filed this


ultimately allowed more than 7,500 Ohio voters to cast a ballot. All of these were eligible voters who would have been denied their right to vote under Ohio’s unlawful process, if the Sixth Circuit had not enjoined Ohio’s improper practices.

In February 2017, Secretary Husted requested that the Supreme Court review and overturn the Sixth Circuit’s decision. The Court agreed to hear the case in May and set oral argument for January 10th.

Here is a great video from the ACLU.

]]>Rest in Peace Buzzy. Chris KnestrickThu, 28 Dec 2017 21:42:28 +0000https://www.neoch.org/cleveland-homeless-blog/2017/12/28/rest-in-peace-buzzy59e6491b9f8dce817446bdc6:59e656f8365ffabcd1847acd:5a455f5ff9619ae047a342c3The Street Vendors community lost one of our own this weekend. Melvin “Buzzy” Bryant passed away quietly in his sleep over the Christmas Holiday. He sold the Cleveland Street newspaper for around 20 years and in doing so touched manyand her 3-year-old daughter's "daily routine". They leave City Mission gym before it closes at 7am, carrying all their belongings with them. Then, they get shuttled to Cosgrove Center where she must wait outside on the street with her 3-year-old child and belongings till its 8am opening time. After eating breakfast and lunch there, she leaves Cosgrove Center at its 2:30 closing time. Having nowhere to go at that point, she takes takes her child to the beach or library till 7pm when the City Mission opens again. Then, she falls asleep with countless other families on the gym floor of City Mission and attempts to sleep till the next morning.

In the absence of a stable shelter situation, families must expend a great deal of energy to simply


deny that there is a crisis is irresponsible, as the lack of further solutions to address this community crisis will continue to hurt the women and children who need support in a time of their individual crisis.

By Vishal Reddy

Posts reflect the opinion of those who sign the entry.

]]>Family Homelessness Crisis Needs to be AddressedNEOCH's Voter Purge Case goes to the US Supreme Court. Chris KnestrickTue, 19 Sep 2017 15:20:04 +0000https://www.neoch.org/cleveland-homeless-blog/2017/9/19/neochs-voter-purge-case-goes-to-the-us-supreme-court.html59e6491b9f8dce817446bdc6:59e656f8365ffabcd1847acd:59e656f9365ffabcd1847f15In a press release on September 18th 2017, Demos and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) annouced that they will take NEOCH's purge case to the US Supreme Court.

They "filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court detailing how Ohio is violating the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by targeting registered voters who fail to vote in a two-year periodviolation of federal law and jeopardizes our democratic process.

Here is a quick fact sheet about the Husted v. APRI

Ohio’s Attempt to Purge Our Democracy

Ohio election officials use a controversial procedure to target voters for removal from the registration rolls based on their failure to vote “frequently” enough – a procedure known as the “Supplemental Process.” Under this process, Ohio counties initiate a removal procedure targeted at any voter who has failed to vote in a two-year period. Ohio assumes that anyone who has not voted in a two-year period must have become ineligible to vote by reason of a change in residence. Based on that questionable assumption, Ohio targets these voters with a mailing requiring them to confirm that they are still eligible to vote. If the voter


of the voting registry is important and necessary, but that is not what Ohio’s Supplemental Process does. Ohio’s voter purge practices are based on false assumptions and result in the indiscriminate removal of far too many eligible voters.

At a time when there are approximately 50 million eligible citizens not registered to vote, it is critical that the Supreme Court strike down Ohio’s illegal process and ensure that other states across the country do not follow Ohio’s example to unlawfully remove eligible voters from the rolls and deny them their constitutional right to vote.

]]>We add our voice to the concerns raised by The City Mission about the Family Homeless CrisisChris KnestrickSat, 09 Sep 2017 14:04:41 +0000https://www.neoch.org/cleveland-homeless-blog/2017/9/9/we-add-our-voice-to-the-concerns-raised-by-the-city-mission.html59e6491b9f8dce817446bdc6:59e656f8365ffabcd1847acd:59e656f9365ffabcd1847f14As of today, families have not been forced to sleep in the street.
However, therethe members were being rude to her. No one was purposefully rude to her but, being the bearer of bad news, as far as they were concerned, she did not like their response and seemed to take it personally. It was not any member or participants intention of disrespecting anyone at the meeting, but we would like to extend an apology to her if she felt that it was.

She was attending the meeting to keep the Homeless Congress up to date on the status of the Rapid Re-Housing Program and the Shelter Policies that would be put into place soon. She also got input from the members for both projects. She informed everyone, at the July meeting, that the Shelter Policies would be voted on by the Office


applied, a variable proportion of TIN cases with IgG4-positive plasma cells may be categorized into SLE or other autoimmune diseases \[[@b10-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. However, clinical distinction between IgG4-TIN and lupus TIN is not always simple. Signs of SLE may appear late and may not fulfill the diagnostic criteria at the time of biopsy \[[@b38-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. Clinical and laboratory features which frequently present in IgG4-RD may also be present in SLE patients \[[@b36-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. Serum gammaglobulin \[[@b35-jptm-2015-11-09]\] may be elevated. Serum IgG4 levels were elevated in 10.8% of SLE patients \[[@b24-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. Retroperitoneal fibrosis may be present \[[@b39-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. A response to steroid treatment is also good in predominant lupus TIN \[[@b35-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. Kiyama *et al*. \[[@b40-jptm-2015-11-09]\] reported ANA subclasses in SLE and IgG4-RD, demonstrating IgG1, 2, or 3 subclasses in SLE and predominantly IgG2 inintroduced in previous sections \[[@b24-jptm-2015-11-09],[@b45-jptm-2015-11-09],[@b47-jptm-2015-11-09],[@b53-jptm-2015-11-09]\], and summarized in [Table 2](#t2-jptm-2015-11-09){ref-type="table"}. These overlapping features may partly have roots in autoimmune mechanisms. IgG4-RD demonstrates immunologic derangement in cytokine profiles and activation of regulatory T cells \[[@b2-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. Practically, the overlap causes dilemma and difficulties in diagnosis. Even though each disease accompanies unique histological features, confirmatory diagnosis is made by the diagnostic criteria of each disease. The ACR and SLICC criteria for SLE have been well established and used, but they have been modified by consensus among the experts, statistical results, and pathogenetic mechanisms \[[@b61-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. Sjögren syndrome also has complex diagnostic criteria incorporating clinical features and histological findings. As mentioned previously, the diagnostic criteria of IgG4-RD are also composed of a combination of histological, clinical, imaging, and laboratory features. Furthermore, these complex


subclass staining, which demonstrated strong IgG2 staining in lupus but not in IgG4-RD. However, it has not been verified in other studies \[[@b15-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. IgG3 staining intensity similar to or exceeding that of IgG4 \[[@b71-jptm-2015-11-09]\] or IgG2 \[[@b72-jptm-2015-11-09]\] was reported in membranous lupus nephritis, but its comparison with that in IgG4-RD has not been done. Similar to TIN, distinction between membranous nephropathy associated with IgG4-RD and lupus membranous nephritis could not be made with certainty in a few cases. In a recent report of a case of membranous nephropathy, clinical features of both SLE and IgG4-RD were present \[[@b69-jptm-2015-11-09]\]. Features suggestive of SLE were vitiligo, elevated ESR and CRP, hypocomplementemia, positive ANA and weakly positive anti-dsDNA antibody and atypical pANCA, while increased serum IgG4 levels, sialadenitis, lymphadenopathy, large kidneys,more than 21-month-long trade battle. A Chinese delegation is expected to arrive in Washington on Jan. 13 with a signing scheduled to take place two days later at the White House. Trump has said a comprehensive deal could be done in two or three parts.

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recording layer in order to prevent the substrate from being deformed due to heat produced on recording/erasing, to prevent the recording layer from being oxidized, and/or to prevent the substances from moving along the guide grooves or from being deformed.
Optical disks having a three- or four-layered structure which includes a recording layer of a chalcogen alloy, a dielectric layer provided directly under and/or above the recording layer, a reflective layer which also acts as a cooling layer (for example, Al-alloy) provided on an opposite side of a transparent substrate from the recording layer, provided on the substrate, are the mainstream of the phase change optical disks because they are preferable in terms of the recording/erasing characteristics.
In general phase change optical disks, when the recording layer is irradiated withresult, by performing the initialization process, the manufacturing cost of the optical disks is increased.
In order to reduce the time required for the initialization process, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication Hei No. 5-342629 discloses providing an auxiliary layer of an easily crystallizable continuous film or discontinuous island-like film adjacent to the recording layer. As the components of the auxiliary layer, compounds are named which include tellurium (Te), Selenium (Se) or Texe2x80x94Se compounds.
However, according to this method, the time required for initializing the recording layer is reduced, but the initialization process cannot be eliminated as a rule, excluding the case where both of the auxiliary layer and the recording layer are comprised of extremely easily crystal-growing substances.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an


on one side of a substrate a recording layer whose main components comprise germanium (Ge), antimony (Sb) and tellurium (Te), comprising the steps of forming on one side of a substrate a crystallization assisting layer of a tellurium (Te)-free material having a crystal structure of a rhombohedral lattice system, and forming a recording layer directly over the crystallization assisting layer. According to this method, the recording layer becomes crystallized immediately after its formation.
In the present invention, the absolute value of a lattice unconformity between the crystal structure of the crystallization assisting layer and that of the recording layer is preferably not more than 8%. The lattice unconformity is represented by:
Lattice unconformity (%)=((Bxe2x88x92A)/A)xc3x97100xe2x80x83xe2x80x83(a)
A: When the recording layer is of a face-centered cubic lattice system crystal, an atomic interval insubstrate or the crystallization assisting layer which underlies the recording layer immediately before the formation of the recording layer to thereby maintain the substrate at high temperature; (2) starting to heat the substrate or the crystallization assisting layer after the formation of the recording layer has started and continuing to heat the substrate or the crystallization assisting layer during the formation of the recording layer; (3) starting to heat the substrate or the layer surface of the recording layer immediately after the recording layer has been formed; and (4) starting to form the recording layer immediately after the preceding layer has been formed, using the heat produced by the formation of the preceding layer and stored within the substrate.
The heating methods include irradiating a surface of the layer


6373325, 5*b - 21500002 = 2*t. What is b rounded to the nearest 1000000?
4000000
Let a = -2663 + 1559. Let x = a - -2794. Let y = -4190 + x. What is y rounded to the nearest 1000?
-3000
Let z = 162.9917 - 163. Round z to three dps.
-0.008
Let n be 17207 - (0/(-2) - 1). Suppose -2*c - q = n + 6595, q = 4*c + 47597. Round c to the nearest 1000.
-12000
Let p = 611 - 618.07. Let j = -0.47 - p. Round j to the nearest integer.
7
Let u be (1*-1)/(2/(-12)). Suppose -15000 = -5*q + u*q. What is q rounded to the nearest 10000?
-20000
Let a = -33 + 32.83. Let n = a - -0.16999965. What is n rounded to seven decimal places?
-0.0000004
LetLet o = g + -0.064. Round o to four decimal places.
-0.001
Let l = 0.02 - 0.0199984. Round l to six decimal places.
0.000002
Let x be 3 + -5 - -57*1. Suppose 0 = -4*y + 3*z - x, -3 = -z + 2. What is y rounded to the nearest 100?
0
Let a = 1.1 - 1.0989. What is a rounded to three decimal places?
0.001
Let s(j) = j**2 - 7*j - 13. Let t be s(9). Suppose 1335092 = t*m - 1914908. What is m rounded to the nearest 100000?
700000
Suppose -4126 = -3*x + 824. Suppose -l = -4*l + x. Round l to the nearest 100.
600
Let s = -0.4203 - -4.3339. Let h = -3.9 + s. What is h rounded to three decimal places?
0.014
Let z = -0.0749973


-i. Let b = 7 + i. Suppose -b*u = 862 + 278. Round u to the nearest 100.
-400
Let y(g) = -g**2 - 2*g + 3. Suppose -4*v = 14 + 2, -17 = -n + 5*v. Let s be y(n). Suppose 2*d + 128 = -s*d. What is d rounded to the nearest ten?
-60
Let x = 968 - -32. What is x rounded to the nearest 1000?
1000
Suppose -6 = 4*u + 3*j, 2*j + 6 - 2 = -u. Suppose -s + 4 + 0 = u. Suppose -s*d - 457685 + 121685 = 0. What is d rounded to the nearest ten thousand?
-80000
Let y = -199 - -310. What is y rounded to the nearest ten?
110
Let j = -0.017 - 0.01. Let x = -46.973 +dps?
0.0009
Let a be (-16)/1*3889 - -3. Let q = -56779 + a. Round q to the nearest ten thousand.
-120000
Let f = 233528197 - 233528117.9999934. Let l = 79 - f. Round l to 6 dps.
-0.000007
Let z = -4959704 + 9011317. Let w = -4051612.96899971 + z. Let


amazing thing is that nature suddenly smiled."

The gene worked beautifully in bacteria, worms and lots of other creatures. Under ultraviolet light, it made proteins in the cell glow a ghostly shade of green. Thousands of researchers worldwide now use it to track proteins; they can watch cancer cells or viruses multiply and spread.

Tsien, Chalfie and Shimomura all got telephone calls from the Swedish Academy of Sciences early this morning.

Chalfie says he slept through his call. At a news conference later, he explained that he'd accidentally set his phone to ring very softly. When he got out of bed, though, he remembered it was the day the Nobel Prize in chemistry was to be announced.

"So I decided to find out who the schnook was that won it this year,this matter is there any information remotely constituting evidence that the House of Representatives, while in session, has been some sort of a forum for the expression and communication of ideas by persons who are not elected members of that body." (Id. at 4, emphasis added.) Finally, defendants say that if such lobbying did take place on the floor of the House while the House was in session prior to 1993, it occurred without the knowledge and acquiescence of the former Speakers of the House. (Id. at 4.)
Despite these disagreements between plaintiffs and defendants as to what sorts of activities lobbyists properly engaged in under the pre-1993 House rules, neither plaintiffs nor defendants dispute the fact that all lobbyists, whether representing private or governmental organizations, could be present


on the amendment. In sum, the evidence in this case indicates that the application of Rule 45 so as to admit members of the public, but not "lobbyists" to the floor of the House fails to leave open ample alternative means of communication for the lobbyists.
Having found that Rule 45 does not leave open to plaintiffs ample alternative means of communication, this Court finds the rule to be an improper regulation of the time, place, and manner of expressive activity. I therefore need not address the other two requirements of a time, place, and manner regulation in a limited public forum, namely, whether the rule is content neutral and whether it is narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest.
In addition to the exclusion of all "lobbyists" pursuantby the testimony of Edith Ajello, describing the activities of Ann Quinterno, a lobbyist representing the Mayor of Providence. Representative Ajello testified that Ms. Quinterno was on the floor of the House every day during the 1994 legislative session, and described an episode when she saw Ms. Quinterno on the floor of the House with a telephone:

A. I did see her with a telephone.
Q. What, if anything, did you observe her doing with that telephone?
A. I observed her appearing to be listening to a conversation on the phone. I observed her hand that telephone to other members of the House.
Q. When you say members of the House, you mean legislators?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you observe what those legislators did when they took the phone from her?
A. They appeared to


specify the nature of the cargo.

Russia has kept a constant presence in the eastern Mediterranean during the Syrian crisis.

In recent days Russia has made steps to beef up its naval grouping in the region.

The Russian destroyer Smetlivy will soon join the group in the region as well as the destroyer Nastoichivy, Interfax has said.

The anti-submarine ship Admiral Panteleyev has already entered its zone of operation as the flagship of the current rotation of the Mediterranean grouping, a military source has told the news agency.

Already in place in the eastern Mediterranean are the frigate Neustrashimy, as well as the landing ships Alexander Shabalin, the Admiral Nevelsky and the Peresvet.

They are expected to be joined by the large landing ships Novocherkassk and Minsk and the missile cruiser Moskva. The reconnaissanceon arsenic removal because of the competitive adsorption. The negative influence of HA was more pronounced at low coagulant dosages. PO4(3-) and F(-) showed marked influence during arsenic removal, but there was no obvious influence when SiO3(2-), CO3(2-) and SO4(2-) coexisted. The present study would be helpful to direct arsenic removal by enhanced coagulation during the drinking water treatment.


Sequential energy transfer followed by electron transfer in a BODIPY-bisstyrylBODIPY bound to C60 triad via a 'two-point' binding strategy.
Excitation transfer from 1BODIPY* to bisstyrylBODIPY followed by electron transfer to C60 leading to a charge separated state of appreciable lifetime in a supramolecularly assembled triad is demonstrated, as a mimic of the photosynthetic 'antenna-reaction centre'.Activity

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I received my email for the exclusive RWBY Vol. 1 Theatrical poster for the Tugg screening about a week ago. When I went to the store to buy it, I tried logging in to use my sponsorship. I could not log in on the desktop, mobile website, or iphone app. I figured it was a bug and would be addressed soon. But it's been a week or more so and the issue still isn't fixed. I can't log in to my RT account, thus can't access my sponsorship discount or the sponsor only merchandise.

I tired filling out a Customer Service form but there's no send button!

The first Rooster Teeth video I ever watched was Halo Reach Fails of the Week. Though this was before I understood the internet,


all laughed with her pretty hard once the relief set in…”

At health clubs, pear-shaped people in their 40’s and 50’s obsessively lift

weights, trying for those defined muscles that, even in youth, come only to those with a certain genetic predisposition. But by middle age, the overweight tend to stay that way, and the body has a harder time increasing muscle mass. So even the greatest personal trainer will not produce rippling abs. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/weekinreview/17kola.html

Reader Karen Sanford writes: A very dear and very ignorant male friend remarked to me, “Women don’t get as muscular as men because they don’t work out as hard. If they did, they would be just as big and muscular.” My husband butted in and said, “If that were true, she would be as big asIntroduction
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A fetal cardiac evaluation is composed of two stages: an anatomic evaluation, in which the presence or absence of congenital heart disease (CHD) is detected by means of the sequential segmental analysis of structures, and a study of cardiac function, in which the effective contraction and relaxation of the myocardial fibers, their capacity to maintain fetal cardiac output (CO), and heart rate and rhythm are evaluated.

Currently, the procedure for anatomical evaluations of the fetal heart is well established and routinely performed by specialists in fetal cardiology. However, there is still no consensus on the technique to be used in the evaluation of cardiac function, despite its unquestionable importance \[[@b1-usg-18065],[@b2-usg-18065]\]. There are some difficulties in determining the most appropriate method capable of detecting early fetal cardiac dysfunction, which is


comprises a period of systole and diastole. With regard to fetal cardiac function, it is necessary to determine the quality of systolic and diastolic function, as well as which ventricle is more important for maintaining a good hemodynamic status in the fetus, bearing in mind that the right ventricle shows some dominance in relation to CO.

Evaluation of Systolic Function in the Fetal Heart
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Systolic function in the fetal heart can be evaluated primarily through the ejection fraction (EF), shortening fraction, CO, cardiac volume, maximal displacement of the valve ring (tricuspid or mitral), myocardial performance index (MPI), and parameters derived from cardiac strain \[[@b3-usg-18065],[@b5-usg-18065]\]. Systolic evaluation of the fetal heart can be performed using 1- (M-mode), 2- (2D), and 3-dimensional (3D) techniques.

EF and Shortening Fraction
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The EF and shortening fraction aredirection of the lateral portion of the valvar ring. The M-mode trace demonstrates the excursion movement of the ring during the cardiac cycle, and this distance is the displacement of the annulus. This parameter can be assessed for both the left ventricle and the right ventricle through measurements of the mitral annular plane systolic excursion (MAPSE) and the tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion, respectively ([Fig. 4](#f4-usg-18065){ref-type="fig"}) \[[@b12-usg-18065]\].

The evaluation of longitudinal systolic cardiac function through the MAPSE in adults demonstrated a good correlation with scintigraphy. However, these measures may be underestimated or overestimated, because they are 1-dimensional measurements that are dependent on the position of the transducer \[[@b13-usg-18065],[@b14-usg-18065]\].

Care should be taken regarding values of maximum displacement of the valvar ring, as there is already an estimated normal value in


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Isovolumetric Relaxation Time
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The isovolumetric relaxation time (IVRT) of the left ventricle corresponds to the initial period of diastole. This measurement can be obtained through pulsed Doppler ([Fig. 8](#f8-usg-18065){ref-type="fig"}) or tissue Doppler ([Fig. 9](#f9-usg-18065){ref-type="fig"}), with the sample positioned between the outflow and inflow \[[@b3-usg-18065]\]. The basic idea of this measurement is to record the time between the closing of the MV outlet and the opening of the atrioventricular valve. Diastolic dysfunction may be present when the IVRT is abnormally high \[[@b4-usg-18065],[@b19-usg-18065]\].

Tissue Doppler measures the velocity of myocardial fiber movement. The sample volume can be positioned in the lateral portion of the MV ring, the TV ring, and the septal wall of the valve ring. The spectral curve obtained shows the systolic movement of the ring (Sa) and the diastolicand most violent ways at the practitioner’s disposal. That is where the term “Libre Fighting” comes from. It isn’t a traditional martial art, it isn’t a “system” or “style”. It is, at its root, simply “fighting.”

5) Libre doesn’t limit itself to “techniques.” We study ways to use anything around to our advantage. This includes using ones clothing, or the opponent’s clothing, to blind, choke, or distract the opponent. Using whatever is within reach as a projectile. Spitting, biting, pinching, hair pulling, and head butting. Smashing the opponent’s skull into a wall, curb, or table. Libre practitioners learn to improvise to prevail.

6) Libre is not geared towards the use of heavier agricultural blades. It is geared towards the use of a common folding knife that one might carry on


are among the prisoners being held in these secret lockups and tortured, no information is ever given to the families as to why their loved one is being detained.

The crisis in Yemen has gone on for over 900 days resulting in over 10,000 deaths and millions of Yemenis in famine. Saudi and UAE forces are targeting boys and men to detain and torture them and the majority of them never come home, those are war crimes and this is genocide. The United States is not operating these prisons in Yemen, the UAE is, but sadly since the U.S. has tortured in the past, their tactics of torture have become known to the world and those tactics are evident in these secret lockups throughout Yemen. We know about thecases emphasize the importance of the rectal and endoscopic examination in patients suspected or found to have dislodged IUD \[[@bib-006]-[@bib-013]\]. The most frequent anchorage of these dislodged devices was the omentum (45 cases) and peritoneum (41 cases). There are reported cases of the localization in periappendicular area (9 cases) and in the small intestines (3 cases) \[[@bib-009],[@bib-014]\]. In 24 reported cases the dislodgement of the IUD was in the urinary bladder and one of them was accompanied with stone formation in the bladder around the IUD \[[@bib-009],[@bib-015],[@bib-016]\]. To our knowledge, the case we present is the only reported IUD dislodgement in the upper abdomen, or more specifically in the right subdiaphragmal area.

Due to a potential inflammatory response and consequent obstruction and/or perforation, the majority of authors recommend the


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In the same study that criticized anchoring-and-adjusting, the authors proposed an alternate explanation regarding selective accessibility, which is derived from a theory called "confirmatory hypothesis testing". In short, selective accessibility proposes that when given an anchor, a judge (i.e. a person making some judgment) will evaluate the hypothesis that the anchor is a suitable answer. Assuming it is not, the judge moves on to another guess, but not before accessing all the relevant attributes of the anchor itself. Then, when evaluating the new answer, the judge looks for ways in which it is similar to the anchor, resulting in the anchoring effect. Various studies have found empirical support for this hypothesis. This explanation assumes that the judge considers the anchor to be a plausible value so that itof the device (only used for documentation and startup logging) description: 'MiJia temperature & humidity sensor ', // Description of the device, copy from vendor site. (only used for documentation and startup logging) supports: 'temperature and humidity', // Actions this device supports (only used for documentation) fromZigbee: [], // We will add this later toZigbee: [], // Should be empty, unless device can be controlled (e.g. lights, switches). },

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District Judge. **

∗ After an examination of the briefs and the record, and pursuant to the
parties’ motion to waive oral argument and expedite the appeal, we have
concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. The appeal is submitted on
the briefs and the record. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
** The Honorable Frederick J. Kapala of the Northern District of Illinois,
sitting by designation.
2                                                     No. 14-2004

    HAMILTON, Circuit Judge. Defendant Keith D. Jordan filed
this successive appeal afterrunning back, it’s to find the runner who was best at what he was asked to do. It is probably the case that Forsett and Spiller were asked to do a particular subset of things that they were excellent at and didn’t have to do things they were not particularly good at, while Charles and Peterson had to perform in every situation.

Also, remember that Forsett has averaged 5.1 yards per carry in the last four years. Weird, right?

So how do we judge a running back’s every-down-ness? I decided to look at how often their usage in those 16 down and distance situations matched their peers. For example, the average running back in the set had 59.4% of their runs come on first and ten, but Mark Ingram had


human body parts, we utilize pose information to guide the fine-grained alignment.

In summary, we propose a pose-guided multi-granularity attention network (PMA) for text-based person search as shown in Fig. \[fig:model1\]. First, we estimate human pose from the input image, where global visual representations emphasize the human-related features by concatenating the pose confidence maps to the original input image. To further capture the description-related image regions, a coarse alignment network (CA) is performed between textual description and image regions, where a similarity-based attention is utilized. To exploit the phrase-related visual contents, a fine-grained alignment network (FA) is further proposed, where the pose information is utilized to guide the attention of noun phrases and image regions. Both ranking loss and identification loss are employed for better training. Our proposed method isevaluated on a challenging dataset CUHK-PEDES [@Li2017Person], which is currently the only available dataset for text-based person search. Experimental results show that our PMA outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on this dataset.

The main contributions of this paper can be summarized as follows: (1) Multi-granularity corresponding visual contents are extracted by the coarse alignment network and fine-grained alignment network. (2) A novel pose-guided part aligned matching network is proposed to exploit the latent semantic alignment between visual body part and textual noun phrase, which is probably the first used in text-based person search. (3) The proposed PMA achieves the best results on the challenging dataset CUHK-PEDES. Extensive ablation studies verify the effectiveness of each component in the PMA.

![image](138_new_main_model.png){width="85.00000%"}

Related Work
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In this section, we briefly introduce the related work about prior studies


empirically set to 1 in our experiments. Similarly, we can obtain the total loss $L^{fa}$ in FA .

To make sure that different pose parts can attend to different parts of image and text in fine-grained alignment network, we add an additional part loss $L_{p}$ to classify 6 pose parts into 6 kinds. The part loss $L_{p}$ is defined as follows: $$L_{p} = \frac{1}{6}\sum_{i=1}^{6}-y_{p_{i}}\log(softmax(W_{p}p_{i})),$$ where $W_{p} \in \mathbf{R}^{6\times b}$ is a transformation matrix and $y_{p_{i}}$ is the ground truth label of $p_{i}$.

Finally, the total loss is defined as: $$L = L^{ca}+\lambda_3 L^{fa} + \lambda_{4} L_{p},$$ where $\lambda_{3}$ and $\lambda_{4}$ are also empirically set to 1 in our experiments.

During testing, we rank the similarity score $S=S^{ca}+ \lambda_3S^{fa}$ to retrieve the person images based on the text query.

Experiments
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In this section, wethe ImageNet classification task. In order to match the dimension of the augmented first layer, we directly copy the averaged weight along the channel dimension to initialize the first layer. To better train our model, we divide the model training into two steps. First, we fix the parameters of pre-trained visual CNN and only train the other model parameters with a learning rate of $1e^{-3}$. Second, we release the parts of the visual CNN and train the entire model with a learning rate of $2e^{-4}$. We stop training when the loss converges. The model is optimized with the Adam [@Kingma2014Adam] optimizer. The batch size and margin are 128 and 0.2, respectively.

\[table:results1\] !

  Method            Visual


    [PMA (FA)]{}          **53.81**   **73.54**   **81.23**

  : Effects of pose information and noun phrases used in fine-grained alignment network.

**Analysis of Fine-Grained Alignment Network.** In experiments, we utilize 6 body parts rather than 14 score maps of body joints to guide the attention due to the fact that 14 score maps of body joints are just the coordinates of the joints. Therefore, it is difficult to model the relationships with image regions, as well as with the text. To investigate the effectiveness of pose information and noun phrases used in fine-grained alignment network, we perform ablation analysis by dropping one of them. When dropping the pose information, we utilize noun phrases tomodel(inputs)
        loss = loss_fn(out, targets, input_sizes, target_sizes)
        loss /= batch_size
        print_loss += loss.data[0]

        if (i + 1) % print_every == 0:
            print('batch = %d, loss = %.4f' % (i+1, print_loss / print_every))
            logger.debug('batch = %d, loss = %.4f' % (i+1, print_loss / print_every))
            print_loss = 0

        total_loss += loss.data[0]