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The Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley is searching for one, possibly two high-caliber researchers to work with Prof. Rachel Slaybaugh's group in the area of computational neutronics. Fields of highest relevance are Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, and Nuclear Engineering.
Prof. Slaybaugh's group researches methods and algorithms for solving the Boltzmann transport equation more effectively. These methods are often inspired by the physics of the problem at hand, developments in computer hardware, or both. Ongoing work involves deterministic solution methods, Monte Carlo methods, and hybrid methods in which deterministic solutions are used to accelerate Monte Carlo solutions. Potential Projects include Angle-informed Hybrid Methods, Deterministic "Plug-and-Play" Research Environment Creation, Improving Multigroup Cross Sections for Hybrid Methods and Monte Carlo on Graphical Processing Units
We seek a candidate who can start this position as early as January 2015 but the appointment start date is flexible. The initial appointment is 100% time for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year, dependent upon job performance and funding. Starting salaries are in the range of $50,000 to $60,000 per year and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
For more information, please see the full description


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Hello, I am a graduate of Hampton University’s JTG School of Business in Hampton, Virginia. Currently residing in West Orange, NJ, and originally hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana. I am currently a graduate student at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing studying Information Systems with a concentration of Cyber/Network Management. I self describe as a persistent and hardworking individual. I look forward to the wealth of opportunity that working with professionals in my career field can offer an aspiring young professional, such as myself, in the knowledge and workings of the business and computing field.


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I am kinda on the fine line here.
I think that, yes, okay, we do need MS back for episodes (something tells me we will have flashback eppys for a while) and yes, we all love Danny, hurrah, hurrah.
But Jonas is here, and I still (after many a discussion) don't see a five-man SG-1. And I don't see how they are going to reintroduce Danny, either. The only thing I can think of is de-ascending, but that just sounds plain dumbass to me.
So as I said, I'm borderline.
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Introduction to Node.js
01 Basics
What's it all about
02 Technical details
Under the hood
03 Creating a CLI tool
Maybe a helper utility?
04 Creating a webserver
Handling HTTP requests


Visa Information
All Cambodian visas for entering the Kingdom of Cambodia can be applied by mail or in person at the Consular Office of the Consulate of Cambodia in Toronto ON Canada.
Address: 297 Campbell Avenue
Toronto, ON M6P 3V7
Phone: +1(416) 726 2318
Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Instructions for Visa Issuance
Apply by MAIL:
If you are applying for Tourist or Business Visa by mail please be sure that you have at least 3 weeks before your departure date from the country. Any urgent request please contact our consular office.
Please submit the following:
- One completed visa application
- One current passport sized photo (2"x2")
- Original Passport with at least 6 (six) months validity (please don't send us the copy of your passport, it has to be original)
- Visa Fee
- A self-addressed prepaid return envelope* (Please see below for more information)
If apply for business visa: you will need supporting documentation such as a letterhead from your company and/or invitation from Cambodia and along with all above requirements.
(Visas will be provided free of charge for children aged under 12 years old if traveling with their parents)
Applicants Holding Canadian Passports submit the Following:
- One completed visa application form
- One current passport sized photo(2" x 2")
- Fee for tourist visa is 35 USD and 40 USD for business visa (Money Order from Canada Poster Service is not accepted. Please use certified's check or cashier's check from any Canadian banks or personal/company check). All payments must be payable to: Embassy of Cambodia
- Passport (original) with at least 6+ months validity
- A self-addressed prepaid return envelope.
For business visas you will need supporting documentation such as a letterhead from your company and/or invitation from Cambodia
Applicants from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Sudan, except for those employed by the UN, IMF,WORLD BANK, ADB and other International Organizations, must provide the following:
- Letter of Sponsor from his/her company, local NGO, school
- Return air ticket to and from Cambodia
- One photocopy of Alien ID Card, student ID card
A tourist visa is valid for a period of three months beginning from the issue date. It is good for a single entry for a duration of 30 days staying in the Kingdom of Cambodia. The tourist visa may be extended for a maximum period of one month.
Applicants who would like their passport returned by mail should include a prepaid envelope addressed to themselves.
*SELF-PREPAID RETURN ENVELOPE
To secure the prompt return of your passport and other documents, we reccommend that all prepaid return envelope MUST BE Certified Mail, Express Mail, UPS, Airborne or DHL (Any Type of Mail that can be easily track) and on the sender’s and receiver’s name and address must be the same (Please do not put the Royal Embassy of Cambodia as the Sender). Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns. US Postal Service is hightly recommended.
NOTE: In case the package is lost/damage during the mailing process, applicants is fully responsible for the problems that may occur.
Instruction For Follow-Up on Your Visa Status If You Send by Mail
Please be sure to check your tracking number prior calling our consular office. Then call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Also, you can email us at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Please, allow up to 5 business days (for non-peak season June-August) and up to 10 business days (for peak season September-May) for us to complete the visa process.
Please have the following information ready before you call : First and Last name, Which Delivery Service You Sent Your Package (USPS, UPS), Type of package (Express Mail, Certified Mail, Ground/Air Mail, or Regular Stamp Mail), Package Sent Date.
Extension Visa
Your visa can be extended while you are in Cambodia. Diplomatic (A), Official (B) and Courtesy (C) visas can be extended at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The Business (E) Visa can be extended for one month, three months, six months or twelve months ( can be single or Multiple entries ) at the Immigration Department in front of Phnom Penh Airport ).
The Tourist (T) visa can be extended for one month only at the Immigration Department in front of Phnom Penh Airport).
Diplomatic and Official Passport
Each applicant must fully complete the following:
- One visa application form
- One passport sized photograph (2 X2).
- Passport (valid for at least six months)
- Official Verbal Note which explain in detail the purpose of visiting Cambodia.
Diplomatic, Official, Courtesy and Special K visas are issued gratis. Children under the age of 12 are also issued gratis visas.
Khmer Visa (K)
Khmer Visa is issued free of charge to Cambodian Citizen living abroad. Applicants submit the following:
- One visa application form
- One passport sized photograph (2 X2).
- Passport (valid for at least six months)
- Proof of Cambodian Citizenship
- No fee
e-Visa: Please visit the e-Visa page for information on how to obtain a visa electronically.
VISA EXEMPTIONS
| N | Countries | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diplomatic Passport | Service Passport | Regular Passport | ||
| 1 | Brunei Darussalam | 14 days | 14 days | x |
| 2 | Indonesia | 14 days | 14 days | 30 days |
| 3 | Lao PDR | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days |
| 4 | Malaysia | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days |
| 5 | Myanmar | 30 days | 30 days | x |
| 6 | Philippines | 30 days | 30 days | 21 days |
| 7 | Singapore | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days |
| 8 | Thailand | 30 days | 30 days | 14 days |
| 9 | Viet Nam | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days |
| 10 | Bulgaria | 90 days | 90days | x |
| 11 | Cuba | During Mission | x | |
| 12 | The People’s Republic of China | 30 days | 30 days | x |
| 13 | Hungary | 90 days | 90 days | x |
| 14 | India | 60 days | 60days | X |
| 15 | The Republic of Korea | 60 days | 60 days | x |
| 16 | Peru | 30 days | 30 days | x |
| 17 | Russia | During Mission | x | |
| 18 | Slovakia | During Mission | x | |
| 19 | Iran | 30 days | 30 days | x |
PLEASE NOTE:
Please drop off visas between 9:00am and 12:00 noon.
Visas should be picked up between 4:00 pm and 5:00pm in the afternoon. Consular Officers will arrange the date to pick up visa)


Corona Virus is a newly discovered disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). First identified in Wuhan, it has spread all across the globe and has infected over 7 million people worldwide.
COVID-19 Symptoms
Common symptoms include fever, dry cough, fatigue, sputum production, loss of smell, and shortness of breath. While the majority of cases result in mild symptoms, some progress to viral pneumonia and multi-organ failure. Emergency symptoms include difficulty breathing, persistent chest pain or pressure, confusion, difficulty waking, and bluish face or lips.
COVID-19 Precautions
Clean your hands often. Use soap and water, or an alcohol-based hand rub.
Maintain a safe distance from anyone who is coughing or sneezing.
Don’t touch your eyes, nose or mouth.

Stay home if you feel unwell.
If you have a fever, a cough, and difficuty breathing, seek medical attention. Call in advance.
Follow the directions of your local health authority.


The Responsible Machine Learning Principles
A practical framework to develop AI responsibly
The 8 principles of responsible ML development provide a practical framework to support technologists when designing, developing or maintaining systems that learn from data.
If these principles resonate with you, you invite you to join the Ethical ML Network (BETA), and be part of a global network of leaders driving forward positive change in this area.


I'm a software developer and an open-source enthusiast currently building a powerful wealth-tech software at valuefy. When I can take some time from official work, I try to build applications to solve problems (sometimes non-existent) that could potentially help people. Due to my lack of motivation to sell, whatever I build usually goes to a cold repo in my github and eventually to the freezing artic code vault. Back in the college days, my team and I, won the Smart India Hackathon 2019 edition, solving a problem of inconsistent data annotations in medical research. Later during an internship, I worked with Prof. Dr. K. Chandrasekaran at NIT Surathkal and published a research paper on the potential of machine learning models in analysing the risk factors and in turn preventing still births from survey data. I've been tinkering with a lot of tech stack, dipping my fingers in all waters viz. web 2.0 (which is what I do for a living), web 3.0 (AR/VR, blockchain), creative-coding, machine learning etc. to the point that I can mean it when I say I'm a fast learner. Guess that's the perk of being in this industry.
A cross-platform watch-party desktop video player for synchronized and seamless binging.
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What is Coding?
There’s a lot of hype around coding, so let’s start by clarifying what coding isn’t. I mentioned above that when I first saw the source code of a web page, I thought that I was looking at the language my computer spoke. This is a common way of explaining what code is, but it’s not exactly true. Your computer doesn’t understand the nuances of language. In fact, the only terms your computer understands very well at all are “Yes” or “No.” Imagine you are building a bridge with a group of engineers. You’re on one side, they are on the other, and you need to communicate to finish the project. The problem is, your phone has died, and your radio only works one way. All you have to communicate with them is a flashlight. One flash for yes, two for no. It will take a while but, eventually, the bridge will be built. This is how a computer communicates with people. The language the computer speaks is binary code, a mathematical language of ones and zeros. Just like the flashlight, there are only two options. The computer understands “on” and “off,” and nothing else. So unless you’re typing strings of ones and zeros into your text editor (which you’re not), you’re not really writing code in the computer’s language. But if the code isn’t written in the computer’s language, what are you doing?


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The 6502 microprocessor is a relatively simple 8 bit CPU with only a few internal registers capable of addressing at most 64Kb of memory via its 16 bit address bus. The processor is little endian and expects addresses to be stored in memory least significant byte first.
The first 256 byte page of memory ($0000-$00FF) is referred to as 'Zero Page' and is the focus of a number of special addressing modes that result in shorter (and quicker) instructions or allow indirect access to the memory. The second page of memory ($0100-$01FF) is reserved for the system stack and which cannot be relocated.
The only other reserved locations in the memory map are the very last 6 bytes of memory $FFFA to $FFFF which must be programmed with the addresses of the non-maskable interrupt handler ($FFFA/B), the power on reset location ($FFFC/D) and the BRK/interrupt request handler ($FFFE/F) respectively.
The 6502 does not have any special support of hardware devices so they must be mapped to regions of memory in order to exchange data with the hardware latches.
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Uddhav Thackeray phones Sonia Gandhi; seeks support to form govt in Maharashtra
The phone call from Thackeray to Gandhi came before the Congress held a crucial meeting for a second time in the day to decide on whether or not to support the Shiv Sena.
by PTIShiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday spoke to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and sought her party's support to form a government in Maharashtra.
The phone call from Thackeray to Gandhi came before the Congress held a crucial meeting for a second time in the day to decide on whether or not to support the Shiv Sena.
The Shiv Sena chief sought the Congress' support to form a government in Maharastra, sources said.
The Sena, the second largest party in the 288-member House with 56 MLAs after the BJP's 105 members, stepped up efforts to frab power in the politically crucial state. The party has time till 7.30 pm to stake claim on government formation.
Thackeray also met NCP chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai.
The Congress is expected to take a final call on extending support to the Shiv Sena at a meeting of its top leadership with Maharashtra state leaders.Get access to India's fastest growing financial subscriptions service Moneycontrol Pro for as little as Rs 599 for first year. Use the code "GETPRO". Moneycontrol Pro offers you all the information you need for wealth creation including actionable investment ideas, independent research and insights & analysis For more information, check out the Moneycontrol website or mobile app.


In the example below, we take a typical card component and recreate it with placeholders applied to create a "loading card". Size and proportions are the same between the two.
Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.
Go somewhere
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public interface IServiceCall
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Returns array of service method arguments
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Get service call exception
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The goal of this project was to solve the Cart Pole problem from the Python OpenAI Gym library. The goal of the Cart Pole problem is to balance a pole on a cart that runs on a frictionless rail. The cart can only be affected by a push left (action 0) or a push right (action 1).
This project uses Q-Learning to create a model that can be used to solve the problem. The created model can balance the pole upright without tipping or going offscreen. The model first puts the possible values of the observation space onto a discrete range so that Q-Values can be saved in a finite number of states. This also means that a relatively small number of states are needed since many values can be assigned to one state. Q-Values used to find the predicted best action to take based on the current state. Q-Values are associated with a specific state and action. A higher Q-Value means the action has a higher chance to succeed based on observed rewards. These values are calculated based on the following formula.
The formula uses the saved Q-Values at the current and next state to calculate the new value. The reward is given by the OpenAI Gym environment based on whether the action succeded or not. The formula also contains two parameters: alpha and gamma. Alpha is the rate at which the Q-Value changes based on the reward. In my project, alpha is initially set to 0.5, but changes to 0.1 after 225 episodes. This means that earlier actions are more infuential on the learning. The model changes less as time goes on. Gamma is the discount factor, meaning it determines how much the predicted value is used in the calculation of the new value. In my project, gamma is kept as a constant 1 to reinforce the model.
Another parameter unseen in the formula is epsilon. This is also known as the exploration rate and determines how often random actions are taken. In my program, epsilon is initially set to 1, but, like alhpa, changes to .1 after 225 episodes. This means it will take completely random actions for the first 225 episodes in order to teach the model. After the 225 episodes, it will be less likely that a random action is taken so that the model can be reinforced.
A line graph of the rewards at each episode is shown below. This graph was generated using a tool I created. The rewards are low for the first 225 episodes, where random actions were taken. After the model begins predicting the next action, the reward values are much higher. By the 400th episode, the model consistently gets rewards above 300 and frequently at the maximum value of 500.


Apache™ FOP Development: Managing Documentation
General Information
All raw documentation content is managed in the Apache™ FOP SVN repository. Updates should be committed to the repository, then the repository files are used to generate usable output. The remaining discussions on this page assume that the SVN repository is the starting place for processing. The path to the documentation is src/documentation/content/xdocs.
Basic documents are stored in XML files, and use DTDs provided by Apache Forrest.
Design Principles
These principles are not written in stone, but reflect the current philosophy, and are documented here primarily to help achieve consistency. These principles should be changed if better or more practical ones are found, but they should probably be discussed and changed by common consent.
Where
- To the extent possible, keep user content separate from developer content, primarily so the user doesn't have to filter out technical information.
- To the extent possible, try to document a topic exactly once, in the place the user is most likely to look for it, then link to that from other locations as appropriate. This is somewhat contrary to the principle above, which should be applied as a higher priority.
When
The documentation and the product are in a constant state of change, and there is some difficulty in deciding what product state the website content should reflect. The current thinking is that the website should reflect the current state of the repository code branch from which releases are made. Features or other documentation that applies to unreleased code should be marked in such a way within the content that the user can determine whether and how it applies to the version they are using. For example, "Feature xyz is first available in Release n.nn.n".
Other approaches were considered, but all seemed to have significantly higher costs both to the users and the developers. From the user's standpoint, the choice is either that they potentially have to look multiple places to get the information they need (which was rejected), or they have to filter out an occasional feature that is in code available subsequent to their release (which was accepted).
Website
Background
The FOP web site and documentation are generated using Apache Forrest.
The following table summarizes the flow of data to the FOP website in chronological order:
| Process | Output | State | View(s) |
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| Developer commits code to FOP repository. | FOP repository (SVN) | Raw XML and other content | in SVN |
| Developer builds and uploads documentation using ForrestBot. | /www/xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop on people.apache.org | sync-ready | n/a |
| Cron job runs rsync to synchronize the website with the real web server (runs every few hours). | Infrastructure knows. :-) | web-ready | FOP Web Site |
ForrestBot "publish" Step-by-Step
We're using ForrestBot for build and deploy the FOP website. ForrestBot comes with Apache Forrest 0.8. The root directory of your FOP checkout contains the file "publish.xml" which is an Ant build file that manages the build and the deployment of the FOP website. Please look into this file for further instructions to set up ForrestBot on your machine. Basically, we're simply running ForrestBot manually by typing "ant -f publish.xml" once we're happy with our changes to the site. Step-by-step instructions for the deployment process again:
- Modify the sources of the website and check locally with Forrest (run "forrest run" or just "forrest").
- Once you're satisfied, run "ant -f publish.xml" to do a clean build of the website. If the build runs without problems, the website will be uploaded as a whole using SVN to the website staging directory in SVN.
- Then log into people.apache.org using SSH, go to the /www/xmlgraphics.apache.org directory and run "svn up".
- Wait for the next rsync cycle and check your changes in the live site. (Sorry, no manual rsync available ATM)
The reason for putting the generated website in the SVN repository: The infrastructure people want to be able to restore the websites themselves in case of a crash.
Using a Local Forrest
To use a local Forrest (during website development, not for deployment):
- download latest the Forrest release (currently Forrest 0.8)
- set environment variable FORREST_HOME=~/apache-forrest-0.8 where ~ is the directory where Forrest is installed (see http://forrest.apache.org/docs/your-project.html for details)
- set environment variable PATH=$PATH:$FORREST_HOME/bin
- cd to your local FOP checkout
- update your local FOP checkout (svn update)
- run forrest(.bat), which will build the web-site documents in xml-fop/build/site.
Updating Distribution Files
The Apache distribution system mirrors distributions around the world. Since it uses Apache httpd Module mod_autoindex you also need to manually update the HEADER.html & READER.html files on people.apache.org in /www/www.apache.org/dist/xmlgraphics/fop/.
Please be careful when doing stuff like that.
Deleting Documentation Files
ForrestBot simply uploads the whole generated site. It doesn't delete obsolete files. You can do that manually in the /www/xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop folder on cvs.apache.org. Be careful when doing stuff like that.


Aaron and I began our work in the Library with the OWL co-curricular. Folks would head to the dining hall, grab lunch, and take it back to the Library for our discussion. It was really important to
It took the form of regular lunch discussions students. At the same time, I was getting learning the about the politics to be aware of, the people to guide me. That blossomed into a Thursday evening gathering.
OWL was where we began the community. Our primary goal fun and community. was about the Library Together, we were building the culture that powered everything that followed.
Looking at our circulation records and the Library, and just observing, it was our power drills in our tools collection 🧰, that far and away saw the most traffic. This wasn’t a surprise, we’re an engineering school .  Any way you sliced it their usage dwarfed book borrowing.
There’s a big loft-building culture in Olin’s Dorms. The Library Drills can be “taken out,” all other drills are owned by shops or labs and don’t walk.
Story of…
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To make the Greenhouse create energy, at root there must be a cycle of creativity that keeps going ‘round. energy must move through it. Greenhouse an engine - something in motion that can grow and change — there must be energy that moves through the system. it has to be a mutually rewarding collaboration between participants.
Staff have experience and perspective, an ability to get things done, creativity, and a P-💳. Students have magic ✨ - they bring the weird energy. The walking tacos recipe to nail the mood and the late-night fuel to serve fifty of ‘em out of one tiny dorm kitchen. It is a good faith bargain each party enters at modest risk. But the table is set for the whole to be greater than the sum of the
Some projects are strong and enduring: ACRONYM - steady state
Some surprise - The power of an Alumni Card game that Gets people to Laugh!
Some take on a life of their own - Faux-mencement.
Some fall flat - The Olin Snapshot - our collaborative newspaper with Marketing.
The falling flat here is important. It highlights the lows. What’s so great about working in your own pond is the upsides are so large (“Hey, check out these 🌊!”) and the downsides so small (“Failure 💥 with friends!”). Sometimes things cost a few cents and a little pride, but you get back on the horse. The Greenhouse is a training-ground in creative risk-taking. It’s a rollercoaster.
Here’s the Greenhouse’s fundamental proposition: excitement builds when varied constituents agree to pool 📇 rolodexes and resources and try stuff.
Fasten your seatbelt, this is Drivers Ed. A College is a perfect parking lot to practice in.
This is about them making decisions
Students can’t learn how to drive unless they’re driving.
consistent base-hitter go out the window.
SLAC, Stay Late and Create.
Began in Library
ANNI ALBERS
“After the first telegram came to Berlin asking about going to Black Mountain, a long letter several pages long came in German from Ted Dreir in which the words “this is a pioneering adventure” -- you know it had just started, and when we came across this word “pioneering” we both said “This is our place.” You know, leaving the Bauhaus, which was certainly a pioneering place, we said this is a kind of ….to continue this. And I believe that this played a great part in our staying on because it was this pioneering. There was nothing and there was a chance to build something up and in other places there was already a framework and you had to fit in, squeeze in, and so that made Black Mountain especially desirable and we loved it for that reason.”
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Our mission was to “build something up.” The students didn’t want to fit into a framework, they wanted to create the framework. And that pioneering provocation and spirit has sustained student engagement.
Only retro-actively could we name this ”making space for making change, we had much more open feelings “Making Space for Making Interesting.”
In this universe of creating our framework, having no fixed definition of success and failure. What we were proposing not a goal post, but a path. A way of traveling. We were indeed making space - an audience, some ears - but
Institutions can’t change if they can’t make mistakes. A while ago I was at the MIT Media Lab and there was a town hall meeting. Someone asked a question about the nature of The Lab (how it worked, how they should describe it to.). David P. Reed, a lifer in research, stood up and gave an answer that stuck.
+ Corporations hate risk
+ Risk means possible failure
+ The Research & Development of new projects is risky
+ If a Corporation can sponsor MIT Media Lab to be their "outsourced R & D Lab," and get the chance to license the tech that comes out, woo-hoo.
+ The Media Lab Shares the wins and Sheds the Losses
During the day I was Library Director. In that role, I couldn’t chase high-risk (and high reward) ideas. Libraries run on trust. Patrons trust the Library’s steadfast and equitable access to resources.
I had to keep the train running - ensuring , predictability and access to resources so central to the value of Libraries.
After 5pm, I could be Jeff. This non-trained Librarian brought on to reinvigorate the Olin College Library. however, But if I could allocate a very small corner of my budget to experimentation, and in the evenings, meet up with Students as Jeff, not Library Director.
Daily - Lunch!
Weekly - Is there a particularly light afternoon course wise? Act then.
We operate outside the course schedule. Olin Workshop on the Library (OWL), the precursor to the GH 🌱 began during lunch, moved to evenings, and we ultimately landed on Wednesdays. Wednesdays at Olin are light on courses. Tuesday’s a “weekend night” for the students.
As a small Library in a Project-Based Learning Engineering College, our Library never found great student demand for quiet study.
It’s hard to make the change we wanted to see in the College with just talking. We had to show it. We were chasing a vibe, something ineffable. Leadership needed to feel it to “buy” it. And that meant we were in the multi-sensory experience business.
Let’s take a cafe. What evokes that state of being is:
They’re a plausible “universe next door.”


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This element describes the Stribeck friction characteristics of a sliding mass, i. e. the frictional force acting between the sliding mass and the support. Included is a hard stop for the position.
The surface is fixed and there is friction between sliding mass and surface. The frictional force f is given for positive velocity v by:
f = F_Coulomb + F_prop * v + F_Stribeck * exp (-fexp * v)
The distance between the left and the right connector is given by parameter L. The position of the center of gravity, coordinate s, is in the middle between the two flanges.
There are hard stops at smax and smin, i. e. if
flange_a.s >= smin
and
flange_b.s <= xmax
the sliding mass can
move freely.
When the absolute velocity becomes zero, the sliding mass becomes stuck, i.e., the absolute position remains constant. In this phase the friction force is calculated from a force balance due to the requirement that the absolute acceleration shall be zero. The elements begin to slide when the friction force exceeds a threshold value, called the maximum static friction force, computed via:
maximum_static_friction = F_Coulomb + F_Stribeck
This requires the states Stop.s and Stop.v . If these states are eliminated during the index reduction the model will not work. To avoid this any inertias should be connected via springs to the Stop element, other sliding masses, dampers or hydraulic chambers must be avoided.
For more details of the used friction model see the following reference:
The friction model is implemented in a "clean" way by state events and leads to continuous/discrete systems of equations which have to be solved by appropriate numerical methods. The method is described in (see also a short sketch in UsersGuide.ModelingOfFriction):
More precise friction models take into account the elasticity of the material when the two elements are "stuck", as well as other effects, like hysteresis. This has the advantage that the friction element can be completely described by a differential equation without events. The drawback is that the system becomes stiff (about 10-20 times slower simulation) and that more material constants have to be supplied which requires more sophisticated identification. For more details, see the following references, especially (Armstrong and Canudas de Wit 1996):
The dissipated energy is transported in form of heat to the optional heatPort connector that can be enabled via parameter "useHeatPort". Independently whether the heatPort is or is not enabled, the dissipated power is defined with variable "lossPower". If contact occurs at the hard stops, the lossPower is not correctly modelled at this time instant, because the hard stop would introduce a Dirac impulse in the lossPower due to the discontinuously changing kinetic energy of the mass (lossPower is the derivative of the kinetic energy at the time instant of the impact).
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| PartialFrictionWithStop | Base model of Coulomb friction elements with stop |


Normalizing Flows
Key idea: Assume a simple probability distribution, take a sample from it and then transform that sample. This is equivalent to change of variables in probability distributions and, if the transformation meets some mild conditions, can result in a very complex pdf of the transformed variable. The formalism of normalizing flows now gives us a systematic way of specifying the approximate posterior distributions $q(z\vert x)$ required for variational inference. (see Inference in probabilistic models)
Example: If $f$ is monotonically increasing or monotonically decreasing function, such that $y = f(x)$, $x \sim p_{X}$, then we have: \[ p_{Y}(y)= \frac{d}{dy}\mathbb{P}(Y\leq y)= \frac{d}{dy}\mathbb{P}(f(X)\leq y)=\frac{d}{dy}\mathbb{P}(X\leq f^{-1}(y))=p_{X}(f^{-1}(y))\frac{df^{-1}(y)}{dy}=p_{X}(x)\frac{df^{-1}(y)}{dy},\] \[ p_{Y}(y)= \frac{d}{dy}\mathbb{P}(Y\leq y)= \frac{d}{dy}\mathbb{P}(f(X)\leq y)=\frac{d}{dy}\mathbb{P}(X\geq f^{-1}(y))=-p_{X}(f^{-1}(y))\frac{df^{-1}(y)}{dy}=-p_{X}(x)\frac{df^{-1}(y)}{dy},\] respectively.
Similarly for multivariate invertible mappings $f:\mathbb{R}^{m}\mapsto \mathbb{R}^{m}$ and $X\sim p_{X}$, $Y=f(X)$, we get:
\[\boxed{ p_{Y}(y)=p_{X}(x)\left\lvert \operatorname{det}\frac{df^{-1}(y)}{dy}\right\rvert =p_{X}(x)\left\lvert \operatorname{det}\frac{df(x)}{dy}\right\rvert^{-1} },\qquad complexity \rightarrow O(m^{3})\] where the last equality exploits the property of jacobian of inverse functions (PS: invertibility of $f(\cdot)$ validates the use of this property) and $[ \mathrm{det}(A^{-1}) =\mathrm{det}(A)^{-1} ]$.
NFs are typically used to parametrise the approximate posterior $q(z\vert x)$ but can also be applied for the likelihood function. We can apply a series of mappings $f_{k},~ k= [ 1,\dots,K ]$ and obtain a normalizing flow:
This series of transformations can transform a simple probability distribution (e.g. Gaussian) into a complicated multi-modal one. Note that after every mapping ($f_1, f_2, \dots $), the det-Jac has to be computed to ensure that the output is also a distribution. To be of practical use, however, we can consider only transformations whose determinants of Jacobians are easy to compute. The original paper considered two simple family of transformations, named planar and radial flows.
Planar Flow
\[ f(\mathbf{z}) = \mathbf{z} + \mathbf{u} h(\mathbf{w}^{\top} \mathbf{z} + b) \] with $\mathbf{U}, \mathbf{W}\in \mathbb{R}^{d}$ and $b\in \mathbb{R}$ and $h$ an element-wise non-linearity. Let $\psi (\mathbf{z}) = h’ (\mathbf{w}^T \mathbf{z} + b) \mathbf{w}$. Then the determinant can be easily computed as
\[ \left| \mathrm{det} \frac{\partial f}{\partial \mathbf{z}} \right| = \left| 1 + \mathbf{u}^{\top} \psi( \mathbf{z} ) \right| = \left| 1 + \mathbf{u}^{\top} h’ (\mathbf{w}^T \mathbf{z} + b) \mathbf{w} \right| . \] Since $0\leq h’ \leq 1$ for $ h(x) = \tanh (x) $, we require $ \mathbf{u}^{\top}\mathbf{w} \geq -1$ for invertibility of such flows. We can think of planar flows as slicing the $\mathbf{z}$-space with straight lines (or hyperplanes), where each line contracts or expands the space around it, see figure 1 (in paper).
Radial Flow
\[ f(\mathbf{z}) = \mathbf{z} + \beta h(\alpha, r)(\mathbf{z} - \mathbf{z}_0),\]
with , and parameters and .
Similarly to planar flows, radial flows introduce spheres in the $z$-space, which either contract or expand the space inside the sphere, see figure 1 (in paper).
Algorithmic steps
Suppose the unknown target distribution is specified using energy functions $U(z)$, $p(z) = \frac{1}{\mathcal{Z}} \exp(-U(z))$, where $\mathcal{Z}$ is the unknown partition function (normalization constant); that is, $p(z) \propto \exp({-U(z)})$.
Steps:
-
Generate random samples from initial distribution $z_{0} \sim q_0 (z) = \mathcal{N}(z; \mu, \sigma^2 I)$. Here $\mu$ and $\sigma$ can either be fixed (such as standard Normal distribution) or can be estimated as follows: Draw auxillary random variable $\epsilon$ from standard normal distribution $\epsilon \sim \mathcal{N}(0, I)$ and apply linear normalizing flow transformation $f(\epsilon) = \mu + \sigma \epsilon$, re-parameterizing $\sigma = e^{(\frac{1}{2}*\log(var))}$ to ensure $\sigma > 0$, then jointly optimize {$\mu$, $var$} together with the other normalizing flow parameters (see below).
- Transform the initial samples $z_0$ through $K$ Normalizing Flow transforms, from which we obtain the transformed approximate distribution $q_{K}(z)$, $\log q_{K}(z) = \log q_0 (z) - \sum_{k=1}^K \log (\mathrm{det} |J_k|)$ where $J_k$ is the Jacobian of the $k$-th (invertible) normalizing flow transform. E.g. for planar flows, $\log q_{K}(z) = \log q_0 (z) - \sum_{k=1}^K \log |1 + u_k^{\top} \psi_k(z_{k-1})|$ where each flow includes model parameters $\lambda = \{ w, u, b \}$.
- Jointly optimize all model parameters by minimizing KL-Divergence between the approximate distribution $q_{K}(z)$
and the true distribution $p(z)$.
Here the partition function $\mathcal{Z}$ is independent of $z_0$ and model parameters, so we can ignore it for the optimization $loss = \mathbb{E}_{z_0 \sim q_0(z)} \left[ \log q_0(z_0) - \sum_k \log (\mathrm{det} |J_k|) + U(z_K) \right]$
The expectation could be approximated by Monte Carlo sampling, the mini-batch average here could be considered as the Monte Carlo Sampling Expectation.
Ex: Density estimation (Generative modelling)
$p_X:$ data distribution, $p_Y:$ prior over latent variable, $p_{f^{-1}(Y)}:$ push-forward density of $f^{-1}(Y)$, i.e the generative model
Footnotes:
-
See A note on the evaluation of generative models for a thought-provoking discussion about how high log-likelihood is neither sufficient nor necessary to generate “plausible” images. Still, it’s better than nothing and in practice a useful diagnostic tool.
-
There’s a connection between Normalizing Flows and GANs via encoder-decoder GAN architectures that learn the inverse of the generator (ALI / BiGAN). Since there is a separate encoder trying to recover $u=G^{−1}(x)$ such that $x=G(u)$, the generator can be thought of as a flow for the simple uniform distribution. However, we don’t know how to compute the amount of volume expansion/contraction w.r.t. $x$, so we cannot recover density from GANs. However, it’s probably not entirely unreasonable to model the log-det-jacobian numerically or enforce some kind of linear-time Jacobian by construction.


PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor and is a widely-used, open source scripting language that gets executed on the server. It is free to download and use, and easy enough to be a beginner's first server side language. It's powerful enough to be at the core of the biggest blogging system on the web, WordPress, and deep enough to run the largest social network, Facebook.
A PHP file has the extension ".php" and can contain text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP code. The PHP code is executed on the server and the result is returned to the browser as plain HTML. PHP is commonly used because it can run on various platforms and is compatiable with almost all servers today. Additionally, its fast, flexible, free, and supports a wide range of databases.
PHP can do many things including:
- Generate dynamic page content
- Create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server
- Collect form data
- Generate dynamic page content
- Send and receive cookies
- Add, delete, modify data in your database
- Control user-access
- Output images, PDF files, and even Flash movies
To start using PHP, you can:
- Find a web host with PHP and MySQL support
- Install a web server on your own PC, and then install PHP and MySQL
You should additionally have a basic understanding of the following:
A PHP script starts with <?php and ends with ?>
Here is an example of a PHP script that uses a built-in PHP function "echo" to output the text "Hello, World!" on a webpage:
<?php
// this is a comment
echo "Hello World!";
?>
Variables are "containers" for storing information.
A variable starts with the $ sign, following by the name of the variable.
In PHP, no keywords, classes, functions, and user-defined functions are case sensitive. However, variable names are case-sensitive.
PHP supports the following data types:
- String
- Integer
- Float
- Boolean
- Array
- Object
- NULL
Check the data type and value using the PHP function var_dump()
<?php
//String
$xstring = "Hello world!";
//Integer
$xint = 10;
//Float
$xfloat = 5.5;
//Boolean
$xbool = true;
//Array
$cars = array("Volvo","BMW","Toyota");
//Object
class Car {
function Car() {
$this->model = "VW"
}
}
// create an object
$herbie = new Car();
//NULL
$xstring = null;
?>
Conditional statements are used to perform different actions based on different conditions.
if statement executes some code if one condition is true and else if the condition is false.
if (condition) {
//code to be executed if condition is true;
} else {
//code to be executed if condition is false;
};
You can use elseif to execute code for more than two conditions, like in the example below.
The example below will output "Have a good morning!" if the current time is less than 10, and "Have a good day!" if the current time is less than 20. Otherwise it will output "Have a good night!":
<?php
$t = date("H");
if ($t < "10") {
echo "Have a good morning!";
} elseif ($t < "20") {
echo "Have a good day!";
} else {
echo "Have a good night!";
}
?>
Use the switch statement to select one of many blocks of code to be executed.
switch (n) {
case label1:
//code to be executed if n=label1;
break;
case label2:
//code to be executed if n=label2;
break;
default:
//code to be executed if n is different from all labels;
};
Use the while to loop to execute a block of code while the specified condition is true.
while (condition is true) {
//code to be executed;
};
Use the do...while to loop through a block of code once, then repeats as long as the specified condition is true.
do {
//code to be executed;
} while (condition is true);
Use the for loop is used when you know in advance how many times the script should run.
Parameters :
- init counter: Initialize loop counter
- test counter: Evaluated for each loop iteration. If it evaluates to TRUE, the loop continues. If it evaluates to FALSE, the loop ends.
- increment counter: Increases the loop counter value
for (init counter; test counter; increment counter) {
//code to be executed;
};
The example below displays the numbers from 0 to 10:
<?php
for ($x = 0; $x <= 10; $x++) {
echo "The number is: $x
";
};
?>
PHP has more than 1000 built-in functions
You can also create your own functions with function. A function is a block of statements that can be used repeatedly in a program, but will not execute immediately when a page loads. It gets executed by a call to the function.
Function names are NOT case-sensitive
function functionName() {
//code to be executed;
};
Information can be passed to functions through arguments. An argument is just like a variable.
function functionName($x) {
echo "$x";
};
You can also set default parameters. When a function is called without arguements, it takes the default value as argument:
function functionName($x=5) {
echo "$x";
};
To let a function return a value, use the return statement
The example below uses a default value for x and y when not given and shows how return works:
<?php
function sum($x=5,$y=4) {
$z = $x + $y;
return $z;
};
echo "5 + 10 = " . sum(5,10) . "
";
echo "5 + 4 = " . sum() . "
";
echo "2 + 4 = " . sum(2,4);
?>
All documentation in this page is taken from
w3schools.com


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- main(String[]) - Static method in class implementation.gui.NeighborsInterface
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Classical JavaFX setup with added configurators for Jena and Partition Algorithm
- main(String[]) - Static method in class implementation.ImplementationCommandLines
- main(String[]) - Static method in class implementation.ImplementationExample
- MatchTreeNode - Class in implementation.algorithms.matchTree
-
See the article for the exact mathematical definitions of the attributes and behavior of the algorithm https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01945454/document Ch.6
- MatchTreeNode() - Constructor for class implementation.algorithms.matchTree.MatchTreeNode
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Initialize everything to null (Needed by
MatchTreeRoot(MatchTreeNode)
)} as super() constructor) - MatchTreeNode(MatchTreeNode) - Constructor for class implementation.algorithms.matchTree.MatchTreeNode
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Constructor by copy
- MatchTreeNode(Element, CollectionsModel, Set<Var>) - Constructor for class implementation.algorithms.matchTree.MatchTreeNode
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Base Constructor
- MatchTreeRoot - Class in implementation.algorithms.matchTree
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The root node of a match-tree
- MatchTreeRoot(MatchTreeNode) - Constructor for class implementation.algorithms.matchTree.MatchTreeRoot
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Constructor for copies
- MatchTreeRoot(Set<Var>, CollectionsModel) - Constructor for class implementation.algorithms.matchTree.MatchTreeRoot
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Base Constructor
- mentioned(Element) - Static method in class implementation.utils.ElementUtils
- ModelLoad - Class in implementation.gui.controller
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Runnable for back thread loading the Model, to avoid unresponsive interface during the loading
- ModelLoad(String, String, Model, NeighborsController, BooleanProperty, IntegerProperty) - Constructor for class implementation.gui.controller.ModelLoad
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Base constructor
- move(Element, Set<Var>) - Method in class implementation.algorithms.Cluster
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Substract an element from the available query elements to mark it as used and adds it to the elements distinctive of this Cluster's neighbors
- myLogsLevels(String) - Static method in class implementation.NeighborsImplementation
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Sets up all the loggers required by the partition algorithm
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One aspect of art is constant: evolution. Artists are always changing and evolving for the better. For two best friends, their companionship not only pushes them to better their work in graphic design, but it was initially formed through art.
Senior Eve Gustwiller didn’t always want to pursue graphic design. At first, she was set on interior design, but when she decided that wasn’t the right field for her, she began exploring other mediums of art until she found her love of graphic design.
Senior Jaime North knew she wanted to be in the creative field and do something profitable, and she felt graphic design accomplished those two things. She loved the flexibility of the medium and the fact that every type of business needs a graphic designer.
Gustwiller and North met at OU through graphic design their freshman year, but didn’t become best friends until junior year. They had a lot of classes together through the years as they studied imagery, poster design, icon development and branding, and the two are now working on their individual thesis projects.
Gustwiller’s thesis focuses on the personal growth of OU seniors on the Athens campus and the relationship of college culture to an individual’s respective college. She plans on creating a large-scale screen print of the words that the seniors give to her and will focus on projection and color to relate to the emotion of one’s experience. The most important aspects to her are the composition, the typography and the color.
“The biggest part of any graphic design project is how I show my work when it’s done,” Gustwiller said. “Showcasing your work properly not only does the project justice, but it puts the work into a realistic space and environment for people to understand the purpose.”
North’s thesis deals with Alzheimer's disease awareness and designing a related campaign. She plans to showcase it through a digital collage of posters and brochures with statistics. She also has personal family experience with Alzheimer’s disease that she wants to bring into the project. The most important parts of the project to her are typography and the collage aspect.
“I want to make it more of an awareness thing instead of a negative view of the disease,” North said. “Everyone knows someone who is affected by Alzheimer’s, so I think it’s an important project to put together.”
Gustwiller has watched her work get progressively better over the years, but she saw the biggest evolution through her rebranding project her junior year and her branding project her senior year.
The rebranding project focused on rebranding a product to make it her own, so she decided to rebrand face wash. She downloaded an online background, photographed the product and branded the face wash with her own label. She tried to place the image of the face wash into the background to make it realistic, but she found it looked fake and she wasn’t as pleased with the project as she could’ve been.
Her frustration with the rebranding project gave her the drive to perfect her senior year branding project, where she created a fictional company. She found the perfect way to showcase it by using Adobe Photoshop and created an identity system of branding. She focused on the typefaces, the colors and found redemption in the branding project that she searched for her junior year.
“Though it’s graphic design with business cards and stationary, it’s also getting us to think about it in a large-scale way on an easier platform for people to understand,” Gustwiller said.
North has also loved watching her work progress over the years and, similarly to Gustwiller, saw her work improve in a big way from her rebranding assignment her junior year to her branding project her senior year.
For her rebranding product, she rebranded Kroger oatmeal. One of North’s favorite elements of creative design is collages, so she found a way to combine collages with typography. She used sandpaper on letters to create texture, scanned them into the computer and then pieced them together. Though she worked diligently, she didn’t like where the project was going and felt like the project was absorbing her.
North used her knowledge from the rebranding project to fuel the creativity in her branding project. Her fictional company, which went much more in-depth than the last project. She was able to really focus on creating the cohesiveness of her fake company “Away Adventure Company.”
“Through these two projects I learned that a brand needs to be cohesive,” North said. “It’s all about finding the balance between cohesiveness and the idea of branching out and being adventurous.”
Outside of the classroom, Gustwiller and North both had ample design experience. Gustwiller designed the Athena Yearbook her junior year and created some website imagery and in-office graphics at her internship with footwear retailer DSW, Inc. North spent her junior year as a graphic design intern at the Career and Leadership Development Center, and this year she is focusing on her graphic design internship at the College of Business.
It’s clear that the women both stay busy in and out of the classroom. However, through their hectic graphic design careers, they find that their friendship has gotten them through the workload and has helped them to evolve into the artists they are today.
“I’m so happy Jaime and I became so close,” Gustwiller said. “We always work really well together and we have similar work ethics. She’s such a great friend.”
“We really help each other by keeping each other grounded and we vent to each other a lot,” North said. “It’s really nice to have Eve in my major because we can talk to each other and go through the same things together.”
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Main Concepts
Dependency Injection - More Details - Injector
The example below show you how to use programmaticaly
an injector to
- Declare providers, which in fact are a { key:value } pair
- And associate them to the injector
- Before using them
import {ReflectiveInjector} from '@angular/core';
//Define our injector and its providers
let injector = ReflectiveInjector.resolveAndCreate([
{provide: Person, useClass: Person},
{provide: LoggerService, useClass: LoggerService}
]);
// Then ask our injector to use its providers
// to get an instance of Person
injector.get(Person);
import {ReflectiveInjector} from '@angular/core';
//Define our injector and its providers
let injector = ReflectiveInjector.resolveAndCreate([ Person, LoggerService ]);
// Then ask our injector to use its providers
// to get an instance of Person
injector.get(Person);
As in the last tab, if the key and the type are the sames, you don't
need to use the provide function, instead use the type only is a shortcut.


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Once you have been created as a user, check your email for your username and temporary password as seen in the image below:
Navigate to [site URL] and enter your credentials.
Upon successful login you will need to reset your password. Your new password must be more than 8 characters, have atleast one capitol and atleast one number.
Once you have entered a valid password, enter it again to confirm, then click the green 'Submit' button.
You can now login with your username and new password!
From the login screen, select the 'Forgot password' link.
Enter your email address and click 'Submit'.
Check your email for your temporary password as seen in the image below:
Back at the login screen, enter your username and new temporary passsword.
Upon successful login you will need to reset your password. Your new password must be more than 8 characters, have atleast one capitol and atleast one number.
Once you have entered a valid password, enter it again to confirm, then click the green 'Submit' button.
You can now login with your username and new password!
From the dashboard, select 'Suitability'.
Begin filling out clients information. The first three fields in the 'Client Info' section are mandatory.
Once you have moved through all sections, review points and click 'Save'
A new client will be created and a welcome email will be sent to the email address provided along with their credentials for logging in.
*Username will be clients first name and last name, no capitals, no spaces.
If no email was provided then the client will be created with the default password 'Georgian2018' and email will be set based on campus.
If no information was entered in the four sections after 'Client Info', you will recieve a message confirming that the client will be created without a suitability form and will need to be completed at a later time from the 'Client Manage' page.
Upon successful client creation you will be redirected to the 'Manage Clients' page and should now see the newly created client.
This section of the app allows you to view client status, view/edit client forms, files and information, and create client as a student user.
There are currently four stages that a client can be a part of:
Red - Suitability incomplete
Yellow - Consent and/or Learning Style incomplete
Blue - Client information ready for input into Banner and CAM
Green - Client ready to become student
Select the red dropdown arrow under the 'Action' column for the client you want to view. Select 'View Info'.
The clients info will appear on the right and from here you can:
The status of the client must be green before they can be created as a student user. Ensure all forms have been completed and the clients information has been entered into Banner and CAM.
From the 'Client Manage' page, click the red dropdown arrow under the 'Action' column for the client you want to create as student. Select 'Create as Student'.
Enter the clients assigned student number:
Confirm the clients student number:
The client will now become a student user and you will be redirected to the 'Manage Students' page.
This section of the app allows you to manage forms, files and information for student users.
Select the red dropdown arrow under the 'Action' column for the student you want to view. Select 'View Info'.
The students information will appear on the right and from here you can:
This section of the app allows you to manage forms, files and information for staff memebers.
Click on the green 'Add Staff' button in the top right corner.
Select a role for the staff user then enter their first/last name and email.
Click the green 'Submit' button.
The new staff user will be created and credentials for login will be sent to their email.
Under the 'Action' column for the staff user you want to view, select 'Edit'.
Edit the necessary information, then click 'Save'.
The staff users information will be updated and you will be redirected back to the 'Manage Staff' page.
Under the 'Action' column for the staff user you want to view, select 'Delete'.
Select 'Yes, Delete!' to confirm staff user removal.
The user and their privileges will be removed from the database.
This section of the app allows you to manage course information.
Click on the green 'Add a Course' button in the top right corner.
Enter all information for the course on the left side:
In order to set what time you the class will start and end at, select the day you want the classes to occur on:
Enter the time the class will start and end:
If the class will occur more than once during the week, select another day and complete step 4 again.
Once you have entered all information and are ready to save the course, click the green 'Submit' button in the top right corner.
The new course will be created and you will be redirected the 'Course Manage' page.
Under the 'Action' column for the course you want to work with, select 'Edit'.
Edit the necessary information, then click 'Save'.
The course information will be updated and you will be redirected back to the 'Manage Courses' page.
Under the 'Action' column for the course you want to remove, select 'Delete'.
Select 'Yes, Delete!' to confirm course removal.
The course will be removed from the database.
From the dashboard, select 'Manage Courses'.
Find the course that the student is to be enrolled in and select 'Enroll'.
Find the student to be enrolled and enter their expected start and end date. Then click 'Enroll'.
The student is now enrolled!
From the dashboard, select 'Take Attendance'.
Under 'My Courses' find the course you want to take attendance for and select 'Attendance'.
Select the class date of attendance. (note: this list will not show dates for attendance that has already been taken)
Select either 'Present', 'Absent' or 'Made Contact' for each student in the class.
Click 'Submit' and confirm.
Attendance has been taken!
From the dashboard, select 'Take Attendance'.
Select the instructor you wish to take attendance for.
Under 'My Courses' find the course you want to take attendance for and select 'Attendance'.
Select the class date of attendance. (note: this list will not show dates for attendance that has already been taken)
Select either 'Present', 'Absent' or 'Made Contact' for each student in the class.
Click 'Submit' and confirm.
Attendance has been taken!
From the dashboard, select 'Attendance Report'.
By default, you will be shown the attendance based on course. Click on 'Student Report' to view attendance by student.
From the 'Courses' list, find the course you wish to view attendance info for and select 'View Report'.
From the 'Students' list, find the student you wish to view attendance info for and select 'View Report'.
From the dashboard, select 'Case Notes'.
From the 'Students' list, find the student you wish to view/enter a case note for and select 'View Notes'.
You can now view past notes, create new a note or delete a note.
Displays your weekly classes. Use the arrows in the top right to move between each week.
Allows you to print out a view of the selected week.


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--- title: 'Preparing For An Ageing French Population' author: 'Saikat Roy' date: '2020-09-28' slug: [] categories: - "Demography" tags: - Demography - History - France - population pyramid - age-sex distribution subtitle: '' lastmod: '2021-06-18T21:44:03+05:30' description: '' page: theme: wide upd: '' authorComment: '' hiddenFromHomePage: no hiddenFromSearch: no resources: name: featured-image src: featured-image.jpg #name: featured-image-preview #src: featured-image-preview.jpg featuredImage: '/post/2020-09-28-an-analysis-of-demography-of-france/index.en_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-2-1.png' featuredImagePreview: '/post/2020-09-28-an-analysis-of-demography-of-france/index.en_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-2-1.png' images: - '' toc: enable: yes math: enable: yes license: '' output: html_document: code_folding: show ---
Last day, my professor asked me to analyse some common demographic parameters of France. France, like most other European first-world nations, and unlike India, is on the verge of getting into an advanced phase of demographic transition. The perils of an ageing population is imminent. An old population is pernicious for both its economy and healthcare system. France is not too old, yet, but policymakers must prepare well in advance for both waning fertility rates :baby: and a huge proportion of elderly people :older_woman:. No wonder China is encouraging its citizens to have three babies, marking the failure of the one-child policy.
Note that all population counts are given in thousands and have been rounded off to the nearest integer. I’ll be depending on the pyramid
package in R to analyse the demographic parameters. Remember, I have used five year old data in my analysis.
| Age groups | Males(1985) | Females(1985) | Males(2015) | Females(2015) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-4 | 1961 | 1870 | 1991 | 1902 |
| 5-9 | 1885 | 1796 | 2033 | 1942 |
| 10-14 | 2155 | 2052 | 2027 | 1934 |
| 15-19 | 2196 | 2117 | 1956 | 1871 |
| 20-24 | 2190 | 2155 | 1876 | 1843 |
| 25-29 | 2109 | 2096 | 1923 | 1953 |
| 30-34 | 2148 | 2113 | 1968 | 2025 |
| 35-39 | 2164 | 2102 | 1925 | 1971 |
| 40-44 | 1511 | 1454 | 2166 | 2193 |
| 45-49 | 1486 | 1477 | 2171 | 2218 |
| 50-54 | 1548 | 1581 | 2137 | 2217 |
| 55-59 | 1474 | 1574 | 1984 | 2106 |
| 60-64 | 1348 | 1549 | 1895 | 2056 |
| 65-69 | 726 | 903 | 1773 | 1972 |
| 70-74 | 844 | 1179 | 1125 | 1310 |
| 75-79 | 638 | 1045 | 937 | 1226 |
| 80-84 | 367 | 740 | 731 | 1127 |
| 85-89 | 137 | 378 | 423 | 821 |
| 90-94 | 32 | 125 | 165 | 435 |
| 95-99 | 5 | 24 | 22 | 84 |
| 100+ | 0 | 2 | 3 | 18 |
| Year | Median Age (in years) |
|---|---|
| 1985 | 33.6 |
| 2015 | 41.2 |
Thus, 50% of the French population in 1985 were below the age of 33.6 and the rest were of ages more than 33.6, whereas in 2015, 50% of the population were below the age of 41.2 and the others were of age more than 41.2. Thus, the median age of the French population has increased.
Total dependency ratio is the ratio of population aged 0-14 and 65+ per 100 population of the age group 15-64.
\[ \text{Total Dependency Ratio} =~ \dfrac{\text{Population in the age-group 0-14 and 65+}}{\text{Population in the age-group 15-64}} \times 100 \]
| Year | Dependency ratio |
|---|---|
| 1985 | 51.8 |
| 2015 | 59.3 |
Thus, the total dependency ratio has increased in France in 2015 as compared to 1985.
The ratio of the number of elderly persons of an age when they are generally economically inactive (aged 65 and over) to the number of young persons (from 0 to 14) is known as the index of aging. A multiplier of 100 is often used for representing the data.
\[ \text{Index of aging} = \dfrac{\text{Population of age 65+}}{\text{Population in the age group 0-14}} \times 100 \]
| Year | Index of Aging |
|---|---|
| 1985 | 60.97 |
| 2015 | 102.90 |
Thus, the proportion of economically inactive persons to number of young persons under the age of 14, i.e., the index of aging has increased hugely in France from 1985 to 2015.
The potential support ratio (PSR) is the number of people aged 15–64 per one older person aged 65 or older. This ratio describes the burden placed on the working population (unemployment and children are not considered in this measure) by the non-working elderly population.
\[ \text{Potential Support Ratio} = \dfrac{\text{Number of people aged 15-64}}{\text{Number of people aged 65+}} \]
| Year | Potential support ratio |
|---|---|
| 1985 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 3.3 |
Thus, the proportion of people aged 15-64 per one person of age 64 or higher has decreased in 2015 as compared to 1985.
A population pyramid, also called an “age-gender pyramid” or “age-sex pyramid”, is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing. The age-sex pyramids of France in 1985 (left) and 2015 (right) are given below.
library(pyramid)
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
#analysis of 1985 (France)
dat1985 <- read.csv("1985.csv")
#class(dat1985)
colnames(dat1985)<-c("Age_groups", "Males","Females")
#attach(dat1985)
m <- dat1985$Males/(sum(dat1985$Males)+sum(dat1985$Females)) * 100
f <- dat1985$Females/(sum(dat1985$Females)+sum(dat1985$Females)) *100
z <- data.frame(m,f,dat1985$Age_groups)
figure_85 <- pyramid(z,Llab="Males in %", Rlab="Females in %", Clab="Age groups",main = 1985)
#analysis of 2015 (France)
dat2015 <- read.csv("2015.csv")
attach(dat2015)
m1 <- dat2015$Male/(sum(dat2015$Male)+sum(dat2015$Female)) * 100
f1 <- dat2015$Female/(sum(dat2015$Female)+sum(dat2015$Female)) * 100
z1 <- data.frame(m1,f1,Age_groups)
figure_15 <- pyramid(z1,Llab="Males in %", Rlab="Females in %", Clab="Age groups",main = "2015")
#knitr::include_graphics(c("figure_85","figure_15"))
Observe that there has been a change in the demography France. Proportion of middle-aged persons in the population has increased in 2015 as compared to 1985.


Qpid Proton's concepts and capabilities closely match those of its wire protocol, AMQP. See the Qpid AMQP page and the AMQP 1.0 spec for more information.
A proton::message
has a body (the main content), application properties where you can store additional data, and specific properties defined by AMQP.
Messages are transferred over links. The sending end of a link is a proton::sender
, and the receiving end is a proton::receiver
. Links have a source and target address, as explained below.
Links are grouped in a proton::session
. Messages in the same session are sent sequentially, while those on different sessions can be interleaved. A large message being sent on one session does not block messages being sent on another session.
Sessions belong to a proton::connection
. If you don't need multiple sessions, a connection will create links directly using a default session.
A proton::delivery
represents the transfer of a message and allows the receiver to accept or reject it. The sender can use a proton::tracker
to track the status of a sent message and find out if it was accepted.
A delivery is settled when both ends are done with it. Different settlement methods give different levels of reliability: at-most-once, at-least-once, and exactly-once. See below.
proton::container
is the top-level object in a Proton application. A client uses proton::container::connect()
to establish connections. A server uses proton::container::listen()
to accept connections.
Proton is an event-driven API. You implement a subclass of proton::messaging_handler
and override functions to handle AMQP events, such as on_container_open()
or on_message()
. Each connection is associated with a handler for its events. proton::container::run()
polls all connections and listeners and dispatches events to your handlers.
A message body can be a string or byte sequence encoded any way you like. However, AMQP also provides standard, interoperable encodings for basic data types and structures such as maps and lists. You can use this encoding for your message bodies via proton::value
and proton::scalar
, which convert C++ types to their AMQP equivalents.
Every link has two addresses, source and target. The most common pattern for using these addresses is as follows.
When a client creates a receiver link, it sets the source address. This means "I want to receive messages from this source". This is often referred to as "subscribing" to the source. When a client creates a sender link, it sets the target address. This means "I want to send to this target".
In the case of a broker, the source or target usually refers to a queue or topic. In general they can refer to any AMQP-capable node.
In the request-response pattern, a request message carries a reply-to address for the response message. This can be any AMQP address, but it is often useful to create a temporary address for the response message. The client creates a receiver with no source address and the dynamic flag set. The server generates a unique source address for the receiver, which is discarded when the link closes. The client uses this source address as the reply-to when it sends the request, so the response is delivered to the client's receiver.
The server_direct.cpp example shows how to implement a request-response server.
Proton offers three levels of message delivery guarantee: at-most-once, at-least-once, and exactly-once.
For at-most-once, the sender settles the message as soon as it sends it. If the connection is lost before the message is received by the receiver, the message will not be delivered.
For at-least-once, the receiver accepts and settles the message on receipt. If the connection is lost before the sender is informed of the settlement, then the delivery is considered in-doubt and should be retried. This will ensure it eventually gets delivered (provided of course the connection and link can be reestablished). It may mean that it is delivered multiple times, however.
Finally, for exactly-once, the receiver accepts the message but doesn't settle it. The sender settles once it is aware that the receiver accepted it. In this way the receiver retains knowledge of an accepted message until it is sure the sender knows it has been accepted. If the connection is lost before settlement, the receiver informs the sender of all the unsettled deliveries it knows about, and from this the sender can deduce which need to be redelivered. The sender likewise informs the receiver which deliveries it knows about, from which the receiver can deduce which have already been settled.


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WUT Velma robot API
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Variables | |
| anonymous | |
| timeout | |
| enable_sim = rospy.ServiceProxy('/gazebo/enable_sim', EnableSim) | |
| int | iteration = 0 |
| req = EnableSimRequest() | |
| run_steps | |
| block | |
| velma = VelmaInterface() | |
| timeout_s | |
| diag = velma.getCoreCsDiag() | |
| js_start = velma.getLastJointState() | |
| start_time | |
| position_tol | |
| error = velma.waitForJoint() | |
| tuple | q_dest = (0,0) |
| scripts.step_run_simulation.anonymous |
Definition at line 50 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.block |
Definition at line 73 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.diag = velma.getCoreCsDiag() |
Definition at line 100 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.enable_sim = rospy.ServiceProxy('/gazebo/enable_sim', EnableSim) |
Definition at line 60 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.error = velma.waitForJoint() |
Definition at line 114 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| int scripts.step_run_simulation.iteration = 0 |
Definition at line 68 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.js_start = velma.getLastJointState() |
Definition at line 112 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.position_tol |
Definition at line 113 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| tuple scripts.step_run_simulation.q_dest = (0,0) |
Definition at line 120 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.req = EnableSimRequest() |
Definition at line 71 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.run_steps |
Definition at line 72 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.start_time |
Definition at line 113 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.timeout |
Definition at line 55 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.timeout_s |
Definition at line 95 of file step_run_simulation.py.
| scripts.step_run_simulation.velma = VelmaInterface() |
Definition at line 93 of file step_run_simulation.py.


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20 May 1997
Disease Outbreak Reported
The 1997 edition of International Travel and Health - Vaccination Requirements and Health Advice is now accessible as hypertext files in English, Spanish and Japanese from the WHO home page on the World Wide Web. These files have been prepared by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Human Resources and Education Technology Development for the Control of Tropical Diseases at the Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy (in English), the Spanish Ministry of Public Health jointly with WHO, Geneva (in Spanish), and by a Non-Governmental Organization, Malaria Network Japan (in Japanese).
The agencies who kindly offered to make International Travel and Health available in English, Spanish and Japanese on the web are solely responsible for translation and the web conversion. The printed publication by WHO, including the revised malaria map (published in Weekly Epidemiological Record No. 13, 28 March 1997), remains the official version. It can be ordered from Distribution and Sales, World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (fax. 41-22-791 4857, e-mail: [email protected]) for Sw.fr. 17,00 (US$ 15,30). It is available at a lower price for developing countries.
For the first time a Japanese translation of the International Travel and Health is available. It was published this year by Houken, Tokyo. (ISBN: 4-87954-186-9).


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