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// Copyright 1998-2017 Epic Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved
// Plugin written by Philipp Buerki. Copyright 2017. All Rights reserved..

#include "TurnBasedBlueprintLibrary.h"
#include "EngineGlobals.h"
#include "Engine/Engine.h"
#include "OnlineSubsystemB3atZ.h"
#include "OnlineSubsystemBPCallHelper.h"
#include "Interfaces/OnlineTurnBasedInterface.h"

UB3atZTurnBasedBlueprintLibrary::UB3atZTurnBasedBlueprintLibrary(const FObjectInitializer& ObjectInitializer)
: Super(ObjectInitializer)
{
}

void UB3atZTurnBasedBlueprintLibrary::GetIsMyTurn(UObject* WorldContextObject, APlayerController* PlayerController, FString MatchID, /*out*/ bool& bIsMyTurn)
{
	bIsMyTurn = false;

	FOnlineSubsystemBPCallHelper Helper(TEXT("GetIsMyTurn"), GEngine->GetWorldFromContextObject(WorldContextObject));
	Helper.QueryIDFromPlayerController(PlayerController);

	if (Helper.IsValid())
	{
		IOnlineTurnBasedPtr OnlineTurnBasedPtr = Helper.OnlineSub->GetTurnBasedInterface();
		if (OnlineTurnBasedPtr.IsValid())
		{
			FTurnBasedMatchPtr Match = OnlineTurnBasedPtr->GetMatchWithID(MatchID);
			if (Match.IsValid())
			{
				bIsMyTurn = Match->GetCurrentPlayerIndex() == Match->GetLocalPlayerIndex();
			}
			else
			{
				FString Message = FString::Printf(TEXT("Match ID %s not found"), *MatchID);
				FFrame::KismetExecutionMessage(*Message, ELogVerbosity::Warning);
			}
		}
		else
		{
			FFrame::KismetExecutionMessage(TEXT("Turn Based Matches not supported by Online Subsystem"), ELogVerbosity::Warning);
		}
	}
}

void UB3atZTurnBasedBlueprintLibrary::GetMyPlayerIndex(UObject* WorldContextObject, APlayerController* PlayerController, FString MatchID, /*out*/ int32& PlayerIndex)
{
	PlayerIndex = -1;

	FOnlineSubsystemBPCallHelper Helper(TEXT("GetMyPlayerIndex"), GEngine->GetWorldFromContextObject(WorldContextObject));
	Helper.QueryIDFromPlayerController(PlayerController);

	if (Helper.IsValid())
	{
		IOnlineTurnBasedPtr OnlineTurnBasedPtr = Helper.OnlineSub->GetTurnBasedInterface();
		if (OnlineTurnBasedPtr.IsValid())
		{
			FTurnBasedMatchPtr Match = OnlineTurnBasedPtr->GetMatchWithID(MatchID);
			if (Match.IsValid())
			{
				PlayerIndex = Match->GetLocalPlayerIndex();
			}
			else
			{
				FString Message = FString::Printf(TEXT("Match ID %s not found"), *MatchID);
				FFrame::KismetExecutionMessage(*Message, ELogVerbosity::Warning);
			}
		}
		else
		{
			FFrame::KismetExecutionMessage(TEXT("Turn Based Matches not supported by Online Subsystem"), ELogVerbosity::Warning);
		}
	}
}

void UB3atZTurnBasedBlueprintLibrary::RegisterTurnBasedMatchInterfaceObject(UObject* WorldContextObject, APlayerController* PlayerController, UObject* Object)
{
	FOnlineSubsystemBPCallHelper Helper(TEXT("GetIsMyTurn"), GEngine->GetWorldFromContextObject(WorldContextObject));
	Helper.QueryIDFromPlayerController(PlayerController);

	if (Helper.IsValid())
	{
		IOnlineTurnBasedPtr OnlineTurnBasedPtr = Helper.OnlineSub->GetTurnBasedInterface();
		if (OnlineTurnBasedPtr.IsValid())
		{
			OnlineTurnBasedPtr->RegisterTurnBasedMatchInterfaceObject(Object);
		}
	}
}

void UB3atZTurnBasedBlueprintLibrary::GetPlayerDisplayName(UObject* WorldContextObject, APlayerController* PlayerController, FString MatchID, int32 PlayerIndex, /*out*/ FString& PlayerDisplayName)
{
	FOnlineSubsystemBPCallHelper Helper(TEXT("GetMyPlayerIndex"), GEngine->GetWorldFromContextObject(WorldContextObject));
	Helper.QueryIDFromPlayerController(PlayerController);

	if (Helper.IsValid())
	{
		IOnlineTurnBasedPtr OnlineTurnBasedPtr = Helper.OnlineSub->GetTurnBasedInterface();
		if (OnlineTurnBasedPtr.IsValid())
		{
			FTurnBasedMatchPtr Match = OnlineTurnBasedPtr->GetMatchWithID(MatchID);
			if (Match.IsValid())
			{
				if (Match->GetPlayerDisplayName(PlayerIndex, PlayerDisplayName) == false)
				{
					FString Message = FString::Printf(TEXT("Player index %d not within bounds of player array."), PlayerIndex);
					FFrame::KismetExecutionMessage(*Message, ELogVerbosity::Warning);
				}
			}
			else
			{
				FString Message = FString::Printf(TEXT("Match ID %s not found"), *MatchID);
				FFrame::KismetExecutionMessage(*Message, ELogVerbosity::Warning);
			}
		}
		else
		{
			FFrame::KismetExecutionMessage(TEXT("Turn Based Matches not supported by Online Subsystem"), ELogVerbosity::Warning);
		}
	}
}


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Qualifying Master Will Power Wins Sixth St. Pete Pole Position …
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Verizon IndyCar Series qualifying is typically a hard-fought battle, but for one name, it was a record-breaking effort that landed him the Verizon P1 Award for the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
In 2015, Will Power set the St. Pete track record with a pole-winning lap of 1 minute, 0.6509 of a second. Today, it took his No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet all of five laps in Segment 1 to best that. The 2014 series champion led all in Segment 1 with a lap of 1:00.5678 in the second group, beating his track record by over a tenth of a second. One segment later, Power went a full half-second quicker, topping Segment 2 at 1:00.0658 heading into the Firestone Fast Six.
All six of the drivers advancing to the Firestone Fast Six beat Power's Segment 1 time, and all three of Power's Team Penske teammates (Juan Pablo Montoya, Helio Castroneves, Simon Pagenaud) joined him in the final segment. Also advancing were series champions Scott Dixon (No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet) and Ryan Hunter-Reay (No. 28 DHL Andretti Autosport Honda), setting up a juggernaut lineup for the final round.
Most drivers waited several minutes into the Fast Six before taking to the track, but when they did, the four-minute flurry ended with four teammates at the top of the charts. For the sixth time in his career, Will Power will sit on pole for the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg with a Firestone Fast Six lap of 1:00.2450. Following him were the No. 22 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Chevrolet of Simon Pagenaud, the No. 3 Hitachi Chevrolet of Helio Castroneves and the No. 2 Verizon Chevrolet of Juan Pablo Montoya, setting up a 1-2-3-4 start from Team Penske for the second straight year at St. Petersburg. Scott Dixon rounded out the top 5, followed by Ryan Hunter-Reay on the outside of row 3.
The opening race of the Verizon IndyCar Series season gets underway Sunday afternoon on the streets of St. Petersburg. Coverage of the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg begins at 12:30 p.m. ET on ABC and the Advance Auto Parts INDYCAR Radio Network, as the 22-car field tackles the 1.8-mile street circuit in anger for the first time in 2016.

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Home › Southwestern Archaeology › 'Hidden Architecture' of 1,000-Year-Old Village Discovered in New Mexico
'Hidden Architecture' of 1,000-Year-Old Village Discovered in New Mexico
anthropology archaeology New Mexico Southwestern Archaeology Posted on March 31, 2014 • Updated December 31, 2015 —by Blake de Pastino 22682 8
For more than 40 years, archaeologists have been coaxing what they could from the traces of an ancient Puebloan settlement in New Mexico they call Blue J.
Buried under a thousand years' worth of eroded stone and wind-blown sand, Blue J has intrigued experts with what little it has revealed: the outlines of nearly 60 households, situated around a series of open plazas, the masonry and building styles dating their construction to the 11th century.
Almost entirely unexcavated, the settlement sits just 70 kilometers south of Chaco Canyon — the nexus of Ancestral Pueblo culture — and was built during the heyday of Chaco's widest influence.
And yet Blue J has been notable so far for what it appeared to lack: the monumental, ceremonial architecture that would signal its role as a Chacoan community.
No trace has been found of a multistory great house, for instance, which in other settlements was key to both ritual and trade; nor had experts detected any circular, subterranean kivas, where elites would have met for worship and decision-making.
New research of a thousand-year-old Puebloan settlement used a remote-controlled drone equipped with infrared sensors to discover ruins obscured by soil and sagebrush. (Photo courtesy Kantner and Casana)
"Because of the lack of visible Chacoan ceremonial architecture, such as a monumental great house or great kiva, I've actually argued that the people of Blue J may have resisted Chaco Canyon religious dominance by pointedly not building any Chaco-style architecture," said Dr. John Kantner, an archaeologist with the University of North Florida.
But now Blue J appears to be giving up some of its secrets, and changing the perspective of Kantner and others, as new technology allows archaeologists to see under the desert floor.
Using a small, remote-controlled copter equipped with a heat-sensing camera, Kantner and his colleagues were able to discover ruins last June that for decades had been obscured by soil and sagebrush.
The features revealed by the copter — or drone, as they call it — may reshape archaeologists' understanding of the size, scope, and cultural affiliations of the Blue J community.
"The drone work was able to show us that at least some of the sites are much larger below the surface than can be seen on the surface," Kantner said in an interview.
"Since I had gone to the expense of excavating a couple of the households … I knew that there was hidden architecture, but I didn't have any quick and inexpensive way to determine that without digging a whole lot of holes.
"At the very least, the drone work suggests the village was much larger than I had originally calculated based on surface remains."
The camera mounted on the drone used infrared sensing to detect the ambient desert heat retained by the underground masonry, explained Dr. Jesse Casana of the University of Arkansas, co-author of the new Blue J research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
"Because the stonework of the archaeological ruins retains heat longer than surrounding soils, we can use the technology to reveal 'hot' areas where stone rubble was buried as well as 'cool' areas showing cavities below the surface," Casana said in a statement.
Over the course of five aerial surveys, each about 11 minutes long, the drone used this technology to detect the footprints of a large blocks of rooms facing an open courtyard, as well as sections of enclosing walls, and — most notably — two large, deep, circular features, one of which fits the dimensions of a ceremonial kiva.
Scans from aerial surveys show thermal images on the left with photographic images of the surface on the right.
As detailed by the illustrations at center, the thermal images reveal traces of ruins that aren't visible on the surface. (Photos courtesy Kantner and Casana)
"The drone identified at least one circular, buried anomaly that is almost exactly the right size for a great kiva," Kantner said. "It is decidedly not visible in any way on the surface."
This feature may have the biggest implications of any other discovery made by the drone, he said, since the presence of a distinctly Chacoan religious structure would suggest that Blue J was, in fact, within Chaco Canyon's cultural sphere of influence.
"If it is indeed a great kiva, I'll have to change my interpretation of how villages like Blue J interacted with Chaco Canyon," he said.
While Kantner weighs the permissions and funding that would be necessary to finally excavate Blue J, Casana, who specializes in the archaeology of the Middle East, sees opportunities for using unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, at sites around the world.
"This project has convinced us that UAV-based thermal imaging holds great potential for discovery and mapping of ancient sites," Casana said.
"Traditional archaeological fieldwork is time-consuming and labor intensive, and surveying large areas can become expensive. We've known for decades that thermography might theoretically be a powerful alternative approach, but it's only with these new technologies that it's become feasible."
"We will soon be trying this out in other parts of the world, with the goal of making aerial thermography a routinely used method for uncovering the human past."
Casana, J., Kantner, J., Wiewel, A., & Cothren, J. (2014). Archaeological aerial thermography: a case study at the Chaco-era Blue J community, New Mexico Journal of Archaeological Science, 45, 207-219 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.02.015
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My friend kenny schulback is helping with this dig today i am so proud he is there to share in the excitment
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Wilting petals
EuropeAug 1st 1998 edition
FOR anybody who recalls the intoxicating scents of the "revolution of carnations" that ushered in Portugal's democracy a quarter of a century ago, it is a rather depressing development. Plans to consult the electorate over the nation's political future may collapse for lack of interest.
This new-found apathy—in a country where people used to queue up outside polling stations for hours before they were open—was brutally exposed in June, when Portuguese voters were asked for their verdict on abortion, one of the most highly charged issues in many democracies. It was Portugal's first referendum, a device whose introduction last year was proudly hailed as the finishing touch in an neatly balanced constitution. But in the event, only 32% of voters made it to the polls.
The result was a wafer-thin victory for those who want to keep the present severe curbs on abortion. But because the turnout was so low—lower than in any poll, even for the European Parliament, since the 1974 revolution—the result lacked legal force. Embarrassed legislators decided they had little choice but to leave the old abortion law alone.
After this gloomy precedent, Portugal's political class is feeling decidedly nervous about plans to hold further plebiscites. One ill-conceived idea—probably disbarred as a result of a court decision this week—was to pose a question that would baffle the most dutiful of citizens: "Do you agree with Portugal's continued participation in the construction of the European Union in the context of the Amsterdam treaty?"
Even in a nation of Euro-enthusiasts, which has struggled hard and successfully to take part in economic and monetary integration, such a question was not likely to send anyone rushing to the polls. The politicians who first thought of holding this dreary ballot—before anyone knew quite how poorly the poll on abortion would fare—are feeling rather sheepish.
Another poll, which is seen by the main political parties as far more important, will invite approval for the establishment of regional assemblies. The ruling Socialists want this vote to pass, whereas their centreright opponents hope it will fail. No politician wants to be told that voters do not care either way.
Relief may be at hand in the shape of a Constitutional Court ruling on July 29th which disallowed the European ballot. Legislators could in theory try thinking up a new form of words for the Euro-question; but in practice, they are very unlikely to bother. Cancelling one referendum may possibly provide a small breathing-space in which to galvanise those blasé voters and persuade them that giving power to Portugal's regions is important. After all, it was a promise made during the 1974 revolution.
Outside the political class, many Portuguese would argue that if their country, like many other new democracies in Europe, is losing interest in ideology, that is probably no bad thing. It may be that economic growth—expected to be 4.5% this year—is more important. "We voted with a passion after the revolution because Portugal was engaged in a struggle for its destiny between democracy and communism," says a Lisbon banker. "Voter apathy is a sign that we feel more secure and prosperous." Manuel Villaverde Cabral, one of the country's leading sociologists, makes a similar point. As they start to enjoy their material success—reflected in soaring sales of houses and consumer goods—his compatriots are telling the politicians: "Don't bother me until the next economic crisis comes along." But he worries that the Portuguese may pay a price for losing interest in their political destiny. Even prosperity is a flower that can fade.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Wilting petals"
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The Obstacles for Women in Tech
Gabriella Dymott
Gabriella Dymott: You mentioned, some mistakes that you've made along the way. Is there one particular obstacle that you think you've had to
Danielle Ralic: Yes, I think my biggest obstacle, unfortunately, has been my gender, I would say, and I think it needs to be talked about. I know that's slightly scandalous to say, but it's tough to be a woman in tech, and I wish it was a lot better, and it is changing. And there's a lot of awesome allies, like helping push that through. But to be honest, it's a hidden, silent obstacle all the time. And it took me a while to recognize that and figure out how to start to work around it.
But just so you know, as a few examples, I would present myself, I would say I'm the CEO and CTO, and my background has always been in tech, so I don't hesitate to help me architect what we're doing and things like that meeting our tech team, and I would present that with a co-founder who's a man, and they would ask him the technical questions, even though I made this introduction and we made this a point as co-founders is that I would say it, and then they would reinforce it just to try to make sure there's no confusion and it would happen repeatedly.
And my co-founder, he's great. So he would just be like, no, that's her. But it was little things like that, and no one quite believes you when you say you're going to do something in tech and we're trying to build or we are building natural language processing models, and we would get like, oh, that's too hard. That's a hard thing to do. And I have a feeling that if I wasn't a woman sitting in front of him, I don't know if I'd get that kind of
Or my favorite is with investors and things a lot of personal questions about if you're married, if you have kids, what your husband thinks about you starting a company, which I don't think would also happen if I was a man. Of course, none of this can be proven. And that's where it gets difficult to say a lot of these things. But I felt that as an obstacle. Now that I've sort of recognized it, I feel a little bit more empowered to tackle it head-on. But other examples when I first started out, I also didn't have total confidence in myself, which took a year or two to grow into.
But I had someone come and approach me and say, oh, I really like your idea. Let's work on this together. I thought, okay, no problem. And we met and at the end of it, he had pulled me aside and said, you're quite junior. I think I should work on this company in machine language, and I should be the CEO, and it really hit me. One of those, you have a gut reaction. You're like, wait a second. I put a lot of thought into
I've put a lot of work to get this to where this is. And you just want to kind of take over and be CEO, and you sort of got it wrong. It's machine learning, just a little heads up. It's one of those points where it's like, why do people think I'm not capable? I'm like, oh, wait. I think I'm starting to put this together. So it took a lot of awesome friends to wake me up a little bit, but I think that's one of the obstacles I faced.
I mean, even in my tech career got things like, oh, we hired women in our technology consulting practice because we need a pretty face in front of the client so they don't get mad if anything goes wrong. And I've also heard for recruiting teams that will be working with would pass on resumes with women because we invest in a year or two in them, and then they get married and have kids. And we've lost all that time and investment in a woman. So I've definitely seen it.
And people have shared that with me, which was a good thing to hear and also terrifying at the same time. And I've seen it in other ways. Women on the team, people not wanting women to be on the team because it disrupts the team dynamic, which is the point. So that's kind of fun or just little comments that women I may have managed to hurt. Those are some of the unfortunate things. I think it is changing a lot, but that's unfortunately, I think still a reality.
Gabriella Dymott: Yeah, I think sadly, it's true. I work with a lot of them myself, and I hear it day in, day out. And I think it obviously shows as well by the fact that the majority of kind of people in your position are men. It's incredibly difficult to find a female or certainly as many females in those kinds of opportunities. And granted, those kinds of roles. So like I said, I think is changing, which is positive, but perhaps not quick enough. It's obviously taken up until now. And like you say, we're in 2021, we're not back in the '70s, or 80s.


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Liver Function Tests Literature Review and Practice
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The liver is the largest internal organ in the body. In adult the liver weighs approximately 1-2.5 kilograms. It is "wedge-shaped", soft and reddish-brown in colour. It is situated underneath the diaphragm. The liver is divided into right and left lobes by the middle hepatic vein. The right lobe is bigger and consists of caudate and quadrate lobes. The blood is supplied to the liver constitute 25% of the resting cardiac output and through two major blood vessels: hepatic artery and portal vein. Blood leaves the liver via the hepatic vein, which drains directly into the inferior vena cava. Bile is formed in the liver and it is collected in the bile capillaries which drain into the right and left hepatic ducts.
The liver is organised in lobules within which blood flows past hepatic cells via sinusoids from branches of the portal vein (bringing absorbed materials from gastrointestinal tract) to the central vein of each lobule. Hepatic artery blood (providing oxygen needed for many of the metabolic processes carried out by the liver) also enters the sinusoids. The central veins coalesce to form the hepatic veins which drain into the inferior vena cava. Each liver cell is also apposed to several bile canaliculi. The canaliculi coalesce to form the right and left hepatic ducts, which join outside the liver to form the common hepatic duct. The cystic duct drains the gallbladder. The hepatic duct unites with the cystic duct to form the common bile duct. The common bile duct enters the duodenum at the papilla. Ganong, (1995)
Hepatocytes or parenchymal (liver cells) which further classified on the basis of their site in the lobule comprise about 60% kupffer cells lining the hepatic sinusoids comprise 30% of the liver cells and the remaining 10% of cells consist of vascular and supporting tissue and bile ducts.
The significant important of the liver came from the ability of this organ to perform a wide variety of functions which contribute in the body homeostasis, in particular regulation of blood sugar. When there is an excess sugar, the pancreatic cells secret the hormone insulin that converts excess sugar into glycogen (storage form of glucose). Glycogen provide rapid accessible source of energy for the body when blood glucose decrease. Also gluconeogenesis (formation of new glucose) from amino acids such as alanine and ascorbic acid take place in liver. The coagulation factors which are required for blood clotting, albumin and various lipoproteins which are required for transport of lipid in blood stream are synthesized in the liver. The only exception of protein synthesis is the synthesis of immunoglobulin. Cholesterol which serves as precursor of steroid hormones is mostly synthesized in by the liver. Also liver has the ability to excrete and detoxify e.g. ammonia formed from the breakdown of amino acids or microbial action in the gastrointestinal tract converted to urea. Steroid hormones which are inactivated by conjugation with glucuronate and sulphate excreted into urine as water soluble forms.
A wide range of medications (drugs) inactivated by endoplasmic reticulum enzymes and some are excreted in the bile. Kupffer cells in the hepatic sinusoid extract toxins absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. Other important excretory function is the excretion of bile acid formed from cholesterol in the liver to gall bladder where it stored until required for lipid digestion in the small intestine. The ability of liver to carry out its excretory function of the metabolism end products depends on, healthy functioning hepatocytes, adequate blood flow through the liver and patent biliary duct. The other important function of liver is Storage of vitamins such as vitamin A, D and vitamin B12.
In addition, metabolism and excretion of bilirubin is one of the major functions of the liver. Bilirubin is an ecteric waste product pigment formed from the breakdown of haemoglobin (Hb) in the red blood cells in the lymph reticular system at the end of their life span which is approximately 120 days. Normally an adult produces about 450 umol/L daily. Gaw et al, (1999). Hb contains four haem group, an iron atom and prophyrin ring attached to each haem group. When Hb molecules metabolize, the iron atoms are removed and reused again in the processing of a new Hb molecule. The prophyrin ring breaks to form a open tetrapyrole derivative biliverdin chain which is further reduced to form unconjugated bilirubin (lipid soluble).Whitby, (1988).
The lipid-soluble bilirubin can cross cell membrane include brain barrier and cause brain cell damage. Therefore it has to be transported by a special carrier called albumin in the plasma in order to be converted to water-soluble so that can be excreted into bile. The binding of albumin accomplished by being not enter cells readily and also not filtered through glumerulus unless there is glomerular proteinuria. When the albumin-bilirubin complex reach the liver, it dissociates by the receptors on the plasma at the same time. Inside hepatocytes, bilirubin molecules join to relatively non-specific anion binding proteins called ligandin (Y protein), is soluble transport protein in the smooth endoplasmic reticulum. Calbreath, (1992). The glucuronic acid molecules attach to unconjugated bilirubin molecules to form bilirubin glucuronides in a reaction mediated by uridine diphosphate (UDP). Bilirubin glucuronides complex is water-soluble conjugated bilirubin which then excreted into small intestine. The conjugation process depends on the active secretion of bile acids and therefore serum bile acids concentration are more sensitive index of hepatic transport function than the total bilirubin. Small amount undergoes reabsorption in the small intestine and the rest is degraded by bacterial action mainly in the colon where it is de-conjugated to form urobilinogen. Portions of urobilinogen re-enter the hepatic circulation and excreted by the liver into bile. Small fraction filtered by kidney into urine, but the majority is excreted in faeces providing its orange-yellow characteristic.
If the bilirary tract becomes blocked, serum bilirubin concentration will rise as uncojugated bilirubin not excreted and the patient becomes jaundice. Jaundice is a yellow discoloration of the skin or the sclera of the eye. The yellowish coloration is caused by an excess amount of bilirubin in the plasma which is not detectable until the concentration is greater than 40 umol/L. gaw, et al (1999). The normal concentration is up to 20 umol/L. causes of jaundice classified into three categories including haemolytic (prehepatic) jaundice characterized by an increased breakdown of haemoglobin, hepatic jaundice due to failure of the conjugation mechanism and post hepatic or obstructive jaundice because of obstruction of biliary system. Most newborn babies are characterized with physiological or neonatal jaundice due to natural process of breaking down RBCs. As their livers are immature, they can not process bilirubin as quickly as when they are old. This increase in bilirubin concentration and has no significance to do with liver. Marshal, (2000).
In clinical practice usually all the tests related to liver diseases are called liver function tests (LFT). Biochemical tests include measurement of bilirubin, the aminotransferases (ALT and AST), albumin total protein and alkaline pkosphatase in serum specimen. Albumin and total protein reflect the synthetic liver function. ALT and AST used to measure the severity of liver cells damage although they are not specific index of acute damage to hepatocytes, but they are sensitve indicators to cytoplasmic and mitochondrial membrane. Gaw, et al (1999). Increased conjugation bilirubin concentration and increased ALP activity at sinusoidal surface indicate cholestasis, a blockage in the bile flow. Prolonged cholestasis can result in severe jaundice with very high bilirubin concentration result in deposition of bile salts, characterized by itching, bleeding due to vitamin K malabsorption, cholesterol retention and dark urine with pale stool. The prothrombin time (PT) which is used to asses the synthetic function of liver is prolonged due to cholestasis. Measurement of γ glutamyl transferase can give an indication of hepatocellular enzyme induction due to drugs or alcohol.
Materials and method
Please refer to medical biochemistry practical book (BMS2).
Determination of ALP
The equation obtained from the graph is used to calculate the amount of phenol liberated by the action of ALP. The equation is:
Y = 0.1753
The enzyme activity is measured in international unit per 1 minute (IU/1) therefore to obtain the activity, the result has to be converted first to umol/1 and then divided by the incubation time (15 minutes) as follow:
(Value of phenol concentration in mmol/1 X 1000) / 15 = IU/L
Patient 1:
Result: 0.207 / 0.1753 = 1.18083 x 1000 = 1180.8 umol/L
To get the enzyme activity in 1 minute:
= 1180.8 / 15 = 78.7 IU/L
ALP enzyme activity of patient 1= 78.7 IU/L
Result: 0.215 / 0.1753 = 1.2264 x 1000 = 1226.4 umol/L
ALP enzyme activity of patient 2 = 81.7 IU/L
Determination of bilirubin
The concentration of bilirubin is calculated by using the following equation
Absorbance of the test x STD concentration
Absorbance of STD
Patient 1 = (0.413/0.431) x 350 = 335.3 umol/L
Patient 2 = (0.037/0.431) x 350 = 30 umol/L
The results of Aspartate transaminase (AST), albumin and total protein were provided by the tutor.
The biochemical finding shows that patient 1 may have haemolytic disease where as the other patient (patient 2) suffer from acute hepatitis.
Liver function test are done to asses the integrity of the liver to carry out its normal synthetic and metabolic functions. This is achieved through series of numerical tests that reflect the healthiness of the liver when comparing the result obtained with normal reference ranges. The measurements of enzyme activities are very useful in following the progress of the liver disease once the diagnosis has been made.
From the result it is obvious that patient 1 has got normal TP, ALB, AST and ALP results, which means that there is liver damage. Total protein is combined of immunoglobulin proteins and other proteins. A person's total protein level gives information about the liver damage, kidney damage and nutritional health. Albumin is small protein made in the liver. If a person suffers from liver damage, the albumin concentration will drop because the liver can not maintain the normal production of albumin. Aspartate transminase (AST) is the enzyme found in the liver, heart and muscle. Levels of this enzyme are usually assessed in conjugation with reading for other liver enzyme to determine or monitor the liver involvement.
On other hand the bilirubin is very high above the normal range (hyperbilirubiaemia) and normally the bilirubin which is present in plasma is unconjugated bilirubin. Since the unconjugated bilirubin is high it indicates that is excessive red blood cells (RBCs) destruction (haemolysis) which occurs in haemolytic anaemia. Normally the red blood cells survival is 120 days, but in haemolytic anaemia is less. Because of that the RBCs are destroyed in large quantities in the RE system (particularly the spleen). When the RBCs are destroyed, the haemoglobin is released and bilirubin is produced. It is mainly produced from the haem moiety of the haemoglobin (it is also produced from myoglobin, cytochroms and peroxidase, which are widely distributed in the body). The liver can not conjugate and remove this large amount of unconjugated bilirubin and since it is protein bound the renal glomeruli can not filter it. That leads to overflow of unconjugated bilirubin in blood circulation. These mean that this patient may have haemolytic jaundice (prehepatic jaundice), because the protein synthesis is normal and ALP, AST are normal which means that there is no liver involvement.
Haemolytic jaundice also occurs in haemolytic Disease of Newborn, transfusion of incompatible blood, hereditary spherocytosis and autoimmune red cell destruction. Marshall,(2000).
The results of patient 2 show normal total protein, albumin and ALP. There is a slight increase in bilirubin level (hyperbilirubinaemia) and AST is above the very high. AST is an intracellular enzyme and is mostly found in the cytoplasmic and mitochondrial membrane of hepatocytes. So it is a sensitive marker for the severity of damage hepatocytes. ALP concentration usually rises in cholestasis (this is by extra-hepatic obstruction of the bile duct) but in this patient was normal, which means that the kupffer cells and sinusoidal surface is not yet damaged. Total protein and albumin were also normal and that indicates that the metabolism and synthesis in the liver is not yet affected. Bilirubin was slightly high which support that there is liver disease and due to this, there is defect of bile salt and bile pigment excretion. In addition to that, conjugation and detoxification functions are well defected because of hepatic cells damaged. These happen due to a condition called Hepatitis (liver inflammation).
Hepatitis is the common cause of acute liver injury. Acute hepatitis usually occurs due to viral infection particularly with hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D and E, but also Epstein-bar virus and cytomegalovirus or toxin (e.g. alcohol and paracetamol). Marshall, (2000) In the early stages of hepatitis, increased plasma ALT and AST activities may be the only abnormal chemical finding.
There will be also an increased level of urobilinogen and bilirubin in urine (the urine will be darkened). The stool may be very pale due to impaired biliary excretion of bilirubin and urobilinogen then disappears more or less completely from the urine. Marshall, (2000)
The above results reveal that liver is functioning well but partly defected because of the early stage of the disease. This patient may have acute liver disease (Acute hepatitis). To confirm these results hepatitis virus profiles should be done.
Jaundice in the newborn is common. Why?
Jaundice in the newborn is called Neonatal Jaundice. It is common because before birth, an infant get rid of bilirubin through the mother's blood and liver system. After birth, the baby's liver has to take over processing on its own. The activity of the hepatic conjugation enzyme is usually low at birth but increases rapidly thereafter. Almost all newborns have higher than normal level of bilirubin; because the immaturity of their livers. In most cases, the baby's system continues to develop and can soon process bilirubin. However, some infants may need medical treatment to prevent serious complications which can occur due to the accumulation of bilirubin. There are at least two significant processes that predispose normal infants to jaundice:
The rate of bilirubin production is higher in infants than adults because their red blood cells have half-life and turn over more rapidly.
Infants have a relatively limited ability to conjugate bilirubin and conjugation in the liver is necessary for efficient elimination.
Write short notes on Gilbert's disease.
Gilbert's disease is a harmless inherited condition in which the unconjugated bilirubin level in the blood is increased. Bilirubin is an end product of haemoglobin breakdown and it is conjugated in the liver with glucuronate. This process is catalysed by specific enzyme called uidine diophosphate glucuronyl transferase which is found in endoplasmic reticulum, which helps the body to conjugate bilirubin and get rid of it. Thus Gilbert's syndrome is a genetic disorder which means that there is slight deficiency of this enzyme.
Patient with Gilbert's disease can have intermittent bilirubin level but the values are often increased when blood is drown after a period of fasting or during a time of concurrent viral illness or when the person is stressed, either physically or mentally. People with Gilbert's syndrome are not ill but they may complain of vague abdominal discomfort and general fatigue for which no cause found. The condition is not usually apparent until adolescence or early adult life. It is sometimes discovered incidentally, in the course of investigations done for related reasons. All liver function tests (LFTs) are normal, except for serum bilirubin which is raised. X-ray and liver biopsy show that there is no liver disease. Gilbert's syndrome should not be regarded as a disease and people with the syndrome are not ill.
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Graduation Address: Meeting the Creative Challenge
"What distinguishes University of Ulster students is their ability to think and act creatively."
That was the message from the Vice-Chancellor to students and their families as the University's 2010 summer graduation series got under way at the Coleraine campus this morning.
In a wide-ranging address to graduates from the Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, the Vice-Chancellor placed emphasis on the resilience and ability to innovate that new graduates brought to society.
At the same time, he said, they also faced a challenging economic environment.
"The graduation class of 2010 face many greater challenges than did my generation," said Professor Barnett.
"You will face challenges that my generation never had to face. However, as a graduate of this university, we've left you that all important inheritance: the ability to think creatively – and I encourage you to have the confidence to put that creativity into practice."
Turning to the international environment, the Vice-Chancellor spoke of his recent visit to China, which had both impressed and frightened him with the scale of its commitment to development:
"China impressed me because I saw immense investment in the country's economic future. There was great investment in the economic and physical infrastructure, and still greater investment in education, especially investment in universities. I visited cities that I'd visited just five years previously and now hardly recognised given the scale of the investment. And I visited universities that I'd visited five years previously and didn't recognise at all such was the scale of the investment. And, quite simply, their facilities are the most impressive that I've seen anywhere.
"China frightened me because China is still waking up and developing its economic infrastructure. As they develop further into the economic powerhouse that they will undeniably become, it sometimes makes me wonder how we in the west are going to compete."
Nevertheless, Professor Barnett said he was confident for the future of the graduates receiving their degrees and certificates today:
"I gain renewed confidence in our future, however, at graduations such as this, because our future lies in creative thinkers such as today's graduation class. Creative thinkers who, by definition, have the ability to do things differently. But as I said, that in itself is not enough.
"We must have creative thinkers who have confidence to put that creative thinking into practice and above all to take risks."
Turning to the economic environment into which the new graduates were emerging, the Vice-Chancellor called on government to ensure that adequate support structures were in place to enable our talented young people to seize the opportunities the world offered:
"In these tough economic times we also need a government that both recognises that our future lies in nurturing our creative talent and supports those who take the risks on our behalf," he said.


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The Brokin Yolk
By Seema Dhawan
Brunch Brothers
Delicious things come from the fusion of cultures at The Bro'Kin Yolk in the northwest community of Evanston. Brothers Gilbert and Jeffrey Carlos own and operate the brunch spot, and they spent months planning its menu, which brings together Filipino dishes that reflect their family background with Western brunch standards.
The restaurant is named for its central components: brothers, kin and eggs. The eatery has had customers queuing up since the day it opened in August of 2015. The food is locally grown and so fresh that the restaurant doesn't own a freezer. And yet, the amount of food served is a bit mind boggling. On weekends alone, the eatery goes through over 350 kilograms of potatoes, and 3,000 eggs.
Another testament to the brothers' winning food formula, the restaurant was featured on The Food Network's hit program You Gotta Eat Here in its first year of business.
We try not to make anything bland. - Jeffery Carlos, co-owner
The mini homemade Belgian waffles can be ordered as an appetizer or as dessert. Photo by Seema Dhawan.
All a Good Bite
Jeffrey works in the kitchen and is the man behind the unique flavours at The Bro'Kin Yolk. He started as a dishwasher in the restaurant industry and worked his way up, eventually training to become a chef. Gilbert managed pubs around the city for years, and in 2015 the duo decided it was time to open their own eatery.
Kin is at the heart of everything at The Bro'Kin Yolk. The staff, local suppliers and customers are part of the family, says Gilbert. "We kind of want to feel like you're entering our kitchen, where you can be one of us and be part of our family," he says.
The brothers' mom is often at the restaurant. The brothers grew up around the kitchen table, saying her cooking had a big influence on the the food dishes they now serve. "Her cooking was amazing," says Jeffery. "I think her food just influenced me to expand on it."
The love of food she has imparted upon her sons is apparent in The Bro'Kin Yolk dishes. The restaurant's adventurous flavour combinations are heavenly. Entrees include Spanish chorizo bowls, waffles served with fried chicken spiced with paprika, garlic powder and chillies. The eggs Benedict selection includes a bacon Benny topped with Broxburn tomato, kale, roasted garlic hollandaise and house-cured bacon. Cured with a mixture of sugar, salt, soya sauce and paprika, the pork-belly, this tosino-style bacon is popular in Spain and the Philippines. "We give our bacon a little bit of a caramelization," says Jeffrey. "People just really enjoy the flavour."
Another popular dish is the short rib hash, a bed of duck-fat potato hash browns topped with slow-cooked short ribs, peppers, onions and two sunny side up eggs. The dish recalls the home-cooked Filipino breakfasts Gilbert and Jeffrey enjoyed as a child. "We try not to make anything bland," adds Jeffrey.
Though the restaurant's fusion dishes are its culinary calling card, the farmer's breakfast plate, which includes eggs, that lovely house-cured bacon, sausage, duck fat hash and toast, is also a bestseller.
The Bro'Kin Yolk staff prepare and serve a mountain of brunch dishes daily. From left to right, Jeffrey Carlos, Kara Leblanc, Alex Molton and Gilbert Carlos. Photo by Seema Dhawan.
Sweet and Savoury
Answering to the sweet or savoury dilemma faced by brunch goers, The Bro'Kin Yolk mini waffles can be ordered as an appetizer or dessert, and are served with house-made sauces that include drunken berry compote as well as decadent lavender white chocolate.
The eggs Benedict selections (including a vegetarian option) are also served on these Belgian-style waffles, giving the dish a unique texture. "It just has that sweet and savoury context, and it goes really well together," says Gilbert.
"People love how different and unique our menu is," he adds. "Everyone leaves full."
Brothers Jeffrey (left) and Gilbert grew up in kitchen and say their mother's cooking influences the food they serve. Photo by Seema Dhawan.


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package com.github.andriilab.promasy.data.controller;

import com.github.andriilab.promasy.presentation.MainFrame;
import com.github.andriilab.promasy.presentation.commons.Labels;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperPrint;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRBeanCollectionDataSource;
import net.sf.jasperreports.view.JasperViewer;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Loader for Jasper Reports
 */
public class ReportsGenerator {
    public static final String BIDS_REPORT = "reports/Bids_Report";
    public static final String CPV_AMOUNT_REPORT = "reports/CPV_Amount_Report";

    public ReportsGenerator(String reportPath, Map<String, Object> parameters, List modelsList, MainFrame parent) {
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            jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(reportPath + ".jasper", parameters, new JRBeanCollectionDataSource(modelsList));
            JasperViewer jasperViewer = new JasperViewer(jasperPrint, false);
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                jasperViewer.setVisible(true);
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                jasperViewer.toFront();
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            });
        } catch (JRException e) {
            if (e.getMessage().startsWith("java.io.FileNotFoundException")) {
                Logger.warnEvent(this.getClass(), e);
                //Compile report (.jrxml) to .jasper if it is not compiled
                compileReport(reportPath, parent);
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(parent, Labels.getProperty("printSetupComplete"), Labels.getProperty("printInfo"), JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
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                Logger.errorEvent(this.getClass(), parent, Labels.getProperty("printError"), e);
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(parent, Labels.getProperty("printSetupError"), Labels.getProperty("printError"), JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
            }

        }
    }

    public static void precompileReports(MainFrame mainFrame) {
        try {
            ReportsGenerator.compileReportFileIfNew(ReportsGenerator.BIDS_REPORT, mainFrame);
            ReportsGenerator.compileReportFileIfNew(ReportsGenerator.CPV_AMOUNT_REPORT, mainFrame);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Logger.errorEvent(ReportsGenerator.class, mainFrame, e);
        }
    }

    private static void compileReport(String reportPath, MainFrame parent) {
        Logger.infoEvent(ReportsGenerator.class, parent, "Compiling new report file for " + reportPath);
        File jrxmlFile = new File(reportPath + ".jrxml");
        try {
            JasperCompileManager.compileReportToFile(jrxmlFile.getAbsolutePath());
        } catch (JRException e) {
            Logger.warnEvent(ReportsGenerator.class, e);
        }
    }

    private static void compileReportFileIfNew(String reportPath, MainFrame parent) throws IOException {
        Path jasperFile = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(reportPath + ".jasper");
        try {
            BasicFileAttributes jasperAttr = Files.readAttributes(jasperFile, BasicFileAttributes.class);
            Path jrxmlFile = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(reportPath + ".jrxml");
            BasicFileAttributes jrxmlAttr = Files.readAttributes(jrxmlFile, BasicFileAttributes.class);
            if (jasperAttr.lastModifiedTime().compareTo(jrxmlAttr.lastModifiedTime()) < 0) {
                Logger.infoEvent(ReportsGenerator.class, parent, "Outdated report file: " + reportPath + ".jrxml");
                compileReport(reportPath, parent);
            } else {
                Logger.infoEvent(ReportsGenerator.class, parent, "Report " + reportPath + ".jrxml does not need to be updated");
            }
        } catch (NoSuchFileException ex) {
            Logger.infoEvent(ReportsGenerator.class, parent, "Report file doesn't exist " + reportPath);
            compileReport(reportPath, parent);
        }
    }
}

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Piles of trash, needles and human feces are now gone from a section of Morro Creek. So are the people who were living there.
On Thursday, the city of Morro Bay conducted a creek cleanup at the location of a homeless encampment near Lila Keiser Park. Workers collected all property the homeless left behind and placed it in a city storage container. Homeless individuals may retrieve their property.
City officials said it was crucial to clean the creek prior to possible flooding caused by El Nino.
"The amount of trash in these areas was often times overwhelming. To have that area flooded by storms would be a serious concern," a city statement reads.
Over the last month, officials provided notices to the people living in the encampment that the cleanup would occur. Morro Bay police and San Luis Obispo County Social Services workers also tried to reach out to the homeless to provide assistance.
Additionally, city officials say Morro Bay has a volunteer coordinator who connects people with social assistance programs throughout the county.
Last month, two children were pricked by a needle while playing in the creek as soccer games were taking place at the park. It is unclear whether the kids contracted anything form the needle. The children will be retested this month and again six months following the incident.
Police officers frequently made contact with the homeless population in the creek. There were about 130 calls for service in the area over the first 10 months of 2015, according to the city.
Part of the area where the homeless were living is owned by Dynegy, the owner of the now-closed Morro Bay power plant.
The Morro Bay police, public works, fire and harbor departments worked in conjunction with city administration on the cleanup. The California Conservation Corps led much of the trash cleanup effort.
City officials say they used guidelines and discussion with the homeless to distinguish trash from property.
The trash and people are gone, for now. This is, as alway, temporary. Homeless shelters are open for the cold season and like migrant birds the homeless will return during warmer weather. Nothing accomplished.
Morro Bay city Manager is too busy trying push his and councils agenda, harrassing tax paying homeowners. He certainly can't be bothered addressing dangerous situations citizens are subjected to daily or the hundreds of police calls made involving Homeless druggies. There is no money to be made from the homeless so priority # 1 in Morro Bay is to invent regulations that the city can attach a fee to. The city did nothing when children were stuck by drug needles except to tell parents to keep kids away from the homeless hamlet. The most dangerous park is Lila keiser. This also happens to be the designated park for the city's recreation department programs such as baseball and soccer. So far the official solution is to advise parents to avoid the homeless area? Parents should do just that, band together and boycott parks and rec until the city decides that our families are worth protecting. In the mean time the city manager and council is trying to take away your right to keep RVs or boats on your private property. The city is turning to rules of condo associations for total control over all homeowner rights while protecting Criminals. Is it election time yet?
It's not just about the potential for flooding. If I toss a candy wrapper out of my car window I can be fined, yet we're going to allow these bums to make a sty out of a public creek? The picture looks like it should be a superfund cleanup site.
Give 'em a bus ticket to Santa Monica "the home of the homeless".
How about San Luis Creek next? Put on some mud boots and give yourself a tour. In the 70's the only people in the creek were children, playing and fishing.
If California creeks had some water in them I could see the outrage, but let's face it – the average homeless person hasn't a 100th the carbon footprint you home-owning, Expedition-driving NIMBY's have. Why shouldn't they live on a dry and/or trickling little excuse for a creek?
Sloth? Did you miss that coat hung up on the tree?
Can we give them a bus ticket to down town San Luis?
I'm sure Mayor Marx will take care of them in all the new hotel projects she wants to jam through.
Yes, of course. The reason given for the 75′ 7 story building at Santa Rosa and Monterey was the need to provide "affordable housing".


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Alien Planet May Lurk Around Nearby Failed Stars
By Megan Gannon 2013-12-18T11:55:51Z
WISE J104915.57-531906 is at the center of the larger image, which was taken by the NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). This is the closest star system discovered since 1916, and the third closest to our sun. It is 6.5 light-years away.
(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF )
Astronomers have spotted signs of a possible exoplanet in a nearby system of twin failed stars. If confirmed, the alien world would be one of the closest to our sun ever found.
Scientists only discovered the pair of failed stars, known as brown dwarfs, last year. At just 6.6 light-years from Earth, the pair is the third closest system to our sun. It's actually so close that "television transmissions from 2006 are now arriving there," Kevin Luhman, of Penn State's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, noted when their discovery was first announced in June.
The brown dwarf system, which has been dubbed Luhman 16AB and is officially classifed as WISE J104915.57-531906, is slightly more distant than Barnard's star, a red dwarf 6 light-years away that was first seen in 1916. Even closer to our sun is Alpha Centauri, whose two main stars form a binary pair about 4.4 light-years away. The alien planet Alpha Centauri Bb is known to orbit one of the stars in the Alpha Centauri system, and currently holds the title of closest exoplanet to our solar system. [The Strangest Alien Planets Ever Found (Gallery)]
The brown dwarfs were spotted in data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft, which took about 1.8 million images of asteroids, stars and galaxies during its ambitious 13-month mission to scan the entire sky. Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they are bigger than planets but don't enough mass to kick-off nuclear fusion at their core.
Henri Boffin of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) led a team of astronomers seeking to learn more about our newfound dim neighbors. The group used the very sensitive FORS2 instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal in Chile to take astrometric measurements of the objects during a two-month observation campaign from April to June 2013. (Astrometry involves tracking the precise motions of a star in the sky.)
This diagram illustrates the locations of the star systems that are closest to the sun, and the years of their discovery. The binary system WISE J104915.57-531906 is the third nearest system to the sun, and the closest one found in a century. (Image credit: Janella Williams, Penn State University)
"We have been able to measure the positions of these two objects with a precision of a few milli-arcseconds," Boffin said in a statement. "That is like a person in Paris being able to measure the position of someone in New York with a precision of 10 centimeters."
The group discovered that both brown dwarfs in the system have a mass 30 to 50 times the mass of Jupiter. (By comparison, our sun's mass is about 1,000 Jupiter masses.) Because their mass is so low, they take about 20 years to complete one orbit around each other, the astronomers said.
Boffin's team also discovered slight disturbances in the orbits of these objects during their two-month observation period. They believe the tug of a third object, perhaps a planet around one of the two brown dwarfs, could be behind these slight variations.
"Further observations are required to confirm the existence of a planet," Boffin aid in a statement. "But it may well turn out that the closest brown dwarf binary system to the sun turns out to be a triple system!"
So far, only eight exoplanets have been discovered around brown dwarfs, and they were found through microlensing and direct imaging, the astronomers say. The team added that the potential planet in Luhman 16AB could be the first alien discovered using astrometry if confirmed.
The research was detailed in a letter to the editor in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. It is available online on the preprint site Arxiv.
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Dashboards for Higher Education Leaders Can Optimize Decision Support
Posted on July 21, 2021 July 27, 2021 by Kaitlin Wagner
Transforming an institution's data repository into an integrated, holistic dashboard unites a campus and advances opportunities for change
| by Gregory Bedell, Managing Director at Huron
This blog originally appeared on Huron's website.
The need for rapid decision making in higher education has increased in urgency. An evolving pandemic landscape thrust institutional leaders into making strategic, real-time decisions that have affected every corner of the campus. It has become abundantly clear how siloed data sources can hinder an institution's ability to respond nimbly, much less model how changes in one area could lead to ripple effects across the institution.
For many college and university leaders, having access to data is not necessarily the issue. Rather, the persistent challenge is turning that data into useful information and making strategic sense. Current analytics capability at many colleges and universities was not typically designed to provide the operational and strategic viewpoints needed; rather, capabilities tend to be more limited in scope and offer a narrow view of a slice of the university. This causes leaders to lack centralized access to the holistic data needed to support decision making. University and college executives could instead benefit from an integrated dashboard to enable them to monitor key performance indicators, thus affording comprehensive views of institutional health to make informed decisions.
The Case for an Integrated Data Dashboard
Specific university functions and departments often utilize their own specialized systems or series of spreadsheets for managing information and reporting important perspectives about operational performance. Admissions may use a customer relationship management (CRM) solution for measuring student engagement and enrollments. Faculty and information technology (IT) may use a learning management system (LMS) to follow student persistence and student progress within coursework. And administrative departments may use a human capital management (HCM) solution to track staff information such as payroll, training and compensation.
Although these solutions deliver valuable analytics relevant to their specific function, they do not roll up into a master source, such as a data lake (a repository of raw data), that would enable administrators to leverage data in the aggregate. Data points alone do not reveal critical relationships and/or how decisions may ripple across the organization. Viewed in isolation, a decision in one department may offer immediate cost savings but result in longer-term adverse impacts to another. For example, a shift in an institution's research portfolio may affect where admissions counselors recruit their "best-fit" students, the composition of the academic portfolio, and the skill set required of its faculty. Thus, containing operational costs quickly while preserving the institution's strategic mission requires both micro and macro views of the campus.
Siloes have made it challenging for institutional leaders and boards to model near- and long-term scenarios in response to uncertainties such as COVID-19. Metrics of past performance may or may not be relevant to projecting how the university should respond to unprecedented circumstances, such as completely empty dorms, fully online programs or social distancing mandates. Even before COVID-19, financial resources were increasingly scarce in most university environments and now will be even further constrained. Data-driven insights about operations are critical to strong performance and only heighten in their importance within a financially constrained environment.
When it comes to modeling forward-looking scenarios beyond near-term revenue impacts (driven by tuition dollars), most universities tend to focus on historical data and trending: period over period, year over year. These lagging indicators, which we might call "taillight" data, can certainly be instructive at the department level. Integrating multiple discrete pieces of the campus mosaic into a top-level view of the institution, however, can be time-consuming. Producing timely, aggregated reports to governing bodies, such as boards or legislatures, can consume inordinate amounts of effort yet still may fall short of providing the comprehensive insights needed.
Similarly, institutions often struggle with getting the right data to the right people for day-to-day decisions as well. Challenges abound with providing faculty, department chairs, deans and administrative units with useful information that could inform ways to maximize academic quality and enrollments: Which programs are most cost-effective? How many students does the program need to break even? Which ones generate the most return on investment? It is especially helpful to be able to break down such data in order to achieve timely decisions.
The Hierarchy of Data
Having a framework for understanding the hierarchy of data can help institutions work toward developing an integrated dashboard. At the base of figure 1 are transactional systems, such as financial, procurement, grants management, human capital management, customer relationship management, research administration and others. These systems are often rolled up into process layers and grouped by domains such as operations, students and research. The primary purpose of analytics at these levels is to drive operational efficiency and effectiveness. While valuable for near-term decision making within a given department, these vertical siloes do not offer the transparency required to identify critical cause-and-effect relationships horizontally across the institution.
Within the middle layers lie "taillight analytics" and "headlight analytics." Taillight analytics enable leaders to evaluate financial performance metrics against goals and targets. These metrics might include grant award efficiency, research compliance, operating performance and student success. "Headlight analytics" provide a predictive model that allows for the projection or estimation of future performance based on key organizational drivers. These analytics include higher education sector and nonfinancial trends and driver-based scenarios.
Finally, at the top is integrated analytics. This level utilizes organizational data marts (subsets of data that are oriented to a specific department) and predictive models to empower strategic decision making for the institution as a whole. Using the pandemic as an example, leaders with an integrated view of their institutions would have been able to more quickly and accurately model COVID-19-related scenarios such as the long-term effects that cutting certain academic resources or courses might have down the road on other areas of the campus.
Benefits of an Integrated Dashboard for Specific Stakeholders
An integrated dashboard would enable leaders to track performance not just at snapshots in time but on an ongoing basis. It can provide them with a critical tool for keeping governing boards informed. A holistic view also enables data-driven insights that benefit stakeholders across the institution:
Presidents gain predictive insights into mission priorities, creating much-needed clarity for strategic partnering, funding opportunities and cross-institutional collaboration.
Provosts obtain operational insights related to budgeting, research awards and expenditures, faculty productivity, at-risk students, academic portfolio mix analysis and associated costs/capacity.
Chief financial officers navigate costs with myriad data to guide real-time and future financial decisions.
Deans view insights into the academic mix, faculty effort/capacity and potential cost savings within departments.
Vice presidents of research administration access research funding dashboards and grant revenue forecasting, leading to strategic and operational benefits and a more tightly managed research organization.
With this integrated pyramid approach to dashboard analytics, stakeholders are able to "zoom in" on data specific to their department, and institutional leaders can "zoom out" to assess data overall. It also enables them to overlay other outside data points such as demographic data, higher education trends and more. This macro view can shape mission-critical strategies such as where to focus recruitment efforts, opportunities for research growth, future academic offerings, etc.
While there is no crystal ball, an integrated dashboard of analytics does offer administrators significantly improved access to how their institution is performing holistically. It also enables them to model future scenarios that factor in long-term, campuswide impacts. While the first wave of COVID-19-related effects on higher education is in the rearview mirror, colleges and universities are by no means out of the woods, and other challenges will be on the horizon. Therefore, leaders should begin laying the groundwork today for organizing and leveraging data in a way that helps them govern more strategically.
To capitalize on data repositories at colleges and universities, leaders must:
Think differently.
The first step toward integrating data and cultivating insights is to get a feel for how you can use the data to build better solutions that impact the entire institution. How do changes to one area of an institution affect another? An integrated data dashboard can help leaders see how decisions can impact areas they might not have realized are interactively affected.
Plan differently.
When deciding how to create a comprehensive dashboard, consider the myriad uses of data and how they can empower and drive decisions. What data will academic leaders need access to as relevant information for decision making? What data will the board have access to? These questions can help align data to strategic decision making by giving groups access to the information that will serve them best.
Act differently.
Even with existing dashboards that highlight specific insights, a wealth of uncategorized data at an institution is often overlooked. Effective deployment of data is a critical tool for leaders, and the capacity to gather institutional data requires a nimble structure to meet future needs. Decision makers also need to focus on qualitative and external measures when evaluating different options for institutional impacts. Monitoring a full range of key performance indicators and making decisions based on a holistic view can contribute to institutional health.
Huron provides consulting services in finance and administration, information technology, research services, and academic services. Find out more about E&I's Huron contract and get started today.
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The Art of Public Speaking has been used by persuasive speakers since the beginning of time.
In fact, the course of human history and personal destiny has changed more by the spoken word than by the written word.
Many of the major turning points in your own life happened when someone said something to you that affected you so profoundly that ever afterwards your thinking, your feelings and your actions were different. The same has been so for large crowds – even countries – when they have listened to successful leaders who know how to speak effectively in public.
There is nothing more important for you than to become really, really good at the art and science of expressing yourself in words to other people.
I'm going to share with you some of the most important ideas I've learned in the art of public speaking that you can use, starting immediately, to become more effective and more persuasive in your interactions with others.
Whenever someone asks me how they can become a public speaker, I always refer them to the book Eloquence in Public Speaking written by Dr. Kenneth McFarland. McFarland, who passed away in 1985, is also known as the "Dean of American Public Speakers," and in his book he didn't talk about methodology or technique at all.
His central message, which influenced me very strongly when I began speaking publicly, was that the key to eloquence is the emotional component that the speaker brings to the subject.
To put it another way, the starting point of being an excellent speaker is for you to really care about your subject. I watched Wally "Famous Amos" give a talk years and years ago. He started with very little and built up an extraordinarily successful chain of chocolate chip cookie stores. He has since devoted much of his time and money to helping people who are less fortunate, especially those having problems with illiteracy.
He is not necessarily an accomplished public speaker, but the talk that he gave was absolutely excellent. And the reason was because he spoke from his heart. He spoke with a deep concern and compassion about the needs of people who couldn't read. His eloquence came because he really cared about his subject and everyone listening could sense that emotion even though his structure and his style may not have been as polished as someone who had spoken for many years.
So the starting point of the art of public speaking is for you to pick a subject that you really care about. It is for you to think through the subjects that have had an inordinate impact on you, the subjects that you would like to share with others because you really, intensely feel that others could benefit from your knowledge. Let's say, for example, that you feel that people could be far more successful in life if they learned how to be more understanding of others. You have found, in your own life, that the more you worked at understanding where others were coming from, the more effective you were in interacting and communicating with them. Because of the impact that this knowledge had on your life, you feel that others could benefit from learning and practicing what you have learned and practiced.
The second part of public speaking, the real core to the subject, is preparation. Preparation is more important than anything else except caring about your subject.
Ernest Hemmingway once wrote that, "In order to write well, you must know 10 words about the subject for every word that you write. Otherwise," he said, "the reader will know that this is not true writing." I personally feel that, in speaking, you must know 100 words for every word that you speak. Otherwise, your audience will have the sense that you don't really know what you're talking about.
It's not unusual for a person to spend many hours, days and even weeks, preparing for a talk. Whenever you see a professional speaker who gives a talk that seems almost effortless, you can know for sure that it was preceded by enormous preparation.
So here is my advice to you. Pay any price, spend any amount of time, overcome any obstacle, but make a decision, right now, that you're going to learn to speak well to other people. It could be one of the most important decisions you ever make in assuring your long term success in your career.
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By invitation of HM Queen Beatrix HE President Giorgio Napolitano of Italy and Mrs.Ingrid Napolitano will pay a State Visit to The Netherlands.
while he plays the piano.I thought her name was Ingrid...hmm..But it is Clio Maria indeed,sorry Marika.
When is the visit? I can't find it on the website.
while he plays the piano.I thought her name was Ingrid...hmm..
The wife of the President of Italy duets with the Pope?
Her name is Clio Maria Bittoni, a woman who had a career in law before her husband became President.
No problem Lucien! I can't wait to know the date!
Is there a link to the news article?
Yes,indeed,the Pope plays the piano.No reason why people can't be friends dont you think.
There's people. Then there's the pope.
What's the source of the information for the visit? And the duetting?
The Pope is one among 7 billion human beings.
The Popes piano,it's more of a honkytonk thing as to the sound and in dire need of a check-up..
HE President Giorgio Napolitano of Italy and Mrs.Clio Maria Napolitano will pay a State Visit from june 26th untill june 28th 2012.
Detail:Mr.Napolitano will celebrate his 87th birthday on the 29th,the day after the visit,the exact same day as what used to be the Queen's late father's birthday.
The State Visit has been postponed due to "unforseen circumstances" from the Italian side.A new date will be set soon according to the RVD Government Information Service earlyer today.
The new dates for the State Visit from Italy have been released today!
It will take place from October 23 till October 25, 2012!
The state visit from Italy has started - Queen Beatrix has received President Giorgio Napolitano and his wife at the Palace Noordeinde in Den Haag today, October 23, 2012.
Thank you for the update Lucien. While I know that his role is more ceremonial than the Prime Minister's it is understandable that at his age the President needs to consider his health.