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Below are some measurements made with an experimental pair of cascaded regenerative dividers, which were constructed
based on the topology described in Ferre-Pikal and Walls's 1997 IEEE paper Low PM Noise Regenerative Dividers (500KB).
Regenerative dividers offer several advantages over traditional digital frequency dividers, such as their
exceptionally-low additive phase noise and their ability to work with clean sine-wave signals. The latter feature not
only eliminates the usual need for edge-conditioning circuitry at the divider input, but can help with spur management
at the system level as well. Commercial regenerative dividers are available from
Wenzel Associates, but they are simple enough in principle to 'homebrew' in many cases.
The Ferre-Pikal paper argues for the importance of filtering the image frequency in the divider's feedback path. For example, the
first divide-by-two circuit described below generates a 40-MHz output signal by mixing a sample of its own output
with the incoming 80-MHz source. Overall loop gain is greater than one at 40 MHz, allowing the divider to start reliably.
The presence in the feedback path of the image frequency at 120 MHz, however, would contribute nothing but
additional noise to the regenerative conversion process, so it's removed with a low-pass filter. All regenerative
dividers need a phase-shift network of some type in the feedback path, but designs such as Ferre-Pikal's and
Wenzel's use low-pass filtering both before and after the gain stage to suppress the image response.
The initial tests described here were conducted with two similar regenerative divider assemblies. Each assembly consists of
two cascaded divide-by-two stages, one to divide an 80-MHz input signal to 40 MHz and the other to divide this 40-MHz output to
20 MHz.
This topology was chosen for two reasons: the first is that it will eventually allow me to upgrade the reference section
in my HP 8662A signal generator, and the second is that it places the divider output within the 30 MHz upper limit of
the TSC 5120A cross-correlating FFT phase noise analyzer that
Tom Van Baak of www.leapsecond.com fame
was kind enough to volunteer for testing.
The dividers' anticipated performance is better than the measurement floor of my HP 11729C carrier-noise test set, so it was necessary to resort to the
TSC 5120A to get the real story.
Initial Results
As of this writing, the LC filters in the divider feedback paths have been adjusted for stability but not optimized for
phase-noise performance. Attenuators were used at the divider inputs to keep the ERA-5 MMIC amplifiers
out of saturation, but no attempt was made to determine the effect of higher or lower input levels. Finally,
the measurements were made with separate Wenzel ULN 80 MHz OCXOs
driving each divider assembly, so we haven't taken advantage of the TSC-5120A's cross-correlation capabilities to measure the
dividers' true residual noise floor.
For those reasons, perhaps, the observed performance falls short of the graphs in the Ferre-Pikal paper,
specifically figure 4, where a broadband floor in the -176 dBc/Hz neighborhood is reported. Wenzel's
divider specifications are also in the -172 to -175 dBc/Hz area. The 80-MHz OCXO specifications are
more than good enough to allow the dividers to exhibit this level of performance, as is the TSC 5120A's measurement
floor. So it's clear that there's some room for improvement in the dividers themselves.
The green and red traces
compare each of the dividers individually with a 10 MHz Wenzel ULN OCXO with industry-leading phase-noise specs,
while the yellow trace compares the same ULN10 oscillator with a similar 5-MHz
part for reference purposes. If our dividers were performing as well as the ones in trace B of Ferre-Pikal's
figure 4, both the green and red traces would be near the level of the
yellow reference trace. Instead, they appear to be about 10 dB noisier than Ferre-Pikal's results.
These results are still quite impressive, considering the unoptimized configuration. The broadband floor is 8-10
dB better than any available digital divider can provide, and the noise levels conform very closely to those
shown in figure 7 of Rubiola, Olivier, and Groslambert's Phase Noise in the Regenerative Frequency Dividers (IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, June 1992), in which the dividers under test were tuned for
maximum output amplitude. Rubiola et al. suggest that a 10-dB improvement is possible with proper delay-line optimization.
Performance of the noisier of the two
dividers at 20 MHz is about what you'd see from a "good" example of an HP 10811A OCXO at half the frequency. Further,
head-to-head comparisons on the TSC 5120A and HP 11729C reveals that the
HP 11729C's noise floor is better than I'd anticipated. (Note that neither the
purple, the blue, nor the yellow traces have undergone
subtraction of +3 dB to account for the RMS addition of two uncorrelated noise sources.)
One unanswered question is
why the HP 11729C's trace shows a decrease in the broadband noise floor compared to the
relatively-flat response on the TSC 5120A. The 11729C's trace should appear more
noisy than the TSC 5120A's, not less. Numerous additional tests, including a true cross-correlation measurement of two similar
dividers fed by a common source, need to be conducted in the future.
Thanks to Bruce Griffiths, Enrico Rubiola, and Magnus Danielson of the time-nuts list for advice and access to papers, and to Tom Van Baak for bench time on
his TSC 5120A!
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Guided bus tours, Pisa, Italy
There are two tour routes for Pisa; well, to be more accurate, there's one main circuit with the second 'route' being a spur that heads off to the San Rossore nature park. The main circuit has 12 stops, adding on the San Rossore leg makes for 16 in total. There are stops at both the railway station and the airport (Galileo Galilei) so this may well tie up nicely with your travel plans.
You are free to switch from one route to the other as many times as you wish. Tickets are valid for 24 hours and both routes. The accompanying audio tour is available in 8 different languages (Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese). The tours operate on a 'hop-on, hop-off' basis, meaning you may leave and subsequently rejoin the buses wherever and whenever you like! You can download a detailed route-map (PDF) here.
To get started simply click on the calendar below to select the date that interests you. The calendar will automatically block any dates that are not available, and do remember that dates are in European (day-month-year) format! Further down the page you'll find timetables for both routes, including starting times, finishing times and frequency, and don't worry - with your booking confirmation we'll be sending you full directions on how to join the tours.
Simply select the ideal date for your visit by clicking on the calendar to the left*.
Once you've selected a date on the calendar we'll show you the ticket options that are available, one or more of which may be of interest to you.
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The 'Line A' tour starts and ends at Piazza Arcivescovado, just a few steps from the Leaning Tower. Until the end of October buses leave every hour, on the hour, from 11.00 until 16.00 (10.00 until 17.00 from 1st April to 30th September), seven days a week (airport stops are at 11.00, 12.00, 14.00, 15.00 and 16.00);the stops are as follows:
01, Piazza Arcivescovado (Leaning Tower and the Square of Miracles).
02, Via S. Maria (Piazza dei Cavalieri).
03, Lungarno Pacinotti, (Piazza Garibaldi).
04, Lungarno Mediceo (San Matteo Museum).
05, Lungarno Fibonacci.
06, Lungarno Gambacorti.
07, Lungarno Sonnino.
08, Viale Gramsci (Railway station, Keith Haring Mural).
09, Aeroporto (Pisa airport).
10, Via Crispi (Chiesa della Spina).
11, Lungarno Simonelli.
12, Piazza Manin.
Line B timings and stops
The 'Line B' also starts and ends at Piazza Arcivescovado. From 1st April until the end of September there are buses leaving at 10.00, 13.00 and 17.00, and the stops are as follows:
13, Viale delle Cascine (camping)
14, Viale delle Cascine.
15, Casale della Sterpaia.
16, Centro visite San Rossore.
01, Piazza Arcivescovado (Leaning Tower and the Square of Miracles).
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Non-Profit Agency
ArtScraps accepts scrap materials, overstock, factory rejects and other items which are then made available to teachers, parents, artists, daycare providers or anyone interested in reducing waste through reuse of discarded materials. All items must be clean, non-toxic and suitable for children to handle. Examples of items accepted include leather scraps and unprinted construction paper. Call first for materials accepted. ArtScraps has drop off and pick up services for donations.
Charities Review Council of Minnesota maintains a listing of non-profit organizations that accept donations. See web site for examples of items accepted.
Companies to Classrooms is a not-for-profit organization that accepts excess surplus supplies and inventories from local businesses for use by students, teachers and staff in local area schools. You can dropp off materials at this site.
Must have valid ID. Drop-off hours: Wed. 9am-8pm Thurs. noon-8pm Fri. 9am-5pm Sat. 8am-5pm Sun-Tues closed
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More than 30 locations throughout Minnesota and in Hudson, WI Goodwill operates drive-thru donation centers at its retail locations seven days a week. We welcome items in good and excellent condition, including: clothing, shoes, housewares, collectibles, electronics, books, sporting goods, games/toys (with all pieces), medical equipment, furniture and more. We also provide a pick-up service for donated vehicles. Please visit www.goodwilleasterseals.org for more information.
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I just got a cat and wanted to see if anyone could recommend an all natural litter.
The cheapest litter is an off brand and usually is made from clay... As far as I know, clay is all natural... Good luck with your new addition, are you going to feed it raw??? I've come to a point in my life that I can't imagine buying, let alone touching raw chicken and bones... So good good luck to your kitty and you, life with be interesting... smile
We use Swheat Scoop, it is biodegradable, natural, clumping and made from wheat, as the name implies. It works well and we have 3 cats testing it out daily. Clumps well! Price is good too.
Congratulations on your new kitty :)
Have you considered toilet training the kitty? Most pet stores have a kit used for training purposes. I had a cat years ago who used the toilet. No litter needed. No littler box to maintain. No smell in the house. Was fantastic.
i've tried both "shweat scoop" and "the world's best cat litter," but they both smell kind of funky to me, esp. the world's best cat litter, which smells like dusty corn. some people like that smell. i now use "feline pine clumping," and i'm liking it the best so far.
thanks everyone for your replies! I have been leaning toward the feline pine but wasn't sure if it was truly natural. I have a new problem to worry about..my cat and little dog got into a fight and the cat scratched my daisy's eye. She has not been able to keep it open and now looking at her eye it looks a bluish milky film is in her vision. I can't believe this. I feel so guilty!!


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I flew! I flew! I really flew!
Well I finally flew today. I created a flying wing (Mugi) using a 400 motor and (2) 7 cell 600mAh NIMH's. Had some trouble at first because the area I was at was surrounded by some trees that "grabbed" it a few times. I finally went to a more open area and had a much better time. I was able to go back and forth about 50' in the air with very few problems!! Hurray!!!!
However there are a few things I have questions about. 1. Going full throttle I only seemed to get around a 3 minute flight with with each 600 mAh pack. Does that sound about right? I have some 8 cell 1100mAh NIMH's but they are still getting broke in so I wont be able to use them as a comparison until tomorrow. 2. I have a 30amp ESC and when I put one of the 8 cell packs in and put it full throttle I could hear the motor go faster.. however, it seemed to "sputter" at full throttle - almost like the prop was slipping or something but it was tight so I do not think that was it. Any thoughts on what that could have been? After the battery ran for a bit it stopped doing it - almost like it slowed down some maybe? I was using a 6x3.5 prop at the time (I believe) so maybe it was pulling to many amps and my ESC was cutting out but that seems hard to believe with a 30 amp ESC? 3. What is the best way to increase flight time besides LiPo's? Brushless? Larger packs? Something else? I would like to get around a 10 minute flight at least if possible. Thanks! |
7 cells isn't much for a 400 motor, but if it's flying to your satisfaction then stick with it. Normally with a 400 on a flying wing you go 8 cell Nicad or 9-10 cell NiMH.
Not sure what cells you're running, but most 600 NiMH cells are not good for much amp draw. You should get a little more run time than that, they're probably being pushed to their limit. The motor sputtering, do you have any loose tape/ covering around the motor area? Increasing flight time- the 1100 packs should get you to around 10 minutes of flight time. As for brushless, it really depends on what motor. Some will net much better performance at reduced flight time. Others will give about stock performance but increase the run time. There are a zillion brushless motors out there and each is unique |
The 6x3.5 should actually work very well. I find they provide decent thrust with a little less speed at lower amps over the more common Zagi 5x5 used in S-400 applications.
Not sure about the sputtering. There is simply no way you are going to pull 30A on a S-400 motor and have it live for more than a few seconds. I agree with 'Tres' on the battery recommendations. |
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If you use less amps, you will run longer. Just like a car using gasoline. Go easy on the pedal and you can go further.
In order to use less amps, you need to do any or all of these: A; use a more efficient motor (like a brushless) or B; use a SMALLER prop (or less pitch). The bigger or steeper the prop is, the harder the motor hasta work to spin it, so it sucks more amps. Some props are more efficient than others too. The GWS HD props seem noticeably better than the slo-flyer ones given the couple that ive tried. C; dont run at full throttle all the time. D; reduce weight or drag on the plane. Theres a few other things like tweaking your gear ratio/vs prop size, but thats kinda beyond what your looking for. |
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Still have not been able to find out why it is sputtering.. I took it out again today and both 8 cell packs did the sputter at full throttle.. It is about a 1 second interval : run, sput, run sput, run sput..... and it looked like the prop actually slowed down when it sputtered.. retaped the back end around the motor too.. hmm.. very strange.. it also seems to have less power when it is sputtering as well....almost less then the 7 cell pack.
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You should check to see if the sputtering doesn't coincide with glitching on the other channels. I had some sputtering too, and that was clearly due to glitching caused by arcing in the motor.
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Everything else being the same, Yes higher voltage = higher amp draw and more arcing. A larger load (prop) will also increase arcing at the same battery voltage.
Depending on your motor, it may or may not have any supression Capacitors installed from the factory. Minimum should be one soldered at each pole, then the two remaining leads twisted together and soldered to the motor case. |
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Within the State of Manipur, there are two major river basins, viz. the Barak River Basin and the Manipur River Basin. The total water resources of the two basins have been estimated to be 1.8487 million hectare metre in the form of annual yield.
The Barak river originates from the northern hills and is joined by a number of tributaries such as Irang, Maku, Tuivai, etc. and thereafter enters Cachar District of Assam. The Manipur river basin has eight major rivers such as Imphal, Iril, Nambul, Sekmai, Chakpi, Thoubal and Khuga. All these rivers originate from the surrounding hills. Almost all the rivers in the valley area are in the mature stage and, therefore, deposit the load in the Loktak lake.
The rivers draining the Manipur Hill Area are comparatively young due to the hilly terrain through which they flow. These rivers are corrosive in nature and assume turbulent form in rainy season. Important rivers draining the western area include Maku, Barak, Jiri, Irang and Leimatak. Rivers draining the eastern part of the State include Chamu, Khunou and other short streams.
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Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham.
| AbstractThis thesis explores the interaction of gender and the construction of the Argentine state. It pays particular attention to the emergence of women's movements as well as women's writing and the way in which both reflect and express the history of the Argentine state after independence. Beginning with a brief account of Argentine independence and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento as founding-father of the Argentine nation, part one focuses on the historical periods of the Liberal State, Peronism, and the military dictatorships of the 1960s and early 1970s. It investigates how national discourse incorporated gender discourse without including women as citizens in their full right. It then explores how women's movements articulated their ensuing discontent with the patriarchal system that attempted to ensure continuity of this exclusion. Part two identifies and analyzes selected texts by nineteenth and twentieth century Argentine female authors. Written from a specifically female standpoint, these novels and short stories articulate women's grievances with the political developments addressed in part one. |
Type of Work: | Ph.D. thesis. |
Supervisor(s): | James, Conrad |
School/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law |
Department: | Department of Hispanic Studies |
Subjects: | PQ Romance literatures HQ The family. Marriage. Woman F1201 Latin America (General) |
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A few studies focused on statin therapy as specific prophylactic measures of contrast-induced nephropathy have been published with conflicting results. In this meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, we aimed to assess the effectiveness of shor-term high-dose statin treatment for the prevention of CIN and clinical outcomes and re-evaluate of the potential benefits of statin therapy.
We searched PubMed, OVID, EMBASE, Web of science and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases for randomized controlled trials comparing short-term high-dose statin treatment versus low-dose statin treatment or placebo for preventing CIN. Our outcome measures were the risk of CIN within 2–5 days after contrast administration and need for dialysis.
Seven randomized controlled trials with a total of 1,399 patients were identified and analyzed. The overall results based on fixed-effect model showed that the use of short-term high-dose statin treatment was associated with a significant reduction in risk of CIN (RR?=?0.51, 95% CI 0.34–0.76, p?=?0.001; I2?=?0%). The incidence of acute renal failure requiring dialysis was not significant different after the use of statin (RR?=?0.33, 95% CI 0.05–2.10, p?=?0.24; I2?=?0%). The use of statin was not associated with a significant decrease in the plasma C-reactive protein level (SMD -0.64, 95% CI: -1.57 to 0.29, P?=?0.18, I2?=?97%).
Although this meta-analysis supports the use of statin to reduce the incidence of CIN, it must be considered in the context of variable patient demographics. Only a limited recommendation can be made in favour of the use of statin based on current data. Considering the limitations of included studies, a large, well designed trial that incorporates the evaluation of clinically relevant outcomes in participants with different underlying risks of CIN is required to more adequately assess the role for statin in CIN prevention.


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The Israel Tax Authority began granting tax credits to homosexual couples with children a few weeks ago, without waiting for the enactment of legislation on the subject that recently passed its preliminary Knesset reading.
Israel Tax Authority begins granting tax credits to gay parents
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Majolica Majorca Puff de Cheek RD414 Cherry Macaron Review & Swatches
Japanese Brand, Majolica Majorca, has released two new, limited edition shades of Puff de Cheek for Summer 2012 in Cherry and Raspberry Macaron.
Puff de Cheek's original formula is a bit on the chalky side and I wasn't terribly impressed enough to Muse Approve when I originally reviewed it but I must say that these new shades are worth a glance.
Take a look!
This blush comes housed in a small tin shaped like a little French macaron with a ribbon puff for application. I admit the little puff is darling but not the most practical way to apply the blush but hey, props for girlishly delightful packaging!
Unlike the original formula this has a smoother, silkier feel and surprise, surprise a tiny hint of sparkle. I don't think I own a single shade of MJ blush that has sparkle and I believe I pretty much own all of them! This is novel!
I felt like the original shade I tried out wasn't terribly unique from the line's standard blushes but Cherry Macaron is something to rave about. This has a silkier texture in an easy to blend formula that has a very nice wear time.
Cherry Macaron quite reminds me of Tarte's Amazonian Clay 12 Hour Blush in Frisky. This shade is a bright cherry coral. I don't have many shades like this in my stash so I'm glad I picked it up as it gives a very nice flush of natural color to cheeks. It's also quite pigmented where as my last shade of Puff de Cheek had to be built up a bit for the best color pay off.
This one deserves a Muse Approval!
I think the shade is unique enough to warrant a purchase and I love the formula on this as it proves far more superior to the single color I tried in the general catalog selection. Overall, a cute and very functional blush.
I got mine directly from Japan but I'm seeing them all over online shops for around retail pricing.
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6/13/12 21:28 Laura H:
Wow that's such a beautiful shade !
6/14/12 10:02 the Muse:
it really is laura! worth a haul imho!
6/13/12 21:32 christine:
Aww muse! It looks lovely on you!! I want this so much! hahaha
6/14/12 10:02 the Muse:
aw thanks christine! do buy it, it's adorable ;D!
6/14/12 0:16 Melissa:
oooh pretty – likey likey – I really like some of the things from this line and you are my primary source for leaning about it. Thanks for the heads up.
6/14/12 9:59 the Muse:
aw my pleasure melissa! ;-D
6/14/12 5:16 Biba:
Oh, so pretty!
6/14/12 8:41 Lulu:
Where is the best place to buy this brand online? Any suggestions?
6/14/12 9:03 the Muse:
adambeauty.com is a great place lulu
6/16/12 9:55 Chiyo:
Love everything from Majolica Majorca. Good color!
9/25/12 2:09 Sudeki:
I also wanna buy it!
9/26/12 9:03 Taffy:
Love Love Cherry Macaron!! I like how you do your blush on these reviews. Its very bright yet it totally works and seems natural and gorgeously doll-like on you. I am wondering what brush you use to apply and your application technique.
9/26/12 9:59 the Muse:
me too taffy gorg shade ;-D aw thank you! I'm not expert in all honesty. I use a dome shaped bobbi brown blush brush, smile, and just dab dab dab on cheek bones.
11/7/12 21:22 Rosalina:
This is one of my fave products. A little goes a long way and I'm such a sucker for packaging.
1/7/14 4:18 Angie:
Hi Muse! How would you compare this to Tarte's Adored?
They look quite similar to me but I wonder which is better for fair skin.


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Her marriage is about to end — so is her reality TV show — but life must go on for supermom Kate Gosselin. The mother-of-eight was snapped Tuesday running errands in Reading, Pennsylvania near the family's home.
PHOTOS: Kate Gosselin Runs Errands
Kate was spotted dropping off some clothes at the Nothing New Consignment Shop, and picking up her Land Cruiser from the service center at the local Toyota dealer, before heading to the tanning salon.
PHOTOS: Kate Gosselin Stunning Bikini Pictures
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Title: | The Effects of Technology Education, Science, and Mathematics Integration Upon Eighth Grader's Technological Problem-Solving Ability |
Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy |
Department: | Vocational and Technical Education |
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This study investigated the effects of technology education, science, and mathematics (TSM) curriculum integration on the technological problem-solving ability of eighth grade technology education students. The researcher used a quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group design to compare the performance of students receiving correlated TSM integration to those not receiving integration in an adapted Technology, Science, Mathematics Integration Project Activity (LaPorte & Sanders, 1993). The students were to design, construct, and evaluate wind collectors to generate electricity. The collectors were mounted on a generator for the pretest and posttest measurements. The measure for treatment effect was the output wattage of the generator for each student's wind collector. The samples were drawn from middle schools that had two technology education teachers in the same school, each teaching eighth graders. The pilot study sample (N = 51) was selected from a middle school in rural south-central Virginia. The study sample (N = 33) was selected from a middle school in a suburb of Richmond, Virginia. Treatment group technology education teachers employed echnological problem solving, and they correlated instruction of key concepts with science and mathematics teachers using the adapted TSM Integration Activity. The control group technology education teachers did not correlate instruction with science and mathematics teachers. There was no significant difference between the treatment and control groups for technological problem solving. Evidence suggested that students were applying science and mathematics concepts. The researcher concluded that TSM curriculum integration may promote the application of science and mathematics concepts to technological problem solving and does not hinder the technological problem-solving ability of eighth technology education students.
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Built in an austere architectural style, in the colors of ochre and white, the studios fully integrate with the surroundings, creating a peaceful atmosphere, ideal for relaxing and carefree holidays, with your family, friends or your companion, in one of the most discerning locations of the island.
Mandilaria complex consists of 12 airy and sunny studios, distributed in two floors. In their ample areas, interior design is plain yet pleasant, with all the necessary amenities. The complex boasts well attended public spaces, a bar, outdoor pool, a large garden and playground for the entertainment of the children, as well as a mini pool for the kids.
The owners of Mandilaria studios have looked into every little detail that can make your stay as convenient as possible, offering laundry services, daily maid for the maintenance of the studios and many more personalized services upon request.
Should you wish to hire a car or a motorbike, or take part in a local excursion; the owners will eagerly assist and offer all necessary information.
In Mandilaria studios there is free private parking space. Also available at extra cost, is transportation service to and from the port of Athinios and the International Airport of Santorini [Thira].
Around the swimming pool, guests can find free sun beds and umbrellas, as well as a separate pool for the children. A playground is also available.
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2015 Porsche Cayenne GTS: This Is It
Porsche is out with two new Cayennes, and like every model in its stable, there has to be at least a half-dozen variants. Minimum. So it's time to meet the Turbo-wannabe GTS and its base sibling, that – gasp! – no longer has a manual option.


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In the realms of motorcycle racing, THQ's MotoGP series has always been at the front of the pack. Climax, the game's developer, certainly knows this, and they take their racing very seriously -- to the point where laypeople are a bit nervous approaching the game. Like everyone else, I enjoy hopping on a bike in GTA, but whenever I've tried to compete in MotoGP, I've always ended up painting the pavement
a lot.
Of course, after playing way too much Burnout, the idea of grinding a bike into the pavement seems pretty alright. But it's not the point, and MotoGP won't reward an asphalt banquet with anything more than solid ragdoll animations of bikers sliding on leather, so don't get too excited about any inability to stay on the bike.
But either it was rash impatience that killed me every time I've picked up MotoGP in the past or Climax has tightened up its controls even more. When THQ gave me a run at this iteration, I was able to stay on the bike. For entire races! And once that milestone was past, I realized that this game has one hell of a sense of speed. The series has always chugged along at an impressive rate, and this looks like 60fps with a full suite of particle effects to handle dust kicked up outside the track, and little bends in the light to subtly but palpably communicate the sensation of moving too fast for normal humans.
And once you've had a few minutes with the controls, all snark aside, they do work really well. Separate trigger controls for the front and rear brakes gives a lot of command over speed, but it's the way the bike responds in tiny ways to weight shifting that makes MotoGP 3 stand out. Not only is the forward and back shift important, but the degree to which a rider leans into a turn, not to mention when the lean happens, has a perceivable affect on performance.
And to show off those effects, as in the last installment, there will be a massive career mode to occupy your offline time. In addition to the seventeen modeled tracks, Climax has packed in a horde of licensed riders, as well as plenty of bikes in the 600cc, 1000cc, and 1200cc classes. Each step up offers more speed but less control, though the ability to assign skill points to your rider and extensively tune each bike should help.
In addition to the circuit tracks, an additional 10 closed road courses have been modeled from real city locations to fill out the extreme mode. So far I've only raced on the Tokyo course, but it's a beauty, with devilish hairpins and tiny tempting straightaways. Calling a mode extreme these days is almost a joke, but given the concentration necessary to handle these bikes, here it feels appropriate.


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Favorites of Brooke Astor and her crowd, these are hats for dressy occasions. You can have a headpiece designed to match an outfit, or buy a ready-made Audrey, a.k.a. the Breakfast at Tiffany's hat.
Customers from nearby Reem Acra and Vera Wang come to this elegant boutique for attention-grabbing headpieces, hats, and veils. Every piece is custom-made (from $400).


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I have a coworker that is busy planning her wedding. Her colors/theme is hot pink and zebra print. Sounds interesting right? I thought it would translate well to nails.
I used:- Essie trillionails base coat
- 2 coats of ChG "Laced Up"
- taped off the tips
- Sally Hansen "Lavender Cloud" for white tips
- Konad plate m57 zebra print
- Konad stamping polish in black
- removed the tape and added OTD topcoat.
I just didn't love how it turned out, so I didn't want to post it. But I thought it would be better if I flipped the design and now it's just right.
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Add a touch of sparkle to your Christmas at our Killashee Christmas Party Nights
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Capital spending for roadways has averaged a 6% per 10-year CAGR since 1950. However, a new forecast anticipates the CAGR of spending during the next decade to be just 4.8% between 2013 and 2022. According to The U.S. Road, Bridge & Tunnel Construction Market, a new study from energy market research publisher SBI Energy, as long as both state and federal governments refuse to increase their respective gas taxes or implement other user-based funding schemes, long-term market prospects remain bleak.
"While the pay-as-you-go system has worked reasonably well for decades, it is no longer able to pay for all of the roadway construction required to maintain the U.S. road network at its current performance level," according to Norman Deschamps, SBI Energy analyst and author of The U.S. Road, Bridge & Tunnel Construction Market.
The Federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is the primary vehicle through which the federal government collects and transfers money to the states to fund roadway construction. The HTF operates as a pay-as-you-go system, largely funded through taxes on gas and diesel fuel, with the collected funds then transferred to the states through multi-year transportation bills.
"Almost half of the states have less than 60% of their transportation spending come from user-based taxes and fees. The pay-as-you-go system is failing at the federal level as well," Deschamps continues. "Since 2008, the federal government has had to inject $32.1 billion dollars to maintain solvency of the HTF, and the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), passed midyear 2012, transfers an additional $18.8 billion into the HTF through FY2013 and FY2014. Unfortunately, MAP-21 also does not address the growing discrepancy between the amount of money collected through user-based fees by the HTF and how much money state and local governments are spending to maintain and improve the nation's roadway infrastructure."
Unfortunately for the road, bridge and tunnel construction market, the availability of public funding has been, and continues to be, a serious constraint on the market. This lack of funding shows in the growing discrepancy between fees collected for the HTF and the amount of money needed to maintain those same assets, and in growing debts at all levels of government.
The U.S. Road, Bridge & Tunnel Construction Market by SBI Energy provides key insight into current and future construction trends for the nation's road infrastructure, with a particular emphasis on bridge and tunnel construction segments and an analysis of key states. The analysis includes definitions, current product offerings and market detail on the following segments:
Road construction, including lane widening, resurfacing and rehabilitation
Bridge construction and rehabilitation
Tunnel & wall construction
The report also studies the key elements driving new road construction, analyzing local, state and federal financing strategies that provide construction funding in the U.S., and the impact these projects have on employment.
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Weed Identification Australia > > Spear thistle
Notes: Widespread and common in crop and non-crop situations; found especially on high fertility soils. Not palatable to stock and may be the only plant remaining in heavily grazed paddocks. Spines in wool cause difficulty in shearing and this plant is an important component of vegetable fault of wool. Cirsium vulgare is naturalised in temperate areas around the world. |
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Vesak is celebrated as a religious and a cultural festival in Sri Lanka on the full moon of the month of May, for a duration of one week.
Colourful lanterns called Vesak koodu are hung along streets and in front of homes. They signify the light of the Buddha, Dharma and the Sangha.
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proud to be Sri Lankan
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday reiterated before the CBI Special Court here that it had not obtained any clinching evidence of undue pecuniary advantage made by Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan or of Speaker G. Karthikeyan's involvement in the multi-crore SNC-Lavalin corruption case.
CBI senior prosecutor V.N. Anil Kumar, during a hearing on petitions demanding further investigation into the case to ascertain the involvement of the two political leaders, said the earlier investigations had found no evidence on this aspect and therefore, there was no need for further investigation in the case.
'Unnecessary petitions'
The CBI, while lamenting that unnecessary petitions were affecting the smooth progress of several high profile cases including the Lavalin case, pointed out that there were mismatches in the statements provided by Deepak Kumar, the witness who had stated that Mr. Vijayan, the seventh accused in the case, had taken bribe and also that Mr. Karthikeyan was involved in the scam. As such, it was not necessary to probe these angles again.
CBI Special Judge T.S.P. Moosath also heard arguments on various petitions related to the case filed by a lawyer, P. Nagaraj, and Crime Editor T.P. Nandakumar before posting the rest of the hearing to September 14.
A petition filed by the Thiruvananthapuram- based EMS Samskarika Samithi is expected to be taken up for hearing on that day.
The petitioners, including the Samithi, have also moved the court to examine the involvement of the former Ministers Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who was a member of the Kerala State Electricity Board during the alleged scam, and the former Finance Minister T. Sivadasa Menon, in the case.
C. Sreedharan Nair appeared on behalf of Mr. Vijayan in the case, which had seen last month the court allowing the CBI two more months to produce all the accused in the case, notably the former senior vice-president of SNC-Lavalin, Klaus Triendl, who is arraigned as the sixth accused in the case.
The case is related to alleged irregularities in the awarding of a contract to the Canadian company to renovate the Pallivasal, Sengulam and Panniyar hydro-electric projects.
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"All work and no play: Measuring fun, usability, and learning in software for children"
Sim, Gavin Robert, MacFarlane, Stuart and Read, Janet C (2006) "All work and no play: Measuring fun, usability, and learning in software for children". Computers and Education, 46 (3). pp. 235-248. ISSN 0360-1315
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This paper describes an empirical study of fun, usability, and learning in educational software. Twenty five children aged 7 and 8 from an English primary school participated. The study involved three software products that were designed to prepare children for government initiated science tests. Pre and post tests were used to measure the learning effect, and observations and survey methods were used to assess usability and fun. The findings from the study demonstrate that in this instance learning was not correlated with fun or usability, that observed fun and observed usability were correlated, and that children of this age appeared to be able to differentiate between the constructs used to describe software quality. The Fun Sorter appears to be an effective tool for evaluating products with children. The authors discuss the implications of the results, offer some thoughts on designing experiments with children, and propose some ideas for future work.
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Levy of tax to pay bonds, sinking fund.
Levy of tax to pay bonds, sinking fund.
298.50 Levy of tax to pay bonds, sinking fund.—
(1) The board of supervisors in making the annual tax levy, as provided in this chapter, shall take into account the maturing bonds and interest on all bonds, and make provisions in advance for the payment thereof. In case the proceeds of the original tax levy made under the provisions of s. 298.36 are not sufficient to pay the principal and interest on all bonds issued, then the board of supervisors shall make such additional levies upon the benefits assessed as are necessary for this purpose, and under no circumstances shall any tax levies be made that will in any manner or to any extent impair the security of said bonds or the fund available for the payment of the principal and interest of the same.
(2) A sufficient amount of the drainage tax shall be appropriated by the board of supervisors for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of the said bonds and the same shall, when collected, be preserved in a separate fund for that purpose and no other. Should said drainage tax prove insufficient for the payment of any bonds issued subsequent to June 1, 1927, additional taxes apportioned to the amounts of said drainage tax may be levied in such amounts as may be necessary for such purposes.
History.—s. 41, ch. 6458, 1913; RGS 1138; s. 1, ch. 9129, 1923; s. 3, ch. 12040, 1927; CGL 1493.


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Bring radical
In algebra, a Bring radical or ultraradical of a complex number a is a root of the polynomial
The root is chosen so the radical of a real number is real, and the radical is a differentiable function of a in the complex plane, with a branch cut along the negative real line below −1.
George Jerrard showed that some quintic equations can be solved in closed form using radicals and Bring radicals, which had been introduced by Erland Bring.
Normal forms[edit]
The quintic equation is rather difficult to obtain solutions for directly, with five independent coefficients in its most general form:
The various methods for solving the quintic that have been developed generally attempt to simplify the quintic using Tschirnhaus transformations to reduce the number of independent coefficients.
Principal quintic form[edit]
The general quintic may be reduced into what is known as the principal quintic form, with the quartic and cubic terms removed:
If the roots of a general quintic and a principal quintic are related by a quadratic Tschirnhaus transformation:
the coefficients α and β may be determined by using the resultant, or by means of the power sums of the roots and Newton's identities. This leads to a system of equations in α and β consisting of a quadratic and a linear equation, and either of the two sets of solutions may be used to obtain the corresponding three coefficients of the principal quintic form.[1]
This form is used by Felix Klein's solution to the quintic.[2]
Bring–Jerrard normal form[edit]
It is possible to simplify the quintic still further and eliminate the quadratic term, producing the Bring–Jerrard normal form:
Using the power-sum formulae again with a cubic transformation as Tschirnhaus tried does not work, since the resulting system of equations results in a sixth-degree equation.
In 1796 Bring found a way around this by using a quartic Tschirnhaus transformation to relate the roots of a principal quintic to those of a Bring–Jerrard quintic:
The extra parameter this fourth-order transformation provides allowed Bring to decrease the degrees of the other parameters. This leads to a system of five equations in six unknowns, which then requires the solution of a cubic and a quadratic equation. This method was also discovered by Jerrard in 1852,[3] but it is likely that he was unaware of Bring's previous work in this area.[4] The full transformation may readily be accomplished using a computer algebra package such as Mathematica[5] or Maple.[6] As might be expected from the complexity of these transformations, the resulting expressions can be enormous, particularly when compared to the solutions in radicals for lower degree equations, taking many megabytes of storage for a general quintic with symbolic coefficients.[5]
Regarded as an algebraic function, the solutions to
involve two variables, d1 and d0, however the reduction is actually to an algebraic function of one variable, very much analogous to a solution in radicals, since we may further reduce the Bring–Jerrard form. If we for instance set
then we reduce the equation to the form
which involves z as an algebraic function of a single variable t, where . A similar transformation suffices to reduce the equation to
which is the form required by the Hermite-Kronecker-Brioschi method, Glasser's method, and the Cockle-Harley method of differential resolvents described below.
Brioschi normal form[edit]
There is another one-parameter normal form for the quintic equation, known as Brioschi normal form:
which can be derived by using the following rational Tschirnhaus transformation
to relate the roots of a principal quintic to a Brioschi quintic. The values of the parameters and may be derived by using polyhedral functions on the Riemann sphere, and is related to the partition of an object of icosahedral symmetry into five objects of tetrahedral symmetry.[7]
It is to be noted that this Tschirnhaus transformation is rather simpler than the difficult one used to transform a principal quintic into Bring–Jerrard form. This normal form is used by the Doyle–McMullen iteration method and the Kiepert method.
Series representation[edit]
A Taylor series for Bring radicals, as well as a representation in terms of hypergeometric functions can be derived as follows. The equation can be rewritten as ; by setting , the desired solution is .
The series for can then be obtained by reversion of the Taylor series for (which is simply ), giving:
where the absolute values of the coefficients are sequence A002294 in the OEIS. The series confirms that is odd. This gives
The series converges for and can be analytically continued in the complex plane. The above result can be written in hypergeometric form as:[5]
Compare with the hypergeometric functions that arise in Glasser's derivation and the method of differential resolvents below.
Solution of the general quintic[edit]
We now may express the roots of any polynomial
in terms of the Bring radical as
and its four conjugates. We have a reduction to the Bring–Jerrard form in terms of solvable polynomial equations, and we used transformations involving polynomial expressions in the roots only up to the fourth degree, which means inverting the transformation may be done by finding the roots of a polynomial solvable in radicals. This procedure produces extraneous solutions, but when we have found the correct ones by numerical means we can also write down the roots of the quintic in terms of square roots, cube roots, and the Bring radical, which is therefore an algebraic solution in terms of algebraic functions of a single variable — an algebraic solution of the general quintic.
Other characterizations[edit]
Many other characterizations of the Bring radical have been developed, the first of which is in terms of elliptic modular functions by Charles Hermite in 1858, and further methods later developed by other mathematicians.
The Hermite–Kronecker–Brioschi characterization[edit]
In 1858, Charles Hermite[8] published the first known solution to the general quintic equation in terms of elliptic transcendents, and at around the same time Francesco Brioschi[9] and Leopold Kronecker[10] came upon equivalent solutions. Hermite arrived at this solution by generalizing the well-known solution to the cubic equation in terms of trigonometric functions and finds the solution to a quintic in Bring–Jerrard form:
into which any quintic equation may be reduced by means of Tschirnhaus transformations as has been shown. He observed that elliptic functions had an analogous role to play in the solution of the Bring–Jerrard quintic as the trigonometric functions had for the cubic. If and are the periods of an elliptic integral of the first kind:
the elliptic nome is given by:
define the two elliptic modular functions:
where and similar are Jacobi theta functions.
If n is a prime number, we can define two values u and v as follows:
The parameters and are linked by an equation of degree n + 1 known as the modular equation, whose n + 1 roots are given by:
where ε is 1 or −1 depending on whether 2 is a quadratic residue with respect to n or not, and m is an integer modulo n. For n = 5, we have the modular equation of the sixth degree:
with six roots as shown above.
The modular equation of the sixth degree may be related to the Bring–Jerrard quintic by the following function of the six roots of the modular equation:
The five quantities , , , , are the roots of a quintic equation with coefficients rational in :
which may be readily converted into the Bring–Jerrard form by the substitution:
leading to the Bring–Jerrard quintic:
The Hermite–Kronecker–Brioschi method then amounts to finding a value for τ that corresponds to the value of a, and then using that value of τ to obtain the roots of the corresponding modular equation. To do this, let
and calculate the required elliptic modulus by solving the quartic equation:
The roots of this equation are:
where [11] (note that some important references erroneously give it as [7][8]). Any of these roots may be used as the elliptic modulus for the purposes of the method. The value of may be easily obtained from the elliptic modulus by the relations given above. The roots of the Bring–Jerrard quintic are then given by:
for .
It may be seen that this process uses a generalization of the nth root, which may be expressed as:
or more to the point, as
The Hermite–Kronecker–Brioschi method essentially replaces the exponential by an elliptic modular function, and the integral by an elliptic integral. Kronecker thought that this generalization was a special case of a still more general theorem, which would be applicable to equations of arbitrarily high degree. This theorem, known as Thomae's formula, was fully expressed by Hiroshi Umemura in 1984, who used Siegel modular forms in place of the exponential/elliptic modular function, and the integral by a hyperelliptic integral.[12]
Glasser's derivation[edit]
This derivation due to M. L. Glasser[13] generalizes the series method presented earlier in this article to find a solution to any trinomial equation of the form:
In particular, the quintic equation can be reduced to this form by the use of Tschirnhaus transformations as shown above. Let , the general form becomes:
A formula due to Lagrange states that for any analytic function , in the neighborhood of a root of the transformed general equation in terms of , above may be expressed as an infinite series:
If we let in this formula, we can come up with the root:
By the use of the Gauss multiplication theorem the infinite series above may be broken up into a finite series of hypergeometric functions:
and the trinomial of the form,has roots
A root of the equation can thus be expressed as the sum of at most N − 1 hypergeometric functions. Applying this method to the reduced Bring–Jerrard quintic, define the following functions:
which are the hypergeometric functions that appear in the series formula above. The roots of the quintic are thus:
This is essentially the same result as that obtained by the method of differential resolvents developed by James Cockle and Robert Harley in 1860.
The method of differential resolvents[edit]
James Cockle[14] and Robert Harley[15] developed a method for solving the quintic by means of differential equations. They consider the roots as being functions of the coefficients, and calculate a differential resolvent based on these equations. The Bring–Jerrard quintic is expressed as a function:
and a function is to be determined such that:
The function must also satisfy the following four differential equations:
Expanding these and combining them together yields the differential resolvent:
The solution of the differential resolvent, being a fourth order ordinary differential equation, depends on four constants of integration, which should be chosen so as to satisfy the original quintic. This is a Fuchsian ordinary differential equation of hypergeometric type,[16] whose solution turns out to be identical to the series of hypergeometric functions that arose in Glasser's derivation above.[6]
This method may also be generalized to equations of arbitrarily high degree, with differential resolvents which are partial differential equations, whose solutions involve hypergeometric functions of several variables.[17][18] A general formula for differential resolvents of arbitrary univariate polynomials is given by Nahay's powersum formula. [19][20]
Doyle–McMullen iteration[edit]
In 1989, Peter Doyle and Curt McMullen derived an iteration method[21] that solves a quintic in Brioschi normal form:
The iteration algorithm proceeds as follows:
1. Set 2. Compute the rational function
- where is a polynomial function given below, and is the derivative of with respect to
3. Iterate on a random starting guess until it converges. Call the limit point and let . 4. Compute
- where is a polynomial function given below. Do this for both and .
5. Finally, compute
- for i = 1, 2. These are two of the roots of the Brioschi quintic.
The two polynomial functions and are as follows:
This iteration method produces two roots of the quintic. The remaining three roots can be obtained by using synthetic division to divide the two roots out, producing a cubic equation. It is to be noted that due to the way the iteration is formulated, this method seems to always find two complex conjugate roots of the quintic even when all the quintic coefficients are real and the starting guess is real. This iteration method is derived by from the symmetries of the icosahedron and is closely related to the method Felix Klein describes in his book.[2]
See also[edit]
- ^ Adamchik, Victor (2003). "Polynomial Transformations of Tschirnhaus, Bring, and Jerrard" (PDF). ACM SIGSAM Bulletin 37 (3): 91. doi:10.1145/990353.990371.
- ^ a b Klein, Felix (1888). Lectures on the Icosahedron and the Solution of Equations of the Fifth Degree. Trübner & Co. ISBN 0-486-49528-0.
- ^ Jerrard, George Birch (1859). An essay on the resolution of equations. London: Taylor and Francis.
- ^ Adamchik, pp. 92–93
- ^ a b c "Solving the Quintic with Mathematica". Wolfram Research.
- ^ a b Drociuk, Richard J. (2000). "On the Complete Solution to the Most General Fifth Degree Polynomial". arXiv:math.GM/0005026 [math.GM].
- ^ a b King, R. Bruce (1996). Beyond the Quartic Equation. Birkhäuser. p. 131. ISBN 3-7643-3776-1.
- ^ a b Hermite, Charles (1858). "Sur la résolution de l'équation du cinquème degré". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences XLVI (I): 508–515.
- ^ Brioschi, Francesco (1858). "Sul Metodo di Kronecker per la Risoluzione delle Equazioni di Quinto Grado". Atti dell'i. R. Istituto Lombardo di scienze, lettere ed arti I: 275–282.
- ^ Kronecker, Leopold (1858). "Sur la résolution de l'equation du cinquième degré, extrait d'une lettre adressée à M. Hermite". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences XLVI (I): 1150–1152.
- ^ Davis, Harold T. (1962). Introduction to Nonlinear Differential and Integral Equations. Dover. p. 173. ISBN 0-486-60971-5.
- ^ Umemura, Hiroshi (1984). "Resolution of algebraic equations by theta constants". In David Mumford. Tata Lectures on Theta II. Birkhäuser. pp. 3.261–3.272. ISBN 3-7643-3109-7.
- ^ Glasser, M. Lawrence (1994). "The quadratic formula made hard: A less radical approach to solving equations". arXiv:math.CA/9411224.
- ^ Cockle, James (1860). "Sketch of a Theory of Transcendental Roots". The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 20: 145–148.
- ^ Harley, Robert (1862). "On the Transcendental Solution of Algebraic Equations". Quart. J. Pure Appl. Math 5: 337–361.
- ^ Slater, Lucy Joan (1966). Generalized Hypergeometric Functions. Cambridge University Press. pp. 42–44. ISBN 978-0-521-06483-5.
- ^ Birkeland, Richard (1927). "Über die Auflösung algebraischer Gleichungen durch hypergeometrische Funktionen". Mathematische Zeitschrift 26: 565–578. doi:10.1007/BF01475474.
- ^ Mayr, Karl (1937). "Über die Auflösung algebraischer Gleichungssysteme durch hypergeometrische Funktionen". Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik 45: 280–313. doi:10.1007/BF01707992.
- ^ Nahay, John (2004). "Powersum formula for differential resolvents". International Journal of Mathematics & Mathematical Sciences. 2004 (7): 365–371. doi:10.1155/S0161171204210602.
- ^ Nahay, John (2000). "Linear Differential Resolvents (Doctoral dissertation), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Richard M. Cohn, advisor.".
- ^ Doyle, Peter; Curt McMullen (1989). "Solving the quintic by iteration" (PDF). Acta Math 163: 151–180. doi:10.1007/BF02392735.
- Mirzaei, Raoof(2012). "Spinors and Special functions for Solving Equation of nth degree". International Mathematica Symposium.
- Felix Klein, Lectures on the Icosahedron and the Solution of Equations of the Fifth Degree, trans. George Gavin Morrice, Trübner & Co., 1888. ISBN 0-486-49528-0.
- R. Bruce King, Beyond the Quartic Equation, Birkhäuser, 1996. ISBN 3-7643-3776-1
- Harold T. Davis, Introduction to Nonlinear Differential and Integral Equations, Dover, 1962, ISBN 0-486-60971-5, Chapter 6, especially Sections 20 and 21
External links[edit]
- M. Hazewinkel (2001), "Tschirnhausen transformation", in Hazewinkel, Michiel, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
- Weisstein, Eric W., "Bring–Jerrard Quintic Form", MathWorld.
- Weisstein, Eric W., "Bring Quintic Form", MathWorld.


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Annual to woody perennial herb; roots generally fibrous. Stem: generally round, hollow; nodes swollen, solid. Leaf: alternate, 2-ranked, generally linear, parallel-veined; sheath generally open; ligule membranous or hairy, at blade base. Inflorescence: various (of generally many spikelets). Spikelet: glumes generally 2; florets (lemma, palea, flower) 1–many; lemma generally membranous, sometimes glume-like; palea generally ± transparent, ± enclosed by lemma. Flower: generally bisexual, minute; perianth vestigial; stamens generally 3; stigmas generally 2, generally plumose. Fruit: grain, sometimes achene- or utricle-like.
650–900 genera; ± 10550 species: worldwide; greatest economic importance of any family (wheat, rice, maize, millet, sorghum, sugar cane, forage crops, ornamental, weeds; thatching, weaving, building materials). [Barkworth et al. 2003 FNANM:25; Barkworth et al. 2007 FNANM:24] Generally wind-pollinated. Achnatherum, Ampelodesmos, Hesperostipa, Nassella, Piptatherum, Piptochaetium, Ptilagrostis moved to Stipa; Elytrigia, Leymus, Pascopyrum, Pseudoroegneria, Taeniatherum to Elymus; Hierochloe to Anthoxanthum; Lolium, Vulpia to Festuca; Lycurus to Muhlenbergia; Monanthochloe to Distichlis; Pleuraphis to Hilaria; Rhynchelytrum to Melinis. The following taxa (in genera not included here), recorded in California from historical collections or reported in literature, are extirpated, lacking vouchers, or not considered naturalized: Acrachne racemosa (Roth) Ohwi, Allolepis texana (Vasey) Soderstr. & H.F. Decker, Amphibromus nervosus (Hook. f.) Baill., Axonopus affinis Chase, Axonopus fissifolius (Raddi) Kuhlm., Coix lacryma-jobi L., Cutandia memphitica (Spreng.) K. Richt., Dinebra retroflexa (Vahl) Panz., Eremochloa ciliaris (L.) Merr., Eustachys distichophylla (Lag.) Nees, Gaudinia fragilis (L.) P. Beauv., Miscanthus sinensis Andersson, Neyraudia arundinacea (L.) Henrard, Phyllostachys aurea Rivière & C. Rivière, Phyllostachys bambusoides Siebold & Zuccarini, Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton, Schedonnardus paniculatus (Nutt.) Branner & Coville, Schizachyrium cirratum (Hack.) Wooton & Standl., Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash, Themeda quadrivalvis (L.) Kuntze, Thysanolaena latifolia (Hornem.) Honda, Tribolium obliterum (Hemsl.) Renvoize, Zea mays L., Zizania palustris L. var. interior (Fassett) Dore, Zoysia japonica Steud. Paspalum pubiflorum E. Fourn., Paspalum quadrifarium Lam., are now reported for southern California (J Bot Res Inst Texas 4:761–770). See Glossary p. 30 for illustrations of general family characteristics. —Scientific Editors: James P. Smith, Jr., J. Travis Columbus, Dieter H. Wilken.
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Shrub- or tree-like perennial herb; rhizomes elongate. Stem: erect or nodding, woody, persistent, 1–35 m, 3–20 cm thick; internodes flattened, furrowed above nodes; generally 2 unequal branches per node. Leaf: main stem leaves early-deciduous, auricles and bristles present or 0; blade glossy, thickened, indistinctly cross-veined, base constricted above sheath, forming false petiole. Inflorescence: compound, panicle-like, open or congested, sometimes spike- or head-like. Spikelet: laterally compressed to rounded, 18–20 mm; glumes 0–3, < adjacent lemma, awn 0; florets 2–several, variously fertile or sterile, breaking above glumes; lemmas lanceolate to ovate, awned or awn 0; palea < lemma, strongly to faintly 2-keeled; anthers 3.
± 50 species: Himalayas to Japan, especially China. (Greek: leaf spike, in reference to the "leafy" false spikelet) [Haubrich 1980 J Amer Bamboo Soc 1:48–92; Stapleton & Barkworth 2007 FNANM 24:25–27] Most frequently cultivated of hardy bamboos; of considerable economic importance as a source of building material, paper, fishing poles, walking sticks, edible shoots, etc, especially in Asia. Japanese arrow bamboo, Pseudosasa japonica (Steud.) Nakai, is reported from 2 urban sites in Orange Co. and hedge bamboo, Bambusa multiplex (Lour.) Schult. & Schult. f., is known from a single urban Pollard collection in Santa Barbara Co. Neither has been recollected in several decades.
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Can someone tell me where I can get the upgrade to work with Vancouver+. Nigel's scenery is no longer available at Avsim.
I'm looking for the FS9 version. Thanks in advance.
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Posted 19 June 2010 - 03:26 AM
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Posted 19 June 2010 - 04:49 PM
CYVR4 is no longer available at AVSIM, it was lost as a result of the hack there. They have been asking me for copies but I have changed computer (when a lot of files got lost) and changed house, and I no longer have copies of my zip files. But all is not lost, they are available at FlightSim.com but under a slightly different name. Do a search for Vancouver and these two files should be there; also check whether you have the appropriate fixes and are upgrading the correct version, this was long a ago and I remember it got a bit confusing. The two files are
Posted 19 June 2010 - 11:30 PM
Thanks Nigel, I'm so glade you uploaded your work to Flightsim.com and not just Avsim alone like so many others did...
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