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Has anyone looked into this? What's going rate? I was quoted $20 an hour.
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Obviously most of you ladies don't know what a night nurse (also called a postpartum doula) actually is. They can come during the day or night, depending on which you prefer. Postpartum doulas come to help you with baby, other children and the house, NOT to replace your mom duties, but to make them a little easier. Most are lactation consultants, and help immensely with getting breastfeeding off to a good start. They also help with household chores such as laundry and cooking, educating new parents on infant care, and helping occupy younger siblings when needed.
The going rate here in NC is about $25/hour.
Ladies, stop hating. The OP asked for information, not inflammation.
The going rate here in NC is about $25/hour.
Ladies, stop hating. The OP asked for information, not inflammation.
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So, anyone that has used a night nurse- Do they stay awake with the baby all night? I wouldn't hav to provide somewhere to sleep ( because all I have is a couch). Anyone have recomendations in Seattle??
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If you like doing plastic canvas crafts, then try this Christmas shells and bows flower basket. This Christmas craft can be used to display flowers in your home or to give as a Christmas present.
SIZE: 9 ½" high (including the handle) x 5 ¼" across
- 1 skein each Jockey Red, Paddy Green and White Red Heart 4-ply yarn
- 1 sheet Ultra Stiff 12" x 18" 7-mesh plastic canvas
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- Assorted Silk Christmas Flowers
- Graph 1
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- Cut one 35 x 110 holes for basket.
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- Stitch handle as shown on graph and stitch all unshaded areas with white continental stitches, overcast with green and sew onto the basket.
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So What Would You Do?
just for fun if it was the Oilers turn to pick and Curtis Lazar and Ryan Pulock are both still there and are the next best players available.....potential top center or potential top d-man....who would you pick? :naughty:
I would pick Rasmus Ristolainen.
If only we should be so lucky.
I would pick Lazar, because our center depth in the organization sucks more than our defenseman depth.
Pulock would be a great addition though.
He has that elite shot from the point for the pp.
He will be a valued commodity come draft day.
I dunno flip a coin.
I think Poluck has more potential and Lazar is more of a sure thing.
Poluck could turn into a Shea Weber type #1 d-man, or a #6 Powerplay specialist?
Lazar seems to have second line center written all over him.
Edmonton could use a second line center like Lazar.. good defensively, gritty, with good but not elite offense. That guy that doesn't get all the numbers but seems like he's always on the ice because when he is.. he's noticed.
Just my guesses.
I would take Lazar as we really need that type of 2C and have Schultz already with the shot on defense.
Pulock for me. He's outscoring Lazar as a defenceman. He's on pace to score 30 goals as a defenceman.
I'd go for Pulock. I feel like he'd get eaten alive in Edmonton though because as good as he is, he's really not physical
On draft day look at our defenseman prospects and see how theyve progressed. If Klefbom/Musil living up to the hype then pick Lazar. If some defense prospects look to be busts then Pulock
Call the guys over at Mammoet, they'll move heaven and earth so you can land both those kids. Anything outside of the fab 5 are up for grabs as far as i'm concerned.
Does Anthopolis from the Jays know anything about hockey? We need a guy like him......he doesn't just dream about it, he goes out and gets it done.
Pulock, he will be the better player imo. An elite defense can make a forward corps look better than it is.
Well I will assume this is with the Oilers second 1st round pick because we all know they are going to 4-peat and pick up MacKinnon with their 1st overall.
Soooooo... I don't usually pick positionally but with MacKinnon in the bag, you have to go with the best dman at that point and pick up Pulock.
With MacKinnon and Pulock added to the stable... the Oil should be contenders for many, many years to come... provided all the big shots on both sides ever decide to start the NHL up again someday in our lifetimes.
I'd be happier combining it into one top selection. Curious where you believe they will select these two top round selections at?w
i'd probably go with Lazar because Pulock is too many years, developmentally, behind the core of the team. unless you take Pulock as a valuable asset to trade for immediate need, but I can't wait the 5 years it will take him to get up to par.
Lazar, OTOH, could be useful in 2 or 3 years.
Yeah but guys, where are we selecting?
He's who I'm personally hoping we can land.
I'm picking Pulock easily. He is the better of the two. Always take BPA, especially in a deep draft.
Who knows? By then there may actually be only 28 teams in the NHL as well.
i guess i was thinking we would be drafting around 9 or 10 in that area, and if you go by a few mock drafts, guys like MacKinnon, Jones, Barkov, Lindholm, Shinkaruk, Ristolainen, Drouin, and Monahan would presumably be gone already and guys like Lazar and Pulock would probably be next to be chosen. that's why i asked which of the two would YOU take?
I'd take Lazar.
Just watching Lazar last night I know he'd be one of those players you just love to have on your team. He probably won't put up any better numbers than Gagner but the way he plays the game just makes me like him.
I know it's cliche but he seems the guy that would do whatever it takes to win.
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There will be a county-wide food drive at local supermarkets on Friday and Saturday, November 16-17. Canned and nonperishable food donations will re-stock local food pantries and soup kitchens, which are seeing greater numbers of people in need this year.
This weekend, Clifton Harryton Anderson and Ollie W. Thompson-Brisbane will receive honors from Claflin University.
Isabella McElveen has been chosen to compete in the Miss South Carolina Teen USA Pageant this Nov. 16 and 17.
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Camden First United Methodist Church will be celebrating its annual "Friends of the First" service on Sunday at 11 a.m. This is a special day of worship and we have asked the congregation to extend invitations to family and friends. The theme for this year's celebration is "A friend loves at all times." That love, the love of God is to be manifested in all we do, in all seasons and at all times.
Saturday, God's Helpers will host Pastor Willie Davis as their Thanksgiving Gathering speaker, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Kershaw County Recreation Department.
Miss South Carolina, Ali Rogers, will speak at Bethel United Methodist Church this Sunday at the 11 a.m. service.
The Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County (FAC) and the City of Camden are pleased to bring you a great evening of entertainment to kick off the Colonial Cup weekend on Friday, Nov. 16. This free, family friendly event will begin at 6:30 p.m. with food vendors and music on the Town Green, so bring your blankets and chairs and help us celebrate the beginning of a great fall weekend in Camden. The Root Doctors, a popular cover and dance band will take the stage at 7 p.m. Participating vendors include: Old Armory Steak & Seafood Restaurant, Venue ...
The Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County (FAC) and Columbia Children's Theatre (CCT) are proud to present Fame Jr., a Camden Community Theatre production, Nov. 8-11 in the Wood Auditorium. The Thursday through Saturday evening shows start at 7 p.m., and the Sunday matinee begins at 3 p.m.. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students, seniors and military. Fame, Jr. is sponsored by Modern Turf.
Grace Church welcomed their new Rector, Rev. James Barnhill on Sunday, Oct. 14.
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Food for the Soul (FFTS) will "pass the plate" this summer to feed and shelter those in need.
While Ben Franklin was key to the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, the other Founding Fathers did not want him to be the main author - as they felt they couldn't trust him not to put a joke in it!
The great, big and wonderful approval of going independent actually occurred on July 2 -- a day which John Adams thought would forever after be celebrated by the newly formed nation. "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha in the History of America." He was right about the way we honor it though: "It ought ...
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The programs input is either the letter of the drive you want to check or just let the program check all drives.
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- Erfolgsfaktoren für die Entwicklung ländlicher Regionen in Rheinland-Pfalz (2015)
- In Rheinland-Pfalz kommt den ländlichen Regionen eine hohe Bedeutung als Lebens-, Wirtschafts-, Natur- und Erholungsraum zu. Bei ihrer Entwicklung kann festgestellt werden, dass diese Regionen sowohl Schrumpfungstendenzen wie einen Rückgang der Bevölkerungszahl, zum Teil aber auch positive Entwicklungsdynamiken wie positive bevölkerungsstrukturelle und sozio-ökonomische Entwicklungen aufweisen. In jenen Regionen die positive Entwicklungsdynamiken verzeichnen stellt sich insbesondere die Frage nach "den Erfolgsfaktoren", die diese Entwicklung begünstigt haben. Die Bundesraumordnung hat das Potenzial dieser Räume, einen gesamtwirtschaftlichen Wachstumsbeitrag zu liefern, erkannt. Im Jahr 2010 und 2013 hat die Ministerkonferenz für Raumordnung den Beschluss gefasst, die Leitbilder für die Raumentwicklung in Deutschland dahingehend zu konkretisieren und weiterzuentwickeln, dass die Rolle und Bedeutung ländlicher Räume als "eigenständige Wirtschafts-, Kultur- und Lebensräume, die ihre Potenziale durch die Entwicklung eigener Stärken, aber auch durch Verflechtung und Vernetzung besser zur Geltung bringen können", noch stärker herausgearbeitet werden soll. Im aktuellen Entwurf der Leitbilder und Handlungsstrategien für die Raumentwicklung in Deutschland 2013 zeigt sich, dass im vorgesehenen Leitbild "Wettbewerbsfähigkeit stärken" sowohl ländliche als auch verstädterte wirtschaftliche Wachstumsräume außerhalb der Metropolregionen verortet werden, die im Rahmen einer Raumentwicklungsstrategie als Wirtschafts-, Innovations- und Technologiestandorte gestärkt werden sollen. Somit stellt sich für ländliche Regionen insbesondere die Frage, welches die maßgeblichen Faktoren sein können, um eine eigene positive Entwicklungsdynamik zu fördern. Die vorliegende Dissertation identifiziert im Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz, für das ländliche Regionen in exemplarischer Weise von Bedeutung sind, Landkreise die positive Entwicklungsdynamiken aufzeigen und untersucht sie hinsichtlich ihrer Erfolgsfaktoren. Dabei handelt es sich um den Donnersbergkreis, den Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis und den Landkreis Südliche Weinstraße einschließlich der Stadt Landau in der Pfalz. Um sich der Thematik der Erfolgsfaktoren in theoretischer Weise zu nähern, werden zunächst Ansätze zur Erklärung unterschiedlicher regionaler Entwicklungsdynamiken betrachtet und Kriterien abgeleitet, die dazu dienen, bereits bestehende Ansätze, Programme und Projekte zur Förderung solcher Entwicklungen in ländlichen Regionen zu bewerten. Der Untersuchung liegen ferner empirische Erhebungen wie leitfadengestützte Gespräche mit Experten, regionalen Akteuren aus Verwaltung und Wirtschaft sowie mit regionalen und kommunalen Entscheidungsträgern und eine schriftliche Befragung der Bevölkerung in allen drei Landkreisen zugrunde, um weitere Erkenntnisse über (spezifische) Erfolgsfaktoren zu erhalten. Es zeigt sich dabei, dass die positiven Entwicklungsdynamiken durch die unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingungen, wie die Lage der Landkreise im Raum, verkehrsinfrastrukturelle und naturräumliche Ausstattung, historische Entwicklungspfade sowie durch bestimmte Unternehmensansiedlungen und ein strategisches Handeln regionaler und kommunaler Akteure, maßgeblich beeinflusst wird. Im Zusammenhang mit dem Thema der europäischen Metropolregionen bleibt zu sagen, dass die untersuchten Räume auch von der Nähe zu diesen Räumen profitieren. Hierbei spielen vor allem eine gut ausgebaute Verkehrsinfrastruktur, Arbeitsplätze und Hochschulen eine wichtige Rolle. Weiterhin zeigt sich, dass sich beispielsweise eine wirtschaftsnahe Verwaltung und die Etablierung von Netzwerken zwischen Politik, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung unterstützend auswirken. Ein weiteres Hauptaugenmerk im Zusammenhang mit positiven Entwicklungsdynamiken ist auf die Existenz hochinnovativer, vielfach klein- und mittelständischer Unternehmen zu richten. Als maßgeblich für die Entwicklung eines Raumes ist aber auch das hohe Engagement einzelner Personen zu betrachten, die oftmals eine wichtige Rolle als die treibenden Kräfte bei der regionalen Entwicklung einnehmen. Darüber hinaus spielt in den untersuchten ländlichen Regionen, die stark durch den produzierenden Sektor geprägt sind, die betriebliche Aus- und Weiterbildung sowie eine frühzeitige Berufsorientierung in Schulen und die Vermittlung von Praktika eine wichtige Rolle und trägt zur Sicherung der Fachkräftebasis in den Regionen bei. Die durchgeführte Haushaltsbefragung verdeutlicht, dass die Räume eine sehr hohe Wohn- und Lebensqualität aufweisen, welche die Bevölkerung verstärkt an den Raum bindet. Aufbauend auf den identifizierten Erfolgsfaktoren werden Handlungsansätze der Raumordnung, Landes- und Regionalplanung sowie der Regionalentwicklung und relevanter Politikfelder erarbeitet. Hierbei steht insbesondere die Frage im Vordergrund, wie vorhandene Entwicklungsdynamiken unterstützt, ausgebaut und in anderen Regionen angestoßen werden können. In Hinblick auf die Übertragbarkeit auf andere Regionen ist zu erwähnen, dass dies durchaus möglich ist, wobei die identifizierten Erfolgsfaktoren vielfach von den spezifischen Rahmenbedingungen des Raumes abhängig sind. Wesentlich ist, dass die genannten Handlungsansätze und -strategien eine Orientierung ermöglichen. Berücksichtigt werden muss beim Verfolgen der dargestellten Strategien jedoch, dass sich die Entwicklungen in den Untersuchungsräumen über einen langen Zeitraum vollzogen haben. Somit sollte auch an einer "Strategie der kleinen Schritte" angesetzt werden.
- Visual Learning of Socio-Video Semantics (2015)
- Today's ubiquity of visual content as driven by the availability of broadband Internet, low-priced storage, and the omnipresence of camera equipped mobile devices conveys much of our thinking and feeling as individuals and as a society. As a result the growth of video repositories is increasing at enourmous rates with content now being embedded and shared through social media. To make use of this new form of social multimedia, concept detection, the automatic mapping of semantic concepts and video content has to be extended such that concept vocabularies are synchronized with current real-world events, systems can perform scalable concept learning with thousands of concepts, and high-level information such as sentiment can be extracted from visual content. To catch up with these demands the following three contributions are made in this thesis: (i) concept detection is linked to trending topics, (ii) visual learning from web videos is presented including the proper treatment of tags as concept labels, and (iii) the extension of concept detection with adjective noun pairs for sentiment analysis is proposed. In order for concept detection to satisfy users' current information needs, the notion of fixed concept vocabularies has to be reconsidered. This thesis presents a novel concept learning approach built upon dynamic vocabularies, which are automatically augmented with trending topics mined from social media. Once discovered, trending topics are evaluated by forecasting their future progression to predict high impact topics, which are then either mapped to an available static concept vocabulary or trained as individual concept detectors on demand. It is demonstrated in experiments on YouTube video clips that by a visual learning of trending topics, improvements of over 100% in concept detection accuracy can be achieved over static vocabularies (n=78,000). To remove manual efforts related to training data retrieval from YouTube and noise caused by tags being coarse, subjective and context-depedent, this thesis suggests an automatic concept-to-query mapping for the retrieval of relevant training video material, and active relevance filtering to generate reliable annotations from web video tags. Here, the relevance of web tags is modeled as a latent variable, which is combined with an active learning label refinement. In experiments on YouTube, active relevance filtering is found to outperform both automatic filtering and active learning approaches, leading to a reduction of required label inspections by 75% as compared to an expert annotated training dataset (n=100,000). Finally, it is demonstrated, that concept detection can serve as a key component to infer the sentiment reflected in visual content. To extend concept detection for sentiment analysis, adjective noun pairs (ANP) as novel entities for concept learning are proposed in this thesis. First a large-scale visual sentiment ontology consisting of 3,000 ANPs is automatically constructed by mining the web. From this ontology a mid-level representation of visual content – SentiBank – is trained to encode the visual presence of 1,200 ANPs. This novel approach of visual learning is validated in three independent experiments on sentiment prediction (n=2,000), emotion detection (n=807) and pornographic filtering (n=40,000). SentiBank is shown to outperform known low-level feature representations (sentiment prediction, pornography detection) or perform comparable to state-of-the art methods (emotion detection). Altogether, these contributions extend state-of-the-art concept detection approaches such that concept learning can be done autonomously from web videos on a large-scale, and can cope with novel semantic structures such as trending topics or adjective noun pairs, adding a new dimension to the understanding of video content.
- Statistical Language Modeling for Historical Documents using Weighted Finite-State Transducers and Long Short-Term Memory (2015)
- The goal of this work is to develop statistical natural language models and processing techniques based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), especially the recently introduced Long Short- Term Memory (LSTM). Due to their adapting and predicting abilities, these methods are more robust, and easier to train than traditional methods, i.e., words list and rule-based models. They improve the output of recognition systems and make them more accessible to users for browsing and reading. These techniques are required, especially for historical books which might take years of effort and huge costs to manually transcribe them. The contributions of this thesis are several new methods which have high-performance computing and accuracy. First, an error model for improving recognition results is designed. As a second contribution, a hyphenation model for difficult transcription for alignment purposes is suggested. Third, a dehyphenation model is used to classify the hyphens in noisy transcription. The fourth contribution is using LSTM networks for normalizing historical orthography. A size normalization alignment is implemented to equal the size of strings, before the training phase. Using the LSTM networks as a language model to improve the recognition results is the fifth contribution. Finally, the sixth contribution is a combination of Weighted Finite-State Transducers (WFSTs), and LSTM applied on multiple recognition systems. These contributions will be elaborated in more detail. Context-dependent confusion rules is a new technique to build an error model for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) corrections. The rules are extracted from the OCR confusions which appear in the recognition outputs and are translated into edit operations, e.g., insertions, deletions, and substitutions using the Levenshtein edit distance algorithm. The edit operations are extracted in a form of rules with respect to the context of the incorrect string to build an error model using WFSTs. The context-dependent rules assist the language model to find the best candidate corrections. They avoid the calculations that occur in searching the language model and they also make the language model able to correct incorrect words by using context- dependent confusion rules. The context-dependent error model is applied on the university of Washington (UWIII) dataset and the Nastaleeq script in Urdu dataset. It improves the OCR results from an error rate of 1.14% to an error rate of 0.68%. It performs better than the state-of-the-art single rule-based which returns an error rate of 1.0%. This thesis describes a new, simple, fast, and accurate system for generating correspondences between real scanned historical books and their transcriptions. The alignment has many challenges, first, the transcriptions might have different modifications, and layout variations than the original book. Second, the recognition of the historical books have misrecognition, and segmentation errors, which make the alignment more difficult especially the line breaks, and pages will not have the same correspondences. Adapted WFSTs are designed to represent the transcription. The WFSTs process Fraktur ligatures and adapt the transcription with a hyphenations model that allows the alignment with respect to the varieties of the hyphenated words in the line breaks of the OCR documents. In this work, several approaches are implemented to be used for the alignment such as: text-segments, page-wise, and book-wise approaches. The approaches are evaluated on German calligraphic (Fraktur) script historical documents dataset from "Wan- derungen durch die Mark Brandenburg" volumes (1862-1889). The text-segmentation approach returns an error rate of 2.33% without using a hyphenation model and an error rate of 2.0% using a hyphenation model. Dehyphenation methods are presented to remove the hyphen from the transcription. They provide the transcription in a readable and reflowable format to be used for alignment purposes. We consider the task as classification problem and classify the hyphens from the given patterns as hyphens for line breaks, combined words, or noise. The methods are applied on clean and noisy transcription for different languages. The Decision Trees classifier returns better performance on UWIII dataset and returns an accuracy of 98%. It returns 97% on Fraktur script. A new method for normalizing historical OCRed text using LSTM is implemented for different texts, ranging from Early New High German 14th - 16th centuries to modern forms in New High German applied on the Luther bible. It performed better than the rule-based word-list approaches. It provides a transcription for various purposes such as part-of-speech tagging and n-grams. Also two new techniques are presented for aligning the OCR results and normalize the size by using adding Character-Epsilons or Appending-Epsilons. They allow deletion and insertion in the appropriate position in the string. In normalizing historical wordforms to modern wordforms, the accuracy of LSTM on seen data is around 94%, while the state-of-the-art combined rule-based method returns 93%. On unseen data, LSTM returns 88% and the combined rule-based method returns 76%. In normalizing modern wordforms to historical wordforms, the LSTM delivers the best performance and returns 93.4% on seen data and 89.17% on unknown data. In this thesis, a deep investigation has been done on constructing high-performance language modeling for improving the recognition systems. A new method to construct a language model using LSTM is designed to correct OCR results. The method is applied on UWIII and Urdu script. The LSTM approach outperforms the state-of-the-art, especially for unseen tokens during training. On the UWIII dataset, the LSTM returns reduction in OCR error rates from 1.14% to 0.48%. On the Nastaleeq script in Urdu dataset, the LSTM reduces the error rate from 6.9% to 1.58%. Finally, the integration of multiple recognition outputs can give higher performance than a single recognition system. Therefore, a new method for combining the results of OCR systems is explored using WFSTs and LSTM. It uses multiple OCR outputs and votes for the best output to improve the OCR results. It performs better than the ISRI tool, Pairwise of Multiple Sequence and it helps to improve the OCR results. The purpose is to provide correct transcription so that it can be used for digitizing books, linguistics purposes, N-grams, and part-of-speech tagging. The method consists of two alignment steps. First, two recognition systems are aligned using WFSTs. The transducers are designed to be more flexible and compatible with the different symbols in line and page breaks to avoid the segmentation and misrecognition errors. The LSTM model then is used to vote the best candidate correction of the two systems and improve the incorrect tokens which are produced during the first alignment. The approaches are evaluated on OCRs output from the English UWIII and historical German Fraktur dataset which are obtained from state-of-the-art OCR systems. The Experiments show that the error rate of ISRI-Voting is 1.45%, the error rate of the Pairwise of Multiple Sequence is 1.32%, the error rate of the Line-to-Page alignment is 1.26% and the error rate of the LSTM approach has the best performance with 0.40%. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute methods providing correct transcriptions corresponding to the original book. This is considered to be the first step towards an accurate and more effective use of the documents in digital libraries.
- Context Awareness for Enhancing Heterogeneous Access Management and Self-Optimizing Networks (2015)
- The heterogeneity of today's access possibilities to wireless networks imposes challenges for efficient mobility support and resource management across different Radio Access Technologies (RATs). The current situation is characterized by the coexistence of various wireless communication systems, such as GSM, HSPA, LTE, WiMAX, and WLAN. These RATs greatly differ with respect to coverage, spectrum, data rates, Quality of Service (QoS), and mobility support. In real systems, mobility-related events, such as Handover (HO) procedures, directly affect resource efficiency and End-To-End (E2E) performance, in particular with respect to signaling efforts and users' QoS. In order to lay a basis for realistic multi-radio network evaluation, a novel evaluation methodology is introduced in this thesis. A central hypothesis of this thesis is that the consideration and exploitation of additional information characterizing user, network, and environment context, is beneficial for enhancing Heterogeneous Access Management (HAM) and Self-Optimizing Networks (SONs). Further, Mobile Network Operator (MNO) revenues are maximized by tightly integrating bandwidth adaptation and admission control mechanisms as well as simultaneously accounting for user profiles and service characteristics. In addition, mobility robustness is optimized by enabling network nodes to tune HO parameters according to locally observed conditions. For establishing all these facets of context awareness, various schemes and algorithms are developed and evaluated in this thesis. System-level simulation results demonstrate the potential of context information exploitation for enhancing resource utilization, mobility support, self-tuning network operations, and users' E2E performance. In essence, the conducted research activities and presented results motivate and substantiate the consideration of context awareness as key enabler for cognitive and autonomous network management. Further, the performed investigations and aspects evaluated in the scope of this thesis are highly relevant for future 5G wireless systems and current discussions in the 5G infrastructure Public Private Partnership (PPP).
- Context-Enabled Optimization of Energy-Autarkic Networks for Carrier-Grade Wireless Backhauling (2015)
- This work establishes the novel category of coordinated Wireless Backhaul Networks (WBNs) for energy-autarkic point-to-point radio backhauling. The networking concept is based on three major building blocks: cost-efficient radio transceiver hardware, a self-organizing network operations framework, and power supply from renewable energy sources. The aim of this novel backhauling approach is to combine carrier-grade network performance with reduced maintenance effort as well as independent and self-sufficient power supply. In order to facilitate the success prospects of this concept, the thesis comprises the following major contributions: Formal, multi-domain system model and evaluation methodology First, adapted from the theory of cyber-physical systems, the author devises a multi-domain evaluation methodology and a system-level simulation framework for energy-autarkic coordinated WBNs, including a novel balanced scorecard concept. Second, the thesis specifically addresses the topic of Topology Control (TC) in point-to-point radio networks and how it can be exploited for network management purposes. Given a set of network nodes equipped with multiple radio transceivers and known locations, TC continuously optimizes the setup and configuration of radio links between network nodes, thus supporting initial network deployment, network operation, as well as topology re-configuration. In particular, the author shows that TC in WBNs belongs to the class of NP-hard quadratic assignment problems and that it has significant impact in operational practice, e.g., on routing efficiency, network redundancy levels, service reliability, and energy consumption. Two novel algorithms focusing on maximizing edge connectivity of network graphs are developed. Finally, this work carries out an analytical benchmarking and a numerical performance analysis of the introduced concepts and algorithms. The author analytically derives minimum performance levels of the the developed TC algorithms. For the analyzed scenarios of remote Alpine communities and rural Tanzania, the evaluation shows that the algorithms improve energy efficiency and more evenly balance energy consumption across backhaul nodes, thus significantly increasing the number of available backhaul nodes compared to state-of-the-art TC algorithms.
- Modeling and design optimization of textile-like materials via homogenization and one-dimensional models of elasticity (2015)
- The work consists of two parts. In the first part an optimization problem of structures of linear elastic material with contact modeled by Robin-type boundary conditions is considered. The structures model textile-like materials and possess certain quasiperiodicity properties. The homogenization method is used to represent the structures by homogeneous elastic bodies and is essential for formulations of the effective stress and Poisson's ratio optimization problems. At the micro-level, the classical one-dimensional Euler-Bernoulli beam model extended with jump conditions at contact interfaces is used. The stress optimization problem is of a PDE-constrained optimization type, and the adjoint approach is exploited. Several numerical results are provided. In the second part a non-linear model for simulation of textiles is proposed. The yarns are modeled by hyperelastic law and have no bending stiffness. The friction is modeled by the Capstan equation. The model is formulated as a problem with the rate-independent dissipation, and the basic continuity and convexity properties are investigated. The part ends with numerical experiments and a comparison of the results to a real measurement.
- An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Open Actor System Verification (2015)
- Open distributed systems are a class of distributed systems where (i) only partial information about the environment, in which they are running, is present, (ii) new resources may become available at runtime, and (iii) a subsystem may become aware of other subsystems after some interaction. Modeling and implementing such systems correctly is a complex task due to the openness and the dynamicity aspects. One way to ensure that the resulting systems behave correctly is to utilize formal verification. Formal verification requires an adequate semantic model of the implementation, a specification of the desired behavior, and a reasoning technique. The actor model is a semantic model that captures the challenging aspects of open distributed systems by utilizing actors as universal primitives to represent system entities and allowing them to create new actors and to communicate by sending directed messages as reply to received messages. To enable compositional reasoning, where the reasoning task is reduced to independent verification of the system parts, semantic entities at a higher level of abstraction than actors are needed. This thesis proposes an automaton model and combines sound reasoning techniques to compositionally verify implementations of open actor systems. Based on I/O automata, the model allows automata to be created dynamically and captures dynamic changes in communication patterns. Each automaton represents either an actor or a group of actors. The specification of the desired behavior is given constructively as an automaton. As the basis for compositionality, we formalize a component notion based on the static structure of the implementation instead of the dynamic entities (the actors) occurring in the system execution. The reasoning proceeds in two stages. The first stage establishes the connection between the automata representing single actors and their implementation description by means of weakest liberal preconditions. The second stage employs this result as the basis for verifying whether a component specification is satisfied. The verification is done by building a simulation relation from the automaton representing the implementation to the component's automaton. Finally, we validate the compositional verification approach through a number of examples by proving correctness of their actor implementations with respect to system specifications.
- A Finite Dominating Set Algorithm for a Dynamic Location Problem in the Plane (2014)
- A single facility problem in the plane is considered, where an optimal location has to be identified for each of finitely many time-steps with respect to time-dependent weights and demand points. It is shown that the median objective can be reduced to a special case of the static multifacility median problem such that results from the latter can be used to tackle the dynamic location problem. When using block norms as distance measure between facilities, a Finite Dominating Set (FDS) is derived. For the special case with only two time-steps, the resulting algorithm is analyzed with respect to its worst-case complexity. Due to the relation between dynamic location problems for T time periods and T-facility problems, this algorithm can also be applied to the static 2-facility location problem.
- Modeling and Simulation of a Moving Rigid Body in a Rarefied Gas (2015)
- We present a numerical scheme to simulate a moving rigid body with arbitrary shape suspended in a rarefied gas micro flows, in view of applications to complex computations of moving structures in micro or vacuum systems. The rarefied gas is simulated by solving the Boltzmann equation using a DSMC particle method. The motion of the rigid body is governed by the Newton-Euler equations, where the force and the torque on the rigid body is computed from the momentum transfer of the gas molecules colliding with the body. The resulting motion of the rigid body affects in turn again the gas flow in the surroundings. This means that a two-way coupling has been modeled. We validate the scheme by performing various numerical experiments in 1-, 2- and 3-dimensional computational domains. We have presented 1-dimensional actuator problem, 2-dimensional cavity driven flow problem, Brownian diffusion of a spherical particle both with translational and rotational motions, and finally thermophoresis on a spherical particles. We compare the numerical results obtained from the numerical simulations with the existing theories in each test examples.
- Visual Processing in Reading and Dyslexia (2015)
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Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has denied telling one of the party's female councillors she was "too pretty" for politics.
Karen Danczuk, who has previously hit the headlines for her regular posting of selfies, claimed on Twitter that the Labour equalities spokeswoman suggested she would be more suited to being in all-girl pop group 'Girls Aloud'.
But Ms Harman released a statement saying: "I deny I ever said that and it's inconceivable I would have ever said that.
"I have always believed it's what you do in politics, not what you look like. I have never discouraged a woman from getting involved in politics on the basis of their looks."
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Harman hits out again at Daily Mail coverage
Harriet Harman has again attacked the Daily Mail's coverage of the affiliation between a group she worked with in the 1970s and their links to a paedophile rights group.
Speaking on The Agenda with Tom Bradby on ITV this evening, she said: "The idea that the Daily Mail suddenly comes up with this idea that I'm an apologist for child abuse. I mean, how on earth could I apologise for that?
"It's not true. I went from being a man-hater one minute, according to the Daily Mail, to colluding with dirty old men."
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Ex-PIE chair 'confident Harman was aware of situation'
Former Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) chairman Tom O'Carroll told ITV News he is "confident" Harriet Harman was aware the group was represented on a gay rights sub-committee in the late 1970s.
O'Carroll told UK Editor Lucy Manning he did not think Harman had any involvement with PIE "directly or indirectly", adding, "except through her knowledge of the fact that the organisation had a presence within the NCCL" sub-committee.
He said: "She presumably knew that we were affiliated with the NCCL and must have known, I think, that a representative of PIE - for a long time that was myself while she was there - was on the gay rights sub-committee.
"She must of known that, I am confident, because she had regular discussions with her staff, including the person who presided over the gay rights sub-committee, and that person would have talked to her about the proceedings of the committee from time-to-time I'm sure".
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O'Carroll sat on an NCCL gay rights sub-committee in the late 1970s and said there had been no active attempt to remove him.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Really they didn't do much to oppose PIE's presence in my view because there were these other liberal forces, or radical forces, within NCCL.
"The support didn't come from Harman and Co but it was there. The Gay Liberation Front was very radical and at that time Harman and Patricia Hewitt couldn't just kick out PIE.
"Well, they could both try but they didn't even try and the reason they didn't try is they didn't want to rock the boat because their careers within NCCL depended on them not rocking the boat too much."
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Harman's reaction to Daily Mail is pure emotion
The National Council for Civil Liberties was a very mainstream organisation at that time, the pre-cursor to Liberty, if you like.
Most people here actually think the idea that this horrible paedophile organisation was allowed to affiliate and that the NCCL had totally open affiliate policy is bonkers.
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When it was question of Ed Miliband against The Daily Mail with the attack on Ed Miliband's father, there was emotion too, but there was an element of political calculation.
Ed Miliband wanted to be seen taking on the big newspaper organisations.
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Political correspondent Carl Dinnen said Harriet Harman is not helped by the fact that Liberty, the organisation that formed from the NCCL, described links to the paedophile group as "a continuing source of horror and disgust."
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Iran and six world powers have begun talks in Turkey on Tehran's controversial nuclear programme, but diplomats say hopes of a breakthrough are slim.
"No one is expecting any big breakthrough, but Iran needs to show that it is interested in engaging in a wider process," said one diplomat as the opening session began on Friday.
"There are fundamental issues Iran needs to address and those are pretty clear, but no one's expecting any great shift."
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the US - plus Germany (collectively known as the P5+1 group) have said they believe Iran's uranium enrichment process is a cover for developing nuclear weapons.
Iran has repeatedly denied the allegations, saying it is developing the technology to meet its civilian energy needs.
Catherine Ashton, the EU policy chief, is representing the P5+1 in Istanbul while Saeed Jalili, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, is heading his country's delegation.
The delegations are meeting behind closed doors for the two-day meeting at Ciragan, an Ottoman palace on the banks of the Bopshorus.
Wide differences
Following the first round of talks in Geneva last month, the two sides emerged with wide differences.
"We want to discuss the fundamental problems of global politics at Istanbul talks,'' Jalili said on Friday.
The talks will need to get to a point where the two sides agree, Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall reported from Istanbul. "But each side will not talk about the specific points the other side wants to raise," he said.
Iran wants to discuss global disarmament, Israel's nuclear capabilities and general non-proliferation while the P5+1 wants to talk about Iran.
"The bigger issues are certainly not solvable here [in Istanbul] because the Iranian challenge is a meaningful one," Ilter Turan, a political analyst, told Al Jazeera.
"The current system gives an advantage to those who possess nuclear materials and makes the others simply customers of those," Turan added.
Sanctions issueThe standoff over Iran's nuclear programme has escalated in the past year, with the United Nations imposing new sanctions and the US and its allies rejecting a revised proposal for Iran to exchange low-enrichment uranium for nuclear fuel from abroad. Sergei Lavrov, Russia's representative at the talks, said that the lifting of the "counterproductive" sanctions should be on the table on Friday.However, Mark Toner, a US state department spokesman, dismissed Lavrov's remarks. The US has raised the possibility of harsher unilateral sanctions if Iran fails to comply with the demands of the six powers.Going into the Istanbul talks, Iranian officials said they were ready to discuss reviving the idea of the swap agreement based on one brokered last year with Brazil and Turkey.
Toner said the US was willing to discuss an updated fuel swap proposal, if it reflected the progress Tehran has made on uranium enrichment in the two years since the idea was floated.
Defiant Ahmadinejad
On the eve of the talks, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, was defiant, telling a cheering crowd that Tehran would not back down on the issue of its nuclear programme.
"You could not stop us from being nuclear ... The Iranian nation will not retreat an inch. The nuclear issue is over from the Iranian point of view."
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), also delivered an aggresive message, saying Iran's enrichment activities would continue at an underground facility at Fordow, near the city of Qom, even if its nuclear sites were attacked.
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Little Anthony and the Imperials is an American rhythm and blues/soul/doo-wop vocal group from New York, first active in the 1950s. Lead singer Jerome Anthony "Little Anthony" Gourdine was noted for his high-pitched falsetto voice, influenced by Jimmy Scott. The group was one of the very few doo-wop groups to maintain success on the R&B and pop charts well throughout the 60's. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 4, 2009, 23 years after the group's first year of eligibility for induction.
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It is not too late. The good games just started coming out to the system over the past year. Now it is the high point of the system.
I don't foresee a new Nintendo handheld for 4-5 years yet. Probably coinciding with their next home console release. My call.
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Rhone-ish nose with leather, spice, red and dark fruits on display. Silky palate with more red and dark fruits, leather, and black tea. Resolved tannins. A nice showing, but this is fully mature and it's time to drink up.
This would have been really nice 10 years ago. There's simply almost no fruit left; lots of vegetable and other secondary aromas, some pleasant, some unpleasant. Opens up a touch after a couple hours open to reveal a tiny hint of dark fruit with silky-smooth tannin (or remnants of tannin, at this point), but got no more out of it. Served it with roasted duck breast, and everybody was reaching for the Crozes-Hermitage backup within a couple sips.
Unequivocally this wine is past its absolute prime but still has much to give. Lovely uniform bricking and a good nose of slightly over-ripe plums and figs. Improved with a long decant and plenty of fruit left on the palate but the age showed in the finish which obviously is shorter than it could have been. Drink up.
We brought this wine to a restaurant unopened. The waiter broke the cork upon opening and filtered the wine. We started drinking it about a half hour later. The color was good and the nose was lovely -- full, rich and plummy, with a taste to match: robust fruit, very well balanced, no off-notes at all. The wine held up beautifully throughout the meal. Much more than we expected from this wine. Still lots of drinking time.
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