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- Title
- Fabrication and biofunctionalization of selenium-polypyrrole core-shell nanoparticles for targeting and imaging of cancer cells
- Author(s)
- Li, Jing-Liang; Liu, Xiang-Yan
- Abstract
- Selenium-polypyrrole core-shell nanoparticles are fabricated by an in-situ polymerization process and functionalized with transferrin for targeting and imaging of human cervical cancer cells. The shell thickness and chemical composition of the as-synthesized particles can be manipulated by controlling the precursor concentration. The presence of the polymer layer can greatly increase the thermal stability of the selenium nanoparticles. The presence of transferrin molecules on the surface of the core-shell nanoparticles can significantly enhance their cellular uptake. The tranferrin-conjugated core-shell nanoparticles can be potentially used for the targeting and imaging of cancer cells.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
- Source
- Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, no. 5 (May 2008), pp. 2488-2491
- Publication year
- 2008
- Keyword(s)
- Cancer cells; Nanoparticle; Polypyrrole; Selenium; Transferrin
- Publisher
- American Scientific Publishers
- 1533-4880
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 American Scientific Publishers. All Rights Reserved. The publisher does not allow institutions to archive either the accepted manuscript or the published version of the article.
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April 20, 2011
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May 6, 2016
Darcy Grimes, a third grade teacher at Bethel Elementary School in Watauga County is the 2012-13 North Carolina Teacher of the Year.
The announcement was made Thursday in Cary.
Two teachers from Eastern Carolina were among the nine finalists for the North Carolina Teacher of the Year award: Lisa Staats from Chocowinity Middle in Beaufort County and Malinda Pennington of Toisnot Middle in Wilson County.
Last year's winner was Tyronna Hooker, an exceptional children teacher at Graham Middle School in the Alamance-Burlington Schools District.
Lisa Staats from Chocowinity Middle in Beaufort County and Malinda Pennington of Toisnot Middle in Wilson County are two of the nine finalists for the prestigious statewide honor.
The North Carolina Teacher of the Year will spend the 2012-13 school year traveling the state as an ambassador for the teaching profession. The winner also gets a car to use during the year, an engraved vase, a one-time cash award of $7,500, a trip to the National Teacher of the Year conference, the opportunity to travel abroad through an endowment at the North Carolina Center for International Understanding, and a technology package valued at over $17,000 from SMART Technologies. The winner will also serve as an advisor to the State Board of Education for two years.
The announcement is expected to be named around 2 p.m. Thursday.
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We zigzag slowly in our skiff around the shallow coral heads surrounding Pohnpei. The island, a little smaller than New York City, is part of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is nestled in a vast tapestry of coral reefs. Beyond the breakers, the Pacific stretches 5,578 miles to California. A stingray dashes in front of us, flying underwater like a butterfly alongside our bow.
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Our destination is Nan Madol, near the southern side of the island, the only ancient city ever built atop of a coral reef. Its imposing yet graceful ruins are made of stones and columns so heavy that no one has figured out how it was built. Besides the elegance of the walls and platforms, there is no carving, no art – nothing except legend to remember the people, called the Saudeleur, who ruled the island for more than a millennium. They were deeply religious and sometimes cruel, and modern Pohnpeians view the ruins as a sacred and scary place where spirits own the night.
Abandoned centuries ago and now mostly covered with jungle, Nan Madol may soon be getting a makeover. Before I explore it, I stop to discuss its future with the man who holds sway over this part of Pohnpei.
We nuzzle up to land and jump onto the remnants of a sea wall. I follow Rufino Mauricio, Pohnpei's only archaeologist, along a path and up a hill to what appears to be a warehouse, painted white with a corrugated metal roof. It's known here as the Tin Palace. There is a small house tacked on the end, with flowering bushes here and there. A gaggle of dogs welcome us noisily. This is the residence of the Nahnmwarki of Madolenihmw, the primus inter pares among the five traditional paramount chiefs who preside over a delightfully complex social structure that underpins Pohnpei's vibrant native culture.
Aside from Easter Island, Nan Madol is the main archaeological site in Oceania that is made up of huge rocks. But while Easter Island gets 50,000 visitors a year, Nan Madol sees fewer than 1,000. Before I left on this trip, Jeff Morgan, director of the Global Heritage Fund of Palo Alto, California, had told me he wanted to fund a rehabilitation program. But before anything can be done, ownership issues that blocked previous rehabilitation efforts would have to be resolved—the state government and the Nahnmwarki both claim sovereignty over the ruins. A resolution would pave the way for Nan Madol to become a Unesco World Heritage site, increasing the flow of visitors and grants.
"Nan Madol is one of the most significant sites not yet on the World Heritage List," says Richard Engelhart, an archaeologist and former Unesco adviser for Asia and the Pacific.
Mauricio and I are a bit nervous: an audience with the Nahnmwarki is best arranged through Pohnpei's governor, John Ehsa. A day earlier, Ehsa had pledged to support the Global Heritage Fund's idea and promised to arrange an audience with the Nahnmwarki so that I could interview him about the plan—but then Ehsa didn't come through on his promise. Ehsa had noted that a previous attempt to clean up the ruins had foundered because the Japanese donors had not followed proper protocol with the Nahnmwarki.
Sadly, neither do I. It's unthinkable to arrive without a tribute, but the bottle of Tasmanian wine I brought for the occasion slipped out of my hand and shattered on the rocks as I got off the boat. Mauricio, who holds a lesser traditional title, is mortified: he didn't know we were stopping to see the chief on our way to the ruins, so he is empty-handed too.
Arriving empty-handed without an appointment is the height of rudeness, he grumbles.
Mauricio, who, as I am, is dripping with sweat in Ponhpei's steamy equatorial heat, informs the chief's wife of our arrival.


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The Colorado Springs Gazette reports ( http://bit.ly/11WmxS7) Joshua Carrier received 489 days of credit for pre-sentence confinement.
Prosecutors say Carrier must serve the full 70 years before he is eligible for parole.
Carrier was sentenced Friday.
He was accused of fondling, groping and videotaping wrestlers for Horace Mann Middle School, where he volunteered as an assistant wrestling coach. He had said he was checking them for skin diseases before matches. He also was accused of molesting children while checking students who complained of sports injuries and illness.
In addition, Carrier was convicted of child pornography charges related to DVDs and images found by police.
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Birth Control Pills, Patch, or Ring
Very low-dose pills
|Generic Name
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Low-dose pills
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|Seasonale, Seasonique
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Phasic pills
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|levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol
|norethindrone and ethinyl estradiol
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|dienogest and estradiol valerate
High-dose pills
|Generic Name
|Brand Name
|ethynodiol and ethinyl estradiol
|norethindrone and mestranol
This is not a complete list of all brand-name birth control pills available.
Skin patch
|Generic Name
|Brand Name
|ethinyl estradiol and norelgestromin
|Ortho Evra patch
Vaginal ring
|Generic Name
|Brand Name
|ethinyl estradiol and etonogestrel
Birth control pills
Very low-dose and low-dose pills generally have less estrogen than other pills.
Phasic pills have changing levels of estrogen and progestin.
For information on progestin-only pills, see progestin-only hormonal methods.
Some birth control packets have pills without hormones for certain days of the month. Other brands of birth control, such as LoEstrin, may add an iron supplement to the nonhormonal pills.
How It Works
Birth control hormones in pills, skin patches, or vaginal rings give you a regular dose of estrogen and progestin. This controls your body's menstrual cycles and prevents pregnancy. It also helps relieve heavy menstrual bleeding, pain, and sometimes premenstrual mood problems and bloating.
In the perimenopausal years before menopause, hormone levels go up and down a lot. Using birth control hormones may help relieve some of the symptoms women have in the years before menopause.
Birth control pills
Birth control pills, also called oral contraceptives, come in packs. The most common type has 3 weeks of hormone pills. Some packs have pills without hormones (sugar pills) for the fourth week, and some do not. During that fourth no-hormone week, you have your menstrual period. After the fourth week (28 days), you start a new pack.
For some kinds of pills, such as Seasonique and Seasonale, you take 12 weeks of hormone pills followed by 1 week of low-estrogen or no-hormone pills. On this schedule, you have four periods a year. If your doctor prescribes an unlabeled use for other birth control pills, you can also have four periods a year. You take the active hormone pills continuously for 12 weeks, followed by 1 week of sugar pills. You then start a new pack of pills. If you have breakthrough bleeding during the 3 months, your doctor will prescribe extra estrogen.
Another kind of pill, such as Lybrel, comes in 4-week packs of hormone pills, which you take every day of the year. On this schedule, you have no periods.
For more information, see how to take birth control pills.
Birth control skin patch
The birth control patch is a patch [about 1.75 in. (4.5 cm) square] that sticks firmly on your skin. You can wear it on your lower abdomen, buttocks, or upper arm. Each patch releases estrogen and progestin through your skin for 7 days. Over a 4-week period, you use one patch each week for 3 weeks, and then no patch for 1 week. During this week, you have your menstrual period.
For more information, see how to use the patch.
Birth control vaginal ring (CVR)
The vaginal ring is small [about 2 in. (5 cm) in diameter], flexible, and colorless. It releases a continuous low dose of hormones into the vagina to prevent pregnancy for that month.
You insert the vaginal ring yourself and leave it in place for 3 weeks. This gives you continuous birth control for the month. On the first day of the fourth week, you remove the ring and usually have a menstrual period. The exact position of the ring in the vagina is not critical for it to work.
For more information, see how to use a vaginal ring.
Why It Is Used
Birth control hormones are commonly used to:
- Prevent pregnancy. Birth control hormones prevent pregnancy in three ways. They stop the ovaries from releasing an egg each month (ovulation). They also thicken the mucus in the cervix. This makes it hard for sperm to travel into the uterus. And birth control hormones change the lining of the uterus, which makes it harder for a fertilized egg to attach to it.
- Control menstrual periods. Taking estrogen and progestin on a schedule keeps your menstrual periods on a schedule. You can schedule your periods to be every month, every few months, or not at all. This can relieve you of problems that flare with every menstrual cycle, like endometriosis or painful ovarian cysts.
- Lighten menstrual bleeding. Normally, the uterus builds up a new lining every month, which then sheds away. This shedding is your menstrual bleeding. Taking hormones keeps the lining from getting very thick, so bleeding is lighter.
- Help relieve menstrual pain. Birth control hormones lower your level of prostaglandins, which are one cause of menstrual pain.
- Help relieve perimenopausal problems. In the years leading up to menopause, a woman's hormone levels are unpredictable. Taking birth control hormones helps keep hormones even. This may help relieve some of the symptoms women have in the years before menopause (perimenopause).
- Treat polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) problems. Birth control hormones may help control PCOS problems. Certain pills may improve acne problems, excess hair growth, and male-pattern hair loss related to PCOS.
- Prevent some diseases. Taking birth control hormones lowers ovarian cancer risk.1 For women with a risk of endometrial cancer, taking progestin with estrogen helps lower that risk.2
- Relieve PMS-related problems. Certain birth control pills, such as Yasmin and Yaz, have a type of progestin hormone that reduces water retention (bloating) during the menstrual cycle. This type of pill may also help relieve symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe form of premenstrual syndrome.
Do not use birth control hormones containing estrogen if you have any of the following conditions:
- Uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension)
- Liver disease
- History of blood clots
- History of stroke
- History of migraine headaches with aura
- Diabetes with complications
- History of breast cancer (estrogen stimulates certain types of breast cancer)
- Breast-feeding in the 6 months after childbirth
- Long-term bed rest after a major surgery
If you are older than age 35, do not use birth control pills if you:
- Take medicine for high blood pressure.
- Smoke.
- Have diabetes.
- Have high cholesterol.
How Well It Works
Estrogen-progestin pills, skin patches, or vaginal rings are effective methods of birth control when they are used exactly as directed. Since some women do not use their birth control as directed, pregnancy does happen in a certain number of women. This has been shown by studies of actual users.
- Among pill users, 8 women out of 100 become pregnant each year.3 Of women who take their pills every day, only 3 out of 1,000 become pregnant each year.3 When the method fails, it is usually because of skipping a daily pill or two.
- Among skin patch and contraceptive vaginal ring users, 8 women out of 100 are expected to become pregnant each year. With perfect use, only 3 out of 1,000 become pregnant each year.4
The pill and the patch may not work as well if you are overweight. Talk with your doctor about the type of birth control that will work best for you.
Low-dose pills are as highly effective as higher-dose pills when you take them as directed. But your risk of pregnancy is higher after missing low-dose pills than after missing higher-dose pills.1
Side Effects
Estrogen-progestin pills, skin patches, and vaginal rings have similar possible side effects. The pill causes hormone levels to peak and drop each day. Each weekly patch takes 3 days after application to reach a steady hormone level. The ring releases a steady dose every day throughout the day. This may explain why the ring is less likely to cause headaches and nausea than the pill or patch.
Common side effects of estrogen-progestin methods
The most common side effects are changes in menstrual periods, including:
- Very light or skipped periods. If you take monthly cycles of birth control hormones for a long time, your periods might stop. This effect can last until several months after you stop taking hormones.
- Bleeding between periods (spotting). This usually decreases after a woman uses a hormonal method for 3 to 4 months.
The contraceptive skin patch may cause skin irritation at the site.
The contraceptive vaginal ring may cause:
- Vaginal discharge.
- Irritation and inflammation of the vagina (vaginitis).
Less common side effects of estrogen-progestin methods
Less common side effects include:
- Nausea and vomiting, especially during the first month of use. This side effect usually goes away after the first few months of use.
- Frequent or more severe headaches. Migraine headaches may get worse.
- Weight gain.
- Breast tenderness for the first few months.
- Depression or mood changes.
- Darkening of the skin on the upper lip, under the eyes, or on the forehead (chloasma). This may slowly fade after you stop using hormonal methods, but in some cases it is permanent.
- Change in interest in sex (can be more or less).
Rare but serious side effects of estrogen-progestin methods
The following symptoms are rare but serious and should be reported to your doctor immediately.
- Abdominal pain that is severe or persists may be a sign of blood clots (thrombophlebitis) in the pelvis, liver blood clots or tumors, or gallbladder disease.
- Chest pain may be a sign of blood clots in the lungs (pulmonary embolism), heart attack, or heart disease. Smoking increases this risk.
- Headaches that are severe may be a sign of stroke, migraine, or high blood pressure (hypertension). Smoking increases this risk.
- Eye problems, such as blurred vision or loss of vision, may be a sign of migraine, blood clots in the eye, or a change in the shape of the cornea.
- Severe leg pain or sudden swelling of one leg may be a sign of leg blood clots (thrombophlebitis) or deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
If you have kidney, liver, or adrenal gland disease, you cannot use YAZ or Yasmin. This is because the progestin in these pills can increase your potassium levels. This can be dangerous for people who have kidney, liver, or adrenal gland disease.
Some types of progestin used in certain birth control pills may cause a greater risk of blood clots than other types of progestin in birth control pills. Talk to your doctor about your risk of blood clots when deciding which pill is best for you.
Patch warnings. The patch delivers more estrogen than the low-dose birth control pills do. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that women using the patch are slightly more likely to get dangerous blood clots in the legs and lungs than women using birth control pills. So talk to your doctor about your risks before using the patch.
Direct sunlight or high heat can increase, then lower, the amount of hormone released from a patch. This can give you a big dose at the time and leave less hormone for the patch to release later in the week. This increases your risk of pregnancy. Avoid direct sunlight on the hormone patch. Also avoid using a tanning bed, heating pad, electric blanket, hot tub, or sauna while you are using a hormone patch.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Other factors to consider include the following:
- Birth control hormones may not be as effective when combined with other medicines. Whenever you get a new prescription, be sure to tell your doctor or pharmacist that you are taking birth control hormones. When you start using hormonal birth control, be sure to tell your doctor about all medicines and supplements you are taking.
- If you want to be able to start a planned pregnancy soon after you stop long-term use of birth control hormones, hormone shots (such as Depo-Provera) may not be a good choice. They can make it hard to get pregnant for several months after you stop them.
- If you are taking birth control hormones, take special precautions for backup birth control if you miss or skip pills.
- Birth control pills may not be as effective if you are vomiting or have diarrhea. Use another method of birth control for 7 days after vomiting or diarrhea, even if you have not missed any pills.
- The pill and the patch may not work as well if you are overweight. If you are overweight, ask your doctor about which birth control methods are right for you.
Be sure to use a backup birth control method during the first 7 days of starting hormonal birth control.
Emergency contraception is available if any birth control method fails and you are concerned about unprotected sex.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
- Abramowicz M (2010). Choice of contraceptives. Treatment Guidelines From the Medical Letter, 8(100): 89–96.
- Fraser IS, Kovacs GT (2003). The efficacy of non-contraceptive uses of hormonal contraceptives. Medical Journal of Australia, 178(12): 621–623.
- Nelson A (2007). Combined oral contraceptives. In RA Hatcher et al., eds., Contraceptive Technology, 19th ed., pp. 193–270. New York: Ardent Media.
- Trussell J (2007). Choosing a contraceptive: Efficacy, safety, and personal considerations. In RA Hatcher et al., eds., Contraceptive Technology, 19th ed., pp. 19–47. New York: Ardent Media.
Last Revised: May 3, 2012
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review: Sarah Marshall, MD - Family Medicine & Femi Olatunbosun, MB, FRCSC - Obstetrics and Gynecology
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The 11Alive Help Desk has compiled information to make you and your family aware of the interactive resources you can use to track crimes in your neighborhood.
Familiarize yourself with your neighborhood and areas that you commonly frequent. The 11Alive Crime Map and Reports allows users to pinpoint specific areas and crimes that have taken place locally. Users can schedule email alerts to be sent directly to their inbox when a crime happens in a specific area.
EveryBlock.com is an interactive public resource website and smartphone app that allows users to keep digital tabs on public records and discussions happening within neighborhoods of their choice.
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Tips on eliminating crime in your neighborhood:
-Collaborate with the local police station regarding statistics and recent crime events in the area. These agencies are vital for safety information and training.
-Join with law enforcement to begin a neighborhood watch to prevent crime.
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Apartment Living: Five Ways to Stay Safe in your Neighborhood
-Invest in your neighborhood. Signs of neglect or lack of concern for the community may invite crime into your community.
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-Be aware of how much information you tell neighbors about yourself.
Cyber Block Watch
-Never announce your absence. Be cautious of leaving a message on your answering machine explaining you are away for a few days or on vacation. Prior to you leaving set timers so that lights, TVs, and radios are actively going on and off. In addition, have someone pick up the mail, pick up newspapers or set out trash.
-Close your garage door. A vacant garage conveys you're not at home. Thieves can effortlessly steal bikes, lawnmowers or other valuables.
-Consider installing peepholes in all outside doors.
-Install dead-bolt locks on all outside doors. Make sure you can unlock all doors from the inside without a key to allow a quick escape from a fire.
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-Pets-due to their instincts and sense they can be the best kind of security system
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-Remove signs of wealth or opulence from plain view
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I'm not much of a banana bread girl. Banana cake, on the other hand, is a whole different story. Banana bread is breakfast, while banana cake is dessert. I'd much rather have dessert than breakfast, unless of course, I'm having dessert for breakfast. And while this Choco-Rum Buttermilk Banana Bread is technically not a cake, it masquerades as one with its moist, fluffy crumb, rich flicks of chocolate and delicate, buttery banana flavor. That it's called a bread is, to me, just a matter of semantics. This is a recipe that I'd actually go out and buy bananas for, instead of making by default because of a few sad, speckled ones sitting all by their lonesome on my kitchen counter. read more >>
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Camilla Huey started out as a painter. But when she came to MCA on a scholarship, she discovered a love for textiles that ultimately turned into a lifelong passion. Now, Camilla owns her own fashion and home design firm in New York City. She's designed celebrity event and wedding fashions, crafted props and wardrobe for film and TV and worked with some of fashion's biggest names. She tells us how MCA played a role in guiding her course.
What was your major?
Textile Design
What's your job now?
Couturier at The House of Execution. (Tongue-in-cheek title: "The Executioner") I create dramatic, couture gowns, corsets and costumes for celebrities and socialites for performance and appearance. I have created costumes for film, theater, opera and ballet. In my work, I consult with designers, architects, stylists and editors producing designs and prototypes for accessories, retail display, editorial, advertising, set design and the home. My job is to articulate a vision.
What is your favorite memory or highlight from your academic career at MCA?
My work-study for scholarship was in the library. Most nights, I had the entire place to myself. I devoured every book, resource, art magazine, vertical file and, in particular, I consumed the back issues of AFF (American Fashion Fabrics) the private publication of a fashion maven who not only wrote about fashion, art and technology but also included swatches of actual fabrics and colors. It was divine! It was serious. It was high fashion incorporating art and design that demanded high criteria that wasn't self-defined.
How do you think your studies at MCA influenced your career?
The last semester we all took a class "Functioning As An Artist," with Ruthie Haizlip. The class was common sense, the importance of being on time to appointments, taxes (She suggested throwing all receipts into a drawer to sort out later, it's proved very time-efficient!), portfolio, resume, etc. She stressed never making excuses when presenting your work. To this day, I pause when someone looks at my work to let them take it in alone for a moment.
Ruthie told me probably the most important thing I learned at MCA, with more meaning today in this bottom-up economy. She said, "If you do work for no pay, accepting nothing, that becomes your market value. NOTHING. It not only determines your value, it affects everyone else in the market, devaluing your entire occupation."
What inspires you?
I'm inspired by literature, history, lost craft traditions, technique and materials. But the materials and techniques are only as interesting as the cultural context within which they are set. My skillset relies on the vanishing traditional techniques taught to young women for centuries coupled with an understanding of form, materials, colour and design.
My base knowledge comes from my very accomplished mother and grandmother. These two women along with many teachers, family and friends have taught me that everywhere in life are opportunities for design, redesign and consideration.
How is your life impacted by art?
The art is in the living, because it's all point of view. I read widely, with a deepening appreciation of the facts mattering less than the concepts. I've been interested all my life in how people live, specifically how they arranged their lives, family, friends and houses. I find strong women fascinating because of their concepts of themselves so often being at odds with culture. The mendacity is as compelling as any number of "facts," more clearly exemplifying who they truly are.
What advice would you give to students pursuing or considering a degree in fine arts?
READ FAT, fill your head!


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- Title
- Accelerated processing of historical BGP events for testing new BGP heuristics
- Author(s)
- Rossi, Mattia; Armitage, Grenville
- Abstract
- This paper describes a technique for artificially accelerating 'real time' when testing new BGP protocol enhancements using historical real-world data. We show how months of BGP advertisement data may be processed in hours, yet generate outputs that appear to reflect months of actual operation by a network of fully featured BGP speakers. Using Quagga (an operational open-source implementation of BGP) we characterise the performance trade-offs of our technique, and show how 'accelerated time' benefits researchers who are exploring modifications to BGP's dynamic, timer-based behaviours. We consider the impact of our technique when multiple instances of Quagga run on a single host or are distributed across multiple hosts.
- Publication type
- Technical report
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
- Source
- Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures: technical reports, 090321A
- Publication year
- 2009
- Keyword(s)
- BGP; Modelling; Routing; Simulation; Quagga
- Publisher
- Swinburne University of Technology
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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009 Mattia Rossi and Grenville Armitage.
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1. A political party like any other formal organization has the standing orders, specific rules and regulations geared at governing, regulating and rationalising the behavioural patterns of its leaders and members.
This is important in order to prevent anarchical situations and, indeed, to bring about what is generally referred to as "party discipline" and "order" in the conduct of the party's political work. A healthy party at all levels depends on its capability to enforce its rules and regulations.
2. The rules and regulations governing the conduct of the party leaders and/or members should be owned by the members and leaders that they are designed to serve and protect.
The rules and regulations should not be imposed to the members and leaders from a single person or an enclave of individuals in the top leadership hierarchy of the political party. The members and leaders have the duty and obligation to respect the party's rules and regulations. The political party leaders or members whose conducts are prejudicial and grossly detrimental to the party must not be spared.
3. In the Tanzanian political milieu, political parties have the legitimate power to discipline their leaders and members whose conduct, beyond any shadow of doubt; demonstrably undermine the party in different significant ways. I have no problem with the disciplinary powers vested upon the political parties by their own "rule books" provided that justice is done to the accused, including the right to be heard.
4. I have a problem with some political parties, particularly those in the opposition camp. Intra-party democracy is either scant or acutely rare. Some of the more unhealthy conflicts which culminate into expulsion can be resolved amicably without resorting to political 'capital punishments.'
Dissent and differing views are not at all tolerated by the leadership enclave at the apex, reflecting what German sociologist Robert Michels (1876-1936) referred to as "oligarchy" being a characteristic feature of complex organizations, including political parties.
Most parties in Tanzania are oligarchic per excellence. Such political parties may not be dependable champions of good governance and democracy. This is not health for promoting and nurturing democracy in the country. Some 24 years have elapsed since the country reverted to political pluralism, including multi-party political dispensation.
Contrary to broad expectations, intra-party democratic practices remain at the crossroads. Something has to be done to build the capacity of parties in conflict management.
5. As the country prepares to write a "new constitution," it is high time we directed our focus on the powers of a political party to make a decision that directly leads to the end of the tenure of office of a Member of Parliament who was elected by both party and non-party voters in a constituency.
In this regard the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania, Article 71 (1) (e) stipulates that a Member of Parliament shall cease to be Member of Parliament and shall vacate his seat in the National Assembly if s/he "ceases to be a member of the party to which he belonged when he was elected or appointed to be a Member of Parliament."
This provision is in the contemporary era politically untenable taking into account the poor ability of many political parties to either prevent conflicts or manage internal rivalries.
This provision is evidently obnoxious or draconian and it should not appear in our envisaged "New Constitution." Once a person is democratically elected to Parliament his tenure must be protected. The electorate-cum-voters should be the only power to recall their MP.
6. We are quite aware that democracy, expressed through the conduct of regular elections and by-elections is very expensive, especially in the context of our country with a myriad of competing priorities and scarcity of financial resources. It is not too late; a law could be enacted to enable the party whose candidate won the elections, once it expels the incumbent nominate a replacement be made with immediate effect.
Alternatively, the party whose candidate secured the second position in the race for the parliamentary seat in the constituency should be declared Member of Parliament to replace the one expelled by his or her political party.
Dr Benson Bana is head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM).


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The Sioux City Journal reports ( http://bit.ly/1gN9Vnk) the bicycle owner, an associate math professor, reported the incidents to Estherville police. Another professor later came forward with a photo that shows the squirrel attacking the bike.
A school spokeswoman says the photo helps solve the mystery of how the bicycle was vandalized without witnesses seeing a suspect.
The professor has since parked his bicycle indoors.
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The jinchūriki (人柱力, Literally meaning: Power of Human Sacrifice) are humans that have tailed beasts sealed within them. They exhibit extraordinary powers due to the immense chakra reserves they possess.
The jinchūriki are typically lonely people, as their fellow villagers, who view them as the tailed beasts themselves, persecute the jinchūriki out of hatred and fear. According to Deidara, the first two jinchūriki Akatsuki had captured loathed humanity, and their villages were in fact glad to be rid of them.[1] However, some jinchūriki refuse to waver, even though they have been shunned, and they eventually earned respect. Such examples include Naruto Uzumaki, Killer B, Yagura, Yugito Nii, and Gaara.
Long ago before the founding of the hidden villages, during an era of endless wars between mankind, there existed the Shinju, a tree that was revered as a deity which bore a fruit once every thousand years. Although it was forbidden to consume the Shinju's fruit, it was eaten by Princess Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, who used the power it granted her to end the wars plaguing the lands. Some time after this, Kaguya gave birth to two sons who became the first humans born with chakra. Enraged by the theft of its power, the Shinju assumed a monstrous form of what many christened as the "Ten-Tails".[2]
The Ten-Tails rampaged throughout the lands until Kaguya's sons managed to defeat the beast and sealed it within Hagoromo, who became the first jinchūriki in history. This act, along with many other great deeds throughout his lifetime, resulted with Kaguya's son revered as the "Sage of the Six Paths". However, knowing that his death would unleash the Ten-Tails back into the world to continue its rampage and reclaim the chakra that humanity now possesses, the Sage separated the monster's chakra from its body before using Chibaku Tensei to seal the husk in what would become the moon. From there, the Sage used his Creation of All Things ability to divide the chakra into the nine tailed beasts.[3][4]
Centuries later, by the time of the formation of the shinobi villages, the Gold and Silver Brothers of Kumogakure were assigned to capture Kurama, but were both swallowed whole by the fox. However, they managed to survive by consuming some of its own normally-deadly flesh for two weeks, becoming the first known people since the Sage to be tinged with tailed beast chakra.[5][6] Mito Uzumaki later sealed Kurama within herself after her husband's victory against Madara Uchiha at the Valley of the End.[7] During his time as the First Hokage, Hashirama used his Wood Release kekkei genkai to capture and give several tailed beasts to the other shinobi villages as peace treaties, in order to stabilise the balance of power between them.[8] The Second Kazekage of Sunagakure was the first to research the jinchūriki, with the other villages following soon after, with hopes to use the beasts as weapons in human hosts, or in Konohagakure's case, keep the beasts from doing harm to their village, sentiments that the tailed beasts absolutely detest.[9]
In order to prevent the jinchūriki from turning traitor, it is tradition for the host to be selected from the family of the village's own Kage. In this way, the jinchūriki not only has strong ties of loyalty to village and their leader, but they also serve to show off the Kage's might.[10] For example, Gaara is the son of the Fourth Kazekage, and Killer B is the adoptive brother and partner of the Fourth Raikage.
Each village has used a different seal when creating their jinchūriki. For example, Konoha used the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style, and Kumogakure used the Iron Armour Seal. Akatsuki, an organisation whose role in the series is to capture the jinchūriki, uses the Sealing Technique: Phantom Dragons Nine Consuming Seals technique to extract and seal the tailed beasts within the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path for future use.
It's been shown some sort of compatibility between the tailed beast and the potential jinchūriki is required;[11][12] to become the host of the Ten-Tails, one must be a fully living person, as opposed to having an undead body created by Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation.[13] If the tailed beast is removed from its jinchūriki's body, the jinchūriki will die. Similarly, if the jinchūriki dies with the tailed beast still sealed within them, the beast will die too. Because of this, the tailed beasts tend to be very protective of their jinchūriki, and will take any action whenever their lives are in danger. However, it is revealed that the tailed beasts can actually survive their jinchūriki's deaths, with the only consequence being that it will take time for them to revive without a host.[14][15] One way for a jinchūriki to temporarily stay alive after an extraction is if they have strong enough life force, akin to the members of the Uzumaki clan,[16] though death is inevitable for them even if a medical ninja is nearby to treat them, since the treatment will be ineffective. The only way for them to be saved is to seal another tailed beast into them before they die.[17][18] Only the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki can survive the removal of the tailed beasts, since the hollowed husk of the Ten-Tails has a strong life force, but it will leave the said jinchūriki completely paralysed for a time.[19] In addition, should a deceased jinchūriki be revived, remnants of their tailed beast's chakra and abilities will remain with them.[20][21][22]
The seal that keeps the tailed beast within its female jinchūriki is at its weakest when she is in childbirth, due to the nurturing of the child in the womb taking precedence over the reinforcement of the seal, which weakens the seal in direct proportion. As such, a ninja is required to keep the seal intact during childbirth, and restore the seal back to full power afterwards. A full-term pregnancy for a female jinchūriki is about ten months.[23]
Main articles: Tailed Beast Skill, Jinchūriki Forms and Nine-Tails Chakra Mode
With the jinchūriki's access to the tailed beasts' massive chakra reserves and training, they make use of the tailed beasts' considerable abilities to develop their own unique fighting styles: Gaara manipulates sand, Yugito breathes fire, Yagura materialises coral, Rōshi creates and manipulates lava, Utakata produces corrosive alkali, Fū is capable of flight,[24] Killer B produces ink, and Naruto has quick regeneration and can detect negative emotions. As the jinchūriki transform themselves into the likeness of their tailed beasts, it further increases the power of their abilities.
Main article: Tailed Beast Control
The jinchūriki have the potential to control their tailed beasts' power, but require intense training and sheer willpower in order to properly wield it. According to Gerotora, whenever the jinchūriki draws out a certain amount of the tailed beasts' chakra, the beasts' very own psyche will fuse along with it, which usually involves an inner struggle between them as the jinchūriki goes deeper into their tailed beasts' forms. If a jinchūriki were to completely give into its influence, the seal will break and the tailed beast will be released.[25] For the jinchūriki to have complete control, they must find something to fill in the void of loneliness within their hearts to give them strength.[26]
List of Jinchūriki
- Yang half
- Naruto Uzumaki
Similar Cases
- When someone possesses the tailed beast's chakra but not the beast itself, that person is considered a pseudo-jinchūriki (人柱力もどき, jinchūrikimodoki, English TV: Simulated-jinchūriki).[29] There have been three successful cases of this thus far: the Gold and Silver Brothers,[6] Sora (anime only),[30] and Fukai (after his reincarnation; anime only).[31]
- Due to the Gold and Silver Brother's success in obtaining the tailed beast's power, an unnamed Kumo-nin tried to copy their method by eating one of Gyūki's tentacles, but instead of becoming a jinchūriki, he died as a result.[32] It is said that Kinkaku and Ginkaku were "something special" and is stated by the Fourth Raikage that they may be distantly related to the Sage of the Six Paths.[33]
- In the anime, Yūkimaru had the ability to partially control Isobu.[34] Isobu was not actually sealed inside of Yūkimaru however, and thus, he was not a true jinchūriki.
- In the anime, Kabuto Yakushi used his Body Recreation Technique with some of Kurama's chakra in order to create a clone of Naruto's four-tailed form. Proving too powerful for Kabuto's control, the clone is able to siphon Kurama's chakra to temporarily increase his power.[35]
- In Naruto: Shippūden the Movie, Yomi was possessed by an evil demon named Mōryō, who was sealed away by Shion's mother.
- In Naruto Shippūden 2: Bonds, both Amaru and Shinnō had each tapped into the power of the Zero-Tails at different times, which was sealed within the Land of the Sky; however, because the Zero-Tails is not an actual tailed beast, nor was the creature sealed in either of them, Amaru and Shinnō are not considered jinchūriki.
- In Naruto 5: Blood Prison, Muku, a young boy sacrificed to the Box of Ultimate Bliss, becomes possessed by a yōkai called Satori.
- In Naruto 6: Road to Ninja, Naruto's counterpart in the Genjutsu World, Menma, is the jinchūriki of Kurama's counterpart, the Black Nine-Tails.
- In Naruto Shippūden: Dragon Blade Chronicles, the main antagonist Kuroma Tatsushiro planned to merge with the five Genryū to become the Light Dragon so he can use its power to destroy the world, which Yamato and Naruto thought was similar to becoming a jinchūriki. Later in the game, Akari Tatsushiro instead merged with the Genryū and became the Light Dragon, but was restored to normal by Naruto and the Dragon Blade.
- In Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution, like its counterpart, Mecha-Naruto is the "jinchūriki" of a Mecha-Kurama. When Mecha-Naruto uses its awakening, it inserts itself in Mecha-Kurama and uses it as a suit.
- Because of the moon's origin and it being the holder of the Ten-Tails' body, tailed beast and subsequently their jinchūriki are effected by it, and much more so during a full moon.
- According to Gaara, Shukaku relishes the opportunity to kill anyone in sight, even more so during a full moon.[36]
- In the anime, Fukai, during his time as Gyūki's jinchūriki, noted that he would have trouble sleeping at night, especially during a full moon and at one point was shown to have to suppress a partial manifestation of Gyūki's tail after he had been staring at the full moon. Fukai was also shown to take sleep pills to help with this side-effect of being a jinchūriki.[37]
- The concept of a pseudo-jinchūriki was explored in an anime-exclusive arc, in which Sora was revealed to have had residual chakra from Kurama, collected after it rampaged Konoha, sealed into him. This happened before the introduction of the concept in the manga with the Gold and Silver Brothers.
- The children of female jinchūriki seem to display influences from the tailed beast. The sole example being Naruto who has whisker-like cheek markings which are also exhibited by the Gold and Silver Brothers who were swallowed by Kurama. This also seems to be the case if a tailed beast is sealed within a child while they are still in the womb. This might be the reason behind Gaara's permanent eye-markings while the same ones exhibited by his father, are temporary.
- Takigakure is the only village not belonging to one of the Five Great Shinobi Countries known to have had a jinchūriki.[38]
- Isobu is the only known tailed beast to have a jinchūriki from two separate villages, both Kirigakure and Konohagakure.
- The English dub contained a few errors on what a jinchūriki is: for instance, Shikamaru says in Naruto: Shippūden episode 83 that Hidan and Kakuzu are looking for the "jinchūriki inside Naruto", instead of saying the "Fox inside Naruto" or the "tailed beast inside Naruto".
- Madara noted that he could not become the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki with his reincarnated body.[39] Obito managed to have the reincarnated jinchūriki host their tailed beasts again as a result of using the chakra receiver and the Outer Path to temporarily bind the tailed beasts to their jinchūriki.[40]
- In the anime, the six jinchūriki that were used as Obito's Six Paths of Pain, all shared a voice actor with one of each others respective tailed beast.
- ↑ Naruto chapter 266, pages 14-15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 646
- ↑ Naruto chapter 467, pages 14-16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 510, pages 11-12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 527, page 5
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Naruto chapter 529, pages 3-4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 500, page 5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 404, page 14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 568, page 13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 493, page 14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 543, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 547, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 614, page 5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 541, page 13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 543, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 501, page 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 662, page 16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 663, pages 1-2
- ↑ Naruto chapter 656, pages 12-13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 261, pages 18-19
- ↑ Naruto chapter 278, pages 16-19
- ↑ Naruto chapter 652, page 4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 500, pages 8-9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 565, page 2
- ↑ Chapter 490, pages 10-12
- ↑ Chapter 542, pages 3-4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 261, page 5
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 Naruto chapter 542, page 3
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 68
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 68
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 318
- ↑ Naruto chapter 529, page 4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 529, page 5
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 92
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 292
- ↑ Naruto chapter 91, page 19
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 318
- ↑ Naruto chapter 420, pages 1-2
- ↑ Naruto chapter 614, pages 5-6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 570 page 4


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The beauty of the 3HO Global Community...what a blessing to be with 3HO family in France! In the midst of the French Alps, which took five trains and a shuttle bus to reach from Germany, over 75 people gathered from many countries in Europe for the KRI Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Level 2 Stress & Vitality curse offered by Karta Singh at Le Mergelie. It was worth the sojourn, vitality re-born! One of the unique aspect of this level 2 course (which was held by Amrit Nam Sarova training school) compared to others I have attended is that the group of 75 people go through all five of the Level 2 modules (plus an add-on course totaling 6) as one community.
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Going through a Level 2 experience with a consistent group creates a deeper level of expansion, allowing self-confrontation, reflection, and ultimately, profound transformation. Every time a new group forms people take time to orient and open to each other. Going through 6 modules with the same group allows not just the teachings to work on you, but the experience of community to take you deeper and deeper in your self exploration, forcing you to get real with yourself. People come in large numbers for this combined experience to a place that is not the easiest to get to. But it is beautiful to be nestled in the Alps with a river running by, mountains surrounding us, and doing challenging Kundalni Yoga kriyas. This experience showed me that what many people want is to be taken past the point of comfort into the realm where awareness resounds.
The basis of the Amrit Nam Sarova training school and the community it creates is to help bring peace to this planet with the concept that if you honor your neighbors you won't fight them. When we are inspired and we inspire each other, peace prevails. Karta Singh describes training people in the teachings of Kundalini Yoga as a way to "help the planet get out of this mess." Amrit Nam Sarova brings to life Yogi Bhajan's words, "to live for each other," and creates a system to serve people on a local level. Everyone in the teacher training program gets into a group by city or region and meets with each other face-to-face frequently throughout the interim of the program and beyond. So the experience of community and self-evaluation continues. Karta Singh says, "We don't try to change the whole planet but rather give people an opportunity to uplift themselves to live a fulfilled and happy life."
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I loved the experience of living humbly, like a yogi, which created an inward focus in contrast to the traditional outgoing orientation western society has created as a way of finding comfort and solutions in life--a reminder that true comfort comes from relating to our soul. A trance-like state is created from the colder than cold showers, light food, profound practice, and the beautiful bountiful Earth surrounding us. A state is created where the exterior perception of self sleeps, awakening the infinite within. Karta Singh led strong kriyas daily, arousing dormant vitality and offering a framework for practice.
One of the reasons Kundalini Yoga is so loved is that it gives us answers and guidance from within. Often we look for the solution to problems in life outside ourselves in pharmaceuticals, therapy, self-help books, relationships, shopping, and myriads of other ways. The beauty of Kundalini Yoga is that it gives us the information we seek in our lives--that awareness--through the practice. This is what I loved about this course. It was designed to deliver you to this experience of rhythmic unisoness with the heavens, the Earth, and the elements. Rather than imparting an intellectual understanding, the way Karta presents the course is designed to give you an experience of transforming stress into vitality. We jumped like a kangaroo for--my guess is an hour, but it felt like eternity! We sat and laid on the earth and moved (using the type of physical training exercises that Yogi Bhajan was known for) until our clothes smelled like sweet grass and our legs were wobbly with fatigue. What a beautiful journey of re-connecting with the Mother Earth, with the natural rhythms and cycles of life, with the elements, and ultimately with the integrated rhythm of our soul with all that exists.
Gratitude for Karta Singh who creates this unique experience with doors open to all, who walks in the footsteps of Yogi Bhajan, who walks in the footsteps of Nanak, traveling, singing, inspiring people to uplift themselves and go for it! He is most assuredly training teachers, not collecting students. My respect for his work in teaching and bringing Kundalini Yoga to places like Togo and Russia is immense.
This course was filled with strong Kundalini Yoga, awakening awareness and a sense of vitality I had not experienced in years! When we remember our body is the temple of our soul; when we truly treat it as a temple, vitality flows. Through this course I came to realize taking care of yourself is a choice, a decision to make each day about what and how we eat, how we choose to apply ourselves to the practice of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, how we walk, dance, exercise, sleep and sing. Each choice counts toward the experience we have of moving through life. This body we have was chosen by our soul so let's take good care!
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As always there are some players sitting there in the top RP list. What are they usually playing? Is it one deck they play to get there or do they change it occasionally?
From what i remember in the past many players were just grinding RP to get on the list and then taking a long break, sometimes until a new set showed up. I remember for example some silly guardian falkow deck with returns and pegasus during set 3-4 or so. The guy just started avoiding me and then grinded himself to top RP where he sat until next set and next set i seen him again (that's how i remember it) played him occasionally (probably pure accident since he was avoiding me i think) and then kept grinding RP just to take another long break.
Now you can realize from this that anyone who is on the top RP list doesn't necessarily play right now or just plays rarely to avoid any counter decks and gambles his way further up on the list. Some might never find out what these players who made it on the list actually play.
Current list has following players on it:
Kiruki (that guy with ugly avatar)
What's more important is not what they specifically play since they might change or might have already changed decks. What's important is what decks got them there. Why are those decks successful? Lack of counters? Did they simply dodge the decks that could counter them? The list of player also changes, so the focus here are the decks themselves!
All i know is that one of those top RP decks is supposed to be Mystere + Emana deck of some sort. Is Oeste involved? Did Oeste boost this deck type as i thought it would?
Usually when i check games in folrart i keep getting into spectating 1600 to 1700 RP players at most, but the current top RP value is 1900.


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A car accident or car crash is an incident in which an automobile collides with anything that causes damage to the automobile, including other automobiles, telephone poles, buildings or trees, or in which the driver loses control of the vehicle and damages it in some other way, such as driving into a ditch or rolling over. Sometimes a car accident may also refer to an automobile striking a human or animal. Car crashes — also called road traffic accidents (RTAs), traffic collisions, auto accidents, road accidents, personal injury collisions, motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), — kill an estimated 1.2 million people worldwide each year, and injure about forty times this number (WHO, 2004). In the UK the Department of Transport publish road deaths in each type of vehicle. These statistics are available as "Risk of injury measured by percentage of drivers injured in a two car injury accident." These statistics show a ten to one ratio of in-vehicle accident deaths between the least safe and most safe models of car.
The statistics show[How to reference and link to summary or text] that for popular, lightly built cars, occupants have a 6–8% chance of death in a two-car accident. (e.g. BMW 3 series 6%, Subaru Impreza 8%, Honda Accord 6%). Traditional "safety cars" such as the Volvos halve that chance (Volvo 700 4% incidence of death, Volvo 900 3%).
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Road toll figures show that car collision fatalities have declined since 1980, with most countries showing a reduction of roughly 50%. This drop appears to confirm the efficacy of safety measures introduced thereafter, assuming that driver behaviour has not changed significantly.
In the United States, fatalities have increased slightly from 40,716 in 1994 to 42,884 in 2003. However, in terms of fatalities per 100 million miles driven, the fatality rate has dropped 16% between 1995 and 2005. Injuries dropped 37% over the same period. (National Traffic Safety Administration, 2006)
It has been noted that road fatality trends closely follow the so-called "Smeed's law" (after RJ Smeed, its author), an empirical rule relating injury rates to the two-thirds power of car ownership levels. An analysis by John Adams can be found here.
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Backup collisions happen when a driver reverses their car into an object, person, or another car. Although most cars come equipped with rear view mirrors, which are adequate for detecting vehicles behind a car, they are inadequate on many vehicles for detecting small children or objects close to the ground, which fall in the car's blind spot. Large trucks have much larger blind spots that can hide entire vehicles and large adults.
According to research by Kids and Cars – an organization devoted to preventing (non-traffic) motor-vehicle-related deaths and injuries – 49% of the non-traffic, non-crash fatalities involving children under 15 from 2001–2005 were caused by vehicles backing up.
The CDC reported that from 2001–2003, an estimated 7,475 children (2,492 per year) under the age of 15 were treated for automobile back-over incidents.
In its "Deaths and Injuries Resulting from Certain Non-Traffic and Non-Crash Events," report issued in May of 2004, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that back-up collisions most often:
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- Particularly affect children less than five years old
The driver of the car backing up and hitting an object, a person, or another car is usually considered to be at fault.
Prevention organizations suggest that parents use common sense, and also take safety measures such as installing cross view mirrors, audible collision detectors, rear view video camera and/or some type of reverse backup sensors
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Sleep deprivation
The consequences of sleep deprivation can impact on the performance of cognitive processes and have important negative consequences; not only to the health of the individual, but those around them as sleep deprivation increases the risk of human-error related accidents, especially with vigilance-based tasks involving technology.[1] Research done on the increase in accidents involving sleep deprived individuals has been useful in illuminating the adverse effects and increased risk involved with lack of sleep. Reduced duration of sleep as well as an increase in time spent awake are factors that highly contribute to the risk of traffic collisions, the severity and fatality rates of which are on the same level as driving under the influence of alcohol.[2][3] This is especially relevant for young adults as they require 8–9 hours of sleep at night to overcome excessive daytime sleepiness[4] and are among the highest risk group for driving while feeling tired and sleep-deprived related crashes.[2][5]
Collision prevention
Although many crashes are caused by [[[driver behavior]] that is difficult to alter, by mechanical failure, or by road conditions, some technical solutions would automatically detect how close the driver is to the car in front and automatically adjust the car's acceleration to prevent the car from getting closer than the distance in which it can safely stop.
- Sobriety detectors: These locks prevent the ignition key from working if the driver breathes into one and is shown to have consumed alcohol.
- Drifting monitors: These devices monitor how close a vehicle is traveling to lane markers and, if it starts to drift toward or over the markers without the turn signal being activated, sounds an alarm.
See also
- Defensive driving
- Driving behavior
- Highway safety
- List of countries by traffic-related death rate
- Pedestrian accidents
- Road accident types
- Road safety
- Traffic psychology
- ↑ Dinges DF. (1995) An overview of sleepiness and accidents. Journal of Sleep Research, 4,4–11
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pack AI, Pack AM, Rodgman E, Cucchiara A, Dinges DF, Schwab CW. (1995) Characteristics of crashes attributed to the driver having fallen asleep. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 27, 769–775
- ↑ Stutts JC, Wilkins JW, Osberg JS, Vaughn BV.(2003) Driver risk factors for sleep-related crashes. Accid Anal Prev,35, 321-331
- ↑ Roehrs TA, Timms V, Zwyghuizen-Doorenbos A, Roth T. (1989) Sleep extension in sleepy and alert normals. Sleep, 12, 449-457
- ↑ Carskadon MA.(1989-1990) Adolescent sleepiness: increased risk in a high-risk population. Alcohol, Drugs and Driving,5-6,317–328
External links
- Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe CARE
- U.S. DOT Fatality Analysis Reporting System FARS
- The Flicker Fusion Factor Why we can't drive safely at high speed
- Car Accident Safety Procedure Safety Procedure for Car Accidents at Work.
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- Alemtuzumab targets a protein called CD52, and rituximab targets the protein CD20. These proteins are found on the surface of cells that are part of your immune system.
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- Broadband and wide-angle light scattering media are highly desirable in photonic applications. In this paper, we theoretically investigate the light scattering properties of lumpy nanoparticles of silver, aluminum, and copper compared to those of smooth nanospheres with the same volume. The lumpy nanoparticles are found to provide broadband scattering enhancement over the smooth nanoparticles in a variety of dielectric environments. A maximum 18 enhancement in angular scattering for Al lumpy particles was found. More importantly, near-field scattering intensity mapping confirms that the enhanced scattering is achieved in all directions, making them more attractive in diverse photonic applications.
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This year, the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates women, work, and food. As we embark on new documentary projects in keeping with this theme, we'd like to share some of the wonderful stories we already have in our archive. Today, we introduce you to Alzina Toups of Galliano, Louisiana, whose interview is part of our Down the Bayou oral history project.
Alzina Toups' paternal ancestors came to Louisiana from Nova Scotia, as did so many Cajuns. Her mother's family - "great, great cooks" - was Portuguese, though both of Alzina's parents primarily spoke French at home. Alzina still peppers her conversation with French words and phrases. A woman whose faith infiltrates all areas of her life, Alzina treated us to a French prayer-song during the interview below.
She describes her late father as a workaholic shrimper - an occupation she also undertook as a young married woman. On a pittance of a salary, her father saved enough money to purchase the land that she and her family still live on in Galliano just steps from Bayou Lafourche.
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