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Celtic Woman, the Irish vocal group sensation with more than six million CDs and DVDs sold worldwide, returns to Minneapolis to perform two shows. Backed by a six-piece band and the Aontas Choir, the four woman ensemble draws from a repertoire that encompasses Irish standards to timeless pop anthems and inspirational songs. Consisting of members Chloë Agnew, Lisa Lambe, Susan McFadden and Máiréad Nesbitt, their sixth CD/DVD, "Believe," was released in January 2012. It was filmed for the first time in America at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta in September 2011. Their holiday album, "Home for Christmas," was released in October 2012.
Since their American debut in March 2005, Celtic Woman has dominated the adult contemporary music scene with two Top 10 album debuts on the Billboard Top 200, three Gold and Platinum albums, four Top 5 releases on the Billboard Top Video chart and over 2.2 million concert tickets sold. Their 2006 Christmas concert, "Celtic Woman: A Christmas Celebration," and their 2010 Emmy-nominated "Celtic Woman–Songs From the Heart" were both broadcast locally on Twin Cities Public Television. Their recent special, "Believe" will air locally next spring. All eight Celtic Woman album releases have debuted at #1 on the Billboard World Music Charts. They also appeared on the CBS daytime drama "The Bold and the Beautiful" in November 2012, performing two songs, "The Parting Glass" and "Danny Boy." The group will perform in Minneapolis as part of an international tour with stops in more than 70 cities including Toronto, Baltimore, Seattle and Vancouver.


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Dental care benefits in medium and large private establishments
December 02, 1999
In 1997, about 59 percent of all full-time employees in medium and large private establishments were offered some type of dental care benefit from their employers.
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The percentage of full-time employees offered dental care benefits was higher for professional, technical, and related employees (64 percent) than it was for either clerical and sales employees (59 percent) or blue-collar and service employees (56 percent).
Among those with dental care benefits, 81 percent received care from traditional fee for service plans, 11 percent from preferred provider organizations, and 8 percent from health maintenance organizations.
Irrespective of the type of plan under which employees receive dental care, the following procedures are covered in 98 percent or more of plans: exams, x-rays, surgery, fillings, periodontal care, endodontics, crowns, and prosthetics. For each of those procedures, more than three-quarters of those covered received a percentage of the usual, customary and reasonable charge for the procedure as the benefit.
These data are a product of the BLS Employee Benefits Survey program. Find out more in "Employee Benefits in Medium and Large Private Establishments, 1997," Bulletin 2517 (PDF 804 K).
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Dental care benefits in medium and large private establishments on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/nov/wk5/art04.htm (visited June 28, 2016).
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42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV AIAA 2004-0001 Innovations in Aeronautics 2004 AIAA Dryden Lecture Ilan Kroo∗ Stanford University, Stanford, California Abstract The first fifty years of aviation were punctuated with frequent innovations, transforming what were once daring stunts into an engine of our modern economy. The second fifty years seems to many, just a tuning of this engine, with significant, but evolutionary improvements. This paper considers possible innovations in aeronautics over the next fifty years and examines some of the technologies and requirements that may drive them. Focusing on three examples of fields in which future innovation appears likely, the paper suggests that many opportunities exist for innovation in aeronautics over the next few decades. Figure 1. Boeing 707 (1954) and A340 (1991) Introduction For hundreds of years prior to the advent of human flight, people dreamed about aeronautics. Numerous innovative attempts at flight showcased the participants' creativity, determination, and lack of knowledge [1]. With the first truly successful gliders by Lilienthal [2] in the 1890's and the first powered flights by the Wright brothers about 10 years later, the combination of new technologies, improved understanding of aerodynamics, and a passion for flight led to a revolution that changed our world in many respects. Innovations in aeronautics were numerous over the subsequent fifty years, from the Wright Flyer to passenger-carrying aircraft in just a few years, to the Boeing 367-80, 707 prototype, which flew in 1954. Despite the dramatic innovations over the first fifty years of air transportation, or perhaps because of them, modern aircraft appear almost unchanged from their ancestors (Figure 1). And although the similar appearance belies a dramatic reduction in fuel usage and costs, other measures of performance have shown little change in decades. Figure 2 (data from [3]) illustrates how the product of Mach number and lift-to-drag ratio has changed little in the past 40 years. Ref. [4] reports that door-to-door travel times for flights of 500 miles or less are 35-80 miles per hour. Figure 2. Product of Mach number and maximum lift/drag for several commercial aircraft (1960 – 1990). This apparent lack of innovation has caused some to suggest that aeronautics is a mature field. One might attribute the current interest in aeronautical innovation to the apparent lack of it in recent history, and irrespective of whether this judgment is correct, many have raised concerns about the future of the industry and its ability to attract tomorrow's innovators [4]. The cause of the apparent stagnation in this field has been attributed to several factors. Some argue that all of the important breakthroughs were made in the first 50 years of aviation and that the A340 looks like the 707 because the engineers got it right in 1954. Others argue that the tremendous cost and risk associated with ∗ Professor, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, firstname.lastname@example.com, Fellow AIAA. Copyright © 2004 by Ilan Kroo. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., with permission. 1 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV AIAA 2004-0001 a new technology makes it difficult to make a business case for innovation, especially in the field of large transport aircraft. Christensen [5] notes that "The highest-performing companies, in fact, are those that… have well-developed systems for killing off ideas that their customers don't want." And until new ideas are well-proven, most customers prefer low-risk incremental improvements. These three areas include: 1. Exploiting computational advances for highfidelity simulation and multidisciplinary design. 2 . Removing the constraint that aircraft must be designed around pilots or passengers. 3 . Designing the system rather than the vehicle: collectives and systems of systems. The solution to this dilemma – that innovation is too risky, but its absence may eventually destroy the industry – may lie in two factors. First, as necessity motivates invention, the need for significant changes in air transportation over the next decades may well inspire innovation. These changes will most likely be associated with environmental requirements for dramatically lower noise and emissions or with issues related to air transport system capacity. Second, the introduction of new technologies, even in indirectly related fields, can enable new concepts that may revolutionize aeronautics. High Fidelity Simulation and Design The revolution in computing has, over the past few decades eclipsed progress in aeronautics. Yet this revolution has, itself, only begun and has only begun to be exploited in aeronautics. Researchers in this field sometimes bemoan the idea that there is no equivalent of Moore's Law for aeronautics. Yet, it is precisely Moore's Law that may lead to some of the greatest advances in aeronautics through the use of almost unimaginable computational capabilities projected in the next few decades. Bill Joy [7] argues that molecular electronics may well extend the applicability of Moore's observation to 2030 or beyond, leading to computational capabilities some 106 times more powerful than those of today. Simulations that would require 1000 years with today's computers could be completed in 8 hours. The purpose of this paper is therefore not to recount a history of aeronautical innovation, nor to describe the concept of technology S-curves, how managers might deal with the innovator's dilemma, or how a specific technology, such as nano-scale engineered materials might affect aircraft performance. Instead it will focus on three promising and fundamental areas of research that may drive future innovation. Such innovation will still depend on future market demand, continued development of sustaining technologies, and a longer term vision from industry, government, and academia, but the next fifty years of aviation may well be as innovative as the first. Three Technology Areas that May Drive Future Aeronautics Innovation Just as a history of aeronautical innovation would require volumes, not pages, a prediction of possible future aeronautical ideas would be hopelessly ambitious and most surely wrong -- as Wired [6] declares in its Dec. 2003 edition, 'Futurism Is Dead.' Rather, three general areas that may lead to new concepts of use in aeronautics are described as examples to motivate the idea that aeronautics is hardly a mature endeavor. Although researchers at NASA, industry, and academia succeeded in developing algorithms for solving the nonlinear equations of fluid flow in the 1970's and 80's and it is sometimes suggested that CFD is no longer a research field, the use of computational simulation in many areas is just beginning and promises to revolutionize the way new aerospace products are developed. Skeptics note that even rather modern aircraft benefited little from extensive computational simulation (although Johnson, et al. [8] cites several compelling examples of its use in the development of several commercial aircraft). Examples of current CFD capabilities include Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes simulations of a Boeing 777 in high-lift configuration, with detailed geometry including flap tracks and some 30 million nodes in the computational mesh. This calculation is currently completed in as little as a week [9]. Current capabilities permit drag computation of wing/body/nacelle/pylon configurations to within +/2% to 4% [10]. Evolving capabilities under development as part of the ASCII program [11] will soon permit complete unsteady modeling of internal engine flows, including compressor, combustor, and turbine stages with fuel spray modeling and subproduction, utilizing LES in the combustor simulation. 2 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV The next few decades will bring even higher fidelity simulations for cases involving unsteady flows, fluidstructures-controls coupling, large scale separation, and laminar-turbulent transition. Dynamic simulations of complete vehicles, including nonlinear, time-domain, 6+ DOF may include much-improved aerodynamic, propulsion, and structural models and the impact of these systems on the environment may be evaluated with a level of detail that is impossible with current tools. AIAA 2004-0001 application is especially difficult because of the need to capture accurate pressures some distance from the vehicle and taxes current CFD capabilities. The quest for efficient supersonic flight utilizing extensive laminar flow is similarly challenging, relying on nonlinear CFD computations, boundary layer modeling, and transition estimation, again taxing the capabilities of simulation tools and requiring flight confirmation. The development of such a capability may have a direct effect on future innovation by reducing the risk associated with new ideas that exploit complex phenomena. This is especially important when experiments that might provide new insight or validation would be very expensive. Two recent examples of this, which have utilized newly developed computational simulation tools and which would benefit greatly from further simulation capabilities, are DARPA's Shaped-Supersonic Boom Demonstration [12], and recent designs exploiting supersonic natural laminar flow [13]. In the SSBD program, a modified F-5 was used to demonstrate the idea that a supersonic airplane ground signature might be to significantly reduce its loudness. This concept was suggested by Seabass and George [14] early in the development of supersonic aerodynamics and propagation theory, but the role of certain nonlinear effects on signature development and the influence of real atmospheric characteristics on this type of signature were uncertain. Figure 4. Computed amplification factors on supersonic test wing (left). Infrared image of test wing showing turbulent areas in white (right). F-15B with test wing mounted below (top). Figure 3. Pressure fields associated with baseline F5 and version modified to produce desired signature. (From [12]). Flight tests of a supersonic aircraft, even one that represents a modification of an existing design, are very costly and correct modeling is essential to ensure a successful flight program. The analysis for this Perhaps the most useful application of expanded computing power is the extension of computational simulation from analysis to design. This field, starting with single-discipline optimization and inverse design, has grown to include multidisciplinary optimization as well as distributed, multiobjective, and topological design. At the moment, most high fidelity optimization is used to refine a configuration that has been defined using simpler but more comprehensive analyses or design intuition, but as computing power increases, these tools will be used more at the conceptual design phase, leading to the possibility of innovative conceptual solutions that appear from the optimization automatically. This type of emergent innovation is suggested in some recent 3 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV examples that illustrate how unexpected fundamental concepts can arise from robust configuration optimization. Figure 5 shows the computational grid defining a blended-wing-body design. This configuration was optimized using a Navier-Stokes simulation together with propulsion modeling to investigate propulsion/airframe interactions [15]. AIAA 2004-0001 minimum total drag, yet fit inside a box of fixed height and span. Although the analysis was simplified, interesting and somewhat surprising results emerged and the idea was subsequently incorporated in the design of a very large airplane concept (figure 8) [16]. Figure 5. RANS-based Optimization of BWB Optimization was also used to determine the maximum allowable thickness of the wing center section. As shown in figure 6, the center section can maintain weak shocks and low transonic drag, despite the freestream Mach number of 0.85 and an 18% thickness to chord ratio. This dramatic 3-D effect was not envisioned in the initial conceptual design of the BWB and permits configurations that might have been overlooked if 3-D nonlinear design tools were not available. Figure 7. Evolution of C-Wing design from generic nonplanar wing model. Figure 8. C-Wing transport aircraft concept [Boeing]. Figure 6. Blended Wing Body Cp Distribution (from [15]). Another example of unexpected results appearing from topological optimization is summarized in figure 7. In this work, an evolutionary optimization algorithm was used to find the wing geometry that produced The utility of robust optimization methods, such as simulated annealing or genetic algorithms, which are generally much less efficient than traditional gradientbased optimization algorithms, improves as computational resources become more capable. By avoiding some local minima, not requiring smooth 4 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV AIAA 2004-0001 functions, and easily supporting large parallel computing environments, such approaches may find expanding applications in future conceptual designs. These methods are particularly well suited to topological and multi-objective design and have been applied successfully for quiet supersonic aircraft design problems using both Euler and linear analysis methods [17, 18]. Figure 9. Artist's concept of ARES rocket-powered UAV for Mars exploration. The use of autonomous aircraft for exploration of planets such as Mars or Titan is appealing, allowing high resolution imagery and in situ measurements of atmospheric and magnetic properties over a large region and bridging the scale and resolution measurement gaps between global-scale orbiters and higher resolution landers or rovers. As sensor and flight control electronics become smaller, the cost of such systems is dramatically reduced. In this program, the ability to reduce the aircraft scale was also exploited in the design and successful flight test of a subscale aircraft, dropped from a balloon at about 100,000 ft. The resulting data provided valuable insight on the vehicle aerodynamics, wing folding mechanization, and drogue chute dynamics. Figure 8. Multiobjective (boom and drag) optimization of a small supersonic aircraft using a genetic algorithm. Man is (No Longer) the Measure of A l l Things Aeronautical Continued advances in computation and electronics may have a more dramatic impact on aeronautics as automated systems replace pilots on an increasing number of aerospace platforms. While this might, at some time, be used to reduce the operating costs of cargo aircraft or eventually, perhaps, other transport aircraft, its more significant effect may be in enabling new roles for aircraft. With the fielding of military UAV's, aircraft are being used for reconnaissance and surveillance in situations, and for mission durations, incompatible with piloted airplanes. A more extreme example of how UAV's may be used in the future to expand the role of aeronautics is seen in the recent development of the ARES aircraft (Aerial Regionalscale Environmental Survey) for Martian exploration [19]. It is sometimes imagined that the revolution in digital electronics occurred in the 1970's and that continued advances simply improve performance incrementally. Yet advances in microprocessors and surface-mount components just over the past few years have enabled inexpensive autopilots with masses measures in grams rather than kilograms. As an example of how this technology is changing aircraft capabilities, students in the aircraft design course at Stanford were challenged to design a small, low cost, fully autonomous aircraft using GPS navigation. Figure 10 illustrates the successful design, which weighed less than 300 g and was developed over the past 3 months. Figure 10. Autonomous electric aircraft developed in a few months using a 12g GPS unit, with airframe and flight software designed by the students. 5 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV AIAA 2004-0001 As the weight and size of sensors and flight control systems drops, the connection between aircraft scale and human scale is less direct, and the opportunities for aircraft design once this constraint is removed are tremendous. Micro-air vehicles, now being developed at aerospace companies, government labs, and universities have been rather arbitrarily defined as flight vehicles with spans of less than 15cm. Many such designs have flown successfully and work is now focusing on performance improvements, operational integration, and sensor development. Figure 12. Mesicopter studies included optimal rotor design and testing of very small vehicles, including constrained tests of this 4-rotor design. Challenges included 2-D airfoil and 3-D rotor design with insect-scale aerodynamics that necessitated Navier Stokes computation of the highly viscous low Reynolds number flows, accurate manufacturing of sections with 50 micron thickness, and stability and control issues arising from small time scales and very demanding weight constraints [21, 22]. Figure 11. Micro air vehicle by MLB [20] with integrated video. Although much of the current work in this field consists of system integration and product development, interesting, more fundamental research involves studies of low Reynolds number wing and rotor design, nonlinear control issues, and some work on flapping wing flight (since if flapping wing vehicles make sense anywhere, it would be at these small scales where inertial loads are less significant and the benefits of propulsion airframe integration are large). Very small aircraft, ranging in size from a few centimeters to a few meters will likely find a variety of military and civilian roles in the future and provide an opportunity for further innovation in aerodynamic design, control, and propulsion. As an example of some of the challenges associated with very small aircraft development, Stanford University researchers, sponsored by NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts, considered issues in aerodynamics, control, manufacturing, and power needed for a centimeter-scale rotorcraft. Figure 13. In addition to computational analysis and optimization, research included experimental tests of very low Reynolds number sections on microsailplanes. A variety of test rotors and complete flight vehicles were constructed in this program, ranging in weight from a few grams to 200 g. The goal of the research 6 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV AIAA 2004-0001 was to explore a variety of technologies that might someday be of use in the design of very small aircraft, but the unavailability of commercial batteries at very small sizes prevented the development of useful vehicles at the time. Interestingly, this technology has evolved rapidly over the past few years and has spawned a burgeoning hobby industry for indoor and microflight model airplanes. Radio-controlled flight vehicles with spans of 10 cm, helicopters with all-up flying weights of 6.9 g, and solar airplanes powered by pager motors have been developed in the last year [23]. Figure 15. Swarms of very small aircraft might someday be used for 4-D observation, and multiresolution imaging, providing a robust approach to atmospheric sensor platforms. Figure 14. Matt Keenon's 1.7g solar-powered aircraft. As the scale of flight vehicles is reduced, the importance of viscous aerodynamics increases, the importance of structural loads generally decreases, and the relative importance of atmospheric turbulence changes. The possibility that small flight vehicles could extract energy from gusts and wind gradients of many sorts has been suggested for years and dynamic soaring, as practiced by birds and insects might well provide significant performance advantages for these vehicles. The feasibility of very small aircraft also suggests the possibility of using several, or even large numbers, of these platforms to accomplish missions that would normally require a larger vehicle. Swarms of micro air vehicles for atmospheric sensing or planetary exploration may become possible with continuing development in microelectronics, computational power, and battery or micro fuel-cell technology (figure 15). The use of multiple vehicles or collectives of individual agents to accomplish a shared task is the final area for potential innovation highlighted in this paper. Collectives, Multiagent Systems, Systems of Systems in Aeronautics and The development of aeronautical systems has focused on the design of individual vehicles, which are then sometimes assembled into a fleet, to become the air transportation system, for example. As the complexity of these systems grows, however, this approach to system design becomes more difficult and less optimal. New theories of collective behavior, an improved understanding of emergent system properties, and new approaches to the design of multi-agent systems promise to significantly change the way that aeronautical systems are developed. Whether the system of interest involves network routing (of aircraft or data packets), the distributed design of a complex system by multiple disciplinary design teams, or the coordination of multiple air vehicles for performance enhancement or air traffic management, the science of multi-agent systems can be applied to create a system of systems whose performance may greatly exceed that of an ad-hoc aggregated system. Although the theory of collectives and strategies for the design of complex systems are still in their infancy, several striking examples of the potential for this approach have been described recently [24] and further progress is likely to spur innovation in aeronautical systems for decades to come. The following examples are intended to provide only a suggestion for how this science could change future aeronautical design concepts. 7 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV 2004-0001 Miniature Trailing Edge Effectors (MiTEs) An unconventional application of the idea of collective systems to vehicle flight control is illustrated by the distributed control system shown in figure 16. The MiTE concept involves replacing or augmenting conventional control surfaces with a large number of simple and small trailing edge devices as shown below. Figure 17. Flow near trailing edge after deflection of MiTE. Sequence from Navier Stokes simulation showing development of separation and shedding of vortex. Formation Flight The small surfaces (1% to 4% of the chord) are deflected in one of three states: neutral, up, or down, eliminating the need for servo feedback to accurately position the surfaces. Because of their small size, MiTEs provide very high bandwidth control and have been used successfully for flutter suppression. One difficulty with these devices is that they exhibit very nonlinear behavior due to the manner in which they are deflected, causing vortex formation near the trailing edge as shown in the time sequence of figure 17. This represents a difficulty when synthesizing control laws for a group of perhaps hundreds of the devices. The approach described in [25] uses reinforcement learning and the theory of collectives [24] to optimize the performance of the system as a whole, while individual flaps make local decisions based on local information. The idea was implemented in a wind tunnel test, in which MiTEs were fabricated and a distributed control law was created to maximize the flutter speed of an elastically tailored wing. This approach successfully suppressed flutter, increasing the allowable dynamic pressure by almost 50% [25]. Optimal Drag for Formation Flight and Ground Effect 2 wings each trimmed in roll 1.2 Drag / Isolated Drag Figure 16. Distributed control using small trailing edge effectors. Perhaps a more obvious example of the potential advantages of group behavior is that of formation flight. As illustrated in the flocking behavior of many migratory birds and as is well-known to aerodynamicists and pilots, substantial reductions in vortex drag may be achieved by exploiting favorable interference between two wings. Figure 18 (computed based on simple linear theory [26] and subject to roll trim constraints) shows that when the two wing tips are separated laterally by a small distance, a vortex drag savings of about 40% may be achieved. Since the longitudinal spacing does not affect the total vortex drag, this close spacing does not require a dangerously close proximity between the tips. A similar savings is produced by a wing flying in formation with its own image (ground effect), when the distance above the symmetry plane is about 20% of the wing span. 1 0.8 Ground Effect Formation 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 0 0.5 1 1.5 Altitude or Separation (in units of span) Figure 18. Potential reductions in induced drag due to favorable interference between two wings. 8 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV AIAA 2004-0001 When more than two aircraft fly in formation, the potential savings is much larger, with a very simple analysis suggesting that the average lift-to-drag ratio scales as the square root of the number of aircraft in the flock. Thus, the potential savings associated with even three or four aircraft in formation may far exceed that of wing configuration features such as winglets, which, although capable of reducing vortex drag, involve a structural weight penalty that sometimes offsets much of the advantage [27]. One of the outstanding problems with formation flight is maintaining the correct relative position of the aircraft in the formation. The success of good pilots in achieving precision formation flight shows that this is not a completely intractable problem, however, and recent work at NASA has investigated some of the critical aspects of autonomous formation flight [28]. This fundamentally different approach to aircraft operation could be enabled by recent advances in precision navigation and increasingly capable and reliable automatic flight control. Figure 20. Evolution of optimal flock using single policy control strategy (clockwise starting from upper left). In addition to applications of this concept using UAV's, researchers have discussed its application to efficient cargo transportation and as a possible approach to more environmentally friendly aircraft. Further research is required in flight control, in aircraft design to maximize interference and reduce position sensitivity, and in system operation to best exploit the potential advantages of the concept. Figure 19. Two F-18's fly in formation as part of NASA's Autonomous Formation Flight Program. Techniques for the design of multi-agent systems and collectives may be applied in this example as well. With a large number of interacting air vehicles (or birds), simple rules can be created that lead, not just to the interesting looking emergent behavior described by Reynolds [29], but to a desired optimal system behavior. Figure 20 shows a top view of the timebased evolution of a group of 25 birds that start out with a random longitudinal distribution and by following a single simple rule and local measurements are able to efficiently and robustly find the desired solution. This approach, described in [30] may also be applied to the more interesting problem of inhomogeneous formations for which the weights, geometry, or mission capabilities of the individuals vary. Figure 21. "Artist's" concept of formation flight for low cost cargo transportation. Use of configurations especially tailored for formation flight can amplify potential savings. 9 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV 2004-0001 Conclusions References Although the pace of vehicle development over the second fifty years of aeronautics appears to have slowed in comparison to the breakthroughs that led from Kitty Hawk to LAX, many opportunities exist for future innovations in aeronautics. Changing requirements associated with air transportation capacity and security as well as environmental sustainability will likely motivate new concepts in aeronautics even in the relatively near future, while continuing major advances in computational capabilities, electronics miniaturization, and complex system understanding may make these possible. [1] Chanute, O., Progress in Flying Machines, The American Engineer and Railroad Journal, N.Y., 1894. Now available as a Dover paperback. Lack of future innovation, however, could be a major problem for the aerospace industry and the nation, both directly and because of the indirect effect on the workforce. A sustained period of stagnation may lead potential future innovators to other fields and since innovation is, by its nature, not something that can be predicted, sustained, consistent support for research and development is critical. Acknowledgements The examples of innovative aeronautical work included in this paper represent the work of several current and former doctoral students at Stanford University including Peter Sturdza, David Rodriguez, Bobby Braun, Steve Morris, Peter Gage, Nicolas Antoine, Stefan Bieniawski, Peter Kunz, Hak-Tae Lee, and students in AA241. 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A torch app for your phone that has been designed with a focus on a reduced resource usage and responsiveness.
All of that within a minimalist holo interface.
Note that this app is designed to work with devices that have a led flashlight. If your device doesn't have one, the red bulb logo will be displayed.
Doesn't work I liked it during the first day, since the widget was simple in clean. You clicked it and it turned on (a lot easier than the "flashlight" apps). After 24 hours the button has just stopped working. Restarting my phone has done nothing so I have to uninstall.
One little thing Excellent app. So clean and easy to use. If there were donate version I would definitively buy it. The only missing thing for me is wake-lock while flashlight is on, because while I am using phone as flaslight for a while and suddenly need to turn off light, usualy is display off and I need to turn screen on and unlock phone to turn flaslight off.
The best flashlight app. Period. Simple, lightweight, and easy. It even comes with a handy 1x1 widget.
Pro: No bogus permissions. Con: unreliable Worked great on my LG G3...for a while. The widget only works for 1-3 days or so and then quits working like others have reported. Removing the widget and replacing it again fixes it but the problem always returns. Something not right. 5 stars otherwise.
Does not work on Hisense Sero 7 Pro Tap on the app and get an error that it stopped working. As a widget, it acts like a camera flash with icon staying in "on" mode, but will not change state after tapping multiple times. Had to uninstall.
Works great on my s3 I've used droidlight which is a very similar app, in fact identical minus the lack of holo design. But having discovered this I may just prefer this purely because of the holo design. Also this app seems to retain the flashlight even when the screen is off, which is brilliant. This could only be better if the flashlight came on upon launching of the app. Currently requires two taps to activate: launching then tapping bulb.
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The DC Universe continues combining its New 52 Universe and its animated movie universe with "Son of Batman." It was a lot easier to adapt "Justice League: War" for the big or small screen given that it was already rooted in the rebooted world we've come to know in the past few years. The real question everybody wanted to know the answer to was, "How will a book written before the launch of the New 52 fit into the new cosmos?" Whether you like the outcome or not, credit has to be given to DC for accomplishing the feat.
When Ra's al Ghul is assassinated by Deathstroke and his army, his daughter Talia and her son Damian are left on the run for their lives. She takes the boy to the only place she knows he'll be safe: Gotham City and into the custody of the only man she can truly trust - The Batman. The Caped Crusader is caught off guard when he finds out he is the father of Damian. The heiress to the throne of the Demon leaves the 11-year-old under the wing of the Dark Knight. Batman soon finds himself partnered with a new Robin when he is put in the middle of a battle between Talia's new brigade of Man-Bats and Deathstroke's squad.
If you've read Grant Morrison's graphic novel that "Son of Batman" is based on, then you know right off the bat (pun intended) this is not as faithful an adaptation as you might have expected. Whether or not you find this to be a good thing or bad is up to you. I personally found it to be entertaining and quite a brilliant way to pull the saga of "Batman and Son" into the New 52 world.
"Son of Batman" is presented in 1080p High-Definition 16x9 (1.78:1) with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. Viewers will find the picture is vibrant and clean. The audio will encircle the audience with the bombastic sounds of explosions and atmospheric elements.
The Blu-ray version of "Batman and Son" includes a satisfying amount of bonus material. It includes three featurettes entitled "Strange Blood Ties: Damian Wayne," "Designing the Characters with Phil Bourassa," and "The Fang and the Demon Head: The League of Assassins." There's also a sneak peek at DC Universe's next animated movie, "Batman: Arkham Assault." Four bonus cartoons from the DC Comics Vault top everything off.
"Batman and Son" is rated PG-13 for Stylized violence including bloody images, and some suggestive material. There's more gore than usual as members of the League of Assassins and Deathstroke's army get stabbed and shot. Several lines of dialogue are rather racy, but most pre-teens probably won't get them. I still don't really know why they needed to be included. Why not just leave them out and know that the movie is safe for everyone without question?
Some will see DC's use of Deathstroke to be a desperate ploy to promote and push the character further into the spotlight while cross-promoting his presence on "Arrow." Hey, business is business. DC executives and writers gotta eat, too. I like the character on the television show and I like him in the comics. If you don't like him, then you're probably going to have a problem with his inclusion in "Son of Batman."
"Son of Batman" is made up of the first quarter of Morrison's book sans all the romantic elements and other extraneous elements which could be trimmed out. A little shuffling is done to certain plot elements and events, Deathstroke is thrown in, and "Voila!" We get an energetic and fast-paced 74-minute movie.
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The Ebola virus is resurging and infecting hundreds in Africa. At least 1440 cases of the Ebola virus has been either confirmed or suspected and as of July 30th, and has killed 826 people according to the World Health Organization.
The chances of the Ebola virus making an appearance in the United States is a concern to a great many. At least two known individuals who were in direct contact with individuals suffering from the virus in Africa are now infected and have arrived in Atlanta, Georgia for treatment. Physicians here in the US now believe that treating these doctors who are infected with the virus will be treated adequately and it is hoped that the virus will be eradicated from their bodies
What is the Ebola virus? The Ebola virus is a hemorrhagic fever which is characterized by bleeding and high fever. As a result, the vascular system is damaged but the body becomes so incapacitated it can't make the correction. Some of the symptoms of the Ebola virus are "fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain. A rash, red eyes, hiccups and internal and external bleeding may also occur." www.mamashealth.org The Ebola virus can be spread through blood, bodily fluids and contact through items such as a needle previously used on an infected person.
There is no known treatment for Ebola. However, there is supportive treatment like plenty of fluids, rest, adequate oxygen and treatment for other infections according to the WHO.
If an individual becomes ill and you suspect Ebola, chances are it is not "the virus" but is always a good idea to see your doctor and get treatment for whatever the ailment. It is hoped that this virus is contained despite the recent outbreaks and with research it will be eradicated everywhere.


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CINCINNATI — Coin laundry owners and operators may want to follow the progress of a new strategic partnership between Procter & Gamble and the Alliance to Save Energy, a nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency worldwide through research, education and advocacy.
Their collective effort will be to publicize the environmental and energy-savings benefits of washing laundry in cold water. The Alliance will work with P&G's natural resource education initiative called Future Friendly to provide consumers with the information they need to convert from hot/warm-water washing habits to cold-water washing.
Heating of water is a major use of energy. When doing laundry, heating water can account for up to 80% of the energy used per wash load in the United States. By moving to cold water, Americans could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 11 million metric tons annually, P&G and the Alliance say.
A major barrier to adopting cold-water washing habits is the consumer worry that washing in cold water will not clean as effectively as warm/hot water. To combat this notion, a P&G detergent specially formulated to perform optimally in cold water will be showcased.
P&G Future Friendly will work with the Alliance as part of an Earth Day-focused campaign that encourages consumers to change their laundry habits for the better. Featuring a Facebook sweepstakes, pop-up events and media activities, the campaign will utilize Alliance-provided data and consumer-friendly language to illustrate the environmental benefits of cold-water washing and drive consumer action.


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UCLA's Mackenzie McDonald, Ryoto Tachi, Gage Brymer, Michael Guzman, Karue Sell, Dennis Mkrtchian and Joseph Di Giulio all won matches and have advanced to the third round. UCLA only competed in singles on Friday, with all three Bruin teams receiving byes in the first round of doubles.
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R128 Gage Brymer (UCLA) def. David Schuster (University of Hawai'i) 7-5, 6-2
R128 Ryoto Tachi (UCLA) def. Chas Okamoto (University of Hawai'i) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1
R64 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA) def. Robbie Bellamy (USC) 6-2, 6-4
R64 Marco Comuzzo (Cal Poly) def. Seth Stolar (UCLA) 6-2, 6-2
R64 Gage Brymer (UCLA) def. #81 Romain Kalaydjian (San Diego) 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
R64 Michael Guzman (UCLA) def. Corey Pang (Cal Poly) 2-6, 7-6, 6-4
R64 Ryoto Tachi (UCLA) def. Matt Thomson (Cal Poly) 6-1, 6-1
R64 #104 Karue Sell (UCLA) def. Caryl Hernandez (UC Irvine) 6-1, 6-2
R64 #45 Dennis Mkrtchian (UCLA) def. Naoki Takeda (Arizona) 6-4, 6-4
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Researchers report that they have made a discovery that challenges the view that siRNA's therapeutic effects are imparted solely through RNAi. The team was studing siRNA targeting involved in angiogenesis in patients with blinding choroidal neovascularization from age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
"siRNAs are used in every area of biomedical research and are thought to be exquisitely specific in targeting a single gene," says Jayakrishna Ambati, M.D., a University of Kentucky researcher and the paper's senior author. "My lab made the surprising discovery that siRNAs including those in clinical trials do not enter cells or trigger RNAi. Rather, we found that they generically, regardless of their sequence or target, bind a receptor known as TLR3 on cell surfaces and block blood vessel growth in the eye, skin, and a variety of other organs."
Dr. Ambati's team also showed that people with a mutation in the TLR3 receptor are resistant to the generic effects of siRNAs.
Blocking blood vessel growth is beneficial in a variety of diseases. Prime examples include wet AMD and cancer. Blocking blood vessel growth by administering siRNA intravenously, however, could be detrimental if it impacts other organs.
The research was conducted by investigators at The University of Kentucky, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nagoya City University Medical School, Oregon Health and Science University, University of Utah School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The paper was published online on March 26 in Nature.
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When are two heads better than one? Answer: When you're playing Woodford away. I had it marked down as a Woodford win, so credit to those Harmen boys who excelled on a cold, wet Sunday morning at Fairlop. Castle has done well since moving into the front line, but he stepped up to take the gloves and earn the Southgate boys three crucial points to close the gap at the top. Alterman pulled the strings on the sidelines, and his players executed his game-plan to the letter.


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Therapeutic cloning is the process by which an embryo is created through nuclear transfer in order to obtain stem cells from it for therapeutic purposes.
Therapeutic cloning uses cloning technology to develop stem cells for research, and ultimately for therapy.
The goal of therapeutic cloning is to produce human stem cells, and subsequent tissues and organs, which can be used to replace damaged tissue.
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Dvd Release Date: 2003-11-04
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Life along the Great Barrier Reef is full of dangers when you are a tiny clown fish. And for Marlin, a single parent determined to protect his only son Nemo, there are constant fears and anxieties. When, on his first day of school, Nemo defies his father and swims off alone to investigate a boat, he is suddenly scooped up by a diver as Marlin helplessly watches. Marlin turns desperate as he frantically swims off in search for his son. As he passes a school of fish he bumps into Dory, an agreeable blue tang with severe short-term memory loss, who offers to help. Together this aquatic odd couple set out on an impossible mission, finding themselves in troubled waters and contending with such hazards as sharks, deadly angler fishes and a forest of jellyfish. Meanwhile, in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbor, Nemo has landed in a fish tank that is home to a colorful group of characters who want to initiate him into their gang. When word of Marlin and Dory's ocean adventures gets back to Nemo, he is so thrilled to learn of his father's search for him that he becomes motivated to move forward with a daring escape plan of his own.
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This lecture will deal with legends of origin of the Jews of Poland as a cultural production that constitutes an important object of scholarly study. These are place legends that center on Poland and reveal how its Jewish inhabitants perceived it. From this angle, Poland as place is a cultural category and a space of Jewish consciousness. There will be a discussion of the content, structure, and functions of these legends and the change they underwent in the post-Holocaust context.
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"No, it's all bullsh*t. I know someone who has talked to Manny, and it's all nonsense. It's all a made up story," said Arum. "Up until a few hours ago, when I talked to [Filipino reporter] Ronnie Nathanielsz, who called me after he had dinner with Manny last night, I didn't know what to say. Now I do."
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In the field I need some users to be able to make iso files reliably from a cdrom that is also serving as a mounted LiveCD and so I concocted a manual test case before doing any scripting. The test case fails.
ISO Duplication Test Procedure
To be specific, the manual test procedure is:
- start with an iso file of a particular customized livecd based on ubuntu-9.10
- burn a cd using this iso file with computer #1's burner
- boot cd with computer #2 -- after boot make sure /tmp has sufficient capacity to hold a copy of the iso
- use dd on computer #2 to make another iso file in /tmp
- check the file size and the md5 of the resulting iso in /tmp with the one originally used in step
Failure Of Test Case
Failure mode was copy didn't complete.
Burner was a Gateway desktop running Brasero on Ubuntu-9.10
Booter was an ASUS N laptop.
df identifies the cdrom as /dev/sr0
/tmp shows plenty of space to hold the image
dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/cdtest.iso
dd: reading '/dev/sr0' Input/Output error
1022208+0 records in
1022208+0 records out
523370496 bytes (523 MB) copied ....
Original iso size is 523497472 bytes, so about 127 k is missing.
dmesg (clipped)
[ 694.212395] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 694.212401] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[ 694.212406] Info fld=0x3e67e, ILI
[ 694.212407] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[ 694.212413] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1022208
[ 694.212416] __ratelimit: 1 callbacks suppressed
[ 694.212418] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255552
[ 694.212419] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255553
[ 694.212422] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255554
[ 694.212424] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255555
[ 694.212426] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255556
[ 694.212428] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255557
[ 694.212429] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255558
[ 694.212431] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255559
[ 694.212433] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255560
[ 694.212434] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 255561
Thoughts? Are there some less obvious options I should be giving dd in the way of block sizes or telling it to reread on error?
*Update Succeeded on VirtualBox
Ran another copy exercise -- this time from SUN VirtualBox instead of physical hardware. This would partially test, for instance, whether the iso file itself was to blame or whether there was something peculiar software-wise. dd worked fine to recreate the iso when the livecd ran on the virtual hardware insofar as physical sizes match and md5's match.
Update #2 The cdrom's isolinux.bin and md5sum.txt FAIL md5 when read from computer #2 after booting.
Ran md5sum -c md5sum.txt on the CD's md5 sum file.
None of the file accesses complained about being unable to read the device. I would have expected a file near the end of the write to have problems.
The isolinux.bin md5 and the md5sum.txt md5 did not match. isolinux.bin is the boot-up code used at system boot to load the linux kernel and initrd -- and it worked ok. The md5sum file is, well, the md5sum file for checking the cd contents. Of the files that could have been corrupted, thats an odd pair security-wise. But there are only 12 files on the CD. If isolinux.bin is corrupted, how did it still boot ok? Strange.
Checking the VirtualBox test system, where duplicating the iso succeeded I found that md5 for isolinux.bin and md5sum.txt did not match the md5sum file. The actual md5's also matched exactly the ones read on the physical computer. This might simply mean that the md5sum file was generated before isolinux.bin was finalized or a new isolinux.bin was copied over after md5sum was made.
Note that there were no complaints about not being able to read blocks of files when going through the filesystem.
Wikipedia vs dd
Interaction with Richard T led me to think about basic cdrom reliability. The wikipedia entry for iso9660 talks about a CDROM Mode 1 that includes 288 bytes of error correcting code for every 2048 bytes of user data. For dd to produce a faithful copy, does it has to get everything correct without the benefit of the ECC? If the ECC is part of the iso9660 spec I would guess 'yes' because the dd is copying the ECC bits and the data without regard to using one to influence the other. If the ECC is part of the /dev/sr0 cdrom driver I would guess 'no'.
If the only way to get the error corrected copy is to go through the filesystem, then I'd need to use genisoimage and grab the first few sectors with dd to give genisoimage the boot sectors back, I guess. Still hoping for something from the group mind.
I'm lucky to have the original genisoimage command to master the original iso file.
So from computer #2, running the LiveCD, I tried it. That's not enough, either, but maybe we're getting closer.
apt-get install genisoimage
cd /cdrom
genisoimage -r -V "OurLiveCDNameIsSomethingElse" -cache-inodes -J -l -b isolinux/isolinux -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o /tmp/cdcopy.iso .
...using utf-8 (detected in locale)
Size of boot image is 4 sectors-> No emulation
genisoimage: Read-only file system. Error opening boot image file './isolinux/isolinux.bin' for update.
At least now we know why the md5 on isolinux.bin doesn't match -- genisoimage wants to do something to it!
An Ugly Hack
OK so next thing to try was making a directory called uglyhack, and symlinking all the files from /cdrom to there, except for isolinux.bin, which gets a real copy. genisoimage takes this, and writes 0MB with no error messages. Guess genisoimage ignores symlinked files.
The good news is that this suggests an answer, but not a very pretty one:
copy all the files from the /cdrom to another, writable file system and then run genisoimage on that.
So what now?
There must be some better way to achieve this task.


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This paper describes a method for extracting parallel sentences from comparable texts. We present the main challenges in creating a German-French corpus for the Alpine domain. We demonstrate that it is difficult to use the Wikipedia categorization for the extraction of domain-specific articles from Wikipedia, therefore we introduce an alternative information retrieval approach. Sentence alignment algorithms were used to identify semantically equivalent sentences across the Wikipedia articles. Using this approach, we create a corpus of sentence-aligned Alpine texts, which is evaluated both manually and automatically. Results show that even a small collection of extracted texts (approximately 10000 sentence pairs) can partially improve the performance of a state-of-the-art statistical machine translation system. Thus, the approach is worth pursuing on a larger scale, as well as for other language pairs and domains.
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Benningfield served the last two seasons as the director of operations for the Buffaloes' program. With the addition of Jamie Carey in June 2014, Colorado now has two former WNBA veterans on its coaching staff.
In her two seasons as director of operations, Benningfield handled a variety of duties including scheduling and team travel, monitoring the budget and coordinating community service efforts. She was also co-director for Colorado's summer basketball camps.
During her first season she took on the task of organizing Colorado's 10-day tour of Italy which took place in August 2013.
Before joining the women's basketball staff, she was a volunteer assistant coach with the Buffaloes' volleyball team in 2011, serving as a sports psychology consultant. She was also the head varsity girls basketball coach at Pomona High School in Arvada for the 2011-12 season and in that same role at Nederland (Colo.) High School in 2010-11.
A native of Louisville, Ky., Benningfield was a four-year standout at Vanderbilt University (2000-04) where she helped the Commodores to four NCAA Tournament appearances and a pair of SEC Tournament titles (2002, '04). She scored 1,501 points for Vanderbilt, averaging 11 points and 6.3 rebounds in 136 career games. A two-time All-SEC second team selection (2003, '04), Benningfield earned honorable mention to the 2003 Associated Press All-America team as a junior averaging 16.5 points and 7.9 rebounds while shooting 56 percent from the field.
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Recently retired (and future Hall of Fame) tight end Tony Gonzalez will be joining the CBS NFL pregame "The NFL Today" show, and longtime fixtures Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe are out, the network confirmed.
The two-for-one switch is interesting. Is there room for another ex-NFLer on the set? For a while last season, it appeared that New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan could have been on the chopping block, and perhaps he was one of CBS' main targets. Then again, many believe Peyton Manning would kick off a major broadcasting bidding war once his playing career ends. And there's always Brett Favre, who did some remote TV appearances last season. So perhaps CBS will keep a slimmed-down set for now and make a move on Ryan or Manning or someone else in 2015.
"Having just stepped off the playing field, Tony brings a fresh and insightful perspective," CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said. "As a future Hall of Famer, we are excited for him to share his knowledge, experiences and opinions with our viewers. Tony was one of the most respected and hardworking players in the NFL and a tremendous teammate.
Gonzalez recently speculated in an ESPN interview whether he might leave the door slightly open for a comeback late next season, one that the Atlanta Falcons didn't seem to reciprocate. They said they were moving on with the assumption that Gonzalez's playing days were over, and this new broadcasting deal would appear to confirm that. But you'd have to think that CBS required some kind of written guarantee that Gonzalez doesn't bolt the set in Week 11 if he gets the itch to play again.
"While we welcome Tony, we want to acknowledge Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe who have contributed greatly to the success of The NFL Today for more than a decade," McManus said. "Dan and Shannon are true Hall of Famers on the field and in front of the camera. As they pursue other professional opportunities, we thank them for their hard work and dedication and wish them nothing but the best."
Sharpe, who had been with the network since 2004, had been known as an outspoken talking head on the show, and he added an edge to the discussion, even if his style wasn't universally loved. He likely will be picked up by another network because of his visibility.
One of the all-time great quarterbacks, Marino had been with CBS since 2002. Cue the talk of him returning to the Miami Dolphins in some form? Marino was named the team's senior vice president 10 years ago but resigned quickly thereafter, citing that the role was not best for him. Still, a return to the only pro team he has known has been speculated for years.
The well-spoken Gonzalez has appeared to be a natural for such a job, but there will be pressure to be camera-ready quickly because of this major shakeup on the set.
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I have a beamer slide:
\tikzstyle{decision} = [diamond, draw, fill=blue!20, text width=4.5em, text badly centered, node distance=3cm, inner sep=0pt]
\tikzstyle{block} = [rectangle, draw, fill=blue!20, text width=5em, text centered, rounded corners, minimum height=4em]
\tikzstyle{line} = [draw, -latex]
\begin{frame}{Simulated Annealing (SA)}
\resizebox{0.4 \linewidth}{!}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance = 2cm, auto]
\node[block] (init){Init $n=0$, $T_0$, and $S_0$};
\node[block, below of=init] (nbrh){$S_{n+1}=N(S_n)$};
\node[decision, below of=nbrh](ovgt){$f(S_{n+1}) \le f(S_n)$};
\node[block, below of=ovgt] (accp){Accept $S_{n+1}$};
\node[decision, right of=ovgt](rand){Accept with $P = e^{-\frac{\Delta f}{t_n}}$};
\node[block, right of=nbrh, anchor=west] (rejj){Reject $S_{n+1}$};
\node[block, below of=accp] (incr){$T_{n+1} = K(T_n)$ and $n=n+1$};
\node[block, below of=incr] (stop){Stop};
\node[decision, left of=stop] (stcd){Stop?};
\path[line] (init) -- (nbrh);
\path[line] (nbrh) -- (ovgt);
\path[line] (ovgt) -- node{yes}(accp);
\path[line] (ovgt) -- node{no} (rand);
\path[line] (rand) -- node{no} (rejj);
\path[line] (rejj) -- (nbrh);
\path[line] (rand) |- node{yes}(accp);
\path[line] (accp) -- (incr);
\path[line] (incr) -- (stcd);
\path[line] (stcd) -- node{yes}(stop);
\path[line] (stcd) |- node{no} (nbrh);
which gives:
There are a few things I'm not happy with in the output:
Simple equations like
$S_{n+1}=N(S_n)%should be on 1 line. It's okay for the text to be smaller. Similarly,
$T_{n+1}=K(T_n)$should be on 1 line, 'and' can be on it's own line, and
$n=n+1$should be on it's own line. The inequality in the decision should also be on one line.
The vertical 'no' line connecting the "Accept" decision on the right, and the "Reject" action is not quite vertical. Also, this decision is larger than the decision immediately to the left.
There is very little space between these two decisions.
The "Accept" action under the inequality decision overlaps with the decision above. In contrast, that decision is quite far from the action above that.
Lastly, I'm not happy with the bottom two elements. I would have preferred to have the "Stop?" decision directly underneath, and the "Stop" action to the right. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to put 2 bends in the "no" from "Stop?", meaning that the line actually cuts through everything above. I tried
-|-but this doesn't work.
I asked a previous question here about scaling the whole tikzpicture to the height of the slide, however the solution that was presented did not work for me. It is still being cut off at the bottom. The problem may have to do with the fact that my actual beamer presentation uses the Hannover theme, and as such there is less usable space in the slide? I have gotten around it by using
0.4 \linewidth temporarily.