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Bootstrapping approach is based on the assumption that the sample is the population. Then, a resampling of the sample is done, replacing the individuals of the population by chance. The number of the resampled individuals is the same as the 'real' sample. So, how is the new sample different from the original one? I don't have a huge background in statistic so please be plain.
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Sampling is with replacement.
Imagine you have a sample of size 30. Take a 30-sided die and write each value on a face.
Roll the die 30 times, recording the values. That's one pseudo-sample.
A value from the original sample has a bit over 60% (asymptotically, $1-1/e$) chance of turning up in the new sample, and some of the observations will appear two or three times, or sometimes more, which makes up for the ones that didn't show up.


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I want to be able to return the results as an array that can be traversed recursively or with a loop, depending on how the categories are set up and what theme is used.
It would also be nice to set the ul/li handling to work with h# and p instead.
This comes mainly after needing to get random subcategories for a sidebar. (see chsquotebook.com/0607/, may be moved to just chsquotebook.com in the coming week)
I'm willing to write code for this, but don't know where to put it/what the interface should be.
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A method for teaching the principles of evolution in a 50-minute lecture for undergraduate non-biology majors is described. The method "unpacks" evolution into three observable, factual occurrences: replication (R, reproduction), variation (V, differences between parent and offspring and siblings), and selection (S, nonrandom differential survival of offspring). This method has been particularly effective in demonstrating to students that evolution is the factual, unintended consequence of three independent phenomena (R, V, S).
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his ruling party will seek to pass a law in the next session of parliament to legalize casinos as part of a plan to boost tourism before the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
"Integrated resorts are expected to provide a great contribution to tourism, regional economies and industry, I think, and can be one of the key elements of Japan's growth strategy," Abe, 59, said in an interview yesterday at his official residence in Tokyo.
Now 18 months into his term in office, Abe has fired two of what he calls the three arrows of Abenomics -- fiscal stimulus and unprecedented monetary easing -- in a bid to banish deflation from the world's third-largest economy. The early euphoria that saw stocks surge 51 percent as the yen plummeted last year has been tempered by a sales-tax increase in April that is forecast to result in an economic contraction this quarter.
Allowing casinos to operate in Japan within integrated resorts is a key part of Abe's updated growth strategy -- the third arrow -- approved yesterday by the cabinet. The plan includes starting to cut the corporate tax rate in the fiscal year beginning in April. Las Vegas Sands Corp. and MGM Resorts International are among those considering investing billions of dollars in what could become Asia's second-largest casino market after Macau.
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Tokyo's selection to host the Olympic Games has boosted expectations that gambling resorts, under discussion for a decade, will be allowed. Japan's parliament started debate last week on a bill to legalize casinos, paving the way for its passage before the end of the year.
"The likelihood of passing the bill in the next session is extremely high," Eiji Kinouchi, a senior strategist at Daiwa Securities Co., said by phone. Casinos "will have a great impact on tourism and Japan's economy as a whole."
Debate will resume in the next parliamentary session in the autumn on the bill that was submitted last December by a cross-party group of lawmakers that included members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
"I hope in my capacity as leader of the LDP that we can aim to pass it in the next extraordinary session of the Diet," Abe said in the interview.
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The casino initiative is designed to bolster momentum for a tourism industry that's already an increasing source of growth for Japan. Japan is poised for a record number of foreign visitors in 2014, attracted by a weaker yen and the easing of visa rules. Spending by incoming tourists exceeded outlays by Japanese going abroad in April, the first time in 44 years.
While the casino measure may aid the nation's tourist receipts, economists have refrained from boosting growth estimates on the basis of the step. The International Monetary Fund projects less than 1 percent GDP gains each year from 2015 through 2017, with an estimate of 1.125 percent for 2019 -- an expansion less than the pace it recorded in the half-decade before the 2008 global credit meltdown.
Casino-related stocks such as Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., Konami Corp., and Japan Cash Machine Co. stand to benefit from the potential legalization. Sega Sammy and Konami have expressed interest in operating casinos in Japan while Japan Cash Machine Co. manufactures coin-counting terminals used in casinos and arcades.
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Sega Sammy, a maker of gaming machines, jumped 2.6 percent on June 17 when lawmakers said they'd begin discussing the bill. The Tokyo-based company fell 1.3 percent today as of the close in Tokyo trading. The shares have rebounded about 14 percent since falling to its lowest level in nearly 15 months on May 19 amid concern the legislation had stalled.
Konami Corp. rose 0.7 percent, while Japan Cash Machine, which surged 8.4 percent on June 17, fell 0.2 percent. The benchmark Topix index dropped 0.6 percent.
Abe's coalition has a majority in both houses of the Diet, although its junior partner New Komeito is divided on the issue. Economy Minister Akira Amari said last week that allaying concerns about the potential effects of casinos on society would be an important part of the debate.
Abe visited Singapore's gambling venues last month, where he saw that gaming has achieved great success, he said. Japan would have to consider policies to prevent crime and gambling dependency, as Singapore has done, he said.
Lotteries and pachinko, which is similar to pinball, are legal in Japan, as is betting on horse, boat and bicycle races.
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Administration Outlines Plan To Help Wildlife Adapt To Climate Change
On Tuesday, the Obama administration released the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Adaptation Strategy, a document that provides recommendations for the country to address the threats climate change poses to wildlife and natural resources.
The strategy, which was developed by federal, state and tribal leaders and is meant to be implemented over the next five years, highlights the observed impacts that increased atmospheric CO2 and a changing climate have had on the environment, including ocean acidification, changes in phenology, the spread of invasive species and the shifting of the geographic range of native species. It also lists seven non-binding goals that would help wildlife adapt to climate change. Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said the list should serve as an "urgent call to action" for government officials.
Here are the priorities the strategy outlines:
- Conserve habitat to support healthy fish, wildlife, and plant populations and ecosystem functions. Since many endangered and threatened species don't occur naturally in already protected areas, the strategy aims to identify new areas to protect, keeping the effects climate change will have on species' ranges in mind. Recommendations include: mapping and conserving high-priority conservation areas that are most likely to withstand the effects of climate change; developing natural corridors, such as tunnels and natural bridges, to allow species to move safely between key habitats; developing market-based incentives to encourage habitat restoration and conservation.
- Update or develop species, habitat, and land and water management plans, programs and practices to consider climate change. Many agencies don't take climate change into account when managing their natural resources, and the strategy aims to remedy that. Recommendations include: incorporating climate change effects into species and area management plans; protecting native seed sources by collecting and banking seeds.
- Enhance capacity for effective management in a changing climate. Natural resource managers often lack a clear understanding of climate change, and most existing conservation laws and regulations weren't developed to include possible effects of climate change. Recommendations include: identifying gaps in climate change knowledge among natural resource professionals; prioritizing funding for protection programs that incorporate climate change considerations; working with agricultural and business interests to identify impacts of climate change on crop production.
- Support adaptive management through integrated observation and monitoring and use of decision support tools. The strategy aims to increase the knowledge of the impacts of climate change on natural resources and the effectiveness of mitigation actions. Recommendations include: Collaborating with the National Phenology Network to facilitate monitoring of seasonal plant and animal cycles; conducting risk assessments for priority species and habitats.
- Increase knowledge and information on impacts and responses of fish, wildlife, and plants to a changing climate. Recommendations include: bringing managers and scientists together to prioritize research needs; conducting research on establishing the value of ecosystem services and how climate change will impact communities; improving modeling of climate change impacts on vulnerable species.
- Increase awareness and motivate action to safeguard fish, wildlife, and plants in a changing climate. The strategy aims to gain public interest and awareness of the effects climate change has on wildlife. Recommendations include: developing educational materials and teacher training for k-12 classrooms on impacts and responses to climate change; developing outreach efforts aimed at local, state, tribal, and federal government authorities, as well as business and cultural leaders.
- Reduce non-climate stressors to help fish, wildlife, plants, and ecosystems adapt to a changing climate. Recommendations include: working with farmers to develop and implementing livestock management practices to reduce habitat degradation; implementing the 2011 National Bycatch Report recommendations to increase information of bycatch levels; determining and implementing sustainable harvest levels in a changing climate.
Climate change is already altering ecosystems throughout the world: warmer summers, for instance, mean crops like strawberries and tomatoes can now be grown on the Arctic Circle. It's also threatening species' survival, especially migratory species that depend on the cycles of bud burst and insect arrival to feed themselves and their young. A rare possum in Australia could soon be the continent's first climate change-induced extinction, and one study found dozens of species of lizards could be extinct within the next 50 years due to climate change. But the adaptation strategy may present a chance to lessen these extinction risks; as the LA Times notes, efforts to protect wildlife and natural resources from climate change's effects have not yet spurred the political backlash that other proposed actions have.
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I hope this comes out of Fish and Wildlife's general fund. Expect Red State Congressmen to deny that we have a problem, and point to something like more deer and ducks somewhere, or a cold spell in the Northwest. At some point, denier Congressmen will try to delete this funding.
The climate change adaptation office is going to have to be expanded soon. Shifts will occur suddenly, and at landscape scale. It's not easy to mitigate nature, even when distorted by man's activities, but we need to at least know what we're up against.
A glaring missing piece of the solution is slowing and stopping the tax payer funding to the ecocide fossil Barons and others who actively work to retain the status quo of profits to the few from the pollution of the commons in the first place. Injustice ignored = Injustice condoned.
First, the Obama Administration should admit its powerlessness to stop at least some amount of climate change. Some kind of 12-step program might get them through this critical admission.
Once they get it, they'll understand the imperative to freeze the fertilized egg cells of as many endangered species as possible in liquid nitrogen, to be brought back onto planet eaarth in the century after the great deluge is over, preserved, like the buffalo and like the California condor, from extinction forever.
It remains for the administration to admit that if we burn all proven carbon reserves, most of the earth's species are cooked and all of the zoos had better be indoor affairs.
It sounds like a good idea, as long as people don't get the silly idea it will work or make anything better. Because as soon as they do, they'll content themselves with trying to rebuild the Titanic after pulling it up from the bottom and ignore trying to not hit the iceberg. It ain't the same.
It's a pointless exercise, possibly greenwash. As you say, when the Thuggees gain control of Congress in 2014 it will be a program ritually strangled in its infancy. The whole idea of 'adaptation', while in principle worthy and desirable, simply presupposes and, in a way, normalises climate destabilisation. It may even tend to convince the public that climate destabilisation will merely be a nuisance to which we can adapt and adjust.
'I am become the iceberg, sinker of hopes'.
What on Earth is a non-binding goal? Is it a goal or not? ME
A political "nice to have" that in the end doesn't mean a whole heck of alot beyond the political value of the P.R. statement.
Excellent question M.E..
apparently this is real and not a parody…
A guideline with no teeth, gumming the problem will not get any real action. If they kill off wolves and pollute the land and water, does anyone think that states will actually implement these recommendations? A little late in the game to be making nothing but noise.
I find this sort of comment decidedly unhelpful. There IS going to be (more) climate change, increased various other stresses on ecosystems and there IS almost universally a dire need for more areas under conservation management and better scientific knowledge to inform that management with a (scientific) eye on the effects of climate change.
This does not imply that however this initiative pans out, it is sufficient or even anywhere near sufficient but that makes no difference to the need for much more conservation informed by conservation science with a (scientific) eye on the effects on climate change.
Some sort of constant narrative of Apocalypse, with environmentalists shrugging off the responsibility for conservation on the grounds that it doesn't matter so much because of impending doom doesn't really help at all. There may no Apocalypse even at 4C or 5C warming – we just don't know. But we do know with a very high degree of confidence that there is a remorseless grinding down of the quality of the biosphere. More conservation and better informed conservation efforts demand far more attention than they are getting.
You are absolutely right quokka and I know many are out there doing the science and breeding, and protecting endangered species back into vital populations. Anything that reaches the public and sparks a positive reaction is to be applauded but surely, this is not one of the best efforts and I wish there was more attention to those that have achieved success such as the Eastern Bettongs, ME
Well quokka, I stand chastised, but not, I fear, corrected. While I really admire those doing their best to study the wonder and diversity of life before the sixth great extinction finishes its work, I cannot, I regret to say, see it as anything but hopeless. The apocalypse of life on this planet has been plain to see for decades. Nothing has changed. The planet is controlled by creatures of immense wickedness, cruelty and destructiveness. Humanity has proven itself unable to disempower that tiny fraction whose evil is destroying everything. I state this with great sorrow, but absolute conviction. Unless and until the destroyers are removed from power over the planet, once and for all, our fate is sealed. No amount of wishful thinking or appeals to the better natures of the decent and humane fraction of humanity, which I still believe to be a majority, albeit a disempowered and disenfranchised majority, will change our fate at all. And I really think that I ought to say so, in the hope that it helps wake up people to reality, or that someone shows me where I am wrong, with something more convincing that platitudes and hopeful good intentions. If the last seems too harsh, please forgive me, but I am growing daily more agitated at what I am witnessing as we hurtle towards total annihilation.
I'm on an NSF panel that will evaluate and rank proposals including quite on evolutionary adaptations of animals to changing temperatures including the amounts of phenotypic and genetic variability within and between populations. That being said, Many species populations cannot adapt to the speed and extent of temperature change, which is also causing widespread shifts in species' ranges and changing competitive interactions. The other issue is that even though top scientists from around the country apply to NSF (National Science Foundation) only about 10-15% of proposals are funded and that was before the sequester.
The best thing the government can do to help wildlife adapt to climate change is stop the Predator Control program.
This seems to be a decent plan to help protect wildlife in the coming years but there are issues being overlooked. Natural corridors will help species migrate but are not always easy to create. Sometimes the habitats are just too far apart to connect or are overbearingly expensive. The second strategy mentions agencies not taking climate change into account when managing natural resources. I think it should be required by all agencies to set up rules in order to conserve as much as possible and impact the environment as little as possible. There are many species that may not be able to adapt to climate change even if humans try to help them. The last paragraph states that some species of lizards may be extinct in 50 years due to climate change. This is a grim outlook of the future. These strategies are recommendations and guidelines but who will follow them? I believe we need the governments around the world to take a stand and require humans change their ways. Though, I have many doubts that anything like that will happen.


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I thought this was a short paragraph out of an article that I just read that sums up what tomorrow might bring for the medical device sector if the entire law is thrown out.Health reform was largely viewed as a negative for medical device makers such Medtronic (MDT), St. Jude Medical (STJ), Edwards Lifesciences (EW), and Boston Scientific (BSX) as they incurred new government fees aimed at helping pay for covering the uninsured. What's more, there was little benefit from the law for these companies. If the law is vacated by the court, these stocks should rise.Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/politics-and-regulation/articles/health-reform-supreme-court-unitedhealth-wellpoint/6/27/2012/id/42037#ixzz1z0nVBBzL
BSX is no different than any other device maker. They will just raise prices, profits will be the same or more because more people will be insured. BSX is a great co.
Ridiculous! Why would that affect stock prices - give me a good reason.
SamSince Obamacare just got upheld by the Supreme Court. It means BSX just got a tax which Obamacare imposes exclusively on the medical device sector. Companies that produce medical devices have to pay a 2.3 percent tax on gross revenue. Meaning BSX will pay 2.3 percent tax on 7.56 billion (current gross revenue) in the next few years. It will be an annual tax. If that tax was in affect today it would be $173,880. A tax BSX currently does not pay. Since BSX currently does not pay that tax that money is shown as a profit. That tax will come right out of the profit of the corporation. The only good point of this scenario is device usage will increase slightly as all people will now be insured. The amount of increase will most likely not be enough to offset this huge coming tax.


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Zuko would've come during the inspections. I imagine he'd have been stationed at a seedy prison hold somewhere on Whale Tail Island, near the base of the Southern Raiders. They police the Southern Water Tribe and hand out rations from Earth Kingdom colonies nearby.
Aang would've outwitted him during a visit, unveiling that he was the last airbender. I think it might've sent Zuko into overdrive.
Aang's playfulness and bravery inspires the entire village to revolt against the occupation, and it's this that prompts Katara and Sokka to escort the young Avatar on his journey to the North.
I know this is old but I can't help but think how funnier this scene in the show would of been.
"You are the Avatar? But you're just a child!"
"Yeah, well, you're old!"
"You are the Avatar? But you're just a child!"
"Yeah, well, you're old!"
I love these kinds of concepts with the rest of the Gaang older. Great job on capturing the action and movement here! Zuko and Aang fights are always the best
I think Zuko would've been a lot less humane if he'd been living under those circumstances for a decade or so. I'm glad the series took place when it did because it would've been a lot darker if it hadn't
That is lovely Quite epic
What a cool idea!
OMG my life, someone write this before I die!
Awh this brings back memories.... from when Zuzu was an angry butthole and Aang was polarbear-puppy adorable... *sigh* good memories
Yes, this is going to be amazing, I can tell.
great idea
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The Demiguise is a peaceful, herbivorous creature that can make itself invisible. It is found in the Far East, but only wizards and witches trained in their capture can even see them. It resembles an ape with large, black eyes and long, silky hair. Demiguise pelts are highly sought after as the hair can be woven into Invisibility cloaks. [1] Cloaks made from their hair eventually turn opaque, losing their invisibility effects as time passes.
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acrylic 40 x 30 inches
Such a Amazing work of color and feel! Impressed
Nagy kedvencem!
Wonderful work.
beautiful work !
congrats on your DD for this very beautiful piece
Great color and energy.
Very good color palette. Nice work!
perfect capture
That is truly impressive. THe whole composition is stunning, but the water rushing down in the background has such texture, such a perfect dappling of color. And all the colors are so vibrant. It looks like you just took a loaded palette knife to this in areas, and lord, what an effect if not.
Major kudos, and well deserved DD.
Major kudos, and well deserved DD.
Omg! That ISN'T a photo!?
wow! is amazing!
wish i could paint like that!!!
wish i could paint like that!!!
very nice work
That's lovely. The color and sense of motion are wonderful.
Absolutely gorgeous
Congratulations on the well deserved DD!
Abstract in detail but realistic as a whole, very interesting
Nice detail with the rushing waterfalls! Beautiful work all together!
Wonderful colours!
really nice
DUDE I thought this was a photo first!
I'm in love with this painting.
Love the colours
Abosolutely lovely
This is realy good =3
nice work
love the style in which you paint really captures the movenent and feel of the falls...Well done
This is so very beautiful!!! I would love to live in this wonderful environment! Your talent is amazing and I love your style of painting, keep going.....
this fall reminds me of an alpine river in Austria, Salzkammergut, called Traun. It comes in a lot of cascades from the Traunstein mountains.
Excellent texture & movement
Cool how you captured the water flow.
Congrats on the well deserved DD!
Have a nice day!
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Fantastic work!
A beautifully atmospheric composition with a great sense of depth and drama portrayed.
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I used to coach a team several years ago sponsored by GameFX and I have a lot of this face paint left sitting in my garage.
We sold over $400.00 of this face paint in one day at a Fishers tournament. We just couldn't find enough time to sell this stuff as we were too busy doing all the other duties that came with running a team.
I counted and I still have over 300 sticks of this face paint left in several different colors. We used to sell this stuff for $4.00 a stick and I know someone or some team with the time can make some good money from it. If you go to the website http://www.gamefxnation.com/
they are selling it for $9.99 a stick. I would let all of it go for $200.00. It's an opportunity for a team to make some good money. It wouldn't take long to cover the initial $200.00 and start making 100% profit. I can either meet somewhere or possibly ship UPS but you cover the cost.
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|February 7, 2013 10:00 AM EST
|If I was going to use one word to describe this book, it would be 'masterpiece'. This is one of the most well put together books I have ever read. It is in full-color, covers a wide variety of topics, and covers them in depth.
This book goes well beyond simply teaching you how to use the GIMP interface. Every topic covered is covered in great detail, and the authors do a great job of explaining why you use the tool, not only how you use the tool.
There are three parts included in the book. The Part I is a set of tutorials that show you how to use GIMP to accomplish different tasks, Part II is a comprehensive reference to GIMP's features, and Part III contains several cool appendices. I have listed each part and the chapters they contain below to give you a full view of everything the book covers.
Part I. Learning GIMP
1. Getting Started
2. Photograph Retouching
3. Drawing and Illustration
4. Logos and Textures
5. Composite Photography
6. Animation
7. Image Preprocessing
8. Designing a Website
Part II. Reference
9. The GIMP Interface
10. Display
11. Layers
12. Color
13. Selections
14. Masks
15. Drawing Tools
16. Transformation Tools
17. Filters
18. Animation Tools
19. Obtaining and Printing Images
20. Image Formats
21. Scripts and Plug-ins
22. Customizing GIMP
Part III. Appendices
A. Vision and Image Representation
B. Tips and Hints for Selected Exercises
C. Resources
D. Frequently Asked Questions
E. Installing GIMP
F. Batch Processing
Throughout the book the authors do a great job of taking advantage of the color printer. He shows versions of pictures before and after which helps a lot in knowing what to expect with your results as you work with GIMP.
The Vision and Image Representation is really cool. It teaches you how the human eye works. Some of what it covers includes vision, image perception, re-creating imaging for print and for computer screens, colored blindness, and optical illusions. It is a fascinating read.
I take a lot of pictures on vacations and most of them are pretty easy to clean up. The ones that give me the most trouble are from our scuba diving trips. Close ups are usually ok, but taking landscapes and pictures of my wife usually end up looking like I took them with a blue filter on the camera or they are just really washed out. The tip on how to use White Balance really helps clean them up fast.
Another tip that really helped right off the bat was the single-window interface that is available. I was constantly trying to close the application with one of the dialogs which only closes the dialog. Then I would have to dig around to get it back.
The book also has a really nice companion web site that houses the images and projects used in the book.
GIMP is a massive application and it is not that easy to learn by just clicking around. The author's writing styles makes this book an easy read. If you are planning to use GIMP, then this book is a must have. I will definitely have it by my side every time I open GIMP!
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The attitudes of American sociologists toward causal theories of male homosexuality
- Michael J. Engle
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The origin of homosexuality has been the subject of systematic study in many disciplines during the previous century. In the social science literature, two general models concerning the etiology of homosexuality have emerged, the essentialist model and the constructionist model. This article reviews these two models and provides empirical data on their relative support. Support for each model has been gauged by assessing the opinions of sociologists. Data was obtained from a random sample of sociologists teaching in colleges and universities throughout the United States. The major finding is that the majority of sociologists now endorse the essentialist position.
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- Title
- The attitudes of American sociologists toward causal theories of male homosexuality
- Journal
The American Sociologist
Volume 37, Issue 1 , pp 68-76
- Cover Date
- 2006-03
- 10.1007/s12108-006-1015-7
- Print ISSN
- 0003-1232
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- 1936-4784
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- 1. Villanova University, USA
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