text:
1,112,362 members
Food Production
AGR1FCW is rated by StudentVIP members:
rate me!
0 StudentVIP members in AGR1FCW
0 textbooks listed
0 tutors available
43 tutor searches
0 subject ratings
What do you rate AGR1FCW?
Add AGR1FCW to your subjects
You can add AGR1FCW to your StudentVIP account to find textbooks, tutors and more.Join StudentVIP
Reviews and tips for AGR1FCW
0 reviews
Where are classes for AGR1FCW?
Easy, get a great map app for La Trobe, including locations for classes in AGR1FCW.Get Lost On Campus
Notes for AGR1FCW
0 notes available for AGR1FCW
Upload & earn:Sell your notes
Search textbooks for AGR1FCW
Tutors for AGR1FCW
0 tutors available for tutoring AGR1FCWBecome a tutor for AGR1FCW
43 tutor searches for AGR1FCW!
Encourage students to become a tutor. Add a no-obligation tutor request. We'll notify you when a new tutor registers.


text:
Greetings Guest!!Dismiss Notice
In order to combat SPAM on the forums, all users are required to have a minimum of 2 posts before they can submit links in any post or thread.
The Broadsword team is seeking alternative castle designs! Learn more and discuss here!Dismiss Notice
Broadsword is hosting a 20th Anniversary Party for UO this September! Learn more here. Will you be there, Guest?Dismiss Notice
Greetings Guest, Having Login Issues? Check this thread!Dismiss Notice
[Buying] Curse Tamed Greater Dragon with 140+ Stamina, 120 Wrestle, Good Resist, ECT
Discussion in 'UO Rares Collector' started by HP_Zoro_HP, Jun 6, 2013.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
These nesting side tables are smart space savers. Each has plenty of surface area for your mug, book and a lamp. The smaller table can be tucked underneath when you need more floor space.
Expertly crafted in India with steel and high quality mango wood to ensure it's long lasting. The mango wood is stained to bring out the grain in vibrant detail. It'll age beautifully.
Don't worry about coasters. Lomond is designed to age with character, like an old school table etched with history. It'll only look better with a few years of experience.
The Lomond collection also features a dining table and bench set, that'll look great in your open plan kitchen, giving your space a seamless transition from sitting to dining room.
Visit us
Want to see our furniture up close and personal? Our showrooms are open 7 days a week.


text:
Using Peers to Promote Exercise in Older Adults
- Full Text View
- Tabular View
- No Study Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
|Cardiovascular Diseases
|Behavioral: Physical Activity
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Study Start Date:
|February 2003
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2007
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Despite the recognized benefits of regular physical activity, older adults remain among the most inactive segments of the U.S. population. A number of studies have demonstrated the health impact and resultant reduction in chronic disease risk achieved by improving physical activity patterns. Effective telephone-based counseling approaches for promoting and sustaining regular physical activity among older adults have been developed and validated. Such mediated interventions provide a level of individual tailoring and ongoing support to long-term adherence, while allowing for ongoing program delivery that is more flexible, convenient, and potentially lower-cost than face-to face program delivery formats. Telephone-based delivery format also allows for potentially greater reach into segments of the older population that may find it difficult or unappealing to come to community settings on a regular basis.
A 12-month randomized trial in which women and men ages 50 years and above living in the San Francisco Bay area who meet medical and physical activity criteria, following a baseline evaluation, be randomized to one of three study arms: telephone-supervised, home-based physical activity instruction via a trained health educator; telephone-supervised, home-based physical activity instruction via a supervised peer facilitator; or an attention-control arm consisting of health educator-based telephone delivery of non-physical activity oriented health information and support. All subjects will have a follow-up evaluation at 6 and 12 months.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|50 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No Contacts or Locations Provided
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00142675 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01HL072489 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|September 1, 2005
|Last Updated:
|March 4, 2014
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cardiovascular Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 18, 2017


text:
Most market analysis and projections of the market involve some degree of statistical analysis, and quite a few investors are wondering if the market rally has become over-extended - might it be time to get defensive?
Before I get into a statistical analysis of the S&P 500, I want to briefly go over some basic principles I will be discussing in this article.
The following is chart of a Gaussian distribution function, which basically shows the probability distribution of an event occurring in a data sample with a standard deviation of σ.
This means that 34.1% of the data sample will be below the mean and 34.1% will be above the mean for all data within 1 σ of the mean and 47.70% for all data within 2 σ, etc.
This is important to understand, because investors use statistics to determine the probability of a big down move in the markets. Therefore, most down months in the S&P 500 should fall within a 3 σ band, which according to a Gaussian distribution implies a 99.6% probability. This means that any down move larger than a 3 σ should not happen more than 0.2% times (looking at just the probability of a negative month), which is basically once every 42 years.
Through our recent experiences in the market, we know that this is not the case. Down months that are larger than a 3σ happen with a lot higher frequency. This concept has often been termed and discussed under the Black Swan theory.
The following chart shows the distribution of the negative return months in the S&P 500 since 1950, broken out by decades.
Raw Data Source: Yahoo Finance.
1. The 90s were by comparison a very sanguine decade with the lowest number of negative months (31.1%) and the lowest number of down months greater than 2 σ (2.3%).
2. But, the number of months that the S&P 500 has been down 3 σ or greater has far exceeded the expectation from a Gaussian perspective. Expectation is once every 1,000 months, but as can be seen the frequency has been far greater than that.
3. The number of months that the S&P 500 has been down greater than 2 σ is happening with a higher frequency since 2000 than at any time since 1950.
Now let us look at the return side of the market, where we compare the average positive monthly return of the S&P 500 versus the downside deviations of the monthly returns.
Raw Data Source: Yahoo Finance.
1. The average positive monthly return since 2000 has been the lowest off any previous period in our study at 3.00%/month.
2. The downside deviation as compared to the average return since 2000 has been very painful. Since 2000, investors have received:
- 1 -3.73% return month every 4 months
- 1 -7.46% return month every 12 months
- 1 -11.19% return month every 16 months
- 1 -14.92% return month every 4 years.
Such market moves that fall outside the standard statistical projections require pro-active portfolio management.
Effects on Portfolio Management
1. Need for risk management to eliminate greater than a 2 σ negative months in a portfolio.
2. Recognition that 'Buy and Hold' needs to be replaced with 'Buy or Short' as the opportunities on the downside are more prevalent and instruments to capture it readily available through short selling, inverse ETFs, futures and options.
3. Need to look for assets that exhibit better risk/return parameters than the S&P 500, by considering commodities, frontier markets, real estate and alternatives.
And finally, let us see how the historical statistical breakdown of the S&P500 compares to what the market has delivered in the most recent bull run, i.e. since March 2009.
Raw Data Source: Yahoo Finance.
1. The number of down months at 33.3% is running in line with the sanguine 90s.
2. Negative months in the S&P 500 greater than 3 σ have not occurred in the past 4 years, which means that if history were to hold true, the probability of a -15% month occurring over the next 6 years has increased.
Markets are constantly evolving and the 2010-2020 decade might throw a few surprises of its own. The best way to traverse it, in my opinion, is to stick to a systematic approach which is not sullied by human emotions.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


text:
|Home | About | Journals | Submit | Contact Us | Français
Colorectal cancer (CRC) survival depends mostly on stage at the time of diagnosis. However, symptom duration at diagnosis or treatment have also been considered as predictors of stage and survival. This study was designed to: 1) establish the distinct time-symptom duration intervals; 2) identify factors associated with symptom duration until diagnosis and treatment.
This is a cross-sectional study of all incident cases of symptomatic CRC during 2006–2009 (795 incident cases) in 5 Spanish regions. Data were obtained from patients' interviews and reviews of primary care and hospital clinical records. Measurements: CRC symptoms, symptom perception, trust in the general practitioner (GP), primary care and hospital examinations/visits before diagnosis, type of referral and tumor characteristics at diagnosis. Symptom Diagnosis Interval (SDI) was calculated as time from first CRC symptoms to date of diagnosis. Symptom Treatment Interval (STI) was defined as time from first CRC symptoms until start of treatment. Nonparametric tests were used to compare SDI and STI according to different variables.
Symptom to diagnosis interval for CRC was 128 days and symptom treatment interval was 155. No statistically significant differences were observed between colon and rectum cancers. Women experienced longer intervals than men. Symptom presentation such as vomiting or abdominal pain and the presence of obstruction led to shorter diagnostic or treatment intervals. Time elapsed was also shorter in those patients that perceived their first symptom/s as serious, disclosed it to their acquaintances, contacted emergencies services or had trust in their GPs. Primary care and hospital doctor examinations and investigations appeared to be related to time elapsed to diagnosis or treatment.
Results show that gender, symptom perception and help-seeking behaviour are the main patient factors related to interval duration. Health service performance also has a very important role in symptom to diagnosis and treatment interval. If time to diagnosis is to be reduced, interventions and guidelines must be developed to ensure appropriate examination and diagnosis during both primary and hospital care.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most frequent cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in Europe [1]. CRC survival rates across the continent have increased mainly due to improvements in diagnosis and treatment with a mean survival rate of 56.2% at five years according to European cancer registries [2]. Survival depends mostly on stage at the time of diagnosis [3]. However, late diagnosis or treatment have also been considered as predictors of stage and survival, although these results are controversial [4-6].
Factors associated with the time interval between symptom onset and diagnosis or treatment are not sufficiently understood, regardless of whether they are related to the patient, the GP or the hospital setting. Theoretical frameworks used in cancer diagnosis research conceptualized time intervals occurring between phases of decision-making. [7,8]. These early models, recently refined by Walters et al. [9], included four intervals: 'appraisal', 'help-seeking' 'diagnostic' and 'pre-treatment', in an attempt to represent the processes occurring during each. In fact, the CRC diagnosis process is complex and difficulties may arise at any point along the clinical pathway. Firstly, the patient and his/her social context response, when faced with symptom onset, could determine time elapsed before seeking help [10]. In this sense, the severity value given to a symptom, and the attitudes when dealing with a possible cancer, can lead to either early help-seeking or waiting for the symptoms to clear up [11]. Moreover, in most cases, the tumor appears with very common and non-specific symptoms, and general practitioners (GPs) and secondary care specialists are required to differentiate between patients whose symptoms may be due to cancer and others whose symptoms are attributable to benign, transitory illness [12-14].
While there are recent rigorous studies on time duration to cancer diagnosis or treatment, much of the relevant literature is old and presents methodological issues that need to be taken into account such as different ways of measuring symptom duration and accuracy in recording symptom presentation [4,5].
Care continuity problems in CRC diagnosis have been highlighted in several countries, and health authorities advocate reduction in the time interval between suspicion of CRC and diagnosis or treatment. Various initiatives have been set up to identify those patients with symptoms related to CRC that suggest a need for prompt investigation [15,16].
In this study we try to address several issues. Firstly, to identify the delays that may occur at various stages along the clinical pathway in accordance with theoretical models, the factors associated with symptom duration and where there is greatest potential for improvement. Secondly, to overcome some of the problems identified in our reviews with a wider spectrum of patients and provide more accurate definitions of time intervals all over the diagnosis pathway and symptom presentation.
The aims of the study are: 1) to establish the distinct time-intervals to diagnosis and treatment; 2) to identify factors associated with late diagnosis and treatment.
This paper reports findings from a larger study whose methods have been published elsewhere [17]. This is a cross-sectional study carried out in 5 Spanish regions. Briefly, subjects were consecutive incident cases of CRC (IDC9 153 and 154), verified histologically, between September 2006 and September 2008 and registered with a GP. Prevalent or recurrent cases were excluded as well as patients with multiple tumors and those diagnosed in private hospitals. For the present analysis, non-symptomatic patients were also excluded (screening detected cases, incidental findings).
Patients were identified at diagnosis through results of histological findings from endoscopy or surgery and contacted during the inpatient stage or oncology visit by their surgeon or oncologist who invited them to participate.
Data were obtained from patient interviews together with primary care and hospital clinical records review. Each of the patients was interviewed after diagnosis using a structured questionnaire during the inpatient stage, oncology visit or, if this were not possible, at home by a trained nurse or GP. Informed consent for study participation and access to medical records was obtained during the interview. In cases where the patient was deceased or could not be interviewed for other reasons, permission to review patient clinical records was obtained from a close family member. Details about measurements can be found in Additional file 1.
Interview measurements: Each patient was asked how long he/she had been feeling unwell and given a checklist to identify the type of symptom/s noted [18]. Symptoms spontaneously mentioned by the patient were considered the initial symptom/s for that patient and the date was recorded. Additional presenting symptoms were recorded. Other variables were social class [19] and demographic characteristics, perception of symptom seriousness, disclosure of symptoms, help-seeking action, doctor-patient relationship, and familial history of cancer. Primary care measurements were: date of first symptom and other symptoms, date of first contact with GP due to CRC symptoms, examinations and visits before diagnosis and their results, and date and information included in the referral. Hospital record measurements were: tumor data, date of first symptom and other symptoms, intestinal obstruction, date of first contact due to CRC symptoms, date of diagnosis, service attending the patient, examinations and visits before diagnosis and their results, and date and type of treatment.
Symptom Diagnosis Interval (SDI): from onset of first CRC symptoms to date of diagnosis.
Symptom Treatment Interval (STI): from onset of first CRC symptoms until start of treatment.
Patient Interval (PI): from onset of first CRC symptoms to date of first consultation with a physician (GP or hospital specialist).
Health Services Interval (HSI): Interval from 1st contact with a physician to diagnosis.
Treatment interval (TI): Interval from date of diagnosis to date of treatment.
In order to calculate time intervals, it was necessary to establish several definitions:
Date of onset of the first symptom/s was the one referred to by the patient. In the case of no interview, the date of 1st symptom recorded in the primary health care record or in the hospital record was used.
Date of diagnosis, i.e., date of first positive histology report. Date of treatment, i.e., date of surgery, date of preoperative or postoperative radiotherapy or chemotherapy or date of palliative treatment. For those patients who did not receive any treatment, the date of the visit closest to the decision not to treat the patient was recorded.
The graphical analysis of interval times showed skewed distributions confirmed with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Diagnosis or treatment intervals are presented as median and 25–75 percentiles. To assess the relationship between the different types of symptom interval duration and the observed variables, we used the Mann–Whitney U test for dichotomous variables and Kruskal-Wallis test for those variables with more than two categories. In order to avoid symptoms that could not be related to CRC, no more than a 24-month interval between symptom and diagnosis was accepted. Nineteen patients (0.3%) had a SDI of 24 months and twenty-one (0.7%) in the case of STI. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS v.15.0.
This Study was approved by the Primary Health Care Committee of each health district and by the Ethical and Clinical Research Committee of each participating region.
A total of 950 incident colorectal cancer patients were recruited. For the present study, 155 asymptomatic patients were excluded; 94 (9.9%) screen detected and 61 (6.4%) incidental findings. Finally, 795 symptomatic cases were included; 481 (60.5%) were colon cases and 314 (39.5%) rectum. Hospital record information was available for all patients and primary care records for 780 patients (98.1%). In 66 (8.3%) patients the interview was not completed. The interview was completed during inpatient stay in 310 patients (44.7%), prior to surgery in 48 (6.9%), during outpatients visits in 267 (38.5%) and 69 (9.9%) at home.
Various time intervals are shown in Table 1. The median SDI and STI for CRC were 128 and 155 days respectively. Three months following symptom onset, four in ten patients are diagnosed and nearly three treated. No statistically significant differences were observed in SDI between colon and rectum, 125 (59–258) vs. 121 (53–256) respectively (p=0.51), or in STI 150 (80–280.5) vs. 153 (79–283), (p=0.08). Most of the treatment interval stemmed from health services time interval to diagnosis and less from the patient or interval from diagnosis to treatment.
Women present higher diagnostic time intervals than men. No significant differences in symptom duration intervals were found for age, level of education, social class or marital status. Finally, those patients with family history of cancer had longer diagnosis and treatment time intervals (Table 2).
Concerning initial symptoms (Table 3), the presence of abdominal pain, vomiting and intestinal obstruction are associated with shorter time between symptom onset and diagnosis or treatment. There were no differences between SDI and STI with regard to other symptoms or the number of symptoms at presentation. Moreover, we observed a clear gradient in the duration of SDI depending on perceived symptom severity with shorter SDI and STI for those perceived as very serious. Therefore, the duration of intervals is related to patient attitude toward the symptom, that is, the interval duration diminishes when patients disclose the symptom to those close to them; when they do not wait for symptom clear up, or when they visit emergency services (either primary care or hospital). We found an association between trust in the GP and time to diagnosis or treatment.
With regard to GP performance (Table 4), some non-indicated investigations, such as abdominal transit and gastroscopy were prescribed very rarely: in only 6 and 16 patients, respectively. GPs requested 109 colonoscopies, 4 rectoscopies and 3 rectosigmoidoscopies. When general practitioners ask for diagnostic tests of blood, iron, or blood in the stools, the time to diagnosis or treatment increases. No relationship has been detected between these time intervals and lack of abdominal or rectal examination and other image investigations. Shorter SDI and SDT were observed when the general practitioner referral to hospital was urgent or when the GP mentioned suspected diagnosis in the referral. Greater duration to diagnosis was observed in those with an increasing number of visits to the GP for symptoms related to CRC and shorter duration for those frequently attended by their family or nursing practitioner in the previous year.
Regarding secondary care of CRC cases (Table 5), we observed that the first contact is made mainly through the Emergency or Gastroenterology services. Sixty-three per cent of patients were referred by their GP and a quarter contacted hospitals by themselves. Shorter intervals are observed when the patient contacts the emergency service on his or her own initiative. Additionally, patients with abdominal or rectal examination, blood test, XT or CT, are diagnosed or treated earlier; in contrast with patients with MRI.
This study has used a comprehensive approach in assessing the factors that underlie the social and clinical pathway to cancer diagnosis duration in CRC. Findings show, as in the review of Mitchell et al. [11], the complex relationship between symptom presentation and patient behaviour regarding perception and response to the symptoms. Moreover, our results add more information on the effect in time elapsed from symptom to diagnosis or treatment of factors such as gender, attitude towards symptoms, appropriate GP referral and hospital doctor performance.
First of all, after experiencing the first CRC symptoms, half of the patients have to wait at least 4 months until diagnosis. This finding is similar to that described by others [20-24]. Most notable is the fact that one third has to wait more than six months to be diagnosed. In accordance with other findings [20,25], no differences in distinct symptom duration intervals by cancer site were detected, although some studies reported longer time for rectum [26,27].
Women in our study are more likely to experience longer time to diagnosis than men. These results probably are related to gender differences in coping with symptoms and help-seeking behaviour [10,28-30]. Women push men to see a doctor when they have CRC symptoms while the women themselves wait for symptoms to clear up [8] because of fear of having cancer [31]. In fact, waiting for symptom clear-up was associated in our study with not being diagnosed or treated promptly.
There are no conclusive results on socioeconomic status and time elapsed to diagnosis and treatment. Some studies show longer symptom duration in those patients with lower social status [22,28,32,33] while our data, in accordance with others [34,35], could not confirm these differences. Longer lag time is also seen in those patients with history of cancer in family members, friends or colleagues. These factors have not been researched in depth with regard to CRC and delay [11]. While Ratcliffe et al. describe no differences in time intervals in those with or without family history of cancer [36], other authors have suggested that prior experience of the disease through relatives or friends could result in putting medical consultation off [10,37].
Regarding symptom at presentation, we confirmed that abdominal pain [38-40] and vomiting [32,39] lead to shorter interval duration. At the same time, as described by other authors [28,40], our results show that beliefs that the symptom is serious and symptom disclosure to friends and family are strongly associated with shorter lag times. Again, this could be related to gender, as women with CRC symptoms generally say nothing to their families until they have already visited a doctor [10].
Current practice by general practitioners may contribute to lengthen time to diagnosis. For instance, we observed that when the GP requests some tests to diagnose anemia, the diagnosis process is extended [41]. Unfortunately, there is no simple solution to this. When dealing with a symptom such as anemia, with low predictive value, doctors must confirm non-malignancy before filling outpatient services with mild pathologies [13,14]. Similarly, misinterpretation of a symptom may result in a greater number of visits to a doctor before referral to a specialist [32-34,39-43], and this is a variable associated in our study with longer time to diagnosis or treatment.
Furthermore, erroneous orientation can be the result of poor examination and misdiagnosis. Our results show that the GP only carried out physical examination of one in three patients; in fact, prior studies have pointed out insufficient physical examination by the GP, and no improvement has been observed over time [40-42]. Lack of physical examination and poor investigations by outpatient or emergency doctors seem to have more consequences than family doctor performance [32]. This could be partly due to the fact that a misdiagnosis in a primary care visit is less important because continuity of care is highly assured. A misdiagnosis in outpatient care would be more relevant because a further appointment is considerably more difficult to make.
On the other hand, the capacity of the GP to form a suspicion of CRC in the referral has been shown to be a key factor as it predicts less time to diagnosis. This may be because when the GP has a clear suspicion, the referral is made more promptly and the response of hospital doctors to this type of referral is faster [44,45].
In contrast with previous studies limited to the assessment of partial time intervals to diagnosis or treatment (patient or system time intervals), we have been able to show that these factors also affect total time to diagnosis or treatment. Our findings show a similar relationship for time to diagnosis and time to treatment with the various factors studied. This fact demonstrates that the variables considered in this study have great influence on the time to diagnosis and, as a matter of fact, duration between diagnosis and treatment is relatively less relevant (>65% of those diagnosed are treated within a month). The inclusion of a high number of hospitals and primary care centers could imply high heterogeneity in data acquisition, but at the same time represents a complete picture of patterns of care, preventing the selection bias that appears when only a single centre is included.
The major limitation of this study lies in the lack of a consistent methodology to precisely measure the date of symptom presentation. The date of onset of symptoms obtained from the patient interview has been questioned. According to some authors, studies fail to consider existing theories of symptom interpretation. The interpretation of bodily sensations as symptoms is embedded within a social and cultural context and respondents do not define time periods in the same way [46]. Therefore, this date may be quite precise for acute symptoms, such as rectal bleeding, but difficult to establish for more general symptoms such as fatigue [47]. However, other studies have shown good agreement when comparing information expressed by patients and doctors [18,48]. Retrospective review of clinical records presents the same type of problem because it comes from patient information provided to doctors. Furthermore, some of the symptoms described to doctors may go unrecorded, as highlighted by some authors [49,50]. Patient interviews conducted during pre or post first treatment could result in memory biases. The Aarhus statement will facilitate standardized and uniform definition of studies in this area [51]. Finally, a trusting relationship with the GP, recorded after diagnosis, could be spurious as, patient faith in their GP, could be related to lag time to diagnosis or treatment [52,53].
In conclusion, a substantial proportion of CRC patients experience long diagnosis and treatment intervals with potential impact on psychological wellbeing, quality of life or even survival. Time taken to diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer appears to be subject to many previously suspected factors, symptom presentation, patient response to symptom, and general practice and secondary care performance factors.
Research is needed to develop interventions for use by primary and secondary care doctors to reduce diagnostic and treatment time intervals. Gender differences encountered in our population also deserve to be investigated more thoroughly. Further research into first-symptom presentation and concordance between patients and primary and hospital clinical records would give further insights into methodological issues in cancer delay studies.
The results of this work reveal the existence of areas for improvement in health care delivered to patients. Particularly important is to introduce changes to the existing guidelines whereby physical examination and laboratory and image investigations are carried out on all those who present with lower gastrointestinal symptoms independently of age, gender or symptom duration. This would also favour thorough information being included in the referral letter. If time to diagnosis is to be reduced, there must be development of interventions and guidelines to ensure appropriate diagnosis and examination during both primary and hospital care.
CRC: Colorectal cancer;CT: Computerized Tomography;GPs: General Practitioner;HSI: Health Services Interval;MRI: Magnetic Resonance Image;PI: Patient Interval;SDI: Symptom Diagnosis Interval;STI: Symptom treatment interval;TI: Treatment interval;XR: X Ray
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
ME, MR, AR, SPF, LGL, RM and MC, ACA contributed to the study subject and design. Data Acquisition: PGS, SP, SL, AC, AE, FAM, IA, MMR, AH, MAS, AR. Quality control and Algorithms: AL, MAS, SL, SP, JMS, ACA. Data analysis an interpretation ME, AL and MR, SPF, LGL, AE and MC, HM. Statistical analysis was done by ME and AL. Manuscript preparation: ME, MR, SPF, LGL, MAS and MC. All authors contributed to thoroughly review of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:
This study has been financed with grants from the Ministry of Health, Carlos III Institute; PI:052273, PI050787,PI050700, PI052692, PI052141. It also received the support of the Health Promotion and Preventive Activities-Primary Health Care Network, sustained by the Ministry of Health ISCIII-RETCI G03/170 and RD06/0018. The authors would like to thank surgeons, gastroenterologists and general practitioners for their participation in contact with patients, especially to Dr. Julio Lago.
*Collaborators DECCIRE GROUP
Baleares: Magdalena Esteva, María Ramos, Alfonso Leiva, Amador Ruiz, Maria Martín-Rabadán, María Teresa Novella, Elena Cabeza, Joana Ripoll, Hermini Manzano, Isabel Amengual, Aina Forteza, Maria Company, Maria de Lluch Bennassar, Joan Llobera.
Aragón: Maria Antónia Sánchez, Rosa Magallón, Barbara Olivan, Carmen Yus, Sergio Lafita.
Catalunya: Monserrat Casamitjana, Josep Mª Segura, Francesc Macià, Angels Hospital
Galicia: Salvador Pita, Sonia Pertega, Arturo Louro, Joaquín Serrano, Francisco Arnal, Paloma González-Santamaria.
Valencia: Luis González-Lujan, Ana Costa-Alcaraz, Alejandro Espí, Marta M Bosca, Nelly Balza, Rosa A Villagrasa, Juan F Vázquez y Alba González-Timoneda.
PubMed Central Canada is a service of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) working in partnership with the National Research Council's national science library in cooperation with the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine(NCBI/NLM). It includes content provided to the PubMed Central International archive by participating publishers.


text:
I was a true slag back then STILL am hoping you enjoy these love and kisses KATIE.
fuckin great pics! I can't even imagine how much fun I could have with both.. or either of those girls! dead sexy.
Katie you are still the hottest and sexyiest slag on this website! Love you to bits. My cock is always rock hard for you!
you are a truly stunning sexy women i love looking at pics of you.x
your just stunning Katie !!x


text:
- Description
Crown Mark B6515-Q Jacob Queen Storage BedIncludes
1 Queen BedDimensions
Headboard, 63.4" X 4" X 56"H
Footboard, 63.4" X 18.6" X 17.1"H
Rail, 82" X 1.6" X 11.8"H
More from this collection: Jacob
- Additional Information
Additional Information
SKU 15901080 MPN B6515-Q GTIN UPC 784082120749,784082120732,784082120756 Brand Crown Mark Collection Jacob Assemble Length N/A Assemble Width N/A Assemble Height N/A Assembly Required Yes Material Wood Finish N/A Sizes N/A Bed Styles N/A Styles Traditional Shipping Time 1-2 Weeks Free Shipping No
- Reviews
Disclaimer: Pictures displayed may include optional products not included in the price. Computer monitors often display color variations. Color swatches are shown if alternative colors are available. Please call us or email us if you have any questions!


text:
DEBKAfile Special Report June 27, 2017
Signs were gathering in Washington and the Middle East Tuesday, June 26 that the Trump administration was preparing a substantial military operation against the Syrian army and Bashar Assad's allies, such as the foreign pro-Iranian Shiite militias and Hizballah. Some US military sources suggested that an American preemptive strike was on the way.
DEBKAfile Special Report April 7, 2017
The US military launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield late on Thursday, April 6, in the first direct American assault on the government of President Bashar al-Assad since that country's civil war began six years ago.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 6, 2017
The Pentagon announced Tuesday, March 6, that a US armored convoy was deployed around the disputed northern Syrian town of Manbij, As Russian units geared up to enter the town, the Trump administration warned Moscow that if they did move in, they would face American forces.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis February 17, 2017
Overlaying US President Donald Trump's skirmish with reporters Thursday, Feb. 16, was bitter frustration over the domestic obstacles locking him out of his top security and foreign policy goals, chiefly cooperation with Russia for getting Iran thrown out of Syria.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 12, 2016
In another move to grab control of the Syrian arena, the Kremlin marked the start of the US-Russian brokered ceasefire in Syria with a push for the US to dissolve its war room in Amman that is manned also by Jordanian, Saudi, Israeli, Qatari and United Arab Emirates officers.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 9, 2016
The talks between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Reccep Erdogen in St. Petersburg scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 9, are causing trepidation among Israel's policy-makers and military leaders. Turkey appears to have opted to quit ties with the US and NATO and line up with a Russian-Shiite front led by Tehran in preference to an anti-Iran Sunni alliance.
DEBKAfile Special Report May 28, 2016
The US has deployed about 7,500 US soldiers in Iraq and Syria and an additional 1,000 to 1,250 troops in Libya. US planes are taking off from Incirlilk base in South Turkey against Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq. Yet the ISIS peril is not diminished.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis July 27, 2015
Syrian President Bashar Assad, in his first public speech in a year, Sunday, July 26, could afford to admit to loss of territory, after being handed Iran's new rehabilitation plan for his army, debkafile reveals. Divisions and brigades are rebuilt into three armored commando super-divisions, one each for the northern, southern and Damascus fronts. The 4th Division would still defend Damascus. The 14th Division of Special Forces gets fresh officers under Iranian commanders. The US-Tehran nuclear accord effectively brings an Iranian military presence ever closer to the borders of Israel and Jordan
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis May 9, 2015
The battle for Qalamoun has suddenly become a critical regional contest for the Iran-Syrian-Hizballah alliance at large and its three prime movers, Syrian President Bashar Assad, Hizballah leader Hassan Nastrallah, and Iran's Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of the Al Qods Brigades. The Obama administration has launched a new plan to drive a wedge in the Revolutionary Guards leadership by elevating its leader Gen. Jaafari to the regime's "good guy" and denouncing Gen. Soleimani as the "bad guy" - hoping that degrading him causes Iran to pull in its horns in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 17, 2014
The Syrian rebel Yarmouk Shuhada Brigades, backed and trained in Jordan for two years by US officers and supported by the Israeli army, has abruptly dumped them and switched to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, debkafile's exclusive sources reveal. This sudden defection leaves IDF defense formations on the Golan, US and Jordanian deployments in the northern part of the kingdom, and pro-Western rebel conquests in southern Syria in danger of collapse. ISIS gains direct access to a long section of Israel's Golan border with Syria.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 10, 2014
Shortly before President Barack Obama was to unveil his strategy for tackling ISIS in Iraq and Syria Wednesday, Sept. 10, US and Syrian officers held secret talks for coordinating their military efforts in Syria against the common foe, debkafile reveals exclusively. The Syrian officers, on the authority of President Bashar Assad, met on the quiet several times with American officers in the capital of one of the Gulf emirates – probably Muscat in Oman. The Syrian side of the US campaign is judged to be more complicated than the operation in Iraq.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 15, 2014
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Israel Wednesday May 14 for talks with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon from an inspection of the US-Jordanian underground command center located 10 kilometers north of Amman, debkafile reports. It was the first visit by a high-ranking US official to a US military facility directly involved in the Syrian war. His talks in Jordan and Israel will determine whether the US-backed rebel forces engaged in battle for control of the Golan town of Quneitra, open a new southern front against Bashar Assad and threaten Damascus.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 13, 2014
Nine Syrian rebel militias are advancing on the main Syrian Golan town of Quneitra (pop: 20,000) to wrest from the Syrian army its last Golan foothold with access to the Israeli border. The first objective of their Operation "Levant of the Prophet" is to seize the Quneitra-Ein Zivan crossing, before targeting Quneitra the town. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, who visited the Golan Tuesday, May 13, said, "Syrian rebels have pushed Assad's military into a corner." debkafile: Quneitra's fall would free the Golan and S. Syria of the presence of Assad's army and Hizballah.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 7, 2014
Two Syrian rebel militias judged moderate in Washington have in the last few days taken delivery and begun using the first advanced US weapon to be deployed in more than three years of civil war, debkafile reveals. It is the heavy anti-tank, optically-tracked, wire-guided BGM-71 TOW.
DEBKAfile Special Report December 15, 2013
The Obama administration is again doubling back on its Syrian war policy. On Dec. 11, the Saudi-backed Islamic Front rebels inflicted a disastrous defeat on the pro-American Free Syrian Army in northern Syria. debkafile reports that Washington reacted by launching a secret approach to win over the Islamic Front, the most powerful force now battling the Assad regime. Voices in Washington are urging the White House to start talking to Bashar Assad, leading the administration to consider forming a Syrian lineup to save the country from falling to Al Qaeda.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 11, 2013
The suspension of US-UK non-lethal military aid to the Syrian opposition in the north – ostensibly to keep it out of Islamist hands – is only part of the story. The aid will be put in the hands of the pro-American rebel forces deployed to man a new security zone the two powers are carving out in the south, as a barrier against al Qaeda's encroachments on the Jordanian, Israeli, and Lebanese borders, as well as Damascus. Two war rooms in Irbid, Jordan will run the operation under a US general.
DEBKAfile Special Report December 9, 2013
Bashar Assad's army achieved a signal strategic breakthrough Sunday, Dec. 8, by its conquest of Nabuk in the Qalamoun Mountains. The rebel forces have been thrown into disarray, leaving only Jabhat al Nusra and the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda fit to fight Assad. Syrian rebels have therefore found Washington turning a cold shoulder and developing indirect contacts with pro-Assad army elements and, through British diplomats, Hizballah. On the Syrian uprising's 1,000th day, the same US-Russian-Iranian coalition which fixed the Geneva nuclear accord is moving into position for a Syrian solution.
DEBKAfile Special Report May 30, 2013
Senior Israeli intelligence sources insisted to debkafile Thursday May 30 that Syria had still not received any Russian S-300 anti-missile batteries – contrary to Syrian President Bashar Assad's claim that the first batch had arrived. Israel says it will destroy them before they are operational.
DEBKAfile Special Report May 10, 2013
The Obama administration's slowcoach policy on Syria has given Iran and Hizballah unfettered access to intervene in the Syrian civil war, magnifying its lethality and prospects of its spilling over into Israel, Turkey and Jordan, says debkafile. It will further deteriorate when Washington's expectations of an international conference are not recprocated by Moscow.
DEBKAfile Special Report May 7, 2013
Israel's Binyamin Netanyahu, while in Shanghai, faced a sharp dressing-down from President Vladimir Putin Monday, May 6 and a warning that further Israeli attacks on Damascus would not be tolerated. Putin said highly advanced Russian weapons, including S-300 air defense systems, would be supplied at speed to Syria.


text:
- Thrusher
- Thrusher Thrush"er, n. The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
thrasher — thrasher1 noun 1》 a person or thing that thrashes. 2》 archaic spelling of thresher. thrasher2 noun a thrush like American songbird of the mockingbird family, with a long tail and a downcurved bill. [Toxostoma and other genera.] Origin C19: perh.… … English new terms dictionary
thrasher — 1. n. 1 a person or thing that thrashes. 2 = THRESHER. 2. n. any of various long tailed N. American thrushlike birds of the family Mimidae. Etymology: perh. f. E dial. thrusher = THRUSH(1) … Useful english dictionary
thrash|er — thrash|er1 «THRASH uhr», noun. 1. a person or thing that thrashes. 2. = thresher (def. 3). (Cf. ↑thresher) ╂[< thrash + er1] thrash|er2 «THRASH uhr», noun. any one of several long tailed North American birds related to the mockingbird, such as … Useful english dictionary


text:
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- One day after Bobby Petrino pulled out of consideration for the LSU football coaching job, Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich said Sunday he would honor his coach's new contract.
But Jurich expressed disappointment with the timing of Petrino's
contacts with LSU, which fueled intense speculation about the
coach's future as Louisville prepared for its Liberty Bowl game
against Boise State. The Cardinals (No. 8 ESPN/USA Today, No. 7 AP) defeated 10th-ranked Boise
State 44-40 on Friday, giving the Cardinals a best-ever 11-1 record.
"As of now, I will honor his contract. It will be up to him
whether he wants to honor it," Jurich told reporters before
Louisville's basketball game against Tennessee State.
Petrino, who finished his second year at Louisville, did not
attend the news conference at Freedom Hall.
Petrino met with LSU officials just days after the coach signed
a new deal with Louisville that gave him a raise from $550,000 to
$1 million a season, plus incentive clauses.
Jurich said he still considers Petrino the "right person for
the job, but I think he's going to have to make that decision."
Jurich said he would meet with Petrino soon to discuss what
transpired in recent days.
Jurich said he doesn't want Petrino to stay only because he
didn't land what he perceives as a better job.
"I want him to coach here because he thinks this is the
greatest football job in the country," Jurich said.
Jurich said he expected other high-profile schools to approach
Petrino, and that has happened several times in the past two years.
"He is going to get other people coming after him. That's the
nature of our business," Jurich said. "So we will all be prepared for that."
Jurich said he already had a "short list" of candidates for the head coaching job if Petrino leaves.


text:
Well im currently 17 and i have never had a boyfriend , or even a guyfriend for that matter. Most of my friends have at least 2-3 guys interested in them or are in relationships. All of them have truckloads of guyfriends. Personality wise Im not an overly shy person, seeing as i have a lot of girl friends, but i do tend to become a bit awkward around guys, but nothin too serious. Looks wise im a bit chubby but i plan on losing weight. I have braces on but ill take them off in August. Im just sick of being the one who just listens and gives advise when my friends tell me about their oh so interesting lives then has nothing to say when they ask me whats new in my life. I sometimes feel like they look down on me for not being like them. So what can i do to make myself more popular with guys on senior year?
Most Helpful Guy
Don't worry about it. I avoid dating like the plague, but it doesn't stop me from having female friends. In some ways I think it makes them more comfortable. (That is besides the point though.)
Sure, it's important that you learn to interact with the opposite gender, etc. However, please don't misconstrue that with getting a boyfriend. Learning how to talk to guys that don't have some kind of romantic connection to you is just as important as learning how to interact in a relationship.
On that same note, many guys and gals aren't quite ready for a mature relationship anyway at our age. I see it all the time, destructive on both sides, neither willing to give up a bit for the other. Sometimes its just one giving and the other taking. And it is rare to see a couple that is truly cohesive. -Interestingly enough though, many of those couples take the time to be friends as well as SO's. It isn't all love-talk and flirting. They are as happy to hang out with other friends as privately, etc.
TL;DR Don't worry about it. Just try to be more social and approach guys more for casual conversation.00|00|0


text:
Calcutta: The East-Zone table tennis championships will not take place in Bengal this season. According to BTTA sources, the All India Table Tennis Federation has awarded the tournament to Jharkhand.
It is almost after seven years that the tournament will not be played in the state. Last year, it took place in Durgapur.
However, the exact venue for this years meet has not yet been finalised.
On the other hand, this years senior nationals will take place at Jammu. BTTA was also a contender but lost out.


text:
Jody Smith joins with other ME voices in honor of Understanding and Remembrance Day for Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
Discuss the article on the Forums.
Article: Mikovits Era at WPI Ends - The WPI Makes the Right Move In Letting Chief Researcher Go: An
Discussion in 'Phoenix Rising Articles' started by Phoenix Rising Team, Oct 5, 2011.
Page 1 of 5
Page 1 of 5


text:
Oh, if I only had a brain.
That jovial refrain, as we all remember, comes from the Scarecrow in the film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's wonderful children's yarn, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," as the strawed-one, Dorothy, Toto and their gang of needy cohorts battled flying monkeys and other evil ilk as they rambled down the Yellow Brick Road in search of the Emerald City and, ultimately, the Great Wizard himself.
Of course, when it comes to the cable industry, which is traveling its own road of evolution armed with the lucrative promises of two-way, broadband networks and a multitude of interactive services like video-on-demand, high-speed data and time-shifting personal video recorder (PVR) capabilities, the question today isn't whether those networks require a smart noggin—it's where to put the darn thing.
Debate on that very subject is growing, some with more extreme attitudes about the issue than others. For instance, companies like WorldGate and ICTV support the notion that a healthy portion of that intelligence should sit inside the headend coupled by a thin client in the home, while others believe most of the processing power should be contained within a thicker set-top box equipped with a heady, ultra-fast The broadband network intelligence debate continues to brew Oh, if I only had a brain.
That jovial refrain, as we all remember, comes from the Scarecrow in the film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's wonderful children's yarn, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," as the strawed-one, Dorothy, Toto and their gang of needy cohorts battled flying monkeys and other evil ilk as they rambled down the Yellow Brick Road in search of the Emerald City and, ultimately, the Great Wizard himself.
Of course, when it comes to the cable industry, which is traveling its own road of evolution armed with the lucrative promises of two-way, broadband networks and a multitude of interactive services like video-on-demand, high-speed data and time-shifting personal video recorder (PVR) capabilities, the question today isn't whether those networks require a smart noggin—it's where to put the darn thing.
Debate on that very subject is growing, some with more extreme attitudes about the issue than others. For instance, companies like WorldGate and ICTV support the notion that a healthy portion of that intelligence should sit inside the headend coupled by a thin client in the home, while others believe most of the processing power should be contained within a thicker set-top box equipped with a heady, ultra-fast processor. Still others call for a generous mix of both, or the use of a brainy residential gateway that's mounted to the side of a house.
As the thick- or thin-client deliberations continue, there's also plenty of discussion on the issue from chip-set suppliers, as well. One company that is making some noise is Equator Technologies, which, in another shot across the bow of Broadcom and its market-leading hardwired chip-set approach, recently introduced the MAP-CA, a third-generation, software-based processor. And, don't look now, but even Big Blue itself, IBM, claims to have built its own "It'll-do-everything-but-mow-the-yard" set-top processor.Client intelligence: Is thin in?
One of the livelier debates regarding network intelligence is occurring in the client-server versus in-box solution side of the business. The apparent leader of that debate continues to be WorldGate Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Hal Krisbergh, the very vocal advocate of a headend-centric, "ultra-thin" client architecture for Internet-over-TV services.
"Thin client is our story," he says. "That's been our story consistently. We've had some people try to copy us like Peach (Networks Ltd.), Source (Media) and ICTV, but we are alone, way out in front, and making it happen."
Indeed, Krisbergh, who had to weather his share of heat on the issue in the early going, is beginning to make some serious hay in terms of deployments both in the United States and abroad. In fact, WorldGate currently has 40 deployment deals under its belt, and ended 1999 with 15,000 subscribers, up a lofty 32 percent versus the previous quarter.
In addition to making his presence felt at industry gatherings and inside boardrooms, Krisbergh is also stating his case on the national stage. Pushing his own "Digital Divide" remedy, Krisbergh grabbed the attention of ABC, NBC and other large media outlets in March when WorldGate partnered with Charter Communications to offer free Internet access via television to folks in LaGrange, Ga. by marrying Motorola's line of DCT-2000 set-tops with WorldGate's EVERY TV Service. Following the announcement, demand for the free service in LaGrange sent "the phones ringing off their hooks," he says.
Putting the Internet in every home is Krisbergh's latest initiative, claiming such a move would raise enough incremental revenue for it to be worth cable's while. To spur such missionary work, Krisbergh plans to harness SURFview, a $99 Internet-TV set-top introduced last year with General Instrument (now part of Motorola's Broadband Communications Sector).
"Internet on the TV related to TV programming," he argues, "can generate somewhere between $10 to $12 in incremental revenue for the cable operator. If people really accept that number, and the cable operator has the ability to put a low-cost box like SURFview in the home that only costs $1 a month for the cable operator to amortize, you would put a box in every home. Putting a box in every home is by far the single biggest opportunity that the industry has . . . period," he says.
While the idea of putting a box in every home remains unsettled among most MSOs, the same is true for cable operators when it comes to employing the majority of a network's intelligence via the headend-server or in-box model, he says. "The headend-server approach has been a cable approach all along," he says. "S-A (Scientific-Atlanta) and GI have been doing that for years. The boxes they've used are very capable, but the intelligence was leveraged on the cable infrastructure. That way, you could use a headend where the cost of memory and CPU is very cheap to serve a lot of boxes, rather than trying to put a box in every home with a lot of CPU and memory in it."
Such a concept, Krisbergh says, is classic networking. "Cable uses it, telephone uses it—it's what makes sense," he deducts. "The PC didn't use it because they were too focused on computing on a desk. Once the desktop computer was there, it was logical for them to leverage that resource to do communication."
One player that is trying to come up WorldGate's thin-client tailpipe is ICTV, which hit the reset button last November and launched a new, headend-based, digital platform based on MPEG-2 to link cable customers to broadband content via all current and planned set-tops without the need for plug-ins or middleware.
Admittedly late to the game when the platform was introduced, the fruits of ICTV's labors are finally starting to bloom. St. Joseph Cablevision in Missouri recently agreed to deploy ICTV to its 10,000-home system, and two former Bresnan systems (now owned by Charter) that pass a combined 60,000 homes in Bay City and Midland, Mich. rolled out ICTV in March. What's more, the company, which has been targeting top 10 MSOs in the U.S., expects to announce more platform deployments during (ta-dah!) this month's National Cable Show in The Big Easy. By managing the service at the headend, ICTV believes it can help cable operators address daunting lifecycle issues for digital, interactive services.
"If ICTV and an advanced digital set-top come out of the gate at parity and both deploy Pentium III 600s," says Michael Collette, ICTV's senior vice president of marketing, "two or three years from now, that thing will be a dog, and we're both going to have to upgrade. The difference is that we'll upgrade at the headend and just pop it in."
That difference also can ease a cable operator's bottom line, he adds, because the cost to swap out a box is in the range of $300, plus a truck roll. "Even if that upgrade costs $1,000, if we amortize it over 100 customers, it's $10 per customer rather than $300," argues Collette.
While intelligent headend solutions like ICTV's could save on cable operator upgrade costs, the ability to scale such a service continues to be a key question. ICTV has that covered, too, says Collette, because ICTV only needs to provision for peak usage. That way, equipment doesn't languish on the racks, unused, he adds.
"If someone churns, we just turn them off," he says, using a model of 10,000 customers. "We don't lose equipment of any kind. With 10 percent of those homes using the service, we have to service 600 simultaneous sessions, which would suggest that we need 600 processors. But some of those are only light duty things like e-mail and browsing, allowing us to multitask the sessions. With light duty, we think we can get about 20 simultaneous sessions on a single digital control module, which is basically the processor."
While WorldGate and ICTV continue to make inroads with their respective solutions, a smattering of recent moves by Microsoft Corp. and Liberate Technologies suggest that the thin client argument holds more water than originally believed.
Microsoft struck a $75 million deal in March to take over Israel-based Peach Networks Ltd., giving the software giant a way to expand its higher-end Microsoft TV platform with one that can be deployed to the millions of digital set-tops that sit in homes today.
Meanwhile, in January, Source Media and Insight Communications sold their jointly owned VirtualModem technology to Liberate in exchange for equity positions in Liberate. The deal, the companies said at the time of the announcement, would extend the Liberate software platform to a broader range of set-top boxes, including DCT-1200s and DCT-2000s.
"There are all sorts of networks out there. Everyone's different," says Dave Limp, senior vice president of corporate development at Liberate.
Limp adds that the current status of deployed broadband networks will continue to define the thick or thin question of the future, and that ultimately every company will need to have products that can meet a mix of scenarios. "It's important that we have solutions available that can be handled by any infrastructure."
Krisbergh, however, maintains that thin client is much more than an interim solution, and such a view is a major source of frustration with him. "It's very clear that the thin client architecture is prevailing," says Krisbergh. "However, no one has abandoned the thick client solution totally yet. Thin is prevailing, but it's not yet settled."Mixing it up: The applications factor
While WorldGate and ICTV represent the extreme on the side of thin-client solutions, others believe generous amounts of a network's intelligence should inhabit both sides of the network, depending on the application in question.
"(WorldGate's solution) works for a lot of customers, primarily those today who don't have a PC in the home," says Tom Jokerst, senior vice president of advanced technology at Charter, a WorldGate customer.
"I think in the short-term we can take advantage of the network capacity and utilize it to its fullest extent," he says. "Long-term, we're going to want set-top boxes that have storage so that we can continue to accommodate more features and functionality to the end users."
When TiVo-like services become big business, he adds, cable operators will need to re-scale their networks or put that functionality on the client side.
Bill Wall, S-A's technical director of subscriber networks, agrees that determining where the brains of a broadband network should sit is highly application dependent.
"We certainly believe you need a relatively powerful home client device," he says. "When it comes to scaling of general applications like Web browsing and navigation functions, it makes sense to have that intelligence distributed out to the home," he says. "If you try to do everyone's Web browsing at the server side, then I think you start to run into bottlenecks."
While Wall believes a thicker client would better aid applications like Web browsing, others like video-on-demand, for instance, work extremely well in a thin-client environment, he says
"The amount of processing needed in the set-top is very minimal for that sort of event. It makes a lot of sense to do it that way," he says. "However, for a customer to get the full spectrum of applications, he's going to require a fairly intelligent set-top in any event."
One of those applications is the popular MP3 music format, he says. "You could make the argument that you could decode MP3 in the headend, and send that as an uncompressed, digital audio stream down to the set-top, but that's going to eat up an enormous amount of bandwidth," explains Wall.
AT&T Broadband, which has yet to deploy wares from WorldGate or ICTV, also agrees that a blend of network intelligence is in order as new applications and services evolve. "There's always going to be a big need for us to support thin-client just with the number of DCT-2000s that we'll continue to support in the field," says Jim Wood, vice president of advanced technology at AT&T Broadband. "As we get a mix of boxes out there, we'll have some flexibility to either rewrite our services such as video-on-demand or e-mail to ride on a variety of different platforms. The vendors are going to employ a lot of innovation, but we want to provide services that will be able to take advantage of whatever hardware happens to be out there."
While the intelligence debate broils among premise and headend equipment, still many others see a future involving extremely smart residential gateways as home networking enters the fold.
"With home networking, we believe IDDs (Interactive Display Devices) will be used initially for controlling home automation, electronic programming guides and other things," says Andy Trott, Pace Micro Technologies' chief technical officer. "It's possible for it to be very intelligent and for it to have a high-power CPU in there at a very reasonable cost. It's just a content decoder for video. In a very limited form, I think we'll see something like that by the end of this year, but not something that will be carrying video."Smart (and very smart) processors
As the network intelligence debate rages among service providers and box vendors, the chip-set manufacturers have their own intelligence battle brewing. The topic at hand tends to be whether primarily hardwired or fully-programmable chips provide the best processing solution for both existing and budding applications and services like PVRs, high-definition television and video conferencing.
Taking the software-based extreme is Equator Technologies and Hitachi Ltd., which recently introduced the MAP-CA, a third-generation media accelerated processor for consumer appliances that approaches upgrades via software downloads rather than hardware replacements.
"This chip is going to drive a stake in the heart of the hardwired devices and just obsolete them all at once," exclaimed John Setel O'Donnell, Equator's co-founder and president, when the MAP-CA was unveiled.
Such a declaration of hardwired obsolescence roughly parallels Hayes' downfall in the narrowband modem space during the early 1990s, O'Donnell says. "They were doing a great job of managing slow improvements in modem operating speed, but in 1991 Rockwell and US Robotics began shipping software-based modems where the modulation and demodulation functions were done on a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) in software." Spurred by such innovation, O'Donnell adds, the new kids on the block completely displaced the hardwired incumbents within a few short years.
"(In the set-top and television arenas), we're moving away from a platform where most of the silicon budget is spent on ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), to one where the silicon buys you a microprocessor and all of the TV functions delivered by software."
Perhaps second only to cold fusion, the software-based processor approach is "the Holy Grail, the dream of dreams, the future of futures, and the dream of mankind since the dawn of time," counters Tim Lindenfelser, vice president and general manager of Broadcom's Communications Business Unit.
"We looked at Equator two or three years ago," he says. "We asked them to show us what the MIPs (millions of instructions per second) would be, what the die size would be, and what the power would be. From there, we said we'd compare that to our hardware solution and see whether it reaches the cost trade off. It never did."
Programmable processors, adds Lindenfelser, have to be so speedy that by the time they are finally fast enough to do a hardware-based function, the hardware vendors have already moved on to the next function or next generation. "For instance, take MPEG-2," he adds. "That's a fixed function, so there's no longer a reason to make it programmable because it's a standard. You can now do MPEG-2 in software on a 600 MHz Pentium on a PC today, but that's a ridiculous number. Today, an MPEG-2 core is a small, little hardware design."
Lindenfelser admits, though, that the programmable processor concept resonates well with manufacturers and service providers. However, he points to Silicon Valley start-up MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc. as a prime example of why the software-programmable notion has a daunting set of challenges in front of it.
Formed in the early 1990s and backed by TCI (now AT&T Broadband), Time Warner, Cox, Comcast and a number of equipment vendors, MicroUnity's early activities centered on the work being done at MCNS (Multimedia Cable Network Systems), which helped to pave the way for the interoperable DOCSIS specifications that followed.
"TCI, Time Warner and a number of other cable operators and equipment makers invested $200 million in MicroUnity with the same dream of creating the super-dooper-wooper, software-does-everything processor, and it was just an unbelievable failure," says Lindenfelser.
MicroUnity's problems, he explains, came about because programmable chips require enormous amounts of gates and circuitry. "When you make it hardwired," he says, "you can intuitively believe that it would be smaller and have less circuits. If you make it with software, you've got to have a lot of redundancies to make it programmable."
Though MicroUnity's early efforts might have been a little before their time, counters MicroUnity Chairman John Moussouris, the work his company completed in the 1990s has helped to usher in the dawn of economically- and technologically-viable software-based chipsets.
"When we began working on this problem in 1993, it was of great interest to the service providers, the MSOs and others," he explains. Moussouris adds that it was also true at the time that many more transistors were required to solve the problem using the techniques of the day. "Back then, the manufacturing base wasn't ready. We did a lot of research to try to get a jump on Moore's Law."
That lithography (the method of printing smaller and smaller chips) research started paying dividends when Micro-Unity licensed its technology to PC chip vendor AMD and TSMC (Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.), one of the largest independent manufacturers of silicon in the world. What's more, MicroUnity is still working with a number of broadband equipment vendors, though the names of those companies remain confidential. Nevertheless, those business transactions have helped Sunnyvale, Calif.-based MicroUnity sweep away all of its debt, says Moussouris.
"People argue that (programmable) chips will be bigger and will need higher power," he adds. "That may be true at one stage in history, but the gap narrows. I've been in this industry 25 to 30 years, and it has always been the case that functions that are initially supplied by digital hardwired get supplanted at some point in time by digital programmable."
After surviving the usual strife associated with trying something new and untested in the early 1990s, Moussouris remains a true believer in the potential of programmable processors, and the positive economic impact they could make on a service provider's bottom line.
"Upgrading the ASICS is an engine in (Broadcom's) business model, and they're doing very well at it," he continues. "Upgrading of ASICS is a wonderful cash cow for them. They will probably try to preserve that for as long as they can."
While Broadcom takes on a hardware approach with its processors, the company doesn't advocate an extreme on either end of the hardware/software spectrum.
One example is the Propane software Broadcom acquired this year from Digital Furnace, which calls for software elements to rest in the premise and at the headend. There is also a level of programmability required for PixelSquirt, a 3D graphics engine that will be added to Broadcom's chipsets. Broadcom struck a deal earlier this year to acquire PixelSquirt's developer, Stellar Technologies.
"Our approach is more one of moderation rather than extreme," says Lindenfelser. "We'll hardware what's standardized, but make other parts programmable for things that aren't completely standardized."
Meanwhile, Equator has taken its approach to task, and has signed on several backers of its SofTV initiative, including Le Groupe Videotron, which has built a residential gateway in Quebec, Canada; RealNetworks, Ward Laboratories, Wind River Systems and Zydacron Inc. Additionally, the company has seen the price of its processors dip from the hearty sum of $200 to $500 per unit for its first-generation processors, to a mere $40 apiece in quantities of 100,000.Programmable players are growing
Of course, Equator isn't the only one waving its arms about programmable processors.
IBM just introduced a family of chips for set-top boxes designed to drive new capabilities for EPGs, Web browsing and interactive applications such as home banking, e-commerce and information retrieval. IBM's PowerPC 405 "system-on-a-chip" will become available this month, and a lower-end PowerPC 401 is slated to come off the lot in the second half of 2000.
In addition, ishoni Networks introduced its $30 to $60 "gateway-on-a-chip," which uses a software suite that combines voice, networking and security processors. OEMs that use ishoni's chips will have the ability to integrate their own intellectual property, the company says. ishoni started shipping samples this month, but declined to disclose its customers/partners.Time, as usual, will tell
The best technology doesn't always win in the marketplace—VHS clobbered Beta, Windows continues to beat Mac OS, and so on and so forth. Today, the network intelligence debate is still far from being decided—the industry still doesn't know what will work the best on a uniform basis.
Like most consumer electronics, the technology behind it doesn't always drive product sales and make it reach critical mass all on its own. In addition to good ol' know-how, the factors that will determine the winner (in any industry) will also include a steady mix of word-of-mouth, PR, sales and marketing, and maybe even a little arm wrangling.
The real race is on in the intelligence debate. Who wins is still anybody's guess. But it will be fun, nonetheless, to watch the players and see which ones make it to the end of the Yellow Brick Road first.
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Did he take Maddie's secret to his grave? Police reopen investigation into paedophile who was living in Algarve when she vanished
- Raymond Hewlett boasted of knowing gypsy families who 'wanted to buy children'
- 64-year-old, who died of throat cancer in 2010, refused to answer investigator's questions
- Pervert denied being involved with Maddie's disappearance but said 'gypsies had stolen her'
Police are making fresh investigations into whether dead paedophile Raymond Hewlett had anything to with the disappearance of missing Madeleine McCann.
The 64-year-old pervert was living just an hour's drive from where the youngster disappeared in the Algarve in May 2007 while she was on holiday with her parents.
Scotland Yard detectives now allegedly want to speak to a couple who the child molester befriended while they were on holiday and who allegedly told them gypsies had approached him asking to buy his children.
Raymond Hewlett says he spoke to gypsies who were interested in buying children
Alan and Cindy Thompson, from Nottingham, only discovered after their Portugal holiday the history of the former soldier when they returned home, and raised the alarm when they realised he had been living in a caravan close to where the three-year-old vanished, the Daily Mirror reported.
The pervert, who died of throat cancer in 2010, told the couple that he refused to sell one of his six children to 'gypsy tourists'.
He also boasted to them of making a 'good business trip' with his family to Morocco to make a sale, but would not elaborate on the nature of his trip.
Numerous people contacted authorities to say they had spotted a girl matching Maddie's description in North Africa after she disappeared.
Madeleine McCann vanished in the Algarve days before her fourth birthday
But Hewlett, who was living with his wife and six children on a campsite when Madeleine disappeared, refused to answer the Thompson's questions when they contacted him in 2009.
When he was confronted by private detectives Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley, working on behalf of Maddie's devastated parents Kate and Gerry McCann, he refused to answer their questions on provide an alibi, it was reported.
Madeleine vanished days before her fourth birthday from an apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz while her parents, Kate and Gerry, had dinner with friends in a nearby tapas restaurant.
Raymond Hewlett denied knowing about the youngster's disappearance
Hewlett's worrying revelation came after another person said that he had spoken to them about the pervert's claims that gypsies had approached him about buying children.
Former Scots Guard Peter Verran, 46, who met Hewlett on a Morrocan campsite between June and November 2007, said the criminal had told him that gypsies had paid for children and sold them on to paedophiles.
In 2012 Hewlett 'confessed' to knowing what happened to the little girl on his deathbed, it was claimed.
Raymond Hewlett wrote to his estranged son denying he played a part in the three-year-old's abduction, but claimed he knew she had been 'stolen to order' by a gypsy gang.
Hewlett had previously claimed to have seen the missing toddler twice before she vanished in 2007.
But he vowed only to reveal where he was the night she went missing if he was paid thousands of pounds.
Kate and Gerry McCann's private detectives refused the request.
In May the £2million police review of the Madeleine McCann case said it would examine calls from psychics which were previously ignored.
Detectives said they would study around 100 logs of calls that were discounted because the callers said they were psychics or had dreamt about the high-profile investigation.
Policia Judiciaria refused to confirm whether they had ever questioned the paedophile, the newspaper reported.
Kate and Gerry McCann have tirelessly looked for their missing daughter, who was taken as they had dinner
A spokesman for Scotland Yard told the Daily Mirror: 'We are not prepared to discuss any particular lines of enquiry.'.
Hewlett was jailed several times in the UK for sexually assaulting young girls, including an attack in 1978 where he put a gun to his victim's back.
In June 2009, before his death, West Yorkshire Police confirmed its officers were investigating Hewlett in connection with an indecent assault in 1975.
Most watched News videos
- Daredevil appears to be dangling from cliff 1100ft above sea level
- Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis invite crowd to hotel room - archive
- Police intervene at stand off between public and travellers
- Child Genius' father is overexcited as he grabs son's trophy
- Norfolk seaside town on lockdown after disorder forces shops to shut
- USS John S. McCain heads to Singapore after collision
- Family of Julian Cadman fly to Barcelona amid search
- Fawn falls prey to eagle at Wisconsin's Lake Noquebay
- 40,000 counter-protests dwarfed right-wing free speech rally
- Body cam of Muskogee officer shooting knife-wielding man
- Rhino rivals battle it out during mating ritual to win the female
- Matt Dawson talks about his battle with Lyme disease on GMB
- She's glowing, he's graying! Fresh-faced Amal Clooney,...
- Husband heard a 'loud blow' as his wife's body was 'cut...
- A fling with Marilyn Monroe, two marriages, seven kids...
- Troubled Sinead O'Connor sends sexually explicit message...
- Pushy father who couldn't wait to grab Child Genius...
- Jerry Lewis dead at 91: Tributes pour in for comedy...
- 'The most dishonest Fake News I have ever seen': Trump...
- REVEALED: NASA's ingenious hack that allows you to make...
- Relationship on the rocks? Daredevil appears to dangle...
- Horrifying picture shows young men slumped up against a...
- 'Off, off, off!': Villagers order travellers off their...
- New catastrophe for US Navy as ten sailors go missing...
- Charles hit by Diana backlash: Anniversary of her death...
- Seaside town put on lockdown as large gang of...
- Summer returns to Britain TODAY as Hurricane Gert brings...
- Hysterical Brazilian woman 'punches herself and leaves...
- Father-of-three who got drunk and dug a 4ft deep hole in...
- Woman is killed after a man suffering psychiatric...
The comments below have been moderated in advance.
The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
We are no longer accepting comments on this article.


text:
marissa ivana Model
Jeni LeilaniModel Female Westminster, Colorado, US
Mayhem # 2270320
About MeWhen I was younger, I had a lot of training through modeling schools. I worked on runway, acting as well as print. I only did one one job, though. I think I would be very good with promotional advertisements and such, but I am up for just about anything! I am very versatile! I love to try new things, and I love outdoor shoots and shoots with props I could possibly use ( couch, chair, etc.) This is now my job, so paid shoots are very highly desired, but I can do TF as well if you can blow my mind away with what you add to my portfolio! I am super easy to work with, and I am in love with modeling!
I love doing fashion and edgy things, I really want to expand my portfolio right now, and I am willing to do implied nudes, but not anything SUPER bold. Just a bare shoulder and back here and there. I am not interested in lingerie shots unless it is creative and has a fashion/ glamour feel and look to it. I am not impressed by a picture of me standing there in underwear :]
I am not willing to travel unless it is paid, I unfortunately don't have the time or money to do that unless I can make some money!
Please note: I am NEVER late, never. If I am more than 10 min late, that means I am lost, please have a phone near you so that we can contact each other, there is nothing more frustrating than not being able to do the shoot because I can't find you! Also, if you cancel on me, please make sure you tell me more than a day in advance. Please also keep in mind, I have 3 jobs, and am a full time student. I definately still have time, but please know that my time is very valuable and not easily re scheduled. Please extend the same courtesy to me as I do to you. When booking shoots, I can't schedule myself every day of the week, and will most likely not be able to schedule a shoot during the same week that we first talk about a shoot. When I say I do not do nudes, I mean I dont do nudes. Please don't even ask me :]
Thanks so much for looking at my page, and any photo comments would be so greatly appreciated and returned as soon as I possibly can! XOXO
Have you worked with Jeni Leilani? Add Credits for Jeni Leilani! >>
Credit Notes[Featured prowler girl of the week, Mile High Prowlers]
Glamourlingerie studios
Taulbee Design****
Img 191
John Allen
Colorado Beauties
Arts and pleasure
marissa ivana Model
Victoria Hill Model
TC Foto Photographer
Design-Mem... Studios Photographer
FarzinPhoto Photographer
RuckJ Model
Loading Content


text:
2012 SMPS Marketing Awards
Recognizing and Honoring Excellence in Marketing and Communications
2012 SMPS Marketing Awards Gala
The 2012 SMPS Gala was held at the recently re-opened Garden Theatre, home of the Short North Stage, 1187 N. High Street.
Congratulations to all our Winners:
Alison Crumley
Ten Penny Design
Ten Penny Design Website
Suzanne Cody
m+a Architects
Bridging Perspectives
Gretchen Franklin
Karpinski Engineering
2011 Holiday Card
Dawn Wiford
Fanning Howey
Johnson County Public Library
Suzanne Cody
m+a Architects
m+a Architects
Ed Keener
Korda Engineering
Korda Trade Show Booth
Dawn Wiford
Fanning Howey
Johnson County Public Library
PEOPLE's CHOICE
Alison Crumley
Ten Penny Design
Ten Penny Design Postcard Series
2012 Judges
Thanks to all our judges to gave their time and effort to select this year's winners
Holly Bolton, CPSM
Holly is Director of Marketing at CE Solutions, a structural engineering firm in Carmel, Ind. Her 13 years of experience also include fulfilling several roles at a newspaper, marketing for an engineering firm in Kansas City and directing communications for an architecture and engineering firm in Indianapolis. Active in SMPS at the chapter, regional and national level, Holly is the 2011-2013 Chapter Delegate for the national board of directors. She has been a juror and an awards recipient of the national SMPS Marketing Communications Awards. Holly co-authored the SMPS Foundation White Paper, "The Client's Use of Social Media and Social Networking" and has presented around the country on marketing and business development topics. She has a bachelor of science in public relations and a creative writing minor from the University of Central Missouri.
James Young, PE
James graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1994 majoring in Civil Engineering. He worked for a private company for 7 years prior to ODOT. He has been involved as a project engineer and project manager on various projects. His past work experience includes roadway design, plan preparation, hydraulic design of open channel, culvert design and traffic engineering. He also worked on Army Corp projects which includes pump and lift stations, floodwall and levees, and other site and roadway work related to large civil works in the Midwest.
John Seibert
John is a departmental liaison to the Assistant Vice President for Physical Facilities. In this role, John is responsible for staff management, departmental budgeting, exterior campus planning, major construction project oversight, and upkeep of University planning and construction standards. The PAE staff of sixteen currently oversees design and construction on five campuses consisting of 6,500 acres, 130 buildings, and a combined gross area of 7,580,000 square feet. PAE currently has fifty-five active projects either to bid or under construction with a value of $177,150,000.00 and an additional forty projects in planning and / or design totaling over $500,000,000.00 in value. Mr. Seibert holds a Bachelor Degree in Environmental Design with a Minor in Landscape Architecture and a Master Degree in Architecture from Miami University.
Bernie Costantino
Bernie has 42 years professional experience, including 5 years as downtown development planner for the City of Columbus, Ohio and 19 years at NBBJ, an international design firm, where he was Principal and Studio Manager. As the University Architect at Ohio State, Mr. Costantino is responsible for the administration of all architectural direction on OSU campuses. He is responsible for architectural and planning design direction, makes final determinations in the construction dispute resolution process and plays a major role in the relationship with architects, engineers, construction managers and other professional services. He represents the University in matters related to architecture and the design and the construction process and is the liaison to the architectural design community and the Knowlton School of Architecture.
|Walker Evans
Founder | Columbus Underground
Dr. Doug Ross
Doug brings extensive experience in the marketing field, from a corporate, academic, and consulting background. He is an internationally known speaker, making presentations on a variety of topics. Dr. Ross has earned the distinction of being the only educator to receive the Columbus American Marketing Association (AMA) Marketing Professor of the Year honor a record four times (1999, 2005, 2008, 2010). He also won the AMA Achievement in Marketing Award for his innovative "Faces of Franklin" campaign. In addition, Dr. Ross is the only fulltime Franklin University professor to win the Robert L. Bailey Teaching Award at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, a distinction voted on by Franklin students each term to acknowledge the professor who was most influential in their programs.
Mitch Levitt, Associate AIA, ACHE, FSMPS
2012 Sponsors


text:
Cyclone separator Simulation
Hi I am a 3rd year BTech student trying to do a simulation on a Cyclone separator. I have tried using RNG K-e model standard values for convergence. My mesh has around 560000 cells but orthogonal quality is shown as 0.0096. I have set velocity inlet and one outlet at top. Should I enable DPM before or after calculation of flow field is done? I have used surface injection from inlet with a rosin rammler logarithmic distribution between 1-300micrmeter. I have used step length factor 5, and no. of steps 10000. But most of the particles are still incomplete......
Can you advice me on what to do?? I just need to show the collection effeciency.
I had already a 3D cyclone simulation. Let me tell you some tips to have a good performance in simulation:
1- try to generate a structured mesh, it's very important and requires some skills and work.
2- Apply RSM if you don't use LES. But, reaching a converged solution in RSM is somehow cumbersome. First start with k-e and after a few iterations e.g 200 go into RSM.Selecting RSM is due to high swirling flow inside cyclone.
3- If you need to obtain collection efficiency, then you should use DPM to track particles. Before injecting the particles, you must reach a converged fluid flow, and then perform your DPM. Regarding to lack of particles tracks visibility, there are some hints in fluent user guide, you can refer to. For instance increase the number of steps. Have a deep look at DPM modeling in fluent.
Good luck
I read that LES and DPM are incompatible in ANSYS. I have tried increasing the no. of steps in tracking particles, but still the no incomplete is more than 50%. I think there is a recirculation zone inside the cyclone at a particular level. What should I do??
I have first got convergence using k-e model with first order discretisation then switched to RSM and got convergence with that too. I think i got the fluid flow more or less accurate with the swirl regions. But tracking particles still shows incomplete even after raising the no of steps for tracking to 10^5. The particle tracks show that the particles are recirculating in a particular horizontal zone.
Well, maybe it's a deficiency of your geometry. Who knows? nevertheless, get a contour of velocity ( magnitude, y and x direction) and see what exactly taking place inside cyclone. Use some larger or heavier particles and increase mass rate and see what comes up.
Hi, I had the same problem, particle tracks incomplete, if particles >critical diameter; this is ok, since I found that:
"The particles with diameters of 2x10-6 m and 7x10-6 m can spin down to the conical section of cyclone and then should be collected while the bigger particles with diameter of 3x10-5 m and 1x10-4 m spin downward first and then keep spinning near the wall at a certain horizontal level. There is therefore a critical value to distinguish the flow pattern of particles of different diameters. If the particle diameter is larger than the critical value, the particle will keep a circular motion in the cone of cyclone. In contrast, if the particle diameter is less than this critical value, the particles will be collected directly or escape from the cyclone. […] In the real industry, these bigger particles will be eventually collected due to their interactions with other particles."
From: NUMERICAL STUDY OF GAS-SOLID FLOW IN A CYCLONE SEPARATOR (Wang et al.)
So, when you calculate efficiency collection treat as collected incomplete particles track (make sure residence time is long enough to consider them as trapped in your volume)
Hi daniele
I just simulated the cyclone model you mentioned (Wang et al.) and I had the same problem, I just forgot to tell. Thank you for your recall.
|All times are GMT -4. The time now is 20:56.


text:
Beautiful immaculate home village with pool and private plot of 300 m². terrace gardens, garage enclosed with up to 3 cars, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, 1 bedroom basement with elevator to the main floor, air conditioning, fireplace, heated floors, very private area quiet, 270 m², 252 m², year of construction 2000
Terraced house – Denia, Valencia, Spain
425,000 €Mortgage calculator
Total area: 270 m² Land area: 300 m² 3 bedrooms 2 separate bathrooms
- Balcony or terrace
Location and nearby objects
We can help you to get a mortgage on favourable terms. A residence permit can be obtained with the purchase of this property. Please ask our team for more information.
More properties
If this property wasn't for you, take a look at other terraced houses for sale in Spain.
You can see more terraced houses for sale in Denia elsewhere on our website.


text:
Hanuman Chalisa - Vaah Life Ho Toh Aisi | Shahid Kapoor | Shankar Mahadevan | Ajay - Atul MP3
Watch Shahid Kapoor in this version of the 'Hanuman Chalisa' from the movie 'Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi' Song Credits: Singer: Shankar Mahadevan, Ajay ...
Hanuman Chalisa -with Lyrics on screen,benefits of each doha ,wah life ho to aisi-Shankar Mahadevan MP3
Hanuman Chalisa -Lyrics on screen; wah life ho to aisi - Shankar Mahadevan enjoy the onscreen lyrics and benefits of each Doha and choupayi Benefits of ...
hanuman chalisa from vaah life ho to aisi full MP3
Singing by shankar mahadevan.
Hanuman Chalisa Song - Greek Subs "Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi" Shahid Kapoor MP3
Με αγάπη απο την Barbie για το Bollywood-home.com!!!!
Hanuman Chalisha - Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi MP3
Hanuman Chalisha -Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi Shankar Mahadevan.
Hanuman Chalisa with Lyrics on screen,benefits of each doha ,wah life ho to aisi Shankar Mahadevan MP3
Edited Version.
hanuman chalisa video MP3
hanuman chalisa in video. tympass thanks to the creators of the songs & animators of the films hanuman hanuman 2 ganesha lion king song: Wah... kya life hai!!
Vaah Life Ho Toh Aisi | Hindi Movies Full Movie | Shahid Kapoor | Amrita Rao | Sanjay Dutt MP3
Vaah Life Ho Toh Aisi in which Aditya stays in a sprawling ancestral home with his extended family that includes his grandmother, younger sister, his brother's ...
Hanuman Chalisa by Shekhar Ravjiani | Full Song | Spiritual Song | Bhajan | Bhakti | meditation MP3
Watch the Official Video of Shekhar Ravjiani's Hanuman Chalisa Full Song Director: Vishal Punjabi (The Wedding Filmer) Visual Promotions: Ravi Padda ...
YouTube Vaah ! Life Ho Toh Aisi ! Hanuman Chalisa Arshad Warsi & Shahid Kapoor Exclusive HQ MP3
Hanuman Chalisa Karaoke Vaah Life Ho Toh Aisi {2005} MP3
Full Karaoke Song And Customize Karaoke Track Contact : { [email protected] }
vaah life ho toh aisi.avi MP3
this a very funny have you seen this movie.
Hanuman Chalisa - {Rhythm Struck Dance Company} MP3
Hanuman Chalisa - {Rhythm Struck Dance Company} Choreography - Hardeep Randhawa | Monty ...


text:
A fantastic little natural fishy treat for your buddy
- White Bait is a great low fat, low calorie source of protein. It is rich in minerals containing calcium & the antioxidant selenium which protects against heart disease.
- White Bait has a protein content of 72.1% & is also very rich in Amino Acids. It also contains Iodine & also small amounts of omega 3 fatty acids.
- A perfect treat that our cat friends can't resist.


text:
|Message view
|« Date » · « Thread »
|« Date » · « Thread »
|"Hadoop QA (Commented) (JIRA)" <j...@apache.org>
|[jira] [Commented] (HDFS-2119) "hdfs version" should print out information similar to what "hadoop version" prints out
|Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:55:29 GMT
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2119?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13123807#comment-13123807 ] Hadoop QA commented on HDFS-2119: --------------------------------- -1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12498376/HDFS-2119.3.patch against trunk revision . +1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags. +1 tests included. The patch appears to include 3 new or modified tests. -1 javadoc. The javadoc tool appears to have generated 1 warning messages. +1 javac. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings. +1 findbugs. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs (version 1.3.9) warnings. +1 release audit. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings. +1 core tests. The patch passed unit tests in . +1 contrib tests. The patch passed contrib unit tests. Test results: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/1356//testReport/ Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/1356//console This message is automatically generated. > "hdfs version" should print out information similar to what "hadoop version" prints out > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-2119 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2119 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.22.0 > Reporter: Ravi Prakash > Assignee: Ravi Prakash > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: HDFS-2119.1.patch, HDFS-2119.2.patch, HDFS-2119.3.patch > > > Implement version in hdfs -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
|View raw message


text:
Pontiac Grand Ville for Sale
Viewing 1 - 2 of 2 results
Selected Filters:Type of Ad: Vehicles for Sale Make: Pontiac Model: Grand Ville Remove All
1975 Pontiac Grand Ville Convertible
Sarasota, FL
Summer is here and what could be cooler than this legendary land yacht! The ultimate in1975, with it's sleek styling and all the power... More
Offered By: American Classic Car Sales
Advertiser since 2012
Advertiser since 2012
1972 Pontiac Grand Ville Convertible
North Canton, OH
Just added to our stable of full sized convertibles is this 1972 Pontiac Grand Ville. This is one clean cruiser. The full sized parade... More
Offered By: Ohio Corvette and Muscle Cars
Advertiser since 1998
Advertiser since 1998


text:
- folate
- noun Date: 1951 folic acid
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
folate — ● folate nom masculin Sel de l acide folique … Encyclopédie Universelle
Folate — Vitamine B9 Vitamine B9 Structure chimique de la vitamine B9 Général Synonymes acide folique vitamine M fo … Wikipédia en Français
Folate — Folic acid, one of the B vitamins that is a key factor in the synthesis (the making) of nucleic acid (DNA and RNA). A deficiency of folic acid after birth causes a kind of anemia, namely, megaloblastic anemia in which there is a paucity of red… … Medical dictionary
folate — folic acid ► NOUN ▪ a vitamin of the B complex found especially in leafy green vegetables, liver, and kidney. DERIVATIVES folate noun. ORIGIN from Latin folium leaf … English terms dictionary
folate — (= tetrahydrofolate) Molecule that acts as a carrier of one carbon units in intermediary metabolism. It contains residues of p aminobenzoate, glutamate, and a substituted pteridine. The latter cannot be synthesized by mammals, which must obtain… … Dictionary of molecular biology
folate — fo·late (fōʹlāt ) n. 1. A salt or ester of folic acid. 2. See folic acid. [folic acid + ate2.] * * * … Universalium
folate — noun A salt or ester of folic acid, especially one present in the vitamin B complex … Wiktionary
folate — [ fəʊleɪt] noun Biochemistry a salt or ester of folic acid … English new terms dictionary
folate — fo·late … English syllables
folate — /ˈfoʊleɪt/ (say fohlayt) noun a vitamin found in many fruits and vegetables in the form of folic acid, which is essential for the formation of red blood cells. {fol(ic acid) + ate2} … Australian English dictionary