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Mrs. Rilla Mae O'Neal passed away last Friday morning at 1:15 in the Wilson Jones Hospital in Sherman. Funeral services were held in the First Christian Church here Saturday afternoon at 2:30, conducted by Rev. G.G.Burnett of Denison. Pallbearers were Bill Barrett, Otto Cunningham, Kit Hix, Stone Marshall, Les Crook and Roy Gipson. Interment was in the City Cemetery under the direction of the Flesher Funeral Home. Mrs. O'Neal was born in Grayson County on Sept. 6, 1889. She was united in marriage with Bill O'Neal in Van Alstyne on Sept 6, 1906. He preceded her in death on May 6, 1952. A resident of Grayson County all her life, she was a member of the First Christian Church and an active participant in all activities for 55 years. She was a member of the Christian Women's Fellowship the past ten years. After retiring from farm life, she made her home here with her son, Leonard (Bally) O'Neal. She is survived by four sons, Buck O'Neal of Big Spring, Leonard O?Neal of Van Alstyne, Weldon O'Neal of Grapevine and Billy O'Neal of Sherman; by one daughter, Mrs. Juanita Nielson of San Diego, California; by two sisters, Mrs. Willie Gee of Prosper and Mrs. Ruth Baker of Bakersfield, California; by one brother, Clyde Sprowl of Fort Worth; and by 12 grandchildren.
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== Each 5 to 7 days of the CF == | == Each 5 to 7 days of the CF == | ||
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+ | * Check patches marked "waiting on author". If they've been waiting for more than 5 days, and there's been no status update, do the following: | ||
+ | ** if you're clearly waiting on a new patch update, then just mark them "Returned with Feedback" | ||
+ | ** if they're waiting on discussion on -hackers, and the discussion has died out, ask for a status update on the list. | ||
== Constantly During CF == | == Constantly During CF == |
Revision as of 23:29, 10 July 2013
CommitFest Checklist and Timeline
This page contains a list of things to do and when to do them for the CommitFest Manager. It's based on the current CommitFest app (written by Robert Haas), and will change once the new CF App is done.
Three to Four Weeks before CF
Hopefully you will know at least this far out that you are going to be CommitFest Manager (CFM). If so, do the following things:
- announce to pgsql-hackers that you are the next CFM and when the CF will be beginning
- attempt to recruit an Assistant CFM from -hackers and other places
- begin saving all pgsql-hackers email in your local mail store for searching, if you don't do this regularly
- check that you have administrative permissions on the CF. If not, request permissions fix from pgsql-www.
5 to 7 days before CF
- Post a reminder to pgsql-hackers (and your blog?) that the CF is beginning on the date, and that they should get their patches registered/submitted.
- Do a patch sweep (see below).
- Go over the pending patches and assign them categories or change their categories if they're wrong.
- Recruit people to pgsql-rrreviewers to be assigned random patches (see below).
- Post to pgsql-rrreviewers and ask who will be available for the upcoming CF
- Check each and every patch in the CF, and find/update:
- patches which already received some review prior to the CF, and make sure this review is linked in the comments on the patch.
- patches which have been already committed/rejected/returned before the CF, and update their status accordingly
Patch Sweep: search the pgsql-hackers archives from the prior 2 months for messages with the attachment "patch". Make sure that all patches submitted to -hackers are in the CommitFest (or in the prior CommitFest). If they are not, email the patch author asking if they want to submit their patch to the CF (see template below). New contributors should probably be added to the CF even if they are slow to respond, but veteran contributors should not be.
pgsql-rrreviewers: This mailing list includes the "Round Robin Reviewers" (RRR) who are regular contributors who want to help with reviewing patches, but aren't sure what they want to review. As CFM, you will be assigning patches to review to the RRR to keep them busy.
2 days before CF
- Send reminder to -hackers that the CF is beginning in 2 days.
First day of CF
- change CommitFest status from "Open" to "In Progress"
- change status of next CommitFest, if necessary
- Announce that the CF has begun on -hackers and that any new patches will need to be put on the next commitfest.
- Assign patches to review to all RRR
- Send a reminder to all patch submitters that they have a patch in the commitfest, and that they will be expected to review at least one patch by someone else.
- If anyone signed up to review a patch more than 4 days before the start of the CF, send them a reminder that they're reviewing a patch.
5 days after the beginning of the CF
- Check all assigned reviewers. If the reviewer was assigned before the beginning of the CF, and they haven't posted anything, take them off the patch and send them a nice note (see below).
- Make a list of all patch submitters who have not volunteered to review someone else's patch. Send each one a private note reminding them that they need to do that (see template).
- Check "waiting on author" patches per "Every 5-7 days" below.
10 days after the beginning of the CF
Each 5 to 7 days of the CF
- Check patches marked "waiting on author". If they've been waiting for more than 5 days, and there's been no status update, do the following:
- if you're clearly waiting on a new patch update, then just mark them "Returned with Feedback"
- if they're waiting on discussion on -hackers, and the discussion has died out, ask for a status update on the list.
Constantly During CF
5 to 7 days before end of CF
Last day of CF
After CF
Email Templates
Patch Sweep
For new contributors:
[contributor name]:
You sent in your patch, [name of patch file] to pgsql-hackers on [date posted]. You may not be aware, but in order for your patch to be included in PostgreSQL, it needs to be part of the next CommitFest. Accordingly, I have added your patch to the list here [link to CF entry]. If you want to withdraw your patch, or if you simply won't be around to answer questions during the 30 days of this CommitFest, please let me know and I'll remove it. Thanks!
For experienced contributors:
[contributor name]:
You sent in your patch, [name of patch file] to pgsql-hackers on [date posted], but you did not post it to the next CommitFest [link to CF page]. If this was intentional, then you need take no action. However, if you want your patch to be reviewed as part of the upcoming CommitFest, then you need to add it yourself before [start date]. Thanks for your contributions.
Patch Reminder
[contributor name]:
As a reminder, you have the following patches in the current CommitFest:
[list of links to their patches]
If you are not prepared to follow up on review to these patches during this CommitFest, please let me know and I will remove them now. I also remind you that each patch submitter is expected to review at least one patch from another submitter during the CommitFest, so please pick someone else's patch to review as soon as you can.
Thanks for your contributions to PostgreSQL!


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Stice Eric E Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA. - - 2011
Obese humans, compared with normal-weight humans, have less striatal D2 receptors and striatal response to food intake; weaker striatal response to food predicts weight gain for individuals at genetic risk for reduced dopamine (DA) signaling, consistent with the reward-deficit theory of obesity. Yet these may not be initial vulnerability factors, ...
Geffroy Benjamin - - 2011
Abstract The impact of a daily ration of food containing gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) of two sizes (12 and 50 nm) was investigated in the zebrafish Danio rerio at very low doses (from 36-106 ng gold/fish/day). AuNP exposure resulted in various dysfunctions at the sub cellular scale, and AuNP concentration in ...
Bengtsson Jonas M - - 2011
Few studies have systematically addressed evolutionary changes in olfactory neuron assemblies, either by genetic drift or as an adaptation to specific odor environments. We have studied the sense of olfaction in 2 congeneric scarab beetles, Pachnoda interrupta Olivier and Pachnoda marginata Drury (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), which are both opportunistic polyphages, ...
Lensu Sanna - - 2011
A conspicuous but scantly-studied feature of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) toxicity is avoidance of unfamiliar foodstuffs, which seems to be one of the very few exquisitely sensitive behavioural effects in adult laboratory animals. Here we characterized this peculiar response further after low doses of TCDD. The time-course of the novelty avoidance, the ...
Hayes Matthew R - - 2011
The glucagon-like-peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists, liraglutide (Victoza) and the synthetic product of exendin-4 (Byetta), are approved for type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) treatment and may be efficacious in obesity treatment as well, in part, due to the drugs' resistance to enzymatic degradation and prolonged half-life relative to endogenous GLP-1. To ...
Verty Aaron N A - - 2011
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterized by anhedonia whereby patients experience little pleasure or reward in many aspects of their lives. Reward pathways and the endocannabionid system have been implicated in the mediation of food intake. The potential to exploit these systems to reverse weight loss is investigated in a rodent ...
Rico Cyren M - - 2011
The uptake, bioaccumulation, biotransformation, and risks of nanomaterials (NMs) for food crops are still not well understood. Very few NMs and plant species have been studied, mainly at the very early growth stages of the plants. Most of the studies, except one with multiwalled carbon nanotubes performed on the model ...
Acosta-Galvan Guadalupe - - 2011
Food anticipatory behavior (FAA) is induced by limiting access to food for a few hours daily. Animals anticipate this scheduled meal event even without the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the biological clock. Consequently, a food-entrained oscillator has been proposed to be responsible for meal time estimation. Recent studies suggested the dorsomedial ...
Zygoura P D - - 2011
Migration levels of acetyl tributyl citrate (ATBC) plasticiser from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) film into the European Union specified aqueous food simulants (distilled water, 3% w/v acetic acid and 10% v/v ethanol) were monitored as a function of time. Migration testing was carried out at 40°C for 10 days. Determination of ...
Steyn Catharina E - - 2011
Concentrated fruit products have a significant place in modern consumption markets and are valuable semi-prepared food components to the bakery, dairy, confectionary, canning, baby food, frozen food, distilling and beverage industries. There is continuous pressure on the beverage industry to improve the quality of concentrated fruit products in order for ...
Schilirò T - - 2011
Food is likely to be one of the most important routes of human exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). In the present study, we evaluated the total estrogenic activity of fruits and vegetables, which was calculated using the human breast cancer cell line (MCF-7 BUS) proliferation assay (E-screen), in relation ...
de Roode Jacobus C - - 2011
Ecology Letters (2011) ABSTRACT: Parasites and hosts live in communities consisting of many interacting species, but few studies have examined how communities affect parasite virulence and transmission. We studied a food web consisting of two species of milkweed, two milkweed herbivores (monarch butterfly and oleander aphid) and a monarch butterfly-specific ...
Zhou Hai-Feng - - 2011
Caper (Capparis spinosa L.) fruits have been widely used as food and folk medicine in the Mediterranean basin and in central and west Asia. In this study, two biflavonoids, isoginkgetin, and ginkgetin, together with three other flavonoids, were isolated from caper fruits. Their chemical structures were elucidated by spectroscopic analyses ...
Finger Beate C - - 2011
BACKGROUND: Several fine-tuned and interconnected hypothalamic peptidergic systems orchestrate the regulation of energy homeostasis in the body. The orexigenic peptide ghrelin and the anorexigenic peptide leptin are among the most important, and both have been implicated in the development of eating disorders from obesity to anorexia nervosa. OBJECTIVES: The goal ...
Keet Corinne C Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, CMSC 1102, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. - - 2011
Food-induced anaphylactic reactions are common and increasing in frequency. Despite the existence of a consensus definition of anaphylaxis, many cases are missed, recommended treatments are not given, and follow-up is inadequate. New aspects of its pathophysiology and causes, including atypical food-induced causes, are still being uncovered. Epinephrine remains the cornerstone ...
Nersesian Carolyn L - - 2011
1. Foraging herbivores must deal with plant characteristics that inhibit feeding and they must avoid being eaten. Principally, toxins limit food intake, while predation risk alters how long animals are prepared to harvest resources. Each of these factors strongly affects how herbivores use food patches, and both constraints can pose immediate ...
Kendall C W C - - 2011
Background/Objectives:Dietary strategies that reduce post-prandial glycemia are important in the prevention and treatment of diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD). This may be achieved by addition of high-quality protein and fat contained in pistachio nuts, to carbohydrate-containing foods or meals.Subjects/Methods:A total of 10 healthy volunteers (3 males, 7 females); aged ...
Martin Annett - - 2011
Shiga toxin-producing strains of Escherichia coli (STEC) cause diarrhoea and haemorrhagic colitis in humans. Most human infections are attributed to consumption of STEC contaminated foodstuff. Food producing animals constitute important reservoirs of STEC and serve as source of food contamination. In this study, we have analyzed 593 foodborne STEC strains ...
Hayes Matthew R MR Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. - - 2011
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) activation within the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) suppresses food intake and body weight (BW), but the intracellular signals mediating these effects are unknown. Here, hindbrain (fourth i.c.v.) GLP-1R activation by Exendin-4 (Ex-4) increased PKA and MAPK activity and decreased phosphorylation of AMPK in NTS. PKA and ...
Hartmann H Andreas - - 2011
Consumer demands have led to an increased interest in the use of natural antimicrobials for food protection. With the objective of developing novel products for enhancing the microbial safety of food, we have tested cell-free culture supernatants (CFS's) of eight antagonistic bacterial strains for their efficacy to inhibit Listeria monocytogenes ...
Amigó-Correig M - - 2011
Aims: Sodium tungstate is an anti-obesity drug targeting peripheral tissues. In vivo, sodium tungstate reduces body weight gain and food intake through increasing energy expenditure and lipid oxidation, but it also modulates hypothalamic gene expression when orally administered, raising the possibility of a direct effect of sodium tungstate on the ...
Schnuch Axel - - 2011
Background. Nickel contact allergy is still frequent both in patch-tested patients and in the general population. Objectives. To explain this observation by relating clinical epidemiological data with recent chemical analyses of nickel release from costume jewellery. Methods. (i) The trend of nickel allergy was analysed using data registered between January ...
Ebenman Bo - - 2011
[Formula: see text] [ Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) - one of the IUCN Red-Listed species in the Serengeti food web. Photograph by Fredrik Larsson. ] de Visser, S., Freymann, B. & Olff, H. (2011) The Serengeti food web: empirical quantification and analysis of topological changes under increasing human impact. Journal of ...
Jackson Armitra L - - 2011
The popularity of "preservative-free" foods among consumers has stimulated rapid growth of processed meats manufactured without sodium nitrite. The objective of this study was to quantify the potential for Clostridium perfringens growth in commercially available processed meats manufactured without the direct addition of nitrite or nitrate. Commercial brands of naturally ...
Matsuda Kouhei - - 2011
The hypothalamus, limbic system, and brainstem play an important role in the regulation of instinctive behavior. Many kinds of hypothalamic neuropeptides, such as orexin, ghrelin, neuropeptide Y, melanin-concentrating hormone, pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide, corticotropin-releasing hormone, and diazepam-binding inhibitor-derived peptides, including the octadecaneuropeptide, have been implicated in the regulation of appetite ...
Wang Julie - - 2011
Food allergies affect up to 6% of young children and 3%-4% of adults. They encompass a range of disorders that may be IgE and/or non-IgE mediated, including anaphylaxis, pollen food syndrome, food-protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome, food-induced proctocolitis, eosinophilic gastroenteropathies, and atopic dermatitis. Many complex host factors and properties of foods are ...
Adler K - - 2011
Insulin autoantibodies (IAA) can appear in children within months of introducing solid foods to the diet and before clinical type 1 diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine whether infant dietary antigens could be immunizing agents of IAA. To this end, IAA binding to [(125) I]insulin was competed ...
Williams Dean C - - 2011
We conducted three experiments to reproduce and extend Perone and Courtney's (1992) study of pausing at the beginning of fixed-ratio schedules. In a multiple schedule with unequal amounts of food across two components, they found that pigeons paused longest in the component associated with the smaller amount of food (the ...
Zeng Wei-Cai WC Dept of Food Science and Technology and author Feng is with College of Life Science, Sichuan Univ, Chengdu 610065, PR - - 2011
The antibrowning and antimicrobial activities of the water-soluble extract from pine needles of Cedrus deodara (CDE), a traditional Chinese medicine and raw materials of pine needle tea, was investigated. Total phenols of CDE were 31.4 ± 0.53 mg gallic acid equivalent/g, and total flavonoids were 23.1 ± 0.79 mg rutin ...
de Graaf Cees - - 2011
Liquids have been shown to have a low satiating efficiency. The may be related to the high rate of consumption for liquids which may be higher than 200 g/min. In a number of studies, we showed that the positive relationship between eating rate and energy intake is mediated by oro-sensory ...
Tomie Arthur - - 2011
Two experiments evaluated the effects of removing food presentations on the maintenance of drinking induced by experience with sipper - food pairings. In Exp 1, ethanol drinking was induced in non-deprived Long-Evans rats by Pavlovian conditioning procedures employing an ethanol sipper as conditioned stimulus (CS) and food pellet as unconditioned ...
Veling Harm H Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. - - 2011
We examined whether presentation of environmental cues that are associated with motor inhibition, i.e., fearful facial expressions, can be effective in controlling unintentionally evoked impulses toward rewarding food objects. Participants were presented with palatable foods or control objects. During presentation of the objects, facial expressions displaying fear, disgust, or neutral ...
Dinnella Caterina - - 2011
Sensory responses greatly vary between individuals, and individual sensory experiences influence eating behaviour. Three groups responding differently to phenolic astringent stimuli (Low Responding, LR, n=20, Medium Responding, MR, n=37 and High Responding, HR, n=20) were identified from a population of 77 subjects, based on the maintenance vs fluctuation of salivary ...
Luksiene Z - - 2011
Aims: This study is focused on the possibility to control microbial contamination of strawberries by chlorophyllin (Na-Chl)-based photosensitization. Moreover, photosensitization-induced effects on key quality attributes of treated strawberries was evaluated. Methods and Results: Strawberries were inoculated with Listeria monocytogenes ATC(L3) C 7644, soaked in 1 mmol l(-1) Na-Chl for 5 min and illuminated ...
Wang Gene-Jack GJ Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA. - - 2011
Subjects with binge eating disorder (BED) regularly consume large amounts of food in short time periods. The neurobiology of BED is poorly understood. Brain dopamine, which regulates motivation for food intake, is likely to be involved. We assessed the involvement of brain dopamine in the motivation for food consumption in ...
Hätönen Katja A - - 2011
Potatoes, especially mashed potatoes, are known to result in high glycaemic and insulinaemic responses. However, in most meals, potatoes are accompanied by other foods. The objective of the present study was to investigate how glycaemic and insulinaemic responses to a mashed potato meal changed when a high-fat food (rapeseed oil), ...
Borges Beatriz C - - 2011
Acute exposure to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potent inducer of immune response, as well as hypophagia. Nevertheless, desensitization of responses to LPS occurs during long-term exposure to endotoxin. We induced endotoxin tolerance, injecting repeated (6LPS) LPS doses in comparison with single (1LPS) treatment. 1LPS, but not 6LPS group, showed ...
Fay Stephanie H SH Biopsychology Group, Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. - - 2011
In humans the presence of negative affect is thought to promote food intake, although widespread variability surrounds this issue. Susceptibility to negative affect-induced eating may depend on trait eating behaviours, notably 'emotional eating', 'restrained eating' and 'disinhibited eating', but the evidence is not consistent. In the present study, 30 non-obese, ...
Pérez-Llamas Francisca - - 2011
We investigated the antinutritional effect of white tea extract (0, 15, and 45 mg of the tea solid extract per kilogram body weight) incorporated in the drinking water of rats for 3 and 30 days. Gender-based differences were found for all these variables, except apparent protein digestibility and the apparent absorption of ...
Mugabo Marianne - - 2011
Food availability is a major environmental factor that can influence life history within and across generations through direct effects on individual quality and indirect effects on the intensity of intra- and intercohort competition. Here, we investigated in yearling and adult common lizards (Zootoca vivipara) the immediate and delayed life-history effects ...
Bari A - - 2011
This paper describes the development of methods for the rapid screening of gross alpha (GA) and gross beta (GB) radioactivity in liquid foods, specifically, Tang drink mix, apple juice, and milk, as well as screening of GA, GB, and gamma radioactivity from surface deposition on apples. Detailed procedures were developed ...
Saar Indrek - - 2011
Galanin a 29/30-residue neuropeptide has been implicated in several functions in the central nervous system, including the regulation of food consumption. Galanin and its analogs administered intraventricularly or into the hypothalamic region of brain have been shown to reliably and robustly stimulate the consumption of food in sated rodents. Three ...
Skibicka Karolina P - - 2011
Ghrelin, a circulating orexigenic stomach-derived hormone, has recently been implicated in extra-homeostatic feeding, increasing food reward and food-motivated behavior. The precise target site(s) of ghrelin's effects on food reward have yet to be elucidated. The neurocircuitry underpinning food-motivated behavior involves, in particular, the dopamine cells of the ventral tegmental area ...
Wilson Amy-Leigh - - 2011
The effects that different fruit sugar types and concentrations have on food preferences of avian frugivores have been relatively poorly studied. Although it has been recently advocated that preference is based on equicaloric energy it is also important to note whether preferences change as energy content changes. Therefore, sugar preferences ...
J Leidy Heather - - 2011
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether a protein-rich beverage leads to a differential response in appetite, satiety and subsequent energy intake compared with an energy- and macronutrient-matched solid version in young people. A total of fifteen adolescents (eight girls and seven boys; age 14 (sem 1) ...
Canale Cindy I - - 2011
As ecosystems undergo changes worldwide, physiological flexibility is likely to be an important adaptive response to increased climate instability. Extreme weather fluctuations impose energetical constraints such as unpredictable food shortage. We tested how grey mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus) could adjust their daily heterothermy and locomotor activity to these 'energetic accidents' ...
Scott P M - - 2011
Fumonisins are well known mycotoxins produced by Fusarium verticillioides, F. proliferatum and other Fusarium species. Many new fumonisins and fumonisin-like compounds have been detected by mass spectrometry in cultures of F. verticillioides. Recently, fumonisins B(2) and B(4) were produced by Aspergillus niger isolated from coffee and fumonisin B(2) in A. ...
Wilson Amy-Leigh - - 2011
Avian frugivores have been somewhat poorly studied with regards to the effects that different fruit sugar types and concentrations have on their digestive efficiencies. Therefore, two relatively large South African frugivores, the Knysna turaco (Tauraco corythaix) and the purple-crested turaco (Gallirex porphyreolophus), were fed artificial fruit that contained equicaloric and ...
Gase Lauren N - - 2011
This qualitative study explores facilitators and barriers to a proposed food procurement policy that would require food purchasers, distributors, and vendors of food service in the County of Los Angeles government to meet specified nutrition standards, including limits on sodium content. We conducted 30 key informant interviews. Interviewees represented 18 ...
Lê A D AD Neurobiology of Alcohol Laboratory, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2S1, Canada. - - 2011
Relapse to alcohol use during abstinence or maladaptive eating habits during dieting is often provoked by stress. The anxiogenic drug yohimbine, which causes stress-like responses in humans and non-humans, reliably reinstates alcohol and food seeking in a rat relapse model. Yohimibine is a prototypical alpha-2 adrenoceptor antagonist, but results from ...
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McGregor, Iain, LePlâtre, Grégory, Crerar, Alison and Benyon, David (2006) Sound and soundscape classification: Establishing key auditory dimensions and their relative importance. In: The 12th International Conference on Auditory Display, ICAD2006., 20th-23rd June 2006, London, UK.
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This paper investigates soundscape classification by using two different forms of data gathering and two different populations. The first method involves a questionnaire completed by 75 audio professionals. The second uses a speak-aloud experiment, during which 40 end users were asked to describe their audio environment. While both approaches are different and target a different audience, they provide an indication of key dimensions for the perception of soundscapes and their relative importance. Contrasts and similarities between the results of the questionnaire and speak-alouds are highlighted. Their implications with regards to the establishment of a set of
common terms in order to aid future auditory designs are also discussed.
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sound environment; Sound classification; Questionnaire; Spoken word; Perception of sound; Descriptors for sounds; Terminology; Computer software design; |
University Divisions/Research Centres: | Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Creative Industries > School of Computing |
Dewey Decimal Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics 000 Computer science, information & general works > 000 Computer science, knowledge & systems > 005 Computer programming, programs & data |
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Item ID: | 1784 |
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Active travel in India requires major policy change by the Government of India
Posted by nakul on 18 Jun 2013 at 10:09 GMT
In their article "Associations between Active Travel to Work and Overweight, Hypertension, and Diabetes in India: A Cross-Sectional Study" authors Millett C et al correctly identify a link between lack of "active" transport options in India and lifestyle related diseases. However, while the link has been correctly identified, it does not imply that the suggested remedial measures can be implemented. India has poor infrastructure with scant attention paid to scientific road construction. Urban planning is haphazard and chaotic. Lack of space on roads and rampant presence of hawkers on footpaths has meant that dedicated cycling tracks are highly unlikely to be planned in Indian cities.
A significant amount of public funds is supposedly spent toward Indian roads, yet with their poor condition one wonders how it is possible to accommodate cyclists and pedestrians on already crowded and inadequate roads. Unlike developed nations where high speed crashes are a leading cause of road traffic accident fatalities, in India injuries are often sustained in low-velocity impacts. These happen because roads are unscientifically constructed, illegally occupied and driving licenses are obtained illegally by routes other than training and testing. A significant number of injuries at our hospital are sustained by pedestrians knocked down from behind by cars.
Add to this the Government of India's decision to substantially increase the import tax on imported bicycles (ostensibly to encourage domestic manufacturers) and the stage is set for young professionals abandoning the idea of cycling to work and instead taking to cars.
Arresting the near-epidemic proportions of diabetes and ischemic heart disease in India will require more than advocating the use of "active" forms of transport: the government itself has to actively construct and implement policies that will promote cycling and save our oil import - and medical - bills. Perhaps what is most worrying is that India has no declared policy on the promotion of bicycling as a means of transport. "Urban planning" is a deafeningly silent word in India.


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Who is subsidized? Appearently, the region receiving the highest per capita public spending in the UK is . . .London!!! Did any Torie MP tell this part of the story?
I think you will find that London also contributes the most taxes by a significant amount. The result being that London (along with the South East and one or two other regions) are the only areas in the UK which collect more tax than is spent.
Why can't the rest of the UK take part in the referendum? Because it would be a thumping, great Yes! Go!
They can take the RBS and HBOS toxic debt with them and Andrew Marr and Andrew Neil and Kirsty Walk and James Naughtie and the rest of the BBC jocks.
Independence should include withdrawl of the right of Scots to live in England except on a competive points system.
It could be just like the break up of India and Pakistan, Scotland getting 10% of the Army, Navy and Airforce (by 2014 that will be one ship and a couple of clapped out Tornados), 10% of the National Gallery, 10% of the jail population.
Imagine the scenes as long lines of displaced Scots, matresses and chattels on their backs wend their way Northwards as Range-Rover loads of expelled English weekend-cottage owners stream in the other direction.
I think many people are missing a crucial detail here. A disproportionately large number of westminster politicians, even Tories, are themselves Scottish. I'm sure they could have stayed in local politics, like salmond, if they had wanted to but they didn't. So of course they will fight to keep their opportunity to sit at the top table...
The Tory government has only one aim in life, to maximize profits and bonuses of their backers. If they are opposing independence it must mean that there is going to be a financiall penalty to the English.
Mr Cameron and his LDs , Lap Dogs, previously known as Liberal Democrats have now been joined by Labour for wanting to retain the Union without defining any reason other than their spoilt brat mentality of that is what I want. The Westminster parties have had many years to show what they can do when in power so why are they so afraid to give the SNP the opportunity to show the Scottish people what they are capable of, or not, and let them have until autumn 2014 before having a referendum. Is it They fear that the SNP may demonstrate how they are a party that cares for all the people of the country unlike the Westminster parties run by millionaires for millionaires and as such the Scottish people would want to separate themselves, after been given a proper length of time to consider the position, from the greed culture that permeates the government of the UK.
As a non-Brit, following the terminology of this issue is very challenging.
In particular, I wonder if it makes sense to speak of Scotland 'leaving' the United Kingdom.
Despite administrative devolution, the UK is not a federation. It is a unitary state, with one sovereign entity: the Sovereign. The formation was created by uniting two crowns: England and Scotland
By this view, a separation of Scotland ends the United Kingdom. No-one 'leaves' it - it is an entity which terminates.
Today, the front of a British passport says "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
I wonder what the new English passports will say? "The Kingdom of England and Related Dependencies"?
That's really a technical detail. If Westminster cared enough, they could change the law so that the enitity called the UK could carry on without Scotland.
And it wouldn't really impact the UN or EU position - they recognise a country called the UK. If it shrinks a bit and renames itself as England, that doesn't really affect anything.
Very good point. I am also a non-Brit and I have found the talk in the British media about "Scotland leaving the UK" very misleading. The United Kingdom was formed in 1707 by the merger of the Kingdom of England&Wales with the Kingdom of Scotland.
If the Kingdom of Scotland chooses to be independent this dissolution would legally and effectively mean that the United Kingdom will cease to exist as an entity. The "United" in "United Kingdom" would be moot.
I really would like to hear more from constitutional lawyers on this issue, as this could mean that the Kingdom of England&Wales, as well as the Kingdom of Scotland would have to sign new accession treaties with the European Union.
Although I am not directly affected, I find this debate fascinating, if not for the sheer hypocrisy on display by the Tories. The same Tories, many of whom request to be independent from the EU, want, as "Unionists", to effectively deny the same requests by the Scots be independent from the Union.
Technically, there are only two "Kingdoms" that make up the "United Kingdom" - namely the Kingdom of Scotland, and the Kingdom of England. Both Kingdoms' shared the same monarch from the early 1600's. They retained full distinct parliamentary sovereignty until the Treaty of Union (c.1707). The Kingdoms' of Scotland and England (which includes Wales which was conquered in the 13th cent. by England) form "Great Britain".
Wales is a Principality and Northern Ireland, a Province. So it depends on how you define the "Kingdom". If it's based on a shared monarch, then it does not end with Scotland leaving.
If it's based on full parliamentary union, then Scotland leaving would terminate both Great Britain and the United Kingdom as political entities. "The Kingdom of England and Related Dependencies" sounds about right in this context, however the Welsh may not like it.
Thank goodness for a sensible and rational article about the issue.
Having read the Guardian's biased and sensationalist coverage over the past few days (typified by a 'poll' asking readers to choose Scotland's future by clicking a photo of Salmond or Cameron) the coverage here - complete with refreshingly thoughtful reader comments - is a godsend.
I wonder like George whether RBS, HBOS, Northern Rock bailouts which have saddled everyone in the UK with debt would happen in an independant scotland.
At least everyone is young in scotland though, so there is no concern of the future high cost of welfare/pensions needing any subsidy
Usefully the declining oil reserves may still be valuable enough in the future to fund local defense, pensions, welfare, jobs, and building a new shipping industry to connect to Europe, and to join the Euro properly - like Ireland found so valuable when its banks collapsed and had to turn to their partner - the ECB for help, who forced them to pay back the german bond holders who took the risk, rather than reflate the country.
If Cameron wants to settle this question "once and for all" in the next 18 months, why can't the UK have a Yes/No referendum on the EU to settle that question once and for all too in the next 18 months (that's one referendum the people of this country have been demanding for decades)?
If the Tories want to renegotiate the UK's terms within the EU, why can't the Scots have the option of "devo max"?
I wonder, if 'Devolution Max' is to be included in a referendum, then surely 'An End to Devolution' should also be included.
Id certainly vote for that.
What a waste of time and money the Scottish Parliament has been.
Being a citizen of a state that didn't exist prior to WW2, I have been educated to view all independence movements favourably. However, after some fact-checking, I am having trouble viewing the Scottish separatist movement in the same light that I regard, for example, my own country's independence movement.
I mean, wasn't Scotland an enthusiastic partner in running the empire along with England and Wales? It isn't called the British empire without a reason. And now that the party is over, you want to leave?
If England is a colonial power that has no right of presence in Scotland, then it is a more benign colonial power than most national governments around the world. It funds Scotland so that it can have a higher public spending per capita than England. It funds schools so that they can teach moribund Gaelic languages indigenous to Scotland. It bails out Scottish banks. It allows an unhindered representation at the Union's capital AND a devolved parliament that is autonomous. And the last prime minister of the United Kingdom was a Scotsman.
I'm sorry, but that just doesn't cut it. I'd dearly like to be on the cool and revolutionary side and scream "Freedom" until my voice is hoarse, but I can't. I only see a culture of victimhood here.
The last two UK Prime Ministers were also both Scottish.
I'm sorry Kim77, but your comments are both badly informed and frankly rather insulting. Scotland contributes more than it's fair share to the UK, including, yes, to the historical 'successes' of the British Empire. We pay taxes too. Our public services are not 'paid for by England': what offensive drivel! Just because our taxes are sent to Westminster does not make what is returned 'English'. Westminster is the UK parliament, not the English parliament. Please try to understand this. As for your dismissive comment about Gaelic, the less said the better: but to dismiss attempts at ensuring a significant cultural facet of Scottish life is protected is just narrow-minded in the extreme. What is spent on Gaelic education over decades won't even begin to match what is Scotland's per capita contribution to the three week-long London Olympics. Finally I am amused that you refer to England 'bailing out Scottish banks'. Yes, there were banks that had 'Scotland' in their names that were bailed out by the *UK* (I.e. including Scotland), but if you look closer you will realise that the majority of these banks' enterprises, and in particular much of the dodgy trading, took place south of the border. Is it not insulting that when these banks were enormously successful, they were lauded as the best of British, but after the Westminster government and London regulator allowed, nay encouraged, them to behave atrociously, they suddenly became failed 'Scottish' banks. This switching of identity is exactly the sort of underhand tactics used to undermine Scotland. For a nation to be undermined from within its own partner state is staggering. Returning to the point of bailing out banks, had Scotland been independent, it has been estimated that England would've been liable for up to 90% of the bailout given, reflecting the trading activity taking place either side of the border and the accordant significance to the relative economies. But that's all getting into technical debatables: the main point I wished to make was to ask you to try and understand the difference between England and the UK. Once you do, you'll understand why your comments are misplaced, and your accusation of 'victimhood' patronising in the extreme.
To suggest a "culture of victimhood" is missing the point.
It is, ultimately, a question of sovereignty (limited as it is in modern Europe) and how it is best exercised for the benefit of the population of Scotland. This is not a "freedom movement" in the context of removing "colonial masters'. A basic understanding of British history clarifies this (though the context of Scotland joining the Treaty of Union c.1707 Post Darian may contradict this somewhat).
There is no "subsidy" of Scotland on the part of England. Clearly, Scotland is a viable entity in its own right. It has excellent Universities, a diversified and growing manufacturing sector, abundance of natural resources (and not just oil), excellent communications and a cadre of world class companies in the private sector etc. It also has its share of problems common to much of Western Europe, and very few that are unique to Scotland.
The question is, would separation improve the lot of the average citizen? I'm not sure that it would, for a variety of reasons. However this process should not be viewed as analogous to some sort of post British Empire colonial struggle for national self determination. Very few people in Scotland view it in those terms.
Ask yourselves, why are the UK mainstream political parties so persistant in their voicing of keeping Scotland in the union. These parties will attempt every conceivable trick and manouvre to ensure Scotland remains a country within the UK. Since when did Westminster get so passionate about anything Scottish in the past which leads me to smell a rat. Could it possibly be that Westminster stands to lose financially if Scotland departs and stands on its own two feet like almost every other country on earth. The English, Scottish, Welsh and N.Irish have been fed very convenient scaremongering untruths for many decades, can't wait until the whole murky facts reveal themselves in the not to distant future which I believe will create massive repercutions strengthening Independence for not only Scotland. Anyone asking is Scotland can financially manage to support its inhabitants need only ask themselves what Scotland lacks that other similar sized nations possess. Extremely interesting times!
Most of us in London think Scotland should go! London already subsidizes the rest of the UK and Scotland is the worst offender.
It would be great to hand RBS back to Scotland and 8% of the national debt!
As far as oil/gas resources go, tough one...best trade for Scotland would probably be we get permanent lease on naval base in return for majority of oil and gas wealth.
Regardless, Scotland should plan for a future without the pound and without oil/gas resources. If that makes sense to ye' all, hurrah and adios! If not, to put it simply, STFU.
Most of us in London think Scotland should go! London already subsidizes the rest of the UK and Scotland is the worst offender.
It would be great to hand RBS back to Scotland and 8% of the national debt!
As far as oil/gas resources go, tough one...best trade for Scotland would probably be we get permanent lease on naval base in return for majority of oil and gas wealth.
Regardless, Scotland should plan for a future without the pound and without oil/gas resources. If that makes sense to ye' all, hurrah and adios! If not, to put it simply, STFU.
The reason the parties care, is the UK as a smaller nation loses significance. Scotland would be a small nation on the periphery of Europe, and the remaining UK a largish nation. Otherwise, go go go go! We are so tired of this...
If Scotland wishes to be independent, I wish them all the best. But it is a risky path to take. They do not have the oil wealth which is required to guarentee there prosperity and any slips in the price could easily push them into a deficit.
One thing i do not agree with is 'devo max'. Just like the UK cannot dictate terms of its partnership with the EU (although it fights tooth and nail for its interests, much to the dislike of our European neighbours), Scotland cannot dictate the terms of the union with the UK, effectively having its cake and eating it.
only the UK does dictate the terms of its EU membership..
A little dramatic don't you think.
I don't deny the UK fight hard, but there is a lot that the EU requires which the British don't like, (eg. CAP). But this debate is for another thread so i'm going to leave it at that.
With regards to Scotland, they have always been treated equally to the rest of the UK and have been given powers through devolution to conduct there own affairs. They have also benefitted from being part of a stable and prosperous Democracy and Economy. As I said before, if they wish to leave so be it, but i don't think it is actually in their interest.
you and me both, I think, to be honest.
My point is simply that the UK has shaped the EU to a great extent, and probably has more opt outs than anyone else - to say the EU "dictate" is a bit strong. I think Sikorski was absolutely right in his speech to the Germans about Britain. Politicians here should have been honest about the EU and allowed a referendum 20 years ago.. but to just say its all Brussels diktats is wrong.
I also agree that its in Scotland's interest to stay in the UK - I can't imagine they will vote YES now or in 2014 by a long way. But self-determination is a right too few world leaders talk about nowadays. If the Scots want devo-max let them negotiate terms with Westminster that both sides agree on.
Well lets leave the EU debate for this thread.
As for Devo-Max, I can't see the UK moving too far further (beyond the Scottish Bill currently going through parliament) as it would be unfair to other parts of the UK. Imagine if Scotland could control some or all of the different taxes on businesses and used its oil revenue to undercut the rest of the UK on some of these while still maintaining the benefits of being part of a larger nation, or if oil revenue shot up making Scotland rich yet making no contributions to the public services provided in Wales or Northern Ireland (which they would be unable to afford as indivdual nations). There is a point at which Scotland must be in or out and after the Scottish Bill passes through parliament, i think that is where the rest of the UK must draw the line.
I don't understand enough about the oil revenues and how they are or should be split. But I do think that Westminster really needs to get its act together vis a vis legislation for England, and preventing Scots from voting on these. Can it really be so difficult to separate laws according to whether they affect the UK or just England? I would argue that resentment in England is much more dangerous than the proposed referendum all 3 major parties are now so actively trying to tackle.
I agree that the West Lothian Question needs to be sorted, but there is no obvious answer in my opinion.
I think the problem with regards to the voting is that Labour has significant support in Scotland. What then happens when Labour win a majority but by less than the number of seats provided by Scotland? They are effectively a government that is unable to propose legislation on Welfare, Education or Health amongst others (i think Scotland has control over those three) without support. I don't think the practicalities would work.
David Dimbleby made a very interesting point last night - apparently only 1 Labour government has needed Scottish MPs to form a majority, all others Labour governments would have been majority governments with or without Scotland.
This point is reliant on pre-Thatcher Scottish politics when Scotland was a competitive area for the Tories. Granted Balir wouldn't have needed Scotland to form a government, but that was a very rare election result. Labour can bank on 40 or so Scottish MPs these days - that is the kind of majority Cameron would kill for
Just wanted to add to this that this would potentially push Labour further right so they can still with the UK (exc. Scotland) vote and lead to the parties no longer sitting on the equilibrium of the UK as a whole but to the right of it (towards the English).
The oil is among a large number of other resources. I assume for the sake of argument that you are English and have fallen for the Westminster line that the English are paying for the Scots to be subsidy junkies. Based on that far-fetched assumption, England stands to gain from either independence or devo-max(full fiscal autonomy)but stands to lose from the current status quo. Agreed. So it is in England's interests, and especially the Tory Party's interests to allow Scotland to leave or have full fiscal autonomy. After this England will be paying no money to Scotland(in its'dreams)and everyone will be happy.
However, Cameron, Osborne, Clegg & Millband are all banding together to utterly oppose the referendum by any means possible. Thus if we wish Cameron's 'help'(I had never realised that word was so toxic) we must agree to his conditions. Why are they so opposed to Scotland's independence or full fiscal autonomy? Something stinks. Maybe the financial numbers are not in England's favour if Scotland leaves. The vehemence of the opposition makes one wonder.
Which is why his opposition to independence or full fiscal autonomy (aka devomax) is so suspicious. He and the Tory party would gain so much, England would be forever Tory, and would be out of the EU as well.
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The research suggests that a simple screening question � "In a typical week, how many days do you get drunk?" � may help identify at-risk students.
"Each year approximately 1,700 college students die from alcohol-related injuries," said Mary Claire O'Brien, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine and public health sciences at Wake Forest's School of Medicine, which is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "Our goal was to develop a simple tool to tell which student drinkers are at highest risk of getting hurt, as a result of their own drinking and the drinking of others."
The results, part of an ongoing, five-year research project to develop effective strategies for reducing problem drinking on college campuses, were reported today at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in New York City.
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