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secures a vibrant green economy and a good quality of life for all Maldivians. “The whole country of Maldives will be a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve by 2017 – where public support for conservation of the country’s remarkable environment secures a vibrant green economy and a good quality of life for all Maldivians,” said Dr... |
The implementation plan, Maldives as a Biosphere Reserve: An Implementation Plan 2013-2017, sets a road-map for 2013 to 2017, after which the plan will be updated based on progress and lessons learned. The plan will be implemented by and for different atolls in a stepwise fashion, based on their readiness to adopt the ... |
in January 2013, showing the commitment from all stakeholders to this plan. The President of the Maldives signalled intentions in June 2012, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, RIO+20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to significantly ramp up efforts to protect the marine environment. The president outlin... |
by the success achieved in designating Baa Atoll as the first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Maldives. Become a ‘nation biosphere reserve’ will also lead to the Maldives becoming a champion of the Aichi Targets. These targets form the basis of an internationally agreed strategy to address the loss of global biodiversity. ... |
year 2020, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias said: “This pledge from the Maldives is extraordinary in size and potential impact. We should expect that it will be an inspiration to other CBD Parties, including Small Island Developing States and donor countries, t... |
development of marine protected areas and in the sustainable management of fish stocks is lagging considerably,” he added. “Although there are still more than seven years before the 2011-2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and its 20 Aichi Targets are to be fully implemented, as agreed in Nagoya at CBD COP 10, we will... |
Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence" - S: (v) compel, oblige, obligate (force somebody to do something) "We compel all students to fill out this form" - direct troponym / full troponym - S: (v) |
force, thrust (impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably) "She forced her diet fads on him" - S: (v) stick, sting (saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous) "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill" - S: (v) walk (make walk) "He walks the horse |
up the mountain"; "Walk the dog twice a day" - S: (v) parade, exhibit, march (walk ostentatiously) "She parades her new husband around town" - S: (v) march (cause to march or go at a marching pace) "They marched the mules into the desert" - S: (v) coerce, hale, squeeze, |
pressure, force (to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means) "She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information" - S: (v) turn up the heat, turn up the pressure (apply great or increased pressure) "The Democrats turned |
up the heat on their candidate to concede the election" - S: (v) drive (to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly) "She is driven by her passion" - S: (v) bludgeon (overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club) "The |
teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas" - S: (v) steamroller, steamroll (bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure) "The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat" - S: (v) squeeze for (squeeze someone for money, information, etc.) - S: (v) dragoon, sandbag, railroad (compel b... |
coercion, threats, or crude means) "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" - S: (v) terrorize, terrorise (coerce by violence or with threats) - S: (v) bring oneself (cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative) "He could not bring himself to call his parents" - |
S: (v) clamor (compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring) "They clamored the mayor into building a new park" - S: (v) condemn (compel or force into a particular state or activity) "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence" - S: (v) shame (compel |
through a sense of shame) "She shamed him into making amends" - S: (v) enforce, implement, apply (ensure observance of laws and rules) "Apply the rules to everyone" - S: (v) run, execute (carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine) "Run the dishwasher"; "run |
a new program on the Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction" - S: (v) execute (carry out the legalities of) "execute a will or a deed" - S: (v) give (execute and deliver) "Give bond" - S: (v) enforce, impose, constrain (compel to behave in a certain way) "Social relations |
impose courtesy"; "duty constrains one to act often contrary to one's desires or inclinations" - direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term - S: (v) induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make (cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner) "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; |
"My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" - derivationally related form - W: (n) compulsion [Related to: compel] (using force to cause something to occur) "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn't have |
to use coercion" - W: (n) obligation [Related to: oblige, obligate] (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force) "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John |
D.Rockefeller Jr - sentence frame - S: (v) oblige, bind, hold, obligate (bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted) "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" - S: (v) oblige, accommodate (provide a service or favor for someone) "We had to oblige him" |
Updated Mon, Feb 27, 2012 12:36 pm On this edition of Conversations from Studio B, Jim Fuller and Bill Walker talk with Chris Meekins of the North Carolina State Archives. The trio discuss the Burnside Expedition, a series of battles fought along the North Carolina coast under the command of |
Brig. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, which culminated in the Union occupation of Roanoke Island, New Bern, Morehead City, Beaufort and Washington. For more information, visit the North Carolina State Archives' Sesquicentennial Blog. Slideshow: The Burnside Expedition Brig. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside Flag captured by Union for... |
Fanny during the Battle of Elizabeth City, Feb. 10, 1862 Medal of Honor recipient John Davis risked life and limb by sitting on an open powder keg to keep it from catching fire General Ambrose E. Burnside and Commander Stephen C. Rowan issued this proclamation as outreach to the people |
The physical things and the human society have formed into the world we live in. However, the emergence of information technologies enables a new infrastructure for a technical, economic and social revolution, which have changed the world we are used to. Cyber-physical systems couple the cyber aspects of computing and ... |
physics. Social computing has become more widely known because of proliferation of online social networking in recent years. With the advent of ubiquitous sensing, future social networks will become cyber-physical, combining measured elements of the physical world. The convergence of computational and physical processe... |
OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Track 1: Cyber-physical systems and society - Track 2: Social computing - Track 3: Pervasive/ubiquitous computing - Track 4: Sensor/actuator networks - Track 5: Security, privacy, and trust - Track 6: Applications and services Submission Due: June 15, 20... |
|Direct Imaging of Asymmetric Magnetization Reversal| The phenomenon of exchange bias has transformed how data is read on magnetic hard disks and created an explosion in their information storage density. |
However, it remains poorly understood, and even the fundamental mechanism of magnetic reversal for exchange-biased systems in changing magnetic fields is unclear. By using x-ray photoemission electron microscopy at the |
ALS to directly image the magnetic structure of an exchange-biased film, a team from the University of Washington and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory has identified separate magnetic-reversal mechanisms in |
the two branches of a hysteresis loop. This advance in fundamental understanding will provide new insights for developing the next generation of information storage and sensing devices where exchange bias |
is expected to play a critical role. There are two basic energies involved in the manipulation and control of the magnetic properties of materials. Exchange controls magnetic order, and anisotropy |
controls magnetic orientation. A soft ferromagnet such as iron has a large exchange parameter but a small anisotropy, making ferromagnetic order stable at higher temperatures but with an unpredictable orientation |
of the magnetization, especially in structures of nanoscale dimensions. On the other hand, many antiferromagnets have weak exchange interactions (low ordering or Néel temperatures) but large anisotropies that result in |
very stable orientations. Exchange bias arises when a thin ferromagnetic film is grown on an antiferromagnet and the resulting heterostructure is cooled in a magnetic field through the Néel temperature |
of the antiferromagnet. As a result of exchange coupling between the layers, the ferromagnet both retains a stable order and gains a higher anisotropy at room temperature. Moreover, the unidirectional |
character of the anisotropy results in a shifted hysteresis loop that is now centered on a non-zero magnetic field. This exchange bias makes the ferromagnet an excellent magnetic reference layer |
in modern nanolayer magnetic devices because it is very difficult to demagnetize it. More than fifty years of research has provided varying insight into the exchange-bias phenomenon but not yet |
a comprehensive description of all its salient features. To gain more insight, the Washington–Stanford team resorted to x-ray photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM) imaging of high-quality single-crystal ferromagnetic iron epitaxially grown |
on antiferromagnetic MnPd (all on an MgO substrate), samples that had been previously well-characterized magnetically and structurally. At an iron absorption resonance, absorption of circularly polarized x rays at ALS |
Beamline 184.108.40.206 is sensitive to the angle between the magnetization within a ferromagnetic domain and the polarization vector. With the PEEM-2 microscope, this x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) effect allows |
an exact determination of the direction of the local domain magnetization at the surface of ferromagnets with a spatial resolution of 50 nm or less. By means of XMCD measurements |
taken at points in hysteresis loops with the applied field in different crystallographic directions of the iron ferromagnet, the team has accumulated the first direct imaging evidence for an asymmetry |
in the magnetic-reversal mechanism in exchange-biased systems, evidence that until now has only been inferred indirectly by measurements such as neutron scattering. Normally, magnetic reversal in ferromagnets occurs either by |
coherent rotation of magnetic moments in the domain or by nucleation and growth of reverse domains. Generally, the mechanism is determined by the material microstructure and is symmetric with respect |
to the applied field, i.e., it is the same in both branches of the hysteresis loop. However, the team found that in exchanged-biased ferromagnetic iron, the magnetization reversal occurs by |
moment rotation for decreasing fields, while it proceeds by domain nucleation and growth for increasing fields. The observed domains are also consistent with the crystallography of the bilayers and favor |
a configuration that minimizes the overall magnetostatic energy of the ferromagnetic layer. Research conducted by P. Blomqvist and K.M. Krishnan (University of Washington) and H. Ohldag (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory). |
Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Operation of the ALS is supported by BES. Publication about this research: P. Blomqvist, K.M. Krishnan, and H. |
MISR Views Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and the Appalachian Mountains Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) images of Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and the Appalachian Mountains acquired on March 24, 2000 during Terra orbit 1417. The large image on the right was taken by the MISR camera viewing straight down (n... |
series of smaller images, from top to bottom, respectively, were taken by cameras viewing 70.5 degrees forward, 45.6 degrees forward, 45.6 degrees aftward, and 70.5 degrees aftward of nadir. These images cover the environs of Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond. Differences in brightness, color, a... |
of view angle are visible over both land and water. Scientists are using MISR data to monitor changes in clouds, Earth's surface, and pollution particles in the air, and to assess their impact on climate. Credit: Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Science Team. |
App DescriptionDownload this application and watch all episodes of Ramanand Sagar's Mahabharata (hindi) with english subtitles. This is a series of TV shows that have left an incredible impression in |
hearts and minds of viewers world wide. The Mahabharata is The longest Sanskrit epic ever written, Mahabharata has a collection of more than 74,000 verses, divided into 18 books. The |
Mahabharata story is much revered in India and basically among the Hindus. The Mahabharata contains the Bhagawad Gita, the famous gospel of duty that was taught to the great warrior, |
Arjuna by Lord Krishna. The Mahabharata dwells on the aspect of the important goals of a human being in his mortal life. The epic aims at making people realize the |
relation between the individual and the society and how they both are inter dependent on each other. Read on further a summary of Mahabharata, the greatest epic ever. The epic |
revolves around the struggle for the throne of the kingdom of Hastinapura. The struggle is between two branches of the same family, the Kauravas and Pandavas. The Kauravas were collectively |
the hundred sons of the blind king Dhritarashtra and the Pandavas were the five sons of Pandu, who died of a curse. The five brothers named Yudhisthira (eldest son), Arjuna, |
Bheema, Nakula and Sahdeva were always obedient and dutiful, which made them the most loved in the kingdom. Each of the Pandavas had a special virtue in them that made |
them stand apart from the rest of the world. This made the Kauravas hate them and they planned many devious ways to get rid of them. As time went by, |
the Pandavas got married and shared a common wife named Draupadi. The Kauravas got even more enraged and challenged the Pandavas to a game of gamble. The Pandavas lost and |
were banished from the kingdom for an exile of 12 years. There was a condition that if they were recognized by the end of 12 years, they would have to |
begin from scratch. One of the most important and dramatic character in this epic is Lord Krishna. He was the sole advisor, guide and true friend of the Pandavas and |
helped them in each and every difficulty in their exile. He is said to be the incarnation of God, who came to earth in human form to relieve the world |
of evil people and restore faith in his devotees. During the great battle of Kurukshetra fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, Lord Krishna took upon himself the duty of |
driving Arjuna's chariot. He imparted the valuable and practical lessons of the Bhagawad Gita, a text of the conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjuna, where Lord Krishna shows Arjuna a |
glimpse of his majestic divine form. The Pandavas won the battle and ruled over Hastinapura for a number of years. It is said that Dhritarashtra and his wife retired into |
the forest to lead a stress-free life of an ascetic and Krishna left after around thirty six years after the battle took place. When the Pandavas realized that it was |
time to leave this earth, they all set out on a journey towards the North on foot. It is said that the gates of heaven opened on the northern horizon. |
Alternate Names : Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault Rape is the physical act of attacking another person and forcing that person to have sex. It is the illegal sexual penetration of any body opening. Rape can happen to men, women, and children. It is often violent, although sometimes the threat is only implied. Rape can als... |
about it. This can happen if the victim is unconscious, intoxicated, or high on drugs. Male rapists usually have an extreme hatred for women. They may feel inadequate and have problems with sexual performance. At least half the time, the rapist knows the victim and works or lives near the victim. Most rapes are planned... |
attacker. More than half of sexual assaults involve a weapon. What is the information for this topic? Following are some safety measures to help prevent rape when you are at home or in your car: Don't let a stranger into the house without proper identification. Don't list a first name on a mailbox or in a phone book. H... |
key ready before reaching the door of a car or house. Keep a light on at all entrances. Keep doors and windows locked. Look in the car before entering. Make arrangements with a neighbor for assistance in emergency situations. Set the house lights to go on and off with a timer. Other safety measures you can take to help... |
rape are as follows: Appear strong and confident. Avoid isolated and secluded areas. Don't walk or jog alone at night. Look for unusual behavior in those around you. Scream loudly if attacked. Sit in lighted areas and near other people such as the driver when using public transportation. When someone has been raped, th... |
the police. The victim should be taken to a medical facility and examined. The person should not bathe before this examination, as evidence might be destroyed. Additionally, clothing or samples of clothing might be collected by the police as evidence. During this exam, a healthcare provider will take the following step... |
pubic hair samples take swabs from the anus and mouth take swabs from the vaginal area if the victim is a female test for pregnancy if the victim is a female, and provide emergency contraception as needed test for sexually transmitted diseases and provide treatment as needed The provider will treat all cuts and wounds.... |
are more severe than the physical wounds. It is very important that the victim get counseling and therapy. A local rape crisis center can help the victim through this trauma. Recovery from rape varies from person to person. Usually the physical wounds heal quickly. Mental wounds can last for many years after the attack... |
as suffering a posttraumatic stress disorder. This usually has an acute phase, lasting a few days to a few weeks, which is followed by a long-term process of recovery. Many rape victims suffer from the following: If the person doesn't receive effective treatment, he or she may experience these difficulties: inability t... |
can go on to lead normal lives. But it's very important to their mental health that they get proper counseling. Healthcare providers can help the victim work through many of the problems that result from rape. They help monitor the victim's healing, both physically and mentally. |
News: News Archives Science Translational Medicine: High-Speed Test Can Diagnose Genetic Disorders in Newborns New whole-genome sequencing technology can diagnose genetic disorders in newborn babies in intensive care units in just a few days, according a new study appearing in |
the 3 October issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine. The technique’s main revolutionary feature is speed—a 50-hour turnaround time for genetic results compared to the few weeks needed using current methods. The genetic test could potentially shorten the time |
it takes to get a diagnosis, jumpstart any available treatments, and lessen the time to genetic counseling for anxious parents. “These programs help us answer the question of what genes we should be looking at, what parts of the genome |
are relevant to the symptoms that a patient has, and what should we look at in more detail,” said Neil Miller, director of informatics at the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital, during a 2 October teleconference |
with reporters. In genetic diseases for which treatments exist, rapid diagnosis is critical for neonatal interventions. [Image © 2012 Sarah Maxey Photography] Called SSAGA, the technology allows any physician to order a complex genomic test with a few clicks. Using |
DNA extracted from a drop of the baby’s blood, computers analyze the child’s genome and map it to a set of nearly 7500 disease-related genes and genetic diseases, many of which may not familiar to the ordering physician. Doctors then |
press buttons to enter data that represent the disease features they are seeing in a patient, and the system then looks for changes in the baby’s DNA code that explain his or her illness. The whole process is performed in |
roughly two days and is ideal for use in neonatal intensive care units. The researchers were able to make a definitive diagnosis in three out of the four babies they tested with the new technique. Such rapid diagnosis can make |
a dramatic difference to a baby’s health. There are about 500 genetic diseases for which treatments are available. For example, phenylketonuria, or PKU, is a genetic disease that affects newborns and leads to intellectual disability and seizures. Yet early diagnosis |
and subsequent treatment (a diet lacking the amino acid phenylalanine) allows children to have a normal mental development and lifespan. “Importantly, [the technique] also allows us to have accurate genetic counseling regarding the risk for parents to have another affected |
baby and make informative decisions about their reproductive future,” said Carol Saunders, clinical director at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. “For example, we worked with a family to find a diagnosis, and they now know the gene that |
caused two stillbirths in the only two pregnancies that they have had,” Saunders added. “They are now pursuing genetic diagnosis so that they can have a healthy baby.” The research team plans to broaden the test to 100 or more |
babies in order to pinpoint the exact benefits, costs, and potential problems of testing. The researchers also believe they can trim total testing time down from 50 hours to 36 hours by the end of the year. 3 October 2012 |
Cowie, Daniel B. The following data is extracted from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Daniel B. Cowie. In an article on other pages of this publication will be found some account of the salt industry in Kansas and some mention of the more prominent mines and companies. One |
of the most striking figures in the development of the salt industry in Kansas was the late James Cowie, Sr., and the above named is a son of that salt pioneer and is now general superintendent of the Independent Salt Company at Kanopolis. The Cowie family are Scotch people, and |
in Scotland they were also identified with mining. The grandfather of Daniel was George Cowie, who spent his life in Scotland and was a successful coal contractor. James Cowie, Sr., was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, in 1839. He grew up and married there and from an early age was a |
coal miner. Prior to his coming to America he was general manager for one of the largest coal companies in Scotland, having supervision over ten diffierent coal properties. On coming to the United States in 1884 he entered the employ of the H. C. Frick Coal Company at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. |
James Cowie, Sr., came to Kanopolis, Kansas, in 1889. The credit is given him for originating the salt mining industry of Kansas and he was known in the press and to the general public as the "salt king." As manager of the Royal Salt Company he put in the first |
salt mine in Kansas just east of the city limits of Kanopolis. He managed that company until 1905 and then organized the Crystal Salt Company, of which he was manager and part owner. He bought from the Kanopolis townsite the salt rights underneath the town. The Crystal mine is just |
outside the limits of Kanopolis but its tunnels and underground work are partly beneath the town itself. At the time of his death James Cowie, Sr., was managing director of the Crystal Salt Company and also owned between 5,000 and 6,000 town lots in Kanopolis. Previously he was owner of |
about forty buildings in the town but had sold this part of his real estate. As an American citizen James Cowie, Sr., was a republican, was an active Presbyterian, and served a number of terms as mayor of Kanopolis and well justified the honors bestowed upon him by efficient service |
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