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In Life Science you are invited to choose from four Bottle Biology systems. Each has been designed to provide applications and extension activities for the topics being addressed in the sequential pairs of sessions that compose the course.
The "TerrAqua Column" has been designed as a companion to Sessions 1 and 2, reinforcing concepts related to defining life and classifying living things. Sessions 3 and 4 focus upon animal and plant life cycles. The "Brassica & Butterfly System" allows firsthand experience with plant and animal life cycles that are intertwined. The basics of biological evolution are addressed in Sessions 5 and 6. Using the "Field Population System," you can do an experiment that demonstrates how evolution works. Sessions 7 and 8 explore interdependence in the living world. The "EcoColumn" offers a way of exploring large-scale concepts at a "bottle-sized" scale.
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The Department of Chemistry, College of Science of the University of Santo Tomas Celebrates IYCActivity by Karen Santiago | added on Aug 28, 2011 | Philippines
Sponsor(s): UST Department of Chemistry & College of Science
Series of events being organized and/or co-organized by the Department of Chemistry of the UST College of Science from September to December 2011: -Design the 'Chem Board' -Essay Writing Contest -Amazing Chemistry: A day of lecture and experiments @UST -Poster Making Contest -Water Experiment
The Department of Chemistry, in cooperation with the UST College of Science, is pleased to announce its participation in the celebration of the International Year of Chemistry 2011.
A series of events is being organized and/or co-organized by the department from September to December 2011,
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I ridiculed the Department of Education materials that accompany President Obama's speech to American school children here, and I stand by the view that any self-respecting American schoolkid could only respond to such lameness with rebellion. But now I want to address the speech itself, which will mostly be good, if Obama sticks to the script. Consistent with this post's theme, I'll only mention the good parts.
When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn't have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning.
Now I wasn't too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I'd complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster."
I like this. During the summer, it's all I can do to get my kids up before noon, so references to study sessions at 4:30 in the morning are welcome.
Maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine – but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.
Woo-hoo! All references to debate teams are to be applauded. Today I wore a "Dartmouth debate" t-shirt while I was running errands, and, frankly, felt a little silly. It's good to know that Barack has my back.
My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in.
So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been. I did some things I'm not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.
But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams.
If Obama would spend more time on this kind of theme and less on trying to promote socialism, he could be a good President. There are a lot of kids out there who would benefit from such a Presidential message, if it weren't accompanied by a "never mind, we're going to socialize everything anyway" subtext.
Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
That's not just happy talk, it's the truth. I wish Obama actually believed it.
I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you're not going to be any of those things.
But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won't love every subject you study. You won't click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.
That's OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures.
Could we please, please have more of this kind of message, and less left-wing, anti-American, anti-free enterprise bullshit?
No one's born being good at things, you become good at things through hard work.
I've told my own kids this a thousand times. No one is born smart. Notwithstanding the common belief among teenagers that every high school class has at least four or five "geniuses," there is only one way to make yourself smart: mind-numbingly hard work.
The Obama administration is off to a horrible start, but it isn't yet a lost cause. If Obama could put aside his dopey left-wing ideology and stick to this kind of positive message, he could yet salvage his Presidency. But I'm afraid he doesn't have it in him to do that.
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My opinion of this book is that it is scary when AJ is in the bathroom because there was a ghost. Miss Mary is goth. Miss Mary doesn't talk like people from England but she is from England. She talks boy-ish. I liked the book because I read the book around Halloween and it made me freak out. It was fun. I did not like Miss Mary's father because he doesn't let his daughter do what she wants to do. Miss Mary did not want to be a teacher.
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The Human Factor
What Are the Biggest Problems That Control Engineers Face When Going into a Plant?
Warning! This interview was conducted over the course of many beers and much BBQ, leading to an empty head and a full stomach.
Greg: Monsanto started a process control improvement (PCI) program in the early 1990s. A PCI group was funded up-front to find opportunities and implement solutions. Plants did not have to pay for services of the team, but did need to commit to do an opportunity assessment and provide resources based on the benefits found. To benchmark what had been done in the chemical industry, the team visited 12 companies that were considered to be the best in process control. The results were reported to the Chemical Manufacturing Association's (CMA) Process Control Task Group in my June 30, 1993, report, "Opportunities in Process Control."
Stan: The key person in the PCI group who led most of the opportunity assessments was Glenn Mertz, who spent his career in a plant and had skills and a keen interest not only in process control, but also in working with financials. The rest of the PCI group members were modeling and control specialists recovered from what was a world-class engineering technology (ET) department that was doing a disappearing act (another story).
Greg: I visited both Stan and Glenn on my recent vacation in southwest Florida. In talking with them, the importance of the human factor became evident.
Even the best ideas may never see the light of day. Glenn had an advantage going into a plant because he was perceived as a plant person. However well-respected internationally, the corporate PCI specialists were viewed as outsiders. Tribal instincts and egos can get the best of people, particularly those without a technical understanding. The great thing about process and control engineers at the working level is that for them evidence rules. Automation systems are windows into and handles for the process and, thus, the source of evidence.
Stan: What was the biggest problem you faced going into a plant?
Glenn: The statements up-front, "Everything is perfect," or from the less idealistic, "It is as good as it is going to get," were discouraging. The problem was particularly endemic with upper level managers, who wanted to prevent interference with their decision-making process and were more interested in not making past decisions look bad versus making new decisions to look better.
Stan: What type of champion were you looking for at the plant?
Glenn: We succeeded the most when our key interface had technical understanding, was open to new ideas, looked for the positives rather than negatives, was patient in working through problems, and had a great personal relationship with the operators. I started each day onsite in the control room talking to the operators.
Greg: What other people needed to be involved in the PCI implementation?
Glenn: Absolutely critical was the involvement of the process engineer supporting the production unit and the control engineer responsible for the distributed control system (DCS) configuration. The analyzer specialist and E&I engineers were only needed on an occasional basis since we were doing mostly "quick hits" that simply involved configuration changes.
Stan: What were the most exciting opportunities?
Glenn: We would start drooling when an increase in feed rate was needed. This was the easiest nut to crack and quick to implement.
Greg: The PCI process is outlined in my note pages. "Opportunity Sizing and Assessment." The result of the opportunity-sizing was a gap from the actual versus a target production rate, yield or quality improvement. Simulations were used to establish theoretical targets, but the more convincing target was the practical target found by Glenn by going through the cost sheets. How did you manage to gain access and analyze the cost sheets?
Glenn: Outsiders do not get to see the cost sheets, but from being from a plant and managing my real estate businesses, including doing all the numbers, I could talk my way into seeing and analyzing the financials. I took the best with a grain of salt. The week or month of exceptional performance could be an outlier for any number of reasons.
Greg: It was amazing to me how some plants with many forms of product and many customers had no on-line production rate measurement. Large continuous intermediates plants had recycle stream effects that would build over a course of weeks, confusing process and research for decades. The foremost industry expert in advance process control concluded that model predictive control was a waste of time until a real-time optimization could figure out what is really going on because of the non-self-regulation from recycle.
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(Mark 3:13–19)
I had to repost this devotional because I lives must be purposeful. However, sometimes we define purposeful with a completely different construct than the Lord. This will help everyone to understand their purpose and role in God's Kingdom Plan.
"Who, me, Lord?"
"Yes, you. I'm calling you."
"But what you're asking of me is too difficult. I don't have the skills or the training. I can't possibly succeed at this!"
Does this conversation sound familiar? Many of us know the experience of being asked to take on a task that seems much too demanding for us. We're afraid of failure. We make excuses. But by doing so, we may miss the joy of being part of something wonderful.
In The Purpose Driven Life, author Rick Warren responds to those who make excuses concerning why they cannot serve the Lord: "Abraham was old, Jacob was insecure, Leah was unattractive, Joseph was abused, Moses stuttered, Gideon was poor, Samson was codependent, Rahab was immoral, David had an affair and all kinds of family problems, Elijah was suicidal, Jeremiah was depressed, Jonah was reluctant, Naomi was a widow, John the Baptist was eccentric to say the least, Peter was impulsive and hot-tempered, Martha worried a lot, the Samaritan woman had several failed marriages, Zacchaeus was unpopular, Thomas had doubts, Paul had poor health, and Timothy was timid."
The 12 men Jesus asked to be his apostles could have offered lots of reasons why they were not fit to serve. They were common men with no special standing in the eyes of the world. Yet when Jesus called, they came: fishermen, tax collectors and even revolutionaries. History shows that their faith and obedience to Jesus Christ changed the world profoundly.
When Jesus calls us to follow him, he's not looking for the smartest or the strongest or the most brave. He doesn't check our resume or call our list of references. Scripture is full of stories of women and men who were used powerfully by God despite their lack of experience or expertise. How about you? Is God asking you to accept an assignment that seems far beyond your comfort zone? Are you afraid that you might fail? Are you afraid that you might succeed?
Take heart from this account of those whom Jesus chose to be his closest companions—those who would carry on his work. They changed the world not because of what they had in themselves, but because of the One who empowered them. And they were part of something wonderful.
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PeopleSoft CEO compares Microsoft .NET to ... asbestos?
Just two weeks after PeopleSoft's announcement that it is porting all of its products to Linux, CEO Craig Conway is making it clear that PeopleSoft's push toward Linux is a move away from Microsoft. "The answer to the death grip Microsoft has on the industry is an alternative operating system," he said at a PeopleSoft conference in Australia. "That's why PeopleSoft has decided to port all our applications to Linux," he said.
Conway drew a sharp contrast between PeopleSoft's server-based architecture and Microsoft's .NET framework, which leverages Microsoft operating systems on both the server and the client. "Running enterprise software on a PC is a known bad thing. It's like asbestos," he said. ".Net is a home formula to make your own asbestos. PeopleSoft is absolutely convinced enterprise software should not be resident on PCs."
Conway's remarks show how far PeopleSoft has come since the early 1990s, when it boasted of being one of the first enterprise application vendors to fully leverage Microsoft technology. One would have expected such a comparison of Microsoft to asbestos from Oracle's Larry Ellison, not PeopleSoft's Conway. Although, Ellison would have probably added that the comparison was an insult to the former asbestos industry.
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Friday, May 16, 2003
SSA GT making good on its product extension promise by interfacing BPCS with Warehouse BOSS. Last month I commented on the strategy of both MAPICS and SSA GT in building a large installed base by acquiring weaker competitors, then leveraging sales of common extension products across the entire installed base. It now appears that SSA GT is following through on this strategy by interfacing BPCS, its core ERP suite, with Warehouse BOSS, which it picked up in its acquisition of the Interbiz unit of Computer Associates last year. Warehouse BOSS is a fairly robust warehouse management system, running on the IBM iSeries (formerly AS/400), which makes it a good fit with BPCS, which runs on the same platform. Warehouse BOSS is a good example of how a product that SSA can leverage to multiple segments of its user base--it now has links to several ERP suites from SSA: PRMS, BPCS, and KBM.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Is Sarbanes-Oxley the new Y2K?
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed by Congress in 2002 in response to a number of high profile financial scandals, such as those at Enron and WorldCom. Its goal is intended to make corporate accounting procedures more transparent to investors and regulators. Although the law includes a number of new mandates, there are two sections that have clear implications for corporate information systems. Section 404 (Management Assessment of Internal Controls), with a deadline at the end of 2003, requires management to assess each year the effectiveness of its own internal controls and procedures for financial reporting, and Section 409 (Real Time Disclosure) requires companies to disclose material changes in their financial condition or operations on a rapid and current basis. These two Sections each spell more spending on IT.
First, Section 404, which requires audit of internal controls, will likely lead executives to reexamine and possibly replace operational systems that are not well integrated with financial systems. For example, an A/P system that does not systematically match purchase orders and receivers to vendor invoices prior to payment might be vulnerable to fraud. Or, an invoicing system that is not integrated with shipping might allow a manager to improperly recognize revenue that was not yet earned.
Furthermore, the timeliness requirement of Section 409 seems to call for a much more transparent and integrated financial reporting system than many companies have today. For example, companies that are accustomed to working on a 10 day financial closing period would seem to be at risk for non-compliance with the real-time disclosure requirement, which is currently interpreted as demanding disclosure of material events within 48 hours. The problem is particularly acute for firms with multiple operating units and decentralized systems. Such companies will either need to adopt a common financial reporting system, or integrate multiple systems with a financial reporting layer at the corporate level, and/or implement an enterprise performance management (EPM) solution to provide real-time analytics. In any case, Sarbanes-Oxley spells increased spending for enterprise systems.
In a recent survey of Fortune 1000 companies by AMR, 85% of respondents said that Sarbanes-Oxley will require changes to their IT and application infrastructure. This is reminiscent of the late 1990s, where companies made large investments in new systems to prepare for the Year 2000 (Y2K) date roll-over. If so, Sarbanes-Oxley comes none too soon for vendors of enterprise systems, who have been looking for the next Y2K since, well, Y2K.
A summary of Sarbanes-Oxley is on the AICPA web site.by Frank Scavo, 5/13/2003 09:45:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
PeopleSoft climbs aboard the Linux bandwagon. At its user conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, PeopleSoft announced that it is porting and optimizing all of its applications for Linux, the open source operating system. PeopleSoft will partner with IBM for Linux deals, with IBM providing its xSeries hardware, DB2 database, and WebSphere Application Server. PeopleSoft plans to complete the migration of all of its products to Linux by the end of 2003.
Although Linux has made great strides in establishing itself in data centers, its role has been largely restricted to running Web servers, file servers, and messaging platforms. Its growth beyond such infrastructure services has been limited by the fact that, until recently, there have not been many enterprise-class applications that can run over Linux. But now PeopleSoft joins a number of other enterprise system vendors, such as SAP, Oracle, and QAD, in offering support for Linux. This trend appears to be growing, and if it continues it could allow Linux to play a central role in the application architecture of many organizations. Some industries that rely more on custom applications, such as financial services, are already heavy users of Linux, which offers a cost-effective and reliable platform for high volume transaction processing. With vendors of commercial software such as PeopleSoft getting on the bandwagon, this trend to Linux will likely accelerate.
For a more extensive discussion on Linux total cost of ownership (TCO), see my post on Dec. 17, 2002.by Frank Scavo, 5/06/2003 01:06:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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From Dale Turner's Power Plucking
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The preceding figures are merely highlighting rhythms that are played in a basic rock drumbeat, primarily to get you thinking like a drummer—a fun approach to try while composing your own fingerstyle figures! It's no coincidence that some of rock's greatest riff writers, from Edward Van Halen to Dave Grohl, played drums before they ever learned guitar. While we won't devote this entire lesson to mimicking drum-kit sounds, you'll find this section contains all sorts of interesting ways to coax "percussion" out of six strings, many of which accentuate the backbeat— rhythmic and repetitive moves you can use to get a groove going. (Note: For many of these figures, consider using the "heel down" or "heel planting" position; you may find it yields more stability—and hence, accuracy—as well as overall comfort.)
Accentuating the Backbeat
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Some rockers inject percussive effects into their fingerstyle chording with aggressive replanting (indicated with X's in notation and tab staves) of the thumb (p), index (i), middle (m), and ring (a) fingers, copping rock's ubiquitous backbeat (snare hits on beats 2 and 4). For this "replant" sound, you're basically putting your plucking fingers back in alignment to pluck again (i.e., the preparation posture this book has discussed in numerous spots); you're slamming them onto the strings just hard enough to create a percussive "smack." Fig. 2, modeled after Nuno Bettencourt's plucking in Extreme's "More Than Words," presents one application of this "backbeat/replant" sound.
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In Fig. 3A, the "backbeat" effect is applied to fully fretted shapes, the percussiveness stemming from louder open-hand strums on beats 2 and 4. Note that each open-hand strum is followed by a combination of audible replants (again, notated with X's) and traditional plucking (i–m–a) of three-note chords. (For the quick exchange between these elements, try a "bouncing" movement with your plucking hand.) Also, notice how the thumbed bass notes on strings 5–6 mimic a kick drum. You can hear this sound in the work of pluckers like Ani DiFranco (achieved with open tunings) and several others cited within this chapter.
Fig. 3B is the exact plucking combination of the previous figure, only plugged into more interesting open voicings, not unlike those Dave Matthews uses in "Crash Into Me." Basically, these voicings (Cma7–G6–Asus2–E5/F) are the result of sustaining an E5 shape (E–B) over a C–G–A–F bass line.
Fig. 3C maintains this same percussive plucking pattern, only this time with voicings Jeff Buckley uses in songs like "Lover, You Should've Come Over"—three-note 6th- or 7th-chord shapes, played in conjunction with open strings. For instance, the actual fretted notes of this figure's Cma13 and Fma13#11 voicings are really just trimmed down C6 (C–E–G–A) and F6 (F–A–C–D) shapes, blended with the open E and B strings. Similarly, the G13 and Am9 chords are shell voicings (the root, 3rd, and 7th) of G7 and Am7, with higher open strings. These types of moves definitely evoke the vibe of an open tuning.


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Perrie adds: "Our image is going to be commented on a lot at the minute because we've only got two songs out, but once the album comes out people will know our music more and hopefully respect us more as music artists. It's just a matter of time really."
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You won't be coming back.
Since I don't feel like dying on some godforsaken planet, I don't intend on applying for the one way ticket to a slow and misfortunate death. Too bad I can't nominate a few people I know. But I bet the grim prospect of being one of the first dwellers on Mars appeals to some people. That's fine because I don't mind thinning the herd.
There is a pretty stringent, four-step application process to become a Mars astronaut. Applicants must be 18 years or older (so kids ask your parents' permission before calling), possess the knowledge to upload a video of yourself online and have a "can-do attitude," as the brochure states. Other qualifications include being able to survive without water and the ability to hold your breath for extreme periods of times.
What sort of clientele does this leave? The bottom of the gene pool if you ask me. Clearly only a person who has nothing going for them on this planet would consider making something of their life on a foreign planet devoid of any noteworthy resources. It's nothing but extended intergalactic suicide, and the revolution is going to be televised!
That's the best part. Mars One will be receiving a large chunk of funding through filming and subsequently airing the training process, which will pit competitors against one another to secure a ticket on board the space ship. So it's essentially going to be "Survivor" where the winners get ostracized from Earth and sent into space where they all experience the throes of starvation before succumbing to slow and excruciatingly painful deaths.
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"Man of Steel" was the kryptonite to any box-office rival this weekend, monopolizing ticket sales and flying away with No. 1.
The 3-D film starring Henry Cavill as Superman grossed a stellar $113.1 million over the weekend, according to an estimate from distributor Warner Bros. Including the $12 million the Zack Snyder-directed flick collected from early screenings on Thursday, the movie has now sold a total of $125.1 million worth of tickets domestically.
The only other new movie to hit theaters this weekend, the R-rated comedy "This Is the End," trailed far behind "Man of Steel." However, the film's $20.5-million, three-day opening is still solid, considering the movie cost Sony Pictures just $32.5 million to produce. Since debuting in theaters late Tuesday evening, the film has made a healthy $32.8 million in all.
"Man of Steel," meanwhile, posted the biggest June opening ever (not adjusting for inflation), beating the $110.3-million launch of 2010's "Toy Story 3." The movie also had one of the most successful debuts of the year, behind only the massive $174.1-million opening for "Iron Man 3" in May.
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Though the last Superman movie, starring Brandon Routh, earned better reviews than "Man of Steel," audiences liked the newer film more. Moviegoers assigned "Superman Returns" an average grade of B+, according to market research firm CinemaScore, while "Steel" notched an A-. The new film attracted primarily older males: 56% of the crowd was male and 62% was over the age of 25. About 41% of moviegoers were willing to shell out a few extra bucks to see the picture in 3-D.
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While "Man of Steel" is on track to collect at least $300 million domestically, it remains to be seen how well the movie will fare internationally. Since the picture cost Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures $225 million to produce, it will need to do strong business abroad if it is to become a hit. This weekend, the movie opened in 24 foreign markets, but international returns were not yet available early Sunday.
"This Is the End," written and directed by Seth Rogen and his "Superbad" collaborator Evan Goldberg, follows Rogen and his group of celebrity friends as they try to survive the apocalypse. The movie was beloved by critics and this weekend, filmgoers gave it an average grade of B+.
Though the picture was generating the most pre-release interest among those under 25, this weekend it actually did best with a slightly older crowd — 52% of whom were over 25. Males made up about 60% of the audience.
"I think people will be obsessed with this movie for many, many weeks to come," said Sony's distribution president, Rory Bruer. "R-rated comedies with fresh concepts tend to hold up well."
"This Is the End" may hold up well next weekend, but it will face competition from a new comedy July 28. That's when "The Heat," the buddy cop flick starring Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock hits theaters, and the movie is already on pace to open stronger than the big-budget action film "White House Down."
"Before Midnight," the third film in a series directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, fell flat in its nationwide expansion. The movie has excelled in limited release over the past three weekends, but when it jumped from 52 locations to 897 this weekend, the film collected $1.5 million. That amounts to a lackluster per-theater average of $1,701.
So far, the movie has sold a total of $3.2 million worth of tickets. The last picture featuring Hawke and Delpy as a couple, 2004's "Before Sunset," grossed $5.8 million in all.


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Earning a graduate certificate in TESOL might allow you to study a particular concentration area, such as pedagogy, language acquisition, the needs of specific populations and cultural backgrounds, assessment, and other potential topics. As such, the specifics of each TESOL graduate certificate program might vary.
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We turn our attention to ideal embeddings of two- and three-periodic nets and arrays of inter-woven nets. The 'equilibrium placement' concept of O'Keeffe Delgado-Friedrichs [ 76 ] leads to canonical embeddings of crystallographic nets [ 77 ]. In fact, equilibrium placement allows a continuum of embeddings of a crystallographic net, as the unit cell parameters are arbitrary. However, two of those embeddings are most useful, and are explicitly computed by the SyStRe algorithm [ 78 ]. The first is a 'barycentric' embedding, which places each vertex at the barycentre of its neighbours. The second is a 'uniform' embedding, where the variance of the edge lengths is minimized, favouring uniform edge lengths. Despite the evident power of the SyStRe algorithm, there remain many nets for which it gives no canonical form, including those with edge and vertex collisions, where multiple edges or vertices occupy the same location in the equilibrium placement, and non-crystallographic nets. Additionally, SyStRe cannot produce canonical embeddings for patterns containing multiple interwoven nets. Given those limitations, it is worthwhile exploring ideal tight embeddings of nets via the PB-SONO algorithm. (Ideal configurations of many of these nets are published in [ 27 ].)
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Ideal embeddings of the simplest three-periodic nets: () srs , () dia , () pcu , and of two simple two-periodic nets () hcb , () (4,4,8,8). The edge diameter has been decreased to show the ideal form [ 27 ]. (Online version in colour.)
Consider next, ideal forms of two-periodic graphs. In its ideal form ( figure 15 d ), the regular hcb (graphene) net has equal edges and ropelength L / D =2.89, with a hexagonal 2-periodic unit cell ( a = b =1; γ = π /3), which is equivalent to both of the SyStRe embeddings. For the (4,4,8,8) two-periodic net, the barycentric embedding and the uniform embeddings given by SySrRe are distinct. The ideal embedding found by PB-SONO, shown in figure 15 e , is equivalent to the uniform embedding and not the barycentric embedding. This ideal embedding has ropelength L / D =6.05, with lattice parameters a = b =1; γ = π /2.
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() Unfiltered time series of the along-stream average mean latitude anomaly of ACC transport, (blue line), and the SAM (green) and Niño 3.4 (red) indices. () Time series of (blue) and SAM (green) smoothed with a 2 year wide triangle filter. For , the mean dynamic topography from Aviso is used [ 44 , 45 ]. (Online version in colour.)
Also shown in figure 4 a are time series of the SAM (green) and Niño 3.4 (red) indices, here computed by interpolating monthly climate indices onto the dates of the weekly Aviso altimetry. On monthly time scales, there is no evidence of a statistically significant correlation between the ACC position variability in figure 4 and either climate index.
In figure 4 b , the and SAM time series have been filtered using a 2-year wide triangle filter. This smoothing removes high-frequency fluctuations leaving only interannual signals, and in this case, the SAM is weakly anti-correlated with , at roughly the 90% significance level. These results are sensitive to the choice of mean dynamic topography. More anomalous spikes in transport latitude appear when EGM08/DNSC08B mean dynamic topography is used, and in that case, the signals are anti-correlated at only about the 65% significance level. In neither case is a significant correlation found between the Niño 3.4 index and .
The results of this analysis suggest that latitudinal shifts in the circumpolarly integrated ACC transport are more correlated with the SAM than with the Niño 3.4 index, implying that zonally averaged Southern Hemisphere winds have more impact on the mean latitude of the ACC than do remote tropical teleconnections. The low correlation with Niño 3.4 is not surprising since ENSO impacts are not expected to be zonally coherent. The findings should be interpreted with caution, because even on interannual scales, the correlation between the SAM and does not pass a rigorous 95% statistical significance test. Coherence analysis or lagged correlations would make it possible to assess time lags in the relationships between and climate indices, but that is beyond the scope of this short paper.
This study has used altimeter data to examine temporal shifts in the position of the ACC. In contrast to earlier altimeter-based studies [
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, 50 – 52 ], this analysis has not focused on latitudinal shifts in SSH contours, which are potentially sensitive to large-scale steric expansion associated with warming of the Southern Ocean, and which therefore do not provide clear insights into driving mechanisms. Instead, this study has explored an alternate measure of ACC displacement, in this case, based on the latitude of the mean, meridionally averaged transport, . This transport latitude index is designed to minimize large-scale steric height signals, though it is sensitive to the definition of endpoints and to some extent to the MDT.
On the basis of the position index, , the zonally averaged latitude of ACC transport shows no long-term trend, in contrast with SSH-contour based measures of ACC variability. This leaves open the questions of what mechanisms account for the long-term warming observed in the Southern Ocean in recent decades and whether more warm circumpolar seep water is reaching the Antarctic ice edge. Analyses of hydrographic data suggest that the Southern Ocean warming signal is too deep to be explained trivially through air–sea fluxes [
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]. While it remains possible that the ACC fronts have shifted poleward in a way that has not yet been convincingly diagnosed, an alternative is that enhanced meridional heat transport, perhaps via eddy heat fluxes, may account for the observed warming. Further analysis of the ocean heat budget will be needed to unravel these mechanisms.
The zonally averaged position index is uncorrelated with the Niño 3.4 index on any timescales. By contrast, does correlate with the Niño 3.4 index, with differing correlations as a function of longitude. The nature of the Niño 3.4 correlation suggests that tropical Pacific influences on the Southern Ocean are regional and not circumpolarly coherent. The circumpolarly averaged value is weakly anti-correlated with the SAM index, implying that changes in the latitude and strength of the wind that are represented by the increasing SAM might be able to displace the mean transport of the ACC poleward. Taken together, these results are suggestive of a two-mechanism system, in which regional effects associated with upper ocean temperatures, air–sea fluxes, and even ice melt may respond to changes in the tropical Pacific [
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], but the latitude at which the zonally averaged ACC carries its mean transport might be more dependent on the SAM-related winds than on teleconnections with the equatorial Pacific.
Work has been supported by a number of funding sources, including NOAA award NA10OAR4310139, NSF grant no. OCE-1234473 and NASA grant no. NNX13AE44G.
The altimeter products were produced by Ssalto/Duacs and distributed by Aviso with support from CNES. The DNSC08B-EGM08 dynamic ocean topography is made available by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (
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