In this sentence, the noun savings is in plural form:     I have one savings account.   It is like a gerund or maybe it is a gerund, I am not clear about it. But when I searched the Internet, I found somewhere claiming that a gerund is always singular, but somewhere else claiming that some gerunds do have plural forms.  I am confused. As far as I understand it, saying that a gerund is a verbal noun means that it is a verb as well as a noun at the same time, but that it is also not a noun.  The Internet suggests that gerunds iwth plural forms like drawings, meanings , and so one do not seem to be gerunds at all but they do seem to be nouns.  I want to know:   Do gerunds have plural forms?  If so, could you please give me some examples? Are the nouns drawing, meaning, etc. actually really gerunds, or are  they actually really nouns? What is the difference between a gerund and a noun?
In what cases does the gerund stemming from a transitive verb take the direct object of that verb and when is a prepositional complement used?  For example:    Brown's deft painting of his daughter is a delight to watch (it is a delight to watch while Brown deftly paints his daughter). Painting his daughter is an outlet for his energy. Securing safety for prisoners is the main problem for the penitentiary system. The widely discussed problem of the securing of prisoners' safety was given priority.
Show: $ f(a) = a,\ f(b) = b \implies \int_a^b \left[ f(x) + f^{-1}(x) \right] \, \mathrm{d}x = b^2 - a^2 $ I have data with a column containing a number value, and I want to divide the value of each feature by the total sum of all the values in the column (to get a percentage).  So I would like to know if there is some simple syntax in the QGIS field calculator to get the sum of a column, preferably without resorting to for loops and what not.    I have a shapefile where feature A has the value X in column B. How can I summerize the values for all features in column B in order to divide value X to get a percentage for each feature? How do I get an RSS feed of my YouTube subscriptions? The default "Subscriptions" feed on the YouTube homepage shows all of the activity of the people that I am subscribed to on YouTube or have in circles on Google+. However, I'm most interested in new videos that the people I subscribe to (either on YouTube or by circling on Google+) create and post (neglecting comments or sharing other people's videos - what you see when you check the "show uploads only" checkbox on the YouTube homepage). However, being able to bring anything off of the YouTube homepage and into Google Reader as an RSS feed would be good.  Is there a way to do this? I am reading Schwarz QFT and I reached the mass renormalization part. So he introduces, after renormalization, a physical mass, defined as the pole of the renormalized propagator, and a renormalized mass which can be the physical mass, but can also take other values, depending on the subtraction schemes used. Are these masses, other than the physical one, observable in any way experimentally, or are they just ways to do the math easier (using minimal subtraction instead of on-shell scheme, for example)?   Also, in the case of charge renormalization, the explanation was that due to the vacuum polarization, the closer you are to the charge, the more you see of it, so the charge of the particle increases with the momentum you are testing the particle with. However, I am not sure I understand, from a physical point of view, why do you need to renormalize the mass. Is this physical mass (defined as the pole of the renormalized propagator) the same no matter how close you get, or it also changes with energy? And if it changes, what is shielding it at big distances? Show that $x^{n-1}+\cdots +x+1$ is irreducible over $\mathbb Z$ if and only if $n$ is a prime. When did the red shirt careers change to yellow shirts in Star Trek and why? Why do we use ./filename to execute a file in linux?  Why not just enter it like other commands gcc, ls etc... I'm having the strangest issue since updating to OS X El Capitan. My "Open File" dialogs show the sidebar but all my main (and useful) locations are missing. Take a look at this screenshot. This screenshot shows Keychain Access but this happens in Safari when I'm trying to attach a file to Gmail for example, or uploading an image to Facebook.  What I would like is for the sidebar to show my home directories, such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc.  Help? Inverse of sum of exponential random variables (mean and variance) Assume $X_1,X_2, \dots , X_n$ following the exponential distribution with mean $\theta &gt; 0 $ and the statistic: $$ T = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n X_i $$  I know that the sum of exponential random variables follows the Gamma distribution, but I cannot infer anything about the inverse of the sum $\frac{1}{T}$. My guess would be that: $$ E\left[\frac{1}{T}\right] = \frac{1}{\theta} \quad \text{and} \quad V\left[ \frac{1}{T} \right] = \frac{1}{\theta^2} $$ but why? Why does (0 < 5 < 3) return true? How to shrink Windows 7 boot partition with unmovable files I have just bought an HP laptop with Windows&nbsp;7 (64 bit). It has a 500&nbsp;GB HDD with three partitions: a small hidden system partition, a 12&nbsp;GiB HP recovery partition, and a 450&nbsp;GiB C: boot partition.  I would like to split this large C: partition into two partitions, leaving only 100&nbsp;GiB for the system, and giving the rest to a new data partition.  Although the Windows built-in Disk Management utility has an option to shrink the bootable partition, it only allows me to shrink it roughly by half, even though only 20&nbsp;GiB on the partition is used. As far as I understand, system unmovable files lie in the middle of the partition, preventing Disk Management utility to do what I want.    And since new HP laptops don't come with OS installation disks (they only allow you to create recovery disks yourself), I can't just repartition HDD and then reinstall OS.  So, is there a way to shrink the C: bootable partition and preserve Windows&nbsp;7 working?  P.S.: I have tried to use the third-party  utility, and after shrinking the partition, Windows&nbsp;7 stopped booting, with a . System recovery didn't work, and I had to do factory recover. Since this is a long process, I would like to avoid doing it again :) So, please, suggest only proven solutions. Regular Expressions: Is there an AND operator? Obviously, you can use the | (pipe?) to represent OR, but is there a way to represent AND as well?  Specifically, I'd like to match paragraphs of text that contain ALL of a certain phrase, but in no particular order. With Glade Designer that lets you set up Gtk-Ui's you can check the option that windows are not shown in the launcher. If I take a look at the ui-file generated by Glade, it says &lt;property name="skip_taskbar_hint"&gt;True&lt;/property&gt;. In gtk code this hint is  window.set_property('skip-taskbar-hint', True). However I believe that this option is not exclusively Gtk-specific, and want to apply this one on my PyQt4-app. The Ubuntu window manager must be able to receive that hint, otherwise I would see the window of a gtk-application i use (stickynotes-indicator). So there MUST be a way of doing this in Qt or any other language, right?  Does anybody know such an option? Python or Qt syntax, doesn't matter! The Chinese government has a really specific list of requirements for visa photos:    I had an old unused photo from last time I applied for a visa or passport, and compared it to the requirements (decided not to use it because it was damaged). It seemed to match most of the requirements, except that it seems that they want a photo which isn't square: The required width is less than the required height.  Assuming most drugstores are still providing square passport photos, the question becomes: Should I cut the photo to match the specified width?   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Im on a lightning community, i have a lightning component and i want to open another component with this code:  navigateToMyComponent : function(component, event, helper) {     console.log('1');     var evt = $A.get("e.force:navigateToComponent");     console.log('2');     evt.setParams({         componentDef : "c:CompetenciaComponent"     });     console.log('3');     evt.fire();     console.log('4'); }   this its the console log:   NOTHINGS HAPPEND AND I DONT KNOW WHY Learn Bayesian inference applied to astronomy / astrophysics? Does the Dueling Fighting Style prevent using a shield? The Dueling fighting style doesn't seem to state anything about shields, stating that the character can only wield one weapon while fighting to gain the benefit. Does a shield count as a weapon or otherwise stop the damage bonus from occurring?