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Social values of biodiversity conservation for the endangered loggerhead turtle and monk seal
No full textThe Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) and the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) are two species on the priority list for conservation in Greece due to their dwindling populations worldwide. Hence the issue of estimating willingness to pay for their conservation is germane to any protection initiative. Zakynthos Island in Greece has created a marine park for the conservation of such species. We report the results of a survey of visitors and residents of this island who were asked about making one-time donations in the form of either a tax for residents or a plane landing fee for tourists. We find that all people were willing to pay to protect these species; however, residents were willing to pay more than tourists. We then tested whether there was a sequence or ordering effect if the seal questions came before the turtles as well as if the turtle questions came before the seals. Such effect was found when turtle questions were presented first, but not when seal questions were presented first. Due to the extensive interest, it is recommended that an increase in the airplane landing fee to Zakynthos could be used to contribute towards funds for loggerhead turtle and monk seal protection
Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist? The reception of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics
No full textIntroduction1. Perspectives on Wittgenstein: An Intermittently Opinionated Survey: Hans-Johann Glock.2. Wittgenstein's Method: Ridding People of Philosophical Prejudices: Katherine Morris.3. Gordon Baker's Late Interpretation of Wittgenstein: P. M. S. Hacker.4. The Interpretation of the Philosophical Investigations: Style, Therapy, Nachlass: Alois Pichler.5. Ways of Reading Wittgenstein: Observations on Certain Uses of the Word 'Metaphysics': Joachim Schulte.6. Metaphysical/Everyday Use: A Note on a Late Paper by Gordon Baker: Hilary Putnam.7. Wittgenstein and Transcendental Idealism: A. W. Moore.8. Simples and the Idea of Analysis in the Tractatus: Marie McGinn.9. Words, Waxing and Waning: Ethics in/and/of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Stephen Mulhall.10. The Uses of Wittgenstein's Beetle: Philosophical Investigations §293 and Its Interpreters: David G. Stern.11. Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist?: The Reception of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics: Ray Monk.12. Wittgenstein and Ethical Naturalism: Alice Crary.<br/
The Monk Line Segmentation (MLS) Dataset
No full text<p>Overview</p>
<p>The MLS dataset available from this page consists of 31 handwritten page scans. The dataset contains medieval, historical and contemporary manuscripts, and has the purpose of testing line-segmentation algorithms. The collection contains a wide variation of the common problems in handwriting recognition: lines with overlapping ascenders/descenders, slightly rotated scans and curved base lines. <br>
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<p>Download</p>
<p>The MLS dataset was collected from the Monk system as of Friday May 17 14:15:04 CEST 2013. It was collected by Lambert Schomaker in May 2013 at the Institution of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering (ALICE), University of Gronigen. </p>
<p>The tar.gz file contains the image dataset for historical manuscripts. For more details please refer to the README file in the tar.gz file. The dataset downloaded for research use only. © 2013 Copyright. <br>
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<p>@INPROCEEDINGS{Surinta:2014:ICFHR,<br>
author = {O. Surinta and M. Holtkamp and M. F. Karaaba and JP. van Oosten and L. R. B. Schomaker and M. A. Wiering},<br>
title = {A* Path Planning for Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents},<br>
booktitle = {Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2014 14th International Conference on},<br>
year = {2014},<br>
month = {Sep},<br>
pages = {175-180},<br>
numpages = {6},<br>
isbn = {978-1-4799-4335-7},<br>
issn = {2167-6445},<br>
publisher = {IEEE},<br>
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2014.37},<br>
}</p>
Growth curves and their implications in hand-fed Monk parrots (Myiopsitta monachus)
No full textChristina Petzinger,1,2 J Jill Heatley,3 John E Bauer1,2 1Comparative Animal Nutrition Research Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 2Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A&M University, 3Zoological Medicine Service, Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA Abstract: Monk parrots (Myiopsitta monachus) were hand-fed over two chick seasons spanning of 2010 to 2011. Information from the growth curve of chicks hand-fed in 2010 was used to develop a feeding protocol for the 2011 season (Protocol-2011). This protocol addressed the problems of delayed followed by excessive growth experienced by parrots hand fed in 2010. Monk parrots that were hand-fed in 2011 following the new protocol experienced delayed growth after 20 days of age. However, some Monk parrots were fed in excess of Protocol-2011 and did not experience a major delay in growth. The energy requirement equations used to construct Protocol-2011 were low when compared to adult Monk parrot maintenance energy requirements. The data suggest that growing birds do not require approximately twice their adult maintenance energy requirements, as is the case for growing dogs. Additionally, there appear to be fluctuations in energy needs as Monk parrots grow. A major increase in energy needs occurred between days 18 and 23 posthatching, which corresponds to feather development and growth in Monk parrot chicks. Thus, multiple equations estimating energy requirements, rather than just one equation, are likely needed from hatching to fledging in order to ensure adequate energy is provided to chicks. More research on the energy requirements of growing Monk parrots, especially around the time of fledging and weaning, is needed to improve hand-fed methods and potentially the adult health of hand-fed birds. Keywords: psittacine, energy requirement, Quaker parrot, hand feeding, chick, hand-fe
MoNK - A MOdelica iNKscape extension
No full textMoNK - A MOdelica iNKscape extension
MoNK is a extension for Inkscape to produce graphical annotation strings for Modelica from an Inkscape SVG image. Once installed it adds the new export format "Modelica annotation (*.mo)" to the File -> Save as.. menu.
The SVG standard is much more expressive than Modelica annotations. Not every SVG image can be translated to a Modelica file. At the same time, Modelica includes high-level concepts such as fill patterns, which cannot be easily parsed from an SVG file. Therefore, MoNK implements functionality on a best-effort basis, including the features that are most often used in Inkscape and in Modelica. The goal is to allow drawing icons for Modelica classes in Inkscape that can be used in Modelica with minimal manual effort.
This project supersedes the Modelica vector graphics editor MoVE in the Modelica Tool Ensemble MoTE.
Installation
If Python is installed on your machine, you can just run
python setup.py install_ink
from inside the main folder of this project and the script will automatically locate your Inkscape extension folder and place the necessary files in that folder.
Alternatively, you can download a release distribution from GitHub, which only contains the files that need to be put in the Inkscape extension folder. The correct folder is:
For Windows: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions
For Linux: ~/.config/inkscape/extensions/
Script parameters
The main script of MoNK is found in src/svg2modelica.py. This file is called from within Inkscape to print the resulting Modelica code on stdout. It can take the following parameters:
svgfile is the filename of the SVG document that should be translated. This must be the first parameter.
--modelname=SomeString (shorthand -m SomeString) determines the model name that should be written to the Modelica output. This should be the same name as the file name chosen in Inkscape in order to load the model in an IDE like OpenModelica to examine the results.
--strict=True|False (shorthand -s True|False) if true, non-translatable elements in the SVG document are treated as errors. Otherwise they are simply ignored.
--normalize_extent=True|False (shorthand -n True|False) if true, the extent attribute of the coordinateSystem element in the Modelica output will be normalized to fit within {{-100, -100}, {100, 100}}. This is not required by the Modelica specification, but a de facto standard that is also assumed in OMEdit. Unnormalized icons may look fine in the diagram view, but might be cropped in the tree view for selecting classes.
Features
Supported SVG elements and attributes:
(non-smooth)
and
Inkscape ellipse arcs (sodipodi:type = "arc")
(including nested transformations)
transform attribute (single transform statement w/o skew and scale)
stroke and fill css attributes (rgb or hex)
stroke-width css attribute
marker-start and marker-end (any non-empty marker will result in Arrow.Open)
css attributes horizontalAlignment, font-style, font-weight, text-decoration, font-family, and font-size for
viewBox attribute
Unsupported SVG elements and attributes:
Smooth paths (path characters C, c, S, s, Q, q, T, t, A, a)
css attributes stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset
css attribute fill-opacity and stroke-opacity
css stroke-width values given as inherit or percentages
actual parsing of different marker types for marker-start and marker-end
transform attributes including skew expressions (directly or in matrix form)
, , , , and other tags not listed as supported
with "holes" (settings for css property fill-rule are ignored)
subscripts and superscripts in elements
Supported Modelica elements and attributes:
Line (non-smooth)
Polygon (non-smooth)
Rectangle
Ellipse (including tartAngle and endAngle)
Text
LinePattern.None, LinePattern.Solid
FillPattern.None, FillPattern.Solid
lineThickness attribute
fillColor and lineColor attributes
Arrow.Open and Arrow.None
all ``TextAlignment``s
all ``TextStyle``s
Unsupported Modelica elements and attributes:
LinePattern``s ``Dash, Dot, DashDot, and DashDotDot
FillPattern``s ``Horizontal, Vertical, Cross, Forward, Backward, CrossDiag, HorizontalCylinder, VerticalCylinder, and Sphere
borderPattern for Rectangle
Smooth.Bezier
Arrow.Filled, Arrow.Half
extent of Text annotation is not scaled to actual text size, but only approximated (exact scaling would require rendering the text)
Bitmap
Tips and workarounds for unsupported elements and attributes
The following manual adjustments may be necessary for annotations produced by this extension:
Always use "Save a Copy..." instead of "Save as..." in Inkscape, since .mo is only an export format that cannot be imported again. If you want to change your drawing afterwards, you will still have to save a .svg version of it.
lineThickness and thickness attributes are zoom-invariant in OpenModelica, which can require the use of smaller thickness values. For lines, this can be avoided by transforming the stroke to a filled shape by selecting Path -> Stroke to Path in the menu.
Text elements might not have the correct size, as this can only be approximated without actually rendering the text. If exact placement of glyphs is important, you can use the Object to Path feature in the "Path" menu. However, this may then in turn introduce new issues if the resulting path is smooth (see below).
Smooth Line and Polygon elements have to be drawn without smooth elements and can then be smoothed afterwards by changing the smooth parameter in OpenModelica.
In order to approximate smooth paths for use in Modelica, you can draw a smooth path in Inkscape and then use the "Insert nodes" tool to add new nodes between each two consecutive nodes. Usually you should only have to do this once or twice to get satisfactory accuracy to then turn all nodes into corner nodes by clicking "make selected nodes corner" twice. This will allow you to transfer the shape to Modelica, where you can then manually add the attribute smooth=Smooth.Bezier. For sharp corners you will need to add a second node at the corner that is very close (ideally at the identical position) to the first node, but otherwise this method can give passable results.
Most of the time you can avoid errors with unsupported transforms by ungrouping paths in Inkscape. By default, Inkscape will apply transform attributes to groups, but for individual paths the attribute will be removed and the path coordinates will be updated instead
METHYLATION OF THE MOUSE XIST GENE IN SPERM AND EGGS CORRELATES WITH IMPRINTED XIST EXPRESSION AND PATERNAL X-INACTIVATION
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Ordre et chaos dans The Monk de M. G. Lewis
No full textFierobe Claude. Ordre et chaos dans The Monk de M. G. Lewis. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°21, 1985. pp. 163-177
Interview with Henry M. Monk Ross (FA 201)
No full textTranscription of interview with Henry M. Monk Ross conducted by Jonathan G. Kesler on 6 April 1997. From folk studies student project concerning the tornado that devastated Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky on 3 April 1974
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