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By Emma Hopkins April 7, 2014
Children and adults of all ages can learn about different kinds of science, art and other topics while having a good time on Purdue University's campus again with this year's Spring Fest the weekend of April 12-13.
Spring Fest is an annual event, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, with booths and activities sponsored by nine colleges, two schools and several student organizations. Encompassing several locations on campus, Spring Fest is family-friendly with no admission cost and many free activities, along with some which have a charge.
The weekend is all about promoting learning in a fun and entertaining way, said Danica Kirkpatrick, engagement program manager for the College of Agriculture.
"We are excited to have 35 fun, educational sites for families to visit during Spring Fest," Kirkpatrick said. "Visitors will be treated to activities and fun games, all highlighting the best of Purdue University."
Returning this year will be popular activities such as the Bug Bowl, presented by the Department of Entomology, where attendees can compete in cricket-spitting contests and watch cockroach races.
Health demonstrations by the Indiana University School of Medicine - Lafayette (on the Purdue campus), will return as well. Included will be a real human brain on display.
Another returning favorite is the Boiler Barnyard, presented by the Department of Animal Sciences, where attendees can see live farm animals, milk a cow and watch a sheep being sheared.
Three organizations are new to Spring Fest this year: Purdue Honors College; Nano Days, an educational program that teaches children about nanoscale science; and Phi Lambda Upsilon fraternity.
The Honors College will present solar energy demonstrations, moss graffiti and a bungee trampoline. Nano Days will show how to create art using designs from insect and bird wings. Phi Lambda Upsilon will present chemistry demonstrations.
Programs listing specific activities will be available at the event. Parking maps, a schedule of some of the activities and other information are available on the Spring Fest website at www.purdue.edu/springfest or by contacting Kirkpartick at firstname.lastname@example.com or 765-494-9113.
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There are now more Americans in jail -- 6 million -- than there were in Stalin's Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called "Incarceration Nation."
And it's not just a relative population thing.
The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens.
How does that compare to other countries?
It's 7X-10X as high:
- Japan has 63 per 100,000,
- Germany has 90 per 100,000
- France has 96 per 100,000
- South Korea has 97 per 100,000
- Britain has 153 per 100,000
And it's also a relatively new phenomenon: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens.
What's to blame?
The "War on Drugs."
More than half of America's 6 million prisoners are in jail for drug convictions, with 80% of those in jail for "possession."
By the way, has the "war on drugs" worked?
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Electronic motor drives seem to be everywhere, but do you really know what they are or how they work?
Electronic motor drives fall into one of two categories: AC and DC. AC motor drives control AC induction motors, DC motor drives typically control shunt-wound DC motors (which have separate armature and field circuits), and they both control the speed, torque, direction, and resulting horsepower of a motor.
A drive can control two elements of a 3-phase AC induction motor: speed and torque. To understand how a drive controls these two elements, let's quickly review AC induction motors. The two basic parts of the motor, the rotor and stator, work through magnetic interaction. The stator contains pole pairs, or iron pieces, that are wound in a specific pattern to provide a north-to-south magnetic field.
With one pole pair isolated in a motor, the rotor (shaft) rotates at a specific, or base speed, which is determined by the number of poles and the frequency applied, as shown in this formula:
RPM = (120×Frequency/No. of Poles) - Slip
In addition to frequency and number of poles, the formula includes an effect called "slip," which is the difference between the rotor speed and the rotating magnetic field in the stator. When a magnetic field passes through the conductors of the rotor, the rotor takes on magnetic fields of its own. These fields try to catch up to the rotating fields of the stator, but they never do this difference is referred to as slip. Think of slip as the distance between greyhounds and the hare they chase around the track. As long as they don't catch up to the hare, the dogs will continue to run around the track. Slip is what allows a motor to turn.
You can change the speed of a motor by adjusting the frequency applied to it. You could change motor speed by altering the number of poles, but this requires rewinding, and it could result in a step change to the speed. So, for convenience, cost-efficiency, and precision, it's best to change the frequency. The torque-developing characteristic of every motor is the volts-per-hertz ratio (V/Hz). Change this ratio to change motor torque. An AC induction motor connected to a 460V, 60 Hz source has a ratio of 7.67 V/Hz. As long as this ratio stays in proportion, the motor will develop rated torque. Now where does the drive come into play? A drive provides several different frequency outputs. At any given frequency output of the drive, you get a new torque curve.
Just how does a drive provide the frequency and voltage output necessary to change the speed of a motor? That's what we'll look at next.
Fig. 1 (right)schematically shows a basic pulse width modulated (PWM) drive. All PWM drives contain the parts shown, with subtle differences in hardware and software components. Although some drives accept single-phase input power, we'll focus on the 3-phase drive.
The converter is the input section of the drive. It contains six diodes, arranged in an electrical bridge, that convert AC to DC power.
The DC bus section filters and smoothes out the waveform. The diodes reconstruct the negative halves of the waveform onto the positive half. In a 460V unit, you will find an average DC bus voltage of about 650V to 680V. Multiply the line voltage by 1.414 to get this value. The inductor (L) and the capacitor (C) work together to filter out any AC component of the DC waveform. The smoother the DC waveform, the cleaner the output waveform from the drive.
The DC bus feeds the inverter, which is the final section of the drive. As the name implies, this section inverts the DC voltage back to AC. But, it does so in a variable voltage and frequency output. How? That depends on what kind of power devices your drive uses. Bipolar transistor technology began superceding silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs) in drives in the mid-1970s. In the early 1990s, those gave way to insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) technology, which will form the basis for our discussion. If you have several SCR-based drives in your facility, you should understand how they operate. (See Sidebar below.)
Today's inverters use IGBTs to switch the DC bus on and off at specific intervals. In doing so, the inverter actually creates a variable AC voltage and frequency output. The output of the drive doesn't provide an exact replica of the AC input sine waveform (Fig. 2, right). Instead, it provides voltage pulses of a constant magnitude.
The drive's control board signals the power device's control circuits to turn on the positive or negative half of the waveform. This switching of positive and negative waveforms re-creates the 3-phase output. The longer the power device remains on, the higher the output voltage. Conversely, the less time the power device is on, the lower the output voltage and output frequency.
The speed at which power devices switch on and off is the carrier frequency, or switch frequency. The higher the switch frequency, the more resolution each PWM pulse contains. Typical switch frequencies are 3000 to 4000 times per sec (3 KHz to 4 KHz). (With an older, SCR-based drive, switch frequencies are 250 to 500 times per sec). As you can imagine, the higher the switch frequency, the smoother the output waveform and the higher the resolution. However, higher switch frequencies increase heat in the power devices and decrease the efficiency of the drive.
Shrinking cost and size
Although the complexity of drive designs is increasing, quality is rising, as well. Drives are also coming in smaller packages with each generation. The trend is similar to that of the personal computer: more features, better performance, and lower cost with successive generations. Unlike computers, however, the reliability and ease of use of drives has dramatically improved. And also unlike computers, today's typical drive doesn't spew gratuitous harmonics into your distribution system nor does it affect your power factor. Drives are increasingly becoming plug-and-play devices. As electronic power components improve in reliability and decrease in size, the cost and size of drives will continue to decrease, and their performance and ease of use will only get better.
Dave Polka is the manager of ABB's Training Center in New Berlin, Wis.
Sidebar: What if You Have SCRs?
SCRs (originally referred to as thyristors) contain a control element called a gate. The gate acts as the "on switch" that allows the device to fully conduct voltage. The device conducts voltage until the polarity of the device reverses and then it automatically turns off. Special circuitry, usually requiring another circuit board and associated wiring, controls this switching. The SCR's output depends on how soon in the control cycle the gate turns on. Thus, you would approach troubleshooting differently if you had an SCR-based drive.


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Marvel Studios expands its film universe with a new type of superhero: THOR. This epic adventure spans the Marvel Universe; from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth. Kenneth Branagh directs this fantasy epic which stars Australian actor Chris Hemsworth as the ancient Norse god, Tom Hiddleston as his chaotic brother Loki, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, a young woman who befriends Thor on Earth, and Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Thor's father and king of Asgard. Expect to see agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., previously seen in ''Iron Man'' to make an appearance, further for shadowing the coming of The Avengers!
KM's Review:
Story: B. I did like the plot of the story. A young, arrogant prince readies himself to become king. He yearns for the honor to carry his father's legacy. His overzealous nature gets him banished from his home and his chance to make his father proud. A little romance and lots of adventure.
**The story and humor in this film kept me entertained.**
Characters: B + Great characters. The geek-girl, Thor's love interest, is a believable and a strong female role model. Intelligent and kind.
Thor is likable. His youthful arrogance very believable.
All other supporting characters had depth and believability.
Actors: D. In my opinion, the two lead actors fell flat on their face. Chris Hemsworth, a Brad Pitt look-a-like on steroids, flubbed his English accent, and ran this role into the ground. He did okay in the beginning portraying Thor as an arrogant youth, but as the character grew, Hemsworth stumbled and flopped. His terrible accent was like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Natalie Portman had a few good moments, but she made the bad lines she was given, even worse.
Kat Dennings as Darcy- Loved her performance. Believable and fun. Not enough of this character/actress for me.
Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Renee Russo as Frigga~ Well, two masters trying to carry the whole film. . .good attempt you two, bravo!
Special effects: B Some good fight scenes and storm shots.
However, and I don't know if this cinematography or special effects, the digitally built cities in the 'other realms' were lazily crafted and cheap looking. It almost appeared as if the actors were standing in front of a painted backdrop. And, after 3 storms and a huge fire breathing giant, the magazine rack at the news stand remained neat and tidy. Despite the fact the town had been ripped to shreds.
Lack of cheesiness: F Just because its a comic book hero, doesn't mean we have to rely on cheesy lines and cliche'. Where was the freshness? The uniqueness?
Yeah, if you haven't seen THOR, just wait for it to come on DVD. Rent it for the story and the humor.
KM's rating:
2 tickets See it, but by yourself on DVD or Blue Ray
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Pointed, hearted or sweetheart cabbage lends itself to a variety of vegetable combinations
If you haven�t already, check out the pointed cabbage at the Lenoir County Farmer�s Market.
Pointed, hearted or sweetheart cabbage, as it is sometimes known, is a type of green cabbage with green leaves and a pointed head. The leaves are more open than those of a green cabbage, with a softer texture and sweeter taste. Be sure to select a head with crisp, bright looking leaves and avoid any that are wilting, yellowing or have discolored patches or holes.
Using pointed cabbage is much like preparing the typical variety. It can be added to stir-fries or served with butter and black pepper as a side dish. It makes a tasty accompaniment to hearty stews and casseroles, grilled chops or steaks.
Before cooking, remove damaged outer leaves and halve, then quarter the cabbage, removing the hard core. Slice and wash thoroughly.
Steam, boil or stir-fry, but don�t overcook. It will lose texture and flavor; so just cook until tender. To steam cabbage, place in a steamer and cook for 5 to 10 minutes until tender but still crisp. To boil, bring a pan of water to boil, add the prepared cabbage and cook for 5 to 8 minutes until tender but still crisp. To stir-fry, heat one tablespoon of oil in a frying pan, add the cabbage and stir fry for 4 to 5 minutes or until tender but still crisp.
Cole Slaw Pointed Head Style
1 medium head cabbage
1 cup Boiled Dressing (recipe below)
1 teaspoon celery seed
Cut the head of cabbage in half, place in a bowl of cold water, and refrigerate for 1 hour. Drain well. Shred finely, and add the dressing and celery seed. Toss to mix well and add salt to taste.
Boiled Dressing
1 1/2 tablespoons flour
1teaspoon dry mustard
1 tablespoon sugar
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
Pinch of cayenne pepper
1 1/2 tablespoons butter, melted
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup vinegar
Combine the flour, mustard and sugar in a heavy-bottomed pan. Slowly add the yolks, cayenne pepper, melted butter, milk and vinegar. Heat, stirring constantly, over low heat until thickened and smooth. Add salt to taste. Remove and store covered in the refrigerator until needed.
Festive Spring Cabbage Recipe
1 head cabbage, cored and shredded
3 to 6 carrots (depending on size, optional), grated
1 to 2 fennel bulbs, thinly sliced or grated
1/2 cup walnuts (optional)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon honey
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
Pepper to taste
If using walnuts, toast over medium-high heat in a small frying pan, moving frequently to prevent burning. Toast until just brown and tender, about 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat. In the bottom of a large bowl, blend honey, olive oil, salt and lemon juice with whisk or fork. Place cabbage, carrots and fennel in the bowl and top with walnuts. Toss to combine and dress. Serve immediately or chill up to 3 hours.
Savory Cabbage, Carrot and Apple Salad
3 tablespoons apple juice
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 teaspoon caraway seeds, lightly crushed
1/2 head cabbage, cored and very thinly sliced (4 cups)
2 large carrots, very thinly julienned (2 cups)
1 Granny Smith apple, quartered, cored and sliced crosswise 1/8 inch thick
Whisk together juices, oil and caraway seeds. Season with salt and pepper, and toss with cabbage, carrots and apple.
Let stand at room temperature, tossing occasionally, 40 minutes to allow flavors to blend and cabbage to wilt. (Tip: massaging the cabbage with your hands softens it nicely).
Steamed Root Vegetables and Cabbage with Dill
1 small head of cabbage
1 pound carrots, peeled and cut into fine julienne strips
1 pound turnips, peeled and cut in julienne strips
1 pound kohlrabi, peeled and cut in julienne strip (available at Farmer�s Market)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 tablespoons minced fresh dill plus dill sprigs for garnish
In a kettle of boiling water, blanch the cabbage for one minute; transfer with tongs to a work surface, and let cool until it can just be handled. Cut the outermost cabbage leaf free at the core, remove gently in one piece without tearing it, and remove 3 more leaves in the same manner. Arrange a leaf on each of four plates. Cut enough of the remaining cabbage into 1/8-inch-thick shreds to measure 2 cups packed loosely, reserving the rest for another use.
In a steamer set over boiling water, arrange in order the carrots, turnips, parsnips and shredded cabbage, steam the vegetables, covered, for 8 to 10 minutes, or until they are just tender, and in a heated bowl toss them with the butter, vinegar and minced dill. Salt and pepper to taste.
Mound the vegetable mixture in the cabbage leaves and garnish with dill sprigs.
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If this new "Desperation" trailer for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena doesn't get you excited about Starbreeze's upcoming continuation of the Riddick saga, then this probably isn't the game for you.
In the trailer, the Diesel-powered Riddick ponders the nature of desperation, or does the best that he can considering the limited resources he is working with . "Where there's desperation, there's opportunity", is certainly a true statement. Not so sure about the whole, "I'm hell's messenger" bit though. I mean, if you're killing people all day, wouldn't you be more of a delivery boy? Unless the gameplay consists solely of you sneaking up behind people and whispering, "Hell says hi" and then running like hell, I cry foul.


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The warm weather means I can enjoy some meals outside with my husband as the cat looks outside as we eat. Poor puss — he is not allowed to go outdoors, but he is well-fed and comfy inside nonetheless.
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A simple, spicy and zest mung bean curry that's delicious served with rice or fresh cooked Indian flatbreads
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The finest season in the history of the Middlebury College women's soccer program came to an end on Friday afternoon, when the Panthers lost to top-ranked Trinity University, 2-1, in an NCAA Division III semifinal played in Trinity's home town of San Antonio.
Trinity (25-0-2) took the lead in the 19th minute on a Michelle Lanier goal during an evenly played first half. But the 17-2-3 Panthers equalized in the 35th minute on senior Scarlett Kirk's 17th goal of the season and 48th of her career, a mark that places her second on the program's all-time list.
Hannah Robinson and Adrianna Gildner both earned assists on the play. Robinson sent Gildner cleanly into the right side of the Trinity box, and Gildner served to the onrushing Kirk near the penalty stripe. Kirk one-timed the ball with her left foot high into the upper left corner. The Panthers' other best bid in the half probably came from junior Jamie Soroka, whose 15-yard bid from the left side was snared by Trinity goalie Devan Osegueda.
Trinity capitalized on pressure in the eighth minute of the second half. Panther goalie Elizabeth Foody came off her line to dive on a ball served from the right side, but Trinity's Hannah Hommel tapped it past her near the right post, turned and looped a shot inside the far post.
Trinity maintained an edge in possession for much of the second half, but the Panthers had chances to become the first team this season to score twice vs. the Tigers.
Midway through the half, Kirk's high serve from the left side bounced through a knot of players near the left post to open right middie Carter Talgo about 15 feet off the right post. But by the time the ball came back down to where Talgo could shoot, a Trinity defender had recovered and blocked the shot wide right.
Trinity's ball control translated to few chances, although Foody did well to snare one corner kick in the half's 29th minute, and a minute later she came off her line to dive on a pass and break up a play. The Panthers also were fortunate an open Tiger could not quite get a foot on a serve from the right side a couple minutes later.
The Panthers ratcheted up the pressure in the waning minutes, but could not convert. Julia Favorito shot a loose ball high and wide, and at 1:20 Gildner got her head on a Favorito free kick from the left side, but could not square up the bid and it sailed wide right. At about 0:25, Soroka served one last time from the right side, but the Trinity goalie beat Kirk to the ball to effectively conclude the Panthers' season.
Trinity outshot the Panthers, 16-10, but Middlebury landed more shots on goal: Osegueda finished with five saves and Foody with two. Trinity became the first team this season two score twice on Middlebury and Foody.
This season Coach Peter Kim's Panthers set a program record for wins and became the first Middlebury women's soccer team to reach the final four.
Six seniors will graduate, five starters — Foody, an all-American in goal; Kirk; Favorito, a center middie who was the NESCAC Player of the Year; standout central defender Lindsay Kingston, a Champlain Valley Union High School graduate; and left middie Sarah Noble — and reserve defender Melissa Garrett.


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Hypodermic needles are hollow, metal tubes typically used in conjunction with a syringe to inject or extract liquids directly from the blood stream. These needles come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and points, depending on their real-world application. Needles used in blood donation must be large enough to easily collect blood in an optimum time and without damaging any blood cells, whereas needles used for intravenous (IV) drug delivery must be small enough to insert into a small vein on a patient's hand.
Both the gauge of the needle and the material from which it is made can have a large impact on how it behaves in a flex test. A micro bend fixture, commonly used for electronics testing, may be used to test the flexural properties of hypodermic needles. Depending on the requirements of the test, lower anvil separation may be adjusted on all of our flex fixtures.
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We recommend Bluehill® Software with the TestProfiler Module to load and unload the specimen, and to obtain a typical hysteresis curve. The software can provide for the load-deflection data on both segments of the curve, as well as a variety of additional calculations, such as slope, that will allow for direct comparison of a variety of different specimens
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posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 8:40 am
Is it possible to obtain standardized solutions in either TWOLEVEL or COMPLEX options in multilevel studies?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 11:11 am
As far as I know, it is available for both.
Jennie Jester
posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 10:17 am
I am working on a model where I have data from moms and dads and their children. I am trying to estimate the relationship between executive functioning as a latent variable in the parents and their kids, when some of the kids are siblings. I developed a model that fits nicely (CFI=.97) when I fit the parent and child data for executive functioning using type=complex. (I decided to do it this way rather than try a 2-level model, because the number of parameters (76) in the 2-level model was getting high with respect to the number of observations (183)). The problem comes in when I add in IQ as a covariate. The model fit goes bad (CFI=.82) and the standardized regression loading of child IQ on child executive functioning is greater than one, and (therefore) the residual variance of the child executive functioning is negative. Do you have any ideas for what might be causing these problems and how to proceed?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 10:22 am
Can you send the two outputs to
-- the one with and without IQ?
posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 3:04 am
Dear all,
I have quite a beginner's question. I am wondering about the standardized coefficients Mplus offers using "Type is twolevel".
I am conductig a simple random intercept model (Y = G00 + G01*(x_mean) + G10*(x) + U0 + R). Mplus with "Type is twolevel" offers standardized coefficents in the output. As far as I know, other software (e.g. HLM) won't offer you standardized coefficients in multilevel analysis (but maybe I am wrong about this). Moreover I can't remember that I have read any paper presenting standardized regression coefficients for multilevel regression results. Thus, I am wondering, if it would be correct, to report the standardized coefficients Mplus offers.
Moreover I'm not sure, if I understand the Mplus User's guide correctly, as I understood "type ist twolevel random" is only needed analyzing random slopes or if I should use this option for random intercept models, too.
Thank you very much!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 8:37 am
For models with random intercepts but not random slopes, Mplus standardizes the coefficients using the within variances for within parameters and the between variances for between parameters. I don't know of any reference for this but I do think it makes sense. Whether you want to report them would be up to you.
You need TYPE=TWOLEVEL; to estimates random intercepts. You need TYPE=TWOLEVEL RANDOM; to estimate random slopes.
posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 9:01 am
Thank you very much for your quick answer!
Jan Hochweber
posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:15 am
I've noticed that standardization in models with random slopes causes difficulties as the variance of y depends on the values of x.
I wonder what happens if I only standardize by the (within unit) sd of x.
(My assumption is that this causes no problems as the varying variance of y is
not part of my calculation)
Is it possible to express the sd of the random slope distribution by the sd of x, for example:
random slope sd: 1.2
x sd: 0.8
rescaled random slope sd: 1.2*0.8
and to do the same for the mean slope (multiplying by the sd of x)?
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 2:05 pm
You can standardize with respect to x only. It looks like you are doing it correctly.
Isbelle Schmidt
posted on Friday, September 27, 2013 - 8:55 am
Hello Mr.Muthen,
i am working on my diploma thesis, which exists of an examination of the BFLPE and BIRGE. I am using the type=twolevel option in Mplus and all continuous variables were standardized(M=0, SD=1)before entering the data in MPLUS. The dependent variable is a continuous variables (self-concept) and the predictors are continuous and binary. So, my question:
Which type of standardization should I choose?
Thanks in advance,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, September 27, 2013 - 12:00 pm
If you standardize your variables, the solution is standardized. I would not, however, standardize my variables unless I had a particular reason to do so. You will only obtain correct results with standardized variables if you have a scale free model.
Isbelle Schmidt
posted on Friday, September 27, 2013 - 3:06 pm
Thank you for this answer!
I standardized the variables because I am wanted to have all variables in the same metric, grand-mean centered and to built the aggregated class ability (aggregated z-Values).To test the BFLPE the grand-mean centering has the advantage that the BFLPE could directly been observed by a negative b from the aggregated class ability on self-concept.
I thought that the in Mplus unstandardized ouput with the standardized variables is the same as
using the grand mean centering in Mplus and than using sdyx. Is this so?
Thank you in advance!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, September 28, 2013 - 11:23 am
You should run the analysis both ways and see if they are the same.
Isbelle Schmidt
posted on Friday, October 04, 2013 - 1:19 am
i did it and the standardized output in Mplus are nearly the same for z-standardized variables and grand-mean centered variables.
Could you tell me what the difference is between stdyx, stdy and std?
Thanks a lot!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, October 04, 2013 - 6:12 am
See the STANDARDIZED option in the user's guide.
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Astronomers Use Hubble to 'Weigh' Dog Star's Companion
For astronomers, it's always been a source of frustration that the nearest white-dwarf star is buried in the glow of the brightest star in the nighttime sky. This burned-out stellar remnant is a faint companion of the brilliant blue-white Dog Star, Sirius, located in the winter constellation Canis Major. Now, an international team of astronomers has used the keen eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to isolate the light from the white dwarf, called Sirius B. The new results allow them to measure precisely the white dwarf's mass based on how its intense gravitational field alters the wavelengths of light emitted by the star.
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Sirius, the brightest star in our nighttime sky, along with its faint, tiny stellar companion, Sirius B. Astronomers overexposed the image of Sirius [at center] so that the dim Sirius B [tiny dot at lower left] could be seen. The cross-shaped diffraction spikes and concentric rings around Sirius, and the small ring around Sirius B, are artifacts produced within the telescope's imaging system. Sirius B is a white dwarf that orbits around Sirius every 50 years. Sirius, only 8.6 light-years from Earth, is the fifth closest star system known.
The Dog Star, Sirius, and its Tiny Companion
For astronomers, it has always been a source of frustration that the nearest white-dwarf star is buried in the glow of the brightest star in the nighttime sky. This burned-out stellar remnant is a faint companion of the brilliant blue-white Dog Star, Sirius, located in the winter constellation Canis Major. Now, an international team of astronomers has used the keen eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to isolate the light from the white dwarf, called Sirius B.
The new results allow them to measure precisely the white dwarf's mass based on how its intense gravitational field alters the wavelengths of light emitted by the star. Such spectroscopic measurements of Sirius B taken with a telescope looking through the Earth's atmosphere have been severely contaminated by scattered light from the very bright Sirius.
"Studying Sirius B has challenged astronomers for more than 140 years," said Martin Barstow of the University of Leicester, U.K., who is the leader of the observing team. "Only with Hubble have we at last been able to obtain the observations we need, uncontaminated by the light from Sirius, in order to measure its change in wavelengths."
"Accurately determining the masses of white dwarfs is fundamentally important to understanding stellar evolution. The sun will eventually become a white dwarf. White dwarfs are also the source of Type Ia supernova explosions that are used because of their brightness to measure the distances to distant galaxies and the expansion rate of the universe. Measurements based on Type Ia supernovae are fundamental to understanding 'dark energy,' a dominant repulsive force stretching the universe apart. Also, the method used to determine the white dwarf's mass relies on one of the key predictions of Einstein's theory of General Relativity; that light loses energy when it attempts to escape the gravity of a compact star."
Sirius B has a diameter of 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers), less than the size of Earth, but is much more dense. Its powerful gravitational field is 350,000 times greater than Earth's, meaning that a 150-pound person would weigh 50 million pounds standing on its surface. Light from the surface of the hot white dwarf has to climb out of this gravitational field and is stretched to longer, redder wavelengths of light in the process. This effect, predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity in 1916, is called gravitational redshift, and is most easily seen in dense, massive, and hence compact objects whose intense gravitational fields warp space near their surfaces.
Based on the Hubble measurements of the redshift, made with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph in February 2004, the team found that Sirius B has a mass that is 98 percent that of the sun. Sirius itself has a mass of two times that of the sun and a diameter of 1.5 million miles (2.4 million kilometers).
White dwarfs are the leftover remnants of stars similar to our Sun. They have exhausted their nuclear fuel sources and have collapsed down to a very small size. Sirius B is about 10,000 times fainter than Sirius itself, making it difficult to study with telescopes on the Earth's surface because its light is swamped in the glare of its brighter companion. Astronomers have long relied on a fundamental theoretical relationship between the mass of a white dwarf and its diameter. The theory predicts that the more massive a white dwarf, the smaller its diameter. The precise measurement of Sirius B's gravitational redshift allows an important observational test of this key relationship.
The Hubble observations have also refined the measurement of Sirius B's surface temperature to be 44,900 degrees Fahrenheit, or 25,200 degrees Kelvin. Sirius itself has a surface temperature of 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit (10,500 degrees Kelvin).
At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius is one of the nearest known stars to Earth. Stargazers have watched Sirius since antiquity. Its diminutive companion, however, was not discovered until 1862, when it was first glimpsed by astronomers examining Sirius through one of the most powerful telescopes of that time.
Details of the work were reported in the October 2005 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Other participants on the team include Howard Bond of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.; Matt Burleigh of the University of Leicester; Jay Holberg and Ivan Hubeny of the University of Arizona; and Detlev Koester of the University of Kiel, Germany.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. The Institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. is a joint collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory.
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European and African Union Commissions meet to pave the way for next Africa-EU Summit
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and six European Commissioners will meet their African Union (AU) counterparts on 25 and 26 April, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The high-level event, which takes place in year of the 50th anniversary of the Organisation of the African Union (OAU), will launch the preparations of the 4th Africa-EU Summit, due to take place in Brussels in April 2014.
The meeting will further strengthen bilateral cooperation and political dialogue between the two continents, promote shared interests and tackle common regional and global challenges within the Joint Africa-EU Strategy.
President Barroso said: "Africa and Europe are each other's closest neighbours. The partnership between the European Commission and the African Union is becoming ever more relevant by the day. I look forward to our next College-to-College (C2C) meeting, an event which symbolises the cooperation, convergence and complicity between the two sister organisations that have been driving regional integration in both Europe and Africa. I am proud of what we have achieved together so far. And I am convinced that we can do much more in the future by jointly tackling our shared challenges, from climate action to regional security, eradicating poverty and sharing the benefits of trade and growth."
The EU is the biggest trading partner for Africa and remains its most important donor. African countries received close to €24 billion of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from the EU in the period 2007–2012.
Most recently, the EU granted €50 million to support the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA) through the African Peace Facility, which supports the African Union and regional African organisations in carrying out peace-keeping operations such as AMISOM in Somalia and MICOPAX in the Central African Republic. Through the African Peace Facility, the European Union covers mainly the non-military costs of the force, such as the daily allowances, and transport and medical costs. Since 2004, the EU has provided more than €1.1 billion through the African Peace Facility to prevent conflict and promote peace, for example in Darfur, Somalia, and the Central African Republic.
The meeting between the two Commissions will start with keynote speeches from AUC Chairperson Zuma and President Barroso, followed by a plenary discussion and thematic meetings of Commissioners. The discussions will cover regional integration, trade and infrastructure, economic governance and raw materials, as well as customs and taxation. Other key topics will be the environment and climate action, sustainable energy and agriculture, food safety and security, resilience, education, employment, health and migration.
A common challenge for both Africa and Europe remains to consolidate sustainable economic growth and ensure that it is inclusive in creating jobs, especially for women and young people. This requires coordinated action at continental, regional and national levels. In this context, the issues of trade, regional integration, agriculture and raw materials will be high on the agenda. In addressing education, health, women- and youth empowerment and development of human capital, the Commissioners will look at ways to cooperate more closely on the structural challenges in helping economies to prosper.
For this 6th annual College-to-College session, President Barroso will be accompanied by Commissioners Piebalgs (Development), De Gucht (Trade), Georgieva (International cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response), Hedegaard (Climate action), Cioloş (Agricultural and rural development) and Šemeta (Taxation and customs Union, audit and anti-fraud).
The Strategic Partnership between Africa and the EU pursues common objectives and aims to expand the political dialogue and concrete operation into new areas of shared interest, in a dialogue of equal partners.
80 Heads of State and Government from Africa and Europe adopted the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) at the Summit in Lisbon in December 2007. Both sides agreed to pursue common interests and strategic objectives together, beyond traditional development issues, beyond the exclusive geographic scope of Africa and beyond institutions with enhanced involvement of parliaments and donors, including the private sector, civil society and young people. The JAES outlines a long-term shared vision of the future of Africa-EU relations in a globalised world.
The next Africa-EU Summit is scheduled to take place in Brussels, April 2014.
The African Union and the African Union Commission
The AU, the successor of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), was created in 2002 and currently has 54 Member States. It is Africa's leading continental institution and principal organisation in the area of Peace and Security. Its main objectives are to achieve unity and solidarity on the continent, achieve political and economic integration, promote peace and security, democratic principles and institutions, as well as sustainable development.
The AU Commission is the key institution in the day-to-day management of the African Union and main interlocutor for the European Commission in the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership. The AU Commission is composed of the Chairperson, a Deputy Chairperson and eight Commissioners. It has its headquarters in Addis Ababa and currently has some 1.500 staff members. A new College was elected in 2012, with Dr Dlamini-Zuma as Chairperson. Most of the new AU Commissioners have already taken office.
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The Human Element: Addressing Human Adversaries in Security Domains by James Pita A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) December 2012 Copyright 2012 James Pita
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|Recently, game theory has been shown to be useful for reasoning about real-world security settings where security forces must protect critical assets from potential adversaries. In fact, there have been a number of deployed real-world applications of game theory for security (e.g., ARMOR at Los Angeles International Airport and IRIS for the Federal Air Marshals Service). Here, the objective is for the security force to utilize its limited resources to best defend their critical assets. ❧ An important factor in these real-world security settings is that the adversaries involved are humans who may not behave according to the standard assumptions of game-theoretic models. There are two key shortcomings of the approaches currently employed in these recent applications. First, human adversaries may not make the predicted rational decision. In such situations, where the security force has optimized against a perfectly rational opponent, a deviation by the human adversary can lead to adverse affects on the security force's predicted outcome. Second, human adversaries are naturally creative and security domains are highly dynamic, making enumeration of all potential threats a practically impossible task and solving the resulting game, with current leading approaches, would be intractable. ❧ My thesis contributes to a very new area that combines algorithmic and experimental game-theory. Indeed, it examines a critical problem in applying game-theoretic techniques to situations where perfectly rational solvers must address human adversaries. In doing so it advances the study and reach of game theory to domains where software agents and humans may interact. More specifically, to address the first shortcoming, my thesis presents two separate algorithms to address potential deviations from the predicted rational decision by human adversaries. Experimental results, from a simulation that is motivated by a real-world security domain at Los Angeles International airport, demonstrated that both of my approaches outperform the currently deployed optimal algorithms which utilize standard game-theoretic assumptions and additional alternative algorithms against humans. In fact, one of my approaches is currently under evaluation in a real-world application to aid in resource allocation decisions for the United States Coast Guard. ❧ Towards addressing the second shortcoming of enumeration of a large number of potential adversary threat capabilities, I introduce a new game-theoretic model for efficiency, which additionally generalizes the previously accepted model for security domains. This new game-theoretic model for addressing human threat capabilities has seen real-world deployment and is under evaluation to aid the United States Transportation Security Administration in their resource allocation challenges.
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in 2009, the William Robinson Gallery opened in Old Government House at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. It was the first time in Australia that an artist had been honored in such a way.
A painter since the 1960s, William Robinson came to national attention when he won the Archibald Prize for Portraiture in 1987 and again in 1995. He also won the Wynne Prize for Landscape in 1987 and 1996. In 2007, William Robinson was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his outstanding achievement and service to the arts.
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The fact that R.A. Dickey isn't starting the All-Star Game has nothing to do with merit, and everything to do with legitimacy.
Even though he's statistically the best pitcher (player?) in the majors this year, the source of his greatness — the knuckleball — makes him a second-tier player in the eyes of the baseball world.
It's not just baseball's fault.
All sports have entrenched assumptions about what an excellent player looks like.
In the NBA, an excellent player is a scoring wing who makes difficult shots.
In the NFL, an excellent player is a pocket-passing quarterback with a cannon arm.
And in baseball — a sport obsessed with its own traditions more than any other — an excellent pitcher is a hard-throwing right-hander with a wicked breaking ball that strikes a lot of people out.
It's not enough for Dickey to be 12-1 with a 2.40 ERA. He has to be 12-1 with a 2.40 ERA in a very specific way.
The baseball world sees Dickey and his knuckleball as a gimmick, an odd and fleeting path to effectiveness that automatically disqualifies him from the realm of great pitchers and places him his own separate and inferior category.
And the anti-Dickey bias includes one other key assumption: this won't last.
Knuckleballers are historically streaky, and that allows the baseball world to write off his greatness as a stroke of luck. It allows people to de-legitimize him under the assumption that his greatness doesn't come from some innate skill.
Of course this is a lie because any player, no matter how he plays, can suddenly "lose it." Just look at Tim Lincecum — who was once in the "great pitcher" category that Dickey isn't allowed to be in. Lincecum was the archetypal great, hard-throwing pitcher, but his greatness didn't last. It can happen to anybody.
The basic lesson is this: Greatness in sports is not about objective superiority, it's about satisfying popular assumptions about what greatness ought to look like.
There's an inherent bias against players who succeed differently. Michael Vick was only accepted as a great player when he starting throwing more from the pocket in Philadelphia. Greg Maddux is considered a tier below Roger Clemens and Nolan Ryan because he didn't throw hard. And the world didn't finally accept LeBron James as a great player until he "took over" games in the 2012 Playoffs.
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The 118-room former Drury Inn & Suites motel at 1556 Sycamore View Road in Northeast Memphis has sold for $4.1 million.
Kali Hospitality Ltd., which lists a Humboldt, Tenn., address, bought the 62,068-square-foot motel in a Nov. 13 special warranty deed from DSW Inns LLC of Cape Girardeau, Mo. That company had acquired the hotel in a 2009 quitclaim deed from Drury Hotels Co. LLC.
Built in 1994, the low-rise motel sits on 1.8 acres on the east side of Sycamore View Road near its intersection with Interstate 40. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $3.8 million.
In conjunction with the purchase, Kali Hospitality filed a $3.7 million deed of trust and security agreement and fixture filing through Fidelity Bank. Dinesh C. Patel signed the deed as president of the borrower.
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A panel of Memphians to come up with three to five finalists for the University of Memphis presidency meets for the first time Dec. 4.
The panel of 22, appointed by the Tennessee Board of Regents, is being led by attorney Greg Duckett, senior vice president and corporate counsel of Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and a member of the Board of Regents.
Board of Regents Chancellor John Morgan will choose the permanent successor to Dr. Shirley Raines, who retired this summer. Brad Martin has been serving as interim president since the start of the academic year.
The search panel's first order of business will be to set criteria for the search.
– Bill Dries
UnitedHealthcare has launched an effort in Tennessee to provide one-on-one health support to TennCare-eligible individuals who have unmanaged or complex health conditions.
The Neighborhood Connections program is creating health assistance centers in communities across the state and hiring workers from those local communities. Coordinators will help participants set health and self-management goals, and create health, emotional and social support plans. The coordinators will also follow up in person to help participants address challenges.
Neighborhood Connections centers already have begun opening elsewhere in the state, and a center in Memphis will open before the end of the year.
– Andy Meek
U.S. homebuilders' confidence in the housing market held steady this month, but many are worried that another fight over the federal budget could cause would-be buyers to put off home purchases.
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Monday stayed at 54 this month. October's reading was revised one point lower from its initial estimate.
Readings above 50 indicate more builders view sales conditions as good, rather than poor.
The index has stayed above 50 now for six straight months after being below that level since May 2006. It has held steady, even as mortgage rates have come off their record lows and home sales have slowed. Those readings suggest most builders are still optimistic that the housing recovery will endure.
But the trade association noted Monday that many consumers are holding off on buying a home because of concerns over another budget fight in Washington. Lawmakers reached a temporary agreement last month to reopen the government after a 16-day partial shutdown, but another potential shutdown looms.
"Policy and economic uncertainty is undermining consumer confidence," said David Crowe, the NAHB's chief economist.
Builder confidence took a hit in October because of the shutdown. Some buyers found it harder to close on their mortgages.
– The Associated Press
Yahoo is expanding its efforts to protect its users' online activities from prying eyes by encrypting all the communications and other information flowing into the Internet company's data centers around the world.
The commitment announced Monday by Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer follows a recent Washington Post report that the National Security Agency has been hacking into the communications lines of thee data centers run by Yahoo and Google Inc. to intercept information about what people do and say online.
Yahoo had previously promised to encrypt its email service by early January. Now, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company plans to have all data encrypted by the end of March to make it more difficult for unauthorized parties to decipher the information.
Google says many of its services already are encrypted.
The Supreme Court is refusing to intervene in the controversy surrounding the National Security Agency, rejecting a call from a privacy group to stop NSA from collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the United States.
While the justices on Monday declined to get involved in this issue, other lawsuits on the topic are making their way through the lower courts around the country.
But in the case at hand, the Electronic Privacy Information Center bypassed lower courts and said that only the Supreme Court can overrule a decision by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose order allowing NSA to get the records cannot be reviewed by other federal courts.
The State Building Commission has unanimously voted to name Peter Heimbach as Tennessee's new state architect.
The state architect oversees the state Capitol and its grounds, along with the state's other building and land development projects. He also develops design standards for state agencies.
Heimbach succeeds Bob Oglesby, who was named commissioner of the state Department of General Services in August.
Heimbach is a graduate of the University of Tennessee's architecture program and spent 12 years at the architectural firm Beeson, Lusk and Street Inc.
In his previous role he has served as the executive director of Tennessee's Real Estate Asset Management.
The Tennessee Valley Authority says in a filing that it paid Chief Executive Officer Bill Johnson $5.9 million during his nine months on the job in fiscal year 2013.
That's almost $2 million more than the federal utility paid former CEO Tom Kilgore, who retired at the end of 2012, during his last year with the agency. He made just under $4.03 million.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press cited the TVA's year-end financial report, which was filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The utility said that even with the increase Johnson's pay is still below the industry average.
TVA is the nation's largest public utility, supplying power to about 9 million people in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
Most of his salary came from performance incentives of nearly $2.6 million and deferred compensation payments of $2.06 million. His base salary for nine months of work was $712,500.
Other top executives at TVA saw a decline in pay.
Chief financial officer, John Thomas, received $2.1 million in 2013, or 3.3 percent less than in 2012. TVA's chief counsel, Ralph Rogers, received 25 percent less than the previous year with pay of $1.9 million.
The utility ended fiscal 2013 with $271 million in net income on $11 billion in operating revenues. Although the utility has a decline in sales, it said record levels of hydroelectric generation helped offset increased fuel costs.
"TVA reported solid financial results in 2013 despite lower sales and revenues," Johnson said in a statement.
"We experienced lower demand for power during the year due to the shutdown of a major customer facility, a slow-growing economy and adoption of energy conservation by customers," he said.
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