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Windows PowerShell in action
Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition is the definitive guide to PowerShell, now revised to cover PowerShell 6. Written by language designer Bruce Payette and MVP Richard Siddaway, this rich book offers a crystal-clear introduction to the language along with its essential everyday use cases. Beyond the basics, you'll find detailed examples on deep topics like performance, module architecture, and parallel execution. In 2006, Windows PowerShell reinvented the way administrators and developers interact with Windows. Today, PowerShell is required knowledge for Windows admins and devs. This powerful, dynamic language provides command-line control of the Windows OS and most Windows servers, such as Exchange and SCCM. And because it's a first-class .NET language, you can build amazing shell scripts and tools without reaching for VB or C#.
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Acute psychological and physiological benefits of exercising with virtual reality
Exercise is a powerful tool for disease prevention and rehabilitation. Commercially available virtual reality (VR) devices and apps offer an immersive platform to gamify exercise and potentially enhance physiological and psychological benefits. However, no work has compared immersive exercise to closely matched 2D screen-based equivalents with the same visual and auditory stimuli. This study aims to compare the acute effects of an exercise session using a commercial immersive VR workout to the same stimuli and workout presented on a screen. 17 healthy participants (male = 7, female = 10; aged 24.18±4.56 years), completed a 12-minute guided VR boxing exercise session in FitXR™ and a screen-based equivalent. Physiological responses were recorded continuously using a heart rate monitor and telemetricmetabolic cart system. Psychological and perceptual responses were measured using their ratings of perceived exertion, the physical activity enjoyment scale, and the physical activity affect scale. In the immersive VR participants chose to engage in more intense exercise (%VO2max;
p
= 0.044), showed higher levels of all enjoyment subscales
(p
<0.05) and reported higher positive affect (
p
= 0.003) and lower negative affect (
p
= 0.045) following exercise compared to the screen-based equivalent. However, the design here could not determine which elements of immersive VR contributed to the positive effects. Immersive VR may offer a more efficient alternative to other forms of screen based and exergaming workouts and could be offered as a gateway into exercise.
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Southeast Asian education in modern history : schools, manipulation, and contest
\"Social, political and economic change in Southeast Asia of the last two hundred years has been faster and more substantial than in any previous age as the impact of the Industrial Revolution intruded into the region and, particularly over the last fifty years, manifested itself in patent and tangible measures of the region's productivity reflecting unprecedented sustained economic growth. This book analyses the Southeast Asian experience of educational development. Through a variety of micro-historical studies on the subject of education, policy and practice in the region from the emergence of modern education to the end of the twentieth century, the book examines if there is an identifiably distinct Southeast Asian approach to the provision of education. Contributors focus on issues connected to schools and modernity, schools and politics, schools and the actions of Western teachers in the region. They also explore the extent to which contest over educational content in schools has occurred and establish the particular socio-cultural, political and economic bases upon which these contestations have played out. Demonstrating that education has been facilitated by the region's particular configurations, its unique demographic, religious, social, environmental, economic and political context, the book presents the obstacles that have prevented education making as full an impact on the region's rate of change. An analysis of the history of schools in Southeast Asia, this book offers a valuable explanation of the current state of education in Southeast Asia and the challenges it has inherited. This book will be of interest to academics in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Studies, education, nationalism, and history\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Encountering chemotherapy 2.0
Hovey discusses his experience of undergoing chemotherapy for advanced metastasized prostate cancer. He states that it has been almost 4 years since his first round, and now he is learning to endure it again, both practically with the physical pain and ontologically with the emotional pain, as he becomes something of a stranger to himself. He does so as a person who was actively trying not to be disrupted by negative life events and was purposefully avoiding the conditions that might unsettle his life, which Heidegger refers to as \"thrownness.\" As he contends with cancer, he is open to new developments and possibilities and not attempt to escape or deny the reality of his situation. Although he has choices, he chose chemotherapy. He seeks to return to what is normal to him because this thrownness causes anxiety.
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Cricket and society in South Africa, 1910-1971 : from union to isolation
This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket. It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving relationship between culture, sport and politics starting with South Africa as the beating heart of the imperial project and ending with the country as an international pariah. The contributors explore the tensions between fragmentation and unity, on and off the pitch, in the context of the racist ideology of empire, its 'arrested development' and the reliance of South Africa on a racially based exploitative labour system. This edited collection uncovers the hidden history of cricket, society, and empire in defining a multiplicity of South African identities, and recognises the achievements of forgotten players and their impact.
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Pace-Of-Life in Dusky Salamanders
In this report I examine tradeoffs involving body size, age, and resource allocation within the framework of the Equal Fitness Paradigm (EFP) in six species of plethodontid salamanders of the genus Desmognathus in two assemblages in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The species are representative of the three life-history modes associated with habitat utilization in Desmognathus, namely stream, streamside, and forest. The two assemblages include the largest and smallest members of the genus. Among species, I recorded a negative correlation between body size and relative offspring size, a positive correlation between body size and lifetime offspring number, but negative correlations between body size and both lifetime reproductive investment and productivity, as reflected in the decrease in body size with increasing relative offspring size. In comparing these trends with published data on variation in these parameters in animals generally, I conclude that desmognathan salamanders lie at the slow end of the fast–slow axis in the pace-of-life model of life-history evolution. I discuss possible population regulatory mechanisms that operate on these populations, as a function of life-history mode, with special emphasis on streamside species. I suggest that retention of a brief larval phase in streamside species reflects tradeoffs among dispersal-related traits, including survival and growth.
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استعادة التوازن : استراتيجية للشرق الأوسط برسم الرئيس الجديد
لا شك في أن الرئيس الرابع والأربعين للولايات المتحدة الأميركية سيجد في انتظاره سلسلة من التحديات الحاسمة، المعقدة والمتشابكة في الشرق الأوسط، التي تتطلب إيلاءها اهتماما عاجلا. ذلك أن النموذج الذي اعتمده جورج بدليو بوش القائم على تغيير أنظمة الحكم ونشر الديمقراطية بالقوة لم يعد يتلاءم والظروف المتغيرة التي ستواجه الإدارة الجديدة على الأرجح الحاجة ماسة إذن لأفكار جديدة، وتحليلات غير حزبية، وتوصيات حصيفة. والكتاب الذي بين أيديكم يفي بتلك الحاجة على أفضل وجه. في اتسعادة التوازن، تتضافر جهود الخبراء والمختصين بشؤون الشرق الأوسط من مجلس العلاقات الخارجية ومركز صبان لسياسة الشرق الأوسط بمعهد بروكنغز، لتطرح استراتيجية أميركية جديدة لمنظمة حيوية لكن متفجرة كالشرق الأوسط فبناء على أبحاث ميدانية معنقة، قام هؤلاء الخبراء ببلورة مجموعة من التوصيات السياسية برسم الرئيس الأميركي الجديد وقد قامت بفحصها وتمحيصها ونقدها هيئة من المختصين من كلا الحزبين يتمتعون بخبرة سياسية واسعة ومعرفة غنية بالمنطقة، هذا التمرين في تخطيط السياسات الذي استغرق سنة كاملة هو الأول من نوعه على الإطلاق، الذي يوحد جهود وقدرات العاملين في هاتين المؤسستين المحترمتين بالسياسة الخارجية لتنصب على درس وتحليل واحدة من أخطر وأهم مناطق العالم. وكل فصل من هذا الكتاب يستضيف اثنين أو أكثر من الباحثين في مجلس العلاقات الخارجية ومعهد بروكنغز لمعاينة واستعراض التحديات التي ستواجه الرئيس المقبل.
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A Female-Centered Evaluation of Growth, Survival, Reproduction, and Demography in the Salamander Desmognathus quadramaculatus
In the present report, I evaluate life history and demography for two populations of the Black-bellied Salamander, Desmognathus quadramaculatus, in the Cowee and Nantahala Mountains, North Carolina, using published data on growth of females, fecundity, and larval growth and development to generate life tables and metabolic life histories for each population. I assumed that females in these populations reproduce biennially, beginning at ages 7–8 years and 8–10 years in Cowee and Nantahala populations, respectively. In deriving life tables, I posited stationary populations wherein net reproductive rate (R0) equaled 1.0 and population growth rate (r) equaled 0. Fecundity (mx column of the life table) was based on counts of ovarian follicles in gravid females. Survival values (lx column of the life table) were generated by an iterative process that yielded a value of R0 = 1.0. I projected the life spans in each population to 25 years. The demographic models developed by the procedure allowed comparison with those reported earlier for D. monticola and D. ocoee. Age at first reproduction and generation time are key contributors to variation in body size and life history in Desmognathus.
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