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The improved Lattice Truss was developed by Brigadier General Herman Haupt (1817-1905) who was Chief of Military Railroads for the Union Army during the Civil War. A Philadelphia born civil and military engineer, author, professor, inventor, and industrialist, Haupt’s improved lattice truss bridge was a response to Ithiel Town’s 1820 and 1835 patents for the plank lattice timber truss. Haupt used the analytical methods he developed in the 1840s to design a more efficient lattice truss which consisted of web members positioned only at locations which required support. Redundant members were removed, resulting in the improved lattice truss as described in his book General Theory of Bridge Construction published in 1851. The Bunker Hill Covered Bridge is the only remaining example in wood of the Improved Lattice Truss by General Herman Haupt. The bridge is a designated National Cvil Engineering Landmark. (The statement presented here was obtained from material produced by the Catawba Ciounty Historical Association)
Improving Penetration: a Success Story of Augmenting National Knowledge Society Through En-Massing Digital Devices and Enabling Citizens (National PC Initiative – Information Technology Authority)
His Majesty, the Sultan has directed for a Royal Grant bestowing one free PC targeting specific segments in society in order to make the PCs ownership affordable by subsidizing their costs. The government represented by ITA executed this task through approved retailing outlets targeting the specific segments in order to bridge the digital divide and enhance the local capabilities and increase the PC and internet penetration rate as part of its e.Oman strategy.
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ITU/ Claudio Montesano Casillas
Improved security is essential to reinvigorating what has been called the bread basket of South Sudan, the head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer, has said.
Mr Shearer was making his first field trip to the town of Yambio in the Western Equatoria region of South Sudan, on February 22, 2017. The region is an agricultural area, which has typically provided a wide range of food products for the rest of the country.
Production has slowed because farmers are no longer able to plant crops due to ongoing insecurity and displacement.
“Security is the key to getting famers back to their land,” Mr Shearer said after meeting Gbudwe State officials in Yambio. He said that security was also essential on the road network to allow trade and the distribution of agricultural products.
He praised the State authorities for their commitment to boosting agricultural production and moving towards self-sufficiency.
The UNMISS head is also encouraging reconciliation efforts by the State authorities, especially the efforts to reintegrate young people into the community who had joined armed groups active in the area.
Photo:UNMISS/Daniel Dickinson, editor:Isaac Billy
A mother and child at
a hospital in Cambodia
built with the support of
the World Bank.
Photo by Chhor Sokunthea/World Bank
Improved sexual health and/or reduced teenage pregnancies. Left to right - Carolyn Godfrey, Wiltshire Council, winner Vicki Storey, No Worries! Sexual Health outreach Service and John Glen MP
Your boss is finally convinced by you to replace the office chair with an ergonomic chair. After working in the new chair for a day, you feel much better than before and can focus on work for longer time. After working for a while, your back pain also starts to improve. Your colleagues can also notice that you are more engaged and productive than in the past few months.
The ergonomic chair for computer users is designed to help you sit comfortably for long periods of time at work. They are more adjustable than standard office chairs and allow you to adjust to your body or seating preferences.
These chairs increase your productivity and increase your job satisfaction, and they also reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injuries. Here are five specific reasons why an ergonomic chair can relieve your waist and back pain.
1.Support proper posture when sitting on ergonomic chairs
The most important reason that ergonomic chair for computer users can improve waist and back pain is that they are designed to support your natural posture and reduce stress on your body. The seat back usually extends from the shoulder to the seat position. The lower back forms a slightly curved forward structure to match the natural curve of the lumbar spine. This is often called lumbar support because it helps protect the lumbar spine.
The adjustable armrest of the ergonomic chair supports your elbows and forearms as your arms naturally hang next to your body. This allows you to use your keyboard and mouse without causing fatigue in your shoulder and arm muscles. Adjusting the seat height allows you to lay your feet flat on the floor with your hips and knees bent to about 90 degrees.
Some ergonomic chairs have backs that can be moved forward or backward to reduce the depth of the seat and prevent the front edge from cutting into the back of the knee.
2. Proper hip and pelvis alignment when sitting on ergonomic chairs
A common cause of back pain caused by incorrect sitting is improper alignment of the hips and pelvis. The top of the pelvis should be level to prevent tilting forward or backward. When the computer chair you sit in a correct posture, the pelvis bone structure known as a bone to be flush with each other, are located in the front and rear portions of the pelvic bone. When these bony structures are horizontal, your waist should be slightly arched with the raised parts facing forward.
If you sway from side to side, you should feel the pressure on the bone structure called the ischial tuberosity. These are also called ischias because they should be the weight-bearing part of the pelvis when sitting. If you've ever sat on a hard bench, you will most likely feel your ischial tuberosity press into a hard surface.
3. Prevent shaking and lean forward head posture when sitting on ergonomic chairs
When you sit down, the lumbar spine bends and your shoulders roll forward to create a slack posture. In this position, your scapula is away from the thoracic spine and your head is moved forward or extended. When you look up at your computer monitor, your neck moves to an extended position. If you continue working in this position, this can cause muscle strain, pain, and headaches.
Internal and external factors can cause slackness. Internal factors include limited hip flexion range, tight hamstrings, obesity, and weak torso (core) muscles that fail to keep the spine upright against gravity. External factors are factors outside the body, such as limitations of chair design. These include seat lengths that are too long or too short, seat backs that are too vertical, and armrests that are too low.
Ergonomic chair for computer users may not change your internal constraints, but they are specifically designed to correct external factors. Adjustable seat depth and contours of the seat back support the waist, prevent lazy body states, and promote you to sit in place. Some chairs also allow you to adjust the angle or tilt of the seat back. Use a properly adjusted ergonomic chair to prevent looseness and forward head posture.
4. Reduce repeated bending of the body on ergonomic chairs for computer users
A side effect of sitting poorly on a standard chair is that it requires repetitive bending of the body to ease it. This is likely to happen several times a day and can cause pain in your waist. Sitting on an ergonomic chair with good back support will allow you to sit more straight. This will prevent you from having to move more and effectively prevent your waist from adding extra pressure.
5. Improve comfort when sitting on ergonomic chairs
Many ergonomic chairs for computer users are made of higher quality materials. Seat and back cushions to improve fitness. Some ergonomic chairs have extra lumbar support built into the design. If the legs are shorter, lower the chair and slide the seat back forward to reduce the seat depth. You can also raise the armrest to support your elbows. The key to comfort is being able to adjust almost every part of the chair to fit a variety of body types and sizes.
Ergonomic chair for computer users can improve your pain in the back by improving your sitting posture. Ergonomic seats have a wide range of adjustability, allowing computer users to achieve a more customized fit posture than standard chairs. They can help with a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, including neck, middle back and lower back pain. While ergonomic chairs are often more expensive than standard office chairs, they can have a huge impact on computer users' productivity and job satisfaction. Come visit our website at victorage.com for ergonomic chairs now!
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A greenhouse supported by UNDP's Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP), is a five-year project, made possible by the Global Environment Facility Least Developed Countries Fund. Over the next three years, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, UNDP will implement more than 100 livelihoods projects, including building more greenhouses and training farmers on food processing and food storage, as well as protecting 800 hectares of land from flooding, irrigate 4,000 hectares of agricultural land and repairing 30 canals.
To diversify livelihoods and improve women’s economic freedom, UNDP has implemented several other projects in Herat districts. These include: 6 raisin houses, 10 greenhouses, 1 apiary, and kitchen gardens for 30 women.
UNDP’s Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP), is a five-year project, made possible by the Global Environment Facility Least Developed Countries Fund. Over the next three years, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, UNDP will implement more than 100 livelihoods projects, including building more greenhouses and training farmers on food processing and food storage, as well as protecting 800 hectares of land from flooding, irrigate 4,000 hectares of agricultural land and repairing 30 canals.
© UNDP Afghanistan / S. Omer Sadaat / 2017
Improved and re-coloured version of my 1/70 scale model.
Modifications include more prototypical wing bracing, slightly re-shaped (slimmer) rear fuselage, additional struts for the main landing gear, transparent cockpit windows, greater structural stability of the whole fuselage and a brand new display stand.
8 March 2016. Conference on improving women’s access to leadership: What works?
OECD Headquarters.
SESSION 2 Policy choices and good practices in the public sector
Michelle d’Auray, Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the OECD, Canada
Photo : Julien DANIEL / OECD
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Here's one of my couple-of-clicks™ fixes to remove a colorcast from an underwater photo. (Assuming Photoshop software used)
- Open your photo
- Choose Image - Adjustments - Threshold…
- Your photo will turn black and white temporarily
- Slide the slider all the way to the left to find the darkest/blackest point of the photo. Mark that point with the eyedropper tool. (Command-click)
- Slide the slider all the way to the right to find the brightest/whitest point. Mark that with the eyedropper tool also.
- Cancel the Threshold… command.
- If it went well there are two marked points marked 1 and 2.
- Choose Image - Adjustments - Curves… (Command-M)
- The curves tool has eyedroppers for black, 50% and white spots of the image.
- Select black eyedropper and click on the marked point you marked as the blackest point. Your photo should get an improved contrast. Repeat this for the white point and your photo will be balanced. The cast whites will be corrected.
Proceed cleaning up your photo!
Smile with a dramatic improvement of the original photo.
Carmel Martin with the Arabic Employment Forum speakers: Abraham Ghossain (AC), Lara Oram (OT), Eduardo Luis and Eehab To'mah.
Pictured: Nate Richardson, USFWS biologist (left); Dani Aleshire, NRCS wetland easement specialist; and Jarod Jebousek, USFWS biologist.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Monarch butterfly populations have declined over recent decades due to degraded habitat, but Oregon landowners are making great strides to improve monarch habitat on private lands, with technical and financial assistance from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Milkweed is a critical component of monarch habitat because it’s the only plant on which they will lay their eggs, and it’s a vital food source for monarch caterpillars. Just one example of this partnership at work is the recent establishment of milkweed clusters on the E4 Ranch easement in Benton County, Oregon. Under this project, NRCS enrolled 192-acres of private land into a 30-year wetland easement in 2005. As part of the easement contract, NRCS and the USFWS provided financial and technical assistance to restore the site to its native wetland prairie condition. Before the restoration, the land was a flat pasture, filled with a single-species of grass for cattle grazing. Now, the site is a diverse landscape filled with native trees, plants, and shrubs—including pollinator habitat such as gumweed and milkweed. NRCS photo by Tracy Robillard.
Improved stove production in Kisangani, DRC.
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Hand knit in Drops Baby Merino to the pattern by Kate Davies - now new and improved and includes the Dollheid Tam pattern too.
Improved Production Race at Mount Panorama, Bathurst during the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12hr Endurance Race weekend.
To improve the biological performance of dams and hydro turbines, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oakridge National Laboratory developed specialized design and evaluation tools that will enable new turbine designs to meet power production goals and minimize effects on fish. Based on biological data from field and lab studies, researchers developed a new version of the Sensor Fish, a small tubular device filled with sensors that analyzes the physical stresses fish experience. The latest rendition measures more forces, costs about 80% less, and can be used in more hydro structures than its predecessor.
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Web development Surrey wide can help improve the effectiveness of your website in engaging your target audiences and driving up sales. Here, we look at easy ways to improve your reach.
First, ask your web development agency Surrey to tighten up your content. Remove jargon and boring stock photos, plus any slow-to-load animations. Refresh text so it’s snappy, easy-to-read and informative. Next, as any social media agency Surrey based will tell you, if you don’t have social media ‘share’ buttons, you’re missing out. Make it easy for people reading your blog or looking at your products to share info with friends on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Third, check there’s a call-to-action in all the key places, so viewers are enticed to actively engage with your website. Fourth, check navigation throughout the site is clear so it’s simple for users to find what they’re looking for – and fast. Fifth, make sure the site is mobile-responsive, or you’ll lose out on huge numbers of readers.
Finally, remember: white space on your webpages is your friend. Don’t cram your site with too much information. As experts in web development Surrey wide know, this can improve readability.
A model to improve pig nutrition using local resources for market oriented production – Nagaland, India (photo credit: ILRI/Kaba Solomon).
Since 2016 – in an effort to improve the public health system – UNOPS has been working together with Guatemala's Social Security Institute (IGSS) to improve transparency in public procurement, beginning with the acquisition of medicines and medical supplies, and later supporting wide-range institutional reform for IGSS.
Through this, UNOPS designed policies on sustainable procurement, infrastructure and project management, and trained 600 staff in public procurement and supply chain management.
The project further delivered significant savings for the government of Guatemala. Through 13 public tenders, UNOPS helped stock 114 hospitals and health centres across the country with 568 types of medicines, equaling around 450 million doses of medicine. Through the use of transparent and efficient procurement processes, the government estimated savings of around $270 million, reporting around 57 per cent savings on the purchase of medicines and 34 per cent savings on surgical medical supplies since they began working with UNOPS.
An estimated 3.2 million Guatemalans are benefiting from improved healthcare as a result. Importantly, the project has also left a legacy of transparency in a country with a high risk of corruption in public procurement and has helped lay the foundation for a more efficient and transparent future for procurement by IGSS.
With funding from IGSS, UNOPS collaborated with the UN Development Programme to help build the new hospital in Quetzaltenango.
© UNOPS/John Rae
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