Softwood cuttings of Euonymus alatus and the cultivar Rudy Haag, a nearly seedless cultivar, were taken in Kentucky on two cutting dates. E. alatus Rudy Haag cuttings taken in mid-May, untreated or treated with 1000 - 3000 ppm IBA, produced many roots on a high percentage of cuttings. Post-rooting shoot growth was reduced for the species with cuttings taken in June. Rudy Haag produced new growth on cuttings taken in May with no IBA treatment. Transplanting resulted in a decrease in new growth. Liner plants of E. alatus Compactus and Rudy Haag were planted into 1 and 3 gallon containers of two different types, conventional black plastic and root training. A second experiment exposed plants to two levels of supplemental fertilizer in addition to slow release. A subsample was sprayed with Fascination (BA + GA4+7) at 1500 ppm in late July. No difference was seen in above-ground growth due to container type or supplemental fertilizer. A change in root morphology is seen with root trainers. Three gallon containers produced a larger plant than one gallon containers. Rudy Haag sprayed with Fascination were greater in size and branch number than those not sprayed.

In this thesis, we propose new automation capabilities for the Coq proof assistant. We obtain this mechanization via an integration into Coq of decision procedures for propositional logic, equality reasoning and linear arithmetic which make up the core of the Alt-Ergo SMT solver. This integration is achieved through the reflection technique, which consists in implementing and formally proving these algorithms in Coq in order to execute them directly in the proof assistant. Because the algorithms formalized in Coq are exactly those in use in Alt-Ergo's kernel, this work significantly increases our trust in the solver. In particular, it embeds an original algorithm for combining equality modulo theory reasoning, called CC(X) and inspired by the Shostak combination algorithm, and whose justification is quite complex. Our Coq implementation is available in the form of tactics which allow one to automatically solve formulae combining propositional logic, equality and arithmetic. In order to make these tactics as efficient as may be, we have taken special care with performance in our implementation, in particular through the use of classical efficient data structures, which we provide as a separate library.

This creative project consisted of the artist creating various box forms that were to house treasures that were considered special to the artist or the viewer. His childhood memories and his appreciation of streamline design heavily influenced him. Metal is one of the hardest materials to form and shape but the artist was able to create soft edges and curved forms by using his past experience with the material. He experimented with various surface techniques from patinas to sandblasting and polishing to create the appearance he desired in each piece. By combining wood and metal he created successful works that worked well together forming relationships between the two and were visually stimulating. He was able to create boxes within boxes with hidden compartments that could hide special treasures. This project proved to be a success for the artist, not only did he learn more about the building techniques and develop new surface treatments, but he designed and created the pieces he had envisioned at the beginning artistic career. / Department of Art

Dans un monde industriel marqué par un contexte économique difficile, les entreprises se doivent d’étudier toutes les possibilités de réduction de coûts et d’optimisation de leur chaîne logistique. Un des champs récents d’optimisation développé dans la littérature concerne le concept de logistique inverse. Cette logistique représente la gestion des flux traversant une chaîne logistique dans le sens inverse des flux traditionnels. On y retrouve des activités liées au recyclage, à la réparation ou encore à la réutilisation de produits. Au sein de la Chaire Supply Chain, nous nous sommes donc intéressés à l’optimisation de la gestion de ces flux de retours, avec les contenants réutilisables comme objet d’étude intéressant pour nos différents partenaires. Dans ce sens, après avoir passé en revue la littérature sur le concept général de la logistique inverse, nous développons un ensemble de modèles recouvrant les combinaisons mono ou multi niveaux, mono ou multi périodes et mono ou multi contenants afin d’optimiser ces retours au sein de chaînes logistiques déjà définies. Ces modèles sont par la suite appliqués, soit fictivement pour un des modèles mono-période résolu grâce à une heuristique de décomposition développée pour des réseaux logistiques de grande taille, soit réellement chez nos partenaires pour les modèles multi-périodes résolus de façon exacte. Le but de ces applications étant d’utiliser ces modèles théoriques dans un contexte réel d’entreprise et d’en dégager les possibles bénéfices économiques mais également environnementaux grâce à la prise en compte des émissions liées au transport et au cycle de vie de ces contenants. / In an industrial world touched by a complicated economic environment, companies need to explore all opportunities for cost reduction and supply chain optimization. A recent optimization field developed in the literature concerns the concept of reverse logistics. This concept deals with the flows management through a supply chain in the opposite direction to the traditional one. It includes activities related to recycling, repair or products reuse. In partnership with the industrial of the “Chaire Supply Chain”, we are interested in optimizing these reverse flows by focusing more particularly on reusable containers. For that, we propose a literature review on the general concept of reverse logistics and develop a set of models covering combinations between single and multi-levels, single and multi-periods and single and multi-containers problems in order to optimize this type of returns within already defined supply chains. These models are then applied, either in a fictive way for a single-period one solved by a decomposition heuristic proposed for large logistics networks, or in a real way for multi-period models solved exactly and applied to our partners problematic. The purpose of these applications is to use these theoretical models in a real business in order to identify economic benefits but also environmental ones by taking into account emissions from these containers transportation and manufacturing.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) rafaela_naiara_oliveira.pdf: 828917 bytes, checksum: 4fca08e2402e176f89301c9fc6e5d35b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho teve como objetivo desenvolver procedimentos de propaga??o in vitro de Eremanthus incanus e controlar a hiperidricidade em explantes durante o cultivo. Foram realizados cinco experimentos, que envolveram as etapas de germina??o, multiplica??o e alongamento. No experimento um, avaliou-se a influ?ncia dos meios de cultura MS e WPM (25, 50, 75 e 100% dos sais e vitaminas) no percentual de germina??o e na altura, n?mero de folhas e peso de mat?ria seca das pl?ntulas produzidas. Nos experimentos dois, tr?s e quatro os tratamentos consistiram de dois tipos de recipientes (tubos de ensaio e frascos de cultura) e quatro formas de veda??o (pel?cula de PVC, papel celofane, fita microporosa e tampas espec?ficas). No experimento dois, avaliou-se a influ?ncia dos recipientes e das formas de veda??es sobre o percentual de germina??o e de contamina??o, altura, n?mero de folhas e peso de mat?ria seca de pl?ntulas. No experimento tr?s, foram avaliados o n?mero de brota??es e a hiperidricidade em explantes na fase de multiplica??o, em tr?s subcultivos. J? no experimento quatro, a fase de alongamento foi avaliada em fun??o dos recipientes e formas de veda??o, em rela??o ?s vari?veis altura, hiperidricidade e peso de mat?ria seca. No experimento cinco, foram testadas quatro concentra??es de BAP e de TDZ e avaliados o n?mero de brota??es, hiperidricidade e calosidade, em dois subcultivos. No experimento um, o meio WPM75 apresentou o maior percentual de germina??o, enquanto o meio MS75 apresentou maior altura e n?mero de folhas, e o WPM100 maior peso de mat?ria seca. No experimento quatro, as combina??es tubo+fita, tubo+PVC e frasco+PVC proporcionaram os maiores percentuais de germina??o, enquanto os menores percentuais de contamina??o foram observados nos tratamentos tubo+fita e tubo+tampa. A combina??o tubo+celofane apresentou maior valor de altura e peso de mat?ria seca, e frasco+PVC maior n?mero de folhas. Observou-se no experimento tr?s, com rela??o ao n?mero de brota??es, que no subcultivo um a combina??o frasco+celofane foi superior, enquanto nos subcultivos dois e tr?s o tratamento tubo+celofane se destacou. Para a hiperidricidade, no subcultivo um, a combina??o tubo+tampa foi a que apresentou menor hiperidricidade, no subcultivo dois os tratamentos tubo+PVC e tubo+tampa se destacaram, e no subcultivo tr?s o melhor tratamento foi tubo+celofane. Na fase de alongamento (Experimento quatro), a combina??o tubo+celofane foi a que apresentou maior altura m?dia de explantes. Nos tr?s subcultivos, n?o ocorreu hiperidricidade na combina??o frasco+celofane, sendo tamb?m nessa combina??o observado o maior peso de mat?ria seca. No experimento cinco, o tratamento 0,75 mg L-1 BAP apresentou o maior n?mero de brota??es, nos dois subcultivos. Para a hiperidricidade, em ambos subcultivos, o BAP apresentou plantas com menor n?vel de hiperidricidade. Conclui-se que, na germina??o de sementes de Eremanthus incanus, o meio WPM com 75% de sais e vitaminas ? o mais indicado, enquanto para o estabelecimento da cultura o melhor ? o MS 75%. O tipo de recipiente e veda??o influenciam na multiplica??o, no alongamento e na hiperidricidade dos explantes, sendo que a combina??o do recipiente tubo de ensaio com a veda??o papel celofane transparente proporcionou, em geral, os melhores resultados. Quando comparadas as citocininas BAP e TDZ na multiplica??o, indica-se 0,75 mg L-1 de BAP. Mais estudos envolvendo a propaga??o in vitro devem ser realizados, principalmente relacionados ?s etapas de enraizamento e aclimata??o, de forma a consolidar uma metodologia para E. incanus. / Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ci?ncia Florestal, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2016. / This study aimed to develop procedures for in vitro propagation of Eremanthus incanus and control the vitrification in explants during cultivation. Five experiments were carried out, involving the stages of germination, multiplication and stretching. In experiment 1, we evaluated the influence of culture medium MS and WPM (25, 50, 75 and 100% of salts and vitamins) in the percentage of germination and height, number of leaves and dry weight of the produced seedlings. The experiments 2, 3 and 4 treatments consisted of two types of containers (test tubes and culture vials) and four types of sealing (PVC film, cellophane, micropore tape and specific covers). In experiment 2, we evaluated the influence of the containers and sealing forms on the percentage of germination and contamination, height, number of leaves and dry weight of seedlings. In experiment 3, we evaluated the number of shoots and vitrification in explants in multiplication phase in three subcultures. In the experiment 4, the elongation phase was assessed according to the containers and sealing forms in relation to height variables, vitrification and dry matter weight. In experiment 5, four concentrations of BAP and TDZ were tested and the number of shoots, vitrification and callus were evaluated in two subcultures. In experiment 1, the culture medium WPM75 had the highest percentage of germination, while the MS75 medium showed higher height and number of leaves, and the WPM100 presented the greater weight of dry matter. In experiment 2, the combinations tube + tape, PVC pipe + tube and PVC + vial provided the highest percentage of germination, while the lowest percentage of contamination were observed in the treatments tube + tape and tube + cover. The tube combination tube + cellophane showed higher height and dry matter weight, and vial + PVC larger number of leaves. It was observed in the experiment 3, in relation with the number of sprouts, that in the subculture 1 the combination vial + cellophane was superior, while in subcultures 2 and 3 the treatment tube + cellophane stood out. For vitrification, in subculture 1 the combination tube + cover showed the lowest vitrification, in subculture 2 the treatments tube + PVC tube and cover + tube stood out, and in subculture 3 the best treatment was tube + cellophane. In the elongation phase (Experiment 4), the combination tube + cellophane showed the highest average height of explants. In the three subcultures, there was no vitrification in combination vial + cellophane, also being observed in this combination the greater weight of dry matter. In experiment 5, treatment 0.75 mg L-1 BAP had the highest number of shoots in the two subcultures. For vitrification, in both subcultures, BAP presented plants with lower vitrification. In conclusion, for the germination of Eremanthus incanus seeds, WPM medium with 75% of salts and vitamins is the most suitable, while for crop establishment the best medium is MS 75%. The type of container and sealing influence the multiplication, on elongation and vitrification of explants, being that the combination of the test tube container with transparent cellophane sealing provided, in general, the best results. When comparing the cytokinins BAP and TDZ in proliferation it is indicated 0.75 mg L-1 BAP. Further studies involving the in vitro propagation must be carried out, mainly related to steps of rooting and acclimatization to consolidate a methodology for E. incanus.

O porongo (Lagenaria siceraria) é o fruto de uma planta da família das cucurbitáceas que quando colhido, se deixado secar, torna-se oco com o mesocarpo similar ao aspecto da madeira e o exocarpo liso e impermeável. Este fruto disseminou-se por todos os continentes antes do homem e foi uma das primeiras plantas domesticadas. Diferentes povos utilizam o porongo na confecção de recipientes, instrumentos musicais, boias e máscaras. No sul do Brasil é empregado na fabricação das cuias, recipientes para o chimarrão. Planta de hábito tropical, adapta-se facilmente à qualquer clima, com ciclo produtivo anual configura-se em alternativa de fonte renovável. Como material natural orgânico, é suscetível à degradação sem tratamento. Buscando viabilizar sua utilização na fabricação de recipientes para alimentos e bebidas priorizou-se a caracterização da estrutura e a aplicação de técnicas de impermeabilização. Para a confecção da amostras foram utilizados frutos coletados em Santa Maria, RS, e para a impermeabilização foi utilizada resina poliuretana à base de óleo de mamona. A caracterização do material constituinte do porongo foi feita com auxílio de microscópio eletrônico de varredura, microscopio de luz transmitida, análise termogravimétrica, determinação do teor de umidade, da densidade básica e da aparente e através da digitalização tridimensional para análise da variação dimensional. A caracterização da resina foi feita por espectroscopia de infra-vermelho com transformada de Fourier e a eficiência da impermeabilização foi analisada através de ensaio de absorção de água e ângulo de contato de gota. Pela microscopia identificou-se o exocarpo como uma fina camada de células compactas, por isso impermeável, e o mesocarpo formado pelo parênquima, com células que aumentam de tamanho progressivamente em direção ao centro, caracterizadas por grandes espaços vazios com parede espessada lignificada e canais de comunicação intercelular, que faz o material ser altamente hidrofílico. Ao absorver a água, há o preenchimento dos vácuolos das células até a saturação, sem grandes alteraçãos das dimensões do material, dimensionalmente estável. O porongo possui densidade heterogênea muito baixa, em média 0,124 g/cm³, na faixa de densidade das espumas poliméricas. Quanto à absorção de água, as amostras sem tratamento tiveram aumento de massa de cerca de 150% até a saturação. Após a impermeabilização, as amostras com uma camada de resina tiveram aumento de massa entre 23% e 37%, enquanto que àquelas com duas camadas de resina de apenas 5% e 6%, o que indica a eficiência do método de impermeabilização. / The bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) is the fruit of the Cucurbitaceae family plant which when harvested, if allowed to dry, becomes hollow with the mesocarp similar to the appearance of the wood and with a smooth and impermeable exocarp. This fruit has spread to all continents before man and was one of the first domesticated plants. Different people use the gourd in the manufacture of containers, musical instruments, floats and masks. In southern Brazil it is used to manufacture the bowls, containers for mate. Tropical habit plant, easily adapts to any climate, with annual production cycle sets itself as renewable source alternative. As an organic natural material, it is susceptible to degradation without treatment. Seeking to enable its use in the manufacture of containers for food and beverages it has prioritized the characterization of the structure and the application of waterproofing techniques. Seeking allow its use in the manufacture of containers for food and beverages prioritized the characterization of the structure and the application of waterproofing techniques. To prepare the samples were used fruits collected in Santa Maria, RS, and for waterproofing was used polyurethane resin on castor oil base. The characterization of the material which constitutes porongo was made thorugh electron microscope scanning, transmitted light microscope, thermal analysis, determination of moisture content, basic and apparent density and by three-dimensional scanning to analyze the dimensional variation. The characterization of resin was made by infrared spectroscopy with Fourier transform and the efficiency of the waterproofing was analyzed by water absorption and drop contact angle test. Microscopy enabled to identify the exocarp as a thin layer of compact cells, thus waterproof, and the mesocarp formed by parenchyma with cells that progressively increase in size towards the center, characterized by large empty spaces with thickened and lignified wall and intercellular communication channels, which makes the material be highly hydrophilic. By absorbing the water, there is filling in the vacuoles of the cells until the saturation without large re-arranging of the material dimensions, dimensionally stable. The gourd has very poor heterogeneous density, on average 0.124 g / cm³, in the density range of polymeric foams. Regarding to water-absorbing, untreated samples had mass increase of about 150% until saturation. After sealing, the samples with a resin layer had increased mass between 23% and 37%, while those with two resin layers only had increased mass from 5% to 6%, which indicates the sealing method efficiency.

abstract: Today the information technology systems have addresses, software stacks and other configuration remaining unchanged for a long period of time. This paves way for malicious attacks in the system from unknown vulnerabilities. The attacker can take advantage of this situation and plan their attacks with sufficient time. To protect our system from this threat, Moving Target Defense is required where the attack surface is dynamically changed, making it difficult to strike. In this thesis, I incorporate live migration of Docker container using CRIU (checkpoint restore) for moving target defense. There are 460K Dockerized applications, a 3100% growth over 2 years[1]. Over 4 billion containers have been pulled so far from Docker hub. Docker is supported by a large and fast growing community of contributors and users. As an example, there are 125K Docker Meetup members worldwide. As we see industry adapting to Docker rapidly, a moving target defense solution involving containers is beneficial for being robust and fast. A proof of concept implementation is included for studying performance attributes of Docker migration. The detection of attack is using a scenario involving definitions of normal events on servers. By defining system activities, and extracting syslog in centralized server, attack can be detected via extracting abnormal activates and this detection can be a trigger for the Docker migration. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Computer Science 2017

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Orientador: Ruben Augusto Romero Lazaro / Banca: José Roberto Sanches Mantovani / Banca: Silvio Alexandre de Araujo / Banca: José Elias Claudio Arroyo / Banca: Ramón Álvarez-Valdés / Resumo: O presente trabalho propõe uma análise sobre os problemas de corte e empacotamento com restrições práticas que representam cenários reais na indústria. Em síntese o problema de corte consiste em cortar um conjunto de peças de um determinado objeto, e o problema de empacotamento consiste em alocar um conjunto de peças dentro de um objeto. No mundo real se apresenta uma grande quantidade de variações destes problemas. Neste estudo limitamo-nos a estudar os problemas com peças e objetos com formas regulares, restringindo assim os problemas de duas dimensões ao uso de retângulos e aos problemas de três dimensões ao uso de paralelepípedos. De forma específica os problemas de corte estudados neste trabalho são o problema da mochila bidimensional (2D-SLOPP, do inglês Two-Dimensional Single Large Object Placement Problem) com restrições de padrão de corte; valores associados às peças; limites de exemplares por peça e orientação das peças. O segundo problema a ser estudado, é o problema da embalagem (2D-SBSBPP, do inglês Two-Dimensional Single Bin Size Bin Packing Problem) com restrições de padrões de corte tipo guilhotina e restrições de orientação das peças. Finalmente, o problema de empacotamento estudado no presente trabalho é o problema do carregamento de um único contêiner (3D-SKP ou 3D-SLOPP, do inglês Three-Dimensional Single Knapsack Problem e Three-Dimensional Single Large Object Placement Problem, respectivamente) com restrições de orientação das caixas; limites de resistência das caixas ao empilhamento; limite de peso do carregamento suportado pelo contêiner; estabilidade do padrão de carregamento e carga divida em múltiplos destinos. Estes três problemas apresentados são de grande interesse para a indústria, graças a isto, atualmente existe uma ampla literatura especializada de trabalhos referentes a esta temática. Logo, diferentes tipos de ... / Abstract: In this work we study the cutting and packing problems with practical constraints that represent real world scenarios of the industry. The cutting problem consists in to cut a set of pieces from an object, and the packing problem consists in to pack a set of items in an object. In the real world there are a big number of variations of this problem. In this study we only carry out the problems where the pieces and the objects have a regular shape, bounding of that way the two-dimensional problems to use just rectangular items and the three-dimensional problems to use just parallelepiped pieces. Specifically, the cutting problems studied in this work are: the Two-Dimensional Single Knapsack Problem, taking into account cutting pattern constraints (guillotine and non-guillotine patterns), orientation of the pieces constraints, associated costs to the pieces constraints and demanding types of pieces constraints. The second problem that we work on is the Two-Dimensional Single Bin Size Packing Problem, taking into account cutting pattern constraints (only guillotine patterns) and orientation pieces constraints. The last problem is the Container Loading Problem (Three- Dimensional Single Large Object Placement Problem) taking into account: orientation box constraints, load-bearing strength constraints, cargo stability constraints (full support) and multi-drop constraints. All the previous problems have a big spectrum of application on the Industry, because of this; there is a big amount of previous work on it. Different methodologies, exact and approximate algorithms have been proposed as solution strategies. Due to the mathematical and computational complexity of these problems, the exact algorithms cannot solve real world instances of the problem. The approach of this study consists on presenting and/or adapting different encodings and optimization algorithms. Among the proposed approach solutions is ... / Doutor

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:30:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-10-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:00:13Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 piovezan_r_me_rcla.pdf: 1773793 bytes, checksum: d006b69005642267a8574ffa69231cdd (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Nas cidades brasileiras, o processo de urbanização mal planejado, de forma geral, acarretou inúmeros problemas sob o ponto de vista de Saúde Pública. Atualmente, são muitos os exemplos de doenças que se tornaram endêmicas nos municípios. A degradação ambiental impulsionou um processo seletivo em que os atributos das espécies repercutiram em sucessos adaptativos para algumas delas. Dessa forma, tornaram-se bastante robustas as associações sinantrópicas, e mais difícil o controle de vetores. Possivelmente, esse sucesso adaptativo tenha sido potencializado por alguns fatores: o homem subestimou a capacidade dos animais de se adaptarem a ambientes urbanos ou simplesmente ignorou tal processo ecológico. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi realizar um levantamento através de visitas casa-a-casa, de larvas de Culicidae em diferentes tipos de criadouros, em área urbana do município de Santa Bárbara d´Oeste, SP. Pelo menos 10 espécies foram encontradas, sendo que algumas possuem elevada importância epidemiológica e estão envolvidas em diversos ciclos zoonóticos. As quatro espécies mais abundantes foram, pela ordem, Ae. aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Culex quinquefasciatus e Ae. fluviatilis. As espécies mais raras geralmente estiveram associadas a áreas com cobertura vegetal. Os criadouros que mais predominaram foram dos tipos 2 (prato e vaso de plantas), 3 (lata, pote, frasco) e 7 (outros removíveis). Foi possível identificar as áreas com maior probabilidade de encontro de cada uma das espécies de culicídeos, assim como os seus criadouros preferenciais. A confecção de mapas cartográficos auxiliou no processo de visualização das áreas do município e distribuição de espécies e criadouros. Quanto ao número de ocorrências, as espécies de culicídeos apresentaram preferência por alguns tipos de criadouros, e estes não foram independentes das Áreas do município... / On the whole, innumerable problems have been derived from the implementation of urbanisation processes that are misconceived. In the context of public health, there are several examples of diseases that are currently deemed to be endemic in the Brazilian municipalities. The degradation of the environment stimulated the development of selective processes in which the species attributes resulted in adaptive success regarding some of such species. Therefore, synanthropic associations became considerably robust, and the control of vectors became more difficult. This adaptive success may have been potentialised by some factors: humans underestimated the ability of animals to adapt to urban environments or they simply ignored such an ecological process. The current work is aimed at conducting a survey of Culicidae larvae present in different types of breeding sites (egg-laying containers or oviposition surfaces), on a home-by-home-visit basis. Santa Bárbara d’Oeste (state of São Paulo, Brazil) was the urbanised study area. At least ten species were found and some of them, which possess a high level of epidemiological importance, are entailed in several zoonotic cycles. The four more abundant species were, in decreasing order of occurrence, Ae. aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Culex quinquefasciatus, and Ae. fluviatilis. The rarer species were usually associated with vegetated areas, and the breeding sites “2”, “3”, and “7” predominated in this study. It was possible to identify the areas that presented the higher chances of encountering each of the culicid species and their respective preferential breeding sites. The cartographical mapping enabled the visualisation of the distribution of the species and breeding sites over the urban areas. Regarding the occurrences of the species, the culicids exhibited preference for specific breeding sites, and such sites were not independent... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)