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Good Morning #Canada
As I sit here this morning, still digesting the large portion of wings I had at the restaurant last night, I came across this article. Apparently Canada was recently ranked one of the world's healthiest countries. New analysis by the Global Wellness Index ranks Canada as the best country out of the 151 nations evaluated. Might have to exercise later today to help maint…

Canada tops the list of healthiest countries in global ranking - BNN Bloomberg
Rankings of global health, wealth and happiness are increasingly placing big countries with booming economies at the back of the line.

Below find the list of the most visited cities in the world by international tourists:
1 Istanbul, Turkey: 20.2 million
2 London, United Kingdom: 18.8 million
3 Dubai, United Emirates: 19.8 million
4 Antalya, Turkey: 16.5 million
5 Paris, France: 15.5 million
6 Hong Kong: 14.7 million
7 Bangkok, Thailand: 12.2 million
8 New York, USA: 11.7 million
9 Cancun, Mexico: 10.8 million
10 Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 10.8 million
Source: Eurom…

This is the most visited city in the world! - Emma's Light
A new report from global market research company Euromonitor International has highlighted the world's most visited cities based on international arrivals. Paris and London may indeed have ham and double-decker buses, but Istanbul has more tourists: the cultural and economic capital of Turkey tops Euromonitor International's list of the 10 most visited cities internationally in 2023, in the index 100 most visited destinations. Subscribe to never miss an article from Ema's Light! Leave this fiel…

Good Morning #Canada
As I sit here this morning, still digesting the large portion of wings I had at the restaurant last night, I came across this article. Apparently Canada was recently ranked one of the world's healthiest countries. New analysis by the Global Wellness Index ranks Canada as the best country out of the 151 nations evaluated. Might have to exercise later today to help maint…

Canada tops the list of healthiest countries in global ranking - BNN Bloomberg
Rankings of global health, wealth and happiness are increasingly placing big countries with booming economies at the back of the line.

Cepheids as distance indicators and stellar tracers
G. Bono (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy), V. F. Braga (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy), A. Pietrinferni (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Teramo, Italy)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04893…

Cepheids as distance indicators and stellar tracers
We review the phenomenology of classical Cepheids (CCs), Anomalous Cepheids (ACs) and type II Cepheids (TIICs) in the Milky Way (MW) and in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). We also examine the Hertzsprung progression in different stellar systems by using the shape of I-band light curves (Fourier parameters) and observables based on the difference in magnitude and in phase between the bump and the minimum in luminosity. The distribution of Cepheids in optical and in optical-near infrared (NIR) c…

Today's Letterboxd newsletter reasserts the issue of digital preservation in the modern "ownershipless" economy (text in alt). It works with movies disappearing left and right as we speak, as with everything else.
As usual, digital content preservation is on the shoulders of a couple of guys hosting their index on some obscure BitTorrent magnet link or on people getting obliterated by lawsuits. It should not be like this.

Waveguide Tailored Radiation Pattern of Nanoparticles for Tunable Multimodal Guided Surface Lattice Resonances in Asymmetric Environment
Suichu Huang, Kan Yao, Wentao Huang, Xuezheng Zhao, Yuebing Zheng, Yunlu Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07417

Waveguide Tailored Radiation Pattern of Nanoparticles for Tunable Multimodal Guided Surface Lattice Resonances in Asymmetric Environment
Surface lattice resonances (SLR) in metasurfaces is promising in applications of sub-wavelength devices, with high quality factors (high-Q), large local field enhancement and long-range interaction properties. Tunable peak position and multimodal resonances make SLR further appealing to flexible and multiple light-matter interactions. However, reported multimodal SLRs lack flexible and economic tunability. Moreover, current high-Q SLR requires a homogeneous index of operational environment, whi…

#FotoDerWoche mit dem Stuttgarter Eckensee im Spiel des Aprilwetters.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2024/…

Photo of the week: Water, light and darkness, Stuttgart
Der Eckensee in Stuttgart würde sich tendenziell auch dazu eignen, mit z.B. einem Opernneubau überbaut zu werden. Aber hübsch sieht er ab und zu dann doch aus.

#Amazon workers experience a disproportionate share of #injuries in the warehousing industry and that injuries at Amazon warehouses were more likely to be serious enough to require time off work.
Amazon accounts for 79 percent of employment among warehouses with at least 1,000 workers,
but 86 percent of all …

Amazon Says Its Injury Rates Are Down. They’re Still the Highest in the Industry.
Exclusive: An independent review of Amazon’s annual safety report finds that the company’s warehouse workers experience a disproportionate share of injuries.

Brian Mulroney was largely responsible for a financial disaster, as far as I am concerned. I came to Canada in 1988. Mulroney signed a Free trade deal with the US and all the industry in Toronto moved south. House prices collapsed as unemployment soared. After working for four years as a consultant transport economist I found myself unemployed, which lasted a year before I got a government job in BC. We lost our home when BMO refused to transfer the mortgage. It took 5 years to get another.<…

MEBS: Multi-task End-to-end Bid Shading for Multi-slot Display Advertising
Zhen Gong, Lvyin Niu, Yang Zhao, Miao Xu, Zhenzhe Zheng, Haoqi Zhang, Zhilin Zhang, Fan Wu, Rongquan Bai, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02607

MEBS: Multi-task End-to-end Bid Shading for Multi-slot Display Advertising
Online bidding and auction are crucial aspects of the online advertising industry. Conventionally, there is only one slot for ad display and most current studies focus on it. Nowadays, multi-slot display advertising is gradually becoming popular where many ads could be displayed in a list and shown as a whole to users. However, multi-slot display advertising leads to different cost-effectiveness. Advertisers have the incentive to adjust bid prices so as to win the most economical ad positions. …