For Dionisio Pulido and his family, Feb. 20, 1943 began as an average day of clearing and burning shrubbery from their cornfields near the village of Parícutin, Mexico to prepare for the spring sowing.
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Later that afternoon, as Pulido moved to a different field to continue his work, he stumbled upon a small hill that had suddenly appeared. Atop the hill was a shallow crack, six feet wide and 150 feet long.
This cocaine variant also has a troubling history. While traditional cocaine is expensive, crack is immensely cheap in comparison. This, along with its addictive nature, has made it a catastrophic force in neighborhoods of lower socioeconomic status across the United States. Its affordability also means that its victims skew on the younger end of the scale.
Crack overdose symptoms are similar to those resulting from traditional cocaine use. One key difference: these symptoms may onset much faster in the case of crack. Here are several self-classifiable symptoms to be wary of:
Signs of a crack overdose are much in the same vein as symptoms of regular use. However, these signs might actually be easier to identify if they are seen by someone else and not an intoxicated victim. Signs to look out for include the following:
It comes as no surprise that death is a possible result of a crack cocaine overdose. Like the rapidity of the drug itself, these deaths can occur quickly. In fact, some 75 percent of all crack overdose deaths happen within just five hours of smoking the drug.
Beyond this, an overdose on crack can lead to lasting damage to kidneys, muscle tissue and central nervous system, and may even cause paralysis or chronic psychosis. The lasting impacts on users are oftentimes unavoidable.
Heroin and crack cocaine are two very different drugs that affect the body in a variety of ways. Many people wonder what the difference is between crack vs. heroin, how the drugs act on their own and how they interact with each other.
Using crack and heroin together creates a dangerous and often unpleasant sensation called speedballing. This condition is dangerous because there are conflicting effects that each drug provides: heroin sedates and reduces activity while crack stimulates and increases activity.
There are differences between how heroin and crack are typically used. Heroin is usually injected into a vein, muscle or under the skin. Purer forms of heroin are sometimes snorted but injection is the more common form of heroin use.
Mixing heroin and crack, also known as speedballing, is very dangerous and can lead to severe consequences. Because heroin is a sedative and crack is a stimulant, these two drugs cause opposite effects that can lead to several negative situations.
Crack causes your body to be more stimulated, increasing the need for oxygen and typically causing rapid breathing to compensate for this need. Heroin slows respiration, causing the body to breathe more slowly when it needs more oxygen because of the crack.
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Smoking crack, with its rapid, intense and short-lived effects, is the most addictive. However, any method of taking cocaine can lead to addiction. The amount of cocaine used, and how often people use the drug, has an effect on whether people get addicted.
Recently, image-based crack detection has received increasing attention in nondestructive testing. The main advantage of image-based crack detection is that it provides accurate results compared to traditional manual methods by using image-processing methods [1]. The high quality and multidisciplinary nature of the images from UAV cameras, and the feature that UAVs can go to places that are difficult to photograph because of their flexibility, have been applied to bridge and building crack detection. Compared to other methods such as inspection vehicles, drones are able to obtain information about road cracks in a more convenient way and without affecting road traffic. With low energy consumption, low cost, and low pollution, using drones in road crack detection could provide greater economic benefits.
In this paper, two approaches were used to improve noise recognition ability. First, image enhancement is used for the dataset and noise samples are added, and then DeepaCrack is improved based on the idea of Dense Extreme Inception Network (DexiNed) [2] to make the extracted features more accurate and robust. Many works have produced various image-based datasets [3,4,5,6]. The creation of these datasets has accelerated the development of crack detection, but there is no UAV-based dataset. So, this paper uses the collected images by UAV and manually labels a dataset, UCrack.
Li et al. [8] used an adjacent difference histogram method to identify regions containing cracks, assuming that pixels belonging to the cracked region are always darker than other pixels. Li et al. [9] used twice-thresholding and adaptive iterative thresholding to detect cracks on airport runway surfaces. Kapela et al. [10] used Hough transform feature (HTF) and local binary pattern (LBP) to extract the edge orientation and texture features of cracks, respectively. Abdel-Qader et al. used four edge-detection methods, namely Canny edge detector, Sobel edge detector, fast Fourier transform and fast Haar transform, to detect concrete cracks [11], and they found FHT to be the best solution.
Based on minimum path localization, Amhaz et al. [12] proposed an automatic detection algorithm to detect 2D pavement cracks. All crack-detection algorithms based on conventional digital image processing perform well on datasets with discriminative and representative depth features. However, due to the complexity of real pavement conditions and various uncertainties in terms of environmental influences, such as texture diversity, strong noise interference, and irregular crack orientation, these algorithms are vulnerable to environmental factors and cannot meet the needs of both accuracy and speed.
where Fi is the output feature map of the network at pixel i, W is the standard set of parameters of the network layer, and P(F) is the standard sigmoid function that transforms the feature map into a crack probability map. Then, the total loss can be expressed as:
To make the detected cracks more accurate, two training strategies are used. First, the CrackTree260 dataset is used as migration learning, which solves the all-black phenomenon that occurs during the detection process. After that, the labeled map is filtered, and a few pixels near the highway and the highway are selected. This solves the problem of excessive noise. According to the results, we successfully removed the occlusion and repetition of the UAV image. The algorithm DenxiDeepCracak had good results.
As people (and other creatures) get older, their joints begin to crack and pop, despite their best efforts. Sometimes this is painful; sometimes it also prevents the crack-ee from being able to move. Arthritis and Rheumatism set in. You get the picture. It can even start as early as middle age when a person still looks young and hale, but finds they're not as young as they used to be when they try to act as young as they feel. It's often an old person just trying to stand up or do something ordinary, emphasizing the creaky, fragile state of an elderly body.
The most commonly shouted phrase after the crack is "Oh, my back!" but the trope itself isn't confined solely to spinal-lumbar complaints and can happen with any body part, bone or joint. Occasionally, this will even happen with younger characters if they move in very awkward positions.
Resident Evil Village[a] is a 2021 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom. It is the sequel to Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017). Players control Ethan Winters, who searches for his kidnapped daughter in a village filled with mutant creatures. Village maintains survival horror elements from previous Resident Evil games, with players scavenging environments for items and managing resources. However, it adds more action-oriented gameplay, with higher enemy counts and a greater emphasis on combat.
Like its predecessor, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Resident Evil Village uses a first-person perspective. It is set in a snowy explorable Eastern European village, described as "pulled straight from the Victorian era" and much larger and more immersive than its predecessor.[1] Structures and buildings in the central village can be climbed and used to fight enemies.[1] Compared to Biohazard, the game is more action focused, with protagonist Ethan Winters now equipped with more combat skills due to military training.[2] The game's primary enemies, the werewolf-like Lycans, are not only agile and intelligent, but can wield weapons and attack in packs, forcing the player to rethink their strategy on whether to use sparse ammunition, use melee combat, or simply run away.[3][4][5] Similar to Resident Evil 4 (2005), makeshift barricades can be used to fend off enemies.[4] 2ff7e9595c
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