I answered incorrectly to "Have you ever been refused a visa?" in my UK Tier 4 visa application form
Incorrectly answered 'No' to "Any previous visa refusals..." on a UK Standard Visitor visa application. How can I fix my mistake?
Why do diamonds shine? Why is integration the inverse of differentiation "I left smoking", "I quit smoking", "I gave up smoking", "I stopped smoking" are these same? For various such sentences in many cases I get confused, it seems different for different cases. I want to know if someone left doing something for permanantly then what should be used? Also give some examples for different cases. Suppose... "I left my bag" means "I forgot my bag". but If I want to say the same for permanentaly "I left bringing my bag". Where should we use "stop" and "quit" then? If $f(1)=1$, then is it true that $f(n)=n$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}\cup\{0\}$. Local BLAST Copy Number per Hit I generated a series of local BLAST databases using makeblastdb of metagenomic data and am searching for the presence of a particular gene. While I can do the normal BLAST analysis looking at e-values, % identity, etc. I haven't been able to figure out how to determine how many times a given sequence exists in the database.  So: given a BLAST database of metagenomic data where a particular gene may exist multiple times, how do I determine the copy number of a given BLAST hit?  Thanks in advance. If I look through the microwave window I can see through, which means visible radiation can get out. We know also that there is a mesh on the microwave window which prevents microwave from coming out.  My question is how does this work? how come making stripes or mesh of metals can attenuate microwave radiation yet allow visible radiation?  Looks like an electrodynamics problem to me with periodic boundary conditions (because of the partitions on the microwave oven window). Is it discussed in any textbook? I'd like to have a python program alert me when it has completed its task by making a beep noise.  Currently,  I use import os and then use a command line speech program to say &quot;Process complete&quot;.  I much rather it be a simple &quot;bell.&quot; I know that there's a function that can be used in Cocoa apps, NSBeep, but I don't think that has much anything to do with this. I've also tried print(\a)  but that didn't work. I'm using a Mac, if you couldn't tell by my Cocoa comment, so that may help. I need to use the setting Disable tiled raster layer exports from the GUI in my Python code, but I can't seem to find it.  exporter = QgsLayoutExporter(layout)     exporter.exportToPdf(path, QgsLayoutExporter.PdfExportSettings())   How can I do this? How do I turn off some formats in GeoServer's WMS? I have a local user on my laptop. My company is migrating to a domain setup and I want to migrate the local user to a domain user, with all the settings (desktop, Start menu, programs) intact. How can I do that?  Also, is it possible to have a local user with the same settings as the domain, for when I'm working on my laptop while not connected to the domain? If I upload my brain into a computer is it still me? I think the answer is yes but I know a lot of people disagree. So, I would like to ask these people when exactly does it stop being me.  Let's say I want to upload my brain into a computer using the following procedure:  I have each of my neurons replaced by electronic neurons. By electronic neurons I mean chips with the necessary hardware and software to perform the exact same function that the neuron being replaced was performing. This means that given the same inputs that the biological neuron was given it would produce the same outputs. Then I connect that electronic neuron to all the neurons that former biological neuron was connected to.   At the end of this process is it still me? If not when did it stop being me? When one neuron was replaced? When 1,000 were replaced? When 1,000,000 were replaced?  (assuming it is still me)  Then, I divide these electronic neurons into groups and for each group I perform the following:   Write software to simulate the group of electrical neurons in my computer such that given the same inputs that go into the group of electronic neurons in my brain, it will produce the same outputs. Replace each group of neurons with another chip that communicates with my computer. Each of the chips will communicate to the corresponding software module in order to determine how to transform its inputs into the necessary outputs. Connect all of the inputs and outputs of the group of electronic neurons to that new chip.   At the end of this process is it still me? If not when did it stop being me? When one group was replaced? When 1,000 were replaced? When 1,000,000 were replaced?  (assuming it is still me) Now, what I have is a bunch of these new chips in my head, connected to each other and for each of these chips I have a small neural network software module in my computer. So, now for each pair of chip/software module I do this:   Transfer all connections going into and out of the chip into the computer version (i.e. connect the software module to the other software modules that represent the other chips that this chip is connected to) Disconnect the chip from the other chips and remove it   At the end of this process is it still me? If not when did it stop being me? When one of the new chips was replaced? When 1,000 were replaced? When 1,000,000 were replaced?  If it is still me then I have successfully moved my brain into a computer without ceasing being myself.  So, again the question is if at the end it is not me anymore when exactly does it stop being me and why does it stop being me?  EDIT: This question assumes that our universe and everything in it (including ourselves) follows the (testable) laws of physics. As it stands it also assumes that neuroscience is mostly right, although the question could also be considered without that requirement if instead of neural simulations we were to implement physics simulation of the brain. Of course this is a lot less practical. However, if your view is that our minds have a supernatural component then the question does not make any sense.  It was also pointed out that this is related to the Ship of Theseus, i.e. is something still the same if all its parts have been changed. With regards to that I think it is useful to consider that most of the cells in our body (not including brain cells) are regularly replaced anyway and some people even get entire organs replaced. Yet, we don't say that they stopped being themselves. Note, however, that if you are assuming a supernatural component of the mind that this explanation is not really adequate or relevant. If $Ax = Bx$ for all $x \in C^{n}$, then $A = B$. I have installed VirtualBox OSE on Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows XP pro as the virtual machine. Now I want to have a shared folder which can be accessed on both, my host Ubuntu machine, and my WinXP guest virtual machine.  How can I do that? Why does the question's closed status disappear when clicking to load a new edit? put (a) and (b) to one in subfigures How can angular velocity be constant even when there is a torque by friction? A cylinder at rest lying on a rough ground is given an impulse which imparts a translational velocity (no angular velocity) to it. The question goes ahead with finding time after which rolling starts etc. etc.  But I have another question: The friction from the ground will decrease the translational velocity but increase the angular velocity (as the torque of friction will be in the direction of rolling). After some time, the translational velocity will become equal to angular velocity and hence pure rolling will start.  After this time work done by friction will be 0 as the point of contact is not moving and hence translational velocity will be constant. Now my doubt is that, when translational velocity is constant, it implies angular velocity will also be constant (as translational velocity is a multiple of angular velocity). But the torque from friction (about the centre of mass) will not be zero which means angular velocity will not be constant. In some book where there was the same problem it was written friction will vanish. How can friction vanish? How can anguluar velocity be constant even when there is a torque by friction? CodeIgniter Anchor error: URL not found on this server Coconut Water from White vs Brown Coconuts Can an abstract class have a constructor? Can an abstract class have a constructor?  If so, how can it be used and for what purposes? Prove that the set of palindromes are not regular languages using the pumping lemma. Firstly I pick a language $xyz$ where $x = \epsilon$, $y = (abb)^{k}$, $z = (bba)^{k}$ where $|y| \ge$ the number of states in the automaton representing my language. Then $xyz = (abb)^k(bba)^k$ is a palindrome.  Now I split $y$ into $uvw$, where $v \ne \epsilon$ contains a state visited more  than once. If the language is regular then $xuv^iwz$ is within the language $\forall i \ge 0$.  I choose $i = 2$, then $uv^2w = (abb)^n$ where $n &gt; k$.  Then $xuv^2wz = (abb)^n(bba)^k$ where $n &gt; k$, which is not a palindrome.   Firstly, is my reasoning for this particular proof correct?  I'm unsure about how to properly apply the pumping lemma to this problem. And secondly the question asks me to state a proof for palindromes in general, whereas I only attempted to prove it for a single case. Is there an example I can choose which proves the conjecture for all palindromes? I assume not, seeing as I can't think of how that could be represented using regular expressions.