AUSTIN—Bitcoin is definitely a big topic of conversation here at South by Southwest, especially after Newsweek’s cover story on the identity of the mysterious Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. In fact, at Coinbase cofounder Fred Ehrsam’s Monday discussion at SXSW, the first question interviewer Rolfe Winkler of the Wall Street Journal asked was “Is Dorian Nakamoto really Satoshi Nakamoto?”

Ehrsam doesn’t know, but he kind of doubts it. But then when Winkler asked if it even matters, the answer was an emphatic no. And that, says Ehrsam, is the beauty of open source.

That little matter out of the way, it was time to demystify Bitcoin for the masses—or at least try. Bitcoin, Ehrsam explained, is more than just currency: “One of the common missteps taken by the media is talking about it as a currency instead of a technology.” Instead, Ehrsam says, think of Bitcoin as an open network that lets you make transfers (money being the obvious first use case) without the need for a third party.

Coinbase cofounder Fred Ehrsam (left) holds forth on Bitcoin at South by Southwest Monday.

Looking at Bitcoin as a network, you can make analogies to the early days of the Internet. Once the Web came along, it was a way for people to disseminate information on an open network without needing snail mail, the telephone, or a printing press—but it took a while to get from early webpages to something like eBay and eventually Airbnb. Companies that are crashing and burning like Mt. Gox are the first-generation companies that are sloppy and suck at security, Ehrsam explained. And obviously he wants you to think of Coinbase, a Bitcoin payment processor, as a smarter second-gen company—for example they are are audited. “If there’s a hole in our balance sheet, it’s pretty obvious.”

It’s also not accurate, Ehrsam continued, to speak of Bitcoin transactions as anonymous. Winkler asked him about Bitcoin’s popularity amongst libertarians, for example, because they think it protects them from government oversight—like, say, hoarding gold bars that you can actually spend. And Ehrsam seemed eager to distance Bitcoin from that: “It’s disappointing that people think it’s anonymous when it’s really the most transparent network that’s ever existed.”

“What if cash was invented today?” Ehrsam continued. “Law enforcement would be up in arms. ‘Oh, you can just withdraw this stuff and it can go anywhere!’” That said, Ehrsam thinks Bitcoin needs more regulation and oversight to drive adoption by the masses—money-laundering rules are already in place, for example, and Ehrsam himself reported capital gains on some Bitcoin he sold on his income taxes.

Ehrsam also claimed that Bitcoin is “fundamentally safer than any other payment network that’s ever existed,” which smells fishy to me. Ehrsam argues that credit cards, besides being cumbersome, are unsafe from a security standpoint, because all the information attached to an online credit card transaction can be used to make subsequent transactions, should it fall into the wrong hands. But if my credit card number is stolen by hackers, aside from it being a pain in the butt, I’m not out any actual money because of the protections in place. If my Bitcoin private keys are stolen, I’m kind of screwed.

So what about the notion that it’s dumb to spend Bitcoin on, say, a toaster from Overstock, if you think it’ll eventually go up in value? Because it’s far more economically efficient, Ehrsam says, even if you make a purchase with Bitcoin and then immediately buy that Bitcoin right back—an ability he says Coinbase is working on right now. But later on, Ehrsam explained that consumers don’t understand how high the cost of traditional payment networks really is, because it’s generally merchants who are stuck with the fees.

Ehrsam thinks 2014 will see a critical mass of merchants wanting to get into Bitcoin to save themselves those fees, so now it’s just a matter of time before regular people get on board with the early adopters, miners, libertarians, and geeks. Coinbase is working to make it more accessible to regular people, as easy as online banking. ”Today, most people still don’t understand how the Internet works,” Ehrsam said. “But they know how to use a web browser.”

This story, "Coinbase's Fred Ehrsam says you're thinking about Bitcoin all wrong" was originally published by TechHive .


Hospice home care in the United Kingdom.
This review traces the history and development of specialist home care teams in the United Kingdom from the establishment of the first team in 1969. By 1993 there were over 400 such teams. It looks at studies evaluating the role and working patterns of the teams and documents their increasing acceptance by patients, community professionals and health planners as an integral part of community palliative care. Possible future developments for specialist home care teams, including an extension of their traditional roles, are discussed.


It was a blessing made in heaven to be in Creed. I got a call that they wanted me to be in the film, and I didn’t have to audition. I was the cutman for Michael B. Jordan, and what a great time I had. I spent six weeks wrapping his hands and talking to him one-on-one. I told the director, Ryan Coogler, “If I see things that don’t make sense, I’m going to bring them up to you,” which he appreciated.

When I got the script, I saw that my character’s name was Marcel. I thought, “I don’t know anybody named Marcel. How can I change that?” When it was time for Sylvester Stallone’s character, Rocky Balboa, to introduce me to Michael’s character, Adonis, Rocky said, “This is Stitch, the best cutman in Philadelphia.” Well, who’s going to tell Rocky no? We kept the line. The next day, we were up in the ring, and I said, “Sly, thank you for throwing my name out there.” He said of course; it had to be authentic.

Jacob “Stitch” Duran with Michael B. Jordan on the set of Creed.

The fifth week working with Michael, who’s just a super kid and super humble, I said, “Michael, I like the way you are right now, but if you ever change I’m gonna kick your ass.” There’s a mental game in working with fighters, so as I was wrapping his hands in his dressing room, I said, “You’re doing such a great job in this movie, I’m gonna knight you as an actual fighter.” In Creed II, there was a moment where it’s the last fight of the movie and Florian [Munteanu], who plays Viktor Drago, and Michael were exhausted. Michael is down on the canvas, I’m there taking care of him, and he’s like, “I don’t know, I don’t know.” I said, “Michael, here’s where the mind takes over.” I put him in that fighter mentality: We gotta finish that scene. And he did it.

There are no schools to learn how to be a cutman, and I kind of followed the format of the cutman trainers before me. I grew up as a farmworker in California, in a migrant camp. If you ate it, I picked it for you — almonds, figs, nectarines. I dropped out of Merced College and joined the Air Force, and when I was stationed in Thailand I saw my first muay thai fight.

When I got let go by the UFC after doing the interview where I spoke out against the Reebok sponsor deal … it created opportunities for me.

After the military, I moved to Oakland and opened my own kickboxing school, American School of Kickboxing. But I wanted to focus on being a cutman, so I put in for a job transfer to Las Vegas. I had two weeks to move here. I took a $25,000 pay cut and put my family in a U-Haul. I knew Dana White [current UFC president] through my gym, and one day he called and told me he had bought the UFC. Working for the UFC literally changed my life.

When I got let go by the UFC after doing the interview where I spoke out against the Reebok sponsor deal, which was bad for the fans and the fighters, it created opportunities for me, because I was speaking out against unfair practices. It’s still creating opportunities. I’m with Final Fight Championship, a new group in Las Vegas founded by Orsat Zovko that just signed a three-year deal with Caesars Entertainment. They gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse. I used to travel all the time, and now I get to stay home, working fights on Friday and spending time with my family on weekends.

When I have a fight, I always start by ironing all my stuff. I’m a big fanatic when it comes to ironing; I don’t like wrinkles. I’ll iron my outfit, and then I’ll go through my inventory — my gauze and tape and cut medicine. When I get into the dressing room, that’s when everything starts, when the fighters come in. I get the gauze and tape prepared to start wrapping their hands. I get my bucket with ice and medications prepared. Once it’s time to fight, I go out and take care of these guys like they’re my sons and daughters. I’m very good at the psychological aspect of it.

Then I got the call for Creed II. To play myself as a cutman at this magnitude, it doesn’t get any better than that. Creed II is going to be astronomical. I’m going to the premiere, on Nov. 14, in New York, and taking my youngest son and my wife. I’m on top of the world. I’m a proud Chicano who grew up as a farm worker, and I didn’t want to ask for anything, but it’s all been given to me.


Histological evaluation of a free medial femoral condyle flap at 21 months.
Recalcitrant nonunions typically require vascularized bone for reconstruction. In this report, we present a case of an index finger middle phalanx nonunion that was successfully treated with a free medial femoral condyle corticocancellous flap. Nearly 2 years after the free tissue transfer, the patient underwent debulking of the bone flap. This gave us the unique opportunity to examine the histology of the vascularized bone.


Q:

WebAPI Remove z:anyType Element from XML Results

I have an interface as follows
public interface IResponse
{
    IResponse GetSuccessResponse();
    IResponse GetErrorResponse();
}

I then have various classes that implement logic as follows
[KnownType(typeof(DefaultResponse))]
[DataContract(Namespace = "")]
public class DefaultResponse : IResponse
{
    [DataMember(Order = 0)]
    public string Status { get; set; }

    [DataMember(Order = 1)]
    public string Info { get; set; }

    public IResponse GetSuccessResponse()
    {
        return new DefaultResponse()
        {
            Status = "Accept",
            Info = "Success"
        };
    }

    public IResponse GetErrorResponse()
    {
        return new DefaultResponse()
        {
            Status = "Reject",
            Info = "Fail"
        };
    }
}

When returning a response in my WebAPI, I am using a factory pattern to get the IResponse type needed, and calling IResponse.GetErrorResponse. The problem is this always generates XML like the following
<z:anyType xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="" i:type="DefaultResponse" xmlns:z="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">
    <Status>Reject</Status>
    <Info>Fail</Info>
</z:anyType>

Is there any way to get rid of the z:anyType element and replace it with the actual class name. It works if I use the class directly, but not with the interface involved.
I am creating the response using the following type of code:
return request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, responseType.GetErrorResponse());

A:

I ended up changing this up a bit to instead use a custom serializer like the following answer
Web API - Dynamic to XML serialization
This provided me with the greatest flexibility as it allows you to output exactly what the class looks like in XML without any of the attributes on the class


Granulocytes as active participants in acute myocardial ischemia and infarction.
The classical picture of the polymorphonuclear leukocyte--antimicrobal activities and participation in the inflammatory reaction--appears now to be expanded. It has been recognized that this cell may be highly injurious to other cells, has a propensity to be trapped in the capillary network, and may occlude microvascular pathways. The classical hypothesis that the granulocytes appear in the ischemic or postischemic myocardium as response to the associated inflammatory reaction may have to be revised. Instead, the granulocyte may actually be the key factor causing the inflammation. An array of future studies is needed to clarify the events step by step. Important aspects are the activation and degranulation sequence in the ischemic myocardium, the form and extent of injury caused by the oxygen free radicals and lysosomal enzymes, the source and nature of chemotactic substances, particularly in human forms of myocardial ischemia, and the degree to which granulocytes cause or magnify the injury.


Dons midfielder Luke Chadwick then blasted a dipping half-volley against the crossbar and debutant Charlie Collins curled a 12-yard shot against the post following Powell's fine run.

Rae and on-loan Stoke midfielder Arismendi were sent off three minutes into first-half stoppage time for trading blows after the Uruguayan's penalty appeal had been waved away.

Chicksen drilled inches wide from the edge of the box moments after the break before Seagulls full-back Gavin Hoyte was denied from close range by Dons keeper Stuart Searle as the visitors took charge.

Brighton piled forward in the closing stages but Chris Holroyd, substitute Marcos Painter and Tommy Elphick were all narrowly off target as the Dons hung on for a point.

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/*
 *  COPYRIGHT (c) 2014.
 *  On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).
 *
 *  The license and distribution terms for this file may be
 *  found in the file LICENSE in this distribution or at
 *  http://www.rtems.org/license/LICENSE.
 */

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endif

#define CONFIGURE_INIT
#include "system.h"

#include <rtems/rtems/tasksimpl.h>

const char rtems_test_name[] = "TASK ERROR 04";

rtems_task Init(
  rtems_task_argument argument
)
{
  rtems_status_code   status;

  TEST_BEGIN();

  Task_id[ 0 ] = rtems_task_self();

  Task_name[ 1 ]       =  rtems_build_name( 'T', 'A', '1', ' ' );

  /* priority of 0 error */
  status = rtems_task_create(
     Task_name[1],
     0,
     RTEMS_MINIMUM_STACK_SIZE,
     RTEMS_DEFAULT_MODES,
     RTEMS_DEFAULT_ATTRIBUTES,
     &Task_id[ 1 ]
  );
  fatal_directive_status(
    status,
    RTEMS_INVALID_PRIORITY,
    "rtems_task_create with illegal priority"
  );
  puts( "INIT - rtems_task_create - priority of 0 - RTEMS_INVALID_PRIORITY" );

  /* priority > 255 error */
  status = rtems_task_create(
     Task_name[1],
     UINT32_C(0x80000000),
     RTEMS_MINIMUM_STACK_SIZE,
     RTEMS_DEFAULT_MODES,
     RTEMS_DEFAULT_ATTRIBUTES,
     &Task_id[ 1 ]
  );
  fatal_directive_status(
    status,
    RTEMS_INVALID_PRIORITY,
    "rtems_task_create with illegal priority"
  );
  puts(
    "INIT - rtems_task_create - priority too high - RTEMS_INVALID_PRIORITY"
  );

  status = rtems_task_create(
    Task_name[ 1 ],
    4,
    RTEMS_MINIMUM_STACK_SIZE,
    RTEMS_DEFAULT_MODES,
    RTEMS_DEFAULT_ATTRIBUTES,
    &Task_id[ 1 ]
  );
  directive_failed( status, "rtems_task_create of TA1" );

  status = rtems_task_restart( Task_id[ 1 ], 0 );
  fatal_directive_status(
    status,
    RTEMS_INCORRECT_STATE,
    "rtems_task_restart of DORMANT task"
  );
  puts( "INIT - rtems_task_restart - RTEMS_INCORRECT_STATE" );

  status = rtems_task_start( Task_id[ 1 ], Task_1, 0 );
  directive_failed( status, "rtems_task_start of TA1" );

  rtems_task_exit();
}


Nasi ulam: A herbed rice recipe that’s easy, nutritious and delicious

One of the most wonderful things about the cuisines of the Malay Archipelago — or the Greater Nusantara as I like to call it — is the sheer diversity of rice dishes. Take for instance how the simple white grain is stained blue by way of butterfly pea flowers in the nasi kerabu of northern Malaysia to the turmeric-coloured rice of Java shaped into a cone known as nasi tumpeng.

Where rice is a plain staple in the Far East, it meets an explosion of colour in the South East. And out of this rainbow, one dish stands out for being as flavoursome as it is nutritious: nasi ulam.

It’s essentially cooked rice that’s been tossed with slivers of local herbs, shoots and leaves — a family of salads eaten raw known as ulam.

These raw salads — an entire genre of its own — is essential to the Malay dining table for its medicinal and nutritional properties. No meal is quite the same without a plate of these though it’s worth noting that many of its varieties (it is said that there are over 200 types of ulam) are somewhat bitter.

This culture of eating ulam as part of a meal is alive and well in Malaysia and parts of Indonesia. Unfortunately, it’s facing a slow death in Singapore. Much of this is thanks to urbanisation and the lack of access (and demand) as ulam demands freshness. After all, young shoots of plants like belinjau and pucuk paku (fiddlehead fern shoots) are traditionally foraged and go limp after just a few hours. And where are we to get stashes of daun pegaga (asiatic pennywort) and pucuk gajus (cashew shoots)?

That said, one of the central tenets of Greater Nusantara cuisine is to use what’s growing around you and nasi ulam is extremely forgiving in that respect since the big flavour elements can be easily found in Singapore. Certain essentials like lemongrass, mint and lime leaves are available at any supermarket while torch ginger flower might require a trip to the wet market. If you can’t find shoots and leaves that make up the nutritious component, you can substitute with greens like kale and bok choy.

In this recipe, I’ve replicated the flavours and ingredients of the nasi ulam I’ve encountered while living in Kuala Lumpur. In homage to my temporary home, I’ve decided to use beras item by Malaysian artisanal products brand Langit Collective — a variety of black rice that grows on the highlands of Sarawak. I love it not just for its incredible colour when tossed with slivers of green but also for its nutty flavour and fragrance. This is all plated on a dish handmade by ceramicist Thirty3eleven who uses clay from Johor for her pieces.

Aside from the rice, the dish itself has several components: flavour, textural interest and nutrition. A protein source is essential here and any type of fish or even seafood would do well with the strong flavour of the herbs. It’s also a perfect dish if you’re on a plant-based diet as grilled tempe and tofu are also delicious additions. To compensate for the umami flavour of toasted dried shrimp, add a dash more salt or strips of dried seaweed if you wish to veer off the Southeast Asian path. Here’s the recipe, note that the balance of flavours is entirely up to your liking, and certain herbs like kaffir lime and turmeric leaves are stronger than the others.


Q:

Given $x_0>0$ and $a>0$, if $x_{n+1}=\frac{2a^2x_n}{x_n^2 + a^2}$ for every $n\ge0$ then $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}x_n=a$

Given $x_n$ be a sequence of positive numbers such that
$$x_{n+1}=\frac{2a^2x_n}{x_n^2 + a^2} , a>0.$$
Show that
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}x_n=a.$$
I thought of first proving sequence bounded and then either increasing or decreasing, so that i could establish its convergence. But i couldnot do it. Thanks for helping

A:

Firstly, you have $x_n >0$, $\forall n$, then $x_n^2 + a^2 \geq 2ax_n$.
It implies that that $x_{n+1} \leq \frac{2a^2x_n}{2ax_n} = a$.
It means that $x_n \leq a$, for all $n \geq 1$ (maybe not $n=0$, i.e $x_0 > a$).
So, you also have $x_{n+1} \geq \frac{2a^2x_n}{2a^2} = x_n$, (because $ 0 < x_n \leq a$).
You can conclude that this sequence is converge.

A:

$x_1=a\tanh(\theta)\Rightarrow x_2=a\frac{2\tanh(\theta)}{1+\tanh^{2}(\theta)}=a\tanh(2\theta)\Rightarrow ...\Rightarrow x_n=a\tanh(2^{n-1}\theta)$


1*7/28*-4. Which is the closest to -0.01?  (a) 0  (b) 1/5  (c) 2/23  (d) x
a
Let g = 228 + -229. Which is the closest to -2?  (a) 1  (b) 4  (c) g
c
Let v = 0.17 + -0.37. Which is the nearest to -1?  (a) 1  (b) v  (c) 5/7
b
Let n = 3.3 - 4.3. What is the nearest to -2/47 in 5, 0.4, n?
0.4
Let s = -0.36 + 2.36. Let y = -4 - -4.1. What is the nearest to y in s, -4, -1?
-1
Let x = -21.699 + 21.8. Let v = -0.399 - x. Let y = -99/7 + 101/7. Which is the nearest to y?  (a) -1  (b) v  (c) 3/5
c
Let i = 1.2 - 1.2. Let h = -61/4 + 59/4. Let t = -0.02 + 0.32. Which is the nearest to t?  (a) h  (b) -4  (c) i
c
Suppose 8 = 3*x - 1, 0 = j + x - 18. Suppose -2*l = -5*l - j. What is the closest to -1/2 in -2/5, l, -1/4?
-2/5
Let v be 2 + (-3)/7 + -1. Let i be (3 - (8 - 1))*14/168. What is the nearest to 1 in i, v, 4?
v
Let l = 0.5 + 0. Let d = -7 - -7. Suppose -6*u - 1 + 7 = d. Which is the nearest to u?  (a) 1  (b) l  (c) -5
a
Let s = -0.52 - -0.02. Suppose 5*u - 45 = -5*r, 2*r - 24 = -5*u + 18. Let o be (-12)/u + 22/20. What is the nearest to o in 0.4, s, -0.2?
s
Let d = -39 + 36. Let u = -163 + 2117/13. Which is the nearest to 1?  (a) -3/7  (b) d  (c) u
c
Let k be 1/(0 + (-26)/4). Let n be (-1)/((-369)/(-993)) - (-2 + 0). Let p = -1/41 - n. Which is the nearest to p?  (a) -4/3  (b) 2  (c) k
c
Let f = 23/5 + -26/5. Let r = -1720 - -1720.5. Which is the nearest to 0?  (a) r  (b) 0.11  (c) f
b
Let d = -0.4 - 3.6. Let w = 2.08 - 2. Let c = w - 0.48. What is the closest to c in d, -5, 0?
0
Let r = 363 - 5434/15. Let o = 2/5 - r. Let w = 8 + -9. Which is the nearest to o?  (a) -5  (b) 0.1  (c) w
b
Let t = 366.3 - 350. Let y = t - 16.3. What is the closest to y in -2/11, 5, 0.4?
-2/11
Let v be -7 - 19/(133/(-42)) - -5. Which is the closest to 0.6?  (a) 1/15  (b) 1/4  (c) -3  (d) v
b
Suppose -2*p = -s - 11, -4*s + 13*p - 32 = 11*p. Which is the closest to s?  (a) -7  (b) 2  (c) 5  (d) -2/13
a
Let n = 4 - 6. Let d be (3/n)/((-15)/50). Let t = 631 - 631.1. Which is the nearest to t?  (a) -3/4  (b) d  (c) -5
a
Let z = -0.223 - 0.777. Suppose 0*c = c. What is the nearest to c in z, -3, -1/4?
-1/4
Let v be (-12)/(-56) - 4/(-14). Let g(u) = -u**2 - 6*u + 10. Let b be g(-8). Let h(t) = -t**2 - 5*t + 10. Let d be h(b). What is the nearest to 0 in d, v, 5/6?
v
Let l = -928 - -925. What is the nearest to -0.1 in l, 1/7, 1, -0.3?
-0.3
Let o = -2/313 + -608/2817. Which is the nearest to 1/2?  (a) o  (b) 1  (c) 3
b
Let j = -755.9 - -756. Let k = 18.1 - 19. Let h = k - -1. What is the closest to j in 3/7, -1/6, h?
h
Let y be 33/(-110)*(-16)/(-12). What is the closest to 1/2 in y, 3, 62?
y
Let i = 39312 - 591913/15. Let v = i + 149. Let r = 4.84 + -4.34. Which is the nearest to 0?  (a) v  (b) r  (c) 0.3
a
Let s = 103.1 - 108. Let r = 9.9 + s. What is the nearest to -1 in r, 1, -8?
1
Suppose -1 = -3*t - 19. Let z be ((-1)/(-3))/(4/t). Let u = 0.4 + -0.3. What is the nearest to 1/2 in u, -5, z?
u
Let u = -1/1021 + 3070/7147. Which is the closest to 1.1?  (a) u  (b) 3  (c) -5/6
a
Let t = -22 + 87/4. Let k = -21 + 21. Let d = 0 + 0. Which is the nearest to d?  (a) -5  (b) t  (c) k
c
Let j(v) = 7*v + 2*v**2 - 3*v**2 - 14*v - 2*v + 5. Let w be j(-10). Let s = -2 - -2. Which is the nearest to s?  (a) -2/11  (b) w  (c) -1/3
a
Let r be ((-2)/(-35))/((-1)/(-5)). Let f = 179 - -53. Let q = -2090/9 + f. What is the nearest to r in 5, q, -0.1?
-0.1
Let u = 2048 - 2043. What is the nearest to -10/3 in u, -0.4, 0?
-0.4
Suppose 4*u + 16 = -0*u. Let i = -5.3 + 5. Let v be (-168)/18 - -3 - -7. Which is the closest to 1?  (a) i  (b) u  (c) v
c
Let f = -0.1497 - 0.8503. What is the closest to 0 in 0.04, f, -0.08?
0.04
Let z = 0 + 3. Let s be 0/(7 + (-20)/5). Let l = -79/56 - -9/8. What is the nearest to s in -5, l, z?
l
Let h = 43 + -47. Let x = -1 + h. What is the nearest to -2/29 in 2, x, 5/4?
5/4
Let i = 0.1609 + -0.0609. Which is the closest to -1/4?  (a) 3  (b) 3/2  (c) i
c
Let k be (6 - (1 - -4))/(2/46). Suppose g - 2*s - 4 = 0, 0 = 4*g + 2*s - 3*s - k. Which is the nearest to 1/2?  (a) -2/7  (b) -3  (c) g
a
Let u = -326 - -326.5. Which is the nearest to -104?  (a) 0  (b) u  (c) -2/3
c
Let c be (20/(-15))/(2 + (-8)/(-3)). What is the closest to -1 in 14, c, -4/5?
-4/5
Let l = -9.14 - -0.14. Let h = -3.1 + 5.1. Which is the closest to l?  (a) 5  (b) h  (c) 0
c
Let t = 45.869 + 0.131. Let z = t - 46. Which is the nearest to 1?  (a) z  (b) 0.058  (c) -0.1
b
Let o = 35.9 + -37. Let q = o + 1.3. What is the closest to -1 in -2, -5, q?
-2
Let i = -10.69 - -14.69. What is the nearest to 1 in i, 2, 2/7, 1/16?
2/7
Let u = 0.68 - 3.68. What is the nearest to -3/8 in -0.4, 0.4, u, -6?
-0.4
Let c = -42 - -41. Let n = -43 - -46. Let k = -0.1 + 0. What is the closest to c in 5, k, n?
k
Let s = 32 - 31.9. Let f = -133519/18 - -7414. Let a = 7/2 + f. What is the closest to 0.1 in a, -4, s?
s
Let g = 16/19 - 238/57. What is the nearest to -1/4 in -1, 4, g, -0.2?
-0.2
Let o = -4898.7 - -4899. Let h = -13.1 - -16. Which is the nearest to -1/4?  (a) o  (b) h  (c) -1/7
c
Let m = -211 - -1053/5. Let q be (-2 - 27/(-15))/(-1). What is the closest to m in -1/2, q, -0.4?
-0.4
Suppose 0*o - 2*t + 16 = -2*o, 5*o + 2*t = -54. Let k be ((80/15)/(-8))/(o/(-12)). What is the nearest to 1 in k, 4, 0.5?
0.5
Let y = -5.69 - -0.19. Let g = 7 + y. Let s = -1.2 + g. What is the closest to -1 in 5, -6, s?
s
Let y = 140 - 152.3. Let p = y - -12.2. Let v = -2 - -1. What is the closest to p in v, -4/3, 0.2?
0.2
Let g = -0.1438 + -0.1562. Let x = 0.1 + 0.4. What is the nearest to x in g, 3, 0.5?
0.5
Let i = -3907.969 + 3905. Let s = -0.031 + i. Let t = -5 - -8. Which is the nearest to -0.1?  (a) s  (b) 0.4  (c) t
b
Let b = -113 + 113.1. Let l = -67/2 - -35. What is the nearest to b in l, 2/5, -1/2?
2/5
Suppose i = n - 3*n - 1, 2 = 5*i + 3*n. Let p be (-32)/22 - (18 + -20). Which is the closest to i?  (a) 2  (b) p  (c) -4
b
Let f be ((-4)/(-55))/(6*(-4)/60). Let b = 4 - 4. Let d = b + -3. What is the closest to d in f, -0.2, 3?
-0.2
Let m = -15 + 10. Let t be 2 + 1 + m - -1. Which is the closest to -0.1?  (a) 2/11  (b) -3  (c) t
a
Let x = 0 + -1. Let d = x - -0.9. Let t = -2065 + 2065. Which is the nearest to d?  (a) -1/8  (b) t  (c) -3
a
Let n = -2376 - -2383. What is the closest to n in 1, 4/19, -1?
1
Let k(d) = -d**3 - 20*d**2 - 65*d - 13. Let v be k(-16). Let w = -3 + -5. Which is the nearest to 1?  (a) v  (b) w  (c) -0.1
c
Let l = 572.8 - 572. What is the closest to -1 in 4, 2/17, l?
2/17
Let i = -10.9 + 9.89. Let b = -4.01 - i. What is the closest to -1 in 3/4, b, -5/6?
-5/6
Let t = 3 - 2. Suppose 4*k - 11 = -2*y - 5, 2 = -4*y - k. Which is the nearest to t?  (a) -2/7  (b) y  (c) 0
c
Let t = 403 + -401. What is the nearest to 1/4 in t, 2/7, -5, -0.13?
2/7
Let l be (-21)/(-14) + 2/(-4). Let m = -3.2 + 3. What is the closest to l in m, 0.5, -2/9?
0.5
Let x = -167 - -256. Let t = -89.5 + x. What is the nearest to 1/2 in -1, t, 4?
t
Let x = 7 + -1. Let g(q) = q**3 - 6*q**2 - q - 1. Let u be g(x). Let l be ((-1)/u)/((-3)/3). Which is the closest to -0.1?  (a) 2/19  (b) 0  (c) l
c
Let k = 20.9 - 22. Let w be 1*(-48)/(20 - 8). Which is the closest to k?  (a) -1  (b) 1/2  (c) w
a
Let b = -24.9 + 26. Let k = b - 0.1. Let x = -2/3313 - -6664/62947. What is the closest to -1 in k, 3/4, x?
x
Let y = -54.6 - -78.6. Which is the closest to -1/5?  (a) 3  (b) 0.1  (c) -2  (d) y
b
Let x(m) be the second derivative of -9/2*m**2 - 1/6*m**3 + 0 + m. Let y be x(-8). What is the closest to y in 2, -2, -0.4?
-0.4
Suppose r = -2*n - 0*r - 38, n = -r - 18. Let d be (-2)/n - (-1 + 3/2). Let t = 11/6 - 7/3. What is the closest to -2 in t, -5, d?
t
Let t = -128/9 + 134/9. Let k = -161/1368 + 1/152. Which is the closest to -2?  (a) 0.05  (b) t  (c) k
c
Let l be -3 + -7 - 72/(-7). Suppose -5 = 4*u - 1. What is the nearest to u in -3/4, l, 1?
-3/4
Let t = -27.5 - -27.3. Let j be (-3)/(0 - 1*-4). Which is the closest to 1/3?  (a) 1/2  (b) t  (c) j
a
Let f = -46 - -33. Let j = f + 12. What is the closest to j in -2, -2/5, -8?
-2/5
Let q be (-15)/54*(-5)/(-10). Let o = 1/9 - q. Let s = 22 + -22. Which is the nearest to 0?  (a) s  (b) o  (c) 0.5
a
Let k be ((-2)/(-5) - (-212)/(-30))*-3. Let d be (62/(-35) - k/(-35)) + 2. Let s = 4 + -2. Which is the nearest


Top Seven Nigerian Cities

Nigerian Cities

Nigerian cities are categorized
into 3 types; there's the "Metropolis", that is characterized with
having quite one authorities Areas (LGAs). this sort of cities are sometimes
formed once giant municipalities are split into smaller LGAs, to help
economical administration and management, or once tiny cities grow and merge
into existing giant cities, or both; some fashioned once urban areas of
multiple LGAs merge as a results of growth and are currently absolutely
outlined as one settlement, Another style of settlement is that the
"Municipality", that is essentially associate LGA that's absolutely
outlined as its own town or city.

Abuja

Abuja is that the capital city of
Federal Republic of Nigeria settled within the center of the country at
intervals the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It's a planned town and was
engineered in the main within the Nineteen Eighties, exchange the country's
most inhabited town of urban center because the capital on twelve December
1991. Abuja's geographic is outlined by Aso Rock, a 400-metre (1,300 ft) stone
left by water erosion. The Presidential complex, National Assembly, Supreme
Court and far of the city reach the south of the rock. Zuma Rock, a 792-metre
(2,598 ft) stone, lies simply north of town on the superhighway to Kaduna.

At the 2006 census, town of national
capital had a population of 776,298, creating it one in all the 10 most
inhabited cities in Federal Republic of Nigeria. According to the world
organization, national capital grew by 139.7% between 2000 and 2010, creating
it the quickest growing city within the world. As of 2015, the city is
experiencing an annual growth of a minimum of thirty fifth, retentive its
position because the fastest-growing city on the African continent and one in
all the fastest-growing within the world. As at 2016, the metropolitan space of
national capital is calculable at six million persons, putting it behind solely
urban center, because the most inhabited metro space in Federal Republic of
Nigeria.

Lagos

Lagos could be a city within the Nigerian state of Lagos.
The city, with its adjacent urban area, is that the most thickly settled in
African nation, and also the most thickly settled on the African continent. It's
one among the quickest growing cities within the world, and conjointly one
among the foremost thickly settled urban agglomerations. Lagos could be a major
financial centre in Africa; the megacity has the very best GDP and conjointly
homes one among the biggest and busiest seaports on the continent.

Lagos at the start emerged as a port city that
originated on a group of islands, that square measure contained within the gift
day government Areas (LGAs) of port Island, Eti-Osa, Amuwo-Odofin and Apapa;
the islands square measure separated by creeks, fringing the southwest mouth of
port lagoon, whereas protected against the Atlantic by barrier islands and long
sand spits like Bar Beach, that stretch up to a hundred kilometer (62 mi) east
and west of the mouth. because of fast urbanization, the city
swollen to the west of the lagoon to incorporate areas within the gift day port
ground, Ajeromi-Ifelodun and Surulere. This crystal rectifier to the
classification of Lagos into two main areas: The Island, that was the initial
city of Lagos, before it swollen into the world referred to as the ground. This
city space was ruled directly by the centralized through the Lagos council,
till the creation of Lagos State in 1967, that crystal rectifier to the ripping
of Lagos city into this day seven government Areas (LGAs), associated an
addition of alternative cities (which currently conjure thirteen LGAs) from the
then Western Region, to create the state.

Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt is that the capital and largest city
of Rivers State, Nigeria. It lies on the fair watercourse and is found within
the Niger Delta. As of 2016, the Port Harcourt geographic area has Associate in
Nursing estimated population of one,865,000 inhabitants, up from 1,382,592 as
of 2006.

The area that became Port Harcourt in 1912 was
before that a part of the farmlands of the Diobu village cluster of the
Ikwerre, Associate in Nursing Nigerian sub-group. The colonial administration
of Federal Republic of Nigeria created the port to export coal from the
collieries of Enugu settled 243 kilometers (151 mi) north of Port Harcourt, to
that it absolutely was joined by a railway referred to as the Japanese Line,
conjointly engineered by British people.

In 1956 crude oil was discovered in business quantities
at Oloibiri, and Port Harcourt's economy turned to crude oil once the primary
cargo of Nigerian petroleum was exported through the city in 1958. Through the
advantages of the Nigerian petroleum trade, Port Harcourt was more developed,
with aspects of modernization like overpasses, city blocks, taller and a lot of
substantial buildings. Oil corporations that presently have offices within the
city embrace Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron.

There are variety of establishments of tertiary
education in Port Harcourt, largely government-owned. These establishments
embrace, Rivers State University, University of Port Harcourt, Captain Elechi
Amadi polytechnic institute, ignatius Ajuru University and Rivers State college
of Health Science and Technology. the present politician is Victor Ihunwo. Port
Harcourt's primary airport is Port Harcourt International airport, settled on
the outskirts of the city; the NAF base is that the location of the sole
alternative airport and is employed by air carriers Aero Contractors and Air
Nigeria for domestic flights.

Ibadan

Ibadan is the capital and most
inhabited city of Oyo State, Nigeria. With a population of over three million,
it's the third most inhabited city in Federal Republic of Nigeria once urban
center and Kano; it's the country's largest city by geographic area once Gusau.
At the time of Nigeria's independence in 1960, city was the most important and
most inhabited city within the country, and also the second most inhabited in
Africa once Cairo.

Ibadan is found in south-western
Federal Republic of Nigeria, 128 km inland northeast of urban center and 530 km
southwest of Abuja, the federal capital, and could be a distinguished transit
purpose between the coastal region and also the areas within the rural area of
the country. ibadan had been the centre of administration of the previous
Western Region since the times of land colonial rule, and components of the
city's ancient protecting walls still stand to the current day. The principal
inhabitants of the city are the Yorubas, also as varied communities from
different components of the country.

Calabar

Calabar is the capital of Cross
watercourse State, Nigeria. it absolutely was originally named Akwa Akpa, in
Efik language. the city is adjacent to the Calabar and great kwa rivers and creeks
of the Cross river (from its interior delta).

Calabar is usually represented because
the commercial enterprise capital of Nigeria. Administratively, the city is
split into Calabar Municipal and Calabar South authorities Areas. it's a
section of 406 sq. kilometers (157 sq mi) and a population of 371,022 as at
2006 census.

On ten Sept 1884, Victoria signed a
pact of Protection with the King and Chiefs of Akwa Akpa, glorious to Europeans
as recent Calabar. This enabled the uk to exercise management over the complete
territory around Calabar, together with Bakassi,

Enugu

Enugu is the capital of Enugu State in Federal
Republic of Nigeria. it's placed in southeastern Federal Republic of Nigeria. The
city had a population of 722,664 in keeping with the 2006 Nigerian census. The
name Enugu is derived from the 2 Igbo words Énú Ụ́gwụ́ which means "hill
top" denoting the city's mountainous geographics. the city was named after
Enugwu Ngwo, below that coal was found.

Since the seventeenth century the placement of
current Enugu has been inhabited by the Nike subgroup of the Igbo people; one
in all Enugu's neighbourhoods still retains the village's previous name Ogui.
In 1900 the Southern Federal Republic of Nigeria Protectoratewas established by
the colonial administration of British Empire. The discovery of coal by the colonialist’s
light-emitting diode to the building of the eastern Line railway to hold coal
from the interior city to the port of Port Harcourt, a city created for this
purpose placed 151 miles (243 km) south of what was known as Enugu Coal Camp.
Enugu was then renamed merely Enugu and developed jointly of the few cities in
West Africa created from European contact. By 1958 Enugu had over eight,000
coal miners. As of 2005 there are not any vital coal mining activities left
within the city.

Uyo

Uyo is that the city of Akwa Ibom, an
oil-producing state in African nation. The city became the capital of the state
on Sep 23, 1987 following the creation of Akwa Ibom State from erstwhile Cross
river State. The University of Uyo Main campus is found at Nwaniba, whereas the
city campus and Annexx campus square measure settled on Ikpa road. The
population of Uyo, in step with the 2006 Nigerian Census that includes Uyo and
Itu, is 427,873. whereas the populated area, as well as Uruan, is 554,906.


[Influence of actinomycin D or ethidium bromide on the radiation risk in embryos of mice in the preimplantation stage in vitro].
The authors examined if the radiation risk (after X = irradiation with 0.94 Gy or 3H-thymidine treatment with 0.5 kBq/ml) in embryos of mice of the preimplantation stage in vitro is increased by the presence of actinomycin D (0.3 nM for 112 hours or 100 nM for 90 minutes) or ethidium bromide (0.5 microM for 112 hours). The influence of these substances on the radiation effect was determined by microscopic observation of the development of embryos and by investigation of the cell proliferation. The radiation risk was regarded to be increased if the combined effect was significantly higher than the total amount of the individual effects. The radiation risk for the morphologic development of the embryos was significantly increased by actinomycin D; the combined effects were about 1.3 times higher than the total amount of the individual effects. There was no increased risk for the cell proliferation. Ethidium bromide did not modify the radiation risk neither with respect to the morphologic development nor regarding the cell proliferation.


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Q:

Using ICompilationUnit for ASTParser.setSource() method in eclipse jdt/ast

ASTParser.setSource has polymorphic methods with different input types.

However, when I use ICompilationUnit as an input to setSource method,

I got an error saying I didn't use char[] as an input parameter.

Why this error?
ADDED
I use eclipse jdt/ast as a part of stand alone java program. In the course of doing that, I don't use eclipse project/resources, but load the java source into char[] as a parameter for setSource(). I'm not sure, but the eclipse may recognize that it's not run as a plugin to block the usage of other polymorphic methods.

A:

I was trying to execute the jdt/ast as a library for stand-alone java program. When I rerun them in plugin context, everything works fine.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice vehemently defended her integrity on Wednesday when asked about an independent report that found she made 56 false statements on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 13, 2008, during a hearing on the President's Foreign Affairs Budget. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

At a congressional hearing, Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat, questioned Rice about a report from the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity that accuses Bush administration officials of making 935 false statements about Iraq, which the United States invaded in March 2003.

“This study has found that you, Madame Secretary, made 56 false statements to the American people where you repeatedly pump up the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and exaggerate the so-called relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda,” he said at the start of a testy exchange with Rice.

“Congressman, I take my integrity very seriously and I did not at any time make a statement that I knew to be false, or that I thought to be false, in order to pump up anything,” Rice replied. “Nobody wants to go to war.”

Bush’s statements about suspected Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were the cornerstone of his case for going to war in Iraq to topple Saddam.

No such weapons were found following the invasion. The United States now has 157,000 troops in Iraq seeking to restore stability to the country, where a vicious insurgency and sectarian violence erupted after the U.S.-led invasion.

Rice, who was national security adviser at the time of the invasion, squarely blamed the U.S. intelligence community for its erroneous conclusions that Iraq had biological and chemical weapons and was seeking to rebuild a nuclear weapons program.

When Wexler sought to cut her off, Rice spoke over him and said: “I am sorry congressman -- because you questioned my integrity, I ask you to let me respond.

“Now, we have learned that many of the intelligence assessments were wrong,” she added. “I will be the first to say that it was not right.”

“At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people,” she said.

The reputations of many Bush aides -- including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who made the case for the war before the U.N. Security Council -- have been tarnished by the fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found.


Roger Federer makes his long-awaited return to action this week at the MercedesCup, competing for the first time since Miami and Roger Federer will be aiming for No 1 Spot . And right away, there is a lot on the line for the Swiss. If the top seed reaches the final, he will regain the No. 1 spot in the ATP Rankings on 18 June.

Roger Federer made the controversial decision to skip the entire clay court season for the second consecutive year in 2018. In doing so, he also missed the second Grand Slam of the year at Roland Garros.

The victory at Roland Garros ensured Rafa Nadal stays top of the standings by 100 ATP points.

“I think that’s a bit of extra motivation,” said Federer, who trails Nadal (8,770 points) by 100 points. “But then again, having lost here last year in the first round, for me, it resets the goals as well, and just take it one at a time and don’t think too far ahead. Not that I did that last year, but on grass, margins are very slim. It’s not so simple, especially when you haven’t played in three months.”

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"The holidays were wonderful. I had no setbacks, so I'm fit. We can only bow to each other and congratulate each other. Incredible. Absolutely only the superlatives remain there. To win a tournament at all 11 times is almost unthinkable."

Federer holds a 2-2 record in Stuttgart, including an opening-round loss last year against Tommy Haas. But he then went on to triumph at Halle and Wimbledon, building what would turn into a 16-match winning streak.

“I came back very strong and my reaction was very good after losing here against Tommy,” Federer said. “I didn’t drop a set for the rest of the grass-court season, which I was very happy about. So I just hope I can find my rhythm and range a bit earlier. But very excited to be here. I’m motivated because of all these reasons. It’s been a while, I haven’t played matches, so I’m happy. Obviously, I don’t want to be on a three-match losing streak… I want to break that as well.”

Federer’s closest challenger in Stuttgart is world No 3 Alexander Zverev - who crashed out of the French Open in the quarter-finals.

"I think he learned a lot from the three five-set matches he played in Paris,” Federer added. "I expect a lot from him in the coming months. With such a markup and good returns that he has, there's always something possible."

On 19 February, Federer regained World No. 1 for the first time since 4 November 2012, holding the spot for five weeks before his loss in Miami against Thanasi Kokkinakis allowed Rafael Nadal to take it back. While Federer took the spot again for the week of 14 May, Nadal has held it since thanks to victories in Rome and at Roland Garros, which was no surprise to the 36-year-old.


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Detection of African swine fever viral antigens in paraffin-embedded tissues by use of immunohistologic methods and polyclonal antibodies.
Tissues obtained from pigs inoculated with African swine fever virus (ASFV), fixed by vascular perfusion using glutaraldehyde, and embedded in paraffin or araldite were used for an immunohistologic electron microscopic study. To detect ASFV antigens, 4 methods were used on paraffin sections with or without pretreatment of the tissues. Use of biotinylated anti-ASFV antiserum combined with avidin-biotin complex and peroxidase proved to be the most suitable method, and antigen was detected in tissues infected with 2 ASF viruses of different virulence. Use of the glutaraldehyde fixation method should ensure optimal morphologic (structural and ultrastructural) data while allowing an immunohistologic study, and add to knowledge of the pathogenesis of ASF.


Senior officials from the United States and Mexico signed a broad five-year agreement on Tuesday that marks renewed cooperation over the Colorado River, a desert lifeline that provides water to at least 30 million people, irrigation to top agricultural counties, and electricity to millions — despite water demands in the last few years rising above the average annual supply.

The pact, known as Minute 319, covers three key issues: it brings Mexico into existing U.S. water-management agreements for sharing shortages and surpluses; it allows U.S. states to pay for irrigation improvements across the border and reap some of the water savings; and it allocates water for the restoration of the Colorado River delta.

Tami A. Heilemann – Office of Communications, Interior Department

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, second from left, and other agency heads from the U.S. and Mexico met Tuesday in Sand Diego to sign a major Colorado River water agreement.

“That we were able to address all three things makes this truly historic,” said U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar after the signing ceremony Tuesday in San Diego. “A year ago, people would have said it was impossible to do, even in the last 20 days. It seemed at times like Humpty Dumpty was falling off the wall. This great team kept him on the wall, and we get to celebrate the birth of a new relationship between the U.S. and Mexico on the Colorado River.”

The abused Colorado River delta, which often does not hold enough water to connect the river to the Sea of Cortez, is one of the winners in the deal.

Since 2008, a water trust led by Tucson, Arizona-based environmental group the Sonoran Institute has purchased water rights from Mexican farmers and kept the water in the river. Minute 319 requires water users in the U.S. and Mexico to provide a one-time high-volume “pulse” flow of 105,000 acre-feet, divided evenly, in addition to the base flows from the trust, which set a goal of 50,000 acre-feet over five years.

“This is potentially a major first step to changing how water managers view the Colorado River,” said Michael Cohen, a senior researcher at the Pacific Institute who studies the river. “For many years U.S. managers thought water left in the stream was water wasted, and that’s what we did — we dried up the stream.”

Where water flows, a transformation should occur. Francisco Zamora, the director of the Sonoran Institute’s Colorado River Delta program, told Circle of Blue he hopes that the base flow from the water rights purchases, combined with the pulse flow, will create 810 hectares (2,000 acres) of new wetland habitat in the delta for fish, shrimp, and nearly 400 bird species. The flows will lay the groundwork for more extensive restoration projects.

“We’re going to learn from this,” Zamora said, “and get information to argue for a longer-term agreement.”

Other restoration experiments are taking place upstream. On Monday, the Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the largest dams on the river, opened the gates at Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona for a high-volume surge of water designed to mimic the floods that occurred before the river was dammed. It is the fourth such release and first since 2008.

Storing Water, Patching Leaks
Minute 319, which amends the 1944 treaty that gave Mexico rights to roughly 10 percent of the river’s average annual flow, builds on a deal brokered two years ago that allowed water districts in Mexico to store water in U.S. reservoirs while rebuilding irrigation infrastructure destroyed in a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in April 2010.

Those water-storage terms have been expanded. Mexico can now bank its water in Lake Mead during dry periods in order to keep the reservoir from dropping below levels that would trigger water restrictions for Arizona and Nevada. According to Minute 319, Mexico will now be affected by those restrictions and would see a cut in water deliveries if Lake Mead’s surface elevation were to drop below 1,075 feet.

At the same time, water districts in Arizona, California, and Nevada will invest $US 10 million to patch up leaky canals and improve otherwise inefficient irrigation infrastructure in Mexico. In return, the water districts will split 100,000 acre-feet of Mexico’s water allocation over five years. That much water is equal to the annual demand of the 709,000 people served by Tucson’s water utility.

“This provides a long-term benefit to Mexican farmers,” Cohen told Circle of Blue, referring to the sealed canals. “They get more water too.”

“It is the crowning achievement of an unprecedented period of agreement with Mexico. We are true partners in the Colorado River basin.”

–Michael ConnorBureau of Reclamation Commissioner

The deal comes just before the Bureau of Reclamation is to release a comprehensive study showing that water demand in the Colorado River basin will exceed supply by as much as 25 percent in 2060.

Michael Connor, commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, said after the signing ceremony that the agreement helps show the way to getting water use in the basin in line with supply.

“Elements in Minute 319 are an integral aspect of a strategy that will address the issues and challenges throughout the basin,” Connor proclaimed. “It is the crowning achievement of an unprecedented period of agreement with Mexico. We are true partners in the Colorado River basin.”


Update, 3/31: Today Schauer’s group released an updated study of the STAMPEDE bariatric surgery clinical trial results three years out. Participants who underwent surgery not only had near-normal levels of blood glucose after three years, but also reported higher quality-of-life scores compared with people who did not get surgery.

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If you heard of a treatment that effectively cured 40 percent of people with a devastating common disease — cancer, say, or Alzheimer’s — that would be front-page news, right? People would be gathering around water coolers across the world to gush about the progress of medical science.

We actually do have one such success story, though most people don’t think of it in such glowing terms: weight-loss surgery. A clinical trial published in 2012 studied obese people with diabetes after receiving either intensive medical therapy (which included lifestyle coaching, home glucose monitoring, diabetes medications, and a push to join Weight Watchers) or intensive medical therapy and weight-loss surgery. About 40 percent of those who got the surgery no longer had diabetes a year later, compared with 12 percent who had medical therapy alone. The vast majority of people who had surgery stopped taking their diabetes medications altogether. And the surgery group lost around 25 percent of their weight, whereas the medical therapy group lost just 5 percent.

When the study came out, “it did shake up the conventional thinking about diabetes, because it showed you can’t achieve these outcomes with drugs,” says Philip Schauer, director of the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, who led that trial.

And yet, despite the dramatic, scientifically supported advantages of bariatric surgery, relatively few obese patients have an operation. Around 200,000 bariatric surgeries are performed each year in the U.S., which Schauer (who’s a surgeon) points out is only about 1 percent of the 20 million Americans with severe obesity. “Surgery is definitely underutilized,” he says.

There are many reasons for this. Like all surgeries, this one comes with medical risks (about 1 in 300 patients die, and others get blood clots, gastrointestinal leaks, or bowel blockages). It’s no more risky than gallbladder or appendix surgery, but many patients and doctors perceive it to be worse, according to Schauer. Another hurdle is financial: The surgery costs up to $25,000, and about half of all insurance policies don’t cover it. Of the policies that do, many require patients to jump through hoops — such as first going on a nine-month, medically supervised diet — in order to qualify.

Even if there were no risks and no insurance barriers, bariatric surgery is probably not a practical solution for the escalating public-health problem of diabetes. Take one city: Cincinnati, Ohio. “According to our projections, by 2025 one-quarter of the population of Cincinnati will have type-2 diabetes,” says Randy Seeley, a neuroscientist at the University of Cincinnati and the director of the Cincinnati Diabetes and Obesity Center. Even if every diabetic who qualified for weight-loss surgery wanted to get it, “we don’t have enough surgeons and surgery tables.”

In today’s issue of Nature, Seeley and his colleagues have published a mouse study suggesting that, one day, doctors might be able to mimic the beneficial effects of surgery without actually doing the surgery.

That premise will seem crazy to most surgeons, and that’s because the conventional explanation for bariatric surgery’s effectiveness is mechanical. In the two most common procedures (known as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, and vertical sleeve gastrectomy, or VSG), surgeons make the stomach drastically smaller:

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“The common-wisdom explanation is that this is the intestinal equivalent of wiring your jaw shut,” Seeley says. That is: With a much smaller stomach, patients simply can’t absorb as many calories, so they lose weight and the weight-loss cures their diabetes. But Seeley doesn’t think this explanation makes sense. “It’s bologna,” he says.

He points out that, anecdotally, patients don’t feel as hungry after surgery as they used to. What’s more, within days of surgery — long before any substantial weight loss has occurred — many patients show such improvement in blood glucose levels that they can stop taking diabetes medications. All of this suggests that surgery changes not just the structure of the stomach, but its biochemistry.

Older studies have shown, in both humans and mouse models, that these surgeries increase the level of circulating bile acids — fluids made by the liver that help break down fats. Nobody knows why bile acids go up after surgery, but Seeley’s study suggests that they play a key role in its beneficial effects.

In addition to breaking down fats, bile acids are hormones, or signaling molecules that bind to receptors in cells all over the gut, including one called the farsenoid-X receptor, or FXR.

To see whether bariatric surgery influenced FXR activity, Seeley’s group overfed two types of mice: normal animals, and those genetically engineered to lack the FXR gene. After ballooning in size, both types of obese mice underwent VSG surgery.

One week after surgery, both types of mice dropped a ton of weight compared with controls that had had a sham surgery. The normal mice sustained most of that weight loss for the duration of the experiment, about 14 weeks. In contrast, the animals lacking the FXR gene gained the weight back by the fifth week.

In other words, the mice lacking FXR went through the same mechanical changes as the others — their stomachs shrunk in exactly the same way — and yet didn’t benefit from weight-loss surgery.

“It’s really superb science,” Schauer says, though it’s far too early to know whether the same thing is happening in people. Nevertheless, it’s an important study because it suggests that drug therapies might one day be designed to mimic these changes in FXR and possibly replace surgery altogether, he says. “Even as a surgeon, I would say, yeah, that would be a big advance.”

It probably won’t be as simple as turning up the FXR dial, though. FXR is a complicated gene whose activity changes depending on tissue type and environmental circumstances. For example, mice lacking FXR are actually resistant to getting obese in the first place. FXR codes for a transcription factor, a protein that itself regulates dozens of other genes. “It’s doing lots of different things in different tissues,” Seeley says. “One of the things we don’t know is, which population of FXR matters?”

To add yet another level of complexity, the gene also has a big influence on gut bacteria. Seeley’s study found several bacterial strains that change in response to surgery in the normal animals but not in those lacking FXR. A strain called Roseburia, for example, went up 12-fold in normal mice after surgery but did not change in the mutants. This is provocative because two studies have shown that people with type-2 diabetes carry abnormally low levels of this bug in their guts. And this is just one of many other recent reports linking gut microbes to obesity and diabetes. A study published a year ago showed that in mice, gastric bypass surgery changes the microbial make-up of the gut, and that this shift might explain the animals’ subsequent weight loss. “We’re starting to see a picture emerge,” Seeley says.

Seeley is a lab rat; he’s not a surgeon and not a doctor. So I was surprised to hear him passionately riff on the overwhelming benefits of weight-loss surgery, and bemoan our stubborn cultural stigma against obese people. “People tend to think of surgery as a tool to help people’s compliance, and that’s a problem,” he says. In his view, surgery is not about physically preventing obese people from eating more. It’s about fundamentally changing their metabolism so that they no longer need to eat more.

And why, I asked him, is the average Joe so resistant to this idea?

“Lean people want to take credit for being lean. They want to say it’s because I control my environment, I don’t go to McDonald’s, I work out,” he says. “But you can’t say that and not blame the obese individual for being obese.”

This is, in my opinion, a tragedy. As I’ve written about before, an overwhelming amount of evidence now suggests that obesity has little to do with willpower. More than a decade ago, researchers at 16 clinics in the United States enrolled thousands of overweight and obese people with diabetes on a strict weight-loss regimen that focused on diet and exercise. As published last year, this intensive, long-term intervention did very little in terms of weight loss, and had no effect on death rates from heart disease.


"In the last five days (1 to 5 March) 1.28 lakh customers have ported to BSNL, while 66,886 customers have already joined the network," he told reporters in Chennai.

Last week, Aircel said it has filed for bankruptcy as the company has been facing "troubled times" in a "highly financially stressed" industry.

"Intense competition following the disruptive entry of a new player, legal and regulatory challenges, high level of unsustainable debt and increased losses had together caused significant ‘negative business and reputational impact’ on the company" - Aircel

Leo said that under the initiative to set up BSNL Wi-Fi hotspots in the country, 58 locations with 84 access points have so far been commissioned in Tamil Nadu.

On the launch of 4G service, he said BSNL has signed an agreement with Nokia Ltd to roll it out in 10 circles in the Western and Southern zones of the country, including in Tamil Nadu.

566 4G e-Node B equipment has been alloted for 4G service in the Tamil Nadu circle, which will be provided on allocation of spectrum by the Department of Telecommunication, he said.

Leo also announced new plans and tariffs for customers opting to use the company’s landline and broadband facilities.

Under Experience LL 49 plan for landline customers, there would be no installation charges till 17 July 2018. Similarly the popular BB 249 plan for broadband customers was available till 31 March 2018, he said.

For customers in the Tamil Nadu circle, excluding Chennai, the download limit for broadband users was also enhanced. In the BB Combo Unlimited 699 plan, it has been increased to 30GB from 8GB, while under Unlimited 1049 plan it has been doubled to 60GB from 30GB.

Leo said the Free calling facility offered to customers on Sundays has been extended upto 30 April 2018.

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Q:

Associative Arrays in AHK not passing information to methods properly

I am having Issues passing an object (in the form of an associative array) into a method to click a pixel location. The information should be able to be called using the format value = arrayName[Key]
#NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
#Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
CoordMode Mouse Screen
;This Area is for defining any object nessesary to interact with the game
;
;
BACKPACK_28 := {UPPER_BOUND: 964, LOWER_BOUND: 995, LEFT_BOUND: 1569, RIGHT_BOUND: 1600, MENU_KEY: "esc"}
;
;
;Ends Game Object section
^l::
select(BACKPACK_28, true)
return
select(balls, switchMenus){
    if(switchMenus==true){
        SendInput {object[MENU_KEY]}
    }
    Random, y , balls[LOWER_BOUND], balls[UPPER_BOUND]
    Random, x , balls[LEFT_BOUND], balls[RIGHT_BOUND]
    Click, x, y
}

A:

Initialize your array with quotes, like so:
BACKPACK_28 := {"UPPER_BOUND": 964, ...}

Otherwise, AHK will see UPPER_BOUND as a seperate variable.
Concerning Random, y , balls[LOWER_BOUND]: See documentation on Random:

[Param] Min: The smallest number that can be generated, which can be negative, floating point, or an expression.

If you were allowed to state a variable name here, it wouldn't say number.
Use %s to get the value of the variable:
Either
low := balls["LOWER_BOUND"]
up := balls["UPPER_BOUND"]
Random, y, %low%, %up%

or
Random, y, % balls["LOWER_BOUND"], % balls["UPPER_BOUND"]


Characterisation of complex carbohydrates in cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia and invasive adenocarcinoma.
Using a panel of 11 biotinylated lectins and an avidin-peroxidase detection system on paraffin sections of formalin-fixed material, the range of expression of N-linked glycoprotein backbone structures and glycoprotein terminal structures was established in normal cervical glands. A characteristic pattern of luminal lectin reactivity was noted in areas of glandular tubal metaplasia. A consistent change in the topographic distribution of carbohydrate structures in cervical glandular neoplasia was found. In contrast to cytoplasmic expression in normal glands, 90% of adenocarcinomas, 92% of cases of high-grade cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia, and 63% of cases of low-grade cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia showed novel linear expression along the lumina of glands. The results indicate molecular as well as morphological similarities between invasive adenocarcinomas and putative preinvasive glandular lesions.


(1) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an operational amplifier circuit comprising a push-pull output stage having a stable operating point even when fluctuations occur in a power supply voltage.
(2) Description of the Related Art
An operational amplifier circuit is widely used for various analog operators. For example, a known prior art operational amplifier circuit comprises a differential amplifier circuit for generating an output voltage in response to a difference in potential between two input signals, a level shift circuit for shifting the output voltage of the differential amplifier circuit, and a push-pull output circuit which operates in response to the output voltages of the differential amplifier circuit and the level shift circuit (see: Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 59-156012). In this prior art circuit, however, when fluctuations occur in a power supply voltage, fluctuations of the operating point of the operational amplifier circuit, i.e., the operating point of the push-pull output circuit, occur, thus increasing the fluctuation current, the fluctuation of the unity gain frequency characteristics, the fluctuation of the DC gain characteristics, and the like, which will be later explained in detail. This large fluctuation generated by the fluctuation of the power supply voltage is not advantageous in the design of operational amplifier circuits, since the scope of a design choice thereof is reduced thereby.
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an operational amplifier circuit having a stable operating point, to thereby reduce the fluctuation of the current, the fluctuation of the unity gain frequency characteristics, the fluctuation of the DC gain characteristics, and the like.
According to the present invention, an operational amplifier circuit comprises a differential amplifier circuit for generating an output voltage in response to a difference in potential between two input signals, a level shift circuit for shifting the output voltage of the differential amplifier circuit, a push-pull output circuit which operates in response to the output voltages of the differential amplifier circuit and the level shift circuit, and a bias circuit for generating a bias voltage in response to a power supply voltage to control the level shift circuit. The output voltage of the level shift circuit is not affected fluctuations of the power supply voltage.


Those Lying Eyes

Some people labor under the misconception that we communicate most effectively on the visual plane, but your eyes will lie to you! Have you ever looked at one of those hidden image posters which were so popular in the 90’s? You could look at it for hours an see only the upper image, but if you turned your eyes to the side you could see an entirely different image. Our eyes are trained by years of experience to see what we expect them to see. This is why writers use editors to find mystakes in their typing; mistackes which are invisible to them because they expect to see certain words a certain way, and the eye does not discern the error.

This is a truth which goes much deeper than writing: it goes to the very core of everyday life. We see what we expect to see because our mind is operating in a default setting. When we become aware of our lives, I mean really aware of what we are thinking, how we are speaking, why we assume certain things, our eyes will come along for the ride too, picking up things which were always there, but invisible to us previously.

When I am listening to a speaker I often close my eyes to eliminate the distraction of their clothes, the background, what others are doing around me. In closing my eyes I can focus completely upon the message without visual distraction.

I treasure the gift my sight is to me, yet I remain conscious my eyes will lie to me if I allow my expectations to guide what I am seeing.


958 So.2d 87 (2007)
Jessie Mae BROWN
v.
TULANE MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL AND CLINIC, Dr. Raoul Rodriguez, and Dr. Malcolm W. Marks.
No. 2004-CA-0688.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
May 9, 2007.
Rehearing Denied June 20, 2007.
*88 Robert G. Harvey, Sr., New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellee.
Stewart E. Niles, Jr., Michelle A. Bourque, Niles, Bourque & Fontana, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellant.
(Court composed of Chief Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Judge PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge MICHAEL E. KIRBY).
MICHAEL E. KIRBY, Judge.
Defendant/Appellant, Raoul Rodriguez, M.D. appeals a Civil District Court Judgment of February 2, 2004 awarding the plaintiff, Ms. Jessie Mae Brown, general damages in the amount of $75,000 and medical costs associated with the injuries sustained as a result of Dr. Rodriquez's negligent follow-up care.
On September 16, 1985, the plaintiff in this matter, Ms. Jesse Mae Brown, was in a motorcycle accident that dislocated her left knee. Subsequent to the accident Ms. Brown was admitted to the emergency room at Hotel Dieu Hospital, whereupon she was evaluated and referred to Dr. Rodriguez. Following the advice she received at the Hospital, Ms. Brown sought medical treatment at Tulane Medical Center, where on September 17, 1985, Dr. Rodriguez treated her. In Dr. Rodriguez's pre-operative report he noted rotary instability of the left anteromedial knee. Ms. Brown's left knee had suffered significant structural damage to the ligament complex of the left knee joint.
Dr. Rodriguez performed surgery to repair her knee. The procedures were a left knee arthotomy, a medial and lateral meniscus repair, a repair of the tibial collateral ligament, a repair of the posterior oblique ligament, the removal of a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and an anti-lateral augmentation of the iliotibial band.
Following the surgery, Dr. Rodriguez placed Ms. Brown's leg in a fiberglass[1] cast. She was discharged from the hospital on September 21, 1985, four days after surgery. Dr. Rodriguez administered post-operative care on an out patient basis.
On October 1, 1985, the cast covering the sutures was removed and Dr. Rodriguez noted that he found a blister at the wound site on the medial part of her knee. Dr. Rodriguez treated the blister by debridement and placed a new cast on the plaintiff. On October 22, 1985 the plaintiff *89 visited with Dr. Rodriguez for another post-operative treatment. On this date Dr. Rodriguez's patient notes reflect a good post-operative course. The cast was not removed or changed on this date.
Ms. Brown then followed with her third post-operative treatment on November 5, 1985. During this treatment Dr. Rodriguez removed the cast and examined her leg. He noticed in the place of the blister an area of skin slough around the medial side of the knee. He treated the area by surgically removing the damaged tissue and advised the plaintiff to return to his office in two days.
On November 7, 1985 the plaintiff returned to Dr. Rodriguez's office for further debridement treatment. About this time she was admitted to the hospital for a skin necrosis because the skin slough remained present.
In a second surgery, Dr. Marks, a plastic surgeon, with Dr. Rodriguez's assistance, attempted to remove the necrotic tissue of the skin slough and cover the area with a skin graft. This second surgery caused additional scarring because more incisions were made. On November 12, 1985, blistering was noticed on the skin flap over the knee. Apparently the graft itself had problems and became necrotic.
On November 21, 1985, a third surgery was performed. The plaintiff underwent another treatment whereby a gastrocnemius (calf) muscle flap from the lower leg was transferred to the knee area. This was accomplished by making yet another incision around her calf muscle to move it. This use of the calf is the recommended surgical technique to help provide soft tissue coverage of exposed tendons, ligaments, and bone, in and around the knee joint. Ms. Brown was then discharged from the hospital on November 28, 1985.
Although the plaintiff does not allege any malpractice regarding the procedure she underwent immediately following the motorcycle accident injury, she does allege malpractice with her post-operative treatment. Specifically, the plaintiff contends that Dr. Rodriguez either placed the lateral and medial incisions too close, causing the death of the skin and the necessity of skin grafts; or that Dr. Rodriguez failed to follow proper protocol after noting the blister at the wound site, thereby permitting the skin to die and creating the need for the skin graft.
The plaintiff brought suit, and on February 2, 2004 the trial court ruled in her favor. Specifically, the trial court found that Dr. Rodriguez could have been more vigilant in managing the plaintiff's wound. The trial court stated that Dr. Rodriguez noticed the presence of a blister, was put on notice that the wound was not healing well, and he therefore should have periodically removed the plaintiff's cast to inspect plaintiff's wound. Plainly, the trial court found that Dr. Rodriguez should have viewed the blistered site more often than he initially did because he was put on notice that the wound was not healing normally. It was this failure, the trial court found, that led to a breach of the standard of care. The trial court awarded $75,000 in general damages to the plaintiff and reimbursement for medical expenses necessitated by Dr. Rodriguez's deviation from the standard of care.
Appellant asserts seven assignments of error. Specifically, he contends that the trial court erred because the record contains no expert testimony to support the court's conclusion that the standard of care for an orthopedic surgeon in 1985 required Dr. Rodriguez to periodically remove the plaintiff's leg cast. Also, the defendant claims that the trial court erred because the plaintiff did not provide evidence that *90 periodic removal of her leg cast would have prevented the blistering, skin slough, skin graft, and eventual scarring. Finally, the defendant asserts that the trial court erred in awarding medical expenses for cosmetic scarring that could have not been prevented, and further asserts that the award was in excess of a judgment limiting the defendant' liability to $100,000.
STANDARD OF REVIEW
In Salvant v. State, 2005-2126 (La.7/6/06), 935 So.2d 646, the Louisiana Supreme Court reiterated that the standard of review for factual findings in medical malpractice cases is the manifest error or the clearly wrong standard. In other words, in order to reverse a fact finder's determination of fact, an appellate court must review the record in its entirety and (1) find that a reasonable factual basis does not exist for the finding, and (2) further determine that the record establishes that the fact finder is clearly wrong or manifestly erroneous. Rulings on law receive de novo review. A crucial mixed question of fact and law in this case was the etiology of the necrosis, the determination of which affects the standard of care. In layman's terms, the lack of blood supply caused the necrosis, but there was conflicting testimony concerning what caused the October 1, 1985 blister initially, this in turn affected whether the blister put Dr. Rodriguez on notice as to whether there was an avascular condition.
DISCUSSION
La. R.S. 9:2794 A. The state's medical malpractice statute, in pertinent part states:
A. In a malpractice action based on the negligence of a physician licensed under R.S. 37:1261 et seq., the plaintiff shall have the burden of proving:
(1) The degree of knowledge or skill possessed or the degree of care ordinarily exercised by physicians, dentists, optometrists, or chiropractic physicians licensed to practice in the state of Louisiana and actively practicing in a similar community or locale and under similar circumstances; and where the defendant practices in a particular specialty and where the alleged acts of medical negligence raise issues peculiar to the particular medical specialty involved, then the plaintiff has the burden of proving the degree of care ordinarily practiced by physicians, dentists, optometrists, or chiropractic physicians within the involved medical specialty.
(2) That the defendant either lacked this degree of knowledge or skill or failed to use reasonable care and diligence, along with his best judgment in the application of that skill.
(3) That as a proximate result of this lack of knowledge or skill or the failure to exercise this degree of care the plaintiff suffered injuries that would not otherwise have been incurred.
To help prove these elements by a preponderance of evidence, expert testimony is used. This testimony by a medical professional helps guide the court in determining whether the physician possesses the requisite skill or knowledge or whether he exercised reasonable care or diligence. Broussard v. Andersson, XXXX-XXXX, p. 5 (La.App. 4 Cir. 11/30/05), 921 So.2d 128, 132. An absence of expert testimony that the physician breached the proper standard of care precludes a finding of liability for medical malpractice. Peters v. ABC Ins. Co., 552 So.2d 430, 434 (La.App. 4th Cir.1989).
Dr. Peter Indelicato, the plaintiff's orthopedic surgeon expert, testified by deposition that Dr. Rodriguez breached the standard of care in two ways: first, in the placement of the incisions too close together *91 during the first surgery; and second, in the post-operative treatment of Ms. Brown. The trial court rejected this first contention, and determined that Dr. Rodriguez did not deviate from the standard of care during the operation. Since the first basis mentioned has not been appealed, we will solely address the second. Dr. Indelicato's rationale for finding breach of the standard of care in Dr. Rodriguez's post-operative care was that the positioning of the incisions so close together increased the risk of necrosis occurring between them. He stated that Dr. Rodriguez should have had a heightened concern regarding the potential of complications arising because of the location of the incisions in relation to one another. He went on to state that he would have placed a window in the cast or taken some other measure to ensure easy visible access and inspection of this area. On cross examination, Dr. Indelicato admitted he could not cite any published study in medical literature that supported his contention that an incision should be four (4) to six (6) inches apart between the medial parapatellar incision and a lateral parapatellar incision.
We have thoroughly reviewed the record herein and could not find a preponderance of evidence to establish that the standard to which Dr. Indelicato testified was the standard at the time of this surgery, much less the standard for all orthopedic surgeons. Thus, the plaintiff did not meet her burden of proof on this issue and the trial court properly found the same.
Dr. Glenn Terry, one of defendant's experts, on direct examination testified that Dr. Rodriguez's September 17, 1985 incisions were to a reasonable medical probability located in accord with directives of national programs concerning placement of incisions for similar injuries. He stated that Dr. Rodriguez's post-operative care was within the prevailing standard of care at that time because his diagnosis of the genesis of the problem differed from that of Dr. Indelicato. However, on cross examination, Dr. Terry admitted that he would have changed the original cast sooner, as opposed to the length of time Dr. Rodriguez left it in place. Nevertheless, he qualified that response by stating that the ligaments do better from not changing the cast. There was no expert testimony that the prevailing standard of care requires orthopedic surgeons to fit patients such as Ms. Brown with a cast with a window to view a blistered area.
Dr. Terry stated that in his opinion the blistering and subsequent necrosis was caused not by the situs of the incisions, but rather from a neurohormonal response[2] that caused skin swelling/edema in the skin that precipitated venous insufficiency. He explained that skin swelling can cause a deprivation of the blood supply. Dr. Terry testified that he was of the opinion that the initial blister Dr. Rodriguez found was caused by swelling of the skin, akin to a shoe that is too tight thereby creating a condition in which the epidermis does not receive the blood supply it needs. Thus, he did not look askance at Dr. Rodriguez identifying the October 1, 1985 blister as a normal response and to simply treat the blister and replace the cast on Ms. Brown's leg. Dr. Terry bolstered his opinion by citing Ms. Brown's physical therapy notes, which indicated ongoing difficulty with pain when passive motion therapy was applied. He correlated this pain with an abnormal sympathetic nerve response.
Moreover, Dr. Terry testified that the consequences of not having the knee surgery done would have resulted in chronic *92 instability, a severely arthritic condition in the knee and irreversible damage to the articular cartilage. These conditions would have necessitated a fusion of the knee or a future total knee replacement. Finally, alluding to Dr. Indelicato's testimony, Dr. Terry stated he would not treat his diagnosis of Ms. Brown's condition with a window in the cast, but rather with a uniform compression under the cast.
Dr. Terry Habig, a member of the medical review panel and expert for the defense, testified extensively about the tremendous trauma, to Ms. Brown's knee sustained in the motorcycle accident. He also stated that because the knee was swollen due to the traumatic condition, the distance between Dr. Rodriguez's incisions would be most likely even wider than 6 centimeters. He stated that a culture taken on November 19, 1985, revealed that the patient had staph epidermis, but was otherwise negative for any anaerobic or aerobic bacteria. This he said was normal, as he explained that while a staph is a contaminant he would not consider it an infection.
Plaintiff presented witnesses who testified to a foul odor emitting from the cast. This alleged condition was not memorialized in any of Dr. Rodriguez's notes. The trial court placed great weight on this testimony in finding that the post-operative care left much to be desired of uncharacteristic odors. However, there was no testimony that the plaintiff's outcome would have been any different had the slough been discovered any sooner as a result of the alleged odor. She still would have needed the same treatments.
Because of the lack of expert testimony showing by a preponderance of the evidence that Dr. Rodriguez deviated from the standard of care provided to Ms. Brown in the post-operative treatment, we find the trial court erred in its determination that Dr. Rodriguez breached the standard of care in his post operative treatment of plaintiff.
Additionally, appellant asserts that the plaintiff failed to provide evidence that periodic removal of the leg cast would have prevented the blistering from occurring. A physician's duty is to exercise the degree of skill ordinarily possessed by his professional peers. Soteropulos v. Schmidt, 556 So.2d 276, 277 (La.App. 4th Cir.1990). Further, the mere fact that an injury occurred, specifically the blistering on Ms. Brown's leg, raises no presumption or inference of negligence. Galloway v. Baton Rouge General Hosp., 602 So.2d 1003, 1008 (La.1992). Although the trial court states that Dr. Rodriguez should have been more vigilant in caring for the blistered area, specifically by removing the cast more frequently, there was no preponderance of evidence provided by the plaintiff that this would have prevented the blistering and skin injury.
In order to find that Dr. Rodriguez failed to prevent the blistering because he was not more vigilant in his post-operative care of Ms. Brown, the plaintiff must have submitted evidence or testimony of his alleged deviation and the causation of this deviation. La.R.S. 9:2794 A. Our review of the record reveals a lack of evidence and testimony proving that more vigilant care could have prevented the blistering from occurring. Stated another way, there was testimony that there were alternative causes of the skin slough and necrosis. These alternative causes, such as venous insufficiency, could have been related to the initial trauma suffered as opposed to the surgery. For these factual and medical reasons, it was not appropriate to apply the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.
We find that the trial court erred in finding that Dr. Rodriguez was guilty of *93 malpractice because he should have been more vigilant in his post-operative treatment of Ms. Brown. The preponderance of the evidence in the record is in favor of the cause being an abnormal sympathetic nerve response that led to venous insufficiency. Since there was not sufficient testimony or evidence provided that Dr. Rodriguez failed to use reasonable care in his post-operative treatment of the plaintiff, and that his failure led to subsequent skin injuries, we reverse the ruling of the trial court.
Finally, the defendant asserts the trial court erred in its award of damages; however, because of the plaintiff's failure to provide adequate evidence to support the medical malpractice claim any issue regarding the alleged award is moot.
CONCLUSION
For the aforementioned reasons, we reverse the judgment of the trial court and render judgment in favor of the defendant dismissing plaintiff's suit at her cost.
REVERSED.
NOTES
[1]  We note that both defense experts stated different casts were placed. Dr. Terry stated a fiberglass cast was used while Dr. Habig stated a plaster cast was used.
[2]  Dr. Terry defined a neurohormonal response as one in which the injury creates a trangidate of juice that is inflammatory and incites a healing response.


Content Addressable Memories (CAMs) are memories in which data is selected based on its contents, rather than its physical location. This function is useful for many applications, especially when performing a look-up for the purposes of mapping from a long identification word to a shorter word. This operation is required in many telecom functions, including Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) address translation.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,289,403 granted to J. D. Yetter discloses a technique of providing self-timing to a CAM, using a model column and model row. The bit at the intersection of the model column and model row always misses, while all other cells in that row always match, and this generates the slowest possible mismatch condition on the model match line. This signal is then used to generate a clock for timing of subsequent events, and for qualifying all other match lines. Word-sliced architectures, control signal generation, and power-up issues are not addressed.
A paper by A. L. Silburt et al. entitled "A 180-MHz 0.8-um BiCMOS Modular Memory Family of DRAM and Multiport SRAM", IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 222-232, March 1993, describes modular embedded memory designs which employ model self-timing paths to achieve low power and duty cycle independence. These model paths comprise model decoders, model rows and model columns. CAMs are not addressed in the paper.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,596,539 granted to R. H. Passow et al. discloses a mechanism similar to that in A. L. Silburt et al., employing a model row and a model column. The model sense amplifier is unbalanced to provide additional timing margin. Again, CAMs are not addressed.
A paper by S. Kornachuk et al. entitled "A High Speed Embedded Cache Design with Non-Intrusive BIST", Records IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design and Testing, pp. 40-45, August 1994, describes a self-timing path for a combined CAM/RAM cache, comprising a model word which always misses in the slowest possible way. Word-sliced architectures, control signal generation, and power-up issues are not addressed.


function anchor_box = prepare_anchor_box( param )
    scale = (param.max_target / param.min_target)^(1/(param.anchor_scale*2));
    length = param.min_target * scale.^(1:2:2*param.anchor_scale);
    anchor_box = [-(length-1)'/2, -(length-1)'/2, (length-1)'/2, (length-1)'/2];
    if param.multishape_anchor
        slength = length / sqrt(2);
        llength = length * sqrt(2);
        anchor_box_fat = [-(llength-1)'/2, -(slength-1)'/2, (llength-1)'/2, (slength-1)'/2];
        anchor_box_thin = [-(slength-1)'/2, -(llength-1)'/2, (slength-1)'/2, (llength-1)'/2];
        anchor_box = cat(1, anchor_box, anchor_box_fat, anchor_box_thin);
    end
end


Q:

Disabling autocomplete for textbox within ModalpopupExtender

I have a modalpopupextender to add new users in an application. The extender has username and password textboxes. I do not want these textboxes to be autopopulated by values as these are suppose to be new values not the old used ones. I tried setting:
<asp:TextBox ID="userNameTextBox" runat="server" AutoCompleteType="None">

and also Disable but nothing works.
What am I missing? How can I do it?

A:

Try this as your code :
asp:TextBox Runat="server" ID="Textbox1" autocomplete="off">
you can also check this link autocomplete off link


/*
 *                         Vortex OpenSplice
 *
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 *   reserved.
 *
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 *   2014 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 *   the License.
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 *   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 *   limitations under the License.
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 */

/** \file os/qnx/code/os_signal.c
 *  \brief Signal Handling
 *
 * Implements signal handling
 */

#include "../common/code/os_signal.c"