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05-14-2019, 09:38 PM #1APC Back-UPS 650 Won't Restart After Power Is Restored
My APC Back-UPS 650 works fine in short outages. But, if there is a long outage which causes the Back-UPS to shut down it won't restart when the power is restored. This makes it pretty useless if the power goes out while I'm away from home.
Here I'm quoting from the APC page: Will my APC Back-UPS Automatically restart following the return of utility power?
"When adequate power is restored to the UPS (and is within the operating voltage range of the UPS) it will restart in online operation."
According to the page, the information applies to: "All APC Back-UPS"
But, it doesn't work with my Back-UPS 650. After an extended outage I have to manually turn it back on. When I got home yesterday to find the UPS turned off I checked the voltage at the transformer that supplies my neighborhood. It was 240 (I live in Thailand) which ought to be enough to start the UPS. It was certainly enough to run the fridge and a couple of air conditioners.
I have written to APC support, but have yet to receive a reply.
What am I missing here?
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I'm wondering if the condition of the UPS battery is such that it's preventing a restart after long outages? It certainly sounds like that might be the problem since the unit works okay during short outages. Is there any way you can test the battery?
The last APC UPS that I had needed a replacement battery after 2 years which I thought was rather short lived. The newer APC UPS that I currently have is doing much better as far as battery life goes.
My current APC unit is a model 700.
Good point. Puzzled though as to how the battery would keep the UPS from starting.
Battery life during an outage is actually quite good. It keeps my 17 inch iMac, assorted hard drives, Apple router, Raspberry Pi and optical "modem" going for between 20 and 30 minutes. I wouldn't expect a bad battery to be that lively.
According to the manual, the battery is supposed to last three to five years. I received this UPS in December of 2017, so not even 18 months. Even with reduced life due to the hot environment it should be good to go; especially since it has had very few recharge cycles.
Hmm. I see it has a two year warranty which should still apply….
I never heard back from APC via email so I decided to "chat". It was not a fulfilling experience.
I gave the guy the case number right away. It took him ten minutes to find it. Shouldn't be something like: copy the case # from the chat window and paste into the case management system? Oh, well. I guess my expectations are always too high.
Here's how the chat went:
Ross (5/16/2019, 5:57:09 AM): Actually our backups units, does not automatically turn on, in battery power, but it will automatically charge the battery.Me (5/16/2019, 5:57:32 AM): The manual says that it will automatically turn on.Ross (5/16/2019, 5:58:04 AM): I apologize for the confusion. You can check out this link for more info: Will my APC Back-UPS Automatically restart following the return of utility power?Me (5/16/2019, 6:01:08 AM): Here's what it says: "When adequate power is restored to the UPS (and is within the operating voltage range of the UPS) it will restart in online operation."
Me (5/16/2019, 6:01:18 AM): It says right there that it will restart.Ross (5/16/2019, 6:02:29 AM): It means it will restart if there is already adequate charge in the battery. In the event that the battery was completely drained it will not restart until the battery has an adequate chargeMe (5/16/2019, 6:03:42 AM): OK. So, the power at my house was off for less than an hour. 24 hours later the unit still had not restarted. Isn't 24 hours enough time to charge the battery?
Me (5/16/2019, 6:05:15 AM): As soon as I manually turned it on it resumed normal operation. So, it seems that even with an adequate battery charge it doesn't "restart".Ross (5/16/2019, 6:05:34 AM): Ok let me just get clarification on this
I never heard from him.
But, it astounds me that APC would design a small UPS like this that doesn't turn back on after power is restored.
That means that if there is an outage long enough to deplete the battery, none of my stuff will be ON until I get back home. That means no remote login, none of my HomeKit security devices will work, the lights won't turn on at night, my WebCam won't work, etc.
I mean, really, what use is an UPS that works like this?
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I completely agree with you. My APC 700 is likely not going to last much longer and I have been shopping around for a newer unit. I intend to stay away from APC UPS units after the last two that I have owned were disappointing.
I'll keep up with this thread with what I've come up with. B&H Camera and Photo (a large NY supplier) had a sale on some CyberPower units not too long ago. At the time, I hadn't thought about buying a newer unit.
Here's a listing of recommended UPS units. I notice that an APC unit is first on the list.
The 7 Best Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS) of 2019
Thanks for that. The only brands on that list that seem to be available here are APC and CyberPower, of which many are available. The 480 watt CyberPower is about US$45. Not bad. And it says: "Auto-Restart/Auto-Charge"
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I know old ish thread but I have a back ups ES550 UK. Does the same thing, I think my battery is perhaps a little old but runs OK for many minutes.
Loss of power PC auto shuts down after 1 min. As soon at the PC shuts down the UPS has continuous shrill, beep.
There is still power to the other sockets from the battery as I have my modem on this.
I restore power straight away & nothing on UPS, no leds or power) apart from the very annoying loud screetching beep.
Press power on, beep stops & PC powers up automatically.
Power chute says I have 22 minutes left so quite a bit of battery (although does say 40 minute before power off so not quite right.)
Anyway, Is crazy as I was away yesterday, power cut for 2 minutes only but PC off all day & no communications with house as I think UPS did turn off completely as modem stopped also, I guess used up remaining power.
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It sounds like you're in the market for a new UPS. You might want to check Amazon UK for prices and perhaps other stores known best to you. Around here in my area when we get severe thunderstorms I don't depend on my UPS. I just shut everything down and remove them from the power sockets. I've experienced a close lightning strike before that took out a lot of my equipment. Expensive lesson.
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Quite a large number of parents are relieved once their children enter secondary schools; they completed a mission impossible and they think they are free for the next five to six years. Or are they? Their children definitely feel the joy and pain their parents' experience, and more often than not, they are willing to play along. So once children enter a school of the parents' choice, the children's mindset will go on vacation, just like their parents will.
If parents heave a collective sigh of relief, rest assured that the children will do the same because "they work hard in primary six for you [the parents]". So when a task is completed to the parents' satisfaction, then everyone's mind goes on holiday. The result is, the honeymoon months in Form 1 become Halloween Haunted House experience, that students cannot cope with the changes in the secondary school, and put much pressure on themselves because of the maladjustment.
Changes are natural, difficult learning items in secondary school are expected. I constantly tell parents that the lessons in Form 1 are three times harder than those in primary 6, and those in Form 2 are three times harder than those in Form 1. And they should, because knowledge is spiral up with new input, rather than repeating the same items one has learned in primary school. If everything is easy, students need no secondary school curriculum.
I cannot pretend that lessons are not hard, and students won't face challenges in school. They will, and they will feel down when they cannot overcome challenges temporarily. But it is our duty, parents' and teachers', to prepare their children well by telling them that they will face failure, but they should learn from failure and mistakes and move on to become stronger and better people. This cycle will continue for next six years, and hard work pays off in one's improvement. Learn to advance, learn to fail, learn to correct, and succeed.
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Predicting the Long-Term Effects of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy on Mortality From Baseline Variables and the Early ResponseA Report From the CARE-HF (Cardiac Resynchronization in Heart Failure) Trial
Author + information
- Received December 28, 2007
- Revision received March 6, 2008
- Accepted April 3, 2008
- Published online August 5, 2008.
Author Information
- John Cleland, MD, FRCP, FACC⁎,⁎ (j.g.cleland{at}hull.ac.uk),
- Nick Freemantle, PhD†,
- Stefano Ghio, MD‡,
- Friedrich Fruhwald, MD§,
- Aparna Shankar, PhD†,
- Monique Marijanowski, PhD∥,
- Yves Verboven∥ and
- Luigi Tavazzi, MD, FESC‡
- ↵⁎Reprint requests and correspondence:
Dr. John G. F. Cleland, Department of Cardiology, University of Hull, Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Cottingham, Kingston upon Hull, HU16 5JQ United Kingdom.
Objectives This study was designed to investigate whether selected baseline variables and early response markers predict the effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) on long-term mortality.
Background Cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces long-term morbidity and mortality in patients with moderate or severe heart failure and markers of cardiac dyssynchrony, but not all patients respond to a similar extent.
Methods In the CARE-HF (Cardiac Resynchronization in Heart Failure) study, 813 patients with heart failure and markers of cardiac dyssynchrony were randomly assigned to receive or not receive CRT in addition to pharmacological treatment and were followed for a median of 37.6 months. A model including assigned treatment, 15 pre-specified baseline variables, and 8 markers of response at 3 months was constructed to predict all-cause mortality.
Results On multivariable analysis, plasma concentration of amino terminal pro–brain natriuretic peptide (univariate and multivariable model chi-square test: 105.0 and 48.4; both p < 0.0001) and severity of mitral regurgitation (chi-square test: 44.0 and 17.9; both p < 0.0001) at 3 months, regardless of assigned treatment, were the strongest predictors of mortality. Ischemic heart disease as the cause of ventricular dysfunction (chi-square test: 34.9 and 7.4; p < 0.0001 and p = 0.0066), being in New York Heart Association functional class IV (chi-square test: 18.8 and 9.6; p < 0.0001 and p = 0.0020), or having less interventricular mechanical delay (chi-square test: 29.8 and 8.8; p < 0.0001 and p = 0.0029) at baseline all predicted a worse outcome. However, the reduction in mortality in patients assigned to CRT was similar before (hazard ratio: 0.602; 95% confidence interval: 0.468 to 0.774) and after (hazard ratio: 0.679; 95% confidence interval: 0.494 to 0.914) adjustment for variables measured at baseline and at 3 months.
Conclusions Patients who have more severe mitral regurgitation or persistently elevated amino terminal pro–brain natriuretic peptide despite treatment for heart failure, including CRT, have a higher mortality. However, patients assigned to CRT had a lower mortality even after adjusting for variables measured before and 3 months after intervention. The effect of CRT on mortality cannot be usefully predicted using such information. (CARE-HF CArdiac Resynchronization in Heart Failure; NCT00170300)
In patients with moderate or severe heart failure due to left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction and QRS prolongation on the surface electrocardiogram, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves heart function, symptoms, quality of life, and prognosis (1–4). The clinical response to CRT is variable, with a continuous spectrum ranging from dramatic to disappointing (5), and, so far, its prediction from baseline variables has met with limited success. A series of small observational trials has suggested that cardiac dyssynchrony measured by a variety of echocardiographic techniques might predict the response to CRT (5). For example, Penicka et al. (6) studied 49 patients and concluded that echocardiographic measures of both intra- and interventricular dyssynchrony predicted improvement in ventricular function at 6 months. In a study of 54 patients, Yu et al. (7) reported that tissue Doppler imaging predicted improvement in ventricular function at 6 months. Similarly, Bax et al. (8) studied 80 patients who received CRT using tissue Doppler imaging and reported that the risk of death or hospitalization with heart failure at 1 year was only 6% in the 49 patients with intraventricular dyssynchrony >65 ms but 50% in those with less marked dyssynchrony. This could reflect an intrinsically better prognosis in patients with dyssynchrony or a treatment effect. It is not clear whether the use of short-term improvements in ventricular function as a surrogate measure of long-term clinical response is appropriate, and the few attempts using data from randomized controlled trials have, so far, been unable to corroborate these findings, although the techniques used might now be considered outmoded (9). Recently, a large prospective, observational study (PROSPECT [Predictors of Response to CRT] trial) was unable to find clinically useful predictors of the response to CRT over 6 months in terms of clinical status or improvement in LV function (10).
The complex and varied reasons for failure to respond to CRT may be the reason that no robust pre-implantation marker of therapeutic response to CRT has yet been found. Patient factors may include the severity and type of dyssynchrony, the extent and location of myocardial scarring, and the severity of and reasons for mitral regurgitation (5,11). It is also likely that dyssynchrony may develop, and perhaps disappear, as ventricular dysfunction progresses. The success of CRT will also depend on the technical success of lead positioning and device programming. An alternative approach to try to assess the role of dyssynchrony in determining the long-term response to CRT is to investigate whether the initial response to therapy predicts long-term outcome, because this simultaneously tests both the patient substrate and the adequacy of implementation of CRT. For example, Yu et al. (12) noted that changes in ventricular function 3 to 6 months after implantation but not changes in symptoms predicted long-term survival in an observational study of 141 patients. Kubanek et al. (13) noted that change in natriuretic peptides at 3 months predicted clinical improvement at 1 year in a study of 43 patients. However, responses to concomitant pharmacological treatment, the existence of comorbid conditions, intercurrent events, and "placebo" effects will be important additional determinants of the apparent clinical response to CRT in observational trials.
An observational study can address the question of whether a patient who receives CRT will do well or not, but cannot tell whether the intervention changed the course of the disease because it lacks a control group. Randomized trials are required to prove whether an intervention alters the natural history of disease. A patient who dies 1 year after receiving CRT might be considered to have had an excellent response if similar patients in the control group die within a few weeks. Similarly, some patients who appear to respond very well to CRT might do just as well without it.
Clearly, CRT reduces long-term mortality. However, if the effects of CRT on mortality can be explained by either baseline measures of dyssynchrony and/or the initial response to therapy, then being randomized to CRT should no longer be associated with reduced mortality after adjustment for these factors. Accordingly, we undertook an analysis to identify whether baseline variables and the early response to CRT could explain its effects on long-term mortality in the CARE-HF (Cardiac Resynchronization in Heart Failure) trial.
The CARE-HF trial was a multicenter, international, randomized trial that compared the effect of implanting or not implanting a CRT device in patients with moderate or severe symptoms of heart failure despite treatment with loop diuretics, a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <35%, and markers of cardiac dyssynchrony, in sinus rhythm and receiving standard pharmacologic therapy, generally including angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, beta-blockers, and, for more severe cases, spironolactone. CRT-only devices without a defibrillator function were used. A QRS duration ≥120 ms was used as a marker of cardiac dyssynchrony, but patients with QRS durations of 120 to 149 ms required at least 2 additional echocardiographic markers of dyssynchrony: an aortic pre-ejection delay >140 ms, an interventricular mechanical delay >40 ms, or delayed activation of the posterolateral LV wall. Patients and investigators were not blinded to treatment allocation, because the control group did not receive a device. Further details of the design, inclusion criteria, baseline clinical and echocardiographic characteristics, and the main results have been published elsewhere (2,3,14).
The steering committee designed the trial. Medtronic Bakken Research Center funded the trial and helped to implement it. The sponsor had no access to the database and did not participate in the analysis. All statistical analyses were performed by 1 of the authors (N.F.).
The study was approved by the local ethics committee of each participating institution and by appropriate national ethics committees. All patients provided written informed consent.
Implant procedure and device programming
Multiple attempts at device implantation were permitted. Device implantation, predominantly of the InSync III Model 8042 (Medtronic, Maastricht, the Netherlands), was successful on the first attempt in 349 patients (85%), on the second in 34 (8%), and on the third in 7 (2%). Finally, 390 of 409 patients (95%) had a system implanted and activated. Left ventricular leads were from the Attain product line (Medtronic). Standard bipolar right atrial and ventricular leads were used. Investigators were requested to try to pace the lateral or posterolateral LV wall via a lateral coronary vein and to pace the right ventricle at the site with the longest delay from LV stimulation to right ventricular detection, which is usually near the apical septum. Echocardiography was used to identify the end of atrial systole from the mitral Doppler signal, which was considered the optimal atrioventricular delay. Interventricular delay was set at 0. Further details on device programming and optimization of CRT programming are reported elsewhere (15).
Follow-up and core laboratories
Baseline clinical data, electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, and bloods for assessment of renal function and amino terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) were collected on the day of randomization. Key information was sent to an independent randomization center prior to assigning patients to the CRT or control group. Device implantation was planned to occur within 5 days of randomization. Patients were reviewed prior to discharge, at 1 month, at 3 months, every 3 months for the first year, and then every 6 months. Detailed assessments, as at baseline, were repeated at 3 months.
Baseline and follow-up echocardiograms were sent to the core echocardiographic laboratory for analysis including LV end-systolic and -diastolic volumes, LVEF, and mitral regurgitation (16). Baseline and follow-up electrocardiograms were sent to a core therapy-delivery laboratory. Serum creatinine was measured locally. Plasma was stored at −70°C until the end of the study and then sent to the core neuroendocrine laboratory.
Predictive model
The statistical analysis plan of CARE-HF drawn up before study closure specified 15 variables that would be used as covariates in a prognostic model to predict overall patient outcome and factors that influenced the clinical effects of CRT. These included age, gender, New York Heart Association functional class, etiology of LV dysfunction, use of beta-blockers, systolic blood pressure,* QRS duration,* interventricular mechanical delay (IVMD),* severity of mitral regurgitation (MR),* left ventricular end-systolic volume index (LVESVI),* LVEF,* glomerular filtration rate,* furosemide dose >80 mg/day, NT-proBNP,* and body mass index, with allocation to the CRT or the control group as a 16th variable. For this analysis, we tested whether variables suggesting a response to CRT between baseline and 3 months (marked with *) improved the prognostic accuracy of the model compared with one using baseline characteristics only. Information on diuretic dose was not collected at 3 months. Where data were missing at 3 months, baseline data was substituted for the predicted 3-month values when measured to avoid confounding because of selective loss of information due to death or marked deterioration in patients' status. This preserved the integrity of randomization and the intention-to-treat principle while including the effects of treatment at 3 months in the model in those subjects still at risk at that time. All-cause mortality was chosen as the outcome of interest for this analysis as a robust objective marker of treatment effect. This approach tests the extent to which baseline characteristics and short-term response to CRT, presumably reflecting the amount of dyssynchrony at baseline and the extent to which it was corrected by treatment, as well as any concomitant adjustment of other therapies predicts outcome. In this model, if being assigned to CRT remains a strong predictor of a better prognosis, it implies that much of the benefit of CRT cannot be explained by dyssynchrony or its correction, at least as measured prior to or shortly after implantation.
Baseline characteristics were described using frequency or median and interquartile range, as appropriate. Differences at baseline between randomized groups were described using the Fisher exact test or Kruskal-Wallis test for frequency counts or continuous variables. Univariate and multivariate analyses predicting all-cause mortality were developed using Cox constant proportional hazards models, including time-dependent covariates as described. Proportional hazards models were compared (baseline-only and time-dependent covariate) using Akaike information criterion, and parsimonious models were preferred unless more complex forms (e.g., those with time-dependent covariates) added to the model fit. A forward stepwise approach with entry to the model set at p = 0.1 and the criterion for remaining in the model set at p = 0.05. All analyses were conducted using SAS 9.1 (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina).
A total of 813 patients were randomly assigned to receive or not receive a CRT device, and 721 were enrolled based on a QRS duration >150 ms alone. By 3 months, 15 patients assigned to the control group and 12 patients assigned to CRT had died. Those assigned to CRT had a greater reduction in QRS, IVMD, LVESVI, MR, and NT-proBNP (logarithmic values) and a greater increase in systolic blood pressure and LVEF compared with the control group, but changes in glomerular filtration rate were similar (Tables 1 and 2).⇓⇓
During a median follow-up of 37.6 (range 26.1 to 52.6) months, 154 patients assigned to the control group and 101 assigned to CRT died. Univariate analysis demonstrated that most of the 15 baseline variables, with the exception of gender, QRS duration, and body mass index, predicted survival (Table 3).Greater IVMD at baseline predicted a better outcome. The relationship between prognosis and values at 3 months for ESVI, LVEF, MR, and NT-proBNP, regardless of treatment assignment, were stronger, and IVMD weaker, compared with baseline values. In the multivariable model, baseline variables that independently predicted shorter survival were ischemic heart disease (p = 0.0066) (Fig. 1), less severe IVMD (p = 0.0029) (Fig. 2), and more severe New York Heart Association functional class (p = 0.0020) (Table 4,Fig. 3). Further independent prognostic information was provided by NT-proBNP (p < 0.0001) (Fig. 4) and severity of MR (p < 0.0001) (Fig. 5) measured at 3 months. Indeed, NT-proBNP measured at 3 months was the most powerful prognostic marker (Table 4). As models may be affected by extreme values, we repeated analyses after removing the 5% of patients with the highest and lowest levels of NT-proBNP. This did not substantially change the result, and neither did rerunning the statistical models without using the last observation carried forward approach for missing data among eligible patients at 3 months.
The unadjusted hazard ratio for mortality in patients assigned to CRT was 0.60 (95% confidence interval: 0.47 to 0.77, p < 0.0001). The hazard ratio after adjusting for variables measured both at baseline and at 3 months (0.67, 95% confidence interval: 0.49 to 0.91; p = 0.0113) was similar (Fig. 6). Removing allocation to CRT or control from the model reduced the goodness of fit.
This analysis demonstrates that MR and NT-proBNP measured 3 months after intervention were powerful independent predictors of long-term survival in the CARE-HF study. Patients assigned to CRT were more likely to have an improvement in MR and a reduction in NT-proBNP (13), which suggests that these factors may predict or mediate some of the long-term response to this therapy (5,17,18). However, the effect of CRT on long-term mortality persisted despite adjustment for these and other variables measured either at baseline or soon after intervention. Either the study failed to capture some aspects of the early benefit of CRT or the long-term clinical effects of CRT cannot be accurately predicted from either baseline measures or the short-term response. These data support the observation that patients who improve their cardiac function after receiving CRT have a better prognosis (12) but, at the same time, indicate that this is the mechanism of a relatively small proportion of the effect of CRT on long-term mortality. Accordingly, an improvement in cardiac function after implanting a CRT device is a welcome sign but an unreliable surrogate for long-term response.
One possible explanation for our findings is that cardiac dyssynchrony is a much more dynamic phenomenon than is currently appreciated. The QRS width increases during long-term follow-up (19), but the incidence of dyssynchrony, as opposed to its prevalence, has not been reported. Dyssynchrony may have been absent at baseline but developed during follow-up as part of the disease process and may have resolved in some patients who had it at baseline. Dyssynchrony may be absent at rest but present during exercise or cardiac stress (20,21). As there is great uncertainty about how, under what physiological conditions, and how often dyssynchrony should be measured, the concept of measuring dyssynchrony to predict the response to CRT may be either too complex for widespread clinical use or futile.
Among markers of ventricular dysfunction, only NT-proBNP retained independent prognostic value, perhaps because it is a more comprehensive single measure of cardiac function or because it also reflects renal function, another powerful prognostic factor in patients with heart failure (22). Indeed, in the CARE-HF trial, the main determinants of NT-proBNP were age, glomerular filtration rate, LVEF, MR, and, at 3 months, randomization to CRT (23). Despite the relationship between MR and NT-proBNP, each retained independent prognostic value in the multivariable model, suggesting that the circulatory stress due to MR is not wholly reflected by plasma concentrations of NT-proBNP. On univariate analysis, LVEF and ESVI measured at baseline predicted mortality but values measured at 3 months were much stronger, implying that improvement in echocardiographic ventricular function, which is more likely to occur in patients receiving effective CRT, indicates that a patient is likely to have a better outcome. However, improved echocardiographic ventricular function was not an independent predictor of outcome. This is a complex problem. Disease etiology is an important determinant of the improvement in ventricular function with CRT and also of the severity of IVMD but not of the effects of CRT on survival (2,24).
The QRS duration has been used as a marker of ventricular dyssynchrony and has predicted a worse prognosis in epidemiological studies and clinical trials of heart failure (19,25). This has been interpreted as evidence that cardiac dyssynchrony predicts an adverse outcome in patients with heart failure, but this has not yet been substantiated by imaging studies. The QRS duration is also a marker of the severity of ventricular dysfunction (26). The inability of QRS duration to predict mortality in this study could reflect the inclusion only of patients who had a prolonged QRS.
Patients with a longer interventricular mechanical delay measured by echocardiography had a better prognosis. This may reflect a poor prognosis among patients with severe right ventricular dysfunction that led to a similar delay in the time to pulmonary and aortic ejection. On the other hand, greater delay in aortic compared with pulmonary ejection, reflecting greater left intraventricular dyssynchrony and inefficiency, might be associated with a better prognosis for several reasons. In a synchronous ventricle, global LVEF will represent the sum of segmental myocardial contraction, but in a dyssynchronous ventricle, global ejection fraction will be an underestimate of total contractile function. The reason for the abrupt early increase in LVEF with CRT is presumably due to correction of dyssynchrony, which reveals the patient's true underlying global contractile function. Dyssynchrony also reflects dysfunctional but viable myocardium, which may be more likely to respond to treatment such as beta-blockers (27) and CRT (28). The widely held view that patients with extensive dyssynchrony have an intrinsically worse prognosis needs to be examined in other datasets. A previous analysis of the CARE-HF trial showed that patients with more marked IVMD had a slightly greater response to CRT, in terms of death or hospitalization for a major cardiovascular event, but that patients with less marked IVMD still benefited (29). Other randomized controlled trials have either failed to show that baseline measures of ventricular dyssynchrony predict benefit with CRT or showed results similar to ours (9,30). It is possible that more advanced imaging techniques, including tissue Doppler imaging (5,17) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (11), will be able to predict the response of patients to CRT, but analysis of data from the CARE-HF trial suggests that observational studies should generally be interpreted with caution. Dyssynchrony and CRT may both be associated with a better outcome and therefore observational trials may be unable to distinguish between the effects of disease and of treatment. Recently, the PROSPECT study failed to predict improvement in clinical status or LV function, even when sophisticated echocardiographic techniques, including tissue Doppler imaging, were used (10). It is also possible that the relationships among outcome, the highly variable patients, and myocardial substrate and the varied response to CRT of cardiac function, dyssynchrony, MR, and neuroendocrine activation are too complex to be explained by our statistical model, which may not have included important unmeasured variables. However, if this is the case, it is also unlikely that any simple clinical measure will be adequate to predict response.
Among patients assigned to a CRT device in the CARE-HF trial, those who had persistent moderate or severe MR and/or persistently elevated NT-proBNP at 3 months did less well than other patients and might be considered for additional interventions. A review of the programming of the timing of atrioventricular or interventricular stimulation is the quickest, simplest, and least expensive first option (31). A review of pharmacological therapy may identify suboptimal use of diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, beta-blockers, aldosterone antagonists, and/or angiotensin receptor blockers or that agents such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have not been withdrawn. For patients who remain severely symptomatic despite such measures, palliative care or advanced interventions such as an LV assist device or heart transplantation might be considered. Whether mitral valve surgery should be considered in patients with persistent moderate-to-severe MR is controversial (32).
The CARE-HF trial enrolled only 92 patients (11%) based on a QRS width of 120 to 149 ms, and these patients had to have 2 or more echocardiographic measures of dyssynchrony. Applying the overall analysis to this subgroup should be done with caution because of the additional dyssynchrony inclusion criteria and because there were few patients or events in this subgroup. This analysis cannot draw any conclusions about the effects of CRT in patients with QRS <150 ms who did not have markers of dyssynchrony.
A combination of baseline variables and measures of the early response to therapy predicted the overall long-term mortality of patients enrolled in the CARE-HF trial, regardless of assigned treatment. However, the reduction in long-term mortality by CRT was poorly explained by baseline measures of cardiac dyssynchrony or the short-term response to biventricular pacing. These data suggest that patients should be selected for atriobiventricular pacing using the entry criteria of successful randomized controlled trials. It is not clear that identification of dyssynchrony on a resting echocardiogram is an appropriate way to choose patients for CRT, especially if their QRS is >150 ms.
Drs. Cleland, Tavazzi, and Fruhwald received from Medtronic a research grant, speakers' honoraria, and payment for serving on the advisory committee. Dr. Freemantle received a research grant and speaker's honoraria from Medtronic.
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- end-systolic volume index
- interventricular mechanical delay
- left ventricle/ventricular
- left ventricular ejection fraction
- mitral regurgitation
- NT-proBNP
- amino terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide
- Received December 28, 2007.
- Revision received March 6, 2008.
- Accepted April 3, 2008.
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So if you have a use case where you want to fire an event almost instantly in that case you'd want to have your event firing code as close to the device as possible. But if you have a use case where you just expect values to be updated in Mashup as fast as possible you can use what Ankit has mentioned or via the auto refresh widget on the mashup. Though if you are refreshing every few seconds and if Mashup contains loads of widget which need to be updated you're likely to be observing performance issues with it.
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In this Market Hero review, I will show some email marketing secrets which are so great, you'll want to crawl buck-naked across broken glass simply to locate them. Outitgoes Autoresponder
But first, I wish to say"thank you" to Alex Becker, the founder of Market Hero.
I started watching Alex Becker's YouTube movies back in 2016. He taught me how to conduct a Shopify shop, and a bunch of things online marketing, regarding entrepreneurship.
It was right around that time that Alex released his book, The 10 Pillars of Household: Mind-Sets of The World's Richest People. I got that book as soon as I saw it and I jumped to highlight it and mark it up using notes. In reality, I could go re-read it.
Actually, Market Hero isn't even his sole multi-million dollar business. He founded the SEO software development company Source Wave and he's running a nutritional supplement brand. He got a couple of classes out there from the marketplace teaching people how to increase their email lists and market more on Shopify.
The dude is a vending machine. My hat's off to you, Alex.
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What Is Market Hero?
Anyway, Market Hero is among the best email Since it focuses on in-depth revenue metrics autoresponders available on the market nowadays and it's so much better than its competitors.
I have used a lot of email autoresponder software over the years, including MadMimi and Drip. Drip has been my favorite up until I started using Market Hero. Drip allows you to do lots of cool stuff, like monitor your open rates and tag your subscribers.
But if you are anything like me, as you take care of open prices and click-through rates, what matters is SALES. Earnings are the lifeblood of your business and earnings is what places hard cash into your pocket. Market Hero helps you track sales, plain and simple.
Market Hero Support
While I did not have to use Market Hero service that They return to me, since everything is quite self-explanatory, the couple times that I did reach them out. Outitgoes Autoresponder
The support isn't amazing to the point where they provide you with detailed step-by-step videos and also hold your hand through each step of the way, but it is not terrible. Besides, if you want that level of hand-holding and coddling, perhaps Market Hero is not for you.
Market Hero has English-speaking support staff available to respond to your queries through live chat for free. You do not need to be a part of any exceptional plan or package that is upgraded to possess priority support, like some unscrupulous firms do. You simply log in and begin chatting.
Can Market Hero Really 4X Your Enterprise?
On Market Hero's homepage You will see says,"4X Your Email Business With Unequaled Delivery and Sales Metrics". This immediately set off my B.S. detector because I know how difficult it is to 4X an email sequence, particularly if you're any good at everything you're doing.
But Market Hero provides a free trial so I figured I would sign up and see whether it was any good. I figured I just require a little increase in earnings for Market Hero to pay for itself and if it did 4X my enterprise, I'd be flying high.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure I really do want to tell you Market Hero has NOT improved my earnings 4X (yet), but I am gaining more earnings than before and Market Hero IS paying for itself. Quite easily, in fact. I had my own game tight and was doing well, so I knew a 4X increase could be rough.
But if you are brand new to email marketing or in case you have a smaller online business, Market Hero could very likely 4X your sales. Here's how:
It monitors your customers' lifetime value.
I know I already mentioned this, but the secret to Market Hero is how it retains your customers' lifetime value (LTV) facing you constantly and it changes as you send out emails and tweak your own autoresponder. As soon as you understand your customer worth, you can literally"buy" customers. What Market Hero does is actively track every sale and every conversion for every single lead on your listing. It averages together everything and gives you the stats you need to grow your organization.
If you're to do this manually, you'd most likely have to go through different softwares, various spreadsheets, and return through your prior earnings. You would need to crunch on a great deal of numbers that you don't have anymore. Market Hero simplifies this issue better than anyone else available on the industry.
You can segment using tags.
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I understand that you're probably thinking,"Tags? Okay… big thing." But the way that Market Hero lets you use tags is better. Here's why…
Let's say that I am running two different opt-in campaigns for the same audience. Anyone who opts-in to the first effort is going to be tagged as"A" and anybody who opts-in to the second campaign will be tagged as"B".
I can go into Market Hero and filter out all of the"B" opt-ins and find out just how much they're worth compared to"A" opt-ins. When I find out that the"B" opt-ins are making more money, I understand that I should be pouring more advertising dollars into advertising the"B" opt-in. Outitgoes Autoresponder
Should you do this again and again, you can build a strong business because you will always be split-testing to determine which kinds of people are worth more to your enterprise.
And getting this up and running will be super-easy too. All you need to do is take the pixel which Market Hero gives you and place it in the areas that you want to track. From there, Market Hero will keep tabs on all your clients, sales, conversions, etc., to give you the information that you will need to grow your organization.
You're able to incorporate with a lot of different services.
Inside Market Hero, there's a button called"integrations" that – you guessed it helps you incorporate with things like ClickFunnels, SamCart, Shopify, Leadpages, Zapier, and more.
I believe that this is a wise move by Alex Becker since it shows he understands his market. He knows that the people that are serious about making money online are probably using things and he wants to make sure that his software integrates.
My sole complaint is that a lot of the applications I use, such as OptinMonster and Thrive Topics hasn't yet been put in the"integrations" tab. That doesn't mean that you CAN'T integrate thembecause you can (you utilize Zapier to make them speak to each other) but it's not as easy as something like ClickFunnels or even Shopify.
Talking of Shopify…
How Is This Different From Autoresponders?
The best method for me is of The other autoresponders were created for marketers. I've nothing against marketers that are email and I send mails however, their thinking has its own limits. Market Hero was constructed BY a company owner FOR company owners.
Market Hero is different because it gives you a bunch of different ways that will assist you monitor ROI and generate more profit from the emails.
By way of instance, one of the coolest features is that it shows you just how much each lead is worth. Imagine logging in to your email autoresponder and viewing that each lead is worth $6.87 to you. That means that you can go out and"purchase" email addresses to create money. Everything you do is you purchase paid visitors from Google, Facebook, etc. and send traffic to a opt-in page. If you can find a prosperous than it is worth, you get a profitable business. Wash and repeat as many times as you can.
It also lets you segment your list in much deeper ways compared to other autoresponder services out there. I used Drip and they have some segmentation tools in the ability to apply tags to your prospects , like I said, but it's small potatoes in comparison to Market Hero. I don't need to give any of Market Hero's proprietary information, but let's just say you will most likely be impressed by the segmentation ability. Outitgoes Autoresponder
Is Market Hero a Scam?
From what I have seen, absolutely not. I think that At this point, by being a scam artist Alex Becker has far too much to lose. Businesses's running and he's smart enough to realize that when his reputation was tarnished by him, he would be screwed.
From what I've seen, people have complained about his refund policy. These people are typically the ones who have used Market Hero for months and try to get all their money back. These are the scammers. You're scum, if you aren't inclined to pay money for a service which can improve your life and your business. Plain and simple.
Market Hero's free trial offer is really clear-cut. It says that in case you cancel within 14 days then anything will not be charged.
Rest assured, gentle reader. Market Hero is legit.
In Case You've Shopify (Or Any Online Business…)
When I started writing this Market Hero review, I Was worried that it was going to lean a bit too much towards Shopify entrepreneurs. That's why I want to stress that Market Hero will help you in ANY business, not simply Shopify.
On his YouTube channel, Alex has posted a lot of different videos about Shopify. You find that he provides a lot of useful information on the best way to make money, once you get past the clickbait-style names. Part of the reason is because he needs to get folks to test out Market Hero because he understands it might help them with their Shopify business.
For example, Market Hero lets you create abandoned cart sequences. Whenever someone begins the checkout process in Shopify (by entering their email) but does not complete it, that has tracked in Market Hero. From that point, you get them back to complete their purchase and can follow up with that person.
The capacity to create those cart sequences is only one of the ways that it is possible to earn Market Hero literally pay for itself. Let us do some math…
Depending on the analysis that you browse, the ordinary cart abandonment rate for an internet store is usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 70-80 percent. Are there individuals with abandonment rates? Sure, but this is actually the average.
Imagine you have 100 people go through your checkout process and 80 of these people abandon your cart. This means you have 20 customers and 80 non-customers. Imagine if a cart recovery sequence got a mere 10 percent of this non-customers to purchase?
That would get you an extra 8 customers. Which means that you would literally increase your sales 40%! (Because 8 extra sales is 40% of the 20 earnings you had.)
In the event that you boosted your earnings 40 percent, would that justify the investment in Market Hero? But that is not all…
Market Hero also lets you make upsell sequences. Could you create these sequences with autoresponder softwares? Yes, you can. It is nowhere near as fluid and it will not provide you that lifetime customer value, although I'm completely transparent about that. Outitgoes Autoresponder
The motive Market Hero is so powerful is because you're able to apply tags and track LTV. When you link Market Hero to Shopify, it begins tracking. Purchase tags are applied that show you who purchased which products.
Imagine that you have a Shopify store selling print-on-demand dog shirts. It'd be silly to attempt to market Golden Retriever things to that person if someone bought a pug shirt? But that's since they do not have the data in front of them, exactly what a lot of online entrepreneurs do. Because Market Hero lets you determine exactly what the individual bought, you can concentrate on selling just stuff.
You are able to totally geek out on this stuff. You can get as detailed intricate as you would like. In my personal business, I use it to section the subjects that financial advisors want to know more about. Since I market products that assist financial advisors GET clients and let them KEEP clients, if someone is interested in KEEPING clients, because they'd be irrelevant, I do not need to bombard them with emails about GETTING customers. This individual would unsubscribe.
Oh, and in case you're interested, here is a movie of Alex Becker showing you ways to raise your Shopify revenue 300% with Market Hero. Keep in mind the Market Hero may be used with ANY online business, not just Shopify.
Market Hero is an awesome email program because It's built for those who are attempting to make money online. In Case You Haven't done So already, go over there, import your listing and take advantage of the complimentary trial.
You can't afford to not know your numbers for another month. That is like Driving blind. If you don't understand your numbers, You're leaving a huge Amount of money on the table. Imagine how much more money you could make if you Knew exactly what every lead was worth. How would that change your decisions? How would your life change? Outitgoes Autoresponder
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There are a number of things you can do with your lenses to enhance their utility and effectiveness as protective gears for your eyes. AR coating is one of them. Keep reading to find out everything about AR coating on eyeglasses.
What is AR Coating?
AR stands for Anti-Reflective. It is often used synonymously to anti-glare coatings. As the name suggests, AR coating reduces the reflection occurring on the front and back side of the lens. It is not the property of the lens material. It is applied as an additional coating of anti-reflective material on top of the lens. – ADD PRESCRIPTION TO YOUR EYEGLASSES OR SUNGLASSES HERE.
Benefits of AR Coatings
There are a number of benefits associated with AR coatings on eyeglasses. However, these do not make it an essential component to be included in every eyewear. It merely suggests a better viewing experience if you opt for AR coatings on your lenses.
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Classroom Norms Part 2: Virtual Meeting Etiquette
Too often, teachers assume that students know how to behave in a virtual meeting. In reality, though, virtual meetings are complex. It is important to intentionally address expectations for virtual meetings. There are three parts of the virtual meeting for which you should set norms: before, during, and after the meeting. Here are some helpful norms and tips for incorporating those norms for each part of the meeting.
Prior to the Meeting
- Take time in meeting preparation.
- Know who your participants are and make sure everyone is included in the meeting invite.
- Distribute meeting norms before the meeting starts. This may include items like how to indicate that you wish to talk, when to ask questions, etc.
- Establish clear goals, objectives, and an agenda, and distribute them before the meeting starts.
- Plan the time frame, and then stay within it. Add a 10 minute buffer at the beginning and end of your meeting.
- Limit the number of participants. 6-8 is ideal.
- Get trained on, plan, and rehearse meeting technology and become familiar with its features.
- Record the video conference if distribution is necessary.
During the Meeting
- Show up on time, be present and engaged, and eliminate distractions.
- Be polite and stay on task.
- Allow time for introductions and use names throughout the meeting.
- If worship is part of the meeting, be respectful.
- Review meeting technology, norms, goals, objectives, and agenda.
- If sharing your screen or playing a video during the meeting, prepare these ahead of time.
- If some participants do not have the server bandwidth for video conference, provide a call-in option.
- Appoint a meeting secretary to track important points made by participants if appropriate.
- Do frequent process checks.
- If you have a question and someone is still presenting, use the text box instead of interrupting.
- Assign outstanding tasks, including deadlines, and make sure everyone knows what they are supposed to do.
- Set up the next meeting date and time if appropriate.
- Choose a quiet location and set other technology devices to vibrate.
- Remind everyone to stay close to the microphone or camera.
- Remind participants to mute their microphones when not talking.
- NEVER interrupt another speaker.
- Be explicit about thoughts and feelings.
- Avoid sarcasm, and be careful with humor.
After the Meeting
- Distribute meeting minutes in a timely manner if appropriate and document action items.
- Provide feedback if necessary.
Remember Not To…
- Move frequently during meetings.
- Attend in pajamas.
- Attend sick or on cognitively altering medications.
- Allow your pets, spouse, or children to interrupt the meeting.
- Sit in a rocking chair or swivel chair.
- Take a mobile device into the bathroom with you or lay it down somewhere.
- Drive while attending.
- Video conference in an airport or public space.
- Dress in clothes you would not wear to an actual in-person meeting.
- Eat during a meeting.
- Leave the meeting unexpectedly.
Virtual meetings give us the tools to meet with peers or students thousands of miles away. It also allows a lot more access to one's personal life and habits if not managed well. Make the best of your next virtual class meeting!
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Liz contemplates Glasto
Do you want to go to Glastonbury?'
It was Friday afternoon. Glastonbury had already begun, as far as I could tell. I was 300 miles away. I had not had an emergency knee wax. My roots were at that difficult one-week halfway point. Hilda the 13-year-old Romanian rescue dog (her passport, next to the box entitled 'Breed', has just two words: 'Grey fur'), due to yet another removed tooth, was on a new course of antibiotics.
Last time I'd gone to Glastonbury, asked by my newspaper to 'write a fun piece', I had also only been given a few hours' notice, had to buy my own ticket and tent, and the entire weekend had been a disaster. I had not known how to pitch my tent, and had to wait until a couple of girls, taking pity on the fact I was sitting in a heap, came over to lend a hand.
I had pitched it with one end uphill, thinking this would act as a pillow, but unfortunately this meant I slid to the opening. I had never had nylon next to the skin before, and worried my Michael Jackson fright wig might catch fire, although in retrospect, given the rain, this was unlikely.
I refused to use any of the loos, as they were too unsanitary. I veered dangerously close to running out of Wet Ones. My large chrome magnifying mirror proved heavy. I thought Amy Winehouse overrated (used, as I was, to blistering sets of 20 songs from the likes of Prince), couldn't hear a single lyric, and kept saying 'Ow!' when yet another binge-drunk young woman with long, skinny, smug, golden, hairless thighs above Uggs trod on my flip-flops. The weekend had not been a success, especially when I could not find my tent or my car.
So, no, I don't want to go to bleeding Glastonbury, you rude b******. I said this in my head. And I wasn't entirely sure it wasn't a trick question. 'Do you want to go to Glastonbury?' is a very different proposition to 'Do you want to come to Somerset on a luxurious mini break, and we might helicopter in to catch the Stones backstage?' So, down the Bat Phone, I said, 'Ummmm, tempting as that sounds, I'm going into hiding on Sunday due to the fact that a colour supplement is running an interview with me. I don't want to bump into people reading it, looking at the photos, then up at me, in the flesh, especially if I've had a bad night without my special pillows, and thinking, "God, they really can work miracles with airbrushing these days."'
To give the Rock Star his due, he laughed, for quite a long time. He then spoke to someone else. I hate it when he does this. When he is talking to me I prefer him to be completely alone, with at least a two-mile no-go radius to rule out any possibility of coltish blondes. Who is he talking to? Who?
'Someone will post a photo of me looking like your spinster aunt,' I said. 'You looking boyish'
'Anyway,' I said, warming to my theme. 'People all post pictures on Twitter these days, someone is bound to take a photo of me looking like your ancient spinster aunt, mouth open. You looking boyish. Our cover will be blown.'
'Yeah, I know,' he said. 'My ex, Xxxx Xxxx, told me I should man-up a bit. It's not that I'm ashamed of you. That picture in YOU the other day showed someone who was really, really hot.'
'I was 19 in that photo, remember.'
Why didn't a man ask me to a music festival when I was 19? Why did I spend my prime in brown loons, with a safety pin at the zip because I had done them up with a coat hook just one too many times? Why did I waste my prime on agoraphobia, acne and anorexia, a permanent reek of Nair about my nether regions? Why? It's too late to enjoy myself. I'm out of practice. My mouth has set in a downward trajectory. I look terrible in cut-off denim shorts.


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CCE Theses and Dissertations
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Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems (DISS)
Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences
Thomas W MacFarland
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Eric S Ackerman
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Steven Terrell
This dissertation proposal begins with a discussion about how the education of game programmers was not meeting the needs of the game industry. With this problem identified, this study proceeded to verify the existence of disparities of current game programming curricula. The findings from the literature review were able to: (a) justify the need to develop a career-oriented instructional design model for education of game programming; (b) identify the disparities that caused the mismatch of instructional content between academia and the game industry; (c) review research that contributed to the identification of three disparities: curriculum objectives and structure, instructional content, and curriculum orientation; (d) discuss theories and models of instructional design, student engagement, and related pedagogies; and (e) explore how these theories and models might be instrumental in improving education of game programming. The results obtained from the literature review were also used to formulate guidelines for investigating the status of currently available curricula in game programming. The research design and the research methods utilized by this study to examine the research questions are also described in detail.
Four research questions were used to guide the study with the goal of identifying or forming a guiding principle for developing an instructional design model for a career-oriented education of game programming professionals. The results of this study indicated that all of the investigated game programming curricula had not yet produced graduates whom the game companies are interested in hiring as game programmers and that educational institutions had missed an opportunity to equip students with the proper programming skills for the game industry. Furthermore, this study identified that an accreditation standard as well as an industry-accepted instructional design model was not yet available to reflect the personnel hiring requirements of the game industry. The curriculum and coursework must be career-oriented and instructional content must center on game programming. Game programming pedagogy must lead to development of core competencies. In reviewing these findings, the guiding principles for developing an instructional design model became clear. The contribution of this study was to present an immediately applicable instructional design model that could be used as a basis by schools to create or fine tune their game programming curricula. The completed model is provided as an attachment to this dissertation. This proposed instructional design model is intended to provide an initial basis towards a solution to minimize the disparities between academia and the game industry in educational areas of curriculum orientation, curriculum objectives and structure, and instructional content. As with any problem solution, future study and analysis should be done in order to optimize and standardize a game programming curriculum that will be accepted by the game industry as well as accredited by a mutually accepted accreditation body.
NSUWorks Citation
Penn Pinlung Wu. 2012. Development of a Career-Oriented Instructional Design Model for Game Programming. Doctoral dissertation. Nova Southeastern University. Retrieved from NSUWorks, Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences. (339)