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âRegular tiny fixesâ the secret to looking younger for longer according to one Cosmetic Surgeon
10 November 2015
Dr Gerald Imber is a Manhattan based Cosmetic Surgeon whose controversial approach to anti-aging treatments is sparking much debate among skin care professionals. The Surgeon recommends starting young and keeping up 'regular tiny fixes', in the form of Non Surgical Treatments, to prolong a youthful appearance.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|Mar 9, 1971
|Filing date
|Jan 6, 1969
|Priority date
|Jan 6, 1969
|Publication number
|Mortimer Penberg
|Original Assignee
|Aerojet General Co
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (2), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (6), Classifications (12)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
United States Patent 72] lnventor Mortimer Penberg Claremont, Calif. [21] Appl. No. 789,284 [22] Filed Jan. 6, 1969 [45] Patented Mar. 9, 1971 [73] Assignee Aerojet-General Corporation El Monte, Calif.
[54] ClllP-CLASSlFYING APPARATUS 12 Claims, 11 Drawing Figs.
[52] US. Cl 209/73, 209/81, 324/158, 339/95 [51] lnt.'Cl B07c 5/00 [50] Field of Search 209/73, 74, 81; 324/158, (Inquired); 339/95, (lnquired); 294/64 [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,384,236 5/1968 Best et a1. 209/81 3,479,716 11/1969 Zanger Jr. et a1. 294/64(X) Assistant Examiner-Gene A. Church Attorneys-Edward O. Ansell and D. Gordon Angus ABSTRACT: According to the present disclosure, chip-classifying apparatus is provided with a platen having conductive film contacts in a configuration conforming to the contact configuration of the chip device to be classified. The platen is mounted at a test station and is electrically connected to suitable test apparatus. Motive means is provided for moving the chips to the test station and thereafter to a depository station. The motive means includes a tubular vacuum needle connected to a source of reduced pressure. A funnel is mounted to the open end of the vacuum needle, which funnel has a configuration and size conforming to that of the chip being moved so that the chip is oriented by reaction against the funnel to an orientation compatible with the contact configuration of the platen.
PATENIEUMAR 9.l97l v 3.568.831
sum 10F 2 Frd- 4 P/Q/ OR 1427' INVENTOR. Moer/Mze Pnvmes CHIlP-CLASSIFYING APPARATUS This invention relates to apparatus for handling chip devices, particularly during orientation and/or classification operations.
, The term chip device as used herein refers to any electrical device and/or circuit together with a plurality of electrical contacts integral therewith. Although the present invention will be described in connection with the handling of semiconductor chip devices, it is to be understood that the present invention may be utilized in connection with integrated circuit chips. Chip devices are commercially available on the order of about 20 to 50 mils. in length and width and about 1 to mils. thick. The chip deviceshave a plurality of electrical contacts integral therewith by which electrical and mechanical connection to the chip is made. Ordinarily, the electrical contacts are in the form of bead contacts, or bumps" as they are known in the art, beam lead contacts (which ordinarily extend beyond the periphery of the chip) or termination pads, and are ordinarily a thin layer of material deposited directly onto the surface of the chip and ordinarily have heights of a few thousand angstroms, which also make direct electrical and mechanical contact to the active device junctions.
Most chip-devices are active electrical devices whoseelectrical characteristics must be classified prior to being connected into an electrical circuit. Also, since most chip devices have more than two contacts, the orientation of the chip device with respect to a reference position must be known so that the chipdevice may be properly placed and bonded into the circuit.
Apparatus has been proposed for testing the electrical characteristics of chip devices. Ordinarily, such apparatus includes an aperture, or nest, sized to the chip which it will clas sify and has electrodes adapted to contact the contacts on the chip. Such apparatus, however, has not been capable of classifying chips having a different size than the chip for which the nest was designed. Thus, chips of various sizes and configurations had to be tested in special apparatus designed for the chip device. Also, apparatus as heretofore known, could not test chips having various contact patterns. Thus, test apparatus for classifying the electrical characteristics of chip devices have ordinarily been suited for a singletype of chip. Since chip classifying apparatus usually represents a substantial investment, it is desirable to provide apparatus capable of handling a wide variety of types of chips for classifying purposes so that various types of chips could be classified in one test machine, including facebonded or flip chip devices, beam lead devices, and conventional devices using termination pads as commonly employed in TO-type hermatically sealed or epoxy packages.
It is an object of the present invention to provide apparatus for handling chips for classifiers which is versatile so as to be able to handle any size or configuration chip as well as any size, type, or pattern of contacts.
Another object of the present invention is to provide apparatus capable of'handling a wide variety of chips for classifying purposes. i 1
Another object of the present invention is to provide apparatus for converting existing chip classifiers so as to enable such chip classifiers to handle and classify a wide variety of chips.
According to the present invention, a tubular vacuum needle having a funnel conforming to the configuration of the chip to be handled is provided for handling and moving such chips and for orienting them relative to the apparatus. A platen is providedwith a plurality of contacts having a configuration adapted to make electrical connection to the contacts of the chip. Both the vacuum needle and the platen are removable so that differently size vacuum needles may be utilized for differently sized chips, and different platens may be utilized for different contact configurations.
According to an; optional and desirable feature of the present invention; the platen is mounted on a resilient support so that chips disposed in a plane not perfectly aligned with the plane of the platen are-capable of being tested.
FIG. 5 is a side view in cutaway cross section taken along line 5-5 in FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a top view elevation of a platen for use in a classifier in accordance with the presently preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a side view in cutaway cross section taken along line 7-7 in FIG. 6;
FIG. 8 is a bottom planar view of a vacuum needle and fun- I nel taken along line 8-8 in FIG. 7;
FIG. 9 is a side view in cutaway cross section as in FIG. 7 with the platen in a different orientation;
FIG. 10 is a side view elevation, in cutaway cross section of a fragment of a platen contacting a chip contact; and
FIG. 11 is a side view elevation, in cutaway cross section of a fragment of a modification of a platen in accordance with the present invention, contacting a termination pad of a chip device.
In FIGS. 1 and 2 there is illustrated apparatus for handling chips during a classifying process; The apparatus generally comprises a substantially cylindricalhousing 10 adapted to rotate about axis 11 on shaft 12. Housing 10 supports a plurality of tubular vacuum needles 13 which are connected in fluid communication to a source .of reduced pressure, such as vacuum pump '14. Preferrably, valving means (not shown) is connected between needles l3 and pump 14 so as to control fluid communication between the pump and the individual needles during selected operations. Shaft 12 is driven by a suitable motive means, such as a motor (not shown). Also, means (not shown) is provided for reciprocally moving each needle 13 in a direction parallel to axis II, as shown by arrows 15 (see FlG. 2).
The apparatus illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 is capable of handling chip devices such as the flip chip 16 illustrated in FIG. 3. Chip 16 will ordinarily have a substantially square profile. Each side dimension d may be approximately 30 mils, and the thickness may be of the order of about 5 10 mils. It is to be understood that these dimensions may vary depending upon the chip device. Ordinarily, chip 16 is cut or broken out of a larger wafer by a suitable scribing and breaking method. This method results in the formation of the chip illustrated in FIG. 3, except that during the breaking of the wafer into the individual chips, the edges are usually not smooth and the dimensional characteristics may vary from chip to chip. As an alternative to the scribing and breaking method for forming the chips, the chips may be cut to form smoother sides and more uniform dimensions. By way of example, the chip devices may be cut in the manner described in copending ap-' plication Ser. No. 804,056 filed Feb. 28, 1969 for Cutting Apparatus by Joseph R. Camasta and assigned to the same assignee as the present invention.
The chip illustrated in FIG. 3 is a flip chip and has a plurality of contacts, or bumps 17 exposed on one planar surface thereof. The opposite planar surface is ordinarily relatively smooth. Contacts 17, which are known in the art as bumps, are ordinarily constructed of aluminum and provide electrical and mechanical connection for the particular chip device. For example, if chip 16 is a transistor, bumps 17 comprise the contacts for the base, emitter and collector of such transistor. Ordinarily, bumps 17 are approximately 6 to 10 mils. in diameter and 0.5 to 1.0 mils. in height. Ordinarily, there are three or more such bumps on each chip, but the number, pattern, size and location may very depending upon the type of chip. Some of the bumps may not provide electrical connection to the device and may be considered electrically dormant and are used for mechanical connection only.
Referring against again to FIG. 1 and 2, the apparatus for handling the chips, such as chip 16 illustrated in FIG. 3, further includes a feed mechanism 18 disposed on an inclined ramp 19. The feed mechanism and ramp are disposed relative to housing 16) to permit a supply of chips located in the feed mechanism to travel down ramp 19 in single order fashion. Sensing apparatus 20 is provided at the top of ramp 19 to reject and return to feed mechanism 18 all chips which do not have their contacts or bumps 17 properly aligned with respect to the apparatus. For example, if it is desirable that the bump contacts 17 be disposed downwardly with reference to FIG. 2, so that the planar surface of chip 16 will face a respective vacuum needle 13, sensor 20 will reject those chips whose contacts do not face into the plane of HG. 1 (downwardly in FIG. 2). At the bottom of ramp 19 is platform 21 where each chip comes to rest so that its bump contacts rest on the platform.
One of the vacuum needles 13 is moved downwardly from housing in the direction of arrow by means (not shown) until it comes into close relationship to the top planar surface of chip 16. The decreased pressure above the chip causes the chip to be drawn from platform 21 to be held by vacuum needle 13. Housing 10 then rotates to move needle 13 and the chip held by it to test platform 22.
The physical structure of the prior art test station 22 is illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5. The prior test station comprised a plate 28 having a nest 29 formed therein. Nest 29 comprises shown). 30 through plate 28 having the same general configuration and size as chip 16. The sides 31 of aperture 30 are preferably tapered or inclined so that the top portion of the aperture is slightly larger than chip 16, while the bottom portion of aperture 30 is slightly smaller than chip l6. Disposed below nest 29 is a plurality of springloaded metallic contact levers 32. Levers 32 are arranged and disposed beneath the nest, so as to contact individual ones of bump contact 17 of chip 16. Levers 32 are connected by leads 33 to suitable test apparatus (not shown). By way of example, the test apparatus may comprise a computer adapted to sense the chips orientation and to measure the electrical characteristics of chip 16. One example of a suitable computer for testing chip 16 is a Teradyne Transistor Testor," commercially available from Teradyne Corporation.
In the operation of the apparatus thus far described, chip 16 is picked up by vacuum needle 13 from platform 21 and is moved by housing 10 to a position above test station 22. When positioned above test station 22, needle 13 moves the chip downwardly so as to place the chip in nest 29. If the chip is not rotationally aligned with nest 29, the tapered or inclined edges 31 of the nest cause the chip to rotate in the nest to a position as illustrated in FIG. 5. When in this position, bump contacts 17 press against respective spring-loaded lever contacts 32, thereby making electrical contact with such levers. The test apparatus (not shown) then operates through the lever contacts to test the electrical characteristics of the chip as well as sure its orientation.
The prior art apparatus as thus described, although providing relatively reliable testing of a particular chip, was not sufficiently versatile for testing other types of chips. The prior art apparatus was limited to the testing of chips having a particular size, configuration and bump contact height. If a chip 16 of a size smaller than the size of nest 29 was placed within the nest, the chip could be laterally displaced in the nest and there was no assurance as to proper orientation of the chip with respect to the apparatus. If a chip 16 which was too large for nest 29 was inserted in the nest, the chip would break and crumble within the nest and would leave particles which would obstruct other chips from being placed within the nest for test purposes. Another problem associated with such prior art apparatus was that the location, number and pattern of bump contacts on chips to be tested was limited because the classifier could not handle chips with various bump patterns, location and number. Since lever contacts 32 for contacting the bump contacts were extremely small in size, for example about 20 mils. wide, it was extremely difficult, if hot impossible, to relocate such lever contacts so as to test chips having other configurations of bump contacts. Furthermore if it was desirable to test chips having a greater number of bump contacts, more lever contacts had to be used, and the lever contacts would have to be even narrower than heretofore known, thereby increasing the difficulty of placement and alignment. Also, if the chip had a center bump contact encompassed by other peripherly disposed contacts, it was not possible to position a lever contact to test the center bump contact. Also, such prior art apparatus could not test chips having other types of contacts, such as beam lead contacts and conventional termination pad contacts. The present invention provides apparatus-handling chips of varying sizes and configurations so that such chips can be be classified by the apparatus.
In accordance with the present invention the classifying apparatus has a similar construction as illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2. That is, chips 16 are picked up by tubular vacuum needles 13 and moved to the test platform 22, illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2. The vacuum needles are connected to vacuum pump 14 and reciprocate in a direction parallel to axis 11, as heretofore described. However, at the test position, instead of having a nest with spring-loaded contact levers as heretofore described in connection to FIGS. 4 and 5, a single test platen 34 is provided, as illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 7. Platen 34 comprises a dielectric substrate 35 supporting a plurality of layers of metallic contact material '36. Contacts 36 are connected to the test equipment (not shown) by suitable wire 37 which is soldered or attached to the contacts 36. Contacts 36 are separated by a small distance, for example, about 3 mils. When the vacuum needle positions the chip over platen 34 so that electrical connection is made between bump contacts 17 and individual ones of contacts 36, the electrical characteristics of chip 16 may be tested and its orientation determined by a computer, such as a switching and sensing matrix.
To assure proper positioning (FIGS. chip 16 over the plate, the vacuum needle 13 can be provided with a funnel 38 having a configuration similar to the configuration of chip l6. Funnel 38 has incline walls which are, at the bottom, slightly larger than the largest dimensions of a chip 16. When the chip is picked up from platform 21, (FIGS. 1 and 2), the chips aligns itself by reaction against the walls of funnel 38 to fit snugly within the funnel. The reduced pressure within the funnel and within needle 13 holds the chip snugly within the funnel. In the event that a chip should be cocked or misaligned within the funnel, or if a chip of irregular configuration is attempted to be picked up, an air gap is formed between one edge of the chip and one surface of the funnel so as to permit air to enter the funnel thereby increasing the pressure therein, and preventing the vacuum needle from picking up the chip.
When vacuum needle 13 is moved to a position over platen 34, the vacuum needle moves downwardly to place chip 16 onto the platen so that bumps 17 contact separate metal contacts 36. The electrical characteristics of chip 16 may be tested and determined, and the orientation of chip 16 may be determined by the test equipment (a chip having four contacts, such as illustrated in the drawings, could be in any one of four orientations). If desired, the test apparatus can rotate the vacuum needle by an amount dependent upon the orientation of the chip so that the chip will be positioned in a preselected orientation for storage purposes.
After chip 16 has been classified at the test station 22, housing 10 rotates to move the vacuum needle 13 to a third position to deposit the chip into receptical 23. Receptical 23 may be any suitable type of storage apparatus, such as a magazine, adhesive tape, or may be a magnetic storage device, such as described in copending application Ser. No. 789,292 filed Jan. 6, 1969 for Chip Storage Apparatus" by Mortimer Penberg and Robert P. Mandal, assigned to the same assignee as the present invention. Ordinarily, the vacuum holding the chip is released, and pressure is sometimes applied to assure positive discharge of the chip from the needle 13.
It is possible when picking up chips with the vacuum needle having a funnel in accordance with the present invention, that some chips may be picked up at a slight angle to the plane normal to the axis of the needle. Hence, when brought down against a platen 34, the chip will be disposed in a plane different from that of the platen so that some of the bump contacts 1'7 may not contact the platen. For this reason, it is preferred that substrate 35 supported by resilient support 39, such as a small sheet of sponge rubber or a diaphragm. Hence, in the event that a cocked chip is brought against platen 34, the chip reacts against the platen which in turn reacts against the resilient support so as to cause the platen to assume the planar disposition of the chip, as shown in FIG. 9.
Many chips are provided with bumps 17 constructed of aluminum. Aluminum, being a good conductor and being a type of material easily'deposited in vapor deposition process, provides good electrical properties for flip chips. However, aluminum is susceptible of being oxidized when exposed to air, thereby forming aluminum oxide (A1 0 over the aluminum contact surface. The aluminum oxide is substantially an insulator which must be pierced or abrased before contact can be made. Heretofore, in the prior lever-type test stations, the abrasion or wiping action of the lever contact against the bump contact was sufficient to wearaway a sufiicient amount of aluminum oxide so as to make contact with the aluminum bump contact. However, when bringing the chip down by means of the vacuum needle directly onto the platen, as when using the apparatus according to the present invention, there is no assurance of an abrasion action between the bump contact and the metal forming the platen contact. For this reason, it is preferred to vapor or chemically deposit rhodium onto the surface of a coarse alumina substrate having A1 0 crystalites of sufficient height as to pierce the oxide over the aluminum contact surface. I
Referring to FIG. 10, the platen substrate 35 has alumina crystals 430 embedded therein. The exposed surface of the alumina crystals are covered with a layer of rhodium 41 to form the platen contacts. Although other metals my be used, rhodium is preferred because it provides good electrical conductivity and exhibits high resistance to wear. Bump contact 17 of the flip chip is shown contacting platen contact layer 41. Bump contact 17 comprises an aluminum body 42 and is shown as having an oxide coating 43 of aluminum oxide A1 0 formed thereon. As illustrated in FIG. when the bump contact contacts the rhodium covered alumina crystals rising from the mean surface of the contact layer, the crystals pierce the aluminum oxide coating over the aluminum of the bump contact, thereby making electrical contact between the aluminum material 42 and the rhodium plated contact 41. Hence, the oxide coating 43 is pierced by the rhodium covered alumina crystals to achieve electrical contact between the bump contact and the rhodium plated contact layer d1 of the platen. Other materials such as palladium or osmium may be used instead of rhodium.
With handling apparatus in accordance with the present invention, any desired chip may be handled, tested, and sorted by utilizing essentially the same apparatus. The vacuum needles and funnels are removable so that new needles and funnels may be utilized to accommodate other sizes, types and configurations of chips. The platen contact pattern may be formed by addition or subtraction thin-film deposition processes.
The platen is mounted at the test station and is used as herein before described. Of course, other platens may be constructed so as to test any type of chip to be tested.
In the event that the chip to be tested has termination contacts rather than protruding bump or beam lead-type contacts, it is desirable to form a bump on the platen contact, which bump would be constructed in the manner illustrated in FIG. ll. Thus, in the event that a flat pad contact becomes oxidized, the rhodium coated crystals of the substrate 35' are capable of piercing the oxide coating to assure electrical contact between the termination pad of the chipto be tested and the rhodium plated contact All illustrated in FIG. ill.
With the present invention, classifying apparatus is capable of handling and testing a variety of chips having various contact configurations, types and patterns as well as chips having various numbers of contacts. Furthermore, the utilization of the deposited platen contact and replaceable funnel and vacuum needles assures that the machine is capable of handling chips within ordinary dimensional tolerances. The chips may be of any particular configuration, such as square, rectangular, triangular, or even circular, and the type of chip contact may be any particular type, such as the extended beam type, the bump or merely flat termination pads. Hence, with the handling apparatus in accordance with the present invention becomes more versatile than previous classifiers. Furthermore, existing classifying apparatus can be converted in the manner herein described and incorporate the features of the present invention so as to be versatile.
This invention is not to be limited by the embodiments shown in the drawings or described in the description, which aregiven by way of example not of limitation, but only in accordance with the scope of the appended claims.
1. In apparatus for classifying chip devices in accordance with their electrical characteristics which apparatus comprises a first station for supplying unclassified chip devices having a plurality of electrical contacts, a second station where such chip devices are to be classified, and a third station where the classified chip devices are deposited, and motive means for moving the chip devices between the first, second and third stations, the improvement comprising: an insulative substrate mounted at saidsecond station, a plurality of conductive film contacts on said substrate in spaced relation, said film contacts containing a plurality of crystals providing a rough surface on each film contact, said film contacts being so arranged and disposed and being so sized relative to the chip device contacts as to be capable of making electrical connection with individual contacts on the chip device, and means adapted to connect each of said film contacts to test apparatus.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said motive means comprises a hollow needle adapted to be connected to a source of reduced pressure; and a funnel connected to a free end of said needle, said funnel having inclined walls in a configuration similar to the chip devices and being sized relative to the chip devices as to hold an individual chip device within said funnel, said funnel orienting each chip device relative to the substrate so that the chip contacts will make electrical connection with the film contacts.
3. Apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said substrate is mounted on a resilient support.
4. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said crystals are alumina crystals, and said film contacts comprises a layer of hard metal formed over the substrate.
5. Apparatus according to claim 2 having means supporting said substrate for aligning the substrate and the chip device into coplanar relationship.
6. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said substrate is mounted on a resilient support.
7. Apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said crystals are alumina crystals, and said film contacts comprises a layer of hard metal formed over the substrate.
8. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said layer of hard metal is a thin film of metal selected from the group comprising rhodium, palladium and osmium.
9. Apparatus according to claim 1, having means supporting said substrate for aligning the substrate and the chip device into coplanar relationship.
10. In apparatus for classifying chip devices in accordance with their electrical characteristics which apparatus comprises a first station for supplying unclassified chip devices having a plurality of electrical contacts, a second station where such chip devices are to be classified, and a third station where the classified chip devices are deposited, and motive means for moving the chip devices between the first, second and third stations, the improvement comprising: an insulative substrate having a plurality of conductive film contacts in spaced relation; resilient support means mounting said insulative substrate at said second station; said film contacts being so arranged and disposed and being so sized relative to the chip device contacts as to be capable of making electrical connection with individual contacts on a chip device; means adapted to connect each of said film contacts to test apparatus; said motive means comprising a hollow needle 'to be connected to a source of reduced pressure, and a funnel connected to the free end of said needle said needle having inclined walls in a configuration similar to the chip devices and being sized relative to the chip devices as to hold an individual chip device
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|Aug 31, 1966
|May 21, 1968
|Corning Glass Works
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|General Dynamics Information Systems, Inc.
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|Both Wing Co., Ltd.
|Sorting apparatus for the high voltages test of chip capacitors
|Jan 13, 2014
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|U.S. Classification
|209/545, 209/931, 439/389, 209/905, 209/571, 324/759.3, 324/762.2
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification

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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3091?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13245515#comment-13245515 ] Zhanwei.Wang commented on HDFS-3091: ------------------------------------ Hi, Nocholas {quote} I would say the failures are expected. The feature is to guarantee the number of replicas that the user is asking. However, the cluster is too small that the guarantee is impossible. It makes sense to fail the write requests. {quote} I agree with you, but have a look at code. in HDFS-3179, I first create a EMPTY file and append twice, the first append finished successfully but the second failed since there is only one datanode and the number of replica is 3. Is that what you want to see? I think the policy check should fail on the first write to the file. > Update the usage limitations of ReplaceDatanodeOnFailure policy in the config description for the smaller clusters. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-3091 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3091 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: data-node, hdfs client, name-node > Affects Versions: 0.23.0, 0.24.0 > Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G > Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Fix For: 2.0.0 > > Attachments: h3091_20120319.patch > > > When verifying the HDFS-1606 feature, Observed couple of issues. > Presently the ReplaceDatanodeOnFailure policy satisfies even though we dont have enough DN to replcae in cluster and will be resulted into write failure. > {quote} > 12/03/13 14:27:12 WARN hdfs.DFSClient: DataStreamer Exception > java.io.IOException: Failed to add a datanode: nodes.length != original.length + 1, nodes=[xx.xx.xx.xx:50010], original=[xx.xx.xx.xx1:50010] > at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.findNewDatanode(DFSOutputStream.java:778) > at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.addDatanode2ExistingPipeline(DFSOutputStream.java:834) > at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.setupPipelineForAppendOrRecovery(DFSOutputStream.java:930) > at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.processDatanodeError(DFSOutputStream.java:741) > at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.run(DFSOutputStream.java:416) > {quote} > Lets take some cases: > 1) Replication factor 3 and cluster size also 3 and unportunately pipeline drops to 1. > ReplaceDatanodeOnFailure will be satisfied because *existings(1)<= replication/2 (3/2==1)*. > But when it finding the new node to replace obiously it can not find the new node and the sanity check will fail. > This will be resulted to Wite failure. > 2) Replication factor 10 (accidentally user sets the replication factor to higher value than cluster size), > Cluser has only 5 datanodes. > Here even if one node fails also write will fail with same reason. > Because pipeline max will be 5 and killed one datanode, then existings will be 4 > *existings(4)<= replication/2(10/2==5)* will be satisfied and obiously it can not replace with the new node as there is no extra nodes exist in the cluster. This will be resulted to write failure. > 3) sync realted opreations also fails in this situations ( will post the clear scenarios) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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December 2016 | by Paul Tuohy
Paul talks to Jorge Gutierrez, a development manager at BAC Credomatic, about the challenges and benefits of modernization in a large organization, where to get RPG programmers and cooking with fire.
Paul: Hi everybody and welcome to another iTalk with Tuohy. So this iTalk is one that I have been trying to organize, I think, for the best part of two years now. So at long, long last, I'm expecting the phone line is going to drop or something catastrophic like that. So hello Jorge Gutierrez. [Laughs]
Jorge: Very good. Hi, Paul. It's good that we're finally able to do this.
Paul: It is, after a couple of attempts.
Jorge: Yes.
Paul: So Jorge, maybe just to start off, do you want to introduce yourself and maybe a little bit about your company as well?
Jorge: Sure. Well I'm Jorge Gutierrez. I am currently the development manager for corporate banking in BAC-Credomatic in Central America. We are the largest private bank in the region. We're owned by Grupo Aval from Columbia so we are a subsidiary of Grupo Aval. I've been working here for around almost 25 years now; next year will be 25. Everything on the AS/400 to the i platform.
Paul: So Jorge the … when you say a bank, OK and bearing in mind; I'm sorry just for people listening to me. I've known Jorge for many, many years, I've had the pleasure of going out there to do some work with BAC, and with Jorge and that over the years but you're ... it is not a small bank by any means Jorge.
Jorge: Oh no. In Central America we have like, it is 22,000 employees and our IT department, there are around 600 people, 200 of those are programmers and out of those around 110-120 are RPG programmers or currently doing RPG development actually is more accurate because they were not RPG programmers when they came in.
Paul: OK so actually let's swing back around on that one in a few minutes because that is something I want to talk to you about but OK so you're a development manager. So is it a thing that there has been a lot of development going on in the bank over the last few years?
Jorge: Oh, yes. We … there is … we have corporate development department, which is where I work, and we are doing development for all the banks in every country and also we have local development, which is development done by each country IT departments. We have to coordinate that in order to manage a single version of the same code so I was mentioning we have 100 or so RPG-people programming in RPG. They are all working on the same branch of code, which is distributed to where we bank so that's one of the things that we do.
Paul: Yeah.
Jorge: And we do it kind of interestingly.
Paul: So I mean do you face a lot of difficultly? I mean do all of the countries then have like different legislation? And that … that has to be taken into account. That would …
Jorge: Absolutely. Yes. Every country has its local and especially in the banking industry. It is⎯every government tries, puts in, tries to control the same thing but they come up with different ways of doing it so part of our job here in corporate IT is to figure out similarities between one development and the other and try to reuse logic that was developed in a different IT department. That is part of the things we do here.
Paul: OK. So obviously the bank has been going through a lot of modernization and that over the last few years Jorge, so I know a difficult question this but are there any sort of like major things sort of challenges, highlights, low points whatever that stand out you know as you have been going through that process?
Jorge: Yes. I will think about that one: that issue about challenges and modernizing. One thing that I learned, I will say I recently learned is when you have this much people doing development, you have to be very careful what you put in as a best practice, what you put in as a norm or what because it is very difficult to get people to start using it. It is also very difficult to get people to stop using maybe something that was not as-what you thought was the best practice or if you find a different practice so if you-you have to do steady steps on modernization so finding out what are those quick easy wins, doing that and making that as norm or making that the best practice is kind of I will say my biggest challenge. I am more careful now than I was ten years ago when we started doing modernization on what I say to the developers that it is a good practice or not.
Paul: Yeah. Yeah because it is, I know, something we've discussed many times over the years but you know my view is always that programmers are creatures of habit and whether they can adapt to something new very quickly. I think it is an excellent point you are making. That new thing can very quickly become a habit that they are going to find hard to break as well. [Laughs]
Jorge: Exactly and in that line, one way to overcome that is you have to be sure that they understand why you're using that habit or why you are doing that practice. I call it, we don't like to follow recipes. Well programmers love to follow recipes especially newcomers, but we don't like them to follow recipes. We would like them to understand how it works, why it's working, and why we are doing this instead of the other thing so they can sometimes put their problems in context and make the best decision by themselves. That is one I will say it is one of the big challenge not only for modernization but also for software development in general.
Paul: Yeah so but one of the other, I think just the nature of the fact that it's a bank Jorge I mean a lot of this process of modernization must be a little bit like trying to steer an iceberg. I mean they must be slow to change. Is that a fair statement?
Jorge: It is. We have very long feedback loops is what I call it. From the moment we make a decision or we make a development, to put it into production and to see that it really worked or that it really-the market accepted it as we wanted it, whatever, it take a long time between the development to the feedback on it and so we can-we have to be careful on the decisions we make because we're going to learn that we were wrong very long into-the distance between one and the other is very great.
Jorge: It's long.
Paul: Yeah. [Laughs]
Jorge: Went to Spanish for a while. [Laughs].
Paul: OK. We're sticking with English, Jorge. So the other thing as well Jorge is that because I know you have done some work on this over the years as well though is I mean have you started to see an impact from the modernization process? I mean have you seen a thing of sort of saying well you know things that used to take us, you know, two months to change now take us a week? Or you know things that used to take a year are now taking two to three months. Are you starting to see results like that?
Jorge: Oh, yes.
Paul: After 10 years?
Jorge: Yes, absolutely. Not only on the development time, the lifecycle of the development but on the type of projects and services that we have been able to offer now. Ten years ago an interface with a browser or with a .net application or client or whatever was unthinkable right; it was a long project. We don't know how to do it. It will be hard. We'll have to redo a whole bunch of interfaces but since we started doing modernizing, doing layer programming, separating out interfaces from our logic and our databases, we have been able to pick and choose different components and build new services at a much quicker pace than we were able to do it before. So now we jump into any project that comes along without there being many technical barriers for us to go in.
Paul: Yeah. So let me swing back on something that you touched on earlier Jorge, which is the thing about the RPG developers. As you said like 100+, like 110 RPG developers so is it a thing that there is some college sitting there in San Jose in Costa Rica that is churning RPG developers for you?
Jorge: No, not since the '80s I think. [Laughs] No. No, RPG is not being taught at any college here. We don't even have in the regions RPG trainers so to say or seminars or whatever so we actually stopped looking for RPG programmers. When we hire programmers, we just look for good programmers, programmers that are able to put stuff in context, that know good patterns development patterns from bad patterns, that are OO object oriented right developers and we teach them RPG here at our offices. It is actually a really quick process. You can have a good Java or .net programmer be doing RPG in a matter of two to three months. It is because they really don't-they are programmers. They don't mind the language maybe or we the old-fashioned programmers were very keen to doing the same language and we qualified ourselves as RPG programmers but these guys, they are actually-they are just developers. You throw the language at them and they will learn it and they will use it. That is what we've found.
Paul: Yeah. Yeah. So don't tell me that they don't need training Jorge because that's what I like to … that is one of the reasons I like going out speaking.
Jorge: That's why. You're part of the training. [Laughs] That is how we keep ourselves modern in the languages and that is how we found out about the new development that is being done on IBM for the platform, right. Bring guys like you and sending us to summits and-
Paul: And COMMON.
Jorge: COMMON and all those training options that are there. We do a lot of reading, a lot of reading. That is interesting. I've seen a lot of new people blogging about the platform and the language. Kind of interesting.
Paul: Yeah, there are-I think we were talking about this earlier this year saying that there are now-there is this sudden surge of new people coming in on the platform with that and some of that is really exciting especially with the advent of all the open-source stuff as well. I think that potentially is going to bring even more people-
Jorge: Definitely.
Paul: Playing around on the platform you know which is great. So listen Jorge, to finish up on maybe two little things I want to touch on with you more on the personal side. So again having had the pleasure of sending time out there with you, I know these two things to be true. So I think you are first of all I think like most people in Costa Rica, you have a love of nature.
Jorge: Absolutely. Absolutely. That is where I find my Zen. It's … it's … and I also have the luck-I'm lucky enough to have like a farm really deep in the rainforest that I really enjoying going to and that is my place of relaxation.
Paul: Yeah. There is the second thing though and I am glad that you sort of used the word Zen because I think it was one of the times I was there when I saw you cooking. You were cooking at a barbeque and I remember it was a neighborhood one. I think it was Mother's Day actually if I remember correctly and you started to cook on a large sort of barbeque. Excuse if it is the wrong term that I've just used for it but a long barbeque and I saw you go into the zone. You were somewhere else as you were cooking. So you like to cook as well, Jorge?
Jorge: Yeah, absolutely and cooking with fire to be more accurate. [Laughs] I like to burn things in a controlled way. The funny thing about cooking⎯I know I read it somewhere, I cannot pinpoint where it was … but the author was comparing programming to cooking because you mix ingredients and you come out with flavors, new flavors, new things, and you solve problems by cooking so I guess a lot of creativity goes into cooking and playing with fire as well. [Laughs] Mix the three together, all three and it's-
Paul: Actually that's an excellent point Jorge because the number of people that I've done these iTalks with whose passion outside of programming or outside of work is actually cooking so that is actually a very valid point.
Jorge: Yes, it is.
Paul: Well and actually I think that is a great point to leave everybody with. I don't think we can top that one. So Jorge thank you so much for at long, long last managing to do this iTalk with me.
Jorge: No, thank you. Thank you, Paul, for everything and for giving me an opportunity to share.
Paul: OK. So that's it for this iTalk everybody. Tune in again soon for the next one. Bye for now.
Paul Tuohy has specialized in application development and training on IBM midrange systems for more than 20 years.
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So they're talking to other guys. So what? Why is that stopping you from talking to them? That cute girl in the lab? Talk to her. She's lab partners with another dude, doesn't mean she's f***ing him. Same damn thing goes for probably 90% of the rest of the "taken" chicks you're talking about.
Just talk to her man, talk to her right in front of the other dude's face. That's ballsy. Girls like ballsy.41|30|2
I agree
Yeah talking never hurts. Just don't do it if you know her boyfriend is right there.
If her boyfriend is right there, he'll let you know he's her boyfriend. No harm done.


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Bacinovic happy at Palermo
Armin Bacinovic is focused on improving at Palermo after being linked with a move to the Premier League.
By Jure Bohoric
Last Updated: 19/11/10 10:09pm
Armin Bacinovic is focused on becoming an improved player at Palermo after being linked with a move to the Premier League.
The Slovenian midfielder has been quick to make an impact in Serie A after joining Palermo from Maribor before the close of the summer transfer window.
He scored against AC Milan earlier this month and has been linked with Premier League rivals Chelsea and Liverpool.
However, while Bacinovic is flattered to have attracted attention from England, he insists he is enjoying playing for Palermo.
"At the moment I only see myself in a Palermo shirt," the 21-year-old told Sportal. "But, of course, I can't deny that everybody would like to play for such magnificent clubs as Liverpool and Chelsea.
"Rumours are just a very good extra motivation for me, but I would like to continue playing for Palermo and, with good training, I am sure I can go very far.
"I have everything at Palermo to become an even better player and I'm working towards that.
"Of course, if the offer came and Palermo would be happy to sell me, then I would leave. But, if not, I will be very happy to stay. I really enjoy it here."
Bacinovic's manager Armin Ruznic added: "I don't know what his wishes are, but in my opinion he is not yet ready to move to England.
"Liverpool, Chelsea? Those are big clubs, he will be ready to play for them in a year's time.
"I heard the rumours too, but I repeat, Armin still has a lot to learn."


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Report summaryBlock 22 lies to the northwest of Tobago, and contains two gas discoveries: Cassra and Sancoche. There is currently no infrastructure in the area, so monetising the gas will be a challenge. Of the two discoveries, attention is being focused on Cassra as it has a larger resource base and it lies in much shallower waters (500 metres) than Sancoche (1,100 metres). Development will likely involve the joint-development of Block 22 and the south and adjacent NCMA-4 block which is also operated by ...
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UTV Ireland, a new mainstream family TV channel for Ireland, will launch on 1 January 2015.
The channel will be an extension to UTV Media's offering in Northern Ireland, with the addition of original commissioned content. News and current affairs coverage will also be tailored, with two shows launching on 5 January 2015: Ireland Live, an early evening half hour weekday news bulletin, and Ireland Live at 10, an hour-long show broadcast between 10pm and 11pm every weekday evening.
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I finished Wall-nut Bowling 2 without losing any lawnmowers. I even have an image proving it.
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- Revenues were $23.8 million compared to $29.0 million in the year ago period. The continued volatile market for precious metals, including the unprecedented decline in gold prices year to date, drove lower sales volumes.
- Gross profit was $4.5 million, or 19.1% gross margin, compared to $6.2 million, or 21.4% gross margin in the same period last year.
- The third quarter of 2013 included $95,000 in non-recurring expenses related to the previously-disclosed financial restatement and shareholder lawsuits. The third quarter of 2012 included $1.4 million in non-recurring expenses related to the restatement and shareholder lawsuits.
- SG&A decreased to $5.5 million from $6.4 million in the prior-year third quarter. The third quarter of 2013 included incremental expenses from the opening of six additional retail locations totaling approximately $0.5 million. The Company also accrued a $0.7 million charge to earnings in the current quarter related to the expected resolution of a 2010 sales tax audit in the state of Texas.
- Total expenses, inclusive of the non-recurring expenses, sales tax accrual and incremental expenses from new stores, decreased 13.3% to $5.7 million from $6.6 million in the year-ago quarter as the Company's expense reduction efforts drove a more than 14% reduction in SG&A expense and expenses related to prior restatements.
- Net loss, inclusive of the non-recurring expenses and sales tax accrual, was $1.4 million compared to $0.5 million in the year-ago period. Excluding the sales tax accrual, the Company reduced its net loss by 30% sequentially compared to the second quarter of 2013.
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i've been dating my best friend for almost half a year. i really liked him but not that way... i just didn't want to lose him for good, as a friend because we get along really well, i enjoy spending time iwth him and he is really funny. so i said, hey, we could try. so we dated for half a year and then we broke up. we got in a fight because he got jelous when i talked with one of his friends andtold me that it was over. then he came to applologise but i didn't want him back. he was ruined because he really cares about me... so much that i freaks me out... more like an obssesion...
after a couple of weeks, when he went out like friends, we got back again and i lied to him i love him too., the moment i did that i felt that it was a huge mistake. i know i am kind of playing with his feeling because i don;t feel the same but i don;t want to lose him at all. i just want him to be my friend but this in not possible anymore, i've just relised that.
i want to, but i can;t break up with him... his parents are divorced, he has got a horrible childhood and this is the first time i have ever seen him truly happy. i don;t want to break his heart and it is what is; going to happen if i tell him everything. he had been truly damaged before he met me and i don;t want to ruin his trust in people. i want him to be still colose to me, i need him as a friend and i can't stand the thought that he;s going to hate me. i hate myself for this, too. i dont; know why i did this.
i need to tell him a good reason why it;s better for us to be just friends but he is too damaged to handle it.
what can i do? what would you do if you were me? how can i prevent him from having his heart broken? i trully care about him.
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He's been through a lot thus far, yet he has gotten over it, learned from his experiences, and carried on. Therefor, as painful as it may be to him, I feel he will overcome hearing your truth about him and ultimately carry on, as well. Don't live a lie with him. Tell him how you feel.11|00|0
no, he has not. he still has not gotten over his parents' divorce and ha has not gotten over his ruined childhood. i am afraid of what might happen with him
Understood. I still think telling him the truth is better than living a lie with him. But, that's me. You know him and what he is capable of better than I do. Go with your gut.


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A great project for experienced or beginner alike! Students will learn about milling, joinery, furniture design and finishing while creating a shaker-style console table from Ash. The table is 40" long, 30" high and 16" wide. (Tables shorter in height are possible, if requested.)
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Hi everyone. Been experimenting with Spiceworks for the last 2 months or so and I must say I love it! Thing is, I am an english speaker but my service is french. Is there ( or will there be ) a french version of Spiceworks? Or maybe there is a plugin I can install?
Thanks very much.
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Unfortunately I dont think there is a way to translate the dashboard at this time.
This topic was created during version 4.1.
The latest version is 7.5.00101.
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People have written various plugins for the French Language. You would need the internationalization plugin to enable you to run a French Language plugin.
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Thanks Frazzel. Installed the plugins, but I see it translates the user portal but not the dashboard. I was hoping to have it in french for the network administrator.
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Unfortunately I dont think there is a way to translate the dashboard at this time.
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Hi Chussel,
We are working on the ability to translate the Spiceworks application for 4.5. You should see this in a beta build in the next few weeks. Join the beta group to be informed when it becomes available: http:/
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The Axin-related protein, Axin2, presumably plays an important role in the regulation of the stability of beta-catenin in the Wnt signaling pathway, like its rodent homologs, mouse conductin/rat axil. In mouse, conductin organizes a multiprotein complex of APC (adenomatous polyposis of the colon), beta-catenin, glycogen synthase kinase 3-beta, and conductin, which leads to the degradation of beta-catenin. Apparently, the deregulation of beta-catenin is an important event in the genesis of a number of malignancies. The AXIN2 gene has been mapped to 17q23-q24, a region that shows frequent loss of heterozygosity in breast cancer, neuroblastoma, and other tumors. Mutations in this gene have been associated with colorectal cancer with defective mismatch repair. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
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text: Let me remind you that on today's call, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures including, but not limited to, free cash flow, EBIT margin, debt-to-EBITDA and economic profit. Management believes that providing insights on these measures enables investors to better understand and analyze our ongoing results of operations.Reconciliation with the most directly comparable financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP can be found in today's press release, this webcast's prepared remarks or in supplemental information available in the Financial Results area of our website, as well as in our filings with the SEC. In particular, it may be helpful to refer to tables located at the end of today's earnings release. Please recognize that today's discussion contains forward-looking statements. Actual results or outcomes could differ materially from management's expectations and plans. Please review our most recent 10-K filing with the SEC and our other SEC filings for a description of important factors that could cause results or outcomes to differ materially from management's expectations and plans. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. Today, Larry will start with a discussion of our volume and sales results. Steve will follow with a review of our financial performance for the quarter and fiscal year, as well as discuss our current outlook for fiscal year '13. And finally, before turning to Q&A, Don will close, commenting on some areas of strategic focus for the fiscal year. With that, let me turn it over to Larry. Steve Austenfeld Thanks, Steve, and hello to everybody on the call. Overall, our fourth quarter top line performance was strong, and we finished fiscal '12 in good fashion. We delivered sales growth of 4% on top of the 4% sales growth in the year-ago quarter. Even without the recent acquisitions, sales grew by 2.5%, and sales were up in all 4 of our business segments. Turning to volumes. Q4 volume was up 2%, about half the rate of sales growth, due to the benefit of price increases across most of the portfolio. Our new product innovation program delivered record levels in fiscal '12, with over 3 points of incremental sales growth. And our integrated marketing plan continued to drive strong market share results. We feel great about the quarter and the progress we are making in driving top line growth at a tough economic climate.


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Project Manager Location: Crawley / Croydon / Guildford Salary: £38,000 - £42,000 per annum company car Our client is one of the leading manufacturers and installers of hardwood conservatories, orangeries, windows and doors. Their products have been widely acknowledged as being best in class and they are proud of their reputation for customer service excellence. Their business is characterised by technical and manufacturing innovation. As their representative you will ensure the highest standards of design, quality and customer service while completing projects to budget and to time. Summary of the Project Manager role: Reporting to the Installations Manager, responsible for ensuring that contracts are completed to the highest standard and to agreed timescales and budget. This will include liaising with sub-contractors at all stages to ensure the best prices are obtained for building & fitting work, keeping the customer (or their agent) informed in writing (or via customer's chosen method) at all times and at all phases of the project and reviewing & updating the status of all contracts, reporting on progress, issues & costs on a weekly basis. Fully participating in the company's quality & technical forums, in particular facilitating installation / fitting improvements caused by issues arising from product quality and design. Ensuring the approved list of building & fitting sub-contractors are appropriate in terms of both number and quality to meet expected capacity requirements. Based from home with overnight stays as required. Skills & Experience required to become the Project Manager: Experienced Project Manager Prior experience of site measurement / assessment Excellent communication skills IT literate Light construction background Used to working from home The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by staff assigned to this job role. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. If you feel that you meet the above criteria of the Project Manager role then please apply now This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/75450760


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The new line array speakers will be demonstrated to those in attendance. Bose has manufactured the compact and modular ShowMatch DeltaQ 'to be adaptable for a wide range of venues' as well as to 'deliver superb, clear sound to every seat in the house'.
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Dear GraphVar-users,We found that in the GraphVar 1.0 update, the function to calculate the clustering coefficientfor binary undirected graphs was accidentally replaced with a function to calculate the number oftriangles around each node. The clustering coefficient, however, is defined as the number of trianglesaround each node divided by the number of possible triangles. In other words, the values that werereturned are simply the unscaled form of the binary undirected clustering coefficient.
Hi All,
I just wanted to share my experience about an error I got in DPARSF in case anyone else comes across it or in case the DPARSF creators want to fix this in future versions.
I have been running DPARSF jobs and they seem to fail a portion of the time somewhere after the initiation of the BET step.
Before this step, DPARSF requires user input (in my batch at least) saying "No co* images found" or something along those lines.
To whom it may concern,
I would like to start preprocessing in DPARSFA from Nifti images so I placed the images under the FunImg folder (which contains a folder for each subject). However, when I change the 'Starting Directory Name' to FunImg. I get the following warning: 'Please arrange each subject's DICOM images in one directory and then put them in FunRaw directory under the working directory' and the gui automatically revert to FunRaw (which I do not have as I want to start from nifti images).
Could you please advise how to solve this problem?
Thank you,
Dear Yan,
Although I am still learning, I am very happy with your software for the resting state analyses.
However, I have a doubt. I performed the FC analyes considering the ROI1. Then, I used SPM to compare two groups G1 and G2. At the whole brain, I obtain a significative difference between the two groups in the cluster C1.
Dear members of the R-fMRI Network,
As a current member of OHBM, you are cordially invited to participate in the council election of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). The elected nominees will represent you to work on the OHBM Council and Program Committee.
我想用您的DPARSF-A toolbox来做Friston motion regression,只需要做这一步,我的数据格式为.nii.gz,我将每个人的数据分别放在一个文件夹 ,并将它们全部放在FunImgARWSDF下面,在DPARSF-A 的界面上仅仅勾选Friston24,其他都不勾选。但是报错为
In DPARSF, "Extract ROI time courses" can extract the ROI time courses from the defined ROIs, as stored in: ROISignals in {WorkingDir}/Results/ROISignals_FunImgARCWF/ROISignals_Sub_001.mat
"Functional Connectivity" analysis can also extract the ROI time courses, as stored in: SeedSeries in {WorkingDir}/Results/FC_FunImgARCWF/ROI_FCMap_Sub_001.mat
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