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Pseudoachondroplastic dysplasia is a rare inherited disorder characterized by skeletal malformations resulting in short legs and mild to moderate short stature (short-limbed dwarfism). Affected individuals may have short, stubby fingers (brachydactyly), abnormally bowed legs (genu varum), and/or a malformation in which the knees are abnormally close together and the ankles are unusually far apart (genu valgum). In addition, affected individuals may have spinal abnormalities including abnormally increased curvature of the bones of the lower spine (lumbar lordosis) and front-to-back curvature of the spine (kyphosis). Cases of pseudoachondroplastic dysplasia are due to mutations of the COMP gene. Most cases of pseudoachondroplastic dysplasia are inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. However, a recessive form of the disorder may also exist.
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(CBS/AP)-- At least four veterans were killed and 16 other people were injured when a train slammed into a parade float carrying returning heroes to a banquet to honor them in West Texas, officials said Friday.
A float decorated with American flags and carrying wounded veterans and their spouses took the full force of a train at a railroad crossing in Midland, killing at least four veterans and injuring 16 people. There were 26 people on the flatbed at the time of the accident.
Some managed to jump clear as the train, with its horn blasting, bore down on the float decorated with American flags Thursday afternoon.
Pam Shoemaker from Monroe, La., said she and her husband, a special operations veteran, were on the float ahead of the one that was struck. Shoemaker described how the celebration so quickly turned sour.
She said her truck had just crossed the tracks and was moving slowly but never stopped. All around, the crowds lining the parade route cheered.
"It was beautiful," she said Friday. "There were lots of people with signs. Children yelling 'thank you!' waving flags."
West Texas veterans parade crash.Then they heard the train coming. There was no warning -- she hadn't seen or heard it until it was upon them. The Shoemakers jumped from their truck and ran toward the other one, knowing it would be hit in a matter of seconds. The crossing barriers had just started to come down, she said.
"We started to jump off of our trailer. We saw people jumping from the other trailer and then there was the impact," Shoemaker said.
Horrified spectators at the parade could only watch as the carnage unfolded.
"The train honked its horn, but the 18-wheeler could not go anywhere because of the other one (truck) being right in front of it," said Daniel Quinonez, who was waiting in his vehicle as the parade went by. "It was a horrible accident to watch happen right in front of me. I just saw the people on the semi-truck's trailer panic, and many started to jump off the trailer. But it was too late for many of them."
Sudip Bose, who was a front-line physician in Iraq, said Friday that the immediate aftermath reminded him of a combat triage situation. Veterans were already tending to the wounded when he reached the crash site. Bystanders tried to help with the limited medical supplies available.
"Instincts kicked in. They were applying tourniquets, holding pressure to the wounds," said Bose, who served in Fallujah and Baghdad and was volunteering at the parade.
Despite their efforts, Midland city spokesman Ryan Stout said 37-year-old Sgt. Maj. Gary Stouffer and 47-year-old Sgt. Maj. Lawrence Boivin were pronounced dead at the scene. Army Sgt. Joshua Michael, 34, and Sgt. Maj. William Lubbers, 43, were pronounced dead later at Midland Memorial Hospital.
According to CBS affiliate KOSA in Odessa, Texas, Stouffer, 37, served in the Marine Corps for 17 years in Albania, Ksovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was injured in Afghanistan after the vehicle he was traveling in was hit by IEDs. He had been awarded two combat action ribbons, commendation medals and campaign medals, among other awards, and was awaiting approval for the Purple Heart.
Forty seven-year-old Boivin was with the U.S. Army for 24 years and had several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, KOSA said. He was hit by an RPG in Iraq in 2004. For his service, he had been awarded the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal and the Bronze Star.
Michael, 34, was among one of the first troops to be sent to Iraq in 2003 with the U.S. Army, KOSA reported. He had been injured three times by IEDs in three different incidents in 2006.
Lubbers, a 43-year-old Army officer, had served many of his 24 years of service in the Special Forces and was stationed in Afghanistan and Pakistan several times, according to KOSA. His arm was shattered by a bullet during his second tour in Afghanistan. He had previously received the Special Forces and Ranger Tabs, Master and Freefall Parachutist Badges, three Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart and other awards.
Police confirmed the identities of the dead. Of the 16 others hurt in the crash, four are in stable condition and one is critical. Ten others were treated and released from the hospital.
Shoemaker credited the training and courage of the veterans who jumped to help the injured. Her husband, Tommy, resuscitated one person and applied a tourniquet to a bleeding woman.
"They are trained for tragedy," Shoemaker said.
The parade had been scheduled to end at a "Hunt for Heroes" banquet honoring the veterans. The wounded service members were then going to be treated to a deer-hunting trip this weekend. The events were canceled.
The events were organized by Show Of Support, a local veterans group that says its mission is to "lift the spirits of our U.S. troops and disable veterans" through hunting and fishing. The group's president, Terry Johnson, has not responded to emails seeking comment and his phone number was unlisted; the phone rang unanswered at the group's offices.
The National Transportation Safety Board has arrived at the scene of the incident and they are working in coordination with other agencies on the investigation.
Late Thursday, Union Pacific spokesman Tom Lange said a preliminary investigation indicated the crossing gate and lights were working. He did not know if the train crew saw the float. The black box from the train will determine its speed at the time of impact.
Federal Railroad Administration records reviewed by The Associated Press show that there have been 10 previous collisions -- five cars and five trucks -- at the same railroad crossing since 1979. Six drivers were injured in those accidents, but there were no fatalities. The trains involved were moving slowly at the time of the previous accidents, between 15 and 25 miles per hour.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was saddened by the news of the accident, Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement, adding that Panetta's "thoughts and prayers" are with the victims and the community.
A community-wide prayer vigil was held this morning at Centennial Plaza in downtown Midland to help show support for the victims and their families and the city was asked to fly their flags at half-mast until Monday morning, according press release from the City of Midland.
Mayor Wes Parry's voice cracked as he described how he had met Boivin and his wife a day earlier.
"It's hard to believe today that he's not here anymore," Parry said.


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The Galaxy Tab S2 is the company's thinnest and lightest tablet to date.
The Korean-based electronics maker, chasing Apple's iPad in the tablet market, adds new devices that promise a more vibrant, colorful viewing experience.
Starting Wednesday, folks who purchase a qualifying Samsung phone will get a free Galaxy Tab 3 tablet.
The unconfirmed tablets include an 8- and 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab 3 and a possible Google Nexus 10 competitor.
The decision to overturn a three-month-old sales ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet is now in the hands of U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh.
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A a scientific principle to specifically aid an automobile performance patent has run out. The principle has been used in other applications. Its use in bicycle design has recently been patented. There has been recent scientific research in marine applications to high speed ships. Can I patent application of this principle to small manually powered canoes, kayaks, or rowboats??
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But then when I populate this database again, id starts from the maximal id of the deleted entries. Why doesn't it work?
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Situation-independently, which of these items are better suited for Nature's Prophet, and why?
I'm going to disagree with both of your potential answers and instead suggest Medallion of Courage. While it doesn't increase your attack speed or damage, it does serve the same purpose of allowing you to gank by lowering armor. Nature's Prophet (when played properly) is an extremely strong ganker as he can be anywhere on the map at once. His pushing will obviously be weaker as this doesn't affect buildings, but you can easily pick up one of the other two items later.
Medallion gives him the single target focus that helps him gank and also allows him to more easily kill Roshan in the early game. The only time I would consider it a bad pickup would be against many heroes with high base armor or many agility heroes, as their armor rises much faster in the early game as they gain levels.
I'd say go for cuirass if you need some tank as well. If they have high physical dps I usually go for a Shivas Guard and AC combo which both contribute really nicely into teamfights. But this is only possible if one of my temamates is making their own hex/orchid.
Otherwise desolator is always a solid, reliable pick, so dont hesistate in buying that either!
My choice would be desolator it is cheaper and easier to make and when it is done the damage boost will make ganking,farming and last hitting much easier.The damage and -armor will also make you better at pushing,especially when destroying towers.
Cuirass is a good pushing item it makes "creep combat" faster,attack speed and -armor stacks nicely to desolator,but buying it before desolator or completely without it wouldn't be the best choice for Nature's Prophet.Also since it is combat and armor aura for maximum effect it would be more suitable for high HP heroes that can stay longer in middle of fight,or until you get hearth or some other tanky item.
But with Nature's Prophets farming capabilities given enough time you will most likely end up with both items since they make good combo.


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How many Coats/Jackets dfo you have?
With fall upon us(at least where I am) and winter around the corner I would like to know; How many Coats/jackets do you have, on what occasions do you wear them, which is you favorite, and are you looking for another?
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If we're counting hoodies, I have a ton. And I'm always on he lookout for more. Traditional jackets/coats probably 6 or 7. I pull out the hoodies as soon as it get s a little chilly. I usually save the dressier jackets for when I get a little more dressed up. Before I moved to Madison I never needed the BIG warm jackets. This year I will, so I'm on the lookout for one before winter :-)
I probably have 15-20. Which is funny, because I live in the desert and don't need them often. It's going to be 93 here today. But I like coats and scarves so I buy them.
Way too many, I have a coat closet that is packed to the gills and that's only coats, then I have a ton of hoodies and other sweatshirts. Needless to say, I tend to buy then if I run across one I like and is a good price, sometimes I just can't resist. And living in the northeast, you need a variety of weights of coats.
according to 1 kid as he left the door @35 degrees for school this morning & didn't like his jacket, not enough. According to the other kid who didn't want to wear a jacket, too many.
Let's see, I have a Ski coat I got a couple springs back for 70% off. Work supplied everyone with a light jacket. I have a couple other light, outdoor workout type jackets. Finally I have tall wool trenchcoat.
I have three. A Florida cold one, a visit to snowy states one & a rain jacket. My husband, on the other hand, has an addiction. Some even still have the tags on them. And yet, he wears a crappy, ripped up, denim hoodie type thing he found at the infield of a Dayton race. Turn three, to be precise.
just a sugar coat.
Let's see. 1) A black dress coat, 2) a medium-weight winter coat, 3) an older fleece jacket, 4) a newer fleece jacket, 5) a nylon pullover. Then there are 6, 7, and 8) - 3 older coats that don't get worn anymore. I think that's it.
I have many too many (particularly if you include fleece pullovers) for living in such a warm climate (DFW).
I've got my heavy(ish) winter coat that I wear when it gets to be below about 40 deg F. I have a heavier weight fleece jacket and a heavier weight fleece pullover that I wear when it's not quite so cold. I've got a lightweight, canvas jacket, a couple of lightweight fleece pullovers and two waterproof/breathable shells that double as wind breakers/light jackets.
I grew up in Michigan and still love cooler/cold weather. I often have to remind myself that I don't need to buy anymore fleece or sweaters or even long sleeve shirts because I barely have time to wear the ones I have. I miss real seasons.
Winter: 4 (2 active, 2 dress)
Fall: 3 (1 semi-dress, 2 casual)
Spring: 2
Summer: 1 (more of just a rain jacket)
~7 Fleeces & ~6 hoodies that I wear when I don't want to wear an actual coat/jacket.
Zero, not even a windbreaker: Arizona Native
It's sort of become a running joke with my family and friends, I'm 34 and am trying to see how long I can hold out. It's not that I'm stuborn, I just don't get too bothered by cold weather. I'm fine in AZ, the worst it gets here is mid 50's during the day but can get freezing overnight. I do travel for work quite a bit but haven't been stuck somewhere too cold.
Way too many. Still trying to find the perfect dog park, night time dog walking jacket.
I need to get rid of some.
I still don't have a dress coat.
One jean jacket, worn every day.
One long down coat, one short down coat, chosen depending on weather.
One long wool coat, for dress.


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In English, one can write, "I am mad at you!" as "I AM MAD AT YOU!" for greater emphasis; on the internet, it's seen as "yelling". Absent the ability to format text (say, bold or italics), what is done / can be done to emphasize a statement in Chinese other than simply adding more exclamation marks or some kind of emoticon?
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Emphasis mark (underneath dots) is the Chinese counterpart of italics.
In printing, besides emphasis mark, fonts are used for distinguishing purposes. Bold (黑体) is also considered as a different font (rather than a variation of the same font).
In handwriting, people use straight underline and tilde underline.
Chinese people usually use some 语气词 like 啊, 呀 and other words describe your feeling (you can put any words here). Repeating is also a useful way (not for books). You can find that Chinese books don't ususually have such thing.
If you understand what Chinese language really is, you may find such a thing is useless, because there are many ways to say what you really want to express.
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5 Real Murderers More Terrifying Than Any Horror Movie
#2. Mary Mallon -- The Human Plague
Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary," has to hold the all-time record for most accidental killings, though there does come a point where the woman deserves a least a little bit of the blame.
Mallon was born on September 23, 1869 in Ireland and immigrated to the United States at the age of 15 to eke out a living as a domestic servant, because that's the American dream. She found she had a talent for cooking, presumably because there is literally nothing else to do in Ireland, which allowed her to make a decent living among the upper class of the New York area.
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That's her on the right at the ripe old age of 15.
In 1900 she found herself in the employ of a household in Mamaroneck, but after only two weeks all of the residents had developed a serious illness. Mary moved to Manhattan and took a job with another wealthy family, again as the cook. Soon after securing her position, several family members started to develop fevers and diarrhea, and one of her fellow workers died. Mary took yet another cooking job at the home of a rich lawyer, and not much time had passed before seven of the eight members of the family were stricken with disease.
We're sure at this point you're sensing a pattern, and evidently so did the New York Board of Health. Dr. Sara Josephine Baker responded to investigate, but Mary refused to hear any talk of her possible link to the sickness and death that seemed to follow her around. A disease researcher, George Soper, approached Mary and asked her to provide urine and fecal samples, but he too was rebuffed, as are most strange men who ask women for souvenirs of their bodily functions.
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This is Mary in the hospital, along with what appears to be several of her clones.
As it turns out, Mary was crawling with Salmonella typhi bacilli, or typhoid fever, acting as a carrier without showing any symptoms herself. She refused to believe she was the root of all the illness around her, and would even assist in caring for the bedridden accidental typhoid victims, which of course just added to the problem.
Mary was forcibly placed into quarantine at an island clinic, languishing away until 1910, when the new New York State Commissioner of Health decided that keeping disease carriers in forced isolation was cruel, whereupon Mary was given a choice. The authorities told Mary that she was free to leave on one condition -- that she would no longer work in the culinary field. Mary agreed and rejoined society, a phrase which here means "she took a job as a cook, in a fucking hospital."
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"Hey, Mary, remember that quiet little cabin you used to pretend that you hated?"
When 25 people came down with typhoid fever after they'd come to the hospital for treatment of other ailments, Typhoid Mary was again taken into custody and sent back to her island quarantine, where she spent the remainder of her life. Reporters and researchers would occasionally drop by the island to interview her, but nobody challenged her with the most important question: Since Salmonella typhi is found in human urine and feces, what the hell was going on in Mary Mallon's kitchen, and why was her cooking so popular among the New York elite?
#1. Souflikar -- The "Hands-On" Executioner
How does a single man manage to kill 5,000 people without the aid of any weapons of mass destruction? Ask Souflikar.
Souflikar was the personal executioner for Mahomet IV, plying his trade during the time of the Ottoman Empire. This driven professional killed an average of three people a day over five years, until he wound up with 5,000 bodies to his name. A number that is about to become way, way more horrifying once you hear how he did it.
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Was it a machine gun? It was a machine gun, wasn't it?
Souflikar didn't mess around with nooses or axes or any of that bullshit. He strangled his victims to death with his bare goddamned hands. Not necessarily an unfair man, Souflikar offered his prey a sporting chance. The condemned were challenged to a race through the royal gardens to the place of execution. If they won, they were offered the reprieve of banishment. But if Souflikar won, he choked their immortal souls right out of their bodies.
There's a video game coming, just as soon as Intel gets Choke-O-Vision working.
You would think this process would do nothing more than create a race of super-fast murderers via natural selection, but apparently Souflikar just didn't lose. Unless Mahomet IV made having heel spurs or morbid obesity a capital offense, Souflikar's athletic prowess must have been incredible. His murder-aculous talent is even more amazing when you consider that he didn't even hold the title of royal executioner. No, his official title was "royal gardener."
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High intake of total dietary fat has been postulated to increase breast cancer risk on the basis of animal studies, international comparisons, and some other case-control studies. However, some prospective cohort studies have shown different results. In this study, the researchers investigated the association between total dietary fat and fat subtype intake and breast cancer risk in a large, prospective cohort study of postmenopausal women.
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Let $f: \mathbf{R}^2\to \mathbf{R}$. I want to integrate $f$ over the entire first quadrant, call $D$. Then by definition we have
$$\int \int_D f(x,y) dA =\lim_{R\to[0, \infty]\times[0, \infty]}\int \int_R f(x,y) dA$$
where $R$ is a rectangle.
I remember vaguely that the above is true if $f$ is positive. In other words, if $f$ is positive, then the shape of the rectangle does not matter.
So this brings me to my question: give a function $f$ such that the shape of the rectangles DO MATTER when evaluating the improper double integral.


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10 August 2006. Understanding how stress alters the brain may hold one key to unlocking the puzzle of genetic and environmental interplay in schizophrenia. In this regard, a new study from Conor Liston, Bruce McEwen, and colleagues at Rockefeller University and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York should be of some interest to schizophrenia researchers. Writing in the July 26 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, they report that subjecting rats to repeated stress causes dendritic loss in the medial prefrontal cortex, but dendritic growth in the orbitofrontal cortex. These distinct morphologic changes were accompanied by distinctly different effects on facets of executive function subserved by these two areas.
Executive function is of particular interest to researchers in schizophrenia because many patients are impaired on tests of cognitive flexibility—they often learn tasks as readily as control subjects, but then have trouble shifting strategies when the rules change. With evidence pointing to traumatic stress as a possible risk factor in schizophrenia (see SRF related news story), this new study provides a possible link between stress-induced brain alterations and some of the cognitive deficits characteristic of schizophrenia.
Previously, McEwen's group had shown that repeated stress, provided by restraining rats in a wire mesh restrainer for 6 hours daily over 3 weeks, caused retraction and debranching of dendrites and synapse loss in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) (Radley et al., 2006). In the new study, Liston and colleagues confirm this finding for neurons in the anterior cingulate region (ACg) of the mPFC. But a different area of the frontal cortex showed the opposite result: In the orbital frontal cortex (OFC), stress increased dendritic material and branching by 43 and 36 percent, respectively, as assessed by morphometric analysis of apical dendrites after ionophoric cell loading of Lucifer yellow dye. This is the first report of a stress-related increase in arborization of any region in the frontal cortex, the researchers write.
To look for functional consequences of these contrasting changes, the researchers tested the stressed rats for their ability to pay attention to varying environmental cues in order to locate a food reward. The procedure tests several different forms of executive function, including reversal learning (e.g., an odor that predicted reward no longer does so, and vice versa) and extradimensional attentional set-shifting (features of a stimulus that previously had no predictive value, e.g., texture, now are needed to find reward). Specifically, the rats had to find a sweet treat placed in one of two bowls cued with different odors (for example, cloves vs. nutmeg), or different digging material (e.g., plastic vs. Styrofoam beads).
In simple discrimination tests, the stressed rats learned the cue and performed just as well as control rats. Similarly, when the cues were reversed so that the wrong answer became the correct one (reversal learning, which is known to depend on OFC function), the stressed rats learned just as quickly as controls. The stressed rats were not so mentally agile, however, when the relevant cue switched from odor to texture, or vice versa. The stressed animals had a harder time than control rats learning to shift attention to the tactile cue and ignore the scent cue. Dealing with this type of extradimensional set-shift depends upon the mPFC, and morphologic measurements on individual rats strengthened the link between dendritic loss in this region and learning impairments. Animals with the largest stress-related morphologic changes showed the greatest impairments in attentional shifting, while animals with smaller changes performed like controls.
"Collectively, our results indicate that chronic stress induces contrasting morphologic effects in the lateral OFC and ACg, which in turn predict the severity of stress-related impairments in attention shifting," the authors write. "This study provides the first direct evidence that dendritic remodeling in the prefrontal cortex may underlie the functional deficits in attentional control that are symptomatic of stress-related mental illness."
An obvious, and open, question is how stress can have different effects on cells in neighboring cortical areas. In this regard, there is a precedent: pyramidal cells in hippocampus respond to stress with dendritic loss, whereas pyramidal cells of the basolateral amygdala show dendritic growth under the same conditions (see, e.g., Vyas et al., 2002 ). As the authors mention, the intra- and extracellular milieus can differ markedly in different brain regions, as well as patterns of innervation from monoaminergic neurons.—Pat McCaffrey.
Liston C, Miller MM, Goldwater DS, Radley JJ, Rocher AB, Hof PR, Morrison JH, McEwen BS. Stress-induced alterations in prefrontal cortical dendritic morphology predict selective impairments in perceptual attentional set-shifting. J Neurosci. 2006 Jul 26;26(30):7870-4. Abstract
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The PROSPR Center, founded jointly by researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, is one of just three centers dedicated to breast cancer screening research in the United States funded by NCI. It will develop and evaluate systems-based approaches using the latest in health-information technology to improve the quality of care for women undergoing breast cancer screening.
The award was made just as Breast Cancer Awareness Month got underway in October. Working in partnership with health care providers in the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Regional Primary Care Center in New Hampshire and the Brigham & Women's Primary Care Practice-based Research Network in Massachusetts, researchers will develop and test new informational tools designed to help each individual woman understand how she may benefit from breast cancer screening. The Center will also develop tracking systems that are integrated with a patient's electronic health record to assist primary care providers in improving breast cancer screening outcomes for women who are cared for in their practices.
"We are very excited about the opportunity to undertake patient-centered comparative effectiveness research studies that will provide better information on breast cancer screening for women and their health care providers," said Anna Tosteson, ScD, Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), Professor at The Dartmouth Institute, and one of the leaders of the Dartmouth PROSPR study. "Our Center will leverage the complementary expertise of our two academic medical centers and their affiliated regional primary care networks with different patient and practice characteristics. This collaboration allows us to create a Center that is significantly stronger than the component organizations. Our collaboration with other PROSPR Centers nationally will allow us to investigate how the latest breast cancer screening technologies are changing health and health care for women in the U.S."
Dr. Tosteson is joined on the study by Tracy Onega, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute at DMS, and Jennifer Haas, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Both Dr. Tosteson and Dr. Onega are members of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
"The Center is an outgrowth of years of experience and insights obtained through the New Hampshire Mammography Network (NHMN)," commented Dr. Onega. "The Network's continuing collection of data helps gauge the impact of mammography on cancer detection, and the data gathered by the registry also helps with the evaluation of new mammography technologies. This will greatly help the PROSPR Center deliver the right test to the right patient at the right time." Since the late 1990s, NHMN has collected data on almost a million mammograms in New Hampshire.
"Every year, tens of thousands of women undergo breast cancer screening. While mammography and other methods of detection are extremely valuable, we also know they can result in false positives, unnecessary anxiety, and, in some cases, surgery, for these women," said Dr. James N. Weinstein, Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and President of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic. "The information we collect through this Center will help us evaluate and improve breast cancer screening for the benefit of all women, not just in Northern New England, but throughout the world."
October 24, 2011
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Greetings....I'm Ron Brewington, Tuskegee Airmen Historian...I noted an error in paragraph 11:
"(Ambrose) Boiling said of the 1,000 pilots who were Tuskegee Airmen, only about 500 saw action during the war."
In reality, 992 Tuskegee Airmen were fighter and bomber pilots. Of that number, 355 fighter pilots (known as "Red Tails") saw action overseas.
The bomber pilots, though thoroughly trained, never saw action. They were scheduled for combat in the Pacific Theater against the Japanese, but then-President Harry Truman ordered the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, which ended WWII.
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I have seen that if $G$ is a finite group and $H$ is a proper subgroup of $G$ with finite index then $ G \neq \bigcup\limits_{g \in G} gHg^{-1}$. Does this remain true for the infinite case also?
Not in general. Every matrix in $\text{GL}_2(\mathbf C)$ is conjugate to an invertible upper triangular matrix (use eigenvectors), and the invertible upper triangular matrices are a proper subgroup.
If you really want an example with a discrete (i.e. "almost-finite") feel, consider $G=$ union of all symmetric groups $S_n$ acting on $\{1,2,3,\dots\}$ and $H$ the stabilizer of $1$. Since every element of $G$ belongs to some $S_n$ it can be conjugated inside $S_{n+1}$ to an element of $H$. The usual swindle...
In your original question you require $H$ to have finite index in $G$. Most of the other answers are treating this as unintended. If you actually did want to require this, then the result is true for infinite groups as well.
Proof: Let $[G:H]=n$. The action of $G$ on $G/H$ gives a map $G \to S_n$; let $K$ be the kernel of this map. Then $H/K$ and $G/K$ are finite groups, so we know $G/K \neq \bigcup g (H/K) g^{-1}$. In particular, there is some coset $fK$ which is not in any $g H g^{-1}$. So $f$ is not in any $g H g^{-1}$.
(Let me drop the finite index requirement as in the other answers)
This remains true for discrete virtually solvable groups. Indeed the property of having no proper subgroup containing a conjugate of every element in the group is stable by extension.
I let you check that if the property holds for G_1 and G_2, and G is such that there is a sequence 0->G_1->G->G_2->0, then the property also holds for G.
Note that this property is not stable by direct limit. If K is the algebraic closure of a finite field, SL_n(K) is the direct limit of finite groups, yet the property is not verified. This gives an example of an amenable group for which the property does not hold.
It is not yet known if there are amenable groups of finite type which do not satisfy the property.
On the other hand, the property does not hold for non-abelian free groups, or, in the realm of uncountable groups, for connected semi-simple complex lie groups that are not solvable.
Given an arbitrary countable group $H$ containing an element of large enough order but no involutions, there exists a two-generator simple group $G$ such that $H$ is a proper subgroup of $G$ and $G=\bigcup \limits _{g\in G} gHg^{-1}$. This is Theorem 17 of
S.V. Ivanov and A.Y. Ol'shanskii, Some applications of graded diagrams in combinatorial group theory, Groups—St. Andrews 1989, Vol. 2, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., vol. 160, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 258–308.


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I installed ubuntu 11.04 alongside windows 7 on a partition that previously had ubuntu 10.04. It installed perfectly but on completion, after the reboot, the boot menu shows just 'memtest' and windows 7 as options - no option for loading ubuntu.
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(I expect this question will be moved to Ask Ubuntu, but I'll throw this answer on while we wait).
First, boot to a live cd to make sure your installed Ubuntu partition is still there (I fully expect it to be).
Second, (assuming the 1st step showed you that you still have an Ubuntu install) look at your partition table and your grub.conf file - make sure it's the grub.conf file of your installed system, not the live cd :) You may just have to manually write in the line for your Ubuntu partition. It's odd that the generated grub.conf file would be broken.
On the bootloader, type "c". Then type:
In case you have more than one hard drives, you could have installed the new bootloader on the other (or one of the others, if you have more than two) drive. Changing the boot device priority can grant you access to that bootloader.
If that is not the problem, you should try restoring grub following this tutorial http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-restore-grub-2-after-reinstalling-windows-xpvistawin7
(i know that its title says "after installing windows" but , of course, the steps used there are just as good for reinstalling grub after any problem)
If you've got a live CD, you can try the following command out in the terminal after choosing Trying Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install grub //firstly install grub
if you load into the grub prompt
root (hdx,y)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz--generic ro root=/dev/sda7 //sda7=(hd0,6), replace it with your own
no need to remember the kernel version, just use tab to help you
I've just done this to dual boot my win7 (on sda1) and ubuntu 11.04 (on sda5)
Well, without the Live CD try to search for grub4dos to boot ubuntu with the windows bootloader


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Can anything interesting be deduced about the properties of a group from the behavior of the Ising model on its Cayley graph? (i.e. existence and character of phase transitions, critical behavior) I'm not sure, though, if one should expect any general results (link between large-scale geometry and universality class, maybe?), since even very simple geometry of the group (say, $\mathbb{Z^2}$) can give highly nontrivial statistical properties.
Perhaps I can summarize my comments in this answer. The Ising model on Cayley graphs is similar but more difficult than percolation models (site, bond and others). The "canonical" reference for percolation on transitive graphs (including the Cayley graphs) is Benjamini-Schramm (see references here). There are deep connections between geometric properties of Cayley graphs (say, the growth, amenability, etc.) and properties of percolation (say, the number of different phases, critical exponents, etc). Similar connections exist for Ising model although that model is more difficult and much less explored. See references in Spakulova's thesis "Percolation and Ising Model on Tree-Like Graphs" and "The Ising model and percolation on trees and tree-like graphs" by Russell Lyons, Comm. Math. Phys. Volume 125, Number 2 (1989), 337-353.
Hi Marcin,
recently writing a paper about phase transition on the Ising model with positive non-uniform magnetic field in infinite graphs I discovered that joining some results in the literature we can relate amenability and Phase transition in the Ising model with positive magnetic field:
Theorem 1: If $G$ is a non-amenable infinite connected graph then there is a ferromagnetic Ising model on $G$, with constant positive magnetic field having phase transition.
There is a partial converse of this result for quasi-transitive amenable graphs. A infinite graph $G=(V,E)$ is quasi-transitive if there exist a finite number of vertices $x_1,\ldots,x_k$ such that for any $x\in V$, there is an automorphism of $G$ taking $x$ to some $x_i$.
Theorem 2: If $G$ is a amenable quasi-transitive infinite connected graph then all ferromagnetic Ising model on $G$, with constant positive magnetic field has no phase transition.
Theorem 2 is interesting converse because of the quasi-transitive hypothesis can not be removed since Bausev shown that we have phase transition in ferromagnetic Ising model with magnetic field being constant at all sites of the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^2 \times \mathbb{Z}_+$ .
Let $\mathcal{L}$ be the set of finite parts of $V$ and suppose that $\Lambda_n\in\mathcal{L}$ is such that $\cup_{n\in\mathbb{N}}\ \Lambda_n=G$. The Hamiltonian of the Ising model in $\Lambda_n$ with a boundary condition $\omega\in \{-1,1\}^{V}$ is given by $$ H_{\Lambda_n}(\sigma|\omega)= -\sum_{\substack{i,j\in E:\\ i,j\in\Lambda_n}} J\ \sigma_i\sigma_j -\sum_{i\in \Lambda_n}h_i \ \sigma_i - \sum_{\substack{i,j\in E:\\ i\in\Lambda_n,j\in\Lambda_n^c}} J\ \sigma_i\omega_j, $$ where $\sigma=(\sigma_i)_{i\in V}\in\{-1,1\}^{V}$, $J\in\mathbb{R}$ (the model is called ferromagnetic of $J>0$) and $h_i\in\mathbb{R}$ is said the magnetic field. Finally we say that this Ising model has phase transition if the closed convex hull of the set $$ \left\{w-\lim_{\Lambda_n\uparrow G}\ \mu_{\Lambda_n}^{\beta,\omega}:\omega\in\{-1,1\}^{V} \right\} $$ is singleton for all $\beta>0$. The measures $\mu_{\Lambda_n}^{\beta,\omega}$ are defined by $$ \mu_{\Lambda_n}^{\beta,\omega}(\sigma)= \left\{ \begin{array}{rl} \frac{\exp(-\beta H_{\Lambda_n}^{\omega}(\sigma))}{Z_{\Lambda_n}^{\omega}},&\text{if}\ \sigma_i=\omega_i\ \forall i\in\Lambda_n^c;\\ 0,& \text{otherwise}, \end{array} \right. $$
One nice reference about the results I stated above is Jonasson, J. and Steif, J. E.: Amenability and Phase Transition in the Ising Model. J. Theor. Probab. 12, 549-559 (1999).
This has been studied. See
@article {MR1390236, AUTHOR = {Regge, Tullio and Zecchina, Riccardo}, TITLE = {Exact solution of the {I}sing model on group lattices of genus {$g>1$}}, JOURNAL = {J. Math. Phys.}, FJOURNAL = {Journal of Mathematical Physics}, VOLUME = {37}, YEAR = {1996}, NUMBER = {6}, PAGES = {2796--2814}, ISSN = {0022-2488}, CODEN = {JMAPAQ}, MRCLASS = {82B20 (82B23)}, MRNUMBER = {1390236 (97f:82014)}, MRREVIEWER = {Gunter Sch{\"u}tz}, DOI = {10.1063/1.531690}, URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.531690}, }


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My laptop has integrated Mobile Broadband so it can get internet from cell phone waves when I'm away from home. It also has WiFi so it can get internet by connecting to my wireless router when I'm at home.
I have a Lenovo laptop and when I first got it it had Windows installed. Using Windows I was able to selectively turn on/off the "WiFi" antenna and/or the "Mobile Broadband" antenna. I could have both on, both off, or one on and one off.
Using my laptop's Fn keyboard shortcut to activate the antennas in Ubuntu appears to be an all on or all off action. Battery life when using Ubuntu is not the greatest. So I was thinking it might be helpful to make sure that unnecessary antennas are not on when they don't need to be. So when I am away from home and using Mobile Broadband is there a way I can disable the WiFi antenna, and vice versa for when I am at home?


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The continuing shortage of skilled labor in the oil and gas
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While economic instability
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Nearly one third of survey participants identified the ongoing
skills shortage as the biggest threat to the sector, while a
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While the news is troubling for the industry, employees in
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force shortages and significant industry growth. In particular,
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particular for those positions considered to be high risk.
"The recent tragic events in Algeria have underscored
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The Oil & gas industry is paying for its earlier mistakes to fast track individuals into higher management positions in an attempt to reduce manpower costs and spread management competencies due to a preceived notion that the job can be learned and mastered from a book. Now they face a shortage of competent and experienced manpower because new comers to the industry have been trying to make a name and a mark introducing cost saving initiatives. This will open up new opportunities for mentors like myself to bring the workers up to speed. I can assure you that the individual employees will not pay and it will be up to the industry as a whole to foot the bill.
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I agree completely with the editorial. In my experience as a Contract Trainer for a variety of oil refining companies, recruits rarely come with the required education in math and sciences that will enable them to be easily trained. They seem to need basic subjects improved before they begin their technical training.
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In any case, first is the safety
Well Duuuuh!! (apologies for the sarcasm): What else could be expected from 20+ years of the MBA Mantra, "Do more with less"?! The incident at Chevron's RIchmond refinery is another marker: I fully expect to see more of these types of incidents because of the continual squeezing of staffing levels, no traiing budgets and no hiring. The inexorable outcome of the obsessive focus on short-term returns is catching up and the remedy will be quite painful to the corporate bottom line, but that's what it's going to take to dig out of the situtation.
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Things We Likely Won't Do Anymore If We Have a BabyMara Kofoed
Over the last 8 years of infertility, it's been easy to get settled into a life without kids. (I strangely feel further away from being a parent than ever. It's just been so long.) So as we approach the IVF process – I'm just mentally preparing for a few things that we likely won't do anymore as a couple if we have a baby……..(for you parents, maybe this will bring back some memories from the olden days 🙂
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Having a Super Messy House 5 of 11I know you parents will love this one. :) But you know what, with a baby around here, we actually couldn't leave our home in the condition it's in. We get lazy about putting luggage away after trips, folding down boxes that need to be recycled, putting away the HUGE packs of toilet paper from Costco. And so, because our apartment doesn't have a lot of wiggle room, we really would have to change our habits around here to make space for a baby. Toys, blankets, books, baby clothes? OK. Different story. But babies shouldn't have to climb over piles of recycling. :)
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Having Sex Pretty Much Any Time of Day or Night 6 of 11Um.....that's kind of nice. Really nice.
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Traveling WHENEVER & WHEREVER 7 of 11Danny and I decided to go to Europe one summer and left 2 weeks later....I'm guessing that's not how it's done with kiddos around :)
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I need to create a wizard which has numerous sections, each with multiple questions. How can I improve the experience for the end-user?
My first suggestion would be to try to eliminate as many steps as possible. Really think about the flow, what's required, etc.
Some tips to make a long process more friendly:
A side note (hopefully not stirring up the flames): Apple hardly ever uses Wizards for set-up processes, and when they do, the Apple set-up assistants are (in my opinion) always easier to figure out than the Microsoft equivalents. I'd suggest looking at the differences and try to identify the tricks employed by Apple.
This are the most important I can think of:
Read more on this topic at the Designing Interfaces Wizard page.
If you have considered all the alternatives mentioned in other answers and have decided that the wizard has to be big then you should consider the following:
I would put each step into a tab, in such a way that the tabs that are accessible at any point are enabled, the others disabled.
In this way, the user can move freely around a correct mistakes without having to go several steps back etc. The enabling of the tabs still stops the user to go to steps that cannot be modified yet, because there is still information missing.
In addition to other tips mentioned, use smart defaults for everything you possibly can. If you already have their email address, you can probably take a stab at their name, potential user name, possibly workplace, country of residence (or get that from their IP address or system settings). Here's a small example.
Which brings up another source of information: if you are making an app, then there will aready be vast amounts of information available to you from the system. Use it.
Thinking about this may also alter the order in which you ask your questions. You can get an awful lot of stuff from just country and zip/postal code, for example.
Speaking of addresses, postal addressing systems make use of vast databases of addresses to allow easy error checking of address entries: given the zip/postal code, you may be able to guess after a single keystroke of the street name that the intended address is "Quixotic street", and save many mistyping and spelling errors. You may also know the range of known addresses, and even if certain numbers require additional things like apartment number, for example. Not that you would disallow the user from entering a street name or house number you don't know, but you might warn them with a non-modal 'did you mean...?" type message.
To sumamrise: even if it seems like a lot of work on your part which may well be overridden by the user in the end, making life easy for your (hopefully millions of) users is worth it.
If the process/wizard itself can't be simplified or in some other way reduced, I'd suggest at a minimum indicating exactly where in that process the user currently is.
You can do this with something as simple as "Step 6 of 10", or more elaborately by showing a flowchart with the current step highlighted etc.
There are always ways to minimize the size of a wizard, like separating tasks or making some of the steps optional.
Some tips:
In addition to these great tactical tips everyone has suggested, I'd also recommend you'd do some discount usability testing with people who would be working with the wizard.
By walking through the current wizard's pages with users, you can get useful feedback about which sets of fields can be grouped together to make the process more natural for them.
In some circumstances you'll find that your users have a greater tolerance for longer forms when they're organized in a way that matches their expectations.
Perhaps a wizard is not the ideal solution here.
Does the user really need to choose from a huge list of different options in sequence?
Could you default most of the options? If the user needs to change from the defaults they can click a change button to change that particular option.
If they can't be defaulted from the start, can you save their previous choice and default those?
Consider the alternatives to Wizards: Progressive enabling and disclosure.
Have all questions on one page, but only show the first chunk of them. Then when user has finished the first chunk you show the second chunk on the same page. Continue like this. That way it is:
With progressive enabling, you have disabled the next chunk of questions until the user has finished the first chunk.