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45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience
- By Noura Yehia
- January 15th, 2009
- 151 Comments
JavaScript libraries have made huge leaps and bounds in helping developers write code and develop products more quickly. jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks, with powerful tools that improve the user's interaction with Web applications. jQuery has an additional advantage in that it allows developers to select elements on a page using CSS-like syntax.
To help you take it up a notch, we share below some methods that can help you give visitors to your website an amazing user experience. Here are over 45 impressive jQuery plug-ins and techniques that have been recently created and that could make the development of your next website an easier and more interesting experience than the last.
You may want to take a look at the following related posts:
- jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices1
- 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques2
- 80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding3
- 60 More AJAX- and Javascript Solutions For Professional Coding
Dynamic Content Link
1. Build A Login Form With jQuery4
In this tutorial, we'll create a sliding panel, that slides in to reveal more content, using JQuery to animate the height of the panel. In this case, we will be creating a hypothetical login for the new tutsplus area that's coming soon.
2. Spoiler Revealer with jQuery6
A simple technique that hides some content first and fades it in once a link is clicked.
3. AJAX Upload
This AJAX file upload plug-in allows users to easily upload multiple files without having to refresh the page. In addition, you can use any element to trigger the file selection window. The plug-in creates a semi-transparent file input screen over the button you specify, so when a user clicks on the button, the normal file selection window is shown. After the user selects a file, the plug-in submits the form that contains the file input to an iFrame. So it isn't true AJAX but provides the same user experience.
4. FCBKcomplete8
Give your users fancy Facebook-like dynamic inputs, with auto-complete and pre-added values.
5. Create Accessible Charts Using Canvas and jQuery
This tool is proof that you can use the <canvas> element to illustrate HTML table data. The idea is a good one: putting the data in a table allows it to remain accessible, while the chart can be shown for visual enhancement.
Form Manipulation Link
6. Radio Button and Check Box Replacement10
This jQuery tool replaces radio buttons and check boxes with a more appealing display.
7. Submit a Form without a Page Refresh12
8. jQuery AJAX Contact Form
Here is a quick and easy way to make a jQuery AJAX contact form with a "honeypot" to foil email bots, load success and error messages dynamically without leaving the page and provide descriptive error messages detailing why submitted values have failed validation.
9. Simple jQuery Form Validation14
This jQuery form shows live form-input validators both server-side and browser-side.
Navigation Menus Link
10. jQuery Context Menu16
A context menu plug-in for jQuery that features easy implementation, keyboard shortcuts, CSS styling and control methods.
11. Kwicks for jQuery17
Kwicks for jQuery started off as a port of the incredibly attractive MooTools framework, but has evolved into a highly customizable and versatile widget.
12. jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu
"We created an iPod-style drilldown menu to help users traverse hierarchical data quickly and with control. It's especially helpful when organizing large data structures that don't translate well into traditional dropdown or fly-out menus."
13. jQuery File Tree
14. How to Create a MooTools Home Page-Inspired Navigation Effect20
In this tutorial, you'll recreate the same effect seen in MooTools's menu, but in jQuery!
15. CSS Sprites222
This tutorial demonstrates how to implement inline CSS Sprites2 using jQuery.
Manipulating Content Link
16. jQuery books widget24
With some custom JavaScript and jQuery magic you can create some interesting widgets. A good way to demonstrate this functionality is by building a browsable Amazon.com books widget.
17. Text Size Slider26
This tutorial explains how to use a slider to control the text size of an article on a page. This lets the user control exactly the size that suits them, and is also a pretty impressive feature to have on a site.
18. Pagination28
Create navigational elements: when you have a large number of items, you can group them into pages and present navigational elements that allow users to move from one page to another.
19. Coda-Slider
As with the last tool, groups items together using navigational elements that allow users to move from one page to another.
20. Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured-Content Slider29
If you love the Coda-Slider plug-in for jQuery, then you will find this plug-in very useful for displaying lots of content in a small area. This nice plug-in adds some features not found in the original Coda-Slider, such as slowly cycling through panels, auto-playing different types of custom content. An arrow indicator serves as a visual indication of which panel you are currently viewing.
21. haccordion33
A simple horizontal accordion plug-in for jQuery.
Tabular Data and Grids Link
22. Table Row Checkbox Toggle
This tool generically adds a toggle function to any table row you specify based on a CSS class name. It will, by default, toggle on any check boxes within that table row.
23. Tablesorter35
Tablesorter is a jQuery plug-in that turns a standard HTML table with <th> and <td> tags into a sortable table without the need for page refreshes. Tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data, including linked data, in a cell.
24. TableEditor
TableEditor provides flexible in-place editing of HTML tables. User-defined handler functions can easily be dropped in to update, for example, a data source via an AJAX request.
25. Scrollable HTML Table37
This JavaScript code can be used to convert ordinary HTML tables into scrollable ones.
Lightbox Techniques Link
26. Revealing Photo Slider39
Learn how to create a thumbnail photo gallery, where clicking a button reveals the entire photo and more information about that photo.
27. FancyBox41
FancyBox was born to automatically scale large images to fit in windows, adding a nice drop-shadow under the zoomed item. It can be used to group related items and add navigation between them (using a pre-loading function). FancyBox is totally customizable through settings and CSS.
28. Facebox Image and Content Viewer 43
Facebox is a lightweight Facebook-style Lightbox that can display images, divs, and even entirely remote pages (via AJAX) inline on a page and on demand. It uses the compact jQuery library as its engine, unlike Lightbox v2.0, which uses Prototype.
29. jQuery.popeye
jQuery.popeye is a plug-in that transforms an unordered list of images into a simple image gallery. When an image is clicked, it enlarges Lightbox-style. The images are displayed in a box with "Previous" and "Next" controls, and information about the images can be included.
Image Galleries and Viewers Link
30. Simple Controls Gallery45
Simple Controls Gallery rotates and displays each image by fading it into view over the previous one, with navigation controls that pop up when the mouse hovers over the gallery. The controls allow the user to play, pause or jump to a specific image in the gallery.
31. Agile Carousel
This jQuery plug-in allows you to easily create a custom carousel. Use the jQuery UI to enable many different types of transition. The plug-in uses PHP to call images from the folder you specify. Configure many different options including controls, slide timer length, easing type, transition type and more!
Browser Tweaks Link
32. Setting Equal Heights with jQuery47
A script to equalize the heights of boxes within the same container and create a tidy grid.
33. jQuery IE6 PNG Transparency Fix49
Another IE6 PNG fix that uses jQuery selectors to automatically fix all PNG images on a page.
34. BGI frame50
This tool helps ease the pain of dealing with IE z-index issues. You can find a demo here51.
35. Fix Overflow52
IE puts scroll bars inside overflowing elements, and if an element is only one line, the scroll bar will cover it. This plug-in fixes that issue.
36. Lazy Load54
Lazy Load delays the loading of images below the fold on long pages. As the user scrolls down, the images are loaded as needed. Check out the demo here55.
37. Maxlength56
It's a fairly common design practice to limit the number of characters a user can input in a field while giving feedback on how many spaces are left. This plug-in automates that task.
Animation Effects Link
38. Scrollable
Scrollable is a flexible and lightweight (3.9 KB) jQuery plug-in for creating scrollable content. Scrollable items can contain any HTML, such as text, images, forms, video or any combination of them. You can make items scroll horizontally or vertically and decide how many items are visible at once.
39. jQuery Fading Menu – Replacing Content58
"Instead of thinking about CSS as page layout and a way to style your page when it loads, you can use in animation and change it on-the-fly to react to events that happen on your page. Take for example a menu. You can take the "click" event that happens when clicking on a menu to do lots of stuff."
40. Build an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery60
This effect simulates a faux 3-D animated background reminiscent of old-school side-scrolling video games (and not unlike the parallax effect). This effect is created by layering several empty divs over each other, with transparent PNGs as background images. The backgrounds are animated at different speeds using jQuery.
41. Flip
Flip is a plug-in for jQuery that "flips" page elements in four directions. Compatible with Firefox 2+, Internet Explorer 6+, Safari 3.1 (for Windows) and Google Chrome.
- Download files here.
42. Use jQuery for Background Image Animations62
Animate your menu whenever a user hovers over an item with this effect.
Image Manipulation Link
43. Jcrop64
Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image-cropping functionality to your Web application. It combines the ease of use of a typical jQuery plug-in with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.
44. jQZoom66
Miscellaneous Link
45. Date Range Picker
A rich date-range widget that uses the jQuery UI's date picker and some additional custom interaction.
46. Sortable Lists68
Unordered lists are commonly used to structure a website's navigation. Having the ability to re-order such lists would be extremely useful. Here is a method to easily save and reload the list element order without getting lost as the page is refreshed.
47. Amazing Music Player Using Mouse Gestures and Hotkeys70
Learn how to create an amazing music player, coded in XHTML and jQuery, that makes use of mouse gestures and hotkeys. You can click and drag the mouse to interact with the music player's interface or use directional keys and the space bar instead of the mouse.
48. Script for Tracking Outbound Links in Google Analytics with jQuery
This code snippet uses Google Analytics and jQuery to automatically track outbound links. This interesting script enhances behavior by comparing the link's domain to the current page's domain and, if they are different, triggering the behavior. This is helpful when using a CMS or other tool that generates full URLs, including the "http://," instead of relative ones.
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#content a:not(.popupwindow)').filter(function() {
var theHref = this;
if (theHref.hostname && theHref.hostname !== location.hostname) {
$(theHref).not(".noAutoLink").attr('target','_blank').bind('click keypress', function(event) {
var code=event.charCode || event.keyCode;
if (!code || (code && code == 13)) {
var fixedLink = this.href;
fixedLink = fixedLink.replace(/https?://(.*)/,"$1");
fixedLink = '/outgoing/' fixedLink;
49. jGrowl
jGrowl is a jQuery plug-in that delivers unobtrusive messages within the browser, similar to the way that OS X's Growl Framework72 works.
Footnotes Link
- 1 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/16/jquery-examples-and-best-practices/
- 2 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/11/75-really-useful-javascript-techniques/
- 3 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/20/ajax-javascript-solutions-for-professional-coding/
- 4 http://nettuts.com/javascript-ajax/build-a-top-panel-with-jquery/
- 5 http://nettuts.com/javascript-ajax/build-a-top-panel-with-jquery/
- 6 http://css-tricks.com/examples/SpoilerRevealer/
- 7 http://css-tricks.com/examples/SpoilerRevealer/
- 8 http://www.emposha.com/javascript/jquery/jquerymultiselect.html
- 9 http://www.emposha.com/javascript/jquery/jquerymultiselect.html
- 10 http://www.protofunc.com/scripts/jquery/checkbox-radiobutton/
- 11 http://www.protofunc.com/scripts/jquery/checkbox-radiobutton/
- 12 http://nettuts.com/javascript-ajax/submit-a-form-without-page-refresh-using-jquery/
- 13 http://nettuts.com/demos/contactform/
- 14 http://www.willjessup.com/sandbox/jquery/form_validator/form_validate.html
- 15 http://www.willjessup.com/sandbox/jquery/form_validator/form_validate.html
- 16 http://abeautifulsite.net/notebook/80
- 17 http://www.jeremymartin.name/projects.php?project=kwicks
- 18 http://www.jeremymartin.name/examples/kwicks.php?example=1
- 19 http://abeautifulsite.net/notebook_files/58/demo/
- 20 http://nettuts.com/html-css-techniques/how-to-create-a-mootools-homepage-inspired-navigation-effect-using-jquery/
- 21 http://nettuts.s3.amazonaws.com/004_Moo/tutorial/demo/demo.html
- 22 http://alistapart.com/articles/sprites2
- 23 http://alistapart.com/d/sprites2/examples/example6-function.html
- 24 http://nettuts.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/create-an-amazoncom-books-widget-with-jquery-and-xml/
- 25 http://nettuts.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/create-an-amazoncom-books-widget-with-jquery-and-xml/
- 26 http://nettuts.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/use-the-jquery-ui-to-control-the-size-of-your-text/
- 27 http://nettuts.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/use-the-jquery-ui-to-control-the-size-of-your-text/
- 28 http://plugins.jquery.com/project/pagination
- 29 http://css-tricks.com/creating-a-slick-auto-playing-featured-content-slider/
- 30 http://css-tricks.com/creating-a-slick-auto-playing-featured-content-slider/
- 31 http://css-tricks.com/examples/FeaturedContentSlider/
- 32 http://css-tricks.com/examples/FeaturedContentSlider.zip
- 33 http://letmehaveblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/haccordion-simple-horizontal-accordion.html
- 34 http://letmehaveblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/haccordion-simple-horizontal-accordion.html
- 35 http://tablesorter.com/docs/
- 36 http://tablesorter.com/docs/
- 37 http://www.webtoolkit.info/scrollable-html-table-plugin-for-jquery.html
- 38 http://www.webtoolkit.info/demo/jquery/scrollable/demo.html
- 39 http://css-tricks.com/revealing-photo-slider/
- 40 http://css-tricks.com/revealing-photo-slider/
- 41 http://fancy.klade.lv/
- 42 http://fancy.klade.lv/
- 43 http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/facebox/index.htm
- 44 http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/facebox/index.htm
- 45 http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/simplegallery.htm
- 46 http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/simplegallery.htm
- 47 http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/setting_equal_heights_with_jquery/
- 48 http://www.filamentgroup.com/examples/equalHeights/
- 49 http://www.emposha.com/javascript/jquery-ie6-png-transperency-fix.html
- 50 http://plugins.jquery.com/project/bgiframe
- 51 http://brandonaaron.net/jquery/plugins/bgiframe/test/
- 52 http://remysharp.com/2008/01/21/fixing-ie-overflow-problem/
- 53 http://remysharp.com/2008/01/21/fixing-ie-overflow-problem/
- 54 http://plugins.jquery.com/project/lazyload
- 55 http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload/enabled.html
- 56 http://remysharp.com/2008/06/30/maxlength-plugin/
- 57 http://remysharp.com/demo/maxlength.html
- 58 http://css-tricks.com/learning-jquery-fading-menu-replacing-content/
- 59 http://css-tricks.com/learning-jquery-fading-menu-replacing-content/
- 60 http://css-tricks.com/jquery-robot/
- 61 http://robot.anthonycalzadilla.com/
- 62 http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/jquery-bg-image-animations/
- 63 http://snook.ca/technical/jquery-bg/
- 64 http://deepliquid.com/content/Jcrop.html
- 65 http://deepliquid.com/projects/Jcrop/demos.php
- 66 http://www.mind-projects.it/projects/jqzoom/
- 67 http://www.mind-projects.it/projects/jqzoom/
- 68 http://www.shopdev.co.uk/blog/sortable-lists-using-jquery-ui/
- 69 http://www.shopdev.co.uk/blog/sortables.html
- 70 http://yensdesign.com/2008/12/create-an-amazing-music-player-using-mouse-gestures-hotkeys-in-jquery/
- 71 http://yensdesign.com/tutorials/musicplayer/
- 72 http://growl.info/
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Skip to comments.Extraterrestrial 'truthers' holding hearings in D.C. next month
Posted on 03/25/2013 3:02:14 PM PDT by markomalley
In Washington, everyone has their issue. But it's probably safe to say that Stephen Bassett's is a little more colorful. Bassett, the executive director of the Paradigm Research Group, wants the U.S. government to lift what he calls the "truth embargo" and acknowledge that extraterrestrials are real and are engaging the human race. "Think of me as a very committed political activist like any other, whether it's the civil rights movement, or the gay rights movement, or the women's rights movement, or any other," he told Yeas & Nays.
Though his movement is a wee bit more alien.
Bassett and his allies are taking over the National Press Club in downtown D.C. from April 29 to May 3 to host the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. "What we are going to do is bring the largest concentration of witnesses ever assembled in one place, at one time, and they are going to testify exactly as if they were in a real congressional hearing," Bassett explained. Former members of Congress are being tapped to run the hearings, while witnesses, including former astronaut (and sixth man on the moon) Edgar Mitchell, are coming in from around the world. A film production crew from Los Angeles will film the whole thing, turning "Truth Embargo" into a documentary.
Bassett hopes that eventually the media will force the government to come clean. "All political advocacy is a chess game that we play with the government, we are trying to maneuver that situation," he said. "The issue's been taken seriously for a very long time now," he added.
Good, in a way. The more time the idiots in DC spend on stupid crap like this the better.
Extraterrestrials definitely are on the Earth and controling certain aspects of our life and culture. I mean, how else can you explain the popularity of Keeping Up with the Kardashians other than extraterrestrial mind control?
Who's to say that extraterrestrials haven't visited the earth and the US government covered it up? Given how so much about Obama's history has been ginned up he might be one of them.
To be able to travel many light years, you would need extreme intelligence. Do you see the disconnect?
"To be able to travel many light years, you would need extreme intelligence. Do you see the disconnect?"
Not at all. As an alien out to impose his will on us he was smart enough to register as a Democrat, curry favor with the Chicago political machine, and he was smart enough to dazzle the dolts of the media.
May I borrow your FTL drive?
I was kind of hoping for an ET type alien instead of a tyrant. I guess we better get Will Smith on the job...Jeff Goldbloom too.
Certainly. I just replaced the dilithium crystals.
Well it makes more sense than what has been happening in Washington the last 50 or so years, damn sure less dangerous to the Constitution and us.
Maybe the "aliens" are putting the human species through a series of tests, a maze if you will, to determine our average level of intelligence. I'd say the fact that we continue to elect and follow the most incompetent of leaders speaks volumes.
I would like off this rock please.
She can do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.
My God...we've gone plaid.
If there are extras then the government would cover it up, if there aren't then they would pretend to cover it up so as to detract from other incompetence.
Quix ol' buddy, if you're reading this you really ought to re-register under a new name and get on this game.
The author is an Historian, a damned good one at that!
"Watch EP#9: Stephen Bassett; Exopolitics, UFO Disclosure | Conundrums Episodes | Learning Videos | Blip
Many in the disclosure kook crowd have woven together a New Age ET religion with radical enviornmentalist and communist Utopian ideals.
To them, ET's are to be the saviours of planet earth - all knowing gods. They think the ET's created mankind.
Further, they think that Christians and other unevolved people will be taken by the ET's from earth and only the those of enlightenment or "evolved consciousness" will be allowed to stay.
Here's the wiki on Dr. Strangehair:
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (born March 14, 1978) is a Swiss-born Greek writer, television presenter, and proponent of the hypothesis that ancient astronauts interacted with ancient humans. He is the publisher of the magazine Legendary Times, a publication with articles from Erich von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods?), David Hatcher Childress, Peter Fiebag, Robert Bauval, and Luc Bürgin, on the topic of ancient astronauts.
Tsoukalos has been the director of Erich von Däniken's Center for Ancient Astronaut Research for over 12 years, and has appeared on The Travel Channel, The History Channel, the Sci-Fi Channel, the National Geographic Channel, as well as Coast to Coast AM, and is a consulting producer of the television series Ancient Aliens.
Tsoukalos is a 1998 graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, with a bachelor's degree in sports information and communication.[3] He states that he is multilingual, fluent in English, Greek, German, French, and Italian.
Is there a Doctor in the House?
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of maternal superobesity (body mass index [BMI], ≥50 kg/m2) compared with morbid obesity (BMI, 40–49.9 kg/m2) or obesity (BMI, 30–39.9 kg/m2) on perinatal outcomes.
We conducted a retrospective cohort study of birth records that were linked to hospital discharge data for all liveborn singleton term infants who were born to obese Missouri residents from 2000–2006. We excluded major congenital anomalies and women with diabetes mellitus or chronic hypertension.
There were 64,272 births that met the study criteria, which included 1185 superobese mothers (1.8%). Superobese women were significantly more likely than obese women to have preeclampsia (adjusted relative risk [aRR], 1.7; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.4 –2.1), macrosomia (aRR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.3–2.5), and cesarean delivery (aRR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.5–2.1). Almost one-half of all superobese women (49.1%) delivered by cesarean section, and 33.8% of superobese nulliparous women underwent scheduled primary cesarean delivery.
Women with a BMI of ≥50 kg/m2 are at significantly increased risk for perinatal complications compared with obese women with a lower BMI.
The obesity epidemic remains unabated in the United States. In 2007–2008, 34% of American women who were 20–39 years old met obesity criteria (body mass index [BMI] ≥30 kg/m2)1; obesity is now an increasingly common and harmful pregnancy complication. Superobesity, as coined in the gastric bypass literature to describe patients who weigh ≥225% of ideal body weight,2 represents individuals with a BMI of ≥50 kg/m2. The number of superobese individuals is growing 5 times faster than other obesity categories,3 which means that healthcare providers increasingly will be challenged to accommodate their healthcare needs.
Obese women are more likely than normal weight women to experience preeclampsia, diabetes mellitus, cesarean delivery, fetal growth abnormalities, and stillbirth.4 Although several studies compare obese women to normal-weight women, to date there have been limited studies on superobesity in pregnancy.5–7 As the number of superobese pregnant women continues to rise, it is important to determine whether there is a "dose-response" relationship between the severity of maternal obesity and perinatal complications.
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of maternal superobesity on perinatal outcomes compared with maternal obesity (BMI, 30–39.9 kg/m2) and morbid obesity (BMI, 40–49.9 kg/m2). We hypothesized that pregnancy in super-obese women, compared with obese and morbidly obese women, is associated with (1) increased risk of maternal complications of pregnancy, (2) greater risk of fetal growth abnormalities, and (3) greater risk of infant complications.
This was a population-based retrospective cohort study of all liveborn singleton, full-term infants who were born to Missouri residents between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2006 (N = 502,452). Data were obtained from Missouri vital records, which includes birth certificate records that are linked to hospital discharge information, for the available period of 2000–2006. Women with prepregnancy BMI of ≥30 kg/m2 were included. Exclusion criteria were documented in the birth certificate or hospital discharge data: (1) fetuses with major congenital anomalies (n = 872; 1.3%) and (2) women with diabetes mellitus (n = 5830; 8.3%) or chronic hypertension (n = 1773; 2.7%). Women with either pregestational or gestational diabetes mellitus were excluded because of the inability to reliably classify the type of diabetes mellitus based on the birth certificate or ICD-9 coding. Inclusion was limited to term infants to avoid confounding of neonatal outcomes that were due to complications that were associated with prematurity.
The primary predictor of interest was maternal BMI. BMI was calculated by self-reported prepregnancy weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. The World Health Organization separates obesity (BMI, ≥30 kg/m2) into 3 classes: class I (30–34.9 kg/m2), class II (35.0–39.9 kg/m2), and class III (≥40 kg/m2).8 Because the objective of this study was to determine the impact of superobesity on perinatal outcomes and whether there was a dose response to increasing obesity, we combined classes I and II as obese (30–39.9 kg/m2) and separated class III into morbid obesity (40–49.9 kg/m2) and superobesity, defined as a BMI of ≥50 kg/m2.2
The primary outcomes of interest were preeclampsia, method of delivery, macrosomia (birthweight, >4500 g), and composite neonatal morbidity, which included low Apgar score (<7 at 5 minutes), birth trauma, neonatal infection, neonatal hypoglycemia, respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal seizures, neonatal length of stay of >5 days, and/or meconium aspiration syndrome. Low birthweight was defined as <2500 g. If a diagnosis such as preeclampsia, birth trauma, or respiratory distress syndrome was documented in either the birth certificate or the hospital discharge data, then the condition was considered present. Use of the combined birth certificate and hospital discharge data has been found to be more accurate for perinatal outcomes, compared with birth certificate data alone.9,10
Various maternal sociodemographic characteristics have been shown to be associated with maternal obesity and were evaluated as potential confounders in this study. Maternal education was categorized as high, average, or low on the basis of age and years of education.11 Corrected for maternal age, average education included women within 2 grades of their expected level; low education was ≥2 or more grades below expected grade. Greater than 12 years of education was considered high, regardless of maternal age. The R-GINDEX (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) was used to categorize prenatal care as no care, inadequate care, adequate care, intermediate care, intensive care, or missing based on initiation of prenatal care, total number of visits, and gestational age at delivery.12,13 Smoking status was determined by maternal self-report on birth certificate records.
Bivariate analyses were completed with the χ2 test, Fisher's exact test, and t test, as appropriate. Outcomes were assessed with the Cochrane-Armitage test for linear trend and multivariable regression for adjusted risk. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to evaluate outcomes and were controlled for maternal age, race, parity, smoking status, marital status, Medicaid use, prenatal care, level of education, primary scheduled cesarean delivery, and repeat cesarean delivery. Mode of delivery was categorized by birth certificate designation as vaginal, operative vaginal, vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC), primary emergent cesarean delivery, primary elective cesarean delivery, and repeat cesarean delivery. For clarity, primary elective cesarean delivery is referred to as primary scheduled cesarean delivery. Comparisons were made among BMI groups (obese, morbidly obese, and superobese). Adjusted relative risk (aRR) and 95% confidence interval were calculated. A probability value of < .05 on 2-tailed tests was considered significant.
All analyses were completed with SAS software (version 9.2; SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC). Approval for human subject research and a waiver of informed consent were received from the Institutional Review Board at Saint Louis University and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Section for Epidemiology for Public Health Practice.
There were 64,272 births that met the study criteria: 53,032 women (82.5%) were obese; 10,055 women (15.6%) were morbidly obese, and 1185 women (1.8%) were superobese. Increasing, BMI was associated with increased parity, single status, Medicaid use, African American race, intensive prenatal care usage, and previous cesarean delivery (Table 1). Lower BMI was associated with smoking and higher education levels.
Increasing maternal BMI was associated with a statistically significant increase in all studied perinatal outcomes, including preeclampsia, macrosomia, and composite neonatal morbidity, except for birth trauma (Table 2). Super-obese women were significantly more likely than obese women to have preeclampsia (aRR, 1.7), macrosomia (aRR, 1.9) and neonatal hypoglycemia (aRR, 2.0; Table 3). Compared with morbidly obese women, superobese women remained at increased risk for composite neonatal morbidity (aRR, 1.2; P = .02). There was no difference between morbidly obese and superobese women regarding risk for preeclampsia, macrosomia, or neonatal length of stay of >5 days. Compared with obese women, morbidly obese women were at increased risk for these outcomes along with neonatal hypoglycemia and composite neonatal morbidity.
Increasing maternal obesity was associated significantly with an elevated risk of cesarean delivery and a decreased incidence of vaginal delivery, regardless of parity (Table 4). Among nulliparous women, 31% of superobese women delivered vaginally compared with 53% of obese women; 33.8% of nulliparous superobese women underwent scheduled cesarean delivery. Of the 196 nulliparous superobese women who attempted a vaginal delivery, 94 women (48%) had a spontaneous vaginal birth; 24 women (12%) had an operative vaginal delivery, and 78 women (40%) were delivered by cesarean section. For multiparous women, previous vaginal birth was associated with a significantly decreased risk of emergency cesarean delivery, but most women with a previous cesarean delivery underwent a repeat cesarean delivery, with only 2% of women in each obesity class having a VBAC.
Nulliparous superobese women were significantly less likely than nulliparous obese women to have a vaginal delivery (aRR, 0.4) and significantly more likely to undergo a scheduled cesarean delivery (aRR, 2.4) or emergency cesarean delivery (aRR, 1.6; Table 5). Similar results were seen in multiparous women. Superobese women remained at increased risk compared with morbidly obese women for cesarean delivery (aRR, 1.2; P = .03) and had decreased rates of vaginal delivery for nulliparous (aRR, 0.6; P < .0001) and multiparous women (aRR, 0.8; P = .001). No significant difference in VBAC rates was seen among BMI groups, which were universally low.
Superobese women are at significantly increased risk of pregnancy complications, even compared with other obese and morbidly obese women. Our results support a dose-response relationship between worsening obesity and cesarean delivery, macrosomia, neonatal hypoglycemia, and preeclampsia. This study provides information regarding the increased risk of perinatal complications with increasing BMI within obesity classes that include superobese women and builds on the few published studies on superobesity in pregnancy that primarily examined single outcomes and limited comparisons to normal weight women5,6 or combined obesity classes.7
Superobese women are at significantly increased risk of delivery by cesarean delivery, compared with morbidly obese and obese women. Although the overall cesarean delivery rate in the United States in 2007 was 31.8%,14 49.1% of all superobese women were delivered by cesarean delivery, which includes 12.1% who underwent primary scheduled cesarean delivery. Among nulliparous superobese women, 33.8% underwent primary scheduled cesarean delivery, and 40% of the women who attempted vaginal delivery were delivered by cesarean delivery. Previous studies have shown that, in addition to potential difficulties with regional anesthesia placement, superobese women are at increased risk for airway problems, deep venous thrombosis, and wound infection.15–17 Super-obese women must be counseled about these increased risks, and providers must be prepared for the likelihood of a surgical delivery and increased probability of repeat cesarean deliveries because <3% of superobese women delivered by VBAC. The rates of primary scheduled cesarean delivery are much higher than in other populations. Future prospective studies are needed to examine the indication for cesarean delivery in superobese women and to determine the influence of provider type and attitudes, which include unwillingness to attempt a vaginal delivery or decreased patience during labor.
In addition to the medical risks that are associated with cesarean delivery, there are also increased costs that are associated with the surgical procedure and prolonged hospital stay, compared with a vaginal delivery. Superobese women were more likely to use intensive prenatal care than are obese and morbidly obese women, which again reflects an increase in medical costs.
This study supports the importance of preconception counseling and the potentially beneficial effect of weight loss before pregnancy (as has been shown in women after gastric bypass surgery) with decreased rates of gestational diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia, and macrosomia compared with other obese women and to previous pregnancies.4,18–20 Our findings suggest that women who are able to lower their prepregnancy BMI, even if it is only from superobese to morbidly obese, may decrease their risk of cesarean delivery, neonatal hypoglycemia, and composite neonatal morbidity. For a 5′4″ woman, a change in weight of 5.9 lbs corresponds with a 1 unit change in BMI. For a 300-lb woman, losing 20 lbs will decrease her BMI from 51.5-48.1, and losing 40 lbs will drop her BMI to 44.6. Many superobese women may find the idea of losing enough weight to become normal weight inconceivable; however, by highlighting the potential benefits of even modest weight loss, obstetric providers can help patients set reasonable, achievable goals that hopefully will improve perinatal and lifelong health outcomes for women and infants. Clinical studies are urgently needed to determine the impact of prepregnancy weight loss, effective perinatal interventions, and track long-term health outcomes for both mothers and their children.
Limitations of this study include this use of birth certificate and hospital discharge data, which are dependent on the original quality of the data that were entered. This data set has been studied extensively and is considered very reliable21; a low percentage of records have with missing information.14 Because we depended on birth certificate data, we were unable to evaluate stillbirth or miscarriage rates. We chose to focus on term deliveries to better evaluate infant birth-weight and neonatal complications and therefore are not able to address preterm birth data. The potential for undercoding remains a concern for diagnoses such as birth trauma or preeclampsia, because severe undercoding of birth trauma (5%) and minimal undercoding of preeclampsia (85%) was found in an audit of Missouri birth certificates with hospital discharge data.22 However, there is no reason to expect that undercoding would be biased by maternal BMI, particularly across the elevated BMI categories that were examined in these analyses. Patients whose condition was not coded properly would lead to an underrepresentation of the true incidence of these conditions, thus suggesting that the true differences were even larger than stated. An additional limitation was the use of self-reported prepregnancy weight, which may be over- or underreported by participants. A previous integrated review of 34 studies found that women in all studies underestimated weight;23 a 2006 study of reproductive-aged women reported that, although women underestimated weight by an average of 4.6 lbs, 84% of the women remained classified in the appropriate BMI categories.24 Bodnar et al25 examined the impact of exposure misclassification between prepregnancy BMI and adverse pregnancy outcomes and found that, although pregnancy outcomes were slightly overestimated, the dose-dependent associations persisted. Interestingly, they reported that the severely obese women (BMI, ≥35 kg/m2) had the best predictive value (0.93) between self-reported and measured BMI, which would support the accuracy of our BMI classifications and perinatal outcomes. The use of birth certificate data contributed to 1 of our primary strengths, which was the ability to analyze perinatal outcomes on >1000 superobese, 10,000 morbidly obese, and 50,000 obese women.
Superobese women are at significantly increased risk of pregnancy complications that include cesarean delivery, preeclampsia, macrosomia, and neonatal hypoglycemia compared with obese women with a lower BMI. Although we support the role of preconception weight loss to improve perinatal outcomes, this study suggests that interventions to reduce excess morbidity in superobese women must be examined, especially mode of delivery, which is highly affected by physician influence. An analysis of the indication for primary cesarean delivery (and specifically elective cesarean delivery) in morbidly obese and superobese women is urgently needed. By better understanding the reason that superobese women are being delivered by cesarean delivery, it may be possible to decrease patient morbidity that is due to operative delivery by increasing provider education and awareness. Further, the economic implication of increasing levels of obesity requires study.
Supported by grants number KL2RR024994 and K08 HD061484-01 (D.R.H.) from Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
The authors report no conflict of interest.
Presented as a poster at the 31st annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 7–12, 2011.
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Two Wall Street firms that received at least $60 billion in government bailout funds will be rewarding their financial advisers with controversial retention payments, the terms of which one senior executive described as "very generous" in audio obtained by the Huffington Post.
The soon-to-be-merged financial giants -- Morgan Stanley and Citigroup's Smith Barney -- announced the payments during an internal conference call last week, but warned advisers against describing them in terms that would cause PR headaches.
"There will be a retention award. Please do not call it a bonus," said James Gorman, co-president of Morgan Stanley. "It is not a bonus. It is an award. And it recognizes the importance of keeping our team in place as we go through this integration."
The payments, Gorman said, will be calculated based on performance numbers from 2008 instead of 2009, when the merger is expected to be completed. That decision virtually guarantees an increase in the size of the awards. While 2008 was challenging for the firms -- Morgan Stanley's client assets in fee-based accounts dropped 25 percent in the fourth quarter, and a round of lay-offs is expected -- 2009 is expected to be substantially weaker.
"I think I can hear you clapping from here in New York," Gorman joked during the call, after announcing that the payments would be linked to '08 performance. "You should be clapping because frankly that is a very generous and thoughtful decision that we have made. We spent a lot of time kicking this around. We could easily have done it from the point of closing, which is obviously going to be somewhere in the latter half of this year or around the middle of the year. But we just decided... that it was right thing to do, to give you that certainty that it would be based off '08. '09 is a very difficult year... So that degree of anxiety, which many, many of you have emailed me about... is now off the table."
Audio of the conference call was provided by a reader who responded to the Huffington Post's call for information about wasteful or extravagant spending by bailout recipients.
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, which will combine their brokerage firms into the world's largest, have received a combined $60 billion in government bailout funds. Officials with the firms said that the retention packages, which are rumored to value as much as $2 to $3 billion, would not come from that pool of money. But critics note that money is fungible, and question whether such payments are a proper use of funds for banks that are dependent on the government to stay afloat.
"They are putting lipstick on a pig," said Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Business and former Chief Economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission. "Very often, retention bonuses are paid to undeserving executives who helped drive their enterprises into the ground. This is like people who hold up banks getting paid to stop holding up banks. It isn't good policy. It's not always the case, but on Wall Street, people were vastly overpaid for the value that they created."
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Retention awards for Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney employees have been rumored since their merger talks began. But the terms of the payments, which are still being hammered out, are bound to spur critical questions.
An official for Morgan Stanley downplayed the decision to value the payments off the more favorable '08 numbers. "You pick a point in time that you base any retention program off of and the decision was to base these off of the production these individuals would have achieved in 08," said spokesman Jim Wiggins. "Whatever they end up getting paid will be based off their 2008 production. That doesn't say anything at all about the timing it is going to be paid or when it will be paid."
Wiggins also defended the decision to provide financial advisers with retention packages. Noting that the money would "be paid out of the operating revenues for business and not" TARP funds, he said the system was necessary to prevent an exodus of key personnel.
"Retention programs like this are standard practice in the industry whenever you do a deal like this one," he said. "This is a profitable business. Our financial advisers are being heavily recruited by other companies like UBS... It is absolutely critical to hold this together and hold them in their seats so this will be a successful joint venture."
This assessment is challenged by an array of industry observers. Noting that retention awards are a relatively small sum of cash when compared to the money that the U.S. government will be spending on subsidizing bondholders, Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics nevertheless called it a gratuitous expense.
"These firms are attempting to continue to pay their people the way they have in the past and in the current job market here in New York, I don't think it is necessary," said Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics. "You certainly don't need to pay people to stay in their jobs right now, because they are praying to Jesus that they just don't lose their job generally."
Certainly, as recipients of billions of dollars in government funds, Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney find their accounting decisions under greater scrutiny. As part of the merger, the two entities have promised to make $1.1 billion worth of budget cuts -- or roughly half the projected amount of retention payments.
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The present invention relates to a pneumatic traction device for applying traction to a patient. Physical therapists have found it beneficial to apply traction to patients suffering from muscle and nerve injury. On many occasions, it is beneficial to provide traction on a periodic and repetitive basis so that a therapist may apply a greater amount of traction during any one cycle to achieve better results faster than would be the case if only a static force were used.
Static weight systems for applying traction to a patient are known such as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,508,109 to Saunders.
Apparatus for applying traction periodically is also known in the art. For example, see U.S. Pat. No. 3,786,803 to Petulla et al. This patent shows a direct drive traction device having a motor driven spool for spooling a cable connected to a harness attached to a patient. A controller is provided to activate the motor on a periodic basis to provide traction.
The present invention is directed to a pneumatic traction device which provides a simpler, more portable traction device than has heretofore been known. Further, the use of a pneumatic cylinder provides a beneficial advantage over static weight systems in that the pneumatic system provides a "soft" traction force on the patient by which better therapeutic results can be obtained. The present invention is portable and can be used in the patient's home as well as in a physical therapist's office. It is light weight, sturdy, and is not complicated to manufacture or use.
The present invention utilizes a pneumatic cylinder having a patient engaging device mounted to a pneumatic piston slidably positioned in a pneumatic cylinder. The pneumatic cylinder in turn is connected to a mounting device which can be mounted to a wall, for example. Compressed air, preferably provided by a motor driven compressor, is directed on a timed basis to a chamber on one side of the pneumatic piston to move the pneumatic piston in a direction which pulls on the patient engaging device to provide traction to the patient. Further, an electrically controllable relief valve is also provided by which the compressed air in the pneumatic cylinder can be bled into the atmosphere when the relief valve is opened. Control means are provided for selectably controlling the operation of the compressor and the relief valve. This control system can be as simple as a manual switch means which, in one position, manually turns on the compressor and closes the relief valve and, in the other position, opens the relief valve and turns off the compressor. The control means can also include a timer means for automatically providing the functions of the manual switch to traction to a patient on a periodic basis. Further, it is contemplated that the control circuit can be programmable with conventional means so that the amount of the force and also the time of the traction force can be selected by the user.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into effect, a preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pneumatic traction device according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view along line 2--2 in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the control device included in FIG. 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the control device included in FIG. 1 according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
A pneumatic traction device 10 according to the present invention as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The device 10 as shown in FIG. 1 is used to provide cervical traction although it is intended that by substituting a different patient holding device, the traction device 10 could be used to provide traction for other body parts.
The device 10 includes a pneumatic cylinder 12 which at one end has an extending threaded shaft 14 which extends through a correspondingly sized hole in a bracket 16 which threaded shaft is received by a nut 18 to secure the pneumatic cylinder 12 to the bracket 16.
The pneumatic cylinder 12 encloses a pneumatic piston 20 as shown in FIG. 2. A shaft 22 is connected to the piston 20 again as shown in FIG. 2. The shaft 22 extends through a pressure seal 64 located in an end wall of cylinder 12 and is secured to a traction carriage device 24 with a bolt 25 and nut 26.
Bracket 16 is securely mounted to one end of a bar 28, which bar provides a framework for supporting pneumatic cylinder 12. The traction carriage device 24 includes a pair of slide pieces 30 slidably positioned on bar 28. When the shaft 22 moves the traction carriage device 24, the traction carriage device 24 slides on bar 28.
As shown in FIG. 1, the traction carriage device 24 includes a carriage base 32 which is secured to the slide pieces 30 as shown. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the traction carriage device includes a headrest 34 mounted to the carriage base 32. Further a V-shaped cervical traction device 36 is mounted to the carriage base 32. The cervical traction device 36 is shaped to hold the back of a patient's skull approximate the occipital bone. Headrest 34 provides support for the patient's skull as cervical traction is applied. As above noted, the cervical traction device shown in FIG. 1 is illustrative of the use of the present invention although it is intended that this device may be used to place traction on other parts of the body by substituting a different traction carriage device 24.
In order to mount the pneumatic cylinder 12 to a wall, for example, a pair of mounting plates 38 are secured to bracket 16 as by welding as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. These mounting plates 38 include a slot 40 for attaching the pneumatic traction device to a wall mounting device 42 as will be subsequently described.
The wall mounting device 42 as shown includes a suction disk 44. In a preferred embodiment, the wall mounting device is a Model JT156-RH Power-Grip, manufactured by Woods Power-Grip Co., Inc. The suction disk 44 may be placed on a smooth, flat or curved surface. A hand suction pump 46 evacuates air through a tube 48 thereby causing a suction force to be applied between the suction disk 44 and the surface. The suction can be readily released by pulling tab 50 in a manner well known in the art.
A mounting rod 52 is integrally formed with a mounting bracket assembly 54 securely mounted to suction disk 44. The rod 52 provides a means for connecting the pneumatic cylinder to the wall mounting device 42. The pneumatic cylinder 12 is connected to the wall mounting device 42 by placing the slot 40 over the rod 52 as shown in FIG. 1. It can be seen that when the slot 40 is inserted over the mounting rod 52 that the pneumatic cylinder 12 is rotatably secured to the wall surface.
The pneumatic cylinder 12 which slidably encloses piston 20 has a pair of internal chambers within the cylinder formed on either side of piston 20. Pressure chamber 56 on one side of piston 20 is fluidly connected to a source of compressed air through port 58 located in the chamber wall of chamber 56. Chamber 60 formed on the other side of piston 20 has a bleed post 62 which is located in the chamber wall and is in fluid communication with the atmosphere. The bleed port 62 insures that piston 20 can move freely within the chamber 60. When compressed air is forced into chamber 56, piston 20 moves toward chamber 60. This causes the traction carriage device 24 to also move to the right as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 causing traction on the patient.
A tube 66 connected to port 58 carries pressurized air to chamber 56. This tube 66 is connected to one port of a 4-port pressure regulator 70 as shown in FIG. 1. In a preferred embodiment, this pressure regulator is a Model No. R00R05 manufactured by Wilkenson Corporation. This regulator 70 has four ports, one of which is connected to tube 66 and a second of which is connected to a pressure gauge 72. A third port is connected to an air supply line 74. The fourth port is connected to a pressure relief valve 76 which is normally closed. In a preferred embodiment, the relief valve 76 is an MJV-3 manufactured by Clifford Co.
The air supply line 74 is connected to air compressor 80 through a one-way valve 79. The one-way valve 79 permits air to flow in the direction toward pneumatic cylinder 12 only.
An electrical control device 78 is provided to control the operation of air compressor 80 and relief valve 76. Control device 78 is electrically connected to relief valve 76 with wiring 81 and to compressor 80 with wiring 83. The control device 78 is constructed to close relief valve 76 when compressor 80 is on and to open relief valve 76 when compressor 80 is off.
In one embodiment shown in FIG. 3, the control device 78 comprises a simple switch 82 which is connected to an electrical outlet with plug 85. When the switch 82 is manually switched to the relief valve 76 of the switch, the relief valve 76 is opened and the compressor 80 is turned off. On the other hand, when the switch is moved to the compressor 80 side of the switch, the compressor is turned on and the relief valve 76 is closed.
When the relief valve 76 is closed and air compressor 80 is turned on during the traction increment of a traction cycle, compressed air flows through air hose 66 to pressurize chamber 56 and places tractive force on carriage 24. During the rest increment of the traction cycle, the switch 82 is used to open relief valve 70 and turn the air compressor 80 off. By opening relief valve 70, chamber 56 is opened to the atmosphere thereby relaxing the tractive force pulling on carriage 24.
A second embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 4. In this embodiment, switch 82 is connected to a conventional cyclic timer 84 which may be set, for example, to provide a signal to turn the compressor on for 15 seconds and turn the compressor off for 45 seconds with the corresponding opening and closing of the relief valve 76. This provides an intermittent traction device which automatically sets the time of the periodic traction to be applied to a patient.
It is intended that the maximum traction pressure can be selected by manually adjusting the pressure regulator 70 to the desired pressure.
With the present invention, a light weight, sturdy traction device is provided which is portable and can be used as easily at home as well as in the physical therapist's office. It is versatile as it can be used to provide traction to many parts of the human body. It is a "soft" system which provides some tolerance in the traction process which is not otherwise available with direct drive systems now available in the marketplace.
While the fundamental novel features of the invention have been shown and described, it should be understood that various substitutions, modifications and variations may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Accordingly, all such modifications or variations are included in the scope of the invention as defined by the following claims.
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|European Classification
|Jul 17, 1996
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
|Aug 22, 2000
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Jan 28, 2001
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|Apr 3, 2001
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
I have a HP Pavilion dv6 notebook with Windows 7 64-bit installed.
I always used CoolSense because my laptop is very loud and chosing the Quiet Mode made it fairly normal. However, recently it stopped working.
The error I get when I try to run CoolSense is that HPThermalAssistant.exe doesn't exist. My theory about why that is is the following.
I also have Ubuntu installed and had some issues with file names from ubuntu on Windows. To fix that, I let Windows run some kind of repair program when restarting. I remember that not only the 4 files concerned were removed but also one other one. My CoolSense problems started around the same time, so I'm guessing the HPThermalAssistant file is the one that got deleted.
I have already tried most of the solutions on here. I tried to reinstall CoolSense but got an error that there is a problem with the installer package and it couldn't finish installing.
I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the support manager, followed by CoolSense.
That didn't work so I uninstalled the Software Framework, reset the system default settings in the BIOS menu, reinstalled the Software Framework and then tried to reinstall CoolSense but I got the same error.
Any idea what I could do to get CoolSense back? The loud fan noise is driving me crazy, especially when I'm trying to work.
Re: HPThermalA
ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
I think this problem was like a month ago, I tried reinstalling it, but the setup window doesnt show.. It starts up when configuring coolsense and stuff, but then it just disappears... I hope they can fix this...
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ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
12-20-2012 04:11 AM - edited 12-20-2012 04:14 AM
Same prob here, this is what it looks like.... I tried to install it manually because downloading the sp52814 thing wont startup the installer...
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ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
12-21-2012 02:11 AM - edited 12-21-2012 02:12 AM
I get this when I try and click on my old CoolSense
I can't find it in Programs and Features so can't specifically uninstall it.
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ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
For those who still have the same problem, I uninstalled my Software Assistant and downloaded an old version of it (184.108.40.206). CoolSense is back now and I'm very happy.
This is the version of the SA I downloaded.
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ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
This worked!! Thank you!
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ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
I have same problem
Is this version works with G61-454 model
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ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
09-24-2013 10:51 AM - last edited on 04-20-2016 09:29 AM by OscarFuentes
Hello Mirash. Before I can thoroughly assist you, I need to ask a few questions:
What is the OS that you are currently using?
When did this stop working, or has it never worked in the first place?
Have you done any troubleshooting on your own?
Without digging deeper,what I would do is try to reinstall CoolSense using HP Recovery Manager. I have included a document that can help you. The document pertains to Windows 7, but if the OS is different, the steps aren't too different.
Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. I'm only here to help.
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ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
Actually, it stopped working again. I don't really know what's going on.
I have a HP Pavillion DV6 1149wm.
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ssistant.e xe gone, CoolSense not working
ZeeBiscuit, have you referenced the document I posted in my previous post in an attempt to troubleshoot the issue?
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