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I can confirm that these shoes hurt like a beeeeyatch. Despite how pretty they are they are super painful & I've got a few blisters but Im determined to break them in so Im wearing them out tonight to an event! I'm off to a Boohoo event with a ton of other bloggers to the Ice bar! I've never been before so Im super excited about going. It's on my list of things I want to do but never actually get around to doing!
Thursday, November 15, 2012
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I can confirm that these shoes hurt like a beeeeyatch. Despite how pretty they are they are super painful & I've got a few blisters but Im determined to break them in so Im wearing them out tonight to an event! I'm off to a Boohoo event with a ton of other bloggers to the Ice bar! I've never been before so Im super excited about going. It's on my list of things I want to do but never actually get around to doing!
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love the spiky jewellery and have fun at the ice bar! xoReplyDelete
Love grey for winter! The dress looks good with the disco pants!ReplyDelete
This outfit looks amazing! Love the dress.ReplyDelete
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Such a lovely dress! Looks great on you! Your nails look awesome today too! xxxReplyDelete
I'm so in love with this dress !!ReplyDelete
I've been tempted to get this dress for a while now, but couldn't decide between the grey or the khaki and I think you've just helped make up my mind :) I love your shoes, shame they're so painful though :) xxReplyDelete
Lovely outfit, the necklace is amazing!ReplyDelete
Really love this outfit, the hat makes it I think :) xxReplyDelete
Great outfit the dress looks great!!ReplyDelete
This is beautiful! might have to get this dress!ReplyDelete
Ooooh Lily this outfit is incredible! So simple yet so beautiful!ReplyDelete
I really am loving this dress and i think i may have to add it to my Christmas wishlist! xx
In love with the shoes, want some ankle straps! necklace and micradermals look nice too! I know I have this dress is teal, nice to know its too short on you thought it was just one of the perils of being tall.ReplyDelete
Hell, you've sold me on that wrap dress - looks AHmazing on you!ReplyDelete
I love this outfit! The shoes are so gorgeous, shame they hurt xxxReplyDelete
The dress looks amazing on you! (Im seriously tempted to get it now!), also Im in love with the necklace! xReplyDelete
that wrap dress is gorgeous! you look beautiful! xxxReplyDelete
Love this!! I'm 5"11 so if I were to wear that dress, it would be more like a crop top I'm guessing haha!! xxReplyDelete
love the elephant grey colour! looks great on you!ReplyDelete
That dress is just gorgeous, I want it!ReplyDelete
Love the dress, your hair is looking fab too xxReplyDelete
Love the wrap dress!ReplyDelete
love this outfit and those shoooes! hope you have fun at the event :) xxReplyDelete
Such a shame that it's short - would love this, really suits you xReplyDelete
This dress is stunning, I've been after one for ages, just can't decide which colour:)ReplyDelete
I love that colour so so much , it's like the perfect shade of grey. Enjoy the eventReplyDelete
absolutely gorgeous outfit, i love the leggings so much! them shoes are gorgeous, i hate having to break shoes in, the pain! xoReplyDelete
i absolutly looove the dress *.*ReplyDelete
sara xx
Oh you look lovely in these photos, Lily! That dress is gorgeous, it definitely would be more like a crop top on me though, unfortunately! xReplyDelete
wow i love this!! dress is gorgeous xxReplyDelete
love your style !!! <3ReplyDelete
This is by far my favourite outfit of yours Lily. I love the dress and shoes. This would be a great going out outfit.ReplyDelete
Great Outfit Post! Really love the necklace, may have to make a cheeky purchase. xReplyDelete
You look gorgeous Lily! xxReplyDelete
This is gorgeous! I lovethe necklace xoReplyDelete
great dress fits you perfectly!! just adore your style! http://fromarmanitozurich.blogspot.ch/ReplyDelete
very lovely dress!ReplyDelete
Absolutely adore this outfit, I want haha you look greatReplyDelete
I cant express how much I love your style! Great outfit, you look amazing :)xReplyDelete
Love the shoes! Some things are worth the pain...ReplyDelete
gorgeous as always!ReplyDelete
and I love the look!
I have only recently started my own lifestyle blog and would love to hear what you think of it.
If you still haven't broken your shoes in then apparently sleeping in them works wonders!ReplyDelete
Love this outfit! love the dress, love the shoes, love the make up, love everything!ReplyDelete
I'm not usually into grey, but this is lovely! I hope you enjoy the ice bar, I was a little bit disappointed with it, but I think that was mostly because I was wearing flipflops (I didn't know I was going!) :/ xReplyDelete
Your blog is my new favorite one to read! Also love your youtube video!ReplyDelete
Have a nice day! :)
I love that dress! It has such a nice silhouetteReplyDelete
Grey is my favourite colour, so versatile. Still going crazy over those shoes too... if it wasn't so cold already I'd snap them up right now! Ah, do I don't I?!ReplyDelete
Love the dermals peeking out the top! Looks rock 'n' roll ;-)
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Absolutely my fav of all ur outfits! Gorgeous dress and I love the hat!ReplyDelete
Have fun at the Bohoo event!
lovely blog :)ReplyDelete
You suit that dress so much! xxReplyDelete
gorgeous dress, the color and cut are so flattering!ReplyDelete
Your hair colour is so lovely! My boyfriend's got me the petrol green version of this dress for Christmas, I can't wear it as a dress either though as I'm 5ft 7". They should definitely make them longer!!ReplyDelete
Gem x
I have this dress in an orange colour and wear it as a dress - I'm 5'9"!!!!! I'm usually concious about super short dresses though so I'm sure it must be an old style or something cause its not too short haha! xxReplyDelete
I've eyed this dress up loads, but it's the length that's put me off ! You look super pretty in it though! :)ReplyDelete
http://www.danielleyc.com/ xx
Amazing outfit :) xxReplyDelete
looking gorgeous as always xxReplyDelete
I'm not too fond of the shoes tbh, but your taste is yours! I used to want this dress but was never too sure. It was featured bloody everywhere in the same too colors, that green-blue, and black. I rarely saw the gray version, but it looks lovely! Shame about the length of it! Looks as if your bum hangs out from it.ReplyDelete
I also love how you paired it with that bowler hat :3 Need to wear mine at some point
Also did you cut your hair?? xx
Beaut, wish I had the confidence to pull off a bowler!ReplyDelete
Are the leggings the disco pants, or the thinner high waisted actual leggings?
Georgie x
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That top is so cute! xxReplyDelete
You look lovely, the dress is so stunning! XxReplyDelete
Love this outfit! Shame it isn't long enough for a dress but looks great worn with leggings! The colour is lovely. xoReplyDelete
I know what you mean about this dress. I ordered it in teal and sent it back as I thought it was indecent!!ReplyDelete
Dawn xoxo
I've wanted this dress for ages from love, I always get tempted when they do flash 40% off but never got round to it. I might have to now though as I love how you're wearing it. Especially how you've made it into a tunic top rather than a dress. Clever idea.ReplyDelete
Such a beaut I love those shoes!ReplyDelete
Samantha x
Argh, I really love this dress shape but thats whats endlessly put me off- it looks SO short. And Im 5ft8 so I reckon it really would be just too short :(ReplyDelete
Lovely looking though! x
Love the dress xReplyDelete
Those shoes look a bit painful, but so beautiful nonetheless!ReplyDelete
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I love your top :DReplyDelete
I really like the shoes, hope they weren't too painful.ReplyDelete
Love the dress! xReplyDelete
Love this dress the colour and style really suits you!ReplyDelete
Grey is my favourite colour and i love how this dress is a little naughty xReplyDelete
I've actually bought this dress after seeing it on you. I'm going to a wedding in December and I think this will be perfectly Wintery all styled up with sparkly accessories, leggings and ankle boots. I may have to buy a fur coat for the occasion too!ReplyDelete
I really love this colour on you!ReplyDelete
Sarah x
Thank you for being honest about the shoes hurting, I usually just grimace and lie about them being "like walking on clouds". Stop by my blog if you can, mine is all about thrifting and saving money; plus I just did a post on my new Paraders dress and a floral crown, plus I'm doing a give-away tomorrow! Hooray! Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
LOVE this dress on you :) It looks great teamed with the leggings too :)ReplyDelete
this dress looks so nice on you, the colour looks soo nice :) xxReplyDelete
Beautiful dress! Love everything aboout it! <3 xoReplyDelete
I love your "creamy look" these days!! And the lighting in the photos! *thumbs up*ReplyDelete
You look so amazing, grey looks lovely on your skin toneReplyDelete
You're so amazing. I'm in love with your blog :)ReplyDelete
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Lovely dress, you look great as always xReplyDelete
Love the dress. And hope the feet aren't to bad, 'no pain no gain'ReplyDelete
I made a post about you on my blog, please come and see!ReplyDelete
Perfect nails and hair.ReplyDelete
You remind me so much of Millie Mackintosh in these photos, looks adorable and i especially love the shoesReplyDelete
SIssy xx
Love that dress!ReplyDelete
Katie xo
I've been after one of these dresses for ages... the grey really suits you! Devo that it's too short to wear as a dress but it looks surprisingly good with leggingd =)ReplyDelete
great look!!!! love the color of the dress and your hair !ReplyDelete
Hi LilyReplyDelete
Is this offer still on, I cant find it on the website?
Thanks so much xx
i love love love your hat!ReplyDelete
Im so in love with these shoes!ReplyDelete
This is so beautiful! I like the cheeky bra!ReplyDelete
Love the dress, I am incredibly flat chested though (aha) so I don't know if it would suit me, love it so much I'm tempted anyway! xReplyDelete
- AnonymousSunday, November 18, 2012 5:01:00 pm
I just love everything in this outfit! You look stunning!ReplyDelete
this is the most beautiful thing i've seen you wear! want to buy it straight away!ReplyDelete
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Love this look. The hat and dress combo is brilliant!ReplyDelete
LOVE this outfit!! You look gorge!!ReplyDelete
Hayley xo
I bought this dress in the petrol colour for a party this week... im gunna try and get away with wearing it with tights but it really is SO short... Hmm!! Looks lovely though!ReplyDelete
Absolutely love this dress, you look stunning!ReplyDelete
wow, so beautiful jewellery, I think you like buying vintage jewellery very much, of course,I like it too, So i open a jewellery online store recently, If you are interested in it, You can load to www.vicky-jewellery.com to visit it. ThanksReplyDelete
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Principal Proposed Natural Treatments
Other Proposed Natural Treatments
- Acupuncture
- Ashwagandha
- Avena sativa
- Butea superba
- Catuaba
- Cordyceps
- Damiana
- Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)
- Diindolylmethane (DIM)
- Eleutherococcus
- Ginkgo
- Horny Goat Weed ( Epimedium grandiflorum )
- L-citrulline
- Maca ( Lepidium meyenii )
- Macuna pruriens
- Melatonin
- Molybdenum
- Pine Bark Extract and L-Arginine
- Muira Puama (Potency Wood)
- Polypodium vulgare
- Pomegranate
- Pygeum
- Rhodiola rosea
- Saw Palmetto
- Schisandra
- Suma
- Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine
- Tribulus terrestris
- Velvet Antler
- Zinc
Herbs and Supplements to Use Only With Caution
Impotence, or erectile dysfunction, is the inability to achieve an erection. Impotence may occur for any of at least 15 possible causes, including diabetes, drug side effects, pituitary tumors, hardening of the arteries, hormonal imbalances, and psychological factors. A few of these conditions respond to specific treatment. For example, if a blood pressure drug is causing impotence, the best approach is to change drugs. If a pituitary tumor is secreting the hormone prolactin, treating that tumor may result in immediate improvement. However, in most cases, conventional treatment of impotence is nonspecific.
The drugs Viagra and Cialis have revolutionized treatment for erectile dysfunction. These medications work by increasing tissue sensitivity to the blood-vessel-dilating substance nitric oxide (NO) in the penis. Older methods include mechanical devices that utilize a vacuum to produce an erection, drugs for self-injection, and implantation of penile prostheses.
Proposed Treatments for Impotence
Korean Red Ginseng
Two double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, involving a total of about 135 people, have found evidence that Korean red ginseng may improve erectile function. 13,14
In the better of the two trials, 45 participants received either placebo or Korean red ginseng at a dose of 900 mg 3 times daily for 8 weeks. 14 After a 1-week period of no treatment, the two groups were switched. The results indicate that while using Korean red ginseng men experienced significantly better sexual function than while they were taking placebo.
In an analysis combining the results of 6 controlled trials, researchers found some evidence for the benefits of Korean red ginseng. However, the small size and generally low quality of the studies left some doubt about this conclusion. 37
For more information, including safety issues, see the full Ginseng article.
The substance nitric oxide (NO) plays a role in the development of an erection. Drugs like Viagra increase the body's sensitivity to the natural rise in NO that occurs with sexual stimulation. A simpler approach might be to raise NO levels, and one way to accomplish this involves use of the amino acid L-arginine. Oral arginine supplements may increase nitric oxide levels in the penis and elsewhere. Based on this, L-arginine has been advertised as "natural Viagra." However, there is as yet little evidence that it works. Drugs based on raising nitric oxide levels in the penis have not worked out for pharmaceutical developers; the body seems to simply adjust to the higher levels and maintain the same level of response.
The main support for the use of arginine in erectile dysfunction comes from a small double-blind trial in which 50 men with erectile dysfunction received either 5 g of L-arginine or placebo daily for 6 weeks. 2 More men in the treated group experienced improvement in sexual performance than in the placebo group.
A double-blind crossover study of 32 men found no benefit with 1,500 mg of arginine given daily for 17 days; 11 the much smaller dose and shorter course of treatment may explain the discrepancy between these two trials.
L-arginine has also been evaluated in combination with other products. For example, a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 45 men found that one-time use of L-arginine plus the drug yohimbine (made from the herb yohimbe ) 1-2 hours before intercourse improved erectile function, especially in those with only moderate erectile dysfunction scores. Arginine and yohimbine were both taken at a dose of 6 g.
Note : Do not use the drug yohimbine (or the herb yohimbe) except under physician supervision, as it presents a number of safety risks.
Researchers have also studied a formulation of L-arginine and pine bark extract (pycnogenol). In a randomized study involving 124 men with moderate erectile dysfunction, those that were in the treatment group had an improvement in their symptoms. 38
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full L-arginine article.
In a 6-month, double-blind trial of 120 men, average age 66, carnitine (propionyl-l-carnitine 2 g/day plus acetyl-l-carnitine 2 g/day) and testosterone (testosterone undecanoate 160 mg/day) were separately compared to placebo. 22 The results indicated that both carnitine and testosterone improve erectile function; however, while testosterone significantly increased prostate volume, carnitine did not.
Another double-blind, placebo-controlled study found that propionyl-l-carnitine at 2 g/day enhanced the effectiveness of sildenafil (Viagra) in 40 men with diabetes who had previously failed to respond to sildenafil on at least eight occasions. 23
In another double-blind study, a combination of the propionyl and acetyl forms of carnitine enhanced the effectiveness of Viagra in men who suffered from erectile dysfunction caused by prostate surgery. 31
Carnitine has also shown promise for treating male infertility. For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Carnitine article.
Other Treatments
A proprietary combination therapy containing arginine along with Ginkgo biloba , ginseng, and vitamins and minerals has shown some promise in an unpublished study. 32
In a 3-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 20 men with erectile dysfunction received either placebo or a special form of magnet therapy called pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF). 18 PEMF was administered by means of a small box worn near the genital area and kept in place as continuously as possible over the study period; neither participants nor observers knew whether the device was actually activated or not. The results showed that use of PEMF significantly improved sexual function compared to placebo.
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study enrolled 40 men with difficulty achieving or maintaining an erection who also had low measured levels of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) . 1 The results showed that DHEA at a dose of 50 mg daily improved sexual performance; however, the authors failed to provide a statistical analysis of the results, making the meaningfulness of this study impossible to determine.
Severe zinc deficiency is known to negatively affect sexual function. Since marginal zinc deficiency is relatively common, it is logical to suppose that supplementation with zinc may be helpful for some men. However, this hypothesis has only been studied in men receiving kidney dialysis. 16,17 The results were promising.
The herb Butea superba has shown some promise for erectile dysfunction, according to a 3-month randomized, double-blind study performed in Thailand. 24
Weak evidence hints at potential benefit with pomegranate juice, 36melatonin , 9 and oligomeric proanthocyanidin complexes (OPCs) (alone or in combination with arginine ). 25,26
Based on exceedingly preliminary evidence, the herb maca ( Lepidium meyenii ) has been advertised as "herbal Viagra." In one study in rats, use of maca enhanced male sexual function. 33 There is one published human trial as well. In this small, 12-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, use of maca at 1,500 mg or 3,000 mg increased male libido. 34 While this was an interesting finding, the study did not report benefits in male sexual function—just in desire. Since loss of sexual function is a more common problem in men than loss of sexual desire, these results do not justify the herbal Viagra claim. Contrary to some reports, maca does not appear to affect testosterone levels. 19
Many other herbs are also reputed to improve sexual function in men , including ashwagandha , Avena sativa (oat straw), catuaba, cordyceps , damiana , diindolylmethane (DIM), eleutherococcus (so-called "Siberian ginseng"), L-citrulline , Macuna pruriens , molybdenum , muira puama (potency wood), pygeum , Polypodium vulgare , Rhodiola rosea , saw palmetto , schisandra , suma , traditional Chinese herbal medicine , and Tribulus terrestris . However, there is as yet no real evidence that they offer any benefits.
Numerous case reports and uncontrolled studies had indicated that the herb Ginkgo biloba offers dramatic benefits for male (and female) sexual problems caused by antidepressants. 3-8 However, as always, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies are necessary to truly establish efficacy. (For the reasons why, see Why Does This Database Rely on Double-blind Studies? ) When studies of this type were performed, it became clear that people had been misled about ginkgo's efficacy by the power of suggestion: ginkgo failed to improve sexual function to any greater extent than placebo. 20,27
In a small single-blind study, acupuncture proved superior to fake acupuncture for treatment of erectile dysfunction. 28 However, because the treating practitioners administrating the control treatment were aware that they were providing sham acupuncture, it is quite likely that they unconsciously communicated lack of confidence as they provided it; this is an inherent limitation of single-blind studies .
Deer or antelope velvet antler is a popular treatment for sexual dysfunction. However, the one double-blind study performed on the subject failed to find benefit. 29
Herbs and Supplements to Use Only With Caution
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers not to purchase or consume a several brands of dietary supplements after samples were found adulterated with the prescription drug tadalafil (Cialis), an analogue of sildenafil (Viagra). The products named in the warning are SIGRA, STAMINA Rx, STAMINA Rx for Women, Y-Y, Spontane ES, and Uroprin (all manufactured by NVE, Inc., and distributed by Hi-Tech). For more information, see the FDA's Public Health Advisory on this subject.
The herb yohimbe is the source of the drug yohimbine, which has been shown to be modestly better than placebo for impotence. However, due to many drug interactions and other risks, we do not recommend using yohimbine except under the supervision of a physician. Because there is no agency regulating herbal product quality and labeling, the herb yohimbe presents even more risks, such as unpredictable yohimbine content.
Soy or soy isoflavones , 21 as well as the herb licorice , 10 may reduce testosterone levels in men. For this reason, men with impotence, infertility , or decreased libido may want to avoid these natural products.
One report claims that both tea tree oil and lavender oil have estrogenic (estrogen-like) and antiandrogenic (testosterone-blocking) effects. 35 If this were true, men with erectile dysfunction would be advised to avoid use of these herbs. However, a literature search failed to find any other published reports that corroborate this claim.
One case report suggests that a product containing the herb Epimedium grandiflorum (horny goat weed) caused rapid heart rate and symptoms similar to mania. 30
The supplement androstenedione , often taken for male sexual dysfunction in the belief that it increases testosterone levels, actually appears to increase estrogen levels in men, and might therefore increase problems with erectile function.
A small study involving 21 men with erectile dysfunction found that those who took pine bark extract (120 mg/day for 3 months) experienced an improvement in their symptoms compared to placebo. 39
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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop scleroderma with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing scleroderma. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
Factors that can increase your risk of developing scleroderma include:
The morphea type of scleroderma usually presents itself in people aged 20-40 years old. Linear scleroderma often occurs in children. Systemic scleroderma, limited or diffuse, is more likely to occur in people aged 30-50 years old.
Women are 3-4 times more likely as men to develop scleroderma.
Genetic Factors
People who have family members with autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, have an increased likelihood of developing scleroderma.
Ethnic Background
Young African-American women have a higher rate of systemic scleroderma and tend to have more severe forms of the disease. People of European descent more often get the localized form.
Environmental Factors
A number of chemical exposures, like coal mining and gold mining, may increase the risk of scleroderma. Examples of occupational chemicals thought to increase the risk include:
- Ketones
- Silica
- Epoxy resins
- Welding fumes
- Polyvinyl chlorides
- Aromatic and chlorinated solvents
- Toluene
- Trichloroethylene
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Revision as of 05:57, 24 January 2017
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Bugzilla Contribution
- 2.1 Opening new Bugs
- 2.2 Find Existing Scout Bugs
- 2.3 Bug Report Quality Matters
- 2.4 Open a Scout bug
- 2.5 Choose the proper Component
- 2.6 Choose the proper Version
- 2.7 Choose the proper Severity
- 2.8 Use a decent Summary line
- 2.9 Bug Life Cycle
- 2.9.1 Typical Life Cycle
- 2.9.2 [Contributor] After starting to work on a Bug
- 2.9.3 [Contributor] After having pushed to Gerrit
- 2.9.4 [Committer] After having submitted the change in Gerrit
- 2.9.5 Checklist for setting status to RESOLVED FIXED
- 2.9.6 [Tester] After having tested
- 3 Source Code Contribution
- 4 Wiki Contribution
- 5 Committer Nominations
The Eclipse wiki gives a good detailed overview of the various ways you can contribute to a project:
The typical Eclipse Scout contributor will go through the following steps:
- You use Scout, i.e. install it, go through tutorials, build your own Scout apps
- You will find bugs, or have ideas for your great feature.
- You provide some public feedback
- Read/ask questions on the Scout Scout Forum
- Report these bugs/enhancements via Scout bugzilla
- Eventually, you might want to speed up bug fixing by providing patches
- Getting enthusiastic enough, you will contribute many valuable, high quality patches for Scout bugs/enhancements
- Now is the time to start the committer election process :-)
Bugzilla Contribution
Opening new Bugs
1) Before you do anything related to bugs please have a look at the Eclipse Bugzilla FAQ.
2) Before you open a new Scout bug, please try to scan through the known bugs to verify that you are not reporting a bug that is already known for Eclipse Scout. See next section.
Find Existing Scout Bugs
For your convenience a number of links are provided below:
Bug Report Quality Matters
High quality bug reports help to quickly understand/analyze/fix bugs. Bad quality bug reports lead to poor developer morale and slow down everything.
Good quality bug reports often feature many of the following things:
- Well organized description
- Clear distinction between observed behavior and expected behavior
- Steps to reproduce
- Stack traces
- Screenshots
- Source file and line numbers from attempts to locate the source of the bug
Lack of any of the above characteristics is considered poor quality. A drastic example (taken from [1]) reads as follows:
- I wand to create a new plugin in Eclipse using CDT. Shall it possible.
- I had made a R&D in eclipse documentation. I had get an idea about create a
- plugin using Java. But i wand to create a new plugin ( user defined plugin )
- using CDT. After that I wand to impliment it in my programe. If it possible?.
- Any one can help me please...
[1] Nicolas Bettenburg et al. "Quality of bug reports in Eclipse", Proceedings of the 2007 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange, 2007
Good guidelines on how to write a bug may be found here:
Open a Scout bug
When you cannot find an existing bug, feel free to open a new bug:
Please also read the text below that introduces some Scout specific aspects of bug writing
Choose the proper Component
Select the component according to the following criteria
- Scout: Scout Runtime bugs, or anything else that you are not sure what component to choose
- Scout SDK: Bugs in the Scout SDK, e.g. wizards that create code that won't compile
- Scout Docs: Bugs on www.eclipse.org/scout, wiki.eclipse.org/scout, and any other public communication regarding Scout
Choose the proper Version
Choose the Scout version that you are having the issue with. Next the Scout release coming with Kepler (june 2013) this would be 3.9.0.
If you are using an older version of Eclipse Scout, there is no more release planned, but relevant bugs will still be fixed on these branches.
Choose the proper Severity
Severity is assigned by a user and describes the level of impact the bug is having on them, the Eclipse Scout project has defined following meanings:
|Used when
|Prevents function from being used, no work-around, blocking progress on multiple fronts
|The bug prevents use or testing of the build
|Prevents function from being used, no work-around
|frequent crashes, "loss of data"
|Prevents function from being used, but a work-around is possible
|"loss of function"
|A problem making a function difficult to use but no special work-around is required
|default value, typically the correct setting unless one of the other levels fit
|A problem not affecting the actual function, but the behavior is not natural (or it is not important).
|something's wrong, but it doesn't affect the function significantly
|A problem not affecting the actual function, a typo would be an example
|feature requests, nice to have (also when the new feature is "major")
Use a decent Summary line
Helps a lot to identify the bug in a large list of bugs. Good example: SWT: Columns with an active filter should be identifiable. Bad example: Layout.
In case the bug relates to a specific Scout runtime UI please use one of the following prefixes:
- Swing:: For bugs specific to the Scout Swing UI
- SWT:: For bugs specific to the Scout SWT UI
Bug Life Cycle
Consult the Eclipse wiki for a diagram showing the possible bug live cycles.
Typical Life Cycle
- New
- Assigned
- Resolved (Fixed)
- Verified
- Closed
Some notes:
- Status 'Assigned' may be skipped
- For a bug in status 'Resolved' the 'Target Milestone' must be specified
- Ideally, the implementation/Fix is verified by the person opening the bug
- If bug and implementation is from the same person, someone else should verify the bug
- Bugs are closed by Scout project leads after a release is shipped
[Contributor] After starting to work on a Bug
A good practice is to assign the bug to the person working on the bug. This way everybody knows someone is working on the bug.
- Change the status to "ASSIGNED"
- Target milestone where you plan to fix the Bug (corresponding to the develop branch). If the fix should also be backported to a previous branch, indicate this in the comment.
[Contributor] After having pushed to Gerrit
In Bugzilla [OPTIONAL]
- Comment: Link to Gerrit change
In Gerrit [MANDATORY]
- Wait for the Hudson build (+1 Verified)
- Review: (+2 Code-Review; +1 IP-Clean)
- ping (mail, forum, phonecall...) a committer to get a review. Nobody looks in the Gerrit Inbox for open changes.
- if you are committer, it is allowed to review your own change. A good practice is to speak about it with an other committer.
[Committer] After having submitted the change in Gerrit
After having submitted the Gerrit change in Gerrit, the committer should:
In Bugzilla [MANDATORY]
- Add a comment in Bugzilla: "Pushed to develop with commit + URL"
- Check the Target Milestone.
- Change Status to: "RESOLVED FIXED"
- Assign the Bug to a Tester "Could you verify please?"
Checklist for setting status to RESOLVED FIXED
- Milestone is correct
- Ticket contains migration notes, if necessary
- Whiteboard contains migration text, if necessary
- Ticket is assigned to person that is supposed to test it
- News entry is written in Scout/NewAndNoteworthy, if necessary (for enhancements and other important changes)
[Tester] After having tested
How do I test?
Now is a good time to (re)read the bugzilla and verify that the implemented solution actually solves the problem(s).
Please test the change in a Scout application. The binary form (.jar) should be tested (continuous job, milestone release...)
Test on all branches where the ticket was applied.
How do I report the results?
In Bugzilla [MANDATORY]
- Comment: "Tested with version XXXXX" (for example 18.104.22.16831003-1140) (see #Find_the_version_of_a_plugin)
- Change "Status" and "Assigned to":
- If the ticket is ok set the status to "VERIFIED FIXED" and reassign it to the default assignee (see #Reset_assignee_to_default).
- If the ticket was not ok, set the status to "REOPENED" and reassign it to the person who solved the ticket. Explain what is wrong in the comment.
Find the version of a plugin
With CTRL-Shift-A you can look for any scout bundle in your target platform. Select the bundle that should contain your modification. Click OK.
In the Manifest editor, you can copy the exact version. The timestamp you see in the version is corresponding to the last commit for this bundle.
Reset assignee to default
Use the Bugzilla feature to reassign the assignee to default.
Source Code Contribution
Getting the Scout Sources
We are using git at eclipse: [1]. How to setup your environment to compile the sources and contribute see Setup.
Runtime: git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/scout/org.eclipse.scout.rt.git SDK: git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/scout/org.eclipse.scout.sdk.git
The branching policy is described here: Git Branching Policy.
Webviewer: Scout Git Repositories
Eclipse Scout 6.0 (Neon Release) Branch: releases/6.0.x
Eclipse Scout 5.0 (Mars Release) Branch: releases/5.0.x
Eclipse Scout 4.0 (Luna Release) Branch: releases/4.0.x
For old releases see Sources_for_Old_Releases.
Contributing patches
Patches (new features or bugfixes) should be contributed using Gerrit. (You do not need to attach a patch file to bugzilla anymore.) Setup your development environment, make your changes and push to gerrit. See Git Workflows instructions on how to push your code.
Contribution to the Eclipse Scout project needs to follow the coding guidelines. To successfully contribute you also have to follow the Eclipse legal guidelines.
Specifically, you need to:
- make sure the patch doesn't contain cryptography
- make sure the patch is written from scratch
- make sure the patch is submitted under the EPL
- make sure the change is less than 1000 lines of code
- make sure you have signed the Contributor License Agreements
Special cases
- If your contribution is larger than 1000 lines of code we need to fill in a contribution questionnaire and open a corresponding IPZilla bug
- If the license is not EPL we will need to have this verified (e.g GPL is a no-go)
I have provided a Patch. Now What?
If you have attached a patch to a bugzilla ticket and are not satisfied with it's progress (read: nobody seems to notice after a week or so): Nudge us in the Scout forum, and please allow for some more days. We will then find a committer for your bug and figure out the next steps together.
To list the currently pending patches you may use this query
Wiki Contribution
We encourage Eclipse Scout developers and contributors to take the "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" approach to adding and updating wiki documentation.
Create links
Forum to Wiki
A forum thread has a very short life time (sometimes some user use the search engine, but it is not always the case). As forum threads As a wiki page has a much longer lifetime than a forum thread, it is a good practice to increase the value of the information accumulated in a forum thread by condensing it into a wiki page. Its value is further growing over time because – in contrast to information in a forum thread - it is much more likely that the information in the wiki is kept up to date. When a Forum Topic is summarized into a wiki page or pages, it is a good practice to let the forum readers know about it. (This helps people that find an old forum thread via search engines). The above recommendation does not apply to all forum threads, but often it's already clear from the first question in a new thread if the asked for information would be a valuable addition to the wiki. To make the process more efficient we like to suggest the following approach. Once it's clear that the question is of a conceptual nature and it will take some time to compile a good answer consider to first create the answer as a how-to entry or a concept entry in the wiki. Then answer the forum's question by adding a link to the newly created wiki page.
Wiki to Forum
Sometime there is a very good discussion in the forum (example, how to, architecture description, advanced topic explanations). Such valuable know how belongs to the wiki, but it is sometimes not possible to control where the discussion takes place. If there is/are (roughly) matching existing wiki pages but the person responding the forum thread does not have the necessary time to amend this existing wiki at least add a link from the wiki page to the forum thread.
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Wiki to Wiki
A wiki is not a book, it is not linear. It is not possible to assume where a reader will start reading (he might land on a page with a search engine). Therefore it is important to link the pages together. We try to add a "see also" section on each page. It is the default solution to link pages with each other.
It is possible to check how many other wiki pages contain a link to a page. Link "What links here" from the Toolbox section. At list 2-3 pages should reference a new page.
Use MediaWiki Features
Java Syntax highlighting
Tag the code blocks with source tag
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<filter aliases="/process" class="org.eclipse.scout.http.servletfilter.security.LDAPSecurityFilter" ranking="50"> </filter>
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SELECT language_id, name FROM languages
Committer Nominations
Nominations for committer status can be created in the committer portal. Nominations should follow the according to the Eclipse wiki guidelines. A good starting point for nominations is a significant number (8-15) of well written patches, meaningful posts on the Scout forum and other community activities. To count patches we typically use the Scout IP Log.
Preparing Nominations
Current Nominations
- Ralph Steiner, January 2017
- Paolo Bazzi, January 2017
- Michael Rudolf, January 2017
Past Nominations
- Thomas Plüss, May 2016, pmc approval
- Arthur van Dorp, March 2016, pmc approval
- Patrik Bänziger, January 2016, pmc approval
- Nathan Burgherr, August 2015, pmc approval
- Matthias Otterbach, August 2015 pmc approval
- Christian Rusche, August 2015 pmc approval
- André Wegmüller, December 2014
- Adrian Sacchi, Mai 2014
- Reto Aschwanden, Mai 2014
- Matthias Nick, January 2014
- Christoph Schwank, May 2013
- Oli Schmid, May 2013
- Bruno Koeferli, May 2013
- Adrian Moser, Dezember 2012
- Beat Schwarzentrub, Dezember 2012
- Jeremie Bresson, Dezember 2012
- Ken Lee, August 2012
- Stephan Merkli, August 2012
- Matthias Villiger, September 2011
- Claudio Guglielmo, September 2011


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Big Data is all the rage, but taming all the information flowing through the world's computer networks, mobile devices, social media channels and so on is a huge job.
Chicago-based Envestnet, among a handful of others, is trying to help retirement plan advisors and others in the finacial services industry corral all of that data. The publicly traded wealth management software company does so, it says, by looking at Big Data from a different perspective.
"(The term) Big Data emotes this NSA prism that we are taking from you and not giving back," said James Patrick, executive vice president, advisor-managed programs for Envestnet. "We are the opposite of Big Data. We are taking data and making it actionable."
That's good, because anyone who can answer with clarity and authority the questions retirement plan advisors and their clients ask routinely is bound to do well.
Envestnet, in fact, is long accustomed to capturing the industry's attention, as well as Wall Street's. Launched in 1999, the company today has more than 16,000 advisors who have fee-based assets under management or administration on its platform.
The company's shares jumped in early July by as much as 13% after it closed on a $10 million cash acquisition of Prudential Wealth Management Solutions. The deal includes contingent consideration of $23 million in cash to be paid out over three years.
Envestnet announced its move into Big Data early this year, dubbing it "Envestnet Intelligence."
Envestnet, of course, isn't alone in recognizing the potential of turning Big Data into something useful. Companies as large as IBM have been plying these waters, as have a number of startups.
The research and consulting firm Celent explored the potential of Big Data in the financial services industry in a recent report, "Big Data in Wealth Management: The Search for Customer Insight."
"Many wealth management firms have begun to examine Big Data and analytics solutions; some are at exploratory stages or early stages of deploying solutions," the report said. "Celent expects the industry to catch up as more firms discover additional insights about their customers that can help increase retention."
The big challenge for anyone in this field is finding ways to make all of that data understandable for clients. It does no good to hand over a report filled with undecipherable numbers.
Envestnet, its executives say, understands that.
"(Clients) just say, "'Get me to the end of the rainbow,'" Patrick said. "The client wants simplicity. We do a lot of complex things to deliver that simplicity."
It's not just the clients who want simplicity. Advisors also need their information delivered in a form they can digest and use.
"Relationship managers, advisors, and traders are using Big Data and analytics to help them discover, develop, and test investment ideas and strategies," the Celent report said. "Increasingly firms want to capture more information from looking for correlations and investment opportunities across multiple asset classes and over longer time horizons. Big Data helps firms establish larger data sets which enable users to run experiments more quickly to uncover actionable investment ideas."
It's complicated, no doubt.
For Envestnet, getting to the bottom of it all means using its software to create benchmarks that allow advisors to see how they are doing in various investment categories.
Mike McGowan, senior vice president of strategic business development for Envestnet, said its software has tested well with advisors because it helps them manage their businesses.
And those benchmarks, Patrick says, help make a business more efficient when it comes to making sure investments are panning out. In a snapshot, managers can see which advisors do well and which lag. Adjustments can be made quickly. And once advisors get the simplified data, they can disseminate it to clients as they see fit.
Not surprisingly, Celent is sold on Big Data:
"Combining analytics and aggregated data will help wealth managers improve customer and advisor retention, discover investment opportunities and monitor operational and reputational risks," Bill Fearnley Jr., the report's author and a senior analyst with Celent's Securities & Investments Group, said in statement. "Celent recommends firms and providers choose specific projects and begin to explore the power of new analytics and visualization tools."
Envestnet sees a more basic business reason to tame Big Data. "The more hooks you have, the more bells and whistles you have, the better chance you have to be the single advisor (for a client)," McGowan said.
Check out Envestnet to Acquire Prudential Bank Wealth Management Unit.


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|LPWAN / LORAWAN | Wireless Communication Network for IoT (Internet of Things) Applications
LoRaWAN is a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) specification intended for wireless battery operated things in a regional, national or global network. LoRaWAN defines the communication protocol and system architecture for the network while the LoRa physical layer enables the long-range communication link. The protocol and network architecture have the most influence in determining the battery lifetime of a node, the network capacity, the quality of service, the security, and the variety of applications served by the network.
◆ Long range ◆ Low power consumption ◆ High sensitivity
The LoRaWAN technology has been designed to respond to use cases where a sensor communicates small amounts of data a few times a day. It is well suited for smart meters, trackers, 'comfort' sensors etc. However, it is not designed to support applications that require high data rates such as audio or video. However, LoRaWAN can be used to control other wireless device capabilities; for instance to remotely instruct a camera to begin a data transmission, and stay in low power mode whenever opening a video stream is not required.
The examples below detail several key applications of LoRaWAN: Smart Lighting, Smart Parking, Waste Management, Elderly people assistance, Healthcare Application, Medical wearables, Facility Management, Factories and Industrial Applications, etc.


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Urinary incontinence is the loss of voluntary bladder control that can cause leakage of urine. It can be temporary or last for a long time.
There are four types of long-term or permanent incontinence:
- Stress incontinence—Most common type. Leakage occurs when there is extra pressure on the bladder. Triggers may include laughing, sneezing, lifting heavy objects, or exercise.
- Urge incontinence—Known as overactive bladder, a loss of bladder control following a strong urge to urinate. The bladder is unable to hold urine long enough to make it to a restroom.
- Overflow incontinence—The bladder will not empty, so urine builds up and the bladder overflows.
- Functional incontinence—There is normal bladder control, but the toilet cannot be reached in time.
People may have just one or a combination of these types.
Incontinence has several different causes. The cause could also be unclear.
Temporary incontinence can be caused by:
- Medication
- Constipation
- Infection
- Muscle weakness
- Restricted mobility
- Obesity
- Endocrinological disorders such as diabetes
Stress incontinence may be caused by:
- Weakening of muscles that suspend the bladder
- Weakening of muscles that control urine flow
- Obesity
Urge incontinence is the accidental loss of urine when the bladder spasms for no reason. It may be caused or worsened by:
- Urinary tract infection
- Diabetes type 1 and type 2
- Bladder irritation such as a stone or a tumor
- Drugs such as hypnotics or diuretics
- Caffeine
- Alcohol
Nerve damage due to:
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson disease
- Constipation
- Excessive fluid intake
Overflow incontinence is caused by overfill and overflow of the bladder. It may be caused or worsened by:
- A bladder that is blocked, such as by a scar in the urethra
- Fecal impaction
- Drugs such as antidepressants, hypnotics, antipsychotics, antihistamines, or calcium channel blockers
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Weak bladder muscles
Nerve damage due to:
- Surgery
- Diabetes
- Spinal cord injuries
- Other factors
Functional incontinence may be caused by:
- Medical conditions that make it difficult to move like severe arthritis
- Drugs that cause confusion or sedation
Some incontinence may be caused by a fistula. A fistula is an abnormal opening between the bladder and another nearby structure. The fistula can make it difficult for the bladder to act as it should.
Risk Factors
Urinary incontinence is more common in women age 65 years or older.
Factors that may increase your chances of urinary incontinence:
- Childbirth—History of multiple pregnancies or vaginal deliveries
- Urinary tract infection
- Obesity
- Chronic lung disease
- Urethritis
- Previous hysterectomy or urethral surgery
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Depression
- Dementia, including Alzheimer disease
- Menopause
- Diabetes
- Stroke
- Multiple sclerosis
- Spinal cord injury or disease
- Use of certain substances such as caffeine or alcohol
- Use of certain medications, such as cholinergic agents or alpha-agonists
Any loss of bladder control can be considered incontinence.
When Should I Call My Doctor?
Call your doctor if you have a loss of urine control. Your doctor can help you determine the underlying cause.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. You will be asked how often you empty your bladder and patterns of urine leakage. A physical exam will be done to look for any physical causes, such as blockages or nerve problems. You may be referred to a specialist.
Your bodily fluids will be tested. This can be done with:
- Blood tests
- Urine tests
The flow of your urine will be assessed. This can be done with:
- Stress test
- Urodynamic tests
Your bodily structures may need to be viewed. This can be done with:
Treatments are based on the cause of the urinary incontinence.
Temporary incontinence may be relieved by managing the conditions associated with the incontinence.
Weight loss may help reduce the number of episodes due to stress or urge incontinence in people who are overweight or obese. Talk to your doctor about a weight loss program that is right for you.
Stress Incontinence
Initial treatment relies on behavior changes and strengthening pelvic floor muscles. Behavior changes include:
- Decreasing caffeine—caffeine has been linked to worsening of urinary incontinence
- Planning frequent bathroom trips throughout the day to prevent accidents
Methods to increase strength in the pelvic floor muscles include:
- Kegel exercises —focuses on muscles that hold the bladder in place and those that control urine flow
- Painless electrical stimulation—may strengthen the muscles more quickly; helpful for stress incontinence
- Pelvic floor exercises using cone-shaped weights that are placed in the vagina
- Biofeedback—a device signals how strong you are at contracting your muscles during exercise
Surgical procedures may be done for incontinence that is not responding to these treatments. Surgical options include:
- Placement of strips of material or sutures to support structures in the area and relieve pressure on the urethra. There are several different types of surgery, but a common option, called a urethral suspension , uses mesh to help support the urethra.
- Collagen injection into the wall of the urethra. This substance bulks up the wall of the urethra to help stop leaks.
Urge Incontinence
Initial treatment depends on behavior changes and strengthening pelvic floor muscles. Behavior changes include:
- Drinking less fluid throughout the day
- Avoiding caffeine and alcohol
- Avoiding drinking at bedtime
- Keeping a log of your urination schedule and accidents.
Kegel exercises can help strengthen pelvic floor muscles and relieve some symptoms.
Medications may be recommended. Anticholinergics are the most common medication. They can relax the muscles of the bladder. Other medications may be used in combination to help manage symptoms, such as botulinum toxin injections.
Nerve stimulation may be used if urge incontinence does not respond to behavior modification or medication. A device will send pulses to the nerves that control the bladder. This has been shown to help stimulate bladder control. In some cases, the device is implanted in the back.
Overflow Incontinence
Treatment for overflow incontinence is to allow the bladder to completely empty. If a blockage is causing the problems, surgery may be needed to open the urine pathways.
Other causes of overflow incontinence may require the use of a tube called a catheter to allow urine to drain from the bladder. People can use certain catheters at home.
Other Management Steps
Absorbent pads or diapers can be used to manage urinary leakage. Plugs and patches can also be used to help hold urine in place.
A supportive device called a pessary may also be used. Pessaries are devices that raise the uterus or the prolapsed bladder. It can decrease pressure on the bladder.
Incontinence is a symptom of many other conditions. There are several ways to prevent incontinence:
- If advised by your doctor, do exercises to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, such as Kegel exercises. This is especially important if you are pregnant.
- Reduce your intake of substances that lead to incontinence such as caffeine, alcohol, and certain drugs.
- Lose weight, if needed.
- Eat a healthy diet to avoid constipation.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Adrienne Carmack, MD
- Review Date: 11/2018 -
- Update Date: 04/25/2018 -


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I made these cookies a couple weeks ago and clearly I am not the only blogger to make them this Fall. I was inspired by the post on Sweet Pea's Kitchen who was inspired by Recipe Girl, barley adapted from Cook's Illustrated, February, 2005. In the past week though I have seen them pop up on at least three sites. There is very good reason for this....these cookies are delicious! If you like pumpkin and you like snickerdoodles then you should seriously go make these cookies right now. You can easily polish off four or five before you know it. I am not saying that happened to me, but it most likely did. These are the perfect Fall cookie and they don't have too strong a pumpkin flavor for those folks who claim to not like pumpkin.
For those of you are here for the give away, skip to the bottom of the post.
Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
recipe slightly adapted from Sweet Pea's Kitchen who was inspired by Recipe Girl, barley adapted from Cook's Illustrated
makes approximately 4 dozen
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 3/4 cups sugar, divided
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg
3/4 cup pumpkin puree
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt and pumpkin pie spice; set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar at medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed. Add the egg and beat at medium speed until combined, about 30 seconds. Add the pumpkin puree and beat at medium speed until combined, about 30 seconds. Add the dry ingredients and beat at low speed until just combined, about 30 seconds, scraping down the bowl as needed.
Place the remaining 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon for rolling in a shallow bowl. Roll a heaping tablespoon of dough into a 1½-inch ball, roll the ball in the sugar mixture, and place it on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough, spacing the balls about 2 inches apart
Bake the cookies, one sheet at a time, until the edges are set and just beginning to brown but the centers are still soft and puffy, 10 to 12 minutes, rotating the baking sheet halfway through baking. Cool the cookies on the baking sheets about 5 minutes; using a wide metal spatula, transfer the cookies to a wire rack and cool to room temperature.
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Principal Proposed Uses
Other Proposed Uses
Glycine is the simplest of the 20 different amino acids used as building blocks to make proteins for your body. It works in concert with glutamine, a substance that plays a major role in brain function. Glycine has shown some promise as an aid in the treatment of schizophrenia and may have other uses related to the brain as well, such as enhancing mental function .
Your body is able to make glycine using another amino acid, serine. Because you can manufacture glycine, you do not really have to consume any, so it is called a "nonessential amino acid." Most of us get about 2 g of glycine a day from the foods we regularly eat anyway. This dietary glycine comes mostly from high-protein foods like meat, fish, dairy products, and legumes. For treating certain disease conditions, however, much larger amounts than are normally consumed have been advocated; such high doses can only be obtained by taking supplements.
Therapeutic Dosages
Dosages of oral glycine used in clinical trials for therapeutic purposes range from 2 to 60 g daily.
Therapeutic Uses
Several studies have evaluated glycine as a supportive treatment for schizophrenia . 1,2,4-6,22-26 According to some, but not all, of these studies, high doses of glycine (from 15 to 60 g daily) might augment the effectiveness of medications used for this condition. The one notable exception is clozapine (Clozaril); one study suggest that glycine may actually decrease the effectiveness of this drug (see Safety Issues below).
One large double-blind study suggests that low doses of glycine may be helpful for limiting the spreading brain damage that occurs during stroke . 7 However, there are also theoretical concerns that glycine could increase such damage (see Safety Issues ), so you should not try this treatment except under physician supervision.
A small double-blind study found evidence that glycine may help improve long-term blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes. 24
One small study weakly suggests that glycine may enhance memory and mental function . 11
Glycine alone and in combination with other amino acids has shown a bit of promise for enhancing wound healing. 13
Animal studies suggest that dietary glycine may protect against chemically induced damage to the liver or kidneys. 14-16
Other studies in laboratory animals suggest that dietary glycine may prevent tumor formation and growth in the livers of mice and rats. 17,18 However, it is too early to say whether glycine has cancer preventive effects in humans.
Manufacturers advertising glycine supplements have made a number of additional claims for it, including prevention of epileptic seizures , reducing acid in the stomach, multiple sclerosis , boosting the immune system , and calming the mind. It is also proposed as a sports supplement , said to work in this capacity by increasing release of human growth hormone (HGH). As yet, there is no real scientific evidence that glycine works for any of these purposes.
Because it has a sweet taste, glycine has also been recommended as a sugar substitute for people with diabetes.
What Is the Scientific Evidence for Glycine?
Glycine might enhance the effectiveness of drugs used for schizophrenia , especially those in the older phenothiazine category. It has also shown equivocal promise for the drugs risperidone and olanzapine. However, it may not be helpful for people using clozapine .
Phenothiazine drugs are most effective for the "positive" symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations and delusions. (Such symptoms are called "positive" because they indicate the presence of abnormal mental functions, rather than the absence of normal mental functions.) In general, however, these medications are less helpful for the "negative" symptoms of schizophrenia, such as apathy, depression, and social withdrawal. Glycine might be of benefit here.
A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial enrolled 22 participants who continued to experience negative symptoms of schizophrenia despite standard therapy. 1 The results showed that the use of glycine significantly improved negative symptoms. In addition, glycine also appeared to reduce some of the side effects caused by the prescription drugs. No changes were seen in positive symptoms (for instance, hallucinations), but it is not possible to tell whether that is because these symptoms were already being controlled by prescription medications or if glycine simply has no effect on those particular symptoms of of schizophrenia.
Three earlier double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials of glycine together with standard drugs for schizophrenia also found it to be helpful for negative symptoms. 2,4,5 All of these studies used very small groups (from 12 to 18 people), so much larger trials are still needed to verify glycine's effectiveness.
The trials just discussed were conducted before atypical antipsychotics were widely available. These drugs cause fewer side effects and also provide benefits for the negative symptoms of schizophrenia along with the positive. One study found that glycine augmented the effectiveness of two of these drugs: olanzapine and risperidone. 23 However, another study suggests that adding glycine to the atypical antipsychotic clozapine may not be a good idea. 6 In this study, glycine was found to reduce the benefits of clozapine. Two other double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of glycine and clozapine simply failed to find benefit. 22,25 Another recent study, not specifically limited to clozapine, also failed to find benefit with glycine. 26
Glycine's potential usefulness for treating individuals who have undergone strokes was investigated in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study with 200 participants. 7 The results suggest that glycine can protect against the spreading damage to the brain that usually follows a stroke. Participants were given either 1 to 2 g of glycine sublingually (dissolved under the tongue) or placebo treatment for a period of 5 days. The results suggest that glycine can prevent neural damage. This appears to be an impressive result, but further research is necessary.
Although other researchers using glycine for brain disorders have reported that such small doses of glycine would not be sufficient to cross the blood-brain barrier, 1 measurements of amino acids in the cerebrospinal fluid during the above study suggest that it did enter the brain. However, there are potential concerns that high-dose glycine could increase stroke damage (see Safety Issues below).
Safety Issues
No serious adverse effects from using glycine have been reported, even at doses as high as 60 g per day. One participant in the 22-person trial described above developed stomach upset and vomiting, but it ceased when the glycine was discontinued.
In contradiction to the study on strokes mentioned above, theoretical concerns have been raised that suggest glycine might actually increase brain injury in strokes. 19 In fact, drugs that block glycine have been investigated as treatments to limit stroke damage. 12,20 However, the authors of the study on strokes described above make an argument that suggests the overall effect of glycine is protective. 7 Until this controversy is settled, prudence suggests not using glycine following a stroke, except on the advice of a physician.
In addition, as noted above, it is possible that use of glycine could reduce the benefits of clozapine.
Maximum safe doses for young children, pregnant or nursing women, or people with liver or kidney disease are not known.
Interactions You Should Know About
If you are taking:
- Clozapine : Do not take glycine except on the advice of a physician.
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A patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a type of congenital (present at birth) heart problem.
The pulmonary artery is a blood vessel that moves blood from the heart to the lungs. The aorta is a blood vessel that moves blood from the heart out to the rest of the body. Before birth, the baby gets its oxygen from the mother, so its lungs are not used. The ductus arteriosus is a small passageway between the pulmonary artery and the aorta that allows blood in the baby to bypass the unused lungs and carry oxygen to the other organs.
In most babies, the ductus arteriosus closes within a few hours of birth. This is normal. When the ductus arteriosus stays open, blood travels in the wrong direction between the aorta and pulmonary artery. This causes too much blood to flow through the lungs.
In most cases, the cause is not known. However, in a small number of cases, PDA could be caused by exposure during pregnancy to a viral infection, rubella , drugs , or alcohol . In some children, congenital heart disease, including PDA, may be caused by genetic factors.
Risk Factors
Premature babies are at increased risk, although a patent ductus often closes when the baby becomes more mature. PDA may be more common in female babies or babies born at high altitudes. In most cases occurring in full term babies, there are no known risk factors for PDA.
Symptoms vary with the size of the ductus and the amount of blood that flows through it. If the ductus is small, there may be no symptoms. When symptoms occur, they include:
- Rapid breathing
- Labored breathing
- Getting tired quickly
- Poor growth
In some babies, symptoms may not occur until a few weeks or months after birth. Occasionally, PDA is not found until a much later age.
Even when there are no symptoms, the baby is at higher risk for a serious infection called endocarditis .
A physical exam will be done. A PDA causes a heart murmur because of the blood flow from the aorta to the pulmonary artery. This characteristic sound can be heard during a physical exam. In premature babies, this heart murmur—accompanied by heart failure —is enough to diagnose PDA.
Images may be taken of your child's chest. This can be done with:
In some cases, a child may be monitored to see if the PDA will close on its own with time. Other conditions will be managed.
Fluid Restriction
Your child's fluids may be restricted for 2-3 days to help the PDA to close.
Medication may be used to help close the PDA. The medication will help tighten the muscle in the wall of the PDA to close it.
If other treatment options fail, surgery may be required. Surgery may be done to tie off the PDA.
Another option may be to use a small coil in place of surgery to close the PDA. The coil is placed into the ductus arteriosus and then expanded to block the flow of blood. The procedure is done during cardiac catheterization . This procedure is often used in older children.
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Everybody knows that unit tests are important and you should strive to test every piece of code you write. Test-driven development (TDD) proponents even believe that you should write the tests first and use them as a design tool. Unfortunately, for most teams and systems, the real world rudely intervenes and automated test coverage is far from complete (including unit tests, integration tests, and full system tests).
The reasons for this apparent neglect of a best practice are diverse. The shocking and painful truth for test aficionados is that successful complex systems can be developed without adequate automated testing. The costs may be higher and necessitate more manual testing, but it is possible. Even the most test-oriented development teams will agree that their code is under-tested (except maybe in some life-critical and mission-critical industries). In this article, I drill down and explain how to write tests for traditionally difficult-to-test areas of the code. As you'll see, testing complex systems has a lot to do with the architecture and design of your code. This is also true for other aspects of software systems such as scalability, performance, and security. You can't just bolt them on top of a horrible mess of code. You have to design testability from the get go or refactor toward it. The good news is that good design (modular and loosely coupled elements with well-defined responsibilities and interfaces between modules) leads to systems that are more testable, scalable, performant, and secure.
The Basics
Developing complex software often involves multiple teams possibly not even colocated and not in the same time zone. You must have a solid development process that involves source control, an automated build/deployment system, and automated tests. A major concern in such an environment is how to avoid breaking the build, because a broken build caused by one developer can block every other developer. A broken build includes code that doesn't behave as expected. For example, if I introduce a bug to the data access layer, every piece of code that tries to access the data will fail. The more complex the system, the harder it is to gauge the impact of a particular change (this can be minimized by good design). Automated tests become critical here. If all the tests pass after you make your change, you can be pretty sure that you didn't break anyone else's code (assuming reasonable test coverage).
For demonstration purposes, I use a C# application, called "MindReader," that reads your mind and tells you what you are thinking about. Figure 1 shows what it looks like in action.
Figure 1.
It has a single button for initiating mind reading, a progress bar to report the progress, and an output area to tell you what you are thinking about. There can be only one mind reading going on any one time, so the button is disabled while mind reading is occurring. It's a pretty simple app, but it allows us to explore sophisticated testing techniques.
Third-Party Code
In a complex system, your team may write only part of the code. You may use open-source libraries, licensed code from external vendors, and (most commonly) code from other teams. As a rule of thumb, you shouldn't create tests for code you didn't write. You normally use third-party code through an API. In some cases, you just use the API directly in your code. When operating in this mode, the third-party is equivalent to built-in libraries for your programming language or the OS. Often however, raw API access is not the best approach. The API may be very complicated, it may not be stable across versions, it may be too low-level, it may be a C API while your system is implemented in C++. In all these cases, teams can elect to write a wrapper around the third-party code that exposes the required functionality, then use the wrapper. These wrappers can be convenient for testing, too, because (if designed properly) they're easy to mock. Sometimes, mocking third-party code is the main justification for writing a wrapper.
When writing wrappers, I recommend that you create a very thin wrapper only around the functionality you need. The goal is to make sure you don't introduce any bugs or performance issues with your wrappers. If the API is large and changes often, look into generating the wrappers automatically if possible. You shouldn't need to write dedicated tests for these wrappers. You may later write another layer on top of the thin wrapper to adapt the API to your application needs, but by then, you are already back in the domain of your code and the access layer can be tested using a mocked version of the thin wrapper if needed.
The only other concern about third-party code is that if you mock it, you need to really understand its behavior especially for error cases. If an API method returns an error status or throws an exception and your mock doesn't mimic it, you didn't test your code properly against the API.
Another realm of third-party code involves frameworks and plugin-containers. In these cases, you should develop your code to be as host/container-agnostic as possible and test it separately.
The MindReader UI uses Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) as third-party code and also as the framework where the application starts executing. WPF is usually coupled to your code via event handlers, which may be considered loose coupling, but it means you must deal with WPF signatures and data types (so when a button is clicked, your event handler gets a
System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs object that it needs to handle).
IMainWindow interfaces abstracts all the operations the MindReader app performs on the main window:
public interface IMainWindow { void EnableGoButton(bool enable); void SetThoughtText(string thought); void UpdteProgressBar(int percent); }
IMainWindowEvents interface abstracts all the relevant events that the main window generates and the application wants to respond to:
{ void OnGoButtonClick(); void OnKey(string key); void OnClose(); }
Note that these interfaces are completely WPF-agnostic. You can switch the UI technology at any time or mock it for testing purposes, as you'll see later. The
MainWindowWrapper class (see Listing One) implements the
IMainWindow interface and forwards calls to the actual
MainWindow WPF class. It also listens to certain WPF events (via event handlers) and forwards them to its
IMainWindowEvents sink.
Listing One
using System; using System.Windows.Controls; namespace MindReader { class MainWindowWrapper : IMainWindow { MainWindow _window; IMainWindowEvents _sink; Button _goButton; public MainWindowWrapper(MainWindow window) { _window = window; _goButton = (Button)_window.FindName("goButton"); // Hook up event handlers _goButton.Click += new System.Windows.RoutedEventHandler(_goButton_Click); _window.KeyUp += new System.Windows.Input.KeyEventHandler(_window_KeyUp); _window.Closed += new EventHandler(_window_Closed); } public void AttachSink(IMainWindowEvents sink) { _sink = sink; } // MainWindow events void _window_Closed(object sender, EventArgs e) { _sink.OnClose(); } void _window_KeyUp(object sender, System.Windows.Input.KeyEventArgs e) { _sink.OnKey(e.Key.ToString()); } void _goButton_Click(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e) { _sink.OnGoButtonClick(); } // IMainWindow public void EnableGoButton(bool enable) { _window.Dispatcher.Invoke((Action)(() => { _goButton.IsEnabled = enable; })); } public void SetThoughtText(string thought) { _window.Dispatcher.Invoke((Action)(() => { _window.thoughtBox.Text = thought; })); } public void UpdteProgressBar(int percent) { _window.Dispatcher.Invoke((Action)(() => { var min = _window.progressBar.Minimum; var max = _window.progressBar.Maximum; var range = max - min; _window.progressBar.Value = min + (percent / 100.0) * range; })); } } }
Testing Cross-Platform Systems
This section discusses systems that run on different operating systems with identical behavior.
I've written a lot of cross-platform code, mostly in C++. Very often, nasty cross-platform problems turn out to be build issues (wrong flags, wrong dependencies, wrong version, etc). The key for cross-platform programming is to minimize platform-specific code as much as possible. This can be largely accomplished by using cross-platform libraries and avoiding direct system calls. With the possible exception of the user interface (which I'll discuss next), it is possible to develop entire cross-platform systems with a single code base. When that's not possible, you should strive to wrap any platform-specific code. The end result of such a design is that, by and large, the code you write is platform-agnostic and you have small, well-isolated pockets of platform-specific code that present a uniform interface to the rest of your code. This makes testing much easier. Developers can run tests on their development systems and, unless they touched some platform-specific code, they can be pretty sure that their changes will work on other systems.
Your build system should take care of testing on all platforms. This testing depends on your development process. Some teams run every test on every platform for every change. Some teams have layered testing policies where more expansive and exhaustive tests are run periodically (nightly or over the weekend, for example).
Some systems have to target platforms with different capabilities. It could be multiple hardware devices, different browsers, different versions of the same operating system/browser, etc. This situation can often lead to a combinatorial explosion of target platforms. You need to address it (as usual) with good design first. A common approach is to create flexible systems where capabilities are discovered dynamically or configured and integrated into the main system as plugins. From a testing point of view, this approach may reduce the testing load, too. If you have five optional capabilities, and your target platforms can support any subset of these capabilities, then you have 32 targets to test. But, if you can test each capability separately, then you only need to test five. This is an important distinction.
Another approach that can alleviate the burden is to simulate/emulate missing capabilities. For example, in the world of 3D graphics, software rendering is very common when hardware-acceleration is not available. From a testing point of view, this can be a double-edged sword. The code itself may become more streamlined and just assume a capability is available, not caring whether it's simulated or not. But, you will need to test the system behavior in both actual and simulated modes. This is especially true if you develop the simulator.
Testing the User Interface
Ah, testing the user interface…the bane of automated testing. There are several aspects of any user interface that need to be tested. In most cases, you will use some library that knows how to display widgets like buttons, text boxes, and images on the screen and allows you to hook up event handlers to events like button clicks or selection changes. If you develop your own custom UI, it is a different story and falls outside of the scope of this article. Directly testing a UI by trying to automate it is a nightmare. You have to deal with message loops, event queues, timers, input device latency,as well as take into account screen resolution and user response time. It can be done, but it's tedious and very brittle. A better approach isolates the display and low-level event handling from the management of the UI state. This approach uses an evolution of the famous MVC pattern called "Model View Presenter" (MVP). The models are the domain objects, which are completely agnostic of the UI. The views are a thin layer around the UI widgets (and compositions, such as windows and dialog boxes with a bunch of widgets). The presenter is the smart guy. It talks to model/domain objects and is responsible for updating the proper view when the model state changes. In addition, it also listens to events from the views, and manages the UI state. What does it buy you from a testing perspective? A complete freedom to test in isolation both your domain objects and your user interface logic and state. You rely on your widgets library to do the right thing and then validate the visual design manually.
The various class interfaces and their relationships are displayed in Figure 2.
Figure 2.
In the mind reader application, the domain or model is implemented by the
TrivialMindReader class, which exposes the
IMindReader interface:
public interface IMindReader { void Read(); }
It also generates mind reading events through the outgoing
IMindReaderEvents interface:
public interface IMindReaderEvents { void OnProgress(int percent); void OnReadComplete(string thought); }


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The Jerusalem artichoke Helianthus tuberous is a small elongated, knobby tuber belonging to the daisy family compositae with a flower that looks similar to the sunflower. It is closely related to the sunflower family and is often referred to as the 'sun choke'. It is indigenous to North America where it can be found growing in the wild from Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia and down the eastern seaboard to the middle of Georgia and into the Midwest to Arkansas. The Jerusalem artichoke was a staple vegetable of Native American tribes for centuries. The Indians called them 'sun roots' and introduced them to the Pilgrims. Their popularity as a staple spread to Europe where it was listed in the 1620 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The Jerusalem artichoke is not to be confused with the globe artichoke that is an entirely different species. Nor does the name imply that it grows in Jerusalem. The name is actually a misinterpretation of the Italian word 'Girasola articiocco', meaning the Sunflower Artichoke.
The texture of the tubers is similar to potatoes but less starchy. Jerusalem artichoke's principal carbohydrate is inulin rather than starch. Unlike the starch in potatoes that converts to glucose very quickly in the body, the inulin in Jerusalem artichokes converts to fructose in the digestive process rather than glucose.
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