text: Back Heart Valve Repair or Replacement Surgery (Open Heart Surgery) Procedure overview What is heart valve repair or replacement surgery? Heart valve repair or replacement surgery is a treatment option for valvular heart disease. When heart valves become damaged or diseased, they may not function properly. Conditions which may cause heart valve dysfunction are valvular stenosis and valvular insufficiency (regurgitation). When one (or more) valve(s) becomes stenotic (stiff), the heart muscle must work harder to pump the blood through the valve. Some reasons why heart valves become stenotic include infection (such as rheumatic fever or staphylococcus infections) and aging. If one or more valves become insufficient (leaky), blood leaks backwards, which means that less blood is pumped in the proper direction. Based on your symptoms and overall condition of your heart, your doctor may decide that the diseased valve(s) needs to be surgically repaired or replaced. Traditionally, repair or replacement of heart valves has involved open-heart surgery, which means that the chest is opened in the operating room and the heart stopped for a time so that the surgeon may repair or replace the valve(s). In order to open the chest, the breastbone, or sternum, is cut in half and spread apart. Once the heart is exposed, large tubes are inserted into the heart so that the blood can be pumped through the body during the surgery by a cardiopulmonary bypass machine (heart-lung machine). The bypass machine is necessary to pump blood because the heart is stopped and kept still while the surgeon performs the valve repair or replacement procedure. Newer, less invasive techniques have been developed to replace or repair heart valves. Minimally-invasive procedures in which the incision is much smaller often mean less pain postoperatively and shorter hospital stays. Valvuloplasty is another method that may be used to treat valve stenosis in some cases. The diseased valve may be repaired using a ring to support a person's own valve, or the entire valve may be removed and replaced by an artificial valve. Artificial valves may be mechanical (made of metal or plastic) or tissue (made from animal valves or human valves taken from cadavers). Other related procedures that may be used to assess the heart include resting and exercise electrocardiogram (ECG), Holter monitor, signal-averaged ECG, cardiac catheterization, chest X-ray, computed tomography (CT scan) of the chest, echocardiography, electrophysiological studies, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart, myocardial perfusion scans, radionuclide angiography, and ultrafast CT scan. Please see these procedures for additional information. Valves of the heart Click Image to Enlarge To better understand how valvular heart disease affects the heart, a review of basic heart anatomy and valve function follows. The heart is a pump made of muscle tissue. The heart has four pumping chambers: two upper chambers, called atria, and two lower chambers, called ventricles. The right atrium pumps blood into the right ventricle, which then pumps the blood into the lungs where wastes such as carbon dioxide are given off and oxygen and other nutrients are taken into the blood. From the lungs, the blood flows back into the left atrium, is pumped into the left ventricle, and then is pumped through the aorta out to the rest of the body and the coronary arteries. When the atria are pumping, the ventricles are relaxed in order to receive the blood from the atria. Once the atria have pumped their entire blood load into the ventricles, they relax while the ventricles pump the blood out to the lungs and to the rest of the body. In order to keep the blood flowing forward during its journey through the heart, there are valves between each of the heart's pumping chambers: Tricuspid valve. Located between the right atrium and the right ventricle Pulmonary (or pulmonic) valve. Located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery Mitral valve. Located between the left atrium and the left ventricle Aortic valve. Located between the left ventricle and the aorta If the heart valve(s) becomes damaged or diseased, a person may experience the following symptoms: Dizziness Chest pain Breathing difficulties Palpitations Edema (swelling) of the feet, ankles, or abdomen Rapid weight gain due to fluid retention Reasons for the procedure Valve repair or replacement surgery is performed to correct the problems caused by one or more diseased heart valves. There may be other reasons for your doctor to recommend heart valve repair or replacement surgery. Risks of the procedure Possible risks associated with heart valve repair or replacement surgery include, but are not limited to, the following: Bleeding during or after the surgery Blood clots that can cause heart attack, stroke, or lung problems Infection at the incision site Pneumonia Breathing problems Dysrhythmias/arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms) If you are pregnant or suspect that you may be pregnant, you should notify your health care provider. If you are lactating, or breastfeeding, you should notify your health care provider. Patients who are allergic to or sensitive to medications, contrast dyes, iodine, or latex should notify their doctor. There may be other risks depending on your specific medical condition. Be sure to discuss any concerns with your doctor prior to the procedure. Before the procedure Your doctor will explain the procedure to you and offer you the opportunity to ask any questions that you might have about the procedure. You will be asked to sign a consent form that gives your permission to do the test. Read the form carefully and ask questions if something is not clear. In addition to a complete medical history, your doctor may perform a complete physical examination to ensure you are in good health before undergoing the procedure. You may undergo blood tests or other diagnostic tests. You will be asked to fast for eight hours before the procedure, generally after midnight. If you are pregnant or suspect that you are pregnant, you should notify your doctor. Notify your doctor if you are sensitive to or are allergic to any medications, iodine, latex, tape, or anesthetic agents (local and general). Notify your doctor of all medications (prescription and over-the-counter) and herbal supplements that you are taking. Notify your doctor if you have a history of bleeding disorders or if you are taking any anticoagulant (blood-thinning) medications, aspirin, or other medications that affect blood clotting. It may be necessary for you to stop some of these medications prior to the procedure. Your doctor may request a blood test prior to the procedure to determine how long it takes your blood to clot. Notify your doctor if you have a pacemaker. If you smoke, you should stop smoking as soon as possible prior to the procedure. This may improve your chances for a successful recovery from surgery and benefit your overall health status. Based on your medical condition, your doctor may request other specific preparation. During the procedure Heart valve repair or replacement surgery requires a stay in a hospital. Procedure may vary depending on your condition and your doctor's practices. Generally, heart valve repair or replacement follows this process: You will be asked to remove any jewelry or other objects that may interfere with the procedure. You will be asked to remove your clothing and will be given a gown to wear. You will be asked to empty your bladder prior to the procedure. An intravenous (IV) line will be started in your arm or hand. Additional catheters will be inserted in your neck and wrist to monitor the status of your heart and blood pressure, as well as for obtaining blood samples. Alternate sites for the additional catheters include the subclavian (under the collarbone) area and the groin. You will be positioned on the operating table, lying on your back. The anesthesiologist will continuously monitor your heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, and blood oxygen level during the surgery. Once you are sedated, a breathing tube will be inserted through your throat into your lungs and you will be connected to a ventilator, which will breathe for you during the surgery. A catheter will be inserted into your bladder to drain urine. The skin over the surgical site will be cleansed with an antiseptic solution. The doctor will make an incision (cut) down the center of the chest from just below the Adam's apple to just above the navel. The sternum (breastbone) will be divided in half with a special operating instrument. The doctor will separates the two halves of the breastbone and spread them apart to expose the heart. In order to perform the valve repair or replacement, the heart must be stopped to allow the doctor to perform the very delicate procedure. Tubes will be inserted into the heart so that the blood can be pumped through your body by a cardiopulmonary bypass machine. Once the blood has been completely diverted into the bypass machine for pumping, the heart will be stopped by injecting it with a cold solution. When the heart has stopped, the doctor will perform the procedure by removing the diseased valve and putting in the artificial valve, in the case of a valve replacement. For a valve repair, the procedure performed will depend on the type of valve problem that exists, for example, separation of fused valve leaflets, repair of torn leaflets, and/or the reshaping of valve parts to ensure better function. Once the procedure has been completed, the blood circulating through the bypass machine will be allowed to reenter your heart and the tubes to the machine removed. Your heart will be shocked with small paddles to restart its electrical activity. Once your heart is beating again, the doctor will observe the heart to assess the function of the heart and the valves. Temporary wires for pacing may be inserted into the heart. These wires can be attached to a pacemaker and your heart can be paced, if needed, during the initial recovery period. The sternum will be rejoined and sewn together with small wires. The skin over the sternum will be sewn back together. The incision will be closed with sutures or surgical staples. Tubes will be inserted into your chest to drain blood and other fluids from around the heart. These tubes will be connected to a suction device to drain fluids away from the heart. A tube will be inserted through your mouth or nose into your stomach to drain stomach fluids. A sterile bandage or dressing will be applied. After the procedure In the hospital After the surgery you may be taken to the recovery room before being taken to the intensive care unit (ICU) to be closely monitored for several days. Alternatively, you may be taken directly to the ICU from the operating room. You will be connected to monitors that will constantly display your electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) tracing, blood pressure, other pressure readings, breathing rate, and your oxygen level. Heart valve repair or replacement surgery generally requires an in-hospital stay of several days or longer. You will most likely have a tube in your throat so that your breathing can be assisted with a ventilator (breathing machine) until you are stable enough to breathe on your own. As you wake up from the anesthesia more and start to breathe by yourself, the breathing machine will be adjusted to allow you to take over more of the breathing. When you are awake enough to breathe completely by yourself and to be able to cough, the breathing tube will be removed. The stomach tube will also likely be removed at this time. After the breathing tube is out, your nurse will assist you to cough and take deep breaths every two hours. This will be uncomfortable due to soreness, but it is extremely important that you do this in order to keep mucus from collecting in your lungs and possibly causing pneumonia. You will be given pain medication if you are hurting, and you should ask for the medication before you become extremely uncomfortable. Your nurse will show you how to hug a pillow tightly against your chest while coughing to help ease the discomfort. You may be on special IV drips to help your blood pressure and your heart and to control any problems with bleeding. As your condition stabilizes, these drips will be gradually decreased and turned off as your condition allows. Once the breathing and stomach tubes have been removed and your condition has stabilized, you may start liquids to drink. Your diet may be gradually advanced to more solid foods as you tolerate them. When your doctor determines that you are ready, you will be moved from the ICU to a postsurgical unit or acute care unit. Your recovery will continue to progress. Your activity will be gradually increased as you get out of bed and walk around for longer periods of time. Your diet will be advanced to solid foods as you tolerate them. Arrangements will be made for a follow-up visit with your doctor. At home Once you are home, it will be important to keep the surgical area clean and dry. Your doctor will give you specific bathing instructions. The sutures or surgical staples will be removed during a follow-up office visit, if they were not removed before leaving the hospital. You should not drive until your doctor tells you to. Other activity restrictions may apply. Notify your physician to report any of the following: Fever and/or chills Redness, swelling, or bleeding or other drainage from the incision site Increase in pain around the incision site Your doctor may give you additional or alternate instructions after the procedure, depending on your particular situation. Online resources The content provided here is for informational purposes only, and was not designed to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease, or replace the professional medical advice you receive from your doctor. Please consult your health care provider with any questions or concerns you may have regarding your condition. This page contains links to other websites with information about this procedure and related health conditions. We hope you find these sites helpful, but please remember we do not control or endorse the information presented on these websites, nor do these sites endorse the information contained here. American College of Cardiology American College of Chest Physicians American Heart Association National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine Society of Thoracic Surgeons


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Skipped Initial Sequence Value on Oracle 11.2 November 17, 2011Posted by mwidlake in bug, Testing.
Tags: bug, sequences, Testing
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I'm seeing an oddity with newly created sequences skipping the initial value. ie I create the sequence and the first use of it returns the value 2, not 1.
{update, see the post comments and this post by Niall – this is a side effect of delayed segment creation – the first insert silently fails, but gets the sequence, and is repeated behind the scenes once the segment is there. It is fixed in 188.8.131.52, my db is at 188.8.131.52 as I got sick of the download of the latest version failing on my poor broadband connection and got it off a mate – turns out it is not the latest version.
Thanks for the enlightenment Niall.}
This is on Oracle 188.8.131.52 on Windows (XP, Vista and now Windows 7 64 bit). I am sure I did not see this on Oracle 10.1 and 10.2 on linux, Tru64 and windows.
I create a set of test tables for when I run courses or just want to test some things, a few tables holding people, names, addresses, phone calls and monthly call summaries. I do this with a bunch of pretty crude scripts that create the data in steps. Only on Oracle 11.2 it all stopped working. I tracked down the problem to the skipping of the first value for the first sequence I create and use. I've just confirmed this on a new server I have created.
I've boiled it down to the following test case. I ensure my test table and two sequences are not there, create them and then insert 10 records for men and 10 for women. For the women the records are numbered 1 to 10. For the men they are numbered 2 to 11!!!
My code:
-- seq_oddity.sql -- BUG ON 184.108.40.206 ?? -- though I create both sequences afresh, the first use of seq_m is getting 2, yes two! -- cannot work out why, so fixed by setting the row with forn_id of 130 to 1. set timi off spool seq_oddity.lst -- drop table test_fn purge; drop sequence seq_m; drop sequence seq_f; create table test_fn (forn_id number(5) not null ,forname varchar2(30) not null ,sex_ind char(1) not null) tablespace users / create sequence seq_m; create sequence seq_f; insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'ALAN','M'); exec dbms_output.put_line ('I have just created male name number '||seq_m.currval); insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'BARRY','M'); insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'CHRIS','M'); insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'DAVID','M'); insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'EDWARD','M'); insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'JANG','M'); insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'GARY','M'); insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'HARRY','M'); insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'IAN','M'); insert into test_fn values (seq_m.nextval,'JAMES','M'); exec dbms_output.put_line ('I created 10 men and last value was '||seq_m.currval); -- -- -- insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'ALISON','F'); exec dbms_output.put_line ('I have just created female name number '||seq_f.currval); insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'BARBARA','F'); insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'CHERYL','F'); insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'DAWN','F'); insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'ELAINE','F'); insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'FRANCIS','F'); insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'GILLIAN','F'); insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'CHERRY','F'); insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'INGRID','F'); insert into test_fn values (seq_f.nextval,'JANET','F'); exec dbms_output.put_line ('I created 10 women and last value was '||seq_f.currval); -- select sex_ind,min(forn_id),max(forn_id) from test_fn group by sex_ind/ -- spool off
The results are:
mdw11> @seq_oddity drop table test_fn purge * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist drop sequence seq_m * ERROR at line 1: ORA-02289: sequence does not exist drop sequence seq_f * ERROR at line 1: ORA-02289: sequence does not exist Table created. Sequence created. Sequence created. 1 row created. I have just created male name number 2 1 row created. 1 row created. ... 1 row created. I created 10 men and last value was 11 1 row created. I have just created female name number 1 1 row created. 1 row created. ... 1 row created. I created 10 women and last value was 10 S MIN(FORN_ID) MAX(FORN_ID) - ------------ ------------ M 2 11 F 1 10 2 rows selected. mdw11>
I suppose I should trace this and check for known oracle bugs but I wondered if anyone else had seen it.

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Boy Meets World Sequel: Which Other Shows Should Reunite?
Let's face it: The Boy Meets World sequel news has got us all in a prolonged state of nostalgia.
Photo Gallery: Which classic shows should reunite?
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.guru, .tips, .sexy: The Wild West Of Internet Domains
On a Friday it's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm Linda Wertheimer. Think of the Internet as a group of islands. There's one island for all the Web addresses with .COM. That one's very crowded. There is the less popular .NET island. Also our personal favorite, .ORG. Well, now the number of islands is expanding dramatically. There's .BIKE and .PLUMBING, .NINJA and more islands to come. David Kestenbaum with our Planet Money team introduces us to a few of the pioneers trying to develop and populate them.
DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: Adrienne McAdory says the idea that she could own one of these new pieces of the Internet came to her a couple years ago when she was working for the Pentagon. She was a contractor doing IT work.
ADRIENNE MCADORY: And I read on the Internet that the Internet was expanding.
KESTENBAUM: Were you actually, like, at work at the Pentagon thinking about this?
MCADORY: Oh yeah, in the basement.
KESTENBAUM: In the basement of the Pentagon?
MCADORY: In the basement of the Pentagon, in the dungeon where the rest of us peons work.
KESTENBAUM: What she read was that the organization that sets the rules for Web addresses - a non-profit organization called ICANN - was going to allow people to apply for new what are called domains. No longer would there be just .COM and .GOV. You could pick DOT whatever you want. It was like your own virtual island. If you could get people to come live on it, set up their web pages there, you could make money. She liked the idea. But what domain to apply for?
MCADORY: I was thinking about lifestyle. You know, I want to do something with lifestyle and so then, you know, my girlfriends and I just had incessant conversations about oh, we're not married, cant find the right guy, blah blah blah.
KESTENBAUM: That's it, she thought. WEDDINGS .W-E-D, WED. People can put all their wedding pages there: adrienneandmartin.wed, maryandjohn.wed So she applied. Had to fill out a long application. There was a $185,000 fee. She used some retirement money, and her dad helped out, and finally .WED was hers. She figured if 6,000 couples in love bought websites, she'd break even.
McAdory is targeting everyone who is getting married. But really, why restrict yourself to that? You could try to become the next .COM, the next, all-purpose ending, the thing that you can stick on the back of any business name. After all .COM is pretty crowded.
DANIEL NEGARI: All of the good real estate is taken. The only thing that's left is something with a dash or maybe three dashes and a couple numbers in it.
KESTENBAUM: This is Daniel Negari. He's 28 years old and, as far as he knows, the youngest person to be granted one of the new domains. His mom and some fraternity brothers are helping him out. His contender to take on .COM is .XYZ.
NEGARI: The way I looked at it was we end the alphabet with XYZ, we should end domain names the same way.
KESTENBAUM: XYZ. It's universal yet abstract. And catchy.
NEGARI: Try and forget it. I dare you.
KESTENBAUM: X Y - X - you're right.
NEGARI: XYZ, it just sticks. It's natural. It really makes sense.
KESTENBAUM: What about QRS?
NEGARI: Doesn't make sense to me. There's only one ending to the alphabet and there should be only one ending to domain names.
KESTENBAUM: Good job working that in again.
KESTENBAUM: David.XYZ, he tells me - still available. Negari is going to have plenty of competition. There were close to 2,000 applications for new domains: .BUZZ, .GUITARS, .MANGO. It looks like there will be a .WEDDING that Adrienne's McAdory's .WED will have to compete with. And they'll be going up against some players with much deeper pockets. Daniel Schindler's company called DONUTS Inc. owns .COOL and .COFFEE and .FISH and the list goes on.
DANIEL SCHINDLER: Three hundred and seven was the number of new domains we applied for.
KESTENBAUM: That's a lot.
SCHINDLER: It's a lot. We were the largest applicant in the world by a factor of three. Google was the second largest applicant, with 101.
KESTENBAUM: It's always possible that you can own a nice piece of real estate and no one will want to live there. Schindler says he used to worry about that, but he says the early evidence is encouraging. Recently one of their domains, .GURU, went live. Pretty quickly 50,000 people registered web addresses.
All of which raises a question. If these new domains take off, what will become of .COM? Will we look back and say oh, remember when everything .COM? That was so weird. Tom Brackey is an intellectual property attorney, and also co-owner with some friends of .MENU. Here's his take.
TOM BRACKEY: .COM is like New York City. Is it going to go away? It's full, it's crowded, but it's also very vital. And these new domains are, you know, the Wild West. And we hope eventually people will build on them.
KESTENBAUM: There are a lot more people coming online around the world, he says. Some projections are that by 2020 the online population could triple, or more. David Kestenbaum, NPR News.
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Mon., June 24, 2013
Martin Truex Jr. snaps 218-race losing streak with Sonoma win
It was just the second win of Truex's career, his first since Dover in 2007. It put Michael Waltrip Racing in Victory Lane for the second year in a row after Clint Bowyer won here last season.
Associated Press
By Jenna Fryer
SONOMA, Calif. — Martin Truex Jr. snapped a 218-race winless streak with an easy victory Sunday on the road course at Sonoma Raceway.
It was just the second win of Truex's career, his first since Dover in 2007. It put Michael Waltrip Racing in Victory Lane for the second year in a row after Clint Bowyer won here last season.
Truex worked his way to the front and used strategy to stay with the leaders. He then pulled away after the final restart and built a healthy lead of more than six seconds over Juan Pablo Montoya, who was running second until he ran out of gas on the final lap.
Jeff Gordon finished third a week after he was wrecked six laps into the race at Michigan.
Carl Edwards was fourth, followed by Kurt Busch, who climbed back from a pair of speeding penalties.
Bowyer wound up fifth in a strong day for the MWR Toyotas.
The race got off to an inauspicious start before it even began with a pit road accident, a mechanical issue for Jacques Villeneuve and an oil line failure for Bobby Labonte.
The accident occurred as the cars were headed onto the track and David Reutimann stopped his car on pit road. Alex Kennedy stopped behind Reutimann, and Paulie Harraka slammed into the back of Kennedy.
The damage wasn't significant enough to prevent Harraka from making his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut. But it was a short-lived race for the first driver to advance from NASCAR's diversity program into a NSCS race — Harraka spun and crashed his car six laps later.
Meanwhile, a parts failure caused Labonte to dump oil all over pit road before the race and he was forced to take his car to the garage for a quick repair. Labonte made it onto the track for the green flag, but his engine failed on the first lap.
"It blew up, dude," Labonte said on his radio. "Something in the bottom of the engine because it had no oil pressure."
Villeneuve had an issue shifting his gears and had to stay on pit road for a quick repair before trying to catch up to the field at the start of the race. He made it, but the problem wasn't completely corrected and he was back on pit road after 19 laps for more repairs.
Busch had back-to-back speeding penalties in yet another race that slipped away. He led 15 laps, lost the lead to former teammate Brad Keselowski, then was flagged for speeding when he went in for a scheduled pit stop. He had to return to pit road for a stop-and-go penalty and was flagged for speeding again.
It dropped Busch to 38th in the running order, from where he had to climb back to steal his strong finish.
His brother, Kyle, also had his share of problems. He was spun early in the race by Juan Pablo Montoya to lose a ton of track position, then gave up everything he made up when he was caught speeding on pit road. Kyle Busch also spun at least two more times during the race.
Danica Patrick, thought to be a contender based on her strong runs in NASCAR Nationwide Series road races, struggled all weekend to find speed and was done in by a flat rear tire just past the halfway point. The tire issue caused her to spin into a barrier and make multiple pit stops for repairs.
Pole-sitter Jamie McMurray never even led a lap as he was passed at the start by Marcos Ambrose, and his race took a big hit when he later ran off course with a tire problem and lost a lap.


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A controversial author says that the City of Los Angeles "was founded by a major water source"
Bright Shiny Morning. By James Frey. Harper, 501 pp., $26.95.
By Janice Harayda
Evening came early for Bright Shiny Morning, a novel that appeared in May and that apparently had tanked at bookstores by September. And the premature nightfall befit this dark, postmodern tale of Los Angeles.
Bright Shiny Morning is a flat-footed converse of A Million Little Pieces, the discredited memoir that turned James Frey into a literary pariah. If much of that book was fiction posing as fact, much of this one is fact posing as fiction.
Frey tells the interleaved stories of stereotypical characters — a Mexican-American maid, a closeted gay male superstar — that don't converge. He pads these with so many set pieces and trivia lists, you almost expect a recipe for huevos rancheros. The stories typically begin on right-hand pages and face, on left-hand pages, snippets of Los Angeles history that read like Wikipedia entries. Frey in effect juxtaposes two books — one fiction, one nonfiction — each of which makes sense without the other. It's an interesting device, and a better stylist might have pulled it off. But much of Bright Shiny Morning reads like the work of an also-ran in a David Foster Wallace imitation contest. And some of its lines are almost comically inept. "The City of Los Angeles," Frey tells us, "was founded by a major water source."
A theme of Bright Shiny Morning — to the degree that it has one — is that people stay addicted to the dream of Los Angeles long after reality has impinged on it. Joan Didion said as much in her wonderful essay about the San Bernadino Valley, "Some Dreamers of Golden Dream," in Slouching Towards Bethlehem. More than 40 years later, Frey may tell you less about Los Angeles in 501 pages than Didion did in her one-line comment that this is the place where "a belief in the literal interpretation of Genesis has slipped imperceptibly into to a belief in the literal interpretation of Double Indemnity."
Best line: Frey reports that Los Angeles has the "world's first video graveyard," where TV screens play, for 24 hours a day, videos of the people buried beneath them.
Worst line: No. 1: "As is the case with most of the world's megacities, the City of Los Angeles was founded by a major water source." Bright Shiny Morning also has many lines like No. 2: "He said she would have a better life the sun shining every day more free time less stress she said she would feel like she had wasted a decade trying to get to the major leagues only to demote herself once she got into them."
Second opinion: Read a review by David Ulin, book editor of the Los Angeles Times.
Furthermore: Bright Shiny Morning was one of Entertainment Weekly's five worst books of 2008. It was a selection of Oprah's Book Club. The paperback edition is due out in March 2009. Frey lives in New York.
One-Minute Book Reviews will post the shortlist for the Third Annual Delete Key Awards for the year's worst writing in books on Thursday, Feb. 26. The finalists will be announced at roughly 20-30 minute intervals beginning a 11 10 a.m. Eastern Time and the full list posted by the end of the day. The winners will be named on March 16 (instead of the usual March 15, which falls on Sunday this year).
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Dr. Murray Feingold: Marriage is good for your health
Good physical and emotional health depends upon many factors. One factor not frequently mentioned is a person's marital status.
Matrimony today is not what it was a generation ago. Fewer people are getting married. Statistics show that 51 percent of people 18 and older are married, in contrast to the 1960s when 72 percent of people were married. More people are living together but are not married.
Studies have shown that married individuals, especially men, live longer than non-married ones. Unfortunately, many marriages are not successful. It has been stated that about 50 percent of all marriages end in a divorce.
Divorce is never easy and has ramifications that affect not only the couple but their children, close relatives and friends. And it's not only young and middle-aged people who get divorced. There is an increase in older couples finding their way to the divorce court, too.
As a result of newer medications, heart by-pass surgery, improved nutrition and more exercise, people are living longer. Throw Viagra into the mix, and you have 70-years-olds thinking and feeling like 40-year-olds. Some of these people believe they have more years to live and want to live them differently. Frequently, that means not with the same spouse.
One report showed a 10 percent increase in the divorce rate of individuals 65 and older. Both men and women are initiating the divorce.
When you marry, how do you know your mate is really the one for you? And is the spouse you married at age 28 the same person when he or she is 25 years older?
In a recent report, psychologists claim they uncovered an indicator of whether or not a marriage will last. They first determined if couples had premarital doubts about getting married. Forty-seven percent of men and 38 percent of women did.
Results showed that among wives, 19 percent who had pre-wedding doubts were divorced four years later, in contrast to 8 percent of women who did not have such doubts. For husbands, 19 percent who had doubts were divorced, in contrast to 9 percent who did not.
Marriage is an important institution and affects almost every aspect of a person's life, including their health. Therefore, choosing a mate is probably the most important decision you will ever make, so do it wisely.
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But in this crazy modern world, I really want both Rakudo and Niecza on my system. And so assuming that everything can be named "perl6" is a big problem.
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My recent article "The Genealogy Paradigm Shift: Are bloggers the new 'experts'?" was apparently not the only response to Thomas Macentee's Geneabloggers post entitled, "Open Thread Thursday: Do We Eat Our Own In The Genealogy Industry?"
James Tanner posted the article, "Well Said Tom, Here's My Response," on his Genealogy's Star blog. In this article, James writes,
I don't think that historically there has been a "genealogical community." I believe that the bloggers are in the process of creating such a community. Before there was the "professional, journal writing" genealogical group but I don't think you could view them as a "community."[1]
I hope that James will further explain this statement. No genealogical community?
How about the National Genealogical Society? It has been around since 1903! Or any of these societies:
- The New England Historic Genealogical Society (est. 1845)
- The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society (est. 1869)
- The American Society of Genealogists (est. 1940)
- The Board for the Certification of Genealogists (est. 1964)
- The Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (est. 1977)
- The Association of Professional Genealogists (est. 1979)
Or any of the hundreds of local, county, state, or regional historical and genealogical societies throughout the world?
When I was corresponding with distant historical societies and genealogical societies or other researchers working on the same families, on paper with envelopes and stamps, I felt like part of a community.
Certainly, this was a small community, especially if compared with the thousands of GeneaBloggers and members of the "online genealogy community."
But it was a community.
To me, a community is a group of people with common interests and common goals, working together, offering each other support. How can anyone look at the accomplishments of genealogists of the past, including the organizations that they formed and progress that they made together and claim that "historically there has [not] been a 'genealogy community'"?
Without the genealogy community of the past, we would not have the online genealogy community.
[1] James Tanner, "Well Said Tom, Here's My Response," Genealogy's Star blog, posted 14 Dec 2011 (http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com : accessed 18 Dec 2011).
If you would like to cite this post:
Michael Hait, CG, "No 'genealogical community'?," Planting the Seeds: Genealogy as a Profession blog, posted 18 Dec 2011 (https://michaelhait.wordpress.com : accessed [access date]). [Please also feel free to include a hyperlink to the specific article if you are citing this post in an online forum.]


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The 2010-2015 Outlook for Domestic Retail Ecommerce in Africa
Organisation: Bharat Book Bureau
Publish Date: May 2009
Country: Africa
Sector: Business/Industry
Method: Creative thinking
Theme: Strategic Thinking
Type: Report
Language: English
Tags: Africa, Retail, Ecommerce
This econometric study covers the outlook for domestic retail ecommerce in Africa. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-à-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level.
The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the countries in Africa). This study gives, however, my estimates for the latent demand, or the P.I.E. for domestic retail ecommerce in Africa. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided across the national markets of Africa. For each country, I also show my estimates of how the P.I.E. grows over time (positive or negative growth). In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on international strategic planning at graduate schools of business.
The concept of latent demand is rather subtle. The term latent typically refers to something that is dormant, not observable or not yet realized. Demand is the notion of an economic quantity that a target population or market requires under different assumptions of price, quality, and distribution, among other factors. Latent demand, therefore, is commonly defined by economists as the industry earnings of a market when that market becomes accessible and attractive to serve by competing firms. It is a measure, therefore, of potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) or total revenues (not profit) if a market is served in an efficient manner. It is typically expressed as the total revenues potentially extracted by firms. The "market" is defined at a given level in the value chain. There can be latent demand at the retail level, at the wholesale level, the manufacturing level, and the raw materials level (the P.I.E. of higher levels of the value chain being always smaller than the P.I.E. of levels at lower levels of the same value chain, assuming all levels maintain minimum profitability).
The latent demand for domestic retail ecommerce is not actual or historic sales. Nor is latent demand future sales. In fact, latent demand can be lower or higher than actual sales if a market is inefficient (i.e. not representative of relatively competitive levels). Inefficiencies arise from a number of factors, including the lack of international openness, cultural barriers to consumption, regulations, and cartel-like behavior on the part of firms. In general, however, latent demand is typically larger than actual sales in a country market.
For reasons discussed later, this report does not consider the notion of "unit quantities", only total latent revenues (i.e. a calculation of price times quantity is never made, though one is implied). The units used in this report are U.S. dollars not adjusted for inflation (i.e. the figures incorporate inflationary trends) and not adjusted for future dynamics in exchange rates. If inflation rates or exchange rates vary in a substantial way compared to recent experience, actually sales can also exceed latent demand (when expressed in U.S. dollars, not adjusted for inflation). On the other hand, latent demand can be typically higher than actual sales as there are often distribution inefficiencies that reduce actual sales below the level of latent demand.
As mentioned in the introduction, this study is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. If fact, all the current products or services on the market can cease to exist in their present form (i.e. at a brand-, R&D specification, or corporate-image level) and all the players can be replaced by other firms (i.e. via exits, entries, mergers, bankruptcies, etc.), and there will still be latent demand for domestic retail ecommerce in Africa at the aggregate level. Product and service offering details, and the actual identity of the players involved, while important for certain issues, are relatively unimportant for estimates of latent demand.
In order to estimate the latent demand for domestic retail ecommerce in Africa, I used a multi-stage approach. Before applying the approach, one needs a basic theory from which such estimates are created. In this case, I heavily rely on the use of certain basic economic assumptions. In particular, there is an assumption governing the shape and type of aggregate latent demand functions. Latent demand functions relate the income of a country, city, state, household, or individual to realized consumption. Latent demand (often realized as consumption when an industry is efficient), at any level of the value chain, takes place if an equilibrium is realized. For firms to serve a market, they must perceive a latent demand and be able to serve that demand at a minimal return. The single most important variable determining consumption, assuming latent demand exists, is income (or other financial resources at higher levels of the value chain). Other factors that can pivot or shape demand curves include external or exogenous shocks (i.e. business cycles), and or changes in utility for the product in question.
Ignoring, for the moment, exogenous shocks and variations in utility across countries, the aggregate relation between income and consumption has been a central theme in economics. The figure below concisely summarizes one aspect of problem. In the 1930s, John Meynard Keynes conjectured that as incomes rise, the average propensity to consume would fall. The average propensity to consume is the level of consumption divided by the level of income, or the slope of the line from the origin to the consumption function. He estimated this relationship empirically and found it to be true in the short-run (mostly based on cross-sectional data). The higher the income, the lower the average propensity to consume. This type of consumption function is labeled "A" in the figure below (note the rather flat slope of the curve). In the 1940s, another macroeconomist, Simon Kuznets, estimated long-run consumption functions which indicated that the marginal propensity to consume was rather constant (using time series data across countries). This type of consumption function is show as "B" in the figure below (note the higher slope and zero-zero intercept). The average propensity to consume is constant.
Is it declining or is it constant? A number of other economists, notably Franco Modigliani and Milton Friedman, in the 1950s (and Irving Fisher earlier), explained why the two functions were different using various assumptions on intertemporal budget constraints, savings, and wealth. The shorter the time horizon, the more consumption can depend on wealth (earned in previous years) and business cycles. In the long-run, however, the propensity to consume is more constant. Similarly, in the long run, households, industries or countries with no income eventually have no consumption (wealth is depleted). While the debate surrounding beliefs about how income and consumption are related and interesting, in this study a very particular school of thought is adopted. In particular, we are considering the latent demand for domestic retail ecommerce across all the countries in Africa. The smallest have fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. I assume that all of these counties fall along a "long-run" aggregate consumption function. This long-run function applies despite some of these countries having wealth, current income dominates the latent demand for domestic retail ecommerce in Africa. So, latent demand in the long-run has a zero intercept. However, I allow firms to have different propensities to consume (including being on consumption functions with differing slopes, which can account for differences in industrial organization, and end-user preferences).
Given this overriding philosophy, I will now describe the methodology used to create the latent demand estimates for domestic retail ecommerce in Africa. Since ICON Group has asked me to apply this methodology to a large number of categories, the rather academic discussion below is general and can be applied to a wide variety of categories, not just domestic retail ecommerce.
Step 1. Product Definition and Data Collection
Any study of latent demand across countries requires that some standard be established to define "efficiently served". Having implemented various alternatives and matched these with market outcomes, I have found that the optimal approach is to assume that certain key countries are more likely to be at or near efficiency than others. These countries are given greater weight than others in the estimation of latent demand compared to other countries for which no known data are available. Of the many alternatives, I have found the assumption that the world's highest aggregate income and highest income-per-capita markets reflect the best standards for "efficiency". High aggregate income alone is not sufficient (i.e. China has high aggregate income, but low income per capita and can not assumed to be efficient). Aggregate income can be operationalized in a number of ways, including gross domestic product (for industrial categories), or total disposable income (for household categories; population times average income per capita, or number of households times average household income per capita). Brunei, Nauru, Kuwait, and Lichtenstein are examples of countries with high income per capita, but not assumed to be efficient, given low aggregate level of income (or gross domestic product); these countries have, however, high incomes per capita but may not benefit from the efficiencies derived from economies of scale associated with larger economies. Only countries with high income per capita and large aggregate income are assumed efficient. This greatly restricts the pool of countries to those in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), like the United States, or the United Kingdom (which were earlier than other large OECD economies to liberalize their markets).
The selection of countries is further reduced by the fact that not all countries in the OECD report industry revenues at the category level. Countries that typically have ample data at the aggregate level that meet the efficiency criteria include the United States, the United Kingdom and in some cases France and Germany.
Latent demand is therefore estimated using data collected for relatively efficient markets from independent data sources (e.g. Euromonitor, Mintel, Thomson Financial Services, the U.S. Industrial Outlook, the World Resources Institute, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, various agencies from the United Nations, industry trade associations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank). Depending on original data sources used, the definition of "domestic retail ecommerce" is established. In the case of this report, the data were reported at the aggregate level, with no further breakdown or definition. In other words, any potential product or service that might be incorporated within domestic retail ecommerce falls under this category. Public sources rarely report data at the disaggregated level in order to protect private information from individual firms that might dominate a specific product-market. These sources will therefore aggregate across components of a category and report only the aggregate to the public. While private data are certainly available, this report only relies on public data at the aggregate level without reliance on the summation of various category components. In other words, this report does not aggregate a number of components to arrive at the "whole". Rather, it starts with the "whole", and estimates the whole for all countries and the world at large (without needing to know the specific parts that went into the whole in the first place).
Given this caveat, in this report we define domestic retail ecommerce as including all commonly understood products falling within this broad category, irrespective of product packaging, formulation, size, or form. Companies participating in this industry include Amazon.com, eBay, Google, CSN Stores, and NetShops. In addition to the sources indicated below, additional information available to the public via news and/or press releases published by players in the industry (including reports from AMR Research, Global Industry Analysts, Forrester Research, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner, IDC, and MarketResearch.com) was considered in defining and calibrating this category.
Step 2. Filtering and Smoothing
Based on the aggregate view of domestic retail ecommerce as defined above, data were then collected for as many similar countries as possible for that same definition, at the same level of the value chain. This generates a convenience sample of countries from which comparable figures are available. If the series in question do not reflect the same accounting period, then adjustments are made. In order to eliminate short-term effects of business cycles, the series are smoothed using an 2 year moving average weighting scheme (longer weighting schemes do not substantially change the results). If data are available for a country, but these reflect short-run aberrations due to exogenous shocks (such as would be the case of beef sales in a country stricken with foot and mouth disease), these observations were dropped or "filtered" from the analysis.
Step 3. Filling in Missing Values
In some cases, data are available for countries on a sporadic basis. In other cases, data from a country may be available for only one year. From a Bayesian perspective, these observations should be given greatest weight in estimating missing years. Assuming that other factors are held constant, the missing years are extrapolated using changes and growth in aggregate national income. Based on the overriding philosophy of a long-run consumption function (defined earlier), countries which have missing data for any given year, are estimated based on historical dynamics of aggregate income for that country.
Step 4. Varying Parameter, Non-linear Estimation
Given the data available from the first three steps, the latent demand in additional countries is estimated using a "varying-parameter cross-sectionally pooled time series model". Simply stated, the effect of income on latent demand is assumed to be constant across countries unless there is empirical evidence to suggest that this effect varies (i.e. . the slope of the income effect is not necessarily same for all countries). This assumption applies across countries along the aggregate consumption function, but also over time (i.e. not all countries are perceived to have the same income growth prospects over time and this effect can vary from country to country as well). Another way of looking at this is to say that latent demand for domestic retail ecommerce is more likely to be similar across countries that have similar characteristics in terms of economic development (i.e. African countries will have similar latent demand structures controlling for the income variation across the pool of African countries).
This approach is useful across countries for which some notion of non-linearity exists in the aggregate cross-country consumption function. For some categories, however, the reader must realize that the numbers will reflect a country's contribution to global latent demand and may never be realized in the form of local sales. For certain country-category combinations this will result in what at first glance will be odd results. For example, the latent demand for the category "space vehicles" will exist for "Togo" even though they have no space program. The assumption is that if the economies in these countries did not exist, the world aggregate for these categories would be lower. The share attributed to these countries is based on a proportion of their income (however small) being used to consume the category in question (i.e. perhaps via resellers).
Step 5. Fixed-Parameter Linear Estimation
Nonlinearities are assumed in cases where filtered data exist along the aggregate consumption function. Because the world consists of more than 200 countries, there will always be those countries, especially toward the bottom of the consumption function, where non-linear estimation is simply not possible. For these countries, equilibrium latent demand is assumed to be perfectly parametric and not a function of wealth (i.e. a country's stock of income), but a function of current income (a country's flow of income). In the long run, if a country has no current income, the latent demand for domestic retail ecommerce is assumed to approach zero. The assumption is that wealth stocks fall rapidly to zero if flow income falls to zero (i.e. countries which earn low levels of income will not use their savings, in the long run, to demand domestic retail ecommerce). In a graphical sense, for low income countries, latent demand approaches zero in a parametric linear fashion with a zero-zero intercept. In this stage of the estimation procedure, low-income countries are assumed to have a latent demand proportional to their income, based on the country closest to it on the aggregate consumption function.
Step 6. Aggregation and Benchmarking
Based on the models described above, latent demand figures are estimated for all countries of the world, including for the smallest economies. These are then aggregated to get world totals and regional totals. To make the numbers more meaningful, regional and global demand averages are presented. Figures are rounded, so minor inconsistencies may exist across tables.
Step 7. Latent Demand Density: Allocating Across Cities
With the advent of a "borderless world", cities become a more important criteria in prioritizing markets, as opposed to regions, continents, or countries. This report also covers the world's top 2000 cities. The purpose is to understand the density of demand within a country and the extent to which a city might be used as a point of distribution within its region. From an economic perspective, however, a city does not represent a population within rigid geographical boundaries. To an economist or strategic planner, a city represents an area of dominant influence over markets in adjacent areas. This influence varies from one industry to another, but also from one period of time to another.
Similar to country-level data, the reader needs to realize that latent demand allocated to a city may or may not represent real sales. For many items, latent demand is clearly observable in sales, as in the case for food or housing items. Consider, again, the category "satellite launch vehicles." Clearly, there are no launch pads in most cities of the world. However, the core benefit of the vehicles (e.g. telecommunications, etc.) is "consumed" by residents or industries within the world''s cities. Without certain cities, in other words, the world market for satellite launch vehicles would be lower for the world in general. One needs to allocate, therefore, a portion of the worldwide economic demand for launch vehicles to regions, countries and cities. This report takes the broader definition and considers, therefore, a city as a part of the global market. I allocate latent demand across areas of dominant influence based on the relative economic importance of cities within its home country, within its region and across the world total. Not all cities are estimated within each country as demand may be allocated to adjacent areas of influence. Since some cities have higher economic wealth than others within the same country, a city's population is not generally used to allocate latent demand. Rather, the level of economic activity of the city vis-à-vis others.
Table of Contents
1.1 Overview 1
1.2 What is Latent Demand and the P.I.E.? 1
1.3 The Methodology 2
1.3.1 Step 1. Product Definition and Data Collection 4
1.3.2 Step 2. Filtering and Smoothing 5
1.3.3 Step 3. Filling in Missing Values 6
1.3.4 Step 4. Varying Parameter, Non-linear Estimation 6
1.3.5 Step 5. Fixed-Parameter Linear Estimation 7
1.3.6 Step 6. Aggregation and Benchmarking 7
1.3.7 Step 7. Latent Demand Density: Allocating Across Cities 7
2.1 Executive Summary 9
2.2 Algeria 12
2.3 Angola 13
2.4 Benin 14
2.5 Botswana 14
2.6 Burkina Faso 15
2.7 Burundi 16
2.8 Cameroon 16
2.9 Cape Verde 17
2.10 Central African Republic 18
2.11 Chad 18
2.12 Comoros 19
2.13 Congo (formerly Zaire) 20
2.14 Cote d''Ivoire 21
2.15 Djibouti 21
2.16 Egypt 22
2.17 Equatorial Guinea 23
2.18 Ethiopia 23
2.19 Gabon 24
2.20 Ghana 25
2.21 Guinea 26
2.22 Guinea-Bissau 26
2.23 Kenya 27
2.24 Lesotho 28
2.25 Liberia 28
2.26 Libya 29
2.27 Madagascar 30
2.28 Malawi 30
2.29 Mali 31
2.30 Mauritania 32
2.31 Mauritius 32
2.32 Morocco 33
2.33 Mozambique 34
2.34 Namibia 34
2.35 Niger 35
2.36 Nigeria 36
2.37 Republic of Congo 37
2.38 Reunion 37
2.39 Rwanda 38
2.40 Sao Tome E Principe 39
2.41 Senegal 39
2.42 Sierra Leone 40
2.43 Somalia 41
2.44 South Africa 41
2.45 Sudan 42
2.46 Swaziland 43
2.47 Tanzania 43
2.48 The Gambia 44
2.49 Togo 45
2.50 Tunisia 46
2.51 Uganda 47
2.52 Western Sahara 47
2.53 Zambia 48
2.54 Zimbabwe 49
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The purpose of this study is to compare two different combination anti-HIV therapies over 48 weeks and to assess if differences in improvement in the function of the brain are observed over this period.
The study will compare anti-HIV therapy combinations which are currently in use.
The patients will not have had any previous treatment for their HIV infection.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Impaired Cognition
|Drug: standard care Drug: novel treatment
|Phase 4
Impairment in neurocognitive(NC) function in HIV-infected subjects in the current anti-retroviraltreatment (cART) era has been associated with poor compliance with cART, reduced quality-of-life and increased mortality. Reported factors associated with the development of NC function impairment in HIV disease and risks associated with progression of such impairment include degree of immune suppression related to HIV infection, other chronic viral infections (such as chronic hepatitis C co-infection), age and central nervous system (CNS) antiretroviral drug exposure.
One modifiable factor which may be associated with the evolution of NC function impairment is the direct effect of cART on the central-nervous-system (CNS). Certain antiretroviral drugs such as zidovudine, lamivudine, abacavir, nevirapine, efavirenz and indinavir are known to achieve optimal exposure in the cerebro-spinal-fluid (CSF) whereas other drugs, such as the majority of the HIV-1 protease inhibitors penetrate less effectively. Studies to date suggest different cART regimens may have differing effects on NC performance. In the EuroSIDA study, the use of nucleoside-reverse-transcriptase inhibitors was found to specifically protect against the development of HIV related brain disease. More recently, in a small prospective study, ALTAIR, different effect on cerebral function was reported in subjects randomised to commence three different cART regimens.
The investigators propose, in a prospective, randomised study to assess the effects of two different antiretroviral regimens on NC function in HIV infected subjects commencing antiretroviral therapy for the first time.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomised, Prospective Study, Assessing Changes in Cerebral Function in Treatment Naive HIV-1 Infected Subjects Commencing Either Boosted Atazanavir With Truvada or Boosted Darunavir With Maraviroc and Kivexa.
|Actual Study Start Date :
|January 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2015
Active Comparator: standard care
treatment with:
Drug: standard care
Active Comparator: Novel therapeutic approach
Drug: novel treatment
- Cognitive Function, Global Cognitive Score (Z-score) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks, 48 weeks ]
When commencing antiretroviral therapy (anti-HIV therapy) for the first time, improvements in the function of the brain are frequently observed. For example memory and concentration may improve. However, whether these improvements may differ between different anti-HIV therapies is largely unknown.
The purpose of this study is to compare two different combination anti-HIV therapies over 48 weeks and to assess if differences in improvement in the function of the brain are observed over this period.
Score increase means improved performance of cognitive function
- Brain Function, Absolute Change Over 48 Weeks of N-acetyl Aspartate/Creatinine Ratio [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]The study team will assess the brain functions at each visit. The results of the MRI scans will be compared, changes in N-acetyl aspartate/creatinine ratio over 48 weeks.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infected males or females
- signed informed consent
- no previous antiretroviral treatment since HIV diagnosis
- screening CD4+ lymphocyte count <= 350 cells/ųL
- susceptible to all currently licensed (Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors) NRTIs, (Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors) NNRTIs and PIs based on HIV-1 genotypic resistance report
- CCR5-tropic HIV based on genotypic resistance testing*
Exclusion Criteria:
• existing neurological disease
- hepatitis B or hepatitis C co-infection
- age under 18 years
- screening laboratory parameters > grade 2 (with the exception of cholesterol and triglycerides)
- current history of major depression or psychosis
- recent head injury (past three months)
- current alcohol abuse or drug dependence
- active opportunistic infection or significant co-morbidities
- patients who are receiving other concomitant medication which are not permitted, as listed in appendix 2
female patients of child-bearing potential who:
- have a positive serum pregnancy test at screening or during the study
- are breast feeding
- are planning to become pregnant
- all participants unwilling to use a barrier method of contraception
- patients who in the opinion of the investigator are not candidates for inclusion in the study
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01367236
|United Kingdom
|Birmingham Heartlands Hospital:
|Birmingham, United Kingdom
|Brighton and Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust:
|Brighton, United Kingdom, BN1 9RE
|St. Mary's Hospital
|London:, United Kingdom, W2 1NY
|Kings College Hospital
|London, United Kingdom, SE5 9RJ
|Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust
|London, United Kingdom, SW10 9NH
|St. Thomas' Hospital
|London, United Kingdom
|Principal Investigator:
|Alan Winston
|Imperial College London
|Responsible Party:
|Imperial College London
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2011-002656-14 ( EudraCT Number )
|First Posted:
|June 7, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|October 21, 2019
|Last Update Posted:
|October 21, 2019
|Last Verified:
|October 2019
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
|Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
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What's my all-time favorite quick bread? I've been making them for years and enjoy every one, but I have to give the title to this date nut bread. The sea-level version is my mother's recipe and she made it often, so each bite fills me with nostalgia and takes me to my childhood home. But, there are more objective reasons to declare it my overall winner: Moist and dense, with the thick, sticky sweetness of dates and the mealy, crunchiness of walnuts, it's a pleasing combination of complex tastes and contrasting textures. And, with only three tablespoons of butter and lots of nuts and fruit, it's healthy enough to nibble without guilt any time of day. I serve it for breakfast, with soup for lunch, snack on it, and pair it with cheeses, slices of pears and apples, and coffee for a simple dessert.
Like the name for this type of bread implies, this little gem comes together quickly. After softening the dates and butter in hot water and baking soda for 20 minutes, it takes less than 10 minutes of active time to prepare the bread for the oven. When my mother made it, she baked it in a six-cup loaf pan. At our altitude, I get better results using a six-cup Bundt pan which provides heat through both the pan's tube and its sides and, therefore, cooks the batter more rapidly and uniformly.
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Make in a 6-cup Bundt pan
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3/4 teaspoon of baking soda
3 tablespoons of unsalted butter, room temperature
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3/4 cup plus 2 (two) tablespoons of granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/4 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
1 cup of chopped walnuts
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees with a rack in the center position. Generously grease the six-cup Bundt pan (yes, even if it's non-stick). Put the chopped dates and baking soda in a medium bowl and toss to mix. Cut the butter into small pieces and add them, with the boiling water, to the bowl. Stir gently to submerge everything in the hot water and set the bowl aside for 20 minutes.
Whisk the flour, sugar and salt in a large mixing bowl to blend well. Add the lightly-beaten eggs and vanilla and, using a fork, stir to combine until all the ingredients are uniformly moistened. Using a rubber spatula, gently stir in the date mixture and the chopped walnuts until combined.
Pour the batter into the greased pan, leveling it as you go, and filling the pan only to about an inch and a half from the top (even if you have some batter left over). Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. This takes from 45-50 minutes in my oven. Don't overbake or the bread will lose its lovely moist texture. Cool the bread in the pan for about fifteen minutes, and then turn it out onto a rack and let it cool completely. Store the bread, well-covered, in the refrigerator for up to seven days or freeze it for a month.
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z function in Perl 6. This is the first simple step to full continued fraction arithmetic, allowing addition with a rational, multiplication by a rational, and taking the reciprocal of a continued fraction. (And oh! I just accidentally discovered that I'd missed a bunch of slides at the end of mjd's talk which discuss implementing the full
z function from HAKMEM!)
The implementation turned out to be pretty straightforward, with only the edge cases causing trouble.
z maintains its state using four variables,
$c, and
$d. There are two basic operations which modify this state: input, which takes the next value from the continued fraction provided, and output, which outputs the next value of the continued fraction result. How do you know which to do? Easy! If
$a div $c == $b div $d, then we've determined the next value which can be output, and should output it. If not, then we need to input another value.
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Inf. That's well and good, but mjd somehow performs magic with it. I don't understand what the heck he was doing there, but I can imitate the result. Here it all is in one function:
sub z($a is copy, $b is copy, $c is copy, $d is copy, @x) { gather loop { my $a-div-c = $c ?? $a div $c !! Inf; my $b-div-d = $d ?? $b div $d !! Inf; last if $a-div-c == Inf && $b-div-d == Inf; if $a-div-c == $b-div-d { my $n = $a-div-c; ($a, $b, $c, $d) = ($c, $d, $a - $c * $n, $b - $d * $n); take $n; } else { if @x { my $p = @x.shift; ($a, $b, $c, $d) = ($b, $a + $b * $p, $d, $c + $d * $p); } else { ($a, $b, $c, $d) = ($b, $b, $d, $d); # WHY???? } } } }
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By Ed Patino
NORTH ADAMS — A recent hot streak has lifted the North Adams-Jerome High School softball team into the thick of the Southern Central Athletic Association title race.
Behind a dominated pitching effort by Alyssa Davis, the Rams extended their winning streak to six games with 6-4 and 12-0 victories over the Tekonsha Indians in a SCAA doubleheader Friday.
North Adams-Jerome (13-7, 11-3 SCAA) is currently tied with Bellevue and Colon for the top spot in the SCAA standings.
Davis went the distance in the circle in the opener. She recorded 13 strikeouts and walked four in the victory. Davis also went 1-for-3 at the plate with a home run.
Cheyanne Jermeay went 1-for-3 with a home run for the Rams, while Reagan Rhoades also finished 1-for-3.
North Adams blew open the nightcap with four runs in the third inning and eight runs in the fourth. Davis again earned the pitching win, striking out 10 and walking one.
Jermeay went 4-for-4 with three RBIs and Hannah Webb was 2-for-4 with a two-run home run and four RBIs to lead the Rams. Kayla Blevins went 1-for-3 with two RBIs and Amanda Adams finished 1-for-3 with a RBI.
The Rams will host Pittsford for a SCAA doubleheader Monday afternoon.
Pittsford at Battle Creek St. Philip (DH)
Ashley Culbert recorded no-hitters in both games as the Pittsford High School softball team roared to 17-0 and 20-1 victories over the Battle Creek St. Philip Fighting Tigers in a Southern Central Athletic Association doubleheader Friday.
The first game was stopped in the fourth inning due to the mercy rule, while the nightcap ended in the third inning.
Culbert recorded seven strikeouts in both games while holding St. Philip without a hit.
Mariah Natzke had three hits and and a RBI, while Darrien Bump had two hits and four RBIs to lead Pittsford (7-8, 7-4 SCAA) in the opener. Meghan Schrom added two hits.
In the second game, Culbert had four hits and five RBIs to lead the Wildcats' attack. Bump added two more hits, while Vanessa Patterson had a hit and a RBI.
The Wildcats will visit SCAA co-leader North Adams-Jerome for a doubleheader Monday.
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Colon at Camden-Frontier (DH)
The Camden-Frontier High School baseball team dropped both games of a Southern Central Athletic Association doubleheader with the Colon Magi, falling 2-1 and 12-2 on Friday.
Both teams received strong pitching in the opener. Alec Dahlstrom got the Redskins out of bases-loaded jam in the top of the fourth inning, but Camden-Frontier (9-10, 9-6 SCAA) stranded the bases loaded in the bottom half of the frame.
Colon opened the scoring in the top of the fifth, but Alex Kramer's RBI in the bottom of the fifth pulled the Redskins into a 1-1 tie. The Magi regained the lead in the sixth inning and held on for the win.
Dahlstrom allowed two runs on five hits and struck out nine but took the hard-luck loss. Ethan Riddell went 3-for-3 at the plate to lead the Redskins.
"These are the types of games we need to play to get ready for districts," Camden-Frontier coach Jason Holubik said. "We need to do a better job with runners in scoring position."
Colon jumped out to a big lead early in the second game and never looked back.
Calvin Conant and Joey Taormina each had a RBI for the Redskins. Gary Johnson took the pitching loss.
Camden-Frontier will host Bellevue on Monday.
Pittsford at Battle Creek St. Philip (DH)
The Pittsford High School baseball team was edged twice in Friday's SCAA doubleheader, falling 5-4 and 12-11 to the Battle Creek St. Philip Fighting Tigers.
Levi House went 2-for-3 at the plate with a RBI to lead Pittsford (5-10, 5-6 SCAA) in the first game. Bryce Meredith was 1-for-3 with two RBIs, while Travis Wilson also went 1-for-3. Peyton Lucas struck out five in the pitching loss.
Pittsford scored three runs in the sixth inning to tie the game at 11-11, but St. Philip answered with a run in the top of the seventh to pull out the win.
Hunter Mravec was 3-for-3 with a RBI to lead the Wildcats, while Meredith went 3-for-5 with a RBI. Brad Betzer finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Lucas took the pitching loss in relief despite striking out three in the final 1 1/3 innings.
Pittsford will visit North Adams-Jerome for a doubleheader Monday.


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Zahra Lightway: "What does human education mean?"
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Scott Nine: "A list of incredible humans who know what real education looks like"
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Ammerah Saidi: "Real Education is Powerful"
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Katie Stafford Strom: "Real Education Is Relevant: Lessons from Occupy Wall Street"
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Friday, November 4: Real Education is Transformative.
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Kristan Morrison: "Teacher(s) Transformed"
Justen Eason: "Real Education is Transformative"
Nancy Flanagan: "Transformers Top Ten List"
Jen Groves: "A Transformative Experience: Learning to Dive"
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Josu Uztarroz: "Educación Democrática: Transformadora"
Other posts on IDEC and its values:
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Real Education is Relevant: "Light is more than watts and foot candles" http://atelier.schoolwithinschool.org/?p=2184
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