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The Gastroenterology department of Great Ormond Street Hospital is well recognised as a leading centre of advanced paediatric gastrointestinal medicine, clinical research and teaching. The department provides integrated clinical and academic activity between Great Ormond Street Hospital and the University College London (UCL) Institute of Child Health. The aim of the department is to provide a high standard of care for children with complex gastroenterological diseases. The department is committed to translating excellence in research and teaching into the provision of high quality patient-focussed medical and nursing care, and to further understanding of the cause, development and treatment of gastro-intestinal (GI) disorders in children.
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The following sub-specialty areas within paediatric gastroenterology have been developed by the Gastroenterology department:
Neurogastroenterology and motility - where either one or both of the bowel nerves and muscles do not work properly (eg: pseudo-obstruction)
Mucosal immunology - where diseases and conditions driven by the immune system cause inflammation and affect the bowel's ability to work effectively (eg: inflammatory bowel disease, allergies, coeliac disease)
Intestinal failure - where significant portions of the bowel are unable to function, resulting in malabsorption that requires rehabilitation and often the use of artificial nutrition called total parenteral nutrition
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Thanks to an update released today, the AT&T Pantech Discover is making the jump to Android 4.1.2. It may be two versions behind at this point, but it still gives users access to Google Now, which is perhaps the biggest advancement that Jelly Bean has to offer. Now you would be forgiven for seeing this phone's brand and rolling your eyes, but the Discover is actually a competent device.
If the phones that Pantech has released in America thus far have been your sole exposure to the South Korean manufacturer, you might be surprised to learn that the company has some legitimately awesome hardware in its home territory. The Pantech Perception... isn't. While it competes with the likes of the Galaxy S III on paper, at least in some respects, a combination of old software and expensive hardware makes this new Verizon phone a hard sell to anyone who wants a high-powered device.
If you've ever wondered what a small city made entirely of smartphones would look like, wonder no more. Pantech created just such a city using 500 Vega Number 6 smartphones - appropriately enough, they call it Vega City.
Now that you know the setting, let's talk about why the company made this little place: for its new stop motion animated movie. Basically, the phones make up the entire city; walls, "streets," buildings – the whole nine yards.
You know, for an underdog, Pantech has been proving it knows how to put out some pretty decent, affordable hardware as of late. Just two days ago, it unearthed the upcoming Discover for AT&T, and now a leak of what appears to be the VZW equivalent – the Perception – just showed up in a leak over at Unwired View.
Much like it's Big Blue-powered cousin, the Perception is said to be packing a 720p display and 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4.
Pantech hasn't been going after the bigger manufacturers in the "superphone" category, at least outside of its home turf of South Korea. Until today, that is - at its CES press conference, AT&T announced the Pantech Discover, a flagship-class device that meets and in some cases beats the best that Samsung, HTC and Motorola have to offer. In addition to somewhat typical high-end specs like a 4.8-inch 720p screen, 1.5Ghz dual-core processor and 16GB of on-board memory, the Discover boasts a best-in-class camera (at least on paper) of 12.6 megapixels.
Listen up, Pantech Breakout owners – Verizon has just announced an update to build S8995VWCA55F.BB that brings with it a laundry list of tweaks and enhancements. While it's not a bump to the next version of Android, the update is still refreshing, given the Breakout's debut on Verizon is now more than a year behind us.
The update, which should be rolling out to Breakout owners any time now, comes with improved SMS delivery, memory management fixes, enhancements for data connectivity, and improvements made "to reduce SD Card issues" among other things.
PantechUSA announced via Twitter this morning that its Burst budget phone will finally be receiving an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade, in a little less than a week. Curiously, it won't be available over the air. Details haven't been released yet, but the update will be made available on the company's website here.
Major announcement: Pantech Burst ICS update will be available for download on Sept 27 on PantechUSA.com. Stay tuned for more details!
South Korean manufacturer Pantech still hasn't made it big in the U.S. market, but their partnership with AT&T has proven to be a steady one so far. The Magnus, AKA the P9090 that we spotted earlier this week, would seem to be Pantech's first high-end device for AT&T, and the first photos of the device have now hit the Internet. It looks like a pretty standard slate phone, with the interesting addition of an asymmetrical duo-tone plastic back.
While the name Pantech may not bring about thoughts of high-end superphones right now, it looks like the company may be about to change that with an upcoming P9090 "Magnus." This mysterious device first hit the FCC back at the beginning of August sporting AT&T bands, NFC, and Bluetooth 4.0, but now a couple of benchmarks have made their way to Righware, giving us a closer look at what the device's potential innards.
We don't normally make a fuss over budget phones, and we definitely don't readily recommend that people buy them (even when they're free). For the Pantech Marauder on Verizon Wireless, however, we'll make an exception. Its Snapdragon S4 processor, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and 4G LTE connectivity make this a budget device that stands out from the pack.
For the unfamiliar, the Marauder is a new offering from Verizon, packing some very respectable hardware (for the most part, anyway):
- Processor: 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4
- Storage: 4GB
- Display: 3.8" 480x800
- Battery: 1680mAh
- OS: Android 4.0
- Dimensions: 5.07" (H) x 2.57" (W) x 0.46" (D)
- Camera: 5MP rear, VGA front
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11b/g/n, WiFi Direct
The clear downside of the Marauder is its smaller-ish 3.8" display, but if you loved the OG Droid and no other phone has been able to fill that void since, the Marauder is your best choice.


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I keep a lot of dried beans & grains on hand all the time. My family & I really like this soup. It tastes good & is so good for you. You can add some Tones Chicken Base if you'd like, but have found it to be flavorful enough without. This is a taste good, feel good soup. When my family & I eat this, it's our main course, so we usually don't just restrict ourselves to 12 ozs. It's so good & a naturally light meal that it's filling without a lot of fat or calories. Feel free to doctor it to your hearts content. This is just a basic recipe & I add & subtract ingredients according to what's on hand. Submitted by FORMERHEAVYWGHT Carbs: 31.7g | Fat: 0.7g | Fiber: 3.2g | Protein: 80.2g | Calories: 105.1
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After some googling I came across 2 really good articles on painting your own vehicle with "Rustoleum", so I figured I was game. The two sites are:
The $50 Paint Job
A Cheapskate's Paint Job
I used the $50 paint job for reference and Cheapskate's for moral support.
Please keep in mind this did NOT cost $50. It ended up costing me about $175, and 2-3 weeks of "spare time". I wanted to do a 2-tone paint job, so my time investment was doubled.
Apologies, but I did not track individual material costs closely, only the total.
Two quarts of Glossy white Rustoleum
Two quarts of Sunset red Rustoleum
4-6 high density foam rollers and handles
4-6 touch up brushes
2-4 paint tray inserts
1 gallon of mineral spirits.
A few tarps or drop-cloths
A small container to put brushes in
Automotive masking tape
Orbital Sander (or by hand if you're a masochist)
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80-grit wet/dry sand-paper
100-grit wet/dry sand-paper
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Not misleading at all. A german emblem on a german bus....nothing wrong with it. I certainly was not mislead when I seen it.
Interesting, only one comment on here about the eagle symbol for the Nazi party on the front of the car? No, it's not a generic German symbol.
Nice job on the Westy. I' in the process of restoring mine.
But what fun is that?
This is NOT just a camper van, this is a classic!! and it is more than worthy of a real paint job...a cheapy paint job is what you do to a chevy Nova...or a ford escort wagon....but that's just me.
Once a hippie always a hippie....and this is a hippie's van.
I would love to have one of these!! It would be babied like crazy!!
But I have to say that even if you did things the cheap way, your basics were good...
I'm a VW enthusiast, and have had many Type 1s (and a couple of show trophies to go with them), but I don't regret the day I gave up my gorgeous 1961 Type 1 for this bus. I would trade all the good times I had in that bug for the first 5 minutes in the bus with the kids :)
We plan on having many more adventures in the bus for many more years :)
Thanks again for the feedback Sir James!
I started drooling when I saw your ride....lol
I went camping in the desert 1 time....let's just say it was a learning experience & leave it at that.
Spent 10 days in the hospital after that trip. :(
When I go camping, I head for the forest, that is where I feel at home. I know how to survive in the forest, get me in the desert & I'm not worth spit....
Cost and ease? You spent how long to do it? A good spray job you spray and walk away.
But you could save yourself a ton of time if you buy a cheap paint sprayer. I think mine was 50 bucks from one of those cheap tool catalogs. Then you could do this in a weekend rather than three weeks, a LOT less buffing too.
Thanks for posting!
Texturized paint is one of my favorites. I address dings and dents, but not with bondo, I camoflage or enhance to turn the damage into an artistic feature. Rustoleum has a black spray paint called Rust Converter, that's my biggest prep step.
Where your job literally took days, I can mask off large sections, prep with a quick sand to roughen the paint, put down rust converter where necessary, spray, add design and be done well before the sun goes down.
On top of the sprayed paint I've done designs with templates cut from manila folders. One design on an old van was a template cut into the shape of a tapering rectangle to resemble a flag repeated in a tapering pattern. I hope you can imagine it.
If the image uploaded successfully you'll see that I like white roofs and racing stripes. Craft stores sell stick on doodads like stars and colorful artistic designs in plastic and foam that can be used to turn dings and dents into features. If I do a design on one side I generally replicate on the other for symmetry.
Thank god the spirit of the 60's is still alive and well!!!
You did a great job and it looks good (well, I would have preferred a psychedelic motif, but you have to live with it!).
but u must to do it better i belive i can do it
I've thought many times about doing an Instructable on the paint job I did on my BMW, but never got around to it; I now feel that you've relieved me of that guilt! Thanks! And thanks for the link to my site (now I know why the visitor count suddenly went through the roof!)
One note on the longevity of the paint; thus far it's been over two years since I painted the car, and it's held up remarkably well. It looks almost as good today as the day I finished buffing it. The car is parked outside nearly all the time (spent some time indoors waiting for me to get around to changing the clutch, but that's it) and has seen a pretty pathetic level of care. I've only washed it when needed and my son put a coat of wax on it this fall. That's it. I did find out that concentrating the spray from a a high-pressure wand on some bug splat on the leading edge of the hood wasn't a great idea; lost a little paint that day! But otherwise, no fading, no nothing. Very durable.
And for any skeptics out there, I bought a little utility trailer a few months ago that desperately needed a paint job so we wanted it to match our van.
While I was painting the trailer, the paint was such a good match to the van I thought "why not" and prepped the van for touch ups on all the scratches and such, all the way around my van. Rustoleum works like a charm! It's true it's not the cheapest spray paint but it's a fair price and my trailer and my van look great!
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Yesterday, the Vancouver Canucks traded prized rookie Cody Hodgson to the Buffalo Sabres for prized prospect Zack Kassian. (Other players were involved, but let's call this a straight up deal. In fact, for some commentators, this was a chance to reminisce over the 'good old days' of hockey trades, when 'dumping salary' suggested some kind of scatological economics).
Basically, the Canucks moved a talented, up-and-coming scorer for a tough, bruising up-and-coming power forward. (Not unlike the Montero for Pineda swap that the Yankees and Mariners made this offseason. Sorry, I couldn't do any more posts on this site without talking baseball).
The point is that this trade can be considered a swap of valuable assets, with each player demonstrating tremendous upside, and even though Canucks' fans seem to be upset about moving Hodgson – who was clearly growing in popularity – many observers have this deal at worst a push, and maybe even squarely in the Canucks favour.
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3) We'll never know for sure what Canucks' management was thinking or strategizing through this deal. Anything they tell the media is just what they think the media – not to mention the fans – need to know.
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This section describes how indexed reference and assignment work in MATLAB®, and provides information on the behaviors you can modify. There are also examples of classes that modify the default indexing behavior.
MATLAB provides support for object array indexing by default and many class designs will require no modification to this behavior. The information in this section can help you determine if modifying object indexing is useful for your class design and can show you how to approach those modifications.
MATLAB arrays enable you to reference and assign elements of the array using a subscripted notation that specifies the indices of specific array elements. For example, suppose you create two arrays of numbers (using randi and concatenation).
% Create a 3-by-4 array of integers between 1 and 9 A = randi(9,3,4) A = 4 8 5 7 4 2 6 3 7 5 7 7 % Create a 1-by-3 array of the numbers 3, 6, 9 B = [3 6 9];
You can reference and assign elements of either array using index values in parentheses:
When you execute a statement that involves indexed reference:
MATLAB calls the built-in subsref function to determine how to interpret the statement. Similarly, if you execute a statement that involves indexed assignment:
MATLAB calls the built-in subsasgn function to determine how to interpret the statement.
The MATLAB default subsref and subsasgn functions also work with user-defined objects. For example, suppose you want to create an array of objects of the same class:
for k=1:3 objArray(k) = MyClass; end
Referencing the second element in the object array, objArray, returns the object constructed when k = 2:
D = objArray(2); class(D) ans = MyClass
You also can assign an object to an array of objects of the same class, or an uninitialized variable (see Creating Empty Arrays for related information):
newArray(3,4) = D;
Arrays of objects behave much like numeric arrays in MATLAB. You do not need to implement any special methods to provide this behavior with your class.
For general information about array indexing, see Matrix Indexing.
You can modify your class's default indexed reference and/or assignment behavior by implementing class methods called subsref and subsasgn. For syntax description, see their respective reference pages. Keep in mind that once you add a subsref or subsasgn method to your class, then MATLAB calls only the class method, not the built-in function. Therefore, you must implement in your class method all of the indexed reference and assignment operations that you want your class to support. This includes:
Dot notation calls to class methods
Dot notation reference and assignment involving properties
Any indexing using parentheses '()'
Any indexing using braces '{}'
While implementing subsref and subsasgn methods gives you complete control over the interpretation of indexing expressions for objects of your class, it can be complicated to provide the same behavior that MATLAB provides by default.
The default indexing supported by MATLAB for object arrays and dot notation for access to properties and methods enables user-defined objects to behave like intrinsic classes, such as double and struct. For example, suppose you define a class with a property called Data that contains an array of numeric data. A statement like:
returns the value contained in the second row, third column of the array. If you have an array of objects, you can use an expression like:
to return the fourth through last elements in the array contained in the Data property of the third object in the object array, objArray.
Modify the default indexing behavior when your class design requires behavior that is different from that provided by MATLAB by default.
MATLAB does not call class-defined subsref or subsasgn methods for indexed reference and assignment within the class's own methods. Within class methods, MATLAB always calls the built-in subsref and subsasgn functions regardless of whether the class defines its own methods. This is true within the class-defined subsref and subsasgn methods as well.
For example, within a class method, this dot reference:
% Calls built-in subsref
calls the built-in subsref function. To call the class-defined subsref method, use:
% Calls overloaded subsref subsref(obj,substruct('.','Prop'))
Whenever a class method requires the functionality of the class-defined subsref or subsasgn method, it must call the overloaded methods with function calls rather than using the operators, '()', '{}', or '.'.
For example, suppose you define a polynomial class with a subsref method that causes the polynomial to be evaluated with the value of the independent variable equal to the subscript. This statement defines the polynomial with its coefficients:
p = polynom([1 0 -2 -5]);
The MATLAB expression for the resulting polynomial is:
x^3 - 2*x - 5
The following subscripted expression returns the value of the polynomial at x = 3:
p(3) ans = 16
Suppose that you want to use this feature in another class method. To do so, call the subsref function directly. The evalEqual method accepts two polynom objects and a value at which to evaluate the polynomials:
methods function ToF = evalEqual(p1,p2,x) % Create arguments for subsref subs.type = '()'; subs.subs = {x}; % Need to call subsref explicity y1 = subsref(p1,subs); y2 = subsref(p2,subs); if y1 == y2 ToF = true; else ToF = false; end end end
This behavior enables you to use standard MATLAB indexing to implement specialized behaviors. See A Class with Modified Indexing for examples of how to use both built-in and class-modified indexing.
Object indexed references are in three forms — parentheses, braces, and name:
A(I) A{I} A.name
Each of these statements causes a call by MATLAB to the subsref method of the class of A, or a call to the built-in subsref function, if the class of A does not implement a subsref method.
MATLAB passes two arguments to subsref:
B = subsref(A,S)
The first argument is the object being referenced, A. The second argument, S, is a struct array with two fields:
S.type is a string containing '()', '{}', or '.' specifying the indexing type used.
S.subs is a cell array or string containing the actual index or name. A colon used as an index is passed in the cell array as the string ':'. Ranges specified using a colon (e.g., 2:5) are expanded to 2 3 4 5.
For example, the expression
causes MATLAB to call subsref(A,S), where S is a 1-by-1 structure with
S.type = '()' S.subs = {1:4,':'} % A 2-element cell array % containing the numbers 1 2 3 4 and ":"
Returning the contents of each cell of S.subs gives the index values for the first dimension and a string ':' for the second dimension:
S.subs{:} ans = 1 2 3 4 ans = :
The default subsref returns all array elements in rows 1 through 4 and all of the columns in the array.
Similarly, the expression
S.type ='{}' S.subs = {1:4} % A cell array % containing the numbers 1 2 3 4
The default subsref returns the contents of all cell array elements in rows 1 through 4 and all of the columns in the array.
The expression
calls subsref(A,S), where
S.type = '.'
S.subs = 'Name' % The string 'Name'
The default subsref returns the contents of the Name field in the struct array or the value of the property Name if A is an object with the specified property name.
These simple calls are combined for more complicated indexing expressions. In such cases, length(S) is the number of indexing levels. For example,
calls subsref(A,S), where S is a 3-by-1 structure array with the values:
S(1).type = '()' S(2).type = '.' S(3).type = '()' S(1).subs = {1,2} S(2).subs = 'PropertyName' S(3).subs = {1:4}
Your class's subsref method must interpret the indexing expressions passed in by MATLAB. Any behavior you want your class to support must be implemented by your subsref. However, your method can call the built-in subsref to handle indexing types that you do not want to change.
You can use a switch statement to determine the type of indexing used and to obtain the actual indices. The following three code fragments illustrate how to interpret the input arguments. In each case, the function must return the value (B) that is returned by your subsref function.
For a parentheses index:
% Handle A(n) switch S.type case '()' B = A(S.subs{:}); end
For a brace index:
% Handle A{n} switch S.type case '{}' % Determine what this indexing means to your class % E.g., CellProperty contained a cell array B = A.CellProperty{S.subs{:}}; end
While braces are used for cell arrays in MATLAB, your subsref method is free to define its own meaning for this syntax.
For a name index, you might access property values. Method calls require a second level of indexing if there are arguments. The name can be an arbitrary string for which you take an arbitrary action:
switch S.type case '.' switch S.subs case 'name1' B = A.name1; case 'name2' B = A.name2; end end
These links show examples of classes that implement subsref methods:
A Class with Modified Indexing
Subclasses of Built-In Types with Properties
See also, Understanding size and numel
Because subsref is a class method, it has access to private class members. Avoid inadvertently giving access to private methods and properties as you handle various types of reference. Consider this subsref method defined for a class having private properties, x and y:
classdef MyPlot properties (Access = private) x y end properties Maximum Minimum Average end methods function obj = MyPlot(x,y) obj.x = x; obj.y = y; obj.Maximum = max(y); obj.Minimum = min(y); obj.Average = mean(y); end function B = subsref(A,S) switch S(1).type case '.' switch S(1).subs case 'plot' % Reference to A.x and A.y call built-in subsref B = plot(A.x,A.y); otherwise % Enable dot notation for all properties and methods B = A.(S.subs); end end end end end
This subsref enables users to use dot notation to perform an action (create a plot) using the name 'plot'. The statement:
obj = MyPlot(1:10,1:10); h = obj.plot;
calls the plot function and returns the handle to the graphics object.
You do not need to explicitly code each method and property name because the otherwise code in the inner switch block handles any name reference that you do not explicitly specify in case statements. However, using this technique exposes any private and protected class members via dot notation. For example, you can reference the private property, x, with this statement:
obj.x ans = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The same issue applies to writing a subsasgn method that enables assignment to private or protected properties. Your subsref and subsasgn methods might need to code each specific property and method name explicitly to avoid violating the class design.
Object indexed assignments are in three forms — parentheses, braces, and name:
A(I) = B A{I} = B A.name = B
Each of these statements causes a call by MATLAB to the subsasgn method of the class of A, or a call to the built-in function, if the class of A does not implement a subsasgn method.
MATLAB passes three arguments to subsasgn:
A = subsasgn(A,S,B)
The first argument, A, is the object being assigned the value in the third argument B.
The second argument, S, is a struct array with two fields:
S.type is a string containing '()', '{}', or '.' specifying the indexing type used.
S.subs is a cell array or string containing the actual index or name. A colon used as an index is passed in the cell array as the string ':'. Ranges specified using a colon (e.g., 2:5) are expanded to 2 3 4 5.
For example, the assignment statement:
generates a call to subsasgn: A = subsasgn(A,S,B) where S is:
S.type = '()' S.subs = {2,3}
The default subsasgn:
Determines the class of A. If B is not the same class a A, then MATLAB tries to construct an object of the same class as A using B as an input argument (e.g., by calling a converter method, if one exists). If this attempt fails, MATLAB returns an error.
If A and B are, or can be made, into the same class, then MATLAB assigns the value of B to the array element at row 2, column 3.
If A does not exist before you execute the assignment statement, then MATLAB initializes the five array elements that come before A(2,3) with a default object of the class of A and B. For example, empty elements are initialized to zero in the case of a numeric array or an empty cell ([]) in the case of cell arrays. See Creating Empty Arrays for more information on how MATLAB initializes empty arrays.
Similarly, the expression
S.type ='{}'
S.subs = {2,3} % A 2-element cell array containing the numbers 2 and 3
The default subsasgn:
Assigns B to the cell array element at row 2, column 3.
If A does not exist before you execute the assignment statement, MATLAB initializes the five cells that come before A(2,3) with []. The result is a 2–by3 cell array.
The expression
A.Name = B
calls A = subsasgn(A,S,B) where
S.type = '.'
S.subs = 'Name' % The string 'Name'
The default subsasgn:
Assigns B to the struct field Name.
If A does not exist before you execute the assignment statement, MATLAB creates a new struct variable, A with field Name and assigns the value of B to this field location.
If struct A exists, but has no field Name, then MATLAB adds the field Name and assigns the value of B to the new field location.
If struct A exists and has a Name field, then MATLAB assigns the value of B to Name.
You can redefine all or some of these assignment behaviors by implementing a subsasgn method for your class.
If A is an object, the expression:
A.Name = B
calls A = subsasgn(A,S,B) where
S.type = '.'
S.subs = 'Name' % The string 'Name'
The default subsasgn:
Attempts to assign B to the Name property.
If the class of A does not have a Name property, MATLAB returns an error.
If the Name property has restricted access (private or protected), MATLAB determines if the assignment is allowed based on the context in which the assignment is made.
If the class of A defines a set method for property Name, MATLAB calls the set method.
MATLAB applies all other property attributes before determining whether to assigning B to the property Name.
These simple calls are combined for more complicated indexing expressions. In such cases, length(S) is the number of indexing levels. For example,
A(1,2).PropertyName(1:4) = B
calls subsasgn(A,S,B), where S is a 3-by-1 structure array with the values:
S(1).type = '()' S(2).type = '.' S(3).type = '()' S(1).subs = {1,2} S(2).subs = 'PropertyName' S(3).subs = {1:4}
For an example of subsasgn method, see Specialized Subscripted Assignment — subsasgn.
This example defines a class that modifies the default indexing behavior. It uses a combination of default indexing and specialized indexing. The example shows some useful techniques for implement subsref and subsasgn methods, but does not implement a fully robust class. You cannot, for example, concatenate objects into an array without adding other methods, such as horzcat, vertcat, cat, size, and perhaps other methods.
See Subclasses of Built-In Types with Properties for another example of a class that modifies indexing and concatenation behavior.
The class has three properties:
Data — numeric test data
Description — description of test data
Date — date test was conducted
Assume you have the following data (randi):
d = randi(9,3,4) d = 8 9 3 9 9 6 5 2 2 1 9 9
Create an instance of the class:
obj = MyDataClass(d,'Test001');
The constructor arguments pass the values for the Data and Description properties. The clock function assigns the value to the Date property from within the constructor. This approach captures the time and date information when the instance is created.
Here is the basic code listing without the subsref and subsasgn methods.
classdef MyDataClass properties Data Description end properties (SetAccess = private) Date end methods function obj = MyDataClass(data,desc) if nargin > 0 obj.Data = data; end if nargin > 1 obj.Description = desc; end obj.Date = clock; end end end
Use the default indexed reference behavior for scalar objects, and add the ability to index into the Data property with an expression like:
obj(2,3) ans = 5
This statement is the equivalent of:
which the class also supports.
Redefining '()' indexing as described here means you cannot create arrays of MyDataClass objects and use '()' indexing to access individual objects. Create only scalar objects.
To achieve the design goals, the subsref method calls the builtin subsref for indexing of type '.' and defines its own version of '()' type indexing.
function sref = subsref(obj,s) % obj(i) is equivalent to obj.Data(i) switch s(1).type % Use the built-in subsref for dot notation case '.' sref = builtin('subsref',obj,s); case '()' if length(s)<2 % Note that obj.Data is passed to subsref sref = builtin('subsref',obj.Data,s); return else sref = builtin('subsref',obj,s); end % No support for indexing using '{}' case '{}' error('MYDataClass:subsref',... 'Not a supported subscripted reference') end end
The class supports the equivalent behavior in indexed assignment. You can assign values to the Data property by referencing only the object.
obj(2,3) = 9;
is equivalent to:
obj.Data(2,3) = 9;
Like the subsref method, the subsasgn method calls the builtin subsasgn for indexing of type '.' and defines its own version of '()' type indexing.
Another useful approach is the use of the substruct function to redefine the index type and index subscripts struct that MATLAB passes to subsref and subsasgn.
function obj = subsasgn(obj,s,val) if isempty(s) && strcmp(class(val),'MYDataClass') obj = MyDataClass(val.Data,val.Description); end switch s(1).type % Use the built-in subsasagn for dot notation case '.' obj = builtin('subsasgn',obj,s,val); case '()' if length(s)<2 if strcmp(class(val),'MYDataClass') error('MYDataClass:subsasgn',... 'Object must be scalar') elseif strcmp(class(val),'double') % Redefine the struct s to make the call: obj.Data(i) snew = substruct('.','Data','()',s(1).subs(:)); obj = subsasgn(obj,snew,val); end end % No support for indexing using '{}' case '{}' error('MYDataClass:subsasgn',... 'Not a supported subscripted assignment') end end
Allow direct addition of the Data property data by implementing a plus method:
function a = double(obj) a = obj.Data; end function c = plus(obj,b) c = double(obj) + double(b); end
For example, add a scalar to the object Data array:
% List Current value of Data obj(:,:) ans = 8 9 3 9 9 6 5 2 2 1 9 9 % Add 7 to the array obj + 7 ans = 15 16 10 16 16 13 12 9 9 8 16 16
The MyDataClass double method provides a way to convert an object to an array of doubles. It is possible to add a MyDataClass object to another class of object, providing the other class implements a double method that also returns an array of doubles. MATLAB applies the rules of addition and returns errors for dimension mismatch, and so on.
When you use end in an object indexing expression, such as A(4:end), the end function returns the index value corresponding to the last element in that dimension.
Classes can overload the end function as a class method to implement specialized behavior. If your class defines an end method, MATLAB calls that method to determine how to interpret the expression.
The end has the calling syntax:
ind = end(A,k,n)
A is the object
k is the index in the expression using the end syntax
n is the total number of indices in the expression
ind is the index value to use in the expression
For example, consider the expression
MATLAB calls the end method defined for the object A using the arguments
ind = end(A,1,2)
These arguments mean the end statement occurs in the first index element and there are two index elements. The end class method returns the index value for the last element of the first dimension (from which 1 is subtracted in this case). If your class implements an end method, ensure that it returns a value appropriate for the class.
The end method for the MyDataClass example (see A Class with Modified Indexing) operates on the contents of the Data property. The objective of this method is to return a value that can replace end in any indexing expression, such as:
obj(4:end) obj.Data(2,3:end)
and so on.
The following end function determines a positive integer value for end and returns it so that MATLAB can plug it into the indexing expression.
function ind = end(obj,k,n) szd = size(obj.Data); if k < n ind = szd(k); else ind = prod(szd(k:end)); end end
MATLAB can use objects as indices in indexed expressions. The rules of array indexing apply — indices must be positive integers. Therefore, MATLAB must be able to derive a value from the object that is a positive integer, which it uses in the indexed expression.
Indexing expressions like X(A), where A is an object, cause MATLAB to call the default subsindex function, unless such an expression results in a call to an overloaded subsref or subsasgn method defined by the class of X. See Scenarios for Implementing Objects as Indices.
subsindex must return the value of the object as a zero-based integer index values in the range 0 to prod(size(X))-1).
If you want to enable indexing of one object by another object, such as X(A), you can implement this behavior in various ways:
Define a subsindex method in the class of A, which converts A to an integer. MATLAB calls A's subsindex method to perform default indexing operations (when the class of X does not overload the default subsref or subsasgn method).
If the class of X overloads subsref or subsasgn, these methods can explicitly call the subsindex method of A. In this case, ensure that A implements a subsindex method with appropriate error checking in your program.
If the class of X overloads subsref or subsasgn, these methods can contain code that determines an integer index value without relying on the class of A to implement a subsindex method.
MATLAB calls the subsindex method defined for the object used as the index. For example, suppose you want to use object A to index into object B. B can be a single object or an array, depending on your objectives.
A subsindex method implemented by class A might do something as simple as convert the object to double format to be used as an index, as shown in this sample code.
function ind = subsindex(obj) % Convert the object a to double format to be used % as an index in an indexing expression ind = double(obj); end
Or, your class might implement a special converter method that returns a numeric value representing an object based on particular values of object properties.
function ind = subsindex(obj) % Return the value of an object property ind = obj.ElementPosition; end
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Part 3 in a three-part series from The Providence Journal's veteran crime reporters
PROVIDENCE — "Hey, hey! I'm going to be dancing again. I hope this takes the shot."
Aynis Vargas rolls her eyes a little as she sets her mother's cellphone down. The hip-hop beat of Usher's song "Scream" floods her bedroom, as she stands in front of the phone's camera and bobs to the music.
Her long, dark ponytail snaps around her head and she waves her arms in the air. She wriggles her shoulders, twirls, smiles, dancing alone, performing for an invisible audience. On the cusp of her teen years, there are flashes of the young woman she could become.
As the chorus rises, Aynis comes close to the camera, her face filling the screen. "Buh-bye," she says.
She was dead not long afterward. Twelve years old, another victim of gun violence.
It's been four months since a masked stranger shot Aynis to death and wounded three women at a high school graduation party in the Hartford Park housing projects in Providence. The gunman, it would turn out, had no argument with anyone there. They were innocents in a neighborhood that's been caught in a gang feud for years.
Sometime around noon on June 15, someone in the Hartford Soldiers gang had smashed the window of a minivan owned by a Harriet Street gang member, said Capt. Michael E. Correia.
It would have cost around $250 to replace the rear window in the 2001 Nissan Quest. Instead, the police say, the Harriet Street gang sought revenge on Hartford that night, deciding to shoot whomever they found outside.
A gun ends up in vengeful hands, and a girl dies, three women are maimed, five young men are in the criminal justice system, and society pays the emotional and financial toll:
Costs of the criminal justice system: the police investigation, prosecution and defense, court proceedings and incarceration. Medical costs for the shooting survivors. Quality-of-life losses, pain and suffering of Aynis' family, friends and survivors. The estimated "lost productivity" from the violent death of a child. The costs to a neighborhood plagued by gun violence.
The bullet is just the beginning. The price keeps climbing, like a stopwatch without a pause button.
Last year, the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation sought to estimate the costs of gun violence and found a higher tally than the cost of alcohol-related automobile crashes. Ted R. Miller, principal research scientist at the Children's Safety Network Economics and Data Analysis Resource Center, at the institute, evaluated cost estimates based on 2010 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The estimates calculated costs to the criminal justice system, medical care and mental health costs, lost wages of those injured or killed by gun violence, lost tax revenue, along with tallies of pain, suffering and lost quality of life.
The cost to society for just one gun homicide: almost $5.1 million. One murder equals nearly $1.6 million in lost work, almost $3.1 million in quality-of-life costs — the pain and suffering, and the lost enjoyment of life.
The cost of just one shooting: about $432,813, if the victim is admitted to the hospital. In that case, the midnight shooting at the Hartford projects could cost almost $1.3 million for the three women who were shot.
But numbers are a cold way of calculating loss.
Teomel Vargas watches the video of his daughter dancing. Aynis' 22-year-old half-sister, Vianca, stares at the floor, silent.
Aynis loved to perform. Since her death, her family has discovered videos she made of herself. She pretended to be a British explorer stalking "a great beast" — her 11-year-old brother, Rumel. She talked like a "magical chicken" to a friend in the back seat of her family's car.
A few minutes before midnight on June 15, Aynis and other relatives were at the party outside a row of apartments at 256 Hartford Ave. As Aynis rose to speak to her mother, a gunman walked up and shot the girl in the back of her neck.
Aynis fell into her mother's arms. Luz Felix hasn't been the same since. No one in the family has.
Immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Felix and Vargas worked hard to provide for their children, Aynis and Rumel. Even after their relationship ended, the parents worked together to give their children a better life.
A former boxer, Teomel Vargas said he's always worked — as a parking attendant, machine operator, in maintenance and electronic assembly. He now drives for the First Student bus company and is involved in real estate. He bought two houses, in Providence and Cranston, so Aynis and Rumel could attend Cranston schools and his two older daughters would have a home in Providence.
"I want them to be independent, to be able to survive and have a better life," Vargas said. "We don't have opportunities in our country. We came over here for that."
Aynis was also thinking about her future. In her sixth-grade yearbook, "Growing to Greatness," from Garden City Elementary School, she wrote: "When I grow up, I will be a pharmacist, chef, historian, or if I don't have any choice I will work at McDonalds!
"But I will be a happy grownup with my family," she added.
Vargas reads her words and lingers over that last sentence.
Her death has left them struggling financially. The family applied for help from the state Crime Victim Compensation Fund, which pays up to $25,000 per case. Their needs were part of nearly $300,000 spent by the fund on gun homicides in the last fiscal year.
The family used $8,000 from the fund for services at Bell Funeral Home. A headstone was donated at the North Burial Ground cemetery. Aynis' parents and youngest brother are all in counseling at Gateway Healthcare, also covered by the stipend.
Vargas said he hasn't been able to work since Aynis died. He took a leave of absence from his $400-a-week job driving schoolchildren, which he's done for five years. He is applying for temporary disability income until he is ready to return.
"That job has a lot of responsibility," he said. "You have to be clear and focused."
And he knows the children will remind him of Aynis.
Two days before she was murdered, Aynis took part in a "sixth-grade celebration" at Garden City Elementary School in Cranston.
School was still in session the week after she died. The Cranston School Department immediately convened support staff, counselors and psychologists and planned how they would talk to the students that Monday, said Principal Tonianne Napolitano.
Aynis was sweet and honest, a good student who'd made the honor roll. "It was just shocking that something you see on TV happened in your community," Napolitano said.
That Monday morning, the principal and the counseling staff went to each classroom to speak about Aynis. "We told them there was a terrible accident, and a student had passed," Napolitano said.
Most of the children took the news quietly.
Napolitano, Aynis' teacher Paul Nadeau, staff members and a cluster of students and parents attended Aynis' wake and funeral.
Afterward, they planted a tree in her memory outside the school. Nadeau gave them all a chance to say something about Aynis. And then they said goodbye.
Meanwhile, the investigation into Aynis' murder and the shooting of the three women was gearing up.
The first call about gunfire that night brought scores of police officers: patrol officers, detectives and forensic investigators. Firefighters on three ambulances had carried away Aynis, who was dying, and two women — Eugelyn Cabera-Martinez, 33, and Vilma Tineo, 44 — wounded by gunfire. A basic rescue run costs about $500, but more advanced life support, which would have been required for this scene, costs as much as $840.
Three ambulances raced to Rhode Island Hospital, where a fourth victim, Elaine Devargas, 23, was driven in a private vehicle.
The swarm of doctors, surgeons and medical staff at Rhode Island Hospital went to work on the four victims, as the hospital went on lockdown to keep everyone safe.
The rescuers' work was done. The police were just beginning. Some of the most veteran detectives were assigned — Detectives Frank Villella, William Mattera and Theodore Michael — with supervisors Sgt. Fabio Zuena, Lt. Michael Figueiredo and Capt. Michael E. Correia.
A child was dead, the youngest gunshot victim in Providence in more than a decade. They soon deduced that this was part of a long-running gang feud, which put more pressure on patrol officers to keep neighborhoods safe and on detectives to arrest the suspects.
No one in the community tipped off the police, so detectives relied on technology, drawing more than 20 court-authorized warrants to search video recordings and cellphones.
A month later, they arrested two members of the Harriet Street gang: Ricardo Vasquez, 20, who owned the minivan seen on surveillance video trolling the area before the murder, and Branden Castro, 21, the alleged gunman.
Ten weeks later, after a Providence County grand jury handed up indictments, the police arrested three more gang members: Luis Gonzalez, 23, Angel Valerio, 19, and an 18-year-old Providence man, who was 17 at the time of the shootings. All could face life in prison.
The total cost for all of the police work is tough to tally, but the department spent $29,600 in overtime just for the detective bureau, which had a combined 576 hours in overtime, Correia said.
When it comes to investigating homicides, Chief Hugh Clements Jr. said, there are no budget limits.
Aynis's father "said from the beginning, 'I know they're going to catch them,'" Vargas' girlfriend, Lucia Perez, said recently. "And they did."
The analysis by the Pacific Institute tallied criminal justice and police costs for one gun homicide to be about $397,000 — a figure that sounded low to Stacey Veroni, chief of the criminal division at the attorney general's office.
The real cost is "immeasurable," Veroni said.
The clock starts the same: the police discover a homicide and call Veroni, who notifies the attorney general and deputy, and then assigns a lead prosecutor, who immediately goes to the crime scene. The prosecutor speaks with the police, observes the scene and offers suggestions on obtaining warrants. "We lose a lot of valuable evidence if we don't get it at the time," Veroni said.
The lead prosecutor works with a core team of three to five people, senior prosecutors and chiefs in the criminal division, going over strategy, witnesses and evidence. A victim advocate sits with the family through each part of the process. A paralegal assists in filings.
An arrest leads to the arraignment, then a bail hearing in two weeks, and then the grand jury.
A defendant could face a violation hearing, if he or she was out on bail or probation at the time. Witnesses may need to be relocated for safety. In the meantime, investigators follow up on interviews and new information, things uncovered in discovery. The attorney general weighs in on pre-trial conferences and plea agreements, and approves all cases that involve life without parole.
The average caseload for the trial calendar is 82 cases. But there is no average length of time for when a case reaches trial, or the aftermath.
After the trial and a conviction, there can be newly discovered evidence, new witnesses or requests for post-conviction relief. All of which can go on for years. All of which can mean alerting the victim's loved ones to the latest turns in the case.
"You know how painful it is to make that call to the victim's family — 'Here we go again,'" Veroni said.
"There really is no finality to it."
That night, after being called about the chaos outside the Hartford projects, Veroni notified Attorney General Peter Kilmartin and Deputy Attorney General Gerald Coyne, and brought in a team of prosecutors to lay the groundwork for prosecution.
Special Assistant Attorney General James Baum, the lead prosecutor, went to the murder scene in Hartford and then to Rhode Island Hospital, eventually aiding the police in seeking search warrants.
Ana Giron, the director of victim services at the attorney general's office, and another victim advocate supported the four families. Two paralegals and a legal secretary were pulled into the case.
When Vasquez, 20, pleaded guilty to Aynis' murder and the triple shooting on Sept. 27, he looked as small as a middle-schooler, and the shackles on his ankles jangled as he shuffled into the Superior Court room. His father wept, but Vasquez said nothing as Judge Robert D. Krause sentenced him to life in prison.
Vasquez's guilty plea saved the cost of a murder trial, which can run about 10 days, from jury selection to deliberation. The cost for a judge, clerk, stenographer and 14 jurors would run about $13,140 for a 10-day trial, not including a minimum of four sheriffs needed to transport and guard the defendant and court during the trial.
That's just a snapshot, said Craig Berke, state judiciary spokesman. That doesn't account for hearings and conferences leading up to the trial, or the aftermath, the sentencing, the motions or appeals.
When he pleaded guilty, Vasquez gave up his right to an appeal. His cost now is incarceration.
Vasquez has been held at the intake center of the Adult Correctional Institutions since his arrest in July, at a cost of $119.39 a day, or an average of $43,576 per year. Now that he is sentenced, he will be moved out of intake and into the prison, said Susan Lamkins, spokeswoman at the state Department of Corrections.
Vasquez will probably begin his time at maximum security, which costs $62,730 per year. With the life sentence, he will serve at least 20 years before he can seek parole — a cost to taxpayers of more than $1.2 million.
The three other gang members remain held at the ACI on charges of murder and felony assault for allegedly shooting the three women. . The 18-year-old man who was charged as a juvenile remains at the Training School, as the attorney general's office seeks to have him tried as an adult.
Aynis' father says the family is grateful that the police pursued all the gang members allegedly involved — not just the one who pulled the trigger.
"A gang is like a cancer," Vargas said. "If you don't stop it, it's going to spread."
The family is still adjusting.
"The attitude of the family is positive," Vargas said. "We think it's going to be very hard. But someday, we're going to feel better."
In a statement to the court read at Vasquez's sentencing, the family members said they believe there is a God. It was an honor to have Aynis in their lives. They wish they could have had her longer.
Felix collected her daughter's clothes and toys to donate to charity. Vargas pulled out a few items to keep. Her striped flats. The high-top sneakers she kicked off to play on the swings at a park in Cranston. The T-shirt she wore in a photo for her obituary. The dress she wore to her sixth-grade "celebration."
After Aynis was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital, the medical staff gave her family mementos. A pink page labeled "Forever in my heart" with the black ink of her footprints. A lock of her long dark hair, tied with a pale pink ribbon.
What will happen to her belongings? Working in maintenance for five years taught Vargas about what happens to one's personal effects, no matter how precious. "I learned that someday, someone is going to throw it all away," Vargas said.
Until then, these things hold her memory.
Aynis' death changed their lives. "In some ways, it stopped me. I know I have to go forward, but it's not my dream," Vargas said. "My dream is not complete. I had four children, now three children. It takes away my motivation for me.
"But I know I have to go forward." And again, softer. "I have to go forward."
All for a $250 window in a 12-year-old minivan. Vargas says he would replace that minivan's window every day, panes and panes of windows, for the rest of his life.
If it could only bring Aynis back.
Part 1: Price of gun violence takes widespread toll in R.I.
Part 2: Former gang lives with challenges of a new reality / Video


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Fri, Sep 5, 08 at 23:35
I collected some seed from a mature specimen at the local arboretum without knowing much about the species, but now I'm scratching my head with what to do with the seedlings. The tree itself is attractive in spring while flowering, but the fruit is apparently inedible by humans.
I have found in my readings that they are very resistant to fireblight. Can the seedlings be used as rootstock onto which other, edible pear varieties can be grafted onto? Otherwise, they'll be going out to the woods for the wildlife (will wildlife enjoy those rock-hard fruits?). Thanks. |
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Yes, I think this may be used for rootstock by some. Otherwise primarily an ornamental, as is Callery pear. Since the latter has also become a weed in eastern North America Ussurian pear may also have some pest potential. I haven't heard. |
P.ussuriensis (Harbin pear) makes a good rootstock for Asian pear varieties - but I don't know which, if any, of the named varieties are reliably zone 4 hardy. I suspect most hardy european selections and hybrids would also be graft-compatible with P.u. |
- Posted by FoothillsOrchard 2a (My Page) on Sat, Jul 20, 13 at 13:16
A great many cider apples are unpalatable as eating apples - has anyone tried making perry from Ussurian pears? |
- Posted by canadianplant (My Page) on Sun, Jul 21, 13 at 10:21
Rootstock and breeding. I think theyre also used for pollinating some pears as well (could only the the Ussurian hybrids). I have a "john" pear which is a hybrid with the russian pear. Nice looking trees and very very hardy. i have read conflicting reports of how the fruit tastes (for the hybrid). |
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