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Crystal Growth Mechanisms and Morphological Control of the Prototypical Metal–Organic Framework MOF-5 Revealed by Atomic Force Microscopy
Article first published online: 10 OCT 2012
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201202261
Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Chemistry - A European Journal
Volume 18, Issue 48, pages 15406–15415, November 26, 2012
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Cubillas, P., Anderson, M. W. and Attfield, M. P. (2012), Crystal Growth Mechanisms and Morphological Control of the Prototypical Metal–Organic Framework MOF-5 Revealed by Atomic Force Microscopy. Chem. Eur. J., 18: 15406–15415. doi: 10.1002/chem.201202261
Publication History
- Issue published online: 19 NOV 2012
- Article first published online: 10 OCT 2012
- Manuscript Received: 26 JUN 2012
- atomic force microscopy;
- crystal growth;
- metal–organic frameworks;
- modulator;
- morphology
Crystal growth of the metal–organic framework MOF-5 was studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM) for the first time. Growth under low supersaturation conditions was found to occur by a two-dimensional or spiral crystal growth mechanism. Observation of developing nuclei during the former reveals growth occurs through a process of nucleation and spreading of metastable and stable sub-layers revealing that MOFs may be considered as dense phase structures in terms of crystal growth, even though they contain sub-layers consisting of ordered framework and disordered non-framework components. These results also support the notion this may be a general mechanism of surface crystal growth at low supersaturation applicable to crystalline nanoporous materials. The crystal growth mechanism at the atomistic level was also seen to vary as a function of the growth solution Zn/H2bdc ratio producing square terraces with steps parallel to the <100> direction or rhombus-shaped terraces with steps parallel to the <110> direction when the Zn/H2bdc ratio was >1 or about 1, respectively. The change in relative growth rates can be explained in terms of changes in the solution species concentrations and their influence on growth at different terrace growth sites. These results were successfully applied to the growth of as-synthesized cube-shaped crystals to increase expression of the {111} faces and to grow octahedral crystals of suitable quality to image using AFM. This modulator-free route to control the crystal morphology of MOF-5 crystals should be applicable to a wide variety of MOFs to achieve the desired morphological control for performance enhancement in applications.


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49ers' Brooks took the long way toward being a star linebacker
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Of all the people who have touched or influenced his football career, 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks ranks his family at the top of the list. His late father, Perry, who played 92 games in the NFL as a defensive lineman for the Redskins (1978-84), used to call him before every game. Now, he hears from his mother, Vergie; his older sister, Krsunthia; his older brother, Perry, Jr. -- or all three. They always preach the same motto.

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Hahaha Erling, I am still very much a novice at this. I have stumbled quite a bit while getting my footing. Everything I do I improve on though. If I would have tried to do this the first time it would have been in the trash before it cured! This was pretty difficult because it was many, many pieces. I had CF sticking to my gloves and went through 3 brushes just trying to keep stray strands of CF from gumming up the layup and even then I was not completely successful.
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I cannot seem to get a good picture of this piece, all of them make it look pretty bad regardless of the angle. It is actually pretty nice, does have some uneven spots because I ran a few more layers on a couple parts to increase strength. Oh well.
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With the Canadian women's national team losing a heartbreaking quarterfinal Saturday at BC Place to the English, this might be the week of weeks where our readers say "oh yeah, I guess MLS had games this weekend. Let me check the phone to see what the scores were."
And, of course, we can assume many of our readers are probably done with soccer for a while, taking the time to decompress.
But, for those paying attention, this weekend marks the end of the NASL hiatus.The league's fall season begins next weekend, which includes FC Edmonton hosting the San Antonio Scorpions in Fort McMurray, where the stands were not exactly full for this past weekend's Canadian Football League opener between the Argos and the Eskimos. And, right, now, every section but one at Fort Mac's SMS Equipment Stadium at Shell Place is showing more than 20 tickets are available.
Even with NASL playing six fewer weeks (including the break) than MLS; five NASL players remain in the top 10 in terms of minutes played by Canadians. That's a rather shocking number.
In terms of MLS action, we've seen very little player movement this week; Vancouver managed to get through its weekend match by giving no minutes to Canadians, which was the most disturbing trend of the 17th week of the power rankings. The no-Canadian-minutes game, a 2-1 win over New England, came just a week after Canadian midfielder Kianz Froese scored his first-ever MLS goal for the Whitecaps. So a high mark for Canadians is followed by a low mark in Vancouver.
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Embarrassing media leak forces Lieberman to declassify Knesset defense committee discussions
Furious chairman makes decision after highly sensitive comments made by Shin Bet security service chief about PA President Mahmoud Abbas were leaked to the press.
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avigdor Lieberman has decided to declassify all of the committee's discussions. The move comes after a briefing Shin Bet security service chief Yoram Cohen made to the body was leaked to the media this week.
In a letter distributed to committee members on Thursday, Lieberman wrote: "In light of the distorted version that was passed on to the media, it is clear to me who is behind the leak, and I regret that he has harmed the committee's work and the Knesset's good name."
The first unclassified discussion to be held by the committee will be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the committee, scheduled for Monday.
Yisrael Beiteinu head Lieberman was furious after a main headline in the Maariv newspaper on Wednesday quoted Cohen as saying that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas does not believe in a peace agreement with Israel. In an unusual step, the Shin Bet issued a statement the same day denying the remarks. The vast majority of committee members who were present also denied the remarks that were attributed to the Shin Bet chief.
"At the start of the discussion, Cohen said he was unwilling to enter political pitfalls and asked us not to attribute political significance to his analysis," says one of the committee members. "The Shin Bet chief was very frank and very open," the member says, "as he knew this was a classified committee hearing. His comments were completely professional and did not reflect an opinion one way or the other. In my opinion, he was even too open with the members of the Knesset."
Another MK said: "Contrary to reports, Cohen may have been pessimistic regarding [Mahmoud Abbas'] ability to resume negotiations with Israel, but he said that this was because Israel is not making enough concessions to the Palestinian Authority. His remarks could be interpreted as saying that the problem lies with the current Israeli policy."
Either way, Lieberman reacted strongly to the leak, and decided to reinstate the previous Knesset's procedure – that all committee meetings be unclassified, and classified material will only be presented at the subcommittee meetings.
"This leak is especially saddening in light of the fact that when I entered my role as committee chairman, I heard complaints from some committee members that the meetings had become a way for security officials to 'give press briefings,' and that significant information regarding the work of the security services was not given to the members."
Lieberman explained that, in the past, he had decided to split up the committee discussions in an attempt to make them more significant. He said he had decided to incorporate "open meetings" – which would discuss unclassified information that would also be released to the press – and "closed meetings," which would mostly be held with security service heads. These closed meetings would be similar to subcommittee discussions, and would include classified information.
Lieberman added that he "believed that, on the one hand, this format would safeguard the public's right to know; and, on the other, would enable more in-depth meetings to be held that would strengthen the committee's work." After the leak to Maariv, he decided that "from this moment, all committee meetings will be open and uncensored, and of course classified information will not be disclosed."


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Kent State @ Buffalo College Football Pick
- Updated: September 19, 2012
College Football Picks
Kent State Golden Flashes
Buffalo Bulls
Date/Time: September 19th, 7:00 pm EST
Television: ESPNU
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Point Spread: Buffalo (-3)
Total: TBD
Football Betting Game Trends
Kent State Golden Flashes
- Kent State is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
- Kent State is 2-6 ATS in its last 8 games on the road
- Kent State is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games on the road
- The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kent State's last 6 games on the road
- Kent State is 1-3-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Buffalo
Buffalo Bulls
- Buffalo is 8-17 ATS in its last 25 games
- Buffalo is 4-17 SU in its last 21 games
- Buffalo is 4-8 ATS in its last 12 games at home
- Buffalo is 4-8 SU in its last 12 games at home
- Buffalo is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Kent State
NCAA Football – Week 4
MAC rivals meet in what will be the first college football betting affair of the weekend, when the Kent State Golden Flashes take on the Buffalo Bulls at UB Stadium.
Kent State doesn't have much in the way of high hopes this year for a bowl game, but if this is a game that is won, it would be a great start to the MAC season. The team hasn't gotten much in the way of offense this year at just 338.0 yards per game, and that doesn't seem to be changing any time in the near future for a club that routinely ranks in the bottom 50 in the nation in virtually every major offensive category. The Golden Flashes only have one passing touchdown in two games, and that came from backup QB David Fisher. The starter, QB Spencer Keith, has thrown for 309 yards and has averaged just 5.0 yards per pass attempt. The key is going to be on the ground, where RBs Trayion Durham and Dri Archer are going to carry the load. These two have combined for 273 yards and four scores this year.
UB hasn't been worth all that much, save for the one year that Turner Gill led it to the MAC Championship, but this might be a slightly different year. The team is moving the ball up and down the field right now, and there are hopes that, in the relatively weak MAC East, that the team can perhaps win seven games this year and get one of those at large bowl bids. The Bulls hung in there against the Georgia Bulldogs and at least put some points on the board, and they did drop 56 against the Morgan State Bears the next week. Watch out for WR Alex Neutz. Neutz does it all for the Bulls, and he is really the only reliable target for QB Alex Zordich. Neutz already has 13 catches for 206 yards and five trips to the end zone this year, and he is surely going to be in for another great game. RB Brandon Oliver has 349 yards and is averaging 6.3 yards per carry as well. Zordich is a dual threat, and he has not just 385 yards and five TDs through the air, but 93 more with a TD on the ground as well.
Buffalo has the better of these two teams, and with some high hopes and home field advantage on its side, it should be able to post a relatively easy victory against the Golden Flashes, who we hope used the extra few days off to remind the punt coverage team which way was the right way to run the ball in the event that they recover a fumble. Buffalo 38 – Kent State 20
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Lantern Slide - Panorama Type, Punch & Judy, 1820-1860 Reg. No: MM 107582
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- Alternative Name(s): Children's Slide; Panorama Magic Lantern Slide
This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Australian and Victorian Governments in 1975. David Francis was the curator of the National Film and Sound Archive of the British Film Institute as well as being a co-founder of the Museum of the Moving Image in London, which was operational between 1988 and 1999.
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- Panorama format colour rectangular glass slide witha single glass rectangular sheet with hand painted figures on a black opaque background, mounted in a wooden frame,
- Description Of Content:
- Panorama slide showing portraits of four figures dressed in blue, yellow and red costumes wearing hats.The characters on the left are Punch and Judy.
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- Loan & Subsequent Donation from Australian Film Institute (AFI)
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- Source: Museum Victoria
|68 mm (Height), 261 mm (Width)
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text: Psychology http://hdl.handle.net/10523/610 2015-07-06T00:56:33Z 2015-07-06T00:56:33Z Can Pigeons Become Experts at a Task? Andrews, Sarah Lisa http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5707 2015-06-10T20:48:13Z 2015-06-10T20:46:33Z Can Pigeons Become Experts at a Task? 2015 Andrews, Sarah Lisa The aim of this study was to demonstrate the development of expertise in pigeons using the serial-order task. Subjects were trained to learn the correct order of three- and four-item lists. Evidence for expertise was defined as improvement in list acquisition as more lists were introduced. The pigeons' speed of learning a list improved across successive lists on the transitional (AB)ABC phase, but not on the main ABC phase and the three-item component of the transitional (ABC)ABCD phase. When the data were blocked into lists of five to reduce variability, there was evidence of faster list acquisition for both the transitional (AB)ABC and ABC phases. There was no evidence of faster list acquisition on the four-item component of the transitional (ABC)ABCD phase. Overall, although the evidence was not overwhelmingly positive, many aspects of the pigeons' serial-list acquisition data match that reported by Terrace, Son and Brannon (2003) for monkeys. The data suggest that non-primates are capable of cognitive tasks once thought impossible for their kind, and challenge the widely held assumption that nonhuman primates are superior to other animals in terms of cognitive ability. 2015-06-10T20:46:33Z Schizotypy in New Zealand Ethnic Minority Groups: Examination of Social Risk and Protective Factors Macgregor-Wolken, Hannah http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5675 2015-05-25T22:10:12Z 2015-05-25T22:08:49Z Schizotypy in New Zealand Ethnic Minority Groups: Examination of Social Risk and Protective Factors 2015 Macgregor-Wolken, Hannah A wealth of research shows a greater incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia and psychotic illness in immigrant and ethnic minority groups. These findings extend to sub-clinical measures of schizophrenia-related personality characteristics, such as schizotypy. Examinations of the role of stress and resilience factors in this relationship have produced inconsistent results. Also, few have examined the association in ethnic minority groups in New Zealand. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to identify whether New Zealand minority group membership is associated with schizotypy and to explore whether this association may be understood in terms of stress, resilience, disadvantage, and discrimination. In Phase 1 of a two-phase study, the association of New Zealand minority group (Māori, Asian, Pacific) membership with dimensional and categorical schizotypy was assessed in an New Zealand-born undergraduate sample (n = 314). In Phase 2, the roles of social risk factors and resilience in the relationship between minority status and schizotypy were examined in a follow-up subsample (n = 84) of Phase 1 participants. Findings from Phase 1 were consistent with hypotheses and prior literature, showing Māori were over-represented in a taxometrically-defined schizotypy class, while Asian participants were not. Different findings were obtained using dimensional schizotypy scores. Results from Phase 2 indicated that discrimination, deprivation, and stigma did not predict schizotypy whereas greater psychological resilience was strongly assoicated with lower cognitive-perceptual, interpersonal, and disorganisation features of schizotypy. In conclusion, associations between ethnicity and schizotypy were evident but the pattern of findings suggests methodology may affect these relationships. There was evidence of a protective effect of psychological resilience against schizotypy, but this did not appear to contribute to the relationship of minority status with schizotypy. 2015-05-25T22:08:49Z Age-Related Changes In Memory Abilities In Older Adults McDonald, Matthew Stuart Maurice http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5674 2015-05-22T05:08:17Z 2015-05-22T05:07:59Z Age-Related Changes In Memory Abilities In Older Adults 2015 McDonald, Matthew Stuart Maurice The aim of this thesis was to investigate the relationship between ageing and two important everyday memory abilities, prospective remembering and autobiographical recall. In Study 1, 30 young adults (19 - 29 years), 30 middle-aged adults (30 - 59 years), and 29 older adults (60 - 86 years), completed a naturalistic prospective memory task called the Virtual Street; and an autobiographical memory interview for the recall of recent and remote life episodes. Task performance was referenced against a more traditional laboratory-based memory test, one which allows the computation of parameters of memory performance in a process dissociation procedure (PDP) paradigm. The findings suggested that prospective memory abilities were poorer for middle aged and older participants; however, all participants performed well on the errand completion aspect of the task. On the autobiographical remembering task, older adults reported more extraneous detail in both recent and remote episodic recall compared to young adults, yet tended to have a coherent storytelling approach to explaining their memories. There were no discernible age differences in recognition on the laboratory measure; however older adults did show a negative bias in their responses. In Study 2 the autobiographical memory recall abilities of older adults were further investigated. A sample of 80 adults aged between 55 and 90 years completed several neuropsychological tests. Participants' recall of semantic self knowledge, and remote and recent vivid episodic memories was assessed in a modified verbal autobiographical fluencies (VAF) task. Participants also completed a picture source memory task, similar to the task in study 1, and measures of executive functioning, including the Controlled Oral Word Association Test-FAS version, Digit Span, and the Trail Making Test (TMT). It was hypothesised that there would be age differences in performance on these measures, especially in recollection and vivid episodic recall. Furthermore, it was hypothesised that performance on the picture memory task should be a significant predictor of the detail of vivid episodic recall regardless of memory age, and secondly that executive functions should be more related to the recall of semantic information. In theory, this would suggest hippocampal involvement for vivid episodic recollection and provide a novel test of the multiple trace theory (MTT) of memory consolidation. The findings showed that the oldest group of participants produced fewer responses in both remote and recent fluency tasks. Only remote vivid details were significantly predicted by the picture memory task; however, semantic information was predicted by executive functions. Based on the results of these two comprehensive studies it is apparent that age-related changes in everyday memory do not indicate a clear cut decline in specific functions but rather result from a complex interplay of factors. 2015-05-22T05:07:59Z Robustness of Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation Effects on Corticomotor Excitability Morris-Cole, Katie-Rose http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5657 2015-05-06T23:02:13Z 2015-05-06T23:01:20Z Robustness of Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation Effects on Corticomotor Excitability 2015 Morris-Cole, Katie-Rose The use of indirect cortical stimulation techniques to affect human corticomotor plasticity is a burgeoning field, not least because of the non-invasive nature of such protocols. Relatively new as a form of transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) is transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS). While initial studies involving its use have shown promise, there is some concern that the effects of tRNS may share the between- and within-participants variability seen with indirect stimulation procedures (Such as Theta Burst Stimulation (TBS) protocols of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)), and its sibling techniques (Most notably tDCS). A review study consisting of the use of both tRNS and a sham procedure over 46 healthy participants was conducted, in order to test this variability of outcome. A literature review was conducted to examine the history of tES protocols and the ideal parameters for assessing tRNS effect variation. TMS was used to assess changes in motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitude both before and after the application of a standard facilitatory tRNS protocol. Baseline latency measurements with antero-posterior (AP) and latero-medial (LM) coil orientations and MEPs were recorded from the target muscle - the abductor pollis brevis - prior to the application of 10 min of 2 mA tRNS. Twenty MEPs were measured every 5 min for approximately 30 mins after the intervention to assess after-effects on corticospinal excitability. The experiment showed that tRNS at 2 mA was linked to a significant net facilitation of MEPs in the post-stimulation period, compared to sham stimulation. Furthermore, a two-step cluster analysis suggested alongside the presence of an intervention effect (ie. An effect caused by the experimental proceedings, instead of any effect from the tRNS protocol) as a result of both the tRNS and sham protocols, that tRNS had a facilitatory effect which mitigated inhibition or enhanced facilitation occuring as a result of that intervention effect. There was no significant correlation between the AP-LM latency difference of MEPs and the response to tRNS, or with any subject-specific variable beyond time of day. This study indicates that tRNS has a facilitatory effect in general upon corticomotor excitability, albeit rather too variable between subjects to allow tRNS to be considered a robust effector. Ideally, future studies should attempt to define what external or internal factors determine 'ideal' (i.e. significantly facilitatory participant responsiveness to tRNS.) 2015-05-06T23:01:20Z Loss aversion in schizotypy: Investigating decision-making in those with a liability to schizophrenia Goss, Kate Laura http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5648 2015-05-03T20:56:09Z 2015-05-03T20:55:06Z Loss aversion in schizotypy: Investigating decision-making in those with a liability to schizophrenia 2015 Goss, Kate Laura Loss aversion seems to be diminished or absent in schizophrenia patients, so the current study investigated this phenomenon in schizotypy. Undergraduate students from the University of Otago completed a hypothetical loss aversion task which involved naming prices at which they would be willing to buy or sell a one in ten chance to win a prize. One prize was mainly hedonic (a holiday) and the other was mainly utilitarian (paid rent). Loss aversion was measured by the ratio of prices participants were willing to accept when selling/willing to pay when buying. It was hypothesised that a majority of participants would show loss aversion, and this would be seen to a greater extent in the hedonic scenario than the utilitarian one. It was also hypothesised that components of schizotypy would be associated with reduced loss aversion, as would low anticipatory pleasure, poor memory and aberrant salience. Results showed that participants were biased towards avoiding loss. There was significantly more loss aversion for the hedonic than the utilitarian scenario as expected. There was no significant association between loss aversion and schizotypy although there was a slight trend in the expected direction shown by a near significant relationship between cognitive-perceptual schizotypy and low utilitarian loss aversion. There was also a significant relationship between low anticipatory pleasure and low utilitarian loss aversion, while there was no significant association between memory or aberrant salience and loss aversion. Overall, results suggest there may be a relationship between severity of illness and abnormal decision-making. 2015-05-03T20:55:06Z What Makes Exercise Enjoyable For People With Arthritis? A Q Methodology Study of Shared Opinions Kibblewhite, Julia Rose http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5606 2015-04-01T22:08:15Z 2015-04-01T22:06:39Z What Makes Exercise Enjoyable For People With Arthritis? A Q Methodology Study of Shared Opinions 2015 Kibblewhite, Julia Rose People who enjoy exercising are more likely to maintain good fitness habits and achieve health enhancing benefits. A large percentage of people with arthritis do not meet the recommended levels of physical activity, which is concerning as exercise can assist with the management of the disease. The overall goal of this study was to investigate the importance of enjoyment of exercise for people with arthritis. The specific aims were to see what groupings of participants are formed when individually interviewed about exercise, and what similarities there are across the groupings. In this Q method study 12 participants with arthritis were recruited from the Dunedin Hospital, exercise clinics around central Dunedin, and through poster advertising. Six men and six women participated and they ranged in age from 20 to 85 years (mean age 50). The participants attended two individual interviews with the primary researcher. The first interview was for generation of statements, regarding exercise, from which the Q set was developed. The same participants then went through the ranking procedure interview in which they ranked the 51 statements according to how much they agreed with them using normal distribution response matrix (from -5 to +5). A Q method factor analysis using the participants as the 'items' was carried out and four groupings of 2-4 participants were formed and defined in terms of shared rankings and illustrative quotes from the sorting process. The first grouping related to the relevance of change in exercise behaviours after diagnosis of arthritis. The second grouping had a shared enjoyment for walking. The third grouping expressed how it is important to be knowledgeable about arthritis and exercise. And the fourth grouping shared a sense of importance of being responsible for their health by exercising. In addition, four themes across all participants were found in an inductive thematic analysis of transcripts of the ranking process. The first theme revealed two types of enjoyment in relation to other people: being with or without others when exercising; and the element of competition, which was only enjoyed by one participant. The second theme centred on the benefits of exercise, both psychological and physical. The third theme related to the physical and psychological barriers to exercising. And the fourth theme focused on the idea of achieving a balanced lifestyle by doing the right amount of exercise (i.e., not too much and not too little). Triangulation of the four groupings and four themes revealed that the second theme of benefits was the one only idea that was shared across all groupings of participants. The psychological and physical benefits from exercise are important to the participants of this study. These findings provide information about exercise that health professionals can share with newly diagnosed people with arthritis. 2015-04-01T22:06:39Z Predicting global and specific impairment in children with ADHD: Interactions between child temperament and maternal traits van Rooy, Shinayd http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5604 2015-04-01T02:48:11Z 2015-04-01T02:47:01Z Predicting global and specific impairment in children with ADHD: Interactions between child temperament and maternal traits 2015 van Rooy, Shinayd Children with ADHD present with varying profiles of symptoms and impairment. This in part depends on individual child factors, but also on the various environmental factors that are at play. Research has shown that ADHD symptom severity is not necessarily incrementally related to the level of impairment experienced by the individual. To date, little research has explored the proportions of children who are impaired within various domains of functioning, or predictors of the type of impairment experienced, above and beyond the severity of their symptoms. The current study sought to examine the percentages of children with and without ADHD who were impaired across a wide range of areas (i.e. learning problems, study skills, adaptability, social skills, activities of daily living, leadership and functional communication), and also to examine whether, after controlling for ADHD symptom severity, child temperament and maternal factors were associated with each of these areas of impairment. Finally, we were interested in whether any of the child and maternal factors moderated the relationship between ADHD symptom severity and impairment. A sample of 133 children (6 – 12 years), 59 of whom were formally diagnosed with ADHD participated in the study. Child measures included parent and teacher ratings on the ADHD-RS and the BASC-2, parent ratings of child temperament, and clinician ratings on the CGAS. Maternal self-reports of parenting, coping style, and parenting-related stress were also obtained. As expected, more children with ADHD were impaired than children without ADHD. Further, hierarchical linear regression analyses revealed a number of significant interactions. These emerged between ADHD symptom severity and both punitive discipline and positive parenting style in predicting parent-rated impairment in social skills; ADHD symptom severity and parenting stress in predicting parent-rated impairment in leadership; and ADHD symptom severity and inconsistent parenting in predicting teacher-rated learning problems. The implications of these findings for both research and practice are discussed. 2015-04-01T02:47:01Z Speech style in gendered communication Hannah, Annette http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5593 2015-04-28T09:52:42Z 2015-03-30T19:47:58Z Speech style in gendered communication 1999 Hannah, Annette The aim of this thesis is to examine how variations in conversant speech style affect the dynamics of conversational behaviour. Three key issues are addressed. Firstly, given that women and men have been shown to differ in speech style, how do conversants respond to these different styles of speech? In other words, to what extent does one conversant's speech behaviours influence the linguistic responses of the other interlocutor? Secondly, do these reactions to conversant speech behaviours depend on the gender of the respondent? Finally, in what way does conversant speech style change as a function of conversational context and duration? Experiment 1 investigated the impact of confederate speech style on the speaking time, interruption frequency, minimal response frequency, and reduced eye contact of conversants. This experiment further examined participants' convergence towards the speech behaviours of confederates and the relative influence of confederate behaviours in predicting participant speech behaviours. To examine this, four female and four male confederates were trained to employ a facilitative and a non-facilitative style of speech in interactions with 64 other university students in same- and mixed-sex dyads. Two different topics were specified and counter -balanced across gender and conversational style. The results indicated that confederate speech style, and not confederate gender, was most likely to predict participant behaviour in conversations. Participants who conversed with a non-facilitative partner spoke less, offered fewer minimal responses, interrupted more, and looked away more than participants who conversed with a facilitative partner. Subtle differences in how women and men responded to confederate behaviour were demonstrated. Male participants appeared more reactive to the speech style of the confederate than did female participants. For example, males increased their minimal response frequency when they spoke with a facilitative female confederate, whereas female participants maintained a similar frequency of minimal responses regardless of speech style or confederate gender. Regression analyses revealed that increases in confederate speaking time were related to significantly less speech by females, more frequent instances of looking away by females and increased interruptions by males. Speech accommodation to interruptions was evident by all participants, whereas speech accommodation to minimal responses was demonstrated only by male participants to facilitative female confederates. Experiment 2 further examined the relationship of gender and speech style using naturally occurring variations in speech style rather than the manipulated speech style of trained confederates. 48 women and men between the ages of 30 and 60 years of age each participated in one same- and two mixed-sex dyadic conversations with no topic restraints imposed. When participants were categorised on the basis of high or low minimal response frequency, we observed other behaviours concomitant with this categorisation and unrelated to gender. Further analyses showed that women and men differed in how they responded to specific speech behaviours of their conversational partners. The results suggested that women and men might differ in their interpretation of their speaking partner's speech and in the functions specific language devices serve in conversation. For example, it appeared that female participants in this experiment were interpreting minimal responses during conversation as verbal reinforcers offering encouragement to talk. It was also evident that, across the three conversations, women and men gradually shifted in their speech style towards patterns noted in the literature. By the third conversation, men talked more than women and took longer turns; women used more frequent minimal responses; and men marginally reduced their frequency of questions. Together, these results suggest that the speech style of conversants is a more reliable predictor of participants' speech behaviour than the gender of the conversant. Individuals who were paired with a facilitative conversational partner talked more than individuals paired with a non-facilitative partner, regardless of their gender. The results further demonstrated subtle differences in how women and men responded to the behaviour of their conversational partners. Further implications of these findings and future directions of gender and language research are discussed. Dr Annette Hannah is a registered Psychologist in New Zealand and invites enquiries regarding this research: firstname.lastname@example.com This research was further published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology: Hannah A, & Murachver T. Gender and conversational style as predictors of Conversational behaviour. Vol 18, No2, June 1999, 153-174. Hannah A, & Murachver T. Gender Preferential Responses to Speech. Vol 26, No 3, Sept. 2007 274-290. 2015-03-30T19:47:58Z


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Europe, U.S. will combine efforts to build Orion, send astronauts to deep space
The U.S. space agency NASA has announced that it will coordinate efforts with its European counterpart, the European Space Agency (ESA), in an effort to build the Orion spacecraft.
In a statement released Wednesday, NASA administrators said the plan will involve Europe supplying the Orion service module, a key feature in the massive Orion rocket spacecraft that will propel astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit.
"This latest chapter builds on NASA's excellent relationship with ESA as a partner in the International Space Station, and helps us move forward in our plans to send humans farther into space than we've ever been before," said William Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations.
"This is a new page in the transatlantic co-operation," said Thomas Reiter, the director of ESA human spaceflight and operations.
Under the NASA-ESA agreement, which was signed in December and announced on Wednesday, ESA will provide the design and the hardware for the Orion service module as part of its contribution to the International Space Station project. Any leftover material is slated to be used during follow up missions in 2018, according to NASA.
The announcement comes as NASA has sought the advice of its European counterpart, in part, due to the complexity of the spacecraft's design. NASA engineers are working from scratch, building the massive rocket piece by piece. Speaking Wednesday, Orion's project manager said the partnership with the ESA would provide NASA with additional resources and expertise.
"This is not a simple system. ESA's contribution is going to be critical to the success of Orion's 2017 mission," said Mark Geyer, Orion Program manager. Orion's first trip is an unmanned mission in 2017.
Orion is designed to be launched by a NASA heavy-lift rocket called the Space Launch System, which is currently being developed. The spacecraft will first fly atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket in 2014. It is to reach an altitude of 3,600 miles above Earth's surface, farther than any spacecraft has gone in forty years, and it will reportedly be designed with the goal of ferrying humans to Mars sometime before 2040.
According to NASA, there are three major components to the Orion vehicle: the crew capsule, which will carry four astronauts into space on crewed flights and bring them home for a safe landing; the launch abort system, which would pull the crew module to safety in the unlikely event of a life-threatening problem during launch; and the service module, which will house Orion's power, thermal and propulsion systems. Each system is being designed separately and it remains unclear whether NASA is on track to hit its 2017 mark.
The partnership is not the first for NASA. The U.S.-based space agency, which retired its fleet of space shuttles in 2010, has partnered with a number of foreign space programs. NASA and ESA already have a long history of cooperation on the International Space Station. The $100 billion orbiting laboratory is a joint project of 15 different countries represented by the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan.
Already, NASA has indicated that it plans to increase it presence outside of low-Earth orbit. The U.S. space agency says it is currently engineering ways to successfully launch astronauts to asteroids, return to the moon, and eventually send astronauts to Mars. A number of countries — including Russia, Japan, China, and India — have announced plans to launch humans or probes outside of low-Earth orbit.


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Men make up the majority of Spray Painters in the United States, and the nationwide average salary in this area lies in the neighborhood of $14.93 per hour. The pay spectrum stretches from $10.51 per hour to $19.87. The majority of Spray Painters claim high levels of job satisfaction. While some workers in this profession — about two in five — do not have any health coverage, a majority do receive medical benefits and over a third have dental insurance. The numbers in this rundown were provided by PayScale's salary survey participants.
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Spray painters work in a variety of different environments depending on whom they work for. They may work outside for a company who completes contracts and spray-paints different buildings. Some spray painters work in a garage in automotive detailing. They may create impressive designs that they first create a stencil for and then paint. Others also work at manufacturing plants, applying basic coats of paint to new cars. Spray painters may work in a team if the project is large, or they may work individually, completing one step in a process of many steps, such as in building a car. The tools for this work include cans of spray paint, protective tape which spray painters use to cover any area that they do not wish to paint, scaffolding, a breathing mask so they do not inhale the paint, goggles, and ladders. Whom they report to depends on where they work. They may report to a team supervisor or an operations supervisor. Working hours also depend on where they work and what the job is. Some spray painters may work regular business hours, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m to 4 p.m. Others may hold a night shift, such as at an automotive plant where production never stops.
The position does not usually involve any major requirements. Some do this job as a summer job even while still in high school. Other places of employment may require a high school diploma. Those who perform detailed spray painting may need to have completed art courses to paint, and some further their career if they are trained in graphic art/design.
The position as a spray painter is found in many industries and is a term for several different kinds of spray painting jobs. Workers in this field often enjoy their work and are often able to express themselves and their creativity through their job.
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Salaries of relatively inexperienced workers fall in the neighborhood of $28K, but folks who have racked up five to 10 years see a notably higher median of $34K. Spray Painters see a median salary of $34K after reaching one to two decades on the job. More than 20 years of experience seem related to solid financial gains; veterans in this group report earning a median of $37K.
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What does it mean when a guy says he is indecisive on whether he likes me or not?
We have been off and on for the last year and he won't tell me if he likes me or not . I have told him I like him but still he won't give me an... Show More
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This guy doesn't sound consistent or considerate towards you.Is this really a guy you would want a future with? Even if you were in a relationship? He's obviously not reliable when it comes to feelings and I cannot see what kinda security there would be if you were with him. I would rather just move on and give this one a pass. If by now he doesn't want anything more from you and still can't make his mind up it means the attraction towards you from his side is simply not enough. Don't let it break your heart. Chemistry and attraction are funny things so don't look at yourself and blame yourself. You can't fight who you fall in love with or not. Get out there and find someone else for you who will not be like that,
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1. He's simply not sure how he really feels about you.
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4. He doesn't really have any feelings for you and he's afraid to hurt your feelings.
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Some were still teenagers. Two were young women. Several had fathers who preceded them in serving their country. Most grew up in small or midsize towns and joined the Navy with adventure as well as duty in mind.
On Thursday, 7 sailors died and 10 more were missing and presumed dead when a suspected terrorist bomb tore through the hull of the destroyer USS Cole during a refueling stop in Yemen.
One of the victims, Cherone Gunn, aspired to be a policeman and saw the Navy as a steppingstone. Another sailor, Kevin Rux, actually tried police work after 10 years in the Navy, but reconsidered — and re-enlisted last summer.
Sharon Priepke of Fond du Lac., Wis. — whose son, 24-year-old Marc Nieto, was among the dead — probably spoke for all the grieving families.
"He had goals to the sky and he was going to achieve those goals," she said, clutching some of her son's commendations. "He was just starting to live his life."
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Lakeina Monique Francis, 19, of Woodleaf, N.C., a mess management specialist aboard the Cole, graduated from high school last year and followed her father into a military career. "The family is taking it real hard," said the Rev. Willie Gray, a neighbor.
Two of Francis' brothers, James and David, play football at West Rowan High School. "We're just going to work with the boys, help them through the day, do whatever the mom and dad would like us to help them through this," said the school principal, Henry Kluttz.
Tim Gauna
Information Systems Technician Tim Gauna, 21, of Rice, Texas, was a 1997 graduate of Ennis High School. Teachers said he was a quiet student who excelled in baseball and art.
In 1999, he joined the Navy as a radio man. "He went there to better himself, to make a better life for himself," said his mother, Sarah Gauna. The family last heard from Gauna by phone a few days ago as the Cole headed for a secret destination. "He just kept saying, 'We're in dangerous waters, Mom, but we're OK. I'll be OK. I promise you,'" Sarah Gauna said.
Cherone Louis Gunn
Signalman Seaman Recruit Cherone Louis Gunn, 22, grew up in Virginia Beach, Va., but lived with an aunt and uncle in Rex, Ga., in recent years. He enrolled in the Navy in January because he wanted to be a policeman someday, said Brandon Ervin, a former neighbor in Rex. Ervin said Gunn used to baby-sit for his children. "Most guys his age, their thing is to go out and party, not to give their time to anyone else," Ervin said. "To see a guy like him be able to share his time with children, that was really great."
Andrew Triplett
Ensign Andrew Triplett from Macon, Miss., had been in the Navy for 13 years. "He was a good family man. He had two children and he was just a likable person," said his mother, Savannah Triplett, a cook at C&K Super Stop in the small Mississippi town of Shuqualak.
"He just loved the Navy. That's all he used to talk about." Triplett, who will be buried in Norfolk, Va., where he lived with his wife, Laurie, of Detroit, and their children.
Ronchester Santiago
Petty Officer 3rd Class Ronchester Santiago, 22, of Kingsville, Texas, had been in the Navy since graduating in 1996 from H.M. King High School. He was scheduled to get out of the service in December and planned to study electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.


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Adding and removing group members
Jason and I have been batting code back and forth for the last couple of weeks to provide an API and CLUMP interface to adding and removing people from usergroups. We've gone through several iterations of designs and implementations and now have something that seems to be working OK on our development installation – hopefully soon to appear on the demo sandbox (unless Gary decides that he wants it to work in a different way! 😉 ).
With that more or less done, and some POD documentation tweaks ('cos I'd been doing a bit too much cutting and pasting between scripts!), I can now go back to dealing with some of the backend management scripts. The first two of these will be a simple link checker and a cron-able script to (re-)populate the "held by library" information. Gary has a couple more reports that Library staff have asked for, but they might just require a couple of APIs to be produced to allow existing reporting systems to work (they weren't part of the distributed LORLS code base – just local Loughborough reports).
Gary has presented the new system to several groups recently with mostly positive feedback. We've just installed a link to this blog (and thus the demo sandbox system) into the live LORLS installation's managelist script at Loughborough so that more academics will get a heads-up that something new is around the corner.
Is this thing on?
Since we released the LUMP sandbox on to an unsuspecting and innocent world a week or two ago, we've noticed that quite a few people have been playing with it. Which is great – its just what we hoped folk would do. Have a footle, take it for a spin round the block, kick the tyres, etc, etc.
However there's been a resounding silence in the feedback front. Either this means that:
- folk are so awestruck by its ground breaking novelty that they don't know what to say,
- or it just works so nobody has any bug reports or enhancement suggestions,
- or is so shoddy nobody thinks its worth bothering with,
- or we released it at a really stoopid time when most University support stafff are (like us) preparing for the onslaught of the hoards.
If anyone who has played with the sandbox does have any feedback we'd love to hear it… even if its just 'meh'…
Infrastructure for usergroup management
I've been doing a bit of backend infrastructure creation on LUMP today – a set of seven CGI scripts to help with managing usergroup memberships. These are:
- Usergroups4SU – provide a list of usergroups that are involved in ACLs for a given structural unit.
- Members4Usergroup – provide a list of users that a members of a given usergroup.
- UserGroupMembership – provide a list of usergroups that a user is a member of.
- Editing/AddUser2Usergroup – add a user to a given usergroup.
- Editing/RemoveUserFromUsergroup – remove a user from a given usergroup.
- Editing/AddUsergroup – create a new usergroup.
- Editing/RemoveUsergroup – remove an empty usergroup (ie one with no members).
Jason is going to take these in the next week and see if they are sufficient to allow CLUMP to provide a nice graphical interface for staff, librarians and administrators to add and remove users from user groups. We've already got the Editing/EditACLs API CGI script though, so Jason can already tinker with the ability of usergroups to view and/or edit structural units. We might find that we need some other API calls for admin usage, but this little lots should give us quite a bit of functionality.
Demo of new system now available!
We now have a demonstration version of our new reading list system available for everyone to play with. The last couple of weeks we have been making lots of little tweaks to the system to get it to the stage we felt comfortable with letting others play with it.
The link to our demonstration site is https://sandbox.lboro.ac.uk/CLUMP/
Librarian Centre CGIs – departmental breakdowns
Today was a bit of a change of pace in LUMP development – it was time to whizz up a backroom script for the librarians, allowing them to see how many modules, reading lists and different types of items were used by departments in a particular year. On the whole this was an "old skool" CGI script that doesn't use the LUMP XML API – just straight calls to the underlying Perl modules that wrap round the LUMP database. This is both quick to run and quick to code, and for a simple statistics script is fine (no need for flashy JavaScript for those really). Gary is pondering other statistics scripts we might want to produce, both derived from the existing LORLS ones and also some new ideas. He's going to chat to some of our librarians about those first though – no point wasting time writing code to produce information that nobody is interested in!
Installer hits a sticky patch
You know I loved CPAN until I started writing the LUMP installer but now I'm not so keen!
It looks like our cunning plan of allowing people to install the required modules to run LUMP from CPAN using point-n-dribble web front end might have come unstuck for a couple of reasons. The major one is having Perl modules that use XS to rely on C code/libraries/etc that might not actually be installed on the target machine. For example we need to use the ZOOM Perl module for Z39.50 access. This in turn makes use of the Yaz toolkit, which you either need to build from source or get an RPM for… and there aren't any RPMs in the standard CentOS repos (you can pull CentOS RPMs from Index Data's web site but not get them via yum). Similar requirements for Expat, although at least that has yum'ed packages in CentOS. I not noticed either of these because on my Debian Lenny based workstation there were already handy packages in place and the Perl modules that I'd been "needing" were pure Perl. I only stumbled across the issue when Jason created a "sandbox" virtual machine running CentOS and I tried to run the installer on there. Even if I could guess the package manager on use on the machine (yum, apt, etc) I'd need to ask the Admin for the system root password and then have to deal with the out of repo code such as Yaz. At this point the law of diminishing returns kicked in and we decided we'd wasted enough time trying to make a user friendly installer and it wasn't going to be easy to get round these problems.
Still, all is not lost: at least the installer code can spot which modules are missing so that you can install them by hand. In fact I've left the code into install private CPAN modules – we might as well do as much as possible for the prospective Admin even if we do then need to tell them to break out the C compiler and build some support software. And of course the installer can still do everything else once the required Perl modules are in place – create the DB, import test data, and retrieve and configure the various scripts required.
I also accidentally stumbled across another problem today: DBD::MySQL doesn't allow column filters in the column_info() DBI method. I was using that to check if the LUMP database schema on the target machine, if present, was out of date compared to the schema embedded in the installer. This is a bit of a pain but relatively simple to code round. The DBI manual page implies that if a DBD module can't do filtering you might have to handle it yourself: DBD::MySQL just barfs with an error message so I've had to embed the call in eval() checks just to be on the safe side.
I've also just noticed that I've hard coded the Kerberos TGT realm! Oops – we'll need to change that, especially as we're just moving ActiveDirectory trees here at Loughborough anyway! We'll probably also need to add in an override ability for folk with no AD or other Kerberized authentication infrastructure – that shouldn't take too much work as its just a little tweak inside the LUMP.pm password validation method. Hopefully in a week or so we'll have little demo system on our sandbox VM that we can then let people play with – a bit like the demo system that we already run for LORLS v5 (our "groundhog day" install, that gets blown away every morning in the wee hours and replaced with a fresh copy… in fact I used the LORLSv5 to LUMP importer to convert that database into our new format for this new sandbox machine as another useful test).
Installer progress…
Writing a web driven installer for LUMP in Perl is proving to be, er, "interesting". Today has seen some useful progress and its probably worth noting some of the tricks used (mostly because they're rather esoteric and bug hunting might be fun in a few years time when I've forgotten why I did what I did!).
The first thing I had to get going was bootstrapping the the required CPAN modules as documented in my previous post. This is now working OK. A few gotchas to note:
- When you fork off a child process from a CGI script that you want to be "long lived" (ie outlive the parent process that has returned some HTML to the user), you need to close down STDOUT, STDIN and STDERR, otherwise Apache hangs around waiting for the child to finish. This can actually be handy, as you can then reopen file handles with those names pointing elsewhere (such as to a session file) and record the output of other tools that the child calls upon (such as the very chatty CPAN::Shell).
- CPAN::Shell doesn't appear to return a useful error status, so programmatically you can't tell if your module install worked or not (the verbose output is designed to tell a human). To find out if a module is installed, you have to try to "use" that module again – once installed the use statement should work.
- Talking of use statements its worth noting that these are best done inside eval()'s, as that allows you to capture errors (as in the case of a module that has failed to install). You have to be careful whether you have compile or run time binding though, especially if you're eval()ing stuff with variables in that you're planning on instantiating during the run. Perl -cw is your friend as usual by warning you about dodgy compile time issues.
Once I could successfully install CPAN modules in to a private LUMP modules directory, the next thing to consider was the database. The installer CGI script asked the user for the database name, database account and database password to use and then checks to see if it can gain access. For most noobs this won't work as they won't have a database/account/password, so the CGI script traps that error and asks if they'd like it to create the database for them. This requires them supplying the database root password and then (assuming its right) creates the database and grants SELECT/INSERT rights to the named user identified by the given password.
The CGI script then checks that this user can connect to the database – if they can't then something has gone wrong with the basic creation and we have to tell them to fiddle by hand. Assuming that is OK, it then changes back to the database root user to do the schema creation (as the user only has SELECT/INSERT privs). This however called for another hack: we've kept the database schema and index definitions in SQL text files. During development we've just source'd these in with the mysql command line client – but this won't work from Perl's DBI interface and I don't want to rely on finding the mysql command line client and system()'ing out to it.
So my next trick was another Perl script: the installer_maker. This is a simple filter script that reads a "template" installer script in and writes out a proper installer with a couple of lines in the template replaced by some Perl array structures – one for the table schema and one for the indexes. These arrays simply contain one SQL statement in each element that the installer_maker has ripped out of the LUMP schema and indexes SQL text files. Bingo! We can now carry on tweaking the schema/indexes in the files we're used to in development, whilst not having to remember to do lots of code twiddling to keep the installer in sync – we just need to run installer_maker before making a distribution. Hopefully that should result in less chance of our dev schemas getting out of step with released production schemas and the bugs that could result from that.
So its looking promising now, and from a user perspective is probably far friendly than the command line Perl installer from LORLS. The next thing to write is a routine in the installer that can check the schema and indexes in a live database against the schema/indexes we have now got embedded in the installer. If they differ in some way we need to tell the admin running the installer and let them decide whether to ignore the difference (bad idea probably), tweak it by hand or (preferably) let the installer tweak their schema/indexes. Hopefully in the long term this will be a useful place to hang LUMP schema/index upgrades on – folk could use the installer not only to load new versions of the Perl code but also update their database structure. That'll need some serious testing though…
Hello world
We've been developing a new version of LORLS (Loughborough Online Reading List System) for a past few years on and off. As part of this development process we've kept a diary of our thoughts, plans, issues and achievements. Up until now we've kept this diary private among ourselves, however as we're now at stage when we can start releasing information about the new version, both internally and externally, we thought it would be a good idea to go public with the diary.
So here it is.
LORLS's Installer
We're getting to the point with LUMP and CLUMP where Jason and I are thinking about installers. If we were just going to use the code at Loughborough this would be a moot point – we'd just copy the various directories around and tweak under the hood to get the thing to work as we want, just as we have done during development.
However its not going to just be us that use it (or at least hopefully it won't be!) so we need to think of a nice way for people to install it. The previous versions of LORLS have a Perl command line script that I wrote years ago that asks lots of questions and then does its funky thang. It works, but it could be friendlier, especially for the newbie admins. I've also seen a number of PHP based packages that allow you to do most of the installation via a web browser which is rather nice for the new admins, so I thought, "Hey, why not make an installer CGI script that knows very little about the system other than there is Perl there, a MySQL database server is running, the CGI.pm module (which has been part of the Perl distribution since 5.4 so should be there already on most machines installed in the 21st century) and is an executable CGI script?" Why not indeed…
Obviously the prospective LUMP admin needs to install (or have installed for him) Perl, MySQL and a webserver configured to execute CGI scripts in the directory that we tell them to unpack LUMP into, but once that's done surely we can then check to make sure that all the other modules are present, install them if they aren't, set up the MySQL database ready for LUMP to use and then configure all the LUMP scripts so that they are ready to go, all with a nice point and drool web interface?
Checking if a Perl module is available is relatively easy, thanks to the eval { } function in Perl. For example, say we want to check if Data::Dumper is installed. That can be done using some code such as:
eval { use Data::Dumper; };
if($@) {
# Module missing
} else {
# Module present, and available for use
However things start to get "interesting" if the module isn't installed. I thought this would be easy, as the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) has a nice module that I've used for years to interactively install and update Perl modules with – things like:
perl -MCPAN -e install Data::Dumper
It has a programmatic option as well as an interactive side, so we're sorted right? Well no, we're not. Unfortunately the programmatic side really just generates the stream of stuff you see when you run the interactive side. If you include something like:
my $result = CPAN::Shell->install('Data::Dumper');
in your CGI script, eventually you'll get a result in the web browser of a load of unformated raw text from this command interspersed with your active HTML. The $result variable on the other hand will stay completely empty, with no indication as to whether the installation has worked or not. Pants – not what we want here.
The long and short of it is, to get round this "feature" in CPAN::Shell it seems that you have to do a bit of fork() action. In other words folk off a child process to run the CPAN::Shell method in and then, back in the parent, capture its STDOUT stream into a variable which can then be scanned with a regexp or two looking for signs of success in the output text. Not terribly clean but it works.
There's another "gotcha" as well: the web server is unlikely to be running as root (or at least it shouldn't be!) and so the CGI script can't install Perl modules into the system library directories. This is a more minor pain: you can tell CPAN::Shell that it should do a local installation to a place that the user executing it can write to. So that's another requirement for running this CGI script: create a directory that's readable and writable by the user running the web server (usually called something like apache or http) but which isn't part of the web server document root. In other words, if the web server document root is /var/www/html, we might want to put this LUMP specific CPAN directory tree in /var/ww/LUMPCPAN where it can't be seen by web browsers. You have to hack up a MyConfig.pm to put in this directory and then point @INC and $ENV{'PERL5LIBS'} towards it, but that can be done automagically by the CGI installer script once the directory exists.
Now some readers (we do have readers, right?) might be wondering why I don't use one of the fancy pants CPAN modules such local::libs or Module::Install to do this rather than tackling CPAN::Shell head on. Well its a chicken and egg problem really: I wanted to have the minimum requirements for the installer script to run and, if I'd have asked the user to install a load of libraries and modules to make using CPAN easier I might as well have just given them a list of modules to install. Which actually I have done anyway, just in case they want to install them system wide and/or not trut my installer script to get them right. But nevertheless I'd like to give the newbies (and also folk who have sluggish server admins if they don't run their own boxes) the option of installing via the CGI installer script. More work for me, but hopefully less for them.
So, its a bit of kludge at the moment but it seems to be the way to go unless anyone else can come up with a better scheme. Once I'm happy it can get the required modules in place, my next trick will be to ask for database server details (database name, username, password, server, port) and then check if the database already exists, or create a fresh one. In the former case I'm also planning on checking the schema in the database against the one in this LUMP distribution and then offer to update it if needs be, and allow fresh databases to either be empty, have some simple test data in them or copy data from another database. Hopefully I can also bolt the importer from older LORLS versions in here so that there's no command line interaction required at all. With a bit of luck all of those should be alot less hassle than CPAN::Shell has proved to be.
I hope…
'Copy To' Added to CLUMP
I have now added the 'Copy To' functionality to CLUMP. It presents a list of the owners reading lists to them with checkboxes and they can select which ones they want to copy the item to. Once they have chosen the lists to copy the item to they click 'copy' and it calls LUMP's CopySU API to copy the structural unit to each reading list selected.
Because the CopySU API can take a while to run at the minute I use the asynchronous aspect of JavaScript to make all the CopySU calls without waiting for the previous one to complete. This lead to the problem of "how do I wait till all the calls have completed?". There is no "wait till all my callbacks have run" option in JavaScript so I ended up having to increment a counter for each call and then have the callback function decrement the counter. If the counter reaches 0 then the callback function runs the code that we need to run after all of the CopySU API calls have completed (In this case close the popups and reload the current structural unit if it was one of the targets).


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EVANSVILLE - An Evansville felon is in jail again after police officers and federal agents found three firearms in his home Tuesday afternoon.
Larry L. Deason, 56, faces a preliminary charge of possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, which is a felony. He is currently being held at the Vanderburgh County Jail without bond.
According to police records, Deason was convicted of battery stemming from a 1982 arrest and was also convicted of battery in 1979. Both convictions were felonies.
Deason was also arrested in 2005 by Illinois authorities for being in possession of a firearm, according to an Evansville Police Department affidavit.
According to police, officers and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives went to Deason's home, located in the 1400 block of South Alvord Lane, after receiving a tip that Deason had firearms there.
According to the informant, Deason was reportedly angry with the media about things on the news and the person was afraid that Deason was going to hurt or kill someone. When officers arrived at the home, Deason admitted to having three firearms in his possession, according to the affidavit.
Inside the home, authorities recovered a .22-caliber rifle, along with ammunition; a shotgun and a World War II-era Japanese rife according to the affidavit. There is no mention in the affidavit about whether the officers spoke to Deason about the reported threats.
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Dance Pioneer Barbara Mettler said, "To create means to make up something new." In this course students explore the elements of dance through a series of creative problems solved through improvisations by individuals and groups. Directed exercises are used to heighten awareness of the body and its movement potential. Studies using the sounds of voice, hands and feet develop skills in accompaniment. Based on the principle that dance is a human need this work invites people of all ages and abilities to come together in movement and to make dance an element of their lives.
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