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'No decision to debar AgustaWestland from procurement'
The Request for Proposal for procurement of the Naval Utility Helicopter was issued before commencement of CBI inquiry in the VVIP chopper case.
New Delhi: Anglo-Italian defence firm AgustaWestland has participated in bids to procure choppers for Indian Navy and Coast Guard as no decision has been taken by the government to debar it from the procurement process, Defence Minister AK Antony told the Lok Sabha on Monday.
In a written reply to the House, he said the Request for Proposal (RFP) for procurement of the Naval Utility Helicopter (NUH) was issued before commencement of CBI inquiry in the VVIP helicopter case.
"Since no decision to debar the said company (AgustaWestland) from participation in the procurement process has so far been taken, the bids are under process," he said.
On whether AgustaWestland has applied for tenders for supply of helicopters for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard, Antony said, "Yes... RFP for procurement of 56 NUH was issued in August 2012, prior to commencement of inquiry by CBI in the VVIP helicopter case."
RFP for procurement of 14 twin-engine helicopters for the Indian Coast Guard was likewise issued in November 2012, he added. "Only two companies have submitted bids for the NUH case and three companies submitted bids for the twin-engine helicopter case. The bidders include AgustaWestland," Antony said.
In reply to a separate question on modernisation of Navy, he said, "The budget allocation of Indian Navy for 2013-14 is Rs 34,212.33 crore, out of which Rs 22,738.70 crore is earmarked for modernisation purpose."
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This will be my first time feeding pollen substitute to stimulate fall brood rearing. I will also feed it in the form of patties in early spring.
How much do you think they will need per hive this fall? I have two hives. One is a full deep and the other is a half-full deep. They have noticeably cut back on egg laying recently.
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One major experimental focus in our lab is on the process of sexual differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster and related flies. Sexual differentiation is a powerful model system for studying the evolution of development because many aspects of sexual morphology, physiology and behavior differ between closely related species, thereby enabling high-resolution comparative analysis. Despite this rapid divergence, sexual traits are highly robust within species and indeed are often diagnostic of species. We are using genomic and genetic approaches to identify and characterize regulatory pathways involved in genital development and function in D. melanogaster (e.g., Chatterjee et al. 2011). This will lay the groundwork for determining how these robust pathways diverged between closely related species.
A second major experimental focus is on directly identifying and characterizing genes that contribute to robustness of many traits. We have screened the genome of the laboratory yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, for genes whose deletion increases the variation in the morphologies of individual, genetically identical cells. Yeast is advantageous for this work because of its wealth of genetic and genomic resources, and because it lends itself to high-throughput analyses. Hundreds of yeast genes increase morphological variation when deleted, and these genes tend to be highly connected in cellular networks (Levy & Siegal 2008). We are currently testing whether the same genes also buffer genetic differences between cells, and whether the variation that is revealed by impairment of these genes is potentially beneficial. This work is complemented by theoretical investigations into the evolution of complex gene networks (e.g., Bergman & Siegal 2003; Siegal et al. 2007), as well as bioinformatic analyses of regulatory networks (e.g., Chen et al. 2010), which give us predictions to test experimentally.
- National Institutes of Health Grant 1R01GM086673 "Sources and consequences of phenotypic variation in complex regulatory networks" PI: Mark Siegal
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award IOS-0642999 "Phenotypic robustness and diversity: integrating theory and experiment in genomics research and teaching" PI: Mark Siegal
- United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant 2009270 "The role of spermathecal secretory cells in reproduction" PIs: Mark Siegal & Yael Heifetz (Hebrew University)
- National Institutes of Health Grant 1R01GM097415 "Sequencing yeast lines to measure rates of neutral and deleterious mutations" PIs: Mark Siegal & Dmitri Petrov (Stanford University)
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You gonna add any spacers on the front? Looks great can't wait to see it in full effect.
You gonna add any spacers on the front? Looks great can't wait to see it in full effect.
Yeah its 80 degrees where I'm at right now
Got the rear e level sensors done today. Then got my ass kicked by a controller mounting thought...
started the elevel flush mount...going to mold everything flush in the end.
tanks should be done today. should have it fully operational this weekend or so...
and new lips...
Very nice. Pictures of the Tanks please!!
FINALLY got the tanks done. should have the hardlines in and working middle (optimistic), or end of next week...
"It take a village to raise a child."
Trunk looks great. What size tanks are those? I think I missed it somewhere in the thread...
Watching this build.
Custom Slapchop
Looking good so far. Watching this one.
changed my mind...bought 3.5" front lips. 10" all around now.
Sean this is your shop? Nice work dude
Sure is.
Thanks mang.
Keep an eye out for this and my MK4 wagon this summer.
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Well another bad day today. Our supposed tank engineering, and when I say our I mean my fab guy, went south.
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Does anyone else have a 70lb female at 7 mo?? My girl was a rescue and we know her mother was quite large, we are unsure of the father. I just wondered if any of you guys might have a large girl. Attachment 219745 this is a recent picture of her
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I don't have a large girl, but I have a large boy. Weighed him yesterday and he is 59 pounds and is 20 weeks old.
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wow.... she weighs as much as Gunther does at almost a year. Now I wonder if Gunther is underweight?
I have a female from a large mother at 18 weeks she weighed 54 pounds... she is considerably younger than your girl bu I expect she will also be rather large at that age. She looks fantastic in the picture!!! :)
She is on the large side- weight wise for a female. But in the pic you posted looks good. I don't think my male will make it over 76 pounds - he's 4 years old but that's his normal. All grow and different rates and have different builds overall. Allow her to grow slow and steady - feed her a well balanced healthy diet - don't over feed and she will be fine:)
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My 18 month female is 53lbs....Yours is fine.
Are you certain she's 7 months? That does seem big, but my dog was about 60 lbs at 7 months and very lean
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My boy was 90 at 9 and remained around there until a year and a half now.
So probably close to 70 at 7 months
Some are too large, that's all.
Yes, we've had her since 5weeks
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Yes! Our female was in the 60lb range at 6 months, 70lb range at 7 months and then slowed down about 8 - 9 months and stayed in the mid 80lb range until last year. She is 4 yrs old now and 90-91lbs. She gained a few pounds due to injury and exercise restriction, but not overweight according to the vet, but would prefer her leaner at 85lbs. So I'd estimate your female will be in the mid 80's also.
She is very cute!
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Well I am not sure if these 2 models are so much different either, I'd be more interested in terms of acceleration and safety items, and seems that the main differences are stetical. For driving on the streets and roads down here we need higher profile tires rather than too low, so the 17" wheel is enough...
I guess the test drive is the thing that will sell the car anyway but I want to understand the options before I have to decide,
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Just Delivered: Achieva Shimian 27" 2560x1440p Display
Subject: Displays | June 27, 2012 - 06:15 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: yamakasi, shimian, korean, just delivered, catleap, achieva, 27, 1440p
If you've been paying attention to either the PC Perspective Podcast or This Week in Computer Hardware for the past few weeks, our talk of a new crop of low cost, 2560x1600, 27" monitors rising out of South Korea has been unavoidable.
Well, late last week I decided that it was time I get out of the 1080p era, and into the world of higher resolution displays.
After an impressive shipment time of only 3 days, I recieved a package directly from Seoul this afternoon, and rushed straight to the office to open it and inform PC Perspective readers.
For those of you not in the know, we recieved a tip a few weeks back from a reader about inexpensive 2560x1440 displays popping up on eBay for around $350. Of course this excited the staff at PC Perspective, and we immediately went into research mode, looking for all of the information we could find about these displays. While the initial impressions we saw all over forums were generally positive, we decided to give these displays the real PC Perpsective review treatment.
While the Yamakasi Catleap is the most well known of these monitors, I decided to go with the $315 (Shipped!) Achieva Shiminan, for reasons to be expanded upon later in the full review.
However, before we began our strenuous testing process, I wanted to give the dedicated PC Per readers a sneak peak of such an interesting product. Out of the box, we hooked it up an AMD Radeon 7950 on our GPU testbed, which had no issues at all.
Also, just because the poorly translated eBay listings said it would not work, despite our best inclinations, I plugged this display into my Late 2011 MacBook Air with Intel HD 3000 graphics. Even using the not so reliable Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual Link DVI adapter, my MacBook detected the display with no issue. While I certainly won't be gaming on this machine, the display has been working flawlessly so far.
I know readers must have a million questions about these displays, so feel free to leave them in the comments of this post, and I will try to address them all in the full review coming soon!
A passive 60Hz 3D monitor from AOC
Subject: Displays | June 19, 2012 - 04:19 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: 3d vision, AOC, d2357Ph, passive 3d, 1080p, led backlight
The AOC d2357Ph has a nice array of inputs, D-Sub, DVI-D/HDMI, Composite, Component S-Video and Display Port are all present which will allow you to use this on almost any system. On the other hand as it is a passive 3D monitor and not a 120Hz display, which R&B Mods refers to as 'poor man's 3D' and while it does offer 3D it is not as impressive as active solutions. 2D picture quality was quite good, with a minimum of backbleed and the screen is physically quite thin which could be an advantage for some users. Check out the full review for more information.
"3D is the latest trend and today we are looking at a 3D screen from AOC; who is also one of our new sponsors. AOC's d2357Ph is an incredibly thin monitor with LED backlighting, a Full HD resolution and the ability to display passive 3D images. What kind of 3D quality can we expect from it? Stay tuned and we will figure it out."
Here are some more Display articles from around the web:
- Philips 248X3LFH LightFrame Monitor @ Kitguru
- Sharp Aquos LC-60LE847U Review @ TechReviewSource
- Asus VG278H 3D Vision 2 Monitor Kit Review @ eTeknix
- Samsung PN51E6500 Review @ TechReviewSource
- DoubleSight DS-277W Monitor: Jack of all trades, master of none? @ AnandTech
- Asus VE228 21.5" LED 1080p Monitor Review @ eTeknix
AFDS 2012: AMD Wireless Display to compete against Intel WiDi with open standards
Subject: General Tech, Processors, Displays | June 10, 2012 - 06:45 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: widi, Intel, awd, amd wireless display, amd, AFDS
While perusing through the listings and descriptions of sessions and presentations for the upcoming AMD Fusion Developer Summit, I came across an interesting one that surprised me. Tomorrow, June 11th, at 5:15pm PST, you can stop by the Grand Hyatt in Bellevue to learn about the upcoming AMD Wireless Display technology.
AWD (AMD Wireless Display) is a multiple-platform application family to enable wireless display technologies much in the same way that Intel has been pushing with WiDi. While Intel's take on it requires very specific Intel wireless controllers and is only recently, with the release of Ivy Bridge, getting the full-steam push from Intel, AMD's take on it is quite different.
Intel introduced WiDi in 2010
According to the brief on this AFDS session, AMD wants to create an API and SDKs for application developers to integrate AWD into software and to leverage the WiFi Alliance for an open-standards compliant front-end. Using AMD APUs, the goal is provide lower latency for encoded video and audio while still using the required MPEG2TS wrapper. We are also likely to learn that AMD hopes to make AWD open to a wider array of wireless devices.
AMD often takes this "open" approach to new technologies with mixed results - CUDA has been in place for many years while the adoption of OpenCL is only starting to take hold and 3D Vision still is the standard for 3D gaming on the PC.
After having quite a few chances to use Intel's Wireless Display (WiDi) technology myself I can definitely say that the wireless approach is the one I am most excited with and that has the most potential to revolutionize the way we work with displays and computing devices. I am eager to see what partners AMD has been working with and what demonstrations they will have for AWD next week.
ASUS preps ThunderboltEX add-in card for Z77 and H77 motherboards
Subject: Motherboards, Displays | June 4, 2012 - 09:30 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: Z77, thunderboltex, thunderbolt, h77, computex, asus
Ever since we posted our series of videos with ASUS on the new Z77 chipset and the features ASUS was introducing on their P8Z77 lineup, we have had countless questions about the Thunderbolt header, the implementation and finally the required add-on card to enable it. Well thankfully at Computex this week ASUS is revealing the product that users of the P8Z77 motherboards will need to enable the Thunderbolt connection, the ASUS ThunderboltEX.
Even though we have already had some hands-on time with the new ASUS P8Z77-V Premium motherboard that integrates a Thunderbolt header on the board directly, the rest of the P8Z77-V line has a 9-pin header labeled "TB_header" that will allow users to purchase the ThunderboltEX card and enable the technology in their system. ASUS was the only company to really plan ahead for Thunderbolt technology across the entire series of Z77 motherboards and as such should enjoy the feature benefits of TB for some time.
The ThunderboltEX will plug into the bottom PCIe slot using up the x4 connection and will be required to use a header cable to connect to the TB_header shown above. This header serves a dual purpose - it allows the integrated graphics of the Ivy Bridge (and even discrete graphics) to pass through to the ThunderboltEX card and then out to either a Thunderbolt enabled display or a DisplayPort monitor in a daisy chain of devices. It also allows ASUS to make sure this card is ONLY used on their own lineup of motherboards - sorry, you won't be able to buy the ASUS ThunderboltEX and use it on your Gigabyte or MSI or even your non "TB_header" ASUS motherboard.
You will also have to install an included full-size DisplayPort cable from the output on the Z77 motherboard back panel to the full-size DP input on the ThunderboltEX itself. This allows the pass through of all the video data.
Once everything is configured, users will have a full speed 10 Gbps ready Thunderbolt connection to use with external storage, break out boxes and other accessories coming down the pipeline rapidly. ASUS claims this implementation will still support 6 daisy-chained devices with a seventh device as either a Thunderbolt or mini-DisplayPort monitor. Even better, hot plug support will still be enabled!
ASUS stands committed to the belief that motherboard design is not just about pure spec but ensuring a quality design and overall implementation. This is achieved through many means such as sensible layout, flexible I/O connectivity and robust control over parameters of operation. In addition foresight in design can play an important role. ASUS recently launched the world's first certified native Thunderbolt motherboard with the P8Z77-V Premium. While the Premium leads the industry in respect to connectivity and overall functionality it carries a flagship price for its premium feature set. ASUS had kept this in mind along with thinking about how to best support the advanced new interconnect that is Thunderbolt. With this in mind ASUS is proud to unveil its exclusive Thunderbolt upgrade solution for its line of Z77 and H77 motherboards. The ThunderboltEX card is the first add-on card on the market enabling an easy way to upgrade ASUS motherboards with the latest I/O. This is proof in having foresight in design as compatible boards had to have a special TB header in place to support this upgrade.
Currently, the ThunderboltEX is awaiting Thunderbolt device certification and ASUS will obviously announce when that occurs.
Obviously this implementation of Thunderbolt is not as elegant as the one you will find on the ASUS Premium Z77 motherboard or the MSI Z77A-GD80, but it does enable other ASUS Z77 motherboard users to add the feature to their systems without REQUIRING to the cost up front to everyone. It does remind me a little bit of the first days of ATI CrossFire but I think most of you would agree that this solution is better than forcing users to buy a $450 motherboard.
I don't have any information on pricing or availability but you can be sure as soon as our questions are answered by ASUS we will update this post!
If you are looking for more information on Thunderbolt devices and performance, check out our stream of posts on the subject and take a look at the Thunderbolt / ASUS video below!
HP's 2311xi, a cheap IPS monitor currently on sale for a low price
Subject: Displays | May 30, 2012 - 03:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: led backlight, ips display, HP 2311xi, 1080p
HP's 2311xi e-IPS monitor is LED-backlit and has a native resolution of 1920x1080, giving you much better viewing angles than more commonly found TN displays, though it does sacrifice refresh rate making this display less attractive to gamers. Overall it seems somehow behind the times, while it has HDMI, DVI and VGA inputs HP left out DisplayPort which is becoming more commonly used on both graphics cards and prebuilt machines. TechReviewSource also describes it as having limited adjustment capabilities which is likely to frustrate professional users. Overall it seems that HP could have done a better job on this $200+ monitor, though HP is currently selling it with an $80 rebate making it a bit more attractive.
"The HP 2311xi isn't your typical 23-inch LED monitor. It has an extremely wide viewing angle, a beautiful IPS display and lots of connections that include HDMI. It is a full 1080p HD display that provides a very good looking image but it lacks ergonomic adjustments."
Here are some more Display articles from around the web:
- Samsung UN46D6000 Review @ TechReviewSource
- Panasonic TC-L55DT50 Review @ TechReviewSource
- Vizio M3D550KD Review @ TechReviewSource
- Samsung ES8000 review @ Hardware.Info
- Samsung UN46ES6500F Review @ TechReviewSource
Windows 8 gives a little more attention to multiple monitors. Oh look -- a feature for traditional PCs.
Subject: General Tech, Displays | May 24, 2012 - 08:22 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: windows 8, multi monitor
PC Mag highlights enhanced support for multiple monitor systems in the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview. It is like Microsoft has finally thrown a bone to the desktop and to a lesser extent, the laptop. Some features that were mentioned in the article have been around for a while, however.
If you have given the gift of a multiple monitor setup -- do not expect a take-backsies without a fight.
Chloe Albanesius of PC Mag wrote an article which outlines what enhanced support multiple monitor users will experience if they move to Windows 8. A refreshing suspend of the ctrl-alt-deleterious news. Or maybe Microsoft was just afraid of being attacked with vestigial display cables?
Just think of the possibilities of per-monitor backgrounds… a shrine just for Josh...
The article opens with a description of the author's triple monitor setup. Oddly enough my layout is very often an exact mirror image of her layout, horizontally. I would not be surprised if that choice was due to my left-handedness -- very amused, but not surprised.
Windows 8 will make it easy to load different backgrounds for each monitor but earlier versions were capable of that for as long as I could remember. The trick is to create a single very large background image in a program like Photoshop or The GIMP. This very large image must have the same dimensions as the sum of your monitor resolutions horizontally by the sum of your monitor resolutions vertically. The top left of that image is the top left of your "primary" monitor. Fill in the backgrounds wherever the desired monitor falls on that grid -- making sure to put whatever is above and to the left of the top left corner of the primary monitor at the extreme right and bottom. Set that background to "tiled" and you are set.
Notice how I never said that making it easier would be unwelcomed rather just that it was already possible.
The more important features include the ability to enable the taskbar on each monitor and customize how icons will appear for each display. That, combined with enabling corner context support for each monitor should help alleviate some of the juggling over real estate on the primary monitor.
You should be able to see all the changes for multiple monitor users in the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview.
That is, of course, unless Microsoft ends up starting from scratch before they launch -- again.
De-bezel your monitor, void your warranty and run the risk of killing your LCD ... but no bezels!
Subject: Displays | May 11, 2012 - 01:18 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: DIY, Alienware OptX AW2310, mod
When EyeFinity and NVIDIA Surround first hit the market we were promised LCDs specifically designed to have tiny bezels so that your multiple monitor gaming experience would be enhanced. These monitors are still few and far between and even if you track one down their scarcity guarantees a high price. That is probably what prompted Tweaktown to pick up scraper and hacksaw and carve up their Alienware displays' bezels. This is of course something to be done with the full knowledge that you may well destroy your monitor but if you want gaming like in the picture below you might have to risk it.
"A step-by-step guide on how to de-bezel an Alienware AW2310 monitor and how they look in a three screen portrait setup."
Here are some more Display articles from around the web:
- Samsung TA950 HDTV 3D Monitor Review @ HardwareLOOK
- NEC PA271W - When Accuracy and Consistency Matter @ AnandTech
- Dell UltrasSharp U2412M Review @ TechReviewSource
- Samsung UN55ES8000 LED HDTV Hands On Preview @ Hardware Canucks
"Just" Picked Up: Datacolor Spyder4PRO
Subject: General Tech, Displays | May 4, 2012 - 05:18 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: colorimeter, monitor
Just Delivered is a class of articles at PC Perspective where we share what crosses into our offices, labs, houses, or nearby unguarded front porches. Today we put up with none of that. Two days ago I got off my lazy butt long enough to drive to a store to purchase a Datacolor Spyder4PRO monitor calibration device. Sure, I could have walked but -- let's not get crazy now.
Part of doing illustration work online involves knowing how it will be viewed by the masses. Everyone will view it somewhat differently due to more-than-slight variations in their displays.
Properly calibrating your monitor to what is considered convention is difficult and not something many users do. Hardware and software exist to measure your monitor and adjust your color profiles to match. Calibrated color profiles often lose brightness and vibrancy although they are not to look good -- they are designed to look consistent.
After a couple of years of off-and-on browsing web forums for opinions on which colorimeter is the best I realized that I would be just as far ahead with a random number generator. I eventually just went with the gut and chose the Datacolor Spyder4PRO.
Of course on the way home an oncoming car entered my lane to pass a bus.
It almost served me right for not leaving the whole "going outside" thing to the mail people.
Out of the box, installation was quite simple. I did have one annoyance with inputting my serial number: apparently when you input your serial number and activate online they return to you your CD key. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like if I were to reinstall the application I could not use the serial number that is safe and sound with the unit but rather recall the key I was given just then. That seems like a very bad method to enforce DRM -- although let's face it, I hate DRM regardless of its form -- but thankfully I have secure notes in LastPass for situations like these.
I calibrated the three monitors very easily. My primary monitor, the Samsung SyncMaster XL2370, required two calibrations to be properly set although I believe that was my fault. Now all three monitors quite closely align to one another and seem to work well for test images in color managed applications.
My one complaint about the product itself is that it has a suction cup mount, but no suction cup. Really -- your device is almost 200$ and you cheap out on a couple-cent suction cup? Where am I even supposed to find a suction cup that will fit it? I mean, it is possible that there was an error with my package although it was sealed. Maybe it was only for the Elite package?
Really a suction cup is not necessary anyway -- they provide a counterweight on the cable to have it hang from the top of your monitor… but it is not as stable as a suction cup.
MonMount's affordable triple display mount
Subject: Displays | April 26, 2012 - 01:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: triple, monitor mount, mount, multi monitor, MonMount, LCD-1930 Triple
For just under $50 the MonMount LCD-1930 Triple LCD Monitor Stand gives you a way to mount three monitors of up to 22" to a desk, far less expensive than other mounts on the market. It may look minimalist but the VESA mounts can rotate between portrait and landscape and can pivot both vertically and horizontally to allow you to perfectly align your monitors. Legit Reviews did run into several small issues, from cables weren't quite long enough to the discovery that while the stand supports 22" displays, they cannot be more than 20" wide. It is still a much cleaner and more stable solution than having your monitors sitting on your desk.
"We were about to give up on an affordable triple monitor stand that had articulating arms for a sweet AMD Eyefinity or NVIDIA Surround gaming setup when we ran across the MonMount LCD-1930 Triple LCD Monitor Stand Desk Mount that costs just $48.88 plus shipping! Compared to the other three monitor stands on the market this one looks like a bargain! Read on to see what we think of this space saving mount!"
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- Dell UltraSharp U2312HM, 23" Monitor Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Dell Professional P2412H 24" Monitor Review @ Hardware Canucks
- ViewSonic V3D231 3D Monitor Review @ Hardware Canucks
- GeChic's On-Lap 1302 Laptop Monitor @ AnandTech
HP's inexpensive high resolution 27" display
Subject: Displays | April 5, 2012 - 03:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: hp, 27, ZR2740w, ips display, led backlight
It may seem odd to refer to a $680 monitor as a really great deal but that is exactly what the HP ZR2740w is. Finding a new 27" 2560x1440 IPS display with LED backlighting for under $1000 is well nigh impossible, even finding a used one for around $700 is a rare find. HP has done what no other company has though, cutting costs by removing HDMI and speakers as well as not including an OSD. They did not skimp on the quality of the display however, with a very good response rate for an IPS display as well as a very good colour gamut. AnandTech does warn you that the lack of OSD controls, having a colourometer to calibrate the monitor properly is very important.
"We finally have our first real affordable 27", high resolution display on the market now, and it comes courtesy of HP. The HP ZR2740w is a 27" IPS panel with 2560x1440 resolution (16:9 aspect ratio) and an LED backlighting system. With a street price that comes in at $700 or below, what has HP done to be able to bring a high resolution display to the masses at a price well below other vendors? Thankfully, they provided me with a unit so I could evaluate it and see."
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Miniature wide angle lens under development at UCSD
Researchers at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering are working on a miniature wide angle lens by taking advantage of the benefits of spherical lenses. At just a tenth of the size of a traditional wide angle lens, a spherical lens can create wide angle images without chromatic aberration or loss of resolution at corners. The challenge is capturing the lens' spherical projection on a flat sensor. The team have overcome this by using optical fibers fused to the rear of the lens to relay light to electronic sensors.
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The project's engineers describe the design as using monocentric lenses with a bundle of glass optical fibers aligned to the lens' surface in order to relay the light collected by the lens to electronic sensors. Thanks to the lens' spherical design, resolution is (in theory) the same across the image field, making possible a kind of 'zooming without moving parts' anywhere in the field of view without encountering loss of resolution or off-axis lens aberrations.
The UCSD team is currently working with a design for a 12mm focal length with a 5 megapixel sensor and a 30 megapixel prototype. Next, they're hoping to build a system giving an 85 megapixel image.
It seems unlikely that this kind of optical system would be used by smartphones as the school's press release suggests, and more likely that its 'pan and zoom with no moving parts' capabilities would be put to use in surveillance equipment. The project's DARPA funding suggests that the lens will find a home in military applications, where a very wide angle of view rendered without a loss of resolution would be genuinely useful. It probably won't appear on a camera near you anytime soon, but it's an interesting proof of concept.
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That's cool, now engineer a miniature full frame sensor, miniature DSLR body with all the bits, now gnomes can take up photography too!
Yes, our retina is spherical and we perceive straight lines as straight.
That also means if they can grow (or etch) micro-fibers right on the silicon, they can create sensors corrected for curvature and also improve wide angle sensor performance.
Strange comparison. Comparing the size of the fix focus, fix focal length experimental lens to a commercial Zoom lens. A zoom lens that is for an SLR camera with large flange distance, i.e. a retro focus lens. A zoom lens that can both focus and change aperture.
And then say it is 10 times smaller. 10 times smaller in what dimension? Length, width, lens front area, volume?
Uh, the test lens is pictured next to the wide angle lens for comparison. (to the left)
it's compared with a wrong lens which destroys the credibility of the article in the first second.
a better comparison may be wide angles for large format cameras. they are large but with large apertures, too, and they don't have the long flange-back issue of SLRs. but still we cannot adjust focus with the new lens, not with bloody efforts.
it will get bigger and bigger, more and more expensive, and lower and lower quality as we add features to it.
it may be an interesting idea to design a lens-sensor module for SLR and mirrorless mounts. it can get power from the mount and can use wireless to talk with the camera if it's too difficult to have high speed data through electrical contacts (a hybrid GXR-QX, liveview only for SLR).
An alternative to using a bundle of optical fibers is using a curved sensor. The planar process is the primary process by which monolithic integrated circuits are built, but nonetheless curved integrated circuit, including image sensors, can also be made. The article below from Stanford University is just about curving monolithic silicon for image sensors:
"… a spherical lens can create wide angle images without chromatic aberration or loss of resolution at corners."
I believe there is an imprecision here. A "spherical" (monocentric) lens is intrinsically free from lateral chromatic aberration, but not necessarily from longitudinal CA.
Also, when you project the image in the spherical sensor on a plane (to display it on, well, a flat monitor), the LoCA away from the center is magnified, together with the other aberrations.
Spherical lens? That's the normal stuff we always have had. If we want to be more exotic, we talk about aspherical lenses.
The lenses are monocentric, i.e. it is a number of spherical shells.
high resolution from such a small lens is great, but why are they comparing 1/3.2" sensor and lens to a full frame slr camera and lens?
perhaps they should really be comparing with the lens inside of a gopro in terms of size?
it's valid to compare what the lens can do in terms of field of view, aperture (and transmission light gathering capacity), and aberrations/resolutions as a photographic lens.
it doesn't make sense to compare weight and size with EF8-15/4L for it's not designed for EF or any other SLR mount. it's not even mirrorless but rather a data-only "mount", like Ricoh GXR (physical connector) or Sony QX (wireless).
They are only sampling from a very small area of this lens to show what is possible. This is like cropping in on a full frame sensor's image. Thus the comparison is valid.
Future models will have many more fiber optics feeding into a number of sensors and will cover a wider field of view by assembling the images from several sensors. The concept is that the area of all of these sensors added up will produce a narrow view, normal, or wide angle image from this tiny lens that outperforms current full frame cameras and lenses.
As for comparing this to the Canon lens, we'll have to see how large and heavy it gets once all of the fiber optics bundles and sensors are added. The only connection between that and the rest of a "camera" will be electrical so any kind of mount could be used to attach them.
the design makes interchangeable lens very difficult if possible (no hope for SLR). and one will have at least make it an interchangeable lens before comparing with one.
but maybe we will find it inside a Mirokia 4080 with 160MPix, though the 20mm diameter will make it quite thick.
hope Oly can find a way to do 5-axis stabilization for a m4/3" version of the lens.
Well of course it is nothing like an interchangeable lens on a DSLR. But why can't you compare the images from them? E.g. one total imaging system compared with another.
Consider that there are also a lot of uses for photo imaging besides DSLRs and general photography. They mention right in their paper that one goal is to have smaller cameras and thus smaller UAVs (Drones.) Why do you think this is a DARPA project? Even now individual soldiers can carry and launch small recon aircraft and they also have rc controlled ground based devices that can creep into a building and look around.
This just happens to be posted here at DPReview but don't jump to the conclusion that it immediately has to be relevant to how you currently take photos.
Try to understand that this is a prototype design just to prove concept. You are questioning things that are not relevant to the item at this point in time.
They simply are showing that if you take a narrow area from their lens (which is all they can do at the moment) it produces a better image than that same area cropped from a larger sensor using this much larger Canon lens.
please read this again:
why it's small is because there are things it cannot do.
the spherical focal surface does contribute to smaller size but the comparison is still very unfair for the lens will put on a lot weight if designed for SLR, so no valid comparison.
you should know that we trade off a lot of things for interchangeable lens mounts, from size to image quality.
Forget the camera mounts as this will never be used on an SLR. Simply look at the size and complexity of the glass elements in the two different lenses and study the resolution this smaller optical formula can achieve with fewer aberrations. A spherical design is much smaller and much simpler than a reverse telephoto wide angle design. By the time they add the fiber optics and the sensor it will be larger but should still be much smaller than a comparable DSLR lens/24x36 sensor combination.
They posted very clear illustrations of this on one of the links. It is a new way to create a lens/sensor imaging system. There is no point trying to shoehorn it into your SLR solution.
Wow, a new, small lens. And only from Caliweirdia!
My next Lumia,,,
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Fascinating subject. One of the main reasons why FF has become less desirable is the size and weight of lenses.
A different design approach to the lens/ sensor relationship could help miniaturize lenses.
I was put off a Nikon D4 and zoom lenses due to the total weight of the outfit so bought a Leica M9 which weighs much less. No zoom lenses really, just a range of fixed focal lengths by Leica and others. Buy a lot of lenses and you get a very heavy outfit! I could manage with 4 or 5.
dpreview is beginning to sound a lot like a DSLR Anonymous meeting.
Hi, my name is Bob and I used to own a DSLR. I found myself looking at a FF DSLR in BestBuy yesterday, you know, for times when I really need the image quality but didn't succumb to the temptation. I've now been DSLR free for 15 days but I just have to keep taking it day by day.
Well it's not like this engineering school project is likely to be widely available in the camera market in say 5 years.
Then the D4 and the M9 are significantly different cameras.
One is incredibly good in lowlight, with a fast AF, and a staggering frame rate, but doesn't have optically good lenses–unless you use Zeiss manual focus lenses.
And the other, the M9 of course, has staggeringly good lenses, is smaller, but is not good in lowlight, and has very slow buffer.
So the two cameras aren't exactly in the same category.
"Good" yes, but nothing close to Leica or Zeiss. So I should have written: "doesn't have optically excellent".
Hope that clarifies things.
Don't bother with DXO scores for lenses.
Unfortunately, to keep the light gathering ability, the lens/light relationship is what matters, and you cannot collect the same light from a smaller area.
There seems to be no reason why a spherical section sensor couldn't be manufactured. There would then be no need to alter the spherical projection by such a complicated method. Wonder if it's been tried?
If you have a method how to do it you should immediately have patent for that.
All very nice but will they be wether-sealed and have a red stripe?
Antenna engineers have been using spherical lenses since the 1960s at least...
How fast is that lens? f22 or so? Not impressed. Resolving power is a solved problem for most photographers.
I don't think so. A big spherical lens would be impractical.
A 12mm focal length only needs to be 6mm in diameter to be f2. By comparison, look at how large that Canon lens is to achieve f4. And the Canon lens is a fisheye lens. A rectilinear design would be larger.
If you follow the link you'll see the lenses they use are sort of like marbles.
And while we do have high resolving systems today, the idea is to get better resolution in much much smaller packages. If you filmed videos from a quadcopter as I do you'd appreciate the advantage of miniaturization. Just look at what the tiny GoPro has done for that field.
The researchers' paper shows an optical design for a 12mm F1.7 that's 20mm long and weighs 16g.
"Does F-stop really relate to the ability for a lens to collect photons? Hmmm. Can the F-stop in a smartphone lens truly be compared to Canon EF 8-15mm?"
Of course if the F stops are the same the light hitting a given area will be the same. (Assuming comparable transmission ability of the lenses.) The difference is that this Canon lens can cover a larger sensor so it passes more photons in total over a given time period. (It is up to the sensor to collect these photons.)
Thanks Alan.
Keep in mind that while this model is a very wide lens, they are only sampling the image from a very narrow area by using a single small sensor. This is like an extreme crop of an image. But once they are able to run the fiber optics out from a larger area of the lens, section by section, they will have a wider view being "projected" onto a number of sensors. That is the way they will be able to collect a lot of photons from such a small lens.
This is an incredible breakthrough for photography that is only possible by digital technology. At one time the technology for digitizing music and reading via a laser was cutting edge but it very rapidly moved to CDs and readers.
Eyes are tiny and have very good resolving power. Seems like camera technology is closing in...
I wonder if it's possible to connect a biologic eye to an electric circuit. ;-)
Eyes are quite crappy as an optical device. Brain does all the post-processing, that's why it looks good.
To have a good picture you have to have big lens. You can't do much about it, it is the law of physics. If still in doubt, just look at the best telescopes in the world - the bigger the better.
More likely is the idea of having a "digital" eye and feeding that information directly into your visual nerves (if viable) or maybe directly into the brain. This would be to counteract blindness and could possibly have other uses. Cochlear implants work sort of like this for hearing.
" "Next year, we'll build an 85-megapixel imager with a 120-degree field of view, more than a dozen sensors, and an F/2 lens – all in a volume roughly the size of a walnut," Ford said."
I'd like to see the physics of how such a tiny lens can have a fast aperture explained. It sounds like there's no aperture at all as such, just direct piping of light to the sensor.
If they do manage to make this system with millions fibers that would solve the curvature problem and redefine the way lenses are designed.
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55 hurdles 7.50
60 hurdles 8.00
110 hurdles 13.95
400 hurdles 52.74
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Mideast Regional Results-Outdoor
Major- Economics.
2006-Outdoor- Ran a career-best time of 13.95 in the 110 hurdles while finishing ninth at the SEC outdoor championships (May 14) ... Finished 16th in the preliminaries of the NCAA Mideast Regional with a wind-aided time of 14.15w (May 26) ... Ran the second leg of the Vols' shuttle hurdle relay team at the Penn Relays as UT won the event for the second consecutive year (April 28) ... The relay team's time of 55.87 was the fastest time recorded by any collegiate team in 2006 ... Finished seventh in the 110 hurdles with a time of 14.68 at the Disney World Invitational (March 25) ... Also ran the third leg on the Vols' winning shuttle hurdle relay team at the Disney World Invitational ... Ran the third leg on UT's victorious shuttle hurdle relay team at the Sea Ray Relays (April 15) ... Also ran the second leg on Tennessee's sixth-place distance medley relay team, finished 13th in the 110 hurdles with a wind-aided time of 14.04w and ran the 400 hurdles in 54.20 to finish 27th at the Sea Ray Relays ... Finished sixth in the 400 hurdles with a time of 53.63 at the Vanderbilt Invitational (April 22) ... Ran his only 4x100 of the season at the Vanderbilt Invitational, taking the third leg of the relay ... Finished sixth in the 400 hurdles in 54.95 and ninth in the 110 hurdles with a time of 14.66 at the Hurricane Invitational (March 18) ... Finished 18th in the 400 hurdles at the Yellow Jacket Invitational (April 1).
2006-Indoor- Lowered his lifetime-best time in the 60 hurdles, stopping the clock at 8.00 on his way to a fourth-place finish at the season-opening Clemson Opener (Dec. 3) ... Recorded a personal-best time of 7.50 in the 55 hurdles at the SEC indoor championships (Feb. 25) ... Finished 15th in the 55 hurdles with a time of 8.05 at the Gator Invitational (Jan. 21) ... Finished 21st in the 60 hurdles at the New Balance Invitational (Feb. 3). 2005-Outdoor- Achieved his career-best 110 hurdles time of 14.13 to capture silver at the Knoxville Twilight Meet (May 6) ... Notched his wind-aided lifetime-best offering of 14.04w in a sixth-place showing in the 110 hurdles at the Sea Ray Relays (April 15) ... Finished 12th in the SEC 110 hurdles prelims with a time of 14.18 ... Qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regionals, crossing 12th in the prelims after clocking in at 14.24 ... Clocked a season-best 400 hurdles time of 55.10 to place 16th at Georgia Tech's Yellow Jacket Invitational (April 2) ... Ran the 400 hurdles just a fraction slower with a 55.14, sixth-place time at the Jim Click Shootout ... Ran the third leg on Tennessee's championship shuttle hurdle relay effort at the Penn Relays ... The Vols' shuttle hurdle relay time of 54.97 stands as the fourth-fastest time ever in Penn Relays' history and the fastest time by any collegiate team in 2005 ... Helped the Vols go undefeated on the season in the shuttle hurdle relay by running the third leg on a 56.83 winner at the Sea Ray Relays.
2005-Indoor- Concentrated exclusively on the high hurdles during the indoor campaign ... Clocked his career-best 60 hurdles time of 8.04 to post the third-fastest prelim time at the Penn State National Meet (Jan. 28), before finishing sixth in the final with an 8.09 time ... Froze the clock at 8.09 to take 10th in the 60 hurdles on New York's big stage, the New Balance Invitational ... Achieved his best 55 hurdles effort of the season, a 7.53 time (8.06 when converted to 60 hurdles) to rank fifth in the prelims at the Virginia Tech Challenge (Feb. 11), before finishing 11th in the semifinal with a 7.57 ... Ran a 7.57 to take fourth in the 55 hurdles at the Tennessee All-Comers ... Finished seventh in the prelims of the 55 hurdles after clocking a 7.56 at the Tennessee Classic.
2004-Outdoor- Battled injury much of the indoor and outdoor season ... Opened his outdoor season with a season-best 14.50 offering to nab fourth in the 110 hurdles at Florida State's Snowbird Invitational (March 6) ... Won the 110 hurdles with a 14.65w time at Louisville's Cardinal Open ... Ran 14.86 in the 110 hurdles at the Sea Ray Relays ... Earned bronze in the 400 hurdles with a season-best time of 55.79 at the Gatorade Classic (May 2).
2004-Indoor- Ran his season-best 55 hurdles time of 7.65 to tie for ninth at the Tennessee Invitational (Feb. 20) ... Left his hurdles specialty to open the season running the 55 at the Tennessee All-Comers Meet, where he finished 12th in 6.79.
2003-Outdoor- Sprinted to his season-best time of 14.45 in the 110 hurdles to take 22nd at the Sea Ray Relays (April 11), in addition to finishing 16th in 53.29 in the 400 hurdles ... Notched his first collegiate win courtesy of a lifetime-best 52.74 in the 400 hurdles at Ohio State's Jesse Owens Classic (May 2) ... Crossed the 400 hurdles line in 53.03 to take 15th in the SEC outdoor prelims ... Opened the season with a ninth-place, 54.68 finish in the 400 hurdles; 10th-place, 14.76 finish in the 110 hurdles and anchor leg on Tennessee's third-place, 3:14.92 (3:11.30 prelim) 4x400 relay at the Florida State Relays ... Sliced his 400 hurdles time to 53.08 to earn 11th at the Florida Relays ... Also ran the third leg of the Vols' runner-up, 55.53 shuttle hurdle relay and anchored the sixth-place, 3:09.86 4x400 relay ... Contributed valuable points to Tennessee's one-point win at the SEC Triangular with a fifth-place, 55.58 finish in the 400 hurdles and the second leg on the Vols' fourth-place, 3:19.87 4x400 relay at South Carolina ... Ran a 53.71 time in the 400 hurdles in the Penn Relays championship section.
2003-Indoor- Authored his 60 hurdles season-best time of 8.32 to finish 13th and took the second leg on Tennessee's runner-up, 3:10.28, NCAA provisionally qualified 4x400 relay in the Vols' victory at the SEC East Challenge (Jan. 25) at Kentucky ... Ran his season-best 55 hurdles time of 7.73 to earn ninth at the Tennessee Classic (Feb. 21) ... Contributed a season-best 50.44 time to take 22nd in the 400 at the Armory Invitational (Feb. 14) ... Helped the Vols to fifth with the second leg on a season-best, 10:01.46 distance medley relay effort at the SEC indoors ... Clocked a fourth-place time of 7.74 in the 55 hurdles at the Tennessee All-Comers Meet.
Nabbed the Volunteer State's 300 hurdles title in 2002 ... Also led off Kenwood's second-place 4x400 relay at the 2002 state meet ... Contributed to remarkable team winning percentages of 91.3 percent in 2002, 93.8 percent in 2001 and 82.0 percent in 2000 at Kenwood ... Team took regional runner-up honors in 2001.


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The therapeutic effects of CARDIZEM CD are believed to be related to its ability to inhibit the cellular influx of calcium ions during membrane depolarization of cardiac and vascular smooth muscle.
Mechanisms Of Action
CARDIZEM CD produces its antihypertensive effect primarily by relaxation of vascular smooth muscle and the resultant decrease in peripheral vascular resistance. The magnitude of blood pressure reduction is related to the degree of hypertension; thus hypertensive individuals experience an antihypertensive effect, whereas there is only a modest fall in blood pressure in normotensives.
CARDIZEM CD has been shown to produce increases in exercise tolerance, probably due to its ability to reduce myocardial oxygen demand. This is accomplished via reductions in heart rate and systemic blood pressure at submaximal and maximal work loads. Diltiazem has been shown to be a potent dilator of coronary arteries, both epicardial and subendocardial. Spontaneous and ergonovineinduced coronary artery spasm are inhibited by diltiazem.
In animal models, diltiazem interferes with the slow inward (depolarizing) current in excitable tissue. It causes excitation-contraction uncoupling in various myocardial tissues without changes in the configuration of the action potential. Diltiazem produces relaxation of coronary vascular smooth muscle and dilation of both large and small coronary arteries at drug levels which cause little or no negative inotropic effect. The resultant increases in coronary blood flow (epicardial and subendocardial) occur in ischemic and nonischemic models and are accompanied by dose-dependent decreases in systemic blood pressure and decreases in peripheral resistance.
Hemodynamic And Electrophysiologic Effects
Like other calcium channel antagonists, diltiazem decreases sinoatrial and atrioventricular conduction in isolated tissues and has a negative inotropic effect in isolated preparations. In the intact animal, prolongation of the AH interval can be seen at higher doses.
In man, diltiazem prevents spontaneous and ergonovine-provoked coronary artery spasm. It causes a decrease in peripheral vascular resistance and a modest fall in blood pressure in normotensive individuals and, in exercise tolerance studies in patients with ischemic heart disease, reduces the heart rate-blood pressure product for any given work load. Studies to date, primarily in patients with good ventricular function, have not revealed evidence of a negative inotropic effect; cardiac output, ejection fraction, and left ventricular end diastolic pressure have not been affected. Such data have no predictive value with respect to effects in patients with poor ventricular function, and increased heart failure has been reported in patients with preexisting impairment of ventricular function. There are as yet few data on the interaction of diltiazem and beta-blockers in patients with poor ventricular function. Resting heart rate is usually slightly reduced by diltiazem.
In hypertensive patients, CARDIZEM CD produces antihypertensive effects both in the supine and standing positions. In a double-blind, parallel, dose-response study utilizing doses ranging from 90 to 540 mg once daily, CARDIZEM CD lowered supine diastolic blood pressure in an apparent linear manner over the entire dose range studied. The changes in diastolic blood pressure, measured at trough, for placebo, 90 mg, 180 mg, 360 mg, and 540 mg were -2.9, -4.5, -6.1, -9.5, and -10.5 mm Hg, respectively. Postural hypotension is infrequently noted upon suddenly assuming an upright position. No reflex tachycardia is associated with the chronic anti-hypertensive effects. CARDIZEM CD decreases vascular resistance, increases cardiac output (by increasing stroke volume), and produces a slight decrease or no change in heart rate. During dynamic exercise, increases in diastolic pressure are inhibited, while maximum achievable systolic pressure is usually reduced. Chronic therapy with CARDIZEM CD produces no change or an increase in plasma catecholamines. No increased activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis has been observed. CARDIZEM CD reduces the renal and peripheral effects of angiotensin II. Hypertensive animal models respond to diltiazem with reductions in blood pressure and increased urinary output and natriuresis without a change in urinary sodium/potassium ratio.
In a double-blind, parallel dose-response study of doses from 60 mg to 480 mg once daily, CARDIZEM CD increased time to termination of exercise in a linear manner over the entire dose range studied. The improvement in time to termination of exercise utilizing a Bruce exercise protocol, measured at trough, for placebo, 60 mg, 120 mg, 240 mg, 360 mg, and 480 mg was 29, 40, 56, 51, 69, and 68 seconds, respectively. As doses of CARDIZEM CD were increased, overall angina frequency was decreased. CARDIZEM CD, 180 mg once daily, or placebo was administered in a double-blind study to patients receiving concomitant treatment with long-acting nitrates and/or beta-blockers. A significant increase in time to termination of exercise and a significant decrease in overall angina frequency was observed. In this trial the overall frequency of adverse events in the CARDIZEM CD treatment group was the same as the placebo group.
Intravenous diltiazem in doses of 20 mg prolongs AH conduction time and AV node functional and effective refractory periods by approximately 20%. In a study involving single oral doses of 300 mg of CARDIZEM in six normal volunteers, the average maximum PR prolongation was 14% with no instances of greater than first-degree AV block. Diltiazem-associated prolongation of the AH interval is not more pronounced in patients with first-degree heart block. In patients with sick sinus syndrome, diltiazem significantly prolongs sinus cycle length (up to 50% in some cases).
Chronic oral administration of CARDIZEM to patients in doses of up to 540 mg/day has resulted in small increases in PR interval and on occasion produces abnormal prolongation (see WARNINGS).
Pharmacokinetics And Metabolism
Diltiazem is well absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and is subject to an extensive first-pass effect, giving an absolute bioavailability (compared to intravenous administration) of about 40%. CARDIZEM undergoes extensive metabolism in which only 2% to 4% of the unchanged drug appears in the urine. ÂDrugs which induce or inhibit hepatic microsomal enzymes may alter diltiazem disposition.
Total radioactivity measurement following short IV administration in healthy volunteers suggests the presence of other unidentified metabolites, which attain higher concentrations than those of diltiazem and are more slowly eliminated; half-life of total radioactivity is about 20 hours compared to 2 to 5 hours for diltiazem.
In vitro binding studies show CARDIZEM is 70% to 80% bound to plasma proteins. Competitive in vitro ligand binding studies have also shown CARDIZEM binding is not altered by therapeutic concentrations of digoxin, hydrochlorothiazide, phenylbutazone, propranolol, salicylic acid, or warfarin. The plasma elimination half-life following single or multiple drug administration is approximately 3.0 to 4.5 hours. Desacetyl diltiazem is also present in the plasma at levels of 10% to 20% of the parent drug and is 25% to 50% as potent as a coronary vasodilator as diltiazem. Minimum therapeutic plasma diltiazem concentrations appear to be in the range of 50 to 200 ng/mL. There is a departure from linearity when dose strengths are increased; the half-life is slightly increased with dose. A study that compared patients with normal hepatic function to patients with cirrhosis found an increase in half-life and a 69% increase in bioavailability in the hepatically impaired patients. A single study in nine patients with severely impaired renal function showed no difference in the pharmacokinetic profile of diltiazem compared to patients with normal renal function.
CARDIZEM CD Capsules
When compared to a regimen of CARDIZEM tablets at steady-state, more than 95% of drug is absorbed from the CARDIZEM CD formulation. A single 360-mg dose of the capsule results in detectable plasma levels within 2 hours and peak plasma levels between 10 and 14 hours; absorption occurs throughout the dosing interval. When CARDIZEM CD was coadministered with a high fat content breakfast, the extent of diltiazem absorption was not affected. Dose-dumping does not occur. The apparent elimination half-life after single or multiple dosing is 5 to 8 hours. A departure from linearity similar to that seen with CARDIZEM tablets and CARDIZEM SR capsules is observed. As the dose of CARDIZEM CD capsules is increased from a daily dose of 120 mg to 240 mg, there is an increase in the area-under-the-curve of 2.7 times. When the dose is increased from 240 mg to 360 mg, there is an increase in the area-under-the-curve of 1.6 times.
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Queensland's Smart State Initiative : a successful knowledge based urban development strategy
Yigitcanlar, Tan & Velibeyoglu, Koray (2008) Queensland's Smart State Initiative : a successful knowledge based urban development strategy. In Yigitcanlar, Tan, Velibeyoglu, Koray, & Baum, Scott (Eds.) Knowledge-Based Urban Development : Planning and Applications in the Information Era. IGI Global, Information Science Reference, Hershey, Pa., pp. 116-131.
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The chapter will set out to explain the KBUD and urban policy making processes in Queensland, Australia. This chapter will draw on providing a clear understanding on policy frameworks and relevant ICT applications of the Queensland 'Smart State' experience. The chapter is consisted of six sections. The first section following the introduction provides background information. The second section focuses on the KBUD processes in Queensland. The third section offers a comprehensive analysis of the 'Queensland Smart State' initiative, and it also identifies actors and goals of the agenda of Smart State experience. The fourth section reviews knowledge based development and ICT applications and policies of the Queensland Smart State and Brisbane Smart City experiences, and their impacts on Brisbane's successful KBUD. The fifth section discusses knowledge hubs and ICT developments within the Brisbane metropolitan area. Then the chapter concludes with future trends and conclusion sections.
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Lately the question Daniel and I are being asked the most is, "So where are you going next?"
The question makes sense. We love to travel as a family. We are transforming the way we do life so we can travel. Our family's journey led us to visiting four different international cities this year. Our journeys are teaching us a lot of the nuts and bolts of travel and teaching us what is in our hearts.
It takes courage to not know the destination and to still participate in the journey. – page 179, Leeana Tankersley, Breathing Room
Where are we going next?
The short answer is – I don't know what destination God has for us next. What I do know that is that I am trusting the journey. I know God is going to use our experiences for something else in the future. I don't know what 2015 will look like for our family.
What about Digital Tentmaking?
We still desire to serve missionaries and churches and to travel as Digital Tentmakers. We've been able to do a tiny bit of that last year, but not in the way we envision for a large Digital Tentmaking trip. I hope we will be able to serve somewhere in 2015, but at this time we don't have any clear leads of places to serve, nor do we have the funds to do so.
What are we doing right now?
While we wait for our next destination Daniel is launching a new business venture next week. We learned in New York City that Daniel needs a separate working space with fast wi-fi to be able to work. The quality of his work greatly diminishes with three children buzzing around him in a tiny NYC apartment. I understand how Daniel is a developer who needs uninterrupted time to write code. Since we've been back in San Antonio Daniel has joined a co-working space which allows him to focus and get projects done quickly.
Before we left for NYC we had to repair the damage from our car being broken into and we needed a new fuel pump system in our car. Our emergency fund took a hit so we are working on filling that account back up. Once that is done we can start saving for our next big trip. Even though we are debt free we still have to work at keeping our budget up to date.
I am homeschooling the kids, doing all the fun things that comes along with Christmas, and writing at Amanda.so. The new year will be here before we know it. I am so grateful for the journey our family is on even though I don't know what is going to happen next.
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