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By Thomas Keneally
235 pages. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $25.
In ''The Tyrant's Novel'' Thomas Keneally finds his best premise since that for ''Schindler's List.'' It arose from ''Tales of the Tyrant,'' an intricate portrait of Saddam Hussein that appeared in The Atlantic Monthly two years ago. Written by Mark Bowden, the author of ''Black Hawk Down,'' the magazine profile was far-reaching and included some startling little details about Mr. Hussein's tastes and habits and about what was then his daily routine.
Most interestingly for Mr. Keneally, the article also discussed Mr. Hussein's publishing career. He was the putative author of several novels, though they involved ghostwriting and feedback from Iraqi authors.
''No one dares to be candid -- the writing is said to be woefully amateurish, marred by a stern pedantic strain -- but everyone tries to be helpful,'' Mr. Bowden explained. And from that seed came Mr. Keneally's chillingly inventive novel about a barely disguised Mr. Hussein and his contributions to life and literature.
''The Tyrant's Novel'' is about a reluctant author who is pressed into ghostwriting service. He is called Alan Sheriff. (Most of the names here are Westernized, though the book unfolds in a desert nation.) And the book's narrator finds Sheriff in a detention camp, trapped behind razor wire in one of the country's ''double-walled gulags.''
When Sheriff remarks that his story is ''the saddest and silliest you would ever hear,'' Mr. Keneally switches voices and turns the rest of the book into Sheriff's account. But to call it sad and silly does not do it justice.Continue reading the main story
''The Tyrant's Novel'' is more amorous and unpredictable than its grim setting would suggest. Mr. Keneally sees horror in this nation and its iron rule, but he sees all manner of absurdity, too. His book is mutable enough to include both a running joke about the dictator's fondness for Tommy Hilfiger cologne and a full grasp of the hardships inflicted on his people. Its most impressive aspect is Mr. Keneally's quicksilver way of switching moods, shifting from light to dark and back again, as he captures the utter precariousness of life subject to a tyrant's whims.
The dictator is called Great Uncle (though ''a tyrant builds up around him more titles than the most slavish subject could possibly utter or remember''). As Sheriff's account begins, one young man has just been brutally killed for having failed to achieve the right pH level in the water in one of Great Uncle's swimming pools; Great Uncle is a man who cares about his chemicals.
At the news of this, ''I saw the two women, the pool keeper's aunt and my wife, look at each other out of their haunted eyes,'' Sheriff says. ''Such eyes were Great Uncle's gift to our nation's splendid women.''
Sheriff's wife, Sarah, is a retired actress with whom he is ''delightedly enyoked.'' (Mr. Keneally's linguistic grace notes are as attention-getting as his narrative.) Together they have found a way to handle both the serious and capricious perils of their time. Sheriff is just in the process of completing a novel that expresses his tacit indignation when his own private tragedy occurs: Sarah dies. She has succumbed to natural causes even though ''sudden adult death syndrome'' afflicts this nation.
As Sarah goes, so goes the novel: Sheriff buries it in her coffin. Then comes the call from on high. Great Uncle would like to recruit him for help in writing a novel that decries the pain inflicted by American sanctions and can be published in America in time to influence a G-7 summit meeting of leading industrialized countries. (The book takes place circa 1998.) Whatever else one might say about ''The Tyrant's Novel,'' Mr. Keneally's faith in the power of publishing is touching.
''The serpent of literary vanity, slick and seething, moved within me,'' Sheriff says upon being offered this temptation. He has only a month to write Great Uncle's polemical tear-jerker, and he has more than he needs in the way of assistance. The country's cultural commissioner suggests both social realism and magic realism; he provides a working stiff who might serve as a model for the book's hero. (''The man is a living character -- the likable rogue.'') He advises Sheriff to draw upon the experience he has had translating American movies. ''You'll be kind of subtitling our state,'' the commissioner says. ''Is subtitling other people's films any better?''
With a book interred with his lost wife and pressures mounting all around him, Sheriff must make some difficult moral choices. How far will a subject -- a subject cursed with a keen and sometimes inconvenient sense of life's paradoxes -- go to please his totalitarian ruler? How dishonest a book can he willingly write? Supplied with a political agenda and a passel of Great Uncle's self-aggrandizing stories, Sheriff sometimes finds his work alarmingly easy. ''Creating even these few bad ideas evoked the forgotten pleasure of imagination fast and fertile,'' he admits.
As Mr. Keneally delineates this writer's crisis of conscience, he also provides a backdrop of all too recognizable turmoil. The book's most haunting subplot revolves around a woman who has lost her son (''this crow of a mourning woman'') and a ghastly mishap involving chemical weapons. And there is speculation over what will happen when war comes. ''Great Uncle is a frightful fellow,'' Sheriff says. ''Fabulously horrible. But the Americans are not his cure.''
And even when the talk turns to American fiction, there is politics in the air. The book's characters care about the exigencies of mere survival.
Myopic American writers, the Australian Mr. Keneally suggests, have a more tenuous grip on what matters. As someone in ''The Tyrant's Novel'' puts it, ''It's as if they believe what is normal and human are all some unachievable magic.''Continue reading the main story

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Hey guys so i basically live in norway right now and im moving to london this summer (just found out due to personal reasons) and im currently in the IB program,the first year.
The thing is that i came to the conclusion that i want to become a doctor and i didnt choose those subjects that is needed to become a doctor,so basically going to the IBDP is a waste of time for me.
I really dont want to redo the IB,i want to start with a 2 year A-level college and later apply to university.
So i was just wondering
Is it too late for me to apply for a college now to september?
If not,what is the chance of me coming into a college in general? cause i have not done a GSCE-test?
will they make me do a test or something?
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Motivated by love and a few beers, "Austin" had his girlfriend's name tattooed on his chest 9 years ago. Now they are no longer together, but he's still stuck with the tattoo. Ready to have it gone once and for all, he visited Dr. Edward Rohaly of ER Derm in Newport Beach, Calif. to get it removed with the new PicoSure laser. Watch to see the real story of his first treatment.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1593 Friday, 25 August 2000.
Date: Friday, 25 Aug 2000 09:51:14 -0400
Subject: Brandon and the Stationer's Register
Can anyone on the listserv tell me how to access the Stationer's
Register online, if that's possible? All I've found to this point are
links from various websites to Register entries I'm not interested in.
Two more related questions: I'm doing research on various Tudor Roman
plays, Shakespeare's and others. Right now I'm rereading Samuel
Brandon's *The Virtuous Octavia*, in which Octavia remarks in great
detail on her husband before Antony, Marcellus. I've found just one line
in Plutarch that mentions her widowhood. Does Brandon perhaps have
another source for this information? Then, at another point early in
this closet drama, Octavia forestalls conflict between her brother and
Antony at Tarentum by standing in between them on the battlefield. It
seems clear that Brandon got some of the language of this scene from
Plutarch's *Life of Antony*, but what about the action? Has anyone heard
of Octavia's doing this?
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sscott1967 thanks for updating us, I am so glad DS has found something that he enjoys. Onward and upward
Excellent news. Hope he learns something about the charity as well as gaining the very valuable experience of working in the shop.
Good luck !
That's great news. Sometimes they need just the tiniest nudge.
Thanks for all your comments folks.
I think he lost a lot of confidence after dropping out and everything seemed too much to think about. So we agreed he could try volunteering first.
Well..good news..he walked into a charity shop and he's worked 2 days there and loves it! He even thanked me for pushing him and says he's happier than sitting in his room. xx
Maybe he's had a crisis of confidence. Uni is very different to school I know quite a few kids that hated it and dropped out and have got jobs. Why did he drop out? Did he hate his course and maybe the smile is hiding something behind that. My son does this everything's ok smiling business and it hides that he is a lazy git and a little but immature. He had a GF in sixth form didn't think about his future and didn't work he missed his offer for Uni by a long way so has spent the year doing resits and being kicked out of the door to do various jobs he probably could have gone last year but wouldn't have lasted he's had to change his whole work ethic. My ones a bit of a charmer which he learnt had got him off a lot of stuff at school but frankly it doesn't work out in the wild world. It's hard when they leave school and to help get them on the next level I agree with all the other wise MNers a job even if its part time or volunteering will help him.
Stop providing meals until he pays you some board and lodging money, that should motivate him.
At the moment he has no reason to do anything, he is fed and warm and I assume has access to the internet so he has no reason to work.
sscott1967 I hope things get better. Please post and let us know how things are going? Take care.....
has he ever had a job? as in did he do part time jobs as a teen for money in his pocket?
Thanks all for tips.Going down the volunteer route to gain experience and had big chat about all sorts so here's hoping :-)
Yes, now is the time to enrol for courses. Make sure he understands that. Even if he enrols for something and finds a job later, better to have something to work towards. There are a lot of colleges out there doing short courses that would add to his CV.
If he doesn't want to do that get him to choose a voluntary organisation to do something for. Don't let him sit about it really won't help him at all in the long run and he won't thank you for letting him do it later either.
I would suggest that you give him a list of jobs to do around the house, cleaning, taking bins out, ironing, cooking a family meal a couple of times a week, food shopping etc.
My deadline would be a lot sooner that the end of the summer hols (!) Have you thought about sitting down and having a long chat with him, if he wants to study in September, interviews, open days are happening now and courses are enrolling.
His day needs structure. I hope I don't sound judgey, but I am also the mother of a DS. Draw up a plan together with a tick list and get him started, he needs to be prepared for life...... Could you help him write his CV so he sees that he needs something more solid to add to it?
@wondering..he does seem to be stalling.we're gonna set a deadline for the end of the summer hols.
@Natasha..claimed to be catching up on line since start of this year as no register taken so am wondering if he'll be liable to repay and I've warned him that might happen.
@wondering..he does seem to be stalling.we're gonna set a deadline for the end of the summer hols.
@Natasha..claimed to be catching up on line since start of this year as no register taken so am wondering if he'll be liable to repay and I've warned him that might happen.
supersec great story !
So important that thy get out of the house, do SOMETHING and develop their communication skills for starters.
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
How do you insist an 18 yr old does something? He's a sweet soul and tends to agree with whatever I suggest and then says I will I will but never gets round to it.
I'm sure he's lovely but if he's not actually doing what you ask him to do - it's not all that lovely really. He sounds like he's talking the talk. You need to teach him a work ethic.
I agree Lottie..def want him to get out and do something even just part time.
@supersec..think you could be right..he's such a lovely person I don't want to spoil that.If I ask him to do anything round the house there's no hesitation.
I've tightened up a bit tho and told him he has to find something soon.Not sure what then but working on it..
I think you can insist an 18 year old does something if they are living at home and you are supporting them. I know some parents find this difficult, especially if there have been no previous problems.
In my experience, boys will not do anything unless they are forced to. My son in particular who is very nearly 18 needs a rocket up his backside to get him to do anything. He needs to be constantly reminded to do the right thing.
I made him get a part time job by forcing him to leave the house when I did in the mornings (in the snow in February), giving him a list of places to go to apply, and a bus ticket. I had to lock the doors and windows to make sure he didn't get back in as I knew he would give up after half an hour. I am sure the manager who employed him was very impressed that he was out looking for a job at 11 am at half term in the freezing cold!
Most parents would feel cruel going to this extreme but I knew I had to, otherwise I would have had a layabout son, as he had not work ethic at all.
He managed to get a good part time job within 3 days and he has been there 4 months now and it is the best thing that could have happened to him.. I now have to "encourage" (in other words force!) him to apply for courses in September as I don't want him lying in bed most of the day, even though he has the part time job. He did nothing at college over the past 2 years and will get disastrous grades in his A levels. He can't work part time forever and needs to do more to put on his CV.
At the end of the day some parents don't want to rock the boat with their adult children. I work with a woman whose son is 19 and has never even had a part time job - she funds everything for him - he does 16 hours a week at uni. She wants him to get a job but as long as she keeps paying for everything he definitely won't.
It might be work encouraging him to do something, if only working in a café or shop part-time. I know he's probably capable of more but it will get him out, give him money to save when he needs some and might even inspire him as to what he would like to do. My parents made it very clear that if I wasn't doing a course, I would be expected to contribute to the household whether or not I was working so I had to get a job - maybe this would help.
My niece is just finishing a two year drama course and has been working at Starbucks at weekends. Obviously it will be great to put what she's learned on her course to use, but for now she will work at Starbucks full-time - it will bring money in for her (she loves to spend) and she has someone who can give her a reference which will be a great help.
@Travelled..Targets and deadlines sounds good. Need to try and persuade him to try.He keeps saying he will look at this and that and then dosen't get round to it. How do you push him or persuade him without turning it into a battle? I guess I want him to do it for him and not me..
@wondering..his bursary has finished and he's just managed to not spend some.How do you insist an 18 yr old does something? He's a sweet soul and tends to agree with whatever I suggest and then says I will I will but never gets round to it.
How can he spend his bursary when hes not at uni?
I would insist he enrols for a course in something.
He will not be able to decide what he wants to do until he has some experience of doing something! what are his interests ? What are his strengths and weaknesses ? Have a brainstorm to come up with a list of ideas and get him to start looking for volunteering and casual work opportunities before it is too late!. Be prepared to walk into shops, offices, small charities, small business and talk to people. Simply sending in spec applications will not work in the current jobs market.
Work with him to set some targets and deadlines.
He's good with money as he rarely goes out so at the moment he's got about £70 left from his bursary. He does work over the internet sometimes and gets a bit of money.I give him nothing apart from food and am kinda willing his money to run out so he gets a wake up call
How is he supporting himself financially?
My 18 yr old son started uni last September but pretty much gave up around January. He fobbed me off for a while saying he was catching up on line but recently admitted he didn't like it.
I'm fine with that if it's not for him but he dosn't seem to know what he wants to do and spends days/weeks in his room. He hardly ever goes out but seems happy and says he's fine.
I keep trying to motivate him to apply for jobs/volunteer and he says he will but first needs to see what he wants to do.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Does Ability Grouping Harm Students?
Over the past few weeks, several publications have written about a new University of Sussex study purporting to show that ability grouping in math harms students.
This is news to those of us who follow education research. One of the biggest analyses of ability grouping to date (from James Kulik of the University of Michigan, surveying 23 major studies on grouping) found that when high-ability students receive accelerated classes, they advance as much as a whole year more than students of similar age and intelligence left in regular classrooms. Kulik's analysis found that specific subject grouping also helps slower students; low-achieving fourth graders put in a very focused group gained as much as two-thirds of an academic year over control subjects.
But the University of Sussex research, done by Prof. Jo Boaler and associated grad students, claims otherwise. The team followed 700 students over five years at three high schools. The press release states boldly that grouping kids by ability harms education. You can read an article about the research here. You can also read the report directly here.
Or you can read my take on it, rather than wading through the whole thing. I am always amazed, reading educational research, at how much the concept of "equity" excites some professors. Boaler studies math, and undertook her study to show that math classes could be used to advance the cause of democracy and caring for the least among us no differently than, say, civics class. She compared group-oriented, mixed-ability classes at a school poetically referred to as "Railside" (since it was near the railroad tracks) with two more suburban schools. The suburban schools used ability grouping. Though the students at Railside entered the school behind the suburban students, at the end of their four years, 41% of seniors were in advanced calculus or pre-calculus, v. 27% at the other schools.
That seems like a pretty clear win. But reading deeper, it becomes clear that the suburban schools were employing what I call the "boring" method of teaching mathematics. Teachers would lecture for 21% of the class; students would then work alone on problems in their textbooks for about half the class. Since this is the same thing they'd do for homework, I would not be surprised if kids spent whole periods watching the clock. When problems were discussed, teachers only spent about 2 minutes on each of them. There was very little opportunity for open-ended problem-solving.
At "Railside," on the other hand, when the teachers did discuss problems, they'd spend 5.7 minutes on a problem, and Boaler describes the process as far more interactive. The kids did a lot of group work -- approx. 70% of the class. There is nothing wrong with learning in groups. Math problem solving can often benefit from a shared approach. Of course, Boaler, being so into "equity," finds this very satisfying for a different reason. Students receive group grades! And best of all, they feel "responsible" for unmotivated students in their groups, rather than feeling that they are a "burden." The political implications are clear.
But I digress. What struck me, reading this study, is how well-trained the teachers at Railside must have been to make this set-up work. Since Boaler talks about "teachers" I am assuming that multiple ones employed this same group-work strategy. That means Railside had fairly strong quality controls in its math department. Teachers settled on a strategy and were committed to its implementation. They asked open-ended questions, and explained topics in depth. They roamed between groups during the problem solving sessions, meaning they were energetic enough to stay on-task for the entire class period. The beauty of the "traditional" approach (as Boaler refers to it) is that it allows the math teacher to read a copy of US Weekly for the 48% of the time the students are doing problems alone in their workbooks.
It begs the question. Given that Kulik's meta-analysis of major educational studies found that, in general, ability grouping helps both slower and faster learners learn more, isn't it possible that the better results achieved at Railside are the result of energetic, committed teachers, rather than the lack of ability grouping? Great teachers are highly correlated with great results.
Unfortunately, they're also rare. As I've written about ability grouping before on this blog, the benefit to that approach is that it fails better. Given a choice of a mixed ability class with a great teacher, and an ability grouped class with a lousy one, I'd take the former. But that is usually not the choice. This study compares intense, analytical, teacher-directed group learning with the "boring" method of teaching math. The former also happens to be heterogeneous in this case; the latter homogeneous. But when there are two big differences between things you're comparing, it's hard to know which one causes the results.
Two other quick critiques. First, while I think the teaching is more responsible for the gains seen at Railside than the ability grouping, the general type of ability grouping employed in American schools isn't finely tuned enough to challenge bright kids anyway. Creating three reading groups in a standard neighborhood school is slightly helpful. But it's far more helpful to create a gifted magnet program that draws students from, say, five counties. Then you can actually create classes for the top .1%. It wouldn't surprise me to find that most students in the 85-115 IQ range can do OK in a math class together. But if you try to throw, say, a Nate Bottman (2007 Davidson Fellow, topic: Analytically Determining the Spectra of Solutions of the NLS) in to a group-learning, mixed ability class, you will quickly find a problem with the approach. At Railside, "If they found that one student was standing out, by, for example, being faster in their mathematical thinking, they would find aspects of the work that the student was less good at and for which they needed more practice," Boaler writes. But a child who's learned calculus on her own at night is not going to need to practice more on any aspect of algebra.
And second, I assume the University of Sussex, and Stanford, where Boaler has also taught, aren't letting just anyone in these days. Their graduate programs and professorial hires are very much grouped by ability. This research was a group project between Boaler and her grad students. But this was hardly a true "mixed ability group." If Boaler really thinks ability grouping is harmful and inequitable, she should have pulled three people off the streets and asked them to work with her instead. I'm sure the results would have been just as good, and Boaler wouldn't have had to carry any extra weight in the computations at all...
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Nice analysis for why this research comes to the opposite result from previous research in the field. Have you sent a letter to the editor of the journal that published the original report?
Of course, bad research that supports a prejudice gets much more
press and sticks in people's heads much longer than good research that
goes against a prejudice, so I think that this Univ. of Sussex report
will be used as evidence against ability grouping for years after it
is debunked.
The author of the study concluded that the mixed-ability group was more successful because a greater percentage of students were placed in high level classes at the end of their high school careers. Many high school students complete courses labeled college prep or honors only to be placed in remedial classes in college. I want to see a comparison based on SAT scores or other standardized tests between the different groups before I believe that one group did better than the other.
I have also serious reservations about the study report attributing the success of Railside to mixed ability grouping.
It is a basic requirement that for any study to draw clear conclusions is having only one variable between the groups. Laura has pointed out the significant difference in the quality and method of teaching between Railside and the other two schools.
I would venture to add an observation that the characterisitcs of the student population in the schools is also a significant factor - in Greendale and Hilltop, there are few if any Asian students. I don't know enough about California, but in my part of the country, Asian students have generally been very focused in academic achievement, particularly in Maths which, in comparison to other academic subjects, does not require a high proficiency in English which is often not the language spoken by the Asian students at home. I don't have the stats to find out how much the 16% Asian Railside students accounted for the extra 14% of seniors in Pre-Calculus/Calculus classes, but my local magnate school is 90%+ of Indian or Chinese descent. If this study was designed to be objective, the two other schools should have similar ethnic make-up in the student population. If Railside was chosen with prior knowledge that their seniors have always had a high percentage of enrolment in advanced classes, this study cannot be taken seriously; rather, a much ado about advancng an "equitable" educational phiolosophy.
Know what? I chuckled while reading page 13 of the report. "At the end of Year 1, ... at Railside, there were no longer significant differences between the achievement of White and Hispanic students, nor Filipino students and Hispanic and Black students. In subsequent years the only consistent difference that remained was the high performance of (East) Asian students who continued to significantly outperform Black and Hispanic students, but differences between White, Black and Hispanic students disappeared." This sounds like the Asian students maintained their high achievement DESPITE the mixed ability grouping, while the White students have become "equalised" with the Black and Hispanic students, possibly due simply to the group marking system. My follow-up question is, whether those who got equalised were the ones who have assimilated the collective responsibility and relational equity philosophies and who have spent their learning time teaching the slower students!
To me, the fundamental consideration where gifted education is concerned,is whether being held back for the sake of
"relational equity" is indeed conducive to later "success in life" for the gifted children, and therefore a worthwhile price to pay. Until that is proven, I hope the researhers will focus their energy on how to help highly/profoundly gifted individuals maximize their exceptional potentials, which more likely lie in the pursuit, application, synthesis and (hopefully) advancement of knowledge, than in human relations and social cohesion.
Having said that, I'll be all for the UK trialling this mixed ability grouping and group marking system in their sports academies.
I have not yet read the detailed report and thus respond with caution. If the claims of the critic regarding the facts of the research are accurate then the critique seems very valid and consistent with other studies that suggest that it is the poor teaching rampant in low track courses that significantly explains the achievement deficits. A good examination of this interrelation of tracking with low quality curriculum/instruction is found at http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kappan.htm
. What is unfortunate and undermines the critiques credibility is the ad hominen attack attack at the close. While perhaps emotionally satisfying it demonstrates an underlying motivation based in something other than an unprejudiced attempt to arrive at the truth of the matter.
Have you ever been ability-grouped during school?
I am an undergraduate student in my third year and developed an online questionnaire (on ability grouping) for my dissertation (approx. 10 min. to complete). I've got problems to find participants (so far only 3 fully completed it).
I know the criteria are not easily met (that's the main problem). The criteria for participants are: (1) being over 18 years (2) having been assigned to a middle/medium or low/bottom ability set/group during school (3) been on an English school.
It would be really great if you could fill out the online-questionnaire or forward this link to friends/acquaintances.
Here's the link: http://www.esurveycreator.com/live.php?code=73b4041
Thank you SO much!!!
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Boalers results have been questioned thoroughly and been contested. The testing of the Railside students does not appear legitimate. I saw sample questions from the tests which were supposedly geared toward 9/10 th graders and they were at a 6-7 grade level. In addition, when the Railside students were followed in college, a significantly higher percentage of them required remedial classes as compared to the 2 other schools AND as compared to all California college students in the CSU system. I think her study is bogus.


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Downing, J., Day, N. and Murray-Rust, P. (2008) CrystalEye: From Desktop To Data Repository. In: Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008, 1-4 April 2008, Southampton, United Kingdom.
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CrystalEye began its life as the backbone of Nick Day's PhD research - looking to find the chemical reasons for limitations in computational molecular structure prediction by comparing real structures (from published crystallography) with those predicted by a computational code. The crystallographic data was scraped from publishers' websites and processed to add chemical information (a heuristic process, also part of the research). The project evolved; HTML pages of derived data were created as a method of results data visualisation, these were published as a website, and functionality was added to serve Nick's research and in response to the community. At the same time, the scale of the data increased, bringing other challenges and concerns. We believe CrystalEye is important to the repositories community because it could not have been achieved using the prevalent centralised repository approach, because the context and first steps are typical of \"small science\" research, and because we believe there is a key role for initiatives such as CrystalEye in the repository ecology. This presentation traces the evolution of CrystalEye, and discusses: - * The repository-like features in CrystalEye * Lessons learnt - the technologies, standards and practises that allow for organic growth, and those that prevent it. * The implications for other \"small science\" projects. * The implications for institutional repositories - how can efforts like CrystalEye fit into an IR approach.
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He had only two years in national office, in the lower House of representatives, to four for Obama in the upper house, the Senate.
Another A3P candidate won 11 percent of the vote in a recent run for a seat in the New Hampshire House of representatives.
Start with the House of representatives with its new Republican majority.
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Even if the bill sails through the Senate as expected, it still has to pass the tumultuous House of representatives.
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The birds of the air have, in this region, their representatives in the water.
The people shall exercise the legislative power through their representatives.
This, by the way, was never confirmed by the representatives of the other Allies.
They are, in fact, as we have already seen, the representatives of the benevolent ancestral ghosts.
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Popularly elected officials who serve in state legislatures and in the House of Representatives in Congress. Representing the local districts from which they are elected, representatives support the interests of their constituents by proposing bills and programs. Elected for two-year terms, representatives in Congress must be sensitive to their constituents' concerns in order to be reelected.


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Brett waved his hand in deprecation of such a pernicious thought.
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I had been over-hasty in my deprecation; I owed as much to Pugh.
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Oh," replied Findlayson, with a gesture of deprecation, "you are not a clam!
The hand of the man dropped in outward motion of deprecation.
What ardor, too, for the newest science, what worship of Descartes and deprecation of the philosophers before him!
Beasley was serious again, and wore an air of deprecation when he answered her.
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We had booked 5 nights in Prague, pretty long for our standards. The main reason for this was because everyone we talk to rates it as one of their favorite places, and it didn't disappoint! We were instantly captivated by our surroundings. So many massive old structures in the old town area and all the flash new buildings in the new town. Prague was another lucky city to not be destroyed in WW II, as it was one of Hitlers favorite cities and he planned to retire here.
The Czech Republic is famous for its alcohol. They have many beers including the father of most modern beers, the first Pilsner - Pilsner Uquell They also are into their absinthe, from the Bohemian region. At the moment though, their spirits are rather infamous. In the 3 weeks leading up to our arrival, 19 people have died and many more in hospital from dodgy bootleg spirits sold as the real deal. The bootleg is made with methanol (not ethanol) which is quite toxic. Our first night we were asking for vodkas and we couldn't understand why no one would sell it, only to eventually find out that any alcohol with a higher than 20% was banned from sale from the day before we got there! We were kinda spewin' but glad at the same time.
We did the walking tour like usual and checked out the huge castle on our first full day there, and spent the rest of the days just cruising round and checking out the place. We went to a pub where it has beer taps at every table which just measure the cumulative volume you pour for yourself, pretty cool!
We also went out one night to a 5 level club. It was pretty tacky, but plenty of fun. We also treated ourselves to a lay around relaxing day, though for Kate it was more-so sleeping off a hangover. She's not used to having to drink beer all night with the spirit ban!
Sitting on a train to Munich now for Oktoberfest, along with stacks of other people. The train is overloaded, so we are glad we paid the little more to reserve a seat! It's also our 11 year anniversary today* :-) !
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I'm an animal lover and I always will be. Seeing animals abused makes me sad.
I'm a nerd and its awesome.
I like watching sports.The Bruins, Patriots, and Red Sox. I also like the Blackhawks, Bears, and the Cubs. I've never been to Chicago so who knows where that came from. Extreme sports as well.
I also love Pro Wrestling.
Oh, and if you find yourself singing about things you are doing like making a sandwich and such we're probably a great match.
I have way too many interests. I want to be a marine biologist..or a cryptozoologist..maybe an artist... no a writer. See what I mean. Also, outer space intrigues me.
I am funny and out there. Seriously, I'm a weirdo
I play Bass. I'm not that good. I'll admit it.
I love cars and trucks
I'm a good artist. At least I used to think I was.
I like fishing in the spring in summer(strictly catch and release)
Jeff Rosenstock is my spirit animal.
Falling asleep half way through episodes on Netflix.
Being open minded and speaking my mind.
Making people laugh.
Pinball and classic arcade games..even though I'm a little rusty right now.
Drawing(So I'm Told)
Automotive history. At least with cars I like.
Picking out the voices of voice actors I know and getting excited when I'm right or when they're in something I wasn't expecting. (NERD ALERT)
Oh, and making sandwiches. I make awesome sandwiches!
My Facial hair and my taste in music by that I mean I'm usually in a band tee.
I'm a little quiet at first but after a while I don't shut up. I used to have no self confidence but I have a lot more now.
Reel Big Fish
Streetlight Manifesto
Bomb the Music Industry! ( anything else Jeff Rosenstock touches too)
Mustard Plug
Suburban Legends
Ramshackle Glory
Bad Religion
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Big D and The Kids Table
The Misfits with Danzig
Less Than Jake
Pink Floyd
the pillows
The Ramones
Minor Threat
You get the point.
For books I read a lot of manga and magazines. If I find a book interesting I will read it.
T.V. hmm..whatever sounds good
Oddities is a awesome show. The morbid can be interesting.
Anything to do with cars e.g. Fast N' Loud and Graveyard Carz
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (I still don't want to believe it's ending in December :( ) Update: James Corden is a good replacement and Reggie Watts is the man.
Six Feet Under
True Blood
The Walking Dead
Masters of Sex
How I Met Your Mother
Friends With Better Lives
About A Boy
Impractical Jokers
Adventure Time
Regular Show
[adult swim]
A to Z
Plenty of Others this list is pretty outdated. I'll get to it eventually.
Troma and other indie films
Kevin Smith
Star Wars
Studio Ghibli
Eddie and The Cruisers
Repo Man
I'm not that picky with movies. I watched all of Rubber without a second thought.
I like almost all food. Except seafood. Yes, I know I live in New England. Oh, and I have a Juicer. There is almost always something in my fridge that makes people say "what the hell is that?" I'm trying to be a little more healthy....How'd that bacon get on my veggie burger?
Burritos yeah burritos. Come with me to Gordo's Burritos & Tacos. It will change your life.
If you like Peanut Butter on your burgers please message me. I need to prove to all my friends that i'm not the only one.
Why I'm on all these online dating sites.
Ideas for movies and books and whatever.
Conspiracy theories and the supernatural..or not so supernatural.
Let's leave a little mystery in here....Ask me anything
If you are not shallow and judge before you know someone.
If you want to cuddle and watch Netflix or just want to hang out with someone.
If you have beat my record of being the 9th wheel.
If you think I'm adorable..just kidding.. who doesn't think I'm adorable..(really I'm kidding) ;)


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Published: October 20, 2006 at 2:21 PMGreat Question!
I would say Pearl, this kindly old woman that worked at the American Adventure in EPCOT. She seemed super excited and priviliged to present to us the American Adventure. I didn't see her the last time I was there however! Hope she is ok.
Other mentions:
The Candy lady in Japan (yes she is back!-HALLO)
Andy Mation the balloon sculpter on MGM
Published: October 20, 2006 at 2:56 PMI have to say I find the most professional employee's at Disney theme parks. This one guy sticks out. We were at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, and it was a buffet type place, with african treats, and lots of delicious food. Our waiter was the nicest, most attentive guy we've ever encountered, and he made our visit to this restaurant even better! I wish I could remember his name, but he worked his butt off. I remember he took a seat next to us and said, "Oh boy I am very tired, I'm just going to relax with you for a bit. How are you enjoying your stay?" He saw his boss and said, "Oops, I'm going to have to get back up." He was great.
Published: October 20, 2006 at 3:29 PMGiven her recent video on the internet, I'd have to say Minnie Mouse at the Paris Disneyland. She obviously bends over backwards to make the other employees happy. I can now understand why it's called the Happiest Place on Earth. ;)
Published: October 20, 2006 at 4:26 PMWhen our oldest son was 3-years-old, we took him to the Magic Kingdom for the 1st time. (He's 16 now, so it was 13 years ago.) We got there at 10 AM and he had to go on Dumbo first thing. There was a red-headed female CM working the ride. She looked like a young, thin version of Sarah Ferguson, but with a heavy southern accent.
She was so friendly, joking with the kids , getting them to sing, playing with them. She was impressive even by Disney standards. As the park was getting ready to close (around 10 PM), my son wanted to ride Dumbo one last time. When we got there, she was still there and she was just as happy and smiling, 12 hours later. Incredible.
Published: October 22, 2006 at 8:46 AMDon't know about best employee ever, but I currently give my nod to two of the chain saw carrying zombies at Universal Studios Orlando Halloween Horrow nights. One is a petite lady dressed up like Alice in Wonderland and the other is a non-descript crazy hiding at the exit of one of the mazes next to the Jaws attraction. Both deserve kudos for putting their all into scaring the guests.
Published: October 22, 2006 at 2:05 PMOooh yeah, that Alice chick is hot, considering she's covered in blood, etc..
OK, my nomination is for JERRY at MEN IN BLACK.
This guy always talks to guests, always tells the kids, and the big kids, where to shoot for maximum points.
He really does go beyond for his guests! Never remembers me though :-( (Or perhaps he's just ignoring me , Hmmmmmmm)
Published: October 23, 2006 at 8:05 AMi like to nomittee connie my marheting prof because she used to wark at disney as a cast member and she can teach as well as be a cast member
Published: October 23, 2006 at 3:02 PMthe best theme park worker would have to Tim Martian. He was the manger on duty at Disney's Carribean Beach. Unfornatuly we got to meet him beacuse of a accident but we has very prompt to getting there continued to call to make sure everybody was okay and made out experiance worth while.


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A family has passed near one month ago. I reside in a different state. The passed family member did have a will or multiple wills along with multiple properties/bank accounts/ cars/ property. The will has been stolen from her estate. Where do I look to find the will? Do I need an attorney in their residing state? What is to happen to the person who took the will and is distributing property against the deceased person's wishes? I have been granted inheritance from life insurance, but property that was discussed is being taken by other family members.
I'm sorry to hear you're having these issues. I would start by calling your loved one's attorney - many attorneys keep originals or copies of the will. If you don't know who your loved one's attorney is, you could call estate planning attorneys in your area, or ask your loved one's friends (if that is possible) if they know who her attorney is.
If the will was truly stolen, you find the new one and you can prove what happened, you should be able to get the property transfers undone, assuming that that property has not disappeared. The person who did it could possibly face civil and/or criminal penalties. If I were you, I would consult a probate attorney in your family member's area as soon as possible before anything else happens. Good luck!Ask a similar question
I am sorry for your loss. Attorney White is correct. Many times, the attorney who prepares a will keeps the original in his or her law firm's fire-proof vault. Accordingly, although a copy may be destroyed, the original may still be in existence. If the search seems overwhelming, your best bet is to retain an attorney in your loved one's jurisdiction to provide assistance. Good luck to you.
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I agree with the other attorneys. You will also want to do everything possible to find the original will; ie the copy that the family member actually signed. This will be the only version that can be submitted to probate absent court approval - and even then, only if there are no objections from other family members.
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I agree with my colleagues. I would simply add that, in response to your comment that "property that was discussed is being taken by other family members," I assume you are talking about personal items and household effects. Titled assets would not be accessible to anyone other than the executor or administrator for the estate. It is not clear from your summary whether an estate is open or not. Until an estate is open, you may not be able to prevent this kind of "looting." I would meet with a probate attorney in the estate where decedent resided, in order to determine how best to proceed.
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The leader of the Roman Catholic Church doesn't do political endorsements, and Pope Benedict XVI isn't likely to make an exception for the Tea Party movement, no matter how much momentum the populist tax revolt gains as the fall election campaign picks up speed.
But after watching Benedict during his visit to Britain this weekend -- widely considered a success in the face of low expectations -- Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor-at-large of National Review Online, saw both the Tea Party and the pontiff as calling Americans to a spiritual and political battle against big government and on behalf of greater freedom.
Pope Benedict XVI and the Tea Party Movement: Soulmates?
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It's hard to talk about this game in a way. It has nothing to do with the fact the Friars lost 66-72, nor does it have much to do with how they lost. It's hard to talk about because it truly does feel like the beginning of the end of an era. There won't be a "next year when we play the Cuse…" because there's no promise we'll play them next year (or ever again outside of tournaments), and there isn't going to be a "when they come to the Dunk during the Big East season…" because there won't be a Big East season for Syracuse ever again. The avalanche the Pitt and Syracuse chancellors started in August 2011 is stampeding towards the end-of-the-season finish line at this point. Kind of sad if you think about it.
But enough nostalgia, let's talk basketball!
Hot Potatoes: Right out of the gate we were trading leads with the Orange. The Cuse would strike and start to build on something and all of a sudden Bryce Cotton would hit a few threes and we'd be back in the game. But we were our own worst enemy when it came to holding onto any sort of lead: free throws and rebounds.
Let's start with rebounds. The Friars were outrebounded 27 to 41, with the Orange grabbing 18 offensive boards to Providence's 9. This allowed for 17 second chance points alone for Cuse. The numbers alone are bad, but the bigger issue is how these numbers transpired. There's no nice way to say it – Providence looked like they were rebounding with Vaseline on their hands. It's one thing to get outmuscled, but to see a rebounder like Kadeem Batts go up to grab a board, only to have it slip through his fingers like a ghost punched the ball. The ball would fall to a Syracuse player who would gain control of it and allow the Orange to retain possession. At one point this happened three times in one possession before Syracuse finally converted on their fourth attempt.
Free throws were once again an issue for the Friars. Converting on just 65% of their free throw attempts (15-23) is harmful enough, but now combine that with all the missed rebound opportunities and you have a game that could have been won with an L next to it. Debating whether lack of hit free throws or lack of defensive rebounding was the cause for the L is infinite because strong cases could be made for both.
Say the Friars hit five more free throws – that makes them a very respectable 21-23, or 91% from the charity stripe, and it only puts them even with the Orange. Or, say they grabbed just a few more defensive rebounds and kept the Orange to 10 second chance points, the same amount the Friars hit – well now Providence is up by one at the end of the game. Put the two together in any sort of combination you wish and you have a solid home win over a top ranked team. Again, it's not like you have someone in your face or you're working against a shot clock when you're taking free throw shots. Nor was it a situation where every one of these rebounds were wrestled away from the Friars by the Orange. These were two errors in the Friar performance that cost a W.
Back on O: In the latest edition of FriarPod one of the discussion points was how the Friar offense has lost it's mojo because there were too many options. Who do you trust to make a shot? Before it was easy – you trust Cotton, Batts, sometimes Henton or even Lee, but the options were known and so there wasn't an issue of players trying to make plays or take shots that may not be available. Thankfully this problem seems to have been resolved. The Friars shot well from the field, 21-50 for the game, with Bryce Cotton once again playing the role of Mr. Hothand with 24 points on 7-10 shooting (including 5-8 from the three).
It's not all dandelions and NBA Jam though. Beyond Cotton the rest of the team struggled to score, including go-to scorers such as Batts (1-8 shooting) and Henton (4-11 shooting, and the only other Friar in double figures with 10 points). The shots being taken were, for the most part, smarter on the selection, but there were still moments when the Friars made you stand up and go "WTF mate?" However, acknowledging this team is a work in progress I will say the offensive improved vastly.
Pinewood Derby: Part of the offensive improvement I believe came from the rotation Cooley set up. From the starting lineup changes were obvious – Council and Dunn were both sitting on the bench, with Dunn being limited to just nine minutes. However, this was probably the most effective thing done with this team since Dunn, Council, and Johnson joined the lineup because it did a few things:
- Prevented offensive log jams (a.k.a. "who's the shooter" syndrome)
- Allowed key players to rest
- Held players accountable
Let's look at Dunn for example. Dunn was limited to nine minutes, but that was because he was accountable for two key turnovers that allowed Syracuse to score. Additionally, it gave the freshman star time to rest and relax his shoulder, while allowing the offense on the flow because there was less confusion over who was doing what. While this is just one example, it's encouraging that Cooley is coaching this way because it shows true sophistication and understanding about his team's chemistry. To that same effect, it allows teaching opportunities for players such as Dunn, so they can grow into better players on a game-to-game basis. It's a Keno-era mistake to throw players into a game willy-nilly without forethought as to how those players will play together, just as it is a critical error not to hold players accountable or use the bench as a teaching opportunity because "they'll get it eventually" or "they were rated so highly out of high school."
Dunn is now a better player from this – probably not a superstar yet, but he doesn't need to be, he just needs to improve. Take that example of Dunn and apply it to any other player you like – it works out. The numbers don't lie, neither did the visual performance. There were mistakes, but if a player like Council comes off the bench and has an 4:1 assist/turnover ratio (8 and 2, respectively), doesn't that show he's grown more from the experience than when he started against DePaul and had a 6:8 ratio? I say yes.
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Today's Daily Double answer is 'Syracuse basketball is best known for this type of defense'
If you answered '2-3 zone!' you're wrong because you didn't answer in the form of a question and clearly you don't know how Jeopardy works. But you're also right, it is the 2-3 zone. And boy oh boy when we played the zone against them did they ever not like it.
It's clear at this point that until this team learns to play quicker on D or until reinforcements come next year we're not going back to the man-to-man defense. It's not effective for us, and we're playing better in the zone anyway. Cooley kept the Friars in the zone for a large majority of the game, and it was largely effective. While Syracuse hammered the Friars in the paint (46 points. Let's never talk about it again) the Friars actually guarded the three somewhat well. Syracuse shot 3-21 for the game from beyond the arc, good for a whooping 14%. While yes, they would occasionally get an open look, for the most part the Orange missed by a mile wide. While this isn't to claim that Syracuse is some superstar 3 point shooting team that had their game completely striped of them from the zone, we can at least take away the fact that progress is being made on the defensive end after initial concerns from BC were carried up through DePaul. Furthermore, Syracuse shot 26-62 from the field for the game, good for 41%. That's a problem in it's own right, but most of those also came from Dunks and great post moves (sigh: 46 points in the paint). While there's still work to do, the Friars at least displayed they were moving in the right direction defensively.
I'd also argue the defense was more effective because of the rotations for the same reason the offense seemed to flow better. The team is responding to better chemistry, and Cooley is making sure that he rotates and plays his players to that level of chemistry. It's a smart coach who recognizes this and is able to adjust his rotations according, and Cooley is making those smart decisions.
Player of the Game: Bryce Cotton has redeemed himself from DePaul. He played intelligently, worked well with the flow on offense and defense, and was making the right decisions at the right time. Although his offensive game slowed down in the second half he was able to continue to find ways to be effective, and the full 40 minutes of playing time reflects that. It's no secret that we here at Friarblog love Ice, so to him I say "well done" and "please do this again against Seton Hall."
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I'm a Facebook junkie—I'll admit it. I even work a bit of Tweeting into my routine for work and some organizations in which I'm involved. But I'm far from a cutting-edge social networker. I see the value that social networking has brought to many companies, and it certainly has changed the way we communicate and interact as a society.
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1. Re: Cold ATR and Warm ATRUmer Mar 13, 2012 6:26 AM (in response to 870535)Please have a look: cold and warm reset
And it is not necessary that the ATR is always be different when cold to warm. It will different when you changed the card contents or some application inside card do it.
2. Re: Cold ATR and Warm ATRsafarmer Mar 13, 2012 10:15 PM (in response to 870535)Hi,
As mentioned, the difference you are referring to is not the ATR but the reset (R). I am not familiar with that book but it could be cold reset and warm reset not cold and warm ATR.
Can you share the section (sentence) of the book that talks about this?
3. Re: Cold ATR and Warm ATR870535 Mar 17, 2012 8:47 AM (in response to safarmer)hi,
many thanks for your attention, by the way it's better that I categorize my question to clear the air:
1- I found that there are many cards which in cold reset and warm reset return same ATR, and also there are many cards which return different ATR in cold reset and warm reset, so why does it happen? why some cards have 2 ATR? what are the benefits when we get 2 different ATR in cold reset and warm reset?
2- I found that after warm reset Bit Duration Clock Cycles and Work Waiting Time will change, why is that? does the card work slower after warm reset?
tnx again
4. Re: Cold ATR and Warm ATR924658 Mar 18, 2012 2:00 PM (in response to 870535)To start with ATR (Answer To Reset) mainly contains information for the host for further communication with the card after the first reset. This includes the maximum communication speed, supported contact based protocol. It also consists of 'Historical Bytes' which has some OS specific information. For example an OS provider may provide information like the current card state, Chip Type used, the IC Fabricator etc.
Mostly the warm and cold reset will have the same value.
As per ISO7816 there are 2 supported modes of communication:
1. Negotiable mode: Here the ATR indicates the maximum communication speed. Hence the host can communicate with the card using speed not exceeding the mentioned limit
2. Specific Mode: Here the ATR indicates the only communication speed to be used. Hence the host should use this speed to communicate with the card.
This mode of communication might be a requirement for few domain like Banking.
There are smartcard available that support these 2 modes and on COLD reset the specific mode gets activated and this is indicated in the ATR bytes. (TA2)
Warm reset will always be available and the byte TA2 will not be present in it.
This is one difference as per my knowledge.
5. Re: Cold ATR and Warm ATR801926 Mar 19, 2012 2:34 PM (in response to 870535)If you have a GlobalPlatform compliant card, you can set via a Java Card applet own cold ATR via GP API. This applet needs to have default selected privilege.


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The effects of bioactive akermanite on physiochemical, drug-delivery and biological properties of poly (lactide-co-glycolide) beads
Liu, Gang, Wu, Chengtie, Fan, Wei, Miao, Xigen, Dong-Choon, Sin, Crawford, Ross W., & Xiao, Yin (2011) The effects of bioactive akermanite on physiochemical, drug-delivery and biological properties of poly (lactide-co-glycolide) beads. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part B: Applied Biomaterials, 96 B(2), pp. 360-368.
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Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) beads have been widely studied as a potential drug/protein carrier. The main shortcomings of PLGA beads are that they lack bioactivity and controllable drug-delivery ability, and their acidic degradation by-products can lead to pH decrease in the vicinity of the implants. Akermanite (AK) (Ca(2) MgSi(2) O(7) ) is a novel bioactive ceramic which has shown excellent bioactivity and degradation in vivo. This study aimed to incorporate AK to PLGA beads to improve the physiochemical, drug-delivery, and biological properties of PLGA beads. The microstructure of beads was characterized by SEM. The effect of AK incorporating into PLGA beads on the mechanical strength, apatite-formation ability, the loading and release of BSA, and the proliferation, and differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) was investigated. The results showed that the incorporation of AK into PLGA beads altered the anisotropic microporous structure into homogenous one and improved their compressive strength and apatite-formation ability in simulated body fluids (SBF). AK neutralized the acidic products from PLGA beads, leading to stable pH value of 7.4 in biological environment. AK led to a sustainable and controllable release of bovine serum albumin (BSA) in PLGA beads. The incorporation of AK into PLGA beads enhanced the proliferation and alkaline phosphatase activity of BMSCs. This study implies that the incorporation of AK into PLGA beads is a promising method to enhance their physiochemical and biological property. AK/PLGA composite beads are a potential bioactive drug-delivery system for bone tissue repair.
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