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|Re: [PATCH] Jira-189 ResultSetMetaData.getSchemaName and ResultSetMetaData.isWritable donot return correct values
|Mon, 02 May 2005 23:25:32 GMT
Hi, Mamta, this looks good. It built, and I ran as many tests as I could before I had to leave for the day. My God, those tests take a long time to run. But that's a topic for a separate discussion :) Here are my comments and questions... - What you have looks good and makes sense, but I don't know the code well enough to know if you're missing something. I guess the tests help guarantee that, but someone more familiar with the code taking a look would be great. - I was curious how impl.sql.compile.ResultColumnList.getResultColumnThroughExpression() was used. In NetBeans I searched for all usages of it and could find none. To double-check, I did a full search of the codeline and only found it where it is defined, and no uses. Is there a reason to have this method if nothing uses it? - in ResultColumnDescriptor.java, why did you change the method from getSchemaName() to getSourceSchemaName()? Is this just to make it more clear what the method is doing? - A lot of your comments and code seem to far exceed 80 characters in length per line. This makes it hard to read in diff output and text-based editors, and it requires scrolling in IDEs. Could you please limit your source lines to 80 characters? - The method commonCodeForUpdateableBySql in ResultColumnList.java should have comments with /** and */ rather than // It took me a while in 'vi' to determine this was a new method, to the eye it looks like a continuation of the previous method. David Mamta Satoor wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry if I sound like a broken record, but please, will someone > review this? And if no concerns from anyone, will a commiter commit > it? > > thanks, > Mamta > > On 4/27/05, Mamta Satoor <email@example.com> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I wondered if anyone got a chance to review this patch? >> >>thanks, >>Mamta >> >>On 4/24/05, Mamta Satoor <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> >>>Hi Dan, >>> >>>I have a new patch for this bug which also fixes the problem you >>>brought up with sql select * from a.t as X. The fix for this required >>>change in impl.sql.compile.FromBaseTable's method genResultColList(). >>>I changed the code such that we set the TableDescriptor on the >>>ColumnDescriptor instance. This TableDescriptor is later used by >>>ResultColumn.getTableName to get the base table name of the column. In >>>addition to that, I changed ColumnReference.getSourceTableName and >>>ColumnReference.getSourceSchemaName so that they don't look at the >>>user supplied correlation name (if any) to fetch the base table/schema >>>name. >>> >>>I have also added some test cases for the code changes above in >>>jdbcapi/resultset.java >>> >>>Other than this, the rest of the patch stays the same as what you >>>tried applying last week. >>> >>>I have run the tests and there is no new failure because of my changes. >>> >>>svn stat output >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\sql\compile\ResultColumn.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\sql\compile\VirtualColumnNode.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\sql\compile\CursorNode.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\sql\compile\FromBaseTable.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\sql\compile\BaseColumnNode.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\sql\compile\ColumnReference.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\sql\compile\ValueNode.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\sql\compile\ResultColumnList.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\sql\GenericColumnDescriptor.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\jdbc\EmbedResultSet.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\jdbc\EmbedResultSetMetaData.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\iapi\sql\dictionary\ColumnDescriptor.java >>>M java\engine\org\apache\derby\iapi\sql\ResultColumnDescriptor.java >>>M java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\tests\lang\updatableResultSet.java >>>M java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\tests\jdbcapi\resultset.java >>>M java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\master\DerbyNet\updatableResultSet.out >>>M java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\master\DerbyNet\resultset.out >>>M java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\master\DerbyNetClient\updatableResultSet.out >>>M java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\master\DerbyNetClient\resultset.out >>>M java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\master\updatableResultSet.out >>>M java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\master\jdk14\updatableResultSet.out >>>M java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\master\resultset.out >>> >>>Please commit the patch if there are no further issues, >>>Mamta >>> >>>On 4/22/05, Mamta Satoor <email@example.com> wrote: >>> >>>>Hi Dan, >>>> >>>>I did some research into this. You are right that for the sql >>>>select * from a.t as X >>>>the existing code will return ABC using both getTableName and >>>>getSourceTableName. Looking at the history of ColumnReference before >>>>the code was >>>>contributed, the getSourceTableName was added to Cloudscape so that >>>>ResultSetMetaData.getTableName will return the correct value which is >>>>base table >>>>name. Seems like over the time, this functionality got broken again. >>>> >>>>In my code line, I tried changing ColumnReference.getSourceTableName >>>>to following >>>>public String getSourceTableName() >>>>{ >>>>return ((source != null) ? source.getTableName() : null); >>>>} >>>> >>>>But, that did not solve the problem. The source.getTableName() invokes >>>>ResultColumn.getTableName which is currently coded as follows >>>>public String getTableName() >>>>{ >>>> if (tableName != null) >>>> { >>>> return tableName; >>>> } >>>> if ((columnDescriptor!=null) && >>>> (columnDescriptor.getTableDescriptor() != null)) >>>> { >>>> return columnDescriptor.getTableDescriptor().getName(); >>>> } >>>> else >>>> { >>>> return expression.getTableName(); >>>> } >>>>} >>>> >>>>In the code above, the first 2 if conditions return false and hence >>>>expression.getTableName() get called which returns ABC for the sql >>>>above. And this >>>>is the problem in my opinion. The 2nd if condition needs to succeed in >>>>order to get the correct value for table name(currently, the 2nd if >>>>condition >>>>returns false because columnDescriptor.getTableDescriptor() returns >>>>null). columnDescriptor has its table descriptor set to null since it >>>>got >>>>instantiated via SYSCOLUMNSRowFactory which passes the uuid for the >>>>table but not the table descriptor. I tried changing >>>>ColumnDescriptor's >>>>2nd constructor(the one which doesn't get table descriptor passed to >>>>it) to try to get the table descriptor from the uuid by calling >>>>getDataDictionary.getTableDescriptor(uuid), but it gives me Raw Store >>>>internal error. I will continue to research but does someone looking >>>>at this >>>>explanation have any thoughts on the program flow or issue in general? >>>> >>>>thanks, >>>>Mamta >>>> >>>> >>>>On 4/20/05, Daniel John Debrunner <email@example.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>The patch applies fine and passes the tests but I need some >>>>>clarification on some methods in ColumnReference. >>>>> >>>>>ColumnReference has these class specific methods >>>>> >>>>>getSourceTableName() >>>>>getSourceSchemaName() [added by this contribution] >>>>> >>>>>and because it is a ValueNode it also has >>>>> >>>>>getTableName >>>>>getSchemaName >>>>> >>>>>Mamta, can you clarify the difference between the getSource*Name methods >>>>>and get*Name methods? Eventually as comments in the javadoc for these >>>>>methods, but some discussion on the list may be useful. >>>>> >>>>>I'm worried because most of the bugs around correlation names I think >>>>>were due to having multiple methods with similar and maybe misleading >>>>>names but no clear definition of what they returned. >>>>> >>>>>In this specific case, my gut reaction from the names of the >>>>>getSource*Name methods is that they return the actual name of the >>>>>underlying table the column comes from. But looking the implementation & >>>>>comments of getTableName and getSourceTableName in ColumnReference.java >>>>>it seems in this case >>>>> >>>>>select * from a.t as X >>>>> >>>>>that both methods will return X. >>>>> >>>>>Dan. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>
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> Stephen wrote:OK.
> > Sorry to pop your bubble for this guy, but...
> Dear Stephen,
> If I had a bubble for the guy I'd consider it a favor if you popped it,
> so no need to be sorry for anything.
> All I said was that I liked hisROTFLOL!!!
> work on frequency and magnetics.I still do. But to be fair I have read
> all his later books but the first on-the zero point affair I saw a
> friend's four hour video-maybe I'll have to borrow it again. Maybe he
> is totally crackers and the book is full of the telltale crumbs.
> TheWell, I only went back to the URL you posted and it was this lady
> video was of incredibly poor quality but was riveting, really.I thought
> he was talking about a magnetic pole reversal-a magnetic shift very
> much like the one depicted in the Nova documentary, "The Magnetic
> Storm." There's a bunch of geologists and physicists explaining the
> mechanics of magnetic pole reversal in this film, if you're interested.
"quoting" Braden on the pole shifts. Now it is common knowlege that
the _magnetic_ poles do wander around a lot and even flip form time to
time. People do get the "pole shift" thing very garbled when they
confuse the two, and maybe Braden did and/or maybe this lady did....
> Now, what you said about people having these great intuitions and thenEven if it was the inner core, my objections would still stand. The
> applying them to the wrong dimension-something to that effect-well I'd
> agree with you there in the case of the Earth stopping-again what I
> remember was specific to the inner core of the Earth-but I'll have to
> go watch it again, I guess.
extent of complete devestation would still be essentially infinite.
But even so, even if he's "gone around the
> bend"with a conclusion that doesn't hold water in a 3-D world, I'dNo, I don't think so; all these guys have good things to say and all
> still be interested in what he has to say in terms of magnetics and
> frequency as they apply to CONSCIOUSNESS. Since this is my inherent
> bais in the first place it is quite possible that I ignored his
> conclusion as irrelevant. This sounds very sloppy, somehow-there's
> probably even a name for it and I have probably committed it.-Val
of us make outstanding clankers from time to time, too. What piques
my interest in all this is the ocassional evidence of _intentional_
disinformation laced within the otherwise well-intentioned work of
those who do not believe that there are those who attempt to
preeemptively spin, distort, and corrupt what is inevitable due to
come out. Virus memes, you might say - they really make things tough
when you try to get to the bottom of things.....
E.g.: just look at the involvement of the CIA with Leary's Harvard LSD
experiments, of J.J.Hurtak's involement with the psychic craze of the
1980's and teh New Age Nine or the Pentagon's remote-viewing projects.
Beneath the glossy veneer of the New Age Spirituality & Science craze
is a fetid swamp of dark forces. People who cannot Think in the way
promoted by Steiner - its all about discrimination - are sitting ducks
for tasty but poisonous nonsense.
- What is most unrefreshingly interesting about the students who have
encountered Spiritual Science and that of the rest of humanity, is
the vast abyss of thinking that they can recognize but cannot cross
over to. Below we find Thomas Aquinas was one of the first to argue
with Aristotle's sharpened faculties of rational intelligence for
such a thing as Intelligent Design. Then we find this great gap...Oh
they can understand Thomas Aquinas but suddenly the interior of the
personality and I AM system of Aquinas changes...after the Grail
call, Michael brings Aristotle's Being and Intelligence into Aquinas
and shifts it, super sizes it and lands it in the Being of Rudolf
STeiner. Aquinas was setting the stage for what we have presented
here as the vast, vast dishonesty and SPIN in Nominalism vs the
solidity of what Aquinas argued against Arabism on, Realism.
Students of Spiritual Science don't get any of this, because they
haven't yet delved in to take Steiner historically seriously.
Now STeiner takes up the exact battle that Thomas Aquinas battled
over only now STeiner has data, sight, The Astral body of Jesus,
working within Initiation Science as a Michael inspiration. Cause,
Karma, and dynamic events in relation to human develop and the
actual deeds of the Gods are restored via the three part patterning
of Aristotle/Aquinas and Steiner. This leap is so astonishing it has
left everyone in the dust. And Anthros somehow don't even recognize
the deed that so stunningly has shaken history and caused even the
Angels to tremble. Anthros fail to place before humanity the actual
devastating history of events that 869 to 2005 reveal. Real, actual
history, not phony crap history that we feed our children. Shame on
It is this immense strange impression of following Aquinas/Aristotle
into the being of Rudolf Steiner that halts the intelligence of
people from shifting the paradigms that they were familiar with to
those that are totally NEW. It is an intelligent leap that people
like Owen Barfield could make by examining the Evolution of
Consciousness...but our tired, failed and dogmatic dumbed down
education, public school and science daily drone remains poisoning
the intelligence of our children day in and day out...Day in and day
out parents reaffirm that they are basically stupid brainwashed
morons and they hope and expect their children to become stupid
brainwashed morons like them.
Here is someone who traces it to its source and updates it to 2005
but has never heard, never had it whispeered, never encountered the
missing part of the puzzle piece. IT IS ANTHROS FAULT that we cannot
express these things and make them clearly common property.
"I was surprised by the furor about Intelligent Design. Decades ago
I was introduced to Thomas Aquinas's proofs, from reason, of the
existence of God, and Intelligent Design seems to be a rather mild
variation on his theme of causality. The difference is that Aquinas,
reasoning to the necessity of an ultimate uncaused cause, did not,
over 700 years ago, hesitate to call it God. The advocates of
Intelligent Design, however, seem to have found a door, but deny
that there is anything beyond it; or, having filled a glass from the
kitchen faucet, declare the liquid within to be tasteless, odorless,
colorless, with a formula of HOH, and a specific gravity of exactly
1.00, but shrink from admitting it's water, although everybody knows
it is. Did they think they would fool someone by insisting that
Intelligent Design was not a religious belief?
Certainly they did not fool judge John Jones. Regardless of the
unconstitutionality, even absurdity, of a federal judge deciding
what is or isn't appropriate to a school curriculum, Jones was
absolutely right about one thing: he called ID "creationism in
disguise." (He also warned that ID was not science, as though truth
could only be learned via the scientific method. Well, the law is
not science, either!)
Had the proponents of ID boldly asserted a belief in Creationism,
they would hardly have been alone. Many scientists have found that
the ultimate truth of their investigations is Theism. Kurt Gödel, a
friend of Einstein, and author of Gödel's incompleteness theorem,
found that the more he discovered about the physical universe, the
greater his belief in God as its creator. Sir John Eccles, Nobel
laureate in medicine, is resolutely Christian, and sees no
impediment to his beliefs posed by science. The same can be said of
Henry Schaefer III, author of Science and Christianity: Conflict or
Coherence? His answer is unequivocal: coherence! Sir John
Polkinghorne gave up his career as a physicist at Cambridge and took
holy orders, working as a parish priest, declaring no conflict
between quantum physics and Christianity. Sir Anthony Flew, one of
England's most outspoken atheists of the 20th century, acknowledged
a belief in God about a year ago, pointing out that the order found
throughout the universe simply could not have arisen from chance.
It is ironic that non-believers, not believers, were the ones who,
by rejecting it, affirmed where ID was leading. Their rejection was
absolutely necessary, lest they set foot on a path that would,
inevitably, lead where they didn't want to go. Having reached a
verdict, they could not acknowledge the worth of any contradictory
It could be said of believers, as well, that, having reached their
own verdict, they would support it with whatever evidence lent
affirmation; but there's a difference. If I know of a place called
Chicago, want to go there, and follow the correct route, I'll end up
in Chicago. If, on the other hand, I've never heard of Chicago, or
deny its existence, and have no desire to go there at all, if I
somehow find myself there, I'll be in Chicago. Know of it, believe
it, desire it or not Chicago IS. And you can find yourself
there, even if by accident."
holderlin previously brought:
When we study star numbers, patterns in history and look at
gestation cycles in relation to planets, numerically grasp the
sequencing in pine cones, hand and finger bones, and plant patterns,
heart beats and Venus in relation to human birth and reproduction,
we begin to understand " Etheric, Astral, or I AM systems that
place the integers we discover in relation to both the Stars and how
Nature does her thing in exact forms before our eyes. There is no
dispute of intelligent design when we see the Chambered Nautilus in
relation to the unfolding spiral galaxies.
Waldorf Instruction teaches these basic math and observational
skills. It does not harp on trumped up Intelligent Design, it
reveals how intelligent the universe really is in the Hexagon and
the circle and the orbits and study of the round in relation to
clear hexagonal structured systems. Current ahrimanic education is
furiously struggling, again, back to square one before the kali-
yuga, with the resurgence of evolution and the Darwinian theory, the
newer lego building block theory of the human genome against the
other force of Luciferic fundamentalism/Creationism..caught in a
stupid version of Intelligent design.
Evolution as Science with its flaws and failed insights drifts into
Ahrimanically cutting out the reality of humanity in the cosmos
voiced from the Newtonian Chair held by Stephen Hawkings.
Intelligent Design is barking up the tree of rigidity of Luciferic
dogma because it fears to think and draw its inspiration from both
Science and Spiritual Science. These are flaws and parental damages
are what the Waldorf Teacher encounters when a child moves into the
Waldorf Community. Waldorf antidotes lazy, unfounded and confused
thinking and Spiritual Science lifts the human being back into the
ball game with the divine.
Spiritual Science grasps Fibonacci, math,rational and irrational
numbers, and the development of sentient beings against stone, and
plant. In other words Steve Talbott and Dennis Klocek are working
with real Michael Intelligence and most of the world has not been
introduced to the REAL arguments about Intelligent Design.
In the Anthro Leading Thoughts, you will find the dead universe, The
Finished Work of the Gods, and the dead intellect and inside these
leading thoughts you find how the I Am ploughs its way through from
RENE DESCARTES (1595-1650) through the Philosophy of Freedom, enters
the Spiritual or Consciousness Soul and comes to the stirring
discovery of the I AM systems treasures that bring about true
education, the elementary education that leads from hogwarts to
Waldorf was there long before these people started forming their
We'll be your Ferryman, you, our boats. And, if lucky, that is to say, if blessed, we'll steer you to places whose floorboarded thoughts never of wood were composed, yet strange to say, be it as imagination may, sturdy, ancient, perhaps as majestic as Sequoia, and so I smile when I suspect, make for reliable astral transportation, which is not our shot to call. And Christens his voyages thus:
One of the vastly underacknowledged characteristics of truth, is because it's not a what, a what being a compressed, paralyzed verb, stolen signal theft in the night, but rather a flow, a wilderness process, never can truth be archived, and like the one tenth of law which is never possessed, refuses credentialization in the familiar, for which unreasonable reasons, so's ever unrehearsed. Words are but oasis, Truth the river, we, all of us, brief islands in the rush, and so hoist anchor............
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From: holderlin66
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To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Re: From Ignorance to Intention/Intelligent Design
What is most unrefreshingly interesting about the students who have
encountered Spiritual Science and that of the rest of humanity, is
the vast abyss of thinking that they can recognize but cannot cross
over to.
What would be refreshingly courageous is for increasing numbers of us on AP_Tomorrow,to dare find ways to intervene in the world by loosing solutions to the shortcomings of a conspicuously dysfunctional educational system. I forsee soon authoring a small manual for teachers, called "Education as Adventure", which would form the basis for a four or six year journaling initiative, in which students across all of America would be asked to deal with Quest, this term, this mythic, Quixote-like blast of energy, being a will-virtue associated, even inextricably married, happily wedded to the notion of Destiny. Quest, rather than questions, ever associated with the recycle of History.
After all, it seems fair to say, or self evident in growing intensity to many of us, that subject matter for the War of All against All is obviously fulcrumed thus: Humanity will soon be engaged in a Jihad to determine whether History shall repeat itself, or whether Destiny, which requires spiritual interventions shall be taken up in its stead and so, like Arthur's company gone before, knight those interested in reinventing the ways in which we spend our time shifting our celebrations of life energy and attitudes from pastime indulgence of recycled habit, cultural templates, and similar same old, same old, to aspiration focus.
What this implies, is that Destiny is what happens whenever Moments of, or All of History is dissolved into the Progressive Stream, and the intent of humanity, individual by individual is not merely re-released in novelty and fashion most charmingly Luciferic, which for its spice and wonder, surely sports redeemability, and at best, immortal art, and so's valuable, but ultimately, to go beyond this, into the initiatory realm which aspires to knighthood, where intent itself is transformed from leisure to striving, and where Faust enters the Temple of Solomons erstwhile temple turned Shopping Mall, and immolates the consumer paradigm'd abasement into which a paralyzed and carbonite-frozen Christianity has become sorry imprisoned. Upgraded from TV to Spiritual Widescreen format, so that the immortality prior and the immortality future lend continuity to the center, to the now, and the now kneels in the Presence of the unfolding of the Angelic.
Any educational initiatives which fall short of inviting children to embrace and carry this scope into their studies, actually dishonors the ascent to the perfection of conscience, virtue and the Sophianic transformation of Imagination into Manas, which makes Angelic Cuisine in the Mortal Sinai.
So for the AP_Tomorrow forum to voice thoughts which command the attention of those in education, this is the solution. No more choir preaching. We remain villains to Michael by standing by and doing nothing in the realm, in the lion's den of risk, nothing to assist the teachers who keep perfecting their cowardice by buckling under the Vadaresque Decrees of standards-based literalism, superimposed as a totality at the expense of introducing a battery of "Leaven questions", "Lazarus-Quality Questions" which general peril and instability in thinking, rather than convenience, and by so deranging the complacence of educational infrastructures, do stand a good chance of perking the rearising of imagination, inspiration and intuition as honorable, as holy, as necessary influences to be reinjected into the bread and water of a spiritually flatline world.
What Earlyfire is doing in this regard, is compiling a series of questions which provide for a reimagination of the vocabulary of philosophy, making it accessible as karmically-embracable pursuit in various levels of junior high and high school. We substitute teach as our day job, and so hopscotch, wandering Jew that we are, from classroom to classroom, sowing dangerous, openended thoughts which charm the growth of metaphysical responsibility.
For those who are in education, who wish to influence students and teachers with Michael-thoughts, and annoint them knights of the Progressive Stream, one can easily start with googling quotes of Einstein and others, and asking students to spend ten minutes a day, journaling them, then using the journaling as a basis for transfiguring the study of history and literature, where intent and content can be modelled as an ongoing systole-diastole of learning. In this way, training and processing, processes industrially, (i.e., read between the lines, Ahrimanically, mechanically abased, bereft of Luciferic enchantment, Christ Love impulses) training and processing, thus reinspired, like a frog kissed turning back into a prince, turn into discovery, and adventure and the true meaning of learning, as the art of approach, the are of welcome to the unknown again comes to light.
Princess Leia to Han Solo, over and out.
(Remember that moment when he thaws at her
hands, the Mary Magdelene of Science Fiction:
Solo arising, asks something like: "Who has freed me?"
Leia: Someone who loves you)
And so it seems a good direction for AP_Forum members who wish to intervene in leavening the consciousness of teachers and students, to find Waldorf Schools in which to host free classes for the parents interested in the reconnection of thinking to moral intent, and using fairy tales or poetry as a medium of focus, be silver iodide to the clouds of other people's doubts, and cause sweet rain to fall on their hearts with ideas which leaven optimism from cynicism. Who can already do this, evidences the degree of initiatory focus which assists the liberation of Sophia from imprisonment in Spin and other weapons of mass distraction. If a person is inteed evolved enough, and this is an amazing litmous test in front of the mirror, the fairest mirror of them all, true self-reflection, and a person has utterly transcended all impulses to project astral blame and the ruthless sphere of sympathy and antipathy which still exerts a considerable magnetism upon many professed practicioners of AP, redeeming political controversy with spiritual solutions is the most challenging of spheres to awaken.
But we have rambled enough. Princess Leia advises, that dissolving the sins of history into the Aqua Regia of Self-Transformation, will burn away the cosmetic veneer in which Christianity and Islam are entrapped in the Maya of Profession, rather than de-cocooned, and made flight-borne into the realm of Intent. For it is clear that in this day, Deeds have become the only Words. Be frightened of this statement, let it be an exclamation point to dagger the sentence, and end the curse of "That's the way we've always done it, therefore, that's the way we'll always have to do it". (It was good enough for Abraham, remaining dead is easy)
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(Backstage, Shrouded in Turin, smirks, filled with subtle Chutzpah, ;-) and imagines this:
It is far easier to be Baptized in water than in the Progressive Stream, as in, The real Jordan River has no latitude or longitude)
- Earlyfire wrote:
We'll be your Ferryman, you, our boats. And, if lucky, that is to say,
if blessed, we'll steer you to places whose floorboarded thoughts never
of wood were composed, yet strange to say, be it as imagination may,
sturdy, ancient, perhaps as majestic as Sequoia, and so I smile when I
suspect, make for reliable astral transportation, which is not our shot
to call.
Of course, this calls to mind a song, several actually, "Speed Bonnie
Boat" comes to mind but here's a really beautiful kind of haunting
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If it had not been for the A380 incident, I doubt we would have heard of the others. I suspect they're just being reported more, but without access to the stats, can't be 100% sure.
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I've just heard about the latest incident where a Qantas 747 had to return to SYD (I think it was SYD) after there was smoke in the cockpit on a flight to Buenos Aires.
This and the recent run of incidents being reported across the media since the A380 engine failure a couple of weeks ago made me wonder if they really are having more problems lately or are we just hearing about it more.
I know for a fact there are normally plenty of small things that happen that don't make it onto the 6 o'clock news. You just have to browse the ATSB site for evidence of those.
Your opinions please.
If it had not been for the A380 incident, I doubt we would have heard of the others. I suspect they're just being reported more, but without access to the stats, can't be 100% sure.
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Id agree that things are being reported more. I think this latest incident would have been reported regardless, but other little bits between now and the A380/747 SIN issues mightnt have been picked up.
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Human brain connectivity is disrupted in a wide range of disorders – from Alzheimer's disease to autism – but little is known about which specific genes affect it. Here we conducted a genome-wide association for connectivity matrices that capture information on the density of fiber connections between 70 brain regions. We scanned a large twin cohort (N=366) with 4-Tesla high angular resolution diffusion imaging (105-gradient HARDI). Using whole brain HARDI tractography, we extracted a relatively sparse 70×70 matrix representing fiber density between all pairs of cortical regions automatically labeled in co-registered anatomical scans. Additive genetic factors accounted for 1–58% of the variance in connectivity between 90 (of 122) tested nodes. We discovered genome-wide significant associations between variants and connectivity. GWAS permutations at various levels of heritability, and split-sample replication, validated our genetic findings. The resulting genes may offer new leads for mechanisms influencing aberrant connectivity and neurodegeneration.
The human brain is a complex network of structural and functional interconnections, with diverse regions activated during functional tasks. Advanced diffusion imaging methods, which track the diffuson of water along the brain's axons, can reveal dense microstructural fiber bundles connecting anatomically distinct cortical and subcortical regions. Such connections are remodeled throughout development [1] and deteriorate in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease [2]. While initial investigations have examined the degree of genetic involvement in functional connectivity, genetic contributions to the brain's structural connectivity, i.e. the proportions and densities of axonal fibers connecting cortical subregions, have yet to be explored.
The degree of genetic influence on a particular trait can be determined by studying twins. Twin studies have long been used to determine the heritability (proportion of variance explainable by genetic variation) of human traits. Some studies have begun to estimate the heritability of DTI-derived measures of fiber integrity and its asymmetry as well as other neuroimaging measures [3–6]. Proportions of variance due to genes versus environment can be inferred by fitting structural equation models (SEMs) to data from different types of twins--monozygotic (MZ) twins share all their genes while dizygotic (DZ) twins share, on average, half.
In a large family cohort comprised of 366 individuals from 223 families, we used high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) at high magnetic field (4 Tesla) along with anatomical MRI to delineate cortical regions into areas of known structure and functionality [7]. We also mapped out white matter fiber pathways using high angular-resolution HARDI tractography. In this work, we define connectivity as the proportion of total fibers traced in the brain that intersect a specific pair of cortical regions – this may include connections within or between hemispheres. The connectivities of all pairs of regions are compiled into symmetric matrices, in which each matrix element (x,y) is the proportion of fibers connecting brain regions x and y.
To determine the genetic influences contributing to the density of each cortical connection, we fitted a SEM to connectivity matrices extracted from 46 pairs of MZ and 64 pairs of DZ twins. If a connection was significantly influenced by genetic factors, we followed through with a genome-wide association test to identify specific genetic variants associated with the proportion of fiber densities at that connection. The sample was split in half to allow replication of discovered associations in non-overlapping samples.
Subjects included 92 young adult monozygotic (MZ) twins (46 pairs) and 128 dizygotic (DZ) twins (64 pairs) along with 146 non-twin siblings and unpaired twins with caucasian ancestry. In total, images from 366 right-handed young adults (mean age: 23.5 years, SD 2.0) were included, from a 5-year research project examining healthy young adult twins with MRI and DTI [8]. Genomic DNA was analyzed on the Human610-Quad BeadChip (Illumina) according to the manufacturers protocols (Infinium HD Assay; Super Protocol Guide; Rev. A, May 2008).
Anatomical and 105-gradient (11 b0, 94 direction) high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) whole-brain MRI scans were acquired on a high magnetic field (4T) Bruker Medspec MRI scanner. T1-weighted images were acquired with an inversion recovery rapid gradient echo sequence. For imaging parameters, please see [4].
NxN structural connectivity matrices were created as in [9] with a pipeline shown in Fig 1A. A covariance matrix Sg was obtained for every matrix element in the connection matrix within the pairs for each of the two types of twins (identical or fraternal). A structural equation model (SEM) was then fitted to compare the observed and expected covariances (under different degrees of heritability) to estimate the proportion of the variance attributable to additive genetic (A), shared environmental (C) and unique environmental (E) components of variance [10]: Z = Aa + Cc + Ee. Z can be any quantitative phenotypic trait, in this case the fiber count proportion at a particular matrix element. A, C, and E are latent (unobserved) variables and a, c, e are each parameter's weights determined by optimizing S via full information maximum likelihood estimation (FIML). The variance components combine to create the total observed inter-individual variance, and sum to 1:a2 + c2 + e2 = 1. This SEM uses FIML: with a χ2 null distribution to estimate genetic versus environmental contributions to the observed variance, where m is the number of twin pairs per group (49 for MZ and 65 for DZ), Sg is the observed covariance matrix for each twin group g, and Σg is the expected covariance matrix for group g, with α=1 for the MZ group and α=0.5 for DZ, as MZ twins share all their genes while dizygotic (DZ) twins share, on average, half:
In SEM, the χ2 goodness of fit measure determines a p-value for all specified regions of interest (elements of the matrix) where the test was performed. This value indicates that the model is a good fit to the data if p>0.05 (this is the opposite of the usual convention that rejects models or hypotheses). To determine the significance of the the A or C factors, the χ2 goodness-of-fit values of the model are compared to those for a model excluding that factor (i.e., to a C/E model to determine the significance of the additional A factor; A/E model to determine the significance of C), giving: , where χ2 IDF−1 denotes the inverse of the cumulative distribution function for a chi-squared distributed variable with one degree of freedom. p(C) is computed analogously. In this case, low p-values express significant improvements when adding a factor. This is consistent with the more standard convention for p-values, and allows us to assess the resulting uncorrected p-value maps using the false discovery rate (FDR) method [11].
OpenMX software [12] was implemented in R (http://www.r-project.org/) for calculating the A/C/E parameters. The covariates sex, age, and total brain volume (TBV) were added to the model, and 95% CIs for the A term were computed.
Genome-wide associations were performed at each of the 90 valid (out of 122) matrix elements (after filtering out connections which are not heritable (a2 < 0.01) or not present in at least 95% of the subjects) using emmaX - a mixed model approach - controlling for age, sex, and TBV [13]. Connections with a heritability estimate of < 1% were excluded to limit the search region to connections where we can estimate some degree of genetic interation. EmmaX accounts for the familial relatedness between subjects through the use of a kinship matrix describing the genetic similarities between all pairs of subjects. Analysis was limited to those single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with a minor allele frequency (MAF) greater than 0.1. 428,287 SNPs were tested.
A significance threshold of 7×10−9 was established for genome-wide significance for reasons described below. We determined significance levels for association tests by first estimating the total number of independent tests performed. Linkage disequilibrium (LD) leads to correlation among the 428,287 SNPs and when two genotyped SNPs are in high LD, each test is not completely independent. By first estimating the effective number of independent tests we can avoid using an unduly conservative significance criterion. Due to linkage disequilibrium, the effective number (Meff) of SNPs tested [14] was 214,578. The same logic can also be applied to the matrix elements tested. Clearly an off-diagonal element is not independent of the entries in the same row and column. For a matrix element, C(x,y), representing the total proportions of fibers connecting cortical regions x and y, this value is not fully independent of matrix elements (x,x) and (y,y) corresponding to the total proportions of tracts crossing each cortical region x and y, respectively. While a total of 90 connections were evaluated, 33 of those connections lie on the diagonal corresponding to different regions on the cortex and might be expected to be independent components (although not necessarily), while off diagonal elements are clearly dependent on two regions. Similarly, a principal components analysis of the 90 matrix elements using information from the twins in the A/C/E model reveals that 29 components are sufficient to explain 95% of the variance in the sample. A Bonferroni correction on the number of independent samples would be 0.05/(33*214,578)= 7.06×10−9 or 0.05/(29*214,578)= 8.04×10−9, respectively. We chose the more conservative 7×10−9 as our threshold for genome-wide significance, which we show is acceptable through extensive permutations to find the null distribution of association statistics. Other GWA-studies of multiple traits have used the false discovery rate (FDR) procedure to find the appropriate correction threshold for one analysis across the genome [15]. For comparison, we performed a similar analysis using FDR on the p-values obtained from the 90 traits to obtain a correction threshold of 7.58×10−9 for the full cohort GWAS.
At each of the 90 accepted nodes in the connectivity matrix, a GWAS was performed for the 220 twins used in the A/C/E structural equation model. To determine any potential differences in the null distributions with respect to the degree of the additive genetic component, GWAS was performed 1000 times on permuted matrices. When conducting these permutations, each subject's covariates (age, sex, and TBV) remained true to its source, while the matrix elements were permuted in a manner that ensured preservation of family structure. Values for MZ twin pairs were only permuted with each other, while the DZ twin pairs were permuted separately. Within each permutation, within-twin pair rearrangements were also allowed to maximize permutations.
While all families are participants in the same study, each family is genetically unique, so we were able to split our large sample into two unique subgroups in order to provide a genetically independent sample for replicating the effect of any suggestive genetic variants on brain structural connectivity. A schematic workflow, of the processing and statistical pipeline, is presented in Fig 1B. The groups were split according to unique subject identification numbers. All members of the same family were assigned to the same group. No significant differences were seen between groups with respect to sex (p = 0.91) or TBV (p = 0.06). As the study was deliberately designed to sample young adults in the narrow age-range 21–30, although mean differences were minimal, there was a significant difference in age as calculated through a two-sided t-test of the populations (p = 1.2×10−18; mean Group 1 = 24.4; mean Group 2 = 22.6).
Fig. 2 shows regions for which the A/C/E model was found to fit the data well and a2 >1% as well as CDF plots of describing the significance of ACE, and sub-models with respect to the E model. Fig 3 shows the null distribution of GWA statistics at 10 connections with increasing levels of heritability. We note in general that when preserving the family structure, as is done in this case, the choice of more highly heritable connections tended to produce permutations with on average lower p-values. Across all 1000 permutations of the 10 connections, 251 SNPs had a p-value falling below the 7×10−9 genome-wide significance threshold, which suggests that the expected number of false positives over all 90 regions in the group is on average is 90×0.0251 = 2.26 (where we found 4).
Our GWAS of the connectivity in Group 1 showed a genome-wide significant (p = 3.23×10−9) association within the SPON1 gene. The contribution of this variant was then assessed in Group 2 at the same node. The association was replicated in the second group to again show significant (p = 0.0021) reductions (un-standardized slope of regression, βGroup1 = −0.0022, βGroup2 = −0.0015) in the white matter fiber density for connections between the left posterior cingulate and the left superior parietal lobe.
For exploratory purposes, we combined the two groups to perform a GWAS at all 90 nodes as before. With 331 genotyped subjects (out of 366 subjects overall with matrices computed), the statistical power for genetic association is greatly increased; however, we are no longer able to provide a sample for replication. 4 SNPs were found to be significant: 3 in SPON1 and one in DLGAP2. A stronger association for the SPON1 variants is presented in the full group for the same connection, with an additional variant in the DLGAP2 gene showing significant associations with the proportion of fibers connecting the right superior parietal lobe and the right post-central region of the cortex. Manhattan plots for the 2 nodes where variants reached genome-wide significance are presented in Fig 5.
In this study, we used 94-direction HARDI in 366 individuals at 4 Tesla, to trace fiber tracts throughout the entire brain using an orientation distribution function (ODF) based tractography method [16]. We used automatically extracted cortical labels to compute cortical connectivity matrices based on the proportion of fiber counts. Expanding on a twin design, we conducted the first-ever genetic and genome-wide association analysis of the connectivity matrices.
The nodes where genome-wide significant associations were discovered include the connections between the left superior parietal lobe and the left posterior cingulate (SPON1) and those between the right superior parietal lobe and the right post-central cortex (DLGAP2). Through our A/C/E analysis, we were able to attribute 7.1% and 38.6% of the observed variance in these two connections, respectively, to additive genetic components. Our previous analysis as demonstrated the reliability of these matrices [17]. Variants found in this study may have particular significance to genetic mechanisms underlying physiological pathways, rather than affecting the global white matter fiber density. Corrections for performing a genome-wide search (and tests across each element of the NxN matrix) are also highlighted in this study.
This work was supported by NIH grant R01 HD050735 and NHMRC (Australia) grant 496682, R01 EB008281, and P41 RR013642, and NLM T15 LM07356.
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