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Insurers told to pay out on interruption insurance
Thousands of small businesses in the UK are set to receive substantial insurance payouts covering their losses through the first lockdown, after a ruling by the Supreme Court.
Posted on 15th January 2021 in Coronavirus, General business.
'No plans' to cut workers' rights, minister says
The UK government will not lower the standards of workers' rights following Brexit, business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has said.
Posted on 15th January 2021 in General business.
UK economy shrank 2.6% in November
The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as fresh lockdowns halted much of the country's economic activity, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
75% of workers suffered burnout in 2020
Three quarters of workers in the UK have suffered from burnout in the past 12 months, according to work management tool Asana.
Homeschooling boosts EdTech in 2020
Lockdown measures and forced school closures during 2020 led to an explosive growth of the UK's EdTech sector, according to global recruiter Robert Walters and data provider Vacancysoft.
Jobs market 'resilient' despite third lockdown
The UK's job market remained resilient as it finished its first full week of the third lockdown in England, according to independent jobs board CV-Library.
Customs call for fast-tracked vaccinations
Workers at UK ports should be fast-tracked to receive Covid-19 vaccinations in order to ensure trade can be kept flowing, customs operators are urging.
Lockdown sparks record year for start-ups
A record number of start-ups were launched in 2020, despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Centre for Entrepreneurs.
Economy to 'get worse before it gets better'
The UK economy will likely "get worse before it gets better" as it continues to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, the chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.
Retail sales 'worst on record' in 2020
Retail sales in the UK suffered their worst performance on record on 2020, according to the latest figures from an industry body.
Prince Charles urges businesses to join 'Earth Charter'
The Prince of Wales is calling on businesses to do more to protect the planet by joining the 'Terra Carta'.
Record number of small businesses set to close this year
A record number of small businesses could close for good in the next 12 months, according to the Federation of Small Businesse (FSB).


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To make the kids feel like they have some ruling in the decision. Media is motivating the Chinese people to try and improve their lives by shying away from their traditional government-controlled values.
He states that media encourages the Chinese to follow their dreams, such as becoming an entrepreneur. A fair example can be one that has to do with politics. Unfortunately, some element of sampling error is unavoidable. As we know, there are many different forms and styles of advertising such as television commercials, radio commercials, newspapers, magazines, billboards, and even on city benches; basically anywhere a victim could happen to glance. He argues that because media is commercially available to everyone, they often abuse it, leading them to forget the values of motivation while becoming too self-absorbed. This was the first time anyone had publicly protested against the government, fought persecution in the courts and won. An example of the media's influence is the Spanish-American War. She points out certain advertisements that display this idea to the fullest which helps her audience recognize and relate to the idea Douglas is trying to communicate to her audience. This means the market for information is extremely competitive and is characterized by the following: . . People, nowadays, have been leading a very demanding life, especially when it comes to their professional one and it is widely known that they have very little time to be personally informed about current affairs or discuss various matters with colleagues and friends.


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Floyd A. Rabil, Sr. and New York Yankees
From Floyd A. Rabil, Jr: "This is a picture of my father, Floyd A. Rabil, Sr. with the 1927 New York Yankees. My father is in the top left hand corner with the number 4 above him. No.1 is Babe Ruth, No. 2 is Lou Gehrig and No. 4 is Tony Lazzari. The Yankees would stop at Belmont during spring training each spring a play the school's team as part of spring training.The school's baseball coach was a friend of the Yankee's manager."
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#3660 assigned Feature Request
Enhancement - PixelSearch to return the color it found
Currently the PixelSearch function returns a two element array containing the x and y coords of the pixel it found. Please consider returning a third element of what color that pixel was. Because of the shade variation parameter, it may not be the color that was actually searched for, but a variation of it. Sometimes one needs to know what color was actually found, but doing another PixelGetColor call may not be completely valid because it's possible that the screen might have changed in between the two calls.
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Why don't you just use PixelGetColor after the return from PixelSearch?
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Sometimes one needs to know what color was actually found
Really? Can you offer a real-world example of when this might be required because an immediate PixelGetColor call would not return the same value?
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Can you offer a real-world example of when this might be required
A gaming bot for one. But one could also argue that it's an incremental improvement in design.
Actually, this makes sense if you think about it in this way... What the PixelSearch function does is allow you to specify ranges, and it goes off and finds a specific value that matches those ranges.
It allows you to specify a range of X.
It allows you to specify a range of Y.
It allows you to specify a range of C. (Color)
It goes off and looks for a match and returns what it found.
It returns the matching X it found within the range of X you specified.
It returns the matching Y it found within the range of Y you specified.
But it does not return the matching C it found within the range of C you specified.
It would be an improvement to return all three of the matching parameters instead of just two of them.
Expecting the caller to make a second call to PixelGetColor is not only a needless waste of cycles, but it also expects the caller to depend on a race condition. They would get the correct value back from a followup call to PixelGetColor only if the screen didn't happen to update in between those two function calls. It's easy to argue that calling PixelGetColor gets you the info you need, but that would be arguing in favor of a race condition.
It seems it would just make sense to return all 3 matching params rather than just two out of three. It would not only eliminate the race condition issue, but it should also be minimal programming effort to return the extra value since it obviously is already being looked at internally, and it also would be a backwards compatible code change. It seems there is more benefit to do it than not to.
A gaming bot for one
Not exactly the best argument to put forward to support your request - read the Forum rules to see why:
https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/169097-forum-rules/
an incremental improvement in design
Much better. ;)
I am not convinced that there is a need for this other than for gaming - "sensible" apps tend not to have elements with colour changes happening so quickly, nor do they normally require the use of colour ranges. But if it is easy to do.....we will let the Devs decide.
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So Much for That! ABC's Live-Action 'Little Mermaid' Won't Be Happening
ABC has decided to postpone its planned 'live-action/animation hybrid television experience' of 'The Little Mermaid.'
The postponement is said to be due to financial constraints.
via Page Six:
"The Wonderful World of Disney: The Little Mermaid Live!" was scheduled to air on Oct. 3. Per the report, it is unlikely that the project will move forward, even though production had built sets and rehearsals were about to start.
Earlier this year, NBC postponed its Jennifer Lopez-led production of "Bye Bye Birdie Live!" — which was slated for December — because of its star's complicated schedule. (Its live versions of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "A Few Good Men" are still on track for the spring.) Meanwhile, Fox plans to follow up its "Grease: Live" success with a musical adaptation of "A Christmas Story" in December and a live performance of "Rent" in 2018.
Well — if they can't afford to do it right, then it's probably best they don't do it at all.
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Berlin tells a story of imperial power, the birth and death of regimes, race and persecution and, eventually, a return to stable democracy. With visits to the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, the Jewish Museum, Sachsenhausen and the Stasi Museum, your students will gain a deeper understanding of the rise of National Socialism, life under the Nazi regime, the Holocaust, the fall of Hitler's Germany and the aftermath of WW2 and the origins of the Cold War.
Study Themes: The Weimar Republic, the rise of National Socialism, life under the Nazi regime – repression, prejudice and persecution, coercion and propaganda in Nazi Germany, Nazi economic policy, the Nazi dictatorship and the Holocaust.
Specifications & Topics Supported: KS3 Twentieth Century World
GCSE: AQA, OCR and Edexcel - Germany; 1918-1945, International Relations, 1900-1991
A level: AQA, OCR and Edexcel - Germany 1871-1991, International Relations, 1879-1990
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Jewish Museum Berlin
Topographie of Terror
4 days/3 nights from £ 280 pp
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We can tailor your itinerary to suit the subjects of the Rise of National Socialism or Cold War History
Flight to Berlin Brandenburg Gate, Holocaust Memorial, Babelplatz and the Bundestag Dome Evening meal
Checkpoint Charlie, the Jewish Museum and Topographie of Terror Evening meal
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and House of Wannsee Conference Evening meal
Story of Berlin Museum Transfer to airport and fly back to UK
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"An absolutely fantastic city to take secondary school students to. Our students loved visiting all of the historical landmarks and found it to be a moving experience, as well as an enjoyable one."
Warlingham School
One of the earliest Nazi concentration camps, Sachsenhausen began to receive Jews and political dissidents in large numbers in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. Some 100,000 people died here between 1938 and the end of the war. Another 12,000 German prisoners of war died at a Soviet-run camp on the same site between 1945 and 1950.
Daniel Libeskind's steel lightening bolt of a building is as much a part of this groundbreaking new museum as the exhibits themselves. Charting the history of Germany's Jews since the Middle Ages, the axes of survival, exile and the Holocaust intersect to represent the experience of Germany's Jews under the Third Reich. The most visited museum in Germany, it's guaranteed to be a th...
Built on the site of the former headquarters of the Reich Security Head Office - the organisation which embraced both the SS and the Gestapo - this exhibition tries to shed some light on the darkest chapter of German history. After your visit walk along a remaining section of the Berlin Wall to Checkpoint Charlie.
Haus der Wannsee Konferenz
On January 20th, 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Reich Security, chaired a meeting of high-ranking civil servants and SS-officers in this mansion. The Wannsee Conference was concerned with the organisation and implementation of "The Final Solution", the decision to deport the Jews of Europe to the East and to murder them. The meeting has become known as the Wannsee Conference. I...
Insider Walking Tours
Starting at the bombed-out Memorial Church, emblem of the ferocious Allied bombing campaign, groups then follow the route of the Soviet attack towards the final battle for the Reichstag. See Goering's Air Defence Ministry and the ruins of Himler's SS and Gestapo HQ at the Topography of Terror exhibition. Visit the exact location of the Fuhrer Bunker and finish at the German Resistance Muse...
Formerly the Reichstag, the seat of Germany's parliament lay empty and derelict from 1933 to 1999. Now crowned with a dome designed by British architect Sir Norman Foster, the Bundestag is once again the focus of German political life.
Checkpoint Charlie Museum
During the lifetime of the Berlin Wall, this was the only way for non-Germans to cross from one half of the city to the other. Today, Checkpoint Charlie Museum preserves some of the original structure of the border crossing, including the famous sign reading 'You are leaving the American sector'. The museum tells the story of the division of Germany and concludes with an exhibition on the developm...
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Opened in May 2005, this controversial and long-awaited monument includes an underground exhibition on the Holocaust. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the centre of Berlin is Germany's central Holocaust memorial site, a place for remembrance and commemoration of six million victims. The Memorial consists of the Field of Stelae designed by architect Peter Eisenman and th...
The Story of Berlin
The Story of Berlin is a multimedia exhibition with over 20 themed rooms that let you experience 800 years of the capital's development: from its trading centre status in the Middle Ages, to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using modern exhibition features combined with original models, visitors enter different historical worlds and feel the atmosphere of the city then and now. One highlight of th...
Brandenburg Gate Museum
Experience history like you are there! This new multimedia museum just 100 metres from Brandenburg Gate shows 300 years of Berlin's history including the German Revolution, Empire, Two World Wars and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Subterranean Berlin
This tour of underground Berlin takes you through World War Two air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
a&o Berlin Hauptbahnhof
This modern hostel is well located on a quiet street near the main train station in central Berlin.
Students will generally be accommodated in multi-bedded rooms and staff in twins. All rooms are en-suite and have modern furnishings/ TV.
Hostel facilities include a roof-top bar, games room and multiple conference rooms.
Aletto Kudamm
Newly opened in April 2012, the Aletto Kudamm offers 3* comfort and is only a few minutes walk away from the Zoological Garden, Kurfuerstendamm, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the famous KaDeWe.
Students will generally be accommodated in multi-bedded rooms and staff in twins. All rooms are en-suite. Rooms are equipped with individually adjustable air-conditioning, Flatscreen TV with satellite television and radio stations, WiFi Internet access, shower-bath with WC, hairdryer and under-floor heating.
Other facilities include a pool table, table football and other games. Weather permitting, there is a basketball court, 5-a-side football pitch, table tennis tables and boules area.
The combination of a modern design, high quality facilities and excellent location make this an ideal hostel for school groups.
2A Hostel
The 2A hostel opened in 2011 with the intention of providing hotel-class accommodation at hostel-level prices.
Students sleep in bunk-beds in multi-bedded rooms of 4-8 people, while staff stay in twins. All rooms benefit from en-suite facilities, and all guests have access to WiFi.
Breakfast and evening meal are served in the hostel and packed lunches can be provided at a supplement. The hostel also has a terrace and a lounge area equipped with a TV & audio equipment.
H2 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz
The modern H2 Hotel welcomes its guests to the heart of Berlin 24 hours a day.
Groups will generally stay in triple or quad rooms, and group leaders in twins or singles. All rooms are air-conditioned, with flatscreen TVs, private bathrooms with underfloor heating, and free WiFi (available throughout the hotel).
The hotel's "fresh island" and shop provide food for the whole day, from breakfast through to the evening meal. Outside of their very flexible mealtimes, coffees and fresh snacks are available too.
Jugendherberge Berlin Ostkreuz
Berlin Ostkreuz Youth Hostel offers modern, state-of-the-art amenities and is ideal for school groups.
The youth hostel has 445 beds in total. All rooms have en-suite showers and toilets. Students will be accommodated in multi-bedded rooms (maximum 6 per room) and staff in twins or singles.
The hostel boasts a welcoming lobby area, cosy bistro and dining rooms where guests can take their meals (breakfast, half or full-board), common rooms for leisure activities and 18 meeting rooms, plus a large assembly hall.
What our teachers had to say about this destination
The trip ran very smoothly and I am very grateful to all the help from Halsbury as both staff and students had a fantastic time. Thank you.
From my very first contact with Halsbury Travel through to receipt of the extremely detailed and helpful information pack, every e-mail/phone call was handled swiftly and with friendly efficiency. I could not fault the service I had from you and I only wish I had come across you years ago - as a leader of coutless school visits to Germany, Halsbury Travel has not only been easily the best company to deal with by far but is also very competitive on price. I would not hesitate to book with you again - in fact I am so confident that you can provide exactly what I want at the right price, I would not even bother looking at any other school travel company for comparison
Orchard School
I take a residential trip to Berlin every year and it is always an extremely positive and enjoyable experience for the staff, as well as the students. Halsbury make this a very simple and manageable task!
Harwich and Dovercourt High School
Berlin is an amazingly rich destination for a school trip. With excellent public transport, inexpensive museums and a very welcoming general population, I would highly recommend it.
Runnymede College
It was a fantastic trip and it ran like clockwork. All students and staff really enjoyed it and should this trip be given permission to run again, we would definitely organise it through Halsbury.
Thank you so much for all your help.
Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise College for Girls
An excellent programme of events, carefully planned and considered and the sequential build up of information was very good. It enabled the students to gain a real insight to the complex city of Berlin, expecially if you are taking a cross-curricular group. The linguists, historians, RE students and travel and tourism students were all able to extract a wealth of information and experience. Travel was easy, the sights fantastic and the Berlin 'experience' memorable. The information pack supplied by Halsbury was great. Would recommend the trip to anyone wishing to see and do as much as is possible in a long weekend. I think the experience has captivated the students' imagination. They cannot stop talking about it.
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When I was a kid, I remember advent calendars with the little chocolates inside the punch out doors.
Right now, we are doing a cute little advent calendar that we got from church. The kids choose a present box, read the verse that's on it and add it to a little tree. The focus is, of course, that the greatest gift of all is the gift of Jesus.
But, I really wonder if my 2 and 4 year old really see it that way when they see the pile of presents getting bigger and bigger.
There are plenty of amazing ideas for advent calendars on Pinterest.
Most advent calendars, when it comes down to it, just seem like countdowns... countdowns to the day that we get more stuff.
What if, instead of getting something (like a chocolate or a little gift) every day of advent, we gave something? Everyday, find something that we ALREADY OWN and put it into a giving box.
The month could start off with giving non-perishable items from your cupboard. The middle of the month, could be clothes that we don't wear. The end of the advent calendar could be adding toys and other items a bit more difficult to part with.
All of a sudden, the focus is giving and not getting. AND... AND you get to simply your life a bit.
what a great idea! We have a nice advent calendar with doors that open for each day. I've been putting in little toys/trinkets in there. I was planning on doing a mini Bible story after she opens it and maybe even sing a Christmas song on some days but I haven't even done that as much as I'd like. I asked the same question you did, how much can my 3-year-old understand out of this? Great idea Lindsay!!
I like the giving idea... we could go into service as well. Although it is important to find ways to remember how we receive the greatest gift of all, Jesus himself teaches it is more blessed to give than to recieve.


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Q: Add Material2 attributes to WebStorm There are a lot of answers to add Material to AngularJS, but what about Material 2 and Angular 2?
A lot of attributes like md-raised-button give a warning because they are not allowed here, even if it's shown in the official documentation.

A: I think that webstorm is missing some features,for instance this gives me a duplicate id warning althought that I am loading IDs dynamically and it working perfectly:

Nevertheless it is improving  they indicated that the 2017 version will have a better support for angular as it will have an integration with the Angular language service: https://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2016/12/webstorm-2017-1-early-access-preview/
the material2 is a relatively new library compared to material  (its first release was on march 2016) so it is normal  you won't find lot of documentation around it. still the examples in their documentation work fine so  don't worry about the webstorm warnings.
Update : I filled an issue on the idea issues track and the material attributes are now supported (starting from Webstorm 2017.2 EAP release ) you might want to try it

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In Brazil and Latin American in general stocks marked their own course on Wednesday and today as the region remained relatively distant to turmoil in the United States and Europe.
The MSCI Latin America stock index was up 1.7% as stocks in Brazil, the region's biggest equity market by far, rose for the second straight session after plummeting to its lowest level since April 2009.
Brazil's benchmark Bovespa stock index rose 0.48% as shares of state-run oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA) gained 3% and phone company Telesp (TLPP4.SA) added 1.6%.
Brazilian stocks have been hurt this year by worries that above-target inflation will take a bite out of real economic growth.
Dropping on the Bovespa was beef processor Marfrig (MRFG3.SA), which lost 6%. The shares have retreated nearly 40% in the past week as a fund sold a large stake to meet margin calls and investors worried the company is overleveraged.
Mexico's IPC index slipped 0.5% as shares of Wal-Mart de Mexico (WALMEXV.MX) lost 3.3% after Goldman Sachs cut its Walmex rating to "neutral" from "buy" citing uncertainty in sales trends. But shares of billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil (AMXL.MX), on of the biggest telecommunications firms in the world, added 1.5%.
Chile's IPSA index .IPSA surged 2.47% as it gained for the second straight session, rebounding from its lowest level in more than a year.
In Argentina the Merval was down 1.89%, which could be linked to the global decline mainly in the US and Europe. But Argentina is less than three months away from a presidential election and investors are nervous. The country's Central bank published data showing there has been a considerable 'fly to safety".
However Tenaris one of the main shares and linked to the oil industry was down 6.27% and so was Edenar, linked to energy dropping 3.93%.
Colombia's stock exchange lost 0.11% to 13.071, 59 points while Lima also dropped, 1.27% to 18.969,27 points.
For the second time in a week Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said Brazil was prepared for the global financial turbulence, but stressed that a strengthened domestic market was crucial to overcome the tough times ahead.
"We are prepared to face the international financial crisis but the main confrontation to the crisis must be reinforcing our domestic market, creating opportunities here in Brazil, besides exports," said President Rousseff.
Precisely on August 2, while the US Congress voted its debt ceiling the Rousseff administration launched the plan "a bigger Brazil" with tax relief for some of the country's industrial sectors most castigated by the strong currency Super Real and a flood of cheap imports.
The plan, which also includes soft loans and has been promised to be extended to other vulnerable sectors, contemplates a government renunciation of US$ 16 billion in tax revenue in the next 18 months.
"Today we are a strong country even for this crisis that is shaking world markets," said Rousseff and mentioned that Brazil's international reserves stand at US$ 340 billion and the banking system reserves are equivalent to US$ 300 billion, double the 2008 level.
In 2008 and before the full impact of the crisis, then President Lula went on national television on Christmas to call on Brazilians to continue spending in spite of catastrophic forecasts. Brazilians responded and helped to moderate a strong slowdown of the economy in 2009.
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Union Bank Plc Announces Board Changes
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Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. (Union Bank) has announced changes to the membership of its Board of Directors with the retirement of an Executive Director, Mr. Ibrahim Kwargana and the resignations of Non-Executive Directors, Engr. Mansur Ahmed, Chief Dr. (Mrs.) Onikepo Akande and Mrs. Arina McDonald in October 2017.
Mr. Kwargana's retirement comes after 33 years in the banking sector. He was appointed as an Executive Director in 2009 by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and until his retirement, was responsible for the Bank's Public Sector business as well as commercial business development for the northern region.
Engr. Ahmed, Dr. (Mrs.) Akande and Mrs. McDonald resigned following the successful completion of their tenures on the Board.
Union Bank has also announced the appointments of Mr. Taimoor Labib as Non-Executive Director as well as Mrs. Obafunke Alade-Adeyefa and Mrs. Furera Isma Jumare as Independent Non-Executive Directors. All the appointments have been approved by the CBN. Commenting on the reconstitution of the Board, Mr. Cyril Odu, Chairman of the Board of Directors said:
"I am grateful to our outgoing Directors for their immense contributions during a critical time, and I am proud of the accomplishments we achieved together as we worked to transform the Bank. On behalf of the Board, I thank them for their service and wish them much success in their future endeavors.
"I am also pleased to welcome Mr. Taimoor Labib, Mrs. Obafunke Alade-Adeyefa and Mrs. Furera Isma Jumare who bring dynamic experience to the Board which will be valuable as we work to continue to move the bank forward."
Also commenting, Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Emeka Emuwa said:
"The contributions of our outgoing Directors were key to the success of our transformation programme. As we embark on a new phase of growth, we welcome our new Directors who will bring fresh perspectives to our Board deliberations."
Union Bank remains on course to deliver on its key objectives in 2017. It recently completed a ₦50bn Rights Issue to raise Tier-1 capital. The capital increase supports the Bank's short to medium term growth objectives as it looks to re-establish itself as one of Nigeria's leading commercial banks.
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Casting: Naomi Watts Ready For 'Demolition,' Idris Elba Eyes Guy Ritchie's 'Knights Of The Roundtable' And More
Casting: Naomi Watts Ready For 'Demolition,' Idris Elba Eyes Guy Ritchie's 'Knights Of The Roundtable' And More
An actor who is currently thrilling us with the choices he's making is Jake Gyllenhaal. Did you see that terrific teaser for "Nightcrawler" yet? Watch it here. Anyway, another promising project on his plate is "Dallas Buyers Club" director Jean-Marc Vallee's "Demolition," and he's being joined by Naomi Watts. Penned Bryan Sipe, the story "follows a young investment banker (Gyllenhaal) struggling to understand his emotional disconnect following the tragic death of his wife in an auto accident. As he tears apart his life in a distraught effort to see where he went wrong, he becomes obsessed with destruction and develops a unique relationship with a pot-smoking single mother (Watts) who rescues him." We're down, just tell us when to show up. [The Wrap]
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Is the steel pan the only acoustic musical instrument to be invented in the 20th century and used widely around the world?
I have seen claims that the steel pan (commonly called steel drum) was the only acoustic instrument developed in the 20th century. Is this true? There are related instruments (the Hang or hand pan) but I'm interested in the history of unique musical instruments that are more than experimental musical instruments. I'm trying to find sources to support or refute these claims, but I cannot seem to find anything definitive.
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Now that would be interesting to know. My first guess was Harmonica, but it's from 19th century. A fine question, I'm just retagging it a bit. Good that you provide the current state of your research with related instruments, but adding some links to external sources which could guide others to expand their knowledge (f.e. to descriptions or history of mentioned instruments) would be also nice for the future. Welcome to the site! – Darek Wędrychowski Feb 16 '13 at 16:49
What's your definition of acoustic instrument? E.g. Hammond organs contain also mechanical parts to create the sound. – knut Feb 16 '13 at 18:32
... and what is your definition of "widely"? Is the steelpan really widely used? The wiki also states that it was developed between 1880 and 1937. – coleopterist Feb 16 '13 at 19:26
@knut, I'm not the one asking the question, but probably everything in this system, excluding electrophones. – Nathan Cooper Feb 16 '13 at 19:39
We the music.stackexchange.com guys complain this question ended up here? – Nathan Cooper Feb 16 '13 at 19:45
Vuvuzela and the Melodica spring to mind.
Plastic aerophones like the Vuvuzela have been around since the 1960's, obviously similar looking brass instruments have been around for a long time, but specifically Vuvuzelas meet your criteria. They're a bit of a gimmic, but were very popular at the 2010 World Cup and have seen widespread use. More
Melodica's were invented in the 1950s. You see them all over the place. They're not Zanzithophones, they are acoustic. Here is one at work, okay fine here's one at work
The modern Double French Horn either just misses it with the first prototype being made in 1897, or just sneaks in with Fritz Kruspe patenting it in 1900. But it is not a radically new instrument compared to older horns, it just combined the Bb horn and F horn together into one instrument with some clever plumbing.
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Can't we all pretend that vuvuzela thing never happened? :-) – T.E.D.♦ Feb 16 '13 at 19:37
@T.E.D. - vuvuzela.ytmnd.com, banthevuvuzela.blogspot.com, this, and this. Entire world is on your side! – DVK Feb 17 '13 at 2:01
-1, after being subjected to "Barbie Girl" after following the link :) – DVK Feb 17 '13 at 2:11
"Demand for earplugs ... during the World Cup outstripped supply" Yep, sounds about right. – Nathan Cooper Feb 17 '13 at 10:31
Four String Acoustic Bass Guitar (I used to play one, so I know it's new). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_bass_guitar
"The first modern acoustic bass guitar was developed in the mid-1950s by Kay of Chicago[citation needed] but the design did not show up again in a production instrument until the early 1960s when Ernie Ball of San Luis Obispo, California began producing a model. Ball's aim was to provide bass guitarists with a more acoustic-sounding instrument that would match better with the sound of acoustic guitars. Ball stated that "...if there were electric bass guitars to go with electric guitars then you ought to have acoustic basses to go with acoustic guitars." Ball notes that "...the closest thing to an acoustic bass was the Mexican guitarron...in mariachi bands, so I bought one down in Tijuana and tinkered with it."[1]"
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I guess the Sousaphone just barely doesn't make it. It was first created in either 1893 or 1898, depending on who you believe.
The Mellophone, a common marching band instrument, was first sold in 1957.
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Theremins are not acoustic instruments. – coleopterist Feb 16 '13 at 19:27
Well, yes....but its so cool! :-( – T.E.D.♦ Feb 16 '13 at 19:35
+1 Mellophone, I like that one, looks like a Flugal to me but apparently it's different (plays a bit more like an F horn). And yes the Theremin is cool. – Nathan Cooper Feb 16 '13 at 19:37
The vibraphone - although it may not qualify as a true acoustic instrument, being a hybrid of sorts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibraphone The vibraphone is similar in appearance to the xylophone, marimba and glockenspiel. Each bar is paired with a resonator tube having a motor-driven butterfly valve at its upper end, mounted on a common shaft, which produces a tremolo or vibrato effect while spinning. The vibraphone also has a sustain pedal similar to that used on a piano; when the pedal is up, the bars are all damped and the sound of each bar is shortened; with the pedal down, they will sound for several seconds.....The first musical instrument called "vibraphone" was marketed by the Leedy Manufacturing Company in the United States in 1921....."
Theremin and ondes-martenot are instruments from the 20th century. Anyone who has watched Star Trek has heard the theremin.
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The Theremin would hardly fall into the category of "used widely around the world". – Steve Bird Jul 4 '17 at 20:45
@SteveBird That would make this question "opinion-based". It's well-known enough to count. But Gordon needs to expand his answer. – Spencer Jul 5 '17 at 12:56
Theremin is heard wherever Dr Who is broadcast, which might meet the definition of "widely". ;) – Mark C. Wallace♦ Aug 31 '18 at 14:53
I think the steel pan does qualify as the only acoustic instrument INVENTED in the 20th century because:
Many people experimented with existing instruments and adapted them. E.g. Harry Partch in the 1930s, adapted marimbas, keyboards, violas and woodwind to do different things. He "invented" 10 string guitars and other techniques like slide guitar style. However, none of his instruments were actually "new". They were all adaptations of existing musical instrument, which he altered in some way.
What makes the steelpan absolutely unique is the fact that it is made of one metal surface and "pimples" beaten into the skin of the steel form the notes that are struck.That is totally new as a concept of an instrument. The T heremin and Ondes Martenot are electronic instruments, using electronic means to make notes. therefore they are non-acoustic instruments and do not qualify as a newly invented acoustic instrument.
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\section{Introduction}
In radiology, finding lesions in the imaging study and describing them in the radiology report is the main task for the radiologists. The description usually contains rich attributes such as associated body part, type, and size. Take Fig.~\ref{fig:sample} as an example. While interpreting a CT scan (on the left), the radiologist describes the lesion with the sentence ``Unchanged large nodule $\dotsc$ right middle lobe \textbf{\underline{BOOKMARK}}'' and places a hyperlink (hereafter ``bookmark'') in the context to refer to the specified lesion in the image. Here, ``right middle lobe'' is the body part, ``nodule'' is the lesion type, and "large" is the size attribute.

The attributes of lesions in the radiology report are informative and useful in various tasks. In image-based computer-aided diagnosis, we can use the attributes to train fine-grained lesion image classification models. The content-based lesion retrieval, on the other hand, can use them to retrieve similar lesion images when their appearances in the CT scans are not strictly identical. In clinical NLP, the lesion with attributes can help build the semantic graph of each report to better interpret how the radiologist reached the impressions from findings.
\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{Slide2.eps}
    \caption{Sample sentence with bookmarks.}
    \label{fig:sample}
\end{figure}

Although the lesion-associated semantic attributes are important, annotating them in the radiology reports is time-consuming and expensive. Besides, extracting these attributes from the sentences is non-trivial. First, the sentences often contain a complex mixture of information describing not only the bookmarked lesion of interest but also other related lesions (hereafter ``other bookmarks''). For example, in Fig.~\ref{fig:sample}, there are 4 labels matched based on the ontology, namely ``large'', ``nodule'', ``right lower lobe'', and ``right middle lobe''. Among them, the label ``right lower lobe'' is irrelevant since it describes another lesion. Second, there are also uncertain labels in the sentences, such as ``adenopathy or mass''.

In this paper, we formally call a label ``relevant'' if it describes the bookmark of interest, ``irrelevant'' if it describes other bookmarks, and ``uncertain'' if it is in a hypothetical statement. Since both the irrelevant and uncertain labels may bring the noise to downstream training, it is important to distinguish them from relevant labels.

To tackle these challenges, this paper outlines a new text-mining method to automatically extract relevant bookmarked-specified attributes in the sentence. That is, given a sentence with multiple attributes and bookmarks, we aim to assign relevant labels to each bookmark from all label-bookmark pairs. Consequently, we reformulate this task as a relation classification problem and propose to use a self-attention based deep neural network because of its superior performance in various NLP tasks in recent years.

We evaluate the performance of the proposed method on an in-house corpus with 1,890 sentences manually annotated by two expert radiologists. Our method obtained 0.848 in precision and 0.788 in recall for an F-score of 0.815, demonstrating the effectiveness of machine learning-based approaches for automatic relation extraction from the clinical text in this task.

\section{Related work}
\begin{figure*}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Slide3.eps}
    \caption{Architectures of the deep learning models. (a) CNN. (B) Multi-head CNN.}
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In recent years, there has been considerable interest in examining the rich clinical information stored in electronic health records. However, manually annotating a large dataset to fulfill the data-hungry deep learning models is time-consuming and expensive. For example, a radiologist usually read at a speed of 10 mins per example for CT scan studies~\cite{sokolovskaya2015effect}. Instead, researchers may benefit from using text-mining to generate annotations even if those annotations are of modest accuracy~\cite{wang2017chestx}. To reduce manual annotation burden, some researchers leveraged the rich information contained in associated radiology reports. Disease-related labels have been mined from reports for classification and weakly-supervised localization on X-ray and CT images~\cite{tang2018attention,li2003learning,shin2016interleaved,yim2017classifying}.

Owing to the rapid growth of available EHR, deep learning methods for text mining become more appealing recently because of its competitive performance versus traditional methods and its ability to relieve the feature sparsity and engineering issue~\cite{shickel2018deep}. For example, both multi-channel dependency-based CNNs~\cite{peng2017deep} and shortest path-based CNNs~\cite{hua2016shortest} are well suited for sentence-based relation extraction. It is also generally faster to train a CNN model than other deep learning networks.

Despite its efficiency, the main limitation of CNN is its shortcoming to capture long-distance information. This is due to the fixed window size in the convolutional layers. Several studies have been conducted to solve this problem by introducing linguistic information (e.g., shortest path) in the input layer or multichannel to capture the hierarchy structure of the sentence~\cite{peng2018extracting}.

More recent attempts have been made to utilize the attention mechanism to help the network focus on salient features~\cite{xu2015show}. It has been firstly used in recurrent neural networks architectures in the NLP applications like machine translations. In those cases, the attention mechanisms allow the model to ``attend to'' (correlate) different parts of the sentence at each step, thus the output depends on a weighted combination of all the input states. Vaswani et al. extended this idea by proposing the Transformer, a model that relies on a self-attention mechanism to draw global dependencies between input and output~\cite{vaswani2017attention}. They also introduced ``multi-head'' to attend different portions of the representation subspaces in parallel. Gao et al. further demonstrated that the self-attention mechanism can be used in the CNN-based approaches, achieving both fast and accurate performance in the text classification task~\cite{gao2018hierarchical}.

In this work, we hypothesize that a similar self-attention mechanism could be used in the clinical relation extraction tasks. In the following sections, we show how we adapt it to our problem.

\section{Method}

This task focuses on distinguishing bookmark-relevant labels from irrelevant and uncertain ones from the sentences. To tackle this problem, we convert it to a relation classification problem. Given a sentence with multiple labels and bookmarks, we construct all label-bookmark pairs as candidates. For example, the pair of ``BOOKMARK, right middle lobe'' is relevant, but the pair of ``BOOKMARK, right lower lobe'' is irrelevant. The goal of this task is thus to predict whether the pairs are relevant, irrelevant, or uncertain.

We propose to address this task using a CNN model which has been widely used in the relation extraction task (Fig.~\ref{fig:archetectures}). The input of our model consists of two parts, the word sequence with the mentioned attribute and BOOKMARK, and the sentence embedding. The model outputs a probability vector (three elements) corresponding to the type of the relation between the label and the bookmark (irrelevant, uncertain, and relevant). Our model consists of three layers: a word embedding layer, a convolution layer, and three fully-connected layers.

\subsection{Embedding layer}

\subsubsection{Word sequence}

The first input is the word sequence. Each word in a sentence is represented by concatenating its word embedding, part-of-speech, chunk, named entity, and position features. Here we use three attributes as named entities: size, type, and body part. The part-of-speech, chunk, and named entity features are encoded using a one-hot schema. We also used the position feature proposed in~\cite{sahu2016relation}, which consists of two relative distances, $d_1$ and $d_2$, for representing the distances of the current word to the attribute and BOOKMARK respectively. Both $d_1$ and $d_2$ are non-linearly mapped to a ten-bit binary vector, where the first bit stands for the sign and the remaining bits for the distance~\cite{zhao2016drug}.

\subsubsection{Shortest-path}

Besides the word sequence, we also used the shortest dependency path between BOOKMARK and attributes as the input. The representation of each word along the path is the same as in the word sequence except the position features which are then calculated based on the shortest path instead. The shortest-path is widely used to extract the long-distance dependencies in the sentence~\cite{bunescu2005shortest}. Such information is considered overlooked by classical CNN due to the small window size.

\subsubsection{Sentence embedding}
We also used sentence embeddings to capture the sentence semantics. Sentence embeddings have shown promising results recently as the semantic is represented by high dimensional vectors. Such vector-based representations are commonly learned from large text corpora and have become increasingly important in recent clinical text-mining studies~\cite{chiu2016how,chen2018biosentvec}.

\subsection{Multi-head self-attention}

Following the work of~\cite{vaswani2017attention,gao2018hierarchical}, we used multi-head self-attention to discover the relations between entries in the sequence.
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    \text{Multi-head}(E) & = [\text{head}_1, \dots, \text{head}_h]\\
    \text{head}_i & = \text{softmax}(\frac{E_iE^T_i}{\sqrt{d_i}})E_i\\
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For each head, the method then uses a scaled-dot-product attention to discover the relations between words in the sequence~\cite{vaswani2017attention}. The intuition behind this is to first calculate a weight matrix $E_i E_i^T$  based on the similarity of words in the sequence, then multiply back with $E_i$ so that each word is a weighted average of all words in the input sequence. By doing so, the model draws global dependencies between words.

Rather than use the embedding input directly, we applied convolution with $d_i$ filter maps and a window size of 3 to extract features from the embedding inputs to get local features $E_i\in\mathbb{R}^{l\times d_i}$, where $l$ is the length of the sequence and $d_i$ is the dimensionality of the embeddings' $i$th heading. This will provide a piece of context information for each word in the sequence.

Like in~\cite{gao2018hierarchical}, we applied the exponential linear units (ELUs) as the activation function. The reason is that ELUs can output negative values that allow a larger range of values compared to Rectified Linear Unites (ReLUs).

\subsection{Sentence hierarchy}

Both sentence features and shortest-path features then feed into a global average pooling layer across the entire sentence. In this task, we find that using average pooling outperforms using max-pooling. Afterward, the sentence features and shortest-path features were combined with the sentence embeddings, followed by three fully-connected layers.

\section{Experiments}

\subsection{Dataset}

In this section, we described the process to construct gold-standard labels from the radiology report associated with lesions on CT images.

First, we constructed an attribute list of interest based on RadLex~\cite{langlotz2006radlex}. The list contains frequently mentioned attributes mentioned in the radiology reports such as body part (e.g., chest, abdomen), types (e.g., nodule), and size, shape and intensity of the lesions. The list was then verified by the radiologists listed as authorship. The final vocabulary consists of 171 attributes.

After constructing the lesion attribute vocabulary, we randomly selected 1,890 sentences with at least one bookmark from the DeepLesion dataset~\cite{yan2018deeplesion} and extracted all attribute mentions based on the vocabulary. Specifically, we first tokenized the sentence and lemmatized the words in the sentence using NLTK to obtain their base forms~\cite{bird2009natural}. We then matched the attribute mentions in the preprocessed sentences and normalized them.

Finally, we created all ``bookmark, attribute'' pairs as candidates and asked a physician (VS) to annotate their relevance (relevant/uncertain/irrelevant). As a result, we obtained the gold standard corpus with 7,356 relevant, 477 uncertain, and 1,464 irrelevant. We then use 60\% for training, 20\% for development, and 20\% for testing (Table~\ref{tab:statistics}).
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    \caption{Statistics of the corpus\label{tab:statistics}}
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\toprule
 & \textbf{Training} & \textbf{Validation} & \textbf{Test}\\
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Sentences & 1,144 & 370 & 376\\
Instances &  &  & \\
\hspace{2em}Relevant & 4,418 & 1,448 & 1,490\\
\hspace{2em}Uncertain & 326 & 48 & 103\\
\hspace{2em}Irrelevant & 868 & 291 & 305\\
\bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    \end{center}
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    \caption{Regular expressions used in the rule-based system\label{tab:rules}}
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Type &  & Regular Expression\\
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Irrelevant & \textbullet & (no evidence of $|$ no evidence of developing $|$ no evidence of abdominal $|$ not $|$ poorly $|$ previously seen $|$ without $|$ without evidence of) ATTRIBUTE\\
 & \textbullet & (adjacent to $|$ arising from $|$ above $|$ anterior to $|$ abutting $|$ beneath $|$ close to $|$ encasing $|$ left of $|$ left of this $|$ near $|$ posterior to $|$ right of) ATTRIBUTE\\
 & \textbullet & (other) ATTRIBUTE\\
Uncertainty & \textbullet & (or $|$ and / or $|$ / $|$ likely $|$ possibly) ATTRIBUTE\\
 & \textbullet & (dome of $|$ portion of $|$ tail of) ATTRIBUTE \\
\bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}
    \vspace{-2em}
    \end{center}
\end{table}
\begin{table*}[hbt!]
    \caption{Performance of the models. Performance is reported in terms of (P)recision, (R)ecall, AND (F)1-score.\label{tab:performance}}
    \begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}{l|rrr|rrr|rrr|rrr}
\toprule
 & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{Relevant} & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{Uncertain} & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{Irrelevant} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Macro}\\
\cmidrule{2-13}
 & P & R & F & P & R & F & P & R & F & P & R & F\\
\midrule
Rule-based & 0.820            & 0.992 & 0.898 & 0.768            & 0.417 & 0.541 & 0.850      & 0.111       & 0.197 & 0.813           & 0.507 & 0.545\\
CNN & 0.951 & 0.899 & 0.924 & 0.523 & 0.544 & 0.533 & 0.673 & 0.843 & 0.748 & 0.716 & 0.762 & 0.735\\
CNN + rules & 0.954 & 0.899 & 0.926 & 0.534 & 0.602 & 0.566 & 0.675 & 0.839 & 0.749 & 0.721 & 0.780 & 0.747\\
Multi-head CNN & 0.934 & 0.971 & 0.952 & 0.718 & 0.544 & 0.619 & 0.863 & 0.764 & 0.810 & 0.838 & 0.760 & 0.794\\
Multi-head CNN + rules & 0.938 & 0.971 & 0.954 & 0.739 & 0.631 & 0.681 & 0.869 & 0.761 & 0.811 & 0.848 & 0.788 & 0.815\\
\bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    \end{center}
\end{table*}

\subsection{Rule-based system}

For comparison, we also implemented a rule-based system to detect irrelevant and uncertain labels (Table~\ref{tab:rules}). The rules were hand-crafted by heuristically investigating the validation set. Note that these rules do not use the information of bookmarks in the sentence.  When combined with the deep learning models, these rules are used for post-processing the output of the classifier.

\subsection{Experiment setup}

For our experiments, we used the Genia Tagger to obtain the part-of-speech, chunk tags, and named entities of each word~\cite{tsuruoka2005bidirectional}. We used pre-trained word embedding vectors and sentence embedding vectors learned on PubMed articles and MIMIC-III clinical notes using the fastText and sent2vec tools respectively~\cite{chen2018biosentvec}. We set the maximum sentence length to 128. That is, longer sentences were pruned, and shorter sentences were padded with zeros. For each fully-connected layer, we initialized the weights with Xavier normal initializer~\cite{glorot2010understanding}. We set the bias to be 0.01. To train the model, we used the Adam optimizer with a learning rate of 0.0007.  To prevent overfitting, we used dropout ($p = 0.5$). We also apply layer normalization after multi-head self-attentions~\cite{ba2016layer}. The model was run 10 epochs after the loss on validation set stop decreasing. For each epoch, we randomized the training examples and conducted a mini-batch training with a batch size of 128.

\subsection{Results and Discussion}

Table~\ref{tab:performance} shows the performance of the rule-based system, the CNN, the multi-head CNN, as measured by Precision, Recall, and F1-score. We also combined the CNN model and rule-based systems by applying rules for post-processing.

Among these three models, the combination of Multi-head CNN and rules achieved the highest precision of 0.848, recall of 0.788 and F1-score of 0.815.

We observed that the results of the rule-based system and the deep learning method complement each other. The rule-based system tends to obtain high precision but lower recall (e.g., irrelevant attribute detection). On the other hand, the deep-learning method tends to be more balanced. Consequently, combining the two will dramatically improve the recall (up to 20\% over the rule-based system). Below are some long and complicated examples that our proposed model could correctly detect the relevant relation between the attribute and the bookmark.

\begin{itemize}
    \item There is a new right upper lobe \textbf{pulmonary nodule}, for example OTHER\_BOOKMARK and \textbf{\underline{BOOKMARK}}.
    \item Enlarged \textbf{mediastinal lymph node} remains stable in size, including a right paratracheal lymph node OTHER\_BOOKMARK, subcarinal lymph node conglomerate OTHER\_BOOKMARK, and right hilar lymph conglomerate \textbf{\underline{BOOKMARK}}.
\end{itemize}

We also performed an error analysis of the testing set. The most frequent errors (69.3\%) are because the classifier linked the attributes to the wrong bookmarks. The second most frequent errors (18.8\%) are a failure to capture uncertain attributes. Further analysis of these errors identified two main reasons. One is the parsing errors due to the complex structure of free-text radiology reports. For example in the sentence ``Smaller heterogeneously \textbf{enhancing} retrocrural nodule for example OTHER\_BMK left and \textbf{BOOKMARK}  right of the aorta'', the model failed to detect the relevant relation between ``enhancing'' and ``BOOKMARK'' because of the errors of parsing noun phrase conjunction ``OTHER\_BMK left and BOOKMARK right of the aorta''. The second reason is that the keyword is outside the scope of attribute and bookmarks. For example in the sentence ``There is a prevascular soft tissue nodular density which may represent a borderline enlarged \textbf{lymph node BOOKMARK}.'', the uncertain keyword ``may'' is way beyond the two entities.

\section{Conclusion}

In this paper, we studied a hybrid deep learning method to automatically detect attributes of lesions from the radiology reports. Evaluation on an in-house corpus demonstrated that our method can achieve high recall and precision. Future work includes the detection of more types of attributes, utilizing the keywords beyond the scope of interest, and evaluation of the method across corpora from multi-institutional radiology reports.

\section*{Acknowledgment}

This work was supported by the Intramural Research Programs of the NIH Clinical Center and National Library of Medicine. Research reported in this work was also supported by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of  under award number K99LM013001-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. We are also grateful to Dr. Shang Gao for sharing their codes.

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Q: Proving $\lim_{x\to1}(x^2+3)=4$ I'm learning about proving limits with the epsilon delta thing.

Prove that $$\lim_{x\to1}(x^2+3)=4$$

Alright, so let's grab some $\epsilon > 0$ and $\delta > 0$.
We want to prove that
$$\left|x-1 \right| < \delta \implies \left|x^2+3-4 \right| < \epsilon$$
Let's begin with
$$\left|x^2-1 \right| < \epsilon$$
$$\left|(x-1)(x+1) \right| < \epsilon$$
$$\left|(x-1)\right| \cdot\left|(x+1) \right| < \epsilon$$
Well... I have the feeling I can't simply do
$$\left|(x-1)\right| < \frac{\epsilon}{\left|(x+1) \right|}$$
What do I do in this scenario?

A: It is okay to 'grab' the $\epsilon>0$.
After that you go 'hunting' (not grabbing) for a suitable $\delta>0$ that makes the line written down in your question true.
Note that $|x-1|<\delta$ leads to $|x+1|\leq3$ if $\delta$ will be taken small enough so that in these cases $|x-1||x+1|<3\delta$.
Now choose $\delta$ in such a way that $3\delta\leq\epsilon$ and secondly that $|x+1|\leq3$ is assured.
Here you could take $\delta=\min(\frac{1}{3}\epsilon,1)$

A: we want that:
$$
|x-1|<\delta \implies |x^2-1|=|x^2+3-4| <\epsilon
$$
so using a tiny trick and this fact ($|a+b|\le|a|+|b|$):
$$
|x-1|<\delta \implies |x-1|+2<\delta+2  \implies |x+1|=|x-1+2|\le |x-1|+2<\delta+2
$$
now we have:
$$
|x+1|<\delta+2 \ \ \ \ \land \ \ \ \ |x-1|<\delta
$$
so:
$$
|x^2-1|=|x-1||x+1|<\delta (\delta+2) < \epsilon
$$
now we have a criteria for choosing $\delta$ for all $\epsilon \in \mathbb{R^+}$, let's make it more explicit:
$$
\delta (\delta+2) < \epsilon \ \ \ \land \ \ \  \delta >0 \iff \boxed{0 < \delta < \sqrt{1+\epsilon}-1}
$$
so you could systematically choose $\delta$ this way:
$$
\delta = \frac{\sqrt{1+\epsilon}-1}{2}
$$


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T 1408/16 (Transparent film/NATIONAL INSTITUTE) of 16.1.2019
C01B 33/40
C08L 101/00
B01D 71/02
B28B 1/30
B28C 1/00
TRANSPARENT FILM
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
European Patent Convention Art 54(1)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Claims - clarity (yes)
Novelty - implicit disclosure (no)
Novelty - burden of proof on applicant (no)
Remittal to the department of first instance - (yes)
I. The applicant (appellant) lodged an appeal against the decision of the examining division to refuse application No. 06 782 207.
II. The reasons given in the decision under appeal for refusing the application, as far as relevant to the present decision, can be summarised as follows:
The feature "synthetic smectite" contained in claim 1 of the main request and auxiliary requests 1 and 2 that formed the basis of the decision under appeal in the then claimed context was not directly and unambiguously derivable from the application documents as filed. The subject-matter of claim 1 of auxiliary request 3 lacked novelty in view of
D1: EP 1 679 285 A1.
In particular, claims 1, 4 and 9 of D1 disclosed a clay based self-supporting film with a gas permeation coefficient of less than 3.2x10**(-11)cm**(2)s**(-1) cm Hg**(-1) and comprising up to 30 wt% of a resin as claimed. D1 explicitly mentioned saponite as well as synthetic clays in claims 2 and 3. D1 also disclosed an optical transmissivity of the clay film of 85% or higher at 500 nm. Although D1 did not explicitly disclose a total light transmissivity above 80%, it described the same method as in the examples of the present application using the same raw materials and the same process conditions. Hence the resulting product inherently had the same properties as those claimed. In particular, the total light transmissivity of claim 1 of auxiliary request 3 was disclosed in D1.
III. The additional objections raised by the search and examining divisions in the proceedings leading up to the impugned decision, as far as relevant for the present decision, may be summarised as follows:
Although not explicitly mentioning the average surface roughness, D1 described the same method as in the present application, with the same raw material and the same process, so that one can assume that the resulting product will have the same average surface roughness (see European search opinion item 2.2).
Because the product disclosed in D1 has inherently the same properties as those claimed in the present application, the applicant bore the burden of proof to show that this was not the case, as ruled in T 131/03 and T 1764/06 (see communication of 22 July 2015, item 3.2.3), but failed to do so.
The expression "total light transmissivity" lacked clarity (communication of 3 December 2015, item 1.3).
IV. With the grounds of appeal, the appellant filed a main request and an auxiliary request.
V. The board issued a communication under Article 15(1) RPBA. It raised objections in respect of lack of clarity within the meaning of Article 84 EPC and of non-compliance with Article 123(2) EPC.
VI. In its letter dated 14 December 2018, the appellant filed amongst others the following document:
D4: declaration by Takeo Ebina.
VII. At the oral proceedings, the appellant filed a main request as its sole request and withdrew all previously filed requests.
VIII. The sole independent claim 1 of the appellant's sole request reads as follows:
"1. A transparent and self-supporting film comprising: a layered synthetic saponite and a water-soluble resin; the weight ratio of the saponite being not less than 70% relative to total solids; the film having a total light transmissivity exceeding 80% as determined by JISK7105:1981; and gas barrier properties wherein the permeability coefficient of the film to oxygen gas is less than 3.2x10**(-11)cm**(2)s**(-1) cm Hg**(-1) at room temperature, wherein the water-soluble resin is one or more selected from the group consisting of epsilon caprolactam, dextrin, starch, cellulose resin, gelatin, agar, wheat flour, gelatin, chitin, chitosan, polylactic acid, an alkyd resin, a polyurethane resin, an epoxy resin, fluororesins, an acrylic resin, a methacrylic resin, a phenolic resin, a polyamide resin, a polyester resin, a polyimide resin, a polyvinyl resin, polycarbonate, polyethylene glycol, polyacrylamide, polyethylene oxide, a protein, deoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid, a polyamino acid, a benzoic acid compound, and an acrylic acid resin, wherein the weight proportion of the water soluble resin relative to total solids is less than 30%, and wherein the light transmissivity of the film at 500 nm is not less than 80% as measured by an ultraviolet-visible spectroscope, and the light transmissivity of the film at 500 nm after heating at 200**(o)C for 1 hour under normal air conditions is not less than 75%, as measured by an ultraviolet-visible spectroscope and wherein the average surface roughness of the film is not greater than 20 nm, as measured by an atomic force microscope."
IX. Dependent claims 2 to 7 relate to preferred embodiments of the film according to claim 1.
X. The appellant's arguments, as far as relevant to the present decision, may be summarised as follows:
The claims complied with the requirements of clarity and novelty. In particular, D1 neither disclosed the required average surface roughness nor the total light transmissivity as required in claim 1.
XI. The appellant requested that the decision be set aside and that a patent be granted on the basis of the set of claims of its sole request as filed during oral proceedings.
1. Amendments - Article 123(2) EPC
1.1 Claim 1 is based on originally filed claims 1, 4, 7, 8 and 10 and on paragraph [0010], subparagraphs (4), (7), (8) and (10), paragraph [0019], and paragraph [0012] with the additional features being found in the following passages of the application as filed:
1.1.1 The feature "synthetic saponite": in examples 1 to 4 and 7 to 13 a synthetic saponite is used; therefore there is a pointer in the application as filed to select synthetic saponite from the list of inorganic layered compounds disclosed in paragraph [0012].
1.1.2 The feature "as determined by JISK 7105:1981" is disclosed in the examples (see paragraphs [0031], [0038],[0044]) as the method for determining the total transmissivity.
1.1.3 The feature relating to the weight proportion of the water-soluble resin can be found in paragraph [0014].
1.2 The dependent claims find their basis in the originally filed documents as follows:
Claim 2: claim 6, paragraph [0010], (6);
claim 4: claim 11, paragraph [0010], (11);
claim 5: claim 12; paragraph [0010], (12);
claim 6: claim 14; paragraph [0010], (14), and see the examples where the unit of the thermal expansion coefficient is "ppm K**(-1)" (emphasis added by the board);
claim 7: claim 15; paragraph [0010], (15).
1.3 Thus, the claims comply with the requirement of Article 123(2) EPC.
The requirement of clarity of the claims set forth in Article 84 EPC is complied with; the term objected to in the examination proceedings (see III above, last paragraph) has been defined more precisely.
3. Novelty
3.1 Neither the claims of D1 nor any of the working examples thereof disclose the combination of the following features: a synthetic saponite, a member of the list of water-soluble resins called for in claim 1, a total light transmissivity exceeding 80% as determined by JISK 7105:1981 and an average surface roughness of not greater than 20 nm as measured by an atomic force microscope. In particular, none of examples 8, 10, 15 and 18 (relating to the combination of synthetic saponite and an additive) of D1 disclose such a total light transmissivity and such a roughness.
3.2 While it is true that in the examples of D1 (which has the same applicant as in the present application) a method for obtaining the film is used in a similar way to the one of the examples of the present application, D1 discloses only that the dispersion is poured into a flat-bottomed polypropylene or brass tray (see the examples). Neither the average surface roughness of the film obtained nor that of the flat-bottomed tray is disclosed.
3.3 In contrast, the present application contains an enabling teaching concerning the method for obtaining the claimed average surface roughness, i.e. if the surface supporting the film is not sufficiently smooth, its irregularities are transferred to the film's surface resulting in the effect of surface scattering of light which, in turn, results in impairing light transmittance (paragraph [0015], last sentence; paragraph [0060], last sentence). Moreover, the application contains examples explicitly disclosing average surface roughness values of the film in the claimed range (see for instance examples 7 to 9).
3.4 In view of this enabling disclosure, which is not contained in D1, the appellant cannot be said to bear the burden of proof to show that the film known from D1 does not possess an average surface roughness in the claimed range. This finding is also in line with the jurisprudence cited by the examining division in the proceedings leading up to the impugned decision (see III above, penultimate paragraph). In the present case, for the reasons set out above, there is no "strong presumption that an unusual parameter as used to define the claimed subjected-matter is inherently disclosed in" D1 (see T 131/03, Headnote and Reasons 2.7). Moreover, in particular in view of the above enabling disclosure, the average surface roughness cannot be considered an "unusual parameter feature [representing] the only distinction over otherwise identical known products" (see T 1764/06, Catchword and Reasons 2.12).
3.5 D1 teaches that "the optical transmissivity [...] can be adjusted to 85% or higher" (paragraph [0024]). Amongst the examples in which "the optical transmissivity" is measured (examples 4, 9, 16 and 48), example 16 is the only one in which a value falling within the claimed range is disclosed. In these examples, however, a different method from the one referred to in present claim 1 is used. The method used in D1 involves immersing the film in ethanol in a quartz rectangular cell. In contrast, the method to be used according to present claim 1 is JISK7105:1981 which involves measuring transmissivity under atmosphere (see D4, item 7). Employing this method generally results in smaller values (see D4, items 12 and 13) such that the total transmissivity of example 16 of D1 would be below the lower limit of the claimed range (see D4, item 14). For these reasons and considering that light transmissivity is dependent on surface roughness (see 3.3 above), it cannot be said that D1 discloses total light transmissivity values falling within the claimed range, let alone such values in combination with the remaining features of present claim 1.
3.6 In conclusion, the subject-matter of the sole independent claim 1 differs from the disclosure of D1 at least in the average surface roughness and in the total light transmissivity.
3.7 Thus, the requirement of novelty set forth in Article 54(1),(2) EPC is complied with.
The decision under appeal deals only with the provisions of Articles 123(2) and 54(1),(2) EPC and in particular does not deal with the requirements of Article 56 EPC. The board thus exercises its discretion (Article 111(1) EPC) and remits the case to the department of first instance for further prosecution.
2. The case is remitted to the department of first instance for further prosecution on the basis of the set of claims of the sole request filed during oral proceedings.


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The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel
Simone de Beauvoir - Author
Translated by Lauren Elkin
Introduction by Deborah Levy
Afterword by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir
Publisher Random House UK,Vintage
Publication 2 September 2021
" They called us the inseparables"
Lasting friendships that were formed in early childhood are a fascination for me. What is it that brings individuals together, keeps them together and makes them inseparable? And for me, as an avid Francophile, add to that the "mystery" of why a novel by French writer Simone de Beauvoir should come to light years after the celebrated author's death then I'm hooked.
I had joined the member community at NetGalley, requested and was sent a pre-publication copy of The Inseparables. Long time aware of, but new to reading de Beauvoir, I was grateful for the introduction by Deborah Levy who rightly pointed out that her foreword contained spoilers. I decided to stay with that however as it helped provide context and has prompted me to read some of de Beauvoir's other works. Then on to the novel itself, translated from the French by Lauren Elkin, only confirming the intention to read more. The text was accompanied by helpful footnotes explaining this or that term or historical background. And what about that mystery? The afterword, written by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, explains how the work was found among de Beauvoir's papers and came to publication. The afterword includes photographs of the people aliased in the book and some facsimiles of the original handwritten draft.
So in this small volume we get the story, the literary legacy and social context of the work. That impressed me and I liked it very much.
The book recounts the story of two young women, Sylvie and Andrée, who meet in primary school at a very young age. We learn from the opening dedication For Zaza that the story was inspired by the relationship between the young Simone in whose name Sylvie speaks and Elisabeth 'Zaza' Lacoin represented by Andrée. The two become friends and rail against the prevailing orthodoxies of the time; they discuss God, religion, philosophy and then ultimately face a final reckoning.
I was captivated by the language in the book. Yes there were all those discussions but they were essential to a sense of movement in the text; a dramatic tension drawing us to an anticipated but nonetheless abrupt conclusion that still leaves a sense of inseparability.
Looking back over the text, there are several places where I have highlighted phrases and sections that stopped me short and made me think. I love it when a book does that. For example in describing one of the adults, Sylvie/Simone writes "His silky hair and Christian virtue feminised him and lowered him in my estimation." That from a central figure in Feminism? And from the socially engaged woman describing their respective freedoms, Sylvie writes that she 'had often envied Andrée her independence, but suddenly she seemed much less free than I was'. A sense of foreboding comes in a section where there is a description of a sculpted wooden clock, 'which held...all the darkness of time'. Foreboding reprised when 'Andrée placed the violin in its little coffin' after practising her music during which,'she seemed to be listening prayerfully to the voice of the instrument on her shoulder'. There are many such examples, skilfully inserted throughout the text.
One for the shelves?
Definitely! I am delighted to have read the ebook sent by the publisher through NetGalley but this a novel I would also like to have on my bookshelves so I have ordered a physical copy and will certainly reread.
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The Advances in the History of Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Selin Metin Camgoz, Irem Metin
This paper presents the advances in the history of cognitive dissonance theory. Cognitive dissonance has been one of the most influential and widely studied phenomena in the history of social psychology. The theory proposes that when people experience psychological discomfort (dissonance), they strive to reduce it through either changing behaviors and cognitions or adding new cognitive elements. The theory has been revised by researchers who emphasize the role of self-concept in the arousal of dissonance. In the late 1970s, the interest in cognitive research faded. However, this opened a new era of mini-theories which originate from cognitive dissonance theory. A good synthesis of mini-theories in future studies will move the dissonance theory further in explaining the conditions under which people strive towards consistency.


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