Mrs. Grace R Ariga promoted the school in 2001 and has played an active role since then and is currently a director in charge of academics. She has a degree in Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing Option) from New Delhi University, India and a Diploma in Education from University of Daystar, Nairobi.
Before promoting the school she had extensive experience spreading over 30 years in marketing for a major Kenyan Government Organisation and a Multi-National organisation in packaging industry.
Mr. Chrispine E. Rogo (TSC No. 591236/Y) is the Head Teacher for primary section which is categorized into Lower and Upper Primary. He brings his vast academic experience from various International schools where he worked as the Head Teacher before joining Kiuini. He holds the following;
Diploma in Education, from Kampala University, Uganda.
Certificate in Education, Leadership, Management, Aga Khan University, Dar es-salaamu Tanzania.
He has received so many awards from the Ministry of Education (MOE) recognising his colourful performance both in Academics and Management. Besides that, he is well known for his vast experience in Education management and teaching of Kiswahili as a subject, and is a disciplinarian and a mentor. His Motto has been hard work and discipline.
Miss Nancy Nyawira Karume (TSC No.742891) is the Head Teacher for kindergarten section, she currently holds the following;
Kenya Headmistress Association Certificate (KHA)
Montessori Certificate, Child developers programme (CDP)
Diploma in ECDE from Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC)
Mr. John Kyalo is the Head of Finance department, before joining the school he had vast experience in the Public Service Commission in the following ministries (Min of Education) as the District schools Auditor, Mombasa.(Min of co-op) District cooperative Auditor, Kwale and also worked in various private companies in the same capacity. He holds the following qualifications;
Bachelor of Commerce (Accountancy & Audit option) from Jabalpur University India.


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Diablo IV is revealed, sure looks like a supercharged Diablo II
No release date yet, but it's playable—and we have three classes, plus horses.
by Sam MachkovechDuring the opening ceremony of Blizzcon 2019, Blizzard Entertainment confirmed the most unsurprising game reveal in the company's recent history: Diablo IV.
"We've had Diablo IV in development for some time," Blizzard President J. Allen Brack said, following its reveal (which we already suspected). He added that the company wanted to be sure the game was in a playable state before announcing it to the world. Hence, Diablo IV's reveal included a lengthy gameplay trailer and a promise that all conference attendees could play the game's demo during the weekend-long event.
The reveal included confirmation of the week's many leaks: that the game would revolve around the return of Diablo II's villain Lilith; that the new game's art style would return to a black-brown-and-red motif, a la Diablo II; and that its first three revealed classes would be the barbarian, sorceress, and druid. Game Director Luis Barriga pledged to fully support a more "brutal" take on player-versus-player (PvP) combat, but he didn't go into further details on how that will operate.
Though Barriga wasn't ready to reveal a release date or window, he did confirm the game will launch on Windows PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. That chosen series of platforms may peg the game's launch before 2020's holiday season, when we expect to see new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Scarlett consoles... or it may simply be a placeholder announcement before Diablo IV winds up on newer consoles, anyway.
Diablo IV's gameplay trailer included hints of new mechanics, particularly the ability to ride horses—and then chain attacks off of horseback, so that a hero can explode in a lightning burst off of its mount to attack nearby enemies. It also included clear callbacks to Diablo II, particularly the animations of loot and gold exploding from dead bodies, not to mention the obvious emphasis on the older games' color palettes. The trailer's mix of indoor and outdoor zones still made the most of that limited color palette in terms of biome diversity, while each revealed class already appears to have a mix of screen-clearing and zone-slashing powers, so that each can clear a room of diabolic baddies on its own.
Ars Technica has boots on Blizzcon's floor, and we'll be back in the coming days with impressions of how Diablo IV feels compared to other classics in the series. We'll also see if Blizzard has anything to say about Diablo Immortal, the smartphone-only fork of the series that was revealed to a tepid fan reaction at last year's Blizzcon event. (Update: The Blizzcon keynote ended without a single mention of Diablo Immortal, though it may receive mentions at various panels through the weekend-long event.)
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Doctors and nurses want to know that they are providing the best possible care to their hospitalized COVID19 patients, but research is moving too slowly to generate the findings needed for top-notch, evidence-based medicine.
The clinical treatment of COVID-19 has become decentralized non-controlled, creating the inefficiencies in care delivery. To facilitates design of clinical trials, we need high quality observational data to accelerate treatment protocol development.
There is no global clinical database can inform clinician in real time. We need improve preparedness for future outbreaks.
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PILOT the program within a single health network.
REFINE COVIData registry system as needed.
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staging.api.groundspeak.com/Live/v6beta/geocaching.svc/help API Documentation by Groundspeak |
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staging.api.groundspeak.com/Live/v6beta/geocaching.svc/help/operations/AddFavoritePointToCache Documentation by Groundspeak |
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I’m happy with common_schema; it is in fact a tool I use myself on an almost daily basis. I’m also happy to see that it gains traction; which is why I’m exposing a little bit of my thoughts on general future development. I’d love to get feedback.
Supported versions
At this moment, common_schema supports MySQL >= 5.1, all variants. This includes 5.5, 5.6, MySQL, Percona Server & MariaDB.
5.1 is today past end of line, and I’m really missing the SIGNAL/RESIGNAL syntax that I would like to use; I can do in the meanwhile with version-specific code such as /*!50500 … */. Nevertheless, I’m wondering whether I will eventually have to:
- Support different branches of common_schema (one that supports 5.1, one that supports >= 5.5)
- Stop support for 5.1
Of course community-wise, the former is preferred; but I have limited resources, so I would like to make a quick poll here:
[poll id=“3”]
I’ll use the poll’s results as a vague idea of what people use and want. Or please use comments below to sound your voice!
rdebug
This was a crazy jump at providing a stored routine debugger and debugging API. From some talk I made I don’t see this getting traction. For the time being, I don’t see that I will concentrate my efforts on this. Actually it is almost complete. You can step-into, step-out, step-over, set breakpoints, read variables, modify variables – it’s pretty cool.
common_schema 2.1 is released! common_schema is your free & open source companion schema within your MySQL server, providing with a function library, scripting capabilities, powerful routines and ready-to-apply information and recommendations.
New and noteworthy in version 2.1:
- Better QueryScript’s split() functionality
- Persistent tables for QueryScript: no long held temporary tables
- Index creation analysis, further range partition analysis
- grant_access(): allow everyone to use common_schema
- Ascii charts, google charts
- debugged_routines: show routines with debug code
Other minor enhancements and bugfixes not listed.
Here’s a breakdown of the above:
split() enhancements
split is one of those parts of common_schema that (should) appeal to every DBA. Break a huge transaction automagically into smaller chunks, and don’t worry about how it’s done. If you like, throttle execution, or print progress, or…
split enhancements include:
- A much better auto-detection-and-selection of the chunking index. split now consults all columns covered by the index, and uses realistic heuristics to decide which UNIQUE KEY on your table is best for the chunking process. A couple bugs are solved on the way; split is much smarter now.
- Better support for multi-column chunking keys. You may now utilize the start/stop parameters even on multi column keys, passing a comma delimited of values for the split operation to start/end with, respectively. Also fixed issue for nonexistent start/stop values, which are now valid: split will just keep to the given range.
- split no longer requires a temporary table open through the duration of its operation. See next section.
#DBHangOps I had the pleasure of joining into @DBHangOps today, and speak about common_schema and openark-kit. What was meant to be a 15 minute session turned to be 50 -- sorry, people, I don't talk as much at home, but when it comes to my pet projects... I also realized I was missing on a great event: DBHangOps is a hangout where you can chat and discuss MySQL & related technologies with friends and colleagues, with whom you typically only meet at conferences.
I'm starting my new position as Senior Software Engineer at Outbrain. While I'm still to fully grasp the scope of my work, I will be handling data on all things MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka, more, more and more, at very large volumes. I find Outbrain a great supporter of community and open source: Open source solutions are highly preferred over commercial solutions Outbrain is an early adopter for many open source technologies Employees are encouraged to contribute back as much as possible to the open source community It is happy to pay for support from companies developing open source Outbrain is a major participant in the ILTechTalks initiative: free, volunteer, professional exchange of knowledge I can already testify I will be working with very smart and knowledgeable people; I expect to learn a lot and of course contribute from my own knowledge and skills.
The two conservative ways of getting the number of rows in an InnoDB table are:
- SELECT COUNT(*) FROM my_table:
provides with an accurate number, but makes for a long running transaction which take ages on large tables. Long transactions make for locks
- SELECT TABLE_ROWS FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA=‘my_schema’ AND TABLE_NAME=‘my_table’, or get same info via SHOW TABLE STATUS.
Gives immediate response, but the value can be way off; it can be two times as large as real value, or half the value. For query execution plans this may be a “good enough” estimation, but typically you just can’t trust it for your own purposes.
Get a good estimate using chunks
You can get a good estimate by calculating the total number of rows in steps. Walk the table 1,000 rows at a time, and keep a counter. Each chunk is its own transaction, so, if the table is modified while counting, the final value does not make for an accurate account at any point in time. Typically this should be a far better estimate than TABLE_ROWS.
QueryScript’s split() construct provides you with the means to work this out. Consider this script:
Or: how to make it work in TokuDB version 7.0.1. This is a follow up on a discussion on the tokudb-user group.
Background
I wanted to test TokuDB’s compression. I took a staging machine of mine, with production data, and migrated it from Percona Server 5.5 To MariaDB 5.5+TokuDB 7.0.1. Migration went well, no problems.
To my surprise, when I converted tables from InnoDB to TokuDB, I saw an increase in table file size on disk. As explained by Tim Callaghan, this was due to TokuDB interpreting my compressed table’s “KEY_BLOCK_SIZE=4” as an instruction for TokuDB’s page size. TokuDB should be using 4MB block size, but thinks it’s being instructed to use 4KB. Problem is, you can’t get rid of table options. When one converts a table to InnoDB in ROW_FORMAT=COMPACT, or even to MyISAM, the KEY_BLOCK_SIZE option keeps lurking in the dark.
So until this is hopefully resolved in TokuDB’s next version, here’s a way to go around the problem.
A new release for mycheckpoint: lightweight, SQL oriented MySQL monitoring solution. If you're unfamiliar with mycheckpoint, well, the one minute sales pitch is: it's a free and open source monitoring tool for MySQL, which is extremely easy to install and execute, and which includes custom queries, alerts (via emails), and out of the box HTTP server and charting. This is mostly a maintenance release, with some long-time requested features, and of course solved bugs.
This is a long due maintenance release of openark-kit. This release includes bugfixes and some enhancements, mainly to oak-online-alter-table.
oak-online-alter-table Changes / bug fixes include:
- Support for keyword-named columns
- Use of FORCE INDEX due to lack of MySQL’s ability for figure out the chunking key at all times
- –sleep-ratio option added; allows for sleep time proportional to execution time (as opposed to constant sleep time with –sleep)
- Support for chunk-retry (in case of deadlock) via –max-lock-retries)
- Fixed order of cleanup
- Fixed bug with verbose messages with non-integer chunking key
- Fixed bug with single-row tables (people, no need for this tool for single row tables :))
- Friendly verbose messages to remind you what’s being executed
oak-chunk-update changes includes:
- Verbosing query comment if exists (friendly printing of what’s being executed)
Sharing my experience of compiling TokuDB + MariaDB 5.5. Why? Because I must have this patch to Sphinx 2.0.4.
Note: I was using what seems to be the “old” method of compiling; quoting Leif Walsh:
… We are looking at deprecating that method of building (MariaDB source plus binary fractal tree handlerton). It only really needed to be that complex when we were closed source.
I also tried the “new” method of compiling, which I couldn’t work out.
Here’s how it goes: TokuDB is newly released as open source. As such, it got a lot of attention, many downloads and I hope it will succeed.
However as stable as the product may be, it’s new to open source, which means anyone compiling it from source is an early adopter (at least for the compilation process).
Installation process
This is an unorthodox, and actually weird process. See section 6 on the Tokutek docs. In order to compile the project you must download:
- The source code tar.gz
- And the binary (?!) tar.gz
- And the binary checksum
- And the Tokutek patches
- And the patches checksum
Here are a few questions remained open for me from Percona Live 2013 about things that have been said during keynotes; I will appreciate a discussion on comments. Here goes:
Question #1
Brian Aker (HP) asks Simone Brunozzi (Amazon) what the underlying technology for DynamoDB is. Simone says can’t disclose. Brian says: “it’s MySQL!!”. Simone says: “can’t disclose”. Brian insists: “it’s MySQL!!”
Seriously? I will be very much surprised to learn that DynamoDB uses MySQL; it doesn’t make sense to me. Why would Brian Aker say that though? Did he just mean to tease Simone or is there something I just don’t get?


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US Govt Condemns ZRP’s Indiscriminate Beatings & Brutality Against Civilians
by Timothy NdoroUS Govt Condemns ZRP’s Indiscriminate Beatings
The United States government has condemned the brutality used by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) today when they indiscriminately attacked civilians.
The police officers threw teargas and indiscriminately attacked every person who was near and around the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House (formerly Harvest House) and Nelson Mandela Avenue.
Assistant Secretary for U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs Tibor Nagy urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to respect the 2013 Constitution.
Writing on social media site Twitter Nagy said,
The police’s heavy-handedness in dealing with civilians had been roundly condemned by Zimbabweans on social media platforms. The police’s actions resulted in severe injuries to some passers-by who got caught in the crossfire. One elderly man sustained a deep cut on his head while another woman suffered a broken leg. Numerous other people sustained multiple injuries and had to receive medical treatment.
Also Read,
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WATCH: The Moment When ZRP Indiscriminately Beat Up Civilians In Harare CBD
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PICS: Heart Breaking Scenes Of Police Brutally Assaulting Civilians
WATCH: Elderly Civilian Sustains Gory Head Injuries After Indiscriminate Attack By Police
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WATCH: Woman Left Nursing Broken Leg After Brutal Assault By Police In Harare CBD
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PICS: Police Officers Surround MDC Supporters Waiting For Nelson Chamisa’s HONA Address At Harvest House
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BEFORE NIGHT FALLS A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2001 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): **
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, based on the memoirs of the same name, tells the story of Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem), a gay, Cuban poet. Perhaps "story" is too strong a word. As directed by painter Julian Schnabel, whose only other movie was the also overrated BASQUIAT, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS is more a collection of half-formed images than any kind of a proper story.
When the ending credits finally roll, all we know for sure about Reinaldo is that he was gay, persecuted and mother-fixated. There are only hints of his literary skills. The film suffers almost exactly the same problem as FINDING FORRESTER, the other recent movie about a writer. Both movies spend enormous effort on side issues, while never bothering to give us examples of the writer's work product until the very end. In both cases, all we get is the briefest of excerpts.
Sean Penn and Johnny Depp lend their names to the picture by turning in some nice cameos. See if you can recognize them. The rest of the supporting cast isn't the least bit memorable.
Schnabel makes some unusual and frequently unsuccessful choices. The movie is mainly in English, but, capriciously and sporadically, the characters begin to speak Spanish with English subtitles. His use of grainy archival footage is the most successful as it gives the movie more authenticity than any of the acting. The picture's lead, Javier Bardem, keeps the same withdrawn look throughout. His lack of energy and the director's languid pacing make for tedious viewing.
We are reminded of Castro's persecution of anyone deemed counter-revolutionary, such as writers or homosexuals, of which Reinaldo was both. One potentially harrowing event is Reinaldo's unsuccessful attempt to float to Florida in an inner tube. Schnabel, however, doesn't have a clue as to how to stage this. One minute Reinaldo is leaving, and the next has him back again. Boy, that was dramatic. The only interesting part is one camera angle taken from the inner tube's viewpoint.
The movie is filled with lost opportunities. One political propaganda billboard reads "Duty Begins When Friendship Ends." Rather than build on the indoctrination issue, the story tosses it out and then drops it. Similarly, we have a quasi-trial in which one poet is forced to confess to his poetry "crimes" against the state. But after showing it, this isn't properly developed either.
What we are left with are some wonderful images and a terrific and eclectic score that includes the adagio from Mahler's 5th -- always a good choice. My favorite of the visuals involves an escape effort by hot air balloon. As the balloon rises from the ruins of an abandoned and roofless church, we get the aerial view of a would-be political refugee fleeing the ravages of communism. But, like most escapes, it fails. The movie is like that. Lots of good images surrounding a failed attempt at storytelling.
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS runs a long 2:13. Part of the film is in Spanish with English subtitles. It is rated R for strong sexual content, some language and brief violence and would be acceptable for high school seniors and older.
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CopySprite()
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Result = CopySprite(#Sprite1, #Sprite2 [, Mode])概要
Copy the #Sprite1 to #Sprite2.
参数
#Sprite1 The source sprite to copy. #Sprite2 A number to identify the new copied sprite. #PB_Any 可以用来自动生成这个编码. If #Sprite2 doesn't exists, it is created. 模式 （可选） It can be a combination of the following values (with the '|' operator): #PB_Sprite_PixelCollision: Add special information to handle pixel collision trough SpritePixelCollision(). #PB_Sprite_AlphaBlending : Sprite is created with per pixel alpha-channel support, needed for DisplayTransparentSprite().
返回值
Nonzero if the sprite has been copied, zero otherwise. If #PB_Any was used for the #Sprite2 parameter then the generated number is returned on success.
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所有


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| combine_vars {ggplot2} | R Documentation |
Take input data and define a mapping between faceting variables and ROW, COL and PANEL keys
combine_vars(data, env = emptyenv(), vars = NULL, drop = TRUE)
data |
A list of data.frames, the first being the plot data and the subsequent individual layer data |
env |
The environment the vars should be evaluated in |
vars |
A list of quoted symbols matching columns in data |
drop |
should missing combinations/levels be dropped |
A data.frame with columns for PANEL, ROW, COL, and faceting vars


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You attempted to upload 100 apprentices across 3 training courses.
There were 4 errors and 2 warnings.
List of errors
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |<PHONE_NUMBER> | Mahershalalhashbaz de Orellana Plantagenet | 10/10/1999 | Start date cannot be empty --/-- to 11/20 |
3 583 4 | £2,000 | £200 | EPA0001 | CX8576748 | ||
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£200 | EPA0001 | ZZ8576746 | ||
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10/10/1999 | --/-- to 11/20 |
4 | £2,000 | £200 | EPA0001 | BG8576791 | ||
| 21 | ULN is missing -------------------- |
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Display¶
Description¶
The function display()
displays a signal and the change points provided in alternating colors.
If another set of change point indexes is provided, they are displayed with dashed vertical dashed lines.
Usage¶
Start with the usual imports and create a signal.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
import ruptures as rpt
# creation of data
n, dim = 500, 2 # number of samples, dimension
n_bkps, sigma = 3, 5 # number of change points, noise standart deviation
signal, bkps = rpt.pw_constant(n, dim, n_bkps, noise_std=sigma)
rpt.display(signal, bkps)
If we computed another set of change points, for instance [110, 150, 320, 500]
, we can easily compare the two segmentations.
rpt.display(signal, bkps, [110, 150, 320, 500])
Code explanation¶
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ruptures.show.display.
display
(signal, true_chg_pts, computed_chg_pts=None, **kwargs)[source]¶ Display a signal and the change points provided in alternating colors. If another set of change point is provided, they are displayed with dashed vertical dashed lines. The following matplotlib subplots options is set by default, but can be changed when calling display): - “figsize”: (10, 2 * n_features), # figure size
- Parameters
signal (array) – signal array, shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_features).
true_chg_pts (list) – list of change point indexes.
computed_chg_pts (list, optional) – list of change point indexes.
**kwargs – all additional keyword arguments are passed to the plt.subplots call.
- Returns
(figure, axarr) with a
matplotlib.figure.Figure
object and an array of Axes objects.- Return type
tuple


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Mezozoic Era
15 Interestings facts
1_ During the Mesozoic, or "Middle Life" Era, life diversified rapidly and giant reptiles, dinosaurs and other monstrous beasts roamed the Earth.
2_ The period, which spans from about 252 million years ago to about 66 million years ago
3_ The Permian-Triassic boundary, at the start of the Mesozoic, is defined relative to a particular section of sediment in Meishan, China, where a type of extinct, eel-like creature known as a conodont first appeared
4_ he end boundary for the Mesozoic Era, the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, is defined by a 20-inch (50 centimeters) thick sliver of rock in El Kef, Tunisia
5_ The Mesozoic Era began roughly around the time of the end-Permian extinction, which wiped out 96 percent of marine life and 70 percent of all terrestrial species on the planet.
6_ ife slowly rebounded, eventually giving way to a flourishing diversity of animals, from massive lizards to monstrous dinosaurs.
7_ he Triassic Period, from 252 million to 200 million years ago, saw the rise of reptiles and the first dinosaurs, the Jurassic Period, from about 200 million to 145 million years ago
8_ Coniferous plants, or those that have cone-bearing seeds, already existed at the beginning of the era, but they became much more abundant during the Mesozoic.
9_ Flowering plants emerged during the late Cretaceous Period.
10_ Earth during the Mesozoic Era was much warmer than today, and the planet had no polar ice caps.
11_ Without much coastline to moderate the continent's interior temperature, Pangaea experienced major temperature swings
12_ The Mesozoic Era was bookended by two great extinctions, with another smaller extinction occurring at the end of the Triassic Period
13_ Because the fossil record is incomplete, it's difficult to say exactly what caused the extinctions, or even how rapidly they occurred.
14_ Most scientists agree that an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
15_ The volcanic eruptions caused a spike in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, though the 2014 PNAS study suggests that the spike was brief.


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Some passionate american students from Texas worked for Red Hat for like a month or so and made this hopefully funcioning app. Thats all bye!


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Review system for Bootstrap 3 using progressbars
Example review for hotels
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NativeAdapter class constructor
instance used to interact with a systems clipboard (Default: ClipboardAction)
instance used to interact with a systems keybaord (Default: KeyboardAction)
instance used to interact with a systems mouse (Default: MouseAction)
copy copies a given text to the system clipboard
The text to copy
currentMousePosition returns the current mouse position
Current cursor position at a certain Point
leftClick triggers a native left-click event via OS API
middleClick triggers a native middle-click event via OS API
paste pastes the current text on the system clipboard
The clipboard text
pressButton presses and holds a mouse Button
releaseButton releases a mouse Button previously clicked via pressButton
releaseKey releases a Key previously presses via pressKey
rightClick triggers a native right-click event via OS API
scrollDown triggers a downward mouse wheel scroll
The amount of 'ticks' to scroll
scrollLeft triggers a left mouse scroll
The amount of 'ticks' to scroll
scrollRight triggers a right mouse scroll
The amount of 'ticks' to scroll
scrollUp triggers an upwards mouse wheel scroll
The amount of 'ticks' to scroll
setKeyboardDelay configures keyboard delay between key presses
The keyboard delay in milliseconds
setMouseDelay configures mouse speed for movement
Mouse delay in milliseconds
setMousePosition changes the current mouse cursor position to a given Point
type types a given string via native keyboard events
The text to type
NativeAdapter serves as an abstraction layer for all OS level interactions.
This allows to provide a high level interface for native actions, without having to spread (possibly) multiple dependencies all over the code. All actions which involve the OS are bundled in this adapter.


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{% if session.meetingFinished is defined %}
Welcome Back!
We have heard back from everyone on your invitee list. Here are the times that everyone is available in the time and date range you specified:
{% if session.freeTimes is defined %}
{% for event in session.freeTimes %}
{{ event[3] }} {{event[4]}}
{% if loop.index is divisibleby 1 %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}


Hi,
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Thank you
Parking App Team


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Building a 3-Phase Servo Motor Driver
In the past few months I was intensively exposed to servo motors: their constructions, working principles, and driving circuits, thanks to my internship. These motors are brushless, driven by 3-phase AC currents, and when properly controlled (as in my internship company), can execute motion with nanometer-level of resolution. The science and technology behind these motors deeply fascinated me, which inspired me to try building my own 3-phase servo motor driver, one of the core components in the motor’s control.
The 3-phase servo motor driver is essentially a 3-phase DC-to-AC converter, which provides current measurement and feedback for control purpose. The major functional blocks of the driver are as follows:
- 3-Phase MOSFET inverter and MOSFET gate drivers.
- Phase Current Sensing.
- Power Supply System.
- Feedback Signal Conditioning & ADC (Optional).
In addition, this driver will also provide complete isolation between high-power circuit and MCU control circuit (MCU control circuit is external to the driver).
The 3-Phase Inverter
The 3-phase inverter circuit consists of 3 half-bridge circuits, which controls the 3 phases of the motor. Each half-bridge is made up of 2 MOSFETs (I used Fairchild 40N25). the inverter circuit is shown in Fig.1. The inverter is powered from V+, which is the motor’s power supply with user-defined voltage (according to needs, max 100V DC).
Because both high- and low-side of the half-bridge uses N-channel MOSFET, and becuase of the characteristics of N-Channel MOSFET, a gate driving circuit becomes necessary. I used IR2183 integrated half-bridge driver to do this job. The driver circuit (for one phase only) is shown in Fig.2. Opto-coupler HCPL0630 was used to isolate the high-power driver circuit from MCU. Sorry but please notice that value of R7 and R8 shown in Fig.2 (1K ohm) is WRONG because I misunderstood some datasheets. The value for R7 and R8 in the final design is 330 ohm.
To make sure the design works, I built a prototype of the inverter circuit (1 phase only) and tested it (shown in Fig.3 and Fig.4). Fig.4 shows the halg-bridge switching an inductive load with approx. 70% duty. The MOSFET gate driver circuit (Fig.2) does not operate when PWM duty is below approx. 3% or above approx 95%.
Phase Current Sensing
The job of the current sensing circuit is to accurately measure the amount of current flowing in each phase. The measurement is then provided MCU, which executes a close-loop control algorithm that controls the current flow in phases (the current loop). I used LTSR-25NP current transducer to sense the phase currents. LTSR-25NP is a hall-effect current censor, and its output is completely isolated from the current that it measures. It helps isolate high- and low-power parts of the driver board.
Power Supply System
In my driver, the motor is powered from V+ (user-defined, max 100V DC). However, the rest of the system: MOSFET gate drivers, current sensors, etc, are powered from a separate power source, fixed at 24V DC. This 24V voltage is converted by switch-mode voltage regulators into 2 different voltages:
- 15V: power supply to MOSTEF gate drivers
- 5V: for high-power circuits that needs 5V supply (e.g. opto-isolator, high-power side).
In addition, there is another 5V linear regulator, which supplies power for low-power circuits that needs 5V: opto-isolator low-power side, current transducers, etc.
An additional 5V voltage, VREF, is provided by REF195 (by Analog Devices). this is the precision voltage reference for an the onboard ADC (which was never tested, sadly)
The power supply curcuit is shown in Fig.6.
Feedback Signal Conditioning & ADC
to be added
PCB Design
My driver board features 4-layer PCB, with middle layers dedicated to GND and power supply. In the layout I paid attention to keep the ground panel for high- and low-power circuits separated. Total isolation is achieved by using opto-isolators and isolated current sensors. The Layers are shown in Fig.7 ~ Fig.10, and the completed PCB is shown in Fig.11(front side) and Fig.12(back side).
Fig.13 shows the finished motor driver in use, driving a brushed DC motor (only one of the 3 phases is used).
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In the News and My Articles
Well, to start things off; I create living identities for my clients, I help them with the 3 D's of branding: Discover, Define, Design. If you want to find out more about this check this out but that’s where the magic happens. I believe in the importance of learning as much as you can and developing a set of ‘soft-skills’ that you can use to help you with areas outside of your trade. Thus, I am well equipped for most situations.
I create visual identities which are the overall look of a brand's communications.I achieve this by creating a consistent look and feel utilizing particular visual elements to create distinction, such as specific fonts, colors, and graphic elements.
Throughout my years designing I have grown accustomed to various skills in the realm, Graphic Design, UI/UX Design, and of course Web Design are parts of my passion for DESIGN in general. I also incorporate my abilities in these areas when i do Identity Design.
Ever since he was 14, Cody has had a burning passion for entrepreneurship, graphic design, and branding. He got his first chance to prove himself at the age of 15, where he entered a design contest on 99 Designs for an apparel company called: STNLY SUPPLY CO. Shortly after winning the contest, STNLY hired Cody on to develop all their branding and apparel design. By the age of 16, Cody had spread his wings and flew. He had co-started up a successful clothing company called Indigo-T-Shirts, had taken on numerous design jobs for startups, had illustrated a storyboard for a motion-picture and had created his own brand Retrolection whom he is the CEO of. Through Retrolection, Cody's opportunities went through the roof and by the age of 17 he was working with local AZ startups such as, MASKD, and FEEL FREE. Through these connections Cody built a reputation for his knowledge for business, eye for design, and passion for branding. And through that he was invited to be a panelist at his chapter of HOUSE OF GENIUS not knowing that he would become youngest person ever to be on the panel for HOUSE OF GENIUS at the age of 17.


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1 Overview
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1.1 CTrace Manual Version
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Version: 1.0
Author: Cal McPherson
Comments: Initial revision of the document.
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1.2 What is CTrace?
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CTrace is a fast, lightweight trace/debug C library.
It was specifically written for use in a multi-threaded,
embedded application, though it will work just fine
in a single threaded C application.
A trace/debug library has an interface of macros or functions
which outputs the contents of program variables as the application
is running. The trace calls may be made at certain depths(either
defined manually or at runtime, or simply using function calls to
determine the level of depth). It may also be required to have
trace functions only called on a particular thread or logical unit
of the application.
Ok, so you may ask isn't that what debuggers are for? Well, yes,
though debuggers can be kind of tricky to use when an application
is running across multiple threads. Also, once an application is
deployed, for example on an embedded system, using debuggers becomes
impractical. In this case, a remote protocol could turn tracing on
for parts of the application, and the results may be returned either
as a stream, or output to a file on the remote system, and collected
via ftp.
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1.3 CTrace Features
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- Fast, ligthweight tracing
- Support for turning tracing on and off as required
- Support for turning trace levels on and off independantly
- Support for adding and removing trace threads
- Ability to turn individual thread traces on and off in isolation
- Ability to trace logical software units in isolation
CTrace is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is free
for use
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2 Reference
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2.1 Trace Library Initialisation and Cleanup
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Before the trace library is used, it must first be initialised
by calling either the TRC_INIT_DEFAULT or the TRC_INIT macro.
Initialisation should normally take place upon startup of the
application, for example after entry of the program's main() function.
Note there is a difference between enabling and disabling tracing
and turning tracing on and off.
The trace library is made up of
macros which call functions in the trace library. In a real-time
(or any system) we do not want these functions being called if
we are not currently tracing anything.
Disabling the trace libraries prevents the underlying
calls to the trace library. It is recommended to initialise the
trace library with the TRC_DISABLED flag for normal(non-traced)
running of your application.
Because the trace library allows multiple threads and for threads
to be traced in isolation, it is neccessary to have an additional
flag for turning tracing on and off at the thread level. For this
reason, if you are using the trace library in a single-threaded
application, you need to both enable tracing with the TRC_ENABLED
flag, and turn tracing on with the TRC_ON flag for tracing to occur.
Finally, immediately prior to exiting your program you should call
TRC_END() to cleanup data structures and close threads associated
with the trace library.
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2.1.1 TRC_INIT_DEFAULT()
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Arguments: void
Return Value:
Description:
Initialise the trace library for use with default settings.
Example:
TRC_INIT_DEFAULT();
Initialise trace library with the following values:
- _STDOUT - send output to standard output stream
- TRC_DISABLED - disable tracing
- TRC_ON - turn tracing on for all threads
- TRC_ERR - turn on error tracing only for all trace levels
- TRC_SERV_OFF - run tracing inside the thread being traced
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2.1.2 TRC_INIT(a,b,c,d,e)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
const char * |
Default output stream for tracing:
| NULL |
standard output |
| "stdout" |
standard output |
| "stderr" |
standard error |
| "filename" |
output to "filename" |
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| b |
t_enable_t |
Trace enabled flag |
| c |
t_on_t |
Trace on/off flag |
| d |
t_level_t |
Trace levels to default to |
| e |
t_server_t |
Run trace as separate server thread |
Return Value:
Description:
Initialise the trace library for use.
Example:
TRC_INIT(NULL, TRC_ENABLED, TRC_ON, TRC_ALL, TRC_SERV_OFF);
Initialise trace library with the following values:
- NULL - send output to standard output stream
- TRC_ENABLED - enable tracing
- TRC_ON - turn tracing on for all threads
- TRC_ALL - turn tracing on for all trace levels
- TRC_SERV_OFF - run tracing inside the thread being traced
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2.1.1 TRC_END()
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Arguments: void
Return Value: void
Description:
Cleanup trace library data structures and threads.
Example:
TRC_END();
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2.2 Trace Calls
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The trace calls are the meat and potatoes of the CTrace library.
They send the tracing information to the output stream.
TRC_ENTER() displays the procedure or function name and the
values of the arguments passed into it as parameters. It
should be called immediately upon entering a procedure or function.
TRC_RETURN() displays the function return value and then
performs function return. TRC_VOID_RETURN() displays and performs
procedure return.
TRC_TRACE() is used to display any general trace information, in
the format of keyword/value pairs.
Finally, TRC_ERROR displays error information, once again in the
format of keyword/value pairs. TRC_ERROR calls will occur when
the TRC_ERR tlevel_t flag is set.
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2.2.1 TRC_ENTER(a,b,c)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
t_local_t |
local trace flag |
| b |
t_level_t |
trace level |
| c |
char * |
Formatted vararglist of fn argument values |
Return Value: void
Description:
Write trace enter function/procedure line to output stream.
Argument <c> takes the form ("%d, %s", 1, "string") as
per the vararglist format of fprintf and printf C functions.
Example:
void myfunction(int myfn_arg1, char *myfn_arg2){
TRC_ENTER(tlocal, TRC0, (%d, %s", myfn_arg1, myfn_arg2));
...
Show that "myfunction" has been entered with argument values "myfn_arg1", "myfn_arg2".
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2.2.2 TRC_RETURN(a,b,c,d)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
t_local_t |
local trace flag |
| b |
t_level_t |
trace level |
| c |
char * |
Formatted vararglist showing return value |
| d |
void |
Return value |
Return Value: void
Description:
Write trace return from function line to output stream.
Argument <c> takes the form ("%d, %s", 1) as
per the vararglist format of fprintf and printf C functions.
Note this function performs function return. The function
return value is passed as argument <d> to the macro.
Example:
...
TRC_RETURN(tlocal, TRC0, (%d", retval), retval);
}
Show that function return has taken place returning value "retval". Also
performs function return.
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2.2.3 TRC_VOID_RETURN(a,b)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
t_local_t |
local trace flag |
| b |
t_level_t |
trace level |
Return Value: void
Description:
Write trace return from procedure line to output stream.
Note this macro performs procedure return.
Example:
...
TRC_VOID_RETURN(tlocal, TRC0);
}
Show that procedure return has taken place. Also
performs procedure return.
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2.2.4 TRC_PRINT(a,b,c,d)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
t_local_t |
local trace flag |
| b |
t_level_t |
trace level |
| c |
char * |
keyword |
| d |
char * |
Formatted vararglist of fn argument values |
Return Value: void
Description:
Write trace print line to output stream.
Argument <c> is a keyword describing the trace information.
Argument <d> takes the form ("%d, %s", 1, "string") as
per the vararglist format of fprintf and printf C functions.
Example:
TRC_PRINT(tlocal, TRC0, "innerloopval", ("i=%d", 0));
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2.2.5 TRC_ERROR(a,b)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
t_local_t |
local trace flag |
| b |
char * |
keyword |
| c |
char * |
Formatted vararglist of fn argument values |
Return Value: void
Description:
Write trace print line to output stream.
Argument <b> is a keyword describing the trace information.
Argument <c> takes the form ("%d, %s", 1, "string") as
per the vararglist format of fprintf and printf C functions.
Trace level flag TRC_ERR needs to be set for TRC_ERROR output
lines to be send to the output stream.
Example:
TRC_ERROR(tlocal, "rooted", ("s=%s", "your rooted"));
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2.3 Turn Tracing On/Off
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TRC_ENABLE() and TRC_DISABLE() are used to disable and enable
tracing. Upon entry to every trace macro a flag is checked to
determine if tracing is enabled. If tracing is enabled, the
underlying trace function and procedure calls are made. Tracing
may or may not occur dependant upon other trace flags, but
this is expensive and undesirable if tracing is not being used.
Keep tracing disabled by default.
The trace library allows turning tracing on and off at the
thread level. Each thread can be turned on and off in isolation.
In addition, the macros TRC_TURN_ON() and TRC_TURN_OF() provide
blanket calls to turn tracing on and off for all trace threads.
Somehow, a trace thread needs to have tracing turned on in order
for trace output calls to send trace information to the output
stream.
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2.3.1 TRC_ENABLE()
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Arguments: void
Return Value: void
Description:
Enable tracing calls. Causes trace output macro calls(
TRC_ENTER, TRC_RETURN, TRC_VOID_RETURN, TRC_PRINT, TRC_ERROR)
to call their underlying library functions.
Tracing must also be turned on for the traced
thread with TRC_TURN_ON(all threads) or TRC_TURN_THREAD_ON macro for
tracing to occur.
Example:
TRC_ENABLE();
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2.3.2 TRC_DISABLE()
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Arguments: void
Return Value: void
Description:
Disable tracing calls. Stops trace output macro calls(
TRC_ENTER, TRC_RETURN, TRC_VOID_RETURN, TRC_PRINT, TRC_ERROR)
calling their underlying library functions. If a real-time
system(or any system) is not being traced, we do not want
redundant function calls taking up processor time. For this
reason, you should set TRC_DISABLED flag as default in the TRC_INIT()
macro for normal(non-traced) program execution.
Example:
TRC_DISABLE();
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2.3.3 TRC_TURN_ON()
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Arguments: void
Return Value: void
Description:
Turn tracing on for all trace threads. If tracing is not turned
on for a thread(this includes the main() program thread)
tracing will not occur.
Example:
TRC_TURN_ON();
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2.3.4 TRC_TURN_OFF()
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Arguments: void
Return Value: void
Description:
Turn tracing off for all trace threads.
Example:
TRC_TURN_OFF();
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2.4 The Trace Output Stream
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Use the TRC_FILE() macro to set the trace output stream for
the trace calls. Trace information can be directed to stdout(default),
stderr, or to a file.
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2.4.1 TRC_FILE(a)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
const char * |
trace output stream:
| NULL |
standard output |
| "stdout" |
standard output |
| "stderr" |
standard error |
| "filename" |
output to "filename" |
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Return Value:
Description:
New output stream for trace library becomes <a>
Example:
TRC_FILE("myfile.trc");
Send all trace output to the file "myfile.trc".
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2.5 Working With Trace Threads
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CTrace provides independant tracing for multiple program
threads. Before tracing can occur on any thread(including
the main() program thread in a single threaded application)
the thread needs to be added to the trace library using the
TRC_ADD_THREAD() macro. It can later be removed using the
TRC_REMOVE_THREAD() macro.
Once a thread has been added to the trace library, it can
have tracing turned on and off for it using the
TRC_TURN_THREAD_ON() and TRC_TURN_THREAD_OFF() macros.
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2.5.1 TRC_ADD_THREAD(a,b)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
const char * |
Trace output thread name |
| b |
tid_t |
Thread id |
Return Value:
Description:
Add thread with display name <a> and id <b> to trace library.
If <b> equals 0 thread id defaults to the calling thread of this macro.
The CTrace library keeps a data structure in memory for each tracable thread.
For this reason, even the main() program
thread must be added with TRC_ADD_THREAD(argv[0], 0).
Example:
TRC_ADD_THREAD("thread1", 0);
Add the calling thread of the macro to the trace library.
Refer to it as "thread1" in the output stream.
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2.5.2 TRC_REMOVE_THREAD(a)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tid_t |
Thread id |
Return Value:
Description:
Remove thread with id <a> from trace library.
If <a> equals 0 thread id defaults to the calling thread of this macro.
Example:
TRC_REMOVE_THREAD(0);
Remove the calling thread of the macro from the trace library.
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2.5.3 TRC_TURN_THREAD_ON(a)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tid_t |
Thread id |
Return Value:
Description:
Turn tracing on for thread with id <a>.
If <a> equals 0 thread id defaults to the calling thread of this macro.
Example:
TRC_TURN_THREAD_ON(0);
Turn tracing on for the calling thread of the macro.
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2.5.4 TRC_TURN_THREAD_OFF(a)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tid_t |
Thread id |
Return Value:
Description:
Turn tracing off for thread with id <a>.
If <a> equals 0 thread id defaults to the calling thread of this macro.
Example:
TRC_TURN_THREAD_OFF(0);
Turn tracing off for the calling thread of the macro.
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2.6 Working With Trace Levels
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Every trace output call(TRC_ENTER, TRC_RETURN, TRC_VOID_RETURN,
TRC_TRACE) except TRC_ERROR is passed a tlevel_t argument.
This argument tells the trace library which level(s) the
trace output call should operate on. TRC_ERROR operates
on tlevel_t TRC_ERR by default.
Therefore, when the program starts up, every trace output
call embedded in it has a predefined hard-coded trace
level(s). TRC_SET_LEVEL(), TRC_ADD_LEVEL() and TRC_REMOVE_LEVEL()
macros effectively activate or deactivate these tracing levels.
The "SET" macros perform a blanket overwrite of all currently
activated levels with the new level(s) passed in as the parameter.
The "ADD" and "REMOVE" macros enable finer granularity by retaining
any existing levels that dont confict with the level(s) passed in
as the parameter.
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2.6.1 TRC_SET_LEVEL(a)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlevel_t |
trace level(s) |
Return Value:
Description:
Set level <a> in all added trace threads.
<a> may be any legal tlevel_t including an Ored
combination of any legal tlevel_t, eg TRC1|TRC2.
Any previous level settings will be made obsolete.
Example:
TRC_SET_LEVEL(TRC1|TRC2);
Set tracing at levels TRC1 and TRC2.
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2.6.2 TRC_ADD_LEVEL(a)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlevel_t |
trace level(s) |
Return Value:
Description:
Add level <a> to all added trace threads.
<a> may be any legal tlevel_t including an Ored
combination of any legal tlevel_t, eg TRC1|TRC2.
Any previous level settings not conflicting with
<a> will be retained.
Example:
TRC_ADD_LEVEL(TRC4);
Add level TRC4 to existing tracing levels.
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2.6.3 TRC_REMOVE_LEVEL(a)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlevel_t |
trace level(s) |
Return Value:
Description:
Remove level <a> from all added trace threads.
<a> may be any legal tlevel_t including an Ored
combination of any legal tlevel_t, eg TRC1|TRC2.
Any previous level settings not conflicting with
<a> will be retained.
Example:
TRC_REMOVE_LEVEL(TRC4);
Remove level TRC4 from existing tracing levels.
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2.6.4 TRC_SET_THREAD_LEVEL(a,b)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlevel_t |
trace level(s) |
| b |
tid_t |
thread id |
Return Value:
Description:
Set level <a> in thread <b>.
<a> may be any legal tlevel_t including an Ored
combination of any legal tlevel_t, eg TRC1|TRC2.
Any previous level settings will be made obsolete.
If <b> equals 0 thread id defaults to the
calling thread of this macro.
Example:
TRC_SET_THREAD_LEVEL(TRC_ALL, 0);
Set tracing at all levels for the calling thread of this macro.
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2.6.5 TRC_ADD_THREAD_LEVEL(a,b)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlevel_t |
trace level(s) |
| b |
tid_t |
thread id |
Return Value:
Description:
Add level <a> to thread <b>.
<a> may be any legal tlevel_t including an Ored
combination of any legal tlevel_t, eg TRC1|TRC2.
Any previous level settings not conflicting with
<a> will be retained.
If <b> equals 0 thread id defaults to the
calling thread of this macro.
Example:
TRC_ADD_THREAD_LEVEL(TRC4, 23);
Add level TRC4 to existing tracing levels in thread with id 23.
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2.6.6 TRC_REMOVE_THREAD_LEVEL(a,b)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlevel_t |
trace level(s) |
| b |
tid_t |
thread id |
Return Value:
Description:
Remove level <a> from thread <b>.
<a> may be any legal tlevel_t including an Ored
combination of any legal tlevel_t, eg TRC1|TRC2.
Any previous level settings not conflicting with
<a> will be retained.
If <b> equals 0 thread id defaults to the
calling thread of this macro.
Example:
TRC_REMOVE_THREAD_LEVEL(TRC4, 23);
Remove level TRC4 from existing tracing levels in thread with id 23.
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2.7 Performing a Local Trace
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Every trace output call(TRC_ENTER, TRC_RETURN, TRC_VOID_RETURN,
TRC_TRACE) except TRC_ERROR is passed a tlocal_t argument.
This argument represents a logical independant software unit of
the program.
Therefore, when the program starts up, every trace output
call embedded in it has a predefined hard-coded trace
tlocal_t flag. TRC_TURN_LOCAL_ON(), TRC_TURN_LOCAL_OFF()
macros effectively activate or deactivate tracing calls containing
the tlocal_t flag passed in as the parameter.
TRC_SET_LOCAL_LEVEL(), TRC_ADD_LOCAL_LEVE(), TRC_REMOVE_LOCAL_LEVEL()
macros provide a finer level of granularity over local tracing.
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2.7.1 TRC_TURN_LOCAL_ON(a)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlocal_t |
local variable |
Return Value:
Description:
Turn tracing on for tlocal_t <a>.
A logical local software unit will all share the same
tlocal_t variable. When this tlocal_t flag is set,
tracing of this local software unit may be performed
in isolation.
Example:
TRC_TURN_LOCAL_ON(tla);
Turn tracing on for the logical software unit sharing
the tlocal_t variable tla).
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2.7.2 TRC_TURN_LOCAL_OFF(a)
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Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlocal_t |
local variable |
Return Value:
Description:
Turn tracing off for tlocal_t <a>.
A logical local software unit will all share the same
tlocal_t variable. When this tlocal_t flag is set,
tracing of this local software unit may be performed
in isolation.
Example:
TRC_TURN_LOCAL_OFF(tla);
Turn tracing off for the logical software unit sharing
the tlocal_t variable tla.
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2.7.3 TRC_SET_LOCAL_LEVEL(a,b)
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|
Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlocal_t |
local variable |
| b |
tlevel_t |
trace level(s) |
Return Value:
Description:
Set level <b> in tlocal_t <a>.
<b> may be any legal tlevel_t including an Ored
combination of any legal tlevel_t, eg TRC1|TRC2.
Any previous level settings will be made obsolete.
Example:
TRC_SET_LOCAL_LEVEL(tla, TRC_ERROR);
Set tracing to show TRC_ERROR calls only
for the logical software unit sharing
the tlocal_t variable tla.
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2.7.4 TRC_ADD_LOCAL_LEVEL(a,b)
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|
Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlocal_t |
local variable |
| b |
tlevel_t |
trace level(s) |
Return Value:
Description:
Add level <b> to tlocal_t <a>.
<b> may be any legal tlevel_t including an Ored
combination of any legal tlevel_t, eg TRC1|TRC2.
Any previous level settings not conflicting with <b&bt
will be retained.
Example:
TRC_ADD_LOCAL_LEVEL(tla, TRC4);
Add tracing level TRC4 to the existing levels
for the logical software unit sharing
the tlocal_t variable tla.
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2.7.5 TRC_REMOVE_LOCAL_LEVEL(a,b)
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|
Arguments:
| Name |
Type |
Description |
| a |
tlocal_t |
local variable |
| b |
tlevel_t |
trace level(s) |
Return Value:
Description:
Remove level <b> from tlocal_t <a>.
<b> may be any legal tlevel_t including an Ored
combination of any legal tlevel_t, eg TRC1|TRC2.
Any previous level settings not conflicting with <b&bt
will be retained.
Example:
TRC_REMOVE_LOCAL_LEVEL(tla, TRC4);
Remove tracing level TRC4 from the existing levels
for the logical software unit sharing
the tlocal_t variable tla.
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In the previous chapter, I gave a small version of what a research project looks like. In this section, I go over some of the tools that I have been using in the past for my research. These are good starting points for your own research project.
In the CEO compensation project in the previous chapter, we derived the theoretical prediction from a model in the literature. This is typical for the research process. You will build on prior theoretical and empirical research to build an argument for your predictions. To do that you will have to search for literature on your topic. There are a number of sources you can use to access the relevant academic literature. However, in most cases (ssrn is the exception), you will have to be on the university’s network if you want to actually read the full paper.
Google Scholar is probably
the most comprehensive repository. This search engine work very
similar to regular Google search. There are some additional
tricks you can use author:lastname-firstname
will help you to
narrow down papers from a specific author. intitle:keyword
lets you search for keywords in the title of papers. You can
also narrow down your search based on year of publication. The
advanced search features hidden in the left side bar give you
additional options such as searching for certain journals. If you
are on the university network, Google Scholar will tell you for
every paper whether it is accessible or not.
Onesearch is the university search engine. It’s the best way to figure out whether there is an easily accessible version of the paper even when you are not on the university’s network.
Webofknowledge and EBSCOhost are two publisher driven search engines. They work pretty well. Each with their own quirks.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network) and NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research both provide access to their own not-yet-peer-reviewed paper repositories. Here you go to find cutting edge research.
My favourite way to start a research project now is to find one
or two excellent overview or review papers. A (systematic) review
paper provides a state of a research field and identifies
interesting new research questions. I find that a good review
paper gives a good list of papers you can build on and they often
already compare the most important papers in a field. The trick
is to be not too picky. You will not find a review for your exact
research problem but it is unlikely that you will not find a
partly relevant overview paper.15 When you start your literature search, you do not want to start
too narrow. You are not going to find an overview paper about
“CEO compensation in Australian mining companies after the GFC.”
However, you can start with an overview paper about CEO
compensation. Like the one I found: “Executive Compensation: A
Modern Primer” by
Edmans and Gabaix (2016) in Journal of Economic Literature.
You can search for review papers by adding intitle:review
or
intitle:overview
to your Google Scholar search.
To find other papers relevant to your topic, you can build on the review paper by (1) looking up the papers referred to in the review paper and (2) search for papers that cite the review paper. You can do the latter via Google Scholar and Webofknowledge.
To find good reviews, I believe you should start your search in the better journals.16 These links form a good starting point for Accounting and Finance. Unfortunately, you have to register your email address first.. There are even some journals that are dedicated to these literature reviews for instance Journal of Economic Literature and Journal of Accounting Literature.17 I also like Psychological Bulletin for theories in psychology. I am not aware of a similar journal in finance but I will happily add it if you let me know.
There are a couple of writing mistakes that are very common for first time researchers.18 There is a lot of good writing advice available. Dan Simons’ collection is very pragmatic and is close to my sensibilities. Below I highlight some of the problems I see quite often. Before I tackle those issuess it is useful to make a distinction between the different levels in a document. I will give you a quick overview so that you understand my other advice.
By now, you probably know that there is a general structure in an empirical research paper: (1) Introduction, (2) Theory, (3) Method, (4) Results, (5) Conclusion. This is the highest structural level in a thesis.
The second level is within each of these sections. For instance, your introduction will consist of multiple paragraphs. The third level is at the level of the paragraph which consists of multiple sentences. The fourth level is within those sentence which contain multiple words. The most common comment on writing is possibly that there are grammatical mistakes or typos in your writing. This is an issue at the lowest level, i.e. the level of the words. This is also the least interesting level. Most of my feedback will focus on the other issues.
You want to keep two rules in mind at each of the levels. (1) You should aim to keep each unit (section, paragraph, sentences) coherent.19 For instance, a paragraph should only contain one main message. (2) You should aim to give the reader the information that they need in the order that they need it. When you start using a new concept or theory, you should give the reader an introduction to that concept or theory, unless you can assume they already know the concept or theory.
Introduce the key concepts and theories in your introduction. If you write a paper about market efficiency, you should give the reader at least an idea of what you mean by market efficiency. This should come at the start of your paper otherwise the reader will not know whether the literature review is relevant or not. An introduction of a concept should include a simplified description of what it is not only what it’s effects are. If you look at the introduction of new legislation, tell the reader what the legislation requires of people or businesses. If you introduce a theory, explain it’s important assumptions.
If your thesis focuses on a practical concept, you should still attempt to define your concept in theoretical terms. This definition will help you to make the connection with the relevant theories and with the mathematical specification in your statistical model.
To be able to do a good research project, you should read a lot of literature first and then come up with your research question. However, when you write your research project up, you should explain your theory first and then present the literature.20 This one is a personal opinion and you should probably check with your supervisor. The theory will provide structure of your literature review: which studies should be discussed together, which ones should be contrasted with each other, and which ones are relevant for your setting. If you do not start with a theoretical motivation, you run the risk that your literature review comes across (or is) just a series of empirical results without any connection.
You recognise these literature reviews by the following conclusion: some papers find a positive effect, some papers find a negative effect, we are testing it again in a different sample. This is not necessarily a good approach because no matter what the result of your study is, the next researcher can just do the same thing: some papers find a positive effect, some papers find a negative effect, we are testing it again in a different sample. Nobody learns anything from these literature reviews and papers.
Sometimes I see students split up the literature review and the hypothesis section which artificially forces you to either postpone your theoretical arguments or to repeat them almost verbatim. You should integrate hypothesis and literature review. Don’t split them artificially.
One common mistake is to write too many words. This is an issue at the level of the sentence. The trick is to reread your sentences and see whether the meaning of a sentence changes if you drop certain words. You do not want to use more words than necessary because it will only make it harder for the reader to understand your main message.
When we explain a theoretical argument, we all want to express that we are not certain that this effect will be true. You maybe have the tendency to write " X may increase Y" to reflect that uncertainty. However, there are better ways to do this. You can write “According to theory, X increases Y” or “Under this assumption, X increases Y.” Avoid words like “can,” “may,” “might” and try to be more precise under which circumstances your prediction or argument holds. This will help you to assess whether your theory fits your setting. Being precise will also help you to avoid the trap of writing a noncommital literature review
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