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Integrating health-related quality of life with sickness leave days for return-to-work assessment in traumatic limb injuries
Quality of Life Research > Uitgave 9/2013
Wen-Hsuan Hou, Huey-Wen Liang, Ching-Lin Hsieh, Ching-Fan Sheu, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Hung-Yi Chuang
Part of this manuscript presented in the 19th Annual Conference of the International Society of Quality of Life Research, Budapest, Hungary, 24–27 October, 2012.
Jing-Shiang Hwang and Hung-Yi Chuang contributed equally to this work.
A novel indicator called health-adjusted leave days (HALDs) is proposed. It integrates the opposite level of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with the sick leave days (LDs) before return-to-work (RTW) to better measure the impact of injuries on occupational health.
A total of 1,167 limb injuries were consecutively recruited in a teaching hospital from January to December 2009. The number of LDs was calculated between the date of injury and the first episode of RTW. Each subject was repeatedly assessed with EuroQol instrument (EQ-5D) before RTW. The HRQoL index is defined as 1 minus the EQ-5D utility and re-scaled to 0–1 range to reflect the impact of injuries. The expected HALD of each group is calculated by integrating the product of the proportion of non-RTW function and the mean HRQoL index function over the days followed up to 2 years for the group. We compared the expected HALDs between subgroups according to various demographic characteristics and consequences of injury.
Older and female workers tended to have longer LDs than men and younger workers, with an increase in percentage change of 16.0 or 139.5 %, respectively. After adjusting for HRQoL index, the percentages for HALDs were changed to 28.7 or 186.6 %, respectively. The percentages for the less-educated workers and blue collar workers were 185.7 and 155.8 %. The expected HALDs showed statistical significant differences in all subgroup analyses.
We believed that the proposed HALD could better measure the impact of injuries and is potentially useful for the clinical decision and industrial policy-making with respect to the assessment of the importance of limb injury due to a worker's sick leaves.
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My Asian Institute of Management-Master in Business Management alumni class has a very active Viber group and recently our exchange revolved around the debate on whether new management theory has been discovered. One view says that management theory hasn't really changed in the past 50 years, except that framing of the theory has progressed in the elusive search for the winning management formula. This has given birth to an industry of best selling books written by experts claiming to have discovered the immutable laws of management and leadership.
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We have a new company president who was pirated by the owner from a competitor. He is a supply chain expert who doesn't believe in the importance of human resources (HR) as a support function in the organization. In a recent town hall meeting with managers, he told us that everyone can do the work of HR and it need not become a specialist function. Since I am the HR department head, it has become uncomfortable for me to work with him given his critical position against my job. I've been in this company for close to 20 years now. And I don't have any plans of moving to another organization. Please give me your advice. -- Bumpy Ride.
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Q: I have a PHP CodeIgniter Controller with name dashboard and this controller is in a admin named folder, How can i access that controller using url I have a PHP CodeIgniter Controller with name dashboard and this controller is in a admin named folder, i try to login in admin dashboard using url=>'admin/dashboard' but it show nothing and redirect me to login page.
 class Dashboard extends Admin_Controller {

    public function __construct() {

        parent::__construct();
        $this->load->model('admin_model');
    }

    public function index() {

        $data['title'] = "Care Your Car";
        $employee_id = $this->session->userdata('employee_id');
        //total employee count
        $this->admin_model->_table_name = "tbl_employee"; //table name
        $this->admin_model->_order_by = "employee_id"; // order by
        $data['employee'] = $this->admin_model->get_by(array('status' => 1)); // get resutl
        $data['total_employee'] = count($this->admin_model->get()); // get resutl

        $data['subview'] = $this->load->view('admin/main_content', $data, TRUE);
        $this->load->view('admin/_layout_main', $data);
    }

login model
<?php

class Login_Model extends MY_Model {

    protected $_table_name;
    protected $_order_by;
    public $rules = array(
        'user_name' => array(
            'field' => 'email',
            'label' => 'Email',
            'rules' => 'trim|required|valid_email'
        ),
        'password' => array(
            'field' => 'password',
            'label' => 'Password',
            'rules' => 'trim|required'
        )
    );

    public function login() {
        //check user type

        $this->_table_name = 'tbl_employee_login';
        $this->_order_by = 'employee_login_id';
        $employee = $this->get_by(array(
            'email' => $this->input->post('email'),
             'password' => $this->input->post('password'),
            'activate' => 1
        ), TRUE);
        /*employee*/
        $this->_table_name = 'driver';
        $this->_order_by = 'driver_id';

        $driver = $this->get_by(array(
            'email' => $this->input->post('email'),
            'password' => $this->input->post('password'),
        ), TRUE);
        /*driver*/
        $this->_table_name = 'tbl_user';
        $this->_order_by = 'user_id';

        $admin = $this->get_by(array(
            'email' => $this->input->post('email'),
            'password' => $this->input->post('password'),
                ), TRUE);
        if ($admin) {
            $data = array(
                'email' => $admin->email,
                'first_name' => $admin->first_name,
                'last_name' => $admin->last_name,
                'employee_id' => $admin->user_id,
                'loggedin' => TRUE,
                'user_type' => 1,
                'user_flag' => $admin->flag,
                'url' => 'admin/dashboard',
            );
            $this->session->set_userdata($data);
        } elseif($employee) {

            if (count($employee)) {
                // Log in user
                $employee_id = $employee->employee_id;
                $this->_table_name = "tbl_employee"; //table name
                $this->_order_by = "employee_id";
                $user_info = $this->get_by(array('employee_id' => $employee_id), TRUE);

                $data = array(
                    'email' => $employee->email,
                    'employee_id' => $employee->employee_id,
                    'user_name' => $user_info->first_name . '  ' . $user_info->last_name,
                    'employee_login_id' => $employee->employee_login_id,
                    'loggedin' => TRUE,
                    'user_type' => 2,
                    'url' => 'employee/dashboard',
                );
                $this->session->set_userdata($data);
            }
        }
        elseif($driver){
            $data = array(
                'email' => $driver->email,
                'drive_id' => $driver->driver_id,
                'name' => $driver->name,
                'loggedin' => TRUE,
                'user_type' => 3,
                'url' => 'driver/dashboard',
            );
            $this->session->set_userdata($data);
        }
    }

    public function logout() {
        $this->session->sess_destroy();
    }

    public function loggedin() {
        return (bool) $this->session->userdata('loggedin');
    }

    public function hash($string) {
        return hash('sha512', $string . config_item('encryption_key'));
    }

}

Log in Controller
class Login extends MY_Controller {
public function __construct() {

    parent::__construct();
    $this->load->model('admin_model');
}

public function index() {

    //$this->session->sess_destroy();
    $dashboard = $this->session->userdata('url');

    $this->login_model->loggedin() == FALSE || redirect($dashboard);

    $rules = $this->login_model->rules;
    $this->form_validation->set_rules($rules);
    if ($this->form_validation->run() == TRUE) {
        // We can login and redirect
        if ($this->login_model->login() == TRUE) {
            redirect($dashboard);
        } else {
            $this->session->set_flashdata('error', 'Username / Password combination does not exist');
            redirect('login', 'refresh');
        }
    }
    $data['title'] = "User Login";
    $data['subview'] = $this->load->view('login', $data, TRUE);
    $this->load->view('login', $data);
}

{i wanna login into admin dashborad but i can not, when i try enter username and pasword in login form and press enter it show me login page again instead of dashboard please help me to fix it }

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The impact of COVID-19 in patients with psoriasis: A multicenter study in Istanbul
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Kara Polat, Asude
Topal, İlteriş Oğuz
Karadağ, Ayşe Serap
Aksoy, Hasan
Koku Aksu, Ayşe Esra
Özkur, Ezgi
Özkök Akbulut, Tuğba
Topaloğlu Demir, Filiz
Engin, Burhan
Uzunçakmak, Tuğba Kevser
Kıvanç Altunay, İlknur
Kara Polat, A., Topal, İ. O., Karadağ, A. S., Aksoy, H., Koku Aksu, A. E., Özkur, E. ... Kıvanç Altunay, İ. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 in patients with psoriasis: A multicenter study in Istanbul. Dermatologic Therapy, 34(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dth.14691
There is widespread concern about treatment of psoriasis in COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to evaluate the epidemiological data, clinical characteristics, treatment features of the psoriasis patients during the pandemic period. We conducted a study in dermatology clinics of seven different tertiary centers. All adult psoriasis patients who were followed up between 11 March 2020 and 28 June 2020, were phone called or questioned in their visit to their follow-up clinics. A semistructured questionnaire was applied and patients' demographics and disease characteristics were recorded. Of 1322 patients, 52.4% were male, and 47.6% were female. According to the questionnaire responses, 964 (72.9%) of these patients could not communicate with their physician during this period, remained 358 (27.1%) patients contacted the physician by phone, email, or hospital visit. From the patients diagnosed as probable/confirmed COVID-19, 14 were female, and 9 were male. Nine of 23 (39.1%) patients were using biologic treatment. There was no statistically significant difference in terms of hospitalization from COVID-19 between the patients using biologics (n = 9) and those who did not (n = 14) (P = 1.00). No mortality was observed among them. Obesity, smoking, age, and accompanying psoriatic arthritis were not among the risk factors affecting the frequency of COVID-19. We only encountered an increased risk in diabetic patients. Also, an exacerbation of psoriasis was observed with the infection. No difference was found in patients with psoriasis in terms of COVID-19 infection in patients who use biologics and those who don't.
Dermatologic Therapy
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dth.14691
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On average, NJ employers will see rate climb 6.9 percent in 2012.
The average rate employers pay for workers' compensation will increase 6.9 percent next year, a hike pinned to rising medical costs and the lackluster economy.
High-risk industries will pay more into the state-mandated insurance system that covers medical services when workers are injured on the job and wages while they are out of work.
The actual rate employers will pay depends on "classification codes" that reflect the risk of their industry, said Frederick A. Huber, executive director of the Compensation Rating & Inspection Bureau (CRIB), a division of the state Department of Banking and Insurance.
"There are 550 classification codes, and many will not go up 6.9 percent," Huber explained. "Some will go up and some will go down, but the majority will go up. The 6.9 percent increase is the average increase."
As a general rule, "the more hazardous workplaces have the higher rates," Huber said.
The rate increase is also blamed on the weak economy. With fewer people working, the total payroll of the New Jersey workforce has declined. That means there is a smaller base on which to assess workers' comp premiums, which are paid as a percentage of each $100 of employee payroll.
"When payroll goes down and losses [claims] go up, that means that rates have to rise," Huber said. "Increasing medical costs, increasing claims frequency, and the reduction in the base [total payrolls] are three of the primary considerations why the rates are going up."
The rate increase effective January 1, follows a 3.9 percent hike in 2011. Workers' comp rates tend to run in multiyear cycles, experts said. The two-year increase follows two years of decreases: the workers' comp rates declined 2.6 percent in 2010 and 1 percent in 2009. Before that, rates rose every year for seven years from 2002 to 2008. That cycle was preceded by six years of decreases, from 1996 to 2001.
The frequency of claims is increasing, which may be related to the reduction in the work force during the economic downturn, Huber said. "You have smaller work forces doing bigger jobs, and perhaps there is some more [claims] frequency because workers are being pushed to the limit."
The workers' comp system annually pays out more than $1.4 billion in claims. Currently about 56 percent is for medical bills, and 44 percent goes for lost wages, or to compensate the employee for a full or partial disability. A decade ago, payments for lost wages exceeded medical claims, Huber said, but in recent years medical claims have surpassed wages as the leading cost driver in workers' comp.
Patrick Breslin, spokesman for New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co., said it's too early to tell if the 2011 and 2012 increases mark the start of a multi-year cycle of rate increases.
"This is the second year in a row it increased, and these cycles typically last four to five years, both up and down. The thing that is different now is that medical cost are increasing faster than they have been in past years, and you still have a tepid economy," and thus a lower payroll base on which to collect the premium dollars to pay claims.


Patient care requires performance without compromise. AVEA is the first generation of integrated life support systems meeting the needs of all neonatal, pediatric, and adult patients.
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AVEA's precision gas delivery system supplies accurate volumes whether the patient demands 2 ml's or 2.5 L. A patented three-stage flow sensor employed in a closed loop feedback algorithm provides precise flow metering as low as 0.4 L/min.
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VEA delivers performance without compromise through advances in technology that allow its utilization for the full spectrum of patients in your clinical practice.
AVEA's easy-to-use, intuitive user interface provides consistent, rapid access to physiologic data and current ventilator status.
Five monitored values are visible to the caregiver at all times, each may be selected from a menu of 35 options. The screen can be customized to display up to 15 monitored values without waveforms or 5 values with waveforms.
Trended data includes 35 monitored parameters that are stored, minute-by- minute, for a running 24-hour period. Clinical data is readily available for review at any time.
AVEA is designed to accommodate technological advances, not become obsolete as a result of them.


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David R. Bolla, DDS, James P Cotter, and Jeffrey W. Easton II offer cosmetic dentistry to help create beautiful, balanced smiles for patients with less-than-perfect teeth. Cosmetic dentistry is diverse and can help correct damage and flaws that include tooth decay, chipped and cracked teeth, and yellowed or stained teeth. Through our natural-looking cosmetic dental restorations, you can achieve the smile you've always wanted.
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Shop on Glossop Road Let to Barbers!
SMC have let 485 Glossop Road in Sheffield as a barbershop.
Acting on behalf of a long term private client a new 5 year lease has been agreed. The shop located in the heart of Broomhill attracted a wide variety of interest from local traders. The property includes a ground floor sales area and lower ground storage. The barber shop is due to open in February 2019.
485 Glossop Road forms part of the freehold retail and residential investment, which is included in the upcoming Acuitus auction on 14th February 2019.
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Q: AURIX TriCore Linker Script Command "REGION_MAP" I am adapting some linker scripts from the rather new AURIX TriCore MCUs.
There is a command I do not understand at all and the documentation [0] is not really helpful.

Can somebody tell me in principle, what is going on there? What is meant with "global address" and what is meant with "core local address"?
[0] INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG: TriCore Development Platform, 2015. - Manual

A: In AURIX, you have multiple cores.Each core has it's own scratchpad data and program RAM called DSPR and PSPR respectively.
Each of these can be accessed using either of two addresses:
Global Address - This address range would refer to the same memory irrespective of the core on which the code is executed.
Local Address - This address would refer to core specific RAMs and would change depending on the core on which the code is executed.Local address will access the core's local scratchpad RAMs.
For example:
CPU0 DSPR starts at 0x70000000 and has a size of 112kB
CPU1 DSPR starts at 0x60000000 and has a size of 120kB
In the code if you use 0x70000000, it would refer to CPU0 DSPR irrespective of whether the access is from CPU0 or CPU1.
This is called Global Address.
Instead if you use 0xD0000000 in your code, it'll access 0x70000000 if the code is executed from CPU0 and if it's executed from CPU1, it'll access 0x60000000.
This is called Local Address.
Such a facility is provided to make the code portable with respect to CPUs.
For DSPRs, the local address starts at 0xD0000000
For PSPRs, the local address starts at 0xC0000000
Pardon my linguistic skills.I am not a native English speaker.Please comment if further clarifications are needed or something is ambiguous.


Retailers are circling the wagons on their first-party, in-store data. MacRumors reports that pharmacy giants CVS and Rite Aid are preparing to block or are blocking near field communication capabilities that enable Apple Pay and Google Wallet in favor of its own proprietary digital payment system, CurrentC. Scheduled to launch next year, the new system is the fruit of a retailer consortium known as Merchant Customer Exchange or MCX. Mac-lover Jon Gruber proclaims from his Daring Fireball blog that the retailers' efforts are doomed. DOOMED.
After a four-year stretch of positive growth, ad commitments during cable TV networks' annual summer upfront dropped 6% to $9.6 billion. "Several big-spending advertisers stated that they anticipated spending fewer ad dollars in this year's upfront, and nearly all cited increased flexibility as their reason why," said Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau president and CEO Sean Cunningham in a statement. "Cable networks are meeting this instinct for immediacy with multiscreen brand programs around hit shows." Are advertisers holding out for cheaper prices closer to air dates, or are upfront TV dollars shifting to digital channels? Ad Age has more.
A Google Display Network update lets advertisers target users who have made in-app purchases. In a blog post, Google aims to enable "developers and marketers to show ads to people who have made in-app purchases through the Play Store." The new targeting feature is available via the AdWords API. Could Google's answer to Facebook's cross-device ID be quietly worked into a dozen features like this -- rather than announced at a splashy event like the Atlas release?
Google's Sundar Pichai got a major promotion and now runs at least five product units, including ads, Re/code reports. Among those now reporting to Pichai is Sridhar Ramaswamy, who was named last year to run ad product development when Susan Wojcicki transferred to YouTube. Pichai will also oversee research, search, maps, Google+, commerce and ad products and infrastructure. All those product chiefs, and Wojcicki too, are 10-plus year veterans of the company. Old Googlers, new layers! Read on.
Unruly and Casale Media's Index Exchange partnered on a programmatic video trading platform, UnrulyX. In a press release, the companies claim the exchange comes with guaranteed viewability for premium video impressions. "There is no question that viewability is in high demand, and this partnership with Unruly allows us to deliver high-quality, viewable programmatic video inventory that will lead to better outcomes for buyers, while also providing Unruly's publishers with the premium, scalable demand they want and need," said Alex Gardner, VP of platform solutions at Index Exchange.


There is a great need in microscopy and especially in situ, underwater microscopy to study behavior and interactions of organisms in a their natural fluid environment. This precludes the use of traditional microscopy techniques that prepare specimens on a slide or image z-stacks through immobilized 3D volumes. To address some of these limitations the Keck In Situ Underwater Microscope was designed to record video of a 3D volume (a cubic centimeter for example) with sufficient resolution for taxa identification and 3D localization with resolution on the order of microns.
The system is designed around a set of four folded optical paths wrapped around a central flow chamber. At one end of the flow chamber four optical ports arranged 90 degrees relative to each other provide either an illumination port or an imaging port. Illumination and imaging paths are multiplexed using beamsplitters/beamcombiners to allow up to three distinct image or illumination modalities through one view port. The optics and electronics are housed in a large aluminum tube with doughnut end caps that seal around the central flow chamber. At each end, a programmable shutter allows the chamber to be sealed off to prevent flow in and out of the chamber while imaging.


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Q: Trying to make use of Akka future and play promises in my Play2 application When reading up on the play2 documentation I found this:

Because of the way Play 2.0 works, action code must be as fast as
  possible (i.e. non blocking). So what should we return as result if we
  are not yet able to compute it? The response should be a promise of a
  result!

Wow! This of course made me interested in playakka and akka.
I'm currently building an autocomplete application that is integrating with elasticsearch,
so this would be a perfect fit!
Controller:
public class AutoComplete extends Controller {

    @BodyParser.Of(value = BodyParser.Json.class)
    public static Result complete(final String term) {

        F.Promise<List<String>> list = Akka.future(new Callable<List<String>>() {
            public List<String> call() throws Exception {
                List<String> list = IndexService.find(term);
                return list;
            }
        });

        return async(list.map(new F.Function<List<String>, Result>() {
            @Override
            public Result apply(List<String> list) throws Throwable {
                return ok(Json.toJson(list));
            }
        }));
}

Service:
public static List<String> find(final String term) {

        IndexQuery < SearchWord > query = SearchWord.find.query();
        query.setQuery("{\n" +
                "    \"bool\": {\n" +
                "        \"should\": [\n" +
                "            {\n" +
                "                \"text\": {\n" +
                "                    \"search_word.ngrams\": {\n" +
                "                        \"operator\": \"and\",\n" +
                "                        \"query\": \""+term+"\"\n" +
                "                    }\n" +
                "                }\n" +
                "            },\n" +
                "            {\n" +
                "                \"text\": {\n" +
                "                    \"search_word.full\": {\n" +
                "                        \"boost\": 1,\n" +
                "                        \"query\": \""+term+"\"\n" +
                "                    }\n" +
                "                }\n" +
                "            }\n" +
                "        ]\n" +
                "    }\n" +
                "}");
        IndexResults<SearchWord> indexResults = SearchWord.find.search(query);

        List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
        for(SearchWord word : indexResults.getResults()){
            list.add(word.getWord());
        }

        return list;
    }
}

SearchWord:
@IndexType(name = "search_word")
public class SearchWord extends Index {

    // Find method static for request
    public static Index.Finder<SearchWord> find = new Index.Finder<SearchWord>(SearchWord.class);

    public enum WordType {
        NAME,
        STRONG_SEARCH_WORD,
        WEAK_SEARCH_WORD,
        BANNED
    }

    private String word;
    private WordType wordType;

    public SearchWord() {
    }

    public SearchWord(IndexWord indexWord) {
        super.id = ""+indexWord.getId();
        this.word = StringUtils.lowerCase(indexWord.getWord());
        this.wordType = WordType.valueOf(indexWord.getType());
    }

    public String getId() {
        return super.id;
    }

    public void setId(String id) {
        super.id = id;
    }

    public String getWord() {
        return word;
    }

    public void setWord(String word) {
        this.word = word;
    }

    public WordType getWordType() {
        return wordType;
    }

    public void setWordType(WordType wordType) {
        this.wordType = wordType;
    }

    @Override
    public Map toIndex() {
        HashMap map = new HashMap();
        map.put("id", super.id);
        map.put("word", word);
        map.put("word_type", wordType.toString());
        return map;
    }

    @Override
    public Indexable fromIndex(Map map) {
        if (map == null) {
            return this;
        }
        this.word = (String) map.get("word");
        this.wordType = WordType.valueOf((String)map.get("word_type"));
        return this;
    }

}

The code works very well but I must say that I'm not that sure that I have implemented this correctly. I'm really struggling to understand the documentation.
So my questions are basically:

*

*Have I implemented the Future and Promise correctly?

*Would it be better to create a custom actor, and in that actor perform the index
search, like the example in the docs:

=====
 return async(
        Akka.asPromise(ask(myActor,"hello", 1000)).map(
          new Function<Object,Result>() {
            public Result apply(Object response) {
              return ok(response.toString());
            }
          }
        )
      );

*Maybe you have some great example that I have not found yet?

A: AFAIK, your code is totally ok.
I may be wrong, but I think that the second option is strictly equivalent to the first one, since the Akka.future() method is a wrapper around the Akka.promise() method.
From the Akka class source code of Play 2.0.4:
/**
 * Executes a block of code asynchronously in the application Akka Actor system.
 */
public static <T> Promise<T> future(java.util.concurrent.Callable<T> callable) {
    return asPromise(akka.dispatch.Futures.future(callable, system().dispatcher()));
}

A: Although you have correctly implemented the Promise and Future, i wouldn't consider this code to be "non-blocking"...
It seems that the blocking call is
List<String> list = IndexService.find(term);

and although this is now wrapped in a promise/future, it is still a blocking call...
If you want to be truly non-blocking (with all its benefits), you'll have to make your data access (queries) non-blocking...
Oh, and a non-blocking action method should return a Promise of a Result, not a Result...
This is how i should write your code:
@BodyParser.Of(value = BodyParser.Json.class)
public static F.Promise<Result> complete(final String term) {
    scala.concurrent.Future<List<String>> listFuture = IndexService.find(term);

    F.Promise<List<String>> listPromise = F.Promise.wrap(listFuture);

    return listPromise.map(new F.Function<List<String>, Result>() {
       @Override
       public Result apply(List<String> list) throws Throwable {
          return ok(Json.toJson(list));
       }
    });
}

Hope this helps!


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Q: Complex string manipulation by JavaScript regexp I am generating some meaningful name with the following rule in a JavaScript/Node JS program:

Input: "tenancy_account__accountPublicId__workspace__workspacePublicId__remove-user__userPublicId"

Expected output: "TenancyAccountAccountPublicIdWorkspaceWorkspacePublicIdRemove-userUserPublicId"

Rules:

*

*replace any character with zero or more underscore to the non-underscored uppercase
Example:x | __*x => X

*If exists remove last _

This is what is tried so far, looking for better alternatives, if any:
const convertBetterString = (input) => {
    const finalString = [];
    if (input && input.includes('_')) {
        const inputStringSeparation = input.split('_');
        if (inputStringSeparation.length > 1) {
            if (inputStringSeparation[inputStringSeparation.length - 1] === '') {
                inputStringSeparation.splice(inputStringSeparation.length - 1, 1);
            }
            inputStringSeparation.forEach((val, index) => {
                if (val === '' && inputStringSeparation[index + 1]) {
                    const actualString = inputStringSeparation[index + 1];
                    const formattedString = actualString.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + actualString.slice(1);
                    finalString.push(formattedString);
                }
            });
            return finalString.length > 0 ? finalString.join('') : inputStringSeparation.join('');
        } else {
            return input.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + input.slice(1);
        }
    } else {
        return input;
    }
}

A: Split and slice

const capitalise = str => str.slice(0,1).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1); // you can add more tests

const str = "tenancy_account__accountPublicId__workspace__workspacePublicId__remove-user__userPublicId"
const newStr = str.split(/_+/)
  .map(word => capitalise(word))
  .join("")
console.log(newStr)

Regexp with optional chaining

const str = "tenancy_account__accountPublicId__workspace__workspacePublicId__remove-user__userPublicId_"

const newStr = str.replace(/(?:_+|^)(\w)?/g, (_,letter) => letter?.toUpperCase() ?? "")

console.log(newStr)

Explanation
(?:_+|^) non-capturing the underscore OR start
(\w)?    followed by 0 or 1 letter to be captured
(_,letter) => letter?.toUpperCase() ?? "") ignore the match and uppercase the letter if found, that ignores trailing underscores too

A: You can use

const str = "tenancy_account__accountPublicId__workspace__workspacePublicId__remove-user__userPublicId__";
const newStr = str
    .replace(/(?:^|_)_*([^\s_])|_+$/g, (_, x) => x ? x.toUpperCase() : '')
console.log(newStr);

The /(?:^|_)_*([^\s_])|_+$/g regex matches all occurrences of

*

*(?:^|_) - start of string or _

*_* - zero or more underscores

*([^\s_]) - Group 1: any char other than whitespace and _.

*| - or

*_+$ - one or more _s at the end of string.

The (_, x) => x ? x.toUpperCase() : '' replacement remove all the underscores (even if they are at the end of string) and turns the Group 1 value (x) to upper case.


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FAQ Q133: How can I use planyo to print out invoices?
Please note that this feature is not available in Planyo FREE.
In order for this to work, you'll need to set up your pricing. You can do this in Settings / Pricing Manager. You should also set up pricing for your additional resources if you have any. Additional products (also the invisible ones, added by default) will show up on the invoice. If you have extra products with non-standard pricing, such as food bill, you can add such items in details of each reservation. They will also show up on the invoice.
The invoice can be viewed / printed out on the reservation details page (click on any reservation ID in one of the admin panel tabs to get there). You'll find the invoice button at the bottom of the details page. On the invoice page you can download it as PDF and then print it out. You can also attach the invoices automatically to any email sent out by Planyo (in Settings / notification settings for any notification you can select the invoice as an attachment, it can be sent out in your language or in the language used by the customer).
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Klaus Eskildsen er en tidligere dansk fodboldspiller og anfører i Vejle Boldklub. Han har spillet 240 kampe for klubben og scorede syv mål. Han fik sin debut mod BK Frem i 1993 og stoppede sin karriere i 2003. Han spillede i alt 107 kampe i landets bedste række for VB i perioden 1995-2002.

Han er (pr. 2017) minoritetsaktionær i 1. divisionsklubben Vejle Boldklub igennem sit holdingselskab Klaus Eskildsen Holding ApS. Derudover har han en position som næstformand i bestyrelsen for Vejle Boldklub.

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Q: Prevent initWithContentsOfURL: from using cache I'm using this line to get the contents of a URL:
NSString *result=[[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:URL]
                                                encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                                                   error:nil];

The problem is when there's a bad connection, it loads the contents from cache. Is there a way to avoid this behaviour? For example, clearing the cache or something.

A: First, it's not recommended to use initWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error to load data from a network resource.
Second, if you want to control caching behavior, you should be using an NSURLRequest. NSURLRequest allows you to customize the caching behavior of the request by setting the cachePolicy of the request. In your case, you want to use NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData. An example of doing this synchronously using NSURLConnection would be:
NSString        *result     = nil;
NSData          *data       = nil;
NSURLResponse   *response   = nil;
NSURLError      *error      = nil;
NSURLRequest    *request    = [[NSURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:URL cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData timeoutInterval:20L];
data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (response != nil && [data length] > 0){
    result = [NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
}

Note that this is a very naive implementation that does not check the HTTP status code returned, the mime-type of the response, or perform any error handling. It is also not a recommended practice to load network resources synchronously or to do so from the main thread. A better implementation would use sendAsynchronousRequest:completion: or NSURLSession.
However, it does demonstrate at a high level what you would need to do to answer your question: The NSURLRequest specifies that this request should never use the local cache, and the returned data is used to create an instance of NSString.

A: Simple cache-buster dummy parameter with random value added to URL should work.
And as @Josh-Caswell said, use NSURLRequest.  Although in case of proxy servers, just using NSURLRequest may not help and you will still need cache-buster.


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The Last Unicorn, by Peter Beagle
(The Unicorn in Captivity, South Netherlands, 1495–1505, tapestry of wool, silk, silver, gilt; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; found here)
The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she till moved like a shadow on the sea.
Although this is a classic of American fantasy, I had never heard of it until a couple of years ago when my daughter became obsessed with the animated film of it; I too found it compelling, somewhat to my surprise. It's what the offspring of Harry Clarke's imagination would have resembled had it married prog rock and, believe me, that is no bad thing at all. Despite sometimes weak animation and drawing, it is an exceptionally good film.
Despite my enjoyment of the film I held off acquiring the novel for a long time. I had been burned by my experience with The Princess Bride. Friends, please don't hate me for this, but I disliked that novel intensely. I couldn't finish it, the tone and the humour, which I found both lumpen and smart-alecky, grated on me so much. I entirely concede that it's well-plotted, it's original, I enjoyed the frame story, I appreciated the narrative vigour and ingenuity; I just hated something about the writing. However, I did worry that I had set it up for failure with expectations that were too high. I did not want that to happen with The Last Unicorn. In fact, by the time I actually started Peter Beagle's novel, my expectations were so low I'd have been grateful if he could string a sentence together.
Good news: he can. Maybe I should try The Princess Bride again, because I was enchanted by The Last Unicorn, which is charming and thoughtful. The plot is fairly simple: a unicorn becomes conscious that all the other unicorns in the world have disappeared and that she is the last, so she starts on a quest to learn what has happened to the others. She is accompanied by Schmendrick, a failed magician working in a freak show, and Molly Grue, the discontented lover of the leader of a forest-dwelling band of outlaws, as she traces the unicorns to the barren castle of King Haggard.
The book is elegaic, nostalgic, and written in a consciously poetic language which deftly remains just this side of overly portentous. (Though there are also nice little jabs of humour that made me laugh.) The unicorn is immortal but experiences the horror of old age through the magic of the old witch, Mommy Fortuna, who runs the freak show, and mortality itself when she is changed into a human:
'I am myself still. This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?'
On the other hand, being immortal in a world of mortals sometimes leads the unicorn into a sense of dislocation and loneliness:
The unicorn was weary of human beings. Watching her companions as they slept, seeing the shadows of their dreams scurry over their faces, she would feel herself bending under the heaviness of knowing their names. Then she would run until morning to ease the ache; swifter than rain, swift as loss, racing to catch up with the time when she had known nothing at all but the sweetness of being herself. Often then, between the rush of one breath and the reach of another, it came to her that Schmendrick and Molly were long dead, and King Haggard as well, and the Red Bull met and mastered – so long ago that the grand-children of the stars that had seen it all happen were withering now, turning to coal – and that she was still the only unicorn in the world.
She is further troubled by the fact that most human beings cannot see her for what she really is; they mistake her for a beautiful white mare, although they are also disturbed by her. Thus, in the freak show, Mommy Fortuna affixes a fake horn to her forehead before she displays her as a unicorn. Mommy Fortuna knows very well that the unicorn is a real unicorn, but most people can only perceive and understand a fake unicorn. Later, disguised as a woman, the unicorn begins to lose herself and become human in spirit as well as in shape: you become what you appear to be.
In the greenwood, Schmendrick spends an uncomfortable evening with Captain Cully and his outlaws. Cully is preoccupied with his own fame: 'How do they speak of me in your country? What have you heard of dashing Captain Cully and his band of freemen?' and Schmendrick lies:
'They sing a ballad of you in my country [...] I forget just how it goes –'
Captain Cully spun like a cat ambushing its own tail. 'Which one?' he demanded.
'I don't know,' Schmendrick answered, taken aback. 'Is there more than one?'
'Aye, indeed!' Cully cried, glowing and growing, as though pregnant with his pride. 'Willie Gentle! Willie Gentle! Where is the lad?'
A lank-haired youth with a lute and pimples shambled up. 'Sing one of my exploits for the gentleman,' Captain Cully ordered him. 'Sing the one about how you joined my band. I've not heard it since Tuesday last.'
In the ballads lies Cully's chance of immortality and his 'true' reputation, sadly not matched by his 'real' acts. Far from being a brave and noble outlaw, he is just a petty robber who steals from the poor and pays a monthly tribute to the local mayor to stay out of gaol. Schmendrick conjures a vision of Robin Hood and his Merry Men and the outlaws are so delighted and entranced that they run off through the forest after them, moved but also deceived by art – and yet the deception is a noble as well as a ridiculous deception, the outlaws respond to the beauty and nobility of the phantom Robin Hood even if they can't respond to the real beauty and magic of the unicorn.
Beagle likes playing little meta games about literature throughout the novel, poking at that fourth wall with asides on heroes and how stories work, never plainer however than in this episode. (And he writes excellent pastiche ballads and songs – it is in fact a very musical book.) He shows himself conscious of his story's roots in fairy tale and myth – I am writing about a band of outlaws in the forest and look here is Robin Hood, über-outlaw! – and in that consciousness lies a sadness – Robin Hood is not 'real' – and a nostalgia – for a time when it was possible to believe in a noble and heroic figure like Robin Hood. Nowadays we can only accept him as a mythical figure, not a 'real' person: instead we have the cowardly and venal Cully as a more 'believable' character. Beagle's meta-fictional nods allow him and us to enjoy a fairy tale about a unicorn while still remaining 'grown-up' and knowing: they make a magical children's story into something sophisticated enough for us to read without being mistaken for children ourselves, yet all the time that we are reading we feel sadness that it is not 'true' and that we can only see beautiful white mares, not unicorns. Like J.M. Barrie, like A.A. Milne, Beagle mourns the loss of childhood.
(Roelant Savery, Orpheus with Beasts and Birds, 1622, oil on copper; Fitzwilliam Museum, found here)
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John R. Gordon (born 1964) is a British writer. His work – novels, plays, screenplays and biography - deals with the intersections of race, sexuality and class. With Rikki Beadle-Blair he founded and runs queer-of-colour-centric indie press Team Angelica. Although he was a "white person from a white suburb", according to Gordon, in the 1980s he became deeply interested in black cultural figures such as James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Frantz Fanon, and they have influenced his work ever since.

Early work
Between 1993 and 2001 Gordon published three ground-breaking novels of black gay British life, Black Butterflies, Skin Deep, and Warriors & Outlaws (the first two with Gay Men's Press, the third with Millivres/Prowler). In 1995 he directed his play Wheels of Steel, about a closeted young thug paralysed in a joyriding accident and his flamboyant male nurse, at the Gate Theatre, London. It starred Rikki Beadle-Blair and Karl Collins, who went on to play each other's estranged husbands in Beadle-Blair's Channel 4 series Metrosexuality. He wrote a 1999 sitcom pilot The Melting Pot about a macho black British man (Felix Dexter) coming to terms with his long-lost Jamaican brother's homosexuality.  Although it never made it beyond Channel 4's Sitcom Festival to television, The Independent praised it for offering innovative characters and situations. It also starred Terry Alderton.

Noah's Arc
Gordon script-edited two seasons of Patrik-Ian Polk's television show Noah's Arc (2005–6) for the US cable channel Logo.  He wrote two episodes of the second season,(Desperado and Under Pressure), and across 2007 co-storylined (with Polk and Q. Allan Brocka) the spin-off feature-film, subsequently co-writing the screenplay with Polk.  The film, Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom, was given a limited release in six American cities, where it played to sold-out houses at the end of October 2008 and recouped $500,000 in ticket sales alone.  The "Jumping The Broom" script that Gordon and Polk wrote was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, as was the film itself in the Best Independent Feature category.  In April 2009 the film won the GLAAD Best (limited release) Feature Film Award. In 2020 he co-executive produced Noah's Arc: The "Rona Chronicles", a reunion episode written and directed by Polk, and presented by Gilead Sciences on 5 July. It starred all original cast members and included a feature cameo by Wanda Sykes as Noah's mother, for which she was nominated for a 2021 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Daytime Fiction Program. In January 2021 it was awarded a GLAAD Special Recognition Award.

Souljah (short film)
His 10-minute short film Souljah – about a gay African former child soldier (B3/Angelica Entertainments 2007), and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair – premiered at the London Film Festival on 30 October 2007.  In July 2008 Souljah won the award for Best Short Film at the Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival. April 2009 it won Best International Short at the Toronto Reelworld Film Festival.  It was directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair for Team Angelica Productions and produced by Beadle-Blair, Gordon and Carleen Beadle.

As publisher

In 2011, with Rikki Beadle-Blair he established the radical queer-of-colour-focused imprint Team Angelica Publishing. Its first book was Beadle-Blair's What I Learned Today. In 2013 they published the well-received and groundbreaking short-story collection Fairytales for Lost Children by gay Somali author Diriye Osman. On 8 October 2014 Fairytales for Lost Children won the Polari First Book Prize. In 2015 they published Roz Kaveney's novel, Tiny Pieces of Skull, which went on to win the 2016 Best Trans Fiction Lambda Literary Award. In November 2017 they published the first ever gay African memoir, Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien. It was favourably reviewed in the London Financial Times and won the Best Gay Memoir/Non Fiction Lambda Literary Award in 2018. It went on to be republished by Jacana Books in South Africa, in July 2018. In February 2018 they published Sista!, an anthology of writings by same-gender-loving women of African/Caribbean descent with a UK connection, edited by Gordon, Beadle-Blair and UK Black Pride co-founder Phyll Opoku-Gyimah; it included writers such as Yrsa Daley-Ward and was shortlisted for a 2019 Lambda Literary Award.

Black and Gay in the UK: an anthology

Published on 20 October 2014, Black and Gay in the UK was co-edited with Rikki Beadle-Blair. Its 352 pages of poems, memoirs, fictional stories and essays exploring the lives of black gay men with some connection to the United Kingdom includes writers, artists and activists such as Leee John, Travis Alabanza, Dean Atta, Adam Lowe, David McAlmont, Bisi Alimi, black British photographer Robert Taylor, Topher Campbell and Jide Macaulay.

Other work
In 2009 he co-wrote the screenplay for the short film Manali Cream (dir. Navdeep Kandola).  In summer 2009 his one-act play Afro-Pik - a play about Black Man Hair, featuring Fisayo Akintunde was premiered at the Central School of Speech and Drama summer school. In summer 2010 his short play Work! premiered at Theatre503 as part of Golden Delilah's production, "7:1 Beyond Control".

Gordon was art designer on the feature films Fit, KickOff, Bashment, and the hour-long film Free (2014) (all Team Angelica productions).

2012–017 Gordon and Beadle-Blair co-mentored Angelic Tales at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, a lengthy development project for new writers culminating in two-week-long seasons of staged readings on the theatre's main stage. Several of the plays they developed, such as Somalia Seaton's Crowning Glory (2013), Lynette Linton's Step (2013) and Alexis Gregory's Slap (2018) have gone on to full productions and/or tours. In 2017 he dramaturged Linton's exploration of mixed race British identity, Lightie, which played to sold-out audiences at the Arcola Theatre; the playtext was published by Team Angelica, as was the playtext of Slap.

Gordon was script consultant and associate producer on Patrik-Ian Polk's feature film Blackbird (2014) – a Tall Skinny Black Boy/Hicks Media co-production, written by Rikki Beadle-Blair and Polk, adapted from Larry Duplechan's novel of that name, and starring Mo'Nique and Isiah Washington.

On 28 April 2014 Gordon's short HIV-themed comedy play, Yemi and Femi go da Chemist, was premiered at Team Angelica's Boom! event as part of the AmBush at London's highly respected Bush Theatre, to an enthusiastic response from the sold-out audience. He and Beadle-Blair co-dramaturged the event, which showcased thirty-eight writers over two nights. The text of the play was included in the Team Angelica anthology, Black and Gay in the UK.

On 3 November 2015 a theatrical version of Faggamuffin, directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair and starring Nathan Clough, Marlon Kameka and Savannah Rae, was presented at the Bush Theatre as part of the Gay Buddies Week.

Faggamuffin (novel)
Gordon's fourth novel, Faggamuffin, was published in 2012.  It is about a gay Jamaican reggae producer - Cutty, a character who first appeared in The Melting Pot - on the run from the authorities.

Souljah (novel)

On 22 September 2014 Gordon's sixth novel, Souljah, was published by Team Angelica. It's an extrapolation of characters and situations first presented in the award-winning short film of the same name. It was favourably reviewed by ka-os.blogspot.com: "this is a story that deserves everyone's attention. Souljah is truly breathtaking, in scale, and in ambition. I cried like a baby at times, and as events rapidly escalated in the novel's final act, I just couldn't put it down" and in the Huffington Post: "...a novel that defies categorization. It's a mashup of the immigrant saga, a chilling gangster thriller, a state-of-the-nation novel, a coming-of-age story and an intimate family portrait with a harrowing war crime at its heart. The fact that Gordon never once drops the ball makes Souljah a sprawling, visually arresting masterpiece." On 4 March 2015 it was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award.

Yemi & Femi's Fun Night Out: a graphic novella

Published in September 2015, Yemi & Femi's Fun Night Out is a 42-page black-and-white graphic novella about Yemi and Femi, two gay British-Nigerian club-kids, Femi's boyfriend Mixtape, and their adventures one night after being thrown out of a nightclub. The graphic novella explores issues around HIV, safe sex, PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis), PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and sero-discordancy in a comical way, in street-level language and urban slang. Gordon received an Arts Council grant to make copies available free to gay urban young people and sexual health charities.

Drapetomania, or the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler & Abednego Tyler, lovers (novel)

Published in May 2018, Drapetomania is a 500-page novel set in the American South. Ten years in the writing, it is an epic tale of black freedom, uprising, and a radical representation of romantic love between black men in slavery times. Patrik-Ian Polk has called it 'an all-out masterpiece'; Michael Eric Dyson has haled it as 'a dazzling work of imagination'; and Audre Lorde biographer Alexis De Veaux described it as 'a riveting, masterful work'. It was favourably reviewed in the London Financial Times, which said it was 'a damning indictment of America's racist history... often deeply moving and gripping'. On 25 April 2019 it won the Publishing Triangle's prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for best LGBTQ fiction.

Hark (novel)

Hark, pub Sept 2020, is a gay teen interracial romance set in a present-day extrapolation of the Southern Gothic landscape of Drapetomania. It contains a supernatural element exploring American's racially haunted past, and the turning of lynching photographs into postcards as souvenirs. Award-winning black gay fantasy writer Craig Laurance Gidney called it 'audaciously provocative, sexy and spooky all at once. And very much of the zeitgeist'; Blackbird author Larry Duplechan described it as 'a welcome addition to the tradition.' It was recently listed as a Book of the Year by Books for Keeps.

Published works
Black Butterflies (GMP 1993), winner of a New London Writer's Award in 1994
Skin Deep (GMP 1997)
"Immigrant" (short story) in New Century, New Writing (ed. P P Hartnett, Millivres-Prowler 2000)
Warriors & Outlaws (Millivres/Prowler 2001).
My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story (Perseus Books 2008, cowritten with Bobby Blake)
Faggamuffin (Team Angelica Publishing, January 2012)
"The Bridge" (short story) in Scarf magazine (June 2012)
Colour Scheme (Team Angelica Publishing, January 2013)
Souljah (Team Angelica Publishing, September 2014), Lambda Literary Award finalist 2015
Black and Gay in the UK: an anthology (Team Angelica Publishing, October 2014) (co-editor, with Rikki Beadle-Blair, and contributor)
Yemi & Femi's Fun Night Out: a graphic novella (Team Angelica Publishing, September 2015)
"The Parasite That Grew Bigger Than The Animal" (short story) in Speak My Language (ed. Torsten Hojer, Robinson Books, November 2015)
Drapetomania, or the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler & Abednego Tyler, lovers (Team Angelica Publishing, May 2018), winner Ferro-Grumley Award 2019; Lambda finalist
Hark (Team Angelica Publishing, Sept 2020), Polari Prize longlisted

References

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Living people
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English gay writers
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