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Regret Another fluff piece I wrote about 2 years ago for somebody. Nick/Ellis.
Left 4 Dead, T, English, Romance, words: 667, favs: 4, follows: 2, 6/30/2016, Ellis, Nick
1 Vday Kyle/Kenny fluff piece I wrote for somebody I had a crush on about 2 years ago. I decided to go ahead and publish it, because why not.
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Immunity Implied non-con and sexual situations. Ellis-centric. One-shot, short drabble.
Left 4 Dead, T, English, words: 416, 1/19/2014, Ellis
1Random Rough Draft I was working on a Civil War fic, but I've completly lost the ability to write. I'm too proud of this rough draft to let the story die, so I'll just post this drabble. It's just a rough draft, and it even includes notes to myself.
Hetalia - Axis Powers, T, English, words: 1k+, favs: 2, follows: 1, 2/20/2010, America
22 The Epitome of Every Crack Fanfiction Ever! Includes: Mary Sue main characters, babies who go against nature, poorly written sex scenes, plot holes, no character depth, and even a cliche anti-climatic ending! What more could you ask for besides for vampires to be cool again ?
Twilight, K+, English, Parody & Humor, words: 3, favs: 11, 6/22/2009
2 Goodbye It's everything he's strived for, the most real thing he could record, and Mark regrets every second of it. F word used twice, so I can't give it a K rating.
RENT, T, English, Angst, words: 650, favs: 2, follows: 1, 6/13/2009, Mark C., Roger D.
2 Complete and Total CRACK I was really, really bored. This isn't proof-read or anything btw. The "f" word is spoken, but other than that nothing of "mature" content. May be offensive at some parts though. No pairings.
Gundam Wing/AC, T, English, Humor, words: 609, 6/6/2009, Heero Y., Quatre W.
1 The Untitled Ari Urinal Fic Entourage. Challenge fic. No pairings, Ari-centric. Rated for language. One shot, didn't edit.
Misc. Tv Shows, T, English, words: 455, 7/8/2008
2 Let the Music Play Ten Loveless drabbles for a challenge I wanted to try since it seemed like fun. Was hoping it could get me out of my slump.
Loveless, K, English, words: 1k+, 5/1/2008
30Dream a Little Dream of Me » To overshadow a dream is to learn more about somebody than you cared to know. Onesided DannyDash hints. Rated to be safe, some people think it would be bad if the children learned about slash... Oh, and there's cursing.
Danny Phantom, T, English, chapters: 2, words: 3k+, favs: 11, follows: 29, updated: 3/14/2008 published: 8/25/2007, Danny F., Dash B.
6Mix Tape After a confusing romance filled summer, Sora, Tidus, Riku, and Kairi return start their first year of high school only to find that things aren't as easy as they seem. Slash and femeslash, if you don't like, don't read! Lots of pairings, too many to list
Kingdom Hearts, T, English, Romance & Drama, words: 3k+, favs: 2, follows: 6, 1/14/2007, Sora, Riku
20 Maybe I Love You A cute little NaruSasu oneshot. Naruto overhears Sakura telling Sasuke she loves him. How will he react to Sasuke's reply?
Naruto, T, English, Romance, words: 2k+, favs: 79, follows: 12, 8/5/2006, Naruto U., Sasuke U.
11A Tainted Love Story » Romeo and Juliet with a DNAngel twist, staring Daisuke and Satoshi as the starcrossed lovers! rated M just to be safe...
D N Angel, M, English, Romance & Angst, chapters: 3, words: 10k+, favs: 8, follows: 6, updated: 8/5/2006 published: 7/23/2006, Daisuke N., Satoshi H.
10 Girl Next Door Oneshot song fic about Sam. Er, I think it can pass as romance maybe a tiny bit angst...Rated for cursing. DFSM
Danny Phantom, T, English, Romance, words: 1k+, favs: 18, follows: 2, 3/14/2006, Danny F., Sam M.
12Dangerous Liaisons » Some interesting things happen after Draco makes a bet with Blaise saying that he can...the GoldenTrio by the end of the inpair DMHP, but there's some DMHG
Harry Potter, M, English, Drama & Romance, chapters: 7, words: 14k+, favs: 9, follows: 10, updated: 12/23/2005 published: 9/19/2005, Draco M., Harry P.
5 Tears of God When it rains, they say God's crying… Watch as a forbidden love that was never really given a chance to bloom, withers and dies one stormy night. Takes place 4 months after sixth book ends. Slash: HPDM
Harry Potter, T, English, Romance & Angst, words: 662, favs: 4, follows: 2, 12/22/2005, Draco M., Harry P.
4 A Kiss Goodbye Remus reminiscences on his favorite moment between him and Sirius.
Harry Potter, T, English, Romance, words: 1k+, favs: 3, follows: 1, 12/20/2005, Remus L., Sirius B.
13 Destined » Part three in my series, first is New Feelings, then Sacrifices! After Sacrifices, Daisuke begin to remember the events that the Time Mirror was supposed to erase. Can his and Satoshi's love overcome the tragities that had and still are occuring?
D N Angel, T, English, Romance & Drama, chapters: 5, words: 9k+, favs: 7, follows: 4, updated: 6/30/2005 published: 5/8/2005, Daisuke N., Satoshi H.
14 Sacrifices » The sequel to New Feelings. Two certain people are trying to stop Daisuke and Satoshi from seeing each other, so much that one of them is willing to do so by any means necessary. Will Daisuke's and Satoshi's relationship be able to survive?
D N Angel, T, English, Romance & Drama, chapters: 3, words: 5k+, favs: 5, follows: 3, 3/17/2005, Daisuke N., Satoshi H.
20 New Feelings » I hate summaries... The story is basically this: When Daisuke's and Riku's relationship hits rock bottom, Daisuke finds himself wondering what it would be like to have Satoshi as more than just a friend.
D N Angel, T, English, Romance, chapters: 3, words: 5k+, favs: 5, follows: 5, updated: 3/16/2005 published: 3/15/2005, Daisuke N., Satoshi H.
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We're delighted that Jonathan Thomas will be our main speaker. Jonathan Thomas got married in Highfields to Rebecca, who worked for the church, with whom he now has 3 boys. Jonathan grew up in West Wales and served as a UCCF worker in Aberystwyth and Cardiff, before becoming the Pastor of Ammanford Evangelical Church for over 10 years.
Jonathan is now the Pastor of Cornerstone Church in Abergavenny and the Pastoral Dean of Union School of Theology. When he has time he likes to read, drink coffee and ride his bike (not at the same time).
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In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of studies, initiatives, and events exploring Canada's future. Managing the future has become a shared preoccupation of management consultants, academics, think tanks, innovation labs, and government departments. The competitive pressure to remain resilient and relevant in an increasingly unpredictable world raises the strategic value of foresight analysis.
In today's strategic environment, the successful execution of a foreign policy doctrine, mega-infrastructure project, or a city-wide planning initiative is contingent on an in-depth knowledge of global trends and their complex interaction. According to the United Nations Social and Economic Council (ECOSOC), foresight analysis is becoming essential to make sense of and to create options for dealing with complex global opportunities and challenges.
Foresight analysis is an action-oriented, interpretive framework used to imagine the impact of non-expected futures on current policies and programs. Various forms of foresight methods continue to proliferate in response to the growing demand for more effective decision-making processes and innovative business solutions. Still, foresight analysis is one of the least understood areas of strategic management even though it has been practiced for decades.
As an export-dependent country, Canada needs to anticipate global shifts ahead of its peer-competitor countries (ie., OECD, Asia). Adopting foresight techniques (ie., expert panels, environmental scanning, weak signal analysis, scenario planning, threat analysis, futures workshops) is especially advantageous for municipal administrations that increasingly depend on interdisciplinary knowledge to remain relevant and resilient.
Foresight analysis creates the context for raising thought-provoking questions that generate profound insights about complex adaptive systems, sensitivity regarding second and third order consequences, and improved understanding of how deeply held assumptions perform under different conditions of uncertainty.
The complex intersection of intensive urbanization, large-scale immigration, structural changes to the workforce, and the impact of climate change presents an historic opportunity for audacious thinking about Canada's medium and long-term future.
Adopting a multiple futures perspective is extremely useful for overcoming the constraints of short-term thinking, siloed mandates, and linear planning processes. Because foresight analysis also provides a framework for different perspectives and lived experiences to coalesce around common concerns, it has great potential as a catalyst for proactive decision-making, enhanced resilience, and innovation excellence.
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Q: How to make cascading drop-down lists using mysql and php I have to make a form with multiple drop-down menus that modify one another. The menus/database tables are:
Categories, Styles, Types, and Mechanisms
I have attempted to do this with my limited knowledge of Ajax, but can only seem to access MySQL once (on the initial page) to populate the Categories table without being able to then update the Styles table by querying for the next set of results. I receive an error that claims the database is empty.
I also tried having the drop-down populated through an option group to handle both the Categories and Styles with a looped query, but only the Category headings show up with all of the Style sub-values showing up blank. My code is as follows:
                $query1="SELECT categories.category_id, categories.Category_Name ";
                $query1.="FROM categories ";
                $query1.="ORDER BY categories.Category_Name ASC";
                $category_result=mysql_query($query1, $connection);

                if(!$category_result){
                    die("Database query failed: " . mysql_error());
                }

                $options="";

                $con=0;

                while ($category_row=mysql_fetch_array($category_result)) {
                    $category_name=$category_row["Category_Name"];
                    $CategoryID=$category_row["category_id"];

                    $options.="<OPTGROUP LABEL=\"$category_name\">
";

                    $query2="SELECT categories.category_id, categories.Category_Name, ";
                    $query2.="styles.style_id, styles.Style_Name ";
                    $query2.="FROM categories, styles ";
                    $query2.="WHERE styles.Category_ID = $CategoryID ";
                    $style_result=mysql_query($query2, $connection);

                    if(!$style_result){
                        die("Database query failed: " . mysql_error());
                    }

                    while ($style_row=mysql_fetch_array($style_result)) {
                        $style_name=$row["Style_Name"];
                        $id=$row["style_id"];

                        $options.="<OPTION VALUE=\"$id\" ".$style_name.'</OPTION>';
                    }
                    $options.='</OPTGROUP>
';
                }
            ?>

            <SELECT NAME="category_id">
                <OPTION VALUE=0></OPTION>
                <?php echo $options ?>choose
            </SELECT>

Any insight into what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated!

A: option must be array.
$options[]="<OPTGROUP LABEL=\"$category_name\">
";
<SELECT NAME="category_id">
   <?php foreach ($options as $value)
           echo $value?>
</SELECT>

A: Finally just had to figure it out on my own, but thanks for those who tried to help.
I will post my middle table from my Class/Category/Style/Type cascading tables. First make a function such as the below:
 <?php //Category Selection
    function Category_Selection($link) {
        global $connection;
        $options="";
        if(isset($_GET["class_id"])) {
            $query="SELECT categories.category_id, categories.Category_Name ";
            $query.="FROM categories ";
            $query.="ORDER BY categories.Category_Name ASC";
            $result=mysql_query($query, $connection);
            $class_id=$_GET['class_id'];

            if(!$result){
                die("Database query failed: " . mysql_error());
            }
            while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
                $name=$row["Category_Name"];
                $id=$row["category_id"];
                $link2=$link."&category_id={$id}";
                $options.="<OPTION VALUE=\"$link2\" ";
                if(isset($_GET["category_id"])) {
                    $category_id = $_GET['category_id'];
                    if($id==$category_id) {
                        $options.=" selected=\"selected\" ";
                    }
                }
                $options.=" >".$name.'</OPTION>';
            }
        } else {
            $options.="<OPTION selected=\"selected\" VALUE=0>First Select Class</OPTION>";
        }
        return($options);
    }
?>

Then place on your main page:
<?php session_start() ?>
    //Category
    if(isset($_GET['category_id'])) {
        $category_id=$_GET['category_id'];
        setcookie('category_id',$category_id);
        $link.="&category_id={$category_id}";
    }elseif(isset($_COOKIE['category_id'])) {
        $_GET['category_id']=$_COOKIE['category_id'];
        $category_id=$_COOKIE['category_id'];
        $link.="&category_id={$category_id}";
    }

Now make your selection drop-down:
<?php //Category Selection
                $options=Category_Selection($link);
            ?>

            <SELECT NAME="category_id" ONCHANGE="location = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;">
                <OPTION VALUE=0></OPTION>
                <?php echo $options ?>
            </SELECT>

Repeat above for each required drop-down.
Good luck...and, of course use MYSQLi to protect your site rather than the MYSQL shown above...

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Recognizing Character Constants and Strings.
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Since 1975, Christopher W. Fraser has researched compiling, particularly producing code generators automatically from compact specs, and has published many technical articles in this area. He originated retargetable peephole optimization, which GCC, a popular C compiler, uses to help select instructions. From 1977 until 1986, Fraser taught computer science, including compiling, at the University of Arizona. Since 1986, Fraser has conducted computing research at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
David R. Hanson is a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University with more than 20 years of research experience in programming languages. He has conducted research in conjunction with Bell Laboratories and is the co-author of lcc, a production quality, research compiler for the C language that is popular with the Unix community. lcc is presented and analyzed in the book A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation , by Christopher Fraser and David Hanson (c) 1995, Addison-Wesley.


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On Wednesday, March 18th, Galerie Thomas Schulte will open the solo exhibition "The painting fallen, and the collapse of Rome" by Danilo Dueñas. This is the second exhibition of the Colombian artist in the gallery after his installation in the corner space in 2012.
Danilo Dueñas works with found materials, which he looks for or discovers by accident. Often these are everyday objects; they are discarded, old or new. The focus is on things that have long outlived their useful purpose. For his current exhibition he has, among other things, imported tires and a truck tarp from Colombia, and discovered a carpet, a small piece of furniture, sunbeds, a frying pan and a magnifying glass at flea markets. Despite his ongoing engagement with formal issues, a direct connection to the real life is important for him. Thus, his choice is by no means arbitrary, rather it is derived by an inner necessity, which the artist himself describes as an unconditional belief in the world that surrounds us. In his works the beauty of life is a major issue and is often presented with emphasis on its transience and imperfections. All objects are part of our reality, are substantive and beautiful. At the same time these things represent more than just their function: A frying pan is more than a frying pan, a tire is more than a tire, a piece of wood is more than a piece of wood. At the same time, the artist stresses the relationship between art work and the world of the living.
The artist subjects his material to minimal or no treatment, before assembling it to create apparently fragile, yet expansive constructions. The massive installations find their balance in an elaborate, technical, yet aesthetic system. For the duration of an exhibition, the everyday objects are transferred to the art context, and are there filled with new life before they are returned to their original location. By putting the objects into new relationship to each other, the artist refers to the possibility of aesthetic experience beyond their actual, practical function. With his installations Dueñas encourages the viewer to fundamentally rethink the surrounding things and their relationship to one another.
Dueñas transforms the whole room into a stage, in which sculptures turn to paintings and paintings turn to sculptures. On one wall collages are arranged by size. Even here, the works are comprised of objets trouvés: texts, prints, advertisements, wood. The artist underlines the particularity of the objects by overpainting them in a combination of Abstract expressionism and Dada.
Danilo Dueñas was born in 1956 in Cali, Colombia. After a long stay in Berlin, Dueñas has returned to live and work in Bogotá as of this year. Dueñas has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the group shows "Beuys y más allá: El enseñar como arte" at Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango in Bogota, "Correspondences: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros" at Wheaton College, Norton, USA, "Mesótica" at Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica, and "Transatlántica" at Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas. In recent years, he has held individual shows at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (2003), as well as Museo de Arte Moderno and Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá (2001). Since 1990, Dueñas has taught at Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. In 1999, he was awarded the Johnnie Walker Art Prize. In 2011/12, Dueñas was a guest of the Berlin Artist's Program of DAAD. On the occasion of his participation in the group exhibition "Urgent!", hosted in several locations in Cali last fall, the catalogue "El espesor de la superficie" from the book series "Colección de Arte Contemporáneo" by Seguros Boliva was recently released.


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Do employees break data protection laws by using social media at work
Shan? Schutte
Of course, one of the biggest drawbacks of social media is how easy it is to disseminate information. Leon Edwards, Group Managing Director of Versapak.co.uk, explains: "in a company where workers are dealing with confidential and highly private information on a daily basis, data shared through social media, intentional or accidental, has the potential to reach people around the world in a matter of mere seconds.
The majority of Brits who have access to highly sensitive and confidential information have admitted that they use their mobile phones to update social media profiles while at their desk, according to new research from leading provider of tamper-evident solutions Versapak.
All individuals taking part in the survey stated that they work or had worked in jobs where they were regularly exposed to secure and confidential information and were prohibited from using their phones due to the potential security risk.
And, in spite of rules against doing so, 67 per cent admitted that they had done updated social media. Updating a Facebook status or tweet (44 per cent), uploading a photo to instagram (32 per cent) and directly messaging a friend or family member (24 per cent) emerged as the most frequent activities carried out on social media while employees were at their work.
Furthermore, 17 per cent of employees revealed that they had been caught by their bosses or fellow colleagues either red-handed or as a result of posts made during work hours. Individuals were asked what their subsequent punishments had been and, whilst the majority (74 per cent) received a warning or loss of privileges, 11 per cent admitted the act had resulted in instant dismissal from the company.
When asked if they had used social media on their phones at work since being caught, two thirds (66 per cent) admitted that they hadnt done so, whilst 44 per cent had continued to break their employers rules.
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Atheism: The Case Against God (Skeptic's Bookshelf)
George H. Smith
Prometheus Books, 1973
Atheism: The Case Against God has been called by some "the Bible of Atheism". Thumbing through this relatively short and readable volume, it is hard not to be delighted by the magnificent elegance of its prose, its deliciously wicked arguments and its pithy demolition of theism; it is no wonder that this volume is still in print even after 3 decades.
The book should really be called: "Atheism: The Case Against Gods", since it provides many general arguments that demonstrate the absurdity of theism, but since many people - most people in the USA, the audience of which this book was presumably aimed at originally - are trapped in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic mindset, naming this book as such was probably a wise marketing decision.
The author's thesis is that "if a person wishes to continue believing in a god, that is his prerogative, but he can no longer excuse his belief in the name of reason and moral necessity", and he amply demonstrates this. However, I feel that refutations of theism are best grounded in both schools of anti-theistic argumentation, so as to ring truer and more convincingly. To wit: the more philosophical school, which delves into the contradictions, paradoxes and absurdities of theism with respect to morals, ethics, metaphysics and epistemology (eg An omnibenevolent and omnipotent god cannot exist), and the more material school, which shows how there is no material basis in objective reality for theism (eg There was no town of Nazareth in the 1st Century AD). If one manages to undermine theism using one approach, theists may still flee to the other shore to attempt to seek refuge, but if both schools are employed simultaneously, the hopelessness of theism will be evident.
Of the two schools, the material one is more advanced in its demonstration of the absurdity of Christianity. Even the most hard core biblical literalist has to make concessions here and there, thereby already implicity undermining his fundamentalist theological framework (See the True Christian Church of Christ for more on this point). Which is why most serious Christian theology (as opposed to the drivel they churn out to rouse the masses) is focused on philosophical curiosities such as trans-world depravity, the veracity of faith, and the importance of the cosmological argument, since they know that the war on the other bank of the river is lost. But really, even if the cosmological and design arguments held any water, the most they'd commit one to would be deism. And even if one could show that an omnipotent, omnibenevolent god could exist, it would not demonstrate that one did exist. Which is why Ronald de Sousa's description of much of philosophical theology as "intellectual tennis without a net" (or indeed mine of it as "spiritual masturbation in a vacuum") rings so true.
Nonetheless, despite the deep pre-existing flaws of philosophical theology, at his self-declared mission, the author largely succeeds. After the obligatory clearing of the air on atheism and theism (just as my Evolution Professor has to spend the first week or two clearing the air on Evolution and Creationism), Smith shows that the theist is really a form of agnostic, in that he professes that he does not know about his god, and that some aspects of his god can never be known. He then shows that Christians do not really know much about their god, and employs metaphysical, epistemological, existential and causal arguments, often starting from first principles, to whittle away at the philosophical concept of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent monotheistic god until it is shown to be an unintelligible, untenable concept.
In the second part of the book, Smith shows how Faith and Reason are mutually exclusive concepts, how the former is an assault on the latter, and how knowledge cannot be gained through Faith. The concept of "misology" (the hate of wisdom and reason) is introduced, and is shown to permeate, at some level or other, Christian philosophy, theology and religion; after all, the very first myth in the Bible, the Creation Myth and the Fall of Man, is an instructive tale on the peril of wisdom and knowledge. Which in the end is why Reason and (Christian) Faith are fundamentally incompatible, and why apologetics and theology are fundamentally flawed, since they attempt to use Reason to defend the demolishing of Reason itself.
Following which, some words against Universal Skepticism (the stance that nothing can be known, also known as epistemological nihilism) are said, since Christian theologians sometimes offer the false dichotomy of the Christian god and Universal Skepticism, since "faith" is needed for one not to hew to the latter position, and so Christian faith is therefore not all that indefensible.
When Smith moves onto examining Revelation and Miracles, he begins to tread on ground more familiar to those versed with theistic and anti-theistic arguments. However, his employing of arguments similar to those used in the earlier part of the book seem suspect. He disavows miracles and the supernatural by saying that explaining the unknown with those concepts is not an explanation at all, but merely a fudge, to cover the real answer, which is really: I don't know or We can never know. This is a most valid point, for when theists purport to explain various phenomena and concepts by saying "God did it", they really are saying I don't know, and so aren't answering the question or adding any value with their answer. They might as well be honest like everyone else, and admit their ignorance. Be that as it may, something does not have to be explained to be possible - we may not be able to explain everything about Evolution and how it works, but that does not make it any less of a fact.
To end off the book, Smith rather hurriedly runs through why externally imposed, specifically, Christian ethics is a bad and self-destructive idea.
In the final analysis, though Smith puts forward marvelous, though at times overly-abstract, arguments, they are unlikely to be received as they should by those who need them the most; his arguments are mostly intellectual and do not resonate with people at a visceral level. More importantly, Faith is by definition believing in the improbable or impossible, and honest Christians admit that there is some level of absurdity in their faith.
Certum est, quia impossibile est (It is certain, because it is impossible) - Tertullian
Perhaps we fervent non-theists are guilty too, not of playing intellectual tennis without a net, but with no opponent.
Choice extracts from the above book will be posted at some time in the future :)
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An effective offensive rhythm never developed as just a few Nittany Lions were able to find the basket in each half.
Brandon Taylor scored all 11 of his points in the first half including a 3-point heave at the buzzer from beyond half court that pulled Penn State within 30-22 at halftime. The only other players to score in the half were Jermaine Marshall with six points and Sasa Borovnjak with five.
In the second half, Taylor and Borovnjak failed to tally and Marshall managed just two points. Borovnjak would finish with a career high five steals.
D.J. Newbill, who went scoreless until a driving layup with just over seven minutes remaining in the game, finished with nine mostly academic points on 3-of-12 shooting.
"When your two best players are not producing, it's going to be a challenge to score, and that's why you see 42 points," Chambers said.
Ross Travis scored his five points in the second half, while Patrick Ackerman and Akosa Maduegbunam each finished with two.
Purdue had no such problems, with double-digit scoring from four players.
Ronnie Johnson finished with a game-high 13 points on 6-of-12 shooting. D.J. Byrd and A.J. Hammons each contributed 12, while Rapheal Davis added 10.
Hammons, a 7-foot, 280-pound center, also had five blocks and made life tough in the paint for the Nittany Lions.
"When he's at the basket and he gets big and just walls people up, he gives us an advantage," Purdue coach Matt Painter said.
The Boilermakers (8-8, 2-2) shot 45 percent from the field and 50 percent from 3-point range (4-for-8). They dominated down low by scoring 32 points in the paint and also scored 19 points off 14 Penn State turnovers as Purdue harassed the Nittany Lion backcourt.
"We just wanted to get up to them and disrupt to the best of our ability and kind of wear them down, kind of like a boxing match, just try to stay there with them bringing the ball up the court," Painter said.
It is the third straight game that Penn State has surrendered at least 45 percent shooting from the field.
Despite the lopsided final score, the Nittany Lions played with much more energy than they showed at home against the Wildcats. But that will be little solace to Chambers as his team's inability to make shots continues to allow teams to make large runs.
After three Borovnjak free throws in the first half, Penn State trailed just 21-19 with 3:15 remaining, but a 3:14 drought led to a 9-0 Purdue run that was only broken by Taylor's desperation three at the buzzer.
In the second half, a Travis jumper with 14:05 remaining made the score 34-28, but Penn State wouldn't score again until a Travis bucket at 9:53. The result — a 15-2 Boilermakers run that effectively ended the game.
Chambers also experimented with different lineups early in the game, bringing Patrick Ackerman and Akosa Maduegbunam off the bench first, with Kevin Montminy and Kevin Onyeaka also seeing action.
The schedule remains difficult for the Nittany Lions, with No. 22 Michigan State visiting the Bryce Jordan Center on Wednesday night.
Note: The Nittany Lions had trouble getting home Sunday evening. After circling the University Park Airport for a half hour and was unable to land because of fog, the team's flight was diverted to Pittsburgh.


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It's fancier to use ad-hoc?
I am reading a sentence:
Also, a tuple is always an ad-hoc structure: It's difficult to ensure that two tuples have the same number of fields and the same properties stored on them.
ad-hoc's explanation in Oxford Dictionaries
Created or done for a particular purpose as necessary.
Origin: Latin, literally 'to this'.
So the sentence could be rewritten as:
a tuple is always such a structure: ...
I have strong intention to write professional english or at least look like that way.
Is it fancier to use 'ad hoc' instead of this or such ?
BobRodes
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Use ad hoc without the hyphen, set off in italics if possible, and you'll be fine. If the rest of your sentence is grammatical, it will go some way toward making you sound like an educated professional.
– Robusto
Ad hoc in English is not a synonym of "this" or "such", so you'd be changing the meaning of the sentence if you used "such" and "ad hoc" interchangeably.
Look at the definition you quoted: "Created or done for a particular purpose as necessary." If you wanted to rewrite this sentence without using the Latin phrase, but still preserving its meaning, you'd write something like:
...a tuple is always a custom-built structure...
So, while using ad hoc is good professional English, make sure you're using it in its proper sense of "built as necessary for a particular purpose," not as a replacement for "such a [thing]."
Edited:
As @eques comments below, ad hoc has a slightly different connotation than custom-built. Ad hoc implies that the thing is built on-the-fly without much careful planning, while custom-built could mean something that is very deliberately planned and carefully designed. Sometimes ad hoc can even have a negative meaning (as something that's slapped together quickly as a temporary solution, but is probably badly designed and should be replaced), but that isn't the case in this particular example.
Here's an example of ad hoc in the more negative sense:
We cut a hole in the wall and put a fan in it as an ad hoc cooling system for the server room, but eventually management will have to replace the air conditioning unit with a more powerful one.
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"custom-built" this doesn't seem like it fits based on the context and meaning of the "tuple".
– eques
Why not? A "tuple" is a sequence in the programming language Python that contains an arbitrary number of arbitrary immutable elements. That is, each individual tuple is custom-built by the programmer for whatever purpose the programmer needs to accomplish in that moment. That's what ad hoc means in English.
– Canadian Yankee
"custom-built" and ad-hoc do not have identical connotations. It's a close-fit, but it doesn't quite fit right. If I were trying to avoid "ad-hoc" for a programming concept, I wouldn't default to "custom-built". "Ad-hoc" in a programming sense often not only being not from a pre-existing pattern, but also that it's constructed "on the fly". A tuple is "ad-hoc" because it's created as needed; a custom class is not "ad-hoc" necessarily but still "custom-built"
@eques, that's probably why the original writer used ad hoc rather than custom-built. There may not be any one or two-word replacement that captures the meaning exactly. The main point is that "such a" changes the meaning completely.
– The Photon
@eques - I agree with your "on-the-fly" note. Sometimes ad hoc has a negative connotation as shoddy or hastily built, but that's not the case in this particular example. I'll edit my answer with this additional information.
The two sentences are both grammatical but don't mean the same thing.
a tuple is always such a structure:...
This means that the tuple is a structure with characteristics that we've just been discussing or that we're about to discuss. The part after the colon can then be the description that "such a" is referring to.
a tuple is always an ad hoc structure:...
This means that a tuple is designed in the moment to solve an immediate problem. It's implied that it doesn't have some benefits that a carefully designed solution could have.
In this case the part after the colon provides some explanations of the disadvantages from using this ad hoc solution. It isn't meant to and does not restate the meaning of the term ad hoc.
The PhotonThe Photon
I believe the distinction your text may be making about a tuple with ad hoc is that the tuple is either a "scratch" or ephemeral copy of a row from a persistent table, or a row instantiated as-needed without the underpinnings of a persistent table. There being no tightly coupled table object to enforce sameness with respect to the number of columns or sameness of datatype of the column(s), comparing two tuples one against the other can be problematic. Enforcement of sameness in respect to number and datatype requires metadata stored in a table definition. A tuple has no such "baggage" to explain itself.
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Ad hoc is better understood as only applying to this in its English usage. If you create an ad hoc report, for example, you are creating a "one-off" report, a report that you are only going to use in the particular circumstance in which you create it.
What your sentence is saying is that, since the number of members of a tuple is unknown as part of its definition, any structure conforming to it must evaluate the contents of the tuple at the time of its creation. That means that it has to be created for that tuple only.
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There is a bar/club just below the hostel yet you can't hear the music from your room so it's really cool. It's a beautiful,colorful hostel with very helpful staff and snacks to buy. The location is great and our room was fabulous ! A Tv !
The hostel is in an excellent location, next to a train station and in a location that is close to everything, it was clean and tidy and for people who want to celebrate, this is the place because there is a bar and club inside the hostel!
Generally enjoyed the stay and room all comfortable. Basic stuff missing from the kitchen-bottle opener (apparently stolen and not replaced was told) and no sharp knives. Apart from that a good stay.
The hostel staff tried to charge me 4x the price of my stay. And after I told them that they made a mistake I tried to nicely explain that I shouldn't pay that much. However they were so f*** stupid that they wouldn't give in. I had to read the terms and conditions for one hour at the reception so that I found they were wrong. They still overpriced me but only a few euros more for no f*** reason. The worst staff in the world, bunch of thieves!!!
If you want to party all night this is the hostel for you as there is a night club in the middle of the hostel (...and all dorm windows are facing it.) If you want to sleep at any point stay away for sure.


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Джалу (Джало; Jalo, Jalu, Gialo; ) — оаза на сході Лівії, в історичній області Киренаїка. Раніше входила до муніципалітету Адждабія (Киренаїка), з 2007 року, згідно новим поділом входить в муніципалітет Ель-Ваха.

Розташована на північному краю Лівійської пустелі, на північний захід від Великого Піщаного моря і за 250 км на південний схід від затоки Сидра.

Населення 4,5 тис. чол. (1980), в основному бербери. Основні населені пункти — Ауджила, Амаль, Нафура, Ель-Ерг, Ель-Лебба, Джалу. Тільки в Ауджилі збереглася берберська мова Ауджила, якою говорить старше покоління. В інших селищах говорять тільки по-арабськи.

Завдяки своєму розташуванню і наявності води Джалу мала важливе стратегічне значення під час Північно-Африканської кампанії (Друга світова війна), кілька разів переходячи то до британських, то до італо-німецьких військ.

Оаза Джалу вважається однією з найбільш зручних точок для спостереження за сонячним затемненням 2006 року.

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Balance transactions include a source field which contains the ID of the related Stripe object. The API can be used to retrieve additional information about the payment activity that caused the Balance transaction to be created. Using Sigma, you can also join the balance_transactions table with other tables using the source_id column.
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These balance transaction types are related to creating and refunding charges as part of processing payments.
Created when a credit card charge is created successfully.
Created when an alternative payment method charge is created successfully.
ACH, direct debit, and other asynchronous payment methods remain in a pending state until they either succeed or fail. You will see a pending Balance transaction with the type payment when the payment is created; a Balance transaction with the type payment_failure_refund will appear if the pending payment later fails.
Created when an alternative payment method refund is initiated.
Additionally, if your customer's bank or card issuer is unable to correctly process a refund (e.g., due to a closed bank account or a problem with the card) Stripe returns the funds to your balance. The returned funds are represented as a Balance transaction with the type payment_refund.
Created when a credit card charge refund is initiated.
Note that if you are separately authorizing and capturing and capture an amount less than the initial authorization, you will see a balance transaction with the type charge for the full authorization amount, and another balance transaction with the type refund for the uncaptured portion.
Created when a credit card charge refund fails, and Stripe returns the funds to your balance.
This may occur if your customer's bank or card issuer is unable to correctly process a refund (e.g., due to a closed bank account or a problem with the card).
These balance transaction types are related to changes that affect your Stripe balance such as payouts, fees and top-ups.
Refund failures. If your customer's bank or card issuer is unable to correctly process a refund (e.g., due to a closed bank account or a problem with the card) Stripe returns the funds to your balance. The returned funds are represented as a Balance transaction with the type adjustment, where the description indicates the related refund object.
Disputes. When a customer disputes a charge, Stripe deducts the disputed amount from your balance. The deduction is represented as a Balance transaction with the type adjustment, where the source object is a dispute.
Dispute reversals. When you win a dispute, the disputed amount is returned to your balance. The returned funds are represented as a Balance transaction with the type adjustment, where the source object is a dispute.
In the past, fees for Stripe software and services (e.g., for Radar, Connect and Billing) were represented as adjustments.
In the past, Connect platform fee refunds were represented as adjustments.
The description field on the Balance transaction describes the purpose of each adjustment.
Payouts from your Stripe balance to your bank account.
Created when a payout to your bank account is cancelled and the funds are returned to your Stripe balance.
Created when a payout to your bank account fails and the funds are returned to your Stripe balance.
When Stripe holds your funds in reserve to mitigate risk, two balance transactions are created: one to debit the funds from your balance, and a second to credit the funds back to your balance at the end of the reserve period.
Fees for Stripe software and services (e.g., for Radar, Connect, and Billing).
Taxes collected by Stripe to be remitted to the appropriate local governments. Typically, this is a tax on Stripe fees.
Funds you transferred into your Stripe balance from your bank account. Learn more.
If an initially successful top-up fails or is cancelled, the credit to your Stripe balance is reversed. Learn more.
These balance transaction types are created as part of using the Issuing API.
When an issued card is used to make a purchase, an authorization is created. If the authorization is approved, a balance transaction is created with the type issuing_authorization_hold to hold the authorized amount in reserve from your account balance, until the authorization is either captured or voided. Some merchants can also update an authorization to request an additional amount (e.g., to extend a hotel booking or add a tip), and this is also represented as a balance transaction with the type issuing_authorization_hold.
When an authorized purchase, made with an issued card, is captured by the merchant, the funds previously held for the authorization (issuing_authorization_hold) are released with a issuing_authorization_release balance transaction. Simultaneously, an issuing transaction is created, and the purchase amount is deducted from your Stripe balance in another balance transaction with the type issuing_transaction.
When an authorized purchase, made with an issued card, has been authorized and captured by the merchant, an issuing transaction is created, and the purchase amount is deducted from your Stripe balance with a issuing_transaction balance transaction.
These balance transaction types are related to using the Connect API and related APIs, such as instant payouts.
Incrementing available funds for instant payouts. This occurs when you create an instant payout and the requested payout amount is greater than your connected account's available balance. Funds are added to your available balance and removed from your pending balance to cover the difference.
Decrementing pending funds for instant payouts. This occurs when you create an instant payout and the requested payout amount is greater than your connected account's available balance. Funds are added to your available balance and removed from your pending balance to cover the difference.
Earnings you've generated by collecting platform fees via Stripe Connect charges.
Platform fees that you have returned to your connected accounts.
If one of your connected accounts has a negative balance for 180 days, Stripe transfers a portion of your balance, to zero out that account's balance. Learn more.
If one of your connected accounts' balances becomes negative, Stripe temporarily reserves a portion of your balance to ensure that funds can be covered.
If one of your connected accounts' previously negative balance becomes less negative due to activity on account, another reserve_transaction is created to release a corresponding portion of the funds held in reserve. Learn more.
Funds sent from your balance to the balance of your connected accounts.
Transfers to your connected accounts that have been cancelled.
Transfers to your connected accounts that failed. Transfer failures add to your platform's balance and subtract from the connected account's balance.
Transfers to your connected accounts that you have reversed. Transfer reversals add to your platform's balance and subtract from the connected account's balance.


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To know which institution offers better education in terms of quality, you have to look at many aspects. Quality education in Kenya involves competent lecturers, relevant courses, modern facilities and more. Most schools in Kenya have had the habit of specializing, for example University of Nairobi is heralded for producing the best engineers in Kenya, there are very good lawmakers coming from Moi University but that does not mean the other universities in Kenya do not excel on those fields. Technical University of Mombasa is one of the oldest institutions in Coast region of Kenya. Technical University of Mombasa in Kenya offers almost all courses from business to medicine fields. Over the years Technical University of Mombasa has developed much, and has the best facilities in the Coast of Kenya such as modern laboratories. Although it is always hard to gauge the competence of lecturers in Kenya, it has been observed that the Kenya graduates from the Technical University of Mombasa are quite competent in their respective fields in Kenya. Although, it should be noted that the other institutions in Coast Kenya also offer quality education, they do not offer diversity of choice in courses. For example, if you want to study at the University of Nairobi, Mombasa Campus or Bandari Campus you can only pursue Bachelors of commerce, Law or Bachelor of Arts degree. So if you looking for a good university in Mombasa Kenya, you should first check out Technical University of Mombasa. I assure you that you will not get disappointed.
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La charpente à courbes (en anglais cruck construction) repose sur l'emploi de fermes (cruck trusses ou frames) où les arbalétriers sont de profil courbe (cruck blades ou crucks).

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Si les arbalétriers courbes vont du faîtage jusqu'à la base des murs gouttereaux, sans s'assembler sur un entrait (ferme non triangulée), on parle de courbes au sol (full crucks). Si les courbes sont sur un entrait (ferme triangulée), on parle de courbes perchées ou supérieures (raised crucks ou upper crucks).

Il s'agit là d'une technique de charpenterie très simple. L'assemblage sommital est simplement assuré par une petite pièce transversale, placée sus la faîtière, appelée joug (yoked apex).

Les bases des grands arbalétriers, dont les couples varient de deux à six, selon la longueur du bâtiment couvert, sont soit noyées dans la maçonnerie, soit en appui sur des dés de pierre pris dans les murs ou encore visibles parfois à l'extérieur, en débord des murs.

Les charpentes à courbes sont celles du chaume. Malgré les travaux des pionniers des années 1970 et 1980, elles sont restées largement ignorées des milieux de l'ethnologie et de l'Inventaire en France.

Bibliographie

 A. V. Trefois, La technique de la construction rurale en bois, in Folk, No 1, 1937, pp. 55-72.

James Walton, Cruck Trusses in the Dordogne, in Gwerin, vol. 13, 1960-1962, pp. 3-6

Jean-Christian et Patricia Bans, Notes sur les charpentes « cruck » en France et sur les problèmes d'interprétation qu'elles posent dans le cadre d'une théorie générale des constructions rurales européennes, dans L'architecture rurale, t. 3, 1979, pp. 9-32

Jean-Christian Bans et Patricia Bans, Notes on the Cruck-Truss in Limousin, in Vernacular Architecture, vol. 10, 1979, pp. 22-29

Jean-Christian Bans, Les granges à « courbes » de l'Ancien Régime en Limousin, in Lemouzi, No 72, , pp. 451-468

Gwyn I. Meirion-Jones, The Roof-Carpentry of Brittany. II - Cruck construction, in Vernacular Architecture, vol. 10, 1979, pp. 15-21

Jean-Christian Bans et Patricia Gaillard-Bans, À propos de types en voie de disparition totale du patrimoine vernaculaire breton : bâtiments « circulaires » ou ellipsoïdaux et « cruck-constructions », in L'architecture vernaculaire rurale, t. 4, 1980, pp. 116-125

 N. W. Alcock (ed.), Cruck Construction: an Introduction and Catalogue, The Council for British Archaeology, Research Report No 42, 1981, VIII + 178 p.

Gwyn I. Meirion-Jones, Cruck Construction : the European Evidence, in Cruck Construction. An Introduction and Catalogue (N. W. Alcock ed.), The Council for British Archaeology, Research Report No 42, 1981, VIII + 178 p., en part. pp. 39-56

Christian Lassure, Deux témoins de charpente à « courbes » datant de l'Ancien Régime en Quercy : « courbes » au sol (« full cruck » ) et « courbes » sur entrait (« upper cruck » ); annexe : le mythe du « toit de lauses en tas-de-charge », in L'architecture vernaculaire, t. 6, 1982, pp. 57-66 + 67-69

Jean-Luc Obereiner, Contribution à la connaissance des couvertures végétales en haut Quercy,  : Les granges et leurs charpentes, dans Quercy-Recherche, No 44, janvier-, pp. 37-81

Jean-Luc Obereiner, La grange-étable à abside de Laboudie à Viazac (Lot), in L'architecture vernaculaire, t. 6, 1982, pp. 70-75

christian Lassure, Notes de lecture : Auvergne : charpente « à courbes perchées » dans le nord-ouest du Puy-de-Dôme, in L'architecture vernaculaire, tome VII, 1983, p. 73

Jean-Pierre Ducouret, Deux exemples inédits de « cruck construction » en Bretagne, in L'Architecture Vernaculaire, t. 9, 1985, pp. 23-28

Martine Chavent, Contribution à l'étude des charpentes à « courbes » du Limousin : le cas du canton d'Eygurande en Corrèze, in Bulletin de la Société des lettres, sciences et arts de la Corrèze, t. 92, 1989, pp. 155-165

P. Hoffsummer and others, Les charpentes du XIe au XIXe siècle : typologie et évolution en France du Nord et en Belgique, 2002

Christian Lassure, Une ancienne grange-étable à charpente à courbes sous couverture de chaume au lieu-dit Mareuil sur la commune du Roc (Lot), sur le site perreseche.com,

Christian Lassure, Ancienne grange-étable à courbes sous couverture de chaume à Nadillac (Lot), in L'architecture vernaculaire, tome 32-33 (2008-2009), sur le site pierreseche.com,

Nat Alcock, The Significance of the Cruck Construction at Néchin, Belgium / L'importance de la charpente à courbes de Néchin (Belgique), in L'architecture vernaculaire, tome 34-35 (2010-2011),

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Can society-oriented research be academically influential?
2 December, 2015 EuroScientist Leave a comment
New Danish study shows that research aiming to tackle grand societal challenges, could also be of high academic value
The social contract between science and society in Europe, underpinned by European Framework Programme (FP) policy, increasingly requires research to be oriented towards addressing social, economic, cultural, and political challenges. Furthermore, researchers themselves are increasingly expected to provide evidence for the societal impact of their research to be eligible for funding.
One hypothesis is that such challenge-oriented research would tend to lead to high societal relevance and applicability. By comparison, blue-sky research would be expected to have the highest academic impact. It is therefore interesting to compare the impact of such challenge-oriented research with that of blue sky research. This is what a new study has done. It has focused on the impact of Danish publications linked to both national–grants from the Danish Research Council for Independent Research (DFF) and the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) supporting basic, curiosity-driven research–and European funding programmes–namely FP6 and FP7. We found that there may be no contradiction between research being challenge-oriented and being academically influential.
The challenge in challenge-orientation
To many researchers, designing their research to meet grand societal challenges is in itself challenging. Researchers struggle with the 'impact' sections of European proposal forms. This is because the pathways from research to societal impact are difficult to predict and map. But, more so, because many researchers are traditionally more interested in the academic impact of their work.
While securing competitive funding for research is clearly connected with prestige and is increasingly incentivised, aiming for sources supporting curiosity-driven, blue sky research may still be more appealing to many researchers. Ultimately, the impact on the scientific community itself and how well received and useful research results may be, is the primary concern of many researchers.
We examined the academic impact of both challenge-orientated and blue sky research. Specifically, our new study on Denmark examined the citation impact of journal articles affiliated to Danish principal investigators funded under the sixth or seventh framework programme.
We then compared the citation impact of EU-funded research with that of publications linked to competitive funding from both DNRF and DFF, between 2005 and 2011. These are the two most prestigious national awarding bodies in Denmark explicitly supporting basic, curiosity-driven "blue sky" research. The DNRF is an excellence initiative with long term funding of Centres of Excellence, whereas the DFF has a number of shorter grant types several of which are directed towards individuals.
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Impact and orientation
We found a remarkable result: the FP6 set performs on par with the two prestigious national funding instruments whereas the FP7 set performs above them. Crucially, the high performance of the FP7 set is not due solely to the excellence or blue-sky programmes, ERC and Marie Curie, included in FP7. From our data, it becomes apparent that there is no clear distinction between blue sky research programmes and challenge-orientated programmes in terms of impact.
The output generated under the challenge-oriented research theme, The Ocean Of Tomorrow, is not only, presumably, societally potent, it is also clearly academically influential. Thus indicating that challenge-oriented research is not at odds with high academic impact.
The reported study does not provide any causal explanation or clear cut picture of the complex relationship between knowledge production and its societal and academic impact. It does, however, tentatively suggest that there is no inherent contradiction between being relevant towards societal challenges and being scientifically influential. This is, we believe, good news for both science and society.
When considering the robustness of this result, at least two questions seem important. First, is there indication of a pre-selection? In other words, do only the best scientists choose to pursue the European rather than the national route to funding? The short answer is no. Both DNRF and DFF offer highly prestigious and competitive grants. And success rates are in fact significantly lower than for European project applications.
Second, can the impressive citation impact of FP7-related publications be explained by the international setting in which they emerged? European projects are typically collaborative and we might expect that the production, dissemination and exploitation of research produced in European projects will benefit from the international networks in which it was developed.
A higher proportion of FP7 publications are co-authored with colleagues located outside of Denmark, compared to DFF and DNRF. However, controlling statistically for international collaboration only to a very small extent diminishes the impact premium of FP7 funded research.
We believe that internationalisation may thus be important, but it does not explain the surprisingly high academic impact of challenge-oriented European research.
The Danish study suggests that when comparing blue sky and challenge-oriented research, the latter can lead to equally high academic impact. It should be stressed, however, that difficult questions have not been tackled. We have not shown, for example, that challenge-oriented research leads to higher societal impact. This interesting part of the equation requires indicators significantly more subtle than citations.
Thomas K. Ryan, Jesper W. Schneider and Niels Mejlgaard
Thomas is a Research Assistant at Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Jesper is a Senior Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, who is an expert in Scientometrics, Research evaluation and Research policy.
Niels is director of Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, Denmark.
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