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The Future of Blockchain for Business
Joanna Furlong
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While blockchain technology is all the rage right now, it hasn't yet hit its stride.
Blockchain is undeniably one of the hottest new technologies to hit the business world, and companies are racing to learn more about it and how they can apply it to their business. While some dismiss blockchain as the latest consumer buzzword, many liken the decentralized ledger technology to the dawn of the internet, when consumers and technologists were both equally excited about the fascinating new technologies, but things were still too new to be sure about practical uses in our everyday.
Where we're at now
Christian Catalini, assistant professor of technological innovation at MIT and founder of MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab notes that we're still in the earliest stages of adoption and experimentation.
"There has been a lot of enthusiasm about the technology, but actual use cases are still limited. Once this experimentation phase will complete, you will see a few, top applications emerge that will make the technology mainstream, but those are difficult to predict at the moment."
"You're not going to go into Starbucks tomorrow and buy your coffee with bitcoin," added Anders Brownworth, chief evangelist at Circle, a money-sharing application that uses blockchain to let you send money from your phone to anyone, anywhere in the world. "We're not there yet. We're going to continue to use cash for things like that. But where blockchain does allow for things to get interesting is cross-border flow, where you're sending money and needing to swap it into local currency. There's a strong use case there for bitcoin."
When does blockchain not make sense?
Businesses have come to embrace data through practices of proper warehousing, business intelligence and artificial intelligence. But just because you have a lot of data, it doesn't mean that blockchain is the perfect solution for you.
"You may not want that data warehouse published on a blockchain," said Brownworth. "You may not want your financial data on a blockchain. Ultimately, you could have a record of my financial history, perhaps not on a public blockchain but even on a private one."
The future: where blockchain makes sense
Consumers may never be fully aware of the technology in future use cases. In other words, they may rely on blockchain in the future, and they may benefit from it and even use it daily in some applications — but they won't explicitly think of it as using blockchain; they'll just know that, for example, they are able to send money to their friend across the globe quickly and without fees.
"Blockchain will operate in the background," Brownworth said. "Users may not even know they're using it. But they'll appreciate the benefits of it, such as privacy [and] fast payments."
Catalini agrees that applications will be largely in the background, even for many businesses.
"As with consumers, many of the mainstream applications of cryptocurrencies and blockchain that you will see in the next few years may be invisible to small and medium sized businesses," Catalini said. "A blockchain may be used in the back end of a service, but the consumer or small business may no need to know. They may just enjoy lower prices because of it."
Joanna Furlong is a freelance writer and content strategist based in Southern California. Her background is in digital marketing, but she's been writing professionally for more than 10 years. She partners with startups, technology companies and small businesses across the U.S. to tell their brand stories through compelling content. And, she loves to report on the intersection where business, management and technology collide.
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Brazil, Mexico hit new record highs
Published: Jan. 3, 2006 at 6:59 p.m. ET
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Markets in Brazil, Mexico and Canada were still celebrating the new year Tuesday, hitting record highs in a day of heavy trading.
In Sao Paulo, Brazilian share prices soared to a record high close on heavy volume as foreign and domestic funds bought blue chips. The benchmark Bovespa stock index closed 3.08% higher at 34541 points in unusually heavy trading.
The heavy volume came mainly from massive buying of blue chips by overseas funds, according to traders. They said the funds were interested in building blue-chip portfolios ahead of expected 2006 gains.
Brazil's economy is expected to expand by 3.5% to 4% in 2006 on rising consumer incomes and declining interest rates.
The Brazilian Central Bank is due to hold its first meeting of the year on Jan. 18. The bank is widely expected to cut the Selic base rate by at least one-half percentage point from its current 18%.
Traditional volume leader Petrobras PBR, +0.32%, the state oil company, rose 3.15%. Fixed-line telephone company Telemar TNE, -3.58%, another volume leader, gained 2.72%.
Mining giant Vale do Rio Doce RIO, -2.26% was up 4.22% to 87.60 reals. The company on Tuesday announced it will offer to buy back debt worth $300 million, reducing its debt exposure.
Another big winner was Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao CBD, +0.54%, Brazil's largest supermarket chain, which closed 3.52% higher.
Mexican stocks surged to a record close as U.S. officials hinted that they might soon stop raising interest rates.
The key IPC index closed up 574.99 points, or 3.2%, to 18500.68 in heavy trading volume. Last year, the IPC hit 50 record highs, the most recent of which came Dec. 14 when the index closed at 18,054 points.
Among the gainers, wireless communications carrier and market benchmark America Movil AMX, -1.13% rose 5.4% in heavy trade that accounted for about a third of the session's total activity, while the A-1 shares in its holding company Amte l advanced 5.2%.
Also outperforming during the session were the B-1 shares in the recently listed construction group Cicsa, which catapulted 20.5% amid speculation that it could be added to the IPC when the index undergoes its annual reorganization that takes effect in February.
Toronto stocks started the year with a bang, as the stalwart energy and gold sectors helped propel Canada's benchmark index to an all-time high.
The S&P/TSX Composite Index jumped 169.32, or 1.50%, to 11441.58, surpassing the previous record close of 11388 set in Sept. 2000. The S&P/TSX 60 Index closed up 10.33, or 1.63%, to 645.05.
Eight of Toronto's 10 sector indexes posted gains.
The energy sector added 2.51% as the price of oil exceeded US$63 a barrel, as speculators jumped all over Russia's decision to halt gas exports to Ukraine over the weekend.
In the group, EnCana ECA, was up C$1.31 to C$53.87 and Petro-Canada PCZ, -1.42% increased 1.93 to 48.58.
The other big winner was gold, the price of which surged on the back of a sell-off in the U.S. dollar. The result was a 4.96% gain for the gold sub-sector. Barrick Gold rose ABX, -1.19% 0.89 to 33.30 and Goldcorp was up 2.05 to 27.95.
But weakness in base metals tempered the materials sector, which still rose a respectable 1.87%.
The heavily weighted financials settled for a 1.31% gain. Royal Bank of Canada RY, -1.17% gained 0.91 to 91.72.


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After fumbling on his first carry of his career, Kareem Hunt has 238 total yards on 19 touches tonight (12.5 average).
West's 21-yard TD run ups the #Chiefs lead to 42-27. #Patriots
Guessing this game won't go on Matt Patricia's resume when he interviews for head coaching jobs
Chiefs have 42 points and 536 yards. THE CHIEFS
Chiefs have gained 536 yards, the most allowed by Patriots in the Bill Belichick era. Previous high: 507 yards by Denver in 2014 AFCCG
Patriots have given up, and now are committing 12 men on the field penalties. This is as much on the coaches as it is the players
Chiefs with 4 TDs and 356 yards in the second half
"We're on to New Orleans ... We're on to New Orleans ..."
Thank God we can end all of the 16-0 talk now
Patriots lose season opener
Other than their pregame ceremony to unveil last season's Super Bowl banner, Thursday night's opener at Gillette Stadium did not go how the Patriots had planned. At all.
The Kansas City Chiefs used big plays to fight back from multiple deficits, and walked out of Gillette with a 42-27 victory. The Patriots led, 17-7, in the second quarter and 27-21 entering the fourth, but the Chiefs took control with three touchdowns in the final period.
Kansas City quarterback Alex Smith outplayed star counterpart Tom Brady, throwing for 368 yards and four touchdowns, including a 78-yarder to rookie Kareem Hunt and a 75-yarder to Tyreek Hill.
Brady was 16 of 35 for 267 yards and was held out of the end zone.
Making his NFL debut, Hunt ran for 148 yards, had 98 yards receiving, and scored three times.
Mike Gillislee had a strong debut for New England, rushing for three scores.
Breaking the previous record of 41 scored by ..... the Chiefs twitter.com/NFLResearch/st…
Between Edelman, other WR injuries, and this humiliating loss to KC, the Patriots' 2017 season is off to quite the ominous start
Missed this earlier, but the Patriots and CBS Radio reached a multi-year contract extension to keep games on 98.5 The Sports Hub.
Nope. Just a wise-ass line about a player who had a rough game. twitter.com/Krisand74/stat…
You're looking past, Brent. twitter.com/brentmusburger…
Hey, I see Sloane Stephens's dad. twitter.com/JoePace45/stat…
Please go easy on me, for I was just hired and my job is social media guy and I'm new twitter.com/MeredithPinto/…
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The Patriots will be fine, but it may take a while to get there + 26 other thoughts from @GlobeChadFinn bostonglobe.com/sports/patriot…
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He was a beast until he ended Jeff Fuller's career. Started running with sympathy after that. twitter.com/Dave_in_718/st…
I think Breer just said that the Patriots may regret trading Jamie Collins and Chandler Jones. One game ago, the Patriots won the Super Bowl
Kony Ealy must have really sucked
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1. Couldn't fit the Albert, or even the Bert. 2. Curious how they would have paid both of them. 3. I'm there for Charlie Weis. twitter.com/AlbertBreer/st…
5. Lighten up. twitter.com/DSullThePrince…
The few losses we had in New England.. the next week's practices were reason enough to win again.
#ThursdayNightFootball #Patriots #Chiefs
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.@Dan_Shaughnessy : What is it about the Patriots and these early season games against the Chiefs? Yeesh. trib.al/ojmLGl6
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Top 4 in sacks last year: Flowers, Sheard, Long, Ninkovich. Could have used quality depth there for sure. twitter.com/Moorep0042/sta…
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They've done this a couple of times in the past. Eck loved doing it. twitter.com/becks58/status…
Update from Fenway: Cancer-stricken Jerry Remy returns to NESN booth, hopes to call more home games this season:
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This is going to be hard to top. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJPPIbwW0AA9wlQ.jpg
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My nephew got my son his first football book. Bryan Stork gets the back cover https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJUGqyyXcAETFAp.jpg
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Hey @PaulPierce this made my day. #Ubuntu #Banner17 ???? #Celtics https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJVZVjdVwAEG1n2.jpg
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I see hundreds of great comics, images, memes etc about climate change every year and still nothing has surpassed t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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October was a busy month for us all here in Cromer.
The First North Norfolk Walking Festival was launched at Waxham Barn. In the spooky half dark (because of the bats) we unfurled our banner & had a jolly time meeting other walking groups and members of the public, then off for a breezy walk to see the seals at Horsey.
We supported the illustrated talk on The Norfolk Coast Path by Tim Lidstone Scott at Cromer Community Hall. An appreciative audience enjoyed his wise words plus our yummy teas & scones to follow.
Don, leading. The walk was enlivened by historic readings & church visits, and the Aylsham Walkers are Welcome group met up with us at Erpingham. Kate Ashbrook, President of the Ramblers Association, came along too, and our MP Norman Lamb also joined in.
Huge thanks must go the the Norfolk Trails team for organising the Festival. With more than 40 walks, talks and events we feel it has really helped to highlight the many facets of walking North Norfolk.
MAP PROJECT: Our big map & information boards are now in place at the train station, the bus station, the cabin near North Lodge Park and outside the Community Hall. They are super-smart and have received much positive comment.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE: We will be represented at the National Walkers Are Welcome conference in November. A Massive quilt is being assembled with blocks from each town… Ours is now ready!
WINDOW STICKERS: We are steadily incorporating local business into our Welcome Window Stickers Project. Artyfax on Church St has also taken our Souvenir Walkers Passports. We are negotiating with newly opened Mountain Warehouse, and other traders are being encouraged to offer special deals to walkers.
PASSPORT DISPLAY STANDS: Our dinky little souvenir Passports are packed full of information about the walk between Cromer & Sheringham (History, geology, birds, fossils etc.) They're available at Cromer Information Centre, Artyfax in Cromer… and more locations soon. They only Cost £1 & all goes to support Cromer Walkers Are Welcome project expenses.
CROMER TIC DISPLAY: Our Free Walkers Welcome Packs are going fast. They contain relevant local leaflets & specially produced information sheets for walkers. It's hard to keep up with demand and we are most grateful for any donations popped into our pipe, it all goes towards our printing & paper costs.
We are developing our own "Footpath Warden" scheme.
WALKERS GALLERY: Our website is growing with some super walkers photos & useful links.
There is a geology walk here on Easter Sunday. Please call and book to secure a place.
Pathclearing this week - we welcomed the help of two lovely ladies from our local Yorkshire Building Society branch who pitched in with great energy under Hilary's direction (helped by Gabriele). So huge thanks to Karen & Teresa (plus Sansa) - job done!
Whatever the weather we shall find lots to interest us and due to the local microclimate - or is it the tides? - we are often miraculously blessed with fine weather on our geology walks.
Our friends at nearby Northrepps Village are planning a most enterprising walking event on Sunday 5 May - a date for the diary!
Things are getting interesting here for birders!
A pair of peregrine falcons have taken up residence on top of Norfolk's tallest church tower, attracting a flock of a bird watchers waiting with bated breath to see if they will breed.


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Corporate Compliance Efforts Count—But With Limits, Official Says
Having a good program isn't enough if companies aren't detecting and responding to red flags, the official said
The Justice Department's criminal division is trying to better explain how they assess the strength of a company's compliance program during the course of an investigation, said one official. Photo: Patrick Semansky/Associated Press
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OXON HILL, Md.—The Justice Department is giving increasing consideration to companies' efforts to prevent legal infractions before they happen. But even the best legal compliance programs can't outweigh particularly egregious misconduct, one official said.
The department's criminal division, which oversees investigations into a range of business crimes, is trying to better explain how they assess the strength of a company's compliance program during the course of an investigation, said Matthew Miner, a Justice Department deputy assistant attorney general.
In recent years, the department's criminal division has tried to take a more nuanced approach to corporate compliance efforts to incentivize companies to invest in such programs.
The division in April published guidance laying out a series of factors that prosecutors in the agency's criminal division take into account when evaluating a corporate compliance program. The guidance updated a prior document published in 2017.
Speaking at a conference on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Mr. Miner said the division also was trying to be more transparent about how compliance evaluations impact prosecutors' decision making around the form a potential settlement could take and the size of a monetary penalty.
Federal prosecutors rely on a series of principles known as the "Filip Factors" to decide whether to criminally charge a corporation. Before assuming his post in the criminal division, Mr. Miner had said a strong compliance program should be taken into greater consideration by the Justice Department when settling a case.
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Asked about his prior remarks on Thursday, Mr. Miner said that although compliance efforts were given a lot of weight, they couldn't completely offset other, aggravating factors. "It can never outweigh considerations of culpability where you have truly pervasive, high-level misconduct," he said.
Companies can run into trouble when they have well-designed compliance programs but fail to detect and respond to red flags, Mr. Miner said.
"It's sort of like having various things in your car to prevent an accident, like a seat belt," he said. "If you don't use those things…none of that really matters."
Mr. Miner said the issue was cultural. "If you're blowing past those points," he said, "we're not going to credit your compliance program when you come in and point to the beautiful bells and whistles."
Write to Dylan Tokar at dylan.tokar@wsj.com
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Author: Eleftherios Kosmas
Libre Space Foundation partners with Harvard's Wolbach Library to launch Space Library funded by Sloan Foundation
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The Wolbach Library at the Center for Astrophysics and the Libre Space Foundation recently received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create new infrastructure to support small satellite missions and enable public engagement with space technology.
These efforts are part of the "Space Library," a new multicomponent initiative at Wolbach that is working to fuel new research by improving access to scientific research artifacts and supporting their reuse. The funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will support two specific Space Library projects: MetaSat and the Library Space Technology Network (LSTN).
The Space Library's first project, MetaSat, will develop and prototype an open metadata schema. This schema will provide both a comprehensive structure and uniform standards for describing research objects produced by small satellite missions so they can be more easily found and used by others. Example schema components include standard ways to document dates, locations, people, datasets, and software.
This schema will subsequently be piloted on SatNOGS, the Libre Space Foundation's open source network of satellite ground stations (on-ground technology that communicates with satellites). Wolbach Library also plans to install five ground stations at public libraries around the world. These five libraries will be the first participants in LSTN, a public-facing program that will provide opportunities for new communities to engage with and support real space missions. LSTN participants will give feedback on the MetaSat schema and the newly installed ground stations to ensure that even satellite novices are able to use these tools. If the pilot is successful, Wolbach hopes to expand LSTN and develop educational materials to support participating communities.
"I'm elated about this opportunity. We have a unique chance here to partner with people developing bleeding edge technologies while addressing questions that I think are foundationally important to the future of scientific research," said Daina Bouquin, Head Librarian and PI of the Space Library. "Questions like, how do we link hardware, software, and data so people can fully share their knowledge and experience? Can we develop tools for scientists that are approachable to the public? These questions aren't specific to space-based science, and I think librarians are strategically situated to help, so I'm thrilled to move forward."
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
The Center for Astrophysics is a research institute which carries out a broad program of research in astronomy, astrophysics, earth and space sciences, and science education. The CfA's mission is to advance our knowledge and understanding of the universe through research and education in astronomy and astrophysics. The CfA was founded in 1973 as a joint venture between the Smithsonian Institution and Harvard University. The CfA's main facility is located in Cambridge Massachusetts, with several other facilities around the globe.
John G. Wolbach Library
The John G. Wolbach Library combines the collections of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), forming one of the world's preeminent astronomical collections.
Libre Space Foundation
Libre Space is a non-profit organization and its mission is to promote, advance, and develop libre (free and open source) technologies and knowledge for space exploration. To do so the Libre Space Foundation designs, develops, and delivers space related projects ranging from ground station equipment to global monitoring networks and satellite missions. The Libre Space Foundation is based in Athens, Greece, collaborating with organizations and individuals globally.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Founded in 1934 by industrialist Alfred P. Sloan Jr., the Foundation is a not-for-profit grantmaking institution that supports high quality, impartial scientific research; fosters a robust, diverse scientific workforce; strengthens public understanding and engagement with science; and promotes the health of the institutions of scientific endeavor.
In order to facilitate this open metadata project the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has provided Wolbach Library at the Center for Astrophysics and the Libre Space Foundation a grant of USD $390,634.00 with Daina Bouquin serving as project PI.
Libre Space Foundation selected as a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code
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Google Summer of Code is an annual program providing university students the chance to work on open -source projects during their summer break while earning a stipend!
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Open Source Cubesat Workshop '17
A few days ago Libre Space Foundation, the Librecube Initiative and European Space Agency's European Space Operation Center Cybernetics Team came together and co-organized Open Source Cubesat Workshop '17 (or OSCW17 for short) at the European Space Operations Center Headquarters in Germany.
For two days, the European Space Operation Center opened its doors to our community building open-source space technologies. We had the chance to watch, participate and get inspired by talks, pitches, and workshops that took place during OSCW.
We want to thank our hosts, the awesome people of ESOC, its director that keynoted the event, the Cybernetics team, and numerous ESA volunteers that took time off their schedules to join us. would also like to thank the OSCW17 sponsors that placed their trust on open-source. And most importantly we must thank the awesome international community of researchers, industry representatives and individuals that joined us working together and collaborating on open-source space technologies.
The ESOC media team made all video recordings available to share. We aren't going single out a few talks, pitches or workshops, Feel free watch all the talks (abstracts and slides linked in the video descriptions) in the following YouTube playlist, and don't hesitate to join our continuous work on open-source space technologies in our community discussion forum and chat room.
Successful deployment of UPSat, the first open source satellite
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UPSat, the first open source hardware and software satellite, was released in orbit by NanoRacks deployer from the International Space Station at 08:24 UTC 2017-05-18. After 30 minutes, UPSat subsystems commenced normal operations in orbit. The SatNOGS open ground station network started receiving telemetry signals from UPSat in several ground-stations deployed globally shortly after its deployment. All subsystems are reporting nominal operations and the UPSat team is proceeding with LEOP phase in preparation for the science phase of the mission.
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The moment of UPSat deployment, as seen from the International Space Station. UPSat can be seen on the left picture as the black cube near the center of the picture.
This successful deployment of UPSat in orbit, marks an important milestone for open source software and hardware in space, making space technologies more accessible and open for all.
UPSat CW telemetry beacon as captured by JA0CAW (Japan)
More info about UPSat and its current status can be found in https://upsat.gr and on latest observations by SatNOGS Network https://network.satnogs.org
Libre Space Foundation has a new home – libre.space
A few days ago Libre Space Foundation got access to the "libre.space" domain due to a generous contribution of the original owner of the domain and member of the SatNOGS community Matt Carberry.
We are looking forward to use this domain not only for Libre Space Foundation initiatives, such us SatNOGS and UPSat, but want to also provide a platform to share knowledge, discuss and co-operate on any open source hardware & software related to space.
For those reasons, we decided on expanding the SatNOGS community forum based originally at community.satnogs.org to community.libre.space. As an early example, Gpredict community (headed by A.Csete) has started utilizing our forum for their coordination needs and aims on utilizing the transmitter data provided by the SatNOGS DB
We aim for more open source collaboration in space in the future, don't hesitate to join us.
The first open source hardware satellite is delivered
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The UPSat team of engineers is proud to announce the delivery of the first completely open source software and hardware satellite!
A major step towards UPSat's launch has being completed. Its successful delivery to Innovative Solutions In Space (ISISpace) took place on August 18th in Delft, Netherlands. UPSat is the first complete delivery to ISISpace as part of the QB50 project. Engineers from the University of Patras and Libre Space Foundation, the makers of UPSat, in cooperation with Von Karman Institute and ISISpace engineers have successfully concluded all checkout tests anddelivery procedures, to enable UPSat's integration to the NanoRacks launch system.
UPSat will be delivered to Orbital ATK, and then launched to the International Space Station via a Cygnus automated cargo spacecraft scheduled for 30th of December 2016. After successful docking to ISS, UPSat will be launch by the NanoRacks deployment pod aboard ISS.
This delivery marks a major milestone towards the realization of Libre Space Foundation vision foran open source ecosystem in space, while also being the first satellite designed and manufactured in Greece.
SatNOGS core team creates Libre Space Foundation after winning the Hackaday Prize
One month ago in Berlin Hackaday announced SatNOGS as the Grand prize winner of the Hackaday Prize 2014.
We are excited to see SatNOGS, the open source hardware and free software satellite ground station network, winning the recognition of the Hackaday Prize judges, the Hackaday staff and last but not least it's awesome community. We believe that the Hackaday Prize contest is a great showcase of open source hardware and software projects.
The core development team of SatNOGS decided to use the monetary prize won in the Hackaday Prize to fund the establishement of the. Libre Space Foundation, in order to support, develop and advance open source technologies in space. Our vision is not only create an open source groundstation network but an ecosystem of open source technologies in both software and hardware in space and cooperate with other opensource communities to make it so.
Groundstations are just the beginning.
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The highlights of the seminar were the deliberations on OBE perspective, expectations, models of OBE, implementation strategies and tools for hands-on exercises. This helped the participants understand the OBE framework better and find ways to effectively implement at their campus.
Mr. M V Kalidas, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at InPods presented on the evolving role of Teachers and how important is it for education institutes to move towards Outcome-based education model. He also focused on the benefits of Outcome-based education framework beyond accreditation.


A tiny hamlet on the banks of the Colorado River was chosen as the Capital of the new Republic of Texas. That special place was known as Waterloo and it was the birthplace of a new beginning. In 1845, Waterloo was renamed Austin. In the spirit of that new way forward, we're proud to introduce a new kind of sparkling water.


The Teresa Sievers murder case has gripped Southwest Florida for months and yielded nearly 30,000 pages of investigative evidence.
But a local defense attorney says there's a good chance that at least a large chunk of that information will never reach a courtroom.
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For example: A chilling meme posted to Jimmy Rodgers' Facebook page days before the Bonita Springs doctor was found bludgeoned to death, reading "ONE FREE MURDER."
It's titillating, but it may be little else.
"It's great for headlines," said Lance Dunford. "But regarding whether it's admissible in front of a jury, likely not."
Dunford says posts made by Rodgers, which include another with a bloody ax and the quote, "The average person walks past a murderer 36 times in life," would likely not be allowed in court either.
"Character evidence is generally not admissible in criminal cases," he said.
Examples of evidence that would be allowed are statements from Rodgers' girlfriend in which she said "I asked Jimmy what he went down to Florida for, and he said to make money.
"I then asked him how he is going to make that money, and he said it was for murdering Mark's wife."
She was later quoted saying Mark Sievers hired Curtis Wayne Wright to kill Teresa Sievers, and Wright hired Rodgers.
"The things certainly that Jimmy told her in a trial against Jimmy would be admissible," Dunford said. "Now, in a trial or prosecution against Mark, there's some hearsay issues there."
That's one reason, Dunford said, that Mark Sievers hasn't been arrested even though investigators believe he helped plan the whole thing.
"We have a lot of circumstantial evidence floating around that many might believe implicates Mark," Dunford said. "But we haven't even seen an arrest yet, and he's still with his kids."
Rodgers is in federal custody in Illinois for a gun-related probation violation. His release isn't expected until February, at which point he'd likely be extradited to Florida.


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Sikkim, which in 1998 became the first Indian state to ban disposable plastic bags, is also among the first to target single-use plastic bottles. In 2016, Sikkim took two major decisions. It banned the use of packaged drinking water in government offices and government events. Second, it banned the use of Styrofoam and thermocol disposable plates and cutlery in the entire state in a move to cut down toxic plastic pollution and tackle its ever-increasing garbage problem. Read the complete story
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Spalding's Ezio Rebechi bats during Thursday afternoons game against Calvert Hall at Archbishop Spalding High School.
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Complaints against curfew measures imposed by Turkey's authorities are now under examination at the European Court of Human Rights.
A statement published today reads: "The European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR) has decided to communicate various complaints to the Turkish Government in the 34 applications concerning the curfew measures taken in Turkey since August 2015 and has asked them to submit their observations.
"Some other complaints were declared inadmissible.
"The ECtHR's ruling in the cases will be given at a later date. The complaints which have been communicated are related, among other things, to allegations of: unlawful killings and failure to take steps to protect the right to life; ill-treatment; and, unlawful deprivation of liberty on account of some of the applicants' confinement to their homes for extended periods.
"They rely on Article 2 (right to life), Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 5 (right to liberty and security) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
"Some of the applicants also complain about the arrest and detention in prison of their legal representative and the Government's alleged failure to comply with a number of interim measures under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court, in breach of Article 34 (right to individual application).
imposed by local governors in certain towns and villages of south-eastern Turkey (see also the press releases of 13 January 2016 and 5 February 2016).


Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster argues that entrepreneurs, conceived broadly as individuals who recognize and act on opportunities to promote social change, fill this critical role.
Using examples of recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Hurricane Sandy on the Rockaway Peninsula in New York, Dr. Storr and his co-authors Drs. Haeffele-Balch and Grube, demonstrate how entrepreneurs promote community recovery by providing necessary goods and services, restoring and replacing disrupted social networks, and signaling that community rebound is likely and, in fact, underway. We argue that creating space for entrepreneurs to act after disasters is essential for promoting recovery and fostering resilient communities.
"Social Capital and Social Learning after Hurricane Sandy" (with Stefanie Haeffele-‐‑Balch and Laura E. Grube), Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.
"Commercial relationships and spaces after disaster" (with Emily Chamlee-Wright), Society, 51 (6) 2014.
"Post-disaster community recovery in heterogeneous, loosely-connected communities," (with Stefanie Haeffele-Balch), Review of Social Economy, 70 (3) 2012.
"The capacity for self-governance and post-disaster resiliency" (with Laura E. Grube*) Review of Austrian Economics, 27 (3) 2013.
"The role of social entrepreneurship in post-Katrina recovery" (with Emily Chamlee-Wright), International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, 2 (1/2) 2010.
"The Entrepreneur'ʹs Role in Post-‐‑Disaster Community Recovery: Implications for Post-‐‑Disaster Recovery Policy" (with Emily Chamlee-‐‑Wright), Mercatus Center Policy Series, Policy Primer No. 6, July 2008.
You can purchase Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster at Palgrave Macmillan and Amazon.com. You can also read chapter 1 at palgrave.com.
Visit http://www.communityrevival.us/ for more information on the book.


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Q: How to add Cov2D at the end of GRU in keras I am trying to run a model with conv2d attached at the end of gru. The gru will return all the sequences which means the output of gru should be a batch of 28*28 matrices. Then I want to input them into a conv2d, since conv2d needs a 4d tensor, I reshape the tensor in the layer but there comes an error.
So I guess there is some problems with the reshape layer but searching through the net there seems no satisfied answer. Can anyone give some hints, thanks a lot.
def build_model(input_shape, num_classes):
    x = Input(input_shape)
    x = Embedding(10000, 64, input_length=28)(x)
    forw = GRU(14, return_sequences=True)(x)
    back = GRU(14, return_sequences=True, go_backwards=True)(x)
    y = Concatenate(-1)([forw, back])
    y = Reshape((None,28,28,1))(y)
    y = Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation='relu')(y)
    y = MaxPooling2D((2,2))(y)
    y = Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu')(y)
    y = MaxPooling2D((2,2))(y)
    y = Flatten()(y)
    y = Dense(num_classes, activation='softmax')(y)
    return Model(x,y)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keras/layers/core.py", line 401, in call
    return K.reshape(inputs, (K.shape(inputs)[0],) + self.target_shape)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keras/backend/tensorflow_backend.py", line 1969, in reshape
    return tf.reshape(x, shape)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/gen_array_ops.py", line 7179, in reshape
    "Reshape", tensor=tensor, shape=shape, name=name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/op_def_library.py", line 529, in _apply_op_helper
    (input_name, err))
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Q: Encrypted file with CMD Command Cipher is no longer encrypted when send by mail I want to use the cmd prompt cipher so that other users who use a shared directory can't see the data in the encrypted file.
To encrypt a file I use this line:
cipher /e test.txt /a

The file test.txt appears now with a little lock. I think that the file is now encrypted and only I'm able to read the file.
When I attach the file to an email the encryption is no longer active. The lock is gone and others can read the file.
Is this behavior normal and will this happen if others email my file? I've read some articles on that but couldn't find an answer. Only some people with the same question, like in the comments of this article.

A: I am not an expert with cipher, but from what I found is that this file is just encrypted on the locale file system. So if you have multiple users on your OS the file can just decrypted by the users. see cipher /C in the folder where the encrypted file is located.
in the explorer the file has not a little yellow lock on its symbol, but will be decrypted if you access it. So if you copy the file to another location on you pc the file is still encrypted. But if you transfer it to an e-mail program the file gets decrypted.
If you want mail encryption I defenetly recommend gpg for this.
If you want some other encryption you can use a Program like TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt/(7Zip, has also some kind of encryption)/cryptomator/boxcryptor/...


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Jayme Locke
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Scientist (C), Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) , General Clinical Research Center
Professor (P), Surgery - Transplantation , Surgery
Scientist (C), Nutrition Obesity Res Center (NORC) , Nutrition Sciences Research
Scholar (C), Sparkman Center for Global Health , School of Public Health
Dr. Locke is an abdominal transplant surgeon specializing in innovative strategies for the transplantation of incompatible organs, disparities in access to and outcomes after solid organ transplantation, and transplantation of HIV-infected end-stage patients. Dr. Locke completed an undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry at Duke University and her medical degree at East Carolina University prior to matriculating to Johns Hopkins Hospital where she received training in general surgery and multi-visceral abdominal transplantation. Dr. Locke completed her Master of Public Health degree with an emphasis in biostatistics and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Her research interests include complex statistical analysis and modeling of transplant outcomes and behavioral research focused on health disparities. She has authored more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 20 book chapters, and is an NIH R01-funded investigator. In addition, Dr. Locke is a Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation, and is an editorial board member for Annals of Surgery. She is also a member of the American Society of Transplantation (AST), American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), and American Society of Nephrology (ASN), as well as, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Society of University Surgeons (SUS), and the American Surgical Association (ASA). Dr. Locke is the recipient of numerous honors including the UAB Dean's Excellence Award in Research 2016, and was named the 2016 James IV Association of Surgeons Traveling Fellow, Top 40 Under 40 by the Birmingham Business Journal, AL.com's 2015 Women Who Shape the State, B-Metro Top Women in Medicine 2017, American College of Surgeons Traveling Fellow 2018, and the AST Clinical Science Faculty Award 2020.
Dr. Locke is currently the Mark H. Deierhoi MD Endowed Professor in Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Institute and Chief of the Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery. She is also the Associate Chief Medical Officer for UAB Hospital Quality and Patient Safety.
2022 Efficacy of hope: Analysis of organ quality and availability among deceased HIV-positive donors. Transplant Infectious Disease. 24. 2022
2022 Associations between female birth sex and risk of chronic kidney disease development among people with HIV in the USA: A longitudinal, multicentre, cohort study. EClinicalMedicine. 53. 2022
2022 Diabetes-free survival among living kidney donors and non-donors with obesity: A longitudinal cohort study. PLoS One. 17. 2022
2022 Impact of refitted race-free eGFR formula on obesity pharmacotherapy options. Obesity. 30:2204-2212. 2022
2022 A roadmap for human trials of xenotransplantation. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 132. 2022
2022 Perpetuating Disparity: Failure of the Kidney Transplant System to Provide the Most Kidney Transplants to Communities With the Greatest Need. Annals of Surgery. 276:597-604. 2022
2022 Reducing Racial Disparities in Access to Transplant in the United States One Step at a Time. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 17:1439-1441. 2022
2022 County-level Differences in Liver-related Mortality, Waitlisting, and Liver Transplantation in the United States. Transplantation. 106:1799-1806. 2022
2022 Greater community vulnerability is associated with poor living donor navigator program fidelity. Surgery. 172:997-1004. 2022
2022 Lost potential and missed opportunities for DCD liver transplantation in the United States 2022
2022 COVID-19 and transplantation—Data censoring. American Journal of Transplantation. 22:1958-1962. 2022
2022 COVID-19 Vaccination and Remdesivir are Associated With Protection From New or Increased Levels of Donor-Specific Antibodies Among Kidney Transplant Recipients Hospitalized With COVID-19. Transplant International. 35. 2022
2022 A Sex-Adjusted Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Sodium Score for Equality in Liver Transplant. JAMA Surgery. 157:627. 2022
2022 Abnormal time-zero histology is predictive of kidney transplant outcomes. Clinical Transplantation. 36. 2022
2022 Dialysis Nonadherence and Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 80:46-54. 2022
2022 The science of xenotransplantation for nephrologists. Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. 31:387-393. 2022
2022 The "Broken rung" in transplantation surgery 2022
2022 National Landscape of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Deceased Organ Donors in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 74:2010-2019. 2022
2022 Patient survival following third time liver transplant in the United States in the MELD era 2022
2022 Donor-reported barriers to living kidney donor follow-up. Clinical Transplantation. 36. 2022
2022 First clinical-grade porcine kidney xenotransplant using a human decedent model. American Journal of Transplantation. 22:1037-1053. 2022
2022 Hepatic macrosteatosis in the US pediatric deceased liver donor population. Pediatric Transplantation. 26. 2022
2022 Progress towards solving the donor organ shortage. Nature Reviews Nephrology. 2022
2022 Reclassification of CKD in living kidney donors with the refitted race-free eGFR formula 2022
2021 Addressing ethical confusion in deceased donation and transplantation research: the need for dedicated guidance. Transplant International. 34:2459-2468. 2021
2021 Evaluation of Community-Level Vulnerability and Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplant. JAMA Surgery. 156:1120-1129. 2021
2021 Impact of Social Vulnerability on Access to Educational Programming Designed to Enhance Living Donation 2021
2021 Editorial: Sensitization and Desensitization in Organ Transplantation. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 2021
2021 Gender disparities in transplantation. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 26:513-520. 2021
2021 Optimal Timing of Administration of Direct-acting Antivirals for Patients With Hepatitis C-associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma Undergoing Liver Transplantation. Annals of Surgery. 274:613-620. 2021
2021 Significance and innovation: cornerstones of a successful grant application. Surgery. 170:1080-1082. 2021
2021 Survival following simultaneous liver-lung versus liver alone transplantation: Results of the US national experience 2021
2021 New Perspectives on Desensitization in the Current Era - An Overview. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 2021
2021 APOL1 genotyping in kidney transplantation: to do or not to do, that is the question? (contra). Kidney International. 100:30-32. 2021
2021 Obesity is a risk factor for progression to kidney transplant waitlisting after liver transplantation. Clinical Transplantation. 35. 2021
2021 Self-advocacy is associated with lower likelihood of living donor kidney transplantation 2021
2021 Updated Pathway to Micro-elimination of Hepatitis C Virus in the Hemodialysis Population. Kidney International Reports. 6:1788-1798. 2021
2021 Early Outcomes With the Liver-kidney Safety Net. Transplantation. 105:1261-1272. 2021
2021 What Therapeutic Regimen Will Be Optimal for Initial Clinical Trials of Pig Organ Transplantation?. Transplantation. 105:1143-1155. 2021
2021 Analysis of Linguistically and Culturally Tailored Initiatives in Websites of Kidney Transplant Programs in the United States Between 2013-2018 2021
2021 Effects of Geographic Redistribution Policy on Access to Organ Transplant-In Reply. JAMA Surgery. 156:289-290. 2021
2021 Eplet mismatch scores and de novo donor-specific antibody development in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation. Human Immunology. 82:139-146. 2021
2021 Leveraging Frailty to Mitigate Sex-Based Disparities in Access to Liver Transplant: Justice in Allocation. JAMA Surgery. 156:263. 2021
2021 The Living Donor Navigator Program Provides Support Tools for Caregivers 2021
2021 Preexisting melanoma and hematological malignancies, prognosis, and timing to solid organ transplantation: A consensus expert opinion statement. American Journal of Transplantation. 21:475-483. 2021
2021 Pretransplant solid organ malignancy and organ transplant candidacy: A consensus expert opinion statement. American Journal of Transplantation. 21:460-474. 2021
2021 Cardiac Mortality following Kidney Transplantation: Progress Made but Still Room for Improvement. Transplantation. 278-279. 2021
2021 Cognitive mapping as an approach to facilitate organ donation among African Americans 2021
2021 Incidence and Outcomes of COVID-19 in Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients With HIV: Report From the National HOPE in Action Consortium. Transplantation. 105:216-224. 2021
2021 Integrating APOL1 Kidney-risk Variant Testing in Live Kidney Donor Evaluation: An Expert Panel Opinion. Transplantation. 2132-2134. 2021
2021 Pig kidney xenotransplantation: Progress toward clinical trials. Clinical Transplantation. 35. 2021
2021 Suggested Patient Selection Criteria for Initial Clinical Trials of Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation in the United States. Transplantation. 1904-1908. 2021
2020 Human immunodeficiency virus from life taking to life giving: expanding the donor pool by using HIV-positive donors. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 25:626-630. 2020
2020 The tetraspanin CD151 marks a unique population of activated human T cells. Scientific Reports. 10. 2020
2020 Bariatric surgery to achieve transplant in end-stage organ disease patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis 2020
2020 Commentary on: "Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation Between Veterans Affairs and Civilian Hospitals: Considerations in the Context of the MISSION Act". Annals of Surgery. 272:511. 2020
2020 Exacerbating Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplant: The Consequences of Geographic Redistribution. JAMA Surgery. 155:679-681. 2020
2020 Quantifying Sex-Based Disparities in Liver Allocation. JAMA Surgery. 155. 2020
2020 Use of Patient Navigators to Reduce Barriers in Living Donation and Living Donor Transplantation. Current Transplantation Reports. 7:72-80. 2020
2020 Combined Thoracic-Kidney Transplantation Practices May Exacerbate Existing Geographic Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 39:S366-S367. 2020
2020 Regional Variation in Appropriateness of Non-Hepatocellular Carcinoma Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Exception. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 230:503-512.e8. 2020
2020 A Qualitative Assessment of the Living Donor Navigator Program to Identify Core Competencies and Promising Practices for Implementation 2020
2020 Donor-Recipient Relationship and Risk of ESKD in Live Kidney Donors of Varied Racial Groups. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 75:333-341. 2020
2020 Tackling the weight list problem. American Journal of Transplantation. 20:329-330. 2020
2020 Enhanced Advocacy and Health Systems Training through Patient Navigation Increases Access to Living-donor Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation. 122-129. 2020
2020 Geographic differences in population health and expected organ supply in the Gulf Coast Region of the United States compared to non-Gulf States. Transplantation. 421-427. 2020
2020 Impact of Donor Hepatitis C Virus on Kidney Transplant Outcomes for Hepatitis C-positive Recipients in the Direct-acting Antiviral Era: Time to Revise the Kidney Donor Risk Index?. Transplantation. 1215-1228. 2020
2020 Positive crossmatch kidney transplantation: State of the art and future perspectives. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 26:3460-3467. 2020
2020 Redefining the Influence of Ethnicity on Simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Outcomes: A 15-year Single-center Experience. Annals of Surgery. 271:177-183. 2020
2020 Social determinants of health: Going beyond the basics to explore racial disparities in kidney transplantation. Transplantation. 1324-1325. 2020
2019 Patient Perspectives on Weight Management for Living Kidney Donation. Journal of Surgical Research. 244:50-56. 2019
2019 Donation approval among obese living kidney donor candidates: The impact of metabolic syndrome. Surgery. 166:940-946. 2019
2019 Get on with it!—A novel allocation strategy to reduce kidney discards. American Journal of Transplantation. 19:2971-2972. 2019
2019 Self-reported incident hypertension and long-term kidney function in living kidney donors compared with healthy nondonors. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 14:1493-1499. 2019
2019 Mitigating Racial and Sex Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Impact of the Nation's Longest Single-center Kidney Chain. Annals of Surgery. 270:639-646. 2019
2019 Obesity and long-term mortality risk among living kidney donors. Surgery. 166:205-208. 2019
2019 Patient-reported outcome measures for life participation in kidney transplantation: A systematic review. American Journal of Transplantation. 19:2306-2317. 2019
2019 Center variation and risk factors for failure to complete 6 month postdonation follow-up among obese living kidney donors. Transplantation. 103:1450-1456. 2019
2019 Ethnic and age disparities in outcomes among liver transplant waitlist candidates. Transplantation. 103:1425-1432. 2019
2019 Time for reform in transplant program–specific reporting: AST/ASTS transplant metrics taskforce. American Journal of Transplantation. 19:1888-1895. 2019
2019 Establishing a core outcome measure for life participation: A standardized outcomes in nephrology-kidney transplantation consensus workshop report. Transplantation. 103:1199-1205. 2019
2019 Mortality and Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Among Hepatitis C Virus–Seropositive Maintenance Dialysis Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 73:815-826. 2019
2019 Optimal timing of hepatitis C treatment among HIV/HCV coinfected ESRD patients: Pre- vs posttransplant. American Journal of Transplantation. 19:1806-1819. 2019
2019 Kidney transplantation in a HIV-positive recipient. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 14:614-616. 2019
2019 Disparity in access to kidney allograft offers among transplant candidates with human immunodeficiency virus. Clinical Transplantation. 33. 2019
2019 CYP3A5 genotype affects time to therapeutic tacrolimus level in pediatric kidney transplant recipients. Pediatric Transplantation. 23. 2019
2018 Implementing core outcomes in kidney disease: report of the Standardized Outcomes in Nephrology (SONG) implementation workshop. Kidney International. 94:1053-1068. 2018
2018 Population Health, Ethnicity, and Rate of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation. 102:2080-2087. 2018
2018 Can you hear me now? Patient preferences for evaluating kidney transplant centers. American Journal of Transplantation. 18:2624. 2018
2018 Population level outcomes and cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C treatment pre- vs postkidney transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 18:2483-2495. 2018
2018 Response to "It is time to revise the kidney allocation system to restore the pediatric advantage". American Journal of Transplantation. 18:2367. 2018
2018 Expand the pool of living donors for kidney transplantation. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 13:1142-1143. 2018
2018 Impact of the new kidney allocation system A2/A2B → B policy on access to transplantation among minority candidates. American Journal of Transplantation. 18:1947-1953. 2018
2018 Decreasing deceased donor transplant rates among children (≤6 years) under the new kidney allocation system. American Journal of Transplantation. 18:1690-1698. 2018
2018 In Reply to 'Core Assessment of Predonation Kidney Function: Clarification of the 2017 KDIGO Living Donor Guideline'. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 72:155. 2018
2018 Apolipoprotein L1 and Chronic Kidney Disease Risk in Young Potential Living Kidney Donors. Annals of Surgery. 267:1161-1168. 2018
2018 Expanding clarity or confusion? Volatility of the 5-tier ratings assessing quality of transplant centers in the United States. American Journal of Transplantation. 18:1494-1501. 2018
2018 Response to: Regarding "HIV protease inhibitors and mortality following kidney transplantation". American Journal of Transplantation. 18:1571. 2018
2018 Evaluation of Kidney Donors: Core Curriculum 2018. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 71:737-747. 2018
2018 Assessing emergency department utilization in the era of population health. American Journal of Transplantation. 18:777-778. 2018
2018 Kidney transplantation and waitlist mortality rates among candidates registered as willing to accept a hepatitis C infected kidney. Transplant Infectious Disease. 20. 2018
2018 Landscape of ABO-Incompatible Live Donor Kidney Transplantation in the US. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 226:615-621. 2018
2018 Long Cold Ischemia Times in Same Hospital Deceased Donor Transplants. Transplantation. 102:471-477. 2018
2018 Race but not Hepatitis C co-infection affects survival of HIV+ individuals on dialysis in contemporary practice. Kidney International. 93:706-715. 2018
2018 Patient and Kidney Allograft Survival in Recipients with End-Stage Renal Disease from Amyloidosis. Transplantation. 102:300-309. 2018
2018 Living Kidney Donor Phenotype and Likelihood of Postdonation Follow-up. Transplantation. 102:135-139. 2018
2018 Urologic malignancies in kidney transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 18:13-22. 2018
2017 Impact of Protease Inhibitor–Based Anti-Retroviral Therapy on Outcomes for HIV+ Kidney Transplant Recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 17:3114-3122. 2017
2017 Apolipoprotein L1 Gene Effects on Kidney Transplantation. Seminars in Nephrology. 37:530-537. 2017
2017 Expanding the use of hepatitis C–viremic kidney donors. Kidney International. 92:1031-1033. 2017
2017 PROviding Better ACcess To ORgans: A comprehensive overview of organ-access initiatives from the ASTS PROACTOR Task Force. American Journal of Transplantation. 17:2546-2558. 2017
2017 Quantifying postdonation risk of ESRD in living kidney donors. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 28:2749-2755. 2017
2017 Effect of kidney donor hepatitis C virus serostatus on renal transplant recipient and allograft outcomes. Clinical Kidney Journal. 10:564-572. 2017
2017 Patterns of primary care utilization before and after living kidney donation. Clinical Transplantation. 31. 2017
2017 Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease in HIV-Positive Potential Live Kidney Donors. American Journal of Transplantation. 17:1823-1832. 2017
2017 The Authors Reply. Kidney International. 91:1256. 2017
2017 Abdominal lean muscle is associated with lower mortality among kidney waitlist candidates. Clinical Transplantation. 31. 2017
2017 Obesity increases the risk of end-stage renal disease among living kidney donors. Kidney International. 91:699-703. 2017
2017 Survival benefit of kidney transplantation in HIV-infected patients. Annals of Surgery. 265:604-608. 2017
2017 Lymphocyte-depleting induction therapy lowers the risk of acute rejection in African American pediatric kidney transplant recipients. Pediatric Transplantation. 21. 2017
2017 Access to kidney transplantation among HIV-infected waitlist candidates. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 12:467-475. 2017
2017 Increased Mortality and Graft Loss With Kidney Retransplantation Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)–Infected Recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 17:173-179. 2017
2017 Kidney transplantation of highly sensitized recipients under the new kidney allocation system: A reflection from five different transplant centers across the United States. Human Immunology. 78:30-36. 2017
2017 Survival benefit of transplantation with a deceased diabetic donor kidney compared with remaining on the waitlist. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 12:974-982. 2017
2016 Overcoming immunologic barriers to kidney transplantation: Desensitization and paired donation. Current Surgery Reports. 4. 2016
2016 Dosing Eculizumab for Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report. Transplantation Proceedings. 48:3099-3105. 2016
2016 Insurance Type and Solid Organ Transplantation Outcomes: A Historical Perspective on How Medicaid Expansion Might Impact Transplantation Outcomes. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 223:611-620.e4. 2016
2016 Anti–Blood Group Antibodies in Intravenous Immunoglobulin May Complicate Interpretation of Antibody Titers in ABO-Incompatible Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 16:2483-2486. 2016
2016 Identification of Optimal Donor–Recipient Combinations Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)–Positive Kidney Transplant Recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 16:2377-2383. 2016
2016 Induction Immunosuppression and Clinical Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients Infected With Human Immunodeficiency Virus. American Journal of Transplantation. 16:2368-2376. 2016
2016 Inpatient mortality among solid organ transplant recipients hospitalized for sepsis and severe sepsis. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 63:186-194. 2016
2016 A systematic review of the use of expandable cages in the cervical spine. Neurosurgical Review. 39:1-11. 2016
2016 Long-Term outcomes after liver transplantation among human immunodeficiency virus-infected recipients. Transplantation. 100:141-146. 2016
2015 Hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection among solid organ transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 15:2970-2977. 2015
2015 A national study of outcomes among HIV-infected kidney transplant recipients. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 26:2222-2229. 2015
2015 Center-Level Experience and Kidney Transplant Outcomes in HIV-Infected Recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 15:2096-2104. 2015
2015 The biomechanics of pedicle screw augmentation with cement 2015
2015 A Systematic Assessment of the Use of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Spinal Fusion. Journal of bioengineering. 43:1057-1070. 2015
2015 The impact of proposed changes in liver allocation policy on cold ischemia times and organ transportation costs. American Journal of Transplantation. 15:541-546. 2015
2015 Identification of strategies to facilitate organ donation among african americans using the nominal group technique. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 10:286-293. 2015
2014 To whom goes the kidney?. Liver Transplantation. 20:1017-1018. 2014
2014 The authors' reply. Transplantation. 97. 2014
2014 Resource utilization associated with procurement of transplantable organs from donors that do not meet OPTN eligible death criteria. Transplantation. 97:1043-1048. 2014
2014 Immunosuppression regimen and the risk of acute rejection in HIV-infected kidney transplant recipients. Transplantation. 97:446-450. 2014
2014 Eculizumab and splenectomy as salvage therapy for severe antibody-mediated rejection after HLA-incompatible kidney transplantation. Transplantation. 98:857-863. 2014
2014 Is there a role for detection of complement-binding antibodies in kidney transplantation?. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 63:558-560. 2014
2013 What liver transplant outcomes can be expected in the uninsured who become insured via the affordable care act?. American Journal of Transplantation. 13:1533-1540. 2013
2012 Donor-derived organ transplant transmission of coccidioidomycosis. Transplant Infectious Disease. 14:300-304. 2012
2012 Re: Desensitization in HLA-incompatible kidney recipients and survival. Investigative urology. 187:1766-1767. 2012
2012 In vitro and ex vivo delivery of short hairpin RNAs for control of hepatitis C viral transcript expression. JAMA Surgery. 147:384-387. 2012
2011 Late graft loss among pediatric recipients of DCD kidneys. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 6:2705-2711. 2011
2011 Outcomes of renal transplants from centers for disease control and prevention high-risk donors with prospective recipient viral testing: A single-center experience. JAMA Surgery. 146:1261-1266. 2011
2011 Desensitization in HLA-incompatible kidney recipients and survival. New England Journal of Medicine. 365:318-326. 2011
2011 Evolving concepts in the selection of immunosuppression regimen for liver transplant recipients.. Hepatic Medicine: Evidence and Research. 3:53-62. 2011
2010 Stem cell mobilization is life saving in an animal model of acute liver failure. Annals of Surgery. 252:591-595. 2010
2010 Eculizumab, bortezomib and kidney paired donation facilitate transplantation of a highly sensitized patient without vascular access. American Journal of Transplantation. 10:2154-2160. 2010
2010 Proinflammatory events and HLA antibodies.. American Journal of Transplantation. 10:956. 2010
2010 Renal transplantation in HIV-positive recipients. Current Infectious Disease Reports. 12:71-75. 2010
2009 Impact of medicare coverage on disparities in access to simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 9:2785-2791. 2009
2009 Increased risk of graft loss from hepatic artery thrombosis after liver transplantation with older donors. Liver Transplantation. 15:1688-1695. 2009
2009 Stem Cells and the Liver: Clinical Applications in Transplantation. Advances in Surgery. 43:35-51. 2009
2009 Successful liver transplantation for Budd-Chiari syndrome in a patient with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria treated with the anti-complement antibody eculizumab. Liver Transplantation. 15:540-543. 2009
2009 Rapid accomodation of an a1 renal allograft after preconditioning for ABO-incompatible transplantation. Contributions to Nephrology. 162:35-46. 2009
2009 Recruitment of host progenitor cells in rat liver transplants. Hepatology. 49:587-597. 2009
2009 ABO incompatible renal transplantation: A paradigm ready for broad implementation. Transplantation. 87:1246-1255. 2009
2009 ABO-incompatible deceased donor liver transplantation in the United States: A national registry analysis. Liver Transplantation. 15:883-893. 2009
2009 C4d deposition without rejection correlates with reduced early scarring in ABO-incompatible renal allografts. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 20:197-204. 2009
2009 Proinflammatory events are associated with significant increases in breadth and strength of HLA-specific antibody. American Journal of Transplantation. 9:2136-2139. 2009
2009 Renal transplant in HIV-positive patients: Long-term outcomes and risk factors for graft loss. JAMA Surgery. 144:83-86. 2009
2009 The use of antibody to complement protein C5 for salvage treatment of severe antibody-mediated rejection. American Journal of Transplantation. 9:231-235. 2009
2008 Prolonged waiting times for liver transplantation in obese patients. Annals of Surgery. 248:863-870. 2008
2008 Donor ethnicity influences outcomes following deceased-donor kidney transplantation in black recipients. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 19:2011-2019. 2008
2008 Generation of humanized animal livers using embryoid body-derived stem cell transplant. Annals of Surgery. 248:487-491. 2008
2008 Can Machine Perfusion Decrease the Likelihood of Discard Among Biopsied Kidneys?. Transplantation Proceedings. 40:1029-1031. 2008
2008 Declining outcomes in simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation in the MELD era: Ineffective usage of renal allografts. Transplantation. 85:935-942. 2008
2008 Effect modification in liver allografts with prolonged cold ischemic time. American Journal of Transplantation. 8:658-666. 2008
2008 Obesity impacts access to kidney transplantation. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 19:349-355. 2008
2007 ABO-incompatible transplantation: Less may be more. Transplantation. 84. 2007
2007 Minimizing risk associated with elderly liver donors by matching to preferred recipients. Hepatology. 46:1907-1918. 2007
2007 Twenty years of liver transplantation for Budd-Chiari syndrome: A national registry analysis. Liver Transplantation. 13:1285-1294. 2007
2007 Desensitization protocols for crossing human leukocyte antigen and ABO incompatible barriers. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 12:371-378. 2007
2007 Outcomes of kidneys from donors after cardiac death: Implications for allocation and preservation. American Journal of Transplantation. 7:1797-1807. 2007
2007 The utility of splenectomy as rescue treatment for severe acute antibody mediated rejection. American Journal of Transplantation. 7:842-846. 2007
2007 Cold ischemia time and allograft outcomes in live donor renal transplantation: Is live donor organ transport feasible?. American Journal of Transplantation. 7:99-107. 2007
2006 Factors affecting graft survival after liver transplantation from donation after cardiac death donors. Transplantation. 82:1683-1688. 2006
2006 Biliary cystic disease. Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology. 9:107-112. 2006
2006 Rescue splenectomy for severe acute antibody-mediated rejection.. Clinical transplants. 518-520. 2006
2005 Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver. Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences. 12:314-316. 2005
2019 Kidney allocation. 371-378. 2019
2015 Management of Portal Hypertensive Hemorrhage. 510-513. 2015
2012 Consider parvovirus B19 infection in patients with anemia or pancytopenia 2012
2012 Keep patients with dural tears flat for 24-48 hours 2012
2012 Place the tip of a central venous catheter at the junction of the superior vena cava and atrium 2012
abdominal transplantation, incompatible organ transplantation, transplantation of HIV-infected end-stage patients, outcomes and behavioral research focused on health disparities
CKD Risk Prediction among Obese Living Kidney Donors awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Establishing Cultural Competent Educational Standards for Living Kidney Donors awarded by American College of Surgeons
Expanding Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Through Advocacy Training and Social Media awarded by Johns Hopkins University
Genetic, Environmental & Histologic Basis for Kidney Disease Risk among Persons Living with HIV awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
HOPE in Action: A Clinical Trial of HIV-to-HIV Liver Transplantation awarded by Johns Hopkins University
Health Services Foundation-General Endowment Fund Scholar Award awarded by UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
Long-Term Outcomes Among Living Kidney Donors with Isolated Medical Abnormalities awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Long-Term Outcomes after Live Kidney Donation among Donors with Isolated Medical Abnormalities awarded by American Society of Transplantation
Private Grant awarded by LUNG BIOTECHNOLOGY PBC
Promoting Increases in Living Organ Donation via Tele-navigation (PILOT) awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Social Network Interventions to Reduce Race Disparities in Living Kidney Donation awarded by Pennsylvania State University
The Consortium for Holistic Assessment of Risk in Transplantation awarded by Duke University
APOL1 Long-Term Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Network (APOLLO) Clinical Center awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Assessing Support Needs of Kidney Disease Caregivers awarded by American Society of Transplantation
Comparison of Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human), 10% (IVIG), plus Rituximab vs. IVIG 10% + Placebo (Normal Saline) as Agents to Reduce Donor Specific Antibodies, Improve Transplant Rates and Outcomes in Highly-HLA Sensitized Patients Awaiting Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation awarded by Cedars - Sinai Medical Center
Development of a Gut Microbiome Based Prognostic Signature Predicting Risk of Hepatocellular Cancer Recurrence After Ablative Therapies awarded by DOD - Department of Defense
Effects of Inhibiting Early Inflammation in Kidney Transplant Patients awarded by ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
Effects of Inhibiting Early Inflammation in Kidney Transplant Patients - Equipment awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine ^
Establishing Normative Cognitive Data for UAB Medical Professionals awarded by UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
Evaluating the Implementation and Effectiveness of the Living Donor Navigator Program awarded by American Society of Nephrology
Geographic Variation in Non-HCC MELD Exceptions and Its Effect on Liver Transplant Waitlist Outcomes awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
HOPE in Action: A Clinical Trial of HIV-to-HIV Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation awarded by Johns Hopkins University
Identification of Drugs that Induce Terminal Transcriptional Silencing of Latent HIV-1 Infection awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Impact of CCR5 Blockade in HIV + Kidney Transplant Recipients awarded by University of California, San Francisco
Impact of CCR5 Blockade in HIV+Kidney Transplant Recipients awarded by University of California, San Francisco
Implications of Donor Methamphetamine Use in Deceased Donor Liver, Pancreas, and Small Bowel Transplantation awarded by Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Interdisciplinary Training In Kidney-Related Research awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Kidney Transplantation in Recipients and Donors with HIV: Long Term Follow up Study awarded by Johns Hopkins University
Kidney Undergraduate Research Experience (KURE) awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
PRedOctoral Phd and MD Research Training In TEams (PROmoTE) awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
PRedoctoral Interdisciplinary Training in Renal Physiology and MEdIcIne (PRIME) awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Preserving Renal Function & Protective Immunity via Anti-LFA-1-Based CNI Avoidance awarded by Emory University
Private Grant awarded by ASTELLAS PHARMA US, INC.
Private Grant awarded by ALEXION PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Private Grant awarded by QUARK PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Private Grant awarded by ASTELLAS PHARMA GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. - NEW
Private Grant awarded by NATERA, INC.
Private Grant awarded by HANSA BIOPHARMA
Private Grant awarded by PARAGONIX TECHNOLOGIES INC
Prospective Observational Study of HIV+ Deceased Donor Transplant for HIV+ Recipients awarded by Johns Hopkins University
Short-Term Research Experiences Advancing Medical Students (STREAMS) awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Residency
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Doctor of Medicine, East Carolina University 2002


The well-received Nokia X6 in China started receiving a new update that brings a new Android Oreo build, Google's August security patch and fixes & improvements for the device. The X6 went on sale in June exclusively in China and is still being sold only via flash sales there, but an Android One version of the device with Google apps made its way to Hong Kong and Taiwan under the name – Nokia 6.1 Plus.
The latest update is 428MB in size and brings fixes for stability, touchscreen, improvements in "beauty" camera feature etc. To download the update, head to Settings->System update and you need 861MB of free storage. This update isn't available for the Android One version of the Nokia X6, or in other words – it isn't available for Nokia 6.1 Plus, as far as we know.