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Gastroenterology > Colon Cancer
Study Finds More Later-Stage CRC Diagnoses During Pandemic
— Japanese registry data reveals increase in stage III colorectal cancer, drops in earlier disease
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, fewer cases of certain gastrointestinal cancers were detected overall, while more colorectal cancers (CRCs) were diagnosed at a later stage, a hospital-based cancer registry found.
In an analysis of more than 5,000 patients diagnosed from 2017 through the end of 2020, a 26.9% decline was observed for gastric cancer diagnoses during the pandemic compared with years prior (22.4 vs 30.6 cases per month, respectively; P<0.001), and a 13.5% decline was seen for colorectal cancer diagnoses (36.0 vs 41.6; P=0.030), reported Takuma Higurashi, MD, PhD, of the Yokohama City University School of Medicine in Japan, and colleagues.
The average number of monthly cases for early-stage gastric cancer and CRC dropped by 33-35% during versus before the pandemic, respectively:
Stage I gastric cancer: 13.9 vs 21.6 cases per month (P<0.001)
Stage 0 CRC: 7.1 vs 10.6 (P=0.008)
Stage I CRC: 6.7 vs 10.2 (P=0.003)
Stage II CRC: 4.8 vs 7.4 (P=0.010)
Meanwhile, average monthly cases for stage III CRC increased by a significant 68.4% during the pandemic (12.1 vs 7.2 before; P<0.001), according to the findings in JAMA Network Open.
"Colorectal cancer is generally recognized as a slow-growing cancer, with prolonged times to doubling and progression, and years are typically needed for adenomas to become cancerous," the authors wrote. "However, the rate of progression is less clear for more advanced colorectal cancer."
Researchers predicted that the number of new cancer diagnoses would decrease due to the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, Higurashi told MedPage Today. "We showed the actual number of diagnosed cancer patients in 2020 and proved that prediction was correct."
"In gastric and colorectal cancer, early-stage cancers are often detected by medical examinations, and the lockdown led to a decrease in the number of diagnoses as a result of fewer medical examinations," Higurashi said. "In the U.S., there were more COVID deaths than in Japan and the impact on medical care was greater, so I expect we will see similar results."
New cases of pancreatic, esophageal, hepatic, and biliary cancers did not decrease, according to the study.
"We guess that the reason for this is that these cancers are often detected in symptomatic cases, so the number of patients diagnosed did not change before and after COVID," said Higurashi.
For their study, the researchers evaluated 5,167 patients diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancers at two Japanese hospitals during (n=949; March to December 2020) and before the pandemic (n=4,218; January 2017 to February 2020).
About two-thirds of the patients were men, and the average age was 71-72 years. In both the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods, the most common cancers were CRC (37.5% and 37.9% of cases, respectively), gastric cancer (27.6% and 23.6%), and pancreatic cancer (12.6% and 14.9% of cases).
The analysis had several limitations, the researchers acknowledged, including that the sample only included two Japanese medical centers. Additional outcomes such as pandemic-related survival also were not evaluated.
Zaina Hamza is a staff writer for MedPage Today, covering Gastroenterology and Infectious disease. She is based in Chicago.
The authors did not disclose any conflicts of interest.
Source Reference: Kuzuu K, et al "Gastrointestinal cancer stage at diagnosis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan" JAMA Netw Open 2021; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.26334.


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Web Typography in 2011
July 28, 2011 in Web Design
Web design is 95% typography, as
Oliver Reichenstein controversially said in 2006—and yet web designers have historically had only the barest typographic tools at their disposal. When Reichenstein made this pronouncement, adding non-web safe fonts required a tool like sIFR or Cufón, and CSS2 allowed designer the bare minimum of typographic control: size, line-height, and tracking.
However, the state of typography on the web, though still far cruder than typography in print, appears to be passing out of its infancy: near-universal @font-face support, feature detection tools like Modernizr, crumbling legality hurdles, and JavaScript plugins for advanced control have led designers like Jon Tan to declare that web typography is "more vibrant today than it has ever been." @font-face, part of the CSS2 specification, has finally achieved widespread support (IE 4+, FF 3.5+, Safari 3.1+, Chrome) thanks to type converters such as Font Squirrel's @font-face generator, which allow developers to painlessly embed the 5 different formats required to achieve this level of cross-browser support. The days of being limited to six or seven web-safe fonts are a distant memory.
Of course, there's still the legality issue: @font-face declarations require uploading font files to your server, which is frequently illegal (depending on your font of choice's license). That's no use to use an image-replacement service like Cufón or sIFR, though; for $50 a year, you can get unlimited access to Typekit's library of hundreds of web fonts—totally legal, accessible, standards compliant, and, needing only one line of code to implement, easy.
If you're still not satisfied, there are a number of JavaScript plugins out there that allow designers fine-grain typographic control, to the point Web designers' typographic control is beginning to resemble that of print—in the right browsers, anyway.
Lettering.js, a do-all jQuery plugin, offers near-complete control of web typography, including kerning and editorial design. It's also incredibly lightweight at 1.6 kb. The catch? To achieve the kerning effect, it wraps each individual character in a <span>, so your HTML becomes a mess and the CSS required to control it can be hundreds of lines. As such, it's best used sparingly: for headers and effects only. Another caveat is that unless you place both jQuery and Lettering.js in the <head> of your document (rather than the bottom of the <body>, as is common practice), users will experience a flash of unstyled text—but avoiding this requires further slowing page loading speed.
Building on Lettering.js, Kern.js is a JavaScript bookmarklet that lets you adjust kerning directly in your browser, then spits out the required CSS: much handier than painstakingly adjusting CSS properties and previewing hundreds of iterations in the browser.
Fittext.js is a lightweight bit of jQuery, weighing in at under 1 kilobyte, lets developers create scalable headlines that fill the width of their parent element. This is an excellent tool to allow web typographers to imitate print headlines in a device-independent manner, while also furthering the aims of responsive web design.
CSS3, browser support for which is currently a little sketchy, promises to make it painless to achieve such common typographic effects as rotation, text shadows, outlines, and text gradients, adding to the limited tools of CSS2. For now, it's best used as a progressive enhancement tool—or, if your rule of choice falls under its limited selection, you can use CSS3PIE to bootstrap a degree of CSS3 support to IE 6–8.
There is a cost, though, to all this increased typographic control: all these extra font files, JavaScript plugins (to say nothing of jQuery itself), and .htc files are additional HTTP requests; more code to download means slowing down your site. Is it worth it? In many cases, designers may find it worth it; certainly, it's less demanding (and more accessible) than converting all your headlines to images.
Despite these tools, though, many designers believe that web typography remains crude and limited: "Typography on the Web is—despite all of the technological advancements—still in its infancy," says Kyle Meyer. Inconsistencies in type rendering across browsers, operating systems, and devices, combined with technological limitations that have yet to be solved by a jQuery plugin, prevent designers from truly controlling nuanced typography on the web. But perhaps this will always be the case: web and print are different media, and web design will always have the constraint of needing to accommodate the needs of a wide variety of users. Designers like Ethan Marcotte argue that web design shouldn't seek to emulate print typography: if "typography exists to honor content," as Robert Bringhurst said, then typography on the web should exist primarily for information architecture across browsers, platforms and devices. Whatever your stance on the web–print debate is, it's worth coming back to Oliver Reichenstein: if web design is 95% typography, it's important to have typographic control no matter how you think type should be used.

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Q: Why SQL Server datetime datatype and datetimepicker search no result on VB.NET? I am doing a function to search for records between 2 date on VB.NET. But I'm not sure is the conversion error or what the result is not showing. I store the date and time in database with DATETIME datatype, and I compare it with the datetimepicker of VB.NET. I guess it is because the datetime store in database include the date and the datatimepicker do not have time in it so the comparison to search the records will never be appear since the comparison is wrong because the datetimepicker do not have time in it.
Here's the code. The dateSelectFrom.value and dateSelectTo.value is the value of the datetimepicker
        If rbFirstDate.Checked Then
            Dim ds1 As String = Format(dateSelectFrom.Value, "YYYY-MM-DD")
            cmd.CommandText = "SELECT OrderList.Id, OrderList.timeOrder,OrderDetail.foodID, Food.foodName,OrderDetail.qty, Food.price, OrderDetail.subtotal FROM OrderDetail INNER JOIN Food on OrderDetail.foodID = Food.Id INNER JOIN OrderList on OrderDetail.orderID = OrderList.Id WHERE (timeOrder = CONVERT(DATETIME, '" & ds1 & "', 102)) order by timeOrder"
        End If

        If rbBetweenDate.Checked Then
            Dim ds1 As String = Format(dateSelectFrom.Value, "YYYY-MM-DD")
            Dim ds2 As String = Format(dateSelectTo.Value, "YYYY-MM-DD")
            cmd.CommandText = "SELECT OrderList.Id, OrderList.timeOrder,OrderDetail.foodID, Food.foodName,OrderDetail.qty, Food.price, OrderDetail.subtotal FROM OrderDetail INNER JOIN Food on OrderDetail.foodID = Food.Id INNER JOIN OrderList on OrderDetail.orderID = OrderList.Id WHERE (timeOrder BETWEEN CONVERT(DATETIME, '" & ds1 & "', 102) AND CONVERT(DATETIME, '" & ds2 & "', 102)) order by timeOrder"
        End If

I had try to put the time format behind the date but it shows error conversion of datetime from string. Which the code looks like this :
Dim ds1 As String = Format(dateSelectFrom.Value, "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS")

Am I doing the conversion the wrong way or how do I assign the time to the datetimepicker.value?
I'm kinda confused by this datetimepicker and DATETIME datatype.

A: You should parameterize your query. Not only would this fix potential SQL injection vulnerabilities, but it will likely fix your underlying issue too.
Take a look at this example:
Dim commandString As String = "
    SELECT
        OrderList.Id,
        OrderList.timeOrder,
        OrderDetail.foodID,
        Food.foodName,
        OrderDetail.qty,
        Food.price,
        OrderDetail.subtotal
    FROM
        OrderDetail
    INNER JOIN Food ON
        OrderDetail.foodID = Food.Id
    INNER JOIN OrderList ON
        OrderDetail.orderID = OrderList.Id
    WHERE
        {{where}}
    ORDER BY
        OrderList.timeOrder;"
If (rbFirstDate.Checked) Then
    commandString = commandString.replace("{{where}}", "OrderList.timeOrder = CONVERT(DATETIME, @0, 102)")
ElseIf rbBetweenDate.Checked Then
    commandString = commandString.replace("{{where}}", "OrderList.timeOrder BETWEEN CONVERT(DATETIME, @0, 102) AND CONVERT(DATETIME, @1, 102)")
End If

Dim con As OleDbConnection
Try
    con = New OleDbConnection("My Connection String Here")

    Using cmd As OleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand(commandString, con)
        ' parameterize the query here
        cmd.Parameters.Add("@0", OleDbType.Date).Value = dateSelectFrom.Value
        If rbBetweenDate.Checked Then
            cmd.Parameters.Add("@1", OleDbType.Date).Value = dateSelectTo.Value
        End If

        con.Open()

        ' do something with cmd here

        con.Close()
    End Using
Catch ex As Exception
    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message)
Finally
    If con IsNot Nothing Then
        If con.State = ConnectionState.Open Then
            ' Close the connection if it was left open(exception thrown)
            con.Close()
        End If
        con.Dispose()
    End If
End Try

Obviously if you're using SQL Server then swap out the OLEDB namespace, but this is the basic gist.

A: The .Value property of a DateTimePicker returns a DataTime. Don't change it to a string and then have the database change it back to a date. The use of parameters should line up your .net DateTime with the Sql Server DateTime.
Private Function GetOrders() As DataTable
    Dim dt As New DataTable
    Dim sb As New StringBuilder

    sb.Append("SELECT
                        OrderList.Id,
                        OrderList.timeOrder,
                        OrderDetail.foodID,
                        Food.foodName,
                        OrderDetail.qty,
                        Food.price,
                        OrderDetail.subtotal
                FROM OrderDetail
                INNER JOIN Food on OrderDetail.foodID = Food.Id
                INNER JOIN OrderList on OrderDetail.orderID = OrderList.Id
                WHERE 1 = 1")
    Using cn As New SqlConnection("Your connection string"),
            cmd As New SqlCommand()
        cmd.Connection = cn
        'this parameter will be used if either radio button is checked
        cmd.Parameters.Add("@FirstDate", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = dateSelectFrom.Value
        If rbFirstDate.Checked Then
            sb.AppendLine(" And timeOrder = @FirstDate")
        ElseIf rbBetweenDate.Checked Then
            sb.AppendLine(" And timeOrder BETWEEN @FirstDate AND @SecondDate")
            cmd.Parameters.Add("@SecondDate", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = dateSelectTo.Value
        End If

        sb.AppendLine(" Order By timeOrder;")
        Debug.Print(sb.ToString) 'Just to check if everthing was added properly
        cmd.CommandText = sb.ToString
        cn.Open()
        dt.Load(cmd.ExecuteReader)
    End Using
    Return dt
End Function

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Note: This interior review was created when the 2007 Chrysler Town & Country was new.
Reviewers praise the T&C for its versatile 'Stow-N-Go' seating system and quiet interior cabin. Still, many critics find the rear seats to be too hard, and some find the interior controls hard to see and use.
A strength of the 2007 Town & Country is how quiet the interior is while driving, leading Consumer Guide to call the T&C one of "the quieter minivans. Minimal wind, road and engine noise." About.com calls the minivan "very quiet, with wind and road noise kept to a minimum." Perhaps best summing up many test drivers, MSN calls the T&C "one of the most luxurious minivans around."
Assessing the overall interior of the Town & Country leads critics generally to offer praise, but with some notable shortfalls. On balance, the engineering of the interior reflects the importance of the minivan to the Chrysler Corporation. Consumer Guide observes, "Solid-feeling interior materials" with controls that are "clear, handy." Perhaps the most common complaint of the T&C interior surrounds the small and somewhat confusing audio and climate controls, which Autoweb calls "a bit hard to figure out." Those controls are also "a challenge to learn and use while driving," according to Automotive.com.
Providing about 40.7 inches of front leg room, the front seats of the Town & Country are almost universally seen by critics as comfortable, spacious and providing generally good visibility. Autoweb notes that the Town and Country has "a commanding view of the road from the driver's seat," and that visibility is "excellent." Automotive.com adds that the van has "good visibility all around," thanks to "lots of glass," but also cautions that "thick A-pillars hamper front three-quarter vision."
Those customers opting for the upgraded leather front seats may be in for a treat, as Kelley Blue Book calls them "among the most comfortable in the segment."
The second row of seats (bench in the base, bucket in all other models) reclines and provides 36.5 inches of leg room in the base model but only 34.7 inches in the extended length version. This is because 'Stow-N-Go' seating, standard on the extended length model, has a different seating layout, thus reducing available leg room in second and third rows. Nonetheless, critics almost universally agree with the assessment of Consumer Guide, who notes that the seating is "still spacious enough for adequate adult comfort."
Another drawback of the innovative 'Stow-N-Go' seating on the T&C is that engineers were forced to use thinner, denser material cushions on the seats to allow them to fit in the foldaway position. About.com critics note that grown-ups "may find the second row seats a bit uncomfortable," and Edmunds agrees, adding that "the van's second-row seats are smaller and less comfortable than those of its peers."
The third row of seats in the Town & Country (bench in the base, bucket in all other models) also reclines but provides only 33.8 inches of leg room in the base model and 31.9 inches in the extended length version. In addition to the notable smaller dimensions in these seats versus the second row, Edmunds observes that the T&C has "very little toe room for third-row occupants, since the second-row seats don't allow feet to slide underneath."
With a low step-up sill height on the Town & Country, most reviewers find it easy to get into and out of the vehicle, with Consumer Guide calling ingress "easy" via the "wide sliding doors."
And lastly, while spacious and easy to get into and out of, the rear seating of the Town & Country has some issues noted by a few very observant test drivers. For example, having side windows that can only pop open can "make for a claustrophobic interior," according to Kelley Blue Book, and Autoweb observes that maneuvering "inside from the middle to the back row...is a bit difficult."
The big story for the Chrysler Town & Country has not changed for the past four years -- it is the notable, versatile 'Stow-N-Go' second and third row seating system. This clever engineering feat allows all rear seats to fold over and flip into wells in the floor, resulting in a perfectly flat, open area in the back of the minivan -- all accomplished with no lifting and in less than a few minutes. Automotive.com notes that the capacity in the back of the T&C with seats stowed is "substantially more than what's available in any sport-utility vehicle, including the behemoth Chevy Suburban." Actually, the Suburban has slightly more space, but Town & Country is close.
Critics widely praise the easy operation of the stow-away seats, which Automobile Magazine calls a "nearly effortless, one-handed operation," and Autoweb adds, "it seems reasonable that an adult could fold the seats down with a child and groceries in hand." The Automobile Magazine reviewer also cleverly notes that when the seats are up the "the wells can be used for secret storage; in fact, this may be the long-sought, ideal spot for hiding Christmas gifts."
On the negative side, however, some critics noted that access to the wells when not in use for seat storage can be a little bit inconvenient, requiring some movement of the front seats to get to them. Edmunds calls them "best used for gear that will be accessed infrequently."
The Base T&C is only available in the shorter wheelbase, and it does not offer the Stow-N-Go feature. Instead, it offers the traditional recline-and-fold rear bench seats found in minivans of the past.
The LX version most notably adds the extra vehicle length as well as the Stow-N-Go feature over the base model.
The Touring model adds most notably to the LX version an overhead console, trip computer, leather-wrapped steering wheel, rear seat air conditioning and an eight-way driver's seat.
The Limited model takes the Town & Country effectively into luxury car territory. While the base T&C can be had for around $20,000, the Limited loaded with options can push $40,000. Automotive.com says the "Town & Country Limited is in many ways a luxury vehicle, and it is in many ways a very intelligent choice of vehicle." Compared to the Touring model, the Limited adds a removable front console, an overhead rail stage system, air filter, radio/seat/mirror memory, autolamp, security alarm, Sirius® radio with one-year service, parking assist, power pedals with memory, three-zone heating and air conditioning, side curtain air bags, a six-disc CD/DVD/MP3 player with Infinity® speakers and a navigation system. Inside the Limited, the Orlando Sentinel observes, "the Town & Country lacked nothing."
The stereo system on the T&C is a basic audio system, and with radio options maxing out at 66 watts, it is hard to order true audiophile quality from the factory in this vehicle. The most common observation of critics concerns the radio interface, where MSN observes the "radio buttons and display screen seem small compared with those in many other new vehicles," and The Auto Channel adds, "The buttons...were too small and not clearly labeled."
The problems with the small controls for the radio were mirrored by reviewers trying out the Town & Country navigation system. Automobile Magazine observes that "the small navigation display is squeezed into the center stack where it was never intended to be," with The Auto Channel chiming in, "We had a navigation system, but the screen was so small that it was hard to read. I would prefer either a larger screen or no navigation system." A number of reviewers speculated that the T&C engineers seemed to have jammed a navigation system into a space that was never designed for it -- reflecting the age of the overall design of the Chrysler.
On the plus side, Automotive.com adds, "Those criticisms aside, however, the system works extremely well...It's easy to program destinations, easier than many other systems, in fact, and the directions, given audibly and displayed on the monitor, are clear and accurate." In a parting shot, the critic notes, "The brightness of the display at night was annoying and even a little distracting while driving, and it cannot be dimmed, only turned off."
The Town & Country has a reputation for nice, consumer-friendly touches throughout the car, including available adjustable brake and gas pedals (standard on Limited) that allow shorter drivers to sit farther from the air bag for safety. Higher trims feature 12V DC front and rear power outlets.
The Town & Country base model features 129 cubic feet of storage behind the front row, 72 cubic feet behind the second row and 23.5 cubic feet behind the third row. Consumer Guide calls this space behind the third row, "tight."
The Town & Country extended length models feature 144.2 cubic feet behind the front row, 85.9 cubic feet behind the second row and 32.5 cubic feet behind the third row.
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[ARTICLE] Leap Motion-based virtual reality training for improving motor functional recovery of upper limbs and neural reorganization in subacute stroke patients – Full Text
Posted by Kostas Pantremenos in Paretic Hand, Uncategorized, Virtual reality rehabilitation on December 12, 2017
Virtual reality is nowadays used to facilitate motor recovery in stroke patients. Most virtual reality studies have involved chronic stroke patients; however, brain plasticity remains good in acute and subacute patients. Most virtual reality systems are only applicable to the proximal upper limbs (arms) because of the limitations of their capture systems. Nevertheless, the functional recovery of an affected hand is most difficult in the case of hemiparesis rehabilitation after a stroke. The recently developed Leap Motion controller can track the fine movements of both hands and fingers. Therefore, the present study explored the effects of a Leap Motion-based virtual reality system on subacute stroke. Twenty-six subacute stroke patients were assigned to an experimental group that received virtual reality training along with conventional occupational rehabilitation, and a control group that only received conventional rehabilitation. The Wolf motor function test (WMFT) was used to assess the motor function of the affected upper limb; functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to measure the cortical activation. After four weeks of treatment, the motor functions of the affected upper limbs were significantly improved in all the patients, with the improvement in the experimental group being significantly better than in the control group. The action performance time in the WMFT significantly decreased in the experimental group. Furthermore, the activation intensity and the laterality index of the contralateral primary sensorimotor cortex increased in both the experimental and control groups. These results confirmed that Leap Motion-based virtual reality training was a promising and feasible supplementary rehabilitation intervention, could facilitate the recovery of motor functions in subacute stroke patients. The study has been registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (registration number: ChiCTR-OCH-12002238).
Chronic conditions such as stroke are becoming more prevalent as the world's population ages (Christensen et al., 2009). Although the number of fatalities caused by stroke has fallen in most countries, stroke is still a leading cause of acquired adult hemiparesis (Langhorne et al., 2009; Liu and Duan, 2017). Up to 85% of patients who survive a stroke experience hemiparesis, resulting in impaired movement of an arm and hand (Nakayama et al., 1994). Among them, a large proportion (46% to 95%) remain symptomatic six months after experiencing an ischemic stroke (Kong et al., 2011). The loss of upper limb function adversely affects the quality of life and impedes the normal use of other body parts. The motor function recovery of the upper limbs is more difficult than that of the lower extremities (Kwakkel et al., 1996; Nichols-Larsen et al., 2005; Día and Gutiérrez, 2013). Functional motor recovery in the affected upper extremities in patients with hemiparesis is the primary goal of physical therapists (Page et al., 2001). Evidence suggests that repetitive, task-oriented training of the paretic upper extremity is beneficial (Barreca et al., 2003; Wolf et al., 2006). Rehabilitation intervention is a critical part of the recovery and studies have reported that intensive repeated practice is likely necessary to modify the neural organization and favor the recovery of the functional upper limb motor skills of stroke survivors (Brunnstrom, 1966; Kopp et al., 1999; Taub et al., 1999; Wolf et al., 2006; Nudo, 2011). Meta-analyses of clinical trials have indicated that longer sessions of practice promote better outcomes in the case of impairments, thus improving the daily activities of people after a stroke (Nudo, 2011; Veerbeek et al., 2014; Sehatzadeh, 2015; French et al., 2016). However, the execution of these conventional rehabilitation techniques is tedious, resource-intensive, and often requires the transportation of patients to specialized facilities (Jutai and Teasell, 2003; Teasell et al., 2009).
Virtual reality training is becoming a promising technology that can promote motor recovery by providing high-intensity, repetitive, and task-orientated training with computer programs simulating three-dimensional situations in which patients play by moving their body parts (Saposnik et al., 2010, 2011; Kim et al., 2011; Laver et al., 2015; Tsoupikova et al., 2015). The gaming industry has developed a variety of virtual reality systems for both home and clinical applications (Saposnik et al., 2010; Bao et al., 2013; Orihuela-Espina et al., 2013; Gatica-Rojas and Méndez-Rebolledo, 2014). The most difficult task related to hemiparesis rehabilitation after a stroke is the functional recovery of the affected hand (Carey et al., 2002). To facilitate the functional recovery of a paretic hand along with that of the proximal upper extremity, an ideal virtual reality system should be able to track hand position and motion, which is not a feature of most existing virtual reality systems (Jang et al., 2005; Merians et al., 2009). The leap motion controller developed by Leap Motion (https://www.leapmotion.com) provides a means of capturing and tracking the fine movements of the hand and fingers, while controlling a virtual environment requiring hand-arm coordination as part of the practicing of virtual tasks (Iosa et al., 2015; Smeragliuolo et al., 2016).
Most virtual reality studies have often only involved patients who have experienced chronic stroke (Piron et al., 2003; Yavuzer et al., 2008; Saposnik et al., 2010; da Silva Cameirao et al., 2011). For patients in the chronic stage, who had missed the window of opportunity present at the acute and subacute stages (in which the brain plasticity peaks), rehabilitation-therapy-induced neuroplasticity can only be effective within a relatively narrow range (Chen et al., 2002). No motor function recovery of the hands, six months after the onset of a stroke, indicates a poor prognosis for hand function (Duncan et al., 1992).
We hypothesized that Leap Motion-based virtual reality training would facilitate motor functional recovery of the affected upper limb, as well as neural reorganization in subacute stroke patients. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), also called blood oxygenation level-dependent fMRI (BOLD-fMRI), is widely used as a non-invasive, convenient, and economical method to examine cerebral function (Ogawa et al., 1990; Iosa et al., 2015; Yu et al., 2016). In the present study, we evaluated the brain function reorganization by fMRI, as well as the motor function recovery of the affected upper limb in patients with subacute stroke using Leap Motion-based virtual reality training.[…]
Continue —> Leap Motion-based virtual reality training for improving motor functional recovery of upper limbs and neural reorganization in subacute stroke patients Wang Zr, Wang P, Xing L, Mei Lp, Zhao J, Zhang T – Neural Regen Res
Figure 1: Leap Motion-based virtual reality system and training games.
(A, B) Leap Motion-based virtual reality system; (C) petal-picking game; (D) piano-playing game; (E) robot-assembling game; (F) object-catching with balance board game; (G) firefly game; (H) bee-batting game.
functional magnetic resonance imaging, Leap Motion, nerve regeneration, neural regeneration, neural reorganization, Stroke, subacute stroke, upper limb, Virtual Reality Rehabilitation, Wolf Motor Function Test


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State approves Massena Memorial request to close critical-care unit
By Eric Reinhardt
Date: 9/27/2019 12:30 PM
No layoffs are planned
Massena Memorial Hospital plans to close its four-bed critical-care unit after the New York State Department of Health (DOH) approved its request for the closure. (PHOTO CREDIT: MASSENA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FACEBOOK PAGE)
MASSENA — Massena Memorial Hospital (MMH) recently announced plans to close its four-bed critical-care unit (CCU) after the New York State Department of Health (DOH) approved its request to do so.
The MMH board of directors on Aug. 19 voted to approve a closure plan for the CCU, pending DOH approval. It made the request the following day.
With the closure and "other changes to improve efficiency and reduce unnecessary costs," MMH plans to eliminate 13 positions that are currently staffed, but other jobs are available for those employees, the organization said on Sept. 23.
Those affected include 11 full-time and two part-time positions. Other positions within MMH are available for nine of those affected staff members. For the other four staffers — three full-time, one part-time — jobs are available at other St. Lawrence Health System facilities, MMH said.
As a result of the upcoming closure, MMH will be able to save about $1 million annually, David Bender, CEO of Massena Memorial Hospital, said.
"Massena Memorial today takes a step forward in trying to improve its financial picture and ensure the continuation of quality, accessible health care for the people of Massena and the surrounding communities," Bender said in a statement. "Fewer than five patients per month met the criteria for admission to the CCU. It was difficult to recruit and retain critical care staff. And the cost was prohibitive."
Loretta Perez, chair of the Massena Memorial Hospital board of directors, added, "The board thoroughly reviewed this proposal — its impact on the health of our community and the financial health of our hospital — before we voted to approve the closure of the CCU last month. It was the right decision then and we're glad that DOH, after their review, agreed with us and approved us moving forward with the closure."
Perez had noted back in August that MMH's decision "mirrors actions" taken by many rural hospitals across the country to close their CCU units because of low utilization. "Closing the CCU is an essential step in achieving the goal of putting Massena Memorial on a path to financial sustainability," she added.
The emergency room will remain open and fully operational and other critical patient-care services such as cardiac monitoring (telemetry) will remain available to MMH patients. Strict protocols have been put in place to ensure that the few patients who might otherwise require CCU-level care will have access to such care in the appropriate facility.
Hospital's future
The state DOH also approved MMH reducing the number of certified beds to 25, which is "consistent" with Massena Memorial's request to convert to a critical access hospital (CAH). Becoming a CAH will mean a net revenue gain of $2.6 million per year, MMH said.
The state has approved an application for CAH status. It is now pending at the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
In July, New York State awarded Massena Memorial a $20 million grant from its Health Care Facility Transformation Fund to help bolster MMH's "precarious" finances and "advance ongoing efforts to ensure the people of Massena and the surrounding area can receive high quality health-care services for years to come."
The transformation grant was made contingent upon St. Lawrence Health System creating an entirely new nonprofit entity that will acquire Massena Memorial's assets and then operate the hospital in Massena as part of St. Lawrence Health System, in the same way that Canton-Potsdam Hospital and Gouverneur Hospital are run.
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Michael Sharp recently completed an MFA at Brigham Young University in Provo Utah. Before coming to BYU, he completed a residency through the Book Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. This followed an artist assistantship with Gibby Waitzkin at Sarvisberry Studios and Gallery in Floyd Virginia, where he learned paper making skills. A key part of his development as an artist stems from his time in the Corcoran College of Art + Design Art and The Book Masters Program. Here he learned letterpress printing and book binding skills. In between studies and residencies, Sharp has worked in museum archives developing an understanding of histories within a place or event. He grew up in the West and has been exploring how that has shaped and defined his individual and collective identities.


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Грани́чний проду́кт, маржинальний продукт (англ. Marginal Product, MP) — додатковий обсяг продукції, отриманий від застосування додаткової одиниці ресурсу (кількість інших ресурсів незмінна).

Граничний продукт характеризує граничну продуктивність змінного фактора виробництва, тобто продуктивність останньої залученої у виробничий процес додаткової одиниці цього фактора.

За допомогою диференційного числення граничний продукт можна визначити як похідну отриманого обсягу продукції по затраченій праці.

MP = ΔTP/Δx

де ΔTP - приріст загального продукту; Δx- додаткова одиниця витрат змінного фактора

Відповідно граничний продукт праці розраховують за формулою  MPL = ΔTP/ΔL ,  а граничний продукт капіталу за формулою MPk = ΔTP/ΔK

Розрізняють неперервний  та дискретний граничний продукт. Якщо виробничу функцію задано в аналітичному вигляді, то граничний продукт являє собою першу похідну:

MP = dQ/dx = ΔTP/Δx

Закон спадної віддачі, або спадної граничної продуктивності, був сформульований англійським економістом Дейвидом Рікардо ще на початку XIX ст. Він ґрунтується на тому факті,  що взаємозв'язок між змінним виробничим фактором і обсягом випуску продукції не означає, що останній завжди зростає пропорційно до зростання змінного фактора. Найбільш вагоме зростання загального продукту приносять початкові прирости змінного фактора. Потім настає момент, після якого такі ж його прирости приносять щораз менший ефект. Із часом можливою стає ситуація, коли приріст змінного фактора призводить до зменшення загального обсягу випуску.

Закон спадної віддачі встановлює співвідношення між затратами ресурсів (виробничих факторів), з одного боку, і випуском продукції — з іншого. При цьому розглядається, яким чином приріст затрат одного з факторів виробництва впливає на збільшення випуску продукції при інших незмінних факторах.

Див. також

 Мікроекономіка
 Маржинальний дохід
 Граничний виторг

Посилання

Економічна теорія
Економіка виробництва
Мікроекономіка

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It all started simply enough: the international technology firm Schneider Electric wanted a new office and made contact with OVG Real Estate. However, whilst discussing the order, both parties appeared to have a lot in common in the area of energy management in buildings. Both OVG Real Estate and Schneider Electric continuously work on the reduction of CO2 emission of office buildings.
It wasn't before long that OVG Real Estate decided to ask Schneider Electric as a preferred supplier and initiate a strategic cooperation concerning innovative energy management in new office buildings. The first joint achievement was Schneider Electric's own new office building. This remarkable building contains a large number of technical innovations by Schneider Electric. For that reason the building also serves as an Experience Centre for the firm's clients.
Both OVG Real Estate and Schneider Electric continuously work on the reduction of CO2 emission of office buildings.
OVG Real Estate and Schneider Electric have set a new standard in the area of sustainability in new development. The building was rewarded a BREEAM-NL Excellent at a score of 75.59 percent, which was the highest score given at the time. Schneider Electric also received an ISO 50001 certificate, an energy management standard, which provides an international guideline for energy management.
Schneider Electric obtained the certificates and achieved its own energy saving objective thanks to for instance, making use of energy and water meters, LED lighting including absence detection, green ICT and building automation (GBS). Furthermore, the building receives energy by the use of combined cogeneration and power plant (BioWKK) from the neighbouring TNT Centre, which was also developed by OVG, and by the use of solar panels on the roof.
Visitors can see with their own eyes how all this technique was implemented. Schneider Electric gives them the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes, for which apertures were made in the ceiling, so the smart technology, hidden in the building, can be witnessed. This technology ultimately ensured that the building, at the time, received the highest sustainability score ever.


In the last 24 hours, the Cap Gemini and Schneider Electric trimaran has covered 463 nautical miles at an average speed of very nearly 20 knots.
As Olivier de Kersauson was hoping, Geronimo has passed south of the Kerguelen Islands, leaving them to port.
These volcanic islands are the highest tips of the northern Kerguelen-Heard ocean plateau. In total, the archipelago covers some 7215 km2 and is made up of one large island, Grande-Terre, and many smaller islands and islets. Discovered by Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec on 13 February 1772, the "Desolation Islands" form part of the Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises (T.A.A.F.).
Geronimo entered the Howling Fifties yesterday morning. "The seas in this part of the Southern Ocean are fearsome and any hope of rescue is just a fantasy. This is a place of total isolation: an immense desert of savage waves of biblical proportions," says Olivier de Kersauson.
Like the Roaring Forties, the term Howling Fifties has come about as the result of the fast-moving westerly current created by the passage of many depressions, most of which are centred to the south of the 50th parallel. These depressions move east and very slightly south, and are sometimes countered by high pressure areas. These ridges are the southerly extensions of the sub-tropical anticyclones normally found over the south eastern parts of South America, Africa and Australia. As they move slowly eastwards, they deflect the faster moving depressions towards the south.
When these depressions meet Antarctica, they move around its coast, unable to penetrate inland against the high pressure areas that sit above the heart of the continent.
Geronimo is currently averaging over 22 knots due east (average speed over the last 12 hours). At 15:00 GMT, she was 1485 nautical miles from Cape Leeuwin. The water temperature had fallen to 4°C and the air temperature to 3°C at that time. The wind has been fairly stable since the beginning of the day at around 30 knots. The Cap Gemini and Schneider Electric crew have now passed the Heard Islands to the North.


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I'm pleased to announce that Windows Azure Media Encoding, Encoding Reserved Unit, and On-Demand Streaming Reserved Unit are now generally available with the support of service level agreements.
Media Encoding will remain free of charge until February 18, 2013, when it will be billed based on data processed on a graduated scale starting at $1.99 per gigabyte for the first terabyte per month. The total gigabytes processed are equal to the data input to the encoder plus the data output from the encoder, calculated for a billing month. Both input and output data will be stored in the Media Services customer's storage account, for which the standard Windows Azure storage and data transfer charges will apply.
Additionally, you can take advantage of improved on-demand streaming throughput with the new Windows Azure Media On-Demand Streaming Reserved Unit. The On-Demand Streaming Reserved Unit provides dedicated egress capacity that can be purchased in increments of 200 megabits per second . On-Demand Streaming Reserved Units will be offered free of charge until February 1, 2013, when they will be billed at the per-unit rate of $199.00 per month, calculated on a daily basis using the highest number of reserved units that are provisioned in the account in the corresponding 24-hour period. The original On-Demand Streaming service, which makes use of a shared compute environment without a service level agreement, will continue at no additional charge.
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"One of The Angels' Share's strongest points is the way the script and the actors capture natural language."
The Angels' Share takes its name form the portion of whisky that is lost to evaporation during the ageing process. The film is cocktail of comedy and heist with a large shot of social realism. In it, four friends who meet while serving a community sentence attempt to liberate some rare and very expensive whisky from an auction at a distillery.
The film opens with each of the four - Robbie (Paul Brannigan), Albert (Gary Maitland), Mo (Jasmin Riggins) and Rhino (William Ruane) - having their sentences handed down in a Glasgow courtroom. Of the four, Robbie is in the worst position. One more brush with the law and he will receive a custodial sentence. He can't escape from his environment or his family's past so prison seems an inevitability. His girlfriend Leonie (Siobhan Reilly) is pregnant so he can't afford to be jailed.
The group's supervisor Harry (John Henshaw) is a whisky buff. After Robbie's son is born Harry pours Robbie a glass and toasts the birth, which starts the four on a road of discovery and then to a theft big enough to change their position in life.
Despite this being a heartwarming comedy, one of its central themes is the way in which poverty traps people. A portion of society is just lost. Low educational attainment, a chaotic childhood, a history of criminality or just the way you speak ensures stunted life chances.
One of The Angels' Share's strongest points is the way the script and the actors capture natural language. It always sounds Glaswegian. It doesn't shy away from the way people actually speak, not just in its use of vocabulary but in the way humour and character come across. As in his previous films, Loach mixes new actors with experienced ones to great effect. The main actors all put in natural and highly believable performances.
In terms of cinematography, nothing in particular jumps out as being amazing. This is in keeping with the character of the film. Inventive cityscapes and stunning landscapes would alter the focus of the story. Glasgow is not as well captured as it could be. If it were then the greenness and openness of the city wouldn't contrast so much with the countryside of Highlands. The film does however hint at Glasgow's odd juxtaposition of affluence and poverty.
One thing that detracts from a highly enjoyable film is that some of the scenes around whisky tasting and distilleries drag a little. The faux Scottishness of kilts and tartans is tedious and touristy. But overall, this is a well crafted film that doesn't need much added to it. No ice - perhaps just a little drop of water.
A group of young offenders doing community service find inspiration in whisky.


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Q: Fragment display issue in tablet container android I am working on a tablet with android version 7.0, I'm having a display issue while clicking on the listview cell of the first fragment (on the left side) to display the information details on the second fragment (on the right side). It takes at least 5 seconds to display. There are many views that are gone. I have been stuck for the last couple of days and I couldn't fix it.

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After a simulation, I can't get Simulation Data or Detailed Statistics reports to appear in Excel.
Please check your simulation settings. On the Sampling tab, do you have Collect Distribution Samples set to None? Or do you have it set to Inputs Marked with Collect, but you haven't actually marked any inputs or collection? Or does your simulation not actually contain any @RISK input distributions?
Under any of those circumstances, an error in @RISK 6.1.2 prevented it from producing certain reports. The problem was fixed in @RISK 6.2.0. If you are eligible, upgrade your @RISK to the current release. If you can't upgrade, you can work around the problem by ensuring that you have at least one input distribution and setting Collect Distribution Samples to All.


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A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
Boyfriends (1996)
Paul, Matt, and Will (in their 30s) have been friends for years. They converge at the seaside for the weekend, each with a boyfriend in tow. Paul is with Ben, his companion of five years: their relationship is on the rocks after months of Paul's moodiness since his brother Mark died. Matt brings Owen, whom he's dated for three months and wants to live with; to everyone else, they seem singularly.
Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002)
Raj has always had a unrequited childhood crush on a friend named Tina, but Tina's best friend Pooja has always had a crush on Raj. When Raj's family move to England to get involved in an internet business, Raj promises Tina that he will keep in touch with her and that their friendship will always be forever. However Tina disregards him and chooses not to respond to his first e-mail, in turn Pooja decides to keep in touch with him but signs under Tina's name. Fifteen years later, and their friendship has blossomed via e-mail, Raj believing that he's getting to know Tina when it's really Pooja. His family decides to go back on a holiday to India for 2 weeks, when Tina discovers the truth about Pooja's e-mails, they decide together that Tina will play along with the charade. When Raj arrives in India, he is struck by Tina's beauty but equally as struck to Pooja's personality. Who will he choose?
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Viva Cuba (2005)
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),
Regular Lovers (2005)
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
Cocktail (2006)
The melancholy Candy runs the Half Mortal, a trendy bar in Hong Kong. She hires Paul; Stella, a part-time employee who's a college student in psychology, trains him. He has a gift for mixing the perfect drink to fit each customer's emotional needs. His own emotions, however, are complex: his father, an alcoholic, has died recently; he's abandoned his studies; and, although he's likes Stella, he's a tyro with women and inarticulate with her. Is alcohol the key to happiness, as Paul wonders; does it simply change peoples' personality, as Stella thinks; or, is it just there, as Candy's business sense tells her? Can Paul and Stella blend into something smooth?
Friends with Kids (2011)
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without significantly curbing their personal freedom. However, when Julie and Jason both become involved with others, they discover that they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other.
Friends with Money (2006)
After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Lea goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien. A classic Rohmer moral tale.
The Favor (1994)
Kathy is married to Peter. Now she can't help but wonder how things could have been if she got together with her old boyfriend, Tom. Being married prevents from doing that so she asks her friend, Emily to go to him and see if she can sleep with him then tell Kathy how it was. When Emily tells Kathy that things were awesome, their friendship suffers, at the same so does Kathy's marriage. Things get even more complicated when Emily learns she's pregnant, and she's not certain if it's Tom's or her boyfriend, Elliot.
Priceless (2006)
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.
Blithe Spirit (1945)
An English mystery novelist invites a medium over for dinner in the hopes of gathering enough material for his latest book, as well as exposing her as a charlatan. However, a series of incidents occur during the course of the evening, which result in a chain of supernatural events being set in motion which wreak havoc on his present marriage.
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)
Mumbai-based Kabir Dhiman, who comes from a wealthy building construction family, proposes to his long-time girlfriend, Natasha, much to the delight of both their respective families. He then gets together with one of two of his close friends, Imran Habib, a writer by profession, and they contact their London-based financial broker friend, Arjun, to remind him of a pact of traveling to Spain. The trio commence their long overdue trip not fully realizing that Arjun has still not forgiven Imran for his break-up with Sunani, while he himself regrets being dumped by Rohini, and must also compete with Imran for the affections of gorgeous Deep Sea Diving Instructor, Laila; Kabir struggles to accept life as Natasha's husband; and Imran must ready himself to meet his biological father, Salman, who had abandoned him at birth.
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)
A group of friends search for fun, love and ultimately themselves in West Hollywood. This movie is an entertaining, and sometimes cynical look into the lives of six gay men trying to come to terms with what being gay and single (or gay and partnered) means to them.
Boys and Girls (2000)
Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.
Love & Friendship (2016)
From Jane Austen's novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.
Life of the Party (2005)
A group of friends plan an intervention to help their pal address his drinking problem. Things go awry when the shrink they hired fails to show up
Nautanki Saala (2013)
RP (Ayushmann Khurrana) is a theatre artist portraying the role of Raavan. One day he witnesses Mandar Lele (Kunal Roy Kapur) attempting suicide attempt. He saves him and the story is about the friendship and the bonding between RP and Mandar and how they face problems and solve them.
One Way Passage (1932)
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? that's what Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) debate during their travels from Chicago to New York. And eleven years and later, they're still no closer to finding the answer. Will these two best friends ever accept that they're meant for each other...or will they continue to deny the attraction that's existed since the first moment When Harry Met Sally?
Friends & Lovers (1999)
Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.
Vijay (1988)
Vijay is a story about various characters that are bound by relationships of love and friendship. How they become foes and take up weapons against each other. When Arjun (Anil Kapoor) and Vicky (Rishi Kapoor) meet, they are oblivious to the fact that they are cousin brothers.
Biriyani (2013)
Sugan (Karthi), depressed after his break up with Priyanka Sharma (Hansika), goes in search for biriyani with his buddy Parasuram (Premgi) after few drinks. But the search takes a big twist and the real journey of Biriyani begins.
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
Traveling Saleslady (1935)
In this comedy, a toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste." The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Niram (1999)
The film is about a special friendship between a boy and girl, Aby (Kunchacko Boban) and Sona (Shalini). Aby and Sona are childhood friends but they have no romance between them. It was too late when they realized their romance.
Just Friends (2005)
While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with -- a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
When notorious womanizer Connor Mead attends his brother Paul's wedding, he is forced to re-evaluate his behavior as he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of girlfriends past, present, and future, along with his deceased uncle. The experience changes his attitude and allows him to reconnect with his first and only love, Jenny.
A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
Red Headed Woman (1932)
Red-Headed Woman is a 1932 Pre-Code comedy film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, based on a novel by Katherine Brush, and with a screenplay by Anita Loos. It was directed by Jack Conway, and stars Jean Harlow as a woman who uses sex to advance her social position. During the course of the film, Harlow breaks up a marriage, has multiple affairs and pre-marital sex, and attempts to kill a man.
This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.
Dysfunctional Friends (2012)
A group of college friends are reunited after the death of their very successful friend. The will dictates that each person will receive a large sum of money if they can all successfully stay in his mansion for a week. If one person leaves, everyone forfeits the money.
Ceremony (2010)
Sam Davis convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker. However, it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with his ex, Zoe, who is now the filmmaker's fiancée, and that his true intention is to thwart their impending nuptials. As Sam's plan begins to unravel, he is forced to realize how complicated love and friendship can be.
Bright Young Things (2003)
in the 1930's a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the "Bright Young Things." are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is well connected but totally broke, is desperately trying to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina. While his attempts to raise cash are constantly thwarted, their friends seem to self-destruct, one-by-one, in an endless search for newer and faster sensations. Finally, when world events out of their control come crashing around them, they are forced to reassess their lives and what they value most.
He Lives By Night (1982)
He Lives By Night is hard to describe. It's a cocktail of plot wackiness including a romance-comedy subplot involving a cute, sultry-voiced overnight deejay and a fat HK police captain, surprisingly stylish Argento-inspired kills, and an obsessed transvestite serial slasher/strangler all smashed into the same 1 hr 26 min window. (IMDB)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she'll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you'll go for someone you love.
Lay the Favorite (2012)
A former stripper's (Rebecca Hall) talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler (Bruce Willis) who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
Girl Friends (1978)
One of the first fictional efforts by former documentary maker Claudia Weill, Girlfriends focuses on a pair of roommates, Susan Weinblatt and Anne Munroe, played by Melanie Mayron and Anita Skinner. Anne gets married, leaving the plump, insecure Susan alone for virtually the first time in her life. A mild flirtation with a rabbi leads to a whole new life for Susan when she becomes a portrait photographer for Jewish weddings and bar mitzvahs. Claudia Weill wrote the (presumed) autobiographical screenplay with Vicki Polon. Filmed in New Jersey, Girlfriends was an expansion of a short subject subsidized by the American Film Institute.
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
This adult comedy follows six characters, three men and three women from a cross-section of social groups, as they play sexual power games. When an affair fires up between 2 of the married characters, it sparks a chain of consequences for all of them, including one of the wives falling for another woman!
Friends is a 2001 Tamil movie starring Vijay, Surya, Ramesh Khanna, Devayani, Abhinyashree, Vijayalakshmi, Sriman and Vadivelu. The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film is a remake of the Malayalam film by the same name with actors Mukesh, Sreenivasan, and Jayaram. This film emerged as a Super hit in Vijay's career.
Take Care of My Cat (2001)
The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer work for a poet with cerebral palsy. Sullen Ji-young lives in poverty with her grandparents and struggles to find work. The girls, close friends in high school, find themselves drifting apart as their adult lives begin to take shape.
Naseeb (1981)
Naseeb, a story of destiny and fate, begins with a lottery ticket. A drunk who cannot pay his restaurant bill trades his recently purchased ticket with a waiter. Naseeb becomes a poignant story about love, friendship, sacrifice, deceit, revenge and above all, destiny.
Mangal Pandey - The Rising (2005)
The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan) is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon (portrayed by Toby Stephens). Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
The Fire That Burns (1997)
Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.
Aarakshan (2011)
A decision by India's supreme court tests a man's friendships and loyalty. Aarakshan is the story of Prabhakar Anand (Amitabh Bachchan), the legendary idealistic principal of a college that he has single-handedly turned into the state's best. It is the story of his loyal disciple, Deepak Kumar (Saif Ali Khan) who will do anything for his Sir. Of Deepak's love for Prabhakar's daughter, Poorbi (Deepika Padukone), of his friendship with Sushant (Prateik). It is the story of their love, their lively friendship, their zest for life, and of their dreams for the future. Centered on one of the most controversial issues of recent years, with the Supreme Court's order on reservations, the story suddenly becomes a rollercoaster ride of high drama, conflict, and rebellion, which tests their love and friendship for one another, and their loyalty to Prabhakar Anand.
The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
Mitr, My Friend (2002)
A lonely and neglected wife seeks e-friendship on the chat room while her rebellious daughter suspects her of having an affair with their neighbor.
In the Shadows (2010)
"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career criminal whose latest job slowly catches up with him.
Pattiyal (2006)
Kosi (Arya) and Selva (Bharath), are contract killers working for a middleman with the ironic name of Sami (Cochin Haneefa). Director Vishnuvardan portrays this morbid telling of two orphaned youths with incredible realism of trust, friendship, and ultimate betrayal masterfully. As the film revolves around young men struggling at life, who bear with confusion and encounter incredible hardships, it is all too unbearably real. Kosi is an unblinking man with a stubborn feel for life thereby refusing to love and be loved. Selva, deaf and dumb, is equally intrepid although he has a heart ticking beneath the dark, dire exterior. Pattiyal is the ultimate tale of friendship, and to what degree that friendship can go till death do them part.
Dosti: Friends Forever (2005)
Karan (Bobby Deol) was wealthy and a mansion was his habitat. Raj (Akshay Kumar) had empty pockets and the sky was his roof. Karan's jet ensured that he could fly if he wanted. Raj could only depend on his two feet. Karan had a family and yet craved love. Raj had love to share, but craved a family. Karan was the eternal Casanova. Raj was the proverbial one-woman man. Karan had it all, and yet felt empty. Raj had nothing, but his heart was full. They were two people as different as can be. Yet they found a common ground. One that led to the glorious road of Friendship! But can they sustain their friendship when new conflicts arise?
Normal Adolescent Behavior (2007)
High school student Wendy has an odd relationship with her five friends: They're openly sexual with each other, swapping partners every week. But this is all thrown into turmoil when she meets Sean, a new student in school who has a crush on her. Wendy wants to be with Sean, but doesn't want to disappoint her friends, whom she has known since grade school. When she does decide to leave them, her best friend, Billie, threatens revenge.
Cluny Brown (1946)
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate..
The 7:39 (2014)
After fighting for a seat on their morning commute, Sally and Carl begin talking and suddenly their daily train journey becomes a lot more interesting. Carl is happily married, Sally's engaged - where's the harm? Yet they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and as their friendship grows to flirtation they refuse to admit - to each other or themselves - that a line might be crossed. The consequences of discovery will be life-changing, catastrophic perhaps, and yet they can't help falling in love.
Shadowlands (1985)
A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
Lord Love a Duck (1966)
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave (Roddy McDowell) relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene played by Tuesday Weld.
Mary and Max (2009)
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. She's Mary Dinkle, the only child of an alcoholic mother and a distracted father. He's Max Horowitz, living alone in New York, overweight, subject to anxiety attacks. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence, interrupted by a stay in an asylum and a few misunderstandings. Mary falls in love with a neighbor, saves money to have a birthmark removed and deals with loss. Max has a friendship with a neighbor, tries to control his weight, and finally gets the dream job. Will the two ever meet face to face?


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the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code §74.001 et seq. Unfortunately the laws were drafted to greatly benefit "health care"; providers, making it extremely difficult for claimants to bring successful claims.
"Health care" means "any act or treatment performed or furnished, or that should have been performed or furnished, by any health care provider for, to, or on behalf of a patient during the patient's medical care, treatment, or confinement." – Texas CPRC §74.001(a)(10)
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