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'The Office' writers credit Apple's first video iPod for boost in popularity with young people
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On Sunday's episode of the CNN special series, History of the Sitcom, two of the top writers and producers of the American version of The Office, Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, talked about the moment they realized their workplace comedy was actually quite popular with younger audiences. And it's all thanks to the big ticket holiday item of 2005.
"I wrote a Christmas episode where Michael had bought Ryan a video iPod, which had just come out," Schur said. "About four days later, Apple announces that it has made content deals with NBC. The first episode back was the highest rated episode because everyone had spent weeks doing nothing but watching The Office on their video iPods."
The electronic device being referenced appeared in season 2 episode 10, "Christmas Party," and it was Apple's iPod Classic 5th Generation, the first model that featured video playback on the internal display. And as actor Rain Wilson pointed out, the network noticed a major difference in who was watching the show compared to who they thought was going to be watching it.
"This was astounding to the people at NBC," Wilson said. "These are high school and college kids watching the show in droves. And they've never set foot in an office."
The trend of young adults enjoying The Office is now continuing thanks to the streaming age. But whether it's on an iPod or on Peacock, as Daniels articulated, at the end of the day it's really just about some good ol' relatable humor.
"Eventually I realized, 'okay well this is because this is their experience in school,'" Daniels said. "They're put at a desk next to another kid who they may or may not like. That must be what they're identifying with."
The forces behind the hit show also talked about what changed after the first season was not well received by critics. They decided to stop trying to follow the British version of the show so closely, which ran from 2001-2003 and was created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and began to write all of their own stories.
"I was like, 'I want Michael to be very optimistic. His intentions had to be good even when he was doing terrible things,'" Daniels said. And Wilson later added, "The American show is just less cynical."
History of the Sitcom currently airs on Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. on CNN.
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Kieran Lugsden is back at Glossop North End and has immediately made his mark.
The former Northwich Victoria and Altrincham player scored on his debut, netting the winning goal at Squires Gate last week.
Manager Chris Willcock said: "Kieran's a great acquisition. As soon as I heard that Buxton had made him available for loan I went for him because you can't afford to turn down a player of his ability.
"He's a proven scorer who's been very effective at Evo-stik level.
Lugsden has joined a Surrey Street set-up which has found its feet after an inconsistent start to the season.
The squad, which features defender Kelvin Lugsden, Kieran's twin brother, is unbeaten in six league games and has reached the quarter-finals of the Derbyshire Senior Cup, beating NPL Premier Division club Matlock last week.
However Willcock, who is keen to see this momentum continue, is unhappy that Glossop face fewer games over the Christmas period than the clubs at higher levels.
After Saturday, they play on Boxing Day and then do not return to action until Saturday, January 4.
He commented: "It's not an ideal situation. I'll have to make sure we keep the players on their toes and that they don't switch off, so they won't be having too much turkey or mulled wine.
"We'll have to keep to our best and hope that our consistency lasts into the new year.
"Our consistency has brought greater confidence and belief.
"Everybody is playing extremely well and off the back of that, our results have improved.
Glossop have been drawn away to Shirebrook Town in the last eight of the Derbyshire Senior Cup.
Willcock describes the Northern Counties East league first division club as very strong and in a false position in the table.


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SEATTLE — As the city of Seattle debates asking businesses for millions more to fund homeless initiatives, it is quietly moving to open a homeless encampment in South Lake Union and, neighbors in North Seattle say, another encampment on the site previously intended for a new North Precinct police station. And despite receiving several emails from KIRO 7 over two weeks, the city of Seattle has repeatedly refused to answer questions about the planned encampments.
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Melinda Jacobson and her neighbors gathered at the North Seattle site on Aurora Avenue and N.128th Street. She said she was informed of the upcoming encampment not through official city outreach, but through a tip from a city employee.
"What did you think?" KIRO 7 reporter Linzi Sheldon asked.
"I was dumbfounded," Melinda Jacobson said. "Supposedly alcohol's allowed. Drugs will be allowed. But it has to be people who are seeking treatment."
Signs are still posted at the site, declaring the new $149 million police precinct that was eventually blocked by opponents in 2016.
"It's not transparent whatsoever. You have to spend tons of time to dig and dig and dig for this information," she said. "There's not accountability and that is what's really bothering us citizens."
KIRO 7 confirmed another resident did get an official outreach call from the city about the encampment. And Mary's Place, which is next door and provides shelter to kids and their families, was also informed.
That proximity stunned Jodene Smedvig, who taught in Seattle Public schools for 38 years and worries about the use of drugs and alcohol at the site.
"I've had homeless kids come through my classes," she said. "I just can't have that for kids that are already at a disadvantage to other kids."
KIRO 7 has been investigating these plans since April 27, when reporter Linzi Sheldon emailed the city's Human Services about them specifically.
Spokesperson Meg Olberding responded via email, "The City hadn't formally announced any other encampment opening beyond the Whittier Heights women's village."
KIRO 7 asked for a specific answer about encampment plans in North Seattle and South Lake Union.
Olberding wrote, "a report is due to the Council at the end of May that will lay out the City's next steps."
So KIRO 7 asked again, "Is the city or is the city NOT reaching to residents about potential future encampments in South Lake Union and at the site on Aurora Avenue previously intended for the new North Precinct police station?"
Again, the city refused to provide a straight answer, saying instead the mayor will "have more to announce at the end of the month with her report on the Bridge to Housing for All."
KIRO 7 also asked about what kind of behavior would be allowed at the sites. Olberding did not answer that question either, and an email directly to the mayor's office also went unanswered.
Despite the city's lack of transparency, business leaders confirmed that a homeless encampment is slated for South Lake Union as well, a block from the water and Lake Union Park. The site, at Eighth Avenue and Aloha Street, is currently occupied by a Diamond parking lot.
"We all agree that a tiny village is not permanent housing," Kyle Ducey, president of the South Lake Union Community Council, told KIRO Radio by phone. "And to get them into a permanent housing situation is the best for those people who are experiencing homelessness and for the community where, that'll be affected by the tiny village."
But when asked if South Lake Union was the right place for this kind of temporary housing, he said, "I'm not sure that I'm prepared to comment on that right now. I think the entire city is experiencing a pretty immense homelessness issue."
One business leader in South Lake Union told KIRO 7 off-camera that they were displeased with the location and feared that Lake Union Park and the surrounding area would become home to drug deals and more crime.
Kitt Bender, who's lived just a few blocks away from the planned site for almost four years, said he isn't sure how he feels about the idea.
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Healing Herbs Wins European Court Case
The names 'Bach' and 'Bach Flower Remedies' remain generic.
Julian Barnard of Healing Herbs has been actively objecting to Nelsons' trade marking of the name 'Bach Flower Remedies' and 'Bach' for nearly 20 years. Healing Herbs has successfully challenged the trade marks throughout the U.K. courts right up to the House of Lords, and has now successfully challenged Nelsons E.U. trademarks in the European courts as well.
Congratulations to Julian Barnard and Healing Herbs!
Here are the details of the case as supplied by Julian:-
Community Trade Mark Office finds Nelson's 'Bach' and 'Bach Flower Remedies' Registrations INVALID
We are very pleased to announce that on 11 September 2008, the OHIM (the European Community Office for the registration of Community Trade Marks) decided that the words 'Bach' and 'Bach Flower Remedies' are generic, that Nelson's Community Trade Marks were invalid and awarded costs in our favour (Euro 1,150).
In 2000, Healing Herbs won the last round of appeal, in the House of Lords, confirming the decision at trial and in the Court of Appeal: that the UK trade mark registrations Nelsons/Bach Flower Remedies Ltd had obtained for BACH/BACH FLOWER REMEDIES were invalid because they were descriptive or generic terms.
Nevertheless, Nelsons/Bach Flower Remedies Ltd thought they knew better. To circumvent the UK Courts' decisions in 2003 they applied for and obtained Community trade mark registrations for the very same words.
Healing Herbs Ltd could not oppose their applications then since we had no similar trade marks ourselves.
Of course, Healing Herbs' position has always been clear – we say that the words are generic and no-one can claim exclusive rights over them.
What Healing Herbs could do, immediately 'Bach' and 'Bach Flower Remedies' were registered as Community Trade Marks was to apply to have these registrations cancelled. This we did.
The OHIM, in a very clear decision, has now made a number of telling findings, including:
Healing Herbs had filed "abundant evidence" to show the terms were generic
Both the specialised public and the general public considers the terms descriptive and generic
Nelsons/BFRL failed to prove that the terms had acquired distinctive character when they filed their applications
Showing large sales and advertising expenditure was not good enough
"Had Nelsons/BFRL managed to maintain their invalid registrations, undoubtedly they would have used them against the many people across the European Union, who use the terms Bach and Bach Flower Remedies to describe their own or other people's flower remedies made in accordance with the original directions of the late Dr Edward Bach, by threatening them, again, with legal proceedings.
We are very pleased that our proceedings have been successful; justice has again been done.
Nelsons/ BFRL have two months in which to file an appeal. In view of the very clear decision, to do so would be extremely perverse." Julian Barnard
You can read the the European Community Office for the registration of Community Trade Marks decision in full here.


MultiCharts 12.0 Release 6 builds 18021 (x32) / 18022 (x64) is out now!
watchlist realtime not function see gif .
do I have to uninstall and reinstall the r5 or do I have to do some backups?
There is a lot of "Interactive Bokers TWS warning message: Max number of tick-by-tick requests has been reached." after install Release 6.
I also have the same issue that Watchlist's DateTime stop updating while chart is still moving.
fibdax, wzero, we are checking it.
CrazyNasdaq wrote: Yesterday I've installed R6 and during the morning 2 times all my quotes on DAX futures stopped to work and update creating a delay of about 1 hour (I use CQG datafeed ). I've uninstalled release 6 and reinstalled R5 and all started to work well as usual.
CrazyNasdaq, we were unable to replicate it with CQG data feed on our end, but we will continue testing it.
wzero wrote: There is a lot of "Interactive Bokers TWS warning message: Max number of tick-by-tick requests has been reached." after install Release 6. I also have the same issue that Watchlist's DateTime stop updating while chart is still moving.
fibdax wrote: watchlist realtime not function see gif .
wzero, fibdax, please update to the latest build of he platform.
We are removing MultiCharts 12 Release 6 from the website until the IB realtime data issue receives a solution. We apologize for the inconvenience.
I'm trying to remove R6 and the installer won't take me to the remove menu- gets stuck and says "install package could not be opened". (I tried twice-even re-booted before the second attempt).
Can I remove R6 with the windows uninstaller instead of re-running the MC6 install program?
sptrader wrote: Can I remove R6 with the windows uninstaller instead of re-running the MC6 install program?
sptrader, this is the same procedure using the same file. If you still have the issue you can come to the live chat for the assistance, or wait for the updated installer that is coming in a few days.
The program runs fine for what I need right now, so I'll just wait for the new installer.
if I try to run the R6 installer program again, it locks up and can't continue.
The updated MultiCharts 12.0 Release 6 (builds 18021 (x32) / 18022 (x64)) is out now.
The "Watchlist stop updating" issue is still there for the updated donwload.
With MC 12 R5 this behaviour happends hardly ever.
wzero wrote: The "Watchlist stop updating" issue is still there for the updated donwload.
wzero, we are working on a fix for it.
fibdax, you need to make sure you have the proper DLL for the version you are running.
32bit DLL will work with MC 32bit only. 64bit dll is compatible only with MC 64bit.
If the file path is not explicitly specified in the study code then MultiCharts searches in its installation folder, then in the PATH environmental variable (Control Panel->System->Advanced System Settings->Environment Variables->User Variables).
If you still have the issue - you need to check the DLL dependencies, for example using Dependency Walker.
Most likely you do not have something required for your DLL present on the PC where you have the issue.
I think the problem is the 32 bit dll. Too bad I wanted to speed up the append.
The updated MultiCharts 12.0 Release 6 (builds 18037 (x32) / 18038 (x64)) is out now.
Henry MultiСharts wrote: In QuoteManager Window go to Tools->Data sources->IB->Settings, enable the option "Use legacy interface for tick by tick data".
This means you are running a newer build in which this feature has been removed. Make sure you've updated to version 12.0 Release 6 (builds 18037 (x32) / 18038 (x64)).
That mean we don't have new tick/tick IB feature for the moment ?
I am using MC 12 with Rithmic R|API+.
With both versions of MC12 R6 I have experienced total freezes of MC on three different machines with all MC windows/charts going to pale white. The freezes appeared out of the sudden after some time connected to Rithmic. After rebooting and starting again MC12 R6 there was no crash report to be sent. Rolling back to MC 12 R5 everything is back to normal and stable.
Days back to running MC 12R1, it's hang, high CPU usage opening wsp, and wire indicators display...etc.
a little problem however, where can I find "as default" check box in the Format Window when I wanna disable "show session breaks" as default?
Even simple indicators to write values into a txt-file every minute fail after Multicharts upgrade from build 17586 to 18022 and 18038. They wrote the values in an unpredictable frequency after the upgrade. I'm defining kernel32.dll in the scripts. Thought a full recompile of all the scripts would help, which was not the case. After reverting to build 17586 back again, all went well again and runs fine since.
Smoky wrote: That mean we don't have new tick/tick IB feature for the moment ?
This feature has been postponed until MultiCharts 13 as we need to spend more time on it.
Chartsurfer wrote: I am using MC 12 with Rithmic R|API+.With both versions of MC12 R6 I have experienced total freezes of MC on three different machines with all MC windows/charts going to pale white. The freezes appeared out of the sudden after some time connected to Rithmic. After rebooting and starting again MC12 R6 there was no crash report to be sent. Rolling back to MC 12 R5 everything is back to normal and stable.
Go to Windows Start menu->All programs->MultiCharts64->Feedback.
bucks wrote: a little problem however, where can I find "as default" check box in the Format Window when I wanna disable "show session breaks" as default?
bucks, it is still there under Format Window->Background tab. Are you missing it at the bottom of this window? Are you using increased DPI settings in your OS?
piranhaxp, please email to support the workspace and study for replicating this behavior on our end.
With the latest version of MC12 R6 no problems yet.
FileDelete seems to be broken in R6. I am writing out csv files and my code deletes the old file before writing the new one. The end result is the new data is being appended to the old data.
This is a deal breaker for me. I only upgraded yesterday but I am rolling back.
Edit: Rolled back and everything is working again.
3 times yesterday after updates my CQG disconnected had to close platform and reopen during a trade.
hughesfleming wrote: FileDelete seems to be broken in R6. I am writing out csv files and my code deletes the old file before writing the new one. The end result is the new data is being appended to the old data. This is a deal breaker for me. I only upgraded yesterday but I am rolling back.
This issue has been confirmed and will be fixed in the next update. It happens if you have not yet added any lines to this file since the last platform restart. If you did so within the current application session - FileDelete works as expected.
I discovered that the frozen chart / data issue usually occurs when MC is started before the market opens. Can anyone try this? It happened to me last week with build 18038. The frozen chart / data issue seems to be a general issue, regardless of the broker. My broker is GAIN Capital. This is a serious issue.
h4nk wrote: I discovered that the frozen chart / data issue usually occurs when MC is started before the market opens. Can anyone try this? It happened to me last week with build 18038. The frozen chart / data issue seems to be a general issue, regardless of the broker. My broker is GAIN Capital. This is a serious issue.


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Q: Gradient Descent and the No-Free-Lunch Theorem I'm doing a presentation on the No-Free-Lunch theorem, since I've found that the best way to learn about a topic is to try and teach it...In order to get an idea what I'm talking about, I started reading the Wolpert & Macready Paper.
In this paper, they define a trace of length $m$ as the sequence of $(x_i,y_i)$ pairs where $x_i\in X$ is some setting of your model parameters $y_i\in Y$ is some value dictating how desirable $x_i$ is according to some objective function $f$.
They then describe a "black-box search algorithm" as a function which maps traces to $X$ (yielding the next set of parameters to try.)
Since their description of a "black-box search algorithm" is strictly a function of a trace, is gradient-descent considered a black-box search algorithm? Isn't it cheating to look at the gradient? Aren't you making your algorithm a function of the objective function as well in that case?

A: No, gradient descent is not a black-box algorithm.
In optimization there are several well-studied classes of problems, in particular one way to group problems into classes is by the order of an oracle. In particular, if you are only given the value of the function $y = f(x)$ at the point $x$, then the oracle is said to be a 0-th order one. If you also have function's gradient $\nabla f(x)$, then the oracle is called a 1-st order one. And so on, there're methods that use function's Hessian, and effectively use 2nd order oracle. If some method requires access to a n-th order oracle, the method itself is said to be n-th order.
A black-box optimization algorithm would be a 0-th order one, as it uses no extra information besides the function's value. Gradient Descent assumes the existence and access of the gradient, so you know that the function is at least differentiable, and thus is not a "black box".
Finally, optimization people have proven many results of optimization hardness for different oracles, see Introductory Lectures on Convex Optimization by Yurii Nesterov for detailed exposition.

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The LG G7 ThinQ is the epitome of all things 2018 in smartphone design. It has a glass back, dual cameras, and a display notch that isn't done particularly well.
LG calls this design a "Boombox Speaker," employing terminology that many of today's smartphone buyers may never have used.


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#include "bistro/bistro/worker/test/FakeBistroWorkerThread.h"

using namespace std;

namespace facebook { namespace bistro {

void FakeBistroWorker::async_tm_runTask(
  unique_ptr<apache::thrift::HandlerCallback<void>> cb,
  const cpp2::RunningTask& rt,
  const string& config,
  const std::vector<std::string>& command,
  const cpp2::BistroInstanceID& scheduler,
  const cpp2::BistroInstanceID& worker,
  int64_t notify_if_tasks_not_running_sequence_num) {

  cb->done();
}

void FakeBistroWorker::async_tm_getRunningTasks(
  std::unique_ptr<apache::thrift::HandlerCallback<
    std::vector<cpp2::RunningTask>>> cb,
  const cpp2::BistroInstanceID& worker) {

  std::vector<cpp2::RunningTask> tasks;
  cb->result(tasks);
}

cpp2::BistroWorker FakeBistroWorkerThread::getBistroWorker() {
  cpp2::BistroWorker worker;
  worker.shard = shard_;
  auto name = getLocalHostName();
  int port = ssit_.getPort();
  worker.machineLock.hostname = name;
  worker.machineLock.port = port;
  worker.addr.ip_or_host = ssit_.getAddress().getAddressStr();
  worker.addr.port = port;
  return worker;
}

}}

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Mr John Scullen1, Elleina Filippi
1Australian Access Federation, Brisbane, Australia, john.scullen@aaf.edu.au
For the past nine years, Australian researchers have seamlessly accessed hundreds of eResearch capabilities connected via the Australian Access Federation (AAF). The AAF continues to enhance identity and access solutions that underpin research applications. These enhanced solutions lead to greater uptake and accessibility of research services, data, and facilities.
This presentation will explore three key initiatives that will expand the access and authentication options available to Australian researchers:
Enhanced International Connectivity through eduGAIN
eduGAIN[1] is a global initiative to connect federations around the world. It enables researchers, educators, and students in one country to collaborate with colleagues and securely access applications in other countries. By participating in eduGAIN, the AAF is able to provide Australian researchers with global collaboration opportunities to advance their research. eduGAIN also enables international collaboration partners to access Australia's NCRIS capabilities (via participating international federations).
The significant effort to connect the AAF to eduGAIN in 2017 is beginning to yield positive outcomes. Connecting the Murchison Widefield Array telescope to eduGAIN has simplified access to astronomical data from the southern hemisphere for a global team of researchers.
Australia's eduGAIN connection is helping to accelerate innovation by enabling experts to conduct cross-border collaboration around shared data sets.
Simplified AAF ConNectivity with Rapid Identity Provider
Rapid Identity Provider (IdP) is a new SaaS platform that lowers technical barriers, simplifies connectivity to the AAF and takes away most of the maintenance commitment that comes with running your own identity provider. If your organisation isn't already connected, Rapid IdP provides the fastest and easiest way to connect to hundreds of research applications around Australia and around the world.
Discover how Rapid IdP overcomes the challenges of running an on-premise identity provider and releases identity management teams to focus their expertise on helping researchers tackle bigger challenges.
Added flexibility via OpenID Connect
OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an emergent specification in the identity space which provides a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 authorisation framework.
OIDC is an attractive option for developers (in particular the NCRIS capabilities) as it is applicable for multiple application environments (including mobile) and integrates directly into application code. Adoption of OIDC by large commercial players such as Google and Microsoft is driving widespread usage.
Find out about the OIDC proxy service and how it creates new possibilities for the Australian research community.
[1] edugain.org
John joined AAF in February 2016 to lead the development of new processes and tools in the Next Generation AAF project. His role has since expanded to oversee the AAF's project portfolio and managed service offerings.
With 25 years' experience in the higher education sector, John has a strong track record of successfully delivering large, complex projects and in developing innovative approaches technology solutions.
DevOps in eResearch
Research Software Engineering, Workshop - Half Day
Mr Sven Dowideit1
1CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
# DevOp learnings
This workshop contains short talks, and discussion on specific tools, techniques, and experiences delivering tools and services to users.
There will be 6 themes, allowing about 30mins for some short talks/demos, and then group discussion:
Continuous integration and delivery
Monitoring, alerting, and logging
Containerization, orchestration, kubernetes, CaaS systems
Keeping your research service running for the next 10 years
Anyone that uses a computer to do research related work – predominantly on Linux systems.
Laptops are useful, but not compulsory
Sven Dowideit is doing DevSecOps in O&A CSIRO, and previously spent 5 years working in the application container startup space, having lead both the Boot2Docker project and the RancherOS container Linux project.
Workshop for RSEs: Recognition and Career Development for Researchers who Code
Research Software Engineering, Workshop - Full Day
Mr Rowland Mosbergen1, Mr Nicholas May2, Dr Georgina Rae3, Dr Manodeep Sinha4,5, Dr Lance Wilson6, Dr Steven Manos7
1ARDC, Parkville, Australia, rowland.mosbergen@nectar.org.au
2RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, nicholas.may@rmit.edu.au
3NeSI, Auckland, New Zealand, georgina.rae@nesi.org.nz
4Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, msinha@swin.edu.au
5ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D)
6Monash eResearch Centre, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, lance.wilson@monash.edu
7University of Melbourne, smanos@unimelb.edu.au
Workshop Length: 1 day
Hands-on component: No technical hands-on components
Attendees: All welcome.
This workshop will bring together people who identify as Research Software Engineers (RSE), as well as leaders, policy makers and academics who are keen to see this community grow and be recognised. This one day workshop is the first time a community gathering will take place. The ambition is to build recognition and better define career opportunities for RSEs.
The term RSE was originally coined by the UK RSE association (rse.ac.uk), who say the following about RSEs: "A growing number of people in academia combine expertise in programming with an intricate understanding of research. Although this combination of skills is extremely valuable, these people lack a formal place in the academic system." In Australia, the term RSE includes academics/researchers who code but are lacking recognition and metrics needed to progress their academic career; professional software engineers working in the research space; and system administrators who maintain research systems.
Inspired by the success of the RSE Association in the UK, we are seeking to establish an Australasian Chapter of the RSE Association. Together with international bodies and support from our national organisations such as AeRO, NeSI, CAUDIT, ARDC, and research institutions, we aim to campaign for the recognition and adoption of the RSE role within academia, alongside the need for appropriate recognition, reward and career opportunities. We plan to organise regular events to allow RSEs to meet, exchange knowledge and collaborate.
We ran an initial Expression of Interest survey in 2017 among Australian and New Zealand researchers and found that majority of the respondents prioritised: (1) Increasing recognition of the RSE role, (2) Building more appropriate, consistent and representative position descriptions and KPIs, and (3) Developing a stronger community through regular collaborative events and gatherings.
Please join us on this event to actively work on how we can grow this community and advocate for others. Together, we can build a sustainable community that supports RSEs, that ultimately advances our reputation in data-intensive research, and contributes to more efficient and reproducible computational research.
WORKSHOP OUTLINE
Introduction and background on RSE landscape, including meetings held, institutional review.
Introductions and Lightning Talks from delegates
Practical solution brainstorming breakout session, including current sustainable career stories
Virtual meeting time to connect with other RSEs nationally to assign champions/steering committee members
Virtual breakout to organise into smaller teams to start planning implementation strategies
Write up details of the day and close
This workshop is for building a community for academics/researchers who create and maintain research software, but are lacking recognition and metrics needed to progress their academic career. Professional software engineers working in the research space, research support team members that work closely with researchers, system administrators who maintain research systems; academics who rely on such expertise; eResearch leaders and policy makers.
Attendees need to bring enthusiasm and a willingness to volunteer their thoughts and their time. A lightning talk to introduce attendees and their tools for research.
Rowland is the Manager of Community Platforms at the ARDC. He has 20 years experience in IT along with 8 years experience in research computing.
Collaborative Research in Practice – a roadmap to using Git and Docker
Convener: Rebecca Lange
Presenters: Dr Rebecca Lange1, Mark Gray2, Brian Skjerven2
1Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, rebecca.lange@curtin.edu.au
2Pawsey Supercomputing Center, Perth, Australia, mark.gray@pawsey.org.au
3Pawsey Supercomputing Center, Perth, Australia, brian.skjerven@pawsey.org.au
Hands-on component: Yes, we are aiming for half of the workshop being hands-on
Attendees: less than 40
The Internet has made it easy for researchers to collaborate across universities using tools such as emails, instant messaging and videoconferencing. However, these tools do not encourage transparency and reproducibility of research. For example, what would happen if you forget to put someone on your email chain and how do you reconcile different code snippets that various team members have worked on?
In this workshop we will first have a look at the modern scientific landscape in which code plays an increasingly important role in obtaining and reproducing research results.
We then move on to a hands-on introduction to version control (with Git and GitHub) and "containerising" with Docker. Finally, we will conclude the workshop with a session on using version control and Docker in practice for a collaborative and migrateable workflow.
1. Welcome, introductions and workshop outline.
The Importance of software in research and academia. 30 minutes
2. Introduction to version control with Git and Github – Part I. 60 minutes
What is version control
Setting up git
Creating your first repository
3. Break – 30 minutes
4. Introduction to version control with Git and Github – Part II. 90 minutes
Tracking changes
Exploring the repo history
Remote repositories on Github
5. Lunch Break – 60 minutes
6. Introduction to containers using Docker and Dockerhub. 60 minutes
What is Docker
Creating a Docker container
Running a Docker container
Containers on Dockerhub
8. A collaborative (software/coding) workflow in practice. 120 minutes
Working collaboratively on Github
Managing containers and dockerfiles with Git
Managing your workflows using containers
Where to next? Pointers to further reading and learning
This workshop is aimed at academics/researchers who regularly write and/or work with software, and research support staff who would like to know more abut useful tools for code and workflow management. We will cover:
how to track changes,
how to make sharing of code and software easier, and
how to manage issue tracking and workflows in a collaborative software development environment.
Attendees will need to bring their own laptop with some software pre-installed.
It would be beneficial if participants have used a bash terminal (or similar) before.
We will provide information on what to install and how to install closer to the time.
Rebecca Lange received her PhD in astronomy from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research at the University of Western Australia.
Before Rebecca moved to Australia she studied Astronomy and Physics at Nottingham Trent University where she also worked as a research assistant in scientific imaging for art conservation and archaeology. Her work there included the development and testing of instruments and software for imaging and spectroscopy as well as the organisation and supervision of field trips, which often required liaising with art curators and conservators.
Throughout her studies and research Rebecca has gained extensive programming as well as data analytics and visualisation experience in various programming languages.
Currently she is working as a data scientist for the Curtin Institute for Computation where she helps researchers by providing data analytics and computational support and training.
From biodiversity to infrastructure: lessons learned repurposing the Atlas of Living Australia technology stack for climate risk decision making
Mr Paul Box1, Jonathan Yu2, Andrew Freebairn3, Ashley Sommers4, Peter Brenton5, Mark Stafford Smith3, Russ Wise3, Rachel Williams3
1Csiro, Sydney, Australia,
2CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia,
3CSIRO, Canberra, Australia,
4CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia,
5Atlas of Living Australia, Canberra, Australia
Governments, communities and the private sector face rising costs from natural disasters and climate change. Population growth coupled with the effects of climate change creates systemic risks affecting community health and wellbeing, the resilience of the Australian economy and government service delivery. A significant proportion of the social and financial costs of these risks flows back to the Commonwealth, in growing levels of disaster relief and as the 'insurer of last resort", but also by compromising areas of policy outcomes which undermines the public's trust in Government, and ultimately through reduced tax revenues due to declines in national economic productivity and sector competitiveness. There is a wealth of data and information available on the current and future climate, natural hazards, and on ways to adapt to climate change. Decision makers, however, have said that this information is either not accessible, discoverable, or useable for decision-making or if it is they find it difficult to know which information is authoritative and trustworthy and which information to use when. Furthermore, there is currently little guidance on how to bring climate risk into existing business processes such as cost benefit analysis for infrastructure investment.
THE CLIMATE RISK INFORMATION AND SERVICES PLATFORM
To address these challenges, CSIRO was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Energy (DoEE) to develop a prototype Climate Risk Information and Services Platform (CRISP). CRISP is intended to provide a trusted and sustainable mechanism to enable access to authoritative information, and guidance to facilitate planning and decision-making for a more climate-resilient Australia [1]. By providing best available information about climate risks, coupled with leading practice assessment processes, CRISP aims to influence and support key areas of Commonwealth decision-making to improve the nation's resilience to climate risk.
A user-centered design approach applying the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) Digital Service Standard was adopted. Two main suites of functions were identified through user engagement: a spatial data discovery and exploration tool to enable discovery and exploration of available spatial information and a configurable workflow specification tool enabling risk assessors and managers to work with climate adaptation scientists to develop climate risk decision making workflows that align with and can support or improve existing business processes. The primary motivating use case for CRISP identified through user design was enabling climate risk to be incorporated into physical infrastructure investment decision-making.
The project approach was informed by previous work in the climate adaptation community (including the CSIRO's National Climate Adaptation Flagship, the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, and others) that identified the proliferation of unsupported data and process tools as creating confusion for potential user communities [2]. Therefore, despite being an alpha prototype the project team was keen to ensure that the prototype, if possible, was built in a way that meant it could be scaled up to an operational system that could be sustained and supported long term rather than being a 'throw away' proof of concept.
The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA or Atlas) is an e-infrastructure that is funded by the Australian Government via its National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It comprises a centralised web-based infrastructure to capture, aggregate, manage, discover and analyse biodiversity data and associated information, through a suite of tools and spatial layers for use by research, industry, government and the community. It is an open source technology stack with micro-services component architecture.
Based on identified user requirements, the Atlas of Living Australia was identified as a platform that provided much of the functionality required for CRISP and could be re-purposed for use in the CRISP project. Of particular interest was the data collection platform, BioCollect, which provides flexible and configurable project-centric forms-based capability to support user defined field data collection surveys. This tool also has a structure which can readily support extensible workflow requirements.
THE AGILE JOURNEY
An agile software development approach was used to develop the alpha prototype in the first phase of the project. An instance of BioCollect was deployed with identified subset of micro services "dockerised" for deployment.
Climate risk workflows were rapidly prototyped in power-point, tested with users and used as specifications for workflow configuration. However, the BioCollect information model underpinning the surveys, in it's present form, proved to be insufficient to meet the needs of complex climate risk decision making workflows. In addition, there was a high transaction cost ('repurposing technical debt') in customizing BioCollect user interfaces in a rapid proof of concept, alpha prototype.
Consequently it was decided that a separate User Interface (UI)I in Java and HTML and underlying workflow persistence layer using MongoDB would be developed. These would be treated as high fidelity prototypes that would be tested with users and used to inform customization and extension of the BioCollect codebase in the next phase of the project – the beta prototype.
From this process there are a number of lessons that can be learned about how to: build and maximize potential for platforms reuse and repurposing; assess platforms for reuse; estimate potential hidden transaction costs (repurposing technical debt); manage risks through rapid prototyping and identifying key decision points along the development pathway described above.
This presentation will describe this journey in more detail, articulate some key lessons learned and implications for reuse and repurposing of eResearch infrastructure to maximize return on investment.
1 Australian Government, National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy 2015. 2015, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
2 Webb, R. & Beh, J., Leading adaptation practices and support strategies for Australia: An international and Australian review of products and tools, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, 105 pp.
Paul works for CSIRO Land and Water and leads research into the social, institutions and economic dimension of public information infrastructure (or systems of systems). He is developing an inter-disciplinary 'social architecture' approach to understanding and designing conducive environments for infrastructure development.
This approaches are being applied in the environmental and other domains to enable efficient data supply and digital transformation.
Paul has a background in geospatial informatics and has been involved in the research, design and implementation of geospatial information infrastructure at global and national scales for the past 15 years. Prior to joining CSIRO, Paul worked for nearly two decades in Asia and Africa for the UN and government, designing, implementing and managing geospatial capabilities to support sustainable development and humanitarian response.
Deployment Pipelines in eResearch: challenges and successes
Mr Nick Rossow1, Heidi Perrett2, Mr Jan Hettenhausen3
1Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
In the current research environment application development has become a critical element in research workflows. Many countries like Australia are investing heavily in not only hardware infrastructure but also the application platforms required to undertake research. Similarly, within institutions as research teams become large and data flows increase the need for software applications is increasing with the requisite level of software engineering practices.
Software Engineering practises have undergone a significant evolution over time with Agile methodologies currently being the dominant approach in many industries, including eResearch. One of the newer models under the umbrella of Agile approaches is continuous delivery, in which software is developed with the idea of being releasable at any time. In order to achieve this, continuous delivery heavily relies on automating testing and building and deploying the code in a pipeline-style process. Some of the benefits, in particular in the context of developing applications in close collaboration with researchers, are that projects can evolve more quickly whilst maintaining a high-quality standard of the product. These benefits also persist after the product is handed over to support as the automation provides a mechanism for confidence in software and hardware updates and patches.
At Griffith University, eResearch Services provide specialist IT support for researchers across all Griffith Schools and Research Centres. Our activities are split between software development for niche research needs, providing services such as high performance computing, hosting and maintaining broadly applicable software applications such as research storage and data collection tools, alongside programming workshops and media productions for research projects.
By implementing a continuous deployment pipeline our goal was to be able to quickly and efficiently deploy new applications, patches to existing applications and be able to quickly scale resources available to the project team. It was our experience that the technical debt required to add an additional developer resource to the project far outweighed any possible benefit this would achieve in a reasonable timeframe. By implementing a Continuous Delivery model, we have been able to successfully add a new developer to a project and have productive input in a matter of hours instead of days.
In our presentation, we will discuss the challenges and successes we faced over the past 18 months as we moved towards a Continuous Delivery model for the way we delivered the development of solutions for niche research needs. To highlight some of the challenges and successes we will look at the past 18 months from 3 distinct vantage points; that of the Project Manager, the Developer and that of the Technical Lead. We will talk about the main drivers for our desire to change and delve into some of the key benefits we have already seen and expect to see in the near future.
This presentation will be of interest to anyone that has an interest in improving internal processes, or those that are involved in the development process; from end users to project managers and developers.
Nick Rossow is the acting manager of the Consultancy and Development eResearch group at Griffith University. Nick has worked at Griffith University for 11 years and in the eResearch team for the last 7 years with substantial contributions to research projects in various sectors of Research such as Health, Criminology, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Recently Nick has taken on the challenges of management of the eResearch Consultancy and Development team being involved in all areas of research projects and governance.
Describe, Manage and Discover Research Software
Jens Klump1, Sue Cook2, Ryan Fraser3, David Lescinsky4, Mingfang Wu5, Lesley Wyborn6
1 CSIRO, Perth, Australia, jens.klump@csiro.au
2 CSIRO, Perth, Australia, Sue.Cook@csiro.au
3 CSIRO, Perth, Australia, ryan.fraser@csiro.au
4 Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia, David.Lescinsky@ga.gov.au
5 ANDS, Melbourne Australia, mingfang.wu@ands.org.au
6 NCI, Canberra, Australia, lesley.wyborn@anu.edu.au
Software plays a critical role in data driven research, where software is developed for cleaning, processing, analysing, and visualising data. Software developed and used as part of the research cycle has been increasingly recognised as an important component for research reproducibility. Thus, it should be treated in the same way as other research inputs and outputs that are part of the record of science such as research data and paper publications. However, there hasn't been an established a process in scholarly communication for properly managing and publishing software for better discovery, reusability and reproducibility.
Many funding agencies and communities recognize the import role that software plays in the research lifecycle. For example: the Force 11 Software Citation Group has developed and publicised six software citation principles [1], namely: importance, credit and attribution, unique identification, persistence, accessibility and specificity (versioning). A new Force11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group [2] has formed and commenced on the implementation of the principles. In a recent Software Source Code BoF at the 9th Research Data Alliance Plenary, there were constructive discussions on archival, discoverability and reproducibility of software source code [3]. However, more discussion on implementation issues such as both human and machine readable description, systematic unique identification, and licence etc. for software are needed to build a community consensus on these issues.
This 60-minute BoF will provide an overview of activities and challenges managing and describing software, followed by three presentations on current issues, practices and experience in managing and describing software. The presentations will be followed by a group discussion on barriers people are facing in managing and describing software, the outcome from this discussion may be actions for various software interest or working groups, including an Australian software citation IG [4].
The proposed outline is as follows:
Introduction to the session
Three short presentations by Sue Cook, David Lescinsky, and Ryan Fraser on current issues, practices and experience in managing and describing software for the purpose of discovering and reusing software
Group discussion: barriers in managing and describing software
Next steps and wrap up with actions
Smith A. M., Katz D. S., Niemeyer K. E., FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group. (2016) Software Citation Principles. PeerJ Computer Science 2:e86. DOI:10.7717/peerj-cs.86.
Force 11 Software Citation Working Group. Available from: https://www.force11.org/group/software-citation-working-group, accessed 27 June 2017.
Working document for RDA BoF on a Software Source Code focus group. Available from: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w6fI50FcHxUDl60LGSp8W8IkYgObxFbWPrInRXftIK0, accessed 27 June 2017.
Australian Research Software Interest Group. Available from: http://www.ands.org.au/partners-and-communities/ands-communities/ascig-software-citation, accessed 27 June 2017.
Jens Klump is a geochemist by training and OCE Science Leader Earth Science Informatics in CSIRO Mineral Resources. Jens' field of research is the application of information technology to geoscience questions. Research topics in this field are numerical methods in minerals exploration, virtual research environments, high performance and cloud computing, and the development of system solutions for geoscience projects. Jens previous work involved building repositories for research data and persistent identifier systems. This project sparked further work on research data infrastructures, including the publication and curation of scientific software and its source code. Follow him on Twitter as @snet_jklump.
Sue Cook is a Data Librarian with the Research Data Support team of CSIRO Information Management and Technology. Formally from a science background before becoming a librarian, she has been with CSIRO since 2006. She has interests in new models of science scholarly communication, data management and using social media for professional development.
Ryan Fraser is a Portfolio Manager with the CSIRO, with over 15 years of experience working in R&D, commercialisation of products and delivery to both government and industry using agile engineering methodologies. Ryan has led many Australian eResearch projects, including the AuScope Grid; Australian Spatial Research Data Commons; VGL; the Virtual Hazards, Impact and Risk Laboratory(VHIRL); ANDS and NeCTAR projects. Ryan possesses specialised knowledge and has current projects in spatial information infrastructures, data analytics, Cloud Computing, Data Management, and Interoperability and has extensive experience in managing and successfully delivering projects.
David Lescinsky is currently the team lead of GA's High Performance Data / High Performance Computing Science Team and is responsible for facilitating and managing GA's eResearch projects, including: GA's science projects at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), GA's national data collections at the Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI), and GA's Virtual Laboratories Programme. David has a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Earth Sciences and has more than 20 years of experience working as a geologist.
Mingfang Wu has been a senior business analyst at ANDS since 2011. Mingfang has been working on a range of ANDS programs such as data capture, data applications, data eInfrastructures Connectivity, and trusted research outputs. Mingfang is co-chairing the Research Data Alliance: Data Discovery Paradigms Interest Group, and two Australian Interest Groups: Data Provenance and Software Citation. Mingfang received her PhD from RMIT University in 2002 from School of Computer Science, she was a senior research fellow at RMIT from 2006 – 2011 and a research scientist at CSIRO from 1999 – 2006, all in the area of information retrieval.
Lesley Wyborn is a geochemist by training and worked for BMR/AGSO/GA for 42 years in a variety of geoscience and geoinformatics positions. In 2014 she joined the ANU and currently has a joint adjunct fellowship with National Computational Infrastructure and the Research School of Earth Sciences. She has been involved in many NCRIS funded eResearch projects over the years. She is Deputy Chair of the Australian Academy of Science 'Data for Science Committee' and is co-chair of several RDA Interest Groups as well as a member of the AGU Earth and Space Science Executive Committee.
Synch&Share ("ownCloud et al.") operator's BoF
Peter Elford, Mr Guido Aben1,Brett Rosolen
1AARNet, Kensington, Australia
Over the past few years, a number of research and education storage operators/providers and institutions in Australia have opted to augment their storage offering by providing a synch&share ("dropbox-like") interface into their storage, next to the more traditional interfaces of FTP/NFS/CIFS/S3/Web etc. A handful of different packages exist to enable such a synch&share interface, but the predominant one is ownCloud and its recent fork NextCloud. Indeed, many Australian research and education storage operators have opted to use an ownCloud or NextCloud package to provide cloud storage services with.
The potential existence of synergies between these cloud storage providers therefore warrants an exchange of knowledge and these topics will be tabled as discussion items:
Technical as well as procedural and policy concerns – is harmonization desirable and/or attainable?
Joint operation and joint articulation of interests to vendors
Interoperability and reduction of silo development; this in light of the integrative goals of the Australian Research Data Cloud; with specific attention to use of the OpenCloudMesh interoperability standard[1]
The session with be initiated with a short presentation of operations at AARNet and recent experience with OpenCloudMesh and then opened to the floor for facilitated and interactive discussion as a 90 minute BoF.
Available from: https://wiki.geant.org/display/OCM/Open+Cloud+Mesh, accessed 23 June 2017
Sensitive Data Combined BoF
Life, Death and Data: data collection, use and interpretation in 2020
Visualise Your Thesis Prize Winner Announcements
The use of modelling and analytics in a data poor environment to sustainably deal with COVID-19 and beyond in Indonesia
Tsunamis in Australia: HPC for Hazard Assessment
Advanced Computing
Advanced Computing (Cloud & High Throughput Computing)
Advanced Computing (High Performance Computing)
Advanced Computing (High Performance Data Technologies)
Advanced Computing (Infrastructure as a Service)
Advanced Computing (Modelling & Simulation)
Advanced Computing (Virtual Laboratories)
Analysing and Visualising Data
Data Curation & Lifecycle
Earth; Marine & Environmental Sciences
Engagement & Cultural Changes
ePoster
eResearch Exemplars
eResearch Exemplars (Chemical & Life Sciences)
eResearch Exemplars (COVID-19 Stories & Experiences)
eResearch Exemplars (Digital Humanities)
eResearch Exemplars (Earth; Marine & Environmental Sciences)
eResearch Exemplars (Human Health & Medical Research)
eResearch Exemplars (Transdisciplinary eResearch)
eResearch for Human Health
eResearch Impact
eResearch in Action
eResearch in Chemical and Life Sciences
eResearch in Humanities and Social Sciences
Gala Function Speaker
Generating; Collecting and Moving Data
Generating; Collecting; Moving & Accessing Data
Generating; Collecting; Moving & Accessing Data (Databases & Datacubes)
Generating; Collecting; Moving & Accessing Data (Instruments & Data Capture)
Generating; Collecting; Moving & Accessing Data (Internet of Things)
Generating; Collecting; Moving & Accessing Data (Networks)
Institutions Facilitating eResearch
Libraries Supporting Research
Making Data FAIR
Managing, Publishing & Finding Data (Data Collections)
Managing, Publishing & Finding Data (Data Curation)
Managing, Publishing & Finding Data (Data Management Strategy)
Managing, Publishing & Finding Data (Data Quality Strategies)
Managing, Publishing & Finding Data (Data Storage Infrastructure)
Managing, Publishing & Finding Data (Indigenous Data Rights)
Managing, Publishing & Finding Data (Making Data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable))
Managing, Publishing & Finding Data (Managing, Manipulating & Preserving Data)
Managing, Publishing & Finding Data (Standards for Data & eResearch)
Managing; Publishing and Finding Data
Manipulating and Preserving Data
National Programs and Partnerships
Outreach; Training & Capability
Poster Display
Processing, Analysing & Visualising Data (Data Science & Analytics)
Processing, Analysing & Visualising Data (Decision Tools & Dashboards)
Processing; Analysing and Visualising Data
Research Data Alliance
Research Software Engineering (Case Studies)
Research Software Engineering (Making Software FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable))
Research Software Engineering (Software as a Service)
Research Software Engineering (Workflows & Workflow Tools)
The Connected Researcher
The Connected Researcher (Engagement & Cultural Changes)
The Connected Researcher (eResearch Other Aspects)
The Connected Researcher (eResearch Outreach; Training & Capability Development)
The Connected Researcher (eResearch Service Integration)
The Connected Researcher (Institutions Facilitating eResearch)
The Connected Researcher (Libraries Supporting Research)
The Connected Researcher (National Programs & Partnerships)
The Connected Researcher (Sustaining eResearch Initiatives)
Workflows and Workflow Tools
Workshop – Full Day
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eResearch Australasia provides opportunities for delegates to engage, connect, and share their ideas and exemplars concerning new information centric research capabilities, and how information and communication technologies help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, understand and re-use information.
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Pattern separation is a hippocampal-dependent process that allows us to discriminate between similar events or experiences - like remembering where we parked the car at work on a specific day. Emotional events are remembered vividly because they increase arousal, which enhances memory formation and retrieval. The strength of emotional memories is modulated by the amygdala. Memories for emotional events are often biased to central aspects of the event while peripheral details are forgotten, making it difficult to discriminate between similar emotional events. The precise neural mechanism supporting this process remains unclear. This week in Neuron, Zheng and colleagues investigated the neural mechanism underlying the pattern separation of emotional memories in the amygdala and hippocampus using intracranial recordings.
Seven pre-surgical epilepsy patients completed an episodic memory task with emotional stimuli while local field potentials were recorded from the amygdala and the hippocampus using intracranial stereo-electroencephalography. The memory task consisted of two phases: (i) an encoding phase, in which participants had to rate the emotional valence of positive, negative, and neutral images, and (ii) a retrieval phase, in which they had to make old/new judgments about the same, novel, or perceptually similar ('lure') images. The lures were presented to create interference between previously presented target images and the novel lures. To examine pattern separation, the authors computed the oscillatory power (squared amplitude), phase synchrony (phase coupling strength of signals in different regions of the brain), and phase-amplitude coupling (coupling between the phase of one signal and the amplitude of another signal) in different frequency bands. To determine whether hippocampal oscillations were driving oscillatory activity in the amygdala or vice versa, they computed the phase-slope index and performed a Granger causality analysis. Finally, they trained a classifier using the occurring phases of high-frequency activity (HFA) relative to the theta (2-7 Hz) and alpha bands (7-14 Hz) as inputs to predict whether participants would false alarm or correctly reject the lures.
Participants performed well on the memory task with 80% accuracy overall. However, they were worse at discriminating emotional lures than neutral lures, with poorer discrimination of negatively-valenced lures than positive lures. Oscillatory activity was observed in the theta and alpha frequency bands when participants made recognition judgments. Specifically, in the hippocampus there was greater theta activity on trials where participants correctly identified the lure images as being new, which was accompanied by a simultaneous reduction in alpha power. In the amygdala, on the other hand, there was a lag between increased theta activity and a subsequent reduction in alpha power. Alpha activity increased on false alarm trials where participants incorrectly categorized images as being old. Oscillatory activity in the amygdala and the hippocampus was synchronized in the theta band on trials where the participant correctly identified a lure and in the alpha band on false alarm trials. This pattern of activity was present for both emotional and neutral images, but stronger for emotional images only on lure trials. This suggests that theta and alpha oscillations in the amygdala and hippocampus are involved in pattern separation, which is modulated by emotional valence.
Bidirectional communication between the hippocampus and the amygdala in the theta band was observed on correctly identified lure trials, and unidirectional communication was observed in the alpha band from the amygdala to the hippocampus on lure false alarm trials. Similarly, there was greater phase-amplitude coupling between theta oscillations in the amygdala and HFA in the hippocampus — as well as the reverse — on correctly identified lure trials. There was also a modulation of hippocampal HFA by alpha oscillations in the amygdala on lure false alarm trials. The trough of the theta cycle was associated with HFA in the amygdala (descending slope) and the hippocampus (ascending slope) on correctly identified lure trials. Such theta phase-dependent modulation of HFA was not present on lure false alarm trials. Moreover, the influence of amygdala theta oscillations on the hippocampus was stronger with emotional stimuli than neutral images, especially for negatively-valenced images. However, this emotional modulation of directional connectivity was not observed in the reverse direction (hippocampus to amygdala) or on lure false alarm trials. Thus, bidirectional communication between the amygdala and the hippocampus in the theta band results in the correct discrimination of lures from targets, whereas a disproportionately amygdala-driven interaction in the alpha band results in poor discrimination.
This study is the first to show that bidirectional theta oscillations between the hippocampus and the amygdala at memory retrieval are necessary for the pattern separation of emotional events. These findings are consistent with the literature demonstrating the role of low-frequency oscillations in memory formation and provide further insight into the mechanism that allows for the resolution of interference between highly similar emotional events at retrieval.
Zheng et al. Multiplexing of theta and alpha rhythms in the amygdala-hippocampal circuit supports pattern separation of emotional information. Neuron (2019). Access the original scientific publication here.


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Scania: Scania's partnership with Northvolt is about developing and commercialise battery cell technology for heavy vehicles. It started in 2018, and when Northvolt now completes another equity raise of 2.75 billion US dollars to deploy further battery cell capacity and enforce recycling, Scania is among the investors yet again.
The demand for battery cell capacity increases when more customers make a transition to electrified products. Northvolt responds by expanding their Swedish factory from 40 GWh to 60 GWh. This is possible due to the 2.75 billion US dollar private placement made by both new shareholders and current owners.
"Scania has been a strong backer and a key partner for Northvolt from the beginning. We are very happy to see the partnership develop even further, and we look forward to providing them with the world's greenest battery cells," says Peter Carlsson, co-founder and CEO of Northvolt.
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A tremendous growth in the European value chain for battery manufacturing is coming, all the way from processing of raw materials to production of battery cells and systems and the build-up of recycling infrastructure. That is why Northvolt's plan also includes enforcing recycling capabilities to ensure 50 percent of all raw material comes from recycled batteries by 2030.This is very important to Scania, considering the high the demand for batteries brought on by the electrification of heavy commercial transport. So far there is a limited supply, and an even more limited supply of sustainably produced batteries.
Anders Williamsson, Head of Industrial Operations at Scania, says: "Electrification will not be a sustainable option in itself unless green electricity, sustainably produced batteries and recycling is factored in. We continue to see our ambitions fully aligned with those of Northvolt, when it comes to both producing the world's greenest battery, and having the highest ambitions for recycling."
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I am delighted that Australian researcher and clinician Dr Josh Francis has officially joined the East Timor Hearts Fund as our honorary rheumatic heart disease adviser. Dr Francis has a long history working on rheumatic heart disease in Australia and Timor-Leste, and is also a long-time East Timor Hearts Fund supporter and collaborator.
Dr Francis is a paediatric infectious disease specialist at Royal Darwin Hospital and an honorary clinical fellow with the Menzies School of Health Research, one of Australia's leading medical research organisations.
Dr Francis was the project leader for the landmark rheumatic heart disease prevalence study that East Timor Hearts Fund funded and coordinated, along with project partners in Timor-Leste and Australia. The study's peer-reviewed findings, published last month, confirmed that Timor-Leste has one of the world's highest rates of rheumatic heart disease, with one in 28 people overall and one in 20 girls affected.
I am thrilled to have Dr Francis join us in this new role as we continue the fight to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Timor-Leste. You can read more about Josh on our website.


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On 25 October 1920 Mahatma Gandhi visited the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University). The first and historic AMU students Union under the leadership of Mr. K. M. Khuda Bux honored him with a life time membership of Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union. Mahatma Gandhi was the first one to be given lifetime membership of the Aligarh Muslim University's Students' Union.
Today is Gandhi Jayanti (2nd October) and it is wonderful coincidence that Students Union election is around the corner. So it is very much relevant to ponder about Mahatma Gandhi's association with Students Union at AMU. Imagine if Mahatma Gandhi was alive today and had visited AMU, what he should have told about his dream union? How he would have perceived a future of students' union in nation-building? What advice he would have given to the upcoming union of this great institution?
Gandhi lived his entire life in simplicity. The very first comment he would have made about glorified ways of student politics and VIP treatment of our student leader. He would have told us not to indulge in material and short term glory but thrive for the long-term and sustainable admiration. He would have quoted examples of simple yet exemplary lives of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, Maulana Mohmmad Ali Jauhar, Hasrat Mohani , Dr Zakir Hussain, Dr Saifuddin Kichlu, Rashid Jahan, Ismat Chugtai and Raja Mahendra Pratap. He would have reminded us how these great sons and daughters of this great institution had played an immense role in India's freedom movement and the modern nation building. He would have then urged our young leaders to be available for the service of the people with full dedication round the clock.
Hindu-Muslim unity was very dear to Mahatma Gandhi. To that he sacrificed his entire life. Today, when the gap between Hindus and Muslims is widening each passing day, Mahatma Gandhi would have appealed our leaders to be champion of the communal harmony.
To encourage our leaders to make conducive environment for debates and discussions, to defend our rights and to work for truth and justice, he would have asked us to read our history. He would have told us the story of Captain Abbas Ali, how an 11-years-old, Abbas Ali participated in a march to protest the hanging of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Captain Abbas's nationalism and enthusiasm for freedom prospered during his student days in Aligarh Muslim University. He would have asked us to recall the message of Sir Syed to stand up against injustice and shall go forth throughout the length and breadth of the land to preach the gospel of free inquiry, of large-hearted tolerance and of pure morality.
Hindu-Muslim unity was very dear to Mahatma Gandhi. To that he sacrificed his entire life. Today, when the gap between Hindu and Muslims is widening each passing day, Mahatma Gandhi would have appealed our leaders to be champion of the communal harmony. He would have then reminded us that famous quote of Sir Syed that we all know:
We (Hindus and Muslims) eat the same crop, drink water from the same rivers and breathe the same air. As a matter of fact, Hindus and Muslims are the two eyes of the beautiful bride that is Hindustan. Weakness of any one of them will spoil the beauty of the bride.
Mahatma Gandhi, in his entire life, fought against all kinds of discriminations and appealed people repeatedly to disprove favoritism on the basis of region, language, gender, caste and creed. Nowadays, the AMU Students Union elections are said to be dominated by regionalism. To that Mahatma Gandhi would have asked us very simple question. How Sir Syed is known to the world as Delhiite or Aligarian? How is Sadat Hasan Manto known as Punjabi or Aligarian? Syeda Anwara Taimur, an Assamese or Aligarian? Dr. Zakir Hussain, a Hyderabadi or Aligarian ? Hamid Ansari, a Bengali or Aligarian? Sheikh Abdullah (Papa mian), a Kashmiri or Aligarian? Keep hand on your heart and tell me do you know the birthplace of Ishwari Prasad, the first graduate of MAO College? Then he would have calmly told to us; don't divide for the sake of miniscule and made-up identities. Instead move forward towards broader identity.
He would have suggested the upcoming union to maintain simplicity and be available for the services of every student, to work for gender equality, to make disabled friendly campus, to promote discussion and debate culture, to promote spirit of competition, taking care of weaker students, to celebrate our diversity, to work to realize dreams of our founding members and to promote message of Aligarh movement across the globe.
Zulfiqar Sheth
Zulfiqar Sheth is Doctoral Fellow at Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He is India's delegate to international youth forums addressing humanitarian and global concerns. He participated in various international forums and represented India in more than 20 countries. He started attending International forums in 2011 when he was studying in the United State on the full scholarship by the US Department of State. After participating in more than 25 prestigious International-level Conferences including Youth Assembly at the United Nations, Global Youth Conference at World Bank and International research workshop at International Monetary Fund, he had the privilege of serving as a India's visiting research fellow for the prestigious Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At Hebrew, he won the election and became the first Indian to represent international students in the Hebrew University Students Union.
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I can't see anything around but black.
My legs gave way and suddenly I fell.
I felt my pulse halt quickly, heart attack!
I saw a light pierce through the dark shell.
The light shone brightly, but where I am, I can't tell.
The darkness came again. I fell asleep.
Awakened by the pings of several beeps.


Your venture started well and everywhere was sunshine, but suddenly you hit a rough patch, and it has been downhill ever since.
If you are experiencing such a situation, then you read on to find out how pivoting could help you turn around your fortune. And for those who didn't, a sound knowledge of startup pivoting will help you anyway.
Pivoting is essentially a shift in the strategy, usually business strategy, to steer your venture into a profitable or desirable situation.
Pivoting usually happens after feedback given either by the consumer or expert on the product or the strategy currently employed by the venture.
Pivoting is usually a part of a startup because during the initial phase without proper guidance there are chances where you might have skipped a specific aspect and after funding either from Angel Investor or Venture Capitalist, you get an insight to do better in a particular area.
Pivoting is not equivalent to failure. Many startups that we see around us had an unconventional beginning and were not intended to be used the way they are being used now.
Instagram began as Burbn, a check-in app that included gaming elements from Mafia Wars, and a photo element as well but after realising that such a cluttered app would lead to decreasing popularity, the creators stripped the app of all its functionality except photos, and now it has become synonymous with photo sharing.
Another great startup pivot is YouTube which started as an online dating service where users were supposed to upload short videos describing their ideal partner. YouTube even had the tagline "Tune in, hook up" and by pivoting their strategy after realising the potential in the idea it has become the number 1 streaming site.
Another real-life example where a startup has to pivot after receiving the funding is Yelp. The initial idea of Yelp was asking direct recommendation from a friend who felt flat. Then they experimented with the idea of allowing users to write reviews of local businesses after the constant feedback from the investor and now this has turned the venture into a product where it has become almost impossible to start a local business without eventually building support from the local review sections on Yelp.
When a startup is thinking of pivoting the general focus should both on areas that are going bad and areas where things are going haywire. Customer profiling and market research help in gauging response that is essential for the startup to figure this out.
Focussing on good areas and bad areas require a significant amount of resources and would require hiring to achieve those goals.
Complete revamp should ideally be fast but reliable and therefore spending time while hiring goes a long way and it becomes a make or break point after pivoting.
Even if you are well backed up by the technical department, you might need to work on revamping revenue model for your venture if it is app based.
You might need to take pointers from various revenue models that are in existence and pick out the one that is best suited.
If the venture has seen a dip in the popularity then marketing strategies, partnerships with opinion leaders become essential for the enterprise.
Focussing on identifying the areas where work needs to be done helps a startup create a roadmap for the future.
Startup pivoting is not new and will continue to happen.
Every startup journey needs to conduct a SWOT analysis carefully and it should stick to the vision and goals with which the venture was started but also remain flexible and explore avenues for improvement and inculcation.
therefore after that startup pivoting would not seem such an unnecessary move.
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