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U2 spliceosomal RNA-Evolutionary Origins-A notable characteristic of the U2-U6 fold is its structural similarity to that of domain V in self-splicing group II introns. The AGC triad found in U6 snRNA is conserved in group II introns and has been found to favor the same tertiary stacking interactions as well. The format...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Dead or Alive: Dimensions (Japanese: デッド オア アライブ ディメンションズ, Hepburn: Deddo Oa Araibu Dimenshonzu, abbreviated as DOAD) is a fighting game developed by Team Ninja and released by Tecmo Koei and in some regions by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS in 2011. Originally planned...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Dimensions can be considered a compilation game rather than a truly new entry in the Dead or Alive series, similar to the likes of Mortal Kombat Trilogy or Tekken Tag Tournament. It offers 26 playable fighters, more than any previous installment in the franchise, and ...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Dimensions was the first DOA game to be released on a Nintendo system, the first one not fully published by Tecmo (it was jointly published with Nintendo in Europe and Australia), the first DOA fighting game released on a handheld, and most notably, the first released...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Gameplay-In Dead or Alive Dimensions, the action is displayed on the top screen of the Nintendo 3DS, while the special fighting moves are displayed on the touch screen below. DOAD incorporates a Chronicle Mode feature, which acts as a story mode in the game, going through all four Dead or Aliv...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Gameplay-The 3DS's touch screen is used to make the characters execute special fighting moves, while the top screen is used for displaying the fight, in a similar fashion to Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition. Dimensions supports in-game frame data that can be displayed on the bottom screen d...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Characters-Dimensions features a roster of 26 playable characters, including an original character created for the game, Shiden. The list of characters are given below, with unlockable characters marked with an asterisk. Outside of the playable characters, Ridley from the Metroid series appear...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Plot-Dead or Alive: Dimensions plot spans the first four main games in the Dead or Alive series, which also unfold the hidden truth within its stories.
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Plot-In the prologue, set before the first game, Kasumi is confronted by her father, the 17th and current leader of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan, Shiden, about her skills as he plans to make her his next heir. Originally, Kasumi's brother and Shiden's eldest child, Hayate, was destined to be S...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Plot-Hayate, still in a coma, is abducted from the village by Kasumi Alpha, an evil clone of Kasumi created by the DOATEC Super-human Development Project. Ayane is told by Genra about the return of Tengu and sent to search for Ryu in Europe. After the death of Helena's father Fame, and then la...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Plot-During the "third tournament", Helena hires Bayman to protect her and kill Donovan. Bayman accepted the offer as he also desires to kill Donovan for his attempt to assassinate him. Christie, posing as Helena's assistant, attempts to assassinate her but is caught and restrained by Bayman. ...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Plot-After Helena became head leader of DOATEC, Donovan discusses with her the biological weapon cloning project, Project Alpha. With the "fourth tournament" on the way, Hayate and the forces of the Mugen Tenshin clan are planning an assault on DOATEC's main headquarters, the Tri-Tower. Fearin...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Development and release-Dead or Alive: Dimensions was first revealed as an official title on June 15, 2010 at E3 under the working title Dead or Alive 3D. Dimensions is the fourth Dead or Alive game to feature English voice overs; most of voice actors have been recast. Yosuke Hayashi took over...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Development and release-DOAD was scheduled for release at the Nintendo 3DS launch on February 26, 2011. However, due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, the release was pushed back by two months. It was eventually released on May 19 in Japan (by Tecmo Koei), on May 20 in Eur...
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions-Reception-Reviews Dead or Alive: Dimensions had consistently favourable reviews. It earned an aggregated score 79/100 at Metacritic.Nintendo Power review praised the "top-notch" cutscenes and the "fast and furious as ever" gameplay, but warned against the 3D effect, as well as having problems ...
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Continuous wound infiltration-Continuous wound infiltration-Continuous wound infiltration (CWI) refers to the continuous infiltration of a local anesthetic into a surgical wound to aid in pain management during post-operative recovery.
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Continuous wound infiltration-History-Continuous wound infiltration first appeared on the market in the late 1990s when a US company (I-Flow Corporation) found a way to evenly spread and continuously infiltrate a local anesthetic, via a specially designed multi holed catheter, inside the wound, to enable post-operative...
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Continuous wound infiltration-Technique-A local anesthetic is administered into the wound with a specially designed, multi-holed catheter. The catheter allows for even spread throughout the entire area of the wound, depending on the size of the catheter.
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Continuous wound infiltration-Technique-The surgeon places the catheter during surgery shortly before closing the surgical incision. For best catheter placement and nerve blockage, the catheter must be located as close as possible to the nerve. Tunneling should be applied if a distal infiltration of the adjacent nerve ...
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Continuous wound infiltration-Outcomes-CWI is considered as an effective alternative to other regional anesthetic techniques such as peripheral nerve blocks and spinal-epidural anesthesia. It is especially applicable where those techniques are contra-indicated, such as in patients using potent coagulants.
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Continuous wound infiltration-Outcomes-Besides, some patients might prefer an alternative to epidural analgesia because of epidural-related side effects. Epidural analgesia may lead to serious neurological complications (epidural haematoma and abscess, with an incidence of one in 1000–6000 for thoracic epidurals) and n...
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Morsicatio buccarum-Morsicatio buccarum-Morsicatio buccarum is a condition characterized by chronic irritation or injury to the buccal mucosa (the lining of the inside of the cheek within the mouth), caused by repetitive chewing, biting or nibbling.
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Morsicatio buccarum-Signs and symptoms-The lesions are located on the mucosa, usually bilaterally in the central part of the anterior buccal mucosa and along the level of the occlusal plane (the level at which the upper and lower teeth meet). Sometimes the tongue or the labial mucosa (the inside lining of the lips) is ...
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Morsicatio buccarum-Causes-The cause is chronic parafunctional activity of the masticatory system, which produces frictional, crushing and incisive damage to the mucosal surface and over time the characteristic lesions develop. Most people are aware of a cheek chewing habit, although it may be performed subconsciously....
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Morsicatio buccarum-Diagnosis-The diagnosis is usually made on the clinical appearance alone, and biopsy is not usually indicated. The histologic appearance is one of marked hyperparakeratosis producing a ragged surface with many projections of keratin. Typically there is superficial colonization by bacteria. There may...
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Morsicatio buccarum-Diagnosis-Classification Morsicatio buccarum is a type of frictional keratosis. The term is derived from the Latin words, morusus meaning "bite" and bucca meaning "cheek". This term has been described as "a classic example of medical terminology gone astray".The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
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Morsicatio buccarum-Treatment-The lesions are harmless, and no treatment is indicated beyond reassurance, unless the person requests it. The most common and simple treatment is construction of a specially made acrylic prosthesis that covers the biting surfaces of the teeth and protects the cheek, tongue and labial muco...
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Morsicatio buccarum-Epidemiology-This phenomenon is fairly common, with one in every 800 adults showing evidence of active lesions at any one time. It is more common in people who are experiencing stress or psychological conditions. The prevalence in females is double the prevalence in males, and it is two or three tim...
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Xargs-Xargs-xargs (short for "extended arguments" ) is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input. It converts input from standard input into arguments to a command. Some commands such as grep and awk can take input either as command-line arguments or f...
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Xargs-Examples-One use case of the xargs command is to remove a list of files using the rm command. POSIX systems have an ARG_MAX for the maximum total length of the command line, so the command may fail with an error message of "Argument list too long" (meaning that the exec system call's limit on the length of a comm...
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Xargs-Examples-Some implementations of xargs can also be used to parallelize operations with the -P maxprocs argument to specify how many parallel processes should be used to execute the commands over the input argument lists. However, the output streams may not be synchronized. This can be overcome by using an --outpu...
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Xargs-Examples-xargs often covers the same functionality as the command substitution feature of many shells, denoted by the backquote notation (`...` or $(...)). xargs is also a good companion for commands that output long lists of files such as find, locate and grep, but only if one uses -0 (or equivalently --null), s...
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Xargs-Placement of arguments--I option: single argument The xargs command offers options to insert the listed arguments at some position other than the end of the command line. The -I option to xargs takes a string that will be replaced with the supplied input before the command is executed. A common choice is %. The s...
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Xargs-Placement of arguments-Shell trick: any number Another way to achieve a similar effect is to use a shell as the launched command, and deal with the complexity in that shell, for example: The word sh at the end of the line is for the POSIX shell sh -c to fill in for $0, the "executable name" part of the positional...
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Xargs-Placement of arguments-Since cp accepts multiple files at once, one can also simply do the following: This script runs cp with all the files given to it when there are any arguments passed. Doing so is more efficient since only one invocation of cp is done for each invocation of sh.
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Xargs-Separator problem-Many Unix utilities are line-oriented. These may work with xargs as long as the lines do not contain ', ", or a space. Some of the Unix utilities can use NUL as record separator (e.g. Perl (requires -0 and \0 instead of \n), locate (requires using -0), find (requires using -print0), grep (requir...
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Xargs-Separator problem-But often people forget this and assume xargs is also line-oriented, which is not the case (per default xargs separates on newlines and blanks within lines, substrings with blanks must be single- or double-quoted). The separator problem is illustrated here: Running the above will cause important...
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Xargs-Separator problem-The proper fix is to use the GNU-specific -print0 option, but tail (and other tools) do not support NUL-terminated strings: When using the -print0 option, entries are separated by a null character instead of an end-of-line. This is equivalent to the more verbose command:find . -name not\* | tr \...
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Xargs-Separator problem-GNU parallel is an alternative to xargs that is designed to have the same options, but is line-oriented. Thus, using GNU Parallel instead, the above would work as expected.For Unix environments where xargs does not support the -0 nor the -d option (e.g. Solaris, AIX), the POSIX standard states t...
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Xargs-Operating on a subset of arguments at a time-One might be dealing with commands that can only accept one or maybe two arguments at a time. For example, the diff command operates on two files at a time. The -n option to xargs specifies how many arguments at a time to supply to the given command. The command will b...
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Xargs-Encoding problem-The argument separator processing of xargs is not the only problem with using the xargs program in its default mode. Most Unix tools which are often used to manipulate filenames (for example sed, basename, sort, etc.) are text processing tools. However, Unix path names are not really text. Consid...
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Xargs-Encoding problem-One workaround for this problem is to run such tools in the C locale, which essentially processes the bytes of the input as-is. However, this will change the behavior of the tools in ways the user may not expect (for example, some of the user's expectations about case-folding behavior may not be ...
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Grain 128a-Grain 128a-The Grain 128a stream cipher was first purposed at Symmetric Key Encryption Workshop (SKEW) in 2011 as an improvement of the predecessor Grain 128, which added security enhancements and optional message authentication using the Encrypt & MAC approach. One of the important features of the Grain fam...
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Grain 128a-Description of the cipher-Grain 128a consists of two large parts: Pre-output function and MAC. The pre-output function has an internal state size of 256 bits, consisting of two registers of size 128 bit: NLFSR and LFSR. The MAC supports variable tag lengths w such that 32 . The cipher uses a 128 bit key. Th...
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Grain 128a-Pre-output function-The pre-output function consists of two registers of size 128 bit: NLFSR ( b ) and LFSR ( s ) along with 2 feedback polynomials f and g and a boolean function h 32 47 58 90 121 128 32 37 72 102 128 44 60 61 125 63 67 69 101 80 88 110 111 115 117 46 50 58 103 104 106 33 35 36 40 12 13 2...
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Grain 128a-Pre-output function-The LFSR is initialised as: si=IVi for 95 si=1 for 96 126 127 =0 The last 0 bit ensures that similar key-IV pairs do not produce shifted versions of each other. The NLFSR is initialised by copying the entire 128 bit key ( k ) into the NLFSR: bi=ki for 127 Start up clocking Before the p...
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Grain 128a-Key stream-The key stream ( z ) and MAC functionality in Grain 128a both share the same pre-output stream ( y ). As authentication is optional our key stream definition depends upon the IV0 When authentication is enabled, the MAC functionality uses the first 2w bits (where w is the tag size) after the sta...
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Grain 128a-Key stream-If authentication is enabled: zi=y2w+2i If authentication is disabled: zi=yi
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Grain 128a-MAC-Grain 128a supports tags of size w up to 32 bit, to do this 2 registers of size w is used, a shift register( r ) and an accumulator( a ). To create a tag of a message m where L is the length of m+1 as we have to set mL=1 to ensure that i.e. m1=1 and 10 has different tags, and also making it impos...
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Grain 128a-MAC-For each bit 31 in the accumulator we at time 0≤i≤L we denounce a bit in the accumulator as aij Initialisation When authentication is enabled Grain 128a uses the first 2w bits of the pre-output stream( y ) to initialise the shift register and the accumulator. This is done by: Shift register: 31 for ...
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Medinfar-Medinfar-Medinfar is a Portuguese pharmaceutical company headquartered in Lisbon. The company has a wide range of products from Prescription Medicines to Generics, OTC/Consumer Health products and veterinary products. Medinfar promotes products in several therapeutic areas as General Practice, Cardiology, Gast...
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Medinfar-History-it was founded in 1970. Medinfar has R&D, Production, Distribution, Marketing and Sales departments, and besides its own brands it markets licensed products in partnerships with several top international pharmaceutical companies.In 2001, with the acquisition of the contract manufacturing unit, Farmalab...
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Medinfar-Medinfar Group-Pharmaceutical Unit:- Medinfar Farma – Prescription Medicines Marketing & Sales. Main therapeutic areas: Respiratory, Dermatology and Cardiology. - GP – Genéricos Portugueses – Marketing & Sales of Generic Drugs. Main therapeutic areas: Neurology, Psychiatry, Cardiovascular, Osteoporosis and Uro...
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Medinfar-Medinfar Group-Contract Manufacturing Unit:- Farmalabor – contract manufacturing unit located in Condeixa, Portugal center region. Farmalabor is certified in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and cGMP, GLP, ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001. Farmalabor has more than 40 national and...
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Medinfar-Medinfar Group-Veterinary Business Unit:- Medinfar Sorológico – Veterinaty drugs, devices and Herd vaccines. Main therapeutic areas and products: Anesthetics, Antibiotics, fluid therapy, Multivitamin & Iron and Shampoos. Biotechnology Unit:- Cytothera – First company in Europe processing and cryopreserving umb...
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Medinfar-Medinfar in the world-As a result of its globalization challenge, Medinfar Group is present in more than 40 countries around the world, through its affiliate in Morocco and distributors throughout Europe, FWA, PALOP, Middle East and Asia.
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Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Usually non-critical string theory is considered in frames of the approach proposed by Polyakov. The other approach has been developed in. It represents a universal method to maintain explicit Lorentz invariance in any qua...
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Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-The planes are defined by a normal vector nμ, the gauge axis. If this vector belongs to light cone, the parametrization corresponds to light cone gauge, if it is directed along world sheet's period Pμ, it is time-like Roh...
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Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-The problem of the standard light cone gauge is that the vector nμ is constant, e.g. nμ = (1, 1, 0, 0), and the system of planes is "frozen" in Minkowski space-time. Lorentz transformations change the position of the w...
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Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Algebraically this corresponds to a canonical transformation ai -> bi in the classical mechanics to a new set of variables, explicitly containing all necessary generators of symmetries. For the standard light cone gauge th...
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Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Group-theoretically string theory has a gauge symmetry Diff S1, reparametrizations of a circle. The symmetry is generated by Virasoro algebra Ln. Standard light cone gauge fixes the most of gauge degrees of freedom lea...
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Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Let's introduce an additional layer on this diagram: a group G = U(1) x SO(3) of gauge transformations of the world sheet, including the trivial evolution factor and rotations of the gauge axis in center-of-mass frame, wi...
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Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-Lorentz invariance in non-critical string theory-The trivial gauge symmetry U(1) x U(1) remains, including evolution and those rotations which preserve the direction of gauge axis. Successful implementation of this program has been done in . These are several unitary n...
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Bone Marrow Transplantation (journal)-Bone Marrow Transplantation (journal)-Bone Marrow Transplantation is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering transplantation of bone marrow in humans. It is published monthly by Nature Research. The scope of the journal includes stem cell biology, transplantation immunology, trans...
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Bone Marrow Transplantation (journal)-Abstracting and indexing-Bone Marrow Transplantation is abstracted and indexed in BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, BIOSIS, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Current Contents/Life Sciences, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, and Science Citation Index.
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Database normalization-Database normalization-Database normalization or database normalisation (see spelling differences) is the process of structuring a relational database in accordance with a series of so-called normal forms in order to reduce data redundancy and improve data integrity. It was first proposed by Brit...
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Database normalization-Objectives-A basic objective of the first normal form defined by Codd in 1970 was to permit data to be queried and manipulated using a "universal data sub-language" grounded in first-order logic. An example of such a language is SQL, though it is one that Codd regarded as seriously flawed.The obj...
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Database normalization-Objectives-To reduce the need for restructuring the collection of relations, as new types of data are introduced, and thus increase the life span of application programs. To make the relational model more informative to users. To make the collection of relations neutral to the query statistics, w...
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Database normalization-Objectives-When an attempt is made to modify (update, insert into, or delete from) a relation, the following undesirable side effects may arise in relations that have not been sufficiently normalized: Insertion anomaly. There are circumstances in which certain facts cannot be recorded at all. For...
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Database normalization-Objectives-Update anomaly. The same information can be expressed on multiple rows; therefore updates to the relation may result in logical inconsistencies. For example, each record in an "Employees' Skills" relation might contain an Employee ID, Employee Address, and Skill; thus a change of addre...
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Database normalization-Objectives-Deletion anomaly. Under certain circumstances, the deletion of data representing certain facts necessitates the deletion of data representing completely different facts. The "Faculty and Their Courses" relation described in the previous example suffers from this type of anomaly, for if...
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Database normalization-Objectives-Minimize redesign when extending the database structure A fully normalized database allows its structure to be extended to accommodate new types of data without changing existing structure too much. As a result, applications interacting with the database are minimally affected. Normali...
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Database normalization-Normal forms-Codd introduced the concept of normalization and what is now known as the first normal form (1NF) in 1970. Codd went on to define the second normal form (2NF) and third normal form (3NF) in 1971, and Codd and Raymond F. Boyce defined the Boyce–Codd normal form (BCNF) in 1974.Informal...
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Database normalization-Normal forms-The normal forms (from least normalized to most normalized) are:
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Normalization is a database design technique, which is used to design a relational database table up to higher normal form. The process is progressive, and a higher level of database normalization cannot be achieved unless the previous levels have been sati...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-However, it is worth noting that normal forms beyond 4NF are mainly of academic interest, as the problems they exist to solve rarely appear in practice.The data in the following example were intentionally designed to contradict most of the normal forms. In ...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Initial data Let a database table exist with the following structure: For this example it is assumed that each book has only one author.
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-A table that conforms to the relational model has a primary key which uniquely identifies a row. Two books could have the same title, but an ISBN uniquely identifies a book, so it can be used as the primary key: Satisfying 1NF In the first normal form each ...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Subject contains a set of subject values, meaning it does not comply. To solve the problem, the subjects are extracted into a separate Subject table: In Subject, ISBN is a foreign key: It refers to the primary key in Book, and makes the relationship between...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Satisfying 2NF The Book table below has a composite key of {Title, Format} (indicated by the underlining), which will not satisfy 2NF if some subset of that key is a determinant. At this point in our design the key is not finalised as the primary key, so it...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-To normalize this table, make {Title} a (simple) candidate key (the primary key) so that every non-candidate-key attribute depends on the whole candidate key, and remove Price into a separate table so that its dependency on Format can be preserved: Now, the...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Satisfying 3NF The Book table still has a transitive functional dependency ({Author Nationality} is dependent on {Author}, which is dependent on {Title}). A similar violation exists for genre ({Genre Name} is dependent on {Genre ID}, which is dependent on {...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Satisfying 4NF Assume the database is owned by a book retailer franchise that has several franchisees that own shops in different locations. And therefore the retailer decided to add a table that contains data about availability of the books at different lo...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-That means that, to satisfy the fourth normal form, this table needs to be decomposed as well: Now, every record is unambiguously identified by a superkey, therefore 4NF is satisfied.
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Satisfying ETNF Suppose the franchisees can also order books from different suppliers. Let the relation also be subject to the following constraint: If a certain supplier supplies a certain title and the title is supplied to the franchisee and the franchise...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Satisfying 5NF To spot a table not satisfying the 5NF, it is usually necessary to examine the data thoroughly. Suppose the table from 4NF example with a little modification in data and let's examine if it satisfies 5NF: Decomposing this table lowers redund...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-C.J. Date has argued that only a database in 5NF is truly "normalized".
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Satisfying DKNF Let's have a look at the Book table from previous examples and see if it satisfies the domain-key normal form: Logically, Thickness is determined by number of pages. That means it depends on Pages which is not a key. Let's set an example con...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-This convention is technically a constraint but it is neither a domain constraint nor a key constraint; therefore we cannot rely on domain constraints and key constraints to keep the data integrity. In other words – nothing prevents us from putting, for exa...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-Satisfying 6NF A simple and intuitive definition of the sixth normal form is that "a table is in 6NF when the row contains the Primary Key, and at most one other attribute".That means, for example, the Publisher table designed while creating the 1NF: needs ...
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Database normalization-Example of a step-by-step normalization-However, in data warehouses, which do not permit interactive updates and which are specialized for fast query on large data volumes, certain DBMSs use an internal 6NF representation – known as a columnar data store. In situations where the number of unique ...
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Wordlock-Wordlock-Wordlock is a brand of combination locks, made by Wordlock, Inc., that differs from traditional combination locks in that it has letters on its dials instead of numbers. This allows the combination to be a four-letter or five-letter word or name, similar to a password, and therefore potentially easier...
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Wordlock-History-The Chinese created the first word combination lock in the 13th Century. The idea never caught on in the West, however, until Todd Basche, former Vice President of Software Applications at Apple Inc., invented the modern word lock in 2004. He and Rahn Basche founded WordLock, Inc. in 2007 in Santa Clar...
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Wordlock-History-WordLock won the Staples Inc. Invention Quest in 2004 and "Top 100 New Inventions" distinction at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Invent Now America competition in 2008.
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Wordlock-Possible combinations-The five-ring WordLock contains 10 letters per ring. One such example follows: Each ring rotates independently of the others, yielding a possible 104 (or 10,000) different combinations. WordLock contains one blank space on the fifth dial to make four letter words. About 2,000 words are po...
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Cantic 8-cube-Cantic 8-cube-In eight-dimensional geometry, a cantic 8-cube or truncated 8-demicube is a uniform 8-polytope, being a truncation of the 8-demicube.
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Cantic 8-cube-Alternate names-Truncated demiocteract Truncated hemiocteract (Jonathan Bowers)
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Cantic 8-cube-Cartesian coordinates-The Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a truncated 8-demicube centered at the origin and edge length 6√2 are coordinate permutations: (±1,±1,±3,±3,±3,±3,±3,±3)with an odd number of plus signs.
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Ombré-Ombré-Ombré (literally "shaded" in French) is the blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark. It has become a popular feature for hair coloring, nail art, and even baking, in addition to its uses in home decorating and graphic design.In contrast to ombré, sombré is a ...
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Ombré-In fashion-History Using shading or creating an ombré effect is ubiquitous. For instance in fabric printing, a special printing block, called a "rainbowed" block, was used in the early 19th century to produce textiles with graduated color designs. Ombré as a textile treatment came back into fashion in around 1840...
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