Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Manning Park

http://owj.ca/hikes/manning-park/2007-08-25-three-brothers/three-brothers.html

To reach the trailhead drive east on Highway 5 past Hope. Take exit 177 onto Highway 3, which you follow for 67 km (42 mi) to Manning Park Lodge. Turn left opposite to the lodge and inmediately turn left and drive uphill for 17 km to the very end of the road. You can start the hike one kilometre before at Blackwall Peak parking lot as well. Do not forget to pay the $3 parking fee.

From the upper parking lot you need to follow Heather Trail.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Display TIMESTAMP in history using HISTTIMEFORMAT

http://linux.101hacks.com/command-line-history/display-timestamp-using-histtimeformat/

in ~/.bashrc:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%c "

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Andre Kushniruk - human-computer interaction in health care

http://www.uvic.ca/hsd/hinf/people/faculty/andre/index.php

Dr. Kushniruk conducts research in a number of areas including evaluation of the effects of technology, human-computer interaction in health care and other domains as well as cognitive science. His work is known internationally and he has published widely in the area of health informatics. He focuses on developing new methods for the evaluation of information technology and studying human-computer interaction in health care and he has been a key researcher on a number of national and international collaborative projects.

Research interests

Evaluation of the use and usability of information systems
Design and evaluation methodologies
e-Health and telemedicine
Consumer informatics
Cognitive aspects of decision support systems
Data mining in health informatics
Computerized patient record systems
Intelligent information filtering
Usability engineering
Knowledge representation
Design of health care user interfaces and human-computer interaction in complex domains

http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2013/GRAD/GPROGS/HISc/PrRe.html

Health Information Science, 2-year program

Expression Language in JSP not working (not getting evaluated)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2168832/expression-language-in-jsp-not-working

process.jsp:
Welcome, ${param.name}

Page URL:
http://127.0.0.1:8888/myapp/process.jsp?name=test123

Expected ouptut:
Welcome, test123

With other words, the EL expression doesn't get evaluated? That can have one or more of the following causes:

Application server in question doesn't support JSP 2.0.
The web.xml is not declared as Servlet 2.4 or higher.
The @page is configured with isELIgnored=true.
The web.xml is configured with <el-ignored>true</el-ignored> in <jsp-config>.

In my case, it was Problem #2 so edit the web.xml file to include

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4">
...
</web-app>

Drug Research in China Falls Under a Cloud

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/business/global/drug-research-in-china-falls-under-a-cloud.html?hp&_r=0

The report revealed that the drug’s project leader belatedly learned the results of three studies of ozanezumab in mice. During their investigation, auditors came across six studies whose results had not been reported, even though early trials in humans were already under way.

“If that’s true, it’s a mortal sin in research requirements,” said Arthur L. Caplan, the head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. He served as the chairman of an advisory committee on bioethics at Glaxo from 2005 to 2008. “No one could approve human trials without having that information available, scientifically or ethically. That’s kind of a Rock-of-Gibraltar-sized ethics violation.”

B.C. taps into growing telehealth technology trend

http://www.biv.com/article/20130723/BIV0112/307239917/bc-taps-into-growing-telehealth-technology-trend

Livecare is one of two Vancouver companies to launch new telemedicine services in B.C. in recent weeks.

Until recently, a major barrier to telemedicine in Canada was billing. But in the past 18 months, most provinces in Canada have introduced new billing codes to allow doctors to bill their provincial health ministries for telemedicine visits.

Medeo CEO Ryan Wilson said telemedicine could benefit the health-care system by reducing hospital visits.

IMS Research estimates the global telehealth market will be worth $6.28 billion by 2020. It’s a space that Telus (TSX:T) has developed as a separate business entity, investing $1 billion in telehealth through its Telus Health division.

Last year, it acquired Vancouver’s Wolf Medical Systems – which developed electronic medical records – for $30 million. Telus Health services include remote patient monitoring, where people can take their own blood glucose tests or blood pressure and upload the information to health-care providers.

Telus’ Pharma Space allows people to refill prescriptions online using their computers or smartphones.

Transfer files between LG Nexus 4 and Windows XP

- Make sure to download and install the Google USB Android Driver
- Connect you Nexus 4 using the USB cable, make sure to check MTP mode (alternatively, PTP mode will allow you to transfer pictures only)
- Disable USB Debugging on the phone

If these doesn't work, try:
- Installing MTP drivers for Windows XP from the Microsoft Website
- Installing Windows Media Player 11
- Reboot

Friday, July 19, 2013

Javascript visualization libraries

http://www.elisa-dbi.co.uk/blog/38-tools-for-beautiful-data-visualisations/

Javascript Libraries

Arbor.js - Node-link
Cubism.js - Time series
D3.js - Matrix, node-link, circular hierarchy, hive, icicle/partition, radial hierarchy, treemap, tree, hyperbolic tree, radial tree, Marimekko charts, parallel set, heat map, bubble chart, word cloud
Dance.js - Interactive diagrams
Envision.js - (HTML5 visualisations) Time series, fractals
Flot – Interactive charts
Highchart – Interactive charts
Google Chart Tools / Google Fusion Tables - Maps, pie chart, bar chart, radial chart, tree map, scatter plots, bubble charts, line chart, step chart, area chart, boxplot, trees, tree maps, node-link
Infovis - Area chart, pie chart, bar chart, radial hierarchy, treemap, Marimekko chart, tree, node-link, radial chart, radial tree, hyperbolic tree
Leaflet.js - Maps
Modest Maps.js - Maps
Processing.js – Interactive diagrams
Raphäel.js – Line chart, pie chart, time series; SVG generated charts.
Rickshaw - Time series
Sigma.js - Node-link