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davehodgetts-blog · 6 years ago

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That elusive photo chasing a sardine run, that priced selfie with a marine testudine, and that noteworthy beach camp gracing the sunset are just few of the expectations listed on every Moalboal goer.

Moalboal, a once sleepy town seating 90 kilometers southwest of Cebu City, offers a laid-back vibe. Stunning white strips adorn its edges, where clear and calm ripples regularly wash off the shore.

Panagsama Beach, Moalboal

Beneath are unassuming underwater wonders. Sea turtles are frequently seen feeding on seaweeds, not minding the snorkelers hovering over as they search for nutrition.

A bit further is a conglomeration of coral blooms, resembling an underwater meadow. Surrounding these stationary creatures are fishes of different colors, vividness, and stripes. And just sneaking around are invertebrates of different shapes and sizes.

For daredevil swimmers who are unafraid of the blue, a plethora of marine swimmers might greet you. A sardine run regularly graces near the edge of the abyss.

Turtles regularly swim around the water of Panagsama

Kawasan Falls or from the canyoneering area, return to the highway, and then wait for a bus to Cebu City. Moalboal is less than an hour away.

If you visit Moalboal after your waterfall hopping in Samboan, return to the highway, and then hop on a Cebu-bound bus.

Cliff jumping at Pescador Island

Via Dumaguete (Sibulan-Liloan)

From Manila or Cebu, you may take a flight to Dumaguete [DGT]. Take a Sibulan-bound multicab from the highway just outside the airport. Walk towards Sibulan Ferry Terminal, and then board a fast craft to Liloan (fare ₱62).

From Liloan, hop on a trike or habal-habal to Bato Terminal (fare ₱25). From Bato Terminal, board a Ceres Bus to Cebu via Barili, and then get off at Moalboal bus stop.

Via Dumaguete (Tampi-Bato)

From Manila or Cebu, you may take a flight to Dumaguete [DGT]. Take any Northbound-bus from the highway just outside the airport and get off at Tampi Port. You can hop on any bus to Mabinay, Tanjay, Bais, Manjuyod, or Canlaon.

Take a Ro-Ro boat or Ferry to Bato. Walk towards to Bato Terminal from Bato Port, and then board a bus to Moalboal.

Via Oslob

Take a bus to Bato Terminal, and then transfer to a Cebu-bound bus with via Barili route.

Corals beneath the Water of Panagsama Beach

Beach Camps along Basdaku Whitebeach Moalboal

If the beach camp is not among your options, you may choose from the list below:

Places to stay in Basdiot (Panagsama Beach)

Turtle Bay Dive Resort – Turtle Bay Dive Resort is a premium accommodation near Panagsama Beach. Its location is quite isolated, thus giving the resort guests an exclusive feel. A short beach strip fronting it is exclusive for those who are checked in. Turtle Bay is also manned with PADI-certified instructors for your diving needs. The well-landscaped resort also houses a nice pool. Online Booking: www.Agoda.com/TurtleBay

Turtle Bay Dive Resort, a premium accommodation in Moalboal

Quo Vadis Dive Resort – Quo Vadis is located along Panagsama beach, and is pretty accessible to restaurants and PADI-Certified dive centers in Moalboal. Online Booking: www.Agoda.com/QuoVadis

Marcosas Cottages Resort – Marcosas offers rooms and suites equipped with amenities that cater utmost comfort. Being located along Panagsama Beach, the resort has easy access to food and entertainment spots. It has a nice pool too. Online Booking: www.Agoda.com/Marcosas

Dacozy Beach Resort – Dacozy Beach Resort features a pool, furnished rooms, and easy access to Panagsama beach. Food spots and dive centers are also walking-distance away. Online Booking: www.Agoda.com/Dacozy

Cabana Beach Club Resort – Cabana, aside from its comfortable and cozy beachfront accommodation, the resort is also the closest spot to Moalboal’s main attraction, the sardine run. A room for two starts at ₱3,000, while the suites for three starts at ₱4,000.

Marina Village – Marina Village is the sister resort of Cabana Beach Club catering the mid-range market. If you are checked in at Marina Village, you can use and access the facilities of Cabana.

Places to stay in Basdaku

HK Beach Resort – HK resort offers a stunning beachfront view and rooms equipped with LCD TV and oher basic amenities. A restaurant is also open to serve guests with delectable meals. Rates:

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Asian Belgian Resort – Asian Belgian Resort sits on a rock cliff with awesome view of the ocean and easy access to the underwater wonders below it. Online Booking: www.Agoda.com/AsianBelgianResort

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The sardine run as viewed from the surface

Pescador Island – With just a short boat ride away, be amazed with the amazing underwater creatures of Pescador Island. If you are game for an adrenaline rush, try cliff jumping. Do it only when it is high tide though. Boat rentals to Pescador Island starts at ₱3,000.

Beach Bumming – You can simply go swimming on the shallow water or just feel the sand and the heat along Panagsama Beach in Basdiot or Whitebeach in Basdaku.

Local kids playing with the awesome Panagsama sunset as backdrop

Gracing the Sunset – Moalboal is one of the Philippine beachfronts that face the sunset. See how the sky bursts in colors as the sun disappears from the horizon.

Basdaku Beach fronting HK Resort Moalboal

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evasjacks · 5 years ago

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WAIT ADA THAT GLITCH EFFECT HOW DID YOU DO IT I DIDN'T CLOCK THE FIRST TIME BUT FUCK THATS SMOOTH LOOKING

I can’t explain without ss so here’s a tutorial ig?

How to do this sexc glitch effect using Photoshop

edit in question

I’m using Adobe Photoshop 2020 but any version will do

Okay so,,, I’m going to assume you have basic Photoshop background.

Open a new canvas in Photoshop, using whatever size you perfer (I’m using 1100px x 1000px)

Start by selecting your person/place/thing (the effect works just as well on text, you would just need to rasterize the layer first)

This (minus the folders labeled ‘unimportant’) is what you should have:

Okay, now for the effect.

Go over to your layers panel and duplicate the person you want to glitch.

Now we have ‘norm’ and ‘norm copy’

Change the names so you can easily distinguish them.

Now, for my edit I changed up the glitch effect so it had devil wings and black eyes, but for a normal glitch the layer can stay the same, it’s all preference.

For the tutorial, I’ll leave him as is.

Now, close the visibility on the normal layer (the little eye on the left) so the only thing on our canvas is the ‘glitch effect’ so we can edit it.

Click on the glitch effect layer to select it.

take your rectangular marquee tool, found on the top left of the tools panel

click it.

Use it to make a bunch of different sized rectangles all over the object you want to glitch. This part is the most important and the most time consuming, so give it your focus.

Make some layers go right and other ones go left, a few ups and downs so it looks properly glitched.

It should look something like this:

Now we need to add in the red, green and blue bits to make it look like a real glitch.

Duplicate the glitch effect so you have this one in addition to three copies.

Rename the copies: red, green, and blue

Start with the red. Click on that layer.

Go to edit > fill

Change the opacity from 100% to 70%

Change the color to a bright red (#FF0000)

It should look like this. Move it lower, so it sits behind the original ‘glitch effect’

Then, shift the red layer a few pixels to the left so it’s just peeking out behind the first layer

Repeat this process with the blue ( #0000FF) and green (#008000)

Move the blue a few pixels to the left, opposite the red.

Move the green a few pixels up.

It should look like this:

(Note: my colors probably look dimmer because I have a psd layer over it)

Now, open your timeline. You should have just one frame there.

Add a second frame.

Open your first frame to make changes to it. Remove the visibility on all the glitch layers, so you’re only left with the normal.

It should look like this:

In the second frame, do the opposite. Open all the glitch layers, and leave off the Normal layer. Your second frame should look like this:

Now, still selecting your second frame, click the ‘tweens animation’ buttom at the bottom:

(Between the ‘add layer’ and the ‘skip frame’ buttons)

Tween it with the ‘previous frame’ and change the number of layers to ‘1′

Then click ok

You should now have a frame that blends both the ‘norm’ and the ‘glitch effect’ frames sitting between Your first and second.

Move the new blend layer so it sits AFTER the full glitch effect.

Now, adjust the timing.

Make the first frame (normal) 1.0 seconds.

Make the second frame (glitch effect) 0 seconds/no delay

Make the last frame (blend effect) 0 seconds/no delay

Play it. Make some adjustments if necessary.

Once you’re satisfied with how it looks, export.

I’m gonna assume you know how to do this

Export: File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy) > Save

You should now have a glitch effect:

Annnnd you’re done !!

#goD that took long #tutorials*#asks #harry tag #photoshop #the fuck do I put in the tags #glitch effect #userada #userharry #just rb it sjsksjk

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reborg-blog · 5 years ago

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Clojure transducers from the ground up: the practice

This is the second part of an article dedicated to Clojure transducers. In the first part we discussed transducers fundamentals and the functional abstraction they represent. In this article, we are going to explore how they are used in practice, including:

Composability

Reuse across transports with core.async

A logging stateless transducer example

An interleave stateful transducer example

Parallelisation

Composability

Transducers have the important property to isolate transforming reducing functions (like (map inc) or (filter odd?)) from the necessary sequential iteration. One interesting consequence of this design is that transducers can now compose like any other function. Have a look at the following example:

(def inc-and-filter (comp (map inc) (filter odd?))) (def special+ (inc-and-filter +)) (special+ 1 1) ;; 1 (special+ 1 2) ;; 4

(map inc) or (filter odd?) generates a function with the same interface: taking one item and returning a transformation of that item. We can compose them with comp to form a new function inc-and-filter which is the composition of the two.

We can also provide an argument + to inc-and-filter which returns a new function. We could call the new function special+ because it enhances normal + with two transformations. We can see the effect of incorporating inc and odd? into special+ by calling it with two arguments; the second argument is incremented and then conditionally added to the first depending on it being odd or even. We can use reduce with special+ as usual and compare it with the same version using a simple +:

(reduce special+ 0 (range 10)) ;; 25   (reduce + 0 (filter odd? (map inc (range 10)))) ;; 25

The two reduce appear the same on the surface, but the mechanics is completely different. In the first case, our special+ applies transformations while iterating through the input sequence. The second case produces an intermediate sequences for each transformation, plus one for the final reduction. More importantly, we can now isolate transformations from reduce. By using transduce we make that explicit in the arguments:

(transduce (comp (map inc) (filter odd?)) + (range 10)) ;; 25

How many transducers (our transforming reducing functions) can be composed this way? The answer is … as many as you like:

(def x-form (comp (map inc) (filter even?) (dedupe) (mapcat range) (partition-all 3) (partition-by #((apply + %) 7)) (mapcat flatten) (random-sample 1.0) (take-nth 1) (keep #(when (odd? %) (* % %))) (keep-indexed #(when (even? %1) (* %1 %2))) (replace {2 "two" 6 "six" 18 "eighteen"}) (take 11) (take-while #(not= 300 %)) (drop 1) (drop-while string?) (remove string?)))   (transduce x-form + (vec (interleave (range 18) (range 20)))) ;; 246

The example above is a famous gist created by Rich Hickey (the inventor of Clojure) to show off the available transducers in the standard library.

But there’s more: composition can be applied on top of additional composition, allowing programmers to isolate and name concepts accordingly. For example, we could group the previous, long chain of transducers into more manageable chunks giving each chunk a specific name:

(def x-clean (comp (map inc) (filter even?) (dedupe) (mapcat range)))   (def x-filter (comp (partition-all 3) (partition-by #((apply + %) 7)) (mapcat flatten) (random-sample 1.0)))   (def x-additional-info (comp (take-nth 1) (keep #(when (odd? %) (* % %))) (keep-indexed #(when (even? %1) (* %1 %2))) (replace {2 "two" 6 "six" 18 "eighteen"})))   (def x-calculate (comp (take 11) (take-while #(not= 300 %)) (drop 1) (drop-while string?) (remove string?)))   (def x-prepare (comp x-clean x-filter))   (def x-process (comp x-additional-info x-calculate))   (def x-form (comp x-prepare x-process))   (transduce x-form + data) ;; 246

As you can see, comp can be used several times to compose over already composed transducers, producing named computations that are now easy to read and reuse.

Note that, although there are structural similarities, the thread last macro ->> doesn't allow for a similar kind of composition. For example, the following expand-and-group composition is not possible:

(def coll (range 10)) (def expand (->> coll (map inc) (filter even?) (dedupe) (mapcat range))) (def group (->> coll (partition-all 3) (partition-by #((apply + %) 7)))) (def expand-and-group (comp expand group)) (expand-and-group) ;; Execution error (ClassCastException) ;; clojure.lang.LazySeq cannot be cast to clojure.lang.IFn

There are many things not working as expected in the example above. First of all, expand and group definitions already contain the result of the computation. Their composition is not the composition of their computational recipes but their results. comp works as expected, but trying to invoke it produces the non-sensical use of a lazy sequence as a function.

Reuse across transports

There is another important aspect of transducers that contributes to reuse (apart from composition). The composition of transducers happens without any knowledge of the input they will be applied to. As a consequence, we can reuse transducers with other transports.

A transport is essentially the way a collection of items is iterated. One of the most common transports in the standard library is sequential iteration (that is, using sequence functions like map, filter, etc.). But there are other examples of transports. The core.async library for instance, implements iteration through an abstraction called "channel" which behaves similarly to a blocking queue.

The following example shows the same transducers chain we have seen before to process incoming elements from a core.async channel:

(require '[clojure.core.async :refer [>! ] :as a])   (def xform (comp (filter odd?) (map inc)))   (defn process [items] (let [out (a/chan 1 xform) in (a/to-chan items)] (a/go-loop [] (if-some [item ( in)] (do (>! out item) (recur)) (a/close! out))) ( (a/reduce conj [] out))))   (process (range 10)) ;; [2 4 6 8 10]

The transducer xform is now applied to a channel out inside a go-loop. Every item pushed down the channel passes through the transducer chain. The input is a range of 10 numbers transformed into a channel, but items could be streamed asynchronously (and often are; for example, as server side events on a web page).

The go-loop works sequentially in this case, but core.async also contains facilities to apply the same transducers in parallel. A pipeline is an abstraction that supports multi-threaded access. It sits between an input and an output channel and it can be used with transducers:

(defn process [items] (let [out (a/chan (a/buffer 100))] (a/pipeline 4 out xform (a/to-chan items)) ( (a/reduce conj [] out))))   (process (range 10)) [2 4 6 8 10]

A pipeline construct accepts a max number of parallel threads (usually the same of the physical cores available in the system). Each incoming item from the input channel is processed in parallel through the transducer chain up to the max number of threads.

Custom transducers

The standard library provides some transducer-enabled functions, which cover most of the common scenarios. When those are not enough, you can create your own. However, a custom transducer needs to obey a few rules to play well with other transducers:

It must support a zero, one or two-arguments calls.

The zero-argument call defines the initial value for the reduction. This arity is not currently used by transducers, but it is recommended to implement it anyway by invoking the reducing function (usually abbreviated "rf") with no arguments. This is a conservative approach that plays well with the current behaviour of transduce just in case a future change to the standard library will require the zero-argument call.

The single-argument call defines the "tear-down" behaviour. This is especially useful if the transducer contains any state that needs deallocation. It will be called once with the final result of the reduction. After providing any custom logic (optional), the custom transducer is expected to call "rf" with the result, so other transducers in the chain can also have their chance for cleanup.

The two-arguments call represents the standard reduction step and should contain the business logic for the custom transducer. This is the typical reduce operation: the first argument represents the result so far, followed by the next item from the input. It is expected that the reducing function "rf" is invoked after applying any transformation, propagating the call to other transducers in the chain.

A transducer can decide to terminate reduction at any time by calling reduced on the results. Other transducers should pay attention to reduced elements and prevent unnecessary computation. This is, for example, what happens using transducers like take-while. When the predicate becomes false, no other items should be reduced and the computation should stop. If after take-while there are other computationally intensive transducers, they should also stop processing and allow the results through without doing anything else.

This set of rules describes the protocol to follow to execute a pipeline of transducers. The primary goal of the protocol is to give a fair chance to each transducer to execute (or stop) a computation, initialise internal state or perform cleanup logic.

Not surprisingly, transducers maintaining state are called "stateful" to distinguish them from "stateless" transducers. Maintaining state in a transducer is quite common and roughly half of transducers in the standard library do.

It is so common that a new concurrency primitive has been created called volatile!. A volatile! is a concurrency construct that allows multiple threads to promptly see a value as soon as it's updated. It's very different from the other concurrency primitives (var, atom, ref and agent) that instead "protect" state from concurrent access.

If you are wondering why volatile! is necessary, the answer is that with core.async pipelines the same transducer instance could run on multiple threads. A volatile! guarantees that the state inside the transducer is seen by all threads as soon as possible. So if the same transducer happens to run on a different thread, the thread will see the most recent internal state of the transducer. The reason why this might not be the case without a volatile! has to do with aggressive use of CPU registers as caches and instruction re-ordering, a common JVM optimisation.

A logging (stateless) transducer

So, let's get practical and create our first stateless transducer. In this example, we assume that we just created a complicated, but nicely composed, transducer chain for data processing (we are simulating it here with a much shorter and simpler one).

How would you go about debugging it? You might need to understand at which step in the chain things are not working as expected. Here's an idea for a logging transducer with a printing side effect. Other than printing on screen, the transducer is not altering the reduction:

(defn log [& [idx]] (fn [rf] (fn ([] (rf)) ([result] (rf result)) ([result el] (let [n-step (if idx (str "Step: " idx ". ") "")] (println (format "%sResult: %s, Item: %s" n-step result el))) (rf result el)))))   (sequence (log) [:a :b :c]) ;; Result: null, Item: :a ;; Result: null, Item: :b ;; Result: null, Item: :c ;; (:a :b :c)

In this example, log is a transducer accepting an optional single argument "idx". When "idx" is present, log additionally prints it, assuming "idx" is the position of the transducer in a composed chain (we'll see in a second how that information can be used). Before being composed via comp, transducers are just a list of functions. The idea is that we can interleave the list with the logging transducer ahead of comp and use a dynamic variable to control when to print to the console:

(def ^:dynamic *dbg?* false)   (defn comp* [& xforms] (apply comp (if *dbg?* (->> (range) (map log) (interleave xforms)) xforms)))   (transduce (comp* (filter odd?) (map inc)) + (range 5)) ;; 6   (binding [*dbg?* true] (transduce (comp* (filter odd?) (map inc)) + (range 5))) ;; Step: 0. Result: 0, Item: 1 ;; Step: 1. Result: 0, Item: 2 ;; Step: 0. Result: 2, Item: 3 ;; Step: 1. Result: 2, Item: 4 ;; 6

Here, comp* is a thin wrapper around the normal comp function in the standard library. It has the responsibility to check the *dbg?* dynamic variable. When *dbg?* is true, we interleave our logging transducer to an already existing chain of transducers passed as input. Otherwise we do nothing.

The first example invocation of transduce shows that comp* behaves like normal comp. When we bind *dbg*? to true though, the logging transducer starts printing. Several logging transducers instances are created — as many as necessary to interleave the input chain. Each logging transducer carries the "idx" information about its position in the chain, so it can print it. By looking at the source code, we know that ‘step 1’ corresponds to the transducer at index 1 in the (zero-indexed) list passed to comp* (which is filter). If we see some odd value of ‘Item’ or ‘Result’, we know which step is producing it and we can take action.

An interleave (stateful) transducer

Let's now see an example of stateful custom transducer. The following chain of sequential transformations shows a way to implement the egyptian multiplication algorithm. Egyptians didn't use time tables to multiply numbers, but they worked out the operation by decomposing numbers by powers of two:

(defn egypt-mult [x y] (->> (interleave (iterate #(quot % 2) x) (iterate #(* % 2) y)) (partition-all 2) (take-while #(pos? (first %))) (filter #(odd? (first %))) (map second) (reduce +)))   (egypt-mult 640 10) ;; 6400

We would like to express this algorithm with transducers but there is no interleave transducer in the standard library — just normal interleave. All other operations inside the thread last ->> form are available as transducers.

How should we design the interleave transducer to work with transduce? First of all, transduce does not support multiple collections as input. So, the idea is to use one sequence as the main input for transduce and the other as the sequence of interleaving elements. The sequence of interleaving elements lives inside the state of the interleave transducer, taking the first item to interleave at each reducing step. The remaining elements have to be stored as state inside the transducer while waiting for the next call. Without further ado, here's the interleave transducer:

(defn interleave-xform ; [coll] (fn [rf] (let [fillers (volatile! (seq coll))] ; (fn ([] (rf)) ([result] (rf result)) ([result input] (if-let [[filler] @fillers] ; (let [step (rf result input)] (if (reduced? step) ; step (do (vswap! fillers next) ; (rf step filler)))) (reduced result))))))) ;

interleave-xform is modeled on the same semantic of the interleave function in the standard library: it interleaves elements up to the end of the shortest sequence. interleave-xform contains all the required arities: no argument, single argument and two argument.

interleave-xform assumes the interleaving is coming from a collection passed while creating the transducer. We need to keep track of the remaining items in the sequence as we consume them, so the rest of are stored in a volatile! instance.

During the reducing step, we verify to have at least one more element to interleave before allowing the reduction. Note the use of if-let and destructuring on the first element of the content of the volatile! instance.

We need to check whether another transducer along the chain has required the end of the reduction. In that case, we obey without propagating any further reducing step.

If, instead, we are not at the end of the reduction and we have more elements to interleave, we can proceed to update our volatile! state and call the next transducer using the "filler" element coming from the internal state. Note that at this point, this is the second time we invoke "rf"; the first being for the normal reducing step, the second is an additional reducing step for the interleaving.

In case we don't have any more items to interleave, we end the reduction using reduced. This prevents nil elements from appearing in the final output — exactly the same as normal interleave.

With interleave-xform in place, we can express the egyptian multiplication method as follows:

(defn egypt-mult [x y] (transduce (comp (interleave-xform (iterate #(* % 2) y)) (partition-all 2) (take-while #(pos? (first %))) (filter #(odd? (first %))) (map second)) + (iterate #(quot % 2) x)))   (egypt-mult 4 5) ;; 20

The second iteration of increasingly doubling numbers is now considered the interleaving sequence that we pass when creating the transducer. The other iteration with increasingly halved numbers is instead the normal input for transduce. The two sequences are interleaved together and partitioned into vectors as part of the transducing step. Apart from the interleaving part, the rest of the processing is a mechanical refactoring from a sequence operation into the related transducer version.

Laziness

There are four main ways to apply transducers in the standard library: transduce, sequence, eduction and into. Up until now we've seen one of the most popular, transduce, which is designed to completely consume the input collection. Even when transduce is used to output a new sequence, it doesn't work lazily, as we can quickly verify by using a counter on the number of transformations happening on each item:

(def cnt (atom 0)) (take 10 (transduce (map #(do (swap! cnt inc) %)) conj () (range 1000))) ;; (999 998 997 996 995 994 993 992 991 990) @cnt ;; 1000

In the example above, you can see that transduce completely consumes a lazy sequence, despite the fact that we want just the first 10 elements (note that conj on a list is pre-pending element at the beginning of the current list). The counter shows that the transducer has been called on all of the items, fully evaluating the range. into uses transduce underneath and has the same behaviour. If you are interested in applying a transducer chain lazily by gradually consuming the input, sequence or eduction will do that:

(def cnt1 (atom 0)) (let [res (eduction (map #(do (swap! cnt1 inc) %)) (range 1000))] (doall (take 10 res)) @cnt1) ;; 33   (def cnt2 (atom 0)) (let [res (sequence (map #(do (swap! cnt2 inc) %)) (range 1000))] (doall (take 10 res)) @cnt2) ;; 33

The type of laziness in eduction and sequence is called "chunked". It means that they are lazy but not extremely lazy, by allowing some consumption of the input sequence ahead of the actual position in the iteration. New items are processed in chunks of 32 elements each: once the 32th element is reached, all others up to the 64th are processed, and so on. In our example, we consume 10 elements but process the whole first chunk of 32.

So, what’s the difference between eduction and sequence? eduction allows a variable number of transducers to be passed as argument without comp. More importantly, eduction does not cache results, which means potentially running all transducers again if necessary. Here's a way to demonstrate this behaviour:

(def cnt1 (atom 0)) (let [res (eduction (map #(do (swap! cnt1 inc) %)) (range 10))] (conj (rest res) (first res)) @cnt1) ;; 20   (def cnt2 (atom 0)) (let [res (sequence (map #(do (swap! cnt2 inc) %)) (range 10))] (conj (rest res) (first res)) ; (2) @cnt2) ;; 10

In our new examples, we are using both first and rest on the result of eduction and sequence, respectively. You can see that both first and rest forces eduction to scan the input sequence, as demonstrated by the counter printing "20", which is twice the amount of items in the input sequence. sequence caches results internally, so it doesn't execute transducers again. eduction approach has benefits on memory allocation at the price of multiple evaluations. A rule of thumb to pick the right choice would be:

Use sequence when you plan to use the produced output multiple times. For example, assigning it to a local binding and then proceed to further process it. Internal caching results in better performance overall. At the same time, it could consume more memory, as the entire sequence could load in memory if the last element is requested.

Use eduction when there is no plan to perform multiple scans of the output, saving on unnecessary caching. This is the case with transducer chains which depend on some user generated search parameters. In this scenario, the application needs to produce a one-off view of the system that is discarded as soon as the response is returned.

Parallelism

We have seen an elegant example of parallelism in transducers using core.async pipelines. There is also another option to parallelise transducible operations. fold is a function from the reducers namespace in the standard library. fold offers parallelism based on the "divide and conquer" model: chunks of work are created and computation happens in parallel while, at the same time, finished tasks are combined back into the final result.

The following example shows ptransduce, a function that works like a parallel transduce. Since reducers are based on the same functional abstraction, we can leverage fold without changing the transducers chain:

(require '[clojure.core.reducers :refer [fold]])   (def xform (comp (map inc) (filter odd?)))   (defn ptransduce [xform rf combinef coll] (fold combinef (xform rf) (into [] coll)))   (ptransduce xform + + (range 1000000)) ;; 250000000000

Note that the input collection needs to be a vector (or a map) in order for reducers to work in parallel. It also needs to be bigger than a certain size (512 items by default) to enable parallelism. Apart from this, the xform transducer chain is the same as before but we need to call it with (xform rf) because fold expects a reducing function, which is what xform returns (plus added transformations when invoked with a basic reducing function like +).

Both pipelines and fold parallelism work unless stateful transducers are involved. Observe the following:

(require '[clojure.core.async :refer [] :as a]) (require '[clojure.core.reducers :refer [fold]]) (def xform (comp (drop 100) (map inc) (filter odd?)))   (transduce xform + (range 10000)) ;; 24997500   (let [out (a/chan (a/buffer 100))] (a/pipeline 4 out xform (a/to-chan (range 10000))) ( (a/reduce + 0 out))) ;; 0   (distinct (for [ (range 100)] (fold + (xform +) (into [] (range 10000))))) ;; (24997500 24877997 24781126 24912310 ....

(drop 100) is now part of the transducers chain. We can see the expected result of 24997500 with a normal transduce; but both pipeline and fold are producing unexpected results. This is because there are multiple instances of the same stateful transducer.

In the case of pipeline, one transducer chain is instantiated for each item (so drop is always dropping the single element available). In the case of fold, there is one transducer chain each chunk, and the situation is additionally complicated by "work stealing", a feature in which threads that are currently not doing any work can "steal" items from other threads. When that happens, the stateful transducer is not initialised again with the result that the same state is suddenly shared across threads. That's why, to see the inconsistency, you need to run fold multiple times.

The problem of parallelism with stateful transducer is both technical and semantic. The drop operation, for instance, is well defined as sequential operation: the number of requested elements is skipped at the beginning of the collection. But this definition needs to be reformulated when parallel chunks are involved: should drop remove the same number of elements each chunk? In that case sequential drop would diverge from parallel drop.

Since a solution that produces consistent results does not exist in the standard library, the problem of parallel stateful transducers remains unsolved and they should be avoided with fold or pipeline. If you're interested, I provided a solution to this problem in the parallel library. The proposed solution is opinionated, but it provides a consistent model to execute stateful transducers in a parallel context.

Conclusions

As we’ve seen in the previous part of this article, transducers are, at their core, a simple but powerful functional abstraction. reduce encapsulates a pattern for recursion that can be adapted to many situations and, at the same time, it promotes the design of code in terms of a standard reducing interface. Since transducers’ building blocks conform to the same contract, they are easy to compose and reuse. Transducers were introduced late in Clojure, perhaps explaining some struggle in their initial adoption.

There are still some rough edges and room for improvement in transducers as they are today. A few libraries started to emerge to provide transducers version of other functions (most notably, Christophe Grand’s xforms), hinting at the fact that more could be added to the standard library. Transducers are also amenable for parallel computation; but there is no solid semantic for parallel stateful transducers, so they can’t be used with fold. This is somehow discouraging their parallel use as a whole.

On the positive side, transducers already cover a fair amount of common use cases and you should consider reaching them as the default for everyday programming.

Clojure The Essential Reference

Did you enjoy reading this article? You might find my book Clojure: The Essential Refence also interesting! The book has an entire chapter dedicated to all the functions related to both reducers and transducers. There you can find more examples and insights.

Resources

The blog post by Rich Hickey introducing transducers.

The official transducer reference.

Christophe’s Grand extended transducer library.

Timothy Baldrige’s screencast on transducers.

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Oppo A7X With 6.3 inch Display, 4GB RAM, 4230 mAh Battery Launched in China

Chinese smartphone maker, Oppo has announced Oppo A7X, its latest mid-range offering in China on September 10, 2018. the key specifications of device includes ‘Waterdrop’ 19.5:9 notch display, with screen-to-body ratio of 90.8 percent, a dual rear cameras setup, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage, packed with a gradient back design.

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Little extension involving some Hue Stuff from This, since Tumblr seems to be working weird & I don’t want all this work to go to waste :P

HexCode Color can be used for the different parts of the Spectrum, with some variations in hue/intensity to make things more natural; (pure saturated colors being rare or mutant)

I know it’s been posted before, But it’s worth Posting again in this new context;

to reach 48 equally divided Signs, we need 4 different versions of each of the 12 main blood castes.

for HexCode Colors, the digits go, RRGGBB; determining how much Red, Green, & Blue is in a color.

Low blood; 16 unique hues are needed for pure signs, 4 of them already being provided; They contain No BLUE in them at all(for the purposes of the fully saturated color). (Hue 0-79)

Mid blood; 16 unique hues are needed for pure signs, 4 of them already being provided; They contain no RED in them at all(for the purposes of the fully saturated color). (Hue 80-159)

High blood; 16 unique hues are needed for pure signs, 4 of them already being provided; They contain no GREEN in them at all(for the purposes of the fully saturated color). (Hue 160-239)

there are 2 main ways to divide this out; take the averages of color range from 0-255 for each available variation, (which would get messy with lum and relative saturation going all over the place,) or to use Hue

Hue can be used to automatically adjust Color, and it goes from 0-239. to get 48 unique colors from it, we take every ‘5th’ Hue, treating 0 as the 1st;

Lum will be set at 60, since canon Blood seems to fluctuate around ‘Half-Lum’;

4 hue levels will be set for each blood caste, Hexcodes below;

Rust(0-15): #800000, #801000, #802000, #803000 (canon:0)

Bronze(20-35): #804000, #805000, #806000, #807000 (canon:20)

Gold(40-55): #808000, #708000, #608000, #508000 (canon:40)

Lime(60-75): #408000, #308000, #208000, #108000 ~~~~

Olive(80-95): #008000, #008010, #008020, #008030 (canon:55?)

Jade(100-115): #008040, #008050, #008060, #008070 (canon:100)

Teal(120-135): #008080, #007080, #006080, #005080 (canon:120)

Blue(140-155): #004080, #003080, #002080, #001080 (canon:134?)

Indigo(160-175): #000080, #100080, #200080, #300080 (canon:160)

Purple(180-195): #400080, #500080, #600080, #700080 (canon:180)

Violet(200-215): #800080, #800070, #800060, #800050 (canon:200)

Fuchsia(220-239): #800040, #800030, #800020, #800010 (canon:220)

‘Canon’ all seem to be at the lowest range of hue, with the bizarre exceptions of Leo & Scorpio; who really knows what’s up with that; even going to the trouble of centering a range about each canon being a range of colors, (Rust, 231-10, Bronze 11-30, ext...), they don’t match up. So there isn’t any nice & easy way of figuring things out w/o issue; 60, 80, & 140 match close enough, & will be treated as ‘Canon’, until a means of evenly dividing w/o ending up sticking any Canon into the same Caste can be figured.

having 48 colors is the important part here;

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Each type affects a different part of the brain and results from a different type of damage. In an hour or less brain damage can be severe, leading to permanent disability or death. The damage often initially appears in the hippocampus, the part of the brain essential in forming memories. Thyroid disease usually develops slowly, which is why symptoms might be mistaken for normal aging. Not everyone with Lyme disease has all of the symptoms, and many of the symptoms are not specific to Lyme disease but can occur with other diseases, as well. Because the onset is gradual, the symptoms might be dismissed as being due to stress or depression.

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People who have had a stroke are at greater risk than others of having an additional stroke. One comes from the portal vein, as already mentioned, and the other from the hepatic artery. You may be able to let go, to see if your loved can take over the action. When cholinesterases are inhibited, the action of endogenously released acetylcholine at cholinergic synapses is potentiated. Even though the prognosis is good for peripheral artery disease, it all depends on the patient. Whether referring to infectious or chronic conditions, the need for diagnostic guidelines cannot be overemphasized.

The Brain Related To Disease

Mixed dementia is often indicated by cardiovascular disease and dementia symptoms that get worse slowly over time. When a person is affected by more than one dementia disorder, the dementia can be referred to as a mixed dementia. People with dementia will always see their symptoms worsen over time, but not every person with the same type of dementia will decline at the same rate or experience the same symptoms at the same stage. Depending on the person, and the severity of the stroke or strokes, vascular dementia may come on gradually or suddenly, and can range from mild to severe. Because most people with mixed dementia are diagnosed with a single type of dementia, physicians often base their prescribing decisions on the type of dementia that is been diagnosed. Symptoms typically develop more gradually when vascular dementia is the result of another condition, such as small vessel disease.

Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment

Effective network analysis cannot only reflect the intensity of brain connectivity but also the direction of information flow. There may be scope to use institutionalisation as an outcome, particularly in large, multicentre trials. Functional connectivity analysis can indicate the intensity of functional connectivity between brain regions, but cannot reflect the direction of information flow in brain regions. There was nowhere to stand, eat, sleep, or a place to work where you could avoid hearing the laboured painful moans of the woman in room 14. The brain donation is performed carefully and will not leave any visible indication of brain donation. Medical judgement will be exercised in deciding whether an adverse event is serious, expected or causally-related.

A Host Of Other Health Conditions

Men with erectile dysfunction should talk with their doctors before trying supplements for erectile dysfunction. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, and one of the deadliest. You will feel overwhelmed, and need time to heal and recover from birth or time to yourself. You may be able to join a waiting list, reserve the item, check it out or even have it shipped or delivered. When trying to cut down on the time a stiff neck lasts, there are some excellent over-the-counter pain medications you can try. You may be able to reduce the effects by changing the dosages, changing when you take them, or switching to medications that cause fewer urinary problems.

Age Related Cognition Function And Risk Of Dementia

An active lifestyle during middle age reduces dementia risk but it remains to be determined if increased activity reduces dementia risk when MCI is already evident. The average age of onset is 60 years, and the incidence rises with advancing age. Most previous studies in Taiwan were performed in local rural or urban areas and might not be nationally representative. All studies included both female and male participants and 10 studies reported prevalence data stratified by sex. Missing data for outcome measures will be imputed, using multiple imputation, if more than 5% of the data are missing and data are shown to be missing at random. At the mental health screening, 53 participants were diagnosed with dementia, of which 29 were complete cases.

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Ten Warning Signs Of Dementia

The Wonderful World Of Senior Home Care

Seniors who require extra support in the comfort of home have various in-home care options available to them. You will continue to be independent in what are considered daily activities, such as bathing, dressing, driving, and working. In-home care is typically less expensive than institutionalized care, and allows your loved one to age in the comfort and security of their own home. Because of the growing popularity of in-home care, families in need have more options than ever before. Many families can help their loved ones with chores, transportation, and even some personal care. Is to help seniors live independently and with dignity in the comfort of their own home by empowering them to lead an active and enriched lifestyle, connecting them with their community, and nurturing meaningful relationships.

A Comprehensive Mental Health And Addiction Services System

A public health nurse working in a rural area is developing a program to improve health for the local population. Not all health plans provide coverage for treating mental health and other behavioral health needs. Because you care so much about your older adult, you want to do as much as you can, as perfectly as you can. In cases of advanced dementia, clear, comprehensive, consistent, and convincing directives/living wills may not, by themselves, be effective. Former public health nurse Terry Foody knows a thing or two about the value of public health. In the vast majority of cases, modern spinal surgery is extremely successful in alleviating pain and restoring mobility.

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A nurse is reviewing the laboratory findings of a client who is receiving IV infusion of insulin. A nurse is interviewing the partner of a client who was admitted in the manic phase of bipolar disorder. A nurse is reviewing the laboratory results of a client who is postoperative and has a respiratory rate of 7/min. A nurse is caring for a client who is in the oliguric phase of acute kidney injury. A nurse is reinforcing teaching about a tonometry examination with a client who has manifestations of glaucoma. A nurse is caring for a client who is receiving a unit of packed RBCs.

The Early Warning Signs Of Dementia

One of the early warning signs of dementia may include losing sense of direction in addition to an impaired spatial orientation. Changes in mood becoming increasingly depressed, fearful, suspicious or anxious can also be a sign of dementia. One of the most common signs of dementia, especially in the early stage, is forgetting recently learned information. Even the sweetest-tempered person with AD can become agitated, paranoid, irritable, fearful, or highly dependent for no obvious reason. The loss of skills is one of the more serious signs of dementia and should be treated as an indication of a more serious problem emerging. You need a basic idea of what types of dementia signs to watch for, so you can know when it is time to see your physician.

People Living With Psoriatic Disease

Support groups are groups of people who have lived through the same set of difficult experiences and want to help themselves and others by sharing coping strategies. When taking ZEPOSIA or Avonex, 9 out of 10 people experienced no progression of physical disability. In a younger patient, Alzheimer's can interfere with the ability to work, care for, and be responsible for others and yourself. Additionally if you are acting as conservator, trustee, or with power-of attorney, it is also important to understand what it means to act as a fiduciary. When your needs are taken care of, the person you care for will benefit, too. In the later stages of the disease, a person who has Alzheimer Dementia is no longer able to communicate and depends entirely on other people for care.

Clinical Care Directed By A Healthcare Worker

Lewy bodies are abnormal deposits of a type of protein that is known as alpha-synuclein. As the disease progresses, less and less language is used, until the patient becomes virtually mute. One of the best features of AI, especially when used for science, is that it is fast and efficient. You can chat with your opponents during the game, and it can be played anytime, anywhere. You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. Within the United States, there are at least 5 million people currently living with age-related dementias.

Assisted Living Care

Nursing homes typically look more like hospitals because of the level of care that residents need. From beautifully appointed common areas to spacious suites you can personalize, you will find your new home at Sunrise comfortable, safe, and stylish. Living in a residential care home is often half the cost of nursing home care, and in some states, it is even more affordable than assisted living care. Options for long term care in independent living, assisted living, and memory care are available. Costs of memory care communities are generally greater than senior living options such as independent living and assisted living, due to the higher staff-to-patient ratio. You will need to look at the plan to see if it has a benefit for personal care homes, assisted living, or memory care.

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Risk Factors For Vascular Dementia

Risk Factors For Stroke And Vascular Dementia

A stroke occurs when blood clots or broken blood vessels cut off the blood supply to your brain. When blood supply to the brain reduces because of narrowing or blockages in blood vessels, brain cells can be damaged. An intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke, the most common type of hemorrhagic stroke, happens when the tissues surrounding the brain fill with blood after an artery bursts. Causes can include blood clots, ruptured blood vessels, or narrowing or hardening of blood vessels that supply the brain. Unlike with an ischemic stroke, if you are having a hemorrhagic stroke, the treatment goal is to make your blood clot. When you have a stroke, the blood supply to part of your brain is cut off, killing brain cells.

Signs Of Vascular Cognitive Impairment

Patients with vascular dementia secondary to small vessel disease have a significant increase in vascular resistance and a decrease in vascular reserve. Patients with vascular dementia have patchy cognitive impairment, often with focal neurologic signs and symptoms. The 3 most common mechanisms of vascular dementia are multiple cortical infarcts, a strategic single infarct, and small vessel disease. Lacunar state is a condition in which numerous lacunae, which indicate widespread severe small vessel disease, are present. Vascular disease of the brain is far from a unitary process, and various vascular syndromes can lead to cognitive impairment and dementia. Mood and behavioral changes are observed early and, in some patients, may be the presenting feature.

Vascular Disease Of The Brain

All patients with dementia should have laboratory testing to rule out reversible causes of dementia. Hypertension may be primary, which may develop as a result of environmental or genetic causes, or secondary, which has multiple etiologies, including renal, vascular, and endocrine causes. Depression frequently coexists with vascular dementia and can contribute to, or worsen, vascular-based cognitive symptoms. Mixed dementia is often indicated by cardiovascular disease and dementia symptoms that get worse slowly over time. Vascular disease of the brain, particularly hypertensive small vessel disease, is a more important factor in producing cognitive impairment and dementia than was previously thought. Treatment for vascular dementia is different for each person, but often involves addressing underlying problems.

The Number Of People Living With Dementia

Caregivers can improve quality of life for people with dementia by knowing the best ways to communicate and having strategies to overcome cognitive or behavioral challenges. When you are unable to concentrate, you cannot think clearly, focus on a task, or maintain your attention. You can learn more about the disease, visit handpicked websites, and find resources to help you in your daily life. Most people have an innate desire to learn, and language is the primary tool for learning. As alcoholic dementia has not been uniformly diagnosed across epidemiologic studies, the discrimination of alcoholic dementia from AD also is problematic. As you will learn below, practicing the right type of oral hygiene, eating a healthy diet and consuming probiotics are some of the best strategies.

People With Type 2 Diabetes

Studies on cognitive enhancing benefits of the herbal in healthy adults and individuals diagnosed with AD are currently ongoing. In a small 1-week RCT, 16 healthy adults randomized to SLT experienced improvements in working memory. Future epidemiological and clinical studies are required to further assess the benefits of herbal medicines for the prevention of dementia and/or VaD. In older adults initially diagnosed with a specific type of dementia, the presence of mixed dementia may only be discovered by autopsy reports. All 4 studies in which herbal medicines were used in conjunction with conventional medicines reported better neurocognitive efficacy outcomes compared to the conventional medicines alone. Treatment for mixed dementia is limited, as patients are often misdiagnosed as having only a single type of dementia, physicians often treat their patients based on that specific type.

Cognitive Symptoms Caused By The Disease

Vascular dementia affects different people in different ways and the speed of the progression varies from person to person. As most people with mixed dementia are mistakenly diagnosed with a single type of dementia, physicians often prescribe medication based on the type of dementia that is been diagnosed. People with dementia will always see their symptoms worsen over time, but not every person with the same type of dementia will decline at the same rate or experience the same symptoms at the same stage. Whether you have just been diagnosed or worry you could have psoriasis, you are probably nervous, confused, and maybe even a little scared.

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Higher levels of social engagement in older adults have been associated with better physical and cognitive function and wellbeing. Many middle-aged and older adults who are not currently caregivers do expect to provide care in the future. Time spent with older adults has been linked to enhanced social and personal skills in children. Dementia can be devastating to you and your family as you lose your cognitive function and memory.

Risk Factors For Cardiovascular Disease

Identifying individuals at higher risk of dementia may play a role in future treatments and interventions to reduce their future risk of dementia. Vascular risk factors are modifiable, and their association with dementia emphasizes that many cases of dementia may be prevented or delayed. As seen above even though in most cases, vascular dementia is not linked to genetics, some genetic factors can increase the risk of developing the illness. Researchers around the world are working to develop effective treatments for dementia, and eventually to find a cure.

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Alzheimer's Hallucinations

Early Symptoms Of The Disease

Vascular dementia occurs when small strokes or brain lesions impair blood flow to the brain. Cells within the brain die, brain tissue is lost, and the overall size of the brain shrinks. Except in cases of reversible dementia, which are far from the norm, the damage to the brain cannot be reversed. When the damage is more severe, treating the underlying condition may not cure dementia, but it can halt its progression. In vascular dementia, a large stroke or a sequence of smaller strokes can cause profound damage to the brain that leads to dementia. Each person diagnosed with dementia has different symptoms, depending on what area of the brain is damaged.

Residents Of Assisted Living And Memory Care Communities

Staff in memory care homes receive training to specifically serve the needs of people with dementia. Each policy is different, so one will need to determine if their specific policy will indeed pay relatives for providing care. You may still be fully independent but daily tasks of everyday living, such as bathing and dressing, are becoming more difficult to do and take longer to complete. In the few states where CBD is illegal, CBD usage in assisted living and memory care will be prohibited. In states where CBD is legal by prescription, administrators cannot refuse to administer the medication. Personal care is a benefit and the beneficiary can self-direct or choose their own caregiver.

The Disease Directly Impacting The Brain

Genetic and environmental factors are shown to play an important role within the development of neurodegenerative diseases. The underlying causes of nutritional, hormonal, tumour-caused or drug-related dementia may be reversible to some extent. When you are a child, if one eye does not see well, your brain may favor the other. To navigate the broad range of different options you will have, it helps to evaluate your needs first, so it will be easier to narrow your search. The incontinence can be treated, or even initially prevented entirely in many cases, by frequent toileting. Until diseases are correctly named, defined and understood, finding ways to treat and prevent them is pretty much next to impossible.

Organic Mental Disorder

Reasons for depression can range from loss of a job to someone close to you. The symptoms of mania and hypomania include feeling too much happy, becoming emotionally boosted, feeling highly creative, and energetic. There has long been a negative stigma around mental health issues, and it is often not talked about. You may become more productive, creative, and more in charge of your thoughts, and emotions. Talking about the symptoms of mania and hypomania, the symptoms are quite similar to each other. The symptoms are very individual, in keeping with the pathological process, and can vary day-to-day.

Up-to-date Health Information On The Medical Topics

Risk factors for breast cancer include being over 50 years of age and having a personal history of breast cancer or a family history of breast cancer. A diagnosis of breast cancer can easily be delayed or missed because a breast lump may be too small to feel or see on a mammogram, may not be painful, and might be ignored, and for other reasons. Survival rates vary depending on the type of breast cancer as well as the stage at diagnosis, among other factors. As discussed previously, hallucinations can often be the first symptom of the illness and also tend to recur. Treatment of breast cancer varies, depending on the individual case and the type and stage of the cancer. A common first symptom is visual loss, which is caused by inflammation of the optic nerve.

Posterior Cortical Atrophy Variant Of Alzheimer Disease

Planned giving is a positive way of ensuring your finances or assets help people and causes that matter to you the most. The next time you visit your doctor, ask if a clinical trial might be right for you. A clinical report is any variety of clinical analysis together with people, paying very little heed as to if it is Associate in Nursing an intercession. When you become part of a clinical trial, you will still receive care from your primary doctor for your overall health. You should always speak with your doctor before you start, stop, or change any prescribed part of your care plan or treatment. As the caregiver of a person who has dementia, you must first take care of yourself.

The Basic Life Support

People who develop dementia at a younger age may have a strong family history of dementia. The impact of dementia on carers, family and society at large can be physical, psychological, social and economic. You can look to connect with an Ambassador in your area or reach out to anyone who you think you would connect well with, regardless of location. Urgent action must be taken to better protect families affected by dementia ahead of the winter.

Many Patients With Lewy Body Disease

More than 90% of cases of AD are sporadic and occur in individuals older than 60 years. Although the stressor may not always be easily identified, once it is, the intervention can be specific to the stressor. The clinical diagnosis has been confirmed in 18 of the 19 cases that have come to autopsy. A definitive diagnosis can be made only by an autopsy at death but probable and possible diagnoses can be made in life.

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Multidisciplinary Clinical Diagnosis Of Alzheimer Disease

Clinical trials are part of clinical research and at the heart of all medical advancement. The more you check on your own, the more you learn, which can help you avoid making mistakes in the future. Clinical trials are one of the final stages of a long and careful research and development process. Dementia care is a daunting task, but may not be as challenging as you expect. Based on the results, the vaccine will continue to be studied in the next level of clinical trials. We'll walk you through the intimidating task of putting together a complete research project from beginning to end.

Diagnosis Of Alzheimer Disease Or Mild Cognitive Impairment

Several studies presented on Sunday offered the possibility of predicting risk years before the disease develops. Once the matter is settled, you cannot go back to seek additional compensation in the future. The outer cortex of the brain contains gray matter and white matter in the tract. Model the giving you wish to see in your guests by making a personal, meaningful gift of your own, hopefully above and beyond what you have given in the past. Schneider thought the speed of the cognitive and structural brain changes indicate the two may be linked. You will get everything you need and you will get what you want in just a matter of seconds due to the amazing search option.

Alzheimer Disease And Dementia Research

Glazner will give a keynote talk on using poetry to enhance the creativity of people living with dementia through the performance and creation of poetry. Complicating matters, many elderly people suffer from dementia or disabilities that make it difficult to ask for help. As more people shift away from traditional news, outlets are heavily investing in digital media. The Wilder workshop will focus on using poetry to enhance communication with people living with dementia. You can take an empowering first step by learning more about the changes you may experience, and what to do next to move forward with your life. When someone you care about has dementia, their memory loss is affecting their daily life.

Alzheimer Disease Patients And Patterns

Exercise may directly benefit brain cells by increasing blood and oxygen flow in the brain. Functional imaging reveals how well cells in various brain regions are working by showing how actively the cells use sugar or oxygen. Many thought the data implied a stable synaptic deficit rather a speeding up of pathology. When you are thinking hard, your brain may use up to 50 percent of the fuel and oxygen. Since brain cells cannot regenerate, the effect from minor head injuries tends to be cumulative. NA has been extensively used in clinical studies over the last 40 years and is generally safe and well-tolerated.

Alzheimer Disease Or Other Related Memory Loss Diseases

Neurodegenerative disease is the group of condition or disease which mainly affect the neurons of the brain. The brain ordinarily therapists to some degree in solid maturing in any case, shockingly, does not lose neurons in huge numbers. To better comprehend the premise behind medication advancement, one should first see how neurons speak with each other. Neurological manifestations may happen because of the contamination itself or because of a safe reaction. Who knows if the two joined ranks there might be a better medication or even a cure by now. In the current version of Chicago, the 17th version, ibid is accepted but not preferred.

Researchers At The University Of Pittsburgh

All Clare Bridge associates receive ongoing guidance and teaching on the complex task of providing excellent dementia care. You never know when hunger will strike, and depending on where you are and what you are doing, your options may be a bit limited. The instructor is so good, if you do not pass you do not belong there. Within 24 to 48 hours, the delusions were quelled and Mom was SO much better. You will feel energized and rejuvenated to return to the university and continue with the job after attending the conference. Conventional views bearing on geriatric nursing typically paint an image of the care as being slow paced certain and less demanding than acute care.

Primary Goal Of Attending An International Conference

Increasing prevalence of various chronic neurological diseases worldwide is expected to be a major driver for growth of the global neuroscience market. Any golf course hosting the event proves to be just as picturesque and difficult as the next. When you first start learning to cite your sources, you probably learned just one overall style guide. In college and in the real world, though, the style guide you will need to use will depend on what field you are in. Chronic diseases have now taken over as the leading cause of death in every world region. People with MCI who were ApoE4 positive and had high plasma NfL and T-tau declined the fastest.

Care And Support

Comparison of prevalence of dependence among older people between high income and lower income countries 3 a lower prevalence of chronic diseases that contribute to disability and dependence. The most important think really is to be gentle both on yourself and on the person affected directly, trying to see things from their, now increasingly limited perspective. Since the owners of the site are working hard, there is no doubt you will see that soon. When your memory is in good working order, you can recall most things without always having to write them down or be reminded.

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Early Symptoms Of The Disease

Vascular dementia is a type of dementia caused by a problem with blood flow to the brain. As most people with mixed dementia are mistakenly diagnosed with a single type of dementia, physicians often prescribe medication based on the type of dementia that is been diagnosed. During the early stages of dementia, symptoms vary based on the type of dementia because different parts of the brain are affected. Treatments may help to maintain mental function longer, manage behavioral symptoms, and slow down the symptoms of disease. The signs and symptoms of mixed dementia can vary widely, depending on the brain region affected and type of brain changes involved. Generally with frontotemporal dementia, changes in personality, behaviour and language appear first, depending on which type of frontotemporal dementia it is.

Mild To Moderate Alzheimer Disease

Changes in personality and social behavior are common to all types of dementia and in the early stages of the disease most people will start to notice subtle differences in the behavior of their loved ones. Since most dementia occurs in old age, the early symptoms, which are very mild, are often dismissed as just signs of aging. Early-stage dementia symptoms include things like forgetting recent conversations, getting lost in familiar places, and personality changes, like being uncharacteristically impatient. In the early stages of sundowners disease, symptoms may be subtle, inconsistent, and difficult to notice. The person with dementia may lose interest in once-pleasurable activities and become more passive, depressed, or anxious. By the final stages of the disease, the person may lose all short-term and long-term memory, the ability to speak and to understand speech, and the ability to perform basic personal activities, such as how to use the bathroom or eat on their own.

Alzheimer Disease And Mixed Dementia

Researchers continue to look for new treatments to improve the quality of life for people with dementia and to help reverse the affects. Although younger people experience similar symptoms to older people with dementia, the impact on their lives is much greater. Learn about steps you can take to help reduce sundowning, for their benefit as well as your own. The current standard of care consists of symptomatic treatments, which can be divided into pharmacological, psychosocial, and caregiving. Because researchers cannot yet measure most dementia-related brain abnormalities in living people, it is difficult to say exactly how many dementia patients are actually living with mixed dementia. You may need to try several different medications, or a combination, guided by your doctor, before you find what works best for you.

Chronic Disease And Health And Wellness

People over 40 should have their eyes checked every two years and people over 60 should have their eyes checked every year. In later stages of dementia, your loved one will probably have difficulty moving alone, so adjust accordingly and do not push it. The goal is to detect lung cancer in the early stages, when it is still possible to treat it. In the United States, lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer as the most fatal cancer in women. The lung cancer is the primary diagnosis, while the metastasis is considered the secondary diagnosis. Early and careful evaluation is very important because many conditions, treatable or reversible, can cause dementia.

The Support Of A Skilled Health Care Professional

Partners of people with early-onset dementia must often take on added responsibilities in addition to caring for the person with dementia. People with dementia may remember events from their distant past, especially emotional events, and get excited about trying to resolve them. As the disease progresses, less and less language is used, until the patient becomes virtually mute. As dementia progresses, memory issues become more noticeable, and the risk of falling also increases. The more socially active you are, the more you connect face-to-face with others, the stronger your memory and cognition is likely to be. When you listen to the music which has negative lyrics, you will feel depressed, disappointed and unhappy.

Posterior Cortical Atrophy Variant Of Alzheimer Disease

All participants receive regular care related to the trial and opportunities to talk to clinical trial staff. When you become part of a clinical trial, you will still receive care from your primary doctor for your overall health. You may not post any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or other material that would violate the law. You should always speak with your doctor before you start, stop, or change any prescribed part of your care plan or treatment. One week you might have bumps leaking fluid, and the next, the area may be cleared up. Right at your fingertips, 24/7, you will have personalised guidance and support from virtual coaching.

Assisted Living Or Memory Care

Services in a nursing home include various levels of nursing care as well as physical therapy in some facilities. An individual must be medically assessed as needing immediate care, as well as needing long-term care, to be able to purchase an immediate needs annuity. Many families do not want to go down the nursing home path, but it is important to recognize it may be inevitable, and the path to a nursing home takes as much as 3-6 months, especially when looking to qualify for financial assistance from Medicaid. The test is available online, but is intended to be administered and scored by a health professional, so you should probably not try it at home. When your loved one does not act the way you want or are used to, it can be frustrating, upsetting, and confusing.

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