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564 Stories by Xu Cui

Create a GIF animation image for free

I need to create a banner ad for Stork’s advanced feature (NIH grant database English/Chinese bilingual version). I wish the ad has two images showing one after the other, and repeat every 3 seconds. In the end, the image is like this: So how t
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Create CSV file containing UTF-8 characters in PHP and Javascript

If you create a CSV file and the file contains some characters such as ü or ş, then you will find the characters are not displayed correctly in Excel. This is because the default coding of Excel is not UTF-8. To force Excel to use UTF-8, we need to a
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Upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 for free

Back in August, 2013 I purchased a Dell computer (OptiPlex 9010 Minitower) which has been working very well. It has Windows 7 installed. Recently I got a notification that Windows 7 will reach End of Life (i.e. Microsoft will no longer support it) so
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How to backup your emails (GMail)

If you decide to abandon a GMail account (not just personal GMail, GSuite included), you might want to save a record of the past emails. Or maybe you simply want to backup your emails. How to do that? Google Takeout will do the work. Go to https://ta
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My blog has a new look

I started blogging in about 2008. At that time I just started to develop my first startup product, a cloud reference manager for researchers called Peaya (then PaperBox) which unfortunately (or fortunately?) failed miserably later. At that time I was
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List of grants awarded to fNIRS research by NIH in the past 10 years

Below is a list of NIH grants in the field of fNIRS in the past 10 years. The list is compiled by Pe
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nirs2img, create an image file from NIRS data

Update 2021/2/27: If you find griddata3 not working, try to change griddata3 to griddata. I was asked where to get nirs2img script. Here it is. The download link is at the bottom of this article. nirs2img is to create an image file from the input dat
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Phrase frequency analysis on fNIRS hyperscanning with Stork Big Analysis

In the previous blog, we have used Stork’s big analysis to analyze the literature of fNIRS. At that time, Stork only analyzed the frequency of a single word (number indicates the number of occurences): near-infrared (1945) spectroscopy (1868) c
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NIRS_SPM 批处理成像的一个小改进

This is a guest post by Dr. Ning Liu from Stanford. 前些天 在用 NIRS_SPM批处理 做fNIRS脑图时,有几组数据总是报错(大约占总数的三分之
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