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Top 10 Social Networking Sites

In terms of number of visits, Facebook takes ~50% of the US market share.
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Interview Liz Walter and Signe Bray

Liz and Signe each published a review paper recently. They share their tips and experience … Signe Bray Frontiers in human neuroscience Elizabeth Walter Neuroscience
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Increasing number of coauthors in PubMed

According statistics published in PubMed, the average number of coauthors per paper was 1.56 in 1950, meaning at least half of papers were single authored at that time. This number now reaches to 4.77 in 2008. The age of publishing a paper alone is g
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xjView Tutorial Videos

FDR function, English version FDR function, Chinese version 普通话 Mandarin FDR function, Chinese versi
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use asdoc to generate documents

First, your asdoc.exe should be in your system path Open command window, cd to your project folder. In this folder, you should find src folder Run command asdoc -source-path .\src -doc-sources . Then a folder called “asdoc-output” will be
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Tower of sqrt(2)

What is the limit of this infinite exponential? Solution 1: $$x=\sqrt{2}^x$$ This leads to x=2 or 4 Solution 2: $$x=^x$$ This leads to x not equal to 2 or 4 Solution 3: MatLab simulation of series $$\sqrt{2}, \sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2}, [\s
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saveppt2, save MatLab figures to PowerPoint

I find saveppt2 is very useful in data exploration. I often have to view a lot of plots/figures for individual subjects during quality checking or data exploration. It would be ideal to have a script to automatically save the plots into PowerPoint an
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Adobe AIR 2 beta is out

Adobe AIR 2 beta is out last night (Nov 16, 2009). It includes a number of highly expected features including launching native applications. It also improves CPU/memory usages. Some sample applications include: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2
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How to create TIFF files

When you submit a manuscript, many journals ask you to send your figures in TIFF format with some requirements such as 300dpi, flattened, LZW compressed, etc. How to do that? My figures are usually finalized in MS PowerPoint. I don’t use PowerP
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