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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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Winner take all in SVM?

updated: 2010/01/05, add plot of original data Assume our data contains two features and they are highly correlated (say, r>0.9). The 1st feature does slightly better than the 2nd one in classifying the data. The question is, is the weight of the
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Productivity Programs in my computer

My desktop computer in the lab is a Mac Pro. I also installed Windows XP on this computer through VMWare. Windows XP (and 7, now windows 10 64bit) major working environment, including manuscript writing, data analysis, preparing presentation etc MS W
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