Author Archives: dougaj4

The error made in 20% of papers on genes …

Posted on 23/09/2016 by dougaj4

… and how to avoid it. According to a recent scientific paper “Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature” (authors: Mark Ziemann, Yotam Eren1, and Assam El-Osta).  The paper says that “approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene … Continue reading →

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A long history of civilisation …

Posted on 13/09/2016 by dougaj4

… and climate change: http://xkcd.com/1732/

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Non-linear Frame Analysis – Scipy solvers

Posted on 11/09/2016 by dougaj4

The frame analysis spreadsheet presented in the previous post has been updated to use the solvers included in the Scipy package.  There is now an option to use either the Cholesky solver, or an iterative sparse solver.  The main advantages of … Continue reading →

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Non-linear Frame Analysis

Posted on 03/09/2016 by dougaj4

Another example using Fortran code published in Programming the Finite Element Method (5th ed. John Wiley & Sons, I.M. Smith, D.V. Griffiths and L. Margetts (2014)), this post provides a spreadsheet based frame analysis program including non-linear bending behaviour and … Continue reading →

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Darrell Scott & Danny Thompson

Posted on 31/08/2016 by dougaj4

Playing at HebCelt 2013 in Stornoway. Don’t forget the headphones: … and a slightly older recording featuring Danny Thompson with Pentangle (who were Jacqui Mcshee, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Terry Cox)

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