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🔗 Pelican Documentation

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python. Highlights include:

Write your content directly with your editor of choice in reStructuredText or Markdown formats
Includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate your site
Easy to interface with distributed version control systems and web hooks
Completely static output is easy to host anywhere

Ready to get started? Check out the Quickstart guide.

🔗 Racemic Ketamine as an Alternative to Electroconvulsive Therapy for Unipolar Depression: A Randomized, Open-Label, Non-Inferiority Trial (KetECT)

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''Abstract''

''Background''

Ketamine has emerged as a fast-acting and powerful antidepressant, but no head to head trial has been performed, Here, ketamine is compared with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the most effective therapy for depression.

''Methods''

Hospitalized patients with unipolar depression were randomized (1:1) to thrice-weekly racemic ketamine (0.5 mg/kg) infusions or ECT in a parallel, open-label, non-inferiority study. The primary outcome was remission (Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale score ≤10). Secondary outcomes included adverse events (AEs), time to remission, and relapse. Treatment sessions (maximum of 12) were administered until remission or maximal effect was achieved. Remitters were followed for 12 months after the final treatment session.

''Results''

In total 186 inpatients were included and received treatment. Among patients receiving ECT, 63% remitted compared with 46 …

🔗 How Does Perspective Work in Pictures?

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Making my own pictures led me down a road to understanding how wrong these views are. There is no such thing as correct perspective; all choices of perspective have advantages and disadvantages. It is impossible to accurately portray everything about 3D space in a 2D picture, so artists must make choices, and linear perspective is just one option.

🔗 The Man in Seat Sixty-One . . .

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Many people want to cut their carbon footprint or are simply fed up with the hassle of flying - and a significant number of people are afraid of flying or medically restricted from doing so. However, information on alternatives to flying is often difficult to find through a travel industry obsessed with flights, flights, car hire and more flights.

So the site aims to inspire people to do something more rewarding with their travel opportunities than schlepping to an airport, getting on a soulless airliner and missing all the world has to offer. It then sets out to enable people to take train or ferry by giving the confidence and know-how to book their trip themselves, or call the right people to book it for them at affordable prices …

🔗 How to Use Tags

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  1. Use as few tags as possible.
  2. Limit yourself to a self-defined set of tags.
  3. Tags within your set must not overlap.
  4. By convention, tags are in plural.
  5. Tags are lower-case.
  6. Tags are single words.
  7. Keep tags on a general level.
  8. Omit tags that are obvious.