Regex to extract text between parenthesis paired with asterisk
How do I extract text that lies between parentheses (round brackets)?
I want to trace a border in a box or minipage like this model. A border customizable in left angle on top and right angle in bottom. Somebody can help me? Thanks a lot JPierre Travelling within the US as a foreign citizen without a passport I have already had the same problem before. On that occasion, I found a program that could scan my entire hard drive for string pieces so I could recover it. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the program. It had to access the hard drive data directly, normal searches won't get any data from the hard drive before formatting. Can anyone explain reverse bias pn junction using only electrons as charge carriers In forward bias condition p-type semiconductor is connected to positive side and ntype semiconductor to negetive side and the electrons flow from n-type to p-type to cathode of battery.  But imagine the same situation when the situation is reverse biased so now p-type is connected to negetive terminal of battery and n-type to positive terminal of battery.  Now there is excess of electrons in n-region and it is connected to positive terminal of the battery.So electron can flow from n-type region to positive terminal of the battery due to potential difference created by battery whereas in p-type electrons can flow from one covalent bond to another as they do in forward biasing.  Only difference is,here electron move in opposite direction (from one covalent bond to another) i.e. from n-region to depeletion region whereas in forward bias they move from depeletion to n-region.Which shouldn't be a problem   Now in this manner current must flow regardless of biasing so what's the correction? Why not introduce a donate button in Stack Exchange sites? Why do we say that irreducible representation of Poincare group represents the one-particle state? Only because   Rep is unitary, so saves positive-definite norm (for possibility density), Casimir operators of the group have eigenvalues $m^{2}$ and $m^2s(s + 1)$, so characterizes mass and spin, and It is the representation of the global group of relativistic symmetry,    yes? Problem aligning overlapping corner points in Illustrator I am drawing some overlapping paths in Illustrator. However, some anchor points of different paths do not align correctly, they create some rugged corners. I tried to manually adjust the points with the direct selection tool but it is difficult to handle the corners.  Can anyone help me to fix the corners in the red circles? How would one go about proving that the rationals are not the countable intersection of open sets? I received a mail today from Academia.edu (a site I wasn't previously aware of), asking me to confirm that I co-authored a paper with a colleague.  Having looked into it a little it sounds like it might be a useful site - the idea of a "social network for scientists" is one I've seen the need for in the past. However, partly due to bad experiences with the seemingly similar ResearchGate, I'm also skeptical.* Without signing up for an academia.edu account the site doesn't offer much information, so I would like the following information:   What specific features does academia.edu offer to its users? Is it genuinely useful for any of the following purposes (each of which seems genuinely needed)   as a platform for networking with academics for discovering relevant research as an effective system for post-publication peer review for organising references among a small team of people working on a project  Will it send out mails to my colleagues without my express and explicit permission? (I.e. are the mails I received today the result of a deliberate action by my colleague, who is aware that I will be emailed and wishes me to join the site; or are they essentially spam from a social networking site aggressively trying to expand its user base?) It's clear from its  that it's a private, venture-capital funded company. What is its business model?   In short, is this a site that has some genuine utility for academics, or should I just ignore it?  *I've never signed up for ResearchGate but I regularly receive spam from it purporting to be from my colleagues, who aren't aware that it's being sent on their behalf. I would be mortified if my senior colleagues received such mails claiming to be from me, so I won't touch it with a barge pole. Is it "5–6 weeks are a lot of time" or "5–6 weeks is a lot of time"? What is this story about 20 y.o. inexperienced "kids" fighting against a stronger foe in space? Years ago (mid 90's) I saw a show on network TV, and I'm trying to figure out what the name of it was. The parts of the plot I remember are:   The crew consisted of 20-year-olds (half were women). They were on some mission when they lose their commander. They must then try to get back home, while being tracked down by a foe in a faster, more powerful ship. One of the main characters turns traitor. He's locked up in the brig pending a decision on his fate. He hangs himself, and his body is incinerated by the crew. One of the main characters plays a video game that basically looks like a visor over his face. While playing the game, he's given an idea on how to outwit their foe by using the laser cannon on their ship to create a holographic projection of a larger ship. In the end, they are about to be destroyed by a torpedo launched from the enemy ship.  The torpedo is destroyed by a laser beam from a friendly capital ship that arrives at the last moment.  I remember there being some sort of romance sub-plot to the show as well between two crew members.    Other non-plot details:   This was live action, not animated. I remember the special effects being quite high-end.   The guns on the ships were manipulated by a person sitting in a gunnery chair. This chair projected a holographic view of the fight in front of him/her. From there the gunner used a joystick and a keypad to control the weapons on the ship.  All the crew wore simple Star-Trek style uniforms throughout the entire program, so no jumpsuits or helmets.    I don't know if this was a movie or a TV show, because I never actually saw the beginning of it. I think I saw at least 45 minutes worth, so it could be either as far as I know.   That's all I remember, other than I think the name of the show was fairly generic (something like "Star Command"). I loved the show as a kid even though I only saw it once. I would like to watch it again and see how lame it really was. Making a private method public to unit test it...good idea? When is the Killing form null? When is the Killing form $\kappa$ of a Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$ null, i.e. $\kappa(\cdot,\cdot)=0$? Surely this is true for any Lie algebra with trivial bracket, but is this the only case? I can't seem to find any nontrivial examples. Including pdf_tex images from inkscape Serial voteup someone you learn from Why rationalize the denominator? Is it possible to batch import Wavefront .obj to blender? I'm working on 2.69. If I select multiple .obj files, only one gets imported. Also if I hit A on file selection window to select all files (.obj and .mtl) I get an error, nothing gets imported. I have to import several hundreds of .obj into the blender file, is this possible? I want to change only the color (not font size, etc.) of all headings in my documents (\section, \subsection, \subsubsection, ...). I want to keep all other settings fixed.   Is there a way to do this? 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