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Creating URL slugs properly in PHP (including transliteration for UTF-8)

The point to use a slug (semantic URL) besides of improve the SEO of your articles is to prevent that the user, at the creation of for example an article, it uses special characters that aren't allowed in a URL, appropiate the usage etc. What target usage means, is context dependent.

In this article, you'll learn how to slugify a string in PHP properly, including (or not) support (conversion) for cyrilic and special latin characters.

Slugify in PHP

The following function exposes a simple way to convert text into a valid slug:

RELION interoperabiity with Warp and M

This document examines how to use RELION 4.0 (beta2 as of writing) with Warp 1.09 and M 1.09 for single particle analysis.

Special thanks to Alister Burt, Pranav Shah and Dimitry Tegunov for discussion on this Twitter thread.

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We use the RELION tutorial dataset (beta-galactosidase collected on JEOL CRYO ARM 200, a subset of EMPIAR-10204).

Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive 2024

Practical with DL4MicEverywhere and the BioImage Model Zoo

Install the last version of DL4MicEverywhere (Virtual machines have already DL4MicEverywhere installed)

I. Go to the DL4MicEverywhere website.

II. Click on "Code" and "Download zip".

	#Define variables
	$currentUser = (Get-CimInstance Win32_ComputerSystem).Username -replace '.*\\'
	$localAdministrators = @("[YourGlobalAdminRoleSid]","[YourDeviceAdminRoleSid]") #Adjust to your local administrators

	try {
	$administratorsGroup = ([ADSI]"WinNT://$env:COMPUTERNAME").psbase.children.find("Administrators")
	$administratorsGroupMembers = $administratorsGroup.psbase.invoke("Members")
	foreach ($administratorsGroupMember in $administratorsGroupMembers) {
	$administrator = $administratorsGroupMember.GetType().InvokeMember('Name','GetProperty',$null,$administratorsGroupMember,$null)
	if (($administrator -ne "Administrator") -and ($administrator -ne $currentUser)) {

	#Define variables
	$localAdministrators = @()
	$memberCount = 0
	$numberLocalAdministrators = 4 #Adjust to your number of administrators

	try {
	$currentUser = (Get-CimInstance Win32_ComputerSystem).Username -replace '.*\\'
	$administratorsGroup = ([ADSI]"WinNT://$env:COMPUTERNAME").psbase.children.find("Administrators")
	$administratorsGroupMembers= $administratorsGroup.psbase.invoke("Members")
	foreach ($administrator in $administratorsGroupMembers) {

	/**
	* Author Milan Divkovic
	*
	* You can control the motor with following commands:
	* 0: Disables the motor
	* 1: Enables the motor
	* + or -: Increase or decrease speed in respect to rotation direction
	*/

	#include <Arduino.h>

	import Foundation
	import UIKit
	import MachO


	extension UIDevice {
	var isSimulator: Bool {
	return TARGET_OS_SIMULATOR != 0
	}

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD