SPSS - PROCESS macro v4.2 doesn't output conditional effects of the focal predictor - statistics

When moderation analysis is done using the PROCESS macro v4.2 beta, the output is not full. "Output conditional effects of the focal predictor at values of the moderator" is missing.
The required output must show this part too:
Actual output:
The settings that I used:
I tried running with a different version of the macro, but the website with PROCESS macro does not allow me to download older versions.

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VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT flag magically added to swapchain images

Is the VkImageUsageFlagBits::VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT supposed to automatically be set for swapchain images?
I've been looking it up, and I don'd see any indication that this flag is supposed to be automatically added to swapchain images.
However, I have tested that in SDK 1.2.148.1 (haven't tried others), on NVIDIA GTX 1080ti with the latest drivers, that flag is automatically added, even when not requested. I'm not sure whether it's the SDK or the driver that it's setting it, but one of them is.
I first verified it in my own code, then tried it using the Sascha Willem's Triangle example, by commenting out the following line:
https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan/blob/master/base/VulkanSwapChain.cpp#L347
This is an image with the Triangle app running on NVIDIA Nsight. It shouldn't have the flag:
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Vulkan has no mechanism to tell you what the usage flags are on an image, whether swapchain or not. As such, you are relying on layers and debugging tools to feed that information to you.
However, these tools themselves are perfectly capable of setting these flags. If a debugging tool wants to be able to show you the image data in a swapchain image, then that image must be usable as the source for a transfer operation. So such a tool must set those flags. The same goes for any layers that might be involved in debugging.
Indeed, the fact that the debugging tool knows that the flag has been set is evidence that the Vulkan implementation didn't set it. If it had set the flag, nobody outside of the implementation would know about it.
So in all likelihood, this is the act of a debugging layer. Unfortunately, it is setting this flag before the validation layer sees it. And to validate uses of the imageless framebuffer feature, the validation layer needs to look at those flags.
To fix this, you may be able to reorder the layers you have activated. ppEnabledLayerNames is an ordered list of layers; if you aren't doing so already, put the validation layers first in this list. If you're enabling layers more globally, see if you can play around with the order of those layers.
You can set imageUsage bit in VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR

Excel Corruption Diagnostic Resources\ Tools

I have an office 365\ excel app using vba\ ado\ custom ui ribbon\ xml.
I have been seeing corruption from time to time but cant pinpoint the cause-- and only become aware of it with some testing of the saved workbook.
I am going to accept that corruption occurs for whatever reason-- and perhaps that would be another thread.
My question is-- are there resources\ utilities out there that would allow one to determine if a workbook is corrupted-- versus a full regression test with every set of changes (save).

JMeter jp#gc-WebDriver Sampler — Graphs Generator

Hi I am currently with the JMeter Groovy WebDriver. And my question is that having the Graphs Generator imported but don't have any graphs output. Can you please advise the Graphs Generator should works with WebDriver? Or only work for JMeter Sampler Http Request?
Graphs Generator listener doesn't really care about the nature of the Sampler, it should produce charts no matter of which Samplers are used (as long as they deliver sample results)
The problem is somewhere else, if you pay attention to this red 1 next to yellow exclamation sign at top-right corner of JMeter GUI
it indicates that at least one error happened during your test so it worth checking jmeter.log file, most probably you will find the reason (or at least a clue) there.
Looking at my crystal ball I can see that you don't have Synthesis Report plugin installed which is kind of pre-requisite for the Graphs Generator so my expectation is that if you install it using JMeter Plugins Manager it should resolve your issue.
I would also recommend re-considering the approach to running your tests, GUI mode is supposed to be used for tests development and debugging only, when it comes to tests execution you should run JMeter in command-line non-GUI mode.
And last but not the least, I don't think this Graphs Generator listener adds a lot of value, you can get much better view if you generate HTML Reporting Dashboard

Matlab: How to use Neural Network Toolbox with Command Line (not GUI)

I need to make a neural network to fit some data, a very large set of data, and my laptop is not powerful enough to use the training tools in the Neural Network Toolbox. I have access to a nice Linux cluster with Matlab, but the compute nodes don't do X11, so I can only use command line or script.
After reading the Mathworks page on Using Neural Network Toolbox, it looks like it should be possible to harness the functionality of tools such as nftool from the command line, but even after looking at the Getting Started Guide and the User's Guide, I found no understandable instructions of how to start calling commands to the NNT without bringing up a GUI.
The closest was on page 20 of the User's Guide, in the third paragraph, where it says that reading the code of the GUI tools provides a good introduction to using the toolbox by command line. However, the code (found in C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2016a\toolbox\nnet) contains a lot of references to commands I'm not familiar with, particularly running Java from within Matlab.
Despite having used the nftool several times, I do not recognize any of the lines as "Ah, this is what does that". So, I guess what I'm looking for is a set of instructions that connect the commands to what they do.
If you use the NN UI first, it can generate the matlab code for you, as an example. There is no simple answer to your question as the NN toolbox has quite a large array of functionality, so essentially the answer would be a complete tutorial.
http://www.mathworks.com/help/nnet/gs/fit-data-with-a-neural-network.html#f9-33554.
In fact if you click that link, the advice is precisely what I was saying above.
After stepping through the nftool (or similar) screens, don't stop at the Deploy screen, keep going by clicking next to the final 'Save' screen and choose simple or advanced scripts.

Capturing print output as vector format (PDF,SVG,EMF,etc.)

BACKGROUND
I am using a commercial application on windows that creates a drawing
This application allows only two output options: (1) save as a bitmap file and (2) print to a printer
the bitmap is useless for my purposes - I want the vectors
Looking at the print output (I sent to the Windows XPS print driver) it seems clear based on the amount of zooming I can do without loss of detail that the underlying vectors are being send to the print driver
Once I get the vectors, I will be writing some code to transform them for some other use.
MY QUESTION
Whart are my options for geting the vectors from the print? (am open to both commercial and open source)
OPTIONS I HAVE THOUGHT OF SO FAR
Take the bitmap and use a program like VectorMagick to. I have tried this approach. It does not produce the fidelity I seek even when the original bitmap is large. Practically speaking I believe that using any tracing approach will not give me the quality vectors I need.
Print to the Adobe PDF driver. This technically works. I have Adobe CS4 so I can print to it save the resulting PDF and then import the PDF into Illustrator and then export as some other vector format. The problem with this approach is money/licensing. I own a personal copy of Adobe CS4 - so this is fine for me. But I need to capture the vectors at work for business purposes - and no I'm not going to install my personal copy of CS4 at work.
Is there a "print driver" that captures the print output directly into a vector format? I have seen some commercial ones via google. If you've used them, I would like to hear about your experience with this technique. I could write my own and in that case do you have links to any existing code that I can start with.
If this is an ongoing solution you need then you might need to buy something or build your own. If it's a onetime affair you might look to use an 'older' Lexmark PCL printer driver. I'd recommend something like the T610. If you download the PCL driver and install it you can modify the defaults and change the Graphics option from XL or Autoselect to GL/2. This will force the driver to output GL/2 output which is vector (GL/2 is a plotter language). This might do the trick for you. Other printer drivers may have the abiltiy to force GL/2 (vs. Raster) but I'm not sure. I use to work for Lexmark and have used this before for a similar requirement.
Ensure you use the Lexmark 'Custom' driver as I don't think the Microsoft-based one support this feature.
...pausing while I investigate a few things............I'm back...
Another option is to find another GL/2 driver or build you own...I just took a few minutes to search the web and came up with a few other options that might work.
Build you own:
I've built drivers (minidrivers) using the Windows Driver Development Kit (DDK), it's quite simple to construct basic drivers. Looks like there is a setting you can set to enable GL/2 output: Enabling HP-GL/2 Vector Graphics Support (PCL-5e) in the GPD
Alternate drivers:
Depending on the OS you are on there is probably a 'generic' GL/2 driver built in. I believe XP has a Hewlett-Packard HP-GL/2 Plotter. You might need to check the license (as with the Lexmark solution) but it might work for you and as it's part of the OS there shouldn't be concern about using it. It's probably written and copyrighted to Microsoft
Keep in mind you will have to do some work to convert GL/2 to whatever output you want but it should be a matter of an simple translator to convert each set of commands. There may be tools out there to help. Here is a quick link to Lexmark GL/2 reference which might be enough to get you going, check out the GL/2 information under the PCL section: Lexmark Technical Reference Guide
Postscript:
The last option I have is to use a generic Postscript driver. Postscript should output the vector images as vector graphics in the Postscript but my knowledge of this is limited at best.
Output:
If you need the output to route to file you can set the port to FILE: which requries user intervention, or install something like Redmon (or connect with me and I'll send you our port monitor that allows for automatic output to file).
Hope this helps in some way.
My favorite is the open source (GPL) PDFCreator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emfprinter/

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