The Research Explicator for oNline Databases (TREND) Tool
by Richard N. Landers
Version: 1.21

The TREND software is designed to process data from online databases and output several 
lists of summary information for a quick snapshot of important trends and authors in any 
particular research literature. It outputs the following:
    * List of authors published in the research domain and their number of contributions
    * Name of publications appearing in the research domain and the number of articles in
      the target literature contained within each
    * All keywords assigned to publications in the target literature and the number of times 
      they appear
    * All areas of study assigned to publications/articles in the target literature and the 
      number of times they appear
    * All publication years and the number of publications/articles released in each year
    * Considering the given literature, which publications/articles are most often cited 
      by that literature and how many times those citations appear.

Four versions exist:
    * Basic
    * Excel-Enhanced (includes ability to export to Excel, if Excel is installed)
    * MySQL-Enhanced (includes ability to export to a MySQL database, if the 
      MySQL .NET Connector 1.0 is installed)
    * Full (includes Excel and MySQL export)

For detail on these four versions, or for more detail on the TREND software in general, see:
http://rlanders.filedrawer.org/explicator.html

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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None!  Simply run the program!

VERSION HISTORY
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v1.0
Initial release

v1.01-1.02
Fixed bug skipping certain records

v1.03
Added Excel export

v1.04
Added process count information

v1.05 
Fixed bug limiting counts to roughly 32k

v1.06
Fixed bug mis-labelling keywords and areas in Excel export

v1.07
Added text file export

v1.08
Added MySQL table export

v1.09
Fixed bug preventing program to be run multiple times if option other than Tables was used

v1.10
Added code to convert "&" to "and" in citation lists for consistency

v1.11
Added code to strip parentheses and commas in citationsl lists for consistency

v1.12
Changed citation matching to regular expression engine, altered comparison strings

v1.13
Major overhaul of citation matching engine, added handling by regular expression

v1.2
Simplified regex handling, added menu system for user options, simplified matching system, 
added total number of lines calculation, fixed bug making non-refs starting with "  " appear 
in refs, removed extra text, added direction to website, added icon

v1.21
Fixed bug keeping non-RF cites in database (only appeared in MySQL), added About menu,
began distribution in 4 flavors (Basic/MySQL/Excel/Full)