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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destan%20Entertainment | Destan Entertainment was a computer game developer from Poland established in 2003. It cooperated with Teyon, video games producer and online publisher.
During its final years, it developed 3D and 2D render technology for both modern (Destan Engine 2.0) and older computers (Destan Engine 1.0). In addition to rendering technology, Destan focused on physics, sound, network and development tools.
It also worked with Teyon on a budget line of PC games. Destan Entertainment's games were published in Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, France, USA, Canada, Russia, Ukraine, India, Spain, Italy and other countries.
Games
2004 — Kids Games Line
2005 — River Boat
2005 — Frog Checkers
2005 — Robot Rescue
2005 — Robot Rescue 2
2005 — Taxi Hawk
2005 — Willy
2005 — WR Rally
2006 — Ball Fighter
2006 — 1001 Minigolf Challenge
2007 — Play Pets
2007 — Burn
2008 — Crystal Caverns
2008 — Dynasty of Egypt
2008 — Jewels of the Nile
2008 — Battle Rage
2009 — Hubert the Teddy Bear: Backyard Games
2009 — Weekend Party: Fashion Show
2009 — District Wars
External links
Producer's official site
Teyon Store site
BURN official site
BATTLE RAGE official site
Defunct video game companies of Poland
Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 2003
Polish companies established in 2003
Companies based in Kraków |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociomapping | Sociomapping is a method developed for processing and visualization of relational data (e.g. social network data). It is most commonly used for mapping the social structure within small teams (10-25 people). Sociomapping uses the landscape metaphor to display complex multi-dimensional data in a 3D map, where individual objects are localized in such way that their distance on the map corresponds to their distance in the underlying data.
Thanks to its visual coding Sociomapping engages our evolved skills for spatial orientation and movement detection, thus making the interpretation of complex data easy and accessible for everyone.
History
The sociomapping method was developed in 19931994 by R. Bahbouh as a tool that would facilitate understanding of data about social relations and help preventing conflicts within teams of military professionals. The first major application of sociomapping took place in 19941995 during the HUBES experiment (Human Behavior in Extended Spaceflight) – a 135-day-long simulation of a spaceflight with three crew members organized by European Space Agency. Sociomapping was then regularly used in other spaceflight simulations (19951996: EKOPSY, 1999: Mars105, 20102012: Mars500). Since 2005, sociomapping has been extensively used in business environment to analyze relationships within senior management teams. In 2012, C. Höschl jr. developed Real Time Sociomapping® software that enables instant visualization of the team dynamics and monitoring of the teams and social groups over time.
Basic principle
The basic principle of Sociomapping is transforming original data concerning a set of objects in such a way that the distance of each pair of objects on the map corresponds to the distance between the two objects in the underlying data. Transformation of the data is a matter of 1) choosing some metric that could be reasonably interpreted as distance, and 2) translating the multi-dimensional distance matrix into 2D coordinate system so that the correlation between map-distances and data-distances is maximized.
The algorithm for data-transformation, developed by C. Höschl jr., is a dimensionality-reduction technique, such as PCA, and its goodness of fit can be measured by Spearman correlation between the map-distances and data-distances.
Sociomapping takes into account that, particularly in case of social relations, relational data may be asymmetrical (e.g. John like Mary more than she likes him) and preserves this information by mapping the objects in such a way that for each object the closest other object is the one closest to it according to the metric of choice in the underlying data, and so on for other objects ordered by distance.
Application
There are two main areas of application for Sociomapping – groups (small systems) and populations (large systems). For each area a different method of visualization and data transformation is used in order to facilitate people’s ability to understand and interpret the analyzed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20Chance%20Learners | Last Chance Learners was an Australian television program which was created by the Seven Network. The show gave ten learner drivers the chance to be trained by an experienced driving instructor and the opportunity to take their driver's licence test and win a brand new Hyundai Getz.
Last Chance Learners premiered on Wednesday 18 April 2007 at 7:30pm on Channel Seven and was hosted by former Test cricketer and Who Dares Wins host Mike Whitney. After the conclusion of the series final on 4 July 2007, the Seven Network planned a live reunion special, also hosted by Whitney, where all ten learners would talk about their experiences on the show and answer questions from a live studio audience. The special also planned to give away the remaining Hyundai Getzs to lucky home viewers. However, the reunion special was cancelled. Repeats have been shown on 7Two.
The series was also broadcast in the UK on Living2 as Desperate Learners Driving School.
The learner drivers
The ten learner drivers were split up into two teams of five learner drivers each. Each team had its own dedicated driving instructor. The red team instructor was Jann Shipley while the blue team instructor was Chris Breen.
Red Team
Blue Team
Episodes
External links
Official LCL Myspace
Australia DKT Test
Seven Network original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
Driver's education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20antenna%20interference%20cancellation | Single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) is a technique used to boost the capacity of global system for mobile communications (GSM) networks without any other changes needed in the network. In a GPS network, there is a trade-off between downlink capacity and interference level. To optimize this trade-off, the mobile station (i.e. a cell phone) must exploit a property of the interferers. The techniques used to do this are commonly referred to as single antenna interference cancellation.
Use
Network operators want to use the allocated spectrum as efficiently as possible and to the highest possible capacity, to maximize the return from the investment into the license for it. The ideal frequency reuse is one, meaning that each cell can operate at the same frequency. This in turn creates interference to users operating in nearby places. Increase Interference causes voice quality to drop and may cause call drop. It is possible to cancel the interference at the mobile handset side by changing the baseband software without changing anything at the network side. SAIC-enabled mobiles can work at high levels of interference, and need less transmit power from the network, which in turn reduces interference in the network. Studies shows that the speech quality gain can be about 6% at a SAIC mobiles penetration of 10%, about 37% at a SAIC mobile penetration of 50%, and about 99% at a SAIC mobiles penetration of 100%.
References
GSM standard
Radio resource management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW%20pyramid | The DIKW pyramid, also known variously as the DIKW hierarchy, wisdom hierarchy, knowledge hierarchy, information hierarchy, information pyramid, and the data pyramid, refers loosely to a class of models for representing purported structural and/or functional relationships between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. "Typically information is defined in terms of data, knowledge in terms of information, and wisdom in terms of knowledge".The DIKW acronym has worked into the rotation from knowledge management. It demonstrates how the deep understanding of the subject emerges, passing through four qualitative stages: "D" – data, "I" – information, "K" – knowledge and "W" – wisdom
Not all versions of the DIKW model reference all four components (earlier versions not including data, later versions omitting or downplaying wisdom), and some include additional components. In addition to a hierarchy and a pyramid, the DIKW model has also been characterized as a chain, as a framework, as a series of graphs, and as a continuum.
History
Danny P. Wallace, a professor of library and information science, explained that the origin of the DIKW pyramid is uncertain:
The presentation of the relationships among data, information, knowledge, and sometimes wisdom in a hierarchical arrangement has been part of the language of information science for many years. Although it is uncertain when and by whom those relationships were first presented, the ubiquity of the notion of a hierarchy is embedded in the use of the acronym DIKW as a shorthand representation for the data-to-information-to-knowledge-to-wisdom transformation.Many authors think that the idea of the DIKW relationship originated from two lines in the poem "Choruses", by T. S. Eliot, that appears in the pageant play The Rock, in 1934:
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom
In 1927, Clarence W. Barron addressed his employees at Dow Jones & Company on the hierarchy: "Knowledge, Intelligence and Wisdom."
Data, information, knowledge
In 1955, English-American economist and educator Kenneth Boulding presented a variation on the hierarchy consisting of "signals, messages, information, and knowledge". However, "[t]he first author to distinguish among data, information, and knowledge and to also employ the term 'knowledge management' may have been American educator Nicholas L. Henry", in a 1974 journal article.
Data, information, knowledge, wisdom
Other early versions (prior to 1982) of the hierarchy that refer to a data tier include those of Chinese-American geographer Yi-Fu Tuan and sociologist-historian Daniel Bell.. In 1980, Irish-born engineer Mike Cooley invoked the same hierarchy in his critique of automation and computerization, in his book Architect or Bee?: The Human / Technology Relationship.
Thereafter, in 1987, Czechoslovakia-born educator Milan Zeleny mapped the elements of the hierarchy to knowledge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic%20Dreams%20of%20Pi | Cybernetic Dreams of Pi, released in 1983, is an album by The Slickee Boys. It was released on LP by the Minneapolis record label Twin/Tone (catalog number TTR 8337). Along with songs penned by the band, there are cover versions of songs by Hamilton Streetcar and the Status Quo. To support the album, the band shot music videos for "Life of the Party" and "When I Go to the Beach", the latter video receiving semi-regular airplay on MTV, thanks to a second-place finish on that channel's Basement Tapes show. A CD version with eight additional tracks was released 22 years later.
Track listing
"Escalator 66" – 2:39 (Marshall Keith, Mark Noone)
"You've Got What It Takes" – 3:37 (Noone)
"Life of the Party" – 3:25 (Noone)
"When I Go to the Beach" – 2:42 (Noone)
"Pushin' My Luck" – 3:45 (Kim Kane, Keith, Noone)
"Invisible People" – 3:32 (Ralph Plummer)
Originally recorded by Hamilton Streetcar, 1968
"Nagasaki Neuter" – 3:16 (Keith, Kane)
"Say Goodbye" – 3:03 (Noone)
"Time Spent Waiting" – 3:06 (Keith, Noone)
"The Crawling Hand" – 2:45 (Keith)
"Pictures of Matchstick Men" – 2:41 (Francis Rossi)
"Marble Orchard" – 6:02 (Kane)
"Gotta Tell Me Why" – 4:22 (Noone) [CD bonus track]
"Glendora" – 2:39 (Ray Stanley) [CD bonus track]
Originally recorded by Perry Como, 1956
"Golden Love" – 3:48 (Kane) [CD bonus track]
"Forbidden Alliance" – 2:32 (Keith, Noone) [CD bonus track]
"A Question of Temperature" – 3:31 (Mike Appel, Ed Schnug, Don Henny) [CD bonus track]
Originally recorded by the Balloon Farm, 1967
"Reverse Psychiatry" – 4:03 (Noone, Keith, Emery Olexa) [CD bonus track]
"Without a Word of Warning" – 2:22 (Snuff Garrett, Leon Russell, Gary Lewis) [CD bonus track]
Originally recorded by Gary Lewis & the Playboys, 1965
"(I'm) Misunderstood" – 2:34 (Ed Kuepper, Chris Bailey) [CD bonus track]
Originally recorded by the Saints, 1978
Personnel
The band
Mark Noone – Lead vocals
Marshall Keith – Lead guitar, keyboards, back-up vocals
Kim Kane – Rhythm guitar, organ
Dan Palenski – Drums, back-up vocals
John Chumbris – Bass guitar
Emery Olexa – Bass guitar ("Escalator 66", "Life of the Party", "When I Go to the Beach", "Pushin' My Luck", "Invisible People", "The Crawling Hand")
Production
John Chumbris – Producer
The Slickee Boys – Producer
Don Zientara — Engineer
Additional credits
Recorded at Inner Ear Studio, Arlington, Virginia
Kim Kane – Cover art
Tom Shea – Photos
Dedicated to Richard Sobol
Steve Carr – Digital remastering (for CD)
Digitally remastered at Hit & Run Recordings
Alternative versions
The LP was also released by the German Line label (1000 copies on white vinyl with significantly different cover artwork, catalog number LILP 4.00094) and on New Rose, too (with the Twin/Tone cover art, catalog number ROSE 33).
An expanded CD version was released on Dacoit in 2005 (catalog number 2005-3). The CD includes eight additional songs: all four songs from 1979's 3rd EP ("Gotta Tell Me Why", "Glendora", "Golden Love", "Forbidden Alliance") plus four songs "f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Microsoft%20Windows%20versions | Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of computer software operating systems created by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
All versions of Microsoft Windows are commercial proprietary software.
General information
Basic general information about Windows.
DOS shells
Has partial 32-bit compatibility with Win32s
Windows 9x
Windows NT
has also an N-edition
has also an N-edition
has also an N-edition
has a separate x64-edition
has also a Core-edition
has also an edition without HyperV
has also a Core-edition without HyperV
Windows Embedded Compact
Windows Embedded Compact (Windows CE) is a discontinued variation of Microsoft's Windows operating system for minimalistic computers and embedded systems. Windows CE was a distinctly different kernel, rather than a trimmed-down version of desktop Windows. It is supported on Intel x86 and is compatible on MIPS, ARM, and Hitachi SuperH processors.
Windows IoT
The Windows IoT family is the successor to the now-discontinued Windows Embedded family.
Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile is Microsoft's discontinued line of operating systems for smartphones.
Windows Phone
Windows Phone is Microsoft's discontinued line of operating systems for smartphones.
Technical information
DOS shells
Windows 9x
It is possible to install the MS-DOS variants 7.0 and 7.1 without the graphics user interface of Windows. If an independent installation of both, DOS and Windows is desired, DOS ought to be installed prior to Windows, at the start of a small partition. The system must be transferred by the (dangerous) "SYSTEM" DOS-command, while the other files constituting DOS can simply be copied (the files located in the DOS-root and the entire COMMAND directory). Such a stand-alone installation of MS-DOS 8 is not possible, as it is designed to work as real mode for Windows Me and nothing else.
Windows NT
The Windows NT kernel powers all recent Windows operating systems. It has run on IA-32, x64, DEC Alpha, MIPS architecture, PowerPC, Itanium, ARMv7, and ARM64 processors, but currently supported versions run on IA-32, x64, ARMv7, and ARM64.
Windows Phone
Supported file systems
Various versions of Windows support various file systems, including:FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, or NTFS, along with network file systems shared from other computers, and the ISO 9660 and UDF file systems used for CDs, DVDs, and other optical disc drives such as Blu-ray. Each file system is usually limited in application to certain media, for example CDs must use ISO 9660 or UDF, and as of Windows Vista, NTFS is the only file system which the operating system can be installed on. Windows Embedded CE 6.0, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Server 2008 onwards support exFAT, a file system more suitable for USB flash drives.
Windows 9x
Windows NT
Windows Phone
Hardware requi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGATE%20%28architecture%20framework%29 | AGATE (Atelier de Gestion de l'ArchiTEcture des systèmes d'information et de communication) is a framework for modeling computer or communication systems architecture.
It is promoted by the Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (DGA), the French government agency which conducts development and evaluation programs for weapon systems for the French military. All major DGA weapons and information technology system procurements are required to document their proposed system architecture using the set of views prescribed in AGATE.
AGATE is similar to DoDAF, promoted by U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) or MODAF, promoted by UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). It is only available in French.
Scope
AGATE defines architectural views for systems and systems of systems, covering:
Stakes and objectives of the system
Description of the related organizations
processes and information flows
Security requirements, in compliance with DGA policy
Services of the system, and traceability with operational needs
Logical architecture of the system
Physical architecture of the systems, and hardware and software products used in this architecture
Life cycle of the system
AGATE Views
An AGATE model is organized into 5 views:
Stakes, Objectives, and context about the system
Business architecture: describes organizations and Business processes managed by the modelized Information system
Service-oriented architecture: describes the Services of the system.
Logical architecture of the system
Physical architecture of the systems, and hardware and software products used in this architecture
Representation
The AGATE meta-model is defined using a UML representation.
Visio elements for the AGATE representation are provided by the DGA.
History
The first DGA initiative for a standardized French architecture framework was initialized in July 2001, under the acronym AMAC. The denomination was changed to AGATE in November of the same year.
March 2004: Version 2.1
December 2005: Version 3
See also
Délégation Générale pour l'Armement
Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF)
NATO Architecture Framework (NAF)
British Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF)
References
External links
AGATE page on French Defense procurement website
short presentation of AGATE on French Defense procurement portal
Enterprise architecture frameworks
Military acquisition
Military of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobel%20network | For the wave filter invented by Zobel and sometimes named after him see m-derived filters.
Zobel networks are a type of filter section based on the image-impedance design principle. They are named after Otto Zobel of Bell Labs, who published a much-referenced paper on image filters in 1923. The distinguishing feature of Zobel networks is that the input impedance is fixed in the design independently of the transfer function. This characteristic is achieved at the expense of a much higher component count compared to other types of filter sections. The impedance would normally be specified to be constant and purely resistive. For this reason, Zobel networks are also known as constant resistance networks. However, any impedance achievable with discrete components is possible.
Zobel networks were formerly widely used in telecommunications to flatten and widen the frequency response of copper land lines, producing a higher performance line from one originally intended for ordinary telephone use. Analogue technology has given way to digital technology and they are now little used.
When used to cancel out the reactive portion of loudspeaker impedance, the design is sometimes called a Boucherot cell. In this case, only half the network is implemented as fixed components, the other half being the real and imaginary components of the loudspeaker impedance. This network is more akin to the power factor correction circuits used in electrical power distribution, hence the association with Boucherot's name.
A common circuit form of Zobel networks is in the form of a bridged T network. This term is often used to mean a Zobel network, sometimes incorrectly when the circuit implementation is not a bridged T.
Derivation
The basis of a Zobel network is a balanced bridge circuit as shown in the circuit to the right. The condition for balance is that;
If this is expressed in terms of a normalised Z0 = 1 as is conventionally done in filter tables, then the balance condition is simply;
Or, is simply the inverse, or dual impedance of .
The bridging impedance ZB is across the balance points and hence has no potential across it. Consequently, it will draw no current and its value makes no difference to the function of the circuit. Its value is often chosen to be Z0 for reasons which will become clear in the discussion of bridged T circuits further on.
Input impedance
The input impedance is given by
Substituting the balance condition,
yields
The input impedance can be designed to be purely resistive by setting
The input impedance will then be real and independent of ω in band and out of band no matter what complexity of filter section is chosen.
Transfer function
If the Z0 in the bottom right of the bridge is taken to be the output load then a transfer function of Vo/Vin can be calculated for the section. Only the rhs branch needs to be considered in this calculation. The reason for this can be seen by considering that there |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alloy%20Computer%20Products | Alloy Computer Products is an Australian manufacturer of information technology products based near Melbourne. As of 2007, the company currently markets networking and VoIP products. The company was originally based in Framingham, Massachusetts, and at one point was a major producer of QIC format tape drives and other computer peripherals. In the mid 1990s the company was no longer profitable. It filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and the Australian subsidiary was bought out by the management team from the Australian division.
Alloy Computer Products, Inc., was founded in 1979. Alloy was initially founded to supply hard drive and tape backup systems for S-100 bus computers running CP/M. When IBM's PC was released, Alloy provided hard drive storage and tape backup solutions for the new system. Alloy Computer Products later developed and marketed multi-user computer systems for the emerging microcomputer marketplace. Alloy later developed printing accelerator hardware.
In 1984 Alloy developed the PC-Slave card which consisted of an x86 (8086 or V20) processor, either 256 KB or 1 MB of memory and two serial ports. Later, an Intel 80286-based version was released, called the PC-Slave/286. These cards used RTNX (later renamed NTNX) to allow the host computer to provide disk storage and printing support. Dumb PC-terminals were attached to the PC-Slave to allow the running of DOS programs. At the time, using this solution was more cost-effective than using separate networked computers, but as computers and networking hardware became cheaper and cheaper, Alloy's advantage was overshadowed by the disadvantages of not being able to support graphics, etc. Alloy also developed a PC-Bus expansion bus system to allow the install of up to 32 PC-Slave cards attached to a single host PC. This allowed 32 user networks to be created, but each network was completely standalone.
Based on the knowledge learned by developing the PC-Slave card, in 1985 Alloy developed the DOS-73 co-processor board for the AT&T UNIX PC, allowing AT&T's Unix-based UNIX PC (aka the PC 7300 and the 3B1) to run MS-DOS based programs.
Alloy grew to $50 million in annual sales by 1986 and executed a successful IPO in June of that year. Alloy had an installed base of 150,000 users by the early 1990s, largely small businesses, comprising a relatively significant portion of the multi-user DOS marketplace. One DOS based computer was equipped with a multi-user/multi-tasking operating system called "386/MultiWare" which along with specialized hardware could provide serial connectivity to up to 20 dumb terminal clients. Each dumb terminal was connected to a session running up to 8 concurrent DOS virtual machines, all running on the host computer. If a problem arose with a single DOS virtual machine it could be rebooted without an effect on other terminals attached. Later "MultiNode" was introduced to meet client needs using the Novell network operating system allowing both Client/Server network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFX%20%28disambiguation%29 | QFX may refer to:
QFX (program), a computer image editing program
QFX (band), a Scottish techno band
QFX (file format), "Quicken Financial Exchange" file format used by Intuit software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20Virginia%20Tech%20shooting | This timeline of events from the Virginia Tech shooting lists times in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4).
The official timeline was compiled by TriData Corp, a division of defense contractor System Planning Corp., for use by the eight-member panel appointed by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine.
Background
2003
Seung-Hui Cho graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia.
2004
Monday, January 19
Cho started trading on eBay with ID "blazers5505".
2005
Fall
Andy Koch, Cho's suitemate, took Cho out to some parties at the start of the fall semester in 2005. At one party, Cho got "tipsy" enough that he opened up and began talking about his virtual love life. He said he had an imaginary girlfriend named Jelly, and that she was "a supermodel that lived in space." Jelly had a nickname for Cho—Spanky.
Andy Koch along with John Eide snooped in Cho's belongings and "found nothing more threatening than a pocket knife."
Fall poetry class
Professor Nikki Giovanni requested that Cho either change the sinister content of his poems or drop the class. Cho responded, "You can't make me."
Removed from poetry class
Lucinda Roy, co-director of the creative writing program removed Cho from Professor Giovanni's class and tutored him one-on-one. When Cho refused to go to counseling, Roy notified the Division of Student Affairs, the Cook Counseling Center, the Schiffert Health Center, the Virginia Tech police and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
Fall writing class
Professor Lisa Norris, who had Cho in her class, alerted the associate dean of students, Mary Ann Lewis, who could find "no mention of mental health issues or police reports" on Cho.
Sunday, November 27
A female student filed a report with the Virginia Tech campus police indicating that Cho had made "annoying" contact with her on the internet, by phone and in person. The investigating officer referred Cho to the school's disciplinary system, the office of judicial affairs, which is separate from the police department.
Monday, December 12
Another female student, a friend of Andy Koch, filed a report with the Virginia Tech campus police complaining of "disturbing" instant messages from Cho. She requested that Cho "have no further contact with her."
Tuesday, December 13
Virginia Tech campus police notified Cho that he was to have no further contact with the female student.
After Virginia Tech campus police left, Andy Koch, Cho's roommate, received an instant message from Cho stating, "I might as well kill myself now."
In response to receiving the instant message from Cho, Andy Koch, Cho's roommate, notified the resident advisor and phoned his father. Koch and his father alerted Virginia Tech campus police that Cho had sent Koch a suicidal instant message.
Virginia Tech campus police took Cho off campus to a voluntary counseling evaluation at New River Community Services, where he was examined by Kathy Goodbey. Goodbey determined that he was "mentally ill and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Artzt | Russell M. Artzt (born January 23, 1947) is an American businessesman and software developer. He co-founded Computer Associates (now CA Technologies) with Charles B. Wang.
Career
He met Wang in the 1960s while he was working at the Electronic Laboratories at Columbia University. They became friends and later both joined Standard Data Corporation, before founding CA in 1976. Artzt served as Vice Chairman and as President in charge of .
In 2015, he left his role as co-chairman on CA Technologies’ Board of Directors. He currently serves as the executive chairman of RingLead, a cloud-based data management company.
References
External links
Haefner bio, Forbes.com
Wang bio, mediamente.rai.it
Artzt bio, ca.com
Living people
1947 births
American businesspeople
People from Old Westbury, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st%20Tony%20Awards | The 21st Annual Tony Awards ceremony was broadcast on March 26, 1967, from the Shubert Theatre in New York City on the ABC Television network. This was the Awards ceremony's inaugural broadcast on U.S. network television. The hosts were Mary Martin and Robert Preston. This year marked the first joint presentation of the awards by the American Theatre Wing with The Broadway League (formerly The League of American Theatres and Producers).
The ceremony
Presenters were: Lauren Bacall, Harry Belafonte, Carol Burnett, Marge and Gower Champion, Kirk Douglas, John Forsythe, Jill Haworth, Angela Lansbury, Mayor John V. Lindsay, David Merrick, Zero Mostel, Lynn Redgrave, Lee Remick and Barbra Streisand.
The ceremony featured performances from the following musicals:
Cabaret ("Wilkommen" – Joel Grey and Company)
The Apple Tree ("Movie Star"/"Gorgeous" – Barbara Harris and Larry Blyden)
I Do! I Do! ("Nobody's Perfect" – Mary Martin and Robert Preston)
Walking Happy ("Walking Happy" – Norman Wisdom and Company)
Award winners and nominees
Winners are in bold
Multiple nominations and awards
These productions had multiple nominations:
11 nominations: Cabaret
7 nominations: The Apple Tree and I Do! I Do!
6 nominations: The Homecoming and Walking Happy
5 nominations: Black Comedy and A Delicate Balance
3 nominations: A Joyful Noise, The Killing of Sister George and The Wild Duck
2 nominations: Annie Get Your Gun, A Hand Is on the Gate, Marat/Sade and The School for Scandal
The following productions received multiple awards.
8 wins: Cabaret
4 wins: The Homecoming
References
External links
Tony Awards official site
Tony Awards ceremonies
1967 in theatre
1967 awards in the United States
March 1967 events in the United States
Tony Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crook%20and%20Ladder | "Crook and Ladder" is the nineteenth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 6, 2007. It was written by Bill Odenkirk and directed by Lance Kramer.
Plot
Marge, following the advice of a parenting magazine, takes away Maggie's pacifier, leading her to destroy the inside of the Simpson home. Marge explains to Maggie that it's for her own good until Lisa reveals the magazine is by Larry Flynt Publications. The family runs out of spare pacifiers, so Marge sends Homer to buy a new one, but he cannot find the right brand, making Maggie cry. Luckily, Santa's Little Helper gives Maggie his squeaky toy, which calms her, but also makes Homer unable to sleep. He uses sleeping drugs, which causes him to unintentionally sleepwalk.
Taking advantage of this situation, one night, Bart and Milhouse have Homer drive them around town. When Homer abruptly wakes up, he crashes into the Fire Department house, injuring all the firemen. As they recuperate at a hospital, Homer, Apu, Moe, and Principal Skinner become volunteer firefighters. Mayor Quimby refuses to train them beyond a standard textbook, but the new team is quite efficient. After the first few fires, despite being initially against it, they are rewarded for their efforts.
This practice soon spoils the men, and when they save Mr. Burns's house and receive no reward, they feel cheated and steal some of his abundant treasures, claiming they were destroyed by the fire. From then on, they (except Skinner who wants no involvement with it) take items from the places they save and no one doubts their lie. However, Marge and the kids soon catch Homer in the act and Marge gets the kids to make sad faces around him everywhere he goes. Annoyed by this gesture, he decides to stop and convince the others to stop too after saving Moe's and Apu's lives. They then give their loot to the homeless.
Cultural references
The sleep medicine "Nappien" parodies two popular sleeping medicines. While the name is based on Ambien, the commercials feature a moth based on one used in similar commercials for Lunesta.
The episode features numerous references to TV and film, including Forrest Gump (Mr Burns floats like the feather and music from the film plays in a scene), and Punk'd (Apu pretends he's been reincarnated as a cat, then says "You've been Apu'd"). The music that plays during the montage of Bart, Milhouse, and Homer is "Frankenstein" by The Edgar Winter Group. When Bart discovers that Homer arranges the VHS tapes like dominoes, the cover of C.H.U.D. is briefly seen.
Critical reception
Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode a "Great" rating of 8 out of 10. He said the "delightful" show was a return to form, and praised its "great pacing, fun character interactions and laugh-out-loud moments". He noted that "the story was told with several fantastic, almost stream-of-consciousness segues that smartly linked c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIY%20%28disambiguation%29 | DIY stands for Do it yourself.
DIY may also refer to:
Do it yourself
Hardware stores, also called "DIY stores", selling equipment for home improvement directly to consumers
DIY Network, a television channel focusing on home do-it-yourself projects
DIY audio, do-it-yourself audio equipment
DIY ethic, the ethic of being self-reliant as opposed to relying on professionals
DIY moving, do-it-yourself packing and moving
DIY networking, different types of grassroots networking
DIY birth or unassisted birth, the process of intentionally giving birth without the assistance of a medical or professional birth attendant
Do-it-yourself biology
Music
DIY music, another name for lo-fi music
DIY♡ (Dance in Your Heart), a Hello! Project musical group created as part of the Satoyama Movement
DiY Sound System, an English musical collective
DIY (magazine), a United Kingdom-based music magazine
Albums
Do It Yourself (Ian Dury & the Blockheads album), 1979
Do It Yourself (The Seahorses album), 1997
Songs
"D.I.Y.", a 1978 song by Peter Gabriel from his second solo album Peter Gabriel (1978 album)
"D.I.Y.", a 1999 song by KMFDM from Adios
"DIY", a 2011 song by Savoy
"D.I.Y", a 2014 song by Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott from What Have We Become?
"DIY", a 2022 song by Stela Cole who represented Georgia in the American Song Contest
Other uses
Diyarbakır Airport (IATA code)
DIY (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling tag team
DiY-Fest, a festival of ultra-independent movies, books, zines, music, poetry, and performance art 1999–2002
Special Region of Yogyakarta (Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta), a province-level region in Indonesia
WarioWare D.I.Y., a video game for the Nintendo DS
Do It Yourself!!, a Japanese original anime television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Simpsons%20%28season%2019%29 | The nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons originally aired on the Fox network between September 23, 2007, and May 18, 2008. It was the final complete season to be broadcast in 4:3 and in standard definition, although the first half of season 20 would also retain this standard.
Production
The nineteenth season of The Simpsons is the first one produced after the movie and contained seven hold-over episodes from season 18's JABF production line. Al Jean served as showrunner, a position he has held since the thirteenth season, while the season was produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television.
Army Archerd reported that due to the 100-day Writers Guild of America strike only 22 episodes would be produced instead of the planned 23, which is much closer to the length of a regular season than most live-action and animated programs that were also affected by the strike. Entertainment Weekly also reported that, at the time, there were only six episodes remaining that were ready, which would make the season's production run consist of a total of 22 episodes.
The nineteenth season featured the returns of several characters from previous seasons. Kelsey Grammer made his tenth appearance as Sideshow Bob, and David Hyde Pierce made his second as Bob's brother Cecil Terwilliger in "Funeral for a Fiend". Beverly D'Angelo made her second appearance as Lurleen Lumpkin, who first appeared in season three's "Colonel Homer". Glenn Close returned as Grandma Mona Simpson for the third time.
Matt Groening described this season as "just about our most ambitious yet". The season's "The Homer of Seville" was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award.
Reception
Critical reception
Robert Canning of IGN gave the series a 6.6 saying that it was "Passable" and that "Heck, read through the comments section at the bottom of our IGN Simpsons reviews and more than half will in some way be talking about the poor quality of recent episodes. (And "poor quality" is putting it politely.)" although he praised the late episodes of the season.
Awards
"Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program, the tenth in the history of the show. Alf Clausen also received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (original Dramatic Score) for the episode "Treehouse of Horror XVIII".
Nielsen rating
The Simpsons ranked 83rd in the seasonal ratings getting a viewership of 7.950 million viewers and an 18–49 Nielsen Rating of 3.8 making it the highest-ranking show from "Animation Domination" right above Family Guy.
Episodes
Home media
On Saturday, July 20, 2019, it was announced by current showrunner Al Jean during the San Diego Comic-Con 2019 panel that the nineteenth season DVD would be released on Tuesday, December 3, 2019, in the United States and Canada by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, eleven years after it had completed broadcast on television. The Se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Kent%20Always%20Say%20What%20You%20Want | "You Kent Always Say What You Want" is the twenty-second episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 20, 2007, as part of the one-hour season finale, alongside the episode "24 Minutes". It was the milestone 400th episode of The Simpsons and was written by Tim Long. The episode guest starred Ludacris as himself and Maurice LaMarche as the Fox announcer.
It was the last episode to air prior to The Simpsons Movie, which was released two months later on July 27, 2007.
Special opening
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the show (when counting the shorts), the entire opening sequence is replaced with a black screen that reads, "20 Years Ago..." followed by a showing of The Tracey Ullman Show Simpsons short "Family Portrait" (which involved Homer failing the shot on multiple occasions).
Plot
Driving home after a trip to the dentist, Homer takes the Simpson family to an ice cream parlor, where he buys the store's millionth ice cream cone. This results in Homer appearing on Kent Brockman's TV news talk show Smartline on Channel 6 since both have the same owner. Kent is disgusted that he is forced to do a fluff piece instead of an in-depth, intellectually stimulating discussion of the conflict in the Middle East. During the interview, Homer accidentally knocks Kent's cup of coffee into his lap, making him swear in pain.
After the commercial break, Kent apologizes, but is relieved to find that, as the Internet has supplanted television as a source of news information, no one saw his on-air faux pas. However, Ned Flanders reviews the incident and gets people of alike minds to report it to the Federal Communications Commission. The next day, during the newscast, Kent finds out that he is under scrutiny for his indiscretion and that the station has been fined $10 million. He is demoted to weekend weatherman with his rival, Arnie Pye, as the new anchorman. Later, Lindsey Naegle speaks to Kent, assuring him that his job is safe, but fires him after she sees what she thinks is cocaine in his coffee cup, ignoring his insistence that it is actually Splenda.
Marge invites a suicidal Kent to sleep over at the Simpson house. While watching TV the next day, Lisa wonders why the cable channel Fox News can be so conservative while the Fox Network broadcasts sexualized content. Kent replies that Fox deliberately airs programs with morally reprehensible content so that they will be fined by the FCC, with the fines being funneled to the Republican Party. According to Brockman, everyone in the entertainment business knows this, but no one is brave enough to report the scam. Lisa goads him into blowing the whistle on the scam, using her web camera and uploading the revelation onto YouTube. Kent's subsequent webcast is so successful that Springfield's Republican Party members are less than thrilled about Kent threatening their ill-gotten gains, so Naegle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiautomaton | In mathematics and theoretical computer science, a semiautomaton is a deterministic finite automaton having inputs but no output. It consists of a set Q of states, a set Σ called the input alphabet, and a function T: Q × Σ → Q called the transition function.
Associated with any semiautomaton is a monoid called the characteristic monoid, input monoid, transition monoid or transition system of the semiautomaton, which acts on the set of states Q. This may be viewed either as an action of the free monoid of strings in the input alphabet Σ, or as the induced transformation semigroup of Q.
In older books like Clifford and Preston (1967) semigroup actions are called "operands".
In category theory, semiautomata essentially are functors.
Transformation semigroups and monoid acts
A transformation semigroup or transformation monoid is a pair consisting of a set Q (often called the "set of states") and a semigroup or monoid M of functions, or "transformations", mapping Q to itself. They are functions in the sense that every element m of M is a map . If s and t are two functions of the transformation semigroup, their semigroup product is defined as their function composition .
Some authors regard "semigroup" and "monoid" as synonyms. Here a semigroup need not have an identity element; a monoid is a semigroup with an identity element (also called "unit"). Since the notion of functions acting on a set always includes the notion of an identity function, which when applied to the set does nothing, a transformation semigroup can be made into a monoid by adding the identity function.
M-acts
Let M be a monoid and Q be a non-empty set. If there exists a multiplicative operation
which satisfies the properties
for 1 the unit of the monoid, and
for all and , then the triple is called a right M-act or simply a right act. In long-hand, is the right multiplication of elements of Q by elements of M. The right act is often written as .
A left act is defined similarly, with
and is often denoted as .
An M-act is closely related to a transformation monoid. However the elements of M need not be functions per se, they are just elements of some monoid. Therefore, one must demand that the action of be consistent with multiplication in the monoid (i.e. ), as, in general, this might not hold for some arbitrary , in the way that it does for function composition.
Once one makes this demand, it is completely safe to drop all parenthesis, as the monoid product and the action of the monoid on the set are completely associative. In particular, this allows elements of the monoid to be represented as strings of letters, in the computer-science sense of the word "string". This abstraction then allows one to talk about string operations in general, and eventually leads to the concept of formal languages as being composed of strings of letters.
Another difference between an M-act and a transformation monoid is that for an M-act Q, two distinct elements of the monoid m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20system | In theoretical computer science, a transition system is a concept used in the study of computation. It is used to describe the potential behavior of discrete systems. It consists of states and transitions between states, which may be labeled with labels chosen from a set; the same label may appear on more than one transition. If the label set is a singleton, the system is essentially unlabeled, and a simpler definition that omits the labels is possible.
Transition systems coincide mathematically with abstract rewriting systems (as explained further in this article) and directed graphs. They differ from finite-state automata in several ways:
The set of states is not necessarily finite, or even countable.
The set of transitions is not necessarily finite, or even countable.
No "start" state or "final" states are given.
Transition systems can be represented as directed graphs.
Formal definition
Formally, a transition system is a pair where is a set of states and , the transition relation, is a subset of . We say that there is a transition from state to state iff , and denote it .
A labelled transition system is a tuple where is a set of states, is a set of labels, and , the labelled transition relation, is a subset of . We say that there is a transition from state to state with label iff and denote it
Labels can represent different things depending on the language of interest. Typical uses of labels include representing input expected, conditions that must be true to trigger the transition, or actions performed during the transition. Labelled transitions systems were originally introduced as named transition systems.
Special cases
If, for any given and , there exists only a single tuple in , then one says that is deterministic (for ).
If, for any given and , there exists at least one tuple in , then one says that is executable (for ).
Coalgebra formulation
The formal definition can be rephrased as follows. Labelled state transition systems on with labels from correspond one-to-one with functions , where is the (covariant) powerset functor. Under this bijection is sent to , defined by
.
In other words, a labelled state transition system is a coalgebra for the functor .
Relation between labelled and unlabelled transition system
There are many relations between these concepts. Some are simple, such as observing that a labelled transition system where the set of labels consists of only one element is equivalent to an unlabelled transition system. However, not all these relations are equally trivial.
Comparison with abstract rewriting systems
As a mathematical object, an unlabeled transition system is identical with an (unindexed) abstract rewriting system. If we consider the rewriting relation as an indexed set of relations, as some authors do, then a labeled transition system is equivalent to an abstract rewriting system with the indices being the labels. The focus of the study and the terminology are di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20system | A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software). It "consists of a number of separate programs, configuration files, which are used to set up these programs, system documentation, which describes the structure of the system, and user documentation, which explains how to use the system".
The term "software system" should be distinguished from the terms "computer program" and "software". The term computer program generally refers to a set of instructions (source, or object code) that perform a specific task. However, a software system generally refers to a more encompassing concept with many more components such as specification, test results, end-user documentation, maintenance records, etc.
The use of the term software system is at times related to the application of systems theory approaches in the context of software engineering. A software system consists of several separate computer programs and associated configuration files, documentation, etc., that operate together. The concept is used in the study of large and complex software, because it focuses on the major components of software and their interactions. It is also related to the field of software architecture.
Software systems are an active area of research for groups interested in software engineering in particular and systems engineering in general. Academic journals like the Journal of Systems and Software (published by Elsevier) are dedicated to the subject.
The ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "for developing a system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It has been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1983, with a cash prize sponsored by IBM.
The two types of are system software and application software
Categories
Major categories of software systems include those based on application software development, programming software, and system software although the distinction can sometimes be difficult. Examples of software systems include operating systems, computer reservations systems, air traffic control systems, military command and control systems, telecommunication networks, content management systems, database management systems, expert systems, embedded systems, etc.
See also
ACM Software System Award
Common layers in an information system logical architecture
Computer program
Computer program installation
Experimental software engineering
Software bug
Software architecture
System software
Systems theory
Systems Science
Systems Engineering
Software Engineering
References
Systems engineering
Software engineering terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geom%20raid5 | geom_raid5 is a storage module created for the FreeBSD operating system. It facilitates RAID5 functionality without the need of a hardware RAID controller.
geom_raid5 allows storage of large amounts of data to be protected against disk failure, while providing good throughput performance. Like other FreeBSD storage modules, geom_raid5 utilizes the GEOM framework. It is built as a kernel loadable module (KLD) which allows it to run inside the FreeBSD kernel. The module can be compiled on FreeBSD release 5 and newer releases. geom_raid5 is also incorporated into FreeNAS, an operating system dedicated to Network Attached Storage. Its author, Arne Woerner, has released the software under the BSD license, making geom_raid5 OSI-compliant open source software.
Comparing to other Software RAID5 solutions
geom_raid5 distinguishes itself by providing both advanced features and high performance. While the theoretical maximum write speed is , the latest version is able to achieve about 80% of that theoretical maximum. This is in huge contrast with other software RAID5 solutions which sometimes achieve less than 10% of that throughput combined with significantly higher CPU utilization.
The reason for this huge difference lies in geom_raid5's design. In order to write data to a RAID5 volume, data must often first be read in order to calculate the parity information that protects against data loss in case of a single disk failure. Using request combining a full stripe block can be 'collected' so a read is no longer required. This means the harddrive heads do not need to change position every time but can write data contiguously, theoretically at full speed.
Of course, this only works with sequential transfers and sometimes even then the filesystem does not write contiguously. But using request combining, geom_raid5 manages to outperform any software RAID5 solution to date, capable of reaching write-speeds associated with hardware RAID5 on budget-level x86 hardware.
Currently the module is being finalized. When a stable version is released the author will release further information about its design and disclose benchmarks. In particular, benchmarks showing geom_raid5 performance versus ZFS's RAID-Z are long-awaited by users.
Variants
Various incarnations of geom raid5 exist which trade off speed for memory usage.
geom_raid5
The most stable version but slower than the other variants in certain cases
geom_raid5 TNG
Uses more memory to deliver better transfer rates
geom_raid5 PP
Memory usage and speed is in between the TNG and PP. Uses less memory than TNG but is slower. Uses more memory than the original geom_raid5 driver and is faster. It is also claimed that PP's code best being the cleanest of the three
External links
FreeBSD perforce: repository for geom_raid5
geom_raid5 sources: http://www.wgboome.org/geom_raid5.html
RAID
FreeBSD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameswizards | Gameswizards, previously known as The Games Wizards, was an Australian Retailer which specialised in selling computer software, hardware and video game products. The company was established in Australia in January 1990. In 2006 the company was acquired by The Game Group PLC and re-branded as Game stores.
History
Games Wizards was founded in 1990, and by 1999 had 7 stores in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. In 2004 it received financial backing from Crescent Capital, and renamed itself from The Games Wizards to simply Gameswizards. By 2006, Gameswizards had expanded to 14 stores and 8 franchise stores across Australia's East coast.
Game acquisition
On 19 September 2006 The Game Group PLC, Europe's largest retailer of computer and video games, acquired Gameswizards for A$3.8 million. Game went on to acquire all of the franchise stores, and all pre-existing Gameswizards stores made the change over to the Game brand before the end of April 2007. The company followed the aggressive growth strategy of its UK parent and by 2007 the chain had grown to 49 stores nationwide. The growth continued to 118 stores by 2009. Management changes in 2010 saw the number of stores reduced by 26.
Following the 2012 problems of parent company, Game UK, the separate company governing Game Australia, started to suffer the same financial and stock problems.
Game Australia (trading as TGW Pty Ltd) entered into administration on 14 May 2012.
On 25 May 2012, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the administrators of Game Australia, announced that it had made 264 staff redundant and closed 60 stores. An expected further round of redundancies and closures was confirmed on 19 June 2012 when the administrators announced that 16 of the remaining 31 stores would close for good the same day and that the remaining 15 would close over the coming weeks, marking the end of Game Australia.
See also
Game (retailer)
References
Video game retailers in Australia
Retail companies established in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Terminology%20for%20Europe | Interactive Terminology for Europe (IATE) is the interinstitutional terminology database of the European Union. The project was launched in 1999 with the objective of creating a web-based interface for all EU terminology resources so as to make the information more easily available and ensure its standardisation throughout the EU institutions. It has been used in the EU institutions and agencies since summer 2004. A public user interface was released for testing in early 2007 and was officially opened on 28 June 2007. A new version was released on 7 November 2018 following a full rebuild of the system with state-of-the-art technologies, the latest software development standards, best practices on usability and accessibility, and a new look and feel.
IATE incorporated all of the existing terminology databases of the EU's translation services into one interinstitutional database containing approximately 1.4 million multilingual entries. The following legacy databases were imported into IATE:
Eurodicautom (European Commission)
TIS (Council of the European Union)
Euterpe (European Parliament)
Euroterms (Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union)
CDCTERM (European Court of Auditors).
IATE is intended to contain a single entry per concept, but actually contains multiple entries for many concepts. As these entries have been consolidated the number of entries has fallen, from approximately 1.4 million to less than 1 million, despite the addition of many new entries for new and previously unrecorded concepts.
The project partners are the European Commission, European Parliament, Council of the European Union, European Court of Justice, European Court of Auditors, European Economic and Social Committee, European Committee of the Regions, European Central Bank, European Investment Bank, and the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union.
The IATE web site is administered by the EU Translation Centre in Luxembourg on behalf of the project partners. The subject 'domains' are based on Eurovoc.
The entire IATE glossary database can be downloaded for free in a zipped format, then multilanguage glossaries can be generated using a free tool.
See also
European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies
EuroVoc
Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament
References
External links
IATE - Interactive Terminology for Europe
About IATE
IATE brochure
IATE FAQ
Paula Zorrilla-Agut. When IATE met LISE: LISE clean-up and consolidation tools take on the IATE challenge. Proceedings of the 19th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes, 8-10 July 2013, Vienna, Austria
Government databases of the European Union
Language policy of the European Union
Translation databases
Terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pootle | Pootle is an online translation management tool with a translation interface. It is written in the Python programming language using the Django framework and is free software originally developed and released by Translate.org.za in 2004. It was further developed as part of the WordForge project and the African Network for Localisation and is now maintained by Translate.org.za.
Pootle is a software platform for localization of applications' graphical user interfaces, as opposed to document translation. Pootle makes use of the Translate Toolkit for manipulating translation files and offline features used to manage the translation of LibreOffice and Gajim in Pootle. Pootle has built-in terminology extraction, translation memory, glossary management and matching, goal creation, and management of users.
In the translation process, it can display statistics for the body of translations hosted by the server and allow users to make translation suggestions and corrections for later review. It acts as a translation-specific bug reporting system, allowing online translation with various translators, operating as a management system where translators translate using an offline tool and use Pootle to manage the workflow of the translation.
The development of Pootle has stalled since 2007 because the latest version of Pootle (2.9) still supports only Python 2, despite Python 3 coming out in 2008. Nobody has migrated Pootle to Python 3.
History
Pootle was first developed by David Fraser while working for Translate.org.za in a project funded by the CATIA programme. Its first official release was made in December 2004 although it had been used in various internal Translate@thons by Translate.org.za.
The name Pootle is an acronym for PO-based Online Translation / Localization Engine, but it is also a character in the BBC children's program The Flumps.
Translate.org.za released various versions and in 2006 Pootle was further developed as part of the WordForge project, a project funded by the Open Society Institute and the International Development Research Centre. This added XLIFF file management and infrastructure for translation workflow. Many of these features were added in the 1.0 release.
Pootle is used by OpenOffice.org, One Laptop Per Child's learning environment Sugar and other projects. Pootle is the basis of the Verbatim project which is building localisation infrastructure for Mozilla projects.
Design philosophy
Pootle was designed to be a web translation tool using the Translate Toolkit. It serves as a translation management system, treating translation files as documents and managing them as such.
The aim of Pootle is never to replace existing processes but rather to enhance them. Thus it interacts with upstream version control systems allowing it to commit changes directly to the main project rather than maintaining a parallel system outside of the project.
It is free software and projects are encouraged to host their own Pootl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioAPI | BioAPI (Biometric Application Programming Interface) is a key part of the International Standards that support systems that perform biometric enrollment and verification (or identification). It defines interfaces between modules that enable software from multiple vendors to be integrated together to provide a biometrics application within a system, or between one or more systems using a defined Biometric Interworking Protocol (BIP) – see below.
Biometrics (measurements of physical characteristics of a person) are increasingly being used to provide verification of the identity of an individual, once they have been enrolled (one or more of their physical characteristics has been measured).
Computer systems that perform biometric enrollment, verification, or identification are becoming increasingly used. The BioAPI specification enables such systems to be produced by the integration of modules from multiple independent vendors.
Origins
The BioAPI specification is one of a set of International Standards produced jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) under their Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1), Subcommittee 37 on Biometrics.
The Standard was based on some early work done in the United States of America and by the BioAPI Consortium
which was called BioAPI 1.0 and BioAPI 1.1, but these specifications were revised and extended when the work
was introduced to ISO/IEC. The first international version
was therefore called BioAPI 2.0. A subsequent international version of BioAPI
containing extensions of the user interface-related features and other
enhancements produced a BioApi 2.1. Further enhancements to BioAPI are
expected.
BioAPI 2.0 is specified in ISO/IEC 19784-1 and was first published on
1 May 2006.
What and why?
The purpose of the BioAPI specification is to define an architecture and all necessary interfaces (using C programming language
specifications) to allow biometric applications (perhaps distributed across a network) to be integrated from modules provided by different vendors.
The ability for system integrator to produce complete systems using
components from multiple vendors is essential in the rapidly changing
technology of biometrics. It gives flexibility in the provision of modules, avoids vendor lock-in, provides a degree of future-proofing as the best available biometrics technologies change.
The modules being integrated may be software components containing
capture devices, such as fingerprint readers, cameras for face recognition, iris scanners, signature recognition devices, vascular imaging systems, etc.
They can also be modules that provide support for image processing of biometric data, feature extraction (a form of compression that is specific to a given biometric technology and allows direct matching of the compressed formats – for example, the relative distances on the face of eyes, nose, mouth, or the number of ridges betw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Level%20Navigations | The Middle Level Navigations are a network of waterways in England, primarily used for land drainage, which lie in The Fens between the Rivers Nene and Great Ouse, and between the cities of Peterborough and Cambridge. Most of the area through which they run is at or below sea level, and attempts to protect it from inundation have been carried out since 1480. The Middle Level was given its name by the Dutch Engineer Cornelius Vermuyden in 1642, who subsequently constructed several drainage channels to make the area suitable for agriculture. Water levels were always managed to allow navigation, and Commissioners were established in 1754 to maintain the waterways and collect tolls from commercial traffic.
The Middle Level Main Drain to Wiggenhall St Germans was completed in 1848, which provided better drainage because the outfall was lower than that at Salters Lode. Whittlesey Mere, the last remaining lake, was drained soon afterwards, using one of the first applications of John Appold's centrifugal pump, following its appearance at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Traffic on the network began to diminish after the opening of the railway through March in 1846, and fell dramatically in the early twentieth century. The last regular commercial traffic was the tanker barge Shellfen, which delivered fuel oil to pumping stations until 1971.
As a result of the drainage, land levels continued to fall, and in 1934 the gravity outfall at Wiggenhall St Germans was replaced by a pumping station, with three diesel engines driving diameter pumps. Its capacity was increased in 1951, and again in 1969–70, when two of the engines were replaced by electric motors. Following over 50 hours of continuous running at maximum capacity in 1998, a new pumping station was commissioned. Work on it began in 2006, and when it was completed in 2010, it was the second largest pumping station in Europe. Much of the drainage of the Middle Levels relies on pumping, and the Commissioners manage over 100 pumping stations throughout the area.
Interest in restoration of the Middle Levels for leisure traffic began in 1949, and the first significant work by volunteers occurred in 1972, when they worked on the restoration of Well Creek, which finally reopened in 1975. Since then, locks have been lengthened, to allow access by modern narrowboats, as they were built for Fen Lighters, which were only long. The southern reaches became more accessible in 2006, when a low Bailey bridge was raised by soldiers from the 39 Engineer Regiment. The system is managed by Commissioners, and they are the fourth largest navigation authority in Great Britain.
History
The Middle Levels of the Fens are a low-lying area of approximately , much of which is at or below sea level. Attempts to protect them from inundation and to make them suitable for agriculture began in 1480, when the Bishop of Ely, John Morton, constructed a straight cut from Stanground to Guyhirne. This provided the waters of the River Ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurescom | Eurescom is a private organisation for managing European research and development projects in telecommunications. Eurescom is based in Heidelberg, Germany, and currently has 16 network operators as members performing collaborative research and development.
History
In 1991, the European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (Eurescom) was founded by European telecommunications network operators as an organisation for coordinating collaborative research and development programmes. In mid-1990, 26 European network operators signed a Memorandum of Understanding as a basis for establishing the institute as a centre for collaborative research and development in Heidelberg, Germany.
Since 1991, Eurescom produced several hundred European telecommunications technology project results. Eurescom made, for example, contributions to the introduction of interoperable European ISDN, the design of network management systems, specifications in the Internet domain, and the development of new services and applications for mobile networks and fixed networks.
Eurescom works with other European organisations in the telecommunications sector, including the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. In 1998, ETSI, Eurescom and the ACTS programme on Advanced Communications Technologies of the European Commission agreed on closer collaboration.
Members
Deutsche Telekom, Germany
France Telecom, France
BT Group, United Kingdom
OTE, Greece
Portugal Telecom, Portugal
Telekom Austria, Austria
Telenor, Norway
eircom, Ireland
Magyar Telekom, Hungary
CYTA, Cyprus
Síminn, Iceland
Slovak Telecom, Slovak Republic
Republic Telecommunication Agency (RATEL), Republic of Serbia
Swisscom, Switzerland
Telecom Italia, Italy
Activities
Eurescom has been involved in EU research projects under the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development and EUREKA. Eurescom participates in discussions on the future of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a member of the Wireless World Research Forum and in the European Technology Platforms Emobility Technology Platform and Networked and Electronic Media. Eurescom is involved in future Internet research. In addition, Eurescom runs its own Eurescom Study Programme, in which European network operators collaborate on exploring future telecommunications technologies.
Eurescom provides a set of Web-based project management tools called EuresTools.
See also
Community Research & Development Information Service (CORDIS)
EUREKA
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
European Research Area (ERA)
European Research Council (ERC)
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
Lisbon Strategy
Project management
Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development
References
External links
Eurescom Website
CELTIC Website
European Future Internet Portal
WWRF - Wireless World Research Forum
eMobility Technology Platform
NEM Technology Platform
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Marylebone%20School | Saint Marylebone School is a secondary school for girls in Marylebone, London. It specialises in Performing Arts, General Arts, Maths & Computing. In the sixth form, boys can attend as well. The school then became a converter academy, having previously been judged as "outstanding in every respect" by Ofsted.
Founded in 1791, Saint Marylebone Church of England School is now a multi-faith comprehensive school for girls aged from eleven to eighteen. The main site is located just behind St Marylebone Parish Church, with the Sixth Form Centre based in another building nearby at Blandford Street.
History
The St Marylebone School began as the Marylebone "Day School of Industry," founded in 1791 in what was then Paradise Street, now Moxon Street, to educate the children of the poor in the parish. Boys and girls were taught skills such as needlework and straw plaiting. The school was funded by donations, charity sermons and income from the children's handiwork. In 1808, with the support of local philanthropist and social reformer Sir Thomas Bernard, the school moved to 82 Marylebone High Street, which is now a boutique store. Subsequently, to make room for growing numbers, it moved to a site on Paddington Street, which is identifiable today as a Mission Church. Then in 1858 the 5th Duke of Portland bought a plot of ground near the top of Marylebone High Street and covenanted the site to be used for a girls' school in perpetuity. The main site of the school has been there ever since.
The Day British School of Industry had been incorporated with Sir Thomas Bernard's school under the direction of the Governor of the Church of England's United National Schools. In 1858, it became known as Central National School, to distinguish it from the Eastern (now All Souls CE Primary) and Western National Schools (now St Mary's Bryanston Square CE Primary) founded in 1824 at nearby parishes.
The boys' section was eventually closed and it became a girls' school, adopting its current name. In the 1960s-70s the school used a building in Penfold Street, about 15 minutes from the main site, for domestic science lessons; this building is now used by the Westminster Youth Service. In 2005, the sixth form moved to part of a building that had housed a convent; in 2008-9 this was demolished and rebuilt as a five-story, university-style Sixth Form Centre.
During the school's grant-maintained period, it was highly selective and the school used to interview parents and prospective pupils.
Between 2005 and 2010, the main site saw extensive building and refurbishment work. Major new facilities were opened in 2007, including a below-ground gymnasium and dance studios as well as a music recording studio space and a three-story visual and performing arts space. Since 2013, the school's studio has been the main filming spot for Spirit Young Performers Company. Popular videos shot at this location include "Little Miss High and Mighty" and "Hard Knock Life".
Houses and local connect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Gill | Professor Stanley J. Gill (26 March 1926 – 1975) was a British computer scientist credited, along with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler, with the invention of the first computer subroutine.
Early life, education and career
Stanley Gill was born 26 March 1926 in Worthing, West Sussex, England. He was educated at Worthing High School for Boys and was, during his schooldays, a member of an amateur dramatic society.
In 1943, he was awarded a State Scholarship and went to St John's College, Cambridge, where he read Mathematics/Natural Sciences. He graduated BA in 1947 and MA in 1950. Gill worked at the National Physical Laboratory from 1947 to 1950, where he met his wife, Audrey Lee, whom he married in 1949. From 1952 to 1955 he was a Research Fellow at St John's working in a team led by Maurice Wilkes; the research involved pioneering work with the EDSAC computer in the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1952, he developed a very early computer game. It involved a dot (termed a sheep) approaching a line in which one of two gates could be opened. The game was controlled via the lightbeam of the EDSAC's paper tape reader. Interrupting it (such as by the player placing their hand in it) would open the upper gate. Leaving the beam unbroken would result in the lower gate opening.
He gained a PhD in 1953 and, following a year as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, joined the Computer Department at Ferranti Ltd. In the UK in 1963 he was appointed Professor of Automatic Data Processing, UMIST, Manchester and, following various consultancies including International Computers Ltd he was appointed in 1964 to the newly created Chair of Computing Science and Computing Unit at Imperial College, University of London. This was later merged into the Imperial College Centre for Computing and Automation, which Gill became director of, whilst he worked as a consultant to the Ministry of Technology. Gill was a founding member of the Real Time Club in 1967 and its chairman from 1970 to 1975. In 1970 he became Chairman of Software Sciences Holdings Ltd and was Director of various companies in the Miles Roman Group. From 1972 until his death in 1975 he was Senior Consultant to PA International Management Consultants Ltd.
Gill travelled widely and advised on the establishment of departments of computing in several universities around the world. He was also President of the British Computer Society from 1967 to 1968.
Publications
The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill; (original 1951); reprinted with new introduction by Martin Campbell-Kelly; 198 pp.; . Available through Charles Babbage Institute Archive.org Full Text
Papers of Professor Stanley Gill 1964-1971, Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit, Room 455, Sherfield Building, Imperial College, London, UK.
Gill, Stanley. Second Progress Report on the Automatic Computing Engine, National Physical Laborat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Thornton%20International | Grant Thornton is the world's seventh-largest by revenue and sixth-largest by number of employees professional services network of independent accounting and consulting member firms which provide assurance, tax and advisory services to privately held businesses, public interest entities, and public sector entities. Grant Thornton International Ltd. is a not-for-profit, non-practising, international umbrella membership entity organised as a private company limited by guarantee. Grant Thornton International Ltd. is incorporated in London, England, and has no share capital.
According to Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL), member firms within the global organisation operate in 147 markets employing over 68,000 personnel for a combined global revenue of US$7.2 billion.
History
20th century
The earliest origins of the name date back to 1904, when the UK firm of Thornton and Thornton was formed in Oxford. Through a series of name changes this firm merged in 1959 with another UK firm, Baker & Co, which traced its origins to 1868, to form the firm Thornton Baker. In 1975 Thornton Baker merged with Kidston, Jackson, McBain, a UK firm which traced its origins to the Glaswegian accountant, Robert McCowan, who set up in practice in 1844, and was a founder of the Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in Glasgow in 1853.
In the US, 26-year-old Alexander Richardson Grant founded Alexander Grant & Co in Chicago in 1924. Grant had been a senior accountant with Ernst & Ernst (now EY). Alexander Grant was committed to providing services to mid-sized companies.
When Grant died in 1938, Alexander Grant & Co survived the change in leadership and continued to grow nationally. In 1969, Alexander Grant & Co joined with firms from Australia, Canada, and the United States to establish the organisation of Alexander Grant Tansley Witt. This organisation operated successfully for 10 years.
In 1980 Alexander Grant & Co and Thornton Baker, firms with similar qualities, clients, personnel numbers and values, joined with 49 other firms to form a global organisation, Grant Thornton. In 1986, Alexander Grant & Co and Thornton Baker changed their names to Grant Thornton, reflecting their mutual affiliation and strategic alignment.
21st century
In December 2019 Grant Thornton placed in the top 50 global employers for diversity and inclusion (D&I), according to a new index developed by Universum. More than 247,000 business and engineering/IT students rated Grant Thornton against support for gender equality, commitment to diversity & inclusion and respect for its people. Their perception of Grant Thornton, against these three categories, places the network 28th in the list, alongside some of the world's most well-known and respected global brands.
In 2018 Grant Thornton UK LLP, the UK member firm of the network, was fined £4 million for audit misconduct after a former partner joined the audit committees of two organisations while Grant Thornton UK LLP was still auditi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine%20Novela | Sine Novela is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is a television adaptation of the Philippine films. It premiered on April 30, 2007 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Princess Charming. The series concluded on October 22, 2010 with a total of 21 installments and 1,727 episodes. It was replaced by Little Star in its timeslot.
Episodes
Sine Novela's Bakit Kay Tagal ng Sandali? was shelved.
Accolades
2007
21st PMPC Star Awards for Television
Nominated, Best Actor, Carlo Aquino (Sinasamba Kita)
Winner, Best Daytime Drama Series (Sinasamba Kita)
2008
22nd PMPC Star Awards for Television
Winner, Best Daytime Drama Series - Kaputol ng Isang Awit
Nominated, Best Daytime Drama Series - Maging Akin Ka Lamang
Nominated, Best Daytime Drama Series - My Only Love
Nominated, Best Drama Actor - Tirso Cruz III (Kaputol ng Isang Awit)
Nominated, Best Drama Actress - Lovi Poe (Kaputol ng Isang Awit)
2009
23rd PMPC Star Awards for Television
Nominated, Best Daytime Drama Series - Saan Darating ang Umaga?
37th International Emmy Awards
Nominated, Best Telenovela - Saan Darating ang Umaga?
2010
24th PMPC Star Awards for Television
Nominated, Best Daytime Drama Series - Kung Aagawin Mo ang Lahat sa Akin
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
GMA Network drama series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR%3A%20The%20Empire%27s%20Darkest%20Hour | SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour, also known simply as SPQR, is a computer adventure game by American studio CyberSites and published in 1996 by GT Interactive. Set in Ancient Rome, the player must solve a number of puzzles to uncover a criminal who wants to destroy Rome.
Plot
The player is an unnamed character, a friend of the inventor Cornelius who has been arrested. His arrest was on the suspicion that he is involved with the Calamitus, a figure who intends to destroy Rome. The game starts underneath Cornelius's workshop, and once the player has entered the workshop itself they receive a message about his arrest. The message also gives the names of five possible Calamiti:
Lucius: A retired soldier who is now a private investigator. Whilst not investigating, he spends his days drinking in the wine shop below his flat.
Verania: The head Vestal Virgin, who is thinking of retirement.
Xanthus: One of Gordian's assistants who claims to be Greek, but is actually a barbarian.
Sybil: A prophetess who runs a small stall, but later works for the Roman Emperor.
Gordian: An architect who is using the spare money from projects to build his own temple.
The player is also told about the Navitor, a machine that allows them to wander around Rome in the comfort of the workshop. Once activated it can pick up objects and use them in other places, travel in time and view each of the suspects' diaries.
When the player has activated the Navitor, their first task is to find the suspects' diaries. After this, they automatically update. There are also quests each month, consisting of a screen shot. The player must find the location portrayed in the screen shot and complete a puzzle or task to gain more clues and/or an important object. The events in Rome can be read both through the diaries and in the city newspaper, and can often help with the month's quest. Occasionally, the Navitor will crash, and the player must fix one of the machines around the workshop in order to fix the Navitor itself. Each of the machines represents a season, and only the correct machine for the season can be fixed.
Quests and events
This a list of the quests for each month and the goings-on as detailed in the suspects' diaries.
November: The quest for November shows a door with four cogs on it. Gordian's temple is struck by lightning and blows up, and the player has to rebuild the entrance using the crane at the building site. On completing this task the player can reach the door depicted in the quest, which turns out to be the entrance to Cornelius's workshop. However, the player does not yet know how to turn the cogs to unlock the door.
December: The December quest shows the door to a temple. The Saturnalia is this month, and during the festivities the Temple of Saturn is broken into. By using the Golden Milestone and a clue found on top of the Arch of Severus, the player can enter the Aerarium underneath the temple. The player can then use a key found in the Aerarium to enter the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Michigan | The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Michigan, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
W8XWJ
WKPR
WQLR
References
Michigan
Radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lite-C | Lite-C is a programming language for multimedia applications and video games, using a syntax subset of the C language with some elements of the C++ language. Its main difference to C is the native implementation of multimedia and computer game related objects like sounds, images, movies, GUI elements, 2D and 3D models, collision detection and rigid body physics. Lite-C is a compiled language. It runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP or Vista operating systems.
Lite-C claims to allow very fast programming with a minimum of code, and easy access to non-programmers. For this, the developer provides a 25-lesson workshop that especially deals with the game and multimedia related objects of the language.
Lite-C supports the Windows API and the Component Object Model (COM); therefore OpenGL and DirectX programs can directly be written in lite-C. It has integrated the free A8 rendering engine.
History
The Lite-C language and compiler was originally developed in 2007 by Conitec in cooperation with Atari, Inc., with the focus on creating computer games by non-programmers. Since 2010, Lite-C has also been used for defining automatic trade algorithms in day trading software.
Features
Lite-C has the following differences to standard C:
Native multitasking and multiplayer support
On the fly compiling
Supports external classes (OpenGL, DirectX, Windows API)
Implementation of the 3D GameStudio A7/A8 rendering engine
Function library for display/manipulation of 3D models
Function library for rigid body physics
Function library for vector and matrix functions
Function library for GUI objects
Function library for playing sound and movie files
Remote control of arbitrary Windows applications
Native support of DirectX 9 functions
Small footprint - ca. 15 MB with compiler, IDE, debugger
Lite-C supports rudimentary classes and function overloading, but does not support advanced language concepts such as inheritance, polymorphism, or operator overloading.
Examples
The following Lite-C program prints "Hello World", then plays a movie file and exits.
void main()
{
printf("Hello, World!"); // message box
screen_size.x = 400;
screen_size.y = 400; // resize the window
int handle = media_play("greetings.mpg", NULL, 50); // start a movie in the whole window at volume 50.
while(media_playing(handle)) wait(1); // wait until movie was finished
sys_exit(NULL);
}
The following Lite-C program opens a 3D window and displays a spinning sphere
void main()
{
level_load(""); // open an empty level. you can use NULL instead of ""
ENTITY* sphere = ent_create("sphere.mdl", vector(0,0,0), NULL); // create sphere model at position (0,0,0)
while(1) {
sphere->pan += 1; // rotate the sphere with 1 degree per frame
wait(1); // wait one frame
}
}
References
External links
Lite-C download page
Lite-C user forum
C programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20productivity | Programming productivity (also called software productivity or development productivity) describes the degree of the ability of individual programmers or development teams to build and evolve software systems. Productivity traditionally refers to the ratio between the quantity of software produced and the cost spent for it. Here the delicacy lies in finding a reasonable way to define software quantity.
Terminology
Productivity is an important topic investigated in disciplines as various as manufacturing, organizational psychology, industrial engineering, strategic management, finance, accounting, marketing and economics. Levels of analysis include the individual, the group, divisional, organizational and national levels. Due to this diversity, there is no clear-cut definition of productivity and its influencing factors, although research has been conducted for more than a century. Like in software engineering, this lack of common agreement on what actually constitutes productivity, is perceived as a major obstacle for a substantiated discussion of productivity. The following definitions describe the best consensus on the terminology.
Productivity
While there is no commonly agreed on definition of productivity, there appears to be an agreement that productivity describes the ratio between output and input:
Productivity = Output / Input
However, across the various disciplines different notions and, particularly, different measurement units for input and output can be found. The manufacturing industry typically uses a straightforward relation between the number of units produced and the number of units consumed. Non-manufacturing industries usually use man-hours or similar units to enable comparison between outputs and inputs.
One basic agreement is that the meaning of productivity and the means for measuring it vary depending on what context is under evaluation. In a manufacturing company the possible contexts are:
the individual machine or manufacturing system;
the manufacturing function, for example assembly;
the manufacturing process for a single product or group of related products;
the factory; and
the company’s entire factory system
As long classical production processes are considered a straightforward metric of productivity is simple: how many units of a product of specified quality is produced by which costs. For intellectual work, productivity is much trickier. How do we measure the productivity of authors, scientists, or engineers? Due to the rising importance of knowledge work (as opposed to manual work), many researchers tried to develop productivity measurement means that can be applied in a non-manufacturing context. It is commonly agreed that the nature of knowledge work fundamentally differs from manual work and, hence, factors besides the simple output/input ratio need to be taken into account, e.g. quality, timeliness, autonomy, project success, customer satisfaction and innovation. However, the research communities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Democratic%20Education%20Conference | The European Democratic Education Conference (EUDEC) is an annual conference of the European Democratic Education Community, a European network of people involved in democratic education. The first conference was held in Leipzig, Germany, from 25 July – 3 August 2008. The organisation of the 2008 conference was largely independent of the EUDEC Community, as the latter was founded in February 2008 after over a year of conference groundwork. Following the first conference, the dates, locations and content of conferences are determined by the Community.
Both Conference and Community arose from the need of democratic education proponents in Europe for deeper networking and coordination. The conference's location in Europe makes it comparatively easy for people in Europe to participate, because the annual International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) is held in different locations all over the world and travel costs from Europe are often
prohibitive.
The 2009 EUDEC Annual General Meeting was in Cieszyn, Poland.
The 2010 EUDEC Annual General Meeting was in Roskilde, Denmark.
The 2011 IDEC@EUDEC Conference, in the UK was both an IDEC and an EUDEC Conference which ran from 5 to 14 July.
The 2012 EUDEC Annual General Meeting and Conference was held in Freiburg, Germany which ran from 28 July to 5 August.
The 2013 EUDEC Annual General Meeting and Conference was held in Soest, Netherlands between 28 July till 2 August.
The 2014 EUDEC Annual General Meeting and Conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark between 5 and 8 August.
The 2015 EUDEC Annual General Meeting and Conference was held in Ojrzanów near Warsaw, Poland between 1 and 9 August.
The 2016 IDEC@EUDEC Conference was held in Mikkeli, Finland between 6 and 10 June.
See also
International Democratic Education Conference
European Democratic Education Community
External links
EUDEC Homepage
References
Educational programs
Education policy events |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oink | Oink commonly refers to the sound made by a pig.
Oink may also refer to:
Oink! (computer game), a 1982 Apple II game by Beagle Bros Software
Oink! (video game), a 1982 Atari 2600 game by Activision
Oink (1995 film), a 1995 short film directed by Rand Ravich
Oink (2022 film), a Dutch animated film by Masha Halberstad
Oink! (comics), a comic printed in the U.K. during the 1980s
Oink (payment service), a youth payments technology by Rego Payment Architectures, Inc.
Oink (Pillow Pal), a Pillow Pal pig made by Ty, Inc.
Oink: My Life with Mini-Pigs, a 2011 novel by Matt Whyman
Oink the Seal, a seal cub character in the Stingray television series
See also
Oink's Pink Palace, a defunct BitTorrent tracker and music sharing community website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telco%20cable | A telco cable, also known as a Telecom cable or Amphenol cable, is a thick cable used for connecting multiple voice or data lines for LANs or telecommunications. The ends use 25 pairs of polarized pins (50 pins total). This cable handles up to 25 data channels or phone lines. The name Amphenol comes from the company that first manufactured it.
Most phone systems use this type of cable. The common color is gray and made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Most manufactures have standardized on this color for this material. Another standardized color is white, usually associated with plenum cable. Plenum cable is cable used in plenum spaces of buildings. The plenum is the space used for air circulation for heating and air conditioning systems, by providing a location for ductwork. Space between the structural ceiling and the dropped ceiling or under a raised floor is typically considered plenum. Some drop ceiling designs create a tight seal that does not allow for airflow and therefore may not be considered a plenum air-handling space.
The telco cable is also associated with pre-wired 66 blocks pre-assembled with an RJ-21 female connector are available that accept a quick connection to a 25-pair cable with a male end. These connections are typically made between the block and the CPE (customer premises equipment).
See also
Micro ribbon
RJ21
25-pair color code
References
Signal cables |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Subversion%20clients | A comparison of Subversion clients includes various aspects of computer software implementations of the client role using the client–server model of the Subversion revision control system.
Descriptions
TortoiseSVN, a Windows shell extension, gives feedback on the state of versioned items by adding overlays to the icons in the Windows Explorer. Repository commands can be executed from the enhanced context menu provided by Tortoise.
SmartSVN provides a similar Explorer integration, but also can be used as a standalone SVN client for different platforms. SmartSVN is available in three different editions: A free Foundation edition with fewer features and two commercial editions called Professional and Enterprise with the full feature set.
Some programmers prefer to have a client integrated within their development environment. Such environments may provide visual feedback of the state of versioned items and add repository commands to the menus of the development environment. Examples of this approach include AnkhSVN, and VisualSVN for use with Microsoft Visual Studio, and Eclipse Subversive
for use with Eclipse Platform IDEs. Delphi XE Subversion integration is built into the Delphi integrated development environment.
It is common to expose Subversion via WebDAV using the Apache web server. In this case, any WebDAV client can be used, but the functionality provided this way may be limited. Alternative ways to serve Subversion include uberSVN and VisualSVN Server.
Subversion clients comparison table
Standalone Subversion clients comparison table
See also
Revision control
References
Comparison of Subversion clients
Subversion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capers%20Jones |
Capers Jones is an American specialist in software engineering methodologies, and is often associated with the function point model of cost estimation.
He was born in St Petersburg, Florida, United States and graduated from the University of Florida, having majored in English. He later became the President and CEO of Capers Jones & Associates and latterly Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR).
In 2011, he co-founded Namcook Analytics LLC, where he is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
He formed his own business in 1984, Software Productivity Research, after holding positions at IBM and ITT. After retiring from Software Productivity Research in 2000, he remains active as an independent management consultant.
He is a Distinguished Advisor to the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ).
References
Bibliography
Programming Productivity, Capers Jones, Mcgraw-Hill, 1986. .
Software Assessments, Benchmarks and Best Practices, Capers Jones, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000. .
Estimating Software Costs 2nd Edition, Capers Jones, McGraw-Hill, 2007. .
Software Engineering Best Practices : lessons from successful projects in the top companies, Capers Jones, McGraw-Hill, 2010, .
The Economics of Software Quality, Capers Jones, Olivier Bonsignour and Jitendra Subramanyam, Addison-Wesley Longman, 2011. .
The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering, Capers Jones, Addison-Wesley, 2014. .
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from St. Petersburg, Florida
University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni
American computer specialists
American technology chief executives
Software engineering researchers
Computer science writers
IBM employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xircom | Xircom, Inc., was an American computer networking hardware and mobile technology company. Headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, Xircom was one of the first companies to develop network computing products for notebook computers. Products included computer memory cards, LAN adapters, modems, and remote access server products. The company's products enabled notebook users to share information over a network connection.
During its existence, the company possessed manufacturing facilities in Penang, Malaysia, and international offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific. In 2001, Intel acquired Xircom and in early 2003 laid off most of Xircom's Thousand Oaks employees.
History
The company was founded in 1988 by Dirk Gates and Kirk Mathews on the premise of delivering modem and Ethernet connectivity to mobile computers. The company grew to over 2,000 employees and achieved revenues of $500M and a market cap in excess of $2B. Mobility solutions were based on IEEE 802.11, GPRS, and Bluetooth technologies.
Xircom was known as an innovative leader in networking technology, pioneering the world's first wireless networking devices for portable computers, known as Netwave. Xircom's NetWave adapters boasted a raw data rate of 1M bit/sec (blazing fast at the time) and fostered the creation and development of today's WiFi infrastructure and devices, which are virtually everywhere today.
Xircom was also equally innovative in its working environment. Employees were encouraged to express their creative natures, fostering a positive and creative environment where new ideas and efficiency flowed as easily as the waterfall in their indoor fish pond, which was originally constructed in front of the Engineering Vice President's cubicle as a joke.
Products
Pocket LAN Adapter
In 1988, the only universal connection available on notebook PCs was the printer port, so Xircom devised the Pocket LAN Adapter that attached to the printer port and connected the notebook PC to a network. Xircom then became one of the top providers of networking computing devices.
RealPort
Xircom was renowned for their PC Cards, the most well known of which was the RealPort series designed by boutique start-up ID firm Next Planet.
The 32-bit RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 combined 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet, a 56K modem, and even GSM connectivity via an externally connected Mobile Phone, in a single dongle-free Integrated PC Card solution. RealPort family of cards solved the major problem mobile users experienced with PC Cards: lost, forgotten, or broken cable connectors and broken pop-out jacks. By eliminating fragile dongles on the device, the RealPort Integrated PC Cards provided robust and reliable communications by integrating connectors directly into the card.
NetAccess
NetAccess Series Remote Access cards (RAS) included models ISDN, and the world's first multiport modem (MPM-4 and MPM-8).
REX 6000
The REX 6000 was an ultra-thin PDA produced by Xircom. It was the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mass%20spectrometry%20software | Mass spectrometry software is software used for data acquisition, analysis, or representation in mass spectrometry.
Proteomics software
In protein mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry (also known as MS/MS or MS2) experiments are used for protein/peptide identification. Peptide identification algorithms fall into two broad classes: database search and de novo search. The former search takes place against a database containing all amino acid sequences assumed to be present in the analyzed sample, whereas the latter infers peptide sequences without knowledge of genomic data.
Database search algorithms
De novo sequencing algorithms
De novo peptide sequencing algorithms are based, in general, on the approach proposed in Bartels et al. (1990).
Homology searching algorithms
MS/MS peptide quantification
Other software
See also
Mass spectrometry data format: for a list of mass spectrometry data viewers and format converters.
List of protein structure prediction software
References
External links
List
Proteomics
Lists of bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascot%20%28software%29 | Mascot is a software search engine that uses mass spectrometry data to identify proteins from peptide sequence databases. Mascot is widely used by research facilities around the world. Mascot uses a probabilistic scoring algorithm for protein identification that was adapted from the MOWSE algorithm. Mascot is freely available to use on the website of Matrix Science. A license is required for in-house use where more features can be incorporated.
History means
MOWSE was one of the first algorithms developed for protein identification using peptide mass fingerprinting. It was originally developed in 1993 as a collaboration between Darryl Pappin of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) and Alan Bleasby of the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC). MOWSE stood apart from other protein identification algorithms in that it produced a probability-based score for identification. It was also the first to take into account the non-uniform distribution of peptide sizes, caused by the enzymatic digestion of a protein that is needed for mass spectrometry analysis. However, MOWSE was only applicable to peptide mass fingerprint searches and was dependent on pre-compiled databases which were inflexible with regard to post-translational modifications and enzymes other than trypsin. To overcome these limitations, to take advantage of multi-processor systems and to add non-enzymatic search functionality, development was begun again from scratch by David Perkins at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. The first versions were developed for Silicon Graphics Irix and Digital Unix systems. Eventually this software was named Mascot and to reach a wider audience, an external bioinformatics company named Matrix Science was created by David Creasy and John Cottrell to develop and distribute Mascot. Legacy software versions exist for Tru64, Irix, AIX, Solaris, Microsoft Windows NT4 and Microsoft Windows 2000. Mascot has been available as a free service on the Matrix Science website since 1999 and has been cited in scientific literature over 5,000 times. Matrix Science still continues to work on improving Mascot’s functionality.
Applications
Mascot identifies proteins by interpreting mass spectrometry data. The prevailing experimental method for protein identification is a bottom-up approach, where a protein sample is typically digested with Trypsin to form smaller peptides. While most proteins are too big, peptides usually fall within the limited mass range that a typical mass spectrometer can measure. Mass spectrometers measure the molecular weights of peptides in a sample. Mascot then compares these molecular weights against a database of known peptides. The program cleaves every protein in the specified search database in silico according to specific rules depending on the cleavage enzyme used for digestion and calculates the theoretical mass for each peptide. Mascot then computes a score based on the probability that the peptides from a sample match those i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forwarding%20information%20base | A forwarding information base (FIB), also known as a forwarding table or MAC table, is most commonly used in network bridging, routing, and similar functions to find the proper output network interface controller to which the input interface should forward a packet. It is a dynamic table that maps MAC addresses to ports. It is the essential mechanism that separates network switches from Ethernet hubs. Content-addressable memory (CAM) is typically used to efficiently implement the FIB, thus it is sometimes called a CAM table.
Applications at data link layer
At the data link layer, a FIB is most notably used to facilitate Ethernet bridging based on MAC addresses. Other data-link-layer technologies using FIBs include Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
Bridging
The role of an Ethernet switch is to forward Ethernet frames from one port to another. The presence of a FIB is one attribute that separates a switch from a hub. Without a functional FIB, all frames received by a network switch would be echoed back out to all other ports, much like an Ethernet hub. In bridging packets between ports, a switch should only emit a frame on the port where the destination network device resides (unicast), unless the frame is for all nodes on the switch (broadcast), multiple nodes (multicast) or if the switch doesn't know where the destination device resides (unicast flood).
Switches learn the port on which they first saw a particular source address and associate that port with that address. When the bridge subsequently receives a frame with a destination address in its FIB, it sends the frame out the port stored in the FIB entry.
The FIB is a memory construct used by Ethernet switch to map a station's MAC address to the switch port the station is connected to. This allows switches to facilitate communications between connected stations at high speed.
Frame Relay
While the exact mechanics of a forwarding table is implementation-specific, the general model for Frame Relay is that switches have statically defined forwarding tables, one per interface. When a frame with a given data link connection identifier (DLCI) is received on one interface, the table associated with that interface gives the outgoing interface, and the new DLCI to insert into the frame's address field.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM switches have link-level forwarding tables much like those used in Frame Relay. Rather than a DLCI, however, interfaces have forwarding tables that specify the outgoing interface by virtual path identifier (VPI) and virtual circuit identifier (VCI). These tables may be configured statically, or they can be distributed by the Private Network-to-Network Interface (PNNI) protocol. When PNNI is in use, the ATM switches at the edges of the network map one of the standard ATM end-to-end identifiers, such as an NSAP address, to the next-hop VPI/VCI.
Multiprotocol Label Switching
MPLS has many similarities, at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20%28program%29 | Analog is a free web log analysis computer program that runs under Windows, macOS, Linux, and most Unix-like operating systems. It was first released on June 21, 1995, by Stephen Turner as generic freeware; the license was changed to the GNU General Public License in November 2004. The software can be downloaded for several computing platforms, or the source code can be downloaded and compiled if desired.
Analog has support for 35 languages, and provides the ability to do reverse DNS lookups on log files, to indicate where web site hits originate. It can analyze several different types of web server logs, including Apache, IIS, and iPlanet. It has over 200 configuration options and can generate 32 reports. It also supports log files for multiple virtual hosts.
The program is comparable to Webalizer or AWStats, though it does not use as many images, preferring to stick with simple bar charts and lists to communicate similar information.
Analog can export reports in a number of formats including HTML, XHTML, XML, Latex and a delimited output mode (for example CSV) for importing into other programs. Delimited or "computer" output from Analog is often used to generate more structured and graphically rich reports using the third party Report Magic program.
The popularity of Analog is largely unknown as no download count information has been released on its historic dissemination. In a 1998 survey by the Graphic, Visualization, & Usability Center (GVU), Analog was reportedly used by 24.9% (up from 19.9% the year before), with its nearest rival, Web Trends holding some 20.3% of the market.
It is not clear how Analog's usage has changed in the decade leading up to 2010, nor how its usage profile has been impacted by on-line analysis services such as Google Analytics. Analog can operate on an individual or web-farm basis from a single process, requiring no modification of web page or web script code in order to use it. It is a stand-alone utility, and it is not possible for visiting clients to block all of the logging of traffic directly from the client.
Analog has not been officially updated since the version 6.0 release in December 2004. The original author moved on to commercial traffic analysis. Updates to Analog continued informally by its user community up until the end of 2009 on the official mailing list. Currently the only formally compiled updated redistributable of Analog is that of Analog CE, which has focused on fixing issues in Analog's XML DTD and on adding new operating system and web browser detection to the original code branch.
History
Analog was first released in June 1995, as research project by its creator Dr. Stephen Turner, then working as a research fellow in Sidney Sussex College in the University of Cambridge. Some of the larger release milestones include:
14 June 1995 Analog 0.8b, the initial full testing build.
29 June 1995 Analog 0.9b was the first public release of Analog.
12 September 1995 Analog 1.0 was the first |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcEditor | ArcEditor is the midlevel software suite designed for advanced editing of spatial data published in the proprietary Esri format. It is part of the ArcGIS product. It provides tools for the creation of map and spatial data used in Geospatial Information Systems. ArcEditor is not intended for advanced spatial analysis, which can be performed using the highest level of ArcGIS, ArcInfo.
External links
ESRI's ArcEditor website
ST-Links PgMap
Esri software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumbaugh | Rumbaugh is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
James Rumbaugh (born 1947), American computer scientist
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (born 1946), American primatologist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%20and%20Chips | Curry and Chips is a British television sitcom broadcast in 1969 which was produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network.
Set on a factory floor of 'Lillicrap Ltd', it starred a browned up Spike Milligan as an Irishman of Pakistani heritage named Kevin O'Grady, who also featured in episode 7 of the fifth series of Speight's Till Death Us Do Part. It also featured Eric Sykes as the foreman, Norman Rossington as the shop steward, and other regulars were Kenny Lynch, and Sam Kydd. The series was written by Till Death Us Do Part writer Johnny Speight, but based on an idea by Milligan. The programme was cancelled for what some (including the ITA) considered racist humour.
It was the first LWT sitcom to be broadcast in its entirety in colour, and all episodes still exist.
Controversy
The ambition of Curry and Chips was purportedly to highlight discrimination, rather than promote it. The Independent Television Authority disagreed, and Curry and Chips was cancelled by them after only six episodes. Speight himself later remarked, "It was the English who were made to look bigoted in the show but the people at the ITA couldn't understand that. It was London Weekend Television's first year, but only six shows went out. The ITA made LWT take it off, saying it was racist." They were not alone, as amongst those who originally complained about the show were the Race Relations Board.
Screenonline says of the show, "though it again attempted to raise important questions, [it] lacked a strong enough voice to challenge the racist attitudes of its characters, and too much of its humour relied on the use of crude racial abuse and Milligan's caricatured performance as the charmlessly-nicknamed 'Paki Paddy'. The shocked reaction from some viewers and cultural commentators led to the show being dropped by ITV after just six episodes, and in retrospect it is hard to understand how Speight and LWT can have failed to anticipate the offence it caused."
The show was also controversial for the number of swear words in it. The word 'bloody' was used 59 times in one episode, although Eric Sykes refused to swear until doing so, once, in the final episode.
Six years later, Milligan once again blacked up in the BBC series The Melting Pot. Only one episode was shown, and the other five were pulled.
DVD release
Curry and Chips – The Complete Series was released on 19 April 2010 by Network. Catalogue Number 7953165.
References
External links
1969 British television series debuts
1969 British television series endings
1960s British sitcoms
1960s British workplace comedy television series
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
London Weekend Television shows
Race-related controversies in the United Kingdom
Race-related controversies in television
Television controversies in the United Kingdom
Ethnic humour
Stereotypes of South Asian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXK | TXK (Telephone eXchange Crossbar) was a range of Crossbar exchanges used by the British Post Office telephone network, subsequently BT, between 1964 and 1994. TXC was used as the designation at first, but this was later changed as TXC sounded too much like TXE the code used for later electronic exchanges. Prior to this the GPO had standardised on Strowger for automatic switching and had resisted the adoption of Crossbar, preferring to wait for its electronic switching research to bear fruit. The development of electronic systems however took longer than anticipated and the British equipment manufacturers, particularly Automatic Telephone & Electric (ATE), which later became part of the Plessey group feared that continuing to focus the bulk of their production on Strowger equipment would harm their export sales as Crossbar had already become popular throughout the world.
In response to this, ATE, and later Plessey, developed their own crossbar system, the 5005, and pushed for the GPO to adopt it as an interim measure. Normally the GPO preferred to develop systems in co-operation with the manufacturing companies, from whom they could then purchase competitively rather than allowing one manufacturer to sell it a proprietary system. The situation however was becoming critical, waiting lists for telephone service in the UK were growing embarrassingly long and the manufacturers were becoming more and more reluctant to supply Strowger in the quantities needed by the GPO. Eventually the GPO relented and decided to accept Crossbar equipment into its network.
TXK1
This code was given to Plessey's 5005A switch, which was used for local exchanges in non-director areas or group switching centres / sector switching centres (tandem exchanges). The 5005A was a two wire version of the 5005, meaning the transmit and receive speech was routed through the switch over one pair of wires. The first one was installed at Broughton, Preston, in 1964 as a field trial replacing Broughton's manual exchange. The village was chosen due to its relative proximity to the Plessey factory and research centre at Edge Lane, Liverpool.
Mainstream installation of TXK1s commenced in 1968, and many were installed throughout the UK until the late 1970s when the more modern TXE4 electronic system became available. TXK1 remained in use in the BT network until March 1994, when the last one at Droitwich, Worcestershire was replaced with a digital exchange.
The Plessey 5005 was made up of routers and distributors. A distributor performed subscriber concentration and could serve up to 500 lines. A router made up the core of the exchange for switching traffic between distributors or between a distributor and an external junction/trunk. The exchange at Broughton was initially dimensioned to serve 2,000 lines and therefore had four distributors and one router. A 5005 could serve up to 100,000 lines, but no inland exchanges of this size were used in the UK.
TXK was also manufactured by G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Gravity%20Probe%20B | The Gravity Probe B mission timeline describes the events during the flight of Gravity Probe B, the science phase of its experimental campaign, and the analysis of the recorded data.
Mission progress
April 20, 2004
Launch of GP-B from Vandenberg AFB and successful insertion into polar orbit.
April 28, 2004
Mission controllers started the "Initialization and Orbit Checkout" phase (IOC), which was expected to last 40–60 days. At this point all gyros were spun up and the SQUID detectors were being checked. All other spacecraft subsystems performed well, including solar power and the attitude control system.
May 1, 2004
During the IOC the primary computer of the spacecraft received too much radiation to cope with the built-in error correction mechanism. GP-B switched over to the backup computer as designed. Since the spacecraft crosses over the polar areas of the Earth with their high radiation, this was anticipated by the designers. The primary computer was repaired and put back into service. All science instruments on board were working perfectly throughout this incident.
May 14, 2004
The spacecraft went into safe mode for a short period when some of the helium micro-thrusters behaved in an unstable way. This problem was addressed quickly and GP-B went back into IOC mode. The cause of this incident was a high-pressure condition in the dewar, which was reached due to warm (10 K) helium being used to remove magnetic flux from the gyroscopes. Mission members believed that the IOC phase would still be completed on time after a total 60 mission days.
July 13, 2004
The preparations for the science phase of the mission reached a major milestone: One of the gyros (No. 4) reached the science-ready speed of 6,348 rpm (105.8 Hz) during a short test.
July 16, 2004
An unexpectedly large slowdown of gyro 4 was detected during the full-speed spin-up of gyro 2. Although some "leakage" effect was expected, the amount seen led mission planners to search for ways to diminish the effect for this final step towards the science phase. This investigation took close to a week and delayed the planned spin-up of gyro 1 and 3.
Ground tests had indicated that a good signal-to-noise ratio for science data is reached, once the gyro spin rate exceeds 80 Hz. However, mission managers stress that a slightly lower number will also be sufficient for entering the science phase of GP-B.
August 27, 2004
Mission managers announced that GP-B entered its science phase, today. On mission day 129 all systems were configured to be ready for data collection, with the only exception being gyro 4, which needs further spin axis alignment.
After weeks of testing it was decided to use the "back-up drag-free" mode around gyro 3. Back-up drag-free mode suspends the rotor electrically and flies the thrusters to drive the suspension correction to zero. This contrasts with main drag-free mode which uses no electrical suspension, and flies the thrusters to center the rotor. Also, the r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSP%20%28econometrics%20software%29 | TSP is a programming language for the estimation and simulation of econometric models. TSP stands for "Time Series Processor", although it is also commonly used with cross section and panel data. The program was initially developed by Robert Hall during his graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s. The company behind the program is TSP International which was founded in 1978 by Bronwyn H. Hall, Robert Hall's wife. After their divorce in April 1983, the asset of TSP was split into two versions, and subsequently the two versions have diverged in terms of interface and types of subroutines included. One version is TSP, still developed by TSP International. The other version, initially named MicroTSP, is now named EViews, developed by Quantitative Micro Software.
Supported data formats
Microsoft Excel file format
Stata dta files up to version 11
Databank format (.DB)
References
Further reading
External links
Homepage
TSP 4.5 Reference Manual
TSP 4.4 User's Guide
Simulation programming languages
Econometrics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Shift | HTC Shift (code name: Clio) is an Ultra-Mobile PC by HTC.
Features
Dual Operating System
Microsoft Windows Vista Business 32-Bit (notebook mode)
SnapVUE (PDA mode)
Processor
Intel A110 Stealey CPU 800 MHz (for Windows Vista)
ARM11 CPU (for SnapVUE)
Memory and Storage
1 GB RAM (notebook mode)
64 MB RAM (PDA mode)
40/60 GB HDD
SD card slot
Intel GMA 950 graphics
Communications
Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE (data only): GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900
Triband UMTS / HSDPA (data only): UMTS 850, UMTS 1900, UMTS 2100
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth v2.0
USB port
7" display
Active TFT touchscreen, 16M colors
800 x 480 pixels (Wide-VGA), 7 inches
QWERTY keyboard
Handwriting recognition
Fingerprint Recognition
Ringtones
MP3
Dual speakers
Upgrading
In November 2011 the team from DistantEarth have succeeded in loading the developer preview of Windows 8 onto the HTC Shift.
References
HTC Shift forums on XDA-Developers
HTC Shift on pof blog: technical information about HTC Shift
HTC Source: a news blog dedicated to HTC devices
HTC Shift X9500 on Pocketables: Many photos, features, and reviews
TechCast Reviews the HTC Shift
Mobile computers
Shift |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts%20administration | Arts administration (alternatively arts management) is a field in the arts sector that facilitates programming within cultural organizations. Arts administrators are responsible for facilitating the day-to-day operations of the organization as well as the long term goals by and fulfilling its vision, mission and mandate. Arts management became present in the arts and culture sector in the 1960s. Organizations include professional non-profit (referred to as not-for-profit in Canada) entities. For examples theaters, museums, symphony orchestras, concert bands, jazz organizations, opera houses, ballet companies and many smaller professional and non-professional for-profit arts-related organizations (e.g. auction houses, art galleries, music companies, etc.). The duties of an arts administrator can include staff management, marketing, budget management, public relations, fundraising, program development evaluation, community engagement, strategic planning, and board relations.
Duties and Roles of Arts Administrators
Art administrators (alternatively arts managers) work for arts and cultural organizations such as theatres, symphonies, art galleries, museums, arts festivals, arts centers, arts councils, regional arts boards, dance companies, community arts organizations, disability arts organizations, and heritage buildings. Employers of arts administrators may be for-profit organizations, not-for-profit organizations or government agencies.
Arts Administrators take on a variety of job duties which include developing budgets, planning events and performances, negotiating contracts and developing community interest in the arts organization. An arts administrator often directs the hiring and training of personnel, devises their schedules and task assignments. Those employed by non-profit (or not-for profit in Canada) organizations are in charge of organizing fund-raising events and enlisting financial supporters. Additionally, arts administrators are expected to conduct grant research, apply for grants and disburse acquired funding so that programming can continue.
An arts administrator employed by a small organization can be responsible for marketing events, event booking, and managing project budgets. An arts administrator employed by a larger arts organization may be responsible for buildings and facilities, creative staff (e.g., performers/artists), administrative staff, public relations, marketing, writing proposals and reports.
A senior-level arts administrator may advise the board of directors or other senior managers on strategic planning and management decisions. An effective arts administrator must also be knowledgeable in local, state and federal public policy as it relates to human resources, health insurance, labor laws and volunteer risk management.
Arts administrators have the ability to create and administer necessary professional development to fine arts teachers. Professional development for the arts is often subpar due to a lack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBN | FBN may refer to:
Broadcasting
Faith Broadcasting Network, an American Christian television network
Fox Business Network, an American cable television network
Fundamental Broadcasting Network, an American Christian radio network
Other uses
Farmers Business Network, a farmer-to-farmer network and e-commerce platform
Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a former agency of the United States Department of the Treasury
Feminist Bookstore News, a trade publication for feminist bookstores
Fibrillin
First Bank of Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical%20Advocacy%20Alliance | Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance is an international network of over 90 churches and Christian organizations cooperating in advocacy on global trade and on HIV and AIDS. Working with these groups, the alliance strives to better inform policies and practices of governments, international institutions, corporations, and local communities.
References
External links
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance site
International organisations based in Switzerland
International trade organizations
HIV/AIDS organizations
Christian advocacy groups
Religious organisations based in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOFTspy%20Portable%20Anti-Spyware | XOFTspy Portable Anti-Spyware is a proprietary application that ParetoLogic Inc. developed for Microsoft Windows computers. The anti-spyware program runs from a USB drive and protects users from malicious threats. While the software is free to download and scan, the user must purchase a license to clean. The license is valid for cleaning multiple computers from the same U3 USB drive.
Portability can be useful in situations where a computer is heavily infected, bogged down, or sluggish. By accessing the computer directly from a U3 device, XOFTspy Portable removes malware items even if the computer is infected and unable to download other anti-spyware programs.
The product name "XOFTspy" has been retired, and the new product name is now "Digital Care".
See also
Spy software
Rootkits
Employee monitoring software
Computer insecurity
Defensive computing
References
Spyware removal
Windows security software
Windows-only proprietary software
Shareware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism%20in%20the%20Grip%20of%20Justice | Terrorism in the Grip of Justice or Terrorism in the hands of Justice is a primetime television reality show that began broadcast by the Al Iraqiya network from right before the January 2005 national elections. It features footage of forced confessions of guilt from Iraqis captured by the Iraqi Army or U.S. Military.
External links
Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi reality-TV hit takes fear factor to another level
Salon.com
(Washington Post)
(Camera / Iraq)
(International Herald Tribune)
Iraqi television shows
2000s documentary television series
2000s Iraqi television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferential | Inferential may refer to:
Inferential statistics; see statistical inference
Inference (logic)
Inferential mood (grammar)
Inferential programming
Inferential role semantics
Inferential theory of learning
Informal inferential reasoning
Simple non-inferential passage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Lewis%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Ian Lewis (born 1961) is an American computer scientist who is the director of infrastructure investment for the University of Cambridge and previously the director of the University of Cambridge Computing Service from 2005 to 2014
Early life and education
Lewis was born in Southampton. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Queen Mary University of London and a PhD at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.
Career
Lewis started his career in 1983 at IBM. He later worked at Morgan Stanley and Dresdner Kleinwort before becoming global CIO for Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch. He returned to the University of Cambridge in 2005 as the fourth director of the University Computing Service since its establishment as the Mathematical Laboratory in 1949. He was a member of the board of Computacenter from 2006 to 2013 and was also a board member for JANET between 2007 and 2011.
He lived in New York City for 10 years, including the extended period of recovery of the World Financial Center associated with the September 11 attacks in 2001. During the attacks, he assisted victims in the Winter Garden Atrium before moving to a prepared Merrill Lynch disaster command center in Jersey City.
In 2008, he was appointed an Honorary Commander of the United States Air Force.
References
Living people
Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
British computer scientists
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
Merrill (company) people
1961 births
Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8600 | 8600 may refer to:
The year 8600, in the 9th millennium.
NVIDIA GeForce 8600, a computer graphics card series
8600 series, a Japanese train type
Nokia 8600 Luna, a mobile phone released in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8500 | 8500 may refer to:
The year 8500, the 9th millennium
ATI Radeon 8500, a computer graphics card series
NVIDIA GeForce 8500, a computer graphics card series
A variant of the MOS 6510 CPU.
See also
8500 series (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn%20Amos | Martyn Amos is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University, working in natural computation, crowd simulation, DNA computing and synthetic biology. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland in 1971, brought up in Heddon-on-the-Wall, and attended school in Ponteland. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Coventry University in 1993 (which included an industrial placement working on the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System), before earning a Ph.D. in DNA computing in 1997, from the University of Warwick. He then held a Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool, before taking up permanent academic appointments at the University of Liverpool (2000–2002), the University of Exeter (2002–2006), and Manchester Metropolitan University (2006-2018). He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), an active contributor to the Speakers for Schools education charity, and a Trustee of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne (the Lit & Phil).
Bibliography
— The first general text to cover the whole field.
— A popular science style introduction to the topic.
— A collection of "science into fiction" short stories, based on the themes of "unconventional computing" and artificial life, with accompanying afterwords written by consultant scientists.
References
Living people
British computer scientists
Alumni of Coventry University
People from Hexham
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20Tracking%20Network | The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is a global network research and monitoring effort using implanted acoustic transmitters to study fish migration patterns. It is based at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. The technology used by the Ocean Tracking Network comes from the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST) and the Tagging of Pacific Pelagics (TOPP) project.
Operations
OTN operates a fleet of autonomous vehicles—Teledyne Webb Slocum gliders and Liquid Robotics Wave Gliders. The TWS gliders are electrically powered and collect physical, biological and chemical information. The LRW glides are solar and wave powered. They each gather data on weather and sea surface conditions. Additionally, OTN maintains a rental fleet of Innovasea Vemco acoustic receiver units for use by those in academia, government, non-profits and industry.
References
External links
Fisheries databases
Acoustics
Sound |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas%20Edalat | Abbas Edalat () is a British-Iranian academic who is a professor of computer science and mathematics at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London and a political activist. In a 2018 letter to The Guardian, 129 experts in computer science, mathematics and machine learning described him as "a prominent academic, making fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and theoretical computer science" Edalat also founded SAF and CASMII, a campaign against sanctions and military intervention in Iran.
Edalat has appeared on BBC News on numerous occasions.
Academic career
Edalat is Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Imperial College, London, since 1997. Before this he was a lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran (1987–88). He completed his PhD in Mathematics at Warwick University (UK) in 1985 advised by Christopher Zeeman. His research interests include Exact Computation in Differential and Integral Calculus, Computational Geometry, Computation in Logical Form, Optimisation Theory, Game Theory and Computational Psychiatry.
At Imperial College, Professor Edalat serves as the head of both the Algorithmic Human Development and Continuous Data-Types and Exact Computing research groups. His 1997 paper on "Bisimulation for Labelled Markov Processes" received the IEEE LICS Test of Time Award in 2017.
Science and Arts Foundation
In 1999, Edalat founded the Science and Arts Foundation (SAF), a UK registered charity with the mission "to provide the youth of the developing world with educational opportunities particularly in information technology and internet enjoyed in the industrial world." The foundation's president was Dr. Mohammad Reza Haeri-Yazdi, faculty member of the University of Tehran. The foundation raised over US$1 million toward technology projects in Iranian middle and high schools, in partnership with institutions of higher learning, such as Sharif University of Technology, University of Guilan, Shahid Chamran University and University of Kashan. According to Fars News, SAF "established the first modern computer sites with internet access for some 250 schools in various provinces in Iran."
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII)
Edalat founded the educational peace organization CASMII, on 1 December 2005 in London, UK. It expanded to the US the following year. The organization's membership is described as a group of academics, students and professionals of "diverse range of political and ideological viewpoints", formed to oppose sanctions or military action against Iran. Edalat and CASMII have been involved in numerous anti-war events, news programs and speaking engagements.
Personal life
Edalat was arrested in Tehran on 15 April 2018 by officers of the intelligence department of IRGC for unknown reasons. He was transferred to Evin Prison. Edalat had come to Iran to attend educational workshops. He returned to the UK in December 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Strehl | Alexander Strehl (born in Nuremberg) is a computer scientist, management consultant and business school professor. His areas of expertise are machine learning, consensus clustering, business intelligence, big data, artificial intelligence, cluster analysis, data mining, entrepreneurship and digital transformation. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, was the creator of cluster ensembles, a director of flatfox AG, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is currently teaching at the University of Aalen and serves as an independent industry consultant.
References
External links
Home page for Alexander Strehl
Aalen University page for Alexander Strehl
Living people
Scientists from Nuremberg
German computer scientists
German management consultants
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Texas at Austin alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lowe%20%28video%20game%20composer%29 | David Lowe also known as "Uncle Art" is a British composer known for his work on computer games from 1985 to 1998.
Lowe got attention by making music with professional synthesizers (CX5, DX7, RX11 drum machine) for an additional cassette tape distributed with the games Starglider 2 and Carrier Command.
His Starglider soundtrack for 16-bit computers (ST & Amiga) was also notable of having 15-second long song (a single sound file) with vocals and synthesizers on both versions. Amiga version's title music used high quality instrument sounds (for then prevailing standards - before tracker music).
Lowe composed and recorded the music for Frontier: Elite II.
Lowe was also co author and assembler programmer for 'Buggy Blast' and also programmer for the Spectrum Z80 version of 'Thrust': both published by Rainbird 1985 & 1986 respectively. In 2017, Lowe and his daughter finished their latest album; A Temporal Shift. It features remastered versions of some of Lowe's best-known gaming tunes.
Notable games
Buggy Blast (1985, ZX Spectrum)
Rasputin (1986, ZX Spectrum)
Rad-Zone (1986, Amstrad CPC)Thrust (1986, ZX Spectrum)Starglider (1987, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga)Carrier Command (1988, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, audio tape music)Exceleron (1988, Commodore 64)Games, The: Summer Edition (Go For Gold) (1988, Amiga, Atari ST)Galaxy Force (1988, Amiga, Atari ST)Starglider 2 (1988, Amiga, audio tape music)International Karate + (1988, Amiga, Atari ST) (Based on Rob Hubbard's original for the Commodore 64)After Burner II (1988, Amiga, Atari ST arranged from the arcade game)P47 Thunderbolt (1988, Commodore 64)Xain'd Sleena aka Soldier of Light (1988, Amiga)Altered Beast (1989, Amiga, Atari ST)Bangkok Knights (1989, Amiga, Atari ST)Darius+ (1989, Amiga, Atari ST)Double Dragon II (1989, Commodore 64)F-15 Strike Eagle II (1989, Amiga, Atari ST)Garfield: A Winter's Tail (1989, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST)Hard Drivin' (1989, C64)Power Drift (1989, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST)Raffles (Devon Aire in the Hidden Diamond Caper) / (Inside Outing) (1989, Amiga, Atari ST)Time Scanner (1989, Amiga, Atari ST)ISS: Incredible Shrinking Sphere (1989, Amiga)Betrayal (1990, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST)Ghostbusters II (1990, Amiga, Atari ST)Line of Fire (1990, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST)Night Shift (1990, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST)Railroad Tycoon (1990, Amiga)Turbo Outrun (1990, home ports, credited as "Uncle Art")Black Hornet (1991, Amiga, Atari ST)Cyber Police ESWAT (1991, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST)Elite Plus (1991 DOS)Final Fight (1991, Commodore 64, Atari ST) (based on original by Yoko Shimomura)Midwinter II: Flames of Freedom (1991, Atari ST)Formula One Grand Prix (1992, Amiga, Atari ST)Pinball Dreams (1992, DOS, based on original by Olof Gustafsson)Streetfighter II (1992, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST) (based on original by Yoko Shimomura)Frontier: Elite II (1993, Amiga)Cybermorph (1993, Atari Jaguar)PGA Tour Golf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20operations | In computer science, in the area of formal language theory, frequent use is made of a variety of string functions; however, the notation used is different from that used for computer programming, and some commonly used functions in the theoretical realm are rarely used when programming. This article defines some of these basic terms.
Strings and languages
A string is a finite sequence of characters.
The empty string is denoted by .
The concatenation of two string and is denoted by , or shorter by .
Concatenating with the empty string makes no difference: .
Concatenation of strings is associative: .
For example, .
A language is a finite or infinite set of strings.
Besides the usual set operations like union, intersection etc., concatenation can be applied to languages:
if both and are languages, their concatenation is defined as the set of concatenations of any string from and any string from , formally .
Again, the concatenation dot is often omitted for brevity.
The language consisting of just the empty string is to be distinguished from the empty language .
Concatenating any language with the former doesn't make any change: ,
while concatenating with the latter always yields the empty language: .
Concatenation of languages is associative: .
For example, abbreviating , the set of all three-digit decimal numbers is obtained as . The set of all decimal numbers of arbitrary length is an example for an infinite language.
Alphabet of a string
The alphabet of a string is the set of all of the characters that occur in a particular string. If s is a string, its alphabet is denoted by
The alphabet of a language is the set of all characters that occur in any string of , formally:
.
For example, the set is the alphabet of the string ,
and the above is the alphabet of the above language as well as of the language of all decimal numbers.
String substitution
Let L be a language, and let Σ be its alphabet. A string substitution or simply a substitution is a mapping f that maps characters in Σ to languages (possibly in a different alphabet). Thus, for example, given a character a ∈ Σ, one has f(a)=La where La ⊆ Δ* is some language whose alphabet is Δ. This mapping may be extended to strings as
f(ε)=ε
for the empty string ε, and
f(sa)=f(s)f(a)
for string s ∈ L and character a ∈ Σ. String substitutions may be extended to entire languages as
Regular languages are closed under string substitution. That is, if each character in the alphabet of a regular language is substituted by another regular language, the result is still a regular language.
Similarly, context-free languages are closed under string substitution.
A simple example is the conversion fuc(.) to uppercase, which may be defined e.g. as follows:
For the extension of fuc to strings, we have e.g.
fuc(‹Straße›) = {‹S›} ⋅ {‹T›} ⋅ {‹R›} ⋅ {‹A›} ⋅ {‹SS›} ⋅ {‹E›} = {‹STRASSE›},
fuc(‹u2›) = {‹U›} ⋅ {ε} = {‹U›}, and
fuc(‹Go!›) = {‹G›} ⋅ {‹O›} ⋅ {} = {}.
For the extension of fuc to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcfg2 | Bcfg2 (pronounced "bee-config") is a configuration management tool developed in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory. Bcfg2 aids in the infrastructure management lifecycle – configuration analysis, service deployment, and configuration auditing. It includes tools for visualizing configuration information, as well as reporting tools that help administrators understand configuration patterns in their environments.
Bcfg2 differs from similar configuration management tools due to its auditing capability. One of the stated design goals for Bcfg2 is to determine if interactive (direct) changes have been made to a machine and report on these extra changes. The client can optionally remove any additional configuration.
Overview
Bcfg2 is written in Python and enables system administrator to manage the configuration of a large number of computers using a central configuration model. Bcfg2 operates using a simple model of system configuration, modeling intuitive items like packages, services and configuration files (as well as the dependencies between them). This model of system configuration is used for verification and validation, allowing robust auditing of deployed systems. The Bcfg2 configuration specification is written using a declarative XML model. The entire specification can be validated using widely available XML schema validators along with the custom schemas included in Bcfg2.
Built to be cross-platform, Bcfg2 works on most Unix-like operating systems.
Architecture
Bcfg2 is based on a client-server architecture. The client is responsible for interpreting (but not processing) the configuration served by the server. This configuration is literal, so no client-side processing of the configuration is required. After completion of the configuration process, the client uploads a set of statistics to the server.
The Bcfg2 Client
The Bcfg2 client performs all client configuration or reconfiguration operations. It renders a declarative configuration specification, provided by the Bcfg2 server, into a set of configuration operations which will attempt to change the client's state into that described by the configuration specification.
The operation of the Bcfg2 client is intended to be as simple as possible. Conceptually, the sole purpose of the client is to reconcile the differences between the current client state and the state described in the specification received from the Bcfg2 server.
The Bcfg2 Server
The Bcfg2 server is responsible for taking a network description and turning it into a series of configuration specifications for particular clients. It also manages probed data and tracks statistics for clients.
Server operation
The Bcfg2 server takes information from two sources when generating client configuration specifications. The first is a pool of metadata that describes clients as members of an aspect-based classing system. That is, clients are defined in terms of aspects of their abstract |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Reif | John H. Reif (born 1951) is an American academic, and Professor of Computer Science at Duke University, who has made contributions to large number of fields in computer science: ranging from algorithms and computational complexity theory to robotics. He has also published in many other scientific fields including chemistry (in particular, nanoscience), optics (in particular optical computing and design of head-mounted displays), and mathematics (in particular graph theory and game theory.
Biography
John Reif received a B.S. (magna cum laude) from Tufts University in 1973, a M.S. from Harvard University in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977.
From 1983 to 1986 he was associate professor of Harvard University, and since 1986 he has been Professor of Computer Science at Duke University. Currently he holds the Hollis Edens Distinguished Professor, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University. From 2011 to 2014 he was Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
He has also contributed to bringing together various disjoint research communities working in different areas of nano-sciences by organizing (as General Chairman) annual Conferences on "Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-assembled architectures and devices" (FNANO) for last 20 years.
He has been awarded Fellow of the following organizations: American Association for the Advancement of Science, IEEE, ACM, and the Institute of Combinatorics.
He is the son of Arnold E. Reif and like him he has dual citizenship in USA and Austria.
Research contributions
John Reif has made contributions to large number of fields in computer science: ranging from algorithms and computational complexity theory to robotics and to game theory. He developed efficient randomized algorithms and parallel algorithms for a wide variety of graph, geometric, numeric, algebraic, and logical problems. His Google Scholar H-index is 76.
In the area of robotics, he gave the first hardness proofs for robotic motion planning as well as efficient algorithms for a wide variety of motion planning problems.
He also has led applied research projects: parallel programming languages (Proteus System for parallel programming), parallel architectures (Blitzen, a massively parallel machine), data compression (massively parallel loss-less compression hardware), and optical computing (free-space holographic routing). His papers on these topics can be downloaded here.
John Reif is President of Eagle Eye Research, Inc., which specializes in defense applications of DNA biotechnology.
He is co-founder of the company Domus Diagnostics, Inc. which developed a highly accurate and affordable at-home molecular testing platform for various diseases, including COVID-19, RSV, and influenza A and B.
Research in nanoscience
More recently, he has centered his research in nanoscience and in particular DNA nanotechnology, DNA com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-me | V-me (, a pun on veme, "watch me") is a Hispanic-Latino American Spanish-language television network, formerly carried as an over-the-air public broadcasting network in association with public television stations. V-me airs a variety of programs, including drama, music, current affairs, food, lifestyle, nature and educational preschool content.
History
The 24-hour digital broadcast service was launched on March 5, 2007, with a stated mission to entertain, educate and inspire families in Spanish with a contemporary mix of original productions, exclusive premieres, acquisitions, and popular public television programs from PBS and American Public Television, specially adapted for American Latinos.
The first venture of the media production and distribution company V-me Television Media Inc., it is a public-private partnership between WNET, a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, and the investment firm Baeza Group, the venture capital firm Syncom Funds, and Grupo PRISA from Spain, one of the world's largest Spanish and Portuguese-language media companies. WNET is a minority partner in the for-profit venture.
In April 2013, a Florida-based private investor group of Venezuelans (Eduardo Hauser, J. J. Rendón and Eligio Cedeño) took control of V-me Media, Inc., the U.S. Hispanic content and distribution company that owns Spanish-language network V-me and V-me Kids. Financial terms of the deal and the percentage of the ownership of the new investors was not disclosed. The V-me Board includes former AOL executive and founder and CEO of DailyMe.com Eduardo Hauser (chairman of the board), Syncom managing partner Terry Jones and WNET’s VP and general counsel Robert Feinberg. V-me founder, Mario Baeza, stepped down as chairman, but will continue to have an ownership interest. LPM is the largest stakeholder in V-me.
Among the journalists who have worked for V-me are Jorge Gestoso, Juan Manuel Benitez, Luis Sarmiento, Alonso Castillo, Jackeline Cacho and Marián de la Fuente.
In December 2016, the network announced it would move V-me off PBS member stations in 2017, following the expiration of the network's 10-year contracts with many of these stations, and transition exclusively to being broadcast on ten over-the-air affiliates and as a cable and satellite channel. Most of V-me's over-the-air affiliates were dropped by March 31, 2017; many of these affiliates had already chosen to replace V-me with a 24-hour PBS Kids channel, which launched on January 16.
The network has since pursued expanded cable carriage, along with distribution on AT&T U-verse, Dish Network and DirecTV and their associated streaming services, and the network was added nationwide at the start of October 2022 on Spectrum systems.
Programming
The network broadcasts a variety of programming in Spanish:
Latino-focused lifestyle content: health, parenting, travel, food, home, design, self-improvement and sports programs
Prime time drama series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20calculator | A medical calculator is a type of medical computer software, whose purpose is to allow easy calculation of various scores and indices, presenting the user with a friendly interface that hides the complexity of the formulas. Most offer further helpful information such as result interpretation guides and medical literature references. Generally, such calculators are intended for use by health care professionals, and use by the general public is discouraged.
Medical calculators arose because modern medicine makes frequent use of scores and indices that put physicians' memory and calculation skills to the test. The advent of personal computers, the Internet and Web, and more recently personal digital assistants (PDAs) have formed an environment conducive to their development, spread and use.
Types of calculators
Hardware devices
Purpose-built devices for specific medical calculations are available from various commercial sources. Pharma-Insight Inc. in Canada is one of the only companies in the world that is able to make custom specific medical calculators built to perform a specific medical calculation to make dosing or other calculation easy. Some of the standard units they make include eGFR, CrCl, BMI, BSA, DAS and many other custom units designed for a specific purpose. There are two ways to make a calculator using an array that looks up an answer based on a large array of data or where the calculator computes the answer using a mathematical equation.
PDA
Software-based medical calculators are available for various PDA-platforms, including the iPhone, Palm and Pocket PC. Handheld battery powered portable units are available and can be manufactured in smaller quantities than before thanks to OTP (one Time Programmable) chips.
Online Calculators
Various websites are available that provide calculations from a browser based input form.
References
Medical equipment
Medical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20sharing | Data sharing is the practice of making data used for scholarly research available to other investigators. Many funding agencies, institutions, and publication venues have policies regarding data sharing because transparency and openness are considered by many to be part of the scientific method.
A number of funding agencies and science journals require authors of peer-reviewed papers to share any supplemental information (raw data, statistical methods or source code) necessary to understand, develop or reproduce published research. A great deal of scientific research is not subject to data sharing requirements, and many of these policies have liberal exceptions. In the absence of any binding requirement, data sharing is at the discretion of the scientists themselves. In addition, in certain situations governments and institutions prohibit or severely limit data sharing to protect proprietary interests, national security, and subject/patient/victim confidentiality. Data sharing may also be restricted to protect institutions and scientists from use of data for political purposes.
Data and methods may be requested from an author years after publication. In order to encourage data sharing and prevent the loss or corruption of data, a number of funding agencies and journals established policies on data archiving. Access to publicly archived data is a recent development in the history of science made possible by technological advances in communications and information technology. To take full advantage of modern rapid communication may require consensual agreement on the criteria underlying mutual recognition of respective contributions. Models recognized for improving the timely sharing of data for more effective response to emergent infectious disease threats include the data sharing mechanism introduced by the GISAID Initiative.
Despite policies on data sharing and archiving, data withholding still happens. Authors may fail to archive data or they only archive a portion of the data. Failure to archive data alone is not data withholding. When a researcher requests additional information, an author sometimes refuses to provide it. When authors withhold data like this, they run the risk of losing the trust of the science community. A 2022 study identified about 3500 research papers which contained statements that the data was available, but upon request and further seeking the data, found that it was unavailable for 94% of papers.
Data sharing may also indicate the sharing of personal information on a social media platform.
U.S. government policies
Federal law
On August 9, 2007, President Bush signed the America COMPETES Act (or the "America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act") requiring civilian federal agencies to provide guidelines, policies and procedures, to facilitate and optimize the open exchange of data and research between agencies, the public and policymakers. See Section |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Systems%20and%20Software | The Journal of Systems and Software is a computer science journal in the area of software systems, established in 1979 and published by Elsevier.
Content and scope
The journal publishes research papers, state-of-the-art surveys, and practical experience reports. It includes papers covering issues of programming methodology, software engineering, and hardware/software systems. Topics include: "software systems, prototyping issues, high-level specification techniques, procedural and functional programming techniques, data-flow concepts, multiprocessing, real-time, distributed, concurrent, and telecommunications systems, software metrics, reliability models for software, performance issues, and management concerns."
Abstracting and indexing
According to the 2021 Journal Citation Reports, the Journal of Systems and Software has an impact factor of 3.514.
According to Google Scholar, the journal has an h5-index of 61, which ranks third among international publication venues in software systems, after ICSE and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Past and present editors-in-chief
John Manley and Alan Salisbury (1979–1983)
Richard E. Fairley (1984–1985)
Robert L. Glass (1986–2001)
David N. Card (2002–2008)
Hans van Vliet (2009–2017)
Paris Avgeriou and David Shepherd (2018–current)
Notable articles
A few of the most notable (downloaded) articles are:
Software defect prediction based on enhanced metaheuristic feature selection optimization and a hybrid deep neural network
A software engineering perspective on engineering machine learning systems: State of the art and challenges
MeTeaM: A method for characterizing mature software metrics teams
References
External links
Online access
Academic journals established in 1979
Computer science journals
Software engineering publications
Systems engineering
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Monthly journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20Week | is a single-player action video game released for the Nintendo Family Computer.
Gameplay
The player plays as a bird and can either play the normal game or the single level practice game. The player must feed butterflies to the baby birds so that they can grow and eventually leave the nest. The game has no end sequence: beyond level 999, it simply repeats levels until the player loses all of their lives.
Each level represents a different season of the year, beginning in early spring and then progressing through summer and autumn before repeating to the following spring. If the proper number of butterflies are not fed to the babies, then the babies end up starving to death. The player loses a life by failing to feed a baby bird, or by being caught by predators and other obstacles.
References
1986 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Platformers
Single-player video games
Toshiba EMI games
Video games about birds
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaya%20TV | Udaya TV is an Indian Kannada language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Sun TV Network.
Udaya TV is telecast in several nations like India, some Gulf countries and the United States. Udaya TV was Launched on 1 June 1994.
History
Udaya TV was incorporated on 1 June 1994 as a private limited company engaged in television broadcasting with a registered office at Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was launched by the chairman of Sun TV, Kalanidhi Maran, and it started broadcasting from 1 June 1994. It was the first Kannada satellite channel to go on air.
It grew rapidly and by May 2000, Udaya TV has captured 70% of ad spending on TV in the state of Karnataka. In 2000 and 2001, it won the Indian Television Academy's award for the best Kannada TV channel for 2001 It forayed into FM radio broadcasting by launching Vishaka FM, an FM channel in Visakhapatnam. It was a free-on-air channel until 1 August 2004, when it was made a pay channel with a subscription fee of Rs.18.
In February 2006, the directors of Udaya TV were Kalanidhi Maran, S. Selvam and Kaveri Kalanidhi. S. Selvam was also the Director of the Bangalore Bureau of Udaya TV. In November 2006, its owner Kalanithi Maran merged Udaya TV Ltd. with Sun TV Network along with Gemini TV Ltd for IPO listing of Sun TV Network.
Programming
Sister Channels
Current Channels
Udaya Movies
Udaya Movies (formerly Ushe TV) is an Indian Kannada language pay television movies channel. It is a part of the Sun TV Network and was launched on 25 May 2000.
Udaya Music
Udaya Music is a Kannada television music channel. It is a part of the Sun TV Network and was launched on 5 February 2006 as U2 (Udaya 2) and later renamed as Udaya Music.
Chintu TV
Chintu Television is a 24-hour Kannada kids pay television channel from Sun TV Network in India. The target audience is children aged between 3 and 14. It was launched on 11 April 2009; making it Sun TV Network's first ever Kannada children's television channel.
Udaya Comedy
Udaya Comedy is a 24-hour comedy TV channel which serves in the Kannada language from the Sun TV Network in India. It was launched on 7 April 2009.
Defunct Channels
Udaya News
Udaya News (formerly Udaya Varthegalu) was Kannada language's first News Channel and belonged to the Sun Network. The channel ceased its operation after 19 years on 24 October 2017 due to mounting losses and competition. Udaya News was shut down on 1 February 2019.
Awards
Indian Television Academy's award for the best Kannada TV channel for 2001
Indian Television Academy's award for the best Kannada TV channel for 2002
References
External links
Kannada-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Sun Group
Television stations in Bangalore
1994 establishments in Karnataka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle%20Race%3A%20Road%20Man | is a Family Computer video game based on the sport of road bicycle racing.
Gameplay
General gameplay
It is the player's ultimate objective to make it all the way around Japan. Players who end up completely damaging the bicycle, running out of energy, or falling behind a certain ranking, will automatically lose the race. Players can choose a representative from either Team USA, Team Japan, Team France, or Team Italy. As long as the player has at least one spare bicycle in the inventory, games will never end on a completely damaged bicycle. Passwords are used to save the game.
The race is 4,000 kilometers long (2485.5 miles). Players must traverse the countryside that separates major Japanese cities along the coastline during the course of these 4,000 kilometres. Interesting scenery includes forests and cattle farms.
Players are always given the exact altitude of each section; they are also shown how far in a stage the player has to advance in order to reach the finish line.
Strategy elements
Teammates give out useful power-ups that increase the speed of the bicycle. The power-ups can also give the player the opportunity to make on the spot repairs, and extra energy (i.e., water or energy drink) for those longer courses. Each team has five members to choose from; each with their own strengths and weaknesses and a name that is typical of his nationality. Points (which are used as currency) are earned by finishing as close to first place as possible. Once acquired, points can be used to buy bicycles that are faster and longer lasting. Bicycle sales cannot be cancelled or revoked; discarding a bike is only possible by intentionally destroying them in a race. Bicycles come in different colors including green, red and blue.
There are also technical differences with the different bicycles. Some are better in higher altitude places like mountains while others function better in lower altitude places like valleys and flat land. However, there are also bicycles that can endure both high altitude and low altitude places. Endurance is linked directly to the weight and speed of the bicycle. Longer races require bicycles with a larger endurance rating.
References
1988 video games
Cycling video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Racing video games
Tokyo Shoseki games
Tonkin House games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20Armageddon | is a 1988 post-apocalyptic role-playing video game for the NEC PC-8801, MSX, Sharp X68000, MS-DOS, PC Engine CD-ROM², and Nintendo Family Computer. The game was exclusively in the Japanese language until an English translation patch was created for the Nintendo Famicom.
The game had a sequel, After Armageddon Gaiden, released for the Sega CD in 1994. Working Designs planned to release the game in North America as A Side Story of Armageddon in 1995, but the localization was cancelled due to the demise of the Sega CD system.
Plot
The humans, who breathed the toxin-filled air on Earth's surface, became one with the Earth and kept dissolving. The history of humanity ended and dominion of the planet returned to the demons. These mutant creatures did not depend on oxygen to survive. Therefore, they were able to breathe the air and use the land. Meanwhile, an army of robots wage World War IV against the demons in order to conquer what is now known as Makai - the Demon World. These robots came to the planet on a wave of energy that created an explosion that turned the world into a wasteland. Much later in the game, concurrent themes including Adolf Hitler, war, creating a perfect race of people, and the destruction of humanity in the year 1999 are revealed to the player inside one of the robot's main bases.
The demons attempt to gain dominion on the humans' old planet while the robots intend to impose a millennium of logic and dictatorial force throughout Makai. Playing as the robots is not an option open to the player. Therefore, the player must take advantage of their mutant army and crush the robot invaders. The game builds on the theme of an impending world domination through machines, as popularized famously in the Terminator series. The gameplay is similar to Final Fantasy featuring turn-based fights viewed from a third-person perspective.
Gameplay
Both the demon soldiers and their enemies may cast magic spells or physical attacks. Some magic attacks have the ability to inflict poison damage on any of the player's creatures. If a creature is poisoned, the player must spare some of their creature's magic points in order to cure the affected monster through the spell. Letting the creature remain poisoned for a certain amount of time will eventually lead to its death.
The game plays like a role-playing video game and graves of fallen demons by the home base remind the player of the situation of the game. When a player first starts the game, they should not go to the right, as experienced monsters lie there in a stadium-shaped power station that is in the southeastern corner of the map. It will take a foursome of level 5-10 characters in order to defeat the robots inside the dome. As characters advance in level, the monster images change slightly. By the time the characters advance to levels 17 through 34 (the maximum possible levels), the monsters will look completely slimy and the fusion of the cells will get ugly.
There are two groups of fou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%E2%80%93even%20sort | In computing, an odd–even sort or odd–even transposition sort (also known as brick sort or parity sort) is a relatively simple sorting algorithm, developed originally for use on parallel processors with local interconnections. It is a comparison sort related to bubble sort, with which it shares many characteristics. It functions by comparing all odd/even indexed pairs of adjacent elements in the list and, if a pair is in the wrong order (the first is larger than the second) the elements are switched. The next step repeats this for even/odd indexed pairs (of adjacent elements). Then it alternates between odd/even and even/odd steps until the list is sorted.
Sorting on processor arrays
On parallel processors, with one value per processor and only local left–right neighbor connections, the processors all concurrently do a compare–exchange operation with their neighbors, alternating between odd–even and even–odd pairings. This algorithm was originally presented, and shown to be efficient on such processors, by Habermann in 1972.
The algorithm extends efficiently to the case of multiple items per processor. In the Baudet–Stevenson odd–even merge-splitting algorithm, each processor sorts its own sublist at each step, using any efficient sort algorithm, and then performs a merge splitting, or transposition–merge, operation with its neighbor, with neighbor pairing alternating between odd–even and even–odd on each step.
Batcher's odd–even mergesort
A related but more efficient sort algorithm is the Batcher odd–even mergesort, using compare–exchange operations and perfect-shuffle operations.
Batcher's method is efficient on parallel processors with long-range connections.
Algorithm
The single-processor algorithm, like bubblesort, is simple but not very efficient. Here a zero-based index is assumed:
function oddEvenSort(list) {
function swap(list, i, j) {
var temp = list[i];
list[i] = list[j];
list[j] = temp;
}
var sorted = false;
while (!sorted) {
sorted = true;
for (var i = 1; i < list.length - 1; i += 2) {
if (list[i] > list[i + 1]) {
swap(list, i, i + 1);
sorted = false;
}
}
for (var i = 0; i < list.length - 1; i += 2) {
if (list[i] > list[i + 1]) {
swap(list, i, i + 1);
sorted = false;
}
}
}
}
Proof of correctness
Claim: Let be a sequence of data ordered by <. The odd–even sort algorithm correctly sorts this data in passes. (A pass here is defined to be a full sequence of odd–even, or even–odd comparisons. The passes occur in order pass 1: odd–even, pass 2: even–odd, etc.)
Proof:
This proof is based loosely on one by Thomas Worsch.
Since the sorting algorithm only involves comparison-swap operations and is oblivious (the order of comparison-swap operations does not depend on the data), by Knuth's 0–1 sorting principle, it suffices to check correctness when each is either 0 or 1. Assume that there are 1s.
Observe that the rightmost |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Samuel%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 – July 29, 1990) was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. He popularized the term "machine learning" in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence (AI). He was also a senior member in the TeX community who devoted much time giving personal attention to the needs of users and wrote an early TeX manual in 1983.
Biography
Samuel was born on December 5, 1901, in Emporia, Kansas, and graduated from College of Emporia in Kansas in 1923.
He received a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1926, and taught for two years as instructor. In 1928, he joined Bell Laboratories, where he worked mostly on vacuum tubes, including improvements of radar during World War II. He developed a gas-discharge transmit-receive switch (TR tube) that allowed a single antenna to be used for both transmitting and receiving. After the war he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he initiated the ILLIAC project, but left before its first computer was complete.
Samuel went to IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1949, where he would conceive and carry out his most successful work. He is credited with one of the first software hash tables, and influencing early research in using transistors for computers at IBM. At IBM he made the first checkers program on IBM's first commercial computer, the IBM 701. The program was a sensational demonstration of the advances in both hardware and skilled programming and caused IBM's stock to increase 15 points overnight. His pioneering non-numerical programming helped shape the instruction set of processors, as he was one of the first to work with computers on projects other than computation. He was known for writing articles that made complex subjects easy to understand. He was chosen to write an introduction to one of the earliest journals devoted to computing in 1953.
In 1966, Samuel retired from IBM and became a professor at Stanford University, where he worked the remainder of his life. He worked with Donald Knuth on the TeX project, including writing some of the documentation. He continued to write software past his 88th birthday.
He was given the Computer Pioneer Award by the IEEE Computer Society in 1987.
He died of complications from Parkinson's disease on July 29, 1990.
Computer checkers (draughts) development
Samuel is most known within the AI community for his groundbreaking work in computer checkers in 1959, and seminal research on machine learning, beginning in 1949. He graduated from MIT and taught at MIT and UIUC from 1946 to 1949. He believed teaching computers to play games was very fruitful for developing tactics appropriate to general problems, and he chose checkers as it is relatively simple though has a depth of strategy. The main driver of the ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotas | Erotas (Greek: Έρωτας; English translation: Love) is a Greek television soap opera, produced in 2005 by TV author Vana Dimitriou. The show aired on the ANT1 network from September 18, 2005 until May 30, 2008 in Greece and Australia, for a total of three seasons, and 646 episodes. The direction of the show was shared amongst Kostas Kostopoulos, Katerina Kokkinidou, and Spyros Michalopoulos. Erotas aired in the time-slot previously claimed by the show Lampsi, which concluded in the summer of 2005, after 14 years of continuous screening.
The main storyline revolves around the private life of a wealthy Athenian family. The series follows Ektoras (portrayed by Grigoris Valtinos) and Myrto Anagnostou (portrayed by Koralia Karanti) five years into their seemingly blissful marriage, and successful professional lives. As the story unfolds, secrets start to arise, and jealousy casts a shadow to the couple's happiness. The story becomes more complicated when Myrto's ex-husband comes back into their lives.
The show was originally renewed for a 4th season, but on the 26th of April 2008 ANT1 station decided not to proceed with airing it. The five final episodes of Erotas were the highest rating episodes in its history, with over 4,250,000 watching, on average, in Greece. The series also aired in Cyprus, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, Australia, the United States, and Canada.
Controversy
Uproar arose among fans in early 2007, during the storyline of Myrto's kidnapping, when the writers led the fans to believe she was dead. The writers admitted in early 2008 that they were unsure at the time whether or not the character would survive and "unintentionally" left viewers hanging in the balance while they made their decision. They eventually concluded that the character would have died had they not anticipated an adverse audience reaction. Koralia Karanti renewed her contract until the end of the series, on August 25, 2007, and remained on the show for the entire series, appearing in every episode.
Ratings
It was the highest rating television show in Greece after the cancellation of Vera Sto Dexi. Almost immediately after beginning, the show has proven quite popular, beating all other shows in its timeslot except Vera Sto Dexi, until its end in May 2007. The show suffered a significant drop in ratings of 15% after Noni Ioannidou's character Vera left the show in November 2006; the writers have now admitted that they regretting killing her character, as they knew Vera was one of the most popular characters, but did not predict this sharp decline in ratings, however by the end of the second season the ratings had significantly recovered. However, in 2008, the show was cancelled on the ANT1 network, due to low ratings, opposite Mega Channel's UGLY MARIA.
Broadcast
Its popularity has been reflected by airing it internationally on the ANT1 Pacific network in Australia, where it has a huge fanbase, broadcast at 7pm, on the ANT1 network, in synchronisation w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIN%20Corporation | WIN Corporation is a private Australian media company, that owns assets including the WIN Television network, Crawford Productions and several local radio stations. The company is based in Wollongong, New South Wales.
History
Founding
The WIN brand began from a sole free-to-air terrestrial television station in Wollongong, WIN-4, owned by Television Wollongong Transmissions (TWT). In 1979, then-owner Rupert Murdoch sold his 76 per cent controlling interest in TWT to Oberon Broadcasters, a private investment group which included Paramount Television programming executive Bruce Gordon. This allowed Murdoch to purchase Sydney station TEN-10. In 1985, TWT was made public on the-then Sydney Stock Exchange as TWT Holdings Limited with Gordon retaining a 70 per cent stake. Gordon privatised the business in 1992 to become WIN Corporation.
Expansion, aggregation and industry consolidation
In the late 1980s, the Federal Government's television equalisation program (known as aggregation) gave Gordon the opportunity to initiate a period of growth by acquiring television stations in regional Queensland, Victoria, and Tasmania. In the late 1990s, WIN acquired their South Australian station and developed a new Western Australian station from scratch. These stations were integrated into what is now known as the WIN Network. The WIN Network covers large areas of regional Australia and has a total audience reach of 4.842 million people.
Through Bruce Gordon's leadership, in the late 1990s and 2000s, WIN built stakes in PBL, Network Ten, and TPG Telecom. TPG Telecom was at the time known as SP Telemedia and owned fellow Nine affiliate NBN Television.
August 2005 saw WIN purchase a controlling 50.1 per cent stake in satellite subscription television carrier SelecTV, however failure in adequately growing the subscriber base along with high debts saw the business placed in voluntary administration in February 2011.
On 21 April 2007, the board of Sunraysia Television endorsed WIN's revised offer of $163 million for Channel Nine Perth
, which went through on 8 June 2007. On 30 May 2007, Southern Cross Broadcasting announced its sale of Channel Nine Adelaide to WIN for $105 million. In June 2013, WIN offloaded the Nine-branded metropolitan Adelaide station to Nine Network's parent Nine Entertainment Co. for $140 million along with an option to purchase the Perth station, which was exercised in September 2013. In October 2015 WIN Corporation purchased a 14 per cent stake in Nine Entertainment Co. from investment fund operator Apollo.
In 2008, WIN invested in a 50 per cent share of the Australian Poker League, buying from its founder Martin Martinez. However this stake was sold in 2012.
On 4 June 2009, signalling their continued interest in digital assets, WIN increased to 18.4 per cent their stake in publicly listed company Quickflix, an Australian provider of online DVD rental and subscription movie and television series downloads. In the following years, WIN's s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Peleg%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | David Peleg () is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, holding the Norman D. Cohen Professorial Chair of Computer Sciences, and the present dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in Weizmann Institute.
His main research interests are algorithms, computer networks, and distributed computing. Many of his papers deal with a combination of all three.
He received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of David Harel. He has published numerous papers and a book, chaired leading conferences in computer science, and is an editor of several scientific journals.
Awards and honors
In 2008, he was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing along with Baruch Awerbuch for their 1990 paper “Sparse partitions.”
In 2011, he won the SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference.
In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Since 2020, Peleg is editor-in-chief of the journal Information and Computation.
Selected publications
. Dijkstra Prize 2008.
Notes
References
David Peleg's home page.
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
Dijkstra Prize laureates
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JX%20%28operating%20system%29 | JX is a microkernel operating system with both the kernel and applications implemented using the Java programming language.
Overview
JX is implemented as an extended Java virtual machine (the JX Core), adding support to the Java system for necessary features such as protection domains and hardware access, along with a number of components written in Java that provide kernel facilities to applications running on the computer. Because Java is a type-safe language, JX is able to provide isolation between running applications without needing to use hardware memory protection. This technique, known as language-based protection means that system calls and inter-process communication in JX does not cause an address space switch, an operation which is slow on most computers. JX runs on standard PCs, with support for a limited range of common hardware elements. It is free software, developed by the University of Erlangen.
The primary benefits of JX include:
Based on a small trusted computing base (TCB) security system
Lack of address space switching compared to most other microkernel systems.
It is a highly flexible operating system with different configuration possibilities.
See also
JavaOS
References
External links
Project home page
The JX Operating System
The Structure of a Type-Safe Operating System
A Java Operating System as the Foundation of a Secure Network Operating System
Operating system kernels
Microkernels
Free software operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Discontinued Java virtual machines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20File%20Protection | Windows File Protection (WFP), a sub-system included in Microsoft Windows operating systems of the Windows 2000 and Windows XP era, aims to prevent programs from replacing critical Windows system files. Protecting core system files mitigates problems such as DLL hell with programs and the operating system. Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 include WFP under the name of Windows File Protection; Windows Me includes it as System File Protection (SFP).
Operation
With Windows File Protection active, replacing or deleting a system file that has no file lock to prevent it getting overwritten causes Windows immediately and silently to restore the original copy of the file. The original version of the file is restored from a cached folder which contains backup copies of these files. The Windows NT family uses the cached folder . Windows Me caches its entire set of compressed cabinet setup files and stores them in the folder.
WFP covers all files which the operating system installs (such as , , , etc.), protecting them from deletion or from replacement by older versions. The digital signatures of these files are checked using code signing and the signature catalog files stored in the } folder. Only certain operating system components such as the Package Installer (Update.exe) or Windows Installer (Msiexec.exe) can replace these files. Changes made using any other methods in order to replace these files are reverted and the files are silently restored from the cache. If Windows File Protection cannot automatically find the file in the cached folder, it searches the network path or prompts the user for the Windows installation disc to restore the appropriate version of the file.
WFP integrates with the System File Checker () utility.
Windows Vista and later Windows systems do not include Windows File Protection, but they include Windows Resource Protection which protects files using ACLs. Windows Resource Protection aims to protect core registry keys and values and prevent potentially damaging system configuration changes, besides operating system files.
The non-use of ACLs in Windows File Protection was a design choice: Not only did it allow operation on non-NTFS systems, but it prevented those same "bad" installers from failing completely from a file access error.
External links
Overview of Windows File Protection
Registry settings for Windows File Protection
Whitepaper on Windows File Protection
Overview of System File Protection (Windows Me)
Hacking Windows File Protection
Effective Files Protection Tool
Discontinued Windows components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPC%20file%20format | The SPC file format is a file format for storing spectroscopic data.
The SPC file format is a file format in which all kinds of spectroscopic data, including among others infrared spectra, Raman spectra and UV/VIS spectra. The format can be regarded as a database with records of variable length and each record stores a different kind of data (instrumental information, information on one spectrum of a dataset, the spectrum itself or extra logs). It was invented by Galactic Industries as generic file format for its programs. Their original specification was implemented in 1986, but a more versatile format was created in 1996.
Galactic Industries was purchased by Thermo Fisher Scientific who now maintain and develop the GRAMS Software Suite for which the format was defined. They provide free tools and libraries to allow developers to create and maintain SPC files consistently.
This file format is not in plaintext, such as XML or CSV, but is a binary format and is therefore not readable with a standard text editor but requires a special reader or software to interpret the file data. The Environmental Protection Agency publishes a free spectra reader called ShowSPC that is open to the public for reading spectra data. Additionally, a company AnalyzeIQ produces a free SPC to CSV converter aptly titled SPC2CSV, an open-source project OpenSpectralWorks is an alternative free reader, as well as SpectraGryph which has analytic and display capabilities for reading SPC files. The Essential FTIR software offers a file reader that can read, display, analyze and export .spc files as well as many other spectroscopy file formats.
References
External links
Python module to read and convert SPC files on GitHub
hyperSpec R (programming language) package on GitHub
Computer file formats
Spectroscopy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi%27s%20lemma | In theoretical computer science and mathematics, especially in the area of combinatorics on words, the Levi lemma states that, for all strings u, v, x and y, if uv = xy, then there exists a string w such that either
uw = x and v = wy (if |u| ≤ |x|)
or
u = xw and wv = y (if |u| ≥ |x|)
That is, there is a string w that is "in the middle", and can be grouped to one side or the other. Levi's lemma is named after Friedrich Wilhelm Levi, who published it in 1944.
Applications
Levi's lemma can be applied repeatedly in order to solve word equations; in this context it is sometimes called the Nielsen transformation by analogy with the Nielsen transformation for groups. For example, starting with an equation xα = yβ where x and y are the unknowns, we can transform it (assuming |x| ≥ |y|, so there exists t such that x=yt) to ytα = yβ, thus to tα = β. This approach results in a graph of substitutions generated by repeatedly applying Levi's lemma. If each unknown appears at most twice, then a word equation is called quadratic; in a quadratic word equation the graph obtained by repeatedly applying Levi's lemma is finite, so it is decidable if a quadratic word equation has a solution. A more general method for solving word equations is Makanin's algorithm.
Generalizations
The above is known as the Levi lemma for strings; the lemma can occur in a more general form in graph theory and in monoid theory; for example, there is a more general Levi lemma for traces originally due to Christine Duboc.
Several proofs of Levi's Lemma for traces can be found in The Book of Traces.
A monoid in which Levi's lemma holds is said to have the equidivisibility property. The free monoid of strings and string concatenation has this property (by Levi's lemma for strings), but by itself equidivisibility is not enough to guarantee that a monoid is free. However an equidivisible monoid M is free if additionally there exists a homomorphism f from M to the monoid of natural numbers (free monoid on one generator) with the property that the preimage of 0 contains only the identity element of M, i.e. . (Note that f simply being a homomorphism does not guarantee this latter property, as there could be multiple elements of M mapped to 0.) A monoid for which such a homomorphism exists is also called graded (and the f is called a gradation).
See also
String operations
String functions (programming)
Notes
Combinatorics on words
Lemmas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20theory | In mathematics and computer science, trace theory aims to provide a concrete mathematical underpinning for the study of concurrent computation and process calculi. The underpinning is provided by an algebraic definition of the free partially commutative monoid or trace monoid, or equivalently, the history monoid, which provides a concrete algebraic foundation, analogous to the way that the free monoid provides the underpinning for formal languages.
The power of trace theory stems from the fact that the algebra of dependency graphs (such as Petri nets) is isomorphic to that of trace monoids, and thus, one can apply both algebraic formal language tools, as well as tools from graph theory.
While the trace monoid had been studied by Pierre Cartier and Dominique Foata for its combinatorics in the 1960s, trace theory was first formulated by Antoni Mazurkiewicz in the 1970s, in an attempt to evade some of the problems in the theory of concurrent computation, including the problems of interleaving and non-deterministic choice with regards to refinement in process calculi.
References
Volker Diekert, Grzegorz Rozenberg, eds. The Book of Traces, (1995) World Scientific, Singapore
Volker Diekert, Yves Metivier, "Partial Commutation and Traces", In G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa, editors, Handbook of Formal Languages, Vol. 3, Beyond Words. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997.
Volker Diekert, Combinatorics on traces, LNCS 454, Springer, 1990,
Concurrent computing
Formal languages
Trace theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain%20%28video%20game%29 | Rain (stylized as rain), known in parts of Asia as Lost in the Rain, is an adventure video game developed by Acquire and Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The game was revealed at Gamescom and was released as a digital download on the PlayStation Network in 2013. While the digital version is available in all regions, the game's physical disc based release was limited to in Japan, with only Japanese language options, and a Hong Kong and Taiwan release containing English and Traditional Chinese language options. This last version is the only way to acquire an English language copy of the game in physical form, making it a sought after collectible. The game is centred around a novel mechanic whereby the player's character and all enemies are only visible if they are standing in the rain.
Plot
Rain takes place in a town loosely inspired by mid-twentieth century Paris, and follows a young boy. In the opening of the game, he is stuck in bed at home with a fever. During the day he stares out of his window and sees an invisible girl in the rain who is given form by the rain casting a silhouette around her. She stares at him for a brief second before being chased away by something huge and menacing that is also invisible unless the rain gives it a form.
Curious, he follows the two down an alleyway, whereupon exiting through a pair of large doors, the day suddenly turns to night and the town is now deserted, occupied only by strange invisible beasts that roam the streets. The boy also realises that he himself is invisible, and that he and the beasts are only given form by the rain.
With the way back closed, he attempts to find the girl, who is still pursued by the beasts; the one the boy saw from his window is referred to as the Unknown. Using any means to shelter from the rain, the boy evades the creatures that prowl the streets and alleyways, yet the girl proves ever elusive.
After missing his chance to meet the girl at a church that's under renovation, the boy follows her into the grounds of a disused factory and finally makes his presence known to her. They escape together, but neither is able to hear the other's voice. Regardless, they continue on through the town while being pursued by the Unknown.
As the game progresses, the children become aware that each has a visible doppelgänger asleep in their respective homes. The girl attempts to awaken her other self, and while doing so begins to become visible again. But before she can wake her doppelgänger up, she is chased away by the Unknown.
The boy follows, and upon exiting her house, discovers that the town has completely restructured itself into a castle maze-type layout that is afloat on water with no end in sight. He eventually reunites with the girl and the two flee from the ever-pursuing Unknown.
Drawn to a strange light at the edge of the Unknown’s domain, the two arrive in an alleyway with the light seeping in through the very doors they ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20attendance%20figures%20at%20domestic%20professional%20sports%20leagues | The table below lists domestic professional sports leagues from around the world by total attendances for the last completed season for which data is available. The following points should be considered:
In some cases the figures listed are for main season games only.
In some sports (mainly North American centered sports leagues) the main league competition provides each club or franchise with virtually the whole of its attendance and revenue. In others, there are multiple competitions, for example leading English football clubs compete in four competitions each season, but only the league competition is listed below.
In some sports, for example cricket and rugby union, international competitions and transnational club competitions provide a significant part of total attendances and revenue.
Free or heavily discounted seats may be counted by some leagues. No-shows for paid seats may be included in some cases, but not in others.
Not all leagues publish official attendance figures. Various media outlets produce their own figures and sometimes these do not agree, but the differences in the averages given are usually no more than one or two percent.
In some cases the official attendance figure released by clubs and/or their league may reflect the ticket sell through rather than the number of people in attendance on the night, this can result in a discrepancy of many thousands of attendees per event.
The "leagues" below include pure league competitions, where the team that finishes at the top of the table is declared the winner, such as the Premier League, and hybrid league/knock-out competitions, where the best league performers enter a knock-out phase (also called a playoff) to decide the winner, such as the National Football League.
In some sports (mainly North American and Australian centered sports), leagues use a franchise-based system (without promotion and relegation) where teams are placed (or moved to areas) where the market is best. The number of teams is usually decided by the market as well.
Top men's leagues in total attendance with a minimum of 8 million
* Seating room only
Top women's leagues in total attendance
The leagues are segregated between those which normally would play in an outdoor stadium as opposed to those leagues that use indoor arenas. Some outdoor league stadiums are equipped with either retractable or non-retractable roofs where weather conditions (such as rain or extreme heat/cold) would not allow a game to be played or watched effectively, comfortably or safely without such cover. The tables are sorted by average attendance, with a minimum of 2,000.
Outdoor sports
Indoor sports
Notes
See also
List of sports attendance figures
List of professional sports leagues by revenue
References
External links
Global Attendances at sporting intelligence.com
Most watched sports leagues – Sydney Morning Herald
Sports attendance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misteriosa%20Bank | The Misteriosa Bank () is a submerged bank or atoll in the Caribbean Sea, located at – approximately equidistant from Mexico (), Honduras () and Cuba ().
Geographical data
The Misteriosa Bank is long and wide. Its area is . Immediately south of it is Rosario Bank. The closest piece of land is the Swan Islands, Honduras, to the south and separated from it by the more than Cayman Trough. The reported depth is on the average or up to , with depths of along the rim, or . It is part of the Cayman Ridge.
History
The bank was first reported by Spanish navigator Tomás Nicolás de Villa in April 1787.
In the 19th century Charles Darwin mentioned the Misteriosa Bank as an example of the sharply descending coral reef in his work Coral Reefs:
Currently a buoy has been anchored to the seabed of this feature. It appears to have been claimed by the Principality of New Utopia. The placing of the buoy was filmed by a German film crew and broadcast by Arte television on satellite.
New Utopia maintains no state claims and wants to build a form of micronation on top of it, using concrete blocks.
See also
Placer (geography)
References
External links
NASA picture showing Misteriosa Bank
Escafandra - El misterio de la "Isla Misteriosa" IIa parte
Landforms of the Cayman Islands
Atolls of the North Atlantic Ocean
Atolls of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20Gold%20Digital%20Network | Classic Gold Digital Network was one of the biggest 'gold' (oldies) formatted radio networks in the United Kingdom, with a potential audience of 47 million. Classic Gold was broadcast on analogue and DAB digital platforms, as well as Sky channel 0189. The first stations were launched in 1988; the network grew to 18 stations and was merged into what became the Gold network in 2007.
History
Most of the stations were originally the medium wave services of Independent Local Radio stations. For example, "Classic Gold 1359" in Coventry was originally part of Mercia Sound and was a full local service. In the 1980s, FM/AM stations split (in this case to Mercia FM and Xtra AM), before the station was bought by GWR radio in 1993, and the AM station rebranded to "Classic Gold".
In 1998, Classic Gold in Northampton legally rebranded to Classic Gold 1557 Northamptonshire.
The stations were sold to UBC in two tranches in 2000 and 2002; however, in 2007 they came back under the control of GCap (formerly GWR & Capital). Most stations in the network carried the same programming, except for a local 4-hour afternoon programme from 3pm to 7pm.
Additionally, the AM service operated by UTV Radio in West Yorkshire, Pulse Classic Gold, carried programming supplied by the Classic Gold network (with additional localisation and programmes), although it was not owned by UBC.
In summer 2007, GCap Media agreed to acquire the 18 AM Classic Gold radio stations owned by Classic Gold Digital for a cash consideration of £3.95 million. GCap merged the network with its own Capital Gold network of stations to form one classic hits network. The acquisition, which included relevant DAB digital licences held by Classic Gold, was approved by Ofcom. The new network rebranded as 'Gold' launched at 7pm on Friday 3 August 2007.
Programmes
Weekdays
Classic Gold's Even Tastier Breakfast with Tony Blackburn and Laura Frey
The Morning Show with Graham Rogers
The Afternoon Show with Paul Burnett
Classic Gold Drivetime (local opt-out programme)
Classic Gold Evening Show with Paul Baker
Classic Gold Late Night with Tim Allen
The Overnight Express with Matthew Hardy
Weekends included
The Retro Countdown with Mark Dennison
Classic Gold Albums with Trevor Dann
Neil Sean's Star People
Saturday Night At The Movies with Steve Springett
''The Essential Tony Blackburn
Presenters
Laura Frey
Paul Burnett
Gary Crowley
Trevor Dann
Past presenters
Tony Blackburn
Jimmy Savile (deceased)
Dave Lee Travis
Johnnie Walker
Mike Read
Noddy Holder (from Slade)
David Hamilton (now at Boom Radio)
Simon Bates
Emperor Rosko
Chris Hawkins
John Suchet (now at Classic FM)
Regional stations
These were the 20 stations in the Classic Gold Digital Network on 3 August 2007:
Classic Gold 1152, Plymouth
Classic Gold 1260, Bristol and Bath
Classic Gold 1332, Peterborough
Classic Gold 1359, Coventry and Warwickshire
Classic Gold 1359/1431, Essex
Classic Gold 1431/1485, Reading
Classic G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Feud%20%282014%20Australian%20game%20show%29 | Family Feud was an Australian game show based on the American show of the same name. It aired on Network Ten from 14 July 2014 until 22 July 2018 and in August 2020 for a special 10-episode series. The show was hosted by Grant Denyer. This was the fourth Australian version of the format, the previous incarnation being Bert's Family Feud hosted by Bert Newton in 2006. Ten became the third network to adapt the format. From 2016, Ten also screened a celebrity edition titled All Star Family Feud. The show was filmed at Global Television Studios in Southbank, Melbourne from 2014 to 2017 and at Network Ten Studios in Pyrmont, Sydney in 2018 & 2020.
Network Ten revived the series for a 12 episode prime-time special series, which premiered on Sunday, 16 August 2020, with contestants being the frontline workers who assisted in the 2019–2020 bushfire crisis & the COVID-19 pandemic and their families. The grand prize for the special series was increased to A$100,000.
Gameplay
Representatives of the family are posed questions that have already been answered by 100 people. An answer is considered correct if it is one of the concealed answers on the game board, or judged to be equivalent. More points are given for answers that have been given by more people in the survey (one point per person). Answers must have been given by at least two of the 100 people in order to be included on the board. There are four members on each team.
Examples of questions might be "Name a famous George", "Tell me a popular family holiday spot", "Name something you do at school", or "Name a slang name for policemen". At least two people among the survey respondents must give an answer for it to appear as one of the possibilities. The participants are not asked questions about what is true or how things really are. Instead, they are asked questions about what other people think is true. As such, a perfectly logical answer may be considered incorrect because it failed to make the survey (e.g.: for the question about Georges, George Jones was a popular country singer, but if his name was not given by at least two people it would be considered wrong).
Game Basics
To start each round of the main game, two opposing family members "face-off" to see which family will gain control of that particular question. Traditionally, the contestants greet each other with a handshake before the question is read. Whoever guesses the more popular answer in the survey has the option to play the question or pass it to the other family.
Starting with the next family member in line, the family members take turns giving an answer to the host. Family members may not confer with one another while in control of the board. There is a time limit, with the host warning of a three-second count if time is short or the contestant appears to be stalling. An answer not on the board or a family member failing to provide an answer within the time limit results in a strike being charged to the family. When a family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC%20Enterprise | The SPARC Enterprise series is a range of UNIX server computers based on the SPARC V9 architecture. It was co-developed by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu, announced on June 1, 2004, and introduced in 2007. They were marketed and sold by Sun Microsystems (later Oracle Corporation, after their acquisition of Sun), Fujitsu, and Fujitsu Siemens Computers under the common brand of "SPARC Enterprise", superseding Sun's Sun Fire and Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER server product lines. Codename is APL (Advanced Product Line).
Since 2010, servers based on new SPARC CMT processors (SPARC T3 and later) have been branded as Oracle's SPARC T-Series servers, the "SPARC Enterprise" brand being dropped. Fujitsu continued to sell SPARC T-Series as their SPARC Enterprise product line until December 2015. Fujitsu rebranded the product line to "SPARC Servers" since SPARC M10 released in 2013 and continued to sell SPARC M-Series and T-Series with their new brand.
Model range
SPARC64 processor based models (M-series)
The midrange and high-end SPARC64 VI, SPARC64 VII, SPARC64 VII+ processor based servers are designated "M-series". The "M" indicates RAS features similar to mainframe class machines.
M3000 - 1 processor socket, 2U rack-mount
M4000 - Up to 4 processor sockets, 6U rack-mount
M5000 - Up to 8 processor sockets, 10U rack-mount
M8000 - Up to 16 processor sockets, one data center rack
M9000 - Up to 64 processor sockets, one or two data center racks
Processor types
The SPARC64 VI is a dual-core processor, with each core featuring two-way vertical multi-threading (VMT). A M9000 server configured with the maximum number of processors supports running 256 concurrent threads. VMT is a coarse-grained multi-threading implementation. Each core in the SPARC64 VI can handle two strands or threads. VMT switches execution from one strand to the other on the basis of events. To execute instructions from another thread, the pipeline must be saved/flushed and switched to the registers for the other thread. These events include L2 cache misses, a hardware timer exception, interrupts, or some multi-threading-related control instructions. This is also called Switch On Event (SOE) threading.
In 2008, Fujitsu released the SPARC64 VII, a quad-core processor, with each core featuring two-way simultaneous multi-threading. Existing M-class servers will be able to upgrade to the SPARC64 VII processors in the field.
In 2010, Fujitsu released the SPARC64 VII+, running at higher frequency and with a larger L2 cache than its predecessor. A SPARC64 VII or SPARC64 VII+ processor module includes four physical cores, where each core can execute two threads. Each physical core is able to run both threads simultaneously. With SMT, there is no context-switch time and the two threads share the instruction pipeline smoothly. When both are ready to run, they alternate cycles for superscalar instruction issue, and share the functional units according to need.
An important capability of the M-Seri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%20Moghadam | Valentine Moghadam (born 1952) is a feminist scholar, sociologist, activist, and author whose work focuses on women in development, globalization, feminist networks, and female employment in the Middle East.
She has taught and performed research at various institutions of higher education, most recently as professor of sociology and director of international affairs at Northeastern University. Previously she held the position of director of the Women's Studies Program at Purdue University, where she was also a professor of sociology. Prior to that appointment, Moghadam worked for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as the chief of gender equality and development.
Her publication Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks examines globalization as a gendered process and looks closely at Transnational Feminist Networks (TFNs). In her preface, Moghadam writes, "'globalization-from-above' has engendered 'globalization-from-below,' producing a dynamic and transnational women's movement that has been confronting neoliberal capitalism and patriarchal fundamentalism".
Early life
Valentine Moghadam was born to an Assyrian family in Tehran, Iran to an "urban, elite family" in 1952. After attaining her secondary education at an international school, she spent her first two years in the work force employed at a major daily newspaper, Kayhan. Following her time at the newspaper, Moghadam taught English at the Imperial Air Force Language School. After these initial work experiences, Valentine Moghadam, with the support of her parents, sought a college education in the west.
Education
Valentine Moghadam first studied at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), where she "joined the Iranian student movement and became a left-wing activist". As an undergraduate, she majored in history and political science and earned her bachelor's degree in 1978. Moghadam earned her M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1986) in sociology at American University in Washington, D.C.
Career
As a visiting assistant professor in the department of sociology at New York University, from 1985 to 1988, Moghadam taught several courses about sociology, women, and development. In the following year, under the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University, Moghadam completed research as a postdoctoral fellow. In the fall of 1989 she also taught as a visiting assistant professor in the Program in Middle East Studies at Rutgers University. As a visiting lecturer in the fall of 1990 and a visiting senior lecturer in the fall of 1992, Moghadam taught at the University of Helsinki. Then, from 1990 to 1995, she completed research in Helsinki, Finland, at the WIDER Institute of the United Nations University as the senior researcher and coordinator of the Research Program on Women and Development. From May 2004 to December 2006, Moghadam worked in Paris, France, as the Chief of the Section for Gender Equality and Development in the Soci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Horror%20School | Midnight Horror School () is a Japanese computer-animated anime series created by Naomi Iwata (who also created Pecola and Gregory Horror Show), and produced by Milky Cartoon. The series began in October 2003 until March 2004, and aired on the satellite network Animax. The series also aired on Spacetoon Indonesia under the "Comedy Planet" block.
Characters and setting
The school has 26 students, 3 teachers, 3 classrooms, a library, a cafeteria, a music room, a playroom, a fountain, a skeleton playground, a graveyard and several school staff. The cube-headed students names all start with a letter of the alphabet, which they all have on their shirt. They are all also assigned a color.
Students
Ampoo (Voiced By Chiyako Shibahara): A quiet plug boy. He's a mature student, but when charged up, his personality changes drastically. When charged, the electricity he produces becomes dangerous. Ampoo often pairs up with his best friend Watt to emit light through the latter's head. He is also close with Magnero as he helps him detect metal. He can operate machinery by plugging his head through an outlet. His color is purple.
Borocca (Voiced By Junji Majima): A shy umbrella boy. He's often called "Plain" by other students, and goes mostly unnoticed due to this. Although he's shy, he's shown to be an overall kind-hearted and nice person towards the other characters. When he gets excited, his umbrella head opens and closes. Though he's a nice person, he can get upset very easily. When he cries, it rains, which in this case he can make the school become a downpour. His color is aquamarine.
Chaps (Voiced by Mochizuki Hisayo): An optimistic and excitable half-melted candy girl. She's kind, positive, very energetic, and sometimes to points that can slightly be annoying to her classmates. She's very nice and friendly towards almost anyone, and, as seen in Memories Day, even went out of her way to save one of Yumyum's flies (the Spy Fly) that bullied her when it got stuck in a spider web, even befriending it in the process. She seems mostly friendly with Juno, but interacts with almost every student in the school. She doesn't seem to like Yumyum, half of the time. When she tries to do too many things at once, she melts. Her color is light green.
Docky (Voiced by Mayumi Tanaka (Season 1) and Takeshi Kusao (Season 2): A skeleton that wears a firefighter hat with the number 13 on his head. As shown throughout the series, Docky can be considered a bit arrogant and conceited due to his pride over his wonder, which, as shown in "Strange Scribbles", sometimes annoys his fellow classmates. However, he is also a very dependable character, and tries to help out whenever he's needed for something. As stated in his official description, many of the other boys are a bit envious of him due to both his wonder and his speed when sliding down the banister of the staircase in the school. He's one of the more mature students in the school, and he takes pride in this fact. He's admi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinasamba%20Kita | (International title: All for You / ) is a 2007 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a Philippine graphic novel written by Gilda Olvidado, the series is the first instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Joel Lamangan, it stars Sheryl Cruz, Wendell Ramos, Valerie Concepcion and Carlo Aquino. It premiered on April 30, 2007 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Princess Charming. The series concluded on July 27, 2007 with a total of 65 episodes. It was replaced by Kung Mahawi Man ang Ulap in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sheryl Cruz as Divina Ferrer
Valerie Concepcion as Nora Ferrer
Carlo Aquino as Oscar
Wendell Ramos as Jerry Sandoval
Supporting cast
Gina Alajar as Corazon
Mark Gil as Don José Ferrer
Jackie Lou Blanco as Sylvia
Allan Paule as Eddie
Bing Loyzaga as Isabellita
Ricardo Cepeda as Larry
Raquel Villavicencio as Elvie
Tony Mabesa as Manolo
Jordan Herrera as Jacobo
Guest cast
Ella Guevara as young Divina
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines
Television shows based on comics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosaire | John Derek Crozier (12 November 1917 – 3 April 2010), under the pseudonym "Crosaire" (), was the compiler of the cryptic crossword in The Irish Times from its inception in 1943 until the year after his death. It was formally named "The Irish Times Crossword", as opposed to the non-cryptic "Simplex crossword" which was published alongside it from 1951. As Crozier was the sole cryptic compiler for 68 years, the crossword itself became known as "the Crosaire" by metonymy. The pseudonym "Crosaire" is a play on his own surname and crosaire, the Irish for "crossroad". After Crozier's death, The Irish Times formally renamed its cryptic crossword in his honour.
Biography
Crozier was born in Dublin and educated at Castle Park preparatory school in Dalkey and Repton School in England. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1940. He worked in administration at the Guinness Brewery in St. James's Gate. He first compiled a crossword to amuse his wife, Marjorie, who remained much better at solving them than her husband. Soon after, he was introduced by Jack White to Irish Times editor Bertie Smyllie at the paper's 1942 Christmas party in a Dublin pub, where he claimed that compiling crosswords was a longstanding hobby and persuaded Smyllie to commission some, the first printed on 13 March 1943. Initially the Crosaire appeared weekly on Saturdays, with Wednesdays added in 1950, Tuesdays in 1955, and a daily puzzle from 1982.
In 1948 Crozier emigrated to Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, to work as a tobacco and maize farmer in Sinoia, now Chinhoyi. He found farming difficult and the meagre income from his puzzles was important. In the 1962 Southern Rhodesian general election, he stood for the United Federal Party in the Gwebi constituency, losing to Rhodesian Front candidate James Graham, 7th Duke of Montrose. From 1963 to 1989, he taught at St. George's College in Salisbury, now Harare. His puzzles were often delivered to Ireland through visitors from abroad to avoid the vagaries of the Zimbabwe postal system. The backlog of puzzles submitted but not yet published had grown to over a year's worth by his death. He travelled to Dublin in 1993 for the 50th anniversary of his first puzzle, during which he appeared on The Late Late Show and at a forum for 400 fans chosen by lottery. He died at his home in Nyanga, aged 92. A memorial service was held at St. George's College, attended by his three sons.
Crosaire under Crozier and his successors
Until about 1988, Marjorie made the grid and Crozier only created the clues. Subsequently, Crozier took three to four hours to compile a puzzle. He retained an idiosyncratic approach to clues, which never came to conform to emerging British standards synopsised by "Ximenes". Crozier's daily puzzles recycled a small number of 15×15 grid patterns, each with fourfold rotational symmetry. The Simplex crossword used four of the same grids, excluding the Saturday Crosaire grid, which had 13-letter answers on the four edges |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brideshead%20Revisited%20%28TV%20series%29 | Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews. It was produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. Significant elements of it were directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who handled the initial phases of the production, before Charles Sturridge carried on with the series. The first episode is credited to both men equally.
The serial is an adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder—including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle. The screenplay was written by Derek Granger (the series' producer) and others. Although the credits attribute the screenplay to John Mortimer, Mortimer's script was not used. Charles Sturridge declared that 95% of the dialogue was from Waugh's original text. The 11-episode serial premiered on ITV in the UK on 12 October 1981; on CBC Television in Canada on 19 October 1981; and as part of the Great Performances series on PBS in the US on 18 January 1982.
In 2000, the serial was tenth on the list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute, based on a poll of industry professionals. In 2007, the serial was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-Time. In 2010, it was second in The Guardian newspaper's list of the top 50 TV dramas of all time. In 2015, The Telegraph listed it at number 1 in its list of the greatest television adaptations, stating that "Brideshead Revisited is television's greatest literary adaptation, bar none. It's utterly faithful to Evelyn Waugh's novel yet it's somehow more than that, too."
Episodes
Cast
Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder
Anthony Andrews as Lord Sebastian Flyte
Diana Quick as Lady Julia Flyte (Later in the series as Julia Mottram)
Simon Jones as Earl of Brideshead, usually referred to as Bridey
Phoebe Nicholls as Lady Cordelia Flyte
Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain
Laurence Olivier as Lord Marchmain
John Gielgud as Edward Ryder, Charles's father
Stéphane Audran as Cara
Charles Keating as Rex Mottram MP
Jeremy Sinden as Viscount Boy Mulcaster
Mona Washbourne as Nanny Hawkins
John Grillo as Mr Samgrass
Nickolas Grace as Anthony Blanche
Jane Asher as Lady Celia Ryder, Charles's wife, Boy Mulcaster's sister
Jenny Runacre as Brenda Champion, Rex's ladyfriend
John Le Mesurier as Father Mowbray
Michael Bilton as Hayter, butler to the Ryder household
Bill Owen as Lunt, Charles's manservant at Oxford
Roger Milner as Wilcox, butler to the Flyte household
Jonathan Coy as Kurt, Sebastian's friend in Morocco
Niall Tóibín as Father Mackay
Stephen Moore as Jasper, Charles's cousin
Production
The television adaptation of Waugh's novel was originally conceived as a six-hour serial. In the late summer of 1978, producer Derek Granger asked M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipNav | HipNav was the first computer-assisted surgery system developed to guide the surgeon during total hip replacement surgery. It was developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
References
Computer-assisted surgery
Health care software
History of medical imaging |
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