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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20Differential%20Compression | Remote Differential Compression (RDC) is a client–server synchronization algorithm that allows the contents of two files to be synchronized by communicating only the differences between them. It was introduced with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, is included with later Windows client and server operating systems, but by 2019 is not being developed and is not used by any Microsoft product.
Unlike Binary Delta Compression (BDC), which is designed to operate only on known versions of a single file, RDC does not make assumptions about file similarity or versioning. The differences between files are computed on the fly, therefore RDC is suitable for efficient synchronization of files that have been updated independently, where network bandwidth is small, or where the files are large but the differences between them are small.
The algorithm used is based on fingerprinting blocks on each file locally at both ends of the replication partners. Since many types of file changes can cause the file contents to move without other significant change (for example, a small insertion or deletion at the beginning of a file can cause the rest of the file to become misaligned to the original content) the blocks used for comparison are not based on static arbitrary cut points but on cut points defined by the contents of each file segment. This means that if a part of a file changes in length, or blocks of the contents get moved to other parts of the file, the block boundaries for the parts that have not changed remain fixed related to the contents, and thus the series of fingerprints for those blocks do not change, they just change position. By comparing all hashes in a file to the hashes for the same file at the other end of the replication pair, RDC is able to identify which blocks of the file have changed and which have not, even if the contents of the file have been significantly reshuffled.
Since comparing large files could imply making large numbers of signature comparisons, the algorithm is recursively applied to the hash sets to detect which blocks of hashes have changed or moved around, significantly reducing the amount of data that needs to be transmitted for comparing files.
Later versions of Windows support cross-file RDC, which finds files similar to the one being replicated, and uses blocks of the similar files that are identical to the replicating file to minimize data transferred over the WAN. Cross-file RDC can use blocks of up to five similar files.
RDC is similar in many ways to the older (1996) rsync protocol, but with some useful innovations, in particular the recursive algorithm and cross-file RDC.
RDC is implemented in Windows operating systems by a DLL file, MSRDC.DLL, which will be present in the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 directory if and only if RDC is enabled. Very little software is available which makes use of it, particularly on non-server systems. According to Internet rumor, enabling RDC significantly slows local file transfers, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible%20Society%20Australia | Bible Society Australia is an Australian non-profit, non-denominational, Christian organisation. It is part of a worldwide network of Bible Societies. Bible Society Australia maintains that the Bible is a significant historic text which has deeply influenced society and culture and is still relevant today. The organisation is involved in translating, publishing, and distributing the Christian Bible, from print, to audio, to digital versions. Bible Society Australia is also involved in Bible advocacy, the publication of Bible reading materials, and the provision of literacy support, both in Australia and overseas.
History
The Bible Society is the oldest continually operating organisation in Australia. The Bible Society of Australia was inaugurated at the instigation of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in Sydney on 7 March 1817. Moved by a scarcity of Scriptures in the new colony, Lady Elizabeth Macquarie influenced her husband to form an Auxiliary Bible Society in New South Wales. Governor Lachlan Macquarie called a meeting of "the Magistrates, Clergymen and other inhabitants of Sydney." In a packed court-house, the leading citizens of Sydney established the New South Wales Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, as the Bible Society was then known. One of the first acts of the new Auxiliary was to establish a Scripture depository after the discovery that "more than one-third of the dwellings, and nearly three-fifths of the inhabitants who can read, are without a Bible". In the first two years, nearly 3000 Scriptures were distributed. The first new translation published in Australia was a selection of Scripture passages in the Maori language in 1827.
The formal establishment of Bible Society Auxiliaries in each colony occurred between 1817 and 1884. Each Auxiliary operated autonomously in the early days. The Auxiliary Bible Society of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) began in 1819. In Melbourne, 'The Auxiliary Bible Society of Australia Felix' was formed in 1840, eleven years before Victoria officially became a colony. Likewise, an Auxiliary was formed in Queensland at Moreton Bay in 1855, while Queensland was still part of NSW.
South Australia opened an Auxiliary in 1845, and later published the first printed Scriptures in an indigenous language, after George Taplin completed his translation of Scripture selections into Narrinyeri (Ngarrindjeri) in 1864. An Auxiliary opened in Western Australia in 1884, soon responding to a huge rise in population due to the Gold Rush.
The French term, 'colporteur' was used by the Bible Society worldwide to describe its individual Bible distributors. Bible Society 'colporteurs' were once found in every corner of Australia, distributing Bibles on foot, horse and cart, and later, bicycles. In the 1800s, colporteurs visited diggers in the goldfields and axemen's remote timber camps. The last of Australia's colporteurs, Rev Harry Cottrell-Dormer, was appointed in 1956. He was allotted half of Australia, an area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCXP-LP | KCXP-LP channel 40 was a low-powered television station in Aspen, Colorado. The station, known on cable as TV Aspen, carried the market's first local TV Newscast and a mixture of local programming like Showcase Aspen and programs from the Resort Sports Network. TV Aspen could be seen on Comcast channel 19 in the Aspen / Glenwood Springs area. Marcos A. Rodriguez was the founder. See also KUUR and KSNO.
The station's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on July 19, 2021, due to KCXP-LP not obtaining a license to convert to digital operation prior to the July 13, 2021 deadline.
External links
TV Aspen at aspenglenwood.com
CXP-LP
Television channels and stations established in 1992
1992 establishments in Colorado
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021
2021 disestablishments in Colorado
CXP-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPAN | WPAN (channel 53) is a television station licensed to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States, and also serving Pensacola. Its main channel primarily airs programming from Blab TV, a locally based channel that produces local infomercials and paid programming. Owned by B&C Communications, WPAN maintains transmitter facilities near Molino, Florida.
History
The Fort Walton Beach Broadcasting Company applied in 1982 for a new television station on channel 53 to serve that city, a plan that had been gestating since 1980. Construction began in 1983, with the station to be based at a site near Tupelo Avenue and 4th Street in Fort Walton Beach.
WPAN intended to sign on in December 1983, but tower completion delays pushed the launch into 1984. The new station, which went on air on February 14, represented a $4 million investment. Programs telecast included family-oriented syndicated shows, movies, and sports. However, Fort Walton Beach could not operate the station from a financial standpoint, and it closed at midnight on November 16, 1986; one minority partner noted they simply could not sell enough advertising.
Channel 53 returned to the air on July 1, 1988, under the aegis of Franklin Broadcasting. The station's new programming included more religious fare. It operated only sporadically, and at one point, it was affiliated with the short-lived Star Television Network. By 1991, it was partially simulcasting WJTC in Pensacola in an agreement primarily conceived to allow some of that station's programs to be seen on cable systems otherwise unable to carry it. However, it would be dark for a full two years from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, the revival of must-carry legislation pushing channel 53 into more cable homes led to Franklin reviving WPAN, as did a contract with BLAB-TV (an acronym for "Basic Local Area Broadcasting"). BLAB, which produced local infomercials and sponsored segments for local businesses that aired on cable, purchased 37 hours a week of airtime on WPAN starting November 1; remaining hours were filled by ValueVision and Video Catalog, home shopping services.
Several attempts were made by Franklin over the years to sell the station, and it was silent for much of 2013 and 2014 pending sale. Neal Ardman was listed as managing the station in early 2013, when it began to air Cozi TV. It returned in 2014 with programming from the Soul of the South Network. From May 2015 to May 2016, WPAN was off the air under special temporary authority to be silent, as Franklin could not pay the electricity bill and had been placed into receivership; on May 16, WPAN returned to the air under new owners B&C Communications as an affiliate of the Vibrant TV Network, and then in February 2019, after the Vibrant TV network ceased operations, it switched to carrying Antenna TV.
WPAN went off the air in October 2019 due to a dispute with the tower owner, who expected the debt from the prior owners to be repaid in order to gain access to the transmitter. Since the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embase | Embase (often styled EMBASE for Excerpta Medica dataBASE) is a biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database of published literature designed to support information managers and pharmacovigilance in complying with the regulatory requirements of a licensed drug. Embase, produced by Elsevier, contains over 32 million records from over 8,500 currently published journals from 1947 to the present. Through its international coverage, daily updates, and drug indexing with EMTREE, Embase enables tracking and retrieval of drug information in the published literature. Each record is fully indexed and Articles in Press are available for some records and In Process are available for all records, ahead of full indexing. Embase's international coverage expands across biomedical journals from 95 countries and is available through a number of database vendors.
History
In 1946, the beginnings of Embase was created as Excerpta Medica (EM) Abstract Journals by a group of Dutch physicians who promoted the flow of medical knowledge and reports post World War II. Included in EM were 13 journal sections which categorized the medical school curriculum by anatomy, pathology, physiology, internal medicine, and other basic clinical specialties. This database lasted until 1972 when it merged with Elsevier.
In 1972, EM had joined with Elsevier and later, in 1975, formed EMBASE (Excerpta Medica database) which had released electronic access to abstract journals. Following feedback from the EMBASE user community, EMBASE Classic was created as a separate database to supplement EMBASE as a backfile of medical journals from 1947-1973 which provides valuable documentation of drugs, adverse effects, endogenous compounds, etc. found at the time.
In 2010, Excerpta Medica, excluding EMBASE, was sold by Elsevier to the Omnicom Group.
Current status
In addition to the 28 million reports, Embase's database steadily rises each year at a rate of over 900,000 records. This wide expanse of information is used in both professional and educational environments for retrieving any published biomedical or drug related information. Currently, Embase allows further customization for a personal experience such as implementing a RSS feed and email alert system. With new drug and disease-related information constantly released, Embase is updated daily to provide a comprehensive and reliable source of information.
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
Index medicus
MEDLINE
Cochrane Library
References
Further reading
External links
Embase — description at Elsevier
Homepage
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Elsevier
Databases in Europe
Medical databases
Medical literature
Pharmacology literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20CSCW | The global healthcare industry is charging ahead on the path to practice-wide and nationwide computerization on the heels of developments in electronic health record, medical imaging, and ubiquitous computing fields. While the prospects for benefits such as increased quality of care and increased return on investments abound, the critical need to deal with the underlying socio-technical implications of these technologies and how they affect workflow, coordination, and collaboration in medical practice must be addressed by systems designers, healthcare decision makers, and care providers.
Medical computer supported cooperative work, or Medical CSCW is one term that may be used to describe this area of research.
Multimodal interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Morris | James Hiram Morris (born 1941) is a professor (emeritus) of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. He was previously dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and Dean of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley.
Biography
A native of Pittsburgh, Morris received a Bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an S.M. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.
Morris taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed some important underlying principles of programming languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a co-discoverer of the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm for string-search.
For eight years, he worked at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), where he was part of the team that developed the Xerox Alto System. He also directed the Cedar programming environment project.
From 1983 to 1988, Morris directed the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, a joint project with IBM, which developed a prototype university computing system, the Andrew Project. He has been the principal investigator of two National Science Foundation projects aimed at computer-mediated communication: EXPRES and Prep.
He was a founder of the Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute and MAYA Design Group, a consulting firm specializing in interactive product design.
He wrote a memoir, Thoughts of a Reformed Computer Scientist, available on Amazon.
Selected papers
D. E. Knuth, J. H. Morris, V. R. Pratt (1977). Fast Pattern Matching in Strings, SIAM Journal on Computing. 6 (2): 323–350
Morris, J. H., Satyanarayanan, M., Conner, M. H., Howard, J. H., Rosenthal, D. S., & Smith, F. D. (1986). Andrew: a distributed personal computing environment. Communications of the Acm, 29(3), 184-201.
Henderson, P., & Morris, J. H. (1976). A lazy evaluator. ACM Sigact-Sigplan Symposium on Principles on Programming Languages (pp. 95–103). DBLP.
Neuwirth, C. M., Kaufer, D. S., Chandhok, R., & Morris, J. H. (1990). Issues in the design of computer support for co-authoring and commenting. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 183–195). ACM.
Geschke, C. M., Morris, J. H., & Satterthwaite, E. H. (1977). Early experience with mesa. Communications of the Acm, 20(8), 540-553.
Morris, J. H. (1973). Protection in programming languages. Communications of the Acm, 16(16), 15-21.
Neuwirth, C. M., Kaufer, D. S., Chandhok, R., & Morris, J. H. (1994). Computer support for distributed collaborative writing: defining parameters of interaction. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 145–152). ACM.
References
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
Living people
Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty
1941 births
Scientists at PARC (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro%20Vaanavil | Astro Vaanavil is a Malaysian pay television channel that broadcasts programming in Tamil, targeting the Indian community in Malaysia. It was launched on 1 June 1996. It was created by Astro. Starting 1 June 2020, Astro Vaanavil has been officially upgraded to SD/HD and is known as Astro Vaanavil HD.
It is the dominant local channel targeted at the Indian community in Malaysia.
Programmes
All programmes on Astro Vaanavil were dubbed in Malaysian Tamil with Malay subtitles, and contain sexual content, mild violence and adult language, which may be unsuitable for children to watch Playboy TV's Tamil-dubbed programmes, especially on Astro's electronic programme guide (EPG), but with all channel listings of all genres.
Malaysian
Ippadikku Ila (1- 19 February 2021)
Appalasamy Apartments (February 2021)
Supramani (March 2021)
Swaralayam
Tamiletchumy 2 (12 August onwards)
Reality Shows
Aaatam 100 Vagai
Vaanavil Superstar
Paadal Thiran Potti
Other shows
Vizhuthugal-Samugathin Kural is a morning talk show that discovers on topics about the current issues that is happening around Malaysia.The show's 14th season was airing on Astro Vaanavil Channel 201 (SD) before started broadcasting again on Astro Vaanavil Channel 201 (SD/HD) on 1 June. Several months later, the show is rebranded and changed to primetime slot at 9.00pm.
360° is about the Indian community living in Malaysia and the activities happening in town.
References
Astro Malaysia Holdings television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Tamil-language television channels
Vaanavil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius%20visualization%20software | Sirius is a molecular modelling and analysis system developed at San Diego Supercomputer Center. Sirius is designed to support advanced user requirements that go beyond simple display of small molecules and proteins. Sirius supports high quality interactive 3D graphics, structure building, displaying protein or DNA primary sequences, access to remote data sources, and visualizing molecular dynamics trajectories. It can be used for scientific visualization and analysis, and chemistry and biology instruction.
This software is no longer supported as of 2011.
Key features
Sirius supports a variety of applications with a set of features, including:
Building and editing chemical structures using a library of fragments
Protein structure and sequence alignment
Command line interpreter and scripting support fully compatible with extant RasMol scripts
Full support for molecular dynamics trajectory visualizing
BLAST search directly in Protein Data Bank and Uniprot databases
Ability to move parts of the loaded data while freezing the rest
Interactive calculation of hydrogen bonding, steric clashes, Ramachandran plots
Support for all major structure and sequence formats
Bundled POV-Ray for creating photorealistic images
Integrated selection and coloring across individual visualizing components
Sirius is based on molecular graphics code and data structures developed as a part of the Molecular Biology Toolkit.
RasMol-compatible scripting
Sirius features a command line interpreter that can be used to quickly manipulate structure appearance and orientation. The set of commands has been patterned after RasMol, so it's fully compatible with extant scripts. Added commands introduced in Sirius provide support for manipulating multiple structures loaded at the same time, and enable more flexible selection.
Extant RasMol scripts can be imported and run within Sirius to produce high quality representations of encoded molecular scenes. Since RasMol uses a coordinate system that differs from that Sirius, internal conversion is performed when RasMol scripts are imported, so that any orientation changes are shown correctly. Any manually entered commands, however, are executed according to the Sirius coordinate system.
Sirius supports several predefined atom-residue sets and color schemes, allows editing of scripts using the Command Panel interface, and logical operators and parentheses can be used to create complex selection commands.
Visualizing molecular dynamics trajectories
Sirius contains a full-featured molecular dynamics visualizing component. It can read output files from AMBER and CHARMM simulations, including compressed and AMBER out files. RMSD changes along the trajectory can be calculated using user-defined atom subsets and displayed in an interactively updated graph. In order to reduce memory requirements, large multifile simulations may be loaded in a buffered mode. If a simulation involves changes in protein fold, Sirius can be set to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATNet%20Project | The Hungarian Automated Telescope Network (HATNet) project is a network of six small fully automated "HAT" telescopes. The scientific goal of the project is to detect and characterize extrasolar planets using the transit method. This network is used also to find and follow bright variable stars. The network is maintained by the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian.
The HAT acronym stands for Hungarian-made Automated Telescope, because it was developed by a small group of Hungarians who met through the Hungarian Astronomical Association. The project started in 1999 and has been fully operational since May 2001.
Equipment
The prototype instrument, HAT-1 was built from a 180 mm focal length and 65 mm aperture Nikon telephoto lens and a Kodak KAF-0401E chip of 512 × 768, 9 μm pixels. The test period was from 2000 to 2001 at the Konkoly Observatory in Budapest.
HAT-1 was transported from Budapest to the Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA, in January 2001. The transportation caused serious damage to the equipment.
Later built telescopes use Canon 11 cm diameter f/1.8L lenses for a wide-field of 8°×8°. It is a fully automated instrument with 2K x 2K Charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors. One HAT instrument operates at the Wise Observatory.
HAT is controlled by a single Linux PC without human supervision. Data are stored in a MySQL database.
HAT-South
From 2009, three other locations joined the HATNet with telescopes of completely new design. The telescopes are deployed to Australia, Namibia and Chile. Each system has eight (2*4) joint-mounted, quasi-parallel Takahashi Epsilon (180 mm diameter, f/2.8) astrographs with Apogee 4k*4k CCDs with overlapping fields of view. The processing computers are Xenomai-based industrial PCs with 10 TB of storage.
Participants in the project
HAT-1 was developed during the undergraduate (and also the first year graduate) studies of Gáspár Bakos (Eötvös Loránd University, now at Princeton University) and at Konkoly Observatory (Budapest), under the supervision of Dr. Géza Kovács. In the development József Lázár, István Papp and Pál Sári also played an important role.
More than 100 people have contributed altogether to the seventy planet discovery papers published or submitted by the project as of Feb 2020. Gáspár Bakos, István Papp, József Lázár, Pál Sári, have contributed to all of the planet discoveries by HAT. Other participants who have contributed to at least 10 discovery papers include: Joel Hartman (62 papers, Princeton), Robert Noyes (55, CfA), David Latham (44, CfA), Zoltán Csubry (43, Princeton), Kaloyan Penev (43, UT Dallas), Géza Kovács (42, Konkoly Observatory), Guillermo Torres (40, CfA), Geoffrey Marcy (38, UC Berkeley), Gilbert Esquerdo (37, CfA), Waqas Bhatti (34, Princeton), Miguel de Val-Borro (34, Goddard Space Flight Center), Lars Buchhave (33, Niels Bohr Institute), Daniel Bayliss (32, University of Warwick), Dimitar Sasselov (32, CfA), Bence Béky (31, CfA), Andrew Howard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekursiv | Rekursiv was a computer processor designed by David M. Harland in the mid-1980s at a division of hi-fi manufacturer Linn Products. It was one of the few computer architectures intended to implement object-oriented concepts directly in hardware, a form of high-level language computer architecture. The Rekursiv operated directly on objects rather than bits, nibbles, bytes and words. Virtual memory was used as a persistent object store and unusually, the processor instruction set supported recursion (hence the name).
By the time the project had delivered its first implementation, new processors like the Sun SPARC and Intel 486 had surpassed its performance, and development was abandoned in 1988.
History
The Rekursiv project started as an effort to improve the assembly line controls in Linn's factories in Glasgow, Scotland. Their lines were automated using a suite of VAX-11 systems, but these were slow and very difficult to program with the flexibility that Linn's founder, Ivor Tiefenbrun, desired. By the early 1980s, Tiefenbrun had become convinced that object-oriented programming would offer solutions to these problems.
In 1981, Tiefenbrun hired a number of programmers to write a version of the Smalltalk language for the VAX systems, borrowing some syntax from ALGOL. Known as LINGO, the system worked but ran very slowly on the VAX platform. Tiefenbrun concluded the solution to the performance issue was not to improve the language on the VAX but instead produce an entirely new CPU dedicated specifically to running object programs.
In 1984, Tiefenbrun formed the wholly owned subsidiary Linn Smart Computing under the direction of University of Strathclyde professor David Harland and the Rekursiv project was born. The first version of the system emerged in 1988. A small number of prototype VMEbus boards, called Hades, comprising these four chips plus 80 MB of RAM were produced. These were intended for installation in a host system such as a Sun-3 workstation. Although the Rekursiv was never fully developed and was not a commercial success, several Hades boards were used in academic research projects in the UK. The last known copy of a Rekursiv computer ended up at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde canal in Glasgow.
According to a post by a researcher at the University of Strathclyde, while the Rekursiv system was being developed, a new version of the LINGO language was written for the Sun SPARC system which emerged at about this time. It ran twice as fast as the Rekursiv hardware, rendering the effort pointless. Sometime after that the company was shut down.
Description
Basic concepts
The underlying concept of the Rekursiv platform was to provide a hardware-assisted persistent object store, constantly and invisibly writing the memory state to disk without intervention from the operating system or the user's program. One reviewer described it as "an object-database engine for creating and managing persistent objects".
To make such a system work |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20simulation | Dynamic simulation (or dynamic system simulation) is the use of a computer program to model the time-varying behavior of a dynamical system. The systems are typically described by ordinary differential equations or partial differential equations. A simulation run solves the state-equation system to find the behavior of the state variables over a specified period of time. The equation is solved through numerical integration methods to produce the transient behavior of the state variables. Simulation of dynamic systems predicts the values of model-system state variables, as they are determined by the past state values. This relationship is found by creating a model of the system.
Overview
Simulation models are commonly obtained from discrete-time approximations of continuous-time mathematical models.
As mathematical models incorporate real-world constraints, like gear backlash and rebound from a hard stop, equations become nonlinear. This requires numerical methods to solve the equations.
A numerical simulation is done by stepping through a time interval and calculating the integral of the derivatives through numerical integration.
Some methods use a fixed step through the interval, and others use an adaptive step that can shrink or grow automatically to maintain an acceptable error tolerance. Some methods can use different time steps in different parts of the simulation model.
There are two types of system models to be simulated: difference-equation models, and differential-equation models. Classical physics is usually based on differential equation models. This is why most old simulation programs are simply differential equation solvers and delegate solving difference-equations to “procedural program segments.”Some dynamic systems are modeled with differential equations that can only be presented in an implicit form. These differential-algebraic-equation systems require special mathematical methods for simulation.
Some complex systems’ behavior can be quite sensitive to initial conditions, which could lead to large errors from the correct values. To avoid these possible errors, a rigorous approach can be applied, where an algorithm is found which can compute the value up to any desired precision. For example, the constant e is a computable number because there is an algorithm that is able to produce the constant up to any given precision.
Applications
The first applications of computer simulations for dynamic systems was in the aerospace industry. Commercial uses of dynamic simulation are many and range from nuclear power, steam turbines, 6 degrees of freedom vehicle modeling, electric motors, econometric models, biological systems, robot arms, mass-spring-damper systems, hydraulic systems, and drug dose migration through the human body to name a few. These models can often be run in real time to give a virtual response close to the actual system. This is useful in process control and mechatronic systems for tuning the automatic control sys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute%20Against%20Cancer | Compute Against Cancer is an initiative of Parabon Computation, Inc. powered by the Global Grid Exchange. The program provides cancer researchers access to supercomputing capabilities through Parabon’s Frontier Grid Platform. The Compute Against Cancer initiative provides a means for donors to make their spare processing capabilities available to researchers. Donors running Parabon’s Frontier Compute Engine contribute to a large parallel processing network which cancer researchers employ to solve computationally intensive problems.
Research Projects
Since its inception, Compute Against Cancer has partnered with several organizations to carry out grid-powered research initiatives.
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute’s Genomic and Bioinformatics Group are currently researching microarray gene-expression patterns. Findings in this area will further the ability to analyze cancer-related data.
West Virginia University
Under the supervision of Lead Researcher Dr. Michael Andria, West Virginia University’s Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program and School of Pharmacy are analyzing how various combinations of medications, routes and methods of drug administration affect a chemotherapy patient’s quality of life.
University of Maryland
A team of researchers from the University of Maryland is working with Parabon Computation, Inc. to simulate protein folding. Protein molecules, some of the most basic components of organisms, fold into complex three-dimensional shapes that determine their chemical properties in cells. By replicating this process, the university team hopes to gain a better understanding of protein composition and behavior.
References
Compute Against Cancer
Distributed computing projects
Internet properties established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addamax | Addamax was an American software company that developed Trusted operating systems based on UNIX System V and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) variants of UNIX. The company was founded in 1986 in Champaign, Illinois by Dr. Peter A. Alsberg and had a sales and development office in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Addamax filed a high-profile antitrust lawsuit in 1991 against the Open Software Foundation (OSF), alleging that OSF created a cartel that controlled the UNIX operating system and exerted monopsony price fixing and led to the company going out of business.
References
External links
Federal Trade Commission paper on Standards which references Addamax
Software companies based in Illinois
1986 establishments in Illinois
Companies established in 1986
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor-Based%20Concurrent%20Language | Actor-Based Concurrent Language (ABCL) is a family of programming languages, developed in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s.
ABCL/1
ABCL/1 (Actor-Based Concurrent Language) is a prototype-based concurrent programming language for the ABCL MIMD system, created in 1986 by Akinori Yonezawa, of the Department of Information Science at the University of Tokyo.
ABCL/1 uses asynchronous message passing among objects to achieve concurrency. It requires Common Lisp. Implementations in Kyoto Common Lisp (KCL) and Symbolics Lisp are available from the author.
ABCL/c+
An implementation of ABCL/c+ is available from the ACM.
ABCL/R
ABCL/R is an object-oriented reflective subset of ABCL/1, written by Professor Akinori Yonezawa of Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1988.
ABCL/R2
ABCL/R2 is a second generation version of ABCL/R, designed for the Hybrid Group Architecture. It was produced at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1992, and has almost all the functionality of ABCL/1. It is written in Common Lisp. As a reflective language, its programs can dynamically control their behavior, including scheduling policy, from within a user-process context.
Further reading
ABCL: An Object-Oriented Concurrent System, A. Yonezawa ed, MIT Press 1990
Reflection in an Object-Oriented Concurrent Language, T. Watanabe et al., SIGPLAN Notices 23(11):306-315 (Nov 1988)
An Implementation of An Operating System Kernel using Concurrent Object Oriented Language ABCL/c+, N. Doi et al. in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al. eds, LNCS 322, Springer 1988
References
External links
Prototype-based programming languages
Concurrent programming languages
Common Lisp (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20F.%20Smith | Temple Ferris Smith (born March 7, 1939) is an emeritus professor in biomedical engineering who helped to develop the Smith-Waterman algorithm with Michael Waterman in 1981. The Smith-Waterman algorithm serves as the basis for multi sequence comparisons, identifying the segment with the maximum local sequence similarity, see sequence alignment. This algorithm is used for identifying similar DNA, RNA and protein segments. He was director of the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center at Boston University for twenty years and is now professor emeritus.
Education
Smith obtained his bachelor's degree in 1963 from the Physics Department, Purdue University, followed by a PhD in 1969 in the Physics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Research and career
After his PhD, Smith did postdoctoral research from March 1969 to August 1971 in the Department of Biophysics and Genetics, University of Colorado Medical School, Boulder.
His research is centered on the application of various computer science and mathematical methods for the discovery of the syntactic and semantic patterns in nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. In recent years this has focus on molecular evolution of protein families. such as the WD-repeat beta propellers, translation associated GTPase, and the ribosomal proteins. He is known for the creation of the Smith-Waterman algorithm.
Smith has held the following appointments:
1965–1966: Instructor, US Air Force Lowery, Denver, CO
1971–1984: Professor, Department of Physics, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
1985–1991: Director, Molecular Biology Computer Research Resource, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health
1991–2009: Director, BioMolecular Engineering Resource Center, Boston University
1999– : Co-organizer, 1999 Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth Discovering Biotechnology Day
2000– : Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer, Modular Genetics, Inc.
2000– : Youth Hockey Coach
Selected publications
M. Mariotti, T. F. Smith, P. H. Sudmant and G. Goldberger, “Pseudogenization of testis-specific Lfg5 predates human/Neanderthal divergence”, Journal of Human Genetics 59, 288–291 (2014)
Hyman Hartman and Temple F. Smith “The Evolution of the Ribosome and the Genetic Code”, Life, 4(2), 227–249 (2014)
Hartman, H and T. F. Smith, “GTPases and the origin of the ribosome”, Biology Direct, 5:36-39, (2010)
Hartman, Hyman and Smith, Temple F. “The evolution of the cilium and the eukaryotic cell” Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton.66: 215-219. (2009)
Hu, Lan, Smith, Temple F. and Goldberger, Gabriel. “LFG: a candidate apoptosis regulatory gene family” Apoptosis. 14: 1255-1265. (2009)
Smith, Temple F., Lee, Jung C., Gutell, Robin R. and Hartman, Hyman. “The Origin and Evolution of the Ribosome” Biology Direct 3: 16, 1–13 (2008)
Smith, Temple F. “Chapter 2: Diversity of WD-Repeat Proteins” The Coronin Family of Proteins, 20–30 (2008)
Bhutkar, Arjun V., Gelbart, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQuirreL%20SQL%20Client | The SQuirreL SQL Client is a database administration tool. It uses JDBC to allow users to explore and interact with databases via a JDBC driver. It provides an editor that offers code completion and syntax highlighting for standard SQL. It also provides a plugin architecture that allows plugin writers to modify much of the application's behavior to provide database-specific functionality or features that are database-independent. As this desktop application is written entirely in Java with Swing UI components, it should run on any platform that has a JVM.
SQuirreL SQL Client is free as open source software that is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Feature summary
Object Tree allows for browsing database objects such as catalogs, schemas, tables, triggers, views, sequences, procedures, UDTs, etc.
The SQL Editor, based on RSyntaxTextArea by fifesoft.com, provides syntax highlighting. It can open, create, save and execute files containing SQL statements.
SQuirreL supports simultaneous sessions with multiple databases. This allows comparing data and sharing SQL statements between databases.
SQuirreL runs on any platform that has a JVM.
A plugin architecture facilitates database vendor-specific extensions (information or actions not available using standard JDBC)
Translations for the user interface exist in: (Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Russian).
Graph capabilities can generate charts showing table relationships.
Bookmarks - user-defined code templates. SQuirreL comes with predefined example bookmarks for the most common SQL and DDL statements.
History
The SQuirreL SQL project was developed by a team of Java developers around the world and led by Colin Bell. It has been hosted as a SourceForge project since 2001, and was still under active development in 2020.
Supported databases
Axion Java RDBMS.
Apache Derby
ClickHouse
Fujitsu Siemens SESAM/SQL-Server with the SESAM/SQL JDBC driver
Firebird with the JayBird JCA/JDBC Driver
Hypersonic SQL
H2 (DBMS)
IBM Db2 for Linux, IBM i and Windows
Informix
Ingres (and OpenIngres)
InstantDB
InterBase
Mckoi SQL Database
Microsoft Access with the JDBC/ODBC bridge.
Microsoft SQL Server
Mimer SQL
MonetDB
MySQL
Netezza
Oracle Database 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g
Pointbase
PostgreSQL 7.1.3 and higher
SAPDB
Sybase
Sunopsis XML Driver (JDBC Edition)
Teradata Warehouse
Vertica Analytic Database
See also
SQL
Comparison of database tools
References
External links
Database administration tools
Java platform software
SQL
Firebird (database server)
Interbase
Oracle database tools
Microsoft database software
Sybase
MySQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport1%20%28Germany%29 | Sport1 is a German free-to-air television channel centred towards sports programming, including teleshopping and erotica. Until 11 April 2010, it was called DSF (Deutsches Sportfernsehen) It was launched on 1 January 1993 out of the television channel Tele 5 which had become the successor of the music video channel Musicbox on 11 January 1988.
Sport1 has its headquarters in Ismaning near Munich.
Programming
Football
3.Liga (2020–2024) (on Sport1+)
DFB Pokal (2020–2024) (on Sport1+)
DFB-Pokal women (2020–2023)
International Champions Cup (10 of 18 matches (including all German clubs))
2. Fußball-Bundesliga: (highlights on Friday & Sunday)
Regionalliga
Scottish Premiership, Championship and League Cup (on Sport1+)
English Football League (exclude EFL Cup) (on Sport1+)
Ligue 1 (on Sport1+)
Copa Libertadores (on Sport1+)
UEFA European Under-21 Championship (non-Germany matches)
UEFA European Under-19 Championship
UEFA European Under-17 Championship
UEFA Youth League
UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
AFC Champions League (2021 and 2022)
Basketball
FIBA World Championship
FIBA World Championship for Women
German national team
Basketball Bundesliga (1 game per week)
NBA (on Sport1+)
NCAA (on Sport1US)
Handball
World Women's Handball Championship
Germany men's national handball team
Other sports
PDC World Darts Championship
ATP World Tour
CEV Champions League
World Ice Hockey Championships
European Tour
NCAA football (on Sport1US)
National Hockey League (on Sport1US)
IndyCar Series
Major League Baseball
XFL
Non-sports
Alone (Alone - Überleben in der Wildnis) (2017–present)
Aussie Pickers (Aussie Pickers - Die Trödelexperten) (2015–2016)
Barry'd Treasure (Barry'd Treasure - Der Trödelexperte) (2016–present)
Big Brian: The Fortune Seller (Big Brian - Der große Ausverkauf) (2015)
Buy It, Fix It, Sell It (Alte Stücke, neuer Glanz) (2017–present)
Chow Masters (Diner Wars) (2015)
Container Wars (2014–present)
Counting Cars (Die Werkstatt-Helden) (2014-2016)
Dig Wars (Dig Wars - Die Schatzgräber) (2015-2017)
Garage Gold (2016–present)
Hard Knocks (2013)
Hardcore Pawn: Chicago (2015-2016)
Storage Hunters (UK) (2015–present)
Storage Hunters (US) (2014–present)
Storage Wars (Storage Wars - Die Geschäftemacher) (2013–present)
The Liquidator (2015–present)
Yukon Gold (2015–present)
Sexy Sport Clips (2002–present)
Sport-Quiz (2003–2022)
Audience share
Germany
References
External links
Television stations in Germany
Football mass media in Germany
German-language television networks
Companies based in Bavaria
Mass media in Munich
Sports television in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trymedia | Trymedia Systems, Inc. is a division of RealNetworks that provides digital distribution services based on its proprietary ActiveMARK DRM and digital distribution technology. Trymedia is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Berkshire and Alicante.
Overview
Trymedia was founded in 1999 as Trymedia Systems, Inc. by cousins Alex Torrubia and Andres Torrubia. The company was launched in Spain, and after a round of fund-raising in New York, relocated to San Francisco. Macrovision acquired Trymedia for US$34 million on July 26, 2005. With the acquisition, Macrovision launched a new games division, Trymedia Games Division, based around Trymedia employees. Trymedia was not a profitable operation, losing $14.5 million on revenue of just over $9 million in 2007. On February 22, 2008, RealNetworks announced it had acquired Trymedia from Macrovision for an undisclosed sum, reported in a Macrovision conference call to be $4million.
Trymedia operates an online network of digitally distributed computer games. The network is integrated into Microsoft's digital locker service, and provides white label online retail services to affiliates such as Electronics Boutique and GameSpot.
ActiveMARK
ActiveMARK is a technology suite of Trymedia for secure digital distribution. It provides DRM protection for software distributed digitally or by CDs/DVD, along with commerce, distribution, administration and marketing services.
Trygames
Trygames, a division of Trymedia, was a retail website offering computer games from the Trymedia games network for download, trial and purchase. It was launched in 2001. The Trygames website was closed and redirected to the GameHouse website in 2014.
See also
TiVo Corporation
References
American companies established in 1999
Online retailers of the United States
Online content distribution
Digital rights management
RealNetworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiReNT | The Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network (SiReNT), is an infrastructure network launched by the Survey Services section of the Singapore Land Authority in 2006. Its purpose is to define Singapore's official spatial reference framework and to support the cadastral system in SVY21. It is a multi-purpose high precision positioning infrastructure which provides both Post Process Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) DGPS services and Real Time DGPS services. The system supports all types of GPS positioning modes and formats.
SiReNT comprises five GPS reference stations connected to a data control centre at government data centre. Four of the five reference stations are located at the extreme corners of the island of Singapore, with the fifth located in the centre of the island. The four external reference stations are located at Nanyang Technological University, Keppel Club, Loyang, and Senoko, with the designations SNTU, SKEP, SLOY, and SSEK, respectively. The central location is at Nanyang Polytechnic, designated by SNYP. The entire set-up is made up of advanced GPS equipment and sophisticated computer hardware, software, communications and network.
SiReNT supports a great variety of applications. It provides data reliability, efficiency and productivity of survey work for land surveyors with the aid of GPS technology. It also offers a wide range of GPS data services with various accuracy levels ranging from metres to centimetres to suit different applications from positioning to tracking and monitoring.
These GPS reference stations receive satellite signals 24 hours a day and transmit GPS data continuously to the data control centre for storage and processing. Corrections processed from the data are then streamed to subscribed users.
SiReNT offers 4 types of services, namely Post Processing (PP) On-Demand, Post Processing (PP) Archive, Real Time Kinematic (RTK) and low accuracy Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) to suit different applications. In 2010, SiReNT introduced support for telematics and structural monitoring solutions.
References
Global Positioning System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%20operator | In computer science, Peter Landin's J operator is a programming construct that post-composes a lambda expression with the continuation to the current lambda-context. The resulting “function” is first-class and can be passed on to subsequent functions, where if applied it will return its result to the continuation of the function in which it was created.
History
The J operator was created to make labels and jumps a first class value. It was designed to work with the SECD machine with the following extra transitions:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Transition
!From
!To
|-
|J
|J:f:S, E, ap:C, D
|closure(f,D):S, E, C, D
|-
|Closure
|closure(f, (S', E', C', D''')):x:S, E, ap:C, D|f:x:S', E', ap:C', D'
|}
The J operator originally created what was called a "program closure", consisting of a function called the body and a SECD state called the dump. A program closure is equivalent to composing its body with the dump in continuation form (closure(f,D)(x) = D(f(x)) ).
Simplified description
The J operator composes a function with the continuation of the calling function. That is, the J operator returns a function, which when applied applies the argument of the J operator with the argument of the function, and then forces the function that called the J operator to return that value.
Examples
J(λx.x) is equivalent to a first class return statement. This is because λx.x is the identity function, so when it gets applied it will do nothing to the value given and returns it straight away.λv.J(λx.x) initially returns the J of λx.x'', but that could be used in a surrounding expression to make it re-return a different value.
See also
Call-with-current-continuation
References
By Landin
Landin, P.J., “A formal description of Algol 60.” Presented at IFIP Working Conf., Baden, Sept. 1964.
Landin, P.J., “Programming without lmperatives—an Example,” UNIVAC S.P. Research Report (March, 1965)
Landin, P.J., “Getting Rid of Labels,” UNIVAC S.P. Research Report (July, 1965)
Landin, P.J., “An Analysis of Assignment in Programming Languages,” UNIVAC S.P. Research Report (September, 1965)
Landin, P.J., “A Generalization of Jumps and Labels,” math.bas.bg (1998)
By others
1965 in computing
Control flow
Continuations
Programming language semantics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20S.%20Sutton | Richard S. Sutton is a Canadian computer scientist. He is a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta and a research scientist at Keen Technologies.
Sutton is considered one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, having several significant contributions to the field, including temporal difference learning and policy gradient methods.
Life and education
Richard Sutton was born in Ohio, and grew up in Oak Brook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
Sutton received his B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978 before taking an M.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1984) in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the supervision of Andrew Barto. His doctoral dissertation, Temporal Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning, introduced actor-critic architectures and temporal credit assignment.
Career
In 1984, Sutton was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts.
From 1985 to 1994, he was a principal member of technical staff in the Computer and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at GTE in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 1995, he returned to the University of Massachusetts as a senior research scientist.
From 1998 to 2002, Sutton worked at the AT&T Shannon Laboratory in Florham Park, New Jersey as principal technical staff member in the artificial intelligence department.
Since 2003, he has been a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta. He led the institution's Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory until 2018.
While retaining his professorship, Sutton joined Deepmind in June 2017 as a distinguished research scientist and co-founder of its Edmonton office.
Sutton became a Canadian citizen in 2015 and renounced his US citizenship in 2017.
In a 2019 essay, Sutton criticized the field of AI research for failing "to learn the bitter lesson that building in how we think we think does not work in the long run", arguing that "70 years of AI research [had shown] that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin", beating efforts building on human knowledge about specific fields like computer vision, speech recognition, chess or Go.
In 2023 he and John Carmack announced a partnership for the development of AGI.
Selected publications
Sutton, R. S., Barto, A. G., Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. MIT Press, 1998. Also translated into Japanese and Russian. Second edition MIT Press 2018.
Miller, W. T., Sutton, R. S., Werbos, P. J. (Eds.), Neural Networks for Control. MIT Press, 1991.
Sutton, R. S. (Ed.), Reinforcement Learning. Reprinting of a special issue of Machine Learning Journal. Kluwer Academic Press, 1992
Awards and honors
Sutton is fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) since 2001. In 2003 he received the President's Award from the International Neural Network Society and in 2013, the Outstanding Achievement in Research award |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarkali%20Bazaar | Anarkali Bazaar (Punjabi, ) is a major bazaar in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Anarkali also serves as a neighbourhood and union council of Data Gunj Buksh Tehsil of Lahore. It is situated in the region that extends from the south of Lahori Gate of the Walled City to across the Mall Road.
The bazaar was listed in the 2020 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund to highlight the urgent need for its preservation and protection, since it is currently endangered due to neglect.
History
The Anarkali bazaar is one of the oldest surviving markets in the Indian Subcontinent, dating back at least 200 years. It derives its name from the nearby mausoleum thought to be that of a courtesan named Anārkalī, who was 'chased out of town' by order of the Mughal Emperor Akbar for having a love affair with his son, Prince Salīm, who would later become Emperor Jahāngīr.
Bazaar
Shops in Anarkali sell textiles, garments, jewellery, and many other items. The bazaar is now divided into two sections: the 'Old Anarkali Bazaar' and the 'New Anarkali Bazaar'. The Old Anarkali Bazaar is noted for its traditional food items while the New Anarakli Bazaar is known for its traditional handicraft and embroidery. Within the New Anarkali Baazaar are markets known as Bano Bazaar, Dhani Ram Road, Jan Muhammad Road, Aabkari Road, Paisa Akhbar, Urdu Bazar and Paan Gali. New Anarkali Bazar is also famous for halwa puri, nihari and siri paye.
The mausoleum of Sultan Qutb ud-Din Aibak of Mamluk Sultanate is also located in Anarkali Bazaar. In the early 1970s, the mausoleum was renovated at the orders of the then Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
See also
S. Mohkam-ud-Din and Sons Bakers
Naulakha Bazaar
Bibliography
Nevile, Pran. Lahore: A Sentimental Journey. India, Penguin Books, 2006.
References
Data Gunj Bakhsh Zone
Bazaars in Lahore
Market towns in Pakistan
Tourist attractions in Lahore
Shopping districts and streets in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Biodiversity%20Network | The National Biodiversity Network (UK) (NBN) is a collaborative venture set up in 2000 in the United Kingdom committed to making biodiversity information available through various media, including on the internet via the NBN Atlas—the data search website of the NBN.
Description
It is estimated that up to 60,000 people routinely record biodiversity information in the UK and Ireland. Most of this effort is voluntary and is organised through about 2,000 national societies and recording schemes. The UK government through its agencies also collects biodiversity data and one of the principal elements for the collation and interpretation of this data is the network of Local Environmental Records Centres.
In 2012, it had been listed in the top 1,000 UK charities that raised most donations.
NBN Trust
The NBN Trust—the organisation facilitating the building of the Network—supports agreed standards for the collection, collation and exchange of biodiversity data and encourages improved access. The present partnership consists of over 200 public and voluntary organisations and individual members.
The NBN Atlas currently holds over 230 million species records from over 900 different datasets (September 2020). Data on the NBN Atlas can be accessed by anyone interested in UK, Northern Ireland and Isle of Man wildlife and can be searched at many different levels, as it allows the viewing of distribution maps and the downloading of data by using a variety of interactive tools. The maps can be customised by date range and can show changes in a species’ distribution.
The organisation believes that, by providing tools to make wildlife data accessible in a digitised and exchangeable form and by providing easy access to the information people need, wise and informed decisions can be made to ensure the natural environment is protected now and for future generations.
In April 2017 the NBN Atlas replaced the NBN Gateway.
Team
The National Biodiversity Network Trust employs a team to facilitate and co-ordinate its growth and development and is referred to as the 'Secretariat'. The NBN Trust is a registered charity.
See also
Biological recording
References
External links
NBN Atlas (data)
View the NBN Strategy 2015 -2020
Association of Local Environmental Records Centres - for more information on Local (Biological) Records Centres
National Forum for Biological Recording
Biodiversity
Ecology organizations
Ecological experiments
Biodiversity databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20journalism | Database journalism or structured journalism is a principle in information management whereby news content is organized around structured pieces of data, as opposed to news stories. See also Data journalism
Communication scholar Wiebke Loosen defines database journalism as "supplying databases with raw material - articles, photos and other content - by using medium-agnostic publishing systems and then making it available for different devices."
History and development of database journalism
Computer programmer Adrian Holovaty wrote what is now considered the manifesto of database journalism in September 2006. In this article, Holovaty explained that most material collected by journalists is "structured information: the type of information that can be sliced-and-diced, in an automated fashion, by computers". For him, a key difference between database journalism and traditional journalism is that the latter produces articles as the final product while the former produces databases of facts that are continually maintained and improved.
2007 saw a rapid development in database journalism. A December 2007 investigation by The Washington Post (Fixing DC's schools) aggregated dozens of items about more than 135 schools in a database that distributed content on a map, on individual webpages or within articles.
The importance of database journalism was highlighted when the Knight Foundation awarded $1,100,000 to Adrian Holovaty's EveryBlock project, which offers local news at the level of city block, drawing from existing data. The Pulitzer prize received by the St. Petersburg Times' Politifact in April 2009 has been considered a Color of Money moment by Aron Pilhofer, head of the New York Times technology team. Referring to Bill Dedman's Pulitzer Prize-winning articles called The Color of Money, Pilhofer suggested that database journalism has been accepted by the trade and will develop, much like CAR did in the 1980s and 1990s.
Seeing journalistic content as data has pushed several news organizations to release APIs, including the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times and the American National Public Radio. By doing so, they let others aggregate the data they have collected and organized. In other words, they acknowledge that the core of their activity is not story-writing, but data gathering and data distribution.
Beginning with the early years of the 21st century, some researchers expanded the conceptual dimension for databases in journalism, and in digital journalism or cyberjournalism. A conceptual approach begins to consider databases as a specificity of digital journalism, expanding their meaning and identifying them with a specific code, as opposed to the approach which perceived them as sources for the production of journalistic stories, that is, as tools, according to some of the systematized studies in the 90s.
Difference with data-driven journalism
Data-driven journalism is a process whereby journalists build stories using numerical d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPRESI%20database | The SPRESI data collection is one of the largest databases for organic chemistry worldwide. The database covers the scientific literature from 1974 to 2014, focusing on organic synthesis. It contains information on 5.8 million chemical structures and 4.6 million chemical reactions abstracted from 700,000 references.
History
Since 1974 the data collection has been jointly built by VINITI(All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences, based in Moscow) and ZIC (Zentrale Informationsverarbeitung Chemie, based in east Berlin, up to 1989) and the data are now maintained by the VINITI Institute. Since 1990 InfoChem GmbH, part of DeepMatter Group, based in Munich, Germany, has been the distributor of this data collection and developed the database SPRESIweb and the app SPRESImobile.
Database Content
The SPRESI database contains information on organic substances, including coverage of reactions, structures and properties. Over 32 million records of factual data, such as physical properties (boiling/melting points, refractive indexes, etc.), reaction conditions (catalysts, yields, etc.) and keywords have also been abstracted. Links to the literature in which the substances are described are also given.
Access
The SPRESI data collection can be accessed online via the web-application SPRESIweb, developed and distributed by InfoChem. Alternatively the complete set or subsets of the database can be acquired as raw data in SDF/RDF chemical file format.
References (SPRESIweb)
Chemical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSkill | TrueSkill is a skill-based ranking system developed by Microsoft for use with video game matchmaking on the Xbox network. Unlike the popular Elo rating system, which was initially designed for chess, TrueSkill is designed to support games with more than two players. In 2018, Microsoft published details about an extended version of TrueSkill, named TrueSkill2.
Calculation
A player's skill is represented as a normal distribution characterized by a mean value of (mu, representing perceived skill) and a variance of (sigma, representing how "unconfident" the system is in the player's value). As such can be interpreted as the probability that the player's "true" skill is .
On Xbox Live, players start with and ; always increases after a win and always decreases after a loss. The extent of actual updates depends on each player's and on how "surprising" the outcome is to the system. Unbalanced games, for example, result in either negligible updates when the favorite wins, or huge updates when the favorite loses surprisingly.
Factor graphs and expectation propagation via moment matching are used to compute the message passing equations which in turn compute the skills for the players.
Player ranks are displayed as the conservative estimate of their skill, . This is conservative, because the system is 99% sure that the player's skill is actually higher than what is displayed as their rank.
The system can be used with arbitrary scales, but Microsoft uses a scale from 0 to 50 for Xbox Live. Hence, players start with a rank of . This means that a new player's defeat results in a large sigma loss, which partially or completely compensates their mu loss. This explains why people may gain ranks from losses.
Use in other projects
TrueSkill is patented, and the name is trademarked, so it is limited to Microsoft projects and commercial projects that obtain a license to use the algorithm.
See also
Software patents
References
External links
Microsoft Research's TrueSkill homepage
Microsoft Research's TrueSkill paper
In-depth explanation of the mathematical background
Tournament rating systems
Games for Windows
Xbox network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYFA | WYFA (107.1 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station licensed to Waynesboro, Georgia, and serving the Augusta metropolitan area. It is owned by the Bible Broadcasting Network and broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching radio format.
Hosts on WYFA include Adrian Rogers, Joni Eareckson Tada, Chuck Swindoll and J. Vernon McGee. The station and its hosts hold periodic fundraisers on the air to support the station and their ministries.
WYFA has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 25,000 watts. The transmitter is on Old Waynesboro Road in Waynesboro.
History
WYFA signed on March 4, 1994, with its current format. 100.9 WTHB-FM (also licensed to Waynesboro) originally signed on as WYFA in 1988 with the same format.
See also
Media in Augusta, Georgia
References
External links
Bible Broadcasting Network website
Bible Broadcasting Network
Radio stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
YFA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightlong%3A%20Union%20City%20Conspiracy | Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy is a cyberpunk-themed adventure game developed by Trecision and Team17 and published by MicroProse in Europe and DreamCatcher Interactive in North America. It was later ported to the Amiga by ClickBOOM.
Premise
The game takes place in the futuristic Union City in the year 2099. The player assumes the role of an investigator named Joshua Reev. His long-time friend, Hugh Martens (who is now in charge of the city), summons him to help him with a matter of major political importance. It seems that a group of terrorists are threatening the city, and Martens' reporter friend Simon Ruby (who was investigating) has vanished. Martens has called on Reev to investigate.
Gameplay
Nightlong is a point-and-click adventure game, predominantly focusing on inventory management and puzzle-solving.
The game is played mostly from the third-person perspective showing Joshua Reev and his surrounding area. As with many games of the genre, non-playable characters appear in some areas and can be interacted with. The navigation interface uses left-click to examine an object, right-click to use, interact with, or combine objects in the game or in Josh's inventory. Hotspots are indicated with on-screen text, including area exits. They are labelled as "Go to..." if Josh has yet to explore the area.
Background music and sound effects are unobtrusive. There is little dialogue between characters, although the game itself is narrated by Josh as he interacts with the items, areas and characters. If Josh has nothing to say, he will shrug. Strong language infrequently appears in Josh's narration.
The game has backgrounds that appear to be a mixture of texture-mapped and hand-drawn graphics. An inventory bar is accessible at the bottom of the screen, and the Escape key is used for the game control menu.
Reception
The game received mainly mixed reviews, with reviewers praising the graphics and sound while criticising the plot and complexity of some of the puzzles. The game sold well enough to warrant the later Amiga conversion and a patch release allowing the game to be played on Windows XP.
Due to its science fiction setting, Nightlong received an overt recommendation from The Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy), to the point of Sci-Fi's logo being present on the box art. It is the only game to ever be officially recommended by Sci-Fi.
See also
Hollywood Monsters
Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths
References
External links
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy at the Hall of Light
1998 video games
Adventure games
Amiga games
Cyberpunk video games
DreamCatcher Interactive games
MicroProse games
Point-and-click adventure games
ScummVM-supported games
Team17 games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games developed in Italy
Video games scored by Bjørn Lynne
Video games set in the 2090s
Windows games
Single-player video games
Trecision games
Video games set in the future |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSC%20Audio%20Products | QSC is an American manufacturer of audio products including power amplifiers, loudspeakers, digital mixers and digital signal processors including the Q-Sys networked audio, video and control platform. QSC products are used by professional installed, portable, production, corporate and cinema customers worldwide.
History
The company was founded in 1968 by Patrick Howe Quilter, who serves as chairman of the board of directors. Quilter was at the time an engineering student with a keen interest in electronics and music. In 1967 Quilter had learned that the bass player in his brother’s high school band was searching for an affordable bass amp. When Quilter learned his budget was $250.00, he said “I could probably make you something for that kind of money,” giving birth to the first QSC amp. With many musician friends and acquaintances seeking him out to make guitar amps, he left school to start his company with the financial backing of family and friends.
At first the company was a storefront operation in Costa Mesa, California, a combination of manufacturing and retail operations under one roof. The amplifiers were built in the back and sold out front. The first employees were mostly friends helping out.
The early guitar amplifiers bore names like the Duck Amp and the Quilter Sound Thing. The company adopted the name Quilter Sound Company, which was eventually shortened to the initials "QSC" and was known as QSC Audio Products, Inc. for many years. The company was officially renamed QSC, LLC in 2015.
Expansion
After some years, the professional power amplifier portion of the business overtook the production of guitar amplifiers. Meanwhile, QSC developed more conventional sales channels in retail music and pro audio stores and also started working with export distributors. Beginning in the early 1980s, Pat Quilter pursued his interest in more electrically efficient methods of power amplification by refining class G (and later, class H) technology as an extension of class AB, primarily for higher-power models.
In the early 1990s, QSC diversified from power amplifiers by starting development of network audio systems for remote control and monitoring of amplifier systems. QSC called its system QSControl (pronounced "Q's Control"). The company was one of the first licensees of the MediaLink networking technology developed by the Lone Wolf Corp. for professional audio systems. MediaLink, however, did not prove robust enough for professional audio users, so by the mid 1990s QSC abandoned it in favor of Ethernet-based networking, which was becoming more affordable and ubiquitous. At about the same time, QSC licensed CobraNet technology from Peak Audio to develop products that would distribute multiple channels of audio signals in the digital domain over common Fast Ethernet media.
In the late 1990s, QSC started a loudspeaker research and development group within its engineering department. Within a couple years, QSC offered loudspeaker systems for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor%20Mission%20II | Meteor Mission II (written as Meteor Mission 2 on the title screen) is a clone of the Taito arcade game Lunar Rescue released by Big Five Software for the TRS-80 home computer in 1982. It was written by Big Five co-founders Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu.
Gameplay
The game is similar in concept to Lunar Lander but adds a rescue element. The initial goal is to navigate a ship through a moving meteor belt and land on one of several landing pads. A small figure runs out from the side of the screen, enters the ship, and then the player must navigate and fire back through the meteor field and dock with the mothership.
Development
The game was the fifth of seven arcade clones programmed for the TRS-80 by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu, who left the TRS-80 platform in 1982. Hogue previously wrote and published an unrelated game called Meteor Mission that was withdrawn from the market. He would later that year create the platform game Miner 2049er for the Atari 8-bit family.
Reception
Ian Chadwick reviewed Meteor Mission II in Ares Magazine #13 and commented that "the challenge is limited and the game is really not terribly exciting. This is prime stuff for the younger set but otherwise pale in comparison to other efforts".
A review in 80-U.S. stated that "the graphics in Meteor Mission II are very good", but that "sound effects are not very fancy". In the conclusion, the reviewer called it "well worth the $15.95" and "impossible to master to a point where it lacks challenge".
In a 2012 retrospective, Gamasutra wrote that "'inspired by' the early Taito classic Lunar Rescue, this Big Five Software effort remains a compelling gameplay experience".
References
External links
Review in Creative Computing
Meteor Mission II on YouTube
1982 video games
Big Five Software games
Shoot 'em ups
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat%20of%20the%20brow | Sweat of the brow is a copyright law doctrine. According to this doctrine, an author gains rights through simple diligence during the creation of a work, such as a database, or a directory. Substantial creativity or "originality" is not required.
Under a "sweat of the brow" doctrine, the creator of a work, even if it is completely unoriginal, is entitled to have that effort and expense protected; no one else may use such a work without permission, but must instead recreate the work by independent research or effort. The classic example is a telephone directory. In a "sweat of the brow" jurisdiction, such a directory may not be copied, but instead a competitor must independently collect the information to issue a competing directory. The same rule generally applies to databases and lists of facts.
According to the Databases Directive 96/9/EC, member states of the EU are obliged to confer protection known as the database right on non-original databases, that is on those that embody no creativity, but are a consequence of substantial investment (financial, labour etc.).
Etymology
In a traditional English idiom, the sweat of one's brow refers to the effort expended in labour, and the value created thereby. The phrase is famously used in English translations of . The law doctrine takes its name from this idiom.
By territory
United States
The United States rejected this doctrine in the 1991 United States Supreme Court case Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service; until then it had been upheld in a number of US copyright cases.
Under the Feist ruling in the US, mere collections of facts are considered unoriginal and thus not protected by copyright, no matter how much work went into collating them. The arrangement and presentation of a collection may be original, but not if it is "simple and obvious" such as a list in alphabetical or chronological order.
United Kingdom
Old approach
An early example of the "sweat of the brow" doctrine in UK law was the leading case of Walter v Lane (1900) in which reporters took down shorthand notes of a series of speeches given by the Earl of Rosebery, and transcribed them, adding punctuation, corrections and revisions. These were then published as verbatim reports of the speeches in The Times newspaper. The defendant, John Lane, reproduced the speeches in a book, relying heavily without permission on The Times publications. The question for the court was whether the reporters could be considered "authors" of the published versions under the terms of the Copyright Act 1842. The House of Lords held that the reporters were indeed "authors", and hence entitled to copyright, on the basis of the skill, effort and time involved in preparing the text for publication.
At the time Walter v Lane was decided, UK copyright law contained no explicit notion of "originality". The subsequent Copyright Act 1911 added for the first time a specific statutory requirement that, for copyright to subsist in a work, that work m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAIM | FLAIM (Framework for Log Anonymization and Information Management) is a modular tool designed to allow computer and network log sharing through application of complex data sanitization policies.
FLAIM is aimed at 3 different user communities. First, FLAIM can be used by the security engineer who is investigating a broad incident spanning multiple organizations. Because of the sensitivity inherent in security relevant logs, many organizations are reluctant to share them. However, this reluctance inhibits the sharing necessary to investigate intrusions that commonly span organizational boundaries. Second, anyone designing log analysis or computer forensics tools needs data with which they can test their tools. The larger and more diverse the data set, the more robust they can make their tools. For many, this means they must gather many logs from outside sources, not just what they can generate in-house. Again, this requires log sharing. Third, researchers in many computer science disciplines (e.g., network measurements, computer security, etc.) need large and diverse data sets to study. Having data sanitization tools available makes organizations more willing to share with these researchers their own logs.
FLAIM is available under the Open Source Initiative approved University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. This is BSD-style license. It runs on Unix and Unix-like systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X.
While FLAIM is not the only log anonymizer, it is unique in its flexibility to create complex XML policies and its support for multiple log types. More specifically, it is the only such tool to meet the following 4 goals. (1) FLAIM provides a diverse set of anonymization primitives. (2) FLAIM supports multiple log type, including linux process accounting logs, netfilter alerts, tcpdump traces and NFDUMP NetFlows. (3) With a flexible anonymization policy language, complex policies that make trade-offs between information loss and security can be made. (4) FLAIM is modular and easily extensible to new types of logs and data. The anonymization engine is agnostic to the syntax of the actual log.
History
Work on log anonymization began in 2004 at the NCSA. At first this was for anonymizing logs in-house to share with the SIFT group. Soon there was a need for more powerful anonymization and anonymization of different types of logs. CANINE was created to anonymize and convert between multiple formats of NetFlows. This was a Java GUI-based tool. Later, Scrub-PA was created to anonymize Process Accounting logs. Scrub-PA was based on the Java code used for CANINE. The development of both of these tools were funded under the Office of Naval Research NCASSR research center through the SLAGEL project.
It was quickly realized that building one-off tools for each new log format was not the way to go. Also, the earlier tools were limited in that they could not be scripted from the command line. It was decided that a new, modular |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAVE-based%20authentication | CAVE-based Authentication (a.k.a. HLR Authentication, 2G Authentication, Access Authentication) is an access authentication protocol used in CDMA/1xRTT computer network systems.
CAVE (Cellular Authentication and Voice Encryption)
There are two network entities involved in CAVE-based authentication when roaming:
Authentication Center (AC) a.k.a. HLR/AC, AuC – Located in a roamer’s home network, the AC controls the authentication process and either authenticates the Mobile Station (Mobile Phone, MS) or shares SSD with the serving VLR to allow this authentication to occur locally. The AC must be provisioned with an A-key value for each MS. Authentication is predicated on the assumption that A-key value provisioned in an MS is the same as the A-key value provisioned in the AC. The AC is often co-located with the HLR and referred to as the HLR/AC. However, the AC could be a standalone network entity that serves one or more HLRs. Though the CDMA abbreviation is AC, the GSM abbreviation of AuC is sometimes used (albeit incorrectly in CDMA networks).
Visitor Location Register (VLR) – If SSD is shared with the visited network, the VLR locally authenticates the roamer. Otherwise, the VLR proxies authentication responses from roamers to their home HLR/AC for authentication.
The authentication controller is the entity that determines whether the response from the MS is correct. Depending upon whether SSD is shared, the authentication controller may be either the AC or VLR. In either case, CAVE-based authentication is based on the CAVE algorithm and the following two shared keys:
Authentication key (A-key) – A 64-bit primary secret key known only to the MS and AC. In the case of RUIM equipped mobiles, the A-key is stored on the RUIM; otherwise, it is stored in semi-permanent memory on the MS. The A-key is never shared with roaming partners. However, it is used to generate a secondary key known as SSD that may be shared with a roaming partner to enable local authentication in the visited network.
Shared Secret Data (SSD) – A 128-bit secondary secret key that is calculated using the CAVE algorithm during an SSD Update procedure. During this procedure both MS and the AC in the user’s home network separately calculate SSD. It is this SSD, not the A-key that is used during authentication. SSD may or may not be shared between home and roaming partner networks to enable local authentication. SSD consists of two 64-bit keys: SSD_A, which is used during authentication to calculate authentication signatures, and SSD_B, which is used in the generation of session keys for encryption and voice privacy.
CAVE-based authentication provides two types of challenges
Global challenge – Procedure that requires any MS attempting to access the serving network to respond to a common challenge value being broadcast in the overhead message train. The MS must generate an authentication signature response (AUTHR) using CAVE with inputs of the global challenge value, ESN, either the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A12%20Authentication | A12 Authentication (Access Authentication for 1xEV-DO) is a CHAP-based mechanism used by a CDMA2000 Access Network (AN) to authenticate a 1xEV-DO Access Terminal (AT).
Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO, EVDO, etc.) is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access.
In computing, the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) authenticates a user or network host to an authenticating entity. That entity may be, for example, an Internet service provider.
CDMA2000 is the core wireless air interface standard.
Description
A12 authentication occurs when an AT first attempts to access the AN and is repeated after some authentication timeout period. The element in the AN that performs this authentication is the Radio Network Controller (RNC) using its Access Network AAA (AN-AAA). In order to support A12 authentication, matching A12 credentials (i.e., an A12 Network Address Identifier (NAI) and A12 CHAP key) must be provisioned into the AT and the user's home AAA server. Since these credentials are only shared between the AT and its home AAA, the AN-AAA forwards A12 challenge responses received from an AT to its home AAA to determine whether they are correct. A12 authentication is separate from packet data authentication that may occur later when a data session is being established.
A12 authentication is important for roaming since all participating operators in the IRT have agreed to support it. If A12 credentials are not provisioned into an AT, that AT will not be able to access any visited network that performs A12 authentication. In addition, the Mobile Node Identifier (MN ID) is obtained from the AN-AAA during successful A12 authentication. This MN ID is used by the AN on the A8/A9 and A10/A11 interfaces to enable handoffs of Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) packet data sessions between ANs and between 1xEV-DO and 1xRTT systems. If A12 authentication is not performed, the MN ID must be somehow derived and such handoffs may not be possible without establishing a new Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) session.
A12 authentication is defined in TIA-878 (3GPP2 A.S0008).
See also
List of authentication protocols
List of CDMA2000 networks
Mobile broadband
References
see CDG Reference Document #136.
Code division multiple access |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20Authentication%20in%20CDMA%20networks | Access Authentication in CDMA networks for telecommunications and computing provide network access for a mobile device. Specific methods such as CAVE-based Authentication (IS-95/1xRTT), and A12 Authentication (1xEV-DO) are possible. The serving network provides the mobile device access authentication mechanism.
The exact method employed depends upon the type of service being used:
CAVE-based Authentication – Used for access authentication in CDMA/1xRTT
AKA – 3G successor to CAVE-based authentication
A12 Authentication – Used for access authentication in 1xEV-DO
1xEV-DO Hybrid MS/AT devices may employ both CAVE-based and A12 authentication since these devices connect to both the 1xRTT and 1xEV-DO networks.
See also
Channel access method
List of authentication protocols
List of CDMA2000 networks
Mobile broadband
References
Code division multiple access |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felten | Felten is the surname of:
Edward Felten, a professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University
Yury Felten, a court architect to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
See also
Felton (disambiguation)
Fulton (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20Speedway | Cartoon Network Speedway is a kart racing video game released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. Published by Majesco Entertainment and developed by DC Studios, the game features characters from Cartoon Network's original animated television series; Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cow and Chicken, and Sheep in the Big City.
Gameplay
Gameplay of Cartoon Network Speedway features 12 drivers, 12 tracks, password saving, and link cable support for two players with multiple game cartridges. The game does not feature a time trial mode.
Characters
Reception
The game received mixed reviews by critics and gamers alike. On IGN, it received a 3 out of 10, reviewer Craig Harris stating "Cartoon Network Speedway is one of the sloppiest and most generic kart racers released on the Game Boy Advance." It currently has a 53% rating on GameRankings. It was also given a 65 out of 100 from Next Level Gaming, a 3 out of 5 from Nintendo Power, and 58 out of 100 from VG-Force. Complaints centered on bad and choppy graphics, the slow pace, the fact that characters from Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls (both popular Cartoon Network franchises) were unavailable, and the lack of challenge.
References
External links
2003 video games
Crossover racing games
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
North America-exclusive video games
Kart racing video games
Cartoon Network video games
Video games developed in Canada
DC Studios games
Single-player video games
Majesco Entertainment games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introselect | In computer science, introselect (short for "introspective selection") is a selection algorithm that is a hybrid of quickselect and median of medians which has fast average performance and optimal worst-case performance. Introselect is related to the introsort sorting algorithm: these are analogous refinements of the basic quickselect and quicksort algorithms, in that they both start with the quick algorithm, which has good average performance and low overhead, but fall back to an optimal worst-case algorithm (with higher overhead) if the quick algorithm does not progress rapidly enough. Both algorithms were introduced by David Musser in , with the purpose of providing generic algorithms for the C++ Standard Library that have both fast average performance and optimal worst-case performance, thus allowing the performance requirements to be tightened.
However, in most C++ Standard Library implementations, a different "introselect" algorithm is used, which combines quickselect and heapselect, and has a worst-case running time of O(n log n). The C++ draft standard, as of 2022, does not have requirements on the worst-case performance, therefore allowing such choice.
Algorithms
Introsort achieves practical performance comparable to quicksort while preserving O(n log n) worst-case behavior by creating a hybrid of quicksort and heapsort. Introsort starts with quicksort, so it achieves performance similar to quicksort if quicksort works, and falls back to heapsort (which has optimal worst-case performance) if quicksort does not progress quickly enough. Similarly, introselect combines quickselect with median of medians to achieve worst-case linear selection with performance similar to quickselect.
Introselect works by optimistically starting out with quickselect and only switching to a worst-case linear-time selection algorithm (the Blum-Floyd-Pratt-Rivest-Tarjan median of medians algorithm) if it recurses too many times without making sufficient progress. The switching strategy is the main technical content of the algorithm. Simply limiting the recursion to constant depth is not good enough, since this would make the algorithm switch on all sufficiently large lists. Musser discusses a couple of simple approaches:
Keep track of the list of sizes of the subpartitions processed so far. If at any point k recursive calls have been made without halving the list size, for some small positive k, switch to the worst-case linear algorithm.
Sum the size of all partitions generated so far. If this exceeds the list size times some small positive constant k, switch to the worst-case linear algorithm. This sum is easy to track in a single scalar variable.
Both approaches limit the recursion depth to k ⌈log n⌉ = O(log n) and the total running time to O(n).
The paper suggested that more research on introselect was forthcoming, but the author retired in 2007 without having published any such further research.
See also
Floyd–Rivest algorithm
References
Selecti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20Institute%20for%20Meteorological%20Satellite%20Studies |
The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) is a research institute where scientists study the use of data from geostationary and polar orbit weather satellites to improve forecasts of weather (including tropical cyclones and severe storms. CIMSS was formed through a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). CIMSS parent organization, the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is a primary developer and operator of environmental satellite technologies.
It is one of 16 NOAA Cooperative Institutes (CIs).
Background
CIMSS develops and successfully implements techniques and products for using geostationary and polar-orbiting weather satellite visible and thermal radiation observations to improve forecasts of severe storms, including tornadoes and tropical cyclones. CIMSS plays a major role in the transfer of new technology into operational practice. CIMSS scientists conduct research using passive remote sensing systems for meteorological and surface-based applications.
CIMSS also plays a major role in instrument design and testing, and related software development for improved space-based measurements of the Earth's atmosphere. CIMSS is very active in national and international field programs, testing new instrumentation, data processing systems, and assessing the geophysical utility of measurements.
Current research
Current research also focuses on the development and testing of computer-based analysis and forecast techniques that use observations from existing and planned spacecraft and ground-based weather observing systems as part of a national program to greatly improve weather forecast capabilities for the next decade. The optimal use of satellite data in climate and global change studies has become another essential part of the CIMSS mission.
CIMSS serves as an international center for research on the interpretation and uses of operational and experimental satellite observations and remote sensing data acquired from aircraft and the ground. These data are applied to a wide variety of atmospheric and oceanographic studies and evaluated for their potential operational utility. The CIMSS international role is further strengthened through its visiting scientist program that hosts sabbaticals for several foreign scholars each year.
Staff
The CIMSS staff consists of over 100 associates, including administrative staff, principal investigators, federal employees stationed at CIMSS, scientific and programming staff, visiting scientists, and student hourly support. The federal employees consist of the 7 members of the NOAA Advanced Satellite Products Branch, 1 NOAA Office of Research and Applications employee, 1 NOAA Severe Storms Lab employee, and 1 NASA Langley Research Center employee.
References
External links
CIMSS website
SSEC website (parent organizat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Allstot | David J. Allstot (born January 22, 1947 in Brookings, South Dakota), is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University. His research includes work on analog, mixed-signal, and radio frequency integrated circuits. He was formerly a professor at UC Berkeley and the University of Washington.
Dr. Allstot was elected to serve as president of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2009, and was for that reason president-elect in 2008.
Dr. Allstot was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for his research and commercialization of mixed-mode integrated circuits and systems.
Awards and honors
Allstot received several awards and honors, including:
In 1980 the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award
In 1992 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
In 1995 the "Darlington Best Paper Award" from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
In 2020 elected to National Academy of Engineering
References
External links
OSU EECS: David Allstot
UWEE: David Allstot
System-On-Chip Lab: University of Washington
IEEE Xplore articles by Allstot, D.J.
1947 births
Living people
University of Washington faculty
Oregon State University faculty
University of Texas at Dallas faculty
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
People from Brookings, South Dakota
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberella%20avenacea | Gibberella avenacea is a fungal plant pathogen.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
avenacea
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Fungi described in 1967 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage%20group | The phage group (sometimes called the American Phage Group) was an informal network of biologists centered on Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to bacterial genetics and the origins of molecular biology in the mid-20th century. The phage group takes its name from bacteriophages, the bacteria-infecting viruses that the group used as experimental model organisms. In addition to Delbrück, important scientists associated with the phage group include: Salvador Luria, Alfred Hershey, Seymour Benzer, Charles Steinberg, Gunther Stent, James D. Watson, Frank Stahl, and Renato Dulbecco.
Origins of the phage group: people, ideas, experiments and personal relationships
Bacteriophages had been a subject of experimental investigation since Félix d'Herelle had isolated and developed methods for detecting and culturing them, beginning in 1917. Delbrück, a physicist-turned biologist seeking the simplest possible experimental system to probe the fundamental laws of life, first encountered phage during a 1937 visit to T. H. Morgan's fly lab at Caltech. Delbrück was unimpressed with Morgan's experimentally complex model organism Drosophila, but another researcher, Emory Ellis, was working with the more elementary phage. During the next few years, Ellis and Delbrück collaborated on methods of counting phage and tracking growth curves; they established the basic step-wise pattern of virus growth (the most obvious features of the lytic cycle).
Emory Ellis (1906–2003) and Max Delbrück (1906–1981)
In a retrospective article, Emory Ellis stated "Soon after Max Delbruck arrived at the Caltech Biology Division, intent on discovering how his background in physical sciences could be productively applied to biological problems, I showed him some step-growth curves. His first comment was ‘I don't believe it.’" However, as Ellis describes, Delbruck soon dispelled this initial reaction of disbelief by his own analysis of the phenomenon, and promptly joined in the work with enthusiasm, bringing to it his training in mathematics and physics, and intense interest in genetics. Their initial collaborative findings were published in 1939.
Salvador Luria (1912–1991) and Alfred Hershey (1908–1997)
The phage group started around 1940, after Delbrück and Luria had met at a physics conference. Delbrück and Salvador Luria began a series of collaborative experiments on the patterns of infection for different strains of bacteria and bacteriophage. They soon established the "mutual exclusion principle" that an individual bacterium can only be infected by one strain of phage. In 1943, their "fluctuation test", later dubbed the Luria–Delbrück experiment, showed that genetic mutations for phage resistance arise in the absence of selection, rather than being a response to selection. The traditional wisdom among bacteriologists prior to 1943 was that bacteria had no chromosomes and no genes. The Luria–Delbrück experiment showed that bacteria, like other established model genetic o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Pope%20%28producer%29 | Michael Pope (born 11 December 1962) is an Australian voice-over announcer, warm-up comedian, and producer, best known as a producer of Nine Network's Bert's Family Feud as well as The Price Is Right on the same network. He has also hosted shows—such as Seven Network's Blockbusters and Total Recall—and worked as an announcer and presenter on Network Ten's Battle of the Sexes.
He has "warmed up" the audience on numerous occasions for all major Australian Networks, including the shows The AFL Footy Show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with The Stars, Australia's Got Talent, The Logies, the Arias, and Q&A.
Pope also works as an MC for corporate functions.
References
Michael Pope official site
Australian game show hosts
Australian male voice actors
Living people
1962 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20DVD | HD DVD (short for High Definition Digital Video Disc) is an obsolete high-density optical disc format for storing data and playback of high-definition video. Supported principally by Toshiba, HD DVD was envisioned to be the successor to the standard DVD format, but lost to Blu-ray, supported by Sony and others.
HD DVD employed a blue laser with a shorter wavelength (with the exception of the 3× DVD and HD REC variants), and it stored about 3.2 times as much data per layer as its predecessor (maximum capacity: 15 GB per layer compared to 4.7 GB per layer on a DVD). The format was commercially released in 2006 and fought a protracted format war with rival Blu-ray. On February 19, 2008, Toshiba abandoned the format, announcing it would no longer manufacture HD DVD players and drives. The HD DVD Promotion Group was dissolved on March 28, 2008.
The HD DVD physical disc specifications (but not the codecs) were used as the basis for the China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD) formerly called CH-DVD.
History
In the late 1990s, commercial HDTV sets started to enter a larger market, but there was no inexpensive way to record or play back HD content. JVC's D-VHS and Sony's HDCAM formats could store that amount of data, but were neither popular nor well-known. It was known that using lasers with shorter wavelengths would yield optical storage with higher density. Shuji Nakamura invented practical blue laser diodes, but a lengthy patent lawsuit delayed commercial introduction.
Origins and competition from Blu-ray Disc
Sony started two projects applying the new diodes: UDO (Ultra Density Optical) and DVR Blue together with Philips, a format of rewritable discs which would eventually become Blu-ray Disc (more specifically, BD-RE) and later on with Pioneer a format of read only discs (BD-ROM). The two formats share several technologies (such as the AV codecs and the laser diode). In February 2002, the project was officially announced as Blu-ray Disc, and the Blu-ray Disc Association was founded by the nine initial members.
The DVD Forum (chaired by Sony) was deeply split over whether or not to go with the more expensive blue lasers. Although today's Blu-ray Discs appear virtually identical to a standard DVD, when the Blu-ray Discs were initially developed they required a protective caddy to avoid mis-handling by the consumer (early CD-Rs also featured a protective caddy for the same purpose.) The Blu-ray Disc prototype's caddy was both expensive and physically different from DVD, posing several problems. In March 2002, the forum voted to approve a proposal endorsed by Warner Bros. and other motion picture studios that involved compressing HD content onto dual-layer DVD-9 discs. In spite of this decision, the DVD Forum's Steering Committee announced in April that it was pursuing its own blue-laser high-definition solution. In August, Toshiba and NEC announced their competing standard Advanced Optical Disc. It was adopted by the DVD forum and renamed to HD DVD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProCare | ProCare was a service offered by Apple Computer for use at Apple retail stores providing enhanced access to services from the Genius Bar. ProCare had an annual membership fee of US$99 for use with up to three Apple computers. Among the services included with membership were scheduling of GeniusBar reservations up to 14 days in advance (vs. 3 days for non-members) and faster turnaround times for in-store repairs. ProCare membership also included personalized setup of new machines, a yearly 'tune-up' and 'backup consultation'.
ProCare previously included individualized training and instruction on a variety of topics relating to Apple computers and software, but as of May 2, 2007, this was spun off as a separate training service called One to One.
On March 3, 2011, the ProCare service was superseded by JointVenture from Apple.
References
External links
Apple.com: Apple ProCare webpage
Apple.com: Apple One to One webpage
Apple.com: Apple JointVenture website
Apple Inc. services
Consumer electronics brands
Products and services discontinued in 2007
Products and services discontinued in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIANZEA | PIANZEA (Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand Electoral Administrators’ Network) is an organisation of electoral administrators in Oceania.
Network members include America Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna.
External links
Description
PIANZEA Official Website
Political organizations based in Oceania
Election and voting-related organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronis%20Secure%20Zone | Acronis Secure Zone is a hard disk partition type created and used by Acronis True Image as a backup storage target.
Overview
Backup applications typically use network storage for storing backup archives, but this can be problematic when such resources are not available. Acronis designed a solution to this problem by carving off part of the local disk as a proprietary partition, which they refer to as Acronis Secure Zone. Since this partition is accessibly only by True Image and Backup & Recovery, it functions as a backup target safe from malware, user files, or other uses or corruption. Acronis True Image can manage only one Acronis Secure Zone per computer but can restore data off others (e.g., when a portable hard drive is connected).
Technical Details
Although the Acronis Secure Zone has its own partition type, it is actually just a rebadged FAT32 partition labeled ACRONIS SZ, with "partition type" code set to . Knowing these requirements, one can manually create and/or manage existing Acronis Secure Zone using any partition manager. Since the Acronis Secure Zone is just a modified FAT32 partition type, it is possible to gain direct access to this partition by changing its partition type code to (FAT32 LBA).
Acronis True Image is designed to self-manage the backup archives stored to the Acronis Secure Zone. As such, all backup files are stored with autogenerated names in the root folder. If there is not enough free space for the next backup file, Acronis True Image will delete the oldest image set (base+incremental/differential files) in order to create space for the new files.
Original Equipment Manufacturer Secure Zone
OEM versions of True Image are designed to use a special "Original Equipment Manufacturer secure zone", which is technically the same as a regular Acronis Secure Zone, but uses a partition type of 0xBB, and typically contains only a single image file with the "factory default" operating system and application configuration set forth by the manufacturer.
References
Computer storage devices
Disk file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Hyderabad | Hyderabad, in India, has a well-developed communication and media infrastructure, and the city is covered by a large network of optical fiber cables. The city's telephone system is serviced by four landline companies: BSNL, Tata Indicom, Reliance and Airtel. There are a number of mobile-phone companies: Aircel, BSNL, Airtel, Hutch Idea Cellular, Uninor, MTS, Virgin Mobile, Tata Indicom, Tata DoCoMo and Reliance. Several companies offer broadband internet access.
Broadcast radio
The city has a variety of AM and FM radio stations. Two AM broadcasting|AM and two FM broadcasting FM stations in Hyderabad are operated by All India Radio (AIR), officially known as Akashvani. The first FM radio station to broadcast in the city was AIR's Vividh Bharati in the early 1990s. In 2006, Commercial broadcasting|commercial FM radio stations were launched in Hyderabad. These stations are broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week with programming in Telugu language, English and Hindi.
The FM radio stations in the city are:
Bol Radio 90.4 MHz
Radio City 91.1 MHz
AIR Rainbow 101.9 MHz
AIR Vividh Bharati 102.8 MHz
BIG FM 92.7 92.7 MHz
IGNOU Gyan Vani 105.6 MHz (educational station, on air from 18.00 to 22.00 hours)
Deccan Radio 107.8 MHz
RED FM 93.5 MHz
Fever 94.3 FM Hindi Channel
Radio Mirchi 95 MHz Hindi Channel, Known as Mirchi95.
Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM Telugu Channel.
KOOL 104 – (from the Radio Mirchi group) airs both Ryan Seacrest and Casey Kasem's AT40 – 104 FM
Radio Charminar 107.8 MHz Urdu Channel
Magic FM (India) 106.4 MHz
AM radio stations in the city are:
Hyderabad-A 737 kHz
Hyderabad-B 1377 kHz
Internet radio
Radio Tulip (24/7 Non-Stop Telugu live radio) website Retrieved 2017-04-01.
Deccan Radio (24/7 South Indian internet radio) website Retrieved 2011-09-05.
Radio Archana (24/7 devotional station: Radio Archana Sravanam Bhakthi Ki Sopanam) website
Radio Khushi (24/7 Telugu online radio) website Retrieved 2011-09-05.
Telangana Radio (24/7 Telugu live radio) website Retrieved 2011-09-05.
TeluguOne Radio (24/7 Telugu live radio website Retrieved 2011-09-05.
Tharangamedia website
Television networks
The first satellite television relay in Hyderabad was started in 1974, with the launch of the state-owned Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad, which initially telecast through ATS-6 Satellite in collaboration with NASA. It was officially inaugurated on 23 October 1977. The private satellite channels in Hyderabad were started in July 1992, with the launch of Star TV. Today there are numerous satellite TV channels available in Hyderabad. An estimated 2.5 million households use cable TV in Hyderabad.
Doordarshan transmits two terrestrial television channels and one satellite channel from Hyderabad. The Doordarshan Telugu channel, Saptagiri, was the first TV channel launched in Hyderabad in the year 1974. Many private regional television channels began broadcasting from Hyderabad in the following decades. Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad’s Reg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilleon | Xilleon is a brand for a family of SoCs combining a low-power CPU with ASICs for accelerated video decompression and further functions for major worldwide broadcast networks (including PAL, NTSC, SECAM and ATSC) targeting digital television (i.e. products like set-top boxes, Integrated digital television, digital television adapters, smart TVs, etc.).
Technical features
Most Xilleon-branded SoCs have a
300 MHz MIPS 4Kc (MMU, no FPU)
ASIC simultaneously decompressing two standard-definition television and two high-definition television MPEG-2-compressed streams
two display controller
2D and 3D graphics engine
conditional access
transport demultiplexers
32/64 bit DDR/SDR interface
, PCI, USB, IR, I2C, I2S, Flash and PATA interfaces
It was revealed that the next generation of AVIVO, named as Unified Video Decoder (UVD) was based on Xilleon video processor to provide hardware decoding of H.264, and VC-1 video codec standards.
Both AMD TrueAudio and AMD's Unified Video Decoder (UVD) are based on the Cadence Tensilica Xtensa processor, which was originally licensed by ATI Technologies Inc. in 2004.
List of Xilleon-branded SoCs
History
Owner's of the brand Xilleon were ATI Technologies, later Advanced Micro Devices, now Broadcom.
While AMD announced the completion of acquisition of ATI Technologies on the third quarter of 2006, the Xilleon products would be sold under the AMD brand as AMD Xilleon.
On August 25, 2008, the Xilleon line was sold to the semiconductor company Broadcom.
A new line of Xilleon video processors for flat panel LCD TVs, named as Xilleon panel processors with four models 410, 411, 420 and 421, were announced on CES 2008. Supporting 1080p video resolution and featuring Technology advanced motion estimation, motion compensation and frame rate conversion technology based on enhanced phase-plane correlation technology, which converts 24 or 60 Hz input video signals to 100 or 120 Hz refresh rates used in most of the LCD TVs by creating additional frames to form a smoother motion.
AMD had signed an agreement with DivX, Inc. to allow several of the future Xilleon video processors to implement hardware DivX video decoding with DivX certification in January 2008. However, as a result of company restructuring, AMD has divested the digital TV chipset business starting from the second quarter of 2008.
See also
VideoCore
Broadcom Crystal HD
References
External links
ATI's former digital TV products page which refers people to a Broadcom page
APCMag.com: AMD promises DivX support in CPUs
Broadcom
MIPS implementations
Digital signal processors
Video processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Allison | Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License.
Other contributions include the early versions of the pwdump password cracking utility.
Career
Free software evangelism
During his career, Jeremy Allison has consistently defended the free software approach:
He pitched making Vantive code free software to its founder.
He persuaded Michael Tiemann to use the GNU General Public License for Cygwin.
He similarly convinced Tim Wilkinson to put the Kaffe virtual machine for Java under the GPL.
He was involved in Silicon Graphics' decision to put XFS for Linux under the GPL.
This commitment to free software culminated with his decision to leave Novell in protest of a patent deal that was considered by many as a FUD attack on Linux and other free software, and by Allison as breaking section 7 of the GNU General Public License.
References
External links
Jeremy Allison's web page
1962 births
Living people
British computer programmers
Google employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%20First | People First may refer to:
People First Network aka P.F.Net, based in the Solomon Islands
People First Party (Taiwan), a political party in Taiwan
People First Party (Solomon Islands)
People First Party (South Korea)
Pipol First Party (Papua New Guinea)
Bayan Muna, which translates to "People first", a political party in the Philippines
People-first language, a concept similar to political correctness, regarding language use relating to people with disabilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/335th%20Signal%20Command%20%28Theater%29 | The 335th Signal Command (Theater) is an operational and functional U.S. Army Reserve command of more than 4,000 Active and Reserve Soldiers, providing Signal and Cyber units in direct support of 3rd Army/USARCENT in Southwest Asia, Army Reserve exercises, and Homeland Defense missions throughout the United States.
Embracing the motto, "Ready Lightning," The 335th Signal Command (Theater) is one of the Army's four theater signal commands.
The 335th Signal Command (Theater) has Army Reserve Signal Soldiers assigned to units throughout United States and overseas supporting ongoing military operations.
In 2016, the 335th Signal Command (Theater) became the Army Reserve proponent for Defensive Cyber Operations/Forces for the Army Reserve as the Army Reserve Cyber Operations Group (ARCOG) transitioned from the 76th Operational Readiness Command (ORC) to the 335th Signal Command (Theater). This transition brings Army Reserve Cyber Protection Teams to the 335th Signal Command (Theater).
Current leadership
Commanding General: Major General Tina B. Boyd
Command Sergeant Major: CSM Russell B. Price
Command Chief Warrant Officer: Chief Warrant Officer Five Lawrence A. Makuakane
Command Executive Officer: Mr. David A. Hagler
Deputy Commanding General (Signal): Colonel Marlene K. Markotan
Deputy Commanding General (Cyber): Brigadier General Royce P. Resoso
Chief of Staff: Colonel Andrew R. Howes
Secretary of the General Staff: Major Gina K. Great
Updated 15SEP23 by SGT Tarako Braswell, 335th SC (T) Command Public Affairs Office NCO.
Current Structure
As of 2020, the 335th Signal Command controls the following:
335th Signal Command (Theater), in East Point, Georgia
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
Defense Information Systems Agency–Army Reserve Element, in Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
Joint Communications Support Element, in Tampa, Florida
Joint Enabling Capabilities Command–Army Reserve Element, in Norfolk, Virginia
United States Army Reserve Cyber Protection Brigade, in Adelphi, Maryland
United States Cyber Command–Army Reserve Element, in Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
359th Tactical Theater Signal Brigade, at Fort Gordon, Georgia
490th Signal Company (Tactical Installation/Networking), in Blacklick, Ohio
982nd Combat Camera Company, in East Point, Georgia
324th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, at Fort Gordon, Georgia
392nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion, in Baltimore, Maryland
505th Tactical Theater Signal Brigade, in Las Vegas, Nevada
98th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, in Mesa, Arizona
319th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, in Sacramento, California
Campaign participation credit
Republic of Vietnam
Operation Desert Shield
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Atlantic Resolve
Operation Inherent Resolve
Provisional Command
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, the 335th Signal Command mobilized reserve soldiers and active Army personnel to Camp Doha, Kuwait. The unit move |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Smith%20%28puppeteer%29 | Larry Smith (June 23, 1938 – February 19, 2018) was an American puppeteer and producer of children's programming in the Cincinnati area since 1957. His most notable work was a popular afternoon puppet/cartoon show airing on WXIX Television.
Smith was raised in Dayton, Ohio. At the age of five he began a lifelong fascination with puppets, learning to make them at home using items around the house as store-bought materials were expensive. He made his television debut in 1952, and he began his professional career two years later at WHIO television. After high school Smith attended Ohio State University and the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. In 1955 Smith met Burr Tillstrom, creator of the Kukla, Fran and Ollie show. In 1957 Smith auditioned for, and won a part on The Uncle Al Show; officially he served on WCPO's art department, but he performed puppets. Smith was with The Uncle Al Show for six years.
Smith achieved his greatest fame by the late 1960s, when he went to then-new TV station WXIX in Cincinnati to host an afternoon puppet/cartoon show which came to be called Larry Smith's Cartoon Club, which he hosted throughout the 1970s. Smith and his puppets were the first stars of WXIX when they performed on the station's sign-on ceremony in August 1968.
Some of the puppets/characters he created include:
Hattie the Witch (also called "Battie Hattie from Cincinnati")
Snarfie the Dog (a.k.a. Snarfie R. Dog)
Big Red the Red Rock-Eater (who lived in "The Dirty Dingy Dungeon")
Teaser the Mouse
Rudy the Rooster
Smith ostensibly retired in 2000, but made occasional appearances with his puppets until his death on February 19, 2018.
References
External links
1938 births
2018 deaths
American puppeteers
Television personalities from Cincinnati
Ohio State University alumni
People from Dayton, Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20reserve | In electricity networks, the operating reserve is the generating capacity available to the system operator within a short interval of time to meet demand in case a generator goes down or there is another disruption to the supply. Most power systems are designed so that, under normal conditions, the operating reserve is always at least the capacity of the largest supplier plus a fraction of the peak load.
Types of operating reserve
The operating reserve is made up of the spinning reserve as well as the non-spinning or supplemental reserve:
The spinning reserve is the extra generating capacity that is available by increasing the power output of generators that are already connected to the power system. For most generators, this increase in power output is achieved by increasing the torque applied to the turbine's rotor.
The non-spinning reserve or supplemental reserve is the extra generating capacity that is not currently connected to the system but can be brought online after a short delay. In isolated power systems, this typically equates to the power available from fast-start generators. However, in interconnected power systems, this may include the power available on short notice by importing power from other systems or retracting power that is currently being exported to other systems.
Generators that intend to provide either spinning and non-spinning reserve should be able to reach their promised capacity within roughly ten minutes. Most power system guidelines require a significant fraction of their operating reserve to come from spinning reserve. This is because the spinning reserve is slightly more reliable (it doesn't suffer from start-up issues) and can respond immediately whereas with non-spinning reserve generators there is a delay as the generator starts-up offline.
Centrally controlled air conditioners and thermostats that are used in large residential areas can be used as a fast and considerable curtailment reserve. Advantages of this technology are under studies.
Operating reserve is a crucial concept for ensuring that the day-ahead planning of generators' schedule can withstand the uncertainty due to unforeseen variations in the load profile or equipment (generators, transformers, transmission links) faults.
The California Independent System Operator has an operating reserve at 6% of the metered load. Included in that is a spinning reserve at 3% of the metered load.
Other types of reserve
In addition, there are two other kinds of reserve power that are often discussed in combination with the operating reserve: the frequency-response reserve and the replacement reserve.
The frequency-response reserve (also known as regulating reserve) is provided as an automatic reaction to a loss in supply. It occurs because immediately following a loss of supply, the generators slow down due to the increased load. To combat this slowing, many generators have a governor. By helping the generators to speed up, these governors provide a s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scytinostroma%20galactinum | Scytinostroma galactinum is a fungal plant pathogen infecting apples.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Apple tree diseases
Russulales
Fungi described in 1851
Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grovesinia%20pyramidalis | Grovesinia pyramidalis is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Sclerotiniaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofabraea%20perennans | Neofabraea perennans is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Dermateaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrocarpon%20magnusianum | Cylindrocarpon magnusianum is a fungal plant pathogen that causes root rot in alfalfa and red clover.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Eudicot diseases
Nectriaceae
Fungi described in 1928 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytospora%20personata | Cytospora personata is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Diaporthales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionectria%20ochroleuca | Bionectria ochroleuca is a plant pathogen that causes seed rot in oil seed rape.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Eudicot diseases
Fungi described in 1997
Bionectriaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoma%20sclerotioides | Phoma sclerotioides is a plant pathogen and is the culprit for brown root rot disease in, for instance, alfalfa and clover.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
sclerotioides
Fungi described in 1892 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uromyces%20oblongus | Uromyces oblongus is a plant pathogen infecting alfalfa.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
oblongus
Fungi described in 1877 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucostoma%20auerswaldii | Leucostoma auerswaldii is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Diaporthales
Taxa named by Theodor Rudolph Joseph Nitschke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopeziza%20jonesii | Pseudopeziza jonesii is a plant pathogen infecting alfalfa.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Dermateaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenopeziza%20brassicae | Pyrenopeziza brassicae is a plant pathogen infecting Brassicaceae (formerly known as Cruciferae).
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Dermateaceae
Fungi described in 1850 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptotrochila%20medicaginis | Leptotrochila medicaginis is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Dermateaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Lindstrom | Gary Edward Lindstrom (January 8, 1944 - January 10, 2022) was an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh. He retired in July 2007 and died on January 10, 2022.
Lindstrom made numerous contributions to areas of data management, verification, and programming language design, specification and implementation. He served as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. According to his website, Dr. Lindstrom served as the founding editor-in-chief the International Journal of Parallel Programming () from 1986 to 1993. He co-edited, with Doug DeGroot, the book Logic Programming: Functions, Relations and Equations, which was first published by Prentice-Hall in 1986.
Lindstrom was a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in computer science under Alan Perlis.
References
1944 births
2022 deaths
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Utah faculty
People from Syracuse, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lost%20Tribes%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Lost Tribes is an Australian reality television series produced by the Nine Network. The series premiere was broadcast on Sunday, 6 May 2007 at 6:30pm, prior to the telecast of the 2007 TV Week Logie Awards. The show is narrated by Charles Wooley.
The series places two families from Sydney and one family from Melbourne with indigenous tribal communities in South Africa, Namibia, and Indonesia. The series aims to document the culture shock each family goes through in their new environment.
External links
Nine Network original programming
2000s Australian reality television series
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Computer%20Games | Personal Computer Games was a multi-format UK computer games magazine of the early/mid-1980s published by VNU.
History
Personal Computer Games was launched in July 1983.
The magazine was part of VNU and had its headquarters in London. The second issue was published on 28 October 1983 with the magazine going monthly from February 1984.
Computer coverage at the time were mainly consisted of the Spectrum, C64 and the BBC Micro, although there were others featured such as Atari 8-bit, Electron, Vic 20 and the newly released Amstrad CPC.
The February 1985 issue was the last of the magazine. Chris Anderson and Bob Wade went on to launch the Commodore 64 magazine Zzap!64.
Screen Test
One of the sections of the magazine was the 'Screen Test' pages where the latest games were reviewed. The PCG Panel, who voiced their opinions on the games reviews, consisted of the PCG staff plus several contributions from readers. The review was laid out with an explanation of the gameplay and then three opinions from the reviewers were given in boxouts at the end. PCG Ratings were out of ten, with a score giving to the graphics, sound, originality, lasting interest and the overall score.
Game of the Month
The highest accolade awarded by Personal Computer Games was the "Game of the Month" (First introduced in issue 3), issue 1 did not have a Game of the Month. Issue 2's Game of the month was actually called the "Screen Star" award.
Summer 1983(Issue 1) No Game of the month awarded.
January 1984(Issue 2): Manic Miner (ZX Spectrum) - "Screen Star" award.
February 1984(Issue 3): Revenge of the Mutant Camels (Commodore 64)
March 1984(Issue 4): Scuba Dive (ZX Spectrum)
April 1984 (Issue 5): Forbidden Forest (video game) (Commodore 64)
May 1984(Issue 6): Jet Set Willy (ZX Spectrum)
June 1984(Issue 7): Fortress (1984 video game) (BBC Micro)
July 1984(Issue 8): Loco (video game) (Commodore 64)
August 1984(Issue 9): The Lords of Midnight (ZX Spectrum)
September 1984(Issue 10): Quo Vadis (1984 video game) (Commodore 64)
October 1984(Issue 11): Ancipital (Commodore 64)
November 1984(Issue 12): Pyjamarama (ZX Spectrum)
December 1984(Issue 13): Boulder Dash (Commodore 64)
January 1985(Issue 14): Underwurlde and Knight Lore (both ZX Spectrum)
February 1985(Issue 15): Impossible Mission (Commodore 64)
Cover mounts
In February 1984 PCG gave away a cover-mounted FlexiDisc containing game data that could be transferred to cassette. These included free programs for the Vic 20, Spectrum, BBC and Dragon 32/64 computers.
See also
Zzap!64
Computer and Video Games (magazine)
References
External links
Archived Personal Computer Games Magazines on the Internet Archive
Bi-monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Video game magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines published in London
Magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon%20%28software%29 | Babylon is a computer dictionary and translation program developed by the Israeli company Babylon Software Ltd. based in the city of Or Yehuda. The company was established in 1997 by the Israeli entrepreneur Amnon Ovadia. Its IPO took place ten years later. It is considered a part of Israel's Download Valley, a cluster of software companies monetizing "free" software downloads through adware. Babylon includes in-house proprietary dictionaries, as well as community-created dictionaries and glossaries. It is a tool used for translation and conversion of currencies, measurements and time, and for obtaining other contextual information. The program also uses a text-to-speech agent, so users hear the proper pronunciation of words and text. Babylon has developed 36 English-based proprietary dictionaries in 21 languages. In 2008–2009, Babylon reported earnings of 50 million NIS through its collaboration with Google.
Between 2010 and 2013, Babylon became infamous for demonstrating questionable behavior typical of malware: A Babylon Toolbar bundled with Babylon and other software, has been widely identified as a browser hijacker that is very easy to install inadvertently and unnecessarily difficult to remove. This eventually led to Google terminating its agreement with Babylon Ltd. in 2013.
History
In 1995, Israeli entrepreneur Amnon Ovadia began a project for an online English–Hebrew dictionary which would not interrupt the reading process. As a result, Babylon Ltd. was founded in 1997 and launched the first version of Babylon. On 25 September 1997, the company filed a patent for text recognition and translation. In 1998, a year following its launch date, Babylon had two million users, mostly in Germany and Brazil, growing from 420,000 to 2.5 million users in the course of that year. In the same year, Formula Systems, headed by Dan Goldstein, acquired Mashov Computers and became the largest shareholder in the company. By 2000, the product had over 4 million users. In the spring of 2000, Babylon Ltd. failed to raise $20 million in a private placement and lost NIS 15 million. Further stress came with the collapse of the Dot-com bubble. In 2001, Babylon Ltd. continued shedding money, with the company costing its parent company Formula Vision NIS 4.7 million.
Since 2007, Babylon Ltd. () has been a publicly traded company. Its IPO took place in February 2007; Israeli businessman Noam Lanir purchased controlling interests in the company for $10.5 million, sharing management with second majority shareholder Reed Elsevier and the Company founder, Amnon Ovadia. According to Globes magazine in January 2011, Lanir received an offer for his stake from a foreign private equity fund that valued the company at NIS 248 million (approximately 70 million dollars).
In 2008–2009, Babylon reported earnings of NIS 50 million through its collaboration with Google. In 2010, Google Ireland signed an extended cooperation agreement with Babylon to provide it with online search |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentials%20of%20Programming%20Languages | Essentials of Programming Languages (EOPL) is a textbook on programming languages by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes.
EOPL surveys the principles of programming languages from an operational perspective. It starts with an interpreter in Scheme for a simple functional core language similar to the lambda calculus and then systematically adds constructs. For each addition, for example, variable assignment or thread-like control, the book illustrates an increase in expressive power of the programming language and a demand for new constructs for the formulation of a direct interpreter. The book also demonstrates that systematic transformations, say, store-passing style or continuation-passing style, can eliminate certain constructs from the language in which the interpreter is formulated.
The second part of the book is dedicated to a systematic translation of the interpreter(s) into register machines. The transformations show how to eliminate higher-order closures; continuation objects; recursive function calls; and more. At the end, the reader is left with an "interpreter" that uses nothing but tail-recursive function calls and assignment statements plus conditionals. It becomes trivial to translate this code into a C program or even an assembly program. As a bonus, the book shows how to pre-compute certain pieces of "meaning" and how to generate a representation of these pre-computations. Since this is the essence of compilation, the book also prepares the reader for a course on the principles of compilation and language translation, a related but distinct topic. Apart from the text explaining the key concepts, the book also comprises a series of exercises, enabling the readers to explore alternative designs and other issues.
Like SICP, EOPL represents a significant departure from the prevailing textbook approach in the 1980s. At the time, a book on the principles of programming languages presented four to six (or even more) programming languages and discussed their programming idioms and their implementation at a high level. The most successful books typically covered ALGOL 60 (and the so-called Algol family of programming languages), SNOBOL, Lisp, and Prolog. Even today, a fair number of textbooks on programming languages are just such surveys, though their scope has narrowed.
EOPL was started in 1983, when Indiana was one of the leading departments in programming languages research. Eugene Kohlbecker, one of Friedman's PhD students, transcribed and collected his "311 lectures". Other faculty members, including Mitch Wand and Christopher Haynes, started contributing and turned "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Meta-Universe"—as Kohlbecker had called it—into the systematic, interpreter and transformation-based survey that it is now. Over the 25 years of its existence, the book has become a near-classic; it is now in its third edition, including additional topics such as types and modules. Its first part now incorporate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisphere%20Networks | Unisphere Networks (formally Unisphere Solutions) was a Westford, Massachusetts-based networking equipment manufacturer and subsidiary of German corporation Siemens AG. Formed in 1998 at a cost of roughly US$1 billion, Unisphere was later sold to Juniper Networks in May 2002 for between $585 million and $740 million, as $375 million in cash and 36.5 million shares of Juniper stock.
Long known for their expertise in the circuit-switched realm of public-switched telephone networks (or PSTNs), Siemens embarked on a market strategy that held, as a primary goal, entry into the North American packet-switched market arena. Unisphere Solutions (changed to Unisphere Networks in late 2000) was an essential element of this strategy as it leveraged existing technology in, at the time, three critical and growing areas of the Internet: edge-networking/BRAS, voice mediation, and core routing.
Following the acquisition of Redstone Communications, CEO and founder James Dolce, joined the Unisphere management team and for a time reported to then Unisphere CEO Martin C. Clague. Dolce replaced Clague in January 2000 when the former was appointed as Unisphere's president and CEO.
Companies/groups that composed Unisphere
Acquisitions
The following acquisitions made up the majority of Unisphere and were distinct BUs within the new company:
Redstone Communications — Specialized in edge-routing and BRAS technology. Their flagship product, the ERX-series (later Juniper's E-series of routers, now EOL), competed against Cisco's 10000 and 7500 series routers as well as the Redback's SMS platform. The ERX was the main compelling reason why Juniper acquired Unisphere in 2002.
Argon Networks — Specialized in core-routing technology meant to compete with Cisco's GSR and Juniper's M and T-series core routers. The Argon product never made it out of R&D and the project was cancelled following the Juniper acquisition.
Castle Networks — Specialized in voice-mediation. The Castle Networks trunking gateway was widely deployed in internet offload applications as well as an intelligent gateway. Castle was absorbed by Siemens in May 2002.
Internal Siemens divisions
Two groups within Siemens Information Communication Networks were added to the above acquisitions to complete Unisphere Networks:
Internet Solutions Business Unit based in Boca Raton, FL, whose softswitch design was based upon Siemens' Reliable Telco Platform (RTP). This application allowed the softswitch to be installed on a cluster of Sun Solaris-based servers with the goal being to add the resiliency required to achieve carrier-class "five-9s" reliability. Despite being fairly successful and deployed by a number of US-based carriers, voice mediation was never Juniper's core competency and this technology was sold back to Siemens in June 2002.
The Siemens Telecom Innovation Centre based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada which produced the SDX-3000 service and policy management products. Under Juniper, the S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Air%20%28China%29 | West Airlines Co. Ltd. (), operating as West Air, is a low-cost airline based in New North Zone, Chongqing, China, operating a scheduled passenger network to domestic and international destinations out of its hub, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport. The company was established in March 2006 by its parent company Hainan Airlines, with the launch of scheduled services on 14 July 2010. The airline is one of the four founding members of the U-FLY Alliance.
On 4 February 2016, West Air launched its inaugural international flight between Chongqing and Singapore.
Destinations
West Air serves 36 destinations, with South Korea and Myanmar the only two markets outside of China.
Fleet
Current fleet
, the West Air fleet consists of only Airbus aircraft:
Fleet History
West Air has previously operated the following aircraft:
5 Boeing 737-300
Loyalty programs
The Fortune Wings Club is the loyalty program for West Air and its sister airlines, including Capital Airlines, Tianjin Airlines, Grand China Air, Grand China Express, Hainan Airlines, Hong Kong Airlines, Hong Kong Express and Lucky Air. Membership benefits include air ticket redemption and upgrade; VIP members have additional privileges of dedicated First or Business Class check in counters, lounge access, bonus mileage and extra baggage allowance.
See also
List of airlines of China
References
External links
Hainan Airlines
Airlines established in 2007
Airlines of China
Low-cost carriers
Companies based in Chongqing
HNA Group
Chinese brands
U-FLY Alliance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeos | Adeos may refer to:
Computer
Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems, a hardware abstraction layer
Space
ADEOS I, a Japanese satellite launched in 1996
ADEOS II, a Japanese satellite launched in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmiKit | AmiKit is a compilation of 425 pre-installed and pre-configured Amiga program (Amiga software built for Motorola 68k CPU) running on Windows, macOS, Linux computer, and on Amiga computer with Vampire V2 card.
Features
Key features of the software include:
Besides original Workbench, AmiKit offers Directory Opus Magellan and Scalos as desktop replacements
Includes 425 pre-installed and pre-configured Amiga programs (Tools, Utilities, Games and Demos) freely available from Aminet and other sources
"Rabbit Hole" feature allows to launch Windows, Mac or Linux applications directly from Amiga desktop
Supports HD Ready (720p) and FullHD (1080p) resolutions in 32-bit screen modes
Features TrueType fonts, DualPNG icons (by Ken Lester) and 24-bit visual themes (including Dark Mode, Modern Retro, etc.)
Dropbox support
Requirements
AmiKit requires Windows 7 (or better) or macOS (10.9 or newer) or Linux (x86/64 able to run PlayOnLinux) or Raspberry Pi or Vampire v2 turbo card (for classic Amiga).
For AmiKit to work, the original AmigaOS (version 3.x) and Kickstart ROM (version 3.1) are required. The following sources are supported:
AmigaOS XL CD or ISO
AmigaOS 3.9 CD or ISO (also available in Amiga Forever from Cloanto, including required Kickstart ROM)
AmigaOS 3.5 CD or ISO
AmigaOS 3.1 available on AmigaOS4.1 FE CD or ISO from Hyperion Entertainment (also includes required Kickstart ROM)
AmigaOS 3.1.4 ZIP from Hyperion Entertainment (also includes required Kickstart ROM)
AmigaOS 3.2 from Hyperion Entertainment (AmiKit for Vampire only)
See also
Amiga
AmigaOS
UAE (emulator)
Emulator
References
External links
Amiga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex%20de%20Haan | Lex de Haan (11 August 1954 – 1 February 2006) was an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database technology.
Biography
Lex was a teacher of Mathematics/Informatics in secondary school level during the years between 1976 and 1985.
Between 1985 and 1989 Lex was employed for one year in the research department of a Dutch independent system vendor - Minihouse/Multihouse - and then moved to the education department, where he developed and delivered courses in the following areas: relational databases and SQL, Oracle system development, and database administration (Oracle versions 4/5/6), Unix for system users and Unix system administration, VAX/VMS for system users and VAX/VMS system administration, and teaching skills workshops. Lex de Haan was also responsible for hiring and mentoring new instructors.
Between 1988 and 1990 Lex developed his own courseware as an independent contractor in "De Haan Consultancy", advised organizations about education needs, and delivered classes. Some important customers: the Dutch Ministry of Health and Culture, and the Dutch Government Education Institute (ROI). He also worked on a regular basis with Frans Remmen (a Dutch RDBMS and SQL guru at that time) as a senior consultant, courseware developer, and instructor for PAO courses (a well-known Dutch post-academic education organization).
In 1999 Lex de Haan joined the Dutch national body of the ISO standardization committee for the SQL Language to work on the SQL:1999 and SQL:2003 standards.
In 2002 Lex was involved in The OakTable Network of Oracle experts from the very beginning. See http://www.oaktable.net.
In March 2004 Lex was independent again, after 14 years of employment by Oracle. Lex taught seminars and courses as Natural Join B.V. (data server internals, Oracle Database 10g new features, and SQL) in Belgium, France, Denmark, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain.
Another year with a lot of teaching and traveling, just like 2004. Lex de Haan also delivered some well-received presentations during the Hotsos Symposium in Dallas (Texas) and the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham. Lex de Haan also started writing a new book, together with Toon Koppelaars, with the exciting tentative title "Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals" to appear mid-2006. Last, but not least, he started organizing his own seminar events.
In February 2005 Lex de Haan invited Tom Kyte (from the US) to come over to The Netherlands to teach a three-day seminar in Utrecht. This first event became a great success.
In October 2005 he invited Steve Adams (Sydney, Australia) for a second seminar, which again was very successful.
A seminar series was born, and several events with Oracle gurus from all over the world were scheduled for 2006.
Books
Lex de Haan is the author of the following books:
Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus,
Leerboek Oracle SQL,
Applied Mathematics for Database P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duquesne%20Spy%20Ring | The Duquesne Spy Ring is the largest espionage case in the United States history that ended in convictions. A total of 33 members of a Nazi German espionage network headed by Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne were convicted after a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Of those indicted, 19 pleaded guilty. The remaining 14 were brought to jury trial in Federal District Court, Brooklyn, New York, on September 3, 1941; all were found guilty on December 13, 1941. On January 2, 1942, the group members were sentenced to serve a total of over 300 years in prison.
The agents who formed the Duquesne Ring were placed in key jobs in the United States to get information that could be used in the event of war and to carry out acts of sabotage: one opened a restaurant and used his position to get information from his customers; another worked on an airline so that he could report Allied ships that were crossing the Atlantic Ocean; others worked as delivery people as a cover for carrying secret messages.
William G. Sebold, who had been blackmailed into becoming a spy for Germany, became a double agent and helped the FBI gather evidence. For nearly two years, the FBI ran a shortwave radio station in New York for the ring. They learned what information Germany was sending its spies in the United States and controlled what was sent to Germany. Sebold's success as a counterespionage agent was demonstrated by the successful prosecution of the German agents.
One German spymaster later commented the ring's roundup delivered "the death blow" to their espionage efforts in the United States. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover called his concerted FBI swoop on Duquesne's ring the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history.
The 1945 film The House on 92nd Street was a thinly disguised version of the Duquesne Spy Ring saga of 1941.
FBI agents
William Sebold (double-agent)
After the Duquesne Spy Ring convictions, Sebold was provided with a new identity and started a chicken farm in California.
Impoverished and delusional, he was committed to Napa State Hospital in 1965. Diagnosed with manic-depression, he died there of a heart attack five years later at 70. His life story as a double agent was first told in the 1943 book Passport to Treason: The Inside Story of Spies in America by Alan Hynd.
James Ellsworth
Special Agent Jim Ellsworth was assigned as Sebold's handler or body man, responsible for shadowing his every move during the 16-month investigation.
William Gustav Friedemann
William Gustav Friedemann was a principal witness in the Duquesne case. He began working for the FBI as a fingerprint analyst in 1935 and later became an agent after identifying a crucial fingerprint in a kidnapping case.
After World War II, he was assigned to Puerto Rico, where he pinpointed the group behind the assassination attempt on President Harry Truman. Friedemann died of cancer on August 23, 1989, in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Convicted members of Duquesne Spy Ri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred%20K.%20Warmuth | Manfred Klaus Warmuth is a computer scientist known for his pioneering research in computational learning theory. He is a Distinguished Professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Education and career
After studying computer science at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, earning a diploma in 1978, Warmuth went to the University of Colorado Boulder for graduate study, earning a master's degree there in 1980 and completing his Ph.D. in 1981. His doctoral dissertation, Scheduling on Profiles of Constant Breadth, was supervised by Harold N. Gabow.
After postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Warmuth joined the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1983, became Distinguished Professor there in 2017, and retired as a professor emeritus in 2018. He was a visiting faculty member at Google Brain from 2019 to 2020.
Contributions
With his student Nick Littlestone, Warmuth published the weighted majority algorithm for combining the results for multiple predictors in 1989.
Warmuth was also the coauthor of an influential 1989 paper in the Journal of the ACM, with Anselm Blumer, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, David Haussler, introducing the Vapnik–Chervonenkis dimension to computational learning theory. With the same authors, he also introduced Occam learning in 1987.
Recognition
In 2021, Warmuth became a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
21st-century German scientists
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
German computer scientists
Expatriate academics in the United States
Google employees
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Waters%20Presents%20Movies%20That%20Will%20Corrupt%20You | John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You is a film anthology series produced by the LGBT-interest network here! in 2006. Shot on location in the Baltimore, Maryland home of director John Waters, each film is introduced by him and includes closing comments as well.
Films showcased (in the series' premiere order)
Freeway
L.I.E.
Fuego
Baxter
The Fluffer
Clean, Shaven
Beefcake
Criminal Lovers
The Hours and Times, Sissy Boy Slap Party, Dottie Gets Spanked
Pink Narcissus
Who Killed Pasolini? (Pasolini, un delitto italiano)
Porn Theatre (The Pussy With Two Heads)
Irréversible
References
External links
Official site
Here TV original programming
2000s American anthology television series
Lists of LGBT-related films
American motion picture television series
2006 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
2000s American LGBT-related television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up%20TV | UP TV (stylized as UPtv; formerly GMC TV and originally Gospel Music Channel) is an American basic cable television network that was founded to have a focus on gospel music. It has expanded into family-friendly original movies, series, and specials. Up TV is owned by InterMedia Partners. The name and logo are a reference to Uplifting Entertainment, one of the channel's content providers.
As of February 2015, the channel is available to approximately 67.6 million pay television households (58.1% of households with television) in the United States.
History
The Gospel Music Channel was founded in 2004 by Charles Humbard, the son of televangelist Rex Humbard. It was devoted to gospel music. With Brad Siegel, former president of Turner Broadcasting's Turner Entertainment Networks, as vice chairman, Humbard launched GMC on October 30, 2004. Gospel Music Channel programmed gospel/Christian music, featuring diverse styles, including traditional and contemporary gospel, Christian rock and pop, southern gospel, and Christian metal. Each weeknight, the network's lineup featured a different genre of music.
In addition to music video blocks, the network began to produce original shows, such as Faith and Fame (artist biographies), Front Row Live (concerts), and America Sings (singing competition). The network aired Gospel and Christian music industry award shows, including The Stellar Awards (urban gospel) and The GMA Dove Awards.
The network was re-branded on June 1, 2013 (the re-branding had been scheduled to occur on September 1, 2013).
Programming
In the transition before the name-change, in 2010, the channel began carrying popular syndicated series such as Cosby, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and The Waltons, along with Judging Amy. The channel also has aired films such as The Secret Garden, The Trial, and Pay It Forward, as well as Christian movies such as Facing the Giants, The Perfect Summer, and Fireproof. On Christmas Eve and Day, the network airs a Yule Log loop with holiday songs from Contemporary Christian artists. Similar to competing family networks such as INSP and Hallmark Channel, UPtv now programs multiple weeks of family-friendly Christmas movies through the holidays in December. Easter movies also populate the programming schedule through April.
The channel continues to air popular syndicated series such as Gilmore Girls, America's Funniest Home Videos, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and Home Improvement. On December 3, 2014, Up announced its first original scripted series Ties That Bind, which was canceled after its first season. Ties That Bind starred Kelli Williams, Jonathan Scarfe, Dion Johnstone, Matreya Scarrwene, Rhys Matthew Bond, Natasha Calis, Mitchell Kummen and guest stars Luke Perry and Jason Priestley. Other original series include Bringing Up Bates and the Canadian import Heartland. UPtv original movies include Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio (starring Kelly McGillis), The Town That Came A-Courtin' (starring Valerie Harp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20George%20Carlin%20Show | The George Carlin Show is an American sitcom that aired Sunday at 9:30 pm on the Fox network from January 1994 to July 1995. It was created by Sam Simon, who executive produced the show jointly with the show's namesake, comedian George Carlin. On the show, Carlin played a New York City taxicab driver.
Synopsis
The action was centered on George O'Grady (George Carlin), a taxicab driver living in New York City. Most of the scenes took place in The Moylan Tavern, owned and run by bartender Jack Donahue (Anthony Starke), who had inherited the establishment from his father. The setting's real-life basis was the actual, now-defunct Moylan Tavern, a bar that existed during Carlin's childhood on Broadway between La Salle Street and Tiemann Place in the Morningside Heights neighborhood, and owned by the grandparents of film critic and author Maitland McDonagh. As Carlin recalled in 1994, "It was where I saw Oswald shot. It was where I headed during the [1965] blackout. The Moylan is where I came of age." The name of the show's bartender character, Jack Donahue, was taken from that of real-life owner Jimmy Donahue, who bought the bar from the original owners. The set itself, however, resembled another upper-Broadway bar, Carlin said: "Cannon's—where my father used to drink."
Cast
Main
George Carlin as George O'Grady, a New York city cabdriver and regular patron of The Moylan Tavern
Alex Rocco as Harry Rossetti, George's best friend, an ex-con bookie
Paige French as Sydney Paris, waitress at The Moylan, and aspiring model/actress
Anthony Starke as Jack Donahue, bartender/owner of The Moylan
Christopher Rich as Dr. Neil Beck, a plastic surgeon who is quite unlike the blue-collar Moylan regulars
Mike Hagerty as Frank MacNamara, a working-class Moylan's regular
Recurring
The following characters appeared in at least 5 episodes:
Susan Sullivan as Kathleen Rachowski, a pet-shop owner and George's girlfriend
Phil LaMarr as Bob Brown, a friend of George's during season 1
Matt Landers as Larry Pinkerton, an ex-cop who lives in George's building and hangs out with George at The Moylan
Iqbal Theba as Inzamamulhaq Siddiqui, a fellow cabdriver of George's
Note that while Sullivan appeared in publicity cast photos, she appeared in only 7 episodes, receiving "Special Guest Star" billing in the closing credits.
Episodes
Season 1 (1994)
Season 2 (1994–95)
George Carlin's criticism
Carlin noted on his website:
He later elaborated in his posthumously published autobiography Last Words:
He went on to speak in the book of not enjoying the committee-style writer's room, which he felt alienated anyone who was not a professional television writer.
Simon in 2013 addressed Carlin's comments, saying:
Reception
The show received an approval rating of 88% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on eight reviews.
Todd Everett of Variety, gave the show a positive review, saying: "The Moylan Tavern -- and Carlin's aging hipster character translates well to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSK | OSK or Osk may refer to:
Ósk, an Icelandic feminine given name
OS-K group, a candidate phylum of bacteria from Octopus spring, Yellowstone National Park
On-screen keyboard, a computer user interface device
Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste, a Congolese orchestra
ÖSK, Örebro SK, a Swedish professional football and bandy club
Ortaköy Spor Kulübü, a Turkish sports club
Osaka Shosen Kaisha, a former Japanese shipping company
Ōsaki Station, JR East station code
OSK Holdings Berhad, a Malaysian financial services company
Oslo SK, a Norwegian sports club |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Master%20Genealogist | The Master Genealogist (TMG) is genealogy software originally created by Bob Velke for Microsoft DOS in 1993, with a version for Microsoft Windows released in 1996. Data entry was customized through the use of user-defined events, names, and relationship types. Official support for TMG ceased at the end of 2014. Informal support continues through a number of online user groups.
Features
Designed for both normal users and genealogy professionals
Flexibly displays information
Has elaborate database-oriented support for source and citation information
Supports the inclusion of media files
Supports DNA information
Allows the user to record conflicting evidence
Allows a "Surety" of a given piece of evidence to be recorded
Supports elaborate chart-making
Supports smart importing of genealogy files. Its GenBridge recognizes many common genealogy data format files from other programs and imports genealogical data directly into TMG. This minimizes the loss of data when transferred from other software and avoids some of the problems caused by transferring files through the limited but universal GEDCOM format.
Source types
The default source types in the standard edition are based on Wholly Genes' interpretation of Elizabeth Shown Mills's Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian. Source templates based upon Wholly Genes' interpretation of the source types in Richard S. Lackey's Cite Your Sources are also provided. The source templates in the UK edition are based on designs by Caroline Gurney for sources commonly encountered in the United Kingdom.
Platforms
From version 2 onwards TMG was designed to run on the Windows platform but can be run on Macintosh and Linux machines using a Windows emulator.
Limitations
TMG did not support Unicode, which limits data entry to the Western European (Latin) character set.
Before TMG version 8, reports generated on computers with 64-bit operating systems (only) were limited to "txt", HTML and PDF output, although popular word processor reporting formats were supported on 32-bit platforms. The print routine was rewritten for the current version (v 9.05) of the program eliminating this restriction.
Some users have complained about the limitations in the program's multilingual support in narratives. This issue is focused on personal pronoun and other individual word replacement resulting in output that may have minor grammatical errors.
TMG version history
Please press show for more information on past versions.
Migration from TMG
GEDCOM
TMG has elaborate and detailed support for sources in a database format where a source can be referred to by any other record. In the GEDCOM database specification, sources can be attached to any number of individuals or multiple families, by attaching to any number of facts for that individual or family. Exporting a TMG database involves duplicating the sources into each place where a given source is used. All of the information is exported, but th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20retrieval | Phase retrieval is the process of algorithmically finding solutions to the phase problem. Given a complex signal , of amplitude , and phase :
where x is an M-dimensional spatial coordinate and k is an M-dimensional spatial frequency coordinate. Phase retrieval consists of finding the phase that satisfies a set of constraints for a measured amplitude. Important applications of phase retrieval include X-ray crystallography, transmission electron microscopy and coherent diffractive imaging, for which . Uniqueness theorems for both 1-D and 2-D cases of the phase retrieval problem, including the phaseless 1-D inverse scattering problem, were proven by Klibanov and his collaborators (see References).
Problem formulation
Here we consider 1-D discrete Fourier transform (DFT) phase retrieval problem. The DFT of a complex signal is given by
,
and the oversampled DFT of is given by
,
where .
Since the DFT operator is bijective, this is equivalent to recovering the phase . It is common recovering a signal from its autocorrelation sequence instead of its Fourier magnitude. That is, denote by the vector after padding with zeros. The autocorrelation sequence of is then defined as
,
and the DFT of , denoted by , satisfies .
Methods
Error reduction algorithm
The error reduction is a generalization of the Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm. It solves for from measurements of by iterating a four-step process. For the th iteration the steps are as follows:
Step (1): , , and are estimates of, respectively, , and . In the first step we calculate the Fourier transform of :
Step (2): The experimental value of , calculated from the diffraction pattern via the signal equation, is then substituted for , giving an estimate of the Fourier transform:
where the ' denotes an intermediate result that will be discarded later on.
Step (3): the estimate of the Fourier transform is then inverse Fourier transformed:
Step (4): then must be changed so that the new estimate of the object, , satisfies the object constraints. is therefore defined piecewise as:
where is the domain in which does not satisfy the object constraints. A new estimate is obtained and the four step process is repeated.
This process is continued until both the Fourier constraint and object constraint are satisfied. Theoretically, the process will always lead to a convergence, but the large number of iterations needed to produce a satisfactory image (generally >2000) results in the error-reduction algorithm by itself being unsuitable for practical applications.
Hybrid input-output algorithm
The hybrid input-output algorithm is a modification of the error-reduction algorithm - the first three stages are identical. However, no longer acts as an estimate of , but the input function corresponding to the output function , which is an estimate of . In the fourth step, when the function violates the object constraints, the value of is forced towards zero, but optimally not to zero. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakenheath%20Fen%20RSPB%20reserve | Lakenheath Fen RSPB reserve is located on the Norfolk/Suffolk border in England, between Lakenheath and Hockwold cum Wilton adjacent to Lakenheath railway station. This reserve forms part of a network of Fenland nature reserves close by, which include Wicken Fen, Chippenham Fen and Woodwalton Fen.
History
Until 1995, when purchased by the RSPB, the land now forming the reserve was heavily farmed arable land. Since then, the site has been turned back into the reed beds and grazing marshes that would once have been common in the area. To achieve this, over 2 km of ditches were re-shaped with shallow sloping sides so as to encourage reed growth and to provide feeding areas. This was primarily to attract Eurasian bitterns to breed at the reserve, which were close to extinction in the UK at the time. A number of sluices were installed to enable water levels to be controlled. In addition to the existing ditches, over 4 km of water channels were dug to re-circulate water around the site.
Fauna
Despite being created fairly recently, Lakenheath Fen is a haven for wildlife, and the number of birds seen at the reserve has increased significantly. The number of Eurasian reed warblers rose from four pairs in 1995 to 355 pairs in 2002. Reed buntings have increased from 6 to 87 pairs during the same period. Two pairs of western marsh harriers nested for the first time in newly created reed in 2002. Great crested grebes and little grebes are breeding on the meres, and water rails have nested in the new reeds. Bearded tits have stayed on the reserve throughout the winter, as have bitterns, along with a whooper swan roost. Common cranes have been found to be breeding at the fen for what is believed to be the first time in 400 years.Bewick's swan, short-eared owl, merlin and hen harrier have also been known to appear at Lakenheath Fen.
RSPB Lakenheath Fen is home to a significant proportion of Great Britain's sightings of the Eurasian golden oriole. Though not resident, Eurasian golden orioles are recorded as summer passage migrants in Great Britain, and occur in small numbers on the South Coast of England and in East Anglia, with an average of 85 birds recorded annually. Eurasian golden orioles favour RSPB Lakenheath Fen and the surrounding Fenland in East Anglia due to the large number of poplar plantations.
In summer, there is a wide variety of butterflies, dragonflies and moths.
References
External links
RSPB Lakenheath Fen page
The Bittern project
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reserves in England
Nature reserves in Norfolk
Nature reserves in Suffolk
Protected areas established in 1995
Fens of England
Lakenheath |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20%28disambiguation%29 | Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime.
Security may also refer to:
Airport security
Computer security
Energy security
Security (electrical grid), a real-time component of reliability
Food security
Security of person, a human right as defined by the United Nations
Information security
Juridical security, also called legal security
Military security
National security
Physical security
Social security
Finance
Economic security
Security (finance), a financial instrument
Security interest in a financial transaction (in law and business)
Music
Security (album), the U.S./Canada title for the self-titled 1982 studio album by Peter Gabriel
"Security", a 1988 song by The Beat Club
"Security", a 2006 cover by the Freestylers from the album Adventures in Freestyle
"Security", a song by Etta James off her album Tell Mama
"Security", a song by Stacie Orrico from her eponymous album
"Security", a song by Royce da 5'9" from his studio album Success Is Certain
Other uses
Security (2017 film), an American action film
Security (2021 film), an Italian thriller film
"Security" (The Unit), a television episode
ST Security, a British tugboat
Security, Colorado, a census-designated place in the United States
See also
Security convergence
Securitas (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake%21 | Shake! (formerly NGA, The Core, and Milkshake FM) was a television programming block shown by United Kingdom broadcaster Channel 5, airing animated and live-action programmes aimed at children and teenagers aged 6-15.
History
Before the introduction of the name The Core in 2000, the unbranded 'youth' strand was launched back in 1997, presented by Kate McIntyre in vision. Nick Wilson, Channel 5 programme controller for children's and religious programming, said it was a deliberate decision not to give the strand a name, like Channel 4's T4. He said "Once you get past 13, the last thing you want is to be put into your own zone or slot." The strand had its own on-air look from The Design Clinic, which included six new cartoon characters described as "a cross between South Park and the Mr. Men" that will unexpectedly bounce around on McIntyre during the continuity breaks. Programmes were scheduled between 11 am and 12 noon on Saturday, 4.30 pm and 6 pm on Saturday and 11 am to 1 pm on Sunday.
The block originally ran between 2000 and 2007 under various names, and was launched as a new umbrella branding for older kids and teen programs on Channel 5 following the earlier demise in 1999 of the Josie D'Arby-hosted weekend afternoon teen series The Mag.
The block launched in 2000 as The Core, broadcasting on Saturday afternoons. A number of originally commissioned programs were created for the block, such as Harry and Cosh and Atlantis High, a number of imported teens shows were also used.
During Channel 5's major network relaunch of 2002, The Core was renamed to Milkshake! FM in January 2002, taking its name from the established Channel 5 preschool-age slot Milkshake!. This block aired in the mid-morning from 9 am to noon on Saturdays and Sundays, while a number of programs aired during The Core continued to be broadcast during Saturday afternoons. In September 2002, it was rebranded again as two separate blocks, Shake! and Milkshake! Toons. Milkshake! Toons aired in the afternoon from noon to 5 pm.
The block was removed in May 2007, and teen programs aired on Saturday morning not under a block of any sort on Channel 5.
Presenters
Presenters have included:
Kate McIntyre (1997–2002)
Marc Crumpton (2001–2002)
Dave Payne (2005–2007)
Jen Pringle (2009–2010)
Kemi Majeks (2002-2005)
Programming
Former programmes
The Adventures of Sinbad
The Adventures of Tintin
Atlantis High
Audrey and Friends
Beast Wars: Transformers
Beyblade
Beyblade V-Force
Braceface
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
Daria
Deepwater Black
Don't Blame the Koalas
Duel Masters
Fat Dog Mendoza
Gadget & the Gadgetinis
George Shrinks
Gerald McBoing-Boing
Hannah Montana
Harry and Cosh
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
iCarly
Kaput and Zösky
Max Steel
Pepsi Chart
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Popular
Singled Out
Snobs
Strange Dawn
TooMuchTV
The Tribe
True Jackson VP
USA High
Wizards of Waverly Place
Xcalibur
Xena: Warrior Princess
Zentrix
2009 revival
In S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20energy%20perturbation | Free energy perturbation (FEP) is a method based on statistical mechanics that is used in computational chemistry for computing free energy differences from molecular dynamics or Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations.
The FEP method was introduced by Robert W. Zwanzig in 1954. According to the free-energy perturbation method, the free energy difference for going from state A to state B is obtained from the following equation, known as the Zwanzig equation:
where T is the temperature, kB is Boltzmann's constant, and the angular brackets denote an average over a simulation run for state A. In practice, one
runs a normal simulation for state A, but each time a
new configuration is accepted, the energy for state B is also computed. The difference
between states A and B may be in the atom types involved, in which case the ΔF
obtained is for "mutating" one molecule onto another, or it may be a difference of
geometry, in which case one obtains a free energy map along one or more reaction coordinates.
This free energy map is also known as a potential of mean force or PMF.
Free energy perturbation calculations only converge properly when the difference
between the two states is small enough; therefore it is usually necessary to divide a
perturbation into a series of smaller "windows", which are computed independently.
Since there is no need for constant communication between the simulation for one
window and the next, the process can be trivially parallelized by running each window on
a different CPU, in what is known as an "embarrassingly parallel" setup.
Application
FEP calculations have been used for studying host–guest binding energetics,
pKa predictions, solvent effects on reactions, and enzymatic reactions. Other applications are the virtual screening of ligands in drug discovery, as well as for in silico mutagenesis studies. For the
study of reactions it is often necessary to involve a quantum-mechanical (QM) representation of
the reaction center because the molecular mechanics (MM) force fields used for FEP simulations cannot handle
breaking bonds. A hybrid method that has the advantages of both QM and MM
calculations is called QM/MM.
Umbrella sampling is another free-energy calculation technique that is typically used for calculating the free-energy change associated with a change in "position" coordinates as opposed to "chemical" coordinates, although umbrella sampling can also be used for a chemical transformation when the "chemical" coordinate is treated as a dynamic variable (as in the case of the Lambda dynamics approach of Kong and Brooks).
An alternative to free energy perturbation for computing potentials of mean force in chemical space is thermodynamic integration. Another alternative, which is probably more efficient, is the Bennett acceptance ratio method. Adaptations to FEP exist which attempt to apportion free energy changes to subsections of the chemical structure.
Software
Several software packages have been developed to help |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannover%20Medical%20School | The Hannover Medical School ( abbreviated MHH in German), founded in 1965, is a university medical centre in the city of Hanover, in Germany, part of a regional medical network.
History
In June 1961, the National Science Council (WR) recommended that seven new academies of medicine be established in the Federal Republic of Germany so that the number of students of medicine would increase by 7,000. Within the month, the parliament of Lower Saxony approved plans to establish a state medical university here.
A committee to found a medical academy of Hanover met for the first time in December 1961. By February 1962, it was decided that this academy would be located in the city of Hanover. On April 1, 1963, the government of Lower Saxony issued an order to establish the Medical Academy of Hanover, which would become the MHH.
In 1965, after less than four years of planning, the structure of the medical school had been decided on and construction plans were complete. On May 17, 1965, a celebration marking the founding of the MHH was held at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. The founding rector of the MHH was the internist, Professor Rudolf Schoen of the University of Göttingen. He was succeeded by the first elected rector, Professor Fritz Hartmann, who played a decisive role in both the concept and physical form of the MHH. The MHH was realised as a university campus on grounds in Roderbruch. The close proximity of the clinics and institutes guarantees intense integration of patient care, research and teaching.
The first classes were held in the summer semester of 1965, in the . The student-teacher ratio was ideal, with 12 teachers and 41 students, but this did not remain so for long. Within ten years, the number of students rose to about 1,000, and after only 20 years, to 3,000. With the addition of new departments, the original number of 12 professors increased to about 140. Only 12 years after the MHH was founded, 80 per cent of the planned departments and clinics had been realised.
As the MHH is both an academic and a clinical institution, the following watchword was chosen to express its commitment to its ideals and goals:
International
PhD students and scientists from all over the world are involved in a variety of research projects at the MHH and partner institutes. These activities are bundled in Hannover Biomedical Research School (HBRS).
See also
University of Hanover
Notes
References
External links
Official website of the Hannover Medical School
Official website of the Hannover Medical School
Universities and colleges in Lower Saxony
Educational institutions established in 1965
1965 establishments in West Germany
Hannover
Buildings and structures in Hanover |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Heath%20%28entomologist%29 | John Heath (18 January 1922 – 6 July 1987) FRES was an English entomologist, specialising in lepidoptera. He helped to established data banks as a tool for conservation policy, both at a national and local level; was chief editor of The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland; and helped to develop the Heath Trap, a portable moth light used for recording moths at light.
Personal life
Born in Worcester on 18 January 1922, his father Frederick Heath had been an officer in the Indian Army, who had taken a teaching job in Southampton and became the head of an elementary school in Winchester. John attended King Edward VI School, Southampton. His interest in entomology developed as a youth spent in and around the Hamble estuary, Hampshire. An intention to go to Cambridge to study electronics did not happen because of army service during the Second World War. While employed by the Nature Conservancy at Merlewood he married Joan Broomfield in 1955; their son Nigel was born a year later. John was survived by his son, Nigel and grandson, Sam.
Career
Following service in the army during the war, Heath was employed by the Biological Research Department of Pest Control, near Cambridge from 1947 – 1952. In 1953 Heath joined the Nature Conservancy and was based at the Merlewood Research Station in Cumbria (at that time part of Lancashire). In 1967 Heath moved to Monkswood Experimental Research Station where he worked until his retirement in 1982 where he was head of the Biological Records Centre.
Heath described the now eponymous portable trap in 1965.
A founder member and vice-president of the Society of European Lepidopterology, Heath was particularly interested in the Micropterigidae and bequeathed his specimen collection to the Natural History Museum, London. John Heath was chief editor of the Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland series, published by Harley Books.
References
External links
Obituary
Autobibliography
1922 births
1987 deaths
English lepidopterists
Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society
People educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton
20th-century British zoologists
British Army personnel of World War II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20card%20application%20protocol%20data%20unit | In the context of smart cards, an application protocol data unit (APDU) is the communication unit between a smart card reader and a smart card. The structure of the APDU is defined by ISO/IEC 7816-4 Organization, security and commands for interchange.
APDU message command-response pair
There are two categories of APDUs: command APDUs and response APDUs. A command APDU is sent by the reader to the card – it contains a mandatory 4-byte header (CLA, INS, P1, P2) and from 0 to 65 535 bytes of data. A response APDU is sent by the card to the reader – it contains from 0 to 65 536 bytes of data, and 2 mandatory status bytes (SW1, SW2).
References, this is the
External links
Smartcard ISOs, contents
Selected list of smartcard APDU commands
Selected list of SW1 SW2 Status bytes
More information about APDU commands and APDU responses
Smart cards
ISO standards
IEC standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich%27s%20Periodicals%20Directory | Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (, and ) is the standard library directory and database providing information about popular and academic magazines, scientific journals, newspapers and other serial publications.
The print version has been published since 1932, and was founded by Carolyn F. Ulrich, chief of the periodicals division of the New York Public Library as Periodicals Directory: A Classified Guide to a Selected List of Current Periodicals Foreign and Domestic.
It is now also supplied on-line as Ulrichsweb, which provides web-based and Z39.50 linking to library catalogs. The online version includes over 300,000 active and current periodicals.
Coverage is international, with some emphasis on English-language publications. The information is derived from the publishers and verified by the journal. It includes
ISSN
Title and previous titles
Starting date, place of publication, and publisher
Cost, availability of electronic versions, subscription terms, and approximate circulation as estimated by the publisher
Subject information, searchable as subject terms or approximate Dewey Classification, special features, and indexing information
Indications of whether the publication is available on open access
Indication of whether the publication is peer-reviewed, which is taken to include professional magazines with equivalent editorial control of quality.
Earlier published by R.R. Bowker, it moved to CSA, a fellow subsidiary of Cambridge Information Group, in 2006. Following the merger of CSA and ProQuest, Ulrich's moved to ProQuest subsidiary Serials Solutions. The "Serials Solutions" name was retired in 2014
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
References
External links
Ulrichs web Global Serials Directory (about Ulrichweb and FAQ)
Dialog Bluesheet for Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Bibliographic databases and indexes
ProQuest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20%28pattern%20matching%20language%29 | Tom is a programming language particularly well-suited for programming various transformations on tree structures and XML-based documents. Tom is a language extension which adds new matching primitives to C and Java as well as support for rewrite rules systems. The rules can be controlled using a strategy language.
Tom is good for:
programming by pattern matching
developing compilers and domain-specific languages (DSL)
transforming XML documents
implementing rule-based systems
describing algebraic transformations
References
External links
Tom language website
Tom gforge website
Tutorial and Reference Manual
Programming language implementation
Pattern matching
Pattern matching programming languages
Term-rewriting programming languages
Graph rewriting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechNet%20%28computer%20network%29 | TechNet Augusta was established in 1991 as a closed research and development computer network for academics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). It was set up by the National Science and Technology Board of Singapore (NSTB), providing Singapore's first Internet access service.
TechNet's international connectivity then was provided by a 128 kbit/s satellite link from JvNCnet.
In March 1995, the Pacific Internet Consortium (SembMedia, ST Computer Systems and SIM) bought TechNet, and commercialised its services in September 1995 when it launched Pacific Internet Corporation Pte Ltd.
References
Further reading
Wide area networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Sonata | The HTC Sonata is a smartphone model designed by HTC and powered by the Windows Mobile 2003 SE Smartphone Edition operating system. It has 2.2" 176x220px screen resolution. This phone was released in September 2004.
It is also known as Dopod 577W, QTek 8310, O2 Xda IQ, i-mate SP5 & SP5m, Vodafone V1240.
The HTC Sonata is also known as T-Mobile SDA released in Europe. It differs from the T-Mobile SDA II released by the T-Mobile USA which is a HTC Tornado.
References
Sonata
Windows Mobile Standard devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named%20data%20networking | Named Data Networking (NDN) (related to content-centric networking (CCN), content-based networking, data-oriented networking or information-centric networking (ICN)) is a proposed Future Internet architecture inspired by years of empirical research into network usage and a growing awareness of unsolved problems in contemporary internet architectures like IP. NDN has its roots in an earlier project, Content-Centric Networking (CCN), which Van Jacobson first publicly presented in 2006. The NDN project is investigating Jacobson's proposed evolution from today's host-centric network architecture IP to a data-centric network architecture (NDN). The belief is that this conceptually simple shift will have far-reaching implications for how people design, develop, deploy, and use networks and applications.
NDN has three core concepts that distinguish NDN from other network architectures. First, applications name data and data names will directly be used in network packet forwarding; consumer applications request desired data by its name, so communications in NDN are consumer-driven. Second, NDN communications are secured in a data-centric manner, that is, each piece of data (called a Data packet) will be cryptographically signed by its producer and sensitive payload or name components can also be encrypted for the purpose of privacy; in this way, consumers can verify the packet regardless of how the packet is fetched. Third, NDN adopts a stateful forwarding plane where forwarders will keep a state for each data request (called an Interest packet) and erase the state when a corresponding Data packet comes back; NDN's stateful forwarding allows intelligent forwarding strategies and eliminates loops.
Its premise is that the Internet is primarily used as an information distribution network, which is not a good match for IP, and that the future Internet's "thin waist" should be based on named data rather than numerically addressed hosts. The underlying principle is that a communication network should allow a user to focus on the data they need, named content, rather than having to reference a specific, physical location where that data is to be retrieved from, named hosts. The motivation for this is derived from the fact that the vast majority of current Internet usage (a "high 90% level of traffic") consists of data being disseminated from a source to a number of users. Named-data networking comes with potential for a wide range of benefits such as content caching to reduce congestion and improve delivery speed, simpler configuration of network devices, and building security into the network at the data level.
Overview
Today's Internet's hourglass architecture centers on a universal network layer, IP, which implements the minimal functionality necessary for global inter-connectivity. The contemporary Internet architecture revolves around a host-based conversation model, created in the 1970s to allow geographically distributed users to use a few big, immo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notice%20and%20notice | A "notice and notice" system is used by some internet service providers (ISPs) in relation to the uploading and downloading activities of a user of a peer-to-peer file sharing network, otherwise known as "P2P". It may occur when an ISP receives notification from a rights holder to a copyrighted work that one of its subscribers is allegedly hosting or sharing infringing material. The ISP may then be required to forward the notice to the subscriber, and to monitor that subscriber's activities for a period of time. The ISP is not required to reveal the subscriber's personal information, nor does the ISP take any further steps to ensure that the allegedly infringing material is removed.
It is used primarily in Canada, where copyright legislation permits the download of copyrighted material, but makes it illegal to upload the same material. This was legislated with bill C-60 in 2005.
In contrast with the Notice and Takedown system in American law, Notice and Notice attempts to protect both parties' interests. This helps to ensure that non-infringing material is not removed under the guise of copyright protection.
References
File sharing networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl%20alcohol%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on isopropanol.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as eChemPortal, and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of Iso-propyl Alcohol
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 44th ed.
Distillation data
See also
Tetrachloroethylene (data page)
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20Assets%20Database | The Routing Assets Database (RADb), formerly known as the Routing Arbiter Database is a public database in which the operators of Internet networks publish authoritative declarations of routing policy for their Autonomous System (AS) which are, in turn, used by the operators of other Internet networks to configure their inbound routing policy filters. The RADb, operated by the University of Michigan's Merit Network, was the first such database, but others followed in its wake, forming a loose confederation of Internet routing registries, containing sometimes-overlapping, and sometimes-conflicting, routing policy data, expressed in Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) syntax.
History
The RADb was developed in the early 1990s as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Routing Arbiter Project. The Routing Policy Specification Language was subsequently retroactively formalized in RFC 2280, in January, 1998.
Usage
Historically, most larger Internet service providers, and all within the European RIPE NCC region require customers to be registered in an Internet Routing Registry prior to propagating BGP announcements of their routes. This has not been a rigorously-enforced operational standard, however, and has declined since a peak in the early 2000s.
Security
The Internet Routing Registry system is an artifact of the 1990s era of the Internet, as the Internet's economy and governance were in transition from an academic mode to a commercial mode, and predate the era of ubiquitous cryptography. The RADb initially relied upon a trust model, in which write access to the database was not strictly controlled. A write-permissions access model was subsequently added, in which individuals or roles representing each Autonomous System had authority to write records related to that AS, including which IP address blocks it would originate routing advertisements for, and which other Autonomous Systems were allowed to advertise transit routing paths to it. The first generation of security allowed network operators to specify a MAIL-FROM attribute, requiring that updates be sent from a specific email address. Next, (B)CRYPT-PW / MD5-PW password hash authentication was added, and finally a PGP-KEY attribute was added, allowing users to cryptographically sign submitted edits. Subsequent work by the Regional Internet Registries created additional IRRs which strictly tied permission to advertise IP blocks to RIR allocation data. But since DNSSEC already existed and had been applied to the in-addr zone, no end-to-end cryptographic integrity mechanism was ever added to RPSL.
See also
Autonomous system (Internet)
Border Gateway Protocol
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Regional Internet registry
Routing
References
Internet Routing Registry (IRR) homepage
IRR FAQs
Routing Registry template
http://www.irrd.net/
IRR Toolset
External links
Internet architecture
Internet governance
Internet Standards
Internet databases |
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