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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy%20source | A greedy source is a traffic generator in a communication network that generates data at the maximum rate possible and at the earliest opportunity possible. Each source always has data to transmit, and is never in idle state due to congestion avoidance or other local host traffic shaping. One new data-packet is generated when the transmission of previous packet is completed, meaning that the sender side queue is never congested. A greedy session is a time-limited packet flow or data stream at maximum possible rate.
A greedy source traffic generation simulation model, or a greedy traffic generator, is useful when simulating and analysing or measuring the maximum throughput of a network.
See also
Best-effort delivery
Measuring network throughput
Teletraffic engineering
Traffic generation model
External links
Teletraffic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAC | REAC may refer to a number of different things:
REAC, the common abbreviation for the Reeves Electronic Analog Computer, a series of early computers produced by Reeves Instrument Corporation
Rákospalotai EAC, a Hungarian football club whose name is often abbreviated as REAC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Historia is a Canadian discretionary service owned by Corus Entertainment. The network broadcasts French-language programming related to history and historical fiction, and is a sister network to the English-language History; both channels operate as Canadian licensees of the U.S. network History.
History
Licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as Canal Histoire to Alliance Atlantis and Premier Choix Networks (Astral), the channel was launched on January 31, 2000, as Historia.
On January 18, 2008, a joint venture between Canwest and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners known as CW Media bought Alliance Atlantis and gained its interest in Historia. The new company also acquired Historia's English language equivalent, History Television (now History).
On October 27, 2010, Shaw Communications completed its acquisition of Canwest and Goldman Sachs' interest in CW Media, giving it control of CW Media's 50% interest in Historia.
On March 4, 2013, Corus Entertainment announced that it would acquire Astral Media's stakes in Séries+ and Historia, as well as several other properties, under separate transactions with the two companies. The purchase was tied to Bell Media's pending takeover of Astral Media; an earlier proposal had been rejected by the CRTC in October 2012 due to concerns surrounding its total market share following the merger, but was restructured under the condition that the companies divest certain media properties. In a separate deal, Corus also acquired Shaw's interests in Séries+ and Historia, giving it full ownership. The deals were approved by the CRTC on 20 December 2013 and Corus become the full owner of the channel on 1 January 2014.
On October 21, 2014, Corus reached an agreement with A&E Networks to acquire French-language rights to programming from History, the U.S. counterpart of Historia's English-language sister network. The network was relaunched under History's logo and branding on March 9, 2015, while maintaining the Historia name.
On October 17, 2017, Bell Media announced its intent to acquire Historia and Séries+ from Corus for $200 million, pending regulatory approval. Corus cited the two channels as not being part of the company's "strategic priorities" at this time; the deal came shortly after an announcement that Corus no longer planned to commission original programs for the two channels. On 28 May 2018, both transactions were blocked by the Competition Bureau, as a violation of conditions placed on Bell's acquisition of Astral Media, which barred it from re-acquiring any of the properties it divested in the merger for 10 years. As a result, Bell and Corus mutually agreed to shelve the sale.
High-definition feed
On October 30, 2006, Astral Media launched a high definition simulcast feed of Historia.
References
External links
Analog cable television networks in Canada
Corus Entertainment networks
Television channels and stations established in 2000
2000 establishme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20Area%20Network | The Vehicle Area Network (VAN) is a vehicle bus developed by PSA Peugeot Citroën and Renault. It is a serial protocol capable of speeds up to 125 kbit/s and is standardised in ISO 11519-3.
At the media layer, VAN is a differential bus with dominant and recessive states signalling ones and zeros much like CAN bus. The data is encoded using enhanced Manchester which sets it apart from almost every other line signalling protocol. This encodes blocks of 4 bits as 3 non-return-to-zero encoded bits followed by 1 Manchester encoded bit.
References
External links
http://graham.auld.me.uk/projects/vanbus/ More VAN bus information
Computer buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%3A%20Keep%20Bangin%27%20on%20the%20Walls | Live: Keep Bangin' on the Walls is an album by British band Asian Dub Foundation, released on 3 December 2003.
Track listing
"Cyberabad"
"Charge"
"Blowback"
"2 Face"
"Fortress Europe"
"Riddim I Like"
"New Way New Life"
"Rise to the Challenge"
"Assatta Dub"
"Enemy of the Enemy"
"La Haine"
"Naxalite"
"Free Satpal Ram"
"Dhol Rinse"
"Rebel Warrior"
References
Asian Dub Foundation albums
2003 live albums
2003 video albums
Live video albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC%20poker | IRC poker was a form of poker played over the IRC chat protocol before the surge in popularity of online poker in the early 2000s. A computer program was used to deal and manage the games. Commands could be typed in directly with a standard IRC client but point-and-click graphical clients were soon developed. The ability to message the dealer program directly before one's turn to act made games flow more quickly than face to face games.
IRC poker was played with imaginary money, but attracted a devoted following of experts. World Series of Poker champion Chris Ferguson got his start playing IRC poker.
IRC poker offered limit Texas hold 'em, limit Omaha hold 'em (Hi-Lo), no-limit Texas hold 'em, and tournaments. Each account was limited to "buying" 1000 chips per day, but there were no restrictions on creating new accounts so some players created multiple accounts and "harvested" the chips in fake games.
Players in no-limit automatically bought in for the full value of their account; the most successful accumulated over one million chips and joked about selling their accounts.
Tournaments often started with the theoretical maximum of 23 players at one table and could be completed in less than an hour.
A poker playing program, r00lbot, was able to maintain a winning record, and provided amusing quotes as well.
Notes
Poker variants
Online games
Poker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20and%20Technology%20Centre | Science and Technology Centre (or Science and Technology Center) may refer to:
Asia Pacific Network of Science and Technology Centres, Canberra, Australia
Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre, Ghana
Laser Science and Technology Centre, Delhi, India
International Science and Technology Center, Moscow, Russia
National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Questacon – the National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra, Australia
Science and Technology Center in Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Science and Technology Centre, Whiteknights Campus of Reading University
United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search-based%20software%20engineering | Search-based software engineering (SBSE) applies metaheuristic search techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and tabu search to software engineering problems. Many activities in software engineering can be stated as optimization problems. Optimization techniques of operations research such as linear programming or dynamic programming are often impractical for large scale software engineering problems because of their computational complexity or their assumptions on the problem structure. Researchers and practitioners use metaheuristic search techniques, which impose little assumptions on the problem structure, to find near-optimal or "good-enough" solutions.
SBSE problems can be divided into two types:
black-box optimization problems, for example, assigning people to tasks (a typical combinatorial optimization problem).
white-box problems where operations on source code need to be considered.
Definition
SBSE converts a software engineering problem into a computational search problem that can be tackled with a metaheuristic. This involves defining a search space, or the set of possible solutions. This space is typically too large to be explored exhaustively, suggesting a metaheuristic approach. A metric (also called a fitness function, cost function, objective function or quality measure) is then used to measure the quality of potential solutions. Many software engineering problems can be reformulated as a computational search problem.
The term "search-based application", in contrast, refers to using search-engine technology, rather than search techniques, in another industrial application.
Brief history
One of the earliest attempts to apply optimization to a software engineering problem was reported by Webb Miller and David Spooner in 1976 in the area of software testing. In 1992, S. Xanthakis and his colleagues applied a search technique to a software engineering problem for the first time. The term SBSE was first used in 2001 by Harman and Jones. The research community grew to include more than 800 authors by 2013, spanning approximately 270 institutions in 40 countries.
Application areas
Search-based software engineering is applicable to almost all phases of the software development process. Software testing has been one of the major applications. Search techniques have been applied to other software engineering activities, for instance, requirements analysis, design, refactoring, development, and maintenance.
Requirements engineering
Requirements engineering is the process by which the needs of a software's users and environment are determined and managed. Search-based methods have been used for requirements selection and optimisation with the goal of finding the best possible subset of requirements that matches user requests amid constraints such as limited resources and interdependencies between requirements. This problem is often tackled as a multiple-criteria decision-making problem and, generally involves pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity%20badge | A charity badge is a widget used on websites, blogs, social networks or e-mail for promotion of some humanitarian initiative, mainly gathering donations for charity projects.
The idea was initiated by the Yahoo! search engine and the Network for Good charity aggregator.
Some companies allow website owners or bloggers to make a personalized badge for setting up a link to a favourite charity, creating the possibility of wide social involvement for donations.
Surveys suggest 61% of people give to a charity because a personal connection has asked them to make a contribution.
The charity badge method of giving has gained popularity among communities of online users. Yahoo! promote a contest for gathering the biggest quantity of one-time donations.
See also
Network for good
SixDegrees.org
Online charity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurydice%20Network | The Eurydice Network is a European Commission-funded education information network in Europe. It consists of a coordinating European Unit and a series of national units; its aim is to provide policy makers in the member states of the European Union and in the wider European region, with up-to-date and reliable information on which to base policy decisions in the education field.
Specific studies and reports are available free of charge on the Eurydice website, along with Country Information, a comprehensive online Encyclopedia on national education systems in Europe.
Origins
The Eurydice Network is the Education Information Network in Europe. It was established by the European Commission in 1980, following a request by the then European Community Ministers of Education in their resolutions of 1976.
In those early days of Education policy within the European Community there was considerable suspicion among some Ministers of Education of what the European Commission might do; their original action programme thus limited actions at European level to those that could not impinge on national sovereignty: this included the exchange of information and documentation. The commission established the European Eurydice Unit directly; and following some years' negotiations, the network held its first meeting in 1980.
Structure and evolution
The network consisted originally of a European Unit and one or more units set up by Education Ministries in each of the then 9 member states of the European Union. These national units were normally located within Ministries responsible for Education, although in some cases (e.g., England) they were outsourced to research or documentation bodies. In federal countries (such as Germany or Belgium) the more than one unit was needed to respond to the structure of education in the country: thus, in Germany one national Eurydice Unit was established inside the documentation service of the Federal Ministry for Education; and another in the Conference of State Ministers of Education, which brings together the Education Ministers of the federal states.
This structure has continued: the addition of more EU Member States with successive enlargements of the European Union has in each case been preceded by participation of the new country within the Eurydice network. At the end of 2006 there were 35 'national' units in 31 countries. Since 2014, the network consists of 40 national units based in all 36 countries participating in the EU's Erasmus+ programme (EU Member States, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Liechtenstein and Norway). Eurydice is now co-ordinated and managed by the EU Executive Agency for Education and Culture in Brussels, which drafts its studies and provides a range of online resources.
Areas of Work
Eurydice prepares and publishes a range of studies and material on all levels of education, from preprimary to tertiary and adult education, including:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker%20%28search%20software%29 | Tracker is a file indexing and search framework for Linux and other Unix-like systems. It is written in the C programming language.
Tracker has been adopted by the GNOME desktop environment and is heavily integrated into GNOME Shell and GNOME Files.
One of the developers of the Conduit application has suggested using Tracker to create "a metadata-enabled GNOME", similar to using Strigi as an indexer for a metadata framework in KDE Software Compilation 4.
See also
Strigi
NEPOMUK
Baloo (software)
WinFS
Desktop search
List of desktop search engines
References
External links
Tracker wikipage on GNOME Wiki
Tracker repository on GNOME GitLab
A first look at Tracker 0.6.0
Applications using D-Bus
Beta software
Desktop search engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superjail%21 | Superjail! is an American adult animated television series created by Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick and Ben Gruber for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It follows the events that take place in an unusual prison. The pilot episode aired on May 13, 2007, and its first season began on September 28, 2008.
Superjail! is characterized by its psychedelic shifts in setting and plot and extreme graphic violence, which give the series a TV-MA-V rating (for graphic violence, including scenes of bloodshed, dismemberment, torture, and extreme cruelty). These elements are depicted through highly elaborate animated sequences, which have been described as "Baroque and complicated and hard to take in at a single viewing".
Setting and premise
The majority of Superjail! is set inside the eponymous prison, located in an alternate dimension identified as "5612". The prison is overseen by a Willy Wonka-esque individual known only as "The Warden", the amiable yet sadistic and mischievous head of Superjail with apparent shapeshifting powers who uses the prison (and prisoners) to satisfy his numerous whims. Externally, Superjail is built underneath a volcano which is itself located inside of a larger volcano. Internally, it seems to constitute its own reality, where the fabric of time and space is fluid and changes at the whim of the Warden. It has been indicated that the prison itself has a degree of sentience and that the nature of the prison is fluid according to the perceptions of the individual. Superjail's inmate population is estimated by Jared, the Warden's primary assistant, to be in excess of 70,000, though the show's creators mention that the prison processes "billions of inmates".
In the first season, each episode begins with a linear story revolving around an irresponsible scheme concocted by the Warden to satisfy some personal desire. The episode builds in both violence and surrealism into a climactic psychedelic blood bath during which dozens of inmates are brutally and gruesomely murdered either by one another or an external force. Some episode plots have no resolutions at all, with the story simply stopping when events have reached their most chaotic. Regardless, the status quo is always restored by the next episode, unless the episode is a multi-part one.
Beginning with the second season, the creators modified the format of the series to focus more on character development and story, as imagined by a revised writing staff. The second-season premiere "Best Friends Forever" demonstrated an immediate break from the first season's template, focusing the episode on Jailbot and Jacknife as opposed to the Warden, setting half of the episode outside of the prison and lacking an extended murder sequence in the climax.
The third and fourth seasons of the show attempted to meld the formats of the first two seasons, continuing a focus on character development and ongoing storylines while reviving the technique of ending each epis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjiten | Gjiten (pronounced goo-jee-ten) is a free software dictionary application developed for Linux operating systems, using the GNOME development libraries. It functions primarily as a Japanese–English dictionary tool meant to search EDICT dictionary files, but it has other features such as hand-drawn kanji recognition. It was first published on December 25, 1999. Its current release is v2.6, available since October 28, 2006. The source code is downloadable from the developers' website.
Function
Gjiten has a graphical user interface, with most of the search options and parameters readily shown in the toolbar. The window serves as a frontend for dictionary lookup actions, able to look up words based on hiragana, katakana, kanji or English. It requires the user to define UTF8 dictionary files for use, otherwise it will not work. The EDICT and KanjiDIC dictionaries are installed by default. A further requirement is a Japanese Input method and fontset, like im-ja, kinput2 or anthy.
Main features
Multiple dictionary search (extensions)
Extensive kanji information on a single click (Kanjidic)
Kanji search based on stroke counts, radicals or search keys
Handwritten kanji recognition (requires Kanjipad installation)
English and Japanese menus
All important search parameters
Beginning with.../End with... etc.
Search result limiter
Customizable font/font size
See also
Kiten (program) – similar application for the KDE Desktop environment
JWPce – free software word-processor/dictionary bundle.
References
External links
Japanese dictionary for GNOME download | SourceForge.net - sourceforge repository for Gjiten. Contains a release and license.
Gjiten website – developer's website in English and Japanese. DEB and RPM packages available
Debian Package Repository – older and up-to-date *.deb packages for use with Debian or compatible Linux systems.
Dictionary software that uses GTK
GNOME Applications
Japanese dictionaries
Japanese language learning resources |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomaa | Salomaa is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arto Salomaa, Finnish mathematician and computer scientist
Hiski Salomaa, Finnish-American folk singer
Jarno Salomaa, Finnish metal musician
Sonya Salomaa, Canadian Finnish actor
Finnish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20McCurley%20%28cryptographer%29 | Kevin Snow McCurley is a mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer, and a former research scientist at Google. He has written publications about information retrieval, algorithms, parallel computing, cryptography, and number theory.
Early life and education
When he was a child, McCurley had built model planes and cars, and he enjoyed making things with his hands.
McCurley attended a high school in San Jose, California. There, one of his teachers, Judy Jones, showed him that "mathematics really could be fun and interesting" and encouraged him to attend mathematical contests.
In his first year at Santa Clara University, McCurley had Jerry Anderson, a former president of the MAA, as his professor in calculus; Anderson told "interesting stories" and was able to "relate the mathematics to history and to activities that were meaningful". He started out as a mathematician, but he later retrained himself as a computer scientist.
In 1981, McCurley received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation in analytic number theory was titled Explicit Estimates for Functions of Primes in Arithmetic Progressions, and his advisor was Paul Trevier Bateman. He also received a master's in statistics there.
In the fall of 1995, McCurley taught an undergraduate course on cryptology at the University of New Mexico.
After he was a post-doc at Michigan State University, McCurley took a job at USC (Los Angeles), where he published some papers with Leonard Adleman about algorithms and complexity.
Career
Before 2005, McCurley worked at IBM Almaden Research Center, Sandia National Laboratories, and at the University of Southern California. McCurley worked in a cryptography group at Sandia National Laboratories, where he worked on applying number theory to cryptography and parallel computing. He then worked at IBM Research in California on digital rights management, where he wrote a few patents; he was there in January 1999.
A former president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, McCurley was selected as an IACR Fellow in 2005 for his "exemplary service as IACR President and essential leadership in IACR information systems".
From 2005 to at least 2009 McCurley was a research scientist at Google Research. There, he worked on search, advertisements, and Android.
Miscellany
In 2000, McCurley suggested, while speaking at Financial Cryptography '00 conference, that, as a countermeasure against email spam, recipients of email from unknown senders should request that the message include a first name, a few dollars, or a donation to a specific charity as compensation. He also suggested that this be formalized in an open standard.
Bets about P vs NP
McCurley has made three bets with Ron Fagin about the outcome of the P versus NP problem. In each bet, the outcome P = NP would require Fagin to pay McCurley $50, whereas P != NP would require McCurley to pay Fagin $10. The first bet had a dea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20panel | An Online panel is a group of selected research participants who have agreed to provide information at specified intervals over an extended period of time.
A panel can be distinguished from a database in the following ways:
Its members are asked to provide additional information about themselves and their household, such as demographics, ownership and lifestyle information
an ongoing relationship exists with the panel brand
there is often a systematic reward mechanism unique to the panel
the members do not receive direct marketing messages as a result of their membership.
Online panels could be for B2C or B2B. In B2B panels, a selective group of panelists will be involved like "retail owners panel" which would have retail owners as panel members.
See also
Computer-assisted telephone interviewing
Computer-assisted personal interviewing
Automated computer telephone interviewing
Official statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Questionnaires
Questionnaire construction
Paid survey
Data Mining
NIPO Software
DIY research
SPSS
References
Survey methodology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKWO-FM | CKWO-FM (92.3 FM) is a Canadian radio station that airs Active rock and aboriginal/First Nations community radio programming broadcasting at 92.3 FM in Fort Frances, Ontario and the Couchiching First Nation. The station is known on the air as The Wolf, which began broadcasting in 2004 and is owned by Couchiching Community Radio.
It is unknown if the station is still broadcasting; the CRTC renewed CKWO-FM's licence from 1 September 2012 to 28 February 2013, with no record of renewal from that date.
On October 12, 2022 WONation Radio Inc. received a license from the CRTC to operate a low-power, English and Ojibway-language Indigenous (Type B Native) FM radio station in Wauzhushk Onigum Nation, District of Kenora, Ontario which would operate at 101.3 MHz (channel 267LP) with an average effective radiated power (ERP) of 27 watts (directional antenna with a maximum ERP of 50 watts with an effective height of antenna above average terrain [EHAAT] of 17.8 metres).
References
External links
Kwo
Kwo
Kwo
Radio stations established in 2004
2004 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Night%20Network | The BBC Night Network (sometimes referred to on-air as BBC North FM and originally Radio North East) was an all-evening radio network which linked up the North East England, Yorkshire and the Humber, and later the North West England regions of BBC Local Radio. Each station would share the same programming.
Pre-history
In 1984 a Saturday evening, a 45-minute programme consisting of organ music, At the Console, began broadcasting. It was aired during the winter sports period at 6:45 pm on BBC Radios Leeds, York and Humberside. In August 1986, networked specialist music programming in Yorkshire was expanded into a weeknight service which were broadcast on all four Yorkshire stations (Leeds, York, Sheffield and Humberside) and aired from 6:05 pm to 7:30 pm. A year later this was further extended to a nightly service (apart from on Tuesdays to allow for local sports coverage) and the programmes were extended to two hours, broadcasting from 7:05 pm to 9:00 pm.
History
The BBC Night Network was launched on 29 May 1989 in the then BBC North and BBC North East regions – broadcast nightly on BBC Radio Newcastle, BBC Radio Cleveland, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Radio Sheffield between 6:05 pm (6 pm at the weekend) and midnight. Any local programming broadcast after 6 pm, such as weeknight sport and ethnic minority output, was transmitted only on that station's medium wave frequencies, with Night Network output broadcasting on FM. Weeknight programming consisted of two three-hour shows, the second of which was presented by Martin Kelner. The programme included comedy sketches from Caroline Aherne in which she portrayed the Mrs Merton character and partook in ad-libbed conversations with Kelner. Regional news updates were broadcast on the hour. Weekend programming consisted of specialist music shows.
The network was expanded in May 1991 to include the four BBC North West stations – BBC GMR, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC Radio Lancashire and BBC Radio Cumbria. These stations had previously run their own Network North West simulcast service since October 1988. The Night Network now broadcast from 7:05 pm until midnight. Programming was overhauled with specialist music programmes airing from 7:05 pm to 10 pm (the exception being made for midweek sports coverage) followed, on weeknights, by a late show from Lancaster, presented by Bob Roberts. The late show was extended to 12:30 am a year later and eventually to 1 am. Local programming would now fully opt-out of the network with any local evening programming replacing the scheduled Night Network programme on both FM and AM.
Following Bob Roberts' departure, the 10 pm to 1 am slot was taken over by a talk show called Late Night North, presented initially by Mike Parr from the Newcastle studios, followed in 1997 by David Dunning and latterly by Alex Trelinski. The programme, developed by Radio Newcastle editor Tony Fish, included a mix of interviews and phone-ins and occasionally b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-order%20Bayesian%20network | Variable-order Bayesian network (VOBN) models provide an important extension of both the Bayesian network models and the variable-order Markov models. VOBN models are used in machine learning in general and have shown great potential in bioinformatics applications.
These models extend the widely used position weight matrix (PWM) models, Markov models, and Bayesian network (BN) models.
In contrast to the BN models, where each random variable depends on a fixed subset of random variables, in VOBN models these subsets may vary based on the specific realization of observed variables. The observed realizations are often called the context and, hence, VOBN models are also known as context-specific Bayesian networks.
The flexibility in the definition of conditioning subsets of variables turns out to be a real advantage in classification and analysis applications, as the statistical dependencies between random variables in a sequence of variables (not necessarily adjacent) may be taken into account efficiently, and in a position-specific and context-specific manner.
See also
Markov chain
Examples of Markov chains
Variable order Markov models
Markov process
Markov chain Monte Carlo
Semi-Markov process
Artificial intelligence
References
External links
VOMBAT: https://www2.informatik.uni-halle.de:8443/VOMBAT/
Bayesian networks
Markov models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Invercargill | Transport in Invercargill, New Zealand is mostly by bus and private car.
Roads
Invercargill is the southernmost city on New Zealand's state highway network and is linked to Fiordland and the Catlins by the Southern Scenic Route and Dunedin and Gore by SH 1. It is also the southern end of coming from Queenstown and the West Coast. The main streets of Invercargill: Dee (SH 6) and Tay (SH 1) measure over 40 metres wide. Numerous roads in the city are dual-carriageway but there are no expressways/motorways proposed for the city.
Railways
Invercargill was the first town in New Zealand to have a steam locomotive and was once the centre of a much larger rail network than at present. It is at the southern end of the Main South Line railway, which extends up the east coast to Christchurch and Lyttelton via Dunedin. Until the cancellation of The Southerner in 2002, Invercargill had the southernmost passenger railway station in the world. Passenger trains no longer call at Invercargill, except for occasional excursions. The Bluff Branch extends south from Invercargill and has been freight-only since 1967. The Wairio Branch extends northwest from Invercargill to the Solid Energy coalfields near Ohai and continues to carry freight even after the closing of the Ohai coal mine.
Airport
During the mid-1950s, Invercargill Airport was used for fuel top-up and final take off by Operation Deep Freeze. Twin-engine propeller-driven aircraft destined for McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic used the airport, assisted in takeoff by JATO rockets. Larger aircraft flew from Christchurch when a permanent Deep Freeze base was established there.
Air New Zealand operates daily flights to Christchurch and to Wellington plus five weekly flights to Auckland. Stewart Island Flights make regular flights to and from Stewart Island / Rakiura. Mainland Air of Dunedin operates a Piper Navajo and is contracted to fly doctors to Southland Hospital several times per week from Dunedin Hospital.
Southern Wings is the only aeroclub based at the airport and runs charter flights as well as a flight school.
Invercargill Airport has the fourth longest runway in New Zealand at 2210 metres, after Auckland, Christchurch and Ohakea.
Buses
Go Bus Transport provides services under contract to the Invercargill City Council. Bus Smart cards were replaced with Bee Cards on 22 June 2020.
Prior to 1 April 2014, services were run by Invercargill Passenger Transport which was ultimately taken over by Go Bus.
Zero-fare services
Invercargill offered several zero-fare bus services in the first decade of the century.
The Freebie was a zero-fare loop service in the inner city, The Purple Circle was a free suburban bus circuit, and all other suburban bus services operated zero-fare between 9:00 am and 2:30 pm daily. The Mayor of Invercargill, Tim Shadbolt told a conference of New Zealand's Disabled Persons Assembly in October 2002 that Invercargill had an innovative approach to public transport, and that he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colegio%20Alem%C3%A1n%20Alexander%20von%20Humboldt%20%28Mexico%20City%29 | Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt, A. C. () is a network of German-language primary and secondary schools based in Greater Mexico City.
There are three campuses under a single school board, with each campus acting autonomously. As of 2010, the institution together is the largest German school outside of Germany.
History
The school was established in 1894, situated on Canoa Street in Mexico City. By 1900, the number of students was approaching 300, including students from outside the German community.
The school included German, Mexican, and other teachers and was modeled after other German schools abroad. There were multiple divisions, and Division A had facilities tailored for female students.
In 1940, a campus in Tacubaya was opened, and by 1968 the Civil Association "Alexander von Humboldt" is created, named after the German naturalist and explorer. The institution had incorporated itself into the Mexican Educational System, so students could obtain either Mexican or German certificates. By 1970, two additional campuses were opened and over 1000 students attended the school.
The association currently has 3 main campuses, and additionally a Kindergarten, and an Elementary School. The unaffiliated Club Alemán de México is used as a cultural and athletic facility by the German community.
In 2014 there was controversy over bullying in the Lomas Verdes campus.
Language of classes
Most subjects are taught in German, and children are required to be bi-lingual, unless they are starting Kindergarten.
Campuses
The following campuses are in Greater Mexico City:
Campus Poniente/Campus West (formerly Campus La Herradura): Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, and High School (or "Abitur" by German standards).
There are two campuses. One, covering kindergarten, primary, secondary, and preparatory levels, is located in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico. The other, the Plantel Lomas Kindergarten Prado Norte, is located in Lomas de Chapultepec, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City.
Campus Sur/Campus Süd (formerly Campus Xochimilco): Xochimilco, Mexico City: Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, and High School (or Abitur by German standards).
Kindergarten and Primary are in Plantel Tepepan in Colonia Tepepan, and Secondary and Preparatory are in Plantel La Noria in Colonia Huichapan. There is also a Kindergarten in the Plantel Pedregal in Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón.
Campus Norte/Campus Nord (formerly Campus Lomas Verdes), Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, and High School
The kindergarten and primary grades and the secondary and preparatory grades are in two separate campuses in Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico.
It previously had a campus at 43 Benjamin G. Hill in Hipódromo Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, in what is now a part of Universidad La Salle.
See also
German immigration to Mexico
References
Further reading
Wolburg, Allan. "Renuevan el estadio del Colegio Alemán." Diario Reforma, ISSN 1563-7697, 02/20/2013, p. 14
García, Norma. "Afecta vialida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Miguel%20High%20School%20%28Tucson%2C%20Arizona%29 | San Miguel High School is a private Catholic and Lasallian college and college preparatory school located on the south side of Tucson, Arizona, United States. It is a member of the Cristo Rey Network of work-study schools.
History
San Miguel High School opened in 2004 to assist capable, students from families of limited means to prepare for college. It follows the Cristo Rey work-study model, whereby students work in businesses five days a month to earn 40% of their tuition. In its first nine years, the school had 492 graduates, all of whom were admitted to college. Current enrollment is 365, with 54 on the staff. About 95% of the students are Hispanic.
Academics
A total of 24 credits are required for graduation, as is participation in the Corporate Internship program. Four credits are required in English, mathematics, religious studies, and science; three in foreign language and social studies; and one in visual/performing arts and in academic skills/literacy.
Corporate partners
There are currently over 100 corporate partners that employ San Miguel students as part of the national Cristo Rey Network Corporate Work Study program. Videos are available on various aspects of the San Miguel experience.
Student activities
All students make a daylong retreat in each of the first three years and in the senior year a three-day Kairos retreat. The school also offers a five-day border immersion program, El Otro Lado, for students and staff to become informed and to strengthen their Christian perspective on the US-Mexican border problem.
Athletics:
Women's
Cheer
Soccer
Softball
Volleyball
Men's
Baseball
Volleyball
Basketball
Soccer
Clubs:
Rocketry
Robotics
Student Government (Freshman Council, Sophomore Council, Junior Council, Senior Council, and Executive Council)
El Otro Lado
Yearbook
School Choir
Ambassadors
Honor Societies (National Spanish Society, National English Society, and National Honors Society)
Environmental Club
Bahay Pag-asa
Additional school facts
42% of families in the area earn less than $25,000 per year
half of the adults in the area do not have a high school education
80% of students qualify for free lunch.
80% of students are the first in their families to go to college.
63% of students attend a four-year university or college.
72% of San Miguel graduates have either graduated from college or are persisting in college, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Report 2015.
References
Further reading
Kearney, G. R. More Than a Dream: The Cristo Rey Story: How One School's Vision Is Changing the World. Chicago, Ill: Loyola Press, 2008.
External links
Partners - Cristo Rey Network
"Fr. John P. Foley honored with Presidential Citizen's Medal"
Boston Globe - "With sense of purpose, students cut class for a day"
Cristo Rey featured in Washington Post column by George Will
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - "Success of Innovative Urban Catholic School Sparks Major Investment"
Catholic sec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIP%20Noche | VIP Noche was a popular 1990s game show in the Spanish Telecinco network, originally presented by the Spanish TV producer Emilio Aragón. In the show, the Spanish version of Hollywood Squares, national stars and comedians were seated in a vertical Tic-tac-toe boardgame, and they had to face questions from the anchorman, without being able to see the whole picture of the game. The first team in completing a line won the game.
In 1991, Thalía arrived in Spain and was signed as anchor and singer in “VIP Noche”, the variety show that was the emblem and most viewed of the original Telecinco. There she had Emilio Aragón as his partner, and they dominated the evenings’ ratings. The presence of Thalia in VIP is well remembered, and during the six months in which she was at the forefront of the space she was a magnet to attract the audience. During her participation, she sang songs from her repertoire, and starred in numerous musical versions of well-known songs, ranging from “New York, New York”, Karina's “Las flechas del amor” and Los Brincos’ “Un sorbito de champagne” to Grease, Marilyn Monroe and 'Pretty Woman' from Roy Orbison.
Due to the success in its native country, Telecinco remade a version for kids (VIP Guay).
1990s game shows
Hollywood Squares
Spanish game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autognostics | Autognostics is a new paradigm that describes the capacity for computer networks to be self-aware. It is considered one of the major components of Autonomic Networking.
Introduction
One of the most important characteristics of today’s Internet that has contributed to its success is its basic design principle: a simple and transparent core with intelligence at the edges (the so-called "end-to-end principle"). Based on this principle, the network carries data without knowing the characteristics of that data (e.g., voice, video, etc.) - only the end-points have application-specific knowledge. If something goes wrong with the data, only the edge may be able to recognize that since it knows about the application and what the expected behavior is. The core has no information about what should happen with that data - it only forwards packets.
Although an effective and beneficial attribute, this design principle has also led to many of today’s problems, limitations, and frustrations. Currently, it is almost impossible for most end-users to know why certain network-based applications do not work well and what they need to do to make it better. Also, network operators who interact with the core in low-level terms such as router configuration have problems expressing their high-level goals into low-level actions. In high-level terms, this may be summarized as a weak coupling between the network and application layers of the overall system.
As a consequence of the Internet end-to-end principle, the network performance experienced by a particular application is difficult to attribute based on the behavior of the individual elements. At any given moment, the measure of performance between any two points is typically unknown and applications must operate blindly. As a further consequence, changes to the configuration of given element, or changes in the end-to-end path, cannot easily be validated. Optimization and provisioning cannot then be automated except against only the simplest design specifications.
There is an increasing interest in Autonomic Networking research, and a strong conviction that an evolution from the current networking status quo is necessary. Although to date there have not been any practical implementations demonstrating the benefits of an effective autonomic networking paradigm, there seems to be a consensus as to the characteristics which such implementations would need to demonstrate. These specifically include continuous monitoring, identifying, diagnosing and fixing problems based on high-level policies and objectives.
Autognostics, as a major part of the autonomic networking concept, intends to bring networks to a new level of awareness and eliminate the lack of visibility which currently exists in today's networks.
Definition
Autognostics is a new paradigm that describes the capacity for computer networks to be self-aware, in part and as a whole, and dynamically adapt to the applications running on them by autonomously monit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKMI | WKMI (1360 AM) is a radio station licensed to Kalamazoo, Michigan broadcasting a news-talk format.
WKMI is an affiliate of the Grand Valley State Laker football radio network.
WKMI, which began broadcasting in 1947, was a highly rated Top 40 music station from the 1950s through the 1970s. The station moved to an Adult Contemporary format to compete with WKZO during the early 1980s, and then switched to its current talk format in 1990 as the Persian Gulf War created a boom for talk radio.
An FM sister at 106.5 was added in 1964; WKMI-FM is now WVFM and no longer co-owned.
On August 30, 2013, a deal was announced in which Townsquare Media would acquire 53 stations from Cumulus Media, including WKMI, for $238 million. The deal was part of Cumulus' acquisition of Dial Global; Townsquare and Dial Global were both controlled by Oaktree Capital Management. The sale to Townsquare was completed on November 14, 2013.
References
Michiguide.com - WKMI History
External links
KMI
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1964
Townsquare Media radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetonitrile%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on acetonitrile.
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 and follow its directions.
SIRI
Fisher Scientific.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 44th ed. The "(s)" notation indicates temperature of solid/vapor equilibrium. Otherwise the data is temperature of liquid/vapor equilibrium.
Distillation data
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Guard%20DC | Life Guard DC is a Washington, DC, condom distribution program and part of The Condom Project, a Tides Center project that is driven by the involvement of peer-to-peer social networks, local businesses, and community-based organization outreach services to destigmatize condoms and to increase their use. The program distributes free condoms at local establishments in historically overlooked communities, 24 hours a day.
HIV in Washington
Washington has the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. 1 in 20 residents is living with HIV and 1 in 50 residents is living with AIDS. The epidemic is driven by sexual activity (both heterosexual and homosexual) and then by injected drug use. Latex condoms, when used correctly, are highly effective in reducing the risk of HIV transmission. Many stores and pharmacies in Washington, like CVS, keep condoms in locked cabinets which can deter people from purchasing them. Also, there are few business that sell or organizations that distribute condoms in the areas of Washington with the highest rate of HIV.
DC Government response to the epidemic
The DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, a non-profit public policy organization, has harshly graded the District's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Center's report called condom distribution an "immediate priority". The city had planned to distribute 600,000 condoms in 2005 but only delivered 100,000.
Life Guard's initiative
Life Guard was formed by a coalition of local non-profit organizations to provide condoms, specifically in areas with high HIV infection rates. Life Guard creates condom packages with lubrication, safe sex information and information on HIV/AIDS resources in Washington. These condom packages are placed at 24-hour businesses such as fast food places and laundromats. The program has already distributed more than 100,000 condoms. The program has received a lot of press for its innovative and simple way of tackling the HIV crisis. The organization uses simple ways to explain the organization and its goals, such as using YouTube.
External links
References
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Health and disability rights organizations in the United States
HIV/AIDS activism
HIV/AIDS organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotfire | TIBCO Spotfire is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based analytics platform. Before being acquired by TIBCO in 2007, Spotfire was a business intelligence company based in Somerville, Massachusetts.
History
Spotfire was founded by Christopher Ahlberg and Ben Shneiderman to develop applications of dynamic queries in the early 1990s.
Ahlberg returned to Sweden and developed an enhanced UNIX implementation of his visual data analysis tool, the Information Visualization and Exploration Environment (IVEE).
Spotfire was launched in mid-1996 by IVEE Development, which was renamed Spotfire Inc.
TIBCO bought the company in 2007 for $190 million. In November 2011, TIBCO added business intelligence (BI) and analytics software Spotfire 4.0 with Microsoft SharePoint integration.
, the latest version is Spotfire X. Spotfire X incorporates natural language query (NLQ) powered search, AI-driven recommendations, and model-based processing.
See also
Business intelligence software
Artificial intelligence
Data science
Machine learning
References
External links
Spotfire Overview
Business intelligence companies
Data visualization software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal%20attention%20network | The dorsal attention network (DAN), also known anatomically as the dorsal frontoparietal network (D-FPN), is a large-scale brain network of the human brain that is primarily composed of the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and frontal eye fields (FEF). It is named and most known for its role in voluntary orienting of visuospatial attention.
As the IPS and FEF were noticed to be activated during many attention-demanding tasks, this network was sometimes referred to as the task-positive network to contrast it against the task-negative network, or default mode network. However, this dichotomy is now considered misleading, because the default mode network can be active in certain cognitive tasks.
Anatomy
The core regions of the DAN are the IPS and FEF of each hemisphere. Other regions of the network may include the middle temporal region (MT+), superior parietal lobule (SPL), supplementary eye field (SEF), and ventral premotor cortex.
More recent works indicate that the cerebellum may participate in this network as well. Less studied regions include the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and superior colliculus.
Function
The DAN is most prominently involved in goal-directed, voluntary control of visuospatial attention. Corbetta et al., who first defined and named the DAN in the early-to-mid 2000s, suggest that the network is involved in general top-down selection of stimuli and responses, including other modalities (e.g. auditory, tactile). However, evidence that the full DAN is involved in auditory top-down attention has been questioned, as tests that make said claims incorporated both auditory and visual stimuli.
The dorsal attention network dynamically interacts with the ventral attention network (or salience network) according to task demands. The inferior frontal junction configures this interaction between the two networks during task switches or attention shifts.
Clinical significance
Reduced connectivity within the dorsal and ventral attention networks has been linked to higher levels of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms. Similarly, reduced connectivity between the DAN and the frontoparietal network is associated with major depressive disorder. On the other hand, overactivation of the DAN has been observed in patients with schizophrenia.
Nomenclature
There are several variations of this network's name in neuroscience literature, such as the dorsal attention system, dorsal frontoparietal attention network, and frontoparietal attention network. Until the discovery of other networks, such as the frontoparietal control network, the term task-positive network referred to the DAN. The term task-positive networks is still sometimes used to refer to all non-default-mode networks.
In 2019, Uddin et al. proposed that dorsal frontoparietal network (D-FPN) be used as a standard anatomical name for this network.
References
Brain
Attention
Cognitive neuroscience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal%20logic | A multimodal logic is a modal logic that has more than one primitive modal operator. They find substantial applications in theoretical computer science.
Overview
A modal logic with n primitive unary modal operators is called an n-modal logic. Given these operators and negation, one can always add modal operators defined as if and only if .
Perhaps the first substantive example of a two-modal logic is Arthur Prior's tense logic, with two modalities, F and P, corresponding to "sometime in the future" and "sometime in the past". A logic with infinitely many modalities is dynamic logic, introduced by Vaughan Pratt in 1976 and having a separate modal operator for every regular expression. A version of temporal logic introduced in 1977 and intended for program verification has two modalities, corresponding to dynamic logic's [A] and [A*] modalities for a single program A, understood as the whole universe taking one step forwards in time. The term multimodal logic itself was not introduced until 1980. Another example of a multimodal logic is the Hennessy–Milner logic, itself a fragment of the more expressive modal μ-calculus, which is also a fixed-point logic.
Multimodal logic can be used also to formalize a kind of knowledge representation: the motivation of epistemic logic is allowing several agents (they are regarded as subjects capable of forming beliefs, knowledge); and managing the belief or knowledge of each agent, so that epistemic assertions can be formed about them. The modal operator must be capable of bookkeeping the cognition of each agent, thus must be indexed on the set of the agents. The motivation is that should assert "The subject i has knowledge about being true". But it can be used also for formalizing "the subject i believes ". For formalization of meaning based on the possible world semantics approach, a multimodal generalization of Kripke semantics can be used: instead of a single "common" accessibility relation, there is a series of them indexed on the set of agents.
Notes
References
External links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Modal logic" – by James Garson.
Modal logic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim%20Akl | Selim G. Akl (Ph.D., McGill University, born 1978) is a professor at Queen's University in the Queen's School of Computing, where he leads the Parallel and Unconventional Computation Group. His research interests are primarily in the area of algorithm design and analysis, in particular for problems in parallel computing and unconventional computing.
Activities
Akl is currently Director of the School of Computing at Queen's University. He is editor in chief of Parallel Processing Letters published by World Scientific Publishing in 1991 and an editor of several major computing journals including:
International Journal of Unconventional Computing (Old City Publishing; 2011)
Computational Geometry (Elsevier; 1993)
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems (Taylor and Francis; 2004)
Akl is the founding editorial board member of International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (Inderscience Publishers; 2003 ), and a past editor of Journal of Cryptology (Springer-Verlag; 1988–1991), Information Processing Letters (North-Holland; 1989–1999), and Parallel Algorithms and Applications (Taylor and Francis; 1991–2004).
Current research
Recently Akl created "Quantum Chess". The purpose of Quantum Chess is not to make the game more difficult; rather, by adding the unpredictability of quantum physics to chess, humans and computers are put on a level playing field, as they both face the same difficulties posed by the weirdness of the quantum. Alice Wismath, an undergraduate summer student, wrote a program implementing one of the many versions that Akl proposed in his article On the Importance of Being Quantum in September's Parallel Processing Letters article.
Akl has claimed that the notion of universality in computation is false. Akl asserts that no machine can claim universality since there will always be a larger set of problems that such a machine cannot solve. Akl has described the non-universality in computation in more detail.
Conferences
Akl chaired the 2007 International Conference on Unconventional Computation that took place in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Publications
Akl is the author of several textbooks in the areas of parallel computing and computational geometry:
Parallel Sorting Algorithms (Academic Press, 1985)
The Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms (Prentice Hall, 1989)
Parallel Computation: Models and Methods (Prentice Hall, 1997).
He is also the co-author of Parallel Computational Geometry (Prentice Hall, 1993), Adaptive Cryptographic Access Control (Springer, 2010), Applications of Quantum Cryptography (LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2018) and From Parallel to Emergent Computing (CRC Press, 2019).
His book on Parallel Computational Geometry is considered to be the definitive work on the subject.
Awards and recognition
Akl won the 2004 and 2007 Howard Staveley Award for Teaching Excellence. He received the Queen's University Prize for Excellence in Research in 2005 and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20vector | In neuroscience, a population vector is the sum of the preferred directions of a population of neurons, weighted by the respective spike counts.
The formula for computing the (normalized) population vector, , takes the following form:
Where is the activity of cell , and is the preferred input for cell .
Note that the vector encodes the input direction, , in terms of the activation of a population of neurons.
Computational neuroscience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20recognition | The term "feature" implies different meanings in different engineering disciplines. This has resulted in many ambiguous definitions for feature. A feature, in computer-aided design (CAD), usually refers to a region of a part with some interesting geometric or topological properties. These are more precisely called form features. Form features contain both shape information and parametric information of a region of interest. They are now ubiquitous in most current CAD software, where they are used as the primary means of creating 3D geometric models. Examples of form features are extruded boss, loft, etc. Form feature is not the only type of feature that is discussed in CAD literature. Sometimes a part's functional or manufacturing features of the subject of attention. Although it is quite possible to see form features and manufacturing features are called by the same name, they are not exactly the same concepts. For example, one may either use the name "pocket" to refer to a swept cut on the boundary of a part model, or to refer to a trace left on the part boundary by a specific machining operation. The former is exclusively concerned with a geometric shape whereas the latter is concerned with both the geometric shape and a manufacturing operation, needing more parameters in its definition. As such, a manufacturing feature can be minimally defined as a form feature (if it has a form that can uniquely represent it), but not necessarily vice versa (forms can be interpreted differently in different manufacturing domains). Machining features are an important subset of manufacturing features. A machining feature can be regarded as the volume swept by a "cutting" tool, which is always a negative (subtracted) volume. Finally, there is also the concept of assembly feature, which encodes the assembly method between connected components.
Feature data in CAD can be specified either as a collection of surfaces or as volumes. Surface features can be used to describe manufacturing tolerances or locating surfaces in assembly design. Volumetric features on the other hand, can be used in tool path generation, etc. Manufacturing information (particularly in machining) is better portrayed by using volumetric features.
The first published work on features was for the original boundary representation modelling system, BUILD, and was performed by Lyc Kyprianou. Soon other work followed based on different solid representations. Overviews on the work on features can be found in Shah et al.; Subrahmanyam and Wozny; Salomons et al.
Technology
Work on features (generally called feature technology) can be divided into two rough categories: Design-by-features and Feature recognition. In design-by-features, also known as feature-based design (FBD), feature structures are introduced directly into a model using particular operations or by sewing in shapes. On the other hand, the goal of feature recognition (FR) is to algorithmically extract higher level entities (e.g. manufa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastora | Pastora were a Spanish/Catalan electronic group from Barcelona, consisting of Dolo Beltrán (vocals), Caïm Riba Pastor (guitar, synthesisers and programming) and Pauet Riba Pastor (programming and visuals.)
Origins
After studying visual and digital arts and multimedia, the brothers Pauet and Caïm Riba Pastor formed the group as an audio-visual project in 1996. As a duo, they released the experimental electronic albums 'Trip show audio visual tecno simfonic' (1998) and 'Cosmossoma' (2000) with the latter featuring their father Pau Riba, a famous Catalan rock artist from the 1970s. However neither album achieved commercial success.
In 2000 to strengthen the project, they added former professional actress Dolo Beltran as vocalist and songwriter and abandoned the experimental efforts in search of a more accessible sound.
Breakthrough
The group achieved their breakthrough in 2004 with the track 'Lola' reaching the Spanish top ten. The eponymous parent album 'Pastora' achieved commercial success the following year, blending electronica, trip hop, Spanish guitars with techno beats. The album also contained the hits 'Mirona', 'Lunes' and 'Mentira'. Both the album and its follow-up earned the trio a gold record.
After a two-year gap the group returned in 2006 with the album La Vida Moderna, a concept album backed by Pauet's striking and often psychedelic videos. The album earned the trio a 2006 Latin Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. The first single to be taken from the album was 'Desolado' which reached number 1 on the Spanish radio playlists chart and also became the most requested song on Spanish music stations. 2008 saw the release of the 'Circuitos de lujo' album which was seen as a change in musical direction from electronica to a more pop rock direction. Following a remix album, Pastora RMX ED, in 2009, the band returned in January 2011, with their fourth studio album featuring Dolo Beltran. The album Un viaje en noria, was described as "eclectic and fun, fusing electronic sounds with acoustic instruments."
Split and Beltrán solo album
In May 2017, Beltrán released a solo album, Copilotos, and revealed that the Riba brothers had decided not to continue with the Pastora project.
Discography
Pastora, 2003
La vida moderna, 2005
Circuitos de lujo, 2008 SP#10
Pastora RMX ED, 2009
Un viaje en noria, 2011
Una altra galàxia, 2012
Pastora means shepherdess, the female counterpart of the Spanish term pastor. Pastores means a group of shepherds, male and female, who tend to their flock in the field. In the Bikol Region, this refers to the band of singers and dancers during the early and middle part of the 20th century who roamed the streets in colorful costumes and props spreading Christmas cheers in front of houses with their Spanish villacicos and their prepared song and dance program they called velada.
References
External links
Pastora at All Music []
Pastora concert, Todomusicaymas Photos from Bilbao concert in 2007
Group bio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBSE | SBSE may refer to:
Search-based software engineering
Stir bar sorptive extraction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethyl%20ether%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on diethyl ether.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommended that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions. MSDS for diethyl ether is available at Mallinckrodt Baker.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 44th ed.
Distillation data
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESC/P | ESC/P, short for Epson Standard Code for Printers and sometimes styled Escape/P, is a printer control language developed by Epson to control computer printers. It was mainly used in dot matrix printers and some inkjet printers, and is still widely used in many receipt thermal printers. During the era of dot matrix printers, it was also used by other manufacturers (e.g., NEC), sometimes in modified form. At the time, it was a popular mechanism to add formatting to printed text, and was widely supported in software.
Derivation
ESC/P derives its name from the start of the escape sequences used, which start with the escape character ESC (ASCII code 27). As an example, ESC E will switch to printing in bold font, while ESC F switches off bold printing. The ESC/P control codes are sometimes also referred to as Epson LQ codes, as they were made popular by the Epson LQ series of dot matrix printers, even though ESC/P was introduced long before LQ printers.
Variants
There are several variants of ESC/P, as not all printers implement all commands.
ESC/P J84 adds special support for Japanese computers.
ESC/P2 is a more recent variant of ESC/P by Epson. ESC/P2 is backward compatible with ESC/P, but adds commands for new printer features such as scalable fonts and enhanced graphics printing.
ESC/P-R is a variant now used by Epson on many inkjet printers.
ESC/POS is a variant for controlling receipt printers as commonly used at the point of sale (POS).
ESC/P-K adds special support for Chinese computers.
Current printers
As of 2014, few modern/office/consumer non-Epson printers use ESC/P; instead most are driven through a standardized page description language, usually PCL or PostScript, or they use proprietary protocols such as Hardware Code Pages.
Note many current clone thermal receipt printers still continue to use the ESC/POS command set.
All current Epson impact printers still support ESC/P
, all current Epson receipt/thermal printers support ESC/POS and some Epson Stylus inkjets still seem to be using some variant of ESC/P. See the Gutenprint (Gimp Print) project for source code examples.
See also
Hardware code page
Printer driver
CUPS Apple MacOS/Linux printing subsystem
References
External links
Epson ESC/P Reference Manual: Dec 1997, 2002 Addendum, June 2004
Epson Developer Site
List of Epson FX printer codes
Gutenprint CVSweb view of printers.xml
The Developer's Guide to Gutenprint, Chapter 5: ESC/P2
Source of Epson P-R driver for Linux
Epson ESC/P2 scalable fonts print sample (300dpi scan)
Page description languages
Epson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Kerala | Kerala, a state in Southern India, has a network of 11 National Highways, 72 State Highways and many district roads.
Features
Kerala has of roads, which accounts for 5.6% of India's total. This translates to about of road per thousand people, compared to an average of in the country. Roads in Kerala include of national highway; 1.6% of the nation's total, of state highway; 2.5% of the nation's total, of district roads; 4.7% of the nation's total, of urban (municipal) roads; 6.3% of the nation's total, and of rural roads; 3.8% of the nation's total. Most of Kerala's west coast is accessible through the NH 66 (previously NH 17 and 47); and the eastern side is accessible through state highways. New projects for hill and coastal highways were recently announced under KIIFB. National Highway 66, with the longest stretch of road () connects Kanyakumari to Mumbai; it enters Kerala via Talapady in Kasargod and passes through Kannur, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Guruvayur, Kochi, Alappuzha, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram before entering Tamil Nadu. Palakkad district is generally referred to as the Gateway of Kerala, due to the presence of the Palakkad Gap in the Western Ghats, through which the northern (Malabar) and southern (Travancore) parts of Kerala are connected to the rest of India via road and rail. The state's largest checkpoint, Walayar, is on NH 544, in the border town between Kerala and Tamil Nadu, through which a large amount of public and commercial transportation reaches the northern and central districts of Kerala. Kottayam has the maximum length of roads among the districts of Kerala, while Wayanad accounts for minimum.
Distribution of roads
Agency-wise by distribution
†NHAI maintains 444.9 km and Kerala PWD (NH) section maintains rest of the National Highways from direction of MORTH
National highways
Kerala has eight National Highways which run for about 1811.52 km. Kerala has narrower National Highways compared to other parts of India. Kerala is the only state, other than Goa, which has requested for narrower highways in the state. NHAI upgrades highways to a minimum 4-lane, 60-meter-wide, grade-separated highway or a better standard across India. But in Kerala, National Highways are being upgraded to 45-meter-wide highways. Previous Kerala State Government had requested the NHAI to reduce the width of National highways in the state to 30-meters, although neighbouring Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are upgrading their National Highways as 60-meters or more wider highways, with futuristic provision for 6/8-lane highway. The reason cited by the State Government was the difficulty and disinterest in Land Acquisition, which is the responsibility of the State Government. NHAI had stopped working on many of the highway widening/upgrade projects as there are opposition from the local population for highway widening. Among Kerala's districts, Ernakulam has the maximum length of National Highway, which accounts for 172.76 km. Wayanad has the min |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hart%20%28journalist%29 | John Hart (born February 1, 1932, Denver, Colorado) is a retired American television journalist who worked for several different television networks during the 1960s through the 1990s.
Career
First known to the American public as a correspondent for CBS News, Hart eventually became anchor of CBS Morning News program, broadcast from 1969 until 1973. Hart moved to NBC in 1975 where, in addition to general correspondent duties, he served as a substitute for John Chancellor as anchor of NBC Nightly News and anchor of NBC Nightly News weekend editions during much of the 1970s. He stayed with that network until 1988, when The Christian Science Monitor hired him as anchor of its cable television newscast, World Monitor, which aired on The Discovery Channel 1988–1991. He retired in 1991.
Among Hart's awards were Peabody, Overseas Press Club, Weintal, Edward R. Murrow, Christopher, ACE, Emmy.
He received a B.A. degree from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, in 1953. From 1954 to 1956 he served in the U.S. Army. From 1956 to 1960 he worked at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis; WSJV in Elkhart, Indiana; and KPOL radio in Los Angeles. While there he received his M.A. degree in journalism from UCLA (1959).
From 1960 to 1964 he was a writer/reporter for KNXT in Los Angeles. In 1964 he became bureau manager and correspondent of the CBS-owned television station news bureau in Washington, D.C. During 1965–1966 he covered the South for CBS News, followed by a six-month assignment in Vietnam. During 1968 he covered the presidential campaigns of Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
Hart joined NBC News as a political correspondent in February 1975, serving in the Washington, D.C. bureau. In January 1977 he became the national affairs correspondent. In November 1979 he was named chief European correspondent, based in London. That month he interviewed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran.
References
"Khomeini Interview: Networks Face Ethics Issue," New York Times, November 19, 1979
External links
Transcript of August 1970 interview of President Richard Nixon (with Bernard Kalb) for CBS
American television reporters and correspondents
American television news anchors
American male journalists
NBC News people
1932 births
Living people
Journalists from Colorado
CBS News people
20th-century American journalists
The Christian Science Monitor people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Fairclough | Dennis Fairclough is Deputy Chair/Professor at the Computing & Networking Sciences Department at Utah Valley University. He specializes in teaching Borland C++ Builder and Java.
Raised in Northern California, Fairclough earned a Ph.D. at Brigham Young University. He taught at BYU's department of electric engineering from 1976 to 1984. He was an architect of Wicat Systems and began the computer-related section at Eyring Research Institute. He subsequently founded Praxis Computer Systems and Icon Systems.
References
External links
UVU page
Novell NetWare
Living people
Utah Valley University faculty
Novell people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting%20attack | Squatting attack, in computer science, is a kind of DoS attack where a program interferes with another program through the use of shared synchronization objects in an unwanted or unexpected way.
That attack is known in the Microsoft Windows operating system, which offers named objects as an interprocess synchronization mechanism. With named objects, a process may open a synchronization object as a shared resource by just specifying a name. Subsequent processes may use the same name to open that resource and have a way to synchronize with the first process. The squatting attack is possible because, if the legitimate program does not enforce tight security rules for the resources, processes from arbitrary security contexts may gain access to them and ultimately take control of the system.
Consider, for example, antivirus software installed on a Microsoft Windows machine. The solution has two pieces: a service, which monitors and scans every file when it is opened, and a manual scanner, which scans the file system when a user requests it. Under normal conditions the service should scan the system occasionally. However, if a user requests a manual scan, the service must stop temporarily to let the manual scanner work, otherwise every file would be scanned twice: by the manual scanner and by the service. To solve this problem the vendor chooses to implement an event based synchronization mechanism, where the service keeps a named event opened and checks it whenever a file is opened. If the event is unset the file is scanned, otherwise it is ignored. The manual scanner, then, to operate, opens the named event, sets it before scanning (disabling the service), scans the file system and resets the event back when finished. This design is prone to a squatting attack because a malicious program can set the named event and disable the service completely.
Notes
References
Concurrency control
Denial-of-service attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiService%20Forum | The MultiService Forum, MSF, originally Multiservice Switching Forum, was a telecommunications industry association which promoted interoperability in the field of next generation networking products and services from 1998 to 2013. The open-member organization included equipment vendors such as AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, and Cisco Systems, fixed and mobile network operators such as Verizon, NTT, BT and Vodafone, and others. MSF produced Implementation Agreements, which specify the implementation of communication technologies, or their configuration for achieving interoperation.
Working groups
The Services Working Group (SWG) was formed to support communication service providers.
The Interoperability Working Group was formed to provide demonstrations of equipment and services working together.
External links
Multiservice Switching Forum web site
Telecommunications organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCD%20test | In compiler theory, a greatest common divisor test (GCD test) is the test used in study of loop optimization and loop dependence analysis to test the dependency between loop statements.
Description
A greatest common divisor (GCD) test is a test used in computer science compiler theory to study of loop optimization and loop dependence analysis to test the dependency between loop statements.
Use
Whenever a sequential loop like for loop is made to be parallel so that it can be executed on more than one processor—as in case of grid computing or cluster computing—then certain dependencies (e.g., testing the flow (true) dependence of a statement) are checked to know whether the loop can be parallelized. According to this test, by comparing the indices of two arrays present in two or more statements, it can be calculated whether it is legal to parallelize the loop or not.
Rationale
Theorem
A linear Diophantine equation
a1*x1 + a2*x2 +... + an*xn =c
has an integer solution x1, x2,..., xn iff GCD (a1,a2,.., an) divides c.
E.g.
2*x1 -2*x2 =1
GCD(2,-2) =2, 2 cannot divide 1. So, there is no integer solution for the equation above.
Dependency analysis
It is difficult to analyze array references in compile time to determine data dependency (whether they point to same address or not). A simple and sufficient test for the absence of a dependence is the greatest common divisor (GCD) test. It is based on the observation that if a loop carried dependency exists between X[a*i + b] and X[c*i + d] (where X is the array; a, b, c and d are integers, and i is the loop variable), then GCD (c, a) must divide (d – b). The assumption is that the loop must be normalized – written so that the loop index/variable starts at 1 and gets incremented by 1 in every iteration. For example, in the following loop, a=2, b=3, c=2, d=0 and GCD(a,c)=2 and (d-b) is -3. Since 2 does not divide -3, no dependence is possible.
for (i=1; i<=100; i++)
{
X[2*i+3] = X[2*i] + 50;
}
Process
Loop code in general:
for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
{
s1 a[x*i+k] = ...;
s2 ... = a[y*i+m];
}
To decide if there is loop carried dependence (two array references access the same memory location and one of them is a write operation) between a[x*i+k] and a[y*i+m], one usually needs to solve the equation
x*i1 +k = y*i2+m (Or x*i1 -y*i2 = m -k)
Where 0<=i1, i2 <n and i1 != i2.
If GCD(x,y) divides (m-k), then there may exist some dependency in the loop statement s1 and s2. If GCD(x,y) does not divide (m-k) then both statements are independent and can be executed at parallel. Similarly this test is conducted for all statements present in a given loop.
A concrete example source code in C would appear as:
for (int i=0; i<100; i++)
{
s1 a[2*i] = b[i];
s2 c[i] = a[4*i+1];
}
The GCD of (2,4) is 2 and dividend is 1. As 2 can not divide 1 properly (leaving remainder zero), there is no dependency between s1 and s2 and various other loop transformation methods can be appl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHLK-FM | CHLK-FM, branded as Lake 88.1, is a Canadian radio station offering an adult contemporary format with a focus on local/regional news programming broadcasting at 88.1 FM in Perth, Ontario. The station was founded by Norm Wright and Brian Perkin in 2007. The station is located at 43 Wilson Street West in the town of Perth, while the antenna is at the top of a Bell Mobility cell tower located at the edge of town on Sproule Road off Lanark Road 511, approximately north of Dufferin Street (Highway 7).
The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on March 14, 2006 and began its first official broadcast day on August 10, 2007 at 6:00am. On December 13, 2010, the station received approval from the CRTC to increase the average effective radiated power (ERP) from 700 to 2,800 watts (maximum ERP from 1,350 to 5,400 watts with an average height of antenna above average terrain of 91.5 metres). Lake 88.1 increased its signal strength at 12:10pm on April 12, 2011. In 2014, Norm Wright retired and sold his shares to partner Brian Perkin and his wife Jennifer Perkin.
CHLK-FM receives interference from WSLZ on 88.1 FM out of Cape Vincent, New York in the Westport and areas north of Kingston.
On February 26, 2021, Brian Perkin (Perth FM Radio Inc.), the owner of CHLK-FM "Lake 88.1" Perth, Ontario sold the station to My Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) and was approved by the CRTC on March 12, 2021.
References
External links
Lake 88.1
Hlk
Hlk
Radio stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamandag | (International title: Venom) is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based from the graphic novel of Carlo J. Caparas. Directed by Mark A. Reyes and Topel Lee, it stars Richard Gutierrez in the title role. It premiered on November 19, 2007 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on April 25, 2008 with a total of 113 episodes. It was replaced by Dyesebel in its timeslot.
Pre-production
The first project of Eula Valdez under GMA Network.
For Richard Gutierrez's preparation for the series, he trained under Ultimate Fighting Championship's Brandon Vera to master Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu. The cast went to acting workshops at University of the East.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gutierrez as Vergel / Kamandag
Supporting cast
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Lucero Serrano / Talim
Jewel Mische as Jenny
Maxene Magalona as Lily
Ehra Madrigal / Anne Chennette T. Rodriguez (young) as Ditas / Denise / Lady Kamandag
Eula Valdez / Glaiza de Castro (young) as Alicia
Johnny Delgado as Budol
Zoren Legaspi as Gulag
Ariel Rivera as Abdon Serrano
Ronaldo Valdez / Ramon Christopher Gutierrez (young) as Pepe
Francine Prieto as Kuran
Rainier Castillo as Ikoy
Francis Magundayao as Boyong / Dagok
Melissa Mendez as Elena
Benjie Paras as Dinggol
Elvis Gutierrez as Agol
Pekto as Doro
Gardo Versoza as Saban
Emilio Garcia as Domeng
Sunshine Dizon as Ragona
Guest cast
Afi Africa as Afie
Rhea Nakpil as Bea
Renz Valerio as young Vergel
Alessandra de Rossi as Eleanor
Glydel Mercado as Vivian
Michelle Madrigal as Eliza
Bryan Revilla as Adlak
Ram Revilla as Harn
Maureen Larrazabal as Cathy
Michael Flores as Sahir
Dominic Roco as Pigo
Karylle as Spectra
Alyssa Alano as Reyna Baba
Ynez Veneracion as Jaimee
Saab Magalona as Eleanor's friend
Kevin Santos as Randy
Anne Chennette T. Rodriguez as young Ditas
Sam Bumatay as young Baya
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 42.7% rating. While the final episode scored a 38.1% rating. The series had its highest rating on February 26, 2008 and March 7, 2008 with a 43.6% rating. The special, Ang Bagsik ni Kamandag garnered a 29.0% rating.
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZRW | Lempel–Ziv Ross Williams (LZRW) refers to variants of the LZ77 lossless data compression algorithms with an emphasis on improving compression speed through the use of hash tables and other techniques. This family was explored by Ross Williams, who published a series of algorithms beginning with LZRW1 in 1991.
The variants are:
LZRW1
LZRW1-A
LZRW2
LZRW3
LZRW3-A
LZRW4
LZRW5
The LZJB algorithm used in ZFS is derived from LZRW1.
Notes
Lossless compression algorithms
Free data compression software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%20and%20the%20Chipmunks%20%28film%29 | Alvin and the Chipmunks is a 2007 American live-action/computer animated jukebox musical comedy film directed by Tim Hill. Based on the characters of the same name created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr., the film stars Jason Lee, David Cross and Cameron Richardson, while Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney voice the titular Chipmunks. The film follows the Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon, and Theodore) who move in with struggling songwriter Dave Seville after they lose their home. When Dave discovers they have rare singing talent, he has them perform in front of JETT Records executive Ian Hawke, who then plans to trick them into living with him to profit off their success with a world tour.
It was released worldwide on December 14, and it was produced by Fox 2000 Pictures, Regency Enterprises and Bagdasarian Productions. It received generally negative reviews from critics. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus criticizes the film's humor and "rehashed kids' movie formula". Alvin and the Chipmunks grossed $361 million worldwide on a budget of $60 million and was the seventh-best-selling DVD of 2008.
Alvin and the Chipmunks is the first film starring Alvin and the Chipmunks since Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks was released in 2003, as that film features puppetry used for the Chipmunks and this film features CGI used for them. The film was followed by three sequels: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009), Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011), and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015).
Plot
Talking chipmunk brothers Alvin, Simon, and Theodore reside in a fir tree alone, after their parents left them to fend for themselves. The tree is cut down and driven to Los Angeles after JETT Records purchases it as a Christmas tree. Struggling songwriter and composer David Seville has his latest demo rejected by their chief executive, Ian Hawke who was his college roommate. Hawke suggests that Dave quit writing songs. The Chipmunks hop into a basket of muffins that Dave stole from one of Ian's co-workers and follow Dave home.
Dave discovers the Chipmunks in his home. He forces them to leave, but then he hears them sing "Only You (And You Alone)" and "Funkytown". Dave makes a deal with the Chipmunks to sing songs that he writes in exchange for shelter. Later, when Dave tries to present the Chipmunks to Ian, they fail to sing because of stage fright. The day worsens as Dave is dismissed from his advertising job due to the Chipmunks having unknowingly ruined his presentation boards by drawing and writing on them. While hosting dinner with former girlfriend Claire, Dave struggles to hide the Chipmunks after Alvin attempts to create a romantic atmosphere, making Claire uncomfortable and causing her to leave. As an apology to Dave, the Chipmunks go to Ian's lavish mansion, where they sing Dave's song, prompting Ian to sign a record deal.
The Chipmunks quickly become an international success. Dave, concerned for their well-being, insists that the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP%20slide | In computer security, a NOP slide, NOP sled or NOP ramp is a sequence of NOP (no-operation) instructions meant to "slide" the CPU's instruction execution flow to its final, desired destination whenever the program branches to a memory address anywhere on the slide.
The technique sees common usage in software exploits, where it is used to direct program execution when a branch instruction target is not known precisely. Other notable applications include defensive programming strategies such as EMC-aware programming.
While a NOP slide will function if it consists of a list of canonical NOP instructions, the presence of such code is suspicious and easy to automatically detect. For this reason, practical NOP slides are often composed of non-canonical NOP instructions (such as moving a register to itself or adding zero), or of instructions that affect program state only inconsequentially, which makes them much more difficult to identify.
A NOP-sled is the oldest and most widely known technique for exploiting stack buffer overflows. It solves the problem of finding the exact address of the buffer by effectively increasing the size of the target area. To do this, much larger sections of the stack are corrupted with the no-op machine instruction. At the end of the attacker-supplied data, after the no-op instructions, the attacker places an instruction to perform a relative jump to the top of the buffer where the shellcode is located. This collection of no-ops is referred to as the "NOP-sled" because if the return address is overwritten with any address within the no-op region of the buffer, the execution will "slide" down the no-ops until it is redirected to the actual malicious code by the jump at the end. This technique requires the attacker to guess where on the stack the NOP-sled is instead of the comparatively small shellcode.
Because of the popularity of this technique, many vendors of intrusion prevention systems will search for this pattern of no-op machine instructions in an attempt to detect shellcode in use. It is important to note that a NOP-sled does not necessarily contain only traditional no-op machine instructions; any instruction that does not corrupt the machine state to a point where the shellcode will not run can be used in place of the hardware assisted no-op. As a result, it has become common practice for exploit writers to compose the no-op sled with randomly chosen instructions which will have no real effect on the shellcode execution.
While this method greatly improves the chances that an attack will be successful, it is not without problems. Exploits using this technique still must rely on some amount of luck that they will guess offsets on the stack that are within the NOP-sled region. An incorrect guess will usually result in the target program crashing and could alert the system administrator to the attacker's activities. Another problem is that the NOP-sled requires a much larger amount of memory in which to hold a NOP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Squires | Roger Squires (22 February 1932 – 1 June 2023) was a British crossword compiler/setter, who lived in Ironbridge, Shropshire. He was best known for being the world's most prolific compiler. He compiled under the pseudonym Rufus in The Guardian, Dante in The Financial Times and was the Monday setter for the Daily Telegraph.
Early life
Squires was born in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton on 22 February 1932. educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School where he gained his School Certificate before joining the Royal Navy at age 15 as a Boy Seaman.
Squires served 15 years in the Fleet Air Arm, in which he trained as an observer and gained commission as its youngest ever officer and visited 44 countries, including being in the first aircraft to land in Port Said in the 1956 Suez Crisis. In March 1961 he survived an aircraft crash in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Ceylon, escaping from his Gannet AEW 60 feet below the sea surface and qualifying to become a member of the Goldfish Club (for survivors of aircraft ditchings).
Squires wrote, produced and appeared in a number of shows for the forces during his service. A keen sportsman, Squires represented the Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm at football and cricket and became a qualified Football Association Coach and Referee.
His first published puzzle appeared in 1963, the year that he left the Navy and briefly worked as an entertainments manager for Butlin's, in the Wolverhampton Express & Star. The first national was the Radio Times, and in the same year he became a regular compiler with the Birmingham Post. He then started compiling for syndicates that supplied puzzles for newspapers in the UK and abroad.
Career
In 1981 Squires joined The Guardian, the Times Educational Supplement,"The Glasgow Herald" and Financial Times and became the Birmingham Post crossword editor for 22 years. In 1986 he joined the Daily Telegraph and The Independent. He compiled for The Sun (1992–1998), The Times (1993–2005) and the Times Educational Supplement (1981–2006). He has set crosswords under pseudonyms including Rufus, Dante, Icarus, Hodge and Bower.
In 1990 he captained the Great Britain crossword team in the 12 nation International Crossword Marathon in Bjelovar, Yugoslavia.
He registered his company name of "Cryptic Crosswords" in the early 1970s.
Squires published over 70,000 crosswords in total, and on 14 May 2007 what was estimated to be his two millionth clue was published in the Daily Telegraph. The clue was 'Two girls, one on each knee (7)'.
He was recognised by Guinness World Records as "The World's Most Prolific Crossword Compiler". He appeared in the Guinness Book of Records from 1978 until all crossword records were dropped in 2002. An update to December 2005 was included in the 2008 print edition.
His puzzles appeared in 32 countries outside the UK. In 2013, he celebrated his 50th year as a professional setter, on the same day as the Crossword's First Centenary. By 30 June 2013 he had compiled 74,634 cross |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCentral | UCentral is the student media network at the University of Central Oklahoma, featuring traditional media and new media created by students majoring in professional media. UCentral Radio, Ucentral News, and the Vista fall under the umbrella of the UCentral Student Media Network.
UCentral is located within the Department of Mass Communication at the University of Central Oklahoma.
TV and Netcasts
UCentral features several HDTV and netcast programs such as UCentral News, produced by broadcast-news students, and "Above The Fold", which is produced by the Vista Staff.
TV and Netcast History
Starting in 1976 as KCSU-TV, UCentral has featured several programs such as UCentral News, the daily student newscast; The Huddle, a weekly football highlight program during the fall; Conspiracy Weekly, an in-depth look at untold truths; Cup of Joe Quiz Show, a light-hearted, trivia-based game show with a prize; and TBSR, a focus on UCO players during the spring semester. The newscast is still being produced, but the netcasts previously listed have been retired. Students are encouraged every semester to write and produce new netcasts as part of their curriculum.
Newspaper
The Vista, established in 1903 as the student newspaper of the University of Central Oklahoma, is the longest, continually published student newspaper in the state of Oklahoma. Distributed weekly free of charge on the UCO campus, The Vista serves as an integral part of the journalism experience and education of Mass Communication Department students. The Vista, published as an independent student publication, serves as a news and information source and public forum for the UCO community. Current stories are updated daily on social media and ucentralmedia.com, in addition to past issues of the paper available in The Vista Archives section at ucentralmedia.com.
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Radio
UCentral Radio is the student radio station in Edmond, Oklahoma, on the campus of The University of Central Oklahoma. UCentral Radio applied for an LPFM license in November 2013 and was awarded a Construction Permit by FCC for 99.3 FM on February 24, 2015. It reserved the call letters KZUC.
Station History
A previous radio entity (from 1966 until 2014) at the university was KCSC, its call letters stemming from the university's former name, Central State College. In 2014, the call letters were changed to KUCO to reflect the university's (relatively) new name. The station serves now as a full-time classical music station.
References
Television stations in Oklahoma
Radio stations in Oklahoma
University of Central Oklahoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroform%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on chloroform.
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 and follow its directions.
SIRI
Science Stuff
Fisher Scientific
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 44th ed.
Distillation data
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolos%20de%20Juventud | Idolos de Juventud (Youth Idols) was a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo.
This limited-run series about a fictional pop-music reality show in Mexico it was set to debuts during the summer of 2008, airing weekdays from 7-8 p.m. the plan was to air it in the US with only a single 30-second commercial per episode—and instead feature pervasive product placement woven into each episode.
Telemundo was expected to air 40 episodes of this short-form novela on weeknights over about eight weeks. As with most of its other soap operas, the network was set to broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Aurelio Valcárcel Carroll was the executive producer and the cast includes Karla Díaz-Leal, Marcela Garcia, Patricia Sirvent, Eduardo Cuervo and Jencarlos Canela. The show is shot at Telemundo Studios, Miami.
Story
This summary is based on Telemundo's May upfront presentation. Storylines may change dramatically by the time this series airs.
The series features Ramón Armendariz, a handsome pop music producer who launches the careers of Mexico’s hottest singers, including that of his beautiful wife Gloria. Their combined egos wreck their relationship, however, making their marriage unhappy. As his wife's star is falling, he devises a spectacular American Idol-style reality show to find a new singing sensation.
He discovers two vivacious, passionate stars who fall madly in love on stage. Valentín is a handsome, yet determined young man from humble roots who never needs an excuse to sing. Victoria is an adorable young singer whose beauty matches her voice.
Destiny unites these two stars, but their passion faces a major test. Gloria demands Valentín’s attention, leading him to a new life that spins out of control. Love must survive the trials of fame.
Product placement
Telemundo will air several seven packages of product placements instead of regular commercials. Only one 30-second spot will appear during each episodes, either near the very beginning or end of the show. It will use three types of product insertion, each more expensive than the other:
Passive integration is when a product simply appears on-camera during a scene.
Active integration refers to a scene where a character interacts with a product.
Storyline integration refers to a product becoming part of the show's plot.
Telemundo wants to retain viewers who might ordinarily tune away or fast-forward during commercial breaks. Network executives plan to sign deals for all seven packages by early next year, then the show's writers will write scripts that integrate the sponsor's products. They also say Idolos will still be a quality show—and that the ads will be subtle enough that the serial is watchable.
Cast
Héctor Soberón
Karla Díaz-Leal
Marcela Garcia
Eduardo Cuervo
Jencarlos Canela
Patricia Sirvent
Cancellation
The production released a teaser displaying the characters and the reality show in it known as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecados%20ajenos | Pecados ajenos (A Chance to Love, literally "Other people's sins") is a Spanish-language telenovela written by Eric Vonn and produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This limited-run series was shot in Florida by Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is also known as A Chance to Love
Pecados Ajenos replaced Amor Mío in Telemundo's 10 p.m. (ET/PT) time slot on October 8, 2007. Lorena Rojas and Mauricio Islas were paired together for the first time in this saga of love, marriage, betrayal, parenthood, friendship and passion.
It stars Lorena Rojas and Mauricio Islas; With the antagonistic participations of Sonya Smith, Catherine Siachoque, Ariel López Padilla, Lupita Ferrer and Sebastián Ligarde with the stellar performances of Alicia Plaza, Carlos Camacho, Mildred Quiroz, Chela Arias, Raúl Izaguirre, Maritza Rodríguez, Hannah Zea, Jencarlos Canela, Mariana Torres, Alonso Espeleta, Pablo Portillo, Roberto Plantier, Tali Duclaud and Ximena Duque.
The show was launched, for example, in Poland on Puls TV and in Romania on Acasa TV.
In Georgia, channel Rustavi 2 broadcast the novel.
Vonn penned this urban melodrama set in West Palm Beach and Pompano Beach. It features star-crossed lovers who fall in love at the worst possible moment. The show dealt with topics such as homosexuality and homophobia in Hispanic culture, date rape and marital rape, drug addiction and alcoholism, domestic violence, prostitution, abortion, incest, the dangers of religious fanaticism, illegal immigration, mental disorders like schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder, animal cruelty, and the corruption and abuse in women's prisons.
As with most of its telenovelas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Many scenes were shot on location in Virginia Key.
Telemundo's Story Synopsis
Natalia and Adrián are strangers who live in different cities but discover in an instant that they belong together. They were both married to other spouses for more than twenty years, and each has two beautiful young children. Their lives are quite similar—and both are unhappy and frustrated. Destiny brings the two together when they are each on the verge of divorce.
When the pair falls madly in love, they face opposition from Elena (Adrián Matia's hysterical, paranoid and resentful wife), Rogelio, Natalia alcoholic husband who humiliates her, and Inés, who envies and hates Natalia while pretending to be her friend. Meanwhile, Ágata, Natalia's despotic mother-in-law, terrorizes the heroine's life and has stripped her of the fortune which she inherited from her parents. Ágata teams up with Manuel, a treacherous and ambitious villain, to plot Natalia's worst tragedy: separating her from her most beloved treasure, her children.
Natalia and Adrián search for love, companionship, and fulfillment on a road full of bitterness, disappointment and misunderstanding. Their story is closely related to that of their respective children. They must find l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las%20Brujas%20de%20South%20Beach | Las Brujas De South Beach (The Witches of South Beach) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. It stars Natalia Streignard, Ana Lucía Domínguez, Jullye Giliberti and Catherine Siachoque as four alluring women who were sisters in a past life. This fantasy melodrama was expected to debut in 2009, but the project was cancelled.
Cast
Natalia Streignard - Lola
Jullye Giliberti - Catalina
Ana Lucía Domínguez - Eva
Catherine Siachoque - Damaris
José Ángel Llamas -
References
External links
Telemundo teaser trailer (Spanish with English subtitles)
Preview Clips from pilot. (Telemundo)
Unaired television pilots
Telemundo telenovelas
Television series by Universal Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Geophysics | The Institute of Geophysics () is the name of a scientific institute in Iran.
The Institute of Geophysics manages Iran's national seismic data, and directs Iran's national calendar, which is based on the Solar calendar. The authoring of Iran's official lunar and solar calendars each year is specifically headed by Dr. Iraj Malekpour, a faculty member of Tehran University.
The Institute of Geophysics was established as part of Tehran University by Hossein Kashi Afshar in 1957. The institute's grounds was where the United States had facilities based for seismically monitoring the Soviet Union's nuclear testing programs.
The institute currently trains Ph.D students in Meteorology, Seismology, Electromagnetics, and Gravimetry, and is still affiliated with the University of Tehran.
See also
The Physical Society of Iran
External links
Official website
Geophysics
Geophysics
Earth science research institutes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevio | Mevio Inc. (formerly known as PodShow) was an American internet entertainment network, founded in San Francisco, California in October 2004 by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom.
History
PodShow Inc. was founded in San Francisco, California in October 2004 by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom, as a digital media network, with the aim of helping people publish and market their podcasts, and to help listeners find podcasts that suit their interests.
In August 2005, PodShow received about $8.85 million in Venture Capital from the Sand Hill Road firms Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Sherpalo Ventures.
On August 23, 2005, PodShow announced the launch of the Podsafe Music Network. The site allows musicians or record labels to upload podsafe music into their system so that podcasters may download it for use on their podcasts, as well as the ability to sell music to listeners.
In September 2005, PodShow acquired Podcast Alley, a directory that can be used to help people find and subscribe to podcasts.
In February 2006, Curry announced Podshow L.A., a production division being set up by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff. In September, BT PodShow, a service co-branded with British Telecom was launched for the UK and Ireland. On September 29, 2006, PodShow Inc. announced that the company had raised a second round of venture funding from new and original investors, totaling $15 million, led by DAG Ventures.
In July 2008, mevio secured $15 million in a Series C funding round led by Crosslink Capital and including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Sherpalo Ventures, and DAG Ventures. Mevio intends to use the investment to continue expansion of its broadband entertainment offering and to launch new vertical entertainment networks.
In December 2012, it was reported that Mevio's co-founder Ron Bloom was to move the company to Hollywood, California under the new name Bitesize Entertainment. Bitesize acquired an 8,000 sq.ft. studio space at the W Hotel at Hollywood and Vine and was to create a "set of channels geared towards a mainstream audience."
In April 2014, Mevio ceased operation and closed down their service, giving content creators and broadcasters 10 days to migrate their feeds and content to an alternative platform before losing it permanently. The website went offline, with no statement from the company.
In March 2016, Mevio's successor Bitesize Networks Inc. was fined for breach of contract after it failed to pay Vertamedia LLC for generating internet traffic for Mevio in 2013. Bitesize was soon purchased by American television broadcaster Media General, and produced the syndicated series Hollywood Today Live for Media General and Fox Television Stations from the Hollywood and Vine studios. It was de facto shut down at the end of April 2017, when Nexstar Media Group merged with Media General and immediately shut down all of Bitesize's operations, as it considered the entire enterprise to be out of format with its broadcasting operations.
Podcasts
Me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski%20Resort%20Extreme | Ski Resort Extreme is a computer simulation game which puts the player in charge of creating and running a ski resort. It was developed and released in 2004 by Cat Daddy Games who also developed the very similar Ski Resort Tycoon and Ski Resort Tycoon II.
Ski Resort Extreme puts the player in the shoes of a ski resort developer whose aim is to attract varied groups of skiers and snowboarders by catering to their needs and expectations, be it ski runs, equipment, entertainment or amenities.
Resorts may be started from scratch, with more or less money depending on the difficulty level. Alternatively, players may take challenges where the task is to fix the problems of an existing resort in a specified period of time.
The game also allows the player to create a terrain with the map editor, with the option to import one's own height map.
External links
2004 video games
Business simulation games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Skiing mass media
Global Star Software games
Single-player video games
Cat Daddy Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bird | Richard Bird may refer to:
Richard Bird (actor) (1895–1979), British actor
Richard Ely Bird (1878–1955), American politician
Richard Bird (computer scientist) (1943–2022), professor at Oxford
Richard Real Bird, American politician and former chairman of the Crow Nation of Montana
Richard A. Bird (born 1940), American politician
Dickie Bird (born 1933), English cricket umpire
See also
Richard Birde (disambiguation)
Richard Byrd (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985%20in%20radio | The year 1985 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
January – "Solid Gold Country," the United Stations Programming Network’s country music spinoff of its oldies-focused "Solid Gold Scrapbook," switches from a three-hour-a-week show (from its debut in 1983) to a five-day-a-week program (with the option to air all five hours in as a weekly program). Under the new format, each hourly program covered a different topic, such as a profile on a singer, songwriter or producer; a look back at the popular songs from the current week in a past year, gold records from the current month and other topics under virtually every conceivable topic. Stan Martin (and a few weeks into the reformatted program) Joel Sebastian are the initial hosts under the new format, with Sebastian succeeded by Mike Fitzgerald in July 1985; Fitzgerald stepped down in early 1990, with Charlie Cook taking over for the rest of the run. Producer remains Ed Salamon, with country music journalist Tom Roland continuing as lead writer. The program will run through September 1993 and air roughly 2,300 one-hour shows.
January 1 – CKLW Windsor, Ontario adopts the Music of Your Life format.
February – A fire in downtown Clinton, Iowa destroys the studios for KROS (1340 AM) and KSAY (96.1 FM), knocking both stations off the air for several days. When the station returned to the air in a new studio, the first program was a two-hour show devoted to the fire and volunteers that helped get KROS/KSAY back on the air.
March 28 – A Roger Waters concert is broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall. It is the first time that holophonics is used for a live radio broadcast.
September 14/15 - Airdate of the famed "dead dog dedication" episode of American Top 40. During the recording, host Casey Kasem became upset after realizing that a "Long Distance Dedication" requesting a ballad ("Shannon" by Henry Gross) was in his opinion improperly programmed after an upbeat song ("Dare Me" by The Pointer Sisters) and went on a profanity-laced tirade. The aired program did not include Kasem's rant, although the outtake has been uploaded to various video sharing sites.
The year brings other significant changes in Detroit radio, as WDRQ flips from urban contemporary to soft AC as WLTI, and WCLS flips from AC to rock-based Top 40 as WDTX.
Debuts
WZLX (100.7 FM) in Boston debuts with the classic rock format.
Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich debuts with Bit, byte, gebissen, the first radio program on computer topics in Germany.
In July, after stunting with Christmas carols, WKJJ-FM "Magic 100" Louisville, Kentucky flips from Adult Contemporary to CHR as WDJX.
WJJF/1180-Hope Valley, Rhode Island signs on October 5.
Births
December 17: Greg James, English DJ
Deaths
February 26: Charita Bauer, American radio and television actress.
October 15: Ted Steele, American bandleader, musician and host of radio and television programs.
See also
Radio broadcasting
References
Radio by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECIT | ECIT (The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology) was established in 2003 at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) under the leadership of Professor Sir John V. McCanny CBE FRS FREng MRIA. Professor Máire O'Neill (FIAE, MRIA) was appointed Acting Director in August 2019.
Its three research centres cover areas such as cyber security, wireless, data science and scalable computing.
The institute is home to The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), the Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) and the Centre for Data Science and Scalable Computing (DSSC).
CSIT is an Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) and was established in 2009 with over £30M initial funding. It is the UK's largest university cyber security research lab, and is acknowledged by the UK NCSC as an Academic Centre of Excellence.
Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) was ranked 28th globally in the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects in Telecommunication Engineering having ascended 35 places on the 2018 ranking. This places CWI at 5th in Europe and 2nd in UK in Telecommunication Engineering for 2019.
ECIT is located at Catalyst Inc, Belfast, and the Titanic Dock is nearly 50 meters away from the ECIT main entrance.
References
External links
The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology
Queen's University Belfast
Catalyst Inc
Computer science institutes in the United Kingdom
Cybercrime in the United Kingdom
Engineering universities and colleges in the United Kingdom
Queen's University Belfast
2003 establishments in Northern Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20schema | In databases, relational schema may refer to
a database schema, in the relational paradigm
a (single) relation schema
Database schema. ... The term "schema" refers to the organization of data as a blueprint of how the database is constructed (divided into database tables in the case of relational databases). The formal definition of a database schema is a set of formulas (sentences) called integrity constraints imposed on a database. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland%E2%80%93Hodgman%20algorithm | The Sutherland–Hodgman algorithm is an algorithm used for clipping polygons. It works by extending each line of the convex clip polygon in turn and selecting only vertices from the subject polygon that are on the visible side.
Description
The algorithm begins with an input list of all vertices in the subject polygon. Next, one side of the clip polygon is extended infinitely in both directions, and the path of the subject polygon is traversed. Vertices from the input list are inserted into an output list if they lie on the visible side of the extended clip polygon line, and new vertices are added to the output list where the subject polygon path crosses the extended clip polygon line.
This process is repeated iteratively for each clip polygon side, using the output list from one stage as the input list for the next. Once all sides of the clip polygon have been processed, the final generated list of vertices defines a new single polygon that is entirely visible. Note that if the subject polygon was concave at vertices outside the clipping polygon, the new polygon may have coincident (i.e., overlapping) edges – this is acceptable for rendering, but not for other applications such as computing shadows.
The Weiler–Atherton algorithm overcomes this by returning a set of divided polygons, but is more complex and computationally more expensive, so Sutherland–Hodgman is used for many rendering applications. Sutherland–Hodgman can also be extended into 3D space by clipping the polygon paths based on the boundaries of planes defined by the viewing space.
Pseudocode
Given a list of edges in a clip polygon, and a list of vertices in a subject polygon, the following procedure clips the subject polygon against the clip polygon.
List outputList = subjectPolygon;
for (Edge clipEdge in clipPolygon) do
List inputList = outputList;
outputList.clear();
for (int i = 0; i < inputList.count; i += 1) do
Point current_point = inputList[i];
Point prev_point = inputList[(i − 1) % inputList.count];
Point Intersecting_point = ComputeIntersection(prev_point, current_point, clipEdge)
if (current_point inside clipEdge) then
if (prev_point not inside clipEdge) then
outputList.add(Intersecting_point);
end if
outputList.add(current_point);
else if (prev_point inside clipEdge) then
outputList.add(Intersecting_point);
end if
done
done
The vertices of the clipped polygon are to be found in outputList when the algorithm terminates. Note that a point is defined as being inside an edge if it lies on the same side of the edge as the remainder of the polygon. If the vertices of the clip polygon are consistently listed in a counter-clockwise direction, then this is equivalent to testing whether the point lies to the left of the line (left means inside, while right means outside), and can be implemented simply by using a cros |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stub%20%28distributed%20computing%29 | In distributed computing, a stub is a program that acts as a temporary replacement for a remote service or object. It allows the client application to access a service as if it were local, while hiding the details of the underlying network communication. This can simplify the development process, as the client application does not need to be aware of the complexities of distributed computing. Instead, it can rely on the stub to handle the remote communication, while providing a familiar interface for the developer to work with.
Application
The stub represents a remote object or service on a local system. It acts as a proxy for the remote service and allows the client program to make method calls on the remote object as if it were local. The process of generating stubs involves creating a client-side proxy object that provides the same interface as the remote service, but routes method calls to the actual remote object.
In distributed computing, a stub is a piece of code that converts parameters passed between the client and server during a remote procedure call (RPC). The main purpose of an RPC is to allow a local computer (client) to invoke procedures on a remote computer (server). Since the client and server have different address spaces, the parameters used in a function call must be converted. Otherwise, the parameter values would be unusable because pointers to parameters in one computer's memory would reference different data on the other computer. Also, the client and server can have different data representations, even for simple parameters like integers (e.g., big-endian versus little-endian). Stubs handle parameter conversion, making a remote procedure call look like a local function call to the remote computer.
Stub libraries are crucial in distributed computing, as they allow for local procedure calls to be made to remote objects or services. The client-side stub or proxy is responsible for converting the parameters used in a function call and deconverting the results returned by the server after executing the function, a process known as marshalling. The stub libraries must be installed on both the client and server, with the server-side stub, or server skeleton, being responsible for deconverting the parameters passed by the client and converting the results after executing the function. In virtual testing environments, stubs are used to simulate distributed computing, allowing for more efficient and effective verification of software updates in variant-rich automotive systems.[4]
Steps to writing tests with stubs
To write tests with stubs, follow these steps:
Identify the external components or services that the component being tested relies on to function correctly.[2] or manually create stubs versions of the dependencies that return predefined values or responses when called by the component under test.
Write test cases for the component, using the stubs instead of the actual dependencies.[2]
Set up the test environment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20Wisconsin | Bally Sports Wisconsin (BSWI) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. Operating as the "Wisconsin" sub-feed of Fox Sports North until 2007, the channel was known as Fox Sports Wisconsin until 2021. It broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout the state of Wisconsin, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Milwaukee, namely the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball and the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. It primarily operates from a studio/office facility in downtown Milwaukee, with secondary offices and production studio/office hub based in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Bally Sports Wisconsin is available on cable providers throughout Wisconsin, extreme eastern Minnesota, the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, northwestern Illinois, and Iowa; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
Bally Sports Wisconsin broadcasts 2,600 hours of locally produced programming per year and reaches more than 1.7 million homes.
History
Origins
The first effort to air the Bucks and Brewers on cable, Sportsvue in 1984, was hampered by multiple factors, including dispersed systems and uncabled parts of the state of Wisconsin (including Milwaukee itself), team nadirs for the Bucks and Brewers, and territory invasion by the Chicago Cubs via the distribution of WGN-TV throughout the state. Sportsvue was discontinued at the beginning of 1985 and resulted in the sale of the Bucks to future senator Herb Kohl. In the meantime, the Bucks and Brewers returned to a statewide broadcast network originated by Gaylord Broadcasting's WVTV, and later WCGV-TV, which was hampered by the two teams limiting their schedule to mainly road games.
Wisconsin Sports Network (unrelated to the current-day high school-focused sports publishing operation), a gametime-only network that broadcast Milwaukee Brewers baseball and Milwaukee Bucks basketball games. The channel was owned by Time Warner Cable's Milwaukee franchise and Group W. In 1996, it was taken over by the Minneapolis-based Midwest Sports Channel (MSC), which was owned by CBS (as a result of CBS' 1995 merger with Group W's corporate parent Westinghouse). Shortly afterward, MSC became an affiliate of the fledgling Fox Sports Net in the fall of 1996.
From then on until 2007, Wisconsin was served by one of three regional subfeeds of MSC/FSN North; the other two being a feed for the Twin Cities metropolitan area and a feed for the rest of Minnesota (as well as Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota). CBS sold the network to News Corporation in 2000, ultimately rebranding as FSN North in April 2001. Despite being well out of the station's market area, MSC's late night encore of WCCO's 10:00 p.m. newscast also aired on the Wisconsin network until the Fox purchase. The network then began maintaining offices at the studios of Fox owned-and-operated station WITI (channel 6, now an affiliate o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLIFF | XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) is an XML-based bitext format created to standardize the way localizable data are passed between and among tools during a localization process and a common format for CAT tool exchange. The XLIFF Technical Committee (TC) first convened at OASIS in December 2001 (first meeting in January 2002), but the first fully ratified version of XLIFF appeared as XLIFF Version 1.2 in February 2008. Its current specification is v2.1 released on 2018-02-13, which is backwards compatible with v2.0 released on 2014-08-05.
The specification is aimed at the localization industry. It specifies elements and attributes to store content extracted from various original file formats and its corresponding translation. The goal was to abstract the localization skills from the engineering skills related to specific formats such as HTML.
XLIFF is part of the Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization (OAXAL) reference architecture.
XLIFF 2.0 and higher (the current OASIS ratified format)
The XLIFF Technical Committee is currently preparing to start working on XLIFF Version 2.2.
Prior to making of the major new version 2.0, feedback was gathered from XLIFF's user community which was integrated into the following generation version of the standard. Two of the primary methods used included compiling a list of extensions used by XLIFF toolmakers, and compiling a list of XLIFF features supported by each XLIFF tool.
Makers of XLIFF tools have taken advantage of XLIFF's extensibility mechanism in order to implement a number of features. By collecting a list of these extension points and analyzing them for common tasks, the XLIFF TC hopes to improve the XLIFF 2.0 Specification to include mechanisms that will enable the toolmakers to support these features without using extensibility.
Makers of XLIFF tools have supported different sets of features in the XLIFF 1.2 Specification. By compiling a list of these features, the XLIFF TC hopes to identify areas where the XLIFF 2.0 Specification can be improved to enable toolmakers to more widely support the specification.
On February 13, 2018 XLIFF 2.1 specification became an OASIS Standard.
In November, 2017 XLIFF 2.0 specification was approved as ISO 21720:2017.
On August 6, 2014 the XLIFF 2.0 specification became an OASIS Standard.
On May 6, 2014, the XLIFF 2.0 specification was moved to Candidate OASIS Standard.
Example of an XLIFF 2.0 document:
<xliff xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:2.0" version="2.0"
srcLang="en-US" trgLang="ja-JP">
<file id="f1" original="Graphic Example.psd">
<skeleton href="Graphic Example.psd.skl"/>
<unit id="1">
<segment>
<source>Quetzal</source>
<target>Quetzal</target>
</segment>
</unit>
<unit id="2">
<segment>
<source>An application to manipulate and process XLIFF documents</source>
<target>XLIFF 文書を編集、または処理 するアプリケーションです。</target>
</segment>
</unit>
<unit id="3">
<segment>
<source>X |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%20%28computer%20memory%29 | A page, memory page, or virtual page is a fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory, described by a single entry in the page table. It is the smallest unit of data for memory management in a virtual memory operating system. Similarly, a page frame is the smallest fixed-length contiguous block of physical memory into which memory pages are mapped by the operating system.
A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as a hard disk drive, is referred to as paging or swapping.
Explanation
Computer memory is divided into pages so that information can be found more quickly.
The concept is named by analogy to the pages of a printed book. If a reader wanted to find, for example, the 5,000th word in the book, they could count from the first word. This would be time-consuming. It would be much faster if the reader had a listing of how many words are on each page. From this listing they could determine which page the 5,000th word appears on, and how many words to count on that page. This listing of the words per page of the book is analogous to a page table of a computer file system.
Page size
Page size trade-off
Page size is usually determined by the processor architecture. Traditionally, pages in a system had uniform size, such as 4,096 bytes. However, processor designs often allow two or more, sometimes simultaneous, page sizes due to its benefits. There are several points that can factor into choosing the best page size.
Page table size
A system with a smaller page size uses more pages, requiring a page table that occupies more space. For example, if a 232 virtual address space is mapped to 4 KiB (212 bytes) pages, the number of virtual pages is 220 = (232 / 212). However, if the page size is increased to 32 KiB (215 bytes), only 217 pages are required. A multi-level paging algorithm can decrease the memory cost of allocating a large page table for each process by further dividing the page table up into smaller tables, effectively paging the page table.
TLB usage
Since every access to memory must be mapped from virtual to physical address, reading the page table every time can be quite costly. Therefore, a very fast kind of cache, the translation lookaside buffer (TLB), is often used. The TLB is of limited size, and when it cannot satisfy a given request (a TLB miss) the page tables must be searched manually (either in hardware or software, depending on the architecture) for the correct mapping. Larger page sizes mean that a TLB cache of the same size can keep track of larger amounts of memory, which avoids the costly TLB misses.
Internal fragmentation
Rarely do processes require the use of an exact number of pages. As a result, the last page will likely only be partially full, wasting some amount of memory. Larger page sizes lead to a large amount of wasted memory, as more potentially unused portions of memory are loaded into the main memory. Smaller page sizes ensure a closer match to the actual amount of memo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20record | In computer science, a storage record is:
A group of related data, words, or fields treated as a meaningful unit; for instance, a Name, Address, and Telephone Number can be a "Personal Record".
A self-contained collection of information about a single object; a record is made up of a number of distinct items, called fields.
In IBM mainframes, a record is a basic unit of device-to-program data transfers. Mainframe files, properly called data sets, are traditionally structured collections of records, as opposed to modern byte stream access files. Records may have a fixed length or variable length.
In Unix-like systems, a number of programs (for example, awk, join, and sort) are designed to process data consisting of records (called lines) each separated by newlines, where each record may contain a number of fields separated by spaces, commas, or some other character.
See also
Block (data storage)
Object composition
Record (computer science)
Row (database)
User-defined type
Computer data storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud.tv | bud.tv was a marketing venture of the Anheuser-Busch brewing company (the manufacturers of the Budweiser beer brand) in the form of an online entertainment network. The project, which was launched in February 2007 just after the American Super Bowl, was rumored to cost more than $30 million in its first year. The head of the project, as well as its originator, was Jim Schumacker, an executive at A-B.
The first attempt by a consumer product company to launch a full-scale TV network with original long-form programming online, the project was met with great anticipation and interest among media and marketing professionals. It failed to attract the expected number of visitors in its first month of operation, however.
In May 2007, A-B contemplated changing strategies to make their content more portable and accessible to users. Rather than forcing users to come to the site, A-B worked on distribution initiatives with partners to email alerts to fans when and where content is airing.
Despite expectations that it might fold by the year's end, Bud.tv lasted until February 2009 before finally shutting down. Possible causes for the site's initial low viewership include a lack of compelling content, the inability to easily share content, and a difficult-to-use age verification system. The site's age verification firewall required users to enter personal information from government-issued identification, such as driver's license, before registering in order to discourage under-aged visitors. The site was "sunsetted" in February 2009, officially due to the cost, effort and focus required to maintain an entertainment site of this scale.
Programming
The original content on bud.tv ranged from sports to sci-fi to drama, but focused primarily on comedy. Writers tapped for bud.tv came from Saturday Night Live and The Howard Stern Show, and deals were made with such Hollywood players as Vince Vaughn, Kevin Spacey, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, in addition to sportscaster Joe Buck and race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. bud.tv's original programming has included a comedy named "Replaced by a Chimp," a story about an everyday hero starring Tim Meadows entitled, "Ice Vision and Chef," and a show called "Future Man" starring Chris Parnell and Kevin Farley.
Concerns initially arose from critics arguing that the site would be advertising beer and drinking to underage viewers, but according to Robert C. Lachky, executive vice president for global industry development and chief creative officer at Anheuser-Busch, the original programming available on bud.tv has "nothing to do with (Anheuser-Busch's) brands." The content makes little mention of Budweiser products at all. The breakout hit for the site came in the form of a discarded Super Bowl commercial entitled "Swear Jar" which, at the time, increased traffic by 50%.
The strategy behind this kind of original content created by companies or advertisers is to reach the exact audience segment intended for a given pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping%20the%20Atari | Mapping the Atari, written by Ian Chadwick and published by COMPUTE! Publications in 1983, is a location-by-location explanation of the memory layout of the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. The introduction is by Optimized Systems Software co-founder Bill Wilkinson.
The book covers the 64K address space of the system's 6502 processor from low to high, including addresses used by the operating system or mapped to hardware registers, as well as how to use them. For example, location 756 (2F4) CHBAS contains the starting memory address that tells ANTIC where to find the character set. The author explains how to use this feature to build custom character sets.
An updated version covering changes to the operating system and newer machines like the 130XE followed in 1985. Antic magazine serialized the book in 1989 and 1990.
Reception
The Addison-Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984 recommended Mapping the Atari, calling it "the most valuable reference book for machine language programmers".
Antic stated when serializing the book:
References
External links
1983 non-fiction books
Atari 8-bit family
Computer books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molekel | Molekel is a free software multiplatform molecular visualization program. It was originally developed at the University of Geneva by Peter F. Flükiger in the 1990s for Silicon Graphics Computers. In 1998, Stefan Portmann took over responsibility and released Version 3.0. Version 4.0 was a nearly platform independent version. Further developments lead to version 4.3, before Stefan Portmann moved on and ceased to develop the codes. In 2006, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) restarted the project and version 5.0 was released on 21 December 2006.
Molekel uses VTK and Qwt and therefore as well Qt.
Major features
Visualization of residues (ribbon or schematic)
Complete control over the generation of molecular surfaces (bounding box and resolution)
Visualization of the following surfaces:
orbitals
Isosurface from electron density data
Isosurface from Gaussian cube grid data
Solvent-accessible surface (SAS)
Solvent excluded surface (SES)
Van der Waals radii
Animation of molecular surfaces
Export to PostScript or TIFF
See also
Gabedit
List of molecular graphics systems
Molden
Molecular graphics
Software for molecular mechanics modeling
SAMSON
List of free and open-source software packages
References
External links
Molekel home page
Chemistry software for Linux
Free chemistry software
Molecular modelling software
Science software that uses Qt
Software that uses VTK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Magician | The HTC Magician is a Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition PDA-phone, manufactured by High Tech Computer Corporation and released in December 2004. It is sold by many different vendors under the names of Qtek S100, O2 Xda II Mini (Asia), O2 Xda mini (Germany), T-Mobile MDA compact, i-mate JAM, Vodafone VPA Compact, Dopod 818, Krome Spy, and Orange SPV M500. Despite the names and appearances all have the same hardware specifications. The i-mate Jam has a slightly different fascia which requires modification to be retrofitted to other magicians.
Among the first generation of Pocket PC phone devices to be designed with a small form factor, the Magician received much interest from consumers and largely positive comments from reviewers. As the O2 XDA II Mini, it received an "excellent" rating from CNET Asia, scoring 8.3 out of 10 points as well as winning CNET Asia's 2005 Reader's Choice Awards.
References
External links
HTC Magician at XDA-Developers Wiki
Magician
Mobile phones introduced in 2005
Windows Mobile Professional devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComputerWare | ComputerWare: The MacSource was a chain of ten Macintosh-only retail stores in the greater San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California founded by Karim Khashoggi and Drew Munster. At one time, they were the largest Macintosh-only reseller in the United States. Guy Kawasaki mentions ComputerWare a number of times in his book, The Macintosh Way. Besides the ten stores, ComputerWare also had a headquarters that held international, direct, and corporate sales departments, and at one time had a full hardware repair depot and various training centers on the Bay Area.
History
The first ComputerWare store was opened on California Avenue in Palo Alto in 1985 by Drew Munster and Karim Khashoggi. They later hired Derek Van Atta as store manager. ComputerWare was originally incorporated as Lightning Development, doing business as ComputerWare; later the corporation was reorganized as ComputerWest dba ComputerWare after David Lipson bought the company from the original founders.
The Corporate Sales department was formed in 1987.
In 1988 a separate Headquarters was set up at 2800 West Bayshore Avenue in Palo Alto to house administrative, hardware repair, Corporate Sales, and other departments that were out-growing the floor above the Palo Alto retail storefront.
In May 1989, ComputerWare expanded to two stores with the opening of their Sunnyvale store on Lawrence Expressway near Fry's Electronics. Then three more stores were opened in rapid succession: the San Francisco store was opened in November in the heart of the financial district. Stores 4 and 5 were opened in December 1989 by acquisitions of MacOrchard in Berkeley and the Computer Center of Santa Cruz.
August 1990 brought a sixth store in San Rafael through acquisition of MacGarden. This location was still in the Macintosh-only retail business as the Marin Mac Shop until mid-2010 when it closed.
Two new stores opened in 1992: a seventh store was opened in Dublin in October, and then in November store number eight opened in Sunnyvale on El Camino Real through acquisition of MacShop.
The hardware repair depot was moved out into its own building, across 101 on East Bayshore from the corporate headquarters in 1993.
1994 brought about the last store openings, building the ComputerWare retail chain to its height of ten stores. The San Mateo location opened in March on El Camino Real, and the Walnut Creek store was opened in December. April of that same year also brought about the move of one of the two Sunnyvale stores (the El Camino MacShop location) to Santa Clara, thereby solidifying full Bay Area coverage.
In November 1995 the lease ran out on the Palo Alto headquarters location, and a larger facility that could house both the headquarters, warehouse, and hardware repair depot was found at 605 West California Avenue in Sunnyvale.
ComputerWare UK
ComputerWare UK, a distribution business in the UK, was founded in 1992, and although some of their products are Apple compatible, such as trackbal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4llestad%20Runestones | The Hällestad Runestones are three runestones located in the walls of Hällestad Church in Torna-Hällestad, about 20 kilometers east of Lund in Skåne, southern Sweden. Their Rundata identifiers are DR 295, 296, and 297. DR 295 is notable because it is held to be raised in memory of a warrior who fell in the legendary Battle of the Fýrisvellir, near Uppsala, Sweden between the Jomsvikings led by Styrbjörn the Strong and Styrbjörn's uncle Eric the Victorious, the king of Sweden, c. 985. The other stones were raised by the same people, and they probably formed a monument together in memory of comrades lost in the battle. The Karlevi Runestone, the Egtved Runestone and the Sjörup Runestone may be connected to them.
DR 295
This sandstone runestone, which is walled into the south-western corner of the church of Hällestad, has been known since the late 17th century. The inscription begins in the left row on the front side and follows the boustrophedon order of reading. The inscription is dated to the late 10th century, and shows an early dotted k-rune which represents the g-phoneme in aigi It also contains an unusual dotted m-rune (), which is however only for decorative purposes since it does not change the pronunciation (compare the Transjö Runestone). An interesting detail is the fact that it calls Toki Gormsson "brother", which should be interpreted as "brother-in-arms" and not a biological brother. The Viking Age warbands consisted of brotherhoods, where each member had equal worth, including the warchief who in this case was Toki Gormsson. Toki was probably the son of the Danish king Gorm the Old, who died c. 958 or 959. This Toki is not remembered by the Norse sagas but, unlike the sagas, the runestones constitute contemporary documentation. Also notable is that the stone reports that the men went closest to Toki, meaning that the best warriors formed a shield circle around the warchief during battle in order to show fealty to their leader (compare with the Kålsta Runestone). The hill which is referred to was probably a barrow in which the brothers-in-arms buried Toki according to the traditions of the time.
Transliteration
A : askil : sati : stin : þansi : ift[iʀ] ¶ : tuka : kurms : sun : saʀ : hulan : ¶ trutin : saʀ : flu : aigi : at : ub:¶:salum
B satu : trikaʀ : iftiʀ : sin : bruþr ¶ stin : o : biarki : stuþan : runum : þiʀ :
C (k)(u)(r)(m)(s) (:) (t)(u)(k)(a) : kiku : (n)(i)(s)(t)[iʀ]
Transcription
A Æskel satti sten þænsi æftiʀ Toka Gorms sun, seʀ hullan drottin. Saʀ flo ægi at Upsalum
B sattu drængiaʀ æftiʀ sin broþur sten a biargi støþan runum. Þeʀ
C Gorms Toka gingu næstiʀ.
Translation
A Áskell placed this stone in memory of Tóki Gormr's son, to him a faithful lord. He did not flee at Uppsala.
B Valiant men placed in memory of their brother the stone on the hill, steadied by runes. They
C went closest to Gormr's Tóki.
DR 296
This runestone is contemporary with the preceding runestone and it is made of granite. The inscription refer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgg%20%28disambiguation%29 | Elgg may refer to:
Elgg, a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland
Elgg railway station
Elgg Castle
Elgg (software), an open source social networking platform
See also
Eigg (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s%20Honour%20%28TV%20programme%29 | Sharpe's Honour is a 1994 British television drama, the fifth of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. It is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.
Plot
In 1813, Napoleon is reeling from his disastrous invasion of Russia the year before, and Lord Wellington is preparing to drive the French out of Spain. Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean) is mourning the death of his wife Teresa.
Sharpe's archenemy, French Major Ducos (Feodor Atkine), proposes a plan to his emperor to split the alliance between Spain and England (and gain revenge on Sharpe). He has a French spy, la Marquesa (Alice Krige), write a letter to her Spanish husband claiming that Sharpe tried to force his unwanted attentions on her. Sharpe is forced into a duel with the outraged nobleman, but the fight is broken up by Wellington's men. Later that night, while he is sleeping, the Spaniard has his throat cut by El Matarife (Matthew Scurfield), a partisan leader. Sharpe is framed for the murder and is sentenced to hang. To placate his Spanish allies, Wellington is forced to go along.
Major Nairn (Michael Byrne), Wellington's spymaster, arranges for another condemned soldier to be executed (keeping spectators at a distance so the switch can remain undetected), while he sends Sharpe and Sergeant Harper (Daragh O'Malley) to find out what is going on. Meanwhile, Father Hacha (Nickolas Grace) and his brother El Matarife, Ducos' co-conspirators, abduct la Marquesa and imprison her in a nunnery to tie up loose ends. Sharpe learns of this and frees her, only to be chased by El Matarife and his men.
Sharpe is captured by a French patrol and taken to Ducos. The gloating Frenchman tells Sharpe that his duel and the murder of the nobleman has made it possible to negotiate a vital peace treaty with King Ferdinand VII of Spain; the British army will be forced to leave the country. Harper and the rest of Sharpe's "chosen men" infiltrate the French prison in disguise and rescue their commander, just in time for him to play a pivotal role in the British victory at the Battle of Vitoria. Sharpe finds El Matarife at the end of the battle, fights him man to man, and forces him to confess in front of Spanish and British witnesses. El Matarife then tries to stab Sharpe in the back, but is shot by a Spanish major, who now clearly believes Sharpe. With his plot in ruins, Ducos kills Father Hacha.
In his attempt to flee from the advancing British, the arrogant Ducos is hauled from his horse by the routed French soldiers and is shot and left to die (but survives to bedevil Sharpe in the future).
Cast
Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe
Daragh O'Malley as Sergeant Patrick Harper
Hugh Fraser as Lord Wellington
Michael Byrne as Major Nairn
Alice Krige as La Marquesa
Féodor Atkine as Major Pierre Ducos
Nickolas Grace as Father Hacha
Michael Mears as Rifleman Francis Cooper
John Tams as Rifleman Dani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WisconsinEye | WisconsinEye is a non-profit, private public affairs cable network in the state of Wisconsin, United States. The network airs gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Wisconsin Legislature, including floor sessions of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin State Senate, plus committee meetings and other programs of state interest such as panels, town halls, and programs about state history. The coverage is available live both on the cable network as well as through the WisconsinEye website.
The channel has partnered with Charter's Spectrum (made up of the legacy Time Warner and Charter systems within the state) in order to reach over 60 percent of the state's population, and is available on the lifeline tier for all viewers. The channel began operations in May 2007, and although the network's signal is 480i standard definition, all programming is acquired in 1080p with high-definition television (HD) cameras and equipment and presented in letterboxed format, suggesting a simple transition to an HD signal should the opportunity arise; the air feed on the network's website, along with the Spectrum TV app (access to which was added in July 2023) broadcasts in its native format. In the summer of 2019, the channel was converted to a forced widescreen mode, filling a 16:9 screen, albeit still in standard definition on cable.
Like most state public affairs networks and C-SPAN, WisconsinEye has a strict license regarding use of state legislature and other network footage in any way other than for reference purposes and disallows it from being used in political advertising, an issue which came to the forefront with a Green Bay-targeted ad by a Planned Parenthood political action committee using the network's footage in September 2013.
The channel was removed from Time Warner at the end of the original carriage agreement in early 2009 due to the network wanting payment for carriage, but eventually returned to that provider's systems in late March 2012. Time Warner and Charter merged in May 2016, making Charter's merged "Spectrum" service the dominant carrier of the network through the state.
The non-profit is financed by private donors from all sectors and political persuasions, including the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, the Argosy Foundation, The Capital Times/Evjue Foundation, Phil Hendrickson, Terry and Mary Kohler, Madison Gas and Electric, Kwik Trip, Acuity Insurance, the Helen Bader Foundation, 5Nines Technology, Yahara Software, and Wisconsin billionaires Ken and Diane Hendricks, who have contributed more than US$1 million.
References
External links
WisconsinEye
Wisconsin State Assembly
Wisconsin State Senate
Wisconsin Legislature
Legislature broadcasters in the United States
Television networks in the United States
Commercial-free television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television stations in Wisconsin
Television stations in Madison, Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-child%20right-sibling%20binary%20tree | Every multi-way or k-ary tree structure studied in computer science admits a representation as a binary tree, which goes by various names including child-sibling representation, left-child, right-sibling binary tree, doubly chained tree or filial-heir chain.
In a binary tree that represents a multi-way tree , each node corresponds to a node in and has two pointers: one to the node's first child, and one to its next sibling in . The children of a node thus form a singly-linked list. To find a node 's 'th child, one needs to traverse this list:
procedure kth-child(n, k):
child ← n.child
while k ≠ 0 and child ≠ nil:
child ← child.next-sibling
k ← k − 1
return child // may return nil
The process of converting from a k-ary tree to an LC-RS binary tree is sometimes called the Knuth transform. To form a binary tree from an arbitrary k-ary tree by this method, the root of the original tree is made the root of the binary tree. Then, starting with the root, each node's leftmost child in the original tree is made its left child in the binary tree, and its nearest sibling to the right in the original tree is made its right child in the binary tree.
Doubly chained trees were described by Edward H. Sussenguth in 1963.
Processing a k-ary tree to LC-RS binary tree, every node is linked and aligned with the left child, and the next nearest is a sibling. For example, we have a ternary tree below:
1
/|\
/ | \
/ | \
2 3 4
/ \ |
5 6 7
/ \
8 9
We can re-write it by putting the left child node to one level below its parents and by putting the sibling next to the child at the same level it will be linear (same line).
1
/
/
/
2---3---4
/ /
5---6 7
/
8---9
We can transform this tree to a binary tree by turning each sibling 45° clockwise.
1
/
2
/ \
5 3
\ \
6 4
/
7
/
8
\
9
Use cases
The LCRS representation is more space-efficient than a traditional multiway tree, but comes at the cost that looking up a node's children by index becomes slower. Therefore, the LCRS representation is preferable if
Memory efficiency is a concern, and/or
Random access of a node's children is not required.
Case (1) applies when large multi-way trees are necessary, especially when the trees contains a large set of data. For example, if storing a phylogenetic tree, the LCRS representation might be suitable.
Case (2) arises in specialized data structures in which the tree structure is being used in very specific way |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20Position%20Location%20Reporting%20System | The Enhanced Position Location Reporting System (EPLRS) is a secure, jam-resistant, computer-controlled communications network that distributes near real-time tactical information, generally integrated into radio sets, and coordinated by a Network Control Station. It is primarily used for data distribution, position location, and reporting. It enhances command and control of tactical units by providing commanders with the location of friendly units. It was first fielded by the US Army in 1987.
EPLRS is a Time Division Multiple Access System that uses a frequency hopping, spread spectrum waveform in the UHF band. It incorporates the Thornton family of COMSEC devices, and has the capability for Over the Air Rekeying (OTAR). EPLRS uses the Army Data Distribution System version of the X.25 CCITT and IEEE 802.3 protocols to interface with Army Tactical Command and Control System (ATCCS).
Situation Awareness Data Link (SADL), installed on USAF F-16 and A-10 fighters, coordinates with EPLRS for ground support missions.
Network Control Station
Each network is controlled by a Network Control Station (NCS), AN/TSQ-158. These have gone through several iterations.
First Gen
1 AN/UYK-7 computer
3 AN/UYK-20 computers
Second Gen
1 AN/UYK-7 computer
3 AN/UYK-44(V) computers
Third Gen
Downsized version to fit in HMMWV, first fielded in 1991. Dimensions: 8.5'x7'x6', 4000 lbs
1 AN/UYK-44(V) Enhanced Processor (EP) computer
Fourth Gen
The AN/TSQ-158(V)4 is produced by Raytheon. Housed in a HMMWV replacing the AN/UYK-44 computer with a Toughbook laptop computer. Data is displayed through the FBCB2 platform.
Sources
Military electronics of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid%20Nation | Kid Nation is an American reality television show hosted by Jonathan Karsh that premiered on the CBS network on September 19, 2007 created by Tom Forman Productions and Endemol USA. The program was originally scheduled to air in mid-2007.
In the show, the children try to create a functioning society in the town, including setting up a government system with minimal adult help and supervision.
On May 14, 2008, CBS officially canceled the series after one season.
In 2020, the series generated a renewed interest with mixed reviews as many YouTube members independently reviewed, discussed, and commented on each of the thirteen original episodes. It has since become a cult TV series. In addition, many former members of the show gave interviews and commentary of their own during that time.
Synopsis
The show, featuring 40 children and adolescents aged 8 to 15, was filmed on location at the Bonanza Creek Movie Ranch, a privately owned town built on the ruins of Bonanza City, New Mexico, 13 miles south of Santa Fe.
The show stresses the difficulty in creating a viable society. While each child received $5,000 for their involvement, Gold Stars valued at $20,000 and $50,000 were awarded to select outstanding participants as decided by the elected Town Council.
Speaking before an audience of television reviewers, producer Tom Forman acknowledged that Kid Nation would inevitably share some elements with William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, which depicted planewrecked children without adult supervision. Adults were present off-camera during production, including cameramen, producers, a medic, and a child psychologist, although all interacted with the children as little as possible. Participants also missed a month of school, but Forman suggested that such real-world tasks as preparing a group breakfast, doing physical chores like fetching water, and making group decisions constituted an educational experience in its own right. Forman said that all participants were cleared by a team of psychologists and any child could choose to go home during any of the periodical town meetings, which three did.
Episodes
These gold stars were worth $50,000 and were awarded at the final town hall meeting.
Participants
The participants of Kid Nation consist of 40 kids, whose ages ranged from 8 to 15. The following table lists each child's district color (including change if applicable), age at the onset of the show, home state, the terms they held in Town Council, the day they received a gold star, when they left Bonanza City and any applicable notes.
Original district
Final district color or black, with N/A (Not Applicable) if participant left the show
These gold stars were worth $50,000 () and were awarded at the final town hall meeting.
Reception
Pre-premiere
Ahead of its premiere, the show proved to be the most controversial of the upcoming fall 2007 season, even though the only actual footage seen was a four-minute promo running on television and t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20graph | In mathematics and physics, a quantum graph is a linear, network-shaped structure of vertices connected on edges (i.e., a graph) in which each edge is given a length and where a differential (or pseudo-differential) equation is posed on each edge. An example would be a power network consisting of power lines (edges) connected at transformer stations (vertices); the differential equations would then describe the voltage along each of the lines, with boundary conditions for each edge provided at the adjacent vertices ensuring that the current added over all edges adds to zero at each vertex.
Quantum graphs were first studied by Linus Pauling as models of free electrons in organic molecules in the 1930s. They also arise in a variety of mathematical contexts, e.g. as model systems in quantum chaos, in the study of waveguides, in photonic crystals and in Anderson localization, or as limit on shrinking thin wires. Quantum graphs have become prominent models in mesoscopic physics used to obtain a theoretical understanding of nanotechnology. Another, more simple notion of quantum graphs was introduced by Freedman et al.
Aside from actually solving the differential equations posed on a quantum graph for purposes of concrete applications, typical questions that arise are those of controllability (what inputs have to be provided to bring the system into a desired state, for example providing sufficient power to all houses on a power network) and identifiability (how and where one has to measure something to obtain a complete picture of the state of the system, for example measuring the pressure of a water pipe network to determine whether or not there is a leaking pipe).
Metric graphs
A metric graph
is a graph consisting of a set of vertices and
a set of edges where each edge has been associated
with an interval so that is the coordinate on the
interval, the vertex corresponds to and
to or vice versa. The choice of which vertex lies at zero is
arbitrary with the alternative corresponding to a change of coordinate on the
edge.
The graph has a natural metric: for two
points on the graph, is
the shortest distance between them
where distance is measured along the edges of the graph.
Open graphs: in the combinatorial graph model
edges always join pairs of vertices however in a quantum graph one may also
consider semi-infinite edges. These are edges associated with the interval
attached to a single vertex at .
A graph with one or more
such open edges is referred to as an open graph.
Quantum graphs
Quantum graphs are metric graphs equipped with a differential
(or pseudo-differential) operator acting on functions on the graph.
A function on a metric graph is defined as the -tuple of functions
on the intervals.
The Hilbert space of the graph is
where the inner product of two functions is
may be infinite in the case of an open edge. The simplest example of an operator on a metric graph is the Laplace operator. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Data%20Magazine | IBM Data magazine is a U.S.-based custom, online magazine published by TDA Group for IBM Corp. With a worldwide readership of more than 100,000, the magazine provides how-to information about Db2, Informix, UniVerse, and UniData, along with coverage of related tools, software, and solutions (including those that fall under IBM's Information On Demand initiative).
The magazine was established in 1996 as DB2 Magazine. It was acquired in 2001 by the IBM Corporation. In 2008, the magazine's name changed to IBM Database Magazine before later changing to IBM Data Management magazine in 2009 when it switched publishers. With a worldwide readership of more than 100,000, the magazine provides how-to information about IBM information management software, including the IBM Db2, Informix, UniVerse, and UniData data servers, and related tools, software, and solutions (including those that fall under IBM's Information On Demand initiative). The publication was renamed to IBM Data magazine in 2012 to reflect the magazine's shift to cover more of IBM's data management product portfolio.
History
DB2 Magazines 1996 launch coincided with the beta program for IBM's DB2 Universal Database (UDB), which combined DB2 version 2 with DB2 Parallel Edition and is the precursor of the hybrid XML-relational DB2 9.
Originally published by Miller Freeman, Inc., the magazine was created by David Stodder, then editor of Miller Freeman's Database Programming and Design magazine. Stodder went on to launch Intelligent Enterprise magazine with the editors of DBMS magazine and served as editorial director of both Intelligent Enterprise and DB2 Magazine until he left CMP Technology in 2007. Current editor Kim Moutsos joined the magazine as associate editor in 1998 and assumed the editor-in-chief position in 2001.
Over the past decade, the focus of the magazine's technical articles, primarily written by DBAs, developers, consultants, and other industry experts, has expanded to include topics such as business intelligence and analytics, content management and information discovery, and information integration. In 2005, the magazine introduced coverage of the Informix technologies that IBM acquired in 2001.
In 2008, the magazine and Web site relaunched as IBM Database Magazine, to reflect its coverage of multiple IBM database products.
In 2009, the magazine and Web site relaunched as IBM Data Management magazine, to reflect its coverage of the entire IBM Data Management portfolio.
In 2012, the publication was renamed to IBM Data magazine to reflect the magazine's shift to cover more of IBM's data management product portfolio.
DB2 Magazine Community Wiki
In May, 2007 DB2 Magazine launched a community wiki as part of a major site redesign. The community wiki is intended to provide a place for readers to share tips and tricks for working with IBM information management software. The wiki's mission is "to gather DB2, Informix, U2, Cloudscape and other IBM information management kn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alloy%20%28specification%20language%29 | In computer science and software engineering, Alloy is a declarative specification language for expressing complex structural constraints and behavior in a software system. Alloy provides a simple structural modeling tool based on first-order logic. Alloy is targeted at the creation of micro-models that can then be automatically checked for correctness. Alloy specifications can be checked using the Alloy Analyzer.
Although Alloy is designed with automatic analysis in mind, Alloy differs from many specification languages designed for model-checking in that it permits the definition of infinite models. The Alloy Analyzer is designed to perform finite scope checks even on infinite models.
The Alloy language and analyzer are developed by a team led by Daniel Jackson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
History and influences
The first version of the Alloy language appeared in 1997. It was a rather limited object modeling language. Succeeding iterations of the language "added quantifiers, higher arity relations, polymorphism, subtyping, and signatures".
The mathematical underpinnings of the language were heavily influenced by the Z notation, and the syntax of Alloy owes more to languages such as Object Constraint Language.
The Alloy Analyzer
The Alloy Analyzer was specifically developed to support so-called "lightweight formal methods". As such, it is intended to provide fully automated analysis, in contrast to the interactive theorem proving techniques commonly used with specification languages similar to Alloy. Development of the Analyzer was originally inspired by the automated analysis provided by model checkers. However, model-checking is ill-suited to the kind of models that are typically developed in Alloy, and as a result the core of the Analyzer was eventually implemented as a model-finder built atop a boolean SAT solver.
Through version 3.0, the Alloy Analyzer incorporated an integral SAT-based model-finder based on an off-the-shelf SAT-solver. However, as of version 4.0 the Analyzer makes use of the Kodkod model-finder, for which the Analyzer acts as a front-end. Both model-finders essentially translate a model expressed in relational logic into a corresponding boolean logic formula, and then invoke an off-the-shelf SAT-solver on the boolean formula. In the event that the solver finds a solution, the result is translated back into a corresponding binding of constants to variables in the relational logic model.
In order to ensure the model-finding problem is decidable, the Alloy Analyzer performs model-finding over restricted scopes consisting of a user-defined finite number of objects. This has the effect of limiting the generality of the results produced by the Analyzer. However, the designers of the Alloy Analyzer justify the decision to work within limited scopes through an appeal to the small scope hypothesis: that a high proportion of bugs can be found by testing a program for all test inputs w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20de%20donn%C3%A9es%20astronomiques%20de%20Strasbourg | The Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS; English translation: Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre) is a data centre which collects and distributes astronomical information
. It was established in 1972 under the name Centre de Données Stellaires by the National Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (INAG). The on-line services currently provided by the CDS include:
SIMBAD, a database of astronomical objects. It's the main service for the identification and bibliography of astronomical objects, vizier, which collects astronomical catalogs and tables published in academic newspapers, and Aladdin, an interactive atlas of the sky that allows to visualize astronomical images from the soil and spatial observatories or supplied by the user, and data from CDS services or other databases such as NED.
VizieR, a service for astronomical catalogues and data associated with publications.
Aladin, an interactive sky atlas and image database.
X-Match, a catalogue cross-matching service.
This is one of the actors of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA), which develops the necessary standards to ensure the interoperability of archives and astronomical services.
The CDS mission is to:
collect useful information concerning astronomical objects that is available in computerized form;
upgrade these data by critical evaluations and comparisons;
distribute the results to the astronomical community;
conduct research, using these data.
On November 27, 2010, 9,591 catalogs were available via CDS, including:
8 971 available online (as ASCII or FITS files)
8 608 available through the Vizier service.
See also
Observatory of Strasbourg
References
External links
CDS home page
Computational astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB%20decoration | A USB decoration is a decorative device that uses the Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector for electrical power, and sometimes the protocol, on a computer or other host. In addition, some lightweight devices (e.g., a small lamp on a gooseneck stalk) use the USB connector itself for mechanical support.
History
Decorative computer peripherals have been around for a long time; in the days of CPU front panels, computer hackers would sometimes use them for entertaining or amusing "Blinkenlights" displays. Today, USB-powered decorations are the most prominently seen examples, since the popularity of USB lets them operate on most modern computers. The USB standard can also be used to power devices via AC adapters traditionally used for mobile devices, allowing manufacturers of these decorations worldwide compatibility without the need for any power converters for different socket form factors.
USB interface
Many USB decorations do not use the communications features of the USB bus, or fully comply with USB standard power discipline. This can interfere with the purposes for which the USB bus was designed, especially if the device suddenly attempts to draw the full 500 mA of power nominally available. The default power consumption is only 100 mA, which should not impact the computer's PSU if a device is suddenly connected without identifying itself first. A newly connected device is supposed to then use the USB protocol to communicate a request for more DC power, if needed.
Often, several decorations are connected to a single USB hub, which is limited to 400 mA if it has no external power connection and is drawing all its power from a host computer. With each device drawing 100 mA, it is therefore only possible to run four low-power decorations.
If instead a USB hub has an external power adapter, it may be able to support much higher power loads. In many cases, the powered hub may not even need to be connected to a computer host, but can serve as a stand-alone power source for USB decorations that need only DC power.
Decorative usage
USB decorations may have no useful functionality other than aesthetic ornamentation. For example, lights, lighted cables, displays, miniature disco balls, aquariums, terrariums, waterfalls, and pole dancers are all available in USB-powered versions.
Arguably, there are many USB-based decorations embedded in existing products—keyboards with impractical backlighting (such as ones that only turn on while pressing a key, and ones that flash to the beat of a song), mice that (when the computer is turned off) turn on/off their light to a pre-programmed beat, or printers that show random quotations on LCD screens when not in use.
A similar concept exists in the form of decorations that are powered by car adapter plugs. USB adapters for automobiles (and built-in USB ports in newer models) can also power USB decorations. Some USB devices can even be jury rigged to work on 12 volts with a simple resistor, in which is t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCOM%20U.S.%20Navy%20SEALs%3A%20Confrontation | SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Confrontation is a multiplayer tactical shooter video game developed by Slant Six Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3.
Confrontation came packaged with the PlayStation 3 Bluetooth headset or as a standalone game, and also released as a downloadable title from PlayStation Network. The player is able to customize their character, choosing from a list of predefined items.
Online multiplayer servers were originally shut down on January 28, 2014, along with the servers for SOCOM 4 U.S. Navy SEALs. In 2021, fans working to reverse engineer servers for defunct games made online play for the game possible again through private servers.
Gameplay
Confrontation focuses on online play. Teamwork is essential to success in the game, as this phrase says: "Alone I'm Lethal, as a team I Dominate". The player is able to customize their character, choosing from a list of pre-defined items, using mix and match. This includes armour (light, medium and heavy; both leg and torso; for commando and mercenary), camouflage (head, shirts, pants, armour, straps and mask), and weapons attachments (two slots, weapon specific; e.g. front grip and suppressor on the M4A1 assault rifle). The game features several playable special forces teams: the United States Navy SEALs, U.K.'s Special Air Service (SAS), Germany's Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK), Spain's Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE), and France's 1er Régiment de Parachutistes d'Infanterie de Marine (1er RPIMa).
Development and release
SOCOM: Confrontation was officially announced during Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) Gamers' Day on May 17, 2007, by Scott Steinberg, SCEA's Vice President of Product Marketing.
With the release of the SOCOM series website, it was announced that the game was scheduled to be released on September 16, 2008. However, SCEA Director of Development Seth Luisi announced that the game would be delayed one month so they can deliver "the best SOCOM online experience possible."
When Confrontation was released, the game was missing several features that were claimed on the cover of the box and in the manual. The game received a patch on January 9, 2009, version 1.30, which claimed to fix several issues including frame rate and invisible gun glitch, however some of these issues still remained. New features that were missing during release including trophy support were included with the patch. After the patch came out, online players increased by 50% and the number of players per hour increased 33%.
Sony turned off the servers on January 28, 2014.
PlayStation Home
Slant Six Games has released a themed space dedicated to SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation in the PlayStation 3's online community-based service, PlayStation Home. The space is called "SOCOM: Tactical Operations Center" (TOC). At this SOCOM strategy post, users are able to plot the next course of action with their friends by gathering around the "SOCOM Telestrator" t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milienne%20Moreau-Evrard | Émilienne Moreau-Evrard (4 June 1898 – 5 January 1971) was a French heroine of World War I, a high-profile female member of the "Brutus" Resistance network during World War II and later, a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly. Moreover, she is one of only six women recipients of the Ordre de la Libération.
Life
Émilienne Moreau was born on 4 June 1898 at Wingles, in the Pas-de-Calais département.
Shortly before the Germans invaded France in August 1914, her father Henri, a recently retired coal mining foreman, opened a grocery store in Loos, close to Lens. Émilienne, then 16 years old, was studying for her teacher's certification.
World War I
Émilienne Moreau witnessed the German invasion and the subsequent takeover of Loos. The French tried to take back the town but gave up in October 1914. After her father was arrested by the Germans for violating their strict curfew, Émilienne managed to get him released, but he died in December.
In February 1915, she created an improvised school for the local children in an abandoned house.
On 25 September 1915, Scottish soldiers of the Black Watch counter-attacked her village. Émilienne, only 17 years old, met with them to give soldiers the precise location of the Germans' position in a small, impregnable fort. Thanks to this information the Scottish soldiers were able to avoid the fort, which reduced the German effectiveness in this area of the battlefield and resulted in only a few casualties. Further to this attack, Émilienne organised a first aid post in her house, with the help of a Scottish doctor, to take care of the wounded.
As the Germans tried to retake the village, Émilienne saved a British soldier who was under fire. With the help of some wounded British soldiers, she threw grenades into the cellar of a neighboring house and killed the German soldiers who were hiding there. She later also shot two German soldiers. Eventually the village came under the sole control of the Allies.
After being evacuated, she was awarded the Croix de guerre with an army acknowledgement given directly by Marshal Ferdinand Foch, as well as the Croix du Combattant, given by the French Army.
She was also recognised by the British Army, who awarded her the Military Medal, the Royal Red Cross (first class), and the Venerable Order of Saint John. The Venerable Order of Saint John has only rarely been given to a woman.
Émilienne was personally invited to meet the President of the French Republic Raymond Poincaré, as well as the King of the United Kingdom, King George V.
The French newspaper Le Petit Parisien wrote about her exploits in detail, which made her a national hero. The army and the press used her image, along with descriptions comparing her to Joan of Arc to improve the morale of both civilians and soldiers.
An Australian-made movie entitled The Joan of Arc of Loos (1916) also recounted her accomplishments, but it received much criticism for the title's use of such a revered name.
After she g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology%20merging | Ontology merging defines the act of bringing together two conceptually divergent ontologies or the instance data associated to two ontologies. This is similar to work in database merging (schema matching). This merging process can be performed in a number of ways, manually, semi automatically, or automatically. Manual ontology merging although ideal is extremely labour-intensive and current research attempts to find semi or entirely automated techniques to merge ontologies. These techniques are statistically driven often taking into account similarity of concepts and raw similarity of instances through textual string metrics and semantic knowledge. These techniques are similar to those used in information integration employing string metrics from open source similarity libraries.
See also
Ontology mapping
Ontology-based data integration
Ontology (information science)
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In computer programming, transient is a property of any element in the system that is temporary. The term applies to transient applications, i.e. software for the end-user which is displayed with a transient application posture; transient data, which is discarded after it is no longer needed by the computation; and transient code which are subroutines or software components that are loaded in the system only for a fraction of the total run time.
Examples of applications of the term are described below.
Java
In the Java programming language, transient is a keyword used as a field modifier. When a field is declared transient, it would not be serialized even if the class to which it belongs is serialized. In Java, methods, classes and interfaces cannot be declared as transient, because they are never serialized.
In Hibernate and other persistence systems, transient describes an object that has been instantiated, but is not associated with a Hibernate session, i. e. the object resides in memory but is not being persisted.
X
In the X Window System, a window is said to be transient for another window if it belongs to that other window and may not outlast it: a dialog box, such as an alert message, is a common example. This should not be confused with a window containing another window: contained windows lie entirely within their parents, but transients are separate windows which can generally be moved freely around the screen. Transient windows may be treated specially by the window manager, and unlike top-level windows (which can require user placement, as in twm), must never require any user interaction on appearing.
Operating systems
Transient also refers to a module that, once loaded into main memory, is expected to remain in memory for a short time. Today, the term is rarely used, and may be obsolete. The term Overlay is commonly used instead, and refer to a program module that is brought to memory when it is needed by the running program and then replaced with another when it is no longer needed, so a program had lower memory requirements. Program modules were written to allow different modules to share the same memory region and the main program itself was responsible of exchanging modules between disk and memory as necessary.
In the mid-to-late 1960s, mainframe computers, such as the IBM System/360, had memory sizes from 8 KB to 512 KB. In order to conserve memory, transients were small modules that supported a specific task, and were swapped in and out of memory. The concept of transient area is part of Mythical Man-Month's discussion on design and the use of main memory. The operating system for the S/360 had two areas reserved for transients that supported input/output operations. These were referred to as the "logical transient area" and the "physical transient area." If an application program, for example, needed to use the printer, transients that supported printing were brought into the transient areas. If an application n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egress | Egress may refer to:
Data egress, data leaving a network in transit to an external location
Egress, the right of a person to leave a property
Egress (signal leakage), the passage of electromagnetic fields through the shield of a coaxial cable
Egress filtering, in computer networking, monitoring and/or restricting the flow of outbound information
Egress Software Technologies, a provider of data security services
Two of the four contacts observed during an astronomical transit
"The Hall of Egress", a television episode
See also
Egressive sound, a type of sound in human speech
Egressive case, a type of grammatical case
Exit (disambiguation)
Ingress (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20traffic | Network traffic or data traffic is the amount of data moving across a network at a given point of time. Network data in computer networks is mostly encapsulated in network packets, which provide the load in the network. Network traffic is the main component for network traffic measurement, network traffic control and simulation.
Network traffic control - managing, prioritizing, controlling or reducing the network traffic
Network traffic measurement - measuring the amount and type of traffic on a particular network
Network traffic simulation - to measure the efficiency of a communications network
Traffic generation model - is a stochastic model of the traffic flows or data sources in a communication computer network.
Proper analysis of network traffic provides the organization with the network security as a benefit - unusual amount of traffic in a network is a possible sign of an attack. Network traffic reports provide valuable insights into preventing such attacks.
Traffic volume is a measure of the total work done by a resource or facility, normally over 24 hours, and is measured in units of erlang-hours. It is defined as the product of the average traffic intensity and the time period of the study.
Traffic volume = Traffic intensity × time
A traffic volume of one erlang-hour can be caused by two circuits being occupied continuously for half an hour or by a circuit being half occupied (0.5 erlang) for a period of two hours. Telecommunication operators are vitally interested in traffic volume, as it directly dictates their revenue.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20tetrachloride%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on carbon tetrachloride.
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 SIRI, and follow its directions. MSDS for carbon tetrachloride is available at Fisher Scientific.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 47th ed. Note that "(s)" annotation indicates equilibrium temperature of vapor over solid. Otherwise the temperature is equilibrium of vapor over liquid.
Distillation data
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20start | A black start is the process of restoring an electric power station or a part of an electric grid to operation without relying on the external electric power transmission network to recover from a total or partial shutdown.
Power to restart a generating station may come from an on-site standby generator. Alternatively, where a large amount of power is required, a tie-line to another generating plant may be used to start the facility. Once the main generating units are running, the electrical transmission network can be re-connected and electrical loads restored.
Black-start power may be ensured by an agreement where a particular energy supplier is paid to make black start power available when required. Not all generating plants are suitable for providing black-start power to a network.
Station service power
Electrical generating plants require electric power to operate systems required in the plant. For example, a coal-fuelled plant requires conveyors, crushers, air compressors, and combustion air fans to operate. Steam cycle plants require large pumps to circulate water for steam boilers and for cooling of condensate water. Hydroelectric plants require power to open intake gates, and to adjust the hydraulic turbines for speed regulation. Even a wind turbine plant may require a relatively small amount of electric power for such things as adjusting blade pitch and direction.
Normally, the electric power used within the plant is provided by the station's own generators. If all of the plant's main generators are shut down, station service power is provided by drawing power from the grid through the plant's transmission line. However, during a wide-area outage, off-site power from the grid is not available. In the absence of grid power, a so-called black start needs to be performed to bootstrap the power grid into operation.
Standby power sources
To provide a black start, some power stations have small on-site diesel generators, normally called the black start diesel generator (BSDG), which can be used to start larger generators (of several megawatts capacity), which in turn can be used to start the main power station generators. Generating plants using steam turbines require station service power of up to 10% of their capacity for boiler feedwater pumps, boiler forced-draft combustion air blowers, and for fuel preparation. It is uneconomical to provide such a large standby capacity at each station, so black-start power must be provided over designated tie lines from another station.
Often hydroelectric power plants are designated as the black-start sources to restore network interconnections. A hydroelectric station needs very little initial power for starting purposes (just enough to open the intake gates and provide excitation current to the generator field coils) and can put a large block of power on line very quickly to allow start-up of fossil fuel or nuclear stations. Certain types of combustion turbine can be configured for a black |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Meets%20West%20%28non-governmental%20organization%29 | East Meets West, known in the United States as Thrive Networks, is an international non-governmental organization that creates evidence-based programs and technologies in health, water, sanitation, and education for people in Asia and Africa. It was founded in 1988 by author and humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip and is based in Oakland, California, USA.
It operates in the fields of healthcare, education, and clean water and sanitation aiming to help people in Asia to achieve self-sufficiency.
Among the key programs are: providing low-income children with education, clean water, and medical care, a surgery program to heal heart defects in children (Operation Healthy Heart), a scholarship program to improve educational outcomes (SPELL), a dental program, support for children with disabilities, and a clean water and sanitation program.
In 2011, it invested over US$13 million in its programs. East Meets West has a four-star rating and was listed as one of the "10 Charities Expanding in a Hurry" on Charity Navigator.
In 2014, EMW relaunched in the United States as Thrive Networks.
History
From Le Ly's early projects - Mothers Love Pediatric Clinic and Peace Village Medical Center - East Meets West emerged as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Vietnam, which realized many socially important projects in the country.
In 1993, East Meets West received a grant from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and constructed the Village of Hope, a shelter and safe haven for 136 needy children from Central Vietnam.
Since 1998 the organization in partnership with Atlantic Philanthropies has participated in building of Vietnam's medical and educational infrastructure, including university libraries and general hospitals, including a 200-bed cardiovascular center in Huế and a twelve-story English Language training center in Da Nang.
In 2003, John Anner left the Independent Press Association to head East Meets West.
In 2006, East Meets West co-organized medical equipment donations for Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi.
In 2008, EMW began its expansion to Laos, Cambodia, and Timor Leste, with subsequent programming in the Philippines, India, and Myanmar.
In 2012, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded East Meets West a US$10.9 million grant to improve sanitation and hygiene practices among the rural poor in Vietnam and Cambodia.
In 2013, EMW and Blue Planet Network signed a definitive agreement to merge, bringing together EMW's “pay for performance” water and sanitation programs and Blue Planet Network's online collaboration and impact analysis platform.
In 2014, EMW relaunched in the United States as Thrive Networks but continues to operate as East Meets West in Asia. Thrive Networks adopts a new nonprofit business model: using mergers and shared ventures to increase impact.
In 2015, after 13 years with EMW/Thrive Networks, John Anner stepped down as CEO.
In 2016, EMW Vietnam welcomed a new Country Director, Loan Duong.
Programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurosport%202 | Eurosport 2 is a sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport 1, which is a division of the Eurosport Network and a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where television rights for sport differ. The Eurosport 2 channel had an audience of 87 million viewers in 2019, an increase in size of one million.
Launch
Eurosport 2 launched on 10 January 2005, replacing Eurosport News in some countries including the United Kingdom. It is currently available in 50 million homes and 47 countries, broadcasting in 18 different languages English, Swedish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish, Czech, Dutch, Spanish and Danish.
On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed Eurosport 2 in Russia due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Programming
Eurosport 2 considers itself "the new generation sports channel", and is dedicated to team sports and in particular 'alternative' and niche sports including European basketball, National Lacrosse League, Twenty20 cricket, AFL Aussie Rules, surfing and the Handball Champions League, amongst others.
On 2 July 2010, the Arena Football League announced that Eurosport 2 would show matches that the NFL Network broadcast in the United States on a tape delay for the rest of the season, as well as coverage of ArenaBowl XXIII. The deal also includes rights for the entire 2011 season to be broadcast on the channel.
Eurosport 2 HD
Eurosport 2 HD, a high-definition version of the channel is also available. In central and northern Europe, it carries some exclusive programming such as Bundesliga football from Germany, WWE wrestling shows and live Australian Rules Football matches, which are not available on other versions due to local networks holding the rights.
Eurosport DK
Eurosport DK was a Danish television channel owned by Discovery Networks Northern Europe. The channel replaced Canal 8 Sport and Eurosport 2 in Denmark on 1 July 2015.
On 28 May 2015, Discovery Networks Northern Europe announced that they would merge Canal 8 Sport and Eurosport 2 into Eurosport DK in Denmark, broadcasting football from Danish Superliga, the Bundesliga, Major League Soccer, Capital One Cup, UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying, Tennis from ATP Tour, WTA Tour and 3 Grand Slams, Cycling from UCI World Tour, Winter sport, Motorsports.
On 15 February 2016, the channel was replaced by Eurosport 2.
Eurosport Norway
Eurosport Norway is a Norwegian television channel that replaced Eurosport 2 since 3 September 2015.
. It is owned by Discovery Networks Norway and broadcasts Norwegian eliteserien and other Eurosport programming.
English Language Bundesliga commentators
Availability
Terrestrial
Lattelecom (Latvia): Channel 51
Polsat Box (Poland): Channel 113
Satellite
Allente (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden):
A1 Bulgaria (Bulgaria): Channel 145
Antik Sat (Czech Republic): Channel 43
Bulsatcom (Bulgaria): Channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Estonia | The rail transport system in Estonia consists of about of railway lines, of which are currently in public use. The infrastructure of the railway network is mostly owned by the state and is regulated and surveyed by the Estonian Technical Surveillance Authority ().
All public railways in Estonia are (Russian gauge), the same as in Russia, Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania. The gauge used in Estonia is also compatible with Finland's gauge. Sometimes it is defined to be (see Rail gauge in Estonia), for example when buying track maintenance or vehicles from Finland.
Railways in Estonia today are used mostly for freight transport, but also for passenger traffic, with 8.3 million passengers reported in 2019. Passenger transport is most frequent near Tallinn, centred on the main Tallinn Baltic Station.
The Tallinn to Tartu railway is due to be electrified by 2024, with electrification of the remaining network expected to be completed by 2028. 16 new electric trains manufactured by Škoda Transportation are due to come into service starting 2024.
History
Network
Total length: circa 1,200 km, of which 900 km in public use
Gauge: Russian gauge
Electrified: .
The Estonian railway network is owned by the state-owned company AS Eesti Raudtee and the private company Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS. These railway network infrastructure operators provide all railway network services for railway operators running freight and passenger services. AS Eesti Raudtee provides approximately of track, of which is double track and is electrified. Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS maintains of track which consists of of main line and of station line.
Main lines
Owned by AS Eesti Raudtee:
Tallinn–Narva railway, . This line was completed in 1870. It was originally a part of the railway network of the Russian Empire, connecting Paldiski to St. Petersburg via Tallinn and Narva. Passenger trains are operated by Elron (Tallinn–Aegviidu, Tallinn–Tartu, Tallinn–Rakvere and Tallinn–Narva routes) and by GO Rail (international trains to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia).
Tallinn–Keila–Paldiski, . Passenger trains are operated by Elron (Tallinn–Pääsküla, Tallinn–Keila, Tallinn–Paldiski and Tallinn–Klooga-rand routes).
Keila–Turba, Estonia, . This line is part of the former Keila–Haapsalu line, that was completed in 1905. The Riisipere–Haapsalu section was abandoned in 2004, but rebuilt as far as Turba during 2019, as a first step towards eventually re-opening the line to Haapsalu (and possibly the port at Rohuküla ). Passenger trains are operated by Elron (Tallinn–Riisipere route).
Tapa–Tartu, . Completed in 1877. Passenger trains are operated by Elron (Tallinn–Tartu and Tartu–Jõgeva routes).
Tartu–Valga, 82.5 km. Completed in 1887. International connection from Valga in Estonia to Valka in Latvia. Passenger trains between Tartu and Valga are operated by Elron. Passenger trains between Valga and Riga are operated by Latvian Railways.
Tartu–Pechory, . B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain%20%28video%20game%29 | Pain (stylized as PAIN) is an action video game developed by Idol Minds and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3. It was released as a downloadable title available from the PlayStation Store and was released in North America on November 29, 2007 and in the PAL region on March 20, 2008 and became the most popular downloadable game on the PlayStation Store. In June 2009, SCEE announced that the game was to be released on Blu-ray Disc. It was launched in Europe on June 24, 2009, in Australia on June 25, 2009 and in the UK on June 26, 2009. The Blu-ray version includes the original game as well as several other levels and features released as downloadable content for the PSN version. It is available in a collection which is available to download from the PlayStation Store called the 3D Collection. On November 26, 2013, the game's online features were disabled.
Gameplay
In Pain the player attempts to damage the ragdoll character they play and the environment as much as possible by flinging them from a rubber-band slingshot, using the Havok physics engine. The characters have distinctive poses and phrases, can move by "ooching" and can grab things to throw or hang from. Replay videos can be watched, and can be edited and uploaded to YouTube or the PlayStation 3's hard disk drive.
Characters
Besides the regular characters available, Santa Claus, Katsuaki Kato (Famitsu editor-in-chief, called Kato-san), Elvira, Flavor Flav, George Takei, Andy Dick and David Hasselhoff were remade in the game. PlayStation characters Buzz, Daxter and the titular Fat Princess are also available.
Levels
The game download included only the original environment, Downtown, which was a sandbox level with 3 unlockable environments. Downtown offered the modes Fun With Explosives, Spank The Monkey, Mime Toss, and Bowling. On November 24, 2010, Idol Minds provided long-time fans with a free environment called Hurt Falls, sponsored by AXE deodorant. It included the mode Fun With Explosives.
Downloadable content
Amusement Park, with one unlockable environment, and modes Fun With Explosives, Clown Toss, Hot N Cold, and Trauma; released on September 11, 2008.
Touchmounds Movie Studio, with one unlockable environment, and modes Fun With Explosives, Cratetastic, and Bowling; released on November 13, 2008.
Sore Spots, broken down into two environments, Morningwood High School and Area 69, each with one unlockable environment, and modes Fun With Explosives, PAINalympics, and Mad Science! Released on May 14, 2009.
Stiffstonian Museum, with one unlockable environment, and modes Fun With Explosives, Spank the Monkey, and Bowling; released on August 13, 2009.
Alpine Ski Area, with the mode Fun With Explosives.
Two Pain pinball machines are available for download, which have elements of Amusement Park and Area 69.
Development
On October 26, 2010 a new patch was released for PlayStation Move capabilities.
Reception
PAIN
PAIN received above-average reviews according |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown%20to%20Doomsday | Countdown to Doomsday may refer to:
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, a computer game
Countdown to Doomsday (film), a 1966 spy film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport1%20%28Eastern%20Europe%29 | Sport1 is a European sports channel which is currently available in Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia broadcasting in different languages. The channel is owned by AMC Networks International Central Europe. It currently holds the TV rights to broadcast National Football League games and Formula 1 races in the countries where the channel is available.
Romania
In Romania, Sport1 was available from 2006 until 5 November 2014. The station held the rights for NFL, NHL, Ice Hockey World Championship and Heineken Cup, and in the first years for various football national championship, from Scotland, Hungary, France, Netherlands and others.
In 2012, Sport1 Romania shrank its broadcast space only between 10 P.M. and 7 A.M. except for some big events that start earlier, like the NFL playoffs or if the NFL or NHL games go for longer than 7 A.M., after the launch of children's channel Megamax on the same frequence.
From the NFL, Sport1 broadcast a late afternoon game and Monday Night Football, every week, half of the Thursday Night Football games, the opening game and all the Thanksgiving Day games. Starting with the 2013 season, sometimes an early afternoon game and/or Sunday Night Football were added to the schedule. The NFL Playoffs were shown with no exception, including the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl.
Czech Republic and Slovakia
In the Czech Republic and Slovakia it holds the exclusive rights for Formula One, KHL, the Champions Hockey League (including all games involving Czech and Slovak teams), and the National Football League.
External links
Sport1 Czech Republic
Sport1 Slovakia
Sport1 Hungary
AMC Networks International
Sports television networks
Television networks in Romania
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Sports television in Hungary
Sports television in Romania
Sports television in Slovakia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBAG%20Class%20424 | The Class 424 is a class of electric multiple units formerly used on the Hanover S-Bahn network.
Description
They are similar to Deutsche Bahn's Class 425 and Class 423 trainsets, but feature a comparatively low floor height of to allow step-free access on platforms. They also lack a third set of doorways in the center of each car.
Naming
In total, 40 units were built. Some of the units carry names of towns and cities on the Hanover S-Bahn network:
424 001 Burgdorf
424 002 Bückeburg
424 004 Lehrte
424 005 Wedemark
424 006 Neustadt am Rübenberge (accidented, out of service)
424 007 Bad Nenndorf
424 011 Stadthagen
424 014 Springe
424 017 Bad Münder am Deister
424 018 Celle
424 019 Minden
424 021 Wunstorf
424 024 Seelze
424 025 Nienburg/Weser
424 027 Hannover
424 032 Bad Pyrmont
424 033 Hameln
424 035 Haste (accidented, out of service)
424 037 Langenhagen
424 038 Barsinghausen
424 039 Ronnenberg
Electric multiple units of Germany
Hanover S-Bahn
15 kV AC multiple units
Bombardier Transportation multiple units
Siemens multiple units
Train-related introductions in 1998
ja:ドイツ鉄道423形電車 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STI%20College | STI College (formerly known as Systems Technology Institute) is a private network of university/colleges and senior high schools in the Philippines. They primarily cater to computer science and information technology education, but also offer other courses, such as business management and accountancy. The acronym STI has been declared as an orphan initialism after their name change in 2006.
STI uses a semestral calendar typical to the semester collegiate education program mostly used by Philippine universities.
Ownership
STI College is wholly owned by the STI Education Services Group, Inc. (STI ESG), a subsidiary of the STI Education Systems Holdings, Inc. of Dr. Eusebio "Yosi" H. Tanco, PhD.
The STI Education Systems Holdings, Inc. is the holding company within the Tanco Group that drives investment in its education business. STI Education Systems Holdings, Inc. has 5 subsidiaries, namely: STI Education Services Group, Inc. (“STI ESG”), STI West Negros University, Inc. (“STI WNU”), Information and Communications Technology Academy, Inc. (“iACADEMY”), Attenborough Holdings Corporation (“AHC”) and Neschester Corporation (“Neschester”).
Eusebio Tanco also serves as the majority and principal owner of Maestro Holdings, Inc., formerly known as STI Investments, Inc., another company part of the Tanco Group.
History
STI was a former computer center organized in 1983, when entrepreneurs Augusto C. Lagman, Herman T. Gamboa, Benjamin A. Santos and Edgar H. Sarte set up the Systems Technology Institute to train people in programming and IT. At first there were two schools, and then it grew to more than 70. The school was then purchased by Eusebio H. Tanco.
In 2006, the acronym of STI no longer stands as Systems Technology Institute as it offers not just only Technology and Science courses, but also Health, Arts, Management, Businesses, Hospitality, and Culinary, albeit up to the present time though, IT and CS courses are still the largest population in the institution. The initials STI therefore has been orphaned and becomes a pseudo-acronym.
In 2002, STI obtained a majority share in De los Santos College to create the De Los Santos – STI College of Health Professions. In 2006, STI also acquired a stake in the De Los Santos Medical Center, and was renamed to De Los Santos – STI Medical Center. The De Los Santos – STI College was later closed down and the De Los Santos – STI Medical Center reverted to their old name De Los Santos Medical Center when it was taken over by the Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings, Inc.
In October 2013, STI Health Professionals, Inc., a subsidiary of STI ESG and operator of De Los Santos – STI College, purchased Makati Medical Center College from Medical Doctors, Inc. through its sister school PWU. PWU was in a joint venture arrangement with STI at the time. That arrangement has since ended and PWU has sold Makati Medical Center College (now Medici Di Makati College). In 2019, the STI Education Services Group acquired mar |
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