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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-bit%20computing | Possibly the best-known 12-bit CPU is the PDP-8 and its relatives, such as the Intersil 6100 microprocessor produced in various forms from August 1963 to mid-1990. Many analog to digital converters (ADCs) have a 12-bit resolution. Some PIC microcontrollers use a 12-bit word size.
12 binary digits, or 3 nibbles (a 'tribble'), have 4096 (10000 octal, 1000 hexadecimal) distinct combinations. Hence, a microprocessor with 12-bit memory addresses can directly access 4096 words (4 kW) of word-addressable memory. At a time when six-bit character codes were common a 12-bit word, which could hold two characters, was a convenient size. IBM System/360 instruction formats use a 12-bit displacement field which, added to the contents of a base register, can address 4096 bytes of memory.
List of 12-bit computer systems
Digital Equipment Corporation
PDP-5
PDP-8
DECmate, a personal computer based on the Intersil 6100
PDP-12
PDP-14
Ford EEC I automotive engine control unit
Toshiba TLCS-12 microprocessor
Intersil IM6100 microprocessor (PDP-8-compatible)
Control Data Corporation
CDC 160 series computers
CDC 6600 - Peripheral Processor (PP)
National Cash Register NCR 315
Scientific Data Systems SDS 92
Nuclear Data, Inc. ND812
PC12 minicomputer
Ferranti Argus
LINC, later commercialized by DEC as the LINC-8
Electronic Arrays 9002 (12-bit addressing but 8-bit byte)
See also
FAT12, a file system with 12-bit wide cluster entries
References
External links
DIGITAL Computing Timeline: 12-bit architecture
Computer data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cults%20of%20Unreason | Cults of Unreason is a non-fiction book on atypical belief systems, written by Christopher Riche Evans, who was a noted computer scientist and an experimental psychologist. It was first published in the UK in 1973 by Harrap and in the United States in 1974 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in paperback in 1975, by Delacorte Press, and in German, by Rowohlt, in 1976.
Evans discusses Scientology and Dianetics, UFO religions, believers in Atlantis, biofeedback, Yoga, Eastern religions, and black boxes. He points out that these systems and groups incorporate technological advances within a theological framework, and that part of their appeal is due to the failure of modern people to find strength, comfort, and community in traditional religion and in science.
In 2001 new religious movement specialist George Chryssides criticized the book's title by pointing out that most groups referred to as cults do have well-defined beliefs.
References
1973 non-fiction books
George G. Harrap and Co. books
Books critical of Scientology
Books about cults
1973 in religion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20species%20identification | Automated species identification is a method of making the expertise of taxonomists available to ecologists, parataxonomists and others via digital technology and artificial intelligence. Today, most automated identification systems rely on images depicting the species for the identification. Based on precisely identified images of a species, a classifier is trained. Once exposed to a sufficient amount of training data, this classifier can then identify the trained species on previously unseen images.
Introduction
The automated identification of biological objects such as insects (individuals) and/or groups (e.g., species, guilds, characters) has been a dream among systematists for centuries. The goal of some of the first multivariate biometric methods was to address the perennial problem of group discrimination and inter-group characterization. Despite much preliminary work in the 1950s and '60s, progress in designing and implementing practical systems for fully automated object biological identification has proven frustratingly slow. As recently as 2004 Dan Janzen
updated the dream for a new audience:
<blockquote>The spaceship lands. He steps out. He points it around. It says 'friendly–unfriendly—edible–poisonous—safe– dangerous—living–inanimate'. On the next sweep it says Quercus oleoides—Homo sapiens—Spondias mombin—Solanum nigrum—Crotalus durissus—Morpho peleides''—serpentine'. This has been in my head since reading science fiction in ninth grade half a century ago.</blockquote>
The species identification problem
Janzen's preferred solution to this classic problem involved building machines to identify species from their DNA. However, recent developments in computer architectures, as well as innovations in software design, have placed the tools needed to realize Janzen's vision in the hands of the systematics and computer science community not in several years hence, but now; and not just for creating DNA barcodes, but also for identification based on digital images.
A survey published in 2004, studies why automated species identification had not become widely employed at this time and whether it would be a realistic option for the future. The authors found that "a small but growing number of studies sought to develop automated species identification systems based on morphological characters". An overview of 20 studies analyzing species' structures, such as cells, pollen, wings, and genitalia, shows identification success rates between 40% and 100% on training sets with 1 to 72 species. However, they also identified four fundamental problems with these systems: (1) training sets—were too small (5-10 specimens per species) and their extension especially for rare species may be difficult, (2) errors in identification—are not sufficiently studied to handle them and to find systematics, (3) scaling—studies consider only small numbers of species (<200 species), and (4) novel species — systems are restricted to the species they have been |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%202.0 | Mobile 2.0, refers to a perceived next generation of mobile internet services that leverage the social web, or what some call Web 2.0. The social web includes social networking sites and wikis that emphasize collaboration and sharing amongst users.
Mobile Web 2.0, with an emphasis on the Web, refers to bringing Web 2.0 services to the mobile internet, i.e., accessing aspects of Web 2.0 sites from mobile internet browsers.
By contrast, Mobile 2.0 refers to services that integrate the social web with the core aspects of mobility – personal, localized, always-on ,and ever-present. These services are appearing on wireless devices such as Smartphones and multimedia feature phones that are capable of delivering rich, interactive services as well as being able to provide access and to the full range of mobile consumer touch points including talking, texting, capturing, sending, listening, and viewing.
Enablers of Mobile 2.0
Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband Access
Affordable, unrestricted access to enabling software platforms, tools, and technologies
Open access, with frictionless distribution and monetization
Characteristics of Mobile 2.0
The social web meets mobility
Extensive use of User-Generated Content, so that the site is owned by its contributors
Leveraging services on the web via mashups
Fully leveraging the mobile device, the mobile context, and delivering a rich mobile user experience
Personal, Local, Always-on, Ever-present
The largest mobile telecoms body, the GSM Association, representing companies serving over 2 billion users, is backing a project called Telco 2.0, designed to drive this area.
References
Mobile Web 2.0: Developing and Delivering Services to Mobile Devices. CRC Press. 617 pages.
Academic Podcasting and Mobile Assisted Language Learning: Applications and Outcomes: Applications and Outcomes
Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Second Language Learning
Mobile Design and Development
Hybrid Learning and Education: First International Conference, ICHL 2008 Hong Kong, China, August 13-15, 2008
External links
Mobile 2.0 Company Directory
Mobile 2.0 Conference
Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference
mobeedo - an Open Multi-Purpose Information System for the Mobile Age
Mobile 2.0 Slideshare Presentation by Rudy De Waele
Web 2.0
Mobile web
Social media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2013399 | ISO 13399 (Cutting tool data representation and exchange) is an international technical standard by ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) for the computer-interpretable representation and exchange of industrial product data about cutting tools and toolholders. The objective is to provide a mechanism capable of describing product data regarding cutting tools, independent from any particular system. The nature of this description makes it suitable not only for neutral file exchange (free of proprietary format constraints), but also as a basis for implementing and sharing product databases and archiving, regarding cutting tools.
Typically ISO 13399 can be used to exchange data between computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), tool management software, product data management (PDM/EDM), manufacturing resource planning (MRP) or enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other computer-aided technologies (CAx) and systems.
The usage of the ISO 13399 standard will simplify the exchange of data for cutting tools. Expected results are lower cost for managing the information about tools and a more accurate and efficient usage of manufacturing resources. The ISO 13399 has been developed with contributions from AB Sandvik Coromant, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Kennametal Inc, and Ferroday Ltd.
ISO 13399 is developed and maintained by the ISO technical committee TC 29, Small tools, sub-committee WG34. Like other ISO and IEC standards ISO 13399 is copyright by ISO and is not freely available. Other standards developed and maintained by ISO TC29/WG34 are:
Structure
ISO 13399 is divided into several parts:
Part 1: Overview, fundamental principles and general information model
Part 2: Reference dictionary for cutting items
Part 3: Reference dictionary for tool items
Part 4: Reference dictionary for adaptive items
Part 5: Reference dictionary for assembly items
Part 50: Reference dictionary for reference systems and common concepts
Part 60: Reference dictionary for connection systems
Part 100: Definitions, principles and methods for reference dictionaries
Part 150: Usage guidelines
ISO 13399 defines a data model for cutting tool information using the EXPRESS modelling language. Application data according to this data model can be exchanged either by a STEP-File, STEP-XML or via shared database access using SDAI.
The dictionary (reference data library) of ISO 13399 currently uses PLIB (ISO 13584, IEC 61360).
Future of ISO13399
See also
List of ISO standards 12000–13999#ISO_13000_–_ISO_13999
External links
STEP Ship team ISO TC 184/SC 4/WG 3/T 23
The STEP Module Repository on SourceForge
CAx Implementor Forum - information on existing implementations and testing activities
STEP APPLICATION HANDBOOK ISO 10303 VERSION 3
WikiSTEP - tutorial and overview information about STEP and recommended practises
ISO 13399 Maintenance Agency (French/English)
STEP F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20stack%20automaton | In automata theory, a nested stack automaton is a finite automaton that can make use of a stack containing data which can be additional stacks.
Like a stack automaton, a nested stack automaton may step up or down in the stack, and read the current symbol; in addition, it may at any place create a new stack, operate on that one, eventually destroy it, and continue operating on the old stack. This way, stacks can be nested recursively to an arbitrary depth; however, the automaton always operates on the innermost stack only.
A nested stack automaton is capable of recognizing an indexed language, and in fact the class of indexed languages is exactly the class of languages accepted by one-way nondeterministic nested stack automata.
Nested stack automata should not be confused with embedded pushdown automata, which have less computational power.
Formal definition
Automaton
A (nondeterministic two-way) nested stack automaton is a tuple where
Q, Σ, and Γ is a nonempty finite set of states, input symbols, and stack symbols, respectively,
[, ], and ] are distinct special symbols not contained in Σ ∪ Γ,
[ is used as left endmarker for both the input string and a (sub)stack string,
] is used as right endmarker for these strings,
] is used as the final endmarker of the string denoting the whole stack.
An extended input alphabet is defined by Σ' = Σ ∪ {[,]}, an extended stack alphabet by Γ' = Γ ∪ {]}, and the set of input move directions by D = {-1,0,+1}.
δ, the finite control, is a mapping from Q × Σ' × (Γ' ∪ [Γ' ∪ {], []}) into finite subsets of Q × D × ([Γ* ∪ D), such that δ maps
Informally, the top symbol of a (sub)stack together with its preceding left endmarker "[" is viewed as a single symbol; then δ reads
the current state,
the current input symbol, and
the current stack symbol,
and outputs
the next state,
the direction in which to move on the input, and
the direction in which to move on the stack, or the string of symbols to replace the topmost stack symbol.
q0 ∈ Q is the initial state,
Z0 ∈ Γ is the initial stack symbol,
F ⊆ Q is the set of final states.
Configuration
A configuration, or instantaneous description of such an automaton consists in a triple
,
where
q ∈ Q is the current state,
[a1a2...ai...an-1] is the input string; for convenience, a0 = [ and an = ] is defined The current position in the input, viz. i with 0 ≤ i ≤ n, is marked by underlining the respective symbol.
[Z1X2...Xj...Xm-1] is the stack, including substacks; for convenience, X1 = [Z1 and Xm = ] is defined. The current position in the stack, viz. j with 1 ≤ j ≤ m, is marked by underlining the respective symbol.
Example
An example run (input string not shown):
Properties
When automata are allowed to re-read their input ("two-way automata"), nested stacks do not result in additional language recognition capabilities, compared to plain stacks.
Gilman and Shapiro used nested stack automata to solve the word problem in certain groups.
Notes
R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA%20Saturday%20Nightmares | USA Saturday Nightmares is an American horror and sci-fi movie showcase series that ran Saturday nights from 1984 to 1994 on the USA Network.
Overview
USA Saturday Nightmares was an unhosted weekly B movie presentation, consisting of a horror or sci-fi movie, followed by an episode of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Hitchhiker, and/or The Ray Bradbury Theater. Occasionally, the show would run a short film as filler afterward, most notably "The Dummy" and "Living Dolls".
One of the show’s intros featured various scenes from black and white horror films with a creepy voice-over from Alan Kalter (of Late Show with David Letterman fame) followed by ominous laughter. Next, a bumper appears, showing scenes from the movie that would be shown along with bumpers from the episodes that would be shown after the movie. Another intro had the viewer going through a CGI haunted house where the paintings changed to depicted random acts of violence and horror film characters such as Dracula, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger.
Movies shown
Most movies shown also appeared on Commander USA's Groovie Movies and USA Sci-Fi Theater.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Alien High (AKA Invasion of the Mindbenders)
Alligator
Alligator 2: The Mutation
Alone in the Dark
An American Werewolf in London
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
The Appointment
Basket Case
The Black Cat
Black Christmas
Black Roses
Blind Date (AKA Deadly Seduction)
Bloodbath at the House of Death
Blood Beach
Blood Song (AKA Dream Slayer)
Bloodspell (1988)(AKA The Boy From Hell)
The Boogeyman
The Brood
The Cabinet of Caligari
Cameron's Closet (AKA Cameron's Terror)
Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter
The Children
Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell
The Curse of the Cat People
Damien: Omen II
Dark Places
Daughters of Satan
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Deathdream (shown as Dead of Night)
Def-Con 4
Demonoid
Demonwarp
Demon Wind
The Demon (AKA Midnight Caller)
The Devil's Gift
The Devil's Nightmare
Devil Times Five
Dogs
Dracula's Dog
Edge of Sanity
The Evil
The Exorcist
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Eyes of a Stranger
The Falling (AKA Alien Predators)
Fiend
The Final Terror
Firestarter
Flesh Eating Mothers
Forever Evil
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Part 2
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Frightmare (1974 film)
Fright Night Part 2
Ghost Story
Ghoulies II
Girls Nite Out (AKA The Scaremaker)
God Told Me To
Graveyard Shift
The Great Alligator
Grotesque
Hangar 18
Halloween
Halloween II
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
The Hearse
Hellraiser
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
The Howling
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
Howling III
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
House
House II: The Second Story
House of the Long Sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine%20Totoo | Sine Totoo (The Best of Serbisyong Totoo) () is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. Showcasing documentaries previously produced by the network, it premiered on February 17, 2007. The show concluded on February 28, 2009 with a total of 102 episodes.
Shows featured
I-Witness
Pinoy Abroad
Out!
Reporter's Notebook
Jessica Soho Reports
Imbestigador
Wish Ko Lang!
Emergency
100% Pinoy!
Pinoy Meets World
Born to Be Wild
Philippine Agenda
Brigada Siete
Extra Challenge
Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho
At Your Service
Kay Susan Tayo!
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of Sine Totoo scored a 9.5% rating.
References
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLUMEQ | CLUMEQ (Consortium Laval-UQAM-McGill and Eastern Quebec) was a Supercomputer based in McGill University founded in 2001 and has received two successive grants from the Canada Foundation for innovation. In 2011 CLUMEQ and its partner organization RQCHP were consolidated into a new consortium Calcul Québec.
Computers
Past
Beowulf Cluster
256 CPUs
AMD Athlon 1900+
1.6 GHz and 1.5 GB RAM / CPU
Myrinet-2000 Switch
366 GB RAID-5 storage
SGI Origin 3800
Sixty-four 600 MHz MIPS R14000 microprocessors
128 GB RAM
1.6 TB storage
Colosse
960 Sun Blade X6275 nodes (7680 cores total)
23 TB RAM
Infiniband QDR network
1000 TB storage
Krylov
48 Sun Fire X4100 nodes (300 cores total)
384 GB RAM
15 TB storage
Guillimin
1200 compute nodes * 2 Intel Xeon 5650 hexa-core CPUs per node = 14400 cores @ 2.66 GHz
46 TB RAM
Infiniband QDR network
2 PB storage
References
External links
CLUMEQ official site
The latest supercomputer, article in McGill Reporter
Supercomputer sites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea%20%28disambiguation%29 | An idea is an image existing or formed in the mind.
Idea or IDEA or similar may also refer to:
Computing and software
International Data Encryption Algorithm, a block cipher
IntelliJ IDEA, a development application for the Java programming language
IdeaPad, a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers from Lenovo
Government organizations
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an international intergovernmental organization
Local Government Improvement and Development, a United Kingdom local government organization previously known as the Improvement and Development Agency (IDEA)
Politics
Diversity, equity, inclusion and access
Idea (political party), a political party in Slovakia
Identity and Action (IDEA), a political party in Italy
Ieros Desmos Ellinon Axiomatikon (ΙΔΕΑ, Sacred Bond of Greek Officers), a right-wing group of officers in the Greek army in the 1940s–1960s whose members led the Greek military junta of 1967–74
Megali Idea, an irredentist concept of Greek nationalism
Szeged Idea, refers to the proto-fascist ideology that developed among anti-communist counter-revolutionaries in Szeged, Hungary in 1919
Law
IDEA (journal), a law review published by an independent student organization at the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property at the University of New Hampshire School of Law
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a U.S. federal law on the education of primary school students with disabilities
Wisconsin Idea, the policy developed in the U.S. state of Wisconsin that fosters public universities' contributions to the state
Music
Idea in music may refer to a concept implemented musically, shortest forms of musical ideas are Motif (music) and Figure (music)
Idea (album), by the Bee Gees
Idea (TV special), about the Bee Gees
Idea Records, a record label
The Idea (musical), an 1893 Broadway musical
Automotive and industrial design
Fiat Idea, a compact car
International Design Excellence Awards, an award program
I.DE.A Institute, an automobile design and engineering company
IDEA, a high-mileage plug-in hybrid electric van produced by Bright Automotive
Other organizations
IDEA League, a loose alliance of five European universities
Idea (news agency), an evangelical news agency in Germany
Innovation, Development and Employment Alliance, a business coalition aiming to secure intellectual property rights
Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement, an organization promoting computer-based learning
Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center, a Christian nonprofit organization formed as a student club to promote the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
International Diving Educators Association, a scuba diver training agency
Idea Cellular, a wireless telephony company in India
International Deaf Education Association (IDEA), an organization focused on the program of educating the deaf in Bohol, P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antyradio | Antyradio is a Polish radio network broadcasting all genres of rock music, although mostly broadcasting contemporary rock hits. The current owner of the network is Eurozet.
Antyradio started broadcasting on 1 June 2005.
Managers:
Marcin Bąkiewicz - Editor-in-chief, Programme Director, Music Director
Cezary Skoczeń - Marketing Manager
DJs:
Tomasz Kasprzyk - „Kasprologia”, "Blok z Wielkiej Płyty"
Aleksander Ostrowski - „Ostry Dyżur”
Jerzy Owsiak - „Zaraz Będzie Ciemno”
Bartek Synowiec - „Rockomotywa”
Joanna Zientarska - „Odjechani”
Włodzimierz Zientarski - „Odjechani”
Piotr "Makak" Szarłacki - „MakakArt”, „Makakofonia”
Jarosław "Anzelmo" Giers - "Rzeźnia"
Michał Figurski - „Najgorsze Państwo Świata”
Karolina Korwin-Piotrowska - „Najgorsze Państwo Świata”
Małgorzata Wierzejewska - „Najgorsze Państwo Świata”
Krzysztof Dowgird - "Wieczorne Rozmowy"
Wiesław Weiss - "Teraz Rock w Antyradiu"
Jarek Szubrycht - "Wszystko w Sam Raz"
Leszek Gnoiński - "Rockolekcje"
Piotr "Frank" Marciniak - "Turbo Top" and sport news
Grzegorz Kornacki, Joanna Obuchowska, Mieszko Dreszer, Magdalena Poddańczyk, Magdalena Mleczko - „Prawda” (news), „Cała Prawda” (reporters' magazine)
Pawel Loroch - "Gastrofaza"
information for drivers - "AntyRadar"
news about cultural events - „Pełna kultura”
Frequencies (FM)
References
External links
Official website
Official fanclub
Radio stations in Poland
Radio stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton%20%28supercomputer%29 | The Peloton supercomputer purchase is a program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory intended to provide tera-FLOP computing capability using commodity Scalable Units (SUs). The Peloton RFP defines the system configurations.
Appro was awarded the contract for Peloton which includes the following machines:
All of the machines run the CHAOS variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Moab resource management system. Under the project management of John Lee, the team at Synnex, Voltaire, Supermicro and other suppliers, the scientists were able to dramatically reduce the amount of time it took to go from starting the cluster build to actually having hardware at Livermore in production. In particular, it went from having four SUs on the floor on a Thursday, to bringing in two more SUs for the final cluster and by Saturday, having all of them wired up, burned in, and running Linpack.
References
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20transform | In statistics, a power transform is a family of functions applied to create a monotonic transformation of data using power functions. It is a data transformation technique used to stabilize variance, make the data more normal distribution-like, improve the validity of measures of association (such as the Pearson correlation between variables), and for other data stabilization procedures.
Power transforms are used in multiple fields, including multi-resolution and wavelet analysis, statistical data analysis, medical research, modeling of physical processes, geochemical data analysis, epidemiology and many other clinical, environmental and social research areas.
Definition
The power transformation is defined as a continuously varying function, with respect to the power parameter λ, in a piece-wise function form that makes it continuous at the point of singularity (λ = 0). For data vectors (y1,..., yn) in which each yi > 0, the power transform is
where
is the geometric mean of the observations y1, ..., yn. The case for is the limit as approaches 0. To see this, note that - using Taylor series. Then , and everything but becomes negligible for sufficiently small.
The inclusion of the (λ − 1)th power of the geometric mean in the denominator simplifies the scientific interpretation of any equation involving , because the units of measurement do not change as λ changes.
Box and Cox (1964) introduced the geometric mean into this transformation by first including the Jacobian of rescaled power transformation
with the likelihood. This Jacobian is as follows:
This allows the normal log likelihood at its maximum to be written as follows:
From here, absorbing into the expression for produces an expression that establishes that minimizing the sum of squares of residuals from is equivalent to maximizing the sum of the normal log likelihood of deviations from and the log of the Jacobian of the transformation.
The value at Y = 1 for any λ is 0, and the derivative with respect to Y there is 1 for any λ. Sometimes Y is a version of some other variable scaled to give Y = 1 at some sort of average value.
The transformation is a power transformation, but done in such a way as to make it continuous with the parameter λ at λ = 0. It has proved popular in regression analysis, including econometrics.
Box and Cox also proposed a more general form of the transformation that incorporates a shift parameter.
which holds if yi + α > 0 for all i. If τ(Y, λ, α) follows a truncated normal distribution, then Y is said to follow a Box–Cox distribution.
Bickel and Doksum eliminated the need to use a truncated distribution by extending the range of the transformation to all y, as follows:
where sgn(.) is the sign function. This change in definition has little practical import as long as is less than , which it usually is.
Bickel and Doksum also proved that the parameter estimates are consistent and asymptotically normal under appropriate regula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Natural%20Bears%20Classification%20System | The Natural Bears Classification System (NBCS), also called the bear code, is a set of symbols using letters, numbers and other characters commonly found on modern, Western computer keyboards, and used for the self-identification of "bears" in the sense of a mature gay or bisexual man with facial or substantial body hair. These codes are used in email, Usenet, and Internet forum postings to identify the physical type and preferences of the poster.
History
A posting to the Usenet newsgroup in 1991 re-produced the NBCS version 1.9, though the document originated before that date (1989), according to its author. This classification scheme was created by Bob Donahue and Jeff Stoner, and was based on the way in which star and galaxy classification systems used characteristics of an object to derive a classifying identifier. This classification scheme has an almost identical syntactic structure to the Geek Code, which was introduced in 1993, though the meanings of the symbols are different.
Format
The format of the NBCS is a sequence of space-separated descriptions that each take the form, "XMme" where X is a letter indicating some trait; M is an optional magnitude indicated by either a number or a sequence of + or - characters (the former are used for rankings that have a broad, but discrete range while the latter is used for more comparative measurements); m is an optional modifier such as "v" which indicates variability of the trait; and e is any extra (such as a parenthesized magnitude that indicates a range from the magnitude outside the parentheses to the magnitude inside).
The format includes physical traits such as "B" for beard density/length, "f" for body hair (or "fur"), "t" for height (or "tallness"), and "w" for weight. It also includes personality traits such as "d" for "the daddy factor" and sexual preferences such as "k" for "the kinky factor".
Example
An example bear code is:
The translation (in no particular order) is:
See also
Bear (gay culture)
Bear flag (LGBT movement)
Geek code
References
Natural Bears Classification System, The
Natural Bears Classification System
Year of introduction missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20and%20Skills%20Network | LSN (Learning and Skills Network) was an independent not-for-profit organisation in the United Kingdom that provided consulting, outsourcing, research, technology and training services for learning and skills.
It went into administration in November 2011.
History
In 1995 two organisations merged, the Further Education Unit – an agency on curriculum issues – and the Staff College, which trained staff in the further education sector. This new organisation was known as the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA).
FEDA was then renamed the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) in November 2000 to reflect its widening remit across the learning and skills sector. LSDA’s programmes in research, training and consultancy continued as normal under the banner of the Learning and Skills Network. In 2006 LSDA’s policy and strategic work developed into the Quality Improvement Agency for Lifelong Learning (QIA), now known as the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS). LSDA's work went on to become an independent organisation - the Learning and Skills Network.
On 28 March 2006 Learning and Skills Network registered as a UK charity (Registered No. 1113456) with the following stated objectives:
1. To promote the improvement, development and opportunities for development of the performance and skills of members of the teaching, management and other staff of the education, learning skills and children's services sectors in such a way that they are better able to be more effective and efficient in the development of the education, learning and skills of their pupils, students and other learners; and
2. To promote, encourage and develop education, learning and skills in the united kingdom and elsewhere, and in particular, by advising upon, developing and providing education, learning and skills courses, by providing flexible and innovative solutions to the education, learning and skills sector's demands and by facilitating the capability of people and organisations to provide support for learner development.
After further business developments, acquiring a selection of UK training-specialist companies including e-learning solutions provider Learning Resources International in the process, and a re-brand in 2009, the organisation officially became LSN and operated across a multitude of sectors including further education, higher education, local authorities, schools, public services and the private sector, in the UK and internationally.
In 2010, LSN entered into a joint venture with Oxford & Cherwell Valley College to take over ownership of Reading College, a further education college in Reading, Berkshire, UK, from then owners Thames Valley University (renamed University of West London in 2011).
LSN went into administration in November 2011. Post administration some of the purchased companies were re-acquired by their previous owners, including Learning Resources International, which has re-branded and repositioned itself as an all-in-one |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | Chromium is an OpenGL implementation. Unlike other OpenGL implementations, Chromium does not render the OpenGL command stream to a raster image in order to display on-screen. Instead, it manipulates, and moves the OpenGL command stream to other OpenGL implementations (including even other Chromium implementations).
Chromium provides an infrastructure in which modules, known as SPUs or Stream Processing Units, can be inserted. For each OpenGL command, a SPU can modify, discard, or forward it to the next SPU. Chromium supports a client/server architecture. The last SPU in a node can choose to either pass it to another local OpenGL implementation, such as a graphics card, or send it over a network to one or more Chromium Servers.
Uses include:
Providing OpenGL for multi-machine, multi-monitor displays. Chromium can be used to provide OpenGL for Xdmx displays.
Moving an OpenGL stream from one machine to another. For example, an OpenGL application running in a Windows virtual machine, without 3D acceleration, can make use of full hardware 3D acceleration on a Linux host machine via the use of Chromium.
Manipulating an OpenGL stream. Chromium can be used to make polygons an application renders transparent.
Via stream manipulation, Chromium can make non-stereoscopic applications stereoscopic.
High performance, sort-last configurations. Chromium can be used to split an OpenGL command stream, so that different machines can do different parts of the rendering work. This is like nVidia's SLI but it supports multiple machines.
External links
Official Documentation
Official Homepage
See also
VMGL
References
Graphics libraries
3D graphics software
OpenGL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline%20%28science%29 | A baseline in science (including medicine) is the initial conditions found by observation and measurement at the beginning of a survey or clinical trial or which is used for comparison with later data collected during or after the survey or trial to identify and measure changes, often with the intention of assessing the effects of a treatment or procedure.
In environmental science a baseline study is necessary to be able to accurately determine impact by monitoring the environment and comparing the changing situation with the initial conditions after development has occurred. In some cases, baseline information already be available from previous surveys, but it may be necessary to gather data in the field.
Example: If a patient with kidney failure (whose creatinine is usually 3.0 mg/dL) suddenly has a creatinine of 5.0 mg/dL, then his creatinine is out of his normal. For that person with kidney failure, absolute normal no longer applies because he will never again be able to obtain an absolutely normal creatinine level (0.5–1.2 mg/dL) with kidneys that no longer function properly.
See also
References
External links
medterms.com Medical Dictionary
Medical terminology
Scientific terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMCARA%20Broadcasting%20Network | AMCARA Broadcasting Network is a Philippine television broadcast company. The company is located in Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. The company is majority-owned by the heirs of Arcadio M. Carandang, one of the pioneers of Philippine television who worked for ABS-CBN.
AMCARA owned and operated a number of UHF television stations in the provinces affiliated with ABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A, formerly Studio 23). On January 5, 2022, its former UHF frequencies (channel 23 and 43) were assigned by the National Telecommunications Commission to Aliw Broadcasting Corporation (for channel 23) and Swara Sug Media Corporation (for channel 43).
History
1994–1996: Early years
AMCARA Broadcasting Network, Inc. was incorporated on April 11, 1994.
DWAC-TV was acquired from Ermita Electronics Corporation in July 1996, which initially owned the frequency of the station that began airing in May 1992 from a densely populated commercial area in Quezon City with a rebroadcast of MTV Asia, then telecasting from the STAR TV platform. It was later showing Channel [V] refeeds from 1994 onwards as MTV made the decision to split from STAR and form its own satellite TV portal in Asia.
1996–2010: Studio 23 era
Three years later in 1996, MTV Asia returned to the Philippine airwaves after establishing a new regional base in Singapore. ABS-CBN was picked as the broadcast arm of MTV Asia in the Philippines at the time, and DWAC-TV Channel 23 began test broadcast in September 1996 with rebroadcast of the new MTV Asia from Singapore. A month later, it launched its own programming under the station name Studio 23 and adopted the slogan "Premium Television". The station initially ran MTV rebroadcast in the day and its own shows at prime time. It also ran for 24 hours, but financial limitations forced it to sign off at 3AM every day. That has been the broadcast arrangement ever since.
Five years later, MTV Asia acquired a new local UHF frequency and Studio 23 formally became a full station, adopting rebroadcasts of its in-house music cable channel Myx to fill in the void left by MTV Asia, and came up with intensified programming led by the popular reality TV game show Survivor, and several top-rated shows from the United States like 7th Heaven, Will and Grace and Charmed, among others.
By 2004, Studio 23 opened its doors to Taglish programs and adopted a new slogan, "Kabarkada Mo!". Previous to this, the station was already running its own English newscast, "News Central", from 1999 to 2010, effectively replacing the network's The World Tonight, previously on DWWX-TV Channel 2 which had moved to a cable-only newscast on ANC, the cable news channel of ABS-CBN. Studio 23 also geared its mostly young viewers to trends in the tech world with "Digital World". With the intensified Taglish presence, Studio 23 now had the nightly Tagalog gag newscast Wazzup Wazzup, the interactive youth talk show Y Speak, and several others. It even provided support shows to its highl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader%20lamps | Shader lamps is a computer graphic technique used to change the appearance of physical objects. The still or moving objects are illuminated, using one or more video projectors, by static or animated texture or video stream. The method was invented at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by Ramesh Raskar, Greg Welch, Kok-lim Low and Deepak Bandyopadhyay in 1999 as a follow on to Spatial Augmented Reality also invented at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998 by Ramesh Raskar, Greg Welch and Henry Fuchs.
A 3D graphic rendering software is typically used to compute the deformation caused by the non perpendicular, non-planar or even complex projection surface.
Complex objects (or aggregation of multiple simple objects) create self shadows that must be compensated by using several projectors.
The objects are typically replaced by neutral color ones, the projection giving all its visual properties, thus the name shader lamps.
The technique can be used to create a sense of invisibility, by rendering transparency. The object is illuminated not by a replacement of its own visual properties, but by the corresponding visual surface placed behind the object as seen from an arbitrary viewing point.
See also
Projection augmented model
Projection mapping
External links
Shaderlamps.com
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Shader Lamps, Ramesh Raskar, Greg Welch, Kok-lim Low, Deepak Bandyopadhyay, June 2001 (PDF)
IEEE Computer Society January/February 2007 (Vol. 27, No. 1) pp. 90-96, The Digital Chameleon Principle: Computing Invisibility by Rendering Transparency Frank Nielsen, Sony Computer Science Laboratories
Computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20H.%20Shortliffe | Edward ("Ted") Hance Shortliffe (born 1947) is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. He was the principal developer of the clinical expert system MYCIN, one of the first rule-based artificial intelligence expert systems, which obtained clinical data interactively from a physician user and was used to diagnose and recommend treatment for severe infections. While never used in practice (because it preceded the era of local-area networking and could not be integrated with patient records and physician workflow), its performance was shown to be comparable to and sometimes more accurate than that of Stanford infectious disease faculty. This spurred the development of a wide range of activity in the development of rule-based expert systems, knowledge representation, belief nets and other areas, and its design greatly influenced the subsequent development of computing in medicine.
He is also regarded as a founder of the field of biomedical informatics, and in 2006 received one of its highest honors, the Morris F. Collen Award given by the American College of Medical Informatics.
He has held administrative positions in academic medicine, research and national bodies including the Institute of Medicine, American College of Physicians, the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and National Library of Medicine (NLM), and been influential in the development of medicine, computing and biomedical informatics nationally and internationally. His interests include the broad range of issues related to integrated medical decision-support systems and their implementation, biomedical informatics and medical education and training, and the Internet in medicine.
In March 2007, he became founding dean of the University of Arizona's College of Medicine - Phoenix campus. He stepped down from this position in May 2008 and in January 2009 transferred his primary academic appointment to Arizona State University where he became professor of biomedical informatics. He maintained a secondary appointment as professor of basic medical sciences and of medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine (Phoenix Campus). In November 2009 he transferred his academic home to a part-time appointment as professor at the School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, where he lived until November 2011. Since that time he has returned to New York City, where he continues as an adjunct professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University.
In July 2009, Shortliffe assumed a position as president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Informatics Association, an organization that he helped to form between 1988 and 1990 when he was President of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. In late 2011 he announced his intention to step down f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Off-Broadway%20Database | The Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDB), also formerly known as the Lortel Archives, is an online database that catalogues theatre productions shown off-Broadway.
The IOBDB was funded and developed by the non-profit Lucille Lortel Foundation, named in honor of actress and theatrical producer Lucille Lortel.
See also
Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)
Internet Theatre Database (ITDb)
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
References
External links
Off-Broadway
Online archives of the United States
Theatrical organizations in the United States
Theatre databases
Online databases
Internet properties established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressilator | The repressilator is a genetic regulatory network consisting of at least one feedback loop with at least three genes, each expressing a protein that represses the next gene in the loop. In biological research, repressilators have been used to build cellular models and understand cell function. There are both artificial and naturally-occurring repressilators. Recently, the naturally-occurring repressilator clock gene circuit in Arabidopsis thaliana (A. thaliana) and mammalian systems have been studied.
Artificial Repressilators
Artificial repressilators were first engineered by Michael Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler in 2000, complementing other research projects studying simple systems of cell components and function. In order to understand and model the design and cellular mechanisms that confers a cell’s function, Elowitz and Leibler created an artificial network consisting of a loop with three transcriptional repressors. This network was designed from scratch to exhibit a stable oscillation that acts like an electrical oscillator system with fixed time periods. The network was implemented in Escherichia coli (E. coli) via recombinant DNA transfer. It was then verified that the engineered colonies did indeed exhibit the desired oscillatory behavior.
The repressilator consists of three genes connected in a feedback loop, such that each gene represses the next gene in the loop and is repressed by the previous gene. In the synthetic insertion into E. Coli, green fluorescent protein (GFP) was used as a reporter so that the behavior of the network could be observed using fluorescence microscopy.
The design of the repressilator was guided by biological and circuit principles with discrete and stochastic models of analysis. Six differential equations were used to model the kinetics of the repressilator system based on protein and mRNA concentrations, as well as appropriate parameter and Hill coefficient values. In the study, Elowitz and Leibler generated figures showing oscillations of repressor proteins, using integration and typical parameter values as well as a stochastic version of the repressilator model using similar parameters. These models were analyzed to determine the values of various rates that would yield a sustained oscillation. It was found that these oscillations were favored by promoters coupled to efficient ribosome binding sites, cooperative transcriptional repressors, and comparable protein and mRNA decay rates.
This analysis motivated two design features which were engineered into the genes. First, promoter regions were replaced with a more efficient hybrid promoter which combined the E. coli phage lambda PL (λ PL) promoter with lac repressor (Lacl) and Tet repressor (TetR) operator sequences. Second, to reduce the disparity between the lifetimes of the repressor proteins and the mRNAs, a carboxy terminal tag based on the ssrA-RNA sequence was added at the 3' end of each repressor gene. This tag is recognized by proteases which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brant%20Hansen | Brant Page Hansen (born October 11, 1969) is an American radio personality and author. He has hosted the morning show on the national Christian radio WAY-FM Network and the afternoon show on the national Christian radio network Air1. He has a nationally syndicated radio show carried on over 200 stations in the United States, and is the storyteller for CURE International, a network of charity hospitals and clinics in 30 countries.
Career
Radio career
Hansen graduated from the University of Illinois school of journalism in 1991. Hansen began his radio career while at the college rock station WPGU. Hansen moved on to be the morning show host for contemporary Christian WBGL-FM in Champaign, Illinois, then moved to Houston, Texas and worked at 89.3FM KSBJ. He was the news director and also an on-air personality. By 2001, Hansen had moved back to Champaign, and was host of The Brant Hansen Show on WDWS 1400 talk radio.
Hansen was the lead singer for the 90s Christian indie band Farewell to Juliet, which released albums including Echoes of Laughter in 1993 and Grace and Dire Circumstances in 1998.
After leaving WDWS, Hansen moved to south Florida in 2003 and joined WAY-FM, where he spent eight years as host of Mornings with Brant. During his time at WAY, he won the Radio and Records Achievement Award for "Personality of the Year" in a Christian format, also winning a Radio Echo Award for "Personality of the Year" from Christian Music Broadcasters in 2008. Hansen also partnered with several international ministries for radio promotions, including Compassion International, World Vision and CURE International. In 2009 and again in 2010, Hansen travelled to Kabul, Afghanistan promoting surgeries performed at the CURE International hospital there. On June 29, 2011, he ended an eight-year run of Mornings With Brant, nationally syndicated by WAY-FM.
Hansen became the afternoon show host for the Air1 radio network on July 19, 2011. Hansen again won the Radio Echo Award for "Personality of the Year" from Christian Music Broadcasters in 2011. During his three years with Air1, he continued his partnership with CURE International, traveling to Afghanistan for a third time in February 2012. In the fall of 2012 and spring of 2013, Air1 partnered with CURE International and BEC Recordings for the "Club Awesome Tour", hosted by Hansen. Each night featured a dance party including Christian artists KJ-52, Manafest and 7eventh Time Down.
In July 2014, Hansen resigned from Air1. His last show aired on Monday, July 7, 2014. In the first independent podcast, he said that he was "in between jobs." The day after his last broadcast on Air1, Hansen's Air1 podcast landed on the US iTunes top 100 podcasts list for the first time, at #74.
In July 2014 he joined the staff of CURE International, as "storyteller". He had worked extensively with the charitable organization in the past, helping raise money to provide surgeries for children with treatable conditions. On October 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Australia%20Video%20Music%20Awards%202007 | The MTV Australia Video Music Awards 2007 was broadcast live from Acer Arena on 29 April 2007 on MTV Australia. It was then repeated on the Ten Network on 6 May 2007.
The hosts for the awards were Fergie, along with Good Charlotte, while Sophie Monk who hosted the red carpet show and stars such as Pink and Thirty Seconds to Mars and special guest Kristin Cavallari from Laguna Beach also appeared. Also, the cast from the MTV series Dirty Sanchez presented.
In the awards new categories were added such as "Best Hook Up Video", "Download of the Year" and New Zealand Viewers Choice and "Sexiest Video" has been re-introduced to the categories after its absence from the 2006 show. Also, the "Video Vanguard" award was introduced to the Australian Awards for the first time which honoured Australian band Silverchair.
Performers
Thirty Seconds to Mars — "The Kill"
Good Charlotte — "Dance Floor Anthem"/"Keep Your Hands off My Girl"
Pink — "U + Ur Hand"/"Sweet Dreams"/"Get the Party Started"
Teddy Geiger — "These Walls"
Damien Leith — "Night of My Life"
Eskimo Joe — "Black Fingernails, Red Wine"
Evermore — "Light Surrounding You"
Sneaky Sound System — "UFO"
Silverchair — "Straight Lines"
Stephanie McIntosh — "So Do I Say Sorry First?"
Fergie — "Glamorous"
TV Rock and Dukes of Windsor — "The Others"
Billy Talent — "Fallen Leaves"
Juke Kartel — "Throw It Away"
Nominees and winners
The winners are in bold.
Video of the Year
Christina Aguilera — "Ain't No Other Man"
Wolfmother — "Joker and the Thief"
Thirty Seconds to Mars — "The Kill"
My Chemical Romance — "Welcome to the Black Parade"
Justin Timberlake — "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around
Silverchair — "Straight Lines"
Beyoncé — "Irreplaceable"
Album of the Year
Pink — I'm Not Dead
Eskimo Joe — Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Justin Timberlake — FutureSex/LoveSounds
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Stadium Arcadium
The Killers — Sam's Town
Evanescence — The Open Door
Best Male Artist
Justin Timberlake — "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around
Shannon Noll — "Lonely"
Jay-Z — "Show Me What You Got"
Damien Leith — "Night of My Life"
Robbie Williams — "Lovelight"
Akon — "Smack That"
Best Female Artist
Pink — "U + Ur Hand"
Fergie — "Fergalicious"
Christina Aguilera — "Ain't No Other Man"
Beyoncé — "Irreplaceable"
Nelly Furtado — "Promiscuous"
Gwen Stefani — "Wind It Up"
Best Group
Wolfmother — "Joker and the Thief"
Good Charlotte — "Keep Your Hands off My Girl"
Eskimo Joe — "Black Fingernails, Red Wine"
Red Hot Chili Peppers — "Dani California"
Silverchair — "Straight Lines"
Panic! at the Disco — "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"
Spankin' New Artist
Stephanie McIntosh — "Mistake"
Lily Allen — "Smile"
Damien Leith — "Night of My Life"
Teddy Geiger — "For You I Will (Confidence)"
The Lost Gospel — "Secret Agent"
Ne-Yo — "So Sick"
Best Rock Video
Eskimo Joe — "Black Fingernails, Red Wine"
Thirty Seconds to Mars — "The Kill"
Jet — " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble%20%28disambiguation%29 | A nibble (or nybble), in computing, is a four-bit unit of data.
Nibble, nibbles, nibbler, or nibblers may also refer to:
Print media
Nibble (magazine), a former publication for Apple II computer users
Nibbles, a 20th-century American comic written by Malcolm Hancock
Film and television
Nibbles (film), a 2004 Canadian animated short by Christopher Hinton
Nibbles (Tom and Jerry), also known as Tuffy, a cartoon mouse character in the Tom and Jerry series, and Jerry's younger cousin
Nibbler (Futurama), a fictional character from the animated television series
Computing and games
Nibbler (video game), an arcade game
Nibbles (video game), a simple video game and variant of Snake
Nibblers (video game), a mobile tile-matching puzzle video game about fishes
Other uses
Nibbles, various small items of finger food
Nibbler, or nibblers, a tool for cutting sheet metal with minimal distortion
Nibbles Woodaway, alternate name of the Big Blue Bug, the giant termite mascot of New England Pest Control
See also
Nibble fish, or doctor fish
Bite (disambiguation)
Bit (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-Puzzle | TREE-PUZZLE is a computer program used to construct phylogenetic trees from sequence data by maximum likelihood analysis. Branch lengths can be calculated with and without the molecular clock hypothesis.
The software also implemented likelihood mapping, a method to visualize phylogenetic information in datasets, as well as several tests to assess if the likelihoods of trees are significantly worse than those of other trees.
The program's successor is IQ-TREE.
See also
Computational phylogenetics
References
External links
Phylogenetics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence%20universitaire%20de%20la%20Francophonie | The Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF; ) is a global network of French-speaking higher-education and research institutions. Founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1961, as the Association des Universités Partiellement ou Entièrement de Langue Française (AUPELF), the AUF is a multilateral institution supporting co-operation and solidarity among French-speaking universities and institutions. It operates in French-speaking and non-speaking countries of Africa, the Arab world, Southeast Asia, North and South America, Polynesia, the Caribbean, Central, Eastern and Western Europe. As of 2020, the AUF has 1,007 members (public and private universities, institutes of higher education, research centers and institutions, institutional networks, and networks of university administrators) distributed throughout francophone countries on six continents. It is active in 119 countries, and represented by regional offices and information centers on campuses and in institutes. The Association receives funding from the (OIF), and its headquarters are located at the Université de Montréal, Quebec.
History
Origins
In 1959, Jean-Marc Léger (Canadian journalist at Le Devoir) and André Bachand (public-relations director at the University of Montreal) voiced the idea of a worldwide organisation which would create a link between French-speaking universities. On 13 September 1961 in Montreal, some 150 representatives of the French-speaking world created the foundation of what would become Association des Universités Partiellement ou Entièrement de Langue Française (AUPELF), French for the "Association of Partially or Entirely French-speaking Universities." From 1972 to 1975, Robert Mallet chaired the board of directors of AUPELF.
Expansion
In 1987, during the heads of state summit in Quebec, an "exchange university" project was implemented under the name UREF (Université des Réseaux d'Expression Français, University French Expression Networks). Its purpose was to create a university network for research and education. In November 1993, AUPELF became AUPELF-UREF. In April 1998, in Beirut, AUPELF-UREF became the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie.
Reforms
To answer the Moncton action plan's request, the AUF undertook reforms in three fields in 1999:
Modification of its status
Administration
Programmes
In 2005, the AUF endowed a four-year program to meet the goals and priorities of the decennial strategic agreement of the institutional French-speaking world. This agreement, adopted in 2004 by member states of the French-speaking world, sets the principles and strategies of the institutional French-speaking world and controls its activities.
Structure
The association is composed of seven bodies:
General assembly: Main body of the AUF. Every four years, the 774 members of the association gather to decide goals and strategy for the four next years. It oversees the board of directors.
Association council: Enhances solidarity among higher-education and re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBS%20Classic%20FM | KBS Classic FM (also known as KBS 1FM) is a South Korean radio network operated by the Korean Broadcasting System. Most of the schedule is assigned to classical music, making it one of the few radio networks in the world that broadcast mainly in its music format (notable ones include RNZ Concert in Auckland, New Zealand, ABC Classic in Sydney, Australia, WFMT Radio Network in Chicago, United States BBC Radio 3 in London, United Kingdom, DZFE in Manila, Philippines).
Frequencies
Seoul/Incheon/Gyeonggi 93.1 MHz
Chuncheon/Gapyeong/Gangwon 91.1 MHz
Busan/South Gyeongsang Province 92.7 MHz
Ulsan 101.9 MHz
Changwon/Masan/Jinhae 93.9 MHz
Jinju/Sacheon 89.3 MHz
Geochang 92.1 MHz
Daegu 89.7 MHz
Andong/Yeongju 88.1 MHz
Pohang/Gyeongju 93.5 MHz
Gwangju 92.3 MHz
Yosu/Suncheon 94.5 MHz
Mokpo 98.3 MHz
Jeonju/North Jeolla Province 100.7 MHz
Namwon 104.5 MHz
Daejeon/South Chungcheong Province 98.5 MHz
Cheongju/Okcheon 102.1 MHz
Cheongju/Cheongwon 94.1 MHz
Chungju/Eumseong 100.3 MHz
Gangneung/Sokcho 89.1 MHz
Taebaek 97.3 MHz
Wonju 89.5 MHz
Jeju/North Jeju 96.3 MHz
Seogwipo/South Jeju 99.9 MHz
See also
KBS Cool FM
Gugak FM
Gyeonggi Broadcasting Corporation
External links
Kbs.co.kr
Kbs.co.kr
1FM
Classical music radio stations
Radio stations in South Korea
Radio stations established in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching | Switching may refer to:
Computing and technology
Switching, functions performed by a switch:
Electronic switching
Packet switching, a digital networking communications methodology
LAN switching, packet switching on Local Area Networks
Telephone switching, the activity performed by a telephone exchange (telephone switching machine)
Switching, a synonym for shunting in rail transport
Other uses
Switching (ecology), a pattern of predation describing predators' selection of food based on its abundance
Switching (film), a 2003 Danish interactive film
Switching (pickleball), when doubles partners switch sides of their court
Code-switching, of languages
Immunoglobulin class switching, an immunological mechanism that changes the type of antibody produced by B cells
Task switching (psychology), an experimental research paradigm used in cognitive psychology
See also
Switch (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20F.%20Boyce | Raymond F. Boyce (1946–1974) was an American computer scientist who was known for his research in relational databases. He is best known for his work co-developing the SQL database language and Boyce-Codd normal form.
Biography
Boyce grew up in New York, and went to college at Providence College, from which he graduated in 1968. He earned his PhD in computer science at Purdue in 1972. His wife Sanndy, whom he met in college, was a nurse. After leaving Purdue, he worked on database projects for IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York. In the short period that he had, which was not quite two years long, he co-developed Boyce–Codd normal form. Together with Donald D. Chamberlin, he co-developed Structured Query Language (SQL) while managing the Relation Database development group for IBM in San Jose, California. He died in 1974 as a result of an aneurysm, leaving behind his wife Sanndy and his infant daughter Kristin.
SQL
SQL was initially co-developed at IBM by Boyce alongside Donald D. Chamberlin in the early 1970s. Initially called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language) and based on their original language called SQUARE (Specifying Queries As Relational Expressions). SEQUEL was designed to manipulate and retrieve data in relational databases. By 1974, Chamberlin and Boyce published “SEQUEL: A Structured English Query Language” which detailed their refinements to SQUARE and introduced us to the data retrieval aspects of SEQUEL. It was one of the first languages to use Edgar F. Codd's relational model. SEQUEL was later renamed to SQL by dropping the vowels, because SEQUEL was a trade mark registered by the Hawker Siddeley aircraft company. Today, SQL has become the most widely used relational database language.
Boyce-Codd normal form
Boyce–Codd normal form (or BCNF) was developed in 1974 by Boyce and Edgar F. Codd. It is a type of normal form that is used in database normalization. The goal of relational database design is to generate a set of database schemas that store information without unnecessary redundancy. Boyce-Codd accomplishes this and allows users to retrieve information easily. Using BCNF, databases will have all redundancy removed based on functional dependencies. It is a slightly stronger version of the third normal form.
References
Further reading
The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics (early history of SQL)
“SEQUEL: A Structured English Query Language” D.D. Chamberlin and R.F. Boyce, Proc. ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Data Description, Access and Control, Ann Arbor, Michigan (May 1974) pages 249-264.
Raymond F. Boyce's gravestone at findagrave.com
IBM employees
Database researchers
1974 deaths
Purdue University alumni
1946 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt%20Kogan | Milt Kogan (born April 10, 1936) is an American actor. He made well over 100 guest appearances on American network television shows. He is perhaps best known for playing Desk Sergeant Kogan on six episodes of the sitcom television series Barney Miller, and for appearing in six different roles in the 1970s on Police Story.
Early life and career
Milt is an M.D. who practices board-certified Family Medicine in Los Angeles, California. He entered Cornell University with the class of 1957, but left after his junior year to earn his medical degree. He returned to Cornell to finish his B.S. in Animal Science fifty years later, graduating in 2007. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He also holds an M.P.H. (Epidemiology) from University of California, Los Angeles (1974–1976). He was a Peace Corps Physician in West Africa (1969–1972), practiced with the National Health Service Corps in Harlowton, Montana (1982–1983), served with the U.S. Army in Hanau, West Germany (1984–1986) and practiced in Vermillion, South Dakota (1996–1998). He speaks English, French, German, and Spanish.
Published works include: Escape From Montana (2009), Diary of the Ouagadougou Doc (2010), and Second Act (2010).
Filmography
He made guest appearances on many television series including It Takes a Thief, Mission: Impossible, Ironside, Sanford and Son, Mannix, The Law, Cannon, Police Story, Kojak, Eight Is Enough, Chico and the Man, The Rockford Files (3 episodes), Quincy, M.E., Diff'rent Strokes, Lou Grant, Night Court, Cagney & Lacey, Columbo, Knots Landing, Quantum Leap, General Hospital, Wonder Woman, Airwolf, The A-Team, My Two Dads, and many more.
In the 1983 NBC made-for-television movie M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, he played lead Doctor Christiansen of Cari Lightner's emergency room hospital crew that did all it could to save Lightner from a massive excessive-alcohol-fueled vehicle hit and who painfully but professionally chose to abort life-saving efforts and also painfully but professionally informed Lightner's family at the hospital of her death.
He produced two award-winning documentaries titled Different From You (2002), and Final Farewell of the Fabulous Apostles (2006).
References
External links
Different From You (2002) at Fanlight Productions
1936 births
American primary care physicians
American male television actors
Cornell Big Red men's basketball players
Living people
Actors from Camden, New Jersey
Male actors from Los Angeles
UCLA School of Public Health alumni
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Male actors from New Jersey
American men's basketball players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrophil%20extracellular%20traps | Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are networks of extracellular fibers, primarily composed of DNA from neutrophils, which bind pathogens. Neutrophils are the immune system's first line of defense against infection and have conventionally been thought to kill invading pathogens through two strategies: engulfment of microbes and secretion of anti-microbials. In 2004, a novel third function was identified: formation of NETs. NETs allow neutrophils to kill extracellular pathogens while minimizing damage to the host cells. Upon in vitro activation with the pharmacological agent phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), Interleukin 8 (IL-8) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS), neutrophils release granule proteins and chromatin to form an extracellular fibril matrix known as NET through an active process.
Structure and composition
High-resolution scanning electron microscopy has shown that NETs consist of stretches of DNA and globular protein domains with diameters of 15-17 nm and 25 nm, respectively. These aggregate into larger threads with a diameter of 50 nm. However, under flow conditions, NETs can form much larger structures, reaching hundreds of nanometers in length and width.
Analysis by immunofluorescence corroborated that NETs contain proteins from azurophilic granules (neutrophil elastase, cathepsin G and myeloperoxidase), specific granules (lactoferrin), tertiary granules (gelatinase), and the cytoplasm; however, CD63, actin, tubulin and various other cytoplasmatic proteins are not present in NETs.
Anti-microbial activity
NETs disarm pathogens with antimicrobial proteins such as neutrophil elastase, cathepsin G and histones that have a high affinity for DNA. NETs provide for a high local concentration of antimicrobial components and bind, disarm, and kill microbes extracellularly independent of phagocytic uptake. In addition to their antimicrobial properties, NETs may serve as a physical barrier that prevents further spread of the pathogens. Furthermore, delivering the granule proteins into NETs may keep potentially injurious proteins like proteases from diffusing away and inducing damage in tissue adjacent to the site of inflammation. NET formation has also been shown to augment macrophage bactericidal activity in response to multiple bacterial pathogens.
More recently, it has also been shown that not only bacteria but also pathogenic fungi such as Candida albicans induce neutrophils to form NETs that capture and kill C. albicans hyphal as well as yeast-form cells. NETs have also been documented in association with Plasmodium falciparum infections in children.
While it was originally proposed that NETs would be formed in tissues at a site of bacterial/yeast infection, NETs have also been shown to form within blood vessels during sepsis (specifically in the lung capillaries and liver sinusoids). Intra-vascular NET formation is tightly controlled and is regulated by platelets, which sense severe infection via platelet TLR4 and then bind to and acti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20generation | In computing, code generation denotes software techniques or systems that generate program code which may then be used independently of the generator system in a runtime environment.
Specific articles:
Code generation (compiler), a mechanism to produce the executable form of computer programs, such as machine code, in some automatic manner
Automatic programming (source code generation), the act of generating source code based on an ontological model such as a template
Generating code at run time in self-modifying code and just-in-time compilation
Model-driven development uses graphical models and metamodels as basis for generating programs
Program synthesis consists of synthesizing programs from a high-level, typically declarative specification
Random test generators are used in functional verification of microprocessors
Comparison of code generation tools shows the diversity of tools and approaches for code generation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagaruyung%20Palace | Pagaruyung Palace () is the istana (royal palace) of the former Pagaruyung Kingdom, located in Tanjung Emas subdistrict near Batusangkar town, Tanah Datar Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia. It was built in the traditional Minangkabau Rumah Gadang vernacular architectural style, but had a number of atypical elements including a three-story structure and a larger dimension in comparison to common rumah gadang.
Since the Pagaruyung Kingdom was disbanded in 1833, no king or royal family resides in the palace today but is still held in high esteem among Minangkabau people, as the descendants of scattered Minang nobles (bangsawan) still find roots and links to the former royal house of Pagaruyung. The palace has been destroyed by fire several times, in 1804, 1966 and 2007. It has been rebuilt again and today functions as a museum and popular tourist attraction.
Architecture
The original Pagaruyung palace was built entirely from timber masonry, however, the current building frame was built using modern concrete structure. Nevertheless, the Istano Basa Pagaruyung was quite faithfully restored using traditional techniques and materials adorned with 60 carvings that signify Minang philosophy and culture.
The palace has three stories with 72 pillars and the typical Rumah gadang gonjong, a horn-like curved roof made from 26 tons of black ijuk aren palm fibers. The palace is also furnished with over 100 replicas of Minang antique furniture and artifacts, aiming the palace to be revived as Minangkabau cultural center as well as a tourism attraction in West Sumatra.
History
The original Pagaruyung palace was built on Batu Patah Hill and was burned down during a riot in Padri War in 1804. The palace was rebuilt but was destroyed again by a fire in 1966. The building was then rebuilt again in 1976 as a replica of the original Pagaruyung palace. It was built after the suppression of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia (PRRI) movement in 1958, which was based in West Sumatra. Then-West Sumatra governor Harun Zen initiated construction of the Istano Basa Pagaruyung in 1976 as a way of reviving the flagging pride of the Minang community after the suppression. The restoration of the palace marked with the erection of tunggak tuo (main columns) on 27 December 1976 by West Sumatra Governor Harun Zain. After completion, the palace has become well-known to the public as a museum and tourist attraction. This building was not built on the original site but moved south from the original site.
The palace was destroyed by fire on the evening of February 27, 2007 after the roof was struck by lightning. It was estimated that only 15 percent of the valuable artifacts survived the fire. Today the surviving artifacts are stored in Balai Benda Purbakala Kabupaten Tanah Datar (Archaeology Authority of Tanah Datar Regency). The pusaka or heirloom of the Pagaruyung Kingdom was stored in located about 2 kilometers from Pagaruyung Palace. Restoration of the bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rfam | Rfam is a database containing information about non-coding RNA (ncRNA) families and other structured RNA elements. It is an annotated, open access database originally developed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in collaboration with Janelia Farm, and currently hosted at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Rfam is designed to be similar to the Pfam database for annotating protein families.
Unlike proteins, ncRNAs often have similar secondary structure without sharing much similarity in the primary sequence. Rfam divides ncRNAs into families based on evolution from a common ancestor. Producing multiple sequence alignments (MSA) of these families can provide insight into their structure and function, similar to the case of protein families. These MSAs become more useful with the addition of secondary structure information. Rfam researchers also contribute to Wikipedia's RNA WikiProject.
Uses
The Rfam database can be used for a variety of functions. For each ncRNA family, the interface allows users to: view and download multiple sequence alignments; read annotation; and examine species distribution of family members. There are also links provided to literature references and other RNA databases.
Rfam also provides links to Wikipedia so that entries can be created or edited by users.
The interface at the Rfam website allows users to search ncRNAs by keyword, family name, or genome as well as to search by ncRNA sequence or EMBL accession number.
The database information is also available for download, installation and use using the INFERNAL software package. The INFERNAL package can also be used with Rfam to annotate sequences (including complete genomes) for homologues to known ncRNAs.
Methods
In the database, the information of the secondary structure and the primary sequence, represented by the MSA, is combined in statistical models called profile stochastic context-free grammars (SCFGs), also known as covariance models. These are analogous to hidden Markov models used for protein family annotation in the Pfam database. Each family in the database is represented by two multiple sequence alignments in Stockholm format and a SCFG.
The first MSA is the "seed" alignment. It is a hand-curated alignment that contains representative members of the ncRNA family and is annotated with structural information. This seed alignment is used to create the SCFG, which is used with the Rfam software INFERNAL to identify additional family members and add them to the alignment. A family-specific threshold value is chosen to avoid false positives.
Until release 12, Rfam used an initial BLAST filtering step because profile SCFGs were too computationally expensive. However, the latest versions of INFERNAL are fast enough so that the BLAST step is no longer necessary.
The second MSA is the “full” alignment, and is created as a result of a search using the covariance model against the sequence database. All detected homologs are aligned to the mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20metric | In mathematics and computer science, a string metric (also known as a string similarity metric or string distance function) is a metric that measures distance ("inverse similarity") between two text strings for approximate string matching or comparison and in fuzzy string searching. A requirement for a string metric (e.g. in contrast to string matching) is fulfillment of the triangle inequality. For example, the strings "Sam" and "Samuel" can be considered to be close. A string metric provides a number indicating an algorithm-specific indication of distance.
The most widely known string metric is a rudimentary one called the Levenshtein distance (also known as edit distance). It operates between two input strings, returning a number equivalent to the number of substitutions and deletions needed in order to transform one input string into another. Simplistic string metrics such as Levenshtein distance have expanded to include phonetic, token, grammatical and character-based methods of statistical comparisons.
String metrics are used heavily in information integration and are currently used in areas including fraud detection, fingerprint analysis, plagiarism detection, ontology merging, DNA analysis, RNA analysis, image analysis, evidence-based machine learning, database data deduplication, data mining, incremental search, data integration, malware detection, and semantic knowledge integration.
List of string metrics
Levenshtein distance, or its generalization edit distance
Damerau–Levenshtein distance
Sørensen–Dice coefficient
Block distance or L1 distance or City block distance
Hamming distance
Simple matching coefficient (SMC)
Jaccard similarity or Jaccard coefficient or Tanimoto coefficient
Tversky index
Overlap coefficient
Variational distance
Hellinger distance or Bhattacharyya distance
Information radius (Jensen–Shannon divergence)
Skew divergence
Confusion probability
Tau metric, an approximation of the Kullback–Leibler divergence
Fellegi and Sunters metric (SFS)
Maximal matches
Grammar-based distance
TFIDF distance metric
There also exist functions which measure a dissimilarity between strings, but do not necessarily fulfill the triangle inequality, and as such are not metrics in the mathematical sense. An example of such function is the Jaro–Winkler distance.
Selected string measures examples
References
External links
String Similarity Metrics for Information Integration A fairly complete overview
Carnegie Mellon University open source library
StringMetric project a Scala library of string metrics and phonetic algorithms
Natural project a JavaScript natural language processing library which includes implementations of popular string metrics
Metrics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20Home | PlayStation Home was a virtual 3D social gaming platform developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's London Studio for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) on the PlayStation Network (PSN). It was accessible from the PS3's XrossMediaBar (XMB). Membership was free but required a PSN account. Upon installation, users could choose how much hard disk space they wished to reserve for Home. Development of the service began in early 2005 and it launched as an open beta on 11 December 2008. Home remained as a perpetual beta until its closure on 31 March 2015.
Home allowed users to create a custom avatar, which could be groomed realistically. Each avatar was given a personal apartment that users could decorate with free, bought, or won items. Users could travel throughout the Home world, which was frequently updated by Sony and its partners. Public spaces were made for display, entertainment, advertising, and networking. Home's primary forms of advertising included spaces themselves, video screens, posters, and mini-games. Home also featured many single and multiplayer mini-games, and hosted a variety of special events, some of which provided prizes to players. Users could use items won to further customise their avatar or apartments.
History
PlayStation Home was originally named "Hub", and started as a 2D online lobby for the PlayStation 2 game The Getaway: Black Monday. However, the online userbase for the PlayStation 2 was too narrow and the project was soon ported to the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3. Phil Harrison, then president of SCE Worldwide Studios at the time, liked the idea of having a virtual 3D community hub for PlayStation gamers, and transferred the project to what would become PlayStation Home. In a 2007 keynote speech, Phil Harrison used the term "Game 3.0" to describe the service.
Home had been speculated since the launch of PSN, when Sony expressed interest in such a service, specifically trophies (known at the time as "entitlements") for first-party titles. PlayStation Home, as a feature, was first publicly mentioned in an interview with NG-Gamer. This was later detailed by Kotaku and finally confirmed by NG-Gamer. It was officially announced by Phil Harrison on March 7, 2007, during his keynote speech at the 2007 Game Developers Conference where it was originally scheduled for a global public release in October 2007.
Home was delayed and expanded multiple times before initially releasing. Invitations to the closed beta were offered to winners of a weekly Warhawk online gaming event. In August 2008, Sony sent additional invitations to select users who downloaded a new Home XMB theme in Japan and North America. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) and Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong (SCEHK) also sent out invitations to select users for a closed beta. Users who purchased more than HK$60 or SG$12 worth of content in a single transaction over the PlayStation Store from August 29 to September 12, 2008, were also invited.
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret%20Data%20Visualization%20and%20Analysis | Ferret is an interactive computer visualization and analysis environment designed to meet the needs of oceanographers and meteorologists analyzing large and complex gridded data sets. Ferret offers a Mathematica-like approach to analysis; new variables may be defined interactively as mathematical expressions involving data set variables. Calculations may be applied over arbitrarily shaped regions. Fully documented graphics are produced with a single command. It runs on most Unix and Linux systems using X Window for display, and on Windows XP/NT/9x.
External links
Ferret official site
Meteorological data and networks
Earth sciences graphics software
Graphic software in meteorology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTSR | XTSR is a college radio station owned by Towson University and managed by the Department of Electronic Media & Film. Their internet radio programming operates 24/7 with a mix of live student DJ shifts and automated programming.
Popular shows XTSR Features are "Total Talk Sports", "The Pregame", "Wynn to Wynn", "True Crime Tuesdays" and "On God No Cap"
At the station, radio students learn first hand about the basics of running a radio station. The station's genre includes Sports talk, Adult Contemporary, Pop Culture, Live Dj's, Poetry, Comedy, Hip Hop, and Rock. They also have contacts with most major and independent music labels.
XTSR can be streamed through the website (XTSR.org), through iTunes under the College Radio tuner, or through the College Radio tuner app for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Students living on Towson University's campus can listen on channel 26 on the campus' cable television network.
External links
XTSR's Official Website
Towson University media outlets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SofTech | SofTech, Inc. was a computer software company with offices in the United States and headquarters established in Lowell, Massachusetts. SofTech was a significant provider of software engineering tools and solutions in the 1970's as well as Product Lifecycle Management, Product Data Management, and CAD CAM solutions. SofTech was founded by Douglas T. Ross, and was acquired by Essig PLM
.
References
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Software companies established in 1969
1969 establishments in Massachusetts
Companies based in Lowell, Massachusetts
Companies traded over-the-counter in the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot%20element | The pivot or pivot element is the element of a matrix, or an array, which is selected first by an algorithm (e.g. Gaussian elimination, simplex algorithm, etc.), to do certain calculations. In the case of matrix algorithms, a pivot entry is usually required to be at least distinct from zero, and often distant from it; in this case finding this element is called pivoting. Pivoting may be followed by an interchange of rows or columns to bring the pivot to a fixed position and allow the algorithm to proceed successfully, and possibly to reduce round-off error. It is often used for verifying row echelon form.
Pivoting might be thought of as swapping or sorting rows or columns in a matrix, and thus it can be represented as multiplication by permutation matrices. However, algorithms rarely move the matrix elements because this would cost too much time; instead, they just keep track of the permutations.
Overall, pivoting adds more operations to the computational cost of an algorithm. These additional operations are sometimes necessary for the algorithm to work at all. Other times these additional operations are worthwhile because they add numerical stability to the final result.
Examples of systems that require pivoting
In the case of Gaussian elimination, the algorithm requires that pivot elements not be zero.
Interchanging rows or columns in the case of a zero pivot element is necessary. The system below requires the interchange of rows 2 and 3 to perform elimination.
The system that results from pivoting is as follows and will allow the elimination algorithm and backwards substitution to output the solution to the system.
Furthermore, in Gaussian elimination it is generally desirable to choose a pivot element with large absolute value. This improves the numerical stability. The following system is dramatically affected by round-off error when Gaussian elimination and backwards substitution are performed.
This system has the exact solution of x1 = 10.00 and x2 = 1.000, but when the elimination algorithm and backwards substitution are performed using four-digit arithmetic, the small value of a11 causes small round-off errors to be propagated. The algorithm without pivoting yields the approximation of x1 ≈ 9873.3 and x2 ≈ 4. In this case it is desirable that we interchange the two rows so that a21 is in the pivot position
Considering this system, the elimination algorithm and backwards substitution using four-digit arithmetic yield the correct values x1 = 10.00 and x2 = 1.000.
Partial, rook, and complete pivoting
In partial pivoting, the algorithm selects the entry with largest absolute value from the column of the matrix that is currently being considered as the pivot element. More specifically, when reducing a matrix to row echelon form, partial pivoting swaps rows before the column's row reduction to make the pivot element have the largest absolute value compared to the elements below in the same column. Partial pivoting is generally su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullscreen | Fullscreen may refer to:
Fullscreen (aspect ratio), an aspect ratio of 4:3 (as opposed to widescreen (>1.37:1))
Fullscreen, in computing, a display which covers the full screen without the operating system's typical window-framing interface
Fullscreen (company), an American entertainment company and multi-channel network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20%28system%20call%29 | A computer program (process, task, or thread) may sleep, which places it into an inactive state for a period of time. Eventually the expiration of an interval timer, or the receipt of a signal or interrupt causes the program to resume execution.
Usage
A typical sleep system call takes a time value as a parameter, specifying the minimum amount of time that the process is to sleep before resuming execution. The parameter typically specifies seconds, although some operating systems provide finer resolution, such as milliseconds or microseconds.
Windows
On Windows, the Sleep() function takes a single parameter of the number of milliseconds to sleep. The Sleep() function is included in kernel32.dll.
The function has a resolution no higher than the current timer resolution, typically 16ms but at minimum 1ms, adjustable via the family of "media timer" APIs. For higher precisions, it is necessary to use a busy loop over , such as the one used in gnulib.
Unix
On Unix-like and other POSIX operating systems, the sleep() function is called providing a single parameter of type unsigned integer of the number of seconds to sleep. A higher-precision version is the function and the now deprecated . POSIX also allows for choosing clock sources via the extended version .
A version of was proposed to be part of the C programming language, but was rejected. The UTC time part of the same proposal was added to C11.
C examples
In Windows API:
Sleep(2 * 1000); // Sleep for 2 seconds
In Unix or POSIX system calls:
sleep(2); // Sleep for 2 seconds
Low level functionality
Sleep causes the thread or process to give up the remainder of its time slice and stay in the Not Runnable state for the specified duration. While there is generally a guarantee for the minimum time period, there is no strict guarantee that the thread will run immediately or soon, or even at all, once the specified time has passed. It is up to the scheduler's discretion, and dependent on thread priorities and implementation details such as timer resolutions when the sleeping thread will run again.
On POSIX systems, the nanosleep and related syscalls are interruptible by signals, returning the remaining sleep time. The sleep library function, on the other hand, is implemented via the alarm syscall on many older systems, thus it only works by delivering a signal. The Windows Sleep function is non-interruptible due to absence of signals (other than the thread or its process being terminated), although the related SleepEx function can be used to put the thread into an alertable state, allowing APC calls being made while the thread is sleeping. Also, a thread can technically be "interrupted" in case e.g. the process terminates due to an exception in a different thread.
Uses
Some system programs that never terminate execute an event loop, going to sleep at the start of each cycle and waiting for some event to awaken them. Once an event is received, the program services the event, then |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheckInstall | CheckInstall is a computer program for Unix-like operating systems which eases the installation and uninstallation of software compiled from source by making use of package management systems. After software compilation it can automatically generate a Slackware-, RPM-, or Debian-compatible package that can later be cleanly uninstalled through the appropriate package manager.
CheckInstall monitors the installation phase of a normal software build process and notes the files that are added to the system. It then builds a package that contains these files, using additional information gathered from the user. Finally, the files installed by the original run are removed and the package is installed using the system package tools, so the package will be properly registered in the local installed packages database.
The primary benefits provided by CheckInstall versus simply running make install are the ability to remove the package from the system using the system packaging tools, and the ability to install the resulting package on multiple machines. CheckInstall is sometimes cited as a mechanism for creating packages by open source projects instead of creating numerous platform-specific build packages.
Usage
Checkinstall is usually used after running a configure script and make, as follows:
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall
After entering some information about the author and a package description, you will get the folder where the generated package has been saved to.
See also
Installwatch
Advanced Packaging Tool
Alien (file converter)
Sudo
Yellowdog Updater, Modified
References
Linux package management-related software
Unix package management-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHD | NHD may refer to:
National History Day, US
National Hydrography Dataset, US
Networked Help Desk
New Hacker's Dictionary, of computer slang
Noordhollands Dagblad, a Dutch newspaper
Al Minhad Air Base, United Arab Emirates, IATA code
Nunhead railway station, London, England, station code
nHD, a graphic-display resolution of 640x360 pixels
Ava Guarani language of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina, ISO 639-3 code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebuyer | Ebuyer is an electronic commerce retailer based in Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is the largest independent online retailer of computer and electrical goods in the United Kingdom.
The Ebuyer website is the 210th most visited site in the United Kingdom [Alexa.com ranking] and has 4 million registered customers.
History
Ebuyer was founded in March 2000 in Sheffield by Paul Cusack, Mike Naylor, Steve Kay, Neeraj Patel, and Adam Ashmore – with startup capital of £250,000 from Paul Cusack, its annual turnover was in excess of £220 million by September 2005.
Stuart Carlisle was its managing director (CEO) from 2014 until resigning in 2015. Paul Cusack resigned in December 2006. Ebuyer (UK) Ltd turnover for 2022 (Year Ended 31 December 2022) was £174m.
Ebuyer (UK) Limited was owned by The West Retail Group from 2004 to 2023. West Retail is also the parent company of Wren Kitchens and the ultimate controlling party is Malcolm Healey.
As of April 2023, Ebuyer was purchased from The West Retail Group by investor Mark Reed and Richard Marsden via Realtime Holdings Limited. Richard Marsden was appointed the CEO.
Security
In July 2008, Gavin Brent, from Holywell in Flintshire, North Wales admitted stealing goods worth £20,000 from the firm before returning the goods, and demanding full refunds.
Brent, whose suspicious transactions were spotted by Ebuyer's security team, went on to conduct an online campaign against the company and the investigation. This included menacing Ebuyer staff and a police officer from Brent's now-defunct blog.
Barton Town F.C sponsorship
Ebuyer is the official floodlight and short sponsor of Barton Town F.C. from Barton-upon-Humber.
Controversy
During 2005 Ebuyer had significant customer service problems. Sheffield Trading Standards received 282 complaints about the company, and the customer service phone number had been removed from its website. After this, the firm promised to improve its service, and restored the customer service number to its site. Average daily telephone wait times are published.
On 28 November 2011, eBuyer ran a £1 promotion via email, offering new deals on the hour until midnight. eBuyer angered customers when their website was unable to handle the extra traffic, causing it to crash. When the website did work, many customers were emailed after successfully ordering and paying for items, only to be told they were out of stock. Many customers vented their anger at the company on their Facebook page, however eBuyer ran a campaign on their customer forums in an attempt to counter the bad publicity.
In December 2013, eBuyer posted pictures to Facebook of its staff wearing Christmas themed jumpers. However, a Facebook user named Phil spotted that one of the images contained a leaderboard in the background that suggested that eBuyer staff were rated on the number of returns that they reject. eBuyer responded to these accusations by stating that these were return merchandise authorizations (R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/VS1 | Operating System/Virtual Storage 1, or OS/VS1, is a discontinued IBM mainframe computer operating system designed to be run on IBM System/370 hardware. It was the successor to the Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks (MFT) option of System/360's operating system OS/360. OS/VS1, in comparison to its predecessor, supported virtual memory (then called virtual storage). OS/VS1 was generally available during the 1970s and 1980s, and it is no longer supported by IBM.
Description
OS/VS1 was OS/360 MFT II with a single virtual address space; by comparison, OS/VS2 SVS was OS/360 MVT with a single virtual address space. OS/VS1 was often installed on mid-range IBM mainframe systems, such as the System/370 Model 145 and, later, the System/370 Model 148.
OS/VS1 was intended to manage a medium-sized work load (for the 1970s) consisting only of batch processing applications, running within a fixed number of operating system partitions via the batch job management system Job Entry Subsystem 1 (JES1). This was in contrast to OS/VS2 which was intended to handle larger work loads consisting of batch applications, online interactive users (using the Time Sharing Option, or TSO), or a combination of both. However, OS/VS1 could, and often did, support interactive applications and users by running IBM's CICS transaction processing monitor as a job within one of its partitions.
Installation and modification of OS/VS1 was accomplished via IBM's cumbersome System Generation (SYSGEN) process.
Remote Entry Services (RES)
OS/VS1 included a replacement for OS/360 RJE. It allowed submission and retrieval of jobs by 2770, 2780 and 3780 terminals and by workstation programs included with OS/VS1 for, e.g., 1130. RES included Remote Terminal Access Method and a closer integration with Job Management than what RJE had.
IBM upgrades
OS/VS1 went through seven product releases. IBM enhanced OS/VS1 Release 7 with four releases of the IBM OS/VS1 Basic Programming Extensions (BPE), product 5662-257. BPE provides support for new 1980s hardware, such as 3380 Direct Access Storage, and for VM handshaking between VTAM and VM/VTAM Communications Network Application (VCNA).
IBM announced the last BPE release, OS/VS1 Basic Programming Extensions Release 4, on September 15, 1983, with planned general availability in March 1984.
IBM announced the end of functional enhancements to OS/VS1 in 1984. IBM recommended OS/VS1 installations migrate to MVS/370 or MVS/XA. To assist with the migration to MVS/XA, IBM made the VM/XA Migration Aid. It allowed installations to run OS/VS1 and MVS/XA simultaneously on the same machine, as guests of a third systemVM/XA. This way, the new MVS/XA system could be tested while the old production OS/VS1 system was still in use.
On January 24, 1989, IBM announced the intention to withdraw OS/VS1 and OS/VS1 BPE from marketing effective April 24, 1989, and to discontinue service effective February 28, 1990.
Time-sharing
Although IBM's Time Sharing Opti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeo%20Kanade | is a Japanese computer scientist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision. He is U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. He has approximately 300 peer-reviewed academic publications and holds around 20 patents.
Honors and achievements
In 1997, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering for contributions to computer vision and robotics.
In 1997, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
In 1999 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2008 Kanade received the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A special event called TK60: Celebrating Takeo Kanade's vision was held to commemorate his 60th birthday. This event was attended by prominent computer vision researchers.
Elected member of American Association of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Society of Japan, and Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan
Marr Prize, 1990 for the paper Shape from Interreflections which he co-authored with Shree K. Nayar and Katsushi Ikeuchi
Longuet-Higgins Prize for lasting contribution in computer vision at
CVPR 2006 for the paper "Neural Network-Based Face Detection" coauthored with H. Rowley and S. Baluja
CVPR 2008 for the paper "Probabilistic modeling of local appearance and spatial relationships for object recognition" coauthored with H Schneiderman
The other awards he has received include the C&C Award, the Joseph Engelberger Award, FIT Funai Accomplishment Award, the Allen Newell Research Excellence Award, and the JARA Award.
He has served for many government, industrial, and university advisory boards, including the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) of the National Research Council, NASA's Advanced Technology Advisory Committee, PITAC Panel for Transforming Healthcare Panel, and the Advisory Board of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
In 2016 Kanade received the Kyoto Prize in Information Sciences.
Notable works
Lucas–Kanade method
One of the earliest face detectors
Tomasi–Kanade factorization method
Virtualized Reality
Multi-baseline stereo and the world's first full-image video-rate stereo machine
VLSI computational sensors
Shape recovery from line drawings (known as Origami World theory and skew symmetry)
Kanade–Lucas–Tomasi feature tracker
External links
Takeo's Home Page at the Robotics Institute, CMU.
Envisioning Robotics Online Archival Exhibit
Think like an amateur, do as an expert 2016 Kyoto Prize Public Lecture
References
Living people
Japanese computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Japanese roboticists
1945 births
Computer vision researchers
Kyoto University alumni
Persons of Cultural Merit
Kyoto laureates in Advanced Technology
The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn%20installation | In personal computer games, a spawn installation is an installed copy of a game that may only be used to play in multiplayer mode, or otherwise limits the amount of single-player content accessible to the user. Additionally, some spawn implementations only allow the user to join games hosted by the installer's cd-key. There are several purposes for a spawn installation, including but not limited to creating added value by allowing the owner of the game to experience the multiplayer mode with friends and demonstrating the game to more potential buyers.
A similar concept (for example, in some Command & Conquer games) is the use of multiple game discs. Each disc contains a discrete portion of the game, such as an individual campaign. Sharing a disc with a friend allows both the owner and the friend to experience the full content of each respective disc, but not at the same time. In contrast with spawn installations, the disadvantage to the multiple-disc approach was that the game could only be shared among as many people as there were discs, while spawn installations could be used on any number of systems.
This concept is very similar to the single-card-multiplayer "Download Play" option that some Nintendo DS games offer (such as Super Mario 64 DS). The difference here, however, is that a spawn installation is installed on the system like a normal program, whereas the Nintendo DS only keeps its downloaded copy in memory while it is powered on.
Games with spawn installation
Carmageddon
Joint Strike Fighter - Innerloop
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit - Electronic Arts
Diablo - Blizzard Entertainment
Diablo II - Blizzard Entertainment
StarCraft - Blizzard Entertainment
StarCraft II - Blizzard Entertainment
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans - Blizzard Entertainment
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness - Blizzard Entertainment
Earth 2150 - Reality Pump
Total Annihilation - Cavedog Entertainment
Disciples: Sacred Lands - Strategy First
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - id Software
Halo Custom Edition - Gearbox SoftwareDr. Mario Online Rx - NintendoAge of Empires - MicrosoftAge of Empires: The Rise of Rome - MicrosoftAge of Empires II: The Age of Kings - MicrosoftAge of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion - MicrosoftHeroes of Might and Magic II - The 3DO CompanyHeroes of Might and Magic III - The 3DO CompanyGruntz - Monolith ProductionsWolfenstein: Youngblood'' - Bethesda Softworks
References
Video game development
Video game distribution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Blue | Captain Blue (born Adam Svenson) is a character in the British Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–68) and its computer-animated remake, New Captain Scarlet (2005). He is a senior officer in the Spectrum Organisation, which is committed to defending Earth against the Mysterons, and is the best friend of Captain Scarlet.
Conception
Captain Blue was among the first characters to be conceived by series creator Gerry Anderson who, having determined that "Scarlet" would make for an unusual codename for the series' protagonist, resolved that his mission partner could be codenamed "Blue". Script editor Tony Barwick, who commented on what he perceived as the series' "quite formalised writing", wrote Blue as "the foil, the nice guy" of Captain Scarlet.
In a 1982 interview for Starlog magazine, Captain Blue voice actor Ed Bishop described his casting by the Andersons: "There was an actor in the series named Cy Grant [voice of Lieutenant Green]. We happened to have the same agent and Sylvia Anderson had called to ask about him. The girl at the agency said, 'You people use a lot of Americans on your shows and we have this American actor.' Sylvia told her to send me along. It's just as simple as that." Gerry approved of what Bishop termed his "wall-to-wall corporate voice", judging it suitable for the role of a "smooth-talking co-star".
Although Bishop believed that he was the template for Blue's likeness, the puppet sculptor, Terry Curtis, had in fact already made a rough modelling in his own image, and simply changed the hair colour from brown to blond at the direction of Sylvia Anderson (Bishop himself, like Curtis, was darker-haired). The puppet's total cost was 500 guineas, or £525. It has been suggested that Blue's blue-eyed and blond-haired appearance influenced that of Commander Ed Straker, Bishop's live-action role in the later Anderson series UFO.
Appearance
Captain Scarlet
Blue, as depicted in the 1960s series, was born on 26 August 2035 to a Boston, Massachusetts financier. After graduating from Harvard University, he embarked on a career as a pilot before joining Spectrum. Blue is courageous, hard-working and a natural leader, but also deferential to the commands of Colonel White. He regularly partners with Captain Scarlet on missions and, although his best friend is indestructible, frequently fears for his safety. For example, in the episode "Winged Assassin", Blue attempts to prevent Scarlet from suicidally ramming the wheels of a Mysteronised airliner using a Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (SPV). He serves as acting commanding officer of Cloudbase during White's absence in "White as Snow", and stands in for Lieutenant Green as communications officer in "Avalanche".
Blue occasionally disobeys commands out of his own curiosity. For example, in "Renegade Rocket", he refuses to leave a military base that is being targeted by its own missile, electing to remain behind with Scarlet in an attempt to find the sel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiggins%20in%20Storyland | Wiggins in Storyland is an educational computer game designed for DOS and Microsoft Windows. It was released by Virgin Sound and Design in 1994. The game centers around a green bookworm named Wiggins and features voice acting by Doug Preis, Joseph Siravo, Eden Rigal, Richmond Hoxie, Polly Adams, and Daniel Rysnyder.
Gameplay
Wiggins in Storyland features little actual gameplay. Players can write stories and poems using a wide assortment of animated backgrounds, animated characters, props, and background music. The game was designed to allow children to freely write stories without being boggled by more complicated tools such as Microsoft Word. The game included over 40 characters (Including Wiggins, the main worm, Jenkins, the ghost, and the honker), 110 props, eight different story themes, multiple type fonts, and 40 different sound effects and background music. In short, the player is presented with a book taking up mostly the entire screen, wherein the leftmost page could be written on whilst the rightmost was left empty. A toolbar at the top of the screen allowed the player to drag props and such onto the rightmost page to help illustrate the story. The player may manipulate the animated characters in various ways—such as changing their size, facial expression, and mood. Other than that, the player can even record their story and hear it played back aloud.
In addition to the story-writing section, the player may enter "Wiggins' Library", a point-and-click activity room. Activities within the library include painting the room, playing musical instruments, shooting peas with a spoon, and making fruit juices for Wiggins to drink. Aside from all this, the window or rug can be clicked on to either play Tic-Tac-Toe or "The A-Maze-ing Rug"—a game in which the player attempts to catch the "bad guy" before the clock reaches zero.
1994 video games
DOS games
Children's educational video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisquel | Trisquel (full name Trisquel GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system, a Linux distribution, derived from another distribution, Ubuntu. The project aims for a fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a version of Ubuntu's modified kernel, with the non-free code (binary blobs) removed. Trisquel relies on user donations. Its logo is a triskelion, a Celtic symbol. Trisquel is listed by the Free Software Foundation as a distribution that contains only free software.
Overview
Four basic versions are available.
Trisquel
The standard Trisquel distribution includes the MATE desktop environment and graphical user interface (GUI), and English, Spanish and 48 other localizations, 50 in total, on a 2.6 GB live DVD image. Other translations can be downloaded if an internet connection is present during installation.
Trisquel Mini
Trisquel Mini is an alternative to mainline Trisquel, designed to run well on netbooks and older hardware. It uses the low-resource environment LXDE and lightweight GTK+ and X Window System alternatives to GNOME and Qt-KDE applications. The LXDE desktop only includes English and Spanish localizations, and can install from a 1.2 GB live DVD image.
Triskel
Triskel is another alternative to mainline Trisquel using the KDE graphical interface, available as a 2.0 GB ISO DVD live image.
Trisquel Sugar TOAST
Sugar is a free and open source desktop environment designed with the goal of being used by children for interactive learning. Sugar replaces the standard MATE desktop environment available with Trisquel.
Trisquel NetInstall
NetInstall consists of a 25MB CD iso image with just the minimal amount of software to start the installation via a text based network installer and fetch the remaining packages over the Internet.
Internationalization
The full installation includes 51 languages (Albanian, Arabic, Aranese, Asturian, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Central Khmer, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Valencian and Vietnamese) pre-installed in a downloadable 1.2-gigabyte DVD image.
Source code for the full Trisquel installation is also available in a downloadable 3-gigabyte DVD image.
History
The project began in 2004 with sponsorship of the University of Vigo for Galician language support in education software and was officially presented in April 2005 with Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project, as a special guest. According to project director Rubén Rodríguez, the support for Galician has created interest in South American and Mexican communities of emigrants from the Province of Ourense.
By December 2008, Tris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina%20Peleritti | Carolina Peleritti (born July 2, 1971) is an Argentine actress and former fashion model. She was born in Buenos Aires and took part in many TV series such as Boro Boro, La Marca del Deseo, Cybersix and 099 Central.
Filmography
Cinema
Geisha (1995)
El lado oscuro del corazón 2 (2001)
Samy y yo (2001)
The Incredibles (2004, Rioplatense Spanish voice as Mirage)
¿Quién dice que es fácil? (2006)
XXY (2006)
TV series
Boro Boro (1992)
La Marca del Deseo (1995)
Good Show (with Tato Bores)
Mi Cuñado
Cybersix (1995)
Infieles (2000, 2001)
099 Central (2002)
Resistiré (2003)
Historias de sexo de gente común (2004, 2005)
Jesús el Heredero (2004)
Ringtone (2005)
Malparida (2010)
Kissing Game (2020)
Theatre
Orinoco (1999, 2000)
Confesiones de Mujeres de 30 (2000, 2001)
12 Polvos - Títeres Porno (2001)
Monólogos de la Vagína (2001)
De Rigurosa Etiqueta (2002)
Porteñas (2003)
La Señorita de Tacna (2004, 2005)
External links
Interview
Unofficial Site
Model Profile at www.dottomodels.net
1971 births
Argentine film actresses
Argentine stage actresses
Argentine television actresses
Argentine female models
Actresses from Buenos Aires
Living people
20th-century Argentine actresses
21st-century Argentine actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edusat | Edusat or EDUSAT may refer to:
GSAT-3, an Indian communications satellite which is also known as EDUSAT
EduSAT, an Italian microsatellite
Edusat, an educational television network in Mexico
EduSat, an educational television channel in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Derana | TV Derana is a Sri Lankan private entertainment terrestrial television channel broadcasting in Sri Lanka. Launched on 11 October 2005, it is one of the most popular television networks in the country. Its main transmission tower is on the Kikilimana mountain, and coverage is extended nationwide via eight transmission towers.
The channel is available on digital medium through Dialog TV, PEO TV and the OTT platform Dflix (revamp of Gluuoo). Derana broadcasts contemporary content that upholds Sri Lankan values on its "අපේ දේ රැකගෙන, අලුත් දේ අරගෙන" / “Ape De Rakagena, Aluth De Aragena” (Conserve our own and embrace the new) platforms.
The channel focuses viewers in the two premium socio-economic categorizations SEC A and SEC B. TV Derana is the No. 1 television channel in Sri Lanka, according to late 2021 LMRB search data. The channel has maintained this position since March 2017.
TV Derana won 47 awards at the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing Nielsen People's Awards 2020 including the "Television Channel of the Year", "Peoples Youth Choice Television Channel of the Year". TV Derana won these awards at the previous year as well including the biggest award ‘The Local Brand of the year”.
TV Derana also holds the all-time record for having the most programmes by one channel, in the top 10 most rated programmes. According to the recent LMRB research data, TV Derana has eight programmes in the top 10 including the first two programmes in the country.
In October 2014, TV Derana was appointed the first and only Multi Channel Network (MCN) of YouTube in Sri Lanka.
TV Derana became the first channel in Sri Lanka to reach one million subscribers and one billion total views in 2019.
Ada Derana
"Ada Derana" is TV Derana's news flagship brand and currently is the no 1 news provider in Sri Lanka.
Ada Derana news websites operated by Derana. Its content is available in English, Sinhala. and Tamil. It is ranked as one of the most popular local news websites by Alexa.
In late 2007, Ada Derana entered into a partnership with Dialog Telekom, the largest mobile phone operator in Sri Lanka, to send breaking news alerts to all Dialog mobile subscribers as text messages.
Ada Derana 24
Ada Derana 24 is Sri Lanka's first ever 24-hour television news channel and first dedicated news channel.
The channel is available on Satellite and cable Television.
Catering to the thirst for news and information Ada Derana 24 has redefined the news space in Sri Lanka by providing around the clock news to its viewers. Prior to this news was mainly broadcasts on entertainment channels at a stipulated time. Ada Derana 24’s hourly news that provides days most happening and important news changed that dimension.
Ada Derana 24 programme line up includes
Hourly News (broadcast at the top of each hour),
12.00 Mid Day Prime (Sinhala)
6.55 PM Prime Time News (Sinhala),
First At 9 (09.00 PM in English),
World News (09.35 in English),
Late Night Prime (10.00 PM in Sinhala)
Programming
T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20disk | SAN Disk may refer to:
Storage Area Network computer storage devices (SAN disks)
SanDisk Corporation (formerly known as SunDisk) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Boor | de Boor may refer to:
Carl R. de Boor (born 1937), German-American mathematician and professor emeritus
De Boor's algorithm, a fast and numerically stable algorithm for evaluating spline curves in B-spline form
Carl Gotthard de Boor (1848–1923), German scholar of Byzantine studies
Helmut de Boor, German scholar of Germanic studies
See also
De Boer (disambiguation)
Boor (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan%20%C3%96zbekhan | Dr. Hasan Özbekhan (1921February 12, 2007) was a Turkish American systems scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher and planner who was Professor Emeritus of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He applied the field-of-systems theory to global problems, helped inspire the group of planners, diplomats, scientists and academics who came together as the Club of Rome.
Biography
Hasan Özbekhan was born in what was then the Ottoman Empire in 1921, into a diplomatic family. He studied at the Lycée Chateaubriand in Rome, and then studied Law and Political and Administrative sciences at the Faculte de Droit and the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and his graduate studies at the London School of Economics. He undertook his postgraduate work at the University of Cambridge after being elected to the Leverhume Fellowship.
In the 1960s, Ozbekhan worked as management consultant to large multinational corporations. The work he did for governments includes Science Policy design for Turkey and a large study for the French Government analyzing the nature of present events that, most probably, will shape the future of Paris. The recommendations derived from these analyses currently constitute the basis of the policies adopted by the French Government with respect to the city's long-term development. From 1963 to 1969, he was principal scientist and director of planning at the System Development Corporation, a military research group and software development company in Santa Monica, California.
In 1970, he started working at the University of Pennsylvania on the faculty of the Wharton School, where he became Professor of Operations Research and Statistics, and Chairman of the Graduate Group in the Social Systems Sciences Department. From 1986 until his retirement in 1992 he was Professor of Management at the Wharton School.
He has been a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, and held membership in The Economic Club of New York, the American Economic Association, the National Academy of Economics and Political Science, The Society of Business Advisory Professions, the Comité National Belge de l'Organisation Scientifique, the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, Mankind 2000, Futuribles.
He died on February 12, 2007, in Philadelphia.
Work
Özbekhan applied the field-of-systems theory to global problems, helped inspire the group of planners, diplomats, scientists and academics who came together as the Club of Rome. He wrote a paper, "The Predicament of Mankind," that became an influential core document of the group, addressing issues of energy, overpopulation, depletion of resources and environmental degradation.
In the 1970s Özbekhan was co founder and first director of The Club of Rome, with Aurelio Peccei an Italian Industrialist, and Alexander Christakis, a physicist and systems research designer. Özbekhan wrote the original prospectus for The Club of Rome, The Predicament of Mankind. This document ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick%20Somerset%20Macnutt | Derrick Somerset Macnutt (1902–1971) was a British crossword compiler who provided crosswords for The Observer newspaper under the pseudonym Ximenes. His main oeuvre was blocked-grid and "specialty" puzzles. Even though he only provided conventional blocked puzzles once a week for the Observer Everyman series for about two years his strong views on clueing, expressed in his 1966 book, have been a source of debate in the cryptic crossword world ever since.
Career
Macnutt was born at Eastbourne in Sussex and was educated at Marlborough College before achieving a Double First in classics at Jesus College, Cambridge. Between 1928 and 1963 he held the position of Head of Classics at Christ's Hospital near Horsham, West Sussex, as well as being a housemaster. The historian Norman Longmate wrote that he was the "James Boyer of his day, a notable teacher of the classics, respected, even liked, by his older pupils, dreaded by the younger boys, a bully and a brute". At the school he was widely known for the pleasure he obtained from caning the boys in his charge.
In 1939 he took over the position of crossword compiler for The Observer on the death of Edward Powys Mathers, who had written under the name of "Torquemada". Macnutt selected the name Ximenes after Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, one of Torquemada's successors as Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. He pronounced 'Ximenes' in an Anglicised fashion, .
His crossword style was initially in imitation of Torquemada, but was soon influenced by the inventive puzzles of Alistair Ferguson Ritchie who wrote as Afrit in The Listener.
Macnutt died in 1971, and puzzle 1200, his final crossword to be published, appeared in 1972. He was succeeded by Jonathan Crowther, who writes under the name Azed.
From 1943, he was also a contributor to The Listener, writing crosswords under the pseudonym Tesremos – his middle name spelled backwards.
Influence
As Ximenes, Macnutt's puzzles gained an enthusiastic following. His many fans organised dinners on the occasion of his puzzles number 100, 250, 500, 750 and 1000, with the 1968 dinner hosting nearly 400 solvers. His followers, known as Ximeneans, often sported a specially designed black tie covered in small white crosses.
Well-known Ximeneans include Stephen Sondheim, P. G. Wodehouse, and Leonard Bernstein. Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse books, named his most famous characters after two prize-winning Ximeneans, Sir Jeremy Morse and Mrs D. W. Lewis, and he named Morse's old Inspector Macnutt. In Rex Stout's Might as Well Be Dead (1956), detective Nero Wolfe is said to be working on a puzzle by Ximenes.
In his 1966 book, Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword (reissued 2001), he laid down rules that he claimed should be present in all good crosswords. These are now known as the "Ximenean principles". They include using a symmetric grid, and the specification of maximum and minimum numbers of "unches" (unchecked letters i.e. ones that only ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona%20Caldicott | Dame Fiona Caldicott, ( Soesan; 12 January 1941 – 15 February 2021) was a British psychiatrist and psychotherapist who also served as Principal of Somerville College, Oxford She was the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care in England until her death.
Early life and education
Caldicott was born on 12 January 1941 in Troon, daughter of barrister Joseph Maurice Soesan and civil servant Elizabeth Jane (née Ransley). Her paternal grandparents were greengrocers who were unenthusiastic about education; her father left school in his mid-teens, but subsequently completed a chemistry degree at night school and a law degree by correspondence. Caldicott was educated at City of London School for Girls, then studied medicine and physiology at St Hilda's College, Oxford, qualifying BM BCh in 1966.
Career
Fiona Caldicott was Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1996 to 2010 while also serving as Pro Vice-Chancellor, Personnel and Equal Opportunities, of the University of Oxford and chairing its Personnel Committee. She retired from her 10-year term as Chair at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust in March 2019, having steered the organisation to Foundation Trust status. A past President of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, she was a Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Psychotherapy for the South Birmingham Mental Health NHS Trust from 1977 to 1996.
She was the first woman to be President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1993–96) and its first woman Dean (1990–93). From 2011 to 2013 she was Chair of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care. Caldicott was Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges from 1995 to 1996.
Caldicott was a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, as well as being appointed a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science in 1998.
Caldicott Committee
A review was commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer of England and Wales owing to increasing concern about the ways in which patient information is used in the NHS of England and Wales and the need to ensure that confidentiality is not undermined. Such concern was largely due to the development of information technology in the service, and its capacity to disseminate information about patients rapidly and extensively. In 1996, guidance on "the protection and use of patient information" was promulgated and there was a need to promote awareness of it at all levels in the NHS. It did not affect Scotland originally but they have recently adopted it. A main committee was set up under Caldicott's Chair and there were four separate working groups; the committee was known as the Caldicott Committee, responsible for reviewing all patient-identifiable information, which passes from NHS organisations to other NHS or non-NHS bodies for purposes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomax | Infomax is an optimization principle for artificial neural networks and other information processing systems. It prescribes that a function that maps a set of input values I to a set of output values O should be chosen or learned so as to maximize the average Shannon mutual information between I and O, subject to a set of specified constraints and/or noise processes. Infomax algorithms are learning algorithms that perform this optimization process. The principle was described by Linsker in 1988.
Infomax, in its zero-noise limit, is related to the principle of redundancy reduction proposed for biological sensory processing by Horace Barlow in 1961, and applied quantitatively to retinal processing by Atick and Redlich.
One of the applications of infomax has been to an independent component analysis algorithm that finds independent signals by maximizing entropy. Infomax-based ICA was described by Bell and Sejnowski, and Nadal and Parga in 1995.
See also
FastICA
References
Artificial neural networks
Computational neuroscience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakekang | Bakekang is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a Philippine graphic novel by Carlo J. Caparas. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr. and Khryss Adalia, it stars Sunshine Dizon in the title role. It premiered on September 11, 2006 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing I Luv NY. The series concluded on March 30, 2007 with a total of 145 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sunshine Dizon as Jacoba "Bakekang" Maisog
Supporting cast
Lovi Poe as Kristal Maisog
Yasmien Kurdi as Charming Maisog / Lokresha / Karisma
Sheryl Cruz as Valeria Arevalo
Manilyn Reynes as Marta
Jay Manalo as Kristof Arevalo
Gladys Reyes as Deborah Yokohama
Nadine Samonte as Lorraine Arevalo
Dion Ignacio as Aldrin Sandoval
Iwa Moto as Jenny
Arci Muñoz as Nicole
Recurring cast
Victor Neri as Herman
Cogie Domingo as Johnny
Julia Clarete as Georgia
Tyron Perez as Paolo
Hero Angeles as Daniel Lozano
Vangie Labalan as Mameng
Marky Cielo as Michael
Marky Lopez as Paking
Rainier Castillo as Joshua
Lotlot de Leon as Rita
Soxie Topacio as Vincent
Sheila Marie Rodriguez as Izzy
Jennifer Sevilla as Stella
Dionne de Guzman as Otik
Ailyn Luna as Rea
Guest cast
Eunice Lagusad as young Charming
Krystal Reyes as young Kristal
Joy Folloso as young Lorraine
Renzo Almario as young Michael
Romnick Sarmenta as Francis
Luz Valdez as Maria
Evangeline Pascual as Valeria's mom
Marcus Madrigal as Manfred
Chinggoy Alonzo as Rod
Maritoni Fernandez as Elsa
Isko Moreno as Victor
Kenneth Ocampo as Romy
Accolades
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Video%20on%20Trial%20episodes | Video on Trial is a Canadian television comedy series. It premiered on Much, then known as MuchMusic, on August 15, 2005, and aired on the network until July 6, 2014 for a total of 250 episodes.
Video on Trial features music videos being humorously critiqued in a manner akin to a courtroom trial. The show's tongue-in-cheek manifesto, as announced in its original opening sequence, is seeing to it that "all music videos are brought to justice". A typical half-hour episode features five music videos being "tried" by a panel of five personalities acting as jurors.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2005–06)
Season 2 (2006–07)
Season 3 (2007–08)
Season 4 (2008–09)
Season 5 (2009–10)
Season 6 (2010–11)
Season 7 (2011–12)
Season 8 (2013–14)
Season 9 (2014)
References
Lists of Canadian comedy television series episodes
Lists of non-fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Extra | MTV Extra was a music channel by MTV Networks Europe, the channel first launched on 1 July 1999 on the Sky Digital platform, and was a mixture of music videos and repeats of MTV Programming. Towards the end of the channel's life, programming was dropped and the channel showed solely music videos (under the "Pure Music" name), with MTV Dance in the evenings. MTV Dance was spun off into its own channel on 20 April 2001, and MTV Extra was renamed MTV Hits! (now MTV Hits) at 6am on 1 May 2001. MTV Extra is notable for being the only spin-off MTV channel to use the same song title graphics as its parent channel (although it had its own separate idents).
In 2005, Viacom proposed two channels to the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel to obtain a licence to air in the French free digital terrestrial television: Nickelodeon and MTV Extra. Viacom didn't find a French partner and the CSA preferred French groups projects.
References
MTV channels
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2001
1999 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%20Desktop%20Racing | Mini Desktop Racing is a racing video game published by Metro 3D and developed by Data Design Interactive. It was released on PC and PlayStation 2 formats in July 2005. A Wii version was released in Australia on 22 November 2007, and 23 November 2007 in Europe and North America.
Gameplay
Much like the popular Micro Machines, Mini Desktop Racing is displayed with a top-down view. Players race in a variety of mini cars around a variety of desktop areas. The game offers reasonably interactive courses by allowing players to "turn on fans" and "spill drinks" in attempts to hinder opponents. Every level has a variety of different things that can be interacted with. The game can be played in single-player mode, in which you can race against one or more computer-controlled opponents or in multiplayer where you can race against one other friend.
The Wii version of the game is controlled with the Wii Remote pointed forward, which the player holds in one hand and twists left or right to steer, similar to drag races in the Wii version of Need for Speed: Pro Street, as well as the one-handed control scheme for the Wii version of Need for Speed: Nitro.
Reception and publicity
In 2005, Mini Desktop Racing had very poor advertising, making it a relatively unknown game. Reviews are difficult to come by, though most critics gave the game low scores, criticizing primarily its poor presentation. Most internet gaming sites, such as IGN or GameSpot, feature the game in their databases. Mark Bozon of IGN gave the Wii version of the game a 1.2, criticizing the game's reuse of Offroad Extremes engine, poor graphics and unwieldy controls.
References
2005 video games
PlayStation 2 games
Racing video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Data Design Interactive games
Wii games
Windows games
Conspiracy Entertainment games
Metro3D games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOP%20%28disambiguation%29 | GOP stands for Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican Party of the United States of America.
GOP or Gop may also refer to:
Computing
Graphics Output Protocol, a component of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
Group of pictures, used in video coding
Places
The Gop, a neolithic mound in Wales
Gop, Odisha, India
Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy, the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, Poland
Gatesville Municipal Airport (FAA code: GOP), Texas, United States
Gorakhpur Airport (IATA code: GOP), Uttar Pradesh, India
Other uses
Government of Pakistan
Gross operating profit
Guardians of Peace, a hacker group
Yeretuar language (ISO 639-3 code: gop), an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesian Papua
See also
Gaziosmanpaşa (disambiguation)
Gopi (disambiguation) or Gopa
Gopal (disambiguation)
Gopa (caste) or Gop, an Indian caste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCL%20S.A. | LCL S.A. is a major French banking network that is part of the Crédit Agricole group, with registered office in Lyon and administrative head office in Paris, France. It was established in 2005 from its predecessor the Crédit Lyonnais, and its name LCL refers to "Le Crédit Lyonnais". As of 2005, it served about 6 million customers in 2000 branches in France.
Sponsorship
LCL sponsors the yellow jersey, worn by the race leader of the Tour de France cycling race. It awards a toy lion - le lion en peluche - to each day's winner as a play on its name. Crédit Lyonnais, the predecessor of LCL, first sponsored the Tour in 1981, and has sponsored the yellow jersey since 1987.
Controversy
In 2010 the French government's Autorité de la concurrence (the department in charge of regulating competition) fined eleven French banks, including LCL S.A., the sum of 384,900,000 euros for colluding to charge unjustified fees on check processing, especially for extra fees charged during the transition from paper check transfer to "Exchanges Check-Image" electronic transfer.
See also
Crédit Agricole
Crédit Lyonnais
References
External links
LCL (Le Crédit Lyonnais)
Investment banks
Primary dealers
Companies based in Lyon
Privatized companies of France
Crédit Agricole subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Naval%20Computing%20Machine%20Laboratory | The United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory (NCML) was a highly secret design and manufacturing site for code-breaking machinery located in Building 26 of the National Cash Register (NCR) company in Dayton, Ohio and operated by the United States Navy during World War II. It is now on the List of IEEE Milestones, and one of its machines is on display at the National Cryptologic Museum.
History
The laboratory was established in 1942 by the Navy and National Cash Register Company to design and manufacture a series of code-breaking machines ("bombes") targeting German Enigma machines, based on earlier work by the British at Bletchley Park (which in turn owed something to pre-war Polish cryptanalytical work). Joseph Desch led the effort. Preliminary designs, approved in September 1942, called for a fully electronic machine to be delivered by year's end. However, these plans were soon judged infeasible, and revised plans were approved in January 1943 for an electromechanical machine, which became the US Navy bombe.
These designs were proceeding in parallel with, and influenced by, British attempts to build a high-speed bombe for the German 4-rotor Enigma. Indeed, Alan Turing visited Dayton in December 1942. His reaction was far from enthusiastic:
It seems a pity for them to go out of their way to build a machine to do all this stopping if it is not necessary. I am now converted to the extent of thinking that starting from scratch on the design of a Bombe, this method is about as good as our own. The American Bombe program was to produce 336 Bombes, one for each wheel order. I used to smile inwardly at the conception of Bombe hut routine implied by this program. Their test (of commutators) can hardly be considered conclusive as they were not testing for the bounce with electronic stop finding devices. Nobody seems to be told about rods or offiziers or banburismus unless they are really going to do something about it.
The American approach was, however, successful. The first two experimental bombes went into operation in May 1943, running in Dayton so they could be observed by their engineers. Designs for production models were completed in April, 1943, with initial operation starting in early June.
All told, the laboratory constructed 121 bombes which were then employed for code-breaking in the US Navy's signals intelligence and cryptanalysis group OP-20-G in Washington, D.C. Construction was accomplished in three shifts per day by some 600 WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), 100 Navy officers and enlisted men, and a large civilian workforce. Approximately 3,000 workers operated the bombes to produce "Ultra" decryptions of German Enigma traffic.
According to a contemporary US Navy report (dated April 1944), the bombes were used on naval jobs until all daily keys had been run; then the machines were used for non-naval tasks. During the previous six months, about 45% of the bombe time had been devoted to non-naval proble |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFFN | KFFN (1490 AM) is a commercial radio station in Tucson, Arizona. It is owned by Lotus Communications and it broadcasts a sports radio format. KFFN airs syndicated programming from ESPN Radio.
KFFN is powered at 1,000 watts non-directional. Its transmitter is on East Bray Road in Tucson.
History
Starting in 1949, the 1490 frequency in Tucson was the home of KTKT. To increase its listening area, KTKT received permission in 1956 from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move to 990 kHz. When that was granted, it left 1490 open for a new station. .
In March 1956, under the ownership of William John Hyland III and Dawkins Espy, doing business as the Pima Broadcasting Company, KAIR received its construction permit but could not begin testing until KTKT moved to 990. The station signed on within minutes of KTKT's move to 990 and continued playing the music/news programming which the audience was used to hearing.
The station was characterized by a revolving door of owners at the start. James H. Duncan joined the Pima Broadcasting Co. in November 1956. Josh Higgins Radio Enterprises, soon renamed to Joe DuMond Radio Enterprises, bought the station a year later, and in the spring of 1959, the station was sold yet again, to Andrew J. Griffith, Jr., and Jerome K. McCauley, who formed KAIR Broadcasting; the station was operated by Freddie and Josephine Mays and struggled with a contemporary format and many business issues.
With the air time sales staff spending the majority of their time in a local bar, it was difficult at best to pay the bills and keep the station on the air. Midway through 1961, the crew and management walked out in what they perceived as a labor dispute. Thomas J. Wallace Jr., whose father Tom Sr. had helped start KTKT, returned to Tucson to manage KAIR, serving as a station manager, salesman, engineer and on-air talent. Wallace's management saved the station, which implemented a Christian format and used the slogan "I pledge prayer for KAIR, daily"; it broadcast from studios located on the second floor above the business offices at the Ramada Inn.
By the end of 1965, with no lasting appreciable growth in listenership or programming development over the four years the new format had been in effect, the station began to struggle. The owners, Freddie and Josephine Mays, were forced to cut their losses and sell the station.
By August 1966, KAIR was sold to Frankie Kalil at Kalil & Co., doing business as Number One Radio. Kalil, who had turned KTKT around and made it Tucson's ratings leader, worked his radio magic again and rolled out an easy listening winner, with a new slogan, "Drive with KAIR, Everywhere". The station remained competitive in the Tucson market until FM listening became more common. It raised its power from 250 to 1,000 watts in 1975.
In early 1978, the Surrey Broadcasting Company acquired KAIR, which also owned KJYK at 94.9 FM. In 1985, KAIR also adopted the KJYK calls and flipped to a Top 40/CHR form |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaStock | MetaStock is a proprietary computer program originally released by Computer Asset Management in 1985. It is used for charting and technical analysis of stock (and other asset) prices. It has both real-time and end-of-day versions. MetaStock is a product of Innovative Market Analysis.
Early history
In 1982 Steve Achelis started a company named Computer Asset Management to develop financial and technical analysis software for personal computers. Computer Asset Management was renamed Equis International in 1989. Achelis’ first software application, written for the Apple II+, was The Financial Package which calculated various financial planning metrics. The Market Mood Monitor was released in 1984 and was eventually renamed The Technician. The Technician, written for the IBM PC, helped investors analyze and chart broad market conditions using sentiment, momentum, and monetary indicators. MetaStock 1.0 was released in 1986. Both MetaStock and The Technician received PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice award in April 1986.
While The Technician analyzed broad market conditions, MetaStock analyzed individual securities (stocks, futures, mutual funds, etc.). In response to the increasing demand for real-time analysis of prices, MetaStock RT was released in July 1992. MetaStock RT received live, real-time quotes from Data Broadcasting’s Signal data feed. In 1995, MetaStock 5.0 was released for the Microsoft Windows 3.1 operating system. Later that year, MetaStock added support for the Reuters DataLink end-of-day data feed. This relationship with Reuters led to Reuters purchasing Equis International and its MetaStock software in 1996. In 1998, MetaStock was released for the Reuters Quotron data feed and in 2001 for the Reuters 3000 Xtra electronic trading platform. In June 2013, Thomson Reuters sold MetaStock to Innovative Market Analysis.
Versions
References
External links
MetaStock official website
Technical analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%20HCI | Gender HCI is a subfield of human-computer interaction that focuses on the design and evaluation of interactive systems for humans. The specific emphasis in gender HCI is on variations in how people of different genders interact with computers.
Examples
Gender HCI research has been conducted in the following areas (among others):
Biases in perceptions of gendered computerized partners
The effects of confidence and self-efficacy on genders' interactions with software.
The design of gender-specific software, such as video games created for women.
The design of display screen sizes and how they affect different genders.
The design of gender-neutral problem-solving software.
Overview
Gender HCI investigates ways in which attributes of software (or even hardware) can interact with gender differences.
As with all of HCI, Gender HCI is a highly interdisciplinary area. Findings from fields such as psychology, computer science, marketing, neuroscience, education, and economics strongly suggest that men and women problem solve, communicate, and process information differently. Gender HCI investigates whether these differences need to be taken into account in the design of software and hardware.
History
The term Gender HCI was coined in 2004 by Laura Beckwith, a PhD candidate at Oregon State University, and her advisor Margaret Burnett. They discovered that, although there had been some activity that could be characterized as Gender HCI work, people did not know about each other's work. The relevant research reports were isolated and scattered about various fields. Since that time, they and others have worked to help researchers know about each other's work and practitioners to be aware of the findings, so as to allow this area to mature as a subarea of HCI.
The following are a brief set of milestones in the history of this emerging subarea.
1987: Games designed as "gender neutral" look like games designed for boys. (Chuck Huff).
1989: Ethnographic research exploring women, programming, and computers (Sherry Turkle).
1995: Gender differences in self-efficacy and attitudes toward computers (Tor Busch).
1998: Gender factors in the design of video games (Justine Cassell).
2002: Wider displays more beneficial to all users, especially females (Mary Czerwinski, Desney S. Tan, George G. Robertson).
2004: The concept Gender HCI made explicit (Laura Beckwith, Margaret Burnett).
2006: A research workshop on Gender HCI.
Selected findings
Here are some results from the Gender HCI research conducted to date – ordered from most to least recent, within categories:
"Reward Expectations of Gendered Computers."
In one experiment, subjects worked on a task with a computerized partner that was named James or Julie. The task was gender-neutral, meaning that it was not directly relevant to being a man or woman. The results showed that subjects behaved the same way toward a computer named James or Julie. Despite these similarities in behavior, subjects estimated that a com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Faiman | Peter Leonard Faiman AM (born 1944) is an Australian television producer with experience in film, live television and events. He has had a long-standing working relationship with the Nine Network.
Biography
Faiman was born in Melbourne. He directed/produced the Paul Hogan Show and the Graham Kennedy and Don Lane shows for about six years of its eight-and-a-half-year run. He also produced a show hosted by Bert Newton and one by Ernie Sigley. In 1981, he was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia in the 1981 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the media, particularly in the field of television production.
Faiman was involved in several Rupert Murdoch projects, including in the UK as creative and management consultant at BSkyB, and in the US at the Fox Network, where he produced the Emmy Award-winning news magazine program The Reporters and A Current Affair in New York City. He went on to become Vice President of Fox Circle Productions and later President of Programs and Production at 20th Century Fox Television in Los Angeles. He guided the launch of the FX Network in New York in 1994, and was the coordinating director for the opening and closing broadcasts of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games on behalf of the Sydney Olympic Broadcasting Organisation (SOBO).
Faiman directed the 1986 blockbuster film Crocodile Dundee, and the 1991 American comedy Dutch, which was a box office disappointment. He also produced the animated feature FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
Since returning to Australia in 2002, he has been a program consultant for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, acting as a consulting producer on Strictly Ballroom, Spicks and Specks and The Pet Show. Faiman also helped conceptualise the Webby Award-winning multi-platform project SkillsOne.
References
External links
Living people
Film directors from Melbourne
Australian film directors
Australian television producers
Members of the Order of Australia
People educated at University High School, Melbourne
1944 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcMap | ArcMap is the former main component of Esri's ArcGIS suite of geospatial processing programs. Used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyze geospatial data. ArcMap allows the user to explore data within a data set, symbolize features accordingly, and create maps. This is done through two distinct sections of the program, the table of contents and the data frame. In October 2020, it was announced that there are no plans to release 10.9 in 2021, and that ArcMap would no longer be supported after March 1, 2026. Esri is encouraging their users to transition to ArcGIS Pro.
Functionality
ArcMap users can create and manipulate data sets to include a variety of information. For example, the maps produced in ArcMap generally include features such as north arrows, scale bars, titles, legends, neat lines, etc. The software package includes a style-set of these features. As well as the ability to upload numerous other reference styles to apply to any mapping function.
The ArcGIS suite is available at four license levels: Basic, Standard, or Advanced (formerly ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo), and Pro. Each step up in the license provides the user with more extensions that allow a variety of querying to be performed on a data set. Pro is the highest level of licensing, and allows the user to use such extensions as 3D Analyst, Spatial Analyst, and the Geostatistical Analyst as well as numerous new functionalities at each new release.
Layout
The layout of ArcMap may seem overwhelming at first glance, but when a second look is taken what is seen is two distinct sections of ArcMap. The data frame where information is spatial and the table of contents where data is aligned in terms of importance symbology is changed.
Data frame
The section of ArcMap where data is spatially applied from the table of contents. The data comes in feature, rasters, and layers. While working in the spatial sector of the data, ground units (miles, kilometers, feet, meters, etc...) are used and represented in the coordinate system defined. This is where the views can be changed between Layout and Data View. The data will be ordered according to the order in the Table of Contents.
The user can create multiple data frames within one table of contents. The data frame while in that view will only view a single data frame at a time.
Table of Contents
The table of contents is the way that ArcMap represents what data is available to put into the data frame and how each layer is symbolized. The normal way to organize the layers is from top to bottom. With the base map elements such as a street map or DEM listed at the bottom the thematic map layers can be placed above to convey the message the map is being designed for.
Other forms to view the table of contents include listing layers by source; visibility; and selection. The most basic form is to stay with drawing order as described above.
Views
Views are put into place to allow a user to choose between either data view or t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Proteinpedia | Human Proteinpedia, which is closely associated with Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bangalore and Johns Hopkins University, is a portal for sharing and integration of human proteomic data. It allows research laboratories to contribute and maintain protein annotations. Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) integrates data, that is deposited in Human Proteinpedia along with the existing literature curated information at the context of an individual protein. In essence, researchers can add new data to HPRD by registering to Human Proteinpedia. The data deposited in Human Proteinpedia is freely available for download. Emphasizing the importance of proteomics data disposition to public repositories, Nature Methods recommends Human Proteinpedia in their editorial. More than 70 labs participate in this effort.
Data types
Data pertaining to post-translational modifications, protein–protein interactions, tissue expression, expression in cell lines, subcellular localization and enzyme substrate relationships can be submitted to Human Proteinpedia.
Experimental platforms
Protein annotations present in Human Proteinpedia are derived from a number of platforms such as
Co-immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry-based protein–protein interaction
Co-immunoprecipitation and Western blotting based protein–protein interaction
Fluorescence based experiments
Immunohistochemistry
Mass spectrometric analysis
Protein and peptide microarrays
Western blotting
Yeast two-hybrid based protein–protein interaction
This portal that allows adding of protein information was developed as a collaborative effort between the laboratory of Dr. Akhilesh Pandey at Johns Hopkins University and the Institute of Bioinformatics.
FAQs
* What are the criteria for contributing data?
Any investigator who fulfills the following criteria can contribute data:
i) provides experimentally derived data, and,
ii) is willing to share data, and,
iii) is willing to be listed as the 'contributor' of the data
* Can I contribute data anonymously?
Anonymous contributions are not allowed. Contributor details should be clearly presented while contributing data.
* Can bioinformatically predicted data be shared through Human Proteinpedia?
Predictions of any type are not allowed. Contributed data should be derived experimentally and should be accompanied with experimental evidence.
* Is the contributed data subjected to peer review?
The data are not subjected to peer review and the actual experimental data (raw or processed) should be provided.
* What will happen to conflicting results from different laboratories?
In cases where a given entry is documented as erroneous, we will consult with the contributing group(s) about deleting the entry.
External links
humanproteinpedia.org
www.hprd.org
References
Bioinformatics
Proteomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JC3IEDM | JC3IEDM, or Joint Consultation, Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model is a model that, when implemented, aims to enable the interoperability of systems and projects required to share Command and Control (C2) information. JC3IEDM is an evolution of the C2IEDM standard that includes joint operational concepts, just as the Land Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model (LC2IEDM) was extended to become C2IEDM. The program is managed by the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP).
The Joint C3 Information Exchange Data Model
JC3IEDM is produced by the MIP-NATO Management Board (MNMB) and ratified under NATO STANAG 5525. JC3IEDM a fully documented standard for an information exchange data model for the sharing of C2 information.
The overall aim of JC3IEDM is to enable "international interoperability of C2 information systems at all levels from corps to battalion (or lowest appropriate level) in order to support multinational (including NATO), combined and joint operations and the advancement of digitisation in the international arena."
According to JC3IEDM's documentation, this aim is attempted to be achieved by "specifying the minimum set of data that needs to be
exchanged in coalition or multinational operations. Each nation, agency or community of
interest is free to expand its own data dictionary to accommodate its additional
information exchange requirements with the understanding that the added specifications
will be valid only for the participating nation, agency or community of interest. Any
addition that is deemed to be of general interest may be submitted as a change proposal
within the configuration control process to be considered for inclusion in the next version
of the specification."
"JC3IEDM is intended to represent the core of the data identified for exchange across multiple functional areas and multiple views of the requirements. Toward that end, it lays down a common approach to describing the information to be exchanged in a command and control (C2) environment.
The structure should be sufficiently generic to accommodate joint, land, sea, and air environmental concerns.
The data model describes all objects of interest in the sphere of operations, e.g., organizations, persons, equipment, facilities, geographic features, weather phenomena, and military control measures such as boundaries.
Objects of interest may be generic in terms of a class or a type and specific in terms of an individually identified item. All object items must be classified as being of some type (e.g. a specific tank that is identified by serial number WS62105B is an item of type "Challenger" that is a heavy UK main battle tank).
An object must have the capability to perform a function or to achieve an end. Thus, a description of capability is needed to give meaning to the value of objects in the sphere of operations.
It should be possible to assign a location to any item in the sphere of operations. In addition, various g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies%20Alive | Mummies Alive is a 2015 six-part television historical documentary series about mummies, that was shown on various networks, including on Smithsonian Channel (US), History (Canada), Yesterday (UK), ZDF (Germany), and SBS One (Australia). It was produced by Saloon Media and Impossible Factual, in association with Shaw Media. Directed by Mick Grogan and narrated by Jason Priestley, the six one-hour episodes center around mummies that have been found all around the world and the stories and legends surrounding their deaths.
Episodes
The Gunslinger Mummy
Buried in a Bog
Otzi the Iceman
The Inca Maiden
The Pharaoh's Secret
The Hero of Herculaneum
References
External links
http://www.saloonmedia.com/#!mummies-alive/cmpo
http://www.impossiblefactual.com/
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/mummies-alive/1003749
http://www.history.ca/mummies-alive/
http://www.history.ca/mummies-alive/episode-guide/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4718676/
2015 Canadian television series debuts
2010s Canadian reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Frogger%20Toy%20Trials | My Frogger Toy Trials is an action video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii and published by Konami for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in North America on November 7, 2006, in Europe on February 23, 2007, and in Australia in February 2007.
Gameplay
My Frogger Toy Trials has three types of gameplay. The first is the hub, where the player moves the protagonist (named Kyle by default) around various areas to participate in levels and mini-games. The next is the main game, where the player controls Frogger instead. In it, Frogger is put on a level covered in a grid, which Frogger must get through. The final gameplay type are all of the various mini-games. Some mini-games can be played in the hub area, while all of them are playable in the Mini-game and Multiplayer modes.
Plot
My Frogger Toy Trials begins with a young boy named Kyle, who is watching an advertisement for Toy Pets (a toy meant to be used in a tournament consisting of several worlds with several levels each) anticipating the arrival of his. Eventually, he meets a cloaked man named Shadow, who delivers his Toy Pet egg to him.
One month later, on the day of the tournament, Kyle is disappointed that after all that time, his egg still hasn't hatched yet. He meets up with his friend Lucy, who is also participating in the tournament. After talking with his mother and Lucy, Kyle and Lucy leave for the tournament. On their way, Kyle discusses with Lucy that he hopes that his Toy Pet turns out to be a dragon. Soon after arriving, Kyle's egg begins to hatch. However, instead of the dragon he asked for, from the egg emerges a frog. Kyle seems to hate him at the start, because of his lack of abilities, to the point of Kyle insulting the frog, nicknamed "Froggy" by Lucy. Disheartened, Froggy jumps into the sewer, but is saved by a Toy Pet frog named Lumpy, who is owned by the mysterious "Agent T". Afterwards Kyle names him Frogger and the two agree to work together from here on out.
Audio
My Frogger Toy Trials' soundtrack was composed by Stephen Geering, with the exception of the Frogger Theme Music, which was composed by Mutato Muzika.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
See also
Frogger
List of Nintendo DS games
References
External links
Action games
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS-only games
Frogger
2006 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Sentient toys in fiction
Video games about toys
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%20Simulator%20%28video%20game%29 | Ship Simulator is a ship simulator, a type of vehicle simulation computer game which simulates maneuvering various ships in different environments, although without the effects of wind and current. It was developed by Dutch company VSTEP and released by the former company Lighthouse Interactive, which closed down in 2009.
Ship Simulator 2006
The first version of Ship Simulator was released in 2006 and was titled Ship Simulator 2006. The user can steer various ships, amongst others a Rotterdam water taxi, a container ship and even the ill-fated RMS Titanic, in various weather conditions and in three real-life harbours, which are Rotterdam, Hamburg and Phi Phi Islands in Thailand; a fourth harbour, New York City was later released as a free download. A game element is added to the simulation by means of forty "missions" which have to be completed as fast or as accurately as possible. Users can also design their own missions, and share with others. The game has a built-in scenario editor to create new missions.
The Official Ship Simulator 2006 Add-On was released in February 2007. This is an expansion pack with six additional ships and extra features such as ship walk-throughs.
Series
Ship Simulator 2008 released in July 2007 in Germany and the UK. It contains seven ports and eight open sea environments. This version also features waves, weather, day/night time transitions, damage to vessels, and new boats and ships. There are six new ships; a supertanker, a Solent ferry, large ocean ferry, a new patrol boat and two new tugs. There is also a Ship Simulator Professional V2.0
The Titanic has also undergone some minor changes for example the second class stairwell and the stern section are visitable, as well and the original ships have been updated. Free add-ons were reportedly available, including a hovercraft, jetski, barge, improved physics and possibly another environment.
An official expansion for Ship Simulator 2008 titled Ship Simulator 2008 New Horizons was released in April, 2008. The add-on features eight new ships, the addition of multiplayer functionality, a new sailing area (Padstow, Cornwall), twenty new missions, in game downloading of new missions, option to connect and disconnect barges to the pushboat in-game, and new walkthrough options.
Ship Simulator Extremes is the name of the latest installment in the Ship Simulator series. It was released on August 27, 2010.
Additions to the game include new locations around the world from cold Antarctica to warm Bora Bora as well as new ships (including official licensed Greenpeace vessels) and new dynamic and more realistic weather and water systems. Most vessels from Ship Simulator 2008 are also part of the choice of ships. The cruise ship "Ocean Star" from Ship Simulator 2006/2008 is also included, except outside colors have changed and the name changed to "Orient Star". Vessels have more usable controls and more realistic ones, unlike Ship Simulator 2008 in which only the whistle, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndie | Syndie is an open-source cross-platform computer application to syndicate (re-publish) data (mainly forums) over a variety of anonymous and non-anonymous computer networks.
Syndie is capable of reaching archives situated in the following anonymous networks: I2P, Tor, Freenet.
History
Syndie has been in development since 2003 and ties in closely with the I2P network project, which is considered a parent project.
Following the departure of lead developer Jrandom in 2007, work on syndie was paused. Active development resumed for a period, with the most recent release in 2016.
Concept
Syndie operates in a manner similar to blogs, newsgroups, forums, and other content tools; it allows one or more authors to privately or publicly post messages. Messages are pushed and pulled to and from archive servers (other peers that choose to be), which are hosted in a variety of anonymous and non-anonymous locations.
Most archive servers are HTTP archives hosted inside the I2P network, but there are syndie archives in Freenet as well as the normal internet. Each archive does not control the content stored on it; by default all messages are pushed and pulled by all participants. In this way, every message is backed up by every user, so should one archive go down, the content can be pushed to a different archive then pulled by other users of that archive. This means that even if all of the users and archives delete a message, as long as one person has it and there is one pushable archive, the message will be redistributed to every user.
Users have the option to delete locally stored messages after a set time, after the local storage consumes a certain amount of disk space, or by blacklists of users.
Each user can create multiple identities. Each identity is known as a forum, and users can post into their own or different forums. Each user can control their forum; for example, they may wish to run a blog by not permitting other people to start threads, but allowing them to post comments.
Technical requirements
Syndie is a Java application and as such can run on any platform on which Java is supported; although a standard widget toolkit is required for the graphical user interface versions.
Syndie is primarily a graphical application, based on the Standard Widget Toolkit for Java, but it can be run in a CLI (headless) mode.
See also
Distributed computing, Distributed Networking, Distributed database
I2P - The development of Syndie and I2P currently overlap.
Anonymous P2P
Osiris (Serverless Portal System) - Support P2P web forum.
Internet forum
References
External links
www.syndie.i2p inside the I2P network
Syndie web forum at I2P forums
Syndie at infoAnarchy.org (web site about infoanarchism)
Cross-platform free software
Free Internet forum software
Free routing software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Cryptographic software
Anonymity networks
Internet privacy
Free network-related software
I2P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTV%20%28Australian%20TV%20station%29 | VTV is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Victoria in Australia. The network was owned by ENT Ltd., before being purchased by the WIN Corporation.
Network history
VICTV Television Victoria began as a network of several stations serving northern and western Victoria:
GMV-6 Shepparton (launched on 23 December 1961)
BTV-6 Ballarat (launched on 27 April 1962)
STV-8 Mildura (launched on 27 November 1965).
Television Victoria was owned and operated by Examiner-Northern TV Ltd, a company which already owned TVT-6 Hobart as well as GMV-6 and BTV-6. Shortly after they purchased STV-8 in 1990, the three Victorian stations took on the on-air identity of VIC TV - Television Victoria, providing a single programming service across all three stations with separate regional news services for each area. As each of the 3 stations aired mostly Nine Network programming especially in the lead up to the VIC TV launch, the new network became, in preparation for the 1992 aggregation of broadcasts, the state level Nine affiliate. Until 1987 these stations aired HSV's Seven News and from that year onward these stations began to broadcast Nine News from GTV.
On 1 January 1992, aggregation of regional television took place in Victoria. VIC Television extended their transmission area to incorporate the Bendigo, Albury and Gippsland area markets and officially confirmed as the Nine Network affiliate for most of regional Victoria. However, the Mildura market did not aggregated until 1997 when Prime Television finally launched as a Seven Network affiliate and WIN carried both Nine and Network Ten affiliations. VIC Television had already entered into a program supply agreement with the Nine Network but continued to maintain news services in each of the six regional markets in which it now operated. The official callsigns of GMV and BTV were consolidated into a single callsign of VTV. STV-8 kept its own callsign as it was excluded from the area affected by aggregation.
In October 1994, ENT Ltd. sold VIC Television to the WIN Corporation which already operated WIN Television stations in New South Wales, Canberra and Queensland and VIC became WIN Victoria. The stations are now part of the WIN Television network and on the day of its transition, the VIC logo was replaced to mark the change of ownership for the channels with the golden WIN logo used in the eastern states while the 9 dots from the Nine Network logo, which debuted in 1992 for VIC Television's aggregation, were retained until 2006.
On 1 July 2016, as part of a wide national re-alignment of regional television, VTV swapped affiliations with GLV/BCV switching from Nine Network to Network Ten, but VTV rebroadcast a feed of ATV-10 from Melbourne with local ads.
On 1 July 2021, as the reverse of the 2016 affiliation swap, VTV swapped affiliations again with GLV/BCV from Network 10 to the Nine Network but VTV rebroadcasts a feed of GTV-9 from Melbourne with local ads.
The stations is affiliat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%E2%80%93compact%20algorithm | In computer science, a mark–compact algorithm is a type of garbage collection algorithm used to reclaim unreachable memory. Mark–compact algorithms can be regarded as a combination of the mark–sweep algorithm and Cheney's copying algorithm. First, reachable objects are marked, then a compacting step relocates the reachable (marked) objects towards the beginning of the heap area. Compacting garbage collection is used by modern JVMs, Microsoft's Common Language Runtime and by the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
Algorithms
After marking the live objects in the heap in the same fashion as the mark–sweep algorithm, the heap will often be fragmented. The goal of mark–compact algorithms is to shift the live objects in memory together so the fragmentation is eliminated. The challenge is to correctly update all pointers to the moved objects, most of which will have new memory addresses after the compaction. The issue of handling pointer updates is handled in different ways.
Table-based compaction
A table-based algorithm was first described by Haddon and Waite in 1967. It preserves the relative placement of the live objects in the heap, and requires only a constant amount of overhead.
Compaction proceeds from the bottom of the heap (low addresses) to the top (high addresses). As live (that is, marked) objects are encountered, they are moved to the first available low address, and a record is appended to a break table of relocation information. For each live object, a record in the break table consists of the object's original address before the compaction and the difference between the original address and the new address after compaction. The break table is stored in the heap that is being compacted, but in an area that is marked as unused. To ensure that compaction will always succeed, the minimum object size in the heap must be larger than or the same size as a break table record.
As compaction progresses, relocated objects are copied towards the bottom of the heap. Eventually an object will need to be copied to the space occupied by the break table, which now must be relocated elsewhere. These movements of the break table, (called rolling the table by the authors) cause the relocation records to become disordered, requiring the break table to be sorted after the compaction is complete. The cost of sorting the break table is O(n log n), where n is the number of live objects that were found in the mark stage of the algorithm.
Finally, the break table relocation records are used to adjust pointer fields inside the relocated objects. The live objects are examined for pointers, which can be looked up in the sorted break table of size n in O(log n) time if the break table is sorted, for a total running time of O(n log n). Pointers are then adjusted by the amount specified in the relocation table.
LISP 2 algorithm
In order to avoid O(n log n) complexity, the algorithm uses three different passes over the heap. In addition, heap objects must have a separa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapow | Kapow may refer to:
Kapow Records, an American record label
Kapow!, an American rock band led by Toshi Yano
Kapow!, a programming block on Canadian TV channel Teletoon
Ka-Pow!, an animated web spin-off of Happy Tree Friends
See also
Kapo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20filtering%20system | An information filtering system is a system that removes redundant or unwanted information from an information stream using (semi)automated or computerized methods prior to presentation to a human user. Its main goal is the management of the information overload and increment of the semantic signal-to-noise ratio. To do this the user's profile is compared to some reference characteristics. These characteristics may originate from the information item (the content-based approach) or the user's social environment (the collaborative filtering approach).
Whereas in information transmission signal processing filters are used against syntax-disrupting noise on the bit-level, the methods employed in information filtering act on the semantic level.
The range of machine methods employed builds on the same principles as those for information extraction. A notable application can be found in the field of email spam filters. Thus, it is not only the information explosion that necessitates some form of filters, but also inadvertently or maliciously introduced pseudo-information.
On the presentation level, information filtering takes the form of user-preferences-based newsfeeds, etc.
Recommender systems and content discovery platforms are active information filtering systems that attempt to present to the user information items (film, television, music, books, news, web pages) the user is interested in. These systems add information items to the information flowing towards the user, as opposed to removing information items from the information flow towards the user. Recommender systems typically use collaborative filtering approaches or a combination of the collaborative filtering and content-based filtering approaches, although content-based recommender systems do exist.
History
Before the advent of the Internet, there are already several methods of filtering information; for instance, governments may control and restrict the flow of information in a given country by means of formal or informal censorship.
On the other hand, we are going to talk about information filters if we refer to newspaper editors and journalists when they provide a service that selects the most valuable information for their clients, readers of books, magazines, newspapers, radio listeners and TV viewers. This filtering operation is also present in schools and universities where there is a selection of information to provide assistance based on academic criteria to customers of this service, the students. With the advent of the Internet it is possible that anyone can publish anything he wishes at a low-cost. In this way, it increases considerably the less useful information and consequently the quality information is disseminated. With this problem, it began to devise new filtering with which we can get the information required for each specific topic to easily and efficiently.
Operation
A filtering system of this style consists of several tools that help people find the most |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20the%20Study%20of%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20and%20the%20Simulation%20of%20Behaviour | The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour or SSAISB or AISB is a nonprofit, scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behaviour and their simulation and embodiment in machines. AISB also aims to facilitate co-operation and communication among those interested in the study of artificial intelligence, simulation of behaviour and the design of intelligent systems.
History
Founded in 1964, SSAISB, is the oldest AI society in the world. It is the largest Artificial Intelligence Society in the United Kingdom. The society has an international membership drawn from both academia and industry. It is a member of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (previously known as European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence ECCAI).
Objectives of the Society
The objectives of the Society are:
to promote the study of artificial intelligence, simulation of behaviour and the design of intelligent systems.
to facilitate co-operation and communication among those interested in the study of artificial intelligence, simulation of behaviour and the design of intelligent systems.
to hold, or to participate in the holding of, conferences and meetings for the communication of knowledge concerning, and to publicise and disseminate by other means knowledge and views concerning artificial intelligence, simulation of behaviour and the design of intelligent systems.
Activities of the Society
The society hosts an annual convention consisting of parallel symposia covering various specialist topics, loosely organised around a theme.
It also runs various events, especially to promote public understanding of AI and cognitive science.
The society published the journal AISBJ (no longer published) and continues to publish a quarterly newsletter AISBQ which includes short reports on current AI and cognitive science research.
External links
SSAISB website
Current and past SSAISB conventions
SSAISB Journal
SSAISB events
List of SSAISB Fellows
Artificial intelligence associations
Computer science organizations
Organizations established in 1964 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridport%20Railway | The Bridport Railway was a railway branch line that operated in the county of Dorset in England. It connected Bridport with the main line network at Maiden Newton, and opened on 12 November 1857. It was extended to West Bay in 1884, but the extension was not well used and it closed to passengers in 1930.
The remaining branch closed in 1975.
Origins
During the 1840s a number of railway schemes had been proposed, that would have put Bridport on a main line from London to Exeter. This included the Bridport and Exeter Railway, and schemes to extend the London and South Western Railway to Exeter from Dorchester. As late as 1853 there was a firm proposal to build such a line, but it fell through and the present-day route via Yeovil was adopted instead.
Dismayed at being abandoned from the main line system, businessmen in Bridport observed that the Great Western Railway (GWR) was making plans to extend its partly built line, the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) from Castle Cary to Weymouth and they resolved to build a branch line to connect their town to that line. (The incorporating Act of the WS&WR had originally authorised a branch to Bridport).
Accordingly, on 5 May 1855 they obtained the authorising Act of Parliament to build a branch line to a junction with the GWR at Maiden Newton. It is said to be the last broad gauge line in Dorset.
Opening
The line opened on 12 November 1857, the GWR line having opened throughout earlier that year. There was one intermediate station at Poorstock, renamed Powerstock in 1860. It was constructed in the broad gauge and worked by the GWR.
It had an unusual type of permanent way described by Captain Tyler of the Railway Inspectorate:
It has been laid with MacDonnell's patent permanent way, consisting of bridge rails weighing 51 lbs and longitudinal rolled iron sleepers weighing 60 lbs to the lineal yard, which are secured to each other by screw bolts and nuts. The gauge is preserved by angle iron cross-ties, nine feet apart; and a strip of wood has been inserted between the rails and sleepers to prevent rigidity. This description of permanent way has been already tried on the Bristol & Exeter Railway, and with such success as to induce the Company to lay down an additional portion of it.
In the nineteenth century
The line was leased to the larger company for 21 years from 1 July 1858. Toller station was opened on 31 March 1862, serving the village of Toller Porcorum. (Toller Fratrum was more easily accessed from Maiden Newton station). The branch was converted to standard gauge in June 1874. It was leased for a further 21 years from 1 July 1882.
The line was extended from Bridport station to West Bay, a little over two miles, opened on 31 March 1884.
The route
Running through undulating topography, the route had to negotiate difficult terrain. It ran broadly west from Maiden Newton at first, climbing the valley of the River Hooke. After a summit west of Toller, the line turned south-west to f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushavadata | Ushavadata (Brahmi: , ), also known as Rishabhadatta, was a viceroy and son-in-law of the Western Kshatrapa ruler Nahapana, who ruled in western India.
Name
Ushavadata's name is attested in his inscriptions as , which is derived from the Saka name , meaning "rightly created".
Inscriptions
Much of the information about Ushavadata comes from his Nashik and Karle inscriptions. The Nashik inscription contains an eulogy of Ushavadata in Sanskrit, and then records the donation of a cave to Buddhists in a Middle Indo-Aryan language. The Karle inscription contains a similar eulogy, but in the Middle Indo-Aryan language.
Early life
Ushavadata was the son of one Dinika. He identifies as a Shaka (IAST: Śaka) in his Nashik inscription:
He believed in Brahmanism, and married Nahapana's daughter Dakshamitra.
Charity
Both of Ushavadata's inscriptions mention the following of his charitable acts:
Donated 300,000 cows
Donated gold for the establishment of a holy site on the banks of the Barnasa river
Donated 16 villages to the deities and Brahmanas (priests)
Gave 8 wives to the Brahmanas at the holy site of Prabhasa
Fed hundreds of thousands of Brahmanas every year
The Nashik inscription records more such acts, stating that Ushavadata exhibited very pious behaviour at the Trirashmi hills, where the Nashik caves are located:
Donated four-roomed rest houses in Bharukachchha (Bharuch), Dashapura (Mandsaur), Govardhana (near Nashik), and Shurparaka (Nala Sopara)
Commissioned gardens, tanks, and wells
Established free crossings at several rivers, including Iba, Parada, Damana, Tapi, Karabena, Dahanuka, and Nava
Established public water stations on both the banks of these rivers
Donated 32,000 coconut tree stems at Nanamgola village to the associations of charakas at Pimditakavada, Govardhana, Suvarnamukha, and Shurparaka
Purchased a field from a Brahmana family, and donated it to Buddhists along with a rock-cut cave (one of the Nasik Caves).
Military career
Ushavadatta campaigned in the north under the orders of Nahapana to rescue the Uttamabhadras, who had been attacked by the Malayas (identified with the Malavas). He also extended the realm by defeating other enemies.
The Satavahana king Gautamiputra Satakarni appears to have defeated Rishabhadatta. An inscription discovered in Nashik, dated to the 18th year of Gautamiputra's reign, states that he donated a piece of land to Buddhist monks; this land was earlier in the possession of Ushavadata.
See also
Nasik inscription of Ushavadata
References
Bibliography
2nd-century Indian people
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Converts to Hinduism
Western Satraps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%206136 | Nokia 6136 is a mobile telephone handset produced by Nokia. It features Generic Access Network (GAN), a technology formerly known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA).
Technical specifications
Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE: GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b/g)
Generic Access Network (automatic switching between WLAN and cellular networks)
1.3 megapixel camera
USB (mini USB)
IrDA
microSD
Stereo FM radio with Visual Radio
Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC)
Runs the Series 40 interface
External links
Official Nokia 6136 page
6136 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN%20Companion | The MSN Companion was a small-scale personal computer terminal that was designed for easy access to MSN services on the Internet, such as Hotmail, while still being cheap and easy to use. They were intended for use by people with little knowledge of computers or technology, and many included several features aimed at the elderly or disabled, such as easier-to-read monitors. The device was designed by Microsoft.
History
The device was first unveiled at the COMDEX conference in November 1999, where it was first described as a 'MSN-based Web companion'. In June 2000, Vestel USA Inc, Compaq and eMachines began working with Microsoft to create the first MSN Companions. Mock-ups of RCA, Acer and Inventec Companions were also seen.
While the MSN Companion was initially received with praise, it did not perform successfully in the market and Microsoft and MSN stopped providing support for Companions in October 2003.
Early Companion models
All MSN Companions ran an early version of Microsoft Windows CE, and were shipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. However, the hardware provided by each manufacturer was significantly different, with some companies choosing to use a wireless keyboard over a wired one.
The Vestel package included a 15-inch monitor (or a 10-inch LCD monitor) and a PS/2 keyboard with a touchpad. The device itself had 32MB (+16MB flash) of memory, a 200 MHz Geode processor, two USB ports, a phone jack, and a parallel port.
The eMachines package was similar, offering a 17 or 19-inch monitor instead of an LCD one and an 'eBoard' keyboard and standalone mouse.
The Compaq MSN Companion shipped with an LCD screen and a wireless keyboard with a mouse built-in. Compaq machines had 32MB (+16MB flash) of memory, a 266 MHz AMD processor, four USB ports, a phone jack, and, in some models, an ethernet port for networking.
See also
Portable Media Center
Xbox
References
Microsoft hardware
Windows CE devices
Personal computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano%20Huck | Luciano Grostein Huck (born 3 September 1971) is a Brazilian TV host and entrepreneur. From 2000 to 2021, he hosted the TV show Caldeirão do Huck, aired every Saturday on Brazilian network TV Globo, and also broadcast to 114 countries, via Globo International. In september 2021, Huck left his saturday show to host Domingão com Huck (former Domingão do Faustão) on Sundays.
Huck is also the founder of Joá Investments, an investment fund focused on technology and lifestyle start-up companies, that only makes partnerships with companies committed with sustainability and with the preservation of the environment. Among Joá's investments, there are Cataratas, that focus on sustainable tourism, Tembici, a bike-sharing and bike-parking system, and also Agrade Investments that works with start-ups in the USA.
Early life
Huck was born in São Paulo, the son of the lawyer Hermes Marcelo Huck and the urban planner Marta Dora Grostein, and half-brother of the film director Fernando Grostein Andrade. Huck is Jewish, being his maternal grandfather, Mauricio Grostein, native of the city of Ekaterinoslav, Soviet Union (currently Dnipro, Ukraine). He studied at the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP).
He was an intern at Brazilian advertising agencies such as W/Brasil. At the same time, he opened Cabral, a nightclub in São Paulo.
His first direct connection with communication was as a writer at Jornal da Tarde newspaper in 1993. His job was to write a daily section called Circulando (Circulating), about youth behavior and entertainment. Huck also started working on a radio show aired by Rádio Jovem Pan.
Huck had his television debut in 1994 with a feature on TV show "Perfil" (Profile), presented by Otávio Mesquita. He was 24 when his newspaper page Circulando became a TV show under the same name, aired on network CNT Gazeta.
Career
Television
In September 1996, Huck made his solo debut with Programa H on Rede Bandeirantes. Luciano Huck was also the host of radio show Torpedo on Rádio Jovem Pan. At 27, Huck left the newspaper to work full-time on Programa H. Luciano Huck joined Globo network in September 1999, to host Caldeirão do Huck. His program combines entertainment and charity work. On April 8, 2018, Caldeirão do Huck celebrated its eighteenth year on air.
In June 2021, it was announced that Huck would move to Sundays in September 2021, with a new show replacing the long-running Domingão do Faustão after Fausto Silva's departure from the network. Domingão com Huck premiered on September 5, 2021.
Social entrepreneurship and politics
Luciano Huck is the founder and chairman of Instituto Criar, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote youth professional, social and personal development by teaching them means of filmmaking. Over 2000 youth have enrolled in its educational program since it was established in 2004. He is also member of the civic movements Agora! and RenovaBR.
There were talks that Huck would run for president in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Accessible%20Technology | The Center for Accessible Technology, formerly the Disabled Children's Computer Group (DCCG), was started in 1983 in El Cerrito, California, by several parents, educators, and assistive technology developers who felt that the new computer technology could assist children and adults with disabilities to speak, write, read, learn, and participate in a larger world. The founding parents, Jackie and Steve Brand, wanted to find tools that their seven-year-old daughter, Shoshana, could use, as her fine motor coordination and vision were both impaired. Steve took a sabbatical from his teaching job at Berkeley High School to explore the emerging technologies. A friend, Steve Gensler of Unicorn Engineering (later known as IntelliTools) had developed a large flat keyboard alternative. Arjan Khalsa, who later became President of Unicorn, was also involved from the beginning.
When Steve and Jackie had found some answers, they felt it was natural to share what they had learned with other parents and teachers. They organized a community meeting in Berkeley which was attended by over one hundred parents, teachers, computer buffs, and adults with disabilities. The West Contra Costa Unified School District provided classroom space for the new organization, which received non-profit status in 1985. Parents from around the country began to contact the group and Apple Computer came on board as an early sponsor. The original Apple IIe had the ability to speak text aloud, when paired with an Echo Speech Synthesizer and software from UCLA.
Founding Board members also included Linda DeLucchi and Larry Malone, of the Center for Multi-Sensory Learning at the Lawrence Hall of Science. They served the organization from 1985 to 2002, while developing accessible hands-on science curriculum and FOSS - Full-Option Science System.
Jackie Brand served as executive director of DCCG until 1989. She was joined by Associate Director Mary Lester, who served from 1986 to 1995. Jackie went on to found the Alliance for Technology Access (first known at the National Special Education Alliance and a.k.a. the Foundation for Technology Access) which supported the creation and growth of a network of 40 centers around the country, based on the DCCG model. Jackie Brand has received numerous honors for her pioneering work in the field of assistive technology advocacy. She is a powerful spokesperson for the power of technology in the lives of people with disabilities, at conference, in videotapes made about DCCG, and in a PBS documentary, Freedom Machines. Mary Lester joined Jackie at the ATA in 1995 and remains as the current executive director. The ATA continues to work for greater access for people with disabilities and has developed a close partnership with CTC.net, a network of over 1000 grassroots community technology centers.
DCCG became the Center for Accessible Technology in 1995. Lisa Wahl served as executive director from 1990 to 2000. During that time the Center greatly expanded |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Impact%20Pro | Full Impact Pro (FIP) is an American professional wrestling promotion. It is currently part of the World Wrestling Network (WWN) along with Shine Wrestling. Sal Hamaoui founded the company and serves as the President while Trevin Adams is the Vice President of FIP.
FIP was founded in 2003 and has run the majority of their shows in Florida. The promotion was inactive from late 2011 until early 2013. They currently promote the FIP World Heavyweight Championship, FIP Tag Team Championship, and the FIP Florida Heritage Championship.
History
Full Impact Pro was founded in 2003 by Sal Hamaoui. It was originally the sister promotion of Ring of Honor. The first show was held on August 2, 2003. The main event saw Mike Awesome defeat Justin Credible and New Jack. On September 25, 2004, FIP introduced the FIP Heavyweight Championship at Emergence: Part Two, where Homicide defeated CM Punk in the finals of a tournament.
On April 22, 2005, FIP introduced the FIP Tag Team Championship. Eddie Vegas and Jimmy Rave defeated the teams of Roderick Strong and Jerrelle Clark and CM Punk and Don Juan to become the inaugural champions. On March 3, 2007, Roderick Strong successfully defended the FIP Heavyweight Championship against Pac in Liverpool, England at ROH's "Fifth Year Festival: Liverpool" event, after which the title was renamed the "FIP World Heavyweight Championship". On March 10, 2007, FIP introduced their third championship, the FIP Florida Heritage Championship. Erick Stevens defeated Roderick Strong at Battle for the Belts to win the championship. In 2009, FIP and ROH parted ways.
After the partnership with ROH was dissolved, FIP became part of the World Wrestling Network (WWN), a governing body for various independent promotions in the United States. WWN was founded by FIP founder Sal Hamaoui and Gabe Sapolsky, formerly of Ring of Honor. In 2011, WWN launched "WWNLive", a web based, live-streaming service that featured internet pay-per-views from all its affiliated promotions. On October 29, 2011, FIP held the 2011 Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup, its last show before its hiatus, which lasted until 2013. FIP returned to running events regularly in Florida on February 1, 2013.
In November 2014, FIP, Evolve, Dragon Gate USA and Shine Wrestling participated in a WWNLive-organized tour of China. The following month, WWNLive announced a long-term deal with Great-Wall International Sports Management for regular tours of Asia. During the tour of China, Rich Swann defeated Trent Barretta to win the FIP World Heavyweight Championship and later defended it against A. R. Fox while still in China.
FIP has a training facility in Trinity, Florida, which they share with Evolve and Shine under the name "World Wrestling Network Academy".
On October 24, 2016, WWNLive and FloSports announced a new streaming service, Club WWN, which would host events held by the WWNLive promotions, including FIP.
Recurring shows
Over the years, Full Impact Pro has established a serie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Baumann%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Peter Baumann (born 1960 in Rosenheim) is a German computer scientist and professor at Constructor (formerly: Jacobs) University, Bremen, Germany, where he is head of the Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems research group in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Academic positions
Baumann is professor of Computer Science at Constructor (formerly: Jacobs) University, Bremen, Germany and founder and CEO of rasdaman GmbH.
He is inventor and Principal Architect of the rasdaman Array DBMS, the historically first complete implementation of what today is called a "Big Data Analytics" server for large, multi-dimensional arrays.
He has authored and co-authored 100+ book chapters and papers on array (aka raster) databases and further fields, and has given tutorials on raster databases worldwide.
Baumann is active in several bodies concerned with scientific data access and use:
chair, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Earth Science Informatics (ESI)
board member, United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UNGGIM) Private Sector Network
member, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC); functions:
chair, Coverages Standards Working Group and Big Data Domain Working Group
editor of the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards suite
editor, ISO TC211 19123-1 and 19123-3
founding member and chair, CODATA Germany
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) Charter Member
Academic career
Baumann obtained a degree in Computer Science (1987) from Technical University of Munich, a doctorate (1993) in computer Science from the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt while working with Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics.
He has pursued post-doctoral activities in both industry and academia,
working for Softlab Group in Munich (now Cirquent)
and as Assistant Head of the Knowledge Bases Research Group of FORWISS (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-based Systems) / Technical University of Munich where he was deputy to Prof. Rudolf Bayer, Ph.D.
Among Baumann's entrepreneurial activities was founding of the spin-off company rasdaman GmbH for commercialization of the world's first multi-dimensional array database system.
In August 2004 he was appointed as Professor of Computer Science at Constructor (formerly: Jacobs) University.
Awards and patents
(source: Peter Baumann's homepage)
DIN Innovator Award 2019
DatSci Data Science Technology Innovation of the Year, finalist 2019
TechConnect World Innovation Award 2019
NATO Defence Innovation Challenge award goes to rasdaman as the only product in the Data Science category 2018
Copernicus Masters Competition 2014: Winner, Big Data Challenge
Open Geospatial Consortium Kenneth Gardels Award 2014
Geospatial World Forum Innovation Award 2013
Innovationspreis Mittelstand 2012, category: Best of Open Source
European IT Prize 1998
Jos Schepens Memorial Award 1998
Innovation Prize of the Bava |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Studio%2060%20on%20the%20Sunset%20Strip%29 | "Pilot" is the first episode of the television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The episode was first aired in the United States on the NBC network on September 18, 2006. Written by series creator Aaron Sorkin, and directed by executive producer Thomas Schlamme, the episode introduces the chaotic behind-the-scenes depiction of a fictional Saturday Night Live type show also called Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Plot
The executive producer of a late night sketch comedy show sparks a media frenzy when he has an on-air meltdown during a live broadcast. The newly appointed network president, Jordan McDeere (Amanda Peet), has to scramble to make things right by hiring back two former prized employees to become the new executive producers of her network's flagship program. In doing so, she appoints two former members of the team: writer Matt Albie (Matthew Perry) and former sketch producer, now director Danny Tripp (Bradley Whitford), who had left the show years before on terms that were not amicable. Meanwhile, Albie and ex-girlfriend Harriet Hayes (Sarah Paulson) come to terms with having to work on the show together very soon after their breakup.
Reception
Ratings
The episode scored a Nielsen rating of 8.6/14 during its première on NBC, but suffered from a significant drop in viewers from the first-half hour to the second. Aired directly after Deal or No Deal, the show retained 81% of its audience with an average 13.4 million viewers tuned in at 10pm. The show lost around 2.5 million of these viewers as the show progressed, with rival broadcasts CSI: Miami and Supernanny both picking up viewers over the hour.
Critical reception
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strips premiere was well received by the majority of critics. Tad Friend of The New Yorker granted it a four-page review, in which he praised the dialogue, saying that "[the characters] get into pickles because they mouth off—and it’s great television because television prizes banter above all forms of conversation." Brian Lowry of Variety compliments the way the series "weds Aaron Sorkin's crackling dialogue and willingness to tackle big ideas", and praises the rapport between Perry and Whitford. The Washington Posts Tom Shales was less impressed with the episode, remaining uninterested in the "complications and relationships", and accusing Sorkin of pretentiousness.
Accolades
In 2007, the episode won the Banff World Television Festival Award for Best Continuing Series, despite the fact that at the time of its win the series had already been cancelled by NBC. Thomas Del Ruth was nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Pilots for his work on the pilot, and creator Aaron Sorkin was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama. For the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, Thomas Schlamme was nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, despite the fact that the series had been cancelled |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Energy%20Education%20Development%20Project | The National Energy Education Development Project designs and delivers energy education programs.
The NEED Project's educator network includes over 65,000 classrooms nationwide that use NEED's annually up-dated curriculum materials.
The NEED Project beginnings
Started in 1980, launched by a Congressional resolution spearheaded by Gerard Katz, a New York state physics teacher, the National Energy Education Development Project (NEED) is a nonprofit education association.
On March 20, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Proclamation 4738, entitled "National Energy Education Day: By the President of the United States, A Proclamation."
The proclamation read, in part:
The NEED program includes curriculum materials, professional development, evaluation tools, and recognition. NEED teaches the scientific concepts of energy and provides objective information about conventional and emerging energy sources, their use, and their impact on the environment, economy, and society. The program also educates students about energy efficiency and conservation, while providing tools to help educators, energy managers, and consumers use energy wisely.
NEED's curriculum
NEED materials are available for all grade levels from kindergarten through high school. With NEED's extensive curriculum, educators can design classroom programs that spark the interest of their students and meet course objectives. NEED materials are designed to meet and correlate to the National Science Education Content Standards, as well as many state standards.
NEED materials are updated on a regular basis, using the latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, as well as from a wide range of energy industry partners. NEED works with educators and students to improve existing materials and develop new ones to meet national and state curriculum requirements. In a special partnership with the Energy Information Administration, NEED helps make energy information and data available to students via the EIA Kid's Page website. In 2006, the Kid's Page was one of the most popular EIA products—averaging over 350,000 user sessions per month.
NEED welcomes partners who vitalize the NEED network with new curriculum materials and new schools. A partnership with Pacific Gas and Electric Company expanded the PG&E Solar Schools program to over 600 teachers in the PG&E service area. Schools receive NEED Solar Kits, Science of Energy Kits, teacher training and the opportunity to apply for photovoltaic (solar) installations and classroom grants.
The NEED curriculum is divided into eight steps.
Training and professional development
Training is offered at local, state, regional and national levels. During the school year, NEED coordinators, lead teachers, and student leaders facilitate workshops for teachers, students, parents, and community members that may range from a few hours to several days. At these workshops, attendees receive an introduction to the NEED curriculum. Additional training f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge%20Gamer | "Marge Gamer" is the seventeenth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 22, 2007. It was written by J. Stewart Burns and featured a guest appearance from Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo.
This episode was first broadcast three days after the twenty-year anniversary of the first ever appearance of The Simpsons on television, in The Tracey Ullman Shows short "Good Night".
Plot
Marge is embarrassed at a Parent-Teacher Association meeting because she does not have an e-mail address. She decides to buy her own computer and is quite taken by the Internet. Quickly becoming bored with her lack of email messages she repeatedly hits the refresh button causing new advertising banners to appear. A banner ad for a MMORPG called Earthland Realms catches her attention. Marge clicks on it and soon creates a character for the game. She begins exploring the local town and interacting with game personas, all of whom are Springfield residents including Apu the gem trader, Seymour Skinner the turkey, Moe who resembles a troll, Edna Krabappel the enchantress, Snake the Cobra King, Chief Wiggum the pig man, Smithers the Barbarian, Comic Book Guy the fully armored crusader-like warrior, and Sideshow Mel as a creature who looks surprisingly like a Tauren.
Suddenly, everyone hides as a knight named "The Shadow Knight" appears riding a menacing black horse. The Shadow Knight is the most powerful and deadly character in the game (having once beaten Moe to death with his own life bar). While offline, Marge walks by Bart's bedroom door and unintentionally overhears that Bart is the Shadow Knight. Back in the game, Marge goes to the Shadow Knight's castle and meets Milhouse who is cursed to look like a female servant as a result of an evil spell. Marge constantly frets about Bart and, to Bart's dismay, redecorates his "trophy room" with the Hello Kitty expansion pack. In a fit of rage, Bart smashes many of the decorations with a mace and accidentally kills Marge's character which severely disappoints real world Marge.
Meanwhile, Homer referees Lisa's soccer game. His subpar skills frustrate Lisa. Stung by her criticism, Homer learns the rules of soccer and becomes a better referee, briefly impressing Lisa. While playing soccer, Lisa trips when trying to steal the ball from another player. Homer calls a foul and gives the ball to Lisa. Upon getting the ball, Lisa decides to take advantage of the situation and pretends to be fouled hoping that Homer would grant her penalties. When Brazilian footballer Ronaldo points out that Lisa is a "flopper", Homer gives Lisa a yellow card. Angry, Lisa rips up the yellow card, causing Homer to give her a red card for unsportsmanlike conduct and to eject her from the game.
Homer and Bart go to Moe's Tavern to escape the troubles that have occurred with Marge and Lisa. Moe gives them surprisingly good advice about their situ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara%20no%20Tameie | was a Japanese poet and compiler of Imperial anthologies of poems.
Tameie was the second son of poet Teika and married Abutsu-ni. He was the central figure in a circle of Japanese poets after the Jōkyū War in 1221. His three sons were Nijō Tameuji, Kyōgoku Tamenori and Reizei Tamesuke. They each established rival families of poets—the Nijō, the Kyōgoku and the Reizei.
Starting in 1250, Tameie was among those who held the ritsuryō office of . In 1256, he abandoned public life to become a Buddhist monk, taking the name Minbukyō-nyūdō.
Biography
The poet Fujiwara no Tameie was born in 1198. He was a member of the Nagaie lineage of the Northern Branch of the Fujiwara clan, the second son of Acting Middle Counsellor Fujiwara no Teika. His mother was a daughter of Great Minister of the Centre .
Peerage was conferred on the young Tameie at the age of five, by Japanese reckoning, in Kennin 2 (1202). The same year, he accompanied his father on a visit to Emperor Go-Toba and the crown prince (the later Emperor Juntoku).
He died on the first day of the fifth month of Kenji 1, or 27 May 1275 in the Julian calendar. He was 78 years old by Japanese reckoning.
Names
Tameie's was Mimyō (三名). His art name was Naka-no-in (中院), and upon entering religious orders he took the dharma name Yūgaku (融覚).
Selected work
Tameie's published writings encompass 23 works in 28 publications in 1 language and 124 library holdings.
2002 —
References
Citations
Works cited
Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 48943301
External links
His biography and text of poems in Japanese.
1198 births
1275 deaths
Fujiwara clan
13th-century Japanese poets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMX%20%28technology%29 | PMX refers to the technology developed by Pelmorex to generate local weather information on The Weather Network. PMX consists of computers, typically installed at a cable headend, that takes data fed to it (the video feed of The Weather Network, forecast information, and triggers to run said forecasts) and packages it for broadcast. Unlike the Weather Star systems, it does not generate full graphical or video segments, rather the information is super-imposed over the main video feed. There are 4 different PMX units: PMX-1500, PMX-3200, PMX-NG and PMX-XD.
History
PMX was developed by Pelmorex in 1995 as a standard localization system that would replace the units and the text based that were still used in smaller communities. The PMX technology quickly rolled out starting in 1996, with all communities receiving the new units by 1998. PMX generates local weather information to over 1200 communities across Canada.
Timeline
1996-1998: PMX-1500 units are gradually deployed at major cable head-ends locations across Canada. They were originally formatted as a replica of the previous WeatherSTAR units, only with a slightly different icon and font set. The earliest known date of a PMX unit working is March 28, 1996, from Timmins, ON.
December 1997: Format changes occur with PMX-1500 system. Notable changes include, extended forecasts for the next 5 days, and national forecast maps immediately following the Local Forecast. The maps were discontinued one year later.
April 1999: Topographical Satellite and Radar Maps are introduced, replacing the solid color maps previously used.
August 2001: The PMX-1500 receives minor graphical updates, including an updated font set and fade effects in various segments.
Winter 2001: New icons are introduced to the PMX-1500 system. The 7-day outlook and the short-term precipitation forecast is also introduced.
July 2002: The classic current weather conditions ticker is replaced with a bar containing both current conditions and forecasts at a glance.
Severe weather warnings (specifically during Severe Thunderstorm, or Tornado Warnings) are displayed as a red bar with text at the bottom of the screen. Less severe weather warnings are displayed as a red full page overlay with text during the first part of the Local Forecast.
April 2004: The 14-day trend is introduced to the PMX-1500 system.
August 2004: PMX-1500 improves its coverage, providing more localized weather forecasts for up to 1200 communities.
April 2006: The hourly forecast is introduced, extending the Local Forecast by 15 seconds.
December 2008: An extended precipitation forecast is added to the Local Forecast. The ending feature on segments still ahead is discontinued.
November 2009: Animated Satellite/Radar maps are introduced to the Local Forecasts for the first time. Precipitation maps as well show types of precipitation (Rain, Ice, Snow)
June 2010: The Weather Network expands its network as they have announced going HD, which also means replacing and addin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20James | Jonathan Joseph James (December 12, 1983 – May 18, 2008) was an American hacker (a gray hat ethical hacker) who was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. The South Florida native was 15 years old at the time of the first offense and 16 years old on the date of his sentencing. He died at his Pinecrest, Florida home on May 18, 2008, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Initial Department of Defense intrusion
Between August 23, 1999, and October 27, 1999, James committed a series of intrusions into various systems, including those of BellSouth and the Miami-Dade school system. What brought him to the attention of federal authorities, however, was his intrusion into the computers of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a division of the United States Department of Defense, the primary function of which is to analyze potential threats to the United States of America, both at home and abroad. James later admitted to authorities that he had installed an unauthorized backdoor in a computer server in Dulles, Virginia, which he used to install a sniffer that allowed him to intercept over three thousand messages passing to and from DTRA employees, along with numerous usernames and passwords of other DTRA employees, including at least 10 on official military computers.
It was later revealed that the precise software obtained was the International Space Station's source code controlling critical life-sustaining elements. According to NASA, "the software supported the International Space Station's physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space."
Arrest, conviction and sentencing
James' house was raided on January 26, 2000, by agents from the Department of Defense, NASA and the Pinecrest Police Dept. James was formally indicted six months later. On September 21, 2000, he entered into an agreement with U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis: he would plead guilty to two counts of juvenile delinquency in exchange for a lenient sentence.
James was sentenced to seven months house arrest and probation until the age of eighteen and was required to write letters of apology to NASA and the Department of Defense. He was also banned from using computers for recreational purposes. James later violated that probation when he tested positive for drug use and was then subsequently taken into custody by the United States Marshals Service and flown to an Alabama federal correctional facility where he ultimately served six months.
Legal experts have suggested that, given the extent of his intrusions, he could have served at least ten years for his crimes if he had been an adult.
Both Attorney General Janet Reno and prosecuting attorney Guy Lewis issued statements claiming the James case was proof the Justice Department was willing to get tough with juvenile offenders accused of cybercrime.
Death
On January 17, 2008, department store chain TJX was the victim of a massive computer systems intrusion that c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2750s%20Gold | '50s Gold (formerly The '50s on 5 or just The '50s) is a commercial-free, satellite radio station on Sirius XM Radio channel 72, as well as on Dish Network channel 6005.
From 2001 to 2008, the program director for XM's The '50s on 5 was Ken Smith, and its music director was Matt "the Cat" Baldassarri. Both men were dismissed from the channel in October 2008 following XM's merger with former rival Sirius. On November 12, 2008, The '50s on 5 was added to the Sirius platform, replacing the Sirius Gold channel.
Similar to the other decades-themed channels, '50s Gold attempts to recreate the feel of 1950s radio. It uses similar DJ habits, jingles, period slang, and news updates. The channel was also used for XM's annual Pop Music music chronology, IT. However, unlike most satellite radio stations which play songs solely from a specific decade, the lineup of songs on '50s Gold is mostly from 1954 to 1963, a decade that spans from the start of the rock and roll era to immediately before the British Invasion. 40s Junction carries the early 1950s playlist alongside the late 1930s and 1940s music.
In early 2014, Sirius removed the disc jockeys from The '50s on 5, and also from '90s on 9, in an apparent cost-cutting move. Pat St. John was one of the dismissed DJs.
As of 2020, 50s on 5 carries some limited hosted programming, including a show by Pat Boone, In the Key of Neil with Neil Sedaka, the terrestrially syndicated Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop, and The Pink And Black Days with Alex Ward.
In October 2021, SiriusXM announced that the station would move to channel 72 on the SiriusXM service on November 3, and that the station's name would simultaneously change to 50s Gold.
Core artists
Elvis Presley
Fats Domino
Chuck Berry
Ricky Nelson
Buddy holly
Everly Brothers
Little Richard
Perry Como
The Platters
Connie Francis
Jerry Lee Lewis
References
External links
SiriusXM: '50s Gold
1950s in music
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
Sirius XM Radio channels
Radio stations established in 2001
Decades themed radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal%20coding | Legal coding is the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document. It is widely used in the legal profession to create a fast-search index or database of documents for use in litigation.
Objective Coding Definitions
The recording of basic data such as date, author, or document type, from documents into a database.
Extracting information from electronic documents such as date created, author recipient, CC and linking each image to the information in pre-defined objective fields. In direct opposition to Subjective Coding where legal interpretations of data in a document are linked to individual documents. Also called bibliographic coding.
Extracting such information from a document as its author, its mailing date, etc. Objective coding is usually done from the document text or image, because the metadata may be inaccurate. For example, a document written and signed by a partner might show the administrative assistant as the author in the metadata, because it was originally typed on the assistant's computer.
Subjective coding
Subjective coding is the indexing of documents according to subjective data. This may be gleaned from templates, or more usually from a subjective reading by someone familiar with the topic. This is the more reliable way to determine factors such as 'importance' of the document.
Legal citation
Document management systems |
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