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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian%20Mental%20Health%20Research%20Network | Iranian Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) () is a network of related research centers founded in 2006 in Iran. The network is supervised by the Iranian Deputy of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Health. Currently it includes 23 centers active in the field of mental health research. The network aims to promote high quality research in this field, especially applied research and Health System Research. Developing the databases of published articles in Persian (Iranpsych) and other useful databases for Iranian researchers (including researchers and psychological assessment tools) is one of the primary goals of the network. Director of the Iranian MHRN is Mohammadreza Mohammadi, a child and adolescent psychiatrist. His first director was Jafar Bolhari, a psychiatrist and the former director of Tehran Institute of Psychiatry.
External links
Medical research institutes in Iran
Mental health in Iran
Psychiatric research institutes
Medical and health organisations based in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibromofluoromethane%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on dibromofluoromethane.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-ary%20heap | The -ary heap or -heap is a priority queue data structure, a generalization of the binary heap in which the nodes have children instead of 2. Thus, a binary heap is a 2-heap, and a ternary heap is a 3-heap. According to Tarjan and Jensen et al., -ary heaps were invented by Donald B. Johnson in 1975.
This data structure allows decrease priority operations to be performed more quickly than binary heaps, at the expense of slower delete minimum operations. This tradeoff leads to better running times for algorithms such as Dijkstra's algorithm in which decrease priority operations are more common than delete min operations. Additionally, -ary heaps have better memory cache behavior than binary heaps, allowing them to run more quickly in practice despite having a theoretically larger worst-case running time. Like binary heaps, -ary heaps are an in-place data structure that uses no additional storage beyond that needed to store the array of items in the heap.
Data structure
The -ary heap consists of an array of items, each of which has a priority associated with it. These items may be viewed as the nodes in a complete -ary tree, listed in breadth first traversal order: the item at position 0 of the array (using zero-based numbering) forms the root of the tree, the items at positions 1 through are its children, the next items are its grandchildren, etc. Thus, the parent of the item at position (for any ) is the item at position and its children are the items at positions through . According to the heap property, in a min-heap, each item has a priority that is at least as large as its parent; in a max-heap, each item has a priority that is no larger than its parent.
The minimum priority item in a min-heap (or the maximum priority item in a max-heap) may always be found at position 0 of the array. To remove this item from the priority queue, the last item x in the array is moved into its place, and the length of the array is decreased by one. Then, while item x and its children do not satisfy the heap property, item x is swapped with one of its children (the one with the smallest priority in a min-heap, or the one with the largest priority in a max-heap), moving it downward in the tree and later in the array, until eventually the heap property is satisfied. The same downward swapping procedure may be used to increase the priority of an item in a min-heap, or to decrease the priority of an item in a max-heap.
To insert a new item into the heap, the item is appended to the end of the array, and then while the heap property is violated it is swapped with its parent, moving it upward in the tree and earlier in the array, until eventually the heap property is satisfied. The same upward-swapping procedure may be used to decrease the priority of an item in a min-heap, or to increase the priority of an item in a max-heap.
To create a new heap from an array of items, one may loop over the items in reverse order, starting from the item at position and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIF | IIF may refer to:
IIf (abbreviation for immediate if) and ?:, the inline-if computing function
Indirect immunofluorescence, one of several types of immunofluorescence
Institute of International Finance, an association of international financial institutions
International Indonesia Forum, an organisation which holds annual interdisciplinary seminars in Indonesia.
International Institute of Forecasters, a nonprofit organization devoted to advancing the science of forecasting
Intuit Interchange Format, a file format used by Intuit's Quickbooks software
See also
IFF (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine%20%28Mike%20Oldfield%20song%29 | "Shine" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1986. "Shine" features Jon Anderson on vocals.
Music video
The music video for "Shine" features use of computer graphics, such as a computer generated game of chess. Oldfield plays a Gibson SG guitar in the video. The video is available on the Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield DVD.
Track listing
"Shine" (Extended version) – 5:08
"The Path" – 3:31
Charts
1986 singles
Mike Oldfield songs
Virgin Records singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle%20fan | A triangle fan is a primitive in 3D computer graphics that saves on storage and processing time. It describes a set of connected triangles that share one central vertex (unlike the triangle strip that connects the next vertex point to the last two used vertices to form a triangle), possibly within a triangle mesh. If is the number of triangles in the fan, the number of vertices describing it is . This is a considerable improvement over the vertices that are necessary to describe the triangles separately. The graphics pipeline can take advantage by only performing the viewing transformations and lighting calculations once per vertex. Triangle fans are deprecated in Direct3D10 and later.
Any convex polygon may be triangulated as a single fan, by arbitrarily selecting any point inside it as the center.
See also
Triangle strip
Fan triangulation
References
Computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid-oriented%20storage | Grid-oriented Storage (GOS) was a term used for data storage by a university project during the era when the term grid computing was popular.
Description
GOS was a successor of the term network-attached storage (NAS). GOS systems contained hard disks, often RAIDs (redundant arrays of independent disks), like traditional file servers.
GOS was designed to deal with long-distance, cross-domain and single-image file operations, which is typical in Grid environments. GOS behaves like a file server via the file-based GOS-FS protocol to any entity on the grid. Similar to GridFTP, GOS-FS integrates a parallel stream engine and Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI).
Conforming to the universal VFS (Virtual Filesystem Switch), GOS-FS can be pervasively used as an underlying platform to best utilize the increased transfer bandwidth and accelerate the NFS/CIFS-based applications. GOS can also run over SCSI, Fibre Channel or iSCSI, which does not affect the acceleration performance, offering both file level protocols and block level protocols for storage area network (SAN) from the same system.
In a grid infrastructure, resources may be geographically distant from each other, produced by differing manufacturers, and have differing access control policies. This makes access to grid resources dynamic and conditional upon local constraints. Centralized management techniques for these resources are limited in their scalability both in terms of execution efficiency and fault tolerance. Provision of services across such platforms requires a distributed resource management mechanism and the peer-to-peer clustered GOS appliances allow a single storage image to continue to expand, even if a single GOS appliance reaches its capacity limitations. The cluster shares a common, aggregate presentation of the data stored on all participating GOS appliances. Each GOS appliance manages its own internal storage space. The major benefit of this aggregation is that clustered GOS storage can be accessed by users as a single mount point.
GOS products fit the thin-server categorization. Compared with traditional “fat server”-based storage architectures, thin-server GOS appliances deliver numerous advantages, such as the alleviation of potential network/grid bottle-necks, CPU and OS optimized for I/O only, ease of installation, remote management and minimal maintenance, low cost and Plug and Play, etc. Examples of similar innovations include NAS, printers, fax machines, routers and switches.
An Apache server has been installed in the GOS operating system, ensuring an HTTPS-based communication between the GOS server and an administrator via a Web browser. Remote management and monitoring makes it easy to set up, manage, and monitor GOS systems.
History
Frank Zhigang Wang and Na Helian proposed a funding proposal to the UK government titled “Grid-Oriented Storage (GOS): Next Generation Data Storage System Architecture for the Grid Computing Era” in 2003. The proposal was approve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20SteadyState | Windows SteadyState (formerly Shared Computer Toolkit) is a discontinued freeware tool developed by Microsoft that gives administrators enhanced options for configuring shared computers, such as hard drive protection and advanced user management. It is primarily designed for use on computers shared by many people, such as internet cafes, schools and libraries.
SteadyState was available until December 31, 2010 from Microsoft for 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. It is incompatible with Windows 7 and later. A similar disk protection component was included in Windows MultiPoint Server 2012.
Features
SteadyState can revert a computer to a previously stored state every time it reboots, or on administrator's request. When Windows Disk Protection (WDP) component of SteadyState is turned on, changes to the hard disk are redirected to a temporary cache. WDP offers three modes of protection:
Discard mode: The cache is cleared upon every reboot, thus returning the system to its previous state.
Persist mode: Changes saved in the cache remain intact across reboots. An administrator may later opt to commit these changes. Alternatively, at the specified date and time, the cache expires and its contents are cleared.
Commit mode: Contents of the cache is written out to disk and become permanent. In addition, new changes to the system are no longer redirected to the cache.
SteadyState can prepare user environments. User accounts can be locked or forced to log off after certain intervals. A locked account uses a temporary copy of the user's profile during the user's session. When the user logs off, the temporary profile is deleted. This ensures that any changes the user made during his session are not permanent.
SteadyState provides simple control of more than 80 restrictions covering both individual users as well as the system as a whole. Many of these settings are based on Windows Group Policies, while others are implemented by SteadyState itself. Using SteadyState, an administrator can forbid a user from performing actions that may be undesirable for that environment. Some settings include the ability to turn off the control panel, disable Windows Registry editing tools that come with Windows, disable Windows Command Prompt and stop the users from executing batch files or programs outside pre-approved folders.
Computer settings can also be applied. Since SteadyState would normally remove any Windows updates or security patches installed, SteadyState can be configured to check for and apply updates in a manner that they will not be removed upon rebooting. Administrators can also choose to make other system-wide changes, such as disabling the welcome screen, removing the shutdown dialog from the logon screen, and hiding the built-in Windows Administrator account.
The administrator can block access to specified programs on a per-user basis. SteadyState presents a list of programs found in the Program Files directory of Windows and on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Zhigang%20Wang | Frank Zhigang Wang is a Chinese computer scientist and Professor of Future Computing and a former Head of the School of Computing at the University of Kent, England.
He was previously Professor and Chair in e-Science and Grid Computing, Director of Centre for Grid Computing, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility. In 1994, he invented spin-tunneling random access memory. In 2003, Frank proposed a new concept of Grid-oriented Storage architecture. In 2004, Frank and his colleagues launched the UK-first Masters Program in Grid Computing. In 2005, he was elected as the Chairman of UK & Republic of Ireland Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. In 2007, he was elected as a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
External links
Official website of Frank Zhigang Wang
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Chinese computer scientists
Academics of the University of Kent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnt%20Eliassen | Arnt Eliassen (9 September 1915 – 22 April 2000) was a Norwegian meteorologist who was a pioneer in the use of numerical analysis and computers for weather forecasting.
Career
The early pioneer work was done at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, together with John von Neumann. His areas of research included free and thermally driven circulations, frontogenesis, and shear and gravitational–acoustic wave propagation in stratified media.
Eliassen received the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal in 1964 for his many important contributions to dynamical meteorology. He received the Balzan Prize in 1996 "For his fundamental contributions to dynamic meteorology that have influenced and stimulated progress in this science during the past fifty years". Two years later, he was awarded the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal for "his outstanding fundamental contributions to dynamical meteorology".
Personal
Eliassen was a brother of architect Trond Eliassen.
He is the father of the meteorologist Anton Eliassen. He resided at Bekkestua.
References
1915 births
2000 deaths
Scientists from Oslo
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Norwegian meteorologists
Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal recipients
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVL | OVL may refer to:
OVL (file format)
Lobaev Sniper Rifle
Overlay (programming)
Open Verification Library |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPIG | PPIG may refer to:
PPIG (gene)
Psychology of Programming Interest Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPLS-LP | WPLS is a student-run radio station at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. The station features a variety of programming, much of which includes sports, classic rock, and independent music. WPLS broadcast on 95.9 FM until 2012, when the station dropped its FM license to offer streaming only services via its new website.
History
Furman took to the airwaves in 1940 when alumnus and trustee Roger C. Peace provided the university with its first studio, which broadcast on 600 AM. In its early years, the station was run on carrier current, meaning it was a very low power AM station that did not require a U.S. Federal Communications Commission license and broadcast through the campus electrical system. During this time, programming was routinely interrupted by inclement weather.
In response to changes in students' listening habits, Furman founded a new station, the Furman Broadcasting Association, or WFBA, in 1965. According to legend, WFBA broadcast "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones to inaugurate their new studio because the other rock stations in Greenville had deemed the song too obscene for the air.
Within a year, the Student Broadcasting Association chose to rename the station, which became Furman Radio Network, or WFRN. In the following years, WFRN became increasingly popular among students because the larger rock station in Greenville turned its antennas towards downtown at night, making it impossible to listen from campus.
The Furman Radio Network reshaped itself in the late 1970s when a station manager began pushing for WFRN to become an educational FM station. He, along with Student Services, convinced the university to put $10,000 into building an improved station. Luckily for the station, the upgrade was approved in time to bypass an FCC deadline halting all such applications due to the belief that similar low-powered FM stations would be a detriment to broadcasting. Had the university abstained any longer, WFRN could have been effectively forced off the air by virtually any full-power station that wanted access to Furman's broadcasting frequency.
In 1980, the station officially made the switch to FM and became known as WPLS 96.5 FM and eventually WPLS 96.7 FM. The station found new success in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the purchase of a new antenna in the early 1990s that increased its broadcasting range to 15 miles, permitting WPLS programs to reach the greater Greenville community. The station offered syndicated programming as well as live sports coverage for Furman games. At this time, the station boasted over 100 members.
WPLS took a hit in 2002 when Clear Channel Radio's WPEK-FM, which broadcast at the same frequency, moved from Greenwood, SC to Greenville and temporarily forced the station off the air. Because WPEK was a commercial station with a range much larger than 15 miles, such a transition was legal at the time. A station advisor applied for an upgrade to a low-power FM station and WPLS resumed br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeron | An ephemeron is a data structure that solves two related problems in garbage collected systems. On the one hand, an ephemeron provides a notification when some object is about to be collected. On the other hand, an ephemeron allows data to be associated with some object without creating a reference to that object that will prevent the object from being collected. An ephemeron is a key-value pair, where the key is the object that the ephemeron guards, notifying the system when that object is collectable, and the value can be any data associated with the object such as a property list, and which may be empty. Since the elements of the property list may refer back to the key, they may prevent collection of that key. But the ephemeron is treated specially by the garbage collector. The value field is not traced until the key is found to be reachable from the system roots other than through ephemeron keys. The set of ephemerons whose keys are only reachable from ephemeron keys are then holding onto keys that are ready to be collected; these objects are not reachable from the roots except through ephemerons. When the garbage collector detects such a set, the ephemerons are queued for notification and their keys and values are traced. Hence ephemerons both detect objects that are ready for collection and break the cycles that can prevent objects from being collected.
Description
In computer science, finalization occurs when a garbage collector (GC) informs an application that an object is "almost collectable". It is used to help an application maintain its invariants. Weak references may be used by a garbage collector to determine the objects that are almost collectable. Seen both as key-value pairs, the main difference between weak references and an ephemerons is the way the garbage collector treats them. For weak references, the garbage collector always follows the value in the key-value pair. For ephemerons, instead, the garbage collector doesn't follow the value but queues the ephemeron for further observation at a second stage: after the first tracing phase is done, it runs through the queue looking at each ephemeron and if its key was seen, then it follows its value. This subtle difference impacts in graphs with some kinds of cycles, where weak pairs do not describe correctly that an object ought to be "almost collectable". For example, consider a key-value pair with weak references where the key is an object and the value is a set of properties attached to the object. It is expected that when the object is ready to be collected, the properties will also go away. But if the value, possibly transitively, maps to its own key (the object), then the object will never be collected. If an ephemeron was used instead, the value wouldn't have been followed unless the object was proved alive, solving the cycle. Ephemerons are similar to weak pairs, but an object in an ephemeron's key field may be classed as "almost collectable" even if it is reach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerbango | Kerbango was both a company acquired by 3Com and its lead product. Kerbango was founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley by former executives from Apple Computer and Power Computing Corporation. On June 27, 2000, 3Com announced it was acquiring the Kerbango company in an $80 million deal. As part of the deal, Kerbango's CEO, Jon Fitch, became vice president and general manager of 3Com's Internet Audio division, working under Julie Shimer, then vice president and general manager of 3Com's Consumer Networks Business.
Kerbango Internet Radio
The "Kerbango Internet Radio" was intended to be the first stand-alone product that let users listen to Internet radio without a computer. Linux Journal quipped that the Kerbango 100E, the prototype, looked "like a cross between an old Wurlitzer jukebox and the dashboard of a '54 Buick." This initial model was even advertised on Amazon.com in anticipation of its sale, although it was never released.
The Kerbango 100E was an embedded Linux device (running Montavista's Hard Hat Linux), reportedly using RealNetworks' G2 Player to play Internet audio streams (RealAudio G2, 5.0, 4.0, and 3.0 streams as well as streaming MP3). A broadband connection to the Internet was required as dial-up connections were not supported. In addition to Internet streams, the 100E featured an AM/FM tuner. The Kerbango radio's tuning user interface was designed by Alan Luckow and long-time Apple QuickTime developer Jim Reekes and was later adopted for use within iTunes.
The Kerbango radio also had a companion website which allowed the user to control various aspects of the radio, save presets and edit account information. The website also acted as a streaming radio search engine, where users could search for, and listen to streaming radio stations through their browser.
References
Internet audio players
Online companies of the United States
Internet radio
Electronics companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Monday" is the fourteenth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on February 28, 1999. It was written by Vince Gilligan and John Shiban, directed by Kim Manners, and featured guest appearances by Carrie Hamilton and Darren E. Burrows. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Monday" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.2, being watched by 16.7 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received positive reviews from television critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, the world is trapped in a time loop, and only one woman, named Pam (Carrie Hamilton), seems to know. Each day the events that happen differ slightly. A bank robbery is committed over and over again until finally the eventual bombing of the building is prevented. Somehow, Mulder and Scully are trapped in the middle of it all.
"Monday" was inspired by an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Shadow Play" (1961). Since the cast and crew were required to shoot the same scene several times, director Kim Manners attempted to make each camera angle interesting. Actress Carrie Hamilton was cast to play Pam, and Darren E. Burrows, a former regular on Northern Exposure, was cast to play her boyfriend Bernard.
Plot
The episode opens in media res with FBI special agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) bleeding out from a gunshot wound while Scully tends to him. They are revealed to be hostages in a bank holdup, and Scully attempts to reason with their captor (Darren E. Burrows), only to have him reveal a bomb strapped to his chest. The police begin to storm the building, prompting the gunman to detonate the bomb, killing them all.
Mulder then wakes, unharmed, to find that his waterbed has sprung a leak, his alarm clock is broken, and he needs to pay his landlord for water damage. To do so, he is forced to go to the bank, instead of going to the meeting with his partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) and various other FBI officials. When he arrives, the same gunman, named Bernard, arrives and nervously attempts to rob the bank, shooting Mulder in the process. The teller sets off the bank's silent alarm and police cars come rushing to the scene. Scully arrives and once again attempts to help her partner as he lies dying, but events go the same way - the police rush the building, Bernard detonates the bomb, and everybody dies.
Mulder then wakes to find that his waterbed has sprung a leak, his alarm clock is broken, and he needs to pay his landlord for water damage. Everyone is oblivious to the repetition of events except for Bernard's girlfriend, Pam (Carrie Hamilton). Over multipl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EducationUSA | EducationUSA is a U.S. Department of State network of international student advising centers in more than 170 countries. EducationUSA is officially a branch in the Office of Global Educational Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). ECA fosters mutual understanding between the United States and other countries by promoting personal, professional, and institutional ties between private citizens and organizations in the United States and abroad, as well as by presenting U.S. history, society, art and culture to overseas audiences.
Services
Advisers offer a wide range of in-person and virtual services to students and their families based on Your 5 Steps to U.S. Study, a guide to navigating the U.S. higher education application process. Advisers provide information on a host of topics, including:
The admissions process and standardized testing requirements
How to finance a U.S. education
The student visa process
Preparing for departure to the United States
Programs
Opportunity Funds Program
The EducationUSA Opportunity Funds program assists highly qualified students who are likely to be awarded full financial aid from U.S. colleges and universities, but lack the financial resources to cover the up-front costs to apply, such as testing, application fees, or airfare.
Each Opportunity Funds student undergoes a selective process of evaluation by an EducationUSA adviser, Regional Educational Advising Coordinator (REAC), and the Public Affairs Section of a U.S. Embassy/Consulate. More than 100 colleges and universities have enrolled Opportunity Funds students since 2006.
References
https://www.iie.org/en/Scholars-Faculty-and-Administrators/Education-USA.aspx, retrieved 7 June 2011
See also
Study abroad
AFS Intercultural Programs
Student exchange program
International students
ERASMUS programme (European Union)
Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF)
Fulbright Austria
Fulbright Iceland
Fulbright Fellowship
Harkness Fellowship
ITT International Fellowship Program
Monbukagakusho Scholarship
Goodwill Scholarships
Education in the United States
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP%20tunnel | HTTP tunneling is used to create a network link between two computers in conditions of restricted network connectivity including firewalls, NATs and ACLs, among other restrictions. The tunnel is created by an intermediary called a proxy server which is usually located in a DMZ.
Tunneling can also allow communication using a protocol that normally wouldn’t be supported on the restricted network.
HTTP CONNECT method
The most common form of HTTP tunneling is the standardized HTTP CONNECT method. In this mechanism, the client asks an HTTP proxy server to forward the TCP connection to the desired destination. The server then proceeds to make the connection on behalf of the client. Once the connection has been established by the server, the proxy server continues to proxy the TCP stream to and from the client. Only the initial connection request is HTTP - after that, the server simply proxies the established TCP connection.
This mechanism is how a client behind an HTTP proxy can access websites using SSL or TLS (i.e. HTTPS). Proxy servers may also limit connections by only allowing connections to the default HTTPS port 443, whitelisting hosts, or blocking traffic which doesn't appear to be SSL.
Example negotiation
The client connects to the proxy server and requests tunneling by specifying the port and the host computer to which it would like to connect. The port is used to indicate the protocol being requested.
CONNECT streamline.t-mobile.com:22 HTTP/1.1
Proxy-Authorization: Basic encoded-credentials
If the connection was allowed and the proxy has connected to the specified host then the proxy will return a 2XX success response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
The client is now being proxied to the remote host. Any data sent to the proxy server is now forwarded, unmodified, to the remote host and the client can communicate using any protocol accepted by the remote host.
In the example below, the client is starting SSH communications, as hinted at by the port number in the initial CONNECT request.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3\r\n
...
HTTP tunneling without using CONNECT
A HTTP tunnel can also be implemented using only the usual HTTP methods as POST, GET, PUT and DELETE. This is similar to the approach used in Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH).
A special HTTP server runs outside the protected network and a client program is run on a computer inside the protected network. Whenever any network traffic is passed from the client, the client repackages the traffic data as a HTTP request and relays the data to the outside server, which extracts and executes the original network request for the client. The response to the request, sent to the server, is then repackaged as an HTTP response and relayed back to the client. Since all traffic is encapsulated inside normal GET and POST requests and responses, this approach works through most proxies and firewalls.
See also
ICMP tunnel
Pseudo-wire
Tunnel broker
Virtual private network (VPN)
Virtual ex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFN | DFN is a three letter acronym that may refer to:
Dehcho First Nations, one of the First Nations of North Western Canada
Desert Fireball Network, a fireball camera network based in Australia
Deutsches Forschungsnetz, the German national research and education network
, Definition HTML tag
Differential Frequency Noise (electronics)
Dignity Freedom Network, formerly the Dalit Freedom Network
Direct function (dfn), a way to define a function in the APL programming language
Dual Flat No Lead, a style of integrated circuit package |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velanda%20Runestone | The Velanda Runestone (), designated as Vg 150 in the Rundata catalog, is a runestone dated to the late tenth century or the early eleventh century that is located in the village of Velanda, Trollhättan Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, which is in the historic province of Västergötland. It was discovered around 1910 by a farmer named Jacobsson.
Description
The Velanda Runestone is inscribed in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark. Above the arch of the runic text band is the outline of an eagle's head facing to the left. The stone was raised by a woman named Þyrvé in memory of her husband Ögmundr. The runic inscription states that he was miok goðan þegn or "a very good thegn". About fifty other runestones refer to the deceased being a thegn. Of these, four use exactly the same phrase, miok goðan þegn: Vg 73 in Synnerby, Vg 108 in Tängs gamla, Vg 137 in Sörby, and DR 99 in Bjerregrav. The exact role of thegns in southern Sweden is a matter of debate, but the most common view is that they constituted an elite somehow connected to Danish power. It is thought that thegn-stones point to power centers from which they came, and from where they could be sent out to rule border areas in so-called tegnebyar.
The inscription asks the Norse pagan god Thor to hallow the runestone. One or two other runestones in Sweden have similar invocations to Thor: Ög 136 in Rök and possibly Sö 140 at Korpbron. Other runestones in Denmark that include invocations of or dedications to Thor in their inscriptions include DR 110 from Virring, DR 209 from Glavendrup, and DR 220 from Sønder Kirkeby. It has been noted that Thor is the only Norse god who is invoked on any Viking Age runestones.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
× þurui : risþi : stin : iftiʀ : ukmut : buta : sin : miuk : kuþan : þikn × þur : uiki ×
Transcription into Old Norse
Þyrvé reisti stein eptir Ǫgmund, bónda sinn, mjǫk góðan þegn. Þórr vígi.
Translation in English
Þyrvé raised the stone in memory of Ôgmundr, her husbandman, a very good thegn. May Þórr hallow.
References
Other sources
Larsson, Mats G. (2002). Götarnas Riken : Upptäcktsfärder Till Sveriges Enande. Bokförlaget Atlantis AB
External links
Photograph of runestone - Swedish National Heritage Board
Runestones in Västergötland
10th-century inscriptions
11th-century inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500 | The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International Supercomputing Conference in June, and the second is presented at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in November. The project aims to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing and bases rankings on HPL benchmarks, a portable implementation of the high-performance LINPACK benchmark written in Fortran for distributed-memory computers.
The 60th TOP500 was published in November 2022. Since June 2022, the United States' Frontier is the most powerful supercomputer on TOP500, reaching 1102 petaFlops (1.102 exaFlops) on the LINPACK benchmarks. The United States has by far the highest share of total computing power on the list (nearly 50%), while China currently leads the list in number of systems with 173 supercomputers, with the U.S. not far behind in second place.
The TOP500 list is compiled by Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and, until his death in 2014, Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany.
The TOP500 project also includes lists such as Green500 (measuring energy efficiency) and HPCG (measuring I/O bandwidth).
History
In the early 1990s, a new definition of supercomputer was needed to produce meaningful statistics. After experimenting with metrics based on processor count in 1992, the idea arose at the University of Mannheim to use a detailed listing of installed systems as the basis. In early 1993, Jack Dongarra was persuaded to join the project with his LINPACK benchmarks. A first test version was produced in May 1993, partly based on data available on the Internet, including the following sources:
"List of the World's Most Powerful Computing Sites" maintained by Gunter Ahrendt
David Kahaner, the director of the Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP); published a report in 1992, titled "Kahaner Report on Supercomputer in Japan" which had an immense amount of data.
The information from those sources was used for the first two lists. Since June 1993, the TOP500 is produced bi-annually based on site and vendor submissions only.
Since 1993, performance of the ranked position has grown steadily in accordance with Moore's law, doubling roughly every 14 months. In June 2018, Summit was fastest with an Rpeak of 187.6593 PFLOPS. For comparison, this is over 1,432,513 times faster than the Connection Machine CM-5/1024 (1,024 cores), which was the fastest system in November 1993 (twenty-five years prior) with an Rpeak of 131.0 GFLOPS.
Architecture and operating systems
, all supercomputers on TOP500 are 64-bit, mostly based on CPUs using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicapo%20Opera | Dicapo Opera Theatre was co-founded in 1981 by General Director Michael Capasso and Artistic Director Diane Martindale. It suspended operations in 2013.
Programming and premieres
Dicapo Opera Theatre’s presentations range from traditional repertoire to rarely performed operas, special opera-dance presentations, family events, and at least one contemporary work each season. Its premieres have included the world premiere of Francesco Cilluffo’s Il caso Mortara, the American premiere of Donizetti’s Il campanello (The Night Bell) and the New York premieres of Oscar Straus’s The Merry Niebelungs, Richard Wargo’s A Chekhov Trilogy, Robert Ward’s Claudia Legare, and Tobias Picker's Thérèse Raquin, as well as the New York premiere of Lehár’s The Merry Widow with a contemporary libretto by the late Wendy Wasserstein.
Puccini at Dicapo
Since its founding, Dicapo has been particularly dedicated to the music of Giacomo Puccini. It gave the first performances anywhere of all three versions of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (Milan, Brescia, and Paris) successively in one weekend. With choreography by Dicapo’s Director of Dance Nilas Martins, Dicapo was the first to present music and dance presentations of Puccini’s Le Villi and The Mass, and has also presented settings of a number of Puccini songs and incidental music to dance. By the end of 2008, the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Dicapo Opera Theatre will have presented all of his major works, from Le Villi, the composer’s first opera, and orchestral works through his final opera, Turandot.
The theater
Located on the lower level of St. Jean Baptiste Church at 184 East 76th Street in New York City, Dicapo Opera Theatre was completely remodelled in 1995 and is a fully equipped, 204-seat air-conditioned facility with orchestra pit, spacious lobby areas, offices and rehearsal spaces.
External links
Dicapo Opera Theatre
http://www.operacompetition.hu/english.asp?id=162
New York City opera companies
Musical groups established in 1981
1981 establishments in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatato | Fatato is an uninhabited islet (motu) of Funafuti, Tuvalu. In 2002 the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) chose this island for a systematic study of its coast in relation to the impact of global climate change on atolls. The islet can be accessed by foot with a 20-30 minute walk from Fongafale across the reef at low tide.
See also
Desert island
List of islands
References
External links
Asian Pacific Network
Uninhabited islands of Tuvalu
Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act
Funafuti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norkring | Norkring AS is a provider of digital terrestrial television and radio transmitting in Norway and Belgium. In Norway, Norkring operates a Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial (DVB-T) network for Norges Televisjon, as well as an FM and Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio. In Belgium, Norkring operates a DVB-T, DVB-T2, FM, DAB and DAB+ network. It operated a DVB-T network in Slovenia between 2010 and 2012. Norkring is owned by Telenor; Norkring België is owned 75 percent by Norkring and 25 percent by Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen.
History
Early radio broadcasting
The Norwegian Telegraphy Administration stated working on a radio broadcasting in 1922. After consulting other countries, it recommended that the government own and operate the transmission infrastructure. Norway abolished the ban on listening to foreign radio without a permit in 1923. At the same time a permit became necessary to operate a transmitter. Financing of broadcasting was based on a combination of advertisements, license fees for owning a radio and fee on purchasing a radio. Several companies allied in 1922 for permits to operate radio channels. To avoid similar problems as had occurred in the United States, the administration tried to limited manufacturers of radios from also owning the channels.
Kringkastingsselskapet ("The Broadcasting Company") was granted the first permit in 1924. It had more than 2000 shareholders, with major parts owned by Marconi Company, Telefunken and Western Electric. It had a permit to operate a transmitter in Oslo with a reach of . It was owned by Kringkastingsselskapet, but operated by the Telegraphy Administration. An additional five transmitters were built in Eastern Norway during the 1920s. These included Rjukan in 1925, Notodden and Porsgrunn in 1926 and Hamar and Fredrikstad in 1927. Norway was allocated three AM broadcasting frequencies in 1926. Other radio channels were established in Bergen in 1925, Tromsø in 1926 and Ålesund in 1927.
Kringkastingselskapet received permissions to operate in most of the country from 1928. A scandal hit the broadcasting company in 1929, in which a new transmitter at Lambertseter in Oslo had insufficient power, and secondly following the discovery of management enriching themselves. The former was caused by the Telegraphy Administration's not fully understanding the effects of radio transmission during design, and under-dimensioning the transmitter. The issue was resolved when the manufacturer, Telefunken, took the cost of converting it from medium wave to shortwave. New transmitters were installed in Kristiansand, Stavanger, Trondheim in 1930, Bodø in 1931, Narvik in 1934 and Vigra in 1935.
The scandal resulted in a proposal for a new organization of the broadcasting. At first Minister of Trade and Industry Lars Oftedal proposed a model whereby the transmission would be the responsibility of the Telegraphy Administration, and a new, private program company would be established, owned by the O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telerate | Telerate was a US company providing financial data to market participants, specialising in commercial paper and bond prices. It was a pioneer in the electronic distribution of real-time market information in the 1970s. With its main innovation being to extend the technology that was used to obtain live stock prices, via Telequote, Quotron or Stockmaster to other sectors of the financial industry, such as corporate debt, currencies, interest rates and commodities.
The company was founded by Neil Hirsch and it became a major provider of market data through the 1970s and 1980s. The company was bought by Dow Jones & Company in 1990 but the hedonistic lifestyle of its founders and senior manager clashed with the strait-laced culture of Dow Jones & Company causing issues within Dow Jones. Dow Jones' aim was to use Telerate to compete against market dominant Reuters. However, Dow Jones lost focus and the business was eventually consigned to the backwater of the business. It was sold a number of times and renamed Bridge Telerate and later Moneyline Telerate.
Reuters eventually bought the remains of Telerate in 2005. This saw the end of the company as Reuters absorbed the business into its own market data unit. It also lost numerous customers as many clients chose Telerate as an alternative to Reuters, and they were not happy to have those products now under Reuters’ roof. Some customers had also had advantageous deals from Telerate, and Reuters was not happy to renew them on those terms.
History
Early years
The company was founded in 1969 by Neil Hirsch, a 21-year-old who had been hired by the U.S. broker Merrill Lynch, with two million of venture capital.
Neil Hirsch later attracted new investors, including Bernie Cantor, owner of a government securities broker Cantor Fitzgerald. The company saw strong growth because of the innovative technology and relatively low costs of the service compared to main rivals. However, the success and new wealth allowed Neil Hirsch to indulge in what was described by Telerate insider John Jessop "as a hedonistic lifestyle that involved drugs and alcohol in quantities that some observers saw as life-threatening".
Co-owner Bernie Cantor attracted much early controversy by using Telerate as a vehicle for advertising his company's trading prices, the first broker to do so, attracting the anger of many of its customers including such Wall Street giants as Merrill Lynch, Bankers Trust and Chemical Bank.
By 1971, the company was prepared for an IPO, but before that was completed it was contacted by the bond broker Cantor Fitzgerald in 1972 which took a 25% share of its capital.
By the mid 1970s Telerate had a monopoly on the information on the price of U.S. treasury bonds, and in 1977 the company made a profit of $1 million. Cantor Fitzgerald increased its stake to 70%. That same year Telerate entered into an alliance with Associated Press and the Dow Jones & Company to create a joint venture called AP-Dow Jones.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Transportation%20Communications%20for%20Intelligent%20Transportation%20System%20Protocol | The National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation System Protocol (NTCIP) is a family of standards designed to achieve interoperability and interchangeability between computers and electronic traffic control equipment from different manufacturers.
NTCIP has been around for over 20 years, but is increasingly in use in smart city initiatives and by suppliers of technology. For example, riders who want to know where the next bus will arrive at their stop are using apps that use NTCIP, such as in the Siemens initiatives in Seattle and elsewhere. In the future, NTCIP will be used for two way communication between vehicles and traffic signals, such as the ability for buses to control traffic lights as done by SinWaves.
The protocol is the product of a joint standardization project guided by the Joint Committee on the NTCIP, which is composed of six representatives each from the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). The Joint Committee has in turn formed 14 technical working groups to develop and maintain the standards, and has initiated or produced over 50 standards and information reports.
The project receives funding under a contract with the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and is part of a wider effort to develop a comprehensive family of intelligent transportation system (ITS) standards.
History of the NTCIP Development
NEMA initiated the development of the NTCIP in 1992. In early 1993, the US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) brought together transportation industry representatives to discuss obstacles to installing field equipment for new Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The representatives said that the number one priority was the need for an industry-wide standard data communications protocol. Since the NEMA Transportation Section members had already started work on a new industry standard, they offered to expedite and expand the scope of their activities.
The key objectives of the new NTCIP protocol were the interchangeability of similar roadside devices, and the interoperability of different types of devices on the same communications channel.
In 1996, the FHWA suggested a partnership of standards developing organizations to expand both user and industry involvement. AASHTO and ITE signed an agreement with NEMA to establish the Joint Committee on the NTCIP, and to work together on developing and maintaining the NTCIP standards.
NTCIP Communications Standards
Center to Field Device Communications
NTCIP has enabled the center to field communication and command/control of equipment from different manufacturers to be specified, procured, deployed, and tested. NTCIP communications standards for field devices are listed below: (the corresponding NTCIP document number is shown in parentheses):
Traffic signals (NTCIP 1202)
Dynami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal | Focal or FOCAL may refer to:
Focal (lexicographical website), an Irish lexicographical website
FOCAL (programming language), a programming language for the PDP-8 and similar machines
Focal (HP-41), for programming HP calculators
FOCAL (spacecraft), a proposed space telescope
FOCAL International, a trade body representing the film archive industry
Focal-JMLab, a French manufacturer of audio equipment
Focal Radio, a radio station based in Stoke-on-Trent, England
Focal neurologic signs
See also
Focal point (disambiguation)
Focus (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9arma | Tearma.ie (previously Focal.ie) is the website of a lexical database for terminology in the Irish language. It is funded by the Irish state and Interreg and maintained by Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, the Irish-language unit of Dublin City University, in collaboration with the Terminology Committee of Foras na Gaeilge.
History
Phase I (2004–7) of the work consisted of digitising and integrating existing paper and electronic lists.
Several resources have been added under subsequent phases. A dictionary of 10,000 sports terms has been added as well as tools for translation memories and other resources for translators including a link facility to The New Corpus for Ireland.
Phase IV (2011–14) of the project had the following objectives:
To implement a new domain hierarchy, based on DANTERM (the Danish terminology standard);
To create definitions for some terms;
To compile a new dictionary of arts terms;
To complete the new dictionary of sports terms;
Publication of a CD-ROM version of the database;
To develop a mobile web version.
In 2015, the site was moved from focal.ie to tearma.ie, to better distinguish it from focloir.ie, a separate government-supported website with general-purpose English-Irish dual-language dictionaries.
Users
The database contains over 325,000 terms, searchable under both Irish and English versions. More than 880,000 unique visitors have used the website between 2006 and 2011. They have made 3.9 million visits and 25 million searches in that time. According to a 2010 user survey carried out by Fiontar, the site is primarily used by translators and interpreters and by university students.
Awards
Focal.ie won the European Language Label in 2007, and the award for "Best Irish-language Site" at the Irish Web Awards 2008.
Footnotes
References
External links
www.tearma.ie, An Bunachar Náisiúinta Téarmaíochta don Ghaeilge/The National Terminology Database for Irish home page
Irish language
Databases in the Republic of Ireland
Lexical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPC%20Sweden | UPC Sweden was a Swedish cable television distributor, mainly active in the Stockholm region. It was the second largest cable network in Sweden before it was integrated into Com Hem in 2006.
It was formed in 1985 by the three estate companies Familjebostäder, Svenska Bostäder and Stockholmshem as StjärnTV. It was later sold to Singapore Telecom International, who passed it on to Scandinavian Equity Partners in 1998. They, now known as EQT Scandinavia, sold it to United Pan-Europe Communications in 1999 who changed the company name to UPC in 2000. Digital television was launched in 2001, but it kept an analogue basic package for its entire existence.
In April 2006, Liberty Global Europe (formerly UPC) decided to sell many of their assets, including UPC Sweden and UPC Norway. The Swedish part was sold to Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners, two American equity firms that also owned Com Hem, the largest cable company in Sweden. The UPC brand was replaced by the Com Hem brand in November and the cable network was technically integrated in April 2007.
Cable television companies
Television in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl%20bromide%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on vinyl bromide.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20plane | In network routing, the control plane is the part of the router architecture that is concerned with drawing the network topology, or the information in a routing table that defines what to do with incoming packets. Control plane functions, such as participating in routing protocols, run in the architectural control element. In most cases, the routing table contains a list of destination addresses and the outgoing interface(s) associated with each. Control plane logic also can identify certain packets to be discarded, as well as preferential treatment of certain packets for which a high quality of service is defined by such mechanisms as differentiated services.
Depending on the specific router implementation, there may be a separate forwarding information base that is populated by the control plane, but used by the high-speed forwarding plane to look up packets and decide how to handle them.
In computing, the control plane is the part of the software that configures and shuts down the data plane. By contrast, the data plane is the part of the software that processes the data requests. The data plane is also sometimes referred to as the forwarding plane.
The distinction has proven useful in the networking field where it originated, as it separates the concerns: the data plane is optimized for speed of processing, and for simplicity and regularity. The control plane is optimized for customizability, handling policies, handling exceptional situations, and in general facilitating and simplifying the data plane processing.
The conceptual separation of the data plane from the control plane has been done for years. An early example is Unix, where the basic file operations are open, close for the control plane and read write for the data plane.
Building the unicast routing table
A major function of the control plane is deciding which routes go into the main routing table. "Main" refers to the table that holds the unicast routes that are active. Multicast routing may require an additional routing table for multicast routes. Several routing protocols e.g. IS-IS, OSPF and BGP maintain internal databases of candidate routes which are promoted when a route fails or when a routing policy is changed.
Several different information sources may provide information about a route to a given destination, but the router must select the "best" route to install into the routing table. In some cases, there may be multiple routes of equal "quality", and the router may install all of them and load-share across them.
Sources of routing information
There are three general sources of routing information:
Information on the status of directly connected hardware and software-defined interfaces
Manually configured static routes
Information from (dynamic) routing protocols
Local interface information
Routers forward traffic that enters on an input interface and leaves on an output interface, subject to filtering and other local rules. While routers usually forward fro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp%20Thing%20%281990%20TV%20series%29 | Swamp Thing is an American superhero television series based on the Vertigo/DC Comics character the Swamp Thing. It debuted on USA Network on July 27, 1990, and lasted three seasons for a total of 72 episodes. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel.
Overview
Developed for television by Joseph Stefano (known for the classic film Psycho and legendary series The Outer Limits), Swamp Thing was filmed in the brand-new Universal Studios Florida facilities and soundstages by Universal's MTE division. This was granted to demonstrate the new studio because the series could be produced cheaply and quickly. For the first 13 episodes, the crew shot second unit footage in actual Florida swamps and returned to the studio for the primary scenes. However, the swamps not only prevented them from creating favorable lighting, but also required much time to transport people and equipment from the swamp to the studio. They finally decided to use swamp areas then existing on the perimeter of the studio and to build a swamp in the studio which, according to Durock, looked "ten times better than a real swamp".
Actor/stuntman Dick Durock, who played Swamp Thing in both films, reprised his role for the more serious-toned TV series (with Lonnie R. Smith Jr. & Patrick Neil Quinn portraying Alec Holland in flashbacks, etc.). He wore a modified version of Carl Fullerton and Neal Martz's latex suit created for The Return of Swamp Thing, and he spoke in an electronically altered basso profundo. Since his profuse sweating caused the lip and eye prosthetics to fall off while shooting the previous films, Durock simply had makeup applied in those areas for his television costume: "In the first feature, it took close to four hours. In the second feature, it took close to two hours. By the time we did the series, which ironically was by far the best makeup and costume, we had it down to about 45 minutes".
Swamp Thing debuted with "The Emerald Heart" on Friday, July 27, 1990, in the 10:30pm EST time slot. The show's introductory narration decrees:
After the pilot episode and first 12 episodes, executive producer Stefano left the series and production was temporarily halted for some retooling by Tom Greene, the new executive producer. By the end of the first season the network and studio sensed that the show could attract even higher ratings and further modifications came when Tom Blomquist was enlisted as a replacement for Greene to revamp the series for two more seasons and a lengthy production order of 50 episodes. Those episodes, which helped make Swamp Thing the highest-rated original series on USA Network, were less dependent on elements from the comic books and instead introduced anthological science fiction stories featuring guest star characters encountering the mysteries of the swamp. Swamp Thing regularly featured guest actors, such as Roscoe Lee Browne as Duchamp, (a Voodoo Houngan/Bokor, who refers to Swamp Thing as "Loa of Green Things; the Spirit of the S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolanoExpress | SolanoExpress is a public transit network of regional express buses connecting Solano County, California to Contra Costa County (across the Carquinez Strait) and the Sacramento Valley. It is managed by the Solano Transportation Authority and operated by SolTrans. The Solano Transportation Authority is a joint powers authority established in 1990 by Solano County and the cities of Benicia, Dixon, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Vacaville, and Vallejo to serve as the Congestion Management Agency for Solano County, as mandated by California law.
Routes
SolanoExpress consists of four routes, centered on Solano County, and extending both south to the inner Bay Area and northeast to Sacramento. It makes connections at a number of regional transit hubs, including Walnut Creek BART, El Cerrito del Norte BART, Vallejo Transit Center, Fairfield Transportation Center, Suisun-Fairfield station, Vacaville Transportation Center, Dixon Park & Ride, and Sacramento Valley Station. The names of the SolanoExpress Yellow (Route Y) and Red (Route R) Lines match their respective connections to the (Yellow Line) and (Red Line) services of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
All routes are operated by SolTrans. Prior to 2022, the Green and Blue Lines were operated by Fairfield and Suisun Transit (FAST). The Green Line transitioned from FAST to SolTrans in April 2022, and the Blue Line followed in August 2022.
Fares
Single-ride fares within Solano County are $2.75 for adults, $2.00 for youth, and $1.35 for seniors and the disabled. Single-ride intercounty fares are $5.00 for adults, $4.00 for youth, and $2.50 for seniors and the disabled. Clipper cards are accepted on all routes. Intracounty and intercounty day passes are available.
See also
All Nighter — a regional consortium that provides a late-night bus network
Dumbarton Express — a similar consortium providing service across the Dumbarton Bridge
References
Bus transportation in California
Public transportation in Contra Costa County, California
Public transportation in Napa County, California
Public transportation in Sacramento County, California
Public transportation in San Francisco
Public transportation in San Joaquin County, California
Public transportation in Solano County, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember%20the%20Milk | Remember the Milk (RTM) is an application service provider for Web-based task- and time-management. It allows users to manage tasks from a computer or smartphone, both online and offline. Created in 2004 by a two-person Australian company, it now has international contributors.
Features
Remember the Milk allows users to create multiple task lists. Added tasks can be edited (or not) to include various fields, locations can be added, and an integrated Google Maps feature allows users to save commonly used locations. Tasks can also be organized by tags. Tasks can be postponed, and Remember the Milk will inform users of the number of times a given task has been postponed. Remember the Milk offers integration with Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and SMS.
See also
Getting Things Done
Digital calendar
References
External links
Calendaring software
Web applications
Administrative software
Task management software
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starz%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Starz is a Canadian English language premium television network owned by Bell Media.
The channel launched in 1994 as TMN Moviepix, a sister service to The Movie Network (now the Crave pay TV network) carrying classic films; it carried this format under various names including Mpix and The Movie Network Encore. Under its current name and format launched in March 2019, the network also broadcasts select original programming from the U.S.-based Starz premium channel, pursuant to a partnership between Bell Media and Starz Inc. parent company Lionsgate announced in early 2018.
Starz is carried by various Canadian cable and satellite television providers, including Bell Satellite TV, Shaw Direct, Rogers Cable, Vidéotron, EastLink, Shaw, Telus and Cogeco; since the 2019 relaunch it has also been available on a direct-to-consumer basis as an addon to the Crave streaming service, as well as through Amazon Prime Video Channels and Apple TV Channels. Similarly to TMN/Crave, TMN Encore operated only in provinces east of the Ontario-Manitoba border until 2016, with Western Canada served by a similar service run by Movie Central known as Encore Avenue. With the shutdown of both services in 2016, Encore/Starz has since served the entirety of Canada.
History
The channel was launched on October 1, 1994 as TMN Moviepix; by 1996, its name was shortened to simply Moviepix. By 2001, the channel's name was shortened for the third time to simply Mpix. The channel was originally owned by Astral Communications (later Astral Media).
In an effort to re-align Mpix with The Movie Network brand, on August 20, 2012, Astral announced that it would be rebranding Mpix as The Movie Network Encore, or TMN Encore, on September 18, 2012. On the day of the rebrand, its multiplex channel MorePix was accordingly renamed TMN Encore 2; with the change, TMN Encore 2 also launched a high definition feed, which simulcasts its standard definition counterpart.
TMN Encore was also the only private broadcaster financing film preservation in Canada through its sponsorship of the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada (now defunct), and National Archives.
On March 4, 2013, the Competition Bureau approved the takeover of Astral Media by Bell Media. Bell filed a new application for the proposed takeover with the CRTC on March 6, 2013; the CRTC approved the merger on June 27, 2013.
On November 19, 2015, Corus Entertainment announced that as a result of a strategic review, it had decided to exit the pay-television industry. The company announced that it would shut down Encore Avenue and Movie Central (which held a monopoly position in Western Canada, while TMN held a monopoly in the East), and work with Bell to transition existing subscribers to TMN Encore and The Movie Network respectively. The CRTC had quietly removed the regional restrictions from both services' licences earlier in the year.
On January 23, 2018, Bell Media announced that it had reached licensing agreements with Starz Inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTA%20light%20rail | The VTA light rail system serves San Jose and nearby cities in Santa Clara County, California. It is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, and consists of of network comprising three main lines on standard gauge tracks. Originally opened on December 11, 1987, the light rail system has gradually expanded since then, and currently has 60 stations in operation.
The light rail system has been criticized for being one of the least used in the United States (24.3 passenger trips per revenue hour) and the most heavily subsidized ($9.30 per passenger trip). VTA leaders have admitted that building light rail was a poor match with adjoining land uses. The system's average weekday daily ridership as of is passengers and a total annual ridership of passengers.
Service
Lines
VTA operates of light rail route on 3 lines. All the lines and the corridors they run through are designed to move passengers from the suburban areas of Santa Clara Valley into the major business areas in Downtown, the Santa Clara County Civic Center, and northern Silicon Valley, site of many high-tech company offices.
Light Rail also serves to connect travelers to other transportation systems at several key points: Diridon station offers connections to Caltrain, ACE, Amtrak's Coast Starlight, the Capitol Corridor trains; Milpitas station offer connections the BART system; and Metro/Airport station offers a connection to the San Jose International Airport via VTA Bus route 60.
The system is mostly double-tracked with overhead catenary wires. It variously runs along the medians of former railroad rights of way, freeways and surface streets, and pedestrian malls.
Previous lines
Almaden Shuttle
The Almaden shuttle was a 3-stop spur from the Ohlone/Chynoweth station to Almaden station at the Almaden Expressway in the Almaden Valley. The shuttle, which ran a single 1-car train, took about 4 minutes to travel between Ohlone/Chynoweth and Almaden. This line had one track, with sidings at Almaden and Ohlone/Chynoweth. The line was discontinued in December 2019 and replaced by bus service.
Commuter Express
The Commuter Express service operated along the same route as the current Blue Line between Baypointe and Santa Teresa stations, with nonstop service between Convention Center and Ohlone/Chynoweth stations. This weekday, peak-period service offered three trips in the morning and three trips in the evening. The service was introduced in October 2010 and was eliminated in August 2018 because of low ridership.
Stations
Unusually for light rail systems in the United States, most VTA Light Rail stops are made by request. Similar to VTA's bus network, passengers must be visible to the operator while waiting at stations and must notify the operator using the bell before the train arrives at their destination. Trains will typically skip stops (other than line termini) if no one is waiting on the platform and no one requests to disembark.
Hours and freq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20styles%20analysis | Cognitive styles analysis (CSA) was developed by Richard J. Riding and is the most frequently used computerized measure of cognitive styles. Although CSA is not well known in North American institutions, it is quite popular among European universities and organizations.
state:
"A number of different labels have been given to cognitive styles and, according to Riding, many of these are but different conceptions of the same dimensions . Riding and Cheema surveyed the various (about 30) labels and, after reviewing the descriptions, correlations, methods of assessment, and effect on behavior, concluded that the styles may be grouped into two principal groups: the Wholist-Analytic and the Verbal-Imagery dimensions. It is argued that these dimensions of cognitive style are very fundamental because they develop early in life and are pervasive given their effect on social behavior, decision making, and learning."
Unlike many other cognitive style measures, CSA has been the subject of much empirical investigation. Three experiments reported by showed the reliability of CSA to be low. Considering the theoretical strength of CSA, and unsuccessful earlier attempts to create a more reliable parallel form of it , a revised version was made to improve its validity and reliability.
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Cognition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20Network | The Forensic Network (the shortened name of the Forensic Mental Health Services Managed Care Network) is one of Scotland's Managed Clinical Networks. The Network was established in Scotland in September 2003 by the Scottish Government, in conjunction with "The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003", and following a review of the State Hospital's Board for Scotland, 'The Right Place - The Right Time'.
The review stated that a Forensic Mental Health Services Network Managed Care Network should be established to address fragmentation across the Forensic Mental Health Estate, to overview the processes for determining the most effective care for mentally disordered offenders, consider wider issues surrounding patient pathways, and align strategic planning across Scotland.
Activities
Under the auspices of the Scottish National Health Service, the Network is multi-agency, multi-disciplinary and multi-regional, linked with Scottish Prison Service, Social Work Services, and Police, Criminal Justice agencies, the Scottish Government and Carers, amongst others. The Scottish Ministers invited Andreana Adamson, Chief Executive of the State Hospital, to lead on its development:
"The therapeutic aim of inpatient forensic services is to address violent, aggressive and offending behaviour. It is vital that patients are treated in accommodation appropriate to their needs in an environment that supports their rehabilitation."(Adamson, 2008)
The aim for the Forensic Network is to bring a pan-dimensional, whole Scotland approach to the planning and development of pathways for forensic mental health services. The Forensic Network host several professional groups, commission short life working groups to tackle specific concerns, and facilitate clinical fora on a variety of key topic areas. A regional approach is adopted in order to achieve the aims of addressing fragmentation across forensic mental health services. Representatives from NHS regions sit on an Advisory Board to provide guidance and input into national approaches.
The Forensic Network host the School of Forensic Mental Health (SoFMH) which was established in 2007 and provides colleagues across the Forensic Network with teaching, training and research support. It is a virtual school and has connections with many secondary education providers, providing short professional courses, academic courses and distance learning courses across Scotland. Its flagship programme suite is the New to Forensic (N2F) courses which have received international interest and commendation.
References
External links
Official website
NHS Scotland
Crime in Scotland
Mental health organisations in the United Kingdom
Mental health in Scotland
Mental health law in the United Kingdom
Forensics organizations
Organizations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale%20gouge%20ratio | Shale Gouge Ratio (typically abbreviated to SGR) is a mathematical algorithm that aims to predict the fault rock types for simple fault zones developed in sedimentary sequences dominated by sandstone and shale.
The parameter is widely used in the oil and gas exploration and production industries to enable quantitative predictions to be made regarding the hydrodynamic behavior of faults.
Definition
At any point on a fault surface, the shale gouge ratio is equal to the net shale/clay content of the rocks that have slipped past that point.
The SGR algorithm assumes complete mixing of the wall-rock components in any particular 'throw interval'. The parameter is a measure of the 'upscaled' composition of the fault zone.
Application to hydrocarbon exploration
Hydrocarbon exploration involves identifying and defining accumulations of hydrocarbons that are trapped in subsurface structures. These structures are often segmented by faults. For a thorough trap evaluation, it is necessary to predict whether the fault is sealing or leaking to hydrocarbons and also to provide an estimate of how 'strong' the fault seal might be. The 'strength' of a fault seal can be quantified in terms of subsurface pressure, arising from the buoyancy forces within the hydrocarbon column, that the fault can support before it starts to leak. When acting on a fault zone this subsurface pressure is termed capillary threshold pressure.
For faults developed in sandstone and shale sequences, the first order control on capillary threshold pressure is likely to be the composition, in particular the shale or clay content, of the fault-zone material. SGR is used to estimate the shale content of the fault zone.
In general, fault zones with higher clay content, equivalent to higher SGR values, can support higher capillary threshold pressures. On a broader scale, other factors also exert a control on the threshold pressure, such as depth of the rock sequence at the time of faulting, and the maximum burial depth. As maximum burial depth exceeds 3 km, the effective strength of the fault seal will increase for all fault zone compositions.
References
Yielding, Needham & Freeman, 1997. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, vol.81, p.897-917.
See also
Fault gouge
Petroleum geology
Structural geology
Petroleum geology
Geophysics
Economic geology
Seismology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20semantic%20mapping | Latent semantic mapping (LSM) is a data-driven framework to model globally meaningful relationships implicit in large volumes of (often textual) data. It is a generalization of latent semantic analysis. In information retrieval, LSA enables retrieval on the basis of conceptual content, instead of merely matching words between queries and documents.
LSM was derived from earlier work on latent semantic analysis. There are 3 main characteristics of latent semantic analysis: Discrete entities, usually in the form of words and documents, are mapped onto continuous vectors, the mapping involves a form of global correlation pattern, and dimensionality reduction is an important aspect of the analysis process. These constitute generic properties, and have been identified as potentially useful in a variety of different contexts. This usefulness has encouraged great interest in LSM. The intended product of latent semantic mapping, is a data-driven framework for modeling relationships in large volumes of data.
Mac OS X v10.5 and later includes a framework implementing latent semantic mapping.
See also
Latent semantic analysis
Notes
References
Information retrieval techniques
Natural language processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20information%20system | In domain theory, a branch of mathematics and computer science, a Scott information system is a primitive kind of logical deductive system often used as an alternative way of presenting Scott domains.
Definition
A Scott information system, A, is an ordered triple
satisfying
Here means
Examples
Natural numbers
The return value of a partial recursive function, which either returns a natural number or goes into an infinite recursion, can be expressed as a simple Scott information system as follows:
That is, the result can either be a natural number, represented by the singleton set , or "infinite recursion," represented by .
Of course, the same construction can be carried out with any other set instead of .
Propositional calculus
The propositional calculus gives us a very simple Scott information system as follows:
Scott domains
Let D be a Scott domain. Then we may define an information system as follows
the set of compact elements of
Let be the mapping that takes us from a Scott domain, D, to the information system defined above.
Information systems and Scott domains
Given an information system, , we can build a Scott domain as follows.
Definition: is a point if and only if
Let denote the set of points of A with the subset ordering. will be a countably based Scott domain when T is countable. In general, for any Scott domain D and information system A
where the second congruence is given by approximable mappings.
See also
Scott domain
Domain theory
References
Glynn Winskel: "The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages: An Introduction", MIT Press, 1993 (chapter 12)
Models of computation
Domain theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%20Spine%20Down | Left Spine Down (LSD) is a Canadian band based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that plays what they call "cyberpunk": a mixture of electronica, metal, punk, and drum & bass.
History
The group formed in Vancouver in 2001 with Matt Girvan, Frank Valoczy and Kaine Delay, with Jeremy Inkel replacing Valoczy in 2003 (Jared Slingerland joined the following year). They spent the next five years honing their skill and recruiting talent, all the while drawing attention to Bill Leeb, who hired both Inkel and Slingerland into Front Line Assembly for the Artificial Soldier tour and album in 2006. LSD had begun to build a cult following, both local and abroad, and not until they found bass player Denyss McKnight and Tim Hagberg did they self-release their debut Smartbomb EP, in June 2007. The EP was produced by Front Line Assembly/Noise Unit's Chris Peterson. Their debut LP, Fighting for Voltage, was released in April 2008 on Synthetic Sounds in Canada, and a Canadian tour followed in support of the album. Bit Riot Records picked up the rights to the release of Fighting for Voltage in the US and released the album in September 2008.
On March 3, 2009, and again via Synthetic Sounds the band released their second full-length album entitled Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited. The album featured three new songs; "Welcome to the Future" with covers of "Territorial Pissings" by Nirvana and "She's Lost Control" by Joy Division; along with remixes and segues. In January 2011 the band's fourth music video was released (She's Lost Control) which made it into rotation on MuchMusic in Canada.
The band has toured North America extensively with Revolting Cocks, SNFU, 16 Volt and Chemlab and opened for groups such as The Birthday Massacre, Combichrist, DOA, Genitorturers and Front Line Assembly.
In May 2011 Left Spine Down signed with Metropolis Records. They released their second full-length album, Caution, on August 23, 2011, which was preceded by a new single and video for the track "X-Ray". The album was produced by well known industrial music producer Dave "Rave" Ogilvie and features the band as a four-piece stripped down from their previous incarnations as a five and six-piece band.
In late 2011, Skinny Puppy lead singer Nivek Ogre's side project ohGr announced a December 2011 West Coast USA and Canada tour consisting of nine performances supported by Left Spine Down.
In 2012, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult announced their 25-year anniversary tour covering over 30 dates in the USA tour featuring direct support by Left Spine Down.
After the Back From Beyond Tour with My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult in 2012, the band took a hiatus to focus on other projects; Kaine Delay kept Left Spine Down active, with appearances both on stage and on record, by supporting major acts such as The Soft Moon and 3TEETH at local gigs, as well as efforts for cancer benefits, namely the Electronic Saviors compilation series and the annual Bowie Ball, a yearly tribute festival i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVLAN | Hierarchical VLAN (HVLAN) is a proposed Ethernet standard that extends the use of enterprise Ethernet VLAN (802.1Q) to carrier networks. A number of developments have emerged in recent years to help bring Ethernet, a flexible and cost-efficient packet transport technology, to carrier networks. These developments include Q-in-Q (802.1ad), PBB (802.1ah), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport), and PBB-TE (Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering), which bring a set of features to traditional Ethernet to make it “carrier-grade”, adding to it high-availability, OA&M, and more.
While attempting to retain the core features that made Ethernet attractive in the first place, these technologies do not address other inefficiencies that could limit their use in the long term. This is especially true when considering the expected significant growth of multipoint network applications – IPTV, Private LANs, gaming, and others. The delivery of such services is better supported by PBB and associated protocols than alternatives such as MPLS, yet could hit scalability issues should services evolve as predicted.
HVLAN introduces the concept of hierarchical addressing schemes into the VLAN tag to provide both enterprise and carrier transport networks the characteristics they need in the long run.
Evolution of carrier-grade Ethernet standards
Ethernet
Ethernet is a connectionless technology. It does not have a routing mechanism and its address scheme is based on 48-bit MAC addresses. However, its flat address scheme results in a potential explosion of forwarding database entries and an uncontrolled flooding of broadcast messages throughout the network. In order to overcome Ethernet's scalability issues, a partitioning scheme, named VLAN, was introduced.
VLAN (802.1Q)
A virtual LAN, commonly known as VLAN, is a method of creating independent logical Ethernet networks within a physical network. Several VLANs can co-exist within such a network. This helps in reducing the broadcast domain and aids in network administration by separating logical segments of a LAN (like company departments) that should not exchange data using a LAN (they still can exchange data by routing).
VLANs are configured through software rather than hardware, which makes them extremely flexible. Frames having a VLAN tag carry an explicit identification of the VLAN to which they belong. The value of the VLAN Identification (VID) in the tag header signifies the particular VLAN the frame belongs to. The main problem with VLAN is its limited VID space (4096). While this space may suffice for enterprise applications, it is much too small for carrier networks, which must support many customers and services.
Q-in-Q (802.1ad)
A number of solutions have been proposed to increase VLAN's scalability. A first proposal, called Q-in-Q, also known as Provider Bridge, VLAN stacking or tag stacking, allows service providers to insert an additional VLAN tag (referred to as provider VLAN) in the Et |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Councils%20Network | The County Councils Network is a special interest group within the Local Government Association. Its 36 members are all 23 English county councils and 13 unitary authority councils. The network is the national voice for counties, and has released a significant report containing ambitious policy proposals on behalf of county councils and unitary councils in England.
More recently, the CCN has released influential research outlining the funding challenges facing local government , alongside original research on planning, social mobility, and levelling up.
The County Councils Network works on a cross-party basis, with members of its management committee drawn from all three major parties. The current Chairman of the County Councils Network is Cllr Tim Oliver, leader of Surrey County Council. It campaigns on funding inequalities for counties, issues surrounding social care and children's services, and on devolution to rural areas, as well as other local government-related topics. The County Councils Network shares offices with the Local Government Association in Westminster.
List of members
County councils
Buckinghamshire County Council
Cambridgeshire County Council
Derbyshire County Council
Devon County Council
Dorset County Council
East Sussex County Council
Essex County Council
Gloucestershire County Council
Hampshire County Council
Hertfordshire County Council
Kent County Council
Lancashire County Council
Leicestershire County Council
Lincolnshire County Council
Norfolk County Council
Northamptonshire County Council
Nottinghamshire County Council
Oxfordshire County Council
Staffordshire County Council
Suffolk County Council
Surrey County Council
Warwickshire County Council
West Sussex County Council
Worcestershire County Council
Unitary authorities
Central Bedfordshire Council
Cheshire East Council
Cheshire West and Chester Council
Cornwall Council
Cumberland Council
Durham County Council
East Riding of Yorkshire
Herefordshire Council
Northumberland County Council
North Yorkshire Council
Shropshire Council
Somerset Council
Westmorland and Furness Council
Wiltshire Council
References
External links
County Councils Network
Local government in the United Kingdom
County councils of England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20Disk | Private Disk is a disk encryption application for the Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Dekart SRL. It works by creating a virtual drive, the contents of which is encrypted on-the-fly; other software can use the drive as if it were a usual one.
One of Private Disk's key selling points is in its ease of use, which is achieved by hiding complexity from the end user (e.g. data wiping is applied transparently when an encrypted image is deleted.) This simplicity does however reduce its flexibility in some respects (e.g. it only allows the use of AES-256 encryption.)
Although Private Disk uses a NIST certified implementation of the AES and SHA-256/384/512 algorithms, this certification is restricted to a single component of Private Disk; the encryption/hash library used and not to Private Disk as a complete system.
Feature highlights
NIST-certified implementation of AES-256-bit, and SHA-2. Private Disk complies with FIPS 197 and FIPS 180-2
CBC mode with secret IVs is used to encrypt the sectors of the storage volume
Disk Firewall, an application-level filter, which allows only trusted programs to access the virtual drive
Ability to run directly from a removable drive, requiring no local installation
Offers access to encrypted data on any system, even if administrative privileges are not available
Encrypted images can be accessed on Windows Mobile and Windows CE handhelds; this is achieved by making the encrypted container format compatible with containers used by SecuBox (disk encryption software by Aiko Solutions)
File wiping is applied when deleting an encrypted image
PD File Move, a file migration tool, which will locate the specified files on the system and securely move them to an encrypted disk
Compatibility with Windows 9x and Windows NT operating systems
Autorun and Autofinish automatically start a program or a script when a virtual disk is mounted or dismounted
Encrypted backup of an encrypted image
Password quality meter
Automatic backup of a disk's encryption key
Built-in password recovery tool
Compatibility with 64-bit platforms
Existing versions
There are multiple versions of Private Disk, which provide a different feature set:
Private Disk - hard disk encryption software that uses 256-bit AES encryption, is highly configurable, offers application-level protection, USB disk portability, etc.
Private Disk Multifactor is a superset of Private Disk, providing the same functionality, adding support for biometric authentication, as well as smart-card or token-based authentication.
Private Disk Light is a free version, it uses AES-128 and comes with a restricted set of features.
Private Disk SDK is a software development kit that can be used to build a custom application which provides data encryption facilities.
See also
Disk encryption software
Comparison of disk encryption software
External links
Dekart company web-page
Information about certified implementations of the cryptographic algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian%20Channel | The Smithsonian Channel is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global through its media networks division under MTV Entertainment Group. It offers video content inspired by the Smithsonian Institution's museums, research facilities and magazines.
The channel features original non-fiction programming that covers a wide range of historical, scientific, and cultural subjects. As of February 2015, approximately 33.6 million American households (28.9% of those with televisions) receive Smithsonian Channel. It is also available as a video on demand service, depending on the service provider, and in various Internet streaming and download formats.
The channel was launched as a joint venture of Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution as Smithsonian On Demand in 2006, and later became Smithsonian Channel in 2007. Smithsonian Channel Plus, a US$5 monthly subscription also offering access to the channel's past content library, and incorporating the former Smithsonian Earth streaming service, was launched in 2018. As of the fall of 2020, it was merged into CBS All Access (later renamed Paramount+).
In February 2019, Smithsonian Channel: UK & Ireland launched on their domestic cable and satellite providers, along with Freeview.
Programming
The Smithsonian Channel features a wide array of programming covering science, nature, culture, history, air and spacecraft, and documentaries. They create everything from long-running series to one-off, in depth specials.
Aerial America showcases each of the 50 states from the air, with special episodes devoted to small towns, the wilderness, etc. Narrated by Jim Conrad. Related shows are Sky View, featuring areas in western Europe; Aerial Ireland; Aerial New Zealand; Aerial Africa; Aerial Britain; Aerial Greece; Aerial Argentina; China From Above; and Aerial Cities, featuring selected American cities.
Soul Revolution hosted by Morgan Freeman premiered November 16, 2008.
Season two of Stories from the Vaults starring Tom Cavanagh premiered July 12, 2009.
Mystery of the Hope Diamond – On August 19, 2009, the Smithsonian Institution announced that the Hope Diamond was to get a temporary new setting to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Harry Winston's donation of the gemstone to the National Museum of Natural History. Starting in September, the diamond would be exhibited as a stand-alone gem with no setting. From August 19, 2009, through September 7, 2009, the public was invited to vote online for their favorite Harry Winston designed setting, at SmithsonianChannel.com/hope. The winning setting would be announced this fall and the gem would be shown in the setting starting in May, along with a Smithsonian Networks documentary.
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story – A National Endowment for the Humanities-funded documentary about the Federal Writers' Project featuring interviews with notable project alumni Studs Terkel, Stetson Kennedy, and American historian Douglas Brinkley. Prem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLFJ-FM | WLFJ-FM (89.3 MHz) is a non-commercial radio station, licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, and serving the Upstate, including Spartanburg, Anderson and Clemson. Owned by the Radio Training Network, it broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music (primarily Christian AC) format, known as "His Radio 89.3." Several Christian talk and teaching shows are also included in the weekday schedule, hosted by Jim Daly, David Jeremiah and Charles Stanley.
WLFJ-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 41,000 watts (horizontal) and 37,000 watts (vertical). The transmitter is on Tower Road in Travelers Rest, South Carolina.
HD Radio
WLFJ-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio format.
HD2 carries His Radio Z, a youth-oriented Christian CHR format; it is syndicated from the First Baptist Church of Spartanburg's WHRZ-LP.
HD3 carries His Radio Praise, a contemporary worship music format. It is also available on FM via 103.9 WSHP-FM Easley and 89.7 W209CM-Simpsonville. The main channel simulcasts His Radio Praise from 8 am to 12 noon on Sunday mornings.
HD4 carries Classic His Radio, which airs a classic CCM format. It is available on FM via 91.9 WHRT-FM Cokesbury, and the translator 92.9 W225AZ. Under a local marketing agreement, was formerly heard on iHeartMedia's daytimer WLFJ 660 AM, but this arrangement ended in August 2019. Until April 15, 2023, the subchannel carried His Radio Talk, which aired Christian talk and teaching programming.
Translators
In addition to the main station, WLFJ-FM is simulcast on 105.1 WGFJ in Cross Hill, South Carolina, which serves the western portion of the Upstate. It also operates 9 FM translators that bring the main signal or one of its HD channels into portions of the Atlanta, Asheville and Charlotte radio markets.
Additionally, 91.3 WLFA in Asheville, North Carolina; 92.1 WCFJ in Columbia, South Carolina, and 88.5 WRTP in Raleigh, North Carolina, call themselves "His Radio" and air many of the same programs as WLFJ.
References
External links
Radio stations established in 1983
1983 establishments in South Carolina
Greenville, South Carolina
LFJ-FM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ful%20Haus | Ful Haus is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Bert de Leon, it stars Vic Sotto and Pia Guanio. It premiered on August 5, 2007 on the network's KiliTV line up. The series concluded on August 16, 2009 with a total of 107 episodes. It was replaced by Show Me Da Manny in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Vic Sotto as Fulgencio 'Ful' Palisoc
Pia Guanio as Grace Palisoc
Supporting cast
Jose Manalo as Juan Miguel 'Onemig' Palisoc
BJ Forbes as Juan Miguel 'One-Two' Palisoc, Jr.
Joonee Gamboa as Pidyong Palisoc
Marissa Delgado as Andrea Palisoc
Richie Reyes as Coco
Jojo Bolado as Manny
Mitoy Yonting as Buboy
Sugar Mercado as Toni
Patani Daño as herself
Dax Martin
Rita De Guzman
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine comedy television series
Television series by M-Zet Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Mandel%20%28video%20game%20designer%29 | Josh Mandel (born October 9, 1958) is an American video game writer, designer, voice actor, and producer. He worked on computer games such as King's Quest V, The Dagger of Amon Ra, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist, Space Quest 6, and Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.
Sierra Entertainment
Josh Mandel joined Sierra Entertainment in 1990. He was the first person to play the voice of King Graham, the hero of the King's Quest series. He also played Shamir Shamazel in King's Quest VI, Steve Dorian in The Dagger of Amon Ra, and numerous other minor roles.
In 2001, Mandel reprised the role of King Graham for the unofficial fan-made remakes King's Quest I, King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones, and King's Quest III Redux by AGD Interactive and King's Quest III by Infamous Adventures.
Post Sierra
From 2012 to 2013, Mandel was employed with Replay Games where he, in cooperation with Sierra veteran Al Lowe, worked as a designer and writer on Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded and Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold He quit the company some time after the release of Reloaded.
In January 2014, he contributed to the independent adventure game, Serena, wherein he voices the game's protagonist.
In February 2016, Mandel began working for another Sierra veteran, Corey Cole on Hero-U, a new adventure roleplaying game.
Games
References
External links
Josh Mandel at MobyGames
Josh Mandel at IMDb
Josh Mandel's personal website
1958 births
American male video game actors
American video game designers
American video game producers
Living people
Designers from Queens, New York
Sierra On-Line employees
Video game writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Burn%20Notice%20episodes | Burn Notice is an American television series that originally aired on the cable television channel USA Network from June 28, 2007 to September 12, 2013. The show follows the life of protagonist Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), a covert operative who has been "burned" (identified as an unreliable or dangerous agent) and tries to find out why. With his assets frozen, he is unable to leave Miami and forced to live off any small investigative jobs he can find, with the help of his girlfriend Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar) and his old military friend Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell), who briefly informed on him to the FBI. His return to Miami also reunites him with his mother Madeline Westen (Sharon Gless), who becomes an increasingly important part of Michael's life even as he tries to hide his activities from her. Underpinning the episodic stories of Michael's investigative jobs is the running subplot exploring Michael's efforts to find out who burned him, and to get his job and reputation back.
As creator of the show, Matt Nix serves as executive producer and often writes episodes for the show. He made his directorial debut with the season two episode "Do No Harm", which he had also written. Seven seasons have completed airing in the United States, with 12 episodes in the first season, 16 episodes in the second and third seasons, and 18 episodes in the fourth season. The fourth season introduced new regular character Jesse Porter (Coby Bell), a counterintelligence agent whom Michael unintentionally burns but later makes part of his team. In October 2009, USA Networks announced the renewal of the series for seasons 5 and 6. The show's fifth season, comprising 18 episodes, began airing June 23, 2011, and entered a mid-season break after twelve episodes on September 8, 2011. The remaining episodes aired in November and December 2011, for a finale on December 15, 2011. The program concluded its 18-episode sixth season, which premiered on June 14, 2012, and ended on December 20, 2012, with a two-hour finale. On November 7, 2012, USA Networks renewed Burn Notice for a seventh season, and, on May 10, 2013, announced that it would be the series' final season. The seventh season premiered on June 6, 2013, and the series reached its 100th episode with "Forget Me Not", the second episode of that season. The series finale aired on September 12, 2013. A total of 111 episodes of Burn Notice were broadcast over seven seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2007)
Season 2 (2008–09)
Season 3 (2009–10)
The third season of Burn Notice premiered on June 4, 2009. Both Nix and Donovan have revealed that the season will focus on the past of Michael, Fiona and Sam. Ben Shenkman ("Tom Strickler"), Moon Bloodgood ("Detective Paxson"), and Otto Sanchez ("Agent Diego Garza") appeared in recurring roles during the summer season. The winter season premiered on January 21, 2010, opening with the reunion of actors Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless nearly 14 years after they last |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Data%20Link | Common Data Link (CDL) is a secure U.S. military communication protocol. It was established by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1991 as the military's primary protocol for imagery and signals intelligence. CDL operates within the at data rates up to 274 Mbit/s. CDL allows for full duplex data exchange. CDL signals are transmitted, received, synchronized, routed, and simulated by Common data link (CDL) Interface Boxes (CIBs).
The FY06 Authorization Act (Public Law ) requires use of CDL for all imagery, unless waiver is granted. The primary reason waivers are granted is from the inability to carry the 300 pound radios on a small (30 pound) aircraft. Emerging technology expects to field a 2-pound version by the end of the decade (2010).
The Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL) is a secure data link being developed by the U.S. military to send secure data and streaming video links from airborne platforms to ground stations. The TCDL can accept data from many different sources, then encrypt, multiplex, encode, transmit, demultiplex, and route this data at high speeds. It uses a Ku narrowband uplink that is used for both payload and vehicle control, and a wideband downlink for data transfer.
The TCDL uses both directional and omnidirectional antennas to transmit and receive the Ku band signal. The TCDL was designed for UAVs, specifically the MQ-8B Fire Scout, as well as crewed non-fighter environments. The TCDL transmits radar, imagery, video, and other sensor information at rates from 1.544 Mbit/s to 10.7 Mbit/s over ranges of 200 km. It has a bit error rate of 10e-6 with COMSEC and 10e-8 without COMSEC. It is also intended that the TCDL will in time support the required higher CDL rates of 45, 137, and 274 Mbit/s.
References
L-3 business segments
Avionics Systems Standardisation Committee
Secure communication
Military communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20for%20Middle%20East%20Peace | The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) is an American nonprofit organization. It states it promotes a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through grants, public programming, and research. The organization was established in 1979 by Merle Thorpe Jr. Lara Friedman is the current President of the Foundation.
Activities
The Foundation advances its goals through education and advocacy and the publication of books and pamphlets about the conflict. FMEP also has a speakers’ program to introduce Israeli, Palestinian, and other experts to U.S. audiences and its own officers also engage in public speaking. The organization also has a small grant program to support groups that contribute to peace between Israel and Palestine.
FMEP pays particular attention to the effect that Israeli settlements have on Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. In 1992, the Foundation introduced its bimonthly "Report on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories." The Report contains detailed information and analysis on settlements and related issues.
Trustees, officers, and staff
FMEP Officers are:
Lara Friedman is the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. Friedman was the Director of Policy and Government Relations at Americans for Peace Now, and before that she was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, serving in Jerusalem, Washington, Tunis and Beirut.
Kristin McCarthy is the Director of Policy & Operations. Prior to joining FMEP Kristin worked at the Arab American Institute.
Past Presidents of FMEP: Matthew Duss, Ambassador Philip Wilcox (ret).
Funding
The Foundation for Middle East Peace supports its publication, education, outreach, and grant programs with funds from an endowment from its founder, the late Merle Thorpe Jr., and from donations. The Foundation is a non-profit private foundation qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
References
External links
Foundation for Middle East Peace website
Political and economic research foundations in the United States
Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Dave%3A%20Daredevil%20for%20Hire | Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire is an animated television series produced by DIC Animation City and Reteitalia, S.p.A., in association with Spanish network Telecinco.
In the United States, the show premiered on September 12, 1992 on FOX. The series was cancelled after its first season, but a special based on the series titled The Super Dave Superbowl of Knowledge aired on January 29, 1994. It was later shown in reruns on Toon Disney from 1998-2002.
The show starred and was based on the comedy of Bob Einstein and his Super Dave Osborne persona. Both Bob Einstein and Art Irizawa provided the voices for Super Dave and his assistant, Fuji Hakayito, and also appeared as their characters in live-action skits which ended each episode.
Halfway through the show's initial run, Irizawa was asked to modify his voice for Fuji, following complaints to Fox from Asian-American groups that the character was an offensive stereotype. Irizawa subsequently re-recorded his dialogue for all of the show's episodes.
Cast
Bob Einstein as Super Dave Osborne
Art Irizawa as Fuji Hakayito
Additional
Charlie Adler as Slash Hazard
Jack Angel
Jesse Corti
Brian George
Don Lake
Susan Silo
Kath Soucie
Louise Vallance
B. J. Ward
Frank Welker
Episodes
Home releases
In the United States, Buena Vista Home Video released two single-episode VHS's of the series in 1993, which featured the episodes "Space Case" and "Con Job".
A VHS tape of the series was released in the United Kingdom by Abbey Home Entertainment in February 1994, under their Tempo Kids Club label.
The series was later released onto DVD in South Korea in the 2000s.
References
External links
1990s American animated television series
1992 American television series debuts
1993 American television series endings
1990s Italian animated television series
1992 Italian television series debuts
1993 Italian television series endings
American children's animated comedy television series
Italian children's animated comedy television series
English-language television shows
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
Fox Kids
Television series based on comedy sketches
Television series by DIC Entertainment
Television series by DHX Media
American television series with live action and animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXPX-LP | KXPX-LP (channel 14) was a low-power analog television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, which operated from 1991 to 2018. Last owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, its final programming was the digital multicast network TBD. It was functionally replaced by a digital subchannel of co-owned Fox affiliate KSCC (channel 38). The transmitter was located on Leopard Street in Corpus Christi.
History
The station went on the air as K66EB (channel 66) on March 15, 1991. It was originally an affiliate of Telemundo with local programming consisting of lottery results and a weekly Catholic Mass and the Home Shopping Network in overnight hours. It lost Telemundo two years after startup to a new low-power station, K68DJ "KAJA", co-owned with local independent station K47DF "KDF".
In 1999, the station moved to channel 14, adopted the call sign KXPX-LP, and affiliated with Pax. It switched to The Sportsman Channel in 2003 and to Retro Television Network in 2009.
GH Broadcasting announced that it would sell KXPX to London Broadcasting Company, owner of KIII (channel 3), in March 2012. The sale fell through in early 2013, after which GH declared bankruptcy, remaining as debtor-in-possession. On July 3, 2012, GH informed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it would surrender its class A status, as it determined that it could no longer comply with the minimum requirements for the classification; KXPX had been a class A station since 2000.
In late 2014, the sale of the station to Corpus 18, LLC, a partnership formed by the noteholders of debt of GH and High Maintenance Broadcasting, owners of KUQI and a related business to GH, was finalized. On October 2, 2015, Corpus 18 agreed to sell KXPX-LP, KUQI, and KTOV-LP to Sinclair Broadcast Group for $9.25 million. It changed programming to TBD in 2017.
KXPX-LP's license was canceled by the FCC on April 3, 2018; its programming is now seen exclusively on KSCC-DT2.
References
Television channels and stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Texas
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
2018 disestablishments in Texas
XPX-LP
Defunct television stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forwarding%20plane | In routing, the forwarding plane, sometimes called the data plane or user plane, defines the part of the router architecture that decides what to do with packets arriving on an inbound interface. Most commonly, it refers to a table in which the router looks up the destination address of the incoming packet and retrieves the information necessary to determine the path from the receiving element, through the internal forwarding fabric of the router, and to the proper outgoing interface(s).
In certain cases the table may specify that a packet is to be discarded. In such cases, the router may return an ICMP "destination unreachable" or other appropriate code. Some security policies, however, dictate that the router should drop the packet silently, in order that a potential attacker does not become aware that a target is being protected.
The incoming forwarding element will also decrement the time-to-live (TTL) field of the packet, and, if the new value is zero, discard the packet. While the Internet Protocol (IP) specification indicates that an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) time exceeded message should be sent to the originator of the packet (i.e. the node indicated by the source address), the router may be configured to drop the packet silently (again according to security policies).
Depending on the specific router implementation, the table in which the destination address is looked up could be the routing table (also known as the routing information base, RIB), or a separate forwarding information base (FIB) that is populated (i.e., loaded) by the routing control plane, but used by the forwarding plane for look-ups at much higher speeds. Before or after examining the destination, other tables may be consulted to make decisions to drop the packet based on other characteristics, such as the source address, the IP protocol identifier field, or Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port number.
Forwarding plane functions run in the forwarding element. High-performance routers often have multiple distributed forwarding elements, so that the router increases performance with parallel processing.
The outgoing interface will encapsulate the packet in the appropriate data link protocol. Depending on the router software and its configuration, functions, usually implemented at the outgoing interface, may set various packet fields, such as the DSCP field used by differentiated services.
In general, the passage from the input interface directly to an output interface, through the fabric with minimum modification at the output interface, is called the fast path of the router. If the packet needs significant processing, such as segmentation or encryption, it may go onto a slower path, which is sometimes called the services plane of the router. Service planes can make forwarding or processing decisions based on higher-layer information, such as a Web URL contained in the packet payload.
Data plane
The data plane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Tera-Scale | Intel Tera-Scale is a research program by Intel that focuses on development in Intel processors and platforms that utilize the inherent parallelism of emerging visual-computing applications. Such applications require teraFLOPS of parallel computing performance to process terabytes of data quickly. Parallelism is the concept of performing multiple tasks simultaneously. Utilizing parallelism will not only increase the efficiency of computer processing units (CPUs), but also increase the bytes of data analyzed each second. In order to appropriately apply parallelism, the CPU must be able to handle multiple threads and to do so the CPU must consist of multiple cores. The conventional amount of cores in consumer grade computers are 2–8 cores while workstation grade computers can have even greater amounts. However, even the current amount of cores aren't great enough to perform at teraFLOPS performance leading to an even greater amount of cores that must be added. As a result of the program, two prototypes have been manufactured that were used to test the feasibility of having many more cores than the conventional amount and proved to be successful.
Prototypes
Teraflops Research Chip (Polaris) is an 80-core prototype processor developed by Intel in 2007. It represents Intel's first public attempt at creating a Tera-Scale processor. The Polaris processor requires to be run at 3.13 GHz and 1V in order to maintain its teraFLOP name. At its peak performance, the processor is capable of 1.28 teraFLOP.
Single-chip Cloud Computer is another research processor developed by Intel in 2009. This processor consists of 48 P54C cores connected in a 6x4 2D-mesh.
Ideology
Parallelism is the concept of performing multiple tasks simultaneously, effectively reducing the time needed to perform a given task. The Tera-Scale research program is focused on the concept of utilizing many more cores than conventional to increase performance with parallelism. Based on their previous experience with increased core counts on CPUs, doubling the number of cores was able to nearly double the performance with no increase in power. With a greater amount of cores, there are possibilities of improved energy efficiency, improved performance, extended lifetimes and new capabilities. Tera-Scale processors would improve energy efficiency by being able to "put to sleep" cores that are unneeded at the time while being able to improve performance by intelligently redistributing workloads to ensure an even workload spread across the chip. Extended lifetimes are also capable by tera-scale processors due to the possibility of having reserve cores that could be brought online when a core fails in the processor. Lastly, the processors would gain new capabilities and functionality as dedicated hardware engines, such as graphics engines, could be integrated.
Hardware
Intel Tera-Scale is focused on creating multi-core processors that can utilize parallel processing to reach teraFLOPS of computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyMUCK | TinyMUCK or, more broadly, a MUCK, is a type of user-extendable online text-based role-playing game, designed for role playing and social interaction. Backronyms like "Multi-User Chat/Created/Computer/Character/Carnal Kingdom" and "Multi-User Construction Kit" are sometimes cited, but are not the actual origin of the term; "muck" is simply a play on the term MUD.
History
The original TinyMUCK 1.0 server was written by Stephen White from University of Waterloo in winter of 1990, based on TinyMUD 1.5.2 codebase. This version improved building capabilities for the users.
TinyMUCK 2.0 was released in June 1990 by Piaw "Lachesis" Na from Berkeley, who added the programming language MUF for in-game server extensions.
TinyMUCK 2.1 and 2.2 were released in July 1990 and April 1991 by Robert "ChupChup" Earl of San Diego, California. These were mostly bugfix releases as the code was cleaned up and ported to new operating systems and architectures.
FuzzBall MUCK server was built on TinyMUCK 2.2 codebase by Belfry Webworks and, as of version 5, released in 1995, includes the alternative programming language MPI. version 6, available at SourceForge project fbmuck also supports MCP and MCP-GUI.
Characteristics
MUCKs are extensible by design, players can create and modify ("build") all internal objects of the game environment, including rooms, exits, and even the system commands, for which the MUCKs use the MUF (Multi-User Forth) language. Fuzzball MUCKs also use Message Parsing Interpreter (MPI) which can be used to embed executable code into descriptions of all in-game objects. Unlike many other virtual worlds, however, TinyMUCK and its descendants do not usually have computer-controlled monsters for players to kill.
Usage
TinyMUCKs are popular among members of furry fandom; examples of active, large TinyMUCKs include FurryMUCK and Tapestries MUCK, both of which run the Fuzzball version of MUCK server code.
See also
MUD
MUSH
MOO
Online text-based role-playing game
References
External links
MUCK Manual Version 1.0 at The MUCK Information Kiosk
FuzzBall Software
MU* games
MUD servers
Online chat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Ct | Intel Ct is a programming model developed by Intel to ease the exploitation of its future multicore chips, as demonstrated by the Tera-Scale research program.
It is based on the exploitation of SIMD to produce automatically parallelized programs.
On August 19, 2009, Intel acquired RapidMind, a privately held company founded and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. RapidMind and Ct combined into a successor named Intel Array Building Blocks (ArBB) released in September 2010.
References
External links
The Official Ct Website at Intel (archived copy; see also https://web.archive.org/web/20090817022457/http://software.intel.com/en-us/data-parallel/)
SIMD computing
Ct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teraflops%20Research%20Chip | Intel Teraflops Research Chip (codenamed Polaris) is a research manycore processor containing 80 cores, using a network-on-chip architecture, developed by Intel's Tera-Scale Computing Research Program. It was manufactured using a 65 nm CMOS process with eight layers of copper interconnect and contains 100 million transistors on a 275 mm2 die. Its design goal was to demonstrate a modular architecture capable of a sustained performance of 1.0 TFLOPS while dissipating less than 100 W. Research from the project was later incorporated into Xeon Phi. The technical lead of the project was Sriram R. Vangal.
The processor was initially presented at the Intel Developer Forum on September 26, 2006 and officially announced on February 11, 2007. A working chip was presented at the 2007 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, alongside technical specifications.
Architecture
The chip consists of a 10x8 2D mesh network of cores and nominally operates at 4 GHz. Each core, called a tile (3 mm2), contains a processing engine and a 5-port wormhole-switched router (0.34 mm2) with mesochronous interfaces, with a bandwidth of 80 GB/s and latency of 1.25 ns at 4 GHz. The processing engine in each tile contains two independent, 9-stage pipeline, single-precision floating-point multiplyaccumulator (FPMAC) units, 3 KB of single-cycle instruction memory and 2 KB of data memory. Each FPMAC unit is capable of performing 2 single-precision floating-point operations per cycle. Each tile has thus an estimated peak performance of 16 GFLOPS at the standard configuration of 4 GHz. A 96-bit very long instruction word (VLIW) encodes up to eight operations per cycle. The custom instruction set includes instructions to send and receive packets into/from the chip's network and well as instructions for sleeping and waking a particular tile. Underneath each tile, a 256 KB SRAM module (codenamed Freya) was 3D stacked, thus bringing memory nearer to the processor to increase overall memory bandwidth to 1 TB/s, at the expense of higher cost, thermal stress and latency, and a small total capacity of 20 MB. The network of Polaris was shown to have a bisection bandwidth of 1.6 Tbit/s at 3.16 GHz and 2.92 Tbit/s at 5.67 GHz.
Other prominent features of the Teraflops Research chip include its fine-grained power management with 21 independent sleep regions on a tile and dynamic tile sleep, and very high energy efficiency with 27 GFLOPS/W theoretical peak at 0.6 V and 19.4 GFLOPS/W actual for stencil at 0.75 V.
Issues
Intel aimed to help software development for the new exotic architecture by creating a new programming model, especially for the chip, called Ct. The model never gained the following Intel hoped for and has been eventually incorporated into Intel Array Building Blocks, a now defunct C++ library.
See also
Single-chip Cloud Computer
Xeon Phi
Notes
References
Intel microprocessors
Manycore processors
Very long instruction word computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette%20Wing | Jeannette Marie Wing is Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, where she is also a professor of computer science. Until June 30, 2017, she was Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research with oversight of its core research laboratories around the world and Microsoft Research Connections. Prior to 2013, she was the President's Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. She also served as assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the NSF from 2007 to 2010. She was appointed the Columbia University executive vice president for research in 2021.
Background
Wing earned her S.B. and S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in June 1979. Her advisers were Ronald Rivest and John Reiser. In 1983, she earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT under John Guttag. She is a fourth-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do.
Career and research
Wing was on the faculty of the University of Southern California from 1982 to 1985 and then the faculty of Carnegie Mellon from 1985 to 2012. She served as the head of the Computer Science Department from 2004 to 2007 and from 2010 to 2012. In January 2013, she took a leave from Carnegie Mellon to work at Microsoft Research.
Wing has been a leading member of the formal methods community, especially in the area of Larch. She has led many research projects and has published widely.
With Barbara Liskov, she developed the Liskov substitution principle, published in 1993.
She has also been a strong promoter of computational thinking, expressing the algorithmic problem-solving and abstraction techniques used by computer scientists and how they might be applied in other disciplines.
She is a member of the editorial board of the following journals:
Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security
Journal of the ACM
Formal Aspects of Computing
Formal Methods in System Design
International Journal of Software and Informatics
Journal of Information Science and Engineering
Software Tools for Technology Transfer
Recognition
Wing was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003, "for contributions to methods for software systems".
References
External links
Aaronson, Lauren, Q&A With: Jeannette Wing
Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators – Dr. Jeannette Wing
American computer scientists
Formal methods people
Living people
American women computer scientists
Academic journal editors
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Columbia University faculty
Microsoft employees
MIT School of Engineering alumni
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American academics of Chinese descent
1956 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer%20%28disambiguation%29 | A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer.
Supercomputer may also refer to:
Fiction
"Super Computer", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Super Computer, a fictional TV sitcom in the universe of the TV show 30 Rock
Supercomputer, a book by Edward Packard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafetyLit | SafetyLit (short for "Safety Literature") is a bibliographic database and online update of recently published scholarly research of relevance to those interested in the broad field of injury prevention and safety promotion. Initiated in 1995, SafetyLit is a project of the SafetyLit Foundation in cooperation with the San Diego State University College of Health & Human Services and the World Health Organization - Department of Violence and Injury Prevention.
Background
Like the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed system, SafetyLit is a free service that is distributed without commercial messages. There are many online literature databases. Most are subscription-based, costly and are available only through a library. Typically, these databases focus on a specific scientific discipline. For example, PubMed has a bio-medicine focus, PsycINFO focuses upon behavioral issues, Compendex on engineering, etc.
While other bibliographic databases can focus upon the publications of only one or two professional disciplines, it has been known since the early 20th Century that issues relevant to safety research and policy development arise from many distinct disciplines. Thus, SafetyLit draws its content from many disciplines. Articles are selected that are relevant to the issues of injury prevention and safety promotion from over 16000 scholarly journals (as of November 2020) in the physical, biological and social sciences, as well as engineering, medicine, and the applied social sciences. SafetyLit also indexes selected doctoral theses and relevant technical reports from government agencies and NGOs.
History
The idea for SafetyLit came from an electronic mailing list service provided in the early-1990s by Sandra Bonzo and other librarians at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). This bibliographic update was a print-out of article citations from Medline that were indexed with selected MeSH terms related to the treatment and prevention of injuries. This free service was provided at a time when searching Medline was quite costly. The NCIPC update service ended in late 1994, about one year before the National Library of Medicine began providing an experimental version of PubMed.
To help fill the gap from that loss, SafetyLit began in early 1995 as a simple email message sent to about 20 people who were affiliated with the CDC-funded state Disability Prevention Programs in Louisiana and a few other U.S. states. The SafetyLit message omitted the treatment references to concentrate upon prevention. As more and more people learned about SafetyLit, the mailing list expanded. In June 1997 PubMed began to index the contents of journals beyond the restrictive Medline core. At that time SafetyLit began using PubMed as its source because 1) it was a free service; 2) its increased scope beyond Medline journals; and 3) improvements to the PubMed query system. By the end of 1998, w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribing%20%28cartography%29 | Scribing was used to produce lines for cartographic map compilations before the use of computer-based geographic information systems. Lines produced by manual scribing are sharp, clear and even.
An impression of the corrected compilation sheet is photographed onto scribe sheet material or drawn using pencil. While working over a light table, lines on the scribe sheet are traced with a metal or sapphire-tipped scribe tool to remove thin lines of translucent coating to produce a handmade negative image. This compares with drafting, where an ink image is made on tracing paper by depositing ink using a pen to produce a positive image. Scribing produces a result superior to drafting, but is more time-consuming. A separate stylus is required for each thickness of line required. For example, a contour line might require a 0.15mm stylus whereas a major road might require a 0.5mm stylus.
The scribe sheet is made of a stable plastic base material and coated with a material which is designed for easy removal using a scribing tool to produce a cleanly cut line. Various colours are used, and orange is said to produce the least eye-strain for the cartographer.
One scribe sheet is produced for each map colour. Corrections can be made by "duffing" (re-coating) the scribe sheet with special duffing liquid. The detail can then be re-scribed. Printing plates are produced from the finished scribe sheets, one for each colour of the map.
Scribe tools
A tripod or trolley arrangement is used to hold the scribe stylus. A stylus of required thickness is set in the trolley and the surface material is removed by applying light pressure as the trolley is moved over the image. Care must be taken to ensure the base material is not gouged or distorted.
Either a round point or chisel point stylus may be used. Chisel points must be set at right angles to the direction of movement. As well as single line gravers, double and triple lines can be produced with double and triple graver stylus. Small circles can be produced using motorised versions of scribing tools, and symbols, figures etc., can be produced using plastic or metal templates.
Area symbols
‘Peelcoat’ is used to produce a negative of an area of detail such as a lake or forest. The border of the area is cut or scribed on the peelcoat and the coat of the sheet within the area is peeled off to produce a negative image.
A stipple pattern can be used to produce an area symbol over the peeled surface. A stipple sheet with a simple repeating symbol (such as that for swamp or sand) is combined with the area by photographing the stipple onto the peelcoat.
References
Sources
Cartography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shewhart%20individuals%20control%20chart | In statistical quality control, the individual/moving-range chart is a type of control chart used to monitor variables data from a business or industrial process for which it is impractical to use rational subgroups.
The chart is necessary in the following situations:
Where automation allows inspection of each unit, so rational subgrouping has less benefit.
Where production is slow so that waiting for enough samples to make a rational subgroup unacceptably delays monitoring
For processes that produce homogeneous batches (e.g., chemical) where repeat measurements vary primarily because of measurement error
The "chart" actually consists of a pair of charts: one, the individuals chart, displays the individual measured values; the other, the moving range chart, displays the difference from one point to the next. As with other control charts, these two charts enable the user to monitor a process for shifts in the process that alter the mean or variance of the measured statistic.
Interpretation
As with other control charts, the individuals and moving range charts consist of points plotted with the control limits, or natural process limits. These limits reflect what the process will deliver without fundamental changes. Points outside of these control limits are signals indicating that the process is not operating as consistently as possible; that some assignable cause has resulted in a change in the process. Similarly, runs of points on one side of the average line should also be interpreted as a signal of some change in the process. When such signals exist, action should be taken to identify and eliminate them. When no such signals are present, no changes to the process control variables (i.e. "tampering") are necessary or desirable.
Assumptions
The normal distribution is NOT assumed nor required in the calculation of control limits. Thus making the IndX/mR chart a very robust tool. This is demonstrated by Wheeler using real-world data, and for a number of highly non-normal probability distributions.
Calculation and plotting
Calculation of moving range
The difference between data point, , and its predecessor, , is calculated as . For individual values, there are ranges.
Next, the arithmetic mean of these values is calculated as
If the data are normally distributed with standard deviation then the expected value of is , the mean absolute difference of the normal distribution.
Calculation of moving range control limit
The upper control limit for the range (or upper range limit) is calculated by multiplying the average of the moving range by 3.267:
.
The value 3.267 is taken from the sample size-specific anti-biasing constant for , as given in most textbooks on statistical process control (see, for example, Montgomery).
Calculation of individuals control limits
First, the average of the individual values is calculated:
.
Next, the upper control limit (UCL) and lower control limit (LCL) for the individual values (or upper and low |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Network%20for%20Art%20and%20Technology | The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), was founded by the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (then the Experimental Art Foundation) in 1988. ANAT is a nonprofit organization that provides tools to assist Australian artists, particularly those in media arts. Its programming includes workshops, publications, and immersive residencies.
The Network currently has 10 employees and is located in Adelaide, South Australia. It currently trades under the Association Incorporations Act 1985, and operates with partners both nationally and internationally.
References
Arts councils
Arts organisations based in Australia
Arts organizations established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%2015 | Channel 15 or TV15 may refer to:
NewsWatch 15, a regional cable news television network based in New Orleans, Louisiana
Pink 15, a former Macedonian private television channel
La Tele (Peruvian TV network), formerly Uranio 15, a peruvian free-to-air television channel
Canal 15 (Nicaraguan TV channel), a television channel in Nicaragua
Canada
The following television stations operate on virtual channel 15 in Canada:
CIVK-DT in Carleton, Quebec
CIVQ-DT in Quebec City, Quebec
CKMI-DT-1 in Montreal, Quebec
Mexico
The following television stations broadcast on digital channel 15 (UHF frequencies covering 476-482 MHz) in Mexico:
XHCRO-TDT in Carbó, Sonora
XHCTCY-TDT in Querétaro, Querétaro
XHFA-TDT in Nogales, Sonora
XHOCH-TDT in Ojinaga, Chihuahua
XHOQT-TDT in Oquitoa, Sonora
XHRON-TDT in Rayón, Sonora
XHSAS-TDT in Santa Ana, Sonora
XHVTV-TDT in Matamoros, Tamaulipas
The following television stations operate on virtual channel 15 in Mexico:
Regional networks
Telemax in the state of Sonora
Local stations
XHSDD-TDT in Sabinas, Coahuila
XHFGL-TDT and XHRCSP-TDT in Durango and Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango
XHCEP-TDT in Celaya, Guanajuato
XHCMO-TDT in Cuernavaca, Morelos
XHRIO-TDT in Matamoros, Tamaulipas
XHZAC-TDT in Zacatecas, Zacatecas
See also
Channel 15 TV stations in Canada
Channel 15 branded TV stations in the United States
Channel 15 digital TV stations in the United States
Channel 15 low-power TV stations in the United States
Channel 15 virtual TV stations in the United States
15 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%2018 | Channel 18 or TV 18 may refer to:
TV18, an Indian television broadcasting company of the Network 18 Group based in Mumbai
TV-18, a television content rating
Canada
The following television stations operate on virtual channel 18 in Canada:
CICO-DT-18 in London, Ontario
CJPC-DT in Rimouski, Quebec
Mexico
The following television stations operate on digital channel 18 in Mexico:
XHCRT-TDT in Cerro Azul, Veracruz
XHCTAG-TDT in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
XHHAS-TDT in Huasabas, Sonora
XHSFS-TDT in San Felipe de Jesús, Sonora
XHSGU-TDT in Guaymas, Sonora
See also
Network 18, an Indian mass media company
Channel 18 branded TV stations in the United States
Channel 18 virtual TV stations in the United States
For UHF frequencies covering 494-500 MHz
Channel 18 TV stations in Canada
Channel 18 digital TV stations in the United States
Channel 18 low-power TV stations in the United States
18 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey%20Paula%20%28TV%20series%29 | Hey Paula is an American reality television series starring and co-produced by American television personality Paula Abdul that aired from June 28 to July 27, 2007, on the Bravo network.
Synopsis
Abdul's persona on Hey Paula was considerably less genial than that of her established reputation as "the nice one" on American Idol. Abdul's behavior on the show, particularly toward her staff, was revealed to be less than exemplary.
Ratings and reception
In spite of the tremendous success of American Idol, the ratings for Hey Paula were reportedly low. The series averaged 520,000 total viewers since its premier.
Aftermath
During the filming of the series, Abdul was fired from the Bratz movie. Though her reaction to this was captured on camera, Abdul and her handlers subsequently denied the veracity of the segment, attributing Abdul's highly emotional on-camera break-down to "creative editing".
Episodes
References
External links
Episode 1: "Forever Your Girl" Review & Recap
Hey Paula: American Idol Judge Says ”Never Again!”
2000s American reality television series
2007 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Bravo (American TV network) original programming
Paula Abdul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Pel%C3%ADcula | De Película is a 24-hour cable television movie channel owned by TelevisaUnivision under Televisa Networks. It is available in Mexico, the United States, and Latin America. This channel focuses on Mexican movies of all times that are under license of TelevisaUnivision.
External links
Official site
Latin American cable television networks
Televisa pay television networks
Movie channels in Mexico
1990 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSYC-FM | WSYC-FM (88.7 FM) is a college radio licensed to and serving Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. WSYC is owned and operated by Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
Programming
The format is dedicated to showcasing new bands and artists that mainstream stations have yet to discover. Programming on WSYC-FM includes the college radio classics, independent labels and artists, various specialty shows featuring specific genres, news updates, and talk shows.
WSYC-FM additionally serves as the Raider Sports Network, broadcasting all Raider football and basketball games, as well as other Raiders sports.
WSYC-FM is also the home to the sports talk show, "The Bottom Line", hosted by student JD Dorazio, amongst other student radio shows such as Tea Time, Strawberry Jams, Mirrorball, and Good Songs for Hard Times.
Lastly, WSYC-FM has hosted an annual event, "Up All Night", since 2012. Shippensburg University students can win various prizes over a 24 period that includes DJ sets, live music, and commentary. "Up All Night" was founded by alumni Matthew Kanzler.
External links
88-7 WSYC online
SYC-FM
SYC-FM
Radio stations established in 1975
1975 establishments in Pennsylvania
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindus%20by%20district%20in%20India | The data is taken from the 2001 census, which excludes the following groups: portions of the nomadic Hindu population, Hindu refugees of the Lhotsam ethnic group from Bhutan, those of Tamil ethnic group from Sri Lanka, those from Bangladesh and Nepal, some members of this religion from Burma and Pakistan residing in India and a portion of Hindu citizens working abroad.
Statistics
Religious demographics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20music%20mobile%20application%20format | Synthetic-music mobile application format, abbreviated SMAF, is a music data format specified by Yamaha for portable electronic devices, such as cell phones and PDAs. The file extension for SMAF is .MMF and is common as ringtones for mobile phones with one of five sound chips.
SMAF resembles MIDI, but also supports graphics and PCM sound playback. Its MIDI playback is produced via FM synthesis or PCM sample-based synthesis, where instrument data (parameters and/or PCM samples) is stored within the .MMF file itself, similar to module files. This enables users to create custom instruments, which will sound exactly the same on devices with the same chip.
The feature set used in SMAF files usually orients itself at the chips produced by Yamaha for playback:
External links
Yamaha's SMAF Website
SMAF Specifications
Music notation file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mga%20Mata%20ni%20Anghelita | (International title: Anghelita / ) is a 2007 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is an adaptation of a 1978 film of the same title. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr. and Khryss Adalia, it stars Krystal Reyes. It premiered on July 2, 2007 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Asian Treasures. The series concluded on October 5, 2007 with a total of 70 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Krystal Reyes as Anghelita
Supporting cast
Sheryl Cruz as Magdalena
Marvin Agustin as Gabriel / Angelo / Kuba
Tonton Gutierrez as Carlos / Solcar
Paolo Contis as Martin
Carmina Villarroel as Cristina Manresa
Celia Rodriguez as Leticia Manresa / Rasfelina / Corazon
Mark Herras as Abel
Isabel Oli as Teresa
Recurring cast
Pen Medina as Father Joseph
Daniel Fernando as Isaac
Jess Lapid Jr. as Major Alba
Ryan Yllana as Bitong
Robert Ortega as Luis
Tuesday Vargas as Selya
Alynna Asistio as Lisa
Martin Delos Santos as Iboy
Louise Joy Folloso as Adriana
Lucy Torres as Birheng Maria
Guest cast
Beth Tamayo as Linda
Allan Paule as Marcelo
Yayo Aguila as Beth
Eula Valdez as Bernice
Alicia Mayer as Delilah
Isabella De Leon as Rhoda
Jewel Mische as Madel
Prince Stefan as Gener
Renz Juan as Ivy
Arnel Ignacio as Manager / Madam
Ian Veneracion as Tiklawin / Mercus
Francis Magundayao as Niknok
Miguel Vera
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragon%20Publishing | Paragon Publishing Ltd (or Paragon for short) was a magazine publisher in the UK, which published computer games and other entertainment titles from 1991 to 2003.
Brief history
Paragon Publishing Ltd was formed in a small office in Trowbridge, Wiltshire by ex-Future Publishing staff Richard Monteiro and Diane Tavener. With a small team of staff they began work on their first publication Sega Pro.
With the success of Sega Pro the company began expanding and launched several other titles, hiring more staff to produce these new titles. It was not long before the company moved into new premises in Bournemouth.
The company continued to publish magazines for the video games market as well as other areas for the next decade.
In July 2003 Paragon Publishing and its 30-odd magazine titles were sold to Highbury House Communications for £32m. Imagine Publishing, which was formed by ex-Paragon staff Damian Butt, Steve Boyd and Mark Kendrick, would buy back most of these titles when Highbury themselves went into liquidation in early 2006.
Later, in 2016 Imagine Publishing itself was acquired by Future Publishing.
Key titles
Paragon published many titles during its decade run, mainly computer or video games based, but later moved into other areas of entertainment.
Sega Pro
The company's first magazine publication and a big success. Covering the early 90s explosion in popularity of Sega's Mega Drive as well as the Master System and Game Gear. Well-known names on early issues included Dominic Handy, Les Ellis, Dave Perry, James Scullion and Damian Butt. Ran for many years up until Sega themselves disappeared.
Mega Power
Following the success of Sega Pro, a new title focusing on the Mega Drive and in particular the Mega-CD was launched in 1993. The magazine was the first console publication to include a covermounted CD.
Console XS
A bi-monthly games console tips magazine launched in 1993. Featuring game cheats, tips, and guides for the consoles of the early 90s. After four issues, the title was split into two: Sega XS, which focused solely on Sega platforms, and Super XS, covering Nintendo games.
Games World: The Magazine
Games World was a video games based TV show broadcast on satellite in the early 90s. The show's producers, Hewland International, gave the rights to produce Games World: The Magazine to Paragon. The multi-format magazine content was generally centred on Sega and Nintendo's consoles.
Nintendo Pro
As with Sega Pro, Nintendo Pro focused on the Nintendo range of consoles. It was originally known as N64 Pro and was one of the titles Paragon Publishing acquired with the acquisition of the Macclesfield-based titles of IDG Media.
Play
Launched in 1995 by Paragon with Dave Perry as editor. One of the first PlayStation magazines released covering Sony's PlayStation products, later including the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and the PlayStation 3. It is the UK's longest-running PlayStation magazine, and final issue released |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WindowProc | In Win32 application programming, WindowProc (or window procedure), also known as WndProc is a user-defined callback function that processes messages sent to a window. This function is specified when an application registers its window class and can be named anything (not necessarily WindowProc).
Message handling
The window procedure is responsible for handling all messages that are sent to a window. The function prototype of WindowProc is given by:
LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
hwnd is a handle to the window to which the message was sent and uMsg identifies the actual message by its identifier, as specified in winuser.h.
wParam and lParam are parameters whose meaning depends on the message. An application should identify the message and take the required action.
Default processing
Hundreds of different messages are produced as a result of various events taking place in the system, and typically, an application processes only a small fraction of these messages. In order to ensure that all messages are processed, Windows provides a default window procedure called DefWindowProc that provides default processing for messages that the application itself does not process.
An application usually calls DefWindowProc at the end of its own WindowProc function, so that unprocessed messages can be passed down to the default procedure.
See also
Event loop
Desktop Window Manager
External links
"Writing the Window Procedure" at Microsoft Learn
DefWindowProc at Microsoft Learn
Events (computing)
Microsoft application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%2061 | Channel 61 may refer to:
Channel 61 (New Zealand TV channel), a regional television station based in Taupo, New Zealand
RTV (Indonesian TV network), a local television station in Cikarang, Indonesia on UHF channel 61
Zamora TV, a Venezuelan community television channel on UHF channel 61
United States
The following television stations, which are no longer licensed, formerly broadcast on analog channel 61:
KQCT-LP in Davenport, Iowa
WKBF-TV, an independent television station in Cleveland, Ohio
WLPN-LP (defunct), a low-power television station in New Orleans, Louisiana
See also
Channel 61 branded TV stations in the United States
Channel 61 virtual TV stations in the United States
61 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%20address%20register | A page address register (PAR) contains the physical addresses of pages currently held in the main memory of a computer system. PARs are used in order to avoid excessive use of an address table in some operating systems. A PAR may check a page's number against all entries in the PAR simultaneously, allowing it to retrieve the pages physical address quickly. A PAR is used by a single process and is only used for pages which are frequently referenced (though these pages may change as the process's behaviour changes in accordance with the principle of locality). An example computer which made use of PARs is the Atlas.
See also
Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)
Virtual memory
Computer memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20%28disambiguation%29 | Honeywell can refer to:
Honeywell, an American multinational corporation
Mark C. Honeywell, founder of Honeywell
Honeywell 200, a computer by Honeywell
Honeywell 316, a computer by Honeywell
Honeywell 6000 series, a computer by Honeywell
Honeywell LTS101, a turbofan engine by Honeywell
Honeywell TFE731, a turboshaft engine by Honeywell
Honeywell Center, an admin center of Honeywell's
Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility, a uranium conversion facility of Honeywell's
Honeywell project, an organisation to convince Honeywell to stop manufacturing weapons
Honeywell Group, a Nigerian conglomerate
Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, a US court case involving Honeywell Corp
Honeywell, South Yorkshire, a village in the UK
Frank Honeywell, American author
Martha Ann Honeywell, American artist
Sarah-Jane Honeywell, British television presenter
Honeywell (band), a hardcore punk band that helped pioneer the screamo genre of music
See also
Honnywill (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Leveson | Nancy G. Leveson is an American specialist in system and software safety and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, United States.
Leveson gained her degrees (in computer science, mathematics and management) from UCLA, including her PhD in 1980. Previously she worked at University of California, Irvine and the University of Washington as a faculty member. She has studied safety-critical systems such as the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) for the avoidance of midair collisions between aircraft and problems with the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine.
Leveson has been editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. She has held memberships in the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, System Safety Society, and AIAA.
Biography
Leveson is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and also Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT. Prof. Leveson conducts research on the topics of system safety, software safety, software and system engineering, and human-computer interaction.
In 1999, she received the ACM Allen Newell Award for outstanding computer science research and in 1995 the AIAA Information Systems Award for "developing the field of software safety and for promoting responsible software and system engineering practices where life and property are at stake." She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2000 for contributions to software safety.
She has published over 200 research papers and is author of two books, "Safeware: System Safety and Computers" published in 1995 by Addison-Wesley and "Engineering a Safer World" published in 2012 by MIT Press. She consults extensively in many industries on the ways to prevent accidents. In 2005, she received the ACM Sigsoft Outstanding Research Award.
She developed the STPA (System Theoretic Process Analysis) and STAMP (System Theoretic Accident Model and Processes) methodologies for accident analysis.
In 2020, she received the IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies for her development of STAMP and other system safety and accident modeling analysis tools.
Books
Erik Hollnagel, David D. Woods, Nancy Leveson, Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007. .
Nancy G. Leveson, Safeware: System Safety and Computers. Addison-Wesley, 1995. .
Nancy G. Leveson, Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety. MIT Press, 2011. . Open access pdf downloads of book chapters.
References
External links
Nancy Leveson's Home Page at MIT
Medical Devices - Therac 25
Living people
American non-fiction writers
Formal methods people
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of California, Irvine faculty
University of Washington faculty
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Computer science writers
Academic journal editors
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineerin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25 | XM25 can be:
XM25 CDTE, a grenade launcher with computerized air burst rounds
XM25 Sniper Rifle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NANOG | NANOG may refer to:
North American Network Operators' Group
Homeobox protein NANOG, a transcription factor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20TV%20%28Indonesian%20TV%20network%29 | PT Media Televisi Indonesia, operating as Metro TV is an Indonesian free-to-air television news network based in West Jakarta. It was established on 25 November 2000 and now has over 52 relay stations all over the country. It is owned by Surya Paloh who also owns the Media Indonesia daily. These two, along with other newspapers distributed in different parts of Indonesia, are part of the Media Group.
It is the only TV network to offer Mandarin-language news programs in Indonesia and no soap opera, although recently it has also begun to broadcast entertainment and multicultural programs such as the now-defunct tech show e-Lifestyle, the satirical news and current affairs show Republik Mimpi (The Dream Republic), musical programming such as Musik+ and Idenesia, and other special or regional programming.
History
Metro TV was launched on 25 November 2000 by Abdurrahman Wahid, the fourth President of Indonesia. Metro TV was the first Indonesian television network to have been officially inaugurated by the Indonesian president himself.
On 25 November 2020, during the network's 20th anniversary, its on-air bug was replaced with eagle icon of the current logo with the text "METRO TV" in smaller size below the eagle, although the text was removed during advertisements and this leaves only the eagle in light grey color. However, the logo shown in the infobox is still used for corporate purposes and other brandings. On 25 November 2021, the text "METRO TV" in smaller size below the eagle was removed entirely as part of on-screen revamp.
Since 3rd November 2022. MetroTV stopped airing over PAL broadcast for Jakarta, and then 3rd December 2022 was shutting down the Metro TV analog broadcast in Semarang and Batam Over-to-air before Palembang began Analog-switch on since 31 March 2023.
Programming
Metro TV has a different concept than the other networks in Indonesia. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, with programmes focused on news around the world. Unlike other stations, Metro TV never airs sinetrons.
Metro TV broadcast three new English language programmes, World News, Indonesia Now, and Talk Indonesia. It also had Chinese language programmes such as Metro Xin Wen, as well as IT, documentary, and culinary programmes. It has a motivational talkshow, Mario Teguh Golden Ways. It also shows business programming, including "Economic Challenges" and Bisnis Hari Ini (Business Today, no longer aired).
Metro TV also has an informercial block, usually residential, but sometimes, any price of product and technology. The infomercial block usually airs on networks and stations during morning on weekends. The block has no commercial breaks. This channel is owned by Media Group, which also owns Media Indonesia and Lampung Post newspapers.
However, Metro TV was not the first Indonesian network to be broadcast in English. RCTI became the first Indonesian network to broadcast in English when showing Indonesia Today on 1 November 1996. This English news programme was made w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fellows%20of%20the%20Royal%20Society | More than 8,000 people have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, UK, since the inception of the Royal Society in 1660. The Royal Society publishes a database of current fellows and a database of past fellows.
Alphabetic lists
See also
List of female Fellows of the Royal Society
:Category:Fellows of the Royal Society (alphabetical)
:Category:Lists of fellows of the Royal Society by year
References
Royal Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Weiss | Charles "Chuck" Weiss is an American computer scientist and software designer.
Life and career
Weiss was a childhood friend of Larry Ellison. He graduated from the College of Engineering at Cornell University in 1966.
Weiss worked at American Airlines, where he developed one of the first data-driven decision support systems with Richard Klaas from 1970 to 1974.
Weiss was one of the first employees of the technology company Oracle Corporation, now the second-largest software company in the world. He joined the company in 1982, when there were only twenty-five employees. The positions of Weiss at Oracle including being the executive director of product design and later the senior director of technology marketing. Weiss is the inventor of the DUAL table.
In 2001, Weiss and his wife Barbara created an endowment for the Charles F. and Barbara D. Weiss Directorship of the Information Science Program in the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Weiss had also worked as a Silicon Valley advisor for the university.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
Oracle employees
Cornell University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kane%20%28mathematician%29 | Daniel Mertz Kane (born 1986) is an American mathematician. He is an associate professor with a joint position in the Mathematics Department and the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego.
Early life and education
Kane was born in Madison, Wisconsin, to Janet E. Mertz and Jonathan M. Kane, professors of oncology and of mathematics and computer science, respectively.
He attended Wingra School, a small alternative K-8 school in Madison that focuses on self-guided education. By 3rd grade, he had mastered K through 9th-grade mathematics. Starting at age 13, he took honors math courses at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and did research under the mentorship of Ken Ono while dual enrolled at Madison West High School. He earned gold medals in the 2002 and 2003 International Mathematical Olympiads. Prior to his 17th birthday, he resolved an open conjecture proposed years earlier by Andrews and Lewis; for this research, he was named Fellow Laureate of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 with two bachelor's degrees, one in mathematics with computer science and the other in physics.
While at MIT, Kane was one of four people since 2003 (and one of eight in the history of the competition) to be named a four-time Putnam Fellow in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. He also won the 2007 Morgan Prize and competed as part of the MIT team in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling four times, earning the highest score three times and winning the Ben Fusaro Award in 2004, INFORMS Award in 2006, and SIAM Award in 2007. He also won the Machtey Award as an undergraduate in 2005, with Tim Abbott and Paul Valiant, for the best student-authored
paper at the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science that year, on the complexity of two-player win-loss games.
Kane received his doctorate in mathematics from Harvard University in 2011; his dissertation, on number theory, was supervised by Barry Mazur. In his curriculum vitae, Kane lists as mentors Ken Ono while in high school; Erik Demaine, Joseph Gallian, and Cesar Silva while an undergraduate student at MIT; and Barry Mazur, Benedict Gross, and Henry Cohn while a graduate student at Harvard.
Research contributions
In 2010, joint work with Jelani Nelson and David Woodruff won both the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial and Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) best paper awards for work on an optimal algorithm for the count-distinct problem.
References
External links
Daniel Kane's homepage at UCSD
1986 births
Living people
Scientists from Madison, Wisconsin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Putnam Fellows
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Mathematicians from Wisconsin
Madison West High |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSN%20All-Star%20Curling%20Skins%20Game | The TSN All-Star Curling Skins Game is an annual curling bonspiel hosted by The Sports Network. "Skins" curling had been developed as a way to make curling more interesting on TV during the time before the free guard zone rule was implemented. The bonspiel was held annually from 1986 to 2004 before being revived as the Casino Rama Curling Skins Game in 2007. In 2013, Dominion of Canada took over naming rights to the event, which also shifted into an all-star format featuring teams of top Canadian curling players, but the format reverted to the original format in 2015, when Pinty's acquired the naming rights to the event.
In skins curling, teams compete for "skins" rather than points. A team can win a skin by stealing an end or scoring two or more points in an end while with the hammer.
History
The first Skins Game was held in 1986 in Newmarket, Ontario.
McCain TSN Skins Game
In 1989, McCain Foods Limited teamed up with TSN, and the tournament became known as the "McCain TSN Skins Game." The tournament was held every year until 2004. The McCain skins event involved four teams: the defending champion, the defending Brier champion, and the winner of an east and west Superspiel.
A women's skins game was also held from 1996 to 2003 and was sponsored by JVC.
Casino Rama TSN Skins Game
After three years of the event's absence, TSN revived the event in December 2007, with Casino Rama as the main sponsor. It was held at the Casino Rama Entertainment Centre until 2013. From 2007 to 2011, it had a total cash purse of $100,000. It was reduced to $75,000 in 2012, but was increased back to $100,000 in 2013.
The 2007 event was held on December 8 and 9 and featured the teams of 2006 Olympic Champion Brad Gushue, 1987, 1993 & 2007 World Champion Glenn Howard, 2002 Olympic silver medalist Kevin Martin and 1993 & 1998 World Champion Wayne Middaugh. The second edition was held January 10 and 11, 2009 and featured defending champion (and 2008 World Champion) Kevin Martin, Howard, 1989, 2002, 2003 & 2005 World Champion Randy Ferbey, and for the first time, a women's team, skipped by 2008 World Women's Champion, Jennifer Jones. The 2010 event was notable for the victory of the World Champion David Murdoch rink, who became the first non-Canadian to skip the winning skins game team. The 2011 event included the Olympic women's silver medalist team Cheryl Bernard, the second women's team to appear at the Skins Game.
All-Star Curling Skins Game
In 2013, the Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company became the title sponsor of the event, and the name of the event was adjusted to The Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Game. The format of the event was preserved, but the new event established new qualification rules which would put together four all-star teams from the top ten teams in the Canadian Curling Association's rankings.
During the 2013 broadcast it was announced future Dominion All-Star Curling Skins Games would be held at a different location, to be announc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly%20connected%20edge%20list | The doubly connected edge list (DCEL), also known as half-edge data structure, is a data structure to represent an embedding of a planar graph in the plane, and polytopes in 3D. This data structure provides efficient manipulation of the topological information associated with the objects in question (vertices, edges, faces). It is used in many algorithms of computational geometry to handle polygonal subdivisions of the plane, commonly called planar straight-line graphs (PSLG). For example, a Voronoi diagram is commonly represented by a DCEL inside a bounding box.
This data structure was originally suggested by Muller and Preparata for representations of 3D convex polyhedra.
Later, a somewhat different data structure was suggested, but the name "DCEL" was retained.
For simplicity, only connected graphs are considered, however the DCEL structure may be extended to handle disconnected graphs as well by introducing dummy edges between disconnected components.
Data structure
DCEL is more than just a doubly linked list of edges. In the general case, a DCEL contains a record for each edge, vertex and face of the subdivision. Each record may contain additional information, for example, a face may contain the name of the area. Each edge usually bounds two faces and it is, therefore, convenient to regard each edge as two "half-edges" (which are represented by the two edges with opposite directions, between two vertices, in the picture on the right). Each half-edge is "associated" with a single face and thus has a pointer to that face. All half-edges associated with a face are clockwise or counter-clockwise. For example, in the picture on the right, all half-edges associated with the middle face (i.e. the "internal" half-edges) are counter-clockwise. A half-edge has a pointer to the next half-edge and previous half-edge of the same face. To reach the other face, we can go to the twin of the half-edge and then traverse the other face. Each half-edge also has a pointer to its origin vertex (the destination vertex can be obtained by querying the origin of its twin, or of the next half-edge).
Each vertex contains the coordinates of the vertex and also stores a pointer to an arbitrary edge that has the vertex as its origin. Each face stores a pointer to some half-edge of its outer boundary (if the face is unbounded then pointer is null). It also has a list of half-edges, one for each hole that may be incident within the face. If the vertices or faces do not hold any interesting information, there is no need to store them, thus saving space and reducing the data structure's complexity.
See also
Quad-edge data structure
Doubly linked face list
Winged edge
Combinatorial map
References
Graph data structures
Geometric graph theory
Geometric data structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20television%20stations%20available%20in%20the%20United%20States | This article lists all of the stations in Canada that are viewable in parts of the United States.
See also
List of television stations in Canada by call sign
List of Canadian television networks (table)
List of Canadian television channels
List of Canadian specialty channels
Category A services
Category B services
Category C services
List of foreign television channels available in Canada
List of United States television stations available in Canada
Digital television in Canada
Multichannel television in Canada
List of television stations in North America by media market
External links
Significantly viewed television stations in the USA, sorted by county (includes Canadian stations)
Television stations in the United States
Television stations in Canada
Lists of television channels in the United States
Television United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Barnes%20%28journalist%29 | Peter Barnes is a senior Washington correspondent for the Fox Business Network. He joined the network in October 2007. Barnes was previously a co-anchor for FBN's morning program, Money for Breakfast, from its debut on October 15, 2007 to May 9, 2008.
A graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, Barnes also holds a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Before joining FBN, Barnes served as the Washington, D.C. bureau chief and correspondent for television group Hearst-Argyle. He has also worked at numerous business programming outlets, including TechTV from 2001 to 2003, where he was the Washington bureau chief for the satellite channel, which specialized in technology coverage.
Barnes served as an anchor and Washington correspondent for CNBC from 1993 to 1998. In 1996, he anchored Capitol Gains, which is a program focusing on political issues in Washington as they impact the economy, the business community and financial markets, aired weekdays from 8 to 8:30 AM ET on CNBC. Barnes received a CableACE Award while at CNBC for a special series on retirement. Before joining CNBC, he was correspondent for WCAU-TV, the CBS owned and operated station in Philadelphia, and a news reporter for KTTV-TV's Fox 11 News in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Charlotte Observer.
Barnes was born in Rochester, New York and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is married with two children.
External links
FoxBusiness.com bio
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American business and financial journalists
American male journalists
American television news anchors
Fox Business people
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
CNBC people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Money%20Wheel | The Money Wheel is a business news television program aired on weekdays on the CNBC network from its inception in 1989 until 1998. Initially, The Money Wheel covered almost all of the channel's business day hours, airing continuously from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET each day. The show's hours were later cut back to 10 a.m. to 12 noon and 2 to 3 p.m. ET as other programs were introduced to the schedule. The show gave viewers the latest market action on Wall Street as the trading day progressed.
The Money Wheel was hosted by many anchors of CNBC, including Ted David, Felicia Taylor, Bill Griffeth, Sue Herera, Ron Insana, Terry Keenan, John Stehr and Kevin McCullough.
Regular segments included Taking Stock where viewers could phone-in and ask the guest analysts' recommendations on certain stocks.
As a result of CNBC's alliance with Dow Jones, the show was renamed Market Watch in the morning and was replaced by an extended Street Signs in the afternoon. At the time, most segments remained the same.
International Editions
CNBC's two main international channels, CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia, aired regional versions of the programme to give viewers live coverage of regional markets.
References
CNBC original programming
1989 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
1980s American television news shows
1990s American television news shows
1980s American television talk shows
1990s American television talk shows
Business-related television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcrusher | A Bitcrusher is an audio effect that produces distortion by reducing of the resolution or bandwidth of digital audio data. The resulting quantization noise may produce a "warmer" sound impression, or a harsh one, depending on the amount of reduction.
Methods
A typical bitcrusher uses two methods to reduce audio fidelity: sample rate reduction and resolution reduction.
Sample rate reduction
Digital audio is composed of a rapid series of numeric samples that encode the changing amplitude of an audio waveform. To accurately represent a wideband waveform of substantial duration, digital audio requires a large number of samples at a high sample rate. The higher the rate, the more accurate the waveform; a lower rate requires the source analog signal to be low-pass filtered to limit the maximum frequency component in the signal, or else high-frequency components of the signal will be aliased. Specifically, the frequency of sampling (a.k.a. the sample rate) must be at least twice the maximum frequency component in the signal; this maximum signal frequency of one-half the sampling frequency is called the Nyquist limit.
Though it is a common misconception that the sample rate affects the "smoothness" of the digitally represented waveform, this is not true; sampling theory guarantees that up to the maximum signal frequency supported by the sample rate (i.e. the Nyquist limit), the digital (discrete) signal will exactly represent the analog (continuous-wave) source, except for the distortion of quantization noise resulting from the finite precision of the individual samples. The original signal can be exactly reconstructed simply bypassing the low-pass discrete signal through an ideal low-pass filter (with a perfect vertical cutoff profile). However, as an ideal filter is impossible to build, a real filter, with a gradual transition between the passband and the stopband, must be used, with the consequence that it is impossible to accurately record all frequencies right up to the Nyquist limit for a given sample rate. The solution is to increase the sample rate by an amount that accommodates the transition bands of the filters used both for sampling and for continuous-wave reconstruction; this is why, for example, Compact Discs use a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz to record audio that seldom exceeds 20 kHz, even though the Nyquist limit for this sample rate is 22.05 kHz. Another consideration is that for perfect reconstruction, the samples should be rendered as ideal impulses of infinitesimal duration, but all real hardware generates rectangular pulses for the samples; some lower-quality digital-to-analog conversion devices use step-wave conversion, which essentially outputs the samples as rectangular pulses that have a duration equal to the sampling period. In this case, too, an increase in the sample rate can reduce and compensate for the resultant distortion. Even so, it cannot be overemphasized that, regardless of its motivation, an extra margin added to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon%27s%20algorithm | In computer science, Cannon's algorithm is a distributed algorithm for matrix multiplication for two-dimensional meshes first described in 1969 by Lynn Elliot Cannon.
It is especially suitable for computers laid out in an N × N mesh. While Cannon's algorithm works well in homogeneous 2D grids, extending it to heterogeneous 2D grids has been shown to be difficult.
The main advantage of the algorithm is that its storage requirements remain constant and are independent of the number of processors.
The Scalable Universal Matrix Multiplication Algorithm (SUMMA)
is a more practical algorithm that requires less workspace and overcomes the need for a square 2D grid. It is used by the ScaLAPACK, PLAPACK, and Elemental libraries.
Algorithm overview
When multiplying two n×n matrices A and B, we need n×n processing nodes p arranged in a 2D grid. Initially pi,j is responsible for ai,j and bi,j.
// PE(i , j)
k := (i + j) mod N;
a := a[i][k];
b := b[k][j];
c[i][j] := 0;
for (l := 0; l < N; l++) {
c[i][j] := c[i][j] + a * b;
concurrently {
send a to PE(i, (j + N − 1) mod N);
send b to PE((i + N − 1) mod N, j);
} with {
receive a' from PE(i, (j + 1) mod N);
receive b' from PE((i + 1) mod N, j );
}
a := a';
b := b';
}
We need to select k in every iteration for every Processor Element (PE) so that processors don't access the same data for computing .
Therefore processors in the same row / column must begin summation with different indexes. If for example PE(0,0) calculates in the first step, PE(0,1) chooses first. The selection of k := (i + j) mod n for PE(i,j) satisfies this constraint for the first step.
In the first step we distribute the input matrices between the processors based on the previous rule.
In the next iterations we choose a new k' := (k + 1) mod n for every processor. This way every processor will continue accessing different values of the matrices. The needed data is then always at the neighbour processors. A PE(i,j) needs then the from PE(i,(j + 1) mod n) and the from PE((i + 1) mod n,j) for the next step. This means that has to be passed cyclically to the left and also cyclically upwards. The results of the multiplications are summed up as usual. After n steps, each processor has calculated all once and its sum is thus the searched .
After the initial distribution of each processor, only the data for the next step has to be stored. These are the intermediate result of the previous sum, a and a . This means that all three matrices only need to be stored in memory once evenly distributed across the processors.
Generalisation
In practice we have much fewer processors than the matrix elements. We can replace the matrix elements with submatrices, so that every processor processes more values. The scalar multiplication and addition become sequential matrix multiplication and addition. The width and height of the submatrices will b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pstoedit | pstoedit is a free computer program that converts PostScript and PDF files to other vector formats. It supports many output formats, including WMF/EMF, PDF, DXF, CGM, and HTML, and by means of free/shareware plugins SVG, MIF and RTF. The author and maintainer is Wolfgang Glunz.
pstoedit uses ghostscript to perform the first part of the conversion process. Ghostscript converts the PostScript (or PDF) file to a more basic PostScript format, translating complex functions to basic functions, such as line draw commands. The second part of the conversion process consists of translating these basic functions into basic functions of the output format.
pstoedit is multi platform. For MS Windows, a setup program is available for both 32bit and 64bit, which does the complete job (including for instance making the connection with ghostscript and MS Office). Three interfaces can be installed: the command line interface, an interface by means of gsview and an import filter for MS Office. However, to make actual use of this MS Office interface a $50 registration is required (this registration also adds functionality to the other two interfaces).
Licensed under the GNU General Public License, pstoedit is free software.
See also
List of PDF software
References
External links
Official Website
Pstoedit Freecode Page
Free PDF software
PostScript |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20Network | Freedom Network may refer to:
Freedom Network, an anonymity network controlled by Zero Knowledge Systems from 1997 to 2001
Freedom Network, a series of HMO health insurance plans by Oxford Health Plans in the New York metropolitan area
Texas Freedom Network, an activist organization to counter right-wing Christian social doctrine
See also
Network to Freedom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20in%20Pittsburgh%20and%20It%27s%20Raining | I'm in Pittsburgh and It's Raining is a retrospective album by the Outcasts that was released in CD format.
Release data
This album was released as a CD by Collectables Records in 1995 as #COL-CD-0591.
Musical highlights
The album contains the music on four of their five singles, plus two versions of "Smokestack Lightning" and a rehearsal session of "I'm in Pittsburgh (And It's Raining)", their best known song. There are also six recordings that were not released on their singles; according to the liner notes, this material dates from the time of the last single, when the band had moved to Gallant Records of Houston. However, the first single is not included, nor are both versions of "Everyday", which was used in two versions as the flip side of the last two singles.
With the exception of "1523 Blair" (which is taken from a vinyl source), the music is newly mixed from the original master tapes.
Track listing
I'm in Pittsburgh (And It's Raining)
Smokestack Lightning
Route 66
Sweet Mary
I'll Set You Free
Everyday
What Price Victory?
My Love
My Generation
Smokestack Lightning single version
1523 Blair
Season of the Witch
Come on Over
The Birds
I'm in Pittsburgh (And It's Raining) early rehearsal
1995 compilation albums
The Outcasts (Texas band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-bias%20sample%20space | In theoretical computer science, a small-bias sample space (also known as -biased sample space, -biased generator, or small-bias probability space) is a probability distribution that fools parity functions.
In other words, no parity function can distinguish between a small-bias sample space and the uniform distribution with high probability, and hence, small-bias sample spaces naturally give rise to pseudorandom generators for parity functions.
The main useful property of small-bias sample spaces is that they need far fewer truly random bits than the uniform distribution to fool parities. Efficient constructions of small-bias sample spaces have found many applications in computer science, some of which are derandomization, error-correcting codes, and probabilistically checkable proofs.
The connection with error-correcting codes is in fact very strong since -biased sample spaces are equivalent to -balanced error-correcting codes.
Definition
Bias
Let be a probability distribution over .
The bias of with respect to a set of indices is defined as
where the sum is taken over , the finite field with two elements. In other words, the sum equals if the number of ones in the sample at the positions defined by is even, and otherwise, the sum equals .
For , the empty sum is defined to be zero, and hence .
ϵ-biased sample space
A probability distribution over is called an -biased sample space if
holds for all non-empty subsets .
ϵ-biased set
An -biased sample space that is generated by picking a uniform element from a multiset is called -biased set.
The size of an -biased set is the size of the multiset that generates the sample space.
ϵ-biased generator
An -biased generator is a function that maps strings of length to strings of length such that the multiset is an -biased set. The seed length of the generator is the number and is related to the size of the -biased set via the equation .
Connection with epsilon-balanced error-correcting codes
There is a close connection between -biased sets and -balanced linear error-correcting codes.
A linear code of message length and block length is
-balanced if the Hamming weight of every nonzero codeword is between and .
Since is a linear code, its generator matrix is an -matrix over with .
Then it holds that a multiset is -biased if and only if the linear code , whose columns are exactly elements of , is -balanced.
Constructions of small epsilon-biased sets
Usually the goal is to find -biased sets that have a small size relative to the parameters and .
This is because a smaller size means that the amount of randomness needed to pick a random element from the set is smaller, and so the set can be used to fool parities using few random bits.
Theoretical bounds
The probabilistic method gives a non-explicit construction that achieves size .
The construction is non-explicit in the sense that finding the -biased set requires a lot of true randomness, which does not help towa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20database | In database security, a negative database is a database that saves attributes that cannot be associated with a certain entry.
A negative database is a kind of database that contains huge amount of data consisting of simulating data.
When anyone tries to get access to such databases both the actual and the negative data sets will be retrieved even if they steal the entire database.
For example, instead of storing just the personal details you store personal details that members don't have.
Negative databases can avoid inappropriate queries and inferences. They also support allowable operations.
Under this scenario, it is desirable that the database support only the allowable queries while protecting the privacy of individual records, say from inspection by an insider.
Collection of negative data has been referred to as "negative sousveillance":
References
Database security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%20of%20the%20Data%20Protection%20Supervisor | The Isle of Man Information Commissioner () is the national data protection authority for the Isle of Man under the Data Protection Act 2002 (an Act of Tynwald). The office was originally created as the Isle of Man Data Protection Registrar by the Data Protection Act 1986. The present holder is Mr Iain McDonald, who is in his fourth 5-year term, having been initially appointed in January 2003. The Office is funded by the Treasury, but is independent of the Isle of Man Government.
See also
Information privacy
External links
Official website
Government of the Isle of Man |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-Asian%20Planet%20Search%20Network | East-Asian Planet Search Network, (EAPSNET), is an international collaboration between China, Japan, and Korea. Each facility, BOAO (Korea), Xinglong (China), and OAO (Japan), has a 2m class telescope, a high dispersion echelle spectrograph, and an iodine absorption cell for precise RV measurements, looking for extrasolar planets.
Discovery
NOTE: HD 119445b is a brown dwarf candidate.
References
Exoplanet search projects
Science and technology in East Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk%20Kamoun | Farouk Kamoun (born October 20, 1946) is a Tunisian computer scientist and professor of computer science at the National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI) of Manouba University, Tunisia. He contributed in the late 1970s to significant research in the field of computer networking in relation with the first ARPANET network. He is also one of the pioneers of the development of the Internet in Tunisia in the early 1990s.
Contribution to computer science
The contribution of Dr. Kamoun in the domain of hierarchical routing begun in 1979 with his professor at the University of California UCLA, Leonard Kleinrock. They argued that the optimal number of levels for an router subnet is , requiring a total of entries per router. They also shown that the increase in effective mean path length caused by hierarchical routing is sufficiently small that it is usually acceptable.
The research work driven on Tunisia in the 1980s on network flow control based on buffer management is considered as a base to the now selective reject algorithms used in the Internet.
Education and career
He received a French engineering degree in 1970, a Master's and a PhD degree from the University of California at Los Angeles Computer Science Department.
His PhD work, undertaken under the supervision of Dr Leonard Kleinrock, a pioneer in the area of networking, was related to the design of large computer networks. They were among the first to introduce and evaluate cluster-based hierarchical routing. Results obtained then are still very relevant and have recently inspired considerable work in the area of ad hoc networking.
He returned to Tunisia in 1976 and was given the task to create and chair the first Computer Science School of the country (ENSI). From 1982 to 1993, he chaired the CNI, Centre National de l'Informatique, a Government Office in charge of IT policies and strategic development.
He promoted the field of networking in Tunisia, through the organization of several national conferences and workshops dealing with networks. As chairman of CNI, he represented Tunisia at the general assembly and executive board meetings of the Intergovernmental Bureau for Informatics (IBI) in Rome, in the '80s, as well as those of the UNESCO IT Intergovernmental Committee, with a focus on issues related to developing countries.
From 1993 till 1999, he served as Dean of ENSI, Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique, a School of Engineering dedicated to the training of computer engineers. Since 1999, he continue teaching and serve as director of the CRISTAL Research Laboratory of the ENSI. He is also an advisor in IT fields to the Tunisian minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology.
External links
Scientific Publications of Farouk Kamoun
Presentation about ENSI Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique
References
Internet pioneers
Living people
1946 births
Academic staff of Manouba University
University of California, Los Angeles alumni |
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