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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20West | Judith West (or Judith West Edelman) is an entrepreneur businesswoman, political activist and radio personality who hosts her own cable network TV Show, Getting Your Money's Worth.
Owner and president of Westco Inc., based in New York City, she draws from her experience in business, education, philanthropy and activism to inspire people to seek achievement in their own lives. Having come from meager circumstances, West carved out a career in retail design and manufacturing before founding her own company, Westco. A privately held company, Westco designs and manufactures retail store fixturing for such blue chip companies as Disney, Universal Studios, the NBC Experience Store at Rockefeller Plaza and Caesar's, Las Vegas, among others. All of its manufacturing is done domestically.
Education
As a private citizen and former public school teacher, West is passionate about education, serving on the Board of Directors of the Center for Education Reform and active in promoting Charter Schools. She received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from Hunter College following enrollment at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, her hometown. She then earned a Master of Arts degree in career counseling from Manhattan College in New York and was a doctoral candidate in business psychology at Fordham University. Prior to entering the retail world, she taught English as a second language and served as a curriculum and guidance director.
Awards
Westco is a national award winner, repeatedly winning annual awards from the National Association of Store Fixture Manufacturers (NASFM). Westco produced many fixtures for the World of Disney retail attractions in Orlando, Florida, Euro Disney and for their flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Westco's niche is to mix unusual materials and customized design incorporating the logo of the brand to create environments that drive clients' profits and strengthen their brands.
Her accolades include 2005 Business Woman of the Year Award, Business Advisory Council, National Republican Congressional Committee; Informal Advisor, Department of Education, Washington, D.C., "No Child Left Behind Workshop"; and Media Advisor, Women's National Forum.
Appearances
West is a popular personality, appearing on talk radio and television programs to discuss a variety of issues including education reform, school choice, women's entrepreneurship, retirement planning and business.
Public service
In addition to serving on the board of the Center for Education Reform, West is chairman of the Admission's Committee of the Excelsior Corporation Board of Trustees, member of the President's Council, Heritage Foundation, member of Development Committee, Count Me In, as well as a member of the Manhattan Institute and the National Association, Store Fixture Manufacturers.
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Judith West
American businesspeople
American women in business
American radio personalities
American television talk show hos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn%20and%20Wye%20Railway | The Severn and Wye Railway began as an early tramroad network established in the Forest of Dean to facilitate the carriage of minerals to watercourses for onward conveyance. It was based on Lydney, where a small harbour was constructed, and opened its line to Parkend in 1810. It was progressively extended northwards, and a second line, the Mineral Loop was opened to connect newly opened mineral workings.
To facilitate transfer of traffic to the neighbouring South Wales Railway main line, the Severn and Wye Railway network was converted from a plateway to a locomotive-worked broad gauge edge railway, and then to a standard gauge railway. Extensions were made to Lydbrook, Cinderford and Coleford.
The company's finances were dependent on the mineral industry of the Forest of Dean, and in 1879 economic difficulties caused it to amalgamate with the Severn Bridge Railway. In fact this resulted in a worsening of the situation, and the combined company sold its business to the Great Western Railway and the Midland Railway jointly.
Further disappointing financial performance led to most of the passenger operation being discontinued in 1929, and after World War II inexorable decline in mineral extraction resulted in progressive closure of the network. None of the Severn and Wye Railway system is in commercial railway use today, but a heritage railway is active at Lydney.
Before railways
The Forest of Dean had been a centre of mineral extraction for centuries. A coal and iron ore industry had been carried on by freeminers, who had certain statutory rights to regulate their own affairs. Stone quarrying was also undertaken in the Forest. In the 18th and 19th centuries the timber of the Forest became an important resource for the construction of ships for the Royal Navy, creating tension with the miners, who required timber for supports in their mine workings.
Roads in the Forest were poor, and transport of heavy materials was a constant difficulty. The established rights of the miners made the deployment of capital for large-scale development very difficult, and the interests of the Royal Navy also militated against modernisation. This led to high costs, and the mining activity suffered from the competition of other locations.
Early tramway proposals
In 1801 interested parties met at Ross-on-Wye and received a report from Benjamin Outram, indicating how lines of tramway might be constructed linking both Lydbrook and Lydney to the watercourses of the River Severn and the River Wye; the heavy minerals were to be transported onward to market by river and coastal shipping. The idea gained support, but it encountered fierce opposition too and the scheme foundered.
In 1806 the engineer John Rennie surveyed and proposed a route, subsequently developed with branches into a network, of tramways in the Forest, but his schemes too ended without definite action being taken.
Lydney and Lydbrook Railway
The pressure to build some form of transport was unabated, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMS-8250 | NMS-8250, (NMS is short for "New Media Systems") was a professional MSX2 home computer for the high end market, with two built in floppy disk drives in a "pizza box" configuration, released in 1986. The machine was in fact manufactured by Sanyo and it is basically the MPC-25FS with a different color.
It featured professional video output possibilities, such as SCART for a better picture quality, and a detachable keyboard.
Technical specifications
Processor: Zilog Z80A with a clock speed of 3,56 MHz.
Memory: ROM: 64 kB (MSX 2: 48 kB, Disk BASIC: 16 kB), RAM: 256 kB (VRAM: 128 kB, main memory: 128 kB).
Display: VDP Yamaha YM9938 (80×24, 40×24 and 32×24 character text in four colors - two foreground colors and two background colors; resolution of 512×212 pixels (with 16 from 512 colors) or 256×212 (with 256 from 512 colors).
Controller chip: MSX-Engine (S-3527, real-time clock with rechargeable battery).
Sound: PSG (S-3527, 3 sound channels, one noise channel)
Floppy drive: 3,5 inch, 720 kB double sided.
Connectors: mains cable, RF-output, CVBS monitor, luminance video output connector (for monochrome monitors), tulip (RCA) connector audio output, SCART audio/video-output using RGB, data recorder, Centronics compatible parallel printer port, detachable keyboard connector, two joysticks, two cartridge slots.
Gallery
MSX2 microcomputer
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDNI | KDNI, known on-air as Faith 90.5 FM, or by the network name Faith Radio, is a radio station in Duluth, Minnesota, owned and operated by University of Northwestern - St Paul and is a non-profit, listener-supported radio station relying on donations from the local community throughout the year. It broadcasts on 90.5 FM, covering Duluth-Superior and surrounding areas in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Programming is nearly 100 percent satellite delivered and produced by Northwestern Media.
The format is mainly Christian talk and teaching, with programs such as Turning Point with David Jeremiah; Focus on the Family; Family Life Today with Dennis Rainey; Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll; Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram; In Touch with Charles Stanley; Walk in the Word with James McDonald; Just Thinking with Ravi Zacharias; and others.
References
Translators
External links
KDNI
Northwestern Media
Christian radio stations in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20compatibility%20list | A hardware compatibility list (HCL) is a list of computer hardware (typically including many types of peripheral devices) that is compatible with a particular operating system or device management software. The list contains both whole computer systems and specific hardware elements including motherboards, sound cards, and video cards. In today's world, there is a vast amount of computer hardware in circulation, and many operating systems too. A hardware compatibility list is a database of hardware models and their compatibility with a certain operating system.
HCLs can be centrally controlled (one person or team keeps the list of hardware maintained) or user-driven (users submit reviews on hardware they have used).
There are many HCLs. Usually, each operating system will have an official HCL on its website.
See also
System requirements
References
Software requirements
Computer hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage%20%28disambiguation%29 | Charles Babbage (1791–1871), was an English mathematician, mechanical engineer, and pioneering computer scientist.
Babbage may also refer to:
Science and technology
Babbage (programming language), a high-level assembly language for the GEC 4000 series minicomputer
Babbage (crater), a crater on the Moon
Charles Babbage Institute, an information technology research center at the University of Minnesota, US
Charles Babbage Research Centre, Canada, publisher of the journal Ars Combinatoria
Other uses
Babbage (surname), a given name and a family name (including a list of persons with the name)
Babbage's, a video game retailer that eventually became GameStop
A river in the Arctic Ocean watershed in Yukon, Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX-Engine | An MSX-ENGINE chip is a specially developed integrated circuit for home computers that are built according to the MSX specifications.
Generally, such a chip combines the functions of many separate, older/simpler chips into one. This is done to reduce required circuit board space, power consumption, and (most importantly) production costs for complete systems.
The first MSX-Engine chip, the T7775 operated next to a standard Zilog Z80-clone chip, the main CPU of the system, but most later versions of the engine also included the Z80 (clone) CPU in a same single chip package. The S-1990, is a special case, as it's not really an MSX-Engine, but a chip that was used as "glue logic" between the MSX-engine and an external R800 CPU.
The T9769 is used in MSX 2 computers, while in MSX 1 computers mostly the T7775 and T7937 are used. You can also find the S-1985 and S-3527 in these systems. After the MSX 2 generation (from MSX2+ onwards) Toshiba took over the complete production of MSX engine chips. The last generation of MSX, the Turbo-R used the NEC S-1990 "TurboR bus controller" together with a R800 CPU.
MSX engine chips from Yamaha were mostly used in MSX-computers from Sony and Philips, while the Toshiba chips were mostly used in computers from Sanyo and Matsushita (Panasonic/National).
Overview
Here is a short overview of MSX-Engine chips.
MSX 1
Yamaha S3527
a Yamaha YM2149 PSG-sound chip, compatible with a General Instrument AY-3-8910
parallel I/O chip: backward compatible with the Intel i8255
standard MSX1 functions: DRAM control, slot selection, joystick ports, cassette/printer interface etc.
100 pins
Note that this IC is also used in many MSX2 computers, but does not include any MSX2-specific functions. In such machines, these are implemented using additional IC's
Sony MB64H131
Intel i8255
printer port
Toshiba T7775
CMOS-chip with all MSX 1 functions.
Toshiba T7937(A)
main CPU, a Zilog Z80 (clone) with a clock speed of 3,58 MHz.
PSG-sound chip, compatible with a AY-3-8910
Video Display Controller: T6950 rev. B (TMS9918 compatible)
parallel I/O chip: backward compatible with the Intel i8255
MSX 1-functions
dimensions: 10,5 × 8,60 mm
Hitachi HD62003
AY-3-8910 compatible PSG
DRAM controller
PPI i8255 functions
MSX 2/MSX 2+
Yamaha S1985
a Yamaha YM2149 a Programmable Sound Generator - sound chip, compatible with a General Instrument AY-3-8910
parallel I/O chip: backward compatible with the Intel i8255
MSX1- and MSX2-functions (up to 512 KB memory mapper)
Real Time Clock (Ricoh RP5C01A compatible) including 26 x 4 bits RAM, backed up by (separate) battery
100 pin flat plastic package
Toshiba T9769
main CPU, a Zilog Z80 clone with a clock speed of 3,58 MHz (MSX2; switchable to 5,36 MHz on some MSX2+ machines)
a Programmable Sound Generator - sound chip, compatible with a General Instrument AY-3-8910
parallel I/O chip: backward compatible with the Intel i8255
MSX1 and MSX2-functions (MSX2-computers)
MSX2+-functi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AV | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges%20Radio%20P4 | P4 (pe fyra) is a national radio channel produced by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio. P4 was started in 1987 as a network of regional stations, but national programming was added in 1993 when P3 was relaunched as a specialist youth channel and P4 took over a large part of P3's former programming intended for a more adult audience.
Programming
Targeted at an across-the-board audience, but with the emphasis on middle-aged (40+) listeners, it is the corporation's most popular radio channel, presenting popular music, entertainment, and sport. On weekdays most of the daytime schedule comes from 25 different regional stations, each producing programming (including local news coverage) for their own areas, while in the evenings and at weekends the channel carries national programming. Overnight (between 0.00 and 6.00) P4 and youth channel P3 present a joint programme of "music, games, and chat".
Among the more popular programmes broadcast nationally are: Karlavagnen, Melodikrysset, Ring så spelar vi, Sportextra and Svensktoppen.
Regional stations
The 25 regional stations are:
SR Blekinge
SR Dalarna
SR Gotland
SR Gävleborg
SR Göteborg
SR Halland
SR Jämtland
SR Jönköping
SR Kalmar
SR Kristianstad
SR Kronoberg
SR Malmö
SR Norrbotten
SR Sjuhärad
SR Skaraborg
SR Stockholm
SR Sörmland
SR Uppland
SR Värmland
SR Väst
SR Västerbotten
SR Västernorrland
SR Västmanland
SR Örebro
SR Östergötland
National presenters
Åsa Avdic
Ulf Elfving
Anders Eldeman
Patrik Ehrnst
Pär Fontander
Jenny Goldkuhl
Gunnar Gramnes
Paul Haukka
Annika Jankell
Bosse Löthén
Sanna Martin
Carolina Norén
Henrik Olsson
Rickard Olsson
Bosse Pettersson
Marika Rennerfelt
Hans Rosenfeldt
Jesper J Rubin
Peter Sundberg
Lisa Syrén
Susanne Tellinger
Tomas Tengby
Andreas Tosting
Stefan Wermelin
External links
Official site
Sveriges Radio
1987 establishments in Sweden
Radio stations established in 1987
Radio stations in Sweden
News and talk radio stations
Sports radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%201500 | The IBM 1500 instructional system was introduced by IBM on March 31, 1966, and its primary purpose was to implement Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI). Based around either an IBM 1130 or an IBM 1800 computer, it supported up to 32 student work stations, each with a variety of audiovisual capabilities.
Seeded by a research grant in 1964 from the U.S. Department of Education to the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, the IBM 1500 CAI system was initially prototyped at the Brentwood Elementary School (Ravenswood City School District) in East Palo Alto, California by Dr. Patrick Suppes of Stanford University. The students first used the system in 1966.
The first production IBM 1500 system was shipped to Stanford University in August 1967.
Preliminary versions of course materials that educators could use with the IBM 1500 were developed by Science Research Associates, Inc., an IBM subsidiary.
Most educational programming on the IBM 1500 system was done in the specialized computer programming language called Coursewriter.
The IBM 1500 system and its learning environment was a modern step in the history of virtual learning environments.
Overview
Buck and Hunka wrote in their 1996 retrospective and historical paper that:
"The IBM 1500 Instructional System was the only commercial system produced by a single manufacturer that had an integrated student terminal configuration providing a keyboard and light pen response mode, CRT-based graphics, audio, and static film projection. Experimental instructional systems had been developed by IBM prior to a prototype version of the 1500 Instructional System, which was tested at Stanford University. A production version of the 1500 System with changes in the CPU and the audio system and having the capability to run a maximum of 32 student stations was installed in over 31 sites beginning in the late 1950s. IBM's commitment to the development of this system was extensive but short-lived, as most sites were unable to maintain funding support for the system. In retrospect, the IBM 1500 System had capabilities yet to be supported on the microcomputer systems of the 1980s."
Selected educational applications
The Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) Division of the U.S. Army Signal Center and School (USASCS) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey evaluated CAI's success in teaching basic electronics by using material presented in the tutorial mode on the IBM 1500 System, utilizing the IBM Coursewriter language, an IBM 1510 Display Console, and an IBM 1512 Image Projector.
References
Further reading
"Mobilizing Minds: Teaching Math and Science in the Age of Sputnik: Mathematics Lesson on the IBM 1500 Instructional System, 1966", Smithsonian Institution.
Dick, Walter; Gallagher, Tom, "Systems Concepts and Computer-Managed Instruction: An Implementation and Validation Study", in Introduction to the Systems Approach, Education Technology Reviews Series, no.3, January 1973, pp. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BenQ | BenQ Corporation (; ) is a Taiwanese multinational company that sells and markets technology products, consumer electronics, computing and communications devices under the "BenQ" brand name, which stands for the company slogan Bringing Enjoyment N Quality to life. Its principal products include TFT LCD monitors, projectors, interactive displays, speakers, lighting, peripherals, and mobile computing devices.
BenQ's head office is located in Taipei, and the company operates five branch offices in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, China, Latin America and North America, and employs over 1,600 individuals globally. The "BenQ" brand is present in more than 100 countries worldwide.
History
BenQ was originally founded in 1984, then spun off from Acer in 2001 to provide a separate branded channel. In 2006 Acer disposed of its remaining shares in BenQ.
BenQ's first mobile phone was the M775C, which was released in 2003. During Q1 2004, eight new phones were announced, ranging from bar and clamshell phones to Windows Mobile smartphones. A further seven phones, mainly clamshells, such as the BenQ S500, came in 2005.
BenQ Siemens
On 1 October 2005, BenQ Corp. acquired the mobile devices division of Germany's Siemens AG, becoming the sixth-largest company in the mobile phone industry by accumulated market share. The acquisition results in a new business group, BenQ Mobile, of BenQ Corporation entirely dedicated to wireless communications. Mobile phones of the new group are marketed under a new brand, BenQ-Siemens.
In late September 2006, the mobile devices division of BenQ, BenQ Mobile (Germany), announced bankruptcy when BenQ Corp. discontinued its funding. As a result, BenQ Mobile was placed under the supervision of a state-appointed bankruptcy administrator. In February 2007, BenQ Mobile was finally disbanded as a suitable buyer could not be found. An estimated 2000 BenQ Mobile employees lost their jobs. On 24 August 2006 BenQ announced plans to spin off its manufacturing operations in early 2007, separating contract manufacturing and own-brand divisions.
After Siemens
After BenQ-Siemens, BenQ continued to make phones, primarily aimed at the Asian market (although one was also released in Europe).
This is a list of BenQ phones during the post-BenQ-Siemens brands period between 2009-2012:
BenQ T33
BenQ T51
BenQ C30 (BenQ-Siemens C31)
BenQ E72 (Windows Mobile smartphone. Also released in Europe) (Not a E71 Successors)
BenQ M7 (BenQ-Siemens M81 spirituality success's)
BenQ T60
BenQ E53
BenQ C36 (BenQ-Siemens C31 Successors)
BenQ E55
BenQ MOMODESIGN MD300H (HSDPA) (this is a co-brands in exclusively project of gadgets for MOMODESIGN, the most rarest model of BenQ Mobile because the phone was made available in limited quantities volumes not over 5,000 units.)
After a hiatus, BenQ resumed production of smartphones under its own brand in 2013.
Smartphones
Dell Venue Pro
Qisda Corporation, the parent company of BenQ, manufactured smartphones for Dell, whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game-On | The Game-On series of academic conferences on simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) in computer games and digital entertainment (Game-On, Game-On NA, and Game-On Asia) has been organized by EUROSIS since 1997 and is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners of the games community to exchange ideas on applications and research beneficial both to the gaming industry, academia, and non-entertainment gaming communities.
History
The Game-On conferences started as a special session at TILE (Technology in Leisure Conference) which was held in the Netherlands in 1997.
References
Video game organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20framework | An XML framework is a Software framework that implements features to aid the programmer in creating applications with all data produced in XML. The programmer defines and produces pure data in XML format and the framework transforms the document to any format desired. One code, one XML and several transformations like XHTML, SVG, WML, Excel or Word format, or other document type may result.
Features in an XML framework
Classes to abstract the USE of XML documents
Classes to abstract the DATA access - All data is XML independent of your source, like XML, Database, text files
XSLT cache.
Easy way to create XSLT documents like code snippets
Framework must be extensible because XML is extensible by definition.
Examples
XMLNuke is a pure XML framework
eXtensible Text Framework is a hybrid XML framework that utilizes XML data, XSLT 2.0, and Java
References
XML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partogram | A partogram or partograph is a composite graphical record of key data (maternal and fetal) during labour entered against time on a single sheet of paper. Relevant measurements might include statistics such as cervical dilation, fetal heart rate, duration of labour and vital signs.
In, 1954 Friedman prepared the cervicography. In 1972 Philpott and Castle developed the first partograph, by utilizing friedmar’s cervicograph, and adding the relationship of the presenting part to the maternal pelvis.
It is intended to provide an accurate record of the progress in labour, so that any delay or deviation from normal may be detected quickly and treated accordingly. However, a Cochrane review came to the conclusion that there is insufficient evidence to recommend partographs in standard labour management and care.
Components
Patient identification
Time: It is recorded at an interval of one hour. Zero time for spontaneous labour is time of admission in the labour ward and for induced labour is time of induction.
Fetal heart rate: It is recorded at an interval of thirty minutes.
State of membranes and colour of liquor: "I" designates intact membranes, "C" designates clear and "M" designates meconium stained liquor.
Cervical dilatation and descent of head
Uterine contractions: Squares in vertical columns are shaded according to duration and intensity.
Drugs and fluids
Blood pressure: It is recorded in vertical lines at an interval of 2 hours.
Pulse rate: It is also recorded in vertical lines at an interval of 30 minutes.
Oxytocin: Concentration is noted down in upper box; while dose is noted in lower box.
Urine analysis
Temperature record
Advantages
Provides information on single sheet of paper at a glance
Early prediction of deviation from normal progress of labour
Improvement in maternal morbidity, perinatal morbidity and mortality
Limitations
It requires a skilled healthcare worker who can fill and interpret the partograph.
Recent studies have shown there is no evidence that partograph use is detrimental to outcomes.
Often paper-partograph and the equipment required to complete it are unavailable in low resource settings.
Despite decades of training and investment, implementation rates and capacity to correctly use the partograph are very low.
According to some recent literature, cervical dilatation over time is a poor predictor of severe adverse birth outcomes. This raises questions around the validity of a partograph alert line.
Usage
A partograph is contained in the Perinatal Institute's "Birth notes".
Use of a partograph in established labour is recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the "Intrapartum Care" guideline.
Digital partograph
A digital partograph is an electronic implementation of the standard paper-based partograph/partogram that can work on a mobile or tablet PC. Partograph is a paper-based tool developed by the W.H.O. to monitor labour during pregnancy. The use of the partogra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Cole%20%28businessman%29 | Jack Ridnour Cole (February 12, 1920, in Lincoln, Nebraska – July 29, 2007, in Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota) was an American entrepreneur and businessman who used early computer technology to create "crisscross directories", which are used to sort millions of people by street address. The "Blue Book" is the original criss cross reference directory. These directories "quickly became a staple of public library reference shelves" as well as of valuable use to both business and government, including detectives, direct marketers, police stations, reporters, insurance agents, and small business owners.
Jack Cole earned an undergraduate degree in business from the University of Nebraska and went to work for IBM as a sales representative in Dallas. In 1947 Cole began publishing the Cole Directory, a set of reverse guides to various United States cities which listed a city's residents by address and by telephone number by using IBM's punchcards. He hired typists to keyboard the entire Dallas telephone book onto punch cards. Directories for other cities soon followed, with Cole drawing on census records, tax rolls and other data to supplement the information in the phone book. Cole Directories, which now cover about 200 cities, are published in print and digital forms by the MetroGroup Corporation of Lincoln, Nebraska.
MetroGroup Corporation now owns the fruit of Cole's work, in the form of Cole Information, an information company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The company has adapted to the emerging technologies by advancing from print directories to also specialize in providing marketing programs including internet marketing services, web-based lead and list generation as well as online directories.
A widower, Jack Cole died of cancer, aged 87; he was survived by three children, eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and a sister.
References
1920 births
2007 deaths
American computer businesspeople
People from Lincoln, Nebraska
People from Lawrence County, South Dakota
University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
Deaths from cancer in South Dakota
IBM employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viladamat | Viladamat is a village of Alt Empordà, 6 kilometers to the north from l'Escala, a municipality in Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Canada%20broadcast%20TV%20realignment | In 2007, significant ownership changes occurred in Canada's broadcast television industry, involving nearly every network and television system. In addition to the shuffling of network affiliations and mergers involving various networks, several new television stations and rebroadcast transmitters also signed on the air.
Sale of CHUM Limited to Bell Globemedia
In 2006, following the death of longtime chairman Allan Waters, CHUM Limited decided to cease operations and sell its broadcasting assets to a willing bidder. Bell Globemedia (later CTVglobemedia, now Bell Media) announced a $1.7 billion takeover offer for CHUM on July 12 of that year.
Bell Globemedia initially intended to retain CHUM's Citytv television system and its five large-market stations, as well as the company's numerous specialty channels; Bell would also sell off the smaller-market A-Channel stations along with several specialty channels. Rogers Communications originally placed a bid to purchase the A-Channel stations; CKX-TV (channel 5) in Brandon, Manitoba; Alberta educational station Access; and specialty channels SexTV and Canadian Learning Television.
However, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) denied CTV's acquisition of the Citytv stations, as all five stations – CITY-TV (channel 57) in Toronto, CKVU-TV (channel 10) in Vancouver, CKEM-TV (channel 51) in Edmonton, CKAL-TV (channel 5) in Calgary and CHMI-TV (channel 13) in Portage la Prairie-Winnipeg – were based in markets where CTV already maintained owned-and-operated stations (O&O), and therefore CTV's retention of Citytv would have violated a provision in the Commission's media ownership limits, which bar broadcasters from owning two English-language television stations in major metropolitan areas. CTV was, however, allowed to retain control of the A-Channel stations (a few of the A-Channel stations were based in cities adjacent to the major five metropolitan areas such as Victoria, British Columbia; London and Barrie, Ontario; CRTC rules permit English-language commercial twinsticks in major markets provided that the stations have differing cities of license) and all of CHUM's specialty channels.
Soon afterwards, Rogers Communications placed a new bid to purchase the Citytv system as a complement to its own Omni Television, a system of multicultural stations that incorporate programming in various languages.
CTVglobemedia
After Bell Globemedia's bid to purchase Citytv stations, and sell off the A-Channel stations, CKX-TV, and several other digital specialty channels denied by the CRTC, the outcome resulted in CTV putting the Citytv stations in a trust held by corporate lawyer John McKellar in the interim while it searched for a buyer. Rogers Communications, which had originally bid on the A-Channel stations prior to the CRTC decision, placed a new bid for the Citytv stations a few days later, which was approved by the CRTC on September 28, 2007.
CHUM Limited officially ceased |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YNAB | You Need a Budget (YNAB) (pronounced ) is an American multi-platform personal budgeting program based on the envelope system. It is available via desktop computer or mobile app.
The software was developed in 2004 by Jesse Mecham, while he was in college pursuing his master's degree in accounting after an experience where he and his wife had no money and needed to improve their budgeting. It evolved from a spreadsheet that he created for the budgeting process.
Overview
The software encourages users to follow four principles: "Give every dollar a job", whereby each dollar is allocated to a specific purpose; embrace true expenses so that there are no surprises; "roll with the punches", i.e. being flexible when there is overspending; and "age your money", keeping money in your budget without immediately spending it.
Users can either import transactions automatically from their financial institutions or input them manually. The software also displays financial reports to keep users informed about their finances at a glance. The platform also has several open-source add-ons.
Awards and recognition
YNAB has been named one of the best budgeting apps by U.S. News & World Report, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, CNN, HuffPost, CNBC, and hundreds of other financial reporting outlets.
The Wall Street Journal - Best budgeting app for hands-on budgeters.
Forbes - Best Budgeting Apps
Money - Best budgeting app for college students.
Lifehacker - Most popular personal finance software.
Wirecutter - "Great pick for hard-core budgeters".
Investopedia - Best overall budgeting app.
See also
List of personal finance software
Software as a service
Web application
References
External links
2004 software
Accounting software
Cloud applications
Shareware
Web applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20Vancouver%20TV%20realignment | In 2001, the Vancouver/Victoria, British Columbia, television market saw a major shuffling of network affiliations, involving nearly all of the area's broadcast television stations. This was one of the largest single-market affiliation realignments in the history of North American television, and had a number of significant effects on television broadcasting across Canada and into the United States.
Origins
The realignment resulted from Canwest Global Communications's acquisition of Western International Communications (WIC) in 2000. In most of the markets where a WIC-owned station was involved in the deal, the acquisition gave Canwest Global independent stations that were integrated into either the latter company's Global Television Network or the newly formed CH television system; in one case, a CTV-affiliated station (CFCF-TV in Montreal) was sold directly to CTV to become an owned-and-operated station (O&O) of the network. In Vancouver, however, the acquisition gave Canwest Global one of the most lucrative prizes in the entire country: control of CHAN-TV (channel 8, more commonly known as "BCTV"), the market's CTV affiliate and highest-rated television station.
CHAN's relationship with the CTV network in the years prior to the realignment had been rocky. Historically, CHAN and some of the other affiliates in Western Canada had resented the dominance of the affiliates in the eastern part of the country, especially Toronto flagship CFTO-TV (channel 9), in the production of network programming, in regards to both entertainment shows and news programming. The station had desired for years to host a national news program; when it was rebuffed by CTV, it instead launched the early-evening Canada Tonight on the WIC station group in 1993.
These issues were exacerbated when the original owner of CFTO, Baton Broadcasting, which had been steadily buying out CTV affiliates across the country, took control of the network itself in 1997 and shortly thereafter revamped the CTV schedule to incorporate the programming of the former Baton Broadcast System. That same year, Baton launched a new Vancouver station, CIVT (channel 32, known on-air as "Vancouver Television" or "VTV").
Since CTV did not previously offer a network schedule covering the entire day (or even all of primetime), these changes meant that CTV now maintained two different programming streams: a base "network" schedule which aired on all CTV stations, both O&Os and affiliates, under the network's existing affiliation agreements; and a separate "non-network" block of programming which aired in its entirety on O&Os, although CTV would offer rights on a per-program basis to affiliates in markets where the company did not have a station of its own. In much of Canada, this was a meaningless distinction, as most CTV stations were already O&Os — but in Vancouver, the network programming aired on CHAN while the O&O programming aired on CIVT.
CHAN's Victoria-based sister station CHEK (channel 6) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Doyle | Jane Doyle (born 9 February 1958) is a retired Australian television presenter who was best known for presenting Seven News in Adelaide between 1989 and 2022, having joined the Seven Network from ABC TV.
Early career
Doyle began as a school teacher before moving in journalism in far-north Queensland. In 1981, she and her husband, fellow journalist Ian Doyle, moved to regional South Australia where she held a number of positions with ABC Local Radio and local newspapers.
ABC News
After arriving in Adelaide she returned to print as Adelaide editor of TV Week before again joining the ABC as a news reader. In 1988, after a year as substitute presenter for ABC TV's ABC News Adelaide, she became the main presenter of the 7pm bulletin.
Seven News and Channel 7
The following year, Doyle moved to SAS-7 to present Seven Nightly News with Graeme Goodings. She anchored her first night at the station on 28 August 1989.
She has also been a reporter on local programs such as Discover and Adelaide Weekender, and for many years she was a commentator for the broadcast of the annual Adelaide Christmas Pageant and the annual ANZAC Day parade. She also has hosted Carols by Candlelight where she also displayed her talent for singing with some renditions of classic Christmas carols. Since January 2005, she has also worked on the 5AA breakfast radio show.
She was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Australia Day Honours for service to the broadcast media, particularly to television, and to the community.
On 17 November 2022, Doyle announced that she would retire from Seven News after 33 years with the Seven Network. Her last bulletin was on 15 December. On 2 December 2022, it was announced that Will Goodings and Rosanna Mangiarelli would succeed Doyle on weeknights.
References
External links
Seven News site
Onya Speakers
Australian television journalists
Living people
Seven News presenters
1958 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashed%20array%20tree | In computer science, a hashed array tree (HAT) is a dynamic array data-structure published by Edward Sitarski in 1996, maintaining an array of separate memory fragments (or "leaves") to store the data elements, unlike simple dynamic arrays which maintain their data in one contiguous memory area. Its primary objective is to reduce the amount of element copying due to automatic array resizing operations, and to improve memory usage patterns.
Whereas simple dynamic arrays based on geometric expansion waste linear (Ω(n)) space, where n is the number of elements in the array, hashed array trees waste only order O() storage space. An optimization of the algorithm allows elimination of data copying completely, at a cost of increasing the wasted space.
It can perform access in constant (O(1)) time, though slightly slower than simple dynamic arrays. The algorithm has O(1) amortized performance when appending a series of objects to the end of a hashed array tree. Contrary to its name, it does not use hash functions.
Definitions
As defined by Sitarski, a hashed array tree has a top-level directory containing a power of two number of leaf arrays. All leaf arrays are the same size as the top-level directory. This structure superficially resembles a hash table with array-based collision chains, which is the basis for the name hashed array tree. A full hashed array tree can hold m2 elements, where m is the size of the top-level directory. The use of powers of two enables faster physical addressing through bit operations instead of arithmetic operations of quotient and remainder and ensures the O(1) amortized performance of append operation in the presence of occasional global array copy while expanding.
Expansions and size reductions
In a usual dynamic array geometric expansion scheme, the array is reallocated as a whole sequential chunk of memory with the new size a double of its current size (and the whole data is then moved to the new location). This ensures O(1) amortized operations at a cost of O(n) wasted space, as the enlarged array is filled to the half of its new capacity.
When a hashed array tree is full, its directory and leaves must be restructured to twice their prior size to accommodate additional append operations. The data held in old structure is then moved into the new locations. Only one new leaf is then allocated and added into the top array which thus becomes filled only to a quarter of its new capacity. All the extra leaves are not allocated yet, and will only be allocated when needed, thus wasting only O() of storage.
There are multiple alternatives for reducing size: when a hashed array tree is one eighth full, it can be restructured to a smaller, half-full hashed array tree; another option is only freeing unused leaf arrays, without resizing the leaves. Further optimizations include adding new leaves without resizing while growing the directory array as needed, possibly through geometric expansion. This will eliminate the need f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCI%20Bibliography | The HCI Bibliography is a web-based project to provide a bibliography of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) literature. The goal of the Project is to put an electronic bibliography for most of HCI on the screens of all researchers, developers, educators and students in the field through the World-Wide Web and anonymous ftp access.
Introduction
The HCI Bibliography Project is an effort aiming at giving free of charge access to all information seekers searching for bibliographic information in the field of HCI. This is a database, accessible from anywhere in the world. The HCI bibliographic project was inspired by Gary Perlman (director of the HCI Bibliography project) in 1998. Initially, the project was struggling to find funding and sponsors, but fortunately study-work students at Ohio State University were available to perform the task of entering the bibliographic data into the database. Some people from the internet were willing to help with the task of verifying the data. Donation from publishers also played a role in the building of the database. While there were less funding and sponsors at the beginning of the project, publishers gave the HCI Bibliography team permission to put their materials online for free of charge.
Donor Publishers
In 2007, the HCI Bibliography group acknowledges several publishers for their support of the project. Project support included publishers giving copyright permission and donation of publications to be entered into the HCI Bibliography database.
Ablex Publishing
Academic Press (AP)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Butterworth-Heinemann, Ltd.
Cambridge University Press
Elsevier Science Publishers, (North-Holland)
Ergonomics Society of Australia
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFS / HFES)
International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Intellect Ltd.
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA)
MIT Press
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
Springer-Verlag
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Taylor & Graham Publishing
John Wiley & Sons
As of July 2009, the HCI Bibliography has over 50,000 entries. These entries are made up of Journal volumes, Conference Proceeding, Books and some special files.
References
External links
HCI Bibliography project website
Unauthorized and outdated mirror site at uleth.ca
Unauthorized and outdated mirror site at greenstone.org
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things%20To%20Try%20Before%20You%20Die | Things To Try Before You Die (sometimes shortened to Things To Try) was an Australian travel show that was produced by and aired on the Nine Network. Making its debut on 17 July 2007, each episode of the show focused on a particular country and counted down the top 30 things that one 'must try' in that country.
The show was similar to Getaway, a travel show also airing on the Nine Network.
Presenters
Jules Lund
Livinia Nixon
Gary Sweet
Episodes
Season 1
See also
List of Australian television series
External links
Official website. It now redirects to NineMSN's travel section.
Australian non-fiction television series
Australian travel television series
Nine Network original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-mode%20mobile | Dual-mode mobiles refer to mobile phones that are compatible with more than one form of data transmission or network.
Dual-Mode Phone
A dual-mode phone is a telephone which uses more than one technique for sending and receiving voice and data. This could be for wireless mobile phones or for wired phones.
There are three types of dual-mode phones.
Network Compatibility
Mobile phones containing two types of cellular radios for voice and data. These phones include combination of GSM and CDMA technology. They can be used as a GSM or CDMA phone according to the user's preference. These handsets are also called global phones. An example of this is the Samsung SCH-A790.
These dual-mode handsets are compatible with both GSM and CDMA networks and are essentially two phones in one device.
Such phones make sense in those countries that have both GSM & CDMA networks or international CDMA roamers who want to keep a single handset with two numbers on it.
Most dual-mode handsets require two identifying cards (one SIM and one RUIM), though some dual-mode phones (for example, the iPhone 4S) only require one SIM and one ESN. Not all dual SIM handsets are dual mode (for example dual SIM GSM phones).
Cellular and Non-cellular Radios
Mobile phones contain both cellular and non-cellular radios used for voice and data communication. There are also two types of dual-mode phones which use cellular radio which will contain GSM/CDMA/W-CDMA as well as other technology like IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) radio or DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) radio. These phones can be used as cellular phones when connected to a wide area cellular network. When within range of a suitable WiFi or DECT network, the phone can be used as a WiFi/DECT phone for all communications purposes. This method of operation can reduce cost (for both the network operator and the subscriber), improve indoor coverage and increase data access speeds.
Wired Phones
Wired phones with VoIP and POTS technology. These phones can be used for making VoIP calls and also used for phones on the circuit switch network. These phones require compatible routers and modem to make VoIP calls.
List
Google Pixel & Pixel XL
Google Pixel 2 & Pixel 2 XL
iPhone 6s
Motorola Moto X4 and Android One Moto X4
Nexus 5
Nexus 5X
Nexus 6P
See also
GAIT
Dual-mode mobiles could also refer to:
GSM & WiFi phones using VoIP
Analog & Digital handsets
Fixed & Mobile devices (FMC)
https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/lecs111.pdf
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7333829
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6343220
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoc%20%28programming%20language%29 | hoc, an acronym for High Order Calculator, is an interpreted programming language that was used in the 1984 book The Unix Programming Environment to demonstrate how to build interpreters using Yacc.
hoc was developed by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike as a glorified interactive calculator. Its basic functionality is to evaluate floating-point numerical expressions, e.g., . Then, variables were added, conditionals, loops, user-defined functions, simple IO, and more, using a syntax resembling C.
An improved hoc interpreter was included in Eighth Edition Research Unix in 1985, but it has not been generally adopted by commercial Unix systems or by Linux distributions. Instead, the earlier calculator languages dc and bc have become widespread on those systems. hoc survived and continued to evolve as part of the Plan 9 operating system. Several improved versions of Hoc were released as free software by Bell Labs and other individuals (see list below). hoc is used, alongside python, as a scripting language for the Neuron simulator.
Examples
The following is a simple example of an interactive calculator session in hoc; text represents hoc's output:
1+2*3
7
angle=PI/3
r=sin(angle)
r
0.866025
r*2
1.73205
And a simple example of functions and flow control:
func atan2(){
if ($1>0){
return atan($2/$1)
} else if ($1<0){
return atan($2/$1)+PI
} else if ($2>0){
return PI/2
} else if ($2<0){
return -PI/2
} else {
print "atan2 domain error"
return 0
}
}
atan2(2,3)
0.982794
atan2(0,0)
atan2 domain error
0.0
References
External links
hoc implementations and versions
AT&T versions:
The original code from the Unix Programming Environment book, including hoc.
Source code of hoc from Bell Labs, released as free software. This is the Research Unix version, slightly improved over the one in the book.
Plan9 version of hoc released under the Lucent Public License. This version is slightly different from the Research Unix version, with the most notable difference being that numbered function arguments ($1, $2, etc., as in the Unix shell) were replaced by named arguments (as in C). See also Plan 9's hoc manual.
Other versions:
an extended version of hoc by Nelson H. F. Beebe.
an extended version of hoc by Nadav Y. Har'El.
an extended version of hoc by Jack Dennon.
an extended version of hoc by Michael Hines, John W. Moore, and Ted Carnevale.
Software calculators
Free mathematics software
Numerical programming languages
Unix programming tools
Plan 9 commands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer%20%28wireless%20phone%29 | Pointer was a mobile phone network provided by Finnish company Posti- ja telelaitos (now TeliaSonera Finland) for a short time in the 1980s. The technology was similar to that of standard cordless phones, which could be used via hotspots around Finland, at least to make calls. Pointer phones lacked roaming capability. A sign on the wall would show the passers-by that a Pointer hotspot was available.
Hotspots were placed at post offices and further expansion was planned. However, NMT phones were rapidly becoming popular and displaced the Pointer before it had time to become established.
Some signs showing Pointer hotspots still exist, such as on the wall of a post office on Mechelininkatu Street in Helsinki.
References
Mobile radio telephone systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtbahnwagen%20B | The Stadtbahnwagen Typ B (translation Type "B" Light Rail Vehicle, short form B-Wagen) is a light rail vehicle used by several Stadtbahn networks in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as by the Bursaray network in Bursa, Turkey. It was mainly developed by Düsseldorf-based Duewag, who also built the majority of vehicles in a consortium with Siemens and Kiepe. A small series of ten units was built by Waggon Union in Berlin. As the type evolved over two decades of production, some vehicles have little more in common than their outer dimensions and the basic configuration of a two-part multiple unit on three bogies with both outer ones powered. For the Dortmund Stadtbahn, some cars were modified with a central section and a fourth bogie. These vehicles are referred to as B8 or B80C/8 (eight axles). These vehicles have a length of and a weight of .
History
When the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn network was planned in the early 1970s, standardised rolling stock was planned as well. At the same time, a second Stadtbahn network was planned for Cologne and Bonn. Because the future Cologne Stadtbahn already had one finished tunnel, that was built with the city's own money with streetcars in mind, the Stadtbahnwagen designed for the Rhine-Ruhr network was not suitable. So, another vehicle was designed for the Cologne/Bonn network, that was capable of driving though tighter curves. This vehicle, now referred to as Stadtbahnwagen Typ B was immediately ordered by transport authorities in Cologne and Bonn, while Rhine-Ruhr authorities remained hesitant about "their" vehicle, now renamed Stadtbahnwagen Typ A. Eventually it was decided that the type "A" LRV was too unwieldy and type "B" LRVs were ordered by Essen, Mülheim, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Dortmund and Bochum. The type "A" concept, which consists of close coupled two-car sets, was shelved and later revived for the Stuttgart Stadtbahn.
The Typ B formed the basis for the British-built Metrocars on the Tyne and Wear Metro, which opened in 1980.
Subtypes
Different variants are usually referred to by a combination of their top speed and a letter denoting the engine type.
References
Duewag tram vehicles
Tram vehicles of Germany
Electric multiple units of Germany
750 V DC multiple units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20McCree | Nathan McCree (born 27 January 1969) is an English music composer and sound effects editor for multimedia projects including computer games, television, live events, and radio. He worked with Core Design between 1996 and 1998, for the first three Tomb Raider games, among others. He worked also with high-profile names such as the Spice Girls and Orange. In 2008 he became full-time Audio Director for Vatra Games where he worked until 2010. After this he became Audio Director at City Interactive in Warsaw where he worked on Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 and Alien Rage. McCree then went freelance and set up his own studio in Brno, Czech Republic.
Early life
McCree was born in England and is the third child of Patrik McCree and Beverly Allison. As a child, he spent time singing in a choir from the age of 6 where he learned about harmonies and progressions from choral music.
Career
He started writing music when he was 11, on a Korg Delta synthesizer bought by his father, he used his 4 track reel-to-reel tape recorder to multi-track. He studied Computer Science at Kingston University and got his first job with Core Design as a programmer.
His job there was to code a music sequencer for the Sega Mega Drive; he wrote some music on it to demonstrate how it worked. His manager liked the music and asked him to write the music for Asterix and the Power of the Gods.
Tomb Raider
McCree is known for creating the original music for Tomb Raider. He wrote the entire score for the first Tomb Raider in four weeks without insight on the game levels to help him draw the music accordingly. On the following two games he was still getting very limited descriptions for what musical elements he needed.
He spent three months working on Tomb Raider II.
After Tomb Raider II he left to go freelance and he was contracted in to do the music for Tomb Raider III.
He was not contracted to work on Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, being later replaced by Peter Connelly who composed Tomb Raider music for another three Tomb Raider games. He interviewed Connelly to replace him at Core Design.
Works
Audio director
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 (2013)
LEGO: Hero Factory, Brain Attack (2013)
LEGO: Ninjago (2013)
LEGO: Chima (2013)
Silent Hill: Downpour (2012)
Rush'n Attack: Ex-Patriot (2011)
Composer
LEGO: Ninjago (2013)
Chime (2010)
Sleepover (2009)
Blend-It (2008)
Goosebumps Horrorland (2008)
Industrial Ambience (Library music album) (2008)
The Price Is Right (2006)
Blockbusters (2006)
Eurosport (2006)
FIFA 06 (2006)
The Regiment (2005)
Custom Play Golf (2005)
Breed (2003)
Battle Engine Aquila (2002)
Laser Squad Nemesis (2002)
Christmas in Spiceworld (1999)
Tomb Raider III (1998)
Tomb Raider II (1997)
Joypad CD Vol. 2: Tomb Raider II (1997)
Gender Wars (1997)
A Tribute to Lara Croft (1997)
Tomb Raider (1996)
Blam!-Machinehead (1996)
Swagman (1996)
Skeleton Krew (1995)
Asterix and the Power of the Gods (1995)
Soulstar (1994)
Heimdall 2 (1994)
BC Racers (1994)
Bubba 'n' Stix (1994)
Dragon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeshBox | MeshBox is an item of computer hardware which is used to provide large scale wireless broadband networks. Manufactured by LocustWorld, the devices are designed to co-operate with other MeshBoxes within range, passing the internet service from one box to the next, over the air, until it reaches the final destination. The coverage area of a mesh is typically measured in square miles or square kilometres.
Originally released as a bootable CD-ROM called MeshAP based on the OpenAP open source software, the system is now implemented as system image which can fit within a small 32MB CompactFlash card. The system functions have expanded beyond creating wireless networks to provide set-top box services, MP3 audio and video streaming, connection to remote windows terminal servers, other PCs, web browsing, connection to peer-to-peer networks, instant messaging and file exchange.
See also
Wireless mesh network
Wireless LAN
Wireless access point
Wireless community network
IEEE 802.11
External links
CommunityWireless.org
Wireless Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Hardware routers
Linux-based devices
IEEE 802.11
Mesh networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denizen%20%28video%20game%29 | Denizen is an action computer game published by Players Software in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum.
Gameplay
Denizen is a science-fiction action flip-screen maze game, with a top-down perspective. The player controls a marine, with the aim of detonating twenty explosive bolts on each of three levels. The marine is armed with a rifle and is initially supplied with 99 bullets. The player can only move orthogonally, in half-tile steps. Each screen may contain one or more enemies, who move toward the marine in a straight line until they reach an obstacle. The enemies attack the player merely by contact, draining the character's health in a manner similar to Gauntlet. Each enemy requires two bullets to destroy.
Health is regenerated by returning to the marine's start point on each level. If he is out of ammunition, this also supplies him with a single bullet. Items that can be collected include single-use keycards to open locked doors, ammunition, and a torch which allows better vision in dark areas.
Reception
Denizen received poor reviews, with criticism being levelled at the slow character movement. The weapon firing mechanism was a particular complaint; "The self-loading 'Quick Kill' rifle... is anything but quick", "[The rifle] acts in the manner of an aerosol gun, two slow puffs and off goes yer fly". The gameplay itself was described as a "dull maze plod" with unresponsive and repetitive action.
However, all the reviewers highlighted the colourful, detailed graphics, with presentation comparable with Players' previous titles.
References
1988 video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games
Action games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltimateCleaner | UltimateCleaner 2007 was a rogue anti-spyware program that created fake Windows security messages and other security warnings in order to trick users into believing that computer was infected with spyware threats and that they needed to purchase the full version of UltimateCleaner 2007 to remove the threat.
See also
:Category:Spyware removal — programs which find and remove spyware
Computer surveillance
Adware
Malware
Trojan horse (computing)
Notes and references
Information and Removal Instructions for UltimateCleaner
Non-Techie Removal Guide for UltimateCleaner
Rogue software
Scareware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Boyd | Philip Ewing Boyd (June 5, 1876 – November 16, 1967) was an Olympic rower who won a silver medal for Canada in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
Phil Boyd's profile at databaseOlympics
Phil Boyd's profile at Sports Reference.com
1876 births
1967 deaths
Canadian male rowers
Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers for Canada
Rowers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in rowing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20Splash | Color Splash is a realty television show on American cable network HGTV, hosted by David Bromstad, that was broadcast from 2007 through 2012.
The series was created for Bromstad after winning season one of HGTV Design Star. It debuted March19, 2007 on HGTV. The show focuses on transforming rooms by dramatic uses of color. The show also features color specialist and carpenter Danielle Hirsch, who debuted on HGTV's Design Remix starring Karen McAloon.
Color Splash relocated from San Francisco to Miami in 2010.
References
HGTV original programming
2007 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Network%20Monitor | Microsoft Network Monitor is a deprecated packet analyzer. It enables capturing, viewing, and analyzing network data and deciphering network protocols. It can be used to troubleshoot network problems and applications on the network. Microsoft Network Monitor 1.0 (codenamed Bloodhound) was originally designed and developed by Raymond Patch, a transport protocol and network adapter device driver engineer on the Microsoft LAN Manager development team.
Network Monitor was replaced by Microsoft Message Analyzer (MMA was discontinued in 2019).
History
The LAN Manager development team had one shared hardware-based analyzer at the time. Netmon was conceived when the hardware analyzer was taken during a test to reproduce a networking bug, and the first Windows prototype was coded over the Christmas holiday. The first 4 bytes of the Netmon capture file format were used to validate the file. The values were 'RTSS' for Ray, Tom, Steve, and Steve - the first four members of the team. The code was originally written for OS/2 and had no user interface; a symbol was placed in the device driver where the packet buffers were kept so received data could be dumped in hex from within the kernel debugger.
Netmon caused a bit of a stir for Microsoft IT since networks and e-mail were not encrypted at the time. Only a few software engineers had access to hardware analyzers due to their cost, but with Netmon many engineers around the company had access to network traffic for free. At the request of Microsoft IT, two simple identification features were added - a non-cryptographic password and an identification protocol named the Bloodhound-Oriented Network Entity (BONE) (created and named by Raymond Patch as a play on the codename Bloodhound).
Network Monitor 3 is a complete overhaul of the earlier Network Monitor 2.x version. Originally versions of Network Monitor were only available through other Microsoft products, such as Systems Management Server (SMS). But now the fully featured product with public parsers is available as a free download.
Microsoft Network Monitor was superseded by Microsoft Message Analyzer Microsoft Message Analyzer was retired in 2019
Features
Some key features of Network Monitor 3.4 include the following:
Process tracking
Grouping by network conversation
Support for over 300 public and Microsoft proprietary protocols
Simultaneous capture sessions
Wireless Monitor Mode with supported wireless NICs
Real-time capture and display of frames
Reassembly of fragmented data
Sniffing of promiscuous mode traffic
Can read libpcap capture files
API to access capture and parsing engine
References
External links
Microsoft Network Monitor:
Download 3.4 (archive)
(Download) Windows and SQL Server Network Monitor Parsers
Blog
Forum Support for 3
Experts at CodePlex
Open Source Parsers at CodePlex
Microsoft Message Analyzer:
Download 1.1
Forum Support for 1.1
Message Analyzer (Network Monitor's successor) on Microsoft Connect
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayJam | PlayJam is an interactive casual game network, that is available across digital TV, mobile, and online platforms.
The network emerged during the dawn of the digital TV era as a side project of London-based visual media company, Static 2358. Static's artists, designers, and programmers started producing casual games to work on set top boxes. PlayJam, which was launched in 1999 on CanalSat in France and Sky Digital in the UK, is one of the first ever interactive television broadcast channels. PlayJam quickly became one of the highest rated brands on digital TV, delivering interactive television services for clients such as the BBC, Glaxo SmithKline, pop band Gorillaz, ITV and Channel 4.
Static and PlayJam were sold to Open TV for $68 million in 2001. The interactive games platform has since appeared on millions of digital TV homes throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Founder Jasper Smith re-acquired Static from Open TV in 2008, believing the quantum shift to internet connected TVs would allow PlayJam to become one of the world's pre-eminent games networks. Since then, the company has secured distribution deals with Apple, Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Western Digital, and other online gaming platforms to add to its network of digital TV homes around the world and online. PlayJam aims to create a 'connected' games network over the next few years, delivering a more integrated and accessible user experience alongside a cross-platform reward scheme to fuel further frequent and loyal usage. During the last 5 years, PlayJam has generated over 8 billion downloads from its library of 550 free titles. PlayJam's SDK enables other games developers to publish titles to this platform, most recently Relentless and Puzzler Media.
PlayJam became a founder member of the Connected TV Game Forum, alongside Accedo Broadband, Betfair, Rallypoint and Two Way Media in January 2010. Aiming to galvanize a common approach to gaming requirements for connected TV devices including functionality, features, and open standards, the forum's members view online games as a major driver in the multi-platform digital entertainment arena, attracting 38% of Internet users and generating billions of downloads via mobile and digital TV platforms. The Forum believes such games will act as "a prime motivator for consumers to connect their TVs to the Internet."
In October 2011, PlayJam secured $5 million investment from GameStop Digital Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Endeavour Ventures and the Angel CoFund to fuel further growth and capitalize on the smart TV market. The company has partnered with a number of game developers including GameHouse, First Star Software, Relentless Software, Slingo, and Puzzler to distribute popular titles across its network.
In 2013 PlayJam released the GameStick.
References
External links
PlayJam Official Free Games Website
PlayJam Official Wiki
PlayJam Art Blog
Connected TV Game Forum
PlayJam to be offered as Yahoo! TV Widget
Interview wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobmov | Mobile Movie (aka "MobMov") is a worldwide network of guerrilla drive-ins using car-powered video projectors and FM transmitters. The MobMov represents over 150 independent guerrilla drive-ins, from United States to France, India, and Australia.
Shows are free and are announced via mailing list and SMS. Patrons drive to the listed location, tune their radios, and watch a movie drive-in style. The coordinator uses a car or small generator to power the projector and FM transmitter.
The MobMov was started by Bryan Kennedy in May, 2005. Kennedy's San Francisco-area MobMov has been defunct since late 2009 but other variations on the concept exist in the San Francisco Bay Area, and throughout the United States.
See also
List of drive-in theaters
Drive-in theater Revival, for other guerrilla drive in operations
References
External links
Official MobMov website
BBC: "Drive-in theaters refuse to fade away"
Time Magazine: "Movies that star the stars"
San Francisco Chronicle: "Reviving drive-in culture"
MobMov-Hollywood chapter
Cinemas and movie theaters
Drive-in theaters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawwaz%20T.%20Ulaby | Fawwaz T. Ulaby () is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and formerly the Founding Provost and Executive Vice President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and R. Jamieson and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
Life
Ulaby was born in Damascus, Syria, and grew up in Lebanon. He attended the American University of Beirut, from which he received a B.S. degree in physics in 1964. He later received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968.
After teaching at the University of Kansas he moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in the mid 1980s. He served as the R. Jamieson and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and has also served as the Vice President for Research.
Ulaby has done extensive work outside of academia as well, giving testimony to the House Science Committee of the US congress and serving on the board of directors for The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS).
In March 2008, Ulaby was named Founding Provost of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His daughter, Neda Ulaby, is a reporter at the NPR culture desk.
Research areas
He is most famous for the development of micro-electronics for a suite of circuits and antennae for THz sensors and communication systems. Today, THz technology is an enabling technology in various types of industrial sensor applications.
Honors
Professor Ulaby is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
IEEE GRSS Outstanding Service Award, 1982.
IEEE GRSS Distinguished Achievement Award, 1983.
IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984.
NASA Group Achievement Award for the Shuttle Imaging Radar Science Team, 1990.
IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000.
IEEE Electromagnetics Award, 2001.
William T. Pecora Award, 2001.
IEEE Edison Medal, 2006.
IEEE GRSS Education Award, 2006.
IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, 2012.
References
External links
List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Special fields and interdisciplinary)
THE KAUST DREAM: A HUB OF INNOVATION AND DISCOVERY Provost’s Acceptance Message
American University of Beirut alumni
Cockrell School of Engineering alumni
University of Michigan faculty
People from Damascus
Syrian emigrants to the United States
IEEE Edison Medal recipients
Syrian scientists
Syrian physicists
Syrian engineers
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people)
Microwave engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk%20Open%20Link | Norfolk Open Link was a free wireless service offered by Norfolk County Council in Norwich city centre, and areas of South Norfolk. Norfolk Open Link was the first community wireless network in the UK to provide free internet access for the public sector, the business community and the general public.
The network - that was operational since July 2006 - was part of a pilot scheme that terminated in June 2008. In November 2007, the County Council ran a short survey to assess the impact of the service; after the service ends, a report will be compiled into the impact it has had.
The project was not allowed to compete with commercial WiFi services, so the access speed for businesses and the public has been restricted to 256 kilobits per second, with sessions limited to an hour. A welcome screen displayed to users upon connecting to the network allows public sector staff to log in and access the internet at 1mb per second.
References
External links
Norfolk OpenLink website
Wireless network organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel%20Setup%20Protocol | In computer networking, the Tunnel Setup Protocol (TSP) is an experimental networking control protocol used to negotiate IP tunnel setup parameters between a tunnel client host and a tunnel broker server, the tunnel end-points. A major use of TSP is in IPv6 transition mechanisms.
Parameter negotiation
The TSP protocol performs negotiation of the following parameters:
User authentication using the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) protocol
Tunnel encapsulation for a variety of tunneling scenarios:
IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels
IPv4 over IPv6 tunnels
IPv6 over UDP/IPv4 tunnels for built-in traversal of network address translators (NAT)
IP address assignment for both tunnel endpoints
Domain Name System (DNS) registration of end point addresses and reverse DNS
Tunnel keep-alive mechanism as needed
IPv6 address prefix assignment for routers
Routing protocols
TSP Session
A TSP session is initiated by the TSP client in the goal of establishing an end-to-end tunnel with the TSP server (tunnel broker). The session consists of a basic exchange of XML-encoded data using TCP or UDP. After the negotiation of tunnel setup parameters, the session is terminated and the client undertakes the task of configuring its local tunnel endpoint.
See also
Anything In Anything (AYIYA)
References
External links
IPv6 TSP Server Implementation
IPv6
Network protocols
Tunneling protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalnet | An internalnet is a computer network composed of devices inside and on the human body. Such a system could be used to link nanochondria, bionic implants, wearable computers, and other devices.
See also
Nanomedicine
Personal area network
External links
PC Magazine definition
Smart computing
Bionics
Computer networks by scale
Implants (medicine) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodbar | Moodbar is a computer visualization used for navigating within a piece of music or any other recording on a digital audio track. This is done with a commonly horizontal bar that is divided into vertical stripes. Each stripe has a colour combination showing the "mood" within a short part of the audio track. The colour can depend on spectrum and/or rhythmic features of the part of the track. If the audio is a song then various parts of it (intro, choruses, solos, accents etc.) as well as changes (dynamics, rhythm, texture, playing instruments) are differently coloured on the bar. If the audio is a speech or an interview then the moodbar displays different speaking segments in unique colour combinations.
Moodbar was originally presented by Gavin Wood and Simon O’Keefe in their paper On Techniques for Content-Based Visual Annotation to Aid Intra-Track Music Navigation.
Moodbar has been implemented for Amarok, Clementine, Strawberry Music Player and Exaile music players and the GJay smart playlist creator for Linux.
As of 2008, the default implementation of Amarok's moodbar only uses the spectral content of the current section of the track. It calculates the energy in the low, medium, and high frequency bands, and turns this into the amount of red, green, and blue in the corresponding stripe. Each moodbar file is 1000 samples long, which corresponds to roughly 4-5 samples every second for a typical 3-4 minute long song. This is not useful for telling anything about the rhythm of a song, but it is sometimes possible to guess where different instruments are playing. This can be useful for spotting verse, chorus, verse structure, and breaks in the music.
See also
Music Genome Project
Acoustic fingerprint
References
External links
The Moodbar page in the Amarok User Manual
User interface techniques
Data visualization software
Music visualization software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20and%20College%20Accountability%20Network | The University and College Accountability Network (U-CAN) provides information for prospective students and their parents to compare American private colleges and universities across a wide variety of characteristics. Users can search for participating institutions and compare important data and information, including admissions, cost, financial aid, popular majors, and campus safety. Links to the institutions' websites provide a "virtual campus tour."
U-CAN was publicly launched on September 26, 2007. At the time of the launch, more than 600 institutions had volunteered to participate. The network was developed by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).
On September 17, 2008, U-CAN launched enhanced features designed in response to focus groups. Features included an advanced search that increased the number of searchable fields from three to 17.
U-CAN represents the first time that colleges and universities have voluntarily joined and self-developed a system to provide data and information for prospective students. Other systems are under development by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the American Association of Universities. These are expected to be released publicly in 2009,
As of September 2008, information on more than 660 colleges and universities was available to the public, and another 75 had agreed to participate but had not yet publicly posted their data.
External links
U-CAN page
.
Inside Higher Ed Article.
Note on legislative call from Senate Republican Policy Committee
Washington Post Article
Compilation of recent U-CAN media coverage
References
Universities and colleges in the United States
University and college rankings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay%20Matvick | Clay Matvick (born August 12, 1973 in Saint Cloud, Minnesota) is an American sportscaster, who works primarily as a play-by-play announcer for ABC and the ESPN networks.
Background
Matvick graduated from Princeton High School in 1991. He received a degree in mass communications from St. Cloud State University in 1996.
Career
Matvick began his broadcasting career in 1990 in his hometown of Princeton, Minnesota, at WQPM (now BOB 106). He worked as a weekend sports anchor from 1990 to 1999 at various stations in Minnesota, KDLT in South Dakota and KMTV in Nebraska.
In 1999, he was hired as a presenter for CNN Sports Illustrated in Atlanta, working there until 2001.
After leaving CNNSI, he worked for Fox Sports Net North in Minneapolis from 2001 to 2005.
In 2004, he began play-by-play for the Minnesota Boys High School Hockey Tournament.
In 2006, Matvick joined ESPN, handling play-by-play of college football, college basketball, hockey, baseball, softball, and the Little League World Series.
Recognition
Awards and nominations
Matvick has won three Upper Midwest regional Emmy awards for his work covering the Minnesota Boys High School Hockey Tournament for KSTC-TV, in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Personal life
He and his wife Lindsay live in Minnesota.
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
American television sports announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Minnesota Twins announcers
Minnesota Wild announcers
National Hockey League broadcasters
College hockey announcers in the United States
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States
Softball announcers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna%20Europaea | Fauna Europaea is a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals. It serves as a standard taxonomic source for animal taxonomy within the Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI). , Fauna Europaea reported that their database contained 235,708 taxon names and 173,654 species names.
Its construction was initially funded by the European Council (2000–2004). The project was co-ordinated by the University of Amsterdam which launched the first version in 2004, after which the database was transferred to the Natural History Museum Berlin in 2015.
References
External links
Fauna Europaea
Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web (article)
Contributions on Fauna Europaea (data papers)
PESI - a taxonomic backbone for Europe
Biodiversity databases
Databases in Europe
Fauna of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates%20shuffle | The Fisher–Yates shuffle is an algorithm for shuffling a finite sequence. The algorithm takes a list of all the elements of the sequence, and continually determines the next element in the shuffled sequence by randomly drawing an element from the list until no elements remain. The algorithm produces an unbiased permutation: every permutation is equally likely. The modern version of the algorithm takes time proportional to the number of items being shuffled and shuffles them in place.
The Fisher–Yates shuffle is named after Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates, who first described it, and is also known as the Knuth shuffle after Donald Knuth. A variant of the Fisher–Yates shuffle, known as Sattolo's algorithm, may be used to generate random cyclic permutations of length n instead of random permutations.
Fisher and Yates' original method
The Fisher–Yates shuffle, in its original form, was described in 1938 by Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates in their book Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research. Their description of the algorithm used pencil and paper; a table of random numbers provided the randomness. The basic method given for generating a random permutation of the numbers 1 through N goes as follows:
Write down the numbers from 1 through N.
Pick a random number k between one and the number of unstruck numbers remaining (inclusive).
Counting from the low end, strike out the kth number not yet struck out, and write it down at the end of a separate list.
Repeat from step 2 until all the numbers have been struck out.
The sequence of numbers written down in step 3 is now a random permutation of the original numbers.
Provided that the random numbers picked in step 2 above are truly random and unbiased, so will be the resulting permutation. Fisher and Yates took care to describe how to obtain such random numbers in any desired range from the supplied tables in a manner which avoids any bias. They also suggested the possibility of using a simpler method — picking random numbers from one to N and discarding any duplicates—to generate the first half of the permutation, and only applying the more complex algorithm to the remaining half, where picking a duplicate number would otherwise become frustratingly common.
The modern algorithm
The modern version of the Fisher–Yates shuffle, designed for computer use, was introduced by Richard Durstenfeld in 1964 and popularized by Donald E. Knuth in The Art of Computer Programming as "Algorithm P (Shuffling)". Neither Durstenfeld's article nor Knuth's first edition of The Art of Computer Programming acknowledged the work of Fisher and Yates; they may not have been aware of it. Subsequent editions of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming mention Fisher and Yates' contribution.
The algorithm described by Durstenfeld is more efficient than that given by Fisher and Yates: whereas a naïve computer implementation of Fisher and Yates' method would spend needless time counting the rem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Institute%20for%20Advanced%20Computer%20Science | The Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) was founded June 1, 1983 as a joint collaboration between the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and the NASA Ames Research Center. The Institute was created to conduct basic and applied research in computer science, covering a broad range of research topics of interest to the aerospace community including supercomputing, computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, high performance networking, and artificial intelligence.
Since its inception, a goal of the Institute’s research has been to support scientific research and engineering from problem formulation to results dissemination, combining concurrent processing systems with intelligent systems to allow users to interact in the language of their discipline. This goal has since expanded to support a broad range of activities associated with space exploration and science, including mission operations and innovative information systems for technology research and development.
An underlying philosophy and approach of the Institute is that successful research is interdisciplinary, and that challenging applications associated with NASA’s mission provide a driving force for developing innovative information systems and advancing computer science. To implement this approach, research staff undertakes collaborative projects with research groups at NASA, integrating computer science with other disciplines to support NASA’s mission.
Over its nearly twenty five-year history, RIACS has acted as a bridge between academia and government research, engaging talented researchers from around the world to collaborate with NASA on challenging research topics. RIACS has also acted as a bridge between industry and the government to mature information technologies for infusion into NASA operations, enabling broader public benefit from research results.
For NASA, RIACS has collaborated most closely with the Intelligent Systems Division and the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division (NAS) at the NASA Ames Research Center – NASA’s Center for Excellence in Information Technology. RIACS, which was formed the same year as the NAS, worked closely with the division in its early years to develop a strong competency in supercomputing and computational fluid dynamics at NASA. RIACS helped establish the Intelligent Systems Division, and has since collaborated closely with the division to develop and infuse a number of software innovations in the areas of autonomous systems; intelligent information management and data understanding; and human-centered computing.
Historical Contributions to NASA
Examples of RIACS contributions to NASA Ames as part of the "Intelligent Systems Divisions" include leadership roles in developing and infusing:
Autoclass Bayesian discovery system – used probabilistic techniques to discover new classes of infra-red stars in the Low Resolution Spectral catalogue from the NASA IRAS mission as the first artific |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitfox | Kitfox or kit fox may refer to:
Kit fox, a North American mammal species
Kitfox Games, a Canadian computer games developer
Kit Fox Hills, a mountain range in California, United States
Denney Kitfox, an American kit-built aircraft design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwdump | pwdump is the name of various Windows programs that outputs the LM and NTLM password hashes of local user accounts from the Security Account Manager (SAM) database and from the Active Directory domain's users cache on the operating system.
It is widely used, to perform both the famous pass-the-hash attack, or also can be used to brute-force users' password directly. In order to work, it must be run under an Administrator account, or be able to access an Administrator account on the computer where the hashes are to be dumped. Pwdump could be said to compromise security because it could allow a malicious administrator to access user's passwords.
History
The initial program called pwdump was written by Jeremy Allison. He published the source code in 1997 (see open-source). Since then there have been further developments by other programmers:
pwdump (1997) — original program by Jeremy Allison.
pwdump2 (2000) — by Todd Sabin of Bindview (GPL), uses DLL injection.
pwdump3 — by Phil Staubs (GPL), works over the network.
pwdump3e — by Phil Staubs (GPL), sends encrypted over network.
pwdump4 — by bingle (GPL), improvement on pwdump3 and pwdump2.
pwdump5 — by AntonYo! (freeware).
pwdump6 (c. 2006) — by fizzgig (GPL), improvement of pwdump3e. No source code.
fgdump (2007) — by fizzgig, improvement of pwdump6 w/ addons. No source code.
pwdump7 — by Andres Tarasco (freeware), uses own filesystem drivers. No source code.
pwdump8 — by Fulvio Zanetti and Andrea Petralia, supports AES128 encrypted hashes (Windows 10 and later). No source code.
Notes
References
Windows security software
Cryptographic attacks
Free security software
Command-line software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32 | X32 may refer to:
X.32, an old ITU-T standard for connecting to an X.25 network by dial-up
x32 ABI, a Linux and BSD Application Binary Interface
×32, a PCI Express connector slot
x32, 32-bit computing
Boeing X-32, a jet fighter aircraft
X32 Digital Mixing Console, manufactured by Behringer
IA-32, the 32-bit version of the x86 architecture, commonly incorrectly referred to as x32 (64-bit architecture is known as x64) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20fitting | Line fitting is the process of constructing a straight line that has the best fit to a series of data points.
Several methods exist, considering:
Vertical distance: Simple linear regression
Resistance to outliers: Robust simple linear regression
Perpendicular distance: Orthogonal regression
Weighted geometric distance: Deming regression
Scale invariance: Major axis regression
See also
Linear least squares
Linear segmented regression
Linear trend estimation
Polynomial regression
Regression dilution
Further reading
"Fitting lines", chap.1 in LN. Chernov (2010), Circular and linear regression: Fitting circles and lines by least squares, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability, Volume 117 (256 pp.).
Regression analysis
Geometric algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITA-FM | CITA-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting a Christian programming format at 105.1 FM in Moncton, New Brunswick.
The station is co-owned with CJLU-FM in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
On August 24, 2000, the International Harvesters for Christ Evangelistic Association Inc. received approval from the CRTC to operate on the frequency 105.9 MHz.
On August 22, 2007, the CRTC approved an application for CITA to move from 105.9 FM to 105.1 FM, and to increase its signal strength to 880 watts. This change was prompted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's decision to move CBA from the AM band to 106.1 on the FM band, now known as CBAM-FM.
On June 30, 2017, the CRTC denied an application by International Harvesters for Christ Evangelistic Association Inc. to operate an English-language commercial FM specialty (Christian music) radio station at 104.9 MHz in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Rebroadcasters
CITA has a number of rebroadcasters that serve communities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
CITA-FM-1 107.3 FM - Sussex, New Brunswick
CITA-FM-2 99.1 FM - Amherst, Nova Scotia
CITA-FM-4 107.7 FM - Bouctouche, New Brunswick
References
External links
CITA Radio
Ita
Ita
Radio stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in New Brunswick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughesy%20%26%20Kate | Hughesy & Kate was an Australian radio station drive show on the Hit Network. The show was hosted by Dave Hughes and Kate Langbroek with anchor Jack Laurence. In addition to the national radio drive show, an inflight version was also produced and available in audio podcast section of inflight entertainment on Qantas fleets.
History
Nova 100
Hughesy, Kate and Dave first began on 3 December 2001 on Nova 100 as the inaugural breakfast show for the newly launched radio station. Dave O'Neil was formerly a presenter of the show from its inception in December 2001, when it was known as Hughesy, Kate & Dave, but in July 2006 he moved to the breakfast show on Vega 91.5 (now smoothfm 91.5). Tim Blackwell replaced O'Neil although his name was not credited in the show's title.
In 2009, Ed Kavalee, formerly of The Wrong Way Home drive show with Akmal Saleh and Cal Wilson, replaced Tim Blackwell as silent anchor. In August, news presenter Carrie Bickmore announced that she was leaving Nova 100 to focus on her role at The 7pm Project and spend time with her son. Bickmore finished at Nova 100 on 25 September 2009 with Lauren Brain replacing her.
In December 2011, Ed Kavalee resigned to focus on TV and film work, along with Jeff Tyler. Ian Cohen replaced Tyler and Daniel Gawned was announced as Kavalee's replacement for the beginning of 2012. In July 2012, Gawned was replaced by Dan Anstey who was moved from Nova 100's sister station Nova 106.9 in Brisbane.
On 10 September 2013, Hughes and Langbroek announced that they would be leaving Nova 100 after 12 years with the final show on Friday 29 November. In October, it was announced that drive host Meshel Laurie and comedian Tommy Little would replace Hughes and Langbroek. The new breakfast show Meshel & Tommy started in early December.
Mick Molloy, Peter Helliar, Gretel Killeen, Livinia Nixon and Jane Hall all filled in for Kate Langbroek when she was away or on maternity leave.
KIIS Network
In November 2014, Australian Radio Network announced the show would relaunch on its KIIS Network of stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide in the drivetime slot, replacing Rosso on Drive on KIIS 106.5 and Mix 101.1, and local announcers on 97.3 FM and Mix 102.3. The show commenced on 27 January 2015, anchored by former 90.9 Sea FM and 2DayFM announcer Matty Acton.
Along with The Kyle & Jackie O Hour of Power, the show expanded to Perth via 96FM in June 2015, replacing Darren de Mello in the drive slot.
In December 2016, Matty Acton left the show to join HIT 105 in Brisbane. Jack Laurence (JK) replaced Acton as anchor of the show from 2017. The show was pulled from the KIIS Network on 24 November, a week prior to their final show. Hughes and Langbroek were unable to farewell listeners.
Hit Network
In September 2017, Southern Cross Austereo announced that Dave Hughes and Kate Langbroek would join the Hit Network in 2018 to replace Hamish and Andy.
In January 2019, Kate Langbroek and her family moved to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Panda | Canal Panda is a Portuguese pay television channel, the first one dedicated to kids programming, mostly animated series for children aged 6–14. The channel was founded in 1996 as Panda Club in Spain and Portugal, but the name was changed to Canal Panda in 1997. In 2001, the channel was closed down in Spain, thus focusing on the Portuguese market. It was relaunched in Spain in 2011 and closed down again in 2022.
Canal Panda is currently owned by Dreamia, a joint-venture between AMC Networks International Iberia and NOS.
Currently, Canal Panda is a Portuguese preschooler-focused channel, airing programs targeted at the 3-8 age range.
History
Canal Panda started operations under the name Panda Club on April 1, 1996 on cable operators in Spain and Portugal. In March 1997 the channel rebranded to the current name. Following the closure of the channel in Spain, in January 2001, the channel aimed exclusively at the Portuguese market.
Less than one year after becoming exclusive to Portugal, the channel started producing national content, that was often shown between shows. In December 2001, the channel premiered Panda Sport (remaining on air until the mid-2000s) as its first national production.
In 2002, the channel's daily average surpassed 10,000 viewers. Much of its success owed to Japanese anime being shown mostly during its primetime slot (20:30 to 21:30).
Current programmes
Masha and the Bear
Masha's Tales
Masha's Spooky Stories
Peppa Pig
Super Wings
Noddy, Toyland Detective
Pocoyo
Heidi
Ricky Zoom
Simon
Pikwik Pack
Petrionix Defenders
Enchantimals: Tales from the Everwilde
True and the Rainbow Kingdom
Gus, The Itsy Bitsy Knight
Super Monsters
Dragons: Rescue Riders
Madagascar: A Little Wild
Barbie: It Takes Two
Gabby's Dollhouse
Go, Dog. Go!
Gus, The Itsy Bitsy Knight
Trolls: TrollsTopia
Adventures of Ayuma
Novelmore
Mecha Builders
Abominable and the Invisible City
Kid Lucky
Rainbow Rangers
Quantum Heroes Dinoster
References
External links
AMC Networks International
Children's television networks
Television stations in Spain
Television stations in Portugal
Television in Andorra
Television in Gibraltar
Spanish-language television stations
Portuguese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Portugal
Television in Macau
Preschool education television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-time%20user%20experience | In human–computer interaction and UI design, a first-time user experience (FTUE) refers to the initial stages of using a piece of software. It commonly includes configuration steps, such as signing up for an account. Every user of a service has their own FTUE, even if they have extensive experience with using a similar product. Patience, time investment, and intuitiveness are factors for a user's FTUE. Software services generally have different layouts, styles, graphics, and hotkeys which must be identified to contribute to a user's learning, mastery, and efficiency of the software. The FTUE is responsible for setting the stage for the experience of the user when interacting with a product down the line. This differs from the out-of-box experience (OOBE), which is specifically about packaging, information presentation, and setup of the system out of the box.
Relation to the cold start problem
FTUEs are directly related to the well-known cold start problem in recommender systems, which attempts to balance the ease of the initial experience with the difficulty of gathering the needed information to make quality recommendations to the user. Generally, an effort is made to increase user retention by minimizing the barriers to entry while maximizing the quality of the recommendations for the user. For example, it was found that by changing the FTUE task from rating 15 individual items to rating a smaller number of groups of items, the time taken to complete the initial task was reduced by more than 50% and user satisfaction with the resulting recommendations increased.
However, there is evidence that steeper entry requirements can lead to more dedicated users. Furthermore, in a study at the University of Minnesota, it was found that increasing the barriers to entry can increase the amount of user-generated content produced during the FTUE without sacrificing the quality of the content. Users subjected to a more difficult FTUE may also be more likely to produce more content in the future. This comes at a tradeoff, as the user attrition rate gradually increases with a higher barrier to entry. In this light, the idea of the FTUE becomes one of maximizing the benefit to the online community and the quality of the recommendations while minimizing the increase in the rate of user attrition.
User retention
Preventing customers from abandoning software after the initial exposure is a goal of good FTUE design. The following are examples of efforts in user retention.
Speed vs Quality: First impressions on the initial user interface (UI) of an interactive application depend on multiple factors; most notably speed and quality. Speed and quality are not necessarily inversely related, but if there is a limit on the amount of development hours available for a project, one of the two will generally suffer. Depending on the application, a sacrifice in either speed or quality must usually be made. Sacrifices in quality can include fewer luxury features, less int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORSIKA | CORSIKA (COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade) is a physics computer software for simulation of extensive air showers induced by high energy cosmic rays, i.e. protons and atomic nuclei, as well as Gamma rays (photons), electrons, and neutrinos. It may be used up to and beyond the highest energies of 100 EeV.
In the current version the program utilizes the hadronic interaction models EPOS, QGSJET, and DPMJET, which are based on Gribov-Regge theory, and SIBYLL based on a minijet model for high
energies. Hadronic interactions at lower energies are described either by the GHEISHA module, by FLUKA, or by the UrQMD model. Electromagnetic interactions are treated by an adapted version of the EGS4 code,
customized by including the Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect relevant at higher energies.
It can be used to simulate the generation of Cherenkov radiation, radio emission (Askaryan radiation), and atmospheric neutrinos.
A complete rewrite of CORSIKA in C++ named CORSIKA 8 is currently work in progress.
References
External links
Extensive Air Shower Simulations with CORSIKA and the Influence of High-Energy Hadronic Interaction Models by Heck, D. at , oai:arXiv.org:astro-ph/0103073 at arXiv
The Automated Air Shower Generation with CORSIKA at the Computing Center of IN2P3 PS
Recent Extensions to the Air Shower Simulation Program CORSIKA, proceedings of the 25th ICRC.
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Pomerene | James Herbert Pomerene (June 22, 1920 – December 7, 2008) was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
Biography
Pomerene was born June 22, 1920, in Yonkers, New York. His father was Joel Pomerene and mother was Elsie Bower.
He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1942. In 1945 he married Edythe Schwenn and had three children.
In 1946, he joined the Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, under the leadership of John von Neumann. The project built a parallel stored program computer called the IAS machine that was the prototype for a number of machines such as the MANIAC I, ORACLE, and ILLIAC series. Pomerene designed and implemented the adder portion of the arithmetic unit.
Collaborating with engineers such as Bruce Gilchrist and Y.K. Wong, they invented a fast adder which incorporated a speed up technique for asynchronous adders reducing the time for additive carry-overs to propagate. This design was actually later incorporated in one commercial computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000, introduced in 1957, the first commercial transistorized computer.
Pomerene became chief engineer on the IAS computer project from 1951 to 1956.
In Summer 1956, Pomerene joined the IBM Corporation in Poughkeepsie, where he and several others started the development of various electronic computer systems such as the IBM 7030 and Harvest computers. He was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1976. He held 37 patents when he retired from IBM in 1993.
Pomerene was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the IEEE Edison Medal in 1993, and the Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2006.
He died December 7, 2008, in Chappaqua, New York.
Selected papers
Gilchrist, B.; Pomerene, J.; Wong, S.Y., "Fast carry logic for digital computers" IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers, EC-4 (Dec.1955), pp. 133–136.
Esterin, B.; Gilchrist, B.; Pomerene, J. H., "A Note on High Speed Digital Multiplication" IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers, vol. EC-5, p. 140 (1956).
References
Further reading
Gilchrist, Bruce, "In Memoriam, James Pomerene (1920 - 2008)", New Castle Now, February 6, 2009.
1920 births
2008 deaths
American electrical engineers
American computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
IEEE Edison Medal recipients
IBM employees
IBM Fellows
People from Yonkers, New York
Scientists from New York (state)
Northwestern University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%202500%20series | The Cisco 2500 series routers are a series of 19" rack mount access routers typically used to connect Ethernet or Token Ring networks via ISDN or leased serial connections (i.e. Frame Relay, T1 etc.). The routers are based on a Motorola 68EC030 CISC processor. This line of routers is no longer sold or supported by Cisco Systems. They were superseded by the Cisco 2600 series, which has also reached EOL now.
Specifications
CPU: Motorola 68EC030 20 MHz (some 25 MHz) (32 bit, 256 bytes internal Data Cache, 256 bytes internal Instruction Cache)
RAM: Up to 16 MB
Flash: 4, 8 or 16 MB
Power consumption: 40 W
Dimensions: 4.44 × 44.45 × 26.82 cm (standard 19-inch rackmount – 1RU)
Weight: 4.5 kg
Power supplies: 110/240 V AC or 48 V DC
Supported interfaces: Ethernet (10 Mbit/s), Token Ring (16 Mbit/s), ISDN BRI (128 kbit/s), Sync Serial (2 Mbit/s), Async Serial.
Bandwidth: 4400 packets-per-second (using CEF)
Typical throughput: 2.2 Mbit/s (64-byte packets) 6–8 Mbit (1500-byte packets)
Models available
Modular Routers
The modular routers had 3 interface slots available – 2 Synchronous Serial and 1 ISDN. The ISDN modules were keyed so as not to be inserted into a Synchronous WAN module slot.
The following modules were available:
2-wire, switched 56-kbit/s DSU/CSU (RJ11)
4-wire, 56/64-kbit/s DSU/CSU (RJ48S)
Fractional T1/T1 DSU/CSU (RJ48C)
Five-in-one synchronous serial (DB60) (Supported five signalling types – EIA/TIA-232, EIA/TIA-449, V.35, X.21 and EIA-530).
ISDN BRI (S/T) (RJ45)
ISDN with integrated NT1 device (U) (RJ45)
CiscoPro Routers
These routers were repackaged versions of the 2500 specifically to be sold through channel partners to small and medium businesses that needed a greater ease of setup. They were offered at a reduced price due to their reduced software feature set. They are characterized by a light grey/cream colored case compared to the standard dark grey colouring.
Mission-Specific Routers
'Mission-specific' models contained less memory and less hardware functionality, and were tailored to support only a subset of protocols. A 'Mission-specific' model could be upgraded to full router capability by installing a full featured IOS image and (if necessary) adding memory. There routers were mainly intended to be frame relay access devices.
The software images installed on these devices intentionally crippled the hardware (for example on-board ethernet port on the 2501CF was disabled, and the 2503I disabled both on-board serial ports).
'Mission-specific' models included 2501CF, 2501LF, 2502CF, 2502LF, 2503I, 2504I, 2520CF, 2520LF, 2521CF, 2521LF, 2522CF, 2522LF, 2523CF and 2523LF.
The 'CF' in the model number stood for CFRAD software (Cisco Frame Relay Access Device), and the 'LF' stood for LAN FRAD (Local Area Network Frame Relay Access Device – i.e. Ethernet/Token Ring to Frame Relay). 'I' referred to an ISDN access device.
Pricing (Circa 1995) – 2520CF US$1,595 to 2523LF US$3,995
RAM/FLASH
RAM
The 2500 series uses a single 72p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20psychology | International or global psychology is an emerging branch of psychology that focuses on the worldwide enterprise of psychology in terms of communication and networking, cross-cultural comparison, scholarship, practice, and pedagogy (Stevens & Gielen, 2007). Often, the terms international psychology, global psychology, transnational psychology, and cross-cultural psychology are used interchangeably, but their purposes are subtly and importantly different: Global means worldwide, international means across and between nations, transnational means to transcend the nation-state, cross-cultural means across cultures. In contrast, the term “multicultural” is more often used to refer to ethnic and other cultural differences existing within a given nation rather than to global or international comparisons.
Definitions and scope
International psychology is concerned with the emergence and practice of psychology in different parts of the world (Stevens & Gielen, 2007). It advocates committed involvement in worldwide and regional psychology and policy-making organizations such as the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS includes 87 national psychology associations and more than 20 international/regional associations), the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), the International Council of Psychologists (ICP), the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA: it includes 36 national psychology associations), the Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología (SIP), the recently founded Pan-African Psychological Union (PAPU), and others. In addition, there exist more than 100 international psychology organizations each focusing on a specific subdiscipline. The goal is to establish psychology as a global discipline that in its theories, research practices, applications, and ethical aspirations is focused on the psychological study of humanity as a whole while avoiding as much as possible ethnocentric biases and preoccupations (McCormick & Constantable, 2015; Stevens & Wedding, 2004). For an annotated bibliography on international psychology that covers 156 publications, see Takooshian, Gielen, Rich, and Velayo (2016).
In contrast, the term global psychology is more frequently used to refer to the worldwide investigation of global issues and phenomena from a psychological and psychocultural point of view. Examples include the investigation of subjective well being, identification and treatment of mental health problems, the psychological dimensions of family systems, gender roles and gender-typed behavior, childrearing practices, cognitive and emotional functioning, international attitudes, value systems, intergroup conflicts, threats to the natural environment, societal transformation and national development, the struggles of disempowered groups (such as women, children, migrants, and refugees) as seen in a global perspective (Stevens & Gielen, 2007).
Cr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UMTS%20networks | The following is a list of mobile telecommunications networks using third-generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology. This list does not aim to cover all networks, but instead focuses on networks deployed on frequencies other than 2100 MHz which is commonly deployed around the globe and on Multiband deployments.
General information
For technical details on UMTS and a list of its designated operating frequencies, bands, and their common names, see UMTS frequency bands.
Networks on the global UMTS-bands 1 and 8 are suitable for global roaming in ITU Regions 1, 2 (some countries) and 3.
Networks on UMTS-bands 2 and 4 allow roaming in ITU Region 2 (Americas) only.
Networks on UMTS band 5 are suitable for roaming in ITU Regions 2 and 3 (single countries).
Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)
Networks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are exclusively deployed on 2100 MHz (Band 1) and/or 900 MHz (Band 8).
Americas
Caribbean
North America, Central America and South America
Networks in this region are commonly deployed on 850 MHz (Band 5) and/or 1900 MHz (Band 2) unless denoted otherwise.
Asia & Oceania
Networks in Asia are commonly deployed on 2100 MHz (Band 1) unless denoted otherwise.
Deployments in Japan
850 MHz (Band 5) / 900 MHz (Band 8) / 2100 MHz (Band 1) networks
See also
UMTS
UMTS frequency bands
List of LTE networks
List of CDMA2000 networks
References
UMTS
Lists by country
Telecommunications lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20message | Viral message refer to marketing messages that are passed from person to person through their social networks. To create successful viral marketing messages, where success is defined as positive return on Investment, marketers must:
identify individuals with high social networking potential (SNP)
communicate compelling information that induces them to purchase the marketer's offer
communicate information that high SNPs are likely to pass on through their social network
Communication of information in media that can be easily forwarded such as Internet videos, text messages (SMS) can effectively augment word of mouth transmission of the information throughout social networks.
See also
Social networking potential
Viral marketing
Social networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBird | eBird is an online database of bird observations providing scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and abundance. Originally restricted to sightings from the Western Hemisphere, the project expanded to include New Zealand in 2008, and again expanded to cover the whole world in June 2010. eBird has been described as an ambitious example of enlisting amateurs to gather data on biodiversity for use in science.
eBird is an example of crowdsourcing, and has been hailed as an example of democratizing science, treating citizens as scientists, allowing the public to access and use their own data and the collective data generated by others.
History and purpose
Launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University and the National Audubon Society, eBird gathers basic data on bird abundance and distribution at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. It was mainly inspired by the , created by Jacques Larivée in 1975. As of May 12, 2021, there were over one billion bird observations recorded through this global database. In recent years, there have been over 100 million bird observations recorded each year.
eBird's goal is to maximize the utility and accessibility of the vast numbers of bird observations made each year by recreational and professional birders. The observations of each participant join those of others in an international network. Due to the variability in the observations the volunteers make, AI filters observations through collected historical data to improve accuracy. The data are then available via internet queries in a variety of formats.
Use of Database Information
The eBird Database has been used by scientists to determine the connection between bird migrations and monsoon rains in India validating traditional knowledge. It has also been used to notice bird distribution changes due to climate change and help to define migration routes. A study conducted found that eBird lists were accurate at determining population trends and distribution if there were 10,000 checklists for a given area.
Features
eBird documents the presence or absence of species, as well as bird abundance through checklist data. A web interface allows participants to submit their observations or view results via interactive queries of the database. Internet tools maintain personal bird records and enable users to visualize data with interactive maps, graphs, and bar charts. As of 2022, the eBird website is fully available in 14 languages (with different dialect options for three of them) and eBird supports common names for birds in 55 languages with 39 regional versions, for a total of 95 regional sets of common names.
eBird is a free service. Data are stored in a secure facility and archived daily, and are accessible to anyone via the eBird web site and other applications developed by the global biodiversity information community. For example, eBird data are part of the Avian Knowledge Netw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnow%20%28algorithm%29 | The winnow algorithm is a technique from machine learning for learning a linear classifier from labeled examples. It is very similar to the perceptron algorithm. However, the perceptron algorithm uses an additive weight-update scheme, while Winnow uses a multiplicative scheme that allows it to perform much better when many dimensions are irrelevant (hence its name winnow). It is a simple algorithm that scales well to high-dimensional data. During training, Winnow is shown a sequence of positive and negative examples. From these it learns a decision hyperplane that can then be used to label novel examples as positive or negative. The algorithm can also be used in the online learning setting, where the learning and the classification phase are not clearly separated.
Algorithm
The basic algorithm, Winnow1, is as follows. The instance space is , that is, each instance is described as a set of Boolean-valued features. The algorithm maintains non-negative weights for , which are initially set to 1, one weight for each feature. When the learner is given an example , it applies the typical prediction rule for linear classifiers:
If , then predict 1
Otherwise predict 0
Here is a real number that is called the threshold. Together with the weights, the threshold defines a dividing hyperplane in the instance space. Good bounds are obtained if (see below).
For each example with which it is presented, the learner applies the following update rule:
If an example is correctly classified, do nothing.
If an example is predicted incorrectly and the correct result was 0, for each feature , the corresponding weight is set to 0 (demotion step).
If an example is predicted incorrectly and the correct result was 1, for each feature , the corresponding weight multiplied by (promotion step).
A typical value for is 2.
There are many variations to this basic approach. Winnow2 is similar except that in the demotion step the weights are divided by instead of being set to 0. Balanced Winnow maintains two sets of weights, and thus two hyperplanes. This can then be generalized for multi-label classification.
Mistake bounds
In certain circumstances, it can be shown that the number of mistakes Winnow makes as it learns has an upper bound that is independent of the number of instances with which it is presented. If the Winnow1 algorithm uses and on a target function that is a -literal monotone disjunction given by , then for any sequence of instances the total number of mistakes is bounded by:
.
References
Classification algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20exchange%20service%20%28telecommunications%29 | Foreign exchange service (FX) is an access service in a telecommunications network in which a telephone in a given exchange area is connected, via a private line, as opposed to a switched line, to a telephone exchange or central office in another exchange area, called the foreign exchange, rather than the local exchange area where the subscriber station equipment is located.
To call originators, it appears that the called party having the FX service is located in the foreign exchange area. It is assigned a telephone number of the foreign exchange.
The telecommunication circuit between central offices that implements foreign exchange service has complementary interface types at each end. At the foreign central office that provides the service, the interface is called the foreign exchange office (FXO) end, and at the end where the subscriber station is connected, it provides the foreign exchange station (FXS) interface.
Purpose
Basic telephony terminology distinguishes two types of offices: local and foreign. A local office is assigned a specific area, and all telephone services provided to that area originate from that central office. Each central office has a unique identifier. The Bell System established a unified set of central offices prefixes after World War II. The central offices usually had names, derived from locally-distinct geographic or historical contexts. Under the standardized number plan, each central office was assigned a three-digit number unique within each area code that was prefixed to the local telephone number.
The prefixes often still reflected the geography and had value in user's perception of the number, beyond the pure technical function of uniquely identifying the central office. Calls with a different prefix might incur additional charges, so businesses on one central office might want a number that is local call for customers of a different central office. Prefixes, since they related to geography, often carried the cachet of their neighborhoods; some central office prefixes were immortalized in popular culture for that reason.
Customers who wanted a telephone number provided by a neighboring or remote telephone central office leased a "foreign exchange" line. With two-wire loop technology, this typically required an engineered circuit with increased costs. The practice, rare except in big cities, is in decline.
Foreign central office (FCO) or foreign zone (FZ) services were, from a technological standpoint, deployed with the same methods as foreign exchange (FX). They differ only in that the remote office is in exactly the same rate centre (FCO) or merely in a different zone of the same US metropolitan city (FZ). Much like FX service rates depend on the distance between rate centers, FCO service prices depend on the distance between exchanges.
Function
An FX line has the local calling area of the foreign exchange in which it is numbered.
A subscriber located just outside the exchange boundary of a larg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoAntiques | GoAntiques is an online retail and auction market place for antiques and collectibles. The company was founded as an Antique Networking in 1994 and is currently based in the Portland, Oregon area.
Business profile
GoAntiques inventory consists of antique, collectible, art, and other merchandise for sale by member dealers. Along with TIAS.com, and Ruby Lane it was long considered one of the 3 major online antique malls. As of July 2014, the site lists more than 400,000 items from 1,800 dealers in 29 countries.
History
Antique Networking, Inc. was founded in Ohio in 1994 by Kathy Kamnikar, and began operating online by June 1995. It began operating under the domain antiqnet.com in 1996 and in that year was listed by the Chicago Tribune as one of 8 dominant online services (alongside historical auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's). Antique Networking merged with Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based GoAntiques in 2001 and began operating under the goantiques.com domain.
In 2003 the company moved headquarters from Baton Rouge to Columbus, Ohio under Chapter 11 Reorganization.
In October 2008, antiques and collectibles research company WorthPoint acquired GoAntiques.
In May 2015, online social marketplace Gemr acquired GoAntiques. Gemr later divested itself of the GoAntiques site.
References
External links
GoAntiques
Online retailers of the United States
Companies based in Portland, Oregon
Antiques
Retail companies established in 1994
Internet properties established in 1994
2015 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermo | Sermo (which is named after the Latin word for “conversation”) is a private social media network for physicians.
History
Sermo was founded by physician Daniel Palestrant in 2005 as an adverse effect reporting system, in response to what Palestrant considered failures in the US healthcare system during Merck's 2004 Vioxx (Rofecoxib) recall.
In 2007 Sermo raised $26.7 million and in 2011 it raised an additional $3.5 million. The site developed into a discussion board covering a variety of non-clinical and clinical topics. In 2012, WorldOne, a data-collection company, bought Sermo, and "Sermo" was rebranded to "SERMO" in 2014. By 2019, “SERMO” had been changed back to “Sermo.”
Following this, the community expanded from the US into 6 additional English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. In September, 2014 the community was also expanded to Spain and Mexico. Sermo is both a social networking site and medical crowdsourcing entity for physicians to receive aid on the medical problems of their patients from other physicians.
Community
In 2014, 3,500 patient cases were posted by doctors in the US. These cases were viewed 700,000 times and received 50,000 comments. The average patient case received a response within 1.5 hours and were marked as resolved within 24 hours. The site has about 550,000 members, with its membership including physicians from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Spain, Mexico and New Zealand.
Sermo also conducts opinion polls on topics related to physician issues, which have been cited publications including Forbes Magazine, The Washington Post, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, and Time Magazine.
Sermo claims to reach physicians in 150 countries.
References
External links
SERMO.com
RealTime
Blog
Medical professional networks
2005 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20of%20the%20Whirlwind | Voice of the Whirlwind is a 1987 cyberpunk science fiction novel by American writer Walter Jon Williams. The novel is part of a series which includes Hardwired (1986) and "Solip:System" (1989).
Plot introduction
Etienne Steward is a clone, also known as a beta. When he awakes, his memories are fifteen years old, because the original Steward—the alpha—apparently did not have his memories updated after the clone was created.
In those fifteen years, the entire world has changed. Steward Alpha's original employer, the Orbital Policorp, has collapsed in the aftermath of an off-planet war over alien artifacts. Steward Alpha fought in the war and was a commander of great renown, and afterwards was a member of humanity's alien diplomacy group. However, Steward Alpha has been murdered, resulting in the activation of his clone backup. Now Steward Beta must discover the murderer's identity while investigating the effect of alien influence on human society.
1987 American novels
1987 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Cyberpunk novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwired%20%28novel%29 | Hardwired is a 1986 cyberpunk science fiction novel by American writer Walter Jon Williams.
It was nominated for the 1987 Locus Award.
Plot summary
The Orbital Corporations won the Rock War, and now they control America. Cowboy, one of the protagonists, is a smuggler who can control an armored hovertank using a neural interface. The other protagonist, Sarah, is a prostitute turned mercenary assassin; she and Cowboy end up teaming up to fight the Orbitals.
Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence. Cowboy is hired by a Russian named Arkady to transport medicine across "The Line" while Sarah takes a seduction and assassination job for an Orbital agent named Cunningham. Both of them find themselves betrayed by their employers and soon are forced into hiding, driving them together.
Romance blooms between the two as Cowboy makes arrangements with an old colleague named Reno to try to take off some of their cargo to give them spending money. Reno is promptly assassinated by the Orbitals, making their situation worse. Cowboy decides to try to strike at the corporation behind their troubles, Temple Pharmaceuticals, while Sarah decides to make a second deal with them.
Sarah finds her hospitalized brother, Daud, has been seduced by an agent of the Orbitals and is feeding them information by them. Sarah attempts to betray Cowboy and his people but has a last minute change of heart that results in her being barely able to escape with the help of Reno, the deceased smuggler surviving inside the internet as an AI. Reno is seeking Black Mind technology that will allow him to overwrite the mind of a cybernetically enhanced mind to live again. It was created as a weapon against the Orbitals but never deployed.
Cowboy and a monstrous TP executive, Roon, inflict immense damage on the company's finances via stock manipulation but can't do enough to overthrow its current leader, Couceiro. Cowboy sets up a last ditch plan to shoot down a space ship carrying medical supplies that will restore TP's stock value. Daud betrays their location to the Orbitals and most of Cowboy's people are killed. Cowboy manages to shoot down the ship while Cunningham commits suicide after his mercenaries are killed. Cowboy manages to survive, though, and Roon takes over as CEO of TP with Couceiro "banished" to Earth.
Roon attempts to blackmail Sarah and Cowboy into working for him but is then killed by Reno, who overwrites his consciousness and replaces him. Sarah and Cowboy are left with no enemies and a very powerful new friend.
Series
HardWired is part of a series which includes:
Hardwired (1986)
Voice of the Whirlwind (1987)
Solip:System (1989)
In other media
R. Talsorian Games, with Williams's assistance, published Hardwired: The Sourcebook for their Cyberpunk role-playing game, which further expanded many of the concepts and t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Savers%20Computing%20Initiative | The Climate Savers Computing Initiative was a nonprofit group of consumers, businesses and conservation organizations dedicated to promoting smart technologies that improve power efficiency and reduce energy consumption of computers. Formed in 2007, it was based in Portland, Oregon. In July 2012, Climate Savers Computing Initiative combined with The Green Grid and its programs continue within that organization.
Participating manufacturers committed to producing products that meet specified power-efficiency targets, and members committed to purchasing power-efficient computing products.
By 2010, the initiative sought to reduce energy consumption by computers by 50 percent and reduce global emissions from the operation of computers by 54 million tons a year.
Goal
The goal of the new environmental effort was to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by setting targets for energy-efficient computers and components, and promoting the adoption of energy-efficient computers and power management tools globally.
The typical desktop PC wastes more than half of the power it draws from a power outlet. Servers typically waste 30-40% of the power they consume. This energy is wasted as heat. As a result, offices, homes, and data centers have increased demands on air conditioning which in turn increases energy requirements and associated costs.
By increasing the effectiveness of power-management features in computers as well as implementing these features and aggressive power-management policies, the average business desktop can save 60% of the electricity consumed, with no compromise to productivity. These results combat climate change and cut costs. With individual member and company participation, this effort worked toward a 50% reduction in power consumption by computers by 2010, and committed participants aimed to collectively save $5.5 billion in energy costs and 54 million tons of emissions a year. That would be the equivalent of taking 11 million cars off the road every year.
Participants in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative represented both the demand and supply side of the computer industry, including computer manufacturers and chip makers, as well as environmental groups, energy companies, retailers, government agencies and more. Supporters of the initiative included Intel Corporation, Google, Dell, EDS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Microsoft, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), World Wildlife Fund and others.
Specifications
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative operated in a manner similar to the U.S. Government's Energy Star program. It was intended to promote both the deployment of existing technologies and investment in new energy-efficiency technologies. The Energy Star 4.0 standard for desktops, laptops, and workstations, which took effect in July 2007, requires power supplies to be at least 80 percent efficient for most of their load range. In addition, it pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Atkins | Derek A Atkins is a computer scientist specializing in computer security. He studied electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In June 2014, he became the chief technology officer of SecureRF.
Atkins is an author or co-author of several computer security books, including Internet Security Professional Reference and Reputational Risk: A Question of Trust. In April 1994, he co-authored the paper The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage detailing the factorization of RSA-129.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Chief technology officers of computer security companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20sup%C3%A9rieur%20d%27%C3%A9lectronique%20de%20Paris | Institut supérieur d’électronique de Paris (ISEP) is a French grande école located in Paris. It specializes in electronics, telecommunication and computer science.
ISEP cultivates engineers in the key areas of IT world: Computer science & Cybersecurity – Electronics & Robotics – Telecommunications & Internet of Things (IoT) – Imaging & Health – Artificial Intelligence
The school was founded in 1955 on the place where Édouard Branly, physics professor at the Catholic University of Paris, discovered the coherer in 1890.
The school has two campuses, one in paris in the 6ème - located in the heart of Paris, next to the “Quartier Latin”, one in an outskirt named Issy les Moulineaux.
Departments
ISEP has three main departments (Electronics, Telecommunication, Information systems) and ten laboratories for teaching and research. ISEP has relationships with several companies in its industry (Thales, STMicroelectronics, ATMEL) and has a strong worldwide program orientation (co-operation agreements with more than 20 international institutions, member of 3 international exchange programs). ISEP also initiated an International master's degree program. ISEP welcomes a diverse range of international students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Rankings
It is one amongst the top four Grandes écoles according to the French magazines l'Express and L'Étudiant in 2010. In 2015, the school was ranked best in France for "digital" related subject and best overall private school by l'Usine Nouvelle. In 2018, ISEP was ranked at the top of the podium by L’Etudiant magazine (out of 174 institutions) for the criteria “Making a good living in information technology”.
Degrees
The ISEP Engineering master's degree Program IEMDP is a 4-semester program. Its aim is to prepare international students for the ISEP Engineering master's degree. This degree is recognized by the French government, accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Institution CTI and recognized as an international master's degree within the European Bologna scheme. The program is open to graduates with a bachelor's degree and the students join the standard French engineering curriculum starting from the 2nd year of the engineering cycle.
Three specializations are proposed:
Embedded systems
Software engineering
Wireless telecommunication and IOT systems
International Partners
Stanford University's Overseas Studies Program in Paris is hosted every year by the Institut supérieur d'électronique de Paris. Every years Chinese students from Huazhong University of Science and Technology come for two years to follow Diplôme d'Ingénieur courses. Moreover, it is also having a special course offering in ICIT Pvt Ltd Savitribai Phule Pune University(Pune). It's a 6 months course in two fields PG Diploma Course in Advanced Computing and Embedded System Design. Other famous partner universities offering exchange program include University of Bologna (Italy), Cranfield University (UK), National Chia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population-based%20incremental%20learning | In computer science and machine learning, population-based incremental learning (PBIL) is an optimization algorithm, and an estimation of distribution algorithm. This is a type of genetic algorithm where the genotype of an entire population (probability vector) is evolved rather than individual members. The algorithm is proposed by Shumeet Baluja in 1994. The algorithm is simpler than a standard genetic algorithm, and in many cases leads to better results than a standard genetic algorithm.
Algorithm
In PBIL, genes are represented as real values in the range [0,1], indicating the probability that any particular allele appears in that gene.
The PBIL algorithm is as follows:
A population is generated from the probability vector.
The fitness of each member is evaluated and ranked.
Update population genotype (probability vector) based on fittest individual.
Mutate.
Repeat steps 1–4
Source code
This is a part of source code implemented in Java. In the paper, learnRate = 0.1, negLearnRate = 0.075, mutProb = 0.02, and mutShift = 0.05 is used. N = 100 and ITER_COUNT = 1000 is enough for a small problem.
public void optimize() {
final int totalBits = getTotalBits();
final double[] probVec = new double[totalBits];
Arrays.fill(probVec, 0.5);
bestCost = POSITIVE_INFINITY;
for (int i = 0; i < ITER_COUNT; i++) {
// Creates N genes
final boolean[][] genes = new [N][totalBits];
for (boolean[] gene : genes) {
for (int k = 0; k < gene.length; k++) {
if (rand_nextDouble() < probVec[k])
gene[k] = true;
}
}
// Calculate costs
final double[] costs = new double[N];
for (int j = 0; j < N; j++) {
costs[j] = costFunc.cost(toRealVec(genes[j], domains));
}
// Find min and max cost genes
boolean[] minGene = null, maxGene = null;
double minCost = POSITIVE_INFINITY, maxCost = NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
for (int j = 0; j < N; j++) {
double cost = costs[j];
if (minCost > cost) {
minCost = cost;
minGene = genes[j];
}
if (maxCost < cost) {
maxCost = cost;
maxGene = genes[j];
}
}
// Compare with the best cost gene
if (bestCost > minCost) {
bestCost = minCost;
bestGene = minGene;
}
// Update the probability vector with max and min cost genes
for (int j = 0; j < totalBits; j++) {
if (minGene[j] == maxGene[j]) {
probVec[j] = probVec[j] * (1d - learnRate) +
(minGene[j] ? 1d : 0d) * learnRate;
} else {
final double learnRate2 = learnRate + negLearnRate;
probVec[j] = probVec[j] * (1d - learnRate2) +
(minGene[j] ? 1d : 0d) * learnRate2;
}
}
// Mutation
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience%20Project | Experience Project was a free social networking website consisting of various online communities. It operated from 2007 until 2016, when it announced it would suspend registrations and enter a read-only mode for an indefinite period.
Members submitted "experiences"—their personal, first-person stories about various life experiences they had. Users could then form or join communities based on these experiences and/or interests, and interact with other members who shared them. As of May 2016, the site had over sixty-seven million of these "experiences".
In March 2016, Experience Project announced that it would suspend operations indefinitely. The existing content of the site would remain publicly available, but members would no longer be able to post new content or access their accounts. The site was officially suspended on April 21, 2016.
As of March 2018 all links to the website redirected to a new page which contained only a short message on a blank white background informing that the website is "taking a break" and thanking the community of the site. The website remains closed as of 2023.
Description
The nodes of the network were "life experiences", such as starting a new job, battling depression or surviving a divorce. Members who had listed experiences in common were automatically connected. Reversing the "f.r.i.e.n.d.s." concept of traditional social networks, in which connections are made between known individuals who then may or may not share experiences, on the Experience Project, connections were made based on shared experiences. The site emphasized anonymity to promote more authentic conversations that would otherwise be quelled by fear of recognition or embarrassment.
In March 2016, it was announced that Experience Project would be closing for the long term on April 21, 2016. New registrations or the posting of new content was suspended, freezing the current library of experiences. Reasons cited for the closure included difficulties maintaining user privacy in the face of increasing governmental powers, challenges complying with new data privacy laws, and general online trends that were moving away from long-form content.
Leadership
Armen Berjikly was founder and CEO of the community, with executive leadership including Neil Sheth as CTO, and Erik Darby as SVP.
Origins
Experience Project was started by Armen Berjikly in late 2004. In 2013, Berjikly gave a popular TEDx talk that told the origin story of the site. After a close friend's diagnosis with multiple sclerosis Berjikly created This is MS, an online community for MS patients and caregivers focused on inspiring hope in patients through knowledge of current research. As This is MS grew, Berjikly identified that the key benefit to patients was not the editorialized content, but the relationships that formed between people who understood each other through the shared experience of having multiple sclerosis. Experience Project extended the ability to connect with people wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipteryx%20longicaudata | Amphipteryx longicaudata was a species of damselfly in family Amphipterygidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is now a synonym of Amphipteryx agrioides.
Sources
von Ellenrieder, N. & Paulson, D. 2005. Amphipteryx longicaudata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 August 2007.
Calopterygoidea
Endemic insects of Mexico
Insects described in 1991
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Latin%20American%20TV%20channel%29 | Nickelodeon is a Latin American pay television channel, counterpart of the American network of the same name. It is owned by Paramount Networks Americas and was launched on 20 December 1996. Aside from airing Nick and Nick Jr. content, it has produced original programming for the channel and has been sold to local distributors worldwide except for Cuba as cable television is banned in that country.
History
The channel was launched on 20 December 1996 in Latin America as a children-oriented channel, being the main competitor of Cartoon Network, which was launched three years before. In 1999, Nickelodeon launched its official website for the region, MundoNick.com. "Nick Radio" was also available, but eventually it was replaced by the Nick Jr. official site.
On 13 February 2006, a programming block named Nick at Nite was launched. It consisted mostly of live-action shows from the 80s and 90s, and aired from 10 pm to 6 am. On May 15 of the same year, it premiered their first sitcom locally produced in Mexico, Skimo.
On 9 June 2008, the channel launched "Nickers", a live-action show with two hosts introducing shows and music. It followed the same line and was very similar to Disney Channel's Zapping Zone. The block was cancelled in all feeds in December 2008. In 2008, two locally produced series premiered, both being soap operas. The first one, Isa TKM premiered on 29 September 2008 and La maga y el camino dorado premiered on 13 October of that same year.
In 2009, a programming block called Nick Hits, which airs classic Nick Toons, replaced Nick at Nite on weekends. On 5 April 2010, Nickelodeon Latin America was rebranded with the new logo already in use in the US and most countries in the world, making it one of the last Nickelodeon international feeds to switch to the new graphics. Due to the rebrand, NickHits was closed down and replaced again by Nick at Nite. In June 2010, Viacom gave the rights for Mexico to release their own Kids Choice Awards. It premiered on 4 September 2010. On 20 July 2010, another original series called Sueña conmigo premiered on the channel.
Through August 2010, Nickelodeon started to rerun the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender to promote the 2010 film adaptation; with this, a new on-air logo was shown when the series was broadcast, an arrow blurring takes on/off in the Nick logo. On 2 May 2011, it was premiered the fifth original production Grachi. In late January 2012, MTV Networks Latin America announced another locally produced soap opera, Miss XV, that was premiered on 16 April 2012.
Since 2012, the Nick at Nite programming block was no longer airing classic programming from the 80s and 90s and, instead, was a mere relay of Nickelodeon's 2000s and 2010s TV series that were not aired in the main slot anymore.
On 1 January 2015 the Nick at Nite programming block went off the air.
On 29 August 2023, nearly 6 months after its rebrand in the US, Nickelodeon rebranded to the splat era during the 2023 Mexic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambarellus%20diminutus | Cambarellus diminutus is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to the United States. It is native to Mississippi and Alabama, and is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.
The Cambarellus diminutus, known as the Least Dwarf Crayfish, is in the subgenus Pandicambarus of the genus Cambarellus, this animal is typically 1–2 cm in size and an omnivore that typically feeds on anything but should be fed a diet of sinking pellet. The Least Dwarf Crayfish is a freshwater animal that can be found from Mississippi, Alabama, and southern Illinois and adaptable to slight changes in water condition, and capable of year-round breeding
References
Further reading
A Revision of the Dwarf Crawfishes (Cambaridae, Cambarellinae), J. F. Fitzpatrick Jr.
Cambaridae
Endemic crustaceans of the United States
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Crustaceans described in 1945
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Horton H. Hobbs Jr. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop-by-hop%20transport | Hop-by-hop transport is a principle of controlling the flow of data in a network. With hop-by-hop transport, chunks of data are forwarded from node to node in a store-and-forward manner.
As hop-by-hop transport involves not only the source and destination node, but rather some or all of the intermediate nodes as well, it allows data to be forwarded even if the path between source and destination is not permanently connected during communication.
However, the End-to-end principle claims that transport control should be implemented end-to-end unless implementing hop-by-hop transport achieves considerably better performance. Moreover, hop-by-hop transport requires per-flow state information at intermediate nodes, which limits its scalability. This is one of the reasons why almost all communication today is controlled by end-to-end transport protocols such as TCP.
Current research in the area of sparse mobile networks is considering hop-by-hop transport for application scenarios where end-to-end connectivity is only available intermittently, as under such conditions, hop-by-hop transport can achieve substantial performance gains.
See also
Disruption Tolerant Networking
End-to-end principle
External links
On Leveraging Partial Paths in Connected Networks
End-to-end vs. hop-by-hop transport under intermittent connectivity
The Transport Layer Revisited
CAT: Contention Aware Transport Protocol for IEEE 802.11 MANETs
Transparent IP Proxy for Tactical Ad hoc Networks
Network protocols
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distocambarus | Distocambarus is a genus of burrowing crayfish native to Georgia and South Carolina in the United States. It contains five species:
Distocambarus carlsoni (Hobbs, 1983) – Data deficient
Distocambarus crockeri (Hobbs & Carlson, 1983) – Data deficient
Distocambarus devexus (Hobbs, 1981) – Data deficient
Distocambarus hunteri (Fitzpatrick & Eversole, 1997) – Vulnerable
Distocambarus youngineri (Hobbs & Carlson, 1985) – Vulnerable
References
Cambaridae
Decapod genera
Taxa named by Horton H. Hobbs Jr.
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton%20%28surname%29 | Sexton is a surname of Irish origin.
Geographical distribution
At the time of the United Kingdom Census of 1901 (the data for Ireland) and the United Kingdom Census of 1881 (the data for the rest of the United Kingdom), the frequency of the surname Sexton (Irish: Ó Seasnáin) was highest in the following counties:
1. County Clare (1: 264)
2. County Limerick (1: 678)
3. County Cavan (1: 681)
4. County Cork (1: 694)
5. Norfolk (1: 1,199)
6. County Kildare (1: 1,305)
7. County Sligo (1: 1,413)
8. County Longford (1: 1,460)
9. Suffolk (1: 2,676)
10. County Leitrim (1: 2,894)
As of 2014, the frequency of the surname was highest in the following countries and territories:
1. Republic of Ireland (1: 2,082)
2. Guernsey (1: 2,629)
3. United States (1: 6,802)
4. Australia (1: 9,071)
5. New Zealand (1: 9,695)
6. England (1: 10,290)
7. Tuvalu (1: 11,323)
8. Wales (1: 13,717)
9. Marshall Islands (1: 14,022)
10. Scotland (1: 17,208)
As of 2014, 76.8% of all known bearers of the surname Sexton were residents of the United States. The frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following U.S. states:
1. Kentucky (1: 1,380)
2. Tennessee (1: 1,934)
3. Alabama (1: 3,091)
4. Arkansas (1: 3,409)
5. Indiana (1: 3,607)
6. West Virginia (1: 3,609)
7. South Carolina (1: 3,611)
8. Ohio (1: 3,682)
9. Virginia (1: 4,058)
10. Oklahoma (1: 4,519)
11. North Carolina (1: 4,646)
12. Alaska (1: 5,362)
13. Iowa (1: 5,563)
14. Kansas (1: 5,799)
15. Missouri (1: 6,006)
16. Georgia (1: 6,117)
17. Michigan (1: 6,360)
The frequency of the surname was highest (over 20 times the national average) in the following U.S. counties:
1. Scott County, Tenn. (1: 39)
2. Letcher County, Ky. (1: 56)
3. Nicholas County, Ky. (1: 115)
4. Crenshaw County, Ala. (1: 133)
5. Wayne County, Ky. (1: 154)
6. Morgan County, Tenn. (1: 181)
7. Knott County, Ky. (1: 184)
8. Hancock County, Tenn. (1: 186)
9. Morgan County, Ky. (1: 186)
10. Menifee County, Ky. (1: 210)
11. Billings County, N.D. (1: 219)
12. Union County, Tenn. (1: 239)
13. Metcalfe County, Ky. (1: 243)
14. Carter County, Ky. (1: 262)
15. Wise County, Va. (1: 272)
16. Grayson County, Va. (1: 281)
17. Cottle County, Texas (1: 290)
18. Bath County, Ky. (1: 299)
19. Hart County, Ky. (1: 300)
People
Andrew Sexton (born 1979), English cricketer
Ann Sexton (born 1950), American soul singer
Anne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet
Austin O. Sexton (1852–1908), American politician
Brendan Sexton III (born 1980), American film actor
Cameron Sexton (born 1970), American politician
Chad Sexton (born 1970), American rock drummer
Charlie Sexton (born 1968), American guitarist, singer and songwriter
Chelsea Sexton (born 1975), American advocate of alternative fuel vehicles
Collin Sexton (born 1999), American basketball player
Dan Sexton (born 1987), American ice hockey player
Dave Sexton (1930–2012), English football player and manager
Edwin Sexton (? - September 16, 1983), Ameri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epischura%20massachusettsensis | Epischura massachusettsensis is a species of copepod in the family Temoridae, endemic to Massachusetts. It is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List. Adult males are around long.
Taxonomic history
E. massachusettsensis was first described by Arthur Sperry Pearse in 1906 in a work on the Fresh-Water Copepoda of Massachusetts published in The American Naturalist. This description was based on nine female specimens collected near Wellesley, Massachusetts in April 1905, and the brevity of the description, and the paucity of the material raised some doubts about the species' validity. Subsequent collections were able to demonstrate that the species was indeed valid.
References
Temoridae
Fauna of New England
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Crustaceans described in 1906
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20of%20Computer%20Science | The degree of Doctor of Computer Science (DCS, DCompSci, DSc.Comp, D.C.Sc.) is an applied research doctorate in computer science awarded on the basis of advanced study and research in the field of computer science. While it is considered a terminal degree and requires coursework and research beyond the masters' level, the DCS is not considered equivalent to a Ph.D. or a Doctor of Science (D.Sc or Sc.D) in computer science.
Structure
Typical entry requirements include master's degrees in computer science or a related field. The degree is intended for those who will make meaningful contributions to either the theory or practice of computing and as such involves both research and taught courses beyond master's degree level. Applied doctorates such as the DCS are aimed at practitioners with professional careers in the field rather than at those aiming for research careers in academia. The DCS is normally completed in three years, with a split of approximately two years of coursework and one year equivalent (36 credits out of a total of 96) spent on the dissertation.
Relationship to the Ph.D.
Structurally, the Doctor of Computer Science differs from the PhD in that the DCS has, as noted above, a three year duration, with only one year equivalent on the dissertation, while an American Ph.D. normally requires a minimum of four years, with at least three years spent on the dissertation.
There are two active definitions of what comprises a research doctorate or similar in the U.S. The National Center for Education Statistics defines a Doctor's degree-research/scholarship as "A Ph.D. or other doctor's degree that requires advanced work beyond the master's level, including the preparation and defense of a dissertation based on original research, or the planning and execution of an original project demonstrating substantial artistic or scholarly achievement." The awarding institution defines which degrees meet this description themselves. The National Science Foundation defines a research doctorate as "a doctoral degree that (1) requires completion of an original intellectual contribution in the form of a dissertation or an equivalent culminating project (e.g., musical composition) and (2) is not primarily intended as a degree for the practice of a profession." Under this definition, the
DCS, which (as noted above) is intended for professionals in the field of computer science, is not recognized by the National Science Foundation as a research doctorate equivalent to a Ph.D in Computer Science.
References
Computer Science
Information technology qualifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother%27s%20Keeper%20%28software%29 | Brother's Keeper is a genealogy software program for Windows.
The program functions as a database, a research planner and task organizer, a data analyzer, a chart producer, and a report writer. The software enables export and import in the GEDCOM specification for exchanging genealogical data.
Brother's Keeper used Btrieve as the underlying database engine before version 7.
Brother's Keeper has an email list for user support.
Languages
Brother's Keeper is available in the following languages: English,
Norwegian, French (Canadian), French (Belgium),
German, Danish, Icelandic and Czech, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), Estonian, Slovenian, Slovak, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Afrikaans.
References
External links
Brother's Keeper DOS Version 5.2B
Brother's Keeper Windows Version 5.2G
Brother's Keeper Windows Version 6.6
Brother's Keeper Windows Version 7
Brother's Keeper Forum on genealogy.com
Windows-only shareware
Windows-only genealogy software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imnadia%20banatica | Imnadia banatica is a species of crustacean in the family Limnadiidae. It is endemic to Serbia and Montenegro.
References
Spinicaudata
Freshwater crustaceans of Europe
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Crustaceans described in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imnadia%20cristata | Imnadia cristata is a species of crustaceans in the family Limnadiidae. It is endemic to Serbia and Montenegro.
References
Spinicaudata
Freshwater crustaceans of Europe
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Crustaceans described in 1972 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20computer | A flow computer is an electronic computer which implements algorithms using the analog and digital signals received from flow meters, temperature, pressure and density transmitters to which it is connected into volumes at base conditions. They are used for custody or fiscal transfer.
It also audits changes that have been made to any of the parameters required to turn the raw flow meter data into volumes. It records events and alarms related to the flow meter (for example, loss of flow, loss of required electrical signals from measurement transducers, or transition of these electrical signals near their upper or lower range). It keeps a running tally of the volume for each flow meter it monitors and creates a record of this volume on an hourly, daily, batch or monthly basis. The flow data is made available externally through an electronic interface so that other computers can download the information for supervision, accounting and auditing.
See also
American Petroleum Institute (API) MPMS (Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards) Chapter 21—Chapters 21.1 - Electronic Gas Systems, and Chapter 21.2 - Liquid Electronic Systems address the ability to audit and verify the information produced by a flow computer, and defines the data which a flow computer should retain, the items which should be audited if modified, the reports which the system will be capable of producing and the methodologies to follow.
Algorithms one can expect to see implemented in a typical gas flow computer are AGA Report No. 3, AGA Report No. 7, AGA Report No. 8 in the U.S. market. Internationally, ISO 5167-1:2003 and other ISO gas standard equivalents are in widespread use. Additional to natural gas, some flow computers offer an array of density calculations for steam, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and ethylene. Complex algorithms and Equations of State for wide ranges of hydrocarbon fluids and petrochemicals can also be found in liquid flow computers. API MPMS Chapter 11.1 (2004), NIST 1045 and IUPAC for ethylene measurement, GPA TP-27 for LPGs and NGLs are amongst an array of calculations performed by liquid flow computers. Other corrections specific to particular types or manufacturers of flow meters may also be implemented. Flow computers can include meter viscosity linearization functions for various meter types such as helical turbine meters, and interface serially with ultrasonic meters to obtain flow and diagnostic data.
Flow computers are available as completely programmable devices using a variety of software tools or as configurable devices using manufacturer's specific configuration software packages to set up interfaces to gas chromatographs, gas ultrasonic meters, liquid provers, flow control valves, PLC, DCS, SCADA and industry-recognized HMI supervisory systems. Modbus/TCP is a standard offering via Ethernet interfaces from some flow computers, although other communications protocols, such as OLE are supported by some flow computers. Security issues ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imnadia%20panonica | Imnadia panonica is a species of crustaceans in the family Limnadiidae. It is endemic to Serbia and Montenegro.
References
Spinicaudata
Freshwater crustaceans of Europe
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Crustaceans described in 1984 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lirceus%20usdagalun | Lirceus usdagalun is a rare species of crustacean known by the common name Lee County cave isopod. It is endemic to Virginia in the United States, where it is known from a single network of karst cave systems in Lee County. It is threatened by a number of processes. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States, and is assessed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
This isopod is a troglobite, an organism that spends its entire life in caves. It is roughly 7 millimeters long. It lacks eyes and pigmentation. It is flattened and has seven pairs of appendages. The species name, usdagalun, is from a Cherokee word meaning "cave" or "hole under rock".
This organism is endemic to The Cedars, a cave region in the Powell River Valley of southwestern corner of Virginia. It is known from four cave systems. When it was listed as an endangered species, only two populations were known, one of which was thought to have been extirpated by pollution from sawmill sawdust. This population has since re-established itself in the cave after abatement of the pollution. The isopod is sensitive to changes in water quality.
The isopod lives underwater on rocks and gravel in caves. It is associated with other cave organisms, including the isopod Caecidotea recurvata, the amphipod Crangonyx antennatus, snails (genus Fontigens), and planarians (genus Sphalloplana). At least 33 rare species of animals and plants are found at The Cedars.
References
Asellota
Endemic crustaceans of the United States
Cave crustaceans
Endemic fauna of Virginia
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Ecology of the Appalachian Mountains
Lee County, Virginia
IUCN Red List endangered species
Endangered fauna of the United States
Crustaceans described in 1973
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastigodiaptomus | Mastigodiaptomus is a genus of Neotropical copepods in the family Diaptomidae. Two of the eight species in the genus are listed as Data Deficient (DD) on the IUCN Red List, and one is listed as a vulnerable species (VU):
Mastigodiaptomus albuquerquensis (Herrick, 1895) – Mexico, United States
Mastigodiaptomus amatitlanensis (M. S. Wilson, 1941) – Guatemala
Mastigodiaptomus maya Suárez-Morales & Elías-Gutiérrez, 2000 – Campeche
Mastigodiaptomus montezumae (Brehm, 1955) – central Mexico
Mastigodiaptomus nesus Bowman, 1986 – southeastern Mexico
Mastigodiaptomus purpureus (Marsh, 1907) – Cuba, Haiti
Mastigodiaptomus reidae Suárez-Morales & Elías-Gutiérrez, 2000 – Campeche
Mastigodiaptomus texensis M. S. Wilson, 1953 – Tamaulipas, Yucatán Peninsula
References
Diaptomidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20conditions | In fluid measurement, the fluid's flow conditions (or flowing conditions) refer to quantities like temperature and static pressure of the metered substance. The flowing conditions are required data in order to calculate the density of the fluid at flowing conditions. The flowing density is in turn required in order to compensate the measured volume to quantity at base conditions.
Gas density
The density of a gas is calculated using the ideal gas law and an equation of state calculation such as the one described in AGA Report No. 8.
Liquid density
There are broad general methodologies used to calculate the density of a liquid at specific conditions. In order to discuss a specific methodology, one must choose a liquid that holds sufficient interest to warrant a calculation specific to it. EOS 87.3 is a density calculation for seawater; API chapter 11 specifies calculations pertaining to oil, fuels and natural gas liquids.
References
See also
Base conditions
Equations of state
AGA Report No. 8
Flow conditioning
Fluid dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherNet/IP | EtherNet/IP (IP = Industrial Protocol) is an industrial network protocol that adapts the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) to standard Ethernet. EtherNet/IP is one of the leading industrial protocols in the United States and is widely used in a range of industries including factory, hybrid and process. The EtherNet/IP and CIP technologies are managed by ODVA, Inc., a global trade and standards development organization founded in 1995 with over 300 corporate members.
EtherNet/IP uses both of the most widely deployed collections of Ethernet standards –the Internet Protocol suite and IEEE 802.3 – to define the features and functions for its transport, network, data link and physical layers. EtherNet/IP performs at level session and above (level 5, 6 and 7) of the OSI model. CIP uses its object-oriented design to provide EtherNet/IP with the services and device profiles needed for real-time control applications and to promote consistent implementation of automation functions across a diverse ecosystem of products. In addition, EtherNet/IP adapts key elements of Ethernet’s standard capabilities and services to the CIP object model framework, such as the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which EtherNet/IP uses to transport I/O messages.
Ethernet/IP was estimated to have about 30% share of the industrial ethernet market in 2010 and 2018.
History
Development of EtherNet/IP began in the 1990s within a technical working group of ControlNet International, Ltd.(CI), another trade and standards development organization. In 2000, ODVA and CI formed a joint technology agreement (JTA) for the development of EtherNet/IP. In 2009, the JTA was terminated and EtherNet/IP became under the sole control of ODVA and its members. Today, EtherNet/IP is one of four networks that adapt CIP to an industrial network along with DeviceNet, ControlNet and CompoNet. All of these networks are managed by ODVA, Inc.
Technical Detail
EtherNet/IP classifies Ethernet nodes into predefined device types with specific behaviors. Among other things, this enables:
Transfer of basic I/O data via User Datagram Protocol (UDP)-based implicit messaging
Uploading and downloading of parameters, setpoints, programs and recipes via TCP (i.e., explicit messaging.)
Polled, cyclic and change-of-state monitoring via UDP.
One-to-one (unicast), one-to-many (multicast), and one-to-all (broadcast) communication via IP.
EtherNet/IP makes use of TCP port number 44818 for explicit messaging and UDP port number 2222 for implicit messaging
Open-source implementation
A portable open-source implementation named OpENer was started in 2009. The source code is available on GitHub, under an adapted BSD license.
An open-source C++ scanner library named EIPScanner is available on GitHub, under an MIT license.
See also
Common Industrial Protocol
Industrial Ethernet
References
External links
Official ODVA website
ODVA EtherNet/IP page
EtherNet/IP developers guide from ODVA
Industrial computing
Seri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20A.%20Rajchman | Jan Aleksander Rajchman (London, 10 August 1911 – 1 April 1989) was a Polish electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
Biography
Jan Aleksander was son of Ludwik Rajchman and Maria Bojańczyk. His father was a Polish bacteriologist and the founder of UNICEF. He was born in London, where his parents temporarily lived, and where his father held various positions at the Royal Institute of Public Health and King's College.
He received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1935, and became a Doctor of Science in 1938.
Rajchman emigrated to America in 1935. He joined RCA Laboratory directed by Vladimir K. Zworykin in January 1936.
He was a prolific inventor with 107 US patents among others logic circuits for arithmetic. He conceived the first read-only memory, which was widely used in early computers. He conceived and developed the selectively addressable storage tube, the ill-fated Selectron tube, and the core memory.
He was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is also a member of Sigma Xi, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Physical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Franklin Institute. He received the 1960 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award and
the 1974 IEEE Edison Medal For a creative career in the development of electronic devices and for pioneering work in computer memory systems.
US patents
Magnetic System, 1957
Sources
IEEE History Site
Smithsonian Oral History, Interview with Rajchman
Memorial Tribute
Scientist of the Day - Jan Rajchman - Linda Hall Library
1911 births
1989 deaths
American electrical engineers
Polish emigrants to the United States
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
Fellow Members of the IEEE
IEEE Edison Medal recipients
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the American Physical Society
20th-century American engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrodiaptomus | Neutrodiaptomus is a genus of copepods in the family Diaptomidae. The Japanese endemic species N. formosus is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List. The genus Neutrodiaptomus contains the following species:
Neutrodiaptomus alatus Hu, 1943
Neutrodiaptomus amurensis (Rylov, 1918)
Neutrodiaptomus formosus (K. Kikuchi, 1928)
Neutrodiaptomus genogibbosus Shen, 1956
Neutrodiaptomus incongruens (Poppe, 1888)
Neutrodiaptomus lianshanensis Sung et al., 1975
Neutrodiaptomus liaochengensis Chen et al., 1992
Neutrodiaptomus lobatus (Lilljeborg, 1889)
Neutrodiaptomus mariadvigae (Brehm, 1921)
Neutrodiaptomus minutus (Lilljeborg in Guerne & Richard, 1889)
Neutrodiaptomus nanaicus Borutsky, 1961
Neutrodiaptomus okadai (Horasawa, 1934)
Neutrodiaptomus ostroumovi (Stepanova, 1981)
Neutrodiaptomus pachypoditus (Rylov, 1925)
Neutrodiaptomus sklyarovae Markevich, 1985
Neutrodiaptomus tumidus Kiefer, 1937
Neutrodiaptomus tungkwanensis Shen & Song, 1962
References
Diaptomidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soner%20%C3%96zbilen | Soner Özbilen (born 1947) is a Turkish folk singer, conductor, and compiler.
The origins are Albania (Kosovo)
Early life
Soner Özbilen was born in Boğazlıyan in 1947 from Albanian parents, they were immigrants from Kosovo.
He finished primary and middle school in Boğazlıyan, high school in Istanbul and studied at the Academy of Economy and Finance. Showing great interest in music in the school choir, he attended the Public Music Education Centre in Kadıköy and Aksaray Music Society for a while as a pupil of Orhan Dağlı, Nida Tüfekçi, Neriman Tüfekçi, and Yücel Paşmakçı. In 1966 he won the folk music singer competition organised by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) and became a trainee singer. During the three-year training period he studied under Turkish Music masters such as Nida Tüfekçi, Neriman Tüfekçi, Halil Bedii Yönetken and Ahmet Kutsi Tecer. As his training ended in 1969, he was admitted to Turkish Folk Music Group in TRT Istanbul.
Career
Influenced by Nida Tüfekçi (also from Yozgat), Çekiç Ali (from Kırşehir), Ahmet Gazi Ayhan (from Kayseri), Hacı Taşan (from Keskin), Refik Başaran (from Ürgüp) and Muharrem Ertaş (from Kırşehir); Soner Özbilen developed his own style focusing on Rumeli songs for the last ten years.
Along with appearing regularly in concerts and TRT radio-TV programmes, he performed in festivals in many regions of Turkey. He took part in International Music and Folk Dance Festivals organized in Macedonia, France, Spain, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Libya, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, and Finland.
Soner Özbilen, who has contributed to Turkish Folk Music repertory by compiling songs from several regions of Turkey, is still working as a singer and as a conductor for TRT.
References
1947 births
Living people
People from Boğazlıyan
Turkish folk singers
Turkish male singers
Turkish musicians
Turkish people of Albanian descent
Turkish people of Kosovan descent
Kosovan Turks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonel%20Moura | Leonel Moura (born December 26, 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a conceptual artist whose work shifted in the late 1990s from photo based work to Artificial Intelligence and Robotic art. Since then he has produced several Painting Robots and the Robotarium, a zoo for robots. RAP (Robotic Action Painter) (2006) is a robot that makes drawings based on emergence and stigmergy, decides when the work is ready, and signs it, is displayed as a permanent installation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Robots
ArtSbot (Art Swarm Robots), 2003, comprise several small autonomous robots, called Mbots, each equipped with color detection sensors, obstacle avoidance sensors, a microcontroller and actuators, for locomotion and pen manipulation. Mbots have two distinct behaviors: the random behavior that initializes the process by activating a pen, based on a small probability (usually 2/256), whenever the color sensors read white; and the positive feed-back behavior that reinforces the color detected by the sensors, activating the corresponding pen (since there are two pens, the color circle is split into two ranges - 'warm' and 'cold'). With this process the collective set of robots generate compositions where from a random background some color clusters emerge.
RAP (Robotic Action Painter), 2006, work alone but based on the same principles of emergence and stigmergy. Some improvements however produce rather distinct compositions from those of the ArtSbot swarm. Some of the new skills are: to determine the length and shape of each trace, the capacity to decide, in a non-linear mode, the moment to stop and the ability to sign. Additionally RAP works with six color pens and the RGB sensors are disposed in a grid of 3x3 which permits to detect local patterns and not only colors.
ISU, 2006, is very similar to RAP but is able to write letters and build words. In this fashion it makes compositions that resemble some of the Lettrist works from the 1950s and automatism.
Robotarium X is a large-scale steel glass construction lodging forty-five different robots, most powered by photovoltaic energy and fully autonomous.
RUR, the birth of the robot
In 2010 Leonel Moura creates a new version of the theatre play RUR with robots.
R.U.R., Rossum’s Universal Robots is a classic playwright written by Karel Capek in the 1920s in which the word ROBOT was coined. Men and robots clash resulting in the extermination of mankind and the emergence of robots as a new dominant species. The play was always staged with human actor’s transvestite as robots. Moura’s new version displays, for the first time, real robots interacting on stage with human actors.
RUR, the birth of the robot, debuted in August 2010 at the Itáu Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
During the 2017 edition of The New Art Fest (Lisbon) the artist installed BeBot, a swarm of robot-painters demonstratimg the idea of future autonomous art.
Books
Moura, Leonel et al. (2009) INSIDE [art and science], Lisbon, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamonautes%20didieri | Potamonautes didieri is a species of crab in the family Potamonautidae. It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but has not been observed for 100 years; it is therefore listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.
References
Potamoidea
Arthropods of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Freshwater crustaceans of Africa
Crustaceans described in 1904
Taxa named by Mary J. Rathbun
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procambarus%20connus | Procambarus connus, the Carrollton crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to the area around Carrollton, in Carroll County, Mississippi. It is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.
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Cambaridae
Natural history of Mississippi
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Crustaceans described in 1978
Taxa named by Joseph F. Fitzpatrick Jr. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procambarus%20latipleurum | Procambarus latipleurum is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to Gulf County, Florida, and is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.
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Cambaridae
Endemic fauna of Florida
Endemic crustaceans of the United States
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Crustaceans described in 1942
Taxa named by Horton H. Hobbs Jr.
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KID%20%28AM%29 | KID (590 kHz) was a commercial AM radio station located in Idaho Falls, Idaho, broadcasting on 590 AM. KID aired news/talk programming, which included syndicated programs like Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Ben Shapiro.
History
The station was first licensed, as KGIO, on November 11, 1928, on a frequency of 1320 kHz, and began broadcasting on December 3, 1928. The original call letters were randomly assigned from an alphabetical list of available call signs, and were changed to KID on February 16, 1929. In March 1941, most of the stations on 1320 kHz, including KID, moved to 1350 kHz, with the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement. In 1950, KID changed to its final frequency 590 kHz.
In October 2007, a deal was reached for KID to be acquired by GAP Broadcasting II LLC (Samuel Weller, president) from Clear Channel Communications as part of a 57-station deal with a total reported sale price of $74.78 million. What eventually became GapWest Broadcasting was folded into Townsquare Media on August 13, 2010; Townsquare, in turn, sold its Idaho Falls–Pocatello stations to Rich Broadcasting in 2011.
In its final years, KID simulcast its programming on two FM stations, KIDJ in Sugar City (serving Idaho Falls and Rexburg) and KIDG in Pocatello. They served to fill in gaps in the AM station's nighttime signal. KID operated at 5,000 watts during the day, but was required to drop to 1,000 watts at night.
The station went off the air in November 2021, when a farmer accidentally knocked down one of the station's transmission towers in Iona, Idaho. Rich Broadcasting applied for an insurance settlement, only to find out that the farmer, who claimed ownership of the property that KID was leasing for the transmitter, had collected the insurance payment. Rich Broadcasting hired an attorney to dispute the farmer's claims but, in the meantime, the farmer demolished two remaining towers on the site as well as the transmitter building, and also removed all broadcasting equipment. Rich Broadcasting determined that it would have cost between $1.5 and $2 million to keep the FCC license, build a new facility and replace the destroyed equipment, in addition to the cost of leasing a new property. Concluding that he could not justify the expense, company president Rich Mecham decided to not return to AM broadcasting and returned the 590 AM license to the Federal Communications Commission. Rich Broadcasting surrendered the KID license on February 23, 2023; the FCC cancelled it on March 3. The station's former schedule continued to be broadcast on KIDJ and KIDG.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DKID (Facility ID: 22194)
FCC History Cards for KID (covering 1928-1980 as KGIO / KID)
ID
Defunct radio stations in the United States
ID
Radio stations established in 1928
1928 establishments in Idaho
Radio stations disestablished in 2023
2023 disestablishments in Idaho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procambarus%20rathbunae | Procambarus rathbunae is a species of crayfish in family Cambaridae. It is endemic to Okaloosa County and Walton County, Florida, and is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.
References
Cambaridae
Endemic fauna of Florida
Endemic crustaceans of the United States
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Crustaceans described in 1940
Taxa named by Horton H. Hobbs Jr.
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procambarus%20texanus | Procambarus texanus (the "Bastrop crayfish") is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is only known from a fish hatchery near Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas. and is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.
References
Cambaridae
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Endemic fauna of Texas
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Crustaceans described in 1971
Taxa named by Horton H. Hobbs Jr. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skistodiaptomus%20bogalusensis | Skistodiaptomus bogalusensis is a species of calanoid copepod in the family Diaptomidae.
The IUCN conservation status of Skistodiaptomus bogalusensis is "DD", data deficient, risk undetermined. The IUCN status was reviewed in 1996.
Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species Skistodiaptomus bogalusensis:
Skistodiaptomus bogalusensis bogalusensis (M. S. Wilson & W. G. Moore, 1953)
Skistodiaptomus bogalusensis marii (Harris, 1978)
References
Diaptomidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Crustaceans described in 1953 |
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