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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnos%20chromatoxylon | Strychnos chromatoxylon is a species of plant in the Loganiaceae family. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Ivory Coast.
References
chromatoxylon
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylogyne%20darienensis | Stylogyne darienensis is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is endemic to Panama.
References
Primulaceae
Endemic flora of Panama
Data deficient plants
Plants described in 1974
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplocos%20sousae | Symplocos sousae is a species of plant in the family Symplocaceae. It is found in Costa Rica and Mexico.
References
sousae
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygium%20utilis | Syzygium utilis is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to India.
References
Endemic flora of India (region)
utilis
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernaemontana%20cordata | Tabernaemontana cordata is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is endemic to the Island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. It is listed as vulnerable.
References
Flora of the Philippines
cordata
Vulnerable plants
Plants described in 1912
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Elmer Drew Merrill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessmannianthus%20cereifolius | Tessmannianthus cereifolius is a species of plant in the family Melastomataceae. It is endemic to Panama.
References
Endemic flora of Panama
cereifolius
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blakea%20induta | Blakea induta is a species of plant in the family Melastomataceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
induta
Data deficient plants
Endemic flora of Ecuador
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blakea%20parvifolia | Blakea parvifolia is a species of plant in the family Melastomataceae. It is found in Panama and Peru.
References
parvifolia
Data deficient plants
Flora of Panama
Flora of Peru
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatica%20cuspidata | Vatica cuspidata is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It is a critically endangered species threatened by habitat loss.
References
cuspidata
Endemic flora of Peninsular Malaysia
Trees of Peninsular Malaysia
Critically endangered flora of Asia
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatica%20philastreana | Vatica philastreana is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree found in Thailand and Vietnam.
References
philastreana
Trees of Thailand
Trees of Vietnam
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavaea%20bantamensis | Vavaea bantamensis is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is endemic to Java in Indonesia.
References
bantamensis
Endemic flora of Java
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vepris%20allenii | Vepris allenii is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It is endemic to Mozambique.
References
allenii
Endemic flora of Mozambique
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viburnum%20mortonianum | Viburnum mortonianum is a species of plant in the Adoxaceae family. It is found in El Salvador and Guatemala.
References
mortonianum
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitex%20heptaphylla | Vitex heptaphylla is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is found in Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
References
heptaphylla
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissol%20Petroleum | Wissol Petroleum is a daughter brand of Wissol Group, one of the largest retailer business groups in Georgia.
This Georgian oil company is operating the widest network of service stations in the country and runs over 100 petroleum stations, nowadays providing services and products in every district of Tbilisi and elsewhere in the country. Further development of the network is underway.
Established in 2000, the company completed its process of re-branding in 2005 and entered the market with the name Wissol. In addition to individual customers, more than 6000 corporate clients use Wissol's services.
The company imports the Italian fuel from api and petroleum products from other European counties as well. In 2010, Wissol Petroleum signed an agreement with Total, one of the world's major oil and gas groups based in France and became an exclusive importer of automobile oils and lubricants of Total in Georgia.
The company pioneered the Wissol Business Card for the company’s corporate clients to the Georgian market in 2001 and remains the only company in the sector providing such a system based on smart technology and in-house developed software. Compressed natural gas (CNG) is available at Wissol since September, 2007.
See also
Energy in Georgia (country)
External links
Official Wissol Petroleum website
Oil and gas companies of Georgia (country)
Companies based in Tbilisi
Energy companies established in 2000
Non-renewable resource companies established in 2000
2000 establishments in Georgia (country) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup%20%28Apple%29 | Soup is the file system for the Apple Newton platform, based on a shallow database system. The Newton considers its internal storage, and each inserted card, as a separate "store" (a volume). Any store may have either read/write "soups" (databases) or read-only objects called "packages" (packages are roughly equivalent to applications, though they may also be storage areas or plug-ins).
Overview
A soup is a simple, one-table database of "entries" which may be indexed in different ways and queried by a variety of methods. Various soups store the Newton's equivalent of "documents" or "files." The Newton has a rich set of indexing and querying mechanisms for soups. One important index is the "tags" index. Soup entries may be "tagged" with some user-defined string; applications use these tags to mimic the mechanism of filing entries into "folders," with each folder identified by a user-defined string.
Soups have an accompanying ID symbol which represents a soup of that "kind;" this ID is assigned to a soup by the application which created it and uses it. For example, Hemlock (an Internet search tool for the Newton) maintains two soups, each with a different ID. One soup holds a list of search engines, the other holds the query results.
Soups on different stores may have the same ID, meaning that they are the same kind of soup, just spread out on different cards. When applications access soups, they usually do so by querying and accessing a "union soup" object. From an application's perspective, union soups merge all the soups of a given ID on different stores into one unified soup for that ID. This happens dynamically; when a user adds or removes cards, the union soup changes automatically, each application is notified, and they update their presentation to the user to reflect this. For example, if the user pulls out a card containing a Note Pad soup, the appropriate soup entries (i.e. "notes") in the Note Pad's union soup automatically disappear, the Note Pad is notified, and its display is updated to show that these entries are now gone. Treating documents as database entries in a global union soup made Newtons very apt at handling multiple cards being yanked and inserted while applications are running.
There are a few global soups which all applications use; the most important one is the "System" soup, which stores global information for applications, commonly application preferences.
References
Apple Newton
Apple Inc. file systems
Proprietary database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollard%27s%20kangaroo%20algorithm | In computational number theory and computational algebra, Pollard's kangaroo algorithm (also Pollard's lambda algorithm, see Naming below) is an algorithm for solving the discrete logarithm problem. The algorithm was introduced in 1978 by the number theorist John M. Pollard, in the same paper as his better-known Pollard's rho algorithm for solving the same problem. Although Pollard described the application of his algorithm to the discrete logarithm problem in the multiplicative group of units modulo a prime p, it is in fact a generic discrete logarithm algorithm—it will work in any finite cyclic group.
Algorithm
Suppose is a finite cyclic group of order which is generated by the element , and we seek to find the discrete logarithm of the element to the base . In other words, one seeks such that . The lambda algorithm allows one to search for in some interval . One may search the entire range of possible logarithms by setting and .
1. Choose a set of positive integers of mean roughly and define a pseudorandom map .
2. Choose an integer and compute a sequence of group elements according to:
3. Compute
Observe that:
4. Begin computing a second sequence of group elements according to:
and a corresponding sequence of integers according to:
.
Observe that:
5. Stop computing terms of and when either of the following conditions are met:
A) for some . If the sequences and "collide" in this manner, then we have:
and so we are done.
B) . If this occurs, then the algorithm has failed to find . Subsequent attempts can be made by changing the choice of and/or .
Complexity
Pollard gives the time complexity of the algorithm as , using a probabilistic argument based on the assumption that acts pseudorandomly. Since can be represented using bits, this is exponential in the problem size (though still a significant improvement over the trivial brute-force algorithm that takes time ). For an example of a subexponential time discrete logarithm algorithm, see the index calculus algorithm.
Naming
The algorithm is well known by two names.
The first is "Pollard's kangaroo algorithm". This name is a reference to an analogy used in the paper presenting the algorithm, where the algorithm is explained in terms of using a tame kangaroo to trap a wild kangaroo. Pollard has explained that this analogy was inspired by a "fascinating" article published in the same issue of Scientific American as an exposition of the RSA public key cryptosystem. The article described an experiment in which a kangaroo's "energetic cost of locomotion, measured in terms of oxygen consumption at various speeds, was determined by placing kangaroos on a treadmill".
The second is "Pollard's lambda algorithm". Much like the name of another of Pollard's discrete logarithm algorithms, Pollard's rho algorithm, this name refers to the similarity between a visualisation of the algorithm and the Greek letter lambda (). The shorter stroke of the letter lambda co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylosma%20ruiziana | Xylosma ruiziana is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae. It is endemic to Peru.
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ruiziana
Endemic flora of Peru
Data deficient plants
Taxa named by Hermann Otto Sleumer
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon%20Digital%20Entertainment | Eon Digital Entertainment was a computer games publishing company based in London, UK, operating globally. It was founded by John Burns, now of Electronic Arts and a former Managing Director of Activision Europe as well as senior management figure at Atari, Sega and Bandai. Other management included Sara Pelton of Ubisoft&Activision, James Cato of Take 2 Interactive and several other experienced industry management figures.
The company was founded in 2000, initially targeting the PlayStation and Game Boy platforms. Later they went on to also publish several PC and PlayStation 2 games, the first one was called Airfix Dogfighter. In 2000 the company merged with an Italian distributor, gaming TV station and website to form Digital Bros, a planned 'Total gaming company' which subsequently floated on the Italian stock exchange in late 2000. In 2002, Eon was closed after Burns departed the company leaving some developers like Bethesda Softworks to search for new publishers. Eon for example had been set to release The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Sea Dogs in Europe as well as Star Trek Elite Force and others.
Games published
Airfix Dogfighter (PC)
Crime Cities (PC, 2000)
Mission: Humanity (PC)
SUper (PC)
Super Bust-A-Move (PC)
Z: Steel Soldiers (PC, 2001)
Builder's Block (PlayStation)
Chaos Break (PlayStation)
Formula Nippon (PlayStation)
K-1 Grand Prix (PlayStation, 2000)
Wild Rapids (PlayStation, 1994)
OverBlood 2 (PlayStation, 2001)
References
Video game publishers
Video game companies established in 2000
Video game companies disestablished in 2002
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct companies based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanthoxylum%20integrifoliolum | Zanthoxylum integrifoliolum is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It is found in the Philippines and Taiwan.
References
integrifoliolum
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Elmer Drew Merrill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Wireless%20Communications | IEEE Wireless Communications is a bimonthly scientific journal published by the IEEE Communications Society. Papers highlight such topics as portable telephones, communicating palmtop computers, protocols, messaging, communications, and personalized traffic filtering. It also covers such policy issues as spectrum allocation, industry structure, and technology evolution.
The current editor is Yi Qian of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. It is abstracted and indexed in most of the major bibliographic databases. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 11.979.
References
External links
IEEE Communications Society's Digital Library
Engineering journals
Wireless Communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Jones%20Live | Alan Jones Live was a nightly Australian current affairs and talk-back television program that aired on Network Ten from 31 January 1994 to 28 April 1994. Hosted by then 2UE Sydney radio broadcaster Alan Jones, it aired nationally at 7:00 pm each weeknight and was repeated at 11:30 pm.
On 28 April 1994, it was announced that program would cease production due to low ratings.
See also
List of programs broadcast by Network Ten
List of Australian television series
References
Australian non-fiction television series
Network 10 original programming
Television in Sydney
1994 Australian television series debuts
1994 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimora%3A%20Life%20in%20the%20Fab%20Lane | Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane is an American reality television series on the Style Network. The series premiered on August 5, 2007. The series ran on syndication on E! but is no longer aired.
A spin-off show, Kimora: House of Fab, debuted on January 23, 2013.
Synopsis
The series follows Kimora Lee Simmons and features the daily life of herself, her three children: Ming Lee Simmons (January 2000), Aoki Lee Simmons (August 2002), and Kenzo Lee Hounsou (May 2009), along with various people who work for and with Simmons. Along with giving viewers an insight to her daily life, her boyfriend Djimon Hounsou is also shown. Her first husband, Russell Simmons, makes frequent appearances in the series too.
Episodes
Season 1: 2007
Season 2: 2008
Season 3: 2009-2010
Season 4: 2011
References
External links
http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/kimora-life-fab-lane/289957
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2007 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Style Network original programming
E! original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamshad%20TV | Shamshad Media Network () is based in Afghanistan and Dubai. Shamshad Media Network is a private and an independent network based in Afghanistan, which began transmission in 2005.
Shamshad's broadcast area covers a large portion of the country where ethnic Pashtuns live and also covering isolated areas. Shamshad programs are mainly (85%) in Pashto language, providing educational TV shows, news, family dramas, musical shows, comedy programs, children's game shows, women empowerment programs, Islamic educational programs, political and current affairs programs, entertainment programs, sports programs, criminal incidents programs and programs to both local areas of Afghanistan as well as other countries via satellite, IPTV and local transmitters.
Coverage
Shamshad TV installed towers to cover most remote districts around the country, especially in the south. Shamshad currently provides free-to-air services to viewers in Kabul, Logar, Kapisa, Parwan, Wardak, Ningrahar, Laghman, Balkh (Mazar-e-Sharif), Paktia, Khost, Kundoz, Heart, Kandahar, Helmand, Kunar, Baghlan, Ghazni, Nimroz, Farah, Zabul, Badakhshan and other provinces. Beside (free to air service) the main cities are also covered by cable operators. New transmitters have been installed in Speen Boldak and Turkham for terrestrial coverage across border in the tribal area. Furthermore, 90% in Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan are covered by cable operators.
Shamshad Radio
Shamshad Radio is a part of Shamshad SMN.
SMN (Shamshad Media Network) covered by:
Terrestrial (80%)
Cable Operator Major Cities
Satellite 57 Countries
Live Steam Major Cities
IPTV World Wide
Social Medial World Wide
Shamshad TV programs
Shamshad translates different dramas from Turkish; a fight drama against terrorism Sefket Tape (Dare Morchal), Team One (Shaheen), Mirna and Khalil (Mirna ao khalil), Iki Dunya Anasinda (Sahra), Yeni Gelin (Nawy) and various other drama series.
Shamshad also translates many drama series from Hindi; Karal Bagh (Karal bagh) a family issues based story, a love story based drama series Qabool Hai (Salgai), Be Had (Junoon) and Koch Rang Peyar ke (Da meni rang) a family-based love story drama.
Shamshad produces its own programs like Roon Sahar (morning show inviting different peoples from society to discuss social and political issues with them), Jor pa Khair (local music), Takkan (comedy program), cooking show, in Ghazal shpa (music show) inviting different musicians from all over the country, Khaza ao Tolana (special program for women asking about their life and working area), Tawda bahsona (a current affair show on daily basis) Deni Larkhowany (inviting Islamic scholars to discuss different issues and give solution to that problems) and different other programs.
Shamshad Film Production launched the first Full HD Pashto Created drama series Sola and Seyal (Sola ao seyal) around the world.
Logo
Shamshad Media Network logo is a decorative representation of the network's name written using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloalcalophilium | In taxonomy, Haloalcalophilium is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae.
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Archaea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halobaculum |
Halobaculum (common abbreviation: Hbl.) is a genus of the Halorubraceae.
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
References
External links
Archaea genera
Taxa described in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaning%20Network | Gleaning Network is the most widespread and volunteer-oriented of the Society of St. Andrew's ministries.
Background
Gleaning is the traditional Biblical practice of gathering crops that would otherwise be left in the fields to rot or be plowed under after harvest. Because the food is unmarketable, usually due to cosmetic reasons, some growers allow crews of gleaners to pick what is left after harvest to donate to those who are needy. It is also often more cost-effective for farmers to have their crops gleaned than to have paid pickers go back through the fields for the missed produce.
The Society of St. Andrew's Gleaning Network coordinates volunteers, growers, and distribution agencies to salvage food for the needy. Tens of thousands of volunteers from churches, synagogues, scout troops, senior citizen groups, and other organizations participate each year in Gleaning Network activities all across the country. Each year, tens of millions of pounds of produce are salvaged and given to the poor at no cost to them.
Gleaners are people of all ages and income levels who give their time and energy to this process. Within 48 hours of picking the produce, hungry Americans are usually eating the gleaned food. Each year, about 30,000 people join the Gleaning Network in salvaging over 15 million pounds of fresh, nutritious food for their hungry neighbors. The Society of St. Andrew has staff Gleaning Network coordinators in several states as well as volunteer coordinators nationwide. Volunteering can take place over a single morning or for many years of service, and is seen as a practical, humanitarian response to the problem of hunger.
External links
Gleaning Network of Jackson County, Oregon
The Gleaning Network of Texas - Connecting Resources~Alleviating Hunger
http://www.endhunger.org SoSA's Wiki page or the official Society of St. Andrew website.
References
Food banks in the United States
Christian relief organizations
Jewish relief organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halogeometricum | In taxonomy, Halogeometricum (common abbreviation: Hgm.) is a genus of the Haloferacaceae.
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Type strain of Halogeometricum borinquense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Archaea genera
Taxa described in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20%28role-playing%20game%29 | Cyberspace is a near-future cyberpunk role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) in 1989 using a revised set of rules from their previously published Space Master role-playing game.
Description
Cyberspace is a role-playing game that uses the cyberpunk atmosphere engendered in the science fiction novels of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and Walter John Williams. The primary setting is a dystopian urban sprawl around San Francisco in the year 2090 in a world that that is controlled by powerful "MegaCorps".
Players choose from a variety of occupations including:
Jockey, primarily a pilot and of almost any aircraft or vehicle, also jack-of-all-trades
Killer, a combat specialist
Net Junkie or Net Head, a computer hacker
Sleaze, a specialist in social skills
Tech Rat, technical wizard
Publication history
In 1985, I.C.E. published the complex science-fiction role-playing game Space Master and subsequently released several adventures for it. Tod Foley, who worked on some of the adventures, developed a cyberpunk science fiction role-playing game with the help of Terry Amthor, Kevin Barrett, Coleman Charlton, and Leo LaDell. The game, Cyberspace, set in a grim and morally bankrupt future, was published as a 208-page softcover book in 1989 with cover art by Rick Vietch and interior art by Angela Bostick, Dell Harris, Rick Lowry, and Karl Martin.
I.C.E. published several adventures and supplements for the game in 1990 and 1991, and published a second edition of the game in 1992.
Reception
In Issue 55 of the French games magazine Casus Belli, Pierre Rosenthal thought that Cyberspace "is an almost exact copy of [the previously published R. Talsorian Games product] Cyberpunk. Indeed, although the setting has to be similar and commonalities would be expected, certain aspects (background of the characters, presentation of the interface worlds, corporation files) seem almost plagiarized." Rosenthal did find that each chapter of this game "(history, cybernetic implants, computer interface, vehicles, corporations) is a little more in-depth [than other products]." But Rosenthal thought descriptions of computer systems were forty years out of date, calling "the vision of computing worthy of the 1950s." Rosenthal also pointed out that this game, like other American cyberpunk role-playing games, was extremely America-oriented, noting that "Europe is limited to England and a few satellite Latin countries (like Italy, Spain and France)." Rosenthal concluded, "Cyberspace remains a good alternative for those who like the I.C.E. simulation system."
In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games, game critic Rick Swan called it an "excellent cyberpunk RPG" but he had reservations about recommending it, pointing out that, like its complex predecessor Space Master, this game's rulebook was "packed with tables, numbers, and formulas. Cyberspace is clearly intended for sophisticated players who don't mind thumbing through a thick rulebook |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linha%20do%20Oeste | Linha do Oeste (Western Line) is a railway line serving the central western coast of Portugal belonging to Infraestruturas de Portugal network. The line was opened in 1887.
Passenger services are operated by CP. The line is used also by freight trains from CP; the new private freight operator Takargo also plans services using this line.
See also
List of railway lines in Portugal
List of Portuguese locomotives and railcars
History of rail transport in Portugal
References
Sources
External links
Schedule
O
Railway lines opened in 1887
Iberian gauge railways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocoRoco%20Cocoreccho%21 | LocoRoco Cocoreccho (or in Japan) is a platform game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game released for PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network in September 2007. Described as an "interactive screensaver", LocoRoco Cocoreccho! features an autonomous two-dimensional environment in which the world and characters play even without input from the player.
Gameplay
In the game, players control a butterfly (the "Cocoreccho" of the title) to gather LocoRoco that are dispersed throughout a level and direct them to a goal in a large enough group to pass through. The player can call LocoRoco to the character, which is depicted as a ring of light emanating from the Cocoreccho, which prompts LocoRoco to move toward the Cocoreccho. Players can also use the Cocoreccho to tilt and jolt various characters and objects within the environment by positioning the Cocoreccho on the intended target and tilting or shaking the controller. Along the route there are three types of minigames. In each mini game it is possible to increase the number of LocoRoco by up to 15 by achieving a high score.
Reception
LocoRoco Cocoreccho received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
References
External links
Official website
2007 video games
Platformers
PlayStation Network games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in Japan
Single-player video games
Japan Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldon%20Inc. | Aldon (previously known as Aldon Computer Group) is a business unit of Rocket Software. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports software change management products for the enterprise application lifecycle management (ALM) and software change management (SCM) markets.
Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S., Rocket Software also has offices globally. The current suite of Aldon products includes Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Aldon Deployment Manager, Aldon Community Manager, and Aldon CMDB. Aldon invests more than 25% of its revenue into research and development.
Companies use Aldon's products for enterprise software application configuration and change management for their IT business processes.
History
1979-1989: Beginnings
Aldon Computer Group was founded in 1979 by Albert Magid and Don Parr to provide tools for midrange software developers. It was based in Emeryville, California. The company's products were designed to provide infrastructure around complex software projects.
Aldon's first product, Compare, a file and database compare tool for the IBM mainframe computer, was introduced in 1982. In 1983, S/Compare, the first source change documentation tool on the market, was offered. At that time, Aldon also sold an object file compare tool called O/Compare. Originally developed for the HP 3000, S/Compare was part of a suite of comparison tools for that environment. Designed to enable programmers to identify differences in program code, it used advanced algorithms to provide comparisons that were more accurate than other tools could produce. Customers used S/Compare to identify the changes they had made to purchased packages, allowing them to integrate those changes into new releases of the packages they had bought.
S/Compare was eventually developed into a comprehensive source compare and merge tool, known as Aldon Harmonizer. The product compared current releases with new releases and then merged the versions to create a whole new set of source and objects. It also supported parallel development by identifying and merging the work of two or more programmers who had modified the same program simultaneously.
In the late 1980s, Harmonizer was converted to run on IBM's System/38 minicomputer platform, a precursor to the AS/400 (later known as iSeries, Application System/400, System i and now IBM i). Aldon's decision to convert its product to run on IBM's platform marked Aldon's entry into IBM i development.
Aldon made its home in downtown Oakland, California, for its initial twenty-four years of business, with the first office located in the Financial Center Building on 14th and Franklin Streets. Aldon relocated to Emeryville on February 18, 2003.
1989-1999: An Embrace of IBM's iSeries and Entry into Multi-Platform Development
In 1990, Aldon released Aldon/CMS, a software change management (SCM) system for traditional iSeries development. Aldon/CMS was renamed Aldon Lifecycle Manager (iSeries edition).
In 1996, Daniel Magid t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20configuration | A system configuration (SC) in systems engineering defines the computers, processes, and devices that compose the system and its boundary. More generally, the system configuration is the specific definition of the elements that define and/or prescribe what a system is composed of.
Alternatively, the term "system configuration" can be used to relate to a model (declarative) for abstract generalized systems. In this sense, the usage of the configuration information is not tailored to any specific usage, but stands alone as a data set.
A properly-configured system avoids resource-conflict problems, and makes it easier to upgrade a system with new equipment.....
Sample configuration
The following is a basic SC XML System Configuration:
Description:
This provides information about a single "site" (MyHouse) and specifies that there is one host with user-setup and mysql-db components. The host must have an account on it for a user named mysql, with appropriate parameters. Notice that the configuration schema requires no XML tags that are Windows- or UNIX-specific. It simply presents data as standalone information – with no pretense for how the data is to be used.
This is the hallmark for a good system configuration model.
Further extensions
The above model can be extended. For example, the user could have more attributes like "preferences" and "password". The components could depend on other components. Properties can be defined that are passed into sub-elements. The extensions can be endless (WATCHOUT: complexity) and must be managed and well-thought-out to prevent "breaking" the idea of the system configuration.
Usage
The usage for the model in practical terms falls into several categories: documentation, deployment & operations.
Documentation
One use of the configuration is to simply record what a system is. This documentation could in turn become quite extensive, thus complicating the data model. It is important to distinguish between configuration data and descriptive data. Of course comments can be applied at any level, even in most tools, however the bloating of the data can reduce its usefulness. For example, the system configuration is not a place to record historical changes, or descriptions of design and intent for the various elements. The configuration data is simply to be "what it is" or "what we want it to be".
Deployment
Deployment involves interpreting a configuration data set and acting on that data to realize the configure the system accordingly. This may simply be a validation of what's there to confirm that the configuration is in effect.
Examples include a Perl library launched from the command line to read the configuration and begin launching processes on the local or remote hosts to install components. Also while the system is running, there may be a SystemConfiguration service that provides an interface (i.e. CORBA IDL interfaces) for other system applications to use to access the configuration data, and perf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sea%20Patrol%20episodes | Sea Patrol is an Australian drama television series which premiered on 5 July 2007 in Australia on the Nine Network. Each series contains 13 episodes, with the first season of Sea Patrol premiering on 5 July 2007, and concluding on 4 October 2007. The second season, titled Sea Patrol II: The Coup, debuted on 31 March 2008, and ended on 23 June 2008. The third season is titled Sea Patrol: Red Gold. Sea Patrol: Red Gold premiered on 18 May 2009 and ended 27 July 2009. The fourth season debuted on 15 April 2010 and concluded on 29 July 2010. The final season five started on 26 April 2011 and concluded on 12 July 2011. Over the five seasons, 68 episodes were aired.
Series overview
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Episodes
Season 1: 2007
Season 2: 2008
Season 3: 2009
Season 4: 2010
Season 5: 2011
Ratings
References
General references
External links
List of Sea Patrol episodes at the Internet Movie Database
Sea Patrol
Sea Patrol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEED | KEED (1450 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Eugene, Oregon, United States. The station is currently owned by Mielke Broadcasting Group.
Programming
For several years, the then-KLZS broadcast a Spanish language sports radio format branded as "ESPN Deportes 1450" to the greater Eugene area as an ESPN Deportes affiliate. This programming was aired in conjunction with sister station KXPD (1040 AM) in Portland, Oregon. On November 15, 2009, until the station went dark on December 30, 2009, it broadcast a satellite-fed English language smooth jazz music format branded as "Smooth Jazz Network" from Broadcast Architecture. On the station's return to the air in May 2010, it began broadcasting an oldies format as a simulcast of KKNX (840 AM, "Radio 84"). On November 1, 2012, KLZS switched to a comedy format as All Comedy 1450. The station broadcast a mix of stand up and interviews from the All Comedy Radio Network and local programming with professional comedians from the Eugene-Springfield area.
History
The station was assigned the call sign KLZS on April 22, 2005.
On December 30, 2009, KLZS went off the air citing "substantial decreases in its revenue flow" over the past three years. In its application to the FCC for special temporary authority to remain silent, the station's license holder claimed that "losses have reached the point that the station no longer generates sufficient funds to pay operating expenses" and that the company is seeking to either sell the station or refinance and return to operation. The FCC granted the station authority to remain silent on March 4, 2010.
The station returned to the air on May 11, 2010.
In December 2011, Churchill Media, LLC, applied to the FCC to transfer KLZS and sister station KXOR to "Arlie & Company". Both companies were wholly owned by Suzanne K. Arlie and the transfer was made as a "business reorganization". The FCC approved the move on December 29, 2011, and formal consummation of the transaction took place the same day.
Effective January 15, 2013, KLZS was purchased by Eugene Comedy Radio. Since November 1, 2012, KLZS has been broadcasting a comedy format under the name "All Comedy 1450".
On June 14, 2017, KLZS went silent. Effective July 28, 2017, Eugene Comedy Radio sold KLZS to Mielke Broadcasting Group for $226,000. Mielke changed the station's call sign to its original KEED on August 1, 2017.
On August 2, 2017 KEED returned to the air with a simulcast of oldies-formatted KKNX 840 AM. On August 7, 2017 KEED changed their format to classic country.
References
External links
KEED 104.3 - 1450 Facebook
FCC History Cards for KEED (covering 1927-1980 as KLIT / KORE / KEED)
FCC History Cards for KORE (covering 1953-1980 as KRGA / KEED / KORE)
EED
1954 establishments in Oregon
Radio stations established in 1954 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Cuts%20%28TV%20series%29 | Short Cuts was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 2001. The 26-episode series was aimed at teenagers. It was financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Burberry Productions. The series was subsequently repeated on the youth-oriented network ABC3 in March and April 2011.
Premise
Short Cuts depicts a group of students in a media studies class facing the challenges of growing up and using a camera to express themselves for their schoolwork.
Location
The series was filmed at Fitzroy High School in the inner north of Melbourne.
Cast
Alex Tsitsopoulos as Ross Papasavas
Gemma Bishop as Sophie Bennett
Damien Bodie as Oscar Coxon
Katie Barnes as Fiona Frischmann
Alexander Cappelli as Kurt Winters
Leah De Niese as Ruth Hartnell
Lucia Smyrk as Anna Klopfer
Dylan Gray as Tim McQuilten
Joel Gray as Tom McQuilten
Matthew Green as Gordon Long
Kym Osborne as office guy
Recurring roles
Katerina Kotsonis as Mrs Papasavas, Ross's mother
Marcus Eyre as Aaron Winters, Kurt's father
Alex Konis as Laz Papasavas, Ross's brother
Marieke Hardy, writer of the series, guest starred as Josephine Coxon in 2 episodes
Johnny Lockwood as Hippy
Episodes
One series of Short Cuts was filmed, and comprised 26 episodes.
Season 1 (2001)
Awards
Marieke Hardy won an Australian Writers' Guild Award in 2002 for Short Cuts.
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Short Cuts - Burberry Productions
Short Cuts at the Australian Television Information Archive
Short Cuts - "Wheels on Fire" at Australian Screen Online
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's television series
2002 Australian television series debuts
2003 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20regulator | The good regulator is a theorem conceived by Roger C. Conant and W. Ross Ashby that is central to cybernetics. Originally stated that "every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system", but more accurately, every good regulator must contain a model of the system. That is, any regulator that is maximally simple among optimal regulators must behave as an image of that system under a homomorphism; while the authors sometimes say 'isomorphism', the mapping they construct is only a homomorphism.
Theorem
This theorem is obtained by considering the entropy of the variation of the output of the controlled system, and shows that, under very general conditions, that the entropy is minimized when there is a (deterministic) mapping from the states of the system to the states of the regulator. The authors view this map as making the regulator a 'model' of the system.
With regard to the brain, insofar as it is successful and efficient as a regulator for survival, it must proceed, in learning, by the formation of a model (or models) of its environment.
The theorem is general enough to apply to all regulating and self-regulating or homeostatic systems.
Five variables are defined by the authors as involved in the process of system regulation. as primary disturbers, as a set of events in the regulator, as a set of events in the rest of the system outside of the regulator, as the total set of events (or outcomes) that may occur, as the subset of events (or outcomes) that are desirable to the system.
The principal point that the authors present with this figure is that regulation requires of the regulator to conceive of all variables as it regards the set of events concerning the system to be regulated in order to render in satisfactory outcomes of this regulation. If the regulator is instead not able to conceive of all variables in the set of events concerning the system that exist outside of the regulator, then the set of events in the regulator may fail to account for the total variable disturbances which in turn may cause errors that lead to outcomes that are not satisfactory to the system (as illustrated by the events in the set that are not elements in the set ).
The theorem does not explain what it takes for the system to become a good regulator. In cybernetics, the problem of creating good regulators is addressed by the ethical regulator theorem, and by the theory of practopoiesis. The construction of good regulators is a general problem for any system (e.g., an automated information system) that regulates some domain of application.
When restricted to the ordinary differential equation (ODE) subset of control theory, it is referred to as the internal model principle, which was first articulated in 1976 by B. A. Francis and W. M. Wonham. In this form, it stands in contrast to classical control, in that the classical feedback loop fails to explicitly model the controlled system (although the classical controller may c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20messaging | Electronic messaging may refer to:
One-to-one-communication
Instant message (on a computer network)
Personal message (on a computer network)
Text message (on a cellular phone network)
SMTP (on a computer network)
Email (on a computer Network)
Voicemail (using the PSTN)
Fax (using the PSTN)
Pager (using the PSTN)
One-to-many communication
Bulletin board system (on a computer network)
Internet forum (on a computer network)
Usenet newsgroup (on a computer network) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Weinreb | Daniel L. Weinreb (January 6, 1959 – September 7, 2012) was an American computer scientist and programmer, with significant work in the environment of the programming language Lisp.
Early life
Weinreb was born on January 6, 1959, in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised there by his parents, Herbert and Phyllis Weinreb. He had two brothers, Bill and David, and attended Saint Ann's School.
Education
Weinreb graduated from St. Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York in 1975. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1975 to 1979 (starting at age 16), graduating with a B.S. in computer science and electrical engineering, where he and Mike McMahon wrote EINE and ZWEI, text editors for MIT Lisp machines. EINE made use of the windowing system of the Lisp machine, and thus is the first Emacs written for a graphical user interface (GUI). EINE was the second implementation of Emacs ever written, and the first implementation of Emacs in Lisp. Most of the notable subsequent Emacs implementations used Lisp, including Richard Stallman's GNU Emacs, James Gosling's Gosmacs, and Bernard Greenberg's Multics Emacs.
Professional life
During 1979–1980, Weinreb worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on the operating system Amber for the S-1 supercomputer, more so the file system and the multiprocess scheduler.
In 1980, he cofounded Symbolics, developing software for their Lisp machine. He also participated significantly in the design of the programming language Common Lisp (CL). He was one of the five co-authors of the original language specification, Common Lisp the Language, First Edition. He worked on Statice, an object-oriented database published by Symbolics in 1988.
In 1988, he cofounded Object Design, Incorporated (ODI), where he was one of the architects and implementors of ObjectStore, a leading commercial object-oriented database management system object database. It is still commercially maintained and available from Progress Software, which bought Object Design (then eXcelon, Inc.).
In 2002, he joined BEA Systems, where he was Operations, Administration, and Management Architect for WebLogic.
In 2006, he joined ITA Software, working on an airline reservations system (ARS). In 2009 Daniel Weinreb gave a Google Tech Talk about the use of Common Lisp as one of the implementation languages for the airline reservation system.
In 2009, he was the chair of the International Lisp Conference 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Personal life
Weinreb married Cheryl Moreau in 1986 and they had a son, Adam, in 1991.
Dan Weinreb died on September 7, 2012, after a year-long battle with cancer.
References
Publications
External links
Daniel Weinreb's Road to Lisp
Daniel Weinreb's Common Lisp Implementations: A Survey
1959 births
2012 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts
MIT School of Engineering alumni
American computer scientists
American computer programmers
Google employees
Lisp (programming language) people
Ema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextgen | Nextgen, Next Gen, or NextGen may refer to:
Arts and media
Age of X-Man: NextGen, a 2019 comic book, part of the Age of X-Man crossover
Next Gen (film), a 2018 computer-animated sci-fi action film distributed by Netflix
Next Generation (magazine), a defunct video game magazine
Star Trek: The Next Generation, a television show
Companies
NextGen CDR Facility, a carbon removal (CDR) procurement platform
NextGen Healthcare, a software company that develops systems for the healthcare industry
Nextgen Networks, a communication company in Australia
NexGen, a defunct semiconductor company
Technology
Next Generation Air Transportation System, the United States Federal Aviation Administration's massive overhaul of the US airspace system
Next Gen TV, a marketing term for the ATSC 3.0 set of television broadcast standards
Other uses
Juventus Next Gen, reserve football team of Juventus FC
NextGen America, an organization focused on climate change, founded by Tom Steyer
NextGen series, a European football club cup competition for under-19 footballers
Next Gen (NASCAR), the seventh-generation stock car set to be used in the NASCAR Cup Series from 2022
Next Generation ATP Finals, a youth tennis tournament
LBA Next Gen Cup, a youth basketball tournament
See also
Generation Next (disambiguation)
Next Generation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palador%20Pictures | Palador Pictures (also Palador Pictures Private Limited) is a content production, programming and publishing company based in Mumbai, India, dealing mainly with the acquisition and distribution of foreign-language films, also known as world cinema, in the Indian subcontinent through DVD, television and theatre.
It was the first company to focus on world cinema in India in 2005. Published reports indicate that Palador controls the distribution of close to 1000 films made from the 1920s to the present.
Company name
"Palador" is derived from "Pala", a fictional island in the novel The Island by Aldous Huxley. Palador is also a planet in Arthur C. Clarke's short science fiction story "Rescue Party," the first story Clarke sold. It is also the name of a dental alloy.
Acquired films
The company has acquired films from many parts of the world, and especially at film festivals. It acquired the rights to around 300 films during the Cannes Film Festival of 2007, including the 'Extra-Special' anniversary prize-winning film Paranoid Park. In a recent Berlin International Film Festival, Palador is said to have acquired films like Shine a Light, the biography of the Rolling Stones directed by Martin Scorsese, and the Lou Reed documentary Berlin.
On television, eight films from Palador's catalog were shown in association with Tata Sky during October–November 2007, including films by directors Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders, François Truffaut and Wong Kar-wai. The company recently closed a deal with Zee Studio to show 26 of its films for six months.
DVD releases
Palador has launched a DVD Label called 'The One World Collection' and have released world cinema titles under it. The films are being sold as box sets and as individual titles. Some of the movies include: Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Throne of Blood; and Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries and Summer Interlude.
Palador has tied up with Moser Baer, to offer 50 films on DVD. These titles expected to cost INR 399, will mark the entry of Moser Baer, known for their inexpensive DVDs and VCDs, into a premium category.
Online promotion
The company is promoting world cinema online via different partnerships. It is selling its DVD titles and box sets with Indiaplaza.in and from their own online store. Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar-wai, François Truffaut and World Cinema Collectors Box Sets are available in these stores.
As a promotional measure Palador has also begun a 'Trip To Cannes' contest that allows those that buy these box sets to win a trip to the Cannes Film Festival 2008.
The online store does not have customer support, and there are no listed phone numbers to contact in case of ordering or shipping problems. E-mails to their support team are not entertained in case of disputes.
Valuation
Palador raised funding of US$6 million from private investors including Mahesh Mathai, the director of Indian film, Bhopal Express in August 2007, after a 15% dilution of equity. By this estimation the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20North%20Korea | Telephone numbers in North Korea are regulated by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
Area codes
This is the official list as registered with ITU-T in 2011.
Mobile networks
0191 - Koryolink WCDMA Network
0192 - Koryolink WCDMA Network
0193 - SunNet GSM900 Network (discontinued in 2004)
0195 - KangsongNET GSM900 Network
Number lengths
Little is known about phone numbers in the rest of the country, as phone numbers outside Pyongyang and Rason are not able to be dialled from overseas and are hence not advertised in any overseas publications.
International dialing
Overseas callers to North Korea will usually need to go through the international operator service on +850 2 18111. A select few numbers (mostly fax numbers) are able to be dialled directly, without operator assistance.
Phone numbers in Pyongyang which can call internationally and which can receive calls internationally always begin with 381 in the local number, e.g. +850 2 381 xxxx. These numbers cannot be dialled domestically and cannot make calls domestically, so usually an organisation with international connectivity will have a 381 international number and a 382 domestic number. For example, the British Embassy in Pyongyang can be dialled as +850 2 381 7980 internationally and 02 382 7980 domestically. 381 numbers can, however, call other 381 numbers domestically.
Many North Koreans smuggle in mobile phones from China and use them near the border where they can take advantage of Chinese mobile networks that work there. The North Korean government has cracked down on illegal phones by deploying surveillance and jamming devices.
Many lines in the Rason Special Economic Zone can also be direct-dialled from outside the country, as many foreign companies (mostly Chinese and Russian) are active in the region.
Calls between North Korea and South Korea are banned, except to or from the Kaesong Industrial Region.
References
External links
North Korea at World Telephone Numbering Guide
Korea, North
Communications in North Korea
North Korea communications-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20Jordan | Orange Jordan is a Jordanian public mobile telephone network operator, and is the operator of the mobile communications license granted to Jordan Telecom.
The company was first registered on 21 September 1999, with an aim to build a mobile communications network to serve Jordan, and has launched full public service across the Kingdom on 15 September 2000.
The mobile operator was called MobileCom until it was rebranded in 2007.
History
Upon privatization on 23 January 2000, Jordan Telecom Group was 60% owned by Jordan's government. The remaining 40% of the group's shares were owned by JITCO Investment Group, a holding company consisting of France Télécom (88%) and the Arab Bank (12%).
Mobile
On 30 March 2010, Orange Jordan launched its 3G network – The first 3G network in Jordan. The W-CDMA network was rolled out in three phases, according to Orange Jordan's Ex-CEO Nayla Khawam. Under the first phase roll out included west Amman, Irbid and Zarqa, while in April coverage was expanded to cover the entire capital and Aqaba. By summer 2010 network coverage included most urban locations, delivering services to approximately 70% of populated areas, equivalent to around two million people.
Fixed broadband
In 2009, Orange Jordan offered higher ADSL speeds to its Jordanian customers reaching 4Mbps and 8Mbps. In line with Orange Jordan's strategy to make 2011 the "Year of Broadband," the company unveiled in February 2011 its new ADSL2+ and 3G+ package, offering unprecedented broadband speeds of up to 24Mbps and 21Mbps respectively. The company later expended its "home internet" offering with fiber and 5G.
See also
Zain Jordan
Umniah
List of mobile network operators of the Middle East and Africa
References
External links
Telecommunications companies of Jordan
Orange S.A. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20Top%2010 | NFL Top 10 is a documentary program produced by NFL Films for airing on the NFL Network. The host and narrator is Derrin Horton.
The program counts down 10 items directly related to the players, coaches, and events of the National Football League. Throughout segments on each selection, a wide variety of personalities weigh in on the list. They include former and current NFL players, coaches, national and local sports analysts, and journalists, among others. In addition, multiple celebrity guests have appeared on the show, such as David Copperfield, Richard Simmons, and the Sklar Brothers. Reruns show on weekdays, while new episodes air on Friday nights. It also fills time in markets on an alternate feed where game coverage (usually in the pre-season) is blacked out in deference to a local broadcast station's coverage of that game. The last episode aired January 8, 2019.
Episodes
Changes to the Lists
Note: "Single Season Performances" was produced and aired before the 2007 season: it originally featured Devin Hester's rookie season of 6 returns for touchdowns and ended with Peyton Manning's season of 49 touchdown throws as the #1 season, but in 2008 it was updated, with Hester's rookie season replaced by his second season and Manning's 2004 season replaced by Tom Brady's 2007 season of 50 touchdown throws. In 2014 it was updated yet again with Peyton Manning's 55 touchdowns in 2013 voted #1.
Note: "Worst Teams" was aired before the 2007 season; it originally ended with the 1976–77 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, losing 26 games over two seasons before the team's first win during the 1977 season. In 2009, it was updated and revised; the 2001 Panthers segment was eliminated and the Detroit Lions becoming the first team to finish 0–16 in a season became the segment's top choice. The 1-15 2007 Miami Dolphins season received mention in the show's "Best Of The Rest" segment.
Note: "Players Not in the Hall of Fame" has been updated repeatedly. In 2014, the Andre Reed segment was replaced with Tim Brown and the Cris Carter segment was replaced with Charles Haley. Jerome Bettis, Brown and Haley were inducted into the Hall of Fame, so a new set of players had to replace them. Brown was replaced by Marvin Harrison, Bettis was replaced by Tiki Barber, Haley was replaced by Orlando Pace, and Marshall moved up to the #2 spot. In 2016, Harrison, Pace, and Ken Stabler were inducted into the Hall of Fame, meaning the list was updated once again. Stabler was replaced by his 1970s Raiders teammate Cliff Branch, Harrison was replaced by Terrell Davis, and Pace was replaced by Tony Boselli. Since the last time the episode was aired, Davis (2017), Jerry Kramer (2018), Alex Karras (2020), Boselli (2022), and Branch (2022) have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, which will require the list to be updated again.
Note: "Return Aces" was updated in 2011 with the Eric Metcalf segment being replaced with Josh Cribbs.
Note: "Left Handed Quarterbacks" was updated in 2012 with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Tools | PC Tools may refer to:
PC Tools (company), a security software company, best known for Spyware Doctor
PC Tools (magazine), a UK-based computer magazine
PC Tools (software), a collection of software utilities for MS-DOS and Windows 3.x |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20selection%20codes%20in%20Chile | Country Code: +56
International Call Prefix: 1xx0
Trunk prefix: 0
These are the Chilean Carrier Selection Codes.
Astro 151
AT & T Chile Long Distance 155
AT & T Chile Networks 110
Bell South 181
Carrier 159 Gtd Long Distance 159
Carrier 169 169
Claro Chile 171
Concert Chile 119
Convergia Chile 112
Empresa de Telecomunicaciones Netonone 115
Empresa de Transporte de Señales 177
Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones 123
E-Newcarrier.com Chile 114
ENTEL 123
Equant Chile 125
Globus 120
GSP Chile 124
Heilsberg 116
Impsat Chile 170
Manquehue 122
MiCarrier Telecomunicaciones 154
NetChile 176
Smartel 165
STEL-CHILE S.A 153
Sur Telecomunicaciones 127
Telefónica CTC 188
Telefónica del Sur 121
Transam Comunicaciones 113
Visat Telecomunicaciones 180
VTR 111
See also
Telephone numbers in Chile
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trends%20in%20Cell%20Biology | Trends in Cell Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal by Elsevier BV.
Abstracting and indexing
Trends in Cell Biology is abstracted and indexed the following bibliographic databases:
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 20.808.
References
External links
English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20mixer | A Virtual Mixer is a software application that runs on a computer or other digital audio system. Providing the same functionality of a digital or analog mixing console, a virtual mixer takes the audio outputs of many separate tracks or live sources and combines them into a pair of stereo outputs or other routed subgroups for auxiliary outputs.
History
Around the mid 1990s, computers achieved a level of processing power that allowed for professional recordings to be done digitally. In the following decade, many artists began recording their own music in home studios with the aid of DAW (digital audio workstation) software like GarageBand or ProTools. It was this move away from high end studios and the rise of computing power in personal computers that gave rise to virtual mixers that required minimal to no physical interface.
Design
The design of most virtual mixers is modeled after physical mixers. The individual channel strips are arranged side-by-side and the user is given control over level and pan. There is also a single master fader for the stereo output. The actual controls are also modeled after physical mixers, featuring faders and knobs that can be controlled using a mouse and keyboard shortcuts.
Each channel displays a decibel meter and slots for optional third-party plugins. These plugins range from built-in effects to EQ, compression, and gates. These plugins can be implemented a number of ways. Each channel allows for plugins to be added via dropdown menus from a number of slots. Through this method, plugins are applied to individual channels. Alternatively, plugins can be applied to a number of channels by busing the desired channels to another track. In this case, the effectiveness of the effect can be controlled through the fader of the bused channel.
See also
Digital Mixing Console
Music Sequencer
MIDI Controller
Plugin
Audio Units
VST
External links
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug00/articles/usingvmixers.htm
Audio engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koolu | Koolu was a Canadian company started by Andrew Greig and Jon "maddog" Hall, which aim is to provide low-power computer appliances powered by free- and open-source software. It is now defunct.
Their main product was the "Works Everywhere Appliance" a Linux-powered device with which the company launched. It was offered as a Google Apps client device.
References
External links
Official homepage.
Community wiki.
Linux-based devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20scouting | Computer-aided sports scouting is the use of data analysis by computer to assist sports scouts to identify and recruit new talented players. Pioneers like Bill James began to analyze the data and apply mathematical principals and new non-conventional formulas to predict success and failures of a baseball player or team, a development called sabermetrics. The foundation of computer-aided scouting is statistics.
Critics circle
Computer-aided scouting began as a means for scouts and managers to log mass amounts of player and team information compiled from box scores, stat-sheets and personalized specific information pertaining to players and teams. This information was interpreted through mathematical formulas created from research studies of each sport. Once this information was tabulated, team personnel begin to implement these results into the game. After early positive results, many professional teams adopted mathematical tools for player and game management.
MLB and the NBA begin to employ these analysis and move them into prominent roles inside their teams as Scouts to even General Managers. The marriage between Computer-aided Scouting and human eye Scouting has been at odds for over a decade. Both ways of scouting have proven to be as viable and valuable as the other. The NCAA has adapted a rating system produced by Jeff Sagarin that uses computer-aided scouting to a science to better understand the strength and weaknesses of a team as a rating.
Computer-aided scouting has adapted mathematical formulas by taking into account an existing or potential players value to his team, his physical attributes, and even projected success/failures against a variety of situations and potential opponents. Some of these methods have been published by members of sabermetrics for baseball and APBR for basketball.
References
External links
HoopsWorld
82games
John Hollinger Espn
National Basketball Association draft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLCF | NLCF can refer to:
New Life Christian Fellowship, a church in Blacksburg, Virginia
National Leadership Computing Facility |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Computers | IEEE Transactions on Computers is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of computer design. It was established in 1952 and is published by the IEEE Computer Society. The editor-in-chief is Ahmed Louri, David and Marilyn Karlgaard Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 3.131.
References
External links
Transactions on Computers
Computer science journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1952
Monthly journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Alexander%20Graham%20Bell%20Medal | The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring "exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering" in the field of telecommunications. The medal is one of the highest honors awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for achievements in telecommunication sciences and engineering.
It was instituted in 1976 by the directors of IEEE, commemorating the centennial of the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. The award is presented either to an individual, or to a team of two or three persons.
The institute's reasoning for the award was described thus:
Recipients of the award receive a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate, and an honorarium.
Recipients
As listed by the IEEE:
1976 Amos E. Joel, Jr., William Keister, and Raymond W. Ketchledge
1977 Eberhardt Rechtin
1978 M. Robert Aaron, John S. Mayo, and Eric E. Sumner
1979 A. Christian Jacobaeus
1980 Richard R. Hough
1981 David Slepian
1982 Harold A. Rosen
1983 Stephen O. Rice
1984 Andrew J. Viterbi
1985 Charles K. Kao
1986 Bernard Widrow
1987 Joel S. Engel, Richard H. Frenkiel, and William C. Jakes, Jr.
1988 Robert M. Metcalfe
1989 Gerald R. Ash and Billy B. Oliver
1990 Paul Baran
1991 C. Chapin Cutler, John O. Limb, and Arun N. Netravali
1992 James L. Massey
1993 Donald C. Cox
1994 Hiroshi Inose
1995 Irwin M. Jacobs
1996 Tadahiro Sekimoto
1997 Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn
1998 Richard E. Blahut
1999 David G. Messerschmitt
2000 Vladimir A. Kotelnikov
2002 Tsuneo Nakahara
2003 Joachim Hagenauer
2005 Jim K. Omura
2006 John Wozencraft
2007 Norman Abramson
2008 Gerard J. Foschini
2009 Robert McEliece
2010 John Cioffi
2011 Arogyaswami Paulraj
2012 Leonard Kleinrock
2013 Andrew Chraplyvy, Robert Tkach
2014 Dariush Divsalar
2015 Frank Kelly
2016 Roberto Padovani
2017 H. Vincent Poor
2018 Nambirajan Seshadri
2019 Teresa H. Meng
2020 Rajiv Laroia
2021 Nick McKeown
2022 Panganamala R. Kumar
2023 Erwin Hochmair, Ingeborg Hochmair
See also
Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes
IEEE Medal of Honor
IEEE awards
World Communication Awards
References
Alexander Graham Bell Medal
Alexander Graham Bell
Telecommunications engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20John%20von%20Neumann%20Medal | The IEEE John von Neumann Medal was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1990 and may be presented annually "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology." The achievements may be theoretical, technological, or entrepreneurial, and need not have been made immediately prior to the date of the award.
The medal is named after John von Neumann.
Recipients
The following people have received the IEEE John von Neumann Medal:
See also
List of computer science awards
John von Neumann Theory Prize awarded by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Prizes named after people
References
Computer science awards
John von Neumann Medal
Awards established in 1992
John von Neumann |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Software | IEEE Software is a bimonthly peer-reviewed magazine and scientific journal published by the IEEE Computer Society covering all aspects of software engineering, processes, and practices. Its mission is to be the best source of reliable, useful, peer-reviewed information for leading software practitioners—the developers and managers who want to keep up with rapid technology change. It was established in 1983 and is published by the IEEE Computer Society. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.3.
IEEE Software received the APEX 2016 Award of Excellence in the "Magazines, Journals & Tabloids — Electronic" category. IEEE Software November/December 2016 issue, "The Role of the Software Architect," won the 2017 Folio Eddies Digital Award in the "Standalone Digital Magazine; Association/Non-Profit (B-to-B) – Standalone Digital Magazine – less than 6 issues" category. IEEE Software also received an honorable mention in the Folio Digital Awards in 2018.
Editors-in-chief
The following individuals are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
See also
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IET Software
References
External links
Software
Computer science journals
Software engineering publications
Academic journals established in 1983
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Pattern%20Analysis%20and%20Machine%20Intelligence | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (sometimes abbreviated as IEEE PAMI or simply PAMI) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Computer Society.
Background
The journal covers research in computer vision and image understanding, pattern analysis and recognition, machine intelligence, machine learning, search techniques, document and handwriting analysis, medical image analysis, video and image sequence analysis, content-based retrieval of image and video, and face and gesture recognition. The editor-in-chief is Kyoung Mu Lee (Seoul National University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 24.314.
References
External links
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Computer science journals
Artificial intelligence publications
Monthly journals
Academic journals established in 1979
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Intelligent%20Systems | IEEE Intelligent Systems is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the IEEE Computer Society and sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), British Computer Society (BCS), and European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).
History
The journal was established in 1986 as the quarterly IEEE Expert, changed to bimonthly in 1990. Its name was changed to IEEE Intelligent Systems & Their Applications in 1997 (already in 1996, the journal's title had become IEEE Expert - Intelligent Systems & Their Applications with a marked emphasis put on the text Intelligent Systems). Its current name IEEE Intelligent Systems was given in 2001.
The current editor-in-chief is Longbing Cao (University of Technology Sydney). The editor-in-chief emeritus includes James Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Fei-Yue Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Daniel Zeng (University of Arizona), and V.S. Subrahmanian (Northwestern University).
Abstracting and indexing
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 6.744, ranked in the first quantile of the journals in the category of artificial intelligence.
Hall of Fame
For its 25th anniversary, the journal composed a "Hall of Fame", and the 10 recipients were announced in 2011.
References
External links
of IEEE Intelligent Systems.
IEEE Expert archive on 'IEEE Xplore', 1986-1997 (incl.)
The past IS issues: https://www.obren359.com/ieeeis/index.html
Intelligent Systems
Artificial intelligence publications
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 1997
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Computer-Aided%20Design%20of%20Integrated%20Circuits%20and%20Systems | IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (sometimes abbreviated IEEE TCAD or IEEE Transactions on CAD) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the design, analysis, and use of computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems. It is published by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The journal was established in 1982 and the editor-in-chief is Rajesh K. Gupta (University of California at San Diego). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.9.
Past editors-in-chief
Rajesh K. Gupta (2018-2022)
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan (2014-2018)
Sachin Sapatnekar (2010-2014)
See also
Electronic design automation
References
External links
Transactions on Computer-Aided Design
Engineering journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1982
1982 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20%28magazine%29 | Computer is an IEEE Computer Society practitioner-oriented magazine issued to all members of the society. It contains peer-reviewed articles, regular columns, and interviews on current computing-related issues. Computer provides information regarding current research developments, trends, best practices, and changes in the computing profession. Subscriptions of the magazine are provided free of cost to IEEE Computer Society members.
Computer covers all aspects of computer science. Since 2009, it has a digital edition too. The current editor in chief (since 1 January 2020) is Jeff Voas of NIST. Its impact factor was 1.94 for 2017, and 3.564 for 2018. The magazine is the recipient of the 2015 APEX Award for Publication Excellence. Computer won the 2018 Folio: Eddie Award for its September 2017 issue, "Blockchain Technology in Finance," in the category of Association/Nonprofit, App/Digital Edition. Computer also received Folio: Eddie Digital Award honorable mentions in 2019, 2017, and 2016.
References
External links
DBLP bibliography (partial from 1975 volume 8, complete from 1988 volume 21)
IEEE Computer Society
Computer magazines published in the United States
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Free magazines
IEEE magazines
Magazines established in 1970 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Communications%20and%20Networks | The Journal of Communications and Networks (print: , online ; formerly known as the International Journal of Digital & Analog Cabled Systems) is a scientific journal published by the Korean Information and Communications Society and technically cosponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. The journal publishes theoretical research contributions presenting new techniques, concepts, or analyses, applied contributions reporting on experiences and experiments, and tutorial expositions of permanent reference value are welcome. The subjects covered by this journal include all topics in communication theory and techniques, communications systems, and information networks.
External links
IEEE Communications Society
IEEE academic journals
Bimonthly journals
Academic journals established in 1999
Engineering journals
Computer science journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Ocean%20Research%20Group | The Indian Ocean Research Group Inc. (IORG) is an Indian Ocean Regional academic network. The key objective of IORG is to initiate a policy-oriented dialogue, in the true spirit of partnership, among governments, industries, NGOs and communities, towards realizing a shared, peaceful, stable and prosperous future for the Indian Ocean region. IORG is currently based at the University of Adelaide, and Curtin University, Australia, South Asian University, New Delhi and Panjab University, Chandigarh, but members come from all across the world.
Overview
The key objective of the Indian Ocean Research Group Inc. is to initiate a policy-oriented dialogue, in the true spirit of partnership, among governments, industries, NGOs and communities, towards realizing a shared, peaceful, stable and prosperous future for the Indian Ocean region.
The Indian Ocean possesses considerable and often underrated geopolitical significance if only because of its operation as a highway. Given its relative location and the fact that it provides a relatively short and economic link between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans it is perhaps not surprising that, not only does the Ocean account for the transportation of the highest tonnage of commodities in the world, but that more than three-quarters of this is extra-regional trade. The uninhibited maintenance of Ocean routes and associated choke points is especially significant for the movement of commodities, especially oil, to Northeast Asia, Western Europe and North America.
The Indian Ocean is known to contain natural resources, the significance of which has yet to be fully determined. The Indian Ocean Marine Affairs Cooperation (IOMAC) grouping, for example, has already been involved for several years in issues associated with the management of the Indian Ocean tuna fishery. The exploitation of these resources, among others, in the context of the delimitation of exclusive economic zones requires careful monitoring and inter-state collaboration.
Maintaining the integrity of the regional environment is one of the most important common interests of Indian Ocean states. Monitoring and managing the environmental impacts of human activity on the Ocean is essential to the maintenance of the living resources of the Ocean, for example. Environmental security issues are extremely diverse, ranging from, for example, an industrial partner's need to secure access to resources for investment purposes, to a specific community's need to secure access to healthy and sustainable sources of food, water and shelter. Fostering inter-state cooperation in order to maximize positive management to minimize environmental insecurity is an important policy goal.
For the maintenance of the peace and stability of the Indian Ocean Region, it is of the utmost importance that regional, coastal, island, and landlocked states become aware of the geopolitical orientations of one another and of Indian Ocean neighbours.
The description, collation and ana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance%20matrices%20in%20phylogeny | Distance matrices are used in phylogeny as
non-parametric distance methods and were originally applied to phenetic data using a matrix of pairwise distances. These distances are then reconciled to produce a tree (a phylogram, with informative branch lengths). The distance matrix can come from a number of different sources, including measured distance (for example from immunological studies) or morphometric analysis, various pairwise distance formulae (such as euclidean distance) applied to discrete morphological characters, or genetic distance from sequence, restriction fragment, or allozyme data. For phylogenetic character data, raw distance values can be calculated by simply counting the number of pairwise differences in character states (Hamming distance).
Distance-matrix methods
Distance-matrix methods of phylogenetic analysis explicitly rely on a measure of "genetic distance" between the sequences being classified, and therefore they require an MSA (multiple sequence alignment) as an input. Distance is often defined as the fraction of mismatches at aligned positions, with gaps either ignored or counted as mismatches. Distance methods attempt to construct an all-to-all matrix from the sequence query set describing the distance between each sequence pair. From this is constructed a phylogenetic tree that places closely related sequences under the same interior node and whose branch lengths closely reproduce the observed distances between sequences. Distance-matrix methods may produce either rooted or unrooted trees, depending on the algorithm used to calculate them. They are frequently used as the basis for progressive and iterative types of multiple sequence alignment. The main disadvantage of distance-matrix methods is their inability to efficiently use information about local high-variation regions that appear across multiple subtrees.
Neighbor-joining
Neighbor-joining methods apply general data clustering techniques to sequence analysis using genetic distance as a clustering metric. The simple neighbor-joining method produces unrooted trees, but it does not assume a constant rate of evolution (i.e., a molecular clock) across lineages.
UPGMA and WPGMA
The UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean) and WPGMA (Weighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean) methods produce rooted trees and require a constant-rate assumption – that is, it assumes an ultrametric tree in which the distances from the root to every branch tip are equal.
Fitch–Margoliash method
The Fitch–Margoliash method uses a weighted least squares method for clustering based on genetic distance. Closely related sequences are given more weight in the tree construction process to correct for the increased inaccuracy in measuring distances between distantly related sequences. In practice, the distance correction is only necessary when the evolution rates differ among branches. The distances used as input to the algorithm must be normalized to prevent large |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Trinidad%20and%20Tobago%20films | A list of films made in Trinidad and Tobago:
External links
Trinidad and Tobago films at the Internet Movie Database
References
Trinidad
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventnor%20West%20railway%20station | Ventnor West railway station was in operation from 1900 to 1952 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
History
The station was opened on 1 June 1900 as the final addition to the railway network on the Isle of Wight. It opened as Ventnor Town but was renamed in 1923 by the Southern Railway.
Built on the former stables of the Steephill Castle estate, the station was inconveniently situated for the town, being some distance west of the town centre and 168 feet above sea level. Consequently, it never lived up to the expectations of the operators and was an early casualty of the pruning of the railway network. Plans were made to extend the line beyond the station to a new terminus, closer to the town centre. Continuing to run along Park Avenue, the Ventnor Central Terminus would have been sited where Park Avenue meets Zig Zag Road – opposite the Royal Hotel. However, the combination of newly built housing on the proposed formation along Park Avenue and the company's ailing finances meant this scheme was never realised. If it had, it would have provided a very convenient alternative to the Isle of Wight Railway's Ventnor station, located high above the town, and this may have turned around the fortunes of this otherwise very sleepy branch. Today the main station building is still standing, surrounded by modern housing in Castle Close.
The station closed along with the others on the line on 15 September 1952.
Stationmasters
William Bayley 1900 - ca. 1911
Charles Henry Dennett ca. 1915 ca. 1920 (afterwards station master at Yarmouth)
Mr. Hawkins ca. 1935
Henry Wilkinson Harms
Other stations on the branch
The other stations on the Ventnor West branch were:
Merstone (where the branch joined the Newport-Sandown line)
Godshill
Whitwell
St Lawrence (the original terminus of the line from 1897 to 1900)
References
External links
Ventnor West station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites: Ventnor West Station
Disused railway stations on the Isle of Wight
Former Isle of Wight Central Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1900
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952
Ventnor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Chess | Power Chess is a chess-playing video game originally released in September 1996 by Sierra On-Line for the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. Later revisions of the software were released as Power Chess 98 (1997) and Power Chess 2.0 (1998). Power Chess was also the "intermediate" game included in Sierra's Complete Chess (1998) along with Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess (1995) and Extreme Chess (1996).
Engine
Its chess engine is "Wchess" by David Kittinger, which played against Deep Blue in the 1995 World Computer Championship in Hong Kong. The game is included as a watchable "Great Game" in Power Chess.
Gameplay
Power Chess had two major innovations: the program would adjust its level during the game trying to match that of the player (presaging Chessbase Fritz's Friend Mode). In addition, after each game, a female voice, the Queen, walks the player through the game, pointing out and explaining where the player could have played better. The program keeps track of the player's rating. Players can also create their own characters with differing gameplay styles and difficulty.
Narration
The voice of the Power Chess Queen was voiced in English and French by voiceover artist Natacha LaFerriere.
"Great Games"
A collection of famous games is included for review and study, each one narrated turn-by-turn by the Queen. The games include:
The Evergreen Game, Adolf Anderssen vs. Jean Dufresne (1852)
The Opera Game, Paul Morphy vs. Duke Karl of Brunswick and Count Isouard (1858)
Wilhelm Steinitz vs. Curt von Bardeleben (1895)
Ruger vs. Gebhard (1915)
Vasily Smyslov vs. Bobby Fischer (1970)
Wchess vs. Deep Blue (1995)
Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov, Game 1 (1996)
Reception
Power Chess won Computer Games Strategy Pluss award for the 1996 "traditional" game of the year.
In a comparison between four chess programs, PC Joker rated Power Chess the highest.
See also
Comparison of chess video games
References
External links
1996 video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Sierra Entertainment games
Chess software
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Barden%20Jr. | William Barden Jr. is an author of books and articles on computer programming. Barden's writings mainly covered microcomputers, computer graphics and assembly language and BASIC programming. He was a contributing editor for The Rainbow magazine in which he wrote a monthly column called Barden's Buffer on low-level assembly language programming on the TRS-80 Color Computer. Some of his books were published under the name William T. Barden. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Books
Connecting the CoCo to the Real World, 1990, no ISBN (Radio Shack project cancelled, then printed by author). Part of the book comes from his chronicle Barden's Buffer in Rainbow Magazine.
TRS-80 Models I, III, & Color Computer Interfacing Projects, 1983,
TRS-80 Color Computer Assembly Language Programming, Radio Shack catalog number 62-2077, 1983
TRS-80 Color Computer & MC-10 Programs, Radio Shack cat. no. 26-3195, 1983
How To Do It on the TRS-80, IJG Inc. publisher, 1983
Color Computer Graphics, Radio Shack cat. no. 62-2076, 1982
The Z-80 Microcomputer Handbook, Longman Higher Education, 1978,
How to program microcomputers, H. W. Sams, 1977,
TRS-80 Pocket BASIC Handbook, Radio Shack, 1982
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer programmers
American information and reference writers
American instructional writers
TRS-80 Color Computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%20Love%20and%20Die | To Love and Die is the title of an American television action comedy-drama starring Shiri Appleby and Tim Matheson, and created by Sara Goodman. The show was greenlit to series on the USA Network in July 2007, with a 12-episode order that was planned to air in 2008. The 2-hour pilot finally premiered on December 30, 2008, as a television movie, receiving little promotion. The series was believed to have been dropped by the channel.
The pilot was directed by Mark Piznarski.
Characters
Main characters
Hildy Young (Shiri Appleby) — Young woman with intimacy issues who, after finding her father, ends up working for him as a contract killer.
James White (Tim Matheson) — Hildy's contract killer father.
Janet (Frances Fisher) — Hildy's intrusive and overbearing mother who constantly inserts herself into her daughter's messy love life.
Nancy (Kristin Datillo) — Hildy's well mannered sister that has played it safe in life, opting for a quiet suburban home, two kids and a nice, boring husband.
Eddie (Christine Adams) — A key member of White's contracting organization
Blue (Ivan Sergei) — James's protégé who meets his match when he meets his boss's daughter
Grandfather (Seymour Cassel) — James's former mentor, who handed the reins to James but often complains about his way of doing things and remembers how it used to be in the old days.
Main crew
To Love and Die is produced by NBC Universal Television Studios and Broadway Video. Lorne Michaels ("Saturday Night Live," "30 Rock"), Andrew Singer ("Sons & Daughters"), Sara Goodman , and David Kanter ("Crime & Punishment") serve as executive producers.
References
External links
To Love and Die on USA Network
USA Network original films
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
American action comedy television series
2000s comedy-drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFWH-FM | CFWH-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 94.5 MHz FM in Whitehorse, Yukon. The station broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network known as CBC North. Until its closure in 2012, CFWH's sister television station was CFWH-TV.
History
CFWH began broadcasting on February 24, 1944 as a radio station owned and operated by the Northwest Service Command of the United States Army Service Forces, the entity then responsible for maintenance of the Alaska Highway. The station was staffed by members of the United States Army, with programming furnished by the Special Services. By December 1945, a temporary landline connection to CJCA in Edmonton allowed for a relay of the CBC's Christmas Day programming that year.
Concurrent with the transfer of control of the Alaska Highway within Canada, on June 1, 1946, ownership of the station was transferred to the Canadian Army, Northwest Highway System. Most programming, however, continued to be supplied by the Armed Forces Radio Service, while volunteers from the Royal Canadian Air Force and the community at-large operated the station.
The Armed Forces Radio Service stopped deliveries of programming to CFWH in November 1952. Around the same time, the CBC began distributing recordings of CBC radio programming to remote radio stations within Canada, including CFWH. These recordings were made in Montreal and originally on disc, but soon transitioned to tape by April 1953. For CFWH, this meant that the station was able to obtain CBC programming on a consistent basis for the first time in its history. Initially, approximately 25 hours per week of said programming aired alongside local programming.
In 1956, the station's studios and transmitter were moved to a site at RCAF Station Whitehorse. By this time, the station was airing approximately 60 hours per week of CBC programming, most of which was about two weeks old by the time it arrived on tape in Whitehorse.
In 1958, the CBC announced the creation of a northern radio service and that the volunteer operation of CFWH would be taken over by employees of the CBC. The official transfer of control took place on November 10, 1958, with CFWH becoming the first station within the CBC's new Northern Service. As part of the takeover, a direct link—via the CN Telegraph system—to the Trans-Canada Network was established in order for CFWH to obtain CBC programming.
The CFWH studios were moved in 1959 to a facility on Third Avenue and Wood Street in downtown Whitehorse. In April 1966, the studios were moved once more, this time three blocks south to a new downtown office building on the corner of Third Avenue and Elliott Street, where they remain to this day.
In conjunction with a transmitter power increase from 250 watts to 1,000 watts, CFWH moved off of its original 1240 kHz frequency and began broadcasting at 570 kHz on October 2, 1963.
On May 21, 2009, the CBC applied to the CRTC to convert CFWH to 94.5 MHz. The station received approval on October |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExOR%20%28wireless%20network%20protocol%29 | Extremely Opportunistic Routing (ExOR) is a combination of routing protocol and media access control for a wireless ad hoc network, invented by Sanjit Biswas and Robert Morris of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and described in a 2005 paper.
A very similar opportunistic routing scheme was also independently proposed by Zhenzhen Ye and Yingbo Hua from University of California, Riverside and presented in a paper in 2005.
Previously open source, ExOR was available in 2005 but is no longer obtainable.
The broadcast and retransmission strategies used by the algorithm were already described in the literature. ExOR is valuable because it can operate available digital radios to use some previously impractical algorithmic optimizations.
History
The algorithm is designed to convey packets of the Internet Protocol, so that it enables the maximum number of other services. At the time of invention, digital radios had widely replaced wireline internet services for portable devices. Specialized integrated circuits were widely available at low costs.
MIT at that time (2005) was involved with the One Laptop per Child project, an attempt to make an inexpensive low-power computer to help educate impoverished children. The advantages were thought to be reduced costs for digital copies of books and consumables like paper, with possible pedagogic improvements from the interactivity and flexibility. One of the crucial features of the laptop was to be a wireless ad hoc network that would permit the laptops to cooperate to provide more resources than an individual computer could afford. A practical but superior network algorithm would directly help educate more children by reducing the cost and power needed by the laptop. A wireless ad hoc network would cost less and use less power if it used standard radios (i.e. with integrated circuits for 802.11) and transferred more data over larger distances, with fewer intermediate radios.
This protocol was prototyped on RoofNet, and many authorities believe it is the media access protocol deployed by Meraki to wire San Francisco.
Algorithm
The starting radio, the source, broadcasts a batch of packets. As timers in intermediate radios expire, radios further from the destination retransmit the packets that no closer radio has yet retransmitted.
Most of the complexity is to support this basic scheme. The timers in intermediate radios are set to an estimate of the transmission time that closer radios will need in order to transmit packets. The estimate is calculated based on the number of packets in the batch, and the probabilities of a correct transmission from each intermediate radio.
ExOR uses a conventional routing protocol "RRTc" to collect information about the probability of a successful transmission between each pair of digital radios in the network.
The authors were concerned that retransmitting packets could use up too much of the available radio time. ExOR therefore tries to reduce retransmissions of pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOST%20R%205172556 | GOST R 5172556 is a Russian government norm which fix the rules for the catalogization of products for federal states needs and for QLF, telecommunications and data bases, requirements of information security. Generally GOST (Russian: ГОСТ) refers to a set of technical standards maintained by the Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC), a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
According to Russian Law, more than 60% of all products to be sold and/or used in the country require mandatory certification/licensing, i.e. they should be approved by relevant Russian authorities in terms of compliance to national standards. This concerns both locally produced and imported goods. Moreover, prior to construction of an industrial or civil site in the Russian territory, a number of approvals are required to undertake engineering, construction and other technical activities.
Today, GOST R Certificate of Conformity is the most common permissive document in Russia testifying that your product meets necessary safety standards. In the framework of the GOST R certification system there are 48 sub-systems for homogeneous products such as crockery, perfumes and cosmetics, textile and light industry products, chemical products, high voltage electrical equipment, metal processing machinery, oil & gas equipment etc.
References
Gost 24
E-Marketci
External links
The International Portal about Procedure of GOST-R Certificate
Veridion
Underwriters Laboratories
GM compliance
Current information about the products whose subject under the GOST-R certification
GOST standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VKS737 | The VKS-737 Radio Network is a division of the Australian National 4WD Radio Network Inc., a national Public Benevolent Institution established for the relief of sickness, suffering, helplessness, destitution, and misfortune to a disadvantaged section of the community, being all 'outback' travellers who are in distress by providing them with emergency assistance and support in co-operation with other organisations.
The VKS-737 Network provides services in conjunction with the Royal Flying Doctor Service and State Emergency Service organisations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via 16 Base Stations strategically located around Australia.
Subscribers can make unlimited free calls to emergency services and can also receive messages from family and friends at no extra cost.
Founded in 1992, the network's primary role is to provide reliable and effective radio communication opportunities for remote area travellers, on the road, at sea, or in the air. Sixteen base stations strategically located around Australia run daily scheduled sessions for contact with subscribers. These 'skeds', and a comprehensive messaging system are provided by a team of volunteer staff members. A number of salaried staff and other volunteers carry out administrative duties at a Head Office, in South Australia.
HF-Tel Services provide their service using the VKS737 facilities. HF-Tel is a division of the Australian National 4WD Radio Network Inc. and provides low-cost direct-dial telephone calls Radio-Telephone services exclusively for VKS-737 subscribers with suitably equipped radios to any fixed or mobile number within Australia.
All network activity involving both bases and subscribers is subject to formal licensing by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
History
Beginnings:
The use of HF between outback travellers goes back many years, based on Royal Flying Doctor Service frequencies such as 5300, 5360 & 5410 kHz.
“Mobile Outpost” licences allow the use of RFDS frequencies outside of base hours; however increasing numbers of users concerned the RFDS who in 1992 requested the Department of Transport and Communication (now ACMA) to limit the general use of their frequencies.
Mid 1992: Dept. of Transport and Communications contacted the SA Toyota Landcruiser Club (TLCC) regarding creating a network to allow members to communicate with each other and bases.
Submissions were lodged by Colin Brown and Jeff Francis from TLCC and a submission and licence application were lodged by Steve Johnston on behalf of the SA Association of Four-Wheel Drive Clubs (SAAFWDC).
Colin Brown is still actively involved as a show volunteer.
November 1993: The first VKS-737 Radio Network licence was issued and a base station established at Hilton in South Australia.
The Network, managed by Steve Johnston the Radio Officer of the SAAFWDC, was only available for use by members of South Australian 4WD Clubs.
March 1994: The Network was placed under the control of Steve Joh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Newcastle%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | The Newcastle Tram System was an extensive network that operated between Newcastle and the outer suburb of Wallsend from 1887 to 1950. At its peak the line extended from the city to Speers Point and West Wallsend. The service was rarely profitable, and low utilisation for a variety of reasons including the convenience of buses led to it closing and the tracks being removed.
History
Steam
Steam tram operations commenced in Newcastle on 6 July 1887, with a trial run between Newcastle and Plattsburg.
A depot was initially set up on the corner of Hunter and Perkins Streets. In 1893, the terminal was extended east to Parnell Place and the new larger depot constructed, with the original depot retained for light maintenance and repair work.
Electrification
Electrification occurred in the early 1920s, the first electric tram running in October 1923. All lines were fully electric by the end of 1926 except the West Wallsend and Speers Point branch lines, which remained steam operated until they were closed.
With the pending electrification of the tram system, construction of a new depot was commenced at Gordon Street, Hamilton in 1918. The Hunter Street and Parnell Place depots were closed in 1927, as by then, all operations had been relocated to the Hamilton Depot. The network peaked at 35 miles.
Closure
In the 1930s poor patronage and competition from bus services led to the realisation that trams were not paying their way. During the Great Depression, there was not the political will to remove a service that provided jobs and cheap transport, however by the late 1930s this had changed and the Port Waratah and Carrington lines were closed in 1938. World War II delayed any further closures. Fuel rationing meant that buses were not allowed to run services where trams operated. The Parnell Place terminus was damaged during the Japanese shelling of Newcastle on 8 June 1942. The end of the war saw the Mayfield line close in 1948, the Wallsend line in 1949 with the remainder in 1950. The last service was run on 11 June 1950 on the Waratah line. As tram services in Newcastle declined, the Hamilton Depot was converted to a bus depot; which it continues as today operated by Newcastle Transport.
Lines
Adamstown
Opened on 13 August 1900. Electric services to Adamstown commenced on 2 February 1925. The line was extended to Victoria Street just three months before the Carrington and Port Waratah lines were closed. A proposal to extend the line along Union Street to Rifle Street never eventuated and it closed on 17 April 1950.
Carrington
Originally proposed in February 1901, the line to Carrington did not enter service until 23 September 1912. Track was actually laid in 1905 across the old Throsby Creek Bridge, however there were disputes with the residents of Carrington about how the line would cross the railway line that ran along Cowper Street. The issue was never resolved and work was ceased before the line was completed. By 1912, the railway line in Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dreamland%20Chronicles | The Dreamland Chronicles is an all-ages fantasy webcomic and comic book series created by Scott Christian Sava with 3D computer graphics.
Plot summary
The Dreamland Chronicles is about a college student, Alex, who returns to a realm of dreams after eight years. There he discovers his childhood friends such as Nastajia the elf princess, Paddington the rock giant, Kiwi the fairy and Felicity the catgirl. Together they battle against the evil dragon King Nicodemus; in the real world, Alex must work with fellow university students Nicole (a psychology major) and Dan (his fraternal twin brother) in finding a means to influence and access events in Dreamland. Along the way, the characters in both realms become entangled in the politics of Dreamland. It is inspired by Winsor McCay's early twentieth century newspaper comic Little Nemo.
Critical reaction
Publishers Weekly has described The Dreamland Chronicles as "deftly paced, sprinkled with just the right amount of action, clever suspense and innocuous romance" and described the computer generated artwork as "creat[ing] a world of beautifully detailed environments and colorful characters ... Readers raised on video games should have no trouble enjoying this superior adventure."
School Library Journal gave a more mixed review, writing that "the characters have a lively sense of 'acting'" and "the settings are composed with a significant eye for detail." However, they found that "some of the characters ... look more like plastic toys than CGI characters, and that the dialogue veers between functional and hokey, and is marred by a series of elementary typographical errors. Readers initially taken in by the glossy visuals will quickly lose interest as the wooden exposition combines with the limits of the staid, mechanical layouts."
Sequential Tart praised the story, saying that although the characters appeared "fairly generic" at first, they "gradually show that they have a lot of depth and inner conflicts."
The comic was nominated for four awards in the 2006 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards. The Dreamland Chronicles also won Best Graphic Novel of 2006 in the Comics Buyer's Guide 25th Annual Fan Awards.
Books
Sava has self-published six volumes of The Dreamland Chronicles. The first, released in 2006, collects the first four chapters. The second, released in 2007, collects chapters 5–8. The third, released in 2009, collects chapters 9–12.
About the author
Sava studied illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. In 2001 he created 3D computer art for the comic book The Lab from Astonish Comics. He has also worked on video games, the Casper animated movie sequels, and computer-generated artwork for the Spider-Man: Quality of Life comic book miniseries for Marvel Comics with writer Greg Rucka. In 2007 Sava and Diego Jourdan released Ed's Terrestrials, an all-ages comic about three runaway aliens and a boy, named Ed, who helps them. The two also released Pet Robots, a comic book about f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin%20%28service%29 | Elvin is an event routing service using a publish/subscribe event delivery model. It was developed at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre, an Australian co-operative research centre at the University of Queensland that operated from 1992 until mid-2006.
The Elvin publish subscribe model
Elvin is most distinguished from other such systems by its support of a sophisticated content-based subscription system. Elvin clients subscribe to events using a language that resembles C boolean expressions. For example:
Department == "IT" && Percent-Disk-Free <= 10
This expression selects messages that have a field named Department with a string value matching "IT" and a Percent-Disk-Free field with an integer value less than or equal to 10. The Elvin subscription language supports a range of operations for matching numeric and string values, including the use of regular expression matching.
Elvin is oriented around providing a fast, flexible event service that can be federated to form wide-area event notification networks. In order to achieve these goals it does not provide persistence, durability or guaranteed delivery. Elvin can thought of as providing a middle ground between low-level network multicast and higher-level, more complex, event brokers such as JMS.
Commercialization
In 2003, the research group that created Elvin left DSTC to found Mantara software in order to develop commercial applications of Elvin. In November 2006, Mantara announced that it would be ceasing to support Elvin as a standalone commercial product by the end of 2007.
The specifications for the Elvin protocols have been made available, and a new implementation of Elvin has subsequently been developed, Avis, an open-source (GPL) implementation.
Notes
References
External links
The elvin.org web site.
Elvin has left the building: A publish/subscribe notification service with quenching, 1997, Bill Segall and David Arnold, Proceedings AUUG97, Brisbane Australia, September 1997.
Content Based Routing with Elvin4, 2000, Bill Segall, David Arnold, Julian Boot, Michael Henderson and Ted Phelps Proceedings AUUG2k, Canberra, Australia, June 2000.
Avis
Message-oriented middleware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%20botnet | The Storm botnet or Storm worm botnet (also known as Dorf botnet and Ecard malware) was a remotely controlled network of "zombie" computers (or "botnet") that had been linked by the Storm Worm, a Trojan horse spread through e-mail spam. At its height in September 2007, the Storm botnet was running on anywhere from 1 million to 50 million computer systems, and accounted for 8% of all malware on Microsoft Windows computers. It was first identified around January 2007, having been distributed by email with subjects such as "230 dead as storm batters Europe," giving it its well-known name. The botnet began to decline in late 2007, and by mid-2008 had been reduced to infecting about 85,000 computers, far less than it had infected a year earlier.
As of December 2012, the original creators of Storm have not been found. The Storm botnet has displayed defensive behaviors that indicated that its controllers were actively protecting the botnet against attempts at tracking and disabling it, by specifically attacking the online operations of some security vendors and researchers who had attempted to investigate it. Security expert Joe Stewart revealed that in late 2007, the operators of the botnet began to further decentralize their operations, in possible plans to sell portions of the Storm botnet to other operators. It was reportedly powerful enough to force entire countries off the Internet, and was estimated to be capable of executing more instructions per second than some of the world's top supercomputers. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation considered the botnet a major risk to increased bank fraud, identity theft, and other cybercrimes.
Origins
First detected on the Internet in January 2007, the Storm botnet and worm are so-called because of the storm-related subject lines its infectious e-mail employed initially, such as "230 dead as storm batters Europe." Later provocative subjects included "Chinese missile shot down USA aircraft," and "U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel." It is suspected by some information security professionals that well-known fugitive spammers, including Leo Kuvayev, may have been involved in the operation and control of the Storm botnet. According to technology journalist Daniel Tynan, writing under his "Robert X. Cringely" pseudonym, a great portion of the fault for the existence of the Storm botnet lay with Microsoft and Adobe Systems. Other sources state that Storm Worm's primary method of victim acquisition was through enticing users via frequently changing social engineering (confidence trickery) schemes. According to Patrick Runald, the Storm botnet had a strong American focus, and likely had agents working to support it within the United States. Some experts, however, believe the Storm botnet controllers were Russian, some pointing specifically at the Russian Business Network, citing that the Storm software mentions a hatred of the Moscow-based security fir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are%20You%20Smarter%20than%20a%205th%20Grader%3F%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? is an Australian quiz show produced by Roving Enterprises that debuted on Network Ten on 26 September 2007. It is hosted by popular TV personality Rove McManus. Filming for the show commenced on 11 September 2007 at Global Television Studios in Forest Hill.
McManus inspected the United States production (in its second series at the time) of the show while in the United States of America hosting his show Rove.
The children for the 2007 series were all students who were currently enrolled in Year 5 and were aged 10 or 11. They had to compete against many other Year 5 students to win the roles.
5th Grader games are played by a single contestant, who attempts to answer ten questions (plus a final bonus question). Content is taken from primary school textbooks, two from each grade level from first to fifth. Each correct answer increases the amount of money the player banks; a maximum cash prize of A$500,000 can be won. Along the way, the player can be assisted by a "classmate", one of five cast members (who are fifth grade students), in answering the questions. Notably, upon getting an answer incorrect or deciding to end the game, the contestant must profess to the camera "My name is [contestants name] and I am not smarter than a fifth grader.".
A second season of the show commenced in late 2008. Five new students feature due to the five original students being no longer able to feature because they had advanced to grade six. An additional change will be the addition of celebrity contestants playing for charity alongside regular contestants.
On 10 November 2008, it was announced that a third season of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? would be produced and aired in 2009. The first episode screened on Monday 27 July 2009. 2009 would be the last season of the Australian format.
Format
Current board
Former board
Rules
In each game, the contestant is asked a series of eleven questions taken from textbooks from first through fifth grade curricula. Each contestant is given ten subjects to choose from (such as Spelling, Maths or Social Studies), each of which is associated with a grade level; there are two questions per grade, from first to fifth. In 2008, this changed to one 1st & 2nd grade question, two 3rd grade questions and three 4th and 5th grade questions. Contestants can answer the questions in any order, and each correct answer raises their cumulative amount of winnings to the next level (see table at right); after a contestant answers the fifth/seventh question correctly, they are guaranteed to leave the game with at least $25,000/$30,000. If a contestant correctly answers the first ten questions, they are given the opportunity to answer a fifth-grade bonus question worth $500,000.
Five fifth grade students appear on each show and play along on stage – each episode in a season has the same cast of children. The contestant chooses one to be their "classmate", who stands at the adjacent podium and is ofte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA%20Supershow | GMA Supershow, formerly titled as Germside and Germspesyal, is a Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. The show was the longest-running Sunday noontime variety show on Philippine television at the time of its run. Hosted by German Moreno, it premiered on May 7, 1978. The show concluded on January 26, 1997 with a total of 978 episodes. It was replaced by SOP in its timeslot.
Cast
German Moreno
Sharon Cuneta
Jackie Lou Blanco
Bing Loyzaga
Lani Mercado
Zsa Zsa Padilla
Gretchen Barretto
Dawn Zulueta
Princess Punzalan
Maricel Laxa
Mariz
Jean Garcia
Sharmaine Arnaiz
Rachel Alejandro
Manilyn Reynes
Princess Revilla
Rachel Anne Wolfe
Jam Morales
Raymond Lauchengco
Richard Reynoso
Ilac Diaz
Chad Borja
John Nite
The Rainmakers
Sunshine Cruz
Sheryl Cruz
Ike Lozada
Karina Ramos
Cristina Gonzales
Kris Aquino
Ana Gonzales
Mutya Crisostomo
Alicia Mayer
Caloy Garcia
Arlene Muhlach
Ogie Alcasid
Francis Magalona
Janno Gibbs
Keempee de Leon
RS Francisco
Chikiting Patrol Kids
APO Hiking Society
Ruffa Gutierrez
Edna Diaz
Boots Anson-Roa
Toni Rose Gayda
Charo Santos-Concio
Loren Legarda
Cherie Gil
Lorna Tolentino
Nora Aunor
Vilma Santos
Aurora Salve
Lilibeth Ranillo
Maritess Gutierrez
Sandy Andolong
Alma Moreno
Ana Gonzales
Chiqui Hollman
Dina Bonnevie
Pilita Corrales
Snooky Serna
Pops Fernandez
Maricel Soriano
Aiko Melendez
Donna Cruz
Vina Morales
Carmina Villarroel
Charlene Gonzalez
Mikee Cojuangco
Julie Vega
Janice de Belen
Jaclyn Jose
Christine Jacob
Karla Estrada
Amy Perez
Regine Velasquez
Dancers
VIP Dancers
Kids at Work
Abstract Dancers
Bellestar Dancers
Universal Motion Dancers
The Streetboys
Vicor Dancers
OctoArts Dancers
Accolades
References
External links
1978 Philippine television series debuts
1997 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20Sunday | Happy Sunday () is a Korean reality-variety show shown on the KBS2 network, which competes directly against MBC's Sunday Night and SBS's Good Sunday line-up. Although it has been broadcast since 2003, its line-up of shows has frequently changed, with a complete revamp occurring in Spring of 2007. At that time, three new shows were introduced – Are You Ready, High-Five, and Immortal Songs. Due to its poor reception, Are You Ready quickly evolved into 1 Night 2 Days, with most of its cast intact. In late November 2008, Happy Sunday had a revamp of its shows keeping 1 Night 2 Days as the second segment and bringing back Immortal Songs which was previously liked by viewers. However, in late March, Immortal Songs ended once again and was replaced with Qualifications of Men, making Happy Sunday an all-male cast, with a total of 14 members. In 2013, Qualifications of Men was cancelled and replaced with Star Family Show Mamma Mia. On November 3, 2013 Star Family Show Mamma Mia was moved to Wednesday nights and replaced with The Return of Superman.
Out of the three Sunday night shows, KBS's Happy Sunday, MBC's Sunday Sunday Night and SBS's Good Sunday, only KBS has kept its program as a "whole program." Both MBC and SBS has divided their Sunday night show into two parts, the first segment as one program and the second as another. Both MBC and SBS have done this to record better TV ratings, which is important in South Korea media to prove the show's popularity. The key variety programs which garner Sunday night ratings and are usually compared to one another are KBS Happy Sunday's 1 Night 2 Days, MBC Sunday Sunday Night's Real Men, and SBS Good Sunday's Running Man.
History
During the 1990s KBS2's Sunday program was called Super Sunday (슈퍼선데이). But in February 1998, the name was changed to Joyful Super Sunday TV (슈퍼 TV 일요일은 즐거워). In November 2003, the name was changed again to 101% Sunday (일요일은 101%). On September 13, 2004, voice (dubbing) artist and 2003 KBS Entertainment Awards Grand Prize (Daesang) winner, Jang Jeong-jin (장정진), was recording for The Lord of the Alley (골목의 제왕) segment where he had to eat rice cakes during a game and was later hospitalized. Because of this incident, Jang died a month later (October 11, 2004) due to necrosis ("brain death") and loss of oxygenation to the brain. The segment was abolished and since November 2004, the program has been renamed Happy Sunday.
Broadcasting times
2004-2006: 5:55 p.m. - 7:55 p.m.
2006-2007: 5:45 p.m. - 7:55 p.m.
2007-2008: 5:30 p.m. - 7:55 p.m.
2008-2009: 5:25 p.m. - 7:55 p.m.
2009–2012: 5:20 p.m. - 7:55 p.m.
2012–2019: 4:55 p.m. - 7:55 p.m.
Current segments
1 Night 2 Days Season 4
Originally aired: August 5, 2007 – March 10, 2019 and since December 2019
Members: Kim Jong-min, Yeon Jung-hoon, Moon Se-yoon, DinDin, Na In-woo, Yoo Seon-ho
Former members: Kim Joo-hyuk, Kang Ho-dong, Lee Soo-geun, Eun Ji-won, Lee Seung-gi, Uhm Tae-woong, MC Mong, Kim C, Ji Sang-ryul, Noh Hong-chul, Kim Seung-w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon%20Ullman | Shimon Ullman (שמעון אולמן, born January 28, 1948, in Jerusalem) is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Ullman's main research area is the study of vision processing by both humans and machines. Specifically, he focuses on object and facial recognition, and has made a number of key insights in this field, including with Christof Koch the idea of a visual
saliency map in the mammalian visual system to regulate selective spatial attention.
Education
He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977 advised by David Marr.
Research
He is the author of several books on the topic of vision, including High-level vision: Object recognition and visual cognition.
Ullman is the former head of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute.
Awards and honours
Ullman was awarded the 2008 David E. Rumelhart Prize for Theoretical Contributions to Cognitive Science. In 2014 he received the EMET prize in the field of computer science for his contributions to AI and computer vision.
In 2015 Ullman was awarded the Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science.
In 2019 he won the Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of computer vision.
He is the co-founder of Orbotech and a former member of Israel's Council for Higher Education.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Jerusalem
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Israeli computer scientists
Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
Rumelhart Prize laureates
Israel Prize in mathematics recipients
Israel Prize in computer sciences recipients
Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20store | In computer programming, a local variable that is assigned a value but is not read by any subsequent instruction is referred to as a dead store. Dead stores waste processor time and memory, and may be detected through the use of static program analysis, and removed by an optimizing compiler.
If the purpose of a store is intentionally to overwrite data, for example when a password is being removed from memory, dead store optimizations can cause the write not to happen, leading to a security issue. Some system libraries have specific functions designed to avoid such dangerous optimizations, e.g. explicit_bzero on OpenBSD.
Examples
Java example of a dead store:
// DeadStoreExample.java
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
public class DeadStoreExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); // This is a Dead Store, as the ArrayList is never read.
list = getList();
System.out.println(list);
}
private static List<String> getList() {
return new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList("Hello"));
}
}
In the above code an ArrayList<String> object was instantiated but never used. Instead, in the next line the variable which references it is set to point to a different object. The ArrayList which was created when list was declared will now need to be de-allocated, for instance by a garbage collector.
JavaScript example of a dead store:
function func(a, b) {
var x;
var i = 300;
while (i--) {
x = a + b; // dead store
}
}
The code in the loop repeatedly overwrites the same variable, so it can be reduced to only one call.
See also
Dead code
Unreachable code
References
Compiler optimizations
Software anomalies
Articles with example Java code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventnor%20West%20Branch | The Ventnor West Branch was the final addition to the Isle of Wight railway network, and used an earlier scheme to run a railway from Shanklin to the railwayless south-west part of the island.
History
The branch was opened by the Newport, Godshill & St Lawrence Railway between Merstone and St. Lawrence on 20 July 1897. From the day of opening, the branch was operated by the Isle of Wight Central Railway. A temporary terminus was provided at St Lawrence until the extension was opened to Ventnor Town on 1 June 1900. The terminus was renamed Ventnor West by the Southern Railway.
In the days prior to the Grouping of the railways in 1923, the line struggled to make financial ends meet. However, after 1923 the services did improve and some of the increasing competition from road transport was lessened. An extensive programme of modernisation was undertaken by the Southern Railway, albeit with secondhand equipment from the mainland. Some economies were made on the branch by the Southern Railway, most notably the removal of the passing loop and signal box at Whitwell in 1928. The footbridge at Dean level crossing on the outskirts of Whitwell was also removed around this time. The footbridge was re-erected at Wroxall.
Nationalisation in 1948 brought the British Railways emblem to the locomotives but few other significant operational changes. The passenger numbers remained low and the branch continued to lose revenue to more convenient bus services. It was no surprise when closure was announced for 15 September 1952. The branch was visited by a large number of enthusiasts in its final months.
Today all the station buildings are in residential use.
The route described
From the junction at Merstone, the line turned south and continued through farmland to cross the main Newport-Shanklin road. The line then continued through farmland to Godshill.
From Godshill the line again traversed farmland on a large stretch of embankment that ran to the small hamlet of Southford on the outskirts of Whitwell.
From Whitwell the line climbed up to the northern portal of St. Lawrence tunnel, crossing the B3327 road at Dean level crossing before reaching the tunnel itself.
The line entered the tunnel and began a long descent to St Lawrence and the terminus at Ventnor West.
Stations
Merstone
Godshill
Whitwell
St Lawrence
Ventnor West
Notes
Bibliography
Further reading
Closed railway lines in South East England
Railway lines opened in 1897
Railway lines closed in 1952 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20BR%20%27Clan%27%20Class%20locomotives | Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the BR standard class 6, or 'Clan' Class that ran on the Scottish Region of British Railways' railway network. They represented an attempt to regionalise some of the names of the standard pacifics, resulting in E.S. Cox's decision to name the class after the former Highland Railway's outgoing Clan Class, designed by Christopher Cumming.
Locomotives as constructed
Unbuilt locomotives
A further 15 'Clans' was projected, but due to an acute shortage of steel, the order was frequently postponed until the advent of the British Railways Modernisation Plan, which led to the order being cancelled. Five of the unbuilt locomotives were expected to operate on the Southern Region and so a change in naming style was planned for the next five in series. It was intended to revert to Scottish Region parlance for the final ten. The projected names were:
Southern Region.
72010 Hengist,
72011 Horsa,
72012 Canute,
72013 Wildfire,
72014 Firebrand.
Scottish Region.
72015 Clan Colquhoun,
72016 Clan Graham,
72017 Clan MacDougall,
72018 Clan MacLean,
72019 Clan Douglas,
72020 Clan Gordon,
72021 Clan Hamilton,
72022 Clan Kennedy,
72023 Clan Lindsay,
72024 Clan Scott.
The names Hengist and Horsa had been used previously by BR for cross-channel Sealink ships.
New build
A start has been made on constructing a new locomotive of the missing batch of 15, number 72010 Hengist, being assembled at CTL Seal in Sheffield. This locomotive project constitutes the commencement of the 1000th locomotive build to a British Railways standard design.
Footnotes
References
Burridge, Frank: Nameplates of the Big Four (Oxford Publishing Company: Oxford, 1975)
6
BR standard class 6
Railway locomotives introduced in 1951
Br Clan Class Locomotives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions%20per%20capita | This is a list of countries by total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per capita by year. It provides data based on a production-based accounting of emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon, and sulfur hexafluoride (meaning emissions within the territory of the given country), compiled by the World Resources Institute and divided by the population estimate by the United Nations (for July 1) of the same year. The emissions data do not include land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), nor emissions from the consumption of imported goods. All countries which are party to the Paris Agreement report their greenhouse gas inventories at least biennially from 2024. World total emissions are estimated to be about 50 billion tonnes a year (including LULUCF), which divided by world population is about 6 and a half tonnes per person per year. In order to meet the Paris Agreement goal of under 1.5°C rise by 2050, average per person emissions would need to be around 2 tonnes per person by 2030. It has been suggested that countries over the averaged be carbon taxed and the funds raised given to countries under the average.
List of countries by production-based emissions
See also
List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions
List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions
Asian brown cloud
Climate change
Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF)
References
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions per capita
Greenhouse gas
countries, greenhouse
Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gas emissions per person
Greenhouse gas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Zhuo | Li Zhuo (; born December 4, 1981 in Tieling, Liaoning) is a Chinese weightlifter. She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in the 48 kg class.
References
Li Zhuo at databaseOlympics.com
1981 births
Living people
Olympic silver medalists for China
Olympic weightlifters for China
People from Tieling
Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Asian Games medalists in weightlifting
Weightlifters from Liaoning
Weightlifters at the 2002 Asian Games
Chinese female weightlifters
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
20th-century Chinese women
21st-century Chinese women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Caucasus%20Railway | The North Caucasus Railway () is a broad gauge Russian railway network that links the Sea of Azov (in the west) and Caspian Sea (in the east). It runs through ten federal subjects: Rostov Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, Republic of Adygeya, Karachay–Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kalmykia. The headquarters are the North Caucasus Railway Administration Building in Rostov-on-Don.
The network comprises Grozny, Krasnodar, Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, and Rostov passenger and freight railways, as well as two children's railways (in Vladikavkaz and Rostov). , there were 6315.9 km of railtrack and 403 railway stations. The railway is operated by the Russian Railways and employs 80,757 people.
The Black Sea resorts of Sochi, Gelendzhik and Anapa are the principal passenger destinations on the railway. The Sochi line, running for many miles along the coast of the Black Sea, is especially busy in summer with regular extra direct express trains for holiday makers. The oil ports at Novorossiysk and Tuapse are significant destinations for rail freight traffic.
Major railway stations
Rostov-on-Don
Bataysk
Taganrog-II
Likhaya
Tikhoretskaya
Kavkazskaya
Armavir
Mineralnye Vody
Makhachkala
Timashevskaya
Krasnodar
Tuapse
Belorechenskaya
Salsk
Novorossiysk
Novocherkassk
Construction timeline
1861 Shakhtnaya–Aksay (the first rail line in Northern Caucasus)
1871 Zverevo–Shakhtnaya
1872 Rostov-on-Don–Vladikavkaz
1875 Aksay–Rostov-on-Don
1888 Tikhoretskaya-Novorossisk
1897-Kavkazskaya-Stavropol
1901 Kavkazskaya–Krasnodar
1911 Bataysk–Azov
1911 Sosyka–Yeysk
1911 Armavir–Maikop
1912 Belorechenskaya–Tuapse
1914 Krasnodar–Akhtari
1914 Krymskaya–Timashevsk–Kushchevka
1915 Bataysk–Salsk
1915 Prokhladnaya–Gudermes
1916 Palagiada–Vinodelnoye
1923 Tuapse–Sochi
1927 Sochi–Matsesta–Adler
1928 Petrovskoye Selo–Blagodarnoye
1931 Vinodelnoye–Divnoye
1931 Rostov-on-Don–Khapry
1931 Komsomolskaya–Neftegorsk
1931 Maikop–Khadzhokh
1940 Labinskaya–Shedok
1942 Gudermes–Astrakhan
1942 Adler–Sukhumi
1944 Krymskaya–Starotitarovka
1969 Divnoye–Elista
1971 Zverevo–Krasnodonskaya
1977 Anapa–Yurovsky
1978 Krasnodar–Tuapse
1987 Blagodarnoye–Budyonnovsk
1989 Peshchanokopskaya–Krasnaya Gvardiya
In 1937 the North Caucasus Railway was renamed after the Soviet party leader Sergo Ordzhonikidze but soon reverted to its traditional name. It was in the late 1950s that most of the railway network was electrified.
In 1987 the line from Zverevo north to Chertkovo was transferred from the South Eastern Railway to the North Caucasus Railway, with the new connection between the two railways being just north of Chertkovo railway station.
External links
Railway lines in Russia
Railway companies established in 1861
North Caucasus
1861 establishments in the Russian Empire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Abitibi%20Provincial%20Park | Little Abitibi Provincial Park is a non-operating provincial park north of Cochrane, Ontario. It holds a network of small lakes which run into the Little Abitibi River. The Little Abitibi River runs about up into the Abitibi Canyon, where the Ontario Power Generation dams the river at Fraserdale, an abandoned railway town.
It was made famous in "The Blackfly Song" and the animated film adaptation Blackfly, which concerned the construction of a dam on the Little Abitibi River.
References
External links
Provincial parks of Ontario
Protected areas of Cochrane District
Protected areas established in 1985
1985 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20method | In logic, mathematics and computer science, especially metalogic and computability theory, an effective method or effective procedure is a procedure for solving a problem by any intuitively 'effective' means from a specific class. An effective method is sometimes also called a mechanical method or procedure.
Definition
The definition of an effective method involves more than the method itself. In order for a method to be called effective, it must be considered with respect to a class of problems. Because of this, one method may be effective with respect to one class of problems and not be effective with respect to a different class.
A method is formally called effective for a class of problems when it satisfies these criteria:
It consists of a finite number of exact, finite instructions.
When it is applied to a problem from its class:
It always finishes (terminates) after a finite number of steps.
It always produces a correct answer.
In principle, it can be done by a human without any aids except writing materials.
Its instructions need only to be followed rigorously to succeed. In other words, it requires no ingenuity to succeed.
Optionally, it may also be required that the method never returns a result as if it were an answer when the method is applied to a problem from outside its class. Adding this requirement reduces the set of classes for which there is an effective method.
Algorithms
An effective method for calculating the values of a function is an algorithm. Functions for which an effective method exists are sometimes called effectively calculable.
Computable functions
Several independent efforts to give a formal characterization of effective calculability led to a variety of proposed definitions (general recursive functions, Turing machines, λ-calculus) that later were shown to be equivalent. The notion captured by these definitions is known as recursive or effective computability.
The Church–Turing thesis states that the two notions coincide: any number-theoretic function that is effectively calculable is recursively computable. As this is not a mathematical statement, it cannot be proven by a mathematical proof.
See also
Decidability (logic)
Decision problem
Function problem
Effective results in number theory
Recursive set
Undecidable problem
References
S. C. Kleene (1967), Mathematical logic. Reprinted, Dover, 2002, , pp. 233 ff., esp. p. 231.
Metalogic
Computability theory
Theory of computation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areae | The word 'areae' is also the Latin plural of 'area'.
Areae is an American computer technology corporation located in San Diego, California, that was established in July 2006 by Raph Koster. Areae has been officially changed to Metaplace, Inc. to avoid confusion. Funded by Charles River Ventures and Crescendo Ventures, Areae develops the Metaplace software platform that democratizes the development of virtual worlds.
History
In January 2010, the company pivoted towards using its virtual worlds platform to build social games on Facebook. It released two successful games on Facebook using its platform, Island Life and My Vineyard, after which the company was acquired by Playdom.
References
External links
Metaplace (official website)
Companies based in San Diego
Video game companies established in 2006
Metaplace
MUD organizations
Video game companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atca | ATCA or Atca may refer to:
Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture, a series of specifications by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
The Turkish town of Atça
The Alien Tort Claims Act, a United States law which provides redress for violations of customary international law. Also known as the Alien Tort Statute.
The Australia Telescope Compact Array, a radio telescope at the Paul Wild Observatory, twenty five kilometres (16 mi) west of the town of Narrabri in Australia. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpaid%20mobile%20phone | The postpaid mobile phone is a mobile phone for which service is provided by a prior arrangement with a mobile network operator. The user in this situation is billed after the fact according to their use of mobile services at the end of each month. Typically, the customer's contract specifies a limit or "allowance" of minutes, text messages etc., and the customer will be billed at a flat rate for any usage equal to or less than that allowance. Any usage above that limit incurs extra charges. Theoretically, a user in this situation has no limit on use of mobile services and, as a consequence, unlimited credit. This service is better for people with a secured income.
Postpaid service mobile phone typically requires two essential components in order to make the 'post-usage' model viable:
Credit history/Contractual commitment. This is the basis on which the service provider is able to trust the customer with paying their bill when it is due and to have legal recourse in case of non-payment
Service tenure. Most postpaid providers require customers to sign long term (1–3 year) contracts committing to use of the service. Failure to complete the term would make the customer liable for early termination fees.
The bill itself is an important component of the services which acts as an ambassador of the service provider and at times as an evidence of the service itself. The bill needs to be readable, comprehensible as well as aesthetically attractive for the subscriber to be interested enough to see details other than the bill amount.
The United States and Canada are examples of countries dominated by postpaid providers, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon in the US and Bell, Rogers, and Telus in Canada, among others. In the US a smaller market has been captured by prepaid providers such as Boost Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, Cricket Wireless, TracFone, and Ting, which use postpaid providers networks (e.g. Cricket runs on AT&T's network).
Mobile telecommunication services
ru:Биллинг#Prepaid
The alternative billing method is a prepaid mobile phone where a user pays in advance for credit which is then consumed by use of the mobile phone service. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar | Planar is an adjective meaning "relating to a plane (geometry)".
Planar may also refer to:
Science and technology
Planar (computer graphics), computer graphics pixel information from several bitplanes
Planar (transmission line technologies), transmission lines with flat conductors
Planar, the structure resulting from the planar process used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, such as planar transistors
Planar graph, graph that can be drawn in the plane so that no edges cross
Planar mechanism, a system of parts whose motion is constrained to a two-dimensional plane
Planar Systems, an Oregon-headquartered manufacturer of digital displays
Zeiss Planar, photographic lens designed by Paul Rudolph at Carl Zeiss in 1896
See also
List of planar symmetry groups
Planarity, a computer puzzle game
Plane (disambiguation)
Planer (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escom | Escom or ESCOM may refer to:
Escom AG, a defunct German computer corporation
Escom LLC, Internet corporation
ESCOM IPN, the Superior School of Computer Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico
École supérieure de chimie organique et minérale, a French grande école for chemical engineering
Eskom, South African electricity public utility, known as ESCOM until 1986
Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi (ESCOM), Ltd, state-owned power producing company in Malawi
European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, non-profit learned society supporting research in the cognitive sciences of music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20Algorithm%20for%20Rule%20Set%20Production | Genetic Algorithm for Rule Set Production (GARP) is a computer program based on genetic algorithm that creates ecological niche models for species. The generated models describe environmental conditions (precipitation, temperatures, elevation, etc.) under which the species should be able to maintain populations. As input, local observations of species and related environmental parameters are used which describe potential limits of the species' capabilities to survive. Such environmental parameters are commonly stored in geographical information systems. A GARP model is a random set of mathematical rules which can be read as limiting environmental conditions. Each rule is considered as a gene; the set of genes is combined in random ways to further generate many possible models describing the potential of the species to occur.
See also
Environmental niche modelling
References
Stockwell, D. R. B. 1999. Genetic algorithms II. Pages 123–144 in A. H. Fielding, editor. Machine learning methods for ecological applications. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
Stockwell, D. R. B., and D. G. Peters. 1999. The GARP modelling system: Problems and solutions to automated spatial prediction. International Journal of Geographic Information Systems 13:143–158
Software
OpenModeller – (related GARP page)
Lifemapper
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Computer%20and%20Telecommunications%20Agency | The Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) was a UK government agency providing computer and telecoms support to government departments.
History
Formation
In 1957, the UK government formed the Technical Support Unit (TSU) within HM Treasury to evaluate and advise on computers, initially based around engineers from the telecommunications service. As this unit evolved, it morphed into the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, which also had responsibilities as a central procurement body for government technological equipment.
CCTA's work during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s was primarily to (a) develop central government IT professionalism, (b) create a body of knowledge and experience in the successful development and implementation of IS/IT within UK central government (c) to brief Government Ministers on the opportunities for use of IS/IT to support policy initiatives (e.g. "Citizen's Charter" / "e-government") and (d) to encourage and assist UK private sector companies to develop and offer products and services aligned to government needs.
Over the 3 decades, CCTA's focus shifted from hardware to a business oriented systems approach with strong emphasis on business led IS/IT Strategies which crossed Departmental (Ministry) boundaries encompassing several "Departments" (e.g. CCCJS – Computerisation of the Central Criminal Justice System). This inter-departmental approach (first mooted in the mid to late 1980s) was revolutionary and met considerable political and departmental opposition.
In October 1994, MI5 took over its work on computer security from hacking into the government's (usually the Treasury) network. In November 1994, CCTA launched its website. In February 1998 it built and ran the government's secure intranet. The MoD was connected to a separate network. In December 1998, the DfEE moved its server from CCTA at Norwich to NISS (National Information Services and Systems) in Bath when it relaunched its website.
Between 1989 and 1992, CCTA's "Strategic Programmes" Division undertook research on exploiting Information Systems as a medium for improving the relationship between citizens, businesses and government. This parallelled the launch of the "Citizen's Charter" by the then Prime Minister, John Major, and the creation within the Cabinet Office of the "Citizen's Charter Unit" (CCTA had at this point been moved from HM Treasury to the Cabinet Office). The research and work focused on identifying ways of simplifying the interaction between citizens and government through the use of IS/IT. Two major TV documentaries were produced by CCTA – "Information and the Citizen" and "Hymns Ancient and Modern" which explored the business and political issues associated with what was to become "e-government". These were aimed at widening the understanding of senior civil servants (the Whitehall Mandarins) of the significant impact of the "Information Age" and identifying wider social and economic issues likely to aris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local | Link-local may refer to:
Data link layer, the second layer of the OSI model of computer networking
Link-local address, a computer network address
See also
Local Link (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu%20Station%20%28Osaka%29 | is a train station on the Osaka Metro Imazatosuji Line in Asahi-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the least used subway station in the Osaka Metro network, with only 5,439 people using the station daily in 2016. However, it is not the least used station in the entire network, as several stations of the Nankō Port Town Line have lower ridership figures.
Layout
The station has an island platform fenced with platform gates between two tracks underground. Two siding tracks are located in the south of the station and connect to Tsurumi-ryokuchi-kita Depot and Tsurumi Inspection Depot.
References
Asahi-ku, Osaka
Osaka Metro stations
Railway stations in Japan opened in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun | LUN or Lun may refer to:
Logical unit number, in computer storage
Lun, Croatia
Lown-e Kohneh or Lūn, Iran
Lün, a district in Mongolia's Central Province
ISO 639-3 language code for the Lunda language
Lun-class ekranoplan, a Soviet ground-effect vehicle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20modeling | Metadata modeling is a type of metamodeling used in software engineering and systems engineering for the analysis and construction of models applicable to and useful for some predefined class of problems.
Meta-modeling is the analysis, construction and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models and theories applicable and useful for the modeling in a predefined class of problems.
The meta-data side of the diagram consists of a concept diagram. This is basically an adjusted class diagram as described in Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson (1999). Important notions are concept, generalization, association, multiplicity and aggregation.
Metadatamodeling Concepts
First of all, a concept is a simple version of a Unified Modeling Language (UML) class. The class definition is adopted to define a concept, namely: a set of objects that share the same attributes, operations, relations, and semantics.
The following concept types are specified:
STANDARD CONCEPT: a concept that contains no further (sub) concepts. A standard concept is visualized with a rectangle.
COMPLEX CONCEPT: a concept that consists of a collection of (sub) concepts. Complex concepts are divided into:
OPEN CONCEPT: a complex concept whose (sub) concepts are expanded. An open concept is visualized with two white rectangles above each other. (Correction: An open concept is visualized with 2 white rectangles, 1 overlaid over the other, offset to the right, with 3 corners of the rectangle beneath visible. )
CLOSED CONCEPT: a complex concept whose (sub) concepts are not expanded since it is not relevant in the specific context. A closed concept is visualized by a white rectangle above a black rectangle.
In Figure 1 the three concept types that are used in the modeling technique are illustrated. Concepts are always capitalized, not only in the diagram, but also when referring to them outside the diagram.
In Figure 2 all three concept types are exemplified. Part of the process-data diagram of the requirements workflow in the Unified Process is illustrated. The USE CASE MODEL is an open concept and consists of one or more ACTORS and one or more USE CASES. ACTOR is a standard concept, it contains no further sub-concepts. USE CASE, however, is a closed concept. A USE CASE consists of a description, a flow of events, conditions, special requirements, etc. Because in this case it is unnecessary to reveal that information, the USE CASE is illustrated with a closed concept.
Generalization
Generalization is a way to express a relationship between a general concept and a more specific concept. Also, if necessary, one can indicate whether the groups of concepts that are identified are overlapping or disjoint, complete or incomplete. Generalization is visualized by a solid arrow with an open arrowhead, pointing to the parent, as is illustrated in Figure 3.
In Figure 4 generalization is exemplified by showing the relationships between the different concepts described in the preceding par |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic%20dimension | The intrinsic dimension for a data set can be thought of as the number of variables needed in a minimal representation of the data. Similarly, in signal processing of multidimensional signals, the intrinsic dimension of the signal describes how many variables are needed to generate a good approximation of the signal.
When estimating intrinsic dimension, however, a slightly broader definition based on manifold dimension is often used, where a representation in the intrinsic dimension does only need to exist locally. Such intrinsic dimension estimation methods can thus handle data sets with different intrinsic dimensions in different parts of the data set. This is often referred to as local intrinsic dimensionality.
The intrinsic dimension can be used as a lower bound of what dimension it is possible to compress a data set into through dimension reduction, but it can also be used as a measure of the complexity of the data set or signal. For a data set or signal of N variables, its intrinsic dimension M satisfies 0 ≤ M ≤ N, although estimators may yield higher values.
Example
Let be a two-variable function (or signal) which is of the form
for some one-variable function g which is not constant. This means that f varies, in accordance to g, with the first variable or along the first coordinate. On the other hand, f is constant with respect to the second variable or along the second coordinate. It is only necessary to know the value of one, namely the first, variable in order to determine the value of f. Hence, it is a two-variable function but its intrinsic dimension is one.
A slightly more complicated example is.
f is still intrinsic one-dimensional, which can be seen by making a variable transformation
and
which gives
.
Since the variation in f can be described by the single variable y1 its intrinsic dimension is one.
For the case that f is constant, its intrinsic dimension is zero since no variable is needed to describe variation. For the general case, when the intrinsic dimension of the two-variable function f is neither zero or one, it is two.
In the literature, functions which are of intrinsic dimension zero, one, or two are sometimes referred to as i0D, i1D or i2D, respectively.
Formal definition for signals
For an N-variable function f, the set of variables can be represented as an N-dimensional vector x:
.
If for some M-variable function g and M × N matrix A is it the case that
for all x;
M is the smallest number for which the above relation between f and g can be found,
then the intrinsic dimension of f is M.
The intrinsic dimension is a characterization of f, it is not an unambiguous characterization of g nor of A. That is, if the above relation is satisfied for some f, g, and A, it must also be satisfied for the same f and g′ and A′ given by
and
where B is a non-singular M × M matrix, since
.
The Fourier transform of signals of low intrinsic dimension
An N variable function which has intrinsic dimension M < |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halomicrobium | Halomicrobium is a genus of the Haloarculaceae.
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Archaea genera |
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