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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201974 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1974 (see 1974 in film).
1974
External links
Spanish films of 1974 at the Internet Movie Database
1974
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201975 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1975 (see 1975 in film).
1975
External links
Spanish films of 1975 at the Internet Movie Database
1975
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201976 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1976 (see 1976 in film).
Tapas (film)
1976
External links
Spanish films of 1976 at the Internet Movie Database
1976
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201977 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1977 (see 1977 in film).
1977
References
External links
Spanish films of 1977 at the Internet Movie Database
1977
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201978 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1978 (see 1978 in film).
Films
References
External links
Spanish films of 1978 at the Internet Movie Database
1978
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201979 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1979 (see 1979 in film).
1979
External links
Spanish films of 1979 at the Internet Movie Database
1979
Lists of 1979 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201980 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1980 (see 1980 in film).
1980
External links
Spanish films of 1980 at the Internet Movie Database
1980
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201981 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1981 (see 1981 in film).
1981
References
External links
Spanish films of 1981 at the Internet Movie Database
1981
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201982 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1982 (see 1982 in film).
1982
External links
Spanish films of 1982 at the Internet Movie Database
1982
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201983 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1983 (see 1983 in film).
1983
External links
Spanish films of 1983 at the Internet Movie Database
1983
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201984 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1984 (see 1984 in film).
1984
External links
Spanish films of 1984 at the Internet Movie Database
1984
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201985 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1985 (see 1985 in film).
1985
References
External links
Spanish films of 1985 at the Internet Movie Database
1985
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201986 | A list of Spanish-produced and co-produced feature films released in Spain in 1986.
Films
See also
1st Goya Awards
References
External links
Spanish films of 1986 at the Internet Movie Database
1986
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201987 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1987 (see 1987 in film).
1987
External links
Spanish films of 1987 at the Internet Movie Database
1987
Lists of 1987 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201988 | A list of Spanish-produced and co-produced feature films released in Spain in 1988.
Films
See also
3rd Goya Awards
References
External links
Spanish films of 1988 at the Internet Movie Database
1988
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201989 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1989 (see 1989 in film).
1989
External links
Spanish films of 1989 at the Internet Movie Database
1989
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markit | Markit was a British financial information and services company with over 4,000 employees, founded in 2003 as an independent source of credit derivative pricing. The company provides independent data, trade processing of derivatives, foreign exchange and loans, customised technology platforms and managed services. The company aims to enhance transparency, reduce financial risk and improve operational efficiency. Its client base includes institutional participants in the financial marketplace. On 12 July 2016, Markit and IHS Inc. merged in an all-stock merger of equals to form IHS Markit. IHS Markit later merged with S&P Global on 28 February 2022.
Background
Markit was founded in 2003 by Canadian Lance Uggla in St Albans, outside London, as Mark-it Partners to provide daily credit default swap (CDS) pricing.
Markit's credit derivative data sales rose during the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007 and later years.
In September 2009, Markit and Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) launched MarkitSERV, a joint venture to provide over-the-counter (OTC) derivative trade processing.
On 5 May 2014 Markit Ltd., a company registered in Bermuda, filed for an initial public offering (IPO), to be listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol MRKT. The stock began trading on 19 June 2014 with an initial pricing of $24 per share.
Company performance
By 2009 Markit had "1,000 institutions as clients - including investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies, and insurance companies."
In 2012, the company had annual revenues of US$860 million, with 3000 employees. In 2012, Markit had a $5 billion valuation.
By 2013 Markit served 3,000 institutions across the financial markets which include investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, auditors, fund administrators and insurance companies.
Acquisitions
Totem Valuations, a supplier of consensus valuations and month-end data, was bought by Markit in May 2004
The International Index Company (IIC) and CDS Index Company (CDSIndexCo), owners of the iTraxx and CDX credit default swap indexes, were acquired by Markit in November 2007
SwapsWire's acquisition by Markit announced In December 2007.,
The BOAT, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive-compliant trade reporting platform acquired by Markit from a consortium of nine investment banks In January 2008. The BOAT was owned by consortium of nine investment banks —ABN Amro, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS who had launched the system in September 2006. The Boat platform was established by these nine banks "for the collection and sale of trading data following the introduction of EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) in November 2007.
JPMorgan Chase's FCS Corporation, a provider of syndicated loan market portfolio and risk management software and services, including the Wall Street |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy%2010%20Business%20Computer%20System | The Tandy 10 Business Computer System was a short-lived product developed by Radio Shack in the late 1970s as a business-oriented complement to their TRS-80 Model I desktop computer. Released in 1978, the Tandy 10 was built for Radio Shack by Applied Digital Data Systems (ADDS), and was only sold by Radio Shack's dedicated computer center stores.
The computer itself was about the size of a two-drawer filing cabinet, with a monitor and keyboard built into a desk-shaped console, along with two 8-inch floppy drives vertically mounted in the pedestal. Its features included:
8080 CPU
48K memory
24x80 video display
Two dual-sided 8" diskette drives
Dartmouth BASIC
ADOS Disk Operating System
Optional:
Fortran IV language
Assembly Language program language
The original ADDS machine, the System 50, was intended to be used as a data entry system and not as a standalone computer. The original "language" it contained was actually a form designer; data was then entered into the form and then "sent" via RS-232 to a mainframe. Since it had a microprocessor, Tandy matched it up with Peachtree Accounting software in an attempt to market it as a business computer.
The system did not sell in large numbers. Radio Shack's next business system was an extension of the TRS-80 product line, the TRS-80 Model II, released in May 1979. The Tandy 10 was discontinued in late 1980.
References
External links
Tandy 10 at the Computer History Museum
ADDS System 50 advertisement, Computerworld, Mar 27, 1978
Early microcomputers
RadioShack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHL%20%28disambiguation%29 | RHL is a common abbreviation for Red Hat Linux, a Linux-based operating system superseded by RHEL
RHL may also refer to:
Rembrandt's monogram on his works ("Rembrandt Harmenszoon [of] Leiden"?)
Rhyl railway station, Wales, National Rail station code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201968 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1968 (see 1968 in film).
1968
References
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Spanish films of 1968 at the Internet Movie Database
1968
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20films%20of%201969 | A list of films produced in Spain in 1969.
1969
References
External links
Spanish films of 1969 at the Internet Movie Database
1969
Spanish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic%20closure | In computer science, syntactic closures are an implementation strategy for a hygienic macro system. The term pertains to the Scheme programming language.
When a syntactic closure is used the arguments to a macro call are enclosed in the current environment, such that they cannot inadvertently reference bindings introduced by the macro itself.
References
External links
Syntactic exposures - A Lexically-Scoped Macro Facility for Extensible Compilers
syntactic closures at Schemewiki
Implementation of functional programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Guardians%20%28British%20TV%20series%29 | The Guardians is a television political thriller series of 13 60-minute episodes made by London Weekend Television and broadcast in the UK on the ITV network (with the exception of Ulster Television) between 10 July 1971 and 2 October 1971.
Synopsis
The Guardians is a dystopian political thriller set in the 1980s. Following economic chaos, democratic government has been overthrown in a bloodless coup, the Royal Family fled into self-imposed exile and the United Kingdom is ruled autocratically by Prime Minister Sir Timothy Hobson. Hobson is initially a pawn of 'the General'; a military officer by the name of Roger, who later becomes the Minister of Defence. Hobson subscribes to an outwardly benevolent paternalistic fascism, based on the principle that "democracy is a form of group suicide." Political opposition is suppressed by a uniformed paramilitary force recruited from former policemen, soldiers and security guards and called "The Guardians of the Realm" (known for short as "The Guardians" or simply "The Gs"). Each episode begins with a column of Guardians marching through central London to a memorable theme tune composed by Wilfred Josephs.
The government, nominally headed by Hobson, is opposed by a fragmented resistance movement collectively named "Quarmby." The dominant group within Quarmby favours a strategy of provoking increased oppression by the state through the use of assassination and other forms of terrorism. The series avoided black and white scenarios by portraying moderate and extreme factions jostling within both government and resistance. Hobson represents the liberal element within government, attempting to outmanoeuvre the seldom-seen General and the polished Cabinet Secretary Norman.
Cast
Episode list
Northern Ireland
The Independent Television Authority decided that the series was unsuitable to be broadcast in Northern Ireland due to IRA activity there because of its political content such as depictions of terrorist activity from the terrorist's point of view.
DVD release
The Guardians was released on DVD in the UK on 1 February 2010 by Network. The full 13-part series was released as a 4-disc set.
References
External links
The Guardians at Screen Online
National Science and Media Museum (Bradford)
1971 British television series debuts
1971 British television series endings
1970s British drama television series
1970s British science fiction television series
British science fiction television shows
Dystopian television series
English-language television shows
ITV television dramas
London Weekend Television shows
Television series by ITV Studios
Television series set in the 1980s
Television series set in the future |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRTN-LD | KRTN-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Cozi TV. Owned by the Telemundo Station Group subsidiary of NBCUniversal, it is sister to Telemundo owned-and-operated station KASA-TV (channel 2), KTEL-CD (channel 15), and KUPT-LD (channel 16). KRTN-LD's transmitter is located at Sandia Crest.
KRTN-TV
KRTN-TV is the full powered satellite station based in Durango, Colorado that broadcasts on channel 33. This station is also seen throughout the Albuquerque–Santa Fe market on Dish Network and DirecTV channel 33.
Many local commercials on this station are from businesses in Durango and Albuquerque. KRTN also features "Durango TV" a local half-hour community show.
Additionally, KRTN is also shown on digital subchannels of these stations:
KTEL-TV in Carlsbad/Artesia, New Mexico
KUPT in Hobbs, New Mexico
K47MQ in Santa Fe/Espanola, New Mexico
History
The low-powered station in Albuquerque signed on in the Summer of 1994 as K56FB on UHF channel 56. It aired programming from The Box a music video network programmed by viewer request. The Box was purchased by Viacom the parent company of MTV in 2000 and on January 1, 2001, Viacom merged The Box into a "relaunched" version of MTV2. MTV2 aired on channel 56 for about a year and a half but ended in 2002 as MTV2 dropped broadcast affiliates after contracts expired. After re-broadcasting sister station KTEL-LP for about two years the station carried shopping programming from Jewelry Television in 2004. Jewelry TV aired until the end of analog operations in 2009. However Jewelry TV re-affiliated with the station in the Fall of 2013 on a digital subchannel.
The analog station moved to channel 39 from channel 56 in fall 2007 with power upgrades which gives the channel a much better signal than it had on channel 56.
KRTN-TV was previously KTLL-TV which had been the Telemundo satellite for Durango beginning in 2001.
Classic TV programming
In November 2008, the station signed with the Retro Television Network (then known as RTN) which would air reruns of classic TV shows. RTN was also to be carried on sister station KRTN-TV (formerly KTLL) channel 33.1 in the four corners area.
In September 2009 the stations changed their call-letters to KRTN-TV and KRTN-LD matching the planned affiliations. However RTN had never signed on this station. The network (now called Retro TV) has been available locally since July 2014 on KYNM-CD channel 21.3.
In August 2011, the station added MeTV a similarly formatted network from Weigel Broadcasting in Chicago which airs popular shows such as M*A*S*H, Hogan's Heroes, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Cheers.
In early July 2015, KRTN-LD added the game show network Buzzr from FremantleMedia on channel 33.2 while moving Jewelry TV to 33.3. On January 16, 2017 KRTN-LD added an all infomercial channel that originated on KUPT-LD channel 16.2.
In early April 2017, KRTN-LD switched its displ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperdata | Hyperdata are data objects linked to other data objects in other places, as hypertext indicates text linked to other text in other places. Hyperdata enables formation of a web of data, evolving from the "data on the Web" that is not inter-related (or at least, not linked).
In the same way that hypertext usually refers to the World Wide Web but is a broader term, hyperdata usually refers to the Semantic Web, but may also be applied more broadly to other data-linking technologies such as microformats – including XHTML Friends Network.
A hypertext link indicates that a link exists between two documents or "information resources". Hyperdata links go beyond simply such a connection, and express semantics about the kind of connection being made. For instance, in a document about Hillary Clinton, a hypertext link might be made from the word senator to a document about the United States Senate. In contrast, a hyperdata link from the same word to the same document might also state that senator was one of Hillary Clinton's roles, titles, or positions (depending on the ontology being used to define this link).
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web introduces the controversial concept of links to non-data resources. In the Semantic Web, links are not limited to "information resources" or documents, such as the typical Web page. Hyperdata links may refer to a physical structure (e.g., "the Eiffel Tower"), a place ("Champ de Mars" where the Eiffel Tower stands), a person (Gustave Eiffel, the man responsible for the tower's construction), or other "non-information resources". It is worth noting that the links in this article are hypertext, not hyperdata, and they all lead to documents which describe the entities named.
A hyperdata browser (also called a Semantic Web browser), is a browser used to navigate the Semantic Web. Semantic Web architecture does not necessarily involve the HTML document format, which typical HTML Web browsers rely upon. A hyperdata browser specifically requests RDF data from Web servers, often through content negotiation or conneg, starting from the same URL as the traditional Web browser; the Web server may immediately return the requested RDF, or it may deliver a redirection to a new URI where the RDF may actually be found, or the RDF may be embedded in the same HTML document which would be returned to a Web browser which did not request RDF. The RDF data will generally describe the resource represented by the originally requested URI. The hyperdata browser then renders the information received as an HTML page that contains hyperlinks for users to navigate to indicated resources.
See also
Data Web
Linked data
Web resource
Web service
References
Hypertext
Hypermedia
Electronic literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginie | Virginie was a French-language Canadian television series that aired Monday through Thursday on Radio-Canada (the French-language CBC television network). It debuted in 1996. The show examined the public and private lives of teachers, students, and families at the fictional Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc high school. It frequently dealt with controversial social topics, such as teen drug use, ethnic prejudice, divorce, and other subjects touching on contemporary Quebec life. "Virginie" was a téléroman-style drama that often used "cliffhangers" in the storylines. It aired 120 episodes per year of 30 minutes each.
The series was produced and largely written by Fabienne Larouche. Virginie ended in December 2010 after 15 years on air; the last episode aired on December 15, 2010. The final episode drew more than 807,000 viewers in Quebec, or about 200,000 more than its average viewership for a typical episode. The program maintained a high level of popularity throughout its television run.
Current main characters
Virginie Charest (Stéphanie Crête-Blais, 2007–2010) is a physical education teacher at the school.
Frédéric Perreault (Maxime Denommée), boyfriend of Virginie Charest, is a member of the Royal 22e Régiment and currently based in Afghanistan. The 2009 season finale cliffhanger suggested that the character died on duty.
Stéphane Lessieur (Peter Miller), former boyfriend of Virginie Boivin and father of her two children. He is currently a police officer with the Sûreté du Québec. He dated the sexologist of the school, Veronique. He is now dating Virginie Charest
Bernard Paré (Jean L'Italien)
Pierre Lacaille (JiCi Lauzon)
Hercule Bellehumeur (Martin Larocque) He is an overweight gym teacher. He is dating Agathe, who is also a gym teacher. Hercule is always on a diet...but loves food and eating too much to resist!
Péneloppe Belhumeur (Sonia Vachon) She was a teacher at Ste-Jeanne D'arc. She is the sister of Hercule Belhummeur, the gym teacher. She used to date Lacaille, and had a child with him.
Hugo Lacasse (played by Patrice Bissonnette before the 2002 season, then by Fabien Dupuis)
Michel Rivest (Marcel Leboeuf)
Ghislaine Cormier (Louise Deschâtelets)
Monique Rivest (Annick Bergeron)
René Ouellet (Michel Forget)
* Bobby Rajotte (Hubert Proulx)
Pierre-Paul Laporte (Benoit Langlais)
Other current characters
“Toutoune” Laporte (Eric Hoziel)
Cathie Laurendeau (Joëlle Morin)
Juge Pringle (Réjean Lefrançois)
Agathe Sirois (Geneviève Néron)
Sylvain Lajoie (Cédric Pépin)
Véronique Gagnon (Christine Beaulieu)
Past characters
Virginie Boivin (Chantal Fontaine, 1996–2008) was the main character until 2008 when she left the series. She was a physical education teacher at the school, who left to live in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean with her two young children.
Maurice Ladouceur (Jean-François Mercier) Maurice was killed by a drunk driver.
Louise Pouliot (Pascale Desrochers) Louise left after giving birth to her child.
Patrick Labbé as Gary Lamo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChoicesUK | ChoicesUK was the second-largest chain of DVD and video game rental shops in the United Kingdom - as well as an AIM listed multi-channel distributor and retailer of DVDs, computer games and CDs.
Home Entertainment Corporation
ChoicesUK, formerly Home Entertainment Corporation (HEC), was established in 1985. In this pre-internet period, the company's main strategy was to exploit the UK video market.
Initially, the business was centred on video rental through its "Video Box Office" stores (now ChoicesUK Local) which supplied white-label goods to third party convenience stores. The company's first B2C store opened in 1986, under the name of "Choices Video", offering a selection of videos for rental and various confectionery products. In 1991, the company added a mail order service for the sale (not rental) of videos, and later DVDs.
ChoicesUK's pre-internet strategy focused on three areas: video and DVD rental through "Choices Video" stores, supplying third-party outlets with white-label videos and DVDs, and a catalogue-based mail order service for videos and DVDs.
These three areas saturated the pre-internet marketplace, making ChoicesUK a highly competitive organisation to challenge the market leader Blockbuster Ltd.
Impact Of The Internet
From 1991 to 2003 ChoicesUK experienced a period of relative continuity, where the established strategy remained largely unchanged, with the exception of minor incremental changes. This was followed by a period of industry flux, in response to the quick emergence of virtual rental companies and Video On Demand (VOD) services such as Sky Box Office.
In response to the threat from the Internet, ChoicesUK decided to re-brand its divisions under this name and focus upon a single brand strategy to encompass all company activities. This aimed to improve brand awareness and increase the overall industry presence in the UK's home entertainment retail and distribution market.
After this rebranding strategy, ChoicesUK has 3 divisions:
ChoicesUK stores - had 180 outlets located throughout the UK, catering for impulse rentals of DVDs, games and music
ChoicesUK Local - supplied third-party outlets with white-label DVDs.
ChoicesUK Direct - incorporated the catalogue mail-order service, and transferred this service to an on-line mail order service, through the ChoicesUK website
ChoicesUK chose to circumvent the DVD-by-mail market, and instead focused upon its physical base of stores and supplying the convenience store sector with new white-label goods.
However, the success of the Internet rental process made ChoicesUK recognise the strategic significance of modern data management systems. This led to various collaborations and partnerships with e-commerce specialists such as QAS plc, Snow Valley Ltd and Charteris plc.
Administration
Despite these changes, the company struggled in the changing marketplace. In April 2007, Choices UK issued a profits warning citing "unseasonably fine weather" in the four weeks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi%20Jazayeri | Mehdi Jazayeri is the founding dean of the faculty of informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (University of Lugano) in Lugano, Switzerland, and author of several textbooks on computer software. He was awarded the Influential Educator Award in 2012 by the ACM SIGSOFT.
Jazayeri received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1971, MS in Computer Engineering (1973) and PhD in Computer Science (1975) from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The faculty of informatics in Lugano was established in 2004 with bachelor, master, and PhD programs in computer science. There are currently around 150 students, faculty and researchers at the faculty. Mehdi Jazayeri was an assistant professor of computer science at the Computer Science Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina from 1975 to 1980. From 1980 to 1984 he worked at several Silicon Valley start-up companies. From 1984 to 1994, he was a researcher at the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. In 1994, he moved to Vienna as professor of computer science at the Technical University of Vienna, where he led a group of researchers at the Distributed Systems Group. He was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2007.
Jazayeri has been a keynote presenter at several conferences, including Automated Software Engineering 2004, IWPSE 2005: International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, and Software Engineering 06,.
He was program chair of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, September 2007, Zurich, Switzerland, and program co-chair with Alexander Wolf of the International Software Engineering Conference, May 2000, Limerick, Ireland. He has been a session chair at conferences such as the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, in May 2005.
Books by Mehdi Jazayeri
Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age. With P. Inverardi. (Springer Verlag, 2007; )
Fundamentals of Software Engineering. With C. Ghezzi and D. Mandrioli. (First edition: Prentice Hall, 1991; . Second edition: Prentice Hall, 2003; )
Programming Language Concepts. With C. Ghezzi. (First edition: John Wiley & Sons, 1982; . Second edition: John Wiley & Sons, 1987; . Third edition: John Wiley & Sons, 1998; )
Software Architecture for Product Families: Principles and Practice. With A. Ran and F. van der Linden. (Addison-Wesley, 2000; )
The Proceedings of an International Seminar on Generic Programming. With R. Loos and D. R. Musser. (Springer Verlag, 2000; )
Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments. With P. K. Garg, (IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995; )
References
External links
Mehdi Jazayeri at Scientific Commons
Mehdi Jazayeri personal homepage at the Università della Svizzera italiana
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Academic staff of TU Wien
Living p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrimeTel | Primetel PLC is a Cypriot telecommunications company that offers and develops voice, data, and video services. It's ranked third in fixed-line telephony after Cyta and Cablenet, with a market share of 10.7%. The company owns and operates a regional network in Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Russia, and the United Kingdom, providing data communications, fiber-optic fixed network infrastructure, and IP-based services between Europe and the Middle East.
History
In June 2009, Primetel announced the launch of its submarine fiber cable landing station in Geroskipou and that Reliance Globalcom had terminated its 2.7 terabit HAWK submarine cable system into it.
In May 2011, Primetel launched the first mobile virtual network operator in Cyprus, making it the third cellphone operator on the island. Primetel has recently launched Mobile telephony services with Quad–Play services (Fixed and mobile telephony, Internet and TV).
In April 2015, Primetel launched the third mobile network operator in Cyprus. Based on the latest data released in December 2018, Primetel holds 10.50% Market Share in Mobile Subscriptions in Cyprus.
In July 2023, Primetel was placed into administration after defaulting on a loan it has acquired from Signal Capital Partners.
References
External links
Primetel Website
My Primetel
Primetel WiFi
Primetel Short url service
Telecommunications companies of Cyprus
Companies based in Limassol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMN80CPU | MMN80CPU is a Z80A microprocessor clone, working at 3.5 MHz. It was produced from 1988 onwards at Microelectronica Bucharest for Romanian 8 bit computers such as HC, CIP, JET, TIM-S, CoBra and others.
References
8-bit microprocessors
Science and technology in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous%20robot | Ubiquitous robot is a term used in an analogous way to ubiquitous computing. Software useful for "integrating robotic technologies with technologies from the fields of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, sensor networks, and ambient intelligence".
The emergence of mobile phone, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing makes it likely that human beings will live in a ubiquitous world in which all devices are fully networked. The existence of ubiquitous space resulting from developments in computer and network technology will provide motivations to offer desired services by any IT device at any place and time through user interactions and seamless applications. This shift has hastened the ubiquitous revolution, which has further manifested itself in the new multidisciplinary research area, ubiquitous robotics. It initiates the third generation of robotics following the first generation of the industrial robot and the second generation of the personal robot.
Ubiquitous robot (Ubibot) is a robot incorporating three components including virtual software robot or avatar, real-world mobile robot and embedded sensor system in surroundings. Software robot within a virtual world can control a real-world robot as a brain and interact with human beings. Researchers of KAIST, Korea describe these three components as a Sobot (Software robot), Mobot (Mobile robot), and Embot (Embedded robot).
See also
Cloud robotics
Internet of things
Related Technical literature
Tae-Hun Kim, Seung-Hwan Choi, and Jong-Hwan Kim. "Incorporation of a Software Robot and a Mobile Robot Using a Middle Layer." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 37, No. 6, Nov. 2007.
Jong-Hwan Kim et al., "Ubiquitous Robot: A New Paradigm for Integrated Services", in Proc. of IEEE Int’l Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, April 2007.
Jong-Hwan Kim, "Ubiquitous Robot: Recent Progress and Development", (Keynote Speech Paper) in SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006, Busan, Korea, pp. I-25 - I-30, Oct. 2006.
Jong-Hwan Kim et al., "The 3rd Generation of Robotics: Ubiquitous Robot", (Keynote Speech Paper) in Proc. of the International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 2004.
Jong-Hwan Kim, "Ubiquitous Robot", in Computational Intelligence, Theory and Applications (edited by B. Reusch), in Springer, pp. 451–459, 2004 (Keynote Speech Paper of the 8th Fuzzy Days International Conference, Dortmund, Germany, Sep. 2004).
-Ubiquitous
Assistive technology
Ambient intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF%20Class%20141R | The SNCF 141 R is a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotives of the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (French State Railways). They were used all over the French rail network from 1945 to 1974.
History
At the end of World War II, there was a shortage of locomotives, and to quickly obtain the large number needed locomotives were ordered from the main American and Canadian locomotive builders under the Lend-Lease Program (and not the Marshall Plan, signed in April 1948, as often written).
The design was based on the Green Bay & Western Railroad's successfully customised Mikados, based somewhat on the USRA Light Mikado, suitably modified to meet the SNCF loading gauge. Modifications included the overall height, the fitting of European couplers and buffers, left-hand drive, smoke deflectors (to a unique and instantly recognisable style) and a Kylchap exhaust on the second batch.
The first order for 700 engines was placed in February 1945 with production split between the "big three" American locomotive builders: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American Locomotive Company, Schenectady, New York, and Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, Ohio. Once financing was made available, the second batch of 640 engines was ordered from the "big three", plus the Canadian manufacturers Montreal Locomotive Works, Montreal Quebec and Canadian Locomotive Company, Kingston, Ontario. Most of this batch were built as oil burners, burning preheated heavy fuel oil (known in French as 'Mazout'), unlike the first batch which had all been designed as coal fired.
The massive introduction of oil fired locomotives was due to the fact that in the immediate post-war period, the quality coal was in high demand and SNCF was consuming 9 million tons per annum. Oil thus allowed savings in coal, even if in many depots it required a revolution in working conditions. The extra range permitted by oil— instead of —explains also the more intensive use of the locomotives. The enginemen nicknamed the locomotives mazoutières or charbonnières ("coal-scuttles") according to fuel employed; oil-burners were also called les goudronneuses ("tar spraying machines") by their crews.
After the second world war, the American manufacturers' output had been boosted by the war effort. Thus from July 1945 to May 1946 the 700 141 R of the first batch were built in only eleven months. It is possible to observe significant variations in monthly production. Large scale production started in September, and reached its height during October, November, December and January, to slow down in February and March, and to continue until finished in May, or, an average of almost three engines per day! By way of comparison in French locomotives works (French industry having been weakened by the war) it took four years, from June 1948 to July 1952, for the manufacturer Schneider to deliver 35 241 P to the SNCF.
The first engine, the 141 R 1 built by Lima, left the workshops on 30 July 1945. The 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20Linking%20Protocol | Communication Linking Protocol (CLP) is a communications protocol used to communicate with many devices using the Motorola ReFLEX network. CLP allows a user to direct a ReFlex capable device to send or receive messages. CLP is used by Advantra's ReFLEX devices. Advantra's ReFLEX product line was purchased by Inilex who now manufactures the devices.
External links
ReFLEX White Paper
Two Way Paging Article
Artic
Barran Device
Karli Device
Wirlki Device
Radio paging
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mtools | Mtools is an open source collection of tools to allow a Unix operating system to manipulate files on an MS-DOS file system, typically a floppy disk or floppy disk image.
The mtools are part of the GNU Project and are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL-3.0-or-later).
Usage
The following refers to mtools usage in floppy images. (Useful for virtual machines such as QEMU or VirtualBox.)
Copying a file to floppy image:
$ mcopy -i Disk.img file_source ::file_target
Copying a file from floppy image to the current directory:
$ mcopy -i Disk.img ::file_source file_target
Deleting all files in the disk image
$ mdel -i Disk.img ::*.*
The drive character : (colon) has a special meaning. It is used to access image files which are directly specified on the command line using the -i options.
See also
Disk image
References
External links
mtools official page on the GNU website
Boot disk images for DOS DOS disk images
Free file managers
GNU Project software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Beverly%20Hills%2C%2090210%20characters | The following is a list of characters from Beverly Hills, 90210, an American drama series that aired from October 4, 1990, to May 17, 2000, on the Fox television network before entering syndication. It is the first installment of the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise.
Main characters
Brandon Walsh
Jason Priestley plays the character of Brandon Andrew Walsh (main, seasons 1–9; archive footage, season 10). After Walsh's initial difficulties fitting into Beverly Hills, he soon settles down. In Season One, after one of his drinks was spiked at a party, he briefly experienced a drinking problem, which led to a car accident and a night in jail. In Season 3, Brandon developed a serious gambling problem, which led to Nat, his boss at the Peach Pit, bailing him out after he got into trouble with a mobster bookmaker. Throughout the entire series, Brandon was involved in various journalism projects, from sports editor and co-chief of the Beverly Blaze in high school to co-editor of the CU Condor, a brief stint as news director at CUTV, and a year as student-body president (sophomore year). After graduation from college, he and his friend Steve spent a year developing the Beverly Beat. He finally accepted a position with the Washington, D.C., bureau of the New York Chronicle. He was the person many turned to when in trouble — Donna's expulsion from high school, Brenda's many problems, Kelly's drug problem, Andrea's getting into Yale, Valerie's suicide attempt, Ray's lawsuit against Joe, Steve's constant stunts, and even Dylan's battle with drugs and alcohol and the murder of his wife. Brandon is mentioned in the spin-off 90210 as having a family.
Priestley's co-stars described him as the group's off-screen "quarterback". Although Priestley didn't reprise his role as Brandon in the spin-off 90210, he directed the episode where Tori Spelling's character Donna Martin returns to town.Jason Priestley was the last actor to be cast for the show.
Brenda Walsh
Shannen Doherty portrays Brenda Walsh (seasons 1–4), the twin sister of Brandon. She felt very lonely when she first arrived in Beverly Hills, but soon became friends with Donna, Kelly, Steve, David, and Andrea. She met and dated her twin brother's friend, Dylan McKay. She was the nice girl until around the second season, when her character began to progress into being more rebellious and devious. She went to Europe during the summer after her junior year of high school and had a short-lived romance with Rick (played by Dean Cain) and eventually met and almost married Stuart, the son of one of Jim's business partners. Later, after she ended this relationship, she got the lead role in a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and a subsequent spot in a London summer acting program. She was able to get admission to the program and departed Beverly Hills. A letter Brandon received from Dylan revealed that he and Brenda got back together during his time in London. They would eventually split up, and Brenda would c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced%20Out | Spaced Out (known in French as Allô la Terre, ici les Martin) is an animated series, co-produced by Alphanim Productions, Tooncan Productions and Cartoon Network Europe, in association with several other companies and television networks. The series had one season with 26 episodes.
In the United States the series aired on Toon Disney from October 4, 2002
Synopsis
George Martin lives in a regular neighbourhood with his family and applies for a job in the apparently monopolistic company, Krach Industries. Although they do not intend to hire him, his application is accidentally blown by the wind to the heap of selected candidates. This leads to George being hired as director of a secret orbital station (Operation SOS) housing sub-development, where he and his family have to live as an experiment started by Krach. When the Martins arrive at the station, they meet other people who have also been sent by Krach to live there. To their surprise, their neighbour and teacher who taught the Martins' kids on Earth is also on the station with her son. Later, they save a Russian cosmonaut who decides to live with them. And so, they continue living on the space station, occasionally having personal disputes, meeting aliens and being monopolised by Krach.
Voice cast
Mark Camacho as George Martin, director of the space station. He is in charge of running the station and changing it from night to day. He denies the existence of extraterrestrial life, and even when there's proof in front of him, he's always skeptical and holds by his theory. Even when they took over the station on his birthday, he only believes Monica hired a bunch of actors to give him a sort of role-playing adventure as a present.
Ellen David as Monica Martin, George's wife who loves order in her house. She also believes in aliens.
Eleanor Noble as Betty Martin, George's teenage daughter and a manic depressive. She likes music and seems to only enjoy catching up with friends which she has been completely deprived of upon arriving in the station. She's hinted to be very intelligent and sometimes shows rare compassion to her family.
Daniel Brochu as Benjamin Martin, George's plump son and a cosmic super-hero fanatic. He is also fond of computers and technology. He shows a more rebellious side of him when he got sent to prison on the station once for stealing a comic his parents promised to buy him for his birthday, even if he did regret it.
Sonja Ball as Gran, George's mother and the Martin kids' grandmother. She is a fitness fanatic and Monica and her have an antagonistic relationship.
Rick Jones as Fax and Goodgrief, the Martin kids' dog and cat, they almost always end up talking about the events that happened during the episode at the end of it, it is also hinted they may be aliens themselves; and Guy, Dumped by Krach to live on the station. He does all the work except those done by George. It is hinted most of the time that he's either a clone or a brainwashed individual sent to the st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20DNS%20Plus |
Overview
Simple DNS Plus is a DNS server software product that runs on x86 and x64 editions of Windows operating system.
All options and settings are available directly from a Windows user interface.
It provides wizards for common tasks such as setting up new zones, importing data, making bulk updates, etc.
It has full support for IPv6. It has an option to control protocol preference (IPv4 / IPv6) on dual-stack computers, and it can even act as IPv6-to-IPv4 or IPv4-to-IPv6 forwarder.
It has full support for internationalized domain names (IDNs). You can enter domain names with native characters directly (no punycode conversion needed), and have an option to display native character or punycoded domain names anywhere in the user interface, and quickly switch between these modes.
You can create DNS records or entire zone files from other applications or web-sites and prompt Simple DNS Plus to dynamically load and use this through command line options, a simple HTTP API, and a full .NET/COM programming API.
Simple DNS Plus is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 and is 100% managed code, protecting it from common security issues such as buffer overruns, and making it run natively on both 32 bit and 64 bit CPUs and Windows versions, including Windows Vista.
History / Versions
Version numbers, date released, and new feature highlights
Version 1.00 - 3 June 1999
First official release
Version 2.00 - 10 December 1999
Binding to specific local IP addresses
Limit recursion to one or more IP address ranges
IP address blocking
Support for AAAA and SRV records
Run as NT/Windows service
Reverse zone wizard
Wildcard records
Standard zone transfers
Cache snapshot viewer
Version 3.00 - 24 August 2000
Import wizard
Zone file sharing
Support for HINFO, MB, MG, MINFO, MR AFSDB, ISDN, RP, RT, X25, NSAP, and ATMA records
Standard Zone files compatible with BIND
Command line options
Version 3.20 - 2 April 2001
Super Master/Slave
HTTP API
Dynamic updates
Incremental zone transfers
Support for A6, DNAME records
Version 3.50 - 3 October 2003
Separation of service and GUI
NXDOMAIN redirect
Support for LOC, NAPTR records
Version 3.60 - 27 June 2004
TSIG signed dynamic updates
Domain specific forwarding
Stealth DNS
Version 4.00 - 10 April 2005
Automatic SPF records
NAT IP Alias
Record and zone comments
Bulk update wizard
Zone groups
Version 5.0 - 17 January 2008
Version 5.0 was re-written for the .NET Framework 2.0
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 support
IPv6 support
IDN support
Plug-in system
Quick Zone Templates
Support for , ,
Version 5.1 - 8 July 2008
Suspending zones
Remote logging to syslog server
Response Filtering to prevent DNS rebinding attacks
Support for ,
Version 5.2 - 23 April 2009
Windows 7 / Windows server core support
Remote Management
DNSSEC hosting
Secure Zone Transfers (TSIG signed)
Check Internet Delegations wizard
Windows Performance Counters
DNS request "rules" for plug-ins
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal%20Pictures | Primal Pictures is a business established in 1991 that provides 3D graphic renderings of human anatomy, built using real scan data from the Visible Human Project, for use by healthcare students, educators, and medical professionals. It operates the Anatomy.tv online platform. In one study, Anatomy.tv was deemed the greatest value in undergraduate anatomy education "since it had highest scores for effectiveness as well as the lowest scores for cost."
Development
The representation of the body in Primal's software is derived from medical scan data that has been interpreted by a team of Primal anatomists and translated into three-dimensional images by graphics specialists. The interactive anatomy visuals are accompanied by animations that demonstrate disease and conditions, function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures.
History
In 2012, Informa acquired all of the company, previously owning 10 percent. In 2022, as part of Informa's sale of its Pharma Intelligence business, Primal Pictures became part of private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Later that year, Pharma Intelligence changed its name to Citeline and merged with pharmaceutical technology company Norstella.
References
Medical education
Anatomy
Anatomy websites
History of anatomy
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Anatomical simulation
Software companies based in London
1991 establishments in England
Software companies established in 1991
3D computer graphics
External websites
PrimalPictures.com
Anatomy.tv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulseprogramming | Pulseprogramming is an American electronic musical group and multimedia art project founded by Marc Hellner and Joel Kriske in Portland, Oregon in 1998. The band is currently centered on Marc Hellner and new member Chanel Pease. It has also included art directors John Schacter and Hans Seeger, video artist Eric David Johnson (DJ Bunny Ears), and poet Joel Craig. The collective began releasing intelligent dance music on Chicago label Aesthetics in 1999 and followed with releases on the same label in 2001 and 2003. The 2003 release Tulsa for One Second was described by Pitchfork Media as "Lap-pop".
In the years after Hellner and Kriske parted ways, Hellner released a record entitled Marriages enlisting production team Telefon Tel Aviv. The album was released by Peacefrog Records on August 23, 2005.
Releases
Pulseprogramming (CD/LP) Aesthetics 1999
1 Of 2 In 1000 (LP) Aesthetics 2001
2 Of 2 In 1000 (LP) Aesthetics 2001
Split (12") Outward Music Company (OMCO) 2002
Tulsa For One Second (CD/LP) Aesthetics 2003
Tulsa For One Second Remix Project (CD/LP) Aesthetics 2005
Marc Hellner 'Marriages' (CD/LP) Peacefrog 2005
'PLAY' Original Score L'Avventura Films 2005
From Nowhere Near (Original Scores for Film/TV) Form Music 2007
Charade is Gold (LP, Digi) Audraglint 2011
Remixes
The Awkwardness EP (CD, Maxi) I Change.C? (Pulseprog... Aesthetics 2001
Harvest Remixes (CD, Album, Dig) Gymnopedie #1 (Pulse P... Victor Entertainment Japan 2004
Tracks Appear On
OMCO Compilation (CD/LP) Mozzer, Test Tubes/Tin... Outward Music Company (OMCO) 1997
Installation:04 (CD) Detroitmembrings Masstransfer 2000
Compiled (CD) Oh' Halo (1894 Penny ... Aesthetics 2001
The Wire Tapper 7 (CD) To The Expert Eye Alone Wire Magazine 2001
The Wire Tapper 9 (2xCD) Blooms Eventually Wire Magazine 2002
Mind The Gap Volume 44 (CD) Blooms Eventually Gonzo Circus 2003
Nova Tunes 08 (CD) Blooms Eventually Nova Records 2003
Politronics (CD) Suck Or Run (Schneider... Onitor 2003
Sónar 2003 (2xCD) Off To Do Showery Snap... Mute Records Ltd. 2003
Wir_kommen_in_frieden (CD, Smplr, Comp, Promo) Off To Do Showery Snap... Persona Non Grata, Aesthetics 2003
Reconfigures (CD) Suck Or Run (Schneider... Earsugar 2004)
References
American multimedia artists
Musical groups from Portland, Oregon
Musical groups established in 1998
1998 establishments in Oregon
Peacefrog Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20AudioVision%2014%20Display | The Apple AudioVision 14 Display is a 14-inch Trinitron display that was manufactured by Apple Computer Inc.
Features
The AudioVision 14 uses the same 14-inch CRT as the Macintosh Color Display. It is the only display to use the HDI-45 connector (which Apple called the Integrated Desktop Connector), capable of transferring video to the screen, video capture input from an S-Video source, audio output, audio input, and Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) all through one cable, with plug and play support.
A unidirectional microphone is built-into the top of the monitor, meant to be used for voice annotation in programs like Microsoft Word. Below the screen are two 2.5-inch diameter stereo speakers, which are magnetically and acoustically shielded, with bass reflex. These speakers are accompanied by an active equalizer, and are angled for "near-field use" (i.e. for a user sitting at the computer, rather than presentations). Between the two speakers is a set of controls for monitor brightness, contrast, volume, speaker mute, and microphone on/off. The base can swivel, and the product meets the EPA's Energy Star standards.
The monitor came with a device driver that allowed the monitor's settings to be changed overriding the monitor's physical buttons.
These settings are sent to and from the monitor's microcontroller through ADB. Power Macintosh, Performa and Workgroup Server models 61xx, 71xx and 81xx all have the special HDI-45 port built-in. For other models, the display came with a splitter adaptor to connect audio, video, and ADB separately to the computer (female IDC to male ADB, audio in, audio out, and VGA).
The video input port present on the right side of the monitor was not supported by Apple. It shipped with a rubber plug in this port as seen in the adjacent image.
Reception
In a December 1993 review, Macworld praised the microphone, and said the speakers "produce surprisingly rich, full-bodied sound", but criticized the display as "much too small for multimedia work", giving the product 3 stars out of 5. A Macworld monitor comparison gave the AudioVision 14 "acceptable" ratings for screen focus and color saturation, below the maximum ratings of "sharp" and "vivid", and found its color balance to be "uniform" (i.e. neutral). MacUser's Russell Ito called it "the first multimedia monitor", and described its speakers as "quite acceptable". In MacUser's 9th Annual Editors' Choice awards, the AudioVision 14 was a runner up in the "Best New Display Product" category.
See also
HDI-45 connector
References
Bibliography
External links
Steven Kan's 6100 Upgrade Site
AudioVision connector
Apple Inc. peripherals
Apple Inc. displays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20network%20zeta%20function | Different definitions have been given for the dimension of a complex network or graph. For example, metric dimension is defined in terms of the resolving set for a graph. Dimension has also been defined based on the box covering method applied to graphs. Here we describe the definition based on the complex network zeta function. This generalises the definition based on the scaling property of the volume with distance. The best definition depends on the application.
Definition
One usually thinks of dimension for a set which is dense, like the points on a line, for example. Dimension makes sense in a discrete setting, like for graphs, only in the large system limit, as the size tends to infinity. For example, in Statistical Mechanics, one considers discrete points which are located on regular lattices of different dimensions. Such studies have been extended to arbitrary networks, and it is interesting to consider how the definition of dimension can be extended to cover these cases. A very simple and obvious way to extend the definition of dimension to arbitrary large networks is to consider how the volume (number of nodes within a given distance from a specified node) scales as the distance (shortest path connecting two nodes in the graph) is increased. For many systems arising in physics, this is indeed a useful approach. This definition of dimension could be put on a strong mathematical foundation, similar to the definition of Hausdorff dimension for continuous systems. The mathematically robust definition uses the concept of a zeta function for a graph. The complex network zeta function and the graph surface function were introduced to characterize large graphs. They have also been applied to study patterns in Language Analysis. In this section we will briefly review the definition of the functions and discuss further some of their properties which follow from the definition.
We denote by the distance from node to node , i.e., the length of the shortest path connecting the first node to the second node. is if there is no path from node to node . With this definition, the nodes of the complex network become points in a metric space. Simple generalisations of this definition can be studied, e.g., we could consider weighted edges. The graph surface function, , is defined as the number of nodes which are exactly at a distance from a given node, averaged over all nodes of the network. The complex network zeta function is defined as
where is the graph size, measured by the number of nodes. When is zero all nodes contribute equally to the sum in the previous equation. This means that is , and it diverges when . When the exponent tends to infinity, the sum gets contributions only from the nearest neighbours of a node. The other terms tend to zero. Thus, tends to the average degree for the graph as .
The need for taking an average over all nodes can be avoided by using the concept of supremum over nodes, which makes the concept much |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20build%20automation%20software | Build automation involves scripting or automating the process of compiling computer source code into binary code. Below is a list of notable tools associated with automating build processes.
Make-based
GNU make, a make implementation with a large set of extensions
make, a Unix build tool
mk, developed originally for Version 10 Unix and Plan 9, and ported to Unix as part of plan9port
MPW Make, developed for the classic Mac OS and similar to but not compatible with Unix make; the modern macOS (OS X) comes with both GNU make and BSD make; available as part of Macintosh Programmer's Workshop as a free, unsupported download from Apple
nmake
PVCS-make, follows the concept of make but with additional syntax features
Make-incompatible
Apache Ant, popular for Java platform development and uses an XML file format
Apache Buildr, historic open-source build system, Rake-based, gives the full power of scripting in Ruby with integral support for most abilities wanted in a build system
Apache Maven, a Java platform tool for dependency management and automated software build
ASDF LISP build system for building LISP projects
A-A-P, a Python-based build tool
Bazel, a portion of Blaze (Google's own build tool) written in Java, using Starlark (BUILD file syntax) to build projects in Java, C, C++, Go, Python, Objective-C, and others
BitBake, a Python-based tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux cross-compilation
Boot, a Java build and dependency management tool written in Clojure
boost.build For C++ projects, cross-platform, based on Perforce Jam
Buck, a build system developed and used by Facebook, written in Java, using Starlark (BUILD file syntax) as Bazel
Buildout, a Python-based build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts
Cabal, a common architecture for building applications and libraries in the language Haskell
Dub, the official package and build manager of the D Language
dale, a D build tool
FinalBuilder, for Windows software developers. FinalBuilder provides a graphical IDE to both create and run build projects in a single application. The final builder also includes the ability the execute the unit test, deploy web projects or install and test applications.
Flowtracer, a build management tool
Gradle, an open-source build and automation system with an Apache Groovy-based domain specific language (DSL), combining features of Apache Ant and Apache Maven with more features like a reliable incremental build
Grunt, a build tool for front-end web development
Gulp, a build tool for front-end web development
IncrediBuild, a suite of grid computing software for compiling and building software
Leiningen, a tool providing commonly performed tasks in Clojure projects, including build automation
Mix, the Elixir build tool
MSBuild, the Microsoft build engine
NAnt, a tool similar to Ant for the .NET Framework
Ninja, a small build system focused on speed by using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Showcase | This is a list of television programs formerly and currently broadcast by the Canadian television channel Showcase.
Current programming
Dramas
NCIS (2009)
All American (2018)
Pennyworth (2019)
FBI (2020)
FBI: Most Wanted (2020)
Chucky (2021)
Code 404 (2021)
Dr. Death (September 12, 2021)
9-1-1
NCIS: Los Angeles
NCIS: Hawaii
Bel-Air (February 14, 2022)
The Midwich Cuckoos (2022)
CSI: Vegas (2022)
The Lazarus Project (October 20, 2022)
Irreverent (January 8, 2023)
Gotham Knights (2023)
A Town Called Malice (April 16, 2023)
Comedies
We Are Lady Parts (June 9, 2021)
Killing It (May 31, 2022)
The Resort (2022)
Bupkis (May 25, 2023)
Canadian content reruns
Andromeda (2007–11; 2022)
Lost Girl (September 12, 2010 – February 8, 2020; 2023)
Border Security: Canada's Front Line
The Outer Limits (2020)
Private Eyes
Face to Face with David
Schitt's Creek
Rookie Blue
Upcoming programming
Former programming
References
External links
Showcase
Showcase |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C%2B%2B%20multi-threading%20libraries | List of cross-platform multi-threading libraries for the C++ programming language.
Apache Portable Runtime
Boost.Thread
C++ Standard Library Thread
Concurrencpp
Dlib
HPX
IPP
OpenMP
OpenThreads
Parallel Patterns Library
POCO C++ Libraries Threading
POSIX Threads
Qt QThread
Rogue Wave SourcePro Threads Module
Stapl
Taskflow
TBB
C++ libraries
C++ Multi-threading libraries
Multi-threading libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie%20Hullot | Jean-Marie Hullot (February 16, 1954 – June 17, 2019) was a French computer scientist and programmer who authored important programs for the original Macintosh, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X platforms. These include the SOS Interface for the Mac, which later became Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP (1985), and later still evolved into an important part of Mac OS X. He also came up with the idea of the iPhone and lead the iCal and iSync development teams for Mac OS X (2002).
In 1981, Jean-Marie Hullot received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Paris at Orsay, where his adviser was Gérard Huet. He was a researcher at INRIA from 1979 to 1985, when he joined NeXT. In 1996 he co-founded RealNames, a URL translation service which closed in 2002. He worked as CTO of Application Division at Apple Inc. from 2001 to 2005. He was the President and CEO of Fotopedia, a collaborative photo encyclopedia, and co-founder of The Iris Foundation, a nature conservancy organization.
He died on June 19, 2019.
See also
Fotopedia
References
External links
Jean-Marie Hullot - fotopedia
INRIA — appears to be outdated, as Hullot is not mentioned there (Jun 2014)
Interview, December 1999 (in French)
Ex-Apple Team To Launch Stealth Startup Fotonauts
UPDATED: Google begged Steve Jobs for permission to hire engineers for its new Paris office. Guess what happened next…
1954 births
2019 deaths
Apple Inc. executives
French computer programmers
French computer scientists
NeXT
University of Paris alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Oommen | Basantkumar John Oommen (born 8 September 1953 in Conoor, India) is an Indian-Canadian computer scientist. Oommen received the Master of Science degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1979, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Purdue University in 1982, and is now Chancellor's Professor at the School of Computer Science, Carleton University.
Recognition and awards
Fellow of the IAPR, August 2006
Chancellor's Professorship, lifetime award bestowed by the University to professors who have excelled in research, July 2006
Fellow of the IEEE, January 2003
Electrical Engineering Gold Medal Winner 1977, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, for best graduating student
Siemens-India Meda 1975, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for best graduating student from the Department of Electrical Engineering
Kaloori Medal 1974, IIT Madras
Patents
A Method of Generating Attribute Cardinality Maps
A Method for Recognizing Trees by Processing Potentially Noisy Subsequence Trees
A Method for Encryption with Statistical Perfect Secrecy
Search-Enhanced Trie-Based Syntactic Pattern Recognition of Sequences
References
External links
Web page of B. John Oommen at School of Computer Science, Carleton University
John Oommen's list of publications
1953 births
20th-century Indian mathematicians
Living people
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Scientists from Tamil Nadu
People from Coonoor
Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCVG | KCVG (89.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Hastings, Nebraska, United States. The station serves the Hastings and Grand Island areas. The station is owned and operated by the Bott Radio Network and carries its Christian radio format.
History
The station debuted in 1996, as KFKX on 90.1 MHz, licensed to Hastings College. The call sign was the same as the original KFKX, an AM station in Hastings established in 1923 by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, in order to test shortwave retransmission links. The original KFKX ended Hastings operations in 1927, after which it was transferred to Chicago, and its call sign deleted in 1933.
Hastings College announced on May 4, 2016, that it would shut down KFKX on June 30. In its decision, the college cited the station's insufficient listenership and a declining number of jobs in the radio industry. KFKX's studios would continue to be used for podcasts and an Internet radio stream.
Effective November 1, 2016, Hastings College sold KFKX to Bott Radio Network for $37,500. The station changed its call sign to KCVG on November 8, 2016. KCVG moved its transmitter to a site near Doniphan and became a class C3 station on 89.9 MHz, allowing it to increase power and cover Grand Island. Community Broadcasting put KCVG back on the air on January 11, 2017, with the Bott Radio Network of Christian programs, replacing two translators.
References
External links
Radio stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Nebraska
Bott Radio Network stations
Hastings College
CVG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%20Team%20%28TV%20series%29 | Tiger Team is a 2007 American television show on Court TV, that was aired as a burn-off pilot on the evening of December 25, 2007, days before the network converted to the new branding of truTV.
The show follows a civilian tiger team composed of Chris Nickerson, Luke McOmie, and Ryan Jones, members of Alternative Technology, an Information Security company from Colorado, which is hired to infiltrate organizations with the objective of testing their weaknesses to electronic, psychological, tactical, and physical threats. Attacks executed on organizations in this television show include social engineering, wired and wireless hacking, and physical breaking and entering
Tiger Team's two produced episodes aired on Christmas Night 2007 at 11:00 pm ET, a time when original new television programming usually never premieres, much less non-holiday programming. Although some viewers were interested in more episodes of the show, the network emailed those who inquired to say it was only a 'special', and there would be no consideration under truTV's new programming direction to make it a continuing series.
Episodes
Episode 1: "The Car Dealership Takedown" – The Tiger Team tests the security of Symbolic Motors, an exotic car dealership in La Jolla, California. The Tiger Team uses two distinct social engineering attacks, one rogue wireless access point attack, and a complex physical attack to gain unabated access to sensitive customer information and the showroom floor's multi-million-dollar vehicle inventory.
Episode 2: "24 Karat Caper". The Tiger Team tests the security of Jason of Beverly Hills, a high-end custom jeweler in Beverly Hills. In this episode, the Tiger Team employ social engineering, RFID cloning, a complex physical attack, and safe-cracking to gain access to the jeweler's millions of dollars' worth of precious gems and sensitive customer information.
External links
All About Tiger Team
References
2007 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
2000s American reality television series
TruTV original programming
Hacking (computer security)
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s%20Diner | Joe's Diner may refer to
Joe's Diner (TV series), a sequence of TV shorts created by and aired on the NFL Network
Joe's Diner (placeholder name), a placeholder name for a fictional or hypothetical everyman's restaurant |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLP%28R%29 | CLP(R) is a declarative programming language. It stands for constraint logic programming (real) where real refers to the real numbers. It can be considered and is generally implemented as a superset or add-on package for a Prolog implementation.
Example rule
The simultaneous linear equations:
are expressed in CLP(R) as:
3*X + 4*Y - 2*Z = 8,
X - 5*Y + Z = 10,
2*X + 3*Y -Z = 20.
and a typical implementation's response would be:
Z = 35.75
Y = 8.25
X = 15.5
Yes
Example program
CLP(R) allows the definition of predicates using recursive definitions. For example a mortgage relation can be defined as
relating the principal P, the number of time periods of the loan T, the repayment each period R, the interest rate per period I
and the final balance owing at the end of the loan B.
mg(P, T, R, I, B) :- T = 0, B = R.
mg(P, T, R, I, B) :- T >= 1, P1 = P*(1+I) - R, mg(P1, T - 1, R, I, B).
The first rule expresses that for a 0 period loan the balance owing at the end is simply the original principal.
The second rule expresses that for a loan of at least one time period we can calculate the new owing amount P1 by
multiplying the principal by 1 plus the interest rate and subtracting the repayment. The remainder of the loan
is treated as another mortgage for the new principal and one less time period.
What can you do with it? You can ask many questions.
If I borrow 1000$ for 10 years at 10% per year repaying 150 per year, how much will I owe at the end?
?- mg(1000, 10, 150, 10/100, B).
The system responds with the answer
B = 203.129.
How much can I borrow with a 10 year loan at 10% repaying 150 each year to owe nothing at the end?
?- mg(P, 10, 150, 10/100, 0).
The system responds with the answer
P = 921.685.
What is the relationship between the principal, repayment and balance on a 10 year loan at 10% interest?
?- mg(P, 10, R, 10/100, B).
The system responds with the answer
P = 0.3855*B + 6.1446 * R.
This shows the relationship between the variables, without requiring any to take a particular value.
References
Joxan Jaffar, Spiro Michaylov, Peter J. Stuckey, Roland H. C. Yap: The CLP(R) Language and System. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 14(3): 339-395 (1992)
External links
How To CLP(R)
CLP(R) Programming Manual
Prolog programming language family
Constraint logic programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Winstanley | William Winstanley (c. 1628 – 1698) was an English poet and compiler of biographies.
Life
Born about 1628, William Winstanley was the second son of William Winstanley of Quendon, Essex, (d. 1687) by his wife Elizabeth. Henry Winstanley was his nephew. William was sworn in as a freeman of Saffron Walden on 21 April 1649. He was for a time a barber in London (Wood, Athenae Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 763), but he soon relinquished the razor for the pen. "The scissors, however, he retained, for he borrowed without stint, and without acknowledgement also, from his predecessors", Much of his literary work commemorates his connection with Essex.
He published under his own name a poem called 'Walden Bacchanals,' and he wrote an elegy on Anne, wife of Samuel Gibs of Newman Hall, Essex (Muses' Cabinet). There is little doubt that most of the almanacs and chapbooks issued from 1662 onwards under the pseudonym of "Poor Robin" came from his pen. He was a staunch royalist after the Restoration, although in 1659 he wrote a fairly impartial notice of Oliver Cromwell (cf. England's Worthies). "He is a fantastical writer, and of the lower class of our biographers; but we are obliged to him for many notices of persons went away for a time and stayed in cambridge, east london and things which are recorded only in his works" (Granger, Biog. Hist. of Engl. 5th ed. v. 271), His verse is usually boisterous doggerel in the manner of John Taylor (1580–1663) the water-poet. Winstanley was buried at Quendon on 22 Dec. 1698.
Family
He was twice married; he published an elegy on his first wife Martha, who died in January 1653 (Muses' Cabinet, p. 35). His second wife, Anne, was buried at Quendon on 29 Sept.
Works
His compilations, some of which are now rare books, were:
1. The Muses Cabinet, stored with Variety of Poems, London, 1655, 12mo, dedicated to William Holgate; there are prefatory verses by John Vaughan. One epigram deals with John Taylor the water-poet, and there are lines on Sir Fleetwood Sheppard's Epigrams (see Brydges, Censura Literaria, v. 129-31).
2. England's Worthies. Select lives of most eminent persons [including Flavius Julius Constantine and Cromwell], 1660, 8vo, "principally stolen from Lloyd", although free from signs of a partisan spirit (Brydges); 2nd ed., with the omission of the lives of the parliamentarians and substitution of others, 1684.
3. The Loyall Martyrology, 1662, 8vo; 1665, 8vo; an appendix is entitled "The Dregs of Treachery". The work is dedicated to Sir John Robinson, lieutenant of the Tower of London. Besides forty-one "loyal martyrs", beginning with the Earl of Strafford, there are noticed "Loyal persons slain", "Loyal Confessors", "Kings' Judges", "Accessory Regicides", and "Traytors executed since His Majesty's return".
4. The Honour of the Merchant Taylors, wherein is set forth the Noble Acts, Valiant Deeds, and Heroic Performance of Merchant-Taylors in former Ages, 1668, 8vo, with woodcuts (another edition, 1687, 4to).
5. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim%20Radio | Pilgrim Radio is a network of radio stations broadcasting a Christian Radio format. Pilgrim Radio's programming includes interviews with Christian leaders, discussion of current events/issues, news, a book-reading program, and Biblically based teaching messages, along with Christian Contemporary music. Pilgrim Radio is listener-supported and commercial-free.
The network is owned and operated by Western Inspirational Broadcasters, Inc., a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organization.
Stations
In addition to streaming its programming at pilgrimradio.com, the signal is broadcast over-the-air on KNIS in Carson City, Nevada, KNVQ in Elko, Nevada, KDOX in Big Pine, California, KCSP-FM in Casper, Wyoming, KDNR in Cheyenne, Wyoming, KTME in Rock Springs / Green River, Wyoming, KPMD in Evanston, Wyoming, KMJB in Lander / Riverton, Wyoming, and KLMT in Billings, Montana. Its signal is also extended by a network of 28 FM translators in Nevada, California, and Wyoming.
Full-powered stations
Notes:
Translators
References
External links
Pilgrim Radio's website
Pilgrim Radio's webcast
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Christian mass media companies
Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Dream%20%28video%20game%29 | is a Family Computer video game that was released in 1989 to an exclusively Japanese market.
Summary
The player must earn money in order to become the wealthiest gambler in the world. The game, set in New York City, is considered a spin-off from the Pachio-kun franchise. Al Capone has a cameo role in this game even though he lived about one thousand miles to the west (Chicago) in real life.
Roads, taxis and automobiles are not portrayed in the game. However, a black limousine that escorts the player from the air force base to the final casino is portrayed as driving on grass. This is in direct opposition to the real New York City where the majority of the surface is concrete (either as roads, parking lots, or as foundations for the buildings). Only parks and some older residential districts use grass in their design in the real world. Buildings are either shown as dilapidated tenements, shiny towers, or as flashy casinos.
An English language translation was made in 2007 by a ROM hacker who goes by the nickname of "Pale Dim." Using the game's upper case letters that resemble the Joystix font, the English translation allows players in English-speaking countries to better understand the game. One of the changes made was to change the explosion sound from the Japanese Bom to the English Boom.
Gameplay
General gameplay
The player starts out in the poorest district of Brooklyn and must work through the boroughs of New York City outside Manhattan, including Queens or The Bronx, in order to amass wealth. With luck and finesse, the player can ultimately break the bank in New Jersey. To enter a casino, the player must find a permit (which serves as photo identification for the casinos) somewhere in Brooklyn. Slot machines come in denominations from $1–$100000 depending on the neighborhood and the presence of a VIP card. Three types of slot machines can be played at each level and the player is photographed when winning the jackpot.
Players must be wary of dice games that have dangerous risks in addition to card games - they randomly appear like monster battles in traditional role-playing games. Many buildings including airports, police stations, and casinos either help or hinder the player's attempts to earn enough money on the slot machines for passage to the wealthier district. Guns (in the form of a pistol) can be found that can protect the player against muggers. However, the police will confiscate the weapon from this player once they arrive at a certain area in Manhattan. Pachiko-kun (the player) will also be arrested and will be held unless a $100,000 ($ in today's money) bail can be paid in full.
Glitch
The game gets a little fuzzy when the player only has $10 left to spend and the player is in Manhattan. The game is not over but the player cannot spend it because it is not even considered to be a single token. This would result in a walking dead situation; the only remedy is to reset the game.
References
External links
American Dream |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20incompatibility | Software incompatibility is a characteristic of software components or systems which cannot operate satisfactorily together on the same computer, or on different computers linked by a computer network. They may be components or systems which are intended to operate cooperatively or independently. Software compatibility is a characteristic of software components or systems which can operate satisfactorily together on the same computer, or on different computers linked by a computer network. It is possible that some software components or systems may be compatible in one environment and incompatible in another.
Examples
Deadlocks
Consider sequential programs of the form:
Request resource A
Request resource B
Perform action using A and B
Release resource B
Release resource A
A particular program might use a printer (resource A) and a file (resource B) in order to print the file.
If several such programs P1,P2,P3 ... operate at the same time, then the first one to execute will block the others until the resources are released, and the programs will execute in turn. There will be no problem. It makes no difference whether a uni-processor or a multi-processor system is used, as it's the allocation of the resources which determines the order of execution.
Note, however, that programmers are, in general, not constrained to write programs in a particular way, or even if there are guidelines, then some may differ from the guidelines. A variant of the previous program may be:
Request resource B
Request resource A
Perform action using A and B
Release resource A
Release resource B
The resources A and B are the same as in the previous example – not simply dummy variables, as otherwise the programs are identical.
As before, if there are several such programs, Q1,Q2,Q3 which run at the same time using resources as before, there will be no problem.
However, if several of the Ps are set to run at the same time as several of the Qs, then a deadlock condition can arise. Note that the deadlock need not arise, but may.
P: Request resource A
Q: Request resource B
Q: Request resource A (blocked by P)
P: Request resource B (blocked by Q)
...
Now neither P nor Q can proceed1.
This is one kind of example where programs may demonstrate incompatibility.
Interface incompatibility
Another example of a different kind would be where one software component provides service to another. The incompatibility could be as simple as a change in the order of parameters between the software component requesting service, and the component providing the service. This would be a kind of interface incompatibility. This might be considered a bug, but could be very hard to detect in some systems. Some interface incompatibilities can easily be detected during the build stage, particularly for strongly typed systems, others may be hard to find and may only be detected at run time, while others may be almost impossible to detect without a detailed program analysis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evasive%20Action | Evasive Action may refer to:
Evasive Action (webcomic)
Evasive Action, an older computer game
See also
Evasive maneuvers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6000%20series | 6000 series may refer to:
Computers
CDC 6000 series mainframe computer manufactured by Control Data Corporation
Honeywell 6000 series mainframe computer manufactured by Honeywell
PC-6000 series of consumer-grade personal computers manufactured by NEC
Radeon HD 6000 series graphics processing units produced by AMD
Japanese train types
Chichibu Railway 6000 series
Fujikyu 6000 series
Hankyu 6000 series
JR Shikoku 6000 series
Keihan 6000 series, operated by Keihan Electric Railway
Keio 6000 series
Kintetsu 6000 series, operated by Kintetsu Railway
Kumamoto Electric Railway 6000 series, formerly operated by Toei Transportation
Kobe Municipal Subway 6000 series
Meitetsu 6000 series
Nagoya Municipal Subway 6000 series
Nankai 6000 series, operated by Nankai Electric Railway
Nishitetsu 6000 series, operated by Nishi-Nippon Railroad
Sanyo 6000 series
Sapporo Municipal Subway 6000 series
Seibu 6000 series
Shintetsu 6000 series
Sotetsu 6000 series
Tobu 6000 series, operated by Tobu Railway
Toei 6000 series
Tokyo Metro 6000 series
Tokyu 6000 series
Other train types
6000 series (Chicago "L")
Seoul Metro 6000 series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix%20header | In computer programming, a prefix header is a feature found in some C or C++ compilers used to ensure that a certain snippet of code is inserted at the beginning of every file.
Overview
In the C and C++ programming languages, a header file is a file whose text is included in another source file by the compiler, usually by the use of compiler directives at the beginning of the source file. A prefix header differs from a normal header file in that it is automatically included at the beginning of every source file by the compiler, without the use of any compiler directives.
Prefix headers are usually pre-compiled in order to reduce compilation times. Use of prefix headers outside of this purpose can make your code more difficult to maintain & less re-usable.
Prefix headers can also be used for cross-platform support. On *NIX systems, it is common to have a config.h header file generated at build time (via something like autoconf) that describes the capabilities of the system. However, when using certain build systems such as Visual Studio or Xcode, this config.h may be unavailable. One technique to solve this is to have HAVE_CONFIG_H be a pre-defined macro in the build-system that generates a config.h so that code knows whether it needs to #include config.h (& is safe for use by build systems that do not have it). An alternative, would be for the build system to add config.h as a prefix header instead of defining HAVE_CONFIG_H. Of course the downside is that this header will be added to every compilation unit, not just the ones that include it explicitly.
Example
On Mac OS X, the Xcode build system generates prefix headers automatically for new projects. A new Cocoa project, for instance, gets a prefix header that looks like this:
#ifdef
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
#endif
As a result, explicit includes of the above header files in any Objective-C code file do not imply a second inclusion because of the #import directive of Objective-C, or more generally with #include because of the use of include guards; hence, these includes can be forgotten, but it is advocated to have them explicitly written in order to keep the source code autonomous and reusable, and make the library dependencies clear.
Similar prefix headers are generated for other types of project.
See also
Header file
Precompiled header
References
External links
Xcode User Guide: Using a Precompiled Prefix Header
Source code
C (programming language) headers
C++
Articles with example Objective-C code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Applications%20%28UIL%29 | Computer Applications is one of several academic events sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League
Computer Applications is designed to test students' abilities to use word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications software, including integration of applications. It is not the same as the Computer Science contest, which tests programming abilities.
Computer Applications began during the 1994-95 scholastic year, replacing the Keyboarding contest previously held by UIL.
Eligibility
Students in Grade 9 through Grade 12 are eligible to enter this event.
Each school may send up to three students.[]
Computer Applications is an individual contest only; there is no team competition in this event.
Rules and Scoring
The test consists of two parts.
The first part is a five-minute tie-breaker question, which as its name suggests is only used in the event of a tie on the main test. No intermediate time signal is given during the tie-breaker; at the end of the five minutes the students must immediately stop typing, at which point they are instructed to print out their answer.
The second part is the main test. It consists of two questions, which must be completed in 30 minutes. A three-minute preview period is allotted before the test begins. Intermediate time signals are given when 10 minutes and two minutes remain. At the end of 30 minutes the students must immediately stop processing; if they have initiated the print command prior to the end of the test they are allowed to finish printing.
The time periods stated above do not include time for setting up and removing computer equipment.
Any commercially-available laptop or notebook computer can be used during the contest, along with printer, external keyboard/keypad, and mouse. However, only the Microsoft Office applications software package can be used.
Scoring will vary from test to test; the answer key for the questions will be accompanied by a score sheet indicating the value of each item to be scored.
Determining the Winner
The top three individuals will advance to the next round.
The tiebreaker is the score of the five-minute tiebreaker question. In the event a tie remains, all remaining individuals will advance.
For district meet academic championship and district meet sweepstakes awards, points are awarded to the school as follows:
Individual places: 1st—15, 2nd—12, 3rd—10, 4th—8, 5th—6, and 6th—4.
There is no cap on the number of points a school can earn in Computer Applications.
List of prior winners
NOTE: For privacy reasons, only the winning school is shown.
NOTE: UIL reclassification happened in 2015, adding the 6A classification.
NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the 2020 state contest was cancelled.
References
Official UIL Rules for Computer Applications--High School NOTE: This file contains rules for other competitions; Section 926 covers Computer Applications.
University Interscholastic League |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland%27s%20rule | In mathematical optimization, Bland's rule (also known as Bland's algorithm, Bland's anti-cycling rule or Bland's pivot rule) is an algorithmic refinement of the simplex method for linear optimization.
With Bland's rule, the simplex algorithm solves feasible linear optimization problems without cycling.
The original simplex algorithm starts with an arbitrary basic feasible solution, and then changes the basis in order to decrease the minimization target and find an optimal solution. Usually, the target indeed decreases in every step, and thus after a bounded number of steps an optimal solution is found. However, there are examples of degenerate linear programs, on which the original simplex algorithm cycles forever. It gets stuck at a basic feasible solution (a corner of the feasible polytope) and changes bases in a cyclic way without decreasing the minimization target.
Such cycles are avoided by Bland's rule for choosing a column to enter and a column to leave the basis.
Bland's rule was developed by Robert G. Bland, now an Emeritus Professor of operations research at Cornell University, while he was a research fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in Belgium.
Algorithm
One uses Bland's rule during an iteration of the simplex method to decide first what column (known as the entering variable) and then row (known as the leaving variable) in the tableau to pivot on. Assuming that the problem is to minimize the objective function, the algorithm is loosely defined as follows:
Choose the lowest-numbered (i.e., leftmost) nonbasic column with a negative (reduced) cost.
Now among the rows, choose the one with the lowest ratio between the (transformed) right hand side and the coefficient in the pivot tableau where the coefficient is greater than zero. If the minimum ratio is shared by several rows, choose the row with the lowest-numbered column (variable) basic in it.
It can be formally proved that, with Bland's selection rule, the simplex algorithm never cycles, so it is guaranteed to terminate in a bounded time.
While Bland's pivot rule is theoretically important, from a practical perspective it is quite inefficient and takes a long time to converge. In practice, other pivot rules are used, and cycling almost never happens.
Extensions to oriented matroids
In the abstract setting of oriented matroids, Bland's rule cycles on some examples. A restricted class of oriented matroids on which Bland's rule avoids cycling has been termed "Bland oriented matroids" by Jack Edmonds. Another pivoting rule, the criss-cross algorithm, avoids cycles on all oriented-matroid linear-programs.
Notes
Further reading
George B. Dantzig and Mukund N. Thapa. 2003. Linear Programming 2: Theory and Extensions. Springer-Verlag.
Kattta G. Murty, Linear Programming, Wiley, 1983.
Evar D. Nering and Albert W. Tucker, 1993, Linear Programs and Related Problems, Academic Press.
M. Padberg, Linear Optimization and Extensions, Second Edition, S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20states%20and%20union%20territories%20of%20India%20by%20households%20having%20electricity | This is a list of the states and union territories of India ranked in order of percentage of households having electricity as the source of lighting. This information is based on 2011 and 2001 data as published by 2011 census of India and 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS). In default display, the rankings of 2016 are based on 2015-16 NFHS data. Latest data ( April 2019) is based on the Saubhagya scheme portal hosted by Power Ministry.
Between 2010 and 2016, India provided electricity to 30 million people each year, more than any other country, the World Bank said in its latest report released in March 2018.
While the percentage of electrified households under Saubhagya is somewhat disputed, it has been acknowledged by various non-governmental organisations that a very huge number (around 30 million) of households were electrified under the scheme.
In 2006, Gujarat became the first state to fully electrify all its villages followed by Andhra Pradesh in 2016 and Kerala in 2017. Kerala in 2017 became the first state to fully electrify all its households. By 2018, eight other states have achieved 100 per cent saturation in household electrification under Saubhagya namely Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana and West Bengal, and by 2019, 15 States in the country achieved hundred percent household electrification.
Note:- The Saubhagya percentages does not count the households who have 'willingly not taken connections' as not electrified. In an interview to the Rajya Sabha TV R.K Singh, the power minister had said that the parts of Chhattisgarh left out are the ones that fall in the Bastar region where the Naxals hold the sway.
List
See also
Electricity sector in India
Energy policy of India
References
External links
NFHS site
Garv
Rural electrification
Demographics of India
Rural development in India
Electric power in India
Economy of India lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20%28software%29 | Jane is a discontinued GUI-based integrated software package for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 personal computers. It was developed by Arktronics in 1984, and the Commodore version was published by Commodore in 1985. Like Commodore's earlier Magic Desk software, it used a literal desktop metaphor with the interface consisting of an onscreen graphic of a desktop with icons representing associated business tools - a typewriter represented the word processor component (JaneWrite), a filing cabinet for the database (JaneList), a calculator for the spreadsheet (JaneCalc) and so on. It was designed to be controlled by either a joystick or a mouse. Like most of the other examples of integrated software for home computers, Jane's components were criticized for being slow and limited. It was not a success in the marketplace but represented an early example of a graphical interface on an 8-bit computer.
Arktronics was a software development company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, founded by Howard Marks and Bobby Kotick. Jane was originally intended to be a package not only for the Apple and Commodore lines, but also for the Atari 8-bit family and others. This transportability was engineered by a combination of higher level systems written in the C language and machine specific drivers written in the assembly language for each machine (6502 Assembly for the Apple II and Commodore 64). For the C64, DOS manager was written by Howard K. Weiner, and the font manager/windows manager was written by Daniel J. Weiner. The Weiner brothers, both went on to attend the University of Michigan Integrated Pre-medical-Medical (Inteflex) Program. Other programmers included Andrew Marcheff (z”l) and Thomas Naughton.
References
Apple II software
Commodore 64 software
1984 software
1985 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20stations%20in%20Greater%20Manchester | Greater Manchester, a metropolitan county in North West England, has a public rail network of 130 route miles (209 km) and 92 National Rail stations. Transport for Greater Manchester is responsible for specifying fares and service levels of train services operating in the county. The Northern train operating company provides most of these services. The four main railway stations in Manchester city centre are Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Deansgate which all form part of the Manchester station group.
Most services run to or through one of Manchester city centre's major stations, Manchester Victoria and Manchester Piccadilly. The network is effectively divided into two operating halves based on these stations, although the opening of a connecting line in 1988 improved operational flexibility by joining the north and south halves. This was further improved by the Ordsall Chord (opened to traffic on 10 December 2017), creating a direct link between Piccadilly and Victoria.
Services radiate northwards from Manchester Victoria, providing stopping services to West Yorkshire and Liverpool as well as local suburban services to Rochdale and Wigan. The south side's services radiate from Manchester Piccadilly and run to Manchester Airport, south Manchester, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Leeds, North East England, London and other major destinations.
The region's rail network started to develop during the Industrial Revolution, when it was at the centre of a textile manufacturing boom. Manchester was at the forefront of the railway building revolution during the Victorian era. The world's first passenger railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened on 15 September 1830. Its original terminus, Liverpool Road railway station, was closed to passengers in 1844, but still exists and is the oldest surviving passenger station in the world. Since the Beeching cuts many of Greater Manchester's stations have closed and many station facilities have been removed. Others, however, have been converted to the Manchester Metrolink, Greater Manchester's light-rail network, or preserved as part of the East Lancashire Railway heritage route. The expansion of the Metrolink is set to continue at least through 2020, with the planned opening of the Trafford Park Line. In October 2009, nine stations on the former Oldham Loop Line closed for conversion, and future plans include the use of tram-trains to allow Metrolink to serve existing National Rail stations.
In preparation for the 2002 Commonwealth Games Manchester Piccadilly, the principal station for the City of Manchester, was extensively redeveloped and as a consequence has been voted as having the highest customer satisfaction rating of all the main stations in the United Kingdom. As of 2013, Manchester Victoria is under renovation with the construction of a new £20 million roof while Oxford Road will see redevelopment as a result of the Northern Hub plan in 2014. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20Observatories%20Initiative | The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Facility composed of a network of science-driven ocean observing platforms and sensors (ocean observatories) in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This networked infrastructure measures physical, chemical, geological, and biological variables from the seafloor to the sea surface and overlying atmosphere, providing an integrated data collection system on coastal, regional and global scales. OOI's goal is to deliver data and data products for a 25-year-plus time period, enabling a better understanding of ocean environments and critical ocean issues.
History
As early as 1987, the ocean sciences community began discussions about the science, design concepts, and engineering of ocean research observatories, leading to the formation of the International Ocean Network (ION) in 1993. The ION national committee was formed in 1995 and later expanded into the Dynamics of Earth and Ocean Systems (DEOS) committee, tasked with providing a focus for exploratory planning for an ocean observatory network.
In 2003 the Pew Oceans Commission recommended changes designed to improve society's use and stewardship of, and impact on, the coastal and global ocean.
Momentum for research-oriented ocean observing built with two National Research Council (NRC) studies in 2000 and 2003 ("Illuminating the Hidden Planet: The Future of Seafloor Observatory Science" and "Enabling Ocean Research in the 21st Century" ), and a series of community workshops. In 2000, the National Science Board (NSB) approved the OOI as a potential Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction project for inclusion in a future National Science Foundation budget, which allowed for focused planning efforts.
In 2004, the NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) established the OOI Project Office under the Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Network (ORION) to coordinate further OOI planning between two independent but complementary groups, Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) and Consortium for Ocean Research and Education (CORE). The Program Office subsequently transitioned solely to JOI, which then merged with CORE to form the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in 2007. In 2005, the OOI Project Office asked for the ocean research community's help in developing the OOI network design by soliciting Request for Assistance (RFA) proposals that resulted in 48 proposals, representing the thoughts and ideas of more than 550 investigators and direct participants, and the involvement of over 130 separate educational and research institutions. Using the responses from the RFA process and associated review results, the OOI ORION Project Office and the external Science & Technical Advisory Committee developed an initial Conceptual Network Design (CND) for the OOI, which then served as the focus at an OOI Design and Implementation Workshop in March 2006.
In August 2006, NSF convened a Conceptual Design Review |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFIA%20%28AM%29 | WFIA is an AM radio station on 900 kHz in Louisville, Kentucky. WFIA is owned by Word Media Group through its subsidiary Word Broadcasting Network, Inc. WFIA broadcasts with a daytime power of 930 watts and a nighttime power of 162 watts and carries Christian radio programming.
History
WKYW
WKYW began broadcasting on March 24, 1947, with a 25-minute preview of programs before initiating full service the next day. The station's original power was 1,000 watts, broadcast from the transmitter site off River Road; because of its location near the Ohio River, the transmitter building was raised on aluminum pontoons. The daytime-only outlet claimed several firsts: its off-air hours were silenced by a mattress company, and one Christmas it recorded its entire programming on tape so all of its employees—save for an engineer—could take the holiday off. In its programming, WKYW emphasized music, with a minimum of talk. WKYW was also noteworthy by the mid-1960s for the use of a helicopter to report traffic conditions.
WFIA
In 1965, the Polaris Corporation, owners of WKYW, opted to relaunch the station as a religious outlet: WFIA (With Faith In America), effective September 5. Along with the change in call letters, the station ceased to accept beer, wine and tobacco commercials. The traffic helicopter moved over to WAVE.
In 1975, WFIA spawned its first FM sister station, WFIA-FM 103.9. That station remained co-owned in the 1980s as WXLN, a contemporary Christian outlet, while WFIA's programming shifted to religious talk and teaching. WFIA-WXLN was sold in 1989 to Jim Kincer for $2.1 million. This started a decade in which the station changed hands multiple times; when the FM station prepared for a secular flip, its longform religious programming migrated to WFIA. Neon Communications split WFIA and the FM outlet, by that time known as WQLL, by selling them separately in 1994; the buyer for WFIA, paying $500,000, was Regent Broadcasting. Regent was acquired by Jacor in 1996; under Jacor ownership, Ohio River flooding briefly forced WFIA and its riverside transmitter off the air in March 1997, and the University of Louisville allowed the station to temporarily broadcast from an unused tower.
When Jacor was merged into Clear Channel Communications three years later, the company was required to divest 18 radio stations, including WFIA, which was sold to Blue Chip Broadcasting. The ownership carousel ended when Salem Communications acquired WFIA for $1.75 million in 2001.
On December 22, 2016, Salem announced that it would hand operation of its Louisville radio stations, including WFIA, to Word Broadcasting Network (also known as Word Media Group) under a time brokerage agreement. Programming of WFIA was changed to a simulcast of Word's contemporary Christian station WJIE-FM, and the station carried the WJIE call letters for 10 months in 2017 before reverting to WFIA in October. On February 10, 2020, Word Broadcasting announced that it would take advantage of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAYK | WAYK (105.9 FM) is an American contemporary Christian music station in the Louisville, Kentucky, metropolitan area. It is a WAY-FM Network owned-and-operated station.
105.9 FM was initially a construction permit with the call sign WVSL in 1991. On September 1, 1993, it officially signed on with an active rock format as "QMF Too," in reference to then-sister station WQMF (105.9 changed to the WQNF call letters). In July 1995, the station shifted to modern rock, rebranded as "Q105.9", and changed call sign to WXNU. On September 13, 1996, it flipped to Modern AC as "Hits 105.9." This was short-lived; in 1997, WRVI and its Rock AC format moved from 94.7 FM to 105.9. The format would later shift to all-80s hits. In August 1999, after the station was sold to Salem, it flipped to Contemporary Christian, while retaining the "River" branding.
Prior to 2008, the station was "105.9 The River" owned by Salem Communications.
On May 2, 2011, the then-WSYI rebranded as "Shine 105.9". The station changed its call sign to the current WAYK on December 19, 2013.
References
External links
Shine 105.9 - Official Site
AYK
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
WAY-FM Network
Radio stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Kentucky
AYK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHC | PHC or PhC may refer to:
Education
Candidate of Philosophy (Candidatus/Candidata Philosophiae), an academic degree
Patrick Henry College, a college in Purcellville, Virginia, US
Pacific Harbors Council, of Scouting in Washington, US
Health care
Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act
Partnership HealthPlan of California, a Medicaid health plan
Philippine Heart Center, hospital for heart illnesses in the Philippines
Primary health care, essential health care
Primary health centre, the basic structural and functional unit of the public health services in developing countries
Primary Health Centre (India)
Religion
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Perth Hebrew Congregation, of Menora, Western Australia
Science and technology
Password Hashing Competition, a former competition
Polyhalogenated compound
Poly(hexamethylene carbonate)
Poly(hydridocarbyne)
Potentially hazardous comet
Other uses
A Prairie Home Companion, a radio show on American Public Media
Post-hardcore, a subgenre of hardcore music
Peshawar High Court, Pakistan
Port Harcourt International Airport (IATA code), Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esper%20Dream | is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Konami for the Family Computer Disk System. It was released in Japan on February 20, 1987. During this time, RPGs had a particular look and feel, primarily utilizing sword and magic motifs. Esper Dream takes place instead in a fairy tale world featuring a young boy with ESP talents who wields a gun.
Konami released the game as an i-application for cellular phone use as part of the Konami masterpiece series on February 1, 2007. In the same year, it was made available for download in Japan as part of the Wii Virtual Console on October 2.
A sequel, , was released for the Family Computer on June 26, 1992.
Gameplay
Roaming and static enemy positions are made visible in the world as a set of paw prints. Fights take place in an enclosed area where the player must shoot the enemies until they are eliminated. Traditional RPG elements include the collection of experience points and money by defeating monsters, increasing hit points and esper points (magic) through level raises, and purchasing better equipment from towns located deeper in the game.
References
External links
Esper Dream at Nintendo
Esper Dream at Konami Mobile
Role-playing video games
Konami games
Famicom Disk System games
Action role-playing video games
Mobile games
Single-player video games
Virtual Console games
Virtual Console games for Wii U
Japan-exclusive video games
2014 soundtrack albums
1987 video games
Video games about psychic powers
Video games scored by Kinuyo Yamashita
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalmann%20algorithm | The Thalmann Algorithm (VVAL 18) is a deterministic decompression model originally designed in 1980 to produce a decompression schedule for divers using the US Navy Mk15 rebreather. It was developed by Capt. Edward D. Thalmann, MD, USN, who did research into decompression theory at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Navy Experimental Diving Unit, State University of New York at Buffalo, and Duke University. The algorithm forms the basis for the current US Navy mixed gas and standard air dive tables (from US Navy Diving Manual Revision 6). The decompression model is also referred to as the Linear–Exponential model or the Exponential–Linear model.
History
The Mk15 rebreather supplies a constant partial pressure of oxygen of with nitrogen as the inert gas. Prior to 1980 it was operated using schedules from printed tables. It was determined that an algorithm suitable for programming into an underwater decompression monitor (an early dive computer) would offer advantages. This algorithm was initially designated "MK15 (VVAL 18) RTA", a real-time algorithm for use with the Mk15 rebreather.
Description
VVAL 18 is a deterministic model that utilizes the Naval Medical Research Institute Linear Exponential (NMRI LE1 PDA) data set for calculation of decompression schedules. Phase two testing of the US Navy Diving Computer produced an acceptable algorithm with an expected maximum incidence of decompression sickness (DCS) less than 3.5% assuming that occurrence followed the binomial distribution at the 95% confidence level.
The use of simple symmetrical exponential gas kinetics models has shown up the need for a model that would give slower tissue washout. In the early 1980s the US Navy Experimental Diving Unit developed an algorithm using a decompression model with exponential gas absorption as in the usual Haldanian model, but a slower linear release during ascent. The effect of adding linear kinetics to the exponential model is to lengthen the duration of risk accumulation for a given compartment time constant.
The model was originally developed for programming decompression computers for constant oxygen partial pressure closed circuit rebreathers. Initial experimental diving using an exponential-exponential algorithm resulted in an unacceptable incidence of DCS, so a change was made to a model using the linear release model, with a reduction in DCS incidence. The same principles were applied to developing an algorithm and tables for a constant oxygen partial pressure model for Heliox diving
The linear component is active when the tissue pressure exceeds ambient pressure by a given amount specific to the tissue compartment. When the tissue pressure drops below this cross-over criterion the tissue is modelled by exponential kinetics. During gas uptake tissue pressure never exceeds ambient, so it is always modelled by exponential kinetics. This results in a model with the desired asymmetrical characteristics of slower washout than uptake. The linear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing%20Commander%20Academy%20%28video%20game%29 | Wing Commander Academy is a spin-off of Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi, published in 1993.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated of Wing Commander Academy that "if you enjoy space combat simulations, you must have this game. Period". The magazine approved of the "absolute ball to play" game's improved graphics, and the mission builder, and concluded that "Academy is a tremendously exciting game, one which provides many, many hours of play and replay". The 1994 survey gave the game three stars out of five, stating that it was "for those who don't need a plot".
Reviews
PC Games (Germany) - Sep, 1993
PC Player (Germany) - Oct, 1993
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Nov, 1993
Computer Gaming World - May, 1994
Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1993
References
External links
Wing Commander Academy at MobyGames
Review in Compute!
1993 video games
DOS games
Games commercially released with DOSBox
Video game level editors
Video games developed in the United States
Video game spin-offs
Windows games
Wing Commander (franchise) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Golden%20Guy | Little Golden Guy is a website which presents statistical data related to the Academy Awards (also known as the Oscars). Launched by Brian Barney in 1999, the search engine provides a method of tabulating the films and individuals holding records for the most nominations and awards within a particular category or within a specified timeframe. The website maintains data from the 1st Academy Awards ceremony, honoring films from 1927 and 1928, to the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring films from 2011. The site's search results also provide internal links to annual summaries, as well as statistical breakdowns of individual awards categories. The site has not been updated since the 2013 Academy Awards.
See also
Academy Awards
List of Academy Award records
List of films receiving six or more Academy Awards
List of films receiving the Academy Award "Big Five"
List of people who have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year
List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
References
External links
Review by Entertainment Weekly
Listing in 1001 Incredible Things to Do on the Internet by Ken Leebow
Online film databases
Internet properties established in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlatBox%20Project | PlatBox Project, formally known as Boxed Economy Project, is a multi-agent based computer simulation software development project founded by Iba Laboratory at Keio University, Japan. The main work of PlatBox Project is to develop PlatBox Simulator and Component Builder, which are claimed to be the first multi-agent computer simulation software that do not require end-users to have any computer programming skill in order to create and execute multi-agent computer simulation models. Currently, the project is organized by Takashi Iba, assistant professor from Keio University, and Nozomu Aoyama. PlatBox Simulator and Component Builder are currently offered only in Japanese; however, the English version is expected to be out anytime soon.
PlatBox Simulator
PlatBox Simulator is a multi-agent based simulation platform developed by PlatBox Project.
ComponentBuilder
ComponentBuilder is a multi-agent based simulation modeling tool developed by PlatBox Project.
See also
Agent-based model
Repast (modeling toolkit)
Articles
Resolving the Existing Problems by Boxed Economy Simulation Platform. T. Iba, Y. Chubachi, Y. Matsuzawa, K. Asaka, K. Kaiho, Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems, A. Namatame, et al. (eds.), IOS Press, 2002, pp. 59–68.
Boxed Economy Foundation Model: Toward Simulation Platform for Agent-Based Economic Simulations. T. Iba, Y. Takabe, Y. Chubachi, J. Tanaka, K. Kamihashi, R. Tsuya, S. Kitano, M. Hirokane, Y. Matsuzawa, New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Takao Terano, Toyoaki Nishida, Akira Namatame, Syusaku Tsumoto, Yukio Ohsawa, Takashi Washio (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 227–236
Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma on Alliance Networks. T. Furukawazono, Y. Takada, T. Iba, International Workshop and Conference on Network Science 2007, New York, May, 2007
Understanding Social Complex Systems with PlatBox Simulator. T. Iba, The 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF2006), Taiwan, Oct., 2006 (pp. 64–67)
Building a Simulation Model of the Currency Basket Peg System. M. Kunitomo, T. Iba, H. Takayasu, The 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF2006), Taiwan, Oct.,2006 (pp. 129–132)
Building a Simulation Model of Foreign Exchange Market: Reproduction of Yen Dollar Market. A. Usami, R. Tsuya, T. Iba, H. Takayasu, The 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF2006), Taiwan, Oct., 2006 (pp. 133–136)
Consumer Network and Market Dynamics. S. Itoh, Y. Murakami, T. Iba, The 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF2006), Taiwan, Oct., 2006 (pp. 22–25)
Analysis of Factors which Contribute to Inter-Enterprise Competition. T. Shimizu, Y. Takada, T. Iba, The 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF2006), Taiwan, Oct., 2006 (pp. 68–71)
A Collaborative Tool for Modeling and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Kino%20Plus | German Kino Plus (GKP) is a German language television channel in the United States owned by FennFamLLC. It is the first German-language television channel based in the U.S. and features programming from Germany.
History
German Kino Plus was officially launched on May 4, 2007, on Dish Network.
On October 2, 2012, Dish Network dropped the channel from its line-up and it went off the air. The following note was posted by GKP on its official Facebook page:
In December 2012, German Kino Plus was re-launched after securing distribution in Canada with the cable TV provider Cogeco. It was subsequently launched on Bell Fibe TV in March 2013 and on Manitoba Telecom Services in December 2013.
Programming
German Kino Plus features German cinema, popular TV series and German documentaries. All programming is broadcast uncut and free of commercials, and the line-up is constantly updated with new films and TV series premiering every month. GKP programming is divided into the following four categories:
Theatrical German films
Classic German films
Documentaries
Top-rated television series from the popular German channels ARD, ZDF and RTL
Canadian distribution
On October 28, 2010, German Kino Plus was officially added to the CRTC's approved list of foreign services, allowing the channel to expand into Canada. Ethnic Channels Group, which sponsored the application to put GKP on the approved list, is the official Canadian distributor of the channel.
The channel was officially launched in Canada on December 12, 2012, available via Cogeco Cable.
References
German-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%201 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 1 (Dock1), also (DOCK180), is a large (~180 kDa) protein encoded in the human by the DOCK1 gene, involved in intracellular signalling networks. It is the mammalian ortholog of the C. elegans protein CED-5 and belongs to the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs).
Discovery
DOCK180 was identified, using a far-western blotting approach, as a binding partner of the adaptor protein Crk that was able to induce morphological changes in 3T3 fibroblasts. Subsequently it was reported that DOCK180 was able to activate the small GTP-binding protein (G protein) Rac1 and this was later shown to happen via its ability to act as a GEF.
Structure and function
DOCK180 is part of a large class of proteins (GEFs) which contribute to cellular signalling events by activating small G proteins. In their resting state G proteins are bound to Guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and their activation requires the dissociation of GDP and binding of guanosine triphosphate (GTP). GEFs activate G proteins by promoting this nucleotide exchange.
DOCK180 and related proteins differ from other GEFs in that they do not possess the canonical structure of tandem DH-PH domains known to elicit nucleotide exchange. Instead they possess a DHR2 domain which mediates Rac activation by stabilising it in its nucleotide-free state. DOCK180-related proteins also possess a DHR1 domain which has been shown, in vitro, to bind phospholipids and which may be involved in their interaction with cellular membranes. Other structural features of Dock180 include an N-terminal SH3 domain involved in binding to ELMO proteins (see below) and a C-terminal proline-rich region which, in Myoblast city (the Drosophila melanogaster ortholog of DOCK180), was shown to bind DCrk (the Drosophila ortholog of Crk).
Regulation of DOCK180 Activity
Under physiological conditions DOCK180 alone is inefficient at promoting nucleotide exchange on Rac. Effective GEF activity requires an interaction between Dock180 and its binding partner ELMO. ELMO1 is the most comprehensively described isoform of this small family of non-catalytically active proteins which function to recruit Dock180 to the plasma membrane and induce conformational changes which increase GEF efficiency. ELMO1 has also been reported to inhibit ubiqitinylation of Dock180 and so prevent its degradation by proteasomes. Receptor-mediated activation of RhoG (a small G protein of the Rac subfamily) is perhaps the best known inducer of Dock180 GEF activity. Active (GTP-bound) RhoG recruits the ELMO/Dock180 complex to the plasma membrane thereby bringing Dock180 into contact with its substrate, Rac. In tumour cells DOCK180 is regulated by a complex containing Crk and p130Cas which is in turn regulated by cooperative signalling by β3-containing integrin complexes and the membrane-bound protein uPAR.
Signalling Downstream of DOCK180
DOCK180 is a Rac-specific GEF and so is responsible for a subset of Rac-specific signalli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Systems%20Corporation | Network Systems Corporation (NSC) was an early manufacturer of high-performance computer networking products. Founded in 1974, NSC produced hardware products that connected IBM and Control Data Corporation (CDC) mainframe computers to peripherals at remote locations. NSC also developed and commercialized the HYPERchannel networking system and protocol standards, adopted by Cray Research, Tektronix and others. In the late 1980s, NSC extended HYPERchannel to support the TCP/IP networking protocol and released a product allowing HYPERchannel devices to connect to the emerging Internet.
History
The company was formed by former Control Data Corporation employees, James E. Thornton and Peter D. Jones in 1974. Initially based in Saint Paul, Minnesota the company moved to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota after delivering their first high-speed networking computers to the NSA. It merged with Storage Technology Corporation on September 20, 1995. Storage Technology Corporation was purchased by Sun Microsystems during the summer of 2005. Sun Microsystems was purchased by Oracle Corporation on April 20, 2009.
In the late 1980s, after enjoying great success in the mainframe computer market, NSC released its first product supporting the TCP/IP protocol, allowing customers to connect their mainframe computers to their emerging TCP/IP-based corporate and research networks. The market was shifting:
Companies like Sun Microsystems and Apollo Computer had gained momentum showing the efficiency of distributed clusters of smaller workstations connected to a local area network.
Internetworking companies, most notably Cisco Systems, entered the market with local and wide-area networking products using off-the-shelf components and custom software.
Prices for workstations, networking infrastructure and routers plummeted.
NSC found itself in a strange position. Its HYPERchannel networking gear was being supplanted by cheaper and relatively plug-and-play LANs. In addition, the rapid evolution of routing protocols and software was not suited to their products which could neither be upgraded by the customer, nor booted from a server elsewhere on the network. In general, NSC products were maintained on-site by NSC technicians.
The company attempted to respond to market demands in 1991 by merging with Vitalink Communications Corporation, primarily a bridge manufacturer. Vitalink was well entrenched in the LAN/Network industry, however, bridges and issues with large Spanning-Tree domains were allowing the router manufacturers to gain position. Vitalink had a very good router running SPF, the predecessor to OSPF. Eventually, this nifty router proved to be too little too late. Vitalink was the "bridge company" while Cisco, Wellfleet, Proteon, and others were the router companies.
In November 1993 NSC acquired the Boston-based Bytex Corp., a developer and manufacturer of WAN and LAN network switching system products including FDDI, Token Ring, and Ethernet adapters and s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERPINB3 | Serpin B3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINB3 gene.
See also
Serpin
References
Further reading
External links
The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: I04.008
Serine protease inhibitors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacMinute | MacMinute was the name of a web site that provided news and information focused on Apple Inc and the Macintosh Operating system. It was founded by Canadian businessman Stan Flack in 2001 to "keep you up-to-date on everything that is going on in the world of Macintosh as soon as it happens". On the opening day, May 9, 2001 , the update to the Mac OS X to 10.0.3 was announced.
Prior to creating MacMinute Stan Flack founded the MacCentral news website which he sold to MacWorld on June 1, 1999. This website was eventually folded into the MacWorld brand name and the last vestiges of MacCentral disappeared with the incorporation of the MacCentral Forum into the MacWorld forums in December 2007.
MacMinute was noted for its up to the minute digest of current breaking news about everything connected to the Macintosh and Apple products but one of its more important functions was to serve as a forum for the Macintosh community. This MacMinute Reader Cafe is an eclectic mix of Macintosh users who provide and share expertise in all aspects of the Macintosh platform.
Mr. Flack died of natural causes, from complications to a pre-existing condition, in his home on Prince Edward Island, Canada on April 14, 2008.
On May 22, 2008, the Flack family announced the closing of the Macminute website and forums. Some forum members decide to move to MacCentral Cafe as it reminds them of the single forum Stan Flack started with at the MacCentral news website.
On June 5, 2008 it is announced on the Macminute news site that MacTech's Community News Scan and Macsimum News will act as caretakers to the archives of MacMinute News and Forums. They also announced they would continue to host the MacMinute Forums which are now up and running smoothly as of November 2008. Stan's Lounge is crowded with MacCentral and MacMinute faithful in honor of Stan Flack and all that he did for the Macintosh community.
Abbreviated MacMinute Chronology
June 1, 1999 MacWorld purchases MacCentral from Canadian businessman Stan Flack.
May 9, 2001 MacMinute News site is published on the internet by Stan Flack.
May 19, 2001 MacMinute opens MacMinute Reader Café.
April 19, 2002 A major influx (more than 30) of MacCentral forum members create user accounts in the MacMinute Reader Café.
August 4. 2004 MacMinute forum member mikeb_X dies.
September 2, 2004 A "Political Forum" is created within the MacMinute Reader Café.
May 14, 2005 Lesh creates the neologism "malacarpism".
December 16, 2007 With the imminent closing of MacCentral forum another influx of users to MacMinute Café occurs.
January 3, 2008 The MacCentral Forum becomes read only causing a few more MCF members to become Macminuters.
April 14, 2008 Stan Flack passes away.
May 22, 2008 The Flack family announces the closing of Macminute.
June 5, 2008 MacTech's Community News Scan and Macsimum News announces the hosting of MacMinute Forums as well as archiving of all past MacMinute News.
November 6, 2008 Neil Ticktin of MacTech a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20humor | Computational humor is a branch of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence which uses computers in humor research. It is a relatively new area, with the first dedicated conference organized in 1996.
Joke generators
Pun generation
An approach to analysis of humor is classification of jokes. A further step is an attempt to generate jokes basing on the rules that underlie classification.
Simple prototypes for computer pun generation were reported in the early 1990s, based on a natural language generator program, VINCI. Graeme Ritchie and Kim Binsted in their 1994 research paper described a computer program, JAPE, designed to generate question-answer-type puns from a general, i.e., non-humorous, lexicon. (The program name is an acronym for "Joke Analysis and Production Engine".) Some examples produced by JAPE are:
Q: What is the difference between leaves and a car?
A: One you brush and rake, the other you rush and brake.
Q: What do you call a strange market?
A: A bizarre bazaar.
Since then the approach has been improved, and the latest report, dated 2007, describes the STANDUP joke generator, implemented in the Java programming language. The STANDUP generator was tested on children within the framework of analyzing its usability for language skills development for children with communication disabilities, e.g., because of cerebral palsy. (The project name is an acronym for "System To Augment Non-speakers' Dialog Using Puns" and an allusion to standup comedy.) Children responded to this "language playground" with enthusiasm, and showed marked improvement on certain types of language tests.
The two young people, who used the system over a ten-week period, regaled their peers, staff, family and neighbors with jokes such as: "What do you call a spicy missile? A hot shot!" Their joy and enthusiasm at entertaining others was inspirational.
Other
Stock and Strapparava described a program to generate funny acronyms.
"AskTheBrain" (2002) used clustering and bayesian analysis to associate concepts in a comical way.
Joke recognition
A statistical machine learning algorithm to detect whether a sentence contained a "That's what she said" double entendre was developed by Kiddon and Brun (2011). There is an open-source Python implementation of Kiddon & Brun's TWSS system.
A program to recognize knock-knock jokes was reported by Taylor and Mazlack. This kind of research is important in analysis of human–computer interaction.
An application of machine learning techniques for the distinguishing of joke texts from non-jokes was described by Mihalcea and Strapparava (2006).
Takizawa et al. (1996) reported on a heuristic program for detecting puns in the Japanese language.
Applications
A possible application for the assistance in language acquisition is described in the section "Pun generation". Another envisioned use of joke generators is in cases of steady supply of jokes where quantity is more important than quality. Another obvious, yet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALS2 | Alsin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ALS2 gene. ALS2 orthologs have been identified in all mammals for which complete genome data are available.
See also
Juvenile primary lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
References
Further reading
External links
GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on ALS2-Related Disorders
OMIM entries on ALS2-Related Disorders
Genetics Home Reference- US National Library of Medicine® |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uraz | Uraz may refer to:
People
Yağmur Uraz, Turkish female football player
Uraz Cengiz Türker, Turkish Computer Scientist
Places
Uraz, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-west Poland
Uraz, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-west Poland
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebean | Ebean is an object–relational mapping product written in Java. It is designed to be simpler to use and understand than JPA (Java Persistence API) or JDO (Java Data Objects) products.
Simple API
Ebean has a simpler API than JPA. It achieves this through its 'Session Less' architecture. Ebean does not require a JPA EntityManager or JDO PersistenceManager and this removes the concepts of detached/attached beans and the issues associated with flushing/clearing and 'session management' of EntityManagers. This adds up to make Ebean's API much easier to learn, understand and use.
Relational features
Although Ebean has full ORM features (equivalent to JPA) it also has incorporated 'SQL/Relational' features. The idea being that many development efforts require control over the exact sql, calling stored procedures or are more simply solved with 'Relational' approaches. The ultimate goal for Ebean is to combine the best ORM features from JPA with the best 'Relational' features from products like MyBatis into a single persistence framework.
Object–relational mapping
Ebean uses the same mapping as JPA with its @Entity, @Table, @OneToMany etc. annotations and xml. The mapping of Entity beans should be compatible between Ebean and JPA.
Going beyond JPA Ebean supports Java Generics and fetching "Partial" objects with its Query object.
Examples
// find customer by id
Customer customer = Ebean.find(Customer.class, 1);
//Saving the changes of the customer object
customer.save();
// more complex query with joins
List<Order> order =
Ebean.find(Order.class)
.fetch("customer")
.fetch("customer.billingAddress")
.fetch("customer.shippingAddress")
.fetch("details")
.fetch("details.product", "name")
.where().eq("shipDate", today)
.findList();
See also
List of object–relational mapping software
References
External links
GitHub page
Object–relational mapping
Java enterprise platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth%20distribution%20by%20country | World distribution of wealth is the distribution of how wealth is distributed around the world. The guideline for categorizing the data is to organize it based on the continent on which the people with wealth reside.
Data organization
Sometimes the data is organized by household wealth. It is useful to do it this way because sometimes the holders of wealth take care of other people who have no wealth, such as children or other family members.
World distribution of wealth (2016)
Data for the following tables is obtained from The UN-WIDER World Distribution of Household Wealth Report.
Northern America
Central and South America
Europe
Africa
Middle East
Asia
Other
Net worth per capita (2016)
Data for the following tables is obtained from The UN-WIDER World Distribution of Household Wealth Report.
References
See also
Distribution of wealth
List of countries by distribution of wealth
List of countries by income equality
Distribution of wealth
Global inequality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalNet | Global Net is an interbank network in Peru operated by Peruvian bank "Interbank".
ATMs are available all over Peru. GlobalNet ATMs work with any Cirrus, PLUS, American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, or Visa card. Every bank's ATMs are on the GlobalNet system including Falabella's CMR and Ripley's credit card.
On this ATM, users also have the possibility of making deposits, or paying their credit card bills.
References
Financial services companies of Peru
Interbank networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Applied%20Information%20Processing%20and%20Communications | The Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK) is part of the Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). IAIK is concerned with aspects of computer security and information security. Current focal points are set on design of new cryptographic algorithms, implementation of cryptographic algorithms and protocols in hardware as well as in software, network security, e-Government, and trusted computing.
IAIK conducts applied research into these areas, fostering a holistic view of the aspects of computer and information security. Teaching activities closely follow the latest developments in IAIK’s research fields. The activities of IAIK are led by Stefan Mangard after Reinhard Posch abdicated in 2019.
IAIK is specialized on following specific aspects of computer and information security:
VLSI design and security
Implementation attacks
RFID hardware and security
Software security
E-Government
Trusted computing
Design and analysis of hash and block cipher primitives
Network security
Formal methods in verification and design
References
External links
IAIK
IAIK at the Faculty of Computer Science of TU Graz
Research institutes in Austria
Graz University of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape%20from%20Singe%27s%20Castle | Escape from Singe's Castle, also known as Dragon's Lair Part II - Escape From Singe's Castle, is a computer game for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum home computers, released by Software Projects in 1987.
ReadySoft released a similarly named game it for the PC (developed by Bethesda Softworks) in 1989, and for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1990 and 1991, respectively. An Apple IIGS version was released in 2022.
The game is sometimes referred to as Dragon's Lair II, but is not the official arcade sequel Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp.
Gameplay
Players control Dirk the Daring, the player character from Dragon's Lair, who has returned to the lair of Singe the dragon in order to claim a pot of gold. Singe has laid traps throughout his lair, forcing players to guide Dirk across a number of differently themed screens in order to steal the gold and escape. In the 8 bit versions there are eight different levels.
In the 16-bit version, Dirk is supposed to rescue Daphne again, this time from the Shapeshifter. Unlike the earlier 8-bit version, this is a cartoon-based interactive movie, like its predecessor, where the player is supposed to choose the correct movement for Dirk in the right time.
Development
Software Projects had licensed the Coleco Adam version of Dragon's Lair to be released on 8-bit home computers, but due to the limitations of memory size and media space very few scenes could be contained in the conversion. Therefore, a second game entitled Escape from Singe's Castle was created to contain some of the missing scenes. Some retained the original control method of only allowing a directional movement at the right time. Other sections had a smaller, more controllable Dirk.
The Commodore 64 cassette version features the same loading system as the original Dragon's Lair conversion - the next game level loads while the player attempts the current level. The American Commodore 64 version had a two-sided disk, with the first Dragon's Lair on the other side of the disk (however, the front cover only showed the name Dragon's Lair).
The ReadySoft version had a hard disk install option that supported the first Dragon's Lair conversion; a user that owned the first and second games could install scenes from both, resulting in a single bigger game.
An Apple IIGS version had reportedly been completed by ReadySoft and scheduled to be released in 1991 (manuals from other ports list detailed IIGS-specific loading instructions and features), but was never publicly released. In 2022, decades later with the original ReadySoft port still missing or lost, Brutal Deluxe created and released a new Apple IIGS port based on the PC version.
Reception
Allen L. Greenberg reviewed the ReadySoft game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Dragon's Lair II: Escape From Singe's Castle is an odd creature, an exceptional program which suffers from uninteresting game-play."
Reviews
Amtix! (Apr, 1987)
Computer Gamer (Mar, 1987)
Zzap! (Feb, 1987)
Compute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Shift%20%28Irish%20TV%20programme%29 | Night Shift is an Irish television music programme. Like its sister show Day Shift, it was one of Channel 6's Irish programme. It was launched with the network on Thursday, 30 March 2006. Night Shift was transmitted late at night and sometimes early on weekend mornings. The show was hosted by Michelle Doherty and featured the alternative music scene. In 2006, Night Shift was voted the favourite music programme by Hot Press magazine readers. The last show aired on 31 December 2008. Channel 6 was replaced by 3e on 1 January 2009.
Despite only airing for two years, the show helped launch many new Irish bands such as Director.
Programme producer Elton Mulally has produced televised coverage of the Choice Music Prize for RTÉ2.
Under Ether
In autumn 2009, RTÉ Two commissioned a follow-up show called When Under Ether, hosted by Michelle Doherty and Nightshift producer Elton Mullally. The first series began airing on the 10th of November 2009. A second series, under the altered programme title of just "Under Ether", began broadcasting on the 6th of October 2010.
References
Irish music television shows
2006 Irish television series debuts
2008 Irish television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20hijacking | DNS hijacking, DNS poisoning, or DNS redirection is the practice of subverting the resolution of Domain Name System (DNS) queries. This can be achieved by malware that overrides a computer's TCP/IP configuration to point at a rogue DNS server under the control of an attacker, or through modifying the behaviour of a trusted DNS server so that it does not comply with internet standards.
These modifications may be made for malicious purposes such as phishing, for self-serving purposes by Internet service providers (ISPs), by the Great Firewall of China and public/router-based online DNS server providers to direct users' web traffic to the ISP's own web servers where advertisements can be served, statistics collected, or other purposes of the ISP; and by DNS service providers to block access to selected domains as a form of censorship.
Technical background
One of the functions of a DNS server is to translate a domain name into an IP address that applications need to connect to an Internet resource such as a website. This functionality is defined in various formal internet standards that define the protocol in considerable detail. DNS servers are implicitly trusted by internet-facing computers and users to correctly resolve names to the actual addresses that are registered by the owners of an internet domain.
Rogue DNS server
A rogue DNS server translates domain names of desirable websites (search engines, banks, brokers, etc.) into IP addresses of sites with unintended content, even malicious websites. Most users depend on DNS servers automatically assigned by their ISPs. A router's assigned DNS servers can also be altered through the remote exploitation of a vulnerability within the router's firmware. When users try to visit websites, they are instead sent to a bogus website. This attack is termed pharming. If the site they are redirected to is a malicious website, masquerading as a legitimate website, in order to fraudulently obtain sensitive information, it is called phishing.
Manipulation by ISPs
A number of consumer ISPs such as AT&T, Cablevision's Optimum Online, CenturyLink, Cox Communications, RCN, Rogers, Charter Communications (Spectrum), Plusnet, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US, Virgin Media, Frontier Communications, Bell Sympatico, Deutsche Telekom AG, Optus, Mediacom, ONO, TalkTalk, Bigpond (Telstra), TTNET, Türksat, and all Indonesian customer ISPs use or used DNS hijacking for their own purposes, such as displaying advertisements or collecting statistics. Dutch ISPs XS4ALL and Ziggo use DNS hijacking by court order: they were ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay and display a warning page while all customer ISP in Indonesia do DNS hijacking to comply with the National DNS law which requires every customer Indonesian ISP to hijack port 53 and redirect it to their own server to block website that are listed in Trustpositif by Kominfo under Internet Sehat campaign. These practices violate the RFC standard for DNS (NXDOMAIN) response |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacChoro | MacChoro (pronounced MacKoro) was a computer program for choropleth mapping developed for early versions of the Apple Macintosh computer. A choropleth map shades areas, such as states or counties, to represent values and is mainly used for the mapping of statistical data. Released in 1986, MacChoro was the first computer mapping program to implement Macintosh's point-and-click user interface for the analysis and production of thematic maps. MacChoro II, released in 1988, was the first program to incorporate interaction in animated mapping.
Development
MacChoro began to be developed in the Fall of 1985 on an Apple Macintosh 512K (Fat Mac) computer with a single 400K floppy drive. The programming language was Fortran, and the code was based on a choropleth mapping program that was developed on a Digital Equipment VAX computer. It had to be re-written to incorporate the mouse, pull-down menus, and dialogs.
Data Classification
The program stressed data classification, and implemented six methods including unclassed, equal interval, quantile, natural breaks, standard deviation and user-defined. The unclassed method was limited to 16 shadings. Each of the remaining methods could be made with between 2 and 16 categories. Maps could be re-classified and displayed in a matter of seconds. The program was especially useful for comparing different methods of data classification.
Animation
An interactive animation feature was added in 1988. A second version of the program, MacChoro II, placed a series of maps into memory showing different methods of data classification, different number of classes, or different variables. Once finished, the animated series of maps could be displayed at up to 60 frames per second. A dialog controlled the speed of display and provided access to the individual frames.
References
Peterson, Michael P. (1995) Interactive and Animated Cartography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Peterson, Michael P. (1994) Spatial Visualization through Cartographic Animation: Theory and Practice. Proceedings of Geographic Information Systems / Land Information Systems GIS/LIS 1994, pp. 250-258.
Peterson, Michael P. (1993) Interactive Cartographic Animation. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 1993, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1993, pp. 40-44.
Tobler, W. (1973) "Choropleth Maps Without Class Intervals?." Geographical Analysis 3: 262-265.
External links
MacChoro Step-by-Step Part 1
MacChoro Step-by-Step Part 2
Cartography
[[Category:Aide
Category:Data visualization software]] |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cordier | John Cordier (Oudenburg, 1 September 1941-Bonheiden, 22 January 2002) was a Belgian businessman. He founded Telindus in 1969, a modem and network component company. In October 1999 he succeeded Julien De Wilde as President of the board of directors of Agoria.
John Cordier was also very active in supporting sports, he served as President of the Belgian football club K.V. Mechelen for eleven years from 1982 to 1993. Under his management and thanks to his financial support the club became an important player in Belgian soccer during that period, and beat AFC Ajax in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1988.
Sources
John Cordier overleden
John Cordier overleden
20th-century Belgian businesspeople
1942 births
2002 deaths
People from West Flanders
K.V. Mechelen
Belgian sports executives and administrators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nip/Tuck%3A%20Original%20TV%20Soundtrack | The soundtrack of the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television medical drama series Nip/Tuck created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks was mixed by the DJ duo Gabriel & Dresden and the collaborations of other artists.
Track listing
References
Nip/Tuck
Television soundtracks
2003 soundtrack albums
Gabriel & Dresden albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Freakbeat%2C%20Volume%201 | English Freakbeat, Volume 1 is a compilation album in the English Freakbeat series, featuring recordings that were released decades earlier, in the mid-1960s.
Release data
The album was released as an LP in 1988 by AIP Records (as #AIP-10039) and as a CD in 1992 (as #AIP-CD-1039).
Vinyl-only tracks and CD bonus tracks
The English Freakbeat LPs and CDs have most tracks in common, although some of the LP tracks were not included on the CDs; also, the CD bonus tracks are not always at the end of the album. Thus, for clarity, we have shown tracks for both editions of the album, with vinyl-only tracks and CD bonus tracks indicated.
Notes on the tracks
The following information is taken mostly from the CD liner notes.
The Groundhogs released a dozen albums as a progressive blues band between 1968 and 1976 without gaining deserved stardom, though that incarnation of the band was not started until 1967. The band initially formed in late 1963 with the name John Lee's Groundhogs after backing U.S. bluesman John Lee Hooker on tour in England. "Shake It" comes from their first of two singles; it was released in the U.S. but not the U.K.
"Don't Want That" by the Betterdays is the only song on the original release of this album as an LP that does not appear on the CD. Their cover of Bo Diddley's "Here 'Tis" that was included on the earlier Pebbles, Volume 6 LP is also among the vinyl-only tracks on that album that were not included on the English Freakbeat, Volume 6 CD.
The In-Be-Tweens, a predecessor band to Slade, were also known as the N-Betweens and the In-Between and came from Wolverhampton. The band was discovered by American punk entrepreneur Kim Fowley, who was the co-writer on this song.
Five songs on the CD come from The Primitives (later known as Mal & the Primitives), a Northampton band whose members included Michael Wilding, Elizabeth Taylor's son with actor Michael Wilding. The band was mostly based in Italy, where they issued two albums. Singer Mal Ryder previously appeared with the Spirits on four pop singles in 1963-1965 and later had a successful career as a solo artist in the 1970s. Another song by the Primitives is included on English Freakbeat, Volume 4, along with one of the early Mal Ryder and the Spirits tracks.
The Loot has several strong connections with the Troggs; bandmember Dave Wright was one of the original members of that band, and "Baby Come Closer", from the first single, was later recorded by the Troggs. Also, their label, Page One Records was owned by Troggs manager Larry Page; and Ronnie Bond, the drummer for the Troggs produced many of the songs by the Loot. Three members of this band were previously in the Soul Agents, featured on English Freakbeat, Volume 2.
Miki Dallon is perhaps better known for his songwriting and producing work, although he was also a solo artist beginning with a debut single in February 1965 called "Do You Call that Love". His first hit as a songwriter and producer was "Take a He |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERPINE2 | Glia-derived nexin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINE2 gene.
See also
Serpin
References
Further reading
External links
The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: I04.021
Serine protease inhibitors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel.org | kernel.org is the main distribution point of source code for the Linux kernel, which is the base of the Linux operating system.
The website and related infrastructure, which is operated by the Linux Kernel Organization, host the repositories that make all versions of the kernel's source code available to all users. The main purpose of kernel.org is to host repositories used by Linux kernel developers and maintainers of various Linux distributions. Additionally, it hosts various other projects or their mirrors, including the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) and CPAN.
Since August 2014, kernel.org provides additional security by mandating two-factor authentication for commits performed to hosted Git repositories that contain source code of the Linux kernel, with support for both soft tokens and hard tokens.
2011 security breach
On 28 August 2011, developers at kernel.org realized that there had been a major security breach. Intruders had gained root access to the system and added a trojan to the startup scripts. Developers reinstalled all the servers and investigated the origin of the attack. It is likely, although not confirmed, that the kernel.org intrusion is related to the intrusions of LinuxFoundation.org and Linux.com websites that were determined shortly afterwards.
Git, a distributed and open-source source management system designed by Linus Torvalds to guarantee the integrity of the source code, is used to keep track of changes in the Linux source code. This and the fact that the source code is available to anyone and widely known makes any attempt to tamper with the source code fairly easy to detect and revert if required. All that makes kernel.org not the primary repository, but rather a distribution point of the kernel sources.
Kernel.org was back online by November 2011, with the exception of a few secondary services. , however, the site maintainers still have not published a report of how the breach occurred.
A 27 year old resident of Florida, US was arrested in 2016 for the attack.
See also
Linux kernel mailing list (LKML)
References
External links
Linux websites
Open-source software hosting facilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERPINB4 | Serpin B4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINB4 gene.
See also
Serpin
References
Further reading
External links
The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: I04.009
Serine protease inhibitors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Sametz | Phillip Sametz was born in Sydney. Following his first broadcasts on ABC Classic FM and 2MBS-FM in the 1980s, he appeared on all the major ABC radio networks, writing and presenting feature programs, documentaries and interval features on ABC Classic FM, and as a regular guest on the afternoon show on ABC 702 Sydney, on the evening show on ABC 774 Melbourne, and on Radio National's The Music Show. Sametz was the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Communications Manager from 2004 until 2013, and presented Classic Breakfast on ABC Classic FM each weekday during 2016-2017. He is also Director and vocalist of Sydney-based swing band the Mell-O-Tones, who perform regularly at the Hayden Orpheum Cinemas in Cremorne, Sydney.
His writing about music appears regularly on ABC Classics albums and in the program books of the Australian symphony orchestras, Opera Australia and the Melbourne Recital Centre. He has also helped mentor aspiring young musicians as part of the MRC's Accelerando program. His book on the history of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Play On!, was published by ABC Books to mark the Orchestra's 60th anniversary in 1992; he also contributed to the historical volume published to celebrate Musica Viva's 50th anniversary in 1995.
In 2016 and 2017 Sametz hosted live concert presentations by the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Youth Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He was also MC for the 2016 edition of the Four Winds Easter Festival in Bermagui, NSW.
Discography
Sametz and the Mell-O-Tones have produced the following albums. Non-Stop Flight includes guest soloist Don Burrows:
Hollywood Swings. (ISBN / Catalogue Number: 461 799-2 ) Released 2001
Swinging Down Broadway. (ISBN / Catalogue Number: 472 150-2 ) Released 2002
I Dreamed About You. (ISBN / Catalogue Number: 981 091-5) Released 2003
Non-Stop Flight. (ISBN / Catalogue Number: 982 9885) Released 2005
References
http://www.sydneysymphony.com/page.asp?p=754#n14
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/program/mornings/
Living people
Australian radio personalities
Classical music radio presenters
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin%2012%20receptor%2C%20beta%202%20subunit | Interleukin 12 receptor, beta 2 subunit is a subunit of the interleukin 12 receptor. IL12RB2 is its human gene. IL12RB2 orthologs have been identified in all mammals for which complete genome data are available.
The protein encoded by this gene is a type I transmembrane protein identified as a subunit of the interleukin 12 receptor complex. The co-expression of this and IL12Rβ1 proteins was shown to lead to the formation of high-affinity IL12 binding sites and reconstitution of IL12 dependent signaling. While the IL12Rβ1 subunit is constitutively expressed, the expression of the IL12RB2 gene is up-regulated by interferon gamma. In Th1 cells, IL-12 signaling through the IL12 receptor leads to the phosphorylation of STAT4 and continued Th1 differentiation. The IL12Rβ2 subunit plays an important role in Th1 cell differentiation, since its absence leads to an abortive Th1 differentiation that has dysfunctional production of Th1 effector molecules. The up-regulation of this gene is found to be associated with a number of infectious diseases, such as Crohn's disease and leprosy, which is thought to contribute to the inflammatory response and host defense.
Interactions
Interleukin 12 receptor, beta 2 subunit has been shown to interact with Janus kinase 2.
RNA editing
The mRNA of this protein is subject to RNA editing.
References
Further reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20memory | In computing, deterministic memory is computer memory which contains values that can be depended on from access to access. The term is also used in conjunction with achieving real-time functionality, especially in conjunction with embedded processor applications.
See also
Embedded system
Memory management
Real-time computing
External links
Design Patterns for Real-Time Computer Music Systems
Exploring memory architectures: pillars of processing performance
Harnessing parallelism from video-processing DSPs
Memory Management
Persistency Made Easy
Computer memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20P.%20Greenberg | Donald Peter Greenberg (born 1934) is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Graphics at Cornell University.
Early life
Greenberg earned his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, where he played on the tennis and soccer teams and was a member of Tau Delta Phi and the Quill and Dagger society.
Career
In the late 1960s, Greenberg constructed the so-called "flying diaper" sculpture, which currently stands at the entrance of the Cornell Botanic Gardens.
Greenberg joined the Cornell faculty in 1968 with a joint appointment in the College of Engineering and Department of Architecture.
In 1971, Greenberg produced an early sophisticated computer graphics movie, Cornell in Perspective, using the General Electric Visual Simulation Laboratory with the assistance of its director, Quill and Dagger classmate Rodney S. Rougelot. Greenberg also co-authored a series of papers on the Cornell Box.
An internationally recognized pioneer in computer graphics, Greenberg has authored hundreds of articles and served as a teacher and mentor to many prominent computer graphic artists and animators. Five former students have won Academy Awards for Scientific or Technical Achievements, five have won the SIGGRAPH Achievement Award, and many now work for Pixar Animation Studios. Greenberg was the founding director of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization when it was created in 1991. His former students include Robert L. Cook, Marc Levoy, and Wayne Lytle.
He has been the Director of the Program of Computer Graphics for thirty-two years and was the originator and former Director of the Computer Aided Design Instructional Facility at Cornell University.
Greenberg received the Steven Anson Coons Award in 1987, the most prestigious award in the field of computer graphics.
Prior to teaching at Cornell, Greenberg was a consulting engineer with Severud Associates, working on famous structures like the St. Louis Arch and Madison Square Garden.
Greenberg has served as a visiting professor at ETH Zurich and Yale University. He is on the board of directors of the Interactive Data Corporation and Chyron Corporation. He holds membership in the National Academy of Engineering, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, SIGGRAPH, and Eurographics. He was named a fellow of ACM in 1995.
He currently teaches a Virtual reality course cross listed under 4 departments at Cornell- Architecture, Art, Computer Science and Engineering.
References
Greenberg Faculty Biography
Greenberg Vita
True Big Red: Professor Don Greenberg '55 video
"Videos on computer graphics pioneer Don Greenberg '55, architect Jill Lerner '75 highlight reunion," Cornell University News Service, June 1, 2005
Hyperbolic Paraboloid
American men's soccer players
Computer graphics professionals
Cornell University Colle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf | iperf, Iperf, or iPerf, is a tool for network performance measurement and tuning. It is a cross-platform tool that can produce standardized performance measurements for any network. iperf has client and server functionality, and can create data streams to measure the throughput between the two ends in one or both directions. Typical iperf output contains a time-stamped report of the amount of data transferred and the throughput measured.
The data streams can be either Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP):
UDP: When used for testing UDP capacity, iperf allows the user to specify the datagram size and provides results for the datagram throughput and the packet loss.
TCP: When used for testing TCP capacity, iperf measures the throughput of the payload. iperf uses 1024 × 1024 for mebibytes and 1000 × 1000 for megabytes.
iperf is open-source software written in C, and it runs on various platforms including Linux, Unix and Windows (either natively or inside Cygwin). The availability of the source code enables the user to scrutinize the measurement methodology.
iperf is a compatible reimplementation of the ttcp program that was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois by the Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) of the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR), which was shut down on December 31, 2006, on termination of funding by the United States National Science Foundation.
iperf3
iperf3 is a rewrite of iperf from scratch to create a smaller, simpler code base. It also includes a library version which enables other programs to use the provided functionality. iperf3 is single threaded while iperf2 is multi-threaded.
iperf3 was started in 2009, with the first release in January 2014. iperf3 is not backwards compatible with iperf2.
iperf3 only officially supports Linux. Unofficial builds for Windows provided by Vivien Guéant have not been maintained since 2016. A user of Neowin, BudMan, provides unofficial Windows builds on his server.
Most current Linux distributions have up-to-date versions of iperf3 in their native package repositories.
See also
Netperf
Nuttcp
NetPIPE
bwping
Flowgrind
Measuring network throughput
Packet generation model
References
External links
Iperf 2 & Iperf 3 Comparison Table
Network performance
Software using the BSD license
Free software programmed in C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Interactive%20Computer%20Aided%20Learning | International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL) is an annual International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) conference.
ICL is a conference covering topics on interactive computer aided learning. ICL is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of interactive computer aided learning. This conference is annually organized by the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Villach Austria in cooperation with a number of organizations and groups.
ICL was started in 1998 by Michael E. Auer. It operates under the auspices of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE).
External links
Official website
References
Computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatto%20Media | Tatto Media is an affiliate marketing advertising network based in Boston.
Tatto Media sold to Ozura World Ltd. for US$60 million on April 11, 2011.
Products
Tatto Media has what it calls an Advertising Platform, a Display Platform, a Performance Platform and a Virtual Currency Platform.
The Self Serve Advertising Platform enables advertisers to create campaigns and place tracking codes signifying new customers. From there, Tatto Media analyzes the campaign and optimization algorithms to distribute across the right distribution channels.
The Display Platform is for display publishers looking to place advertisements. The platform can show advertisement formatted for social applications, site banners or the full page.
The Performance Platform links affiliates with exclusive advertisements.
The Virtual Currency Platform includes payment processing, advertiser network, and statistics for tracking and customization of advertisements.
Awards
It was named by Business Week as one of the top 25th entrepreneurial businesses of 2007.
In late 2008 the company received the title of Babson Student Business of the Year Award.
Tatto Media is a member of the IAB and American Marketing Association (AMA).
Controversy and legal issues
Washington State vs. Tatto Media
In late 2008, the company was the subject of investigation into false and deceptive advertising with the Washington State Attorney General's Office. On November 17, the company and Washington State Attorney General settled in Assurance of Discontinuance for $20,262.
In early 2009, the company had further discussions with the Attorney General's Office over a disagreement regarding the Assurance of Discontinuance of November 17, 2009 and eventually settled for half a million dollars.
Tatto Media used to partner with Zynga but this business relationship was terminated in 2009. The CEO of Zynga, Mark Pincus, had following to say about Tatto Media:
We have worked hard to police and remove bad offers. In fact, the worst offender, tatto media [sic], referenced in the techcrunch article, had already been taken down and permanently banned prior to the post.
Tatto Media has repeatedly featured as a scam advertiser. Quote from Techcrunch:
A typical scam: users are offered in game currency in exchange for filling out an IQ survey. Four simple questions are asked. The answers are irrelevant. When the user gets to the last question they are told their results will be text messaged to them. They are asked to enter in their mobile phone number, and are texted a pin code to enter on the quiz. Once they’ve done that, they’ve just subscribed to a $9.99/month subscription. Tatto Media is the company at the very end of the line on most mobile scams, and they flow it up through Offerpal, SuperRewards and others to the game developers.
The company was criticized on a similar scam using free poster offers - including The Twilight Saga stars that tied an undisclosed monthly credit card subscription fee to t |
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