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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordis | Ordis is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau%20de%20Santa%20Eul%C3%A0lia | Palau de Santa Eulàlia is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau-saverdera | Palau-saverdera is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pau%2C%20Spain | Pau is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedret%20i%20Marz%C3%A0 | Pedret i Marzà is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont%C3%B3s | Pontós is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab%C3%B3s | Rabós is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Coll de Banyuls
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riumors | Riumors is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Climent%20Sescebes | Sant Climent Sescebes is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Llogaia%20d%27%C3%80lguema | Santa Llogaia d'Àlguema is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Vajol | La Vajol is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventall%C3%B3 | Ventalló is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila-sacra | Vila-sacra is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilabertran | Vilabertran is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilafant | Vilafant is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilamalla | Vilamalla is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27mon%2C%20Have%20A%20Go%21 | C'mon, Have A Go! was an Australian television game show broadcast on the Seven Network in 1985 and 1986. The show was hosted by Tony Young.
Contestants were drawn from the studio audience and encouraged to participate in games outside their declared area of expertise - using the show's title as a chanted catchphrase. Young would subject incorrect answers to a good-natured ribbing, drawing on his talents as a stand-up comedian.
When creator and lead producer Sandy Scott left to work on a revival of the Family Feud format for Seven, the network dropped a planned third season of C'mon from its 1987 lineup. Tony Young resumed a radio career in his native Adelaide. Since 1995 he has worked as a media consultant.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Cabanyes | Les Cabanyes is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellv%C3%AD%20de%20la%20Marca | Castellví de la Marca is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font-rub%C3%AD | Font-rubí is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Its capital is the village of Guardiola de Font-rubí.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Granada | La Granada is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It has an exclave to the east.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediona | Mediona is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacs%20del%20Pened%C3%A8s | Pacs del Penedès, sometimes simply Pacs () is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Pla%20del%20Pened%C3%A8s | El Pla del Penedès is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontons | Pontons is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès in Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puigd%C3%A0lber | Puigdàlber is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Lloren%C3%A7%20d%27Hortons | Sant Llorenç d'Hortons () is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Mart%C3%AD%20Sarroca | Sant Martí Sarroca is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Quint%C3%AD%20de%20Mediona | Sant Quintí de Mediona is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Fe%20del%20Pened%C3%A8s | Santa Fe del Penedès is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Margarida%20i%20els%20Monjos | Santa Margarida i els Monjos is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subirats | Subirats is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Catalonia, Spain. It is a lightly populated wine-producing area.
It includes the villages of:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrelles%20de%20Foix | Torrelles de Foix is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilob%C3%AD%20del%20Pened%C3%A8s | Vilobí del Penedès is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explained%20variation | In statistics, explained variation measures the proportion to which a mathematical model accounts for the variation (dispersion) of a given data set. Often, variation is quantified as variance; then, the more specific term explained variance can be used.
The complementary part of the total variation is called unexplained or residual variation.
Definition in terms of information gain
Information gain by better modelling
Following Kent (1983), we use the Fraser information (Fraser 1965)
where is the probability density of a random variable , and with () are two families of parametric models. Model family 0 is the simpler one, with a restricted parameter space .
Parameters are determined by maximum likelihood estimation,
The information gain of model 1 over model 0 is written as
where a factor of 2 is included for convenience. Γ is always nonnegative; it measures the extent to which the best model of family 1 is better than the best model of family 0 in explaining g(r).
Information gain by a conditional model
Assume a two-dimensional random variable where X shall be considered as an explanatory variable, and Y as a dependent variable. Models of family 1 "explain" Y in terms of X,
,
whereas in family 0, X and Y are assumed to be independent. We define the randomness of Y by , and the randomness of Y, given X, by . Then,
can be interpreted as proportion of the data dispersion which is "explained" by X.
Special cases and generalized usage
Linear regression
The fraction of variance unexplained is an established concept in the context of linear regression. The usual definition of the coefficient of determination is based on the fundamental concept of explained variance.
Correlation coefficient as measure of explained variance
Let X be a random vector, and Y a random variable that is modeled by a normal distribution with centre . In this case, the above-derived proportion of explained variation equals the squared correlation coefficient .
Note the strong model assumptions: the centre of the Y distribution must be a linear function of X, and for any given x, the Y distribution must be normal. In other situations, it is generally not justified to interpret as proportion of explained variance.
In principal component analysis
Explained variance is routinely used in principal component analysis. The relation to the Fraser–Kent information gain remains to be clarified.
Criticism
As the fraction of "explained variance" equals the squared correlation coefficient , it shares all the disadvantages of the latter: it reflects not only the quality of the regression, but also the distribution of the independent (conditioning) variables.
In the words of one critic: "Thus gives the 'percentage of variance explained' by the regression, an expression that, for most social scientists, is of doubtful meaning but great rhetorical value. If this number is large, the regression gives a good fit, and there is little point in searching for addit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Television%20Marketing | Network Television Marketing or NTM was Pakistan's first private television slot. The company's productions first aired on Peoples TV Network (PTN, later renamed as STN) in 1990. In the 1990s, PTN entered into a three-year agreement with Interflow and created NTM
NTM produced plays, stage and music shows. Young artists including Yasir Akhtar, Sania Saeed, Atiqa Odho, Humayoon Saeed, Nadia Khan, Fakhr-e-Alam, and Khalid Anum became comperes and announcers. NTM also broadcast drama serials including Kashkol, Chand Grihan, Dasht, "French Toast", series of telefilms "Tapal Cinema" and Nadan Nadia.
In 1994, NTM launched the first ever pop chart show in the history of Pakistani media industry 'Music Channel Charts'. The pop chart show was directed and produced by Yasir Akhtar
and executive producer Ghazanfer Ali. MCC launched the careers of Najam Sheraz, Shehzad Roy, Fakhar-e-Alam, Komal Rizvi, Nadeem Jafri and many more artists. Yasir Akhtar produced and directed more than 60 music videos of different artists who appeared in the show. After Music Channel Charts, Pepsi Cola started a show with NTM called 'Pepsi Top of the Pops' which is similar to the concept of 'Music Channel Charts'.
In 1995, NTM started the first ever musical drama serial of Pakistan 'French Toast'. French Toast was based on a life of a musical band. The drama serial was in total of 7 episodes and it was directed and produced by Yasir Akhtar.
In 1995, NTM started another project, a new trend of musical telefilms 'Tapal Cinema'. The series was in total of six telefilms namely Rahain, Titlee, Shehzadi, Zehar, Chand and Kashish. The project was directed and produced by Yasir Akhtar. The approximate duration of each film was 90 minutes and had different storylines. This series of films launched the careers of Humayun Saeed, Shamoon Abbasi, Javeria Abbasi, Zubair Abbasi and more.
In 1990, STN's broadcasting hours from 7:00 to 11:00 pm daily and 6:00 to 11:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays were purchased by NTM. NTM's viewership subsequently increased and the company commenced broadcasting during mornings. STN was also able to extend its coverage countrywide, beyond Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
NTM was closed down in 1999 as a result of financial difficulties.
Shows and plays of NTM
Prime Time Shows (on special occasions)
Chand Garehan (drama) (Writer : Asghar Nadeem Syed)
Dasht (drama) (starring ; Abid Ali, Atiqa Odho, Nauman Ejaz& Asad Malik)
Kashkol (drama)
Red Card (drama)
Tapal Cinema (The first ever telefilm series of Pakistan) (6 telefilms Rahain, Titlee, Shehzadi, Zehar, Chand and Kashish - 90 minutes approximately each. Directed and produced by Yasir Akhtar)
Jaal (drama)
Parosi (drama)
Aashiyana (drama)
Pas-e-Aaina (drama)
Sitara Aur Mehr-un-Nisa (drama; writer: Anwer Maqsood)
French Toast (7 episodes - Drama serial; directed and produced by: Yasir Akhtar)
Nadan Nadia (comedy drama by Babra Sharif)
She Jee (drama)
Nokar Key Aagey Chakar (comedy drama by Moin Akhtar)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds%20compiler | An odds compiler (or trader) is a person employed by a bookmaker or betting exchange who sets the odds for events (such as sporting outcomes) for customers to place bets on. Apart from pricing markets, they also engage in any activity regarding the trading aspects of gambling, such as monitoring customer accounts and the profitability of their operations.
The odds are derived from a variety of factors through analysis of information. Certain markets are highly statistical, whereas other markets require more intuition and insight. An odds compiler may be required to monitor the financial position the bookmaker is in and adjust their position (and odds) accordingly. They may also be consulted as to whether to accept a bet or not, usually in the case where a very large bet is being placed, so as to not incur dangerously high liabilities. Odds are usually not set completely independent from other bookmakers but are influenced by what others are quoting. This is particularly important when the overround is below 100% and hence arbitrage betting, where betters can make a profit regardless of the outcome, is possible (see mathematics of bookmaking). In this case, the bookmaker with the most aberrant odds would usually alter their odds closer to other bookmakers' prices. The odds are influenced by betting volume so that a selection receiving a high volume of liquidity may have the odds for it cut.
In 2006, there were news reports that the only female odds compiler in the United Kingdom was a woman called Helen Jacob of Sky Bet.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation%20%28neural%20networks%29 | A confabulation, also known as a false, degraded, or corrupted memory, is a stable pattern of activation in an artificial neural network or neural assembly that does not correspond to any previously learned patterns. The same term is also applied to the (nonartificial) neural mistake-making process leading to a false memory (confabulation).
Cognitive science
In cognitive science, the generation of confabulatory patterns is symptomatic of some forms of brain trauma. In this, confabulations relate to pathologically induced neural activation patterns depart from direct experience and learned relationships. In computational modeling of such damage, related brain pathologies such as dyslexia and hallucination result from simulated lesioning and neuron death. Forms of confabulation in which missing or incomplete information is incorrectly filled in by the brain are generally modelled by the well known neural network process called pattern completion.
Neural networks
Confabulation is central to a theory of cognition and consciousness by S. L. Thaler in which thoughts and ideas originate in both biological and synthetic neural networks as false or degraded memories nucleate upon various forms of neuronal and synaptic fluctuations and damage. Such novel patterns of neural activation are promoted to ideas as other neural nets perceive utility or value to them (i.e., the thalamo-cortical loop). The exploitation of these false memories by other artificial neural networks forms the basis of inventive artificial intelligence systems currently utilized in product design, materials discovery and improvisational military robots. Compound, confabulatory systems of this kind have been used as sensemaking systems for military intelligence and planning, self-organizing control systems for robots and space vehicles, and entertainment. The concept of such opportunistic confabulation grew out of experiments with artificial neural networks that simulated brain cell apoptosis. It was discovered that novel perception, ideation, and motor planning could arise from either reversible or irreversible neurobiological damage.
Computational inductive reasoning
The term confabulation is also used by Robert Hecht-Nielsen in describing inductive reasoning accomplished via Bayesian networks. Confabulation is used to select the expectancy of the concept that follows a particular context. This is not an Aristotelian deductive process, although it yields simple deduction when memory only holds unique events. However, most events and concepts occur in multiple, conflicting contexts and so confabulation yields a consensus of an expected event that may only be minimally more likely than many other events. However, given the winner take all constraint of the theory, that is the event/symbol/concept/attribute that is then expected. This parallel computation on many contexts is postulated to occur in less than a tenth of a second. Confabulation grew out of vector analysis of data retrie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%20propagation | Expectation propagation (EP) is a technique in Bayesian machine learning.
EP finds approximations to a probability distribution. It uses an iterative approach that uses the factorization structure of the target distribution. It differs from other Bayesian approximation approaches such as variational Bayesian methods.
More specifically, suppose we wish to approximate an intractable probability distribution with a tractable distribution . Expectation propagation achieves this approximation by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence . Variational Bayesian methods minimize instead.
If is a Gaussian , then is minimized with and being equal to the mean of and the covariance of , respectively; this is called moment matching.
Applications
Expectation propagation via moment matching plays a vital role in approximation for indicator functions that appear when deriving the message passing equations for TrueSkill.
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Minka's EP papers
List of papers using EP.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Computing | Family Computing was a U.S. computer magazine published during the 1980s by Scholastic It covered all the major home computer platforms of the day including the Apple II, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, as well as the IBM PC and Macintosh. It printed a mixture of product reviews, how-to articles and type-in programs. The magazine also featured a teen-oriented insert called K-Power, written by Stuyvesant High School students called the Special-K's. The section was named after a former sister magazine which folded after a short run. This section was discontinued after the July 1987 issue as part of the magazine's shift toward home-office computing.
History and profile
The first issue of the magazine appeared in September 1983. It was notable in the early days for the wide variety of systems it supported with type in programs, including such "orphaned" systems as the Coleco Adam and TI 99/4A long after other magazines discontinued coverage. There was also a spinoff TV show on Lifetime hosted by Larry Sturholm, of which at least 26 episodes were produced.
Another section of the magazine was contributed by Joey Latimer and dealt with music related themes. This mostly amounted to BASIC program listings that would play some sort of tune on the computer platforms covered by the magazine.
After the video game crash of 1983 the magazine began to change its focus toward the burgeoning home office movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s, initiating coverage of non-computing products such as fax machines and office furniture. Article topics began to include ideas for starting a home-based business and time management tips. The title was changed, first to Family & Home Office Computing and finally to just Home Office Computing with ever-diminishing coverage of family computing topics.
In January 1998 Scholastic sold the title to Freedom Technology Media Group, which published the magazine until the April, 2001 issue.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanstar | LANStar (Lanstar) was a 2.56 Mbit/s twisted-pair local area network created by Northern Telecom in the mid '80s. Because NT's PBX systems already owned a building's twisted pair plant (for voice), it made sense to use the same wiring for data as well. LANStar was originally to be a component of NT's PTE (Packet Transport Equipment) product, which was a sort of minicomputer arrangement with dumb (VT220) terminals on the desktop and the CPUs in an intelligent rack (the PTE) in the PBX room (alongside the PBX). The PTE was to have several basic office automation apps: word processing, database, etc. Just as NT was doing Beta testing of the PTE, PCs and PC networking took off, effectively killing the PTE before it completed Beta.
Given the investment already sunk into the product, NT attempted to repackage the PTE as a small (dorm-room-refrigerator sized) cabinet (the PTE-S, 'S' for 'small') containing only LANStar controllers and supporting up to 112 nodes. LANStar had cards for the PC/XT, PC/AT and MacII and supported NetBIOS, Banyan, Novell, and AppleTalk.
LANStar was discontinued in 1990.
The name "LANStar" was coined by NT Product Marketing manager Paul Masters: he heard of AT&T's proposed StarLAN product and created a similar name in order to piggyback on all the publicity surrounding AT&T's product.
See also
Meridian Mail - The voicemail system that also used the PTE
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refal | Refal ("Recursive functions algorithmic language"; ) "is a functional programming language oriented toward symbolic computations", including "string processing, language translation, [and] artificial intelligence". It is one of the oldest members of this family, first conceived of in 1966 as a theoretical tool, with the first implementation appearing in 1968. Refal was intended to combine mathematical simplicity with practicality for writing large and sophisticated programs.
One of the first functional programming languages to do so, and unlike Lisp of its time, Refal is based on pattern matching. Its pattern matching works in conjunction with term rewriting.
The basic data structure of Lisp and Prolog is a linear list built by cons operation in a sequential manner, thus with O(n) access to list's nth element. Refal's lists are built and scanned from both ends, with pattern matching working for nested lists as well as the top-level one. In effect, the basic data structure of Refal is a tree rather than a list. This gives freedom and convenience in creating data structures while using only mathematically simple control mechanisms of pattern matching and substitution.
Refal also includes a feature called the freezer to support efficient partial evaluation.
Refal can be applied to the processing and transformation of tree structures, similarly to XSLT.
Basics
A Refal Hello World example is shown below.
$ENTRY Go { = <Hello>;}
Hello {
= <Prout 'Hello world'>;
}
The program above includes two functions named Go and Hello. A function is written as the name of the function followed by the function body in curly braces. The Go function is marked as the entry point of the program using the $ENTRY directive.
One could think of expressions in the function bodies as function "calls" in Lisp-like syntax. For example, the Hello function appears to call the built-in Prout function with the string 'Hello world' as the argument. The meaning and the mechanism of the call, however, is quite different. To illustrate the difference, consider the following function that determines whether a string is a palindrome.
Pal { = True;
s.1 = True;
s.1 e.2 s.1 = <Pal e.2>;
e.1 = False; }
This example shows a function with a more complex body, consisting of four sentences (clauses). A sentence begins with a pattern followed by an equal sign followed by a general expression on the right hand side. A sentence is terminated with a semicolon. For example, the pattern of the second sentence of the function is "s.1" and the expression is "True".
As the example shows, patterns include pattern variables that have the form of a character identifying the type of the variable (what the variable matches) followed by the variable identifier. The variables that begin with an "s" match a single symbol, those that begin with an "e" match an arbitrary expression. The variable identifier can be an arbitrary alphanumeric sequence optionally separated from the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyArk | CyArk (from "cyber archive") is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Oakland, California, United States founded in 2003. CyArk's mission is to "digitally record, archive and share the world's most significant cultural heritage and ensure that these places continue to inspire wonder and curiosity for decades to come."
CyArk's founder, Ben Kacyra, stated during his speech at the 2011 TED Conference that the organization was created in response to increasing human and natural threats to heritage sites, and to ensure the "collective human memory" is not lost while making it available through modern dissemination tools like the internet and mobile platforms.
The organization is known for its work with a number of partners in producing high-quality digital scanning of World Heritage Sites, such as Angkor Wat, Pompeii, Chichen Itza, the Eastern Qing tombs, Nineveh, the Antonine Wall, Mount Rushmore, and many others.
History
CyArk was founded in 2003 by Iraqi expatriate and civil engineer Ben Kacyra. In the 1990s, Kacyra was instrumental in the invention and marketing of the first truly portable laser scanner. The scanner, called the Cyrax, was designed for surveying purposes, and was produced by Cyra Technologies.
In 2001, Cyra Technologies and all rights to the invention were sold to the Swiss firm Leica Geosystems.
After sale of the company, Ben Kacyra dedicated his energy to using the new technology to document archaeological and cultural heritage resources, and to the CyArk organization.
CyArk's primary focus has been the digital documentation of threatened ancient and historical architecture. This architecture includes sites such as Colorado's Mesa Verde, Italy's Pompeii, Wyoming's Fort Laramie, and Kacyra's native Mosul in Iraq – also known as the biblical Assyrian city of Nineveh.
CyArk has generated a fairly large amount of publicity since its inception. Initially, this was in part due to the relevance of Kacyra's life story to the ongoing Iraq War, during which much of the country's cultural patrimony was destroyed amidst a spasm of looting and heavy military damage to important historical sites such as Babylon and Samarra. As the public face of the CyArk organization, Ben Kacyra became a popular speaker at conferences such as Google's Zeitgeist (2008), and TEDGlobal (2011), describing his life story and the potential of digital preservation to save the "collective treasure" of global heritage. In recent years, however, he has taken on more of an advisory role, while the independent non-profit organization CyArk has gathered considerable momentum.
As of 2014, CyArk has become a major entity in the historic preservationist and cultural resource/heritage management communities. The 2014 CyArk 500 Annual Summit was held at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. The theme was "Democratising cultural heritage: Enabling access to information, technology and support."
Project focus
CyArk seeks to help preserve heritag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fictional%20artificial%20intelligences | This list is for fictional artificial intelligences.
Static robots, androids, cyborgs and computers depicted in fiction are discussed in the separate list of fictional robots and androids, list of fictional cyborgs and list of fictional computers.
Comics
1950s
Cerebex (1953)
Brainiac from the Superman comics (1958)
1960s
Ultron from the Avengers (1968)
1990s
LYLA, short for LYrate Lifeform Approximation from the Spider-Man 2099 comics (1992)
Mr. Smartie, a teacher for Astra Furst (1995)
2000s
Terror 2000 on Terra Obscura (2001)
Multiple from the Schlock Mercenary webcomic (2000-2020), with Ennesby and Post-Dated Check Loan ("Petey") being some of the most prominent ones.
2010s
Multiple from The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys comic series (2013-2014) by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, including the android prostitutes Blue and Red, as well as the robot messiah DESTROYA.
Novels
1960s
AM, from the short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (1967)
1970s
Proteus IV from Demon Seed by Dean Koontz (1973)
Deep Thought, Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
1980s
Wintermute and Neuromancer from Neuromancer by William Gibson
Continuity, from Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
1990s
The Librarian from the novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Rei Toei from Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties (novel) by William Gibson
2010s
The Thunderhead, from the Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman, a post-singularity AI tasked with running the planet. It is a secondary character in the first novel and becomes a central character in the later novels.
Film
1960s
HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
1970s
The Tabernacle from Zardoz (1974)
1980s
Master Control Program, Sark and Tron from Tron (1982)
Skynet from the Terminator series
SAL 9000. from 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
1990s
Agents Brown, Jones, and Smith from The Matrix. Other programs includes The Oracle (1999)
S.E.T.H. (self evolving thought helix) from Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
2000s
The Oracle, Seraph, Merovingian, Persephone, and the Architect from The Matrix Reloaded. The Agent programs are upgraded. The new Agents included Jackson, Johnson, and Thompson. Agent Smith is now a computer virus with the ability to copy himself using humans and programs. (2003)
The Oracle, Seraph, Sati, Rama Kandra, Kamala, Merovigian, Persephone, Architect, and Smith from The Matrix Revolutions. (2003)
2010s
J.A.R.V.I.S. from the Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
F.R.I.D.A.Y., replacement A.I. for Tony Stark / Iron Man, after J.A.R.V.I.S. became the Vision, from Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War,, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
Vision (formerly J.A.R.V.I.S.) from Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, and Avengers: Infinity War.
Samantha from her (2013)
STEM from Upgrade (2018)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-44 | The AN/UYK-44 is the standard 16-bit minicomputer of the United States Navy. The AN/UYK-44 was developed in the early 1980s by Sperry Corporation and was completed in early 1984. The AN/UYK-44 was used in surface ships, submarines, ground C4I platforms, radar and missile control systems. The system was designed to replace the older AN/UYK-20 model.
Technical specifications
The AN/UYK-44 had 2 million words of memory, approximately 4 MB in modern terms, and operated at 0.9 MIPS.
The system has relatively large I/O capability and has a MIL-STD-1397 point-to-point I/O bus running at 250K words/s. The system was built around the use of "Standard Electronic Modules" (SEM) for logic implementation. These modules had double-sided surface mount integrated circuits and ceramic substrates for interconnect and cooling.
See also
AN/AYK-14
AN/UYK-20
CMS-2 programming language
References
Military electronics of the United States
Military computers
Military equipment introduced in the 1980s
16-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-43 | The AN/UYK-43 was the standard 32-bit computer of the United States Navy for surface ship and submarine platforms, with the first unit delivered in October, 1984. Some 1,250 units were delivered through to 2000. The size of a refrigerator, it replaced the older AN/UYK-7, both built by UNISYS and shared the same instruction set. An enhancement to the UYK-43, the Open Systems Module (OSM), allows up to six VMEbus Type 6U commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) cards to be installed in a UYK-43 enclosure.
The UYK-43 is being replaced by commercial off-the-shelf systems. Retired systems are being cannibalized for repair parts to support systems still in use by U.S. and non-U.S. forces.
Architecture
The historic AN/UYK-43 architecture includes active redundancy. It includes multiple processors, multiple memory banks, and multiple input-output devices with interfaces for multiple disk drives. Power-on self test firmware incorporates features that reconfigure software loading in order to bypass failure. This allows it to run in degraded mode with failed processors, failed memory, failed disk drives, and failed input/output devices. Remote status boards perform fault reporting.
These features improve combat survivability and eliminate requirements for periodic diagnostic maintenance, which is the intent of condition-based maintenance.
The standardized computer programming language associated with UYK and AYK series computers is called CMS-2 developed by Rand Corporation.
See also
AN/UYK-44 16-bit computer
CMS-2 (programming language)
Military computers
References
Military computers
Equipment of the United States Navy
Military electronics of the United States
32-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premios%20Juventud | Premios Juventud (Youth Awards) is an awards show for Spanish-speaking celebrities in the areas of film, music, sports, fashion, and pop culture, presented by the television network Univision. Winners are determined by online vote at univision.com.
Premios Juventud is set apart by their unique categories, including "Me muero sin ese CD" (Album I can't live without), "Mi concierto favorito" (My favorite concert), and "La más pegajosa" (Catchiest song).
Past winners have included people such as Ricky Martin, Shakira, Prince Royce, Juanes, Enrique Iglesias, Daddy Yankee, Thalía, RBD, Romeo Santos, Antonio Banderas, Maná, Jennifer Lopez, Gloria Trevi and Fifth Harmony.
Editions
The first two editions were held in September. In 2006 it was moved up to July. From 2004 to 2017 the show aired on a Thursday. The 2018 edition has been the only edition to be held on a Sunday and to not have nominees and voting. With the 2019 edition, the show moved back to a Thursday and nominees and voting returned.
Records
Most wins
The record for most Premios Juventud won is held by Karol G with 28 awards, followed by Shakira with 24 awards. The record for most Premios Juventud won by a male artist belongs to Daddy Yankee with 22 awards. The record for most wins for a group belongs to RBD, who have collected 20 awards. The records for most wins for a profesional sports team belongs to the New York Yankees, with 8 awards.
Most wins in a single ceremony
The record for the most Premios Juventud won in a single year is held by Luis Fonsi (in 2009), with 10 awards won. RBD (in 2006), Karol G (in 2022) and Shakira (in 2023) follow with 9 awards won in a single year.
Luis Fonsi: 10 (2009)
RBD: 9 (2006)
Karol G: 9 (2022)
Shakira: 9 (2023)
Notes
See also
Latin American television awards
References
External links
Official Premios Juventud website—
Awards honoring Hispanic and Latino Americans
Latin American awards
Latin American film awards
Latin American music awards
Latin American television awards
North American sports trophies and awards
American music awards
Caribbean awards
North American awards
South American awards
Univision original programming
Awards established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBTX | microBTX (also called uBTX) is a computer motherboard form factor. A microBTX is and can support up to four expansion slots.
See also
Comparison of computer form factors
References
Motherboard form factors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4234%20road | The A4234, also known as the Central Link Road, is a spur off the A4232 in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It links the southern part of Cardiff city centre to the motorway network. The length of the A4234 is just and is entirely a two lane dual carriageway with clearway restrictions. The road was opened on 16 February 1989.
Junctions
See also
Transport in Cardiff
Notes
References
Cardiff & Newport A-Z Street Atlas 2007 Edition
External links
Roads in Wales
Transport in Cardiff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology%20of%20the%20World%20Wide%20Web | World Wide Web topology is the network topology of the World Wide Web, as seen as a network of web pages connected by hyperlinks.
The Jellyfish and Bow Tie models are two attempts at modeling the topology of hyperlinks between web pages.
Models of web page topology
Jellyfish Model
The simplistic Jellyfish model of the World Wide Web centers around a large strongly connected core of high-degree web pages that form a clique; pages such that there is a path from any page within the core to any other page. In other words, starting from any node within the core, it is possible to visit any other node in the core just by clicking hyperlinks. From there, a distinction is made between pages of single degree and those of higher order degree. Pages with many links form rings around the center, with all such pages that are a single link away from the core making up the first ring, all such pages that are two links away from the core making up the second ring, and so on. Then from each ring, pages of single degree are depicted as hanging downward, with a page linked by the core hanging from the center, for example. In this manner, the rings form a sort of dome away from the center that is reminiscent of a jellyfish, with the hanging nodes making up the creature's tentacles.
Bow Tie Model
The Bow Tie model comprises four main groups of web pages, plus some smaller ones. Like the Jellyfish model there is a strongly connected core. There are then two other large groups, roughly of equal size. One consists of all pages that link to the strongly connected core, but which have no links from the core back out to them. This is the "Origination" or "In" group, as it contains links that lead into the core and originate outside it. The counterpart to this is the group of all pages that the strongly connected core links to, but which have no links back into the core. This is the "Termination" or "Out" group, as it contains links that lead out of the core and terminate outside it. A fourth group is all the disconnected pages, which neither link to the core nor are linked from it.
The Bow Tie model has additional, smaller groups of web pages. Both the "In" and "Out" groups have smaller "Tendrils" leading to and from them. These consist of pages that link to and from the "In" and "Out" group but are not part of either to begin with, in essence the "Origination" and "Termination" groups of the larger "In" and "Out". This can be carried on ad nauseam, adding tendrils to the tendrils, and so on. Additionally, there is another important group known as "Tubes". This group consists of pages accessible from "In" and which link to "Out", but which are not part of the large core. Visually, they form alternative routes from "In" to "Out", like tubes bending around the central strongly connected component.
See also
Webgraph
References
External links
Internet Topology Mapping Tools (Mehmet Engin Tozal)
The Workshop on Internet Topology (WIT) Report
Perl program that gen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJMO | KJMO (97.5 FM) is a radio station serving Central Missouri with a classic hits music format. This station broadcasts in HD and is under ownership of Cumulus Broadcasting.
, much of the programming featured on KJMO was from Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio. Richard Matthews was the live and local morning show host.
On March 27, 2018, Cumulus filed to transfer KJMO and three other stations (WTOD, WPCK, and WNUQ) into the Cumulus Reorganization Divestiture Trust for a future sale. , KJMO had dropped its oldies format, by then provided by Westwood One's Good Time Oldies format, in favor of the classic hits format previously heard on sister station KZJF; Cumulus had shut down KZJF and surrendered its license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), eliminating the need for the company to sell KJMO or any other station in the Columbia/Jefferson City market as part of its bankruptcy restructuring.
References
External links
KJMO official website
JMO
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Missouri
Cumulus Media radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LayerOne | LayerOne, Inc. acquired by Switch & Data , in 2005, was a U.S. private corporation that provides carrier-neutral datacenters and interconnection.
Services
LayerOne was a provider of network-neutral data centers and interconnection services, offering colocation, traffic exchange and outsourced IT infrastructure solutions. The company pioneered the concept of 'buy-side' interconnection, whereby carriers were encouraged to participate in 'pooling points' in major cities without upfront costs. Carriers who sold connectivity were charged a monthly recurring fee based on the capacity of the connection. Within three years the company provided interconnection services to every major and most minor telecommunications companies in the United States with the notable exception of Sprint.
American datacentres
Dallas, Texas
Miami, Florida
Chicago, Illinois
Notable customers
More than 800 different carriers, ISPs and businesses participate in LayerOne centers, including the world's largest IP backbone networks.
AT&T
MCI
AOL
SBC
Comcast
Bell South
CenturyTel
CTS Telecom
Broadwing
UUNet
Verizon
Cogent
Level 3
Microsoft
MSN
NTT Communications
SAVVIS
McCleod
UUNET
Verizon
Yahoo!
Company history
LayerOne was founded in 1999 by Alexander Muse. By 2001 the company had raised more than $20,000,000 in venture capital and opened facilities in Dallas, Chicago and Miami. While each facility was cash flow positive, the company had executed leases throughout the United States in anticipation of additional funding. When that funding did not materialize Alexander Muse and his management team reorganized the company under the U.S. Bankruptcy code. Within three months the company was profitable and over the next three years the company grew by more than 1000%. In 2005 the company was sold to Switch & Data providing a 600% return for the company's investors.
Sources
LayerOne invention of virtual pooling points
CityNet enters LayerOne
Cable & Wireless enters LayerOne
LayerOne Best Corporate Turnaround 2005
Level 3 enters LayerOne
The LayerOne Story
Official Website
Telecommunications companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workgroup%20%28computer%20networking%29 | In computer networking a work group is collection of computers connected on a LAN that share the common resources and responsibilities. Workgroup is Microsoft's term for a peer-to-peer local area network. Computers running Microsoft operating systems in the same work group may share files, printers, or Internet connection. Work group contrasts with a domain, in which computers rely on centralized authentication.
See also
Windows for Workgroups – the earliest version of Windows to allow a work group
Windows HomeGroup – a feature introduced in Windows 7 and later removed in Windows 10 (Version 1803) that allows work groups to share contents more easily
Browser service – the service enabled 'browsing' all the resources in work groups
Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) - IPv6-based dynamic name publication and resolution
References
External links
Workgroup Server Protocol Program (WSPP)
Windows technology
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacube%20Inc. | Datacube Inc. (1978–2005) was an image processing company that developed real-time hardware and software products for the industrial, medical, military and scientific markets. And the datacube enables data to be modeled and viewed in multiple dimensions.
Early history
Datacube was founded in the mid-1970s by Stanley Karandanis and J Stewart Dunn. Initially, Datacube manufactured board-level products for the Multibus, one of the first computer buses developed for microprocessors. Early boards designed by Dunn were PROM, RAM and character generator boards. Character display boards, such as the VT103 and VR107, sold particularly well, and were used in programmable read-only memory (PROM) programmers and similar systems.
Early in his career, Datacube's president and CEO Stanley Karandanis followed the leaders in the semiconductor field from Bell Labs through Transitron to Fairchild Semiconductor. Karandanis was the director of engineering at Monolithic Memories (MMI) when John Birkner and H.T. Chua designed the first successful programmable logic device, the programmable array logic (PAL) device. His contacts in the semiconductor field were instrumental in providing Datacube with components for its products.
An OEM asked Datacube if a frame grabber could be built on a Multibus board. At the time, a frame grabber was a large box with multiple boards. The VG120 was the first ever commercial single board frame grabber based on programmable array logic (PAL); it had a 320 x 240 x 6 bit resolution, grayscale video input, and output.
Karandanis hired Rashid Beg and Robert Wang from Matrox to develop the first Q-Bus (DEC LSI-11) frame grabber. They developed the QVG/QAF120 dual board, an 8-bit product primarily for a new startup named Cognex. While the latter were developing the hardware for Datacube, they were also planning to spin off and form a competitor, Imaging Technology, which was later purchased by Dalsa.
To recover from this loss, and to complete the QVG120 product, Dave Erickson was hired as a consultant in 1981 from Octek by the engineering manager Paul Bloom. Dave came on full-time in 1982, as did Dave Simmons who was to head applications, and Bob Berger, who was to head software. At this time, Imaging Technology Inc. (ITI) was developing a line of frame grabber products for Multibus and Q-bus, with a 'real time' image processor based on a single point multiplier, adder and lookup table (LUT). In 1983, Karandanis hired Shep Siegel from Ampex, who had worked on the advanced and successful Ampex Digital Optics (ADO) real-time video spatial manipulator for the broadcast TV market.
With Dunn's help, Simmons developed the VG123 Multibus and Q-bus frame grabber boards. During this development, Paul Bloom was killed in what was apparently a gangland-style murder. The mystery of why this happened has never been solved. Dave Erickson was promoted to engineering manager to replace Bloom.
Siegel came to add the SP123 image processor to the '123 fa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTN%20Spanish | CGTN Spanish (formerly CCTV International Spanish or CCTV-Español and CCTV-E) is the Spanish language entertainment and news channel of China Global Television Network (CGTN), which is part of the state-owned broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) originating in China, and is part of the Chinese Government's information ministry.
The channel caters to an international audience. All programs are dubbed into Spanish or they have Spanish subtitles. There are also news programs featuring Spanish-speaking reporters. These programs provide both Chinese and international news coverage.
Most programs on CGTN Spanish are 30 minutes long. They feature a variety of content, including news programs, educational programs, and Chinese soap operas.
There are also programs offering tourism advice and showcasing new Chinese artists.
CGTN Spanish was launched on October 1, 2007, as CCTV-E. It replaced the bi-lingual Spanish / French language CCTV E&F channel which was launched on October 1, 2004.
In 2016 CCTV-E partnered with the Venezuelan government's propaganda channel Telesur to coproduce a cultural program called Prisma.
On 31 January 2022, CGTN French a was telecast live on CMG Spring Festival Gala 2022.
See also
CCTV-9, documentary
CCTV-4 (International Chinese)
CCTV-Русский (International Russian)
CCTV-Français (International French)
CCTV-العربية (International Arabic)
CCTV-NEWS (International English)
CNTV International
References
External links
E
Spanish-language television stations
Spanish language in Asia
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Spanish-language television networks
2007 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Phytoseiidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the mite family Phytoseiidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Amblyseiinae
Amblyseiinae Muma, 1961
Amblyseiella Muma, 1955
Amblyseiella denmarki (Zaher & El-Brollosy, 1986)
Amblyseiella rusticana (Athias-Henriot, 1960) — setosa?
Amblyseiella setosa Muma, 1955
Amblyseiulella Muma, 1961
Amblyseiulella amanoi Ehara, in Ehara, Okada & Kato 1994
Amblyseiulella baltazarae Corpuz-Raros, 1995
Amblyseiulella chombongenis Ryu & Lee, 1995
Amblyseiulella domatorum (Schicha, 1993)
Amblyseiulella gapudi Corpuz-Raros, 1995
Amblyseiulella heveae (Oudemans, 1930)
Amblyseiulella hyauliangensis (Gupta, 1986)
Amblyseiulella nucifera (Gupta, 1979)
Amblyseiulella odowdi Ryu & Lee, 1995
Amblyseiulella omei (Wu & Li, 1984)
Amblyseiulella paraheveae (Wu & Ou, 2002)
Amblyseiulella prunii (Liang & Ke, 1982)
Amblyseiulella thoi Ehara, 2002
Amblyseiulella xizangensis (Wu, 1997)
Amblyseiulella yaeyamana Ehara & Amano, 2002
Amblyseius Berlese, 1914
Amblyseius abbasovae Wainstein & Beglyarov, 1971
Amblyseius acalyphus Denmark & Muma, 1973
Amblyseius adhatodae Muma, 1967
Amblyseius adjaricus Wainstein & Vartapetov, 1972
Amblyseius aequipilus Berlese, 1914
Amblyseius aerialis (Muma, 1955)
Amblyseius alpigenus Wu, 1987
Amblyseius alpinia Tseng, 1983
Amblyseius americanus Garman, 1948
Amblyseius ampullosus Wu & Lan, 1991
Amblyseius anacardii De Leon, 1967
Amblyseius andersoni (Chant, 1957)
Amblyseius angulatus Karg, 1982
Amblyseius animos Khan, Afzal & Akbar, 2000
Amblyseius ankaratrae Blommers, 1976
Amblyseius anomalus van der Merwe, 1968
Amblyseius araraticus Arutunjan & Ohandjanian, 1972
Amblyseius aricae Karg, 1976
Amblyseius armeniacus Arutunjan & Ohandjanian, 1972
Amblyseius asperocervix McMurtry & Moraes, 1985
Amblyseius bahiensis Lofego, Moraes & McMurtry, 2000
Amblyseius bayonicus Athias-Henriot, 1966
Amblyseius begljarovi Abbasova, 1970
Amblyseius bellatulus Tseng, 1983
Amblyseius bidens Karg, 1970
Amblyseius bidibidi (Collyer, 1964)
Amblyseius boina Blommers, 1976
Amblyseius brevicervix Wu & Li, 1985
Amblyseius bufortus Ueckermann & Loots, 1988
Amblyseius bulga Khan, Khan & Akbar, 1997
Amblyseius calidum Khan, Afzal & Akbar, 2000
Amblyseius carnis Khan, Khan & Akbar, 1997
Amblyseius caspiansis (Denmark & Daneshvar, 1982)
Amblyseius caudatus Berlese, 1914
Amblyseius caviphilus Karg, 1986
Amblyseius celsus Khan, Khan & Akbar, 1997
Amblyseius cessator De Leon, 1962
Amblyseius changbaiensis Wu, 1987
Amblyseius chanioticus Papadoulis, 1997
Amblyseius channabasavannai Gupta & Daniel, in Gupta 1978
Amblyseius chiapensis De Leon, 1961
Amblyseius chilcotti Chant & Hansell, 1971
Amblyseius chorites Schuster & Pritchard, 1963
Amblyseius chungas Denmark & Muma, 1989
Amblyseius cinctus Corpuz-Raros & Rimando, 1966
Amblyseius circumflexis De Leon, 1966
Amblyseius coffeae De Leon, 1961
Amblyseius colimensis Aponte & McMurtry, 1987
Amblyseius collari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20epigenetics | Computational epigenetics uses statistical methods and mathematical modelling in epigenetic research. Due to the recent explosion of epigenome datasets, computational methods play an increasing role in all areas of epigenetic research.
Definition
Research in computational epigenetics comprises the development and application of bioinformatics methods for solving epigenetic questions, as well as computational data analysis and theoretical modeling in the context of epigenetics. This includes modelling of the effects of histone and DNA CpG island methylation.
Current research areas
Epigenetic data processing and analysis
Various experimental techniques have been developed for genome-wide mapping of epigenetic information, the most widely used being ChIP-on-chip, ChIP-seq and bisulfite sequencing. All of these methods generate large amounts of data and require efficient ways of data processing and quality control by bioinformatic methods.
Epigenome prediction
A substantial amount of bioinformatic research has been devoted to the prediction of epigenetic information from characteristics of the genome sequence. Such predictions serve a dual purpose. First, accurate epigenome predictions can substitute for experimental data, to some degree, which is particularly relevant for newly discovered epigenetic mechanisms and for species other than human and mouse. Second, prediction algorithms build statistical models of epigenetic information from training data and can therefore act as a first step toward quantitative modeling of an epigenetic mechanism. Successful computational prediction of DNA and lysine methylation and acetylation has been achieved by combinations of various features.
Applications in cancer epigenetics
The important role of epigenetic defects for cancer opens up new opportunities for improved diagnosis and therapy. These active areas of research give rise to two questions that are particularly amenable to bioinformatic analysis. First, given a list of genomic regions exhibiting epigenetic differences between tumor cells and controls (or between different disease subtypes), can we detect common patterns or find evidence of a functional relationship of these regions to cancer? Second, can we use bioinformatic methods in order to improve diagnosis and therapy by detecting and classifying important disease subtypes?
Emerging topics
The first wave of research in the field of computational epigenetics was driven by rapid progress of experimental methods for data generation, which required adequate computational methods for data processing and quality control, prompted epigenome prediction studies as a means of understanding the genomic distribution of epigenetic information, and provided the foundation for initial projects on cancer epigenetics. While these topics will continue to be major areas of research and the mere quantity of epigenetic data arising from epigenome projects poses a significant bioinformatic challenge, several additi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20augmented%20model | A projection augmented model (PA model) is an element sometimes employed in virtual reality systems. It consists of a physical three-dimensional model onto which a computer image is projected to create a realistic looking object. Importantly, the physical model is the same geometric shape as the object that the PA model depicts.
Uniting physical and virtual objects
Spatially augmented reality (SAR) renders virtual objects directly within or on the user's physical space. A key benefit of SAR is that the user does not need to wear a head-mounted display. Instead, with the use of spatial displays, wide field of view and possibly high-resolution images of virtual objects can be integrated directly into the environment. For example, the virtual objects can be realized by using digital light projectors to paint 2D/3D imagery onto real surfaces, or by using built-in flat panel displays.
Real objects can be physically handled and naturally manipulated to be viewed from any direction, which is essential for ergonomic evaluation and provides a strong sense of palpability. Although simulated haptic feedback devices enable some aspects of computer-generated objects to be touched, they can not match this level of functionality. It is, therefore, unsurprising that physical objects are still used for many applications, such as product design. However, computer-generated objects have a key advantage; they provide a level of flexibility that cannot be matched by physical objects. Therefore, a display is needed that somehow joins the real physical world and computer-generated objects together, thus enabling them to be experienced simultaneously.
Tangible user interfaces (TUI) and augmented reality both aim to address this issue. TUI systems use real physical objects to both represent and also interact with computer-generated information (Figure 1). However, while TUIs create a physical link between real and computer-generated objects, they do not create the illusion that the computer-generated objects are actually in a user's real environment. That is the aim of augmented reality.
Figure 1 Continuum of advanced computer interfaces, based on Milgram and Kishino (1994).
Unlike virtual reality (VR), which immerses a user in a computer-generated environment, augmented reality (AR) joins together physical and virtual spaces by creating the illusion that computer-generated objects are actually real objects in a user's environment (Figure 1). Furthermore, head-mounted-display based AR and VR systems can directly incorporate physical objects. Thus, as a user reaches out to a computer-generated object that they can see, they touch an equivalent physical model that is placed at the same spatial location. Such systems enable the computer-generated visual appearance of the object to be dynamically altered, while the physical model provides haptic feedback for the object's underlying form. However, head-mounted-display based systems require users to wear equipment, w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BANCStar%20programming%20language | BANCStar is a specialist computer programming language for financial applications. The language is an internal language for the National Financial Computer Services, Inc (later Broadway & Seymour) BANCStar application, which is software to automate the operations of a bank branch.
The language is a fixed format four integer command language NFCS internally referred to as "Screen Code". It resembles an esoteric programming language; so much so that it has sometimes been mistaken for a joke language. Conceptually the BANCStar application executed "Screen Code" much like a primitive virtual machine. In the 5.1c release the only legal characters are the numerals 0–9, the comma, the minus sign and the carriage return. However, it is used in real commercial applications. It was originally intended as generated code from a user interface-building tool — similar to bytecode rendered in ASCII — but due to limitations in the tool, it became a directly programmed language in itself.
The BANCStar 10.0 release changed the "Screen Code" format to binary, and rearranged the numeric codes into an opcode with a variable number of parameter integers. The 10.0 opcode encoded a bit mapped length value that indicated the length of the command in words.
Sample BANCStar 5.1c Screen Code
8607,,,1
11547,15475,22002,22002
1316,1629,1,1649
3001,1316,3,30078
11528,22052,22002,22002
9301,0,1528,1528
31568,10001,800,107
8560,,,1568
8550,210,,
3001,,,
3100,1316,3,30089
11547,15475,22002,22002
3001,1316,3,30089
3001,1317,3,10000
8400,,,
8550,700,801,
3001,,,
9301,0,522,522
3000,1284,3,10001
8500,,3,
8500,,5,
1547,,1,-2301
References
External links
jloughry/BANCStar on GitHub
BANCStar on esolangs.org - Includes information gathered by reverse engineering and archaeological research.
Domain-specific programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BANCStar | BANCStar can mean:
BANCStar (software), a software system for banks
The BANCStar programming language, a computer language used by the BANCStar software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3RPH | 3RPH is a community radio station owned and operated by Vision Australia as part of the Vision Australia Radio network. The station broadcasts a radio reading service to Melbourne, Victoria, with repeater services in Warragul and Warrnambool, Victoria.
The station commenced broadcasting on 12 December 1982 at 1692 kHz AM, before moving to the 1179 kHz AM frequency vacated by 3KZ.
3RPH is also a member of Radio Print Handicapped Network and a BBC World Service partner station.
References
Radio stations in Melbourne
Radio reading services of Australia
Radio stations established in 1982
1982 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Blue%20Earth%20SOS | is an anime series consisting of six hour-long (with commercials) episodes. It was aired on the Japanese television network, AT-X, from July 2 to December 3, 2006. It was originally licensed by ADV Films for $180,000. In 2008, it became one of over 30 ADV titles transferred to Funimation Entertainment.
It is an adaptation of a novel by science fiction illustrator Shigeru Komatsuzaki, written between 1948 and 1951.
Plot summary
The entire series takes place in a version of the nineties redone into Retro-futurism, being behind in current technologies, and far ahead in others. On January 1, 1995, a G-Reactive fighter plane was being tested, while it was hit by a mysterious rainbow light and disappeared. 5 years later, two boys, Billy Kimura and Penny Carter, meet at a train station where a new bullet train utilizing G-Reactive was being launched. However, to their shock, the train was hit by a rainbow beam of light, and disappeared. After a series of events and acquaintances, the two boys discover that aliens were beginning to invade Earth. Fortunately, scientists developed the Sky Knight, a fighter plane capable of defending the world. As the extraterrestrials begin to invade, Billy, Penny, and their comrades begin their attempt to save the human race from the alien menace.
Characters
Billy Kimura
Boy genius and heir to the Kimura Industries conglomerate, developers of the new G-Reaction power system. Extremely intelligent with an aggressively "take action" attitude. He has a crush on Lotta, a rivalry with Penny and doesn't like dogs much.
Penny Carter
Boy genius number two graduated from MIT at the age of 11. Just as intelligent and prone to impulsive action as Billy. Penny goes nowhere without his sidekick, Washington, a large dog. He doesn't have the financial resources that Billy does, so his solutions to problems are often methods of ingenious improvisation.
Lotta Brest
Daughter of Dr. Brest, a leading scientist. She has been a close friend of Billy since they were small children. She often tags along with Billy, occasionally even resorting to stowing away to achieve this end. She is fond of her "little sister", Myusha.
Emely
A fetching young woman theoretically in charge of tutoring Lotta. In practice, she functions more like a governess, being Lotta's constant companion and overseer. Intelligent and resourceful in her own right, she drives a customized pink hover car.
Captain Clayton
A dyed-in-the-wool military man. Several years ago he was in charge of test flights for Trick Star, a new fighter jet equipped with a still experimental G-Reaction engine. During one of these flights, the fighter disappeared after reporting flying saucers. Ever since, Clayton has been trying, seemingly unsuccessfully, to convince the Powers That Be of the necessity of being prepared to meet the threat of alien invasion.
Dr. Brest
Lotta's father. One of the world's leading scientists. He has been charged with developing the technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Abowd | Gregory Dominic Abowd (born September 12, 1964) is a computer scientist best known for his work in ubiquitous computing, software engineering, and technologies for autism. He currently serves as the Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Previously he was the J.Z. Liang Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he joined the faculty in 1994.
Biography
Early life
Gregory Abowd was born in 1964 and raised in Farmington Hills, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Honors Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame in 1986. He attended the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received his M.Sc. in 1987 and his D.Phil. in 1991, both in the field of Computation.
He was a research associate from 1989 to 1992 at the University of York and a postdoctoral research associate from 1992 to 1994 at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1994, he was appointed to the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Research interests and achievements
Abowd's published work is primarily in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. He is particularly known for his work in ubiquitous computing, where he has made contributions in the areas of automated capture and access, context-aware computing, and smart home technologies. Abowd's research primarily has an applications focus, where he has worked to develop systems for health care, education, the home, and individuals with autism.
At Georgia Tech, he teaches in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing. He is a member of the GVU Center and directs the Ubiquitous Computing and Autism and Technology research groups. Abowd was the founding Director of the Aware Home Research Initiative and is Executive Director of the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech. In 2008, he founded the Atlanta Autism Consortium, a group of researchers interested in autism in Atlanta, Georgia. He is one of the authors of Human-Computer Interaction (Prentice Hall), a popular human-computer interaction textbook.
Abowd's contributions to the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing have been recognized through his numerous awards and extensive published work. In 2008, he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, one of the top honors for computer science researchers. Within the field of Human-Computer Interaction, he has been recognized at the CHI Conference, the most prestigious publication venue in HCI, as a top researcher through induction to the CHI Academy in 2008 and was awarded the Social Impact Award in 2007. He is also one of the most prolific authors in computer science and in the field of Human-Computer Interaction.
In March 2016, Abowd was named the J.Z. Liang Professor in the Schoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%C3%A0s%20i%20Cerc | Alàs i Cerc is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Urgell, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Urgell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna%20Wooders | Myrna Wooders (born 1950) is a Canadian economist who has made significant contributions to public economic theory, network theory and game theory. Specifically, her work has focused on coalition theory, public good theory and club theory. Myrna currently is a professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and the University of Warwick.
Wooders completed her PhD under Leo Hurwicz. She is editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Charter Member of the Game Theory Society, and the founding editor of Economics Bulletin. She currently serves as an elected member of the Game Theory Society Council and holds the Presidency of the Association of Public Economic Theory.
Early life
Myrna Wooders grew up on a small farm in rural Alberta, Canada. Her father had a ninth grade education—the best one offered when he was a boy—and preferred helping out the neighbors by fixing their machinery to working on his farm. Her mother, who completed grade seven, loved planting and growing trees, flowers and gardens so while the trees have been called "the finest stand of trees in Eastern Alberta", the paying crops did not pay so well. Myrna spent hours each summer, as a small child, carrying water to the trees. She was the tallest of four sisters and that may be why she was chosen to be the farm worker of the bunch. She missed a couple of months of school each year to help on the farm. But much can be learned doing physical labor. Working in a granary during harvest time, leveling out the grain as it fell from the thrasher into the granary, she learned to keep shoveling (it was either that, or be buried alive). Until grade 9, with the discovery of the mailing services of the Library of the University of Alberta, there were few books to read; the family was not religious but some summers there was only the Bible. Myrna had children at a young age, prior to undergraduate studies, and became a photographer in another small Alberta town. With her two children in tow, she went on to complete her undergraduate studies at the University of Alberta and her PhD at the University of Minnesota.
Academic career
Professor Wooders research focuses on public economic theory (particularly tax competition and the theory of local public goods), club theory (especially the relationship between markets and clubs), and coalition theory (particularly cooperative games with many players and their relationship to markets).
Myrna Wooders lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her plants. She is the mother of the economist John Wooders,
Professor of Economics of the University of Arizona and grandmother of Sarah Wooders, founder of Allparel, a clothes shopping site based on machine learning to determine accurate clothing labels.
References
External links
University of Queensland, Brisbane, write-up of Myrna Wooders
Vanderbilt page for Myrna Wooders
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Canadian economists
Canadian women economists
Living people
Game th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A8guel | Arsèguel is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Urgell, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Urgell
Populated places in Alt Urgell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidi%20%28magazine%29 | Vidi is a computer magazine, the first issue was released in November 1994. Its main topics are computers, but there are also articles about all segments of society where computers are in use.
History
Since the founding of the magazine till the end of 2007, 142 issues were released, the lowest number of pages was 64, and the highest was 300. The 100th issue had the largest number of pages in July 2004, and it was the first Croatian magazine which reached that number of pages. The publisher is VIDI-TO d.o.o. in Zagreb, CEO is Tomislav Kotnik, who cofounded VIDI with Robert Slavečki. Editors in chief since the founding were:
Robert Slavečki, 1994–2000
Davor Maričić, 2000–2004
Igor Škevin, 2004–2006
Ivan Pekarik, 2006–2009
Tomislav Novak, 2009–
Every issue has a number of information technology articles, hardware and software reviews, and a hardware comparison test where VIDI medals, Grand Prix and Best Buy, are awarded. Grand Prix is awarded to the best device on test, and Best Buy goes to the device which represents the optimum in performance and price.
VIDI is printed in Croatian and sold in Croatia, but it is also distributed in the whole region: (Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia and Montenegro). First three issues were also officially sold in Austria (Graz), and they were sold out. But the transport costs were too high, so distribution in Austria was not continued. In November 2002. a website devoted to IT news and reviews, VidiLab, was also started. Daily news and periodical hardware and software reviews are posted there.
From the first to the 142nd issue there was a total of more than 100 authors who have contributed their knowledge and have written a total of over 5 million characters. Authors have been people of different levels of computer knowledge and interests, but of different education also, ranging from students to doctors of science.
See also
List of magazines in Croatia
References
External links
VIDI Corporate Pages
Digital Vidi
Vidi web portal
1994 establishments in Croatia
Computer magazines published in Croatia
Croatian-language magazines
Magazines established in 1994
Mass media in Zagreb
Monthly magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estamariu | Estamariu is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Urgell, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Urgell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen%20Dalton%20%28actress%29 | Kristen Dalton (born Kristen V. Hocking; February 14, 1973) is an American actress who has appeared in television shows, especially USA Network's The Dead Zone.
Life and career
Dalton was born in San Diego County, California. Dalton got her first break when she played a small role in Tango & Cash in 1989. She also played a small role in A Night at the Roxbury in 1998. She appeared as Jack Nicholson's character Frank Costello's girlfriend Gwen in The Departed (2006).
Dalton is perhaps best known for her role as reporter Dana Bright in USA Network's The Dead Zone, starring Anthony Michael Hall.
Dalton's other television appearances include Beverly Hills, 90210, Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder, Sliders, Stargate SG-1, and CSI: NY. She has also appeared in TV movies, such as Danielle Steel's Family Album, They Nest, Surviving Gilligan's Island (2001) (in which she portrayed actress Tina Louise), Babysitter Wanted and Gleason.
She married fellow actor Darren Jack Dalton on August 8, 1993. They divorced in 2009.
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from San Diego
American film actresses
American television actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroCity%20%28disambiguation%29 | EuroCity may refer to:
EuroCity, a rail network
EuroCity, a common name used by the twin towns of Tornio and Haparanda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT%2010H | INT 10h, INT 10H or INT 16 is shorthand for BIOS interrupt call 10hex, the 17th interrupt vector in an x86-based computer system. The BIOS typically sets up a real mode interrupt handler at this vector that provides video services. Such services include setting the video mode, character and string output, and graphics primitives (reading and writing pixels in graphics mode).
To use this call, load AH with the number of the desired subfunction, load other required parameters in other registers, and make the call. INT 10h is fairly slow, so many programs bypass this BIOS routine and access the display hardware directly. Setting the video mode, which is done infrequently, can be accomplished by using the BIOS, while drawing graphics on the screen in a game needs to be done quickly, so direct access to video RAM is more appropriate than making a BIOS call for every pixel.
Furthermore, on a modern x86 system, BIOS calls can only be performed in Real mode, or Virtual 8086 mode. v8086 is not an option in Long mode. This means that a modern operating system, which operates in Protected mode (32 bit), or Long mode (64 bit), would need to switch into real mode and back to call the BIOS - a hugely expensive operation. Although most modern systems typically use device drivers that directly set the video mode, it is not feasible for hobbyist systems to have a device driver for every video card - a problem that also plagues older, unsupported systems such as Windows 98. Such systems instead can drop into Real mode to switch the video mode, then draw to the framebuffer directly.
In EFI 1.x systems, the INT 10H and the VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) are replaced by the EFI UGA protocol. In widely used UEFI 2.x systems, the INT 10H and the VBE are replaced by the UEFI GOP.
List of supported functions
The list is incomplete; use Ralf Brown's list for comprehensive information. Please only add IBM/PC or other common standard functions. 00h through 0fh are CGA.
See also
BIOS interrupt call
Mode 13h
VESA BIOS Extensions
Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
References
INT 10h from Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, online version
INT 10h on www.ousob.com
BIOS
Interrupts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Mankoff | Jennifer Mankoff is the Richard E. Ladner Endowed Professor and Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, in Seattle, where she joined the faculty in 2017.
Early life and education
Mankoff earned her B.A. at Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology advised by Gregory Abowd and Scott Hudson.
Career
Mankoff was a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University between 2004 and 2017. She was previously a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley between 2001 and 2004. Her research work focuses on tools and techniques for rapid, iterative prototyping of ubiquitous computing applications and accessible technology for people with disabilities.
Her research interests also include mediation of ambiguous, recognition-based interfaces. Application areas of her work include assistive technology for people with special needs and the elderly, health and safety, and technologies that promote sustainability. Mankoff has authored and co-authored over 45 full-length, significant scientific publications. She was awarded the Sloan Fellowship in 2007 and the IBM Faculty Fellowship in 2004 and 2006.
Selected publications
Woodruff, A. and Mankoff, J. 2009. Environmental Sustainability. IEEE Pervasive Computing 8, 1 (Jan. 2009), 18-21.
Froehlich, J., Dillahunt, T., Klasnja, P., Mankoff, J., Consolvo, S., Harrison, B., and Landay, J. A. 2009. UbiGreen: investigating a mobile tool for tracking and supporting green transportation habits. In Proceedings of CHI '09.
Carter, S. J. Mankoff and J. Heer, "Momento: Support for situated ubicomp experimentation," In Proceedings of CHI 2007.
Mankoff, J. D. Matthews, S. R. Fussell and M. Johnson, "Leveraging Social Networks to Motivate Individuals to Reduce their Ecological Footprints," Proceedings of HICSS 2007.
Mankoff, J., Fait, H., and Tran, T. Is your web page accessible? A comparative study of methods for assessing web page accessibility for the blind. In Proceedings of CHI 2005. 41-50.
Carter, S. and J. Mankoff, "When Participants do the capturing: The role of media in diary studies," In Proceedings of CHI 2005 pp. 899–908. Nominated for best paper award.
Mankoff, D., A. Dey, J. Mankoff, and K. Mankoff. Supporting Interspecies Social Awareness: Using Peripheral Displays for Distributed Pack Awareness. In Proceedings of UIST 2005. pp. 253–258. Satire.
References
External links
Mankoff's personal home page
Quality of Life Technology Center
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Make4All Research Group
American computer scientists
Ubiquitous computing researchers
American women computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Georgia Tech alumni
Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty
Living people
Scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anind%20Dey | Anind Dey is a computer scientist. He is the Dean of the University of Washington Information School. Dey is formerly the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie at the intersection of human–computer interaction and ubiquitous computing, focusing on how to make novel technologies more usable and useful. In particular, he builds tools that make it easier to build useful ubiquitous computing applications and supporting end users in controlling their ubiquitous computing systems.
Career
Dey was born in Canada and now resides in Seattle, Washington. Dey received a Bachelor of Applied Science in computer engineering from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada in 1993. He received a Master of Science in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech in 1995 and then went on to complete a second master's degree and a Ph.D. in computer science, also at Georgia Tech, in 2000. For his dissertation, he researched programming support for building context-aware applications: The Context Toolkit. He was a member of the Future Computing Environments research group in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.
Research
His research interests are feedback and control in ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, toolkits and end-user programming environments, sensor-rich environments, information overload, ambient displays, privacy, human-computer interaction. He is among the most prolific authors in computer science and human-computer interaction.
Ubiquitous computing
Much of Dey's research deals with the construction and intersectional nature of ubiquitous computing. In 2002, in a research project at the University of California, Berkeley alongside Scott Lederer and Jennifer Mankoff, the team developed a conceptual model exploring the tangibility and accessibility of everyday end-user privacy in ubicomp environments. The model takes considerations from societal influences, contextual factors, and subjectivity to develop a far-reaching scope for ubicomp privacy. The model was then used to explore an interactional metaphor called situational faces, which makes the issue of privacy in ubiquitous computing environments more accessible to users. This facade presents an abstraction of advanced privacy settings to allow users to more easily establish their preferences.
Smart homes and intelligent environments
In 2006, Dey developed a research paper alongside Min Kyung Lee, Scott Davidoff, and John Zimmerman, all of Carnegie Mellon University, exploring and evaluating the usage of home automation technology and their effects on family life. As a collaboration between the School of Design and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the research sought to uncover areas of human-centered design that could complement family life, thus providing insight on the potential roles a smart home could play. Following a heuristic design process, the team interviewed dual-income families in their own hom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20McEwen | Mark McEwen (born September 16, 1954) is an American television and radio personality. He is best known for being on the CBS network Morning show for 16 years. He's also known for his stint as the host of A&E's Live by Request.
Early life
McEwen was born in San Antonio, Texas. His father, Alfred, was a colonel in the Air Force, and when he was reassigned to Berlin, he and his family moved there when Mark was in the third grade. Three years later, the McEwen family moved again, this time to Montgomery, Alabama, finally ending up in Crownsville, Maryland. His mother, Dolores, after raising six children, retired as a bank vice president. He attended Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland and then the University of Maryland, leaving there after three and a half years. While at Maryland, he worked on the college radio station WMUC. After his college years, McEwen moved to Detroit where he landed a job as a rock-and-roll DJ at WWWW-Detroit's W4. He worked at WLUP-The Loop in Chicago following this, where he enrolled at Second City and began to do standup comedy.
Career
McEwen continued his radio career in New York City, working at WAPP during 1983 (partnered on-air with E.J. Crummey) and at WNEW-FM during 1984-86 (partnered on-air with Richard Neer).
McEwen worked for CBS starting in 1987 with The Morning Program and later CBS This Morning, which replaced the former program. In addition to doing the weather, he was the entertainment reporter as well. McEwen covered 16 Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes and Country Music Association awards shows. He was awarded the CMA Media Achievement Award in 1992 and was named one of the country's "Ten Most Trusted TV News Personalities" in a TV Guide survey in February 1995. From 1996 to 1998, McEwen made two guest appearances on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, the first was just a snippet of his interview that would be expanded upon his second appearance. He contributed to the network's coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and co-hosted (with Jane Robelot) daytime coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, where he also ran with the Olympic Torch. McEwen was a correspondent on 48 Hours. He then performed a number of on-air roles for The Early Show on CBS from 1999 to 2002. He anchored the broadcast for two years. McEwen has interviewed five presidents: Bill Clinton, George Herbert Walker Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. McEwen left CBS in October 2002 as The Early Show was completely revamped.
In 2004, McEwen joined WKMG-TV, the CBS affiliate in Orlando, where he became the morning co-anchor and noon anchor for what was then known as Local 6 News. However, in 2005, McEwen suffered a stroke that ended his stint as a news anchor for WKMG. McEwen had to learn to walk and talk again after the stroke, and the former right-hander now uses his left hand for most tasks. McEwen worked for WKMG as part of its Good N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calao%20Systems | Calao Systems was a French company producing small Linux-based computers, roughly the size of a USB key. The company went bankrupt in April 2016.
Devices use an Atmel or a Nomadik processor (based on ARM architecture) and usually offer about 128MB of RAM (up to 1GB for the most advanced models). The operating system is placed in the 128MB - 1GB non volatile memory.
Devices are powered via a USB male connector which is plugged into a host computer. During development, communication with the system is also performed using this USB connection (there are no serial ports). JTAG is also provided via USB.
Devices also have a connector to which small expansion boards can be fitted on the top of the main board. There are expansion boards for wireless, motion sensors, Bluetooth and so on.
All Calao USB keys have a wired LAN port. Some also have additional USB sockets.
Calao devices use U-boot and run version 2.6 of the Linux kernel. The company recommends the GNU toolchain to develop the software for these devices.
Products
References
External links
Article in Electronista
Article in LinuxDevices
Discussion in Gizmodo
Linux-based devices
Privately held companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koorde | In peer-to-peer networks, Koorde is a distributed hash table (DHT) system based on the Chord DHT and the De Bruijn graph (De Bruijn sequence). Inheriting the simplicity of Chord, Koorde meets hops per node (where is the number of nodes in the DHT), and hops per lookup request with neighbors per node.
The Chord concept is based on a wide range of identifiers (e.g. 2) in a structure of a ring where an identifier can stand for both node and data. Node-successor is responsible for the whole range of IDs between itself and its predecessor.
De Bruijn's graphs
Koorde is based on Chord but also on the De Bruijn graph (De Bruijn sequence).
In a -dimensional de Bruijn graph, there are nodes, each of which has a unique ID with bits. The node with ID is connected to nodes and . Thanks to this property, the routing algorithm can route to any destination in hops by successively "shifting in" the bits of the destination ID but only if the dimensions of the distance between and are equal.
Routing a message from node to node is accomplished by taking the number and shifting in the bits of one at a time until the number has been replaced by . Each shift corresponds to a routing hop to the next intermediate address; the hop is valid because each node's neighbors are the two possible outcomes of shifting a 0 or 1 onto its own address. Because of the structure of de Bruijn graphs, when the last bit of has been shifted, the query will be at node . Node responds whether key exists.
Routing example
For example, when a message needs to be routed from node 2 (which is ) to 6 (which is ), the steps are following:
Node 2 routes the message to Node 5 (using its connection to ), shifts the bits left and puts as the youngest bit (right side).
Node 5 routes the message to Node 3 (using its connection to ), shifts the bits left and puts as the youngest bit (right side).
Node 3 routes the message to Node 6 (using its connection to ), shifts the bits left and puts as the youngest bit (right side).
Non-constant degree Koorde
The -dimensional de Bruijn can be generalized to base , in which case node is connected to nodes , . The diameter is reduced to . Koorde node maintains pointers to consecutive nodes beginning at the predecessor of . Each de Bruijn routing step can be emulated with an expected constant number of messages, so routing uses expected hops- For , we get degree and diameter.
Lookup algorithm
function n.lookup(k, shift, i)
{
if k ∈ (n, s]
return (s);
else if i ∈ (n, s]
return p.lookup(k, shift << 1, i ∘ topBit(shift));
else
return s.lookup(k, shift, i);
}
Pseudocode for the Koorde lookup algorithm at node :
is the key
is the imaginary De Bruijn node
is the reference to the predecessor of
is the reference to the successor of
References
"Internet Algorithms" by Greg Plaxton, Fall 2003:
"Koorde: A simple degree-optimal distributed hash table" by M. Frans Kaashoek and David R. Karger:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20M%20The%20Border | Triple M The Border (ACMA callsign: 2BDR) is a commercial radio station owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo as part of the Triple M network. The station is broadcast to townships along the New South Wales/Victoria border from studios in Albury.
The station commenced broadcasting in 1998 as The River. On 15 December 2016, the station was relaunched as Triple M.
References
External links
Mainstream rock radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 1998
Radio stations in New South Wales
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
1998 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Polygon%20Clipper | The General Polygon Clipper (GPC) is a software library providing for computing the results of clipping operations on sets of polygons. It generalises the computer graphics clipping problem of intersecting polygons with polygons.
The first release of GPC was designed and implemented in 1997 by Alan Murta. the final GPC release was version 2.32. The core GPC library is written in the C programming language but the library has also been ported to work with several other languages.
Availability
Since August 2020, GPC is no longer officially distributed by the author.
In December 2021 a copy of the GPC code (v2.32) was placed on GitHub under the MIT License by Paint.NET author Rick Brewster.
Licensing
Developers may use GPC for any purpose without paid licensing restrictions.
Features of GPC
The following summarises the features and operations on polygons supported by GPC.
GPC can compute the following clip operations: difference, intersection, exclusive-or and union.
Polygons may comprise multiple disjoint contours.
Contour vertices may be specified as clockwise or anticlockwise.
Contours may be convex, concave or self-intersecting.
Contours may be nested. In other words, polygons may have holes.
The clip operation output from GPC is a set of polygon contours or tristrips.
Holes and external contours are differentiated in GPC's output.
Coincident edges and degenerate regions are handled correctly.
Examples of GPC operations on sets of polygons
The following four images show examples of GPC computing operations between two polygon sets. The first polygon set comprises outlines of the United Kingdom and Ireland. The second polygon set comprises the four large inward-pointing arrows. In each example, the areas resulting from the GPC operation between the two sets of polygons are rendered in colour.
This example shows difference between the two sets:
This example shows intersection between the two sets:
This example shows union between the two sets:
This example shows exclusive-or between the two sets:
Ports and language bindings
The core GPC code is written in C, but the GPC user community has contributed a number of ports and bindings (or wrappers) for various other languages (ActionScript 3, Borland Delphi, C#, GNU Octave, Haxe, Haskell, Java, Lua, Pascal, Perl, Python, VB.Net). All of these ports and bindings are freely available.
References
External links
Maintained Java version
Graphics libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical%20resource | In digital lexicography, natural language processing, and digital humanities, a lexical resource is a language resource consisting of data regarding the lexemes of the lexicon of one or more languages e.g., in the form of a database.
Characteristics
Different standards for the machine-readable edition of lexical resources exist, e.g., Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) an ISO standard for encoding lexical resources, comprising an abstract data model and an XML serialization, and OntoLex-Lemon, an RDF vocabulary for publishing lexical resources as knowledge graphs on the web, e.g., as Linguistic Linked Open Data.
Depending on the type of languages that are addressed, a lexical resource may be qualified as monolingual, bilingual or multilingual. For bilingual and multilingual lexical resources, the words may be connected or not connected from one language to another. When connected, the equivalence from a language to another is performed through a bilingual link (for bilingual lexical resources, e.g., using the relation vartrans:translatableAs in OntoLex-Lemon) or through multilingual notations (for multilingual lexical resources, e.g., by reference to the same ontolex:Concept in OntoLex-Lemon).
It is possible also to build and manage a lexical resource consisting of different lexicons of the same language, for instance, one dictionary for general words and one or several dictionaries for different specialized domains.
Machine-readable dictionary vs. NLP dictionary
Lexical resources in digital lexicography are often referred to as machine-readable dictionary (MRD), a dictionary stored as machine (computer) data instead of being printed on paper. It is an electronic dictionary and lexical database. The term MRD is often contrasted with NLP dictionary, in the sense that an MRD is the electronic form of a dictionary which was printed before on paper. Although being both used by programs, in contrast, the term NLP dictionary is preferred when the dictionary was built from scratch with NLP in mind.
Lexical database
A lexical database is a lexical resource which has an associated software environment database which permits access to its contents. The database may be custom-designed for the lexical information or a general-purpose database into which lexical information has been entered.
Information typically stored in a lexical database includes spelling, lexical category and synonyms of words, as well as semantic and phonological relations between different words or sets of words.
See also
Lexical Markup Framework (LMF), ISO standard for encoding lexical resources, comprising an abstract data model and an XML serialization
OntoLex-Lemon, RDF vocabulary for publishing lexical resources on the web, e.g., as Linguistic Linked Open Data
LREC conference series
Machine-readable dictionary
WordNet
Arabic Ontology
References
External links
The WordNet Home Page
Lexicographic Search Engine
Lexis (linguistics)
Translation databases
Computati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSIF | GSIF is a proprietary protocol and API between the TASCAM GigaStudio software (a virtual audio sampling device) and the soundcard connected to the computer. It is not known exactly what the initials stand for; it most likely means GigaSampler InterFace. GigaStudio having an important user base, it is supported by many soundcards manufacturer, although it is hardly as popular as the de facto standard, Steinberg's ASIO. It is recommended to install GSIF drivers only if the computer software actually requires GSIF software.
The focus in GSIF is to lower the latency in audio transactions whereas GSIF2 additionally provides audio routing capabilities between software and soundcard.
Since GigaStudio is (currently) a Windows-only software, GSIF is a Windows-only protocol.
References
See also
Microsoft's WDM kernel streaming
Digital audio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip%20System-1 | The Tulip System I is a 16-bit personal computer based on the Intel 8086 and made by Tulip Computers, formerly an import company for the Exidy Sorcerer, called Compudata Systems.
Its Motorola 6845-based video display controller could display 80×24 text in 8 different fonts for supporting different languages, including a (Videotex-based) font for 2×3 pseudo graphic symbols for displaying 160×72 pixel graphics in text mode.
The video display generator could also display graphics with a 384×288 or 768×288 (color) or 768×576 (monochrome) pixel resolution using its built-in NEC 7220 video display coprocessor, which had hardware supported drawing functions, with an advanced set of bit-block transfers it could do line generating, arc, circle, ellipse, ellipse arc, filled arc, filled circle, filled ellipse, filled elliptical arc and many other commands.
Its memory can be upgraded in units of 128 KB up to 896 KB (much more than the 640 KB of the original PC).
It included a SASI hard disk interface (a predecessor of the SCSI-standard) and was optionally delivered with a 5 MB or 10 MB hard disk. The floppy disk size was 400 KB (10 sectors, instead of 8 or 9 with the IBM PC) or 800 KB (80 tracks).
It runs at 8 MHz with a true 16-bit CPU, almost twice the speed of the IBM PC XT which was launched only a few months earlier in July 1983. It has the possibility to use an Intel 8087 math coprocessor, which increased the speed to > 200 kflops, which was near mainframe data at that time.
After initially using CP/M-86, it quickly switched to using generic MS-DOS 2.00. There was a rudimentary IBM BIOS-emulator, which allowed the user to use WordStar and a few other IBM-PC software, but Compudata B.V. shipped WordStar and some other software as adopted software for this computer. There was programming support by Compudata B.V. with MS-Basic, MS-Pascal and MS-Fortran.
On a private base, TeX and Turbo Pascal were ported to the Tulip System I.
References
External links
Tulip I on web site of the Dutch Tulip association (in Dutch)
A user's personal experience with a Tulip System-I
IBM PC compatibles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-On%20%28video%20game%29 | Lock-On is a 1986 first-person combat flight simulator video game with a futuristic theme. It was developed by Tatsumi and licensed to Data East for US distribution. Its graphics feature scaling sprites and a full-screen rotation effect. The game consists of 20 levels. Gameplay is similar to After Burner: the plane follows a predefined path, but the player can steer it slightly to evade incoming missiles. The player can fire guns and homing missiles, the latter of which requires the eponymous lock-on first.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Lock-On on their June 15, 1987 issue as being the eleventh most-successful upright arcade unit of the month.
References
External links
Lock-On at Atari Mania
1986 video games
Arcade video games
Atari ST games
Rail shooters
Tatsumi (company) games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gelechiid%20genera%3A%20J | The large moth family Gelechiidae contains the following genera:
Julota
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Gelechiidae
Gelechiid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gelechiid%20genera%3A%20Q | The large moth family Gelechiidae contains the following genera:
Qeseis
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Gelechiidae
Gelechiid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed%20Ontario | Feed Ontario, formerly Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB), is a food bank network in the Canadian province of Ontario.
History
Ontario Association of Food Banks
Founded in 1992, the OAFB represented 125 food banks, and over 1,100 hunger-relief organizations across the province, including: urban and rural food banks, community kitchens, breakfast clubs and school meal programs, community food centres, emergency shelters, and seniors' facilities. The mission of the Ontario Association of Food Banks was to "strengthen communities by providing food banks with food, resources, and solutions that address both short and long-term food insecurity."
Every year, the OAFB released a research report on hunger and food bank use in Ontario. In 2015, the OAFB Hunger Report revealed:
358,963 people accessed food banks across Ontario in March 2015, with 120,554 of those clients being children under 18 years of age
35% increase in senior citizens visiting food banks over the previous year
49% of food bank clients are single-person households
90% of food bank clients are either rental or social housing tenants
Over 12% of senior citizens fall below Ontario’s Low Income Measure. This number more than doubles to 27% when looking at seniors who also identify as single
Senior citizens are expected to represent 23% of the population by 2030
Single person households represent almost 50% of those who visit food banks, an 11% increase over the past 5 years
The average food bank client spends 70% of their income on rent, leaving very little for all other necessities
1 in 3 jobs in Ontario is temporary, contract, or part-time. An individual working full-time, at minimum-wage will have an annual income of approximately $21,000, falling well below Ontario’s Low Income Measure
In 2007, the OAFB had been noted for innovative programming by The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.
Rebranding
On 11 February 2019, the organization changed its name to 'Feed Ontario' to better reflect its modern activities that have evolved since the past.
See also
List of food banks
References
External links
Official Website of the Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) (defunct)
Official website of Feed Ontario
Organizations based in Ontario
Organizations established in 1992
Food banks in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20radio | Children's radio is a radio format aimed primarily at preteen children. Examples include the now defunct Radio Disney network of radio stations, Kids Place Live satellite radio channel and in the UK Fun Kids.
Stations
See also
List of children radio networks
External links
Radio formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia%20Broadcasting | Acadia Broadcasting Limited is a Canadian radio broadcasting network that operates 5 FM radio stations in Northwestern Ontario and 10 in the Atlantic Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is owned by Ocean Capital Investments which is considered a part of the Irving Group of Companies. It is headquartered at 58 King Street in Saint John, New Brunswick. The company was formed by a 2001 operations merger between the Saint John based New Brunswick Broadcasting Company and the Bridgewater, Nova Scotia based Acadia Broadcasting Co. Limited. In 2003, the merged companies began operating under the simpler shared name, Acadia Broadcasting Limited. Since the merger, Acadia Broadcasting has launched new stations and acquired several stations owned and operated by other broadcasters throughout the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario. Acadia Broadcasting radio stations attract a monthly average of over 400,000 listeners, and their websites see 5.3 million pageviews over the same period. Their markets are reached by an average of 8,400 advertising clients.
History
In 1928, CFBO was launched by C.A. Monro Limited. Mr. Monro had obtained a private commercial broadcasting license from the Department of Marine and Fisheries of the Dominion of Canada in Ottawa, dated April 1, 1928, for the purpose of setting up and operating an AM radio station of only 50 watts in Saint John, New Brunswick. This was radio license No. 23 issued in Canada.
In 1934, four newspaper publishing shareholders in Saint John, New Brunswick- Howard P. Robinson, J.D. McKenna, T.F. Drummie, and L.W. Bewick - purchased the station CFBO from C.A. Monro. Overnight, the station's new callsign became CHSJ, and it broadcast out of a new modern studio with new experienced management. Operated by Saint John Publishing Co. Limited, CHSJ soon became an affiliate of CBC Radio's Trans-Canada Network, an important link in the development of the national network.
In 1944, Kenneth C. Irving purchased Saint John Publishing Company Limited from its principal shareholder, Howard P. Robinson. With this purchase, Irving acquired both the radio station CHSJ and the two local newspapers. Later that year, the company name was changed to New Brunswick Publishing Company Limited and its subsidiary New Brunswick Broadcasting was responsible for CHSJ radio.
In 1989, New Brunswick Broadcasting purchased Acadia Broadcasting, CKBW in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia from the retiring shareholders.
In 2001, New Brunswick Broadcasting launched two new radio stations in New Brunswick, CHWV-FM in Saint John, New Brunswick and CHTD-FM in St. Stephen, New Brunswick.
In 2003, New Brunswick Broadcasting was folded into Acadia Broadcasting.
In May 2007, Acadia Broadcasting Limited acquired three radio stations in northern Ontario: CKDR-FM in Dryden, CJRL-FM in Kenora, and CFOB-FM in Fort Frances. Through a series of repeaters, CKDR-FM in Dryden also serves six other northern communities: Sioux Looko |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHRAC-FM | XHRAC-FM is a radio station in Campeche, Campeche. It carries Radio Fórmula programming.
History
In 1958, XERAC-AM 1430 received its concession. It retains the same concessionaire to this day, though it migrated to FM in 2010.
References
Radio stations in Campeche
Mass media in Campeche City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gul%20Agha%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Gul Agha (گُل آغا) is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Open Systems Laboratory. He is known for his work on the actor model of concurrent computation, and was also Editor-in-Chief of ACM Computing Surveys from 1999 to 2007.
Agha was born and completed his early schooling in Sindh, Pakistan. Agha completed his B.S. with honors at the California Institute of Technology in the year 1977. He received his Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Science from the University of Michigan in 1986 under the supervision of John Holland. However, much of his doctoral research was carried out in Carl Hewitt's Message-Passing Semantics Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Agha's dissertation was published by the MIT Press as Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems, a book which, according to the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, has been cited over 3000 times.
Interests
Agha enjoys Blues music and is a vegan and a pacifist. He has three daughters, including filmmaker Sindha Agha, and lives with his wife Jennifer S. Cole in Illinois.
Awards
Agha became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2002. He is also a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award, and was an International Lecturer for the ACM from 1992 to 1997.
Agha was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "research in concurrent programming and formal methods, specifically the Actor Model".
See also
Agent-based modeling
SALSA (programming language)
References
External links
Agha's official webpage at UIUC
Pakistani expatriate academics
Pakistani emigrants to the United States
Living people
American computer scientists
Programming language designers
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people)
American academics of Pakistani descent
Sindhi people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kynamatrix%20Research%20Network | Kynamatrix Research Network is a nonprofit network of researchers dedicated to the scientific understanding and advancement of interactive communication. One of the programs includes a project called "ResearchHDiscovery," launched in April 2007—"Through two-way high-definition communication, research meets discovery." As a proof-of-concept for collaborative one-on-one research using two-way high definition, this project connects multiple universities in the United States enabling researchers to work and innovate in new ways. Participating universities include Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, MIT Media Lab, Stanford University, and University of Washington. The experience opens virtual windows between university labs connecting professors, researchers, and colleagues so they can regularly brainstorm, develop and review inter-university graduate programs, and manage relationships with students and advisors. The goal of the project is to increase innovation through collaboration.
References
2004 establishments in the United States
Scientific organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHE-FM | XHE-FM/XEE-AM is an FM-AM combo radio station that serves the state of Durango, Mexico, with Radio Fórmula programming.
History
XEE is the oldest radio station in Durango. It received its concession on November 24, 1933, but did not come to air until June 27, 1934. XEE broadcast from the residence of its first owner, Alejandro O. Stevenson, with 50 watts on 1010 kHz. The station's opening featured Lázaro Cárdenas, then running for president, as well as Governor Carlos Real and the local military commander, Anacleto López. By the 1940s, XEE had expanded its programming and was operating on a new frequency, 1280; in 1943, Stevenson had transferred the station to José G. Valenzuela. In 1961, Alicia Stevenson Torrijos bought XEE, moving it to 590 and increasing its daytime power to 1,000 watts.
In the 80s it was known as "Radio Cancionero", in the 90s it joined ACIR and was known as "Radio Festival", and it was one of the first stations in COMBO with ACIR's "MIX FM" format. . It was later sold and is known as "La XE" belonging to Grupo Garza Limón.
In 1993, XEE was sold to Radio XEE, S.A. de C.V., which in 1994 converted the station into a combo by receiving authorization to build XHE-FM 105.3. Radio Fórmula acquired XEE-XHE in 2000.
External links
References
Radio stations in Durango
Mass media in Durango City
Radio Fórmula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobos%20FM | Lobos FM is a network of radio stations owned by the Universidad Autónoma de Durango (known in the state of Sonora as the Universidad Durango Santander), a private university with campuses in multiple Mexican states. The seven Lobos FM stations cover cities in western Mexico and broadcast from the UAD campuses in each city. With Lobos FM, the UAD is the only multi-state private university broadcaster in the country.
History
The first UAD radio station was XHUAD-FM 94.1 Durango, which was permitted on December 10, 1999. In 2004, the UAD applied for additional stations at Mazatlán and Zacatecas; in 2009 for Gómez Palacio, Los Mochis and Culiacán; and 2011 for Zacatecas. In September 2011, Cofetel approved the first expansion of the Lobos FM network by approving the permit applications in Gómez Palacio and Mazatlán, with XHLUAD-FM 88.7 and XHTLAN-FM 106.7 signing on in 2012. On December 19, 2017, the IFT resolved all remaining permit applications in Hermosillo, Los Mochis and Zacatecas, resulting in the university receiving concessions for XHHMO-FM 103.5, XHHIS-FM 97.3 and XHZTZ-FM 95.5. In Zacatecas, XHZTZ's award marked the state's first university radio station. The Culiacán application was greenlit on January 31, 2018, for XHCUAD-FM 93.7.
The UAD also owns and operates television station XHUAD-TDT channel 4 in Durango.
Lobos FM stations
The Universidad Autónoma de Durango, legally incorporated as Fomento Educativo y Cultural Francisco de Ibarra, A.C., owns seven radio stations:
References
Radio stations in Durango
Mass media in Durango City
University radio stations in Mexico
Radio stations in the Comarca Lagunera
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functoid | A functoid is a tool for applying methods to data via a GUI drag 'n drop interface from within the BizTalk Mapping tool.
In a typical BizTalk map, the data is copied from a source to a destination by dragging a line between the two. A functoid sits in the middle of this operation and applies its method to the incoming data so as to transform it to the requirements of the destination.
By default functoids are arranged into 9 categories based on their functions.
String Functoids
Mathematical Functoids
Logical Functoids
Date / Time Functoids
Conversion Functoids
Scientific Functoids
Cumulative Functoids
Database Functoids
Advanced Functoids
Microsoft BizTalk Server offers the ability to create custom functoids by referencing a DLL into a BizTalk project and accessing its methods.
It is also possible to use inline C# or inline XSLT to manipulate data as it is being copied from the source to the destination.
Refer: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee267898(v=bts.10).aspx
References
External links
Microsoft documentation - Functoids in Maps
Microsoft BizTalk Server Homepage
A Quick look at the new functoids in BizTalk Server 2006 (CodeProject Article)
Inter-process communication
Windows Server System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEE | XEE may refer to:
XML external entity attack, a web security exploit
Xee, a Danish television station, since rebranded as See
XEE-AM, a Mexican radio station
XEE (Starlight), a data processing language
A version of Evangelism Explosion designed for younger people
Xee³, an image viewer for Mac OS X platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lok%20Sabha%20TV | Lok Sabha TV was an Indian public cable television network channel that offered coverage of central government proceedings and other public affairs programming. Its remit was to make accessible to all the work of the parliamentary and legislative bodies of India. The channel broadcast live and recorded coverage of the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) while Rajya Sabha TV covered the sessions of the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament).
In 2021, Lok Sabha TV merged with Rajya Sabha TV to form Sansad TV.
History
Select Parliamentary proceedings have been telecast in India since 1989, when the President's address to Parliament was shown on live television. After 1994 the Question Hours of both Houses were broadcast live on alternate weeks on both satellite television and All India Radio. The broadcasts were scheduled to ensure that on a given week proceedings in both Houses were aired, one on TV and the other on radio.
In 2006, DD Lok Sabha was replaced by Lok Sabha TV (LSTV), a 24-hour TV channel broadcasting in Hindi and English, which is owned and operated entirely by the Lok Sabha itself, broadcasting live the proceedings of the Lok Sabha and also various cultural and educational programs and panel discussions, when the Lok Sabha is not in session
Lok Sabha TV is a must-carry channel in India, and all television service providers (Direct to Home as well as cable TV providers) must carry this channel, as mandated in the advisory issued by the Indian government in 2015 and still in force.
Currently Lok Sabha TV is headed by Aashish Joshi, Chief Executive & Editor-in-Chief a well known Journalist and Media/Broadcast professional, and the current editor of the national channel. The Channel's programming is headed by Sumit Singh (Executive Director-Programmes), a journalist and media professional who also anchors a popular show called 'Know Your MP' and Technical headed by Abhishek Agrawal, Senior Technical Manager.
Dedicated Parliamentary Channels
With efforts of the Lok Sabha and Prasar Bharati, in 2004 two dedicated satellite channels were set up to telecast live the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament. In July 2006, DD Lok Sabha was replaced by Lok Sabha Television, which is owned and operated by the Lok Sabha itself. Lok Sabha Television also airs other national ceremonies, such as the Oath-taking ceremony of the President of India, conferring of awards to Parliamentarians, and addresses by foreign dignitaries. Private television channels are allowed to use these feeds subject to payment and conditions laid down by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. In addition video footage of proceedings is stored in the Parliamentary Archives. When Parliament is not in session, these channels air general informative programs, particularly those related to effective government.
See also
Rajya Sabha TV
Doordarshan
Legislature broadcaster
References
External links
Lok Sabha TV webcast
Rajya Sabha TV webcast
Official website of the Lok S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.2%20Network | .2 Network (pronounced Dot-Two Network) was the name of a planned television network designed for digital television subchannels (hence the ".2") owned by Guardian Enterprise Group. Announced in 2008, the network never ended up going to air due to financial and technical difficulties.
History
The channel was originally scheduled for launch on December 8, 2008. However, citing the planned 2009 conclusion of US digital TV transition, the launch of .2 Network was delayed until sometime in Spring 2009. Network executives had announced an intention to delay the launch until the channel could reach at least 30% of US households, a milestone which at that time was predicted not to be reached until October 2009, almost a full year behind the original schedule. Ultimately, this milestone was never reached. The network's website, which from 2008 to 2010 had previews and info of the network, was reduced to a logo and telephone number as of mid-2010. As of 2011, plans for the network were "on hold."
As of April 2013, the .2 website went offline, and with Sony announcing the fall 2013 launch of the GetTV network featuring the Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures film library through digital subchannels on Univision and UniMás stations, all of the network's announced film and television rights (detailed below) are now with other digital subchannel networks.
Programming
.2 Network had licensing agreements with Sony Pictures Entertainment, NBCUniversal, Disney, Hallmark Channel and Screen Media. 2 Network's proposed programming included Gidget, The Flying Nun, and hundreds of blockbuster movies. The .2 network was also to be a source for multiple broadcast premieres, with the prime-time line-up following a movie channel like format. Other programs were to include lifestyle-related, special-interest, and E/I programming, including Animal Rescue and Missing for its affiliated stations.
After the announcement of .2 Network's plans, similar subchannel networks launched and usurped .2 Network's original programming rights. Antenna TV launched on January 1, 2011, utilizing the Sony Pictures Television library (itself later also used for Sony's own getTV). NBC Universal would also later sell rights of its programming to another similar network, Retro Television Network (RTV), but under their new Comcast ownership, removed their programming from RTV in June 2011, then signed a new agreement with MeTV after that to provide them most of the same programming, and launched their own network with library content, Cozi TV, in January 2013.
Affiliates
.2 Network had confirmed carriage in the following markets:
Notes
1The licensee held a duopoly in the market, never confirming which station would have the subchannel
2According to the .2 "first affiliates" press release, these markets were confirmed, but the identity of the affiliate station was released. They did not appear on the network's website in the list of stations; in some cases these are one-station markets.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framed%20%28American%20TV%20program%29 | Framed is an American television program that airs on the IFC network. The show began in December 2007 and features athletes being interviewed by music and film stars. Shoemaker Reebok is producing the series in a partnership with the IFC network and all the athletes featured have endorsed Reebok products. Other partners involved in the series are Carat Entertainment and Roadside Entertainment.
References
2000s American television talk shows
2010s American television talk shows
2007 American television series debuts
IFC (American TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swypeout | Swypeout Battle Racing, or simply Swypeout, was an online personal computer game produced by Spin Master that was released in 2007. On January 1, 2009 the Swypeout Battle Racing online service was closed.
Description
Swypeout consisted of an online personal computer game that worked in conjunction with collectible cards. Players swiped physical cards in a USB card reader that represented in-game cars, upgrades, and weapons. The game also had "promo" codes that unlocked different cards. The code consisted of six numbers and/or letters.
The object of the game was to place first in online races, battling other players along the way. Players were rewarded based on their finishing position with credits that could be spent in-game on additional cars and upgrades. In-game tournaments were held, with the prizes being "credits," the in-game currency. These "credits" were used to purchase upgrades in the in-game store.
There were 17 cars, 34 mods, and 61 Battle Cards available to collect. A thank you and goodbye note was posted on the official website when the online game closed on January 1, 2009, and the stated reason for the closure was due to insufficient customer interest.
Swypeout is also compared to other racing games such as Project Torque and Drift City.
References
External links
Swypeout official site
Game controllers
Vehicular combat games
Collectible card games
Digital collectible card games
Products and services discontinued in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Waters | Blue Waters was a petascale supercomputer operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On August 8, 2007, the National Science Board approved a resolution which authorized the National Science Foundation to fund "the acquisition and deployment of the world's most powerful leadership-class supercomputer." The NSF awarded $208 million for the Blue Waters project.
On August 8, 2011, NCSA announced that IBM had terminated its contract to provide hardware for the project, and would refund payments to date. Cray Inc. then was awarded a $188 million contract with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to build the supercomputer for the Blue Waters project; the supercomputer was installed in phases in 2012. It operated until December 31, 2021, and will be replaced by the Delta project in 2022.
Performance
Blue Waters ran science and engineering codes at sustained speeds of at least one petaFLOPS. It had more than 1.5 PB of memory, more than 25 PB of disk storage, and up to 500 PB of tape storage. The storage filesystem was the Cray Lustre parallel file system, which is capable of terabyte-per-second storage bandwidth. It was connected with 300 Gbit/s wide area links.
Facility
A machine the scale of Blue Waters introduces special concerns with regards to cooling and power. A new National Petascale Computing Facility was built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the corner of Oak Street and St. Mary's Road. This facility houses Blue Waters and other NCSA computing, networking, and data systems. The building has a machine room. The facility has been certified LEED Gold. The facility makes use of the university's campus-wide water cooling system and additional on-site cooling towers that take advantage of the low temperatures in Illinois during the winter months to help reduce energy consumption. The building was designed using complex fluid dynamic models to optimize the cooling system. Energy efficiency at the data center is estimated to be in the 85–90% range, far superior to the 40% efficiency typically seen in large data centers.
See also
List of fastest computers
References
Further reading
External links
Cray
National Science Foundation
Petascale computers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
X86 supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20television%20in%20the%20United%20States | Digital television in the United States is available via digital terrestrial television (DTT), digital cable, satellite television, and IPTV providers (including those delivered over private networks, and those delivered as over-the-top streaming television services over the public internet).
Digital terrestrial television (DTT) uses the ATSC standards, replacing the NTSC standards used for analog television, and offering capabilities such as high definition (HD) signals and digital subchannels. All full-power television stations in the United States were required to shut down their analog signals, and transition exclusively to digital broadcasting by June 12, 2009. Class A low-power analog stations were required to transition by September 1, 2015, while all other low-power stations, as well as analog rebroadcasters, were required to transition by July 13, 2021.
In November 2017, the FCC approved ATSC 3.0 (Next Gen TV), an updated version of the ATSC standards that supports High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), video resolutions of up to 4K ultra high-definition (4K UHD), 120 Hz frame rate, high-dynamic-range (HDR) color, datacasting, and mobile television. Unlike the original digital transition, ATSC 3.0 is a voluntary standard, and broadcasters are not required to adopt it. However, those that do must continue to provide legacy ATSC signals with "substantially similar" programming.
Standards
The U.S. opted to adhere to ATSC standards for broadcast digital television. These standards define, among other things, format and transmission criteria that ensure consistency, accessibility, and fairness for consumers and equipment manufacturers alike in the U.S., as well as international compatibility.
Format standards
The five main ATSC formats of DTV currently broadcast in the U.S. are:
Standard definition—480i, to maintain compatibility with existing NTSC sets when a digital television broadcast is converted back to an analog one—either by a converter box or a cable/satellite operator's proprietary equipment
Enhanced definition—480p, about the same quality as DVDs
High definition—720p
High definition—1080i
High definition—1080p (only used by a few cable operators and some terrestrial stations broadcast in 1080p)
Most digital television sets sold in the U.S. use a display with a 16:9 aspect ratio to optimally display HDTV-formatted content. Lower-resolution sources like regular DVDs may be upscaled to the native resolution of the TV.
Transmission standards
Pay television
Many Americans get digital television broadcasts via cable or satellite. Digital cable television systems with an active channel capacity of 750 MHz or greater, are required by the FCC to follow ANSI/SCTE transmission standards with the exception of cable systems that only pass through 8 VSB modulated signals. Digital television sets (equipped with ATSC tuners) are often capable of viewing a baseline set of unencrypted digital programming, known as basic cable or low- |
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