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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINC-8 | LINC-8 was the name of a minicomputer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation between 1966 and 1969. It combined a LINC computer with a PDP-8 in one cabinet, thus being able to run programs written for either of the two architectures.
Architecture
The LINC-8 contained one PDP-8 CPU and one LINC CPU, partially emulated by the PDP-8. At any one time, the computer was in either 'LINC mode' or 'PDP-8 mode' - both processors could not run in parallel. Instructions were provided to switch between modes. In the LINC-8, all interrupts were handled by the PDP-8 CPU, and programs that relied on the interrupt architecture of the LINC could not be run.
The LINC was a 12-bit ones' complement accumulator machine, whereas the PDP-8, while also a 12-bit accumulator machine, operated in two's complement arithmetic.
Memory addressing on the two architectures was also different. On the LINC, the full address space was divided into 1024-word segments, two of which were selected for use at any one time: the instruction field and the data field. Direct access of data in the instruction field was possible using 10-bit addresses. The data field could only be indirectly addressed. The Instruction field and Data field are theoretically capable of being chosen from up to 32 areas of 1K 12-bit words each as the maximum architecture is 32K total words. As a practical matter, few LINC-8 systems ever were expanded to 8K total. Memory expansion is accomplished first by adding PDP-8 memory extension hardware and extended memory instructions and a few minor LINC processor modifications to address the memory beyond the basic 4K total. Once this is accomplished, 4K memory "wings" can be added in a daisy-chained buss arrangement, which in theory could be expanded out as many as 7 times to implement the entire 32K. As a practical matter, it is always difficult to implement on the "regular" PDP-8, and, in the case of the LINC-8, it became necessary to slow down the CPU slightly just to add on the first additional 4K.
Thus, as a practical matter, LINC-8 memory segments are limited to segment 0-3, or perhaps 0-7 on the few 8K implementations. However, basic 4K machines cannot address beyond 0-3 while extended memory models could attempt to address segments 0-37 octal even if non-existent memory.
By convention, the segment 0 area is not available for normal fully emulated LINC operations. This is because the PDP-8 program usually known as PROGOFOP is loaded there to handle all interrupts, traps, etc. It is possible to write a program for a "partial" LINC CPU, meaning using only the hardware that actually exists. Whenever an operation is performed that it cannot handle, the PDP-8 operation resumes. However, the LINC operation could have been terminated for a variety of reasons. As such, it is always recommended that PROGOFOP be loaded when attempting to use "complete" LINC programs on this system.
Many operating systems were written for this machine; some were esse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CashPool | CashPool is a cooperation of a multitude of smaller or virtual German private banks, in which they mutually waive ATM usage fees for their customers. It is not an interbank network but uses the pre-existing German ATM or Maestro/Cirrus networks. With more than 3200 ATMs, the cooperating banks' ATM networks form the smallest ATM group in Germany.
The cooperation was founded in 2000. Its primary competitor in Germany is Cash Group.
Background
Most banks in Germany, while connected through the German ATM network, charge ATM usage fees for customers of other banks.
In 1998, the six largest German private banks established Cash Group, mutually waiving these fees within the Group.
After the formation, other private banks tried to join Cash Group but were not accepted into the Group. Being smaller than the six large private banks, they operated fewer ATMs and thus would have unilaterally benefited from the use of the other bank's larger networks.
As a consequence, several of these smaller banks founded CashPool and also mutually waived ATM usage fees within the group. For comparison, the big banks CashGroup network has 9,000 ATMs, the co-operative banks (as far as being members of the Bankcard-Servicenetz) share 18,600 ATMs and the saving banks have list of 25,700 ATMs for their SparkassenCard.
The private banks (but not the savings banks and cooperative banks) had undertaken to charge a maximum of EUR 1.95 for payments to third-party customers from January 2011. In August 2015, Deutsche Bank, Postbank and Commerzbank terminated the voluntary commitment. The banks involved in Cashpool (listed below) currently have around 2,800 ATMs in Germany, of which around 160 locations are not publicly accessible because they are located on company premises or in a company building. There is no nationwide supply or even distribution. So there are in Nuremberg, for example, there are around 20 ATMs (¾ of which are publicly accessible and also unevenly distributed within the city area), while the nearest ATM in the Sylt holiday region is only about 70 km away in Flensburg.
Members
Current members
Anton Hafner OHG, Bankgeschäft, Augsburg
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft AG, Cologne
Bankhaus Bauer, Stuttgart
Bankhaus C. L. Seeliger, Wolfenbüttel
Bankhaus E. Mayer AG, Freiburg im Breisgau
Bankhaus Gebr. Martin AG, Göppingen
Bankhaus J. Faisst OHG, Wolfach
Bankhaus Ludwig Sperrer KG, Freising
Bankhaus Max Flessa KG, Schweinfurt
Bank Schilling & Co. AG, Hammelburg
Bankverein Werther AG, Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia
BBBank eG, Karlsruhe
Citibank Privatkunden AG & Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf
Degussa Bank GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
Donner & Reuschel AG, Hamburg
Fürstlich Castell’sche Bank, Credit-Casse AG, Würzburg
Gabler-Saliter Bankgeschäft KG, Obergünzburg
GE Money Bank GmbH, Hannover
Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, Hamburg
Merkur Bank KGaA, Munich
National-Bank AG, Essen
netbank AG, Hamburg
Oldenburgische Landesbank AG, Oldenburg
Pax-Bank eG, Cologne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20link%20network | The Hydrogen link network in Denmark was established in 2005 by the Nordic Transportpolitical Network to form a hydrogen highway with hydrogen Sweden and hynor as part of the Scandinavian hydrogen highway partnership.
The planned highway is part of the hydrogen infrastructure. Two hydrogen re-fueling stations are open for public use in Denmark, and four more are planned, .
Two hydrogen vehicles, the Hyundai ix35 FCEV and Toyota Mirai, have been announced for public distribution in 2015, but only a few dozen are expected to be sold or leased in Europe in 2015.
Public stations
Closed stations
Århus - methanol reforming (steam reforming) and industrial H2.
Fredericia - Biofuel reforming of methanol (steam reforming).
Hobro - Natural gas reforming (steam reforming) and industrial H2
Padborg - natural gas reforming (steam reforming). Electrolysis on-site.
Ringkobing - Wind electrolysis.
Sydthy - Wind electrolysis
See also
Hydrogen economy
References
External links
Hydrogen link
Network
Hydrogen infrastructure
Road transport in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian%20hydrogen%20highway%20partnership | The Scandinavian hydrogen highway partnership is a collaboration started in June 2006 to connect the hydrogen highways hydrogen link network (Denmark), Hyfuture (Sweden) and Hynor (Norway).
The planned highway is part of the hydrogen infrastructure, there are several hydrogen re-fueling stations planned along the route.
See also
Hydrogen economy
References
External links
SHHP
Hydrogen economy
Road transport in Denmark
Transport in Sweden
Road transport in Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20highway%20%28Japan%29 | Japan's hydrogen highway is a network of hydrogen filling stations placed along roadsides that provide fuel for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCV). An HFCV is a vehicle that uses a fuel cell to convert hydrogen energy into electrical energy. The hydrogen that is used in fuel cell vehicles can be made using fossil or renewable resources. The hydrogen highway is necessary for HFCVs to be used. HFCV reduce tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases. By May 2016, there were approximately 80 hydrogen fueling stations in Japan.
Japanese hydrogen powered cars
Since 2014, Toyota and Honda have begun to introduce Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV) that convert hydrogen into electricity while only emitting water vapor at the tailpipe. FCV sales are limited by the need for a Hydrogen supply infrastructure network. This network's purpose would be to make the purchase of hydrogen powered vehicles more appealing to the public.
Development
The first two hydrogen fueling stations were built for the Japan Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Demonstration Project (JHFC) Expo, to promote the usage of hydrogen fuel, in March 2005. The fuel stations were displayed in two different sides in the city of Seto (Seto-North and Seto-South). This Expo for introducing hydrogen fuel cell technology proved effective as over 1,300 kg of fuel was dispensed from the stations. At the end of 2012 there where 17 hydrogen stations.
The Japanese government planned to add up to 100 public hydrogen stations under a budget of 460 million dollars covering 50% of the installation costs with the last ones hoped to be operational in 2015. JX Energy expected to install 40 stations by 2015. Toho Gas and Iwatani Corp expected to install an additional 20 stations. Toyota Tsusho and Air Liquide made a JV to build 2 hydrogen stations hoped to be ready by 2015. A "task force" led by Yuriko Koike, Japan's former environment minister, and supported by the country's Liberal Democratic Party was set up to guide the process.
By May 2016, there were approximately 80 hydrogen fueling stations in Japan.
Creators of the JHFC
The members from the government branch are
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Agency of Natural Resources and Energy
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT)
Member from a semi-governmental organization
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development
Member of Public Research
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Member of Private Firm
Fuel Cell Commercialization Conference of Japan
Reasons for Japan's investment in fuel cells
The two motivations for the research and development of fuel cells were because of the energy policy and the industrial policy.
Energy policy
Create/Find a new source of renewable energy
Stay technologically competitive with other companies
Many countries are seeing how efficient Fuel Cells are which is why Japan seeks to expand their investments in the Fuel Cell industry
Environmental Issues
Slow climate cha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20network%20aggregation | Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services into a unified presentation. Examples of social network aggregators include Hootsuite or FriendFeed, which may pull together information into a single location or help a user consolidate multiple social networking profiles into a single profile.
Various aggregation services provide tools or widgets to allow users to consolidate messages, track friends, combine bookmarks, search across multiple social networking sites, read RSS feeds for numerous social networks, see when their name is mentioned on various sites, access their profiles from a single interface, and provide "live streams", among other things. Social network aggregation services attempt to organize or simplify a user's social networking experience, although the concept of a "social network aggregator aggregator" satirizes this idea.
Some aggregators perform other duties; for example, some aim to help companies and individuals improve engagement with their brands. Creating aggregated social streams that can be embedded into an existing website and customized to look visually intrinsic to the site allows potential customers to interact with all the social media posts maintained by the brand without moving between websites, which can keep customers loyal to the brand for longer.
Function
Social network aggregation platforms allow members to share social network activity on their accounts with major platforms, including Twitter, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Digg, and Delicious. Content appears in real-time to other members who subscribe to a particular community, eliminating the need to jump from one social media network to another and streamlining the process of updating multiple social media platforms.
Social network aggregation systems can rely on initiation by publishers or engagement through their readers. In publisher-initiated aggregation systems, publishers combine identities, allowing their readers to see all aggregated content once they subscribe. In reader-initiated systems, such as Windows Phone 7 People Hub and Linked Internet UI, readers combine identities without impacting publishers or other readers; publishers can retain separate identities for different readers.
Technically, APIs provided by social networks enable aggregation. For the API to access a user's actions from another platform, the user must permit the social-aggregation platform by specifying the user ID and password of the social media account to be syndicated. In March 2008, The Economist reported that social networking services are beginning to move away from "walled gardens" towards more open architecture. Some sites work together on a "data portability work group," while others focus on a single sign-on system called OpenID to allow users to log on across multiple sites. Historically, the trend from private services to more open ones is evident across many Internet services, including email and instant me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Class%20139 | British Rail Class 139 is the TOPS classification for PPM60 model lightweight railcars built by Parry People Movers, for use on the British rail network. The class were originally built in 2008 for operation on the Stourbridge Town branch line following an extensive trial with a prototype registered as a Class 999 unit.
The first newly constructed Class 139 was shown on 28 June 2008 at the Tyseley Locomotive Works Open Day. The full fleet of two units entered public service on the branch line in June 2009.
Technology
The Class 139 units are typical of the Parry People Mover concept, in that they utilise flywheel energy storage to recapture and supply the motive force for moving the vehicle. The flywheel captures the vehicle's kinetic energy when the brakes are used, and re-uses the energy for acceleration. This eliminates the need for a large diesel engine. The small onboard engine (fuelled by LPG) is used to initially bring the flywheel up to speed, to add speed to the flywheel after the vehicle is started in motion, and to provide power for the onboard systems.
Usage
The concept of using the lightweight railcar dates from 2006, when a year-long pilot scheme began on the Stourbridge Town branch line on Sundays, using a PPM50 unit constructed in 2002 and numbered as 999 900 under TOPS. The success of this trial led to the provision of regular services using the technology in the franchise plans for the new West Midlands Franchise. Following the award of the franchise to London Midland, they placed an order for two PPM60 units with Parry People Movers, through Porterbrook leasing, with the service itself operated for them by Pre Metro Operations.
These two units are 139 001 and 139 002, composed of vehicle numbers 39001 and 39002 in the British carriage and wagon numbering and classification system. The vehicles are mechanically similar to 999 900, but are approximately one metre (yard) longer. They were intended to start operating on the Stourbridge Town branch in 2008. In January 2009 it was confirmed that 139001 was still undergoing testing at Chasewater Railway and 139002 was still not completed.
Despite the difficulties in the commissioning of the two Class 139 units, London Midland consistently outlined its faith that they would be ready to enter service. In March 2009, it was announced that the first unit had received its passenger certification from Network Rail, allowing it to carry passengers. London Midland stated that they would begin a phased entry into service, starting with weekend operation in April, leading up to a full service by the timetable change in May 2009. Until then, London Midland temporarily returned a Class 153 to operating the branch service.
139 002 officially entered service on 29 March 2009 as part of the type's phased entry. This unit had previously worked in full service, including all-day on Monday 11 May 2009 and previously had worked all morning services during February/March 2009. In May 2009, the fir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESG%20Claims%20Tested%20Mark | The CESG Claims Tested Mark (abbreviated as CCT Mark or CCTM), formerly CSIA Claims Tested Mark, is a UK Government Standard for computer security.
The CCT Mark is based upon framework where vendors can make claims about the security attributes of their products and/or services, and independent testing laboratories can evaluate the products/services to determine if they actually meet the claims. In other words, the CCT Mark provides quality assurance approach to validate whether the implementation of a computer security product or services has been performed in an appropriate manner.
History
The CCT Mark was developed under the auspices of the UK Government's Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA), which is part of the Cabinet Office's Intelligence, Security and Resilience (ISR) function. The role of providing specialist input to the CCT Mark fell to CESG as the UK National Technical Authority (NTA) for Information Security, who assumed responsibility for the scheme as a whole on 7 April 2008.
Operation
All Testing Laboratories must comply with ISO 17025, with the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) carrying out the accreditation.
Comparisons
The CCT Mark is often compared to the international Common Criteria (CC), which is simultaneously both correct and incorrect:
Both provide methods for achieving a measure of assurance of computer security products and systems
Neither can provide a guarantee that approval means that no exploitable flaws exist, but rather reduce the likelihood of such flaw being present
The Common Criteria is constructed in a layered manner, with multiple Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) specifications being available with increasing complexity, timescale and costs as the EAL number rises
Common Criteria is supported by a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA), which, at the lower EAL numbers at least, means that products tested in one country will normally be accepted in other markets
The CCT Mark is aimed at the same market as the lower CC EAL numbers (currently EAL1/2), and has been specifically designed for timescale and cost efficiency
Future
As of September 2010, CESG have announced that the product assurance element of CCT Mark will be overtaken by the new Commercial Product Assurance (CPA) approach. It is unclear as yet whether CCT Mark will remain in existence for assurance of Information Security services.
External links
The official website of the CESG Claims Tested Mark
References
Computer security procedures
GCHQ
Information assurance standards
Internet in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20support | In statistics, the method of support is a technique that is used to make inferences from datasets.
According to A. W. F. Edwards, the method of support aims to make inferences about unknown parameters in terms of the relative support, or log likelihood, induced by a set of data for a particular parameter value. The technique may be used whether or not prior information is available.
The method of maximum likelihood is part of the method of support, but note that the method of support also provides confidence regions that are defined in terms of their support.
Notable proponents of the method of support include A. W. F. Edwards.
Bibliography
Edwards, A.W.F. 1972. Likelihood. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (expanded edition, 1992, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore).
Likelihood
Maximum likelihood estimation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish%20Macdonald%20%28broadcaster%29 | Hamish Macdonald is an Australian broadcast journalist and news presenter. he is a presenter on the TV panel show The Project on Network 10, and on ABC Radio National's RN Breakfast.
From February 2020 until July 2021, Macdonald hosted the ABC's Q+A political panel discussion show. He previously worked at other networks, including Channel 4, ITV and Al Jazeera English.
Career
Upon earning a journalism degree from Charles Sturt University in 2002, Macdonald began a short stint as a reporter covering politics in Canberra with regional broadcaster WIN Television. He moved to the United Kingdom, where he reported for Channel 4 and ITV.
In the UK's Channel 4 News, Macdonald built a career as a news producer and reporter. He covered major stories including the Asian tsunami and the London bombings. He reported live for Channel 4 and ITV News. He also reported as an eyewitness for Australian Networks Nine, Seven, and ABC.
Al Jazeera English
In early 2006, Macdonald worked as a producer for Al Jazeera English's regional headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Al Jazeera English is the English-language sister channel of the Arabic network Al Jazeera. In the summer of 2006, he was hired as a news presenter at the Kuala Lumpur bureau of Al Jazeera English.
Macdonald won the "Young Journalist of the Year" award at the Royal Television Society awards in London, on 20 February 2008.
Hamish later moved to Al Jazeera's London bureau, during which time he also acted as the UK correspondent for the Australian breakfast programme Sunrise. He left Al Jazeera English in June 2010.
Network 10
Macdonald announced he would be leaving Network Ten in September 2013. Rumours surfaced the network was underwhelmed with MacDonald's The Truth Is series and MacDonald was upset Ten had not shown greater support for his work.
In 2017, Macdonald rejoined Network Ten, regularly hosting The Sunday Project and later being appointed the permanent host in January 2018. He remained in the position until December 2019 upon taking on his new role as host of Q&A on ABC.
In May 2019, Macdonald hosted the 2019 Australian Federal Election coverage on Network 10.
In July 2021, it was announced that Macdonald would return to Network 10 from 22 August to host The Project on Friday night and The Sunday Project, replacing Peter van Onselen.
ABC Television Network (U.S.)
On 6 January 2014, Macdonald joined the US television network ABC in a senior role as an international affairs correspondent. Despite being contracted to Network Ten in Australia until March 2014, MacDonald gained an early release from Ten which supported his new appointment. He was initially based in New York City, but moved to London later in 2014. His ABC contract reportedly allowed him to accept limited outside work with other organisations in certain circumstances.
ABC TV (Australia)
Macdonald hosted Q+A on Australia's ABC TV from February 2020, replacing Tony Jones as host of the panel program, until his final |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan%20Insight | Balkan Insight is a website of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) that focuses on news, analysis, commentary and investigative reporting from southeast Europe. It is run by journalists in southeast Europe. BIRN was founded in 2004 as a network of non-governmental organisations to promote a strong, independent, and free media in Southern and Eastern Europe. Balkan Insight is the successor of BIRN's "Balkan Crisis Report" newsletter. BI reports from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Romania and Serbia.
Reception
Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported that Balkan Insight is a "highly regarded Internet portal" and BIRN is "valued for its independence and seriousness". In 2015, the journal Academicus International Scientific Journal reported that Balkan Insight was "the leading news site covering the Western Balkans Region", and often published opinions from international leaders. According to Robin Wilson, Balkan Insight is a valuable source of objective analysis of ex-Yugoslav countries, in contrast to Yugoslav media that split up along nationalist lines. Wilson stated that BI attracts quality contributors and maintains separation between reporting and opinion.
BIRN journalists and reports that have received awards include Krenar Gashi and the BIRN investigative team, who won the Best Print/Online Story of 2006 for "Ex-Policemen Run Kosovo Passport Scam" handed out by the Association of Professional Journalists of Kosovo. Arbana Xharra was the winner of the 2006 journalism competition organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency; for her reporting on corruption in both Balkan Insight and the Kosovo daily newspaper Koha Ditore. In 2020, BIRN received the Press Freedom Award from the Austrian chapter of Reporters Without Borders.
Financing
Donors to the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network include the European Commission (EC), the Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro, the Austrian Development Agency and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
References
External links
BIRN Official Web-site
Balkan Insight Web-site
Balkans
Mass media in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20Service%20Priority | Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) is a United States program that authorizes national security and emergency preparedness organizations to receive priority treatment for vital voice and data circuits or other telecommunications services. As a result of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other natural or man-made disasters, telecommunications service vendors frequently experience a surge in requests for new services and requirements to restore existing services. The TSP Program provides service vendors a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandate to prioritize requests by identifying those services critical to national security and emergency preparedness. A TSP assignment ensures that it will receive priority attention by the service vendor before any non-TSP service.
Four broad categories serve as guidelines for determining whether a circuit or telecommunications service is eligible for priority provisioning or restoration. TSP service user organizations may be in the Federal, State, local, or tribal government, critical infrastructure sectors in industry, non-profit organizations that perform critical National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) functions, or foreign governments. Typical TSP service users are responsible for the command and control functions critical to management of and response to NS/EP situations, particularly during the first 24 to 72 hours following an event
Federal, state, tribal, and local police departments, fire departments, EMS units, and similar entities qualify for Level 3 under communication services necessary for the public health, safety, and maintenance of law and order. The higher priority levels, Levels 1 and 2, include National Security leadership and certain military communications lines. Very few circuits receive a TSP priority Level 1 or Level 2 assignment. If an organization does not enroll its circuits in the TSP program, its telecommunications service provider cannot restore those lines until it has restored all TSP lines in priority levels 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Enrollment and monthly fees for the TSP program are generally set at the state level by public utility or public service commissions. Typically, one-time enrollment fees are approximately $100, and monthly fees per line average $3. TSP Authorization Codes are only valid for three years. The FCC requires that all users revalidate their requirement for TSP every three years before expiration of the user's TSP Authorization Code(s).
References
United States communications regulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFabrics%20Alliance | The OpenFabrics Alliance is a non-profit organization that promotes remote direct memory access (RDMA) switched fabric technologies for server and storage connectivity. These high-speed data-transport technologies are used in high-performance computing facilities, in research and various industries.
The OpenFabrics Alliance aims to develop open-source software that supports the three major RDMA fabric technologies: InfiniBand, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and iWARP. The software includes two packages, one that runs on Linux and FreeBSD and one that runs on Microsoft Windows. The alliance worked with two large Linux distributors—SUSE and Red Hat—as well as Microsoft on compatibility with their operating systems.
History
Founded in June 2004 as the OpenIB Alliance, the organization originally developed an InfiniBand software stack for Linux. Initial funding for the Alliance was provided by the United States Department of Energy. The alliance released the first version of the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) in 2005.
In 2005 the OpenIB Alliance announced support for Microsoft Windows. In 2006, the organization again expanded its charter to include support for iWARP, which is a transport technology that competes with InfiniBand. At that time the alliance changed its name to the OpenFabrics Alliance. Subsequent releases have added support for iWARP and Windows.
In 2011, OFED stack was ported to FreeBSD and included in FreeBSD 9.
OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution
A community of developers from hardware manufacturers, software vendors, system integrators, government agencies and academia to work on OFED. The OpenFabrics Alliance provides architectures, software repositories, interoperability tests, bug databases, workshops, and BSD- and GPL-licensed code to facilitate development.
The OFED stack includes software drivers, core kernel-code, middleware, and user-level interfaces. It offers a range of standard protocols, including IPoIB (IP over InfiniBand), SDP, SRP, iSER, RDS and DAPL (the Direct Access Programming Library). It also supports many other protocols, including various MPI implementations, and it supports many file systems, including Lustre and NFS over RDMA.
Interoperability testing
On June 25, 2007, the OpenFabrics Alliance announced the OFA-UNH-IOL Logo Program in partnership with the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory. The program enables manufacturers of InfiniBand and iWARP products to test and certify that their products support the OpenFabrics software stack, and test their compatibility with other products.
The alliance sponsors interoperability events at the University of New Hampshire. The test scenarios are available to the public, as are the test results for all products that earn the logo. During interoperability events, all participating companies have the opportunity to observe all tests run on all products.
Members
Corporate members of the OpenFabrics Allia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most%20probable%20number | The most probable number method, otherwise known as the method of Poisson zeroes, is a method of getting quantitative data on concentrations of discrete items from positive/negative (incidence) data.
Purpose
There are many discrete entities that are easily detected but difficult to count. Any sort of amplification reaction or catalysis reaction obliterates easy quantification but allows presence to be detected very sensitively. Common examples include microorganism growth, enzyme action, or catalytic chemistry. The MPN method involves taking the original solution or sample, and subdividing it by orders of magnitude (frequently 10× or 2×), and assessing presence/absence in multiple subdivisions.
The degree of dilution at which absence begins to appear indicates that the items have been diluted so much that there are many subsamples in which none appear. A suite of replicates at any given concentration allow finer resolution, to use the number of positive and negative samples to estimate the original concentration within the appropriate order of magnitude.
Applications
In microbiology, the cultures are incubated and assessed by eye, bypassing tedious colony counting or expensive and tedious microscopic counts. Presumptive, confirmative and completed tests are a part of MPN.
In molecular biology, a common application involves DNA templates diluted into polymerase chain reactions (PCR). Reactions only proceed when a template is present, allowing for a form of quantitative PCR, to assess the original concentration of template molecules. Another application involves diluting enzyme stocks into solution containing a chromogenic substrate, or diluting antigens into solutions for ELISA (Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay) or some other antibody cascade detection reaction, to measure the original concentration of the enzyme or antigen.
Weakness and importance
The major weakness of MPN methods is the need for large numbers of replicates at the appropriate dilution to narrow the confidence intervals. However, it is a very important method for counts when the appropriate order of magnitude is unknown a priori and sampling is necessarily destructive.
See also
Dilution assay
External links
A downloadable MPN calculator to take your data and get estimates
A five-replicate MPN table
Details of practical implementation, but not theory
US FDA article on MPN method
Information on the MPN method and ballast water treatment
Downloadable EXCEL program for the determination of the Most Probable Numbers (MPN), their standard deviations, confidence bounds and rarity values according to Jarvis, B., Wilrich, C., and P.-T. Wilrich: Reconsideration of the derivation of Most Probable Numbers, their standard deviations, confidence bounds and rarity values. Journal of Applied Microbiology 109 (2010), 1660 – 1667
References
Oblinger, J.L., and J. A. Koburger, J.A. (1975) "Understanding and Teaching the Most Probable Number Technique." J. Milk Food Technol. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZHLS-GF | ZHLS-GF (Zone-Based Hierarchical Link State Routing Protocol with Gateway Flooding) is a hybrid routing protocol for computer networks that is based on ZHLS.
In ZHLS, all network nodes construct two routing tables — an intra-zone routing table and an inter-zone routing table — by flooding NodeLSPs within the zone and ZoneLSPs throughout the network. However, this incurs a large communication overhead in the network.
In ZHLS-GF, the flooding scheme floods ZoneLSPs only to the gateway nodes of zones, thus reducing the communication overhead significantly. Further, in ZHLS-GF only the gateway nodes store ZoneLSPs and constructs inter-zone routing tables, meaning that the total storage capacity required in the network is less than in ZHLS.
References
Hamma, T., Katoh, T., Bista, B.B. and Takata, T., 2006, “An Efficient ZHLS Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Proc. of DEXA Workshops 2006, pp. 66–70.
Ad hoc routing protocols
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thee%20Undatakerz | Thee Undatakerz were an American hip hop group composed of Reverand Tom (Kool Keith), Al Bury-U (BIG NONAME), M-Balmer and The Funeral Director. They were signed to Activate Entertainment.
History
The group was formed by Kool Keith in 2003 with members Al Bury-U (a.k.a. BIGNONAME), M-Balmer and The Funeral Director as well as Kool Keith himself, who adopted the persona of Reverand Tom. The group released their debut album, Kool Keith Presents Thee Undatakerz on May 11, 2004. The album was not a huge commercial success but did feature the semi-successful single, "Party in tha Morgue", which would later appear on the soundtrack for Blade: Trinity. Kool Keith Presents Thee Undatakerz has thus far been the only album released by the group. It is unknown whether the group will return.
Discography
American hip hop groups
Musicians from New York City
Horrorcore groups
Musical groups established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracomputer | The New York University's Ultracomputer is a significant processor design in the history of parallel computing. The system has N processors, N memories, and an N log N message-passing switch connecting them. The system supported an innovative fetch-and-add process coordination instruction, and the custom VLSI network switches could combine references (including fetch-and-adds) from several processors into a single reference, to reduce memory contention.
The machine was developed in the 1980s at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Computer Science Department, based on a concept developed by Jacob T. Schwartz. Most of the work done was theoretical, but two prototypes were built:
An 8-processor bus-based machine
A 16-processor, 16 memory-module machine with custom VLSI switches supporting the fetch-and-add instruction.
Ultracomputer technology was the basis for the IBM Research Research Parallel Processor Prototype (RP3), an experimental parallel computer that supported 512 processing nodes. A 64-node system was built at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in the late 1980s.
References
Supercomputers
Parallel computing
1980s in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20Data%20Package | XML Data Package (XDP) is an XML file format created by Adobe Systems in 2003. It is intended to be an XML-based companion to PDF. It allows PDF content and/or Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA) resources to be packaged within an XML container.
Several products by Adobe, most notably its LiveCycle ES Suite, use files in XDP format.
XDP is XML 1.0 compliant. The XDP may be a standalone document or it may in turn be carried inside a PDF document.
XDP provides a mechanism for packaging form components within a surrounding XML container. An XDP can also package a PDF file, along with XML form and template data. When the XFA (XML Forms Architecture) grammars used for an XFA form are moved from one application to another, they must be packaged as an XML Data Package. The format of an XFA resource in PDF is described by the XML Data Package Specification. The types of XDP content defined in XFA specification include PDF, XFA template, XML configuration information (XCI), dataSet, sourceSet, XSLT style sheet, XFDF (form data) and undocumented packets (such as those used to communicate events to a Form Server).
References
External links
Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA)
XML Data Package Specification from Adobe Systems (version 2.0 As of January 2007)
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnchadh%20MacRath | Donnchadh MacRath (d. c. 1700), also known as Duncan MacRae of Inverinate and Donnchadh nam Pìos, was a Scottish Gaelic poet and the compiler of the Fernaig manuscript which he committed to paper using an English-influenced system of orthography.
Origins
He was the son and heir of Alexander Macrae of Inverinate, who served as Chamberlain of Kintail to the third Earl of Seaforth, by his first wife, Margaret, the daughter of Murdoch Mackenzie of Redcastle. The Macraes of Inverinate were an old and well-established family, long associated with the Mackenzies and the castle at Eilean Donan. Donnchadh was, by traditional reckoning, 9th of Inverinate.
Reputation
Donnchadh was himself the author of many of the poems in his compilation. His poems suggest Jacobite and Non-Juring High Church Episcopalian sympathies tempered with a spirit of toleration. The local oral tradition contains many tales of his ingenuity in practical matters and Professor Mackinnon in The Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness (Volume XI) provided this assessment of him:
"...undoubtedly Duncan Macrae, the engineer and mechanician, the ardent ecclesiastic, the keen though liberal-minded politician, the religious poet, and collector of the literature of his countrymen, is as different from the popular conception of a Highland Chief of the Revolution as can well be conceived."
He also appears in a catalogue of heroes from Kintail in Time and Sgurr Urain, a poem by Sorley MacLean:
And Duncan of the Silver Cups
in high-wooded Inverinate.
Death
Donnchadh died some time between 1693 and 1704. Many local traditions grew up around his death by drowning in the river Chonaig, near Dorusduain: it is said that he was returning from a visit to the Chisholm to purchase the lands of Affric, and that the deeds to Affric were lost in the incident (conveniently or inconveniently, depending on one's point of view).
Family and posterity
Donnchadh married Janet, daughter of Alexander Macleod of Raasay. She was served heir with her sister Julia to the Raasay estates in 1688, but local resistance to the sisters' claims ultimately proved successful. (A surviving sasine records that Julia sold her rights to their cousin, another Alexander Macleod, in 1692.) A satirical West Coast ditty entitled Cailleach Liath Rasaidh ("The Greyhaired Hag of Raasay") is said to have been inspired by local chagrin over the surrender.
Donnchadh and Janet had at least three sons and two daughters, including Donnchadh's heir Farquhar, who died in 1711.
Through their mutual descent from Alasdair MacRae, 8th of Inverinate, North Carolina Loyalist war poet Iain mac Mhurchaidh, who is a highly important figure in 18th-century Scottish Gaelic literature, was the first cousin once removed of Donnchadh MacRath.
Notes
References
Macrae, Reverend Alexander, History of the Clan Macrae (A.M.Ross & Co, Dingwall, 1899)
MacPharlain, Calum Lamh-Sgrìobhainn Mhic Rath, (Dundee)
Thomson, Derick S. The Companion to Gaelic Scotl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20in%20Australian%20television |
Television
1 January – The Seven Network introduces a new logo, the first one to not have the 7 inside a circle , which is still in use as of today.
7 January – American sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond airs on the Seven Network for the very last time. It would change broadcasts to Network Ten on 28 November.
10 January – Australian cooking show Fresh premieres on the Nine Network.
17 January – Australian soap opera Something in the Air premieres on ABC. It was the very first Australian television series to be filmed in widescreen.
31 January – American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit makes it debut on Network Ten.
31 January – Dragon Ball Z premieres on Network Ten as part of Cheez TV. Originally using the censored Ocean Productions dub before switching to the uncut Funimation dub.
1 February – Popstars becomes the first Australian reality talent show, earning massive ratings for the Seven Network, leading to Bardot, the end product of the show. It becomes the first Australian act to debut at the number 1 position with both its debut single and debut album.
3 February – Disaster strikes for the long running Australian children's TV series Play School as the ABC sacks its producer Henrietta Clark and long-time presenters Benita Collings, David James and Angela Moore in order to make way for a revamped version in the show’s 34-year history.
7 February – Author, journalist and former Four Corners presenter Paul Barry takes over as host of the Australian media analysis television program Media Watch presenting up until 6 November.
8 February – Australia's Funniest Home Video Show returns and starts in 2000 with a new look format, a new theme song and a relocation from Sydney to Melbourne. Also on that month, it moved to "Every Saturday Nights" at 6:30 PM.
21 February – The Nine Network's Australian game show Sale of the Century returns by rebranding their name to Sale of the New Century and celebrates 20 years on air.
22 February - The American police procedural series Third Watch premieres on the Nine Network.
26 February – The Nine Network debuts a brand new Saturday morning Warner Bros. themed wrapper program for children called The Cool Room as a replacement of its previous program What's Up Doc? which had been axed on Christmas Eve 1999.
27 February – The first ever reality TV show to debut in Australia, The Mole debuts on the Seven Network. Five more seasons follow.
6 March – Australian sports based talk show The Fat premieres on ABC.
12 March – The 1997 film Bean, starring British comedian Rowan Atkinson as his most famous character Mr. Bean and based on the British sitcom of the same name, premieres on the Seven Network.
13 March – In response to GTV-9's Burgo's Catch Phrase losing its ratings, the Seven Network's smash-hit puzzle show, Wheel of Fortune changes the new cash values on the Wheel. The changes including the rising of the top dollars, were from $500 to $750 in Round 1, $10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape%20Quest | Ape Quest (known as Sarugetchu: Piposaru Senki in Japan) is a role-playing video game spin-off from the Ape Escape series by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is a PlayStation Portable title and was released in North America and Europe exclusively on the PlayStation Store and a UMD in Japan only. It is downloadable as a free Starter Pack, with the remainder of the game available as three separate downloadable chapters.
Premise
The king of the Toqsica Kingdom sends his son with the respected knight D' Apetagnan on a pilgrimage to the seal that holds the Apetron, a group of apes that terrorized the kingdom ages ago, who also are known as the Pipotron Brothers. However, the king's son impulsively eats the banana-shaped seal, releasing the Apetron upon the land again. Now, the prince must save the land from its curse.
Gameplay
The player takes control of the prince and travels across various areas, meeting Ape Team members, fighting monsters, earning Chips (the game's currency) and carrying out quests. The player must choose from predetermined routes consisting of turns, in the way of a board game. The player traverses across these routes, but once chosen, the player cannot move or stop. On each turn, the player can open the menu, which allows the player to save, equip items and perform other actions (this can be done at the end of each route as well). Turn-based battles and minigames can also occur randomly. Battles rely on the equipment used and strength. Minigames, on the other hand, are entirely based on skill (these can deduct hit points, or "Guts", as well). The player can also visit towns and dungeons as well as members of the Ape Team.
Ape Team
The Ape Team is composed of ape warriors that the player can summon in a fight (at the cost of Chips) if the player is in a tough spot. The player can collect different members by talking to them around the area, who are all supply peddlers. After talking with them, they are added on the list of Ape Team members. Also, all Ape Team members have a relationship value, which increases when purchasing items from them.
Bosses
The game's storyline revolves around destroying various golems throughout each area. These take the form of a lion, a wolf, a snake and a crab, among others. These are in minigame form and usually involve dodging attacks until the foe moves in, then attacking.
Reception
References
External links
Profile on PlayStation.com
2008 video games
Ape Escape games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Portable-only games
PlayStation Network games
Role-playing video games
Video games developed in Japan
Single-player video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20registration%20in%20Sweden | Population registration in Sweden () is the civil registration of vital events (e.g. births, deaths, and marriages) of the inhabitants of Sweden. The data is kept in the population registry () and is administered by the Swedish Tax Agency (). The registry spans several centuries and is thus often used by genealogists.
One can order a registry extract about oneself, and one is entitled to obtain all records of oneself in the registry according to Section 26 of the Personal Data Act. The information is publicly available, except for people needing secrecy, such as people threatened with violence.
History
The population registration in Sweden was originally maintained by the Church of Sweden, on the orders of the crown, and it remained the duty of the church until 1991. The oldest preserved records date from the early 17th century - though rolls of farmsteads, estates and local taxation with the names of peasants and nobles dwelling in the places in question have sometimes survived from the later Middle Ages on; these do not belong with the later program of population record keeping though, but are land/tax records. Complete archives are usually found from the mid 18th century onwards, unless records have been lost or destroyed by fire or the like.
The first decrees regarding person registration by local parishes came in 1608. A royal decree in 1631 required the names and dates of those born and passing away to be noted in the parish registry books.
The scope of the record keeping was expanded through the 18th and 19th century and the archival corpus today constitutes one of the most in-depth records of an entire national population over centuries to be found anywhere in the world, not least through the records of local hearings of people's knowledge of the catechism (husförhör, the record books are called husförhörslängder); these were held annually in every parish and often provide valuable information on families, on the state of education, living conditions, individual capacity to read or write and even individual personal traits of the locals whom the parish priest would question on the faith. When other churches and congregations than the Church of Sweden were legally recognized (notably through the Dissenter Act of 1873 and the Liberty of Religion Act of 1951) these other congregations and confessions were required to keep records of births, deaths, marriages and so on and to share these with public authorities if it were required.
The administration of the population registry was transferred from the church to the tax agency on July 1, 1991, due to the upcoming separation of church and state. The smallest geographical subdivision for this registry is the registration district.
As Finland was part of the Swedish kingdom from the high Middle Ages to 1809, and its laws and administration were recognized by the Tsar after the country had been ceded to Russia, the country shared the Swedish system of population records and these have develop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemVerilog%20DPI | SystemVerilog DPI (Direct Programming Interface) is an interface which can be used to interface SystemVerilog with foreign languages. These foreign languages can be C, C++, SystemC as well as others. DPIs consist of two layers: a SystemVerilog layer and a foreign language layer. Both the layers are isolated from each other.
Explanation
Direct Programming Interface (DPI) allows direct inter language function calls between the SystemVerilog and Foreign language. The functions implemented in Foreign language can be called from SystemVerilog and such functions are called Import functions. Similarly, functions implemented in SystemVerilog can be called from Foreign language (C/C++ or System C); such functions are called Export functions. DPIs allow transfer of data between two domains through function arguments and return.
Function import and export
1) Function Import:- A function implemented in Foreign language can be used in SystemVerilog by importing it. A Foreign language function used in SystemVerilog is called Imported function.
Properties of imported function and task
An Imported function shall complete their execution instantly and consume zero simulation time. Imported task can consume time.
Imported function can have input, output, and inout arguments.
The formal input arguments shall not be modified. If such arguments are changed within a function, the changes shall not be visible outside the function.
Imported function shall not assume any initial values of formal output arguments. The initial value of output arguments is undetermined and implementation dependent.
Imported function can access the initial value of a formal inout argument. Changes that the Imported function makes to a formal inout argument shall be visible outside the function.
An Imported function shall not free the memory allocated by SystemVerilog code nor expect SystemVerilog code to free memory allocated by Foreign code or (Foreign Compiler).
A call to an Imported task can result in suspension of the currently executing thread. This occurs when an Imported task calls an Exported task, and the Exported task executes a delay control, event control or wait statement. Thus it is possible for an Imported task to be simultaneously active in multiple execution threads.
An Imported function or task can be equip with special properties called pure or context.
Pure and context tasks and functions
Pure functions
A function whose results solely depends on the value of its input arguments with no side effects is called Pure function.
Properties of pure functions
Only Non-Void functions with no output or input can be called as Pure functions.
Functions specified as Pure shall have no side effects, their results need to depend solely on the values of their input arguments.
A Pure function call can be safely eliminated if its result is not needed or if its results for the same value of input arguments is available for reuse without needing to recalculate.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload%20%28computing%29 | In computing and telecommunications, the payload is the part of transmitted data that is the actual intended message. Headers and metadata are sent only to enable payload delivery and are considered overhead.
In the context of a computer virus or worm, the payload is the portion of the malware which performs malicious action.
The term is borrowed from transportation, where payload refers to the part of the load that pays for transportation.
Networking
In computer networking, the data to be transmitted is the payload. It is almost always encapsulated in some type of frame format, composed of framing bits and a frame check sequence. Examples are Ethernet frames, Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames, Fibre Channel frames, and V.42 modem frames.
Programming
In computer programming, the most common usage of the term is in the context of message protocols, to differentiate the protocol overhead from the actual data. For example, a JSON web service response might be:
{ "data": { "message": "Hello, world!" } }
The string Hello, world! is the payload of JSON message, while the rest is protocol overhead.
Security
In computer security, the payload is the part of the private user text which could also contain malware such as worms or viruses which performs the malicious action; deleting data, sending spam or encrypting data. In addition to the payload, such malware also typically has overhead code aimed at simply spreading itself, or avoiding detection.
See also
References
Data transmission
Computer security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority%20call | A priority call is a telephone call that has been assigned some enhanced level of priority for processing by a telecommunications network such that it may be expected to achieve precedence over other traffic. In a given network, there may be several levels of priority.
Priority call, and priority ring are also brand names of calling features which give a distinctive ring to calls from telephone numbers chosen by the subscriber and which require a subscription from their local telephone company. To set up priority call, one dials *61 and follows the instructions. To disable priority call, one dials *81.
See also
Enhanced 911
Message precedence
References
Calling features
Teletraffic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullor | A nullor is a theoretical two-port network consisting of a nullator at its input and a norator at its output. Nullors represent an ideal amplifier, having infinite current, voltage, transconductance and transimpedance gain. Its transmission parameters are all zero, that is, its input–output behavior is summarized with the matrix equation
In negative-feedback circuits, the circuit surrounding the nullor determines the nullor output in such a way as to force the nullor input to zero.
Inserting a nullor in a circuit schematic imposes mathematical constraints on how that circuit must behave, forcing the circuit itself to adopt whatever arrangements are needed to meet the conditions. For example, an ideal operational amplifier can be modeled using a nullor, and the textbook analysis of a feedback circuit using an ideal op-amp uses the mathematical conditions imposed by the nullor to analyze the circuit surrounding the op-amp.
Example: voltage-controlled current sink
Figure 1 shows a voltage-controlled current sink. The sink is intended to draw the same current iOUT regardless of the applied voltage VCC at the output. The value of current drawn is to be set by the input voltage vIN. Here the sink is to be analyzed by idealizing the op amp as a nullor.
Using properties of the input nullator portion of the nullor, the input voltage across the op amp input terminals is zero. Consequently, the voltage across reference resistor RR is the applied voltage vIN, making the current in RR simply vIN/RR. Again using the nullator properties, the input current to the nullor is zero. Consequently, Kirchhoff's current law at the emitter provides an emitter current of vIN/RR. Using properties of the norator output portion of the nullor, the nullor provides whatever current is demanded of it, regardless of the voltage at its output. In this case, it provides the transistor base current iB. Thus, Kirchhoff's current law applied to the transistor as a whole provides the output current drawn through resistor RC as
where the base current of the bipolar transistor iB is normally negligible provided the transistor remains in active mode. That is, based upon the idealization of a nullor, the output current is controlled by the user-applied input voltage vIN and the designer's choice for the reference resistor RR.
The purpose of the transistor in the circuit is to reduce the portion of the current in RR supplied by the op-amp. Without the transistor, the current through RC would be iOUT = (VCC − vIN)/RC, which interferes with the design goal of independence of iOUT from VCC. Another practical advantage of the transistor is that the op amp must deliver only the small transistor base current, which is unlikely to tax the op amp's current delivery capability. Of course, only real op amps are current-limited, not nullors.
The remaining variation of the current with the voltage VCC is due to the Early effect, which causes the β of the transistor to change with its collecto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Substation%20Events | Generic Substation Events (GSE) is a control model defined as per IEC 61850 which provides a fast and reliable mechanism of transferring event data over entire electrical substation networks. When implemented, this model ensures the same event message is received by multiple physical devices using multicast or broadcast services. The GSE control model is further subdivided into GOOSE (Generic Object Oriented Substation Events) and GSSE (Generic Substation State Events).
Generic Object Oriented Substation Events
Generic Object Oriented Substation Events (GOOSE) is a controlled model mechanism in which any format of data (status, value) is grouped into a data set and transmitted within a time period of 4 milliseconds. The following mechanisms are used to ensure specified transmission speed and reliability.
GOOSE data is directly embedded into Ethernet data packets and works on publisher-subscriber mechanism on multicast or broadcast MAC addresses.
GOOSE uses VLAN and priority tagging as per IEEE 802.1Q to have separate virtual network within the same physical network and sets appropriate message priority level.
Enhanced retransmission mechanisms - The same GOOSE message is retransmitted with varying and increasing re-transmission intervals. A new event occurring within any GOOSE dataset element will result in the existing GOOSE retransmission message being stopped. A state number within the GOOSE protocol identifies whether a GOOSE message is a new message or a retransmitted message.
GOOSE messages are designed to be brand independent. Some vendors offer intelligent electronic devices (IED) that fully support IEC 61850 for a truly interoperable approach within the substation network without requiring vendor specific cables or algorithms.
Generic Substation State Events
Generic Substation State Events (GSSE) is an extension of event transfer mechanism in UCA2.0. Only Status data can be exchanged through GSSE and it uses a status list (string of bits) rather than a dataset as is used in GOOSE. GSSE messages are transmitted directly over IEC/ISO 8802-2 and 8802-3 using a similar mechanism to GOOSE messages (refer IEC 61850-7-1 Clause 12.2, IEC 61850-8-1 Clause 6.4). As the GSSE format is simpler than GOOSE it is handled faster in some devices. GSSE is being progressively superseded by the use of GOOSE and support for it may eventually disappear.
Non-standard event reporting models
Equipment manufacturers have started to offer non-standard protocols to report events over substation networks, citing advantages to these approaches.
Fixed GOOSE - This is implemented in GE IEDs and makes use of the GSSE data format (list of bits) over the GOOSE protocol. This is said to be faster than GOOSE as it uses (shorter) unstructured data in the transmission string instead of structured data format required used by GOOSE.
See also
Manufacturing Message Specification
References
Electric power distribution
Networking standards
Smart grid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Dolman | Robert Dolman (born October 28, 1949) is a Canadian screenwriter, actor, director and producer.
His work in television includes SCTV, SCTV Network 90, and WKRP in Cincinnati. Among his film credits are the screenplays for Willow and Far and Away, as well as The Banger Sisters and How to Eat Fried Worms, both of which he also directed. He is a writer and producer on the 2022 Disney+ Willow TV series, returning to the franchise that he helped to co-create.
Dolman was married at one time to actress Andrea Martin, with whom he has two sons as well as a grandchild. His late sister, Nancy Dolman, was also an actress, as well as the wife of comedian and actor Martin Short.
Filmography
WKRP In Cincinnati (1981) (TV)
Little Shots (1983) (TV)
SCTV Network 90 (1981-1983) (TV)
SCTV (1983-1984) (TV)
Cowboy Joe (1987) (TV) (also Executive Producer)
Willow (1988)
Far and Away (1992)
The Banger Sisters (2002) (also Director)
How to Eat Fried Worms (2006) (also Director & Producer)
Out of Brooklyn (2010) (also Director & Producer)
Willow (2022) (TV)
References
External links
1949 births
Canadian male screenwriters
Living people
Primetime Emmy Award winners
20th-century Canadian male actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Male actors from Toronto
Film directors from Toronto
Screenwriters from Toronto
Canadian male television writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Canadian screenwriters
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
21st-century Canadian male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20slowdown | Parallel slowdown is a phenomenon in parallel computing where parallelization of a parallel algorithm beyond a certain point causes the program to run slower (take more time to run to completion).
Parallel slowdown is typically the result of a communications bottleneck. As more processor nodes are added, each processing node spends progressively more time doing communication than useful processing. At some point, the communications overhead created by adding another processing node surpasses the increased processing power that node provides, and parallel slowdown occurs.
Parallel slowdown occurs when the algorithm requires significant communication, particularly of intermediate results. Some problems, known as embarrassingly parallel problems, do not require such communication, and thus are not affected by slowdown.
References
See also
Mythical man month, an analogous situation for a team programmers where productivity is affected by human communication.
Analysis of parallel algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20TV | Universal TV, formerly Universal Channel, is an international pay television network specializing in movies and television series in the thriller, drama, comedy, horror, crime and investigation genres, owned by NBCUniversal International Networks, a division of NBCUniversal and available on satellite and cable platforms. They were formerly branded as USA Network until 2003 when the name was changed to take more advantage of the Universal branding, but continue programming as that network does like a general interest network.
Launched in other countries
Original launch
Universal Channel was officially launched on 1 September 2004 in Latin America, then it launched on 1 December 2007 in Poland (as Kanał Universal) and Romania (as Canalul Universal) and on 1 July 2008 in Southeast Asia.
Re-branded in selected countries
In South Africa, Hallmark Channel was re-branded under that name on 24 March 2010 for DStv subscribers. In Japan, Sci Fi Channel re-branded to that name on 1 April 2010. In Australia, Hallmark Channel re-branded to that name on 1 July 2010. In Hungary (as Universal Csatorna), Czech Republic, Slovakia and ex Yugoslav countries Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hallmark Channel was re-branded to that name on 3 September 2010. And in the Philippines, this channel was launched on 26 July 2010 and replaced the Sci Fi Channel which was rebranded as Universal Channel.
On 18 October 2010, the Hallmark Channel in the UK and Ireland was rebranded, adopting the Universal Channel name. The UK version closed on 27 January 2020. On 3 May 2018, starting with the UK, they have begun the global rebrand of the channel as 'Universal TV'. In August 2018, the Brazilian signal of Universal Channel was rebranded to Universal TV, with the Latin American variant following suit in October.
Universal TV’s Launch in New Zealand
In 2021, SkyTV New Zealand and NBCUniversal had signed a multi-year deal allowing Sky to broadcast their new movies, programmes and content while also taking into effect their current catalogue. Therefore, releasing Universal TV to New Zealand audiences as a part of Sky New Zealand’s Starter pack.
Universal Channel and E!’s Closure in Russia
On April 30, 2015, Universal Channel was closed during technical problems, along with E!.
Universal Channels around the world
Programmes
Latin America
Almost Paradise
Bates Motel
Blue Bloods
Beauty & the Beast
Brothers & Sisters
The Cape
Chicago Fire
Chicago Med
Chicago P.D.
Elementary
The Event
Family Law
FBI
FBI: International
FBI: Most Wanted
The Good Wife
Grimm
House
Law & Order
Law & Order: LA
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Librarians
Magnum P.I.
Psych
The Rookie
Rookie Blue
Stalker
Poland
Arrow
A Touch of Frost
Californication
Castle
CSI: Miami
Dexter
Hawaii Five-0
Law & Order
Monk
Psych
Royal Pains
Scandal
Sleeper Cell
Stargate Universe
The Sopranos
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia
Bein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dotty%20Mack%20Show | The Dotty Mack Show is an American variety show originally broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network in 1953, and on ABC from 1953 to 1956.
Broadcast history
The program, produced and distributed from Cincinnati, aired Monday at 10:45 pm on most DuMont affiliates until July 1953, when it moved to Tuesdays at 9:30 pm.
Originally titled Girl Alone, the program featured performer Dotty Mack lip synching and dancing to popular 1950s songs. The name of the program was changed to The Dotty Mack Show in the summer of 1953 when she was joined by male performers Colin Male and Bob Braun. The last DuMont show was on August 25, 1953.
The series then moved to ABC, first on Saturdays at 8 pm, replacing a program of dance band remote broadcasts from Chicago and New York. It ran opposite The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan on NBC and The Jackie Gleason Show on CBS, and then Mondays at 9 pm on ABC, where it remained until being canceled in September 1956.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
Hit Parade - Australian series with similar format
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1953 American television series debuts
1956 American television series endings
1950s American variety television series
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
Dance television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Pop music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternac | TERNAC is an emulation written in FORTRAN of a ternary computer on another binary machine, a Burroughs B1700. It was implemented in 1973 at State University of New York, Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo). The implementation provided both fixed-point and floating-point capability; fixed-point words were 24 trits in length and the floating-point words had 42 trits for mantissa and 6 trits for exponent.
TERNAC was intended primarily to discover if the implementation of a nonbinary structure on a binary computer was feasible, and to ascertain the cost in memory storage and time for such an implementation. As a feasibility test, it was successful, and proved that both speed and price are comparable with that of binary computers.
See also
Setun (ternary computer constructed in USSR)
References
^ DSSP & Forth : Compare And Analysis
G. Frieder, A. Fong, and C. Y. Chao. A Balanced Ternary Computer. Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, pages 68–88, 1972
Ternary computers: part I: motivation for ternary computers G. Frieder, 1972; Proceeding MICRO 5 Conference
Ternary computers: part 2: emulation of a ternary computer G. Frieder, 1972; Proceeding MICRO 5 Conference
External links
Development of ternary computers at Moscow State University
Nikolai Brusentsov's Setun entry
Pioneers of Soviet Computing
Mainframe computers
Ternary computers
de:Setun
pl:Setun (komputer) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downingia%20cuspidata | Downingia cuspidata is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family known by the common name toothed calicoflower. This showy wildflower is native to California, where it is a resident of ponds, meadows, and vernal pool ecosystems throughout the state. Its range may extend into Mexico.
This annual grows on a branching erect stem with small leaves at intervals. At the top of each stem branch is one or more flowers, each about a centimeter wide. The tubular flower has two long, narrow, pointed upper lobes which may be blue or purple to nearly white. The lower lip is fused into one three-lobed surface, which is blue, purple, or white with a large blotch or two smaller blotches of yellow in the center, outlined in white. Each lobe may have a toothlike point.
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
Photo gallery
cuspidata
Flora of California
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csaba%20Pint%C3%A9r | Csaba Pintér (born January 11, 1967) is the bass player of Hungarian heavy metal band Pokolgép since 1996.
External links
Data page on Pokolgép's site
1967 births
Living people
Hungarian bass guitarists
Male bass guitarists
Heavy metal bass guitarists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20Museum%20Network | The Oklahoma Museum Network funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation is a statewide collaboration of five partner museums in the U.S. state of Oklahoma working together to provide hands-on discovery learning and science resources to families, students and educators across the state.
As of 2022, partner museums include the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum in Seminole, Leonardo's Children's Museum in Enid, the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, and Science Museum Oklahoma in Oklahoma City.
In August 2008, five interactive hands-on science exhibits began touring between partner museums, rotating approximately every six months. Network museums also participate in nationally recognized training programs, exchanging best practices in order to maximize education, fundraising, and capacity-building efforts. Additionally, a 40 ft museum on wheels, the Science Matters Mobile Museum, travels to rural areas of Oklahoma, engaging students in the outermost regions of the state.
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
The Foundation is a national philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by the late media entrepreneur for whom it is named. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, it is one of the largest private foundations in the United States.
References
External links
Oklahoma Museum Network
Science Museum Oklahoma
Organizations based in Oklahoma
Museums in Oklahoma
Museum organizations
1954 establishments in Oklahoma
Organizations established in 1954 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Drew%20Pearson%20Show | The Drew Pearson Show was an American television program originally broadcast on ABC and later on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1952 to 1953. It was a public affairs program hosted by political columnist Drew Pearson.
The program aired Sunday nights at 11 (Eastern Standard Time) on ABC. When the series moved to the DuMont network, it aired on Wednesday nights at 7:30. The series was cancelled in mid-March 1953.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
1952 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Life | Capital Life, also known as Life, was a digital radio station broadcasting across the UK on the Digital One network and streamed online. Capital Life was due to be available on DTV but never launched due to the closure of the station.
About
Capital Life was owned by GCap Media, having been launched by Capital Radio PLC before the company merged with the GWR Group PLC. It was one of the first DAB Digital Radio stations to launch in the UK in 1999 on the Digital One multiplex.
The station had two presenters to start with. It was based in a news studio used by Capital Gold London outside of breakfast hours. Later it moved into a newly created Digital Broadcast studio in Leicester Square, which it in turn shared with Capital Disney and Century London
Until 2005, Paul Phear Magic 105.4 presented the breakfast show on weekday mornings, culminating in "The Life Top Ten At Ten" - a chart from years gone by - any year from 1975 onwards - the chart was, in fact, not actual historic chart positions but the order chosen by the programme controller to avoid playing certain novelty songs and those that did not reflect the musical style. After the Life Top Ten At Ten, the station was automated all day - news from IRN hourly, but music at all other times. Paul Phear then returned to present a late night love song show from 10 pm. For a short spell, Jon o'Neill presented in the drivetime slot.
On Saturday morning, there was a show presented by Phillip Chryssikos. Sunday, it was non-stop music.
After a successful year presenting 'The Life Coach' a quirky weekend breakfast show, comedian Anthony Davis replaced Paul Phear, hosting the weekday breakfast show live, instead of pre-recording, a rare event for a Digital radio station, making Capital Life one of the very few digital radio stations to have live presentation. (Along with sister station Capital Disney, which provided mostly live programming).
Unlike other radio stations, there were no travel bulletins (due to the limited number of DAB Radios in households at the time, and the fact the station provided blanket national coverage), commercials or interviews with celebrities and politicians and sports reports - the emphasis was on music and there was a playlist similar to that of Century Digital.
Relaunch and demise
'Life' relaunched as Capital Life in 2005, under Programme Controller Micky Gavin (who left very shortly afterwards to run Hereward FM) and Digital Content Director Kevin Palmer, and a full presenter line up joined the station, along with a new sung jingle package from Reelworld. These presenters (with subsequent positions/station) included: Susan Spence (now LBC 97.3 & BBC Radio 5 Live), Nicola Bonn (Classic FM and Heart Network), Ali Wheeler (Invicta FM), Leigh Jones (Red Dragon), Tom Rudolph, Brian O'Neill (GMTV), Pam Sharpless, Micky Gavin (Real Radio Scotland), Jonathan Miles (BBC Radio Newcastle) Ali Jones (Fox FM) and Anthony Davis (LBC 97.3 and Jazz FM)
Upon the merger of Capi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shielded%20data%20link%20connector | A shielded data link connector is a type of electrical connector in which the signal pins are surrounded by a metal shield. The connector was designed by AMP (now TE Connectivity) and is available with a range of pins (4 to 16). It also features a locking mechanism and is available in differently keyed plugs that correspond to the proper socket.
It has been used by several different products, most notably on the original IBM Model M keyboard with a detachable cable, on the IBM SurePos line of devices, and on HP HIL devices (such as keyboards and mice). The connector was also used by AMF for their line of Accuscore automatic scoring systems for bowling. Some of the SDL connectors are still manufactured but are no longer common on consumer electronic devices.
See also
Modular connector
External links
Tyco catalogue entry for SDL connectors
Electrical signal connectors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIMM%20%28AM%29 | KIMM (1150 AM, "FOX Sports Rapid City") is an American radio station that broadcasts a sports format with programming from FOX Sports Radio. KIMM-AM also broadcasts on FM translator K294BT-FM 106.7 MHz.
Licensed to Rapid City, South Dakota, the station primarily serves the Rapid City and western South Dakota area. The station is currently owned by Black Hills Broadcasting, L.L.C.
KIMM used to air a mix of various syndicated conservative talk radio shows like Don Imus, Glenn Beck, Dave Ramsey, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, and Tom Sullivan. Weekend programming included a mix of sports and lifestyle programs.
On October 30, 2017, following an agreement for the sale of the station, KIMM changed their format from news/political talk to sports talk and rebranded as "FOX Sports Rapid City".
Ownership
In May 1999, Triad Broadcasting reached a deal to acquire this station from Brothers Jim and Tom Instad as part of a twelve-station deal valued at a reported $37.8 million.
This station is now owned by Nate Brown, host of 'The Nate Brown Show,' through licensee Black Hills Broadcasting, L.L.C.
The Nate Brown Show
On March 13, 2017, 'The Nate Brown Show' went live with local host Nate Brown on KIMM. The 2-hour local sports talk show was on weekdays from 2 P.M. to 4 P.M., showcasing national, regional, and local sports guests and stories to the Black Hills region. It became Rapid City's and western South Dakota's first and only local sports talk show serving a population of over 216,000.
In November 2017, the show switched its time slot on weekdays to 4 P.M. to 6 P.M. It is still the area's only live and local sports talk show exclusively heard on KIMM (FOX Sports Rapid City). 'The Nate Brown Show' has since expanded their listenership across the state of South Dakota and rebranded its slogan to "South Dakota's Sports Talk Show."
To date, 'The Nate Brown Show' has done over 1,000 shows with over 150,000 podcast listens. It has since added a live video stream of the show to better broaden its brand and reach.
Previous station logo(s)
References
External links
The Nate Brown Show on Twitter
The Nate Brown Show on SoundCloud
The Nate Brown Show on YouTube
IMM (AM)
Sports radio stations in the United States
Fox Sports Radio stations
Radio stations established in 1962
1962 establishments in South Dakota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMNS | KMNS (620 AM) is a radio station in Sioux City, Iowa, United States, broadcasting a sports format. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and affiliated with its Fox Sports Radio network. iHeart's studios in Sioux City are located on Nebraska Avenue, and the transmitter is located southwest of Dakota City, Nebraska.
History
On October 29, 1946, Commercial Associates, Inc., filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new radio station on 620 kHz in Sioux City. The FCC granted the application on April 28, 1947, In late 1948, Dietrich Dirks, former stockholder and manager of station KTRI, acquired control of the new station, and KCOM began broadcasting on May 1, 1949 from studios in the Insurance Exchange Building. It focused on news, sports, music, and farm features. Dirks also applied in 1952 for television channel 4, KSCJ also applied, and in December 1953, the two stations agreed to combine their bids in order to bypass a lengthy comparative hearing, with the added wrinkle that the KCOM Broadcasting Company would not only sell half of its shares to KSCJ but would sell off KCOM.
In October 1954, the Siouxland Broadcasting Company, controlled by the Johns family, acquired KCOM. William F. Johns managed WOSH in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. To emphasize the format, the new owners changed the call letters on January 1, 1955, to KMNS—"Music, News and Sports". Three years, Johns sold the station to James Stuart of Lincoln, Nebraska, for $175,000.
Stuart expanded by purchasing FM station KDVR (97.9 FM) in 1974 and relaunching it as KSEZ "Stereo 98" with an easy listening format. Five years later, Stuart sold both stations to Sentry Broadcasting, a division of Wisconsin-based Sentry Insurance, for $1.8 million. The format changed from Top 40 to country music in 1982. In 1984, Sentry embarked on a $200,000 rehabilitation of the transmission facility in Dakota City, adding modern-day equipment, preparing for potential AM stereo deployment, and also laying the groundwork for a possible power increase to 2,500 watts. Two years later, it sold the pair to Sage Broadcasting of Stamford, Connecticut; at the same time, it sold off three of its six other broadcasting operations. Sage retained the pair for three years, selling to Legend Communications in 1989; the stations were then sold to Chesterman Communications in 1992 after a previous attempt by the same buyer to purchase them the year before fell through.
After the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which relaxed limits on radio station ownership, Chesterman and the Cardinal Communications cluster of KGLI and KWSL combined operations. The station added sports programming at night, initially from ESPN Radio, in 1998. By the end of the decade, KMNS had shifted to a full-on news/talk format, mostly relying on local news and syndicated national talk shows.
Clear Channel, predecessor to iHeartMedia, acquired the Sioux City cluster from Radioworks (the former Chesterman Communications) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHQN | KHQN (1480 AM) is a spiritual radio station licensed to serve the community of Spanish Fork, Utah. The station's broadcast license is held by SACE Broadcasting Corporation.
Programming
KHQN broadcasts full-time spiritual, transcendental music and talks.
History
In 1983, station KHQN1480 carried a Mainstream Rock format. In 1984, the station became the only stations in the United States broadcasting Hare Krishna programming full-time.
The Krishna Temple took over the station from the Schofield family, the previous owners. The program had consisted of news, popular and traditional music, and a call-in show for the college students and speakers as well as Spanish-speaking residents from all over Utah County. The Krishna Temple changed it to a mix of devotional & classical music & philosophical talk & drama shows. To help in the building of the Spanish Fork Krishna Temple, Sace Broadcasting, decided to lease the station to a Spanish Broadcaster, then the station changed to a news/talk format in 2006, and In December 2016, KHQN was re-acquired by Krishna's SACE Broadcasting. Now, once again, it is broadcasting Hare Krishna programming full-time.
References
Radio stations in Utah
Radio stations established in 1960
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Spanish Fork, Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin%20Maddoux | Robert Marlin Maddoux (May 4, 1933 – March 4, 2004) was an American pioneer in broadcasting. Maddoux was the host of Point of View radio talk show, the founder and president of the USA Radio Network and the National Center for Freedom & Renewal (formerly International Christian Media), Alliance Defense Fund co-founder as well as a noted journalist and author.
Career
Maddoux was founder and host of Point of View radio talk show, which began in 1972 and is broadcast daily via satellite on 250 radio stations nationwide and around the world by shortwave. He was a pioneer in the talk radio industry with Point of View’s hard-hitting issues-oriented talk format. For more than thirty years, Point of View has covered the full spectrum of issues and current events that affect homes, beliefs, schools, government, churches and basic freedoms from a Christian perspective. In 1986, Maddoux received the National Religious Broadcasters Award of Merit. In 1994, Christianity Today magazine called Point of View America's "most popular live Christian call-in show."
In 1985, Maddoux founded USA Radio Network. In 1994, the National Religious Broadcasters awarded the USA Radio Network its "Program Producer of the Year" Award. Marlin Maddoux was inducted into the National Religious Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2007.
Books
He is the author of several nonfiction books and one novel.
Nonfiction
(published posthumously)
Novels
References
External links
1933 births
2004 deaths
Alliance Defending Freedom people
American talk radio hosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune%20Social | Zune Social was the online component of Microsoft's Zune initiative. It was a social networking website that displayed a user's most-played artists, favorite and recently played songs, a list of the users friends, what the user's friends were listening to, and any comments about them. It has been compared to iLike and Last.fm in that it tracked and displayed, or "scrobbled", songs that the user had played.
The central component of Social was the Zune Card. It was a Flash-based widget that could be embedded on other sites and social networking pages (Myspace, Facebook, etc.). It showcased the user's most recently played songs, their most played artists and number of times that artist had been played, and a user-selected list of favorite songs. Clicking a song, artist, or album would bring up the respective page on the Social website. Select songs had an option to preview a 30-second clip, and users could download the song via Zune Marketplace, suggest the song to a friend, or add it as one of their favorites.
In May 2008, Microsoft added reputation badges to users' Zune Cards, which could be earned by having listened to an album or artist a certain number of times, or by making helpful posts in the Zune forums. In addition, Zune Cards could be synced with user's devices; subscribers to Zune Pass could in this way download all the songs on their friends' cards.
Comparisons to Microsoft's Xbox Live Gamertag were inevitable, as the two services use the same back-end. They differed in that the Gamercard showed the user's recently played games, while the Zune Card displayed recently played songs. Users signed into the service via Windows Live ID and could link their Gamertag and Zune tag so that friends on Xbox Live would carry over to the other service.
Plays were recorded on both the device and software, and the software sent play updates by default every 15 minutes. Songs played on the device were recorded during the sync process, though the order they show up on the Zune Card was a result of the sync order (not play order). Only albums that were in AMG and Zune Marketplace were shown, and plays were kept in the database for 28 days only.
Zune Social Badges
If a user listened to an artist or album enough times, Zune awarded that user a badge.
Users also earned badges for contributing useful information to the Zune.net forums and for reviews.
Album Power Listener
Bronze - 200 or more plays
Silver - 1,000 or more plays
Gold - 5,000 or more plays
Artist Power Listener
Bronze - 200 or more plays
Silver -1,000 or more plays
Gold - 5,000 or more plays
Forums Contributor
Bronze - 10 or more posts rated highly
Silver - 25 or more posts rated highly
Gold - 50 or more posts rated highly
Reviews Contributor
Bronze - 10 or more reviews rated highly
Silver - 20 or more reviews rated highly
Gold - 50 or more reviews rated highly
Badges did not expire.
Similar services
Batanga
Deezer
iLike
Jamendo
MeeMix
MOG
Musicovery
Pandora Radio
Slacker
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCDC | CCDC may stand for:
The Cairo Contemporary Dance Center
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Catoctin Creek Distilling Company, a distillery based Virginia, United States
Chinatown Community Development Center in San Francisco, which also created the Adopt-An-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project
China Central Depository & Clearing Co., Ltd., based in Beijing, China
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, based in Beijing, China
City Contemporary Dance Company, a leading modern dance company in Hong Kong
Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, a series of defensive computer security contests in the United States
Columbus County Detention Center, a Correctional Institution in North Carolina, also called Columbus Correctional Institution
United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
Community College of the District of Columbia, located in Washington, D.C., United States
United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, abbreviated C.C.D.C. in case citations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RefSeq | The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) database is an open access, annotated and curated collection of publicly available nucleotide sequences (DNA, RNA) and their protein products. RefSeq was introduced in 2000. This database is built by National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and, unlike GenBank, provides only a single record for each natural biological molecule (i.e. DNA, RNA or protein) for major organisms ranging from viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes.
For each model organism, RefSeq aims to provide separate and linked records for the genomic DNA, the gene transcripts, and the proteins arising from those transcripts. RefSeq is limited to major organisms for which sufficient data are available (121,461 distinct "named" organisms as of July 2022), while GenBank includes sequences for any organism submitted (approximately 504,000 formally described species).
RefSeq categories
RefSeq collection comprises different data types, with different origins, so it is necessary to establish standard categories and identifiers to store each data type. The most important categories are:
For more details and more categories, see Table 1 in Chapter 18 of the book The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) Database.
RefSeq Projects
Several projects to improve RefSeq services are currently in development by the NCBI, often in collaboration with research centers such as EMBL-EBI:
Consensus CDS (CCDS): This project aims to identify a core set of human and mouse protein-coding regions and standardize sets of genes with high and consistent levels of genomic annotation quality. This project was announced in 2009 and is still in development.
RefSeq Functional Elements (RefSeqFE): It is focused on describing non-genic functional elements which are gene regulatory regions such as: enhancers, silencers, DNase I hypersensitive regions, DNA replication origins etc.). The current scope of this project is restricted to the human and mouse genomes.
RefSeqGene: Its main goal is to define genomic sequences to be used as reference standards for well-characterized genes. Previously described mRNA, protein and chromosome sequences have the weaknesses of not providing explicit genomic coordinates of gene flanking and intronic regions as well as showing awkwardly large coordinates that change with every new genome assembly. The RefSeqGene project is designed to eliminate these errors.
Targeted Loci: This project records molecular markers, specially protein-coding and ribosomal RNA loci that are used for phylogenetic and barcoding analysis. The scope of this project includes sequences for Archaea, Bacteria and Fungi organisms, accessible via Entrez and BLAST queries. It also includes GenBank sequences for Animals, Plants and Protists, accessible via BLAST queries.
Virus Variation (ViV): It is a specific resource of sequence data processing pipelines and analysis tools for display and retrieval of sequences from several viral groups such as influenza virus, ebolavirus, MERS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%207 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein (Dock7) is a large (~240 kDa) protein encoded in the human by the DOCK7 gene, involved in intracellular signalling networks. It is a member of the DOCK-C subfamily of the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) which function as activators of small G-proteins. Dock7 activates isoforms of the small G protein Rac.
Discovery
Dock7 was identified as one of a number of proteins which share high sequence similarity with the previously described protein Dock180, the archetypal member of the DOCK family. Dock7 expression has been reported in neurons and in the HEK 293 cell line.
Structure and function
Dock7 is part of a large class of proteins (GEFs) which contribute to cellular signalling events by activating small G proteins. In their resting state G proteins are bound to Guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and their activation requires the dissociation of GDP and binding of guanosine triphosphate (GTP). GEFs activate G proteins by promoting this nucleotide exchange.
Dock7 and other DOCK family proteins differ from other GEFs in that they do not possess the canonical structure of tandem DH-PH domains known to elicit nucleotide exchange. Instead they possess a DHR2 domain which mediates G protein activation by stabilising it in its nucleotide free state. They also contain a DHR1 domain which, in many DOCK family members, interacts with phospholipids. Dock7 shares the highest level of sequence similarity with Dock6 and Dock8, the other members of the DOCK-C subfamily. However, the specificity of the Dock7 DHR2 domain appears to resemble that of DOCK-A/B subfamily proteins in that it binds Rac but not Cdc42. Many DOCK family proteins contain important structural features at their N- and C-termini, however, these regions in Dock7 are poorly characterised thus far and no such features have been identified.
Regulation of Dock7 Activity
Many members of the DOCK family are regulated by protein-protein interactions mediated via domains at their N- and C-termini, however, the mechanisms by which Dock7 is regulated are largely unknown. There is evidence that the production of PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 by members of the Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) family is important for efficient recruitment of Dock7 since the PI3K inhibitor LY294002 was shown to block Dock7-dependent functions in neurons. This observation is consistent with the role of the DHR1 domain in other DOCK family proteins. In neurons of the hippocampus Dock7 undergoes striking changes in subcellular localisation during the progressive stages of neuronal development, resulting in an abundance of this protein in a single neurite which goes on to form the axon of the polarised neuron.
In Schwann cells (which generate an insulating layer, known as the myelin sheath, around axons of the peripheral nervous system) Dock7 appears to be activated downstream of the neuregulin receptor ErbB2, which receives signals from the axon that induce Schwann cell proliferation, mig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBM6 | RNA-binding protein 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RBM6 gene. RBM6 orthologs have been identified in all mammals for which complete genome data are available.
RBM6 splicing factor interacts with the DNA repair protein RAD51, and is also recruited to DNA double-strand breaks where it promotes homologous recombinational repair.
References
Further reading
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook%20Air | The MacBook Air is a line of laptop computers developed and manufactured by Apple since 2008. It features a thin, light structure in a machined aluminum case and currently either a 13-inch or 15-inch screen. The Macbook Air's lower prices relative to the larger, higher performance MacBook Pro have made it Apple's entry-level notebook since the discontinuation of the original MacBook line in 2011.
Intel-based
The MacBook Air was introduced in January 2008 as a premium ultraportable with a 13.3-inch screen and a full-size keyboard, and was promoted as the world's thinnest notebook, opening a laptop category known as the ultrabook family. With its slim design, it attracted attention for not including an optical disc drive, and having fewer ports than was typical for laptops at the time.
Original (2008–2009)
Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air during Apple’s keynote address at the 2008 Macworld conference on January 15, 2008. The first MacBook Air was a 13.3-inch model, initially promoted as the world's thinnest notebook at (a previous record holder, 2005's Toshiba Portege R200, was high). It featured a custom Intel Merom CPU and Intel GMA GPU which were 40% smaller than the standard chip package. It also featured an anti-glare LED backlit TN 6-bit color panel display, a full-size keyboard, and a large trackpad that responded to multi-touch gestures such as pinching, swiping, and rotating.
The MacBook Air was the first subcompact notebook offered by Apple after the 12" PowerBook G4 discontinued in 2006. It was also Apple's first computer with an optional solid-state drive. It was the last Mac to use a PATA storage drive, and the only one with an Intel CPU. To conserve on space, it uses the 1.8 inch drive used in the iPod Classic instead of the typical 2.5-inch drive. It was Apple's first notebook since the PowerBook 2400c without a built-in removable media drive. To read optical disks, users could either purchase an external USB drive such as Apple's SuperDrive or use the bundled Remote Disc software to access the drive of another computer wirelessly that has the program installed. The MacBook Air also did not include a FireWire port, Ethernet port, line-in, and a Kensington Security Slot.
On October 14, 2008, a new model was announced with a low-voltage Penryn processor and Nvidia GeForce graphics. Storage capacity was increased to a 128 GB SSD or a 120 GB HDD, and the micro-DVI video port was replaced by the Mini DisplayPort. The disk drive was also changed from a PATA drive to the faster SATA drive.
A mid-2009 revision featured slightly higher battery capacity and a faster Penryn CPU.
Redesign (2010–2017)
, Apple released a redesigned 13.3-inch model with a tapered enclosure, higher screen resolution, improved battery, a second USB port, stereo speakers, and standard solid state storage. An 11.6-inch model was introduced, offering reduced cost, weight, battery life, and performance relative to the 13.3-inch model, but better perform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloisio%20Gardellini | Aloisio Gardellini (August 4, 1759 in Rome – October 8, 1829) was an Italian editor and compiler of religious documents.
He wrote a collection of the decrees of the Congregation of Rites. Until 1587, the celebration of the Sacrifice of the Mass and the administration of the sacraments had been subject to regulations made by various popes. Necessarily, in the course of time, these regulations became somewhat confused by reason of overlapping, amplification, and abolition.
In 1587 Pope Sixtus V, in the Constitution Immensae aeterni Dei, called into being a body of cardinals, bishops, and clerics, whose work was to guard and guide the proper celebration of the liturgical offices.
A collection of papal regulations and congregational decrees was published in 1730 by John Baptist Pithonius, a Venetian priest, the title of his book being "Constitutiones pontificae et Romanorum Congregationum decisiones ad sacros Ritus spectantes". This work was somewhat imperfect, and it was not until 1807 that Gardellini published the first two volumes of his well-known collection of the decrees of the Congregation of Rites, to which was prefixed "Sacrorum rituum studiosis monitum". Three further volumes were published in 1816, and a sixth volume was brought out in 1819. This volume contained more recent decrees down to the date of publication, and also the Commentary on the Clementine Instruction regarding the devotion of the Forty Hours.
A new and corrected edition of Gardellini's work was published in 1827, and in this edition he included certain relevant statements given between the years 1558 and 1599.
Gardellini was appointed assessor of the Congregation of Rites.
Other editions of the decrees have been issued subsequently.
References
1759 births
1829 deaths
Italian editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized%20neuropsychological%20assessment | Computerized neuropsychological assessment helps neuropsychologists and psychologists to assess functions relative to possible brain damage using a software.
For more information about the tests, see Neuropsychological tests.
Available packages
Currently there are some commercial packages available for buying. Once bought, they can be installed at a clinic and be used to assess patients.
Computerized versus traditional tests
There are some discussions on the effectiveness of computerized tests.
The detriments in using computerized versions are discussed in an article.
Computerized tests have the following main benefits:
Speed
Results are obtained as soon as the tests are finished – no need to consult tables or other informations.
Security
Every rule is programmed in the software, so there will be no errors during the execution or getting the results.
Hemispheric Asymmetry
To assess different hemispheric functions, some packages offer verbal and non verbal tests. These tests are applied according to Neuropsychological tests.
Development at Universities
By having clinical applications, some universities develop their own packages, like University of Cambridge (CANTAB - Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery ) and Universidade Federal de São Paulo (NAFW - Neuropsychological Assessment Framework , LAACS - Lateralized Attention Assessment Computerized System and ThoughtFlow-Sys ).
List of software
ThoughtFlow-Sys
NAFW - Neuropsychological Assessment Framework
LAACS - Lateralized Attention Assessment Computerized System
References
CANTAB
LAACS
NAFW
UNIFESP-DIS
External links
Ethical issues in the use of computerized assessment
Sources of error in computerized neuropsychological assessment
Health informatics
Neurophysiology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%26I | H&I may refer to:
Highbury & Islington station, a railway station in London, England
Heroes & Icons, an American television network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20telecommunication%20companies%20in%20Pakistan |
See also
List of dialling codes in Pakistan
List of mobile codes in Pakistan
Telephone numbers in Pakistan
References
Mobile network operators
Telecommunications companies of Pakistan
Telecommunication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaqus | Abaqus FEA (formerly ABAQUS) is a software suite for finite element analysis and computer-aided engineering, originally released in 1978. The name and logo of this software are based on the abacus calculation tool.
The Abaqus product suite consists of five core software products:
Abaqus/CAE, or "Complete Abaqus Environment" (a backronym with a root in Computer-Aided Engineering). It is a software application used for both the modeling and analysis of mechanical components and assemblies (pre-processing) and visualizing the finite element analysis result. A subset of Abaqus/CAE including only the post-processing module can be launched independently in the Abaqus/Viewer product.
Abaqus/Standard, a general-purpose Finite-Element analyzer that employs implicit integration scheme (traditional).
Abaqus/Explicit, a special-purpose Finite-Element analyzer that employs explicit integration scheme to solve highly nonlinear systems with many complex contacts under transient loads.
Abaqus/CFD, a Computational Fluid Dynamics software application which provides advanced computational fluid dynamics capabilities with extensive support for preprocessing and postprocessing provided in Abaqus/CAE - discontinued in Abaqus 2017 and further releases.
Abaqus/Electromagnetic, a Computational electromagnetics software application which solves advanced computational electromagnetic problems.
The Abaqus products use the open-source scripting language Python for scripting and customization. Abaqus/CAE uses the fox-toolkit for GUI development.
History
The name of Abaqus was initially written as ABAQUS when it was first released. The early history of ABAQUS is very tightly connected with the early history of MARC Analysis Research Corporation. Dr. David Hibbitt, Dr. Bengt Karlsson, and Dr. Paul Sorensen co-founded the company later known as Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc., (HKS) in Jan, 1978 to develop and market ABAQUS software. Hibbitt and Sorensen had met while completing their Ph.Ds at Brown University while Karlsson encountered the two in his capacity as a support analyst in a data centre in Stockholm. The original logo of ABAQUS company is a stylized abacus calculator, and its beads are set to the company's official launch date of February 1, 1978 (2-1-1978).
ABAQUS version 1 was created for a specific client -- Westinghouse Hanford Company which used the software to analyze nuclear fuel rod assemblies. ABAQUS version 3 was released in June 1979. In the early days, ABAQUS was designed primarily for the nonlinear static and dynamic analysis of structures, and nonlinear steady and transient analysis of heat transfer or conduction problems. It was initially distributed via CDC's Cybernet service. The first parallel version of ABAQUS, version 5.4, was made available to users in 1995.
The core product, eventually known as ABAQUS/Standard which is an implicit finite element solver, was complemented by other software packages including ABAQUS/Explicit, a dynam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 1998–99 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada's major English and French broadcast networks.
1998 official fall schedule
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
References
Fall Preview '98, Ottawa Citizen, TVtimes, 5 September 1998
Listings, TVtimes, Ottawa Citizen, 17 October 1998 to 13 March 1999
External links
CBC Television: Annual Report 1998-99
1998 in Canadian television
1999 in Canadian television
Canadian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%20Platform | The Facebook Platform is the set of services, tools, and products provided by the social networking service Facebook for third-party developers to create their own applications and services that access data in Facebook.
The current Facebook Platform was launched in 2010. The platform offers a set of programming interfaces and tools which enable developers to integrate with the open "social graph" of personal relations and other things like songs, places, and Facebook pages. Applications on facebook.com, external websites, and devices are all allowed to access the graph.
History
Facebook launched the Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007, providing a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features. A markup language called Facebook Markup Language was introduced simultaneously; it is used to customize the "look and feel" of applications that developers create. Prior to the Facebook platform, Facebook had built many applications themselves within the Facebook website, including Gifts, allowing users to send virtual gifts to each other, Marketplace, allowing users to post free classified ads, Facebook events, giving users a method of informing their friends about upcoming events, Video, letting users share homemade videos with one another, and social network game, where users can use their connections to friends to help them advance in games they are playing. The Facebook Platform made it possible for outside partners to build similar applications. Many of the popular early social network games would combine capabilities. For instance, one of the early games to reach the top application spot, (Lil) Green Patch, combined virtual Gifts with Event notifications to friends and contributions to charities through Causes.
Third party companies provide application metrics, and several blogs arose in response to the clamor for Facebook applications. On July 4, 2007, Altura Ventures announced the "Altura 1 Facebook Investment Fund," becoming the world's first Facebook-only venture capital firm.
On August 29, 2007, Facebook changed the way in which the popularity of applications is measured, to give attention to the more engaging applications, following criticism that ranking applications only by the number of people who had installed the application was giving an advantage to the highly viral, yet useless applications.
Tech blog Valleywag has criticized Facebook Applications, labeling them a "cornucopia of uselessness." Others have called for limiting third-party applications so the Facebook user experience is not degraded.
Applications that have been created on the Platform include chess, which both allow users to play games with their friends. In such games, a user's moves are saved on the website, allowing the next move to be made at any time rather than immediately after the previous move.
By November 3, 2007, seven thousand applications had been developed on the Facebook Platform, with another hundred |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20weather%20observation | Surface weather observations are the fundamental data used for safety as well as climatological reasons to forecast weather and issue warnings worldwide. They can be taken manually, by a weather observer, by computer through the use of automated weather stations, or in a hybrid scheme using weather observers to augment the otherwise automated weather station. The ICAO defines the International Standard Atmosphere (ISA), which is the model of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, and viscosity with altitude in the Earth's atmosphere, and is used to reduce a station pressure to sea level pressure. Airport observations can be transmitted worldwide through the use of the METAR observing code. Personal weather stations taking automated observations can transmit their data to the United States mesonet through the Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP), the UK Met Office through their Weather Observations Website (WOW), or internationally through the Weather Underground Internet site. A thirty-year average of a location's weather observations is traditionally used to determine the station's climate. In the US a network of Cooperative Observers make a daily record of summary weather and sometimes water level information.
History
Reverend John Campanius Holm is credited with taking the first systematic weather observations in Colonial America. He was a chaplain in the Swedes Fort colony near the mouth of the Delaware River. Holm recorded daily observations without instruments during 1644 and 1645. While numerous other accounts of weather events on the East Coast were documented during the 17th Century. President George Washington kept a detailed weather diary during the late 1700s at Mount Vernon, Virginia. The number of routine weather observers increased significantly during the 1800s. In 1807, Dr. B. S. Barton of the University of Pennsylvania requested members throughout the Union of the Linnaean Society of Philadelphia to maintain instrumented weather observing sites to establish a climatological history.During the early 1900s, numerous observer stations moved from farms to residential districts of towns, where service was available to mail the observation forms. By 1926, more than 5000 observing locations were located throughout the U.S., West Indies, and the Caribbean.In 1939, the Bureau of Aeronautics in the U. S. Navy began to actively develop automated weather stations.
Airports
Surface weather observations have traditionally been taken at airports due to safety concerns during takeoffs and landings. The ICAO defines the International Standard Atmosphere (also known as ICAO Standard Atmosphere), which is the model of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, and viscosity with elevation/altitude in the Earth's atmosphere. This is useful in calibrating instruments and designing aircraft, and is used to reduce a station's pressure to sea level pressure (SLP) where it can then be used on weather maps.
In t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EZproxy | EZproxy is a web proxy server used by libraries to give access from outside the library's computer network to restricted-access websites that authenticate users by IP address. This allows library patrons at home or elsewhere to log in through their library's EZproxy server and gain access to resources to which their library subscribes, such as bibliographic databases.
The software was originally written by Chris Zagar in 1999 who founded Useful Utilities LLC to support it. OCLC announced in January 2008 that it had acquired the product and was hiring Zagar as a full-time consultant for a year. Zagar is a librarian who serves as a systems librarian at the Estrella Mountain Community College, a part of the Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona. He won the 2006 LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award for his work with EZproxy.
EZproxy is a URL rewriting program, which works by dynamically altering the URLs within the web pages provided by the database vendor. The server names within the URLs of these web pages are changed to reflect the EZproxy server instead, causing users to return to the EZproxy server as they access links on these web pages." Previous proxy solutions were complex and difficult to maintain, and when EZproxy was created, authentication systems like Shibboleth were still far in the future.
The software is sometimes confused with generic proxy server software designed to control web access. It is sometimes referred to as a "proxy referral" server to distinguish it.
The software has been purchased by more than thousands of institutions in over 100 countries.
References
External links
EZproxy authentication and access software, official webpages at OCLC
Federated identity
Internet access
Library 2.0
OCLC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%20Sharir | Micha Sharir (; born 8 June 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor at Tel Aviv University, notable for his contributions to computational geometry and combinatorial geometry, having authored hundreds of papers.
Biography
Sharir was born in Tel Aviv in 1950. As a secondary school student he won the first place in the youth mathematics olympics of the Weizmann Institute of Science and Grossman Award from the Technion. In 1970, he completed his undergraduate studies and then served in unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces, during his service he was involved in a research team which won the 1975 Israel Defense Prize. In 1976, Sharir completed his doctoral (Ph.D.) studies in pure mathematics under the supervision of Aldo Lazar in Tel Aviv University. Then he began his postdoctoral studies at the Courant Institute of New York University, where he worked with Jack Schwartz.
In 1980, he joined the faculty of Tel Aviv University, where he holds the Isaias Nizri Chair in Computational Geometry and Robotics . He is also a visiting research professor at the Courant Institute, where he has been the deputy head of the Robotics Lab (1985–89). At Tel Aviv University, he has served as head of the computer science department (twice), head of the school of mathematics (1997–99), and is one of the cofounders of the Minerva Center for Geometry.
Sharir was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1997. He received an honorary doctorate from Utrecht University in 1996, the Feher Foundation Prize in Computer Science from the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies in 1999, the Landau Prize for Science and Research in 2002, and the million-dollar The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture in the Exact Sciences from the A.M.N. Foundation in 2007.
Sharir is an Institute for Scientific Information, ISI Highly Cited researcher.
He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
References
External links
, Tel Aviv University
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Israeli computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Israel Defense Prize recipients
Living people
1950 births
Tel Aviv University alumni
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
New York University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Agent%20Template | Java Agent Template (JAT), is a fully functional Java template, for building software agents that can communicate in a P2P distributed network over the Internet.
See also
References
External links
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/ABE/documentation/overview.html
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/ABE/JavaAgent.html
Java programming language family
Java development tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiki%20Yui | (born 1956 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese seinen manga artist. Some of his early work was published under the name . He has been publishing since 1986.
Yui is known for his computer-assisted drawings, manga, and web-images of pretty and sexy girls (bishōjo). He specializes in romantic comedies, sometimes supernatural and often sexually explicit, about these girls and their male and female friends.
Three of his works have been translated into English, Misty Girl Extreme, Hot Tails, and Wingding Orgy.
Writing about Kagome, Kagome, the French manga dictionary Dicomanga pointed to Yui's large usage of computer software which gives a particular yet slightly icy tone to his universe. Also writing about Kagome, Kagome, SplashComics noted that Yui used the technique of using photographs as backgrounds. Derek Guder, writing about Hot Tails, described Yui as "an adult manga king", enjoying his unique "mix of sex, humor, and bizarre imagination. He simply lets his id run wild, and we get stories that are as surreal as they are sexual". Guder found the artwork of Hot Tails "still a bit unpolished and busy in these older stories, but his style is undeniable. The art is gorgeous, the ladies are sexy, and the premises too bizarre not to enjoy", giving it a rating of four out of four stars. Yui's Hot Tails has been called the best known exponent of the futanari genre in the West.
Works
As Masaki Katō
(1986)
(1986)
(1988)
(1989)
(1990)
As Toshiki Yui
(1987)
(1988)
(1990)
(1991)
(1993) (Incorporated into Hot Tails, Vol. 1)
Kirara (1993–1997)
(1993–1994)
(1995)
(1996)
(1990) (Incorporated into Hot Tails, Vol. 2)
(1999)
Yui Shop (1999–2003) Kodansha
Re Yui (2000)
(2000)
X2 (2000)
Princess Quest Saga (2000)
(2000–2001)
(2002)
(2003–2005)
(2004)
(2006–2008) Kodansha
H-na (Hな, Perverted, 2008)
My Sisters (2010)
Want to Sex (して。。。ほしいの♡ Shite... Hoshii no—lit. I Want to Do It, 2010)
My Dollhouse (3 volumes, 2010–, status unknown but thought to be either ended or in hiatus)
Ruri Ruri: Futago no Jijou (るりるり 双子の事情, Ruri Ruri: The Twins' Circumstances, 2012)
IVNO ユノ (Juno, 2013; IVNO being the Latin spelling)
あね My Sister+ (2013; a continuation of My Sister, coupled with IVNO ユノ for a tankōbon release)
Saikin kono sekai wa watashi dake no mono ni narimashita… (最近この世界は私だけのモノになりました… Recently this world became mine only..., 2013–; published in Grand Jump magazine)
Notes
References
External links
Toshiki Yui manga , Masaki Kato manga at Media Arts Database
1956 births
Japanese illustrators
Living people
Manga artists from Kyoto Prefecture
Hentai manga artists
Artists from Kyoto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Slave | Night Slave (ナイト・スレイブ) is an eroge run and gun video game released in 1996 for the NEC PC-98 computer. The game's design and gameplay draws inspiration from the Assault Suits series, particularly Assault Suits Valken (1992), as well as the Gradius series. It employs many action role-playing game elements such as permanently levelling up the mecha and various weapons using power-orbs obtained from defeating enemies as well as storyline cut scenes, which occasionally contain lesbian adult content. The game's armaments system also employs recoil physics, while the gameplay is varied, including environments such as rainy jungles, snowy wastes, and alien bases.
References
External links
1996 video games
NEC PC-9801 games
NEC PC-9801-only games
Run and gun games
Video games featuring female protagonists
Eroge
LGBT-related video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20House%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Monster House was an Australian reality/comedy television series broadcast on the Nine Network. Debuting on 12 February 2008, the program was hosted by Bernard Curry, brother of Stephen and Andrew Curry.
The show centred on the Webb family, played by actors Rebel Wilson, Celia Ireland, Travis Cotton, Jody Kennedy, Julie Herbert and Glenn Butcher, who act as a fictional family in a house purpose-built with hidden cameras to capture their performances and those of the unsuspecting guests who get brought into the family's "web".
The show debuted with an unimpressive 793,000 viewers tuning in. It was pulled from schedules after its second episode, and axed by the network the following day. Nine had commissioned ten unaired episodes of the show, which were filmed in December 2007 and January 2008.
Nine stated it would air the remaining episodes later in the year, and did so as counter-programming during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
See also
List of programs broadcast by Nine Network
List of Australian television series
References
2000s Australian reality television series
2000s Australian comedy television series
Nine Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-home%20DVR | Whole home DVR is a system where there is only 1 physical DVR in the house, but the remaining set top boxes can act like a DVR.
A multi-DVR system where all DVR's are networked together, and can stream recordings to and from each other, would also be a whole-home DVR solution.
Digital video recorders
Set-top box |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNFL%20%28Utah%29 | KNFL (1470 AM) was an Adult Standards formatted radio station licensed to Tremonton, Utah. The station was originally simulcast with sister station KOGN however then began running its own network.
History
The station was constructed by AM Radio 1470, Inc. a subsidiary of Legacy Communications Corpotation and was authorized to commence construction on November 15, 2001, with the temporary call sign KACE. The KACE calls were used while the station was under construction. According to the FCC records of the station, the station became KNFL on September 9, 2004. The station signed on January 27, 2006, simulcasting its sister station in Ogden, Utah: KOGN. The station went silent on April 1, 2006, and remained off the air for several months.
On May 29, 2009, The Fifth District Court of Utah in Washington County, Utah appointed a receiver to take over KNFL for US Capital, Incorporated of Boulder, Colorado, an investment group which foreclosed on Legecy Media, the owners of KNFL and several other stations. The receiver turned the license in to the FCC on November 13, 2012, and requested it be cancelled pursuant to court approval. The FCC cancelled the license on November 19, 2012.
As of October 1, 2013, KNFL was transferred to the former KINF in Nampa, Idaho.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DKNFL (Facility ID: 129784)
NFL
Radio stations established in 2001
Classical music radio stations in the United States
Box Elder County, Utah
2001 establishments in Utah
Radio stations disestablished in 2012
Defunct radio stations in the United States
2012 disestablishments in Utah
NFL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-Interex | Interex EMEA was the EMEA HP Users Organisation, representing the user community of Hewlett-Packard computers.
The Connect User Group Community, formed from the consolidation in May, 2008 of Interex EMEA, Encompass, and ITUG, was the Hewlett-Packard’s largest user community representing more than 50,000 participants.
Overview
The group was organised by NUGs (National User Groups, by country) and SIGs (Special Interest Groups, by product).
It organised seminars, training, information exchange, as well as international travel to IT events. They intended to independently inform their users community and help them to get the maximum from their investments. Their mission was to facilitate the usage of HP-UX, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, NonStop Kernel & Linux on servers & networks produced and supported by Hewlett-Packard.
The HP-Interex user groups had no direct affiliations with Hewlett-Packard, but they tried to collaborate with HP to provide their users with an optimum support and they gave feedback about potential future OS content, and users' issues.
The group members were mainly IT managers, system managers, system administrators, application development managers and consultants and promoted the exchange of information and experience between the members, HP and its partners.
In general HP-Interex stimulated the IT - business alignment.
Membership advantages were the following:
Access to the group activities
Reduction for training
Communication channel with Hewlett-Packard Management
Join the OpenVMS Hobbyist license project, allowing to run OpenVMS using a free license for private non-profit hobby usage.
Interact and partner with other members of the organisation
Gather and distribute information via its web sites and support and discussion forums.
Groups
Related groups were: DECUS, Compaq Users Organisation (CUO), Encompass, ITUG.
Some early and well-known members of DECUS were the late Terry Shannon and John R. Wisniewski.
History
Originally the users group was called DECUS, at the time Digital Equipment Corporation conducted its business in the 1960s - 1990s.
When Compaq acquired Digital in 1998, the users group was baptised as the Compaq Users Organisation (CUO).
Finally, when Hewlett-Packard acquired Compaq in 2002, CUO was renamed as HP-Interex, although there were still DECUS groups in Germany. In the USA, the organisation was represented by the Encompass and ITUG organisation. In 2008, as the result of the merger of multiple related user groups, it got a new name as the Connect user group.
See also
Connect (users group)
Digital Equipment Corporation
Compaq
Hewlett-Packard
Tandem Computers
External links
Encompass U.S.
ITUG User Group
OpenVMS Hobbyist License Organisation
HP Technology Forum & Expo (JAN 2916: page not found)
HP User Advocacy Organisation (JAN 2916: page not found)
OpenVMS.org
Tru64.org
A LinkedIn group for DEC enthusiasts
Computer clubs
Hewlett-Packard
Digital Equipment Corporation
Org |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Sciences%20Raytheon | Computer Sciences Raytheon (CSR) joint venture partnership of Computer Sciences Corporation and Raytheon Technical Services Company. CSR is the contractor that has managed the Eastern Test Range since 1988. CSR is headquartered at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida.
History
In October 1988, CSR took over management of the Eastern Range through the Range Technical Services contract, replacing Pan American World Service and subcontractor General Electric (formerly RCA Service Company). On August 23, 2007, it was announced that CSR had been awarded then current Eastern Range Technical Services contract to continue managing the Eastern Range for the foreseeable future.
Locations
Besides Patrick Space Force Base, CSR operations include the following locations:
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Jonathon Dickinson Missile Tracking Annex
Antigua Air Station
Ascension Auxiliary Air Field
See also
Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division
References
Companies based in Brevard County, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govind%20Armstrong | Govind Armstrong is an American chef who specializes in California cuisine. He has appeared on the Bravo series Top Chef as a guest judge as well as the Food Network series Iron Chef America as a contestant. He is also the author of the cookbook Small Bites, Big Nights: Seductive Little Plates for Intimate Occasions and Lavish Parties.
Early life
Armstrong grew up Encino, California (in a home originally owned by F. Scott Fitzgerald) with one older brother, an older sister, and two younger sisters. His mother is from Costa Rica, his father was African American, and his grandfather was from India.
Career
Armstrong began his culinary training at the age of 13 at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant in West Hollywood. He also worked under Mark Peel of Campanile in Los Angeles, and Juan Mari Arzak of Arzak in San Sebastián, Spain.
Currently, Armstrong is the chef and co-owner of Post & Beam restaurant in Los Angeles while also serving as Executive Chef for The Lobster on the Santa Monica Pier.
Restaurants
Post & Beamin Los Angeles
8 Oz. Although the Los Angeles and Miami locations are closed, there are 8 Oz. Burger Bars in Seattle, and within Horseshoe Casinos in Mississippi and Louisiana.
References
External links
Review of Table 8 from the New York Times
8 Oz. Burger Bar
1969 births
Living people
21st-century African-American writers
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
African-American chefs
American cookbook writers
American people of Costa Rican descent
American people of Indian descent
American television chefs
Asian American chefs
Chefs from Los Angeles
Iron Chef contestants
People from Encino, Los Angeles
People from Inglewood, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Esplanade%20railway%20station | The Esplanade railway station was a railway station on the Transperth network. It was located on the Fremantle line, 19.8 kilometres from Perth station between Bathers Beach and Esplanade Park.
History
On 22 October 1898, the Fremantle line was extended south from Fremantle to Robbs Jetty.
For the staging of the 1987 America's Cup, the existing narrow and standard gauge tracks were combined as one dual gauge line with three temporary stations erected, one of which was The Esplanade. Between October 1986 and February 1987, the Hotham Valley Railway operated a daily service on this section of the line with a W class steam locomotive as the Spinnaker Run. This was supplemented by Transperth special services. Having not been used since, the station was demolished in September 2018.
References
External links
Cockburn - Fremantle track layout SA Track & Signal
History of Western Australian Railways & Stations
Buildings and structures demolished in 2018
Disused railway stations in Western Australia
Fremantle line
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1986
Railway stations closed in 1987
1987 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success%20Harbour%20railway%20station | Success Harbour railway station was a railway station on the Transperth network. It was located on the Fremantle line, 20.9 kilometres from Perth station in South Fremantle.
History
On 22 October 1898, the Fremantle line was extended south from Fremantle to Robbs Jetty.
For the staging of the 1987 America's Cup, the existing narrow and standard gauge tracks were combined as one dual gauge line with three temporary stations erected, one of which was Success Harbour. Between October 1986 and February 1987, the Hotham Valley Railway operated a daily service on this section of the line with a W class steam locomotive as the Spinnaker Run. This was supplemented by Transperth special services. Having not been used since, the station was demolished in September 2018.
References
External links
Cockburn - Fremantle track layout SA Track & Signal
Gallery History of Western Australian Railways & Stations
Buildings and structures demolished in 2018
Disused railway stations in Western Australia
Fremantle line
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1986
Railway stations closed in 1987
1987 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Beach%20railway%20station | South Beach railway station was a railway station on the Transperth network. It was located on the Fremantle line, 22 kilometres from Perth station in South Fremantle.
History
On 22 October 1898, the Fremantle line was extended south from Fremantle to Robbs Jetty.
For the staging of the 1987 America's Cup, the existing narrow and standard gauge tracks were combined as one dual gauge line with three temporary stations erected, one of which was South Beach. Between October 1986 and February 1987, the Hotham Valley Railway operated a daily service on this section of the line with a W class steam locomotive as the Spinnaker Run. This was supplemented by Transperth special services. Having not been used since, the station was demolished in September 2018.
References
External links
Cockburn - Fremantle track layout SA Track & Signal
Gallery History of Western Australian Railways & Stations
Buildings and structures demolished in 2018
Disused railway stations in Western Australia
Fremantle line
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1986
Railway stations closed in 1987
1987 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearwood%20railway%20station | Spearwood railway station was a railway station on the Perth rail network. It was located on the Spearwood-Armadale line, from Perth station in Spearwood.
History
On 1 April 1906, the Spearwood-Armadale line opened from a junction with the Fremantle line at Robbs Jetty to Jandakot, being extended to connect with the South Western Railway at Armadale on 15 July 1907. In 1909, some of the buildings from Jandakot station were moved to Spearwood station. The station was little more than a raised wooden platform covered with dirt and a couple of wooden sheds. Initially only served by freight trains, a passenger service began in 1913.
Spearwood didn't gain a station platform until after 1923. It was the last station on the line to get a platform.
Passenger services ceased on the line in the 1950s, running after that time for only special occasions such as the Perth Royal Show, for employees of the Watsonia factory.
The Jandakot line was curtailed to become a freight only line to Bibra Lake in the 1960s, with the final section closing in 1991. The section through Spearwood became part of the Fremantle to Forrestfield freight line after alterations to the line were made for the 1987 America's Cup. All that is left of the station are a few wooden posts stuck in the dirt.
References
External links
http://ineptmodeller.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/fremantle-to-armadale-line-part-2.html
Cockburn - Fremantle track layout SA Track & Signal
Gallery History of Western Australian Railways & Stations
City of Cockburn
Disused railway stations in Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaboom | Disaboom was a social networking service for people with disabilities, as well as their family members, friends, caregivers, and employers.
It was the largest social network service and information resource for people with disabilities and had 90,000 registered users. In July 2008, the website had 21,000 daily visits.
It received revenue from advertising.
The company was headquartered in Lone Tree, Colorado.
The website was shut down in 2010.
History
Disaboom.com was founded in September 2006 by J. Glen House, MD, a board-certified physician specializing in the area of spinal cord injury. Rendered a C-7 quadriplegic after breaking his neck in a skiing accident at the age of 20, Dr. House went on to pursue a career in medicine despite losing the use of his legs and dexterity in his hands. The first student in a wheelchair to graduate from the University of Washington School of Medicine, he is board certified in both Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Medicine. In addition to being an integral part of disaboom.com, he is the President of the Colorado Rehabilitation Physicians, President of the medical device company Flexlife, and medical director of the Center for Neuro & Trauma Rehabilitation at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado. April 23, 2013 – Disaboom moved its focus to media aggregation and advocacy with this move it shutdown its primary websites.
In April 2007, the company raised $2.89 million by selling shares in a private placement for 50 cents each. In May 2007, the company received approval to list its stock on the OTC Bulletin Board.
Site organization
The disaboom.com model integrated social networking features that provide members with tools to blog, participate in discussion boards, and engage in real time chat. Additionally, the site provides health and lifestyle articles that are written by professionals and updated regularly.
Health
The health section features articles written by medical professionals on a variety of disabilities including cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and other disabilities and functional limitations. Articles on pain medication, rehabilitation, and mental health issues are also present. The site is updated regularly with new articles.
Living
The living section contained articles on Intimate relationships, health and physical fitness, sports, recreation, and living with disabilities. Although the content is catered towards those with disabilities, the subject matter is often not specific to the disabled community, and may have general appeal.
Media Room
The media room features video of individuals with disabilities skiing, snowboarding, playing basketball, lifting weights and engaging in other physical activities. Many individuals featured in the Media Room videos have a spinal cord injury, including rap artists Four Wheel City.
Community
Disaboom members had the option of setting up their own User profiles, which included an avata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collusion%20Syndicate | The Collusion Syndicate, formerly the Collusion Group and sometimes spelled Collu5ion, C0llu5i0n or C011u5i0n, was a Computer Security and Internet Politics Special Interest Group (SIG) founded in 1995 and effectively disbanded around 2002.
Collusion Group
The Collusion Group was founded in 1995 by technologist Tex Mignog, aka the TexorcisT (sic) in Dallas, Texas before moving the headquarters to Austin, Texas in 1997. Founding members included individuals that all operated anonymously using hacker pseudonyms (called "handles" or "nyms") including the TexorcisT, Progress, Sfear (sic), Anormal, StripE (sic) and Elvirus. The membership of this organization grew to an estimated 30+ by 1999 and was not localized to its headquarters in Austin, Texas, with members in other states, countries and continents. The group made numerous open appearances at computer security events such as H.O.P.E. and DefCon and was often quoted by the media on computer related security, political and cultural issues.
The group was well known for its online publication, www.Collusion.org and also founded and financed other events such as the "irQconflict", the largest seasonal computer gaming tournament in the South-Central US.
The group was often interviewed with regard to Internet security issues by reporters for a variety of media outlets, some examples being KVUE News
,
the Austin American Statesman and Washington Post
,
and The New York Times
.
www.Collusion.org
The Collusion Syndicate began publishing articles written by its members and others that submitted articles in 1997 on their site, www.Collusion.org , their stated mission being to "Learn all that is Learnable".
This site won awards including a Best of Austin in 2000 by the Austin Chronicle where the site was described as "an edgy cabal of net-savvy punks and vinyl-scratching, video-gaming malcontents, laying it down in no uncertain terms with a lot of dark backgrounds and urban-toothed graphics and in-your-face-yo rants."
Collusion Syndicate research on SIPRNet has been referenced by the SANS Institute
.
Xchicago has published tips by Collusion's founder, TexorcisT, on Google Hacking.
The group's work and research is referenced in many books including
Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You about the Internet,
Mac OS X Maximum Security
and Anarchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance.
The group may have been tied to Assassination Politics as evidenced by declassified documents.
Notable Inventions and Actions
AnonyMailer
1995 - An application developed to point out security issues with the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
Port-A-LAN
1998 - The Port-A-LAN is described as a "LAN-in-a-Box" and designed to facilitate quick network deployments. With Cat 3 50-pin telco cable and break-out "harmonicas" to quickly deploy a 160 node network at a previously unwired location in less than one hour. (Developed prior to the advent of WiFi popularity.)
irQconflict
1998-2001 - T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords%20of%20Time | Lords of Time is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Sue Gazzard and released by Level 9 Computing in 1983. Originally purely a textual adventure for 8-bit microcomputers, the game was later released as part of the Time and Magik compilation where graphics were added for all floppy disk versions. Like all Level 9 adventures of its time, it was written in the in-house A-code language which was platform-independent.
Gameplay
The anonymous hero of the game (controlled by the player) appears to be a computer programmer in contemporary times. At the start of the game, the hero is contacted by Father Time who sends the hero on a quest to recover nine treasures in order to defeat the machinations of the evil Time Lords. The game is divided into 9 eras of time (not including the starting section in the hero's living room), such as the 20th century, Ice Age, age of dinosaurs, Dark Ages, future, the Middle Ages, Tudor England and the Roman Empire. Due to the meddling of the Time Lords anachronisms abound, for example cavemen are found living in the same era as dinosaurs.
Access to the nine different eras is via a grandfather clock that turns out to be a time machine in disguise.
The game was re-released in 1988 as part of the Time and Magik compilation alongside Red Moon and Price of Magik. Although positioned within the compilation as the first part of a trilogy it has no real connection to the latter two (as opposed to the sister compilation release Silicon Dreams where all three games did form a trilogy).
Reception
Reception to Lords of Time was positive. Crash reviewing the Spectrum version declared "I find it impossible to justly describe what a brilliant adventure Lords of Time really is". A Computer and Video Games magazine multiformat review claimed "..the game is a light-hearted one which is fun to play, not too difficult to progress in, but will, I suspect, take rather a long time to complete. Who could ask for more?" Personal Computer Games rated it a PCG Hit
References
External links
The Level 9 Memorial
Entry for Lords of Time at World Of Spectrum
1980s interactive fiction
1983 video games
Adventure games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Amstrad PCW games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari ST games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Level 9 Computing games
MSX games
Oric games
Video games about time travel
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERPINB8 | Serpin B8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINB8 gene.
See also
Serpin
References
Further reading
External links
The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: I04.013
Serine protease inhibitors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unipalm | Unipalm was a U.K.-based company that operated between 1986 and 2003 that specialised in networking different computers together using TCP/IP technology and was an early promoter of internet technology.
History
Unipalm Ltd was founded as a software reseller in Cambridge in 1986 by Peter Dawe, later forming PIPEX in 1990, as the first commercial ISP in the UK. In its very early days, their office was in Hardwick, Cambridgeshire (UK)
In March 1994 Unipalm Group Plc floated on the London Stock Exchange, the purpose of the flotation was to expand the growth of The Public I.P. Exchange Ltd (Pipex).
In July 1995 the company changed its trading name to Unipalm-Pipex.
Unipalm PIPEX was sold to UUNet in November 1995 for GBP150 million, where it became UUNET/PIPEX. Dawe became Head of European Operations for UUNet Inc., with over 400 staff. Dawe left UUNet in July 1996. In 1996 it was reported that Unipalm-Pipex was the largest internet service provider in Europe.
In December 1996, Mark Norman led a successful management buy out of Unipalm. This re-established Unipalm as a separate company, moving location to offices in Newmarket, Suffolk. The company focussed on IP software distribution and services. In May 2000, German based company Computerlinks AG acquired 100% of the shares of Unipalm.
The company maintained a high level of independence until 2003 when the Unipalm name was dropped and began trading as Computerlinks UK. Unipalm changed its name to Computerlinks in 2006.
See also
List of United Kingdom ISPs by age
References
Further reading
Network World Nov 1, 1993.
InfoWorld Nov 15, 1993
Internet Business News
Internet Business News
Internet Business News
Computergram International
Internet Business News
Internet Business News
Internet Business News
Internet Business News
Former internet service providers of the United Kingdom
Software companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Aylward | Gordon Hillis Aylward is an Australian chemical author. He is known for writing the SI Chemical Data book.
Biography
Aylward graduated on 20 May 1952 with a BSc (Honours) in Applied Chemistry from the then-new University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Later he received a MSc from the same university, and continued to teach Analytical Chemistry for 13 years there. During that period he organized the Approach to Chemistry summer schools, together with his co-teacher dr Tristan Findlay. To support the course, they wrote the book SI Chemical Data as the textbook.
Later Aylward joined Macquarie University as Associate Professor and worked from 1970 till his retirement in 2005 in developing countries as a Science Education consultant for UNESCO, then for the World Bank and finally as a freelance Senior Science Education Advisor.
Published works
Now in its 6th edition.
References
Australian chemists
Science teachers
Australian textbook writers
Australian science writers
University of New South Wales alumni
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Academic staff of Macquarie University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20%26%20Communications%20Industry%20Association | The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is an international non-profit advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, United States which represents the information and communications technology industries. According to their site, CCIA "promotes open markets, open systems, open networks, and full, fair, and open competition." Established in 1972, CCIA was active in antitrust cases involving IBM, AT&T and Microsoft, and lobbied for net neutrality, copyright and patent reform and against internet censorship and policies, mergers or other situations that would reduce competition. CCIA released a study it commissioned by an MIT professor, which analyzed the cost of patent trolls to the economy., a study on the economic benefits of Fair Use and has testified before the Senate on limiting government surveillance and on internet censorship as a trade issue.
Membership
CCIA members include a range of internet services companies to software to telecom companies such as Amazon, Apple Inc., BT Group, Cloudflare, Dish Network, eBay, Facebook, Google, Intel, Intuit, Mozilla, NordVPN, Rakuten, Red Hat, Samsung, Twitter, Uber and Yahoo!.
Issues
Internet freedom
The group has lobbied against Internet freedom on issues like the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act, testified on Internet censorship as a human rights and trade issue and also lobbied on privacy issues including government surveillance by the US National Security Agency CCIA has also lobbied for net neutrality, filing comments with the FCC and amicus briefs in court so that no company or government could discriminate against similar content. CCIA has lobbied to ensure patent litigation reform, including the Innovation Act, and provides the website Patent Progress, which is dedicated to patent issues. CCIA supported Section 230 when it passed in 1996 as it facilitated free speech online by giving companies some level of liability protection for both allowing the free speech and also removing some legal speech such as "hate speech" that may violate user agreements. Since then, CCIA has warned against altering Section 230 as some in Congress sought to pressure social media companies with changes to the law.
Intellectual property
Patents:
CCIA represents companies that hold patents and also rely on licensing patents from others to produce interoperable tech products. CCIA supports balanced intellectual property policies that support both patent holders and next generation innovation. It maintains a blog, Patent Progress, that covers issues like patent reform. CCIA filed an amicus brief in the Apple Samsung design patent case, which the court ultimately used in its ruling. The Supreme Court ended up agreeing a company should not gain another company's entire profits on a product over a design patent infringement issue. CCIA has been fighting for comprehensive patent reform for two decades and has issued statements supporting venue reform, as a fifth of the patent cases are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20Europe%20Group | Host Europe Group (formerly Pipex Communications plc and GX Networks) was an American-owned, European-located website hosting, email and domain name registrar company headquartered Hayes, West London. Founded as GX Networks in 1997, the company was renamed Pipex Communications plc following its takeover of Pipex in 2003. It reverted to the GX Networks name following its sale of Pipex in 2008 before being renamed Host Europe Group in 2009. It was acquired by American hosting company GoDaddy in 2017, and its name was in the process of being phased out.
Brands
Through a series of acquisitions and (de)mergers GX Networks (and subsequently Webfusion) is known through various brands. Since 2009, the company has consolidated its trading under the brand names: 123-reg (The UK's largest domain name registrar, with more than 3 million names registered and 1.3 million websites hosted), Heart Internet (UK hosting), Tsohost (UK hosting), Host Europe (German hosting), Webfusion (Spanish hosting), RedCoruna (Spanish hosting), Mesh Digital and Domainbox (international domain names).
History
Host Europe was founded by Cologne-based entrepreneur Uwe Braun. It began by offering internet services to corporations and began trading under the GX name in 1997. It believed that it had developed the first transatlantic IP backbone running native ATM. Webfusion originally started out with major Network Access Points in Washington and San Jose in the US, London's LINX and Stockholm in Europe.
With various changes of ownership, the company's name has changed several times, taking on the Pipex name following its takeover in 2003. Following restructuring in 2009, the company trades under the Webfusion name in the UK, as part of HEG (formerly Host Europe Group) and is based in Hayes in West London. As of 2015, HEG claimed to be Europe's largest privately-owned hosting company.
Timeline
April 1997 - Internet Technology Group (ITG) announces the acquisition of Xara Networks Limited in a deal worth £2.65 million.
September 1997 - Xara Networks, a subsidiary of Internet Technology Group (ITG), relaunched as GX Networks.
January 2000 - GX Networks became part of Concentric Network.
September 2000 - Concentric Network merged with Nextlink to form XO Communications.
2001 - The UK arm of XO Europe was sold off to form Transigent Limited.
September 2002 - Zipcom plc acquires Transigent Limited (formerly XO Limited), the parent company of GX Networks in a deal worth approximately £10m.
October 2002 - Zipcom plc acquired the entire share capital of Transigent Limited the parent company of GX Networks.
March 2003 - Zipcom plc changed its name to GX Networks plc.
July 2003 - GX Networks acquires two more telecoms businesses XTML Limited ("XTML") and Compulink Information eXchange Limited ("CIX"), which were previously part of the Telenor Business Holdings UK Limited Group ("Telenor").
September 2003 - GX Networks buy Firstnet Ltd (owners of Liberty Broadband aka Tele2 UK)
Oct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20file | A load file in the litigation community is commonly referred to as the file used to import data (coded, captured or extracted data from ESI processing) into a database; or the file used to link images. These load files carry commands, commanding the software to carry out certain functions with the data found in them.
Load files are usually ASCII text files that have delimited fields of information. Such load files may have data about documents to be imported into a document management software such as Concordance or Summation. Or they may have the path or directory where images may reside so that the software can link such images to their corresponding records.
Some database programs take one load file for importing images and another for importing data while others take only one load file for both pieces of information.
OCR or Search-able Text which is considered "data" is also imported into most database programs via the same load files. Though some people prefer to load the OCR into their databases by running a separate command to search and find the desired text.
Commonly used databases and their corresponding file extensions are: Summation (DII
, CSV), Concordance (OPT, DAT), Sanction (SDT), IPRO (LFP), Ringtail (MDB) and DB/TextWorks (TXT).
Computer file formats
Databases
Legal software
Notes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%2010 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 10 (Dock10), also known as Zizimin3, is a large (~240 kDa) protein involved in intracellular signalling networks that in humans is encoded by the DOCK10 gene. It is a member of the DOCK-D subfamily of the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors, which function as activators of small G-proteins.
Discovery
Dock10 was identified via bioinformatic approaches as one of a family of evolutionarily conserved proteins (the DOCK family) that share significant sequence homology. Dock10 is expressed in peripheral blood leukocytes as well as in the brain, spleen, lung and thymus.
Structure and function
Dock10 shares the same domain arrangement as other members of the DOCK-D/Zizimin subfamily as well as a high level of sequence similarity. It contains a DHR2 domain that is involved in G protein binding and a DHR1 domain, which, in some DOCK family proteins, interacts with membrane phospholipids. Like other DOCK-D subfamily proteins Dock10 contains an N-terminal PH domain, which, in Dock9/Zizimin1, mediates recruitment to the plasma membrane. The DHR2 domain of Dock10 appears to bind to the small G proteins Cdc42, TC10 and TCL although these interactions are of low affinity. The physiological role of Dock10 is poorly characterised, however a study in lymphocytes has shown that Dock10 expression is upregulated in B-lymphocytes and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) cells in response to the cytokine IL-4. This suggests that Dock10 may have a role in B-cell activation and proliferation. Another study identified Dock10 as a protein that was overexpressed in some aggressive papillary thyroid carcinomas.
References
Further reading
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20Epitope%20Database%20and%20Analysis%20Resource | The Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource (IEDB) is a project hosted by scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LIAI), with support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The focus is dissemination of immune epitope information to facilitate the generation of new research tools, diagnostic techniques, vaccines and therapeutics.
Database
The IEDB contains data related to antibody and T cell epitopes for humans, non-human primates, rodents, and other animal species. Curation of data relating to NIAID Category A, B, and C priority pathogens (including Influenza) and NIAID Emerging and Re-emerging infectious diseases is of highest priority and is being continuously updated. In addition, epitopes from other infectious agents, allergens and autoantigens are being curated.
The database also contains MHC binding data from a variety of different antigenic sources and immune epitope data from the FIMM (Brusic), HLA Ligand (Hildebrand), TopBank (Sette), and MHC binding (Buus) databases. These databases and their investigators are hereby acknowledged as major contributors to the IEDB.
Tools
In addition to the database, the IEDB website hosts an Analysis Resource, which contains a collection of tools to predict and analyze epitopes.
External links
Immune Epitope Database
IEDB Analysis Resource
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Medical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARUL | SPARUL, or SPARQL/Update, was a declarative data manipulation language that extended the SPARQL 1.0 query language standard. SPARUL provided the ability to insert, delete and update RDF data held within a triple store or quad store. SPARUL was originally written by Hewlett-Packard and has been used as the foundation for the current W3C recommendation entitled SPARQL 1.1 Update. With the publication of SPARQL 1.1, SPARUL is superseded and should only be consulted as a source of inspiration for possible future refinements of SPARQL, but not for real-world applications.
Examples
Adding some triples to a graph. The snippet describes two RDF triples to be inserted into the default graph of the RDF store.
PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
INSERT DATA
{ <http://example/book3> dc:title "A new book" ;
dc:creator "A.N.Other" .
}
This SPARQL/Update request contains a triple to be deleted and a triple to be added (used here to correct a book title). The requested change happens in the named graph identified by the URI http://example/bookStore.
PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
DELETE DATA FROM <http://example/bookStore>
{ <http://example/book3> dc:title "Fundamentals of Compiler Design" }
INSERT DATA INTO <http://example/bookStore>
{ <http://example/book3> dc:title "Fundamentals of Compiler Design" }
The example below has a request to delete all records of old books (with date before year 2000)
PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
DELETE
{ ?book ?p ?v }
WHERE
{ ?book dc:date ?date .
FILTER ( ?date < "2000-01-01T00:00:00"^^xsd:dateTime )
?book ?p ?v
}
This snippet copies records from one named graph to another named graph based on a pattern.
PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
INSERT INTO <http://example/bookStore2>
{ ?book ?p ?v }
WHERE
{ GRAPH <http://example/bookStore>
{ ?book dc:date ?date .
FILTER ( ?date < "2000-01-01T00:00:00"^^xsd:dateTime )
?book ?p ?v
} }
An example to move records from one named graph to another named graph based on a pattern.
PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
INSERT INTO <http://example/bookStore2>
{ ?book ?p ?v }
WHERE
{ GRAPH <http://example/bookStore>
{ ?book dc:date ?date .
FILTER ( ?date < "2000-01-01T00:00:00"^^xsd:dateTime )
?book ?p ?v
}
}
DELETE FROM <http://example/bookStore>
{ ?book ?p ?v }
WHERE
{ GRAPH <http://example/bookStore>
{ ?book dc:date ?date .
FILTER ( ?date < "2000-01-01T00:00:00"^^xsd:dateTime )
?book ?p ?v
}
}
SPARQL/Update implementations
AllegroGraph
ARQ
D2R Server
Jena
OntoBroker
Ontotext OWLIM
Oracle DB Enterprise Ed.
Parliament
Redland / Redstore
StrixDB supports SPARQL/Update 1.0.
OpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server
Clients supporting SPARU |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addressability | Addressability is the ability of a digital device to individually respond to a message sent to many similar devices. Examples include pagers, mobile phones and set-top boxes for pay TV. Computer networks are also addressable via the MAC address on Ethernet network cards, and similar networking protocols like Bluetooth. This allows data to be sent in cases where it is impractical (or impossible, such as with wireless devices) to control exactly where or to which devices the message is physically sent.
In the case of simple hardware devices like the pager, the address is simply the electronic serial number (and later IMEI/MEID) in its firmware, or physically manufactured into its circuitry. In the case of GSM mobile phones, it also includes the subscriber identity module, which is also present as a smart card on satellite TV receivers, or a different PCMCIA CableCARD for cable TV. Addressing and encryption are used together for conditional access to different TV channel bundles which a pay-TV customer has or has not paid for.
Addressing is also done in software at higher levels such as IP addresses, which can be dynamically allocated. Even physically separate devices are now addressable, such as to enforce revocation lists for digital restrictions, or to use the former DIVX DVD video rentals, although the latter only used its identity to "phone home" for billing purposes.
Cable TV
Addressable Systems or Addressability for use in cable television Communication Systems are generally known. Addressability is typically regarded as the administration and control of addressable devices, known generically as Provisioning or Activation in the parlance of Telecommunications Industry, but specifically speaking to authorization of a particular service. Within the field of cable television or CATV, for example, an Addressability System or Addressable System may enable and control the distribution of cable services. The system creates a conditional access system (CAS), and allows the cable system to control and administer which cable products a customer may purchase and/or view.
A typical cable communications system includes several basic components such as a service provider, a cable television headend, business support systems (BSS), an operations support system (OSS), a controller and a customer's set-top box (STB), also known as a cable converter box, or simply a converter, or more correctly converter/descrambler. The Set-Top box is a key component in Addressability Systems as it is an integrated receiver/decoder (IRD). Normally, the Headend receives a signal sent by a service provider, which may send the signal via an uplink (UL) to a satellite and a downlink (DL) from the satellite to the Headend. At the Headend, the signal may be manipulated by being scrambled, encrypted and having authorization codes attached thereto by a Scrambler. The billing system or BSS typically manages products and services, customers and addressable equipment such as the co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESS%20Technology | ESS Technology Incorporated is a private manufacturer of computer multimedia products, Audio DACs and ADCs based in Fremont, California with R&D centers in Kelowna, BC, Canada and Beijing, China. It was founded by Forrest Mozer in 1983. Robert L. Blair is the CEO and President of the company.
Historically, ESS Technology was most famous for their line of their Audiodrive chips for audio cards. Now they are known for their line of Sabre DAC and ADC products.
History
ESS Technologies was founded in 1983 as Electronic Speech Systems, by Professor Forrest Mozer, a space physicist at the University of California, Berkeley and Todd Mozer, Forrest Mozer's son, and Joe Costello, the former manager of National Semiconductors Digitalker line of talking chips. Costello left soon after the formation and started Cadence Designs with his former boss from National. Fred Chan VLSI designer and software engineer, in Berkeley, California, joined in 1985, and took over running the company in 1986 when Todd Mozer left for graduate school.
The company was created at least partially as a way to market Mozer's speech synthesis system (described in US patents 4,214,125, 4,433,434 and 4,435,831) after his (3-year, summer 1978 to summer 1981, extended) contract with National Semiconductor expired in 1983 or so.
Electronic Speech Systems produced synthetic speech for, among other things, home computer systems like the Commodore 64. Within the hardware limitations of that time, ESS used Mozer's technology, in software, to produce realistic-sounding voices that often became the boilerplate for the respective games. Two popular sound bites from the Commodore 64 were "He slimed me!!" from Ghostbusters and Elvin Atombender's "Another visitor. Stay a while—stay forever!" in the original Impossible Mission.
At some point, the company moved from Berkeley to Fremont, California. Around that time, the company was renamed to ESS Technology.
Later, in 1994, Forrest Mozer's son Todd Mozer, an ESS employee, branched off and started his own company called Sensory Circuits Inc, later Sensory, Inc. to market speech recognition technology.
In the mid-1990s, ESS started working on making PC audio, and later, video chips, and created the Audiodrive line, used in hundreds of different products. Audiodrive chips were at least nominally Creative Sound Blaster Pro compatible. Many Audiodrive chips also featured in-house developed, OPL3-compatible FM synthesizers (branded ESFM Synthesizers). These synthesizers were often reasonably faithful to the Yamaha OPL3 chip, which was an important feature for the time as some competing solutions, including Creative's own CQM synthesis featured in later ISA Sound Blaster compatibles, offered sub-par FM sound quality. Some PCI-interface Audiodrives (namely the ES1938 Solo-1) also provided legacy DOS compatibility through Distributed DMA and the SB-Link interface.
In 2001 ESS acquired a small Kelowna design company (SAS) run by Martin Mallinson and c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BATON%20Overlay | The BAlanced Tree Overlay Network (BATON) is a distributed tree structure designed for peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. Unlike other overlays that utilize a distributed hash table (DHT) like the Chord system, BATON organizes peers in a distributed tree to facilitate range search. Furthermore, BATON aims to maintain a balanced tree height, similar to the AVL tree, resulting in a bounded to for search exact and range queries as well as update operations (join/leave).
System model
BATON is a binary tree. In each tree level, the node is named by its position in the tree.
Each node in BATON keeps four kinds of links:
a link to its parent node (unless it is root)
links up to two-children nodes
a link to left and right adjacent node
links to select neighbor nodes maintained in a left routing table (LRT) and right routing table (RRT). Combining these, the routing table is created
The level of any node is one greater than the level of its parent. Root is on level 0. For a node at position , it will fill its left routing table by nodes at position for any valid and fill its right routing table by nodes at position for any valid . The construction of the routing table has slight resemblance to the finger tables in Chord.
So according to the example structure, node 2:1 would keep links to
1:0 (parent)
3:2 (children)
0:0 and 3:2 (adjacent)
2:0, 2:2 and 2:3 (neighbors)
Height-Balanced
BATON is considered balanced if and only if the height of its two sub-trees at any node in the tree differs by at most one. If any node detects that the height-balanced constraint is violated, a restructuring process is initiated to ensure that the tree remains balanced.
Node joining and leaving
When a new node wants to join the network in BATON, its joining request is always forwarded to the leaf node. The leaf node then checks whether its routing table is full. If the table is full, it means that the level is full of nodes, and the leaf node can accept the new node as its child to create a new level node. If the table is not full, the leaf node must forward the new node to take over one of the empty positions.
On the other hand, when a node wants to leave the network, it must update the routing tables of its parent node, child nodes, adjacent nodes, and routing nodes. If the leaving node is a leaf node, it can safely leave the network. However, if it is not a leaf node, it must find a leaf node to replace its position.
Routing
In BATON, each node maintains a continuous key space. When a new node joins as its child, the node splits its space and assigns half of it to the child. This partitioning method allows the tree to be traversed in ascending order if we travel the tree in in-order. This is why BATON supports range queries.
To execute a range query q, BATON first locates its left bound, q.low. Then, the search process travels the tree in in-order (by adjacent link) until it reaches the upper bound, q.up. For locating a single key, BATON uses a similar rou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNPEP | Aminopeptidase B is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the RNPEP gene.
References
Further reading
External links
The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: M01.014
EC 3.4.11 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST5%20%28gene%29 | Suppression of tumorigenicity 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ST5 gene. ST5 orthologs have been identified in nearly all mammals for which complete genome data are available.
Function
This gene was identified by its ability to suppress the tumorigenicity of Hela cells in nude mice. The protein encoded by this gene contains a C-terminal region that shares similarity with the Rab 3 family of small GTP binding proteins. This protein preferentially binds to the SH3 domain of c-Abl kinase, and acts as a regulator of MAPK1/ERK2 kinase, which may contribute to its ability to reduce the tumorigenic phenotype in cells. Three alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene encoding distinct isoforms are identified.
References
Further reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocarboxylate%20transporter%204 | Monocarboxylate transporter 4 (MCT4) also known as solute carrier family 16 member 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC16A3 gene.
Northern and western blotting and EST database analyses showed MCT4 to be widely expressed and especially so in glycolytic tissues such as white skeletal muscle fibers, astrocytes, white blood cells, chondrocytes, and some mammalian cell lines. Because of this, it has been proposed that the properties of MCT4 might be especially appropriate for export of lactate derived from glycolysis. MCT4 exhibits a lower affinity for most substrates and inhibitors than MCT1, with Km and Ki values some 5–10-fold higher. The high Km for pyruvate may be especially significant as this avoids loss of pyruvate from the cell which, were it to occur, would prevent removal of the reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) produced in glycolysis by reduction of pyruvate to lactate.
MCT4 can be upregulated by HIF-1α and AMPK.
See also
Monocarboxylate transporter
Solute carrier family
References
Further reading
Solute carrier family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberStorm%202%3A%20Corporate%20Wars | CyberStorm 2: Corporate Wars is a turn-based and real-time strategy game developed by Dynamix and released in 1998 as a sequel to MissionForce: CyberStorm. It was published by Sierra On-Line.
Plot
CyberStorm 2 takes place long after the events of the first game, with the Cybrids no longer representing a major threat.
A jumpgate has been discovered in the Typheous system, and eight Earth corporations want to control it. Each of them therefore starts up a branch in the system, and begin to battle it out with the latest in military technology.
Gameplay
The game is played from a top-down isometric view-perspective. In some respects it is similar to MissionForce: CyberStorm, using many of the same graphical assets, although several changes to the gameplay has been made.
There are two modes of play: turn-based and real-time. The player begins by choosing which corporation they want to work for, each of which has their own strengths and weaknesses in different areas, such as finances, engineering and bioengineering as well as military capability.
The player progresses through a selection of random missions, with special missions becoming available from time to time. These are written scenarios and tend to be quite profitable. The eventual goal is to take over the entire system by defeating all rival companies.
Corporate mechanics
There are other changes to the game mechanics as well: the player is now responsible for maintaining almost everything, from research allocation (needed to develop new weapons and other technologies), to base construction and defenses. Essentially, the player is in charge of a subsidiary of the parent corporation.
The player must secure all income for the base by setting up mines, either by finding unclaimed mining areas or destroying mining operations of rival corporations. Although the player can earn money on mission rewards, steady income only comes from the number of mines that the player can keep up.
Only steady income can be allocated to research. The player determines how fast the technology levels of weapons, armor, shielding, life support, sensors, etc. will progress by allocating funds to the various sections of research and the technology level of their command building in the base.
The player must also maintain the base. Options include improving the technology levels of the buildings, which make them harder to destroy and give them improved capabilities (command center controls research ability, vehicle bay technology level limits the types of units that can be built, launch pad limits the number of units that can be sent off world, turrets' technology level controls their firepower).
Combat
The player may command only four to eight units on the battlefield at a time (the number depending upon which corporation they are aligned with). The player's units are dropped onto the battlefield to fight either rival corporations or the occasional Cybrid group. The player has many choices of units for thei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%204 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 4 (Dock4), is a large (~190 kDa) protein encoded in the human by the DOCK4 gene, involved in intracellular signalling networks. It is a member of the DOCK-B subfamily of the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) which function as activators of small G-proteins. Dock4 activates the small G proteins Rac and Rap1.
Discovery
Dock4 was discovered as a gene product which was disrupted during tumour progression in a murine cancer model-derived osteosarcoma cell line. Subsequent Northern blot analysis revealed high levels of Dock4 expression in skeletal muscle, prostate and ovary as well as lower levels in the heart, placenta and colon. A separate study has reported expression of a Dock4 splice variant (Dock4-Ex49) in the brain, inner ear and eye.
Structure and function
Dock4 is part of a large class of proteins (GEFs) which contribute to cellular signalling events by activating small G proteins. In their resting state G proteins are bound to Guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and their activation requires the dissociation of GDP and binding of guanosine triphosphate (GTP). GEFs activate G proteins by promoting this nucleotide exchange.
The domain arrangement of Dock4 is largely equivalent to that of Dock180 (the archetypal member of the DOCK family) and other DOCK-A/B family members (35% sequence identity with Dock180, 39% with Dock2 and 54% with Dock3). Dock4, however, contains a unique set of motifs at its proline-rich C-terminus which include a Src-binding site that is shared with CED-5, the C. elegans ortholog of mammalian DOCK proteins. Dock4 also contains a DHR2 domain (also known as Docker2 or CZH2) which is conserved among DOCK family proteins and mediates GEF-dependent functions, and a DHR1 domain (CZH1/Docker1) which has been shown to bind PtdIns(3,4,5)P3, an important step in recruitment to the plasma membrane.
Regulation of Dock4 activity
DOCK family proteins are inefficient at promoting nucleotide exchange on their own since they appear to adopt an autoinhibitory conformation in their resting state. The adaptor protein ELMO has been shown to bind DOCK proteins and induce a conformational change which relieves the inhibition and allows G proteins access to the DHR2 domain. Binding to ELMO requires the atypical PH domain of ELMO and also involves an interaction between the N-terminal SH3 domain of DOCK and a proline-rich motif at the ELMO C-terminus. ELMO also binds the activated form of the small G protein RhoG and this has been shown to promote DOCK-dependent signalling by helping recruit the ELMO-DOCK complex to areas of high substrate availability (usually the plasma membrane). The C-terminus of DOCK proteins interacts with another adaptor protein, Crk. Dock4 undergoes RhoG/ELMO-dependent recruitment to the plasma membrane and promotes migration in fibroblasts. In rat hippocampal neurones Dock4 forms a trimeric complex with ELMO2 and CrkII which is required for the normal development of de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GigE%20Vision | GigE Vision is an interface standard introduced in 2006 for high-performance industrial cameras. It provides a framework for transmitting high-speed video and related control data over Ethernet networks. The distribution of software or development, manufacture or sale of hardware that implement the standard, require the payment of annual licensing fees.
The standard was initiated by a group of 12 companies, and the committee has since grown to include more than 50 members. The 12 founding members were: Adimec, Atmel, Basler AG, CyberOptics, Teledyne DALSA, JAI A/S, JAI PULNiX, Matrox, National Instruments, Photonfocus, Pleora Technologies and Stemmer Imaging. The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) oversees the ongoing development and administration of the standard.
GigE Vision is based on the Internet Protocol standard. One goal is to unify current protocols for industrial cameras. The other is to make it easier for 3rd party organizations to develop compatible software and hardware.
GigE Vision is not an open protocol, and as such a special license is required to develop GigE camera drivers.
Technology
GigE Vision has four main elements:
GigE Vision Control Protocol (GVCP)—Runs on the UDP protocol. The standard defines how to control and configure devices. Specifies stream channels and the mechanisms of sending image and configuration data between cameras and computers.
GigE Vision Stream Protocol (GVSP)—Runs on the UDP protocol. Covers the definition of data types and the ways images can be transferred via GigE.
GigE Device Discovery Mechanism—Provides mechanisms to obtain IP addresses.
XML description file based on a schema defined by the European Machine Vision Association's GenICam standard that allows access to camera controls and image streams.
See also
Automated Imaging Association
Camera Link
References
External links
GigE Abstract: Machine vision's GigE Vision standard (2009)
Blazing the GigE Vision Trail: Highlights and Benefits of an Important Vision Standard - Quality (2012)
GigE Vision comes of age: advantages like high bandwidth, cable length, widespread use and network ease make it a major interface (2009)
A high resolution smart camera with GigE Vision extension for surveillance applications (2008)
A high speed robot vision system with GigE vision extension (2011)
Application of the IEEE-1394 and the GigE Vision digital cameras for diagnostics in Taiwan Light Source (2007)
A high resolution smart camera with GigE Vision extension for surveillance applications (2008)
Ethernet
Image sensor technology in computer vision
Companies established in 2006
2006 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furano%20Line | The is part of the Hokkaido Railway Company network in Hokkaidō, Japan. It connects Furano Station in the city of Furano and Asahikawa Station in the city of Asahikawa. Popular with tourists, it has recently come to serve commuters in the bedroom towns that are developing as suburbs of Asahikawa.
History
The Furano Line opened on September 1, 1899, as the , operating between Asahikawa and Biei Stations. In the next month, service extended to Kami-Furano Station, and in the following year it reached Shimo-Furano Station.
In 1909 it became part of the Nemuro Main Line from Asahikawa Station to Kushiro Station, but in 1913 it took its present name and covered the route from Asahikawa Station to Shimo-Furano Station. The eruption of Mount Tokachi on May 24, 1926, caused a protracted interruption of service between Biei and Kami-Furano. In 1942, Shimo-Furano Station changed its name to Furano Station.
On April 1, 1987, with the breakup of the Japanese National Railways, the line became part of the Hokkaido Railways. In 2007, the station-numbering plan took effect.
On November 19, 2016, JR Hokkaido's President announced plans to rationalise the network by up to 1,237 km, or ~50% of the current network, including the proposed conversion to Third Sector operation of the Furano Line, but if local governments protest this decision, the line will face closure.
Former connecting lines
The private Asahikawa Electric Railway line to Higashikawa (15.5 km) branched from the Furano line south of Asahikawa station, operating from 1927-73. A 6.7 km branch to Asahiyama Park operated from 1930-73. Both lines were electrified at 600 V DC.
Operations
All trains are local trains within the Furano Line which operate only within the Furano Line, half covering the route between Asahikawa and Biei. Nearly all rolling stock is KiHa 150 Diesel Multiple Units. On 18 March 2023, 38 H100 series trainsets were introduced to the Furano Line.
Stations
Station numbers, names, other lines serving the stations and line distances from Asahikawa are as follows. Other than seasonal Lavender Farm, trains may also randomly skip stations marked "◌".
References
This article incorporates material from 富良野線 (Furano-sen) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on June 22, 2019.
External links
Route Map JR Hokkaido.
北海道ふるさとの駅 The Hokkaido Shimbun Press.
Rail transport in Hokkaido
Lines of Hokkaido Railway Company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayser-Threde | Kayser-Threde GmbH based in Munich, Germany is a systems house specializing in applications in manned and unmanned space missions, optics, telematics, crash test data acquisition, and process control for the rail sector. On September 1, 2014, Bremen-based OHB System AG and Munich-based Kayser-Threde GmbH merged under the name OHB System AG. In this way, the capabilities and capacities of our two outstanding space companies were centralized
Space
Kayser-Threde has delivered over 100 scientific instruments, systems and sub-systems for manned space stations, satellites and interplanetary missions. Optical systems and subsystems for eight space telescopes and space cameras for astronomical and earth observation have been implemented.
Industrial applications
Automotive
Process Control Systems
The automotive and process control applications have their origins in Kayser-Threde’s astronautics activities. Thus, they are examples for transfer of technology spin-off.
References
Aerospace companies of Germany
Companies based in Munich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer%20Protocols | Springer Protocols was a database of life sciences protocols published by Springer Science+Business Media. It replaced BioMed Protocols, a Humana Press database, in January 2008, and was deactivated on 25 July 2018. The protocols were then available on the SpringerLink website.
The protocols are "recipes" that allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratory. Springer Protocols contained more than 33,000 protocols, most of which were derived from the book series Methods in Molecular Biology, published under the Humana Press imprint. That book series, edited by John M. Walker since 1984, contains more than 1,100 volumes and has spawned several related book series.
Areas of study
Springer Protocols consisted of protocols from many Humana Press book series, most notably Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods. Among the subjects covered were biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cancer research, cell biology, genetics/genomics, imaging/radiology, immunology, infectious diseases, microbiology, molecular medicine, neuroscience, pharmacology/toxicology, plant science, and protein science.
Website specifics
The website was hosted by online journal provider MPS Technologies’ JournalStore platform. Among the features on the site were full-text indexing, RSS feeds, bookmarks, saved searches, comments sections for each protocol, and upload a protocol. The site also featured video protocols, produced in conjunction with the Journal of Visualized Experiments, a web-based, video journal for biological research.
References
External links
Research methods
Springer Science+Business Media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20Access%20Method | Telecommunications Access Method (TCAM) is an access method, in IBM's OS/360 and successors computer operating systems on IBM System/360 and later, that provides access to terminals units within a teleprocessing network.
Features
TCAM provides similar functionality to QTAM, which it replaced. It was the access method for the initial version of Time Sharing Option (TSO). With the advent of IBM's SNA, TCAM was eventually superseded by VTAM.
TCAM was said to have the following enhancements over QTAM:
Improved buffering, with more buffering options.
Improved organization of message queuing on disk including multiple volume support.
Back-up copies of messages maintained on disk.
Improved testing and debugging including off-line testing, improved debugging, online terminal testing, and logging.
Improved line handling for inquiry applications.
"Significantly increases speed and efficiency over QTAM."
Improved operator monitoring and control.
Binary Synchronous Support.
Checkpointing.
Structure
TCAM consists of a Message Control Program (MCP) and zero or more application programs. The MCP handles communications with the terminals, identifies input messages and starts application programs to process them as required. This is similar in concept to the much later internet service daemon (inetd) in unix and other systems. It is also similar to QTAM, where the application programs are called Message Processing Programs (MPP).
The MCP is assembled by the user installation from a set of macros supplied by IBM. These macros define the lines and terminals comprising the system, the datasets required, and the procedures used to process received and transmitted messages.
The application programs, incorporating logic to process the various messages, are supplied by the installation, and use standard OS/360 data management macros OPEN and CLOSE, and either the Basic macros READ, WRITE, and CHECK, or the Queued macros GET and PUT. The use of SAM macros allows application programs to be tested in a batch processing environment.
Device support
TCAM initially supported
Binary Synchronous Communications (BSC) terminals
Start/stop terminals
2260 terminals
message queuing in storage and on disk
Support for 3270 terminals was soon added.
References
IBM mainframe operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Loop%20Prevention%20Protocol | Simple Loop Prevention Protocol (SLPP) in computer networking is a data link layer protocol developed by Nortel (previously acquired by Avaya, now a part of Extreme Networks) to protect against Layer 2 network loops. SLPP uses a small hello packet to detect network loops. The SLPP protocol checks packets from the originating switch and the peer switch in a SMLT configuration. Sending hello packets on a per VLAN basis allows SLPP to detect VLAN based network loops for un-tagged as well as tagged IEEE 802.1Q VLAN link configurations. If a loop is detected, the associated port is shut down.
Compatible equipment
Avaya VSP 9000 Series - Software version 3.0 or above
Avaya VSP 7000 Series - Software version 10.0 or above
Avaya ERS 8600 - Software version 4.1 or above
Avaya ERS-8300 - Software version 4.0 or above
Avaya ERS-5000 - Software version 6.3 or above
Avaya ERS 4000 series - Software version 5.6.2 or above
Avaya ERS-3500 - Software version 5.2.0 or above
See also
VLACP
References
Further reading
Simple Loop Prevention Protocol Google Patents
Simple Loop Prevention Protocol (SLPP)
Nortel "Simple Loop Prevention Protocol" (SLPP)
Switch Clustering Design Best Practices
Quick Nortel MLT (Link Aggregation) Reference
Switch Clustering Design Best Practices
External links
Switch Clustering using Split Multi-Link Trunking (SMLT) with ERS 8600, 8300, 5x00 and 1600 Series Technical Configuration Guide
Avaya
Nortel protocols
Link protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/375%20Pearl%20Street | 375 Pearl Street (also known as the Verizon Building, Intergate.Manhattan, and One Brooklyn Bridge Plaza) is a 32-story office and datacenter building in the Civic Center of Lower Manhattan in New York City, at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge. It was built for the New York Telephone Company and completed in 1975. It was renovated in 2016.
History
The building was built for the New York Telephone Company and was completed in 1975. The building originally appeared windowless but had several (some with glass) running up the building. As it approached completion, The New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger decried it as the "most disturbing" of the phone company's new switching centers because it "overwhelms the Brooklyn Bridge towers, thrusts a residential neighborhood into shadow and sets a tone of utter banality."
In the 1990s and 2000s, Verizon switching operations included a small DMS-100 telephone exchange and a Switching Control Center System. The building's CLLI code, its identification in the telecommunications industry, was NYCMNYPS. The Pearl Street CS2K softswitch was the recipient of voice traffic from decommissioned legacy switches in the city.
2000s
The building played an important part in recovering service to the New York City Police Department following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Prior to 2002, the building featured the logo of New York Telephone and Bell Atlantic; that year, the sign was replaced with the logo of Verizon.
In September 2007 it was announced that Taconic Investment Partners had purchased the building from Verizon, which leased back floors 8 through 10. Taconic bought the 1.098-million-square-foot building () for $172.05 million, which amounted to $185 a foot when property was selling in Manhattan for $500 a foot. Other appeals of the building were its 16- to ceilings and floor plans as well as the naming rights. Taconic had announced plans to replace the facade with a glass curtain wall designed by Cookfox. The New York Times wrote:
Paul E. Pariser, co-chief executive of Taconic, said a reporter had told him: 'Mr. Pariser, you have a challenge cut out for you — turning a G.E. dishwasher into an office building.' I like that challenge.
2010s to present
In early June 2011, data center operator Sabey Data Center Properties purchased the deed in lieu of foreclosure from M&T Bank for $120 million, considerably less than what Taconic had paid a few years earlier. Sabey had initially intended to partner with YoungWoo & Associates but instead hired National Real Estate Advisors as its development partner. Sabey intended to redevelop the property as a major Manhattan data center and technology building called Intergate.Manhattan. John Sabey, president of the company, said Intergate.Manhattan would appeal to "new scientific, academic and medical research centers" in addition to data center tenants.
In 2012, The Daily Telegraph ranked 375 Pearl Street as the 20th "ugliest building in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort%20Time%20Capsule | The AirPort Time Capsule (originally named Time Capsule) is a wireless router which was sold by Apple Inc., featuring network-attached storage (NAS) and a residential gateway router, and is one of Apple's AirPort products. They are, essentially, versions of the AirPort Extreme with an internal hard drive. Apple describes it as a "Backup Appliance", designed to work in tandem with the Time Machine backup software utility introduced in Mac OS X 10.5.
Introduced on January 15, 2008 and released on February 29, 2008, the device has been upgraded several times, matching upgrades in the Extreme series routers. The earliest versions supported 802.11n wireless and came with a 500 GB hard drive in the base model, while the latest model, introduced in 2013, features 802.11ac and a 3 TB hard drive. All models include four Gigabit Ethernet ports (3 LAN ports, 1 WAN port) and a single USB port. The USB port can be used for external peripheral devices to be shared over the network, such as external hard drives or printers. The NAS functionality utilizes a built-in "server grade" hard drive.
In 2016, Apple disbanded its wireless router development team, and in 2018 the entire AirPort line of products was discontinued without replacement.
History
In early 2009, Apple released the second-generation Time Capsule. It offered simultaneous 802.11n dual-band operation, which allows older devices to use slower wireless speeds, without affecting the overall performance of devices that can use higher 802.11n speeds. The second-generation model also included the addition of Guest Networking, a feature which allows creation of a separate wireless network for guests. The guest network uses different authentication credentials, ensuring the security of the primary network. The hard disk storage space of each model was doubled: capacities were 1 TB and 2 TB, while the prices remained unchanged.
In October 2009, several news sites reported that many first-generation Time Capsules were failing after 18 months, with some users alleging that this was due to a design failure in the power supplies. Apple confirmed that certain Time Capsules sold between February 2008 and June 2008 do not power on, or may unexpectedly turn off. Apple offered free repair or replacement to affected units.
The third-generation Time Capsule was released in October 2009. The only change was a reconfiguration of the internal wireless antenna, resulting in an Apple-reported 50% increase in wireless performance and 25% increase in wireless range when compared to previous models.
The fourth-generation Time Capsule, released in June 2011, increased the range of Wi-Fi signals. The internal Wi-Fi card was changed from a Marvell Wi-Fi chip to a better-performing Broadcom BCM4331 chip.
Discontinuation
In approximately 2016, Apple disbanded the wireless router team that developed the AirPort Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme router. In 2018, Apple formally discontinued both products, exiting the router mar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRIMA | PRIMA may refer to:
PHIL Music, The Philippine Recording Industry Music Association (PHIL Music) or PRIMA
PRIMA (Indonesia), interchange bank network in Indonesia
Just and Prosperous People's Party, political party in Indonesia |
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