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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRD%3A%20Super%20Real%20Darwin | is a 1987 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Data East. It is the sequel to Data East's 1986 arcade game, Darwin 4078. The player takes control of a small fighter ship capable of mutating into different shapes. The ship's appearance will change with upgraded weapons as the player obtain more power-ups.
Plot
The story starts on the planet Lakya where the technologically advanced inhabitants of the planet unwittingly unleash the planet's life force known as Evol. As the released Evol drifts from planet Lakya, it is received by the inhabitants of the nearby planet Cokyo; the people of Cokyo initiate the Shlohe project, a plan to use their captured Evol to develop advanced biologic ships and weapons to invade planet Lakya. The inhabitants of Lakya retaliate the Cokyo invasion by using their own evolving fighter ships.
Ports
SRD: Super Real Darwin was later ported by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive console in 1990 under the title . Although a home port of the second game, Darwin 4081 was numbered 4081 because it was the 4th game that used the evolution system after Darwin (4078), S.R.D. (4079), and Act-Fancer (4080). In 2010, a Wii compilation titled Data East Arcade Classics was released and includes the arcade version of SRD: Super Real Darwin.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Super Real Darwin on their December 1, 1987 issue as being the third most-successful table arcade unit of the year.
References
External links
SRD: Super Real Darwin at Data East Games
SRD: Super Real Darwin at Arcade History
1987 video games
Arcade video games
Data East video games
Vertically scrolling shooters
Shoot 'em ups
Sega Genesis games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Data East arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced%20cost | In linear programming, reduced cost, or opportunity cost, is the amount by which an objective function coefficient would have to improve (so increase for maximization problem, decrease for minimization problem) before it would be possible for a corresponding variable to assume a positive value in the optimal solution. It is the cost for increasing a variable by a small amount, i.e., the first derivative from a certain point on the polyhedron that constrains the problem. When the point is a vertex in the polyhedron, the variable with the most extreme cost, negatively for minimization and positively maximization, is sometimes referred to as the steepest edge.
Given a system minimize subject to , the reduced cost vector can be computed as , where is the dual cost vector.
It follows directly that for a minimization problem, any non-basic variables at their lower bounds with strictly negative reduced costs are eligible to enter that basis, while any basic variables must have a reduced cost that is exactly 0. For a maximization problem, the non-basic variables at their lower bounds that are eligible for entering the basis have a strictly positive reduced cost.
Interpretation
For the case where x and y are optimal, the reduced costs can help explain why variables attain the value they do. For each variable, the corresponding sum of that stuff gives the reduced cost show which constraints forces the variable up and down. For non-basic variables, the distance to zero gives the minimal change in the objective coefficient to change the solution vector x.
In pivot strategy
In principle, a good pivot strategy would be to select whichever variable has the greatest reduced cost. However, the steepest edge might ultimately not be the most attractive, as the edge might be very short, thus affording only a small betterment of the object function value. From a computational view, another problem is that to compute the steepest edge, an inner product must be computed for every variable in the system, making the computational cost too high in many cases. The Devex algorithm attempts to overcome the latter problem by estimating the reduced costs rather than calculating them at every pivot step, exploiting that a pivot step might not alter the reduced costs of all variables dramatically.
In linear programming
NOTE: This is a direct quote from the web site linked below:
"Associated with each variable is a reduced cost value. However, the reduced cost value is only non-zero when the optimal value of a variable is zero. A somewhat intuitive way to think about the reduced cost variable is to think of it as indicating how much the cost of the activity represented by the variable must be reduced before any of that activity will be done. More precisely,
... the reduced cost value indicates how much the objective function coefficient on the corresponding variable must be improved before the value of the variable will be positive in the optimal solution.
In the cas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QConnect | qconnect was a network of integrated public passenger transport services that cover subsidised and/or regulated bus, coach and aviation networks in Regional Queensland, Australia. It was introduced by the Queensland Government in December 2007, and is an agency operated by the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR). qconnect provides public transport services and greater connectivity and accessibility of services throughout regional, rural and remote Queensland by working with contracted transport operators.
qconnect was the regional counterpart for the Translink network operating across South East Queensland and some parts of Regional Queensland.
Throughout 2022 and 2023, regional bus operations were being transferred from qconnect and joined the wider Translink network. This occurred to create a more consistent and simplified public transport network in Queensland. On 16 January 2023, all regional networks will have been transferred to Translink, with the qconnect brand becoming defunct.
Bus Stops
qconnect has different types of bus stop designs, depending on the projected patronage and usage of the bus stop.
Hail'n'Ride Bus Stops
Hail'n'Ride bus stops are usually located in areas with low population or low projected passenger patronage. These stops generally feature no bus stop signage or infrastructure, and generally aren't wheelchair accessible. As with most qconnect routes, it is possible to hail a bus to stop anywhere along the bus route where it is safe to do so, so these stops are used as timing points for timetables.
Minimum Boarding Point Bus Stops
Minimum boarding point bus stops are usually located in low population suburban areas, along outbound routes, or in space constrained locations. These stops generally feature bus stop signage, along with tactile ground surface indicators, and are wheelchair accessible. They do not feature bus shelters, seating or any other infrastructure.
Regular and Intermediate Bus Stops
Regular and intermediate bus stops are usually located in suburban or city areas with low-moderate passenger demand and moderate service frequency. These stops generally feature bus stop signage, tactile ground surface indicators, wheelchair accessibility and bus shelters and seating.
Premium Bus Stops
Premium bus stops are usually located near major attractions, such as public services, shopping centres and bus interchanges. These stops generally feature improved bus stop signage, tactile ground surface indicators, wheelchair accessibility and multiple seated shelters. They can also feature infrastructure such as rubbish bins, vending machines and CCTV.
Zones, Fares and Ticketing
qconnect fares are calculated depending on how many zones are travelled. Zone boundaries can be found on route and network maps along with a fare zone calculator. Fare zones and fare costs differ between regions.
The following ticket types were available for bus patrons to purchase:
Single Ticket
Provides one way travel be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWBL | DWBL (1242 AM) is a radio station owned and operated by FBS Radio Network in the Philippines. The station's studio is located at Unit 908, Paragon Plaza, EDSA cor. Reliance Street, Mandaluyong, while its transmitter is located along Coloong 1 Rd., Brgy. Caloong, Valenzuela City (co-shared with sister station DWSS). It broadcasts daily from 4:30 AM to midnight.
History
DWBL was initially known as WBL during the Martial Law era. At that time, it was the top-rated radio station in Metro Manila airing a Top 40 format. Willy "Hillbilly Willy" Inong, Rudolph Rivera, Bernie Buenaseda, Cristy Dailo, Orlando S. Mercado and Mike Enriquez were among the roster of personalities who worked with the station. In mid-1985, when most of the jocks moved to DWKC-FM and formed WKC, Buenaseda remained on air, but left after a few months to set up WTM 89.9. The following year, DWBL reformatted into a talk station, offering brokered programming.
In April 2015, 8TriMedia bought part of DWBL's time for its programs hosted by popular radio personalities, such as Dr. Rey Salinel, former Manila City mayor Alfredo Lim, Miguel Gil, Percy Lapid, Shalala and Lloyd Umali. It lasted until October 2015, when it moved its airtime to DZRJ, along with new programs.
References
DWBL
FBS Radio Network
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1972 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider%20Systems | Spider Systems Ltd. was a computer network products company, based in Edinburgh. It was founded in 1983 by several former employees of ICL who had previously worked at ICL's Scottish Development Centre at Dalkeith Palace until its closure earlier that year.
Spider Systems produced a wide range of products, including terminal servers, routers, network bridges, network analysers and network protocol software stacks for various operating systems, including the TCP/IP stack used in Microsoft Windows NT 3.1.
The company was acquired by Shiva Corporation in 1995, becoming Shiva Europe Ltd. Shiva were themselves acquired by Intel in 1998, and Shiva Europe Ltd. was liquidated the following year.
The Spider brand was revived in 1996 when the network software division of the business was bought back from Shiva by one of the founders and renamed Spider Software Ltd.. This company was later sold to Artesyn Technologies (which subsequently became part of Emerson Electric Company) in 2000. On 9 October 2008 Emerson started the process of closing down the former Spider Software Ltd site, and the office closed at the end of October 2009.
References
Defunct networking companies
Defunct technological companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Edinburgh
Companies established in 1983
Companies disestablished in 1995
1983 establishments in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Letters%20on%20Computer%20Vision%20and%20Image%20Analysis | Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (usually abbreviated ELCVIA) is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal focusing on computer vision and image analysis (subfields of artificial intelligence) as well as image processing (a subfield of signal processing). It was established in 2002 and is published by the Computer Vision Center (Autonomous University of Barcelona).
Indexing and abstracting
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following bibliographic databases:
Scopus
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
According to Scopus, the journal has a 2019 CiteScore of 0.9.
See also
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
References
External links
Computer science journals
Open access journals
Academic journals established in 2002
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freitag | Freitag is the German word for Friday. Freitag or Freytag may refer to:
People
Amanda Freitag (born 1972), Food Network Chef
Arny Freytag (born 1950), American photographer
Barbara Freitag (born 1941), a German-born Brazilian sociologist and author
Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven (1914–2007), Baltic German general
Dagmar Freitag (born 1953), German politician
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), Dada-artist
Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian-American mathematician
Holger Freitag (born 1963), German ski jumper
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag (1788–1861), German philologist
Gustav Freytag (1816–1895), German dramatist
Freytag's pyramid
Jacques Freitag (born 1982), South African high jumper
John Freitag (1877–1932), American rower
Lori Freitag, American applied mathematician and computer scientist
Meike Freitag (born 1979), German freestyle swimmer
Richard Freitag (born 1991), German ski jumper
Willy Freitag (fl. 1960s), former U.S. soccer defender
Freytag, a surname
Other uses
Freitag, der 13. (Friday the Thirteenth), a 1949 West German film
Der Freitag, a German weekly newspaper published in Berlin
Freitag aus Licht, the fifth opera of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Licht cycle
Freitag Homestead, a historic farm in Washington, Green County, Wisconsin, U.S.
See also
Wessel von Freytag-Loringhoven (1899-1944), Baltic German member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler
Surnames from nicknames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence%20and%20prediction%20bands | A confidence band is used in statistical analysis to represent the uncertainty in an estimate of a curve or function based on limited or noisy data. Similarly, a prediction band is used to represent the uncertainty about the value of a new data-point on the curve, but subject to noise. Confidence and prediction bands are often used as part of the graphical presentation of results of a regression analysis.
Confidence bands are closely related to confidence intervals, which represent the uncertainty in an estimate of a single numerical value. "As confidence intervals, by construction, only refer to a single point, they are narrower (at this point) than a confidence band which is supposed to hold simultaneously at many points."
Pointwise and simultaneous confidence bands
Suppose our aim is to estimate a function f(x). For example, f(x) might be the proportion of people of a particular age x who support a given candidate in an election. If x is measured at the precision of a single year, we can construct a separate 95% confidence interval for each age. Each of these confidence intervals covers the corresponding true value f(x) with confidence 0.95. Taken together, these confidence intervals constitute a 95% pointwise confidence band for f(x).
In mathematical terms, a pointwise confidence band with coverage probability 1 − α satisfies the following condition separately for each value of x:
where is the point estimate of f(x).
The simultaneous coverage probability of a collection of confidence intervals is the probability that all of them cover their corresponding true values simultaneously. In the example above, the simultaneous coverage probability is the probability that the intervals for x = 18,19,... all cover their true values (assuming that 18 is the youngest age at which a person can vote). If each interval individually has coverage probability 0.95, the simultaneous coverage probability is generally less than 0.95. A 95% simultaneous confidence band is a collection of confidence intervals for all values x in the domain of f(x) that is constructed to have simultaneous coverage probability 0.95.
In mathematical terms, a simultaneous confidence band with coverage probability 1 − α satisfies the following condition:
In nearly all cases, a simultaneous confidence band will be wider than a pointwise confidence band with the same coverage probability. In the definition of a pointwise confidence band, that universal quantifier moves outside the probability function.
Confidence bands in regression analysis
Confidence bands commonly arise in regression analysis. In the case of a simple regression involving a single independent variable, results can be presented in the form of a plot showing the estimated regression line along with either point-wise or simultaneous confidence bands. Commonly used methods for constructing simultaneous confidence bands in regression are the Bonferroni and Scheffé methods; see Family-wise error rate cont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Centric%20Product%20Support | Network Centric Product Support (NCPS) is an early application of an Internet of Things (IoT) computer architecture developed to leverage new information technologies and global networks to assist in managing maintenance, support and supply chain of complex products made up of one or more complex systems, such as in a mobile aircraft fleet or fixed location assets such as in building systems. This is accomplished by establishing digital threads connecting the physical deployed subsystem with its design Digital Twins virtual model by embedding intelligence through networked micro-web servers that also function as a computer workstation within each subsystem component (i.e. Engine control unit on an aircraft) or other controller and enabling 2-way communications using existing Internet technologies and communications networks - thus allowing for the extension of a product lifecycle management (PLM) system into a mobile, deployed product at the subsystem level in real time. NCPS can be considered to be the support flip side of Network-centric warfare, as this approach goes beyond traditional logistics and aftermarket support functions by taking a complex adaptive system management approach and integrating field maintenance and logistics in a unified factory and field environment. Its evolution began out of insights gained by CDR Dave Loda (USNR) from Network Centric Warfare-based fleet battle experimentation at the US Naval Warfare Development Command (NWDC) in the late 1990s, who later lead commercial research efforts of NCPS in aviation at United Technologies Corporation. Interaction with the MIT Auto-ID Labs, EPCglobal, the Air Transport Association of America ATA Spec 100/iSpec 2200 and other consortium pioneering the emerging machine to machine Internet of Things (IoT) architecture contributed to the evolution of NCPS.
Purpose
Simply put, this architecture extends the existing World Wide Web infrastructure of networked web servers down into the product at its subsystem's controller level using a Systems Engineering "system of systems" nested approach. Its core is an embedded dual function webserver/computer workstation connected to the product controller's test ports (as used in retrofit applications, or integrated directly into the controller for new products), hence providing access to operational cycles, sensor and other information in a clustered, internet addressable node that allows for local or remote access, and the ability to host remotely reconfigurable software that can collect and process data from its mated subsystem controller onboard and pull in other computing resources throughout the network. It can then establish a localized wireless World Wide Web in and around the product that can be securely connected to by a mechanic with any web browser-equipped handheld independent of the greater World Wide Web, as well as seamlessly integrate into global networks when external wireless communications is available - thus creating data D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20in%20delay-tolerant%20networking | Routing in delay-tolerant networking concerns itself with the ability to transport, or route, data from a source to a destination, which is a fundamental ability all communication networks must have. Delay- and disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) are characterized by their lack of connectivity, resulting in a lack of instantaneous end-to-end paths. In these challenging environments, popular ad hoc routing protocols such as AODV and DSR fail to establish routes. This is due to these protocols trying to first establish a complete route and then, after the route has been established, forward the actual data. However, when instantaneous end-to-end paths are difficult or impossible to establish, routing protocols must take to a "store and forward" approach, where data is incrementally moved and stored throughout the network in hopes that it will eventually reach its destination. A common technique used to maximize the probability of a message being successfully transferred is to replicate many copies of the message in hopes that one will succeed in reaching its destination.
Routing considerations
There are many characteristics DTN protocols, including routing, must take into consideration. A first consideration is if information about future contacts is readily available. For example, in interplanetary communications, many times a planet or moon is the cause of contact disruption, and large distance is the cause of communication delay. However, due to the laws of physics, it is possible to predict the future in terms of the times contacts will be available, and how long they will last. These types of contacts are known as scheduled or predictable contacts. On the contrary, in disaster recovery networks the future location of communicating entities, such as emergency responders, may not be known. These types of contacts are known as intermittent or opportunistic contacts.
A second consideration is if mobility can be exploited and, if so, which nodes are mobile. There are three major cases, classifying the level of mobility in the network. First, it is possible that there are no mobile entities. In this case, contacts appear and disappear based solely on the quality of the communication channel between them. For instance, in interplanetary networks, large objects in space, such as planets, can block communicating nodes for a set period of time. Second, it is possible that some, but not all, nodes in the network are mobile. These nodes, sometimes referred to as Data Mules, are exploited for their mobility. Since they are the primary source of transitive communication between two non-neighboring nodes in the network, an important routing question is how to properly distribute data among these nodes. Third, it is possible that the vast majority, if not all, nodes in the network are mobile. In this case, a routing protocol will most likely have more options available during contact opportunities, and may not have to utilize each one. An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBus | MBus or M-Bus may refer to:
MBus (SPARC), a computer bus designed for communication between high speed system components
M-Bus, or Meter-Bus, a bus used for remote reading of gas or electricity meters (EN 13757)
Message Bus (Mbus), an inter-process communication protocol (RFC 3259)
Master of Business, a college degree
See also
Modbus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20network | A service network is a structure that brings together several entities to deliver a particular service. For instance, one organisation (the buyer) may sub-contract another organisation (the supplier) to deliver after-sales services to a third party (the customer). The buyer may use more than one supplier. Likewise, the supplier may participate in other networks. The rationale for a service network is that each organisation is focusing on what they do best.
A service network can also be defined as a collection of people and information brought together on the internet to provide a specific service or achieve a common business objective. It is an evolving extension of service systems and applies Enterprise 2.0 technologies, also known as enterprise social software, to enable corporations to leverage the advances of the consumer internet for the benefit of business. In this case, the service network is designed to benefit from the wisdom of crowds and a human's natural tendency and desire to share information, collaborate, and self organize into communities of common interests and objectives. In business, the value of collaboration is clearly recognized, but the ability is often hampered by rigid organizational boundaries and fragmented information systems. A service network enables businesses to realize the benefits of mass collaboration despite the constraints of modern organizational structures and systems.
The term service network is increasingly being used within the context of service innovation initiatives that span academia, business, and government. Some examples include:
The University of Cambridge and IBM Corporation use the term service network in their discussion paper, "Succeeding through Service Innovation" and describe it within the context of service systems networks.
Ingres Corporation uses the term service network as a new paradigm in software service to enable Enterprise 2.0 IT service management.
Openwater Corporation uses the term service network to help describe and brand their product offerings and solutions.
History
The world's economy is shifting rapidly from agriculture and manufacturing to services. When the United States declared independence, 90% of the world's economy was on the farm. Today, the services sector accounts for approximately 80% of the U.S. economy. But unlike traditional disciplines like computer science and engineering, innovation and investment directed towards service innovation had historically not kept pace with its growth.
However, in 2007, momentum and investment in service innovation grew dramatically and the creation and evolution of service networks began in earnest along with many other service initiatives.
Investments in service innovation
Investments in service innovation include, but are not limited to, service networks.
Business Week magazine, in an article dated, March 29, 2007, cited Service Innovation as the Next Big Thing.
IBM is investing heavily in service science, man |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20GPS | EGPS ( EGPS, EGPS, trademarked as eGPS) is a technology designed for mobile phones on GSM and W-CDMA networks, to augment GPS signals to deliver faster location fixes, lower cost implementations and reduced power and processing requirements. It is being developed by CSR who has partnered with Motorola – together they intend to create an open industry forum.
According to CSR, EGPS delivers a "universal positioning capability that will not only work reliably indoors and in zero GPS signal conditions, but greatly speed time to fix in poor GPS reception areas where most handsets are used." More specifically, it can "exploit data available from the cellular network to speed GPS fixes and provide complementary, fast, and reliable location sensing when GPS signals are weak or unavailable." CSR is hoping to add eGPS capabilities to handsets for less than $1 per unit.
E-GPS combines CSR's "Matrix" technology with GPS – when a user initiates a location request they get a Matrix location instantly using cell tower information, accurate to within 100m. Then CSR's "Fine Time Aiding" helps the device know where to look for a GPS signal, to quickly acquire satellite information within seconds. Fine Time Aiding enables a more aggressive search and is claimed to be equivalent to 6 dB more sensitivity than can be achieved by any GPS hardware correlator in the terminal.
CSR claim that this enables software-only GPS solutions to operate reliably in all environments, and that eGPS is superior to Assisted GPS. EGPS technologies are due in 2008.
eGPS is much advanced than conventional GPS system provided with enhanced location search and integrated cellular connectivity.2;EGPS-English,Grammar,Puntunation,Spelling
Timeline
February 2005 - The E-GPS system was first announced by developers CPS (Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd)
January 2007 - CPS is purchased by CSR, a manufacturer of bluetooth and wireless chips for mobile handsets
January 2008 - CSR & Motorola announce that they intend to create an open industry forum for EGPS technologies
References
External links
The EGPS Forum - Motorola and CSR
CSR shows off eGPS, says it's superior to aGPS
E-GPS High Accuracy Mobile Location Technology for GSM / 3G W-CDMA
Mobile technology
Global Positioning System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Cerebral%20Palsy | United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) is an international nonprofit charitable organization consisting of a network of affiliates. UCP is a leading service provider and advocate for adults and children with disabilities. As one of the largest health nonprofits in the United States, the UCP mission is to advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with disabilities through an affiliate network.
History
UCP was founded in 1949 by Leonard Goldenson (who later became Chairman of the broadcast network ABC) and his wife Isabel, and Jack and Ethel Hausman. United Cerebral Palsy pioneered the use of fundraising telethons.
Service provider
UCP, through its more than 66 local affiliates across the United States, as well as in Canada and Australia, provide a broad array of services and resources to children and adults with a broad range of disabilities. Each affiliate provides a different menu of services tailored to their local needs and capabilities, but often include education, employment, health & wellness, housing, parenting & family training and support, sports & leisure, transportation, and travel assistance. UCP has a combined budget of more than $750 million for research, public policy advocacy and direct services. System-wide, an average of 85 percent of all revenue is dedicated to programs.
Advocacy
In addition to raising money for services and research, UCP also engages in public policy advocacy, including promoting access and opportunity for people with disabilities, and the provision of services. In the United States, UCP was one of the catalyst organizations advocating for the adoption of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990. More recently, UCP has been on the cutting edge of disabilities rights with programs such as Life Labs, a national initiative to foster innovation and technology.
Calls for name change
In April 2013, United Cerebral Palsy of Central Maryland announced that it would change its name from UCP to Unified Community Connections to make it clearer which clientele is served by the organization. Other affiliates have chosen not to include the phrase "United Cerebral Palsy," as part of their doing business as names or logos even if it might remain part of their legal names, in an effort to be more encompassing of their programs and services.
In 2013, the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Chicago merged with Seguin Services and are now known as UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago.
Leadership
UCP is led by a 16-person Board of Trustees and President/CEO Armando A. Contreras. The headquarters is in Washington, D.C.
Accreditation
UCP meets the standards of the National Health Council and the Better Business Bureau/Wise Giving Alliance.
References
External links
Herald and Review, March 4, 2008 Celebrity dance partners step out to aid United Cerebral Palsy
KPHO Television News, March 27, 2008 – Copper Thieves Hit Cerebral Palsy Facility. 'Loss Of Therapy Troubling,' Official Says
The New York Times, Saturd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20impedance | Dual impedance and dual network are terms used in electronic network analysis. The dual of an impedance is its reciprocal, or algebraic inverse . For this reason, the dual impedance is also called the inverse impedance. Another way of stating this is that the dual of is the admittance .
The dual of a network is the network whose impedances are the duals of the original impedances. In the case of a black-box network with multiple ports, the impedance looking into each port must be the dual of the impedance of the corresponding port of the dual network.
This is consistent with the general notion duality of electric circuits, where the voltage and current are interchanged, etc., since yields
Scaled and normalised duals
In physical units, the dual is taken with respect to some nominal or characteristic impedance. To do this, Z and Z' are scaled to the nominal impedance Z0 so that
Z0 is usually taken to be a purely real number R0, so Z' is changed by a real factor of R02. In other words, the dual circuit is qualitatively the same circuit, but all the component values are scaled by R02. The scaling factor R02 has the dimensions of Ω2, so the constant 1 in the unitless expression would actually be assigned the dimensions Ω2 in a dimensional analysis.
Duals of basic circuit elements
Graphical method
There is a graphical method of obtaining the dual of a network which is often easier to use than the mathematical expression for the impedance. Starting with a circuit diagram of the network in question, Z, the following steps are drawn on the diagram to produce Z' superimposed on top of Z. Typically, Z' will be drawn in a different colour to help distinguish it from the original, or, if using computer-aided design, Z' can be drawn on a different layer.
A generator is connected to each port of the original network. The purpose of this step is to prevent the ports from being "lost" in the inversion process. This happens because a port left open circuit will transform into a short circuit and disappear.
A dot is drawn at the centre of each mesh of the network Z. These dots will become the circuit nodes of Z'.
A conductor is drawn, which encloses the network Z. This conductor also becomes a node of Z'.
For each circuit element of Z, its dual is drawn between the nodes in the centre of the meshes on either side of Z. Where Z is on the edge of the network, one of these nodes will be the enclosing conductor from the previous step.
This completes the drawing of Z'. This method also demonstrates that the dual of a mesh transforms into a node, and the dual of a node transforms into a mesh. Two examples are given below.
Example: star network
It is clear that the dual of a star network of inductors is a delta network of capacitors. This dual circuit is not the same thing as a star-delta (Y-Δ) transformation. A Y-Δ transform results in an equivalent circuit, not a dual circuit.
Example: Cauer network
Filters designed using Cauer's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20Gaspard%20Monge | The Gaspard Monge Institute of electronics and computer science is the research and teaching body of the University of Marne la Vallée in the fields of computer science, electronics, telecommunications and networks. It is named for Gaspard Monge.
The Institute is composed of four branches:
The Computing research laboratory
The fields in which the Institute carries out its research are: text algorithms, combinatorial mathematics, computer science applied to linguistics, image synthesis, networks, signal and communications.
The postgraduate degree for Fundamental Computer Science can also be prepared within the framework of the laboratory.
The laboratory of communication systems
This laboratory carries out research in the following fields: electromagnetism, applications and measures, numericals, radio communications, microsystems and microtechnologies, photonics and microwaves.
The postgraduate degree in Electronics and Telecommunications can be prepared within the framework of the laboratory.
The computer science training unit
The teachings of this University department lead to the bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science and the postgraduate degree in computer science
The electronics training unit
The degrees that are prepared within this unit are the bachelor's degree in material science and the postgraduate degree in electronics and telecommunications
References
University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfern%20Legal%20Centre | Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is an independent, non-profit community legal centre established in 1977 and located in the Sydney inner-city of Redfern, New South Wales. It is part of a network of four inner-Sydney region community legal centres, including the Inner City, Kingsford, and Marrickville Legal Centres. Redfern Legal Centre is a member of Community Legal Centres NSW, the state peak representative body for community legal centres in NSW and also Community Legal Centres Australia, the national peak representative body for community legal centres across Australia.
Redfern Legal Centre should not be confused with the Aboriginal Legal Service, also located in Redfern, which was the first free legal service in Australia and founded in 1970.
The RLC is dedicated to promoting social justice and human rights and provides free legal advice, referral, and casework to disadvantaged people and groups who live with its catchment area, which extends to the Botany, Leichhardt, and City of Sydney municipal areas. Many of those seeking assistance are ineligible for legal aid but still cannot afford private legal services. A high proportion of the centre's clients are from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other culturally and linguistically diverse communities. The RLC is dedicated to community legal education and advocates for the reform of inequalities in laws, the legal system, administrative practices and society as a whole.
Areas of advice
The RLC is a general community legal centre providing free legal advice to the community in a number of key areas. The centre has been involved in key cases and areas of law reform with an increased focus on police accountability. In 2020, RLC launched an investigation into a potential class action suit against the NSW police for their unlawful use of strip searches. They have also referred a case involving a NSW police officer allegedly assaulting an indigenous teenager to the independent police watchdog. The centre also provides specific legal advice in the following areas.
Child Protection
Consumer
Credit & Debt
Crime (minor)
Discrimination and Human Rights
Domestic Violence
Employment
Family Law
Fines
Immigration Law
Police Complaints
Property Damage
Tenancy
International students service
Staff and Board
RLC has over 20 staff members split between this general legal team, Inner Sydney Tenancy Advice & Advocacy Service and administration and management. The current Chief Executive Officer is Camilla Paldolfini. Jacqui Swinburne acts as the Chief Operations Officer along with Alexis Goodstone as Principal Solicitor forming the senior management of the organisation. The centre is supported by the board, with Kerry O’Brien acting as chair of the board and Tamara Sims as secretary.
Volunteers and pro-bono
The RLC relies heavily on volunteer labour and pro-bono assistance from legal professionals to service a heavy caseload. Daytime volunteers tend to be law students or members of the com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20highways%20in%20Washington | The State Highways of Washington in the U.S. state of Washington comprise a network of over of state highways, including all Interstate and U.S. Highways that pass through the state, maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The system spans 8.5% of the state's public road mileage, but carries over half of the traffic. All other public roads in the state are either inside incorporated places (cities or towns) or are maintained by the county. The state highway symbol is a white silhouette of George Washington's head (whom the state is named after).
System description
All state highways are designated by the Washington State Legislature and codified in the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), namely Chapter 47.17 RCW. These routes are defined generally by termini and points along the route; WSDOT may otherwise choose the details, and may bypass the designated points as long as the road serves the general vicinity. WSDOT's duties include "locating, designing, constructing, improving, repairing, operating, and maintaining" these state highways, including bridges and other related structures. Within cities and towns, the local governments are responsible for certain aspects of the streets maintained as parts of a state highway, including their grade and the portion not used for highway purposes. All routes, even Interstate and U.S. Highways, are defined as "state route number" plus the number; for instance, Interstate 5 is "state route number 5" and U.S. Route 395 is "state route number 395". Also included in the RCW are "state route number 20 north" (signed as State Route 20 Spur) and "state route number 97-alternate" (signed as U.S. Route 97 Alternate). Some other spurs, such as State Route 503 Spur, are defined as part of the main routes, as is U.S. Route 101 Alternate. WSDOT has also defined some spurs that mainly serve to provide full access between intersecting routes.
Although most state highways as defined by law are open to traffic, State Route 109 dead-ends at Taholah, State Route 501 has a gap in the middle, and State Routes 35, 168, 230, 276, and most of SR 171, 213, and 704, have not been constructed. Notable sections of state highways include the six crossings of the Cascade Range - the Columbia River Gorge (SR 14), White Pass (US 12), Chinook Pass (SR 410), Snoqualmie Pass (I-90), Stevens Pass (US 2), and the North Cascades Highway (SR 20). Of the 13 public road crossings of the Canada–US border in Washington, nine are on state highways. Major bridges include the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and three floating bridges: the Evergreen Point Bridge, Hood Canal Bridge, and Lake Washington Bridge. The Washington State Ferries, except the route to Sidney, British Columbia, were legally included in the state highway system in 1994; a new State Route 339 was created at that time for the passenger-only Seattle-Vashon Ferry. According to the Washington State Department of Licensing, ocean beaches are legally state highwa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20Confidential%20%28TV%20series%29 | Kitchen Confidential is an American television sitcom that debuted on September 19, 2005, on the Fox network, based on Anthony Bourdain's New York Times bestselling book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Bradley Cooper played the lead character, Jack Bourdain, inspired by Anthony Bourdain.
After the show's first three episodes aired on Fox, the show was put on hiatus due to Fox's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs. In November 2005, Fox announced the show would not air during sweeps and that only 13 episodes would be produced because it was only averaging 4 million viewers. The show returned on December 5, 2005, with its fourth episode, but only received 3.38 million viewers. Four days later, Fox announced the cancellation of the series.
Cast
Main
Bradley Cooper as Jack Bourdain – executive chef. Once addicted to alcohol and drugs, he is given the opportunity to run Nolita and make a career comeback.
Nicholas Brendon as Seth Richman – pastry chef. An old friend of Jack who has feelings for Tanya, the hostess. He also has a jealousy issue.
John Francis Daley as Jim – commis chef. Begs Jack to stay at Nolita so he doesn't have to go back to Utah. Later, he develops feelings for Tanya.
Jaime King as Tanya – hostess. The clueless and trusting hostess at Nolita.
Bonnie Somerville as Mimi – head waitress. The daughter of Pino, who hates the staff and tries to fit in. She later becomes the owner of Nolita. Mimi attended the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
Owain Yeoman as Steven Daedalus – sous chef. Jack's best friend, but also a thief and womanizer.
Recurring
John Cho as Teddy Wong – seafood chef
Frank Langella as Pino – Nolita's owner
Sam Pancake as Cameron – waiter
Tessie Santiago as Donna – waitress
Erinn Hayes as Becky Sharp – chef
Frank Alvarez as Ramon – dishwasher
Episodes
DVD release
On May 22, 2007, 20th Century Fox released Kitchen Confidential: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. The 2-disc set contains all 13 episodes of the series as well as audio commentaries on the series premiere by Darren Star, David Hemingson and Bradley Cooper, on the series finale by Karine Rosenthal, David Hemingson, Bradley Cooper and Dean Lopata and two featurettes – "A Tour of the Nolita Restaurant" and "A Recipe for Comedy".
References
External links
2005 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
2000s American single-camera sitcoms
2000s American cooking television series
2000s American workplace comedy television series
English-language television shows
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
Television shows based on non-fiction books
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Television shows set in New York City
Television series by New Line Television
Television series set in restaurants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMusic%20%28disambiguation%29 | OpenMusic is an object-oriented visual programming environment.
OpenMusic or Open music may also refer to:
Open (music), a wider spacing of notes in a chord (as compared to close position)
Open Music, a former state-owned record label and music publishing house in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Open music, music that is available in "source code" form and allows derivative works
See also
Free music, music that can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose
Open Music Model, an economic framework proposing aper month all-you-can-download subscription fee
Open Music System, a virtual studio management application for the Classic Mac OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Retrieval%20Facility | The Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), founded 2006 and located in Vienna, Austria, was a research platform for networking and collaboration for professionals in the field of information retrieval. It ceased operations in 2012.
Scientific goals
Modeling innovative and specialized information retrieval systems for global patent document collections.
Investigating and developing an adequate technical infrastructure that allows interactive experimentation with formal, mathematical retrieval concepts for very large-scale document collections.<
Studying the usability of multimodal user interfaces to very large-scale information retrieval systems.
Integrating real users with actual information needs into the research process of modeling information retrieval systems to allow accurate performance evaluation.
Ability to create different views of patent data depending on the focus of the information needed.
Defining standardized methods for benchmarking the information retrieval process in patent document collections.
Ability to handle text and non-text parts of a patent coherently.
Designing, experimenting and evaluating search engines able to retrieve structured and semi-structured documents in very large-scale patent collections.
Integrating the temporal dimension of patent documents in retrieval strategies.
Improving effectiveness and precision of patent retrieval, based on ontologies and natural-language understanding techniques.
Refining IR methods that allow unstructured querying by exploiting available structures within the patent documents.
Formal (mathematical) identification and specification of relevant business information needs in the field of intellectual property information.
Investigating efficient scaling mechanisms for information retrieval taking into account the characteristics of patent data.
Investigating and experimenting with computing architectures for very high-capacity information management.
Establishing an open eScience platform that enables a standardized and easy way of creating and performing IR experiments on a common research infrastructure.
Discovering and investigating novel use cases and business applications deriving from intellectual property information.
Enabling formal information retrieval, natural language and semantic processing research to grow into the field of applied sciences in the global, industrial context.
Development and integration of different information access methods.
Research on effective methods for interactive information retrieval.
References
External links
Official site: ir-facility.org
Organizations established in 2006
Computer science organizations
Information retrieval organizations
Education in Vienna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Iibigin%20ay%20Ikaw%20Pa%20Rin | (International title: My One and Only Love 2 / ) is a 2003 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series served as a sequel to the Philippine television series Ang Iibigin ay Ikaw. Directed by Joyce E. Bernal and Lore Reyes, it stars Christopher de Leon, Richard Gomez, Alice Dixson and Lani Mercado. It premiered on April 14, 2003 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Ang Iibigin ay Ikaw. The series concluded on August 22, 2003 with a total of 93 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Christopher de Leon as Lemuel Verder
Alice Dixson as Mia Sandoval
Richard Gomez as Waldo Sandoval
Lani Mercado as Madonna Verder
Supporting cast
Barbara Perez as Salud Verder
Boots Anson-Roa as Felisa Verder
Mark Gil as Enrico Villadolid
Jackie Lou Blanco as Sabrina Villadolid
Cris Daluz as Antonio
Rufa Mae Quinto as Liberty aka "Libay"
Anne Curtis as Rosanna
Angel Locsin as Mariella Sandoval
Karen delos Reyes as Elmina
AJ Eigenmann
Chubi del Rosario as Anthony
Polo Ravales as Tristan
Mely Tagasa as Miling
Shermaine Santiago as Mayumi
Tess Dumpit as Virginia
Kathleen Valenzuela as Kathleen
Raquel Montesa as young Salud
Charina Scott as Jing jing
Joy Viado as Anacleta
Ama Quiambao as Lourdes
Guest cast
Imee Marcos as Donato Verder's lawyer
References
External links
2003 Philippine television series debuts
2003 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclaimer | Exclaimer is a privately held UK-based information technology company owned by Insight Partners. It develops, sells and provides support for a suite of email utilities and cloud computing technologies designed for adding disclaimers, branding, and regulatory compliance for corporate email via personalized email signatures. Its products are designed to work with Microsoft Exchange Server, Office 365 and Google Workspace. The company's headquarters is located in Farnborough, United Kingdom.
The company name, "Exclaimer", comes from a combination of "Exchange" and "disclaimer".
History
The company was founded in 2001 by Andrew Millington and Christopher Crawshay. Exclaimer became an incorporated company in October 2003.
The first Exclaimer products allowed organizations to apply legally compliant disclaimers to corporate email sent by Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook. These were later enhanced to allow for more complex HTML to ensure consistent corporate branding.
On 6 December 2016, Livingbridge invested £23 million in Exclaimer. The investment was advised by PricewaterhouseCoopers and was the last primary investment from Livingbridge 5, the firm's £360m fund raised in 2012.
In 2020, Exclaimer appointed Heath Davies, as CEO.
On 7 December 2020, Insight Partners took a majority stake in Exclaimer, investing over $133 million with participation from Farview Equity Partners and existing investor Livingbridge.
On 9 February 2021, Exclaimer completed the acquisition of Customer Thermometer, a customer satisfaction survey platform.
On 11 October 2021, Exclaimer appointed Marco Costa as its new chief executive following Heath Davies standing down.
Company
Exclaimer is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Google Cloud Partner. The company was named in The Sunday Times WorldFirst SME Export Track 100 of the UK's small and medium-sized private companies with the fastest-growing international sales.
It was also named in the Financial Times FT 1000: Europe's Fastest Growing Companies that lists the European companies that achieve the highest compound growth rate.
The company has a number of international offices, including regional headquarters for the Americas in Miami, United States, and for Europe in Hoorn, Netherlands.
References
External links
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Business software companies
Email
Software companies established in 2001
2001 establishments in the United Kingdom
2001 establishments in England
Companies based in Hampshire
Companies based in Farnborough
Companies established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20%26%20Lifestyle%20Channel | Health & Lifestyle Channel (HLC) is the world's first 24/7 TV/internet channel where all the contents solely focus on health and lifestyle.
Programming
HLC was created by Robert Chua as a cross-media interactive TV with television, internet and telephony merging to enhance TV viewers and internet users' viewing facility. All its live shows are simulcast over i-Cable Channel 27 and throughout the world on www.hlctv.net, and introduce both Eastern and Western Health Care and promote the benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to the world. HCL purports to promote a healthy lifestyle with preventive care promotions, aids prevention, blood donation, hygiene, etiquette etc., as a guide to a quality lifestyle.
References
External links
Health & Lifestyle Channel Official website
Hong Kong websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest%20inventory | Forest inventory is the systematic collection of data and forest information for assessment or analysis. An estimate of the value and possible uses of timber is an important part of the broader information required to sustain ecosystems. When taking forest inventory the following are important things to measure and note: species, diameter at breast height (DBH), height, site quality, age, and defects. From the data collected one can calculate the number of trees per acre, the basal area, the volume of trees in an area, and the value of the timber. Inventories can be done for other reasons than just calculating the value. A forest can be cruised to visually assess timber and determine potential fire hazards and the risk of fire. The results of this type of inventory can be used in preventive actions and also awareness. Wildlife surveys can be undertaken in conjunction with timber inventory to determine the number and type of wildlife within a forest.
The aim of the statistical forest inventory is to provide comprehensive information about the state and dynamics of forests for strategic and management planning. Merely looking at the forest for assessment is called taxation.
History
Surveying and taking inventory of trees originated in Europe in the late 18th century out of a fear that wood (the main source of fuel) would run out. The first information was organized into maps used to plan out usage. In the early 19th century forest harvesters estimated the volume and dispersal of trees within smaller forests with their eyes. More diverse and larger forests were divided into smaller sections of similar type trees that were individually estimated by visual inspection. These estimates were related together to figure out the entire forest's available resources. As the 19th century progressed so did the measurement techniques. New relationships between diameter, height, and volume were discovered and exploited. These newfound relationships allowed for a more accurate assessment of wood types and yields of much larger forests. By 1891, these surveys were conducted through sample-based methods involving statistical averages and more sophisticated measuring devices were implemented. In the 20th century, the statistical method of sampling had become well established and commonly used. Further developments, such as unequal probability sampling, arose. As the 20th century progressed, an understanding of co-efficients of error became clearer and the new technology of computers combined with the availability of aerial as well as satellite photography, further refined the process. Laser Scanning both terrestrially and aerially are now used alongside more manual methods. As a result, sampling accuracy and assessment values became more accurate and allowed for modern practices to arise.
A forest inventory does not only record the trees height, DBH and number for tree yield calculations. It also records the conditions of the forest, which might include (for examp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Alpha" is the sixteenth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on March 28, 1999, in the United States. The episode was written by Jeffrey Bell, and directed by Peter Markle. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Alpha" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.1, being watched by 17.7 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly negative reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate several killings blamed on an Asian dog called the Wanshang Dhole, thought to be extinct. Mulder and Scully join an obstinate Sheriff, a seemingly eccentric hunter, and a reclusive canine expert to find it. However, there is more mystery to the expert than meets the eye.
"Alpha" was based on a single motif—"Scary dogs in the City"—written by Jeffrey Bell onto a notecard. The episode went through several drafts before being readied right before filming began. Several of the scenes featuring the Chinese freighter were created either through digital technology or through the combination of matte paintings and actual filmed footage.
Plot
On a freighter in the South Pacific, two Chinese men inspect a crate with an animal inside. When the ship reaches the Port of Los Angeles, the authorities find the two men dead of vicious bite wounds inside the locked crate and the animal missing. After Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) receives word of the attack from the mysterious Karin Berquist (Melinda Culea), an expert on canine behavior, he and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) go to investigate the incident on the ship with the help of San Pedro officer Jeffrey Cahn (Thomas F. Duffy). Meanwhile, in Bellflower, California, a man hears his dog barking in the backyard and lets it in the house. He hears another dog in his backyard and chases it off. After returning to his house he finds his pet dead and is attacked by the other dog, a wolflike creature with glowing red eyes.
Mulder and Scully arrive at the port and talk to the man who imported the dog, Dr. Ian Detweiler (Andrew Robinson), a cryptozoologist. Detweiler says the dog is a Wanshang dhole, a species thought to be extinct. The two agents soon receive news of the other attack and, after investigating, Mulder believes the dhole has near-human intelligence. Mulder and Scully visit Berquist, who tells them that the species they are looking for is extinct. Meanwhile, a dog catcher is chasing a stray through a warehouse when a man enters the building. He promptly transforms into the murderous dhole and attacks the dog catcher. Mulder and Scully arrive at the scene, followed by Berquist, who finds a paw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unresolved%20complex%20mixture | Unresolved complex mixture (UCM), or hump, is a feature frequently observed in gas chromatographic (GC) data of crude oils and extracts from organisms exposed to oil.
The reason for the UCM hump appearance is that GC cannot resolve and identify a significant part of the hydrocarbons in crude oils. The resolved components appear as peaks while the UCM appears as a large background/platform. In non-biodegraded oils the UCM may comprise less than 50% of the total area of the chromatogram, while in biodegraded oils this figure can rise to over 90%. UCMs are also observed in certain refined fractions such as lubricating oils and references therein.
One reason why it is important to study the nature of UCMs is that some have been shown to contain toxic components, but only a small range of known petrogenic toxicants, such as the USEPA list of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), tend to be routinely monitored in the environment.
Analysis of the hydrocarbon fraction of crude oils by GC reveals a complex mixture containing many thousands of individual components. Components that are resolved by GC have been extensively studied e.g. However, despite the application of many analytical techniques the remaining components have, until very recently, proved difficult to separate due to the large numbers of co-eluting compounds. Gas chromatograms of mature oils have prominent n-alkane peaks which distract attention from the underlying unresolved complex mixture (UCM) of hydrocarbons often referred to as the ‘hump’. Processes such as weathering and biodegradation result in a relative enrichment of the UCM component by removal of resolved components and the creation of new compounds. It has been shown that both resolved and unresolved components of oils are subject to concurrent biodegradation, i.e. it is not a sequential process, but due to the recalcitrant nature of some components, the rates of biodegradation of individual compounds greatly varies. The UCM fraction often represents the major component of hydrocarbons within hydrocarbon-polluted sediments (see reference therein) and biota e.g. A number of studies has now demonstrated that aqueous exposure to components within the UCM can affect the health of marine organisms, including possible hormonal disruption, and high concentrations of environmental UCMs have been strongly implicated with impaired health in wild populations.
Weathering and biodegradion of oils within the marine environment
Environmental UCMs result from highly degraded petroleum hydrocarbons and once formed they can stay largely unchanged in sediments for many years. For example, in 1969 a diesel oil spill contaminated saltmarsh sediment within Wild Harbor River, US; by 1973 only a baseline hump was observed, which remained largely unchanged within the anaerobic sediment for the next 30 years. In a study of the potential for UCM-dominated oil to be further degraded, it was concluded that even using bacteria specifical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Madison%20Institute | The James Madison Institute (JMI) is a libertarian free market American think tank headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida in the United States. It is a member of the State Policy Network. The organization's stated mission is "to keep the citizens of Florida informed about their government and to shape our state’s future through the advancement of practical free-market ideas on public policy issues."
History
JMI was founded in Tallahassee, Florida in 1987 by J. Stanley Marshall, a former president of Florida State University. The institute is named after James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, third Secretary of State, author of the U.S. Constitution, and co-author of The Federalist Papers.
Policy positions
The institute is a supporter of increased educational choice through charter schools and school vouchers.
The institute believes that a cleaner environment and economic liberty are not mutually exclusive goals, and that private property rights and market incentives will encourage good stewardship. In 2015, JMI absorbed the Orlando-based Coalition for Property Rights into its Center for Property Rights.
The institute believes that direct personal responsibility for health care controls costs and provides individuals with incentives to make healthy choices. JMI supports market-based, consumer-driven reforms such as health savings accounts (HSAs) as a way to improve the quality of health services and increase access to the uninsured.
Various JMI studies have shown that economic growth varies inversely with tax growth and that, dollar-for-dollar, private sector activity is more productive than public sector activity. JMI supports reforms that emphasize low tax rates and less government spending. In 2015, JMI launched the Center for Economic Prosperity.
References
External links
EDIRC listing (provided by RePEc)
Profile at Charity Navigator
Organizational Profile – National Center for Charitable Statistics (Urban Institute)
1987 establishments in Florida
Political and economic think tanks in the United States
Libertarian think tanks
Libertarian organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Simpson-Deeks | Nick Simpson-Deeks is a NIDA-trained Australian actor of stage and screen. He is best known for his portrayal of Archie McMahon in the SBS drama series The Circuit, Rhys Mitchell in Seven Network's Winners & Losers, and James King in the Amazon Original crime series Deadloch.
Early life
Simpson-Deeks was born and raised in Werris Creek, New South Wales, and attended Oxley High School in Tamworth. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2001. In 2006 he was awarded a Mike Walsh Fellowship which he used to further his actor training at the School at Steppenwolf in Chicago.
Career
Film and television
Simpson-Deeks was a series regular in both seasons of the award-winning legal drama The Circuit, the second season of Winners & Losers (after guest starring in the show's first season), and the sci-fi series Stormworld. Additionally, he has guest-starred in Utopia, The Newsreader, Five Bedrooms, Underbelly: Fat Tony & Co., Wentworth, Mr & Mrs Murder, Play School, City Homicide, The Strange Calls, Temptation, and The Postcard Bandit. He plays forensic pathologist James King in the Amazon Original series, Deadloch.
His film credits include roles in the short films After the Credits, Dropbear, A Simple Song, Shades of Grey and Home. He portrayed Irish rider Pat Smullen in the 2011 feature film The Cup, and filmmaker Billy Name in Jim Sharman's Andy X – a musical film based on the death of Andy Warhol.
Theatre
Simpson-Deeks made his professional theatre debut in Falling on My Left Ear: A Show about George Wallace for the now defunct Railway Street Theatre Company in Parramatta in 2002. The following year, he returned to Railway Street to play the role of Tom in Michael Gow's iconic Australian play, Away. Both productions toured regionally and were directed by Mary-Anne Gifford.
In 2005 he received critical acclaim for his performance in Mark Ravenhill's Handbag at the Seymour Centre. Later that year, he starred in Somewhere – an original musical by Tim Minchin and Kate Mulvany – for Q Theatre.
In 2009, Simpson-Deeks was cast in the ensemble of Jerry Springer: the Opera at the Sydney Opera House as part of Sydney Festival. He joined the original Australian cast of Jersey Boys, in the role of Franki Valli (Alternate), that same year, but left the production prematurely due to health complications. In 2010, he sang the role of Skeets Miller in a one-off concert performance of Adam Guettel's Floyd Collins at City Recital Hall in Sydney.
Simpson-Deeks played the role of Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick in Ned: A New Australian Musical at Bendigo's Ulumbarra Theatre in 2015, and is featured on the show's Official Cast Recording. He reprised the role in concert at The National Theatre, Melbourne in 2017.
He played Chris Bean in the Australian production of The Play That Goes Wrong, and briefly reprised the role during the Australian tour of Peter Pan Goes Wrong in 2019. In between, he toured nationally as Cassius in Bell Shakespeare's J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing%20Minimum%20Data%20Set | The Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) is a classification system which allows for the standardized collection of essential nursing data. The collected data are meant to provide an accurate description of the nursing process used when providing nursing care. The NMDS allow for the analysis and comparison of nursing data across populations, settings, geographic areas, and time.
See also
Effective therapeutic regimen management
Minimum Data Set
NANDA
Nursing care plan
Nursing assessment
Nursing diagnosis
Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)
Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)
Omaha System
References
External links
Clinical procedure classification
Nursing informatics
Nursing classification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radyo%20Natin | Radyo Natin () is a community radio network owned by Manila Broadcasting Company. It has more than 100 stations across the Philippines spread from Aparri in the northernmost part to Bongao in the south. The network also runs its main feed known as Radyo Natin Nationwide, which broadcasts on 96.3 FM's HD2 channel.
Unlike MBC's radio brands, Radyo Natin enacts as a "network-community" station operated by different local entities (both companies and individuals) under an entrepreneurship/franchise agreement with the network.
History
Radyo Natin was launched by the MBC on December 16, 1997 as a replacement for the short-lived Community Radio Network (ComNet). Back then, its original programming consisted of DZRH hook-up programming on mornings, local programming from late morning to early evenings, and the controversial religious program Ang Dating Daan on mid-evenings until sign-off.
In mid-2017 (and prior to the 20th anniversary of the network), most of the Hot FM stations switched to the Radyo Natin brand, thus dissolving the Hot FM branding. In turn, Radyo Natin now has over 120 stations.
On October 2, 2019, the main studios and satellite uplink facilities of Radyo Natin Nationwide at the MBC Building, CCP Complex in Pasay, along with its sister MBC radio stations, were affected by a major fire that originated in the nearby Star City theme park. In interim, Radyo Natin beamed its broadcasts from its backup studios at BSA Twin Towers in Ortigas, while most of their local stations are temporarily suspended its network hookup from its satellite uplink facility and temporarily replaced with local music/fillers programs until January 2022.
On November 15, 2021, Radyo Natin Nationwide relaunched its new logo along with the new logos of all MBC radio stations and its new corporate slogan, Sama-Sama Tayo, Pilipino! (lit. We are all Filipinos!). In February 2022, after a three-year hiatus, the central studios of Radyo Natin Nationwide returned to the newly renovated MBC Building inside the Star City complex.
Composition and network synopsis
Programming
All Radyo Natin stations operate in the FM band. Each of them airs a hometown radio format, with the weekday morning schedule consisting of local programming cleared to each affiliate station from 4:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. and from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and a simulcast of DZRH, the flagship AM station of MBC, from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. Weekend mornings and Sunday afternoons until 7:00 p.m. are also cleared in the same format.
Network-level afternoon programming is fed to all stations every Monday to Saturday at 1:00 p.m. before going to a two-hour local programming window for stations from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Primetime network shows conclude with Evenings with Dennis and Jay on Mondays to Fridays and Gladly Yours on Sundays, until the network feed signs off at 10:00 p.m. By local discretion, stations may air local late-night fare after the network feed by omitting the closing prayer intended for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Central%20%28Swedish%20TV%20channel%29 | Comedy Central () was a Swedish television channel owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA. Viacom International Media Networks have said that the channel will feature both original Swedish productions made for the channel and imported content.
The channel applied for license to broadcast in the terrestrial network in Sweden in February 2008 and on March 27, 2008 they were granted a license to broadcast nationally between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. (initially timesharing with Nickelodeon) from January 1, 2009.
The channel launched on January 1, 2009, opening with an episode of South Park and the Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson. During its first month, the channel launched on Boxer, Canal Digital, Com Hem, Tele2, Telia Digital-tv, SPA, Borderlight and IP Sweden. The channel was added to the Viasat platform on September 1, 2009.
On October 5, 2010, The Daily Show premiered on Comedy Central in Sweden, having previously been broadcast on Canal+ and Kanal 9. The show is broadcast at 7 p.m. Swedish time, only 14 hours after its original U.S. broadcast, and then repeated at 11.05 p.m. This is unusually fast as American talk shows are normally shown with a one-week delay in Sweden.
After almost 5 years of timesharing with Nickelodeon, Comedy Central got a separate channel in November 1, 2013.
The channel ceased broadcating on January 15, 2019, being replaced by Paramount Network.
Programming
Final Programming
Futurama
Lip Sync Battle
Punk'd
South Park
That '70s Show
The Daily Show
Tosh.0
Vänner och fiender
Will & Grace
Workaholics
Former Programming
8 Simple Rules
According to Jim
Adam Devine's House Party
American Dad!
Archer
Baby Daddy
Becker
Big Time in Hollywood, FL
Broad City
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Brotherhood
Californication
Carpoolers
Comedy Central Roast
Community
Dead Like Me
Dharma & Greg
Dirty Sexy Funny
Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Loves Raymond
Fat For Fun
Frasier
Friends
I Live With Models
Important Things with Demetri Martin
Inside Amy Schumer
Insomniac with Dave Attell
Jon Benjamin Has a Van
Just for Laughs Festival
Kenny vs. Spenny
Key & Peele
Malcolm in the middle
Mash Up
Melissa & Joey
Mind of Mencia
Monk
Moonbeam City
Mulaney
New Kids
Out Of Practice
Popoz
Real Husbands of Hollywood
Review
Rules Of Engagement
Sex and the City
Stand-up Saturday
The Ben Show
The Burn With Jeff Ross
The Cleveland Show
The Colbert Report (Global Edition)
The Jeff Dunham Show
The King of Queens
The Office (US)
The Sarah Silverman Program
Third Rock From the Sun
'Til Death
Tosh.0
TripTank
Ugly Americans
Unhappily Ever After
Workaholics
References
External links
Official site
2009 establishments in Sweden
Comedy Central
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019
Defunct television channels in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Volunteer%20Caregiving%20Network | The National Volunteer Caregiving Network is a network of interfaith, volunteer caregiving service providers with hundreds of locations throughout the United States. It was initiated by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a national charity dedicated to improving the health and health care of Americans, headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. The purpose was to provide start-up monies to create community volunteer programs across the country to serve people who are isolated or homebound due to long-term health conditions as the result of old age and/or disability. The initial grants were made in 1984. Over the course of twenty years, more than 1,500 local programs were funded and many continue to serve people with long-term health conditions.
A major focus of the network is provision of volunteer assistance to those who need assistance with normal, everyday activities due to a health condition. The network is a privately funded program developed and supported by a private foundation – not by the government. Its volunteers come from churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship, as well as the community at large. Volunteers help people by providing non-medical assistance with tasks such as providing a ride to the doctor, visiting with people on a regular basis and helping with grocery shopping or home maintenance.
Timeline
1984 – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds 25 pilot programs involving “interfaith volunteer caregiving” for people with chronic health conditions.
1993 – The Foundation expands the program and awards $35,000 grants to create 1,091 new local Faith in Action programs from 1993 to 1999.
2000 – The Foundation announces an additional expansion, and funds 599 more programs from 2000 to 2003.
2003 – Singer and actress Della Reese becomes national spokesperson for Faith in Action.
2004 – The basic grant program is discontinued, but grants of up to $75,000 are provided to 15 regional/state-wide “collaboratives” of existing Faith in Action programs.
2005 – The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announces that effective July 1, 2008, it will complete its support for Faith in Action and transition the national program to local ownership—looking to congregations, community agencies and local philanthropies to provide ongoing support.
2008 – An independent national membership network of Faith in Action programs is formed to provide continuing support after the close of the Faith in Action National Program Office. As of April, there are 629 active Faith in Action programs nationwide.
2009 – Terrance Keenan, the pioneer of partnerships between local health and faith-based organizations to improve and expand volunteer care-giving for chronically ill patients, an idea that became the Faith in Action program, dies.
2011 – Faith in Action National Network changes name to become National Volunteer Caregiving Network (NVCN)
2012 – Six new volunteer caregiving programs were launched in California, funding for NVCN to provide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20Action%20Network | Cycling Action Network (CAN) is a national cycling advocacy group founded in November 1996 in Wellington, New Zealand. They lobby government, local authorities, businesses and the community on behalf of cyclists, for a better cycling environment. It aims to achieve a better cycling environment for cycling as transport. Major initiatives are the annual Cycle Friendly Awards and support for a biennial Cycling Conference. The organisation was originally named Cycling Advocates' Network until 2015.
Goals
CAN's goals are:
Promote integrated cycle planning
Promote the benefits of cycling
Improve safety
Encourage the creation of a good cycling environment
Develop cycle advocacy and cycle action
Activities
NZ Cycling Conference
CAN has made a major contribution to the establishment and ongoing success of the NZ Cycling Conference series (15 October 1997, Hamilton; 14–15 July 2000, Palmerston North; 21–22 September 2001, Christchurch; 10–11 October 2003, North Shore; 14–15 October 2005 Hutt City; 1–2 November 2007, Napier; 12–13 November 2009, New Plymouth); February 2012 Hastings.
Cycle Friendly Awards
Since 2003, CAN has been organising the annual Cycle Friendly Awards, celebrating initiatives to promote cycling and create a cycle-friendly environment at both a national and local level in New Zealand. The event has since received public recognition, with government representatives attending the award ceremonies.
Chainlinks
Chainlinks is the magazine of the NZ Cycling Action Network (CAN), which is published three times a year as an electronic newsletter. About a 1000 copies are distributed to members of CAN and a number of supporting organisations such as local government authorities and cycling industry organisations. Published since 1997, until 2015 it was a full-colour paper magazine, whose back issues are available online.
Association with other groups
CAN is the parent organisation for some 20 local cycling advocacy groups around the country, including Cycle Action Auckland and Spokes Canterbury.
CAN was a member of BikeNZ and provided one board member from BikeNZ's inception in July 2003. CAN resigned from BikeNZ in October 2007, but continues to work with BikeNZ on advocacy issues.
CAN works closely with Living Streets Aotearoa, the national walking advocacy group.
See also
Bike Auckland
Spokes Canterbury
Cycling in Auckland
Cycling in New Zealand
Bicycle helmets in New Zealand
New Zealand Cycle Trail
References
External links
Cycling organisations in New Zealand
Political advocacy groups in New Zealand
Cycling activism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herin | Herin is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Antonio Herin (1896–1992), Italian cross-country skier
Corrado Herin, Italian luger
Danièle Hérin (born 1947), French computer scientist and politician
See also
Hérin
Italian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20International%20Christian%20Schools | The Network of International Christian Schools (NICS) is an organization that consists of 15 schools in 13 countries in Asia, Africa, South America, Europe and includes an online school in North America. There are plans in the works for more schools in the near future.
History
In 1983, Joe Hale, his wife Ann, and some other missionaries formed Liberty Christian School (International Christian School) in South Korea. They initially anticipated that this school would educate about 30 students, but on the school’s inaugural day 83 students arrived for classes. The school continued to grow, and currently there are three NICS schools in South Korea with a total enrollment of over 1200 students.
It quickly became apparent that the need for international schools, particularly Christian ones, was present in many countries beyond Korea. Schools perpetuating the same approach soon appeared in other countries and on other continents. The vast growth of the initial schools was such that the Network of International Christian Schools (NICS) was born in 1991 and a home office was established in Memphis, TN to facilitate the operations and staffing of the schools. In 1992, NICS became an incorporated independent mission agency. In 2001 the home office was moved to Southaven, MS, a suburb of Memphis, where it is today. After operating out of the Southaven municipal building for several years, the current location (3790 Goodman Rd. E.) was secured and occupied in the fall of 2007.
The home office is housed in four buildings on . There are plans for additional buildings to be built, which will also be used as a conference and training facility. The home office houses 25 employees, as well as the offices of NorthStar International Academy, the online school. Joe Hale serves as the president of NICS and works out of the home office, or international headquarters. Future plans also include the building of a stateside international school.
The peak enrollment of all NICS schools at the time during the 2020-21 school year is over 5000 students. There are over 800 teachers serving the 15 schools throughout the organization.
List of schools
Bandung Alliance Intercultural School, Bandung, Indonesia
International Christian Academy of Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan (closed)
West Nairobi School, Nairobi, Kenya
International Community School, Singapore
Yongsan International School, Seoul, South Korea
International Christian School, Uijeongbu
Prishtina High School, Prishtina, Kosovo (Oasis School)
International School, Far East (Oasis School)
References
External links
Official Network of International Christian Schools website
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Christian schools
International school associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCLE | DOCLE (Doctor Command Language), is a non-numeric health coding and medical classification system. The DOCLE system is used in Health Communication Network's electronic medical record and patient management software package, Medical Director. Medical Director is the most widely used electronic medical record system by Australian primary health care providers.
DOCLE has been modelled on the Linnaean biological classification system since 1995. DOCLE generates clinical codes from ubiquitous health language using an algorithm, hence it is a human readable clinical coding system.
The design principles of DOCLE, as enumerated by the author in the DOCLE website include:
DOCLE codes being meaningful and intentional
DOCLE codes are derived from ubiquitous health language
DOCLE codes grew with evolving order and speciation of large scale structures in a linnean manner.
DOCLE codes are designed to strap together and form clinical structures using joiner codes
The author of DOCLE, Dr. Y Kuang Oon, has likened clinical codes to "neurons" and joiner codes as the "glia"
See also
Electronic medical record
ICD – International Classification of Diseases
International Classification of Primary Care
LOINC – Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
Medical classification
Medical record
SNOMED CT – Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms
References
External links
Docle Systems Web Site
Medical classification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamlink | Streamlink is a subscription-based service of Premiere Radio Networks for various programs such as Coast to Coast AM, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Jim Rome Show and The Glenn Beck Program.
Coast to Coast AM
The Coast to Coast version of the service allows users to listen to either live audio streams of a program, download each hour of choice of a show, normally four, or stream sampler audio clips of a program, usually three or four, which run from two to fifteen minutes a segment. It also allows listeners to join live chats of about an hour's length once or twice a month with host George Noory and/or a special guest, usually chosen from the show's guest roster, such as in advance of an appearance.
The MP3 segment downloads are available for three years, though select audio clips remain available indefinitely. They can be downloaded through either individually through an operating system's file-download functions (e.g. via right-click in Windows) from links off each program page or downloaded as podcasts through iTunes or for Microsoft Windows users a proprietary download program (available for Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Windows Vista) called the Coast to Coast Media Center. (The last of these downloads at an apparently arbitrary time within one hour of internet connection following show availability the following day.)
Additional past shows are offered as a pair of weekly "Classic Shows" (accessible for two weeks effective each Monday), and additional replays are currently offered as "Somewhere in Time with Art Bell", Bell being the show's first host when it was known as the Art Bell Show.
The cost varies in increments based on subscription lengths of to encourage longer subscriptions but for at least the Coast to Coast version runs approximately $60 US for one year. Those wishing to purchase subscriptions who do not live in North America are unable make a purchase as their credit card payment will never be successful; interesting to note that any country can be selected, but the province selection is limited to Canada and the USA.
The size of the listening audience has also led to the creation of fan-based index sites such as ctcspotlight.com.
The Rush Limbaugh Show
The service is also offered for The Rush Limbaugh Show as part of the show's online premium service, Rush 24/7. Subscribers to the service receive unlimited access to the show's website archives, the ability to watch Limbaugh host the show live on the "Dittocam," video podcasts of the Morning Update, and audio archives. Limbaugh also hosts, on occasion, a "Fourth Hour," which broadcasts to subscribers only and is completely freeform. Rush 24/7 supports Windows Media Flayer and Adobe Flash; support for RealPlayer was discontinued March 2011.
External links
Coast to Coast AM's "About" page
C2CSpotlight
IHeartMedia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVan%20Davis | LaVan Davis is an American actor who played the character Curtis Payne on Tyler Perry's TV shows House of Payne and The Paynes, TBS Network (2007–2012), OWN Network (2018) and BET Network (2020–present).
Career
Davis' acting career began in 2004 with his first role as Leroy in the film Mindbenders. In 2005, he made a guest appearance in two episodes of Everybody Hates Chris as a preacher. The following year, Davis was cast as the cranky patriarch of the Payne family, Curtis Payne, in the TBS sitcom Tyler Perry's House of Payne. Davis worked with Perry again in two of his feature films including Daddy's Little Girls in 2007 and Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns in 2008.
In addition to his work in films and television, Davis has also appeared in the stage plays Why Did I Get Married? as Poppy, and Madea Goes to Jail as Leo.
Filmography
References
External links
Living people
African-American male actors
American male stage actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Musicians from Atlanta
Male actors from Georgia (U.S. state)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20web%20analytics%20software | This is a list of web analytics software used to collect and display data about visiting website users.
Self-hosted software
Free / Open source (FLOSS)
This is a comparison table of web analytics software released under a free software license.
Proprietary
This is a comparison table of web analytics proprietary software.
Hosted / Software as a service
This is a comparison table of hosted web analytics software as a service.
References
External links
Web analytics
Web software
web analytics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPP | PSPP is a free software application for analysis of sampled data, intended as a free alternative for IBM SPSS Statistics. It has a graphical user interface and conventional command-line interface. It is written in C and uses GNU Scientific Library for its mathematical routines. The name has "no official acronymic expansion".
Features
This software provides a comprehensive set of capabilities including frequencies, cross-tabs comparison of means (t-tests and one-way ANOVA), linear regression, logistic regression, reliability (Cronbach's alpha, not failure or Weibull), and re-ordering data, non-parametric tests, factor analysis, cluster analysis, principal components analysis, chi-square analysis and more.
At the user's choice, statistical output and graphics are available in ASCII, PDF, PostScript, SVG or HTML formats. A range of statistical graphs can be produced, such as histograms, pie-charts, scree plots, and np-charts.
PSPP can import Gnumeric and OpenDocument spreadsheets, Postgres databases, comma-separated values and ASCII files. It can export files in the SPSS 'portable' and 'system' file formats and to ASCII files. Some of the libraries used by PSPP can be accessed programmatically; PSPP-Perl provides an interface to the libraries used by PSPP.
Origins
The PSPP project (originally called "Fiasco") was born at the end of the 1990s as a free software replacement for SPSS, which is a data management and analysis tool, at the time produced by SPSS Inc. The nature of SPSS's proprietary licensing and the presence of digital restrictions management motivated the author to write an alternative which later became functionally identical, but with permission for everyone to copy, modify and share.
Third Party Reviews
In the book "SPSS For Dummies", the author discusses PSPP under the heading of "Ten Useful Things You Can Find on the Internet". Another review of free to use statistical software also finds that the statistical results from PSPP match statistical results for SAS, for frequencies, means, correlation and regression.
Research about PSPP
One study found that students who used PSPP became more positive about learning statistics while using PSPP.
Examples of Research Performed using PSPP
Among the studies done using PSPP are one about posttraumatic stress in adolescents, another about nutrition software, and another about internet addiction.
See also
Free statistical software
Comparison of statistical packages
External Resources
PSPP for Beginners
References
External links
PSPP on Free Software Directory
Source code at Savannah
Third-party resources
Review by UK SPSS user group (as of version 0.1.22)
Using PSPP to import SPSS data into R
PSPP review in Slovene (English translation via Google)
User review from communication research info
Yet another user review
Free educational software
Free software programmed in C
Free statistical software
GNU Project software
Science software that uses GTK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Casaus | Martin Casaus (born March 5, 1985) is an American professional wrestler. Casaus is known for his work in El Rey Network series Lucha Underground under the ring name of Marty "The Moth" Martinez, where he is a former Lucha Underground Champion.
Personal life
Martin was born March 5, 1985, to Francis and Cheryl Casaus in West Jordan, Utah. Casaus was a four sport student athlete in high school and turned down college scholarships in lacrosse and football to pursue his academic studies. His parents put in overtime at their jobs so they could enroll Casaus in private schools until college. Casaus was the first in his family to graduate college. He received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a 3.98 GPA. Casaus has one brother who is currently in the United States Navy. Casaus holds a series 7 and 63 financial professional licenses. Martin married Leslie Dean on June 9, 2021.
Martin credits his success in life to his mentors, Pete Gallegos and Andrew Lucero. Without their continued guidance and direction, Martin admits his successes would not be so measurable.
Career
Early career
Casaus first started training to become a wrestler in 2003 at the Utah-based Ultra Championship Wrestling-Zero (UCW). He was primarily trained by Derrick Jannetty. Adopting the ring name "Tristan Gallo", he was placed in Stevie Slick's faction, "The Dynasty", as an arrogant heel and crony to Slick. During his time in the promotion, he won the UCW-Zero Heavyweight Championship 6 times, the UCW-Zero Tag Team Championship 5 times and the UCW-Zero Ultra-X Championship 1 time.
In the early 2000s Casaus began working in the independent wrestling scene. He wrestled as Tristan Gallo in many promotions across the country, especially in the mid west. He later changed his name to reflect his real name after WWE Tough Enough used it during the show
World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE (2007, 2011)
Casaus had his first WWE tryout at the FCW training center in 2007. Casaus was announced as a competitor on the revival of WWE Tough Enough season five which began airing on April 4, 2011. The competition consisted of in and out of ring training, along with challenges in and out of the ring.
On the seventh episode ("Running With Wolves"), Casaus had a freak accident that sent him to the emergency room. He later returned to the training center on crutches with his title belt around his waist, revealing to Tough Enough host Stone Cold Steve Austin that he was forced to leave the competition after doctors would not allow him to continue. Casaus was the only contestant that got to hang his belt up, as well as the only competitor to never be in the "Bottom Three".
Lucha Underground (2014–2018)
In September 2014, Casaus confirmed he signed with El Rey Network's new show Lucha Underground, that began airing on October 29. He worked the tapings under the ring name "Magnificent Martin". He also worked as Marty the Magician, with Beautiful Brenda as his assistant. However, both suff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin%20Community%20Television | Dublin Community Television (DCTV) is a not-for-profit co-operative television station in Ireland, broadcasting from the country's capital, Dublin. The channel launched on 16 July 2008.
Programming
Programmes for DCTV are created and produced by sources which include:
Not-for-profit TV production companies, such as NEAR TV Productions in Coolock
Other DCTV member organisations, such as AONTAS (adult education), Cultivate (sustainable living), Project (arts); NALA (adult literacy)
Individual members of DCTV
The station also shows international material such as Democracy Now! which has been broadcast nightly since 2010.
Background
DCTV is Ireland's only democratically controlled TV channel. All content is released to a Creative Commons/Non-commercial licence.
Dublin Community Television (DCTV) secured a 10-year Community Licence from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). It is also Ireland's only TV station run by a members' cooperative and Dublin's only community TV station. It has offices in The Digital Hub in Dublin.
Special Schemes are initiatives which fall outside the regular funding rounds and have a distinct focus on partnerships and the fostering of industry development. While content will deal with the core themes of BCI Sound & Vision, the Special Scheme takes a holistic view of the programme-making process, from development to production according to the BCI.
Co-operative information
DCTV is a member's co-operative, with schedules, programme commissioning and all other decisions being taken by members of the cooperative. There is no standard advertising, and DCTV is funded by membership fees and a variety of other sources: Dublin City Council, other Dublin councils and the Dublin Community Forum. Some of the programmes made for DCTV are funded by the BCI's Sound and Vision fund, which is generated from the Irish TV licence fee.
Membership costs €25 a year (€15 for unwaged), giving the member a say in running the station and choosing programming and gives access to the means to make programmes for DCTV.
Launch
Dublin Community Television was launched on 16 July 2008 by Minister Eamon Ryan, Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources.
The channel airs features and shorts (both documentary and drama), cookery programmes, adult literacy programmes, activist and college films, community programming, films by young/emerging film-makers and sports (with an emphasis on minority sports).
Its own productions are intended to be produced under a Creative Commons license that allows non-profit use, subject to recognition of source. DCTV also promotes sharing with other community channels.
References
External links
Television stations in Ireland
Mass media companies of Ireland
Television channels and stations established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheringham%20railway%20station%20%28North%20Norfolk%20Railway%29 | Sheringham is the name of a preserved railway station in Sheringham, Norfolk. It was once part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network and closed in 1967 when a new station was opened by British Rail approx. 200m eastwards. Since 1975 it has served as the eastern terminus of the North Norfolk Railway. In March 2010, the link to Network Rail was reinstated.
History
The station was first opened on 16 June 1887 by the Eastern and Midlands Railway as part of the Cromer Branch linking the Norfolk Coast to the junction at Melton Constable railway station. In 1893 this was merged into the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Network. On 6 April 1964 in the wake of the Beeching Report, the line to Melton Constable was closed to passengers. Withdrawal of goods services from that line (as well as from Sheringham itself) followed on 28 December 1964. Sheringham station remained open for passengers until 2 January 1967, when it was closed upon the opening of a new station for passengers on the opposite side of Station Road, enabling the level crossing to be closed.
In 1975, the station was re-opened as part of the North Norfolk Railway, which runs along the old Cromer Branch route as far as Holt railway station. Another Sheringham railway station exists on the National Rail network, just across the road from the NNR station.
Connection to the National Rail network
Between 2007 and 2010, work was undertaken to reinstate the original level crossing across the road to allow trains from Norwich to run onto the North Norfolk Railway heritage line tracks. BBC Look East reported on 17 December 2007 that Network Rail supported the level crossing plans to allow occasional use for trains to cross between tracks. It was announced by the North Norfolk Railway on 16 December 2008, that work was going to start on the new level crossing in January 2009. These plans were later delayed until 2010 due to various problems, including: lack of funding, electricity cables needing to be moved, the county's highways department concerns with the implications of road closure to create the crossing.
Work began on 8 January 2010, with the moving of the NNR headshunt to slew into line with the Network Rail section. The link was reinstated on 11 March 2010, when the first passenger carrying train over the new crossing was steam locomotive ‘Oliver Cromwell’ hauling a train from London Liverpool Street. Occasional uses by charter trains and visiting rolling stock are anticipated to not exceed 12 times a year.
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References
Sheringham
Heritage railway stations in Norfolk
Former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1887
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1967
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1975 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20%28queue%20management%20algorithm%29 | Blue is a scheduling discipline for the network scheduler developed by graduate student Wu-chang Feng for Professor Kang G. Shin at the University of Michigan and others at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM in 1999.
Functioning
Like random early detection (RED), Blue operates by randomly dropping or marking packet with explicit congestion notification mark before the transmit buffer of the network interface controller overflows. Unlike RED, however, it requires little or no tuning to be performed by the network administrator. A Blue queue maintains a drop/mark probability p, and drops/marks packets with probability p as they enter the queue. Whenever the queue overflows, p is increased by a small constant pi, and whenever the queue is empty, p is decreased by a constant pd < pi.
If the mix of traffic on the interface does not change, p will slowly converge to a value that keeps the queue within its bounds with full link utilization.
Stochastic fair Blue
The main flaw of Blue, which it shares with most single-queue queuing disciplines, is that it does not distinguish between traffic flows, but treats all flows as a single aggregate. Therefore, a single aggressive flow can push packets out of the queue belonging to other, better behaved, flows.
Stochastic fair Blue (SFB) is a stochastically fair variant of Blue which hashes flows and maintains a different mark/drop probability for each hash value. Assuming no hash collisions, SFB is able to provide a fair share of buffer space for every flow. In the presence of hash collisions, SFB is only stochastically fair.
Unlike other stochastically fair queuing disciplines, such as SFQ (Stochastic Fairness Queuing), SFB can be implemented using a bloom filter rather than a hash table, which dramatically reduces its storage requirements when the number of flows is large.
When a flow's drop/mark probability reaches 1, the flow has been shown to not react to congestion indications from the network. Such an inelastic flow is put in a "penalty box", and rate-limited.
Resilient stochastic fair Blue
Many scheduling algorithms, including the fairness-aimed ones, are notably vulnerable to spoofing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. A resilient stochastic fair Blue (RSFB) algorithm was proposed in 2009 against spoofing DDoS attacks. The basic idea behind RSFB is to record the responsive normal TCP flows and rescue their dropped packets. RSFB algorithm is effective in preserving the TCP throughput in the presence of spoofing DDoS attacks.
Implementations
An implementation of Blue is part of ALTQ, the network scheduler for BSD Unix.
An implementation of SFB for Linux was included in the Linux kernel in version 2.6.39.
References
Packets (information technology)
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipo | The term Hipo may refer to:
Hippopotamus
Hilfspolizei, an auxiliary police force
HIPO model, a 1970s tool for planning and documenting a computer program
289 HiPo, a Ford Windsor engine
HIPO Corps, a Danish auxiliary police corps established by the German gestapo
Hip-O Records, part of Universal Music Group
See also
Hippo (disambiguation)
Hypo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20standards | Computer hardware and software standards are technical standards instituted for compatibility and interoperability between software, systems, platforms and devices.
Hardware
Software
See also
List of RFCs
List of device bandwidths
References
Standards
Computer standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel%20Berg | Aksel Ivanovich Berg (; – 9 July 1979) was a Soviet scientist in radio-frequency engineering and Soviet Navy Admiral, Hero of Socialist Labour. He was a key figure in the introduction of cybernetics to the Soviet Union.
Early life
Berg's father was General Johan (Ivan) Berg, of Finland-Swedish origin, and his mother was Italian. Aksel was 11 when his father died, and Aksel was matriculated to Saint Petersburg navy school. Berg joined the Imperial Russian Navy in 1914 and served as junior navigating officer on the Russian battleship Tsesarevich and as liaison officer on the British submarine HMS E8, which was operating in the Baltic in alliance with Russia.
Soviet times
Before the German-Soviet war
After the revolution Berg served in the Red Navy 1918–22. In 1918 he participated in the Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet. In 1919 he was navigating officer on the submarine Pantera when it sank the British destroyer HMS Vittoria. He subsequently commanded the submarines Rys, Volk and Zmeya. From 1925 Berg was based onshore and completed his education at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University. From 1927 he was assigned to the navy radio electronics department and from 1932 to 1937 he headed the Navy Communications Research Institute.
Imprisoned and rehabilitated
During Stalin's purges, Berg was imprisoned for three years, but was freed and rehabilitated in 1940, when Stalin became interested in developing radar. Berg was immediately appointed as minister of electronic technology of the USSR. He developed the Redut-K air-warning radar which was placed aboard the light cruiser Molotov in April 1941. Molotov´s device enabled her to play a key role in the air defense of Sevastopol in the first stages of Operation Barbarossa.
After the war
After the war Berg directed the Radioelectronics Institute 1947–57 and was a Deputy Minister of Defence 1953–57. Then in 1958 he founded and led the Scientific Council on Complex Problems in Cybernetics. His main interests were radiolocation, microelectronics and cybernetics (i.e. computer science and radio-frequency engineering).
Death
Aksel Berg died in Moscow in 1979 and is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
Selected publications
Berg A., (1964), 'Cybernetics and Education' in The Anglo-Soviet Journal, March 1964, pp. 13–20 (English language)
Honours and awards
Hero of Socialist Labour (10 November 1963) Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet "for outstanding achievements in the development of radio engineering and in connection with the 70th anniversary of Aksel Ivanovich Berg"
Four Orders of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner, twice
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Order of the Red Star, three times
Popov Gold Medal (13 April 1951)
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Jubilee Medal " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygene | Oxygene may refer to:
Oxygene (programming language)
Oxygène, an album by Jean Michel Jarre, released in 1976
Oxygène: New Master Recording, a new version of Jean Michel Jarre's 1976 album, released in 2007
Oxygène 7–13, an album by Jean Michel Jarre, released in 1997
Oxygène 3, an album by Jean Michel Jarre, released in 2016
Oxygène, a song by C418 from Minecraft - Volume Alpha
Oxygen (2021 film), a French film
See also
Oxygen (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Link%20Solutions | Data Link Solutions (DLS) is a joint venture entity that was created in 1996 between GEC-Marconi Hazeltine (now known as BAE Systems) and Rockwell Collins for the purpose of developing, manufacturing and supporting the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS).
DLS is headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and also has facilities in Wayne, New Jersey.
Products
The company has the extensive contract experience in JTIDS Class 2 / 2H / 2M, the MIDS Fighter Data Link (FDL) and the MIDS Low Volume Terminal (LVT-1), with over $275 million in contracts to date and production deliveries started for MIDS LVT and FDL terminals.
In June 2006 Data Link Solutions (DLS) and Viasat entered into an agreement to cooperatively produce and sell Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) terminals for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). DLS is leading the development effort on MIDS JTRS under an $82 million product improvement program contract.
In August 2007 Data Link Solutions received a $28 million order for Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVT) from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego. The terminals will be installed in the U.S. Navy F/A-18 and EA-6B, U.S. Air Force F-16, B-1, B-2 and B-52 as well as other battle elements.
External links
Data Link Solutions LLC homepage
Military radio systems
Avionics companies
Defense companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Iowa
Electronics companies established in 1996
Telecommunications companies established in 1996
1996 establishments in Iowa
Joint ventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixart | Pixart SRL is a company based in Argentina dedicated to the development of free software, particularly the Rxart computer operating system, which is based on Debian.
History
Pixart started in 1998 as a regional representative of Corel in Latin America. When Corel discontinued their operating system product, Pixart decided to continue the project, receiving technical and legal support from Corel.
Corel gave the English version of their operating system to Xandros, and agreed to give the Spanish and Portuguese versions to Pixart.
These products, coupled with many sales agreements, have made Pixart one of the largest Linux-related companies in Latin America.
Rxart
Rxart is a Linux distribution developed in Argentina and based on Debian. Owing to the number of computers sold with Rxart pre-installed, Rxart has become a very popular Spanish language distribution in Latin America, reaching an installed base of 350,000 units in 2005.
Its origins date back to 1999, when the founder and CEO of Pixart, Gabriel Ortiz, decided to develop a user-friendly distribution intended mainly for hardware assemblers. After an agreement in 2007 between Lenovo and Pixart, Rxart version 3.2 was made available pre-installed on desktop PCs in Argentina.
The distribution is available in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Development
Pixart began being sold as pre-installed in Argentina, in numerous wholesale channels, including Garbarino, Fravega, Carrefour, Jumbo, Megatone, Sicsa, Pcarts, New Tree, and Compumundo. Basing the distribution on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge), the company added proprietary software components.
Pixart has contacts with Sun Microsystems, IBM, Intel, AMD, PChips, Smartlink and Biostar, among other companies.
In August 2006, Rxart was chosen as the operating system for the Intel Classmate PC in a pilot scheme by the government of Venezuela. From June 2007, AMD started distributing components to various countries around the world with Rxart preloaded for their demonstrations. Also in June, Pixart signed an agreement with Sun Microsystem to bundle StarOffice with Rxart.
In Pixart laboratories, several companies collaborated by sending hardware for the development of device drivers. Among them were Lexmark, Epson, Intel, AMD, PCtel, Miro, HP and Dell.
Rxart is named after one of the collaborators for the MANCOOSI project in the European Union.
See also
List of Linux distributions
References
External links
Official Pixart website
Official Rxart website
Software companies of Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Superdome | The HP Superdome is a high-end server computer designed and manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Hewlett-Packard). The product's most recent version, "Superdome 2," was released in 2010 supporting 2 to 32 sockets (up to 128 cores) and 4 TB of memory. The Superdome used PA-RISC processors when it debuted in 2000. Since 2002, a second version of the machine based on Itanium 2 processors has been marketed as the HP Integrity Superdome.
The classic PA-RISC Superdome was later renamed HP 9000 Superdome. The HP V-Class was the Superdome's predecessor (which was based on a design acquired from Convex).
The HP Integrity Superdome 2 uses the Intel Itanium 93xx-series microprocessor, known as "Tukwila", and is redesigned with parts from the HP BladeSystem C7000 enclosure.
Since 2012, Intel Itanium 95xx microprocessor Poulson became available. In 2017, Intel announced that their most recent Itanium chip (code-named Kittson) would be their last Itanium update.
In 2016, Hewlett Packard Enterprise released the Superdome X, which is based on Intel Xeon processors.
Superdome usually runs the HP-UX operating system, although the Itanium 2 version is also compatible with other systems, for example with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian Wheezy (Long Term Support for it has ended), and OpenVMS V8.2-1.
Differences
There are 4 different generations of the Superdome:
Legacy (Only PA-RISC cells)
SX1000 (Can mix both Itanium and PA-RISC cells, but not in the same partition)
SX2000 (Can mix both Itanium and PA-RISC cells, but not in the same partition)
SX3000 (Blade based with only Itanium 93xx-series blades)
Architecture (SX1000 version)
A building block is a cell, a card holding 4 processors and memory. Superdome has a ccNUMA architecture, which means that processors have shorter access times for their cell's memory but longer access times for other cell's memories, and data items are allowed to be replicated across individual cache memories but are kept coherent with one another by cache coherence hardware mechanisms. In this case, a directory-based coherency mechanism is employed.
A center of each cell is an ASIC called cell controller (CC), that connects to four processor sockets (providing an average of 1.6 GB/s of bandwidth per socket), to four local memory subsystems, and to the backplane. The CC itself contains a crossbar, and four CCs interconnect via a second-level crossbar. In the maximum machine configuration, four second-level crossbars interconnect with each other, supporting in total 64 processor sockets.
Each socket may hold either a single-core PA-RISC processor (PA-8600 or PA-8700), or a dual-core PA-RISC processor (PA-8800 or PA-8900), a single-core Itanium 2 processor, two Itanium 2 processors (using the mx2 module), or one dual-core Itanium 2 processor. There are almost no architectural differences between PA-RISC and Itanium versions of Superdome.
P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe%20Mitchell | Chloe Mitchell is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Introduced by former executive producer Edward J. Scott as the daughter of trusty Chancellor family maid, Esther Valentine (Kate Linder), the character was born onscreen on July 27, 1990. Portrayed by twins, Darla and Sandra Greer, until 1991, upon her brief return in 1994, child actress, Danielle Ryah, portrayed the role. On February 6, 2008, executive producer/head writer Josh Griffith introduced a new character, Chloe Mitchell, played by former All My Children actress, Elizabeth Hendrickson. That August, a change in storyline revealed Chloe was Kate, having legally changed her name while offscreen, when the character was away in boarding school. Upgraded from recurring to contract status, Hendrickson became an integral part of the cast.
Immediately upon her arrival on the show, Chloe was characterized as a manipulative "bad girl" by Soap Opera Digest. Hendrickson expressed pleasure in portraying a vixen, stating that it was her idea to make the character "edgy and funny" instead of "some girl who was putting on fancy clothes". Chloe is first hired as a fashion consultant at Jabot Cosmetics by Cane Ashby (Daniel Goddard), whom she develops an attraction for. She breaks up Cane's relationship with his girlfriend, Lily Winters, (Christel Khalil) by announcing that she is pregnant with his child. Upon the birth of her daughter Cordelia "Delia" Abbott (Sophie Pollono) the truth is revealed: Billy Abbott (Billy Miller) fathered the child, not Cane. After brief marriages to Cane and then Billy, Chloe begins an unsuccessful streak of relationships with men including Chance Chancellor (John Driscoll), Ronan Malloy (Jeff Branson), and most recently Kevin Fisher (Greg Rikaart). Other storylines the character encountered included Delia facing leukemia in 2011, and later when she was killed in a hit and run accident in 2013.
Despite temporarily breaking up the popular pairing of Lily and Cane, Chloe was met with popularity among viewers and critics. Soap Opera Weekly described the character as "complex" and her storyline "meaty". Nelson Branco of TV Guide hailed Chloe as "one of the most legendary bitches in soap history", crediting her for rejuvenating the "dying breed" of soap opera vixens. The character's various relationships have been met with mixed reviews. While the pairing of Chloe and Billy has been popular, Sara Bibel of Xfinity heavily criticized the romance between Chloe and Chance for mellowing the character out, wanting the "sassy" Chloe back. While Chloe and Kevin were initially met with favorable reviews, Zap2it placed them on a list of "Worst Soap Opera Couples" and said that the soap opera "needs to put a fork in this relationship". Hendrickson's performance has been met with critical acclaim, having garnered her four Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2012, 2014, 2015 an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Heinrich%20Landolt | Hans Heinrich Landolt (5 December 1831 – 15 March 1910) was a Swiss chemist who discovered iodine clock reaction. He is also one of the founders of Landolt–Börnstein database. He tested law of mass conservation which was given by Lavoisier.
Biography
Landolt was born in Zurich and at the age of nineteen entered the university there to study chemistry and physics. He attended the lectures of Carl Jacob Löwig and published his first work on stibmethyl in Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (Writings of the Natural Science Society). He was then appointed assistant to Lowig and followed him in 1853 to Breslau. The same year he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis "Ueber die Arsenäthyle" (On ethyl compounds of arsenic) which was a notable contribution to the law of chemical valence. After the defense, he went to Berlin to attend lectures of Eilhard Mitscherlich, Rose, Johannes Muller and Dubois. Facilities for experimental research in chemistry were practically non-existent in Berlin at the time, and therefore Landolt left for Heidelberg for a newly founded institute of Robert Bunsen. After devoting himself for a short time to the electrolytic production of calcium and lithium, Landolt started an investigation of the gases produced in the Bunsen burner, which had been constructed in the winter of 1854–55.
In 1856 Landolt returned to Breslau, where he was soon afterwards joined by Lothar Meyer and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein. In the same year he became a lecturer in chemistry on the strength of his monograph on "Chemische Vorgange in der Flamme der Leuchtgase" (Chemical processes in the flame of illuminating gases). In 1857, he was called to Bonn where he studied the effect of the atomic composition of liquids containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen on the transmission of light. The results were published in 1862–1864 and were a continuation of the previous researches of John Hall Gladstone. Later in his life he elaborated the work of Hertz (1887–1888) and demonstrated that light waves are differentiated from electric waves merely by the wavelength, and in 1892 he extended his early work to measurements of the molecular refractivity of organic substances for radiowaves.
At Bonn, in 1859, Landolt married Milla Schallenberg, the daughter of Swiss parents settled in Bonn. In 1869, he was appointed to the head of the newly founded technical college at Aachen, where a chemical institute was built according to his plans. His work there was concerned with the relations between physical properties and chemical constitution. In particular, he made use of polarized light and studied optical rotation by various chemicals. In 1880, he was called by the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture to the newly founded Agricultural College in Berlin, where he remained until 1891. There he constructed new laboratories and collaborated with Richard Börnstein in the compilation of the "Physikalisch-chemischen Tabellen" (Physical-chemical Tables). Thei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1962 World Wrestling Championships were held in Toledo, Ohio.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
W
1962 in American sports
1962 in sport wrestling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Critelli | Michael J. Critelli is the CEO and an investor in The MakeUsWell network of the MoveFlux Corporation. He is the former chairman and CEO (1996-2007) of Pitney Bowes.
Background
Michael grew up in Rochester, New York. He graduated from Bishop Kearney High School in 1966 and the University of Wisconsin with a B.A. in political science and communications in 1970. He graduated from the Harvard Law School with a J.D. cum laude in 1974.
Pre-CEO career
Prior to joining Pitney Bowes as a Counsel in 1979, he was an associate at two Chicago law firms. At Pitney Bowes, he became the company's general counsel in 1988 and added responsibility for its human resources functions in 1990, functions he jointly led until 1993.
As chief HR officer, he created and sustained an employer-sponsored healthcare program, and was featured by Professor Michael Porter in Redefining Healthcare, co-authored with Professor Elizabeth Teisberg, and a 2009 Harvard Business School study. Critelli presented the program at the World Economic Forum in 2007 and 2008.
Tenure as CEO
Critelli became the company's CEO during a period in which the company and the mailing industry underwent transformational change.
Under him, Pitney Bowes was named one of America's most ethical companies.
The Company transitioned its entire installed equipment base from electromechanical and electronic technology to digital, networked systems between 1996 and 2007. It was ranked as one of America's most innovative companies and in the top 200 of patents issued during Critelli's tenure. He was awarded 15 U.S. patents that arose during his tenure at Pitney Bowes.
In 2001, Critelli and Jim Euchner, his leader of Advanced Concepts and Technologies, launched a customer-centered process incorporated into major product development initiatives. Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School recognized this as a leading-edge innovation process.
Pitney Bowes exited its office systems and external finance businesses and completed over 80 acquisitions to build strength in software, services and international operations. Through a combination of acquisitions and organic investments, the Company diversified into adjacent "mail stream" market spaces.
Mail volumes, which had continued to grow into the 2000s, finally flattened out later in Critelli's tenure, and dropped precipitously as a result of the drop in consumer credit after the 2008 financial crisis, as noted in a Boston Consulting Group Study
Industry leadership
Between 2001 and 2005, Critelli co-led the Mailing Industry Task Force, along with Deputy Postmaster General John Nolan, to enable the U.S. Postal Service to work with the private sector on a variety of initiatives, and was heavily used as an industry spokesperson during the 2001 anthrax bioterrorism incidents.
He also chaired the Mailing Industry CEO Council, which was an advocate for comprehensive postal reform, an effort resulting in the passage of the Postal Accountability and Enha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAP%20%28software%29 | Dap is a statistics and graphics program based on the C programming language that performs data management, analysis, and C-style graphical visualization tasks without requiring complex syntax. Its name is an acronym for Data Analysis and Presentation.
Dap was written to be a free replacement for SAS, but users are assumed to have a basic familiarity with the C programming language in order to permit greater flexibility.
It has been designed to be used on large data sets and is primarily used in statistical consulting practices.
However, even with its clear benefits, Dap hasn't been updated since 2014 and hasn't seen widespread use when compared to other statistical analysis programs.
Features
Dap is a command line driven program. Below are various features that DAP can perform.
DAP can compute means and percentiles, correlation, & ANOVA from data sets. This includes Unbalanced as well as Crossed, Nested ANOVA. It can also be used to create scatterplots, line graphs and histograms of data. This can include split plots, treatment combinations, as well as latin squares.
DAP can perform linear regression and can utilize regressions to build linear models. In addition to linear regression, DAP can also perform logistic regression analysis as well. There's a variety of other analysis that DAP can do as well including building loglinear models as well as Logit models for linear-by-linear association.
In terms of models, DAP can create mixed balanced and unbalanced models as well as random unbalanced models.
It has been designed so as to cope with very large data sets; even when the size of the data exceeds the size of the computer's memory due to the fact that the program processes files one line at a time rather than reading entire files into memory.
Applications
Industry Uses
Statistical Consulting Practices
Low-level Statistical Analysis
References
Sources
See also
Comparison of statistical packages
gretl
PSPP
External links
administrative page
GNU Project software
Free software programmed in C
Free statistical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGDS | NGDS may refer to:
National Gamete Donation Service, a British organization for sperm, egg and embryo donation
National Geothermal Data System, an American geothermal data network
NGD Studios, a former name of the Argentine video game developer Nimble Giant Entertainment
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, a 2008 video game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected%20Data%20Objects | Connected Data Objects (CDO) is a free implementation of a Distributed Shared Model on top of the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF).
With CDO, programmers can easily enhance existing EMF models in such a way that they can be stored and subsequently maintained in a central model repository. While object relational mapping against a JDBC data source on the server side is the shipped default, CDO provides for pluggable storage adapters that allow you to develop and use different mappers (like Hibernate- or OODB-based). On the client side, CDO provides a default integration with EMF, the Eclipse Modeling Framework, although other model integrations on top of the CDO protocol are imaginable as well.
Model integration features
EMF integration at model level (as opposed to the edit level)
Support for generated models (just switch two .genmodel properties)
Support for dynamic models (just load .ecore file and commit to repository)
Support for legacy models (for compiled models without access to .genmodel)
Support for the Ecore meta model and descendants
User interface features
Eclipse view for working with CDO sessions, transactions, views and resources
Package Manager dialog per session
Eclipse editor for working with resources and objects
Client side features
Multiple sessions to multiple repositories on multiple servers
Multiple transactions per session
Multiple read-only views per session
Multiple audit views per session (an audit is a view that shows a consistent, historical version of a repository)
Multiple resources per view (a view is always associated with its own EMF ResourceSet)
Inter-resource proxy resolution
Multiple root objects per resource
Object state shared among all views of a session
Object graph internally unconnected (unused parts of the graph can easily be reclaimed by the garbage collector)
Only new and modified objects committed in a transaction
Transactions can span multiple resources
Demand loading of objects (resources are populated as they are navigated)
Partial loading of collections (chunk size can be configured per session)
Adaptable pre-fetching of objects (different intelligent usage analyzers are available)
Asynchronous object invalidation (optional)
Clean API to work with sessions, views, transactions and objects
CDOResources are EObjects as well
Objects carry meta information like id, state, version and life span
Support for OSGi environments (headless, Eclipse RCP, ...)
Support for standalone applications (non-OSGi)
Network protocol features
Net4j based binary application protocol
Pluggable transport layer (shipped with NIO socket transport and JVM embedded transport)
Pluggable fail over support
Pluggable authentication (shipped with challenge/response negotiation)
Multiple acceptors per server
Server side features
Pluggable storage adapters
Multiple repositories per server
Multiple models (packages) per repository
Multiple resources (instance documents) per repository
Expr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZRL | DZRL (639 AM) Radyo Ronda is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Philippines Network. Its studios, offices, and transmitter are located at the RPN Bldg., National Highway, Brgy. Caunayan, Batac. It is the pioneer AM radio station in the province.
History
DZRL is the first radio station in Ilocos Norte established in 1959. It was first located at Bueno Bldg. in Laoag until 1971.
In 1972, when Martial Law was implemented, Kanlaon Broadcasting System took over the ownership of the station and relocated it Mangapit Bldg. in Batac, in front of Eureka High School, equipped with a brand new NEC transmitter. At that time, the said city was the fastest growing municipality in the province. The following year, DZRL transferred to its current home at Brgy. Caunayan, Batac, which is a stone's throw away from the Batac Campus of the Mariano Marcos State University.
DZRL is the only radio station in the province whose operation was not disrupted during Martial Law, making the station the most listened to radio station in the province at that time.
References
Radio Philippines Network
RPN News and Public Affairs
Radio stations in Ilocos Norte
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1959 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1961 World Wrestling Championships were held in Yokohama, Japan.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
International wrestling competitions hosted by Japan
FILA
1961 in sport wrestling
June 1961 sports events in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20African%20Science%20Academies | The Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) was formed in December 2001 as an independent forum for African science academies to discuss scientific issues of common concern.
Member academies are:
African Academy of Sciences
Cameroon Academy of Sciences
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
Kenya National Academy of Sciences
Madagascar's National Academy of Arts, Letters and Sciences
Nigerian Academy of Science
l'Académie des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal
Academy of Science of South Africa
Sudan Academy of Sciences
Tanzania Academy of Sciences
Uganda National Academy of Sciences
Zambia Academy of Sciences
Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences
Statement on climate change
In 2007, the Network of African Science Academies submitted a joint “statement on sustainability, energy efficiency, and climate change” to the leaders meeting at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
“A consensus, based on current evidence, now exists within the global scientific community that human activities are the main source of climate change and that the burning of fossil fuels is largely responsible for driving this change.”
References
Africa
African studies
Organizations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Star%20Theater | Five-Star Theater (also written as 5-Star Theater) is an American radio series that premiered on Monday, November 28, 1932, on NBC's Blue Network, sponsored by the Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Louisiana and the Colonial Beacon Oil Company. It was broadcast every weeknight at 7:30 p.m., but with a different program of comedy, music or drama each night.
The series ran through May 22, 1933.
Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle was a Monday night comedy program with Groucho Marx as attorney Waldorf T. Beagle and Chico Marx as his assistant Emanuel Ravelli. For the first three episodes, the series was called Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle; however, a lawyer from New York called Beagle contacted NBC and threatened them with a lawsuit. It was then retitled Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel. The series depicted the misadventures of a small law firm, with Groucho playing attorney Waldorf T. Flywheel, and Chico playing Emmanuel Ravelli, a character lifted directly from the 1930 film Animal Crackers.
The 1980 discovery of scripts for this 1932–33 series led to publication by Pantheon Books, as described in The New York Times in 1988:
Now, one of the funniest "lost" radio shows of the early 1930s — Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, Attorneys at Law, starring Groucho and Chico Marx — has been unearthed. Not the voices; in those years radio programs were not regularly recorded. But the transcripts of 25 of the original Flywheel episodes have been found in the archives of the Library of Congress. For viewers and listeners who want to discover — or rediscover — what comedy was all about in those more slaphappy days, the actual scripts of Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, edited by Michael Barson, will be published in October by Pantheon Books. It happened that in 1980, as part of his Ph.D. studies, Mr. Barson worked as a specialist in the Deposit Collection of the Library of Congress (which oversees the Copyright Office). In a section called "unpublished dramas", he came across the Flywheel scripts. Nobody was aware that they still existed; their copyrights had not been renewed. Flywheel had fallen into the public domain.
After the rediscovery of the Marx scripts, many of them were adapted by the BBC, new recordings made with contemporary actors, broadcast on Radio 4 in 1990-1992.
The Josef Bonime Orchestra aired on Tuesdays, with baritone John Charles Thomas.
Wednesday night showcased a dramatic anthology, The Esso Theater.
Opera was featured on Thursday night with the Aborn Opera Company.
On Friday evenings, a radio drama based on the Charlie Chan film franchise was heard, with a cast that included Ray Collins.
References
1930s American radio programs
1932 radio programme debuts
1933 radio programme endings
American comedy radio programs
American radio dramas
NBC Blue Network radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbold%20tram%20stop | Newbold is a tram stop on the Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) of Greater Manchester's Metrolink network. It is located in the Newbold area of Rochdale, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, between and stations. It opened as part of Phase 3a of the system's expansion, on 28 February 2013.
Services
Newbold is located on the Oldham & Rochdale Line with trams towards Manchester city centre and Rochdale Town Centre. Services are mostly every 12 minutes on all routes.
References
External links
Metrolink stop information
Newbold area map
Tram stops in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2013
Tram stops on the East Didsbury to Rochdale line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsway%20Business%20Park%20tram%20stop | Kingsway Business Park is a tram stop on the Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) of Greater Manchester's Metrolink network. It is located in Firgrove, on the northeastern side of Kingsway Business Park in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, between the Milnrow and Newbold stations. It opened as part of Phase 3a of the system's expansion, on 28 February 2013.
History
Following the rejection of the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund the station had an unknown future being unfunded by the rest of the 3A and 3B program with suggestions private contributions would be required for construction to proceed.
In March 2011 it was proposed to cancel the plans for Drake Street Metrolink station for being too close to Rochdale Station Metrolink stop and generate efficiency savings while it was also noted a significant gap in coverage existed around Kingsway which could lead to the construction of Kingsway Business Park after all. On 8 July 2011 the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee gave approval of the station after Rochdale Council pledged £2.5m towards the stop.
Services
Kingsway Business Park is located on the Oldham & Rochdale Line with trams towards Manchester city centre and Rochdale Town Centre.
Services are mostly every 12 minutes on all routes.
References
External links
Metrolink stop information
Kingsway Business Park area map
Tram stops in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2013
Tram stops on the East Didsbury to Rochdale line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20Lake%20City%20Public%20Library%20system | The Salt Lake City Public Library system is a network of public libraries funded by Salt Lake City. The Free Public Library of Salt Lake City first opened on February 14, 1898. The system is under the direction of a library board and circulates more than three million items each year.
There are nine locations: the Main Branch library downtown, the Anderson-Foothill Branch, the Chapman Branch in Poplar Grove, the Day-Riverside Branch in Rose Park, the Sprague Branch in Sugar House, the Corrine & Jack Sweet Branch in the Avenues, the Glendale Branch (opened in February 2015), and the Marmalade Branch in the Marmalade neighborhood of Capitol Hill (opened in February 2016).
Territorial years
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints oversaw many of the libraries in early Salt Lake City and the rest of the Utah Territory, founded in 1850. While many locals tried to promote public lending libraries, private libraries were the most prosperous in early Salt Lake. For many years private libraries were the only ones accessible to the people of the city.
Over these territorial years several groups attempted to establish a free public library, including a small group of women called the Ladies Library Association and a Masonic Order in the city. By 1891, the two organizations had acquired a stock of over 10,000 books, but lack of funding forced the two to donate their collections to the newly formed Pioneer Library Association. By 1898, another group of women called the Ladies Literary Society had successfully promoted a bill in the territorial legislature giving a levy on property tax to public libraries in the state. Because of this law, the Free Public Library of Salt Lake City, the city's first government-run free public library, opened on February 14, 1898. Its temporary location was on the top floor of the Salt Lake City and County Building, and the collection consisted mainly of a stockpile of 11,910 books donated by the Pioneer Library Association. The Pioneer Library Association also provided a librarian for the new library, Annie E. Chapman, for whom the current Chapman branch is now named.
State Street
By 1900 the library had outgrown its housing, and attention was turned to acquiring a larger, more permanent location. Again the Ladies Literary Society helped out by persuading the mining millionaire John Quackenbos Packard to donate land and money for a new location. The new location was at 15 South State Street in a building that cost $100,000 at the time. The new library opened in 1905 with a new librarian, Joanna Sprague, for whom the Sprague branch is now named. This building would serve as the main branch library until October 1964, when a new library was built at 209 East 500 South.
During this library's service, the library system was expanded to include eight branches. The Chapman branch was originally located at 610 West North Temple but moved to 577 South 900 West in 1917 when the city was awarded $25,000 from the Carnegie C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20%28video%20game%29 | Liverpool (also known as Liverpool: The Computer Game) is an association football video game released in 1990 for the Amstrad CPC. In 1992, versions were released for the Atari ST, Amiga and MS-DOS platforms. A Commodore 64 port was released in 1993. The game was developed by Arc Developments and published by Grandslam Entertainment. Liverpool is based on the Liverpool F.C. football team. One or two players can play Liverpool.
A ZX Spectrum version was advertised, but never released.
Gameplay
Liverpool is a football video game that allows the player to take control of Liverpool F.C. and play against other teams in the English football league system and FA Cup. The game allows the player choose the formation and pick the team from real players in the Liverpool squad. Before practice games, the player can also set the pitch type and duration. The gameplay consists of running with and without the ball, trapping the ball, throw ins, corner kicks and goal kicks. Liverpool also includes injuries and punishments from receiving red or yellow cards. The player can use a joystick or keyboard to control the game
The player can play in Full Season mode where matches in both the league and FA Cup are played, or in FA Cup Only mode, where the cup competition alone is played. The best achievement in the game is winning the double.
Each version of Liverpool for the different platforms included the updated Liverpool F.C. squad from the current season.
Reception
The different versions of Liverpool received mixed reviews. The Amstrad CPC version received a low 9% from Computer and Video Games. The magazine criticised the gameplay as "sluggish" and said the controls were frustrating. The Commodore 64 version was considerably different and received 93% from Commodore Force. The magazine praised the smooth controls and artificial intelligence of the opposition. CU Amiga rated the Amiga version of Liverpool 70%. The review said that the controls are sluggish and jerky and the animations of the players are very basic. The magazine recommended the game mainly for fans of the Liverpool football club.
References
1990 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Arc Developments games
Association football video games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Liverpool F.C.
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by Allister Brimble |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExifTool | ExifTool is a free and open-source software program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, video, and PDF metadata. It is platform independent, available as both a Perl library (Image::ExifTool) and command-line application. ExifTool is commonly incorporated into different types of digital workflows and supports many types of metadata including Exif, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the manufacturer-specific metadata formats of many digital cameras.
Metainformation encapsulation
ExifTool implements its own open metadata format. It is designed to encapsulate metainformation from many sources, in binary or textual form, and bundle it together with any type of file. It can either be a single file, wrapping existing data, or used as a sidecar file, carrying for example Exif or XMP metadata.
Uses
Websites and services that use ExifTool include:
Advanced Renamer
Flickr (to parse the metadata from uploaded images)
Hugin
Metadata++
XnView
Exif Fixer (calculates and adds 360-specific metadata to images)
Supported file formats
ExifTool can read, edit or create files with the following formats:
Reading support
360 - GoPro 360 video (QuickTime-based)
3FR - Hasselblad raw (TIFF-based)
3G2, 3GP2 - 3rd Gen. Partnership Project 2 audio/video (QuickTime-based)
3GP, 3GPP - 3rd Gen. Partnership Project audio/video (QuickTime-based)
A - Unix static library code Archive
AA - Audible Audiobook
AAE - Apple edit information (XML PLIST-based)
AAX - Audible Enhanced Audiobook (QuickTime-based)
ACR - American College of Radiology ACR-NEMA (DICOM-like)
AFM, ACFM, AMFM - Adobe (Composite/Multiple Master) Font Metrics
AI, AIT - Adobe Illustrator (Template, PS or PDF)
AIFF, AIF, AIFC - Audio Interchange File Format (Compressed)
APE - Monkey's Audio
ARQ - Sony Alpha Pixel-Shift raw (TIFF-based)
ARW - Sony Alpha raw (TIFF-based)
ASF - Microsoft Advanced Systems Format
AVI - Audio Video Interleaved (RIFF-based)
AVIF - AV1 Image File Format (QuickTime-based)
BMP, DIB - Windows BitMaP / Device Independent Bitmap
BPG - Better Portable Graphics
BTF - BigTIFF (64-bit Tagged Image File Format)
CHM - Microsoft Compiled HTML format
COS - Capture One Settings (XML-based)
CR2 - Canon Raw 2 (TIFF-based) (CR2 specification)
CR3 - Canon Raw 3 (QuickTime-based) (CR3 specification)
CRM - Canon RAW Movie (QuickTime-based)
CRW, CIFF - Canon Raw Camera Image File Format (CRW specification)
CS1 - Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot raw (PSD-based)
CSV - Comma-Separated Values
CZI - Zeiss Integrated Software RAW (ZISRAW)
DCM, DC3, DIC, DICM - DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DCP - DNG Camera Profile (DNG-like)
DCR - Kodak Digital Camera Raw (TIFF-based)
DFONT - Macintosh Data Fork Font
DIVX - DivX media format (ASF-based)
DJVU, DJV - DjVu image (AIFF-like)
DNG - Digital Negative (TIFF-based)
DOC, DOT - Microsoft Word Document/Template (FPX-like)
DOCX, DOCM - Office Op |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECS%20G10IL | The ECS G10IL is a netbook computer designed by ECS. Using an Intel Atom N270 processor, it includes a built-in tri-band HSDPA and HSUPA, the "Super 3G". The notebook is available with Linux or Windows XP.
In line with other ECS laptop products, it is expected that most sales of this computer will be through OEM channels, rebadged with other brand names.
For example, the G10IL was released in the UK in September 2008 as the Advent 4213, fitted with a 160Gb hard disk, 1Gb RAM and Windows XP.
Other versions are:
FTEC eBook G10 – Malaysia
Airis – France
Averatec Buddy – United States
Q10 Air – Austria
Elisa Miniläppäri – Finland
Specifications
CPU: Intel Atom N270 (aka "Diamondville")
Chipset: Intel 945 GSE, ICH7M
Operating System: Windows XP/Linux
Memory: 1 slot SODIMM 200-pin DDR2 533/667, up to 2GB
Screen: LCD Size 8.9" / 10.2" 1024 x 600 pixels
Ports: 3xUSB 2.0, Card Reader (SD, SDHC, MMC, MS), VGA out
Webcam: 1.3 mega pixel CCD
Storage: HDD or SSD
Battery: 4 / 6 cell
Dimensions: 259 x 180 x 28.5 (mm)
References
See also
Comparison of netbooks
Netbooks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte%20%28disambiguation%29 | A byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that most commonly consists of eight bits.
Byte may also refer to:
Byte (magazine), a computer industry magazine
Byte (song), a song by Martin Garrix and Brooks
Bytes (album), an album by Black Dog Productions
Byte (retailer), a computer retailer in the United Kingdom
Byte (dinghy), a sailing dinghy
Byte, a naming series for electric cars from Byton
Byte (service), a video sharing app.
See also
Nybble
Bight (disambiguation)
Bite (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ajax%20frameworks | This is a list of notable Ajax frameworks, used for creating web applications with a dynamic link between the client and the server. Some of the frameworks are JavaScript compilers, for generating JavaScript and Ajax that runs in the web browser client; some are pure JavaScript libraries; others are server-side frameworks that typically rely on JavaScript libraries.
JavaScript
JavaScript frameworks are browser-side frameworks very commonly used in Ajax development.
There are hundreds of JavaScript frameworks available. According to latest surveys, the most used JavaScript frameworks are:
Other notable frameworks that are more AJAX specific, and not among the list of general purpose frameworks:
AJAX.OOP, an open source framework, it provides an OOP-style programming engine and Ajax requests-handling functionality to create web 2.0 components.
Bindows, an enterprise Ajax framework, with Windows look and feel
qooxdoo, is a comprehensive Ajax application framework. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build cross-browser applications.
SproutCore, designed to make desktop-like apps for the web
Wakanda Framework, works on top of WakandaDB with Server-Side JavaScript, designed to build interfaces for desktop & mobile Web applications.
Webix, an JavaScript framework for developing unique user interfaces with DataTable, SpreadSheet, Pivot, Kanban, File Manager, Scheduler widgets.
Java
These frameworks use Java for server-side Ajax operations:
Apache Wicket an open-source Java server-centric framework supporting Ajax development
AribaWeb an open-source framework with reflection and object-relational mapping
DWR Direct Web Remoting
Echo for Ajax servlets
Google Web Toolkit a widget library with a Java to JavaScript compiler
JackBe enterprise Ajax framework
JSF Java Server Faces
RAP Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform
JBoss RichFaces, ICEfaces and PrimeFaces open-source Ajax component libraries for JavaServer Faces
Vaadin a server-side Java widget framework depending on GWT
ZK an open-source Java server+client fusion Ajax framework depending on jQuery and XUL
.NET
The following frameworks are available for the Windows .NET platform:
ASP.NET AJAX (previously Microsoft Atlas)
Perl
Catalyst, Catalyst::Plugin::Prototype or other js frameworks
PHP
A PHP Ajax framework is able to deal with database, search data, and build pages or parts of page and publish the page or return data to the XMLHttpRequest object.
Quicknet is an Ajax framework that provides secure data transmission, uses PHP on the server side
Sajax PHP framework with a lot of functions, easy to integrate functions yourself
Python
These frameworks use Python for client-side Ajax operations:
Pyjs, a widget library with a Python to JavaScript compiler.
Ruby
The Ruby on Rails framework used to implement a Domain-specific language named RJS, which can be used to write Ruby code that generates Javascript code. The code generated by RJS was usually loade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20in%20Austen | Lost in Austen is a four-part 2008 British television series for the ITV network, written by Guy Andrews as a fantasy adaptation of the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Amanda, a young woman living in modern London, enters the plot of the novel through a portal in her bathroom, to join the Bennet family and affect events, generally disastrously.
In December 2009 the show was placed at 48 in "The Top 50 TV Shows of the Noughties", a list published in The Times.
Plot
Episode 1
Amanda Price, a keen Jane Austen fan from present-day Hammersmith, who has just rejected an unromantic marriage proposal from her boozy boyfriend, discovers Elizabeth Bennet, a character from Pride and Prejudice, standing in a nightgown in her bathroom. When Elizabeth disappears, Amanda brushes the incident off as a dream. She explains to her mother that Jane Austen's novel has shown her that she can set higher standards for a husband for herself and has taught her to believe in true love. Elizabeth appears in Amanda's bathroom again, this time dressed for travel.
Amanda steps through the secret doorway in the wall that Elizabeth has shown her, and finds herself at Longbourn, the home of the Bennet family in Hertfordshire, near the beginning of the novel. Amanda is trapped in this world, while Elizabeth is in 21st-century London. Mr Bennet is hospitable, accepting Amanda as his daughter's good friend, while Elizabeth is off visiting "the city".
Amanda tries to ensure that the novel progresses as it should, but when Mr Bingley, newly settled in Netherfield, visits Longbourn, he admires Amanda more than Jane. At the Meryton Assembly Hall, Amanda tries to reject Bingley's interest by telling him that she cannot dance with him, because Mr Darcy has already asked her to dance. Bingley calls Amanda's bluff, but Darcy coldly lies and confirms Amanda's claim. As Darcy dances with her, Amanda asks why he covered for her, for which he scolds her, believing her to have tried to make a fool out of Bingley, and agreed to dance through wanting to spare him from embarrassment. Amanda gets drunk and kisses Bingley, immediately regretting it.
A furious Mrs Bennet warns Amanda not to interfere with her daughters' marriage prospects. Later, Amanda forces Jane to travel to the Bingleys' home in bad weather, in order to get the novel back on track. But when she learns that this may give Jane a fatal attack of influenza, Amanda follows her to try and save her.
Episode 2
While nursing a sick Jane with the then-unknown drug paracetamol at Netherfield Park, Amanda finally puts a stop to Bingley's advances to her. Claiming to be a lesbian, she is able to direct his amorous attentions back to Jane. Darcy, however, argues with Amanda about her bringing Jane to Netherfield Park, while Bingley's sister Caroline takes a dislike to Amanda, seeing her as a potential rival for Darcy, and continually tries to embarrass her. She insists that Amanda play the piano for them, but upon her r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikaw%20na%20Sana | (International title: Destiny / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Angelu de Leon and Bobby Andrews. It premiered on March 17, 1997. The series concluded on April 3, 1998, with a total of 272 episodes.
The series was later adapted into a film of the same title.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Angelu de Leon as Blanca Rosales Perez / Susan Saavedra
Bobby Andrews as Rafael Huico
Supporting cast
Gladys Reyes as Angela Rosales
Carmi Martin as Barbara Rosales Juico
Cherry Pie Picache as Corazon Rosales-Perez
Jake Roxas as Emil
Isabel Granada as Lucila Rosales
Jeffrey Santos as Eric de Saavedra
Alicia Mayer as Gia
Aura Mijares as Impong Isidra
Julio Diaz as Gardo Perez
Nonie Buencamino as Gardo
Chubi del Rosario as Billy
Blue de Leon as Benjamin Saavedra
Anne Curtis as Jasmine
Melise "Mumay" Santiago as Nina
References
External links
1997 Philippine television series debuts
1998 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television series by Viva Television
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausezahn | (, German for "mouse tooth") is a fast network traffic generator written in C which allows the user to craft nearly every possible and "impossible" packet. Since version 0.31 Mausezahn is open source in terms of the GPLv2. Herbert Haas, the original developer of Mausezahn, died on 25 June 2011. The project has been incorporated into the netsniff-ng toolkit, and continues to be developed there.
Typical applications of Mausezahn include:
Testing or stressing IP multicast networks
Penetration testing of firewalls and IDS
Finding weaknesses in network software or appliances
Creation of malformed packets to verify whether a system processes a given protocol correctly
Didactical demonstrations as lab utility
Mausezahn allows sending an arbitrary sequence of bytes directly out of the network interface card. An integrated
packet builder provides a simple command line interface for more complicated packets. Since version 0.38, Mausezahn offers a multi-threaded mode with Cisco-style command line interface.
Features
As of version 0.38 Mausezahn supports the following features:
Jitter measurement via Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets
VLAN tagging (arbitrary number of tags)
MPLS label stacks (arbitrary number of labels)
BPDU packets as used by the Spanning Tree Protocol (PVST+ is also supported)
Cisco Discovery Protocol messages
Link Layer Discovery Protocol messages
IGMP version 1 and 2 query and report messages
DNS messages
ARP messages
IP, UDP, and TCP header creation
ICMP packets
Syslog messages
Address, port, and TCP sequence number sweeps
Random MAC or IP addresses, FQDN addresses
A very high packet transmission rate (approximately 100,000 packets per second)
Mausezahn only sends exactly the packet the user has specified. Therefore, it is rather less suited for vulnerability audits where additional algorithms are required to detect open ports behind a firewall and to automatically evade intrusion detection systems (IDS). However, a network administrator could implement audit routines via a script that utilizes Mausezahn for creating the actual packets.
Platforms
Mausezahn currently runs only on Linux systems and there are no plans to port it to the Windows operating system.
See also
Traffic generation model
Nessus
Nmap
References
External links
Official/new website
Computer security software
Free network management software
Linux-only free software
Free software programmed in C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideband%20computing | Sideband computing is where a user connects to some normal network service, and a separate communication channel is opened through which a server distributes tasks to the clients. Through sideband computing method, any network server which has a lot of clients can form into a large-scale super-computing network. During this process, the resources in the clients could be utilized through the central server so long as the main channel is maintained. Sideband computing is related to the distributed computing and multiple communication channels.
The task can be any task that is performed by individual client and used in the various distributed computing environment such as social computing, volunteer computing, and edge computing, grid computing, or utility computing. Collaborative task in social computing is one example.
Sideband computing is also a type of super computing where each client carries out some real computation tasks that could be the individually executed. With the server aggregating the results from each client, it effectively achieves the function of a real supercomputer.
Advantage
Sideband computing maximizes the participation and involvement of clients who are connecting with the server so that every client could help to contribute. With little cost, the network server can act as a supercomputer.
Most other distributed computing requires each client to manually install client side software, proactively participate in the computing and the computation is the sole objective of such client side software.
With sideband computing, sideband service stays along with a regular network service, which allows the sideband services being served without much interrupting to the main network service that is less intrusive and more user-friendly to the end user.
On a different view, a client can be viewed as paying its “contributing” in exchange of the regular service it is served. This is similar to volunteer computing
Disadvantage
Sideband computing requires a regular network service being performed beforehand.
Without the main network service, it is not called sideband method.
Applicable fields
Ajax and Web 2.0 are claimed to be one of the area where sideband method is used. It is said that Ajax is conducted through asynchronously though additional channel other than a browser-server's main HTTP channel.
Examples of sideband computing in this sense include collaborative filtering, online auctions, online ranking, mashing up, prediction markets, reputation systems, computational social choice, tagging, and verification games using Ajax.
A typical setup would involve that the server allows each client to do a small amount of work and the server coordinates and aggregates results every client to form a larger picture.
For instance, when sideband computing applies to the social computing based on each client creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of client's computing resource, software and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s%20Kitchen%20%28American%20season%204%29 | Season 4 of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen began airing on the Fox Network starting on April 1, 2008. The show was originally planned to air later in the season, but instead was aired as a replacement for shows that were affected by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Episode 5 of season 4 garnered the highest viewership in the show's history at 11.94 million viewers.
Culinary student Christina Machamer won the season and was awarded a "senior sous chef" position with a $250,000 salary at the Gordon Ramsay at The London restaurant in The London West Hollywood hotel – not an executive chef position as mentioned in show-related publicity and press releases. The London West Hollywood restaurant opened on May 27, 2008, while the series was still airing.
Production location
This season was filmed in the warehouse district in Culver City, California.
Sous chefs and Maître d'hôtel
Sous chefs – Scott Leibfried and Gloria Félix
Maître d'hôtel – Jean-Philippe Susilovic
Contestants
There were 15 chefs (eight men and seven women) who competed in season four. It is the first season to begin with an odd number of contestants, repeated in season 6 with its total of 17 contestants (because of the addition of a contestant from the previous season).
Notes
Contestant progress
Each week, the best member (as determined by Ramsay) from the losing team during the latest service period was asked to nominate two of their teammates for elimination; one of these two was sent home by Ramsay. In Episode 1, the teams selected captains for service, though Ramsay changed both captains during service.
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
Hell's Kitchen official Fox.com
Hell's Kitchen program description and commentary at the Internet Movie Database website
Hell's Kitchen (American TV series)
2008 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe%20Bisciglia | Christophe Bisciglia (born 1980) is an American entrepreneur known for his work with big data and cloud computing. Known for helping to popularize the programming model MapReduce while working at Google, and in addition he co-founded Cloudera and WibiData.
Early life and education
Bisciglia was born in 1980, and raised primarily in Gig Harbor, Washington. Bisciglia attended the University of Washington from 1999 to 2003 and graduated in 2003 with a bachelor of science degree from the department of Computer Science and Engineering. In 2015 he received an Honorary Doctorate degree from University of Washington.
Computer science
Bisciglia's primary contribution to computer science has been the introduction of hands-on large-scale computing into the undergraduate computer science curriculum originally developed at the University of Washington. In 2008, along with co-authors, Aaron Kimball and Sierra Michels-Slettvet, Bisciglia published a research paper titled "Cluster Computing for Web-Scale Data Processing." This paper details the first MapReduce based large-scale computing course ever offered to undergraduate students, and has provided the foundation for similar courses at Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Tsinghua University.
Career
After graduating college he joined Google to work as software engineer on search quality. He founded and lead Google's Academic cloud computing initiative which provides Google hosted computational resources to facilitate education and research to universities around the world. In February 2008, the National Science Foundation joined this initiative to distribute Google's computational resources to the national research community. In 2008, Fortune (magazine) named Bisciglia as one of the 10 most fascinating Googlers and in 2010 he was named one of the smartest people in tech.
Bisciglia left Google in 2008 in order to co-found Cloudera, in Palo Alto. The Cloudera company is now headquartered in Santa Clara and provides tools, services, and support, around data processing networks, like Hortonworks data platform, and Apache Hadoop. WibiData was founded by Bisciglia in 2010 and closed in 2015, and it was a San Francisco-based company that provided big data applications for enterprises to personalize their customer experiences. In 2018, he became a partner in the Inn at Kulaniapia Falls, a nature retreat in Hilo, Hawaii.
Selected publications
Notes
Living people
1980 births
American computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
People from Gig Harbor, Washington
University of Washington College of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20curation | Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection, and archiving of digital assets.
Digital curation establishes, maintains, and adds value to repositories of digital data for present and future use. This is often accomplished by archivists, librarians, scientists, historians, and scholars. Enterprises are starting to use digital curation to improve the quality of information and data within their operational and strategic processes. Successful digital curation will mitigate digital obsolescence, keeping the information accessible to users indefinitely. Digital curation includes digital asset management, data curation, digital preservation, and electronic records management.
Word History
Much like the word archive has layered meanings and uses, the word curation is both a noun and a verb, used originally in the field of museology to represent a wide range of activities, most often associated with collection care, long-term preservation, and exhibition design. Curation can be a reference to physical repositories that store cultural heritage or natural resource collections (e.g., a curatorial repository) or a representation of varied policies and processes involved with the long-term care and management of heritage collections, digital archives, and research data (e.g, curatorial/collections management plans, curation life-cycle, and data curation). Yet curation is also associated with short-term objectives and processes of selection and interpretation for the purposes of presentation, such as for gallery exhibitions and websites, which contribute to knowledge creation. It has also been applied to interaction with social media including compiling digital images, web links, and movie files.
The term curation entered the legal framework through federal historic preservation laws, starting with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and was further defined and coded into federal regulations through 36 CFR Part 79: Curation of Federally-owned and Administered Archaeological Collections. Curation has since permeated into an array of disciplines but remains closely tied to heritage and information management.
Core Principles and Activities
The term "digital curation" was first used in the e-science and biological science fields as a means of differentiating the additional suite of activities ordinarily employed by library and museum curators to add value to their collections and enable its reuse from the smaller subtask of simply preserving the data, a significantly more concise archival task. Additionally, the historical understanding of the term "curator" demands more than simple care of the collection. A curator is expected to command academic mastery of the subject matter as a requisite part of appraisal and selection of assets and any subsequent adding of value to the collection through application of metadata.
Principles
There are five commonly accepted principles that govern the occupation of digital curation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisbech%20East%20railway%20station | Wisbech East was a railway station in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. It was opened in 1848 and became part of the Great Eastern Railway network, providing connections to March, Watlington and St Ives, as well as Upwell via the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway. The station closed in 1968 and no trace of it remains today. A freight-only line remains extant as far as a factory based in the station's former goods yard, and a heritage railway based in March is aiming to reinstate services to Wisbech and construct a new station as near as possible to Newbridge Lane crossing.
In June 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies published a report indicating that the reopening of the line to Wisbech and construction of a new station could be viable, in that the ratio of business, economic and social benefits to costs would be just over £1m.
History
Opening
It was the Eastern Counties Railway which first reached Wisbech from the south in May 1847 with the opening of a line from St Ives via March; a temporary wooden station named Wisbeach was built on the site of the future Wisbech goods yard (at grid reference TF458093). The East Anglian Railways made its way from the east to Wisbech the following year with a line from Magdalen Road station; their station - on the site of the future Wisbech East station - was also a temporary structure named Wisbeach. A short curve joined the two lines.
The two stations remained in use until at least 1851 when a lease was agreed between the two companies giving the operation of the East Anglian Railways to the Eastern Counties, the agreement taking effect at the beginning of 1852. In 1862, the Great Eastern Railway (GER) acquired the line and subsequently closed the Eastern Counties' Wisbeach station to passenger traffic the following year. A line from the station to the harbour was laid in 1863.
Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
It is not thought that the East Anglian Railways provided any accommodation at their primitive wooden station, but this was to change in August 1883 with the opening of the first section of the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway. New sidings and a brick engine shed were constructed for the trams that were to work the new route from Wisbeach station (renamed Wisbech in 1877), leaving the wooden passenger station to look decidedly out-of-place. After pressure from Wisbech Town Council for new facilities, the railway company finally issued a call for tenders in 1887 and accepted the offer of Harold Arnold & Son of Doncaster to build a station for £4,367.
A new brick engine shed was also provided, with a 42 ft turntable, on a goods spur; initially it had only a single road to accommodate a trio of engines, but a second was added in 1893 to handle the station's growing traffic in perishables. This went out of use in the 1910s, with only the turntable remaining by 1925 when the London and North Eastern Railway had taken over responsibility for the line. Activities at Wisbech was by that time principally concerned wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton%20Bridge%20railway%20station | Sutton Bridge railway station was a station in Sutton Bridge, south Lincolnshire, England, which opened in the 19th century. It became part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network, and served as a junction where the line from Great Yarmouth split into two sections one heading for Wisbech and Peterborough and the other for Spalding. The station closed with the line in 1959.
References
Disused railway stations in Lincolnshire
Former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959
1866 establishments in England
1959 disestablishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Host%20Integration%20Server | Microsoft Host Integration Server (a.k.a. HIS) is a gateway application providing connectivity between Microsoft Windows networks and IBM mainframe and IBM i systems. Support is provided for SNA, 3270 (standard and TN3270), 5250 (standard and TN5250), CICS, APPC, and other IBM protocols. Support is also provided for advanced integration with Windows networks and software, such as linking Microsoft Message Queuing applications to IBM WebSphere MQ, binding Microsoft DTC transactions with CICS, and cross-protocol access to Db2 databases on IBM platforms.
HIS is the successor to Microsoft SNA Server. SNA Server was released in 1994, and was one of the first add-on products available for the fledgling Windows NT. SNA Server was also included in Microsoft BackOffice Server.
Similar gateway products were NetWare for SAA (defunct, ran on Novell NetWare) and IBM Communications Manager/2 (defunct, ran on OS/2).
HIS has an active ecosystem of third party hardware (e.g. network adapters supporting ESCON and Twinax connectivity) and software.
History
SNA Server 1.0
Initial version of SNA Server was released in 1994.
SNA Server 2.x
SNA Server 2.1 was introduced in September 1994, and included in BackOffice 1.0.
SNA Server 2.11 was released in July 1995, added new features such as Windows NT 3.51 support. Version 2.11 was included in BackOffice 1.5/2.0. Version 2.11 SP1 was released on January 31, 1996, which included new features such as Distributed Gateway Service, support for TN3270E clients, and FTP-AFTP gateway.
SNA Server 3.0
SNA Server 3.0 was released on December 17, 1996. SNA Server 3.0 nearly doubled the capacity up to 5,000 users and up to 15,000 host sessions. Other major new features include SNA print service, single sign-on to AS/400s and mainframes, TN5250 service, support for TN3287 clients in TN3270E service. Version 3.0 was included in BackOffice 2.5.
Service Pack was released up to SP4, which was released on November 1, 1996.
SNA Server 4.0
SNA Server 4.0 was generally available in January 1998, included in BackOffice Server 4.0/4.5. SNA Server enhanced its features to support more clients and protocols, including Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 3.x, DOS, and OS/2, with protocols of TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, Banyan VINES, AppleTalk, and Microsoft Named Pipes. Third-party solutions provide Macintosh and UNIX support. SNA Server 4.0 also included a new COM based integration technology called COM Transaction Integrator (COMTI, code-named Cedar), which enables easier integration using GUI and Web page. Snap-ins for Microsoft Management Console (MMC) were introduced to easily manage SNA Server, COMTI, and OLE DB Provider in single place.
Service Pack was released up to SP4, which was released on March 5, 2001.
Host Integration Server 2000
SNA Server code-name "Babylon" was rebranded to "Host Integration Server" from this version and released on September 26, 2000. This version worked with Windows 2000, SQL Server |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilcox%20Medical%20Center | Wilcox Medical Center is part of Hawaii Pacific Health's network. One of Kauai island's three hospitals, Wilcox Medical Center provides Kauai residents with an imaging center, emergency department, and surgical center.
History
George Norton Wilcox and Dora Isenberg planned a community hospital with a staff open to all eligible physicians on Kauai. It opened on November 1, 1938, with the official dedication of a T-shaped two-story building on of land donated by the Lihue Plantation. It was built at a cost of $200,000. More than 1,000 Kauai residents attended the ceremony, and 15 days later the new 96-bed hospital accepted its first patients.
Periodic expansion programs continued over the years. The first expansion took place from 1955 to 1958 with the addition of a kitchen, an obstetrical wing, medical library, conference room and additional space for laboratory and X-ray departments. Another milestone was reached in 1966 with the advent of the Outpatient Department built adjacent to the main hospital. Plantation dispensaries were phased out at this time and the eastside physicians began practice in the facilities, later forming the Kauai Medical Group Inc.
The third expansion was completed in August 1971 and resulted in the present $4.2 million Acute Patient Care Tower and Special Diagnostic and Treatment Facility. A laboratory and physical therapy building opened in 1977.
Since then, remodeling and renovation has been ongoing to accommodate the hospital's many new services and programs, which includes an Intensive Care Unit, Coronary Care Unit and a CT and MRI facility in the Imaging Department, which was renovated and expanded to include more exam space and updated equipment. In 2005, the department was named the Wilcox Family Imaging Center after the Wilcox family of Kauai.
Wilcox Medical Center treated surfer Bethany Hamilton after she lost her arm to a tiger shark off the north shore of Kauai.
In 2010, the Wilcox Health Women's Center opened to provide preventive and diagnostic care for Kauai's women.
In 2016, Wilcox Memorial Hospital rebranded itself as Wilcox Medical Center.
References
External links
Hospital buildings completed in 1938
Hospital buildings completed in 1971
Hospitals in Hawaii
Kauai County, Hawaii
1938 establishments in Hawaii
Hospitals established in 1938 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedney%20railway%20station | Gedney railway station was a station in Gedney, Lincolnshire. It was a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network. It opened on 1 July 1862, and closed on 2 March 1959.
The station building survives today and has recently been fully renovated as a residential dwelling. The original line gates have been preserved.
References
External links
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/28557
Disused railway stations in Lincolnshire
Former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1862
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959
1862 establishments in England
1959 disestablishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cawston%20railway%20station | Cawston was a railway station in Cawston, Norfolk. It was part of the Great Eastern Railway network for a large portion of its existence. It was on the line between County School and Aylsham. It closed in 1952, the station building is now a private residence It can be seen from the Marriott's Way footpath.
References
Disused railway stations in Norfolk
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1880
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20stupidity | Artificial stupidity is a term used within the field of computer science to refer to a technique of "dumbing down" computer programs in order to deliberately introduce errors in their responses.
History
Alan Turing, in his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, proposed a test for intelligence which has since become known as the Turing test. While there are a number of different versions, the original test, described by Turing as being based on the "imitation game", involved a "machine intelligence" (a computer running an AI program), a female participant, and an interrogator. Both the AI and the female participant were to claim that they were female, and the interrogator's task was to work out which was the female participant and which was not by examining the participant's responses to typed questions. While it is not clear whether or not Turing intended that the interrogator was to know that one of the participants was a computer, while discussing some of the possible objections to his argument Turing raised the concern that "machines cannot make mistakes".
As Turing then noted, the reply to this is a simple one: the machine should not attempt to "give the right answers to the arithmetic problems". Instead, deliberate errors should be introduced to the computer's responses.
Applications
Within computer science, there are at least two major applications for artificial stupidity: the generation of deliberate errors in chatbots attempting to pass the Turing test or to otherwise fool a participant into believing that they are human; and the deliberate limitation of computer AIs in video games in order to control the game's difficulty.
Chatbots
The first Loebner prize competition was run in 1991. As reported in The Economist, the winning entry incorporated deliberate errors – described by The Economist as "artificial stupidity" – to fool the judges into believing that it was human. This technique has remained a part of the subsequent Loebner prize competitions, and reflects the issue first raised by Turing.
Game design
Lars Lidén argues that good game design involves finding a balance between the computer's "intelligence" and the player's ability to win. By finely tuning the level of "artificial stupidity", it is possible to create computer controlled plays that allow the player to win, but do so "without looking unintelligent".
Algorithms
There are many ways to deliberately introduce poor decision-making in search algorithms. Take the minimax algorithm for example. The minimax algorithm is an adversarial search algorithm that is popularly used in games that require more than one player to compete against each other. The main purpose in this algorithm is to choose a move that maximizes your chance of winning and avoid moves that maximizes the chance of your opponent winning. An algorithm like this would be extremely beneficial to the computer as computers are able to search thousands of moves ahead. To "dumb down" this algo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra%2024 | The Ultra 24 is a family of computer workstations by Sun Microsystems based on the Intel Core 2 processor.
The Sun Ultra 24 launched in 2007, and shipped with Solaris 10 pre-installed. Other than Solaris, it is officially compatible with various flavours of Linux as well as Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Features
CPU: one Intel Core 2 processor, 2.0 GHz or higher:
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
Intel Core 2 Quad processor
Intel Core 2 Extreme processor
Memory—ECC unbuffered DDR2-667 DIMMs, 4 DIMM slots, 8 GB maximum. Three DIMM sizes, 512 MB, 1 GB, and 2 GB
Networking—Single Gigabit Ethernet integrated on motherboard, one RJ-45 port (rear)
Hard Disk Drives—Up to four internal drives:
either up to four SATA drives, 3 TB maximum: 250 GB, 750 GB (7,200 rpm)
or, with optional PCIe SAS HBA: Up to four SAS drives, 1.2 TB maximum: 146 GB, 300 GB (15,000 rpm)
Graphics: provided by a PCIe card
PCI Express Slots:
Two full-length x16 Gen-2 slots
One full-length x8 slot (Electrically x4)
One full-length x1 slot
References
External links
System Specifications on the Oracle documentation website
Official Oracle Ultra 24 documentation
See also
Sun Ultra series: various Sun workstations and servers using SPARC, AMD or Intel processors.
Sun workstations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20C.%20Arkin | Ronald Craig Arkin (born 1949) is an American roboticist and roboethicist, and a Regents' Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for the motor schema technique in robot navigation and for his book Behavior-Based Robotics.
Biography
Education
Ronald Arkin received a B.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1971 and an M.S. from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1977. He was a faculty member of Hawthorne College in Antrim, New Hampshire from 1977 to 1989, serving as the Computer Science Depart Chair from 1986 to 1989. In 1985, he joined the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics and VISIONS groups at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and received a Ph.D. in 1987. His doctoral thesis Towards Cosmopolitan Robots: Intelligent Navigation in Extended Man-Made Environments was supervised by Edward M. Riseman.
Career
Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Ronald Arkin joined the School of Information and Computer Science (now College of Computing) at the Georgia Institute of Technology and founded the Mobile Robot Laboratory. He became a Regents' Professor in 2002 and was the first person to hold such honor in the College of Computing's history. From August, 1997 to August, 1998, Arkin was a STINT Visiting Professor at the Centre for Autonomous Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He served as the Sabbatical Chair for the Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, from June, 2005 to October, 2005, and was also a member of the Laboratory for analysis and architecture of systems at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France.
In 2006, the United States Department of Defense contracted Arkin to conduct a study to determine if military robots could be made to operate ethically. The goal is to create a robot with an "artificial conscience" such that, for example, it might refrain from firing weaponry when children were detected, or to even understand the laws of war and apply them in battle. “My intention in designing this is that robots will make less mistakes—hopefully far less mistakes—than humans do in the battlefield,” Arkin says.
Research
Mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles
Behavior-based reactive control
Action-oriented perception
Hybrid deliberative/reactive software architectures
Robot survivability
Multiagent robotic systems
Biorobotics
Human-robot interaction
Roboethics
Learning in autonomous systems.
Students
Robin Murphy (Summer, 1992). Thesis: An Architecture for Intelligent Sensor Fusion. Founder of rescue robot and currently a professor at the Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Erika Rogers (Fall, 1992). Thesis: Visual Interaction: A Link Between Perception and Problem-Solving. Currently a professor at the California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California.
Douglas MacKenzie (Spring 1997). Thesis: A Design Methodology for the Configuration of Beha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Bridge | The West Bridge is a growing architectural approach, originally developed by Cypress Semiconductor, which enhances and modularizes a peripheral controller in an embedded computer architecture. Conceptually, the West Bridge parallels and complements the decentralization represented by the North Bridge and the South Bridge. Most notably, it has been used by Research in Motion to permit extremely high data transfer rates in its BlackBerry devices.
Overview
While the North Bridge focuses on memory control and the South Bridge focuses on "slower" capabilities of the motherboard, the West Bridge focuses on peripheral control. The new architectural modularization opens the potential for increased system performance. Being directly connected, peripheral control can be handled wholly and independently through a West Bridge's controller, leaving a processor offloaded and free to focus on other data intensive operations. While it enhances performance of the system via the processor, a West Bridge companion chip itself may also serve directly as a peripheral accelerator.
Etymology
The term West Bridge was first introduced by Cypress Semiconductor, which designs products to provide optimal performance and connectivity in the embedded world. The name was chosen deliberately to be a meme consistent with the North Bridge and South Bridge concepts. "West Bridge" refers both to the architectural scheme in general and to the product family with which it was introduced by Cypress.
Interface Support
Interfaces regularly change towards faster, lower power, fewer pins, and newer standards, making it a difficult task for processors to follow and integrate them. A prime function of West Bridge devices is to enable connection to these varied interfaces.
An example of such an interface is NAND Flash, which keeps evolving with new generations of Multi-Level Cell NAND. A West Bridge device might handle the MLC NAND management and enable lowest-cost memory support for a main processor, which otherwise would only support NOR or Single-Level Cell NAND.
Some commonly supported interfaces of West Bridge companion chips are:
Mass storage
GPIO
MMC+
SD v1.1
SD v2.0
SDIO
CE-ATA
MLC NAND
SLC NAND
Full NAND management
Processor
SRAM
SPI
ADMUX
NAND
NOR
USB
USB 2.0 at 480 Mbit/s
Applications
The West Bridge architecture is relevant to a broad range of applications.
Common applications include:
Handsets
Portable media players
Personal digital assistants
Portable navigation devices
Digital cameras
Printers
Point-of-sale terminals
Set-top boxes
Security dongles
References
External links
Embedded.com - West Bridge-arrive at improved high-speed USB in multimedia handset design
EdaGeek.com - Cypress West Bridge Antioch Controller Ranks First in Benchmarks
Motherboard
Computer peripherals
Embedded systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektor%20Junior%20Computer | The Elektor Junior Computer was a simple 6502-based microprocessor development board published in the 1980s in the Dutch, German and later French, Spanish, British and Indian versions of Elektor/Elektuur, in the form of a series of articles, and four books. It was developed by the German engineer Loys Nachtmann.
The Junior Computer was a virtual clone of the KIM-1, only it did not use the special I/O+ROM chips (MCS6530) but rather an off-the-shelf 6532 RIOT and a 2708 1K EPROM. It also had a different physical shape, as it used the Eurocard board, and a 31-pin DIN connector for I/O and a DIN 41612 connector for system expansion. It was delivered as an electronic kit, or could purchased as two printed circuit boards (main board and Seven-segment display board) only, for components to be installed.
As it was much lower in price than an original KIM, many more Junior computers (several thousands) were used in the Netherlands, Germany and France, than original KIM-1s.
Later extension boards were developed, and a BASIC interpreter was ported.
Elektor expansion boards specifically for the Junior were an I/O interface card (including a 6522 VIA, a tape recorder interface and a RS-232 port), a VDU (video terminal) (an improvement of the previous "elekterminal" design), an EPROM and SRAM expansion board, a 16/64 KB DRAM board and EPROM programmer board, and a floppy disk controller, as well as a dozen smaller boards for small improvements and interfaces.
External links
pictures of the Junior-Computer and several expansion boards
elektuur unofficial Junior computer website
Early microcomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnuts | Pnuts is a dynamic scripting language for the Java platform. It is designed to be used in a dual language system with the Java programming language. The goals of the Pnuts project are to provide a small, fast scripting language that has tight integration with the Java language. Pnuts uses syntax that is simple and friendly to Java developers, while also being very expressive.
Relationship to Java
Because Java and Pnuts share the same type system, Java code can easily invoke or define Pnuts functions. Likewise, Pnuts code can easily manipulate Java objects. Pnuts code can even define Java classes. Because Pnuts compiles to Java byte codes, these classes can be used by Java just like any other class. A class written in Pnuts can even later be replaced by a class written in Java with no other code changes.
Pnuts syntax can look very similar to Java. The following is a code sample written in Java that is also a valid Pnuts script:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
List<String> countries = new ArrayList<String>();
countries.add("Canada");
countries.add("Austria");
countries.add("Brazil");
Collections.sort(countries);
for (String country : countries)
System.out.println("Hello " + country);
Alternatively, the expressiveness of Pnuts could be utilized:
use("pnuts.lib") // Standard module that makes sort, println and other functions available.
countries = ["Canada", "Austria", "Brazil"]
sort(countries)
for (country : countries) println("Hello " + country)
History
Pnuts was originally developed in 1997 by Toyokazu Tomatsu as a testing tool for Java classes. Pnuts has since been extended, mainly focusing on essential functionality required for a Java-based scripting engine, such as a module system and bytecode compiler.
Commercial usage of Pnuts includes Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk development system.
It looks like the project is no longer under development.
External links
Rockwell Automation - FactoryTalk
JVM programming languages
Scripting languages
Object-oriented programming languages
Java programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Alert%20Network | The Health Alert Network (HAN) is a program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide public health assistance to American communities.
The HAN project is intended to "ensure that each community has rapid and timely access to emergent health information; a cadre of highly-trained professional personnel; and evidence-based practices and procedures for effective public health preparedness, response, and service on a 24/7 basis."
HAN provides vital health information and the infrastructure to support the dissemination of that information at the state and local levels. A vast majority of the State-based HAN programs have over 90% of their population covered under the umbrella of HAN.
The HAN Messaging System currently directly and indirectly transmits Health Alerts, Advisories, and Updates to over one million recipients. The current system is being phased into the overall PHIN messaging component.
External links
Website
References
Health in the United States
Public safety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20entity%E2%80%93relationship%20model | The enhanced entity–relationship (EER) model (or extended entity–relationship model) in computer science is a high-level or conceptual data model incorporating extensions to the original entity–relationship (ER) model, used in the design of databases.
It was developed to reflect more precisely the properties and constraints that are found in more complex databases, such as in engineering design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM), telecommunications, complex software systems and geographic information systems (GIS).
Mechanics
The EER model includes all of the concepts introduced by the ER model. Additionally it includes the concepts of a subclass and superclass (Is-a), along with the concepts of specialization and generalization. Furthermore, it introduces the concept of a union type or category, which represents a collection of objects that is the union of objects of different entity types. The EER model also includes EER diagrams that are conceptual models that accurately represent the requirements of complex databases.
Subclass and superclass
Entity type Y is a subtype (subclass) of an entity type X if and only if every Y is necessarily an X. A subclass entity inherits all attributes and relationships of its superclass entity. This property is called the attribute and relationship inheritance. A subclass entity may have its specific attributes and relationships (together with all the attributes and relationships it inherits from the superclass). A common superclass example is a Vehicle superclass along with the subclasses of Car and Truck. There are a number of common attributes between a car and a truck, which would be part of the superclass, while the attributes specific to a car or a truck (such as max payload, truck type...) would make up two subclasses.
Tools
The MySQL Workbench offers creating, editing and exporting EER Models. Exporting to PNG and PDF allows easy sharing for presentations.
Skipper allows users to create, import and export from object–relational mapping (ORM) schema definitions to editable EER models.
SAP PowerDesigner is a complex tool for modelling and transforming different models.
See also
Object–relational database
Slowly changing dimension
Structured type
References
Further reading
Textbooks discussing EER and implementation using purely relational databases:
Booklet discussing EER and implementation using object-oriented and object–relational databases:
Textbook discussing implementation in relational and object–relational databases:
Shorter survey articles:
External links
- Slides for chapter 8 from Fundamentals of Database Systems by Elmasri and Navathe (Pearson, 2011)
- Lecture notes from the University of Toronto
- The ER Conference
Data modeling diagrams
Data modeling languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%20%281987%20video%20game%29 | is a Family Computer video game released in 1987 by Namco and developed by Piccari Games. Despite being based on the first Star Wars film, some levels are based on the later two Star Wars films. It is one of only two games in the Star Wars franchise that were released exclusively in Japan, the other being Star Wars: Attack on the Death Star. The game is a side-scrolling platform game where the player controls Luke Skywalker as he travels to join the Rebellion against the Empire.
Gameplay
Star Wars is a side-scrolling platform game with two difficulty settings: novice and pro. Luke uses a lightsaber as his primary weapon and can also use the Force to execute special maneuvers like floating, speeding and stopping time. Energy to activate Force powers can be obtained through diamonds collected after killing an enemy, called "Force points". At the end of each level, the player must fight one of several apprentices of Darth Vader, who initially look the same as Vader himself, but will change into other creatures when hit for the first time. In two levels, the Death Star and Yavin IV, the player actually does fight the real Darth Vader. When the characters are rescued, they will help Luke by providing hints and other actions that are important to progress through the game. Certain actions at some levels require talking to the characters via an in-game menu.
Between planets, players control the Millennium Falcon from the cockpit as they fight TIE fighters that prevent the ship's entrance to the next planet.
The final level involves using the X-wing against the Death Star. While the film's climactic sequence occurred inside a long trench, the game's version can be roughly described as a vertically scrolling overhead maze-like stage, complete with dead ends and intersections. At the end, there is the reactor's duct where the proton torpedoes will be shot automatically to destroy the station. If the player fails to get to the end within a limited amount of time, the Death Star will destroy Yavin IV, and the game will be over.
The game is particularly difficult, as the player only has three lives and two continues (activated with enough Force points), and Luke dies upon touching an enemy. The Millennium Falcon and the X-Wing can sustain only one hit before being destroyed, which can be prevented by using one of three deflector shield bursts.
The game deviates from the source material, with the aforementioned examples of Darth Vader having identical apprentices that shape-shift, along with going to planets that never happened in the 1977 film, such as going to an ice planet after rescuing Leia from the Death Star.
Development
The game design is strongly inspired by the Master System game Alex Kidd in Miracle World, according to programmer Yoshihiro Kishimoto. The game was first announced in May 1987, and it came with a photo of George Lucas shaking hands with Namco founder Masaya Nakamura.
Notes
References
External links
1987 video games
Nintendo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo%20America | Bingo America is an American game show broadcast by Game Show Network. The series follows two contestants as they try to compete to win up to $100,000. Additionally, the series lets at-home viewers print bingo cards online that allow them to play along with the show to win small amounts of money for themselves.
Created and produced by Andrew Glassman, the show was originally hosted by Patrick Duffy and Crystal Wallasch. When its second season premiered on October 6, 2008, they were replaced by Richard Karn and Diane Mizota, respectively.
Gameplay
Main game
Two contestants compete on each episode. On each turn, a Bingo ball comes out of the hopper and a question is asked. Each ball has a number from 1 to 75 and a letter in the word "BINGO" printed on it. If the question is answered correctly, the player earns the letter from that ball and the number on the ball is added in dollars to the bank, which starts at $500 (e.g., if G-50 comes out, the bank increases by $50). If the letter is a duplicate already earned by the player, no extra letters are earned. The first player that spells out BINGO from the earned letters wins the game. A Free-Space Ball with a sponsor's logo acts as a wild card in the game. The player who answers a question correctly when that ball is rolled out can choose any letter, and $100 is added to the bank. Two regular games are played. Contestants who win both games win the match and receive all the money in the bank. If each contestant wins one game, a five-question tie-breaker game is played. The first question's answer begins with a B, the second question's answer starts with I, and so on. The first to answer three questions correctly wins the money in the bank and goes on to play the Bingo Bonus Board for a chance at $100,000.
If time runs short during a game, gameplay moves to a 50/50 round. In the 50/50 round the remaining questions of that game are asked in a multiple-choice fashion, with two possible answers given. Contestants who answer incorrectly at this point have credit for the question (and the given letter, if applicable) automatically given to their opponent; however, no money is added to the bank for that question.
Bingo Bonus Board
The winner of the main game plays the Bingo Bonus Board, which used two different formats. In the first season of the show, each number on the Bingo Bonus Board represented a cash amount or another prize, up to a grand prize of $100,000 cash. Every prize was repeated at least twice on the board. The contestant chose one number at a time, and won the first prize to be revealed twice.
In the second season, 55 of the 75 spaces concealed cash values, while 20 hid "wrecking balls." Contestants started with the "B" row (the only row without wrecking balls) and selected a number in that row. After each selection, the contestants could leave the game with the money already won or risk their winnings and continue with a selection in the next row. Contestants who pick wrecking balls for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propensity%20score%20matching | In the statistical analysis of observational data, propensity score matching (PSM) is a statistical matching technique that attempts to estimate the effect of a treatment, policy, or other intervention by accounting for the covariates that predict receiving the treatment. PSM attempts to reduce the bias due to confounding variables that could be found in an estimate of the treatment effect obtained from simply comparing outcomes among units that received the treatment versus those that did not. Paul R. Rosenbaum and Donald Rubin introduced the technique in 1983.
The possibility of bias arises because a difference in the treatment outcome (such as the average treatment effect) between treated and untreated groups may be caused by a factor that predicts treatment rather than the treatment itself. In randomized experiments, the randomization enables unbiased estimation of treatment effects; for each covariate, randomization implies that treatment-groups will be balanced on average, by the law of large numbers. Unfortunately, for observational studies, the assignment of treatments to research subjects is typically not random. Matching attempts to reduce the treatment assignment bias, and mimic randomization, by creating a sample of units that received the treatment that is comparable on all observed covariates to a sample of units that did not receive the treatment.
The "propensity" describes how likely a unit is to have been treated, given its covariate values. The stronger the confounding of treatment and covariates, and hence the stronger the bias in the analysis of the naive treatment effect, the better the covariates predict whether a unit is treated or not. By having units with similar propensity scores in both treatment and control, such confounding is reduced.
For example, one may be interested to know the consequences of smoking. An observational study is required since it is unethical to randomly assign people to the treatment 'smoking.' The treatment effect estimated by simply comparing those who smoked to those who did not smoke would be biased by any factors that predict smoking (e.g.: gender and age). PSM attempts to control for these biases by making the groups receiving treatment and not-treatment comparable with respect to the control variables.
Overview
PSM is for cases of causal inference and confounding bias in non-experimental settings in which: (i) few units in the non-treatment comparison group are comparable to the treatment units; and (ii) selecting a subset of comparison units similar to the treatment unit is difficult because units must be compared across a high-dimensional set of pretreatment characteristics.
In normal matching, single characteristics that distinguish treatment and control groups are matched in an attempt to make the groups more alike. But if the two groups do not have substantial overlap, then substantial error may be introduced. For example, if only the worst cases from the untreated "comparison" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRRB | KRRB (88.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Kuna, Idaho, United States. The station is an affiliate of Rejoice Broadcast Network, airing a Christian format, and is owned by Pensacola Christian College, Inc.
History
The station was granted a construction permit on October 27, 1997, and assigned the call letters KARJ by the Federal Communications Commission on September 30, 2002. On January 20, 2017, Educational Media Foundation sold the station's license to Pensacola Christian College, Inc. for $275,000, at which point the station changed its call sign to the current KRRB.
References
External links
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in Idaho
RRB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandstream%20Networks | Founded in 2002, Grandstream Networks is a manufacturer of IP voice and video communications equipment, video surveillance, gateways and analog telephone adapters (ATAs), and Asterisk-based IP-PBX appliances. Grandstream supplies small and medium businesses and consumers with open-standard SIP-based products.
Grandstream Networks is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and has offices in Plano, Texas, Los Angeles, California in the US, in Casablanca in Morocco, Valencia, Venezuela, and in Shenzhen, China.
The company's products are listed on its web site.
References
External links
Grandstream GXV3275 Android Videophone Wins Gold for Unified Communications Innovation at 2014 Golden Bridge Awards
Grandstream UCM6100 series IP PBX Appliance Receives 2014 Internet Telephony Product of the Year Award
Grandstream GXP2200 - Product of the Year, 2012
Grandstream's GXP2200: Just Like Your Android Smartphone
Grandstream Networks GXP2200 Recognized in Best VoIP CPE Category at 2013 ITSPA Awards
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Videotelephony
VoIP companies of the United States
Technology companies based in the Boston area
Telecommunications companies based in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWAL | KWAL (620 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a country format to the Wallace, Idaho, United States, area. The station was owned by Metals Broadcasting Co. and featured programming from Westwood One. KWAL was unique because it was the only AM antenna array that had an interstate highway running through it. The station broadcast in C-QUAM AM stereo.
On April 9, 2016, the north tower collapsed after a pickup truck struck a guy wire. The station was granted authority to operate at 250 watts during nighttime hours using the south tower only. The FCC granted them the opportunity giving them a two-year deadline to rebuild the tower. KWAL failed to rebuild the north tower; consequently, they were forced to shut down.
The station's license was surrendered to the FCC for cancellation on November 4, 2019, and eventually cancelled by the FCC on February 13, 2020.
History
In 1938, KWAL entered the Silver Valley's airwaves. In 1948, KWAL's frequency changed from 1450 kHz to 620 kHz, and its power increased from 250 Watts to 1 kilowatt. At that time, the station was a Mutual affiliate, licensed to Silver Broadcasting Company.
References
External links
FCC Search Details: DKWAL (Facility ID: 41318)
FCC History Çards for KWAL (covering 1937-1980)
WAL
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1938
1938 establishments in Idaho
Radio stations disestablished in 2020
2020 disestablishments in Idaho
Defunct radio stations in the United States
WAL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qeep | qeep is a social network for mobile phones. A license-free application, qeep was first released in beta in 2006. Initially meant for Java mobile owners only, in 2011 the mobile social network launched an Android version. As of fall 2015 there is also a client for the iPhone available.
qeep can be downloaded free via the website. In addition, qeep's Android version is available for free at the Google Play Store (formerly known as Android Market) and for iOS at the Apple App Store. Any internet-ready mobile phone that supports at least Java MIDP 2.0, Android 2.3 or iOS 8 is qeep compatible. The application can work on over 1,000 different model phones and is available in 7 different languages: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian and Turkish since July 2012.
History
Blue Lion mobile GmbH, qeep's parent company, was founded in the summer of 2006 for the specific purpose of developing and marketing qeep. In June 2007, Blue Lion mobile received a seven-figure Series-A funding package from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments to further develop and distribute the product. Funding was also earmarked for increasing the number of handsets on which the program functions and to launch in additional key European markets. Bertelsmann's support of qeep is an example of their efforts to compete with social networking giants, such as News Corp's MySpace.
In January 2014 qeep has hit the 25 million user mark. In February this number already increased to 26 million with an estimated 30,000 new users joining every day.
In May 2012 Qeep was awarded 3rd prize in the Emotional Closeness category of Nokia's Create for Millions 2012 developer contest.
Features
Qeep essentially operates as a self-contained software bundle of interactive features.
QMS
The qeep messaging service is a short message service internal to the qeep network. Message content is compressed by a proxy server system and exchanged via GPRS or UMTS within the mobile application. This greatly reduces the expense of sending messages, essentially leaving the accompanying data transfer rate as the only remaining cost. However, with the exception of invitations sent to new members, QMS cannot be sent to mobile phones outside of qeep's network, nor can those messages be read outside of the qeep program.
Photoblogging
While qeep does not offer any sort of digital photography software, it does permit mobile phones with built-in camera to take and store pictures within the qeep database. These photos are organized in individual user's photoblogs, which are preserved in the qeep database rather than on the mobile itself. Rather than sharing their pictures through individual – and expensive – picture messages, users can display daily adventures in their photoblogs, which are linked to their qeep profiles. This simultaneously offers the user near-limitless storage space while also limiting photo access to within the qeep program. Thus the qeep photoblog system operates along a simil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendroscope | Dendroscope is an interactive computer software program written in Java for viewing Phylogenetic trees. This program is designed to view trees of all sizes and is very useful for creating figures. Dendroscope can be used for a variety of analyses of molecular data sets but is particularly designed for metagenomics or analyses of uncultured environmental samples.
It was developed by Daniel Huson and his colleagues at the University of Tübingen in Germany, who also created SplitsTree.
See also
List of phylogenetic tree visualization software
SplitsTree
MEGAN
References
External links
Dendroscope homepage
List of phylogeny software, hosted at the University of Washington
Phylogenetics software |
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