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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRDA | KRDA (92.1 FM) is licensed to Clovis, California. It serves the Fresno, California, area. It is owned by Latino Media Network; under a local marketing agreement, it is programmed by former owner TelevisaUnivision's Uforia Audio Network. KRDA broadcasts a Spanish adult contemporary format.
History
On August 2, 2016, 92.1 swapped call letters and formats with KRDA 107.5, Spanish Adult Hits.
KRDA was one of eighteen radio stations that TelevisaUnivision sold to Latino Media Network in a $60 million deal announced in June 2022, approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that November, and completed on December 30, 2022. Under the terms of the deal, Univision agreed to continue programming the station for up to one year under a local marketing agreement.
References
External links
KRDA website
RDA
Clovis, California
RDA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLLE | KLLE (107.9 FM) is located in the North Fork, California, area and broadcasts in the Fresno area known as "Zona Mx". It is owned by Latino Media Network; under a local marketing agreement, it is programmed by former owner TelevisaUnivision's Uforia Audio Network, and broadcasts a regional Mexican format. Prior to its current format, it broadcast a Spanish adult contemporary format and before that, a format known as "Raggaeton", an Hispanic form of reggae, along with a mix of hip hop under the same call sign of KLLE.
On September 28, 2014, the former station branding "La Kalle" was changed to "Latino Mix".
On May 2, 2016, KLLE changed its format to regional Mexican, branded as "Zona MX 107.9".
Former logo
References
External links
Latino Mix website
LLE
LLE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VADS%20%28organisation%29 | VADS (formerly an initialism for Visual Arts Data Service) is a service of the Library at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in the UK that provides digital images and other visual arts resources free and copyright cleared for use in UK higher education and further education.
It has provided services to the academic community since 3 March 1997, and has built up a portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 140,000 images.
References
External links
Arts organisations based in the United Kingdom
Online databases
Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom
Copyright law organizations
Organizations established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallop%20%28disambiguation%29 | Wallop is a defunct social networking service.
Wallop or Wallops may also refer to:
Places
Farleigh Wallop, a small village and civil parish in Hampshire, England
Middle Wallop, a village in Hampshire, England
Nether Wallop a village in Hampshire, England
Over Wallop, a village in Hampshire, England
Wallops Island, Virginia, USA
Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge
Wallops Flight Facility, a rocket launch site
People
Baron Wallop, a subsidiary title of the Earl of Portsmouth
Surnamed
Douglass Wallop (1920–1985), American novelist and playwright
Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth (1898–1984), English aristocrat
Henry Wallop (c. 1540–1599), English statesman
John Wallop (c. 1490–1551), English soldier and diplomat
John Wallop (died 1405), MP for Salisbury
John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth (1690–1762), English aristocrat
John Wallop, 2nd Earl of Portsmouth (1742–1797), English aristocrat
John Wallop, 3rd Earl of Portsmouth (1767–1853), English aristocrat
Malcolm Wallop (1933–2011), Republican politician and United States Senator from Wyoming
Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth (1856–1917), English aristocrat
Robert Wallop (1601–1667), English politician, regicide of King Charles I
Other uses
Wallop (album), a 2019 album by !!!
The Wallop, 1921 film starring Harry Carey
WALLOPS, an Internet Relay Chat command
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20criminology | Computational criminology is an interdisciplinary field which uses computing science methods to formally define criminology concepts, improve our understanding of complex phenomena, and generate solutions for related problems.
Methods
Computing science methods being used include:
Algorithms
Data Mining
Data Structures
Formal Methods
Software Development Process
Areas of usage
Computational criminology is interdisciplinary in the sense that both criminologists and computing scientists work together to ensure that computational models properly match their theoretical and real-world counterparts. Areas of criminology for which computational approaches are being used include:
Environmental Criminology
Identity Theft
Justice
Forensics
Computational forensics (CF) is a quantitative approach to the methodology of the forensic sciences. It involves computer-based modeling, computer simulation, analysis, and recognition in studying and solving problems posed in various forensic disciplines. CF integrates expertise from computational science and forensic sciences.
A broad range of objects, substances and processes are investigated, which are mainly based on pattern evidence, such as toolmarks, fingerprints, shoeprints, documents etc., but also physiological and behavioral patterns, DNA, digital evidence and crime scenes.
Computational methods find a place in the forensic sciences in several ways, as for example:
rigorous quantification of individuality,
definition and establishment of likelihood ratio,
increase of efficiency and effectiveness in daily forensic casework.
Algorithms implemented are from the fields of signal and image processing, computer vision, computer graphics, data visualization, statistical pattern recognition, data mining, machine learning, and robotics.
Computer forensics (also referred to as "digital forensics" or "forensic information technology") is one specific discipline that could use computational science to study digital evidence. Computational Forensics examines diverse types of evidence.
Forensic animation
Forensic animation is a branch of forensic science in which audio-visual reconstructions of incidents or accidents are created to aid investigators. Examples include the use of computer animation, stills, and other audio visual aids. Application of computer animation in courtrooms today is becoming more popular.
The first use of forensic animation was in Connors v. United States, both sides used computer re-creations and animations in a case surrounding the crash of Delta Flight 191 on August 2, 1985. The crash resulted in the deaths of 137 people and extensive property damage. In the resulting lawsuit a method was required to explain complicated information and situations to the jury. As part of the plaintiff presentation, a 45-minute computer generated presentation was created to explain the intricacies of the evidence and thus began forensic animation.
The first reported use of computer animati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Stewart%20%28footballer%29 | Simon Stewart (born 1 November 1973) was an English football defender.
References
Since 1888... The Searchable Premiership and Football League Player Database (subscription required)
1973 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Premier League players
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Shrewsbury Town F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Woking F.C. players
Kingstonian F.C. players
Footballers from Leeds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridders%27%20method | In numerical analysis, Ridders' method is a root-finding algorithm based on the false position method and the use of an exponential function to successively approximate a root of a continuous function . The method is due to C. Ridders.
Ridders' method is simpler than Muller's method or Brent's method but with similar performance. The formula below converges quadratically when the function is well-behaved, which implies that the number of additional significant digits found at each step approximately doubles; but the function has to be evaluated twice for each step, so the overall order of convergence of the method is . If the function is not well-behaved, the root remains bracketed and the length of the bracketing interval at least halves on each iteration, so convergence is guaranteed.
Method
Given two values of the independent variable, and , which are on two different sides of the root being sought, i.e.,, the method begins by evaluating the function at the midpoint . One then finds the unique exponential function such that function satisfies . Specifically, parameter is determined by
The false position method is then applied to the points and , leading to a new value between and ,
which will be used as one of the two bracketing values in the next step of the iteration.
The other bracketing value is taken to be if (well-behaved case), or otherwise whichever of and has function value of opposite sign to . The procedure can be terminated when a given accuracy is obtained.
References
Root-finding algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTerm | ZTerm is a shareware terminal emulator for Macintosh operating system. It was introduced in 1992 for System 7 and has been updated to run on macOS. Its name comes from its use of the ZModem file transfer protocol, which ZTerm implemented in a particularly high-performance package. In contrast to the built-in macOS Terminal app, which only communicates with other programs, ZTerm only communicates with hardware serial ports.
Description
When it was first introduced in 1992, ZTerm was one of the highest performing terminal emulators on the Mac, both in terms of basic text display as well as file transfer performance. ZTerm was widely regarded as the best terminal program on the Mac.
Its hardware support included carrier detect (CD), hardware hangup (DTR) and hardware flow control, as well as speeds up to 119,200 bit/s on those machines that supported it. These features were not universally supported in Mac hardware, so many terminal emulators simply didn't bother to implement them at all. Even if these speeds were offered, most emulators of the era were so slow that they had trouble keeping up with faster modems, especially 9600 bit/s and faster.
ZTerm supported one of the widest variety of file transfer protocols available on the Mac, including a full implementation of ZModem, YModem, YModem-G, almost all of the common varieties of XModem with different packet sizes and error correction methods, and even the rare but useful B protocol (CIS-B) for use on Compuserve. ZTerm also supported auto-starting transfers from ZModem and CIS-B, where commands from the host triggered transfers from the client.
Additionally, ZTerm included a complete PC graphics character set and ANSI escape codes, including color. This made it one of the few terminals on the Mac that properly displayed ASCII art, and allowed full interaction with PC-based bulletin board systems (BBS) that used these features extensively. ZTerm added the ability to use the mouse to position the cursor, sending the correct stream of ANSI codes to move it from the current to the clicked location.
Finally, ZTerm included a 10-verb built-in scripting language that allowed it to automate basic tasks. In addition to be able to run these manually, when a service was dialed using an entry in the editable Dial menu, ZTerm would look for a script with the same name and run it automatically.
Versions
The first public version of ZTerm was 0.9, which was released in 1992. Two major versions followed; 1.0 of April 1994 was a major release that added 16-color ANSI support instead of 8-color, user-selected fonts including Shift JIS support, Kermit protocol support, and auto-opening of downloaded files. The latter was useful when used with offline mail readers like Blue Wave. Version 1.0.1, released in October 1995, was mostly a bug-fix release.
By the time that macOS was being released around 2002, the BBS world had largely disappeared. However, a number of devices (including some routers and lab equipmen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Florida%20Health | University of Florida Health (UF Health) is a medical network associated with the University of Florida. The UF Health network consists of 11 hospitals, including UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville and UF Health Jacksonville, as well as hundreds of outpatient clinics in North Florida and Central Florida. It used to be known as Shands Healthcare and UF&Shands. The network was named to the U.S. News & World Report's 2015 list of the nation's top 50 hospitals, and was named the #1 hospital in Florida in 2021.
History
William A. Shands was a Florida state Senator, elected from the 32nd District in the mid-1940s. Shands was recruited to the effort to create a teaching hospital in the Gainesville area, though he at first considered that a larger city might be a better site, and was instrumental in obtaining state funding. In 1956, the University of Florida Colleges of Medicine and Nursing opened; in 1958, the UF Teaching Hospital followed. It was renamed in 1965 to recognize Shands's efforts to W. A. Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics. The institution later became Shands Hospital, part of the Shands HealthCare network.
In 1969, the UF College of Medicine established a satellite campus in Jacksonville at Duval Medical Center; this was renamed University Hospital in 1971. In 1999, both University Hospital and another Jacksonville hospital, Methodist Medical Center, were merged into Shands HealthCare as Shands Jacksonville, which included a hospital, associated clinics and the university campus. The complex was renamed UF Health at Jacksonville in 2013, with the hospital itself being named UF Health Jacksonville.
The UF network purchased Alachua General Hospital in east Gainesville from Santa Fe Health Care in 1996, changing the name to Shands AGH. Prior to being purchased by Santa Fe in 1983, AGH was owned by the county. On Nov. 1, 2009, Shands HealthCare closed Shands AGH due to budget cuts. The system simultaneously opened a cancer hospital south of its main location on the UF campus.
The network was renamed University of Florida Health in May 2013. University of Florida Health comprises multiple distinct legal entities, the largest being UF Heath Shands Gainesville and UF Health Jacksonville.
In 2020 UF Health acquired two new hospitals: The Villages® Regional and Leesburg Regional.
In 2021 UF Health acquired Scripps Research's Florida branch in Jupiter, FL.
Facilities
The following tertiary facilities represent the core of UF Health's academic, teaching, trauma, specialty and research-related hospitals. With campuses in Gainesville and Jacksonville, UF Health includes six health colleges, six research institutes, two teaching hospitals, two specialty hospitals, a community hospital, and a host of physician medical practices and outpatient services throughout north central and northeast Florida.
Health Science Center Gainesville
Located at UF's main campus, the center encompasses six health colleges, six research institutes, three spe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Vickers | Steve Vickers is the name of:
Steve Vickers (ice hockey) (born 1951), Canadian former ice hockey player
Steve Vickers (footballer) (born 1967), English former central defender
Steve Vickers (computer scientist) (born 1953), lecturer and ROM file engineer of the ZX Spectrum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellharbour%20Hospital | Shellharbour Hospital is a major district hospital located in the Shellharbour area of New South Wales. It is part of the Southern network of the South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service, and receives students from the University of New South Wales and University of Wollongong.
Services
Shellharbour Hospital provides medical, surgical, obstetric, emergency and psychiatry services to the Shoalhaven and northern Illawarra region, operating 87 beds and a 8-bed Day Surgery unit and 69 mental health in-patient beds. It also operates a satellite dialysis unit, and is also a leading provider of gynaecological and laparoscopic surgery in the Southern region. In the year 2006-7 there were over 15,000 admissions provided by 273 full-time equivalent staff.
A new 20-bed mental health unit intended as a step-down service that provides rehabilitation for patients discharged from acute care services is currently under construction. Also being built is an adolescent mental health unit. The centre for referral of complex cases from Shellharbour is Wollongong Hospital. The hospital receives students from the University of New South Wales, and in 2008 a formal agreement was signed with the University of Wollongong graduate medical school.
History
Shellharbour Hospital opened in 1986 by Neville Wran, after many years of lobbying and at a cost of A$22 million. The hospital provided medical and surgical services, and paediatric and maternity services were transferred to it from nearby Port Kembla Hospital. As the population of the area grew, the volume of services provided steadily increased and placed pressure on hospital services; in 2006, physician Chris Dunn said the hospital was under-resourced and there was a "staffing crisis."
In 2007 the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) revoked the hospital's accreditation for employing and teaching basic physician trainees due to inadequate supervision, as there were not enough senior staff employed. The hospital submitted a request to regain its status in 2008, and the RACP restored its training role for 12 months. 2008 also saw the opening of a new home birthing service and family care centre. The South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service has proposed to consolidate surgical services from nearby Bulli Hospital to Shellharbour from 2009.
See also
List of hospitals in Australia
Notes
External links
Shellharbour Hospital Website
Hospital buildings completed in 1986
Hospitals in New South Wales
City of Shellharbour
Wollongong
Hospitals established in 1986
1986 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive%20smoothing | In statistics, additive smoothing, also called Laplace smoothing or Lidstone smoothing, is a technique used to smooth categorical data. Given a set of observation counts from a -dimensional multinomial distribution with trials, a "smoothed" version of the counts gives the estimator:
where the smoothed count and the "pseudocount" α > 0 is a smoothing parameter. α = 0 corresponds to no smoothing. (This parameter is explained in below.) Additive smoothing is a type of shrinkage estimator, as the resulting estimate will be between the empirical probability (relative frequency) , and the uniform probability . Invoking Laplace's rule of succession, some authors have argued that α should be 1 (in which case the term add-one smoothing is also used), though in practice a smaller value is typically chosen.
From a Bayesian point of view, this corresponds to the expected value of the posterior distribution, using a symmetric Dirichlet distribution with parameter α as a prior distribution. In the special case where the number of categories is 2, this is equivalent to using a beta distribution as the conjugate prior for the parameters of the binomial distribution.
History
Laplace came up with this smoothing technique when he tried to estimate the chance that the sun will rise tomorrow. His rationale was that even given a large sample of days with the rising sun, we still can not be completely sure that the sun will still rise tomorrow (known as the sunrise problem).
Pseudocount
A pseudocount is an amount (not generally an integer, despite its name) added to the number of observed cases in order to change the expected probability in a model of those data, when not known to be zero. It is so named because, roughly speaking, a pseudo-count of value weighs into the posterior distribution similarly to each category having an additional count of . If the frequency of each item is out of samples, the empirical probability of event is
but the posterior probability when additively smoothed is
as if to increase each count by a priori.
Depending on the prior knowledge, which is sometimes a subjective value, a pseudocount may have any non-negative finite value. It may only be zero (or the possibility ignored) if impossible by definition, such as the possibility of a decimal digit of pi being a letter, or a physical possibility that would be rejected and so not counted, such as a computer printing a letter when a valid program for pi is run, or excluded and not counted because of no interest, such as if only interested in the zeros and ones. Generally, there is also a possibility that no value may be computable or observable in a finite time (see the halting problem). But at least one possibility must have a non-zero pseudocount, otherwise no prediction could be computed before the first observation. The relative values of pseudocounts represent the relative prior expected probabilities of their possibilities. The sum of the pseudocounts, which may be v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lyons%20%28actor%29 | David Lyons (born 16 April 1976) is an Australian and American actor. He is known for his roles as Josh Holiday in the Nine Network navy drama Sea Patrol (2007–2009), Dr. Simon Brenner in the NBC medical drama ER (2008–2009) and as General Sebastian Monroe in the NBC post-apocalyptic drama Revolution (2012–2014).
Early life and education
Lyons was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He graduated from Yarra Valley Grammar school in 1993 and continued on to graduate from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a degree in Performing Arts (Acting) in 2004.
Career
In 2005, Lyons had a recurring role on the Seven Network police drama Blue Heelers and guest-starred on the Seven Network/Network Ten/Eleven soap opera Neighbours.
Lyons starred in the Nine Network police drama Sea Patrol, where he played the Leading Seaman Josh Holiday for the show's first three series from 2007 until 2009.
Lyons began starring in the NBC medical drama ER as Dr. Simon Brenner, making his first appearance in season 14, episode 14 titled "Owner of a Broken Heart" which aired on 10 April 2008, but he was credited as a special guest star. When the show's 15th and final season premiere titled "Life After Death" aired on 25 September 2008, Lyons was added to the main cast. Lyons remained on the show until it ended with the two-hour series finale, "And in the End...", which aired 2 April 2009.
In 2009, Lyons starred in the TV movie A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne.
In 2010, Lyons appeared in the biographical romantic drama Eat Pray Love, which starred Julia Roberts and was based on Elizabeth Gilbert's autobiography of the same name.
In January 2011, Lyons starred as the title role in the NBC superhero drama The Cape until the show was cancelled in March that same year after ten episodes.
Lyons co-starred with Billy Burke in the NBC post-apocalyptic drama Revolution, which ran for two seasons from 17 September 2012 to 21 May 2014. He played Sebastian "Bas" Monroe, a former US Marine Corps sergeant who served with Miles Matheson (Burke), founded the Monroe Republic, and became its President and later General of its Militia.
In 2013, Lyons co-starred with Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough in the romantic drama Safe Haven, based on Nicholas Sparks' novel of the same name.
The short film "Record" was released in 2013. David Lyons was the director, composer and one of the screenwriters.
Personal life
David Lyons is dating actress Carly Pope, according to her Instagram.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1976 births
21st-century Australian male actors
Australian male film actors
Australian male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Melbourne
National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni
People educated at Trinity College (University of Melbourne) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20Blitz | Domestic Blitz is an Australian lifestyle and DIY television series that originally aired on the Nine Network from 18 May 2008 to 18 April 2010. The series is based on the format of Backyard Blitz, which had previously aired on the Nine Network, and generally occupied its same former timeslot of Sunday 6:30 to 7:30 pm. Rather than rewarding nominated candidates with solely a garden makeover though, Domestic Blitz introduced the element of house renovations as well. The series exhibits similarities to the American television series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and the Angry Anderson A Current Affair "challenges" (1994–1998) in that the candidates either come from a disadvantaged background, or include someone with a terminal illness.
The series was hosted by Scott Cam and Shelley Craft, with Cam having previously been the resident builder on Backyard Blitz, and featured a design team of Chontelle Samios (interior) and Joel Hurrey (landscape), as well as Richard Reid as the family guide. There were also occasional celebrity guests, notably singers Michael Bublé, Pink and wrestler Dave Batista.
Although the regular series ended in 2010, a television special featuring the contestants from The Block 2012 aired on 8 July 2012 on the Nine Network. Cam was joined in hosting the special by former Backyard Blitz host and counterpart Jamie Durie. A second television special featuring the contestants of The Block: Sky High aired on 4 August 2013.
Series overview
Reception
Ratings
The ratings for Domestic Blitz's first series were deemed very strong, with the show winning its 6:30pm Sunday and Monday 7:30pm timeslot every week since the show made its debut. The show's highest ratings to date were recorded on 13 July with 1.68 million people tuning in, making the show the second highest rating show of that night.
Series 1 (2008)
Series 2 (2009)
* Melbourne and Sydney only
Series 3 (2009)
Series 4 (2010)
The Block to the Rescue (Specials)
See also
Backyard Blitz
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Australian non-fiction television series
Nine Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian television series
Home renovation television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20application | A virtual application is an application that has been optimized to run on virtual infrastructure. The application software along with just enough operating system (JeOS or "juice") is combined inside a virtual machine container in a manner that maximizes the performance of the application. By minimizing the system software to the smallest set of packages required to support the application, the maintenance and administration burden of the virtual application is greatly reduced.
By including Application streaming in the design of an application server capable of hosting a Virtual Application, no application specific code need reside on the server at all. Packages of code reside on the server, but the details on how they are to be invoked in order to create the functionality that adds up to the application, gets passed to the server as and when needed.
In effect the application does not exist on the server at all. Though clients can still invoke it almost as if it did.
The difference being that the incoming request must either include application logic ( exploiting the code packages on the server), or information on where to locate such logic in a repository.
Virtual appliances are a category of virtual applications which are
further optimized for simplified setup and configuration by the customer
and remote management by the application vendor.
See also
Application virtualization
Microsoft App-V
Turbo (software)
Just enough operating system
Virtual appliance
rPath
Application streaming
Green computing
References
Virtualization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranker | Ranker.com is a website that features polls on entertainment, brands, sports, food, and culture. Ranker claims to be one of the largest databases of opinions, with more than 1 billion votes gathered on over millions of subjective voters. Ranker has hundreds of thousands of lists of opinions.
These lists have been referenced as a source for many pop-culture, trade, and tech publications, including TV and radio. Ranker collects individual user votes and track them across various lists, which purports to show correlations between interests across pop culture.
History
Launched in August 2009, the site was founded by Clark Benson, who created Ranker as an alternative to user reviews available on ecommerce sites. Ranker offers crowdsourced polls and lists across a variety of topics, including rankings of food, drinks, and celebrities.
Ranker's board members include Draper Associates investor Joel Yarmon. Investors include Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital, Wavemaker, BullPen Capital and various angels, like Factual founder Gil Elbaz and Ryan Steelberg.
"Ranker Insights" offers people voting correlation data for free, using psychographic correlation data to deliver personalized consumer recommendations (“if you like X, you’ll also like Y, Z”), and also audience insights to marketers, studios, and platforms seeking a deeper understanding of consumer tastes and preferences.
References
Internet properties established in 2009
American websites
Rankings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasios%20Venetsanopoulos | Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos (June 19, 1941 – November 17, 2014) was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto, Ontario and a professor emeritus with the Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. In October 2006, Venetsanopoulos joined what was then Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) and served as the founding vice-president of research and innovation. His portfolio included oversight of the university's international activities, research ethics, Office of Research Services, and Office of Innovation and Commercialization. He retired from that position in 2010, but remained a distinguished advisor to the role. Tas Venetsanopoulos continued to actively supervise his research group at the University of Toronto, and was a highly sought-after consultant throughout his career.
Education
Venetsanopoulos received a Bachelor of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens, and an M.S., M.Phil., and a PhD in electrical engineering from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Tas Venetsanopoulos was a Fulbright Scholar and a Schmitt Scholar, and in 1994 was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the National Technical University of Athens.
Personal life
In 1986, Venetsanopoulos married Vasiliki Koronakis in a Greek Orthodox service in Toronto, Ontario. They have two daughters: Elizabeth Venetsanopoulos (born 1987) and Dominique Venetsanopoulos (born 1988).
Research interests
Venetsanopoulos' research interests included: biometrics research; multimedia (image compression, image and video retrieval); digital signal/image processing (multichannel image processing, nonlinear, adaptive and M-D filtering, knowledge-based image processing and recognition, 3-D imaging, biomedical applications); pattern classification and telecommunications.
Research record
Venetsanopoulos had a long and productive career in research, education and university administration. He was an internationally renowned researcher in the fields of multimedia systems, digital signal and image processing, digital communications, biometrics and neural networks. Over a period of four decades, he established himself in the worldwide telecommunications and signal processing community as an outstanding researcher, scholar, professor and consultant. He made contributions to telecommunications, signal and image processing, multimedia and biometrics research by authoring and co-authoring many journal papers and books. His pioneering and fundamental research contributions, along with the writing of numerous graduate-level books, opened up new vistas in several fields, including telecommunications; multidimensional filter theory and design; the design of non-linear filters; multimedia neural networks; biometrics applications and WLAN positioning systems.
According to a 2020 G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early-arriving%20fact | In the data warehouse practice of extract, transform, load (ETL), an early fact or early-arriving fact, also known as late-arriving dimension or late-arriving data, denotes the detection of a dimensional natural key during fact table source loading, prior to the assignment of a corresponding primary key or surrogate key in the dimension table. Hence, the fact which cites the dimension arrives early, relative to the definition of the dimension value.
Handling
Procedurally, an early fact can be treated several ways:
As an error: On the presumption that the dimensional attribute values should have been collected before fact source loading
As a valid fact, pause loading: The collection pauses whilst the missing dimensional attribute value itself is collected
As a valid fact, load with dummy keys: A primary key value is generated on the dimension with no attributes (stub / dummy row), the fact completes processing, and the dimension attributes are populated (overwritten) later in the load processing on the new row
References
Business intelligence terms
Data warehousing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%20Brown | Floyd Gregory Brown (born March 10, 1961) is an American author, speaker, and media commentator. He is formerly the CEO of USA Radio Network. Brown founded the conservative website Western Journalism in 2008. Brown in his early career worked as a political consultant and conducted opposition research for political campaigns. Brown is noteworthy for founding Citizens United in 1988 and for his introduction of the "Willie Horton" television ad during the 1988 presidential election campaign.
Early life and education
The son of a sawmill worker, and the grandson of a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Brown grew up in the Pacific Northwest in a family of Democrats with 100-year-old roots in the area. He graduated from Olympia High School in Olympia, Washington, in 1979, and from the University of Washington. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics. He was appointed to, but chose to leave, the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Brown credits meeting Ronald Reagan at a Masonic Temple in 1976 for sparking his interest in politics when he was 15 years old. He is married to NYT Bestselling author Mary Beth Brown, author of The Faith of Ronald Reagan, with whom he has three children.
In 1992, Brown was quoted in the Washington Times:
I have a sense of what connects with people like me. We're not culturally Republicans. We're not libertarians. We're not neo-conservatives or former liberals. We're just old-fashioned, blue-collar social conservatives. These are people who couldn't care less about politics, want to be left alone by government, but if their country calls for them to fight abroad, will. You win elections by cultivating people like me.
Political activities
Citizens United
In 1988 Brown founded Citizens United. Several Brown-organized campaigns have been studied for their effectiveness; these include the effort to secure the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas, and the independent campaigns against Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton. The anti-Dukakis effort produced the famous "Willie Horton" commercial.
Brown and Citizens United worked on behalf of the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. At the time, Brown told the New York Times, "What people don't understand is how bitter conservatives are about Bork," referring to Robert Bork, a conservative federal appellate judge and former Yale law professor nominated by Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1987 and rejected by the Senate.
In a 2007 CNN documentary, Broken Government: Campaign Killers, journalist Campbell Brown, who is not related to Floyd Brown, interviewed him briefly on the subject of the Willie Horton ad, but not about a racy ad with a toll-free number that listeners could call to hear a recording of Gennifer Flowers, a woman who had been the subject of inquiries into President Bill Clinton. Campbell Brown attributed the Flowers ad to David Bossie rather than Floyd Brown, prompting Citizens United to threaten a lawsuit, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Meijer | Erik Meijer may refer to:
Erik Meijer (politician) (born 1944), Dutch politician
Erik Meijer (computer scientist) (born 1963), Dutch computer scientist
Erik Meijer (footballer) (born 1969), Dutch soccer player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20probability%20matrix | The network probability matrix describes the probability structure of a network based on the historical presence or absence of edges in a network. For example, individuals in a social network are not connected to other individuals with uniform random probability. The probability structure is much more complex. Intuitively, there are some people whom a person will communicate with or be connected more closely than others. For this reason, real-world networks tend to have clusters or cliques of nodes that are more closely related than others (Albert and Barabasi, 2002, Carley [year], Newmann 2003). This can be simulated by varying the probabilities that certain nodes will communicate. The network probability matrix was originally proposed by Ian McCulloh.
References
McCulloh, I., Lospinoso, J. & Carley, K.M. (2007). Probability Mechanics in Communications Networks. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Applied Mathematics of the World Science Engineering Academy and Society, Cairo, Egypt. 30–31 December 2007.
"Understanding Network Science," (Archived article) https://wayback-beta.archive.org/web/20080830045705/http://zangani.com/blog/2007-1030-networkingscience
Linked: The New Science of Networks, A.-L. Barabási (Perseus Publishing, Cambridge (2002).
Network Science, The National Academies Press (2005)
External links
Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) at Carnegie Mellon University
U.S. Military Academy Network Science Center
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems at Northeastern University
Social statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix%20Test%20Suite | Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems which are developed by Michael Larabel and Matthew Tippett.
The Phoronix Test Suite has been endorsed by sites such as Linux.com, LinuxPlanet, and Softpedia.
Features
Phoronix Test Suite supports over 220 test profiles and over 60 test suites. It uses an XML-based testing architecture. Tests available to use include MEncoder, FFmpeg and lm sensors along with OpenGL games such as Doom 3, Nexuiz, and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, and many more. It also contains a feature called PTS Global where users are able to upload their test results and system information for sharing. Then through executing a single command, other users can compare their test results to a selected system in an easy-comparison mode. Before 2014, these benchmark results could be uploaded to the Phoronix Global online database, but since 2013, these benchmark results can be uploaded to openbenchmarking.org. Phoronix supports automated Git bisecting on a performance basis to find performance regressions, and also features statistical significance verification.
Components
Phoromatic
Phoromatic is a web-based remote test management system for the Phoronix Test Suite. It allows the automatic scheduling of tests. It's aimed at the enterprise. It can manage multiple test nodes simultaneously within a test farm or distributed environment.
Phoromatic Tracker
Phoromatic Tracker is an extension of Phoromatic that provides a public interface into test farms. Currently, their reference implementations autonomously monitor the performance of the Linux kernel on a daily basis, Fedora Rawhide, and Ubuntu.
PTS Desktop Live
PTS Desktop Live was a stripped-down x86-64 Linux distribution, which included Phoronix Test Suite 2.4. It was designed for testing/benchmarking computers from a LiveDVD / LiveUSB environment.
Phodevi
Phodevi (Phoronix Device Interface) is a library that provides a clean, stable, platform-independent API for accessing software and hardware information.
PCQS
Phoronix Certification & Qualification Suite (PCQS) is a reference specification for the Phoronix Test Suite.
Phoronix website
Phoronix is a technology website that offers insights regarding the development of the Linux kernel, product reviews, interviews, and news regarding free and open-source software by monitoring the Linux kernel mailing list or interviews.
Phoronix was started in June 2004 by Michael Larabel, who currently serves as the owner and editor-in-chief.
History
Founded on 5 June 2004, Phoronix started as a website with a handful of hardware reviews and guides, moving to articles covering operating systems based on Linux and open source software around the start of 2005, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, and Mozilla (Firefox/Thunderbird). Phoronix heavily focuses on benchmarking hardware running Linux, with a heavy slant towards graphics articles that monitor and compare free and open-so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Nickelodeon%20Games%20and%20Sports%20for%20Kids | The following is a list of programming carried by the defunct American digital cable network Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids (shortened to Nick GaS), which aired from 1999 until the end of 2007, when it was replaced on most systems by a 24-hour version of The N.
Former programming
Games and sports
Double Dare (1999–2007; 1999–2009 on Dish Network)
Double Dare 2000 (2002-2007; 2002-2009 on Dish Network)
Family Double Dare (1999-2005)
Super Sloppy Double Dare (1999-2005)
Super Special Double Dare
Figure It Out (1999–2007; 1999–2009 on Dish Network)
Figure It Out: Family Style
Figure It Out: Wild Style
Finders Keepers (1999–2006)
Gamefarm (2003–2004)
Get the Picture (1999–2007; 1999–2009 on Dish Network)
Global Guts (1999–2005)
Legends of the Hidden Temple (1999–2007; 1999–2009 on Dish Network)
Make the Grade (2000–2004)
Maximum Rocket Power Games (2002–2003)
Nick Arcade (1999–2007; 1999–2009 on Dish Network)
Nickelodeon All-Star Challenge (2002–2004)
Nickelodeon Guts (1999–2007; 1999–2009 on Dish Network)
Nickelodeon Robot Wars (2003–2004)
Play 2 Z (2003–2004)
Scaredy Camp (2003–2005)
SK8-TV (1999–2005)
Splash TV (2002–2004)
Sports Illustrated For Kids (1999)
Think Fast (1999–2004)
Topspin (2003)
What Would You Do? (1999–2005)
Wild & Crazy Kids (1999–2005)
You're On! (1999–2004)
Other programming
Nickelodeon Sports Theater with Shaquille O'Neal (1999)
Cousin Skeeter (1999-2000)
Kenan & Kel (1999-2000)
Nick News with Linda Ellerbee (2000; 2003; 2005) (special airings only)
Renford Rejects (1999–2000)
Rocket Power (2003–2005)
Salute Your Shorts (1999; 2003–2004)
Speed Racer X (2004–2005)
Programming blocks
Camp GAS (2000–2004)
Extreme GAS (1999–2002)
Family Fuel (1999–2002)
Heads Up! (2001–2002)
Pumping GAS (1999–2005)
Wild Card (1999–2002)
All Access GAS (1999-2000)
Double Dare Double Play (1999-2000)
References
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon Games and Sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PacketTrap | PacketTrap Networks, Inc., later known as just PacketTrap, was a provider of network management and traffic analysis software for midsize companies.
History
PacketTrap was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It received $5 million in Series A venture capital from August Capital in 2007.
The company was purchased by Quest Software in 2009. PacketTrap was then bought by Dell in 2012 as part of a buyout of Quest. Dell discontinued development of the software in 2013. PacketTrap was established enough that other companies continued support of the legacy product through licensing agreements with Dell.
Features
PacketTrap features included Desktop Management, Server Management, Monitor Cloud Assets, and others.
See also
Comparison of network monitoring systems
References
External links
PacketTrap's Products and Services
Startup City - InformationWeek
Network World, Denise Dubie, Nov, 2008. "10 IT Management Companies to Watch"
Information Week, John Foley, Aug, 2008. "PacketTrap Challenges CA and IBM"
Microsoft TechNet, Greg Steen, July, 2008. "New Products for IP Pros"
PC Magazine, Jamie Bernstein, May, 2008. "Review: PacketTrap pt360"
Network World, Denise Dubie, March, 2008 "Kicking the Tires of Management Software"
What PC, Tony Luke, Feb, 2008. "A Tough Nut to Crack"
Information Week, John Foley, Feb, 2008. "The Demise Of Commercial Open Source"
Software companies established in 2006
Networking companies of the United States
System administration
File transfer software
Port scanners
Network analyzers
2006 establishments in California
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies disestablished in 2013
2009 mergers and acquisitions
2012 mergers and acquisitions
Quest Software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataram | Dataram (formerly Dataram Corporation) is a manufacturer of computer memory and software products headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Dataram Memory was founded in 1967. It provided core memory for many early Digital Equipment computer systems. Dataram products include memory and storage, and related technical products and services for desktops, laptops, workstations and servers. The company sells worldwide to OEMs, distributors, value-added resellers, embedded manufacturers, enterprise customers, and end users. Dataram provides compatible server memory for companies including HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Dell, Cisco, Lenovo, Intel and AMD. The company's manufacturing facility is in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania, United States, and has sales offices in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan.
History
Dataram was founded in 1967 as a manufacturer of computer memory for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), selling 16 KB core memory.
In 1968, Dataram completed its initial public offering, and began trading on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol DTM.
In 1974, the company developed memory for Digital PDP-11.
In 1976 the company produced the first solid-state drive called BULK CORE for DEC and Data General computers.
In 1987, Dataram produced memory for Sun Microsystems and Apollo workstations.
In 1989, they produced memory for HP/Apollo systems.
In 1999, the company moved from the American Stock Exchange to NASDAQ, trading under the symbol DRAM. They earned the highest number of Intel Advanced Memory Module Qualifications that year.
In 2001, the company acquired Memory Card Technology assets, and again earned the highest number of Intel Advanced Memory Module Qualifications for the year.
In 2002, the company's DDR memory modules for the Intel market received validation from Advanced Validation Labs.
In 2008, the company signed a service and support agreement with IBM, on 9 October 2018 acquired Cenatek Inc., a privately owned company located in Morgan Hill, California, whose products were based on high-speed storage such as the Rocket Drive PCI-based solid state disk and Ramdisk. The company's research and development was located in Redding, California.
In 2017, Dataram was taken private upon acquisition by LTL Group after taking part in the 2016 reverse IPO of U.S. Gold Corp.
Awards
In the fall of 2009 Dataram's Chief Technologist won the Tech Awards Circle in the Technologist of the Year category.
In September 2011, Dataram was listed in the Top 100 Companies by The Star-Ledger.
References
External links
1967 establishments in New Jersey
Companies based in Princeton, New Jersey
Electronics companies established in 1967
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Computer memory companies
Computer storage companies
Electronics companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in New Jersey
Computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll%20Get%20By | We'll Get By is an American television sitcom that aired on the CBS network. The series was created by Alan Alda and ran for twelve episodes from March 14, 1975 to May 30, 1975.
Synopsis
The show featured a typical middle-class New Jersey family, the Platts, and starred Paul Sorvino and Mitzi Hoag. The show aired originally on Fridays at 8:30 p.m., but could be seen in some markets as rebroadcasts on Sunday mornings for the remainder of 1975.
Cast
Paul Sorvino as George Platt
Mitzi Hoag as Liz Platt
Willie Aames as Kenny Platt
Jerry Houser as Muff Platt
Devon Scott as Andrea Platt
References
External links
1970s American sitcoms
1975 American television series debuts
1975 American television series endings
Television shows set in New Jersey
CBS original programming
Television series by CBS Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GGSS | GGSS may refer to:
German General Social Survey, a national data generation program in Germany
Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School, a high school in Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Geetha Govinda Samskrita Sangha, an organization to promote Sanskrit all throughout the world. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20M.%20Pearsall | Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) is an American archaeologist who specializes in paleoethnobotany. She maintains an online phytolith database. She is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where she first began working in 1978. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979, with a dissertation titled The Application of Ethnobotanical Techniques to the Problem of Subsistence in the Ecuadorian Formative.
Pearsall was awarded the 2002 Fryxell Award for Exceptional Interdisciplinary Research by the Society for American Archaeology.
Selected publications
Pearsall, D. M. 1993 "Contributions of Phytolith Analysis for Reconstructing Subsistence: Examples from Research in Ecuador." Pearsall, D. M. and Piperno, D. R. MASCA: Current Research in Phytolith Analysis: Applications in Archaeology and Paleoecology 10, 109-122.
Pearsall, D. M. 2000 Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures.
Pearsall, D. M. 2002 "Maize is Still Ancient in Prehistoric Ecuador: The View from Real Alto, with Comments on Staller and Thompson." Journal of Archaeological Science 29:51-55.
Pearsall, D. M., K. Chandler-Ezell, and J. A. Zeidler. 2004 "Maize in Ancient Ecuador: Results of Residue Analysis of Stone Tools from the Real Alto Site." Journal of Archaeological Science 31:423-442.
Pearsall, D. M. and D. R. Piperno. 1990 "Antiquity of Maize Cultivation in Ecuador: Summary and Reevaluation of the Evidence." American Antiquity 55(2):324-337.
Pearsall, D. M. 2003 "Integrating biological Data: Phytoliths and Starch grains, Health and Diet, at Real Alto, Ecuador." In Phytolith and Starch Research in the Australian-Pacific-Asian Regions: The State of the Art. Edited by D. M. Hart and L. A. Wallis. Terra Australis 19, Pandanus Books.
Newsom, L. A. and D. M. Pearsall. 2003 "Trends in Caribbean Archaeobotany." pp. 347–412 in People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America, edited by P. Minnis. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Pearsall, D. M. 2006 "Modeling Agriculture through the Paleoenvironmental Record: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. In Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives. Edited by T. P. Denham, J. Iriarte, and L. Vrydaghs. University College London Press.
Pearsall, D. M. (ed.) 2008 Encyclopedia or Archaeology. Academic Press, San Diego and Oxford, UK.
External links
Deborah Pearsall's CV
1950 births
Living people
American archaeologists
Ethnobiologists
21st-century American botanists
Writers from Columbia, Missouri
University of Missouri faculty
American women archaeologists
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists
Archaeobotanists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
American women academics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Mogi | is a Japanese scientist. He is a senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories and a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. According to the profile posted at his personal blog, his mission is "to solve the so-called mind-brain problem."
After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1985 with a degree in science and in 1987 with a degree in law, Mogi received in 1992 a Ph.D. with the thesis "Mathematical Model of Muscle Contraction".
Ken Mogi was Japan's first TED speaker. He presented in 2012 March.
Mogi has published over 50 books, most of which are written in Japanese. They cover not only brain science but also includes, but not limited to, philosophy, history, art, education, and linguistics. His books have been frequently used as a source of university entrance examinations. His book has received 2005 Hideo Kobayashi award, and another book has received 2008 Takeo Kuwabara academic award.
In 2009, Mogi was charged with violation of tax laws by the National Tax Agency. Mogi failed to file a tax return for his income 400 million yen (US$5.2 million) over 3 years.
In 2018, Mogi published his first book in English titled "Ikigai".
References
The original article was written based on the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article, retrieved on 2008-04-26.
External links
The Qualia Manifesto webpage
Qualia Journal - personal blog
Research - Research webpage
Can The brain describe the hearts? (脳は心を記述できるのか) - Mogi is not Scientist.
Ken Mogi's evaded rax(『アハ体験』脳科学者・茂木氏「アハ脱税」で追徴1億6000万円！) - Ken Mogi's evaded tax
His opinion for Fuji TV Climes -> Claim for Fuji TV fabrication raicism - Ken Mogi's criticism of stealth marketing by Fuji Television was called racism using his two Twitter accounts.
Mogi's cheats - Way of Ken Mogi and Ikeda Daisaku's cheats(茂木・池田騙しの手口) by Yoshihiko Ohtsuki
1962 births
Living people
Riken personnel
University of Tokyo alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Research%20Consortium | The Radio Research Consortium (RRC) is a non-profit research company based in Olney, Maryland which provides listener data on radio audiences to non-commercial stations in the United States. Data is obtained through a contract with Arbitron.
History
The company was founded in 1981 as an alliance of 14 stations to provide access to market data which was previously available only to commercial stations. The company made it possible for public radio stations to show advertisers and underwriters that they commanded a much larger share of the market than previously assumed. In the case of the San Francisco Market, for example, KQED-FM actually ranked 2nd or 3rd in 2005-2006 but was absent from traditional reporting of Arbitron data in publications such as Radio & Records which include only commercial stations.
RRC's founding employees include former Arbitron Employees including the former Manager of Production and Radio Market Reports. Today the company serves over 600 customers including
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Public Radio, and Public Radio International stations.
RRC has been criticized for contributing to the homogenization of public radio, particularly in their home market, Washington DC.
See also
Arbitron
National Public Radio
References
Market research companies of the United States
Olney, Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin%20Center | The Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music was created in Moscow, Russia in 1992 by the group of musicians and computer scientists, under the leadership of Andrey Smirnov. It was named for Leon Theremin - Russian inventor of the Theremin, one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments. The Theremin Center aims to achieve a co-operation of musicians, artists, scientists, and technologists who are oriented toward realization of experimental artistic projects. From the start the Theremin Center was intended to operate on a non-profit basis and most services and equipment were donated by the founders and sponsors of the Theremin Center.
See also
Teen Age Message#Theremin concert by Theremin Center performers Lydia Kavina, Yana Aksenova, and Anton Kerchenko for a series of interstellar radio transmissions sent to six star systems in 2001
External links
http://theremin.ru
Music education organizations
Léon Theremin
Music organizations based in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTL%20Samstag%20Nacht | RTL Samstag Nacht was a comedy television show which ran from 6 November 1993 to 23 May 1998 on German TV network RTL. It was a major comedy show on German television, created after the example of the long-running American show Saturday Night Live and broadcast late on Saturday night. It helped several new comedians in Germany to break through and was a model for several later comedy shows.
Karl Ranseier was a recurring character featured in fake news reports, mentioning his death at the end of each episode. The name Karl Ranseier has become a catchphrase in Germany that has led to its own joke category of Ranseiers which became popular outside of the comedy origin.
External links
German comedy television series
RTL (German TV channel) original programming
1993 German television series debuts
1998 German television series endings
German-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructivism | Reconstructivism is a philosophical theory holding that societies should continually reform themselves in order to establish better governments or social networks. This ideology involves recombining or recontextualizing the ideas arrived at by the philosophy of deconstruction, in which an existing system or medium is broken into its smallest meaningful elements and in which these elements are used to build a new system or medium free from the strictures of the original.
Some thinkers have attempted to ascribe the term Reconstructivism to the post-postmodern art movement. In an essay by Chris Sunami, ("Art Essays: Reconstructivist Art") "reconstructivist art" is described as follows:
One of the examples Sunami provides of this technique is the way some modern music incorporates deconstructed samples of older music and combines and arranges the samples in a new way as part of a new composition.
See also
The Kitsch Movement
New Sincerity
Metamodernism
Post-postmodernism
Reconstruction (disambiguation)
References
Philosophical theories
Critical pedagogy
Critical theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamer%20Ba%C5%9Far | Mustafa Tamer Başar (born January 19, 1946) is a control and game theorist who is the Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is also the Director of the Center for Advanced Study (since 2014).
Education
Tamer Başar received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boğaziçi University (formerly known as Robert College) at Bebek, in İstanbul-Turkey, in 1969, and M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in engineering and applied science from Yale University, in 1970, 1971 and 1972, respectively.
Academic life
He joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 1981. He was the founding president of the International Society of Dynamic Games during 1990–1994, the president of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2000, and the president of the American Automatic Control Council during 2010–2011. He received the Medal of Science of Turkey in 1993, H.W. Bode Lecture Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2004, Georgia Quazza Medal of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2005, the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2006, Isaacs Award of the International Society of Dynamic Games in 2010, and IEEE Control Systems Award in 2014. He was elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering in 2000 in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering for the development of dynamic game theory and application to robust control of systems with uncertainty. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM.
Honorary degrees and chairs
He has been awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degrees and Honorary Professorships from:
Honorary Professorship, Shandong University, Jinan, China, 2019
Honorary Chair Professorship from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2014
Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2012
Honorary Doctorate from the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan in 2011
Honorary Professorship from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China in 2008
Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Doğuş University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2007
Swanlund Endowed Chair Professorship at UIUC in 2007
Research areas
His research interests include optimal, robust, and nonlinear control; large-scale systems; dynamic games; stochastic control; estimation theory; stochastic processes; and mathematical economics.
References
External links
List of game theorists
List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Electronics)
Boğaziçi University alumni
Academic staff of Boğaziçi University
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Living people
1946 births
Game theorists
Control theorists
Communication theorists
Turkish academics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted%20legal%20research | Computer-assisted legal research (CALR) or computer-based legal research is a mode of legal research that uses databases of court opinions, statutes, court documents, and secondary material. Electronic databases make large bodies of case law easily available. Databases also have additional benefits, such as Boolean searches, evaluating case authority, organizing cases by topic, and providing links to cited material. Databases are available through paid subscription or for free.
Subscription-based services include Westlaw, LexisNexis, JustCite, HeinOnline, Bloomberg Law, Lex Intell, VLex and LexEur. As of 2015, the commercial market grossed $8 billion. Free services include OpenJurist, Google Scholar, AltLaw, Ravel Law, WIPO Lex, Law Delta and the databases of the Free Access to Law Movement.
Purposes
Computer-assisted legal research is undertaken by a variety of actors. It is taught as a topic in many law degrees and is used extensively by undergraduate and postgraduate law students in meeting the work requirements of their degree courses. Professors of Law rely on the digitization of primary and secondary sources of law when conducting their research and writing the material that they submit for publication. Professional lawyers rely on computer-assisted legal research in order to properly understand the status of the law and so to act effectively in the best interest of their client. They may also consult the text of case judgements and statutes specifically, as well as wider academic comment, in order to form the basis of (or response to) an appeal.
The availability of legal information online differs by type, jurisdiction and subject matter. The types of information available include:
Texts of statutes, statutory instruments, civil codes, etc.
Explanatory notes and government publications relating to statutes and their operation
Texts of governing documents such as constitutions and treaties
Case judgements
Journals on legal matters or legal theory
Dictionaries and legal encyclopedia
Legal texts and materials in the form of e-books
Current affairs and market information
Educational information on the law and its operation
Before the Internet
Prior to the advent and popularization of the World Wide Web, access to digital legal information was largely through the use of CD-ROMs, designed and sold by commercial organizations. Dial-up services were also available from the 1970s. As the use of the Internet spread in the early 1990s, companies such as LexisNexis and Westlaw incorporated Internet connectivity into their software packages. Browser-based legal information started to be published by Legal Information Institutes from 1992.
Publicly available information
The first effort to provide free computer access to legal information was made by two academics, Peter Martin and Tom Bruce, in 1992. Today, the Legal Information Institute freely publishes such resources as the text of the United States Constitution, judgements of the U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Crouse | Jeff Crouse (born September 10, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American artist and hacker/creative technologist who works with live data feeds from the internet to make art works.
Background
Crouse's undergraduate study in Computer Science and Fiction Writing led to creating works that continued the history of automatic writing through using computers, code, and dynamic sources on the internet. Interactive Frank, for example, used sources on the internet to create dynamically generated audio programs reminiscent of public radio pioneer, Joe Frank. Another example is ChinASCII a video game based on the life Charles Bukowski.
In order to facilitate his projects, Jeff Crouse developed Switchboard a library for Processing. Switchboard allows "artists and designers to easily use a variety of live data sources for digital art".
After completing a Master of Science degree in Information Design and Technology at Georgia Tech in 2006, Crouse began a Production Fellowship at Eyebeam in 2006 and in 2007 he became a Senior Fellow.
He is on the Add-Art advisory committee.
Notable works
Invisible Threads (aka Double Happiness Jeans or Double Happiness Manufacturing) - a collaboration with Stephanie Rothenberg. Double Happiness is a sweatshop manufacturing plant in Second Life to build jeans based on orders made in real life. The jeans are designed and assembled in the factory and then delivered back into real life by being printed on fabric via a large format printer. The result is a tangible, wearable (however impractical) pair of pants. The project began in 2007 and was shown at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontiers exhibition.
Awards
2022 Gerald Loeb Award for Personal Finance and Personal Service
References
External links
Jeff Crouse Official Website
Art Forum review of Invisible Threads (requires login)
1980 births
Living people
American digital artists
Artists from New York (state)
Georgia Tech alumni
Artists from Baltimore
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Personal Finance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized%20Systems%20Used%20In%20Clinical%20Trials | Computerized Systems Used In Clinical Trials (CSUCT) is a guidance document established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1999 and revised in 2007. It is legally binding in the United States.
References
External links
Text of the guidance
Food and Drug Administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose%20B.%20Cruz%20Jr. | Jose Bejar Cruz Jr. (born September 17, 1932) is a noted control theorist and a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University.
Cruz was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 for contributions to the control of large-scale systems with multiple goals and to sensitivity analysis. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Federation of Automatic Control, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He is also the recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984, the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1994, and the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal in 2009.
Early life and education
He is a native of the town of Malolos, the capital of the province of Bulacan in the Philippines. He completed his secondary studies at the Bulacan Provincial High School in his native town. He then went to the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, for his college studies. There, he completed his BS in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, in 1953, the first recipient of such an honor from the university. The following year, he journeyed to the US and earned an MS for Electrical Engineering from the MIT in Cambridge. Subsequently, he got his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. He has spent most of his adult life in the US.
Biography
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering University of Illinois Urbana, IL, October 1959
S.M. in Electrical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, June 1956
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude University of the Philippines Quezon City, April 1953
References
External links
Home Page
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients
Living people
People from Malolos
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
University of the Philippines Diliman alumni
IEEE Centennial Medal laureates
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the International Federation of Automatic Control
Fellows of the American Society for Engineering Education
1932 births
American electrical engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additional%20Protocol%20to%20the%20Convention%20on%20Cybercrime | Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems is an additional protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime. This additional protocol was the subject of negotiations in late 2001 and early 2002. Final text of this protocol was adopted by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 7 November 2002 under the title "Additional Protocol to the Convention on cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems, ("Protocol"). The Protocol opened on 28 January 2003 and entry into force is 1 March 2006. As of July 2017, 29 States have ratified the Protocol and a further 13 have signed the Protocol but have not yet followed with ratification.
The Protocol requires participating States to criminalize the dissemination of racist and xenophobic material through computer systems, as well as of racist and xenophobic-motivated threats and insults. Article 6, Section 1 of the Protocol specifically covers the denial of the Holocaust and other genocides recognized as such by other international courts set up since 1945 by relevant international legal instruments. Section 2 of Article 6 allows a Party to the Protocol at their discretion only to prosecute if the offense is committed with the intent to incite hatred, discrimination or violence; or to make use of a reservation, by allowing a Party not to apply – in whole or in part – Article 6.
The Council of Europe Explanatory Report of the Protocol states the "European Court of Human Rights has made it clear that the denial or revision of 'clearly established historical facts – such as the Holocaust – ... would be removed from the protection of Article 10 by Article 17' of the ECHR (see in this context the Lehideux and Isorni judgment of 23 September 1998)".
Two of the English speaking states in Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom, have not signed the additional protocol, (the third, Malta, signed on 28 January 2003, but has not yet ratified it). On 8 July 2005 Canada became the first non-European state to sign the convention. The United States government does not believe that the final version of the Protocol is consistent with the United States' constitutional guarantees and has informed the Council of Europe that the United States will not become a Party to the protocol.
References
Cybercrime
Computer law treaties
International criminal law treaties
Laws criminalizing Holocaust denial
Anti-racism in Europe
Xenophobia
Council of Europe treaties
Treaties concluded in 2003
Treaties entered into force in 2006
Treaties of Albania
Treaties of Armenia
Treaties of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Treaties of Croatia
Treaties of Cyprus
Treaties of the Czech Republic
Treaties of Denmark
Treaties of Finland
Treaties of France
Treaties of Germany
Treaties of Greece
Treaties of Latvia
Treaties of Lithuania
Treaties of North Macedon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn%20Lee%20%28broadcaster%29 | Martyn Lee (born 22 July 1978) is a British national radio broadcaster, Sony award-winning radio producer, Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) Master Practitioner and Hypnotist. He was a presenter on Absolute 80s from 2010 to 2019.
He has been Programme Director for radio stations on the south coast of England including 2CR FM, Original 106 and The Coast 106. Lee also works with Bournemouth University with their media and radio courses.
Early career
He grew up in Norfolk and Suffolk where his career started at LTR FM, which is now known as The Beach. He worked at Radio Broadland from 1994 to 1996 as the weekend sports producer.
2CR FM
In October 1996 he joined 2CR FM working on the breakfast show for the presenter 'Lloydie'. He went from being a producer to presenter on Boxing Day 1997 and subsequently went on to host the evening show, breakfast show and drivetime show. Whilst as 2CR FM he was also Head of Music and Assistant Programme Controller. He left in June 2006 having spent 10 years there presenting many shows including the Breakfast Show, Drivetime, Daytimes and 'The Hot 30 Countdown'
GWR Group and GCap Media
Whilst at 2CR FM in Bournemouth, Martyn was part of the music scheduling team for the parent companies, GWR and GCap Media responsible for choosing the playlists of over 30 radio stations.
Original 106 and The Coast 106
He joined Original 106 in July 2006 as Assistant Programme Director and host of the Saturday Breakfast show. For much of 2007 he was the host of the weekday afternoon show. In early 2008, with the arrival of Richard Skinner, he no longer presented a weekday programme and became Programme Director, whilst retaining his own show on Saturday evenings 6pm-midnight.
When Original 106 was bought by Celador in August 2008, Martyn was employed as Programme Director to launch The Coast 106, which went on air on 30 October 2008 with a line-up that included Matt Hopper, Iain Meadows and John Clayton.
Absolute Radio
On Monday 5 October 2009 he moved to Absolute Radio to produce The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show weekday mornings from 6am-10am. In 2010 he produced a Sony Radio Award Winning promotion called 'One Last Dream'.
In November 2010 he moved from the breakfast show to present daily shows on the national digital radio stations operated by Absolute Radio, including Absolute 80s with holiday cover on Absolute Radio.
In May 2015, Lee began presenting The Absolute 80s Chart, which airs every Sunday and looks at two different charts of two years of the 80s. In 2019, Lee announced that he would be leaving Absolute 80s and would be replaced by Sarah Champion. Lee presented his final show on Absolute 80s on 3 March 2019.
NLP and hypnotism
Martyn often talks about his experiences as a hypnotist live on the air. According to his website he also works with companies, particularly in the radio industry such as GCap Media, as a communications and language consultant. He also works with the Radio Academy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoichiro%20Kawaguchi | is a Japanese computer graphics artist and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Kawaguchi rose to international prominence in 1982 when he presented "Growth Model" in the international conference SIGGRAPH.
In 2013, Kawaguchi designed Cosmo, a robot that performs keyboards with a laser. Cosmo was designed to be one of the members of Squarepusher's virtual band Z-Machines, which was created to promote the alcoholic beverage ZIMA. They performed their debut piece on 24 June 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.
On March 31, 2018, he retired from his post as a professor at the University of Tokyo and received the title of professor emeritus. In the same year he was appointed president of the Digital Content Association of Japan.
Honours
Medal with Purple Ribbon (2013)
Person of Cultural Merit (2023)
References
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23028961
External links
Japanese artists
1952 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Japanese digital artists
Persons of Cultural Merit
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroNight | EuroNight, abbreviated EN, is a European train category that denotes many mainline national and international night train services within the Western and Central European inter-city rail network.
Overview
The classification and name were brought into use in May 1993. Unlike the equivalent day-running counterparts EuroCity and InterCity trains, the EuroNight trains tend to run during the nighttime and are equipped with various cars for accommodating sleep services. Nearly all EuroNight trains require reservations and additional fare supplements in addition to the regular cost of a ticket from the destination to the arrival point. These supplements vary in price depending on whether the traveler wishes to sit in a regular seat, a couchette "lying bed", which offers a padded, felt bed with a blanket and small pillow, or a sleeping bed, which allows a mattress bed with full bedding (sheets, comforters, pillows).
Nearly all EuroNight services are international and jointly operated by national rail companies sharing cars on a route. EN trains are the standard night-train service for Western and most Central European nations. They are distinct from the older D-Nacht services, many of which still operate in Central and Eastern Europe. EN trains have criteria that rail companies must match in order to receive EN designation; the numbering format is EN 999; many routes also have accompanying names derived in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Operating carriers
The following carriers currently have designated cars and train conductors who work the EN lines. Many railway companies share cars on the same train line between routes; for example, EN 235 between Vienna and Rome share cars of both the ÖBB and Trenitalia.
Austria's ÖBB (introducing in December 2016 its Nightjet-Services)
Croatia's HŽ
Czech Republic's ČD
France's SNCF (as part of their Intercités de nuit brand)
Hungary's MÁV
Italy's Trenitalia
Netherlands, The NS Hispeed
Poland's PKP Intercity
Romania's CFR
Slovakia's ZSSK
Slovenia's SZ
Sweden's SJ
Switzerland's SBB
Deutsche Bahn operated the additional City Night Line hotel-quality night services between Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. Two of those, the Kopernikus and the Canopus, were designated EuroNight trains as EN 458/459. Deutsche Bahn terminated all of its own night train services by December 2016.
List of EuroNight trains
See also
Train categories in Europe
EuroCity
References
Railway services introduced in 1993
Railteam
Rail transport brands
Rail transport in Europe
Night trains
Passenger rail transport in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZKR | WZKR (103.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting in the Meridian, Mississippi, area. Since August 1, 2011, it has been an affiliate of the Supertalk Mississippi network. Previously, it broadcast a country format as B103, and before that an eclectic music format as "103.3 The Art of Great Music".
External links
ZKR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Perpetual%20Help%20System | The University of Perpetual Help System is a network of two universities consisting of nine campuses in the Philippines.
History
Established in 1968 by Dr. Jose de Guzman Tamayo and his wife Dra. Josefina Laperal Tamayo as Perpetual Help Hospital and College of Nursing, this institution has been training nurses, doctors, maritime, accountants, hrm, allied health, lawyers, engineers and many other professionals for service in the Philippines and abroad. Now known as UPHS Jonelta (Jose and Nena Laperal Tamayo), the University of Perpetual Help System Jonelta has campuses in Manila, Binan, GMA Cavite, Isabela, and Malasiqui, Pangasinan.
Over the years, under the leadership of Dr./Br.Gen. Antonio L. Tamayo, this institution has developed into a university offering a wide variety of programs mentioned above, but its allied health programs including nursing is the university's core.
The University of Perpetual Help System DALTA (UPHSD) founded on February 5, 1975 by Dr. Daisy Moran Tamayo and Br. Gen. Antonio L. Tamayo, is a highly recognized university in the Philippines. It has 3 major campuses in Las Piñas, Molino, and Calamba. Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Philippines granted deregulated status (equivalent to Autonomous Status) to University of Perpetual Help System DALTA, Manila, Philippines.
Over the past four decades, UPHS has opened nine campuses nationwide including the University of Perpetual Help System DALTA (DALTA System with its main branch in Las Piñas) and the University of Perpetual Help System Laguna (JONELTA System with its main branch in Binan, Laguna).
The Nine UPH Campuses
The University of Perpetual Help System composed of two constituent universities namely; DALTA Foundation and JONELTA Foundation.
The DALTA System
University of Perpetual Help System DALTA – Las Piñas (Main Campus)
University of Perpetual Help System DALTA – Molino Campus
University of Perpetual Help System DALTA – Calamba Campus
The JONELTA System
University of Perpetual Help System JONELTA – Biñan (Main Campus)
University of Perpetual Help System JONELTA – Manila Campus
University of Perpetual Help System JONELTA – GMA Campus
University of Perpetual Help System JONELTA – Pangasinan Campus
University of Perpetual Help System JONELTA – Isabela Campus
University of Perpetual Help System - Pueblo de Panay Campus
References
External links
Private universities and colleges in the Philippines
1968 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Dupuis | Russell Dean Dupuis (born 9 July 1947) is an American electrical engineer and physicist.
He holds the Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has made pioneering contributions to metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and continuous-wave room-temperature quantum-well lasers. His other work has focused on III-V heterojunction devices, and LEDs.
Dupuis was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for pioneering work in metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and demonstration of heterostructure devices.
Education
Dupuis earned his B.S. (1970), his M.S. (1971), and his Ph.D. (1972) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Career history
Prof. Dupuis initially worked at Texas Instruments from 1973 to 1975.
He joined Rockwell International in 1975, where with P. Dan Dapkus, he was the first to demonstrate that MOCVD could be used for the growth of high-quality semiconductor thin films and devices such as lasers.
Then in 1979 he moved to AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ where with Ralph Logn, C.J. Pinzone & Jan van der Ziel, he was the first to demonstrate the direct growth of GaAs lasers directly on silicon that could operate CW at room temperature. He extended his work to the growth of InP-InGaAsP by MOCVD and demonstrated the first long wavelength VCSEL to operate at 1.55 micron wavelength. He moved to academia in 1989 to become a chaired professor at the University of Texas at Austin at the Microelectronics Center established by Ben G Streetman.
Awards and memberships
A Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Dupuis and two of his colleagues were awarded the 2002 National Medal of Technology by President George W. Bush for their work on developing and commercializing LEDs. He won the 1985 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award. In 2015, Dupuis and four others shared the Charles Stark Draper Prize in Engineering given by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America.
Russell D. Dupuis won the 2004 John Bardeen Award and the 2007 IEEE Edison Medal.
References
External links
Official profile
1947 births
Living people
American electrical engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
National Medal of Technology recipients
Draper Prize winners
IEEE Edison Medal recipients
Georgia Tech faculty
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of Optica (society)
Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract%20class | In software engineering, the Extract Class refactoring is applied when a class becomes overweight with too many methods and its purpose becomes unclear. Extract Class refactoring involves creating a new class and moving methods and/or data to the new class.
Further reading
http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/extractClass.html
Code refactoring |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Computer%20Science | The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science is one of twelve faculties at the University of Heidelberg. It comprises the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Applied Mathematics, the School of Applied Sciences, and the Institute of Computer Science. The faculty maintains close relationships to the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) and the Mathematics Center Heidelberg (MATCH). The first chair of mathematics was entrusted to the physician Jacob Curio in the year 1547.
Institute of Mathematics
In 1547, the first chair of mathematics was entrusted to the physician Jacob Curio. Today, areas of research include:
Complex analysis: automorphic functions and modular forms
Arithmetic: algebraic number theory, algorithmic algebra, and arithmetical geometry
Topology and geometry: geometric partial differential equations, algebraic topology, differential topology, and differential geometry
Institute of Applied Mathematics
In 1957, Gottfried Köthe became the first director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics. Today, areas of research include:
Probability theory and statistics: time-series analysis, nonparametrics, asymptotic statistical procedures, and computer-intensive statistical methods
Applied analysis, numerical analysis and optimization, notably in the field of modelling and scientific computing.
Institute of Applied Sciences
In 1969, the Institute of Applied Sciences was founded. Its areas of research include:
Media Computing, Business Computing and Health Care Computing.
Communication, Robotics and Strategic Management.
Institute of Computer Science
In 2001, the Institute of Computer Science was founded. Today, areas of research include:
Computability and computational complexity theory
Efficient use of high-power computing systems
Development, administration and use of web-based information systems
Knowledge management in software development
Noted mathematicians and computer scientists
Moritz Benedikt Cantor: "History of mathematics"
Immanuel Lazarus Fuchs: "Fuchsian group", "Picard–Fuchs equation"
Emil Julius Gumbel: "Gumbel distribution"
Otto Hesse: "Hessian curve", "Hessian matrix", "Hesse normal form"
Leo Koenigsberger
Sofia Kovalevskaya: "Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem"
Emanuel Lasker: "Lasker–Noether theorem"
Jacob Lüroth
Hans Maaß
Max Noether: "Max Noether's theorem"
Oskar Perron: "Perron–Frobenius theorem", "Perron's formula", "Perron integral"
Hermann Schapira
Friedrich Karl Schmidt
Herbert Seifert: "Seifert fiber space", "Seifert surface", "Seifert–van Kampen theorem", "Seifert conjecture", Seifert–Weber space
Paul Stäckel: "twin prime"
William Threlfall
Heinrich Weber: "Kronecker–Weber theorem", "Weber's theorem"
Notes and references
Heidelberg University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Atlas%20of%20Language%20Structures | The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials. It was first published by Oxford University Press as a book with CD-ROM in 2005, and was released as the second edition on the Internet in April 2008. It is maintained by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and by the Max Planck Digital Library. The editors are Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie.
The atlas provides information on the location, linguistic affiliation and basic typological features of a great number of the world's languages. It interacts with OpenStreetMap maps. The information of the atlas is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
See also
Intercontinental Dictionary Series
References
External links
Download WALS Interactive Reference Tool (obsolete - Windows XP or Mac PowerPC)
Conlang Atlas of Language Structures . Inspired by WALS, it includes some of the information contained in WALS and adds data about many constructed languages.
Linguistic atlases
Creative Commons-licensed websites
Creative Commons-licensed databases
2005 non-fiction books
Internet properties established in 2008
Linguistics websites
Works on linguistic typology
Comparative linguistics
Linguistics databases
Cross-Linguistic Linked Data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ago%20Bay | is a bay in the city of Shima, Mie Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the Ise-Shima region.
The bay is known for its beauty and sees many tourists each year, in particular due to a train network owned by Kintetsu which runs trains from both Osaka and Nagoya to Kashiko-jima, an island in the bay.
Pearl cultivation was first invented in this bay by Kōkichi Mikimoto in 1893.
External links
description
pearl farms in Ago Bay
Bays of Japan
Landforms of Mie Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakal%20Institute%20of%20Technology | Mahakal Institute of Technology (commonly known as MIT, Ujjain) is an institution of the Mahakal Group of Institutes near the village of Karchha, Behind Air Strip, Datana about 20 km from Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh India. It was founded in 2001 and offers courses in a variety of engineering disciplines, including Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Diploma in Accounting. Engineering degrees are affiliated with Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya in Bhopal. Commerce and Accounting courses are online courses and college of commerce is considered as private college.
History
The idea of building an institute in Ujjain was conceived by Prasar Shikshan Evam Seva Sansthan (PSSS) with the aim to transform young talent into competent and socially responsible professionals with a global vision. Mahakal Institute of Technology (MIT Ujjain) was inaugurated by the then Hon’ble Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Mr. Digvijay Singh on 26 July 2001.
In the academic session of 2001-02 MIT, Ujjain began with just 220 students and few faculty members in the varied streams. The institute then had only four branches of Engineering: Electronics and Telecommunication, Computer Science, Information Technology and Electrical and Electronics. Mahakal Group of Commerce offers some online courses in finance and accounting.
References
External links
Official website
Universities and colleges in Madhya Pradesh
Education in Ujjain
Buildings and structures in Ujjain
2001 establishments in Madhya Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony%2C%20Florida | Harmony is an unincorporated master-planned community near St. Cloud, Florida, United States. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to 2010 Census data, Harmony is home to more than 1,000 residents.
Harmony is a Green-certified community, certified by the Florida Green Building Coalition.
Development plans for Harmony were set in motion by 1996. The Harmony Community Development District was established by local ordinance in March 2000.
Harmony developed a cooperative relationship with the University of Florida's Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation in 2001. Harmony was demonstrating a real-life example of people living and working in the same community. The goal was to show that this could be done in a sustainable way while also minimizing the impact on the local ecology.
The Harmony Residential Owners Association (ROA) was created on October 8, 2002. It "establishes a mechanism by which to realize the goal of creating a community in which good citizenship and community service are encouraged from all residents". The owners association is responsible for maintenance as well as community-wide standards for all common areas of Harmony not managed by the CDD.
The Harmony ROA is noteworthy among home owners associations in that it established within its founding documents guidelines delineating the peaceful coexistence of humans and wild animals. "This document seeks to articulate a philosophy that allows natural elements to persist unimpeded by humans and minimizes the circumstances that lead to conflict between humans and wildlife." "In harmony with nature" has been a motto of the community since its inception.
Harmony was opened for occupancy in approximately 2003 and ownership was transferred to Starwood Capital Group in 2005.
References
External links
Developer site
HarmonyFLcommons.com - Residential Owners Association Documents
Unincorporated communities in Osceola County, Florida
Planned communities in Florida
Populated places established in 2003
Greater Orlando
Unincorporated communities in Florida
2003 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina%20Castle | is a castle located in the Kozakai area of Toyokawa city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
History
The lord of Ina village, Honda Sadatada, built Ina Castle in approximately 1440. It was well sited, for it was surrounded on three sides by rice paddies and rivers and on the fourth by an inlet, which allowed supplies to come into the castle directly from Mikawa Bay. Sadatora's descendants continued to use the castle as their headquarters from which they ruled the area for about 150 years, until Honda Yasutoshi was transferred to the Shimōsa region. Today there is a park on the site of the castle, with a small reconstruction of a tower and explanatory signboards in Japanese.
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20110721124402/http://www.kandou10.jp/en/spot/spot103_e02_1.html
References
Castles in Aichi Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu%20%28programming%20language%29 | Nu is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, with a Lisp-like syntax, created by Tim Burks as an alternative scripting language to program OS X through its Cocoa application programming interface (API). Implementations also exist for iPhone and Linux.
The language was first announced at C4, a conference for indie Mac developers held in August 2007.
Example code
This Nu code defines a simple complex numbers class.
(class Complex is NSObject
(ivar (double) real
(double) imaginary)
(- initWithReal:(double) x imaginary:(double) y is
(super init)
(set @real x)
(set @imaginary y)
self))
The example is a basic definition of a complex number: it defines the instance variables, and a method to initialize the object. It shows the similarity between the code in Nu and the equivalent in Objective-C; it also shows the similarity with Ruby.
(unless @prefix
(set @prefix
"#{((((NSProcessInfo processInfo) arguments) 0) dirName)}.."))
(unless @icon_files
(set @icon_files
(array "#{@prefix}/share/nu/resources/nu.icns")))
This sample, from the nuke tool bundled with Nu, also shows the influence of Objective-C, Lisp, and Ruby in the design of the language.
See also
F-Script
MacRuby
RubyCocoa
References
External links
Lisp programming language family
Class-based programming languages
Free compilers and interpreters
Procedural programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages
Programming languages created in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-serial%20architecture | In computer architecture, bit-serial architectures send data one bit at a time, along a single wire, in contrast to bit-parallel word architectures, in which data values are sent all bits or a word at once along a group of wires.
All digital computers built before 1951, and most of the early massive parallel processing machines used a bit-serial architecture—they were serial computers.
Bit-serial architectures were developed for digital signal processing in the 1960s through 1980s, including efficient structures for bit-serial multiplication and accumulation.
The HP Nut processor used in many Hewlett-Packard calculators operated bit-serially.
Often, N serial processors will take less FPGA area and have a higher total performance than a single N-bit parallel processor.
See also
1-bit computing
Bit banging
Bit slicing
Serial computer
BKM algorithm
CORDIC
References
External links
Application of FPGA technology to accelerate the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method
BIT-Serial FIR filters with CSD Coefficients for FPGAs
Data transmission |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteered%20geographic%20information | Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals. VGI is a special case of the larger phenomenon known as user-generated content, and allows people to have a more active role in activities such as urban planning and mapping.
Overview
VGI can be seen as an extension of critical and participatory approaches to geographic information systems. Some examples of this phenomenon are WikiMapia, OpenStreetMap, and Yandex.Map editor. These sites provide general base map information and allow users to create their own content by marking locations where various events occurred or certain features exist, but aren't already shown on the base map. Other examples include 311-style request systems and 3D spatial technology. Additionally, VGI commonly populates the content offered through location-based services such as the restaurant review site Yelp.
One of the most important elements of VGI in contrast to standard user-generated content is the geographic element, and its relationship with collaborative mapping. The information volunteered by the individual is linked to a specific geographic region. While this is often taken to relate to elements of traditional cartography, VGI offers the possibility of including subjective, emotional, or other non-cartographic information.
Geo-referenced data produced within services such as Trip Advisor, Flickr, Twitter, Instagram and Panoramio can be considered as VGI.
VGI has attracted concerns about data quality, and specifically about its credibility and the possibility of vandalism.
Criticism of the term
The term VGI has been criticized for poorly representing common variations in the data of OpenStreetMap and other sites: that some of the data is paid, in the case of CloudMade's ambassadors, or generated by another entity, as in US Census data.
Because it is gathered by individuals with no formal training, the quality and reliability of VGI is a topic of much debate. Some methods of quality assurance have been tested, namely, the use of control data to verify VGI accuracy.
Effects on users
While there is concern over the authority of the data, VGI may provide benefits beyond that of professional geographic information (PGI), partly due to its ability to collect and present data not collected or curated by traditional/professional sources. Additionally, VGI provides positive emotional value to users in functionality, satisfaction, social connection and ethics.
See also
Crowdsourcing
Neogeography
Participatory 3D modelling (P3DM)
Participatory GIS
Public participation
Public participation geographic information system (PPGIS)
Traditional knowledge GIS
Web mapping
References
Geographic data and information
Collaborative mapping
Web mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin%20Public%20Libraries | Dunedin Public Libraries is a network of six libraries and two bookbuses in Dunedin, New Zealand, owned and operated by the Dunedin City Council. The Libraries' collection includes over 700,000 items, and around 30,000 books and audiovisual items plus 15,000 magazines are added each year. Members can borrow or return items from any library or bookbus in the network.
Branch history
Dunedin Public Libraries operates six libraries and two bookbus services.
City Library
Dunedin's first free public library opened on 2 December 1908, funded by a £10,000 grant from American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Situated at 110 Moray Place, the library originally offered a reference service only, but a children's reading room and lending library were opened in 1910, followed by lending services for adults in 1911. Services were expanded through the 1930s; in the 1950s, the book bus service was launched and the library's audio visual collection was established.
The library received its first major donation in 1913 when Dr Robert McNab presented some 4,200 volumes of New Zealand history and early voyages. Later donations would include the Walt Whitman Collection (from Mrs J. W. Stewart in 1927) and the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection, which included medieval manuscripts, incunabula, Bibles, early printing and later manuscripts, works by Dickens and Johnson, and a vast quantity of manuscript letters. (Before the donation of his entire collection, Reed had been anonymously displaying some of his autograph letters in the library's entrance hall since at least 1926; he also openly donated a number of letters, magazines, and novels starting from 1926.) The vast size of the Reed Collection, in addition to the library's continual expansion, necessitated the library's removal to a new location.
Plans for the new library site were sketched in 1973, with construction commencing in 1978. The new building, at 230 Moray Pl, opened in 1981 and remains open to this day. Although the city library was originally independent from other nearby libraries, the 1989 merger of local councils and borough councils led to the creation of the Dunedin Public Libraries network, which incorporated the libraries in Mosgiel, Port Chalmers, Waikouaiti, Blueskin Bay, and Dunedin city into one entity.
Mosgiel Library
The first functioning library in Mosgiel was established in 1881 by the Athanaeum Committee. A new library administered by the Mosgiel Borough Council was opened in 1959, relocating twice before arriving at its present site on Hartstonge Ave. In 1989 the library joined the Dunedin Public Libraries network as a result of local council amalgamation. In addition to usual library resources, the Mosgiel Library operates the Mosgiel branch of the Dunedin City Council Customer Services Centre.
Port Chalmers Library
Port Chalmers Mechanics Institute started in 1864, and became the Port Chalmers Public Library under the direct control of the borough council in 1943. The library was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20particle%20physics | Computational particle physics refers to the methods and computing tools developed in and used by particle physics research. Like computational chemistry or computational biology, it is, for particle physics both a specific branch and an interdisciplinary field relying on computer science, theoretical and experimental particle physics and mathematics.
The main fields of computational particle physics are: lattice field theory (numerical computations), automatic calculation of particle interaction or decay (computer algebra) and event generators (stochastic methods).
Computing tools
Computer algebra: Many of the computer algebra languages were developed initially to help particle physics calculations: Reduce, Mathematica, Schoonschip, Form, GiNaC.
Data Grid: The largest planned use of the grid systems will be for the analysis of the LHC - produced data. Large software packages have been developed to support this application like the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) . A similar effort in the wider e-Science community is the GridPP collaboration, a consortium of particle physicists from UK institutions and CERN.
Data Analysis Tools: These tools are motivated by the fact that particle physics experiments and simulations often create large datasets, e.g. see references.
Software Libraries: Many software libraries are used for particle physics computations. Also important are packages that simulate particle physics interactions using Monte Carlo simulation techniques (i.e. event generators).
History
Particle physics played a role in the early history of the internet; the World-Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee when working at CERN in 1991.
Computer Algebra
Note: This section contains an excerpt from 'Computer Algebra in Particle Physics' by Stefan Weinzierl
Particle physics is an important field of application for computer algebra and exploits the capabilities of Computer Algebra Systems (CAS). This leads to valuable feed-back for the development of CAS. Looking at the history of computer algebra systems, the first programs date back to the 1960s. The first systems were almost entirely based on LISP ("LISt Programming language"). LISP is an interpreted language and, as the name already indicates, designed for the manipulation of lists. Its importance for symbolic computer programs in the early days has been compared to the importance of FORTRAN for numerical programs in the same period. Already in this first period, the program REDUCE had some special features for the application to high energy physics. An exception to the LISP-based programs was SCHOONSHIP, written in assembler language by Martinus J. G. Veltman and specially designed for applications in particle physics. The use of assembler code lead to an incredible fast program (compared to the interpreted programs at that time) and allowed the calculation of more complex scattering processes in high energy physics. It has been claimed the program's importance was recognized in 1998 by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20calculation%20of%20particle%20interaction%20or%20decay | The automatic calculation of particle interaction or decay is part of the computational particle physics branch. It refers to computing tools that help calculating the complex particle interactions as studied in high-energy physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology. The goal of the automation is to handle the full sequence of calculations in an automatic (programmed) way: from the Lagrangian expression describing the physics model up to the cross-sections values and to the event generator software.
Overview
Particle accelerators or colliders produce collisions (interactions) of particles (like the electron or the proton). The colliding particles form the Initial State. In the collision, particles can be annihilated or/and exchanged producing possibly different sets of particles, the Final States. The Initial and Final States of the interaction relate through the so-called scattering matrix (S-matrix).
For example, at LEP, , or are processes where the initial state is an electron and a positron colliding to produce an electron and a positron or two muons of opposite charge: the final states. In these simple cases, no automatic packages are needed and cross-section analytical expressions can be easily derived at least for the lowest approximation: the Born approximation also called the leading order or the tree level (as Feynman diagrams have only trunk and branches, no loops).
But particle physics is now requiring much more complex calculations like at LHC where are protons and is the number of jets of particles initiated by proton constituents (quarks and gluons). The number of subprocesses describing a given process is so large that automatic tools have been developed to mitigate the burden of hand calculations.
Interactions at higher energies open a large spectrum of possible final states and consequently increase the number of processes to compute.
High precision experiments impose the calculation of higher order calculation, namely the inclusion of subprocesses where more than one virtual particle can be created and annihilated during the interaction lapse creating so-called loops which induce much more involved calculations.
Finally new theoretical models like the supersymmetry model (MSSM in its minimal version) predict a flurry of new processes.
The automatic packages, once seen as mere teaching support, have become, this last 10 years an essential component of the data simulation and analysis suite for all experiments.
They help constructing event generators and are sometimes viewed as generators of event generators or Meta-generators.
A particle physics model is essentially described by its Lagrangian. To simulate the production of events through event generators, 3 steps have to be taken. The Automatic Calculation project is to create the tools to make those steps as automatic (or programmed) as possible:
I Feynman rules, coupling and mass generation
LanHEP is an example of Feynman rules generation.
Some model needs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20000 | Fire 000 is an Australian observational documentary series that is now airing on the Nine Network on 7 May 2008.
Fire 000 follows the fire officer operations of the New South Wales Fire Brigade.
References
Nine Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantify | Quantify may refer to:
Quantification (science), the act or process of quantifying
in computing: IBM Rational Quantify, a profiling software, part of IBM Rational Purify
Quantify may refer to the measurement of quantity. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20182001%E2%80%93183000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20speech%20recognition%20software | Speech recognition software is available for many computing platforms, operating systems, use models, and software licenses. Here is a listing of such, grouped in various useful ways.
Acoustic models and speech corpus (compilation)
The following list presents notable speech recognition software engines with a brief synopsis of characteristics.
Macintosh
Cross-platform web apps based on Chrome
The following list presents notable speech recognition software that operate in a Chrome browser as web apps. They make use of HTML5 Web-Speech-API.
Mobile devices and smartphones
Many mobile phone handsets, including feature phones and smartphones such as iPhones and BlackBerrys, have basic dial-by-voice features built in. Many third-party apps have implemented natural-language speech recognition support, including:
Windows
Windows built-in speech recognition
The Windows Speech Recognition version 8.0 by Microsoft comes built into Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
Speech Recognition is available only in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese and only in the corresponding version of Windows; meaning you cannot use the speech recognition engine in one language if you use a version of Windows in another language. Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 Pro allow you to change the system language, and therefore change which speech engine is available. Windows Speech Recognition evolved into Cortana (software), a personal assistant included in Windows 10.
Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 third-party speech recognition
Braina – Dictate into third party software and websites, fill web forms and execute vocal commands.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Nuance Communications – Successor to the older DragonDictate product. Focus on dictation. 64-bit Windows support since version 10.1.
Tazti – Create speech command profiles to play PC games and control applications – programs. Create speech commands to open files, folders, webpages, applications. Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 versions.
Voice Finger – software that improves the Windows speech recognition system by adding several extensions to it. The software enables controlling the mouse and the keyboard by only using the voice. It is especially useful for aiding users to overcome disabilities or to heal from computer injuries.
Work by Speech - allows efficient working on a computer by speech.
Windows XP or 2000 only
Microsoft Speech API – Speech recognition functionality included as part of Microsoft Office and on Tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. It can also be downloaded as part of the Speech SDK 5.1 for Windows applications, but since that is aimed at developers building speech applications, the pure SDK form lacks any user interface, and thus is unsuitable for end users.
Built-in software
Microsoft Kinect includes built-in software which allows speech recognition of commands.
Older generations of Nokia phones like Nokia N S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Barnett%20%28producer%29 | Paul Barnett (born September 1968, in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England) is a Television Producer and Director.
Career
After spending his early career creating and directing computer generated imagery sequences, Paul moved on to directing special effects sequences for film and television, before working as a freelance television director and producer for the BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Channel Five.
Since 2002, Paul has directed and produced several high-profile British television documentaries and factual entertainment series.
Filmography
'Wrong Car, Right Car' (2002 / 2003)
'SAS Survival Secrets' (2003)
'60 Minute Makeover' (2004)
'Shops, Robbers and Videotape' (2005)
'To Buy or Not to Buy' (2005)
'Coast' (2006 / 2009 / 2010)
'Don't Die Young' (2008)
'Embarrassing Bodies' (2008 / 2009 / 2010)
'Gardeners' World' (2009 / 2011)
'Countryfile' (2010)
'Our Man in...' (2011)
'Supersize vs Superskinny (2012)
'Britain's Craziest Christmas Lights' (2013)
'Come Dine with Me' (2012 / 2013 / 2014)
'Richard Wilson On The Road' (2014)
'The Truth About Healthy Eating' (2015)
'Sean Conway: On The Edge' (2016)
'Robson Green's Coastal Lives' (2017)
References
External links
Paul Barnett's webpage
British television directors
People from Kingswinford
Living people
1968 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20Baltica | Rail Baltica is a greenfield rail transport infrastructure project underway, with a goal to integrate the Baltic states in the European rail network. Its purpose is to provide passenger and freight service between participating countries and improve rail connections between Central and Northern Europe, specifically the area southeast of the Baltic Sea. Furthermore, it is intended to be a catalyst for building the economic corridor in Northeastern Europe. The project envisages a continuous rail link from Tallinn (Estonia) to Warsaw (Poland), consisting of links via Riga (Latvia), Kaunas, and Vilnius (Lithuania). Its total length in the Baltic States is , with in Estonia, in Latvia, and in Lithuania. Rail Baltica is one of the priority projects of the European Union (EU). It is part of the North Sea–Baltic Corridor of the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T).
Rail Baltica will add the first large-scale mainline standard gauge railway in the area. Legacy rail networks in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are mainly in Russian gauge (1,520 mm). These countries' first railways were built in the second half of the 19th century while part of the Russian Empire. While some railways were built or converted to narrow or standard gauge between World War I and World War II in the independent or German-occupied Baltic states, these were later converted back to Russian gauge under Soviet occupation rule after 1945.
According to a study produced by Ernst & Young, the measurable socio-economic benefits are estimated at €16.2 billion. The assessed GDP multiplier effect the Rail Baltica Global Project would create is an additional €2 billion. As of January 2020, the high-speed railway connection from Tallinn to the Lithuanian-Polish border was expected to be completed by 2026. As of June 2020, the undersea railway tunnel between Tallinn and Helsinki was envisioned to be completed around mid-2026. At the end of April 2021, governments of Estonia and Finland signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing themselves to cooperation in the area of transport. As of February 2023, the tunnel was still at the investigative stage.
Overview
Proposed environmental impact
Rail Baltica will be an electric railway, motivated by a desire to reduce carbon emissions. The railway has been planned to avoid Natura 2000 protected areas, in addition to minimising impacts on other environmentally sensitive protected areas and existing 1,520 mm gauge railway networking areas. Wherever necessary, noise protection barriers will be installed. Special animal passages will be built through the embankment.
Stations
The railway project will enable intermodality and multimodality, i.e. transportation of freight through two or more methods of transportation. Rail Baltica includes plans for three multimodal freight terminals located in Muuga Harbour (Estonia), Salaspils (Latvia), and Kaunas (Lithuania). This is intended to create synergies with the existing 1,520 mm railway s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withycombe%20%28surname%29 | Withycombe is a surname, and may refer to:
Elizabeth Withycombe (born 1902), English compiler of reference books
James Withycombe (1843-1919), British-born American politician
Mike Withycombe (born 1964), former professional American and Canadian football offensive lineman
Surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonturama | Toonturama is an American children's programming block that airs on the Spanish-language television network UniMás (formerly known as Telefutura Network) which debuted on January 15, 2002 ("Mi Tele") and January 19, 2002 ("Toonturama" and "Toonturama Junior"). The four-hour block—which airs Saturday and Sunday mornings from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time and Pacific Time—features live action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14. It was the network's attempt to have a Saturday morning block.
Programs featured on the block consist of a mixture of series originally produced in Spanish and dubbed versions of series that were originally produced and broadcast in English. All shows featured on Toonturama are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via the Children's Television Act.
History
Mi Tele
On December 15, 2001, UniMás (then known as Telefutura) plans to announced that it would debuted three children's programming blocks with the new weekday and Saturday and Sunday morning cartoon blocks was premiered on January 15 ("Mi Tele"), and January 19, 2002 ("Toonturama" and "Toonturama Junior"), one day after the network was launched on January 14. Featuring live-action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14. It was plans to launch a new block, as part of the programming consisting four to eight shows for 30-minute episodes and aimed at marking the first time that exclusively animated cartoons for different youth audiences.
The first children's block, "Mi Tele" ("My TV"), a two-hour animation block on weekday mornings featuring a mix of imported Spanish-language cartoons such as Fantaghiro and El Nuevo Mundo de los Gnomos ("The New World of the Gnomes"), as well as the originally produced in English as the Zodiac Entertainment cartoon series, Mr. Bogus and the Nelvana cartoon series, Anatole debuted on January 15, 2002. Later on March 15, 2002, the Mi Tele originally cartoon block were ended. The following week on Monday, the featuring with the youth-targeted children's telenovelas (Carrusel, Luz Clarita, Gotita de Amor and Rayito de Luz) airs on the block beginning on March 18, 2002, as part of the update scheduled programming.
Though the block was intended to air on weekday morning on the holidays some of the years. However, some of the youth-targeted novelas aired on Mi Tele block weekday morning or Toonturama weekend morning cartoon block will delayed in order next week and full schedule on Sunday due to the network will picking line-up with all of the holidays and family movies marathon with the attempt of animated movies by Warner Bros. Telefutura Network has distribution and acquired the rights to air on the Warner Bros. animated series within movies by Warner Bros. Animation, DC Comics and Hanna-Barbera such as Scooby-Doo ("Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" and "Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost"), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lilly | John Lilly may refer to:
John C. Lilly (1915–2001), American physician, psychoanalyst and writer
John Lilly (computer scientist) (born 1971), former chief executive officer of the Mozilla Corporation
John Lilly (priest) (died 1825), Archdeacon of Hereford
John Lilly (writer) (c. 1553–1606), English writer
See also
John Lilley (disambiguation)
John Lillie (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20assessment | Computer-aided (or computer-assisted) assessment (CAA) includes all forms of assessments students' progress, whether summative (i.e. tests that will contribute to formal qualifications) or formative (i.e. tests that promote learning but are not part of a course's marking), delivered with the help of computers. This covers both assessments delivered on computer, either online or on a local network, and those that are marked with the aid of computers, such as those using Optical Mark Reading (OMR). There are number of open source online tools to handle exams conducted on OMR sheets.
Computer-aided assessment can be viewed in a few different ways. Technically, assignments that are written on a computer and researched online are computer-aided assessments. One of the most common forms of computer-aided assessment (in terms of e-learning) is online quizzes or exams. These can be implemented online, and also marked by the computer by putting the answers in. Many content management systems will have easy to set up and use systems for online exams. Such type of assessment supports various objective or multiple choice questions with images, fill in the blank, true false type questions. There are new technologies and tools coming up which can support subjective assessment of evaluation of the user. System can analyze theory answer written by the user.
It is also envisaged that computer-based formative assessment, in particular, will play an increasingly important role in learning, with the increased use of banks of question items for the construction and delivery of dynamic, on-demand assessments. This can be witnessed by current projects such as the SQA's SOLAR Project.
The effectiveness of these assessments has been frequently demonstrated in studies, both in the form of positive student feedback and improvement in student performance (see, for example, Einig (2013)).
See also
Automated essay scoring
E-assessment
E-learning
eExam
References
External links
SQA SOLAR Project
The STACK computer aided assessment system for mathematics
Software for teachers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Idol%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of Australian Idol premiered on 5 August 2007 on Network Ten. It concluded on 25 November.
Overview
Format changes
The series was again hosted by Andrew G and James Mathison, with Ian "Dicko" Dickson returning to the show as one of the judges, along with Mark Holden, Marcia Hines and Kyle Sandilands. The show continued with the new format from Season 4, where contestants were permitted to perform original material for their audition and throughout the season, and play instruments as part of their performances.
Ratings
The premiere episode of the 2007 series had 1.65 million viewers, making it the show's second highest rating series opener and 270,000 ahead of last year. The show was in the top ten most viewed shows for the early part of the series and eventually dropped to around number eighteen and nineteen for quite some time due to hot competition from Channel 7's Kath & Kim. The season was on a low compared to Season 4. The Top 5 performance show marked the re-commencement of higher ratings for the program and it reached number nine.
Auditions
The auditions for Australian Idol (season 5) were run from March to May 2007. They were held in:
Kalgoorlie on 3 March
Bunbury on 6 March
Coffs Harbour on 10 March
Dubbo on 14 March
Canberra on 18 March
Wollongong on 20 March
Newcastle on 25 March
Launceston on 31 March
Hobart on 1 April
Wagga Wagga on 3 April
Darwin on 14 April
Rockhampton on 19 April
Brisbane on 21 April and 22
Perth on 29 April
Mildura on 4 May
Adelaide on 6 May
Melbourne on 12 May 13 and 14
Sydney on 19 May 20 and 21
Theatre Week (Seymour Centre)
As in previous years, the theatre week, held at Sydney's Seymour Centre, consisted of three gruelling elimination rounds. For the first round, each contestant singing a cappella one song of their choice in front of the judges, before being told, based on that performance, whether they would be moving onto the next round.
The second round, (for the first time in Australian Idol history), the group rounds consisted of two boys and two girls, instead of a same gender group, as in previous seasons. Contestants were once again told whether they would be moving onto the next round based on these performances.
In the third and final round, each contestant was then to perform a song choice of their own choosing, in a solo performance in front of the judges and every other contestant. Based on these performances, each contestant was told, one at a time, whether they would become a part of the Top 24, or if their journey would end.
Semi-finals
The semi-finals were run to the same format as the fourth season, with four groups of six performing solo in a live studio on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night. On the Thursday night, the first eight finalists through to the Top 12 were announced, along with another eight of the remaining 24 chosen for the Wildcard show. These eight would be given a second chance to prove themselves worthy of one of the fou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Idol%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Australian Idol was produced by Fremantle Media subsidiary Grundy Television in association with UK company 19TV, and was broadcast on Network Ten for 19 weeks in the latter half of 2003. The judges were Mark Holden, Marcia Hines and Ian "Dicko" Dickson.
Overview
When Network Ten paid $15 million for the first season of Australian Idol they anticipated it to be a critical and financial success, like it had been in other countries such as the UK and the USA. When the show aired for the first time in August 2003 it was very successful, attracting a diverse ranges of viewers, from people wanting the crazy auditions to people who wanted to hear great voices. The audition process went through several major cities in Australia including Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Darwin. Towards the end of its run, Australian Idol became the most popular TV show in the country with more ratings than major events such as the AFL Grand Final. The Grand Final at the Sydney Opera House attracted more than 3 million viewers.
The winner of the competition was Guy Sebastian. He beat Shannon Noll who finished in 2nd place, Cosima De Vito who came in 3rd place, Paulini Curuenavuli who came in 4th place & Rob Mills who finished in 5th place. After Idol, it was these five, the Final 5, who were the most successful out of the Top 12.
Other Idol contestants from Season 1 to release music were Rebekah LaVauney, Peter Ryan and Courtney Act.
In the third semi final, just before the live verdict, one of the contestants, Anthony Sumbati, was disqualified for taking part in a radio interview without the consent of the producers. He later performed in the Grand Final as one of the performances outside the Sydney Opera House.
In the wildcard show, a contestant named Daniel Wakefield was originally meant to be in the top 12, but due to his contract, he wasn't able to be in the top 12. Instead of having one contestant chosen by the judges and the other chosen by Australia, three contestants were chosen, two by Australia and one by the judges.
Semi-finals
Group 1
Chelsea Gibson – "Beautiful" (Christina Aguilera)
Shannon Thompson – "Lately" (Stevie Wonder)
Natalie Ferguson – "Son of a Preacher Man" (Dusty Springfield)
Lorena Alegria – "To Zion" (Lauryn Hill)
Daniel Wakefield – "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
Veronica Stewart – "I Want to Know What Love Is" (Foreigner)
Peter Ryan – "Right Here Waiting" (Richard Marx)
Eli Diache – "Angel" (Sarah McLachlan)
Advancing to the Top 12: Daniel Wakefield and Peter Ryan
Wildcard Contenders: Eli Diache
Group 2
Cosima De Vito – "My Heart Will Go On" (Celine Dion)
Marc Stockley – "Let it Be" (The Beatles)
Hailey Cramer – "Run to You" (Whitney Houston)
Sidney Maynard – "Ribbon in the Sky" (Stevie Wonder)
Rebecca Tapia – "Shadowland" (from The Lion King)
Axle Whitehead – "Pastime Paradise" (Stevie Wonder)
Kelly Cavuoto – "Bring Me to Life" (Evanescence)
Mathew Chadwi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammon | Sammon may refer to:
People
Sammon (surname), notable persons with the surname Sammon
Other
Jimon and Sammon, one of the factions of Tendai Buddhism
Sammon projection, an algorithm that maps a high-dimensional space to a space of lower dimensionality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nethernet | The Nethernet (previously known as PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game) was an online game in which players "passively" participated in while browsing web pages. Players earn data points by taking missions, which they can spend on various game items that could be attached to web pages to trigger events when another player next visited that page.
The game was launched as PMOG in 2007 and underwent changes in 2009 to be rebranded as the Nethernet, although this was not completely successful and the game was shut down from August until coming back online in December 31st of that year. In its last iteration, the game would be online for some time, until it was finally shut down an unknown time after that.
Origins
One of the founding creators of The Nethernet was Justin Hall. In 2007, as a graduate student in USC's Interactive Media Division program, he developed the game concept as part of his masters thesis. The game led to the formation of GameLayers, Inc. with Nethernet co-creators Duncan Gough, and Merci Victoria Grace. A very early public version of the game was created with support from Alice Taylor and Phil Gyford. The game had an alpha release on February 5, 2007, with initial funding coming from the BBC, who were interested in exploring the potential for passive online gaming to teach web literacy. In May 2007, the game had 700 users.
The game was known as PMOG until March 2009, where it was rebranded and relaunched as The Nethernet until August 2009. At that time, the site was shut down, due to expense issues.
On December 31, 2009, Gamelayers, Inc., reported the return of The Nethernet and the game went back online. Until it went offline some unknown time after that.
Game experience
The premise of The Nethernet came from the fact that internet users spend a large portion of their time multitasking, browsing information, or contacting other people online. The Nethernet aimed to classify and allocate an individual’s internet use and then utilize the gathered information in a unique and playful manner.
The Nethernet was originally an in-browser toolbar that compensated users as they browsed the World Wide Web. The game evolved as a heads-up display overlay in the Firefox web browser. The design of the HUD and its interface allowed users to play with one another via the World Wide Web. In addition, it allowed players to create information quests, complete missions created by other users, place "mines" throughout the web to trip up other users, and place and follow "portals" to other websites.
By engaging through features of the HUD and through increased web browsing, players lose or gain data points. Data points allow users to buy different types of tools which can enhance the previously mentioned features of the HUD. In addition, accumulated data points allow users to select a character type. In total, there are six characters: three fall under the category of "Chaotic", whose roles are to place numerous mines, vengeance we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%40Home | ABC@Home was an educational and non-profit network computing project finding abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) volunteer computing platform.
In March 2011, there were more than 7,300 active participants from 114 countries with a total BOINC credit of more than 2.9 billion, reporting about 10 teraflops (10 trillion operations per second) of processing power.
In 2011, the project met its goal of finding all abc-triples of at most 18 digits. By 2015, the project had found 23.8 million triples in total, and ceased operations soon after.
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
References
External links
The Mathematical Institute of Leiden University
Science in society
Computational number theory
Volunteer computing projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindModeling%40Home | MindModeling@Home is an inactive non-profit, volunteer computing research project for the advancement of cognitive science. MindModeling@Home is hosted by Wright State University and the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.
In BOINC, it is in the area of Cognitive Science and category called Cognitive science and artificial intelligence. It can only operate on a 64-bit operating system, preferably on a computer with multiple cores, running a Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux operating system. This project is not compatible with mobile devices, unlike other projects on BOINC.
Research focus
N-2 Repetition: understanding how people have a harder time returning to a task from another one
Observing how people read through their eye movement for the purpose of helping people reduce eye strain and processing what they read better and faster.
Modeling decision-making: resolving around decisions made from visual processing (focus and filtering)
Integrated Learning Models (ILM) to create algorithms based on how people learn and make decisions
How the brain performs tasks sequentially and simultaneously by measuring its blood flow
Problems
Its status is inactive. However, it is "not down or closed," as its servers are still running.
The projects are long; prolonged amounts of computing time can overheat a computer. The solution is to stop work on the project until the computer cools down.
It is subject to power outages, as seen on October 7, 2018
When the website will be out of beta mode is unknown, as it has been in beta since 2007
Scientific results
Godwin H.J., Walenchok S. et al. Faster than the speed of rejection: Object identification processes during visual search for multiple targets. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 41-4, (2016).
Moore L. R., Gunzelmann G. An interpolation approach for fitting computationally intensive models. Cognitive Systems Research 19, (2014).
Moore L.R. Cognitive model exploration and optimization: a new challenge for computational science. Comput Math Organ Theory 17, 296–313. (2011).
Moore L.R., Kopala M., Mielke T. et al. Simultaneous performance exploration and optimized search with volunteer computing. 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, (2010).
Harris J., Gluck K.A., Moore L.R. MindModeling@Home. . . and Anywhere Else You Have Idle Processors. 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, (2009).
Gluck K., Scheutz M. Combinatorics meets processing power: Large-scale computational resources for BRIMS. 16th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, BRIMS. 1. 73-83. (2007).
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
References
External links
BOINC
Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects
Cognitive modeling
Wright State University
University of Dayton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20deduplication | In computing, data deduplication is a technique for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data. Successful implementation of the technique can improve storage utilization, which may in turn lower capital expenditure by reducing the overall amount of storage media required to meet storage capacity needs. It can also be applied to network data transfers to reduce the number of bytes that must be sent.
The deduplication process requires comparison of data 'chunks' (also known as 'byte patterns') which are unique, contiguous blocks of data. These chunks are identified and stored during a process of analysis, and compared to other chunks within existing data. Whenever a match occurs, the redundant chunk is replaced with a small reference that points to the stored chunk. Given that the same byte pattern may occur dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of times (the match frequency is dependent on the chunk size), the amount of data that must be stored or transferred can be greatly reduced.
A related technique is single-instance (data) storage, which replaces multiple copies of content at the whole-file level with a single shared copy. While possible to combine this with other forms of data compression and deduplication, it is distinct from newer approaches to data deduplication (which can operate at the segment or sub-block level).
Deduplication is different from data compression algorithms, such as LZ77 and LZ78. Whereas compression algorithms identify redundant data inside individual files and encodes this redundant data more efficiently, the intent of deduplication is to inspect large volumes of data and identify large sections – such as entire files or large sections of files – that are identical, and replace them with a shared copy.
Functioning principle
For example, a typical email system might contain 100 instances of the same 1 MB (megabyte) file attachment. Each time the email platform is backed up, all 100 instances of the attachment are saved, requiring 100 MB storage space. With data deduplication, only one instance of the attachment is actually stored; the subsequent instances are referenced back to the saved copy for deduplication ratio of roughly 100 to 1. Deduplication is often paired with data compression for additional storage saving: Deduplication is first used to eliminate large chunks of repetitive data, and compression is then used to efficiently encode each of the stored chunks.
In computer code, deduplication is done by, for example, storing information in variables so that they don't have to be written out individually but can be changed all at once at a central referenced location. Examples are CSS classes and named references in MediaWiki.
Benefits
Storage-based data deduplication reduces the amount of storage needed for a given set of files. It is most effective in applications where many copies of very similar or even identical data are stored on a single disk. In the case of data backups, which routinely are perfor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20for%20Terra | Battle for Terra, originally screened as Terra, is a 2007 American computer-animated action-adventure science fiction film, based on the short film Terra, about a race of beings on a peaceful alien planet who face destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human race. The film was directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas who conceived it as a hard-edged live action feature with photo-real Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) environments. The close collaboration with producing partner and investor Snoot Entertainment redirected the project to become fully animated and appeal to younger audiences. The film features the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, Brian Cox and James Garner (In his last major film role before his death) among others.
It premiered on September 8, 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was widely released in the United States on May 1, 2009. The film was originally shot in 2D but was made in such a way that a second camera could be added to the film. After the film was shown at festivals and distributors showed an interest in it, a small team was hired to render the entire film again from the perspective of the second camera for a true 3D effect. It won the Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature at the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Plot
Mala and her friend Senn are young creatures of an alien race that inhabits Terra, a peaceful, near Earth-like planet that is part of a star system in the Milky Way galaxy and has a rich and advanced culture.
One day, a large, mysterious object partially blocks the Terrian sun, piquing the Terrians' interest. Mala, who is inventive and headstrong, goes against the Terrian rules that ban the development of new technologies without the approval of the ruling council and creates a telescope. She takes it outside the city and uses it to view the object. Recon ships emerge from the large object, come down to the city and start abducting Terrians. Some willingly offer themselves to the spaceships mistaking them as their new "gods".
After Mala's father, Roven, is abducted, she lures a ship into a trap, causing it to crash. She saves the pilot, a human named Lieutenant James "Jim" Stanton. After his personal robot assistant, Giddy, warns Mala that Jim will die without oxygen, absent on the planet, she scavenges suitable plants and creates a tent in which Jim can breathe. In exchange, Giddy teaches her human language. Jim awakes and finds out his ship is damaged beyond repair. Giddy tells Mala why the humans have come: centuries beforehand, both Mars and Venus were terraformed and colonized by humans for their natural resources. 200 years later, the planets demanded independence from Earth, to no avail. This dispute escalated into a violent interplanetary war that rendered all three planets uninhabitable. The mysterious object in the sky is The Ark, a generation ship containing the remnants of the human race, traveling for several generations in search for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20change | Identity change describes the intentional changes to an identity document or digital identity. The topic is of particular interest in "faceless" financial transactions and computer security. There are several different parties who may initiate the change:
A first party. the original bearer of an identity may initiate the change
A second party, who wishes to use the identity, may initiate the change
A third party may initiate an identity change
In some instances, multiple parties cooperate to change an identity.
Identity change can be categorized in several ways:
Identity takeover (identity theft / identity fraud)
Identity delegation
Identity exchange
Identity deletion
Identity restoration
See also
Identity management
Biometrics
Witness protection
References
Sources
Top Five Reasons Why People Change Their Identity
ID-related Crime: Towards a Common Ground for Interdisciplinary Research
Myth Of Identity Change
Identity management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20mind | Artificial mind can refer to :
Artificial consciousness
Artificial intelligence
A shortened version of the prior name of the Canadian video game development company Behaviour Interactive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoanalysis | Photoanalysis (or photo analysis) refers to the study of pictures to compile various types of data, for example, to measure the size distribution of virtually anything that can be captured by photo. Photoanalysis technology has changed the way mines and mills quantify fragmented material.
Images are a good way to document conditions before, after, and even during blasting activities. The technology is advancing at a high rate, and lenses, storage media memory, light sensitivity and resolution have been improving steadily. Today's digital cameras and camcorders include high-resolution optics, compact size, automatic time and date stamps, good battery life, shutters to freeze motion, and computers to autofocus and eliminate jitter using image stabilization.
Mining
Photoanalysis in mining operations can provide an automated system that forewarns a company of potential problems with materials, leading to economies and reduced damage caused from over-sized materials. It can also help determine the effectiveness of blasts.
A company can use this technology to monitor materials moving on a conveyor belt in an underground environment, to measure piles left over from a blast, and even measure the amount of material being carried by dump trucks or vessels to a destination.
Photoanalysis is being used on SAG mills worldwide to control the size of rock being crushed. Companies are using this technology to determine the size of particles being processed in the SAG Mill. Having oversize material entering the SAG mill makes an operation less efficient, costing companies money in electrical and maintenance costs. Photoanalysis technology can eliminate unwanted material before it enters the mill, keeping rock crushing costs low.
Forestry
Wood chip size can affect the overall quality of a product. With automated photoanalysis systems, companies can remove any unwanted wrong-size particles without stopping their mill process.
Photoanalysis can affect how efficiently forestry companies operate. In mills worldwide, photoanalysis technology is improving the use of lumber products, cutting back on the amount of trees being used to operate, and saving companies money through quality control optimization.
With the current downturn in the North American forestry industry, operators are looking at making their mills more efficient and effective when processing materials. Photoanalysis technology helps identify any weaknesses in the process by continuously monitoring different sections of an operation.
Agriculture
Agricultural companies can, using photoanalysis, monitor conveyor belts of food without contaminating the product by touching it. Other benefits of photoanalysis systems include:
Automated removal of any unwanted material on food conveyor
Improved quality control for the most important parts of the agricultural process
Pinpoint accuracy that helps the efficiency and effectiveness of product handling techniques
The importance of photoanalys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virola%20cuspidata | Virola cuspidata is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae.
References
cuspidata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Juramento | El Juramento (Secret Lies) is the title of a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. It was a limited-run series that debuted in the US on June 30, 2008. It was based on Caridad Bravo Adams's story La Mentira (The Lie), previously adapted for television in 1965 and 1998. The show starred Natalia Streignard, Osvaldo Ríos, Ricardo Chávez and Dominika Paleta, and is also known as Secret Lies.
BTV started to air this telenovela on November 13, 2008 in Bulgaria. Fox Televizija started to air this telenovela on January 5, 2009 in Serbia.
Story
El Juramento tells the story of Santiago, a dashing hero who sets out to avenge the death of his brother, Diego. He discovers that Diego killed himself after the beautiful Alma, a depraved gold-digger, aborted a child that she falsely claimed was Diego's and refused his marriage proposal via a "Dear John" letter. Thanks to the village inhabitants - who at first are hostile but become friendly - Santiago discovers pieces of the puzzle that led to the tragedy. Yet all he knows of the mysterious woman's identity is a necklace, a gift from Alma and her cousin Andrea's late grandfather. The two cousins own identical necklaces each of which has a gold letter "A."
Santiago seeks revenge on the faithless lover. The clues bring him to a hacienda in Mexico, where Diego was once a trusted worker. A wealthy man, Teodoro Robles Conde,
owns the house and lives with his two nieces—and our hero knows one of them caused Diego's suicide, but which one?
Santiago meets the pair of rich, gorgeous cousins, treacherous Alma and virtuous Andrea. The first time he sees Alma, she is wearing Andrea's necklace, because Alma left her own necklace in Diego's possession. At first, Santiago acknowledges that either of the cousins might be the guilty one. Partly as a result of a series of mishaps and false rumors, mostly contrived and spread by Alma, but also because Santiago is attracted to Andrea and assumes his brother would have preferred Andrea, too, Santiago decides that Andrea is the one who betrayed Diego. He decides to make her life miserable as revenge for his brother's death. As a result, Andrea endangers herself for her cousin's wrongdoings.
Santiago unleashes his vengeful plan: He flirts with Andrea, seduces her and makes her fall in love to the extreme of making her his bride. After the wedding, he drags her to the small remote village where Diego killed himself. Santiago does not see that both he and Andrea are really victims of Alma, whose angelic face hides a demonic soul. Meanwhile, Santiago finds himself falling in love with Andrea but fights hard to resist his feelings in order to keep his oath to Diego.
When Santiago finds out the truth, it seems that all is lost. Andrea abandons him because he did not trust her. Alma goes unpunished for her deeds while her Aunt Luisa covers her trail. The journey of deception leads to intrigue, passion, confusion, revelati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Online%20Forensic%20Evidence%20Extractor | Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) is a tool kit, developed by Microsoft, to help computer forensic investigators extract evidence from a Windows computer. Installed on a USB flash drive or other external disk drive, it acts as an automated forensic tool during a live analysis. Microsoft provides COFEE devices and online technical support free to law enforcement agencies.
Development and distribution
COFEE was developed by Anthony Fung, a former Hong Kong police officer who now works as a senior investigator on Microsoft's Internet Safety Enforcement Team. Fung conceived the device following discussions he had at a 2006 law enforcement technology conference sponsored by Microsoft. The device is used by more than 2,000 officers in at least 15 countries.
A case cited by Microsoft in April 2008 credits COFEE as being crucial in a New Zealand investigation into the trafficking of child pornography, producing evidence that led to an arrest.
In April 2009 Microsoft and Interpol signed an agreement under which INTERPOL would serve as principal international distributor of COFEE. University College Dublin's Center for Cyber Crime Investigations in conjunction with Interpol develops programs for training forensic experts in using COFEE. The National White Collar Crime Center has been licensed by Microsoft to be the sole US domestic distributor of COFEE.
Public leak
On November 6, 2009, copies of Microsoft COFEE were leaked onto various torrent websites. Analysis of the leaked tool indicates that it is largely a wrapper around other utilities previously available to investigators. Microsoft confirmed the leak; however a spokesperson for the firm said "We do not anticipate the possible availability of COFEE for cybercriminals to download and find ways to ‘build around' to be a significant concern".
Use
The device is activated by being plugged into a USB port. It contains 150 tools and a graphical user interface to help investigators collect data. The software is reported to be made up of three sections. First COFEE is configured in advance with an investigator selecting the data they wish to export, this is then saved to a USB device for plugging into the target computer. A further interface generates reports from the collected data. Estimates cited by Microsoft state jobs that previously took 3–4 hours can be done with COFEE in as little as 20 minutes.
COFEE includes tools for password decryption, Internet history recovery and other data extraction. It also recovers data stored in volatile memory which could be lost if the computer were shut down.
DECAF
In mid to late 2009 a tool named Detect and Eliminate Computer Acquired Forensics (DECAF) was announced by an uninvolved group of programmers. The tool would reportedly protect computers against COFEE and render the tool ineffective. It alleged that it would provide real-time monitoring of COFEE signatures on USB devices and in running applications and that when a COFEE signatur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Net | ONE-NET is an open-source standard for wireless networking.
ONE-NET was designed for low-cost, low-power (battery-operated) control networks for applications such as home automation, security & monitoring, device control, and sensor networks. ONE-NET is not tied to any proprietary hardware or software, and can be implemented with a variety of low-cost off-the-shelf radio transceivers and micro controllers from a number of different manufacturers.
Wireless Transmission
ONE-NET uses UHF ISM radio transceivers and currently operates in the 868 MHz and 915 MHz frequencies with 25 channels available for use in the United States. The ONE-NET standard allows for implementation on other frequencies, and some work is being done to implement it in the 433 MHz and 2.4 GHz frequency ranges.
ONE-NET utilizes Wideband FSK (Frequency-shift keying) to encode data for transmission.
ONE-NET features a dynamic data rate protocol with a base data rate of 38.4 kbit/s. The specification allows per-node dynamic data rate configuration for data rates up to 230 kbit/s.
Network Characteristics
ONE-NET supports star, peer-to-peer and multi-hop topology. Star network topology can be used to lower complexity and cost of peripherals, and also simplifies encryption key management. In peer-to-peer mode, a master device configures and authorizes peer-to-peer transactions. Employing repeaters and a configurable repetition radius multi-hop mode allows to cover larger areas or route around dead areas. Mesh routing is not supported.
Outdoor peer-to-peer range has been measured to over 500 m, indoor peer-to-peer range has been demonstrated from 60 m to over 100 m, and mesh mode can extend operational range to several kilometers.
Simple, block, and streaming transactions are supported.
Simple transactions typically use message types as defined by the ONE-NET protocol to exchange sensor data such as temperature or energy consumption, and control data such as on/off messages. Simple transactions use encryption techniques to avoid susceptibility to replay attacks.
Block transactions can be used to transmit larger blocks of data than simple messages. Block transactions consist of multiple packets containing up to 58 bytes per packet. Blocks transactions can transfer up to 65,535 bytes per block.
Streaming transactions are similar in format to block transactions but do not require retransmission of lost data packets.
Power Management
ONE-NET is optimized for low power consumption such as battery-powered peripherals. Low-duty-cycle battery-powered ONE-NET devices such as window sensors, moisture detectors, etc. can achieve a three to five year battery life with “AA” or "AAA" alkaline cells.
Dynamic power adjustment allows signal strength info to be used to scale back transmit power to conserve battery power. High data rates and short packet sizes minimize Transceiver On time. Further power efficiency can be gained utilizing deterministic sleep periods for client devices.
Sec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar%20Corporation | Psystar Corporation was a company based in Miami, Florida, owned by Rudy and Robert Pedraza who sold "Open Computers" though one article claimed "Psystar, run by HyperMegaNet, based in Wolfsburg, Germany, currently ships to 23 destinations including the UK via delivery firm DHL."
These computers, first announced in April 2008, had the option of being pre-installed with Mac OS X Leopard, making them the first commercially distributed "hackintosh" computers. In November 2009, a U.S. Federal District Court ruled Psystar violated Apple's copyrights in doing so. Some of Apple's "trade secrets" officially entered into public view as a result of the lawsuit in January 2012.
Open computers
Psystar's computers were initially called "OpenMac" but were later renamed "Open Computers." The units sold can run different operating systems but the company chose to install Mac OS X from a copy bought from Apple. It was revealed that Psystar installed this on a Mac Mini and copied it to a non-Apple computer used as an imaging station, which created the master image of the operating system using Psystar's bootloader and kernel extensions. This image was reproduced and installed on OpenComputer units. The Mac Mini was also used to download Mac OS X updates that were ported to OpenComputer machines.
Rebel EFI
In October 2009, Psystar released an EFI boot disk in its web store. The Rebel EFI was a shareware product that included a modified bootloader bundled with other software tools that allow users to install Mac OS X to any PC-based machine. The Rebel EFI was not an original work of Psystar but was based on an open source program called boot-132 from the OSx86 Project.
Early concerns
Early efforts to research Psystar shortly after their announcement of a Mac clone in April 2008 resulted in questions regarding the company's very existence and just how legitimate they were. Several addresses were provided (five in four days) and Psystar was taking credit card numbers but not processing them because their processing company, Powerpay, had revoked Psystar's account "for three primary reasons: product/services not as represented in application, sales volumes grossly exceeded, no address verification utilized"; and there were claims that their website had malware on it.
The developers of the OSx86 Project claimed that Psystar did not get permission to use their code and then reworked their license so that it specifically forbids commercial usage.
As part of Apple's discovery process it was revealed that in 2008 Psystar presented a slide presentation in hope of raising $24 million from investors. "Under its conservative projections, Psystar told investors it would sell 70,000 computers in 2009, 470,000 systems in 2010, and 1.45 million machines in 2011. The firm's aggressive growth model, however, put those numbers at 130,000, 1.87 million, and 12 million during 2009, 2010, and 2011, respectively."
However, the reality was quite different. "Psystar produced i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari%20Wolfe | Ari Michael Wolfe (born January 7, 1971) is an American sportscaster. Wolfe currently calls events for ESPN, Stadium Network, Tennis Channel, the Kansas City Chiefs, Pac-12 Networks, and NBC Sports. Additionally, Wolfe serves as an anchor and reporter for the NFL Network. Wolfe is a 2-time NBC Sports Olympic broadcaster and a 2-time Emmy award winner for his work in college sports.
Early life and career
Wolfe was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Wolfe graduated from Emory University in 1994. He later earned his master's degree at USC. As a student Wolfe did both play-by-play and color commentary for the Trojans' basketball, football, and baseball teams on KSCR (104.7 FM) in Los Angeles. He also hosted the sports talk show Blackjack and the Wolfe Attack.
Before moving into commentary, Wolfe worked out of Los Angeles as a Highlight Coordinator, creating highlight packages of NFL football games for Fox NFL Sunday. He held similar responsibilities for Fox’s coverage of the NHL and MLB.
Broadcasting career
Since graduating from USC in 1997, Wolfe has called games in college and professional sports. He currently calls events for NFL Network, ESPN, the Kansas City Chiefs, CBS Sports Network, Tennis Channel, Pac-12 Networks, NBC Sports and Stadium Network. Since 2009, Wolfe also serves as an anchor and reporter for NFL Network. He is a two-time Emmy winner.
Beginning in 2019, Wolfe is the play-by-play announcer for the Kansas City Chiefs preseason games. He previously has called preseason games for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2005 and for the Minnesota Vikings from 2007-2011. For the 2014 NFL preseason, Wolfe called games with Kurt Warner for NFL Network broadcasts.
Wolfe currently calls college football and college basketball for ESPN and Stadium Network with games airing on Facebook. He joined Stadium in 2014 and his primary role is calling Mountain West Conference games. 2009 marked the beginning of Wolfe's work for MTN and BTN. Wolfe served as the play-by-play announcer for football, and men's basketball games. Wolfe left BTN following the 2010 season, while his work with the Mountain West Conference continued until the network ceased operations in 2012. Wolfe has since called Mountain West football games for Root Sports and the Mountain West Network. Wolfe won his 2nd Emmy for his work during the 2014 Mountain West college football season on Root Sports.
Wolfe began calling tennis for the Tennis Channel in 2017 and at the start of 2019, he agreed to a long-term contract to work at Tennis Channel thru 2022. For the 2019 Mountain West Tennis Championships, Wolfe served as the analyst on the Mountain West Digital Network.
In 1998, Wolfe began his play-by-play career as the voice of the Albany Firebirds, serving in that role for six seasons. When the Firebirds left the Arena Football League (AFL), Wolfe was hired to be the play-by-play voice for the Philadelph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTC%20Information%20Interchange%20Model | The Information Interchange Model (IIM) is a file structure and set of metadata attributes that can be applied to text, images and other media types. It was developed in the early 1990s by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) to expedite the international exchange of news among newspapers and news agencies.
The full IIM specification includes a complex data structure and a set of metadata definitions.
Although IIM was intended for use with all types of news items — including simple text articles — a subset found broad worldwide acceptance as the standard embedded metadata used by news and commercial photographers. Information such as the name of the photographer, copyright information and the caption or other description can be embedded either manually or automatically.
IIM metadata embedded in images are often referred to as "IPTC headers", and can be easily encoded and decoded by most popular photo editing software.
The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) has largely superseded IIM's file structure, but the IIM image attributes are defined in the IPTC Core schema for XMP and most image manipulation programs keep the XMP and non-XMP IPTC attributes synchronized.
Because of its nearly universal acceptance among photographers — even amateurs — this is by far IPTC's most widely used standard. On the other hand, the use of IIM structure and metadata for text and graphics is mainly limited to European news agencies.
Overview
IIM attributes are widely used and supported by many image creation and manipulation programs. Almost all the IIM attributes are supported by the Exchangeable image file format (Exif), a specification for the image file format used by digital cameras.
IIM metadata can be embedded into JPEG/Exif, TIFF, JPEG2000 or Portable Network Graphics formatted image files. Other file formats such as GIF or PCX do not support IIM.
IIM's file structure technology has largely been overtaken by the Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP), but the IIM attribute definitions are the basis for the IPTC Core schema for XMP.
History
Since the late 1970s the IPTC’s activities have primarily focused on developing and publishing industry standards for the interchange of news. The first standard, IPTC 7901, bridged the eras of teleprinters and computers.
In the late 1980s development began on a standard (the Information Interchange Model) that would be designed to best work with computerized news editing systems.
In particular, the IPTC defined a set of IIM metadata attributes that can be applied to images. These were defined originally in 1979, and revised significantly in 1991 to be part of the IIM, but the concept really advanced in 1994 when Adobe Systems defined a specification for actually embedding the metadata into digital image files — yielding "IPTC headers."
(Adobe adopted the IPTC IIM metadata definitions, but not the overall IIM data structure. Photos that contain IPTC Headers appear in all other respects to be no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narelda%20Jacobs | Narelda Jacobs is a Whadjuk Noongar Australian television presenter and journalist with Network 10 and NITV in Sydney Australia. Her career at Network 10 has spanned more than two decades. Narelda is currently a co-host of Studio 10 and presenter of the one-hour national news bulletin 10 News First: Midday, and a co-host of The Point which airs each week on NITV. She was formerly a news presenter for 10 News First in Perth, Western Australia since 2008. She is the first Aboriginal, and first openly lesbian, newsreader in Australia.
Early life and education
Jacobs, of Whadjuk Noongar heritage, was raised in Perth. Her father, Cedric Jacobs, was a Uniting Church minister and her mother, Margaret, was also involved in the ministry. She has said that she was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household, and attended born-again churches until her late teens.
Jacobs was the youngest of five daughters. Her mother was born in Belfast and of Irish and English descent, while her father was a Whadjuk Noongar man and a member of the Stolen Generation. He was active in Aboriginal politics, and journalists would often be at their house or talking with him on the phone. He was part of the National Aboriginal Conference delegation that to the United Nations in Geneva in 1981.
Jacobs and her parents were always interested in what was making the news. Jacobs says she decided in Year 7 that she wanted to pursue a career in journalism. She attended Hampton Senior High School.
After finishing high school, Jacobs applied to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) but was not accepted. She got her first job working at the front desk of the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT) and soon moved to their media department. Shortly afterwards, at 18, Jacobs became pregnant to her boyfriend of two years. She got married due to family pressure and her religious upbringing but six months after the birth of her daughter, the marriage ended.
With the support of her family, Jacobs returned to work at the NNTT. After working for the NNTT for five years, Jacobs reapplied for WAAPA at the encouragement of her boss. She was successful and began a degree in broadcast journalism at WAAPA.
Career
After graduation, Jacobs began her career at GWN in Bunbury. She joined Ten News in Perth in 2000, eventually becoming their court reporter, and also filling in as weather presenter over summer. In 2008, Network Ten announced that production of their Perth news bulletin would return to Perth from Sydney, and selected Jacobs as the new presenter.
Jacobs is the first Aboriginal, and first openly lesbian newsreader in Western Australia. She publicly supported a "Yes" vote in the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.
In March 2019, Jacobs co-hosted SBS's broadcast of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. She co-hosted again in 2020 and 2021.
On 13 January 2020 Jacobs relocated to Sydney, after 20 years at 10 News First Perth, to join the Studio 10 morning talk sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoon Network is a pan-Asian television channel that primarily broadcasts animated series. Operated by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division, the channel is broadcast from its headquarters in Singapore and Jakarta, Indonesia to audiences in its country of location, as well as to Hong Kong and several areas in the Asian continent. It was launched on October 6, 1994.
History
1990s
In January 1994, it was announced that TNT and Cartoon Network will launch by the end of the year. It was supposedly launch as 24-hour services on the Apstar 2 satellite service.
On 6 October 1994, Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific launched Cartoon Network Asia on both Apstar 1 and Palapa-B2P. The channel was launched at 12:00 pm (SG/HK time). It was broadcast for 14 hours between 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., while Turner Classic Movies (formerly TNT) taking the remainder of the daily schedule and broadcast 10 hours of movie programming from Turner's libraries. During that time, Cartoon Network Asia was originally a 24-hour cable and satellite TV channel devoted to animated cartoons and classic films called TNT & Cartoon Network Asia and the service only had 4 different audio tracks including English, Mandarin, Thai and Japanese. Originally devoted to classic animated cartoons from studios such as Warner Bros., MGM and Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network Asia has since expanded to include more contemporary programming as well as its original productions, starting with its first original series to air in Asia in 1997 called Dexter’s Laboratory. By 31 December 1995, TNT & Cartoon Network Asia was broadcast around 20 countries and territories across pan-Asia via satellite.
Sometime during the 1990s, Cartoon Network Asia launched a separate 24-hour feed of its service on the PAS-2 satellite along with TNT Asia.
On 4 January 1999, Cartoon Network Asia began to offer Hindi-dubbed versions of its shows in addition to English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Filipino and Malay including Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, The Mask: The Animated Series, The Addams Family, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Captain Planet and certain other select programs.
On 22 August 1999, Cartoon Network Asia was rebranded, introducing new bumpers, new original productions and a new graphical package.
2000s
In 2000, other non-original shows were introduced. Also, throughout the early 2000s, Cartoon Network Asia began airing several more original productions.
In 2001, a programming block called Cartoon Cartoons was introduced. Cartoon Network Asia also introduced other programming blocks including Toonami, Acme Hour, Prime Time, the Boomerang block (now a TV channel), and Cartoon Network Night Shift.
On 1 July 2001, Cartoon Network Asia officially became a separate 24-hour channel along with its country-specific feeds for India, the Philippines, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand and TCM Asia.
In 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLCF-LD | WLCF-LD (channel 45) is a low-power television station in Decatur, Illinois, United States, owned and operated by the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's transmitter is located north of Oreana, Illinois. WLCF-LD offers 24-hour religious programming, much of which is produced either locally or at the CTN home base in Clearwater, Florida.
CTN acquired WLCF from another religious broadcaster, Believers Broadcasting Corporation, in February 2008.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Official website
LCF-LD
Christian Television Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1993
1993 establishments in Illinois
Decatur, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia%20National%20and%20Provincial%20Resources%20Data%20Bank | The Cambodia National and Provincial Resources Data Bank is an online collection of data about Cambodia. It was prepared by the Cambodian Ministry of Commerce with funding from the World Bank and is designed to be accessible to entrepreneurs and investors. It includes information related to human resources, education, business, tourism, culture, environment, geology, infrastructure, transport, international trade, agriculture, investment, and geography.
References
External links
Cambodia National and Provincial Resources Data Bank home page
Cambodian websites
Government-owned websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-oriented%20programming | In computing, subject-oriented programming is an object-oriented software paradigm in which the state (fields) and behavior (methods) of objects are not seen as intrinsic to the objects themselves, but are provided by various subjective perceptions ("subjects") of the objects. The term and concepts were first published in September 1993 in a conference paper which was later recognized as being one of the three most influential papers to be presented at the conference between 1986 and 1996. As illustrated in that paper, an analogy is made with the contrast between the philosophical views of Plato and Kant with respect to the characteristics of "real" objects, but applied to software ones. For example, while we may all perceive a tree as having a measurable height, weight, leaf-mass, etc., from the point of view of a bird, a tree may also have measures of relative value for food or nesting purposes, or from the point of view of a tax-assessor, it may have a certain taxable value in a given year. Neither the bird's nor the tax-assessor's additional state information need be seen as intrinsic to the tree, but are added by the perceptions of the bird and tax-assessor, and from Kant's analysis, the same may be true even of characteristics we think of as intrinsic.
Subject-oriented programming advocates the organization of the classes that describe objects into "subjects", which may be composed to form larger subjects. At points of access to fields or methods, several subjects' contributions may be composed. These points were characterized as the join-points of the subjects. For example, if a tree is cut down, the methods involved may need to join behavior in the bird and tax-assessor's subjects with that of the tree's own. It is therefore fundamentally a view of the compositional nature of software development, as opposed to the algorithmic (procedural) or representation-hiding (object) nature.
Relationships
Relationship to aspect-oriented programming
The introduction of aspect-oriented programming in 1997 raised questions about its relationship to subject-oriented programming, and about the difference between subjects and aspects. These questions were unanswered for some time, but were addressed in the patent on Aspect-oriented programming filed in 1999 in which two points emerge as characteristic differences from earlier art:
the aspect program comprises both a) a cross-cut that comprises a point in the execution where cross-cutting behavior is to be included; and b) a cross-cut action comprising a piece of implementation associated with the cross-cut, the piece of implementation comprising computer readable program code that implements the cross-cutting behavior.
the aspect transparently forces the cross-cutting behavior on object classes and other software entities
In the subject-oriented view, the cross-cut may be placed separately from the aspect (subject) and the behavior is not forced by the aspect, but governed by rules of composition. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Radulovi%C4%87 | Nina Radulović (; born 15 May 1986) is a Serbian television presenter on Prva TV. She is best known for her hosting duties on “The Stars Sing for Them” and Survivor Srbija on the FOX Serbia network (now PRVA TV).
Education and career
Born in Belgrade in 1986, she finished primary and secondary school in her hometown, and later graduated and obtained Master's thesis at the University of Belgrade.
Her first television appearance was when she competed in the 2007–08 RTS reality series “Euro Face” to determine the co-hosts of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. Nina was a finalist but lost in the final vote. She was a co-host of the "Eurovision Countdown" show in 2008.
Since September 2008, she began working on the FOX Serbia network by hosting the show Survivor Special. The show accompanied the first season of Survivor Srbija, the highly successful Serbian version of the reality show Survivor. Survivor Special aired from October 2008 to February 2009. Nina Radulović was to host the show again for its second season, starting September 2009.
As of April 2009, she began hosting the television show "The stars sing for them", also aired on FOX.
References
External links
Nina Radulović RTS page
1986 births
Living people
Television people from Belgrade
Serbian television presenters
Serbian women television presenters
University of Belgrade alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMPI | EMPI may refer to:
Enterprise master patient index, a large-scale medical records database system
EMPI, American manufacturers of various aftermarket parts for air-cooled Volkswagens and the EMPI Imp.
See also
ENPI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201910 | The following is a list of films produced in Italy in 1910:
External links
Italian films of 1910 at the Internet Movie Database
1910
Italian
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201911 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1911 (see 1911 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1911 at the Internet Movie Database
1911
Italian
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201912 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1912 (see 1912 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1912 at the Internet Movie Database
1912
Italian
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201913 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1913 (see 1913 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1913 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1913
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201914 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1914 (see 1914 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1914 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1914
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201915 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1915 (see 1915 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1915 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1915
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201916 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1916 (see 1916 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1916 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1916
Films |
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