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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Doogie%20Howser%2C%20M.D.%20episodes | The episode list for the television series Doogie Howser, M.D., including descriptions, given in broadcast order on its original network ABC. There are a total of 97 episodes produced and broadcast among its four seasons from September 20, 1989, to March 24, 1993.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1989–1990)
Season 2 (1990–91)
Season 3 (1991–92)
Season 4 (1992–93)
References
External links
Lists of American comedy-drama television series episodes
Lists of American sitcom episodes
Lists of medical television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20criticism | Television criticism (also called TV criticism or TV reviewing) is the act of writing or speaking about television programming to subjectively evaluate its worth, meaning, and other aspects. It is often found in newspapers, television programs, radio broadcasts, Internet and specialist periodicals and books.
While originally developed to critique content for children, it has been used to critique how various issues and topics are presented on television, including race and feminity. Relations with audiences and networks are important to critics, but problems can arise with both.
Overview
Television criticism originally began as a way to analyze the shows children were watching, and to make sure they were getting quality educational content. Originally being defined as visual literacy, the term changed in the 1990s to media literacy. The purpose of television criticism is to evaluate the content of television and make a judgement about shows' messages and/or quality. Television criticism often includes interpretation and the creation of an argument to support the interpretation given. Television criticism often recommends or condemns programs in critics' writings.
Broadcast networks often provide forums for television criticism. Examples of this include The Review Show on BBC Four in the United Kingdom, which hosts a monthly discussion on the arts, often including a television series. Television criticism is also often spread via the internet and media.
Television can be criticized in a variety of ways, including quality evaluation and content interpretation.
Perspective-based criticism
Viewing television from specific viewpoints can impact how it is interpreted. Authors of such perspective-based criticism may feel that such viewpoints are underrepresented in mainstream television criticism. Perspective-based television criticism focuses on viewing programs with the explicit purpose of critiquing by specifically analyzing the perspectives of female characters from a feminist perspective, or by critically analyzing representations of racial diversity from a racially diverse perspective. This may involve analysis of character portrayals, messages/purposes, and themes explored in the program. Perspective-based criticism seeks to discuss issues specific to groups within society. A prominent perspective-based television critic is Herman Grey, who has discussed racially diverse television criticism at length and categorized it at length, including assimilation and multiculturalism.
Issues in criticism
Television criticism is sometimes regarded as a mode of advertising for television networks. This is because critics can be seen as authorities and their opinions can form audience opinions on programs.
Additionally, critics and networks have sometimes been in conflict over the content of shows.
Relationship with readers
Most critics admit that they take in industrial factors, such as commercial viability, when reviewing a show, but also consid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Hispanic%20Communicators | The Dallas/Fort Worth Network of Hispanic Communicators or Hispanic Communicators - DFW is an organization composed of working print and broadcast journalists, public relations professionals and members of the media community. The organization was founded in 1981 and has been influential in the shaping of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and other journalism organizations in North Texas.
The nonprofit, non-partisan organization serves as a professional support and advocacy association for professional communicators in the DFW area. NHC is affiliated with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and is now an official DFW chapter of the organization.
The mission of the organization is to nurture—through mentoring and scholarships—young Hispanics interested in entering the field of communications. The group also strives to further the employment and career opportunities of Hispanics in the news media, and provide a forum for issues important to the Hispanic community.
External links
Official site
Professional associations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical%20Operations%20System | In the telecommunications industry, a Geographical Operations System (GOS) is an integrated process that combines data integration with geographic mapping capabilities within telecommunications companies. This system encompasses the integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Operational Support Systems (OSS) to facilitate the seamless exchange of information among employees.
GOS Software
GOS software relies on a central repository for critical data to foster better communication between the various branches of a telecom. GOS software may offer companies a means to achieve technological convergence in their marketed products. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is utilized to create a discernible pathway for retrieving information from GOS software for a range of employees that may not be familiar with database protocols. The software creates a channel within a company for experts to share information on the various aspects of the telecommunications company, thus opening the spread of information and increasing efficiency for employees.
Uniqueness
The increasing pressures of competition and expansion in the telecommunications market have driven many vendors in the field to reassess the internal organization and cooperation. Technological innovation has introduced greater capacity and capabilities in the telecommunications market, but also added complexity for many companies, as they attempt to develop commercial offerings with an ever-growing list of products and services. A Geographical Operations Systems meshes the importance of Geographical Information Systems – which provides the ability to store data in a geographically-correct map – with the reliance of telecommunications companies on Operational Support Systems as a way to categorize and maintain customer and equipment records.
The Geographical Operations System simplifies interoperability in a telecommunications company by converging resources that may be stored in different programming languages from across the company into a single software program to be utilized by customer satisfaction representatives, equipment technicians, telecommunications engineers, and the accounting department, among others. Information is made general and uniform throughout a company to allow independent employees to carry out tasks without seeking out the expertise and time of coworkers.
Further reading
Flournoy, Chuck (March–April 2008), “Tearing Down the Walls: Using Data Integration to Rethink Telecom Operations Management”, Rural Telecommunications magazine.
References
Geographic information systems
Information systems
Telecommunications systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinUSB | WinUSB is a generic USB driver provided by Microsoft, for their operating systems starting with Windows Vista but which is also available for Windows XP. It is aimed at simple devices that are accessed by only one application at a time (for example instruments like weather stations, devices that only need a diagnostic connection or for firmware upgrades). It enables the application to directly access the device through a simple software library. The library provides access to the pipes of the device. WinUSB exposes a client API that enables developers to work with USB devices from user-mode. Starting with Windows 7, USB MTP devices use WinUSB instead of the kernel mode filter driver.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
Doesn't require the knowledge to write a driver
Speeds up development
Disadvantages
Only one application can access the device at a time
Doesn't support isochronous transfers prior to Windows 8.1
Doesn't support USB Reset (as requested by DFU protocol for example)
On other operating systems, the device still needs a custom driver
WCID
A WCID device, where WCID stands for "Windows Compatible ID", is a USB device that provides extra information to a Windows system, in order to facilitate automated driver installation and, in most circumstances, allow immediate access. WCID allows a device to be used by a Windows application almost as soon as it is plugged in, as opposed to the usual scenario where a USB device that is neither HID nor Mass Storage requires end-users to perform a manual driver installation. As such, WCID can bring the 'Plug-and-Play' functionality of HID and Mass Storage to any USB device (that sports a WCID aware firmware).WCID is an extension of the WinUSB Device functionality.
Other solutions
One solution is the use of a predefined USB device class. Operating systems provide built-in drivers for some of them. The most widely used device class for embedded devices is the USB communications device class (CDC). A CDC device can appear as a virtual serial port to simplify the use of a new device for older applications.
Another solution is UsbDk. UsbDk supports all device types including isochronous and provides simpler way for device access acquisition that does not involve INF files creation and installation. UsbDk is open source, community supported and works on all Windows versions starting from Windows XP.
If the previous solutions are inappropriate, one can write a custom driver. For newer versions of Microsoft Windows, it can be done using the Windows Driver Foundation.
References
The newest version can be found at USB.org
Windows components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey%20Silverstone | Abbey Silverstone is an early executive in the computer industry. He co-founded Silicon Graphics (SGI) with Jim Clark, and its first Vice President of Operations.
Silverstone has a BS in Industrial Administration from the University of Illinois where, as a student, he worked with the IBM 650 in the registration and grading process. He had an athletic fencing career which included three years as an all-American and a gold medal in the 1958 NCAA championships. He represented Canada at the World fencing championships in 1958, the Pan-American games in 1959 (bronze medal) and the Maccabean games in 1961 (3 bronze medals).
He relocated to California in 1965. In 1973, at Xerox Corp., he worked on the development and production of the first corporate networked office. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) developed a network, including some of the first personal computers (Alto), the first high speed monochrome laser printers, the first color laser printer, and the first Ethernet-based corporate-wide electronic network. In 1977, a complete network modeled on the Xerox network was installed in President Jimmy Carter’s White House.
In 1981, Silverstone provided Xerox with the packaging design for the first commercial workstation the Xerox Star 8010. In 1982, Jim Clark, Silverstone, and some graduate students from Stanford University, founded Silicon Graphics. Silverstone managed the Operations Division until 1988 when he began a consulting career.
Silverstone became President and Chief Executive Officer of Netsol Technologies in 1999.
In 2000, he became CEO of Multacom, a trans-pacific telecommunications company which connected Mainland China, the United States, and Taiwan.
He has served on several boards in the USA and China. He is now a semi-retired advisor to newly formed companies.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Illinois alumni
Xerox people
Silicon Graphics people
American technology chief executives
Businesspeople in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine%20D.%20Brown | Maxine D. Brown is an American computer scientist and retired director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Along with Tom DeFanti and Bruce McCormick, she co-edited the 1987 NSF report, Visualization in Scientific Computing, which defined the field of scientific visualization.
Biography
Brown holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Temple University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to coming to the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986, Brown was a professional communications consultant specializing in technical communications for the computer graphics industry. Until October 1983, she was Director of Documentation at Digital Productions. She was formerly with ISSCO Graphics, a supplier of data representation graphics software, working in the documentation, development, and marketing areas. She has also worked at Hewlett-Packard, in both their research and development groups and in marketing. In the 1987 she became associate director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, responsible for the funding, documentation, and promotion of its research activities. She works closely with EVL's collaborators at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory to coordinate research activities.
Brown is also a steering committee member of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA), a founding member of GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, a global group that manages international switched wavelength networks for research and education, and co-chair (with Larry Smarr) of the GLIF Research & Applications (RAP) working group. Brown has also served co-chair of international grid (iGrid) demonstrations, notably iGrid 1998 at SC.98 in Orlando, Florida; iGrid 2000 at INET in Yokohama, Japan; iGrid 2002 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and, iGrid 2005 in San Diego, California.
Maxine Brown was a recipient of the 1990 UIC Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) award, and the recipient of the 1998 SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award. and the 2001 UIC Merit Award.
Publications
Brown has authored numerous articles and papers. A selection:
1987. "Visualization in Scientific Computing". Edited with Bruce H. McCormick and Thomas A. DeFanti. ACM Press.
1988. "Imcomp -- An Image Compression and Conversion Algorithm for the Efficient Transmission, Storage, and Display of Color Images". With M. Krogh. In: NCSA Data Link. Vol. 2, No. 3, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, June 1988, pp. 11– 24
1989. "Scientific Animation Workstations: Creating an Environment for Remote Research, Education, and Communication". With T.A. DeFanti. In: Academic Computing, Feb. 1989, pp. 10–12, 55–57.
1995. "Virtual Environments and Distribut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nides | Nides can refer to:
Thomas Nides, U.S. official
NIDES stands for:
Network Intrusion detection system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologically%20Inspired%20Tactical%20Security%20Infrastructure | Biologically Inspired Tactical Security Infrastructure (BITSI) is a system to detect and repair computer damage in the battlespace.
See also
Information warfare
References
Information operations and warfare
Post–Cold War military equipment of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeasureNet%20Technology%20Ltd. | MeasureNet Technology Ltd. is a private, limited liability partnership based in Cincinnati, Ohio manufacturing the MeasureNet System: a brand of network-based electronic data acquisition interface for science teaching laboratories.
MeasureNet networks perform data acquisition tasks using a PC-reducing network-based design that enables users to monitor, collect, store, and disseminate laboratory data, as well as share specified laboratory instruments.
History
The company was founded in 1998 by MeasureNet System inventors Robert Voorhees, Professor Estel Sprague, and Paul McKenzie as a spin-off of their research performed at the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry. MeasureNet's first offices were at the Hamilton County Business Center; an incubator adjacent to Xavier University in Cincinnati's Norwood neighborhood. It has since grown to occupy a building in 2008 shared with a regional administrative center of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration at 4240 Airport Road. This facility contains rooms for assembly, storage, and administration, as well as a wet laboratory for product development.
MeasureNet's development evolved from the need in the early 1990s to better prepare university chemistry students for the modern workplace or upper-level laboratory that contained a plethora of various electronic data acquisition instruments. Further impetus behind the network-based design evolved from the need to reduce computer maintenance and recurring computer replacement costs associated with personal computer-based interfaces of the time.
Voorhees, Sprague, and McKenzie assembled a small proof-of-concept network in early 1993 in the Chemistry Electronics Shop with the assistance of an internal University of Cincinnati grant. In 1996 the United States National Science Foundation and Procter & Gamble Company funded 10 prototype networks with $190,000 in combined grants for use in the university's freshman chemistry laboratories. Voorhees, McKenzie, and Sprague filed an application for a U.S. patent in August 1996. The first 10 networks of the newly designed system became fully operational for student use in the autumn of 1997. The United States Patent Office then awarded the network a patent (number 5,946,471) in 1999.
Market
An estimated 10,000 students use the system weekly in universities and college science teaching laboratories in the United States and around the world. The company's first major adopter external to the University of Cincinnati was the Chemistry Department at the University of Northern Kentucky. Other Ohio teaching laboratories that employ MeasureNet as of 2008 include Xavier University, Miami University of Ohio, Bowling Green State University-Firelands, Lourdes College, and Mt. Vernon Nazarene College.
In 2003 MeasureNet shipped its first network in the Caribbean to Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce and the University of Puerto Rico at Ponce. The United States Department of Commerce honored M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Sawaya | Nicole Sawaya (14 June 1952 – 11 October 2018) was a Lebanese-American radio journalist who was the Executive Director of the Pacifica Radio Network.
Sawaya started her career as a news reporter before moving into radio management.
Moving from San Francisco to Anderson Valley in Mendocino County, Nicole was also for a period in the 1990s Program Director at community radio station KZYX-KZYZ, Philo, CA.
In July 1999 she was controversially fired as general manager of KPFA-FM, the first public radio station in the US and the flagship station of the Pacifica Network. This led to what has been called the Pacifica Crisis, which involved the largest demonstrations seen in Berkeley, California, since the end of the Vietnam War, more than 10,000 people marching to demand community control of KPFA. She was hired by Pacifica as Executive Director of the network on September 30, 2007, commencing work in November. She resigned in early December 2007 due to the "level of internecine dysfunction.". She resumed the Executive Director position on March 5, 2008, taking over from interim ED Dan Siegel. Nicole died on October 11, 2018, from complications due to cancer.
Notes
References
Further reading
1952 births
2018 deaths
American radio journalists
Pacifica Foundation people
American people of Lebanese descent
Place of birth missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20designated%20places%20in%20British%20Columbia | A designated place is a type of geographic unit used by Statistics Canada to disseminate census data. It is usually "a small community that does not meet the criteria used to define incorporated municipalities or Statistics Canada population centres (areas with a population of at least 1,000 and no fewer than 400 persons per square kilometre)." Provincial and territorial authorities collaborate with Statistics Canada in the creation of designated places so that data can be published for sub-areas within municipalities. Starting in 2016, Statistics Canada allowed the overlapping of designated places with population centres.
In the 2021 Census of Population, British Columbia had 332 designated places, an increase from 326 in 2016. Designated place types in British Columbia include 55 Indian reserves, 13 island trusts, 5 Nisga'a villages, 5 retired population centres, and 254 unincorporated places. In 2021, the 332 designated places had a cumulative population of 258,060 and an average population of . British Columbia's largest designated place is Walnut Grove with a population of 28,420.
List
See also
List of census agglomerations in British Columbia
List of population centres in British Columbia
Notes
References
Designated places |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journeyman%20Project%3A%20Pegasus%20Prime | The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime is an adventure computer game developed by Presto Studios and published by Bandai in 1997. It is a complete remake of the original Journeyman Project, using some of the actors from The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time.
Story and gameplay
Like the original, this game is played from a first-person perspective, but static location images have been upgraded with walk animations like The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time.
The story follows the actions of Temporal Agent Gage Blackwood who travels to three separate points of past to stop three androids who attempt to change history.
Disc layout
Pegasus Prime was split over 4 CD-ROMs. The layout is as follows:
Disc 1: Caldoria, Norad Alpha
Disc 2: TSA, Prehistoric Island
Disc 3: Morimoto Mars Colony
Disc 4: World Science Center, Norad Delta
Discs 1, 3 and 4 included a "Tiny TSA" which included only the inside of the Pegasus Device. This was included so an additional disc-swap was not required when changing between the 3 time zones.
Development and release
Originally announced as a "Director's Cut", Pegasus Prime featured enhanced graphics, sounds, movies, and puzzles. The new live action video sequences were recorded with a green screen. Pegasus Prime was released solely for the Power Macintosh by Bandai Digital Entertainment in North America. In addition, the title was released in Japan for the Apple Pippin and PlayStation. Presto made plans to port the game to the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in the U.S., but these versions were cancelled when disappointing sales on several games forced publisher Sanctuary Woods to undergo massive layoffs and a corporate restructuring. Acclaim Entertainment later took on publishing the PlayStation version in North America, but this release was cancelled again.
By the fall of 2012 the game began to be supported by beta versions of ScummVM, making it playable for platforms which support this VM. However it requires extraction of the game files from the original CDs (which are written with Apple Macintosh Hierarchical File System) to a hard disk.
In December 2013, the game was released on DVD-ROM for Mac OS X. Windows and Linux versions were made available in March 2014.
The game was released for digital download on GOG.com in 2014 and Steam in 2017.
References
External links
Official website
1997 video games
Apple Bandai Pippin games
Cancelled Sega Saturn games
First-person adventure games
Linux games
Classic Mac OS games
MacOS games
PlayStation (console) games
Presto Studios games
ScummVM-supported games
Journeyman Project 1
Video game remakes
Video games about time travel
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Australia
Video games set in prehistory
Video games set in the 22nd century
Video games set in the 24th century
Video games set on Mars
Windows games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detrended%20correspondence%20analysis | Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) is a multivariate statistical technique widely used by ecologists to find the main factors or gradients in large, species-rich but usually sparse data matrices that typify ecological community data. DCA is frequently used to suppress artifacts inherent in most other multivariate analyses when applied to gradient data.
History
DCA was created in 1979 by Mark Hill of the United Kingdom's Institute for Terrestrial Ecology (now
merged into Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and implemented in FORTRAN code package called DECORANA (Detrended Correspondence Analysis), a correspondence analysis method. DCA is sometimes erroneously referred to as DECORANA; however, DCA is the underlying algorithm, while DECORANA is a tool implementing it.
Issues addressed
According to Hill and Gauch, DCA suppresses two artifacts inherent in most other multivariate analyses when applied to gradient data. An example is a time-series of plant species colonising a new habitat; early successional species are replaced by mid-successional species, then by late successional ones (see example below). When such data are analysed by a standard ordination such as a correspondence analysis:
the ordination scores of the samples will exhibit the 'edge effect', i.e. the variance of the scores at the beginning and the end of a regular succession of species will be considerably smaller than that in the middle,
when presented as a graph the points will be seen to follow a horseshoe shaped curve rather than a straight line ('arch effect'), even though the process under analysis is a steady and continuous change that human intuition would prefer to see as a linear trend.
Outside ecology, the same artifacts occur when gradient data are analysed (e.g. soil properties along a transect running between 2 different geologies, or behavioural data over the lifespan of an individual) because the curved projection is an accurate representation of the shape of the data in multivariate space.
Ter Braak and Prentice (1987, p. 121) cite a simulation study analysing two-dimensional species packing models resulting in a better performance of DCA compared to CA.
Method
DCA is an iterative algorithm that has shown itself to be a highly reliable and useful tool for data exploration and summary in community ecology (Shaw 2003). It starts by running a standard ordination (CA or reciprocal averaging) on the data, to produce the initial horse-shoe curve in which the 1st ordination axis distorts into the 2nd axis. It then divides the first axis into segments (default = 26), and rescales each segment to have mean value of zero on the 2nd axis - this effectively squashes the curve flat. It also rescales the axis so that the ends are no longer compressed relative to the middle, so that 1 DCA unit approximates to the same rate of turnover all the way through the data: the rule of thumb is that 4 DCA units mean that there has been a total turnover in the community.
Te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99%20%28disambiguation%29 | C99 is a past version of the C programming language standard.
C99 or C-99 may also refer to:
Science and technology
C99, a C compiler for the TI-99/4A home computer
C99, a fragment of the amyloid precursor protein created by beta-secretase
C99Shell, also known as C99, is a malicious web shell
Other uses
C99, a model of Beechcraft Model 99 aircraft
Convair C-99, a military aircraft
Ruy Lopez (ECO code), a chess opening
Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951 (ILO code)
C99, is also known as Coalsack Nebula
See also
HMS Blake (C99), a 1945 British Royal Navy cruiser
es:C (lenguaje de programación)#C99
it:C (linguaggio)#C99 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation%20of%20State%20Calculations%20by%20Fast%20Computing%20Machines | "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines" is a scholarly article published by Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller, and Edward Teller in the Journal of Chemical Physics in 1953. This paper proposed what became known as the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm, which forms the basis for Monte Carlo statistical mechanics simulations of atomic and molecular systems.
Development
Some controversy exists with regard to credit for development of the algorithm. Prior to 2003, there was no detailed account of the algorithm's development. Then, shortly before his death, Marshall Rosenbluth attended a 2003 conference at LANL marking the 50th anniversary of the 1953 publication. At this conference, Rosenbluth described the algorithm and its development in a presentation titled "Genesis of the Monte Carlo Algorithm for Statistical Mechanics". Further historical clarification is made by Gubernatis in a 2005 journal article recounting the 50th anniversary conference. Rosenbluth makes it clear that he and his wife Arianna did the work, and that Metropolis played no role in the development other than providing computer time.
Rosenbluth credits Teller with a crucial but early suggestion to "take advantage of statistical mechanics and take ensemble averages instead of following detailed kinematics". Additional clarification of attribution is given in connection with the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm. The Rosenbluths would subsequently publish two additional, lesser-known papers using the Monte Carlo method, while the other authors would not continue to work on the topic. Already in 1953, however, Marshall was recruited to work on Project Sherwood and thereafter turned his attention to plasma physics. Here he laid the foundation for much of modern plasma fluid and kinetic theory, and particularly the theory of plasma instabilities.
Algorithm
Monte Carlo methods are a class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to compute their results. In statistical mechanics applications prior to the introduction of the Metropolis algorithm, the method consisted of generating a large number of random configurations of the system, computing the properties of interest (such as energy or density) for each configuration, and then producing a weighted average where the weight of each configuration is its Boltzmann factor, exp(−E/kT), where E is the energy, T is the temperature, and k is Boltzmann's constant. The key contribution of the Metropolis paper was the idea that
This change makes the sampling focus on the low-energy configurations, which contribute the most to the Boltzmann average, resulting in improved convergence. To choose configurations with a probability exp(−E/kT) that can be weighed evenly, the authors devised the following algorithm: 1) each configuration is generated by a random move on the previous configuration and the new energy is computed; 2) if the new energy is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArtSound%20FM | ArtSound FM (callsign 1ART) is a community radio station broadcasting to Canberra from studios in the suburb of Manuka. Its format is fine music and arts programming.
ArtSound was established in the early 1980s under the name Canberra Stereo Public Radio. It is a volunteer run organisation and is listener funded with support from the ACT Government and the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
ArtSound is a member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia and the Australian Fine Music Network.
The station also operates ArtSound Audio Services with production/recording studios providing facilities for audio recording, CD duplication and archiving.
Programming
ArtSound music content is Jazz, Classical, Blues, Folk and World music. It also broadcasts programs on literature, theatre, film, spoken word, art exhibitions and local concerts. Part of its commitment to supporting the Canberra arts community is a schedule of arts-related news and information programs. Also it supports local jazz, classical, blues and folk musicians with live performance broadcasts.
See also
List of radio stations in Australia
References
External links
Radio stations in Canberra
Community radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 2000
Classical music radio stations in Australia
2000 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty%20International%20%28organization%29 | Liberty International (the new public name of the International Society for Individual Liberty, Inc. or ISIL) is a non-profit, libertarian educational and networking organization based in Dallas, Texas. It encourages activism in libertarian and individual rights areas through the 'freely chosen strategies' of its members. Its history dates back to 1969 as the Society for Individual Liberty, founded by Don Ernsberger and Dave Walter. The previous name (ISIL) was adopted in 1989 after a merger with Libertarian International was coordinated by Vincent Miller, who became president of the new organization.
The organization is chaired by Mary Ruwart with Jacek Spendel serving as current president. Board Members include Ken Schoolland, James Lark, Per Bylund, Lobo Tigre, Jose Codiero, and David Walter. The organization has members in over 80 countries.
Activities
Liberty International sponsors an annual conference which attract libertarian, classical liberal, and other political speakers. Among others, these have included Nobel laureate Milton Friedman and President of Costa Rica Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. It has sponsored a variety of educational materials and member projects from its website, and has incorporated other libertarian entities such as Laissez Faire Books.
History
Society for Individual Liberty
The Society for Individual Liberty (SIL) was founded in 1969 by Don Ernsberger and Dave Walter, who became its directors, after libertarian activists were expelled or later defected from Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) during and after their 1969 convention in St. Louis, Missouri. During the August 1969 YAF convention, traditionalists (trads) and libertarians (libs or rads) fought for control of the student organization. The libertarian faction lost. During the struggle and aftermath, the Anarcho-Libertarian Alliance, YAF Libertarian Caucus and two anarchist chapters of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) worked together, and eventually organized into a loosely knit association that became known as SIL. The factional infighting came to a climax when a libertarian YAF member held up his draft card and lit it on fire on the convention floor, causing a 30 minutes fracas of punching, shoving and hostility, which lead to membership purges of many libertarian leaders, including Karl Hess, hitting the California delegation especially hard, which included Dana Rohrabacher, Shawn Steel, Ron Kimberling, Rod Manis, Pat Dowd, and John Schureman, while revoking the active status of twenty-six YAF chapters. Don Ernsberger resigned from YAF, promised to continue working with SDS at Penn State and established an SIL headquarters in Philadelphia. The SIL was considered officially established by October 1969 when the Libertarian Caucus of YAF merged with Jarret Wollstein's Society for Rational Individualism (SRI), which had been a Randian organization based in Maryland It was the influence of Roy A. Childs Jr. who prompted the SRI to favor “anarcho-capitalis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20transport%20in%20Peterborough | The City of Peterborough in East Anglia has an extensive and well integrated road network, owing partly to its status as a new town. Since the 1960s, the city has seen considerable expansion and its various suburbs are linked by a system of parkways.
Despite its large-scale growth, Peterborough has the fastest peak and off-peak travel times for a city of its size in the United Kingdom, due to the construction of the parkways. The Local Transport Plan anticipates expenditure totalling around £180 million for the period up to 2010 on major road schemes to accommodate future development.
The A1/A1(M) broadly follows the path of the historic Great North Road from London, through Peterborough (Junction 17), continuing north a further 335 miles (539 km) to central Edinburgh.
Numbered Junctions
Peterborough has so many roundabouts and grade separated junctions within its roads and parkway system that junctions are numbered using the same system as is used to number British motorway and major A road junctions to guide and help drivers. Peterborough is to date the only city within the United Kingdom to use the system in this way and has been using this system since the 1970s.
Parkways and major roads
The parkways were constructed under guidelines from the Peterborough Development Corporation as a system of high speed roads to connect the new townships which housed London's post-war overspill population and were mostly built from the early 1970s to the late 1980s
The majority of Peterborough's parkways are dual carriageways, to accommodate the large quantity of local traffic within the city, and national and regional traffic bypassing it. However, due to their age, many of the parkways do not have hard-shoulders. Most of the parkways that bypass the city have graded roundabout junctions.
A1 road
Wittering to Norman Cross
The A1 is located just to the west of Peterborough. The road does not play a major part in Peterborough's road network itself although it is a major route. The road goes past RAF Wittering before meeting the A47 at Wansford on a grade separated junction. The A1 then moves south passing very close to the Nene Valley Railway line before reaching the city section of the A605 at another grade separated junction before reaching the A1139/A605 Oundle Section grade separated junction. This is also where the A1(M) starts and as a motorway the road quickly moves southward to reach the A15 at Norman Cross where the motorway moves out of the Peterborough area.
A15 road
Glinton to New England (Werrington Parkway)
The Werrington Parkway runs from the south of Glinton, where the A15 forks into the Peterborough east bypass and main road into the city centre. The road is dual carriageway from Glinton to the centre of Peterborough. There are no grade separated junctions along its route but does contain a number of smaller roundabouts which give direct and easy access to Werrington and its industrial estates. The Parkway then becomes less and stan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cython | Cython () is a superset of the programming language Python, which allows developers to write Python code (with optional, C-inspired syntax extensions) that yields performance comparable to that of C.
Cython is a compiled language that is typically used to generate CPython extension modules. Annotated Python-like code is compiled to C (also usable from e.g. C++) and then automatically wrapped in interface code, producing extension modules that can be loaded and used by regular Python code using the import statement, but with significantly less computational overhead at run time. Cython also facilitates wrapping independent C or C++ code into python-importable modules.
Cython is written in Python and C and works on Windows, macOS, and Linux, producing C source files compatible with CPython 2.6, 2.7, and 3.3 and later versions. The Cython source code that Cython compiles (to C) can use both Python 2 and Python 3 syntax, defaulting to Python 2 syntax in Cython 0.x (and Python 3 syntax in Cython 3.x, which is currently alpha software). The default can be overridden (e.g. in source code comment) to Python 3 (or 2) syntax. Since Python 3 syntax has changed in recent versions, Cython may not be up to date with latest addition. Cython has "native support for most of the C++ language" and "compiles almost all existing Python code".
Cython 3.0.0 was released on 17 July 2023.
Design
Cython works by producing a standard Python module. However, the behavior differs from standard Python in that the module code, originally written in Python, is translated into C. While the resulting code is fast, it makes many calls into the CPython interpreter and CPython standard libraries to perform actual work. Choosing this arrangement saved considerably on Cython's development time, but modules have a dependency on the Python interpreter and standard library.
Although most of the code is C-based, a small stub loader written in interpreted Python is usually required (unless the goal is to create a loader written entirely in C, which may involve work with the undocumented internals of CPython). However, this is not a major problem due to the presence of the Python interpreter.
Cython has a foreign function interface for invoking C/C++ routines and the ability to declare the static type of subroutine parameters and results, local variables, and class attributes.
A Cython program that implements the same algorithm as a corresponding Python program may consume fewer computing resources such as core memory and processing cycles due to differences between the CPython and Cython execution models. A basic Python program is loaded and executed by the CPython virtual machine, so both the runtime and the program itself consume computing resources. A Cython program is compiled to C code, which is further compiled to machine code, so the virtual machine is used only briefly when the program is loaded.
Cython employs:
Optimistic optimizations
Type inference (optional)
Low ove |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameworks%20supporting%20the%20polyhedral%20model | Use of the polyhedral model (also called the polytope model) within a compiler requires software to represent the objects of this framework (sets of integer-valued points in regions of various spaces) and perform operations upon them (e.g., testing whether the set is empty).
For more detail about the objects and operations in this model, and an example relating the model to the programs being compiled, see the polyhedral model page.
There are many frameworks supporting the polyhedral model. Some of these frameworks use one or more libraries for
performing polyhedral operations. Others, notably Omega, combine everything in a single package.
Some commonly used libraries are the Omega Library (and a more recent fork), piplib, PolyLib, PPL, isl,
the Cloog polyhedral code generator, and the barvinok library for counting integer solutions.
Of these libraries, PolyLib and PPL focus mostly on rational values, while the other libraries focus on integer values.
The polyhedral framework of gcc is called Graphite. Polly provides polyhedral optimizations for LLVM, and R-Stream has had a polyhedral mapper since ca. 2006.
Common strengths
Polyhedral frameworks are designed to support compilers techniques for analysis and transformation of codes with nested loops, producing exact results for loop nests with affine loop bounds and subscripts ("Static Control Parts" of programs). They can be used to represent and reason about executions (iterations) of statements, rather than treating a statement as a single object representing properties of all executions of that statement. Polyhedral frameworks typically also allow the use of symbolic expressions.
Polyhedral frameworks can be used for dependence analysis for arrays, including both traditional alias analysis and more advanced techniques such as the analysis of data flow in arrays or identification of conditional dependencies. They can also be used to represent code transformation, and provide features to generate the transformed code in a high-level language. The transformation and generation systems can typically handle imperfectly nested loops.
An example to contrast polyhedral frameworks with prior work
To compare the constraint-based polyhedral model to prior approaches such as individual loop transformations and the unimodular approach, consider the question of whether we can parallelize (execute simultaneously) the iterations of following contrived but simple loop:
for i := 0 to N do
A(i) := (A(i) + A(N-i))/2
Approaches that cannot represent symbolic terms (such as the loop-invariant quantity N in the loop bound and subscript) cannot reason about dependencies in this loop. They will either conservatively refuse to run it in parallel, or in some cases speculatively run it completely in parallel, determine that this was invalid, and re-execute it sequentially.
Approaches that handle symbolic terms but represent dependencies via direction vectors or distance vectors will determine that the i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget%20Systems | Puget Systems is a custom computer business based in Auburn, Washington. They operate primarily through their website, and sell a mixture of custom and preconfigured computers including desktops, workstations, and servers. The business was founded by Jon Bach in 2000.
History
Puget Systems was founded by Jon Bach, a student at the University of Washington, in 2000 under the name Puget Sound Systems. The business was named for the Puget Sound region in which it is located, but the name caused confusion about their services and was changed to Puget Custom Computers for clarity early in the firm's life. In early 2008, it was shortened to Puget Systems.
The company was originally run out of the owner's home, and moved to an industrial warehouse as it grew. Puget Systems is currently located in Auburn, Washington.
Products
For many years, Puget focused on building custom computer systems with an emphasis on quiet performance. During that time, the company catered to home users and gamers as well as specialists who wanted a computer tailored to their needs, such as video editing or day trading. Puget offered fans to reduce sound levels, which became their specialty.
Along with custom systems, Puget also sold a range of preconfigured computers, with names indicative of their purpose (e.g., the Deluge was water-cooled and the Genesis was optimized for content creation).
In 2007, Puget built a computer submerged in mineral oil. The project was inspired by similar computers submerged in vegetable oil, which provides very even cooling but has the disadvantages of being translucent yellow and going rancid after a few months. The mineral oil used for this project is clear and does not decay. Oil has a high specific heat capacity, so it takes this computer approximately twelve hours of operation to reach its peak temperature of eighty degrees Celsius. A radiator and pump could be attached to lower the temperature significantly. After more than a year of reported use, the only minor problem indicated was from oil wicking into peripherals and making a mess. While Puget never sold mineral oil computers, they offered a DIY kit and provided a construction tutorial on their website. This kit was discontinued in November 2014 after another company made patent licensing demands.
In the late 2010s, Puget Systems developed in-house benchmark testing for applications such as Adobe After Effects and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve. This appears to have coincided with a shift away from their earlier focus on customization and gaming, toward selling software-specific workstations for content creation, engineering, and scientific computing.
References
External links
Puget Systems website
Interview with owner Jon Bach
Computer companies of the United States
Companies based in Kent, Washington
Companies established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSE | Isse or ISSE may refer to:
Places
Isse, village and commune in north-eastern France
Issé, village and commune in north-western France
Computing
Information Systems Security Engineering
Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions, an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture by Intel introduced in 1999
Integer Streaming SIMD Extensions, an informal name for MMX extensions associated with 3DNow! extensions
Other uses
Issé (opera), by André Cardinal Destouches
International Secondary School Eindhoven, a school in the Netherlands
International Students for Social Equality
Hirsi Magan Isse (1935–2008), scholar and a leading figure of the Somali Revolution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGRK%20%28AM%29 | WGRK (1540 AM) was a radio station licensed to Greensburg, Kentucky, United States. The station was owned by Green County CBC, Inc. and featured programming from ABC Radio and Jones Radio Network.
History
The station went on the air in 1972, and changed its call letters to WAKY on April 14,1988. On November 5, 2007, the station changed its call sign back to WGRK.
The station's owners surrendered its license to the Federal Communications Commission on December 21, 2018, who cancelled the license the same day.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWGRK (Facility ID: 69851)
FCC History Cards for WGRK (covering 1968-1980)
GRK
Radio stations established in 1972
1972 establishments in Kentucky
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2018
2018 disestablishments in Kentucky
GRK
GRK
Greensburg, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21%20Search%20BOSS | Yahoo Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) was a Yahoo! Developer Network initiative to provide an open search web services platform.
Yahoo discontinued BOSS JSON Search API, BOSS Placefinder API, BOSS Placespotter API and as well BOSS Hosted Search, on March 31, 2016. Yahoo BOSS is succeeded by Yahoo Partner Ads (YPA).
History
Yahoo launched BOSS in July 2008. In 2012, Yahoo expanded their Yahoo Search BOSS platform to provide additional services such as BOSS Hosted Search to enable any website owner to embed Yahoo web search experience free on their site.
BOSS API
The main goal and idea of BOSS was to give users, in its case developers, access to the Yahoo Search index for a small fee. The results could be supplied into the developer's website or program so that they could manipulate the resources according to their product's requirements. BOSS allowed the results to be returned in XML, JSON, HTML, or text and allowed use of comprehensive search features available in Yahoo, like pulling the results by page, searching inside PDFs, etc. The ranking of the websites for a search term was the same as the Yahoo Search ranking since both of these were pulling from the same index and ranking.
One of BOSS's key differentiators was the free use of BOSS as a white label, no ads required service. By using Yahoo's search engine, which has had millions in R&D invested in it in the years since Yahoo boomed in the 1990s, web developers were able to get much higher quality results than if they built their own search engine. On August 17, 2010, Yahoo stated that BOSS would require some sort of ad or fee-based model to sustain itself.
BOSS Hosted Search
BOSS Hosted Search was a completely self serve product that enabled any web site owner to embed Yahoo web search experience on their site for free. The search experience was hosted by Yahoo and provided in an iframe which could be embedded on any web site. The search experience was very similar to that of search.yahoo.com. The product was provided free and web site owners got a percentage of the ad revenue share if any user clicked on a search ad within the frame. Web site owners could also customize the iframe by adding their own partner logo next to the search box, removing left rail, or removing the Yahoo search box altogether (and using their own). For implementing BOSS Hosted Search iframe, web site owners needed to simply sign up at Yahoo Search BOSS Portal and copy/paste a Javascript code snippet on their site. Yahoo also launched reporting module to provide web site owners with more insights on how many searches were conducted through BOSS Hosted Search and the revenue which they have generated.
Usage
According to a Yahoo press meeting in 2009, there were 30 million queries a day being run through BOSS powered web search pages.
See also
Google Custom Search
References
External links
Official website
Computer-related introductions in 2008
Search BOSS
Search BOSS
Software developer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20mapping%20%28statistics%29 | Semantic mapping (SM) in statistics is a method for dimensionality reduction (the transformation of data from a high-dimensional space into a low-dimensional space). SM can be used in a set of multidimensional vectors of features to extract a few new features that preserves the main data characteristics.
SM performs dimensionality reduction by clustering the original features in semantic clusters and combining features mapped in the same cluster to generate an extracted feature. Given a data set, this method constructs a projection matrix that can be used to map a data element from a high-dimensional space into a reduced dimensional space.
SM can be applied in construction of text mining and information retrieval systems, as well as systems managing vectors of high dimensionality. SM is an alternative to random mapping, principal components analysis and latent semantic indexing methods.
See also
Dimensionality reduction
Principal components analysis
Latent semantic indexing
Unification (logic reduction)
References
CORRÊA, R. F.; LUDERMIR, T. B. Improving Self Organization of Document Collections by Semantic Mapping. Neurocomputing(Amsterdam), v. 70, p. 62-69, 2006. doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2006.07.007
CORRÊA, R. F. and LUDERMIR, T. B. (2007) "Dimensionality Reduction of very large document collections by Semantic Mapping". Proceedings of 6th Int. Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM). .
External links
Full list of publications about Semantic Mapping method
Dimension reduction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock%20Holmes%3A%20Consulting%20Detective%20Vol.%20III | Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. III is the title of a full-motion video computer game released for DOS and Mac OS. The game is a sequel to Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. II and was released in 1993.
Cases
The format of the game is the same as the first two, except that there are three new cases to solve.
The Solicitous Solicitor
The case takes place on 26 June 1890, according to the newspaper in the game. Melvin Tuttle, a recently promoted solicitor, has apparently died of a heart attack. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard recruits Holmes and Watson to investigate since he believes that Tuttle was poisoned. Along the way, Holmes and Watson learn of Tuttle's reputation for romancing various women, including the wife of one of his employers.
The Banker's Final Debt
The case takes place on 11 April 1890. Oswald Mason was murdered in his home by an intruder. At the request of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is concerned that it might have had something to do with Oswald's work at Her Majesty's Treasury, Scotland Yard's Inspector Gregson recruits Holmes and Watson to investigate Mason's death.
The Thames Murders
The case takes place on or shortly after 9 June 1890. A fifth body has been discovered in the Thames in a short amount of time. Inspector Lestrade is investigating the murders without success. Inspector Gregson asks Holmes and Watson to find a possible connection between all five deaths.
Reception
Charles Ardai of Computer Gaming World stated in September 1993 "I fear that amidst all the hype, players are not being as demanding as they ought to be about what companies feed them in the name of multimedia entertainment". He believed that the Consulting Detective series had sold well (almost 250,000 copies) to those seeking "the thrill of seeing a new technology used, not of seeing a new technology used well", and who had little choice between Sherlock Holmes and The 7th Guest. Ardai criticized Vol. III describing itself as "interactive", noting that "One cannot do anything 'wrong'" and that it was possible to solve cases by brute force; users were "viewers more than they are players". He advised ICOM to hire "professionals, not just for the acting chores, but for writing and directing as well. There is only so long that the gaming audience will put up with paying good money (and not a little of it) to see the work of amateurs", but concluded that the game was "at least, decent. It is probably not worth buying all three volumes, but curious gamers should at least take a look at one of them".
References
External links
1993 video games
Fiction set in 1890
Video games set in the 1890s
Detective video games
DOS games
Full motion video based games
ICOM Simulations games
Classic Mac OS games
Consulting Detective 3
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in London
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction-Safe%20FAT%20File%20System | Transaction-Safe FAT File System (TFAT) and Transaction-Safe Extended FAT File System (TexFAT) refer to two file systems used in Microsoft products to provide transaction-safety for data stored on a disk. The goal is to reduce the risk of data loss in cases of power loss or unexpected removal of the drive. The latter problem has become more common with the spread of USB drives.
TFAT
The Transaction-Safe FAT File System (TFAT) of the TFAT12, TFAT16 and TFAT32 file systems is a driver layer modification to the original FAT file systems FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 maintaining two copies (FAT 0 and FAT 1) of the file allocation table instead of two identical ones. While performing a drive operation, changes would be made to FAT 1. When the operation is complete, the FAT 1 table would be copied to FAT 0, updating the stable view of the file system.
TexFAT
The Transaction-Safe Extended FAT File System (TexFAT), TexFAT provides similar functionality to TFAT using the exFAT file system as the base file system instead of FAT. Introduced with Windows Embedded CE 6.0, it is sometimes referred to as TFAT as well, which can lead to confusion with the original TFAT described above.
The use of exFAT as the underlying file system allows for larger files and larger partitions. TexFAT requires a hardware-specific driver designed for the type of media on which the TexFAT volume resides.
Limitations
Due to the lack of support in desktop operating systems, neither TFAT nor TexFAT are recommended for removable media. While the desktop OS could still read the drive, it could not use the transaction-safe features, so unexpected removal or a power outage could lead to data loss. In addition, directories created under the desktop OS may not be transaction-safe even if the drive is later attached to a TFAT/TexFAT aware operating system.
See also
Design of the FAT file system
Novell Transaction Tracking System
References
Further reading
Windows disk file systems
Flash file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny%20Anderson | Sunny Anderson (born April 9, 1975) is a Food Network personality. She began hosting How'd That Get On My Plate? in July 2008. She also hosts the Food Network program Cooking for Real (beginning in April 2008), and served as co-host with Marc Istook of the Food Network program Gotta Get It (beginning in April 2007).
Early life
Sunny Anderson was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, and grew up as an Army brat, which allowed her to travel the world (living in Germany and other places) and sample many local cuisines with her parents, who were food enthusiasts. She attended Madison High School in San Antonio, Texas, and upon her graduation, she joined the United States Air Force in June 1993, where she earned the rank of Senior Airman and worked as a military radio host in Seoul, South Korea. She then worked for Air Force News Agency radio and television in San Antonio from 1993 to 1997. Anderson was honorably discharged from the Air Force in June 1997. She went to school in New Orleans at Loyola University. At age 19, Anderson was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. in 2014, she teamed up with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America to raise awareness of this disease.
Career
Between 1995 and 2001, Anderson worked as a radio personality at KCJZ and KONO-FM in San Antonio, WYLD-FM and KUMX in Fort Polk, Louisiana, WJWZ in Montgomery, Alabama, and WDTJ in Detroit, Michigan.
Anderson settled in New York City in 2001 at the age of 26, and worked as a radio personality for HOT 97 (WQHT) in New York City from 2001 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she was the owner of Sunny's Delicious Dishes, a catering company based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
She first appeared on the Food Network in October 2005 (as a guest on the Emeril Live program) and began hosting How'd That Get On My Plate? in July 2008. She also hosts the Food Network program Cooking for Real (beginning in April 2008), and served as co-host with Marc Istook of the Food Network program Gotta Get It, beginning in April 2007.
In 2006 and 2007, she served as Food and Lifestyle Editor for Hip Hop Weekly magazine.
In January 2014, Anderson became a co-host on the Food Network's series The Kitchen along with Jeff Mauro, Katie Lee, Marcela Valladolid, and Geoffrey Zakarian.
Anderson was a contender for the 44th Daytime Emmy Awards for the Outstanding Talk Show/Informative award with the cast of The Kitchen, but lost.
Anderson has been a guest chef on several talk shows and morning news programs including The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America , The Early Show, The View, The Talk, as well as The Wendy Williams Show.
In 2022, Anderson hosted NFL Tailgate Takedown along with New England Patriots Hall-of-Famer Vince Wilfork.
In October 2022 she hosted Season 3 of Outrageous Pumpkins on Food Network.
See also
List of people diagnosed with ulcerative colitis
References
External links
Food Network chefs
African-American television personalities
United States Air Force airmen
1975 births
American |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDBbind%20database | The PDBbind database is a comprehensive collection of experimentally measured binding affinity data (Kd, Ki, and IC50) for the protein-ligand complexes deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). It thus provides a link between energetic and structural information of protein-ligand complexes, which is of great value to various studies on molecular recognition occurred in biological systems.
History
The aim of the PDBbind database is to provide a comprehensive collection of the experimentally measured binding affinity data for all types of biomolecular complexes deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). It thus provides a linkage between energetic and structural information of these complexes, which may be used for various studies on molecular recognition occurred in biological systems.
The PDBbind database was first released to the public in May, 2004.
Current release
The PDBbind database is updated on an annual basis to keep up with the growth of the Protein Data Bank. The current release, i.e. version 2014, is based on the contents of Protein Data Bank released on Jan 1st, 2014.
This release provides two basic types of information:
Basic information of ~13000 complex structures formed between protein-small molecule ligand, protein-protein, protein-nucleic acid and nucleic acid-small molecule ligand. The user can display and examine these complex structures on-line. The user can also search through the chemical structures of the ligand molecules included in these complexes.
Binding affinity data and structural information for a total of 12,995 biomolecular complexes, including protein-ligand (10656), nucleic acid-ligand (87), protein-nucleic acid (660), and protein-protein complexes (1592), which is the largest collection of this kind so far. Binding data included in version 2014 have increased by 20% as compared to version 2013. All of these data are collected from >28,000 original references by the PDBbind team. They all have been double-checked to ensure that they match the complex structures in the Protein Data Bank. Moreover, a "refined set" and a "core set" are compiled as high-quality data sets of protein-ligand complexes for docking/scoring studies.
References
External links
The Latest domain name of PDBbind-CN server is:
http://www.pdbbind-cn.org/
http://www.pdbbind.org.cn/
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Certified%20Entry%20Networking%20Technician | The Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) certification was the first stage of Cisco's certification system. The certification was retired on 24 February 2020. The CCENT certification was an interim step to Associate level or directly with CCNA and CCDA certifications. While the CCENT covered basic networking knowledge; it did not get involved with the more intricate technical aspects of the Cisco routing and switching and network design. The certification validated the skills essential for entry-level network support positions. CCENT qualified individuals have the knowledge and skill to install, manage, maintain and troubleshoot a small enterprise branch network, including network security. The CCENT curriculum covered networking fundamentals, WAN technologies, basic security, routing and switching fundamentals, and configuring simple networks. The applicable training was the Cisco ICND1 ("Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices, Part 1") and the exam was ("100-105" ICND1), costing $165 retail. The certification was valid for 3 years.
The CCENT qualifying exam, ICND1 was retired on 24 February 2020. Existing CCENT holders will continue to have active and valid CCENT certification 3 years from issue date.
See also
CCNA
Cisco CCDA certification
References
External links
Computer networking
Information technology qualifications
Cisco Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Scott%20Greene | Ryan Scott Greene (born 25 June 1973) is a Canadian actor, most known for his portrayal of Marcus in the MyNetworkTV telenovela Saints & Sinners. Other notable works include Queer as Folk, Carolina and Beach Girls.
Filmography and other appearances
External links
Official Website
1973 births
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male film actors
Living people
Male actors from Halifax, Nova Scotia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualVM | VisualVM is a tool that provides a visual interface for viewing detailed information about Java applications while they are running on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). VisualVM organizes JVM data that is retrieved by the Java Development Kit (JDK) tools and presents the information in a way that allows data on multiple Java applications to be quickly viewed—both local applications and applications that are running on remote hosts. Programmers can also capture data about the JVM software and save the data to the local system, and then view the data later or share it with others. VisualVM is built on the NetBeans Platform; its architecture is modular and easy to extend with plugins.
This tool was bundled directly with JDK 6 through JDK 8. VisualVM is actively developed.
Features
VisualVM has features of use to application developers, system administrators, quality engineers and application users submitting bug reports.
Display local and remote Java applications.
Display application configuration and runtime environment.
Monitor application memory consumption and runtime behavior.
Monitor application threads.
Profile application performance or analyze memory allocation.
Take and display thread dumps.
Take and browse heap dumps.
Analyze core dumps and applications offline.
Browse JFR recordings.
References
External links
VisualVM homepage
Oracle software
Debuggers
Profilers
Free software programmed in Java (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus%20Database%20Client | Epictetus was a free cross-platform multi-database administration tool that used JVM to run. Epictetus was distributed as Freeware by Antilogic Software, but has been discontinued since 2009.
Feature Summary
Multithreading
Autocomplete
Primary and foreign keys highlight
BLOB, CLOB autoload
SQL syntax highlight
Query history
Schema browser
Edit table data
Restore last opened windows
Autoupdate
Supported databases
Oracle Database 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
InterBase/Firebird
PostgreSQL
HSQLDB
H2
External links
"Epictetus 0.3.2 beta: Database Desktop Manager", discussion and links
Database administration tools
Java platform software
Firebird (database server)
Interbase
Oracle database tools
Microsoft database software
Sybase
Discontinued software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Harvey%20Ward | James Harvey Ward (born July 31, 1978) is an American actor, most known for portraying Michael on AMC's Low Winter Sun, Felton Norris on HBO's True Blood and Madden on the MyNetworkTV limited-run serial Saints & Sinners. He is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.
Filmography
Film
Television
External links
1978 births
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people
Actors Studio alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee | Boxee was a cross-platform freeware HTPC (Home Theater PC) software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV. It enabled its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social network services and interactive media related features.
Boxee was originally a fork of the free and open source XBMC (now Kodi) media center software which Boxee used as an application framework for its GUI and media player core platform, together with some custom and proprietary additions.
Marketed as the first ever "Social Media Center", the first public alpha of Boxee was made available on 16 June 2008. The UI design of the Alpha prototype was designed with design firm Method Incorporated, who also created Boxee's brand identity. The first public beta version was officially released for all previously supported platforms on 7 January 2010. Boxee gained the ability to watch live TV on the Boxee Box using a live TV stick in January 2012. By the end of 2012 the developers had discontinued all desktop versions and support.
Boxee co-developed a dedicated set-top box (hardware) called "Boxee Box by D-Link" in cooperation with D-Link which was the first "Powered by Boxee" branded device to be announced and launched, as well as a similar media player device called "Iomega TV with Boxee" (available in the UK & Europe) in cooperation with Iomega and a 46" high-definition television from ViewSonic with integrated Boxee software.
Boxee was owned and developed by a single for-profit startup company, (Boxee, Inc.), which began as a high tech stealth startup based in Israel and the United States with seed money from several angel investors, & was then known to be financially backed by venture capital firms such as General Catalyst Partners, Union Square Ventures, Softbank, Pitango, Spark Capital and Globis Capital Partners. The company's main offices are located at 122 West 26th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10001.
On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 online media sources revealed Samsung would hire key employees and purchase Boxee's assets for around $30M. Samsung confirmed the acquisition with The New York Times, but did not disclose the amount.
Overview
Boxee supported a wide range of popularly used multimedia formats, and it included features such as playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, weather forecasts reporting, and an array of third-party plugins. As a media center, Boxee could play most audio and video file containers, as well as display images from many sources, including CD/DVD-ROM drives, USB flash drives, the Internet, and local area network shares.
When run on modern PC hardware, Boxee was able to decode high-definition video up to 1080p. Boxee was able to use DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) on Windows Vista and newer Microsoft operating-systems to utilize GPU accelerated video decoding to assist with process of video decoding of high-definition videos.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquidNT | SquidNT was a port of the Squid proxy server to Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems. The SquidNT effort has since then been merged into the main Squid project (September 2006) and is maintained by Guido Serassio, one of the core developers of Squid. The name SquidNT is still often used for referring to Squid running on Windows but is not an official name. The official name is Squid regardless of platform.
You can compile the source code with Minimalist GNU for Windows or Microsoft Visual Studio. But Windows support is still largely missing.
Squid for Windows may be installed and run from the command line. It may also be installed as a Windows service. There is no graphical user interface.
Compatibility
Squid for Windows can run on the following Windows operating systems:
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows 7
References
Squid FAQ: Does Squid run on Windows?
External links
Official homepage for Squid for Windows
Official homepage for Squid project
Free proxy servers
Windows network-related software
Windows Internet software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahata%20Station | is a railway station on the Kagoshima Main Line operated by JR Kyushu in Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan.
History
The privately run Kyushu Railway had begun laying down its network on Kyushu in 1889 and by November 1896 had a stretch of track from northwards to . This stretch of track was subsequently linked up with another stretch further north from Moji (now ) to which had been laid down in 1891. The linkup was achieved on 27 December 1902, with Yahata opened on the same day as one of the intermediate stations on the new track between Kokura and Kurosaki. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station. On 12 October 1909, the station became part of the Hitoyoshi Main Line and then on 21 November 1909, part of the Kagoshima Main Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over control of the station.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by 6,745 passengers daily, and it ranked 26th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.
References
External links
Yahata Station (JR Kyushu)
Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1902 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity%20%28networks%29 | Modularity is a measure of the structure of networks or graphs which measures the strength of division of a network into modules (also called groups, clusters or communities). Networks with high modularity have dense connections between the nodes within modules but sparse connections between nodes in different modules. Modularity is often used in optimization methods for detecting community structure in networks. Biological networks, including animal brains, exhibit a high degree of modularity. However, modularity maximization is not statistically consistent, and finds communities in its own null model, i.e. fully random graphs, and therefore it cannot be used to find statistically significant community structures in empirical networks. Furthermore, it has been shown that modularity suffers a resolution limit and, therefore, it is unable to detect small communities.
Motivation
Many scientifically important problems can be represented and empirically studied using networks. For example, biological and social patterns, the World Wide Web, metabolic networks, food webs, neural networks and pathological networks are real world problems that can be mathematically represented and topologically studied to reveal some unexpected structural features. Most of these networks possess a certain community structure that has substantial importance in building an understanding regarding the dynamics of the network. For instance, a closely connected social community will imply a faster rate of transmission of information or rumor among them than a loosely connected community. Thus, if a network is represented by a number of individual nodes connected by links which signify a certain degree of interaction between the nodes, communities are defined as groups of densely interconnected nodes that are only sparsely connected with the rest of the network. Hence, it may be imperative to identify the communities in networks since the communities may have quite different properties such as node degree, clustering coefficient, betweenness, centrality, etc., from that of the average network. Modularity is one such measure, which when maximized, leads to the appearance of communities in a given network.
Definition
Modularity is the fraction of the edges that fall within the given groups minus the expected fraction if edges were distributed at random. The value of the modularity for unweighted and undirected graphs lies in the range . It is positive if the number of edges within groups exceeds the number expected on the basis of chance. For a given division of the network's vertices into some modules, modularity reflects the concentration of edges within modules compared with random distribution of links between all nodes regardless of modules.
There are different methods for calculating modularity. In the most common version of the concept, the randomization of the edges is done so as to preserve the degree of each vertex. Consider a graph with nodes and links (edges) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans%20Europ%20Express%20%28disambiguation%29 | Trans Europ Express is a former international train network in Europe.
It may also refer to:
Trans-Europ-Express (film) (), a 1966 film written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Trans-Europe Express (album) (), by Kraftwerk
"Trans-Europe Express" (song) (), the album's title track
See also
Trans-Euro Express (play), a stageplay by Gary Duggan
Transeuropa (disambiguation)
Tee (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%2021 | Rede 21 (Portuguese for 21 Network) is a Brazilian television network, launched on October 21, 1996 (relaunched on July 7, 2008), as Canal 21, broadcasting only for São Paulo. It grew to a network in 2003 with the addition of the TV Brasília affiliation. Before this, Salvador and Macapá pass to have the 21 signal. In 2003, Rio de Janeiro received the 21 on channel 54 UHF by retransmission, but shut down at the end of 2005.
In 2005, the network nationally broadcast five hours, from 7pm to 12am, but had good quality. Most part of this schedule was occupied by Japanese cartoons and American series like Sex and the City, The X-Files and That '70s Show.
Rise and decline
The network had presence in 14 cities in 2004, but in this time of the year lost affiliates in Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Vitória and Rio de Janeiro.
At the end of 2005, the small schedule and prime time from 7pm at 12am was further reduced. The newscast host and the Blog 21 hosts were fired and was canceled the programs Top of the Pops, Doc 21 (with the National Geographic documentaries), the sitcom Seinfeld and Top of the Pops Brasil and put on air the Gamecorp programs.
On June 5, 2006, Rede 21 shut down and Play TV was put in its place.
Rede 21's return
After two years off the air, on July 7, 2008, Rede 21 came back on, after the disaccord between Grupo Bandeirantes and Gamecorp. In August 2008, the network aired a programming block from the World Church of God's Power. In 2013 the network switched to simulcasting the agro-business network Terraviva. In 2014 the network became a full-time Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. In 2022 it began to simulcast Canal Empreender, and in 2023 it returned to air Terraviva programming. Bandeirantes announced to switch Rede 21 into a full-time sports network.
Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação
Television networks in Brazil
Mass media in São Paulo
1996 establishments in Brazil
Television channels and stations established in 1996
2006 disestablishments in Brazil
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Class%20380 | The British Rail Class 380 Desiro is a type of electric multiple-unit passenger train that operates on the National Rail network in Scotland, for ScotRail.
The Class 380 operates out of Glasgow Central, Glasgow Queen Street, Ardrossan Harbour, Largs, Edinburgh Waverley and Ayr.
The Siemens Desiro UK family also includes units of Classes 185, 350, 360, 444 and 450.
History
The trains operate ScotRail services in the Ayrshire and Inverclyde region of Scotland and had originally been intended for the cancelled Glasgow Airport Rail Link.
The contract was awarded to Siemens and announced by Transport Scotland on 11 July 2008. A total of 38 units were ordered, comprising 22 three-car and 16 four-car units. All 38 units are owned by Eversholt Rail, a rolling stock company (ROSCO) that leases them to ScotRail.
Stations along the Ayrshire Coast Line and Inverclyde Line underwent platform extension works to allow the use of the longer trains. The trains were specified to have full access for disabled people and to have streamlined end corridor connections. On the unveiling of the first completed vehicle, it was announced that the fleet would be divided into two sub-groups, with the three-car units Class 380/0 and the four-car as Class 380/1. The first unit to be delivered arrived in the UK in August 2010.
In September 2010, commissioning of the fleet was suspended by ScotRail due to technical issues with the trains. The reliability issues and extended commissioning period resulted in an initially reduced service on parts of the ScotRail network, including the newly re-opened Airdrie-Bathgate line.
The fleet is based at Glasgow Shields Road TMD. Introduction of the fleet resulted in the cascading of the Class 334 "Juniper" and fleet which previously operated the Ayrshire Coast Line and Inverclyde Line. The fleet also allowed the fleet which operated on the North Berwick Line to be withdrawn and transferred to Northern Rail. The Class 334 "Juniper" stock were cascaded onto the North Clyde Line to , the Class 318s were cascaded onto the Argyle Line.
Operations
, the Class 380 operates trains between Glasgow Central and Ayr, Largs, Ardrossan, Gourock, Wemyss Bay, Neilston, Newton, Edinburgh Waverley and Cathcart Circle. In addition, they also operated trains between Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street via Falkirk Grahamston, North Berwick and Dunbar for a time whilst awaiting the Class 385 introduction to service. They can also operate to , and if required.
The fleet was introduced into public service in December 2010.
In November 2012, the Class 380 started operating services on the Paisley Canal Line following the line's electrification.
Following the December 2014 timetable change, with the electrification of the Whifflet Line, services to Lanark were re-routed into Glasgow Central High Level. Alongside the usual Class 318 and Class 320 units, the Class 380 has been used on the route.
The Class 380 operated some services on the recently |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20psychology | Artificial psychology (AP) has had multiple meanings dating back to 19th century, with recent usage related to artificial intelligence (AI).
In 1999, Zhiliang Wang and Lun Xie presented a theory of artificial psychology based on artificial intelligence. They analyze human psychology using information science research methods and artificial intelligence research to probe deeper into the human mind.
Main Theory
Dan Curtis (b. 1963) proposed AP is a theoretical discipline. The theory considers the situation when an artificial intelligence approaches the level of complexity where the intelligence meets two conditions:
Condition I
A: Makes all of its decisions autonomously
B: Is capable of making decisions based on information that is
New
Abstract
Incomplete
C: The artificial intelligence is capable of reprogramming itself based on the new data, allowing it to evolve.
D: And is capable of resolving its own programming conflicts, even in the presence of incomplete data. This means that the intelligence autonomously makes value-based decisions, referring to values that the intelligence has created for itself.
Condition II
All four criteria are met in situations that are not part of the original operating program
When both conditions are met, then, according to this theory, the possibility exists that the intelligence will reach irrational conclusions based on real or created information. At this point, the criteria are met for intervention which will not necessarily be resolved by simple re-coding of processes due to extraordinarily complex nature of the codebase itself; but rather a discussion with the intelligence in a format which more closely resembles classical (human) psychology.
If the intelligence cannot be reprogrammed by directly inputting new code, but requires the intelligence to reprogram itself through a process of analysis and decision based on information provided by a human, in order for it to overcome behavior which is inconsistent with the machines purpose or ability to function normally, then artificial psychology is by definition, what is required.
The level of complexity that is required before these thresholds are met is currently a subject of extensive debate. The theory of artificial psychology does not address the specifics of what those levels may be, but only that the level is sufficiently complex that the intelligence cannot simply be recoded by a software developer, and therefore dysfunctionality must be addressed through the same processes that humans must go through to address their own dysfunctionalities. Along the same lines, artificial psychology does not address the question of whether or not the intelligence is conscious.
As of 2022, the level of artificial intelligence does not approach any threshold where any of the theories or principles of artificial psychology can even be tested, and therefore, artificial psychology remains a largely theoretical discipline. Even at a theoretical level, artifici |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Bolivia | The Bolivian rail network has had a peculiar development throughout its history.
History
Gauges
All railways in Bolivia are now Metre gauge. The Antofagasta to Uyuni line was originally gauge.
Maps
FCAB Line from Antofagasta
Rail link to Peru
Bolivia built a line to the shores of Lake Titicaca.
Lines in the south, east
A line from São Paulo, Brazil, enters Bolivia at Puerto Suarez and connects to this line at Santa Cruz. In the 1950s this last major rail system was completed. A line was intended to run from Santa Cruz to Trinidad (about in the north center of the country, but never reached there, it ended north of Yapacani (), from where since 2014 an industrial spur is under construction to the ammonia/urea factory near Bulo Bulo ().
Spur lines were run to mining districts and the regional capital of Cochabamba.
Mamore and Madeira Railway
Another railway was a local line in the Amazonian jungle. The Madeira-Mamoré Railroad runs in a loop around the unnavigable section to Guajará-Mirim on the Mamoré River.
Steel lines to the Silver at Potosi
Rio Mulatos-Potosí line is a train line in Bolivia, containing Cóndor station, the world's second highest railway station ().
Future plans
The government of Evo Morales has proposed a rail line uniting La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz, connecting onwards to Brazil and the Pacific coast.
The department of Cochabamba and the national government are contracting design studies in 2011 for regional trains to run on two routes: Cochabamba-Caluyo-Tarata-Cliza-Punata-Arani and Sipe Sipe-Vinto-Cochabamba-Sacaba-Chiñata. A 180-day study on Sipe Sipe-Chiñata line is being carried out between August 2011 and February 2012. This project, known as Mi Tren, is under construction and due for completion in 2020.
International rail links to adjacent countries
Argentina – yes – both countries
Brazil – yes – gauge both countries
Chile – yes – gauge both countries
Peru – Shipping by car float from railhead in Guaqui to railhead in Puno across Lake Titicaca
Incidents
In 2007 thieves had stolen 100 meters of Bolivian track overnight, and the morning freight had insufficient distance to stop.
Photo of the site shows locomotives 1021 and 951 remained upright, but extensive damage ensued.
See also
Transport in Bolivia
Interoceanic Highway
Trans-Andean railways
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Historia de los ferrocarriles en Bolivia
Ferrocarriles Bolivia. Del anhelo a la frustración. Desarrollo, producción, economía y dependencia.
Empresa Ferroviaria Andina (FCA)
Empresa Ferroviaria Oriental S.A.
Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia
Ferrocarril de Guaqui a La Paz
Viaje en tren entre Sucre y Potosí
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee%20on%20National%20Security%20Systems | The Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) is a United States intergovernmental organization that sets policies for the security of the US security systems. The CIA triad (data confidentiality, data integrity, and data availability) are the three main security goals of CNSS.
History
The National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee (NSTISSC) was established under National Security Directive 42, "National Policy for the Security of National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems", dated 5 July 1990. On October 16, 2001, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13231, the Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Information Age, re-designating the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee (NSTISSC) as the Committee on National Security Systems.
Activities
The CNSS holds discussions of policy issues, sets national policy, directions, operational procedures, and guidance for the information systems operated by the U.S. Government, its contractors or agents that either contain classified information, involve intelligence activities, involve cryptographic activities related to national security, involve command and control of military forces, involve equipment that is an integral part of a weapon or weapons system(s) or are critical to the direct fulfillment of military or intelligence missions.
The Department of Defense chairs the committee. Membership consists of representatives from 21 U.S. Government Departments and Agencies with voting privileges, including the CIA, DIA, DOD, DOJ, FBI, NSA, and the National Security Council, and all United States Military Services. Members not on the voting committee include the DISA, NGA, NIST, and the NRO. The operating Agency for CNSS appears to be the National Security Agency, which serves as the primary contact for public inquiries.
Education certification
The CNSS defines several standards, which include standards on training in IT security. Current certifications include:
NSTISSI-4011 National Training Standard for Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals
CNSSI-4012 National Information Assurance Training Standard for Senior Systems Managers
CNSSI-4013 National Information Assurance Training Standard For System Administrators
CNSSI-4014 Information Assurance Training Standard for Information Systems Security Officers
NSTISSI-4015 National Training Standard for Systems Certifiers
CNSSI-4016 National Information Assurance Training Standard For Risk Analysts
References
External links
CNSS Official Website
Vulnerability Assessment
United States government secrecy
Independent agencies of the United States government
Government agencies established in 2001
Computer security organizations
2001 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison%20Haislip | Alison Fesq Haislip is an American actress and former television personality for Attack of the Show! on the first incarnation of the G4 network and the NBC reality singing competition show The Voice.
Early life
Haislip is a native of Tewksbury Township, New Jersey and a graduate of Voorhees High School. She graduated with honors from Boston College, having studied theater. She also trained at the British American Drama Academy. Afterwards, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career.
Attack of the Show!
In October 2007, Haislip landed at G4 after being told by a G4 employee, who was a patron where she worked as a bartender, that she would be a great fit at the network. Haislip hosted "The Feed" segment and did correspondent work numerous times for Attack of the Show! before being hired full-time around Spring 2008. She often substituted as the show's co-host for Olivia Munn.
For most of 2010, in addition to her pre-filmed segments and occasional guest hosting, she also shared responsibility for presenting "The Feed" with Blair Herter, typically anchoring it live on two of the four days that Attack of the Show! aired per week.
On November 7, 2011, Haislip announced during a hosting appearance on Attack of the Show! that she was leaving G4.
Other projects and appearances
From May 2008 to February 2009, Haislip hosted a weekly podcast ranging in length from two to five minutes for G4's website. Tech News went on an indefinite hiatus as part of the network's financial cutbacks. She co-hosted the inaugural season of American Ninja Warrior with Blair Herter. She was the sideline reporter for the second and third seasons. Haislip was the sideline and behind the scenes reporter for the sixth and seventh seasons of the ABC reality competition show BattleBots.
In September 2008, in correlation with the launch of her own official website, Haislip started releasing approximately four to six-minute unedited video updates to stay more connected with her fans. Topics have ranged from answering fan questions posted on her forums to giving updates on her upcoming segments for Attack of the Show! before they air. Occasionally, Haislip had a guest alongside her while filming the blog. Past guests include fellow G4 personalities Kevin Pereira and Blair Herter, actress/dancer/writer Imogen Church, and Alison's younger brother, Greg Haislip.
Starting in mid-May 2009, Ford Fiesta Movement mission videos, and Baaaznian Production short films, replaced the original blog format of Haislip's videos. The second to last video blog or "vlog" format video, it was uploaded on May 11, 2009. However, a brief Christmas vlog was uploaded on December 24, 2009, in which Haislip explained she had stopped making vlogs because she has been much busier in the recent months, than in the first half of 2009.
In spring 2009, Haislip began making additional videos, as required by her involvement with the Ford Fiesta Movement, a campaign in which she was one of 100 people to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskul%20Bukol | Iskul Bukol is a Philippine situational comedy show that aired on the IBC-13 network from October 1978 to 1988. It starred Filipino comedians Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, and Joey de Leon. The show centered around student life in the fictional Wanbol University.
Main characters
Josélito "Tito" Escalera (Tito Sotto) - one half of the Escalera brothers, who plots harebrained schemes in every episode.
Josémari "Joey" Escalera (Joey de Leon) - the other Escalera sibling. Miss Tapia has a crush on him.
Victorio "Vic" Ungasis (Vic Sotto) - the good-looking and smart teacher's pet with a "chick magnet" personality. The Escaleras often pick on him during class. Later, he became a professor at Wanbol University.
Liwayway Gawgaw Tapia, a.k.a., Miss Tapia (Mely Tagasa) - Wanbol University's professor who often gets on the Escalera brothers' nerves. Although she admires Joey Escalera, Miss Tapia was romantically connected with Mang Tem-i. Vic is her favorite student. Miss Tapia was originally a character in the GMA sitcom Baltic & Co. (1974-1976), also portrayed by Tagasa. Baltic & Co. is based on the newspaper comic strip of the same title created by Roni Santigo. Baltic & Co. and Iskul Bukol are unrelated media franchises.
Artemis Batongbuhay, a.k.a., Mang Tem-i (Bing Angeles) - the dark-complexioned operator of the university's cafeteria. His name is a vesre on the Filipino word "itim" (black or dark), "tim-i" or "tem-i."
Tonette Macho (Anthony Roquel) - the gay student who plays as best friend of the fairest girl in class (Mary and Joey Anson). He is also the nemesis of the Escalera Brothers.
Aling Jacoba or Inang (Dely Atay-Atayan) - Vic's mother from the town of Tiaong, Quezon. Famous for her term of endearment "bunsooyy!" whenever addressing Vic. The root word "bunso" is Tagalog for youngest child.
Sharon Escalera (Sharon Cuneta) - younger sister of Tito and Joey.
Viviana "Bibeth" Belibet (Bibeth Orteza) - Vic's female roommate and fellow student.
Richie "Kabayo" (Richie Reyes) - a fellow student who always copies homework from Vic & Bibeth. He is also an accomplice to the Escalera's comedic pranks.
Mary (Mary Massab) - fellow student.
Joey Anson (Joey Albert) - fellow student.
Kaye Flores (Kaye Torres) - fellow student.
Redford (Redford White) - Mang Tem-i's houseboy and the cafeteria's waiter. The character was replaced by Jimmy "Big J" (Jimmy Santos) after the departure of White from the series.
Jimmy "Big J" (Jimmy Santos) - replacement of Redford at Mang Tem-i's cafeteria.
Perfecto "Pekto" Pangkista (Ariel Villasanta) - a fellow Wanbol student and part-time waiter at Mang Tem-i's canteen who dresses like a 1970s punk rocker.
Don José Escalera (Rod Navarro) - father of the Escalera siblings.
Sequels
Iskul Bukol: Book 2 (1988–1990)
Iskul Bukol: Book 2 immediately succeeded the original series on IBC-13 and featured the Sietepares brothers, Niño (Niño Muhlach) and Keempee (Keempee de Leon), both nephews of Tito and Joey Escalera. Mely Tagasa, Bing Ang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titmouse%2C%20Inc. | Titmouse, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Los Angeles, California founded in 2000 that develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, music videos, title sequences, commercials, and short films.
History
Founder and CEO Chris Prynoski began working at MTV in New York on shows such as Daria, Beavis and Butt-Head, and his own creation, Downtown, which was nominated for a primetime Emmy Award. In the early 2000s, Prynoski opened a small T-shirt company with his wife, Shannon Prynoski. However, upon getting more requests for cartoons than for T-shirts, they decided to abandon screen-printing in favor of animation. The Prynoskis moved to California, and opened the revamped Titmouse, Inc., an animation studio. Antonio Canobbio, who had worked with Chris Prynoski at MTV and both Prynoskis at Cartoon Network in L.A., was hired as creative director. Titmouse opened a games division in 2009.
Due to projects like Cartoon Network's Metalocalypse, Superjail! and The Venture Bros. the company expanded and opened a sister studio in New York City in 2010. The California studio later added a wholly owned subsidiary, Robin Redbreast, which was then unionized in order to produce Motorcity for Disney XD.
The company has a YouTube channel, Rug Burn, launched in December 2012 with 6 Point Harness. Rug Burn was launched with a handful of shows.
In April 2016, Titmouse released its first feature-length film, the R-rated Nerdland, which stars Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt.
In early 2020, Titmouse signed a multiyear production deal with Netflix.
In October 2020, Titmouse Vancouver became the first animation studio in Canada to join a union. Following a vote that captured 87% of the workforce, 98% of Titmouse Vancouver's workforce voted to join the newly founded Animation Guild IATSE Local 938.
In response to this, some said that the issues raised by the workers of Titmouse were the same ones heard "from unrepresented animation workers everywhere" and that the unionization of the Titmouse workers acknowledges the contributions by animation workers to the industry.
In January 2022, the employees of Titmouse New York formed a union with Animation Guild IATSE Local 839, the first to do so outside of Los Angeles County in more than 70 years. In the card check process, Titmouse NY employees showed more than 90% of support for the organizing effort. Following the union becoming public, Titmouse management chose to voluntarily recognize the union and agreed to negotiate with the Animation Guild in good faith.
Filmography
Television
Feature films
Short films
Notes
References
External links
Sean Cubillas, The 10 Greatest Cartoons Made By Titmouse Studios, According To IMDb, Comic Book Resources
American companies established in 2000
Entertainment companies established in 2000
Mass media companies established in 2000
American animation studios
Adult animation studios
Companies based in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20%28networking%29 | In IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) terminology, a station (abbreviated as STA) is a device that has the capability to use the 802.11 protocol. For example, a station may be a laptop, a desktop PC, PDA, access point or Wi-Fi phone. An STA may be fixed, mobile or portable. Generally, in wireless networking terminology, a station, a wireless client and a node are often used interchangeably, with no strict distinction existing between these terms. A station may also be referred to as a transmitter or receiver based on its transmission characteristics. IEEE 802.11-2007 formally defines station as: Any device that contains an IEEE 802.11-conformant media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) interface to the wireless medium (WM).
See also
Basic Service Set
Service set identifier
External links
Standards document IEEE 802.11-2020
Wi-Fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMB | MMB may refer to:
Music
Michigan Marching Band, of the University of Michigan
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, a band from Boston
Computing, science, and technology
MMB (cipher), a block cipher in cryptography
3-Mercapto-3-methylbutan-1-ol, a chemical found in some wines
Minimal metabolic behaviors, for modeling metabolic networks
Middle mouse button, a button on the computer mouse
Other uses
Maharashtra Maritime Board
Maritime Museum of Barcelona
Memanbetsu Airport, an airport at Hokkaidō, Japan (IATA airport code: MMB)
Milk Marketing Board, a former British government quango |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPP | RPP may refer to:
Academic journals
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Review of Particle Physics, a Particle Data Group publication
Media
Grupo RPP, a Peruvian media conglomerate
Radio Programas del Perú, their news radio station
RPP FM, an Australian community radio station
Political parties
People's Rally for Progress (), Djibouti
Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Nepal
Reformed Political Party, Netherlands
Republican People's Party, Turkey
Other uses
Rate pressure product, in heart medicine
Registered Professional Planner, a Canadian qualification
Rho Pi Phi, a professional pharmacy fraternity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIEL | WIEL (1400 AM) is a radio station licensed to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Elizabethtown Cbc, Inc. and features programming from ESPN Radio, Motor Racing Network and Westwood One. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the station aired a mix of Adult Contemporary and Top-40 formats.
References
External links
IEL
ESPN Radio stations
Radio stations established in 1974
1974 establishments in Kentucky
Elizabethtown, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDTM | SDTM (Study Data Tabulation Model) defines a standard structure for human clinical trial (study) data tabulations and for nonclinical study data tabulations that are to be submitted as part of a product application to a regulatory authority such as the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Submission Data Standards team of Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) defines SDTM.
On July 21, 2004, SDTM was selected as the standard specification for submitting tabulation data to the FDA for clinical trials and on July 5, 2011 for nonclinical studies. Eventually, all data submissions will be expected to conform to this format. As a result, clinical and nonclinical Data Managers will need to become proficient in the SDTM to prepare submissions and apply the SDTM structures, where appropriate, for operational data management.
Background
SDTM is built around the concept of observations collected about subjects who participated in a clinical study. Each observation can be described by a series of variables, corresponding to a row in a dataset or table. Each variable can be classified according to its Role. A Role determines the type of information conveyed by the variable about each distinct observation and how it can be used. Variables can be classified into four major roles:
Identifier variables, which identify the study, subject of the observation, the domain, and the sequence number of the record
Topic variables, which specify the focus of the observation (such as the name of a lab test)
Timing variables, which describe the timing of the observation (such as start date and end date)
Qualifier variables, which include additional illustrative text, or numeric values that describe the results or additional traits of the observation (such as units or descriptive adjectives).
A fifth type of variable role, Rule, can express an algorithm or executable method
to define start, end, or looping conditions in the Trial Design model.
The set of Qualifier variables can be further categorized into five sub-classes:
Grouping Qualifiers are used to group together a collection of observations within the same domain. Examples include—CAT and—SCAT.
Result Qualifiers describe the specific results associated with the topic variable for a finding. It is the answer to the question raised by the topic variable. Examples include—ORRES, --STRESC, and—STRESN. Many of the values in the DM domain are also classified as Result Qualifiers.
Synonym Qualifiers specify an alternative name for a particular variable in an observation. Examples include—MODIFY and—DECOD, which are equivalent terms for a --TRT or—TERM topic variable, --TEST and—LOINC which are equivalent terms for a --TESTCD.
Record Qualifiers define additional attributes of the observation record as a whole (rather than describing a particular variable within a record). Examples include—REASND, AESLIFE, and all other SAE (serious adverse event) flag variables in the AE domain; an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Prince%20George%2C%20British%20Columbia | This is a list of media outlets in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
Radio
Television
The city is served by CKPG-TV, a conventional broadcast station which originates programming locally. All of the city's other television signals are rebroadcasters of stations from Vancouver, British Columbia.
As in most Canadian cities, digital television transmission has not commenced in Prince George as of early 2014. However, all of the city's television signals have their DTV channel assignments already in place.
Shaw Communications operates a community channel, Shaw TV, in Prince George. Shaw also carries Vancouver CBC Television station CBUT-DT to all subscribers, following CKPG-TV's disaffiliation from the CBC network, which left the community with no local CBC Television transmitter, as well as Radio-Canada station CBUFT-DT, whose repeater closed down on July 31, 2012. The Prince George area does not receive CBC Television, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, or CTV over the air.
Publications
Prince George has one main newspaper, a daily, the Prince George Citizen, winner of the 2006 Michener Award, which appears Tuesday through Saturday. The Prince George Free Press which appeared on Wednesday and Friday, ceased publication on May 1, 2015. Over the Edge publishes student-based content out of the University of Northern British Columbia every other week from September to March, and offers online content throughout the rest of the year. There are also two café newsletters, PG Xpress (weekly) and Walk-N-Roll Publications (every two weeks). Prince George also has two advertising publications, the Prince George Buy & Sell and the Prince George Bargain Finder. The two major national newspapers, the National Post and The Globe and Mail, as well as The Province and the Vancouver Sun, are widely available.
One news source, Opinion 250, is published exclusively on-line, with updates several times per day.
References
Prince George
Media, Prince George |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Red%20Deer%2C%20Alberta | This is a list of media in Red Deer, Alberta.
Radio
Television
Until August 2009, Red Deer was served by a local television station, CHCA-TV channel 6, carrying programming from Canada's E! network. CHCA closed on August 31, 2009 due to economic troubles endured by its parent company, Canwest.
All of the city's other television services are rebroadcasters of stations from Edmonton. Red Deer is not designated as a mandatory market for digital television conversion.
Channel 4.1: CKEM-DT-1, Citytv
Channel 8: CFRN-TV-6, CTV (analogue)
Channel 10.1: CITV-DT-1, Global
After CHCA dropped its longtime affiliation with CBC Television in 2005, Edmonton's CBXT set up a rebroadcaster in Red Deer. Radio-Canada outlet CBXFT already operated a rebroadcaster there, and both stations had been available for decades on cable in the city. They were shut down with the CBC's other rebroadcasters in 2012, meaning Red Deer residents need cable to watch CBC and Radio-Canada programming.
Cable television in Red Deer is served by Shaw Communications, who operates a local community channel under the "Shaw TV" name. Discounting Shaw TV, Red Deer, with a population approaching 100,000, is one of the largest standalone urban centres in Canada (i.e. one that is not part of a larger metropolitan area) without a local TV station.
Newspapers
Red Deer Advocate
Online news media
rdnewsNOW: Launched in 2016 as an evolution of 106.7 REWIND Radio and BIG 105.5 news. rdnewsNOW is an online short and long-form news outlet, and is part of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, sharing news resources with CHUB-FM and CFDV-FM. Slogan: Everything Red Deer.
Todayville: A digital local news platform launched by the former VP of CFRN-TV-6
References
Red Deer
Media, Red Deer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold%20theorem | In quantum computing, the threshold theorem (or quantum fault-tolerance theorem) states that a quantum computer with a physical error rate below a certain threshold can, through application of quantum error correction schemes, suppress the logical error rate to arbitrarily low levels. This shows that quantum computers can be made fault-tolerant, as an analogue to von Neumann's threshold theorem for classical computation. This result was proven (for various error models) by the groups of Dorit Aharanov and Michael Ben-Or; Emanuel Knill, Raymond Laflamme, and Wojciech Zurek; and Alexei Kitaev independently. These results built off a paper of Peter Shor, which proved a weaker version of the threshold theorem.
Explanation
The key question that the threshold theorem resolves is whether quantum computers in practice could perform long computations without succumbing to noise. Since a quantum computer will not be able to perform gate operations perfectly, some small constant error is inevitable; hypothetically, this could mean that quantum computers with imperfect gates can only apply a constant number of gates before the computation is destroyed by noise.
Surprisingly, the quantum threshold theorem shows that if the error to perform each gate is a small enough constant, one can perform arbitrarily long quantum computations to arbitrarily good precision, with only some small added overhead in the number of gates. The formal statement of the threshold theorem depends on the types of error correction codes and error model being considered. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, by Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang, gives the general framework for such a theorem:
Threshold theorem for quantum computation: A quantum circuit on n qubits and containing p(n) gates may be simulated with probability of error at most ε using
gates (for some constant c) on hardware whose components fail with probability at most p, provided p is below some constant threshold, , and given reasonable assumptions about the noise in the underlying hardware.
Threshold theorems for classical computation have the same form as above, except for classical circuits instead of quantum. The proof strategy for quantum computation is similar to that of classical computation: for any particular error model (such as having each gate fail with independent probability p), use error correcting codes to build better gates out of existing gates. Though these "better gates" are larger, and so are more prone to errors within them, their error-correction properties mean that they have a lower chance of failing than the original gate (provided p is a small-enough constant). Then, one can use these better gates to recursively create even better gates, until one has gates with the desired failure probability, which can be used for the desired quantum circuit. According to quantum information theorist Scott Aaronson:"The entire content of the Threshold Theorem is that you're correcting errors fast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIRV | WIRV (1550 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Irvine, Kentucky, United States, the station is owned by Kentucky River Broadcasting Co., Inc and features programming from ABC Radio.
1550 AM is a clear-channel frequency shared by Canada and Mexico.
References
External links
Cool Oldies V-99.3 Facebook
IRV
Estill County, Kentucky
1960 establishments in Kentucky
Radio stations established in 1960 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20forest%20area | This is a list of countries and territories of the world according to the total area covered by forests, based on data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2010, the world had 3.92 billion ha of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area. In 2022, it lost 22.8 million ha of tree cover.
In 2020, the world had a total forest area of 4.06 billion hectares (ha), which was 31 percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52 ha per person – although forests
are not distributed equally among the world’s people
or geographically. The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world’s forests (45 percent), followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains. More than half (54 percent) of the world’s forests is in only five countries – the Russian Federation (20.1%), Brazil (12.2%), Canada (8.6%), the United States of America (7.6%) and China (5.4%).
Many of the world’s forests are being damaged and degraded or are disappearing altogether. Their capacity to provide tangible goods, such as fiber, food, and medicines, as well as essential ecological services, including habitat for biodiversity, carbon storage, and moderation of freshwater flows, is under greater threat than ever before. According to World Resource Institute in Washington, between 2000 and 2020 the world lost 101 million hectares (Mha) of tree cover, mostly tropical and subtropical forests (92%).
Planet, continents and regions
All areas are given in units of 1000 hectares. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization
Countries and territories
All areas are given in units of 1000 hectares. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
See also
Deforestation by continent
Forest cover by state and territory in the United States
Forest cover by state in India
Forest cover by federal subject in Russia
Forest cover by province or territory in Canada
Forest cover by state or territory in Australia
Forest Landscape Integrity Index
Forest restoration
List of countries by forest area (percentage)
Reforestation
Sources
This article incorporates text from Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. See c:File:Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 – Key findings.pdf. .
References
External links
Global Forest Resources Assessment at FAO
Forest data at FAO
Forestry by country
Forestry-related lists
Forests by country
Geography-related lists
Lists by area
Lists of countries by geography
Lists of forests
World forestry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QB64 | QB64 (originally QB32) is a self-hosting BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, designed to be compatible with Microsoft QBasic and QuickBASIC. QB64 is a transpiler to C++, which is integrated with a C++ compiler to provide compilation via C++ code and GCC optimization.
QB64 implements most QBasic statements, and can run many QBasic programs, including Microsoft's QBasic Gorillas and Nibbles games. Furthermore, QB64 has been designed to contain an IDE resembling the QBASIC IDE. QB64 also extends the QBASIC programming language to include 64-bit data types, as well as better sound and graphics support. It can also emulate some DOS/x86 specific features such as INT 33h mouse access, and multiple timers.
Since version 2.0, QB64 now offers debugging abilities, with the new $DEBUG metacommand.
History
QB64 was originally compiled with QuickBASIC 4.5. After significant development, Rob Galleon, the developer, became hindered by QuickBASIC's memory limitations and switched to Microsoft Basic PDS 7.1, which solved these problems for a short time. After version 0.63, QB64 was able to compile itself so the conventional memory limitations no longer applied.
Regarding the impetus for QB64, Galleon said:
Starting in 2016, work began on a graphical user interface builder and event driven integrated development environment called InForm, giving features similar to Visual Basic.
Syntax
QB64's syntax is designed to be completely backwards compatible with QuickBASIC. Line numbers are not required, and statements are terminated by newlines or separated by colons (:).
An example "Hello, World!" program is:
PRINT "Hello, World!"
An example of QB64's emulation of VGA memory for compatibility:
CLS
S$ = "Hello, World!"
DEF SEG = &HB800 'sets the segment to video memory
FOR I = 1 TO LEN(S$)
POKE 160 + (I - 1) * 2, ASC(MID$(S$, I, 1))'character
NEXT
DEF SEG 'reset the segment to default
An example of how QB64 allows audio files:
sound_effect& = _SNDOPEN("sound.wav") 'WAV, OGG or MP3
_SNDPLAY sound_effect&
An example of how QB64 allows picture files:
SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(800, 600, 32) 'creates a 32-bit screen
imagename& = _LOADIMAGE("image__name.png") 'BMP, JPG, PNG, etc.
_PUTIMAGE (0, 0), imagename&
_FREEIMAGE imagename& 'release assigned memory
An example of how QB64 uses multiple timers:
t1 = _FREETIMER
t2 = _FREETIMER
ON TIMER(t1, 1) GOSUB Timer.Trap 'the code following the Timer.Trap label will be run every 1 second
ON TIMER(t2, .5) mySub 'QB64 can also trigger a SUB procedure with TIMER;
' in this case mySUB will be triggered every 500 milliseconds
'activate timers:
TIMER(t1) ON
TIMER(t2) ON
DO 'go into an infinite loop until the window is closed
_LIMIT 1 'run the main loop at 1 cycle per second, to show how timers are independent from main program flow
LOOP
Timer.Trap:
PRINT "1s; ";
RETURN
SUB mySub
PRINT "500ms; ";
END SUB
Extensions to QBASIC
QB64's extended commands begin with an underscor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4GV | 4GV is a suite of voice speech codecs developed by Qualcomm for use in CDMA networks. The suite allows network operators to dynamically prioritize voice quality, which can help to increase network capacity while maintaining voice quality. The 4GV suite includes EVRC-B and EVRC-WB.
Qualcomm introduced the 4GV suite to increase network capacity on CDMA2000 Networks significantly. This technology allows for more efficient use of network resources, leading to improved call quality and increased network capacity.
The suite includes two codecs: EVRC-B and EVRC-WB. EVRC-B, or Enhanced Variable Rate Codec B, is a speech codec that provides high-quality voice communication over a wide range of bit rates2. EVRC-WB, or Enhanced Variable Rate Codec Wideband, is a wideband speech codec that provides high-quality voice communication over a wide range of bit rates but with a wider frequency than EVRC-B2.
References
Speech codecs
Code division multiple access
Qualcomm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20graph%20analysis | In computational biology, power graph analysis is a method for the analysis and
representation of complex networks. Power graph analysis is the computation, analysis and visual representation of a power graph from a graph (networks).
Power graph analysis can be thought of as a lossless compression algorithm for graphs. It extends graph syntax with representations of cliques, bicliques and stars. Compression levels of up to 95% have been obtained for complex biological networks.
Hypergraphs are a generalization of graphs in which edges are not just couples of nodes but arbitrary n-tuples. Power graphs are not another generalization of graphs, but instead a novel representation of graphs that proposes a shift from the "node and edge" language to one using cliques, bicliques and stars as primitives.
Power graphs
Graphical representation
Graphs are drawn with circles or points that represent nodes and lines connecting pairs of nodes that represent edges. Power graphs extend the syntax of graphs with power nodes, which are drawn as a circle enclosing nodes or other power nodes, and power edges, which are lines between power nodes.
Bicliques are two sets of nodes with an edge between every member of one set and every member of the other set. In a power graph, a biclique is represented as an edge between two power nodes.
Cliques are a set of nodes with an edge between every pair of nodes. In a power graph, a clique is represented by a power node with a loop.
Stars are a set of nodes with an edge between every member of that set and a single node outside the set. In a power graph, a star is represented by a power edge between a regular node and a power node.
Formal definition
Given a graph where is the set of nodes and is the set of edges, a power graph is a graph defined on the power set of power nodes connected to each other by power edges: . Hence power graphs are defined on the power set of nodes as well as on the power set of edges of the graph .
The semantics of power graphs are as follows: if two power nodes are connected by a power edge, this means that all nodes of the first power node are connected to all nodes of the second power node. Similarly, if a power node is connected to itself by a power edge, this signifies that all nodes in the power node are connected to each other by edges.
The following two conditions are required:
Power node hierarchy condition: Any two power nodes are either disjoint, or one is included in the other.
Power edge disjointness condition: There is an onto mapping from edges of the original graph to power edges.
Analogy to Fourier analysis
The Fourier analysis of a function
can be seen as a rewriting of the function in terms of harmonic functions instead of
pairs. This transformation changes the point of view from time domain
to frequency domain and enables many interesting applications in signal analysis, data compression,
and filtering.
Similarly, Power graph analysis is a rewriting or decompos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20layout | Spectral layout is a class of algorithm for drawing graphs. The layout uses the eigenvectors of a matrix, such as the Laplace matrix of the graph, as Cartesian coordinates of the graph's vertices.
The idea of the layout is to compute the two largest (or smallest) eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix of the graph and then use those for actually placing the nodes.
Usually nodes are placed in the 2 dimensional plane. An embedding into more dimensions can be found by using more eigenvectors.
In the 2-dimensional case, for a given node which corresponds to the row/column in the (symmetric) Laplacian matrix of the graph, the and -coordinates are the -th entries of the first and second eigenvectors of , respectively.
References
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Graph algorithms
Graph drawing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJQQ | WJQQ (97.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Somerset, Kentucky, United States, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and features programming from Premiere Networks.
History
The station went on the air as WSFC-FM on September 1, 1964. In 1966, the station was relaunched as WSEK-FM with a Western and country music format.
In 1981, WSEK-FM switched its network affiliation to the NBC Radio Network after having been with ABC since 1969.
In 1968, the station changed its call sign to WSEK. On August 9, 2005, the station changed its call sign to WKEQ-FM; on August 18, 2005, the station modified its call sign to WKEQ.
On June 1, 2016, changed its call sign to the current WJQQ, strengthening its ties to sister station WKQQ (100.1 FM) in Lexington, Kentucky.
Previous logo
(WKEQ's logo under previous classic hits format)
References
External links
97.1 Double Q Facebook
JQQ
IHeartMedia radio stations
Radio stations established in 1964
1964 establishments in Kentucky
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Somerset, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecto%20%28software%29 | ecto is a commercial weblog client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It allows one to compose and store blog entries on the local desktop computer, then upload them to a weblog host. ecto interacts with popular server software such as Blogger, Movable Type, and WordPress, among others. The developer believes the additional flexibility of the desktop operating system allows the client to incorporate features lacking in web-based clients. For example, ecto incorporates spell checking, easy insertion of images, and text formatting. ecto employs the standard controls the operating system provides to all applications. It can also trackback to other blogs and add categories and tags to a blog entry. The Macintosh version integrates with iTunes and iPhoto.
Critical reception
AppleMatters gave ecto 9 out of 10.
The Windows variant of ecto was reviewed at Reviewsaurus, which despite noting ecto as one of the most respected blogging clients, gave it a more critical review for its lack of a single pane interface, and lack of FTP support.
New Communications Review provided a more favorable review ("4 stars out of 5") praising its feature set and the detailed control it gives over formatting one's posts.
References
Classic Mac OS software
Blog client software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile%20programming%20language | Tactile programming is the specification, development, interaction with and interpretation of computer programs through a touch-centric interface. It is based on the ideas behind visual programming languages, particularly in the interaction and development of software with visual-graphic, rather than text-based, interpretations which can be "dragged-and-dropped" with a mouse in order to develop the software's functionality.
However, tactile programming applies the visual programming paradigm within a touch-centric framework:
the widgets which are dragged-and-dropped to create software programs are expanded to better reflect touch interaction rather than mouse interaction
other secondary input devices for software programming may be practically replaced by computer-rendered, virtual visual-graphic equivalents, such as a virtual keyboard.
concurrently-running emulator runtimes for same or similar operating systems as the one on which the software-based tactile programming interface resides may be used to test the stability and functionality of code without risk of data or interface loss.
At the moment, the only example which exist of tactile programming IDEs is "Visual AgenTalk", which is implemented within AgentSheets. Similar drag and drop programming can be found in the Etoys language (part of Squeak), in Alice and in Scratch.
Notes
Tactile Programming: A Unified Manipulation Paradigm Supporting Program Comprehension, Composition and Sharing (1996)
Visual AgenTalk
Towards Ubiquitous End-User Programming
Touch user interfaces
Programming language classification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWKC | DWKC may refer to the 2 stations both licensed on Metro Manila, Philippines
DWKC-FM, a radio station (93.9 FM) owned by Radio Mindanao Network
DWKC-DTV, a digital television station owned by Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, Channel 31 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoorva%20D.%20Patel | Apoorva D. Patel is a professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is notable for his work on quantum algorithms, and the application of information theory concepts to understand the structure of genetic languages. His major field of work has been the theory of quantum chromodynamics, where he has used lattice gauge theory techniques to investigate spectral properties, phase transitions, and matrix elements.
Education
He obtained his MSc in physics (1980) from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology under Geoffrey C. Fox (1984), with a thesis entitled: Monte Carlo Renormalisation Group for Lattice QCD.
Career
He was a Scientific Associate, Theory Division, CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, 1987–1989,
and then in 1989 he joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as a faculty member.
Personal life
In 1989, he married Rashmi, a surgeon specializing in laparoscopy and endosurgery. His son, Aavishkar, was born in 1990.
See also
Quantum Aspects of Life
References
External links
Patel's homepage
Patel on DLPB
Patel on Scientific Commons
Patel's publications
Patel on Math Genealogy
Scientific publications of Apoorva D. Patel on INSPIRE-HEP
Living people
Scientists from Mumbai
California Institute of Technology alumni
20th-century Indian physicists
Indian quantum physicists
IIT Bombay alumni
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
People associated with CERN
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian%20G%205/5 | The Bavarian G 5/5 goods train, steam locomotives were intended for steep stretches of line belonging to the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn) network in northern Bavaria. The extremely sharp rise in the levels of traffic on these lines in the years leading up to the First World War meant that the eight-coupled Bavarian E I and G 4/5 N classes previously employed there were increasingly unable to cope.
The first 15 examples were built in 1911 by Maffei. The G 5/5 was the first Bavarian goods train locomotive to be built with a superheater and four-cylinder compound engine. It acquitted itself well in practice and achieved very good consumption figures. As a result, a further 80, more powerful, engines were procured from 1920 to 1924.
The Bavarian G 5/5 was the most powerful, ten-coupled locomotive of all the German state railways (Länderbahnen). In this respect it was far superior to the Prussian G 10 and even the Prussian G 12 was unable to match it.
Of the first series, the seven remaining examples left after the First World War and the associated reparations were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, being renumbered as 57 501–507. The 80 engines from the follow-on order went straight into the Bavarian Group Administration of the Reichsbahn and were later allocated operating numbers 57 511–590.
In 1930, as a consequence of the worldwide economic crisis, former Länderbahn freight locomotives were increasingly retired even if they had not reached their full service life. In addition to antiquated Prussian classes such as the G 4 and G 5, large numbers of clearly much newer locomotives of south German manufacture were withdrawn. How much the "Berlin veto" (Bannstrahl) of the Reichsbahn's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Richard Paul Wagner, was responsible, is difficult to say at this distance, but it was very probably a major factor.
In addition to the 57.5, this also affected the Bavarian 56.8, as well as ex-Baden (e.g. the Baden VIII e), ex-Württemberg (e.g. the Württemberg H and Hh) and ex-Saxon (e.g. the Saxon XI V, XI H and XI HV).
Increasing electrification of the south German railway network and the low numbers of some engine classes also played their part. Transferring the complex and demanding south German machines to depots in the north was out of the question, despite their relative newness. In addition, enough new or relatively new Prussian locomotives were already available there.
At the end of the Second World War 20 vehicles remained in service. Most of them were retired by 1947 with war damage; some survived in the Deutsche Bundesbahn until 1950 as a splinter group.
See also
Royal Bavarian State Railways
List of Bavarian locomotives and railbuses
References
External links
Photograph and technical data at ANNO (Austrian National Library), 1911
Photograph and technical data at ANNO (Austrian National Library), 1925
0-10-0 locomotives
G 5 5
Standard gauge locomotives of Germany
Railway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANUS%20clinical%20trial%20data%20repository | Janus clinical trial data repository is a clinical trial data repository (or data warehouse) standard as sanctioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It was named for the Roman god Janus (mythology), who had two faces, one that could see in the past and one that could see in the future. The analogy is that the Janus data repository would enable the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry to both look retrospectively into past clinical trials, and also relative to one or more current clinical trials (or even future clinical trials thru better enablement of clinical trial design).
The Janus data model is a relational database model, and is based on SDTM as a standard, in terms of many of its basic concepts such as the loading and storing of findings, events, interventions and inclusion data. However, Janus itself is a data warehouse independent of any single clinical trials submission standard. For example, Janus can store pre-clinical trial (non-human) submission information as well, in the form of the SEND non-clinical standard.
The goals of Janus are as follows:
To create an integrated data platform for most commercial tools for review, analysis and reporting
Reduce the overall cost of existing information gathering and submissions development processes as well as review and analysis of information
Provide a common data model that is based on the SDTM standard to represent four classes of clinical data submitted to regulatory agencies: tabulation datasets, patient profiles, listings, etc.
Provides central access to standardized data, and provide common data views across collaborative partners.
Support cross-trial analyses for data mining and help detect clinical trends and address clinical hypotheses, and perform more advanced, robust analysis. This will enable the ability to contrast and compare data from multiple clinical trials to help improve efficacy and safety.
Facilitate a more efficient review process and ability to locate and query data more easily through automated processes and data standards.
Provide a potentially broader data view for all clinical trials with proper security, de-identified patient data, and proper agreements in place to share data.
External links
https://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/DataStandards/StudyDataStandards/ucm155327.htm
http://gforge.nci.nih.gov/docman/?group_id=142
http://gforge.nci.nih.gov/docman/index.php?group_id=180
https://web.archive.org/web/20060929233205/http://crix.nci.nih.gov/projects/janus/
Databases in the United States
Food and Drug Administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20for%20Exchange%20of%20Non-clinical%20Data | The Standard for Exchange of Nonclinical Data (SEND) is an implementation of the CDISC Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) for nonclinical studies, which specifies a way to present nonclinical data in a consistent format. These types of studies are related to animal testing conducted during drug development. Raw data of toxicology animal studies started after December 18, 2016 to support submission of new drugs to the US Food and Drug Administration will be submitted to the agency using SEND.
Having a common model to which the industry can conform enables benefits such as the ability for vendors to develop tools, for inter-organizational data exchange that is consistent in format regardless of the parties involved, and so on.
A SEND package consists of a few parts, but the main focus is on individual endpoint data. Endpoints typically map to domains (essentially, datasets), with a number of variables (a.k.a., columns or fields).
Implementation
The SEND Implementation Guide (SENDIG) is a document that provides implementers with specifications for implementing SEND, including how to model various nonclinical endpoints, rules to doing so, and examples with sample data. This document is available on the CDISC SEND website.
Supplementing the guide is the SEND Implementation Wiki hosted by PhUSE designed to assist with the implementation process and filling in some of the gaps, most notably containing:
SEND, CT, and Define.xml Fundamentals pages – providing more approachable descriptions of fundamental concepts in SEND
Getting SEND-ready – to help new implementers get started
FAQ – providing a large, evolving list of commonly asked questions
Companion to the wiki is the SEND Implementation Forum, which allows implementers to ask questions and get responses from SEND experts. New implementers are encouraged to ask questions here.
History
The work on this standard began in July 2002—subsequently, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration pilot project was initiated in July 2003 through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Feedback from this pilot and continuous efforts to more closely align this implementation with the SDTM for human clinical trials led to development of SEND 2.3, but without widespread adoption.
In 2006, with renewed FDA interest, the industry met to revive SEND and work on a version that, with FDA backing, would cover regulatory submission as well as operational data transfer needs. By 2007, an FDA pilot was announced, during which time the SEND team worked on the SENDIG (implementation guide).
SENDIG 3.0 was released to production in July 2011. This was soon followed by the FDA's statement of preference for SEND datasets.
In December 2014, the FDA CDER and CBER divisions released guidance for industry enforcing the usage of SEND as part of Investigational New Drug (IND) and Biologic License Application (BLA) submission to the US Food and Drug Administration. All studies started after December 15, 2016 sup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Guy | The Last Guy is a PlayStation Network title for the PlayStation 3. It is available as a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store. The game is a rescue game in which the eponymous player character must guide civilians to escape from monster-infested cities. On July 31, 2008, it was released in Japan. It was released in North America and Europe on August 28, 2008.
Gameplay
The Last Guy is played from a top-down perspective of a city that has been overrun by giant monsters/yokai, which the game refers to as "zombies". The player controls the titular The Last Guy, whose job is to find and lead stranded civilians to the escape zone before the time runs out, while evading enemy creatures. He can dash, manipulate the line of people following him, and use thermal imaging to find survivors. Over twelve playable locations include cities from North America, Europe and Asia. Features include a leaderboard for each city, a leaderboard for overall score, and counters that record the number of people rescued. Each city also hosts four VIPs which, when rescued, add bonus points to the final score and unlock additional bonus stages.
In May 2009, the game was updated to include trophy support and allow downloadable content to be purchased from the PlayStation Network.
Development
The Last Guy uses high-resolution satellite imagery from Google Earth to render real world cities.
Reception
The Last Guy received positive reviews. IGN gave it a 9 out of 10 calling it "an outstanding title that's challenging, funny, and fresh." Gaming Target was also positive, saying that it "features just enough quirky and clever gameplay to be worth the $10" and later selecting the game for their list of "40 Games We'll Still Be Playing From 2008"
References
External links
Official website
2008 video games
Japan Studio games
Maze games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Network games
Single-player video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games about zombies
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet%20%26%20Clank%20Future%3A%20Quest%20for%20Booty | Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (known as Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty in Europe, Africa and Australia) is a 2008 platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The game is the sixth main installment in the Ratchet & Clank series and the second installment in its Future saga. It was released on PlayStation Network in North America and Europe on August 21, 2008 and on Blu-ray Disc in Europe on September 12, 2008 and in Asia on September 25, 2008. The game continues from where Tools of Destruction left off, where Clank was taken by the Zoni, and follows Ratchet's quest to find him. Due to its length of approximately three to four hours of playtime, it was released at a lower price point than most standard retail games.
Gameplay
Gameplay was first shown at E3 2008. This game features more puzzle solving and platforming than previous games in the series and introduces new features, such as the ability to pick things up with the Omniwrench Millennium 12. There are also sections where Ratchet must pick up creatures called Heliogrubs in order to light up a dark area. The Omniwrench Millennium 12 also has a tether ability, which can be used to manipulate objects and move obstacles. The Combuster, Fusion Grenade, Nano Swarmers, Predator Launcher, Tornado Launcher, Shock Ravager and Alpha Disrupter make their return from Tools of Destruction.
Plot
A year after defeating Emperor Tachyon and witnessing the Zoni abduction of Clank at the end of Tools of Destruction, Ratchet and his partner Talwyn Apogee learn from the IRIS Supercomputer that Captain Angstrom Darkwater, a legendary space pirate, is the only individual with knowledge of how to contact the Zoni. Traveling to his home planet of Merdegraw in the Drogol Sector, the duo slip aboard a pirate fleet above the Azorean Sea, but are soon discovered and captured by Sprocket, Darkwater's first mate, who reveals that Darkwater has been dead for years. Seconds before the two are to be executed, Rusty Pete shows up disguised as Captain Romulus Slag (who Ratchet defeated in Tools of Destruction) and instead orders them to be marooned on Hoolefar Island.
After experiencing a brief vision of Clank surrounded by glowing energy, Ratchet reunites with Talwyn and meets the local leader, Mayor Barnabas Worley. He dispatches Ratchet to restore the island's power supply by restarting several wind turbines and then directs him to the town's radio operator, who asks Ratchet to purchase a Versabolt from the Smuggler so he can make badly needed repairs. As a reward for providing assistance, Worley reveals the existence of the Obsidian Eye, a powerful lorentzian telescope Darkwater built to maintain a link to the Zoni's home dimension. Unfortunately, the Eye's power source, an artifact known as the Fulcrum Star, was hidden by Darkwater shortly before he was killed in a mutiny organized by Slag.
Rusty Pete arrives and, with the help of Slag's s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro%20Vespignani | Alessandro Vespignani (born April 4, 1965) is an Italian-American physicist, best known for his work on complex networks, and particularly for work on the applications of network theory to the mathematical modeling of infectious disease, applications of computational epidemiology, and for studies of the topological properties of the Internet. He is currently the Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, where he is the director of the Network Science Institute.
Vespignani and his team have contributed mathematical and computational modeling analysis on several disease outbreaks, including 2009 H1N1 flu, Ebola epidemic in West Africa, Zika epidemic, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vespignani is author, together with Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, of the book Evolution and Structure of the Internet. Together with Alain Barrat and Marc Barthelemy he has published in 2008 the monograph Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks.
Career and research
Vespignani received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D., both in physics and both from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. Following postdoctoral research at Yale University and Leiden University, he worked at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste for five years, and briefly at the University of Paris-Sud, before moving to Indiana University in 2004, and then to Northeastern University in 2011.
Vespignani has worked in a number of areas of physics, including characterization of non-equilibrium phenomena and phase transitions, computer science, network science and computational epidemiology. He has collaborated with, among others, Luciano Pietronero, Benoit Mandelbrot, Betz Halloran, Ira Longini, and David Lazer. He describes his current research as being focused on "interdisciplinary application of statistical and numerical simulation methods in the analysis of epidemic and spreading phenomena and the study of biological, social and technological networks."
He is best known, however, for his work on complex networks. Of particular note is his work with Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, in which the two demonstrated that for a disease propagating on a random scale-free network the transmission probability or infectivity necessary to sustain an outbreak tends to zero in the limit of large network size. Vespignani’s works on modeling the spatial spread of epidemics includes the realistic and data-driven modeling of emerging infectious diseases, and contributions to computational epidemiology by developing specific tools for the analysis of the global spread of epidemics.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Vespignani’s team investigated how travel and quarantine influenced the dynamics of the spread of SARS-CoV-2. The modeling analysis mapped the early dispersal of infections and the temporal windows of the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 and onset of local transmission in Europe and the USA, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet%20Explorer | Usenet Explorer is a news client for the Microsoft Windows operating system (also fully compatible with the Linux Wine software ). It is designed to handle binary and text Usenet posts, and is capable of handling newsgroups as large as hundred million headers. A Usenet indexing service with 3000 day retention and boolean wildmat as search pattern language is integrated into the program.
Releases following v2.0 include automatic unpacking feature - par2 repair / unrar / joining split files without user intervention; when using integrated search or nzb file as a download source the download is presented as a single combined entry (so-called custom collection) and all the way to the ready to view or listen media files then becomes seamless and completely automatic. This simple routine makes the program valuable to novice Usenet users.
Usenet Explorer supports all existing standards for compressing headers and includes native x64 version. The program now supports single NZB files in excess of 10gb, and Deobfuscation
The program is shareware operating on an annual subscription to retain search function; posting and par2 repair (QuickPar replacement) features are free.
See also
List of Usenet newsreaders
Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
External links
UsenetExplorer.com
Usenet clients
Shareware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20brain%E2%80%93computer%20interfaces | There are various consumer brain–computer interfaces available for sale. These are devices that generally use an electroencephalography (EEG) headset to pick up EEG signals, a processor that cleans up and amplifies the signals, and converts them into desired signals, and some kind of output device.
As of 2012, EEG headsets ranged from simple dry single-contact devices to more elaborate 16-contact, wetted contacts, and output devices included toys like a tube containing a fan that blows harder or softer depending on how hard the user concentrates which in turn moved a ping-pong ball, video games, or a video display of the EEG signal.
Companies developing products in the space have taken different approaches.
Neurosky grew out of work in an academic lab in Korea in the early 2000s; the team used an EEG headset to control the speed of a remote-controlled car and their device also used Eye tracking to control the direction the car moved. The scientists initially intended to establish a company that would develop and sell toys, but when the company was founded in Silicon Valley, it focused mostly on providing devices and software to other companies as an OEM. In 2010 the company released a product called Mindwave with one contact, a processor, an application (and a mobile app) that could display the EEG signal, and several games and other apps; the included an API so developers could create new apps using the data.
In 2007 the Canadian scientist Ariel Garten formed InteraXon with Trevor Coleman and Chris Aimone to commercialize her and her mentor Steve Mann's research on brain–computer interfaces, with an initial focus on output devices that could do practical tasks like turn off lights, control audio devices, or move objects. The company released a headset and processor called Muse with seven electrodes, with an app and an API.
In the 2010s French scientists Yohan Attal and Thibaud Dumas founded myBrain to commercialize their research, and worked with the Brain and Spine Institute (ICM) in Paris to create an EEG headset called melomind with four electrodes, with an app for stress management.
Around the same time OpenBCI was founded by Joel Murphy to create an open source set of devices, processors, and software aimed at biohackers and researchers that incorporates other sensors along with EEG electrodes.
At the end of 2020, NextMind began shipping their visual BCI which utilizes an EEG headset with dry electrodes. Founded by cognitive neuroscientist Sid Kouider, the company offers their product as a dev kit to make neurotechnology accessible to a wider audience of developers.
References
Brain–computer interfacing
Pointing devices
Computing input devices
History of human–computer interaction
Video game control methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBZB | WBZB (1130 AM) is a daytime only radio station broadcasting a top 40/CHR format, licensed to Murray, Kentucky. The station is currently owned by Forever Communications, Inc. and features programming from ESPN Radio.
In addition to games and commentary of national interest, WBZB featured the area's only local sports show hosted by prominent local athlete and play-by-play man for the Murray High Tigers, Travis Turner.
Local sports updates were given daily from Neal Bradley, and are given as "Brought to you by Froggyland Sports".
Local programs
1130 WBZB The Office boasted the only live and local sports talk show in Western Kentucky. The Travis Turner Sports Show offered interviews and insight of local high school sports, along with national guests.
The Travis Turner Sports Show had guests from not only Murray and Calloway County (the main coverage area), but from other parts of the region, because it is the only outlet on a daily basis. This is also assisted by the streaming of his show online at Froggyland Sports.
Froggyland Sports
Travis Turner is the creator and force behind Froggyland Sports. The site is named for the sister station WFGS-FM and their coverage area. "FLS", which is what the site is called for short, gives you updates on local "Froggyland" high schools, and streams online the Travis Turner Sports Show.
Along with streaming the Travis Turner Sports Show, "FLS" also broadcasts the Murray High School athletics. This gives extended families the opportunity to listen to how well their young relatives are playing.
Previous National sports programs
Mike and Mike Sign On – 9:00am
Colin Cowherd (Fox Sports Radio) 9:00am – 1:00pm
Russillo and Kanell 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Doug Gottlieb (CBS Sports Radio) 3:00pm – 3:30pm
ESPN Radio 5:00pm – Sign Off
Nationally broadcast NCAA football and basketball games are aired over the weekends, while the Westwood One NFL game of the week is aired on Sundays during football season.
Television simulcasts
Something unique for The Office is that at most points throughout the day, the previous sports programming that was airing can also be seen on television. Nationally this is done with the ESPN channels, but locally in Murray, Kentucky it is due in part to local cable provide Murray Electric System.
Mike and Mike – ESPN2
Colin Cowherd – FS1
Russillo and Kanell – ESPNews
Travis Turner Sports Show – Murray Electric System Channel 15
Station events
1130 ESPN The Office (along with sister stations WNBS-AM and WFGS-FM) held different events through the year.
Annual Home, Lawn & Farm Show – This event dates back over 20 years (the first being held in 1989). It has always been the expo for vendors to show off their wares. There are always vendors that cater to different parts of the show, whether they represent HOME, LAWN or FARM. Often there are also "sub category" areas, like; Children's Play Area, Women's World or the Men's Sit a Spell. This event always occurs within the first quarter of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20engineering | Precision engineering is a subdiscipline of electrical engineering, software engineering, electronics engineering, mechanical engineering, and optical engineering concerned with designing machines, fixtures, and other structures that have exceptionally low tolerances, are repeatable, and are stable over time. These approaches have applications in machine tools, MEMS, NEMS, optoelectronics design, and many other fields.
Precision engineering is a branch of engineering that focus on the design, development and manufacture of product with high levels of accuracy and repeatability.
It involves the use of advanced technologies and techniques to achieve tight tolerance and dimensional control is the manufacturing process.
Overview
Professors Hiromu Nakazawa and Pat McKeown provide the following list of goals for precision engineering:
Create a highly precise movement.
Reduce the dispersion of the product's or part's function.
Eliminate fitting and promote assembly, especially automatic assembly.
Reduce the initial cost.
Reduce the running cost.
Extend the life span.
Enable the design safety factor to be lowered.
Improve interchangeability of components so that corresponding parts made by other factories or firms can be used in their place.
Improve quality control through higher machine accuracy capabilities and hence reduce scrap, rework, and conventional inspection.
Achieve a greater wear/fatigue life of components.
Make functions independent of one another.
Achieve greater miniaturization and packing densities.
Achieve further advances in technology and the underlying sciences.
Technical Societies
American Society for Precision Engineering
euspen - European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology
JSPE- The Japan Society for Precision Engineering
DSPE - Dutch Society for Precision Engineering
SPETA - Singapore Precision Engineering and Technology Association
See also
Abbe error
Accuracy and precision
Flexures
Kinematic coupling
Measurement uncertainty
Kinematic determinacy
References
External links
Precision Engineering, the Journal of the International Societies for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology
Mechanical engineering
Precision Engineering Centre at Cranfield University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Fagin | Ronald Fagin (born 1945) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his work in database theory, finite model theory, and reasoning about knowledge.
Biography
Ron Fagin was born and grew up in Oklahoma City, where he attended Northwest Classen High School. He was later elected to the Northwest Classen Hall of Fame. He completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College. Fagin received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973, where he worked under the supervision of Robert Vaught.
He joined the IBM Research Division in 1973, spending two years at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and then transferred in 1975 to what is now the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
He has served as program committee chair for ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems 1984, Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge 1994, ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2005, and the International Conference on Database Theory 2009.
Fagin has received numerous professional awards for his work. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an IBM Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. One of his papers won the Gödel Prize. He received a Docteur Honoris Causa from the University of Paris, and a Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Calabria in Italy. The IEEE granted him the IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award and the IEEE Technical Achievement Award (now known as the Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award ); and the ACM granted him the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award. The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (in conjunction with the ACM Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation, the European Association for Computer Science Logic, and the Kurt Gödel Society) granted him and the co-authors of two of his papers, the Alonzo Church Award for Logic and Computation. IBM granted him eight IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, two IBM supplemental Patent Issue Awards, given for key IBM patents, three IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, and two IBM Corporate Awards. He won Best Paper awards at the 1985 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the 2001 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, the 2010 International Conference on Database Theory, and the 2015 International Conference on Database Theory. He won 10-year Test-of-Time Awards at the 2011 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, the 2013 International Conference on Database Theory, and the 2014 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.
Work
Fagin's theorem
Fagin's theorem, which he proved in his PhD thesis, states that existential second-order logic coincides with the comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMedix | iMedix was a health search engine and social network service that utilized advanced proprietary algorithms to provide information in response to medical questions and concerns. iMedix was a U.S. cooperation founded in 2006 by Amir Leitersdorf and Iri Amirav. The company's R&D was based in Herzeliya, Israel.
Om May 18, 2011, AVG Technologies acquired iMedix Web Technologies Ltd., realizing "the integration of iMedix software with the Company’s existing solutions." The website shut down sometime after February 2012.
Service and technology
The iMedix service offered a combination of a health search engine and a collaborative community platform.
Reception
iMedix was one of PCWorld'''s 100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites'' in 2008.
References
External links
iMedix
iMedix on Techcrunch
American medical websites
Defunct social networking services
Online support groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peepul%20Centre | The Peepul Centre is an arts centre in Belgrave, Leicester. Designed by Andrzej Blonski Architects, the £15 million building was opened in 2005 and houses an auditorium, restaurant, cyber café, gym and dance studio, and is also used for conferences and events. The centre hosted Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other senior Labour Party figures during hustings for the deputy leadership contest.
Founded by the Belgrave Baheno Women's Organisation the project was conceived in the 1990s. A few months after its opening, the centre faced financial difficulties in 2007.
There are plans for expansion to include an aqua spa and recording studio.
References
External links
Profile from Building Design online
Buildings and structures in Leicester
Culture in Leicestershire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahshon%20%28disambiguation%29 | Nahshon is a biblical character.
Nahshon or Nachshon may also refer to:
First name
Nahshon Even-Chaim (born 1971), Australian computer hacker
Nahshon Garrett, American wrestler
Nachshon Wachsman (1975–1994), Israeli soldier abducted and killed by Hamas
Nahshon Wright, American gridiron football player
Nahshon ben Zadok, 9th century Jewish scholar
Surname
Hilla Nachshon (born 1980), Israeli television host
Shuli Nachshon (born 1951), Israeli video and installation artist
Tamar Fish Nachshon (1926 – 2008), Israeli writer
Other
Nahshon, Israel, a kibbutz in central Israel
Nahshon Battalion, a unit of the Israel Defense Forces (regular unit)
Operation Nachshon, an Israel Defense Forces operation during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Doctor%20Network | Student Doctor Network (SDN) is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1999 for prehealth and health professional students in the United States and Canada. It focuses on nine core healthcare professions: medical, dental, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, podiatry, psychology, rehabilitation medicine, and veterinary medicine.
The Student Doctor Network has over 100 volunteers and over 50,000 active members. The SDN website receives over 2.5 million unique visits and 17 million page views monthly. The site publishes daily articles and features pertinent to medical education.
It also provides tools such as Expert Answers which features curated answers from verified doctors, prehealth advisors and other experts. Additionally, the site offers a school review and interview feedback section and tools such as Choosing a Medical Specialty.
This volunteer organization has published five books (Medical School Admissions Guide, Dental School Admissions Guide, MCAT Pearls, Caribbean Medical School Primer, and republished "How to Choose a Medical Specialty").
The forums are moderated against commercial spam and trolling activity. There is a volunteer staff of over 100 Moderators consisting of students and doctors.
History
Student Doctor Network was launched in 1999 by Lee Burnett.
References
External links
Student Doctor Network
Health care education
Medical and health student organizations
Medical education in the United States
Educational institutions established in 1999
Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Canada
1999 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQXY | WQXY (1560 AM) was a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Hazard, Kentucky, United States, the station was owned by Black Gold Broadcasting and featured programming from CNN Radio and Jones Radio Network.
History
The station went on the air as WYZQ on March 5, 1987. On October 10, 1990, the station changed its call sign to WQXY.
On September 30, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) informed WQXY's owners that it intended to cancel the station's license due to WQXY having been silent since August 1, 2014. In response, Black Gold Broadcasting surrendered the license to the FCC on October 7, 2015.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWQXY (Facility ID: 5466)
QXY
Radio stations established in 1987
1987 establishments in Kentucky
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Kentucky
QXY
QXY
Hazard, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRVG-LP | WRVG-LP (93.7 FM) is an American low-power FM radio station licensed to serve the community of Georgetown, Kentucky. The station is currently owned by Georgetown College.
Programming
Previous shows include Daybreak with Syd Mosko, After Noon with Daniel M. Chick (M-F 12–4), and The Close with Meredith Scalos. Former shows of note are The Kitchen Sink with Tori Shover, Urban Gorilla Mix Radio Show, Georgetown Focus Show, The Wrap with Daniel M. Chick and Rachel K. Hall, and The Sports Weekend," as well as former flagship show The Big Picture with Jordan Rowe.
History
WRVG was preceded by an AM station called WGTC. Lane Wells, the first faculty advisor of WRVG, served as the student Station Manager of WGTC during the 1958-1959 school year. During that time, the WGTC studio was located on the first floor of Giddings Hall. Later, when Wells returned as a professor, the station was relocated to the attic of Giddings. When the school applied for the license for the new FM station, they wanted to keep the WGTC call letters; but they were already in use by a commercial station. So instead, they chose the call letters WRVG, for the Radio Voice of Georgetown.
WRVG, Georgetown College's campus radio station, came from humble beginnings. The weak 40 watt station was located in the Religious Education building where the current Ensor Learning Resource Center now stands. The faint signal did not discourage devoted broadcasting students and many of them would stay in the radio station all day. The students wished for a more powerful station that would allow more opportunities for Georgetown College and its students in the broadcasting world.
WRVG came on air for the first time on Tuesday, November 19, 1963, at 4PM, and stayed on air for two hours. Three days later, JFK was assassinated. Lane Wells remembered, "I was putting in an air monitor...a Heathkit I bought, built and installed atop the control room rack cabinet. I cried."
WRVG was only the fourth educational FM station to come on the air in the state of Kentucky. The station's first console held the Gates Radio Company consolette. Lane Wells built the platform console in the college's shop the summer of 1963. He installed the two turntables atop the platform, wired it with various mics, recorders, etc.
President Robert Mills budgeted Wells $10,000 from a Shell Oil Company grant to build WRVG.
The first transmitter was a hand-me-down 10-watter from Depauw University. Wells recalled, "I'll never forget riding up to Greencastle, Indiana from Georgetown's air field. The owner-operator, Bob Johnson of WAXU [formerly WGOR, downtown], and I flew up in Bob's light plane to see it. We had to sweep snow off of its wings...I prayed."
Bob Johnson was instrumental in helping to get WRVG on the air. The first student Station Manager, Rick Leigh, drove up to Depauw and brought it home...it weighed "tons" in comparison to today's transmitters. In 1983, WRVG took another big step by hiring the first student Spor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Cunningham%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Robert Stephen (Steve) Cunningham (born 1942 – March 27, 2015) was an American Computer Scientist and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at California State University Stanislaus.
Biography
Steve Cunningham received his BA cum laude in Mathematics from Drury University in 1964. He continued his studies at the University of Oregon where he earned his M.A. in Mathematics in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics three years later. In 1982, he received an M.S. in Computer Science at Oregon State University.
Cunningham started working at the University of Kansas as Assistant Professor of Mathematics from 1969 to 1974. From 1974 he worked at the Birmingham-Southern College as Assistant Professor of Mathematics for a year, Associate Professor of Mathematics for four years and as Associate Professor of Computer Science from 1979 to 1982. Since 1982 he has worked at the California State University Stanislaus, since 1986 as Professor of Computer Science until 2001, Gemperle Distinguished Professor for three years and Stanislaus Professor Emeritus since 2005. From 1999 to 2000 Cunningham was also visiting scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He was National Science Foundation Program Director, EHR/DUE from 2003 to 2005. Research Professor of Computer Science at the Oregon State University 2004-05 and Noyce Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Grinnell College in 2006.
He received several awards and honors. A Fellow of the European Association for Computer Graphics in 1998, the Outstanding Professor for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity, CSU Stanislaus in 2001, the Gemperle Distinguished Professor, CSU Stanislaus in 2001, the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Contribution Award in 2004 and the Noyce Visiting Professor of Computer Science, Grinnell College in 2006.
Work
Cunningham's research interests were in Computer graphics, especially computer graphics education, Computer Science Education, and computer visualization in learning mathematics.
See also
Educational visualization
Publications
1989. Programming the User Interface: Principles and Examples. With Judith R. Brown. Wiley.
1991. Visualization in Teaching and Learning Mathematics. Edited with Walter Zimmermann. MAA Notes Number 19, Mathematical Association of America.
1992. Computer Graphics Using Object-Oriented Programming. Edited with N. Craighill, M. Fong and J. Brown. Wiley,
1992. Interactive Learning Through Visualization - The Impact of Computer Graphics in Education. Edited with Roger Hubbold. Springer-Verlag.
1996. Electronic Publishing on CD-ROM. With Judson Rosebush. O'Reilly and Associates.
2007. Computer Graphics: Programming in OpenGL for Visual Communication. Prentice-Hall.
2009. Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice. With Mike Bailey. AK Peters. 2012. Second edition.
References
External links
Steve Cunningham homepage.
1942 births
American computer scientists
Living people
Information visualization experts
Drury University alumni
Oregon Sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength%20selective%20switching | Wavelength selective switching components are used in WDM optical communications networks to route (switch) signals between optical fibres on a per-wavelength basis.
What is a WSS
A WSS comprises a switching array that operates on light that has been dispersed in wavelength without the requirement that the dispersed light be physically demultiplexed into separate ports. This is termed a ‘disperse and switch’ configuration. For example, an 88 channel WDM system can be routed from a “common” fiber to any one of N fibers by employing 88 1 x N switches. This represents a significant simplification of a demux and switch and multiplex architecture that would require (in addition to N +1 mux/demux elements) a non-blocking switch for 88 N x N channels which would test severely the manufacturability limits of large-scale optical cross-connects for even moderate fiber counts.
A more practical approach, and one adopted by the majority of WSS manufacturers is shown schematically in Figure 1 (to be uploaded). The various incoming channels of a common port are dispersed continuously onto a switching element which then directs and attenuates each of these channels independently to the N switch ports. The dispersive mechanism is generally based on holographic or ruled diffraction gratings similar to those used commonly in spectrometers. It can be advantageous, for achieving resolution and coupling efficiency, to employ a combination of a reflective or transmissive grating and a prism – known as a GRISM. The operation of the WSS can be bidirectional so the wavelengths can be multiplexed together from different ports onto a single common port. To date, the majority of deployments have used a fixed channel bandwidth of 50 or 100 GHz and 9 output ports are typically used.
Microelectromechanical Mirrors (MEMS)
The simplest and earliest commercial WSS were based on movable mirrors using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). The incoming light is broken into a spectrum by a diffraction grating (shown at RHS of Figure) and each wavelength channel then focuses on a separate MEMS mirror. By tilting the mirror in one dimension, the channel can be directed back into any of the fibers in the array. A second tilting axis allows transient crosstalk to be minimized, otherwise switching (eg) from port 1 to port 3 will always involve passing the beam across port 2. The second axis provides a means to attenuate the signal without increasing the coupling into neighboring fibers.
This technology has the advantage of a single steering surface, not necessarily requiring polarization diversity optics. It works well in the presence of a continuous signal, allowing the mirror tracking circuits to dither the mirror and maximise coupling.
MEMS based WSS typically produce good extinction ratios, but poor open loop performance for setting a given attenuation level. The main limitations of the technology arise from the channelization that the mirrors naturally enforce. During |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Flashpoint%20episodes | Flashpoint is a Canadian drama television series that originally aired on CTV in Canada and CBS in the United States before changing networks part way through the fourth season to ION Television. Flashpoint follows the lives of several officers working for an elite police tactical unit known as the Strategic Response Unit, which is called in by regular police to resolve situations beyond their control.
The series debuted on July 11, 2008, and its final episode aired December 13, 2012. Episodes are listed by their official seasons per CTV episode lists and Canadian DVD releases, and include the original air dates in North America. In a few instances, Flashpoint episodes have been broadcast out of their production order by CTV, CBS, and ION.
Broadcast history
By the end of December 2008, only nine of the 13 episodes produced during the series' first season had been aired in North America, although all 13 episodes had been aired by New Zealand's TVNZ (TV2) as of December 10, 2008. In North America, the four remaining episodes of Season 1 were aired in January and February 2009; in North America, CBS and CTV initially billed these episodes as part of Season 2, rather than as part of their intended season, Season 1, as was done in international markets.
Eighteen new 2009 episodes were ordered by CTV and CBS—the original 13 ordered by CTV on August 25, 2008, plus five additional episodes that were ordered on November 19, 2008. The first nine of these new episodes, combined with the four holdover episodes from 2008 were aired as Season 2 in North America. The remaining nine episodes, although originally filmed for Season 2, were aired as "Season 3" beginning September 25, 2009, in Canada on CTV; however, CTV later corrected their online episode guide to report the seasons as produced rather than initially aired. The correction also holds for the DVD releases of "Season 2, Volume 1" and "Season 2, Volume 2". The last nine episodes of Season 2 began airing on June 4, 2010, in the United States on CBS and were shown in a different order from their original broadcast on CTV. CBS, however, erroneously refers to these episodes as "Season 3". A 13-episode third season was produced in Toronto from January to May 2010 and began airing in July 2010 on both CTV and CBS.
The fourth season of Flashpoint premiered July 8, 2011, on CTV. The fifth season of Flashpoint, which would bring it to 75 episodes, was announced by Bell Media on June 1, 2011.
Season 5 began filming in 2012. It was announced in May 2012 that the series would be ending at the end of its fifth season.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2008–09)
Season 2 (2009)
Season 3 (2010–11)
Season 4 (2011)
The fourth season of Flashpoint premiered on July 8, 2011. In the United States, the show moved from CBS to Ion Television after "Shockwave."
Season 5 (2012)
Flashpoint'''s fifth and final season premiered on September 23, 2012, on CTV. The series finale aired on December 13, 2012.
Nielsen ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help%20Conquer%20Cancer | Help Conquer Cancer is a volunteer computing project that runs on the BOINC platform. It is a joint project of the Ontario Cancer Institute and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. It is also the first project under World Community Grid to run with a GPU counterpart.
Project Purpose
The goal is to enhance the efficiency of protein X-ray crystallography, which will enable researchers to determine the structure of many cancer-related proteins faster. This will lead to improving the understanding of the function of these proteins, and accelerate the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.
See also
BOINC
List of volunteer computing projects
World Community Grid
External links
Help Conquer Cancer
References
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects
Science in society
Free science software
Cancer organizations based in Canada
Volunteer computing projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCIC | GCIC may refer to:
Global City Innovative College a private college in Taguig City, Philippines.
Global Cyberspace Integration Center a field operating agency of the United States Air Force. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Saints%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the long-running Australian medical drama All Saints began airing on Seven Network on 8 February 2000 and concluded on 21 November 2000 with a total of 41 episodes.
Cast
Main
Georgie Parker as Terri Sullivan
Jeremy Cumpston as Connor Costello (40 episodes)
Martin Lynes as Luke Forlano
Judith McGrath as Von Ryan
Libby Tanner as Bronwyn Craig
Ben Tari as Jared Levine
Erik Thomson as Mitch Stevens (40 episodes)
Brian Vriends as Ben Markham (37 episodes)
Kirrily White as Stephanie Markham (episodes 1–23)
Recurring
Ling-Hsueh Tang as Kylie Preece (24 episodes)
Joy Smithers as Rose Stevens (19 episodes)
Celia Ireland as Regina Butcher (14 episodes)
Jake Blundell as Tony Hurst (10 episodes)
Belinda Emmett as Jodi Horner (8 episodes)
Pia Miranda as Brittany Finlay (6 episodes)
Guest
Rachel Gordon as Claudia MacKenzie (5 episodes)
Marta Dusseldorp as Insp. Debbie Bloom (4 episodes)
Melissa Jaffer as Eileen Sullivan (4 episodes)
James Roden as Dr. Stan Ridgeway (4 episodes)
Anthony Lawrence as Fergus Tiegan (3 episodes)
Martin Vaughan as Ryan Sullivan (2 episodes)
Eric Bana as Rob Biletsky (2 episodes)
Caitlin McDougall as Jodie Reeves (2 episodes)
Josephine Byrnes as Marion Lord (2 episodes)
Bille Brown as Steve Coulter (2 episodes)
Sarah Aubrey as Amanda Morton (2 episodes)
Zoe Carides as Sarah Adams (2 episodes)
Peter Lamb as Neil Phillips (1 episode)
Christopher Pitman as Rick Forlano (1 episode)
Julie Hamilton as Maureen Forlano (1 episode)
Carmen Duncan as Elizabeth Wallace (1 episode)
Alex Hamill as Christopher Wallace (1 episode)
Julie Stevenson as Victoria Carlton (1 episode)
Bob Brooks as Mark Carlton (1 episode)
Notes
Episodes
DVD release
References
External links
List of All Saints season 3 episodes at the Australian Television Information Archive
All Saints (TV series) seasons
2000 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Turku | The Turku tramway network was the first—and until the 2021 opening of Tampere Light Rail, second to last—tram system to be operated in Finland. It was operated as horse tramway from 1890 until 1892, and as an electrified tramway from 1908 until 1972. Prior to 1919 the tram system was owned by private interests, and from that year onwards by the City of Turku until closure of the system.
The possible recreation of the tram network and/or a creation of a light rail network have been discussed since the (second) closure of the tram system in 1972. In December 2009 the Turku City Council made the decision that a light rail system (, "fast tramway") system would be realised in the city after an intermediate phase of bus rapid transit.
History
1890–1892: Horse tramway
In 1889 Spårvägsaktiebolaget i Åbo ("Tramway Company in Turku"), led by Count August Armfelt applied for the right to construct a horse-drawn tram line in Turku. The application was positively received in the city council, and already on 4 May 1890 the company opened a tram line between Turku Castle and the city centre. This was the first tram system in Finland, then an autonomous part of Russia. Unusually for a tramway system in Finland, the line was built with a track gauge of , instead of the Russian broad gauge standard of or the gauge used on all subsequent Finnish tramways. Although passenger numbers were relatively high, high maintenance costs led to the horse tramway being unprofitable, and it was closed down already on 31 October 1892. The five tramcars owned by Spårvägsaktiebolaget i Åbo were sold to Stockholms Nya Spårvägsaktiebolag, Sweden in 1894.
1908–1919: Privately owned electric tramway
Due to the city's population increase, the idea of building a tramway in Turku resurfaced during the first years of the 20th century. Building an electrically powered tramway for the city was first proposed in 1905, but due to the lack of local experience in constructing such a system, foreign companies were selected to construct the service. Germany-based AEG, who also owned the electricity plant in Turku, eventually reached an agreement with the city for building a tram network and operating it for forty years, the city having an option to buy the operations after ten years and thereon between five-year intervals.
The new tram network was built to the used on the Helsinki tram network, and it was opened on 22 December 1908. From the start the new network was much more extensive than the horse tram network, with two lines initially operated; a circular line in the centre of the city and a harbour line connecting the city centre to the Port of Turku. In 1909 the two lines were combined into a single one—this rather complex route arrangement was retained until 1932. The first generation of electric trams in Turku were built by the Swedish ASEA. The new traffic form gained high popularity, and passenger numbers grew steadily until the beginning of World War I.
During World War I th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground%20City%20%28Beijing%29 | The Underground City () is a Cold War era bomb shelter consisting of a network of tunnels located beneath Beijing, China. It has also been referred to as the Underground Great Wall since it was built for the purpose of military defense. The complex was constructed from 1969 to 1979 in anticipation of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, as Sino-Soviet relations worsened and was officially reopened in 2000. Visitors were allowed to tour portions of the complex, which has been described as "dark, damp, and genuinely eerie". Underground City has been closed for renovation since at least February 2008.
Location
The tunnels of the Underground City run beneath Beijing's city center, covering an area of under the surface. At one time there were about 90 entrances to the complex, all of which were hidden in shops along the main streets of Qianmen. Many of the entrances have since been demolished or blocked off for reconstruction. Known remaining entrances include 62 West Damochang Street in Qianmen, Beijing Qianmen Carpet Factory at 44 Xingfu Dajie in Chongwen District, and 18 Dashilan Jie in Qianmen.
History
At the height of Soviet–Chinese tensions in 1969, Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong ordered the construction of the Underground City during the border conflict over Zhenbao Island in the Heilongjiang River. The Underground City was designed to withstand nuclear, biochemical and conventional attacks. The complex would protect Beijing's population, and allow government officials to evacuate in the event of an attack on the city. The government claimed that the tunnels could accommodate all of Beijing's six million inhabitants upon its completion.
The complex was equipped with facilities such as restaurants, clinics, schools, theaters, factories, a roller skating rink, grain and oil warehouses, and a mushroom cultivation farm. There were also almost 70 potential sites where water wells could easily be dug if needed. Elaborate ventilation systems were installed, with 2,300 shafts that can be sealed off to protect the tunnels' inhabitants from poison gases, Gas- and water-proof hatches, as well as thick concrete main gates, were constructed to protect the tunnels from biochemical or gas attacks and nuclear fallouts.
There is no official disclosure about the actual extent of the complex, but it is speculated that the tunnels may link together Beijing's various landmarks, as well as important governmental buildings such as the Zhongnanhai, the Great Hall of the People, and even military bases in the outskirts of the city. The China Internet Information Center asserts that "they supposedly link all areas of central Beijing, from Xidan and Xuanwumen to Qianmen and [the] Chongwen district", in addition to the Western Hills. It is also rumoured that every residence once had a secret trapdoor nearby leading to the tunnels. In the event of a nuclear attack, the plan was to move half of Beijing's population underground and the other half to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precisely%20%28company%29 | Precisely Holdings, LLC, doing business as Precisely, is a software company specializing in data integrity tools, and also providing big data, high-speed sorting, ETL, data integration, data quality, data enrichment, and location intelligence offerings. The company was originally founded as Whitlow Computer Systems before rebranding as Syncsort Incorporated in 1981, and then to its current form in 2020. Its original, eponymously named product, SyncSort, was the dominant sort program for IBM mainframe computers during much of the 1970s and 1980s.
Precisely is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. As of 2021, the company serves more than 12,000 customers, the majority of which are large enterprises, and has more than 2,000 employees. Josh Rogers serves as CEO.
History
Whitlow Computer Systems: 1968–1981
In 1968, Duane Whitlow and Stan Rintel started Whitlow Computer Systems to develop software for mainframe computers. The result was a business with a niche product portfolio based on high-speed data sorting.
According to Whitlow, the company's original task was to develop an airlines reservations system for Control Data. In the course of that work, the founders encountered timing charts for IBM's existing sort utility, and thought they could build a sort that was much faster. Sales improved after then-startup Computerworld published a front page story about the Syncsort product. That story resulted in openings in Europe, and the company was one of the first to sell an independent software product in Europe.
The Syncsort product started to sell well in the United States as well. In the IBM mainframe era, many commercial applications revolved around sequential file processing, where master files, often kept on tape storage, were sorted in various orders before being input to application code. In such batch job environments, the sort utility was frequently invoked, and the utility's performance had a significant impact on overall throughput. Syncsort was drop-in replaceable for the IBM sort utility, without having to change JCL statements or application code, and thus was easy to switch to. For some customers, Syncsort was their first non-IBM software purchase.
The company was located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The primary market for Syncsort was for IBM mainframes running OS/VS1 or MVS operating systems. There were also Syncsort products for two other common IBM mainframe operating environments, those being DOS and VM/CMS.
Syncsort Incorporated: 1981–2020
Whitlow Computer Systems renamed itself to Syncsort, Inc. around 1981. (At some point the product name was stylized as SyncSort, with the second 'S' capitalized, while the company name retained a regular spelling.) By then, Syncsort had a dominant position in the IBM mainframe world. A survey done by IDC during 1983 of IBM customers running OS/VS1 or MVS revealed that 75 percent of them were using SyncSort, as compared to 18 percent who were using the IBM-provided sort u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrilateralized%20spherical%20cube | In mapmaking, a quadrilateralized spherical cube, or quad sphere for short, is an equal-area polyhedral map projection and discrete global grid scheme for data collected on a spherical surface (either that of the Earth or the celestial sphere). It was first proposed in 1975 by Chan and O'Neill for the Naval Environmental Prediction Research Facility. This scheme is also often called the COBE sky cube,
because it was designed to hold data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) project.
Elements
The quad sphere has two principal characteristic features. The first is that the mapping consists of projecting the sphere onto the faces of an inscribed cube using a curvilinear projection that preserves area. The sphere is divided into six equal regions, which correspond to the faces of the cube. The vertices of the cube correspond to the cartesian coordinates defined by |x|=|y|=|z| on a sphere centred at the origin. For an Earth projection, the cube is usually oriented with one face normal to the North Pole and one face centered on the Greenwich meridian (although any definition of pole and meridian could be used). The faces of the cube are divided into a grid of square bins, where the number of bins along each edge is a power of 2, selected to produce the desired bin size. Thus the number of bins on each face is 22N, where N is the binning depth, for a total of 6 × 22N. For example, a binning depth of 10 gives 1024 × 1024 bins on each face or 6291456 (6 × 220) in all, each bin covering an area of 23.6 square arcminutes (2.00 microsteradians).
The second key feature is that the bins are numbered serially, rather than being rastered as for an image. The total number of bits required for the bin numbers at level N is 2N + 3, where the three most significant bits are used for the face numbers and the remaining bits are used to number the bins within each face. The faces are numbered from 0 to 5: 0 for the north face, 1 through 4 for the equatorial faces (1 being on the meridian), and 5 for the south. Thus at a binning depth of 10, face 0 has bin numbers 0–1,048,575, face 1 has numbers 1,048,576–2,097,151, and so on. Within each face the bins are numbered serially from one corner (the convention is to start at the "lower left") to the opposite corner, ordered in such a way that each pair of bits corresponds to a level of bin resolution. This ordering is in effect a two-dimensional binary tree, which is referred to as the quad-tree. The conversion between bin numbers and coordinates is straightforward. If four-byte integers are used for the bin numbers the maximum practical depth, which uses 31 of the 32 bits, results in a bin size of 0.0922 square arcminutes (7.80 nanosteradians).
In principle, the mapping and numbering schemes are separable: the map projection onto the cube could be used with another bin-numbering scheme, and the numbering scheme itself could be used with any arrangement of bins susceptible to partitioning into a set of square arr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinn%20Billag | Tinn Billag AS is a bus company operating local services in Tinn, Norway, as well as coach services from Rjukan to Notodden, Skien and Porsgrunn as part of the NOR-WAY Bussekspress network. Since 2011, routes are operated on PSO contract with Vestviken Kollektivtrafikk.
The company dates back to 1936, when it was founded as a merger between L/L Dølen (founded 1919), Gauset Billag (1924) and A/S Tinnbuss (1925).
References
Bus companies of Vestfold og Telemark
Companies based in Vestfold og Telemark
Transport companies established in 1936
Tinn
Nor-Way Bussekspress operators
1936 establishments in Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSIP%20%28AM%29 | WSIP (1490 AM) is a sports radio station licensed to Paintsville, Kentucky, United States. The station is currently owned by Forcht Broadcasting and features programming from CBS Sports Radio. The station first aired on April 4, 1949. The station also broadcasts online via Official Stream Page, on Apple and Android mobile devices, and has an Alexa skill.
The station began airing the sports format in 2018, when the previous Classic Hits format was moved to sister station WKYH.
References
External links
SIP
Sports radio stations in the United States
Paintsville, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTBK | WTBK (105.7 FM), known as K-105.7, is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Manchester, Kentucky, United States. It features programming from ABC Radio, AP Radio and Premiere Radio Networks.
References
External links
TBK
Country radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britton%20Lee%2C%20Inc. | Britton Lee Inc. was a pioneering relational database company. Renamed ShareBase, it was acquired by Teradata in June, 1990.
History
Britton Lee was founded in 1979 by David L. Britton, Geoffrey M. Lee and a group of hardware engineers along with Robert Epstein, Michael Ubell and Paula Hawthorn from the research team that created Ingres.
Epstein later left Britton Lee to help found Sybase. Britton and Lee left the company in 1987.
On May 15, 1989, the company formally changed its name to ShareBase Corporation.
After layoffs and financial losses in 1989, ShareBase was acquired by Teradata in June, 1990.
Products
As of Fall, 1989:
ShareBase II (tm): An RDBMS designed for a client/server environment.
ShareBase(tm) I: Predecessor to ShareBase II
ShareBase SQL Database Server, various models:
Server/8000(tm): "Upper-mid-range database server" that supported ShareBase II. Optimized database operations on a RISC/ECL database processor. Used a "distributed function multiprocessor architecture" and included up to 256 megabytes of "shared high-speed data memory." Supported a variety of clients, including IBM PC DOS, Apple Macintosh, Sun, AT&T 3B series computers systems, Pyramid, DEC VAX, HP 3000 and HP 9000, and IBM VM/CMS and MVS.
Server/300 (tm), supported ShareBase I and worked with a variety of clients, including PC/DOS, UNIX workstations, AT&T System V, Sun, and DEC VAX with BSD/UNIX, VAX/VMS, or ULTRIX. It also supported up to 50 databases, 32,000 tables per database, 2 billion rows per table, 4 megabytes of memory, and 200 concurrent users.
Server/700 (tm), supported ShareBase I, same basic features as the Server/300 but with 6 megabytes of memory and "greater performance for more demanding environments".
ShareCom: Communications facilities between database clients and the ShareBase servers.
The Server/300 came in three models:
model 25, 600 megabytes of disk storage and one tape drive
model 35, 1200 megabytes of disk storage and two tape drives
model 60, 3320 megabytes of disk storage and two tape drives
Affiliation with Omnibase/SmartStar
An announcement was made in 1984, that Britton-Lee's Intelligent Database Machine (IDM) was being sold together with Signal Technology Inc.'s Omnibase and SmartStar relational database software.
This hardware/software combination of Omnibase/Smartstar/Britton Lee Data Base Machine(s), was used by NASA, USMC and by financial services for analysis.
SmartStar is Signal Technology Inc (STI)'s application development environment
for the VAX, and it supports several databases using native connections:
RMS, Rdb/VMS, Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, Teradata/ShareBase.
Although before SQL became standard STI's focus was on IQL (Interactive Query Language), now the query language it supports is SQL.
Components include
SmartBuilder
SmartDesign
SmartStation
SmartGL
SmartCall and RSQL (for use from 3GL languages)
SmartQuery
SmartMove (mass load/unload)
SmartReport
SmartPainter
ISQL (Interactive SQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXVW | WXVW (1450 AM) is a radio station licensed to Jeffersonville, Indiana, serving the Louisville, Kentucky, area. The station is currently owned by Word Broadcasting Network, Inc.
Under ownership of Cumulus Media, WXVW formerly simulcasted sports formatted WQKC 93.9 FM as "The Ticket", until that station changed to a classic hits music format under the call sign WLCL on November 20, 2008.
On August 2, 2010, WQKC and WLCL went silent after Cumulus decided to cease operations in the Louisville market.
On October 3, 2011, WQKC returned to the air, again with sports, branded as "The Sports Buzz". Cumulus would formally sell the station to its programmer, Ryan Media, in November 2011.
On May 21, 2013, WQKC changed their call letters to WXVW, which were the station's original call letters from its original sign on date (September 16, 1961-same as WLKY-TV) until 1997, when the call sign changed to WAVG.
Effective December 1, 2020, Ryan Media sold WXVW and translator W241CK to Word Broadcasting Network, Inc.
References
External links
XVW
Radio stations established in 1961
1961 establishments in Indiana
Sports radio stations in the United States
CBS Sports Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Medical%20Management | North American Medical Management (NAMM) develops and manages provider networks, offering a full range of services to assist physicians and other providers in their managed care and business operations. In business since 1993, NAMM is an innovator in health care with a track record for quality, financial stability, extraordinary services and superior electronic capabilities.
Independently contracted physician networks managed by NAMM include the following:
·PrimeCare Chino Valley
·PrimeCare of Citrus Valley
·PrimeCare of Corona
·PrimeCare of Hemet Valley
·PrimeCare of Inland Valley
·PrimeCare of Moreno Valley
·PrimeCare of Redlands
·PrimeCare of Riverside
·PrimeCare of San Bernardino
·PrimeCare of Sun City
·PrimeCare of Temecula
·Valley Physicians Network
·Primary Care Associates
·Mercy Physicians Medical Group, Inc.
·Redlands Family Practice Medical Group, Inc.
·Coachella Valley Physicians
Originally, NAMM was founded in Houston, Texas by president Herb Fritch. In 1995, NAMM was sold to publicly traded company PhyCor Inc. of Nashville, TN. PhyCor filed for bankruptcy in 2002, but the filing did not include NAMM's operations. This allowed the company to keep the name and reemerge as a subsidiary of a newly founded company, Aveta, Inc., in that same year. Aveta was a new company with no affiliation to PhyCor or the original NAMM leadership. NAMM is a subsidiary of Aveta out of Fort Lee, New Jersey.
References
Health care companies based in New Jersey |
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