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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20national%20radio%20programmes%20made%20in%20Manchester | The following radio programmes were made for national radio in Manchester, England, mainly for the BBC national networks:
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Sommerville%20%28technician%29 | Ian Sommerville (June 3, 1940 – February 5, 1976) was an electronics technician and computer programmer. He is primarily known through his association with William S. Burroughs's circle of Beat Generation figures, and lived at Paris's so-called "Beat Hotel" by 1960, when they were regulars there, becoming Burroughs's lover and "systems adviser".
Sommerville was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Around 1960, he programmed a random-sequence generator that Brion Gysin used in his cut-up technique. He and Gysin also collaborated in 1961 in developing the Dreamachine, a phonograph-driven stroboscope described as "the first art object to be seen with the eyes closed", and intended to affect the viewer's brain alpha wave activity.
Sommerville and Burroughs made the 5-minute tape "Silver Smoke of Dreams" in the early 1960s, and later provided the basis for the quarter-hour audio "cut-up" and "K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens" around 1965. The following year Sommerville also installed two Revox reel-to-reel machines for Paul McCartney in Ringo Starr's apartment at 34 Montagu Square, Marylebone, London, and recorded Burroughs on the machine.
Sommerville along with Gysin and Burroughs collaborated on Let The Mice In, published in 1973. Burroughs' book My Education: A Book of Dreams, indeed largely composed of accounts of his dreams, includes dreams of talking with Sommerville.
He died in a car accident on William Burroughs's birthday, 5 February 1976. Burroughs's biographer, Barry Miles reports that Ian had sent Burroughs a telegram that day saying "Happy birthday. Lots of love. No realisation. Ian". "No realisation" referred to Ian's unsuccessful search for a job as a computer programmer in America.
References
British computer programmers
1941 births
1976 deaths
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
People educated at The King's School, Canterbury
Road incident deaths in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCortex | SiCortex was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in 2003 and headquartered in Clock Tower Place,
Maynard, Massachusetts. On 27 May 2009, HPCwire reported that the company had shut down its operations, laid off most of its staff, and is seeking a buyer for its assets. The Register reported that Gerbsman Partners was hired to sell SiCortex's intellectual properties. While SiCortex had some sales, selling at least 75 prototype supercomputers to several large customers, the company had never produced an operating profit and ran out of venture capital. New funding could not be found.
The company built and marketed a family of clusters of between 12 and 972 compute nodes, connected in a Kautz graph. The clusters are the SC5832, SC648 and SC072. It was reported that the company has been working on the next generation of clusters since March 2009, but development ceased when operations were closed.
The SC5832 is a high-end model housed in a cabinet. It has 972 nodes, 5,832 cores and 972 to 7,776 GB of memory. It uses a diameter-6 Kautz graph for 2,916 links. The SC648 is a mid-range model housed in a standard 19-inch rack. Each rack may contain two systems. It has 108 nodes, 648 cores and 108 to 864 GB of memory. It uses a diameter-4 Kautz graph for 324 links. The SC072 is a desktop model for developing software.
Each node is system-on-chip (SoC), codenamed ICE9, consisting of six cores that implement the MIPS64 instruction set architecture (ISA). Each core has a 32 KB instruction cache and a 32 KB data cache. The six cores have their own 256 KB L2 cache, which can be accessed by other cores. The MIPS cores execute instructions in-order and have a six-stage pipeline. They can issue and execute two instructions per cycle for peak double-precision (64-bit) performance of 1 GFLOPS at 500 MHz. This was later increased to 1.4 GFLOPS when the clock frequency of the SoC was increased to 700 MHz when the SoC was fabricated in a 90 nm process. The SoC contains two DDR2 memory controllers, each controlling a single DIMM. Each node can have 1 to 8 GB of memory. The SoC also implements a 8x PCI Express controller. The cluster interconnect is implemented by a DMA engine fabric switch. Each cluster interconnect provides a maximum bandwidth of 2 GB/s.
Message passing, via MPI, is the presumptive programming model. SiCortex systems run a customized Linux distribution derived from Gentoo Linux.
Hardware Models
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20090531211623/http://www.top500.org/2007_overview_recent_supercomputers/sicortex_sc_series
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/01/04/through_ups_and_downs_creative_mill_grinds_on/
http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Argonne-National-Lab-acquires-first-SiCortex-SC5832-824-1/
Tally, Steve "New green supercomputer powers up at Purdue".
Morgan, Timothy Prickett (19 September 2008). "SiCortex cranks clocks on mega MIPS machines".
Vance, Ashlee (20 November 2006). "Startup takes Reg's covet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFIAPlus | SFIAplus is the IT training and development model of the British Computer Society (BCS).
Based on the original Industry Structure Model, first published by the BCS in July 1986, which was remapped to the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) and rebranded as SFIAPlus.
Background
Responding to the wide recognition of the importance of an externally accredited professional development scheme, the BCS consulted with hundreds of contributors developing SFIAPlus to enable individuals and organisations to:
Understand the broad range of ICT practitioner roles and activities
Research the experience, training and development required in those roles
Benchmark IT skills against the framework
Describe IT skills in a common language and a logical structure
SFIAPlus is used by a large number of organisations, including many major companies, to apply quality control to the practical experience and training of ICT practitioners, and is widely used outside the UK, forming the basis of the European Informatics Skills Structure used throughout Europe.
SFIAPlus tools
While the first version in 1986 (of the Industry Structure Model) was produced as a paper publication, the complexity in SFIAPlus mean that it is best accessed using a software interface (BCS describe it as three-dimensional as compared to the SFIA two-dimensional model).
SFIAPlus can be browsed to access the full range of ICT competencies and tasks, and there are a number of additional tools:
BCS Career Builder
Individual tool for self-planning for career and professional development
IT Job Describer
Corporate tool for generating job descriptions using the SFIAPlus model
Skills Manager
Corporate tool for managing skills within an organisation against the SFIAPlus model
Career Developer
Corporate tool for planning the development of IT competencies against the SFIAPlus model
Structure
While SFIA maps IT competencies in two dimensions (skill categories and seniority) and briefly describes the 263 tasks expected of a role in each of the 78 categories at the relevant level of seniority; SFIAPlus extends this with additional categories, making 86 specific skills and 290 tasks; adding a more thorough overview of each competency (with eight skill resources); and providing significant detail behind each task description (six task components).
Task descriptions in SFIAPlus are supplemented by:
Background
Work activities
Knowledge and skills
Training activities
Professional development activities
Qualifications
References
External links
SFIAPlus, on the BCS website
British Computer Society
Information technology management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome%20to%20Macintosh%20%28film%29 | Welcome to Macintosh is a 2008 documentary film focusing on computer company Apple Inc. and its Macintosh line of computers. The title comes from the original welcome message shown during the start-up of Macintosh computers.
Synopsis
The film focuses on the history of computer company Apple Inc., and its Macintosh line of computers specifically. It discusses the company's employees, philosophy, practices, and interviews people who were working at Apple when the Macintosh was first released.
Production
Ars Technica noted that neither Steve Jobs nor Steve Wozniak, the founders of Apple Inc., appear in the film. However, several notable figures in the history of the Macintosh appear in the film, including Mac engineers Andy Hertzfeld and Jim Reekes, former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki, and Ron Wayne, a "short-lived but original co-founder of Apple Computer".
Release
Welcome to Macintosh was shown at five film festivals. The film's studio released a trailer on YouTube on November 29, 2008. The movie was released on DVD on December 15, 2008, and includes three hours of extra and deleted scenes. In early 2009, the studio setup group screenings for the film with seven Mac and Apple user groups in seven American cities (Rockville, Maryland; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Scottsdale, Arizona; Nashville, Tennessee; Washington, D.C.; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Providence, Rhode Island), which include more than 700 people who signed up to attend the events.
Reception
Technology website Ars Technica describes Welcome to Macintosh as a film that "mixes history, criticism and an unapologetic revelry of all things Apple", and wrote, "If you liked Pirates of Silicon Valley or read Revolution in the Valley, then this film is for you." After watching the film, Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak was pleased with the results, and appreciated how "unbelievable" it was to see people "say that great of things about [him]". He also noted that the film was "so on the mark", and that it was the best independent film regarding Apple that he has seen.
See also
Pirates of Silicon Valley, a 1999 film about the Microsoft versus Apple rivalry
Triumph of the Nerds, a 1996 television documentary movie about development of the personal computer
The Social Network, a 2010 film about the founding of Facebook
Revolution OS, a 2001 film about the history of open- versus closed-source software
References
External links
Official website
2008 films
American documentary films
Works about Apple Inc.
Documentary films about computer and internet entrepreneurs
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20best-selling%20PC%20games | This is a list of personal computer games (video games for personal computers, including those running Windows, macOS, and Linux) that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. If a game was released on multiple platforms, the sales figures list are only for PC sales. This list is not comprehensive because sales figures are not always publicly available.
Subscription figures for massively multiplayer online games such as Flight Simulator or Lineage and number of accounts from free-to-play games such as Hearthstone are not taken into account as they do not necessarily correspond to sales. For those, see the list of most-played video games by player count.
List
See also
List of PC games
List of best-selling video games
Notes
References
PC
Best-selling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Nacional%20de%20Televis%C3%A3o | Central Nacional de Televisão (English: National Television Center) also known as CNT and Rede CNT, is a Brazilian television network based in Curitiba, state of Paraná. Part of the Organizações Martinez Group, it aired for the first time in 1979 initially as TV Tropical.
History
CNT was founded on March 15, 1979 by entrepreneur and politician José Carlos Martinez as a local station called TV Tropical, originally affiliated to Globo Network until it was sold to Diários Associados in 1980. In 1982, the station was renamed as Rede OM, and was subsequently renamed as CNT in 1993 after becoming a national network the previous year. CNT is currently chaired by entrepreneur and politician (and brother) Flávio de Castro Martinez, who took over after José Carlos Martinez's death in 2003.
Partnership with Televisa
The television network CNT closed contract with the Mexican television network Televisa, going to show the soap Manancial in August 2008. Televisa's other productions came as Sueños y caramels, SOS: Sexo y otros Secretos and Y ahora qué hago?.
Coverage of the CNT
With broadcasters themselves, affiliates and repeaters, CNT based network to a program of national scope in recent years working from five strategic poles: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Brasilia and Curitiba. Reaches more than 15 million households, equivalent to 50 million viewers, a large part of Brazil (5 stations and 43 repeaters). And during the coming years to improve its fleet and expand its technical signal to all of Brazil.
Digital broadcasts
The CNT was the first to use this technology for its stations and affiliates starting in 1999. The stations comprising the network receive programming in digital quality using Embratel satellite channeling.
Programs
References
Television networks in Brazil
Companies based in Curitiba
Portuguese-language television networks
Television channels and stations established in 1979
Mass media in Curitiba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20River%20Siam | Living River Siam (; formerly South East Asia Rivers Network, or SEARIN) is a Thai non-governmental organization (NGO) which analyzes the impact of Thailand's various dam projects and coordinates the research of indigenous peoples to give Thai villagers the power to document the influence of local rivers and dams. Founded in 1999, it gained prominence during the Pak Mun Dam study period in 2001, when it developed a method for instructing villagers on how to document the effects of the dammed river on their lives. When the Thai government proposed other dam sites, Living River Siam took its research methods to the villages surrounding those sites as well. Today, the organization works with other NGOs in Southeast Asia to counter government-sponsored research that encourages dam construction.
Pak Mun Dam protests
Living River Siam was launched on March 14, 1999, the International Rivers Day of Action, by a group of NGO workers and Thai academics. Its first action, on March 23, was to support an occupation of the Pak Mun Dam site by 5,000 villagers. The Pak Mun Dam, funded partially by the World Bank, was built in 1994 and slowly became the focus of national controversy. It received widespread complaints from Thai villagers and was the focus of the Assembly of the Poor's 99-day, 20,000-person protest in Bangkok in 1997. The dam generates 0.5 percent of Thailand's electric capacity; 40 percent of Thailand's total electric capacity goes unused on an everyday basis.
On June 16, 2001, the Thai government under Thaksin Shinawatra agreed to open the sluice gates of the Pak Mun Dam for four months to allow studies to be conducted on its social impact; this was later extended to 13 months. Coinciding with this agreement, the government announced that official studies would be conducted by Ubon Ratchathani University and a private team contracted by the National Economic and Social Development Board. The university received a budget of 10 million baht (roughly US$280,000), and the government contractors, alleged to be the same group that recommended damming another river, received 94 million baht (roughly US$2,700,000), raising suspicions. Villagers thought that outside academics would not be able to make an objective or accurate study of the river because they were unfamiliar with local fish migration and habitats.
Thai Baan research
In response, Living River Siam developed Ngan Wijai Thai Baan (งานวิจัยไทบ้าน), or "research by Thai villagers". This research is meant to circumvent the traditional approach to anthropological study by allowing villagers to investigate and document, in their own language and on their own terms, every aspect of their life on the river. The only function of the overseeing organization is to compile the villagers' data and publish it for others to read. Living River Siam refers to this in English as "Thai Baan research".
The Mun River research documented the spawning grounds, migration patterns, habitats, and preferred baits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Solutions%20Road%20Tour | Climate Solutions Road Tour, held between January 2 and February 4, 2009, was a project initiated by the Indian Youth Climate Network which started off at Chennai, India. Ten members of the Indian Youth Climate Network and a solar-powered band "Solar Punch" covered more than 3,500 kilometers.
The objective of the tour had been defined "to document a trail across the nation of climate solutions and empower youth along the route to create, communicate and celebrate their own solutions."
The road tour which began in Chennai on January 2, 2009 covered 15 major cities including Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Delhi, Udaipur, Delhi, Dungarpur, Tilonia, and Goa. The tour successfully ended on 5 February at Delhi.
References
External links
Climate Solutions Road Tour
Climate Solutions Road Tour blog
Climate change in India
Climate change organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%20%28disambiguation%29 | GTK is a cross-platform GUI widget software toolkit.
GTK may also refer to:
Computing
Group Temporal Key, in IEEE 802.11i-2004 wireless network security
Organisations
GTK Rossiya, a Russian airline (founded 1992)
Geological Survey of Finland, a government agency (, founded 1885)
Television shows
GTK (TV series), Australia (ran 1969–1975)
Ghost Trackers, Canada (ran 2005–2008)
See also
gtk--, former name of gtkmm, a C++ interface for GTK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%27s%20law | In biophysical fluid dynamics, Murray's law is a potential relationship between radii at junctions in a network of fluid-carrying tubular pipes. Its simplest version proposes that whenever a branch of radius splits into two branches of radii and , then all three radii should obey the equation If network flow is smooth and leak-free, then systems that obey Murray's law minimize the resistance to flow through the network. For turbulent networks, the law takes the same form but with a different characteristic exponent .
Murray's law is observed in the vascular and respiratory systems of animals, xylem in plants, and the respiratory system of insects. In principle, Murray's law also applies to biomimetic engineering, but human designs rarely exploit the law.
Murray's law is named after Cecil D. Murray, a physiologist at Bryn Mawr College, who first argued that efficient transport might determine the structure of the human vascular system.
Assumptions
Murray's law assumes material is passively transported by the flow of fluid in a network of tubular pipes, and that said network requires energy both to maintain flow and structural integrity. Variation in the fluid viscosity across scales will affect the Murray's law exponent, but is usually too small to matter.
At least two different conditions are known in which the cube exponent is optimal.
In the first, organisms have free (variable) circulatory volume. Also, maintenance energy is not proportional to the pipe material, but instead the quantity of working fluid. The latter assumption is justified in metabolically active biological fluids, such as blood. It is also justified for metabolically inactive fluids, such as air, as long as the energetic "cost" of the infrastructure scales with the cross-sectional area of each tube; such is the case for all known biological tubules.
In the second, organisms have fixed circulatory volume and pressure, but wish to minimize the resistance to flow through the system. Equivalently, maintenance is negligible and organisms with to maximize the volumetric flow rate.
Although most derivations of Murray's law assume a steady state flow field, the same results apply for flow in tubes that have a width moderate-to-small relative to the flow wavelength.
Derivation in laminar, mass-conservative networks with non-negligible upkeep
Murray's original derivation uses the first set of assumptions described above. She begins with the Hagen–Poiseuille equation, which states that for fluid of dynamic viscosity , flowing laminarly through a cylindrical pipe of radius and length , the volumetric flow rate associated with a pressure drop isand the corresponding power consumed isSaid pipe contains volume . If the maintenance power density is , then the total power consumed (from both flow and upkeep) isMinimizing this quantity depends on precisely which variables the organism is free to manipulate, but the minimum invariably occurs when the two terms are prop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%207700%20Data%20Acquisition%20System | The IBM 7700 Data Acquisition System was announced by IBM on December 2, 1963.
It is capable of collecting data from as many as 32 sources simultaneously, process the data and transmit results to up to 16 remote printers, display units or plot boards.
The IBM 7700 was short-lived, being replaced by the IBM 1800 Data Acquisition and Control System on November 30, 1964.
Two IBM 7700 Data Acquisition Systems are known to have existed: one at the University of Rochester and the other at Stanford University. Both were donated by IBM.
The IBM 7700 is an 18-bit system, with instructions occupying two 18-bit words. Arithmetic instructions generally execute in two or three machine cycles, except for multiply, about 8 cycles, and divide, 12 cycles. A machine cycle is two microseconds. Address space is 262,144 words, but the two machines known to have been built had 16,384, 32,768 or 49,152 words.
The IBM 7700 is contemporary with the IBM 7000 series but not considered a member of it.
References
External links
Technical details about the IBM 7700 Data Acquisition System are from an IBM Systems Reference Library publication known as File Number 7700-01, Form A22-0798-1, IBM 7700 Data Acquisition System. The publication carries an internal date of January 10, 1964.
7700
18-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIFO | LIFO may refer to:
Last In First Out
FIFO and LIFO accounting, in accounting
Stack (abstract data type), in computing, a collection data structure providing last-in-first-out semantics; also called a LIFO queue
LIFO (education), a layoff policy
LIFO (magazine)
Lifo (magazine), a Greek weekly freesheet
See also
FIFO (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITZ | Network Identity and Time Zone (NITZ) is a mechanism for provisioning local time and date, time zone and daylight saving time (DST) offset, as well as network provider identity information, to mobile devices via a wireless network.
History
NITZ has been an optional part of the official GSM standard since phase 2+ release 96.
NITZ is often used to automatically update the system clock of mobile phones.
In terms of standards and other timing or network access protocols such as NTP or CDMA2000, the quality and enforcement of NITZ is weak. This standard allows the network to "transfer its current identity, universal time, DST and LTZ" but each is optional, and support across RAN vendor and operator varies. This presents a problem for device manufacturers, who are required to maintain a complex time zone database, rather than rely on the network operator. Additionally, unlike 3GPP2, which transmits GPS-sourced, millisecond resolution time via the sync channel, for NITZ, the "accuracy of the time information is in the order of minutes". The optional nature of the delivery mechanism results in issues for users in regions that don't practice daylight saving but which share a time zone with a region that does.
Most modern handsets have their own internal time zone software and will automatically perform a daylight saving advance.
Because the NITZ delivery is not usually periodic but dependent on the handset crossing radio network boundaries, these handsets can be displaying incorrect time for many hours or even days before a NITZ update arrives and corrects them.
Carriers supporting NITZ
Initial list derived from ref:
References
GSM standard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobimii | mobimii was a free mobile social networking service that is available on multiple platforms, the World Wide Web, WAP and as a Java ME downloadable application
History
In March 2007, Fontera, the mobile marketing company launched Mobimii, a mobile social utility.
Business model
Mobimii is an off-portal site which means there is no collaboration between Mobimii and any mobile network operator. Site access and usage is free, operator's data transfer charges excluded.
Mobimii is funded by mobile advertising. Mobile web banners and text links are shown throughout the site, full color full screen splash ads are displayed each time the Java ME application is launched and messages of up to 80 characters are included in any SMS text messages sent out by Mobimii.
Features
Mobiimii started off as a mobile social network, but became more focused on facilitating mobile connectivity to existing Instant Messaging platforms and bigger social networks (like Facebook and Myspace). The main feature is the downloadable Java ME application that allows all users to interact with one another. The application lets users communicate with their IM contacts (including MSN Messenger, GTalk, ICQ), social networking friends and other Mobimii users with a single login.
Mobimii also offers photo galleries for users to post and share their pictures directly from their camera phones, as well as a free mobile content service with thousands of ringtones, wallpapers, screensavers, videos and approximately 2,500 free mobile games.
Users are able to access their social networking profiles and can set up a combined mobile feed made up of all of their social network feeds. In some countries free SMS is also offered to users.
Technology
The site is available on all Java ME and mobile internet enabled phones anywhere in the world as well as on the World Wide Web for those who don't have phones, or are not within coverage range.
Collaborations
Fontera has now started licensing the Mobimii software and it is currently being used by Soccer Laduma, Thunda.com, SABC and other companies. Each partner site is set up using the Mobimii software as a base with customer specific components added to the sites.
See also
Mobile Web
Mobile advertising
Mobile Marketing
List of social networking websites
References
mobimii launches beta
Moneyweb - ICT - meet mobimii, move over mxit?
Listio - Reviews of mobimii
Critter - The next big thing?
South African social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinix | Tinix (Try It as miNIX-like operating system), is a tutorial operating system (OS) written by Yu Yuan. It is used to teach fundamentals rather than to do work. In his book "Writing OS DIY", Yu provides all source code for Tinix.
Tinix borrows many concepts and methods from Minix. The book compensates for practical computer programming skills, especially in x86 assembly language, lacking in Andrew S. Tanenbaum's book "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation", 1987, 1997, 2006.
References
Unix variants
Free software operating systems
Microkernels
Microkernel-based operating systems
Educational operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiling%20%28information%20science%29 | In information science, profiling refers to the process of construction and application of user profiles generated by computerized data analysis.
This is the use of algorithms or other mathematical techniques that allow the discovery of patterns or correlations in large quantities of data, aggregated in databases. When these patterns or correlations are used to identify or represent people, they can be called profiles. Other than a discussion of profiling technologies or population profiling, the notion of profiling in this sense is not just about the construction of profiles, but also concerns the application of group profiles to individuals, e. g., in the cases of credit scoring, price discrimination, or identification of security risks .
Profiling is being used in fraud prevention, ambient intelligence, and consumer analytics. Statistical methods of profiling include Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD).
The profiling process
The technical process of profiling can be separated in several steps:
Preliminary grounding: The profiling process starts with a specification of the applicable problem domain and the identification of the goals of analysis.
Data collection: The target dataset or database for analysis is formed by selecting the relevant data in the light of existing domain knowledge and data understanding.
Data preparation: The data are preprocessed for removing noise and reducing complexity by eliminating attributes.
Data mining: The data are analysed with the algorithm or heuristics developed to suit the data, model and goals.
Interpretation: The mined patterns are evaluated on their relevance and validity by specialists and/or professionals in the application domain (e.g. excluding spurious correlations).
Application: The constructed profiles are applied, e.g. to categories of persons, to test and fine-tune the algorithms.
Institutional decision: The institution decides what actions or policies to apply to groups or individuals whose data match a relevant profile.
Data collection, preparation and mining all belong to the phase in which the profile is under construction. However, profiling also refers to the application of profiles, meaning the usage of profiles for the identification or categorization of groups or individual persons. As can be seen in step six (application), the process is circular. There is a feedback loop between the construction and the application of profiles. The interpretation of profiles can lead to the reiterant – possibly real-time – fine-tuning of specific previous steps in the profiling process. The application of profiles to people whose data were not used to construct the profile is based on data matching, which provides new data that allows for further adjustments. The process of profiling is both dynamic and adaptive. A good illustration of the dynamic and adaptive nature of profiling is the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM).
Types of profiling practices
In ord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasource | DataSource is a name given to the connection set up to a database from a server. The name is commonly used when creating a query to the database. The data source name (DSN) need not be the same as the filename for the database. For example, a database file named friends.mdb could be set up with a DSN of school. Then DSN school would be used to refer to the database when performing a query.
Sun's version of DataSource
A factory for connections to the physical data source that this DataSource object represents. An alternative to the DriverManager facility, a DataSource object is the preferred means of getting a connection. An object that implements the DataSource interface will typically be registered with a naming service based on the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) API.
The DataSource interface is implemented by a driver vendor. There are three types of implementations:
Basic implementation — produces a standard Connection object
Connection pooling implementation — produces a Connection object that will automatically participate in connection pooling. This implementation works with a middle-tier connection pooling manager.
Distributed transaction implementation — produces a Connection object that may be used for distributed transactions and almost always participates in connection pooling. This implementation works with a middle-tier transaction manager and almost always with a connection pooling manager.
A DataSource object has properties that can be modified when necessary. For example, if the data source is moved to a different server, the property for the server can be changed. The benefit is that because the data source's properties can be changed, any code accessing that data source does not need to be changed.
A driver that is accessed via a DataSource object does not register itself with the DriverManager. Rather, a DataSource object is retrieved through a lookup operation and then used to create a Connection object. With a basic implementation, the connection obtained through a DataSource object is identical to a connection obtained through the DriverManager facility.
Sun's DataSource Overview
A DataSource object is the representation of a data source in the Java programming language. In basic terms, a data source is a facility for storing data. It can be as sophisticated as a complex database for a large corporation or as simple as a file with rows and columns. A data source can reside on a remote server, or it can be on a local desktop machine. Applications access a data source using a connection, and a DataSource object can be thought of as a factory for connections to the particular data source that the DataSource instance represents. The DataSource interface provides two methods for establishing a connection with a data source.
Using a DataSource object is the preferred alternative to using the DriverManager for establishing a connection to a data source. They are similar to the extent that the DriverManager c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20theory%20in%20communication%20networks | Game theory has been used as a tool for modeling and studying interactions between cognitive radios envisioned to operate in future communications systems. Such terminals will have the capability to adapt to the context they operate in, through possibly power and rate control as well as channel selection. Software agents embedded in these terminals will potentially be selfish, meaning they will only try to maximize the throughput/connectivity of the terminal they function for, as opposed to maximizing the welfare (total capacity) of the system they operate in. Thus, the potential interactions among them can be modeled through non-cooperative games. The researchers in this field often strive to determine the stable operating points of systems composed of such selfish terminals, and try to come up with a minimum set of rules (etiquette) so as to make sure that the optimality loss compared to a cooperative – centrally controlled setting – is kept at a minimum.
Applications of non-cooperative game theory in wireless networks research
Game theory is the study of strategic decision making. More formally, it is "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers." An alternative term suggested "as a more descriptive name for the discipline" is interactive decision theory. Game theory is mainly used in economics, political science, and psychology, as well as logic and biology. The subject first addressed zero-sum games, such that one person's gains exactly equal net losses of the other participant(s). Today, however, game theory applies to a wide range of class relations, and has developed into an umbrella term for the logical side of science, to include both human and non-humans, like computers. Classic uses include a sense of balance in numerous games, where each person has found or developed a tactic that cannot successfully better his results, given the other approach.
Game theory has been used extensively in wireless networks research to develop understanding of stable operation points for networks made of autonomous/selfish nodes. The nodes are considered as the players. Utility functions are often chosen to correspond to achieved connection rate or similar technical metrics. The studies done in this context can be grouped as below:
Medium access games for 802.11 WLAN
Various studies have analyzed radio resource management problems in 802.11 WLAN networks. In such random access studies, researchers have considered selfish nodes, who try to maximize their own utility (throughput) only, and control their channel access probabilities to maximize their utilities.
Power control games in CDMA systems
Power control refers to the process through which mobiles in CDMA cellular settings adjust their transmission powers so that they do not create unnecessary interference to other mobiles, trying, nevertheless, to achieve the required quality of service. Power control can be centralized in nature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier%20shell%20correlation | In structural biology, as well as in virtually all sciences that produce three-dimensional data, the Fourier shell correlation (FSC) measures the normalised cross-correlation coefficient between two 3-dimensional volumes over corresponding shells in Fourier space (i.e., as a function of spatial frequency). The FSC is the three-dimensional extension of the two-dimensional Fourier ring correlation (FRC); also known as: spatial frequency correlation function.
Calculation
where is the complex structure Factor for volume 1, is the complex conjugate of the structure Factor for volume 2, and is the individual voxel element at radius . In this form, the FSC takes two three-dimensional data sets and converts them into a one-dimensional array.
Applications
The FSC originated in cryo-electron microscopy and gradually proliferated to other fields. To measure the FSC, two independently determined 3D volumes are required. In cryo-electron microscopy, the two volumes are the result of two three-dimensional reconstructions, each based on half of the available data set. Typically, random halves are used, although some programs may use the even particle images for one half and the odd particles for the other half of the data set. Some publications quote the FSC 0.5 resolution cutoff, which refers to when the correlation coefficient of the Fourier shells is equal to 0.5. However, determining the resolution threshold remains a controversial issue, with some arguing fixed-value thresholds to be based on incorrect statistical assumptions. Many other criteria using the FSC curve exist, including 3-σ criterion, 5-σ criterion, and the 0.143 cutoff. The half-bit criterion indicates at which resolution we have collected enough information to reliably interpret the 3-dimensional volume, and the (modified) 3-sigma criterion indicates where the FSC systematically emerges above the expected random correlations of the background noise. The FSC 0.143 cutoff was proposed in part to make the resolution measurement comparable to measurements used in X-ray crystallography. Currently, the 0.143 cutoff is the most commonly used criterion for the resolution of cryo-EM reconstructions better than 10 ångström resolution.
See also
Resolution (electron density)
Notes
References
External links
EMstats Trends and distributions of maps in EM Data Bank (EMDB), e.g. resolution trends
Applied mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Theory%20of%20Computing | The Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) is an academic conference in the field of theoretical computer science. STOC has been organized annually since 1969, typically in May or June; the conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery special interest group SIGACT. Acceptance rate of STOC, averaged from 1970 to 2012, is 31%, with the rate of 29% in 2012.
As writes, STOC and its annual IEEE counterpart FOCS (the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) are considered the two top conferences in theoretical computer science, considered broadly: they “are forums for some of the best work throughout theory of computing that promote breadth among theory of computing researchers and help to keep the community together.” includes regular attendance at STOC and FOCS as one of several defining characteristics of theoretical computer scientists.
Awards
The Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science is presented alternately at STOC and at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP); the Knuth Prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science is presented alternately at STOC and at FOCS.
Since 2003, STOC has presented one or more Best Paper Awards to recognize papers of the highest quality at the conference. In addition, the Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award is awarded to the author(s) of the best student-only-authored paper in STOC. The award is named in honor of Daniel M. Lewin, an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded Internet company Akamai Technologies, and was one of the first victims of the September 11 attacks.
History
STOC was first organised on 5–7 May 1969, in Marina del Rey, California, United States. The conference chairman was Patrick C. Fischer, and the program committee consisted of Michael A. Harrison, Robert W. Floyd, Juris Hartmanis, Richard M. Karp, Albert R. Meyer, and Jeffrey D. Ullman.
Early seminal papers in STOC include , which introduced the concept of NP-completeness (see also Cook–Levin theorem).
Location
STOC was organised in Canada in 1992, 1994, 2002, 2008, and 2017 in Greece in 2001, as a virtual/online conference in 2020 and 2021, and in Italy in 2022; all other meetings in 1969–2023 have been held in the United States. STOC was part of the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC) in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2023.
Invited speakers
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See also
Conferences in theoretical computer science.
List of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
List of computer science awards
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External links
STOC proceedings information in DBLP.
STOC proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.
Citation Statistics for FOCS/STOC/SODA, Piotr Indyk and Suresh Venkatasubramanian, July 2007.
Theoretical comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Ward%20Armstrong | William Ward Armstrong is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1966 and is most known as the originator Armstrong's axioms of dependency in a Relational database.
Works
William W. Armstrong, Yatsuka Nakamura, Piotr Rudnicki, "Armstrong's Axioms", Formalized Mathematics V. 11 No. 1, pp. 39 – 51, University of Bialystok, 2003.
Guoliang Qu, John R. Feddes, Richard N. Coleman, William W. Armstrong, Jerry L. Leonard, Method and Apparatus for estimating odor concentration using an electronic nose, US patent 6,411,905 B1, June 25, 2002.
W. W. Armstrong, D. O. Gorodnichy, Breaking Hyperplanes to fit Data with Applications to 3D World Modeling and Oil Sand Data Analysis, Proc. ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation, CD-ROM, publ. by ICSC Academic Press, Int'l Comp. Sci. Conv., Canada/Switzerland , Berlin, 2000,.
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, W. W. Armstrong, Neurocomputational Approach for Modeling Large Scale Environments from Range Data, ibid.
W.W. Armstrong, B. Coghlan, D.O. Gorodnichy, Reinforcement learning for autonomous robot navigation, Proc. Int'l Joint Conf. on Neural Networks (IJCNN'99), Washington DC, July 21–23, 1999.
D.O. Gorodnichy, W.W. Armstrong, Single Camera Stereo for Mobile Robots, Vision Interface (VI'99)Conference proceedings, Quebec, May 18–21, 1999.
D.O. Gorodnichy, W.W. Armstrong, A Parametrical Alternative for Grids in Occupancy Based World Modeling, Proc. Quality Control by Artificial Vision Conference (QCAV'99), Trois Rivieres, 125-132, 1999.
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, William Ward Armstrong, X. Li, Adaptive logic networks for facial feature detection, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 1311, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing-Volume II, , 1997.
William W. Armstrong, Hardware requirements for fast evaluation of functions learned by adaptive logic networks,Proc. 1st Int'l Conf. ICES '96, Tsukuba, Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, , 17-22, Springer, 1996
Mark J. Polak, Sophia Zhou, Pentti M. Rautaharju, William W. Armstrong, Bernard R. Chaitman, Adaptive Logic Network Compared with Backpropagation Network in Automated Detection of Ischemia From Resting ECG, Computers in Cardiology, 217-220, 1995.
Aleksandar Kostov, Brian J. Andrews, Dejan B.Popovic, Richard B. Stein, William W. Armstrong, Machine Learning in Control of Functional Electrical Stimulation Systems for Locomotion, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, V. 42, No. 6, 541-551, 1995.
Aleksandar Kostov, Brian Andrews, Richard B. Stein, Dejan Popovic, William W. Armstrong, Machine Learning in Control of Functional Electrical Stimulation for Locomotion, 16th Int'l Conf. on Engineering in Biology and Medicine, Baltimore MD, 418-419, 1994.
Aleksandar Kostov, Richard B. Stein, Dejan Popovic, William W. Armstrong, Improved methods for control of FES for locomotion, Conf. on Modeling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Galveston TX, 422-427, 19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta%20AF%2024mm%20f/2.8 | Originally produced by Minolta, the 24mm f/2.8 is compatible with cameras using the Minolta AF and Sony α lens mounts.
See also
List of Minolta A-mount lenses
Sources
Dyxum lens data - Minolta AF 24 F2.8 2566-110
Dyxum lens data - Minolta AF 24 F2.8 RS 2642-110
External links
Minolta AF 24mm F/2.8 review
24
Camera lenses introduced in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20Fund | The Road Fund was a British Government fund designated to pay for the building and maintenance of the United Kingdom road network. Its income came originally from Vehicle Excise Duty, until that ceased to be hypothecated for roads use in 1936, and then from government grants. It was created by the Roads Act 1920 and Finance Act 1920, and was wound up in the Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1955.
The Road Fund is notable as one of the few beneficiaries of hypothecated taxation in British history, and is the root of a popular misconception that Vehicle Excise Duty (especially when referred to as road tax) is still hypothecated. Between 1920 and 1936 the vehicle licence (tax disc) was officially known as the "Road Fund Licence", a term which is still in common use today.
History
The origins of the road fund can be traced back to a number of "assigned revenues" granted to local authorities in 1888 as part of a financial settlement to limit recurrent demands for grants from central government. In the budget of 1909, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George combined these grants into a single tax on petrol and a duty on the rated horsepower of motor cars. Under the same act it became compulsory for motor vehicles subject to VED to display a vehicle licence (tax disc) as visible evidence of having paid the tax.
Road locomotives were subject to a separate 'wetted tax', where the fee was proportional to the size of the wetted area of the steam boiler.
In 1907 a major problem associated with roads was the level of dust raised by passing motor vehicles and there was support for a tax of £1 or 10s. per horse-power to pay for improvements to roads to solve this problem.
At the time Lloyd George announced that the roads system would be self-financing so from 1910 the proceeds of road vehicle excise duties, which had been in existence in various forms since 1889, were dedicated to fund the building and maintenance of the road system under a scheme known as the Road Board. Under the Roads Act 1920 the Road Board was replaced by the Road Fund, dedicated solely to road building on the basis that no other claims would be made on the Exchequer for construction of new roads.
The Road Fund was never fully utilised, returning a surplus each year, and it became notorious for being used for other government purposes. Winston Churchill opposed the Road Fund, saying:
In 1926 as Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill sought, successfully, to redirect a third of payments as taxation on luxury and pleasure uses with the stated aim of putting competition between road and rail on a fair basis. At the same time, the majority of road building and maintenance costs were met from general and local taxation.
In 1932 Lieut. Colonel Moore-Brabazon said in a debate in the House of Commons about the Road Fund:
Winding up
Hypothecation of VED into the Road Fund was formally ended under the Finance Act 1936, in accordance with the recommendations of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique%20classique | Created on 2 April 1996, Musique Classique was a television channel owned by AB Groupe.
The programming consisted of classical concerts, opera, lyrical works, and magazine programmes (e.g. À livret ouvert...).
The channel was run by Jean-Michel Fava.
Musique Classique was shown on the AB Sat package, some cable operators, such as Noos-Numericable (see also Numericable (NOOS)) and ADSL operators such as Freebox TV. The channel was not available on Canalsat or TPS.
History
On October 15, 2007, at 10:00 AM, the channel ceased broadcasting to make way for Ciné First, which also stopped in September 2010.
References
External links
Logos of the channel
Mediawan Thematics
Defunct television channels in France
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
1996 establishments in France
2007 disestablishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Foundations%20of%20Computer%20Science | The IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) is an academic conference in the field of theoretical computer science. FOCS is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.
As writes, FOCS and its annual Association for Computing Machinery counterpart STOC (the Symposium on Theory of Computing) are considered the two top conferences in theoretical computer science, considered broadly: they “are forums for some of the best work throughout theory of computing that promote breadth among theory of computing researchers and help to keep the community together.” includes regular attendance at FOCS and STOC as one of several defining characteristics of theoretical computer scientists.
Awards
The Knuth Prize for outstanding contributions to theoretical computer science is presented alternately at FOCS and STOC. Works of the highest quality presented at the conference are awarded the Best Paper Award. In addition, the Machtey Award is presented to the best student-authored paper in FOCS.
History
In 1960–1965, FOCS was known as the Symposium on Switching Circuit Theory and Logical Design, and in 1966–1974 it was known as the Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory. The current name has been used since 1975. Since 1973, the cover page of the conference proceedings has featured an artwork entitled synapse, by Alvy Ray Smith, who has also been the author of three papers in the conference.
The publisher uses the acronym SFCS on their web sites for the conferences in 1975 to 1987.
Location
FOCS is almost exclusively held in North America, and in particular in the United States, with few exceptions.
See also
Conferences in theoretical computer science.
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
References
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External links
FOCS 2009 web site.
FOCS 2008 web site.
FOCS 2007 web site.
FOCS 2006 web site.
FOCS 2005 web site.
FOCS proceedings information in DBLP.
FOCS Best Student Paper Award (Machtey Award).
Citation Statistics for FOCS/STOC/SODA, Piotr Indyk and Suresh Venkatasubramanian, July 2007.
Nelson H. F. Beebe's FOCS bibliography, 23 March 2007.
Theoretical computer science conferences
Recurring events established in 1960
IEEE conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV%20Tyne%20Tees%20%26%20Border | ITV Tyne Tees & Border is the producer of regional programming for the ITV Tyne Tees and ITV Border franchises. Between 2009 and 2013, the two regions were merged into a single region (although still with two franchises). Since 2013, each region receives its own regional service, but both services use the same studios and presenters.
Overview
The news service transmits to a vast area – northern and central Cumbria, County Durham, Dumfries and Galloway, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, the Scottish Borders and Tyne and Wear.
The news services continue to be produced and broadcast from headquarters in Gateshead with reporters also based at bureaux in Billingham, Carlisle, Edinburgh and Selkirk. Additional bureaux were formerly also at the University of Sunderland and York.
History
The dual news service was launched on Wednesday 25 February 2009, shortly after the broadcasting regulator Ofcom gave ITV plc the go-ahead to merge two regions, ITV Tyne Tees and ITV Border.
North East Tonight and Lookaround titles were retained for the 6pm programme and late bulletin each weekday, whilst shorter bulletins were known simply as Tyne Tees & Border News. On 14 January 2013, the "Tyne Tees" news service rebranded as ITV News Tyne Tees with the "Border" news service Lookaround retained. Pan-regional bulletins were then branded as ITV News Tyne Tees & Border while the existing Tyne Tees monthly political programme Around the House now also incorporates the Border region.
The service covered the Isle of Man until Thursday 16 July 2009 when Granada Reports (the ITV Granada region) took over coverage of the Crown dependency.
The news service was selected in November 2009 to be one of the pilot areas for the provision of the new Independently Funded News Consortia proposed by Ofcom, however the plan was scrapped in June 2010.
The amalgamated region was heavily criticised due to a lack of coverage for viewers in the South of Scotland.
On 23 July 2013, proposals to reintroduce full regional services for the Tyne Tees and Border regions were approved by Ofcom, effectively leading to a demerger of the Tyne Tees and Border services. On 16 September 2013, ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround were restored as fully separate regional programmes on weekdays with shorter daytime and weekend bulletins reintroduced. Both programmes continue to be broadcast from ITV's Gateshead studios with extra journalists recruited for newsgathering in the Border region. However, production of these programmes is credited on end captions to either "ITV Tyne Tees" or "ITV Border", despite both coming from the same studio.
ITV Border was also required to reopen its former opt-out service for southern Scotland, previously used to broadcast split news bulletins and selected STV programming. A minimum of 90 minutes a week of bespoke Scottish programming is broadcast on ITV Border Scotland with viewers in Cumbria continuing to receive network output. The sub-regional service, launched on 6 J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Um%20Jammer%20Lammy | is a rhythm video game developed by NanaOn-Sha and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation video game console in 1999. It is a spin-off follow up to 1996's PaRappa the Rapper, once again featuring the collaboration of music producer and game designer Masaya Matsuura and artist Rodney Alan Greenblat. An arcade version co-developed by Namco, titled Um Jammer Lammy Now!, was released in Japanese arcades in December 1999. The game received generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
The game revolves around a shy lamb named Lammy (Sara Ramirez), a left-handed guitarist and leader of a rock band named MilkCan, alongside bassist and lead singer Katy Kat and drummer Ma-san. Although normally a nervous wreck, Lammy becomes much more confident once she has a guitar in hand. On the night before MilkCan is due for their first concert, Lammy has a dream of performing alongside Chop Chop Master Onion, only to realize she had been playing a vacuum cleaner the entire time. As Lammy laments how she is nothing without her guitar, Chop Chop tells her about how he lost his dojo, but it remains in his mind, complete with a casino, leaving behind the words "Dojo, Casino, It's all in the mind".
Lammy wakes up and realizes she only has 15 minutes to get to her concert. While running to the concert, she is blocked off by a fire. As Chief Puddle attempts to get Lammy to help put out the fire since she's in a hurry, Lammy notices a billboard for a casino. Recalling Chop Chop's words, Lammy pictures her fire hose as a guitar and gains the confidence she usually has whilst playing. After putting out the fire, Lammy is rewarded with some pizza but eats so much that she is mistaken as a pregnant lady by Nurse Cathy Piller. Upon realizing she wasn't actually pregnant, Cathy forces Lammy to help put all the newborns to sleep using a baby as a guitar. As Lammy leaves she slips on a skateboard and is launched into a plane that was flying through the street. She then helps Captain Fussenpepper fly the plane while he is attacked by a ceiling panel by using her yoke as a guitar, which makes him switch personalities. She ends up crash landing the plane into the middle of a full parking lot. Accidentally leaving her guitar on the plane upon leaving, Lammy goes to build a new one from scratch with the help from a beaver named Paul Chuck. By pretending her chainsaw is a guitar she is able to turn a tree in to a fully functional and painted guitar.
In the Japan/PAL version of the game, upon getting the guitar, Lammy slips on a banana peel and dies, ending up in a Hell-like nether world. In the U.S. version, her belt gets snagged on a door handle in the shop, and she is propelled to a volcanic island. After being dragged into performing in a concert for idol Teriyaki Yoko (The Alien Girl), Lammy manages to earn the right to be brought back to Earth using a fax machine, but not before running into her evil twin Rammy, Yoko's original guitarist. After coming back |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaRappa%20the%20Rapper | is a rhythm video game developed by NanaOn-Sha and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in Japan in 1996 and worldwide in 1997. Created by music producer Masaya Matsuura in collaboration with artist Rodney Greenblat, the game features unique visual design and rap-based gameplay and is considered the first true rhythm game. It was ported to the PlayStation Portable in 2006 in celebration of its 10-year anniversary. A remastered version of the original PlayStation game was released for PlayStation 4 in 2017 for the game's twentieth anniversary.
PaRappa the Rapper was well received by critics, who praised its music, story, animation, and gameplay, though its short length was criticized. Several publications list it as one of the best video games ever made. It spawned two follow-up titles; a guitar-based spin-off titled Um Jammer Lammy, released in 1999 for the PlayStation, and a direct sequel, PaRappa the Rapper 2, released for the PlayStation 2 in 2001.
Gameplay
PaRappa the Rapper is a rhythm game in which the main character, PaRappa, must make his way through each of the game's six stages by rapping. As the teacher raps, a bar at the top of the screen will appear, showing symbols that match up to the teacher's lyrics. The player must then make PaRappa rap in response to the teacher by pressing the buttons with the correct timing to match the teacher's line.
During gameplay, a "U Rappin'" meter determines the player's performance, ranking it as either Awful, Bad, Good, or Cool. By consistently staying on beat, players will stay in the Good ranking area. If the player performs a bad line, a lower ranking will flash, and if the player performs badly twice in a row, they will drop to Bad, followed by Awful. To regain a higher ranking, the player must play well twice in a row to move up a rank. To clear a stage, the player must have a good ranking by the end of the song. If the player ends the song on a Bad or Awful ranking or drops below the Awful ranking at any point in the song, they will fail the song and have to start over. After the game has been cleared once, the player can attempt to achieve a Cool ranking. This is achieved by freestyling in a manner different from the predetermined lyric. If the player performs a successfully impressive freestyle when the Cool rank is flashing, they will enter Cool mode. In this mode, the teacher will leave the stage, allowing the player to rap freely and earn some large points. If the freestyling fails to impress twice in a row, the teacher will return and gameplay will resume in the Good ranking. Ending the stage with a Cool rank results in a special level ending, and clearing all stages on Cool Mode unlocks a bonus mode with characters Katy Kat and Sunny Funny.
Rank-changing aspects of a level are only apparent during the first of every two lines. If the player successfully times the first line of a pair but fails on the second, the rank meter will not blink Bad or Awful. Likewi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrewsbury%20TMD | Shrewsbury TMD is a railway traction maintenance depot (TMD) situated in Coleham, Shrewsbury, England. The TMD forms part of Coleham Depot, a permanent way depot operated by Network Rail. The code for the TMD is 'SB'.
Location
The depot is situated at Sutton Bridge Junction, where the Cambrian Line connects with the Welsh Marches Line, approximately to the south of Shrewsbury railway station. The TMD was constructed in 2008 on the site of rarely used permanent way sidings - which had themselves been built on the site of the former extensive joint GWR/LNWR goods yard - as part of the ERTMS project on the Cambrian Line. The depot became the base for Network Rail 97/3s (former Class 37 locomotives) for ERTMS testing on the Cambrian Line. The locomotives arrived in 2009 (see the allocation section below).
The new maintenance depot consists of a single-road inspection shed with an additional siding to one side to run round locomotives/store additional locomotives. There is also a small gantry. The site is fenced off from the main running line adjacent to it and is connected with the adjoining permanent way depot.
Allocation
Although not always stabled at Coleham (sometimes one or more of the 97s are stabled at other locations, including Machynlleth) the four class 97/3s which are now regularly present here are:
Network Rail 97301 (ex-37100)
Network Rail 97302 (ex-37170)
Network Rail 97303 (ex-37178)
Network Rail 97304 (ex-37217) "John Tiley"
Abbey Foregate
The Coleham Depot is the second location in Shrewsbury to have a depot code (since privatisation), the other being the long established Abbey Foregate Yard with 'SX'. This yard, located adjacent to Severn Bridge Junction at the southeast end of the station, is currently used for the stabling of DMUs by Transport for Wales and West Midlands Trains. There are no locomotives or shunters allocated at Abbey Foregate.
History
The original locomotive servicing depot was built on the opposite side of the tracks to the current TMD, by the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway (S&HR) in 1856, consisting of a single-road straight shed. As part of their joint-purchase of the S&HR, the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway agreed to build a new six-road shed on the same site, designed using LNWR architecture principles, utilising the original S&HR shed as a wagon repair depot. In 1877 the LNWR built a new ten road shed of their own to the south of the site, closer to the running tracks. After the GWR absorbed the constituent railway companies in the area, in 1883 they built a new roundhouse to the rear/east of the existing former joint facilities, and added their own coaling stage. In 1932, the GWR demolished the old S&HR shed, and built a new steel-framed three road straight shed on the site. In 1937, the GWR renewed all roofing. The depot closed to all steam locomotives in March 1967.
See also
Railways of Shropshire
List of British Railways shed codes
References
Railway depots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20network%20interface | A virtual network interface (VNI) is an abstract virtualized representation of a computer network interface that may or may not correspond directly to a network interface controller.
Operating system level
It is common for the operating system kernel to maintain a table of virtual network interfaces in memory. This may allow the system to store and operate on such information independently of the physical interface involved (or even whether it is a direct physical interface or for instance a tunnel or a bridged interface). It may also allow processes on the system to interact concerning network connections in a more granular fashion than simply to assume a single amorphous "Internet" (of unknown capacity or performance).
W. Richard Stevens, in volume 2 of his treatise
entitled TCP/IP Illustrated, refers to the kernel's Virtual Interface Table in his discussion of multicast routing. For example, a multicast router may
operate differently on interfaces that represent tunnels than on physical interfaces (e.g. it may only need to collect membership information for physical interfaces). Thus the virtual interface may need to divulge some specifics to the user, such as whether or not it represents a physical interface directly.
In addition to allowing user space applications to refer to abstract network interface connections, in some systems a virtual interface framework may allow processes to better coordinate the sharing of a given physical interface
(beyond the default operating system behavior) by hierarchically subdividing it into abstract interfaces with specified bandwidth limits and queueing models. This can imply restriction of the process, e.g. by inheriting a limited branch of such a hierarchy from which it may not stray.
This extra layer of network abstraction is often unnecessary, and may have a minor performance penalty. However, it is also possible to use such a layer of abstraction to work around a performance bottleneck, indeed even to bypass the kernel for optimization purposes.
Application level
The term VIF has also been applied when the application virtualizes or
abstracts network interfaces. Since most software need not concern
itself with the particulars of network interfaces, and since the desired
abstraction may already be available through the operating system, this
usage is rare.
See also
Loopback
Network virtualization
Virtual Interface Architecture
References
External links
Linux Network Interfaces
Computer networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Network | Space Network (SN) is a NASA program that combines space and ground elements to support spacecraft communications in Earth vicinity. The SN Project Office at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) manages the SN, which consists of:
The geosynchronous Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS),
Supporting ground terminal systems,
The Bilateration Ranging and Transponder System (BRTS),
Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA) relay,
Network Control Center Data System (NCCDS).
Satellite generations
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) currently consists of first-generation (F1–F7), and second-generation (F8–F10) satellites.
The space segment of the SN consists of up to six operational relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit. These communications satellites are allocated longitudes for relaying forward and return service signals to and from customers, any entity with an Earth-orbiting satellite that has an agreement with SN to use its communications services, for data transfer and tracking. An additional TDRS, F1, provides dedicated support to the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the use of the WSC Alternate Relay Terminal (WART). Additional spare TDRSs may be in geosynchronous orbit.
All first-generation TDRSs (F1–F7, also known as TDRS A–G) carry functionally identical payloads and all second-generation TDRSs (F8–F10, also known as TDRS H–J) carry functionally identical payloads.
A third generation, TDRS K, L, and M were launched between 2013–2017.
The figures identify the pertinent communications components and associated parameters of the orbiting relay platforms.
Coverage
For spacecraft operating in a low Earth orbit (LEO) 73 km to 3000 km altitude, the SN is capable of providing tracking and data acquisition services over 100% of the spacecraft's orbit. Spacecraft sent to more distant or exotic destinations rely on either Deep Space Network or their own custom, dedicated networks.
See also
Deep Space Network
Near Earth Network
Indian Deep Space Network
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
Eastern Range
SCaN Program
References
External links
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Space Network Official Page
Goddard Space Flight Center |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa%20Hathaway | Melissa Hathaway (born 10 November 1968) is a leading expert in cyberspace policy and cybersecurity. She served under two U.S. presidential administrations from 2007 to 2009, including more than 8 months at the White House, spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama after leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) for President George W. Bush. She is President of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC, a Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Regents at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada, and a non-resident Research Fellow at the Kosciuszko Institute in Poland. She was previously a Senior Adviser at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center.
Career
Hathaway received a B.A. at The American University. She graduated from the US Armed Forces Staff College with a special certificate in Information Operations.
Hathaway was employed with consulting firm Evidence Based Research. Her work included developing models for detection of cocaine movement into the United States.
From June 1993 to February 2007, Hathaway worked for consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, focusing on information operations and long-range strategy and policy support business units. Her work included evaluations of "new force options across the electromagnetic spectrum" and "design and development of novel techniques for mapping social, business, and process and infrastructure relationships."
Hathaway served as Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, and Cyber Coordination Executive. She chaired the National Cyber Study Group (NCSG). In her role at the NCSG, she contributed to the development of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI). Hathaway was appointed the Director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force in January 2008.
Hathaway was named the Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils on 9 February 2009, and placed in charge of a 60-day inter-agency review of the plan, programs, and activities underway throughout the government dedicated to cyber security.
In January 2009, at the request of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Ms. Hathaway was asked to lead the 60-Day Cyberspace Policy Review for President Obama. She assembled a team of experienced government cyber experts and identified over 250 recommendations. In May 2009, President Obama presented the blueprint of the Cyberspace Policy Review and announced cybersecurity would be one of his Administration's priorities. He recognized Ms. Hathaway's leadership and noted that there were, as the President said, "opportunities for everyone—academia, industry, and governments—to work together to build a trusted and resilient communications and information infrastructure".
On 3 August 2009, it was announced that Hathaway would return to the private sector, with her |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Communications%20and%20Navigation%20Program | The Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program places the three prime NASA space communications networks, Space Network (SN), Near Earth Network (NEN) (previously known as the Ground Network or GN), and the Deep Space Network (DSN), under one Management and Systems Engineering umbrella. It was established in 2006. It was previously known as the Space Communications & Data Systems (SCDS) Program.
History
Before NASA's administrator Michael D. Griffin created SCaN to direct an integrated networks program, different organizations at NASA Headquarters have managed the Agency's space communications capabilities and functions under separate Programs using a variety of administrative approaches.
The SCaN Office was established by direction of Griffin in a Memorandum entitled "Establishment of a Space Communications and Navigation Office," dated July 19, 2006. SCaN operates as a central organization within the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD):
The Ground Network (GN) has since been renamed the Near Earth Network.
Services
SCaN is viewed as a service provider supporting interfaces and performing a standard set of functions, including:
Forward data transfer (uplink to spacecraft)
Return data transfer (downlink from spacecraft to ground)
Dissimilar voice communications
Emergency communications
Post-landing communications
Radiometric measurement
Time correlation
Service monitoring
Ephemeris exchange
Operational coordination
Service scheduling.
Communications schemes
Communications with spaceborne platforms is performed by RF, with a selection of spectra, modulation, and encoding methods, enumerated below.
Spectra
The Space Network communicates with spacecraft using S-band, Ku-band, and Ka-band with planned laser/optical communications.
The Deep Space Network communicates with spacecraft using S-band, X-band, and Ka-band.
Modulation
SN uses phase-shift keying and phase modulation of the carrier signal.
Encoding
The Space Network (used for near-Earth communications) supports the following encoding schemes:
BPSK
QPSK/SQPSK
8PSK
Rate 1/2 convolutional coding
SQPN
PRN coding - used to reduce power spectral density for low bit rate signals, and for time transfer.
The Reed–Solomon method is used as the initial error-correcting block code prior to the selected secondary encoding scheme.
See also
Indian Deep Space Network
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
Eastern Range
NASCOM
References
External links
NASA.gov
Deep Space Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden%20Classical | Leiden Classical was a volunteer computing project run by the Theoretical Chemistry Department of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. Leiden Classical used the BOINC system, and enabled scientists or science students to submit their own test simulations of various molecules and atoms in a classical mechanics environment. ClassicalDynamics is a program (and with it a library) completely written in C++. The library is covered by the LGPL license and the main program is covered by the GPL. The project shut down on June 5, 2018.
Joining the project
Participation was possible via the BOINC manager. Using this software one was once able to create an account in the project. Then someone can make a model of a dynamic system and simulation participating run. There are several models possible, to interactions between molecules or planets.
User Submitted Calculations
To create a personal calculation, a user's model had to have six defined variables:
Colors of the molecules
Box in which the model is run
Number of particles in the simulation
Interaction between the particles
Gravity
Coulomb force
Lennard-Jones interaction
Morse interaction
Rydberg interaction
Harmonic spirit
Harmonic bending
Recurrent torsion interactions
Distance conditions
Confirmation parameter(s)
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
References
External links
Leiden Classical website archive
Leiden Classical forum archive
Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Survived... | I Survived... is a documentary television series produced by NHNZ that aired on Lifetime Movie Network and, as of 2022, can be seen on Court TV.
The show allows survivors to explain in their own words how they overcame life-threatening circumstances without dramatic reenactments. Most episodes feature two or three separate stories involving scenarios such as kidnapping, assaults, or getting injured or stranded in a remote location. The format shows the survivor speaking into the camera to describe their experiences, with occasional use of title cards to summarize events or photographs of locations or people mentioned by the narrators.
The official website states:
The series premiered on March 24, 2008 and aired its last episode on January 26, 2015. Its sister series "I Survived... Beyond and Back" (in which people share their near death experiences) debuted in 2011.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
References
External links
Official Site on Lifetime Movie Network.com
2008 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
2000s American documentary television series
2000s American reality television series
2010s American documentary television series
2010s American reality television series
The Biography Channel shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Time%20%28disambiguation%29 | Adventure Time is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network.
Adventure Time may also refer to:
Adventure Time (1959 TV series), a children's television show in Pittsburgh
Adventure Time (1967 TV series), a Canadian television series
"Adventure Time" (short film), a 2007 pilot for the Cartoon Network series
Adventure Time (franchise), a media franchise set around the Cartoon Network series
Adventure Time (album), an album by the Elvis Brothers
"Adventure Time", a 2003–2004 musical collaboration between Daedelus and DJ Frosty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion%20%28discrete%20mathematics%29 | In computer science and discrete mathematics, an inversion in a sequence is a pair of elements that are out of their natural order.
Definitions
Inversion
Let be a permutation.
There is an inversion of between and if and . The inversion is indicated by an ordered pair containing either the places or the elements .
The inversion set is the set of all inversions. A permutation's inversion set using place-based notation is the same as the inverse permutation's inversion set using element-based notation with the two components of each ordered pair exchanged. Likewise, a permutation's inversion set using element-based notation is the same as the inverse permutation's inversion set using place-based notation with the two components of each ordered pair exchanged.
Inversions are usually defined for permutations, but may also be defined for sequences:Let be a sequence (or multiset permutation). If and , either the pair of places or the pair of elements is called an inversion of .
For sequences, inversions according to the element-based definition are not unique, because different pairs of places may have the same pair of values.
Inversion number
The inversion number of a sequence , is the cardinality of the inversion set. It is a common measure of sortedness (sometimes called presortedness) of a permutation or sequence. The inversion number is between 0 and inclusive. A permutation and its inverse have the same inversion number.
For example since the sequence is ordered. Also, when is even, (because each pair is an inversion). This last example shows that a set that is intuitively "nearly sorted" can still have a quadratic number of inversions.
The inversion number is the number of crossings in the arrow diagram of the permutation, the permutation's Kendall tau distance from the identity permutation, and the sum of each of the inversion related vectors defined below.
Other measures of sortedness include the minimum number of elements that can be deleted from the sequence to yield a fully sorted sequence, the number and lengths of sorted "runs" within the sequence, the Spearman footrule (sum of distances of each element from its sorted position), and the smallest number of exchanges needed to sort the sequence. Standard comparison sorting algorithms can be adapted to compute the inversion number in time .
Inversion related vectors
Three similar vectors are in use that condense the inversions of a permutation into a vector that uniquely determines it. They are often called inversion vector or Lehmer code. (A list of sources is found here.)
This article uses the term inversion vector () like Wolfram. The remaining two vectors are sometimes called left and right inversion vector, but to avoid confusion with the inversion vector this article calls them left inversion count () and right inversion count (). Interpreted as a factorial number the left inversion count gives the permutations reverse colexicographic, and the rig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20%28Datarock%20album%29 | Red is the second studio album by Norwegian dance-punk duo Datarock, released in the UK on 8 June 2009 and in the US on 1 September.
Track listing
"The Blog" (3:11)
"Give It Up" (2:47)
"True Stories" (2:49)
"Dance!" (3:38)
"Molly" (3:20)
"Do It Your Way" (1:47)
"In the Red" (3:34)
"Fear of Death" (2:15)
"Amarillion" (4:20)
"The Pretender" (3:08)
"Back in the Seventies" (3:00)
"Not Me" (3:46)
"New Days Dawn" (3:08)
Use in other media
"True Stories" was featured in FIFA 09 and "Give It Up" in FIFA 10.
References
External links
Review of Album
2009 albums
Datarock albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20identification%20and%20sensing%20platform | A wireless identification and sensing platform (WISP) is an RFID (radio-frequency identification) device that supports sensing and computing: a microcontroller powered by radio-frequency energy.
That is, like a passive RFID tag, WISP is powered and read by a standard off-the-shelf RFID reader, harvesting the power it uses from the reader's emitted radio signals. To an RFID reader, a WISP is just a normal EPC gen1 or gen2 tag; but inside the WISP, the harvested energy is operating a 16-bit general purpose microcontroller. The microcontroller can perform a variety of computing tasks, including sampling sensors, and reporting that sensor data back to the RFID reader. WISPs have been built with light sensors, temperature sensors, and strain gauges. Some contain accelerometers.
WISPs can write to flash and perform cryptographic computations. The WISP was originally developed by Intel Research Seattle, but after their closure development work has continued at the Sensor Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Implementation
The WISP consists of a board with power harvesting circuitry, demodulator, modulator, microcontroller, external sensors, and other components such as EEPROM and LED.
Applications
WISPs have been used for light level measurement, acceleration sensing, cold chain monitoring (passive data logging), and cryptography and security applications.
See also
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Intel Research Lablets
Remote sensing in mobile telecommunications
NODE platform
Quality control system (QCS) for web and papers
SWARM
Wireless sensor network nodes
References
External links
Wireless sensor network
Ubiquitous computing
Automatic identification and data capture
Radio-frequency identification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOC | STOC may refer to:
Serbian True Orthodox Church
Symposium on Theory of Computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20Europe%20Network | The Enterprise Europe Network provides support for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions. Co-funded by the European Union's COSME and Horizon 2020 programmes, the Network's aim is to help businesses innovate and grow internationally.
The Network is active in more than 60 countries worldwide. It brings together 3,000 experts from more than 600 member organisations, including:
chambers of commerce and industry
technology poles
innovation support organisations
universities and research institutes
regional development organisations
Advice for international growth
Enterprise Europe Network advisory services support businesses seeking to expand into international markets. The services cover a wide range of regulatory areas and market intelligence:
Compliance with EU regulations and standards (e.g. CE marking)
Access to international markets – market intelligence and capacity building
International public contracts –access to cross-border procurement and EU tender opportunities
National and regional finance and funding – identification of sources of finance and investor-readiness training
EU funding schemes and application support
Intellectual property rights (IPR) – patents and IPR applications and exploitation strategies
Energy and resource efficiency – identification of technologies and finance opportunities
Management improvement – capacity building
Support for business innovation
Enterprise Europe Network innovation support services are available based on an assessment of the needs and development phase of the business.
At an entry level, Network services include:
information on innovation-related policies, legislation and support programmes
links with local innovation stakeholders
information about access to local sources of funding/support
Network experts can provide one-to-one services to support innovation capacity building. Services include innovation audits, advice on intellectual property, marketing and access to finance.
Finally, the Network provides key account management services to businesses benefitting from the Horizon 2020 SME instrument programme, part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot.
History
The Enterprise Europe Network was launched on 7 February 2008 by former EU Commissioner Günter Verheugen. The Enterprise Europe Network combines the previous Euro Info Centres and the Innovation Relay Centres. From 2008 to 2014, the Network was co-financed by the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), in cooperation with institutions at national and regional levels. From 2015 to 2020, the Network was co-financed under the European Union's programme for the competitiveness of SMEs (COSME) and Horizon 2020.
Under the responsibility of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, the Enterprise Europe Network is managed by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio%20Martusciello | Elio Martusciello (born 23 November 1959, Naples, Italy) is an Italian experimental music composer and performer, principally on guitar and computer. He has studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual art with Carlo Alfano, Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. He is a self-taught musician/composer and teaches "electronic music" at Conservatory of Music, Napoli, Italy. His compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues, but in addition to acousmatic composition he composes for instruments and live electronics, sound installation, multi-media works, audiovisual art and computer music improvisation. He lives in Napoli, Italy.
Main collaborations
He has worked with improvising musicians such as Ana-Maria Avram, Natasha Barrett, Eugene Chadbourne, Alvin Curran, Chris Cutler, Iancu Dumitrescu, Michel Godard, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Jerome Noetinger, Tony Oxley, Roberto Paci Dalo, Evan Parker, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Mario Schiano, Z'EV, and others.
Bands
Ossatura
with Fabrizio Spera and Luca Venitucci
Ka’e
with Giorgio Bosso, Stefano Giampietro, Paolo Montella and Andrea Laudante
Schismophonia
with Mike Cooper
Taxonomy
with Graziano Lella and Roberto Fega
Bindou ensemble
with Ana-Maria Avram, Chris Cutler, Rhodri Davies, Iancu Dumitrescu and Tim Hodgkinson
Le pecore di Dante
with Tim Hodgkinson
DA
with Paganmuzak
Xubuxue
with Pietro D'Agostino, Marco Ariano and Gianfranco Tedeschi
Selected Discography and videography
E. e M. Martusciello: meta-harmonies (Staalplaat, 1995)
Ossatura: dentro (Recommended Records, 1998)
Ossatura: verso (Recommended Records, 2002)
Aesthetics of the machine (bowindo, 2003)
Unoccupied areas (Recommended Records, 2005)
Taxonomy: A Global Taxonomycal Machine (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2005)
Taxonomy: 10 Taxonomical Movements (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2008)
To extend the visibility (Recommended Records, 2009)
Concrete songs (TiConZero, 2011)
BetweenUs: Chamber Rites (Die Schachtel, 2015)
Ossatura: Maps and Mazes (Recommended Records, 2016)
incise (em music, 2018)
The Ghost Album (em music, 2020)
SISMONASTIE - Music for yellow guitar solo (em music, 2023)
See also
List of acousmatic-music composers
Electroacoustic music
Acousmatic music
Sound installation
List of free improvising musicians and groups
Sound art
Musique concrète
List of experimental musicians
External links
Home page
Myspace
References
His biography on electrocd.com
CEMAT
Recommended_Records
Conservatory of Music G.P. da Palestrina
intervista a Elio Martusciello
XXI Musicale
sands-zine
L'estetica dei media - Mario Costa
estetica della macchina - Elio Martusciello
to extend the visibility
allaboutjazz
Musicians from Naples
Italian musicians
Living people
1959 births
Electroacoustic music composers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Hewitt | Carl Eddie Hewitt (; 1944 – 7 December 2022) was an American computer scientist who designed the Planner programming language for automated planning and the actor model of concurrent computation, which have been influential in the development of logic, functional and object-oriented programming. Planner was the first programming language based on procedural plans invoked using pattern-directed invocation from assertions and goals. The actor model influenced the development of the Scheme programming language, the π-calculus, and served as an inspiration for several other programming languages.
Education and career
Hewitt obtained his PhD in mathematics at MIT in 1971, under the supervision of Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Mike Paterson. He began his employment at MIT that year, and retired from the faculty of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science during the 1999–2000 school year. He became emeritus in the department in 2000. Among the doctoral students that Hewitt supervised during his time at MIT are Gul Agha, Henry Baker, William Clinger, Irene Greif, and Akinori Yonezawa.
From September 1989 to August 1990, Hewitt was the IBM Chair Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Keio University in Japan. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University.
Research
Hewitt was best known for his work on the actor model of computation. For the last decade, his work had been in "inconsistency robustness", which aims to provide practical rigorous foundations for systems dealing with pervasively inconsistent information. This work grew out of his doctoral dissertation focused on the procedural (as opposed to logical) embedding of knowledge, which was embodied in the Planner programming language.
His publications also include contributions in the areas of open information systems, organizational and multi-agent systems, logic programming, concurrent programming, paraconsistent logic and cloud computing.
Planner
The Planner language was developed during the late 1960s as part of Hewitt's doctoral research in MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Hewitt's work on Planner introduced the notion of the "procedural embedding of knowledge", which was an alternative to the logical approach to knowledge encoding for artificial intelligence pioneered by John McCarthy. Planner has been described as "extremely ambitious". A subset of Planner called Micro-Planner was implemented at MIT by Gerry Sussman, Drew McDermott, Eugene Charniak and Terry Winograd and was used in Winograd's SHRDLU program, Charniak's natural language story understanding work, and L. Thorne McCarty's work on legal reasoning. Planner was almost completely implemented in Popler by Julian Davies at Edinburgh. Planner also influenced the later development of other AI research languages such as Muddle and Conniver, as well as the Smalltalk object-oriented programming language.
Hewitt's own work on Planner continued with Muddle (l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dhana%20Line | The is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. It connects Takaoka with Johana.
Route data
Operating Company: West Japan Railway Company (Services and tracks)
Distance:
Track gauge:
Stations: 14
Double-track: None
Electrification: Not electrified
Railway signalling: Special automatic occlusive (track circuit detection type)
Stations
History
The line was opened in 1897 by the as the between (on the present-day Himi Line) and via . The line was nationalised on 1 September 1920. The Chūetsu Line was renamed the Jōhana Line from 1 August 1942 following the incorporation of the Fushiki to Takaoka section into the Himi Line.
CTC signalling was commissioned over the entire line in 1983.
From 1 April 1987, with the privatization of JNR, the Jōhana Line came under the control of West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
On 14 March 2015, Shin-Takaoka station opened on the line to coincide with the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Kanazawa Station.
Former connecting lines
Fukuno Station: The Tonami Railway opened a 7 km line to Tsuzawa in 1915, including a connection to the Hokuriku Main Line at Isurugi. The company merged with the Kaetsu Railway in 1919, which extended the line 13 km to Shogawa-Cho in 1922. The entire line was closed on 16 September 1972.
See also
List of railway lines in Japan
References
External links
Johanna and Himi Line information
Rail transport in Toyama Prefecture
Lines of West Japan Railway Company
1067 mm gauge railways in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagiyugashima%2C%20Shizuoka | was a town located in Tagata District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
As of March 1, 2004, final population data before the amalgamation, the town had an estimated population of 7,677 and a density of 56.8 persons per km2. The total area was 135.14 km2.
On April 1, 2004, Amagiyugashima, along with the towns of Nakaizu, Shuzenji and Toi (all from Tagata District), was merged to create the city of Izu.
Amagiyugashima was noted for its production of wasabi. It was also the location of the Amagi Tunnel, a tourist attraction based on a famous scene in Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Dancing Girl of Izu.
External links
Izu City official website (Japanese)
Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture
Izu, Shizuoka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakaizu%2C%20Shizuoka | was a town located in Tagata District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in central Izu Peninsula.
As of March 1, 2004, final population data before the amalgamation, the town had an estimated population of 8,457 and a density of 77.03 persons per km2. The total area was 110.02 km2.
On April 1, 2004, Nakaizu, along with the towns of Amagiyugashima, Shuzenji and Toi (all from Tagata District), was merged to create the city of Izu.
Nakaizu, located in the Izu-Kogen highlands of central Izu Peninsula was noted for its production of wasabi and shiitake.
External links
Izu City official website (Japanese)
Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture
Izu, Shizuoka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuzenji%2C%20Shizuoka | was a town located in Tagata District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in central Izu Peninsula.
As of March 1, 2004, final population data before the amalgamation, the town had an estimated population of 16,328 and a density of 236.5 persons per km². The total area was 69.04 km².
On April 1, 2004 Shuzenji, along with the towns of Amagiyugashima, Nakaizu and Toi (all from Tagata District), was merged to create the city of Izu.
Shuzenji was located in an inland region of Izu Peninsula and was noted for its numerous onsen hot spring resorts. The area was also noted for its production of wasabi and shiitake.
The town of Shuzenji was founded on April 1, 1889 within Kimisawa District, Shizuoka. In 1896, Kimisawa District was abolished and became part of Tagata District.
External links
Izu City official website (Japanese)
Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture
Izu, Shizuoka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20download | A progressive download is the transfer of digital media files from a server to a client, typically using the HTTP protocol when initiated from a computer. The consumer may begin playback of the media before the download is complete. The key difference between streaming media and progressive download is in how the digital media data is received and stored by the end user device that is accessing the digital media.
A media player that is capable of progressive download playback relies on meta data located in the header of the file to be intact and a local buffer of the digital media file as it is downloaded from a web server. At the point in which a specified amount of data becomes available to the local playback device, the media will begin to play. This specified amount of buffer is embedded into the file by the producer of the content in the encoder settings and is reinforced by additional buffer settings imposed by the media player.
History
Initially the digital media file type known as JPEG was the first visual media to render a progressive visual display as the digital media was downloaded and actually referred to as a progressive download. The distinction between the technical behavior of progressive download as opposed to the common or commercial use of the term progressive download to describe that behavior was not documented and there is a good deal of question regarding the origin of the term versus the origin of the technical implementation. Apple in reference to their QuickTime media player employed the term Fast Start in 1997, to describe what was commercially referred to as progressive download playback of encoded digital media content.
HTTP progressive download versus streaming media
The end user experience is similar to streaming media, however the file is downloaded to a physical drive on the end user's device; the file is typically stored in the temporary directory of the associated web browser if the medium was embedded into a web page or is diverted to a storage directory that is set in the preferences of the media player used for playback. The file will stutter or stop playback if the rate of playback exceeds the rate at which the file is downloaded. The file will begin to play again after further download.
This fast start playback is the result of moving the meta data from the end of the digital media file to the front, this move of the meta data gave the media player all the information it required to begin playback as the file was still being downloaded. Prior to that change, the meta data summary was located at the end of a media file and the entire file would need to be downloaded in order for the meta data to be read and the player begin playback.
HTTP Pseudo-streaming (or progressive download), similar to streaming media or HTTP Live Streaming, also supports adaptive bitrate streaming. The disadvantage of HTTP Pseudo-streaming over streaming media is reduced security, since HTTP is easier to sniff compared to RTMP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2009–10 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers primetime hours from September 2009 through August 2010. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2008–09 season.
Fox was the first to announce its fall schedule on May 18, 2009, followed by ABC and NBC on May 19, CBS on May 20, and The CW on May 21, 2009.
PBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcasts times for network shows may vary. NBC stripped The Jay Leno Show weeknights at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central, but removed it after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. The CW eliminated its Sunday night programming block and returned that time to local affiliates; it returned to programming Sunday nights in the 2018-19 season. After three years as a network, MyNetworkTV became a programming service, and therefore not recognized as a network.
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Note: From February 12 to February 28, 2010, all NBC primetime programming was pre-empted for coverage of 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
Legend
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
NOTES: On NBC, Parenthood was supposed to have started the night at 8–9, but it was delayed to midseason at the last minute and placed Mercy instead. On Fox, Our Little Genius was supposed to debut on January 10, 2010 but was cancelled and replaced with American Idol.
Thursday
Friday
NOTE: On NBC, Southland would have to be aired 9–10, but it was cancelled at the last minute and it was picked up by TNT.
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
20/20
ABC Saturday Movie of the Week
America's Funniest Home Videos
The Bachelor
The Bachelorette
Better Off Ted
Brothers & Sisters
Castle
Dancing with the Stars
Dating in the Dark
Desperate Housewives
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Grey's Anatomy
Lost
Primetime
Primetime: What Would You Do?
Private Practice
Saturday Night Football
Scrubs
Shaq Vs.
Shark Tank
Supernanny
True Beauty
Ugly Betty
Wipeout
Wife Swap
New series:
Bachelor Pad *
Cougar Town
The Deep End *
Downfall *
Eastwick
Find My Family
FlashForward
The Forgotten
The Gates *
Hank
Happy Town *
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution *
The Middle
Modern Family
Romantically Challenged *
Rookie Blue *
Scoundrels *
V
Not returning from 2008–09:
According to Jim
Boston Legal
Crash Course
Cupid
Dirty Sexy Money
Eli Stone
The Goode Family
Homeland Security USA
In the Motherhood
I Survived a Japanese Game Show
Life on Mars
Opportunity Knocks
Pushing Daisies
Samantha Who?
The Superstars
Surviving Suburbia
The Unusuals
CBS
Returning series:
48 Hours
60 Minutes
The Amazing Rac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSAT | The acronym BSAT or B-SAT may mean:
Biological Select Agents and Toxin (BSAT), usually called Select agent
Boolean satisfiability problem (B-SAT or BSAT), a problem in computer science
Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT), a Japanese corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20profiles%20in%20Microsoft%20Windows | Microsoft Windows profile refers to the user profile that is used by the Microsoft Windows operating system to represent the characteristics of the user.
Windows XP
Profile creation
Establishing a user account on the computer (or on its parent domain) does not create a profile for that user. The profile is created the first time the user interactively logs on at the computer. Logging on across a network to access shared folders does not create a profile.
At first logon, a folder will typically be created under "Documents and Settings" (standard folder on English version of Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003) matching the logon name of the user. Should a folder of that name already exist, the profile-creation process will create a new one, typically named username.computername, on workgroup computers, or username.domainname on Active Directory member computers.
Once a profile folder has been created, Windows will never automatically rename that folder. Thus if the username itself is subsequently changed, the profile folder will remain as is, and the profile will no longer match the username, which could lead to confusion. For this reason, the administrator might want to avoid renaming user accounts if at all possible, or rename the folder manually and edit the registry to reflect the changes.
The new profile is created by making a copy of a special profile named Default User. It is permissible to modify this Default User profile (within certain guidelines) so as to provide a customized working environment for each new user. Modification of the Default User profile should ideally be done prior to any users logging-on to the computer. If a user has already logged on once or more, the Default Profile has no effect whatsoever for that user.
Profile contents
NTUSER.DAT Within the root of the profile, a file named NTUSER.DAT contains the user's personalized settings for the majority of software installed on the computer; including Windows itself. When the user logs on, NTUSER.DAT becomes merged with the computer's registry, such that it appears as the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch of the registry tree. NTUSER.DAT is held open for writing (i.e., "locked") whenever the user is logged on.
My Documents This folder is intended to contain the user's work, and in Windows XP-aware programs, dialog boxes will typically prompt the user to store documents here. "My Documents" as a shortcut also appears on the desktop, and in My Computer. It is here that these shortcuts point.
Favorites, Cookies, and History These folders are used by Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to store surfing data. They are not used by alternative browsers such as Firefox or Opera, which typically store their data under "Application Data."
Nethood, Printhood These folders contain the network shares and printers discovered by the user with the My Network Places applet, in the form of shortcuts.
Start Menu This folder contains the shortcuts present on the same-nam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bron%E2%80%93Kerbosch%20algorithm | In computer science, the Bron–Kerbosch algorithm is an enumeration algorithm for finding all maximal cliques in an undirected graph. That is, it lists all subsets of vertices with the two properties that each pair of vertices in one of the listed subsets is connected by an edge, and no listed subset can have any additional vertices added to it while preserving its complete connectivity. The Bron–Kerbosch algorithm was designed by Dutch scientists Coenraad Bron and Joep Kerbosch, who published its description in 1973.
Although other algorithms for solving the clique problem have running times that are, in theory, better on inputs that have few maximal independent sets, the Bron–Kerbosch algorithm and subsequent improvements to it are frequently reported as being more efficient in practice than the alternatives. It is well-known and widely used in application areas of graph algorithms such as computational chemistry.
A contemporaneous algorithm of , although presented in different terms, can be viewed as being the same as the Bron–Kerbosch algorithm, as it generates the same search tree.
Without pivoting
The basic form of the Bron–Kerbosch algorithm is a recursive backtracking algorithm that searches for all maximal cliques in a given graph G. More generally, given three disjoint sets of vertices R, P, and X, it finds the maximal cliques that include all of the vertices in R, some of the vertices in P, and none of the vertices in X. In each call to the algorithm, P and X are disjoint sets whose union consists of those vertices that form cliques when added to R. In other words, P ∪ X is the set of vertices which are joined to every element of R. When P and X are both empty there are no further elements that can be added to R, so R is a maximal clique and the algorithm outputs R.
The recursion is initiated by setting R and X to be the empty set and P to be the vertex set of the graph. Within each recursive call, the algorithm considers the vertices in P in turn; if there are no such vertices, it either reports R as a maximal clique (if X is empty), or backtracks. For each vertex v chosen from P, it makes a recursive call in which v is added to R and in which P and X are restricted to the neighbor set N(v) of v, which finds and reports all clique extensions of R that contain v. Then, it moves v from P to X to exclude it from consideration in future cliques and continues with the next vertex in P.
That is, in pseudocode, the algorithm performs the following steps:
algorithm BronKerbosch1(R, P, X) is
if P and X are both empty then
report R as a maximal clique
for each vertex v in P do
BronKerbosch1(R ⋃ {v}, P ⋂ N(v), X ⋂ N(v))
P := P \ {v}
X := X ⋃ {v}
With pivoting
The basic form of the algorithm, described above, is inefficient in the case of graphs with many non-maximal cliques: it makes a recursive call for every clique, maximal or not. To save time and allow the algorithm to backtrack more quic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHUAR-FM | XHUAR-FM (106.7 MHz) is a Rock En Español and News radio station licensed to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, owned by IMER (Instituto Mexicano de la Radio), Mexico's public radio network. Like the Public Radio stations in the United States, IMER presents a variety of discussion and music programs.
XHUAR-FM broadcasts three channels in HD.
History
XHUAR-FM signed on July 1, 1986 as "Estéreo Norte" with the remit of offering a Mexican alternative to the Americanized media of the area. By the early 1990s it was offering ballad music, which changed to rock in 1993. Meanwhile, speech programs diminished on XHUAR's broadcast day.
In 1996, the station adopted the Órbita name and format then in use on IMER's XHOF-FM in Mexico City. The station went 24 hours in 1999.
References
External links
Radio stations in Chihuahua
Mass media in Ciudad Juárez |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaphyrina%20caudata | Glaphyrina caudata is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fasciolariidae.
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand.
Habitat
This sea snail is found in shallow water to depths of about 110 m.
Shell description
Shell rather small, elongated fusiform, solid, with a moderately long canal. Sculpture consisting of subequal narrow spiral cords,
about 10 on the penultimate whorl, the interspaces shallow, much broader than the cords upon the base, where they have a fine spiral thread; axial sculpture formed by numerous vertical broadly rounded ribs, 15 to 20 on the body whorl, where they become obsolete below the periphery. Colour light - yellowish, the spirals reddish - brown. Spire elevated conic, of the same height as the aperture with canal; outlines straight. Protoconch of 2 smooth whorls, small and globose. Whorls 8, regularly increasing, convex, very lightly shouldered, the last somewhat inflated; base excavated. Suture not much impressed. Aperture large, oval, broadly angled above, produced below into a fairly long oblique and open canal, rounded at the base. Outer lip convex, sharp, lightly lirate inside. Columella subvertical, slightly concave. Inner lip narrow, spreading over the parietal wall, narrowed below, and forming the inner edge of the canal. Operculum unknown.
The shell height is up to 49.5 mm, and width up to 21 mm.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.
Powell, A.W.B. (1934). Upper Pliocene fossils from Cape Runaway. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 1: 261-274.
Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
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Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833]. Paris: Tastu]
Sowerby, G. B., II. (1842-1887). Thesaurus Conchyliorum: Or monographs of genera of shells. London, privately published: vol. 1: p. 1-438, pl. 1-91 [cover date 1847; vol. 2: p. 439 899, pl. 92-186 [cover date 1855]; vol. 3: p. 1-331, pl. 187-290 [cover date: 1866]; vol. 4 p. 1-110, pl. 292-423 [cover date 1880]; vol. 5: p. 1-305, pl. 424-517 [cover date 1887] - Details of dates in Petit R.E. 2009 Zootaxa 2189: 35-37; dates of different parts behind cover page of volume I in the copy of BHL]
Finlay H.J. (1926). A further comme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haqqani%20network | The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist group, built around the family of the same name, that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and US-led NATO forces and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan government in the 21st century. It is recognized as a terrorist organization by the United Nations. It is considered to be a "semi-autonomous" offshoot of the Taliban. It has been most active in eastern Afghanistan and across the border in north-west Pakistan.
The Haqqani network was founded in 1970 by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a fundamentalist of the Zadran tribe, who fought for Yunus Khalis's mujahideen faction against the Soviets in the 1980s. Jalaluddin Haqqani died in 2018 and his son Sirajuddin Haqqani now leads the group.
The Haqqani network was one of the Reagan administration's most CIA-funded anti-Soviet groups in the 1980s. In the latter stages of the war, Haqqani formed close ties with foreign jihadists, including Osama bin Laden, becoming one of his closest mentors. The Haqqani network pledged allegiance to the Taliban in 1995, and has been an increasingly incorporated wing of the group ever since. Taliban and Haqqani leaders have denied the existence of the "network", saying it is no different from the Taliban. In 2012, the United States designated the Haqqani network as a terrorist organization. In 2015, Pakistan banned the Haqqani network as part of its National Action Plan.
The elusive Haqqani network has been blamed for some of the deadliest attacks during the War in Afghanistan (2001-2021), having a reputation of frequently using suicide bombings and being able to carry out complex attacks. They had long been suspected by the United States of ties with the Pakistani military establishment, a claim denied by Pakistan. They have also been suspected of criminal activities such as smuggling and trafficking across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Alongside Al-Qaeda, the Haqqani network maintains close ties with the anti-India Jaish-e-Mohammed, and the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Following the Fall of Kabul (2021), the group was put in charge of domestic security by the Taliban. The Wall Street Journal called the group the Taliban's "most radical and violent branch."
Etymology
The word Haqqani comes from Darul Uloom Haqqania, a madrassa in Pakistan that Jalaluddin Haqqani attended.
Ideology and goals
The Haqqani network's root values are nationalistic and religious. They are ideologically aligned with the Taliban, who have worked to eradicate Western influence and transform Afghanistan into a strictly sharia-following state and based on pashtunwali. This was exemplified in the government that formed after Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan. Both groups have the common goal of disrupting the Western military and political efforts in Afghanistan and driving them from the country permanently. Through the 2000s–2010s, the group was demanding that US and Coalition Forces, made up mostly of NATO nations, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20types | For information on computer file types, see:
File format
For information relating to specific operating systems, see also:
Apple file types
Macintosh OSTypes
Uniform type identifier
Unix file types
Windows file types
For a list of filename extensions, see
list of file formats
list of filename extensions (alphabetical)
For information on related concepts, see also:
file system
extended attributes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDAT | IDAT, iDAT, or i-DAT may refer to one of the following:
International Dance and Technology Conference
IDAT, ("image data") a part of the Portable Network Graphics (png) format |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedok%20Public%20Library | Bedok Public Library (Simplified Chinese: 勿洛社区图书馆) is a public library under the National Library Board network. It is located at 11 Bedok North Street 1, #02-03 & #03-04, Heartbeat@Bedok, Singapore 469662. The library was officially re-opened by Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Communications and Information at its new Heartbeat@Bedok premises on 28 October 2017. It is among a suite of community services provided at the new integrated complex, Heartbeat@Bedok.
History
Formerly situated at 21 Bedok North Street 1, Singapore 469659, it was officially opened on 28 September 1985 by Professor S. Jayakumar, then Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as second Minister for Law, currently Senior Minister. With an area of 5,088 square metres, the library serves residents in the South East areas of Singapore (Bedok North, Bedok Reservoir, Bedok South, Frankel, Kaki Bukit and Kembangan). It was temporarily closed on 20 August 2017 and was relocated to Heartbeat@Bedok, having been officially reopened by Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Communications and Information on 28 October that year.
Facilities
Bedok Public Library has a collection of approximately 200,000 books and over 300 magazines and 13,000 audio-visual titles. It has a seating capacity of 435 seats. Besides standard facilities such as the 24-hour bookdrop, multiple reading areas and multimedia stations, and event spaces, the library offers more services suitable for elderly patrons. These include large print books and electronic magnifiers. Facilities for other age groups include a study area space for teenagers and a Story Circle for children.
Layout
The library covers an area of 4,150 square metres across the 2nd and 3rd stories at Heartbeat@Bedok.
2nd Floor
The lowest floor houses English-language fiction books, books for young adults, for-loan magazines and periodicals, a newspaper reading corner, audiobooks, CD-ROMs and DVDs for loan. A one-stop service, Discover Health@BECL, introduces the various aspects of health and fitness through exhibitions.
It also has a separate Malay Library Services which has the largest and most comprehensive collection of print and non-print materials in Malay within the network of NLB libraries. It also has computer systems for internet surfing, English non-fiction books, as well as Chinese and Tamil books.
3rd Floor
The upper storey comprises Singapore Collections, General fiction, a children's section and an early literacy section for young children.
Location
The library is a short walk from the Bedok Bus Interchange and Bedok MRT station.
Notes
1985 establishments in Singapore
2018 establishments in Singapore
Library buildings completed in 1985
Libraries established in 1985
Libraries in Singapore
Singapore
20th-century architecture in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20of%20delivery%20%28networking%29 | A point of delivery, or PoD, is "a module of network, compute, storage, and application components that work together to deliver networking services. The PoD is a repeatable design pattern, and its components maximize the modularity, scalability, and manageability of data centers."
The modular design principle has been applied to telephone and data networks, for instance through a repeatable node design describing the configuration of equipment housed in point of presence facilities. The term is similarly used in cable video networks, to describe the modular component that delivers video service to a subscriber. The distinction of a PoD versus other design patterns is that it is a deployable module which delivers a service.
The PoD design pattern is especially important in service provider infrastructure, for instance in datacenters supporting cloud computing services, in order to sustain scalability as usage grows.
References
Network architecture
Software design patterns
Systems engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20robot | Sex robots or sexbots are anthropomorphic robotic sex dolls that have a humanoid form, human-like movement or behavior, and some degree of artificial intelligence. , although elaborately instrumented sex dolls have been created by a number of inventors, no fully animated sex robots yet exist. Simple devices have been created which can speak, make facial expressions, or respond to touch.
There is controversy as to whether developing them would be morally justifiable. In 2015, Robot ethicist Kathleen Richardson called for a ban on the creation of anthropomorphic sex robots with concerns about normalizing relationships with machines and reinforcing female dehumanization. Questions about their ethics, effects, and possible legal regulations have been discussed since then.
Lexicology
People who are sexually attracted to sexbots are sometimes referred to as digisexuals or robosexuals.
Sexbots with a male shape design may be referred to as malebots or manbots. Gender neutral terms for sex robots include pleasure bot or sex droid. Sexbots with a female shape design have been referred to as chick-bots or fembots.
History and development
The sex robot has evolved from sex doll precursors that stem back as far as the 16th century, during which French and Spanish sailors created hand-sewn masturbation puppets made of cloth, leather and old clothes. Many scholars consider this creation to be the direct predecessor of modern sex dolls. Much of the inspiration for creating the modern sex doll came from mannequin-based art created by Hans Bellmer, Man Ray and Salvador Dalí. Man Ray claimed that surrealists, including himself and Dalí, infused their work with eroticism and personally "violated" their mannequins. For example, Dalí's Rainy Taxi centered on a female mannequin whose half-undressed body was crawling with live snails.
By 1968, inflatable dolls were first advertised in pornographic magazines and became available for purchase via mail. These sex dolls were inflatable with air; consisting of penetration areas at the mouth, vagina, and anus. However, due to their inflatable nature, these dolls were subject to deterioration and were not sustainable for constant use. By the 1970s, materials such as latex and silicone were widely used in the manufacturing of sex dolls to facilitate enhanced durability and a greater resemblance to a human.
The realism of sex dolls greatly accelerated in the late 1990s. In 1997, Matt McMullen began constructing lifelike, tin-cured silicone rubber mannequins called RealDolls that were "realistic, posable, and life-sized". McMullen received much criticism about the anatomical correctness of his mannequins; using this as motivation to create a more enhanced version. In 2009, McMullen switched to using platinum-cured material, instead of tin-cured silicone, to further enhance the durability and lifelike nature of the doll. Consequently, all other sex doll manufacturers have followed suit.
Many manufacturers, including Mat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Tokky%C5%AB | is the name given to the concept of building new high-speed narrow gauge () railway lines in Japan to extend the Shinkansen network of high-speed lines.
No Super Tokkyū routes have actually been built.
Concept
The Super Tokkyū concept involves building new narrow-gauge lines along the routes of planned Shinkansen lines. All infrastructure would be built to high-speed Shinkansen standards, including its wider loading gauge, 4,000 m minimum curve radius, and total grade separation, with the ability to convert the lines to in the future. Although they would be slower than regular Shinkansen trains, they would have a speed of more than , enabling some reductions in journey times to be achieved, and total construction expenditure could be spread over a longer period, with travel times gradually reduced as more sections are completed.
The ultimate goal is eventual conversion to standard-gauge Shinkansen track once the entire line is completed, but with gauge change trains (GCTs), it may be possible in the future to upgrade these sections to full Shinkansen specifications even while inter-operation with conventional lines remains in place.
Proposals
In 1991, the Super Tokkyū concept was formally planned to be used as part of the following three Shinkansen extensions:
Kyushu Shinkansen southern section between Yatsushiro and Nishi-Kagoshima
Tohoku Shinkansen extension between Morioka and Hakodate through the Seikan Tunnel
Hokuriku Shinkansen extension beyond Nagano
These schemes were subsequently constructed to full Shinkansen specification lines.
The West Kyushu Shinkansen route to Nagasaki was also initially proposed as a Super Tokkyū line from Takeo-Onsen. However, after construction commenced the proposal changed to incorporate GCTs, resulting in the Takeo Onsen to Nagasaki section (due to open in March 2023) being constructed as standard gauge lines. The service is proposed by GCTs using the Hakata to Shin-Tosu section of the Kyushu Shinkansen, then the narrow gauge line to Takeo Onsen, then the new West Kyushu Shinkansen line for the final section of the trip.
See also
Gauge Change Train, an experimental train designed to operate on both narrow-gauge and standard-gauge routes
Mini-shinkansen, the concept of converting narrow-gauge lines to standard gauge for use by Shinkansen trains
References
Shinkansen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20data%20gateway | Table Data Gateway is a design pattern in which an object acts as a gateway to a database table. The idea is to separate the responsibility of fetching items from a database from the actual usages of those objects. Users of the gateway are then insulated from changes to the way objects are stored in the database.
References
Software design patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row%20data%20gateway | Row Data Gateway is a design pattern in which an object acts as a gateway to a single database row.
References
Software design patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting%20language | A scripting language or script language is a programming language that is used to manipulate, customize, and automate the facilities of an existing system. Scripting languages are usually interpreted at runtime rather than compiled.
A scripting language's primitives are usually elementary tasks or API calls, and the scripting language allows them to be combined into more programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include application software, text editors, web pages, operating system shells, embedded systems, and computer games. A scripting language can be a general purpose language or a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, it is also known as an extension language. Scripting languages are also sometimes referred to as very high-level programming languages, as they sometimes operate at a high level of abstraction, or as control languages, particularly for job control languages on mainframes.
The term scripting language is also used in a wider sense, namely, to refer to dynamic high-level programming languages in general; some are strictly interpreted languages, while others use a form of compilation.
In this context, the term script refers to a small program in such a language; typically, contained in a single file, and no larger than a few thousand lines of code.
The spectrum of scripting languages ranges from small to large, and from highly domain-specific language to general-purpose programming languages. A language may start as small and highly domain-specific and later develop into a portable and general-purpose language; conversely, a general-purpose language may later develop special domain-specific dialects.
Examples
AWK, a text-processing language available in most Unix-like operating systems, which has been ported to other operating systems.
Bash, an interpreted scripting language for use on Unix, GNU and other Unix-like operating systems and environments.
Groovy is an object-oriented scripting language for the Java platform, similar to Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk.
JavaScript (later: ECMAScript), originally a very small, highly domain-specific language, limited to running within a web browser to dynamically modify the web page being shown, that later developed into a widely portable general-purpose programming language.
Lisp, a family of general-purpose languages and extension languages for specific applications, e.g. Emacs Lisp, for the Emacs editor.
Lua, a language designed for use as an extension language for applications in general, used by many different applications.
Perl, a text-processing language that later developed into a general-purpose language, also used as an extension language for various applications.
PowerShell, a scripting language originally for use with Microsoft Windows but later also available for macOS and Linux.
Python, a general-purpose scripting language with simple syntax, also used as an extension language.
Rexx |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Witness%20%28TV%20series%29 | Your Witness is an American dramatized court show that aired on the ABC network from September 19, 1949, to September 26, 1950. The 30-minute program first aired on Mondays at 8 P.M. EST, then moved to Sundays at 9 P.M., and ended up on Wednesdays at 9 P.M. It was based around real-life cases.
Edmund Lowe starred in the program, which originated in Chicago from WENR.
Your Witness was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Live Show in 1950.
References
External links
1949 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
1940s American drama television series
1950s American drama television series
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
American crime television series
Dramatized court shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthie%20on%20the%20Telephone | Ruthie on the Telephone is an American comedy television series that was broadcast on the CBS Television network at 7:55pm ET from August 7 to November 5, 1949.
The show was written by Goodman Ace and sponsored by Phillip Morris cigarettes. Each episode was only five minutes long. Ruthie on the Telephone was preceded by CBS Television News at 7:30pm ET, and by The Sonny Kendis Show at 7:45pm ET.
Synopsis
The series features a young lady, Ruthie (Ruth Gilbert), trying to convince a man, Richard (Phillip Reed) to love her via a telephone call. The series used a split-screen technique to depict the telephone conversation.
Reception
Billboard magazine called the show funny, and complimented the split-screen effect.
See also
1949-50 United States network television schedule
References
External links
Ruthie on the Telephone at TV Acres
1949 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
1940s American comedy television series
CBS original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERCS | PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System) is IBM's answer to DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) initiative. The program resulted in commercial development and deployment of the Power 775, a supercomputer design with extremely high performance ratios in fabric and memory bandwidth, as well as very high performance density and power efficiency.
IBM officially announced the Power 775 on July 12, 2011 and started to ship systems in August 2011.
Background
The HPCS program was a three phase research and development effort. IBM was one of three companies, along with Cray and Sun Microsystems, that received the HPCS grant for Phase II. In this phase, IBM collaborated with a consortium of 12 universities and the Los Alamos National Lab to pursue an adaptable computing system with the goal of commercial viability of new chip technology, new computer architecture, operating systems, compiler and programming environments.
IBM was chosen for Phase III in November 2006, and granted $244 million in funds for continuing development of PERCS technology and delivering prototype systems by 2010.
Deployment
The first supercomputer using PERCS technology was intended to be the Blue Waters system, however the high costs and complexity of the system resulted in its contract being canceled. The machine was subsequently delivered by Cray Inc, using a combination of GPUs and CPUs for processing, and a network with reduced global bandwidth capabilities.
Power775 / PERCS systems were subsequently deployed at roughly two dozen institutions in the U.S. and other countries, in installations ranging from 2,000 to over 64,000 Power7 processing cores. Major deployments have been for network-intensive and memory-intensive applications (as opposed to FLOPS-intensive), such as weather & climate modeling (ECMWF, UKMO, Environment Canada, Japan Meteorological Agency), and scientific research (University of Warsaw, Slovak Academy of Sciences, and several other government laboratories in the U.S., and other countries).
Technology
PERCS will use IBM's large-scale technologies from servers and supercomputers like the POWER7 microprocessor, AIX operating system, X10 programming language and General Parallel File System.
Power 775
Sometimes known as the POWER7-IH or P7-IH, the Power 775 is the commercial product that was developed by PERCS as a part of IBM Power Systems line. The Power 775 was released by IBM in 2011 as a commercial product after IBM ended its participation in the Blue Waters petaflops project at the University of Illinois, but marketed the 775 based on the growth of its high-performance computing business.
Unlike the IBM Blue Gene series, which uses low-power processors to avoid heat-density issues, the Power 775 was a water-cooled rack-module system, and each module was 34 inches wide, 54 inches deep and 3.5 inches high (2U).
Each drawer comprises 8 cache coherent nodes (each of which can host single one or more O/S images) w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Bank%20of%20Bahrain | National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) was established in 1957 as the first indigenous bank in Bahrain. They are a nationwide network of 25 branches, 61 ATMs, and over 4,000 points of sale terminals in addition to their branches in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
Major shareholders
Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Bahrain) 49%, The Pension Fund Commission (Bahrain) 6.24%.
References
1957 establishments in Bahrain
Banks of Bahrain
Banks established in 1957
Companies listed on the Bahrain Bourse
Companies based in Manama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark%20Networks | Spark Networks SE is an American-German dating company with a portfolio of brands designed for singles seeking serious relationships. These online dating brands include Zoosk, SilverSingles, EliteSingles, Jdate, ChristianMingle, eDarling, JSwipe, AdventistSingles, LDSSingles, and Attractive World. Formed in 2017 through the merger of Affinitas GmbH and Spark Networks, Inc., the company has a presence in 29 countries worldwide. It is publicly listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol "LOV".
On July 1, 2019, Spark Networks closed on their previously announced acquisition of Zoosk, Inc., forming North America's second-largest dating company in revenues. The deal increased Spark's global monthly paying subscribers to over 1 million.
Chelsey Grayson became interim CEO of Spark Networks on Dec 1, 2022.
Websites
Zoosk
Zoosk is an online dating service available in 25 languages and in more than 80 countries. The founders of the company are Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr, who ran the company until December 2014. In mid-2019, Zoosk was acquired for a reported $255 million by Spark Networks.
Christian Mingle
Initially launched in 2001, ChristianMingle.com is an online community of Christian singles. The site serves singles who are looking to date and marry within the Christian faith. Christian Mingle has over 9 million registered members. Users can access the site in English, German, Spanish, or French.
The plot of the film Christian Mingle features the website.
JDate
Launched in 1997, Jdate.com is a niche dating site that caters to Jewish singles. It has more than 750,000 members worldwide. Users can access the site in English, German, Spanish, French, or Hebrew. A survey commissioned by Jdate in 2011 showed 52 percent of married respondents met on Jdate.
EliteSingles
Designed for educated professionals seeking committed, long-term relationships, EliteSingles was launched in 2013 and operates in 19 countries. Over 90% of members are 30+.
SilverSingles
SilverSingles is a dating site aimed at those interested in over-50 dating and long-term relationships.
eDarling
Launched in 2009, eDarling is a European online partner agency aimed at singles looking for long-term relationships.
JSwipe
JSwipe is a Jewish online dating app launched on Passover 2014 by Smooch Labs, and acquired by Spark Networks in October 2015 for $7 million, ending contentious patent and trademark litigation between the two companies.
Attractive World
Attractive World is a dating site that allows existing members to decide whether or not new applicants are suitable to join the community based on their submitted profiles.
Other websites
In addition, a number of properties are included in Spark Networks’ portfolio, including LDS Singles and Adventist Singles.
History
The company was founded by Joe Y. Shapira in 1997 under the name MatchNet plc.
Jdate.com, founded in 1997, was the company's first venture into online dating. The company was also home to Christ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20CDN | A mobile content delivery network or mobile content distribution network (Mobile CDN) is a network of servers – systems, computers or devices – that cooperate transparently to optimize the delivery of content to end users on any type of wireless or mobile network. Like traditional CDNs, the primary purpose of a Mobile CDN is to serve content to end users with high availability and high performance. In addition, Mobile CDNs can be used to optimize content delivery for the unique characteristics of wireless networks and mobile devices, such as limited network capacity, or lower device resolution. Added intelligence around device detection, content adaptation can help address challenges inherent to mobile networks which have high latency, higher packet loss and huge variation in download capacity.
Technology
Mobile CDNs should integrate mobile delivery services that optimize the delivery of any kind of content including live video streaming, on demand video and the delivery of other content assets. In the case of video content, these services include device detection, image rendering, video transcoding and bit-rate adaptation. For the optimization of the delivery of other content, mobile CDNs use technologies such as caching.
With currently available mobile CDN solutions, nodes are deployed at the edge of the network and in multiple locations, often over multiple backbones directly connected or peered with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). These nodes cooperate with each other to satisfy requests for content by end users, transparently moving content to optimize the delivery process. The benefits of optimization can take the form of reduced bandwidth usage, improved end-user performance, or increased global availability of content over a mobile network.
Industry experts speculate whether mobile CDNs will take off due to technical and market issues. CDNs are important for mobile operators as they can lead to significant savings and avoid network congestion. However, a number of network-centric alternatives have been proposed including Fast Dormancy, increasing bandwidth capacity with upgrades to 4G/LTE, and offloading traffic to other networks such as Wi-Fi.
There is an increasing need to support mobile App performance beyond just mobile content delivery to the browser. For this reason, certain mobile CDNs, such as Neumob or Twin Prime, have moved beyond the browser and specialize in accelerating mobile apps. That is an important progression for a mobile CDN, as users are increasingly moving away from digesting content on desktops and are migrating to mobile device usage which is a combination of Mobile WEB and Mobile Apps. The challenge of consistent user experience across desktop, mobile device both mobile App and mobile WEB are critical.
Commercial Mobile CDN's
Neumob
Twin Prime (purchased by Salesforce in December 2016)
Instart Logic
References
External links
Cotendo Mobile Acceleration Suite Whitepaper
Cotendo Website
Mobile CDN home |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Loui | Ronald Prescott Loui is an American computer scientist, currently working as a professor of computer science at Case Western Reserve University. He is known for having supplied first-hand biographical information on Barack Obama about his time in Hawaii. Previously, he has been a professor at Washington University in St. Louis and University of Illinois Springfield.
Biography
Loui earned his Bachelor's degree from Harvard University in Applied Mathematics in 1982.
Loui earned his Ph.D. under Henry E. Kyburg, at the University of Rochester and completed a postdoc at Stanford between 1987 and 1988 under Patrick Suppes and Amos Tversky. From 1988 to 2008, he was an associate professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis in the School of Engineering, having been tenured in 1994. He was also associated with multiple departments outside of Engineering, as well as several research centers. While at WashU, He organized the first Harvard internet alumni club and built a citation-based search engine for legal opinions in the early 1990s. He left academia for a few years to join industry. Between 2012 and 2015, he was an assistant professor at University of Illinois Springfield.
Loui is a leading advocate of defeasible reasoning in artificial intelligence and a leading proponent of scripting languages. He is co-patent holder of a deep packet inspection hardware device that could read and edit the contents of packets as they stream through a network. This was a key technology sought by the DARPA Information Awareness Office and Disruptive Technology Office under Total Information Awareness. Loui also consulted for Cyc, a famous Artificial Intelligence program created by Doug Lenat.
Loui supervised students in a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that produced several current professors of computing, and the author of the original Google search engine.
References
External links
Prof. Loui's old academic web site
List of Prof. Loui's papers and citations
Some of Prof. Loui's awk programs at awk.info
A comic book character based on Professor Loui, in an Obama biography by J. Mariotte
1961 births
Living people
Punahou School alumni
People from Honolulu
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
University of Illinois at Springfield faculty
Google people
Case Western Reserve University faculty
Harvard College alumni
University of Rochester alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac | iMac is a family of all-in-one Mac desktop computers designed and built by Apple Inc. It has been the primary part of Apple's consumer desktop offerings since its debut in August 1998, and has evolved through seven distinct forms.
In its original form, the iMac G3 had a gumdrop or egg-shaped look, with a CRT monitor, mainly enclosed by a colored, translucent plastic case, which was refreshed early on with a sleeker design notable for its slot-loaded optical drive. The second major revision, the iMac G4, moved the design to a hemispherical base containing all the main components and an LCD monitor on a freely moving arm attached to it. The third and fourth major revisions, the iMac G5 and the Intel iMac respectively, placed all the components immediately behind the display, creating a slim unified design that tilts only up and down on a simple metal base.
The fifth major revision (mid-2007) shared the same form as the previous model, but was thinner and used anodized aluminum and a glass panel over the entire front. The seventh major revision (late 2012) uses a different display unit, omits the SuperDrive, and uses different production techniques from the older unibody versions. This allows it to be thinner at the edge than older models, with an edge thickness of 5.9 mm (but the same maximum depth). It also includes a dual microphone setup and includes solid-state drive (SSD) or hard disk storage, or an Apple Fusion Drive, a hybrid of solid-state and hard disk drives. This version of the iMac was announced in October 2012, with the version released in November and the version in December; these were refreshed in September 2013, with new Haswell processors, faster graphics, faster and larger SSD options and 802.11ac Wi-Fi cards.
In October 2014, a major revision of the iMac was announced, whose main feature is a "Retina 5K" display at a resolution of 5120 × 2880 pixels. The new model also includes a new processor, graphics chip, and IO, along with several new storage options. A major revision of the iMac was announced in October 2015. Its main feature is a "Retina 4K" display at a resolution of 4096 × 2304 pixels. It has the same new processor, graphics chip, and I/O as the 27-inch iMac, along with several new storage options.
On June 5, 2017, Apple announced a workstation-class version called the iMac Pro, which features Intel Xeon processors and standard SSD storage. It shares the design and screen of the 5K iMac but is colored in Space Gray rather than silver. Apple began shipping the iMac Pro in December 2017. The iMac Pro was discontinued in 2021.
On April 20, 2021, Apple announced a 24" iMac (actual diagonal screen size is 23.5 in.) with an Apple M1 processor, its first as part of its transition to Apple silicon. It comes in seven colors (Silver, Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow, Purple, and Pink) with a 4.5K Retina display. On the base configuration, the M1 iMacs come with two Thunderbolt 3/USB 4 ports, and two USB Type-C 3.1 Gen 2 port |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Wild%2C%20Private%20Detective | Charlie Wild, Private Detective is an American detective series that aired on three of the four major American television networks of the 1950s.
Origin
The program was the televised version of a radio program with the same title. At least some of the episodes that were broadcast on CBS were simulcasts of the radio program.
Premise
Charlie Wild was a private investigator with headquarters in New York City, with most of his cases involving murder. He often used violence to solve cases, bending the law at times without actually breaking it. Effie Perrine was Wild's secretary.
A review of the program's premiere episode in the trade publication Billboard described the plot as "run-of-the-mill" except that "the menace ran to silk dressing gowns and Beethoven symphonies" as Wild solved two murders. The reviewer summarized by saying that the show needed "more original story approach and less hokum."
A subsequent Billboard review (of the September 11, 1951, episode) indicated little change in evaluation. Haps Kemper wrote that the "plot was routine, the script hardly scintillating, and the performance unenthusiastic" except for that of the female guest star.
Broadcasts
The series first aired live on CBS from December 22, 1950, to June 27, 1951 (20 episodes). It was initially on alternate Friday nights, but it moved to every Wednesday night effective the week of April 16. It then aired on ABC from September 11, 1951, to March 4, 1952 (27 episodes). On March 13, 1952, the DuMont Television Network picked the series up for the last three months, with 17 episodes, ending on June 19, 1952.
The CBS broadcasts were sponsored by Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic. The ABC series was sponsored by Mogen David wine.
Cast
John McQuade replaced Kevin O'Morrison as Charlie Wild after the first seven episodes. Cloris Leachman played Effie Perrine. Sandy Becker and Bob Williams were the announcers.
Episode status
Fifteen episodes are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, including two from the DuMont series. The Paley Center for Media holds four episodes from the DuMont series.
Critical response
Ben Gross wrote in the New York Daily News that the show's situations and characters had already been used "dozens of times on video shows". He also disliked the dialogue, which he said was "so stilted that, at times, it becomes ridiculous."
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
List of episodes at CTVA
DuMont historical website
1950 American television series debuts
1952 American television series en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert%20Tonight | Concert Tonight is an American music television series which aired on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network.
Broadcast history
Concert Tonight first aired from December 30, 1953 to March 31, 1954, then was brought back from September 15, 1954 to April 6, 1955. During the 1954–55 season, Concert Tonight aired Wednesdays at 9 pm EST.
DuMont broadcast many music-based programs, including this one, which featured the Chicago Symphony performing an hour of music. The series was broadcast from DuMont affiliate WGN-TV in Chicago.
Episode status
One episode survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, while the November 18, 1953 episode survives as part of the Peabody Award collection. Edie Adams, an actress and singer who worked at DuMont before the network ceased broadcasting during 1956, claimed that so little value was given to DuMont's programs that in the late 1970s they were loaded onto three trucks and dumped into Upper New York Bay.
Several episodes from the 1950s of the Chicago Symphony being conducted by Fritz Reiner (as well as by George Szell) have survived and are available on DVD.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1953-54 United States network television schedule
1954-55 United States network television schedule
This Is Music
The Music Show
Music From Chicago
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1953 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
1950s American music television series
Classical music in the United States
DuMont Television Network original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic%20inversion | In geophysics (primarily in oil-and-gas exploration/development), seismic inversion is the process of transforming seismic reflection data into a quantitative rock-property description of a reservoir. Seismic inversion may be pre- or post-stack, deterministic, random or geostatistical; it typically includes other reservoir measurements such as well logs and cores.
Introduction
Geophysicists routinely perform seismic surveys to gather information about the geology of an oil or gas field. These surveys record sound waves which have traveled through the layers of rock and fluid in the earth. The amplitude and frequency of these waves can be estimated so that any side-lobe and tuning effects introduced by the wavelet may be removed.
Seismic data may be inspected and interpreted on its own without inversion, but this does not provide the most detailed view of the subsurface and can be misleading under certain conditions. Because of its efficiency and quality, most oil and gas companies now use seismic inversion to increase the resolution and reliability of the data and to improve estimation of rock properties including porosity and net pay.
There are many different techniques used in seismic inversion. These can be roughly grouped into two categories:
pre-stack or post-stack
seismic resolution or well-log resolution
The combination of these categories yields four technical approaches to the inversion problem, and the selection of a specific technique depends on the desired objective and the characteristics of the subsurface rocks. Although the order presented reflects advances in inversion techniques over the past 20 years, each grouping still has valid uses in particular projects or as part of a larger workflow.
Wavelet estimation
All modern seismic inversion methods require seismic data and a wavelet estimated from the data. Typically, a reflection coefficient series from a well within the boundaries of the seismic survey is used to estimate the wavelet phase and frequency. Accurate wavelet estimation is critical to the success of any seismic inversion. The inferred shape of the seismic wavelet may strongly influence the seismic inversion results and, thus, subsequent assessments of the reservoir quality.
Wavelet amplitude and phase spectra are estimated statistically from either the seismic data alone or from a combination of seismic data and well control using wells with available sonic and density curves. After the seismic wavelet is estimated, it is used to estimate seismic reflection coefficients in the seismic inversion.
When the estimated (constant) phase of the statistical wavelet is consistent with the final result, the wavelet estimation converges more quickly than when starting with a zero phase assumption. Minor edits and "stretch and squeeze" may be applied to the well to better align the events. Accurate wavelet estimation requires the accurate tie of the impedance log to the seismic. Errors in well tie can result in phase or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga%20for%20You | Yoga for You is a television series produced by Urban Brew Studios and broadcast from India on the Zee TV network Lamhe. The television station was fined 25,000 pounds in 2017 due to false cancer-related claims made by Pankaj Naram on the show, and the station subsequently stopped showing it.
References
Zee TV original programming
2017 Indian television series endings
Yoga mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Street%20Papers | The International Network of Street Papers (INSP) is a non-profit membership organisation and global community dedicated to tackling poverty and homelessness. The organisation supports street papers to start up, develop and scale through events, regional networks, peer-to-peer learning opportunities and its international news agency called the News Service It also connects street papers and supporters, building a global movement to tackle poverty.
The organisation is headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland. Its membership currently consists of over 90 street papers in 35 countries.
INSP News Service (formerly the Street News Service)
The INSP News Service (formerly the Street News Service) is a news agency for street papers run by the International Network of Street Papers. It carries articles, essays, news and photos from newspapers sold and sometimes written by people experiencing homelessness, poverty and other forms of marginalisation. It enables street papers worldwide to share stories with each other. INSP has formed partnerships with agencies such as Reuters, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Inter Press Service, the Conversation, Next City and other external agencies to share additional stories and photos with INSP member street papers.
INSP itself also creates original content for the News Service.
The News Service is distributed weekly in two languages to over 200 journalists.
It was originally started as a collaboration between the North American Street Newspaper Association and AlterNet.
References
External links
International Network of Street Papers website
List of INSP member street papers
Street newspaper organizations
Newspaper associations
Organisations based in Glasgow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuddyPress | BuddyPress is an open-source social networking software package owned by Automattic since 2008. It is a plugin that can be installed on WordPress to transform it into a social network platform. BuddyPress is designed to allow schools, companies, sports teams, or any other niche community to start their own social network or communication tool.
BuddyPress inherits and expands on the functional elements of the WordPress engine including themes, plugins, and widgets. As it is built on WordPress, it is written using the same primary languages, PHP and MySQL.
In 2010, BuddyPress was placed third in Packt's Most Promising Open Source Project Awards, losing to Pimcore and TomatoCMS.
References
Further reading
Jones, Kyle (2011). "Buddypress and higher education." Library Technology Reports/Gale. 47.3.
Blog software
Social software
Free software programmed in PHP
WordPress
Internet services supporting OpenID
Content management systems
Website management
2009 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20and%20Information%20Science%20Access%20Midwest%20Program | Library and Information Science Access Midwest Program (LAMP) is an Institute of Museum and Library Services funded regional network of academic libraries and information science schools working on promoting careers in library and information science. The program looks for promising undergraduate students at its member institutions to participate in activities and events designed to increase their awareness of the profession. The program then provides financial and mentoring support for their graduate studies at one of the member schools. LAMP specifically seeks to encourage the participation of students from statistically and historically underrepresented populations in LIS.
Participating Institutions
Illinois
Dominican University
University of Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ohio
Ohio University-Alden Library
Michigan
Michigan State University
Wayne State University
Wisconsin
Marquette University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Other LAMP collaborators
Kent State University
University of Michigan
References
External links
LIS Access Midwest Program
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Library-related organizations
Midwestern United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulus%20robot | The household robot Modulus, described by the manufacturer as "the friend of Homo sapiens", was made by Sirius, a company Massimo Giuliana set up in 1982 for marketing home and personal computers, and which decided to start building its own domestic robot back in 1984. When the first "Modulus" prototype had been realized, the company asked Isao Hosoe, a Japanese designer who has been living and working in Milan for many years, to study its "body-work". Hosoe's work, however, went well beyond this, and was followed by a complete technological reprocessing of the robot. Data Process was responsible for the design and manufacture of the electronic and mechanical parts, while Sirius used the expertise of an American company, the RB Robot Corporation, for the software (its founder, Joseph H. Bosworth, is known by some as "the father of personal robotics").
Development
Two million dollars were invested in developing this particular piece of equipment. Research carried out in the United States showed that there would be greater development in this sector. It was also estimated that the use of "Modulus" could provide an opportunity to bring back into operation many PCs that were bought during the boom, but which are not used seldom, if ever. A good slice of the "Modulus" market could consist of the owners of these personal computers, newly aware of the possibility of connecting them to a personal robot.
"Modulus" was designed as a robot with possible domestic applications, but in reality it is open to any future development. Modularity - hence its name - is one of its principal characteristics, and it has been designed for adaptation to the widest possible range of applications. Comparing the robot with man, "Modulus" can be said to have an electronic "circulatory system" that permits the various extremities (arms, head, etc.) to communicate with the brain (CPU in a computer). The "Modulus" robots could have abilities such as a phonemes synthesizer, voice recognition, infrared communication, etc., making it suitable for performing many functions ranging from helping to teach children to assisting the handicapped or invalids.
When studying the eventual appearance of "Modulus", Isao Hosoe began by looking at the robots of the past. These included "Electro", built by Westinghouse in 1939. Hosoe hit on the right appearance by studying human expressions and gestures, bearing in mind that a domestic robot needs to be appealing on account of its proximity to man. Its eyelids have to open, its pupils dilate or contract. It must be able to nod or shake its head, bend its torso, and raise, lower and rotate its arms. "Modulus", however, has no feet. Available in three configurations - "Base", "Service & Security" and "Moddy" - "Modulus" stands on a Base unit 35 cm in diameter and 15 cm high, two two-speed motors connected to rubber wheels, and two spherical stabilizers. It comes with a small infrared Instrument for connecting it to another remote control device |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near%20Earth%20Network | The Near Earth Network (NEN, formerly GN or Ground Network) provides orbital communications support for near-Earth orbiting customer platforms via various ground stations, operated by NASA and other space agencies. It uses a number of different dishes scattered around the globe. The antennas must be able to move fast for tracking of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). The NEN and Space Network (SN) combined were previously referred to as the Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network (STDN).
Ground stations
NEN uses several stations run by NASA:
Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks, Alaska— Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 11.3m/11m/9.1m
Kennedy Uplink Station, Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA)— Supports: S-band - Assets: 6.1m
McMurdo, Antarctica— Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 10m
Ponce de Leon Station, Florida — Supports: S-band - Assets: 6.1m
Wallops Ground Station, in Wallops Island, Virginia— Supports: VHF, S/X Band — Assets: 11m/5m
White Sands Ground Station, New Mexico — Supports: VHF, S/Ka Band — Assets: 18.3m
NEN uses Stations run by KSAT — Kongsberg Satellite Services:
Singapore, Malaysia — Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 9.1m
Svalbard Satellite Station Norway — Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 11.3m/11.3m/13m
TrollSat, Antarctica — Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 7.3m/7.3m
NEN uses a Station run by SANSA — South African National Space Agency:
Hartebeesthoek, South Africa — Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 12m/10m
A new ground station is under construction in Matjiesfontein, scheduled to come online in 2025.
NEN uses Stations run by SSC — Swedish Space Corporation
Kiruna, Sweden — Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 13m/13m
Santiago, Chile— Supports: S Band — Assets: 9m/12m/13m
SSC Space US North Pole, Alaska— Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 5.4m/7.3m/11m/13m
SSC Space US Dongara, Australia — Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 13m
Space US South Point, Hawaii — Supports: S/X Band — Assets: 13m/13m
Also under contract was Poker Flat Research Range. Additionally, the MILA and Wallops stations provide pre-launch, launch, and landing communications support for the Space Shuttle program.
Authority and responsibility
The NEN falls under NASA's SOMD (Space Operations Mission Directorate), interoperating with the SCaN Program offices. The Goddard Space Flight Center Ground Network Project has responsibility for maintaining the NEN, as well as implementing the Satellite laser ranging (SLR) Network.
Support for Constellation
The NEN was slated to support the Constellation Program, including the Ares launch vehicle, NISN (NASA Integrated Services Network), FDF (Flight Dynamics Facilities), KSC Launch Control Center, and the Constellation Mission Control Center (MCC). Constellation has since been canceled.
See also
Deep Space Network (DSN)
Eastern Range (ER)
Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN)
Space Communications and Navigation Program (SCaN)
Space Network (SN)
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)
References
Footnotes
Constellation Architecture Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla%20Gardeners | Guerrilla Gardeners was an Australian television show that was broadcast on Network Ten. The show takes its name and basic premise from the guerrilla gardening environmental movement. Premiering on 18 February 2009, it was axed in April 2009 due to struggling viewership figures and an unsuccessful timeslot change, with a number of episodes still to be aired but was picked up by Network Ten's digital channel One on 26 July 2011. The show caused controversy due to the activities portrayed in the program.
Overview
The show involves a group of six "guerrilla gardeners" attempting to covertly beautify urban eyesores such as abandoned lots or bleak public spaces without being caught by the authorities. Five of the guerrilla gardeners are experienced in landscape and horticulture, while sixth member and host Dave Lawson was hired primarily for his ability to "spin lies to the councils when they turned up".
Controversy
The gardeners' work is done without seeking consent from the owners of the land, and is often completed through subterfuge and by defying trespass laws. Because of this, a finished Guerrilla Gardeners project was threatened with removal by Marrickville Council, while a project in Sutherland Shire was halted halfway through construction due to council interference, with the unfinished plantings later removed. The producers were also issued with a fine by the council, which they challenged. Ten also accused Canterbury Council of preparing to destroy work featured in the series' first episode, though these claims were later found to be premature and incorrect.
Sutherland Shire asserted that its removal of a Guerrilla Gardeners project was due to factors such as the team's failure to take into account soil quality, and the unauthorised installation of plants and decorations which might create a distraction for motorists. The council also claimed that the gardeners failed to comply with traffic and workplace safety rules during construction. Producers of the show have stated that they will respect any council decisions regarding what becomes of their work.
Episodes
Notes
References
Network 10 original programming
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Australian non-fiction television series
Gardening television
Guerrilla gardening |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA%20Integrated%20Services%20Network | The NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) is a global system of communications transmission, switching, and terminal facilities that provides NASA with wide area network communications services. The NISN services that support the Space Network (SN) include real-time and mission critical Internet Protocol (IP) routed data, as well as high-rate data and video services that connect the SN ground facilities. Inter-Center mission voice communications services are also provided for management of the network and support of user missions.
See also
Ground segment
NASCOM
References
Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) Mission System Requirements Document (MSRD). Section 3.6.1, NISN. NASA/GSFC: November 21, 2008
NASA online
NASA facilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brats%20of%20the%20Lost%20Nebula | Brats of the Lost Nebula is a science fiction television series for kids. It combines puppetry and computer animation. The series follows five orphaned children from different war-torn planets. As they search for their surviving family members, they must also band together to fight an evil invading force known as "The Shock".
The series was created by Dan Clark, who was also an executive producer along with Brian Henson and Margaret Loesch. The puppet characters mixed both traditional hand puppetry and animatronics. These puppets were built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The computer graphics were created by C.O.R.E. Digital Effects.
In the United States, the series aired on The WB during the Kids' WB block in October 1998, being one of the only two live-action shows (the other being The Nightmare Room) that were ever aired on that channel. It was removed from the channel after airing its third episode. The remaining episodes were shown on Canada's YTV channel.
The Brats
The Brats, sometimes referred to as orphans, each have a different set of skills in addition to their otherworldly uniqueness. After the escape of Zadam and Triply from the Shock attack on their home world, the five kids meet on a living planetoid to start their rebellion against The Shock and find their lost parents.
Zadam (voiced by Kirby Morrow) – The 14-year-old leader of the Brats and Triply's older brother And he is the funny trickster and Cynical leader of the Brats. He is from the planet Shirud.
Triply (voiced by Annick Obonsawin) – Zadam's 10-year-old little sister. She is also from Shirud and is one of the most feared warriors in the Universe.
Duncan (voiced by Glenn Cross) – A heavy, musclebound male with tinkering skills. He is from the planet Yarlon He is extraordinarilly strong but good natured intelligent but bull like muscle bound creatures.
Ryle (voiced by Evan Sabba) – A horned, blue-skinned male who is fiercely competitive. He is from the planet Tranoid. He is also quicktempered and tough, he is obsessed with Sports, He vibes with Zadam as the Leader of the group.
Lavana (voiced by Deborah Odell) – A winged elf with mystic abilities. She is from the planet Loza. She is a gothic girl who comes from a race of exotic elfin creatures magic users a thinker of and lover of life. Lavana loses her wings four episodes into the series.
They are aided in their quest by a long-eared animal named Splook, who has a missile-laden suit of armor, and by SMARTS, the smartest computer in the universe. The Brats themselves ride into battle on modified space cruisers.
Episodes
Cast
Puppeteers
Bill Barretta –
Matt Ficner – Mallosha, Zadam
John E. Kennedy –
Trish Leeper –
Sue Morrison –
Ian Petrella –
James Rankin –
Gordon Robertson –
Fred Stinson –
Jeff Sweeney –
Jean-Guy White –
Mak Wilson –
Voices
Glenn Cross – Duncan
Kirby Morrow – Zadam
Annick Obonsawin – Triply
Deborah Odell – Lavana
Evan Sabba – Ryle
James Rankin – High Commander Viga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20Information%20Network%20of%20Clackamas%20County | Libraries in Clackamas County (LINCC) is a consortium of the public libraries of Clackamas County, Oregon. It was established in 1977 when the first county-wide funding levy was approved by county voters. LINCC is a resource and revenue sharing network with a single library computer system.
The consortium remains distinct from the Library District of Clackamas County created by a ballot measure voted on during the 2008 general election.
Consortium
LINCC includes:
two locations operated by the county: Oak Grove (Oak Lodge) and Gladstone,
two branches operated by the city of Sandy: Sandy, Hoodland (in Welches)
the city libraries operated by Canby, Estacada, Happy Valley, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie (the Ledding Library), Molalla, Oregon City, West Linn, and Wilsonville.
The Happy Valley Library was originally opened as the Sunnyside branch of the Clackamas County Library in 2012 to replace the Clackamas Corner branch near the Clackamas Town Center. The county transferred the library to the City of Happy Valley effective July 1, 2015. The City of Gladstone transferred their local library to Clackamas County effective December 1, 2019.
The member libraries share an integrated library system which allows cooperative borrowing. Shared services, including cataloging, computer support, courier, and interlibrary loan, are coordinated by the Network Office, a department of the county government. The system currently offers nearly half a million titles, 1.2 million items, and serves over 200,000 members, who check out more than 6.2 million items each year.
Library District
In November 2008, Measure 3-310 was passed by Clackamas County voters, leading to the creation of a Library District that established permanent property tax-based funding for libraries in the county.
The cities of Damascus, Tualatin, and Johnson City opted out of the district's creation. In May 2010, a close vote by the small subset of Tualatin residents who are also Clackamas County residents meant that they would join the district. Following a petition signed by 300 Damascus residents, Damascus voters approved a measure to join the Clackamas County library district in November 2010.
References
External links
Education in Clackamas County, Oregon
1997 establishments in Oregon
Library consortia in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Protected%20Area%20Network | A Marine Protected Area Network or MPA network is a network of Marine Protected Areas or Marine Reserves.
A Marine Protected Area Network can be defined as "a collection of individual MPAs or reserves operating cooperatively and synergistically, at various spatial scales, and with a range of protection levels that are designed to meet objectives that a single reserve cannot achieve". Such a network can include several MPAs of different sizes, located in critical habitats, containing components of a particular habitat type or portions of different kinds of important habitats, and interconnected by the movement of animals and plant propagules.
A Marine Protected Area Network is usually established to improve fish catch, to conserve biodiversity, or for a combination of these two reasons. They are usually placed so that larvae can migrate from MPAs to other, more impacted areas. It provides a framework that unifies the central aims of conservation and fishery management, while also meeting other human needs such as maintenance of coastal water quality, shoreline protection, education, research and recreational opportunities.
MPA networks have been defined as "A group of MPAs that interact with one another ecologically and/or socially form a network".
These networks are intended to connect individuals and MPAs and promote education and cooperation among various administrations and user groups. "MPA networks are, from the perspective of resource users, intended to address both environmental and socio-economic needs, complementary ecological and social goals and designs need greater research and policy support".
Filipino communities connect with one another to share information about MPAs, creating a larger network through the social communities' support. Emerging or established MPA networks can be found in Australia, Belize, the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Mexico.
In Scotland, the Scottish Marine Protected Area Network covers approximately 22 % of Scotland's seas. It consists of 231 sites protected by a variety of different conservation designations, many of which are the same as those used on land, such as Special Protection Areas (SPA) and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). In addition to the statutory MPAs, five further sites are recognised as forming part of the Scottish MPA network, being categorised as "other area based measures": such areas, although not specifically created for nature conservation purposes, are considered to contribute to the protection of marine biodiversity.
See also
Protected areas
Commonwealth marine reserves
References
Further reading
External links
MPA Networks in the Coral Triangle: Development and Lessons
Commonwealth marine reserves in the south-east marine region of Australia
Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO)
Marine reserves
Marine protected areas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVT | NVT may refer to:
Norton Villiers Triumph, a defunct British motorcycle manufacturer
Network Virtual Terminal, a telecommunications concept originating in the Telnet protocol
The IATA airport code for the Ministro Victor Konder International Airport in Brazil
Another name for the canonical ensemble, where the number of particles (N) and volume (V) of the system are held constant and the temperature (T) is in equilibrium with that of its heat bath.
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, a general and later president (1967–75) of the Republic of Vietnam
n.v.t. (neutron, velocity, time), an older term used instead of n/cm² for neutron fluence. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Windows%20Mobile%20devices | Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, based on Windows CE and is the successor to Pocket PC 2002 and predecessor of Windows Phone. New devices running Windows Mobile were released between 2003 and 2010. Many different companies produced devices running Windows Mobile during this time frame. The table below groups devices into two categories, those with cellular capability and those without. The version of Windows Mobile 5.x called "Smartphone", and the version of Windows Mobile 6.x called "Standard", is designed to run on devices without a touch screen; all other devices listed have touch screens.
Windows Mobile 2003
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition (SE)
Windows Mobile 5.0
Windows Mobile 6.0
Windows Mobile 6.1
Windows Mobile 6.5
See also
List of Windows Phone devices (Windows Mobile is not to be confused with Windows Phone)
References
Directory of devices based on Windows Mobile
Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox%20Simple%20Interface | Matrox Simple Interface (in short MSI) is the name of a proprietary DOS and Windows 95 application programming interface for Matrox Mystique graphics cards made by Matrox. MSI API supported a maximum of 640x480x16 resolution with z-buffer and no bilinear filtering. It used color look up tables to save memory. When Matrox released the Matrox m3D (using the PowerVR PCX2 chipset), MSI was completely abandoned.
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20110807162742/http://www.forums.murc.ws/archive/index.php/t-38427.html Legacy Matrox-enhanced games on g200/g400 [Archive] - MURC
http://www.geocities.com/k_lupinsky/Mystique.htm Kanajana's MechWarrior 2 3D Page - Matrox Mystique Edition
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Hardware Club Dr-DOS Wiki
Graphics cards
3D graphics APIs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20architecture | Within reconfigurable computing, an Adaptive architecture is a system which changes its structure, behaviour or resources according to demand. The adaptation made is usually [always?] to non-functional characteristics rather than functional ones.
Something of a misnomer, because the thing that adapts is the working system, rather than the (more abstract) architecture which defines the adaptability that is required of that system.
Adaptive software architecture: Used by programmers in relation to a program. An adaptive algorithm "is an algorithm which changes its behavior based on the resources available. For example… in the C++ Standard Library, the stable partition [program] acquires as much memory as it can get (up to what it would need at most) and applies the algorithm using that available memory."
Adaptive infrastructure architecture: Used by infrastructure engineers in relation to the configuration of processors. The computing resources used by applications (the partition size, or the number of servers in a cluster, or the share of a processor, or the number of processes) are configured so that they shrink or grow with demand.
Adaptive business architecture: Could also be used (for example) in connection with a workflow system that assigns human resources to a task or service to match the demand for that task or service. Or an organisation structure that flexes in response to business changes.
See also
Secure-adaptive architecture
References
Reconfigurable computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844%20in%20paleontology |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named phytosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Pterosaurs
New taxa
See also
References
1840s in paleontology
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberduck%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cyberduck may refer to:
Cyberduck, an open source FTP software
Cyber-Duck, a digital media agency in North London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once%20Upon%20a%20Time%20in%20Springfield | "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" is the tenth episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 10, 2010. It was promoted as the 450th episode of the series, but is actually the 451st, and aired alongside The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!. The episode is dedicated to posthumous guest star Eartha Kitt, who died December 25, 2008, over one year before the episode first aired.
In the episode, The Krusty the Clown Show is once again reconstructed. This time, in a bid to get girls to watch the show, a female character named Princess Penelope is hired as Krusty's latest sidekick. Meanwhile, a corporate recruiter persuades Homer, Lenny, and Carl to work for a nuclear plant in Capital City, after Mr. Burns announces a moratorium on free doughnuts. The episode was written by Stephanie Gillis and directed by Matthew Nastuk.
The episode has received positive reviews from critics, and in 2014, showrunner Al Jean selected it as one of five essential episodes in the show's history.
It received a Nielsen rating of 6.9/17 in the 18–49 demographic and in 2010 was nominated for two awards at the Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for Anne Hathaway's voice-over performance.
Plot
Krusty the Clown is informed by his producers that his show is dropping in ratings with the demographics of young girls, and therefore they will introduce a new character named Princess Penelope. Her act features singing, glitter, and a unicorn, which — though immediately attracting a youthful female audience — disgusts the series' predominately male audience, as well as Krusty himself. Soon, the Krustylu Studio becomes almost completely filled with girls (including Lisa), and all of Krusty's merchandise is replaced by that of Penelope's. However, Bart does not like it and complains that "...women ruin all the great things" (the Army, the Fantastic Four and American Idol "what would be better with only Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson"). Bart demands that Krusty will do something in order to restore the show.
Krusty follows Bart's advice and confronts Penelope in her dressing room. Penelope admits she has followed Krusty ever since she was a young girl, who grew up in Mineola, Long Island, New York. They consequently discover that they share a mutual attraction towards one another. Subsequent episodes of The Krusty the Clown Show feature the two singing love songs to one another, culminating in Krusty's marriage proposal to Penelope and the latter's acceptance. On the wedding day, Bart and Milhouse attempt to sabotage the marriage by showing Penelope Krusty's former wives, Holly Hippie and Eartha Kitt (who divorced Krusty six hours after they got married), who both despise him. Penelope still wants to get married, but Krusty decides that he is not good enough for Penelope and cancels the wedding. Penelope moves to France, only to discover that Krusty is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20A.%20Moorer | James Anderson Moorer (born November 25, 1945) is a digital audio and computer music engineer, responsible for over 40 technical publications and four patents.
He personally designed and wrote many of the advanced DSP algorithms for the Sonic Solutions "NoNOISE" process which is used to restore vintage recordings for CD remastering.
In the mid-1970s he was co-director and co-founder of the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1975.
Between 1977 and 1979, he was a researcher and the scientific advisor to IRCAM in Paris.
Between 1980 and 1987, while vice-president of research and development at Lucasfilm's The Droid Works, he designed the Audio Signal Processor (ASP) which was used in the production of sound tracks for Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and others, including the well-known company THX, and its Deep Note audio logo.
In 1991, he won the Audio Engineering Society Silver award for lifetime achievement. In 1996, he won an Emmy Award for Technical Achievement with his partners, Robert J. Doris and Mary C. Sauer for Sonic Solutions "NoNOISE" for Noise Reduction on Television Broadcast Sound Tracks. In 1999, he won an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award for his pioneering work in the design of digital signal processing and its application to audio editing for film. He previously worked at Adobe Systems as a senior computer scientist in the DVD team.
See also
Audio Signal Processor
SoundDroid
References
External links
Official website
1945 births
Adobe Inc. people
American audio engineers
American computer scientists
Digital signal processing
Living people
Lucasfilm people
People from Tallahassee, Florida
Stanford University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramsci%20Melodic | Gramsci Melodic was an alternative rock band based in Pittsburgh, PA.
The band was started in 2006 by singer/guitarist Martin Rubeo. Other members include Joel York (synthesizers/programming), Sean Rayl (drums), Greg Haduch (keyboards), and Tony Willoe (bass/vocals). In 2009, Eric Granata started to perform at some shows with the band, playing guitar, synths, and percussion. He became a full time member shortly after.
The band won the 2008 Joker Productions Rock Off and recorded its first full-length album with Grammy Award winning producers at Audible Images. The band featured guitar, bass, piano, drums, and synthesizers. The band was ranked as Pittsburgh's #2 Best Underground Band and #3 Best Rock Band by The Pittsburgh City Paper in 2008. In 2009, Gramsci Melodic was named #3 Best Rock Band by The Pittsburgh City Paper.
The band released its self-titled, debut album in June, 2009. Collected, an album of previously unreleased material and live tracks, was released in 2021.
Their music has been described as "simple and upbeat rock," "driving synth rock," "'70s funk" with "eclectronica," and similar to Fountains of Wayne, They Might Be Giants, and Weezer.
Gramsci Melodic was known to travel with its own mascot, a dancing character with an oversized green head.
See also
List of people from Pittsburgh
List of synthpop artists
References
External links
Official Band Site
Alternative rock groups from Pennsylvania
Musical groups from Pittsburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeev%20Arora | Sanjeev Arora (born January 1968) is an Indian American theoretical computer scientist.
Life
He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2002–03.
In 2008 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2011 he was awarded the ACM Infosys Foundation Award (now renamed ACM Prize in Computing), given to mid-career researchers in Computer Science. Arora has been awarded the Fulkerson Prize for 2012 for his work on improving the approximation ratio for graph separators and related problems (jointly with Satish Rao and Umesh Vazirani). In 2012 he became a Simons Investigator. Arora was elected in 2015 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2018 to the National Academy of Science
He is a coauthor (with Boaz Barak) of the book Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach and is a founder, and on the Executive Board, of Princeton's Center for Computational Intractability. He and his coauthors have argued that certain financial products are associated with computational asymmetry, which under certain conditions may lead to market instability.
Books
References
External links
Sanjeev Arora's Homepage
Sanjeev Arora at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
1968 births
Living people
Theoretical computer scientists
20th-century Indian mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Gödel Prize laureates
Punjabi people
Princeton University faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Scientists from Rajasthan
People from Jodhpur
21st-century Indian mathematicians
Simons Investigator
Recipients of the ACM Prize in Computing
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
21st-century American mathematicians
American people of Indian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1830%20in%20paleontology |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named basal archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Crocodylomorphs
Newly named crocodylomorphs
Fish
Newly named fish
References
1830s in paleontology
Paleontology, 1830 In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Trevisan | Luca Trevisan (born 21 July 1971) is an Italian professor of computer science at Bocconi University in Milan.
His research area is theoretical computer science, focusing on randomness, cryptography, probabilistically checkable proofs, approximation, property testing, spectral graph theory, and sublinear algorithms. He also runs a blog, in theory, about theoretical computer science.
Education and career
Trevisan received his PhD from La Sapienza, Rome, under the supervision of Pierluigi Crescenzi. After postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and DIMACS, he held an assistant professor position at Columbia University before moving to the University of California, Berkeley and then, in 2010, to Stanford. In 2014 he returned to Berkeley, and in 2019 he moved to the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University.
Recognition
Trevisan won the Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award at the 1997 Symposium on Theory of Computing, the Oberwolfach Prize in 2000, and a Sloan Fellowship also in 2000. He was an invited speaker at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid. He was an Erdős Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012.
Personal life
Trevisan came out as openly gay in 2000, and in 2012 he organized a collection of testimonials by homosexual theoretical computer scientists on their experiences in the research community.
References
External links
List of Publications
in theory, Trevisan's blog
Living people
Columbia University faculty
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Theoretical computer scientists
Italian LGBT scientists
Italian gay men
Italian emigrants to the United States
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Science bloggers
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Sloan Research Fellows
1971 births
Gay academics
Gay scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Stone | Amy Stone was also an alias used by Lizzie Lloyd King.
Amy Stone is a former American television personality who worked for New England Sports Network, WMAQ-TV, and WCBS-TV.
Early life and career
A native of Michigan, Stone graduated from the University of Michigan in 1989 with degrees in communications and film. Stone began her career as a producer at WDIV-TV in Detroit, in June 1989. In September 1990, she received her first on-camera position as a weekend news anchor for WLUC-TV in Marquette, Michigan.
NESN
In March 1991, Stone joined New England Sports Network (NESN), where she was the first host of SportsDesk. In 1993 she became the on-site reporter for Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins games. She also served as a substitute host on Sports Digest and the Red Sox pregame show
Chicago
After Stone's husband accepted a job in Chicago, she began to look for a job there. In 1994 she was hired by CLTV. One year later she joined SportsChannel Chicago. By 1997, SportsChannel planned to showcase Stone as a studio host. However, during a round of staff cutbacks, Stone decided to pursue other opportunities. She did not look at any network jobs, as they required extensive travel and Stone had a fear of flying. She accepted an offer to work as a weekday sports reporter and fill-in sports anchor at WMAQ-TV. At the time of her hiring, Stone was the only female sports reporter on a "Big Three" affiliate in Chicago, the only one on a network affiliate in the top five metropolitan areas (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area), and only one of three in the top ten television markets.
WCBS
In May 2000, Stone joined WCBS-TV in New York City as a lifestyles reporter. Stone left WCBS in May 2005 after the birth of her second child.
References
American television journalists
American women television journalists
Television personalities from Michigan
Television anchors from Boston
Television anchors from Chicago
New York (state) television reporters
Boston Bruins announcers
Living people
Major League Baseball broadcasters
University of Michigan alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
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