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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake%20Network | The Cake Network was a Curaçao based online poker network owned and operated by parent company Cake Gaming NV.
Cake Network was founded in 2004 and launched its first network skin, Cake Poker, in June 2006. Other network partners followed, including Sportsbook.com, Red Star Poker and BetUS.
As of April 2010 the Cake Network saw a steep decline in player traffic as the company lost two major poker rooms, PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com, to the Merge Gaming Network. Even with the addition of new rooms to the network, Cake continued to lose ground on the rest of the industry. In January 2011, Cake Network's well-known partner Doyles Room left the Cake Network, moving to the Yatahay Network.
Cake Poker offered a variety of stakes and types of online poker games including: Texas hold 'em, Omaha High / Hi-Lo and Telesina. At one time, Cake Poker was the only site of the 10 largest in the world which allowed players to regularly change their screen names.
Cake became notorious among both professional and amateur poker players for not paying cash out requests in good time as stated in its terms and conditions.
In June 2012 Lock Poker purchased the Cake Poker network, renaming it the Revolution Gaming Network
Domain dispute
In September 2008, the Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear filed a civil suit asking a Franklin County Circuit Court to grant control of online poker website domain names to the government, including CakePoker.com.
In January 2009, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that the seizure order issued by Judge Thomas Wingate should be set aside and made the decision to halt the forfeiture of the domain names.
References
Defunct poker companies
Gambling companies established in 2004
Gambling companies disestablished in 2012
Internet properties established in 2004
Economy of Curaçao
Domain name seizures by United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIN%20Worldwide | AMIN Worldwide (Advertising and Marketing Independent Network) is a global alliance of independently owned advertising agencies. Its member agencies are located across Americas, Europe/Africa/Middle East, and the Pacific Rim.
History
AMIN was formed in the US in 1932 as a way for full-service advertising agencies to share media and research resources.
AMIN Worldwide was named one of Fuel Lines' Top 14 Advertising Agency Networks.
References
http://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/news/read?GUID=32430420
External links
AMIN Worldwide Web site
Advertising organizations
Advertising agencies of the United States
Organizations established in 1932
Organizations based in Minnesota
1932 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpointing%20scheme | Checkpointing schemes are scientific computing algorithms used in solving time dependent adjoint equations, as well as reverse mode automatic differentiation.
References
Bibliography
Differential calculus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedlocked | Wedlocked was an Australian sitcom that ran for 11 episodes in 1994 on the Seven Network. It was created by Andrew Knight and Doug MacLeod.
Cast
Brandon Burke as Dr. Chris Gilchrist
Dina Panozzo as Susie Abruzzo
Richard Piper as Lex Dexter
Kelly Sulikowski as Holly Abruzzo
Paul Reardon as Ben Gilchrist
Tony Barber as Tony Johnson
Terry Gill as Ainslie Barton
Robert Menzies as Carl
Terrie Waddell as Julia
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Australian television sitcoms
Seven Network original programming
1994 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag%20%28disambiguation%29 | An airbag is a device designed to inflate rapidly in a collision.
Airbag may also refer to:
Airbag (film), a 1997 Spanish film
"Airbag", a song from Radiohead's 1997 album, OK Computer
Airbag / How Am I Driving?, a 1998 Radiohead EP
Airbag (Argentine band), an Argentine hard rock band
Airbag (Norwegian band), a Norwegian progressive rock back
Mozilla Airbag, crash reporting software
See also
Air bag vest, worn by motorcyclists and equestrian competitors
BigAirBAG, a brand of cushion used to improve safety at snow sport competitions
Air suspension for vehicles, initially referred to as airbags
Blobbing, a pastime involving the use large air bags as water trampolines
Pneumatic lifting bag, an inflatable air bag used to lift heavy objects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GroupLogic | GroupLogic, Inc., founded in 1988 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., is an enterprise software company that develops, sells and supports software for moving and storing data including activEcho, mobilEcho, ArchiveConnect, MassTransit and ExtremeZ-IP. GroupLogic's products are used by information technology organizations to allow employees to access and manage corporate files regardless of the type of computing platform the employee is using to access the network.
On September 13, 2012, GroupLogic announced that it became a subsidiary of Acronis, a software company specializing in backup and disaster recovery products and services.
References
Sources
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Slate Group Logic: What can a tiny software firm show us about the future of American exports 16-Nov-2010
Mac Observer Interviews Group Logic CEO
BusinessWeek Private Company Information: Group Logic, Inc.
Key Issues for Managed File Transfer, 2009 19 February 2009 | ID:G00165299
Moving Beyond MFT to File Services 29 May 2009 | ID:G00168386
Data Encryption Not Enough to Prevent FTP Credential Theft 6 July 2009 | ID:G00169584
Hype Cycle for Data and Application Security, 2009 17 July 2009 | ID:G00168605
External links
Company website
Software companies based in Virginia
File sharing
Mobile software
IOS software
Windows Internet software
Network file systems
Data synchronization
Email attachment replacements
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTT%20Data | is a Japanese multinational information technology (IT) service and consulting company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a partially-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT).
Japan Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, a predecessor of NTT, started Data Communications business in 1967. NTT, following its privatization in 1985, spun off the Data Communications division as NTT DATA in 1988, which has now become the largest of the IT Services companies headquartered in Japan.
History
2000s
In 2002, it was the first Japanese company to obtain BS 7799 certification, an international information security standard. In 2007, the company had consolidated net sales of ¥1 trillion, and in 2008 the company acquired German-based Cirquent, Inc. A new organizational structure of the "Company System" was introduced in 2009. Also that year, the company acquired Extend Technologies Pty Ltd in Australia, as part of a strategy to expand the global footprint of specialised SAP consulting businesses
NTT DATA and US-based IT Service company Keane agreed to a merger on 29 October 2010. The acquisition is worth over US$1.23 billion. After the acquisition of Keane Inc., NTT DATA became the 8th largest software company in the world, with the annual revenue of $14 billion. Acquiring Keane Inc. in 2010 increased the Group's total work force to 50,000. That year the company also acquired FirstApex, increasing the business footprint in insurance domain. In 2010, NTT DATA acquired Intelligroup Inc., a US-based IT consulting and service providing company. After taking over Intelligroup, NTT DATA became the ninth largest software company in the world, worth over $11 billion. India-based Intelligroup, Inc is headquartered at 5 Independence Way Ste 220, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, United States.
2011–present
In 2011, the company acquired Italy-based Value Team S.p.A. and launched Global One Teams. In 2012 the company acquired London-based Design and Technology Consultancy, RMA Consulting, who specialize in software design and delivery across multiple channels.
In 2013, the company acquired Madrid-based Everis, a company that provided IT services including consulting, system integration and outsourcing. Also in 2013, NTT DATA, the IT services provider with its U.S. headquarters in Plano, acquired Optimal Solutions Integration, a provider of SAP services headquartered in Irving, Texas. In 2015, the company acquired Carlisle & Gallagher, Inc., a Charlotte-based consulting firm. Also that year, the company acquired iPay88 - Online Payment Gateway for Asia Countries, Malaysia which specialize in online payment services and payment solutions for merchants with multiple financial institutions as business partners in Malaysia. In 2016, the company acquired the Dell IT Services unit (mainly the former Perot Systems) of Dell Inc for $3 billion. Also in 2016, the company acquired Nefos, a Salesforce consulting partner in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Dur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama%20at%20Eight | Drama at Eight was an American television program which was broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran during the summer of 1953. It was a dramatic anthology which aired Thursday nights from 8 to 8:30 PM (giving the series its name) on most DuMont affiliates. The series was cancelled after just four episodes were broadcast, although additional episodes continued to air locally on DuMont's New York station, WABD until October 1, 1953.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950s American anthology television series
1953 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Lost television shows
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamble%20on%20Love | Gamble on Love is an American game show which ran on the DuMont Television Network from July 16 to August 20, 1954. The series, originally hosted by Denise Darcel, had three opposite-sex couples competing for a prize.
The series aired Friday nights at 10:30 PM Eastern on most DuMont affiliates. Darcel was replaced on August 6 by comedian Ernie Kovacs, who also hosted the retitled version, Time Will Tell, which started August 27.
Episode status
DuMont, like CBS and NBC during the 1950s, likely kept at least one or two "example" episodes of each of their main game shows, though DuMont's exact policy is not known. However, DuMont's archive was destroyed after the network ceased broadcasting in 1956. Although a small number of episodes of DuMont game shows have surfaced (including episodes of Okay Mother, On Your Way, Blind Date, etc.), none are known to exist of either Gamble on Love nor Time Will Tell.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
1950s American game shows
1954 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Music%20Show%20%28American%20TV%20program%29 | The Music Show is an early American television program which was broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network from May 1953 to October 1954.
Broadcast history
The series ran from May 1953 to October 1954. The show was a musical program broadcast live from WGN-TV in Chicago, featuring the vocal talents of Mike Douglas, Henri Noel, Eleanor Warner, Jackie Van, and (in 1954) Dolores Peterson.
Robert Trendler conducted a 34-piece orchestra. The Music Show originally aired Tuesday nights at 9 (EST) on most DuMont affiliates. The series moved to 8:30 in July, and to 10:30 on Wednesday nights in October. In January 1954, The Music Show began airing at 10:00. Finally, from September to October 1954, the program was broadcast on Sundays at 10 PM.
The Music Show was only one of several DuMont Network series to be broadcast from Chicago; others included The Al Morgan Show, Concert Tonight, Chicagoland Mystery Players, Music From Chicago, They Stand Accused, This Is Music, Windy City Jamboree, and the Emmy-nominated game show Down You Go. All of these series were broadcast from DuMont affiliate WGN-TV over the DuMont Network.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
This Is Music
Music From Chicago
Concert Tonight
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1953 American television series endings
1954 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20is%20Music | This Is Music is an American music television series which was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from November 29, 1951, to October 9, 1952.
Overview
This Is Music was broadcast live from Chicago, and hosted by Alexander Gray. Regulars included Colin Male, Alexander Gray, Nancy Carr, Bruce Foote, Lucille Reed, Jackie Van, Jacqueline James, Bill Snary and the series featured the Robert Trendler Orchestra.
Broadcast history
The DuMont series ran from November 1951 to October 1952, and aired on Thursday nights at 8pm (ET) during most of its run, but changed to 10pm during the summer of 1952.
Episode status
Two episodes of the DuMont series are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and two episodes are in the collection of the Paley Center for Media.
Not to be confused with ...
The DuMont show is not to be confused with:
An ABC Television program with the same title This Is Music, 1958–1959;
The similarly named syndicated program This Is Your Music, 1955; or
The name used in the United States and Canada, This Is Music, when airing the 1972 British television program Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town, during 1974 and 1976 respectively.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1951-52 United States network television schedule
The Music Show
Music From Chicago
Concert Tonight
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
DuMont historical website
1951 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
1950s American music television series
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-driven%20switching | In telecommunication and computer networking, time-driven switching (TDS) is a node by node time variant implementation of circuit switching, where the propagating datagram is shorter in space than the distance between source and destination. With TDS it is no longer necessary to own a complete circuit between source and destination, but only the fraction of circuit where the propagating datagram is temporarily located.
TDS adds flexibility and capacity to circuit-switched networks but requires precise synchronization among nodes and propagating datagrams.
Datagrams are formatted according to schedules that depend on quality of service and availability of switching nodes and physical links. In respect to circuit switching, the added time dimension introduces additional complexity to network management. Like circuit switching, TDS operates without buffers and header processing according to the pipeline forwarding principle; therefore an all optical implementation with optical fibers and optical switches is possible with low cost. The TDS concept itself pervades and is applicable with advantage to existing data switching technologies, including packet switching, where packets, or sets of packets become the datagrams that are routed through the network.
TDS has been invented in 2002 by Prof. Mario Baldi and Prof. Yoram Ofek of Synchrodyne Networks that is the assignee of several patents issued by both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office.
References
M. Baldi, Y. Ofek, "Fractional Lambda Switching," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2002), Optical Networking Symposium, New York, NY, USA, Apr. 2002, pp. 2692-2696.
M. Baldi, Y. Ofek, "Fractional Lambda Switching - Principles of Operation and Performance Issues," SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Vol. 80, No. 10, Oct. 2004, pp. 527-544
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See also
Data transmission
Digital communications
Communication network
Network architecture
Computer networking
Telecommunications engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20leak | In computer science, a resource leak is a particular type of resource consumption by a computer program where the program does not release resources it has acquired. This condition is normally the result of a bug in a program. Typical resource leaks include memory leak and handle leak, particularly file handle leaks, though memory is often considered separately from other resources.
Examples of resources available in limited numbers to the operating system include internet sockets, file handles, process table entries, and process identifiers (PIDs). Resource leaks are often a minor problem, causing at most minor slowdown and being recovered from after processes terminate. In other cases resource leaks can be a major problem, causing resource starvation and severe system slowdown or instability, crashing the leaking process, other processes, or even the system. Resource leaks often go unnoticed under light load and short runtimes, and these problems only manifest themselves under heavy system load or systems that remain running for long periods of time.
Resource leaks are particularly a problem for resources available in very low quantities. Leaking a unique resource, such as a lock, is particularly serious, as this causes immediate resource starvation (it prevents other processes from acquiring it) and causes deadlock. Intentionally leaking resources can be used in a denial-of-service attack, such as a fork bomb, and thus resource leaks present a security bug.
Causes
Resource leaks are generally due to programming errors: resources that have been acquired must be released, but since release often happens substantially after acquisition, and many things may occur in the meantime (e.g., an exception being thrown or abnormal program termination) it is easy for release to be missed.
A very common example is failing to close files that have been opened, which leaks a file handle; this also occurs with pipes. Another common example is a parent process failing to call wait on a child process, which leaves the completed child process as a zombie process, leaking a process table entry.
Prevention and mitigation
Resource leaks can be prevented or fixed by resource management: programming techniques or language constructs may prevent leaks by releasing resources promptly, while a separate process may reclaim resources that have been leaked. Many resource leaks are fixed by resource reclamation by the operating system after the process terminates and makes an exit system call.
Resource leaks are thus primarily a problem for long-lived processes, as leaked resources held by still-running processes are often not reclaimed; and for processes that rapidly acquire and leak many resources.
See also
Resource starvation
Software aging
References
Computational resources |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSDS | PSDS may refer to:
PSDS Deli Serdang, a football club in Indonesia
Sammarinese Democratic Socialist Party, a political party in San Marino
Product safety data sheet (PSDS), document listing information relating to occupational safety and health for the use of various products
Polyphonic Sound Detection Score (PSDS), a sound recognition evaluation metric developed by Audio Analytic
See also
Platform screen doors (PSDs), safety systems on train station platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouhair%20Yahyaoui | Zouhair Yahyaoui (; December 8, 1967 – March 13, 2005) was the first cyber-dissident to be pursued and condemned in Tunisia, a country that is often rated at the top of lists of Internet policing by independent third-party sources such as the OpenNet Initiative. He was the nephew of the judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui, who was also a vocal critic of the Tunisian regime and its lack of respect for judiciary processes. His cousin Amira Yahyaoui founded the NGO Al Bawsala.
Career
Yahyahoui, alias Ettounsi, founded and edited one of the first open discussion forums on the Internet, the satirical website TUNeZINE (which has since been shut down). This 'Zine' (a play on words connecting the genre to the President) drew participants from across the political spectrum discussing women's issues, human rights, economic problems, freedom of expression as well as religion. The site itself was often victim of the prevalent censorship in Tunisia; access to it could be difficult if at all possible, and though he used a pseudonym, Yahyaoui himself was tracked down and arrested for creating the site. Imprisoned for eighteen months in the Borj al Amri prison, there were numerous campaigns for his release. During his imprisonment, he executed three hunger strikes which helped to draw the attention of the international community. Some human rights activist groups like Reporters Without Borders helped to draw attention to his case.
Death
After leaving prison, Zouhair Yahyaoui was no longer the same man. Weakened by hunger strikes, torture and bad treatment, he died of a heart attack on March 13, 2005. After the Tunisian revolution that ousted Zine el Abidine Ben Ali on January 14, 2011, the newly elected constituent assembly elected Ben Ali's long-time opponent, Mohamed Moncef Marzouki, as a new president. Being a human rights activist, the new president decided that March 13 would become the national day of Internet freedom to commemorate the death of Zouhair Yahyaoui.
Accolades
Yahyaoui was awarded numerous journalistic prizes (in absentia) for his efforts to create a democratic discussion forum; for example, in 2003 Reporters Without Borders gave him the Globenet-Cyber Freedom Prize.
Awards and honors
2003 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award
References
External links
See also PEN American Center , numerous articles by the committee to Protect Journalists such as , and
1967 births
2005 deaths
Tunisian bloggers
20th-century Tunisian people
21st-century Tunisian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald%20City%20Confidential | Emerald City Confidential is a 2009 computer adventure game conceived by Dave Gilbert, developed by Wadjet Eye Games, and published through PlayFirst. It follows the protagonist Petra, Emerald City's only private eye, as she is approached by a strange woman named Dee Gale. Dee's fiancé is missing, and she is willing to pay Petra above the going rate in order to find him. Lacking any other prospects, Petra agrees. What starts off as a simple missing person case soon takes Petra deep into the seedy underbelly of the Emerald City's criminal underground and beyond. She encounters many characters from the Oz canon and some new characters, learns several magic spells, and uncovers the answer to a dark secret that has haunted Petra all her life.
Emerald City Confidential is a third-person, mouse-driven adventure game in which the player must solve various puzzles and follow certain procedures in order for the linear storyline to proceed. As a pure graphical adventure game, Emerald City Confidential follows the guidelines first introduced by LucasArts: it is impossible to die or to get stuck at any moment in the game, which allows the user to become fully immersed in Emerald City Confidentials universe without the fear of making a mistake or the constant need to save the game. With this in mind, there are no save game functions, but the player's position is automatically bookmarked and restored when the game is restarted.
The game is set in the magical land of Oz, created by L. Frank Baum, as put through the gritty filter of 1940s film noir, with harsh city streets, grey rainy skies, femmes fatales, tough guys, trenchcoats, fedoras and plot twists. It is Oz, seen through the eyes of Raymond Chandler.
Development
The game was developed using Playfirst's Playground SDK. Background art was done by John Green, the artist and co-creator (with Dave Roman) of the graphic novels Teen Boat! and Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden.
Response
Most reviews of the game have been positive, with particular praise for the story even where the rest of the review has been less glowing. It has also topped PlayFirst's own chart for weeks after its release. Game Tunnel reviewed the game as "Buy" and awarded it a Gold Award, rating it #2 of February 2009 indie game releases.
List of Oz characters in Chronological Order
Petra – The protagonist of the story. She quit her job as a Palace Guard during a time of war to look for her missing little brother, William, when no one else would help and became a detective in the hope of finding a lead to discover the child's fate.
Lion – The Lion is portrayed as a corrupt lawyer who frequently slips through Petra's grasp.
The Gump – Unlike the original stories, Gumps are shown in this game as a kind of taxi service throughout Oz. One of them talks, rescues Petra, and goes by the name of Fluffy.
Dee – Dorothy Gale in this game is now forty years older and prefers to be called Dee. She hires Petra to find her missing fiancé, Anzel, s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20E.%20Holmes | Frank Edward Holmes is an American businessman and investor. He is currently the Executive Chairman of Hive Blockchain Technologies Ltd., and CEO and Chief Investment Officer at U.S. Global Investors, Inc.
Early life and education
Holmes received an undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario.
Business career
U.S. Global Investors
Prior to Holmes’ involvement, U.S. Global Investors (then known as United Services Advisors) was rocked by a scandal involving one of the firm’s fund managers, who was found to be taking bribes from stock promoters. Both the manager and the promoters were convicted of criminal charges for their roles in the case. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) discovered that the president of United Services knew of the illegal behavior before he disclosed it to the commission. In 1989, United Services Advisors was put up for sale at auction and won by Holmes for $2.2 million, or $4 a share.
The company was rebranded to U.S. Global Investors and regained its reputation. The company, which offers 10 different funds, is now profitable, according to regulatory filings for the quarter ended December 31, 2020. Holmes owns 100% of the voting shares of U.S. Global Investors.
In 2006, Holmes was named Mining Fund Manager of the Year by The Mining Journal, a London-based publication for the global natural resources industry.
Holmes became an elected member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) in 1991 and served as chairman of the San Antonio chapter from 1997 to 1998.
Board appointments
Holmes has served on the board of various companies and has held leadership positions in several sectors:
Endeavour Financial Corp – Chairman from October 2005 to November 2008.
GoldSpot Discoveries – Chairman of the Board and Director from February 2019 to May 2020.
Thunderbird Entertainment – Served on the Board from June 2014 to February 2021.
References
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Living people
American chief executives
University of Western Ontario alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
American investors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20vs%20Magazine%3A%20Sh%C5%ABketsu%21%20Ch%C5%8Dj%C5%8D%20Daikessen | is a fighting game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Aomori and Hudson Soft and published by Konami for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). The game celebrates the 50th anniversaries of shōnen manga magazines Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Shōnen Magazine published by Shogakukan and Kodansha, respectively, featuring prominent manga characters from both publications as playable fighters.
Playable characters
Weekly Shōnen Sunday characters
Weekly Shōnen Magazine characters
References
External links
Official website
2009 video games
Crossover fighting games
Hudson Soft games
Japan-exclusive video games
Konami games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Portable-only games
Video games based on anime and manga
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20Database%20of%20the%20Americas | The Political Database of the Americas (PDBA) is a non-governmental organization based at the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), an academic center of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. It was formed in collaboration with the Organization of American States (OAS) and FLACSO-Chile. The PDBA was succeeded by the States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America (SIGLA) database, the beta version of which launched in 2022.
History
The Political Database of the Americas was formed at Georgetown University in 1995 as a result of the 1st Summit of the Americas in 1994 in Miami. This recognized democracy as the only legitimate form of government in the Western Hemisphere, and the OAS and Tinker Foundation funded the creation of the PDBA to promote this mission.
Objective
The objective of the database is to "contribute to the study, promotion and strengthening of democracy in the hemisphere". To achieve this objective, it collects, organises, exchanges and disseminates information, data, statistics on institutions from a political perspective, comparative studies; and other resources relevant to 35 American countries. The database provides comprehensive information about the political systems, institutions and governance of 35 countries in the region.
States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America (SIGLA)
In 2010, new investment in the project ceased and the PDBA was decommissioned, leaving a vacuum for scholars and others interested in Latin American political institutions. The PDBA was succeeded by the States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America (SIGLA) database, the beta version of which launched in 2022. The SIGLA project gathers, archives, and disseminates systematic information on legal and political institutions in Latin America. As this information is freely available to users across the Americas and around the world, SIGLA democratizes access to comparable data about governance in the region. The beta version of the database provides information on Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.
See also
Georgetown University
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Center for Latin American Studies (Georgetown University)
References
External links
Political Database of the Americas
Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University
Photos of Agreement between Georgetown and the OAS
States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America (SIGLA)
Georgetown University programs
Political databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Point%20Interface | The Multi-Point Interface – Siemens (MPI) is a proprietary interface of the programmable logic controller SIMATIC S7 of the company Siemens.
It is used for connecting the stations programming (PC or personal computer), operator consoles, and other devices in the SIMATIC family. This technology has inspired the development of protocol Profibus.
The MPI is based on the standard EIA-485 (formerly RS-485) and works with a speed from 187.5 kBd to 12 MBd.
The network MPI must have resistance at the end of the line and it is generally included in the connector and activated by a simple switch.
Manufacturers using MPI technology offer a range of connections to a PC: MPI cards, PCMCIA cards, USB adapters or Ethernet.
References
Industrial computing
Programmable logic controllers
Serial buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20setting | Mode setting is a software operation that activates a display mode (screen resolution, color depth, and refresh rate) for a computer's display controller by using VESA BIOS Extensions or UEFI Graphics extensions (on more modern computers).
The display mode is set by the kernel. In user-space mode-setting (UMS), the display mode is set by a user-space process.
Kernel mode-setting is more flexible and allows displaying of an error in the case of a fatal system error in the kernel, even when using a user-space display server.
User-space mode setting would require superuser privileges for direct hardware access, so kernel-based mode setting shuns such requirement for the user-space graphics server.
Implementation
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows versions that are NT-based use kernel mode setting. The kernel error display made possible by kernel mode setting is officially called "bug check", but more commonly known as the Blue Screen of Death.
Linux
The Linux kernel got the prerequisite for kernel-based mode setting by accepting Intel GEM in version 2.6.28, released in December 2008. This will be replaced by Tungstens Graphics TTM (Translation Table Maps) memory manager which supports the GEM API. TTM was developed for the free and open-source drivers for Radeon and S3 Graphics graphic chipsets (see Free and open-source graphics device driver). Support for Intel GMA graphic chipsets was accepted in version 2.6.29, released on March 23, 2009. Support for pre-R600 ATI Radeon graphics cards was accepted in version 2.6.31, released on September 9, 2009. Support for R600 and R700 was in development within DRM and was merged in version 2.6.32. Support for Evergreen (R800) was merged in version 2.6.34. As Nvidia did not release all the needed documentation for its graphics chip, development proceeded under the nouveau project, which uses reverse engineering to build a working open-source driver for Nvidia cards. Nouveau was accepted in version 2.6.33 of the kernel, released on December 10, 2009. Kernel-based mode setting is not only supported by the nouveau driver, it is required. Wayland compositors (e.g. Weston) and kmscon depend on kernel mode setting via ioctl.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD has support for both kernel-based mode setting and GEM for later generations of Intel GPUs (IronLake, SandyBridge, and IvyBridge) starting with version 9.1.
NetBSD
NetBSD has support for kernel-based mode setting and accelerated graphics for Intel and Radeon devices. This implementation was introduced in version 7.0 by porting the Linux 3.15 DRM/KMS code.
OpenBSD
OpenBSD has kernel-based mode setting support for Intel and Radeon GPUs. Starting with version 5.4 of OpenBSD, support for Intel GPUs is available. With the release of version 5.5, the implementation has been extended to add support for Radeon chipsets as well.
Alternatives
The following alternatives have been presented during the Linux Plumbers Conference 2013:
It was suggested to split GEM and KM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20hardware | Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the case, central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), monitor, mouse, keyboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, speakers and motherboard.
By contrast, software is the set of instructions that can be stored and run by hardware. Hardware is so-termed because it is "hard" or rigid with respect to changes, whereas software is "soft" because it is easy to change.
Hardware is typically directed by the software to execute any command or instruction. A combination of hardware and software forms a usable computing system, although other systems exist with only hardware.
Von Neumann architecture
The template for all modern computers is the Von Neumann architecture, detailed in a 1945 paper by Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann. This describes a design architecture for an electronic digital computer with subdivisions of a processing unit consisting of an arithmetic logic unit and processor registers, a control unit containing an instruction register and program counter, a memory to store both data and instructions, external mass storage, and input and output mechanisms. The meaning of the term has evolved to mean a stored-program computer in which an instruction fetch and a data operation cannot occur at the same time because they share a common bus. This is referred to as the Von Neumann bottleneck and often limits the performance of the system.
Types of computer systems
Personal computer
The personal computer is one of the most common types of computer due to its versatility and relatively low price. Desktop personal computers have a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and a computer case. The computer case holds the motherboard, fixed or removable disk drives for data storage, the power supply, and may contain other peripheral devices such as modems or network interfaces. Some models of desktop computers integrated the monitor and keyboard into the same case as the processor and power supply. Separating the elements allows the user to arrange the components in a pleasing, comfortable array, at the cost of managing power and data cables between them.
Laptops are designed for portability but operate similarly to desktop PCs. They may use lower-power or reduced size components, with lower performance than a similarly priced desktop computer. Laptops contain the keyboard, display, and processor in one case. The monitor in the folding upper cover of the case can be closed for transportation, to protect the screen and keyboard. Instead of a mouse, laptops may have a touchpad or pointing stick.
Tablets are portable computers that use a touch screen as the primary input device. Tablets generally weigh less and are smaller than laptops.
Some tablets include fold-out keyboards, or offer connections to separate external keyboards. Some models of laptop computers have a detachable keyboard, which allows the system to be configured as a touch-screen tabl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC-SI | NC-SI, abbreviated from network controller sideband interface, is an electrical interface and protocol defined by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). The NC-SI enables the connection of a baseboard management controller (BMC) to one or more network interface controllers (NICs) in a server computer system for the purpose of enabling out-of-band system management. This allows the BMC to use the network connections of the NIC ports for the management traffic, in addition to the regular host traffic.
The NC-SI defines a control communication protocol between the BMC and NICs. The NC-SI is supported over several transports and physical interfaces.
Hardware interface
The RMII-based transport (RBT) interface defined by NC-SI is based on the RMII specification with some modifications that allow connection of multiple network controllers to a single BMC. The NC-SI can also operate over a variety of other electrical interfaces, including SMBus and PCI Express when used over the Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP).
The table below sums up the signals comprising the RBT interface.
Traffic types
The NC-SI defines two fundamental types of traffic, pass-through and control traffic. Pass-through traffic consists of data exchanged between the BMC and the network via the NC-SI interface. Control traffic is used to inventory and configure aspects of NIC operation and control the NC-SI interface.
Control traffic is broken down into three sub-types:
Commands, sent from the BMC to one of the NICs
Responses, sent by the NICs as results of the commands
Asynchronous event notifications (AENs), sent asynchronously by the NICs and equivalently to interrupts, upon the occurrence of the specified event
When the NC-SI is used over RBT, standard Ethernet framing is used for all traffic types. Control traffic is identified by using an EtherType of 0x88F8. When the NC-SI is used in conjunction with MCTP, MCTP provides the packetization methodology and traffic type identification.
See also
Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP)
Platform Management Components Intercommunication (PMCI)
References
External links
DMTF Homepage
NC-SI Specification rev 1.1.0
NC-SI over MCTP Binding Specification rev 1.2.2
DMTF standards
Out-of-band management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lphant | Lphant was a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS operating systems, which supports the eDonkey Network and the BitTorrent protocol. It was available in 19 languages. The name and logo of the original Lphant application has been replicated in a program called "Lphant 6.0" (see Domain Name Acquisition).
Features
Lphant is a multi-network client, capable of searching for files by connecting to ed2k servers or through the emule source exchange and the kad network. Files can be downloaded simultaneously using the ed2k and BitTorrent protocols. Lphant supports various experimental ed2k features such as Protocol obfuscation, endgame althorithm and webcache, some of which are only found in eMule mods. However, some emule modders consider Lphant a leeching application and have therefore created algorithms which emulate their mods to Lphant when connecting to an Lphant client.
Domain Name Acquisition
On March 9, 2009, Discordia Ltd, a Cyprus-based company, acquired the home page and the advertisement server of the original application, respectively lphant.com and adliveserver.com domains.
Instead of advertisements, current versions of the original application may display a message suggesting to users they should upgrade Lphant by installing an executable package named LphantV6.exe. Installing this package will result in removal of the original application and loss of eDonkey and BitTorrent connectivity. Users of the original Lphant application can prevent the display of such messages by blocking the ad.adliveserver.com domain using a hosts file or a firewall.
The web site has been redesigned using the same elephant-like logo of the original application. The similarity of names and graphics may have caused some download services to falsely advertise the eDonkey and BitTorrent connectivity of the original client while providing the non-original program for download.
See also
Comparison of eDonkey software
References
External links
The original Lphant 3.51 client, downloadable at Softonic.
The sources for the last opensource version of lphant (1.0.1).
Windows-only freeware
BitTorrent clients
Proprietary freeware for Linux
File sharing software for Linux
C Sharp software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20on%20Mars%20%28website%29 | First on Mars is a web application that aggregates links to cable and network TV shows available for free online viewing. TV shows are aggregated from over 60 sources including Hulu. Instead of negotiating licenses to the TV show content, First on Mars uses embeddable players provided by content owners. As of January, 2009, First on Mars indexed over 13,000 episodes and 600 shows. First on Mars is free to consumers and plans to generate revenue through on-site advertising.
History
First on Mars was founded in January 2008 by Tuhin Roy, who is currently serving as CEO. Prior to founding First on Mars, Roy founded music and TV content aggregator Digital Rights Agency and was a co-founder of Echo Networks, an online radio company. First on Mars received funding from angel investors and small investment funds in two rounds.
First on Mars was made available for public beta testing in September 2008, and its official launch was on December 10, 2008. As of December 2008, First on Mars had 12 employees and consultants and is based in San Francisco. Version 1.5 was released on January 27, 2009, which added proprietary search functionality.
Technology
A patent application for First on Mars' proprietary guide technology was filed in September 2008. The guide is built using Adobe Flex and Ruby on Rails. As First on Mars users add shows, networks, and moods to their favorites, the First on Mars guide is personalized for each user. The guide can be further personalized with various graphical skins.
Content
TV shows are organized in several ways: by show, by network, or by mood. Shows are accessible from the major networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, as well as others including Comedy Central, Disney Channel, HBO, PBS, and the History Channel. TV shows available include current programming such as Flight of the Conchords, 24, Desperate Housewives, and Family Guy, as well as new shows such as Important Things with Demetri Martin and classic shows including The Addams Family, I Dream of Jeannie, and Flipper.
See also
Television on demand
References
External links
First On Mars official website
American entertainment websites
Internet properties established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelides%20algorithm | Pantelides algorithm in mathematics is a systematic method for reducing high-index systems of differential-algebraic equations to lower index. This is accomplished by selectively adding differentiated forms of the equations already present in the system. It is possible for the algorithm to fail in some instances.
Pantelides algorithm is implemented in several significant equation-based simulation programs such as gPROMS, Modelica and EMSO.
References
Numerical differential equations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spray%20Network | Spray Network AB is a Swedish Internet company that runs the web portal spray.se. Spray was founded in 1995, was bought by Lycos Europe, but was sold to Allers in 2006. spray.se has about 750 000 visitors per week.
In 2004 Spray bought the Swedish Internet service business from Tiscali. The telecom subsidiary, Spray Telekom was later sold to Glocalnet in 2007.
It is the owner of Spray Date.
References
External links
Spray.se
Web portals
Swedish websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCG%20Ultimate%20Gamer | WCG Ultimate Gamer was a reality television program that aired on Syfy, sponsored by Samsung and the World Cyber Games (WCG). The show was hosted by Hannah Simone and co-hosted by Joel Gourdin. The first season began airing on March 10, 2009. The second season was confirmed at CES on January 7, 2010, and began airing on August 19, 2010, finishing on October 7, 2010.
Format
WCG Ultimate Gamer has 12 gamers living in one loft. Each episode they would compete in a Real Life Challenge and in an Isolation Challenge. The Real Life Challenge complemented and provided a clue to the actual Xbox 360 game they were to play later in the Isolation challenge. For example, the players played paintball before playing Halo 3, had a dunk contest before playing NBA Live 09, and drifted cars before playing Project Gotham Racing 4. The gamer with the highest score from both challenges had the choice to pick one other gamer to play against the gamer with the lowest score in an Elimination Challenge where the loser goes home. The competitor with the highest score could also pick themselves to play the lowest scoring gamer, but this rule was discontinued in season 2. Sometimes the two gamers in the Elimination Challenge have to pick someone to partner with them in the challenge, but their partner is not at risk of elimination.
Seasons
References
External links
WCG Ultimate Gamer at Syfy.com
2000s American game shows
2010s American game shows
2009 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Syfy original programming
Television series by ITV Studios
World Cyber Games
Esports television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXI | MXI may refer to:
Computer bus bridge link, MXI link for PCI-to-PXI
The Roman numeral that is the year 1011
The IATA code of Mati Airport in Philippines. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projekt%20Dyabola | Projekt Dyabola (the Dyabola project) is a software for creating and browsing bibliographic data and image collections, specifically targeted to the humanities community. The program is built and maintained by the Biering & Brinkmann company of Germany, and access to a web version is available through subscription. The service is available in six languages.
Databases
Currently, 15 databases are available in the online system, where the set of data contained in a database is delineated based on what organization owns the original collection being indexed. Each database contains individual records that describe published books and articles, authors, ancient objects, images, etc. The descriptive records, or metadata, are connected in various ways, such as by connecting authors with their publications, and publications with their subject descriptors. In this way, it functions similar to many integrated library systems, or citation indexing services.
Example: subject catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome
This database, called the Realkatalog in German, contains an index of all the academic publications owned by the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. These publications generally cover topics about Classical Studies, i.e. the history and archaeology of the region around the Mediterranean Sea from about 800 BCE to 476 CE. The data entry for this collection began in 1990, and currently all publications from 1956 to February 2009 have been indexed. This includes about half a million titles of books and articles, one hundred thousand authors, and one million subject words describing these.
To find a record, a keyword search either across all metadata fields or restricted to one field can be performed. It is also possible to browse the hierarchical tree of subject terms to find a particular term of interest. Finally, if a user knows the local unique identifier for a source, this can be entered directly. Search results are automatically saved for future browsing.
A record about an article would contain the title, publication date, and page numbers, as well as a link to the author, the journal, any reviews of the work, and a list of subject headings. From a particular journal issue, it is possible to navigate to each of the individual articles and vice versa.
The system lacks a number of important pieces of information that would allow the user to make a relevancy judgment on the source. For example, aside from the title and a few subject headings, no information is provided about the actual content of the source. Book summaries and article abstracts are not included.
Maintenance and access issues
Currently, the large amount of data that has been manually entered and interconnected represents a value-added aspect of this software. However, the requirement for manual resources restricts access to the service to those that can purchase a subscription. New models have become available over the last few years to remedy these i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimized%20Consumer%20Intensity%20Analysis | In the area of food and beverage marketing, an Optimized Consumer Intensity Analysis uses data from a sensory perception experiment, often in the form of a blind taste test, to compare brands or products. For example, the Pepsi Challenge is a famous taste test that has been run by Pepsi since 1975 as a method to show their superiority to Coca-Cola.
Input and output
An OCI Analysis takes in data from a sensory perception experiment and outputs a graph showing the distribution of the products per attribute taking into account the overall liking score. Data resulting from sensory perception experiment results in (at least) the following variables:
Product [in one experiment, multiple products are rated]
Overall liking of the product
Sensory intensity attributes [perceived saltiness, perceived sweetness, etc.]
The output graph shows the average sensory attribute per product. Key to the interpretation of the graph is a provided interval "the optimal range". This interval is understood and interpreted in several ways:
Products within this interval are optimal with respect to the attribute at hand.
Products within that interval are not different from each other with respect to the attribute.
Products within that interval cannot be improved by changing the attribute.
Products outside that interval can be improved by changing the attribute.
Notes
http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/6148.php
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09503293
Quantitative marketing research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-series | A micro-series (also microseries) is an extremely short episodic television programming
narrative sponsored by an advertiser. This is a non-traditional way of reaching primary markets. A micro-series is intended to promote a product while engaging viewers with entertaining content. A micro-series is often only a season in length, and episodes are generally two to three minutes long, often playing during commercial breaks of popular television programs. After each air date, they are also available online and on mobile devices.
Popular micro-series
Even if it doesn't have a wide audience, a micro-series creates buzz, especially if it is interactive, as in the case of CBS's 2006 micro-series, The Courier.
Sometimes a spin-off micro-series is created from a popular TV show, for example, NBC's prime-time hit, Heroes. In November 2008, Sprint Nextel sponsored a four-episode micro-series called Heroes: Destiny on mobile, online and television. Each five-to-seven minutes episode debuted on Monday nights. The micro-series featured Sprint's phone in some scenes in what David Lang, head of MindShare Entertainment, calls "subtle integration." Sprint ads also aired adjacent to the on-air promos.
It is important that the micro-series content fits the environment or theme of the program in which it airs. A good example of this is TBS's micro-series Commuter Confidential. In 2008, TBS debuted a two-minute episode of Commuter Confidential featuring Revlon products and Match.com, during Sex and the City. The micro-series plot line mirrors the comedy of the HBO produced Sex and the City. Confidential features four female characters and their diverse ways of dealing with the world around them.
With the advent of the digital video recording (DVR), advertisers are trying to create brand messages that defeat the fast-forward button. General Motors is sponsoring a five-part micro-series, My Manny on Turner Broadcasting's TBS, to highlight the features on its new Traverse Crossover vehicle. It airs during the original series Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
The television series, My Manny, achieved notable success and has since been renewed for a third season. General Motors, in light of this achievement, decided to sponsor a new series, Gillian in Georgia. This program was broadcast on TBS during the spring of 2010, featuring Jill Marie Jones, recognized for her role in Girlfriends. The show's storyline revolves around a trendy New Yorker who relocates to the South to reside with her sister's family. Gillian in Georgia is among the lineup of TBS' popular sitcom Meet the Browns.
Unilever, too has gotten into the micro-series action. Singer Alicia Keys was selected by Dove and MTV to star in their "real beauty" micro-series called Fresh Takes. The series revolves around a group of twenty-something females and the pressures they must overcome in order to pursue their dreams. Each miniseries aired as a commercial interstitial during the March 24, 2008 premiere of The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20acquisitions%20by%20Juniper%20Networks | Juniper Networks, Inc. is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996.
By 2001, Juniper had made only a few acquisitions of smaller companies, due to the leadership's preference for organic growth. The pace of acquisition picked up in 2001 and 2002 with the purchases of Pacific Broadband and Unisphere Networks. In 2004 Juniper made a $4 billion acquisition of network security company NetScreen Technologies. Juniper revised NetScreen's channel program that year and used its reseller network to bring other products to market.
Juniper made five acquisitions in 2005, mostly of startups with deal values ranging from $8.7 to $337 million. It acquired application-acceleration vendor Redline Networks, VOIP company Kagoor Networks, as well as wide area network (WAN) company Peribit Networks. Peribit and Redline were incorporated into a new application products group and their technology was integrated into Juniper's infranet framework.
From 2010 to September 2011, Juniper made six acquisitions and invested in eight companies. Often Juniper acquired early-stage startups, developing their technology, than selling it to pre-existing Juniper clients. Juniper acquired two digital video companies, Ankeena Networks and Blackwave Inc., as well as wireless LAN software company Trapeze Networks. In 2012, Juniper acquired Mykonos Software, which develops security software intended to deceive hackers already within the network perimeter. and a developer of software-defined network controllers, Contrail Systems. In 2014 Juniper acquired the software-defined networking (SDN) company WANDL.
Acquisitions
Acquisitions summary
Juniper Networks, Inc. has made 22 acquisitions, although it has not taken stake in any companies. Juniper made 1 divestiture in 2006.
References
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks
Juniper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREAT-NMD | TREAT-NMD (treat NeuroMuscular Disease) is a global academic network that focuses on advancing research in neuromuscular disorders. It was established in 2007 with its coordination centre at the Newcastle University. As of 2018, the network comprises over a hundred research centres and patient organisations from 54 countries as well as independent academics and patient representatives. The network's aim is to provide infrastructure to accelerating research through supporting collaboration between its members. Its main goals include improving trial-readiness worldwide, advancing patient diagnosis and care and accelerating pre-clinical research.
Through patient registries, TREAT-NMD provides genotype–phenotype correlation between genetic mutations and neuromuscular disease burden.
References
Further reading
Medical research organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Limerick | Doug Limerick is an American radio personality. He has been a news correspondent for ABC Radio Networks since 1982.
Career
Limerick, a native of Shelby, North Carolina, started his career working the night shift, playing Top 40 music at WOHS radio while still in high school in the early 1960s.
He majored in speech at Wake Forest University and then joined the United States Air Force where he worked as a Russian linguist.
His broadcast career included stations in Monroe, Birmingham and Charlotte. His big break came at WKIX in Raleigh, where he was the morning news editor. He was also morning news editor and anchor at WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts, during the 1970s.
After WHDH, he went to WRQX in Washington, D.C., and also worked as the weekend weatherman for WJLA TV.
Limerick joined ABC Radio Networks in April 1982 as an anchor-correspondent.
While at ABC News Radio, he subbed for the broadcaster Paul Harvey for nearly a decade.
During his career he interviewed Bob Hope, George Wallace, Spiro Agnew, Roy Rogers, Tom Clancy, Paul Harvey, and many more. Limerick won two Edward R. Murrow news awards.
Limerick announced his retirement from broadcasting on December 18, 2015.
Family
Limerick lives in Fairfax Station, Virginia. He is married and has three daughters and five grandchildren.
References
1944 births
Living people
ABC News personalities
American radio journalists
People from Fairfax Station, Virginia
People from Shelby, North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeeney%20AI | Jeeney AI is a natural language processing chatterbot.
History
Jeeny AI was named "Best Overall Bot" in the 2009 Chatterbox Challenge, after ranking seventh, but being the "Best New Entry" in the previous year.
Jeeney is modeled on a modified form of Plato's 'Philosopher King' ideal, and remains a non-commercial application available for users to engage with through a text-based interface.
In 2010 Jeeney starred in experimental documentary movie Artificial Insight.
See also
List of chatbots
References
External links
Jeeney AI Website
Chatbots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman%20%28disambiguation%29 | Zalman can refer to:
Zalman Tech Co., a Korean computer product company
Zalman (name), a variant of Solomon formerly common among Eastern European Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20comet | A lost comet is one which was not detected during its most recent perihelion passage. This generally happens when data is insufficient to reliably calculate the comet's location or if the solar elongation is unfavorable near perihelion passage. The D/ designation is used for a periodic comet that no longer exists or is deemed to have disappeared.
Lost comets can be compared to lost asteroids (lost minor planets), although calculation of comet orbits differs because of nongravitational forces, such as emission of jets of gas from the nucleus. Some astronomers have specialized in this area, such as Brian G. Marsden, who successfully predicted the 1992 return of the once-lost periodic comet Swift–Tuttle.
Overview
Loss
There are a number of reasons why a comet might be missed by astronomers during subsequent apparitions. Firstly, cometary orbits may be perturbed by interaction with the giant planets, such as Jupiter. This, along with nongravitational forces, can result in changes to the date of perihelion. Alternatively, it is possible that the interaction of the planets with a comet can move its orbit too far from the Earth to be seen or even eject it from the Solar System, as is believed to have happened in the case of Lexell's Comet. As some comets periodically undergo "outbursts" or flares in brightness, it may be possible for an intrinsically faint comet to be discovered during an outburst and subsequently lost.
Comets can also run out of volatiles. Eventually most of the volatile material contained in a comet nucleus evaporates away, and the comet becomes a small, dark, inert lump of rock or rubble, an extinct comet that can resemble an asteroid (see Comets § Fate of comets). This may have occurred in the case of 5D/Brorsen, which was considered by Marsden to have probably "faded out of existence" in the late 19th century.
Comets are in some cases known to have disintegrated during their perihelion passage, or at other points during their orbit. The best-known example is Biela's Comet, which was observed to split into two components before disappearing after its 1852 apparition. In modern times 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann has been observed in the process of breaking up.
Recovery
Occasionally, the discovery of an object turns out to be a rediscovery of a previously lost object, which can be determined by calculating its orbit and matching calculated positions with the previously recorded positions. In the case of lost comets this is especially tricky. For example, the comet 177P/Barnard (also P/2006 M3), discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard on June 24, 1889, was rediscovered after 116 years in 2006.
Long period comets
Comets can be gone but not considered lost, even though they may not be expected back for hundreds or even thousands of years. With more powerful telescopes it has become possible to observe comets for longer periods of time after perihelion. For example, Comet Hale–Bopp was observable with the naked eye about 18 months after i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20TG01 | The Toshiba TG01 is a large touchscreen phone/Mobile Internet Device. It is based on the Windows Mobile operating system and uses Qualcomm Snapdragon chip architecture (QSD8250), rated at 1GHz. Connectivity-wise, it is a quad-band GSM phone with support for 2100 MHz UMTS with HSDPA download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbit/s and HSUPA upload speeds of up to 2 Mbit/s. It is Wi-Fi capable, GPS-enabled with support for A-GPS, and comes with Bluetooth 2.0, microSD expandable memory (up to 32GB) and a micro USB connector.
Physically the device is notable for its size and thinness. Available in both black and white colours, it has a Magnesium alloy casing, while its main feature is a 4.1-inch 480 x 800 pixel touchscreen. It only has two buttons, at the bottom of the screen. These are surface click buttons used for Home and Back functions. Other features include a rear-mounted 3.2MP autofocus camera.
Another feature of the TG01 is its G-Sensor, which Toshiba claims enables gesture operations, such as shaking the TG01 to take a call or tilting it to switch between applications. It also has a custom user interface, which visually is demonstrated by three vertical stripes. Software features include the Internet Explorer Mobile 6 web browser, multimedia player, push email, and support for DivX and Flash for media playback.
The first operator to announce deployment of the TG01 is O2 Germany. It was thought that the device will be exclusively available through O2 throughout Europe, but this has transpired to not be true. The second one is NTT docomo, which is the Japanese largest operator. The TG-01 for NTT docomo is named as "docomo PRO series T-01A." In June or July 2009, it will be sold. In the UK the device is ranged by Orange.
In late July 2009, the Federal Communications Commission of the United States passed the CDMA version of the TG01 for inspection, thus allowing the device to be sold in the United States.
References
External links
Video review of Toshiba TG01 at BestBoyZ.de
Toshiba TG01's page
Pocket Picks Toshiba TG01 photo gallery from World Mobile Congress 2009
Pocket-Lint Toshiba TG01 photo gallery at UK press launch
Huge user review and discussion
Toshiba mobile phones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSW%20School%20of%20Computer%20Science%20and%20Engineering | The UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is part of the UNSW Faculty of Engineering and was founded in 1991 out of the former Department of Computer Science within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It is the highest ranked and largest School of its kind in Australia. The academic staff have research focus in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Image Computing, Data Knowledge, Embedded Systems, Networked Systems and Security, Programming Languages and Compilers, Service Oriented Computing, Theoretical Computer Science and Trustworthy Systems.
UNSW was a founding member of National ICT Australia (NICTA), which merged with CSIRO in 2015 to form Data61. CSE maintains strong ties with Data61.
The school has a number of notable alumni and former staff, including Associate Professor John Lions the author of the commentary on the UNIX operating system, a two-volume book entitled, a Source Code and Commentary on Unix Level 6) (A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System) who passed away in 1998.
Excellence in Research for Australia
Australian Research Council's Excellence in Research for Australia initiative results for World-Class Research in Information Technology
2020/21: Ranked first in Australia in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings
2018/19: Shared first with ANU for Computer Software
2018/19: Maintained a rating of 5 for broad research fields of Engineering and Information and Computing Sciences
2013: Only Australian University to achieve a rank of 5 (the highest ranking) in Computer Software
2011: Broadest range (5 areas, the next highest was only in 2 areas) in Australia
Rankings
School Achievements
Student projects
Students of the School are involved in a number of high-profile projects, including:
rUNSWift, the University's team in the international RoboCup Standard Platform League competition, is the most successful team in the world, with wins in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014 and 2015, as well as coming second in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2010.
Sunswift Solar Cars
2018: Guinness World Record with car "VIolet" - Lowest Energy Consumption Driving Trans-Australia (Perth to Sydney) - Electric Car.
2014: FIA Land Speed Record with car "Sunswift eVe" - Sunswift eVe breaks the record for the fastest electric car over 500 kilometres (310 mi), with an average speed of 107 kilometres per hour (66 mph). The previous record of 73 kilometres per hour (45 mph) was set in 1988.
2011: Guinness World Record with car "Sunswift IVy" - Fastest Solar Powered Vehicle: 88.8 kilometres per hour (55.2 mph).
2009: Winner of the Silicon Challenge Class at the Global Green Challenge with the car "Sunswift IVy".
BLUEsat Satellite
2018: 8th in the European Rover Challenge (ERC)
Student competitions
Computing facilities
The School has computer laboratories for coursework teaching and student projects, including a number of specialist laboratories. The network supports well in excess of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific%20Trade%20Agreements%20Database | The Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreements Database (APTIAD) is a resource for researchers and policymakers in the area of international trade and investment. The online database allows searches in two ways. One relates to the agreements themselves where users can search by agreements, members, key terms, types and scopes of agreements and their status. Another possibility is to search publications relevant to regional integration and trade agreements. For easier use of the database, users can download a glossary of related terms from the website.
Trade Agreements Database
The Trade Agreements Database component of APTIAD is designed to give researchers and policymakers both an overview of, and easy access to, all the regional and bilateral trade agreements entered into or under negotiation by the countries of the Asia and Pacific region. As of June 2008 there were 136 such agreements, including those agreements that have not been notified to the WTO but for which there is official information readily available, and also those agreements under negotiation for which there has been at least a first formal negotiation round.
Interactive Trade Indicators
The Interactive Trade Indicators component of APTIAD is designed to help policymakers calculate some of the most commonly used indicators related to trade performance of national economies and/or trade agreements.
The Interactive Trade Indicator Database enables you to select indicators (e.g. export/import value, export/import growth, export/import share, trade share, trade intensity) by country or region, product and year. Export flows are downloaded from UN COMTRADE using World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) for the last 10 years (at present 1998-2007) for selected developed and developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Support
The Asia-Pacific Trade Agreements Database (APTIAD) is a product of the Trade and Investment Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Related links
Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
World Trade Organization
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
External links
Asia-Pacific Trade Agreements Database (APTIAD)
Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
WTO Regional Trade Agreements Information System (RTA-IS)
International trade organizations
Law databases
Economic databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, August 25, 1991. The ceremony was broadcast on Fox from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. The network TNT received its first major nomination at this ceremony.
For its ninth season, Cheers won Outstanding Comedy Series for the fourth time, tying All in the Familys record. Cheers spinoff Frasier would later break this record, ultimately winning five in a row. Cheers also received the most major nominations (9) and major awards (4) during the ceremony. The drama field also saw a four-time winner crowned as L.A. Law won Outstanding Drama Series for the fourth time in five years. This tied the record set by Hill Street Blues whose four wins came consecutively. James Earl Jones joined an exclusive club, as he won two acting Emmys for his work on two different series.
John Gielgud's win made him the fourth person to become an EGOT.
Winners and nominees
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Individual performances
Directing
Writing
Casting
Editing
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
Presenters
The awards were presented by the following people:
References
External links
Emmys.com list of 1991 Nominees & Winners
043
1991 television awards
1991 in California
August 1991 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustino | Faustino may refer to:
Faustino (name), including a list of people with the name
Faustino (platform), a physical computing platform
Faustino, an ape in the Kasakela chimpanzee community
Bodegas Faustino vineyard in the Rioja region of Spain, and wines produced from this vineyard
See also
Faustina (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Fogel | David Fogel may refer to:
David B. Fogel (born 1964), American computer scientist
Davy Fogel (born 1945), Northern Irish paramilitary
See also
David Vogel (disambiguation)
Fogel (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20Quality%20Report | The Link Quality Report (LQR) protocol is a part of the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), which allows two computers to connect to each other. LQR allows peers at either end of the PPP link to assess the state and quality of the PPP link.
LQR only transmits counts of packets sent, received, and rejected with errors. It does not report on signal noise or attenuation.
In order to produce Link Quality Reports, a PPP peer has to implement Link Quality Monitoring. Link Quality Monitoring consists of maintaining a number of counters. These counters include:
Packets Transmitted
Packets received
Octets (or bytes) transmitted
Octets received
Number of LQRs transmitted
Number of LQRs received
Number of Octets received without error.
The use of LQRs are negotiated when the PPP link is first established. Any peer that wants to receive LQR packets signals this by sending a PPP configuration Option with the following data:
Type - always 4
Length - always 8
Quality Protocol - 0xC025 for Link Quality Reports
Reporting period - the maximum time between LQR packets, in hundredths of seconds. The remote peer may send them more often. If set to zero, then the remote peer should send an LQR whenever it receives an LQR from the other peer.
An LQR is one packet containing the counters above, as well as:
a Magic Number that is used to detect looping conditions
the last transmitted count of LQRs, packets and Octets transmitted
number of packets discarded
Number of packets found to have errors.
In addition, the receiving peer will add the following fields to the LQR packet when it arrives:
The number of LQRs that have been received.
The number of Packets that have been received
the number of received packets discarded
The number of received packets found to have errors
the number of received Octets.
These numbers come from the MIB database that the PPP receive logic maintains. They are saved for use in the next LQR packet that the peer sends.
Problems with LQRs
A number of PPP implementations cause errors with LQR generation. Other implementations negotiate correctly for LQRs, but then fail to send them. This leads to the local peer determining that the PPP link has failed.
This has led to most users using the less capable LCP echos to detect whether the link is still functioning. LCP echos cannot provide the information that LQR could provide.
References
RFC1989 - "PPP Link Quality Monitoring", August 1996. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1989.txt
RFC1333 - "PPP Link Quality Monitoring", August 1992. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1333.txt
Logical link control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20ReviewNet | Political ReviewNet is an online database of book reviews from academic journals in the field of international relations and political sciences.
Academic journals that participate
Australian Journal of Politics & History.
Australian Journal of Public Administration (IPAA).
Constellations.
Diplomatic History (SHAFA).
International Affairs (RIIA).
International Studies Review (ISA).
Journal of Common Market Studies (UACES).
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.
Journal of Politics (SPSA).
Middle East Policy.
Nations and Nationalism.
Peace and Change.
Political Quarterly.
Political Studies (PSA).
Public Administration Review (ASPA).
Governance and Public Administration.
External links
Political science journals
Political science
International relations journals
Books about international relations
Political databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 42nd Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 16, 1990. The ceremony was broadcast on Fox from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. Two networks, The Family Channel and The Disney Channel, received their first major nominations.
For its second season, Murphy Brown won Outstanding Comedy Series and one other major award. Defending champion Cheers received the most major nominations for a comedy series with 9 and Newhart finished its series run with 21 major nominations, but not a single win. On the drama side, L.A. Law won Outstanding Drama Series for the third time in four years and also won three major awards, receiving the most major nominations for a drama series with 11. This became the first year that every cast member of The Golden Girls wasn't nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
This ceremony was remembered for the circumstance that three major categories resulted in ties, the most ever for one ceremony.
A clip of The Simpsons presenting the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series can be seen on the DVD boxset of the second season as a special feature.
Winners and nominees
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Individual performances
Directing
Writing
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
References
External links
Emmys.com list of 1990 Nominees & Winners
042
1990 television awards
1990 in California
September 1990 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji%20Network%20System | Fuji Network System (FNS; , 'Fuji Network') is a Japanese television network operated by Fuji Television Network, Inc. (Fuji TV), part of the Fujisankei Communications Group. FNS distributes entertainment and other non-news television programmes to its 28 regional television stations.
Distribution of national television news bulletins is handled by Fuji News Network, another network set up by Fuji TV.
List of affiliates
References
External links
Television networks in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1969
Fuji TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius%20%28mathematics%20software%29 | Genius (also known as the Genius Math Tool) is a free open-source numerical computing environment and programming language, similar in some aspects to MATLAB, GNU Octave, Mathematica and Maple. Genius is aimed at mathematical experimentation rather than computationally intensive tasks. It is also very useful as just a calculator. The programming language is called GEL and aims to have a mathematically friendly syntax. The software comes with a command-line interface and a GUI, which uses the GTK+ libraries. The graphical version supports both 2D and 3D plotting. The graphical version includes a set of tutorials originally aimed at in class demonstrations.
History
Genius was the original calculator for the GNOME project started in 1997, but was split into a separate project soon after the 0.13 release of GNOME in 1998. Because of this ancestry, it was also known as Genius Calculator or GNOME Genius. There was an attempt to merge Genius and the Dr. Geo interactive geometry software, but this merge never materialized. Version 1.0 was released in 2007 almost 10 years after the initial release.
Example GEL source code
Here is a sample definition of a function calculating the factorial recursively
function f(x) = (
if x <= 1 then
1
else
(f(x-1)*x)
)
GEL contains primitives for writing the product iteratively and hence we can get the following iterative
version
function f(x) = prod k=1 to x do k
See also
Comparison of numerical analysis software
Notes
Array programming languages
Free educational software
Free mathematics software
Free software programmed in C
Numerical analysis software for Linux
Numerical analysis software for macOS
Numerical programming languages
Science software that uses GTK
Unix programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Boles | Thomas Boles (born 1944 in Lennoxtown in Scotland) is a Scottish amateur astronomer, discoverer of astronomical objects, author, broadcaster and former communications and computer engineer, who observes from his private "Coddenham Observatory" () in Coddenham, Suffolk, United Kingdom. He is known for having discovered a record number of supernovae. The main-belt asteroid 7648 Tomboles is named in his honor.
He was President of the British Astronomical Association from 2003 to 2005 and Vice President from 2005 to 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and an Examinations Moderator in astronomy with the International Baccalaureate. At the International Astronomical Union, he was a member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe and "Commission 28" until 2012 and 2015, respectively, and is a member of IAU's division C and J (Education, Outreach and Heritage; Galaxies and Cosmology).
Boles has co-authored three text books on popular astronomy and has published numerous articles in Astronomy Now, Sky and Telescope; the Austrian The Star Observer, the Journal of the British Astronomical Association, and in the journal The Astronomer. In 2007 he co-authored a research paper about a "giant outburst two years before the core-collapse of a massive star" in the journal Nature.
Boles holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the Open University. He held director level appointments over a period of 18 years with four multinational computer companies. He retired in 2001 to dedicate himself to astronomy work and to help with the public Outreach of astronomy.
Discoveries
He holds the record of spotting the most supernovae by one person: 149 supernovae. As of 2003, Boles and Mark Armstrong are the "most successful exploding star hunters in history." He broke the record after discovering his 124th supernova '2009ij', followed by supernova number 125 '2009io' a few nights later. The previous record holder was Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who discovered 123 supernovae before his death in 1974. The record was unbroken for 36 years.
Boles has also discovered a nova in the Andromeda Galaxy and 84417 Ritabo, an asteroid in the middle region of the main-belt, which he named after his wife Rita Boles.
Awards
In 2008 he was awarded the Merlin Medal by the British Astronomical Association in recognition of his contribution to the advancement of astronomy. In 2008 the inner main-belt asteroid 7648 Tomboles, discovered by Japanese astronomers Yoshikane Mizuno and Toshimasa Furuta, was named after him in recognition of his contribution to astronomy. He received the George Alcock Award from The Astronomer Magazine. He presented the Inaugural Thomas Tannahill Memorial lecture in 2009 at the request of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow.
Public outreach
Boles has co-authored three text books on popular astronomy:
2008 Yearbook of Astronomy, edited by Sir Patrick Moore – (Pan Macmillan)
More Small Astronomical Observatories, edited by Sir Pat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMS | OpenMS is an open-source project for data analysis and processing in mass spectrometry and is released under the 3-clause BSD licence. It supports most common operating systems including Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Linux.
OpenMS has tools for analysis of proteomics data, providing algorithms for signal processing, feature finding (including de-isotoping), visualization in 1D (spectra or chromatogram level), 2D and 3D, map mapping and peptide identification. It supports label-free and isotopic-label based quantification (such as iTRAQ and TMT and SILAC). OpenMS also supports metabolomics workflows and targeted analysis of DIA/SWATH data. Furthermore, OpenMS provides tools for the analysis of cross linking data, including protein-protein, protein-RNA and protein-DNA cross linking. Lastly, OpenMS provides tools for analysis of RNA mass spectrometry data.
History
OpenMS was originally released in 2007 in version 1.0 and was described in two articles published in Bioinformatics in 2007 and 2008 and has since seen continuous releases.
In 2009, the visualization tool TOPPView was published and in 2012, the workflow manager and editor TOPPAS was described. In 2013, a complete high-throughput label-free analysis pipeline using OpenMS 1.8 was described and compared with similar, proprietary software (such as MaxQuant and Progenesis QI). The authors conclude that "[...] all three software solutions produce adequate and largely comparable quantification results; all have some weaknesses, and none can outperform the other two in every aspect that we examined. However, the performance of OpenMS is on par with that of its two tested competitors [...]".
The OpenMS 1.10 release contained several new analysis tools, including OpenSWATH (a tool for targeted DIA data analysis), a metabolomics feature finder and a TMT analysis tool. Furthermore, full support for TraML 1.0.0 and the search engine MyriMatch were added. The OpenMS 1.11 release was the first release to contain fully integrated bindings to the Python programming language (termed pyOpenMS). In addition, new tools were added to support QcML (for quality control) and for metabolomics accurate mass analysis. Multiple tools were significantly improved with regard to memory and CPU performance.
With OpenMS 2.0, released in April 2015, the project provides a new version that has been completely cleared of GPL code and uses git (in combination with GitHub) for its version control and ticketing system. Other changes include support for mzIdentML, mzQuantML and mzTab while improvements in the kernel allow for faster access to data stored in mzML and provide a novel API for accessing mass spectrometric data. In 2016, the new features of OpenMS 2.0 were described in an article in Nature Methods.
OpenMS is currently developed with contributions from the group of Knut Reinert at the Free University of Berlin, the group of Oliver Kohlbacher at the University of Tübingen and the group of Ruedi Aebersold at ETH Zur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20OpenMS%20Proteomics%20Pipeline | The OpenMS Proteomics Pipeline (TOPP) is a set of computational tools that can be chained together to tailor problem-specific analysis pipelines for HPLC-MS data. It transforms most of the OpenMS functionality into small command line tools that are the building blocks for more complex analysis pipelines. The functionality of the tools ranges from data preprocessing (file format conversion, baseline reduction, noise reduction, peak picking, map alignment,...) over quantitation (isotope-labeled and label-free) to identification (wrapper tools for Mascot, Sequest, InsPecT and OMSSA).
TOPP is developed in the groups of Prof. Knut Reinert at the Free University of Berlin and in the group of Prof. Kohlbacher at the University of Tübingen.
For more detailed information about the TOPP tools, see the TOPP documentation of the latest release and the TOPP publication in the references.
The OpenMS Proteomics Pipeline is free software released under the 3-clause BSD license.
References
Free science software
Mass spectrometry software
Proteomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIMAT | CLIMAT is a code for reporting monthly climatological data assembled at land-based meteorological surface observation sites to data centres. CLIMAT-coded messages contain information on several meteorological variables that are important to monitor characteristics, changes, and variability of climate. Usually these messages are sent and exchanged via the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Modifications of the CLIMAT code are the CLIMAT SHIP and CLIMAT TEMP / CLIMAT TEMP SHIP codes which serve to report monthly climatological data assembled at ocean-based meteorological surface observation sites and at land-/ocean-based meteorological upper-air observation sites, respectively. The monthly values included usually are obtained by averaging observational values of one or several daily observations over the respective month.
Contents of CLIMAT (TEMP) (SHIP) messages
CLIMAT-messages contain comprehensive information on a variety of climate-relevant meteorological parameters such as monthly mean temperature, mean daily maximum and minimum temperatures of the month, monthly mean pressure, monthly mean vapour pressure, total precipitation for the month and total sunshine for the month. Information on so-called normal values of these parameters, usually averaged over a period of 30 years for a specific month, can also be transmitted with CLIMAT-messages. Data on extreme values of certain parameters and days of a month with certain parameters exceeding defined thresholds can also be included, as well as information on the number of days of a month where data are missing for a certain parameter. CLIMAT SHIP messages contain information on fewer variables (e.g., total sunshine for the month and extreme values are not included). CLIMAT TEMP (SHIP)-messages contain information on monthly mean temperature, monthly mean geopotential, monthly mean dew-point depression and wind characteristics at specific pressure surfaces.
Characteristics of the CLIMAT code
The CLIMAT code has a fixed but logic syntax that needs to be followed strictly to maintain the ability of a computing device that processes the code to assign the contained information correctly. A CLIMAT-coded message can contain information from more than one synoptic stations and the CLIMAT-coded material for each station is called a “CLIMAT report”. A CLIMAT report is basically structured into five so-called sections (sections 0 to 4) which contain different types of information. If a CLIMAT message is transmitted via the Global Telecommunication System, the message is called a “CLIMAT bulletin”, as some extra coding may be added.
Future developments
Due to the WMO-led development of the new digital BUFR and CREX coding formats and their implementation to meteorological reporting, CLIMAT coding will continually be transformed in these new formats or even be replaced in the future. Notwithstanding, CLIMAT-based reporting will still play an essential role |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-simulation%20coordinator | MUSIC (Multi-Simulation Coordinator) is software developed and released by the INCF and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) School of Computer Science and Communication in Stockholm, Sweden. MUSIC is designed for interconnecting
large scale neuronal network simulators, either with each other or with other
tools. It allows spike events and continuous time series to be communicated between such applications in a cluster computer. The typical usage cases are connecting models developed for different simulators and connecting a parallel simulator to a post-processing tool.
MUSIC provides a standardized software interface (API) on top of the message-passing interface (MPI) for communication among parallel applications for large-scale computational neuroscience simulations. It enables the transfer of massive amounts of event information and continuous values from one parallel application to another, including those using different data allocation strategies. In the design of the standard interface, care was taken to allow easy adaptation of existing simulators and to permit third-party development and community-sharing of reusable and interoperable software tools for parallel processing. Three simulators currently have MUSIC interfaces: Moose, NEURON and NEST.
The MUSIC software library and its documentation are publicly available through the INCF Software Center.
References
INCF website
External links
MUSIC homepage at INCF Software Center
Computational neuroscience
Simulation software
Cluster computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niigata%20Sogo%20Television | is a TV station affiliated with Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) in Niigata, Niigata. It is broadcast in Niigata Prefecture. It was established on March 2, 1968, and began broadcasting from December 16, 1968.
TV channel
Digital Television
Yahiko 19ch JONH-DTV 3 kW
Tandem office
Takada 25ch
Mikawa 43ch
Tsunan-Kamigō 18ch, 24ch
Koide 28ch
Kanose 19ch
Itoigawa-Ōno 18ch
Tsunan 43ch
Ryōtsu 31ch
Aikawa 30ch
Yamato 34ch
Takachi 17ch
Arai 45ch
Murakami 25ch
Sotokaifu 24ch
Yuzawa 19ch
Tsunan-Tanaka 19ch
Sumon 34ch
Muramatsu 43ch
Other
Program
Syndicated shows from the TX Network:
External links
The official website of Niigata Sogo Television
Fuji News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1968
Mass media in Niigata (city)
Companies based in Niigata Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch%20Systems | Epoch Systems Inc., founded in December 1986, was a hardware and software company providing Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) file servers, and distributed storage management and data backup software. The company was founded by Ken Holberger, Chuck Holland, and Gregory Kenley. Holberger and Holland had worked together as part of the Eagle project described in The Soul of a New Machine. Kenley was a software engineer with expertise in operating systems and storage management. The company began in Marlboro MA and eventually moved to Westborough MA.
Products
The company's first product was the Epoch-1 Infinite Storage Server. The Epoch-1 consisted of custom 68020-based CPU board running a modified version of the BSD 4.2 Unix operating system. The product was released in 1988 and provided 30GB of storage in its base configuration, expandable to 150GB. The server combined optical and magnetic storage and used HSM algorithms to automatically migrate files between the two types of media as required. The base 30GB model sold for $158,000 with one 30GB optical disk library unit and one 760MB magnetic disk drive. By making use of high capacity and comparatively inexpensive (for that time) optical storage the Epoch-1 provided high storage capacity at substantially lower cost than all-magnetic file servers.
Epoch's second product, EpochBackup, included automatic scheduling, online backup and volume management features for Unix-based client workstations from a number of manufacturers, including DEC, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems.
In late 1990 Epoch released versions of its Renaissance storage management products for Sun, HP, and MIPS Technologies Unix workstations. The system provided HSM services for workstations and servers, automatically migrating least used files to an Epoch-1 server centrally located on the network to free up space when file systems became full. Files were automatically retrieved when accessed. Because of difficulties in implementing this product across many different Unix implementations, Epoch started the Data Management Interfaces Group with the goal of creating a common API for storage management.
Funding
Epoch Systems raised $15.7M of venture capital in three different rounds from several firms including Charles River Ventures,
Matrix Partners, Sigma Partners, TA Associates, Atlas Venture, Sierra Ventures, and Ampersand Ventures. The company was bought by EMC for approximately $140M on August 31, 1993.
References
Sources
Kidder, Tracy (1981). The Soul of a New Machine. Little, Brown and Company. Reprint edition July 1997 by Modern Library. .
Defunct software companies of the United States
Computer storage companies
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS%207007%20incident | The AS 7007 incident was a major disruption of the Internet on April 25, 1997, that started with a router operated by autonomous system 7007 (MAI Network Services, although sometimes incorrectly attributed to the Florida Internet Exchange) accidentally leaking a substantial part of its entire routing table to the Internet, creating a routing black hole.
Probably because of a bug in the affected router, the routes leaked were deaggregated to /24 prefixes, which were more specific than the routes originally present on the Internet, and had the AS path rewritten to 7007, leading the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) used by the Internet's routers to prefer the leaked routes. This was then exacerbated by other problems that prevented the routes from disappearing from other networks' routing tables, even after the original router that had sent them had been disconnected. The combination of these factors resulted in an extended disruption of operations throughout the Internet.
Analysis of this event led to major changes in Internet Service Providers' BGP operations intended to mitigate the effects of any subsequent similar events.
See also
Route filtering
References
External links
Origin authentication in interdomain routing
Interdomain Routing Security
nanog mailing list archive: "7007 Explanation and Apology"
A view of all NANOG mailing list discussions around the date of the incident - see 25 April 1997
BGP security: announcing prefixes without authorization
Routing
Internet architecture
1990s internet outages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamcrest | Hamcrest is a framework that assists writing software tests in the Java programming language. It supports creating customized assertion matchers ('Hamcrest' is an anagram of 'matchers'), allowing match rules to be defined declaratively. These matchers have uses in unit testing frameworks such as JUnit and jMock. Hamcrest has been included in JUnit 4 since 2012,
but was omitted from JUnit 5 in 2017.
Hamcrest has been ported to C++, C#, Objective-C, Python, ActionScript 3, PHP, JavaScript, Erlang, R, Rust, and Swift.
Rationale
"First generation" unit test frameworks provide an 'assert' statement, allowing one to assert during a test that a particular condition must be true. If the condition is false, the test fails. For example:
assert(x == y);
But, in many languages, this syntax fails to produce a sufficiently good error message if 'x' and 'y' are not equal. It would be better if the error message displayed the value of 'x' and 'y'. To solve this problem, "second generation" unit test frameworks provide a family of assertion statements, which produce better error messages. For example,
assert_equal(x, y);
assert_not_equal(x, y);
But this leads to an explosion in the number of assertion macros, as the above set is expanded to support comparisons different from simple equality. So "third generation" unit test frameworks use a library such as Hamcrest to support an 'assert_that' operator that can be combined with 'matcher' objects, leading to syntax like this:
assert_that(x, equal_to(y))
assert_that(x, is_not(equal_to(y)))
The benefit is that there are still fluent error messages when the assertion fails, but with greater extensibility. It is now possible to define operations that take matchers as arguments and return them as results, leading to a grammar that can generate a huge number of possible matcher expressions from a small number of primitive matchers.
These higher-order matcher operations include logical connectives (and, or and not), and operations for iterating over collections. This results in a rich matcher language which allows complex assertions over collections to be written in a declarative style rather than a procedural style.
References
External links
Java platform software
Unit testing frameworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20%281978%20TV%20series%29 | Sam is an American crime drama television series that aired on the CBS network from March 14 to April 18, 1978 for six episodes. It told the story of a Los Angeles police officer, Mike Breen (played by Mark Harmon), and his specially-trained police dog, Sam, a Labrador Retriever.
Synopsis
In the series, Sam assisted Breen in cases such as rescues, drug smuggling, and bomb threats. Also starring were Len Wayland as Breen's supervisor, Captain Tom Clagett, and Gary Crosby as Captain Gene Cody.
Production notes
Sam was the brainchild of television producer Jack Webb, whose Mark VII Limited packaged the show for Universal Television. Much like Webb's earlier Adam-12, several incidents per episode were featured. Further, Wayland and Crosby appeared in numerous Mark VII productions previously. James Doherty and Leonard B. Kaufman were the producers; Webb and Paul Donnelly served as executive producers. Only six episodes were broadcast.
CBS aired Sam as a replacement series for the 1977 Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes. Sam aired opposite ABC's sitcom Happy Days; Happy Days easily outranked Sam in the ratings, with Project U.F.O. (on Sundays) also having better ratings during the season.
This would be the last television series to debut that was produced by Jack Webb, who died in 1982. Also, the final television appearance of Vivian Vance was featured in episode #1.6.
Footnotes
References
Classic TV Archive
Terrace, Vincent, Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials 1974-1984, New York: Zoetrope, 1986.
External links
1978 American television series debuts
1978 American television series endings
1970s American crime drama television series
CBS original programming
Television shows about dogs
Fictional portrayals of the Los Angeles Police Department
English-language television shows
Television series by Mark VII Limited
Police dogs in fiction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS%20Computers | CMS Computers is a manufacturer of desktop, laptop and tablet computers based in Warrington, UK. It primarily trades under the brand Zoostorm. The company was founded in 1993, and acquired by VIP Group in 2011.
In a 2009 press release, CMS Computers cited Microsoft figures placing the company as the fifth largest manufacturer of desktop computers, laptops and servers in the UK, and the third largest manufacturer of Intel-based systems.
References
External links
Zoostorm brand website
British brands
Computer companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus%20florentinus | Thesaurus Florentinus is a project for the acquisition and reconstruction of the images of the mural paintings in the Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and a computer system to manage the hundreds of thousand pieces of information gathered during the restoration campaign ended in 1995. The project was conceived by Arch. Riccardo Dalla Negra and realised by Lapo Bertini, Silvia Brotini, Auro Pampaloni, Marco Menichetti, Lara Calosi and Arianna Sacchetti with the technological support of IBM and Eastman Kodak and the financial support of the Ministero dei Beni Culturali of Italy and Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. The project started in 1992 and ended in 2000.
References
Library of Congress permalink
Library of Congress permalink
Thesaurus Florentinus project page (in Italian), Soprintendenza ai Beni Architettonici e Paesaggisitici di Firenze, Ministero dei Beni Culturali
External links
D-Lib Magazine, November 1995
Mega Review (in Italian)
Cupola, a voyage within (in English), from Waybackmachine
Viaggio attorno alla Cupola (in Italian), from Waybackmachine
Digital library projects
Conservation and restoration of paintings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIFARE4Mobile | MIFARE4Mobile is a technical specification published by NXP Semiconductors in December 2008 to manage MIFARE-based applications in mobile devices. The specification provides mobile network operators and service providers with a single, interoperable programming interface, easing the use of the contactless MIFARE technology in future mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) devices.
About MIFARE4Mobile
The MIFARE4Mobile Industry Group consists of leading players in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem including Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, NXP Semiconductors, Oberthur Technologies and STMicroelectronics. MIFARE4Mobile is a technology that provides mobile network operators, trusted services managers and service providers with a single, interoperable programming interface to remotely provision and manage MIFARE-based services in embedded secure elements and SIM cards of mobile NFC devices over the air-OTA. The emergence of NFC mobile services depends on the ease by which contactless applications can be installed and used in consumers hands. Since MIFARE is the most common contactless card format used in public transport worldwide, it is essential to enable genuine interoperability for the installation and use of MIFARE in NFC mobile phones, for the whole industry to use. Any MIFARE4Mobile compliant device will work seamlessly with any MIFARE infrastructure.
The specification covers 3 functional areas:
Wallet / User Interface APIs
Over The Air / Trusted Service Manager APIs
Secure Element Platform APIs
Wallet / User Interface APIs
Full interoperability with other card formats
Ability to display card content on the phone screen
Over The Air / Trusted Service Manager APIs
Allow OTA providers to access MIFARE resources of any secure element in a consistent way
Ensure uniform approach to MIFARE application life cycle management
Secure Element Platform APIs
Provide common access to the hardware resources of the MIFARE portfolio
Licenses for the use of the MIFARE4Mobile APIs technology is free of charge if used in conjunction with MIFARE secure elements (both as UICC or embedded) sold by NXP or licensed by NXP. The first release of the specification supported MIFARE Classic. M4M 2.0 (2013) added support for MIFARE DESFire. Future versions will include MIFARE Plus to guarantee total compatibility with existing and new contactless infrastructures.
See also
MIFARE
NFC
APIs
Over-the-air programming
References
Contactless smart cards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETV2 | ETV2 () is the second channel of the Estonian Public Broadcasting (Eesti Rahvusringhääling – ERR) focusing on children's programming during the day and providing cultural content in the evening.
ETV2 is known for its quality art house feature film and documentary selection.
The flagship in-house production is a cultural talk show.
ETV2 began broadcasting on 8 August 2008.
References
External links
Television channels in Estonia
Television channels and stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Estonia
Mass media in Tallinn
Eesti Rahvusringhääling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Model%20Railroad%20Interface | C/MRI (Computer/Model Railroad Interface) is a set of electronic modules that allow a computer to monitor and control real world devices, including those used in conjunction with model railroads.
C/MRI was first introduced by Bruce Chubb in the February 1985 issue of the Model Railroader magazine. It appeared again with a four-part series starting with the January 2004 issue titled “Signaling Made Easier.” This series is considered to provide a good and concise introduction to the C/MRI and its application to signaling. Additionally, The Sunset Valley Oregon System (Bruce's home model railroad layout) was featured in the February and March 2006 issues of Model Railroader and the 2006 issue of Model Railroad Planning as well as in the March 2007 issue of the NMRA's magazine, Scale Rails.
In addition to the above magazine articles, there are several books by Bruce Chubb on the subject:
Build your own Universal Computer Interface (out of print, first edition)
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Tab Books (February 1989)
(pbk.)
Build your own Universal Computer Interface (out of print, second edition)
Paperback: 410 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (1997)
(hc)
(pbk.)
The Railroader's C/MRI Applications Handbook (version 2.1, 1999)
Spiral bound, 8.5x11 paper: ~250 pages
Self-published by JLC Enterprises, Grand Rapids, MI
The Railroader's C/MRI Applications Handbook (version 2.2, 2000)
Spiral bound, 8.5x11 paper: ~250 pages
Self-published by JLC Enterprises, Grand Rapids, MI
The Computer/Model Railroad Interface (C/MRI) Users Manual (version 3.0, 2003)
Spiral bound, 8.5x11 paper: ~250 pages
Self-published by JLC Enterprises, Grand Rapids, MI
The Computer/Model Railroad Interface (C/MRI) Users Manual (version 3.0, 2003)
Appendices
Spiral bound, 8.5x11 paper: ~75 pages
Self-published by JLC Enterprises, Grand Rapids, MI
The Railroader's C/MRI Applications Handbook (version 3.0, 2010)
Volume 1-System Extensions
Spiral bound, 8.5x11 paper: ~250 pages
Self-published by JLC Enterprises, Grand Rapids, MI
The Railroader's C/MRI Applications Handbook (version 3.0, 2010)
Volume 2-Signaling Systems
Spiral bound, 8.5x11 paper: ~250 pages
Self-published by JLC Enterprises, Grand Rapids, MI
External links
JLC Enterprises website
Rail transport modelling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellowship%20of%20the%20Pentecostal%20Churches%20in%20India | The Fellowship of the Pentecostal Churches in India has around 1,100 churches in its network with its headquarters at Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh, India. The fellowship unanimously re-elected Dr. Matthew K. Thomas as chairman during the October Fellowship Conference in 2008. The Fellowship is regarded as one of the largest independent Pentecostal churches in India.
History
As Pentecostal churches continued to spring all over India, the graduates of Central India Theological Seminary who worked mainly in the north, began to feel the need to form a Fellowship for closer fellowship. So, at the 1966 Annual Convention of the Pentecostal Church at Itarsi, the Christian workers united to form the Fellowship of the Pentecostal Churches of God in India (FPCGI). The first elected chairman of the Fellowship was Dr. Kurien Thomas, a pioneer Pentecostal missionary in north India, who held that position till 1984, "when it was unanimously decided that the burden should be placed upon...Thomas Matthews." The Fellowship was registered with the Indian Government in 1969 and had the following objectives:
To preach the Gospel in the whole of the land of India.
To establish independent Churches....
To oppose all doctrines that are not true to the clear teachings of the Bible.
The local Church should be free from any central rule or domination by any other Church, nor should one minister rule over another.
That each might help and encourage each other.
The Fellowship of the Pentecostal Churches in India has now over 1,100 pastors working in close network with the headquarters at the mother church at Itarsi. Pastor Kurien Thomas pastored the Church from 1945 till his death in 2000. He is now succeeded by his son Dr. Matthew Thomas who is the chairman of the Fellowship (FPCGI), editor-in-chief of Basileia Theological Journal, executive member of Pentecostal World Conference, and president/principal of Central India Theological Seminary.
The headquarters is at Office of FPCGI, Central India Theological Seminary, PO Box 63, Malviyaganj, Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh India. Pin - 461111.
References
Pentecostalism in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Watrous | John Watrous may refer to:
John Charles Watrous (1801–1874), United States federal judge
John S. Watrous (died 1897), politician from the Minnesota territory
John Watrous (computer scientist), computer scientist at the University of Waterloo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaheen%20%28supercomputer%29 | Shaheen is the name of a series of supercomputers owned and operated by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. Shaheen is named after the Peregrine Falcon. The most recent model, Shaheen II, is the largest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East.
Shaheen I
The first generation of Shaheen (2009-2015) was an IBM Blue Gene/P. It was originally built at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and moved to KAUST in mid-2009. The computer was created by Majid Alghaslan while he was working for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
The first generation of Shaheen included the following functional elements:
16 racks of Blue Gene/P, having a peak performance of 222 Teraflops
164 IBM IBM System x 3550 Xeon nodes, having a peak performance of 12 Teraflops
Performance
Shaheen I's performance and computing capabilities included:
65,536 independent processing cores.
10 Gbit/s access to world's academic and research networks.
The file system and Spectra Logic TFinity tape system were mounted across both the Blue Gene system and the Linux cluster. All elements of the system were connected together on a common network backbone that is accessible from all campus buildings. The systems were also be accessible from the Internet.
Shaheen II
The second generation of Shaheen was brought into service in 2015. It consists of a 36-cabinet XC40 supercomputer.
the computer is ranked the 97th fastest supercomputer in the world, with a Rmax of 5.54 petaFLOPS.
Services
The Shaheen system at KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory (KSL) is available to help KAUST users and projects, to provide training and advice, to develop and deploy applications, to provide consultation on best practices and to provide collaboration support as needed.
KAUST Faculty will have access to:
General support for Shaheen facility use, including usage scheduling of Shaheen and peripheral systems
High-performance computing support for "Grand Challenges" by collaboration with the Center to deliver fundamental breakthroughs in specific areas of research
Collaboration to provide high-performance computing applications, middleware, library, algorithm support and enablement services
Applications Enablement where users can task the CDCR to develop, enable, port and scale key applications
High-performance Computing Program Best Practice Management techniques
Participation with KAUST researchers in external projects
Training on high-performance computing systems management, programming, applications tuning and algorithms
Research topics
KAUST, using the Shaheen systems, will focus on four specific research thrusts:
Resources, energy, and environment
Biosciences and bioengineering
Materials science and engineering
Applied mathematics and computational science
Data sets for this research will be unique in that they will come from the Saudi Arabia region, focusing on areas such as oil and gas reserves, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20Display%20Digital%20Interface | Mobile Display Digital Interface (MDDI) is a high-speed digital interface developed by Qualcomm to interconnect the upper and lower clamshell in a flip phone. The MDDI solution supports variable data rates of up to 3.2 Gbit/s, and decreases the number of signals that connect the digital baseband controller with the LCD and camera.
The integration of MDDI is said to enable the adoption of advanced features, such as high-definition (QVGA) LCDs and high-resolution megapixel cameras for wireless devices, and supports capabilities such as driving an external display or a video projector from a handset.
A Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) approved standard, the MDDI solution is currently available and integrated into select Qualcomm chipsets.
See also
List of display interfaces
DBI from MIPI
DSI from MIPI
External links
Qualcomm MDDI page
Mobile telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland%20Wilkinson | Leland Wilkinson (November 5, 1944 – December 10, 2021) was an American statistician and computer scientist at H2O.ai and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago. Wilkinson developed the SYSTAT statistical package in the early 1980s, sold it to SPSS in 1995, and worked at SPSS for 10 years recruiting and managing the visualization team. He left SPSS in 2008 and became Executive VP of SYSTAT Software Inc. in Chicago. He then served as the VP of Data Visualization at Skytree, Inc and VP of Statistics at Tableau Software before joining H2O.ai. His research focused on scientific visualization and statistical graphics. In these communities he was well known for his book The Grammar of Graphics, which was the foundation for the R package ggplot2.
Early life
Wilkinson was born on November 5, 1944 to Kirk C. Wilkinson, an art editor of Woman's Day magazine. He is the brother of Alec Wilkinson, a writer for The New Yorker. He graduated from the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York.
Wilkinson received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1966, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from Harvard Divinity School in 1969, and a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1975. His thesis was titled The effect of involvement on similarity and preference structures.
Career
Academic career
While attending Yale between 1974 and 1976, he served as an instructor of psychology. He became an assistant professor of psychology at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1976 and was promoted to associate professor in 1980. In 1991, he became an adjunct professor of statistics at Northwestern University. He remained in that role until 2010. He rejoined UIC in 2007 as an adjunct professor of computer science.
Wilkinson was recognized as the primary author of the 1999 American Psychological Association's guidelines for statistical methods in psychology journals.
Professional career
Wilkinson wrote SYSTAT, a statistical software package, in the early 1980s. This program was noted for its comprehensive graphics, including the first software implementation of the heatmap display now widely used among biologists. After his company grew to 50 employees, he sold it to SPSS in 1995. At SPSS, he assembled a team of graphics programmers who developed the nViZn platform that produces the visualizations in SPSS, Clementine, and other analytics products. The nViZn platform was modeled after Wilkinson's 1999 book on statistical graphics, The Grammar of Graphics. This book also served as the foundation for the R package ggplot2, the Python Bokeh package, the R package ggbio, the Vega declarative language, and helped shape the Polaris project at Stanford University.
Wilkinson served as the vice president of statistics at Tableau Software, where he continued to work on scientific visualization and statistical graphics. In 2016, he became a chief scientist at H2O.ai to lead a data visualization push; he remained in that role until his de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Days%20Radio | Golden Days Radio (official call sign 3GDR) is a Melbourne-based community radio station broadcasting on 95.7 FM from a transmitter located at Caulfield Racecourse.
Programming
Golden Days Radio is broadcast mostly thanks to volunteer presenters and a small number of staff, some of whom are former radio professionals.
Notable presenters
Bob Horsfall
Alex Hehr
Ramesh Rajan
See also
List of radio stations in Australia
References
Radio stations in Melbourne
Community radio stations in Australia
Oldies radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20virtualization | Database virtualization is the decoupling of the database layer, which lies between the storage and application layers within the application stack. Virtualization of the database layer enables a shift away from the physical, toward the logical or virtual.
Virtualization enables compute and storage resources to be pooled and allocated on demand. This enables both the sharing of single server resources for multi-tenancy, as well as the pooling of server resources into a single logical database or cluster. In both cases, database virtualization provides increased flexibility, more granular and efficient allocation of pooled resources, and more scalable computing.
Virtual data partitioning
The act of partitioning data stores as a database grows has been in use for several decades. There are two primary ways that data has been partitioned inside legacy data management systems:
Shared-data databases: an architecture that assumes all database cluster nodes share a single partition. Inter-node communications are used to synchronize update activities performed by different nodes on the cluster. Shared-data data management systems are limited to single-digit node clusters.
Shared-Nothing databases: an architecture in which all data is segregated to internally managed partitions with clear, well-defined data location boundaries. Shared-nothing databases require manual partition management.
In virtual partitioning, logical data is abstracted from physical data by autonomously creating and managing large numbers of data partitions (100s to 1000s). Because they are autonomously maintained, the resources required to manage the partitions are minimal. This kind of massive partitioning results in:
Partitions that are small, efficiently managed, and load-balanced.
Systems that do not require re-partitioning events to define additional partitions, even when the hardware is changed.
“Shared-data” and “shared-nothing” architectures allow scalability through multiple data partitions and cross-partition querying and transaction processing without full partition scanning.
Horizontal data partitioning
Partitioning database sources from consumers is a fundamental concept. With greater numbers of database sources, inserting a horizontal data virtualization layer between the sources and consumers helps address this complexity. Rick van der Lans, the author of multiple books on SQL and relational databases, has defined data virtualization as "the process of offering data consumers a data access interface that hides the technical aspects of stored data, such as location, storage structure, API, access language, and storage technology."
Advantages
Added flexibility and agility for existing computing infrastructure.
Enhanced database performance.
Pooling and sharing computing resources, either splitting them (multi-tenancy) or combining them (clustering).
Simplification of administration and management.
Increased fault tolerance.
See also
Data virtual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV%20Drug%20Resistance%20Database | HIV Drug Resistance Database, also known as Stanford HIV RT and Protease Sequence Database, is a database at Stanford University that tracks 93 common mutations of HIV. It has been recompiled in 2008 listing 93 common mutations, after its initial mutation compilation in 2007 of 80 mutations. The latest list utilizes data from other laboratories in Europe, Canada and the United States including more than 15,000 sequences from untreated individuals.
See also
Subtypes of HIV
HIV drug resistance
References
External links
HIV Drug Resistance Database
HIV/AIDS research
Medical databases
Epidemiology
Stanford University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koumpentoum | Koumpentoum is a town and commune in the Tambacounda Region of central Senegal. In 2013 it had a population of some 10,000
Transport
It is served by a station on the national railway network.
See also
Railway stations in Senegal
References
Populated places in Tambacounda Region
Communes of Senegal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-France%20Bazzo | Marie-France Bazzo (born July 8, 1961) is a Canadian broadcaster, who has hosted television programming for Télé-Québec and radio programming for the Ici Radio-Canada Première network.
Born in Montreal, she is a graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she studied sociology.
Radio
She began her career with CIBL-FM in Montreal. She joined Radio-Canada in 1985, hosting programs such as Plaisirs, Dazibazzo, Et quoi encore, VSD Bonjour, Indicatif présent and Le Combat des livres.
From Fall 2013 to Spring 2015, she appeared on CBF-FM, Première's flagship station in Montreal, as host of the daily morning program C’est pas trop tôt !.
Television
In 2004, she began hosting Il va y avoir du sport, a political debate show, for Télé-Québec. In 2006, after leaving Première Chaîne, she created a new public affairs series for the network, Bazzo.tv.
She was also a reporter for Télévision de Radio-Canada's cultural magazine show La Bande des six. She left her role as broadcaster at what became Ici Radio-Canada Télé on April 3, 2015 due to disagreements regarding the "show’s orientation" with the company.
References
1961 births
Living people
French Quebecers
Mass media people from Montreal
Canadian television talk show hosts
CBC Radio hosts
Université du Québec à Montréal alumni
Canadian talk radio hosts
Télé-Québec people
Canadian women radio hosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB | MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and current versions are licensed under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) which is considered non-free by some organizations and distributions. MongoDB is a member of the MACH Alliance.
History
The US software company 10gen began developing MongoDB in 2007 as a component of a planned platform as a service product.
In 2009, the company shifted to an open-source development model, with the company offering commercial support and other services.
In 2013, 10gen changed its name to MongoDB Inc.
On October 20, 2017, MongoDB became a publicly traded company, listed on NASDAQ as MDB with an IPO price of $24 per share.
On November 8, 2018 with the stable release 4.0.4 the software's license changed from AGPL 3.0 to SSPL.
On October 30, 2019, MongoDB teamed up with Alibaba Cloud, who will offer its customers a MongoDB-as-a-service solution. Customers can use the managed offering from BABA's global data centers.
Main features
Ad-hoc queries
MongoDB supports field, range query, and regular-expression searches. Queries can return specific fields of documents and also include user-defined JavaScript functions. Queries can also be configured to return a random sample of results of a given size.
Indexing
Fields in a MongoDB document can be indexed with primary and secondary indices or index.
Replication
MongoDB provides high availability with replica sets. A replica set consists of two or more copies of the data. Each replica-set member may act in the role of primary or secondary replica at any time. All writes and reads are done on the primary replica by default. Secondary replicas maintain a copy of the data of the primary using built-in replication. When a primary replica fails, the replica set automatically conducts an election process to determine which secondary should become the primary. Secondaries can optionally serve read operations, but that data is only eventually consistent by default.
If the replicated MongoDB deployment only has a single secondary member, a separate daemon called an arbiter must be added to the set. It has a single responsibility, which is to resolve the election of the new primary. As a consequence, an idealized distributed MongoDB deployment requires at least three separate servers, even in the case of just one primary and one secondary.
Load balancing
MongoDB scales horizontally using sharding. The user chooses a shard key, which determines how the data in a collection will be distributed. The data is split into ranges (based on the shard key) and distributed across multiple shards. (A shard is a master with one or more replicas.) Alternatively, the shard key can be hashed to map to a shard–enabling an even data distribution.
MongoDB can run over multiple servers, balancing the load or duplicati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20simulation | Brain simulation is the concept of creating a functioning computer model of a brain or part of a brain. Brain simulation projects intend to contribute to a complete understanding of the brain, and eventually also assist the process of treating and diagnosing brain diseases.
Various simulations from around the world have been fully or partially released as open source software, such as C. elegans, and the Blue Brain Project Showcase. In 2013 the Human Brain Project, which has utilized techniques used by the Blue Brain Project and built upon them, created a Brain Simulation Platform (BSP), an internet-accessible collaborative platform designed for the simulation of brain models.
Methods
Modelling a brain (or brain subsystem) involves modelling neurons' electrical and bulk chemical properties (e.g. extracellular serotonin gradients). A model of the neural connectome of the target organism is also required. The connectome is extremely complex, and its detailed wiring is not yet understood; thus it is presently being modeled empirically in smaller mammals by projects like the Blue Brain Project.
The Blue Brain Project intends to create a computer simulation of a mammalian cortical column down to the molecular level. By one estimate, a full reconstruction of the human connectome using the methodology of the Blue Brain Project would require a zettabyte of data storage.
Examples
Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm)
The connectivity of the neural circuit for touch sensitivity of the simple C. elegans nematode (roundworm) was mapped in 1985 and partly simulated in 1993. Since 2004, many software simulations of the complete neural and muscular system have been developed, including simulation of the worm's physical environment. Some of these models including source code have been made available for download. However, there is still a lack of understanding of how the neurons and the connections between them generate the surprisingly complex range of behaviors that are observed in the relatively simple organism. This contrast between the apparent simplicity of how the mapped neurons interact with their neighbours, and exceeding complexity of the overall brain function, is an example of an emergent property. This kind of emergent property is paralleled within artificial neural networks, the neurons of which are exceedingly simple compared to their often complex, abstract outputs.
Drosophila neural system
The brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila, has also been thoroughly studied. A simulated model of the fruit fly's brain offers a unique model of sibling neurons. Like the roundworm, this has been made available as open-source software.
Mouse brain mapping and simulation
Henry Markram mapped the types of neurons within the mouse brain and their connections between 1995 and 2005.
In December 2006, the Blue Brain project completed a simulation of a rat's neocortical column. The neocortical column is considered the smallest functional unit of the neocortex. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%20Phillies%20Radio%20Network | The Philadelphia Phillies Radio Network is a network of 21 radio stations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey that air Major League Baseball games of the Philadelphia Phillies. The lead announcers are Scott Franzke with play-by-play and Larry Andersen with color commentary. The flagship station is WIP-FM 94.1 in Philadelphia. The broadcasts were discontinued on the former AM flagship station WPHT 1210 in 2016 (both stations share the same ownership and the move from WPHT was done to reduce pre-emptions of its talk radio schedule).
WTTM in Lindenwold, New Jersey and WWAC in Atlantic City, New Jersey also air a separate broadcast in Spanish. Oscar Budejen is the play by play announcer, while Bill Kulik provides color commentary.
Affiliates
Key
Stations
Current Producers
Mike Angelina
Tucker Bagley
Nick Earnshaw
Jack Fritz
Francisco Rojas
Dan "Buzz" Wilson
See also
List of current MLB announcers
Broadcasting of sports events
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
List of XM Satellite Radio channels
References
Philadelphia Phillies
Major League Baseball on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-network%20processors | Inter-network processors are special-purpose processors which aid in the interconnection of telecommunications networks. Most commonly used inter-network processors are switches, bridges, hubs, routers and gateways.
Switches act as interfaces for communication between telecommunications circuits in a networked environment. In addition, most modern switches have integrated network managing capabilities and may operate on numerous layers of the OSI reference model. Switches usually come as managed or unmanaged. The managed switches commonly have no management interface and/or configuration options, while their counterparts offer interfaces for modification of switch operation.
A bridge can connect numerous local area networks for the purpose of collaboration and/or exchange of information. However, the local area networks must be using the same sets of communication rules or protocols for a bridge interconnection to be successful. In slight contrast, routers are considered intelligent communications processors, which do the same thing as bridges do, namely connect two or more networks, but they allow specification of different protocols to be required factors in the interconnection process rather than the entire protocol suite. Routers are generally optimized for Ethernet LAN interfaces and are likely not to contain any other types of physical interfaces.
Hubs are communications processors which allow for port-switching, similarly to switches. Both of these processors support automatic port-switching in order to provide shared resources access to the users of a particular networked environment. However, hubs do not manage traffic so every packet that enters any port is in output on every other port, resulting in packet collisions that interrupt the flow of traffic.
When networks do not use the same protocols for the purpose of communication, they can be connected via gateways, using protocol conversion processes. In addition, gateways require congruent or at least mutually acceptable administrative procedures between the interconnecting networks. The duties of a gateway are usually much more complex than those of switches or routers.
References
LAN Internetworking Devices: Bridges (1999). Data Communications Networking
Devices. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Retrieved March 6, 2009, from Computers & Applied Sciences Complete database.
LAN Internetworking Devices: Gateways (1999). Data Communications Networking
Devices. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Retrieved March 6, 2009, from Computers & Applied Sciences Complete database.
O’Brien J. A. & Marakas, G. M. (2008). Management Information Systems.
New York: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Routers (2003). Ethernet Networks. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Retrieved March 6, 2009, from
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete database.
Telecommunications infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC%20%28Palm%20OS%29 | PRC (Palm Resource Code) is a container format for code databases in Palm OS, Garnet OS and Access Linux Platform. Its structure is similar to PDB databases. Usually, a PRC file is a flat representation of a Palm OS application that is stored as forked database on the PDA.
PRC files are also used by the Mobipocket e-book-reader (here sometimes referred to as MOBI format). The AZW format of Amazon's Kindle reading device is in turn a DRM-restricted form of the Mobipocket format.
On Palm OS, PRC files are used for applications, localized resources (overlays) and shared libraries.
Structure of PRC file
In its essence, a PRC file is similar to a classic Mac OS application. It contains a PRC header, PRC resource headers and PRC resources.
PRC Header
The PRC header is located at the beginning of the file and contains meta-information on the file:
PRC Resource Header
For every resource (specified by num_records), there is a resource header containing:
PRC Resources
Every application contains al least a Code #0 resource with size information and jump tables, a Code #1 resource with executable code and data resources containing pre-initialized values of global variables in compressed form. Other resources that may be contained are forms, form objects, alerts and multimedia data, e. g. images and sounds.
References
Computer file formats
Palm OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Young%20Publishers | The Society of Young Publishers (SYP) was founded in 1949. Its main aim is to enable publishers in the first ten years of their career to network, exchange ideas and learn more about the industry. Previously restricted to people under 36, the constitution was amended in 2007 to allow anybody "young to publishing" or an allied industry to join.
Headed up by an independent UK committee in charge of administration, the SYP is also composed of seven regional committees that run events in London, Oxford, Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, South West England and Wales. The current UK chairs are Michaela O'Callaghan (Trade Marketing Executive at Bounce Sales and Marketing) and Siobhan Humphries (Sales and Marketing Support at Raintree Publishing).
The SYP has been running a number of digital events since March 2020 and it is looking to open up further branches in the UK, as well as examining whether its model could be adopted in other countries. The SYP publishes the magazine InPrint four times a year, in addition to holding monthly speaker events and other social events. The SYP also hosts a biannual conference, which takes place in Scotland in the spring and alternates between London and Oxford in the autumn.
References
SYP homepage
'The British Society of Young Publishers', an article by Jason Mitchell in the Publishing Journal Logos
A report in The Bookseller regarding the SYP's 60th anniversary
Trade associations based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagoshima%20Yomiuri%20Television | is a TV station affiliated with Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) in Kagoshima, Kagoshima. It is broadcast in Kagoshima Prefecture. It was established on April 1, 1994.
TV channel
Digital Television
Kagoshima 29ch JOUI-DTV
Tandem office
Akune 14ch
Kanoya 49ch
Makurazaki 39ch
Kamō 20ch
Ōkuchi 19ch
Kushikino 14ch
Minamitane 17ch
Nakanoshima 30ch
Naze 17ch
Other
Program
External links
The official website of Kagoshima Yomiuri Television
Nippon News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Mass media in Kagoshima
1994 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las%20Estrellas | Las Estrellas ("The Stars"; previously El Canal de las Estrellas, or "The Channel of the Stars") is one of the cornerstone networks of TelevisaUnivision, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TDT in Mexico City. Many of the programs of Las Estrellas are seen in the United States on Univision, UniMás, and Galavisión.
History
Las Estrellas originated from XEW-TV, which began broadcasting on 11 March 1951. The channel was a sister station to the legendary XEW-AM radio station, owned by Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, which was also the owner of the newly launched channel. It was the second commercial TV channel to be established in Mexico City, after XHTV channel 4, owned by the Novedades newspaper. XEW-TV's first transmission was a live, play-by-play, outside broadcast of a Mexican League match, with XEW radio veteran Pedro Septién on commentary duties. Other than live sports broadcasts, XEW-TV initially broadcast films from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, as its studios in Chapultepec 18 were still under construction. The studio complex, known as Televicentro, would be inaugurated in January 1952. Soon thereafter, the programming scope would be expanded to include live variety shows and television theatre showcases, in a style similar to XEW radio's similarly formatted shows.
XEW-TV would be a pioneer in Mexican television, and would establish many industry firsts. In 1962, the channel would become the flagship network of the newly merged Telesistema Mexicano, which also brought XHTV and XHGC under Azcárraga's hands, and, after merging with XHTM-TV and Televisión Independiente de México, many of these station's programs would move to XEW-TV. As a result, XEW-TV rapidly grew and became the country's most watched TV network, a position which was undisputed for many years, as Televisa held a monopoly on commercial TV in Mexico, which even went into heavily influencing the political landscape in the country. As a result, by 1985, and in preparation for the 1986 FIFA World Cup (in which Televisa was the host broadcaster), XEW-TV was renamed El Canal de las Estrellas, in reference to the station's line-up of actors, comedians and presenters. This was further reinforced with the launch of an image campaign song, sung by Lucía Méndez, in 1988.
After the death of Emilio Azcárraga Milmo in 1997, El Canal de las Estrellas suffered a massive restructuring of its programming. The biggest moment of the restructuring came in 1998, when 24 Horas, the Jacobo Zabludovsky-anchored newscast, long a propaganda mouthpiece of the Mexican political regime, was canceled. The station's brand identity was also replaced with a new logo created by Pablo Rovalo. After a period of ratings turmoil, viewership stabilized, but the channel had to contend now with a surgent XHDF, freshly privatized and bought under the auspicies of TV Azteca.
After years of decline, particularly after 2012, as accusations of political bias in favor of then-President Enriqu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20NMS-1205 | The Philips NMS-1205 was a MSX AUDIO cartridge (without BIOS) using the Yamaha Y8950 chip (released in 1984).
NMS-1205 was only sold in Europe for the MSX Personal Computer.
This cartridge featured FM sound synthesizer, Sound sampler (ADPCM with 32 kB sample RAM), MIDI interface, audio & MIDI I/O connectors, and also built-in software (Music-BOX, CALL MUSICBOX).
Features
FM sound synthesizer : OPL (FM Operator Type-L) compatible
2 RCA mono Audio-out connectors
Volume adjuster (Sample volume)
Sound sampler : 32kB sampleRAM for the ADPCM unit
Audio-in connector (mono, RCA, to sample from a line-level source)
External microphone connector (mono)
Built-in microphone (mono) When an external microphone or line-level source is connected, the internal microphone is automatically disabled.
MIDI interface : In/Out/Thru
Connector for music keyboard (NMS-1160)
Built-in software : Music-BOX, CALL MUSICBOX
References
Synthesizers
Sound cards
MSX hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Electronic%20Message%20Service | The Digital Electronic Message Service (DEMS) is a two-way wireless radio service
for passing of message and facsimile data using the 10.6 and 24 GHz band. As of 1997, Associated Communications was expected to use the band to create a network in 31 U.S. cities.
In October 2005, the FCC moved part of the DEMS service from the 18/19 GHz band to 24 GHz.
References
Radio communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLIS | OLIS may refer to:
OECD Committee Information Service, a statistical data source
Oficjalna Lista Sprzedaży (OLiS), a Polish record chart
Olís, Iceland Oil Ltd.
Oxford Libraries Information System, a library catalog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLEX%20%28programming%20language%29 | PLEX (Programming Language for EXchanges) is a special-purpose, concurrent, real-time programming language. The proprietary PLEX language is closely tied to the architecture of Ericsson's AXE telephone exchanges which it was designed to control. PLEX was developed by Göran Hemdahl at Ericsson in the 1970s, and it has been continuously evolving since then. PLEX was described in 2008 as "a cross between Fortran and a macro assembler."
The language has two variants: Plex-C used for the AXE Central Processor (CP) and Plex-M used for Extension Module Regional Processors (EMRP).
Ericsson started a project in the mid-1980s to create a successor language which resulted in Erlang. According to co-creator Joe Armstrong, "Erlang was heavily influenced by PLEX and the AXE design." Erlang did not replace PLEX, but was used alongside it.
Execution model
A system is divided into separately compiled and loaded units of code called "blocks." A block waits for one or more signals sent from elsewhere in the system which triggers code execution.
Pre-compilers
Several precompilers or code generators exist, to produce source code in Plex-C from higher level languages or graphical models. These can generate Plex-C from:
Specification and Description Language graphical representation (SDL/GR)
Plex-SQL, an extension of Plex-C with database facilities
High Level Plex (HLPLEX) another extension of Plex-C
Source code in Plex-C is compiled into the assembly language ASA210C. The binary form of ASA210C is either interpreted by a combination of hardware and microcode, or is compiled by a just-in-time compiler into native machine code for a high-capacity microprocessor.
References
Concurrent programming languages
Domain-specific programming languages
Ericsson
Programming languages created in the 1970s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benders%20decomposition | Benders decomposition (or Benders' decomposition) is a technique in mathematical programming that allows the solution of very large linear programming problems that have a special block structure. This block structure often occurs in applications such as stochastic programming as the uncertainty is usually represented with scenarios. The technique is named after Jacques F. Benders.
The strategy behind Benders decomposition can be summarized as divide-and-conquer. That is, in Benders decomposition, the variables of the original problem are divided into two subsets so that a first-stage master problem is solved over the first set of variables, and the values for the second set of variables are determined in a second-stage subproblem for a given first-stage solution. If the subproblem determines that the fixed first-stage decisions are in fact infeasible, then so-called Benders cuts are generated and added to the master problem, which is then re-solved until no cuts can be generated. Since Benders decomposition adds new constraints as it progresses towards a solution, the approach is called "row generation". In contrast, Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition uses "column generation".
Methodology
Assume a problem that occurs in two or more stages, where the decisions for the later stages rely on the results from the earlier ones. An attempt at first-stage decisions can be made without prior knowledge of optimality according to later stage decisions. This first-stage decision is the master problem. Further stages can then be analyzed as separate subproblems. Information from these subproblems is passed back to the master problem. If constraints for a subproblem were violated, they can be added back to the master problem. The master problem is then re-solved.
The master problem represents an initial convex set which is further constrained by information gathered from the subproblems. Because the feasible space only shrinks as information is added, the objective value for the master function provides a lower bound on the objective function of the overall problem.
Benders Decomposition is applicable to problems with a largely block-diagonal structure.
Mathematical Formulation
Assume a problem of the following structure:
Where represent the constraints shared by both stages of variables and represents the feasible set for . Notice that for any fixed , the residual problem is
The dual of the residual problem is
Using the dual representation of the residual problem, the original problem can be rewritten as an equivalent minimax problem
Benders decomposition relies on an iterative procedure that chooses successive values of without considering the inner problem except through a set of cut constraints that are created through a pass-back mechanism from the maximization problem. Although the minimax formulation is written in terms of , for an optimal the corresponding can be found by solving the original problem with fixed.
Master Problem Formulati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Greatest%20Athlete | Australia's Greatest Athlete is an Australian television program that debuted in 2009. The first season was broadcast on the Nine Network and was hosted by Andrew Voss and Michael Slater, with Ricky Ponting as a sideline commentator. The second season moved to Channel Seven and was hosted by Mark Beretta and Tom Williams, with Ponting returning as a sideline commentator. Season three was hosted by Mark Beretta and Wendell Sailor, while Billy Slater and Mark Webber replaced Ricky Ponting as the sideline commentators.
These three series were sponsored by Rexona, which gave it naming rights and the series was referred to on-air as Rexona Australia's Greatest Athlete.
The show pits eight of Australia's most talented athletes against each other in various sporting challenges and events, earning points for their rankings. The overall winner receives money which will then be donated to a charity of their choice. Melbourne Storm and Australian Kangaroos fullback Billy Slater was the overall champion of the first season, and returned to defend the title for the second season with a 5-point win over runner-up Shannon Eckstein. The third series was won by Queensland Reds and Australian Wallabies five-eighth Quade Cooper with a 95-point win over runner-up Shannon Eckstein. Slater was unable to compete for a threepeat on account of an injury.
Season one was in syndication on Fox Sports 1 on Tuesdays at 6:30 pm, while season two received replays on 7mate.
A fourth season was confirmed through the show's official website and Facebook page, which also announced a new naming sponsor to replace Rexona as well as female and amateur athletes. It was not listed which channel would broadcast the series. Despite the announcement, no fourth season ever eventuated and the show's Facebook page was deleted, effectively cancelling the series.
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2010)
Season 3 (2011)
References
External links
Official Website
Greatest Athlete Facebook
2009 Australian television series debuts
2011 Australian television series endings
Nine Network original programming
Seven Network original programming
Australian sports television series
2000s Australian reality television series
2010s Australian reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting%20System%20of%20Niigata | is a broadcasting station affiliated with Japan News Network (JNN) in Niigata, Niigata. It broadcasts in Niigata Prefecture, Japan and was established on December 24, 1958.
History
BSN was established as Radio Niigata Co. Ltd. on October 14, 1952. The first test broadcasts were conducted on December 5 and started regular broadcasts on December 24.
The RNK building was affected by the Niigata fire of October 1, 1955.
On December 21, 1958, in the anticipation for the start of television broadcasts four days later, RNK broadcast I Want to Be a Shellfish, a fictionalization of the suicide memoirs of Tetsutaro Kato in 1944. The play was broadcast on October 31 the same year in Kanto.
On December 25, 1958, RNK TV signed on (JODR-TV, VHF channel 5).
TV channel
Digital Television
Yahiko 17ch JODR-DTV 3 kW
Relay stations
Takada 18ch
Mikawa 39ch
Tsunan-Kamigō 18ch
Koide 24ch
Kanose 17ch
Itoigawa-Ōno 18ch
Tsunan 18ch
Ryōtsu 31ch
Aikawa 28ch
Yamato 18ch
Takachi 17ch
Arai 44ch
Murakami 18ch
Sotokaifu 24ch
Yuzawa 17ch
Tsunan-Tanaka 17ch
Sumon 18ch
Muramatsu 39ch
Sekikawa 43ch
Tochio 43ch
Muikamachi 18ch
Myōkōkōgen 44ch
Ōmi 18ch
Kawaguchi 17ch
Radio
AM
Niigata JODR 1116 kHz 50 kW
Joetsu JODO 1530 kHz 1 kW
Nagaoka JODE 1062 kHz 100 W
FM (simulcast)
Niigata 92.7 MHz FM 10 kW
Program
External links
The official website of Broadcasting System of Niigata
Japan News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1958
Mass media in Niigata (city)
Companies based in Niigata Prefecture
1958 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%2016%C3%979%20episodes | This is a list of episodes for 16×9, a Canadian investigative journalism television program on the Global Television Network.
Season 1 (2008/09)
33 episodes have aired with a new episode every Sunday.
References
16:9 The Bigger Picture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niigata%20Television%20Network%2021 | is a TV station affiliated with All-Nippon News Network (ANN) in Niigata, Niigata Prefecture. It was established on March 8, 1983 and began broadcasting from October 1, 1983.
The station has been branded as ux since 2006, after the last two letters of the station's call sign. The station's current slogan is YOU&ME&UX.
History
Niigata Television Network 21 was established on March 7, 1983 and commenced transmissions on October 1, 1983. Prior to that, TV Asahi programming was seen on NST. NST was affiliated to FNN, NNN and ANN, before alleviating the station's network schedule with the launch of TNN (now TeNY), which took over the NNN affiliation in 1981 and NT21, which took over the ANN affiliation in 1983. By then, Niigata has four network stations.
Digital terrestrial transmissions commenced on August 1, 2006. To mark the occasion, NT21 was rebranded as ux. Aside from airing TV Asahi shows, the station also currently airs a few TV Tokyo shows, since the network does not have a station in most prefectures.
TV channel
Digital Television
Yahiko 23ch JOUX-DTV 3 kW
Tandem office
Takada 39ch
Mikawa 49ch
Tsunan-Kamigō 22ch
Koide 32ch
Kanose 23ch
Itoigawa-Ōno 31ch
Tsunan 31ch
Tsugawa 49ch
Ryōtsu 38ch
Aikawa 34ch
Yamato 38ch
Takachi 23ch
Arai 49ch
Murakami 33ch
Sotokaifu 34ch
Yuzawa 23ch
Tsunan-Tanaka 23ch
Itoigawa-Hayakawa 38ch
Sumon 38ch
Muramatsu 49ch
Sekikawa 49ch
Tochio 49ch
Muikamachi 38ch
Myōkōkōgen 49ch
Ōmi 31ch
Takayanagi 41ch
Kawaguchi 23ch
Programs
External links
The official website of Niigata Television Network 21
All-Nippon News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1983
Mass media in Niigata (city)
Companies based in Niigata Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20Classic%20%28disambiguation%29 | Macintosh Classic may refer to:
Macintosh Classic, a Macintosh computer model
Macintosh Classic II
Classic Mac OS, Apple's primary operating system for the Mac prior to Mac OS X
Classic (Mac OS X), a Mac OS X environment that allows Mac OS 9 applications to run in Mac OS X |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasoning%20Mind | Reasoning Mind is a non-profit organization that develops computer-based math curricula and works with schools to implement them in classrooms. In addition, Reasoning Mind provides professional development to teachers using the program. The organization works closely with partner schools to help them achieve a successful implementation. Reasoning Mind uses Instruction Modeling and the Baker Rodrigo Ocumpaugh Monitoring Protocol as core components of its research and development process.
In the 2014–2015 school year, over 100,000 students in grades 2-6 are enrolled in Reasoning Mind's courses. Most of the students are in Texas, but many students in other states (such as West Virginia, California, New York, and Oklahoma) also participate in the program.
The program has been endorsed by the Philanthropy Roundtable, and Reasoning Mind's teacher professional development was praised by the National Council on Teacher Quality. In December 2008, the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas included Reasoning Mind in a list of ten "programs that get an A+."
Reasoning Mind is primarily funded by philanthropy. Major supporters include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Houston Endowment, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, and the ExxonMobil Foundation. The program is also funded by a grant from the Texas Education Agency.
In May 2015, Reasoning Mind was announced as the winner of Deloitte's RightStep Innovation Prize.
See also
Houston A+ Challenge
References
External links
Reasoning Mind webpage
Non-profit organizations based in Houston
Educational organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morita%2C%20Togo | Morita is a town in Plateaux Region, Togo.
Transport
It has been proposed to build a station connecting this town to the national railway network.
See also
Railway stations in Togo
References
Populated places in Plateaux Region, Togo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBYK-FM | CBYK-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network in Kamloops, British Columbia. The station airs at 94.1 FM in Kamloops.
History
The station was established in 1977 as a local rebroadcaster of Vancouver's CBU, replacing private CBC affiliate CFJC (now CKBZ-FM). CBYK switched to CBTK-FM Kelowna after regional programming for the Southern BC Interior commenced from that station in 1987.
On October 28, 2011, the CBC filed an application with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to convert CBYK-FM from a rebroadcaster of CBTK-FM to an anchor of a new 23-station regional CBC Radio One network for the Thompson and Cariboo regions, with regional programming originating from new studios in Kamloops. Under CBC's proposal, the stations under CBYK-FM would have its own morning rush hour program originating out of Kamloops instead of rebroadcasting the programming out of Kelowna, and there would be several news updates throughout the day originating from Kamloops on weekdays. All other programming would be the same as those broadcast in Kelowna. After the application was heard on January 16, 2012 at a CRTC meeting in Miramichi, New Brunswick, the CRTC approved the new regional network on March 30, 2012. Repeater CBUC-FM in Salmon Arm, which was to have been part of the new network, will remain a repeater of CBTK-FM, following interventions from various parties, including the City of Salmon Arm, as the region is more economically-tied with the Okanagan region than with Kamloops.
On September 6, 2012, it was announced that the CBC would launch the new regional network sometime in the fall of that year, with specifics to be announced during the current regional morning program, Daybreak Kelowna, on September 10, 2012; it was announced that day that the new regional morning program for Thompson and Cariboo, Daybreak Kamloops, would begin October 9, 2012, officially launching the new regional network on that day. CBYK's studios and news bureau is based at the Bank of Montreal building on 218 Victoria Street in Kamloops.
Shortly after CBYK-FM's launch as a separate station, residents of Revelstoke complained to the CRTC that they were not consulted by the CBC when they switched their local repeater, CBTO-FM, to CBYK-FM's programming; e-mails made to the city's mayor's office show that 80% of listeners prefer programming from Kelowna, while only 20% prefer the new Kamloops programming. The CRTC later said that it is up to the CBC to decide which programming originates for CBTO-FM, not the CRTC. After city officials contacted the CBC, BC spokesperson Lorna Haeber said that the CBC would make a decision on the issue "shortly", but failed to elaborate how or when the decision would be made. The CRTC subsequently issued a notice that it had approved an application by the CBC to change the local programming source of its Radio One transmitter in Revelstoke from Kamloops back to Kelo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPO3 | TYPO3 is a Web content management system (CMS) written in the programming language PHP. It can run on a variety of web servers, such as Apache, Nginx, or Internet Information Services (IIS), and on many operating systems, including Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS, and OS/2. It is free and open-source software released under the GNU General Public License version 2.
TYPO3 is similar to other popular content management systems such as, Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress. It is used more widely in Europe than in other regions, with larger market share in German-speaking countries.
TYPO3 is credited to be highly flexible, as code and content are run separately. It can be extended by new functions without writing any program code. TYPO3 supports publishing content in multiple languages due to its built-in localization system. Due to its features like editorial workplace and workflow, advanced frontend editing, scalability and maturity, TYPO3 makers classify it as an enterprise level content management system.
History and usage
TYPO3 was initially authored by the Dane Kasper Skårhøj in 1997. It is now developed by over 300 contributors under the lead of Benjamin Mack (Core team leader) and Mathias Schreiber (Product Owner).
Calculations from the TYPO3 Association show that it is currently used in more than 500,000 installations. The number of installations detected by the public website "CMS Crawler" was around 384,000 by February 2017.
Features
TYPO3 provides a base set of interfaces, functions and modules. Most functionality exceeding the base set needs extensions. More than 5000 extensions are currently available for TYPO3 for download under the GNU General Public License from a repository called the TYPO3 Extension Repository, or TER.
TYPO3 can run on most HTTP servers such as Apache, Nginx or IIS on top of Linux, Microsoft Windows or macOS. It uses PHP 7.2 or newer and any relational database supported by the TYPO3 DBAL including MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Some 3rd-party extensions not using the database API support MySQL as the only database engine.
The system can be run on any web server with at least 256 MB RAM and a CPU appropriate for that RAM. The backend can be displayed in any modern browser with JavaScript. There is no browser restriction for displaying user-oriented content generated by TYPO3.
Since version 4.5, TYPO3 is published with a demo website called "Introduction Package". The websites serves as a tutorial for setting up a working example website and allows experimenting with built-in features. The package can be enabled from the install tool.
Building basic proficiency in TYPO3 needs between a few weeks up to some months. For an author or editor who administers and operates a TYPO3 based website, this requirement can range from a few minutes to a few hours. A developer setting up a website with TYPO3 would need to work intensively with the meta-language TypoScript.
System architecture
Conceptually, T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%20College%20Basketball | ESPN College Basketball is a blanket title used for presentations of college basketball on ESPN and its family of networks. Its coverage focuses primarily on competition in NCAA Division I, holding broadcast rights to games from each major conference, and a number of mid-major conferences.
ESPN was the first broadcaster to provide extensive early-round coverage of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, prior to CBS, later in partnership with Turner Sports, holding sole rights to "March Madness". The network also covers a number of early-season tournaments, conference championships, and is also the exclusive broadcaster of the National Invitation Tournament and the Women's Division I championship.
History
1979
ESPN has aired college basketball games from its inception, starting in 1979 with DePaul's victory over Wisconsin with a then-novice color commentator Dick Vitale and Joe Boyle doing the play-by-play. In the early days, Vitale was paired with veteran sportscaster Jim Simpson.
1980s
One of the first milestone events that ESPN covered was the NCAA tournament. In 1980, the fledgling channel had a total of 23 tournament games. More specifically, ESPN aired the NCAA Productions telecasts of all 16 first-round games (12 on tape delay). Jay Randolph, Gary Thompson, Steve Shannon, Steve Grad, Fred White, Larry Conley, Bill O'Donnell, Bucky Waters, and Jeff Mullins were among the commentators. ESPN again aired 16 first-round games (12 on tape delay) produced by NCAA Productions in 1981. That year, ESPN aired the BYU-Notre Dame (at Atlanta) with Bill O'Donnell and Jeff Mullins on the call. This particular game soon became famous for Danny Ainge's coast-to-coast buzzer beater to send BYU to Elite 8. ESPN also aired the last Final Four consolation game at 5 p.m. on March 30, 1981.
They intensively covered the early rounds of March Madness, gaining the entire tournament much prestige. The early rounds of course were not the most ideal time, many games taking place during work hours. When CBS gained exclusive coverage in 1991, they would largely mimic how their predecessor had covered the event. ESPN aired the NCAA productions telecasts of all 16 first-round games (12 on tape delay).
During the 1985 NCAA tournament, ESPN aired five live games on each first round day which, combined with the CBS games and the around the clock ESPN tape delayed games, made for almost non-stop basketball for 55 consecutive hours from Thursday noon through early Saturday evening. With four games at each first round site, NCAA Productions typically sent two announcer crews to each site to call two games each.
One of the next milestones in ESPN's coverage was when they aired Championship Week for the first time in 1986 (the term would be coined later however). The network was given critical acclaim for its coverage of the conference tournaments, of bouncing from game to the next. It also raised the profile of many "mid-major" and "minor" conferences who received |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Pike | Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author.
Life and works
He is best known for his work on the Go programming language and, earlier, at Bell Labswhere he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language.
He also co-developed the Blit graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981. Pike is the sole inventor named in US patent 4,555,775.
Over the years Pike has written many text editors; sam and acme are the most well known and are still in active use and development.
Pike, with Brian Kernighan, is the co-author of The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment. With Ken Thompson he is the co-creator of UTF-8. Pike also developed lesser systems such as the vismon program for displaying faces of email authors.
Pike also appeared once on Late Night with David Letterman, as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn & Teller.
Pike worked at Google from 2002 to 2021 when he retired. While at Google, he has been involved in the creation of the programming languages Go and Sawzall.
Pike is married to author and illustrator Renée French; the couple live in both the US and Australia.
See also
The plumber – the interprocess communications mechanism used in Plan 9 and Inferno
Mark V. Shaney – an artificial Usenet poster designed by Pike
References
External links
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy – Slides of his presentation at the commemoration of 1000000000 seconds of the Unix clock.Archive on cat-v.org
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (a.k.a. utah2000) slidesps file
Pike's personal homepage
Pike's Google homepage
1956 births
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Computer programmers
Canadian technology writers
Unix people
Google employees
Plan 9 people
Inferno (operating system) people
Scientists at Bell Labs
Programming language designers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20interface | In the Java programming language, the constant interface pattern describes the use of an interface solely to define constants, and having classes implement that interface in order to achieve convenient syntactic access to those constants.
However, since constants are very often merely an implementation detail, and the interfaces implemented by a class are part of its exported API, this practice amounts to putting implementations details into the API, which was considered inappropriate by, e.g., Java designer Joshua Bloch. In general, collecting system constants into classes independent of behaviour might create a poor object-oriented design because it is often a sign of low cohesion. For these reasons, constant interfaces may be considered an anti-pattern.
Use of this pattern has a few other downsides:
It pollutes the class namespace with read-only variables that may not be of use.
Contrary to the compile-time tactical utility of implementing a constant interface, the incidental run-time artifacts have little practical purpose (cf. marker interfaces which also have no methods but are useful at run-time).
If binary code compatibility is required in future releases, the constant interface must remain forever an interface (it cannot be converted into a class), even though it has not been used as an interface in the conventional sense.
Without an IDE that resolves where the constant are coming from, tracking it back to its containing class or interface can be time consuming.
An instance of the interface is syntactically no more useful than the interface name itself (since it has no methods).
Unless a developer checks any implemented interfaces when adding a constant to a class, or does so but makes a typo in the name of the added constant, the value of a constant can be silently changed. Consider Example 2 below.
Note that the Java libraries use constant interface pattern themselves, showing that it may be a reasonable choice in some situations.
Example 1
public interface Constants {
double PI = 3.14159;
double PLANCK_CONSTANT = 6.62606896e-34;
}
public class Calculations implements Constants {
public double getReducedPlanckConstant() {
return PLANCK_CONSTANT / (2 * PI);
}
}
Example 2
public interface Constants {
public static final int CONSTANT = 1;
}
public class Class1 implements Constants {
public static final int CONSTANT = 2; // *
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
System.out.println(CONSTANT);
}
}
Before the line marked with an asterisk is added, running Class1 prints 1. After adding the line, Class1 prints 2. Both versions compile without warnings or errors.
Alternatives
Many of the pitfalls of the anti-pattern can be avoided by converting the constant interface to a class with static attributes:
public final class Constants {
private Constants() {
// restrict instantiation
}
public static final double PI = 3.14159;
public static final double PLANCK_CONSTANT = 6.62606896e-34;
}
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%3A%20Starship%20Creator%20Warp%20II | Star Trek: Starship Creator Warp II is an American computer-based vehicle simulation game released by Simon & Schuster Interactive in 2000, as a sequel to Star Trek: Starship Creator (1998). The game is backwards compatible with its predecessor, and allows for ships to be imported into the multi-player mode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars (2001). The game allows the user to create their own starships, crew them with personnel from the Star Trek universe, and send them on missions.
Gameplay
Star Trek: Starship Creator Warp II was a follow-up to Star Trek: Starship Creator, released in 1998. It enabled the player to build starships from the Star Trek universe, both from the era of Star Trek: The Original Series and later in the franchise. This involves fitting out the chosen type of starship with technology, including warp drives and weaponry, before selecting the ship's crew. The game also allowed for the player to import their own photos and create new crew members. Once created, the player can send up to two ships simultaneously on missions.
Warp II was designed to be backwards compatible with its predecessor, and also allowed for four types of ships to be exported to the multi-player mode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars which was released in 2001. Because of this ability to connect with the later game, Warp II came packaged with Dominion Wars.
Production
Star Trek: Starship Creator Warp II was the second Star Trek game to be published by Simon & Schuster. Writer Peter David and his wife Kathleen O'Shea David wrote ten missions for the game, but only three were used. The game was released internationally in both the United States and the United Kingdom on June 12, 2000.
Reception
Lisa Karen Savignano in her review for Allgame, said that the missions were varied and she enjoyed the ability to create missions, though the difficulty of creating them at first could be frustrating. She criticised the printing of the game manual on a poster but said that the compatibility with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars "augers well for continuous play". Maximum PC magazine listed it as one of its "Lemons of the Year" for 2000, saying that "It's worse than a hangover from drinking too much Romulan ale, or contracting Tribble VD."
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