source stringlengths 32 199 | text stringlengths 26 3k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Linux%20distributions%20that%20run%20from%20RAM | This is a list of Linux distributions that can be run entirely from a computer's RAM, meaning that once the OS has been loaded to the RAM, the media it was loaded from can be completely removed, and the distribution will run the PC through the RAM only. This ability allows them to be very fast, since reading and writing data from/to RAM is much faster than on a hard disk drive or solid state drive. Many of these operating systems will load from a removable media such as a Live CD or a Live USB stick. A "frugal" install can also often be completed, allowing loading from a hard disk drive instead.
This feature is implemented in live-initramfs and allows the user to run a live distro that does not run from ram by default by adding toram to the kernel boot parameters.
Additionally some distributions can be configured to run from RAM, such as Ubuntu using the toram option included in the Casper scripts.
Table
See also
tmpfs; by mounting a tmpfs and running files that are placed on this, files and programs can be run from RAM, even on Linux distros that do not run completely in RAM
Clustered file system; network file systems are another way to avoid needing to use a (slow) harddisk (at least faster if using a E-IDE harddisk)
initrd ("initial ramdisk"), a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory in the boot process of the Linux kernel.
Lightweight Linux distribution
List of live CDs
List of tools to create Live USB systems
SYSLINUX, a suite of lightweight IBM PC MBR bootloaders for starting up computers with the Linux kernel.
Windows PE, a non-Linux operating system that can also be run from RAM.
References
External links
Light-weight Linux distributions
Light-weight |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operissimo | Operissimo is an online database based in Zürich, which is dedicated to recording details of classical music concerts and opera performances. The database currently includes biographies on over 7,500 composers and 44,000 performing artists, encompassing both historical and contemporary figures. The biographies contain articles, without attribution, based on the third edition of the Großes Sängerlexikon. It also includes details on more than 47,000 performances, 340 opera houses, and more than 55,000 recordings.
References
External links
Online music and lyrics databases
Online person databases
Swiss music websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia%20Broadcasting%20System | The Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) is a state-owned radio and television network in Liberia. Founded as a corporation in 1960, the network was owned and operated by Rediffusion London until 1968, when management passed to the Government of Liberia. The network began broadcasting television as the Liberia Broadcasting Corporation in January 1964 over channel 6. Following the 1980 coup d’état, the newly formed People's Redemption Council gave the network its current name. As a result of the First Liberian Civil War, the company briefly ceased broadcasting in 1990, because the network's premises were heavily damaged by war and looters over the next seven years.
The station later continued to broadcast all through the war after its home in Paynesville, outside Monrovia became inaccessible Monrovia. Upon the arrival of the West African peace keeping mission, ECOMOG, to Liberia in 1990, The Force provider a space for LBS to continue its broadcast at the Monrovia Free Zone, on the Bushroad Island, where the Peace Keepers were based. The station later moved to the Ducor Continental Hotel on upper broad street in central Monrovia where LBS operated until 1998 (following the election and inauguration of Charles Taylor as president of Liberia) when it moved back to Paynesville.
The network continue to provide radio broadcasts, though the lack of proper equipment limited the broadcasts to a sixty-mile radius around Monrovia. In 2008, the Chinese government installed a new 10 kW FM transmitter, along with several secondary transmitters throughout the country, which extended the network nationwide. Additionally, the network reestablish its television service, the Liberia National Television for the Monrovia area, in the beginning, with plans to extend it nationwide.
See also
Communications in Liberia
References
Radio stations in Liberia
Mass media in Monrovia
1960 establishments in Liberia
Publicly funded broadcasters
Television channels and stations established in 1964
State media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%20Yepes | José Antonio Gil Yepes is a Venezuelan sociologist and, since 1991, President of Caracas-based polling firm Datanálisis. He was professor at the Venezuelan business school Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA) from 1972 to 1990.
Background
After graduating in sociology from the Central University of Venezuela, Gil Yepes obtained a PhD in sociology and public administration from Northwestern University in the United States.
Career
Academia
Gil Yepes was professor at Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA) from 1972 to 1990. He also held positions at Pennsylvania State University, Andrés Bello Catholic University and Simón Bolívar University.
Business
Gil Yepes has been a director of a variety of companies, including Banco de Venezuela (when it was owned by Grupo Santander) and Chocolates El Rey. He was director of the Caracas Stock Exchange and Caracas Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of COPRE (the presidential commission on state reform) from 1985 to 1994. Since 1991, is President of Caracas-based polling firm Datanálisis.
Books
Explorations is search of the definition and explicantes of left radical behavior among college students, 1970
Development of radical identities in a social circle of white Northwestern University students, Northwestern University, 1974
El reto de las élites, Tecnos, 1978, published in English as The challenge of Venezuelan democracy, New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1981
La centro democracia: El modelo de sociedad preferido por los venezolanos. El Nacional. 2009
References
Academic staff of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración
Central University of Venezuela alumni
Northwestern University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20underground%20stations%20of%20the%20Merseyrail%20network | This article lists the six underground stations and five below ground level stations of the Merseyrail network which is centred on Liverpool, England.
Underground stations
Sub-surface stations - built in cuttings
Former stations
Merseytravel intend that St James railway station will be reopened as part of the Liverpool City Region transport plan.
Future
St James railway station, which has been closed for a century, may reopen because of the important Baltic Triangle development in Toxteth. If opened, the station will be on the Merseyrail Northern Line between Liverpool Central and Brunswick railway station
Notes
References
Sources
List of underground stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dermanland%20Runic%20Inscription%20Fv1948%3B295 | Sö Fv1948;295 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located in Prästgården, which is just west of Jönåker, Södermanland County, Sweden. It commemorates two men who are described as being thegns.
Description
This runestone was found in two pieces during construction work at a rectory at the Lunda church in 1947. The stone was repaired and raised in the nearby churchyard cemetery. The inscription consists of runic text in the younger futhark carved on a serpent that encircles a Christian cross. The runestone, which is 2.3 meters in height, is classified as being carved in runestone style Fp. This is the classification for inscriptions with text bands that end in serpent or beast heads depicted as seen from above. Runestones are often dated based upon comparative linguistic and stylistic analysis, and the inscription on the stone at Prästgården has been dated to approximately the period of 1020 to 1050 C.E.
A portion of the runic text was damaged but was reconstructed based upon similar language on other runestones. The text states that Halfdan raised the stone in memory of his father Ragnvaldr and his brother Dan. Although it might seem unusual for one family to have two brothers that are named Dan and Halfdan, a similar situation in another family is documented on runestone U 511 in Mälsta. The father Ragnvaldr and the brother Dan are described as being Þegns or thegns. The exact status of thegns in Scandinavia is unclear, although the term was borrowed from England, where it was used for royal or military retainers. Scandinavian thegns appear to have been powerful local landowners but it is unclear whether their status reflected royal sponsorship or power. The last portion of the runic text, sin þrutaʀ þiak(n)a, is located outside of the serpent. The runes sin þrutaʀ are located on each side of the base of the cross, with the final ʀ rune being represented in the shape of the tongue of the serpent. The runes þiak(n)a for þegna or "Þegns" are hidden in the base of the cross as "secret runes." The phrase þróttar þegna or "Þegns of strength" is also used on Sö 367 in Släbro and in its singular form on Sö 90 in Lövhulta, Sö 112 in Kolunda, Sö 151 in Lövsund, Sö 158 in Österberga, and Sö 170 in Nälberga.
The Rundata designation for this Södermanland inscription, Sö Fv1948;295, refers to the year and page number of the issue of Fornvännen in which the runestone was first described.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
: halftan ÷ rasþi : st(a)- ...si : at : raknualt : faþur : sin : ouk : tan * bruþur sin þrutaʀ þiak(n)a
Transcription into Old Norse
Halfdan reisti stei[n þenn]a at Ragnvald, fôður sinn, ok Dan, bróður sinn, þróttar þegna.
Translation in English
Halfdan raised this stone in memory of Ragnvaldr, his father, and Dan, his brother, Þegns of strength.
References
Runestones in Södermanland
11th-century inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20highways%20%28Ukraine%29 | State highways in Ukraine are subdivided into three categories: international (M-network), national (H-network), and regional (P-network). The letter's indexes are in Cyrillic, standing for their respective abbreviations in Ukrainian.
List of international highways in Ukraine
International highways in Ukraine are the roads in Ukraine on routes involving international transport corridors and/or highways that are part of the European network. The international highways in Ukraine are identified with the letter M for the Ukrainian designation (Mizhnarodni), followed by the double digits 01 through 30. Usually their major routes of freeways detour around highly congested areas such as cities; however, these highways also might have some branches with the same identification signs posted while going through such congested areas. Some of these highways, especially around major cities have 8, 10, or more lanes.
There are 28 international highways of Ukraine with a total length of . Those highways encompass 4.9% of all highways in the country. In the following list, all lengths are given by the major route. When branches (or exits) are mentioned and added to the length, the total length then measured including the entire network, not as an alternative route (compare with business route).
List of national roads in Ukraine
List of regional roads in Ukraine
P01: Kyiv - Obukhiv
P02: Kyiv - Ivankiv - Ovruch, entrances to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Dytiatky checkpoint) and memorial complex in Novi Petrivtsi
P03: Northeast Kyiv bypass, access to highway M03
P04: Kyiv - Fastiv - Bila Tserkva - Tarascha - Zvenyhorodka, entrances No.1 and No.2 to the city of Fastiv
P05: Dytiatky checkpoint - "Pripyat" checkpoint, entrance to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the villages of Straholissya and Stari Sokole
P05: Horodyshche - Sarny - Rivne - Starokostiantyniv, north and south entrances to the city of Rivne, entrance to the city of Netishyn; redesignated as H25 in 2017
P06: "Chernobyl" checkpoint - "Ovruch" checkpoint, entrances to the cities of Pripyat and Chernobyl and the villages of Buryakivka and Maryanivka
P06: Blahovishchenske - Voznesensk - Mykolaiv, entrance to Mykolaiv International Airport, former highway M23, redesignated as H24 in 2017
P07: Chuhuiv - Starobelsk - Milove; redesignated as H26 in 2017
P08: Nemyriv - Yampil
P09: Myronivka - Kaniv - Sofiyivka
P10: Kaniv - Chyhyryn - Kremenchuk, entrance to the village of Subotiv; former P15
P11: Poltava - Krasnohrad
P12: Chernihiv - Mena - Sosnytsia - Hremyach, entrance to the city of Novhorod-Siversky; redesignated as H27 in 2017
P13: Chernihiv - Horodnia - Senkivka; redesignated as H28 in 2017
P14: Lutsk - Kivertsi - Manevychi - Liubeshiv - Dolsk to the border with Belarus
P15: Kovel - Volodymyr - Chervonohrad - Zhovkva, entrance to the city of Volodymyr
P15: Kaniv - Chyhyryn - Kremenchuk, entrance to the village of Subotiv; redesignated as P10 in 2009
P16: Entrance to sensi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-42 | K-42 or K42 may refer to:
K42, a discontinued open-source research operating system
K-42 (Kansas highway)
K-42 Camera, a prototype airborne photo reconnaissance camera
, a corvette of the Indian Navy
Potassium-42, an isotope of potassium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20of%20Engineering%2C%20Ewha%20Womans%20University | The College of Engineering at Ewha Womans University is one of its eleven major academic divisions (or colleges). Established in 1996, it has four departments: Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Environmental Science, and Architecture. The college currently offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees.
History
The college of engineering at Ewha Womans University was established in 1996 as the world’s first women’s college of engineering. Approximately 1,100 undergraduate and 120 graduate students have been studying at the college under the three divisions — Division of Computer & Electronics Engineering, Division of Architecture, and Division of Environmental & Food Science.
1980s
- 1981: The Department of Computer Science founded in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
1990s
- 1993: The Department of Environmental Science founded in the College of Natural Science
- 1994: The Department of Electronics Engineering and the Department of Architecture founded in the College of Natural Science
- 1996: Dean KiHo Lee takes office (first dean)
- 1996: The College of Engineering founded. The four departments, Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Environmental Science, and Architecture transferred to the College of Engineering
- 1996: The Department of Environmental Science renamed as the Department of Environmental Science & Engineering
- 1997: Dean Yoon-Kyoo Jhee takes office (second dean)
- 1998: The Department of Computer Science renamed as the Department of Computer Science & Engineering
- 1999: Dean Yeoung-Soo Shin takes office (third dean)
- 1999: The College of Engineering organized into 2 divisions: Computer Science & Electronics Engineering, and Architecture & Environmental System Engineering.
2000s
- 2000: The Department of Electronics Engineering renamed as the Department of Information Electronics Engineering. The Department of Environmental Science & Engineering renamed as Environmental Science & Engineering Major School
- 2000: System reorganized
- 2001: Dean Seung Soo Park takes office (fourth dean)
- 2003: Dean Yeoung-Soo Shin takes office (fifth dean)
- 2005: Dean Yeoung-Soo Shin takes office (sixth dean)
- 2006: School system reorganized.
- 2006: The College of Engineering organized into three divisions: Computer Information Communication, Architecture, and Environmental & Food Technology
- 2006: The Department of Computer Science & Engineering and the Department of Information Electronics Engineering integrated into the Department of Computer Information Communication Engineering
- 2006: The Department of Architecture divided into Architecture Design Major and Architectural Engineering Major
- 2006: The Department of Environmental Science & Engineering and the Department of Food Sciences & Technology reorganized into the Division of Environmental and Food Technology
- 2006: Introduced the Accreditation Program for Engineering Education
- 2007: Dean Myoung-Hee Kim takes office (seventh dean)
- 2007: Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMPUS%20%28database%29 | CAMPUS (acronym for Computer Aided Material Preselection by Uniform Standards) is a multilingual database for the properties of plastics. It is considered worldwide as a leader in regard to the level of standardization and therefore, ease of comparison, of plastics properties. It also supports diagrams to a large extent. CAMPUS is based on ISO standards 10350, for single-point value e.g. the density, and 11403, for diagrams, e.g. the Stress–strain curve.
History
Standardization
In the 1980s, the European market for thermoplastics compounds was extremely confusing. On one hand, the number of supplied grades went up from 5,000 to 10,000, while on the other hand, more than 2,500 technical specifications were published alone by the German DIN that were dealing with plastics in general. Moreover, the citation of a testing standard alone was not sufficient, to exactly specify a test method let alone the question of sample preparation. Within the same period, personal computers became more widely available and were also used to collect plastics data. Many users, molders and material suppliers did that in parallel and completely independently, some using different scales of measurement. Therefore, the question arose how to compare such data.
For all these reasons, a DIN committee (DIN-Fachnormkreis) began in 1984 to create a list of preferred test methods for plastics testing (the so-called Grundwertekatalog, "Ground-values-catalog")) which should fulfill the following constrictions:
definition of sample preparation procedures for a small number of samples shapes;
selection of meaningful test methods with potential for international standardization.
In the European standardization community, the proposal was further developed under close cooperation with UK, France and West Germany (so-called "Tripartite-Forum") within ISO TC61/SC1/WG4 and finally published in 1990 as ISO documents 10350 and ISO 11403. In the years after, these two standards were revised several times, most recently in 2008 resp. 2003.
Software development
The early days
At the beginning of 1987, the process was discussed to speed-up the public awareness for the Grundwertekatalog by developing a unique database format for several raw-material suppliers. This idea was further being discussed within major supply companies of the time, such as BASF, Bayer, Hoechst and Hüls. They found more advantages:
fulfill the customer demand for comparable data
replace variety of brochures and datasheets with one database
accelerate update process
simplify material pre-selection for plastics (search function)
establish a single standard, even for other suppliers.
In March 1987, the first meeting was held between experts from these four companies in order to define the architectural needs for the database development:
easy access to database: which, at that time this meant a PC application distributed by floppy discs
easy user interface: self-explaining menus and a consistent helping syst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauffman%20Fellows%20Program | The Kauffman Fellowship is a two-year educational, networking, and leadership development program for venture capitalists. It was named after Ewing Marion Kauffman. The Kauffman Fellows Program is a nonprofit with a 20-year history of identifying, educating, mentoring and networking future venture capitalists. As of 2011, it had graduated more than 250 fellows, who have worked at venture firms in the U.S. and internationally.
Center for Venture Education
The Kauffman Fellows Program originated as an endeavor of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, from which it was spun out in 2000, and is now managed by the Center for Venture Education, based in Palo Alto, California.
Notable Kauffman Fellows
Trish Costello, Portfolia
Mamoon Hamid, Social Capital
Jenny Lee, GGV Capital
Mala Gaonkar
Michael McCullough
Justin Rockefeller
References
Venture capital |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes%20Ping | iTunes Ping, or simply Ping, was a software-based, music-oriented social networking and recommender system developed and operated by Apple Inc. It was announced and launched on September 1, 2010, as part of the tenth major release of iTunes. The service launched with 1 million members in 23 countries.
The service allowed users to follow artists and see short, timely postings by both friends and artists. Ping was also accessible via iTunes for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Apple officially closed the service on September 30, 2012, and replaced it with Facebook and Twitter integration in iTunes.
iPod
After Ping's official announcement on September 1, 2010, Karsten Manufacturing, the parent company of PING, a golfing equipment manufacturer, released a statement regarding the name of Apple's social network, stating that Karsten Manufacturing had entered into an agreement with Apple under which Apple will use the "Ping" trademark in connection with its iTunes application.
The name has also caused minor confusion as the term "to ping", which was being used by users of Ping, is already a commonly used but unrelated computer term used in conjunction with Ping networking utility.
Announcement
Ping was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as being "sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes," but stating that "Ping is not Facebook" and "it is not Twitter," instead describing it as "something else ... all about music." Many have speculated that Ping was meant to compete directly with the declining MySpace, which is still holding on to its existence through music.
Endorsement
The announcement was endorsed by both Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, who closed the event by performing "Viva La Vida" and "Yellow", as well as an unreleased song titled "Wedding Bells", and Lady Gaga who introduced the social network in a recorded video message that was played as part of the practical demo of the service.
Issues
Facebook
During Apple's announcement of Ping, chief executive Steve Jobs gave a demo of the service in which he demonstrated the basic functionality of the service, including Facebook integration. However, shortly after Ping was released to the public, users began to report that Facebook's social integration had been removed.
Kara Swisher, technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, reported that after speaking to Steve Jobs regarding the matter, he had revealed that Facebook and Apple had failed to reach an agreement. Jobs further reported that Facebook wanted "onerous terms that [Apple] could not agree to." However, Apple launched Ping with Facebook integration without authorization, and that subsequently, Facebook implemented a block, denying Ping access to the application programming interface (API), necessary in "linking" Facebook with Ping. The result was the inability to search for an iTunes user's friends on Facebook who were also connected to Ping.
To provide Facebook integration in Ping, Apple had to retrieve users' information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberston%20Academy | Humberston Academy (formerly Humberston Maths and Computing College) is a secondary school with academy status (DRET) based in Humberston (near Grimsby), North East Lincolnshire, England.
Admissions
It does not have a sixth form. It is situated on Humberston Avenue (B1219 - off the A1031) in the west of Humberston. Further to the west along the B1219 is the Tollbar Academy, and the school is less than one mile north of Lincolnshire (East Lindsey - Tetney and Holton-le-Clay, which has grammar schools). Directly to the west is the Humberston Country Club golf club.
History
The school opened in 1977 as Humberston Comprehensive School.
Until 1996 it was administered by Humberside Education Committee, based in Beverley. It gained specialist status in 2006.
In January 2009 it was placed in special measures. From September 2009, the school name changed from Humberston School to Humberston Maths and Computing College.
The school converted to academy status in 2011 and was renamed Humberston Academy. the school is now sponsored by the David Ross Education Trust.
Academic performance
In the last round of GCSE exams, the school gained the third best GCSE results for North East Lincolnshire.
Notable former pupils
Keeley Donovan, BBC weather presenter
Max Wright (English footballer), Grimsby Town footballer: Max Wright
Harry Clifton (footballer, born 1998), Grimsby Town footballer: Harry Clifton
References
External links
School website
EduBase
Schools in Grimsby
Educational institutions established in 1977
Secondary schools in the Borough of North East Lincolnshire
1977 establishments in England
Academies in the Borough of North East Lincolnshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20swap | In computer science, the standard swap or three point turn is a programming paradigm that exchanges the values of two variables.
By using a third variable, whose value is otherwise of no concern, to hold the value of the first, and then assigning the second's to the first, and the third's back to the second, the values of the first two are swapped.
For example:
let temp = b
let b = a
let a = temp
In modern CPUs this is accomplished on the processor itself, in a single machine instruction, rather than having to go through RAM.
Programming paradigms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlow-Kilkenny%20Acute%20Hospitals | Carlow-Kilkenny Acute Hospitals was a hospital network in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It consisted of:
Kilcreene Orthopaedic Hospital
St. Luke's General Hospital
Both hospitals are now part of a revised hospital group structure, with Kilcreene Orthopaedic Hospital moving to the South-South West Hospital Group, and St. Luke's General Hospital moving to the Ireland East Hospital Group.
References
See also
List of hospitals in Ireland
County Kilkenny
Hospital networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20Christian%20Fellowship | Bristol Christian Fellowship (BCF) is a network of churches, located in the Bristol region in the U.K. It is a non-denominational church. There are currently three churches which make up the network: Resound in North East Bristol; Thornbury in North of Bristol; and Aardvark located in central Bristol. It is part of the Evangelical Alliance and the Pioneer Network.
History
Bristol Christian Fellowship first began in the 1960s, with a group of Christians looking for another way to experience church.
In the late 1960s, it grew out of the 'charismatic and house church movement. It emerged in a natural way, through various people encountering God in new ways and seeking an honest and authentic form of Christian community. Two groups, which initially met in houses in Olveston and Patchway, merged to form what became BCF.
During the Last 4 decades, the Church have made many changes in its shapes and meetings. The church maintained its presence in the north of Bristol and in Thornbury, with other churches joining along the way. In recent years BCF had been meeting as one group in east Bristol, but in 2009, there was a significant change that were made to the structure of the church. It was at this point that BCF started meeting as the three different expressions of Resound, Thornbury and Aardvark. These three groups have formed separate churches, thus, making the former 1 church system, a church network. all 3 districts of the church comes under the 'umbrella churches' of Bristol Christian Fellowship.
Leadership
Although the BCF Network functions as a single charitable trust church, leadership is primarily located a local level within each church.
Previous leaders includes: Dave Day, Neil Edbrooke, Steve Hepden, Nic Harding, Lloyd Pietersen
Bible Christian Fellowship had its own school built in 1984 until it was demolished in 1992, it was named as Oakhill, in which it was run by BCF members.
References
External links
Bristol Christian Fellowship
The Polemic of the Pastorals, Lloyd Pietersen
Evangelical Alliance
Pioneer Network
Charismatic and Pentecostal organizations
Christian organisations based in the United Kingdom
Evangelical parachurch organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20Operating%20System | The Xerox Operating System (XOS) was an operating system for the XDS Sigma series of computers "optimized for direct replacement of IBM DOS/360 installations" and to provide real-time and timesharing support.
The system was developed, beginning in 1969, for Xerox by the French firm CII (now Bull).
XOS was more successful in Europe than in the US, but was unable to compete with IBM. By 1972 there were 35 XOS installations in Europe, compared to 2 in the US.
References
External links
XOS Documentation at Bitsavers
XOS: the Xerox operating system, general information digest
Discontinued operating systems
Proprietary operating systems
Operating System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult%20Swim%20Brain%20Trust | Adult Swim Brain Trust (also known as Anime Talk Show) is an adult animated television special that aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on November 7, 2004. The special revolves around the unofficial pilot for Squidbillies. Prior to its GameTap revival, it is often considered the last episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast since it follows the same format as the show, with Space Ghost interviewing guests. The short was dubbed "Anime Talk Show" due to it following the premiere of Perfect Hair Forever, which aired in place of what was supposed to have been the premiere of Squidbillies. It was given the official name Adult Swim Brain Trust when it was uploaded to YouTube and the Adult Swim website in 2012.
Adult Swim Brain Trust was released as a special feature on the Squidbillies Volume One DVD on October 16, 2007. The special was also available on Adult Swim's YouTube channel before it went private.
Plot
Adult Swim Brain Trust features Space Ghost of Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet hosting a focus group discussion about the unofficial pilot of Squidbillies with Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Early Cuyler from Squidbillies, and Sharko from Sealab 2021. The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future from Aqua Teen Hunger Force makes a cameo as a caller. Zorak and "Dad" from The Brak Show also appear after being shot by Early. Throughout the special, Space Ghost attempts to interview his guests, but they do not cooperate. After unsuccessfully attempting to perform the interview, Space Ghost is shot by Sharko, who is eventually killed by Early. The special ends with the set in ruins and Early shooting the talking head of Space Ghost off of Meatwad, while a bear eats Sharko's dead body in the background.
Cast
See also
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
List of Space Ghost Coast to Coast episodes
External links
2000s American television specials
2000s animated television specials
Animated crossover television specials
2004 television specials
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Adult Swim pilots and specials
Aftershows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar%20and%20the%20Adventures%20of%20Badou | Babar and the Adventures of Badou is a computer-animated children's television series that premiered in 2010 based on the characters created by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff. The series takes place several years after the original series and has created new characters to the Babar universe, including Badou, who is Babar's 8-year-old grandson and the protagonist of the series. produced by TeamTO .
The English version of the twenty-six episode series first premiered on September 6, 2010 in Australia on ABC2, in France on TF1's TFOU strand on November 8, and in Canada on YTV on November 22. Vice President and Managing Director of Jumbo Pictures, and Nelvana Enterprises, Colin Bohm explained that Nelvana was excited to bring Babar into the 21st century with a new 3D TV series as well as a comprehensive licensing program from TF1. The series also premiered in the U.S. on Playhouse Disney.
Babar and the Adventures of Badou was renewed for a second season, which began airing on Disney Junior on March 25, 2013. The third and final season aired from 2014 to 2015.
Overview
The series follows the adventures of Babar's 8-year-old grandson Badou, who along with his friends and family, solves numerous mysteries, puzzles and situations in Celesteville. The city now features other animals besides elephants.
Although the series features a majority of new characters to the Babar universe, some of the original characters remain though, such as Babar, Celeste and Lord Rataxes, with other original characters also involved.
Episodes
Characters
Pupil characters
Badou (voiced by Dallas Jokic and Drew Adkins) is an elephant, who is prince of Celesteville and lives there with his grandparents. Badou ("Bou" to his friends) is bursting with a sense of adventure. He has inherited his grandfather's daring spirit, plunging into any situation with boundless confidence that he can handle whatever it can throw at him. He idolises his grandfather, and feels the need to prove himself worthy of his legendary status.
Chiku (voiced by Samantha Weinstein) is a monkey who's like her father, Zephir. Chiku means canary in Swahili. Chiku is widely inquisitive and easily distracted. A fast-talking chatterbox who can ask a dozen questions at once, she is convinced that there is something wonderful under every rock, at the end of every wire, and at the heart of every lesson. She is quite inventive, often building toys or tools for the others to use. She is an accomplished dancer due to her natural acrobatic skills and sense of balance.
Munroe (voiced by Tyler Stevenson) is a courageous crested porcupine who has been touched many times, but, due to his spiky body, has always been well protected. Munroe considers himself Badou's personal champion: a spike-laced Lancelot. Despite being quite chubby, he is very athletic. He dreams to one day become a member of the Royal Guard as he is currently too young to actually join and in "Point Guard" Munroe becomes a member of the Junior Royal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medline%20%28disambiguation%29 | Medline may refer to:
MEDLINE, a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information
Medline Industries, a hospital supply company
MedlinePlus, a consumer health information website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashir%20Rameev | Bashir Iskandarovich Rameev (; formerly "Rameyev" in English; 1 May 1918 – 16 May 1994) was a Soviet inventor and scientist, one of the founders of Soviet computing, author of 23 patents, including the first patent in the field of electronic computers officially registered in the USSR—a patent for the Automatic Electronic Digital Machine (1948). Rameev's inventions paved the way for the development of a new field in Soviet science—electronic computing—and for the formation of a new branch of industry that supported it.
The central ideas incorporated in Rameev's invention of the electronic computer included: storing programs in computer memory, using binary code, utilizing external devices, and deploying electronic circuits and semiconductor diodes. The first publication about similar technology outside of the USSR appeared in 1949–1950. Rameev also suggested that intermediate computation data be automatically printed on punched tape and sent into the computer's arithmetic device for subsequent processing, meaning that the processing of commands would be performed in the computer's arithmetic device; this is usually referred to as the Von Neumann architecture.
Of particular note is Rameev's invention of diode-matrix control circuits, which were used to build his first brainchild, the first serially manufactured Soviet mainframe "Strela" (1954). In the 1950s, the diode-matrix control circuits were not widespread due to their significant dimensions and high power consumption. However, with subsequent development of microelectronics and the emergence of large-scale integrated circuits, which made possible to deploy tens or hundreds of thousands of diodes and transistors in a single piece of silicon, the concept of control circuits became viable and commonly used.
"Strela" computers carried out calculations in nuclear physics, rocketry and space research. Notably, one of “Strelas" was used to calculate “Sputnik” orbit trajectory. For the development of "Strela" Rameev and his team were awarded the Stalin Prize of first degree, which was the highest Soviet award at that time.
Between 1956 and 1969, Rameev designed and oversaw the manufacturing of 14 different computers including: the multi-purpose "Ural" computer series and the specialized machines “Weather” (“Погода”), "Crystal" (“Кристалл”), "Granite" (“Гранит”), and “Coordinate” (“Координата”). Rameev's "famous computer family 'Ural' existed more than 15 years and had good chances to be one of the corner stones of future Russian computer engineering".
Childhood and youth
Rameev's mother died when he was two. His father was targeted by the Soviets and perished in labor camps during Stalinist purges. This branded Rameev, who was by then a sophomore at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, as a son of “the enemy of the people”. As a result, he faced coarse, overt and systematic discrimination, which began with university expulsion and job rejections and lasted until the breakout of World War II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeks%20Without%20Borders | Geeks Without Borders is a non-governmental organization which donates computers and related technology to areas in need around the world.
History
Geeks Without Borders is based in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States.
The organization was founded in October 2002, and granted IRS 501(c)3 non-profit status by the IRS in April 2003. Geeks Without Borders is incorporated in Oregon as a public-benefit corporation and is an all-volunteer organization, with no paid staff.
Types of Donations
Donations typically consist of several computers which are configured and networked together before deployment to the field.
Some donated equipment is delivered directly to the field by Geeks Without Borders volunteers. Geeks Without Borders also delivers donations to partner organizations for field deployment.
Geeks Without Borders also supports and maintains all computer systems that they deliver.
Areas of Assistance
Since 2003 the group has focused on Mexico and Central America, with a secondary focus on donations to Africa. In recent years, they have also donated to several organizations within the United States.
See also
Computer technology for developing areas
External links
Geeks Without Borders Web site
References
Organizations based in Eugene, Oregon
Organizations established in 2002
Information technology charities
2002 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20network%20in%20Tamil%20Nadu | In Tamil Nadu, the Highways & Minor Ports Department (HMPD) is primarily responsible for construction and maintenance of roads including national highways, state highways and major district roads. HMPD was established as Highways Department (HD) in April 1946 and subsequently renamed on 30 October 2008. It operates through seven wings namely National Highways Wing, Construction & Maintenance Wing, NABARD and Rural Roads Wing, Projects Wing, Metro Wing, Tamil Nadu Road Sector Project Wing, Investigation and Designs Wing geographically spread across the state in 38 districts with about 120 divisions and 450 subdivisions.
Road Network
As on 30 June 2018, Tamil Nadu's road network has a total road length of . Tamil Nadu has about of highways which is designated as National Highways and State Highways on the basis of traffic intensity and connectivity. The various types of roads and their lengths are given below:
National Highways
Road stretches which have heavy traffic intensity of more than 30,000 Passenger Car Units (PCUs) connecting different state capitals, major ports, large industrial areas and tourist centers are designated National Highway by Government of India. In Tamil Nadu, National Highways Wing of Highways & Minor Ports Department was established in the year 1971 to look after the works of improving, maintaining and renewing of National Highways laid down by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). National Highways wing exercises central government funds from Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for improvement works. Out of 25 National Highways in Tamil Nadu, 12 highways completely lie within the state. National Highways plying through Tamil Nadu are listed below in the table:
State highways
Road stretches with heavy traffic intensity of more than 10,000 PCUs but less than 30,000 PCUs which connects district headquarters, important towns and the National Highways in the State and neighboring States are declared as State Highways. Construction & Maintenance wing of Highways Department looks after Construction, Maintenance of all the State Highways (SH), Major District Roads (MDR), Other District Roads (ODR). Tamil Nadu State Highways Network has 7 circles namely Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Salem, Tirunelveli and Villupuram.
Major District Roads
Roads with traffic density less than 10,000 PCUs but more than 5,000 PCUs are designated as Major District Roads (MDR). Major District Roads provide linkage between production and marketing centers within a district. It also provides connectivity for district and taluk headquarters with state highways and national highways. Construction and Maintenance wing of Highways Department executes construction and maintenance of MDRs along with State Highways. These roads have a minimum width of .
Other District Roads (ODR)
Roads with traffic density less than 5,000 PCUs are categorized as Other District Roads (ODR). ODRs provides road connectivity for major rural pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPRT | NPRT is an acronym that may refer to:
National pharmacy response team
Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust
National Pacific Radio Trust, a trust which owns and operates the Pacific Media Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone%20hacking | Phone hacking is the practice of exploring a mobile device often using computer exploits to analyze everything from the lowest memory and central processing unit levels up to the highest file system and process levels. Modern open source tooling has become fairly sophisticated as to be able to "hook" into individual functions within any running App on an unlocked device and allow deep inspection and modification of their functions.
Phone hacking is a large branch of computer security that includes studying various situations exactly how attackers use security exploits to gain some level of access to a mobile device in a variety of situations and presumed access levels.
The term came to prominence during the News International phone hacking scandal, in which it was alleged (and in some cases proved in court) that the British tabloid newspaper the News of the World had been involved in the interception of voicemail messages of the British Royal Family, other public figures, and a murdered schoolgirl named Milly Dowler.
Victims of phone hacking
Although any mobile phone users may be targeted, "for those who are famous, rich or powerful or whose prize is important enough (for whatever reason) to devote time and resources to make a concerted attack, it is usually more common, there are real risks to face."
Techniques
Voicemail hacking
The unauthorized remote access to voicemail systems, such as exposed by the News International phone hacking scandal, is possible because of weaknesses in the implementations of these systems by telcos.
Mobile phone voicemail messages may be accessed on a landline telephone with the entry of a personal identification number (PIN). Reporters for News International would call the number of an individual's mobile phone, wait to be moved to voicemail, and then guess the PIN, which was often set at a simple default such as 0000 or 1234.
Even where the default PIN is not known, social engineering can be used to reset the voicemail PIN code to the default by impersonating the owner of the phone with a call to a call centre. During the mid-2000s, calls originating from the handset registered to a voicemail account would be put straight through to voicemail without the need of a PIN. A hacker could use caller ID spoofing to impersonate a target's handset caller ID and thereby gain access to the associated voicemail without a PIN.
Following controversies over phone hacking and criticism of mobile service providers who allowed access to voicemail without a PIN, many mobile phone companies have strengthened the default security of their systems so that remote access to voicemail messages and other phone settings can no longer be achieved even via a default PIN. For example, AT&T announced in August 2011 that all new wireless subscribers would be required to enter a PIN when checking their voicemail, even when checking it from their own phones. To encourage password strength, some companies now disallow the use of consecut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put%20Him%20in%20Bucca | Put Him in Bucca was an Iraqi television program airing on the network Al-Baghdadia TV. It was hosted by Ali al-Khalidi. The show's name is a reference to Camp Bucca, an American-built detention facility near Umm Qasr that was in operation from 2003 until 2009.
The program, which has been compared to Punk'd and Candid Camera, featured celebrities such as actress Asia Kamal and comedian Jassim Sharaf, who were ostensibly invited to the headquarters of al-Baghdadia for an interview. While the celebrities were en route, fake bombs were placed in their cars, without their knowledge. They were then stopped at an apparent military checkpoint, by soldiers in on the prank, who "discovered" the fake bomb and accused the celebrity of being a terrorist or suicide bomber. The soldiers then threatened the celebrity with detention and execution unless he or she told what he or she knew, while a hidden camera filmed the celebrity's reaction.
The show was produced with the permission of Baghdad Operations Command, the authority in charge of the capital's security, who was approached with the concept by al-Baghdadia. After becoming aware of the ruse, all celebrities who appeared on the show gave their consent for the footage of them to be broadcast.
Many complaints about the show were published in Iraqi newspapers. More than 1,600 people joined a Facebook group called "No to put him in Bucca". As part of a regularly recurring segment on his program Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann named the producers of Put Him in Bucca as the "Worst People in the World" in one day's broadcast. Producer Najim al-Rubai defended the show, saying, "It's all genuine. That's comedy... We want viewers to laugh about al-Qaida." By laughing at the tactics of the terrorists, he believes, audiences lessen the visceral impact of those tactics.
References
2010s Iraqi television series
Hidden camera television series
Iraq War and the media
Iraqi television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Media%20Corporation | The Southern Media Corporation (SMC) is a television network based in Guangzhou, Guangdong. It was found on 18 January 2004 between the merge of Guangdong Television (GDTV) and Southern Television (TVS). At the same time the television network expanded its service to Hong Kong, Macau and North America to compete with Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Asia Television (aTV), other major Cantonese language TV networks.
Sub-Network
Guangdong Television
Southern Television
Radio Guangdong
Predecessor
Guangdong Radio and Television
References
External links
SMC Home
Television networks in China
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Mass media in Guangzhou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jart%20Armin | Jart Armin is an investigator, analyst and writer on cybercrime and computer security, and researcher of cybercrime mechanisms and assessment.
Life
Armin first came into the public eye in 2007 from his exposure of the RBN (Russian Business Network). Throughout 2007, via a dedicated blog entitled RBNExploit, he provided reports and analysis on the undercover operations of the RBN criminal gang, despite constant DDoS attempts and artificially-created mirror websites.
It was via the RBN blog that Armin provided the first reports of cyber attacks, used in conjunction with the invasion of Georgia by Russian troops, three days in advance of the attack in August 2008.
As an advocate of an open source community approach to the fight against cybercrime, Armin established HostExploit as an educational website aimed at exposing internet bad actors and cybercriminal organizations which deliver crimeware through hosts and registrars.
The Reports
In August 2008, Jart Armin, via HostExploit, published a report "Atrivo - Cyber Crime USA", stating that Atrivo (aka Intercage) - a Concord, California-based website hosting provider deliberately allowed cyber criminals to use its services. This brought about the shutdown of Atrivo with a related 10% drop in botnet and spam activity worldwide.
In November 2008, Armin published a further report, "McColo - Cyber Crime USA", with contributions from StopBadware, Trend Micro, Emerging Threats, KnujOn, Sunbelt, CastleCops, The Spamhaus Project, Arbor Networks, Malwaredomains, Threat Expert, SecureWorks, aa419, Malwaredatabase and Robtex. The report, and press coverage used in conjunction to the report, were instrumental in the demise of McColo by revealing the web hosting service provider to be deliberately funding criminal activities and illegal child sexual abuse content.
The cybercriminal activities of EstDomains were tracked by Armin and his allies in RBN blog postings and HostExploit reports. Exposing the link between the RBN and EstDomains in the October 2008 report entitled "RBN – Farewell to EstDomains" lead to the operational closure of the EstDomains business and to its customer base moving to the Asian registrar Directi.
In a joint venture with Andrew Martin of MartinSecurity.net, Armin issued the report "Real Host Latvia – RBN Resurgence or Clone?" in August 2009, providing further evidence of continuing RBN involvement in internet fraud. Telia, the hosting registrar, suspended all involvement with Real Host when provided with the evidence contained within the report.
In November 2009, in another joint venture with Andrew Martin and Scott Logan, Jart Armin and HostExploit released a report called "MALfi, A Cybercrime International Report - A Silent Threat". The report describes how hackers and cybercriminals use blended attacks - a combination of RFI (remote file inclusion), LFI (local file inclusion), cross-server attack, and RCE (remote code execution) - to compromise websites and servers.
In August |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiovascular%20Cell%20Therapy%20Research%20Network | Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network (CCTRN) is a network of physicians, scientists, and support staff dedicated to studying stem cell therapy for treating heart disease. The CCTRN is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and includes expert researchers with experience in cardiovascular care at seven stem cell centers in the United States. The goals of the Network are to complete research studies that will potentially lead to more effective treatments for patients with cardiovascular disease, and to share knowledge quickly with the healthcare community.
Mission statement
The mission of the CCTRN is to achieve public health advances for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, through the conduct and dissemination of collaborative research leading to evidence-based treatment options and improved outcome for patients with heart disease.
Components of the Network
The sponsor
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is one of 27 institutes/centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and supports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disorders. The NHLBI plans and directs research in the development and evaluation of interventions and devices related to prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with such diseases and disorders.
The Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials
Since 1971, the Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials () at The University of Texas School of Public Health has played a leading role in cardiovascular disease and vision research by serving as a coordinating center for 25 nationwide multicenter clinical trials. The CCCT's primary function is to provide and coordinate all operations, procedures, and activities of a large-scale randomized controlled clinical trial. The CCCT serves as the Data Coordinating Center for the CCTRN. The DCC was led by Lemuel Moye (2006-2019) and Barry R. Davis (2019-2021).
The clinical sites
The CCTRN includes seven stem cell centers in the United States with experience and expertise in clinical trials studying treatments for heart disease and peripheral artery disease. These sites include:
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation ()
Texas Heart Institute Stem Cell Center()
University of Florida College of Medicine ()
University of Louisville ()
Vascular and Cardiac Center for Adult Stem Cell Therapy (VC-CAST)
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine ()
Stanford University ()
Body of work
In July 2008, the CCTRN opened enrollment in two studies in patients who had recently had heart attacks: TIME ((NCT00684021)) and LateTIME ((NCT00684060)). The purpose of these studies was to determine if stem cells safely taken from an individual's bone marrow could be transplanted back into the injured heart muscle of the individual and improve the heart's ability to pump following a heart attack, as well as to determine the best time for transplanting the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alz%20%28disambiguation%29 | Alz or ALZ may refer to:
Alzheimer's disease (shorthand "ALZ" used by Alzheimer's Association)
Alz, a river in Bavaria, Germany
ALZip, a computer archive and compression utility
Alitak Seaplane Base, a seaplane base with the IATA code ALZ
ALZ (steelworks), Belgian steelworks
Alur language (ISO 639-3 language code alz)
The Armée de Liberation de Zgharta (ALZ), Lebanese political party and militia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taloje%20Panchnand%20railway%20station | Taloja Panchanad (formerly Taloja) is a railway station in Taloja Panchnand in Raigad district on the Vasai Road–Diva–Panvel–Roha route of the Central Line, of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
Taloja Panchanand railway station and Vasai Road–Diva–Panvel route is included in suburban section. Also this section is under the consideration in MUTP 3.
Taloja Panchanand has regular trains for Panvel, Diva and Vasai. Express trains does not halt at this station, only Passenger train halts. Upcoming Taloja Panchanad metro station will be connected to this railway station. This station is also used for goods train (cement) unloading.
References
Railway stations in India opened in 1966
Railway stations in Raigad district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Diva-Panvel rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Pivot | Power Pivot, formerly known as PowerPivot (without spacing), is a feature of Microsoft Excel, a computer software spreadsheet. It is available as an add-in in Excel 2010, 2013 in separate downloads, and as an add-in included with the Excel 2016 program. Power Pivot extends a local instance of Microsoft Analysis Services tabular that is embedded directly into an Excel Workbook. This allows a user to build a ROLAP model in Power Pivot, and use pivot tables to explore the model once it is built. This allows Excel to act as a self-service business intelligence (BI) platform, implementing professional expression languages to query the model and calculate advanced measures.
Power Pivot primarily uses Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) as its expression language, although the model can be queried via MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) in a row set expression. DAX expressions allow a user to create measures based on the data model, which can summarize and aggregate millions of rows of table data in seconds. DAX expressions resolve to T-SQL queries in the Formula and Storage Engines that drive the data model, abstracting the more verbose and tedious work of writing formal queries to excel-like formula expressions.
Power Pivot uses the SSAS Vertipaq compression engine to hold the data model in memory on the client computer. Practically, this means that Power Pivot is acting as an Analysis Services Server instance on the local workstation. As a result, larger data models may not be compatible with the 32-bit version of Excel.
Prior to the release of Power Pivot, Microsoft relied heavily on SQL Server Analysis Services as the engine for its Business Intelligence suite. Power Pivot complements the SQL Server core business intelligence components under the vision of one Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM), which aims to integrate on-disk multidimensional analytics previously known as Unified Dimensional Model (UDM), with a more flexible, in-memory "tabular" model.
As a self-service business intelligence product, Power Pivot is intended to allow users with no specialized business intelligence or analytics training to develop data models and calculations, sharing them either directly or through SharePoint document libraries.
Product history and naming
Power Pivot first appeared around May 2010 as part of the SQL Server 2008 R2 product line. It included "Power Pivot for Excel" and "Power Pivot for SharePoint" While the product was associated with SQL Server, the add-in for Excel could be used independent of any server, and with various types of data sources. SQL Server 2012 contained the add-in PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010, this was also made available as a free download for Microsoft Excel 2010. Sometime after that, the PowerPivot followed its own release cadence separate from SQL Server. As part of the July 8, 2013, announcement of the new Microsoft Power BI suite of self-service tools, Microsoft renamed PowerPivot as "Power Pivot" (n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20XML%20Studio | Liquid XML Studio IDE is a Windows based XML editor and XML data binding toolkit. It includes graphical editors for authoring XML, XML Schema, WSDL, XSLT and HTML. It also includes user interface extension to Microsoft Visual Studio through the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program.
XML editing
Liquid XML Studio provides features for editing and validating XML documents. The GUI is a multi-document tabbed design and each document can be viewed in a text, graphical or split view. Document validation includes both checking for well formedness against the W3C XML standard and also checking validity against associated W3C XML Schema.
XML data binding
Liquid XML Studio provides XML data binding code generation through both a graphical Wizard and command line interface. The generated code can be C++, C#, Java, Silverlight, Visual Basic .NET, or Visual Basic 6.
XML data mapper
Liquid XML Studio provides a graphical data mapping tool to allow data conversion between XML documents with different data shapes using a simple drag and drop interface.
XML differencing tool
Liquid XML Studio provides an XML aware differencing tool to compare XML documents. The tool is based on the Zhang-Shasha algorithm.
HTML document generation tool
Liquid XML Studio provides a tool to document an XML Schema as HTML via a graphical Wizard and command line interface. Examples of the output can be found at the XML Standards Schema Library web site.
XML schema library
Liquid XML Studio automatically downloads and validates XML documents against industry standard XML Schema such as those promoted by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, Financial products Markup Language, and the Open Geospatial Consortium.
Licensing
The Liquid XML Studio license is proprietary "node locked" or "concurrent user" models.
A Freeware Community Edition is available for Commercial and Non-Commercial use with a restricted feature set.
See also
XML editor
XML data binding
XML
XML Schema (W3C)
WSDL
XSLT
HTML
Visual Studio Industry Partner
External links
XML Standards Schema Library
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools Gallery
XML Data Binding Resources, by Ronald Bourret
XML editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Industry%20and%20Defence%20Network | The Australian Industry & Defence Network Inc. (AIDN) is the industry association for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) doing business in the defence and security sectors in Australia and abroad.
See also
Defence industry of Victoria
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110205084300/http://www.aidn.org.au/
http://www.defence.gov.au/
Business organisations based in Australia
Defence companies of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202010 | The 2010 World Cyber Games (also known as WCG 2010) took place from September 30 to October 3, 2010, in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, US. The event hosted 450 competing players from 58 countries competing over prizes worth over $250,000.
Official games
PC games
Carom3D
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
FIFA 10
StarCraft: Brood War
TrackMania Nations Forever
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Xbox 360 games
Forza Motorsport 3
Guitar Hero 5
Tekken 6
Mobile games
Asphalt 5
Angry Birds
Minesweeper
Fun Run
Grand Theft Auto
SNAKE
Promotion games
League of Legends
Lost Saga
Quake Wars Online
Results
Official
Promotion
References
External links
WCG 2010
2010 in American sports
2010 in sports in California
2010 in esports
League of Legends competitions
StarCraft competitions
Warcraft competitions
World Cyber Games events
International esports competitions hosted by the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Radio%20Black%20Country%20%26%20Shropshire | Free Radio Black Country & Shropshire is an Independent Local Radio station based in Birmingham, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Shropshire, Wolverhampton and the Black Country.
As of September 2023, the station has a weekly audience of 78,000 listeners according to RAJAR.
History
Beacon Radio began broadcasting to Wolverhampton and the Black Country from studios at 267 Tettenhall Road in Wolverhampton on mediumwave 303 metres, and 97.2 MHz (from Turner's Hill) at 6 a.m. on 12 April 1976.
The first presenter was Mike Baker and the first song to be played was Eric Carmen's "Sunrise". The station originally set out to broadcast Beautiful Music including soul and country rock with a heavy bias towards American chart music with artists like Linda Ronstadt and The Eagles.
The station's original managing director was Jay Oliver, an American who, with his Programme Controller Allen McKenzie (a Scot/Canadian), was responsible for the Mid-Atlantic sound that flooded the West Midlands for three years (including a US-style jingle package).
As with other UK commercial stations at the time, the station's commitment to news and speech broadcasting under news editor Mike Stewart in its opening year, particularly in the evenings, was extensive; and its late-evening music programmes appeared to offer the presenters a freedom to enlighten, with a wide choice of recordings, as well as to entertain.
The station became successful, although facing competition from the already established commercial station, BRMB in nearby Birmingham. However, the station came in for criticism from the UK licensing authority (then, the Independent Broadcasting Authority) for being too American sounding and not wide-ranging enough in its programming. Due to this, the senior management and output changed in mid-1979.
Its licence was later expanded in July 1987 to cover Shropshire, ostensibly broadcasting from its offices in Shrewsbury on 103.1 MHz. Actually, only local news was produced in Shrewsbury, with programmes emanating from the Wolverhampton studios – although entirely separate programming for the two areas was provided during daytime hours (this was from time to time slimmed down or expanded as finances allowed).
Since January 1989, the station has been FM-only, with Beacon's former AM frequencies of 990 and 1017 kHz becoming branded as a separate service "Nice 'n' Easy Radio WABC". WABC stood for Wolverhampton And Black Country, and presumably was not meant to be confused with, or identified with, New York City's WABC (AM), former radio flagship of the American Broadcasting Company, or its one-time sister station, current Disney/ABC Television Network flagship station and New York City production center, WABC-TV Channel 7. Nevertheless, the station used the same musical logo as the New York station in its jingles. The British station was shortened to "Radio WABC" in 1992.
In 1998 the local service essentially cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/360%20architecture | The IBM System/360 architecture is the model independent architecture for the entire S/360 line of mainframe computers, including but not limited to the instruction set architecture. The elements of the architecture are documented in the IBM System/360 Principles of Operation and the IBM System/360 I/O Interface Channel to Control Unit Original Equipment Manufacturers' Information manuals.
Features
The System/360 architecture provides the following features:
16 32-bit general-purpose registers
4 64-bit floating-point registers
64-bit processor status register (PSW), which includes a 24-bit instruction address
24-bit (16 MB) byte-addressable memory space
Big-endian byte/word order
A standard instruction set, including fixed-point binary arithmetic and logical instructions, present on all System/360 models (except the Model 20, see below).
A commercial instruction set, adding decimal arithmetic instructions, is optional on some models, as is a scientific instruction set, which adds floating-point instructions. The universal instruction set includes all of the above plus the storage protection instructions and is standard for some models.
The Model 44 provides a few unique instructions for data acquisition and real-time processing and is missing the storage-to-storage instructions. However, IBM offered a Commercial Instruction Set" feature that ran in bump storage and simulated the missing instructions.
The Model 20 offers a stripped-down version of the standard instruction set, limited to eight general registers with halfword (16-bit) instructions only, plus the commercial instruction set, and unique instructions for input/output.
The Model 67 includes some instructions to handle 32-bit addresses and "dynamic address translation", with additional privileged instructions to provide virtual memory.
Memory
Memory (storage) in System/360 is addressed in terms of 8-bit bytes. Various instructions operate on larger units called halfword (2 bytes), fullword (4 bytes), doubleword (8 bytes), quad word (16 bytes) and 2048 byte storage block, specifying the leftmost (lowest address) of the unit. Within a halfword, fullword, doubleword or quadword, low numbered bytes are more significant than high numbered bytes; this is sometimes referred to as big-endian. Many uses for these units require aligning them on the corresponding boundaries. Within this article the unqualified term word refers to a fullword.
The original architecture of System/360 provided for up to 224 = 16,777,216 bytes of memory. The later Model 67 extended the architecture to allow up to 232 = 4,294,967,296 bytes of virtual memory.
Addressing
System/360 uses truncated addressing similar to that of the UNIVAC III. That means that instructions do not contain complete addresses, but rather specify a base register and a positive offset from the addresses in the base registers. In the case of System/360 the base address is contained in one of 15 general registers. In some instruction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosecki | Kosecki and its feminine form Kosecka are Slavic surnames. Notable people with the surname include:
Jakub Kosecki (born 1990), Polish footballer
Jana Košecká, Slovak-American computer scientist
Roman Kosecki (born 1966), Polish footballer
Slavic-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteomics%20Identifications%20Database | The PRIDE (PRoteomics IDEntifications database) is a public data repository of mass spectrometry (MS) based proteomics data, and is maintained by the European Bioinformatics Institute as part of the Proteomics Team.
Originally designed by Lennart Martens in 2003 during a stay at the European Bioinformatics Institute as a Marie Curie fellow of the European Commission in the "Quality of Life" Programme (Contract number: QLRI-1999-50595), PRIDE was established as a production service in 2005. The original grant application document from June 2013 to start construction of PRIDE has since been published in a viewpoint article. Several similar proteomics databases have been built, including the GPMDB, PeptideAtlas, Proteinpedia and the NCBI Peptidome.
The PRIDE database constitutes a structured data repository, and stores the original experimental data from the researchers without editorial control over the submitted data.
In total, PRIDE contains data from about 60 species, the biggest fraction of it coming from human samples (including the data from the two draft human proteomes) followed by the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and mouse.
Formats and the submission process
Since detailed proteomics data currently cannot be curated from the existing literature, the source of PRIDE data is solely submissions by academic researchers.
PRIDE is a standards-compliant public repository, meaning that its own XML-based data exchange format for submissions, PRIDE XML, was built around the Proteomics Standards Initiative mzData standard for mass spectrometry. Recently, PRIDE has been adapted to work with the modern mzML and mzIdentML standards of the Proteomics Standards Initiative. An additional format, dubbed mzTab, can be used as a simplified way to submit quantitative proteomics data.
As there are many types of different mass spectrometry instruments and software formats are currently on the market, wet-lab scientists without a strong bioinformatics background or informatics support were having problems converting their data to PRIDE XML. The development of PRIDE Converter helped to tackle this situation. PRIDE Converter is a tool, written in the Java programming language, that converts 15 different input mass spectrometry data formats into PRIDE XML via a wizard-like graphical user interface. It is freely available and is open source under the permissive Apache License. A new version of PRIDE Converter was released in 2012 as PRIDE Converter 2. This new version constituted a complete rewrite, focused on easy adaptability to different (and evolving) data sources.
Browsing, searching and data mining PRIDE
Currently, data can be queried from PRIDE via the PRIDE web interface, through the stand-alone Java client PRIDE Inspector, or coupled directly to several search engines through PeptideShaker. Moreover, a new RESTful API allows convenient programmatic access to the PRIDE archive.
The extensive use of controlled vocabularies (CVs) and ontologies for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6-to-IPv6%20Network%20Prefix%20Translation | IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (NPTv6) is a specification for IPv6 to achieve address-independence at the network edge, similar to network address translation (NAT) in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). It has fewer architectural problems than traditional IPv4 NAT; for example, it is stateless and preserves the reachability attributed to the end-to-end principle. However, the method may not translate embedded IPv6 addresses properly (IPsec can be impacted), and split-horizon DNS may be required for use in a business environment.
NPTv6 differs from NAT66, which is stateful.
With NPTv6, no port translation is required nor other manipulation of transport characteristics.
Compared to NAT66, with NPTv6 there is end-to-end reachability along with 1:1 address mapping.
This makes NPTv6 a better choice than NAT66.
References
External links
Cisco documentation on NPTv6
Juniper documentation on NPTv6
VyOS documentation on NPTv6
OPNsense documentation on NPTv6
APNIC blog post from 2018 on NAT66
pfSense documentation on NPt
IPv6
Network address translation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Shines%20%28film%29 | Love Shines is a documentary film about Canadian songwriter Ron Sexsmith by filmmaker Douglas Arrowsmith. The film is produced by Paperny Entertainment and commissioned by The Movie Network and Movie Central with funding from Astral Media's Harold Greenberg Fund and the Rogers Documentary Fund.
It was nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards in 2013 for Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series, Best Direction in a Performing Arts Program or Series, and Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series.
Synopsis
Love Shines follows Ron Sexsmith as he attempts to turn his niche following into mainstream success by recording his album Long Player Late Bloomer with legendary producer Bob Rock.
Release dates
Love Shines had its world premiere as a "special presentation" at the 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival and won audience awards at SXSW 2011 and the 2011 Maui Film Festival. It also screened at the 2011 Hot Docs Festival in Toronto. It debuted on television on BBC Four in March 2011 and on HBO Canada in May 2011.
Subjects interviewed
Ron Sexsmith – singer, songwriter
Steve Earle – singer, songwriter and producer
Elvis Costello – singer, songwriter
Leslie Feist – singer, songwriter
Tony Ferguson – vice president of Interscope Records
Daniel Lanois – producer (U2, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris)
Bob Rock – producer (Metallica, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe)
Rob Bowman – Grammy Award–winning professor, author and critic
Kiefer Sutherland – actor, co–owner of Ironworks Studios
Michael Dixon – Ron Sexsmith's manager
Colleen Hixenbaugh – Ron Sexsmith's wife
Christopher Sexsmith – Ron Sexsmith's son
Dorothy Grodesky – Ron Sexsmith's mother
See also
Bob Rock
Long Player Late Bloomer
Paperny Entertainment
References
External links
2010 films
English-language Canadian films
Canadian documentary television films
2010 documentary films
Documentary films about singers
Canadian Screen Award-winning television shows
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty%20Queen%20%28TV%20series%29 | Beauty Queen is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Joel Lamangan, it stars Iza Calzado in the title role. It premiered on October 18, 2010 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Endless Love. The series concluded on February 4, 2011 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by I Heart You, Pare! in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Iza Calzado as Maita San Miguel
Supporting cast
Katrina Halili as Dorcas Rivas
Maggie Wilson as Rebecca Rivas
TJ Trinidad as Marc Sandoval
Marvin Agustin as Donald Cervantes
Luis Alandy as Dante Pineda
Elizabeth Oropesa as Amparo Matias-San Miguel
Carmi Martin as Leavida Acuesta-Rivas
Gloria Diaz as Yuri Sandoval
German Moreno as Ading
Juan Rodrigo as Virgilio Rivas
Bubbles Paraiso as Stefania Luna
Bembol Roco as Anya / Angelo Castillo
Marky Lopez as Clifford Almar
Victor Aliwalas as Greg Almario
Tomas Gonzales as Zuleyka Mamaril
Lou Sison as Yeda Marie
Ricci Chan as Larry / Lara
Arci Muñoz as Kaye Santos
Guest cast
Lovi Poe as young Amparo
Iwa Moto as young Leavida
Daniella Amable as young Maita
Gianna Cutler as young Rebecca
Angelene Perez as young Dorcas
Jay Aquitania as young Anya
James Blanco as young Virgilio
Jerould Aceron as young Dante
Miggs Cuaderno as young Larry
Gerard Madrid as Mando San Miguel
Daria Ramirez as Amparo's mother
Jan Marini Alano
Chariz Solomon as Gracia
Patani as Precious
Tessbomb as Liza
Ava Roxas as April
Janna Dominguez as Amor
Say Alonzo as Ayra
Elyn Garsha as Mira
Marco Alcaraz as himself
Precious Lara Quigaman as herself
Will Devaughn as himself
Pia Guanio as herself
Jestoni Alarcon as himself
Kuh Ledesma as herself
Yassi Pressman as Tina
Rich Asuncion as Binibi Isla Pilipinas
Frederick Peralta as himself
Evangeline Pascual as herself
Geoff Eigenmann as himself
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Beauty Queen earned a 9.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 12.6% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recettear%3A%20An%20Item%20Shop%27s%20Tale | is a role-playing game developed by Japanese dōjin maker EasyGameStation for the Windows operating system. The game follows a young girl named Recette, who is charged by the fairy Tear to run an item shop out of her house to pay off the considerable debt her father had accumulated before his mysterious disappearance; the eponymous shop is a portmanteau of the lead characters' names. In the game, the player controls Recette in several areas of gameplay, including bargaining and haggling with clients for goods, and accompanying an adventurer into randomly generated dungeons to acquire goods to sell, with the goal of paying back the debt within a fixed deadline.
The game, first released in 2007 at the 73rd Comiket in Japan, has been localized into English by indie localization company Carpe Fulgur and was released internationally on September 10, 2010 exclusively via digital distribution platforms. Recettear is the first independently made Japanese game to be distributed through Steam. Though Carpe Fulgur only expected about 10,000 sales of the title in Western markets, the game was warmly received by critics and its reputation spread through word-of-mouth, leading to over 300,000 sales by September 2013, and allowing Carpe Fulgur to look towards other dōjin titles to localize. The game has sold over 500,000 units on Steam, as of July 2017. Recettear success helped pave the way for more doujin games to reach international markets.
Gameplay
Recettear takes place in a fantasy setting, and places the player in the role of Recette Lemongrass, the daughter of a shopkeeper who has left to be an adventurer but has mysteriously disappeared. As her father was in great debt to Terme Finance, she is forced by Terme's representative fairy, Tear, to rebuild her home into an item shop to repay the debt. Recette reopens the shop as Recettear, a portmanteau of hers and Tear's names. Recette adopts the catchphrase "Capitalism, ho!" as the player continues on with the story. The game's story is presented through text dialog and two-dimensional sprites, akin to a visual novel. There are some occasional spoken lines in Japanese, which remain untranslated in the English version.
The game is structured on daily cycle, with the goal to have repaid the debt of 820,000 pix (the game's currency) by the end of one month. Each day is structured into fixed periods. Time passes when the player operates the shop, goes adventuring for items, or returns to the shop after visiting other shops or guilds in the town, limiting the total number of activities that can be done in a day.
When the player chooses to operate the shop, they can place items on the shop's shelves, with certain spots, such as near the storefront window, being more lucrative to draw in buyers. When a potential buyer selects an item, the player can bargain to try to get as much profit from the sale as possible, but ineffectively bargaining will cause the buyer to leave without purchasing anything. Successful |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-me%20area%20network | A near-me area network is a logical grouping of communication devices that are in close physical proximity to each other, but not necessarily connected to the same communication network infrastructure. Thus, two smartphones connected via different mobile carriers may form a near-me area network.
Near-me area network applications focus on communications among devices within a certain proximity to each other, but don't generally concern themselves with the devices' exact locations.
Background
The Internet consists of different types of communication networks. Common types include local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN), and wide area networks (WAN). Local area networks have the coverage of a small geographic area, such as a school, residence, building, or company. Metropolitan area networks cover a larger area, such as a city or state. Wide area networks provide communication in a broad geographic area covering national and international locations. Personal area networks (PANs) are wireless LANs with a very short range (up to a few meters), enabling computer devices (such as PDAs and printers) to communicate with other nearby devices and computers.
The concept of near-me area networks has become relevant based on the increasing popularity of location-sensitive (GPS-enabled) mobile devices, including iPhone and Android smartphones, Some services are meaningful only to a group of people in close proximity.
Examples
Ben is going to the ABC supermarket to buy three bottles of red wine. The supermarket offers a 30 percent discount on the purchase of six bottles, so he sends a message to other customers to see if they would like to buy the other three bottles of wine.
Susan bought a movie ticket 15 minutes ago, but she now feels dizzy and can't watch the film. She sends out messages to people around the cinema to see if anyone will purchase her ticket at 40 percent off.
In a theme park, guests would like to know each ride's queue status to manage their waiting time. So, they take a photo of the queue they are in and share it with other guests through a network application.
Ann works at Causeway Bay and would like to find someone to have lunch with. She checks her friend list to see who is closest to her at this moment and invites that friend to join her.
Carol just lost her son in the street, so she sends out his picture, which is stored in her mobile device, to passers-by to see if they can find him.
See also
Location-based service
References
Computer networks by scale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuix | Nuix Ltd is an Australian technology company that produces investigative analytics and intelligence software for extracting knowledge from unstructured data. The applications of the company's technology reportedly include digital forensics, financial crime, insider investigations, data privacy, data governance, eDiscovery and regulatory compliance. As of December 2020, the company's software was reportedly used by 1000 customers in 79 countries. The company has its headquarters in Sydney, Australia with offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America.
History
Nuix was incorporated in 2005 with the goal to make vast quantities of unstructured data easily searchable. From 2006 to 2016, the company grew from just two developers to more than 400 employees.
In 2010 Nuix was awarded a five-year contract by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2014 the company was appointed an Industry Partner of the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats. In 2017, the Nuix Board of Directors appointed Rod Vawdrey to the position of Chief Executive Officer. In November 2020, the company appointed American lawyer and diplomat Jeffrey Bleich as its chairman. In December 2020, Nuix listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with an initial public offering that valued the company at A$1.8 billion. In October 2021, the Nuix Board appointed Jonathan Rubinsztein to the position of Group Chief Executive Officer.
Ownership
Nuix is a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (). As of 2020, the largest shareholder was Macquarie Group with a shareholding of approximately 30%.
Controversy
Following the initial public offering, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigated "suspicious revenue forecasts" published in Nuix's prospectus. ASIC concluded its investigation into the forecasts in February 2022 and said it would take no further action. In May 2021, the company reportedly cut ties with former chairman Tony Castagna after it was revealed the Australian Federal Police were investigating alleged breaches of the Corporations Act.
In June 2021, the Australian Federal Police raided the company's office as part of an investigation "into certain individuals" for alleged insider trading. The company later announced it had terminated Stephen Doyle as CFO "by mutual agreement" and CEO Rod Vawdrey had resigned.
Technology and uses
Nuix markets software for eDiscovery, digital forensic investigation, security, intelligence, governance, risk and compliance based on the Nuix Engine. The Nuix Engine combines load balancing, fault tolerance and processing technologies to "provide insights from large volumes of unstructured, semi-structured and structured data". Several features of the Nuix Engine were granted a patent in 2011.
In 2013, Nuix provided a limited number of free software licences to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), who used Nuix to investigate the Offshor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Challenge | The AI Challenge was an international artificial intelligence programming contest started by the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club.
Initially the contest was for University of Waterloo students only. In 2010, the contest gained sponsorship from Google and allowed it to extend to international students and the general public.
Description
Each participant wrote a self-contained computer program to play a game versus an opponent, and then uploaded the source code to a server. The contest engine used the Trueskill ranking algorithm for matchmaking and to generate the rankings.
After a match, spectators could watch the match using a browser.
The contest was open source. Contestants were welcomed to improve the contest back-end.
Winners
See also
List of computer science awards
References
External links
AI Challenge
Past Tron (Winter 2010) Challenge
University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
Programming contests
Computer science competitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%20Centre%20in%20Singapore | The European Union (EU) Centre in Singapore is part of a global network of European Union Centres of Excellence. Following the launch of EU Centres of Excellence in the US and Canada in 1998, there are now 37 Centres located in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Macao, New Zealand, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States.
The Singapore Centre, the first in Southeast Asia, opened in June 2008. It is a partnership between the European Commission, the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and the thinktank, Singapore Institute of International Affairs. Its aim is to promote knowledge of the European Union and its policies. It organises speaker events, discussions and exhibitions; publishes books, papers and teaching materials; and sends staff to visit schools and colleges in Singapore.
History
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing the Centre was signed by the then EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, with two local partners, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University on 20 June 2008. The Centre in Singapore is the first located in Southeast Asia. According to a joint press release by the Delegation of the European Union to Singapore, that is the EU's diplomatic representation in Singapore, and the Centre's other stakeholders, the three way partnership is between the European Commission, and "two leading universities, both in the region and the world, with extensive networks both across Europe and throughout Asia".
The EU Centre has received another 3-year grant (2013–2015) to continue its mission to promote knowledge of the EU and its policies and raise the visibility of the EU in Singapore. A new partner, the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), the oldest think tank in Singapore, is now part of the consortium. The Director of the Centre is Dr Yeo Lay Hwee, who also teaches as an adjunct lecturer of politics and European studies at the NUS and the Singapore Management University.
Aims
The EU Centre has been cited by Finnlink magazine as a Centre intended to “raise awareness of the longstanding partnership between the EU and Singapore, and the EU and ASEAN, and promote knowledge and visibility of the EU in Singapore through different outreach activities, education, research and publications… the Centre’s objective is to raise awareness of the EU to a local and regional audience, foster a finer understanding of the EU and its member states, and analyze EU policies and their positions on global issues”.
Activities since 2008
The EU Centre's activities revolve around outreach, education and research. The Centre, like other centres and institutes co-funded by the EU, organises lectures, workshops and seminars year round. The events have attracted speakers who are senior policy decision makers, such as Klaus Regling, former Director General of Ecofin and now the Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism (ES |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20consumer%20markets | Below is a list of the largest consumer markets of the world, according to data from the World Bank. The countries are sorted by their household final consumption expenditure (HFCE) which represents consumer spending in nominal terms. A large (and especially larger than the whole economy (100% GDP)) percentage typically indicates the existence of an informal economy, at least in terms of income.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty
List of countries by GDP (nominal)
List of countries by GDP (PPP)
List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
List of countries and dependencies by population
References
Sources
United Nations Statistics Division - National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
Consumer market
Consumer market |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Weddings%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Four Weddings is an Australian programme, based on the UK version of the same name. The series is narrated by Fifi Box and produced by Granada Media Australia for the Seven Network.
The first season follows a similar style as Come Dine with Me Australia and involves four brides attending each other's weddings and rating them on their Dress, Ceremony, Food and Reception out of thirty marks. The second season features an altered format, with the guest brides rating the other weddings out of ten marks for the whole event.
At the end of each episode they discover which of the couples has won a luxury honeymoon. First series couples won their honeymoon from the company Elegant Resorts & Villas, whilst second series winners won their honeymoon from company Coral Seas.
Episode guide
Series 1
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Ratings
Series 1
References
External links
Four Weddings Australia - Official Four Weddings Australia Website
"Elegant Resorts & Villas Honeymoon prize supplier for Four Weddings" – "Website of Elegant Resorts & Villas "
Seven Network original programming
2010s Australian reality television series
2010 Australian television series debuts
2010 Australian television series endings
Wedding television shows
Television series by ITV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Doig | Stephen K. Doig is an American journalist, professor of journalism at Arizona State University, and a consultant to print and broadcast news media with regard to data analysis investigative work. Doig moved to the university in 1996 after 23 years as a newspaper journalist, 19 of them with The Miami Herald. As of 2010, he taught classes in precision journalism, reporting public affairs, news writing, multimedia journalism, introduction to newsroom statistics, and media research methods.
Doig was a pioneer in the use of computer-assisted data analysis by reporters. For example, he was Miami Herald research editor when Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida in 1992. Analysis of property damages and local government building records showed that newer structures were more likely to have been damaged by the storm, and the team argued that easing the zoning, inspection, and building codes had caused greater storm losses, largely in a 16-page article "What Went Wrong". The newspaper won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service citing its coverage "that not only helped readers cope ... but also showed how lax zoning, inspection and building codes had contributed to the destruction."
Doig's analysis of voting patterns in Florida in led him to believe that had there been no errors in vote counting in Florida during the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Democratic Party candidate Al Gore would have won the state's electoral votes instead of Republican Party candidate, and, thereby, the ultimate winner of the U.S. Presidency, George W. Bush.
Early years
Served in the United States Army, where he taught at the Defense Information School. Also served a year a combat correspondent in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Reception
In 1990 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP) awarded Doig the Responsibility in Journalism award for his work as a Science Editor for the Miami Herald.
See also
Crowd counting
References
External links
Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University
"Reporting With the Tools of Social Science: ‘We had put the social scientists on notice that journalists increasingly would be competitors in their field’" by Stephen K. Doig – Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
"How Is Crowd Size Estimated?" by Remy Melina – Life's Little Mysteries
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male journalists
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
Arizona State University faculty
Dartmouth College alumni
Journalism academics
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Army soldiers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobyland | Mobyland is a Polish mobile phone network operator. Company objective is to develop a wireless telecommunications network based on the newest fourth generation technologies (3GPP Long Term Evolution). The construction of an independent network is possible thanks to radio frequency reservations held by company. In November 2007 company won a tender organized by the President of the Polish Electronic Communications Office and obtained frequency reservations in the 1800 MHz band Since July 2009 Mobyland is owned by Aero2 Sp. z o.o. At the end of August 2009 the company launched its commercial services.
On September 7, 2010, Mobyland in cooperation with CenterNet have announced that they have launched a first commercial LTE network using 20 MHz of spectrum on the 1800 MHz band.
On November 16, Mobyland showed first commercial LTE modem 1800 MHz working in network being built by company. The modem currently operates in the 10 MHz band and is software upgradeable to operate in the 20 MHz band as well, and allows for download speeds of up to 73Mbit/s and uploads of 25Mbit/s.
References
Mobile phone companies of Poland
Polish Limited Liability Companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20TO7 | The Thomson TO7, also called Thomson 9000 is a home computer introduced by Thomson SA in November 1982, with an original retail price of 3750 FF.
By 1983 over 40000 units were produced. About 84 games were released for the TO7.
The TO7 is built around a 1 MHz Motorola 6809 processor. ROM cartridges, designed as MEMO7, can be introduced through a memory bay.
The user interface uses Microsoft BASIC, included in the kit cartridge. The keyboard features a plastic membrane, and further user input is obtained through a lightpen.
Cooling is provided by a rear radiator.
A standard television can serve as a monitor using a RGB SCART (Peritel) connector, with a resolution of 320x200 (with 2 colors for each 8 x 1 pixels).
The TO7 prototype, called Thomson T9000, was developed in 1980. The differences regarding the production model are a different startup menu and buggier BIOS.
Specifications
The Thomson TO7 runs on a Motorola 6809 processor clocked at 1 MHz and features 22 KB of RAM (8 KB for the user, 8 KB used as video memory and 8K x 6 bits color memory) and 20KB of ROM (4KB for the monitor and 16KB on MEMO7 cartridges).
As common on home computers designed to be connected to an ordinary TV screen, the 320 x 200 pixels active area doesn't cover the entire screen, and is surrounded by a border.
Graphics were limited to 8 colours (generated by combination of RGB primaries) with proximity constraints (2 colors for each 8 x 1 pixel area).
The video output is RGB on a SCART connector, with the refresh rate being 625-line compatible 50Hz.
Audio featured a single channel sound generator with five octaves. A "game expansion" was capable of four channel, six octaves sound.
The keyboard has 58 keys and includes arrow keys.
Besides cartridges, the machine used cassette tapes for file storage.
Thomson TO7/70
An upgraded version, the Thomson TO7/70, was released in 1984 with an introductory price of 3590 FF.
It was used as an educational tool in French schools under the Computing for All plan, where the TO7/70 could be used as a used a "nano-machine" terminal for the "Nanoréseau" educational network.
Among improvements RAM was increased to 64 KB - "70" on the version name stands for 64+6 (64KB RAM + 6KB ROM). The 6809 processor was replaced by a Motorola 6809E and the color palette was extended from 8 to 16 colors.
Graphics were similar to the Thomson MO5 and generated by a Motorola MCA1300 gate array capable of 40×25 text display and a resolution of 320 x 200 pixels with 16 colours (limited by 8 x 1 pixel colour attribute areas). The colour palette is 4-bit RGBI, with 8 basic RGB colours and a intensity bit (called P for "Pastel") that controlled saturation ("saturated" or "pastel").
Software developed for the TO-7 can be run on the TO-7/70, but the reverse is not possible. At least three games were released for the TO7/70.
See also
Computing for All, a French government plan to introduce computers to the country's pupils
References
6809-based |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Client%20Automation%20Software | Radia Client Automation software is an end-user device (PC and mobile device) lifecycle management tool for automating routine client-management tasks such as operating system deployments and upgrades, patch management, application software deployment, application use monitoring, security, compliance, and remote system management.
In February 2013, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Persistent Systems, Inc. agreed to an exclusive license for Persistent to access the HP Client Automation technology. Persistent is now developing the Radia Client Automation product line, based on the original HP Client Automation products. HP is also selling the Radia Client Automation products from Persistent.
History
Radia Client Automation has been called various names in its life-cycle: HP OpenView Configuration Management software, Radia Enterprise Desktop Manager (EDM), and HP Client Automation Software.
1992 - Novadigm launches Enterprise Desktop Manager (EDM)
1997 - Novadigm launches Radia
2004 - HP acquires Novadigm
September 2004 - Version 4.0 Radia released
April 2007 - Version 5.0 HP OpenView Configuration Management released
October 2007 - Version 5.1 HP Configuration Management released
July 2008 - Version 7.20 HP Client Automation released
May 2009 - Version 7.50 HP Client Automation released
Dec 2009 - Version 7.80 HP Client Automation released
June 2010 – Version 7.90 HP Client Automation released
Feb 2011 - Version 8.10 HP Client Automation released
Jan 2013 - Version 9.00 HP Client Automation released
Feb 2013 - Persistent Systems Ltd. enters into a strategic agreement with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to license its HP Client Automation (HPCA) software.
June 2013 - Persistent Systems delivers on HPCA licensing agreement, launches Radia Client Automation at HP® Discover 2013
Key Features
Radia Client Automation software can manage hundreds of thousands of client devices. It can be used to manage Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux desktops and laptops, mobile devices and tablets running iOS, Android and Windows 8 Series Mobile operating System, HP thin clients, and Windows and Linux servers.
Radia Client Automation uses a desired state management model where IT defines how it wants devices to look through a series of policies, while agents on client devices proactively synchronize and manage to that defined state. This model results in higher levels of compliance while at the same time significantly reducing the amount of effort needed to manage the environment. It is especially effective for notebook or laptop PCs because infrequent and lower-bandwidth connections can limit the effectiveness of task-based models that are commonly found across the industry.
The major features in the 9.00 release are:
Mobile device (iOS, Android and Windows) support
Management over the Internet
Windows 8 support
End-to-end IPv6 support
Patch management for Adobe and Java software
Target-wise role-based access control
References
External links
Radia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwind%20%28novel%29 | Westwind is a 1990 novel written by Ian Rankin, and is one of the author's earliest works.
Plot summary
The Zephyr computer system monitors the progress of the United Kingdom's only spy satellite. When this system briefly goes offline, the book's main characters Hepton and Dreyfuss (the sole survivor of a space shuttle crash) have the only key to the enigma that must be solved if both men are to stay alive.
Release details
1991, UK, Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd; Large Print Ed edition (September 1991) (, ), hardback (First edition) Hardcover: 480 pages
The book was reissued, with slight modifications, in November 2019.
References
Bibliography
1991 British novels
Novels by Ian Rankin
Barrie & Jenkins books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hedstr%C3%B6m | Peter Hedström is one of the founders of the field of analytical sociology. He has made contributions to the analysis of social contagion processes and complex social networks, as well as to the philosophical and meta-theoretical foundations of analytical sociology. He is one of the key contributors to the literature on social mechanisms.
Hedström received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1987. He then took a post as assistant professor at the University of Chicago, and, in 1989, he received a professor chair at the department of sociology, Stockholm University. In 2003, he assumed a position as Official Fellow and professor at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, which he left in 2011 to become the director of the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. During the 2008/2009 he was dean of the School of Social Sciences at the Singapore Management University. in 2014, Hedström started the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University. Hedström is past president of the Swedish Sociological Association and has served as editor of Acta Sociologica and as associate editor of the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, and Rationality and Society. He is the president of the International Network of Analytical Sociology, past president of the European Academy of Sociology, and a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Academia Europaea.
Key publications
P. Hedström Dissecting the Social: On the Principles of Analytical Sociology. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
P. Hedström and Peter Bearman (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
P Hedström Causal mechanisms in the social sciences (with Petri Ylikoski). Annual Review of Sociology 36: 49–67.
P. Hedström and Richard Swedberg (eds.) Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
External links
Institute for Analytical Sociology in Norrköping
An article about Hedström's approach to sociology
International Network of Analytical Sociology
Living people
Swedish sociologists
Harvard University alumni
Academic staff of Stockholm University
Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most%20vexing%20parse | The most vexing parse is a counterintuitive form of syntactic ambiguity resolution in the C++ programming language. In certain situations, the C++ grammar cannot distinguish between the creation of an object parameter and specification of a function's type. In those situations, the compiler is required to interpret the line as a function type specification.
Occurrence
The term "most vexing parse" was first used by Scott Meyers in his 2001 book Effective STL. While unusual in C, the phenomenon was quite common in C++ until the introduction of uniform initialization in C++11.
Examples
C-style casts
A simple example appears when a functional cast is intended to convert an expression for initializing a variable:
void f(double my_dbl) {
int i(int(my_dbl));
}
Line 2 above is ambiguous. One possible interpretation is to declare a variable i with initial value produced by converting my_dbl to an int. However, C allows superfluous parentheses around function parameter declarations; in this case, the declaration of i is instead a function declaration equivalent to the following:
// A function named i takes an integer and returns an integer.
int i(int my_dbl);
Unnamed temporary
A more elaborate example is:
struct Timer {};
struct TimeKeeper {
explicit TimeKeeper(Timer t);
int get_time();
};
int main() {
TimeKeeper time_keeper(Timer());
return time_keeper.get_time();
}
The line
TimeKeeper time_keeper(Timer());
is ambiguous, since it could be interpreted either as
a variable definition for variable of class , initialized with an anonymous instance of class or
a function declaration for a function that returns an object of type and has a single (unnamed) parameter, whose type is a (pointer to a) function taking no input and returning objects.
The C++ standard requires the second interpretation, which is inconsistent with line 9 above. For example, Clang++ warns that the most vexing parse has been applied on line 9 and errors on the following line:
$ clang++ time_keeper.cc
timekeeper.cc:9:25: parentheses were disambiguated as a function declaration
[-Wvexing-parse]
TimeKeeper time_keeper(Timer());
timekeeper.cc:9:26: note: add a pair of parentheses to declare a variable
TimeKeeper time_keeper(Timer());
timekeeper.cc:10:21: member reference base type 'TimeKeeper (Timer (*)())' is not a
structure or union
return time_keeper.get_time();
Solutions
The required interpretation of these ambiguous declarations is rarely the intended one. Function types in C++ are usually hidden behind typedefs and typically have an explicit reference or pointer qualifier. To force the alternate interpretation, the typical technique is a different object creation or conversion syntax.
In the type conversion example, there are two alternate syntaxes available for casts: the "C-style cast"
// declares a variable of type int
int i((int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathology | Telepathology is the practice of pathology at a distance. It uses telecommunications technology to facilitate the transfer of image-rich pathology data between distant locations for the purposes of diagnosis, education, and research. Performance of telepathology requires that a pathologist selects the video images for analysis and the rendering of diagnoses. The use of "television microscopy", the forerunner of telepathology, did not require that a pathologist have physical or virtual "hands-on" involvement in the selection of microscopic fields-of-view for analysis and diagnosis.
An academic pathologist, Ronald S. Weinstein, M.D., coined the term "telepathology" in 1986. In a medical journal editorial, Weinstein outlined the actions that would be needed to create remote pathology diagnostic services. He and his collaborators published the first scientific paper on robotic telepathology. Weinstein was also granted the first U.S. patents for robotic telepathology systems and telepathology diagnostic networks. Weinstein is known to many as the "father of telepathology". In Norway, Eide and Nordrum implemented the first sustainable clinical telepathology service in 1989; this is still in operation decades later. A number of clinical telepathology services have benefited many thousands of patients in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Telepathology has been successfully used for many applications, including the rendering of histopathology tissue diagnoses at a distance. Although digital pathology imaging, including virtual microscopy, is the mode of choice for telepathology services in developed countries, analog telepathology imaging is still used for patient services in some developing countries.
Types of systems
Telepathology systems are divided into three major types: static image-based systems, real-time systems, and virtual slide systems.
Static image systems have the benefit of being the most reasonably priced and usable systems. They have the significant drawback in only being able to capture a selected subset of microscopic fields for off-site evaluation.
Real-time robotic microscopy systems and virtual slides allow a consultant pathologist the opportunity to evaluate histopathology slides in their entirety, from a distance. With real-time systems, the consultant actively operates a robotically controlled motorized microscope located at a distant site—changing focus, illumination, magnification, and field of view—at will. Either an analog video camera or a digital video camera can be used for robotic microscopy. Another form of real-time microscopy involves utilizing a high resolution video camera mounted on a path lab microscope to send live digital video of a slide to a large computer monitor at the pathologist's remote location via encrypted store-and-forward software. An echo-cancelling microphone at each end of the video conference allows the pathologist to communicate with the person moving the slide under the microscope.
V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlusCal | PlusCal (formerly called +CAL) is a formal specification language created by Leslie Lamport, which transpiles to TLA+. In contrast to TLA+'s action-oriented focus on distributed systems, PlusCal most resembles an imperative programming language and is better-suited when specifying sequential algorithms. PlusCal was designed to replace pseudocode, retaining its simplicity while providing a formally-defined and verifiable language. A one-bit clock is written in PlusCal as follows:
-- fair algorithm OneBitClock {
variable clock \in {0, 1};
{
while (TRUE) {
if (clock = 0)
clock := 1
else
clock := 0
}
}
}
See also
TLA+
Pseudocode
References
External links
PlusCal tools and documentation are found on the PlusCal Algorithm Language page.
Formal methods
Formal specification languages
Algorithm description languages
Microsoft Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Katz%20%28statistician%29 | Leo Katz (29 November 1914 in Detroit – 6 May 1976) was an American statistician. Katz largely contributed to the area of Social Network Analysis. In 1953, he introduced a centrality measure named Katz centrality that computes the degree of influence of an actor in a social network. The computation already outlined the algorithm today known as PageRank.
In 1956 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
References
External links
American statisticians
1914 births
1976 deaths
Scientists from Detroit
20th-century American mathematicians
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Psych%20characters | This is a list of characters in the USA Network original comedy-drama television series Psych and subsequent sequel film series of the same name, the majority of which have been released to the Peacock streaming service. The principal cast of the franchise has remained the same throughout the television and film series. However, various recurring characters have appeared over the course of the franchise's run.
Main characters
Shawn Spencer
Gus Guster
Carlton Lassiter
Lucinda Barry
Det. Lucinda Barry (Anne Dudek) is a detective who worked in the SBPD until it was revealed (by Shawn) that she was having a relationship with Lassiter. Barry appeared in the Pilot episode. Dudek did not return to the show for a main role, and the character was written out (without her presence) in the second episode, "Spellingg Bee". She was replaced by Juliet O'Hara, but was later mentioned by Lassiter in "Shawn Rescues Darth Vader" (6.01). Her death is implied in the episode "Santabarbaratown 2" (7.01) due to a shooting range tournament being named in her memory.
Henry Spencer
Juliet O'Hara
Karen Vick
Selene
Selene (Jazmyn Simon) is Gus' love interest and eventual wife, introduced in the Psych film series in a supporting role, before being promoted to a main role in the third film, Psych 3: This Is Gus (2021).
Recurring characters
Young Shawn
Young Shawn (portrayed by Liam James and Skyler Gisondo in the majority of appearances) is the younger version of Shawn Spencer. He is almost always shown learning life lessons from his father, usually tying into the main events of the episode. The character usually appears in flashbacks to the late 80s or early 90s. Young Shawn first appeared in the pilot episode, and has appeared in nearly every episode for the first six seasons.
In "The Polarizing Express" (5.14), Young Shawn appears in adult Shawn's dream in 2010. The character makes light of the rotating actors in the role when Tony Cox comments that Shawn and his younger self look nothing alike. Young Shawn (portrayed by Skyler Gisondo) replies, "Well, we changed!" Then, looking at adult Shawn he says, "Sometimes from week to week, huh?," which adult Shawn confirms.
In "And Down the Stretch Comes Murder" (2.05), Young Shawn occurs in multiple flashbacks in which Shawn tries to find the culprit that shot a spit ball at the teacher's head, ending in getting Jimmy (Bully) kicked out of school. Jimmy, now a horse jockey, returns in the beginning of the episode, to hire Psych to talk to his horse.
Young Gus
Young Gus (portrayed by Carlos McCullers II in the majority of appearances) is the younger version of Gus. He almost always appears with Young Shawn, occasionally learning life lessons from Henry as well. The character always appears in flashbacks to the late 80s or early 90s. Young Gus first appeared in "Spellingg Bee" (1.02) and has appeared in many episodes throughout the first six seasons.
Buzz McNab
Officer (Junior Detective season 8 finale ep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Oceanographic%20Data%20Centre%20of%20Cameroon | The National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) is a national institute in Cameroon which compiles, analyses and monitors data related to the waters of Cameroon. The institute is a member of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange System (IODE).and was established on February 28, 2001. The project is hosted by the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) which is under the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation (MINRESI).
External links
Official site
Oceanographic organizations
Organizations based in Cameroon
Organizations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Cameroon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Panik | Data Panik (stylized as data Panik) were a Scottish rock band—Steven Clark (Sci-fi Steven), John Clark (John Disco), Amanda MacKinnon (Manda Rin) (all formerly of bis at the time), Stuart Memo (of Multiplies) and Graham Christie (ex Kenickie tour drummer).
Their debut single, "Cubis (I Love You)" backed with "Sense Not Sense" was released on limited edition 7-inch and download in June 2005.
In October 2005, data Panik became the first band in the UK to have a dedicated mobile i-mode website.
April 2006 saw the release of a split 7-inch single on Must Destroy Records with fellow Scots :( (pronounced colon open bracket). The data Panik track "Control The Radical" is featured.
The group recorded three songs for XFM Scotland ("Minimum Wage", "Retail of the Details" and "Do The Static") which were played on-air the evening of Wednesday 7 June 2006.
It was announced on 16 August 2006 that data Panik had decided to split on the premise that people would not accept them as a credible post bis band. All members are intending to concentrate on solo projects with John and Steven continuing their Dirty Hospital project.
Some songs by the band were later released on the album data Panik etcetera by bis in 2014.
External links
Audiojunkies Interview with Manda Rin
Scottish rock music groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nati%20Linial | Nathan (Nati) Linial (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, a professor in the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an ISI highly cited researcher.
Linial did his undergraduate studies at the Technion, and received his PhD in 1978 from the Hebrew University under the supervision of Micha Perles. He was a postgraduate researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles before returning to the Hebrew University as a faculty member.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2019 he won the FOCS Test of Time Award for the paper "Constant Depth Circuits, Fourier Transform, and Learnability", co-authored with Yishay Mansour and Noam Nisan.
Selected publications
. The paper won the 2013 Dijkstra Prize. In the words of the prize committee: "This paper has had a major impact on distributed message-passing algorithms. It focused a spotlight on the notion of locality in distributed computation and raised interesting questions concerning the locality level of various distributed problems, in terms of their time complexity on different classes of networks. Towards that goal, in this paper, Linial developed a model particularly suitable for studying locality, which ignores message sizes, asynchrony and failures. This clean model allowed researchers to isolate the effects of locality and study the roles of distances and neighborhoods, as graph theoretic notions, and their interrelations with algorithmic and complexity-theoretic problems in distributed computing."
. This paper on competitive analysis of online algorithms studies metrical task systems, a very general model of tasks where decisions on how to service a sequence of requests must be made without knowledge of future requests. It introduces the metrical task system model, describes how to use it to model various scheduling problems, and develops an algorithm that in many situations can be shown to perform optimally.
. By performing harmonic analysis on functions in the complexity class AC0 (a class representing highly parallelizable computational problems), Linial and his co-authors show that these functions behave poorly as pseudorandom number generators, can be approximated well by polynomials, and can be learned efficiently by machine learning systems.
. Linial's most-cited paper according to Google scholar, this paper explores connections between graph-theoretic problems such as the multi-commodity flow problem and low-distortion embeddings of metric spaces into low-dimensional spaces such as those given by the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma.
. In 2008 Linial and his co-authors won the Levi L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society for best mathematical exposition for this article, a survey on expander graphs.
References
Combinatorialists
Theoretical computer scientists
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Einstein Institute of Mat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20Earth | Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10 million (1 cm = 100 km), 1:50 million, and 1:110 million map scales. Natural Earth's data set contains integrated vector and raster mapping data.
The original authors of the map dataset are Tom Patterson and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, but Natural Earth has expanded to be a collaboration of many volunteers and is supported by the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). It is free for public use in any type of project.
The dataset includes the fictitious 1-meter-square Null Island at for error-checking purposes.
Public domain data and software
All versions of Natural Earth raster and vector map data on the Natural Earth website are in the public domain. Anyone may use the maps in any manner, including modifying the content and design.
See also
Natural Earth projection
References
External links
Shaded Relief, Ideas and techniques about relief presentation in maps, by Tom Patterson.
Cartography
Public domain databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-5 | Nord-5 was Norsk Data's first 32-bit minicomputer and is believed to be the first 32-bit minicomputer. Introduced in 1972, the Nord-5 was categorised as a "superminicomputer", described retrospectively as a "technological success but a commercial disaster", eventually being superseded in 1983 by the ND-500 family. Initially described as a larger version of the Nord-1 to compete with the UNIVAC 1106 and the IBM System/360 Model 44, the machine used a Nord-1 as its front-end console processor, which ran the majority of the OS.
References
Norsk Data minicomputers
32-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewpoint%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 | Viewpoint is a Philippine public affairs television show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Dong Puno, it premiered on August 21, 1984. The show concluded in November 1994.
Accolades
References
1984 Philippine television series debuts
1994 Philippine television series endings
English-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleeden | Gleeden is a French online dating community and social networking service primarily marketed to women, specifically those who are already in a relationship. In 2009, the site was launched in France. More than 65% of users reside in the European Union. The company serves as a secure dating service open to all genders and to practitioners of all lifestyles.
Gleeden's membership service is free for women to use. The name of the site is a portmanteau of “Glee” and “Eden” (referring to the biblical “Garden of Eden”).
History
Gleeden’s dating service was founded in September 2010. The site was officially launched in Europe in December 2009. Gleeden is available in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. In 2010, Gleeden opened to the public in Australia and New Zealand. It is a brand of Blackdivine Group.
Gleeden.com is available in 159 countries.
As of 2017, Gleeden.com's faculty are all women.
Community
Gleeden’s community is open to adults of all relationship statuses (married, separated, divorced, co-habitating, single) and sexual orientations (heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual). Gleeden is primarily marketed to married men and women.
Services
Gleeden’s business model is based on a system of credits rather than monthly subscriptions as opposed to EHarmony or Meetic. A subscriber can purchase credit packs in order to communicate with other members. Members pay a one-time fee of 2-3 credits to participate in an email or chat conversation with another member. Any follow-up messages in a thread are free. Private messages, chats, and credit packs do not expire. The average subscriber has £40 (US$44) worth of credits in his or her account at any given time. Members get in contact with each other via chat or private messages. Members can send each other virtual gifts, which are sorted by type and price. Although the moderation policy can be strict Gleeden members can keep private photos in a separate photo album, or “private book”, which can be viewed with the permission of the member who owns the album.
Moderation
Gleeden purports to moderate its members heavily to ensure that all members on the site are real. The site in addition promotes a strict privacy policy. Gleeden prohibits vulgarity, nudity and euphemism. A reporting system is available for members to report unseemly activity. This is described as a method of ensuring a “harassment-free” environment.
Controversy
Since its launch, Gleeden has received criticism for allowing married members. The site has been severely criticized for allowing married people to identify their status and interests on their profile.
As stated by Gleeden, “In an age where divorce is 40-60% among newlyweds and 33% among those married for 10 years, many times extramarital affairs can intervene as therapy for a couple. Gleeden is a facilitator of confidence where married couples can disregard the taboo and explore their desires safely.”
In 2015, the company was sued by the Association of Catholic Fa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20R.%20Jensen%20Jr. | George R. Jensen Jr. is an American businessman who founded USA Technologies Inc., (USAT), a high-tech company that developed the ePort, the first wireless networked cashless payment technology for vending machines, unattended Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals, and kiosks.
Jensen founded USA Technologies in 1992, when he envisioned a world of cashless vending, and served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer during his tenure.
The ePort cashless product line includes the ePort G8, a payment terminal which allows consumers to pay for items at vending machines, kiosks and POS terminals with magnetic swipe bank cards, contactless cards, FOB, PIN, and cellular phones, and the ePort EDGE which was developed for magnetic swipe cards only.
Under his leadership, the ePort EDGE in 2010 won the inaugural National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA) award for innovation in cashless vending technology. NAMA is the vending industry's national body.
His management also led to USA Technologies being ranked among the leading shippers of point-of-sale terminals over the past three years by The Nilson Report, a source of news and research on consumer payment systems worldwide. In the latest 2009 survey, USA Technologies was ranked 6th in POS shipments in the United States and 31st in the world.
More recently, USA Technologies was named to Deloitte L.L.P’s 2010 Technology Fast 500 List of the fastest growing companies in North America.
In 1985 Jensen founded American Film Technologies where he served as Chairman, Director, and CEO until 1992. AFT is a film colorization company that creates color imaged versions of black-and-white films. During his leadership, Jensen was awarded a contract from Ted Turner, the American film magnate and founder of the CNN news service, to convert 200 black-and-white films to color. Jensen grew AFT to more than 500 employees.
In 1989 Jensen was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ for the Philadelphia area by Inc. Magazine and by Ernst & Young for Technology Leadership.
Jensen launched his entrepreneurial career in 1975 as CEO and President of International Film Productions Inc. He was Executive Producer of the 12-hour miniseries, "A.D.", filmed in Tunisia. Procter & Gamble co-produced and sponsored the epic, which aired in 1985 for five consecutive days on the NBC network. The epic was a continuation of the highly acclaimed mini-series, "Jesus of Nazareth". He was Executive Producer of the 1983 film special, "A Tribute to Princess Grace" shown on Public Television.
Jensen began his career as a securities broker from 1971 to 1978, primarily for the firm Smith Barney Harris Upham.
Jensen graduated from The University of Tennessee where he received his Bachelor of Science degree, as well as The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was a graduate of the Advanced Management Program.
References
Living people
American businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%20you%20have | Here you have is a computer worm that successfully attacked tens of thousands of Windows computers in 2010 when it was sent as a link inside an email message with the text "Here you have" in the subject line. The worm arrived in email inboxes on and after September 9, 2010 with the simple subject of "Here you have". The final extension of the link was hidden by default, leading unsuspecting users to think it was a mere PDF file. Upon opening the attachment, the worm sent a copy of itself to everyone in the Windows Address Book.
Architecture of the Worm
The worm requires that the user clicks on the link, and then accepts several times (depending on system configuration) to run it in order to deliver the payload.
The worm propagates by sending out copies of itself to all entries in the Microsoft Outlook address book.
See also
Code Red worm
Nimda worm
ILOVEYOU worm
Anna Kournikova (computer virus)
Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms
Pikachu Virus
References
External links
SANS diary
ABC article
ComputerWorld article
MSNBC article
Email worms
Windows viruses
Hacking in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Ocean%20Network | Blue Ocean Network (BON, ) is an English-language television news network based in China. According to the Global Times, it is the first privately owned Chinese commercial TV network.
It states it "is one of the first private English-language Television Network to offer International viewers fresh China-focused news and features, including business & technology, travel, art & creativity, and health & living programming, produced exclusively from China."
It previously stated its aim was to provide "comprehensive and objective programming produced exclusively from, and about, China".
It is funded by CDH Venture Partners. Other sources of its revenues include local Chinese governments.
Programming
The station primarily broadcasts two types of shows, news and culture.
The news shows have included China Price Watch, China Beat, China Take, MicroBlog Buzz, On the Level, and Media Watch. Previous and current news anchors include Fergus Thompson, Joshua Linder, Neal Jones, David Nye, Joseph Nordstrom, Michael Butterworth, Ken Xu, Matt Sheehan, Yue Xu, and a number of others with insight into China related topics. Because it is run independently, BON's news programming has been able to report on a variety of topics considered taboo on state-run Chinese news networks.
Cultural programming includes reality travel shows, talk shows, and educational programming.
Many of the station's programs are available on television and online platforms. A number of the videos have gone viral on YouTube and Chinese social media platforms such as Weibo, Baidu Video, Sohu, and Youku Tudou.
Television availability as of December 2014
The official website's About Us section states that its programming "is available on Dish Network USA as part of the International Basic Package and Chinese Package, on Sky TV (BSkyB) across Great Britain as part of the Basic Package, on MHz Networks USA in Washington DC, and on Broadcast Stations and Cable Networks across more than 30 U.S. States."
References
External links
Official website
Television networks in China
English-language television stations
Mass media in Beijing
Television channels and stations established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20tablet%20computers | The history of tablet computers and the associated special operating software is an example of pen computing technology, and thus the development of tablets has deep historical roots.
The first patent for a system that recognized handwritten characters by analyzing the handwriting motion was granted in 1914.
The first publicly demonstrated system using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard for working with a modern digital computer dates to 1956.
Early tablets
The tablet computer and the associated special operating software is an example of pen computing technology, and the development of tablets has deep historical roots.
In addition to many academic and research systems, there were several companies with commercial products in the 1980s: Pencept and Communications Intelligence Corporation were among the best known of a crowded field.
Fictional and prototype tablets
Tablet computers appeared in a number of works of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century, with the depiction of Arthur C. Clarke's NewsPad appearing in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the description of the Calculator Pad in the 1951 novel Foundation by Isaac Asimov, the Opton in the 1961 novel Return from the Stars, by Stanislaw Lem, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in Douglas Adams 1978 comedy of the same name, all helping to promote and disseminate the concept to a wider audience.
In 1968, Alan Kay envisioned a KiddiComp; while a PhD candidate he developed and described the concept as a Dynabook in his 1972 proposal: A personal computer for children of all ages, the paper outlines the requirements for a conceptual portable educational device that would offer functionality similar to that supplied via a laptop computer or (in some of its other incarnations) a tablet or slate computer with the exception of the requirement for any Dynabook device offering near eternal battery life. Adults could also use a Dynabook, but the target audience was children.
Steve Jobs of Apple envisioned in a 1983 speech an "incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes". In 1985, as the home-computer market significantly declined after several years of strong growth, Dan Bricklin said that a successful home computer needed to be the size of and as convenient to carry as a spiral notebook. He and others urged the industry to research the Dynabook concept.
Star Trek: The Next Generation featured extensive use of tablet computers.
Early devices
In 1986, Hindsight, a startup in Enfield CT, developed the Letterbug, an 8086-based tablet computer for the educational market. Prototypes were shown at trade shows in New England in 1987, but no production models ever came out.
In 1987 Linus Technologies released the Write-top, the first tablet computer with pen input and handwriting recognition. It weighed 9 pounds and was based on MS-DOS with an electroluminescent backlit CGA disp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation%20informatics | Irrigation informatics is a newly emerging academic field that is a cross-disciplinary science using informatics to study the information flows and data management related to irrigation. The field is one of many new informatics sub-specialities that uses the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems to advance a biophysical science or engineering field.
Background
Agricultural productivity increases are eagerly sought by governments and industry, spurred by the realisation that world food production must double in the 21st century to feed growing populations and that as irrigation makes up 36% of global food production, but that new land for irrigation growth is very limited, irrigation efficiency must increase. Since irrigation science is a mature and stable field, irrigation researchers are looking to cross-disciplinary science to bring about production gains and informatics is one such science along with others such as social science. Much of the driver for work in the area of irrigation informatics is the perceived success of other informatics fields such as health informatics.
Current research
Irrigation informatics is very much a part of the wider research into irrigation wherever information technology or data systems are used, however the term informatics is not always used to describe research involving computer systems and data management so that information science or information technology may alternatively be used. This leads to a great number of irrigation informatics articles not using the term irrigation informatics. There are currently no formal publications (journals) that focus on irrigation informatics with the publication most likely to present articles on the topic being Computers and electronics in Agriculture or one of the many irrigation science journals such as Irrigation Science.
Recent work in the general area of irrigation informatics has mentioned the exact phrase "Irrigation Informatics" with at least one publication in scientific conference proceedings using it in its title.
Current implementations
Meteorological informatics, as with all informatics, are increasingly being used to handle the growing volumes of data that are available from sensors, remote sensing and scientific models. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has recently implemented an XML data format, known as the Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) and standard to be used by Australian government agencies and meteorological data suppliers when delivering data to the Bureau. This format includes specifications for evapotranspiration and other weather parameters that are useful for irrigation and may be used through implementations of irrigation informatics.
See also
Environmental informatics
References
Informatics
Land management
Water management
Computational science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20Buratino | The Adventures of Buratino may refer to:
The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino
The Adventures of Buratino (1959 film)
The Adventures of Buratino (1975 film)
, a 1993 Russian computer game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyent | Joyent Inc. is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. Specializing in cloud computing, it markets infrastructure-as-a-service.
On June 15, 2016, the company was acquired by Samsung Electronics.
Services
Triton, Joyent's hosting unit, was designed to compete with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and offered infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) for large enterprises.
This hosting business was used for online social network gaming, where it provides services to companies such as THQ, Social Game Universe, and Traffic Marketplace.
The company also hosted Twitter in its early days. Other customers include LinkedIn, Gilt Groupe, and Kabam.
In June 2013 Joyent introduced an object storage service under the name Manta and partnered in September 2013 with network appliance vendor Riverbed to offer an inexpensive content-delivery network. In February 2014, Joyent announced a partnership with Canonical to offer virtual Ubuntu machines.
Software
Joyent uses and supports open source projects, including Node.js, pkgsrc, Illumos and SmartOS, which is its own distribution of Illumos, featuring its port of the KVM Hypervisor for abstracting the software from the hardware, DTrace for troubleshooting and systems monitoring, and the ZFS file system to connect servers to storage systems. The company open-sourced SmartOS in August 2011.
Joyent took software that evolved over time in the running of their hosted business and licensed that software under the name Triton DataCenter (formerly "Triton Enterprise", "SDC" or "SmartDataCenter") to large hardware companies such as Dell.
History
The name Joyent was coined by David Paul Young in the second half of 2004, and some early funding obtained from Peter Thiel. More funding was disclosed in July 2005 with Young as executive officer and director.
One of the early products was an online collaboration tool named Joyent Connector, an unusually large Ruby on Rails application, which was demonstrated at the Web 2.0 Conference in October 2005, launched in March 2006, open sourced in 2007, and discontinued in August 2011.
In November 2005, Joyent merged with TextDrive. Young became the chief executive of the merged company, while TextDrive CEO Dean Allen, a resident of France, became president and director of Joyent Europe.
Jason Hoffman (from TextDrive), serving as the merged company's chief technical officer, spearheaded the move from TextDrive's initial focus on application hosting to massively distributed systems, leading to a focus on cloud computing software and services to service providers. Allen left the company in 2007.
Young left the company in May 2012, and Hoffman took over as interim chief executive until the appointment of Henry Wasik in November 2012. Hoffman stepped down from his position as the company's chief technical officer in September 2013 and took a new position at Ericsson the next month. Bryan Cantrill was appointed CTO in his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TermWiki | TermWiki.com (pronounced ) is a major social learning network that allows users to learn, discover, share, and store personal terms and glossaries in 1487 domains in 97 languages. The site emphasizes collaboration, with a forum, a question/answer module, messaging features that encourage user interaction, and discussion pages on each term. The personal profile page allows users to become fans of other users, add photos, and add links and post comments on other users recent activity. TermWiki also allows companies to conduct international ad campaigns on keyword terms, for improved SEO performance.
The platform was developed by the localization and software development company CSOFT International. Released in May 2010, the tool has both an open and free community version, and private, professional versions for internal usage within organizations.
The name "TermWiki" is a combination of the words term (short for terminology) and wiki (from the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, wiki being the Hawaiian word for quick).
Development
Development of TermWiki began in 2009, using MediaWiki software as a development platform. The tool was formally released in May 2010 and has added several functions since then including translator and reviewer workbenches, pages on featured terms, and the ‘My Glossary’ module for managing glossaries online. TermWiki was created by Carl Yao, who also founded the translation service Stepes.
Basic Functions
“Add term” forms with pick lists, to ensure consistent data
Customizable search filters
Structured data, categorized by industry/domain, products, companies, etc.
Revision history tracking
Automatic change notifications
MT-powered batch entry modules
Glossary import/export
Multimedia support (images, sound bites, videos, etc.)
Modules
My Glossary – Allows individuals to use the site to manage their own glossaries, including adding, importing and translating terms. Friends can be invited to view, rate or translate terms.
Forum – For the general discussion of terminology, translation, and other topics.
AnswerBea – Community-driven question and answer portal.
TermBea – Subject-specific crossword game, automatically generated from the content in TermWiki.
TermWiki Toolbar – Internet Explorer or Firefox toolbar for access to TermWiki's most popular features, and for term reference. A related module is Terms in the news, a list of current and popular terms that are being featured in popular global news stories.
As of November 24, 2011, there have been 1,782,245 pages created.
Versions
The software has three versions, Community (which is publicly editable), Professional and Enterprise. The Professional version, called TermWiki Pro, is a cloud-based tool that facilitates the collaborative creation, translation, and management of multilingual terminology. This latest edition of TermWiki offers an expansion of the application's functionality to freelance
translators, content professionals and language service providers th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worky | Worky is a global online professional network with members in 136 countries. Launched in 2009, the company initially focused on matching jobs to the skills of its members to simplify the online recruitment process. The company repositioned in 2010 and now purportedly offers a platform for both individuals and companies to promote themselves online and also facilitates online recruitment. The site currently features jobs in 22 countries worldwide through its advertisers and through 3rd party providers. The domain name was purchased from someone in the US with the same name. Worky.com is a privately held Irish owned business operated by Worky Ltd. The company currently employs 10 people and is headquartered in Clanwilliam Square, Dublin, Ireland.
Ray Nolan
The founder of Worky is Ray Nolan, who ranks among Ireland's most successful entrepreneurs, previously having founded Web Reservations International which sold to Hellman & Friedman in 2009 for $458m. With Worky, Nolan's intention was to "challenge the traditional job-seeking site" The setting up of Worky.com is entirely self-funded.
References
Irish social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20Data%20Transfer%20Format | Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) is a data delivery standard implemented by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) that was jointly developed with the CSIRO. The standard, released in 2009, specifies both the format of and the techniques used to deliver Australian water data measurements to the BoM.
The Water Act 2007 (Cth) requires some private organisations and government agencies in Australia that collect water data and to deliver it to the BoM according to the WDTF standard.
An external meteorological data source that delivers data in WDTF-compliant forms is the CSIRO Land & Water's Automatic Weatherstation Network. Data from this weather station network can be viewed in a web browser, downloaded at text values in CSV format, downloaded in a condensed XML format for machine-to-machine communications, or downloaded as WDTF-compliant data.
The use of WDTF is an example of work in the field of irrigation informatics.
See also
WaterML
References
Climate of Australia
XML-based standards
Markup languages
Technical communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneity%20%28disambiguation%29 | Heterogeneity is a diverseness of constituent structure.
Heterogeneity or heterogeneous may also refer to:
Data analysis
Heterogeneity in statistics
Heterogeneity in economics
Study heterogeneity, a concept in statistics
Heterogeneous relation
Biology and medicine
Heterogeneous conditions in medicine are those conditions which have several causes/etiologies
A heterogeneous taxon, a taxon that contains a great variety of individuals or sub-taxa; usually this implies that the taxon is an artificial grouping
Genetic heterogeneity, multiple origins causing the same disorder in different individuals.
Allelic heterogeneity, different mutations at the same locus causing the same disorder.
Chemistry
A heterogeneous reaction, a reaction in chemical kinetics that takes place at the interface of two or more phases, i.e. between a solid and a gas, a liquid and a gas, or a solid and a liquid
A heterogeneous catalysis, one in which the catalyst is in a different phase from the substrate
Ecology
Heterogeneity in landscape ecology, the measure of how different parts of a landscape are from one another.
Computer science
Heterogeneous computing, electronic systems that utilize a variety of different types of computational units
Semantic heterogeneity, where there are differences in meaning and interpretation across data sources and datasets
A data resource with multiple types of formats.
See also
Homogeneity and heterogeneity
Homogeneity (disambiguation)
Degeneracy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20package%20management%20systems | This is a list of notable software package management systems, categorized first by package format (binary, source code, hybrid) and then by operating system family.
Binary packages
The following package management systems distribute apps in binary package form; i.e., all apps are compiled and ready to be installed and use.
Unix-like
Linux
dpkg: Originally used by Debian and now by Ubuntu. Uses the .deb format and was the first to have a widely known dependency resolution tool, APT. The ncurses-based front-end for APT, aptitude, is also a popular package manager for Debian-based systems;
Entropy: Used by and created for Sabayon Linux. It works with binary packages that are bzip2-compressed tar archives (file extension: .tbz2), that are created using Entropy itself, from tbz2 binaries produced by Portage: From ebuilds, a type of specialized shell script;
Flatpak: A containerized/sandboxed packaging format previously known as xdg-app;
GNU Guix: Used by the GNU System. It is based on the Nix package manager with Guile Scheme APIs and specializes in providing exclusively free software;
Homebrew: a port of the MacOS package manager of the same name (see below), formerly referred to as 'Linuxbrew';
ipkg: A dpkg-inspired, very lightweight system targeted at storage-constrained Linux systems such as embedded devices and handheld computers. Used on HP's webOS;
netpkg: The package manager used by Zenwalk. Compatible with Slackware package management tools;
Nix Package Manager: Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments;
OpenPKG: Cross-platform package management system based on RPM Package Manager;
opkg: Fork of ipkg lightweight package management intended for use on embedded Linux devices;
Pacman: Used in Arch Linux, Frugalware and DeLi Linux. Its binary package format is a compressed tar archive (default file extension: .pkg.tar.zst) built using the makepkg utility (which comes bundled with pacman) and a specialized type of shell script called a PKGBUILD;
PETget: Used by Puppy Linux;
PISI: Pisi stands for "Packages Installed Successfully as Intended". Pisi package manager is used by Pisi Linux. Pardus used to use Pisi, but migrated to APT in 2013;
pkgsrc: A cross-platform package manager, with binary packages provided for Enterprise Linux, macOS and SmartOS by Joyent and other vendors;
RPM Package Manager: Created by Red Hat. RPM is the Linux Standard Base packaging format and the base of a number of additional tools, including apt4rpm, Red Hat's up2date, Mageia's urpmi, openSUSE's ZYpp (zypper), PLD Linux's poldek, Fedora's DNF, and YUM, which is used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Yellow Dog Linux;
slackpkg;
slapt-get: Which is used by Slackware and works with a binary package format that is e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison%20fran%C3%A7aise%20d%27Oxford | The Maison Française d'Oxford (MFO), known locally as simply Maison Française, is a French research centre in the humanities and social sciences and a member of the Network of French Research Institutes Established Abroad (IFRE) by the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Overview
With the support of the Chancery of the Universities of Paris and the University of Oxford, the mission of the Maison Française is to work towards better integration of French research in the humanities and social sciences in national institutions, especially in the English-speaking world.
In 1999, it became a research centre of the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS) of the CNRS, and it develops research and cultural programmes with the academic faculties at the University of Oxford and other British universities.
Origin and historical context
The idea of establishing a French presence at the heart of the British academic world dates back to at least the beginning of the 20th century. It was supported in particular by the members of the French Club, which existed at the University of Oxford at the time and which brought together a community of francophile francophone students.
However, it was not until after the Second World War, in more favourable circumstances, that the project could be fully realised. The support that the United Kingdom had provided to the Free French had provoked a desire to consolidate the links between the two sides of the Channel, both culturally and academically. The Maison Française was brought into being at the beginning of the academic year of 1946, thanks to the initiative of the archaeologist Claude Schaeffer and under the guidance of Henri Fluchère, renowned academic, and a specialist in Shakespeare.
The current building was erected on an empty site on the north side of Norham Road in North Oxford, opposite Bradmore Road during 1961–2. It was designed by Jacques Laurent with Brian Ring, Howard & Partners. The first director at its new site was the French historian, François Bédarida (1966-1971) who opened the premises in 1967 the presence of André Malraux, the then Minister of Culture, to indicate the weight France placed on this outpost in the British Isles. From 1984 to 1991 Monica Charlot directed this institution that was targeting cultural exchange with Britain. She exploited the Oxford University environment to diversify the institution's approach.
The name "Maison Française" was chosen in reference to the pavilions of the Cité Internationale Universitaire which opened in Paris in 1925 with the same ideals.
Mission and principles
The mission and the principles of the Maison Française, as defined by the University of Oxford's decree of 22 October 1946 which confirmed its foundation, ruled out the idea of it being a teaching institution in its own right. There was no question of establishing a new college, nor even a branch of the Al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20Austria | CD Austria was an Austrian computer magazine published monthly by CDA Verlag, Perg that was owned by Harald Gutzelnig from 1995 until July 2014. It was part of the Österreichische Auflagenkontrolle. The edition of CD Austria was 16.485 copies during the first half of 2010.
Content
There were two different types of magazines which alternated every two months. CD Austria Praxis discussed themes like hints for office suites and computer hobbyists. It also included a double-sided DVD which contains software on one side and video tutorials on the other. CD Austria also tests new hardware and software as well as websites.
In Germany, it was issued under the alternating titles of PC News (corresponding to CD Austria) and PC User (corresponding to CD Austria Praxis) every two months.
See also
List of magazines in Austria
References
1995 establishments in Austria
2014 disestablishments in Germany
Computer magazines published in Germany
Defunct computer magazines
Defunct magazines published in Germany
Defunct magazines published in Austria
German-language magazines
Magazines established in 1995
Magazines disestablished in 2014
Monthly magazines published in Austria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20database | Protein database may refer to:
Any protein structure database
Any protein sequence database
Exact names
"Protein" database of the National Institute of Health
Protein Database of Bio-Synthesis, Inc. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20video%20recorder | A network video recorder (NVR) is a specialized computer system that includes a software program that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card or other mass storage device. An NVR contains no dedicated video capture hardware. However, the software is typically run on a dedicated device, usually with an embedded operating system. Alternatively, to help support increased functionality and serviceability, standard operating systems are used with standard processors and video management software. An NVR is typically deployed in an IP video surveillance system.
Network video recorders are distinct from digital video recorders (DVR) as their input is from a network rather than a direct connection to a video capture card or tuner. Video on a DVR is encoded and processed at the DVR, while video on an NVR is encoded and processed at the camera, then streamed to the NVR for storage or remote viewing.
Additional processing may be done at the NVR, such as further compression or tagging with meta data.
Hybrid NVR/DVR surveillance systems exist which incorporate functions of both NVR and DVR; these are considered a form of NVR.
See also
Video management system
Closed-circuit television (CCTV)
Closed-circuit television camera
Digital video recorder
List of free television software
ZoneMinder, a free closed-circuit television software application
References
Video hardware
Digital video recorders
Video surveillance
ru:Видеорегистратор#Сетевые видеорегистраторы (NVR) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-database%20processing | In-database processing, sometimes referred to as in-database analytics, refers to the integration of data analytics into data warehousing functionality. Today, many large databases, such as those used for credit card fraud detection and investment bank risk management, use this technology because it provides significant performance improvements over traditional methods.
History
Traditional approaches to data analysis require data to be moved out of the database into a separate analytics environment for processing, and then back to the database. (SPSS from IBM are examples of tools that still do this today). Doing the analysis in the database, where the data resides, eliminates the costs, time and security issues associated with the old approach by doing the processing in the data warehouse itself.
Though in-database capabilities were first commercially offered in the mid-1990s, as object-related database systems from vendors including IBM, Illustra/Informix (now IBM) and Oracle, the technology did not begin to catch on until the mid-2000s. The concept of migrating analytics from the analytical workstation and into the Enterprise Data Warehouse was first introduced by Thomas Tileston in his presentation entitled, “Have Your Cake & Eat It Too! Accelerate Data Mining Combining SAS & Teradata” at the Teradata Partners 2005 "Experience the Possibilities" conference in Orlando, FL, September 18–22, 2005. Mr. Tileston later presented this technique globally in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
At that point, the need for in-database processing had become more pressing as the amount of data available to collect and analyze continues to grow exponentially (due largely to the rise of the Internet), from megabytes to gigabytes, terabytes and petabytes. This “big data” is one of the primary reasons it has become important to collect, process and analyze data efficiently and accurately.
Also, the speed of business has accelerated to the point where a performance gain of nanoseconds can make a difference in some industries. Additionally, as more people and industries use data to answer important questions, the questions they ask become more complex, demanding more sophisticated tools and more precise results.
All of these factors in combination have created the need for in-database processing. The introduction of the column-oriented database, specifically designed for analytics, data warehousing and reporting, has helped make the technology possible.
Types
There are three main types of in-database processing: translating a model into SQL code, loading C or C++ libraries into the database process space as a built-in user-defined function (UDF), and out-of-process libraries typically written in C, C++ or Java and registering them in the database as a built-in UDFs in a SQL statement.
Translating models into SQL code
In this type of in-database processing, a predictive model is converted from its source language into SQL that can run in the database usually in a stored |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20%26%20Equal%20Workplace%20Summit | The Out & Equal Workplace Summit is an annual gathering of over 3,000 business leaders, LGBT employers, LGBT employees and other participants to discuss best practices, network and take part in training sessions. The Out & Equal Workplace Summit is hosted by Out & Equal Workplace Advocates and is held in rotating locations around the United States. The Workplace Summit is considered to be "qualified training in compliance with 5 U.S.C. Chapter 41" of the United States Office of Personnel Management.
History
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates founder Selisse Berry started the Workplace Summits as part of the United Way Bay Area. In 1999, an organization called The Pride Collaborative merged with another organization called COLLEAGUES—a national organization that sponsored the annual "Out & Equal Conference" aimed at human resource professionals and LGBT employees—thus forming Out & Equal Workplace Advocates. That same year, Progress’s Leadership Summit and COLLEAGUES’ Out & Equal Conference combined resources to produce the annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit, which is now one of the keystone programs of the organization.
After officially becoming a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates now independently manages the Workplace Summit.
Program
Annually, the Out & Equal Workplace Summit includes workshops, plenary speakers and performances. The Summit's plenaries includes keynotes from LGBT leaders, executives and celebrities and features performances by LGBT and allied musicians.
The Workplace Summit includes an annual award ceremony aimed at recognizing leaders in LGBT workplace equality called The Outies.
References
External links
Out & Equal — official website
Out & Equal's newest program linking diversity friendly employers with top LGBT talent -Out & Equal's LGBTCareerlink
LGBT organizations in the United States
Organizations based in San Francisco
Organizations established in 1998
LGBT business organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey%20Night%20Live%21 | Hockey Night Live is a current events sports talk show about NHL hockey broadcast on MSG Network. Its main host, Al Trautwig, is joined by a panel that includes Steve Valiquette, Ron Duguay, Dave Maloney, Butch Goring, John MacLean, and E.J. Hradek, with contributions from Stan Fischler and John Giannone. Bill Pidto serves as panel moderator and host when Trautwig is on assignment or unavailable.
The program primarily provides insight into the four NHL teams that MSG holds broadcast rights: the Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils, and MSG-owned New York Rangers. Hockey-related topics of broad importance are occasionally discussed.
From its inception until February 2016, the show was broadcast on Saturdays following the local hockey game. On February 4, 2016, the show became part of MSG Network's Thursday Night Hockey program, although the move did not guarantee the same previous local time slot.
External links
Hockey Night Live! on MSGNetworks.com
American sports television series
National Hockey League on television
MSG Network original programming
2010s American television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%20Duffus | Dwight Albert Duffus is a Canadian-American mathematician, the Goodrich C. White Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Emory University and editor-in-chief of the journal Order.
Duffus did his undergraduate studies at the University of Regina, graduating in 1974; he received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Calgary under the supervision of Ivan Rival.
In 1986 Duffus received Emory University's Emory Williams Teaching Award, its highest award for teaching excellence. He served as chair of the Mathematics & Computer Science Department at Emory for many years, beginning in 1991.
References
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Canadian mathematicians
University of Calgary alumni
University of Regina alumni
Emory University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass%20the%20hash | In computer security, pass the hash is a hacking technique that allows an attacker to authenticate to a remote server or service by using the underlying NTLM or LanMan hash of a user's password, instead of requiring the associated plaintext password as is normally the case. It replaces the need for stealing the plaintext password to gain access with stealing the hash.
The attack exploits an implementation weakness in the authentication protocol, where password hashes remain static from session to session until the password is next changed.
This technique can be performed against any server or service accepting LM or NTLM authentication, whether it runs on a machine with Windows, Unix, or any other operating system.
Description
On systems or services using NTLM authentication, users' passwords are never sent in cleartext over the wire. Instead, they are provided to the requesting system, like a domain controller, as a hash in a response to a challenge–response authentication scheme.
Native Windows applications ask users for the cleartext password, then call APIs like LsaLogonUser that convert that password to one or two hash values (the LM or NT hashes) and then send that to the remote server during NTLM authentication.
If an attacker has the hashes of a user's password, they do not need the cleartext password; they can simply use the hash to authenticate with a server and impersonate that user. In other words, from an attacker's perspective, hashes are functionally equivalent to the original passwords that they were generated from.
History
The pass the hash technique was originally published by Paul Ashton in 1997 and consisted of a modified Samba SMB client that accepted user password hashes instead of cleartext passwords. Later versions of Samba and other third-party implementations of the SMB and NTLM protocols also included the functionality.
This implementation of the technique was based on an SMB stack created by a third-party (e.g., Samba and others), and for this reason suffered from a series of limitations from a hacker's perspective, including limited or partial functionality: The SMB protocol has continued to evolve over the years, this means that third parties creating their own implementation of the SMB protocol need to implement changes and additions to the protocol after they are introduced by newer versions of Windows and SMB (historically by reverse engineering, which is very complex and time-consuming). This means that even after performing NTLM authentication successfully using the pass the hash technique, tools like Samba's SMB client might not have implemented the functionality the attacker might want to use. This meant that it was difficult to attack Windows programs that use DCOM or RPC.
Also, because attackers were restricted to using third-party clients when carrying out attacks, it was not possible to use built-in Windows applications, like Net.exe or the Active Directory Users and Computers tool amongst others, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLN | MLN may refer to:
Markov logic network
Midlothian, historic county in Scotland, Chapman code
Minuteman Library Network
Modern Language Notes, a US journal of European literature
Melilla Airport, Melilla, Spain, IATA code
Movement of National Liberation, Mexico, 1960s
Former National Liberation Movement (Guatemala)
National Liberation Movement (Panama)
See also
National Liberation Movement (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Rival | Ivan Rival (March 15, 1947 – January 22, 2002 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) was a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of mathematics at the University of Calgary and of computer science at the University of Ottawa.
Rival's Ph.D. thesis concerned lattice theory. After moving to Calgary he began to work more generally with partially ordered sets, and to study fixed point theorems for partially ordered structures. He was a frequent organizer of conferences in order theory, and in 1984 he founded the journal Order. As a computer scientist at Ottawa, he shifted research topics, applying his expertise in order theory to the study of data structures, computational geometry, and graph drawing.
Rival grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. He earned a bachelor's degree at McMaster University in 1969, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1974 under the supervision of George Gratzer. After postdoctoral stints visiting Robert Dilworth at Caltech and Rudolf Wille at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, he took a faculty position at Calgary in 1975, and was promoted to full professor in 1981. In 1986, he moved to the University of Ottawa, where he became chair of the computer science department.
Rival's doctoral students included Dwight Duffus, the Goodrich C. White Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Emory University. Duffus took over the editorship of Order after the retirement (as editor) of William T. Trotter , who took over the editorship from Rival.
References
External links
The Ivan Rival Memorial Website
1947 births
2002 deaths
Canadian mathematicians
Academics from Hamilton, Ontario
McMaster University alumni
University of Manitoba alumni
Academic staff of the University of Calgary
Lattice theorists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan%20chart%20%28time%20series%29 | In time series analysis, a fan chart is a chart that joins a simple line chart for observed past data, by showing ranges for possible values of future data together with a line showing a central estimate or most likely value for the future outcomes. As predictions become increasingly uncertain the further into the future one goes, these forecast ranges spread out, creating distinctive wedge or "fan" shapes, hence the term. Alternative forms of the chart can also include uncertainty for past data, such as preliminary data that is subject to revision.
The term "fan chart" was coined by the Bank of England, which has been using these charts and this term since 1997 in its "Inflation Report" to describe its best prevision of future inflation to the general public. Fan charts have been used extensively in finance and monetary policy, for instance to represent forecasts of inflation.
Implementation
Predicted future values can be diagrammed in various ways; most simply, by a single predicted value, and an upper and lower range around that (three lines total), or by various future intervals, depicted by varying degrees of shading (darkest near the center of the range, fainter near the ends of the range).
There are several ways to represent the forecast density depending on the shape of the forecasting distribution.
If the forecast density is symmetric (normal or Student's t, for instance), the fan centers at the mean (which coincides with the mode and median) forecast, and the ranges expand like confidence intervals by adding and subtracting multiples of the forecasting standard error to the mean forecast. These ranges are known as equal-tail ranges and centre at the mean forecast. Low resolution charts may add and subtract one, two and three forecasting standard errors for approximate coverages of 68%, 95% and 99.7%. These charts can easily be built through standard Excel graphs.
If the forecast density is non-symmetric, centering the fan at the median and using equal tail ranges might not be appropriate as it would overstate the forecast uncertainty. In this case it is better to center the fan at the more likely forecast (the mode) and use Highest Probability Density (HPD) ranges. HPDs are by definition the shortest ranges covering a given probability, say 50%, and are centered at the mode. In this case it is usual to include increasing probability ranges of 10%, 20%, ..., 90%, for instance.
In the Bank of England's implementation it is assumed that the forecast distribution is a two piece normal or split normal density. This density results from joining the two-halves of corresponding normal densities with the same mode but different variances. As a result, the split normal density is non-symmetric and uni-modal. In this case, inflation forecast fan charts are usually accompanied with the balance of risks, the probability that the future inflation falls below its modal forecast. In this way, central banks that employ inflation targeting report to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etihad%20Rail | Etihad Rail () is the United Arab Emirates national railway network. It was established in June 2009 under Federal Law No. 2 to manage the development, construction and operation of the United Arab Emirates' national freight and passenger railway network. Etihad Rail aims to link the UAE's principal centres of industry and population, and to link these centres with other railways throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Etihad Rail is being developed in line with the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 and the UAE Vision 2021, which in turn contributes to economic diversification through strategic initiatives set to bolster UAE socio-economic growth and diversification.
Commercial operations of Stage One commenced in January 2016 on time and within budget. The operator of Stage One is Etihad Rail DB, which is a joint venture between Etihad Rail and Deutsche Bahn, Europe's largest railway operator, which was set up in 2013.
Since the signing of finance agreements for Stage Two, Etihad Rail has finalised routes and reserved Etihad Rail's corridors and lands by signing agreements with the relevant authorities throughout the Emirates, awarded all of Stage Two packages and launched constructions work on these packages.
History
In 2004, the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council commissioned a feasibility study regarding a railway network spanning the region. Etihad Rail was founded in June 2009 following the passage of Federal Law No. 2.
Stage One
long Stage One of Etihad Rail connecting the inland gas fields of Liwa and Shah to the port town of Ruwais, became operational in January 2016.
Stage Two
Construction of long on Stage Two, which will run from Ghuweifat, on the border of Saudi Arabia, to Fujairah, on the UAE's eastern coast, began in 2020. The first track for Stage Two was laid in early 2021.
Network
Overview
The network, when complete, will be approximately in length, will connect all seven of its emirates, and will link the UAE to the KSA via Ghuweifat in the west running to Fujairah on the east coast. The network will use diesel traction, with the potential to electrify in the future.
Etihad Rail's freight trains will reach speeds up to , and its passenger trains will reach speeds up to .
The network will use standard gauge, mainly double track, be designed for mixed-use traffic, use a European signaling system (ETCS level 2), and have heavy haul 32.5 tonnes axle loads and the loading gauge on the track accommodates double stack containers.
Stage One: Shah – Habshan – Ruwais (operational)
Etihad Rail completed Stage One of the network in January 2016, delivered on schedule and within budget. The route spans , transporting granulated sulphur from sources at Shah and Habshan to the processing and export point at Ruwais. It currently has the capacity to transport 22,000 tonnes of granulated sulphur each day.
The operator of Stage One is Etihad Rail DB, which is a joint venture between Etihad Rail and Deutsche Bahn, Europ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Stefanovic | Karl Stefanovic (; born 12 August 1974), also spelt Karl Stefanović, is an Australian television presenter and journalist for the Nine Network.
Stefanovic is currently a co-host of the Nine Network's breakfast program Today and presents for 60 Minutes.
Career
Early life
Stefanovic studied journalism at university, but after earning his degree could not secure a cadetship. At his father's suggestion, he auditioned for NIDA, but did not make the final cut despite making it through a few rounds of auditions. Although he was encouraged to re-apply for the following year, he took up a job offer from WIN Television in Rockhampton instead.
In 1994, he began working for WIN in Rockhampton and Cairns as a cadet reporter.
In 1996, Stefanovic took up a position with TVNZ as a reporter for One Network News in New Zealand. In 1998, Stefanovic returned to Australia with a job reporting and presenting for Ten News in Brisbane, and also acted as a fill-in news presenter for Ron Wilson in Sydney.
Nine Network
In 2000, Stefanovic moved to the Nine Network as a reporter and back-up presenter for Nine News in Brisbane. He received a Queensland Media Award for Best News Coverage for his report on the Childers backpacker hostel fire in 2000. His reports on the 2001 Warragamba bushfires from Sussex Inlet in January 2002 led to his appointment to Nine's Sydney newsroom, and he was involved in the coverage of the 2003 Canberra bushfires.
In February 2005, Stefanovic replaced Today host Steve Liebmann. He has been a fill-in host on A Current Affair for Tracy Grimshaw. In 2006, he participated in the Nine Network reality television show Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice. He eventually made it to the grand final of the show, but was beaten by Jake Wall by a viewer poll. In 2008, Stefanovic took over as host of Nine Network's Carols by Candlelight with Lisa Wilkinson replacing longtime host Ray Martin. He continued to host Carols by Candlelight until 2012, when he was replaced by David Campbell.
In 2011, along with his hosting role at Today, Stefanovic was a contributing reporter on 60 Minutes. He also hosted a Sunday evening edition of A Current Affair (ACA Sunday).
In December 2011, he was a crew member aboard racing supermaxi yacht Investec LOYAL when it won line honours in the 2011 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Stefanovic hosted the Nine Network's evening reports on the 2012 London Olympics. In December 2013, he was a crew member aboard supermaxi yacht Perpetual Loyal in the 2013 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, with his other celebrity crew members, Larry Emdur, Guillaume Brahimi, Tom Slingsby, Phil Waugh and Jude Bolton.
In October 2015, Stefanovic hosted television the panel show The Verdict on the Nine Network. The weekly show mixed elements of successful programs The Project and Q&A but courted controversy with its line-up of panelists.
In July 2017, Stefanvoic began hosting This Time Next Year on the Nine Network.
In December 2018, it was announced that Stef |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Morozov%20%28scientist%29 | Anatoliy Oleksiyvych Morozov (; born 9 May 1939) is a Ukrainian scientist in the field of cybernetics. He is a Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a Full member (Academician) of the International Academy of Information Science and the Academy of Technological Sciences of Russia and the President of the Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine.
Early life and education
Morozov was born in Kyiv. He was educated at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and was a student and follower of Victor Glushkov. From 1961 to 1992 he worked at the Institute of Cybernetics, Kyiv. Since then he is with the Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems Problems.
Notable works
Morozov was the chief designer of the automated control system of the Lviv manufacturing project, supervised by Glushkov. In 1970 Glushkov and the developers of Lviv were awarded the State Award of Ukrainian Socialist Republic.
Since May 1, 1986, Morozov has been involved in the liquidation of consequences resulting from the Chernobyl disaster. He worked directly in a failure-zone for the greater part of a year. He headed the Special Design Bureau of Mathematical Machines and Systems of the Institute Cybernetics Academy of Sciences, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and organized the Special Design Office of Experts of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. These bodies organized the ministries and departments of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic concerning the situational forecasting of radiation pollution of the Dnipro River and the territory of Ukraine. For this work he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Morozov is the Chief Designer of the RADA system, a hardware/software complex for the support of decisions by public authorities at various levels used by the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine). It is also used by various councils at different state levels in Ukraine and in several other countries. In 1998 he and the group of developers were awarded the State Award of Ukraine for this project.
Honors and awards
He has many state awards and honours, including the following:
Full Member, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
USSR State Prize, three times
State Prize of the Ukraine SSR, three times
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of Merit, Third Class
References
External links
Anatoliy A. Morozov on the Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems Problems website
1939 births
Living people
Scientists from Kyiv
Full Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni
Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Cyberneticists
Soviet computer scientists
Ukrainian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Software | The Science Software (formerly Science Software Quarterly) was a scientific journal for scientists of all disciplines who used computers in the 1980s, particularly desktop platforms such as the IBM-PC (introduced in 1981), the Apple Macintosh (introduced in 1984), and the Apple II (introduced in 1977). The journal featured reviews of scientific applications and other software that were available at the time for many different disciplines and branches of science. Each issue also contained articles about scientific computing and regular features. Available by individual subscription, SSQ was published quarterly, or four times per year. Each issue contained about 110 pages.
History
Science Software Quarterly was founded in 1984 by executive editor Diana Gabaldon, who at the time was an assistant professor in the Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University. SSQ was first published by ASU. In 1987, the journal was acquired by a new publisher, John Wiley & Sons, who changed the title to Science Software. The software reviews and articles in the journal were not peer-reviewed.
On the new market for scientific software in 1986, Gabaldon wrote, "Within the last year, scientific and technical computer users have emerged as a significant vertical market." But scientists had been using personal computers before their market was discovered. "This means that computer-using scientists were frequently forced to write their own software if they wanted something specific to their needs." SSQ helped acquaint scientists with the newest software applications on the market and provided evaluations from peers, who reviewed the products.
Scientist reviewers
Authors of the SSQ reviews were volunteer scientists who were experts in their field, selected by the executive editor. For software applications new on the market, the scientist reviewer would install and use the product in his or her work, and then evaluate it. Or a scientist could choose to write a review of software that he or she was already using. Manufacturers supplied a current copy of the software free of charge to each reviewer.
Contents
Software reviews
SSQ scientist reviewers would install, learn to use, then evaluate a software package based on the following categories:
Performance
Documentation
Ease of Learning
Ease of Use
Error handling
Support provided from the software company
Value
Reviewers would write a section on each category above within the review. A checkbox graphic for each review article allowed readers to see at a glance the reviewer's marks for each of the four categories, giving ratings of Unsatisfactory, Poor, Fair, Good, or Excellent.
The review articles would begin with a listing of the vendor for the software, the current price, and the system requirements, which included the type of computer platform, operating system version, minimum RAM (memory) needed, etc. for the software to work properly.
Articles
Articles of interest to scientists using compu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discuz%21 | Discuz! is Internet forum software written in PHP and developed by Comsenz Technology Co., Ltd (). It supports MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. It is the most popular Internet forum program used in China.
Discuz! is free of charge for private uses. A license that allows commercial use costs about 3000 RMB. The software is officially available in Chinese. It was officially developed in an English version also, but the development stopped due to financial reasons. There are unofficial English and other language versions provided by certain websites.
History
Based on another Internet forum program called "Asia XMB" in its English version, based on the "XMB forum", Discuz! was developed by Dai Zhikang (; nickname: Crossday) as "Crossday Bulletin (CDB)" in March 2002. It was renamed "Discuz!" with its 15 October 2002 release. In February 2003, the Comsenz Technology Co., Ltd. was formed.
Since June 2003, there has been a free version as well as a commercial version. With version 6.1.0, the software depends on an existing UCenter installation, which is an interface to join all the Comsenz products in the website. It is a user management software, so information like private messages can be used in all the Comsenz products on the same website. Another innovation is the integration of the Chinese marketing service provider Insenz. In 2006, Discuz! was used by a vast majority of Chinese bulletin board system users. That year, Chen Yupeng published research about the "societal motivation" of Discuz!. Other research has been carried out about Discuz! in the field of education.
Comsenz was acquired by Tencent in August 2010. Discuz! X 1.0 was developed in 2010, combining with other SNSs, web portals, groups and open platforms produced by the company.
See also
Comparison of Internet forum software
References
External links
Discuz! official site
PHP software
Internet forum software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomecyna%20albicaudata | Orthomecyna albicaudata is a moth of the family Crambidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1883. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
External links
Crambinae
Endemic moths of Hawaii |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treklanta | Treklanta is an annual Star Trek convention based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States that places special emphasis on fan-based events, activities, programming and productions. It hosts the annual Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant and Bjo Awards Ceremony (formerly the Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards).
History
The founding of Treklanta (formerly "TrekTrax Atlanta") was, in many respects, a result of its founder and chairman, Eric L. Watts—who had served as Dragon*Con's Director of Star Trek Programming from 1993 to 2009—not being asked to return for an 18th year by Dragon*Con management in December 2009. In February 2010, several members of the USS Republic, the chapter of STARFLEET International in Atlanta of which Watts is "Commanding Officer" (president), encouraged Watts to continue his service to fandom by launching a new convention in Atlanta, which had not hosted an exclusive, Star Trek-only convention since 1993. Pledging their support, a core group of Republic members immediately began laying the groundwork for a new convention and three months later, on Memorial Day Weekend, Watts issued a press release announcing TrekTrax Atlanta. In October 2014, Watts announced on the convention's Facebook page that the name of the convention was being changed to "Treklanta" to make it "easier to pronounce, easier to spell and hopefully easier to remember" and because "it more clearly and more succinctly conveys the essence of what our convention is all about."
The first three conventions, held from 2011 to 2013, were devoted exclusively to the Star Trek franchise. In 2014, the convention expanded its focus to include other space opera franchises such as Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly and Babylon 5. In 2017, Treklanta returned to its original focus on "All Star Trek, All the Time."
First convention
TrekTrax Atlanta 2011 was held on Presidents Day Weekend, February 18–20, at the Holiday Inn Atlanta Perimeter in the northern Atlanta suburb of Chamblee. Guests included:
Tim Russ, best known as "Tuvok" on Star Trek: Voyager
Barbara March, best known as "Lursa," sister of B'Etor from the House of Duras, from Star Trek: The Next Generation
Gwynyth Walsh, best known as "B'Etor," sister of Lursa from the House of Duras, from Star Trek: The Next Generation
Ken Feinberg, who played the Alien Captain in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Horizon"
Diana Botsford, co-author of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Rascals"
Andrew Greenberg, a roleplaying game designer who has worked on games for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Dr. Ina Rae Hark, author of Star Trek, a 2008 book in the BFI TV Classics series published by Palgrave Macmillan for the British Film Institute
Larry Nemecek, author of The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, former managing editor of Communicator and current contributor to Titan/U.K.'s Star Trek magazine
Emmett Plant, a writer, composer and producer who has produc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20access | Generic access may refer to:
Generic Access Network
Generic access profile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYRC | DYRC (648 AM) Aksyon Radyo is a radio station owned and operated by Manila Broadcasting Company. It serves as the flagship radio station of MBC's regional AM network Aksyon Radyo. The station's studio is located at 2nd Floor, GD Uyfang Bldg., Sanciangko cor. Panganiban, St., Brgy. Pahina Central, Cebu City, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Tangke, Talisay, Cebu.
History
The origins of Aksyon Radyo can be traced to the original DYRC, first known as KZRC on January 7, 1929, by the Radio Corporation of the Philippines under the 600 kHz, then was sold to Isaac Beck. In 1940, the Heacock Company bought KZRC, and became a sister station to KZRH (now DZRH) Manila
After World War II, the Elizalde family bought all Heacock stations. This gave birth to the Manila Broadcasting Company.
KZRC became DYRC after Philippine independence, through MBC's subsidiary Cebu Broadcasting Company. DYRC was the pioneer AM station in Genie Peralta Vaminta and Henry Halasan topped the bill in prime time broadcasting. Some famous personalities aired on DYRC were Nene Pimentel, Former Cong. Tony Cuenco, Asia's Queen of Songs Pilita Corrales, veteran broadcaster Angelo Castro Sr., Former DILG Secretary Inday Nita Cortez Daluz, Arch. Angel Lagdameo, lawyer Jane Paredes, among others. Star Cebuano singers featured in DYRC were: Josie Lauron, Josephine Ferrer, Stacs Huguete, and child singer Amapola Cabase popularly known as Amapola, to name a few. Bandleaders and pianists leading the DYRC-DYBU bands were Emilio Villareal and Manny Cabase.
In September 11 1972, the station along with DYBU went off the air, due to martial law under Ferdinand Marcos.
In 1973, it returned on air under the new management and their branding became Sunshine City a localized version of DWIZ. In 1978, the frequency migrated to 963 kHz under the NARBA to GE75. In 1991, it became Radyo Balita after the dissolution of all Sunshine City stations especially DWIZ the frequency moved to 648 kHz from Bombo Radyo Cebu.
On January 4, 1999, Padayon Pilipino Media Consultancy Services Inc. took over the management of the station and changed its call sign to DYXR. This marks the birth of Aksyon Radyo. Back then, its studios were located at Brgy. Tangke, Talisay, Cebu.
On September 21, 2010, BisaLog Broadcasting (owned by lawyer/host Rhina Seco, DZRH-Aksyon Radyo News Bureau Manila's Niño Padilla, and Aksyon Radyo Program Director Ed Montilla) took over the management of the station and brought back its original callsign DYRC as part of its 70th anniversary. It moved to Unit 301 Doña Luisa Building, Fuente Osmeña. At the same time, DYRC launched "Dangpanan", the local version of DZRH's "Operation Tulong" that offers free medical, dental and legal services to the needy; as well as a music format on Sundays. Prior to its relaunch, the station went off the air in August 2010 and Padayon Pilipino's management revived its operations in the United States as the US News Buraeu of Aksyon Radyo.
In the wake of |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.