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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide%20Action%20Network | Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is an international coalition of more than 600 NGOs in 90 countries which advocates for less hazardous alternatives to pesticides. It was founded in May 1982 with its first meeting in Penang, Malaysia.
Origins
The origins of PAN have been linked to the start of the "global anti-toxics movement". In 1981 journalist David Weir of The Center for Investigative Reporting, published the book The Circle of Poison focusing on pesticides, followed a year later by A Growing Problem: Pesticides and the Third World Poor by David Bull of Oxfam. In 1982, Anwar Fazal, a Malaysian activist who at the time was the first person from a developing country to head the International Organization of Consumers Unions (IOCU; later known as Consumers International), organized a meeting in Penang, Malaysia to explore the possibility of an international network of activists focusing on pesticide regulation. The meeting included Weir and Bull, that represented their respective organisations, as part of 14 participants from consumer and environmental organisations in developed nations, as well as 25 participants from developing nations. It was hosted by the IOCU and the Friends of the Earth, Malaysia. They decided to call "for a halt to the indiscriminate sale and misuse of hazardous chemical pesticides throughout the world" and proposed a model that would be based on an international communication network with regional nodes. By the mid-1990s, PAN operated as a decrentalised regional network with offices covering Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America.
Activity
Within two years of its founding, PAN organised several international meetings and engaged in negotiations with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization on the development of the International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides that was approved in 1985.
PAN lobbied international institutions to regulate pesticide trade by drawing on the concept of "prior informed consent". PAN led a civil society campaign that gained the support of the chemical industry in the early 1990s, after their initial opposition. This concept, was adopted by the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. Prior to the Rotterdam Convention’s entry into force, an interim Chemical Review Committee was established and the Pesticide Action Network coalition participated as representatives of non-governmental organizations, alongside representatives from intergovernmental organizations (such as the World Health Organization) and several industry associations.
PAN has lobbied for the regulation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). On June 5, 1985 it launched the international “Dirty Dozen” campaign, with actions that included protests at plants manufacturing chemicals on the list such as the Dow plant in New Zealand that produced the herbicide 2,4,5-T. In 1987, it called for the insecticide chlordimeform to be removed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Professional%20Economists | The Society of Professional Economists is a British network of professional economists. Its members are drawn from all areas of the discipline including financial and professional services, business, journalism, government, consultancy, business schools and universities. Membership is open to anyone who has a degree with substantial economic content and/or works in an area of economic endeavour or investigation.
The Society of Professional Economists organises networking events, professional development and education as well as a high-profile conferences and an annual dinner. It provides a monthly newsletter with updates on these events, links to events organised by other professional bodies, new members and economic news. The Society also reviews books and provides a forum for members to advertise job opportunities and their own events.
The Society exists to help all those who use economics in their professional work. Its activities aim to demonstrate the use of economic analysis as a tool to support business decision-making and to enhance the standing of the professional economist working outside academia. It provides a forum for its members to discuss and debate economic issues and helps them keep in touch with practical and theoretical developments within the discipline.
The Society particularly welcomes younger members to engage through its social networks on Facebook and LinkedIn and has membership packages aimed specifically at those who are embarking on a career in the profession. The Society also offers affiliate membership to individuals who are interested in economics but not practicing.
Activities
Monthly meetings
Monthly meetings are the core of the SPE's activities, and typically run from September to July at lunchtime or in the evening. Distinguished speakers from the UK and abroad and from both the private and public sectors address a wide range of topical issues with time for questions and discussion. Evening meetings are followed by drinks and the opportunity to network with other SPE members from a wide range of organisations.
Post-fiscal event briefings are held with HM Treasury following Budgets and Autumn Statements. They offer SPE members the opportunity to discuss the macroeconomic aspects of what has been announced, and UK fiscal policy more generally.
Annual conferences
Recent annual conferences have featured Ben Broadbent, Sir Charles Bean, Robert Chote, Gavyn Davies, Dame DeAnne Julius, Professor Diane Coyle, Evan Davies, Stephanie Flanders, Professor Philip Lane and Sir Dave Ramsden.
Annual dinners
SPE annual dinners attract high-profile national and international guest speakers. Past speakers have included Dr Mark Carney, Sir John Vickers, Sir Gus O’Donnell, Sir Howard Davies, Jean-Claude Trichet, Mario Draghi, William C Dudley, Prof Axel Weber, Christian Noyer and Dr James Bullard. The guest speaker for 2019 was George Osborne.
Masterclasses
Masterclasses on current issues and new developments contribut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet%20Data%20Explorer | The Exoplanet Data Explorer / Exoplanet Orbit Database is a database listing extrasolar planets up to 24 Jupiter masses.
Overview
"We have retained the generous upper mass limit of 24 Jupiter masses in our definition of a “planet”, for the same reasons as in the Catalog: at the moment, any mass limit is arbitrary and will serve little practical function both because of the sin i ambiguity in radial velocity masses and because of the lack of physical motivation.
The 13 Jupiter-mass distinction by the IAU Working Group is physically unmotivated for planets with rocky cores, and observationally problematic due to the sin i ambiguity. A useful theoretical and rhetorical distinction is to segregate brown dwarfs from planets by their formation mechanism, but such a distinction is of little utility observationally."
The database was updated to include new exoplanets and possible exoplanets, using data from other archives such as the Astrophysics Data System, arXiv and the NASA Exoplanet Archive. The database stopped being updated in mid-2018 and is no longer actively maintained.
See also
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
NASA Exoplanet Archive
References
Astronomy websites
Exoplanet catalogues
Astronomical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dykstra%27s%20projection%20algorithm | Dykstra's algorithm is a method that computes a point in the intersection of convex sets, and is a variant of the alternating projection method (also called the projections onto convex sets method). In its simplest form, the method finds a point in the intersection of two convex sets by iteratively projecting onto each of the convex set; it differs from the alternating projection method in that there are intermediate steps. A parallel version of the algorithm was developed by Gaffke and Mathar.
The method is named after Richard L. Dykstra who proposed it in the 1980s.
A key difference between Dykstra's algorithm and the standard alternating projection method occurs when there is more than one point in the intersection of the two sets. In this case, the alternating projection method gives some arbitrary point in this intersection, whereas Dykstra's algorithm gives a specific point: the projection of r onto the intersection, where r is the initial point used in the algorithm,
Algorithm
Dykstra's algorithm finds for each the only such that:
where are convex sets. This problem is equivalent to finding the projection of onto the set , which we denote by .
To use Dykstra's algorithm, one must know how to project onto the sets and separately.
First, consider the basic alternating projection (aka POCS) method (first studied, in the case when the sets were linear subspaces, by John von Neumann), which initializes and then generates the sequence
.
Dykstra's algorithm is of a similar form, but uses additional auxiliary variables. Start with and update by
Then the sequence converges to the solution of the original problem. For convergence results and a modern perspective on the literature, see
References
Citations
Convex geometry
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20protocol | A population protocol is a distributed computing model formed by resource-limited mobile agents which meet in a random way according to an interaction graph. Functions are computed by updating the state of agents whenever they meet based on their previous state, and the result of the computation can be read in the states of the agents once the computation has converged.
Model
There is a set of nodes. Each node is a finite automaton with states. An important class of population protocols are majority algorithms, where the goal is to compute the majority bit: each node starts with a belief bit in and the goal is to design a protocol at the end of which the belief bit of every node is the correct initial majority bit.
The discrete time version of the model is as follows: at each point in time, some node is selected uniformly at random. Then the node is matched with another node , which is chosen uniformly at random from the set of neighbors of node . Afterwards, nodes and exchange memory contents and update their states. Alternatively, one can consider a continuous time model where each node has a Poisson clock that rings at unit rate. When the clock of a node rings, that node communicates with a random neighbor.
Protocols are often designed to minimize the convergence time or the amount of memory required per node or both.
Three State Protocol
For the problem of computing the majority (consensus), there is a well-known protocol that requires only three memory states per node and has been analyzed for complete interaction graphs. This protocol works as follows. Let each node initialize its memory state to their initial belief bit At each point in time, when two nodes communicate, they update their state according to the following table. The row labels give the initiator’s state and the column labels the responder’s state.
In words, if a node with belief gets matched with a node with belief , then both nodes keep their belief; the update is similar if both beliefs are or both are . However, if the initiator's belief is and the responder's belief is , then the respondent updates their belief to . If on the other hand the initiator has belief and the responder has belief , then the responder changes their belief to . Note that this protocol is one-way: every interaction changes at most the responder’s state; thus it can be implemented with one-way communication.
Angluin, Aspnes, and Eisenstat showed that, from any initial configuration that does not consist of all ""s, the three-state approximate majority protocol converges to either all nodes having belief or all nodes having belief within interactions with high probability. Additionally, the value chosen will be the majority non-"" initial value, provided it exceeds the minority by a sufficient margin.
The following picture shows the evolution of the three state protocol on a set of nodes, where one third of the nodes have initial belief bit , while the remaining two third |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6.30%20with%20George%20Negus | 6.30 with George Negus was an Australian television current affairs program broadcast on Network Ten. It aired at 6:30pm from Monday to Friday and was presented by George Negus (Monday - Thursday) and Hugh Riminton or Hamish Macdonald (Friday) from the TEN studios in Pyrmont, Sydney.
It premiered at 6pm on 24 January 2011. On 19 October 2011 Network Ten officially announced that 6:30 with George Negus had been cancelled as a result of low ratings. The final episode of the series aired on 28 October 2011 in what was the show's 200th episode. The series was replaced by an extended version of The 7PM Project which was consequently retitled as The Project.
History
In August 2010, Network Ten announced that it would spend an additional $20 million per year to strengthen its news and current affairs output. Those changes included launching a 6pm national current affairs program, followed by local half-hour news bulletins at 6:30pm.
On 8 October 2010, it was announced that George Negus would leave SBS's Dateline to join Network Ten. Negus confirmed a day later that he would be hosting Ten's new 6pm program. The first edition of 6PM with George Negus aired on Monday 24 January 2011.
In March 2011, Network Ten announced that it would be moving the program to 6:30pm in an effort to address persistently poor ratings for its early evening schedule. The changes, introduced on Monday 4 April 2011, led to Ten's local news bulletins at 5:00pm being extended by a further 30 minutes with Negus' program in direct competition with the Nine Network's A Current Affair and the Seven Network's Today Tonight.
On 19 October 2011, Network Ten announced that they had cancelled the program and replace it with an hour-long version of The 7PM Project, renamed The Project at 6:30pm after very poor ratings. The 200th and final ever edition of 6.30 with George Negus aired on Friday 28 October 2011.
Reporters
6.30 with George Negus'''s reporters included:
Senior Foreign Correspondent: Hamish Macdonald
Political Editor: Hugh Riminton
Environment: Emily Rice
Consumer: Eddy Meyer
Sydney: Danielle Isdale
Melbourne: Meggie Palmer
Brisbane: Max Futcher
United States: Emma Dallimore
Reception
The first episode of 6PM with George Negus aired on 24 January 2011 to an average of 605,000 viewers ranking it 18th for the day. This was over the half a million target set by the show's executive producer, Tony Ritchie. The program was third-placed in its timeslot behind Seven News and Nine News. Colin Vickery from the Herald Sun commented on how fast-paced the show was, but concluded that the show "got off to a serviceable start tonight – but it seriously needs to slow down and take the time to live up to host's promises". Tim Dick from the Sydney Morning Herald'' also noted the rushed nature of the show and stated that Negus "deserves more time".
Nightly ratings for the program deteriorated in the weeks following the first broadcast, with the program ranking outside the top 100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20B.%20Johnson | Donald Bruce Johnson (December 16, 1933 – September 10, 1994) was an American computer scientist, a researcher in the design and analysis of algorithms, and the founding chair of the computer science department at Dartmouth College.
Johnson received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1973 under the supervision of David Gries. He took a faculty position in the computer science department at Pennsylvania State University, and later moved to the department of mathematics at Dartmouth. When the Dartmouth computer science department was founded in 1994, he became its first chair.
Johnson invented the -ary heap data structure, and is also known for Johnson's algorithm for the all-pairs shortest path problem.
References
1994 deaths
American computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Cornell University alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Dartmouth College faculty
1933 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min-max%20heap | In computer science, a min-max heap is a complete binary tree data structure which combines the usefulness of both a min-heap and a max-heap, that is, it provides constant time retrieval and logarithmic time removal of both the minimum and maximum elements in it. This makes the min-max heap a very useful data structure to implement a double-ended priority queue. Like binary min-heaps and max-heaps, min-max heaps support logarithmic insertion and deletion and can be built in linear time. Min-max heaps are often represented implicitly in an array; hence it's referred to as an implicit data structure.
The min-max heap property is: each node at an even level in the tree is less than all of its descendants, while each node at an odd level in the tree is greater than all of its descendants.
The structure can also be generalized to support other order-statistics operations efficiently, such as find-median, delete-median,find(k) (determine the kth smallest value in the structure) and the operation delete(k) (delete the kth smallest value in the structure), for any fixed value (or set of values) of k. These last two operations can be implemented in constant and logarithmic time, respectively. The notion of min-max ordering can be extended to other structures based on the max- or min-ordering, such as leftist trees, generating a new (and more powerful) class of data structures. A min-max heap can also be useful when implementing an external quicksort.
Description
A min-max heap is a complete binary tree containing alternating min (or even) and max (or odd) levels. Even levels are for example 0, 2, 4, etc, and odd levels are respectively 1, 3, 5, etc. We assume in the next points that the root element is at the first level, i.e., 0.
Each node in a min-max heap has a data member (usually called key) whose value is used to determine the order of the node in the min-max heap.
The root element is the smallest element in the min-max heap.
One of the two elements in the second level, which is a max (or odd) level, is the greatest element in the min-max heap
Let be any node in a min-max heap.
If is on a min (or even) level, then is the minimum key among all keys in the subtree with root .
If is on a max (or odd) level, then is the maximum key among all keys in the subtree with root .
A node on a min (max) level is called a min (max) node.
A max-min heap is defined analogously; in such a heap, the maximum value is stored at the root, and the smallest value is stored at one of the root's children.
Operations
In the following operations we assume that the min-max heap is represented in an array A[1..N]; The location in the array will correspond to a node located on the level in the heap.
Build
Creating a min-max heap is accomplished by an adaptation of Floyd's linear-time heap construction algorithm, which proceeds in a bottom-up fashion. A typical Floyd's build-heap algorithm goes as follows:
function FLOYD-BUILD-HEAP(h):
for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecodina%20caudata | Sphecodina caudata is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in the southern Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula, eastern and southern China and northern Thailand.
The wingspan is 62–67 mm.
References
Macroglossini
Moths described in 1853 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Lee%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Peter Lee (born November 30, 1960) is an American computer scientist. He is Corporate Vice President and head of Microsoft Research. Previously, he was the head of the Transformational Convergence Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the chair of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on software security and reliability.
Lee received his PhD degree from the University of Michigan in May 1987 with thesis titled The automatic generation of realistic compilers from high-level semantic descriptions. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Career
Microsoft Research was founded in 1991.
A longtime "Microsoft Researcher," Peter Lee became the organization's head in 2013. In 2014, the organization had 1,100 advanced researchers "working in 55 areas of study in a dozen labs worldwide." From 2015 to 2020, Lee was the head of Microsoft Research NExT (for New Experiences and Technologies) and Microsoft Healthcare. Since 2020 he leads the combined MSR Labs, AI, NExT, Healthcare, and other incubation efforts.
Students
Greg Morrisett
Scott Draves
George Necula
References
External links
Microsoft.com: Peter Lee research information
CMU.edu: Peter Lee webpage
CMU.edu: CMU curriculum vitae for Peter Lee
American computer scientists
Software engineering researchers
1960 births
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Microsoft employees
University of Michigan alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Scientists from Michigan
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian%20Defence%20League%27s%20Cyber%20Unit | The Estonian Defence League’s Cyber Unit (, or KKL) is a group of units within certain malevs of the Estonian Defense League established in 2010. Created out of inspiration from the 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia and spearheaded by Informatics Scientist Ülo Jaaksoo, it focuses on the defense of the Estonian state and private telecommunications infrastructure from outside-derived cyberattacks, and mostly employs the volunteer participation of IT professionals.
The KKL is headquartered on the grounds of the Tartu and Tallinn malevs, and it is jointly headed in Tallinn by Jaan Priisalu and in Tartu by Kuido Külm.
Purpose
The KKL's mission is to protect Estonia's high-tech way of life, protecting the information infrastructure, and thus carrying out broad defense goals.
highly skilled IT professionals with volunteer youth organizations;
cybersecurity of critical information infrastructure to increase the level of awareness through the rise and dissemination of best practices;
network, which brings together public and private sector crises of competence, organizational development, and act in times of crisis;
Members of the continuous training and training:
Members of the preparation;
action plans;
prevention and increasing cyber activities;
participation in cybersecurity-related international cooperation networks
Proposed conscription
Defence minister Jaak Aaviksoo has publicly suggested his desire for the spread of KKL units to other branches as an option for those who are conscripted to the Estonian military.
See also
CCDCOE (NATO)
National Cyber Security Centre (disambiguation)
References
External links
http://www.kaitseliit.ee/en/cyber-unit Estonian Defence League’s Cyber Unit
Küberkaitse üksus
Cyberwarfare
Computer security organizations
Military units and formations of Estonia
Military units and formations established in 2010
2010 establishments in Estonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20point%20mapping | Water Point Mapping (WPM) is a tool for monitoring the distribution and status of water supplies. It collects data about different aspects related to the water facility and overlays this point data with information about population and administrative boundaries. WPM helps to visualize the spatial distribution of water supply coverage and can thereby be used to highlight equity issues. The information collected provides insights into schemes' sustainability levels and management-related aspects of water points.
WPM can be used to (i) to inform the planning of investments to improve water supply coverage; (ii) to allocate resources to deliver basic services where they are most needed; (iii) to promote increased investments in the sector; and (iv) to measure progress and performance.
Relevance of mapping
The Millennium Development Goals include a specific target (number 10 of Goal 7) to deal with people who do not access safe drinking water and basic sanitation. To adequately assess peoples' access to these basic services it is vital that there is accessible, accurate and reliable data that is routinely collected and updated.
A variety of tools and techniques have been developed in recent years to collect such information. However, unless data is easily accessible and is presented in a user-friendly format, decision makers commonly do without the information. One alternative that has been designed to manage large volumes of data and to enable a user-friendly presentation is to use geo-referenced datasets, which provide a means of integration of data from different sources at any point on the globe. Within such a framework, for any specific point on the map (identified by its grid reference) detailed and accurate data of different nature can be linked in an integrated way. Mapping therefore involves the presentation of certain information in a spatial context, and this enables policy planners to identify the geographic areas and communities in which to focus their efforts for maximum impact. In all, mapping presents many benefits, such as:
It makes easier to integrate data from different sources (surveys, censuses, satellites, etc.) and from different disciplines (social, economic, and environmental data). It also allows the switch to new units of analysis from, for example, administrative boundaries (e.g. state) to ecological boundaries (e.g. basin).
Maps are a powerful visual tool and are more easily understood by stakeholders, particularly in developing countries.
The spatial nature of water poverty, such as the distance to the nearest water source or the water supply infrastructure, can also be incorporated easily in a GIS database.
The allocation of resources can be improved, since geographic targeting is more efficient and cost-effective than to launch an equally expensive universal distribution programme.
Geo-referenced databases can be enriched by additional data as they become available; and new attributes, such as better details on wat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doma%20TV | Doma TV is a Croatian specialized television channel.
Programming aired by Doma TV
Telenovelas
Ended
Acorralada
Alborada
Amar sin limites
Amor real
Amores Verdaderos
Anna und die Liebe (canceled after 254 episodes)
Apuesta por un amor
Balika Vadhu
Camaleones
Corazón Indomable
Cuidado con el ángel
Doña Bárbara
El Fantasma de Elena
En nombre del amor
Esmeralda
Eva Luna
Heridas de Amor
Îngerașii
Gipsy Heart
Iubire și onoare
Juro Que Te Amo
La gata
La Reina del Sur
La tempestad
La usurpadora
La que no podía amar
Las Bandidas
Laberintos de pasión
Lo que la vida me robó
Madre Luna
Mañana es para siempre
Mariana de la noche
Marisol
Medcezir (canceled after s1)
Pod sretnom zvijezdom
Porque el amor manda
Por tu amor
¿Quién Eres Tú?
Rebelde
Rubí
Rosalinda
Rosario Tijeras, amar es más difícil que matar
Salomé
Sortilegio
Teresa
Tormenta en el paraiso
Triunfo del Amor
Udaan (canceled after 100 episodes due to low ratings)
Valeria
Zakon Ljubavi
Series & miniseries
Airing currently
Friends (rerun of all seasons)
NCIS: Los Angeles (all seasons)
NCIS: New Orleans (rerun of all seasons)
Perception (rerun of all seasons)
Popeye (all seasons)
Solo per amore (all seasons)
The Following (season 3 airing)
The Smurfs (all seasons)
Tom and Jerry (all seasons)
Walker, Texas Ranger (rerun of all seasons)
Hiatus
2 Broke Girls (seasons 1-4 aired)
Arrow (season 1-3 aired)
Blindspot (season 1 aired)
Body of Proof (seasons 1-2 aired)
Community (seasons 1-5 aired)
Days of Our Lives (260 episodes aired)
Hart of Dixie (seasons 1-3 aired)
Justified (seasons 1-5 aired)
Longmire (seasons 1-3 aired)
Major Crimes (seasons 1-3 aired)
Masha and the Bear (52 episodes aired)
Masters of Sex (seasons 1-3 aired)
Mike & Molly (season 1-4 aired)
Mom (seasons 1-2 aired)
NCIS (seasons 1-13 aired)
NCIS: New Orleans (seasons 1-2 aired)
Pretty Little Liars (seasons 1-5 aired)
Rizzoli & Isles (season 1-5 aired)
Scorpion (seasons 1-2 aired)
The Last Ship (season 1 aired)
Shameless (seasons 1-3 aired)
The Vampire Diaries (seasons 1-4 aired)
Unforgettable (seasons 1-3 aired)
Ended
24
30 Rock
666 Park Avenue
Almost Human
Amiche mie
Annem
Asi
Aşk-ı Memnu
Aşk ve Ceza
Better with You
Bolji život
Breaking Bad
Breaking In
Castle
Caterina e le sue figlie
Cimmer fraj
Chase
Christopher Columbus
CSI: Cyber
Crusoe
Cult
Dallas
Dawson's Creek
Drop Dead Diva
Eastwick
Elveda Derken
Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?
Flash Gordon
Forever
Franklin & Bash
Friends
Full House
Gilmore Girls
Glory Daze
Golden Boy
Ground Floor
Gümüş
Hank
Hanımın Çiftliği
Hawthorne
Hellcats
Hispania, la leyenda
Hitna 94
Hostages
Human Target
I Hate My Teenage Daughter
Inspector Rex
Jamie at Home
Jamie's Ministry of Food
Jamie's 30 Minutes Meals
Kaybolan Yillar
Krypto the Superdog
La Femme Nikita
Lie to Me
The Looney Tunes Show
Mad Love
Made in Jersey
Mr. Bean
Mr. Sunshine
Menekşe ile Halil
Miami Medical
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20Decisions | Storage Decisions is a conference for data storage professionals in the United States. Produced by TechTarget, Storage Decisions has been held multiple times per year in the United States since 2001. TechTarget also presents a series one one-day seminars under the "Storage Decisions" name in the United States and Europe.
Storage Decisions events are oriented towards end users of data storage equipment and software. Presentations are given by independent analysts, end users, and storage experts. One differentiator for Storage Decisions events is the reduced access given to sponsoring product vendors: They are restricted from giving or attending presentations and are allowed to interact with the audience only during a short trade show session each day.
Despite the restrictions, the Storage Decisions events are popular with product vendors. Recent event sponsors include BlueArc, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, and Symantec.
Notable launches
2003 - Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003, Cisco MDS 9100 and SN5428 Fibre Channel switches
2004 - Sun StorEdge 5210 and 6920, Cisco MDS 92161i and MDS 9000 Multiprotocol Services Module, Overland Storage REO 9000
2005 - Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006, Symantec Backup Exec 10D
2010 - Cirtas Systems
References
External links
Official site
Data storage conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actifio | Actifio was a privately held information technology firm headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company specialised in copy data virtualization for making information technology infrastructure more efficient by reducing unnecessary duplication of data. On December 3, 2020, Google announced it intended to acquire Actifio for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition closed on Monday Dec 14, 2020.
Products
Purportedly, Actifio's products are able to reduce unnecessary duplication of application data and software requirements for its users. The technology is designed to maintain data integrity while ensuring rapid access to that data throughout its entire life cycle. The system virtualizes data management and storage to replace siloed data protection and availability applications with a single purpose-built system. The process involves creating a "golden master" of production data that allows for a rapid manipulation and recovery of data if needed. This storage system is said to reduce data storage costs and improve efficiency over other data management applications.
History
In July 2009, Ash Ashutosh founded Actifio in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company started with four employees. It launched its first product in the fall of 2011.
In 2012 Gartner recommended Actifio in their Cool Vendor report and said its products facilitated cloud-based and offsite start and computing without the need to build secondary data centers. That year sales increased about 700 percent over 2011. By the end of 2012, Actifio had achieved five consecutive quarters of 500% year-on-year growth. In the fourth quarter of 2012 alone, Actifio did 62 deals with new clients with an average value of $210,000. In 2012, it was described as the fastest growing storage startup.
Staffing increased from 50 in December 2011 to 120 in May 2012. As of May 2012, about a fourth of the company's revenue came from Europe.
Funding
On July 21, 2010, Actifio announced that it had secured $8 million in series A funding. This round was led by North Bridge Venture Partners and Greylock Partners. Jamie Goldstein, general partner at North Bridge said, “Actifio has all the ingredients for success including a hot market opportunity, technological superiority, and a stellar executive team that will allow Actifio to deliver on the promise of Data Management Virtualization.”
On September 30, 2010, Actifio announced that it had closed on $16 million in series B funding. This round of funding was led by Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) with participation by North Bridge Venture Partners and Greylock Partners. It brought Actifio's total venture capital funding to $24 million.
In 2011, Actifio received $33 million in Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. This firm, headed by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, has also funded Facebook, Zynga, and Twitter. Actifio had just started looking for its next round of funding when Peter Levine, a partner at Andreesen Horowitz, called to merely ask abo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20W.%20Graham%20Medal | The J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation is an award given annually by the University of Waterloo and the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics to "recognize the leadership and many innovative contributions made to the University of Waterloo, and to the Canadian computer industry." Recipients of this award receive a gold medal and certificate. Recipients are graduates of the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics from business, education, or government.
The medal was established in 1994 to recognize Canadian computer industry veteran James Wesley Graham (known as "Wes Graham"). Graham was born in Copper Cliff, Ontario on January 17, 1932. He enrolled in the University of Toronto in 1950, and graduated with a BA in Mathematics and Physics in 1954, and an MA in Mathematics in 1955. He worked as a systems engineer for IBM in Canada, and then joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1959. A team of his students developed the WATFOR series of compilers starting in 1965. He formed a computer science research group, known as the "Computer Systems Group," to distribute and maintain the software, and was also responsible for several spin-off organizations, including Watcom in 1981. He was made a member of the Order of Canada in April 1999. He died later that year on August 23, 1999. In 2001 his papers formed the start of the J. Wesley Graham History of Computer Science Research Collection at the University of Waterloo library.
Recipients
The following people have received the J. W. Graham Medal:
1995 - Ian McPhee
1996 - William Reeves
1997 - James G. Mitchell
1998 - Dan Dodge
1999 - Kim Davidson
2000 - Paul Van Oorschot
2001 - Terry Stepien
2002 - Peter Savich
2003 - F. David Boswell
2004 - David P. Yach
2005 - Garth A. Gibson
2006 - Deanne Farrar
2007 - Ricardo Baeza-Yates
2008 - Eric Veach
2009 - Craig Eisler
2010 - Steven Woods
2011 - Zack Urlocker
2012 - Stephen M. Watt
2013 - Jay Steele
2014 - Jeromy Carriere
2015 - Tom Duff
2016 - Tas Tsonis
2017 - Vicki Iverson
2018 - Alex Nicolaou
2019 - Eldon Sprickerhoff
See also
List of computer science awards
Prizes named after people
References
University of Waterloo
Computer science awards
Information science awards
1994 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carr%C3%A3o-Assa%C3%AD%20Atacadista%20%28S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%29 | Carrão-Assaí Atacadista is a station on Line 3 (Red) of the São Paulo Metro. The station was renamed after the purchase of the naming right by the market network Assaí Atacadista.
SPTrans lines
The following SPTrans bus lines can be accessed. Passengers may use a Bilhete Único card for transfer:
References
São Paulo Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1986
1986 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penha-Lojas%20Besni%20%28S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%29 | Penha–Lojas Besni is a station on Line 3 (Red) of the São Paulo Metro. The station was renamed after the purchase of the naming right by the shoes and sneakers store network Lojas Besni.
SPTrans Lines
The following SPTrans bus lines can be accessed. Passengers may use a Bilhete Único card for transfer:
References
São Paulo Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1986
1986 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Sammut | Claude Sammut is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of New South Wales and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group. He was appointed as a Trustee of RoboCup in 2012.
References
External links
Publications
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly%3A%20Razor | Underbelly: Razor, the fourth series of the Australian Nine Network crime drama anthology series Underbelly, originally aired from 21 August 2011 to 6 November 2011. It is a thirteen-part series detailing real events that occurred in Sydney between 1927 and 1936. The series depicts the "razor gangs" who controlled the city's underworld during the era and the violent war between the two "vice queen" powers, Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh. It is also the last season in the Underbelly franchise that contains 13 episodes. In contrast to the previous Underbelly instalments, which were based on books by John Silvester and Andrew Rule, Razor is based on the Ned Kelly Award-winning book of the same name, written by Larry Writer.
Synopsis
Razor is set during the "Roaring Twenties" and 1930s, mainly between 1927 and 1936 in Sydney, when organised crime in Australia became more prominent. The series details the story of the bloody battle between the era's most feared "vice queens", Tilly Devine and her rival Kate Leigh, plus the "razor gangs" which controlled the Sydney underworld during that time. Embroiled in the violence is the country's young police force and a young girl called Nellie Cameron, determined to lose her innocence and destined to become the most famous prostitute in the land.
Episodes
Cast
Main cast
Danielle Cormack as Kate Leigh, rival of the Devines and sly grog queen
Chelsie Preston Crayford as Tilly Devine, brothel madam
Anna McGahan as Nellie Cameron, a notorious prostitute embroiled in the violence of the era
Jack Campbell as "Big Jim" Devine, Tilly Devine's husband
John Batchelor as Wally Tomlinson, business associate and boyfriend of Kate Leigh
Khan Chittenden as Frank "The Little Gunman" Green, notorious criminal and assassin
Richard Brancatisano as Guido Calletti, feared gangland figure and Nellie Cameron's first husband
Craig Hall as Detective Inspector Bill Mackay, part of the country's young police force
Lucy Wigmore as Lillian May Armfield, one of Australia's first policewomen
Steve Le Marquand as Sergeant Tom Wickham, a member of New South Wales' first drug "squad"
Recurring and guest cast
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as Norman Bruhn, the era's most feared standover man
Justin Rosniak as Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor, Bruhn's Melbourne-based rival
Felix Williamson as Phil "The Jew" Jeffs, infamous gangster
Lincoln Lewis as Bruce Higgs, associate and lover of Kate Leigh
Pippa Grandison as Mona Woods, singer at one of Kate Leigh's sly-grog shops
Catherine Glavicic as May Seckold, an employee of Kate Leigh.
Conrad Coleby as Constable Wharton "Syd" Thompson, the other half of Sydney's first drug squad
Guy Edmonds as Greg "The Gunman" Gaffney, an associate of vice-queen Kate Leigh
David Willis as Bill "The Octopus" Flanagan, an associate of Kate Leigh
Rel Hunt as William Archer, bathhouse proprietor and part of the razor gangs
Matt Boesenberg as John "Snowy" Cutmore, standover man
Adam Tuominen as Frank "Razor Jack" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Xoom | The Motorola Xoom is an Android-based tablet computer by Motorola, introduced at CES 2011 on January 5, 2011. It was the first tablet to be sold with Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The Verizon branded Xoom was the first tablet to run Android 3.1. The Motorola Xoom went through the FCC on February 10, 2011 only 14 days before release. The 3G version was released on February 24, 2011, and the Wi-Fi version was released March 27, 2011. It was announced concurrently with three other products: the Motorola Atrix, the Motorola Droid Bionic, and the Motorola Cliq 2. CNET named it the "Best of the CES" 2011.
Its successor, the Motorola Xyboard, Xoom 2 in the UK, was announced in October 2011, and released in November.
Features
The Xoom supports up to 720p video playback. It features a 2 MP front-facing camera for video chatting over Wi-Fi or cellular Internet and a rear-facing 5 MP camera that records 720p video. The Xoom has a 1280×800 pixels widescreen, 10.1-inch display and 3D graphics acceleration, as well as HDMI-out. It features the Gorilla Glass resistant coating.
It includes a variety of sensors, including a gyroscope, magnetometer, accelerometer, and a barometer. The Xoom uses an Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC T20 chip.
The Xoom reportedly has trouble trying to communicate with the Windows XP operating system via USB cable unless Windows Media Player is updated past version 10. This issue is not present in
Windows 7.
Media
The Motorola Xoom supports the following formats:
Audio: AAC, AAC+, AMR NB, AMRWB, MP3, and XMF
Video: H.263, H.264 (Baseline Profile), MPEG4, and VP8
Software
The Motorola Xoom was the first device to run Google's tablet specific OS, Android 3.0 Honeycomb.
Both the Wi-Fi and Verizon branded Xoom ran Google's Android 3.2 Honeycomb, which introduced new features including a redesigned, tablet-optimized user interface, a 3D desktop purportedly taken from BumpTop (which Google acquired in April 2010), improved task-switching, a newly redesigned notification system, Google Maps 5 in 3D and browser enhancements including tabbed browsing, form auto-fill and bookmark syncing.
The Canadian Wi-Fi Xoom currently has the 4.0.3 update (and will not get any future updates) and the UK Wi-Fi Xoom had the 3.2 update as of July 2012.
On February 23, Motorola Mobility announced that the Motorola Xoom would break its policy of locking down its devices by providing the gadget with an "unlockable/relockable bootloader that will enable developers to access hardware for development."
After Google released the source code to Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich", Motorola announced that a number of its formerly released mobile devices would get the update, including the Xoom. The Android 4.0.3 update for the Wi-Fi Xoom was released in the US on January 18, 2012. The corresponding update to the Verizon-branded Xoom was released on June 4, 2012.
On June 27, 2012 at the Google I/O conference, it was announced that the Xoom would be one of the first devices to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid%20Walker | Sidney Walker is a fictional character from the Australian Seven Network soap opera Home and Away, played by Robert Mammone. He made his first on-screen appearance on 30 July 2009. Sid was originally introduced for a five-week guest stint in 2009. In 2010, Mammone returned to Home and Away and Sid became a regular character. Mammone confirmed his exit in May 2013 and Sid departed on 18 July 2013. He made a brief return from 7 November 2013.
Character creation and casting
In July 2009, it was announced that a new family, the Walkers, would be introduced to Home and Away on a five-week guest contract. Actor Robert Mammone was cast in the role of Doctor Sid Walker, the husband of Jody Walker (Victoria Haralabidou) and the father of Indigo (Samara Weaving) and Dexter (Tom Green). It was revealed that newcomer Charles Cottier would take over the role of Dexter.
Character development
Characterisation
Channel Five's soap opera reporting website Holy Soap said of the character: "While on the outside he looks like the perfect family man, he's actually a serial love cheat." Seven Network describe Sid as "his own worst enemy". He is an excellent doctor with a "winning bedside manner". Sid has never had trouble charming people – be they patients or co-workers. Seven Network also add that Sid "can’t turn off the charm, especially when it comes to women".
Relationships
In June 2010, Mammone revealed that Sid was to find a new romance with an existing character following his return. Mammone said "He finds himself quite attracted to a particular person in the Bay and he's quite surprised." He also said that Sid was not looking for romance or "anything to do with matters of the heart" and stated: "His focus is on his children. So when this comes along it's a really pleasant surprise." In July, it was revealed that Sid's new romance is to be with Marilyn Chambers (Emily Symons).
Departure
In May 2013, Mammone confirmed that he had departed Home and Away after previously hinting about a possible exit. Mammone claimed that he was written out because of "speaking up for the truth too often". He had previously criticised a cancer storyline involving his on-screen son-in-law Romeo Smith (Luke Mitchell) via his Twitter account. Mammone told his followers that he decided to re-write some scenes because they were unrealistic. However, Mammone was dismissed prior to making the public comments.
Storylines
Sid, wife Jody, daughter Indigo and son Dexter move to Summer Bay after Sid finds employment Northern Districts Hospital, covering for Doctor Rachel Armstrong (Amy Mathews) whilst she takes maternity leave. Sid receives a text message from a woman and Jody reads it, thinking that he is having an affair once again. Sid protests his innocence, but Jody refuses to listen to him and decides to end their marriage. He then tells Indigo and Dexter that Jody has returned to Sydney. Sid helps Indigo's friend Nicole Franklin (Tessa James) as she struggles with the death of Bel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaniemi%20Underground%20Broadcasting%20System | OUBS, Otaniemi Underground Broadcasting System was the student television station of the Aalto University Student Union (AYY).
In addition to broadcasting 24h on the Otaniemi cable network, OUBS offers its content on their website and over IPTV.
OUBS has a staff of 10 people working in the basement of Jämeräntaival 1 A, Espoo, Finland. The homes of the staff of OUBS, the studio and the editing facilities are all located in that same address.
History
Construction of Otaniemi student village finished in the early 1950s. Soon after that a central radio named OtaRadio was established. The student village served as housing during the 1983 World Championships in Athletics. This led to building a cable-TV network serving the apartments. The cable network enabled the student union (TKY) to create its own channel, OtaTV. The former telephone exchange was transferred into a TV studio. OtaTV and OtaRadio soon merged and formed OUBS. Until the end of 20th century, OUBS also was responsible for maintaining the cable network, both infrastructure and channels.
External links
www.oubs.fi - plug it in baby!
OUBS YouTube site
OUBS in Facebook
OUBS at Google Maps
Defunct television channels in Finland
Mass media in Espoo
Student television networks
Student television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1983
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20rights%20group | A human rights group, or human rights organization, is a non-governmental organization which advocates for human rights through identification of their violation, collecting incident data, its analysis and publication, promotion of public awareness while conducting institutional advocacy, and lobbying to halt these violations. Like other NGOs, human rights groups are defined in their characteristics by legal, including taxation, constraints under which they operate, such as
1. is 'non-governmental' meaning that it is established by private initiative, is free from governmental influence, and does not perform public functions.
2. has an aim that is not-for-profit, meaning that if any profits are earned by the organisation they are not distributed to its members but used in the pursuit of its objective,
3. does not use or promote violence or have clear connections with criminality, and
4. has a formal existence with a statute and a democratic and representative structure, and does normally, but not necessarily, enjoy legal personality under national law.
What distinguishes a human rights group from other political elements of any given society is that while political advocates usually seeking to protect only the rights of their own constituents, a human rights group seeks to defend the same rights for all members of that or any other society. Unlike political groups which seek to advance their own discrete interests or programs a human rights group attempts to keep the political process open to all legitimate participants in the societal conflicts where such human rights violations occur. This generally independent focus distinguishes human rights groups from sectarian and partisan groups such as for example trades unions, whose primary goal is to protect the interests of the members of unions.
Human rights groups are sometimes confused with humanitarian organizations and groups representing lobbies focused on specific issue lobbies, while most seek to distinguishing themselves from political movements involved in the conflicts that are often causes of the human rights abuses. Often human rights groups claim expert knowledge on the issue or issues it surveys through human rights observers as field researchers. One of the best known international human rights groups is Amnesty International. However it, like many other groups, has stretched the definition of a human rights group because aside from not being a single-issue advocate it has also ventured into issues that are not clearly human rights.
There are some governmental organisations that are also named human rights group, such as the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights, but which are primarily reporting groups for the purpose of policy design.
See also
Human rights defender
Human Rights Foundation
List of human rights organisations
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Martin%20%28motorsport%29 | Neil Martin (born 3 September 1972) is an English Formula One strategist who was the former head of strategy at Scuderia Ferrari.
Career
After studying mathematics and computer science at the University of Southampton, Martin continued at Southampton to read Operational Research (OR) for his MSc. Originally intending to seek a job in the City of London, he managed to convince McLaren Racing to sponsor his idea for a Race Strategy project. On completion McLaren offered him a job.
In 1998 Martin pioneered the use of Game Theory and Monte Carlo techniques in Formula 1 race strategy, which embraced risk and random events to deliver more awareness of the likely race outcomes. These stochastic techniques allowed for the modelling of uncertain events e.g. future traffic patterns, the likelihood of overtakes and what to do under a Safety Car, which gave better insight than the previous deterministic algorithms and therefore allowed for more informed decisions under risk events.
Martin was responsible at McLaren for the direction of strategic development of technology and race strategies, developing software to provide instant access to data on specific car components while on track. His role came to public prominence at the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix, when he helped Kimi Räikkönen win the race by making a key strategic call during a safety car incident, by sending an email from McLaren's Woking base to stay out rather than pit.
Headhunted by Red Bull Racing in May 2006, he joined the team as Chief Strategist in January 2007. An anti-intuitive, but correct, strategy call at the 2009 Chinese grand prix, staying out with both cars in bad weather at the start of the race, when Alonso in second place and other contenders pitted for fuel behind the safety car, facilitated Red Bull Racing’s first historic win, which was also a 1-2 finish.
In January 2011, after Ferrari made a poor strategic call during the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which lost driver Fernando Alonso the 2010 World Championship to Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, Martin joined Ferrari alongside ex-McLaren engineer Pat Fry in a revamped Ferrari race operations and engineering team. He left Ferrari at 2015 in the team’s organizational restructuring.
In 2016, Martin led an engineering team for Mercedes-affiliated HWA and was engaged in the team’s Formula E plan along with Steve Clark.
In 2019, Martin joined venture builder Equals Collective as Non-Executive Director.
Martin is also a keynote speaker in Mark Gallagher’s F1 talents team, working alongside ex-F1 drivers David Coulthard, Mika Häkkinen and Jacques Villeneuve.
References
Living people
1972 births
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Formula One engineers
English motorsport people
Ferrari people
McLaren people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Body%20Farm%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Body Farm is a British television police procedural crime drama series for the BBC network from 13 September until 18 October 2011, which is a spin-off from the cold case police procedural drama Waking the Dead, and was commissioned following the series' closure. The series focuses on the work of Dr. Eve Lockhart, who originally appeared in Waking the Dead from 2007 to 2011. On 30 January 2012, the BBC confirmed that the show would not be returning for a second series.
The series was released on DVD on 24 October 2011, in a three-disc set. The DVD release features an extended cut of episode one, running 94 minutes and including material not broadcast on the television. The DVD was released in conjunction with BBC Worldwide and 2|Entertain.
Premise
The programme features a fictional private forensic pathology facility that conducts scientific research to help solve crimes, led by Dr. Eve Lockhart, played by Tara Fitzgerald.
Cast
Doctor Eve Lockart – Tara Fitzgerald: Having appeared as part of the cold case unit in Waking the Dead, Eve is no stranger to bodies. And being able to head up her own unit for the first time allows her a sense of freedom, also. Having re-located her body farm since Waking the Dead, Eve is now working from a disused farm building, which has allowed for the expansion of her unit.
Detective Inspector Craig Hale – Keith Allen: Hale is the grumpy copper who no scientist wants to deal with. He's arrogant, inefficient and generally uptight when it comes to funding them. But he and Eve strike a special bond, and before long, work in tandem to locate and bring suspects to justice. By the end of the series, he appears to have grown to Eve in his own special way.
Doctor Mike Collins – Mark Bazeley: Mike is Eve's right-hand man. Calm, tactful and methodical, Mark has the ability to keep cool in tough situations, yet still retrieve the vital evidence required to help Eve with the case. It is suggested that Mike had worked with Eve sometime before the events of the Body Farm, and that the pair share a very open-ended friendship in the unit.
Doctor Rosa Gilbert – Wunmi Mosaku: Rosa is the most scientifically minded of the entire team, and generally focuses most of her life in attempting to forward science through new methods and ideas. Rosa is, however, the most inexperienced in the field, having only just left university and therefore new to the physical and more demanding side of the investigations.
Doctor Oscar 'Oggy' Traynor – Finlay Robertson: Oggy is the crazy one of the group. His time spent staring at trees and speaking to plants appear to give him the inside knowledge to be able to crack a case just when Eve is on the verge of discovering the suspect. Although he tends to spend most of his time at the Body Farm, he does occasionally join his colleagues in the field.
Production
An initial six-part run was announced in January 2011, and filming began in March 2011. The programme was filmed in rural Macclesfield and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship%20of%20Facebook | Facebook is a social networking service that has been gradually replacing traditional media channels since 2010. Facebook has limited moderation of the content posted to its site. Because the site indiscriminately displays material publicly posted by users, Facebook can, in effect, threaten oppressive governments. Facebook can simultaneously propagate fake news, hate speech, and misinformation, thereby undermining the credibility of online platforms and social media.
Many countries have banned or temporarily limited access to Facebook. Many countries have banned or temporarily limited access to Facebook. Use of the website has also been restricted in various ways in other countries. As of July 2022, the only countries to continually ban access to the social networking site are China, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uganda. However, since most North Korean residents have no access to the Internet, China, Russia, and Iran are the only countries where access to Facebook is actively restricted in a wholesale manner, although it is possible to access the site through onion services.
Algorithmic censorship
Online censorship by Facebook of algorithmic methods raises concerns including the surveillance of all instant communications and the use of machine learning systems with the potential for errors and biases. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and majority shareholder, published a memo on censorship. "What should be the limits to what people can express?" he asked. "What content should be distributed and what should be blocked? Who should decide these policies and make enforcement decisions?"
Censorship by country
Austria
Like France and Germany, Austria has laws prohibiting Holocaust denial. This caused 78 Facebook posts to be banned from the country in 2013.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (like Iran, China and North Korea) had banned Facebook before. The ban operated for about a month, precisely from November to December 2015. The Awami League-led government of Bangladesh announced a countrywide ban on Facebook and other social-network websites. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (in office from 2009) proposed the establishment of an Internet monitoring committee with the help of Bangladesh's intelligence services. Right-wing political parties and groups in Bangladesh protested against bloggers and others they had considered "blasphemous" at the time of the proposal. Extremists in the country had murdered eight secularists, including atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was fatally stabbed in February 2013. National riots over the country's war-crimes trials resulted in the deaths of 56 people between 19 January 2013 and 2 March 2013.
On 18 November 2015, the same Awami League government banned Facebook again on the eve of the final judgement of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid and Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salauddin Kader Chowdhury. Both the politicians and previous minister have been issued a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20pitch%20class%20profiles | Harmonic pitch class profiles (HPCP) is a group of features that a computer program extracts from an audio signal, based on a pitch class profile—a descriptor proposed in the context of a chord recognition system. HPCP are an enhanced pitch distribution feature that are sequences of feature vectors that, to a certain extent, describe tonality, measuring the relative intensity of each of the 12 pitch classes of the equal-tempered scale within an analysis frame. Often, the twelve pitch spelling attributes are also referred to as chroma and the HPCP features are closely related to what is called chroma features or chromagrams.
By processing musical signals, software can identify HPCP features and use them to estimate the key of a piece, to measure similarity between two musical pieces (cover version identification), to perform content-based audio retrieval (audio matching),
to extract the musical structure (audio structure analysis),
and to classify music in terms of composer, genre or mood. The process is related to time-frequency analysis. In general, chroma features are robust to noise (e.g., ambient noise or percussive sounds), independent of timbre and instrumentation and independent of loudness and dynamics.
HPCPs are tuning independent and consider the presence of harmonic frequencies, so that the reference frequency can be different from the standard A 440 Hz. The result of HPCP computation is a 12, 24, or 36-bin octave-independent histogram depending on the desired resolution, representing the relative intensity of each 1, 1/2, or 1/3 of the 12 semitones of the equal tempered scale.
General HPCP feature extraction procedure
The block diagram of the procedure is shown in Fig.1 and is further detailed in.
The General HPCP feature extraction procedure is summarized as follows:
Input musical signal.
Do spectral analysis to obtain the frequency components of the music signal.
Use Fourier transform to convert the signal into a spectrogram. (The Fourier transform is a type of time-frequency analysis.)
Do frequency filtering. A frequency range of between 100 and 5000 Hz is used.
Do peak detection. Only the local maximum values of the spectrum are considered.
Do reference frequency computation procedure. Estimate the deviation with respect to 440 Hz.
Do Pitch class mapping with respect to the estimated reference frequency. This is a procedure for determining the pitch class value from frequency values. A weighting scheme with cosine function is used. It considers the presence of harmonic frequencies (harmonic summation procedure), taking account a total of 8 harmonics for each frequency. To map the value on a one-third of a semitone, the size of the pitch class distribution vectors must be equal to 36.
Normalize the feature frame by frame dividing through the maximum value to eliminate dependency on global loudness. And then we can get a result HPCP sequence like Fig.2.
System of measuring similarity between two songs
After getting the HPCP f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REBASE%20%28database%29 | In molecular biology, REBASE is a database of information about restriction enzymes and DNA methyltransferases. REBASE contains an extensive set of references, sites of recognition and cleavage, sequences and structures. It also contains information on the commercial availability of each enzyme. REBASE is one of the longest running biological databases having its roots in a collection of restriction enzymes maintained by Richard J. Roberts since before 1980. Since that time there have been regular descriptions of the resource in the journal Nucleic Acids Research.
See also
Restriction enzymes
DNA methyltransferases
References
External links
http://rebase.neb.com
Enzyme databases
Genetics databases
Restriction enzymes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlasmoDB | PlasmoDB is a biological database for the genus Plasmodium. The database is a member of the EuPathDB project. The database contains extensive genome, proteome and metabolome information relating to malaria parasites.
See also
Plasmodium
Malaria
References
External links
Genome databases
PlasmoDB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay%20Rhodes | Lindsay Rhodes (born December 31, 1976), previously known as Lindsay Soto, is an American sportscaster, journalist, and television personality who was a host and reporter for the NFL Network.
Biography
Lindsay Overman-Soto graduated from El Toro High School in Lake Forest, California in 1994, where she was the sports editor for her high school yearbook. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1998 and interned both at the USC Athletic Department and at Fox Sports Net while attending college majoring in broadcast journalism. Her first job was at an ABC affiliate in Yakima, Washington doing weekend sports and weekday news reporting. Soto later moved to KKFX, a Fox affiliate in Santa Barbara, California where she worked as a weekday sports anchor.
She began working at FSN West full-time in January 2003, and over time became "one of the most visible reporters and anchors" on that network. She has been involved in FSN's high school sports coverage since that network began such coverage in 1997. Soto appeared in a variety of roles on FSN West / FSN Prime Ticket: sideline reporter for USC/UCLA football, Los Angeles Avengers, and Los Angeles Sparks telecasts and sometimes for FSN broadcasts of the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; host for Southern California Sports Report, L.A. Times High School Spotlight, and USC Sports Magazine show; co-hosting the High School Spotlight with Sean Farnham, and serving as the host of FSN Prime Ticket's coverage of the High School Game of the Week. She was the sideline reporter for the 2005 game in which Avengers defensive tackle Al Lucas died after suffering a spinal cord injury.
Soto served as a sportsdesk reporter for NBC Sports's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as a reporter for NHL on Versus and College Football on Versus.
Soto joined NFL Network in the fall 2008 and has worked as an anchor on NFL Total Access, a reporter for NFL Network Now and a field and in-studio reporter for NFL GameDay Morning.
Soto announced a name change to Lindsay Rhodes on air March 1, 2012, and a week earlier via Twitter as a result of marrying Matt Rhodes on February 19, 2012.
Awards
Wins
Los Angeles area Emmy Award: Best Sports Reporting (2004).
American Women in Radio and Television: GENII Award, Excellence in Sports Reporting Award (2010).
Nominations
Los Angeles area Emmy Award: Best Sports Feature, The Michael Rivas Story (2005).
References
External links
Lindsay Soto NFL On Air Biography
1976 births
American television sports announcers
College football announcers
National Football League announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
National Hockey League broadcasters
NFL Network people
Living people
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni
People from Lake Forest, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MatrixDB | MatrixDB is a biological database focused on molecular interactions between extracellular proteins and polysaccharides. MatrixDB takes into account the multimeric nature of the extracellular proteins (for example, collagens, laminins and thrombospondins are multimers). The database was initially released in 2009 and is maintained by the research group of Sylvie Ricard-Blum at UMR5246, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1.
MatrixDB is linked with UniGene and the Human Protein Atlas. It also allows users to build customised tissue- and disease-specific interaction networks, which can be further analysed and visualised using Cytoscape or Medusa.
MatrixDB is an active member of the International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx), a group of the major public providers of interaction data. Other participating databases include the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND), IntAct, the Molecular Interaction Database (MINT), MIPS, MPact, and BioGRID. The databases of IMEx work together to prevent duplications of effort, collecting data from non-overlapping sources and sharing the curated interaction data. The IMEx consortium also worked to develop the HUPO-PSI-MI XML standard format for annotating and exchanging interaction data. MatrixDB includes interaction data extracted from the literature by manual curation and offers access to relevant data involving extracellular proteins provided by IMEx partner databases through the PSICQUIC webservice, as well as data from the Human Protein Reference Database.
References
External links
http://matrixdb.univ-lyon1.fr
http://www.icbms.fr/aspe
Biological databases
Polysaccharides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio2RDF | Bio2RDF is a biological database that uses semantic web technologies to provide interlinked life science data.
See also
DBpedia
RDF
Semantic web
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070714231822/http://bio2rdf.org/
Biological databases
Semantic Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah%20Data%20Center | The Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. Its purpose is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), though its precise mission is classified. The National Security Agency (NSA) leads operations at the facility as the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence. It is located at Camp Williams near Bluffdale, Utah, between Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake and was completed in May 2014 at a cost of $1.5 billion.
Purpose
Critics believe that the data center has the capability to process "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all types of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'." In response to claims that the data center would be used to illegally monitor email of U.S. citizens, in April 2013 an NSA spokesperson said, "Many unfounded allegations have been made about the planned activities of the Utah Data Center, ... one of the biggest misconceptions about NSA is that we are unlawfully listening in on, or reading emails of, U.S. citizens. This is simply not the case."
In April 2009, officials at the United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in large-scale overcollection of domestic communications in excess of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's authority, but claimed that the acts were unintentional and had since been rectified.
In August 2012, The New York Times published short documentaries by independent filmmakers titled The Program, based on interviews with former NSA technical director and whistleblower William Binney. The project had been designed for foreign signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection, but Binney alleged that after the September 11 terrorist attacks, controls that limited unintentional collection of data pertaining to U.S. citizens were removed, prompting concerns by him and others that the actions were illegal and unconstitutional. Binney alleged that the Bluffdale facility was designed to store a broad range of domestic communications for data mining without warrants.
Documents leaked to the media in June 2013 described PRISM, a national security computer and network surveillance program operated by the NSA, as enabling in-depth surveillance on live Internet communications and stored information. Reports linked the data center to the NSA's controversial expansion of activities, which store extremely large amounts of data. Privacy and civil liberties advocates raised concerns about the unique capabilities that such a facility would give to intelligence agencies. "They park stuff in storage in the hopes that they will eventually |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3Blogin%3A | ;login: is a long-running technical journal published by the USENIX Association, focusing on the UNIX operating system and system administration in general. It was founded by Mel Ferentz in 1975 as UNIX News, changing its name to ;login: in 1977. Currently, issues from 1997 through the present are available online directly from USENIX, whereas issues between 1983 and 2000 have been archived in the Internet Archive since 2018.
The leading semicolon is a reference to the appearance of the login prompt of early versions of UNIX, where an escape code specific to the Teletype model 37 computer terminal would appear as a semicolon on other models of terminal.
References
External links
;login: - The USENIX Magazine — issues since 1998
— archive of issues between 1983 and 2000
Computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1975 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive%20National%20Cybersecurity%20Initiative | The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) outlines U.S. cybersecurity goals across multiple agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Management and Budget, and the National Security Agency. The initiative was established by President George W. Bush in January 2008 in National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23 (NSPD-54/HSPD-23).
Details
During 2008, the initial signing of the initiative and hearings about the initiative was kept classified. However, in March 2010, the Obama administration declassified limited material about the project.
The goals of the initiative include: establishing a front line of defense against network intrusion; defending the U.S. against the full spectrum of threats through counterintelligence; and strengthening the future cybersecurity environment through education, coordination and research.
The main actions of the CNCI are:
creating or enhancing shared situational awareness within the federal government, and with other government agencies and the private sector;
creating or enhancing the ability to respond quickly to prevent intrusions;
enhancing counterintelligence capabilities;
increasing the security of the supply chain for key information technologies;
expanding cyber education;
coordinating and redirecting research and development efforts; and
developing deterrence strategies.
On January 6, 2011, the National Security Agency (NSA) began building the first of a series of data centers pursuant to the program. The $1.5 billion Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, also known as the Utah Data Center, is located at Camp Williams, Utah.
See also
National Security Directive
United States Department of Homeland Security
National Cybersecurity Center
Presidential Policy Directive 20
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education
Notes
External links
The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative homepage from Whitehouse.gov
Cyberwarfare in the United States
Computer security organizations
United States presidential directives
United States national security directives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingle%20Media%20TV%20Network | Mingle Media TV Network is a digital TV network offering scripted, unscripted, live and produced lifestyle, celebrity and entertainment programming seven days a week. Founded on 8 February 2010, the network is a leading producer of independent filmmaker content in the web TV series. Mingle Media TV Network publishes their content through its web syndication network, including iTunes, Blip.TV, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, DailyMotion, Roku, Boxee and via the Stickam.com mobile app.
Mingle Media TV Network executive produces live streaming, interactive web TV lifestyle talk shows, host and distribute Red Carpet Report highlighting Film Festivals and Filmmakers, and independent filmmakers and web series creators. Mingle Media TV Network also is the sponsor of the Audience Choice Awards category for the New Media Film Festival.
Mingle Media TV Network on Television
Mingle Media TV provides content to Roku, Boxee, DivX TV, Vizio, Samsung via set-top boxes and web-enabled televisions.
Awards
Honorable Mention by Indie Intertube TV for Support of Independent TV Creators and Community 2010 Indie Intertube Awards
References
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Article from LIFE AT THE INTERSECTION OF TELEVISION AND DIGITAL
External links
Internet television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Durov | Nikolai Valeryevich Durov (; born 21 November 1980) is a Russian-born Kittitian programmer and mathematician. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, with whom he founded the social networking site VK and later Telegram Messenger.
Early life and education
Nikolai is the son of Valery Durov, a Doctor of Philological Sciences and a professor of philology during Nikolai's time at Saint Petersburg State University. As a youth, he reportedly could read at an adult level by age three and solve cubic equations by age eight.
Competing as "Nikolai Dourov," he won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad in the three years he participated of 1996, 1997, and 1998. Furthermore, participating in each yearly contest from 1995 through 1998, he accrued three silver medals and one gold medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics. With his friend Andrey Lopatin, Durov was a member of the Saint Petersburg State University ACM team, which won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 2000 and 2001.
He received his first PhD from Saint Petersburg State University in 2005 with his thesis "New Approach to Arakelov Geometry". Continuing at the University of Bonn, he obtained in 2007 a second PhD under the supervision of Gerd Faltings with his thesis on singular Arakelov geometry.
Career
Research
Durov introduced commutative algebraic monads as a generalization of local objects in a generalized algebraic geometry. Versions of a tropical geometry, of an absolute geometry over a field with one element and an algebraic analogue of Arakelov geometry were realized in this setup.
He holds the position of senior research fellow at the Laboratory of Algebra and Number Theory at the St Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Other work
Durov worked as a lead developer of the VK team until 2013.
Together with his brother Pavel, he founded the instant messenger service Telegram and developed the MTProto protocol for Telegram in 2013.
Durov is believed to be the author of the original TON (Telegram Open Network) whitepaper.
References
1980 births
Living people
Russian computer scientists
Mathematicians from Saint Petersburg
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
University of Bonn alumni
Competitive programmers
Telegram (software)
Russian emigrants to Saint Kitts and Nevis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allele%20Frequency%20Net%20Database | The Allele Frequency Net Database (abbreviated AlFreD) is a database containing the allele frequencies of immune genes and their corresponding alleles in different populations.
References
External links
Allele Frequency Net Database
Biological databases
Immunology
Population genetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmoebaDB | AmoebaDB is a functional genomics database for the genetics of amoebozoa.
See also
Amoebozoa
References
External links
AmoebaDB
Genome databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArachnoServer | ArachnoServer is a database storing information on the protein toxins from spider venoms.
References
External links
Biological databases
Spider toxins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AREsite | AREsite is a database of AU-rich elements (ARE) in vertebrate mRNA 3'-untranslated regions (UTRs). AU-rich elements are involved in the control of gene expression. They are the most common determinant of RNA stability in mammalian cells. The most recent version of AREsite is called AREsite 2. It represents an update that allows for more detailed analysis of ARE, GRE, and URE (AU, GU, and U-rich elements).
See also
AU-rich elements
References
External links
http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at/AREsite
Biological databases
RNA
Gene expression
Cis-regulatory RNA elements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20ThunderBolt | The HTC ThunderBolt (ADR6400L) was the first 4G LTE smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network. It is a CDMA/LTE variant of the HTC Desire HD. It was first announced at CES on January 6, 2011.
In addition to 4G service, the ThunderBolt is the first Verizon phone to support simultaneous voice/data over 3G without the help of Wi-Fi.
Launch
The phone was launched January 17, 2011. Best Buy was the first retailer to offer a pre-order on February 6, 2011. Wirefly and Amazon both allowed pre-orders a few days before the device was officially launched. This launch date, however, was much later than anticipated by consumers, frustrating many potential buyers.
There was so much pent-up demand for the ThunderBolt that it broke pre-sale records for at least one online vendor.
However, despite early demand for the phone, HTC has appeared to struggle in their attempts to address multiple complaints about the device. Some features were removed just prior to release, such as a built-in Skype app with video calling capability. Common reported issues include complaints of short battery life, frequent rebooting, and a much delayed and troubled rollout of an update to the Android Gingerbread platform.
Hardware
The ThunderBolt has a second generation 1GHz Snapdragon processor manufactured by Qualcomm, and runs on Verizon's 4G LTE Network. It has a 4.3-inch class (480×800) WVGA TFT capacitive touchscreen covered by Gorilla Glass, a special crack and scratch resistant material made by Corning. Two cameras are included; an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, able to record 720p video, with a dual-LED flash, and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. The phone has 768 MB of RAM and 8 GB of eMMC of internal flash memory data storage ( available to user apps & user app data). An external microSDHC card slot supports up to 32 GB more storage memory, which comes preinstalled. The ThunderBolt also comes with a kickstand that works in landscape and portrait positions for photo or video viewing. A LED notification light is located near the earpiece.
Software
The ThunderBolt shipped with Android 2.2 (Froyo) and it was later updated in September 2011 to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). In early February 2013, the ThunderBolt was updated to Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and Sense 3.6.
The 4.0.4 update brought many new features to the Thunderbolt, including new camera filters and features, the ability to capture screenshots, and facial recognition to unlock the device. It also improved the device's stability and improved connectivity issues. Connectivity issues were the reason why HTC and Verizon Wireless did not immediately release the 4.0.4 update. The "Fit the puzzle piece" unlock screen prompt was replaced by “Drag down to unlock.”
Another new feature with the 4.0.4 update was the built-in data manager. This feature helps users manage and view their recent data usage. This feature would show a graph of data usage for the time period that the user had previously set. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASD%20%28database%29 | Allostery is the most direct and efficient way for regulation of biological macromolecule function induced by the binding of a ligand at an allosteric site topographically distinct from the orthosteric site. Due to the inherent high receptor selectivity and lower target-based toxicity, it is also expected to play a more positive role in drug discovery and bioengineering, leading to rapid growth on allosteric findings.
Allosteric Database (ASD) provides a central resource for the display, search and analysis of the structure, function and related annotation for allosteric molecules. Currently, ASD contains allosteric proteins from more than 100 species and modulators in three categories (activators, inhibitors, and regulators). Each protein is annotated with a detailed description of allostery, biological process and related diseases, and each modulator with binding affinity, physicochemical properties and therapeutic area. Integrating the information of allosteric proteins in ASD should allow for the prediction of allostery for unknown proteins and eventually make them ideal targets for experimental validation. In addition, modulators curated in ASD can be used to investigate potent allosteric targets for the query compound, and also help chemists implement structure modifications for novel allosteric drug designs. Therefore, ASD could be a platform and a starting point for biologists and medicinal chemists for furthering allosteric research.
References
External links
Website
Biological databases
Protein classification
Enzyme kinetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASPicDB | ASPicDB is a database of human protein variants generated by alternative splicing, a process by which the exons of the RNA produced by transcription of a gene are reconnected in multiple ways during RNA splicing.
See also
Alternative splicing
Alternative splicing annotation project
EDAS
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20150131060605/http://srv00.ibbe.cnr.it/ASPicDB/
Gene expression
Spliceosome
RNA splicing
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy%20database | Autophagy database(s) aim to provide a comprehensive list of autophagy-related genes and proteins, whether they are identified as orthologs or homologs of other, potentially related, proteins. Many kinds of information, including sequences, functions, and 3D structures, can be stored, thus making them accessible in a searchable format. Information available in a single source, using a searchable format, would simplify work for future researchers. These sources would then help to accomplish this aim by providing recently published references on autophagy alongside categories such as user ratings, a list of informative reviews, and results of an original analysis. As autophagy can play a role in a host of human diseases, such as those of the heart, liver, and kidney, further understanding its mechanisms is essential. Simplifying the research process with some database would then provide a scientific boon.
Autophagy
[For a complete background, please refer to Autophagy].
Autophagy is the process by which the cells in an organism destroy non-functional or unnecessary self-components. Specifically, autophagy is a catabolic process involving the degradation of a cell's own components through the lysosomal machinery. Autophagy is also crucial for instances of starvation and removal of potentially dangerous cellular materials, indicating its necessity in maintaining life. As seen in the associated figure Autophagy, cellular products are degraded by destructive cellular components, such as lysosomes, to produce new materials for the cell to use. Research into autophagy and its related processes has exploded over recent years, however, many of these processes are not completely understood and homologs have not been found in different species for many of these proteins. Its molecular mechanisms have not been fully elucidated, despite dramatic advances in the field as evidenced by hundreds of autophagy-related genes and proteins reported. As such, there was a demonstrated need for a database to characterize human autophagy proteins and components and/or their homologs, as well as orthologs in other species.
Autophagy database
Autophagy database is a product of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) NIG was founded in June 1949 by the ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, with Prof. Kan Oguma being elected the first director. Over time, many departments have been added for various applications such as Genetics, Genomics, DNA Research, and, most notably for our purposes, the DNA Data Bank. NIG is a division of the Japanese Research Organization of Information and Systems, and is currently under the supervision of its ninth director. NIG aims to conduct top-level research in the pursuit of streamlining of information, as well as the dissemination of information from research into societal application. A tool created by this organization for this purpose is the Autophagy database.
The Autophagy database is a database of proteins involved i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BISC%20%28database%29 | Binary subcomplexes in proteins database (BISC) is a protein–protein interaction database about binary subcomplexes.
References
External links
Biochemistry databases
Proteomics
Biophysics organizations
Systems biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigQuery | BigQuery is Google's fully managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable analysis over petabytes of data. It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that supports querying using a dialect of SQL. It also has built-in machine learning capabilities. BigQuery was announced in May 2010 and made generally available in November 2011.
Design
BigQuery provides external access to Google's Dremel technology, a scalable, interactive ad hoc query system for analysis of nested data. BigQuery requires all requests to be authenticated, supporting a number of Google-proprietary mechanisms as well as OAuth.
Features
Managing data - Create and delete objects such as tables, views, and user defined functions. Import data from Google Storage in formats such as CSV, Parquet, Avro or JSON.
Query - Queries are expressed in a SQL dialect and the results are returned in JSON with a maximum reply length of approximately 128 MB, or an unlimited size when large query results are enabled.
Integration - BigQuery can be used from Google Apps Script (e.g. as a bound script in Google Docs), or any language that can work with its REST API or client libraries.
Access control - Share datasets with arbitrary individuals, groups, or the world.
Machine learning - Create and execute machine learning models using SQL queries.
Cross-cloud analytics - Analyze data across Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure
Data sharing - Exchange data and analytics assets across organizational boundaries.
In-Memory analysis service - BI Engine built into BigQuery that enables users to analyze large and complex datasets interactively with sub-second query response time and high concurrency.
Business intelligence - Visualize data from BigQuery by importing into Data Studio, a data visualization tool
Pricing
The two main components of BigQuery pricing are the cost to process queries and the cost to store data. BigQuery offers two types of pricing - on demand pricing which charges for the number of petabytes processed for each query and flat-rate pricing which charges for slots or virtual CPUs.
Partnerships & integrations
BigQuery partners and natively integrates with several tools:
BI and data visualization: Tableau, Microstrategy, ThoughtSpot, SAS, Qlik Neo4j and Dataiku
Connectors and developer tools: CData, Progress, Magnitude, KingswaySoft, ZapppySys
Adoption
Customers of BigQuery include 20th Century Fox, American Eagle Outfitters, HSBC, CNA Insurance, Asahi Group, ATB Financial, Athena, The Home Depot, Wayfair, Carrefour, Oscar Health, and several others. Gartner named Google as a Leader in the 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems. BigQuery is also named a Leader in The 2021 Forrester Wave: Cloud Data Warehouse.
According to a study by Enterprise Strategy Group, BigQuery saves up to 27% in total cost of ownership over three years compared to other cloud data warehousing solutions.
References
External links
Web services
Google
2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-structured%20transition%20system | In computer science, specifically in the field of formal verification, well-structured transition systems (WSTSs) are a general class of infinite state systems for which many verification problems are decidable, owing to the existence of a kind of order between the states of the system which is compatible with the transitions of the system. WSTS decidability results can be applied to Petri nets, lossy channel systems, and more.
Formal definition
Recall that a well-quasi-ordering on a set is a quasi-ordering (i.e., a preorder or reflexive, transitive binary relation) such that any infinite sequence of elements , from contains an increasing pair with . The set is said to be well-quasi-ordered, or shortly wqo.
For our purposes, a transition system is a structure , where is any set (its elements are called states), and (its elements are called transitions). In general a transition system may have additional structure like initial states, labels on transitions, accepting states, etc. (indicated by the dots), but they do not concern us here.
A well-structured transition system consists of a transition system , such that
is a well-quasi-ordering on the set of states.
is upward compatible with : that is, for all transitions (by this we mean ) and for all such that , there exists such that (that is, can be reached from by a sequence of zero or more transitions) and .
Well-structured systems
A well-structured system is a transition system with state set made up from a finite control state set , a data values set , furnished with a decidable pre-order which is extended to states by , which is well-structured as defined above ( is monotonic, i.e. upward compatible, with respect to ) and in addition has a computable set of minima for the set of predecessors of any upward closed subset of .
Well-structured systems adapt the theory of well-structured transition systems for modelling certain classes of systems encountered in computer science and provide the basis for decision procedures to analyse such systems, hence the supplementary requirements: the definition of a WSTS itself says nothing about the computability of the relations , .
Uses in Computer Science
Well-structured Systems
Coverability can be decided for any well-structured system, and so can reachability of a given control state, by the backward algorithm of Abdulla et al. or for specific subclasses of well-structured systems (subject to strict monotonicity, e.g. in the case of unbounded Petri nets) by a forward analysis based on a Karp-Miller coverability graph.
Backward Algorithm
The backward algorithm allows the following question to be answered: given a well-structured system and a state , is there any transition path that leads from a given start state to a state (such a state is said to cover )?
An intuitive explanation for this question is: if represents an error state, then any state containing it should also be regarded as an error state. If a well-qua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine%20genome%20database | The Bovine Genome Database is an integrated database for the bovine genome.
See also
Bovine genome
References
External links
http://BovineGenome.org
Genome databases
Cattle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%204%20%28S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%29 | Line 4 (Yellow) () is one of the six lines that make up the São Paulo Metro and one of the thirteen lines that make up the São Paulo Metropolitan Rail Transportation Network. Originally called Southeast-Southwest Line, the line goes from Vila Sônia to Luz and currently has 11 stations along its and transports around 800,000 users/day. It is one of the most modern subway lines in Latin America and the first line in the region to utilize driverless trains and platform screen doors in all stations.
Due to fiscal constraints, the construction of the line was divided into two phases: The phase one was completed in 2011 and the phase two was partially inaugurated between 2014 and 2018 and was fully completed by 2021.
Now completed, Line 4 - Yellow goes from Vila Sônia to Luz station, in a long stretch. It was expected that the line would be fully completed by 2014. However, the deadline has been repeatedly pushed back and completion was only completed on 2021. It is operated by ViaQuatro, a private company which won the public-private partnership to operate Line 4 for 30 years, which can be renewable for another 30 years. Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo, the company operates some other lines in the São Paulo Metro, monitors the operation of the line.
History
Conception
Conceived since the years 1940s, the route of Line 4-Yellow was present in all studies for deployment of the Metro in São Paulo since. This road was consolidated in 1968 when the initial studies for the implementation of the current subway network, receiving at that time, the name of Southeast-Southwest Line. In parable form, would connect the neighborhoods of Pinheiros and Sacomã, from Jóquei Clube station to Via Anchieta station, through the Downtown, cutting East-West line of the Metro in República and Pedro II stations. Integration platforms came to be built in those two stations, but were not used. The Republic station platforms, built in the 1980s, with a further configuration of line 4, would be demolished for the passage of the tunneling machine, equipment that built the tunnel of Line 4 between Faria Lima and Luz stations, those from Pedro II station became a depôt. The consolidation of the project was only in 1993, when the basic design was first developed, already no longer including the Southeast portion, embedded in other policies of the Metro expansion and improvement of commuter trains.
Even in the 1990s, the Metro considered taking Line 4 to Tatuapé station, with the intent to relieve the Line 3-Red. This idea was discarded, having been replaced by a possible expansion of the Line 2-Green until that section. The construction of the Expresso Tiradentes (formerly Fura-Fila), designed in the administration of mayor Celso Pitta and the first section delivered in 2007, further reinforced the intention to build Line 4 only in the vector southwest of the city, from Luz Station.
Construction
Construction was carried out in several phases, with trains initially |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%20and%20the%20Boys | Me and the Boys may refer to:
Me and the Boys (TV series), an American sitcom that aired on the ABC network
Me and the Boys (album), a 1985 album by The Charlie Daniels Band
Me and the Boys (meme), an internet meme
See also
"The Boys and Me", a song recorded by Sawyer Brown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brix%20%28database%29 | BriX is a database containing some protein fragments from 4 to 14 residue from non-homologous proteins.
There are very few loops registered in Brix, so to address this issue, Loop Brix was added to the system to help structure non-regular elements. These are organized with clustering of end to end elements, and their distance between residues that flank the top of the peptide. Currently, the system also encourages user submitted structures to be uploaded, so long as they match Brix classes.
See also
Protein structure
References
External links
http://brix.crg.es
Biological databases
Protein structure
Peptides
Computer-related introductions in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomolecule%20Stretching%20Database | The Biomolecule Stretching Database contains information about the mechanostability of proteins based on their resistance to stretching.
References
External links
Official website
Protein structure
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat | Bufferbloat is a cause of high latency and jitter in packet-switched networks caused by excess buffering of packets. Bufferbloat can also cause packet delay variation (also known as jitter), as well as reduce the overall network throughput. When a router or switch is configured to use excessively large buffers, even very high-speed networks can become practically unusable for many interactive applications like voice over IP (VoIP), audio streaming, online gaming, and even ordinary web browsing.
Some communications equipment manufacturers designed unnecessarily large buffers into some of their network products. In such equipment, bufferbloat occurs when a network link becomes congested, causing packets to become queued for long periods in these oversized buffers. In a first-in first-out queuing system, overly large buffers result in longer queues and higher latency, and do not improve network throughput. It can also be induced by specific slow-speed connections hindering the on-time delivery of other packets.
The bufferbloat phenomenon was described as early as 1985. It gained more widespread attention starting in 2009.
According to some sources the most frequent cause of high latency ("lag") in online video games is local home network bufferbloat. High latency can render modern online gaming impossible.
Buffering
An established rule of thumb for the network equipment manufacturers was to provide buffers large enough to accommodate at least 250 ms of buffering for a stream of traffic passing through a device. For example, a router's Gigabit Ethernet interface would require a relatively large 32 MB buffer. Such sizing of the buffers can lead to failure of the TCP congestion control algorithm. The buffers then take some time to drain, before congestion control resets and the TCP connection ramps back up to speed and fills the buffers again. Bufferbloat thus causes problems such as high and variable latency, and choking network bottlenecks for all other flows as the buffer becomes full of the packets of one TCP stream and other packets are then dropped.
A bloated buffer has an effect only when this buffer is actually used. In other words, oversized buffers have a damaging effect only when the link they buffer becomes a bottleneck. The size of the buffer serving a bottleneck can be measured using the ping utility provided by most operating systems. First, the other host should be pinged continuously; then, a several-seconds-long download from it should be started and stopped a few times. By design, the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm will rapidly fill up the bottleneck on the route. If downloading (and uploading, respectively) correlates with a direct and important increase of the round trip time reported by ping, then it demonstrates that the buffer of the current bottleneck in the download (and upload, respectively) direction is bloated. Since the increase of the round trip time is caused by the buffer on the bottleneck, the maximum incr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Album%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202011 | The Gaon Album Chart was a South Korean record chart that ranked the best-selling albums and EPs in South Korea. It was part of the Gaon Music Chart, which launched in February 2010. The data are compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Music Content Industry Association based upon weekly and monthly physical album sales by six major South Korean distributors: LOEN Entertainment, S.M. Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Warner Music Korea, Universal Music and Mnet Media.
In 2011, there were 44 albums which reached number one on the weekly chart. Girls' Generation, Big Bang, and JYJ topped the chart with three different albums each, more than any other act. CNBLUE, Kim Hyun-joong, and Super Junior each had two number one albums on the chart. The longest chart run on the weekly chart at number one was Girls' Generation's The Boys and Super Junior's Mr. Simple; both spent four weeks at the top of the chart. On the monthly chart, TVXQ and BigBang had the most album number-ones, with two each. Girls' Generation's The Boys topped the monthly chart for three consecutive months from October to December.
Overall, Girls' Generation's The Boys album was the Gaon Album Chart's best-selling album of 2011, selling 385,348 copies. For The Boys, Girls' Generation earned two awards at the 2011 Mnet Asian Music Awards: Artist of the Year, and Best Female Group. The second highest-selling album was Super Junior's Mr. Simple, which sold 343,348 copies; a repackaged version titled A-CHa sold 129,894 copies. Super Junior had combined sales of 479,329 units for both albums, and Mr. Simple won Disk Album of the Year at the Golden Disk Awards, and Album of the Year at the Mnet Asian Music Awards in 2011.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
Notes
References
External links
Current Gaon Album Chart
2011 in South Korean music
Korea, South albums
2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CADgene | CADgene is a database of genes involved in coronary artery disease.
Description
The CADgene database allows users to browse all genes that affect the prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD). The database can be grouped by genes that affect certain categories of features that affect CAD, including genes affecting the immune system and inflammation, or genes that affect vascular health and lipid and lipoprotein metabolism. CADgene amalgamates data from various Genome-Wide-Association (GWAS) studies that would allow researchers to identify genes that could potentially be associated with other diseases.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110318214117/http://www.bioguo.org/CADgene/
Biological databases
Cardiovascular diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CancerResource | CancerResource is database of drug-target relationships related to cancer.
See also
COSMIC cancer database
Databases for oncogenomic research
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110718210257/http://bioinf-data.charite.de/cancerresource/
Biological databases
Cancer research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaSNP | CaSNP is database for storing data about copy number alterations from SNP arrays for different types of cancer.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110719204256/http://cistrome.dfci.harvard.edu/CaSNP/
Genetics databases
Cancer research
Genetics
Microarrays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical%20Cancer%20Gene%20Database | The Cervical Cancer gene DataBase (CCDB) is a database of genes involved in the cervical carcinogenesis. The Cervical Cancer Database is the first database that has been manually curated. The database serves as an entity for clinicians and researchers to examine basic information as well as advanced information about the genes that differentiates into cervical cancer. There are 537 genes that have been cataloged into the CCBD. The genes that have been cataloged based on polymorphism, methylation, amplification of genes, and the change in how the gene is expressed. Science investigators have examined data that compared normal cervical cells with malignant cervical cells which has been used to study the different gene expressions that result in cervical cancer. Of the 500,000 women that have succumbed to cervical, most are from developing countries as well as of the low socioeconomic level in developed countries. The CCBD is designed to present information that will novel therapeutic treatments for leading cause of cancer within the population of women.
Components
miRNA of the gene
the PubMed report of the gene
host and target gene
location as well as the fold change of protein
the expression or alteration of the gene.
Uses
The cervical cancer database consists of data that users (researchers and clinicians) of the system can find out if a gene leads to the expression of cervical cancer. The clinicians and researchers will also be able to collect data as it relates to genes that may differentiate into cervical cancer. There are several forms of cervical cancer that hypermethylate. The CCDB provides pertinent data as to which tumor-suppressor gene silences the gene expression of cervical cancer.
Access
Clinicians or researchers may search for a gene using the gene chromosome number, gene I.D., or gene name. Researchers may add information about genes that code for cervical cancer, but before the data is added to the database, it must be validated by the scientific community.
See also
Cervical cancer
References
External links
http://crdd.osdd.net/raghava/ccdb
Biological databases
Cancer genome databases
Cancer research
Gynaecological cancer
Infectious causes of cancer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded%20Type | Bounded Type may refer to:
Bounded type (computer science)
Bounded type (mathematics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformational%20dynamics%20data%20bank | The conformational dynamics data bank (CDDB) is a database about conformational dynamics of heavy proteins and protein assemblies. The CDDB is useful when used alongside static structural data to aid research into protein function. It is also helpful in identifying protein assemblies that are essential to cell function.
Analysis is carried out by coarse-grained computation of the structures present in the electron microscopy data bank (EMDB). This analysis shows equilibrium thermal fluctuations and elastic strain energy distributions, which allows for identification of rigid and flexible protein domains. The results also provide information on correlations in molecular motions which can be used to identify molecular regions that are highly coupled dynamically.
References
External links
Data bank website
Biological databases
Protein structure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIPZ | CLIPZ is a database of post-transcriptional regulatory elements (RNA-binding proteins) built from cross-linking and immunoprecipitation data.
Notes and references
See also
RNA-binding protein
List of biological databases
External links
http://www.clipz.unibas.ch
Gene expression
RNA
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combrex | COMBREX is a multifaceted project that includes a database of gene annotations, functional predictions and recommendations based on Active Learning principles associated with millions of genes in prokaryotic genomes.
About
COMBREX is a multifaceted project that aims to bring together the computational and experimental communities of biologists in the interest of improving our understanding of microbial gene function and accelerating the annotation of microbial gene function. The COMBREX project was co-founded by Simon Kasif, Richard Roberts and Martin Steffen as an international consortium with a headquarters at Boston University and over 100 experimental and computational collaborators. The project was inspired by a call for community action published in PLoS Biology by Richard J. Roberts.
Content
A Database of genes and functions
This evolving database consists of experimentally determined and computationally predicted functions for more than three million microbial genes. Searching for a gene or genes of interest may be an end in itself, or it may be a first step toward contributing information to or seeking a grant from COMBREX. The database presently consists of genes from over 1000 completely sequenced bacterial and archaeal genomes, supplemented with a number of individual genes whose biochemical function has been experimentally determined. The genes are organized into sequence-similar, and likely isofunctional, groups determined by NCBI, referred to as Protein Clusters.
A color-coding system is used to identify which genes have experimentally determined functions, which have computationally predicted functions, and which have no known or predicted function (info). By necessity, "predicted functions" may encompass a broad range of specificity, and one of our longer range goals is to quantify this specificity. (For example, the predicted function "valine decarboxylase" is significantly more specific, and more readily verifiable, than "lyase", or even "carboxy-lyase".)
Identification of genes whose products have been experimentally verified is also not a trivial task, and so we have embarked on a project to create a comprehensive, manually curated set of all such genes, which we refer to as the Gold Standard Gene Database. This curated set is at present unique to the COMBREX database, and genes belonging to it are color-coded with a gold symbol.
Predictions of Gene Function
The COMBREX database serves as a venue for computational biologists to publicize their most informative gene function predictions. A major effort within the bio-informatics field has been the computational prediction of gene function. There have been significant advances in this field over the last decade or so, but many of these efforts have not realized their full potential to advance biological knowledge due to the fact that predictions are rarely experimentally tested, and predicted functions for individual genes made by competing methods are rarely dire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compendium%20of%20protein%20lysine%20acetylation | The compendium of protein lysine acetylation (CPLA) database contains the sites of experimentally identified lysine acetylation sites.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110725073836/http://cpla.biocuckoo.org/
Biological databases
Proteins
Post-translational modification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.I.D.S./Fashion%20Delivers | K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that works directly with a network of retailers, manufacturers, and licensors in various industries to provide donations of product to persons in need. The donation efforts are often focused on families dealing with illness, poverty, or victims of natural disasters. The organization was borne out of the April 2014 merger of Kids in Distressed Situations (K.I.D.S.) and Fashion Delivers. The charity receives no government support and is among the 200 largest charities in the United States.
Though it’s K.I.D.S might be confused with KIDS.
In April 2011, K.I.D.S. was featured in the Wall Street Journal's Donor of the Day section
References
External links
Charities based in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20OWN%20Show%3A%20Oprah%27s%20Search%20for%20the%20Next%20TV%20Star | Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star is a reality competition show, created by Oprah Winfrey. The show aired from January 7, 2011 to February 25, 2011 on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Hosted by Nancy O'Dell and Carson Kressley, it featured ten prospective television hosts competing to earn their own television show on the OWN network. Each week, the contestants competed in a themed-television show challenge, where they were watched and judged by O'Dell, Kressley, and a guest judge and mentor, whose expertise is in the theme that week. After the production and filming, one contestant was eliminated, until the best host remained. Zach Anner and Kristina Kuzmic-Crocco were both chosen as the winners. Besides winning their television show, the champions also received $100,000 and a 2011 Chevrolet Equinox.
The executive producer was Mark Burnett, who has produced many reality competitions, such as The Apprentice, Survivor, and Design Star.
Contestants
Out of the thousands who applied, ten contestants were chosen to compete.
Contestant Progress
(WINNER) The host won the series and received their own show.
(WIN) The host was the executive producer of the winning team.
(HIGH) The host was on the winning team. (Episode 7 had individual interviews)
(IN) The host was on the losing team, but was safe.
(LOW) The host was mentioned as one of the worst, and was a candidate for elimination, while ultimately not being chosen.
(LOW) The host was in the bottom two, took part in the elimination interview, and was saved.
(OUT) The host was eliminated.
(WD) The host voluntarily withdrew from the competition.
(*) The host was the losing team's executive producer.
Episodes
Episode 1: "It Takes A Village"
First Aired: January 7, 2011
Television show theme: Sex and relationships
Guest mentor and judge: Dr. Phil
Summary: The ten contestants arrive at OWN studios, where they are greeted by O'Dell, Kressley, and Oprah herself. The hosts are split into two teams: a women's (Team Vision) and men's (Team Focus). As there are only four men, they choose Alicia to join their team, and even out the numbers. They are informed of their first challenge, to interview people on the street on the topic of sex and relationships, and then discuss the questions brought up with this week's guest mentor, Dr. Phil. As an added twist, the teams are required to interview the opposite sex. Alicia and Elizabeth step up to the challenge of being the executive producers for their teams' segments. When rehearsing with Dr. Phil, both teams have to readjust parts of their segments, but overall Team Focus shows more potential. This proves true when they produce a much better segment than Team Vision. At elimination, Team Focus is announced as the winning team, and Team Vision is asked who is responsible for their loss. All of the women say executive producer Elizabeth is, but Elizabeth chooses Aunt Flora, who she says did nothing. The judges deliberate, mentioning Elizabeth, K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20breathing%20%28telephony%29 | In CDMA-based Cellular networks, cell breathing is a mechanism which allows overloaded cells to offload subscriber traffic to neighbouring cells by changing the geographic size of their service area. Heavily loaded cells decrease in size while neighbouring cells increase their service area to compensate. Thus, some traffic is handed off from the overloaded cell to neighbouring cells, resulting in load balancing.
References
Mobile telecommunications
Radio resource management
Telecommunications infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cyberpunk is a literary subgenre of science fiction.
Cyberpunk may also refer to:
"Cyberpunk" (short story), a 1983 short story by Bruce Bethke that coined the term "cyberpunk"
Cyberpunk (role-playing game), a 1988 tabletop game written by Mike Pondsmith
Cyberpunk 2077, a 2020 role-playing video game developed by CD Projekt Red, based on the role-playing game by Mike Pondsmith
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a 2022 anime series based on the video game Cyberpunk 2077
GURPS Cyberpunk, a 1990 genre toolkit for role-playing games
Cyberpunk (album), a 1993 album by Billy Idol
Cyberpunks (video game), a 1993 shooter game for the Amiga computer
See also
Cybergoth, a fashion and music subculture
Cyberpunx, a comic book series
Cypherpunk, a type of social activist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl%20language%20structure | The structure of the Perl programming language encompasses both the syntactical rules of the language and the general ways in which programs are organized. Perl's design philosophy is expressed in the commonly cited motto "there's more than one way to do it". As a multi-paradigm, dynamically typed language, Perl allows a great degree of flexibility in program design. Perl also encourages modularization; this has been attributed to the component-based design structure of its Unix roots, and is responsible for the size of the CPAN archive, a community-maintained repository of more than 100,000 modules.
Basic syntax
In Perl, the minimal Hello World program may be written as follows:
print "Hello, World!\n"
This prints the string Hello, World! and a newline, symbolically expressed by an n character whose interpretation is altered by the preceding escape character (a backslash). Since version 5.10, the new 'say' builtin produces the same effect even more simply:
say "Hello, World!"
An entire Perl program may also be specified as a command-line parameter to Perl, so the same program can also be executed from the command line (example shown for Unix):
$ perl -e 'print "Hello, World!\n"'
The canonical form of the program is slightly more verbose:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello, World!\n";
The hash mark character introduces a comment in Perl, which runs up to the end of the line of code and is ignored by the compiler (except on Windows). The comment used here is of a special kind: it’s called the shebang line. This tells Unix-like operating systems to find the Perl interpreter, making it possible to invoke the program without explicitly mentioning perl. (Note that, on Microsoft Windows systems, Perl programs are typically invoked by associating the .pl extension with the Perl interpreter. In order to deal with such circumstances, perl detects the shebang line and parses it for switches.)
The second line in the canonical form includes a semicolon, which is used to separate statements in Perl. With only a single statement in a block or file, a separator is unnecessary, so it can be omitted from the minimal form of the program—or more generally from the final statement in any block or file. The canonical form includes it, because it is common to terminate every statement even when it is unnecessary to do so, as this makes editing easier: code can be added to, or moved away from, the end of a block or file without having to adjust semicolons.
Version 5.10 of Perl introduces a say function that implicitly appends a newline character to its output, making the minimal "Hello World" program even shorter:
use 5.010; # must be present to import the new 5.10 functions, notice that it is 5.010 not 5.10
say 'Hello, World!'
Data types
Perl has a number of fundamental data types. The most commonly used and discussed are scalars, arrays, hashes, filehandles, and subroutines:
Scalar values
String values (literals) must be enclosed by quotes. Enclosing a string |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACLAME | ACLAME (The CLAssification of Mobile genetic Elements) is a database of sequenced mobile genetic elements.
See also
Gypsy (database)
Mobile genetic elements
References
External links
http://aclame.ulb.ac.be (broken at 30/Jun/2022)
Biological databases
Mobile genetic elements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciliate%20MDS/IES%20database | In bioinformatics, the Ciliate MDS/IES database is a biological database of spirotrich genes.
See also
Spirotrich
References
External links
http://oxytricha.princeton.edu/dimorphism/database.htm.
Biological databases
Spirotrichea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiProDB | DiProDB is a database designed to collect and analyse thermodynamic, structural and other dinucleotide properties.
See also
Protein database (disambiguation)
References
External links
Main site
Biological databases
DNA
Biophysics
Molecular geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconcagua%20%28video%20game%29 | is an adventure video game developed by WACWAC! and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was released only in Japan on June 1, 2000.
The game is set on a mountain after a plane crash, and allows for the switching between characters. It received a full English language fan translation in 2022.
Plot
The setting of the game is in the fictional country of Meruza – which was named after the actual Argentine province Mendoza; the country is currently undergoing political turmoil as the result of an independence movement. The movement has split Argentina in half, and a 33-year-old activist named Pachamama goes on a flight as part of a politically motivated independence tour. During the flight, a terrorist detonates a time bomb, which causes the plane to crash near Aconcagua's peak; only five passengers survive the crash.
Gameplay
In Aconcagua, the player controls a Japanese journalist named Kato, whose job, along with Pachamama's, is to guide the survivors safely down the mountain. The game is organized in a series of missions in which the player must complete from a third-person perspective. During the descent, the terrorists, knowing their plot failed, try to eliminate the survivors via helicopter drops. It also involves various problem-solving and survival skills while using items left behind from the downed plane. The game features over 80 minutes of cinematic cutscenes to advance the plot.
Aconcagua has been compared to Chase the Express, as well as Dino Crisis, Parasite Eve and the Resident Evil series. However, its gameplay and structure more closely resembles point-and-click adventure games.
Development
According to IGN, Sony was attempting to penetrate the Argentine video game market with this title, while GameSpot said that they timed the release on the advent of the PlayStation 2 launch in order to boost PS1 sales.
Release
The game was released in Japan on June 1, 2000. The game was previewed on Sony's website, which showed trailers that featured English dialogue. Aconcagua was set to be released in North America sometime in late 2000, but it was never released there, despite the game having voice acting and subtitles in cutscenes in English.
Reception
The Japanese game magazine Famitsu gave the game a score of 29 out of 40.
German magazine Video Games gave it a score of 70%.
Notes
References
2000 video games
Aviation accidents and incidents in fiction
Japan-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Video games about terrorism
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in Argentina
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRA | WXRA (99.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Inglis, Florida, United States and airing a Christian worship format with programming from Air1. The station is currently owned by Educational Media Foundation
References
External links
Air1 radio stations
Radio stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Florida
XRA
Educational Media Foundation radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%205%20%28S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%29 | Line 5 (Lilac) () is one of the six lines that make up the São Paulo Metro and one of the 13 lines that make up the Metropolitan Rail Transportation Network. The line transports about 600,000 people every business day, and since August 2018 it is operated by the private company ViaMobilidade.
The southern section of the line, between Largo Treze and Capão Redondo was completed in 2002 and was envisioned as a railway line of the CPTM called Line G. The project was transferred to the São Paulo Metro and renamed to Line 5 - Lilac. A northern extension connecting it with the rest of the São Paulo Metro network started construction 2009 with a completion deadline of 2013. The project stalled due to issues with property acquisition and restarted in 2011. The completion deadline of the extension has been delayed several times, but it has been reached on 8 April 2019.
Stations
Operational
There are currently 17 operational stations on the Capão Redondo ↔ Chácara Klabin stretch:
Extensions from Chácara Klabin station to Ipiranga and from Capão Redondo to Jardim Ângela are planned.
Technical specifications
The line operates with 25 trains (out of 26 available) and is made-up by 17 stations, transporting about 600,000 people every business day. Eight additional trains are expected to be added to the line in 2020, after CBTC installation and other enhancements are completed.
It was the first line in the Sao Paulo Metro to utilize a 1500 V tension Catenary, Standard Gauge, beside trains with IGBT power conversion and wide doors. Santo Amaro station was the first in Brazil to be built on a cable-stayed bridge.
During the extension between Largo Treze and Chacara Klabin stations, three TBMs were used and 26 CAF trains were added to the line in addition to the eight Alstom trains originally available.
Gallery
References
Line 05
Sao 05
Standard gauge railways in Brazil
Railway lines opened in 2002
1500 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FREP | FREP is a database of mouse repeat sequences derived from cDNAs
See also
Repeated sequence (DNA)
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20080430084627/http://facts.gsc.riken.go.jp/FREP/
Biological databases
Mouse genetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip | lzip is a free, command-line tool for the compression of data; it employs the Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (LZMA) with a user interface that is familiar to users of usual Unix compression tools, such as gzip and bzip2.
Like gzip and bzip2, concatenation is supported to compress multiple files, but the convention is to bundle a file that is an archive itself, such as those created by the tar or cpio Unix programs. Lzip can split the output for the creation of multivolume archives.
The file that is produced by lzip is usually given .lz as its filename extension, and the data is described by the media type application/lzip.
The lzip suite of programs was written in C++ and C by Antonio Diaz Diaz and is being distributed as free software under the terms of version 2 or later of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
History
7-Zip was released in 2000; a tool employing LZMA first became available on Unix-like operating systems in 2004 when a port of the command-line version of 7-Zip (p7zip) was released. In the same year, the LZMA SDK became available, which included the program called “lzma_alone”; less than a year later, Lasse Collin released LZMA Utils, which at first only consisted of a set of wrapper scripts implementing a gzip-like interface to lzma_alone. In 2008, Antonio Diaz Diaz released lzip, which uses a container format with checksums and magic numbers instead of the raw LZMA data stream, providing a complete Unix-style solution for using LZMA. Nevertheless, LZMA Utils was extended to have similar features and then renamed to XZ Utils.
Features
File integrity
lzip is capable of creating archives with independently decompressible data sections called a "multimember archive" (as well as split output for the creation of multivolume archives). For example, if the underlying file is a tar archive, this can allow extracting any undamaged files, even if other parts of the archive are damaged.
As for the file format, special emphasis has been put on enabling integrity checks by means of an integrated 32-bit checksum for each compressed stream; this is used in combination with the lziprecover program to detect and reconstruct damaged data. This recovery tool can merge multiple copies of an archive where each copy may have damage in a different part of the file.
Parallelism
lzip has two parallel interfaces provided in the default distribution.
compresses any file in a parallel way. Using it with is insufficient, since the conventional program needs the entire stream before a file to locate it for decompression, resulting in non-parallel extraction.
combines and into a parallel archiver much like modern archivers like RAR or 7-Zip. The solid compression blocks align with file boundaries, so extracting a file only requires decompressing that particular member block.
Adoption
Availability
In popular Linux distributions, lzip can usually be installed from official package repositories.
Cygwin offers lzip as a maintained optiona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20codes%20%28database%29 | Genetic codes is a simple ASN.1 database hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information and listing all the known Genetic codes.
See also
Genetic code
References
External links
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Utils/wprintgc.cgi
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/misc/data/gc.prt
Biological databases
Molecular genetics
Gene expression
Protein biosynthesis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GISSD | The Group I Intron Sequence and Structure Database (GISSD) is a database of Group I catalytic intron.
See also
Group I catalytic intron
References
External links
http://www.rna.whu.edu.cn/gissd/
Biological databases
Ribozymes
RNA splicing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy%20%28database%29 | Gypsy (GyDB) is a wiki-style database of mobile genetic elements.
See also
Classification of mobile genetic elements
Horizontal gene transfer
References
External links
http://gydb.org.
Biological databases
Mobile genetic elements
MediaWiki websites
Wiki communities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20National%20Society%20of%20Film%20Critics%20Awards | 45th NSFC Awards
January 8, 2011
Best Film:
The Social Network
The 45th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 2011, honored the best in film for 2010.
Winners
Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:
Best Picture
1. The Social Network (61)
2. Carlos (28)
3. Winter's Bone (18)
Best Director
1. David Fincher – The Social Network (66)
2. Olivier Assayas – Carlos (36)
3. Roman Polanski – The Ghost Writer (29)
Best Actor
1. Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network (30)
2. Colin Firth – The King's Speech (29)
2. Édgar Ramírez – Carlos (29)
Best Actress
1. Giovanna Mezzogiorno – Vincere (33)
2. Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right (28)
3. Lesley Manville – Another Year (27)
Best Supporting Actor
1. Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech (33)
2. Christian Bale – The Fighter (32)
3. Jeremy Renner – The Town (30)
Best Supporting Actress
1. Olivia Williams – The Ghost Writer (37)
2. Amy Adams – The Fighter (28)
3. Melissa Leo – The Fighter (23)
3. Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom (23)
Best Screenplay
1. Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network (73)
2. David Seidler – The King's Speech (25)
3. Roman Polanski and Robert Harris – The Ghost Writer (19)
Best Cinematography
1. Roger Deakins – True Grit (31)
2. Matthew Libatique – Black Swan (27)
3. Harris Savides – Somewhere (18)
Best Foreign Language Film
1. Carlos (31)
2. A Prophet (22)
3. White Material (16)
Best Non-Fiction Film
1. Charles Ferguson – Inside Job (25)
2. Banksy – Exit Through the Gift Shop (21)
3. Lixin Fan – Last Train Home (Guītú Lièchē) (15)
Film Heritage Awards
1. Flicker Alley for Chaplin at Keystone
2. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment for The Elia Kazan Collection
3. The Film Foundation (for twenty years of providing financial support and moral leadership for the preservation and restoration of motion pictures from around the world)
4. Upstream, a rediscovered 1927 backstage comedy film directed by John Ford (discovered in the collection of the New Zealand Film Archive and repatriated under the auspices of the National Film Preservation Foundation with the collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, Park Road Post Production, and Twentieth Century Fox)
5. On the Bowery (restored by Davide Pozzi of the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna in cooperation with the Rogosin Heritage and Anthology Film Archives, and distributed in the U.S. by Milestone Films)
6. Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (restored by Ross Lipman for the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Outfest Legacy Project, and distributed by Milestone Films)
References
External links
Official website
2010 film awards
2011 in American cinema
2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20Protection%20Act | Consumer Protection Act may refer to:
United States
Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 1999
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, 2005
Consumer Credit Protection Act, 1968
Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 2010
Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, 2009
Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
Other
Consumer Protection Act 1987, United Kingdom
Consumer Protection Act (Quebec), Canada
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, India
Consumer Protection Act, 2019, India
Consumer protection law
Consumer_protection_legislation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3XL | 3XL () was one of the television channels operated by the Catalan public television network Televisió de Catalunya. It was founded and started broadcasting in September 2010 replacing the former Canal 300, until September 2012, when it was closed.
The channel takes its name from the former block transmitted in the Canal 33, also this channel seeks to promote a social network in his site.
This channel used to broadcast in Catalan daily from 21:30 to 6:00. It was mainly targeted at young people between 16 and 25 years. Its frequency was shared with Canal Super 3, which broadcast for the rest of the day. Its main programmes were British and Catalan series, movies and anime.
References
External links
Official Site
Televisió de Catalunya
Defunct television channels in Spain
Television stations in Catalonia
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27ayan%20HaChinuch%20HaTorani | The Ma'ayan HaChinuch HaTorani () is an education network in Israel, founded in 1984 by the Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef for the purpose of providing a religious Torah education to the Sephardi community. Rabbi Yosef served as the head of the organization until his death.
It currently operates 130 schools throughout Israel.
The secretary general is Rabbi Moshe Maya. One of its former secretaries general, Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen, currently serves as the deputy finance minister of Israel.
References
Education in Israel
Educational institutions established in 1984
Jewish organizations established in 1984
1984 establishments in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20and%20Computer%20Education | Mathematics and Computer Education was a peer-reviewed academic journal in the fields of mathematics and computer science education, published from 1982 to 2016. It was edited by George M. Miller Jr. of Nassau Community College.
It is the successor publication of the New York State Mathematics Newsletter for Two Year Colleges, first published by the New York State Mathematics Association of Two Year Colleges (NYSMATYC) in 1967, and renamed the NYSMATYC Journal in 1969 and the Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges Journal in 1970. In 1973, the NYSMATYC re-started another newsletter, separate from the journal.
See also
List of mathematics education journals
References
Computer science journals
Triannual journals
Publications with year of establishment missing
English-language journals
Mathematics education journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils%20Nilsson | Nils Nilsson may refer to:
Nils Nilsson (art director) (1919–1981), Swedish film set designer
Nils John Nilsson (1933–2019), artificial intelligence researcher
Nils Nilsson (ice hockey) (1936–2017), Swedish ice hockey player and footballer
Nils Nilsson (wrestler) (1899–1961), Swedish Olympic wrestler
Nils Heribert-Nilsson (1883–1955), Swedish botanist and geneticist
Nils Oskar Nilsson (1935–2018), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCJ | BCJ may refer to
Bachelor of Communication and Journalism
Bachelor of Criminal Justice
Bach Collegium Japan
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
BCJ (algorithm), a method of improving the compression of machine code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khekadaengoside | Khekadaengoside is any one of several chemical compounds isolated from certain plants, notably Trichosanthes tricuspidata. They can be seen as derivatives of the triterpene hydrocarbon cucurbitane (), more specifically from cucurbitacins H and L.
They include:
Khekadaengoside A from T. tricuspidata
Khekadaengoside B from T. tricuspidata
Khekadaengoside D from the fruits of T. tricuspidata
Khekadaengoside K from the fruits of T. tricuspidata
References
Triterpene glycosides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo%20Belo%20%28S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%29 | Campo Belo is a station of São Paulo Metro. It opened on 8 April 2019.
It is operated by ViaMobilidade and belongs to Line 5-Lilac, which connected with the metropolitain network of São Paulo on September 2018 with the opening of stations Chácara Klabin, which connects to Line 2-Green, and Santa Cruz, which connects to Line 1-Blue. It was the last station to be delivered in the expansion plan of the line. The station will also, in the future, have a connection with Line 17 (São Paulo Metro) when opened.
According to the Metro original plans, the station should be named "Água Espraiada-Campo Belo", but, because of the change of name of Brooklin station of Line 5-Lilac, the station lost the sufix "Campo Belo". Later, it switched to Campo Belo, as both Brooklin and Campo Belo are located in the same borough.
On 26 March 2019, it was informed that the station opening could happen on 10 April.
On 5 April, it was confirmed the opening of the station to 8 April, two days before what was announced before. During the first 5 days, it worked in a reduced time, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on 13 April it began working in full time.
Characteristics
The Line 5 station is in the underground, composed of 5 drying pits of great diameter, with structure in apparent concrete and main access roof with a steel and glass dome, for natural lighting. It has one access, with escalators in both ways and 3 preferential elevators for disabled and reduced mobility people. It has mezzanine with ticket offices and commuters distribution, besides the central platform.
Station layout
References
São Paulo Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 2019
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024
Railway stations located underground in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20%26%20J%20Templeton | R & J Templeton Ltd was founded in 1880 by Robert Templeton. R & J Templeton Ltd styled themselves as "Tea Merchants and Cash Grocers". By 1910 the company had built a network of 50 shops (40 of which were in Glasgow), usually they rented corner sites in poor districts. Their key grocery products were "dry goods" - tea, cereals, flour, jams and confectionery.
Acquisition
The company was acquired in 1919 by Home and Colonial Stores Glasgow subsidiary Shepherd's Dairies for £132,045 eventually becoming part of the Allied Suppliers network.
References
Scottish brands
Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20roads%20of%20Scotland | A network of military roads, sometimes called General Wade's Military Roads, was constructed in the Scottish Highlands during the middle part of the 18th century as part of an attempt by the British Government to bring order to a part of the country which had risen up in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
The roads were constructed to link the Central Lowlands with a series of fortified barracks located strategically across the Highlands. Their purpose much like the network of roads constructed by the Romans more than 1,500 years earlier was to suppress and exert control over the local population. The engineered roads of the Roman period did not extend into the Highlands, which was where these later roads were constructed.
The first four of these roads were constructed in the 1720s and 1730s under the direction of General George Wade (an Anglo-Irishman) and are commonly referred to as General Wade’s Military Roads or simply as Wade’s Roads.
The network was subsequently expanded considerably under the direction of Major William Caulfeild though his name is now largely forgotten and each of the roads that he had put in place are referred to, on Ordnance Survey mapping for example, simply as "Old Military Road". A further road was constructed by Caulfeild in southwest Scotland in the 1760s.
Wade’s Roads
General Wade was sent to Scotland in July 1724. He reported back in December that "more than half of the 22,000 men capable of bearing arms in the Highlands and Islands were ready to create new troubles and rise in arms to favour the Pretender". In his report Wade pointed out that government troops would benefit from improved roads and river crossings to put down the rebels.
George I appointed Wade as Commander-in-chief, North Britain. The first of four roads whose building Wade would oversee, was under construction by the following year;
from Inverness to Fort William (along the south side of Loch Ness)
from Dunkeld to Inverness via Pass of Drumochter
from Crieff to the existing road at Dalnacardoch by Aberfeldy and Tummel Bridge
from Dalwhinnie to Fort Augustus via Corrieyairack Pass (and a spur to Ruthven via Crubenbeg)
The roads were built by the military at an average cost of . Their standard width was but shrinking to as required. Construction took place between April/May and October of each year, the winter months being too harsh for such labours. Work in the summer could be arduous too with uncertain weather and the presence of the ubiquitous midge. The construction parties consisted of one hundred men overseen by two corporals, two sergeants, two subalterns and a captain. They were generally also accompanied by a drummer. Wade engaged craftsmen with skills in masonry, carpentry, for example, to ensure that major structures such as bridges were built to a standard. Encampments were established at intervals and the inns which developed became known as Kingshouses. Some of these continue to serve travellers today. The well-known Ki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%2015%20%28S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%29 | Line 15 (Silver) () is one of the six lines that make up the São Paulo Metro and one of the thirteen lines that make up the Metropolitan Rail Transportation Network. It is South America's first mass-transit monorail and is the first system in the world to use the Bombardier Innovia Monorail 300. When completed it will be the largest and highest capacity monorail system in the Americas and second worldwide only to the Chongqing Monorail. The first section, from Vila Prudente to Oratório, opened on 30 August 2014, initially running 10 AM–3 PM on weekends only. , the line is operational from 4:40 AM–12 AM. The line has a free connection to Line 2-Green on Vila Prudente station and future connection to CPTM Line 10-Turquoise on Ipiranga station.
Built using completely driverless technology, the line is currently long and has eleven stations in the stretch between Vila Prudente and Jardim Colonial. When complete, it will be approximately long and have eighteen stations, beginning at Ipiranga and ending at the future Hospital Cidade Tiradentes. The proposed completion of the full line is projected to be beyond 2022.
History
December 2009: Construction initiated
30 August 2014: Vila Prudente-Oratório (), operating Saturdays and Sundays only, from 10AM to 3PM
20 December 2014: Vila Prudente-Oratório (2.9 km), operating every day from 9 AM to 2 PM
10 August 2015: Vila Prudente-Oratório, operating every day from 7 AM to 7PM
26 October 2016: Vila Prudente-Oratório, operating every day from 4:40 AM to 12 AM
6 April 2018: São Lucas-Vila União, operating Mondays to Fridays from 10 AM to 3 PM
12 January 2019: São Lucas-Vila União, operation every day from 4:40 AM to 12 AM
26 August 2019: Vila União-Jardim Planalto, operation every day from 4:40 AM to 12 AM
16 December 2019: Sapopemba-São Mateus, operation every day from 10 AM to 3 PM
23 December 2019: Sapopemba-São Mateus, operation every day from 9 AM to 4 PM
6 January 2020: Sapopemba-São Mateus, operation every day from 4:40 AM to 12 AM
29 February – 1 June 2020: Line 15 was shut down for more than 3 months. Parts of a Bombardier M20 stock fell on Avenida Sapopemba and all the trains were taken to the railyard for inspection. The São Paulo Metro Company triggered the operation of emergency buses to transport passengers from each station of the closed line.
1 June 2020: Line 15 reopened between stations Vila Prudente and Jardim Planalto
18 June 2020: Line 15 reopened between stations Vila Prudente and São Mateus
29 December 2021: Jardim Colonial opened
2025: Ipiranga, Boa Esperança and Jacu-Pêssego, opening planned
08 March 2023 : It had the Second Accident of two compositions in frontal colliding, between Sapopemba and Jardim Planalto Stations. No one Injured.
Stations
Obs.: Stations in bold are under construction. Stations in italic are in planning.
Gallery
See also
List of monorail systems
Line 17 (São Paulo Metro)
References
São Paulo Metro
Monorails
Sao 15
Railway lines o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheiRank | The CheiRank is an eigenvector with a maximal real eigenvalue of the Google matrix constructed for a directed network with the inverted directions of links. It is similar to the PageRank vector, which ranks the network nodes in average proportionally to a number of incoming links being the maximal eigenvector of the Google matrix with a given initial direction of links. Due to inversion of link directions the CheiRank ranks the network nodes in average proportionally to a number of outgoing links. Since each node belongs both to CheiRank and PageRank vectors the ranking of information flow on a directed network becomes two-dimensional.
Definition
For a given directed network the Google matrix is constructed in the way described in the article Google matrix. The PageRank vector is the eigenvector with the maximal real eigenvalue . It was introduced in and is discussed in the article PageRank. In a similar way the CheiRank is the eigenvector with the maximal real eigenvalue of the matrix built in the same way as but using inverted direction of links in the initially given adjacency matrix. Both matrices and belong to the class of Perron–Frobenius operators and according to the Perron–Frobenius theorem the CheiRank and PageRank eigenvectors have nonnegative components which can be interpreted as probabilities. Thus all nodes of the network can be ordered in a decreasing probability order with ranks for CheiRank and PageRank respectively. In average the PageRank probability is proportional to the number of ingoing links with . For the World Wide Web (WWW) network the exponent where is the exponent for ingoing links distribution. In a similar way the CheiRank probability is in average proportional to the number of outgoing links with
with
where is the exponent for outgoing links distribution of the WWW. The CheiRank was introduced for the procedure call network of Linux Kernel software in, the term itself was used in Zhirov. While the PageRank highlights very well known and popular nodes, the CheiRank highlights very communicative nodes. Top PageRank and CheiRank nodes have certain analogy to authorities and hubs appearing in the HITS algorithm but the HITS is query dependent while the rank probabilities and classify all nodes of the network. Since each node belongs both to CheiRank and PageRank we obtain a two-dimensional ranking of network nodes. There had been early studies of PageRank in networks with inverted direction of links but the properties of two-dimensional ranking had not been analyzed in detail.
Examples
An example of nodes distribution in the plane of PageRank and CheiRank is shown in Fig.1 for the procedure call network of Linux Kernel software.
The dependence of on for the network of hyperlink network of Wikipedia English articles is shown in Fig.2 from Zhirov. The distribution of these articles in the plane of PageRank and CheiRank is shown in Fig.3 from Zhirov. The difference between PageRank and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20%27n%27%20Roll%20Adventures | Rock 'n' Roll Adventures is a platform video game developed and published by Data Design Interactive and Conspiracy Entertainment. The game was released in Europe on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Wii on 17 September 2007 and in North America on 11 October 2007. The game is considered an asset flip of previous titles by the same developer, of which received overwhelmingly negative reception from critics—with Rock 'n' Roll Adventures continuing this tradition.
Gameplay
Like Ninjabread Man, there are 3 levels, plus a tutorial. In the tutorial level, the game will show the player what controls to use. For the rest of the levels, the player must collect all 8 Power Rods. The enemies of the game are drum parts like cymbals.
The game uses the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. Jerking the Nunchuk up allows the player to jump. Swinging the Wii Remote swings the player's guitar.
Reception
The game has received poor reception. IGN gave the game a 3.0/10, criticizing it for non-interesting graphics, sloppy gameplay, and bad controls. Official Nintendo Magazine pointed out that the spine of the box misspells the title as "Rock n' Roll Adevntures".
References
2007 video games
Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley
Data Design Interactive games
Music video games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Wii games
Windows games
3D platform games
Single-player video games
Video games using Havok
RenderWare games
Conspiracy Entertainment games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumHot | HUMHOT is a database of human meiotic recombination hot spot DNA sequences.
See also
meiotic recombination
References
External links
http://www.jncasr.ac.in/humhot.
Biological databases
Human genetics
DNA repair |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%2021%20%28television%20station%29 | Although there were (and are) many pirate radio stations in London, Network 21 in 1986–1987 was one of the few pirate television stations to operate in Britain. Despite only broadcasting for half an hour on a Friday nights in a part of the UHF waveband near the frequency occupied by ITV in the London area, it showcased what was happening in the then vibrant avant-garde arts scene at that time. Among others, artists like Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV appeared in programmes documenting their work.
Vision
While the UK television industry was dominated by three companies (BBC, ITV franchise holders, Channel 4), Network 21 was an attempt to break the triopoly of the UK broadcasting industry. In an article in Broadcast Magazine, Network 21's aim was to "See a similar approach to TV as has been afforded to radio, for the BBC and ITV to release their monopoly on frequencies and make some available to the community", in the manner of low-power TV in the US. A press report by the London Evening Standard even claimed that the station had 100,000 viewers and that although it was very much in keeping with the post-punk DIY ethic, it was "definitely professional". The DIY element was that programming was shot on 8mm camcorders and transmitted on a domestic VCR connected to a UHF transmitter, but it was staffed by freelance journalists and artists.
There was also a pirate radio spin-off, which broadcast from 8 PM Friday night to early Saturday morning. The radio station generally played music from independent labels and artists (e.g. Coldcut appeared on the show) and discussion programmes.
While it received press attention, it was rarely raided. However, one raid occurred shy of its first birthday. Although Network 21 only lasted a few months, it had a small but significant impact.
Popular culture
An advertisement for Network 21 was one of several notable paid advertisements included between the tracks and in the liner notes for the debut album Flaunt It (1986) by British band Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
See also
Pirate television
Pirate radio
References
External links
Network 21 Archive
Pirate television stations
Pirate radio stations in the United Kingdom
Arts in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSatDb | InSatDb is a database of microsatellites of sequenced insect genomes
See also
MICdb
microsatellite
References
External links
http://www.cdfd.org.in/insatdb
Entomological databases
Insect genes
Repetitive DNA sequences
Genome databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islander%20%28database%29 | Islander is a database of integrative islands in prokaryotic genomes.
See also
Mobile genetic elements
References
External links
http://www.indiana.edu/~islander #BrokenLink
Mobile genetic elements
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L1Base | L1Base is a database of functional annotations and predictions of active LINE1 elements.
See also
Interspersed repeat
References
External links
http://l1base.charite.de/l1base.php
Biological databases
Repetitive DNA sequences
Mobile genetic elements |
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