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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20kiosk | Medical kiosks are computerized, electronic kiosks. Some function as patient check-in stations at hospitals or doctors' offices. Other, more advanced kiosks can perform basic diagnostic tests on patients. Most medical kiosks have touchscreens and can be classified as interactive kiosks.
Check-in Kiosks
Patient self-check-in kiosks can replace the clerks at the front desk.
Diagnostic Kiosks
Diagnostic kiosks can be used to address shortages of physicians in rural areas throughout the world.
Staffed vs Unstaffed
Staffed
Staffed kiosks can do a variety of tests.
Unstaffed
Unstaffed kiosks require only monthly maintenance. Although tests can still be done (blood pressure, spirometry, heart rate and ECG, blood glucose, and height/weight/BMI), there is not much variety.
See also
Common-use self-service
Interactive kiosk
K67 kiosk
References
Kiosks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Karger | David Ron Karger (born May 1, 1967) is an American computer scientist who is professor and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education
Karger received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University.
Research
Karger's work in algorithms has focused on applications of randomization to optimization problems and led to significant progress on several core problems. He is responsible for Karger's algorithm, a Monte Carlo method to compute the minimum cut of a connected graph. Karger developed the fastest minimum spanning tree algorithm to date, with Philip Klein and Robert Tarjan. They found a linear time randomized algorithm based on a combination of Borůvka's algorithm and the reverse-delete algorithm. With Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, Frans Kaashoek, and Hari Balakrishnan, he also developed Chord, one of the four original distributed hash table protocols.
Karger has conducted research in the area of information retrieval and personal information management. This work has focused on new interfaces and algorithms for helping people sift effectively through large masses of information. While at Xerox PARC, he worked on the Scatter/Gather system, which hierarchically clustered a document collection and allow the user to gather clusters at different levels and rescatter them. More recently he has been researching retrieval systems that personalize themselves to best fit their individual users' needs and behaviors, leading the Haystack project. David Karger is also part of Confer: a tool for conference attendees used by many research conferences.
Awards
Karger's dissertation received the 1994 ACM doctoral dissertation award and the Mathematical Programming Society's 1997 Tucker Prize. He also received the National Academy of Sciences' 2004 Award for Initiative in Research.
Personal
Karger is married to Allegra Goodman, an American writer. The couple live in Cambridge, Massachusetts and have four children, three boys and a girl.
References
1967 births
People in information technology
Living people
American computer scientists
Baalei teshuva
American Orthodox Jews
Jewish American scientists
Harvard University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming%20of%20Age%20%28Jude%20Johnstone%20album%29 | Coming of Age (2002) is the debut studio album from Jude Johnstone.
Track listing
Personnel
Jude Johnstone - vocals, piano
Charles Duncan - guitar, dobro, pennywhistle, accordion, programming, background vocals
Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
George Marinelli - electric guitar
Bonnie Raitt - slide guitar, background vocals
Mary Alice Hoepfinger - harp
John Willis - mandolin
David Mansfield - violin
Salvador Garza - violin
David Davidson - violin
Mary Ramsey - viola
Kristin Wilkinson - string arrangements, viola
John Catchings - cello
John Hobbs - piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, synthesizer
Dave Pomeroy - upright bass
Mauricio-Fritz Lewak - drums
Shannon Forrest - drums
Sam Bacco - percussion
Joe Jenkins - background vocals
Garth Fundis - background vocals
Jackson Browne - background vocals
Jennifer Warnes - background vocals
Trisha Yearwood - background vocals
Valerie Carter - background vocals
Jill Knight - background vocals
References
Liner notes from Jude Johnstone album: Coming of Age.
2002 debut albums
Albums produced by Garth Fundis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suelette%20Dreyfus | Suelette Dreyfus is a technology researcher, journalist, and lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, as well as the principal researcher on the impact of digital technologies on whistleblowing as a form of freedom of expression. Her research includes information systems, digital security, privacy, and the impact of technology on whistleblowing, health informatics and e-education.
Career
Dreyfus' work in e-health has focused on the patient information experience in the health system and the role of technology in error incident reporting in hospital settings. She has co-invented prototypes in information design for pathology reports with the aim of allowing doctors to improve communication with patients and families regarding the status of their diseases in progressive and chronic illnesses such as diabetes.
Her research in education has focused on using social media to teach foreign language to English-speaking primary school students, particularly for difficult languages that require more hours of practice such as Asian languages.
Dreyfus has written on the importance of protecting Freedom of Information access (FOI), the problems of information asymmetry and "tool asymmetry" between the individual citizen and the state, and the trend of "security clearance creep". She was a member of the WikiLeaks advisory board.
Her essays have also appeared in The Conversation, discussing the importance of protecting public access to strong encryption, the need for legal protections for whistleblowers, and the security paradox of legislation enforcing retention of metadata for two years for everyone in Australia.
Underground
She is the author of the 1997 book Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier. The book describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, among them Julian Assange who is credited as a researcher for the book. Dreyfus released it in e-version in 2001 for free.
Dreyfus was an Associate Producer and interview subject for the documentary In the Realm of the Hackers, inspired by Underground, in 2003.
References
External links
Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier ()
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
Australian people of French-Jewish descent
Writers about computer security
Cypherpunks
Activists from Melbourne
Australian women writers
Australian computer specialists
Australian freelance journalists
Australian political journalists
Australian producers
Internet activists
Journalists from Melbourne
Open content activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Information systems researchers
People associated with WikiLeaks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip%20graph | Skip graphs are a kind of distributed data structure based on skip lists.
They were invented in 2003 by James Aspnes and Gauri Shah.
A nearly identical data structure called SkipNet was independently invented by Nicholas Harvey, Michael Jones, Stefan Saroiu, Marvin Theimer and Alec Wolman, also in 2003.
Skip graphs have the full functionality of a balanced tree in a distributed system. Skip graphs are mostly used in searching peer-to-peer networks. As they provide the ability to query by key ordering, they improve over search tools based on the hash table functionality only. In contrast to skip lists and other tree data structures, they are very resilient and can tolerate a large fraction of node failures. In addition, constructing, inserting, searching, and repairing a skip graph that was disturbed by failing nodes can be done by straightforward algorithms.
Description
A skip graph is a distributed data structure based on skip lists designed to resemble a balanced search tree. They are one of several methods to implement a distributed hash table, which are used to locate resources stored in different locations across a network, given the name (or key) of the resource.
Skip graphs offer several benefits over other distributed hash table schemes such as Chord (peer-to-peer) and Tapestry (DHT), including addition and deletion in expected logarithmic time, logarithmic space per resource to store indexing information, no required knowledge of the number of nodes in a set and support for complex range queries. A major distinction from Chord and Tapestry is that there is no hashing of search keys of resources, which allows related resources to be near each other in the skip graph; this property makes searches for values within a given range feasible. Another strength of skip graphs is the resilience to node failure in both random and adversarial failure models.
Implementation details
As with skip lists, nodes are arranged in increasing order in multiple levels; each node in level i is contained in level i+1 with some probability p (an adjustable parameter).
Level 0 consists of one doubly linked list containing all of the nodes in the set. Lists becoming increasingly sparse at higher levels, until the list is composed of just one node. Where skip graphs differ from skip lists is that each level i≥1, will contain multiple lists; membership of a key x in a list is defined by the membership vector . The membership vector is defined as an infinite random word over a fixed alphabet, each list in the skip graph is identified by a finite word w from the same alphabet, if that word is a prefix of then node x is a member of the list.
Operations
Skip graphs support the basic operations of search, insert and delete. Skip graphs will also support the more complex range search operation.
Search
The search algorithm for skip graphs is almost identical to the search algorithm for skip lists but it is modified to run in a distributed system. Searches start |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpacker%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | Backpacker is a series of Swedish computer games. The games are travel simulators where the player travels the world and answers questions. The graphics in the games consists mostly of static images. The series has never been released for game consoles.
The series was originally developed by Tati Mixedia and Aniware AB and published by BMG Interactive. After Backpacker 2, Pan Vision AB took over the series.
Gameplay
The game is about traveling around to different cities in the world and answering questions about the locations. In order to get the money needed for traveling, the player have to take different jobs.
There can be several different goals in the game. Either that travel around the world in the shortest time to visit as many cities as possible or to get certificates in as many jobs as possible. In Backpacker 3 there are also other missions.
Backpacker
Backpacker was released in 1995 on one CD-ROM. The game was developed by Stefan Gadnell and Jens Thorsen.
Backpacker 2
Backpacker 2 was released in 1997 on two CD-ROMs. As of 2010, it had sold 600,000 copies in the Nordic countries. The game contains 70 destinations, 70 different jobs and 6,000 questions. It has two difficulty levels, Tourist and Globetrotter.
Backpacker 3
Backpacker 3 was released on 24 October 2003 by Pan Vision AB. It is programmed in Macromedia director. The game includes 100 destinations and 9,000 questions. There are different levels of difficulty to the questions so that both adults and children can play.
The game received a positive review and a rating of 4/5 by the newspaper Aftonbladet, its readers gave a rating of 3.45/5 (as of March 2011). The graphics was criticized in a review in the newspaper Expressen. It was the eighth best-selling video game in Sweden in 2003.
Expansions
Two expansion packs were released in 2004. Backpacker 3: Mediterraneo includes 15 new destinations in the Mediterranean region and contains 2,100 questions. Backpacker 3: Americana includes 15 new destinations in and around the United States, and contains 2,600 questions.
In 2006, Backpacker 3 and the two expansion packs was released in a collection box.
Titles
References
External links
Quiz video games
Video games developed in Sweden
Video game franchises
Video game franchises introduced in 1995
Fiction about Earth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-digital%20complex | The military-digital complex (MDC) is the militarization of cyber operations by governments and corporations, often through monetary relationships between computer programmers in private companies and the military to combat the threat of cyber terrorism and warfare. Cyber operations since 2000 have increased dramatically, with the recent branch of the US Strategic Command the United States Cyber Command. Cyber operations has been defined by the Washington Post as,
"Offensive and defensive cyber (or digital) warfare, including the fields of computer network attack, computer network exploitation and computer network defense; as well as traditional electronic warfare (e.g., jamming) intended to deny an adversary use of their electronically dependent equipment through "non-kinetic" means—that is, by fighting with electrons rather than explosives."
As cyber attacks become an increasingly common threat to the security of civilians and highly classified governmental information, a need to combat the threat by means of computer network operations and computer network defense have arisen. It is important to note however that protection is only one component of the Military-digital complex and that the use of information warfare within the complex can be used to achieve military operations and an upper-hand in economic exploits.
The Military-digital complex contains many components which align it succinctly to its industrial counterpart, for example the use of defense contractors. Although hired Contractors may not be explicitly named as such they still expose the complex to complications such as the principal–agent problem and consequently moral hazard. The MDC is seen as a progression as nations move globally towards cyberwarfare, indeed the cyber war is increasingly being acknowledged as the "fifth domain of warfare".
The MDC is a necessity for governmental bodies in order to maintain high standards within their cyber army, for example the USA boasts over "143 private companies involved in top secret cyber operations programs", however James Gosler a government specialist in cyber security indicates that the USA have a severe shortage of government cybersecurity specialists.
History
Technology has been a part of war since the dawn of warfare. Neolithic tools such as daggers were used as weaponry and clan rivalry long before recorded history. The Bronze Age and Iron Age saw technological improvements namely in the advancements of weaponry and subsequently the arrival of complex industries. It was not until the late 19th and early 20th Century that weaponry advanced in leaps and bounds to the armaments mankind witnesses today, however even then industry was relatively independent of the government and military. World War I and World War II were two important factors that led to the consequent military-industrial complex. Eric Hobsbawm in his book Age of Extremes outlines how categorically countries like Japan, USA and Russia had to develop their own mi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Park | David Park is the name of:
David Park (art historian) (born 1952), professor at the Courtauld Institute, London
David Park (computer scientist) (1935–1990), British computer scientist
David Park (golfer) (born 1974), Welsh golfer
David Park (music producer) (born 1983), Korean-American record producer
David Park (painter) (1911–1960), American painter
David Park (writer) (born 1953), novelist from Northern Ireland
See also
David Parks (disambiguation)
David Parkes (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Psychology%20Network | The Social Psychology Network (SPN) is an educational organization with more than 1,500 members worldwide. SPN was founded by psychology professor Scott Plous as a website in 1996. Development of SPN was supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation. The website includes a large collection of social psychology links, a feed of related news, and discussion forums for students and professionals interested in social psychology.
Affiliated partner sites include the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP.org); the Society for Personality and Social Psychology; and Research Randomizer (Randomizer.org, a web-based tool for random sampling and random assignment).
References
External links
Social Psychology Network website
Social psychology organizations
Internet properties established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CK%20Raut | Chandra Kant Raut (), popularly known as CK Raut, is a Nepali Member of Parliament (MP), computer Missile engineer, former United States Defense Programmer, author, politician and activist. He is gold medalist in Bachelors of Engineering from Tribhuvan University. He was active in the Alliance for Independent Madhesh, to establish a country for the Madhesi people. However, he surrendered before the Nepalese state in 2018 and chosed to participate in main stream politics. In 2022 Nepalese general election, he was elected as a Member of Parliament of the Pratinidhi Sabha.
In the past, he was frequently being placed under house-arrest by the Government of Nepal. He quitted the movement for another single country and joined the mainstream politics forming Janamat Party in 2019.
Early life
Raut was born in Mahadeva village of Saptari district of Nepal. He attended primary school in his village and high school at Laxmi Ballav Narsingh Secondary School in Babhangama Katti. He computerised first of all Tirhuta (Maithili Writing System) font. He went on to study at Tribhuvan University (Nepal), Tokyo University (Japan) and Cambridge University (UK). He is a recipient of the Young Nepalese Engineer Award, Mahendra Bidhya Bhusan, Kulratna Gold Medal, and Trofimenkoff Academic Achievement Award.
Political life
Alliance for Independent Madhesh
Raut was the president and the founding member of Alliance for Independent Madhesh, which in its manifesto has described itself as a coalition of Terai people discriminated by Pahadi civilisation. It has people of various sub-ethnicities, activists, parties and various organisations who are working towards establishing an independent Madhesh. Although it was established in 2007, it did not announce their manifesto until a press conference in Kathmandu on 21 May 2012. The manifesto states the main objective of the alliance is to achieve independence of Madhesh through peaceful and non-violent means. It has also demanded an end an end to racism, slavery and discrimination imposed on Nepali people of Madheshi origin by the Pahadi people. It claims to have three pillars: independent Madhesh of Nepal, non-violence and peaceful means, and a democratic system.
Arrest
On 13 September 2014, the Government of Nepal arrested Raut for on the grounds of sedition after giving a speech to a gathering of Santhals, an indigenous population of Nepalese, in their annual festival. After his arrest, Raut began to fast in protest, arguing that his right to freedom and expression was being violated by the government. He was subsequently hospitalized on 25 September after complaints of severe stomach pain. Nepali Congress Vice-President Ram Chandra Poudel, Minister for Information and Communications Minendra Rijal, and Agriculture Minister Hari Parajuli visited Raut in the hospital to urge him to end his fast. Raut ended his fast on the 1 October, after 11 days, upon the Nepalese government's request and commitment to respect freedom o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron%20Data | Neuron Data is an American software development company
that was founded June 1985 by Alain Rappaport, Patrick Perez and Jean-Marie Chauvet. Their first product, Nexpert, was a C-based, goal-oriented backward chaining and data-driven forward chaining expert system shell for the Macintosh in 1985. The product was ported to the PC, one of the first programs to run under the then nascent Windows. Under the name Nexpert Object, it was further ported to VAX VMS and all flavors of UNIX workstations, as well as on IBM mainframes.
In 1991, Neuron Data released a GUI building tool named Open Interface. The Open Interface Elements development tool won the 1995 Editor's Choice Award from X Journal for the Best Cross-Platform Toolkit.
Neuron Data produced a client-server software development environment named C/S Elements in 1993. The following year, they released Smart Elements, which incorporated support for business rules, enhanced GUI design tools and direct support of external C++ libraries. In 1995 they released Elements Environment, a middleware suite of object-oriented tools that can be used to build distributed applications. Web Element, a component of the version 2.0 Elements Environment, allowed interaction of developed applications with the World Wide Web.
In order to improve their Java interface development skills, in 1997 Neuron Data acquired the software component company Microline Software. On March 23, 2000, the company was taken public by CEO Thomas F. Kelly; the company name was changed to Blaze Software, with Nasdaq code BLZE. It was then acquired by German software company Brokat. They were sold to HNC, Inc., which, in turn, merged with FICO in 2002.
Products
Nexpert
Nexpert Object
NExtra
Open Interface
Elements Environment
Blaze Advisor
References
External links
Neuron Data website, archive.org
Neuron Data as aired on Discovery Channel, October 2nd, 1991
Neuron Data timeline and Web site replica
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniPROBE | The Universal PBM Resource for Oligonucleotide-Binding Evaluation (UniPROBE) is database of DNA-binding proteins determined by protein-binding microarrays.
See also
Protein microarray
DNA-binding domain
References
External links
Official website
Biological databases
Microarrays
Proteomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn%20Notice%3A%20The%20Fall%20of%20Sam%20Axe | Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe is a 2011 American television film based on the USA Network television series Burn Notice. It was the first official Burn Notice spin-off, starring Bruce Campbell, and directed by Jeffrey Donovan. The show was broadcast in the United States on April 17, 2011, on the U.S. television network USA Network. The film, while not an episode of the show, introduced plot elements for the show's fifth season.
Plot
Set two years before the pilot episode, the film is narrated by Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell), a US Navy SEAL Commander, who is being questioned by Admiral Lawrence (John Diehl) about a mission in Colombia. Sam reveals that he had unwittingly had an affair with a superior's wife (Chandra West) and that he was punished with a dangerous mission: to track down a terrorist group known as the Espada Ardiente and assess the need for American support against them.
In Colombia, Sam meets his new team, including Commandante Veracruz (Pedro Pascal), then goes to a local clinic to tell them that they're in danger only to be brushed off by the two employees, doctor Ben Delaney (RonReaco Lee) and charity worker Amanda Maples (Kiele Sanchez). Later, while scouting the area against orders, Sam discovers that Veracruz and his men are preparing to attack the clinic themselves and kill him to game the system for aid, so Sam sneaks off to the clinic to sound the alarm again, yet they still won't take his help. Thinking Sam has been kidnapped, Veracruz moves quickly to destroy the clinic but a local teenager, an orphan girl named Beatriz (Ilza Rosario), gets to the clinic early and tells Sam he's coming. Once he's convinced Ben and Amanda of the danger, Sam helps them get all the patients out and blow up the clinic as a distraction for the escape. Beatriz suggests hiding with her only friends, the Espada Ardiente, which works for Sam and his mission, especially since they have no alternative. Upon their arrival, Sam discovers that the Espada Ardiente is merely a small, but resilient, group of shepherds on a small farm that the corrupt Veracruz is trying to secure as a way-point for drug transportation. After watching them do very basic training and promising Amanda he won't leave them, Sam heads back to Veracruz's camp to call for support and stall long enough for help to arrive. Veracruz calls his bluff and almost forces him to reveal where the Espada Ardiente are hiding out, but the farmers give Sam a way out and he escapes back to them, where he apologizes and tells them how they can all help him stop Veracruz. Altogether, they then travel to a CIA outpost to ask for help, narrowly escaping a trap set by Veracruz along the road. They arrive to the isolated outpost and find its only use is observation, and is practically empty except for two men and some radio equipment, which they use to call for assistance. Sam is instructed that nothing will happen until he travels to the nearest military base first to detail the situation. Again, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20L.%20Rosenberg | Arnold Leonard Rosenberg (born February 11, 1941) is an American computer scientist. He is a distinguished university professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and despite his retirement from UMass he continues to hold research positions at Northeastern University and Colorado State University.
Rosenberg is known, among other contributions, for formulating the Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture stating that many nontrivial properties in graph theory cannot be answered without testing for the presence or absence of every possible edge in a given graph.
Rosenberg did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1966 under the supervision of Patrick C. Fischer.
Prior to joining the UMass faculty, Rosenberg worked at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1965 until 1981, and was a faculty member at Duke University from 1981 until 1985. He was elected a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1996 for his work on "graph-theoretic models of computation, emphasizing theoretical studies of parallel algorithms and architectures, VLSI design and layout, and data structures". In 1997, he was elected as a fellow of the IEEE "for fundamental contributions to theoretical aspects of computer science and engineering".
References
External links
Rosenberg's web site at UMass Amherst
DBLP listing of Rosenberg's publications
1941 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Harvard University alumni
Duke University faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Northeastern University faculty
Colorado State University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Parkhill | Douglas F. Parkhill is a Canadian technologist and former research minister, best known for his pioneering work on what is now called cloud computing, and his work on Canada's Telidon videotex project.
He started working at the Canadian ministry of Communications (now part of the Department of Trade and Industry) in 1969, having previously worked at the Mitre Corporation. He was responsible for many activities in communications satellites, computer communications, command and control systems and telecommunications. He was winner of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's Outstanding Achievement award in 1982, the Conestoga shield for services to government and industry in computer communications research and development, the Touche Ross award for Telidon development.
He was an author of several publications including the 1966 book, The Challenge of the Computer Utility. In the book, Parkhill thoroughly explored many of the modern-day characteristics of cloud computing (elastic provisioning through a utility service) as well as the comparison to the electricity industry and the use of public, private, government and community forms. The book won the McKinsey Foundation award for distinguished contributions to management literature.
He worked with Dave Godfrey, the Canadian writer and novelist on a later book Gutenberg two about the social and political meaning of computer technology.
He was in charge of research at the Federal Department of Communications at the time when the department was funding development of the Telidon videotext system, was heavily involved in promoting the system, and had overall control of the program. In a radio broadcast in 1980, he outlined some of the potential of the system, from financial information, to theatre reservations, with the ability to pay and print out tickets from the system. He later documented the history of the Telidon project, and the history of videotext in general.
Publications
The Challenge of the Computer Utility, Addison-Wesley, 1966,
edited with Dave Godfrey, Gutenberg Two: The New Electronics and Social Change, Press Porcepic, 1979,
The Beginning of a Beginning. Ottawa; Department of Communications, 1987. A history of the Telidon project.
References
20th-century Canadian civil servants
Canadian computer scientists
Mitre Corporation people
Canadian technology writers
Cloud computing
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%20Wand | Mitchell Wand is a computer science professor at Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has centred on programming languages and he is a member of the Northeastern Programming Research Lab. He is also the co-author, with Daniel P. Friedman and Christopher T. Haynes, of Essentials of Programming Languages.
References
External links
Northeastern University Programming Research Lab Homepage
Mitchell Wand's Homepage at Northeastern University
American computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Wexelblat | Richard L. Wexelblat, aka Dick Wexelblat is an American, a former artisan woodturner, and a former computer scientist.
Early life
Wexelblat received his BSEE, MSEE (CS), and Ph.D. (CS) from The Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 6/1959, 6/1961, and 12/1965 respectively. His doctorate is believed by many and so reported by ACM to have been the first ever awarded by a formally recognized Computer Science department. (Note: not the first CS doctorate, but the first awarded by a CS department. See the note about Andy van Dam below.) His doctoral advisor was Noah Prywes.
He left the computer field to become an artisan woodturner and has since retired from that field as well. He currently resides with his wife as a seniors facility in Coatesville PA.
Career
He is said to be the originator of Wexelblat's scheduling algorithm: "Choose two of: good, fast, cheap." He states, "Bob Rosin said I originated this; I'm not sure. He also credited me with having been the first to refer to Occam's Razor as 'The Law of Least Astonishment'". http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Software_Engineering_Proverbs/16_wexelblats-scheduling-algorithm-choose-two-good-fast-cheap.html
Personal life
His sons, Alan and David and his brother Paul are also computer scientists, although Paul is now mostly retired and David is now a lawyer.
Although Richard is proud of his achievements, he has two thoughts to share. Andries van Dam completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Moore School only a few weeks after Richard. Andy has devoted his professional life to Computer Science and Computer Graphics. He is the one who deserves pioneer credit. Speaking of pioneers, Paul Wexelblat wrote code for the Interface Message Processor packet switching node, part of the earliest version of the Internet, and is a true Internet pioneer.
Selected publications
Richard L. Wexelblat (ed.): History of Programming Languages, Academic Press 1981.
References
External links
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/w/Wexelblat:Richard_L=.html
American computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriram%20Krishnamurthi | Shriram Krishnamurthi is a computer scientist, currently a professor of computer science at Brown University and a member of the core development group for the Racket programming languages, responsible for creation of software packages including the Debugger, the FrTime package, and the networking library. Since 2006, Krishnamurthi has been a leading contributor to the Bootstrap curriculum, a project to integrate computer science education into grades 6–12.
Krishnamurthi received his Ph.D. at Rice University in 2000, under the direction of Matthias Felleisen. His dissertation is on linguistic reuse and macro systems in the presence of first-class modules. Starting from this topic, Krishnamurthi has moved into software engineering and is working on topics such as access control, modularization of verification, web-based interactive programming, and more. His most recent effort is a time-oriented programming language, named Flapjax, in support of asynchronous web programming. Krishnamurthi also authored a textbook on programming language design.
Krishnamurthi won several awards. In 2012, he became the inaugural winner of the SIGPLAN 2012 Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, given by the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) to a researcher whose research career began within 20 years of the nomination date. The award citation describes Krishnamurthi as "a prolific researcher who brings programming language theory to bear in many other disciplines, thus exposing its foundational value". He also won the SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award.
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Programming language researchers
Lisp (programming language) people
Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
Rice University alumni
Brown University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sqlnet.ora | In database computing, sqlnet.ora is a plain-text configuration file that contains the information (like tracing options, encryption, route of connections, external naming parameters etc.) on how both Oracle server and Oracle client have to use Oracle Net (formerly Net8 or SQL*Net) capabilities for networked database access.
Location
The sqlnet.ora file typically resides in on UNIX platforms and on Windows operating systems.
Sample file
NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (LDAP, TNSNAMES, HOSTNAME)
NAMES.DEFAULT_DOMAIN = ORACLE.COM
TRACE_LEVEL_CLIENT = ON
SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME = 30
SQLNET.IDENTIX_FINGERPRINT_DATABASE = FINGRDB
AUTOMATIC_IPC = ON
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (ALL)
SQLNET.CRYPTO_CHECKSUM_CLIENT = ACCEPTED
TNSPING.TRACE_DIRECTORY = /oracle/traces
Profile parameters
This section lists and describes some sqlnet.ora file parameters.
References
Configuration files
Secure communication
Oracle Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclideon | Euclideon Pty Ltd is an Australian computer software company known for a middleware 3D graphics engine, called Unlimited Detail. Euclideon is also the parent company and operator of Holoverse, a 'holographic entertainment centre' located on the Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia.
Euclideon claims that Unlimited Detail is based on a point cloud search engine indexing system and that the technology can provide 'unlimited graphics power', proposing it as a replacement for polygon-based rendering.
In 2010 Euclideon was the recipient of approximately $2 million, the largest grant awarded by the Australian Federal Government under its new Commercialisation Australia initiative. The funds provided by the grant are meant to support the implementation of multi-platform functionality, allowing Euclideon's technology to run on a variety of hardware platforms, including mobile phones and game consoles.
Unlimited Detail
Unlimited Detail is described by Euclideon as a form of point cloud Search engine indexing system, which uses a large number of individual points to create models, instead of a more traditional polygon mesh. According to their description, the engine uses a search algorithm to determine which of these points are visible on-screen, and then displays only these points. On a 1024 × 768 display, for example, the engine would display only 786,432 visible points in each frame. As the engine is displaying the same number of points in every frame, the level of geometric detail provided is limited only by the amount of hard-drive space needed to store the point cloud data, and the rendering speed is limited only by the screen resolution.
Euclideon have previously described their technique as being a voxel rasterizer, but decided to use their own terminology such as "3D atoms" and "point cloud", saying that "that word [voxels] doesn't have the prestige in the games industry that it enjoys in medicine and the sciences".
History
The project was first showcased at the Australian Game Developers Conference in 2003.
In 2011, Euclideon gained worldwide attention online when it released a number of video demos showcasing its 'Unlimited Detail' technology, attracting both skepticism and interest from the gaming press. Minecraft developer Markus Persson was critical of the demos, arguing that Euclideon portrays the software as "revolutionary" while it may suffer the same limitations as existing voxel renderers. John Carmack said the technology has "no chance of a game on current gen systems, but maybe several years from now." and Crytek's Cevat Yerli called the technology "definitely credible." Euclideon later released several interviews with CEO Bruce Dell responding to critics' concerns.
In September 2012 Bruce Dell filed a patent describing the rendering algorithm said to be used in Euclideon's software. The patent application was published on 27 March 2014.
The Unlimited Detail Engine was noted in a review of DigiDoc Scotland by CyArk, as "incredib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izatha%20walkerae | Izatha walkerae is a lichen tuft moth in the family Oecophoridae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy and etymology
This species was described by Robert J. B. Hoare in 2010. Prior to its formal description this species was referred to as Izatha sp. "whorled antennae". The species is named in honour of Annette Walker, who captured the holotype. The holotype specimen is held at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.
Description
The wingspan is 18–20 mm for males. The female has yet to be described. This species is very similar in appearance to I. copiosella but I. walkerae can be distinguished by its whorls of long dark sensilla on its antennae as well as its distinctive genitalia.
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is known from the north-eastern South Island. Specimens have been collected at Port Underwood Road approximately 4 km south of Curious Cove in Marlborough, and at Lake Tennyson in Canterbury.
Biology and behaviour
Very little is known of the biology of this species. Adults have been recorded in November and January. This species has been collected with a Malaise trap. It has been hypothesised that this species is active during the day as the eyes of I. walkerae have a nude periorbital strip which is correlated with diurnal activity. The host plants of this species are unknown.
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
Oecophorinae
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Moths described in 2010
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izatha%20rigescens | Izatha rigescens is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. It is endemic to New Zealand. This species is classified as having the conservation status of "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation. It is only known from the Wellington coast. This species has not been seen since 1929.
Taxonomy
This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929 using a male specimen collected by George Hudson at Point Howard in Lower Hutt in March. Hudson described and illustrated the species in his 1939 publication A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand. The holotype of this species is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Description
Merick described the species as follows:
The forewing of this species is brownish in colour, its scales are not contrastingly white tipped and the hindwings are pale brownish. I. rigescens could be confused with I. gibbsi but the former is more brownish in colour and has much paler hindwings. I. rigescens could also be confused with Thamnosara sublitella as they are both similar in size and colouring. However I. rigescens lacks the tufted second segment of the labial palp of T. sublitella so the two should be easy to distinguish on close examination.
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species has only been found at its type locality of Point Howard, Lower Hutt in Wellington.
Biology and behaviour
Very little about the biology of this species is known. Adults of this species are on the wing in March. The flight period is therefore rather late in the season which may have contributed to this species being overlooked.
Host species and habitat
The host species for the larvae of this moth is unknown. It has been hypothesised that the larvae of this species feeds on dead wood. It has also been suggested that the species might be associated with lichens and/or epiphytic mosses. Hudson collected the five known species of this moth by beating coastal scrub at Point Howard.
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
External links
Photograph of holotype specimen
Oecophorinae
Moths of New Zealand
Moths described in 1929
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGeSTer | WebGeSTer DB is a database of intrinsic transcription terminators
See also
Intrinsic termination
References
External links
http://pallab.serc.iisc.ernet.in/gester
Biological databases
Gene expression
Molecular biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftAP | SoftAP is an abbreviated term for "software enabled access point". Such access points utilize software to enable a computer which hasn't been specifically made to be a router into a wireless access point. It is often used interchangeably with the term "virtual router".
History on Windows
The first SoftAP software was shipped by Ralink with their Wi-Fi cards for Windows XP. It enabled a Wi-Fi card to act as a wireless access point. While a card was acting as a wireless access point, it could not continue to stay connected as a client, so any Internet access had to come from another device, such as an Ethernet device. Following Ralink's card innovation, a number of other Wi-Fi vendors, including Edimax, later released SoftAP software for their devices. Neither Ralink nor Edimax updated their software to work with Windows Vista, due to the installation of its new driver model, bringing an effective end to this software category until the release of Windows 7 in 2009.
Microsoft added a feature called "Virtual Wi-Fi" to Windows 7 and later operating systems, which enabled a Wi-Fi card to act as both a Wi-Fi client and a wireless access point simultaneously. Although a relatively fresh concept, new computers with Windows 7 and above were now being released with "Virtual WiFi" as a default program, making personal computing less complicated without the need for a second device. With this "technological advancement", the "virtual" Wi-Fi feature allows desktop computers to create a wireless hotspot / portable hotspot / Wi-Fi hotspot that other wireless devices in the vicinity can use. The feature was ultimately considered "unfinished", as it never received a user interface. Unfortunately, "Virtual WiFi" was not enthusiastically promoted amongst the industry, either on its own merit, or with the help of marketing materials at launch.
Purpose
SoftAP is a common method of configuring Wi-Fi products without a display or input device, such as a Wi-Fi enabled appliance, home security camera, smart home product or any other IoT device.
The process typically involves these steps:
The headless device turns on a SoftAP Wi-Fi hotspot.
The user downloads a product-specific app on a smartphone, and the app then either uses the underlying Android or iOS operating system to connect to the SoftAP hotspot, or directs the user to connect the phone manually.
The app then asks the user for the user's private Wi-Fi network name (SSID) and passkey
The app sends the SSID and passkey to the headless device over the SoftAP connection.
The headless device then falls off the SoftAP network and joins the user's private Wi-Fi network.
This process can work well, but there are two core problems. First, the process often requires the user to manually connect to the SoftAP network, which can be confusing for mainstream users. Second, if the user enters the passkey incorrectly, or if the phone gets disconnected from the SoftAP network for any reason, it is difficult fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArrayTrack | ArrayTrack is a multi-purpose bioinformatics tool primarily used for microarray data management, analysis, and interpretation. ArrayTrack was developed to support in-house filter array research for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2001, and was made freely available to the public as an integrated research tool for microarrays in 2003. Since then, ArrayTrack has averaged about 5,000 users per year. It is regularly updated by the National Center for Toxicological Research.
Features
ArrayTrack is composed of three major components: Study Database, Tools, and Libraries, which primarily handle data management, analysis, and interpretation, respectively. Each of these components can be directly accessed from the other two, e.g., analysis Tools can be used directly on experimental data stored in the Study Database, and significant genes discovered from the results can be queried in the Libraries to view additional annotations and associated proteins, pathways, Gene Ontology terms, etc.
Study Database: The Study Database contains user-imported experiment data, including both raw data and annotation data. It is mainly used to manage microarray data, but also supports proteomics and metabolomics data. Imported data are initially private to the owner but can be made available to other users. The Study Database also stores significant gene lists, which can be created directly from data analysis results in ArrayTrack.
Tools: A wide variety of analysis and visualization Tools are available in ArrayTrack, including but are not limited to: statistical analysis Tools including T-Test, ANOVA, and SAM-Test; unsupervised pattern discovery Tools including Hierarchical Clustering Analysis and Principal Component Analysis; and model prediction Tools including K-Nearest Neighbors and Linear Discriminant Analysis. Although ArrayTrack's Tools are designed to accommodate imported data, they are also compatible with external data.
Libraries: ArrayTrack hosts a collection of Libraries which store specific annotation data, viewable in a dynamic spreadsheet format. There is a Library specific for genes, proteins, pathways, Gene Ontology terms, chemical compounds, SNPs, QTL, chip types, and more. Each Library supports multi-input searching, sorting, filtering, copy-pasting, and exporting. Libraries can be directly queried for the desired contents of stored gene lists, analysis results, and other Libraries. A specific entry in any Library can be linked to the equivalent entry in many popular public knowledge bases, including the original sources of data.
ArrayTrack is directly integrated with a variety of other bioinformatics software, such as pathway analysis tools GeneGo MetaCore and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis.
Accessibility
ArrayTrack is freely available to the public and can be accessed online. It is run on the client's computer using a Java-based interface that connects to an Oracle database hosted by the FDA. As a Java-based application, ArrayTrack is compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLinCA%40Home | SLinCA@Home (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) was a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in fields such as physics and materials science.
Introduction
SLinCA@Home was based at the G. V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics (IMP) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital city. It ran on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform, the SZTAKI Desktop Grid platform, and the Distributed Computing API (DC-API) by SZTAKI. SLinCA@Home hosts several scientific applications dedicated to research into scale-invariant dependencies in experimental data in physics and materials science.
Statistics at the BOINCstats site (as of 16 March 2011), show over 2,000 volunteers in 39 countries have participated in the project; it is the second most popular BOINC project in Ukraine (after the Magnetism@Home project, which is now inactive). About 700 active users contribute about 0.5–1.5 teraFLOPS of computational power, which would rank SLinCA@Home among the top 20 on the TOP500 list of supercomputers in June 2005.
History
The SLinCA@Home project was previously launched in January 2009 as part of the EGEE project in the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for the funding of research and technological development in Europe. During 2009–2010 it used the power of a local IMP Desktop Grid (DG), but from December 2010 it has been using the power of volunteer computing in solving the computationally intensive problems involved in research into scale-invariant dependencies in experimentally obtained and simulated scientific data. It is now operated by a group of scientists from IMP NASU in close cooperation with partners from IDGF and the 'Ukraine' Volunteer Computing team. From June 2010 SLinCA@Home has been under the framework of the DEGISCO FP7 EU project.
Scientific Applications
The SLinCA@Home project was created to perform searches for and research into previously unknown scale-invariant dependencies using data from experiments and simulations.
An additional goal was the migration to the OurGrid platform for testing and demonstrating potential mechanisms of interoperation between worldwide communities with different DCI paradigms. The OurGrid platform is targeted at the support of peer-to-peer desktop grids; these are in nature very different from volunteer computing desktop grids such as the SZTAKI Desktop Grid.
Partners
SLinCA@Home collaborates with:
Partners in FP7 EU projects:
DEGISCO
EDGeS
Communities participating in volunteer computing:
'Ukraine' Volunteer Computing team
Professional communities of experts in distributed computing:
International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF).
Awards
2009 – For the Best Poster of the Krakow Grid Workshop'09, Kraków, Poland (October 12–14, 2009) – the report on the concept and results of porting the MultiScaleIVideoP application with 4GL MATLAB-libraries to DCI on the basis of the BOINC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulations%20on%20children%27s%20television%20programming%20in%20the%20United%20States | The broadcast of educational children's programming by terrestrial television stations in the United States is mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under regulations colloquially referred to as the Children's Television Act (CTA), the E/I rules, or the Kid Vid rules. Since 1997, all full-power and Class A low-power broadcast television stations have been required to broadcast at least three hours (or more if they operate digital subchannels) per-week of programs that are specifically designed to meet the educational and informative (E/I) needs of children aged 16 and younger. There are also regulations on advertising in broadcast and cable television programming targeting children 12 and younger, including limits on ad time, and prohibiting the airing of advertising for products related to the program currently airing.
Early regulations on educational programming were implemented by the FCC in 1991, as ordered by the Children's Television Act—an Act of Congress passed in 1990. They included a requirement for television stations to document their broadcasting of programs which "[further] the positive development of children 16 years of age and under in any respect, including the child's intellectual/cognitive or social/emotional needs", and a requirement for the FCC to use this as a factor in license renewals. Stricter regulations were implemented in 1997, requiring all stations to broadcast at least three hours of programming per-week that is designed to educate and inform viewers aged 16 and younger, and introducing requirements regarding on-air identification of these programs, and more stringent reporting requirements.
The E/I regulations had a major impact on U.S. television; the syndication market was bolstered by demand for compliant educational programming, while the Saturday morning cartoon blocks traditionally aired by major networks began to increase their focus on educational programming. This factor, however, alongside the growth of platforms not subject to the rules, such as cable channels (including Cartoon Network, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon) and, later, streaming services, contributed to an overall decline in broadcast television airings of non-educational children's programming. In the 2010s, the major commercial networks began to use factual and reality-style programming—declared as targeting teenagers—to meet their E/I obligations, as they are not subject to the same restrictions on advertising as programs targeting children 12 and under.
The educational programming regulations have faced a mixed reception from the industry. There have historically been concerns over whether these mandates constitute a violation of broadcasters' rights to free speech. The FCC's initial regulations faced criticism for being too broad in its definition of children's educational programming, with stations attempting to classify various non-educational programs as containing educational elements. The amount of network tel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahalom | Yahalom (meaning "diamond" in Hebrew) may refer to:
Yahalom (IDF), the elite combat engineering unit of the Israel Defense Forces Engineering Corps
Yahalom (protocol), networking security protocol used to authenticate and interchange symmetric keys over a non-trusted network like the Internet.
Operation Diamond, or Mivtza' Yahalom, an operation undertaken by the Mossad
Yahalom (surname)
Hebrew words and phrases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream%202%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Dream 2 () was a Canadian exempt Category B Arabic language specialty channel and was owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcast programming from Dream 2 as well as local Canadian content.
Dream 2 was a top rated general interest television channel from Egypt. It featured a wide variety of programming including news, current affairs, sports, movies and popular series including comedies & dramas. The channel ceased to exist by 2015 as the Dream TV network became only one channel for the first time since 2001.
External links
Ethnic Channels Group page
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Defunct television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Egyptian-Canadian culture
2011 establishments in Canada
Arabic-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody%20Aflam | Melody Aflam () was a Canadian pay television channel that was owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcast programming from Melody Aflam as well as local Canadian content.
Background
Melody Aflam was a top rated film channel from Egypt. It featured a wide variety of top tier films from the Arab world including classics and current hits, spanning all decades from the 1950s through to the present day. The movies aired covered all genres from action to comedy to historical films.
The Melody TV network was owned by Gamal Marwan, son of Ashraf Marwan. The network ceased to exist by 2013 due to financial difficulties.
References
Bibliography
External links
Ethnic Channels Group page
Melody's official website
YouTube channel
Egyptian-Canadian culture
Defunct television networks in Canada
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
Arabic-language television in Canada
Arabic-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody%20Hits | Melody Hits () was a Canadian exempt Category B Arabic language specialty channel owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcast programming from Melody Hits in addition to local Canadian content.
Background
The Canadian version of the channel originally launched as Melody Arabia () but was subsequently re-branded as Melody Hits in November 2011.
Melody Hits was a top rated music channel from Egypt featuring all the latest hits from the Arab world and international artists. It aired non-stop video clips as well as fashion and lifestyle programming. It also featured an interactive component that allowed viewers to request their favorite music videos.
The Melody TV network was owned by Gamal Marwan, son of Ashraf Marwan. The network ceased to exist by 2013 due to financial difficulties.
References
External links
Ethnic Channels Group page
Arab-Canadian culture
Arabic-language television stations
Defunct television networks in Canada
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody%20Drama | Melody Drama () was a Canadian exempt Category B Arabic language specialty channel and was owned by Ethnic Channels Group. It broadcast programming from Melody Drama as well as local Canadian content.
Background
Melody Drama was a top rated entertainment channel from Egypt featuring popular Arabic television series including comedies and dramas.
The Melody TV network was owned by Gamal Marwan, son of Ashraf Marwan. The network ceased to exist by 2013 due to financial difficulties.
References
External links
Ethnic Channels Group page
Melody's official website
YouTube channel
Arab-Canadian culture
Egyptian-Canadian culture
Arabic-language television stations
Defunct television networks in Canada
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nahar%20%28TV%20network%29 | Al-Nahar () is a Canadian exempt Category B Arabic language specialty channel.
Al-Nahar is a general interest television network from Egypt. Programming includes talk shows, political discussions, dramas, movies, mini-series, game shows and reality series.
History
Al-Nahar was launched on June 30, 2011, by the Egyptian businessman Alaa El Kahky. The first channel of the network is a main channel sharing the same name, but since 2016, it was renamed to Al-Nahar One, only to be renamed back to just Al-Nahar by 2017. The second channel of the network, Al-Nahar Drama (), was launched on August 1, 2011, and broadcasts popular Arabic television series. The third channel of the network, Al-Nahar Ryada (), was launched on December 8, 2011, and broadcast sports-related TV shows, but since 2016, it was closed, and its programs were merged with Al-Nahar Al-Youm. The fourth channel of the network, Al-Nahar Movies (), was launched in May 2012, and broadcast foreign films, but since 2013, it was closed. The fifth channel of the network, Al-Nahar +2 (), was launched on July 20, 2012, and broadcast TV shows from the original Al-Nahar TV channel after two hours, but was later closed, only to be relaunched as Al-Nahar One +2 until it was closed again. During Ramadan 2017, it was relaunched again until it was closed again after the end of the holy month of Ramadan in 2017. The sixth channel of the network, Al-Nahar Drama +2 (), broadcast popular Arabic television series that were also broadcast by the original Al-Nahar Drama channel after two hours, but was later closed, only to be relaunched during Ramadan 2017 until it was closed again after the end of the holy month of Ramadan in 2017. The seventh channel of the network, Al-Nahar Al-Youm (), was launched in May 2014, and broadcast news-related TV shows, but since 2016, it was closed. The eighth channel of the network, Al-Nahar Noor (), was launched in 2015, and broadcast religious TV shows, but by July 2017, it was closed. The ninth channel of the network, Al-Nahar Cinema (), was launched on February 1, 2016, and broadcast popular Arabic movies. The tenth channel of the network, Al-Nahar Enty (), involved women's affairs.
The Canadian version of the channel originally launched as Orbit Al Yawm () but was subsequently re-branded as Al-Nahar TV in July 2015.
See also
Television in Egypt
References
External links
Official website
Ethnic Channels Group page
2011 establishments in Egypt
Television stations in Egypt
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Egyptian diaspora
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2010s in Egyptian television
Arabic-language television stations
Arabic-language television in Canada
Egyptian-Canadian culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season | The 1869 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest season in the Atlantic hurricane database in which there were at least ten tropical cyclones. Initially there were only three known storms in the year, but additional research uncovered the additional storms. Meteorologist Christopher Landsea estimates up to six storms may remain missing from the official database for each season in this era, due to small tropical cyclone size, sparse ship reports, and relatively unpopulated coastlines. All activity occurred in a three-month period between the middle of August and early October.
Out of the ten tropical storms, seven reached hurricane intensity, of which four made landfall on the United States. The strongest hurricane was a Category 3 on the modern-day Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale which struck New England at that intensity, one of four storms to do so. It left heavy damage, killing at least twelve people. The most notable hurricane of the season was the Saxby Gale, which was predicted nearly a year in advance. The hurricane was one of six to produce hurricane-force winds in Maine, where it left heavy damage and flooding. The Saxby Gale left 37 deaths along its path, with its destruction greatest along the Bay of Fundy; there, the hurricane produced a high tide near the head of the bay.
Timeline
Systems
Hurricane One
The first tropical cyclone of the season was observed on August 12, about southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. Its entire track was unknown, and its existence was only confirmed for 24 hours, based on three ship reports. The second, a barque, the Prinze Frederik Carl, sustained damage to all of its sails. The Hurricane Research Division (HRD) assessed the storm to have moved northeastward in its limited duration, and based on the ship reports estimated peak winds of ; this would make it a Category 2 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
Hurricane Two
The Lower Texas Coast Hurricane of 1869
By August 16, a strong hurricane was located in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana. With estimated winds of , it tracked westward and struck Texas on Matagorda Island before passing near Refugio. The hurricane quickly weakened over land and dissipated late on August 17. Damage from the hurricane was heaviest in Refugio and Indianola. In the latter city, strong waves damaged wharves and boats while the storm surge flooded the streets with about of water. Intense winds knocked down several houses as well as a church, and many buildings lost their roofs. In Sabine Pass, the winds ruined a variety of fruit crops.
Hurricane Three
The third hurricane of the season was only known due to it affecting one ship. A vessel in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company reported a hurricane on August 27, about halfway between Bermuda and the Azores. The storm was estimated to have been moving north-northwestward with winds of , although its entire track is unknown.
Tropical Storm Four
A tropical storm was first obs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Langerman | Stefan Langerman false Swarzberg is a Belgian computer scientist and mathematician whose research topics include computational geometry, data structures, and recreational mathematics. He is professor and co-head of the algorithms research group at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) with Jean Cardinal. He is a director of research for the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS–FNRS).
Education and career
Langerman left his Belgian secondary school at age 13 and was admitted by examination to the École polytechnique of the Université libre de Bruxelles. He studied civil engineering there for two years before switching his course of study to computer science, and earning a licenciate.
After working as a user interface programmer for the Center for Digital Molecular Biophysics in Gembloux,
he moved to the US for graduate study at Rutgers University, where he earned a master's degree and then in 2001 a PhD. His doctoral dissertation, Algorithms and Data Structures in Computational Geometry, was supervised by William Steiger.
Next, before joining ULB and FNRS, Langerman worked as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University with computational geometry researchers Luc Devroye and Godfried Toussaint.
Research
Langerman's research is primarily in computational geometry. Known for novel and often playful results such as "Wrapping the Mozartkugel" which earned him the moniker of a computational chocolatier, Langerman has made a number of scientific advances in fields as diverse as musical similarity, polycube unfolding, computational archaeology, and protein folding. Langerman's work in data structures includes the co-invention of the queap and the introduction of the notion of retroactive data structures, a generalization of the concept of a persistent data structure. He is the author or more than 240 publications, and has led scientific missions with other western scientists to collaborate with colleagues in North Korea.
Family
Langerman is also the founder of Langerman SPRL, a Belgian colored-diamond company based on the collection of Langerman's father Arthur Langerman, a dealer of colored diamonds who is also noted as an author and as a collector of anti-semitic posters.
He is the co-author with his father of a paper on Morpion solitaire, written jointly with another father-and-son pair, Martin Demaine and Erik Demaine. Both Stefan Langerman and his father are members of the Board of Trustees of the Arthur Langerman Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Berlin, which makes its founder’s unique collection of visual antisemitica available for research, educational and exhibition purposes.
Selected publications
References
External links
Arthur Langerman Foundation
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Belgian computer scientists
Belgian mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Université libre de Bruxelles alumni
Academic staff of the Université libre de Bruxelles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Iacono | John Iacono is an American computer scientist specializing in data structures, algorithms and computational geometry. He is one of the inventors of the tango tree, the first known competitive binary search tree data structure.
Iacono obtained his M.S. at Stevens Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in 2001 at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey under the supervision of Michael Fredman. He is a Sloan Research Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. Formerly a professor of computer science in the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, he now works as a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
References
External links
Personal web page
American computer scientists
People from Livingston, New Jersey
Rutgers University alumni
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
Academic staff of the Université libre de Bruxelles
Sloan Research Fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto%20Dom%C3%ADnguez | Ernesto Domínguez Hernández (born 9 March 1941 in Móra d'Ebre, Tarragona, Catalonia) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward.
External links
National team data
1941 births
Living people
People from Ribera d'Ebre
Footballers from the Province of Tarragona
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
La Liga players
Segunda División players
CD Condal players
RCD Espanyol footballers
Levante UD footballers
RCD Mallorca players
Spain men's youth international footballers
Spain men's B international footballers
Spain men's international footballers
Catalonia men's international footballers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCdb | ABCdb is a biological database for the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette (ABC) transporters encoded by completely sequenced archaeal and bacterial genomes. These proteins are important for transporting substances into cells and are found in all living organisms.
biological function of ABC systems
Most ABC systems function in the transport of a compound across a membrane into the cell (importer) or to the exterior (exporter), for which the system generates energy by the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
The ABC transporters occur in all living organisms.
An ABC transporter system consist minimally of two components: an ATP binding cassette and a transmembrane domain or membrane spanning domain. These are usually separate proteins or can occur as protein domains. A typical ABC transporter is composed of two nucleotide binding domains that energize transport via ATP hydrolysis and of two membrane spanning domains that act as a membrane channel for the substrate. Importers require a solute binding protein that recognizes and binds the substrate.
The different partners of an ABC system are generally encoded by neighboring genes.
Features
The ABC proteins form a protein superfamily encoded by large families of paralogous genes. Sequence analysis shows that members of the ABC superfamily may have diverged from common ancestral forms and permits to organize ABC proteins into sub-families. The classification of ABC systems into (sub-)families can help to predict which substrates may be transported by the system.
ABCdb is a public resource, from which one can:
select a strain from the tree of species and view all its ABC systems, classified into (sub-)families.
for a particular ABC (sub-)family, compare all the proteins of completely sequenced prokaryotes.
use a protein sequence and blast it against ABCdb to find annotations for similar proteins
See also
Membrane transport protein
TCDB Transporter Classification database
ABC transporters
ATP-binding domain of ABC transporters
Transmembrane domain of ABC transporters
References
External links
http://www-abcdb.biotoul.fr/ ABCdb website
ATP-binding cassette transporters
Biological databases
Protein classification
Education in Toulouse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Licensing%20System | In the United States, Universal Licensing System (ULS) is the FCC online search portal for wireless licensing and research. It mainly supports online licensing and public access to its database. The FCC is an independent agency of the U.S. government appointed with the duty of allocating permission to businesses and individuals, the domestic (non-federal) use of wireless technologies.
Since mid-2018, the FCC stated that ULS:
...simplifies the application and licensing processes and provides secure, world-wide access through the Internet. This results in reduced filing time and financial savings for both customers and the federal government. More than an electronic filing system, ULS is a powerful information tool that enables you to research applications, licenses, and antenna structures. It also keeps you informed with weekly public notices, FCC rulemakings, processing utilities, a telecommunications glossary, and much more. Plus ULS features a Geographic Information System (GIS), a digital mapping technology that identifies spectrum use in relation to geographical areas.
References
External links
Federal Communications Commission |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%20Not%20Track | Do Not Track (DNT) is a formerly official HTTP header field, designed to allow internet users to opt-out of tracking by websites—which includes the collection of data regarding a user's activity across multiple distinct contexts, and the retention, use, or sharing of data derived from that activity outside the context in which it occurred.
The Do Not Track header was originally proposed in 2009 by researchers Christopher Soghoian, Sid Stamm, and Dan Kaminsky. Mozilla Firefox became the first browser to implement the feature, while Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari, Opera and Google Chrome all later added support. Efforts to standardize Do Not Track by the W3C in the Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) Working Group reached only the Candidate Recommendation stage and ended in September 2018 due to insufficient deployment and support.
DNT is not widely adopted by the industry, with companies citing the lack of legal mandates for its use (see Do Not Track legislation), as well as unclear standards and guidelines for how websites are to interpret the header. Thus, critics purport that it is not guaranteed enabling DNT will actually have any effect at all. The W3C disbanded its DNT working group in January 2019, citing insufficient support and adoption. Apple discontinued support for DNT the following month, citing browser fingerprinting concerns. As of March 2023, Mozilla Firefox continues to support DNT, where it is turned on by default in private browsing mode and optional in regular mode.
In 2020, a coalition of US-based internet companies announced the Global Privacy Control header that spiritually succeeds Do Not Track header. The creators hope that this new header will meet the definition of "user-enabled global privacy controls" defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this case, the new header would be automatically strengthened by existing laws and companies would be required to honor it.
Operation
The DNT header accepts three values: 1 in case the user does not want to be tracked (opt-out), 0 in case the user consents to be tracked (opt-in), or null (no header sent) if the user has not expressed a preference. The default behavior required by the standard is not to send the header unless the user enables the setting via their browser or their choice is implied by the use of that specific browser.
History
In 2007, several consumer advocacy groups asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to create a Do Not Track list for online advertising. The proposal would have required that online advertisers submit their information to the FTC, which would compile a machine-readable list of the domain names used by those companies to place cookies or otherwise track consumers.
In July 2009, researchers Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm implemented support for the Do Not Track header in the Firefox web browser via a prototype add-on. Stamm was, at the time, a privacy engineer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calxeda | Calxeda (previously known as Smooth-Stone) was a company that aimed to provide computers based on the ARM architecture for server computers. It operated from 2008 through 2013.
In March 2011 Calxeda announced a 480-core server in development, consisting of 120 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPUs.
Calxeda claimed reduced energy consumption as well as better cost per throughput, compared to x86-based server manufacturers.
They competed in the many-core server market against Intel and AMD, other recent ARM-based server vendors such as Marvell Technology Group (the Armada XP product), and the multi-core processor manufacturer Tilera.
In November 2011 Calxeda announced the EnergyCore ECX-1000, featuring four 32-bit ARMv7 Cortex-A9 CPU cores operating at 1.1–1.4 GHz, 32 KB L1 I-cache and 32 KB L1 D-cache per core, 4 MB shared L2 cache, 1.5 W per processor, 5 W per server node including 4 GB of DDR3 DRAM, 0.5 W when idle.
Each chip included five 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Four chips are carried on each EnergyCard.
The UK-headquartered company Boston Limited announced in 2011 appliances based on the Calxeda EnergyCore system on a chip products. Boston's appliances, marketed under the Viridis brand, were demonstrated in November 2012.
Hewlett-Packard used Calxeda products for a server product known as Moonshot in November 2011, named after the Redstone rocket.
On December 19, 2013, Calxeda was reported to be restructuring, widely referred to as shutting down its operation due to running out of the capital venture funding, after failing to secure the deal with Hewlett-Packard.
In December 2014 the intellectual property developed by Calxeda re-emerged with a company called Silver Lining Systems (SLS).
References
External links
Calxeda web site (last copy archived by WayBack Machine)
Silver Lining Systems (SLS), the new company that is leveraging the intellectual property developed by Calxeda
2008 establishments in Texas
2013 disestablishments in Texas
ARM architecture
Computer companies established in 2008
Computer companies established in 2013
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Electronics companies disestablished in 2013
Electronics companies established in 2008
Manufacturing companies based in Austin, Texas
Manycore processors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolivia | Hemolivia (also spelled Haemolivia) is a genus of the phylum Apicomplexia.
History
This genus was described in 1990 by Petit et al.
The type species is Hemolivia stellata. Molecular data on H. stellata were provided in 2015 by Karadjian, Chavatte and Landau, from a 25-year-old archived smear of crushed tick (Amblyomma rotondatum).
Hepatozoon argantis Garnham, 1954 was reassigned to Hemolivia as Hemolivia argantis (Garnham, 1954) Karadjian, Chavatte and Landau, 2015.
Characteristics of the genus
The species in this genus are haemogregarines and infect exothermic vertebrates. They have erythrocytic gamogony, both erythrocytic and extra-erythrocytic merogony and cystogony. The definitive hosts are ixodid ticks.
Sporogony occurs in two phases. In the first phase conjugation and fertilization occur within the tick gut. This is followed by the formation of oocysts and the generation of sporokinetes. In the second phase the sporokinetes invade the body of the tick and give rise to sporocysts containing sporozoites infective to the vertebrate host.
Life cycle
The vertebrate host of this species is the cane toad (Bufo marinus). The invertebrate host is the tick Amblyomma rotondatum.
Toads become infected by ingesting infected ticks. The sporozoites are released from the sporocysts within the tick and penetrate the intestinal wall. Within the toad they replicate within the endothelial cells and erythrocytes. Liver cysts may form.
Circulating gamonts are then ingested by a tick. Within the tick gut the gamonts form pairs and penetrate the epithelial cells. Within these cells they associate in syzygy. Gametes are formed and fuse forming an oocyst. The oocysts are star shaped. The oocyst undergoes meiosis and then mitosis producing numerous sporozoites.
These sporozoites invade the body of the tick, undergo merogony and giving rise to many merozoites which are infective for the toad.
Host records
H. mariae - blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua rugosa)
H. mauritanica - Greek tortoise (Testudo graeca), marginated tortoise (Testudo marginata), Testudo mauritanica
H. stellata - teiid lizard (Ameiva ameiva), cane toad (Bufo marinus)
Vectors
H. mariae - Amblyomma limbatum
H. mauritanica - Hyalomma aegyptium
H. stellata - Amblyomma rotondatum.
References
Apicomplexa genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Andrews%20Patrol%20Cabin | The St. Andrews Patrol Cabin was built by the National Park Service in 1922 as part of a network of stations near the boundaries of Mount Rainier National Park for rangers on patrol. The one-room log structure stands along St. Andrews Creek and St. Andrews Creek Trail near the Westside Road and the western boundary of the national park. The exterior of the cabin features a porch to the front. The interior is finished with varnished logs and tongue and groove flooring. The cabin was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1991. It is part of the Mount Rainier National Historic Landmark District, which encompasses the entire park and which recognizes the park's inventory of Park Service-designed rustic architecture.
References
Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
Residential buildings completed in 1922
Buildings and structures in Pierce County, Washington
Ranger stations in Mount Rainier National Park
Wonderland Trail shelters
Log cabins in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Mount Rainier National Park
Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
1922 establishments in Washington (state)
National Park Service rustic in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20City%20%28TV%20series%29 | Magic City is an American drama television series created by Mitch Glazer for the Starz network. The pilot episode previewed on Starz March 30, 2012, and premiered April 6, 2012. Starz renewed the series for an eight-episode second season on March 20, 2012, and canceled it August 5, 2013, after two seasons.
Set in 1959 Miami, Florida, shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami Jewish Mob boss Ben Diamond (Danny Huston) to ensure the success of his glitzy establishment.
Cast and characters
Main
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Isaac "Ike" Evans, majority owner and boss of the Miramar Playa, Miami Beach's premier resort hotel
Olga Kurylenko as Vera Evans, Ike's second wife, stepmother to Stevie, Danny, and Lauren Evans, convert to the Evans' Judaism, and former Havana nightclub dancer under the name "Vera Cruz"
Steven Strait as Steven "Stevie" Evans, Ike Evans' "bad boy" older son and the manager of the Miramar's Atlantis Lounge
Jessica Marais as Lily Diamond, Ben Diamond's third (trophy) wife and the secret lover of Stevie Evans
Christian Cooke as Daniel "Danny" Evans, Ike's straight-arrow younger son and a law school student
Elena Satine as Judi Silver, a prostitute who works out of the Atlantis Lounge and does occasional jobs for Ike and Stevie
Dominik Garcia-Lorido as Mercedes Lazaro, a Miramar housekeeper in training to be a Pan Am stewardess and Danny's love interest
Taylor Blackwell as Lauren Evans, Ike's teenage daughter (main, season 1; recurring, season 2)
Danny Huston as Benjamin "Ben The Butcher" Diamond, a Jewish-American mobster, a boss in the Miami Jewish Mob, and the silent minority owner of the Miramar
Kelly Lynch as Megan "Meg" Bannock, the older sister of Ike's late first wife Molly (recurring, season 1; main, season 2)
Recurring
Yul Vazquez as Victor Lazaro, the hotel's general manager, Mercedes' father, and a first-generation Cuban immigrant
Alex Rocco as Arthur Evans, Ike's father
Leland Orser as Michael "Mike" Strauss, a labor union official
Michael Rispoli as Belvin "Bel" Jaffe, a gangster and bookie in the Jewish Mob who works for Ben Diamond out of the back room of the Sea Breeze Lingerie shop in the Miramar's shopping arcade
Bradford Tatum as Albert "Dandy Al" Haas
Andrew Bowen as David "Divin' Dave" Donahue
Willa Ford as Janice Michaels
John Cenatiempo as Vincent Lamb
Michael Beasley as Grady James
Karen-Eileen Gordon as Florence
Taylor Anthony Miller as Raymond "Ray-Ray" Mathis, a doorman at the Miramar
Karen Garcia as Inez, Arthur Evans' nurse
Shelby Fenner as Myrnna
Catalina Rodriguez as Theresa
Ricky Waugh as Barry "Cuda" Lansman
Matt Ross as Jack Klein, State Attorney for Dade County
Todd Allen Durkin as Douglas "Doug" Feehan
Chad Gall as Ethan Bell
Garrett Kruithof as Stout
Gregg Weiner as Phillip "Phil" Weiss
Jordan Woo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Effective%20Global%20Action | The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), earlier known as the Center of Evaluation for Global Action, is a research network based at the University of California that advances global health and development through impact evaluation and economic analysis. The Center's researchers use randomized controlled trials and other rigorous forms of evaluation to promote sustainable social and economic development around the world.
History and Mission
CEGA was established in 2008 by Economics Professor Edward Miguel, Temina Madon, and colleagues at UC Berkeley. The Center's founders, including Haas School of Business Professor Paul Gertler, are considered pioneers in the field of impact evaluation. They have led some of the most influential field experiments in recent years, including evaluations of school-based deworming in Kenya and of the Oportunidades program in Mexico.
The Center is guided by the principle that economic policy and social programs should be based on scientific evidence. In support of this vision, CEGA researchers rigorously test anti-poverty strategies and disseminate their findings to governments and other decision-makers. The Center also invests in developing junior researchers in the U.S. and in low- and middle-income countries.
CEGA is currently led by Faculty Director Edward Miguel and Executive Director Carson Christiano.
Activities
CEGA focuses its resources in three core areas: research, training and policy impact.
The Center's research program draws on the empirical work of more than 100 faculty members at the University of California, Stanford University, and other West Coast academic institutions. These researchers are united in their use of rigorous statistical tools to measure the impacts of social programs in low and middle income countries. The CEGA toolbox includes randomized evaluation (long-trusted in the medical field) as well as regression discontinuity, panel analysis, instrumental variables, and other rigorous quasi-experimental methods. When used appropriately, each of these methods can create equivalent treatment and comparison groups for use in estimating an intervention's impact.
CEGA is unique among development research centers, in that it integrates business and economic approaches with expertise from various sectors—including agriculture, engineering and computer science, public health, education, political science, research transparency, and environment. It also maintains deep investments in cultivating research collaborators in developing countries, through programs like the East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) Collaborative.
Policy Impact
To transform research into better policies and programs, CEGA encourages the scale-up of proven interventions. For example, CEGA researcher Edward Miguel, in collaboration with Michael Kremer, demonstrated in 2004 that school-based mass deworming in rural Kenya is a cost-effective way to improve school attendance. Subsequent advocacy by Kremer and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20Rubber | The Get Rubber campaign is an STI awareness campaign spearheaded by the Brazzers network that focuses on the global HIV/AIDS crisis. The campaign is centered on the bringing awareness to adult industry consumers using a series of public service announcements featuring adult video stars such as Bree Olson, Rachel_Roxxx and Nikki Benz. The aims is to remind consumers of pornographic material that adult content is created in a controlled setting and is not to be imitated irresponsibly.
Related groups
Stop AIDS Campaign
Brazzers
References
HIV/AIDS activism
HIV/AIDS prevention organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latele%20Novela%20Network | Latele Novela Network () is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It is the first premier national Hispanic television network dedicated entirely to telenovelas in Spanish for the US Hispanic market. The network was launched on November 1, 2005.
See also
List of United States television networks
External links and sources
Official site (in Spanish)
Official corporate site
Spanish International Network historical site
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282010%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared during 2010, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by series producer Cameron Welsh. The 23rd season of Home and Away began airing from 25 January 2010. Two days later Mitzi Ruhlman made her debut as Rabbit. Mink Carpenter and Elijah Johnson arrived in February, while Justin Jefferies began appearing from March. Mink's mother, Jill, arrived in May. Christian Clark and Rhiannon Fish began portraying Penn Graham and April Scott from June. April's older sister, Bianca, made her debut in July, while Paolo Rosetta was introduced to the show in August. The following month Mitzy Fraser, Vittorio Seca, Daria Hennessy were introduced to the show.
Rabbit
Amber "Rabbit" Copeland, played Mitzi Ruhlman, made her first screen appearance on 27 January 2010. Rabbit was Ruhlman's first television role. The character was introduced to help bring "a little fun" back into Miles Copeland's (Josh Quong Tart) life. When asked how the idea for Rabbit came about, Tart revealed "I was very keen to get a bit more magic into the character of Miles. He came in with a great sense of magic and I think we wanted to capture that again." The actor explained that the concept of Miles having Rabbit in his life brings all sorts of questions about psychology and mental illness in the equation. He added that the storyline was something young children could enjoy because Rabbit is "feisty and mischievous" and there is an innocence to it all.
Rabbit appears to a hungover Miles Copeland, after he spends the night on the beach. She later appears at Summer Bay House and tells him she is staying for a while. During a game of cards, Rabbit tells Miles of her visions of fire and people hiding under tables. Miles does not take her seriously, but when he arrives at the Pier Diner, he finds the place under siege from drunks who have set it alight. Rabbit is visibly shaken, but Miles convinces her the visions are a good thing. She later tells Miles he will die if he falls asleep. After falling asleep at school, Miles is nearly killed by a ceiling fan. A spate of graffiti attacks occur in the Bay, including at the Caravan Park and Surf Club. Miles notices the writing is done in Amber and spots Rabbit. When he catches up with her, she denies doing anything. Marilyn Chambers (Emily Symons) begins having strange dreams involving Rabbit dressed as a rabbit eating a carrot. Rabbit tells her that Miles is unwell and then presents her a vision of her late son, Byron Fisher (Nathianiel Davey) at the age of eleven. Rabbit also tells Marilyn that she will die too.
Marilyn has another dream involving Rabbit being drenched in water. She awakes and finds Miles adding graffiti onto a van in the park and realises Rabbit's real name is Amber. Miles confesses that Rabbit is actually his daughter, who died in the Boxing D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Clean%20Fun%20%28production%20company%29 | Good Clean Fun was an American television production company based in Los Angeles. The company was founded by Jason Carbone and produces primarily reality docusoap content. Programming focuses on celebrity figures in music, television, and sports. In 2015, Good Clean Fun premiered two new series, Barely Famous on VH1 and Meet the Smiths on TBS, as well as a second season of Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers.
Barely Famous, a ground-breaking reality TV parody about sisters Erin and Sara Foster, premiered on March 18, 2015 on VH1. A second season is slated to air in 2016. Good Clean Fun also produced Meet the Smiths, a docuseries about retired NBA star and current TV basketball analyst for TNT Sports, Kenny "the Jet" Smith and his family. Meet the Smiths premiered on TBS on April 1, 2015. Rev Run's Sunday Suppers, which originally premiered on Cooking Channel on June 8, 2014 aired its second season in early 2015. A third season is currently in development.
Former productions for Good Clean Fun include Tia & Tamera and the NAACP Image Award winning Run's House. Tia & Tamera is a reality series starring former teen stars Tia and Tamera Mowry. The series premiered on August 8, 2011 to record-breaking numbers on Style Network, as the most-watched series premiere in Style history and has since aired three seasons. Run's House follows the family of Rev Run aka Joseph Simmons for 6 seasons on MTV.
Additionally, the company produced Life of Ryan on MTV, a look into the life of teen skateboarding pro Ryan Sheckler, and TLC's Livin' for the Apocalypse, which profiled preppers preparing for a coming apocalypse. Others include The Cassadee Pope Project on CMT, Sanya’s Glam and Gold on WE tv, Mountain Movers on National Geographic Channel, Beverly's Full House on OWN, Candy Girls on E!, and the special Dev for MTV.
Filmography
Barely Famous on VH1
Meet the Smiths on TBS
Rev Run's Sunday Suppers on Cooking Channel
The Cassadee Pope Project on CMT
Sanya's Glam & Gold on We TV
Mountain Movers on National Geographic Channel
Dev on MTV
Beverly's Full House on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
Tia & Tamera on Style Network
Livin' for the Apocalypse on TLC
Harry Loves Lisa on TV Land
Life of Ryan on MTV
Run's House on MTV
Daddy's Girls on MTV
Candy Girls on E!
References
External links
Television production companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGZ | TGZ may mean:
.tgz file extension, which is equivalent to .tar.gz extension
tgz, a tar file compressed with the gzip algorithm
Ángel Albino Corzo International Airport, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico (IATA airport code) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelernter | Gelernter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Gelernter (born 1955), American artist, writer and academic
Herbert Gelernter (1929–2015), American computer scientist
Joel Gelernter, American psychiatrist
Mark Gelernter, American academic, historian, and writer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ethos generally refers to a culture's guiding ideals.
Ethos may also refer to:
E-Theses Online Service (EThOS), a service of the British Library
Environmental and Thermal operating systems (ETHOS) Flight Controller, for the International Space Station
Ethos, a mode of persuasion which appeals to the authority or honesty of a speaker
Ethos (film), 2011 documentary film hosted by Woody Harrelson
Ethos (journal) official journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (1973–present)
Ethos (magazine), a biannual UK magazine (2007–14)
Ethos (TV series), 2020 Turkish thriller drama web television series
Ethos Books, an independent Singapore-based publisher
Ethos Water, a brand of bottled water owned by Starbucks
EthosCE, a learning system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DishHD | DishHD is a direct-to-home satellite television service that offers high-definition programming across Asia. The corporate headquarters of DishHD is situated in Taipei, Taiwan.[1]
The service was initially introduced by EchoStar International in 2010, with its availability starting in Taiwan and later expanding to other regions.
DishHD boasts a network of over 400 authorized dealers who offer the DishHD service throughout Asia. Additionally, DishHD is also available in mainland China through selected private sellers.
References
External links
Official site
Direct broadcast satellite services
Television in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa%20Omega%20TV | Alfa Omega TV is a Romanian Christian media organization, operating a TV channel with a similar name. It was launched on 11 June 2006 and the network broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days/week. The audiovisual license was given in December 2005.
Since 2010, the Alfa Omega TV channel was on the Romanian Audiovisual Authority's (CNA) list of must-carry programs for cable operators, being among the first 25 most-watched TV channels in Romania.
Alfa Omega TV rebranded for the first time on 8 July 2016. Plus, the format became a full 16:9 image format.
Alfa Omega TV channel is broadcast free-to-air via satellite over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The reception parameters (as of July 2018) are below:
Satellite: Eutelsat 16A, 16 degrees east
Frequency: 12717 MHz
Polarization: Horizontal
Symbol rate: 7500 Ks/s
FEC: 3/4
References
Television stations in Romania
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Christian media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten%20de%20Rijke | Maarten de Rijke (born 1 August 1961) is a Dutch computer scientist. His work initially focused on modal logic and knowledge representation, but since the early years of the 21st century he has worked mainly in information retrieval. His work is supported by grants from the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), public-private partnerships, and the European Commission (under the Sixth and Seventh Framework programmes).
Biography
Maarten de Rijke was born in Vlissingen. He studied philosophy (MSc 1989) and mathematics (MSc 1990) and wrote a PhD thesis, defended in 1993, on extended modal logics, under the supervision of Johan van Benthem.
De Rijke worked as a postdoc at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, before becoming a Warwick Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. He joined the University of Amsterdam in 1998, and was appointed professor of Information Processing and Internet at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam in 2004 and is currently University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval at the University of Amsterdam.
He leads the Information and Language Processing group at the University of Amsterdam, the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam and the Center for Creation, Content and Technology.
He is the director of the newly established Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence and a former director of Amsterdam Data Science.
De Rijke was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
He was awarded the Tony Kent Strix award in 2017.
Work
During the first ten years of his scientific career Maarten de Rijke worked on formal and applied aspects of modal logic. At the start of the 21st century, De Rijke switched to information retrieval. He has since worked on XML retrieval, question answering, expert finding and social media analysis.
Publications
Maarten de Rijke has published more than 700 papers and books.
References
Prof. dr. M. de Rijke, 1961 - at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum website
External links
Home page
1961 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Information retrieval researchers
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
People from Vlissingen
University of Amsterdam alumni
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic%20%28software%29 | Bionic is an implementation of the standard C library, developed by Google for its Android operating system. It differs from the GNU C Library (glibc) in being designed for devices with less memory and processor power than a typical Linux system. It is a combination of new code and code from FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD released under a BSD license, rather than glibc, which uses the GNU Lesser General Public License. This difference was important in the early days of Android, when static linking was common, and is still helpful in introducing Android to software companies used to proprietary operating systems, who can be wary of the LGPL, and unclear about the differences between it and the full GNU General Public License (GPL).
Bionic is a C library for use with the Linux kernel, and provides libc, libdl, and libm (libpthread functionality is part of libc, not a separate library as on some other systems). This differs from the BSD C libraries that bionic shares code with, because they require a BSD kernel.
Original goals
The original publicly stated goals for Bionic were the following:
BSD-licensed: Google wanted to isolate Android applications from the effect of copyleft licenses to create a proprietary user-space and application ecosystem, but:
Android is based on the Linux kernel, which is subject to the copyleft GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
The most widespread standard C library for the Linux kernel is the GNU C Library (glibc), which is subject to the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), also a copyleft license. In contrast to the GPL, the LGPL explicitly allows for dynamic linking but it does not allow static linking of proprietary software without providing source code or linkable object files.
The permissive BSD license is a non-copyleft license that is compatible in both directions. A BSD-licensed glibc substitute could act as an isolation layer between the copyleft core (kernel) and the non-copyleft applications, and was therefore chosen by Google for its Bionic as a glibc substitute.
Small size: Bionic was much smaller than the GNU C Library; more importantly its memory requirements were (and remain) much lower.
Speed: Bionic was designed for CPUs at relatively low clock frequencies.
Supported architectures
Bionic only supports Linux kernels, but currently supports the arm, arm64, riscv64, x86, and x86-64 architectures. The platform itself required armv7 with Neon since Marshmallow, though the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) continued to support armv5 (which it called armeabi) up until NDK r16. The NDK still supports armv7 both with and without Neon. Historically there was partial SH-4 support in the platform, but no devices ever shipped and support has since been removed. The NDK never supported SH-4, and MIPS and MIPS64 support were removed from the NDK in r17.
Components
Some parts of the libc source, such as stdio, are from the BSDs (mainly OpenBSD), whereas others, such as the pthread imple |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent%20poisoning | Torrent poisoning is intentionally sharing corrupt data or data with misleading file names using the BitTorrent protocol. This practice of uploading fake torrents is sometimes carried out by anti-infringement organisations as an attempt to prevent the peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing of copyrighted content, and to gather the IP addresses of downloaders.
Methods of attack
Decoy insertion
Decoy insertion (or content pollution) is a method by which corrupted versions of a particular file are inserted into the network. This deters users from finding an uncorrupted version and also increases distribution of the corrupted file. A malicious user pollutes the file by converting it into another format that is indistinguishable from uncorrupted files (e.g. it may have similar or same metadata). In order to entice users to download the decoys, malicious users may make the corrupted file available via high bandwidth connections. This method consumes a large amount of computing resources since the malicious server must respond to a large quantity of requests. As a result, queries return principally corrupted copies such as a blank file or executable files infected with a virus. There were known cases when a company had created a special version of a game and published it on file sharing services advertising it as cracked, having undocumented hidden functionality, making it impossible to win this variant of the game.
Index poisoning
This method targets the index found in P2P file sharing systems. The index allows users to locate the IP addresses of desired content. Thus, this method of attack makes searching difficult for network users. The attacker inserts a large amount of invalid information into the index to prevent users from finding the correct resource. Invalid information could include random content identifiers or fake IP addresses and port numbers. When a user attempts to download the corrupted content, the server will fail to establish a connection due to the large volume of invalid information. Users will then waste time trying to establish a connection with bogus users thus increasing the average time it takes to download the file. The index poisoning attack requires less bandwidth and server resources than decoy insertion. Furthermore, the attacker does not have to transfer files nor respond to requests. For this reason, index poisoning requires less effort than other methods of attack.
Spoofing
Some companies that disrupt P2P file sharing on behalf of content providers create their own software in order to launch attacks. MediaDefender has written their own program which directs users to non-existent locations via bogus search results. As users typically select one of the top five search results only, this method requires users to persevere beyond their initial failed attempts to locate the desired file. The idea is that many users will simply give up their search through frustration.
Interdiction
This method of attack prevents distribut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listaller | Listaller is a free computer software installation system (similar to a package management system) aimed at making it simple to create a package that can be installed on all Linux distributions as well as providing tools and API to make software management on Linux more user-friendly.
History
Listaller was started in December 2007 by freedesktop.org developer Matthias Klumpp as an experimental project to explore the possibility of writing a universal user interface to manage all kinds of Linux software, no matter how it was installed.
Therefore, Listaller had backends to manage Autopackage, LOKI, Mojo and native distribution packages. The original project provided one user interface to manage all kinds of installed software. Interaction with the native distribution package management was done via an own abstraction layer, which was later replaced by PackageKit.
Listaller also provided a cross-distribution software installation format which should have made it easier to create packages which run on multiple distributions. The installer part of Listaller was also able to assist in installing Autopackage packages.
The very first versions were written in Object Pascal.
Although the project started as an experiment, it soon evolved to a competitor for Autopackage and Mojo.
Until 2011, Listaller never made any stable release. With the announcement of AppStream a lot of the original Listaller goals would be achieved, so the author decided to change Listaller away from a full software manager to a software installer only and joined forces with the AppStream project.
Because Pascal was not considered as ideal language to collaborate with other projects and the project already had spent much time in developing Pascal bindings to third-party libraries, Listaller was rewritten in Vala with a subset of the original features and the main goal to provide seamless integration with AppStream and PackageKit. Therefore the universal software manager part was removed and the project now focuses on creating a cross-distro format for distribution of binary Linux software.
As of Nov 10, 2014 Matthias announced the Limba project. Limba is supposed to be Listaller's next version.
Methodology
Listaller is intended to be used for installing binary, or pre-compiled, versions of non-core applications such as word processors, web browsers, and personal computer games, rather than core libraries and applications such as operating system shells. Listaller is not intended to provide support for installing system libraries for security reasons.
Listaller is using an own package format, so-called IPK packages (short for Installation package), which are LZMA-compressed signed tarballs.
IPK packages contain only small configuration files to modify the setup process. They do not provide their own logic or scripts which are run during install time. All parts of a setup process are handled by Listaller's built-in routines, which make it possible for distributors to modify the se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot%20Many%20Robots | Shoot Many Robots is a video game developed by Demiurge Studios and published by Ubisoft for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and Microsoft Windows via Steam. It is the first original release from the developer which previously did support work on games such as Rock Band, BioShock, and Mass Effect. Shoot Many Robots was released in March 2012 for XBLA and PSN, and a month later for Steam. The Xbox 360 version received mixed reviews–a Metacritic score of 67–while other versions received too little attention to result in a meaningful rating.
An Android port was released in 2013 on the Play Store. An iOS version was announced in 2013, but as of 2021 has not shipped.
Gameplay
Shoot Many Robots is a shoot 'em up. Players start in the character's RV, where they may equip their character with five items: one weapon that has unlimited ammunition in the game, a special weapon with limited ammo, and hats, pants, and backpacks that can boost performance statistics such as damage given/health or impart special abilities such as slide attacks or a jetpack. They then select a stage to complete, generally following stages in a linear order, but players can return to a previously completed stage.
There are two types of stages. The most common requires the players to make their way through a level from start to finish, often ending on a final boss or a large rush of robots. Checkpoints are laid out through the course, so that if all players die, they will respawn at the last checkpoint passed. The other type of stage is a survival one, where players attempt to withstand several rounds of increasingly difficult enemies; as long as the player makes it through the first wave, they will have succeeded, but gain better rewards for lasting through bonus stages.
Players fight off robots by using their weapons, a melee attack, or any special attacks granted by their load-out. The robots have various offensive and defensive mechanisms that the players must work around. Some will fire special slow-moving but powerful bullets that can only be stopped by melee attacking them back to the robot that fired them. Other robots are nearly impervious to attacks from one side, but are vulnerable to attacks from the opposite side. The player has a health meter that will drain when they are hit. If they take too much damage they will collapse; in multiplayer games, another player can revive them, otherwise they will start back at the last checkpoint. The player begins a level with a number of bottles of beer that can be taken to restore health.
Robots will drop nuts after dying; this is the game's currency which can be used to buy new equipment. Sometimes robots or special boxes will drop crates that contain tickets with which to purchase new equipment, or a large quantity of nuts. These rewards are tied to a player and can only be picked up by that player. Additionally, power-ups may be dropped by the robots, some giving temporary boosts like extra speed or attack damage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Web%20archiving%20initiatives | This article contains a list of Web archiving initiatives worldwide. For easier reading, the information is divided in three tables: web archiving initiatives, archived data, and access methods.
This Wikipedia page was originally generated from the results obtained for the research paper A survey on web archiving initiatives published by the Arquivo.pt (the Portuguese web-archive) team.
Web archiving initiatives
Archived data
Access methods
See also
Wikipedia:List of web archives on Wikipedia
References
External links
List of member archives - International Internet Preservation Consortium
Repository created by the Webrecorder project that contains a socially constructed experimental list of publicly available archives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LncRNAdb | In bioinformatics, lncRNAdb is a biological database of Long non-coding RNAs The database focuses on those RNAs which have been experimentally characterised with a biological function. The database currently holds over 290 lncRNAs from around 60 species. Example lncRNAs in the database are HOTAIR and Xist.
See also
Long non-coding RNA
References
External links
RNA
Non-coding RNA
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartDisk | SmartDisk may refer to:
SmartDisk (company), computer storage manufacturer
NetVault: SmartDisk, a backup software product
Verbatim SmartDisk, a computer data storage product |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package%20%28macOS%29 | In the Apple macOS operating system, a package is a file system directory that is normally displayed to the user by the Finder as if it were a single file. Such a directory may be the top-level of a directory tree of objects stored as files, or it may be other archives of files or objects for various purposes, such as installer packages, or backup archives.
Definition
The package is a common file system abstraction used by Apple operating systems, such as macOS and iOS. It is a directory that may contain a hierarchy of files or objects that represent a preserved, organized state. A package is displayed to users like a single file in the Finder application to avoid being changed by the user. However, the content of packages may be accessed through special keyboard and mouse combination events. For this purpose, the control-click, or right-click, menu displays a directive Show Package Contents.
Some documents may be represented as packages:
Rich Text Format documents with images, which carry the extension;
Dashboard widgets;
Partially downloaded files in Safari, which carry the extension;
Final Cut Pro X Camera Archives, which contain multiple QuickTime videos and carry the .fcarch extension;
project files in GarageBand, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, iMovie and Xcode;
Installer packages.
The Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) for a package is .
Bundles
A package that has a standardized structure for storing executable code and its associated resources, is called a bundle.
See also
Installer (macOS)
References
MacOS
MacOS development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPCS-steganography | BPCS-steganography (Bit-Plane Complexity Segmentation steganography) is a type of digital steganography.
Digital steganography can hide confidential data (i.e. secret files) very securely by embedding them into some media data called "vessel data." The vessel data is also referred to as "carrier, cover, or dummy data". In BPCS-steganography true color images (i.e., 24-bit color images) are mostly used for vessel data. The embedding operation in practice is to replace the "complex areas" on the bit planes of the vessel image with the confidential data. The most important aspect of BPCS-steganography is that the embedding capacity is very large. In comparison to simple image based steganography which uses solely the least important bit of data, and thus (for a 24-bit color image) can only embed data equivalent to 1/8 of the total size, BPCS-steganography uses multiple bit-planes, and so can embed a much higher amount of data, though this is dependent on the individual image. For a 'normal' image, roughly 50% of the data might be replaceable with secret data before image degradation becomes apparent.
Principle of embedding
The Human visual system has such a special property that a too-complicated visual pattern can not be perceived as "shape-informative." For example, on a very flat beach shore every single square-foot area looks the same - it is just a sandy area, no shape is observed. However, if you look carefully, two same-looking areas are entirely different in their sand particle shapes. BPCS-steganography makes use of this property. It replaces complex areas on the bit-planes of the vessel image with other complex data patterns (i.e., pieces of secret files). This replacing operation is called "embedding." No one can see any difference between the two vessel images of before and after the embedding operation.
An issue arises where the data to be embedded appears visually as simple information, if this simple information replaces the complex information in the original image it may create spurious 'real image information'. In this case the data is passed through a [binary image conjugation transformation], in order to create a reciprocal complex representation.
Present status of research and development
This form of steganography was proposed jointly by Eiji Kawaguchi and Richard O. Eason in 1998. Their experimental program (titled Qtech Hide & View) is freely available for educational purposes. Recently, many researchers are tackling its algorithm improvement and applications as well as resistibility studies against steganalysis.
See also
Steganography
Steganography tools
Steganographic file system
Steganography detection
References
A Concept of Digital Picture Envelope for Internet Communication
A Model of Anonymous Covert Mailing System Using Steganographic Scheme
A Model of Unforgeable Digital Certificate Document System
BPCS Steganography Using EZW Encoded Images
HIGH CAPACITY DATA HIDING SYSTEM USING BPCS STEGANOGRA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNBAP | HNBAP is a control protocol found in Home Node B networks on the Iu-h interface.
The Home Node B Application Part (HNBAP) protocol provides the following functions:
Registration of HNB with the HNB-GW
Identification of the HNB
Registration of UE with the HNB-GW (through HNB)
Standard
The following 3GPP documents are available:
3GPP TR 25.469: HNBAP Technical Report - A technical report that looks at the UTRAN Iuh interface Home Node B (HNB) Application Part (HNBAP) signalling
3GPP TR 25.820: 3G Home NodeB Study Item Technical Report - A technical report that looks at the air interface and requirements for the protocols to link the Home NodeB to the core network
3GPP TS 22.220: Service requirements for Home NodeBs (UMTS) and eNodeBs (LTE) - End to end architecture
3GPP TS 25.467: UTRAN architecture for 3G Home Node B (HNB); Stage 2 UTRAN architecture for 3G Home NodeB (HNB)
Architecture
Between the HNB and the HNB-GW is a new interface known as Iu-h.
Iu-h Interface - Residing between an HNB and HNB-GW, the Iu-h interface defines the security architecture used to provide a secure, scalable communications over the Internet. The Iu-h interface also defines an efficient, reliable method for transporting Iu-based traffic as well as a new protocol HNBAP for enabling highly scalable ad hoc HNB deployment.
Within an HNB Access Network there are three new network elements: the Home Node B (or femtocell), the Security Gateway (SeGW) and the Home Node B Gateway, or HNB-GW.
Home Node B (HNB) – Connected to an existing residential broadband service, an HNB provides 3G radio coverage for 3G handsets within a home. HNBs incorporate the capabilities of a standard Node B as well as the radio resource management functions of a standard Radio Network Controller RNC.
Security Gateway (SeGW) - Installed in an operator's network, the Security Gateway establishes IPsec tunnels with HNBs using IKEv2 signaling for IPsec tunnel management. IPsec tunnels are responsible for delivering all voice, messaging and packet data services between HNB and the core network. The SeGW forwards traffic to HNB-GW.
HNB Gateway (HNB-GW) - Installed within an operator's network, the HNB Gateway aggregates traffic from a large number of HNBs back into an existing core service network through the standard Iu-cs and Iu-ps interfaces.
References
Mobile telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Huddersfield | The Huddersfield trolleybus system once served the market town of Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, England. Opened on , it gradually replaced the Huddersfield tramway network, which closed on Saturday, 29 June 1940.
By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Huddersfield system was a medium-sized one, with a total of 15 routes and a maximum fleet of 140 trolleybuses. It was closed on .
A notable feature of the system was the Longwood trolleybus turntable, which was one of only four such turntables ever to have been constructed worldwide (one of two in the United Kingdom). The turntable was manually operated, and was in use only in 1939–1940 until wartime conditions forced the introduction of other arrangements. However, it remained in situ until demolished in the 1980s.
Three of the former Huddersfield trolleybuses are now preserved, at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire.
History
The first conversion was the Almondbury tramway. It was converted in sections with a temporary motor bus link as the road was resealed and electrified.
Six different 6-wheel buses were bought to trial on the route with Karrier, Ransomes and Sunbeam chassis and bodies by several builders. Most later buses were Karrier, though the local factory had closed.
The Almondbury route closed on 14 July 1965. The dates of the rest were:
In 1958 Edgar Dyson became general manager. The council then agreed to a closure programme, ending with 5 crowded Outlane buses on 13 July 1968. Rates paid to the county council were among reasons for early closure of the West Vale and Marsden routes.
See also
Transport in Huddersfield
List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Trolleybuses Galore! - Huddersfield trolleybuses fan site
National Trolleybus Archive
British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
National Trolleybus Association, based in London
Huddersfield Examiner Trolleybus gallery
Transport in Huddersfield
Huddersfield
Huddersfield
1933 establishments in England
1968 disestablishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhenomicDB | PhenomicDB is a free phenotype oriented database. It contains data for some of the main model organisms such as Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Drosophila melanogaster, and others. PhenomicDB merges and structures phenotypic data from various public sources: WormBase, FlyBase, NCBI Gene, MGI, and ZFIN using clustering algorithms.
The website is currently offline.
References
Further reading
External links
Phenomics
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterocrossa%20maculosa | Heterocrossa maculosa is a species of moth in the family Carposinidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
This species was originally described by Alfred Philpott in 1927 using a specimen collected from Cooper's Knob, Banks Peninsula by Stewart Lindsay and named Carposina maculosa. George Hudson discussed this species under this name in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. In 1978 Elwood Zimmerman argued that the genus Heterocrassa should not be a synonym of Carposina as the genitalia in this genus are distinctive. Subsequently John S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Heterocrossa. The holotype specimen is held at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.
Description
Philpott originally described the species as follows:
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is known from the Lyttelton Hills and Otago. Other than the type locality, this species has also been collected from Hoon Hay Bush.
Biology and behaviour
The adult moths are on the wing in November.
Host species and habitat
The larvae feed on Hoheria angustifolia and Plagianthus regius.
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. The main risks to this species are likely habitat fragmentation and loss.
References
Carposinidae
Moths of New Zealand
Moths described in 1927
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Newcastle%20upon%20Tyne | The Newcastle upon Tyne trolleybus system once served the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. Opened in 1935, it gradually replaced the Newcastle tram network.
By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Newcastle system was a large one, with a total of 28 routes, and a maximum fleet of 204 trolleybuses. It finished on .
Two of the distinctive yellow-liveried former Newcastle trolleybuses are now preserved, one at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, Suffolk, and the other LTN 501 at Beamish Open Air Museum sometimes on loan to The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire.
See also
Transport in Tyne and Wear
List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
National Trolleybus Archive
British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
National Trolleybus Association, based in London
History of Newcastle upon Tyne
Transport in Newcastle upon Tyne
Transport in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satguru%20Ram%20Singh%20Marg%20metro%20station | The Satguru Ram Singh Marg metro station is located on the Green Line of the Delhi Metro.
This section was opened on 27 August 2011 along with Kirti Nagar. Nearest Indian Railway Network Station is Patel Nagar Railway Station located adjacent to the metro station.
Station layout
References
Railway stations in India opened in 2011
Delhi Metro stations
Railway stations in West Delhi district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BindingDB | BindingDB
is a public, web-accessible database of measured binding affinities, focusing chiefly on the interactions of proteins considered to be candidate drug-targets with ligands that are small, drug-like molecules. As of March, 2011, BindingDB contains about 650,000 binding data, for 5,700 protein targets and 280,000 small molecules. BindingDB also includes a small collection of host–guest binding data of interest to chemists studying supramolecular systems.
The purpose of BindingDB is to support medicinal chemistry and drug discovery via literature awareness and development of structure-activity relations (SAR and QSAR); validation of computational chemistry and molecular modelling approaches such as docking, scoring and free energy methods; chemical biology and chemical genomics; and basic studies of the physical chemistry of molecular recognition.
The data collection derives from a variety of measurement techniques, including enzyme inhibition and kinetics, isothermal titration calorimetry, NMR, and radioligand and competition assays. BindingDB includes data extracted from the scientific literature by the BindingDB project, selected PubChem confirmatory BioAssays, and ChEMBL entries for which a well-defined protein target ("TARGET_TYPE='PROTEIN'") is provided.
History and Funding
The BindingDB project was conceived in the mid-1990s, based upon recognition of the broad value of quantitative affinity data and the inadequacy of journal articles as a means of making these data accessible. A NIST-sponsored workshop in September 1997 validated the concept, and funding from the NSF and NIST enabled initial development of the database with a collection of data for systems of many types, including protein-ligand, protein-protein, and host–guest binding. However, hopes that the database would be populated primarily through depositions by experimentalists were not borne out, and it became clear that the project would have to take responsibility for extracting data from the literature. Given the vastness of the molecular recognition literature and limitations in available resources, this meant that creating a useful database would require limiting attention to a well-defined set of high-value binding data.
The decision was taken to focus on binding data for small molecules with proteins that are drug-targets, or potential drug-targets, and for which the three-dimensional structure is available in the PDB or can potentially be modeled to high accuracy based upon the structure of a similar protein. This choice would aid drug-discovery for the selected targets, as well as the development of both ligand-based and structure-based methods of computational ligand-design. This is the current focus of BindingDB, which is led by Michael Gilson, based at UC San Diego's Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and supported by a grant from the NIH.
Capabilities
BindingDB's web-interface provides a range of browsing, query and data do |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasta%20Beograd | Lasta (, full legal name: Saobraćajno preduzeće Lasta a.d. Beograd) is a Serbian bus company headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. It is part of the pan-European Eurolines network and operates bus coaches on a comprehensive network of routes throughout Serbia and Europe.
History
Lasta was established on 18 February 1947. In the first two decades of existence, it operated mainly as cargo transporter and partially as passenger carrier. Since the late 1960s, it operated only as passenger transporter.
Today, Lasta provides public transport within the city of Belgrade, intercity routes to all parts of Serbia, as well as international routes to destinations in Europe. Its bus line from Belgrade (Serbia) to Paris (France) is in function over 40 years. With about 1,000 buses and coaches, "Lasta" is the carrier of the suburban transport in Belgrade, Kragujevac, Aranđelovac and other municipalities in Central Serbia. In suburban transport of Belgrade, Lasta takes a part with about 300 buses. Domestically, Lasta owns Lastra Lazarevac, another bus transport company which has around 100 buses. In its ownership, Lasta has 35% of shares of Panonijabus.
In August 2019, Lasta introduced 30 new buses in its fleet, manufactured by Turkish TEMSA. In November 2020, the Government of Serbia announced that it will be seeking new owners of several large companies owned by the Government through the privatization process, among them being Lasta Beograd as well.
Market and financial data
As of 22 March 2019, Lasta Beograd has a market capitalization of 11.50 million euros.
Vehicle fleet
Tourist buses
Otokar Navigo F 185S
SOR LH 12
TEMSA Opalin
TEMSA Tourmalin
VDL Berkhof Axial 50
VDL Berkhof Excellence 3000 HD
Mercedes-Benz O560 Intouro RH
Intercity buses
VDL Berkhof Bova Lexio 130-310
Ikarbus IK-312
Suburban buses
SOR C-12
FAP A-537
Karsan J10
Mercedes-Benz UO345 Conecto
City buses
Ikarbus IK-103
Ikarbus IK-206
Ikarbus IK-218N
Ikarbus IK-112LE
Neobus Citta SLF
Neobus Citta LEA
References
External links
1947 establishments in Serbia
Bus companies of Serbia
Companies based in Belgrade
Coach transport in Serbia
Serbian brands
Transport companies established in 1947 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%202%20format | Metro 2 is a data specification created by the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA) for credit reporting data furnishers (who are members of the credit bureau with a data furnishing service agreement) to report consumers' credit history information to major credit bureaus electronically and in a standardized format. It is implemented in credit reporting software packages. The specification is extensive and is designed to standardize a wide range of credit history information while complying with federal laws and regulations in credit reporting (such as accommodating consumer disputes and disputed status of information).
Discussions on the layout can be found at the CDIA Report Specification
Computer file formats
Credit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDIA | CDIA may refer to:
Cities Development Initiative for Asia
Consumer Data Industry Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Portsmouth | The Portsmouth trolleybus system once served the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Opened on , it gradually replaced the Portsmouth tramway network; the last trams ran on 10 November 1936.
By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Portsmouth system was a medium-sized one, with a total of nine routes, and a maximum fleet of 139 trolleybuses. It was closed on . The former trolleybus routes were replaced by diesel bus services.
Two of the former Portsmouth trolleybuses are now preserved, one (No. 313) at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, Suffolk, and the other one (No. 1) at the CPPTD Museum, Wicor Farm, and Portchester as of 2014.
See also
History of Portsmouth
List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
National Trolleybus Archive
British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
National Trolleybus Association, based in London
Transport in Portsmouth
Portsmouth
Portsmouth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20computers | Lists of computers cover computers, or programmable machines, by period, type, vendor and region.
Early computers
List of vacuum tube computers
List of transistorized computers
List of early microcomputers
List of computers with on-board BASIC
List of computers running CP/M
More recent computers
List of home computers
List of home computers by video hardware
List of fastest computers
Lists of microcomputers
Lists of mobile computers
List of fictional computers
Vendor-specific
HP business desktops
List of IBM Personal Computer models
List of IBM PS/2 models
List of Mac models grouped by CPU type
List of TRS-80 and Tandy-branded computers
List of VAX computers
Regional
List of British computers
List of computer systems from Croatia
List of computer systems from Serbia
List of computer systems from Slovenia
List of computer systems from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
List of Soviet computer systems
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory | Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, it would be impossible for language, relationships, or personal identity to develop. Memory loss is usually described as forgetfulness or amnesia.
Memory is often understood as an informational processing system with explicit and implicit functioning that is made up of a sensory processor, short-term (or working) memory, and long-term memory. This can be related to the neuron.
The sensory processor allows information from the outside world to be sensed in the form of chemical and physical stimuli and attended to various levels of focus and intent. Working memory serves as an encoding and retrieval processor. Information in the form of stimuli is encoded in accordance with explicit or implicit functions by the working memory processor. The working memory also retrieves information from previously stored material. Finally, the function of long-term memory is to store through various categorical models or systems.
Declarative, or explicit, memory is the conscious storage and recollection of data. Under declarative memory resides semantic and episodic memory. Semantic memory refers to memory that is encoded with specific meaning. Meanwhile, episodic memory refers to information that is encoded along a spatial and temporal plane. Declarative memory is usually the primary process thought of when referencing memory. Non-declarative, or implicit, memory is the unconscious storage and recollection of information. An example of a non-declarative process would be the unconscious learning or retrieval of information by way of procedural memory, or a priming phenomenon. Priming is the process of subliminally arousing specific responses from memory and shows that not all memory is consciously activated, whereas procedural memory is the slow and gradual learning of skills that often occurs without conscious attention to learning.
Memory is not a perfect processor, and is affected by many factors. The ways by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved can all be corrupted. Pain, for example, has been identified as a physical condition that impairs memory, and has been noted in animal models as well as chronic pain patients. The amount of attention given new stimuli can diminish the amount of information that becomes encoded for storage. Also, the storage process can become corrupted by physical damage to areas of the brain that are associated with memory storage, such as the hippocampus. Finally, the retrieval of information from long-term memory can be disrupted because of decay within long-term memory. Normal functioning, decay over time, and brain damage all affect the accuracy and capacity of the memory.
Sensory memory
Sensory memory holds information, derived from the senses, less than one second after an i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Science%20%28journal%29 | Computer Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the AGH University of Science and Technology (Kraków Poland) and edited by faculty members of the Departments of Computer Science and Automatics. The journal was established in 1999 and since beginning of 2012 is published quarterly. The editor-in-chief is Jacek Kitowski.
Scope
The journal publishes articles covering all aspects of theoretical and applied computer science problems.
Special issues
Occasionally the journal will publish special issues containing articles based on presentations at selected conferences.
Scoring by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Scoring assigned by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, as one of important factors used to evaluate research facilities in Poland, had following
values for Computer Science journal:
7.0 (from 2012)
6.0 (2011),
2.0 (2010 and before).
References
External links
Computer science journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column%20family | A column family is a database object that contains columns of related data. It is a tuple (pair) that consists of a key–value pair, where the key is mapped to a value that is a set of columns. In analogy with relational databases, a column family is as a "table", each key-value pair being a "row". Each column is a tuple (triplet) consisting of a column name, a value, and a timestamp. In a relational database table, this data would be grouped together within a table with other non-related data.
Two types of column families exist:
Standard column family: contains only columns
Super column family: contains a map of super columns
See also
Keyspace (NoSQL)
External links
The Apache Cassandra data model
Distributed data stores
NoSQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20call%20state%20model | In Intelligent Network and CAMEL switching, a BCSM is a Basic Call State Model.
Types
O-BCSM (Originating BCSM)
T-BCSM (Terminating BCSM)
A fundamental concept for IN control is the basic call state model (BCSM). When a call is processed
by an exchange, the call goes through a number of pre-defined phases. These phases of the call are
described in the BCSM. The BCSM generally follows the ISUP signalling of a call
State machine description
In the following IN BCSMs, bold Detection Points and Points In Call are also present in the CAMEL Ph1 subset.
TODO: Expand to Ph2,3,4
O-BCSM
Points in call
1. O_Null & Authorize Origination Attempt
2. Collected_info (Merged with 1. in CAMEL Ph1)
3. Analyze_Info
4. Routing & Alerting (Merged with 3. in CAMEL Ph1)
5. O_Active
6. O_Exception
Detection Points
1 Origination_Attempt_Authorized
2 Collected_Info
3 Analyzed_Info (this is the only Statically armed DP, others are dynamically armed using "Request Report BCSM (RRBE)" message by the SCP)
4 Route_Select_Failure
5 O_Called_Party_Busy
6 O_No_Answer
7 O_Answer
8 O_Mid_Call
9 O_Disconnect
10 O_Abandon
T-BCSM
Points in call
7. T_Null & Authorize Termination_Attempt
8. Select_Facility & Present_Call
9. T_Alerting (Merged with 8. in CAMEL Ph1)
10. T_Active
11. T_Exception
Detection Points
12 Termination_Attempt_Authorized
13 T_Called_Party_Busy
14 T_No_Answer
15 T_Answer
16 T_Mid_Call
17 T_Disconnect
18 T_Abandon
Messages
Initial Detection Point (IDP)
RRBE (Request Report BCSM)
Event Report BCSM (ERB)
Connect (CON)
Continue (CUE)
Send Charging Information (SCI)
ACH (Apply Charging)
ACR (Apply Charging Report)
References
Signaling System 7
GSM standard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Civil%20Service%20Training%20Network | The European Civil Service Training Network (or ENTO) is a network which groups together the local and regional training establishments and programmes for nearly all 47 Council of Europe member states.
Purpose
While the idea for a European network such as this was first proposed by the Council of Europe, it became an independent association in 1995 and groups a wide variety of members together some with extensive experience and others which have been relatively recently created or organized. This diversity fosters a network with a wide range of abilities which facilitates the exchange of ideas and pools experience from various bodies in related fields.
Improving Public Administration
One of the primary purposes behind ENTO lies in the strengthening of local democracy which is essential for democratic society. As a result of its work, fundamental reforms have been implemented in many European countries. These have created greater efficiency of officials and elected representatives at all levels of government starting at the local level. The reforms have also helped to support both the Council of Europe (more particularly the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe) and the European Union initiatives and efforts to improve public administration throughout Europe but particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. The training and availability of skilled staff ensures that duties and carried out professionally, lawfully, and democratically in each country.
Sources
ENTO at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
ENTO Website
Council of Europe
Congress of the Council of Europe
Civil servant training institutions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Associations%20of%20Local%20Authorities%20of%20South-East%20Europe | The Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe or (NALAS) was created in 2001 to enhance the process of democratization and decentralization in south-east Europe. It is currently made up of national associations of local authorities in the region.
About
The Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South East Europe (NALAS) was established in 2001 under the auspices of the Stability Pact and the Council of Europe. Today, it gathers 14 national or regional local government associations who represent more than 8000 local governments directly elected by around 80 million people. NALAS builds partnerships in order to contribute to the reconciliation and stabilisation process in the region and henceforth contributes to the process of the European integration of the whole region, as well as regional development.
Background
In May 2001, the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe began using voluntary donations from the Swiss Government under the Stability Pact to help create this network now known of NALAS to help strengthen local democracy.
In December 2002, the Congress hosted the network’s first conference in Strasbourg, and, after 18 months’ work, the NALAS statutes were signed in the Council of Europe’s Assembly Chamber during the Plenary Session of the Congress on 27 May 2004.
The first General Assembly of the Association was held in Skopje on 6 September 2005. NALAS is no longer an informal network but rather an association with an official status and an infrastructure which should enable it to become more independent. It can now establish links with international and European organizations and with other associations in the same field and set up specific projects and activity programmes.
Objectives
NALAS promotes the process of decentralisation in cooperation with central governments and international organisations, considering local self-government as a key issue in the current process of transition affecting the various countries in South-East Europe. NALAS builds partnerships in order to contribute to the reconciliation and stabilisation process in the region and henceforth contributes to the process of the European integration of the whole region.
NALAS initiates and carries out regional initiatives for its members and helps the associations to become viable representatives of local authorities vis-à-vis central government. NALAS aims to provide services to local governments for the benefit of the citizens in the region and wishes to develop itself as the knowledge centre for local government development in South-East Europe, recognised among all relevant stakeholders.
Strategy
NALAS 2019-2019 Strategy focuses on four strategic objectives:
1. Sustainable Communities
Local Governments in SEE have capacity to create sustainable communities based on smart and innovative growth through quality services and job creation.
2. Stable and Resilient Communities
Decentralised coop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0W | 0W (zero W) or 0-W may refer to:
0W, zero west, or 0°W, coordinate of the prime meridian
0W or ZW, or zero width, a non-printing character used in computer typesetting of some complex scripts
Zero-width joiner
Zero-width non-joiner
Zero-width space
Zero-width non-breaking space
Zero waste, an environmental concept
See also
W0 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20width | Zero width (also zero-width) refers to a non-printing character used in computer typesetting of some complex scripts:
Zero-width joiner
Zero-width non-joiner
Zero-width space
Zero-width no-break space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0Z | 0Z (zero Z) or 0-Z may refer to:
0Z, or zero protons; see Atomic number
0z, notation for no degree of redshift
0Z, a data set in statistics where the Standard score is zero
0Z, a Compressibility factor or zero
See also
Z0 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry%20Creek%20%28Oregon%29 | Dry Creek is a common name for streams in Oregon. The Geographic Names Information System list 96 streams by that name. The National Hydrography Dataset contains 91 of those streams. Nine of them are over 15 miles in length, they are listed below.
References
Rivers of Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Belfast | The Belfast trolleybus system served the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the only trolleybus system built in Ireland. Opened on , it gradually replaced the city’s tramway network.
The Belfast system was the second largest trolleybus system in the United Kingdom, after the London system. It had a total of 17 routes, and a maximum fleet of 245 trolleybuses. It closed on .
History
In 1936, Belfast Corporation's tramway committee recommended that an experimental trolleybus service be inaugurated after inspecting the Birmingham, Bournemouth, London, Nottingham, Portsmouth and Wolverhampton systems. Seven pairs of chassis from AEC, Crossley, Daimler, Guy, Karrier, Leyland and Sunbeam were acquired. These were fitted with six types of electric motor with coachwork by five different builders, and were supplied on the proviso that should the trial be a success, Belfast Corporation would purchase them, and should it fail they would be returned.
On 28 March 1938, operations commenced out of Falls Park depot along Falls Road. This was chosen as being a virtually stand-alone route.
Judged a success, Belfast Corporation decided to replace the entire tramway network. An order was placed with AEC for 114 trolleybuses; however, wartime constraints resulted in only 88 being delivered.
On 13 February 1941 operations began in East Belfast when the Cregagh route commenced from the new Haymarket depot. The network gradually expanded, with the last of the tram network closing in 1954. Further sections were added until 1959 to a total of 37.5 miles. In order to speed up the conversion, eleven second-hand trolleybuses were purchased from Wolverhampton in 1952. In 1958 a prototype Sunbeam was acquired with a view to replacing the earlier vehicles; however, shortly afterwards the first section of the network closed, with the final section closing on 12 May 1968.
Fleet
Trolleybuses were initially painted in a blue and white livery. After World War II this was changed to red and white with silver wheels.
In preservation
Five former Belfast trolleybuses have been preserved:
AEC 664T 98 and Guy BTX 112 at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra
Guy BTX 168 at the Keighley Bus Museum
Guy BTX 183 at the National Transport Museum of Ireland, Dublin
Sunbeam F4A 246 at the East Anglia Transport Museum, Carlton Colville
Depots
Trolleybuses operated from three depots:
Falls Park
Haymarket
Short Strand
See also
History of Belfast
Transport in Belfast
List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
National Trolleybus Archive
British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
History of Belfast
Transport in Belfast
Belfast
Belfast
1938 establishments in Northern Ireland
1968 disestablishments in Northern Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amprion | Amprion GmbH (formerly RWE Transportnetz Strom GmbH) is one of the four transmission system operators for electricity in Germany with approx. 2300 employees.
It is a member of European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E).
Managed Grid
Grid length (380 kV): 5.300 km
Grid length (220 kV): 5.700 km
See also
50Hertz Transmission GmbH
TenneT
TransnetBW
References
External links
Electric power transmission system operators in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiRGator | MiRGator is a database for the functional annotation of miRNAs.
See also
MiRNA
Gene silencing
References
External links
https://www.webcitation.org/5rRw378wJ?url=http://genome.ewha.ac.kr/miRGator/
Biological databases
RNA
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20F.%20Casagrande | Gregory F. Casagrande is an American businessman and the founder of South Pacific Business Development Microfinance Network, the leading microfinance institution in
the Pacific Islands region. He is also the founder of MicroDreams, a microfinance acceleration fund working with emerging microfinance institutions in Latin America, Africa and the Pacific and Transformative Ventures LLC, a Microfinance advisory company.
Education
Casagrande graduated from Wardlaw-Hartridge School in 1981. He received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, an MS in Accounting from New York University Stern School of Business as well as a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics with high distinction from Colgate University. Casagrande is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
Career
He recorded significant achievement with Ford Motor Company, Mazda Motor Company and Coopers & Lybrand in product development, manufacturing, marketing and financial management positions. He led teams in the United States, Japan and Europe.
Casagrande serves as a director on the boards of the International Association of Microfinance Investors (of New York), Microfinance Pasifika (of Fiji) and Planet Finance (of Paris), and as a fund advisor to Plebys – a for-profit “Base of the Pyramyd” investment fund based in Irvine, California. He also served on the United Nations Board of Patrons for its International Year of Microcredit – 2005. Casagrande is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities around the world on the topics of poverty eradication, building inclusive financial sectors, building sustainable micro-enterprise development organizations, financing Microfinance institutions and social entrepreneurship.
Business ventures
In addition to his micro-finance activities, Casagrande promotes hi-tech entrepreneurship. He is a founding director of the Ice Angels, Australasia's largest angel investor group and serves as Chairman of three New Zealand software firms: Biomatters Ltd, Calcium Solutions Ltd and English-To-Go Ltd.
Accomplishments and awards
Casagrande was awarded the International Year of Microcredit in 2005.
In 2010, Casagrande was awarded the Global Social Innovator Award.
Greg has been invited as a guest on several occasions for Fijian, Samoan and New Zealand television stations.
References
External links
MicroDreams
South Pacific Business Development
International Association of Microfinance Investors
Living people
American businesspeople
Colgate University alumni
Kellogg School of Management alumni
New York University Stern School of Business alumni
Wardlaw-Hartridge School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitcom | Digitcom Canada Inc. is a Canadian company that works on phone systems and data networks distributor. Primarily serving the greater Toronto, Montreal, and Southern Ontario small and midsize enterprise (SME) markets. Digitcom provides sales and support for telecommunications systems.
History
Established in 1991, Digitcom began as a reseller of voice mail, specializing in selling the Octel Compass product to the Canadian business market. The company expanded in 1993, which saw the inclusion of the sales and support of Avaya, Cisco, and the legacy Nortel line of telephony products.
Critical acclaim
Digitcom is an Avaya SME Expert dealer in Canada, and President Jeff Wiener is currently the only Canadian to sit on the Avaya SME Advisory Council.
On October 20, 2010, at Avaya’s Global Sales and Partner Conference in Las Vegas, Digitcom received the SME Canadian Business Partner of the Year award. To be considered for the Business Partner of the Year award, eligible companies must achieve a 90 percent customer satisfaction rating, demonstrate industry leadership and outperform key strategic goals.
Insolvency and Bankruptcy
On October 31, 2022 Digitcom filed a Notice of Intention which in effect kicked off insolvency proceedings through the Ontario courts. The ensuing process of attracting and choosing a bidder for the bulk of Digitcom's assets lasted into late February of 2023. On February 23, 2023 justice J. Kimmel approved the sale of Digitcom's assets to Comwave. The sale price is reported to have been $1.75M.
The corporation formerly known as Digitcom, now known as 1984638 Ontario Inc., then filed for bankruptcy per a letter to creditors dated March 22, 2023.
References
External links
Official website
Company blog
Headsets(by Digitcom)
Telecommunications companies established in 1991
Telecommunications companies of Canada
1991 establishments in Canada
Canadian companies established in 1991
Companies based in Markham, Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Boing is the brand name used by the International division of Warner Bros. Discovery co-owned by Mediaset for a collection of television networks outside of the United States that target children.
As of 2023, Boing-branded channels exist in Italy (its flagship service), Spain, and in Africa, while a weekend morning programming block formerly aired on the WarnerMedia-owned Chilevisión (now owned by Paramount Global) in Chile and tv2 in Turkey (previously TNT).
Broadcast
Italy
The Italian free-to-air television channel marketed at children and teenagers, owned by Boing S.p.A., a joint venture of Fininvest's MFE - MediaForEurope (through its Mediaset Italia subsidiary) and Warner Bros. Discovery (through its International division). It is available on digital terrestrial television and free-to-air satellite provider Tivùsat.
Spain
The Spanish free-to-air television channel launched in 2010 and owned as a joint venture between Mediaset España and Warner Bros. Discovery through its International unit. Series on the channel are also available in English via a secondary audio feed. Additional feeds are available in Italy, France and Sub-Saharan Africa.
France
The French pay television channel aimed at children and teenagers launched on 8 April 2010. On 2 February 2023, it was announced that Boing would transition to Cartoonito full-time on 3 April 2023.
Africa
The African television channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its International unit, which launched on May 30, 2015. At this moment, the channel can be seen on Montage Cable TV in Nigeria and Sentech's Mobile TV in South Africa. On January 1, 2017, the channel became available to AzamTV subscribers. The channel does not have a website. The French version of Boing is also broadcast in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb.
Chile
Boing launched on Chilevisión on January 7, 2018 as a programming block, but later it was ended on March 29, 2020.
Turkey
Boing launched on TNT in 2012 as a programming block, even after the channel was replaced by Teve2, the block still continued, it also aired on Cartoon Network Turkey starting in 2014.
The Animadz
A group of characters known as the Animadz serve as Boing's official mascots since 2006. They include Bo, a blue dog-like human; Bobo, a hairless green humanoid; Otto, a robot; Maissa, a yellow maize; Katrina, a white chicken, Dino, a green dinosaur. There's also the former mascots that ever used until 2016, including Ridolfo, a brown hyena; Tony, a yellow hamster; Tip, a male seal; Tap, a female seal.
See also
Cartoon Network
Boomerang
Cartoonito
Pogo
Tooncast
References
External links
Boing Italy
Boing Spain
Cartoon Network
Boomerang (TV network)
Cartoonito
Children's television networks
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
Warner Bros. Discovery brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Pekanbaru | The following is a list of FM and AM radio stations in Pekanbaru, Indonesia which can be sorted by their frequencies, names, legal entities, slogans and programming formats.
References
Pekanbaru
Pekanbaru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Maidstone | The Maidstone trolleybus system once served Maidstone, the county town of Kent, England. Opened on , it gradually replaced the Maidstone tramway network.
By the standards of the various now defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Maidstone system was a small one, with just two routes, and a maximum fleet of only 24 trolleybuses. It was closed on .
Three of the former Maidstone trolleybuses are now preserved, two of them at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, and the other at the East Anglia Transport Museum, Carlton Colville, Suffolk.
See also
History of Maidstone
List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
References
Further reading
External links
SCT'61 website Photos and descriptions of Maidstone Corporation trolleybuses and early motorbuses
Maidstone Corporation Trolleybus historical site, including route map
National Trolleybus Archive
British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
National Trolleybus Association, based in London
Maidstone
Maidstone
Maidstone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Horror%20Story | American Horror Story is an American horror anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the cable network FX. The first installment in the American Story media franchise, seasons of AHS are mostly conceived as self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters in a new setting within the same fictional universe (which the show occasionally utilizes for crossovers between seasons, and shares with episodic spin-off American Horror Stories), and a storyline with its own "beginning, middle, and end." Some plot elements of each season are loosely inspired by true events. Many actors appear in more than one season, usually playing a new character though sometimes as a returning character, and often playing multiple characters in a season. Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, and Lily Rabe have returned most frequently, with each having appeared in nine seasons, followed by Frances Conroy and Denis O'Hare who both appear in eight; Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, and Leslie Grossman appear in six, while other notable actors including Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Adina Porter, Finn Wittrock, and Jamie Brewer appear in five of the seasons.
The first season, Murder House, takes place in Los Angeles, California, in 2011, and centers on a family in a haunted house. The second season, Asylum, takes place in Massachusetts in 1964 and follows the patients and staff of a criminally insane institution. The third season, Coven, takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2013, and follows a coven of witches and their enemies. The fourth season, Freak Show, takes place in Jupiter, Florida, in 1952 and centers on an American freak show. The fifth season, Hotel, takes place in Los Angeles, California, during 2015 and focuses on the staff and guests of a supernatural hotel. The sixth season, Roanoke, takes place in North Carolina during 2014–2016 and focuses on an isolated farmhouse haunted by the deceased Roanoke colony. The seventh season, Cult, takes place in Michigan, and centers on a cult after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The eighth season, Apocalypse, features the Coven witches and the Murder House Antichrist. The ninth season, 1984, takes place outside Los Angeles in the 1980s and focuses on the staff of a summer camp reopening after a massacre. The tenth season, Double Feature, focuses on a family in 2021 in Provincetown, Massachusetts and the town's true inhabitants, and a group of camping students in a conspiracy involving the extraterrestrials of Asylum. The eleventh season, NYC, takes place in 1980s New York City, and focuses on the killings of gay men and the emergence of a virus. The twelfth season, Delicate, takes place in New York City and follows an actress who comes to believe that someone is going to great lengths to stop her from fulfilling her dream of getting pregnant. In January 2020, FX renewed the series through to season 13.
Although reception to individual seasons has varied, American Ho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR%20mode | VR mode or Video Recording mode is a feature on stand-alone consumer and computer DVD recorders that allows video recording and editing on a DVD rewritable disc.
In VR mode, users can create and rename titles for the scenes. Also, if a scene is deleted, the space allocated by it will be utilized later without the need of reformatting a disc.
If the user would like to record on the same disc again at a later time, in VR mode, users may eject the disc and it will not be finalized by the recorder until it is manually initiated. For the sake of comparison, any DVD recorded in VR's competitor V mode (or Video mode) will be automatically finalized before it is ejected by the recorder. Disc finalization is still required if the disc formatted for VR mode will be played in another DVD player.
Currently, users can only record in VR mode with the use of DVD-RW, DVD-RAM and DVD+RW discs, (updated in 2000 to accommodate DVD-R (General)) [DVD players marked “RW compatible” and “DVD Multi” can play DVD-VR recorded discs] and on some recorders, also on hard-disk drives.
Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD also support VR mode-like features.
DVD-VR & DVD+VR
There are two quite different application formats commonly known as VR mode.
1) DVD-VR was established by the DVD Forum and can be found on DVD-RW and DVD-RAM
2) DVD+VR is the creation and responsibility of Philips Electronics and is seen on their DVD+RW recorders.
DVD-VR
The DVD-VR recording mode offers advanced editing (including Non Linear Editing (NLE)) but is not compatible with DVD-Video. Recorders do not edit the video data stream directly. Editing is achieved by creating a 'playlist' which references segments of the recorded video data stream and compile the playlist by chapters of the video stream or can access the video stream directly by time reference. Recorders generally employ one method or the other, but seldom both. DVD-VR can also be used with DVD+RW media, but recorders seldom do so.
DVD+VR
The DVD+VR recording mode (aka +VR functionality) is compatible with DVD-Video (normal DVD-Video players), but offers basic editing like partial overwriting, title dividing, chapter marker placement, replace the menu screens, etc. This can be accomplished easily on DVD+R media. DVD+VR can theoretically be used with DVD-RW media, but partial overwriting and replacement of menus cannot be so easily accomplished due to limitations of the media. In order to achieve this, it would be necessary for the recorder to read and store the entire contents of the disc, erase the disc and then rewrite it. For this reason alone, DVD+VR is seldom used with DVD-RW (or DVD-R) media.
See also
DVD
Blu-ray Disc
HD DVD
DVD+VR
DVD-VR
References
DVD
Optical discs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracee%20Carrasco | Tracee Carrasco (born September 2, 1981) is an American TV news reporter for Fox Business Network. Carrasco previously reported for CBS 2 News, WCBS-TV in New York City.
Biography
Carrasco was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Sheril (née Carrasco) and Gilbert Tolentino. She was raised in Hawaii and Southern California. She is of Filipino descent. Carrasco graduated from Azusa Pacific University in Southern California with a degree in Communication Studies where she interned at KABC-TV (Channel 7) News, Los Angeles. Other internships included KCBS-TV (Channel 2) / KCAL-TV (Channel 9) News, Los Angeles (Entertainment Dept. 2004). Later, she was a field reporter as well as fill-in anchor in Torrance, California CitiCable 3.
In February 2010, she accepted a position as the Weekend Anchor / Weekday Reporter for the Fox affiliate KQDS serving the upper Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan regions. Her reporting for KQDS earned two Upper Midwest Emmy nominations in the categories Public / Current / Community Affairs ("Honest Northland Series") and Historic / Cultural / Nostalgic (“A Tribute to Ben Larson: Missionary Killed in Haiti’s Earthquake”). In August 2011, she accepted a position as a fill-in anchor and reporter for the ABC affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee, WKRN News 2. In June 2013, she accepted a position as general assignment reporter for WCBS-TV and WLNY 10/55 in New York. In May 2017, she joined the Fox Business Network as a general assignment reporter.
Carrasco has also appeared with CNN's Nancy Grace on HLN.
Publications
Carrasco has had pieces published in various newspapers and magazines such as the Duluth News Tribune, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, and Equities Magazine.
See also
New Yorkers in journalism
References
American television reporters and correspondents
Living people
Azusa Pacific University alumni
People from California
People from Honolulu
American women television journalists
American people of Filipino descent
Fox News people
21st-century American women
1981 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiracleNet | MiracleNet is a Christian television network run by Dr. Michael Hughes and Mrs. Sarah Hughes. It is distributed to India and much of Asia via cable and satellite simultaneously in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, and Malayalam.
MiracleNet TV Network covering all of Asia by Satellite to Cable TV and by individual satellite dishes,
Audience
MiracleNet with Cable TV homes, has a potential audience of 113,770,000 Viewers in Asia,
Social Work
MiracleNet has been doing substantial Social work and acts of Mercy, which include Education, Health.
References
Christian entertainment television series
Television networks in India
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Religious television channels in India
Evangelical parachurch organizations
1999 establishments in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiRTarBase | miRTarBase is a curated database of MicroRNA-Target Interactions. As a database, miRTarBase has accumulated more than fifty thousand miRNA-target interactions (MTIs), which are collected by manually surveying pertinent literature after data mining of the text systematically to filter research articles related to functional studies of miRNAs. Generally, the collected MTIs are validated experimentally by reporter assay, western blot, microarray and next-generation sequencing experiments. While containing the largest amount of validated MTIs, the miRTarBase provides the most updated collection by comparing with other similar, previously developed databases.
See also
MicroRNAs
References
External links
Biological databases
RNA
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Cardiff | The Cardiff trolleybus system once served Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. Opened on , it gradually replaced the Cardiff tramway network.
Trolleybuses are electric buses that draw power from dual overhead wires using spring-loaded trolley poles. By the standards of the other now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Cardiff system was medium-sized, with 14 routes and a maximum fleet of 79 trolleybuses. It was closed on .
Four Cardiff trolleybuses have been preserved. Nos. 243 and 262 are at the Cardiff & South Wales Trolleybus Project in eastern Cardiff, no. 215 is at the National Collections Centre of National Museum Wales, Nantgarw, and no. 203 is at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, England.
See also
Bus transport in Cardiff
History of Cardiff
Transport in Cardiff
List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Cardiff Transport Preservation Group - official site
SCT'61 website - photos and descriptions of Cardiff trolleybuses and early motorbuses
National Trolleybus Archive
British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
National Trolleybus Association, based in London
Bus transport in Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff |
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