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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20music%20software | This article deals with music software created for the Amiga line of computers and covers the AmigaOS operating system and its derivates AROS and MorphOS and is a split of main article Amiga software.
See also related articles Amiga productivity software, Amiga programming languages, Amiga Internet and communications software and Amiga support and maintenance software for other information regarding software that run on Amiga.
Noteworthy Amiga music software
Samplitude by SEK'D (Studio fuer Elektronische Klangerzeugung Dresden), Instant Music, DMCS (DeLuxe Music) 1 and 2, Music-X, TigerCub, Dr. T's KCS, Dr. T's Midi Recording Studio, Bars and Pipes (from Blue Ribbon Soundworks, a firm which was bought by Microsoft and is now part of its group. Bars and Pipes internal structure then inspired to create audio streaming data passing of DirectX libraries), AEGIS Audio Master, Pro Sound Designer, AEGIS Sonix, Audio Sculpture, Audition 4 from SunRize Industries, SuperJAM!, HD-Rec, Audio Evolution, RockBEAT drum machine and various MIDI sequencing programs by Gajits Music Software.
Audio Digitizers Software
Together with the well known Dr. T's Midi Recording Studio, Pro Sound Designer, Sonix, SoundFX, Audition 4, HD-Rec, and Audio Evolution, there was also much Amiga software to pilot digitizers such as GVP DSS8 Plus 8bit audio sampler/digitizer for Amiga, Sunrize AD512 and AD516 professional 12 and 16-bit DSP sound cards for the Amiga that included Studio-16 as standard software, Soundstage professional 20-bit DSP expansion sound card for the Amiga, Aura 12-bit sound sampler which is connected to the PCMCIA port of Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200 models, and the Concierto 16-bit sound card optional module to be added to the Picasso IV graphic card, etcetera.
Sound design / SoftSynth
Synthia, FMSynth by Christian Stiens (inspired by Yamaha's FM-operating DX Series), Assampler, SoundFX (a.k.a. SFX), WaveTracer, S.A.M. Sample-Synthesizer and Gajits' CM-Panion and 4D Companion patch editors.
Mod music file format
Starting from 1987 with the release of Soundtracker, trackers became a new type of music programs which spawned the mod (module) audio file standard. The Mod audio standard is considered the audio format that started it all in the world of computer music. After Soundtracker many clones (which often were reverse engineered and improved) appeared, including Noisetracker, Startrekker, Protracker. Also many derivatives appeared, including OctaMED and Oktalyzer.
In the period from 1985 to 1995 when Amiga audio (which was standard in Amiga computers) was of greater quality than other standard home computers, PC compatible systems began to be equipped with 8-bit audio cards inserted into 16-bit ISA bus slots. Soundtracker Module files were used on PC computers and were considered the only serious 8-bit audio standard for creating music. The worldwide usage of these programs led to the creation of the so-called MOD-scene which was considered part of the d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Water%20Network | Canadian Water Network (CWN) is a non-profit organization that helps decision-makers in the water sector address complex challenges. Its mission is to advance, accelerate and improve water management decisions in Canada. without advocating for a specific position.
Its headquarters are currently located in Waterloo, Ontario on the University of Waterloo campus. Canadian Water Network is a member of the Global Water Research Coalition (GWRC), an international water research alliance.
History
Canadian Water Network was established in 2001 as a Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) in response to Walkerton's drinking water crisis. From 2001 – 2015, CWN was funded by the Canadian Government to help decision-makers access and apply relevant research to manage risks to the safety, security and abundance of Canada's water resources. In 2015, Canadian Water Network transitioned to a self-sustaining organization. It is governed by a board of directors from academia, government, municipalities and industry. The CEO of Canadian Water Network is Bernadette Conant.
Canadian Municipal Water Consortium
In 2009, Canadian Water Network established the Canadian Municipal Water Consortium. The Consortium's mandate is to connect utilities, municipalities, researchers, industry, government and other organizations to address Canada's municipal water management challenges. It is led by a group of senior decision makers from 20 municipalities and utilities across Canada and represents 61% of the Canadian population.
Canadian Water Network and the Consortium host the Blue Cities conference annually in May.
Projects
Canadian Water Network initiatives include collaborative research, expert reviews, national stakeholder meetings and knowledge mobilization on issues such as:
Resiliency to climate change
The impacts of nutrients and contaminants on watersheds
Financial sustainability of drinking water, wastewater and stormwater systems
Lead in drinking water
In 2017, Canadian Water Network led a National Expert Panel on Canada's challenges and opportunities to address contaminants in wastewater. The findings from the panel were released in a report in 2018.
Since 2004, Canadian Water Network has offered a leadership development program for students and young professionals in water.
References
External links
Environmental organizations based in Ontario
Waterloo, Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe%20des%20%C3%A9coles%20nationales%20d%27ing%C3%A9nieurs | Groupe des écoles nationales d'ingénieurs (Groupe ENI) is French for "Group of French National Engineering Schools", a network of 4 French public engineering schools that deliver the title of Diplôme d'Ingénieur in a wide variety of fields.
Member institutions
École nationale d'ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB)
École nationale d'ingénieurs de Metz (ENIM)
École nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-Etienne (ENISE)
École nationale d'ingénieurs de Tarbes (ENIT)
See also
Diplôme d'Ingénieur
Grandes écoles
Education in France
References
Engineering universities and colleges in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricorn%2C%20Inc. | Apricorn, Inc. is an American designer and manufacturer of computer storage products, utilities and accessories. It was established in 1983 as a private company by Mike Gordon and Paul Brown. The company headquarters is located in Poway, California, United States. It also has branches in Canada.
Notable products
Company's EZ Gig II Backup and Disaster Recovery Software may be used for all company's storage products. It was developed to address the rapidly expanding usage of laptops and the corresponding growth of the concern for mobile data safety.
The company's AEGIS line of external storage are plug-and-play, with necessary drivers residing within and loading upon plugin automatically. They also offer an encryption option.
They have many products and even software for computers and laptops. They are best known for their external and internal products. For example, Apricorn Inc manufactures external hard drives and USB flash drives that require a real-time 256-bit AES-XTS Hardware Encryption and a secured pin.
In 2007, Apricorn's EZ Bus Desktop SATA 500GB drive earned PC World's Best Buy distinction and top performance rating.
They have since specialized in a variety of encrypted storage devices.
References
Companies established in 1983
Companies based in San Diego County, California
1983 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Izmir | The Izmir trolleybus system formed part of the public transport network in the city of Izmir, Turkey, from 1954 to 1992. Operated by ESHOT, the system was one of four trolleybus systems to have existed in Turkey, along with ones in Ankara, Istanbul, and Malayta. Prior to the opening of the Malatya system, in 2015, the Izmir system had been the last surviving trolleybus system in Turkey at the time of its closure in 1992. Trolleybuses operated mainly in Konak, with lines to Buca, Balçova and Tepecik.
History
Trolleybuses replaced the declining tramways of İzmir. The first trolleybuses, built by MAN, arrived in Izmir on May 14, 1954, on a ship from Germany. The first trolleybus line opened on July 28, 1954, or August 16, 1954, between Konak and Güzelyalı. The original fleet totalled eighteen vehicles, MAN trolleybuses (model MKE 3) with Rathgeber bodies, numbered 1–18. The fleet was expanded in 1957 with a purchase of 20 Fiat 2411F trolleybuses, numbered 19–38.
The Izmir system was the only Turkish trolleybus system ever to use articulated trolleybuses, but it had only three such vehicles, total. They were built by Fiat/Viberti in 1958 and were numbered 39–41. ESHOT never acquired any more articulated trolleybuses. In the 1960s, the high cost of importing new trolleybuses led the company to convert a batch of Büssing motorbuses into trolleybuses. There were three such conversions in 1962, numbered 42 and 44–45, and 18 more in 1968, numbered 46–63.
After the closure of the Istanbul trolleybus system, in 1984, Izmir acquired most of its trolleybuses. These were built in 1962 by Alfa Romeo-Fiat, and a total of 75 were acquired secondhand from Istanbul. This was the last fleet of trolleybuses to enter service in Izmir. As of mid-1989, the active trolleybus fleet included 19 of the 1957 Fiat 2411F vehicles, all three of the 1958 Viberti-bodied Fiat articulated vehicles, one 1959 Fiat 2411F (No. 43), and 67 ex-Istanbul Alfa Romeo-Fiat vehicles built in 1962. The last of the MAN trolleybuses that opened the system were retired in 1987 and the last Büssing vehicles in 1988 or 1989.
Route 3 was withdrawn on June 9, 1989, leaving four routes still operating: 1, 2, 70 and 80.
With its fleet falling apart, ESHOT discontinued trolleybus service in 1992, with different sources giving the date as either March 6, 1992, or September 1992.
Routes
10 Gümrük–Alsancak - Line later became Route 1.
11 Fahrettin Altay–Alsancak - Line later became Route 2.
12 Fahrettin Altay–Lausanne Square
21 Fahrettin Altay–Montrö
30 Fahrettin Altay–Tepecik - Line later became Route 4.
40 Fahrettin Altay–Kahramanlar - Line later became Route 3.
50 Hatay-Montrö - Line later became Route 86.
70 Montrö–Buca
Fuar Line - A line that circled the International Fairgrounds.
See also
List of trolleybus systems
Transport in İzmir
References
Izmir
Transport in İzmir
Izmir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBS%20%28American%20TV%20channel%29 | TBS (an abbreviation for Turner Broadcasting System), stylized as tbs, is an American basic cable television network owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). It carries a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy, along with some sports events, including Major League Baseball, Stanley Cup playoffs, NCAA men's basketball tournament and the weekly professional wrestling show AEW Dynamite. As of September 2018, TBS was received by approximately 90.391 million households that subscribe to a pay television service throughout the United States.
TBS was originally established on December 17, 1976, as the national feed of Turner's Atlanta, Georgia, independent television station, WTCG. The decision to begin offering WTCG via satellite transmission to cable and satellite subscribers throughout the United States expanded the small station into the first nationally distributed "superstation." With the assignment of WTBS as the broadcast station's callsign in 1979, the national feed became known as SuperStation WTBS, and later SuperStation TBS, TBS Superstation, or simply TBS. The channel broadcast a variety of programming during this era, including films, syndicated series, and sports (including Atlanta Braves baseball, basketball games involving the Atlanta Hawks and other NBA teams, and professional wrestling including Georgia Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions and later World Championship Wrestling).
WTBS maintained a nearly identical program schedule as the national feed, aside from FCC-mandated public affairs and educational programming that only aired on the local signal. By the early 2000s, TBS had begun to focus more intensively on comedic programming, including sitcoms and other series. On October 1, 2007, TBS was converted by Turner into a conventional basic cable network, at which time it began to be carried within the Atlanta market on area cable providers alongside its existing local carriage on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network. The former parent station in Atlanta was concurrently relaunched as WPCH-TV (branded as "Peachtree TV", which Turner sold to the Meredith Corporation in 2017, and later acquired by Gray Television in 2021) and reformatted as a traditional independent station with a separate schedule exclusively catering to the Atlanta market.
History
Early years
TBS originated as a terrestrial television station in Atlanta, Georgia that began operating on UHF channel 17 on September 1, 1967, under the WJRJ-TV call letters. That station—which its original parent originally filed to transmit UHF channel 46, before modifying it to assign channel 17 as its frequency in February 1966—was founded by Rice Broadcasting Inc. (owned by Atlanta entrepreneur Jack M. Rice, Jr., owner of locally based pay television firms Atlanta Telemeter Inc. and Home Theaters of Georgia Inc.). Rice built a massive new self-supporting transmission tower (later known as the Turner B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Nottingham | The Nottingham trolleybus system once served the city of Nottingham, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. Opened on , it gradually replaced the Nottingham tramway network.
By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Nottingham system was a medium-sized one, with a total of 8 routes, and a maximum fleet of 157 trolleybuses. It was closed on .
Nottingham was also served by another system, the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire trolleybus system, which was in operation between 1932 and 1953.
Six of the former Nottingham system trolleybuses and parts of a seventh are preserved. Two of them are in a private collection in Boughton, Nottinghamshire, while another four and a fifth chassis are at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, England.
History
Nottingham Corporation had operated an electric tramway system since 1897, when they took over the network of horse-drawn routes run by Nottingham & District Tramways. In 1913, they obtained an Act of Parliament to authorise additions to that system. Although trolleybuses were in their infancy, the Bill included powers to operate trolleybuses between Market Place and Trent Bridge, and onwards to West Bridgford. The second half of the route was contested by West Bridgford Unrban District Council. It was not included in the Act, although it did include powers to run trolleybuses along any of the tram routes in due course. The powers were not exercised at the time.
While much of the tramway had double tracks, there were some parts where there was only a single track, and it was these sections that were the first to be converted to trolleybus operation. Officials visited Birmingham in 1924 and were sufficiently impressed that they obtained powers to operate trackless vehicles on Nottingham Road. An order was placed with Railless for ten double-deck vehicles, with bodywork by Short Bros (Rochester and Bedford) Ltd. The new service commenced on 10 April 1927, running along Nottingham Road from the city centre to New Basford. The new venture was heralded by a new livery, the predominantly maroon paintwork of the existing trams and motor buses being replaced by green. The ten trolleybuses included the last nine built by Railless before they ceased producing them in favour of more lucrative work, so when the Corporation needed eight extra vehicles, they bought them from Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies of Ipswich.
The next extension to the network was a cross-town route, running from Wilford Road in the south to Wells Road in the north. The overhead wiring was extended beyond the original tram terminus along Wells Road to Kildare Road. Twelve more vehicles were purchased, six from English Electric and another six from Ransomes. The public service began on 23 February 1930. In order to assess the suitability of vehicles for further extensions to the system, the Corporation hired four trolleybuses in 1931, one each from Associated Equipment Company (AEC), Guy Mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl%20Streep%20in%20the%202000s | Meryl Streep throughout the 2000s appeared in many cinematic and theatrical productions. In 2001, Streep's voice appeared in the animated film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Streep that same year co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert, as well as appeared in the popular play The Seagull. In 2002, Streep appeared in the films Adaptation. and The Hours. In 2003, Streep appeared unaccredited in the comedy Stuck on You, and starred in the HBO play adaptation Angels in America. In 2004, Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award, and in that same year, she starred in the films The Manchurian Candidate and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. In 2005, Streep starred in the film Prime. Streep began 2006 with the film A Prairie Home Companion, and that same year, she starred in The Devil Wears Prada and the stage production Mother Courage and Her Children. In 2007, Streep appeared in the films Dark Matter, Rendition, Evening, and Lions for Lambs. In 2008, Streep starred in the films Mamma Mia! and Doubt. In 2009, Streep starred in the films Julie & Julia and It's Complicated, as well as loaning her voice to the animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox.
2001-2005
In 2001, Meryl Streep voiced the Blue Fairy in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence based on Brian Aldiss' short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, first published in 1969. A CGI-driven science fiction film, initially conceived by Stanley Kubrick in the early 1970s, it revolves about a child-like android, played by Haley Joel Osment, uniquely programmed with the ability to love. A critical and commercial success, the film collected US$235.9 million at international box offices. The same year, Streep co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert with Liam Neeson which was held in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2001, in honor of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate - the United Nations and Kofi Annan. And, after a stage absence of more than twenty years, she persuaded Mike Nichols to stage Anton Chekhov's popular play The Seagull at the open air Delacorte Theater in New York, playing actress Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina. Co-starring Kevin Kline, Marcia Gay Harden, Natalie Portman, and her eldest son Henry, the play received favorable reviews, with The New York Times remarking, "Two decades in front of movie cameras haven't diminished her capacity for looming large from a stage. Streep has drawn a portrait of comic ruthlessness and gentle understanding."
In Spike Jonze's 2002 comedy-drama Adaptation., Streep portrayed Susan Orlean, a real-life journalist whose book is to be adapted by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, played by Nicolas Cage. Streep, who declared the screenplay one of "the most interesting and ambiguous scripts [...] in a long time", expressed dire interest in the role before being cast, and took a salary cut in recognition of the film's budget of US$19 million. Lauded by critics and viewers alike, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including a Best |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20programming%20languages | This article deals with programming languages used in the Amiga line of computers, running the AmigaOS operating system and its derivatives AROS and MorphOS. It is a split of the main article Amiga software. See also related articles Amiga productivity software, Amiga music software, Amiga Internet and communications software and Amiga support and maintenance software for other information regarding software that runs on Amiga.
History
Many games and software, especially in the early years of the Amiga were written to directly access the hardware instead of using the operating system for graphics and input. Consequently, games could achieve much faster and smoother game-play, but at the cost of compatibility with newer Amiga models.
Cross-platform libraries and programming facilities
Several cross-platform libraries and facilities are available for Amiga:
MUI and ReAction are Amiga standard Object Oriented systems for building graphical interfaces.
SDL libraries are widely used in all modern Amiga systems
Cairo support is built into AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS 3.0
Anti-Grain Geometry
CLib2 is a portable ISO C (1994) runtime library for the Amiga.
Allegro Library has been ported to AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS .
an Amiga port of wxWidgets is being worked on wxWidgets-AOS.
Gallium3D is now part of AROS Icaros Desktop Live Distro.
OpenAL free software cross-platform audio API, designed for efficient rendering of multichannel three-dimensional positional audio, is available for MorphOS and any AmigaOS version 3 and later revisions.
AROS and MorphOS support FreeType library in various projects, included its version release of Origyn Web Browser.
FLTK "Fast, Light Toolkit" version for AmigaOS 4.0 is almost complete and it offers all the functionality of the official 1.1.6 version, including the standard and plastic scheme.
For many years Amiga lacked a complete integrated development environment (IDE). This changed in 2005–2006 when Cubic IDE was created, based on the modular text editor GoldED.
Brief list of languages available on Amiga
Assemblers: ASM-One Macro Assembler, Devpac Assembler, Metacomco Macro Assembler, SEKA Assembler
Basic dialects: AmigaBASIC from Microsoft, ABasic from Commodore (developed by Metacomco), AC Basic Compiler, GFA BASIC, HiSoft Basic, AMOS BASIC, Blitz BASIC, PureBasic
C-compilers: Aztec C, DICE C, GNU gcc, VBCC, Lattice C, SAS/C, Storm C, HiSoft C++
PASCAL: Amiga Pascal, Kick-Pascal, High Speed Pascal, Free Pascal
Other languages: Forth (JForth), FORTRAN, Amiga Logo, Oberon, Perl 5, Ruby, Amiga E, FALSE, PortablE, Python (AmigaPython), REBOL, ARexx, Scheme (SCM, Gambit, UMB Scheme, SIOD), GNU C++, Modula-2, Benchmark Modula 2, Eiffel, Java (JAmiga), Draco, and ML (Caml Light).
Descriptions of some languages
ABasiC was developed by MetaComCo and was bundled with AmigaOS 1.0 and 1.1.
AmigaOS 1.2 and 1.3 came bundled with AmigaBASIC (and a complete manual), which other than also being a BASIC dialect, was not re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Center%20for%20International%20Exchange | Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) is an "independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening Japan's role in international networks
of dialogue and cooperation." Founded in 1970 by Tadashi Yamamoto, their stated goals are:
promoting Japan's engagement in the international community;
encouraging thoughtful and collaborative analysis of critical issues in international affairs;
strengthening civil society and enhancing its domestic and global contributions; and
establishing, strengthening, and expanding networks of dialogue and cooperation.
The three major program they have created to accomplish these goals include: the Political Exchange Program, the Global ThinkNet policy research and dialogue programs, and the CivilNet program to strengthen civil society and philanthropy. Many of their programs are coordinated with their U.S. affiliate JCIE/USA and other international organizations.
They also host the Shimoda Conferences. While hosting dialogues on policies, the JCIE does not hold policy related positions themselves. Policy Innovations describes the JCIE as "one of the few truly independent think tanks" in Japan's international affairs. At the last Shimoda Conference Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs commented that since their founding the Japan Center for International Exchange "has played an enormous role in enhancing mutual understanding and exchange between Japan and other countries."
The Japan Center for International Exchange alongside the Japan Society have been leading fundraising efforts in Japan in response to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The fund operated by the JCIE is called the Japan NGO Earthquake Relief and Recovery Fund. Their website alongside save-the-children.org and japansociety.org/earthquake was reported to be one of the three most recommended websites to donate to from organizers of the relief efforts.
References
External links
Official site
1970 establishments in Japan
Japan–United States relations
Organizations established in 1970
Think tanks based in Japan
[[Category:Foreign policy and strategy think tanks] in Japan]] |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESAdb | mESAdb is a database for the analysis of sequences and expression of microRNA
See also
MiRTarBase
microRNA
References
External links
http://konulab.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/mirna/
Biological databases
RNA
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Manchester | The trolleybus system in Manchester, England, opened on , and gradually replaced certain routes of the Manchester tramway network. Manchester was a belated convert to trolleybuses having already started a programme of tram to diesel bus conversion in the mid-1930s and this, overall, continued to be the preferred option for tram conversion that was completed in 1949.
By the standards of the various now defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Manchester system was a large one, with a total of 9 routes, and a maximum fleet of 189 trolleybuses. It closed on .
Manchester's trolleybuses were also on certain routes jointly operated with the Ashton-under-Lyne trolleybus system, between 1925 and 1966.
Two former Manchester trolleybuses are preserved, one at the Greater Manchester Transport Museum, Cheetham Hill, and another at the Trolleybus Museum in Sandtoft, Lincolnshire.
See also
History of Manchester
Transport in Manchester
List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
SCT'61 website - photos and descriptions of Manchester trolleybuses and early motorbuses
National Trolleybus Archive
British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
National Trolleybus Association, based in London
Transport in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
History of transport in Greater Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20McCallum | Andrew McCallum is a professor in the computer science department at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His primary specialties are in machine learning, natural language processing, information extraction, information integration, and social network analysis.
Career
McCallum graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1989. He completed his Ph.D. at University of Rochester in 1995 under the supervision of Dana H. Ballard. He was then a postdoctoral fellow, working with Sebastian Thrun and Tom M. Mitchell at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1998 to 2000 he was a Research Scientist and Research Coordinator at Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center. From 2000 to 2002 was Vice President of Research and Development at WhizBang Labs, and Director of its Pittsburgh office. Since 2002, he worked as a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2020, he also joined Google as a part-time research scientist.
He was elected as a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2009, and as an Association for Computing Machinery in 2017. From 2014 to 2017 he was the President of International Machine Learning Society (IMLS), which organizes the International Conference on Machine Learning. He is also the director of the Center for Data Science at UMass, leading a new partnership with the Chan and Zuckerberg Initiative. In 2018, the initiative made an initial grant of 5.5 million to the center, supporting research to facilitate new ways for scientists to explore and discover research articles.
Main contributions
In collaboration with John D. Lafferty and Fernando Pereira, McCallum developed conditional random fields, first described in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). In 2011 this research paper won the ICML "Test of Time" (10-year best paper) award.
McCallum has written several widely used open-source software toolkits for machine learning, natural language processing and other text processing, including Rainbow, Mallet (software project), and FACTORIE. In addition, he was instrumental in publishing the Enron Corpus, a large collection of emails that has been used as a basis for a number of academic studies of social networking and language.
McCallum instigated and directs the nonprofit project OpenReview.net, an online platform that aims to promote openness in scientific communication, particularly the peer review process, by providing a flexible cloud-based web interface and underlying database API.
References
External links
Andrew McCallum's home page
Andrew McCallum's published papers
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Machine learning researchers
Artificial intelligence researchers
American computer scientists
Dartmouth College alumni
University of Rochester alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Natural language processing rese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenford%20Myers | Glenford Myers (born December 12, 1946) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He founded two successful high-tech companies (RadiSys and IP Fabrics), authored eight textbooks in the computer sciences, and made important contributions in microprocessor architecture. He holds a number of patents, including the original patent on "register scoreboarding" in microprocessor chips. He has a BS in electrical engineering from Clarkson University, an MS in computer science from Syracuse University, and a PhD in computer science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
Career
IBM
Myers joined IBM in 1968 in its Poughkeepsie, New York lab. After spending a few years working on developments associated with the System/360 mainframes, he moved to the prestigious IBM Systems Research Institute in New York City. There he headed up a small team of people developing an advanced computer system named "SWARD" (Software Oriented Architecture) incorporating such concepts as tagged storage, capability-based addressing, organization by objects, and a single-level store. The machine was built and successfully operated in 1980.
During this period, Myers also authored his first four books, including The Art of Software Testing, a book that became a classic and a best-seller in the computer science field, staying in print for 26 years before it was replaced by a second edition in 2004. Myers also served as a lecturer in computer science at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he taught graduate-level courses in computer science. Years later, he was the 1988 recipient of the J.-D. Warnier Prize for his contributions to the field of software engineering.
Intel
In early 1981 Myers was hired from IBM by the then-small company called Intel to build a new organization to head off the leadership Motorola seemed to be gaining with its "clean" 68000 chip rather than Intel's more-difficult-to-program 8086. This project, code named the "P4", became less critical to Intel when IBM, later that year, announced the IBM PC using a variant of the Intel 8086. To coordinate Intel's strategy, Myers was appointed Manager of Microprocessor Product-Line Architecture to manage a number of efforts, including the movement of the 8086 and successors to a 32-bit architecture called the Intel 80386 (386), in which Myers played a key role in making many of the early decisions, the Intel iAPX 432, a very unconventional design from Intel's team in Oregon, the Intel i860, a type of RISC vector-processing machine, and the RISC-oriented 80960 (i960). Myers also chaired Intel's Microprocessor Strategic Business Segment, part of Intel's strategic long-range planning process.
In 1983, Myers moved to Oregon to take personal charge of the design of the i960 microprocessor. The i960 was the first microprocessor chip that could execute multiple instructions in parallel. In 1986, Myers co-authored an invited paper with Intel senior vice preside |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Izmir | İzmir is a transportation hub for western Anatolia. İzmir has an extensive bus system, a developing metro and commuter rail system and a large urban ferry network. The city also has a highway to Çeşme and Aydın as well as a ring around the city. Mass transportation is operated by four separate public agencies all owned by the İzmir Municipality.
Road transport
İzmir is a major hub in roadways in the Aegean Region of Turkey. İzmir is the hub of motorways in the region and also is connected to the European road network. (The İzmir Beltway), (İzmir-Aydın Motorway), the (İzmir-Çeşme Motorway), the (Northern Aegean Motorway),
and the (İzmir-İstanbul Motorway) are the 5 motorways that serve İzmir.
Motorways
İzmir Çevre Yolu - Beltway of İzmir, linking Çiğli, northern Karşıyaka, Bayraklı, Bornova, Buca and Balçova.
İzmir-İstanbul Otoyolu - To Gebze via Manisa, Balıkesir and Bursa. Connects to the O-22 in Bursa and O-4 in Gebze
İzmir-Aydın Otoyolu - To Aydın via Torbalı and Selçuk. Connects to the O-30 in Buca.
İzmir-Çeşme Otoyolu - To Çeşme via Narlıdere, Güzelbahçe and Urla. Connects to the O-30 in Balçova.
Kuzey Ege Otoyolu - To Çandarlı via Aliağa and Menemenç Connects to the O-30 in Menemen.
European Roads
- South to Antalya via Aydın and Denizli. North to Odesa via Gelibolu, Kırklareli, Burgas, Varna and Constanța.
- Northeast to İzmit via Manisa, Balıkesir and Bursa.
- East to Sivrihisar via Uşak and Afyonkarahisar.
State Roads
- North to Edirne via Edremit and Çanakkale. South to Muğla via Aydın. - North to Bandırma via Manisa, and Balıkhesir.
- East to Van via Uşak, Afyonkarahisar, Konya, Aksaray, Nevşehir, Kayseri, Malatya, Elazığ, Bingöl, Muş and Bitlis. West to Çeşme.
Buses
ESHOT, along with its subsidiary İZULAŞ are the two main bus transit service in İzmir. Buses serve all districts, however, denser network presence attained in the central area. ESHOT is owned by the İzmir Metropolitan Mucicipality (İBB). Also there is an intercity bus terminal in Bornova with many daily buses to all around Turkey.
Rail transport
İzmir was the start of the oldest railway in Anatolia; The İzmir-Aydın Railway. The city is also a rail hub and the headquarters of District 3 of the Turkish State Railways is housed in Alsancak Terminal. İzmir also has the Turkey's largest commuter railroad; İZBAN, which carries an average 100,000 passengers daily. The İzmir Metro is a developing Rapid Transit system, opened in 2000. The railroad junction in Hilal is the only crisscross junction in Turkey, between two main lines.
Intercity and Regional Rail
The Turkish State Railways operates intercity and regional rail services to and from İzmir. Like İstanbul, İzmir has two main railway stations. Alsancak Terminal and Basmane Terminal. Basmane station services frequent regional train service to the south and southeast of the İzmir Province and mainline trains to Ankara, Bandırma and Afyon as well as regional service to Uşak. Alsancak used to be the mai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20H%C3%B8ibakk | Ralph Høibakk (born 14 July 1937) is a Norwegian entrepreneur. He established the Tandberg Data company in 1978, which produced ergonomically designed laptops and keyboards. Høibakk left the company in 1986, and started Høibakk Invest, which provides management consulting for new enterprises. He is also a mountaineer, and has climbed the Tirich Mir, Mount Everest and Drangnag Ri mountains in Asia with Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss and Arne Næss Jr.
Høibakk obtained a PhD in mathematics in 2017 (age 79) at the University of Tromsø.
Early and personal life
Høibakk was born to the engineer Rolf Høibakk (1908–2002) and his wife Mary Wilthil. In 1965, Høibakk married Inger Holm, but divorced her in 1998.
Career
Høibakk grew up at Rjukan and took examen artium in 1956. After that, he studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology until 1962. He then served his conscription at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment at Kjeller. During his conscription, he became familiar with the Manchester computer named FREDERIC, which was imported from the University of Manchester.
From 1963 to 1965, Høibakk worked at the SINTEF research centre in Trondheim. After he left SINTEF, Høibakk was appointed managing director of the computer technology company Nor-Data, which he remained for 13 years. In 1978, he was appointed chairman of Tandberg Radio data division. In the same year the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry decided to bankrupt Tandberg Radio, which was the first time the Norwegian government had decided to bankrupt a company. Høibakk decided to start a new company, Tandberg Data. It gained surplus in the first years, and in 1978 it released its first product; a table computer. In the following years, Tandberg Data produced keyboards and personal computers which were ergonomically designed.
In the 1980s, Tandberg Data tried to start business in the United States, but without success. In 1986, Høibakk resigned from his position in the company, and established Høibakk Invest AS, where he was managing director. In 2000, he was appointed Professor II at the Narvik University College.
Mountaineering
Høibakk is a noted mountaineer. In 1958, he was part of the first climbing of Trollryggen. He also climbed the mountain Tirich Mir in an expedition led by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss in 1964. In 1985, Høibakk climbed the Mount Everest with a group of 25 Norwegians, led by Arne Næss Jr. Ten years later, Høibakk climbed the Drangnag Ri mountain in Tibet with Chris Bonington and Bjørn Myhrer Lund. Høibakk and Bonington were hit by lightning at above sea level. In 1990, Høibakk skied to the South Pole with a group of Norwegians who were the first Norwegians to reach the South Pole on ski since Roald Amundsen. He later recalled that he found the ski trip a "bit boring".
Works
See also
List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
References
1937 births
Norwegian businesspeople
Norwegian mountain climbers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsford%20Legal%20Centre | Kingsford Legal Centre is an Australian not-for-profit legal centre. It is part of the network of Australian Community Legal Centres and also provides clinical legal education as part of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law. It provides free advice to the residents of the Botany and Randwick local government areas, in subjects such as employment law, debts, victims compensation and domestic violence, as well as providing a statewide service for discrimination matters.
It is funded by the Legal Aid Commission of New South Wales and supported by Herbert Smith Freehills, and has won many awards and honours for its work.
Description
Founded in 1981, Kingsford Legal Centre is a community legal centre, which also provides clinical legal education as part of the UNSW Faculty of Law.
It provides free advice, referrals and ongoing assistance to the residents of the Botany and Randwick council areas, in areas such as employment law, debts, victims' compensation and domestic violence, as well as a statewide service for discrimination matters. It takes on cases where there is no other source of assistance or where acting for the client will benefit the community by achieving change in the law or government policy.
Funding and partnerships
Kingsford Legal Centre receives funding from the Community Legal Services Programme of the New South Wales Legal Aid Commission, the Commonwealth of Australia through the Attorney-General's Department (Commonwealth Community Legal Services Program, Clinical Legal Education and Family Law) and the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law.
It has a partnership with Herbert Smith Freehills who provide a solicitor on secondment for six months twice a year.
International presence
Kingsford Legal Centre has appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Committee in New York and The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations Office at Geneva as an NGO.
Publicised cases and advisings
In 1982, the centre was consulted by the Ethnic Communities' Council of New South Wales after the New South Wales Board of Senior School Studies made an error in the marking of the Higher School Certificate Modern Greek examination which had caused a number of students to miss out on their choice of university admissions.
The Centre took up Australia's first legal claim by a member of the stolen generation.
In 2002, Kingsford Legal Centre successfully represented a mother who had suffered workplace discrimination on the grounds of family responsibilities. This case was one a "series of legal victories by trailblazers" in 2002 which clarified the "law protecting working women's rights".
In 2003, Kingsford Legal Centre were instructing solicitors in a case before a Full Bench of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission which "strengthened the rights of thousands of workers who are labelled casuals, but who are effectively permanent part-time staff." A waitress who was engaged by an emplo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantilly%20Lace%20%28film%29 | Chantilly Lace is a 1993 American made-for-television drama film shot in Sundance, Utah, for the Showtime Network and eventually released on video via Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. The film was directed by Linda Yellen and features dialogue that was largely improvised by its ensemble cast. It had its television premiere on Showtime on July 18, 1993.
Plot
Several female friends gather at a Colorado Rockies vacation home over the course of a year. The women include Natalie, a film critic who is turning 40, as well as Hannah, an artist who is married to Natalie’s ex-husband. There is also Val, a woman in an unhappy marriage, and Val’s closeted lesbian younger sister Elizabeth, who brings along her photojournalist friend Anne. Rounding out the group are Maggie, a nun who is having a crisis of faith, and Rheza, a recent divorcée.
During the story, the group meets three times, with the first occasion being a celebration of Natalie's 40th birthday. The second occasion is to celebrate one's engagement, while the third gathering is to grieve one’s death. Throughout the gatherings, secrets are divulged, tensions are rehashed, and friendships are tested and reaffirmed.
Cast
JoBeth Williams as Natalie
Helen Slater as Hannah
Lindsay Crouse as Rheza
Talia Shire as Maggie
Jill Eikenberry as Val
Ally Sheedy as Elizabeth
Martha Plimpton as Anne
Matt Battaglia as Chris the pizza boy
Production
Inspired by Christa Wolf's Cassandra, Yellen said she originally conceived of Chantilly Lace because of the preponderance of "incomplete roles for women, who are sketched instead of developed" in the movie business. She further developed it at the Sundance Film Institute, while Showtime provided production financing.
Yellen worked from a 40-page outline — instead of a screenplay — to extract improvisation from her performers.
The film, often compared to The Big Chill, was shot over eight days. Parts of the film were shot at the Sundance Institute in Provo Canyon, Utah. The two-hour film was composed from 28 hours' worth of film.
In addition to its all-female ensemble cast, the film is considered notable for the complete absence of any men in the film whatsoever, except for the brief appearance of a pizza-delivery man who remains faceless to the camera. This choice led critics to compare the film to George Cukor's The Women, another production that was notable for its absence of male characters.
Themes
The Sundance director of feature film, Michelle Satter, said the film explores the landscape of contemporary women's issues with humor and honesty "unlike any American film" that she had seen.
Reception
In a review for Variety, Emanuel Levy wrote, "The most interesting aspect of this production is how it struggles, and for the most part succeeds, in avoiding the temptation and confines of the sitcom format. As co-writer and helmer, [Linda] Yellen reveals a sensitive ear for women’s complexities and idiosyncracies. There are three standouts in the unifo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas%20Networks | Canvas Networks was a website centered on sharing and remixing media, particularly images. The website was established by the founder of 4chan, Christopher Poole. It closed in 2014.
Company and funding
Reports indicate that Canvas Networks received at least in seed funding. The site had seven employees and was based in New York City.
History
On January 31, 2011, Canvas officially opened, sending out invitations to users who had previously signed up to receive updates. In March 2011, Canvas made its discussion threads viewable by users who were not registered, while remaining in closed beta status. In early 2011, Poole began to virally market Canvas on sites such as Reddit. Canvas moved from private beta to open beta on September 6, 2011, at which point Poole reported that over fifty thousand users had registered during the private beta period. On January 21, 2014, the Canvas blog announced that the site was shutting down. The Canvas team promised that users would be able to download their contributions to the site in the near future, and proposed the possibility of an archive of the site's old threads.
Poole called his newer project, DrawQuest, "by all accounts a success", but noted that it had been created (in early 2013) "after the failure of our first product, Canvas". He hoped to keep DrawQuest running for "a few more months". Poole told TechCrunch that his team was "never able to crack the business side of things in time", that the value of their user community was not apparent to investors, and that they could not sufficiently monetize in-game purchases.
Site features and purpose
Canvas was an imageboard that allowed for anonymous and non-anonymous sharing and commenting on media, as well as the "remixing" of posted images, and the adding of music to animated GIFs. Unlike 4chan or other sites such as Reddit, Canvas had image editing tools built into it, negating the need for desktop editing programs like Adobe Photoshop in order to share with the site's community. Poole's goal with the website was to "reimagine forums in a world where everyone has a fast, modern browser". He asserts that the central idea of Canvas is "play", where "photo, video, and audio is all interactive, malleable, and participatory".
Though the site was intentionally separate from 4chan, it also emphasized anonymity, and allowed people to post anonymously or using pseudonyms. Despite the ability to act anonymously, the site received some criticism, especially from users of 4chan, for at first offering Facebook Connect as the only signup mechanism. It subsequently moved away from that policy.
Closure
On January 14, 2015, founder Christopher Poole announced that the company had been dissolved in December 2014 with the remaining funds being donated to charity. This was, in part, due to a series of security breaches that had occurred on the website.
References
External links
"Moot Reimagines The Image Board With A Fresh Canvas", TechCrunch, April 5, 2011
Amer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20DIANE | Project DIANE, an acronym for Diversified Information and Assistance NEtwork, was a very early videoconferencing based community service network created in the United States. DIANE was a grassroots driven regional videoconferencing consortium which promoted and supported cooperative electronic alliances in education, community service, and economic development.
Created in 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee, Project DIANE was in active operation as a centrally managed public service network until 2006. Portions of the network still remain in service, however, though no longer under the Project DIANE moniker.
Peak network membership consisted of more than 200 participating organizations and more than 350 program and technical coordinators, supporting live interactive video programming over a service region consisting of twelve U.S. states and five countries.
History
Project DIANE was first proposed by Dr. Stephen P. Shao, Jr. in 1992 as a regional diversity development project collaboration between the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and a small consortium of public and private universities located within TVA's six state service region. At the time, Dr. Shao was employed as a business research center director at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. After a year of deliberations and two successful community based field pilots, Project DIANE was given startup funding by the TVA.
The two field pilots, named the Nashville Pilot and the City Share Pilot were instrumental in demonstrating that videoconferencing technology was a viable and highly flexible mechanism through which to deliver a broad array of educational, economic development and public service resources to the general public. Both pilots were carried out with the participation of several dozen community service organizations, governmental agencies and corporations.
Primary sponsors and underwriters of the two pilots included TVA, BellSouth, IBM led by Steven Wilkinson, and PictureTel (later purchased by Polycom). The Nashville Pilot was an intracity test of desktop videoconferencing technology with application test sites in Nashville, Tennessee constructed at Tennessee State University, Cumberland Science Museum (later renamed the Adventure Science Center) and the Looby Public Library.
One month after conclusion of the Nashville Pilot, the City Share Pilot testbed was created by connecting the three Nashville video test locations to additional video sites constructed in Huntsville, Alabama. A large portfolio of community oriented and educational test applications between Nashville and Huntsville were launched with a 40-minute discussion of intercity cooperation between the mayors of the cities. It is believed that the City Share pilot was the first ever intercity videoconference link ever constructed for non-commercial purposes.
In the years following the project's pilot startup, many public and private organizations participated in the network's public service pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Pacific%20Business%20Development | South Pacific Business Development is a network of Microfinance institutions working in Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga to eliminate poverty. It aim to provide women in poor rural villages with the opportunity to start, grow, and maintain sustainable income-generating micro-enterprises, build assets through saving as well as finance home improvements and childhood education. SPBD also provides its clients with a range of training, financial services, and ongoing motivation so that they can climb permanently out of poverty.
History
South Pacific Business Development began in the small, rural island of Samoa in 2000. This microfinance organization was created by Gregory F. Casagrande to provide economic opportunities to women in poor communities in Samoa to improve their lifestyle as well as their families. Several years later, in July 2009 SPBD established a replication of SPBD (Samoa) in the Kingdom of Tonga named SPBD Microfinance (Tonga) Ltd. At the end of 2010, another replication was launched in Fiji, SPBD Microfinance (Fiji) Ltd, meeting the same success as SPBD (Samoa) and SPBD (Tonga). A third replication is in the works and is planned to be launched towards the end of 2012 in the Solomon Islands.
Network
At the end of 2010, South Pacific Business Development created a holding company called South Pacific Business Development Microfinance Holdings limited liability company (Delaware) in the United States of America and placed underneath it another holding company named South Pacific Business Development Microfinance Holdings Pte. Limited in Singapore. The Delaware-based entity serves as the gateway for United States investors to put their money into the SPBD Network, while the Singapore-based company plans to operate as a regional microfinance platform in the Pacific.
The South Pacific Business Development Microfinance Holdings Pte. Limited in Singapore owns SPBD Samoa, SPBD Tonga, and SPBD Fiji and is responsible for launching other greenfield microfinance operations in other Pacific Island countries such as in the Solomon Islands at the end of 2012.
All of SPBD's microfinance institutions are registered as non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs), with SPBD Samoa recently having transformed a non-governmental organization (NGO) status.
Statistics
Since distributing its first micro-enterprise loan in January 2000, SPBD has provided over 31,000 loans (approx. US$15,000,000) to create opportunities for about 14,000 Samoan families in 415 villages to build small businesses.
References
External links
South Pacific Business Development Website
Rainer Arnhold Fellows: Gregory F. Casagrande
Microfinance organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PmiRKB | PmiRKB is a database of plant miRNAs.
See also
MiRTarBase
MESAdb
microRNA
References
External links
http://bis.zju.edu.cn/pmirkb/
Biological databases
RNA
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf%20Bibliography | Deaf Bibliography is a searchable online bibliographic database to works in deaf studies published by Karen Nakamura since 1995. The database can be queried using quick search, Boolean, and faceted search options. Items included are monographs, chapters in edited volumes, journal articles, and pamphlets. It covers all facet of deaf culture, including Japan. Languages included are English and Japanese. Subject areas covered are the social and environmental sciences, humanities and arts, alongside some items from medical, biological, and natural sciences. Every entry in the bibliography is categorised by region, country, and subject, and newer entries are tagged with additional keywords.
External links
Publications established in 1995
Online databases
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragomir%20R.%20Radev | Dragomir R. Radev (August 7, 1968 – March 29, 2023) was an American computer scientist who was a professor at Yale University, working on natural language processing and information retrieval. He also served as a University of Michigan computer science professor and Columbia University computer science adjunct professor, as well as a Member of the Advisory Board of Lawyaw.
Radev worked in the fields of open domain question answering, multi-document summarization, and the application of NLP in Bioinformatics, Social Network Analysis and Political Science.
Radev received his PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1999. He had served on the executive committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and as survey editor and associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
Radev died on March 29, 2023, at the age of 54.
IOL
Radev served as the coach and led the US national team in the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) to several gold medals .
Awards
As NACLO founder, Radev shared the Linguistic Society of America 2011 Linguistics, Language and the Public Award. He was the co-winner of the Gosnell Prize (2006).
In 2015, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to natural language processing and computational linguistics."
In 2022, Dragomir Radev received the 2022 ACL Distinguished Service Award.
Books
Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation (2013)
Mihalcea and Radev (2011) Graph-based methods for NLP and IR
Selected Papers
SIGIR 1995 Generating summaries of multiple news articles
ANLP 1997 Building a generation knowledge source using internet-accessible newswire
Computational Linguistics 1998 Generating natural language summaries from multiple on-line sources
ACL 1998 Learning correlations between linguistic indicators and semantic constraints: Reuse of context dependent descriptions of entities
ANLP 2000 Ranking suspected answers to natural language questions using predictive annotation
CIKM 2001 Mining the web for answers to natural language questions
AAAI 2002 Towards CST-enhanced summarization
ACL 2003 Evaluation challenges in large-scale multi-document summarization: the Mead project
Information Processing and Management 2004 Centroid-based summarization of multiple documents
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2004 LexRank: Graph-based lexical centrality as salience in text summarization
Journal of the American Association of Information Science and Technology 2005 Probabilistic question answering on the web
Communications of the ACM 2005 NewsInEssence: summarizing online news topics
EMNLP 2007 Semi-supervised classification for extracting protein interaction sentences using dependency parsing
Bioinformatics 2008 Identifying gene-disease associations using centrality on a literature mined gene-interaction network
IEEE Intelligent Systems 2008 natural language processing and the web
NAACL 2009 Generating surveys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criss-cross%20algorithm | In mathematical optimization, the criss-cross algorithm is any of a family of algorithms for linear programming. Variants of the criss-cross algorithm also solve more general problems with linear inequality constraints and nonlinear objective functions; there are criss-cross algorithms for linear-fractional programming problems, quadratic-programming problems, and linear complementarity problems.
Like the simplex algorithm of George B. Dantzig, the criss-cross algorithm is not a polynomial-time algorithm for linear programming. Both algorithms visit all 2D corners of a (perturbed) cube in dimension D, the Klee–Minty cube (after Victor Klee and George J. Minty), in the worst case. However, when it is started at a random corner, the criss-cross algorithm on average visits only D additional corners. Thus, for the three-dimensional cube, the algorithm visits all 8 corners in the worst case and exactly 3 additional corners on average.
History
The criss-cross algorithm was published independently by Tamas Terlaky and by Zhe-Min Wang; related algorithms appeared in unpublished reports by other authors.
Comparison with the simplex algorithm for linear optimization
In linear programming, the criss-cross algorithm pivots between a sequence of bases but differs from the simplex algorithm. The simplex algorithm first finds a (primal-) feasible basis by solving a "phase-one problem"; in "phase two", the simplex algorithm pivots between a sequence of basic feasible solutions so that the objective function is non-decreasing with each pivot, terminating with an optimal solution (also finally finding a "dual feasible" solution).
The criss-cross algorithm is simpler than the simplex algorithm, because the criss-cross algorithm only has one phase. Its pivoting rules are similar to the least-index pivoting rule of Bland. Bland's rule uses only signs of coefficients rather than their (real-number) order when deciding eligible pivots. Bland's rule selects an entering variables by comparing values of reduced costs, using the real-number ordering of the eligible pivots. Unlike Bland's rule, the criss-cross algorithm is "purely combinatorial", selecting an entering variable and a leaving variable by considering only the signs of coefficients rather than their real-number ordering. The criss-cross algorithm has been applied to furnish constructive proofs of basic results in linear algebra, such as the lemma of Farkas.
While most simplex variants are monotonic in the objective (strictly in the non-degenerate case), most variants of the criss-cross algorithm lack a monotone merit function which can be a disadvantage in practice.
Description
The criss-cross algorithm works on a standard pivot tableau (or on-the-fly calculated parts of a tableau, if implemented like the revised simplex method). In a general step, if the tableau is primal or dual infeasible, it selects one of the infeasible rows / columns as the pivot row / column using an index selection rule. An im |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAD%20Inc. | iCAD Inc. (NASDAQ: ICAD) is a medical-device manufacturer. Headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, iCAD offers computer aided detection (CAD) to support detection of breast, prostate and colorectal cancers. The iCAD technology platforms also include hardware and software for radiation therapy treatment.
History
iCAD was founded in 1984 as Howtek, Inc. Howtek developed, manufactured and marketed digitizing systems or scanners. The scanners converted printed, photographic and other hard copy images to digital form for use in the graphic arts, photo finishing and medical industries. From 1984 to 2000 Howtek successfully developed a series of products that improved the quality of digital imaging while reducing the price and complexity of digitizing systems. In 2001, foreseeing a decline in the graphic arts and photo finishing industries, Howtek elected to focus solely on the medical imaging market. The company acquired Intelligent Systems Software, Inc. (ISSI) which had developed an approved computer-aided detection system for breast cancer. Subsequently, the company acquired Qualia Computing, Inc. of Ohio and its subsidiary, CADx Systems, Inc. These acquisitions brought together two of the three companies with FDA clearance to market CAD solutions for breast cancer in the United States.
iCad originally focused on image-analysis products designed to help radiologists and other health-care providers detect cancers early. In December 2010, iCAD expanded the company’s oncology footprint by acquiring Xoft, Inc. It acquired Xoft's Axxent system, which delivers radiation therapy directly to cancer sites with minimal radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissue, according to the company. The system was approved in the U.S. for early-stage breast cancer, endometrial cancer and skin cancer, as well as other varieties where radiation therapy is indicated, the initial report on the acquisition stated. The shield used in the system had been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June 2009 in an abbreviated process used for devices that are considered equivalent to products already on the market. That process, known as 510(k), takes less time than the procedure used to approve a new device, and it generally does not require tests on humans."
Trends in healthcare
iCAD continues to experience a period of growth in its cancer therapy business. Radiation treatment for breast, skin and gynecological cancers is moving from conventional external beam therapy to shorter duration, more targeted therapy. The advantages of the Xoft System, which is FDA cleared for treatment anywhere in the body, have significant potential to improve patient care and quality of life.
iCAD is also applying its patented technology and algorithms to the development of CAD solutions for use with digital mammography and CT Colonography (CTC). The company is also increasing distribution through large OEM partners, such as General Electric (GE).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Vianu | Victor Vianu is a computer scientist, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM from 2009 to 2015.
Vianu did his graduate studies at the University of Southern California, earning his Ph.D. in 1983 under the supervision of Seymour Ginsburg; he joined the UCSD faculty in 1984.
Vianu's book Foundations of Databases (with Serge Abiteboul and Richard Hull, Addison-Wesley, 1995) is a standard graduate textbook in database theory. In finite model theory and computational complexity theory, the Abiteboul–Vianu theorem (also published with Abiteboul, at the 1991 Symposium on Theory of Computing) states that polynomial time equals PSPACE if and only if fixed-point logic equals partial fixed-point logic. At the 2010 Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, Vianu and his co-authors Dan Suciu and Tova Milo won the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for their work ten years prior on type checking for XML transformation languages. Vianu and his co-author Luc Segoufin won a second Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time award in 2015, for their 2005 article "Views and Queries: Determinacy and Rewriting."
In 2006, Vianu was elected as a Fellow of the ACM for his "contributions to database management systems".
In 2013, he was elected Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). He was elected to Academia Europaea in 2014.
In his first paper recorded by DBLP (presented at MFCS, 1977), Vianu acknowledges Solomon Marcus for guidance.
References
External links
Home page at UCSD
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Database researchers
University of Southern California alumni
University of California, San Diego faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand%20Ranga | Anand Ranga is a film director who works in Telugu film Industry.
Personal life and career
Anand Ranga was born and raised in Hyderabad. He graduated in computers and then went on to do Diploma in Film Technology, specializing in direction and screenplay writing from Film & Television Institute of Tamil Nadu, Chennai. He directed his debut Telugu feature film Oy! in 2009. He started a production house called Random Thoughts has produced two films DK Bose (2015) & Poga (2014).
Ranga is married to Telugu film dubbing artist Sowmya Sharma and lives in Hyderabad.
Filmography
Director
Oy! (2009)
Shootout at Alair (2020) (series)
Additional screenplay, executive producer and songs director
Kaadhali (2017)
References
1975 births
Living people
Telugu film directors
Film directors from Hyderabad, India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil%20Nadu%20Sampark%20Kranti%20Express | The 12651 / 12652 Tamil Nadu Sampark Kranti Express is one of the Sampark Kranti Express trains, operating on India's broad-gauge network that connects in Tamil Nadu and in New Delhi, a distance of approximately in 42 hours approximately, maintaining an average speed of . From April 2021, it runs with newly manufactured highly refurbished LHB rakes.
Overview
This bi-weekly train was introduced to provide a quicker journey from New Delhi to Tamil Nadu. Southern Railway began operating the train on 19 September 2004. It shares its rakes with 22623/22624 Madurai–Chennai Egmore–Madurai Bi-weekly Superfast Express (via Dindigul, Trichy, Thanjavur, Viluppuram).
Coach composition
1 AC Two Tier
2 AC Three Tier
8 Sleeper class
4 Unreserved
1 Pantry car
2 End-on Generator car (EOG)
Timings
12651 Madurai Junction–Hazrat Nizamuddin Express departs Madurai Junction every Sunday and Tuesday at 00.55 and reaches Hazrat Nizamuddin at 18.35 the next day.
In return, 12652 Hazrat Nizamuddin–Madurai Junction leaves Hazrat Nizamuddin every Tuesday and Thursday at 05.20 and reaches Madurai Junction at 00.05 Thursday and Saturday.
Route & Halts
It runs from Madurai Junction via , , , , , , , , , , , , to Hazrat Nizamuddin.
Traction
This route is fully electrified and it is hauled by a Royapuram-based WAP-7 locomotive from end to end.
References
Transport in Madurai
Transport in Delhi
Sampark Kranti Express trains
Rail transport in Tamil Nadu
Rail transport in Madhya Pradesh
Rail transport in Uttar Pradesh
Rail transport in Andhra Pradesh
Rail transport in Maharashtra
Rail transport in Delhi
Railway services introduced in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icinga | Icinga is an open-source computer system and network monitoring application. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application in 2009.
Icinga is working to improve the Nagios' development process, as well as adding new features such as a modern Web 2.0 style user interface, additional database connectors (for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL), and a REST API that lets administrators integrate numerous extensions without complicated modification of the Icinga core.
The Icinga developers also seek to reflect community needs more closely and to integrate patches more quickly. The first stable version, 1.0, was released in December 2009, and the version counter had risen every couple of months as of January 2010.
History
In May 2009 a group of developers from the Nagios community announced the fork Icinga, citing their dissatisfaction with the stagnant development of the Nagios software at the time and their desire to open its development to a broader base. The name Icinga is a Zulu word meaning "it looks for", "it browses" or "it examines" and is pronounced with a click consonant.
In their first year, Icinga developers released separate versions of Core, API and Web, and celebrated their 10,000th download.
In its second year, the Icinga project released unified and stable Core and Web; added dual-stack IPv6 and IPv4 support, optimized database connectivity and revamped the Icinga Web user interface, integrating various community add-ons (PNP4Nagios, LConf, Heatmap and Business Process Addon). The project achieved more than 70,000 downloads and grew to 23 team members.
In their second year, Icinga celebrated their 100,000th download, integrated the Icinga API component into Icinga Web; improved SLA reporting; and extended the Icinga virtual appliances to the Debian, OpenSUSE and CentOS operating systems.
In October 2012 the Icinga project released a technology preview of a core framework replacement and parallel development branch, Icinga 2. The developers expressed their intentions to rewrite the core to correct shortcomings, such as complicated configuration and scalability limitations in large deployments. The project signposted plans to write the Icinga 2 core mainly in C++, design a new component loader architecture, and remodel the process of executing monitoring checks.
In June 2014 the Icinga project released the first stable release of Icinga 2. New features, such as an agent or API feature, are scheduled for later releases.
Timeline of releases
Features
Due to its nature as a fork, Icinga offers Nagios’ features with some additions such as optional reporting module with improved SLA accuracy, additional database connectors for PostgreSQL and Oracle, and distributed systems for redundant monitoring.
Icinga also maintains configuration and plug-in compatibility with Nagios, facilitating migration between the two monitoring software.
Monitoring
Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopetz | Kopetz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barry Kopetz (born 1951), American music composer and conductor
Hermann Kopetz (born 1943), Austrian computer scientist
Ladislaus Michael Kopetz (1902–1966), Austrian crop farming scientist
Vera Kopetz (1910–1998), German painter and graphic artist
Paul Kopetz (born 1968), Australian/Polish music composer, arranger, clarinettist, conductor, and music educator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20transition%20network | A state transition network is a diagram that is developed from a set of data and charts the flow of data from particular data points (called states or nodes) to the next in a probabilistic manner.
Use
State transition networks are used in both academic and industrial fields.
Examples
State transition networks are a general construct, with more specific examples being augmented transition networks, recursive transition networks, and augmented recursive networks, among others.
See also
State transition system
Markov network
History monoid
References
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn%20Notice%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of the American television spy drama Burn Notice premiered on June 23, 2011 on the cable television channel USA Network. The season concluded after its eighteenth episode on December 15, 2011.
Season overview
Six months after the arrest of Vaughn and the retrieval of the NOC list, Michael has been working with the CIA to capture, imprison, or execute all of the people that worked for the organization that burned him. With only one high-ranking operative remaining, Michael, his boss Raines (Dylan Baker), and partner Max (Grant Show) attempt to extract the final spy, but he commits suicide rather than face the CIA. Having to return to Miami before being reinstated, Michael struggles with civilian life, constantly checking and re-checking inconsistencies in the documents on Management.
In the fourth episode of the season "No Good Deed", Michael and Max work to steal a piece of stolen information and bring it back to the CIA. When Michael shows up to the de-brief, he discovers Max bleeding out on the floor, shot by what is likely the murder weapon beside him. Hearing gunfire, he picks up the weapon and attempts to chase down the murderer, who escapes unidentified. Michael covers his tracks, and the murderer's, before escaping. Michael's suspicions about being framed for the murder are confirmed when Sam discovers a newly opened box of ammunition that matches the murder weapon in the car Michael used to drive to the building. Destroying the weapon, Michael and his team run their investigation parallel to Agent Dani Pearce (Lauren Stamile), the lead investigator for the CIA.
Tracking them through the imposter used to pose as Michael, they find that an extremely complex bomb was prepared to kill him; the intricacies of the bomb lead them to a Romanian war criminal who created the bomb for an old friend, Tavian Korzha (Andrew Howard). Tracking Korzha to his warehouse they catch a glimpse of him but he escapes. Using data from Korzha's computers they locate the source of his funds, which also allows for them to attempt an ambush, which he anticipates, and kidnaps Sam, demanding a meeting with Michael. While he insists on only that time and place, Jesse's NSA and FBI connections lock down the island for the meet, forcing him to stay. However, Michael, reentering his loft after a CIA extraction mission, encounters Agent Pearce, who has found proof of a Charger leaving the scene of Max's murder, enough proof to convince her that Michael was the killer, arresting him at gunpoint. Sam and Jesse intercept the CIA convoy, convincing Pearce to let Michael meet Korzha. While wearing a wire, Michael gets Korzha to confess to the frame and murder, but Korzha kills himself to avoid further interrogation. Michael is exonerated and debriefed.
Upon his return, Michael is kidnapped by Larry Sizemore (Tim Matheson), who has also kidnapped DIA psychiatrist Anson Fullerton (Jere Burns). Using Anson as leverage, Larry forces Michael to help him break i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO%20Hits | HBO Hits is a Southeast Asian multiplex channel owned by HBO Asia, launched on 16 March 2006, which features Hollywood blockbuster movies of various genres.
Programming
HBO Hits Asia has licensing deals with 5 major Hollywood conglomerate film studios:
Warner Bros. Discovery (Warner Bros. Pictures; New Line Cinema, HBO Films, Castle Rock Entertainment; Warner Independent Pictures)
Paramount Global: (Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage).
Universal Pictures (NBCUniversal)
Sony Pictures
Independent Film Productions, such as Lionsgate Films, Regency Enterprises, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A24, etc.
See also
HBO 2
References
External links
Official website
Hits
HBO Hits
HBO Hits
Movie channels in Singapore
Movie channels in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepTar%20%28database%29 | RepTar is a repository of cellular targets of host and viral miRNAs.
See also
MiRTarBase
MESAdb
PmiRKB
microRNA
References
External links
http://reptar.ekmd.huji.ac.il.
Biological databases
RNA
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talfazat-ART | Talfazat is an Arabic IPTV network, streaming 19 live Arabic TV channels and On-Demand Arabic videos including news, entertainment, music and sports channels
Many of the on Demand shows are recorded series that are premiered during Arabic TV’s Prime season of Ramadan
Users who are registered with Talfazat can watch programs on the proprietary player on the website or on their Televisions.
The same content can be accessed on a television through a top set box that is connected to the public internet.
Both of these processes can be referred to as IPTV
Talfazat is powered by Neulion IPTV technology.
Channels Offered
(As of February 22, 2012)
2MTV
Abu Dhabi Emirates
Abu Dhabi Sports
Addounia TV
Al Alam
Al Alan
Al Baghdadia
Al Diyar
Al Rai TV
Arab Woman Channel
Future TV
Hannibal
Infinity
Mehwar
OTV
Palestine TV
Sama Dubai
Sudan TV
Tele Liban
Availability
Currently Talfazat is available in the U.S. and Canada.
Legality
Talfazat is a legitimately legal service which pays for the rights to broadcast its channels.
Sources
Official Website
IPTV technology
Arabic-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjei%20Str%C3%B8m | Tarjei Frugård Strøm (born October 26, 1978, in Bergen, Norway) is a drummer for the Norwegian rock groups Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band and Datarock.
He also co-hosted the radio show 'Sexy' on Norwegian radio channel NRK P3, along with Totto Mjelde.
Bands
Ralph Myerz and The Jack Herren Band
The band was formed in 1997 when Erlend Sellevold asked for people to play percussion with him during a party in Bergen. Thomas Lønnheim and Tarjei Strøm showed up through a combination of mutual contacts and high-school friendship. Supposedly a one-time-event, they had so much fun playing together that they decided to form a band, and Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band was formed. After releasing a 7" and a 12" on the Norwegian record label Tellé Records. Those limited releases were followed by some attention from magazines and dj's around Europe, including Dimitri from Paris who included the track "Nikita" on one of his Playboy Mansion CD-compilations. In 2002 they were signed by the US label Emperor Norton Records, and they released their EP, A Special EP. The album A Special Album followed one year later. It included the tracks "Casino" and "Think Twice", which both became hits in clubs across Europe, and commercial hits in Norway. During their touring promoting this album, the band was joined by guitarist Mads Berven on their live shows.
Datarock
Strøm is also one of the touring and recording drummers for the Norwegian electronic group Datarock.
Discography (in selection)
His own projects
With Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
1999: Nikita Single (Tellé Records)
1999: Brave New World Single (Éllet Records)
2002: A Special EP (Emperor Norton)
2003: A Special Album (Emperor Norton)
2004: Your New Best Friends (Emperor Norton)
2006: Sharp Knives & Loaded Guns (EMI Records)
With Datarock
2009: Red (Young Aspiring Professionals)
Collaborations
With Kings of Convenience
2000: Kings of Convenience (Kindercore Records)
2001: Quiet Is The New Loud (Virgin Records)
With Magnet
2003: On Your Side (Sony Music Japan)
With Julian Berntzen
2003: Waffy Town (Sony Music)
2004: Pictures in the House Where She Lives (Universal Music Norway)
With Ephemera
2004: Monolove (Ephemera Records)
With Christine Sandtorv
2006: First Last Dance (Ephemera Records)
With Maria Mena
2013: Weapon in Mind'' (Sony Music)
References
External links
Datarock on FaceBook
Norwegian rock drummers
Male drummers
Living people
Norwegian composers
Norwegian male composers
1978 births
Musicians from Bergen
21st-century Norwegian drummers
21st-century Norwegian male musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20supply%20chain%20security | Digital supply chain security refers to efforts to enhance cyber security within the supply chain. It is a subset of supply chain security and is focused on the management of cyber security requirements for information technology systems, software and networks, which are driven by threats such as cyber-terrorism, malware, data theft and the advanced persistent threat (APT). Typical supply chain cyber security activities for minimizing risks include buying only from trusted vendors, disconnecting critical machines from outside networks, and educating users on the threats and protective measures they can take.
The acting deputy undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate for the United States Department of Homeland Security, Greg Schaffer, stated at a hearing that he is aware that there are instances where malware has been found on imported electronic and computer devices sold within the United States.
Examples of supply chain cyber security threats
Network or computer hardware that is delivered with malware installed on it already.
Malware that is inserted into software or hardware (by various means)
Vulnerabilities in software applications and networks within the supply chain that are discovered by malicious hackers
Counterfeit computer hardware
Related U.S. government efforts
Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative
Defense Procurement Regulations: Noted in section 806 of the National Defense Authorization Act
International Strategy for Cyberspace: White House lays out for the first time the U.S.’s vision for a secure and open Internet. The strategy outlines three main themes: diplomacy, development and defense.
Diplomacy: The strategy sets out to “promote an open, interoperable, secure and reliable information and communication infrastructure” by establishing norms of acceptable state behavior built through consensus among nations.
Development: Through this strategy the government seeks to “facilitate cybersecurity capacity-building abroad, bilaterally and through multilateral organizations.” The objective is to protect the global IT infrastructure and to build closer international partnerships to sustain open and secure networks.
Defense: The strategy calls out that the government “will ensure that the risks associated with attacking or exploiting our networks vastly outweigh the potential benefits” and calls for all nations to investigate, apprehend and prosecute criminals and non-state actors who intrude and disrupt network systems.
Related government efforts around the world
Common Criteria offers with Evaluation Assurance Level(EAL) 4 an opportunity to evaluate all relevant aspects of the digital supply chain security like the product, the development environment, IT systems security, the processes in human resource, physical security and with the module ALC_FLR.3 (Systematic Flaw Remediation) also security update processes and methods even by physical site visits. EAL 4 is mutually recognized in cou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Internet%20Exchange | Federal Internet Exchange (FIX) points were policy-based network peering points where U.S. federal agency networks, such as the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET), NASA Science Network (NSN), Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), and MILNET were interconnected.
Two FIXes were established in June 1989 under the auspices of the Federal Engineering Planning Group (FEPG). FIX East, at the University of Maryland in College Park, and FIX West, at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The existence of the FIXes allowed the ARPANET to be phased out in mid-1990. FIX West was eventually expanded to become MAE-West, one of the NSF-supported Network Access Points.
See also
Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX)
Network Access Point (NAP)
Internet Exchange Point (IXP)
References
History of the Internet
Internet exchange points in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAC%20Laboratories | ADAC Laboratories was a Silicon Valley medical device company specialising in nuclear medicine gamma camera manufacturing and associated nuclear medicine processing computers and software. It was originally located at 10300 Bubb Road, Cupertino, California, 95014, then as the company expanded moved in turn to the following locations. 4747 Hellyer Avenue, San Jose, CA 951, then 255 San Geronimo Way, Sunnyvale, CA, then from ~1993, 540 Alder Drive Milpitas, CA 95035. Although most people called the company ADAC or adaclabs, the name ADAC was an acronym of Analytical Development Associates Corporation. It was incorporated in California on October 14, 1970.
In the early years ADAC developed both small nuclear medicine related hardware and software products but between 1975 and the 1980s, become better known for their computer systems such as the CDS and DPS acquisition and processing systems. In 1987–88 ADAC maintained Philips ARC gamma camera installed base under licence and In ~1991 Philips exited the nuclear medicine market. At that time, the Dutch vendor licensed its nuclear technology to both ADAC and Digital Design of France". The 1990s were the dominant decade for ADAC in terms of gamma camera production, manufacturing the Argus, Genesys, Polaris, Thyrus, Transcam, Vertex, Forte and Skylight gamma cameras as well as the EPIC detector and molecular coincidence detection (MCD) option, along with the Pegasys nuclear medicine processing workstation and radiation treatment planning systems (RTP). In 1993 it was sued by Elscint for patent infringement and in 1994 purchased Philips' nuclear medicine patent portfolio, consisting of 13 U.S. patents and 56 foreign patents and patent applications. "ADAC announced it had filed a patent infringement claim against Elscint in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, charging Elscint with violating the Philips patents. ADAC filed the lawsuit in direct response to the Elscint litigation". In 1996, ADAC was the recipient of a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and during that year employed 720 people worldwide.
ADAC Laboratories was acquired by Philips in 2000 for $426 million, and incorporated into Philips Medical Systems (later Philips Healthcare). ADAC continued to operate from the Milpitas location until around 2006 and was submitting FDA pre-market filings under the company name ADAC Laboratories, Milpitas, until 2006, where upon the 540 Alder Drive, Milpitas operation was closed and ADAC become fully integrated into the Philips organisation.
Products
Network based Nuclear Medicine Analysis and early products
Nuclear Medicine Acquisition/Processing and Processing Only Workstations
Digital Radiography Systems
Gamma Cameras
Products post Philips acquisition but issuing FDA pre-market filings as ADAC Laboratories, 540 Alder Dr., Milpitas, CA 95035.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Radiation Treatment Planning Systems
Healthcare Information Systems (ADAC Laboratories, Milpitas and HCIS a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherrybrook%20railway%20station | Cherrybrook railway station is a station on the Sydney Metro network's North West Line, located along the Castle Hill Road in the suburb of Cherrybrook, New South Wales. The station is planned to eventually serve trains to the Sydney central business district and Bankstown as part of the government's 20-year Sydney's Rail Future strategy.
History
The NSW Government announced a future railway line through the Cherrybrook area, from Epping to Castle Hill, as part of its Action for Public Transport strategy in 1998. (The document did not specifically list any intermediate stations, however.) A more specific but longer-term plan, presented by Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie three years later, listed possible stations at Koala Park, West Pennant Hills, and Highs Road, also in the West Pennant Hills.
In 2002, Transport Minister Carl Scully announced that the notional Koala Park and Highs Road sites would be served by a single station at Franklin Road, Cherrybrook, to be called Franklin Road. This site faces Castle Hill Road, like its predecessors, and is roughly halfway between the two. Franklin Road Station remained part of successive north-western rail proposals, including the Metropolitan Rail Expansion Strategy in 2005 and a short-lived metro proposal in 2008.
Following a change of government, work on the Sydney Metro Northwest commenced in 2013. The station was renamed Cherrybrook Station (Government Land) in the final proposal. The new station opened 26 May, 2019. The station is operated by Metro Trains Sydney, which was also responsible for the design of the station as part of its Operations, Trains and Systems contract with Transport for NSW.
Services
Cherrybrook has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Metro North West Line services. Cherrybrook station is served by a number of bus routes operated by CDC NSW.
References
External links
Cherrybrook Station description at Sydney Metro Northwest project website
Northwest Rapid Transit corporate website
Cherrybrook Station details Transport for New South Wales (Archived 18 June 2019)
Easy Access railway stations in Sydney
Railway stations in Australia opened in 2019
Sydney Metro stations
Hornsby Shire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellyville%20railway%20station | Kellyville railway station is an elevated station on the Metro North West Line, as part of the Sydney Metro network. The station was built by Impregilo-Salini and Metro Trains Sydney for Transport for NSW, and is situated along Samantha Riley Drive, Kellyville, in Sydney, Australia. Train services from the station run to Rouse Hill and , with a journey time to Chatswood of around 33 minutes. As the New South Wales Government's Sydney's Rail Future strategy is delivered over the next 20 years, services are expected to be extended to the Sydney central business district (CBD) and . Kellyville Station opened on 26 May 2019.
History
Kellyville, on Sydney's rural fringes, was not considered suitable for new suburban development until 1988, when then Planning Minister Bob Carr abandoned the state's long-standing policy of concentrating new development along existing rail corridors. Instead, the government green-lit development in the area on the proviso that a corridor be preserved for mass transit to be built in future. This corridor, which runs beside Old Windsor Road, was announced as the alignment for the North West T-way, a new bus rapid transit line 10 years later and construction began in 2004. Kellyville's three T-way stations – known as Riley, Burns and Balmoral – opened in March 2007, providing commuters with fast bus access from Kellyville to the Parramatta CBD. Commuters travelling to the Sydney CBD, however, needed to catch buses along the M2 Hills Motorway and congested Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The Government's 1998 plan also envisaged a future rail line to the Hills District, but only as far as . Following dire warnings from the state's most senior rail bureaucrat about a looming capacity crunch on the rail system, a new "North West Rail Link" (NWRL) was proposed in 2005, featuring a station for Kellyville at the corner of Old Windsor and Burns roads – the site of the Burns T-way station, then under construction. A Burns Road Station remained government policy even when the NWRL was dumped in favour of the North West Metro proposal in 2008. The 2009 version of plan featured two stations, one at Burns Road, called Kellyville, and a second at Samantha Riley Drive.
Design and construction
The Australian Labor Party was heavily defeated at the 2011 state election in part because of its tendency to announce, cancel and re-announce transport projects. The incoming Liberal/Nationals government, led by Barry O'Farrell, had put a promise to build the NWRL at the centre of their election platform. During consultation and detailed design, it was decided that Burns Road would be replaced with two stations: , on the edge of the giant Norwest Business Park, and Kellyville. Kellyville Station would be built on a new railway viaduct (dubbed the "skytrain") above the existing Riley T-way station.
As part of the project's public–private partnership delivery model, a consortium was chosen to operate the stations and trains. To ensure that the station |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk%20%28disambiguation%29 | A thunk is type of computer software subroutine.
Thunk may also refer to:
Thunk, a character from the animated TV series Dawn of the Croods
"Thunk", a track from the 1971 album Bark by Jefferson Airplane
"Thunk", a 1990 album by American rock band Eleven
See also
"Thunk in the Trunk", an episode of the American sitcom Modern Family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity%20%28data%20store%29 | The elasticity of a data store relates to the flexibility of its data model and clustering capabilities. The greater the number of data model changes that can be tolerated, and the more easily the clustering can be managed, the more elastic the data store is considered to be.
Types
Clustering elasticity
Clustering elasticity is the ease of adding or removing nodes from the distributed data store. Usually, this is a difficult and delicate task to be done by an expert in a relational database system. Some NoSQL data stores, like Apache Cassandra have an easy solution, and a node can be added/removed with a few changes in the properties and by adding specifying at least one seed.
Data-modelling elasticity
Relational databases are most often very inelastic, as they have a predefined data model that can only be adapted through redesign. Most NoSQL data stores, however, do not have a fixed schema. Each row can have a different number and even different type of columns. Concerning the data store, modifications in the schema are no problem. This makes this kind of data stores more elastic concerning the data model. The drawback is that the programmer has to take into account that the data model may change over time.
References
See also
Apache Cassandra
Oracle NoSQL Database
Data store
Data modeling
Databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%3A%20Los%20Angeles%20%28video%20game%29 | Battle: Los Angeles is a first-person shooter developed by Saber Interactive and published by Konami for Microsoft Windows (Steam), PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade in 2011. It was released to conicide with the release of the 2011 film of the same name. Aaron Eckhart reprised his role for the game. Players assume the role of Corporal Lee Imlay throughout the game.
Reception
The game received "unfavorable" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
Since its release, the Xbox 360 version sold 60,076 units worldwide by the end of 2011.
References
External links
2011 video games
Alien invasions in video games
First-person shooters
Konami games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Saber Interactive games
Video games based on films
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky%20Lab%20Rat | Funky Lab Rat is a downloadable-only puzzle-platform game for the PlayStation 3. It was created by independent developer Hydravision Entertainment, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America in 2010. The game was removed sometime in 2012, but the demo remained available until 2015.
Gameplay
Funky Lab Rat is a puzzle-platform game that makes use of the PlayStation Move. The player plays a disco-dressed lab rat with a magic wand that has DVD-like powers. The player can pause time and rearrange platforms, rewind time to prevent death, simply reset the level, or can automatically finish the level by fast-forwarding. The goal is to collect a set number of pills and reach the end of the level.
Reception
Funky Lab Rat received a score of 73 out of 100 at Metacritic. GameSpot said that "[n]ovel time-manipulation mechanics are crippled by clumsy platforming". GameZone noted the game as too challenging, calling it "an acquired taste". Eurogamer called the game "engaging".
References
2010 video games
Hydravision Entertainment games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
PlayStation Move-only games
PlayStation Network games
Puzzle-platform games
Single-player video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games about mice and rats
Video games developed in France
Video games with time manipulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%3A%20A%20Fairy%20Secret | Barbie: A Fairy Secret is a 2011 computer-animated fantasy film directed by William Lau. Produced by Mattel Entertainment and Litton Entertainment in association with Rainmaker Entertainment. It was first released on DVD on March 15, 2011, and made its television premiere on Nickelodeon on April 17, 2011. The nineteenth entry in the Barbie film series, it features the voices of Diana Kaarina, who reprised her role as Barbie, and Adrian Petriw as Ken. The plot has a shared universe with Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale, where Barbie must team up with her frenemy Raquelle to save Ken from marrying a fairy princess and being trapped in a fairy world forever. This is the first Barbie film to be created by Litton Entertainment.
Official description
"Get ready for Barbie A Fairy Secret, an amazing adventure with Barbie where she discovers there are fairies living secretly all around us! When Ken is suddenly whisked away by a group of fairies, Barbie's two fashion stylist friends reveal they are actually fairies and that Ken has been taken to a magical secret fairy world not far away! Barbie and her rival Raquelle take off with the fairy friends on an action-packed journey to bring him back. Along the way they must stick together and learn that the real magic lies not just in the fairy world itself, but in the power of friendship."
Plot
Barbie is at the premiere of her latest movie along with her actor boyfriend Ken, when her rival and co-star, Raquelle, steps on her dress, ripping it. Her stylists, Carrie and Taylor, who are secretly fairies, use magic to mend it. Crystal, a photographer, greets Carrie and Taylor and, taking one last picture of Ken, leaves to go back to Gloss Angeles. Crystal shows Princess Graciella the pictures she took at the premiere. She gives the Princess some tea in which she secretly mixed with a love potion. Crystal then shows the Princess the picture of Ken she took, and Graciella falls in love with him almost instantly.
The next day at Wally's restaurant, Barbie confronts Raquelle about the dress-stepping incident. During the facade, Princess Graciella, Crystal, and two assistant fairies unexpectedly show up and kidnap Ken. Carrie and Taylor sprout their wings and attempt to stop the Princess from taking Ken, but the portal to Gloss Angeles closes before they can enter it. The stylists attempt to dissuade Raquelle and Barbie of the fact that they just saw fairies but finally admit their existence. They explain that Ken is in trouble because if a human marries a fairy, the human has to stay in Gloss Angeles forever. Meanwhile, in Gloss Angeles, Ken and the Princess arrive in the royal palace, where they meet Zane, Graciella's boyfriend. Zane is outraged at Graciella's new love interest and challenges Ken to three consecutive duels.
Barbie, Raquelle, and the fairies go to a clothing store, where they enter a Fairy Flyway (a fairy method of transport), which leads them to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The fairies reveal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secutron | Secutron Inc. is a manufacturer of engineered fire alarm systems supported by a global network of authorized Engineered Systems Distributors. Secutron is registered trademark of Mircom Technologies Ltd. and part of the Mircom Group of companies. Secutron has been manufacturing fire alarm systems since 1973, including conventional and intelligent fire alarm control panels, fire alarm networks, fire and security integration systems, and fire alarm accessories. Company is certified to the ISO 9001:2008 standards and guidelines.
Industry
Secutron is currently a member of recognized industry organizations including:
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
California Automatic Fire Alarm Association (CAFAA)
Security Industry Association (SIA)
Fire and Security Association of India (FSAI)
Secutron products carry all the requisite regulatory agency approvals including Underwriters Laboratories (UL), Factory Mutual (FM), California State Fire Marshal (CSFM), City of New York (MEA), US Coast Guard, Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) UK and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
History
Secutron was founded in 1973. In 2004 Mircom acquired Secutron from Tyco Group.
External links
Secutron Inc..
Mircom Group.
References
Fire detection and alarm companies
Canadian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20modification%20database | This RNA modification databases are a compilation of databases and web portals and servers used for RNA modification. RNA modification occurs in all living organisms, and is one of the most evolutionarily conserved properties of RNAs. More than 100 different types of RNA modifications have been characterized across all living organisms. It can affect the activity, localization as well as stability of RNAs, and has been linked with human cancer and diseases.
RNA Modification Databases
References
Genetics databases
RNA splicing
Medical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormley%20GO%20Station | Gormley GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, serving Oak Ridges and the Whitchurch–Stouffville community of Gormley. It was the terminus of the Richmond Hill line train service from when it opened on 5 December 2016 until 28 June 2021, when the line was extended north to Bloomington GO Station.
The station is located on the north side of Stouffville Road (York Regional Road 14) on the east side of the railway, west of Highway 404. It features a single platform with heated shelters and a snow-melting system, a station building, a bus loop, a kiss and ride and 850 car parking spaces. The station building has a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification.
History
Historic Gormley station
In 1907 a two-storey station was built by the James Bay Railway, south of the original Stouffville Sideroad. The name of the company changed to the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway, and later to the Canadian Northern Railway and was ultimately merged into the Canadian National Railway in 1923.
The Gormley railway station was demolished in the early 1970s. Station Road, which once led to station, is now a narrow dead-end street that gives access to a few homes and businesses from Gormley Road.
Gormley GO Station
The Gormley GO Station was constructed north of Stouffville Road, approximately 600 metres north of the site of the historic train station. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the station was held on 1 December 2016, and regular service began on Monday 5 December 2016.
Construction of the station and its building cost approximately million. The station's construction was originally delayed due to environmental concerns, and started in 2014. A nearby layover train storage facility with capacity of six trains was built simultaneously, and cost about million. The layover facility opened in 2014.
Services
As of September 2021, Gormley Station is served by five southbound train trips to Union Station on weekday mornings, and six northbound trips returning northbound on weekday evenings. A handful of additional trips between Gormley and Union Station are operated by GO Transit bus route 61 outside of peak periods.
References
External links
GO Transit railway stations
Railway stations in Canada opened in 2016
Railway stations in Richmond Hill, Ontario
2016 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomington%20GO%20Station | Bloomington GO Station is a train and bus station along the GO Transit network, located in the extreme northeast corner of Richmond Hill, Ontario. The station primarily serves the community of Oak Ridges and the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville. It is the northern terminus of the Richmond Hill line train service which connects to Union Station in Toronto. The station opened to the public on June 28, 2021.
Construction of the station began in March 2017, a few months after the completion of the Gormley GO Station which opened in December 2016. The station site cost an estimated $82.4 million to develop, (final cost unconfirmed publicly) and the multi-level parking structure and integrated station building was built to satisfy LEED Gold certification.
Station facilities
The station is located on the south side of Bloomington Road (York Regional Road 40) on the east side of the Canadian National Railway line and west of Highway 404, and consists of a single platform, building, bus loop, kiss and ride, and 998 parking spaces, 760 of which are in a 3-level parking garage. Land is reserved for a future carpool parking lot managed by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.
The large amount of parking spaces and overall land use around the station has attracted criticism from urbanists.
Service
, Bloomington GO is served by five round trips per weekday; all Toronto-bound during the morning and returning northbound during the afternoon. Additional weekday service to Toronto is provided by the 61 GO bus.
References
External links
Bloomington GO Station construction at Metrolinx
, Metrolinx video published June 28, 2021
published on 29 June 2021
GO Transit railway stations
Railway stations in Richmond Hill, Ontario
Railway stations in Canada opened in 2021
2021 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20routing%20cost%20spanning%20tree | In computer science, the minimum routing cost spanning tree of a weighted graph is a spanning tree minimizing the sum of pairwise distances between vertices in the tree. It is also called the optimum distance spanning tree, shortest total path length spanning tree, minimum total distance spanning tree, or minimum average distance spanning tree. In an unweighted graph, this is the spanning tree of minimum Wiener index.
writes that the problem of constructing these trees was proposed by Francesco Maffioli.
It is NP-hard to construct it, even for unweighted graphs. However, it has a polynomial-time approximation scheme. The approximation works by choosing a number that depends on the approximation ratio but not on the number of vertices of the input graph, and by searching among all trees with internal nodes.
The minimum routing cost spanning tree of an unweighted interval graph can be constructed in linear time. A polynomial time algorithm is also known for distance-hereditary graphs, weighted so that the weighted distances are hereditary.
References
Spanning tree
NP-complete problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20songs%20of%202009 | The Billboard Latin Pop Airplay chart ranks the best-performing Spanish-language pop music singles in the United States. Published by Billboard, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly airplay based on audience impressions.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Latin Pop Albums of 2009
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2009
References
United States Latin Pop Airplay
2009
2009 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Network%20and%20Services | Advanced Network and Services, Inc. (ANS) was a United States non-profit organization formed in September, 1990 by the NSFNET partners (Merit Network, IBM, and MCI) to run the network infrastructure for the soon to be upgraded NSFNET Backbone Service. ANS was incorporated in the State of New York and had offices in Armonk and Poughkeepsie, New York.
History
ANSNet
In anticipation of the NSFNET Digital Signal 3 (T3) upgrade and the approaching end of the 5-year NSFNET cooperative agreement, in September 1990 Merit, IBM, and MCI formed Advanced Network and Services (ANS), a new non-profit corporation with a more broadly based Board of Directors than the Michigan-based Merit Network. Under its cooperative agreement with US National Science Foundation (NSF), Merit remained ultimately responsible for the operation of NSFNET, but subcontracted much of the engineering and operations work to ANS. Both IBM and MCI made substantial new financial and other commitments to help support the new venture. Allan Weis left IBM to become ANS's first President and Managing Director. Douglas Van Houweling, former Chair of the Merit Network Board and Vice Provost for Information Technology at the University of Michigan, was the first Chairman of the ANS Board of Directors.
Completed in November 1991, the new T3 backbone was named ANSNet and provided the physical infrastructure used by Merit to deliver the NSFNET Backbone Service.
ANS CO+RE
In May, 1991 a new ISP, ANS CO+RE (commercial plus research), was created as a for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit Advanced Network and Services. ANS CO+RE was created specifically to allow commercial traffic on ANSNet without jeopardizing its parent's non-profit status or violating any tax laws.
The NSFNET Backbone Service and ANS CO+RE both used and shared the common ANSNet infrastructure. NSF agreed to allow ANS CO+RE to carry commercial traffic subject to several conditions:
that the NSFNET Backbone Service was not diminished;
that ANS CO+RE recovered at least the average cost of the commercial traffic traversing the network; and
that any excess revenues recovered above the cost of carrying the commercial traffic would be placed into an infrastructure pool to be distributed by an allocation committee broadly representative of the networking community to enhance and extend national and regional networking infrastructure and support.
In 1992, ANS worked to address security concerns by potential customers caused by recent security incidents (e.g. morris worm) and opened an office in Northern Virginia for their security product team. The security team created one of the first Internet firewalls called ANS InterLock. InterLock was arguably the first proxy-based Internet firewall product (other firewalls at the time were router-based ACLs or part of a service offering) and consisted of modifications to IBM's AIX (and later Sun's Solaris) operating system. InterLock's popularity at the time of the boom of the WWW was re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Plateau%20line | The High Plateau line is a network of railway lines under construction across Algeria. The project is managed by Anesrif.
Route
The route runs 1200 km from Tebessa in the east to Moulay Slissen in the west, via Tiaret and M'Sila, through a sparsely populated area bordering the Atlas mountains and the Sahara. Eighteen new passenger stations are planned. This route incorporates some elements of the existing rail network which will be connected by 630 km of new lines.
Most of Algeria's existing rail network is further north, along the coast. So the "inland" route allows traffic to bypass the main Rocade Nord route through Constantine, Algiers, and Oran. This project is hand in hand with Anesrif's other plans to improve Algeria's 4000 km of existing railways.
A further stretch of railway will run from Tlemcen to a new station at Maghina and then to the Moroccan border at Akid Abbas. The border with Morocco has been sealed since 1994, but there is pressure to reopen the border to travellers.
Specification
The route is mostly being built for running; the line near the Moroccan border is designed for higher speeds. The line is standard gauge (even though it crosses some existing gauge lines) and mostly single-track.
There is provision for 25 kV electrification in the future. GSM-R will be used for communications.
Project
The project is being managed by Anesrif, an Algerian state agency which is undertaking several large projects to revitalise railways and build new infrastructure. Anesrif has awarded contracts to various consortia.
Once in operation, new lines will be operated by SNTF.
In May 2010, a contract was awarded to build a 185 km section of railway from Tissemsilt-Tiaret-Relizane, for 160 km/h running; it is designed with future electrification in mind.
In March 2011, Anesrif awarded a contract to build the railway from Tlemcen to the Moroccan border.
As of March 2011, Alstom was already constructing the 120 km section between Saida and Moulay Slissen.
Work was expected to begin on the 153 km Saida-Tiaret line in the summer of 2011.
Development
The east-west High Plateau line incorporates some elements of existing Algerian lines, although away from the coast, existing infrastructure has mostly been north–south.
The Tebessa-Annaba line largely operates independently, hauling iron ore and phosphates to a port on the coast; there have been proposals to spin it off as a private concession.
There was already a line from Ain M'lilla to Barika, part of an oil export chain from Touggourt, developed by France during the colonial era.
As existing railways in Algeria are poorly utilised, despite expensive investments in the past, there have been concerns about the authorities' ability to manage capacity appropriately. Away from the coast, Algeria is sparsely populated, although cities are expected to grow as a result of improved infrastructure; this has already happened in Tiaret.
See also
List of railway lines in Algeria
References
Exter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20Cloud%20Library | The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is an open-source library of algorithms for point cloud processing tasks and 3D geometry processing, such as occur in three-dimensional computer vision. The library contains algorithms for filtering, feature estimation, surface reconstruction, 3D registration, model fitting, object recognition, and segmentation. Each module is implemented as a smaller library that can be compiled separately (for example, libpcl_filters, libpcl_features, libpcl_surface, ...). PCL has its own data format for storing point clouds - PCD (Point Cloud Data), but also allows datasets to be loaded and saved in many other formats. It is written in C++ and released under the BSD license.
These algorithms have been used, for example, for perception in robotics to filter outliers from noisy data, stitch 3D point clouds together, segment relevant parts of a scene, extract keypoints and compute descriptors to recognize objects in the world based on their geometric appearance, and create surfaces from point clouds and visualize them.
PCL requires several third-party libraries to function, which must be installed. Most mathematical operations are implemented using the Eigen library. The visualization module for 3D point clouds is based on VTK. Boost is used for shared pointers and the FLANN library for quick k-nearest neighbor search. Additional libraries such as Qhull, OpenNI, or Qt are optional and extend PCL with additional features.
PCL is cross-platform software that runs on the most commonly used operating systems: Linux, Windows, macOS and Android. The library is fully integrated with the Robot Operating System (ROS) and provides support for OpenMP and Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) libraries for multi-core parallelism.
The library is constantly updated and expanded, and its use in various industries is constantly growing. For example, PCL participated in the Google Summer of Code 2020 initiative with three projects. One was the extension of PCL for use with Python using Pybind11.
A large number of examples and tutorials are available on the PCL website, either as C++ source files or as tutorials with a detailed description and explanation of the individual steps.
Applications
Point cloud library is widely used in many different fields, here are some examples:
stitching 3D point clouds together
recognize 3D objects on their geometric appearance
filtering and smoothing out noisy data
create surfaces from point clouds
aligning a previously captured model of an object to some newly captured data
cluster recognition and 6DoF pose estimation
point cloud streaming to mobile devices with real-time visualization
3rd party libraries
PCL requires for its installation several third-party libraries, which are listed below. Some libraries are optional and extend PCL with additional features. The PCL library is built with the CMake build system (http://www.cmake.org/) at least in version 3.5.0.
Mandatory libraries:
Boost (http:// |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20space | The word key space (or keyspace) is used in
Key space (cryptography) for an algorithm refers to the set of all possible keys that can be used to initialize it
Keyspace (distributed data store), an object in NoSQL data stores that can be seen as a schema in RDBMS databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Networking%20Foundation | The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a non-profit operator-led consortium. It uses an open source business model aimed at promoting networking through software-defined networking (SDN) and standardizing the OpenFlow protocol and related technologies. The standards-setting and SDN-promotion group was formed out of recognition that cloud computing will blur the distinctions between computers and networks. The initiative was meant to speed innovation through simple software changes in telecommunications networks, wireless networks, data centers and other networking areas.
By June 2020, the ONF grew to over 200 member companies. Member companies include networking-equipment vendors, semiconductor companies, computer companies, software companies, telecom service providers, hyperscale data-center operators, and enterprise users.
Current ONF Projects address major components of the carrier, cloud and enterprise mobile networks.
Google's adoption of OpenFlow software was discussed by Urs Hölzle at a trade show promoting OpenFlow in April, 2012. Hölzle is the chairman ONF's board of directors, serving on the board along with representatives of the other five founding board members plus NTT Communications and Goldman Sachs. Stanford University professor Nick McKeown and U.C. Berkeley professor Scott Shenker also serve on the board as founding directors representing themselves.
The ONF launched a continuous certification program for products and equipment in the telecom and networking space. As part of certification, the Open Compute Project (OCP) is collaborating with ONF in this new program to promote the use of OCP-recognized open hardware in ONF solutions.
In 2017 the ONF completed its merger with the Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab). The resulting entity retained the ONF name in 2017.
In 2018 the ONF established its Technical Leadership Team (TLT).
In 2019 the ONF announced the public release of three Reference Designs (RDs): SEBA, Trellis and ODTN.
In 2019, the ONF announced that it had combined with P4.org and would be the host for all activities and working groups related to the development of the P4 programming language moving forward.
In 2020 T-Mobile Poland Announced with the ONF that it had achieved production roll-out of OMEC, the ONF's Open Source Mobile Evolved Packet Core
In 2020 the Open Networking Foundation announced the release of Aether, the first open source platform for 5G, LTE and edge as a cloud services.
In 2021 the Open Networking Foundation announced its SD Core project addressing the 5G Open RAN
In 2021, the Open Networking Foundation announced its SD Fabric project addressing Hybrid and Edge cloud.
In 2022, the Open Networking Foundation announced its SD RAN™ project was fully released to open source.
In 2022, the Open Networking Foundation announced its Aether™ private 5G project was fully released to open source.
In 2023, ONF launched the Sustainable Mobile and RAN Transformation (SMaRT) 5G project which is f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnApp | OnApp was a London, UK-based software company. Its software enabled service providers to build, operate and sell IaaS public cloud, private cloud and content delivery network services. OnApp also operated the OnApp Federation, a wholesale cloud infrastructure marketplace, which enabled service providers to buy and sell cloud infrastructure managed by OnApp software; and enables enterprises to adopt a hybrid cloud model by combining their on-premises cloud infrastructure with public cloud resources.
OnApp was founded in 2010. On 16th August 2021, OnApp became a division of Virtuozzo.
List of products
OnApp Cloud enables service providers to manage and sell different types of cloud hosting service. It includes a range of tools for server orchestration and virtual appliance management, and managing associated functions such as metering, monitoring, failover, backups, security, billing, user permissions and limits; plus software-defined networking and software-defined storage capabilities. OnApp Cloud is managed via a graphical user interface which is available for web browsers, iOS and Android devices; or via its REST API
Cloud.net provides OnApp cloud software and infrastructure as a service
OnApp CDN enables service providers to create their own content delivery network services
OnApp Edge Accelerator is a patented, automated content optimization and distribution tool for web applications running on a virtual server in OnApp clouds
OnApp for VMware Cloud Director enables OnApp to be used as a management, provisioning and billing portal for VMware Cloud Director
OnApp for VMware vCenter enables OnApp to be used as a management, provisioning and billing portal for VMware vCenter environments
OnApp Federation is a wholesale marketplace where service providers can buy and sell cloud infrastructure on demand
Partnerships
OnApp partnerships include:
VMware - OnApp is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and a recommended VMware portal provider
Acquisitions
On 8 August 2011 OnApp announced the acquisition of Aflexi, a CDN management software company
On 16 September 2014 OnApp announced the acquisition of SolusVM, a virtual server management software company. On 7 June 2018, SolusVM was acquired from OnApp by Plesk
On 16th August 2021, Virtuozzo announced that it had acquired OnApp.
References
External links
Official OnApp website
Cloud computing providers
Cloud infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntrepid | Ntrepid is an American software, hardware, and cyber security company, registered in Florida and based in Herndon, Virginia.
History
In 2008, the Anonymizer company was acquired by the Abraxas Corporation, which was purchased by Cubic in 2010 for $124 million. Some of Abraxas' former employees left to form Ntrepid that same year. Lance Cottrell, founder of Anonymizer, is the chief scientist at Ntrepid. Anonymizer is wholly owned by Ntrepid.
Military contract
In March 2011, Ntrepid won a $2.76 million contract from the U.S. military for "online persona management." The contract was for the creation of technology which would allow for blogging activities on websites, exclusively outside of the United States, to "counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda." It would allow for one operator to anonymously create and control up to ten personas from one computer.
The project is overseen by U.S. Central Command (Centcom), whose spokesman Commander Bill Speaks stated that the operation would be carried out in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.
The project is thought to be connected with Operation Earnest Voice.
References
External links
Ntrepid official site
Internet manipulation and propaganda
Computer security software companies
Propaganda in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND%20Tablet | The RAND Tablet is a graphical computer input device developed by The RAND Corporation. The RAND Tablet is claimed to be the first digital graphic device marketed as being a low cost device. The creation of the tablet was performed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency. The RAND Tablet was one of the first devices to utilize a stylus as a highly practical instrument.'''
The tablet is connected to an input of a computer and/or an oscilloscope display. The display would register the input and display it on the computer screen.
History
Development of the RAND Tablet began with research on the Sketchpad, a system where the user could write commands for a computer directly on the tablet, conducted by Ivan Sutherland. A multitude of different experimental systems were developed to recognize handwritten letters and gestures like Tom Ellis' flowchart based Graphic Input Language (GRAIL) method. Tom Ellis, an author of many RAND corporation reports, stated that this GRAIL system was what allowed the natural and real-time recognition of text and symbols written on the flowchart. The RAND Tablet was one of the first devices to recognize freehand drawing, using programs like Ellis'. The RAND Tablet was also called the "Grafacon" and is considered one of the first produced graphics tablets. The original RAND Tablet cost $18,000 and was available to research facilities in 1964 after years of development. However, the RAND Tablet did not catch on commercially, likely due to an inertia in user habits which made consumers more familiar with a keyboard device, and the lack of practical applications for a tablet device during this time period.
Description
The RAND Tablet is a large 10"x10" printed-circuit screen with printed-circuit capacitive-coupled encoders and 40 external connections. The surface has 100 lines per inch resolution so it is able to digitize in over 1 million locations. This is why the handwriting functionality appeared to be so natural. The tablet connects to the input channel of a general-purpose computer and to an oscilloscope display which controls the multiplexes of the pen position information.
The tablet design initially consisted of a woven grid of Formex wires. Each wire has a 0.1" resolution and is driven by a digital signal which indicates its position in the matrix. A free-hand stylus would pick up a signal unique to its position when moving over the surface. By the time of the tablet's production, printed-circuit technology had advanced to allow a grid of copper strips on a bi-axially oriented polyethylene terephthalate (boPET) surface to yield a resolution of 0.01". This surface was then covered with a plastic wear layer and mounted in a metal frame. The stylus used on the RAND Tablet had a tiny click switch that, when depressed, would send a signal to the machine.
Capabilities
Handwriting recognition
A program was written in IBM 360 Assembler Language to allow an online computer user to write data and directives on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising%20Tide%20UK | Rising Tide UK is the United Kingdom part of the International Rising Tide Network, both of which were created in 2000 to carry out direct action against the root causes of climate change, and to work towards a fossil fuel free future. RTUK takes a no-compromise position and believes that only the complete dismantling of the fossil fuel industry and a shift to low consumption lifestyles will be sufficient to halt climate change.
Rising Tide UK is formed of regional and local groups in the UK, and supports networks of similar groups around the country. Actions carried out by Rising Tide UK groups range from protests and street-theatre style events, to mass occupations of petrol stations, and blockades of key fossil fuel industrial sites.
Key values and goals
The aim of Rising Tide UK and the International Rising Tide Network more widely is to confront the root causes of climate change, by bringing about a socially just transition to a non-carbon society. They see the issue of climate change as directly linked to colonial-style economic domination by Northern powers, which have created a globalised economy that over-uses resources for the interests of the North, while keeping down equitable development in the South. They work towards these goals through grassroots and often confrontational direct action, and supporting other groups with similar goals.
Rising Tide's work has targeted the fossil fuel industry in particular, and aims for an end to new fossil fuel development, and a dismantling of the elements of the current economy that are built around fossil fuel. It advocates an overall economic shift to community run renewable energy, and believes that reducing consumption in the North is also necessary to achieve a just economic structure.
Rising Tide specifically argue against mechanisms such as Carbon Trading and many other elements of the ‘Clean Development Mechanisms’ which were a key part of the Kyoto Protocol. It shares the view of many other environmentalist groups that these market-based mechanisms are ‘False Solutions’ that allow Northern companies to continue to emit green house gasses while gaining access to new markets in ‘Carbon Sinks’ in the South. RT UK specifically advocates an immediate 60% drop in global emissions, leading to a 90% drop, and argues that mechanisms such as Carbon Trading preclude such a drop.
In 2007 Rising Tide UK adopted the ‘Peoples' Global Action Hallmarks’ as a way to clarify its position and values beyond its main aims of tackling climate change. Among other things these hallmarks enshrine a "rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism" and "destructive globalisation", and the rejection of "patriarchy, racism and religious fundamentalism". They promote a confrontational (rather than lobbying-based) position toward government, a focus on direct action and civil disobedience, and a decentralised and autonomous organisation.
Organisation
Rising Tide UK is the founding group behind the Intern |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Amaro | George Amaro is a Brazilian computer scientist responsible for the connection of Roraima (Brazilian Amazon) to the Internet.
Biography
Amaro began his data communication work on the state of Roraima in 1985, when he connected an Apple II microcomputer in the service of "Video Texto" of Telesp and a microcomputer TRS-80 in "Projeto Cirandão" of Embratel.
At Embrapa Roraima, he developed a connection between the first corporate local area network of the state in 1991, in a client-server architecture (a 386/DX 33Mhz server with 8MB RAM and 80GB HD MFM connected through a network Amplus to 3 12 MHz PC/XT).
In 1992, he was responsible for the introduction of free and open source software in the state of Roraima, and set up the first Intel 386 PCs running Unix (SCO), which then became the first Linux server.
Also in 1992, he made the first Internet connection and Web access in Roraima, with the support of Embratel, using RENPAC 2000 and implementing TCP/IP on a PC. The method used was to create a TCP/IP tunnel over RENPAC, connecting a PC at his home to a minicomputer at Embrapa Informática Agropecuária (which was connected with FAPESP).
Together with two friends, Marcus Vinicius Quintella and João Claver, he designed and implemented the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Roraima, TechNet, in 1996, with servers based entirely on open source software. He left the company in December 2004, but all that has been built yet kept working.
With TechNet, he configured and operated the first Internet-connected servers in Roraima, and authored the official website of the State of Roraima in 1997.
Embryos arose from social networks, through online chat services, thus creating the first IRC server for Roraima in 1997, connecting to the Brasnet network, with the first channel chat being about the state and the then well known Canal Roraima (#Roraima). Online games were also introduced, with the creation of the first Quake server in Roraima in 1999.
In 2001, he and his colleagues designed and implemented one of the first wireless (WiFi) networks for public access in Roraima, initiating the first broadband connections.
With the evolution of the Internet and the possibility of creating dynamic sites, he created the first information portal for the State of Roraima in January 2002, based on PHP and MySQL.
References
Brazilian computer scientists
History of Roraima
History of the Internet
People from Roraima
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur%20of%20Flying | Fur of Flying is a 2010 3D computer-animated Looney Tunes short film featuring the characters Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Directed by Matthew O'Callaghan and written by Tom Sheppard, the film was first shown in theaters before Warner Bros.' feature-length film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. In 2014, Warner Bros. Animation published this short on YouTube.
Plot
Using a makeshift helicopter-helmet, Wile E. Coyote intends to catch Road Runner while avoiding heat-seeking missiles. The start shows boxes bearing labels of various Acme products. Coyote uses the boxed items to create a wooden helicopter-helmet that he employs to chase the Road Runner. He encounters various environmental obstacles during the chase, including a cactus and rocky protrusions in a narrow canyon. Coyote and the Road Runner enter a restricted area, and 2 missiles are launched to chase them. The red one chases the Road Runner as the blue one stays after Coyote. Coyote ends up on a very high rock with the missile suspending on a branch just above him. Coyote's helmet accidentally activates, carrying him up to the missile, triggering its detonation. The rock breaks, sending Coyote into the path of the missile chasing the Road Runner. The helicopter-helmet comes loose, dooming Coyote to be hit by the remaining missile. He holds up a burnt yellow "That's All Folks!" sign before passing out.
Release
Fur of Flying was released theatrically with Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. The short was also released on the Legend of the Guardians DVD and Blu-ray.
The short was included on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks DVD. It was also included as a bonus on the DVD release of Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run.
References
External links
Fur of Flying on YouTube
2010 3D films
2010 short films
2010 computer-animated films
2010s American animated films
2010s animated short films
American comedy short films
American aviation films
Looney Tunes shorts
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner films
Reel FX Creative Studios short films
Short films directed by Matthew O'Callaghan
Films scored by Christopher Lennertz
Warner Bros. Animation animated short films
3D animated short films
2010s Warner Bros. animated short films
American animated short films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabid%20Rider | Rabid Rider is a 2010 3D computer-animated Looney Tunes short film featuring the characters Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Directed by Matthew O'Callaghan and written by Tom Sheppard, the film was first shown in theaters before Warner Bros.' feature-length film Yogi Bear. In 2014, Warner Bros. Animation published this short on YouTube. The film also came before the 2018 theatrical re-release of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
A 4D version – enhanced with physical effects like vibration, flashing lights and blasts of air – runs in a specially equipped theatre at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Plot
Wile E. Coyote intends to use an ACME Hyper Sonic Transport to catch the Road Runner, but the transport has inherent problems of its own.
Release
Rabid Rider was released theatrically by Warner Bros. with Yogi Bear.
Home media
The short was also released on the Yogi Bear Blu-ray.
The short was included on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks DVD. It was also included as a bonus on the DVD release of Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run.
References
External links
Rabid Rider on YouTube
2010 3D films
2010 animated films
2010 films
2010 short films
2010 computer-animated films
2010s American animated films
American comedy short films
2010s animated short films
4D films
Looney Tunes shorts
Reel FX Creative Studios short films
Short films directed by Matthew O'Callaghan
Films scored by Christopher Lennertz
Warner Bros. Animation animated short films
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner films
3D animated short films
2010s Warner Bros. animated short films
American animated short films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarBase%20%28biological%20database%29 | StarBase is a database for decoding miRNA-mRNA, miRNA-lncRNA, miRNA-sncRNA, miRNA-circRNA, miRNA-pseudogene, protein-lncRNA, protein-ncRNA, protein-mRNA interactions, and ceRNA networks from CLIP-Seq (HITS-CLIP, PAR-CLIP, iCLIP, CLASH) and degradome sequencing data. StarBase provides miRFunction and ceRNAFunction web tools to predict the function of ncRNAs (miRNAs, lncRNAs, pseudogenes) and protein-coding genes from the miRNA and ceRNA regulatory networks. StarBase also developed Pan-Cancer Analysis Platform to decipher Pan-Cancer Analysis Networks of lncRNAs, miRNAs, ceRNAs, and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) by mining clinical and expression profiles of 14 cancer types (including more than six thousand samples) from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Data Portal.
See also
MicroRNA and microRNA target database
MicroRNA
Degradome sequencing
References
External links
http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/
https://web.archive.org/web/20110222111721/http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/
Genetics databases
RNA
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systeminfo.exe | In computing, systeminfo, is a command-line utility included in Microsoft Windows versions from Windows XP onwards and in ReactOS.
Overview
The command produces summary output of hardware/software operating environment parameters.
The detailed configuration information about the computer and its operating system includes data on the operating system configuration, security information, product ID, and hardware properties, such as RAM, disk space, and network cards.
The ReactOS version was developed by Dmitry Chapyshev and Rafal Harabien. It is licensed under the GPL.
Syntax
The command-syntax is:
systeminfo[.exe] [/s Computer [/u Domain\User [/p Password]]] [/fo {TABLE|LIST|CSV}] [/nh]
See also
System profiler
System Information (Windows)
References
Further reading
External links
systeminfo | Microsoft Docs
Console applications
Utilities for Windows
Windows administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DioneOS | DioneOS (pronounced /djoneos/) is a multitasking preemptive, real-time operating system (RTOS). The system is designed for microcontrollers, originally released on 2 February 2011 for the Texas Instruments TI MSP430x, and then on 29 March 2013 for the ARM Cortex-M3. Target microcontroller platforms have limited resources, i.e., system clock frequency of tens of MHz, and memory amounts of tens to a few hundred kilobytes (KB). The RTOS is adapted to such conditions by providing a compact and efficient image. The efficiency term here means minimizing further central processing unit (CPU) load caused by system use. According to this definition, the system is more effective when it consumes less CPU time to execute its internal parts, e.g., managing threads.
The DioneOS system is intended for autonomic devices where user interface has limited functions. The core functions provided by the system is an environment for building multitasking firmware by means of standard, well known concepts (e.g. semaphores, timers, etc.). Because of the target domain of application, the system uses a command-line interface and has no graphical user interface.
Memory model
Texas Instruments company manufactures a wide range of microcontrollers that use the MSP430 core. Depending on the version, the processor contains different amount of flash memory and random-access memory (RAM), e.g., MSP430f2201 has 1KB/128B correspondingly, but MSP430f5438 has 256KB/16KB. When the size of the memory exceeds 64 KB limit, as happens when the memory cannot fit in a range 0–64 KB, 16-bit addressing is insufficient. Due to this constraint, chips with larger memory are equipped with extended core (MSP430x). This version of the processor has wider registers (20-bit) and new instructions for processing them.
At compiling, the programmer selects the type of memory model (near or far) that is used for and memories. This choice determines accessible memory range, hence when the above 64 KB limit is programmed, the far model must be used.
The DioneOS supports the far model for code modules, so large firmware that uses extended can be developed and run under the system's control. The system uses the near memory model for data segments.
Thread management
The firmware started under the DioneOS system consists of threads that are executed in pseudo-parallel way. Each thread has its own, unique priority used for ordering the threads, from most important to least. The thread priority value defines a precedence for running over others.
In the DioneOS system the thread can be in one of following states:
Running - the thread is currently executed by processor,
Ready - the thread is ready to be run,
Waiting - the thread is blocked and waits on some synchronization object.
Because there is only one core in the processor, only one thread can be in Running state. This is the thread that has the highest priority from all threads that are not in Waiting state. Change of the thread state can be ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest%20reported%20postmark | The term earliest reported postmark or ERP is a term used by the United Postal Stationery Society (UPSS) for the past four or more decades. They have established a database in which the earliest postmarks on stamped envelopes or postal card or letter sheets is kept. Postmarks are typically dated from days to many months after the date of issuance. An envelope can come out in varying sizes, colors, or shapes without notification to the public. Collecting the earliest reported postmark for a particular variety is an ongoing effort.
An earliest reported postmark is different from the first day of issue where there is a first day of issue postmark and frequently a pictorial cancellation, indicating the city and date where the item was first issued. Although primarily a US undertaking, recently the UPSS has expanded the project to include the issues of Cuba during the US occupation (1898-1902) and the Republic (1902-1958).
Earliest reported postmarks are collected by the entire or cover (the entire envelope). The obvious reason for this is that an envelope's knife or size could not be determined if the specimen was a cut square or full corner, even if the entire postmark is retained.
Earliest reported postmarks are collected for postal cards as well. For the first fifty years of postal card use there was no "first day of issue" as we now know it. Cards would not necessarily be available on any announced day as postmasters were ordered to exhaust existing supplies before ordering more. Previous to 1926, earliest reported postmarks exist up to several months after announced availability dates.
References
External links
United Postal Stationery Society's Earliest reported postmark page
Philatelic terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetech | Cemetech is a programming and hardware development group and developer community founded in 2000. Its primary software focus is calculator programming for TI and Casio graphing calculators, and its primary hardware focus is on mobile and wearable computing hardware. Among its most notable projects are the Doors CS shell for the TI-83+ series of graphing calculators, the Clove 2 dataglove, the Ultimate Calculator, and the CALCnet / globalCALCnet system for networking graphing calculators and connecting them to the Internet. The Cemetech website hosts tools for calculator programmers, including the SourceCoder TI-BASIC IDE and the jsTIfied TI-83+/84+ emulator. The founder of the site, Dr. Christopher Mitchell ("Kerm Martian"), began the site to showcase his personal projects, but since its early days, it has branched out to become one of the several major sites of the TI calculator hobbyist community and a source for hardware and programming development assistance. It has incubated many software and hardware projects beginning in the calculator community at its roots but including microprocessor development, general electrical engineering, desktop applications, and mobile/web applications.
History
Cemetech began as a personal website hosted on Homestead and later GeoCities, publishing personal software and hardware projects. In 2004 the site expanded on shared hosting with a PhpBB-based forum, and in March 2005 moved to Cemetech.net. The site spent the following three years consolidating its presence in the TI graphing calculator enthusiast community, attracting programmers who began publishing their own independent software projects on the site. Early projects were primarily calculator-related, later branching out into computer, web, and embedded programming. In mid-2006, Cemetech lost several hundred posts when hosting provider Jatol disappeared overnight, stranding hundreds of customers without websites or backups. From 2008, Cemetech expanded further into hardware development, releasing popular projects such as the Clove 2 typing glove, an electro-acoustic musical instrument, and several hardware mods of graphing calculators. Major software projects have included networking libraries for calculators and other low-resource devices, as well as the hardware and computer software to support internet-connected calculators, an extensive shell called Doors CS for these devices, and work on distributed computing and image processing projects by the founder and several staff members. In 2012, Cemetech's founder published a book called "Programming the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus" which was published by Manning Publications, an introductory programming book inspired by his experiences working with beginner programmers at Cemetech.
Projects
The following Cemetech projects have been widely disseminated on technology news sites and blogs, organized alphabetically.
Clove 2: A Bluetooth data glove for one-handed typing.
Doors CS: A calculator shell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Football%20Strategy | Computer Football Strategy (also known as Football Strategy) is a 1983 computer game that simulates the National Football League from a strategic point of view. It was developed for the Commodore 64 and the Atari 8-bit family/ Many retired professional football players have been noted to be content while recapturing their former heroics on this computer game.
Gameplay
The basic choice of teams span from the 1966 Green Bay Packers (the winners of Super Bowl I) to the 1982 Washington Redskins (the winners of Super Bowl XVII - the most recent Super Bowl as of the game's release). The game uses a top-down perspective in order to properly simulate the football field. The game shows the football field as a small, thin strip divided into ten-yard lines. Four basic graphics (the blue players playing the role as the defense and the black players playing the role as the offense) are considered to be "simulated American football players." A notable criticism of the game is that having X's and O's would have been more realistic (because coaches use these in real-life football to write playbooks for the team players).
Twenty different plays can be called from the line of scrimmage with ten different outcomes depending on the defensive alignment. The display shows a minimal coverage of the action; with no movement by either the quarterback or the wide receivers. A complete lack of "hurry-up" offences means that each pass takes 15 seconds of game time to complete.
Reception
Football Strategy was a runner up in the category of "Best Computer Sports Game" at the 4th annual Arkie Awards.
References
1983 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
Commodore 64 games
CP/M games
National Football League video games
Sports management video games
TRS-80 games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Microcomputer Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoPets | GoPets was a virtual pet site that involved raising a customized three-dimensional pet downloaded onto a user's computer. GoPets was launched on August 4, 2005 and closed on November 8, 2009.
GoPets resided not only on their owners' computers, but also visited GoPets members around the world when sent, invited or when pets decide to travel on their own.
To provide a means of communication among users who speak different languages, GoPets had a universal iconic language called "IKU." The GoPets service also contained chat services and a forum.
Pets
Players on GoPets had the ability to create a pet. After selecting which animal they desire, they had the opportunity to customize their new GoPet by selecting from a list of pre-set colors and patterns. Once the initial creation process was complete, the GoPet was brought into existence to reside on the player's desktop.
If players desired further customization, they could dress their pet up with unique clothing items, and equip different transportation vehicles such as cars or planes. Many equipable items hold trainable animations that GoPets could be taught to use when their stats were at a certain level.
GoPets were social, and enjoyed interacting with other GoPets. These interactions included conversations, games, and professions of love and friendship which may result in a communal dance. GoPets loved to travel around desktops of players all around the world in search of other places where there were treated politely and affectionately.
In-game, GoPets never died or became sick, despite the lack of care or how low their status might have become. They would respond negatively to ill care and leave their owners' desktop frequently or, when very tired, fall asleep.
GoLand
GoLand was a GoPets term referring to a players desktop. New users were taken to a community desktop where books, food and clothing are able to be purchased. A user could purchase their own piece of GoLand by using the GoLand Map and searching for either a camping site or a tier 1 land. Camping sites were shown by a green paw, and only cost 1000 green shells; while the tier 1 lands were shown by an orange paw and cost 75 gold shells. Camping sites only allowed 75 items to be placed onto the desktop, while a tier 1 land allowed 250 items for non-subscribers, and 400 items for premium subscribers.
Players could decorate their desktop with countless objects and toys for GoPets to play and interact with. GoPets could use many of the items by themselves. One popular item was a bathtub, which GoPets would utilize when their cleanliness status is low. In addition to toys and food, GoPets owners could place decorative items on the desktop, such as trees, shrubs or ponds. They could also mark items for sale, allowing visitors to their desktop to purchase these items at will.
Currency
The GoPets currency was known as the shell (they are simply colored seashells); green shells were the lowest denomination, pink shells were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenwood%20Fair | Ravenwood Fair was a social network game on Facebook designed by John Romero and developed by Lolapps. Ravenwood Fair was launched on the Facebook platform October 19, 2010. The game closed down on July 18, 2013.
Overview
The object of the game was to build a fun fair in the midst of a scary forest while decorating the grounds, fending off various monsters, and completing many quests. Players built games and buildings which attract visitors to the fair, and visitors became scared if they see a monster or the forest erupts near them. Players comforted the visitors when they were scared so they could go back to their normal routine of enjoying the fair.
Gameplay
The player selects an avatar which resembles a woodland animal - either a raccoon (named Rita) or bear (named Randy). The player then completes a short tutorial that shows how to chop trees, pick up loot drops, then build a hotdog cart. After the tutorial, the player is given several quests that direct gameplay toward accumulating materials, building structures, or purchasing decorations and placing them.
The player has an energy bar which determines how many major actions the player can take in a session. More energy can be purchased with mushrooms or Facebook credits to extend gameplay. Mushrooms randomly drop from trees that are chopped down.
Chopping trees and roots are a large part of gameplay. One chop on a tree or root will use an energy. Loot drops from the chopped tree or root and will contain coins, XP (experience points), and often materials needed for quests and building structures. Sometimes a monster, such as a Crittle Bear or Domovoi, will appear as a result of chopping a tree and the player can either ignore the monster or pummel it with a shovel to scare it away.
When the player finishes building a structure, the "fun" value attached to the structure accumulates with all other structures in the fair. At various "fun" levels, visitors will fly in on a zeppelin and roam the player's fair, playing games and using buildings and paying coins and XP for them.
All during gameplay, the scary forest erupts randomly with evil laughter, will-o-wisps, or a frightening crow. If a visitor is near a scary part of the forest, the visitor will scream and run to the player for comfort. The player must then click on the scared visitor to comfort them so they can continue enjoying the fair. If the player places a Protector on the ground, it will be able to retaliate against the forest, attack monsters, and comfort the scared visitors.
After the player gathers enough XP, they will level up and have their energy meter filled, and possibly extended. Attaining levels will affect the game in various ways, such as unlocking items for purchase in the store (called Ye Olde Shoppe), new quests becoming available, new monsters appearing when trees are chopped, etc.
Popularity
As of March 2011, Ravenwood Fair had approximately 25 million players worldwide.
Ravenwood Fair has launched on several |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20I.%20Ahson | Syed I Ahson is a computer science professor, education management professional, researcher, and author. He specialises in multiple areas, including bioinformatics, computational biology, and Web 2.0.
Ahson graduated from University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He was a National Merit Scholarship Award, India (1959–1965). He also won a British Council Overseas Scholarship Award for Ph.D. (1973–1975). He later taught in Saudi Arabia and India. His recent posting was at Patna University, Bihar as pro-Vice chancellor. While there he enacted educational reforms amide political chaos and bureaucracy.
In 2010, he stepped down from the post of pro-Vice chancellor of Patna University.
He has published several research papers in national as well as international journal and conference proceedings. Ahson is also the founder Head of the Department of Computer Science at Jamia Millia University.
Work
Professor of Eminence, Shobhit University, Uttar Pradesh, India (2011-2012)
Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Patna University, Bihar, India
Professor of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India (2001–2007)
Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1993–2000)
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (1991–1992)
Chairman and Professor, Computer Engineering Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1988–1990)
Assistant Professor and Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (1978–1987)
Lecturer, Patna University, Bihar, India
Books
R. A. Khan, K. Mustafa and S. I. Ahson, "Software Quality Concepts and Practices", Narosa Publications, 2006 Alpha Science/Oxford 2007.
S. I. Ahson, “Microprocessors”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1986.
D.P.Kothari, A. K. Mahalanabis and S. I. Ahson, "Computer-Aided System Analysis and Design", Tata McGraw-Hill, 1988.
S. I. Ahson (Editor-in-Chief), "Recent Advances in Servomechanisms Design and Realization in India", Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bangalore, 1984.
S. I. Ahson and R.Prasad, "Swachalit Niyantran Nikayon ke Siddhant",(Hindi),Madhya Pradesh Hindi Granth Academy,Bhopal,1980
S. I. Ahson and S.M.Bhaskar, "Information Security-A Practical Approach", -Narosa Publications – 2008,Alpha Science/Oxford
S. I. Ahson and Monica Mehrotra (Editors), "Proceedings of National Workshop on Software Security(NWSS-2007)", 13-14 Sept. 2007,I.K.International Publishing House Pvt Lmtd.,New Delhi
References
Living people
Academic staff of Patna University
Academic staff of King Saud University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Sheffield
Computer science educators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCT%20Kids | TCT Kids is the children's programming division of the Tri-State Christian Television network. The block of religious-themed children's-oriented shows airs Saturday mornings on TCT's primary network feed in order to meet its affiliates' and owned-and-operated stations' federally mandated educational programming requirements.
TCT Kids also runs as a standalone feed from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time daily on its Web site. From 7:30 p.m. to 5 a.m., the TCT Kids feed runs public domain films and television series; the remaining time is occupied by young-Earth creationist Ken Ham's daily program Answers in Genesis and a simulcast of TCT's flagship program, TCT Today.
The remaining stations carrying the standalone feed as a digital subchannel had discontinued it by fall 2017, when TCT signed an affiliation deal with the commercial network Light TV.
Programming
Adventures in Odyssey
Another Sommertime Adventure
Answers in Genesis
Arnie's Shack
The Burnnie Show
Capt'n Chuckleberry
Circle Square
Creation's Creatures
Come On Over
Cowboy Dan
Adventures of Donkey Ollie
Deputy Dingle
Dr. Wonder's Workshop
The Fairies
Faithville
Gina D's Kids Club
God Rocks!/God Rocks! Bibletoons
Gospel Bill Show
Hooked on Science
ImagineLand
Joy Junction
KICKS Club
Kids Against Crime
Kids Like You
Kidz Network
The Knock Knock Show
Maralee Dawn
Miss Charity's Diner
Quigley's Village
The Reppies
Reptile Experience
Sarah's Stories
Super Simple Science Stuff
Sing God's Word
Superbook
Swamp Critters
Tween You & Me
VeggieTales
Wize Flix
See also
Smile
External links
TCT Kids Broadcast Schedule
Tri-State Christian Television
Television programming blocks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart%20Flughafen/Messe%20station | Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe (German for Stuttgart Airport/Trade Fair) station is a station on the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. Despite its name the station is not in the city of Stuttgart, rather it is in Leinfelden-Echterdingen.
History
The draft plans for the construction of an S-Bahn system in the Stuttgart area in the 1960s included consideration of a connection to the Filder plain. The line from Stuttgart-Rohr to Neuhausen auf den Fildern, on which passenger services had been closed in 1955 would be upgraded to enable S-Bahn operations to Stuttgart airport. However, the provision of better public transport links to the airport at that time was not considered a priority and had no urgency.
The doubling and electrification of the Stuttgart-Rohr–Echterdingen line only began in 1984. The connection to the airport from Echterdingen used a completely new route. The lack of space at the airport meant that only an underground station was considered. In 1986, work began on connecting the line to Terminal 1, which was built at the same time. The intense work required for the tunnel delayed the planned completion of the line and the station for several years, so the S-Bahn services on line S 2 for terminated in Oberaichen from May 1989.
On 18 April 1993 Stuttgart Flughafen station was opened. With its rich stainless steel cladding and its curves with integrated lights, the underground station is very modern and bright, and the central platform is 210 metres long. The construction of the station allowed for the extension of the underground route. In 2001, Deutsche Bahn opened a new extension to Filderstadt-Bernhausen.
In 2007, the new Stuttgart Trade Fair (Messe) opened, constituting one of several public attractions in the Filder area and was located in the catchment area of the station, which was renamed Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe station in 2008.
Stuttgart 21
As part of the Stuttgart 21 project, long-distance and regional trains to and from the Stuttgart–Horb railway will run through the station in the future. This will be facilitated by the proposed Rohr Curve and a new curve connecting to the new Stuttgart–Wendlingen high-speed railway (to/from Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof). In addition, the adjacent Filder station will be built as a two-track station for long-distance services to and from the new Wendlingen–Ulm high-speed railway and regional services running to and from Tübingen via the Small Wendlingen Curve (Kleine Wendlinger Kurve).
The northern end of the platform will be used by long-distance and regional trains in the future. The entrance height of the platform will be adapted for this traffic by reducing the platform height to 76 cm by raising the track; the platform itself will remain unchanged. It is planned to extend the platform to around 300 m and two raised entrance areas will be created for S-Bahn trains.
Exemption
Use of the S-Bahn station by long-distance and regional trains appears to require an exemption in relation to pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduccia%E2%80%93Mattheyses%20algorithm | A classical approach to solve the Hypergraph bipartitioning problem is an iterative heuristic by Charles Fiduccia and Robert Mattheyses. This heuristic is commonly called the FM algorithm.
Introduction
FM algorithm is a linear time heuristic for improving network partitions.
New features to K-L heuristic:
Aims at reducing net-cut costs; the concept of cutsize is extended to hypergraphs.
Only a single vertex is moved across the cut in a single move.
Vertices are weighted.
Can handle "unbalanced" partitions; a balance factor is introduced.
A special data structure is used to select vertices to be moved across the cut to improve running time.
Time complexity O(P), where P is the total # of terminals.
F–M heuristic: notation
Input: A hypergraph with a vertex (cell) set and a hyperedge (net) set
n(i): # of cells in Net i; e.g., n(1) = 4
s(i): size of Cell i
p(i): # of pins of Cell i; e.g., p(1) = 4
C: total # of cells; e.g., C = 13
N: total # of nets; e.g., N = 4
P: total # of pins; P = p(1) + … + p(C) = n(1) + … + n(N)
Area ratio r, 0< r<1
Output: 2 partitions
Cutsetsize is minimized
|A|/(|A|+|B|) ≈ r
See also
Graph partition
Kernighan–Lin algorithm
References
Electronic design automation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension%20neural%20network | Extension neural network is a pattern recognition method found by M. H. Wang and C. P. Hung in 2003 to classify instances of data sets. Extension neural network is composed of artificial neural network and extension theory concepts. It uses the fast and adaptive learning capability of neural network and correlation estimation property of extension theory by calculating extension distance.
ENN was used in:
Failure detection in machinery.
Tissue classification through MRI.
Fault recognition in automotive engine.
State of charge estimation in lead-acid battery.
Classification with incomplete survey data.
Extension Theory
Extension theory was first proposed by Cai in 1983 to solve contradictory problems. While classical mathematics is familiar with quantity and forms of objects, extension theory transforms these objects to matter-element models.
where in matter , is the name or type, is its characteristics and is the corresponding value for the characteristic. There is a corresponding example in equation 2.
where and characteristics form extension sets. These extension sets are defined by the values which are range values for corresponding characteristics. Extension theory concerns the extension correlation function between matter-element models like shown in equation 2, and extension sets. Extension correlation function is used to define extension space which is composed of pairs of elements and their extension correlation functions. The extension space formula is shown in equation 3.
where, is the extension space, is the object space, is the extension correlation function, is an element from the object space and is the corresponding extension correlation function output of element . maps to a membership interval . Negative region represents an element not belonging membership degree to a class and positive region vice versa. If is mapped to , extension theory acts like fuzzy set theory. The correlation function can be shown with the equation 4.
where, and are called concerned and neighborhood domain and their intervals are (a,b) and (c,d) respectively. The extended correlation function used for estimation of membership degree between and , is shown in equation 5.
Extension Neural Network
Extension neural network has a neural network like appearance. Weight vector resides between the input nodes and output nodes. Output nodes are the representation of input nodes by passing them through the weight vector.
There are total number of input and output nodes are represented by and , respectively. These numbers depend on the number of characteristics and classes. Rather than using one weight value between two layer nodes as in neural network, extension neural network architecture has two weight values. In extension neural network architecture, for instance , is the input which belongs to class and is the corresponding output for class . The output is calculated by using extension distance as shown in equation 6.
Est |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belden%20Incorporated | Belden Incorporated is an American manufacturer of networking, connectivity, and cable products. The company designs, manufactures, and markets signal transmission products for demanding applications. These products serve the industrial automation, enterprise, security, transportation, infrastructure, and residential markets. Belden is one of the largest U.S.-based manufacturers of high-speed electronic cables primarily used in industrial, enterprise, and broadcast markets.
Structure
Belden is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Its president and CEO is Ashish Chand.
Belden operates in three regions:
The Americas
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Asia Pacific
PPC Belden
PPC, a division of Belden, holds a number of patents for connector technology and has pioneered advancements for various industries. PPC Belden's innovations include the Universal Compression Connector, the wireless compression connector for the wireless industry and a locking HDMI connector. It was purchased by Belden in 2012. PPC Belden has its headquarters in East Syracuse, New York.
History
Belden was founded in Chicago in 1902. It was acquired by Crouse-Hinds Company in 1980; Crouse-Hinds was acquired by Cooper Industries in 1981 and spun off Belden as an independent company in 1993. In 2004 the company merged with Cable Design Technologies forming Belden CDT Inc. (now Belden Inc.) and since then the company has been headquartered in St. Louis. In 2005 John Stroup became CEO.
In April 2023, Belden dontated $100,000 to the Richmond Fire Department in Indiana. The goal was to improve and replace equipment for the firefighters and their safety.
Acquisitions
In early 1997, Belden purchased Alpha Wire. Alpha Wire provides an extensive selection of cable, wire, heat-shrink tubing, accessories, and wire management services to customers worldwide in the Industrial Automation, Medical, Semiconductor, Aerospace & Defense, Consumer Electronics, and Energy markets.
Belden expanded in the 21st century through a number of corporate acquisitions:
In early 2007, Belden purchased Hirschmann Automation and Control, an industrial marketing company focused on industrial automation and networking systems, for $260 million.
In the summer of 2007, Belden acquired Lumberg Automation, which manufactures connectors used in industrial automation, for an undisclosed price.
In June 2008, Belden purchased wireless LAN vendor Trapeze for $113 million.
In December 2009, Belden purchased Telecast Fiber Systems, a manufacturer of fiber-optic systems for television broadcast production, for an undisclosed price.
In late 2010, Belden acquired GarrettCom, an industrial networking products manufacturer, for $52 million.
In late 2010, Belden purchased Thomas & Betts Corporation, a coax connectivity and communications products company, $78 million.
In November 2010, Belden purchased the communications products business of broadcast connector manufacturer Thomas & Betts of Memphis, Tenness |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRNADB | tRNADB is a curated database of transfer RNA (tRNA). It contains one of the largest numbers of entires among RNA databases.
See also
tRNA
References
See also
Transfer RNA
Transfer RNA-like structures
External links
http://trna.nagahama-i-bio.ac.jp.
Biological databases
RNA
Non-coding RNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Abosch | Kevin Abosch ( ; born 1969) is an Irish conceptual artist and pioneer in cryptoart known for his works in photography, blockchain, sculpture, installation, AI and film. Abosch's work addresses the nature of identity, value and human currency and has been exhibited throughout the world, often in civic spaces, including The Hermitage Museum, The National Gallery of Ireland, The National Museum of China, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, The Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, ZKM, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, and Dublin Airport.
Selected works and projects
Utopian Propagation
On 28 October 2016 Abosch installed a work entitled "Impossible Promises" consisting of 100 painted oil barrels in the Millennium Park at the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art
Potato #345
In 2015, Abosch's photographic work of a potato, "Potato #345" was reportedly sold to an unnamed businessman in Europe for a €1,000,000,.
The photo was taken in 2010 and is one of three versions of the print in existence.
I AM A COIN
In January 2018 Abosch created 10,000,000 virtual artworks consisting of crypto-tokens on the Ethereum Blockchain.
Forever Rose
On 14 February 2018 Abosch's virtual artwork "Forever Rose", consisting of a single ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain, sold to a group of ten art collectors for a record-breaking USD$1 million.
Yellow Lambo
The artwork is composed of 42 inline alphanumerics in yellow neon representing the blockchain contract address for a crypto token called YLAMBO, which Abosch also created. Abosch named the artwork after the hashtag #lambo, which cryptocurrency enthusiasts often use in online forums. On 26 April 2018, at the "If so, What?" art fair in San Francisco, California, Abosch's sculpture entitled "Yellow Lambo" was sold to former Skype COO Michael Jackson for US$400,000, more than the base price of a 2018 Lamborghini Aventador motor car.
PRICELESS
A collaboration between Abosch and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei primarily made up of two standard ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, called PRICELESS (PRCLS is its symbol). One of these tokens is forever unavailable to anyone, but the other is meant for distribution and is divisible up to 18 decimal places, meaning it can be given away one quintillionth at a time. A nominal amount of the distributable token was “burned” (put into digital wallets with the keys thrown away), and these wallet addresses were printed on paper and sold to art buyers in a series of 12 physical works. Each wallet address alphanumeric is a proxy for a shared moment between Abosch and Ai.
National Gallery of Ireland
In December 2013 the National Gallery of Ireland acquired three photographic portraits by Abosch for inclusion in the permanent National Portrait Collection. The portraits are of Bob Geldof, Olwen Fouéré and Brian O'Driscoll.
Animoca Brands
Kevin Abosch is creative director for Animoca Brands.
References
External links
Living people
Irish contemporary artis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLEP-LD | WLEP-LD, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 43), was a low-powered television station licensed to Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. The station was owned by LocusPoint Networks.
History
The station was owned by KM Communications Inc., which sold the station to Hapa Media Properties, LLC in June 2009. WLEP-LD first went on the air with channels 9.1 and 9.2 on February 18, 2011, and with 9.3 the next day. In 2015, the station was sold from Hapa Media Properties, LLC to LocusPoint Networks and quietly went dark. In 2016, WLEP-LD resumed broadcasting, becoming an affiliate of the Sonlife Broadcasting Network. As of February 12, 2019, the station has shut down and the license has been returned to the FCC.
Digital channel
References
External links
LEP
LEP-LD
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Pennsylvania
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019
2019 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
LEP-LD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviom | Aviom is a pro audio equipment manufacturer of personal monitoring systems. Headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Aviom produces distributed audio networking gear which uses a proprietary digital audio transport system called A-Net, based on the physical layer of Ethernet and carried over Category 5 cables terminated with 8P8C connectors. Aviom's Pro16 Monitor Mixing System was nominated in 2005 for a TEC Award, and in 2008 the Pro64 Series won the best Sound System Technology at Musik Messe in Frankfurt, Germany.
Aviom's products are used in live sound, broadcast, recording studios, houses of worship, theaters, schools, and post-production facilities worldwide. Applications include interfacing with stage monitoring, headphone monitoring, and in-ear monitoring. House-of-worship engineer Brad Herring wrote that, of the several CAT-5e-based personal monitoring systems entering the marketplace, "perhaps the most notable is the Aviom system."
Users
At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Aviom's MH10f Fiber Merger Hub was used to transport broadcast audio signals, making its debut. The hub was connected to existing Pro64 Series Aviom products already installed at the Palms Casino Resort.
Country music artist Luke Bryan used Aviom microphone preamps, the model 6416m, on tour beginning early 2010. The Aviom preamps took the place of Yamaha M7CL preamps, using expansion card slots. Band engineer Chris "Sully" Sullivan reported that band members who were previously unsatisfied with the M7CL preamps expressed happiness with the Aviom sound.
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Companies based in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Manufacturing companies established in 2002
Audio equipment manufacturers of the United States
Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania
West Chester, Pennsylvania
2002 establishments in Pennsylvania
American companies established in 2002
Manufacturers of professional audio equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Earth | Berkeley Earth is a Berkeley, California-based independent 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on land temperature data analysis for climate science. Berkeley Earth was founded in early 2010 (originally called the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project) to address the major concerns from outside the scientific community regarding global warming and the instrumental temperature record. The project's stated aim was a "transparent approach, based on data analysis." In February 2013, Berkeley Earth became an independent non-profit. In August 2013, Berkeley Earth was granted 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the US government. The primary product is air temperatures over land, but they also produce a global dataset resulting from a merge of their land data with HadSST.
Berkeley Earth founder Richard A. Muller told The Guardian
Berkeley Earth has been funded by unrestricted educational grants totaling () about $1,394,500. Large donors include Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Charles G. Koch Foundation, the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER), and the William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation. The donors have no control over how Berkeley Earth conducts the research or what they publish.
The team's preliminary findings, data sets and programs were published beginning in December 2012. The study addressed scientific concerns including the urban heat island effect, poor station quality, and the risk of data selection bias. The Berkeley Earth group concluded that the warming trend is real, that over the past 50 years (between the decades of the 1950s and 2000s) the land surface warmed by 0.91±0.05 °C, and their results mirror those obtained from earlier studies carried out by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Hadley Centre, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Surface Temperature Analysis, and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. The study also found that the urban heat island effect and poor station quality did not bias the results obtained from these earlier studies.
Scientific team and directors
Berkeley Earth team members include:
Richard A. Muller, founder and Scientific Director. Professor of Physics, UCB and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Muller is a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group who has been critical of other climate temperature studies before this project.
Elizabeth Muller, Founder and Executive Director
Robert Rohde, lead scientist. Ph.D. in physics, University of California, Berkeley. Rohde's scientific interests include earth sciences, climatology, and scientific graphics. Rohde is the founder of Global Warming Art.
Zeke Hausfather, scientist
Steven Mosher, scientist, co-author of Climategate: The Crutape Letters
Saul Perlmutter, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Physics at UCB.
Arthur H. Rosenfeld, professor of physics at UCB and former California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon%20Carpenter | Sharon Lee Carpenter (born 2 March 1982) is a British broadcast journalist, television host, and producer. She has worked as an on-air personality for a number of top American television networks including CBS, BET, Sean "Diddy" Combs' REVOLT TV, and VH1. Currently, she is a host for BBC America and often contributes on CNN, Good Morning America and UK morning show "Lorraine." She also co-hosts a pop culture podcast with Hollyoaks actress Jorgie Porter, "Loose Lips." Carpenter recently won both a Telly Award and a Webby Awards honor for an Instagram Live series she created during the coronavirus pandemic - a celebrity interview show called "Let's Go Live!"
From 2019 - 2021, she was the host of "The Royal Report" - a weekly entertainment news web-series, by People Magazine and People TV, that covered the royal family. Sharon was also a host for the viral mobile trivia game HQ Trivia. She presented the UK version of the show twice daily weekdays and once on Saturdays and Sundays and regularly hosted the U.S. version of the show. Until it was cancelled in 2022, she could also be seen as a regular contributor on The Wendy Williams Show. Carpenter guest-starred in an episode of FOX's Empire where she played herself.
After building her career in the U.S., Carpenter reached what the Huffington Post described as "cult figure" status in the U.K. in the first few months of her presenting there. In 2018, she was named one of the most influential people in London by the Evening Standard on their Progress 1000 list.
Carpenter initially rose to fame as an anchor and reporter for Black Entertainment Television (BET) and BET International – the only British TV personality to have represented the brand. Carpenter also received international attention for her news coverage as a correspondent for the BBC program BBC World News America.
In 2013, she co-created her first television show, VH1's The Gossip Game, and appeared on the series as a main cast member. The docu-soap followed the lives and careers of seven female media personalities reporting on the entertainment industry.
Carpenter has won four awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) two Telly Awards and a Webby Awards honor. She currently lives in Los Angeles and serves as an ambassador for Oxfam America.
Early life and education
Carpenter was born in England, the daughter and step-daughter of two medical doctors and former professors at Harvard Medical School, Grace and Phillip McKee. Her father, Chris Carpenter, passed away in 2012.
She is of Indian, British and Dutch descent. In 2000, she moved to New York City to attend Pace University. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in business management.
Carpenter has two siblings; including best-selling author, Kathryn Croft and DJ / producer Jazz T.
Career
Carpenter began her career in broadcast news as an associate producer for WWOR-TV (my9 News) in New York City before |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXWA | KXWA (101.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Centennial, Colorado, United States. The station serves the Denver metropolitan area and is currently owned by the WAY-FM Network. Its studios are located in Longmont, and the transmitter is near Castle Rock.
History
In Colorado Springs
On January 14, 1965, William S. Cook obtained a construction permit to build a new radio station in Colorado Springs. It went on the air January 28, 1967, as KRYT-FM, a companion to daytime-only KRYT (1530 AM). On December 6, 1976, the KRYT name moved fully to AM, and the station adopted an adult contemporary format as KINX, with KRYT AM going to disco music.
In 1979, the two stations (then KXXV and KINX) were acquired by Mountain Center Broadcasting Company, part of Texas-based Center Group Broadcasting, for $765,000. Walton Stations acquired both stations in separate transactions in 1982, with the FM going for $1.02 million. Under Walton, the station broadcast country music and became a major player in the market, being the top-billing station from 1989 to 1997 and the highest-rated local station in much of that time period.
Walton sold KKCS-FM to Superior Broadcasting in 2003 for $18 million.
Denver market move-in
Superior sold KKCS-FM to Bustos Media for $16 million in 2005, retaining the intellectual property and moving it to Cañon City's 104.5 MHz, which it leased. Meanwhile, Bustos moved KKCS-FM north from Colorado Springs to Centennial, with a transmitter on Monument Hill, to target the Denver market. In Denver, it changed its format to Regional Mexican as KGDQ "", the third Spanish-language FM station in the region.
Bustos sold KKHI in 2010 to Way-FM Communications for conversion to its Christian radio network. The call sign was changed to KXWA that December.
References
External links
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XWA
Centennial, Colorado
WAY-FM Network
Radio stations established in 1967
1967 establishments in Colorado
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunComm%20Technology | SunComm Technology () is a Taiwan multinational computer technology and GSM Voice over IP gateway manufacturer. The main products in 2010 focused on GSM VoIP gateways & IP surveillance camera devices. Core members have been engaging in the communication & networks industry since 1977.
History
SunComm Technology Co., Ltd ()
In 1977, developed communication & networks industry.
In 2007, developed GSM gateway.
In 2008, developed VoIP.
In 2010, developed GSM to VoIP Gateway.
Operations
Dongguan, China Liaison Office has
been set up at Guan-Dong Province to provide service from Taiwan and China.
SunComm Technology Co., Ltd provides:
VoIP
Wifi IP Phone
gateway 2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 24 ports
SIP Proxy Server for 200 users with 2, 4, 8 FXS, FXO embedded
SIP IP PBX with 72 SIP Line and 24 SIP Trunk
Web Call Server: with 10 concurrent call, 30 concurrent call
GSM VoIP Device
GSM Gateway (FWT)
GSM VoIP gateway: 1 channel, 2 channels
GSM E1 Channel Bank (30 channels)
(Dual band 900/1800 MHz or Quad band 900/1800/1900 MHz)
Products
A VoIP phone has the following hardware components:
Keypad & touchpad to enter phone number and text.
Speaker & earphone and microphone.
General purpose processor (GPP) to process application messages.
Display hardware to feedback user input and show caller-id & messages.
A voice engine or a digital signal processor (DSP) to process RTP messages. Some IC manufacturers provides GPP and DSP in single chip.
Ethernet or wireless network hardware to send and receive messages on data network.
Power source might be a battery or DC source. Some VoIP phones receive electricity from Power over Ethernet.
ADC and DAC converters: To convert voice to digital data and vice versa.
Other devices
There are several Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones and PDAs that come pre-loaded with SIP clients, or are capable of running IP telephony clients. Some VoIP phones also support PSTN phone lines directly.
Gateway devices
Analog telephony adapters are connected to the internet or Local area network using an Ethernet port and have sockets to connect one or more PSTN phones. Such devices are sent out to customers who sign up with various commercial VoIP providers allowing them to continue using their existing PSTN based telephones.
Another type of gateway device acts as a simple GSM base station and regular mobile phones can connect to this and make VoIP calls. While a license is required to run one of these in most countries these can be useful on ships or remote areas where a low-powered gateway transmitting on unused frequencies is likely to go unnoticed.
Ethernet hub
Voice over IP
E1 GSM Channel Bank with VoIP
GSM Fixed Phone (FWP)
IP Phone / Wifi IP
Skype Phone Desktop
Router
3G Wifi AP Router
Gateway
3G GSM Gateway
GSM Gateway
PoE Switch
Server
3G Hsupa Hsdpa EvdoEdge Modem
GSM Remote SIM Switch / Server
Wifi ATA / VoIP Gateway
Terminal
3G VoIP Terminal
CDMA VoIP Terminal
GSM VoIP Terminal
Modem
GSM / Wifi Dual Mode
Payphone
Disadvantages o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow | PowWow (Power Optimized Hardware and Software FrameWork for Wireless Motes) is a wireless sensor network (WSN) mote developed by the Cairn team of IRISA/INRIA. The platform is currently based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard radio transceiver and on an MSP430 microprocessor. Unlike other available mote systems, PowWow offers specific features for a very-high energy efficiency:
the MAC layer is based on an asynchronous rendezvous scheme initiated by the receiver,
architectural and circuit level optimizations were performed such as power management, frequency and voltage scaling and FPGA co-processing for low power,
the software stack is very light (5 kbytes) uses event-driven programming and is currently derived from the Protothread library of Contiki.
Hardware
PowWow hardware platform is composed of a motherboard including an MSP430 microcontroller and of other daughter boards such as the radio transceiver board, the coprocessing board and some sensor and energy harvester boards.
Processing motherboard
TI MSP430 low-power microcontroller
MSP430F1612 version, 8 MHz clock
55KB of flash memory, 5KB of on-chip RAM
330uA at 1 MHz and 2.2 V in active mode, 1.1uA in standby mode
P1, P2 connectors for extension
JTAG, RS232 and I2C interfaces
Radio Board
TI CC2420 RF transceiver
Digital direct sequence spread spectrum baseband modem
Single-chip 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 compliant
Spreading gain of 9 dB, data rate of 250 kbit/s
Hardware support for packet handling, data buffering, burst transmissions, data encryption, data authentication, clear channel assessment, link quality indication and packet timing information
Co-processing Board
A co-processing board can be added to the motherboard on P1, P2 connectors. This board provides dynamic voltage scaling and hardware acceleration to increase the energy efficiency of the network.
Power Mode Management (PMM)
Low-Power Programmable Timer for Wake-up period
MAX6370, 8uA
Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DFVS)
Programmable Clock
LTC6930, 490uA
8 MHz divided by 1 to 128
Programmable DC/DC converter
TPS62402/TPS61030
FPGA co-processing
Low-power Igloo FPGA from Actel
AGL125: 130 nm, 125 kgates, 32kbits on-chip RAM, 1 kbits Flash, PLL for clock management.
Supply voltages 0 to 1.65V
Power consumption: 2.2 uW, 16 uW, 1 to 30 mW in sleep, freeze, run modes
e.g. Viterbi decoder for link layer implemented on the FPGA consumes 5 mW
Networking
MAC layer: preamble sampling protocol
PowWow uses RICER protocol proposed by UC Berkeley to reduce the time spent in radio reception (RX) mode. This protocol consists in cycled rendez-vous initiated by a wake-up beacon from potential receivers. Thanks to this method, nodes are sleeping most of the time, hence saving energy.
Multi-hop routing
Geographical routing
PowWow uses a simple geographical routing protocol.
Each node has (x,y) coordinates
Next node for hop transmission is chosen in the neighbors as the nearest to the destination
in the sens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20songs%20of%202008 | The Billboard Latin Pop Airplay chart ranks the best-performing Spanish-language pop music singles in the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2008
References
United States Latin Pop Airplay
2008
2008 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HACC%20Cambodia | HIV/AIDS Coordinating Committee (HACC) (គណៈកម្មការសំរបសំរួលប្រយុទ្ធនឹងជំងឺអេដស៍) is an HIV/AIDS Cambodian NGO network, representing over 120 NGOs working with HIV/AIDS in Cambodia. It was established in 1993 to coordinate civil society organizations and to promote the sharing of information, experiences, and advances from the field among civil society organizations in responding to HIV/AIDS in Cambodia.
Leadership
HACC is governed by a voluntary Steering Committee elected from and by the NGO members.
Steering Committee (2011–2013)
Kim Sokuntheary, Chair of the Steering Committee
Phok Bunroeun, Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee
Prang Chanthy, Treasurer of the Steering Committee
Chhun Roeurn, Member
Penh Sakun, Member
Sem Peng Sean, Member
Sok Pun, Member
Steering Committee (2010–2011)
Pon Yut Sakara, Chair of Steering Committee
Long Leng, Vice Chair of the Steering Committee
Sum Satum, Treasurer
Sok Pun, Member
Phok Bunroeun, Member
Buth Saman, Member
Srey Vanthuon, Member
Executive Director
Tim Vora, Executive Director of HACC
How HACC works
HACC provides opportunities for networking among members and other civil society networks to encourage policy change and protection for people living with HIV/AIDS and in the development of prevention measures. The organization works closely to make changes with the Government, international donors, and the UN. Specifically, it works by:
Collaborating with members to coordinate the NGO response to HIV and AIDS at the national and provincial levels.
Promoting communication and the sharing of information among members and between all those involved in the HIV and AIDS response in Cambodia and internationally.
Raising awareness of HIV and AIDS and gaps in service delivery of HIV/AIDS treatment and preventative measures.
Representing NGOs responding to HIV and AIDS at national and international forums where they have received a mandate from their members to do so.
Advocating for the full involvement of civil society in determining policy, setting national targets, developing plans, and monitoring progress related to HIV and AIDS response on a national level.
The main policy focus for HACC and other members working in the area of an HIV/AIDS epidemic, is the issue of youth as a most at-risk people (MARP), along with Orphan Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs), Injecting Drug User/Drug Users (IDU/DU), and Entertaining Workers (EW), and Prisoners, which were defined as those who are practicing high-risk behavior. In the National Strategic Plan III (NSPIII) 2011–2015, HACC played an important role in coordinating and facilitating the participation of civil societies in the process of planning and the launching the NSPIII 2011–2015., Water Festival Day and World AIDS Day in coordination with the National Aids Authority.
Roles
Networking: HACC provides networking opportunities for members, networks representing community interests, government, international donors, and United Nations age |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%20Backup | Box Backup is an open-source, completely automatic online backup system. The client software sends the backup data to the server. The data is encrypted using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and is also protected by a further layer of on-disk encryption.
Box Backup supports Linux, UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS X backup clients and servers (although Windows servers are not recommended by the authors).
Box Backup is licensed under the GNU GPL and BSD licenses.
Introduction
Box Backup is a client-server application in which a client sends data to the server for storage. The server provides management of client via certificates, storage quotas, and data retention. Together, a unique and robust solution is created that scales allowing clients with low-bandwidth connections to effectively perform reliable backups.
Box Backup is ideal for backing up laptops and computers with intermittent or low-bandwidth connections, because it is capable of continuous data protection in the background, starting automatically when an internet connection is present, and recovering gracefully and efficiently from connection failures.
Box Backup uses a modified version of the Rsync algorithm, that works with encrypted blocks. This allows it to store data on the server in a form that the server operator cannot read, while still uploading only changed portions of data files.
References
External links
Box Backup official site
Free software programmed in C++
Free backup software
Backup software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim-Slice | The Trim-Slice is a small, fanless nettop computer manufactured by the Israeli company CompuLab. Trim-Slice is the first commercially available desktop computer based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2. It was announced in January 2011 and began shipping in late April 2011.
In July 2013 CompuLab announced its successor, the Utilite computer, a single to quad core computer based on the Freescale i.MX6 SoC which has since then become one of the most popular fanless computers worldwide.
See also
Industrial PC
References
External links
Computer-related introductions in 2011
Linux-based devices
Computers and the environment
Nettop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20St%20Helens | The St Helens trolleybus system once served St Helens, Merseyside, north west England. Opened on , it gradually replaced the St Helens tramway network.
By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the St Helens system was a medium-sized one, with a total of six routes, and a maximum fleet of 66 trolleybuses. It was closed relatively early, on . The 16 youngest trolleybuses in the fleet at that time, ones built in 1950–51, were all sold to other systems for further use. Eight Sunbeam vehicles went to South Shields system and eight British United Traction vehicles to Bradford.
Only one of the former St Helens system trolleybuses is now preserved, at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, South Yorkshire.
See also
History of St Helens, Merseyside
Transport in St Helens
List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
SCT'61 website - photos and descriptions of St Helens trolleybuses and early motorbuses
National Trolleybus Archive
British Trolleybus Society, based in Reading
National Trolleybus Association, based in London
History of St Helens, Merseyside
Transport in St Helens, Merseyside
St Helens
St Helens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracenote%20licensing%20controversy | Music information company Gracenote changed its database terms to closed-source in 2001. This caused some controversy because Gracenote's ancestor, CDDB, had previously said its database was released under the GPL.
In 1998, CDDB was purchased by Escient, a consumer electronics manufacturer, and operated as a business unit within the Indiana-based company. CDDB was then spun off of Escient and in July 2000 was renamed Gracenote.
In 1999, freedb, an open source clone of the Gracenote CDDB service, was created by former CDDB users as a non-commercial alternative. The track listing database freedb used to seed its new service was based on the data released for public use by CDDB.
The CDDB database license was later changed to include new terms. For instance, any programs using a CDDB lookup had to display a CDDB logo while performing the lookup.
In March 2001, only licensed applications were provided access to the Gracenote database. New licenses for CDDB1 (the original version of CDDB) were no longer available, so programmers using Gracenote services were required to switch to CDDB2 (a new version incompatible with CDDB1).
To some, the decision was controversial because the CDDB database was started with the voluntary submission of CD track data by thousands of individual users. Initially, most of these were users of the xmcd CD player program. The xmcd program itself was an open-source, GPL project. Many listing contributors believed that the database was open-source as well, because in 1997, cddb.com's download and support pages had said it was released under the GPL. CDDB claims that license grant was an error.
Patent application
In July 1999 CDDB filed an application for a United States patent, titled Method and System for Finding Approximate Matches in Database. The patent is described as:
"Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by means of a computer network link. The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A plug-in for the browser is able to control an audio CD or other device for playing the musical recording. A script stored on the remote computer accessed over the network is downloaded. The script synchronizes the delivery of the complementary entertainment content with the play of the musical recording."
was issued in May 2005, and has since been referenced by 66 other patents.
Lawsuit against Roxio
Initial lawsuit
After Gracenote's change in licensing, Roxio made the decision to find another free music-recognition provider. In response to the competition, Gracenote filed a lawsuit with the patent at the base of its claims.
Gracenote, company that owns CDDB database, has filed a lawsuit against Roxio, Adaptec's spin-off company that develops Easy CD Creator (the most popular CD burning program in the world). Lawsuit is about Gracenote's CD recognition system; Roxio/Adaptec has used the technology in its Easy CD Creator and has paid all the licensing fees a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words%20with%20Friends | Words with Friends is a multiplayer computer word game developed by Newtoy. Players take turns building words crossword-puzzle style in a manner similar to the classic board game Scrabble. The rules of the two games are similar, but Words with Friends is not associated with the Scrabble brand. Up to 40 games can be played simultaneously using push notifications to alert players when it is their turn. Players may look up friends either by username or through Facebook, or be randomly assigned an opponent through "Smart Match". Players can also find potential opponents using Community Match.
Released in July 2009, Words with Friends is available for cross-platform play on devices running the operating systems Android, Windows Phone, and iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch). The game is also available on Facebook, Kindle Fire, and Nook Tablet. In addition, there is a chat feature built into the game that allows opponents to exchange messages. Between 2010 and 2011, Words with Friends was one of the top ranking games in the iOS app store, available as both a free ad-supported version and a paid version with no "third party ads between turns". As of May 2017, Words with Friends was the most popular mobile game in the United States. A sequel to the game, Words with Friends 2, came out in September 2017.
Gameplay
The rules of the game are mostly the same as those of two-player Scrabble, with a few differences such as the arrangement of premium squares and the distribution and point values of some of the letters (see Scrabble letter distributions and point values). Players are given seven randomly chosen letter tiles, which are replenished until all 104 tiles have been used. Players take turns forming words on the board or, instead of playing a word, may also choose to swap tiles with the pool of currently unused tiles or pass their turn. Players can form words either vertically or horizontally on the board. The player's aim is to score as many points as possible.
A letter placed on a DL or TL square doubles or triples the value of that letter on all words formed using that square. Similarly, the DW and TW squares double and triple the value of the new word(s) using that square. If a player uses all seven tiles on a single play (known as a bingo in Scrabble), 35 bonus points are added - this contrasts with the 50 bonus points in Scrabble.
The different arrangement of premium squares can lead to scoring situations that would be rare or impossible in a typical Scrabble game. For example, it is possible to place a new word that simultaneously covers a triple letter score (TL) and a triple word score (TW), or a new word that covers a double word score (DW) and a triple word score (TW), which would be impossible or nearly impossible in a Scrabble game.
The game ends when a player plays every tile in his or her rack, and there are no remaining tiles to draw. The game also ends if three scoreless moves (i.e., passes or tile exchanges) are played in succession, u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20by%20the%20Numbers | TV by the Numbers was a website devoted to collecting and analyzing television ratings data in the United States that operated from 2007 to 2020. It was a part of Nexstar Media Group's Zap2it television news/listings site.
History
An Internet and statistical analyst, Robert Seidman had previously worked for IBM and Charles Schwab, and published an online newsletter about the Internet and AOL before founding TV by the Numbers; Bill Gorman had been an AOL executive until 1998, and had read Seidman's column. Friends since the early 1990s when they met near Washington, D.C., both were fond of television, as Gorman loved numbers and Seidman enjoyed statistics relating to it; the subject of television ratings data entered into one of their conversations. Gorman was dismayed at being unable to find other blogs devoted solely to television data, and after a Google search confirmed this, he and Seidman thought of the idea for a website devoted solely to the subject. In Gorman's words, while there were sites devoted to disseminating certain subjects, "there was no site that did the same thing for the television industry. That is, compile the numbers in a way, and analyze them in a way, that consumers would understand". Gorman elaborated in a 2010 interview:
We try to focus on publicly available facts. We're not breaking any news. We're not interviewing people to try to get the last bit of juicy gossip. We focus on publicly available, either ratings or financial information, and what that likely means for your favorite show. Whether they're coming back or going away.
On June 30, 2009, in response to pressure from Nielsen Media Research, TV by the Numbers made large changes to their archives. The main ratings archives no longer go past 2 weeks prior to the date a reader accesses them.
On November 10, 2010, TV by the Numbers announced that they were partnering with TV news website Zap2it. As a result, the website's URL changed to a subdomain of the zap2it.com domain. In addition, Zap2it features such as TV listings began to appear on the site.
In response to The New York Times decision in 2011 to start charging for access to online content, Gorman wrote an article stressing his website will remain free.
In January 2012, Gorman and Seidman expressed interest in hiring writers to do the day-to-day writing on their site. On February 12, 2012, they announced that Sara Bibel and Amanda Kondolojy would be joining the website.
On April 3, 2014, Zap2It owner Tribune Digital Ventures purchased the site in full.
On January 31, 2020, the website's staff released a statement declaring TV By The Numbers to be inactive starting the very next day, February 1, 2020. The staff bid goodbye and thanked readers. This is in part due to TV ratings being less of a factor due to the rise in media streaming. As of August 2020, its URL redirects to Zap2It's TV listings service.
Impact
According to one source, much of the information Gorman and Seidman had access to was not re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserved%20Domain%20Database | The Conserved Domain Database (CDD) is a database of well-annotated multiple sequence alignment models and derived database search models, for ancient domains and full-length proteins.
Philosophy
Domains can be thought of as distinct functional and/or structural units of a protein. These two classifications coincide rather often, as a matter of fact, and what is found as an independently folding unit of a polypeptide chain also carries specific function. Domains are often identified as recurring (sequence or structure) units, which may exist in various contexts. In molecular evolution such domains may have been utilized as building blocks, and may have been recombined in different arrangements to modulate protein function. CDD defines conserved domains as recurring units in molecular evolution, the extents of which can be determined by sequence and structure analysis.
The goal of the NCBI conserved domain curation project is to provide database users with insights into how patterns of residue conservation and divergence in a family relate to functional properties, and to provide useful links to more detailed information that may help to understand those sequence/structure/function relationships. To do this, CDD Curators include the following types of information in order to supplement and enrich the traditional multiple sequence alignments that form the foundation of domain models: 3-dimensional structures and conserved core motifs, conserved features/sites, phylogenetic organization, links to electronic literature resources.
Content
CDD content includes NCBI manually curated domain models and domain models imported from a number of external source databases (Pfam, SMART, COG, PRK, TIGRFAMs). What is unique about NCBI-curated domains is that they use 3D-structure information to explicitly define domain boundaries, align blocks, amend alignment details, and provide insights into sequence/structure/function relationships. Manually curated models are organized hierarchically if they describe domain families that are clearly related by common descent. To provide a non-redundant view of the data, CDD clusters similar domain models from various sources into superfamilies.
Searching the database
The collection is also part of NCBI's Entrez query and retrieval system, crosslinked to numerous other resources. CDD provides annotation of domain footprints and conserved functional sites on protein sequences. Precalculated domain annotation can be retrieved for protein sequences tracked in NCBI's Entrez system, and CDD's collection of models can be queried with novel protein sequences via * , or at* , that allows the computation and download of annotation for large sets of protein queries.
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Biological databases
Protein structure
Protein domains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny%20Dalglish%20Soccer%20Match | Kenny Dalglish Soccer Match is a computer game based on Scottish ex-football player and manager Kenny Dalglish - who managed and played for Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers, Celtic and the Scotland national team. Dalglish would also become famous for winning the FA Cup while playing and managing for the same team.
The Australian magazine PC PowerPlay gave this game a rating of 5% in its February 1990 issue.
Gameplay
This was Dalglish's second licensed game and a side-scroller with a team in red playing against a team in blue.
The skill level is divided into nine levels so that rookies can play against video game veterans. Passing the ball is similar to the Kick Off series except that it's only possible to make long passes; making quick passing purely a matter of luck. The ball bounces excessively; making it very difficult to shoot on target for less than 30 yards.
Matches can last anywhere from 10 to 90 minutes; there are no leagues or tournaments to play against other teams. There are digitized photos of Dalglish himself; inspiring players to achieve goals and to have "good results." Oddly enough, the player must type in the name (city, county, official nickname, etc.) of his team as well as the opponent's. This means that players can have their local weekly football club play against Manchester United or Chelsea with no difference in gameplay. Kenny Dalglish always gives the player valuable advice; expert players can choose to ignore it.
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1990 video games
Association football video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in England
ZX Spectrum games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games based on real people
Dalglish
Dalglish
Dalglish
Impressions Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Colbourn | Charles Joseph Colbourn (born October 24, 1953) is a Canadian computer scientist and mathematician, whose research concerns graph algorithms, combinatorial designs, and their applications. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Dorothean Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont; since then he has been a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University.
Colbourn was born on October 24, 1953, in Toronto, Ontario; despite working in the United States since 1996 he retains his Canadian citizenship. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1976; after a master's degree at the University of Waterloo, he returned to Toronto for a Ph.D., which he received in 1980 under the supervision of Derek Corneil. He has held faculty positions at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Waterloo, University of Vermont, and Arizona State University, as well as visiting positions at several other universities. He has been one of three editors-in-chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Designs since 1992.
In 2004, the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications named Colbourn as that year's winner of their Euler Medal for lifetime achievements in combinatorics.
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1953 births
Living people
Arizona State University faculty
Canadian mathematicians
Canadian computer scientists
Graph theorists
Scientists from Toronto
University of Toronto alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Saskatchewan
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
University of Vermont faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-bearer%20channel | In telecommunications, an information-bearer channel is one of:
A communication channel capable of transmitting all the information required for communication, such as user data, synchronizing sequences, and control signals. The information-bearer channel may operate at a higher data rate than that required for user data alone.
A basic communications channel with the necessary bandwidth but without enhanced or value-added services.
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Telecommunication theory |
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