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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Future%20GPX%20Cyber%20Formula%20episodes | is an anime series produced by Sunrise that aired in Japan from March 15 to December 20, 1991 on Nippon Television with 37 episodes. The TV series was followed by four OVA titles that were produced from 1992 to 1998 with a total of 27 episodes. The opening and ending themes of the TV series are "I'll Come" and "Winners," performed by G-GRIP.
Episodes
Future GPX Cyber Formula (TV series)
Future GPX Cyber Formula 2 (OVA series)
Future GPX Cyber Formula 2 is divided into four parts titled 11 (Double One), Zero, Saga and Sin.
Future GPX Cyber Formula 11
Future GPX Cyber Formula ZERO
Future GPX Cyber Formula SAGA
Future GPX Cyber Formula SIN
Future GPX Cyber Formula: Early Days Renewal
1991 Japanese television seasons
Future GPX Cyber Formula
Lists of anime episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Sensors%20Council%20Early%20Career%20GOLD%20Award | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Young Professionals is a vibrant community and growing network of young engineers, scientists, and technical experts, with member representations across the globe and throughout the IEEE societies. To recognize the contributions of these young professionals to the IEEE sensors community, IEEE Sensor Council has recently announced the Early Career (Young Professional) Award.
Recipients
2013: Carlos Ruiz Zamarreño
2012: Sinéad O’Keeffe
2011: Bhaskar Choubey
2010: Ville Viikari
Notes
Early career awards
IEEE society and council awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindanao%20Peoples%20Caucus | The Mindanao Peoples Caucus (MPC) is a grassroots network of Indigenous Peoples, Bangsamoro and Christian communities and leaders who have common vision for peace in Mindanao. MPC is known to have stood up for the struggle to finally resolve the age-old armed conflict in Mindanao through a negotiated political settlement that contains the essentials acceptable to both negotiating parties and that addresses the historical oppression and forced marginalization of the native inhabitants and indigenous peoples of this island.
As such, MPC is actively working for the strengthening of the participation and engagement of tripeoples grassroots constituency in the Mindanao peace process so as to allow their recognition as self-determining peoples who can develop and govern themselves in the economic, political, social and spiritual spheres of development.
Since its establishment in 2001, MPC has made various breakthroughs in the peacebuilding arena which facilitated significant gains in the peace process.
One of which is the formation of its independent ceasefire mechanism known as the “Bantay Ceasefire” which gained recognition and respect among the formal ceasefire mechanisms of both the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Bantay Ceasefire is composed of more than 600 volunteers, from Basilan, Lanao provinces, Cotabato, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, Compostela Valley and Sulu, who are actively monitoring the implementation of the ceasefire agreement.
Given the serious humanitarian crisis that befell Mindanao, MPC has enhanced its work from ceasefire monitoring to humanitarian protection, dubbed as “Sagip Sibilyan”, in order to extend direct humanitarian assistance, from advocacy to capacity building interventions, to thousands of innocent civilians who became forced and direct victims of internal displacement, human rights abuses and military repression.
Since the outbreak of the war in August 2008, the Mindanao Peoples Caucus has been leading the campaign for a ceasefire amidst a highly polarized situation where Christian vigilante groups like the Ilaga (Rat) were pitted against Bangsamoro communities. It has been a total shock among the Bantay Ceasefire volunteers who too were threatened because of their open support to the peace process. Despite constant threats and intimidation and with the hawks gaining the upper hand within the government, the MPC did now step back in its peace advocacy. Seeing the collapse of the ceasefire which Bantay Ceasefire members had painstakingly preserved through vigilance and monitoring work – MPC had to address a serious demoralization problem among its members some of them were even afraid of wearing their uniform vests.
August 2008 and the ensuing backlash in the peace talks leading to an open outbreak of armed hostilities and a massive humanitarian crisis had put to serious challenge MPC’s commitment to peacebuilding and peace advocacy. The August 18 attack by the MILF in Kauswagan and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres%20de%20Saya | Andres de Saya is a 2011 Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is a television adaptation of comic novel of Carlo J. Caparas. Directed by Cesar Cosme, it stars Cesar Montano and Iza Calzado. It premiered on May 28, 2011, replacing Mind Master. The series concluded on August 21, 2011, with a total of 13 episodes.
Overview
Andres de Saya was first introduced as a form of comics, written by Carlo J. Caparas. Later on, in 1980, it was adapted into a film with Vic Vargas on the title role, and Gloria Diaz as his wife. After which, two parts of the said movie followed. The second and third part of the movie which was shown in 1982 and 1986, respectively, was titled, Andres de Saya (Mabagsik na daw!) and Anomalya ni... Andres de Saya with Vargas and Diaz reprising their roles.
Premise
Andres "Andy" Taguyod, a seemingly perfect peg of a tough, macho man. He works as a bouncer in a "gimik" bar and provides for his kin; he does not aspire to be rich but his ultimate dream is to marry a woman he really loves.
When he met Matilde "Mat" Golpe de Oro, Andres knew that he has found the woman of his dreams. Matilde came from a well-off family and is a title holder in many beauty pageants. Although she was not initially attracted to Andres, circumstances brought them to each other's arms in a shotgun wedding.
One night, Matilde ended up in Andres' bed due to drunkenness and although nothing really happened between them, Matilde's grandmother made a big deal out of it. Lola Coring, played by Ms. Gloria Romero, insisted that the two get married despite the fact that she does not approve of Andres for her granddaughter.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Cesar Montano as Andres "Andy" Taguyod
Iza Calzado as Matilde "Matt" Golpe De Oro-Taguyod
Supporting cast
Gloria Romero as Mama Coring
Caridad Sanchez as Minda
Fabio Ide as Victor Del Mundo
Elmo Magalona as Bryan
Julie Anne San Jose as Lizzy
Jillian Ward as Jecjec
Chariz Solomon as Charing
Mike "Pekto" Nacua as Adonis "Tsong" Penyaratot
Guest cast
Iwa Moto as Nica Landutay
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Andres de Saya earned a 9.9% rating. While the final episode scored an 11.6% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine comedy television series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20of%20the%20Wild | Last of the Wild is an initiative created in 2002 on behalf of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University to identify the last remaining 'wild' areas on the earth's land surface, measured by human influence. By mapping and measuring the extent of human ecological footprints, and using an overlaying method to determine the Human Influence Index (HII), WCS and CIESIN are able to establish the areas that have been least affected by human activities (places with Human Footprint grid values less than or equal to 10) which has currently determined a Last of the Wild status for 569 places globally.
By understanding where the earth's wildest areas still remain, conservation organisations are able to maximise on the best opportunities for conservation which, as of 2002, lay within 87% of the terrestrial planet. The conservation of areas identified as 'The Last of the Wild' are less likely to be obscured by conflicts and proposals of human infrastructure and as a result may obtain this status for a prolonged period of time.
See also
High-Biodiversity Wilderness Areas
Biodiversity Hotspots
Biosphere Reserves
Protected Areas
Conservation movement
Ecoregions
Crisis Ecoregions
References
External links
A-Z of Areas of Biodiversity Importance: Last of the Wild
Wildlife Conservation Society: The Human Footprint
Geoserver: Data on the Human Footprint
Nature conservation organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentat%20Portable%20Streams | Mentat Portable Streams (MPS) was a platform independent implementation of the UNIX System V STREAMS networking protocol stack, normally sold with the Mentat TCP stack providing TCP/IP support. Portable Streams was used in a number of commercial products, including Apple Computer's Open Transport, AIX, VxWorks, Palm OS's Cobalt, Novell's UnixWare and other systems. Mentat also ported the system to Linux and Windows NT as a standalone product. Portable Streams was written by Mentat, who was purchased by Packeteer in 2004.
References
Internet Protocol based network software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization%20network | A synchronization network is a network of coupled dynamical systems. It consists of a network connecting oscillators, where oscillators are nodes that emit a signal with somewhat regular (possibly variable) frequency, and are also capable of receiving a signal.
Particularly interesting is the phase transition where the entire network (or a very large percentage) of oscillators begins pulsing at the same frequency, known as synchronization. The synchronization network then becomes the substrate through which synchronization of these oscillators travels. Since there is no central authority organizing nodes, this is a form of self organizing system.
Definition
Generally, oscillators can be biological, electronic, or physical. Some examples are fireflies, crickets, heart cells, lasers, microwave oscillators, and neurons. Further example can be found in many domains.
In a particular system, oscillators may be identical or non-identical. That is, either the network is made up of homogeneous or heterogeneous nodes.
Properties of oscillators include: frequency, phase and natural frequency.
Network edges describe couplings between oscillators. Couplings may be physical attachment, or consist of some proximity measure through a medium such as air or space.
Networks have several properties, including: number of nodes (oscillators), network topology, and coupling strength between oscillators.
Kuramoto model
Kuramoto developed a major analytical framework for coupled dynamical systems, as follows:
A network of oscillators with varied natural frequencies will be incoherent while the coupling strength is weak.
Letting be the phase of the th oscillator and be its natural frequency, randomly selected from a Cauchy-Lorentz distribution as follows,
, having width and central value ,
we obtain a description of collective synchronization:
,
where is the number of nodes (oscillators), and is the coupling strength between nodes and .
Kuramoto has also developed an "order parameter", which measures synchronization between nodes:
This leads to the asymptotic definition of , the critical coupling strength, as and
with .
Note that no synchronization, and perfect synchronization.
Beyond , each oscillator will belong to one of two groups:
a group that is synchronized.
a group that will never synchronize, since their natural frequencies vary too greatly from the synchronization frequency.
Network topology
Synchronization networks may have many topologies. Topology may have a great deal of influence over the spread of dynamics.
Some major topologies are listed below:
Regular networks: This describes networks where every node has the same number of links. Lattices, rings, and fully connected networks are some examples of this topology.
Random graphs: Developed by Erdős and Rényi, these graphs are characterized by a constant probability of a link existing between any two nodes.
Small world networks: These networks are the re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJLJ-FM | CJLJ-FM is a Canadian radio station which broadcasts a community radio programming on the frequency of 100.7 MHz (FM) in Williams Lake, British Columbia.
History
On April 28, 2011, Sugar Cane Community Diversity Association received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval to operate a new FM radio station at 100.7 MHz in Williams Lake, British Columbia.
On April 1, 2012, the station signed on the air as Sugar Cane FM.
On May 3, 2016, the CRTC approved Sugar Cane Community Diversity Association's application to operate a very low-power, English-language Type B Native FM radio station in Williams Lake, British Columbia. The station will operate on the frequency of 100.7 MHz (channel 264VLP) with an effective radiated power of 5 watts (effective height of antenna above average terrain of -68.8 metres).
References
External links
JLJ
JLJ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Xie | Ken Xie () is an American billionaire businessman who founded Systems Integration Solutions (SIS), NetScreen, and Fortinet.
He is CEO of Fortinet, a cybersecurity firm based in Silicon Valley. Xie was previously the CEO of NetScreen, which was acquired by Juniper Networks for $4 billion in 2004. He built the first ASIC-based firewall/VPN appliance in 1996.
Early life
Xie was born and raised in China. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering, and from Stanford University with an M.S. in electrical engineering.
Career
In 1993, Xie founded a network security company, Systems Integration Solutions (SIS). Xie built the first ASIC-based firewall/VPN appliance in 1996, in his garage in Palo Alto, California. That same year he founded NetScreen Technologies, an online security firm, with Yan Ke and Feng Deng. NetScreen Technologies was later acquired by Juniper Networks Inc. for $4 billion.
Fortinet
In 2000, Xie left NetScreen to create Fortinet with his brother Michael Xie, an electrical engineer. Since then, Ken Xie has served as Fortinet's CEO, while Michael Xie is president and chief technology officer. Xie has stated that he founded Fortinet because he believed that security must be embedded in the end-to-end computing and networking infrastructure. The Xie brothers launched the initial FortiGate products in May 2002. Xie has led Fortinet to acquire security monitoring firm AccelOps, endpoint security firm enSilo, SOAR platform provider CyberSponse, and the IoT-focused security firmBradford Networks.
In January 2019, Xie was a discussion leader for the Centre for Cybersecurity’s cyber workforce session at Davos’ World Economic Forum (WEF) summit. In February 2020, Ken Xie spoke at the RSA conference in San Francisco about the importance of SD-WAN, edge computing, and automation. Xie is a founding member and a member of the board of board of directors of the Cyber Threat Alliance.
Personal life
Xie is married and lives in Los Altos Hills, California. He is the father of Jaime Xie, a fashion influencer and star on the Netflix reality TV series Bling Empire. In September 2020, Xie joined the Forbes 400 list.
Xie was made a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Private foundation
Xie runs a private foundation, along with his brother. Since 2009, Xie has had more than $30 million in income tax deductions by contributing shares of Fortinet to this private foundation. In 2017, the private foundation spent $3 million on a home in Cupertino, California which Xie and his then-girlfriend lived in. In January 2020, the house was transferred from the foundation to a LLC
References
1963 births
Living people
Chinese emigrants to the United States
American technology chief executives
American computer businesspeople
Businesspeople in software
Tsinghua University alumni
Members of Committee of 100
Stanford University alumni
Businesspeople from Beijing
American technology company founders
C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera%20Genome%20Database | The Hymenoptera Genome Database (HGD) is a comprehensive resource supporting genomics of Hymenoptera.
See also
BeeBase
References
External links
Genome database
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20contagion | Complex contagion is the phenomenon in social networks in which multiple sources of exposure to an innovation are required before an individual adopts the change of behavior. It differs from simple contagion in that unlike a disease, it may not be possible for the innovation to spread after only one incident of contact with an infected neighbor. The spread of complex contagion across a network of people may depend on many social and economic factors; for instance, how many of one's friends adopt the new idea as well as how many of them cannot influence the individual, as well as their own disposition in embracing change.
Mechanisms
Complex Contagion and the Weakness of Long Ties by Damon Centola of University of Pennsylvania and Michael Macy of Cornell University found that information and disease spread as “simple contagions”, requiring only one contact for transmission, while behaviors typically spread as “complex contagions”, requiring multiples sources of reinforcement to induce adoption. Centola’s work builds on Granovetter’s work on the strength of weak ties and threshold models of collective behavior, as well as Duncan Watts and Steve Strogatz’s work on small world networks. Centola and Macy show that the weak ties and small worlds networks are both very good for spreading simple contagions. However, for complex contagions, weak ties and small worlds can slow diffusion.
Centola and Macy suggest four mechanisms of complex contagion. These properties explain the need for multiple exposures in the spread of contagion:
Coordination. Certain innovations become attractive only when people collectively adopt them. In his book "Change," Centola discusses that social technologies like popular media-sharing platforms such as Twitter and Facebook only become valuable once a critical mass of individuals within your social network begins to use them. Many innovations are costly, especially for early adopters but less so for those who wait. The same holds for participation in collective action.
Credibility. Innovations often lack credibility until adopted by neighbors. Hearing the same story from different people makes it seem less likely that surprising information is nothing more than the fanciful invention of the informant.
Legitimacy. Knowing that a movement exists or that a collective action will take place is rarely sufficient to induce bystanders to join in. Having several close friends participate in an event often greatly increases an individual’s likelihood of also joining, especially for high-risk social movements. Innovators risk being shunned as deviants until there is a critical mass of early adopters, and non-adopters are likely to challenge the legitimacy of the innovation.
Emotional contagion. Most theoretical models of collective behavior – from action theory to threshold models to cybernetics share the basic assumption that there are expressive and symbolic impulses in human behavior that can be communicated and amplified in spat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood-dependent%20memory | Mood dependence is the facilitation of memory when mood at retrieval is identical to the mood at encoding. When one encodes a memory, they not only record sensory data (such as visual or auditory data), they also store their mood and emotional states. An individual's present mood thus affects the memories that are most easily available to them, such that when they are in a good mood they recall good memories (and vice versa). The associative nature of memory also means that one tends to store happy memories in a linked set. Unlike mood-congruent memory, mood-dependent memory occurs when one's current mood resembles their mood at the time of memory storage, which helps to recall the memory. Thus, the likelihood of remembering an event is higher when encoding and recall moods match up. However, it seems that only authentic moods have the power to produce these mood-dependent effects.
Theories of emotion
Mood is the state or quality of feeling at a particular time. When attempting to discover the biological factors that influence mood, it is difficult to find scientific proofs. The psychological study of mood is built on theories. However, much has been discovered in the study of the brain. The following are a few theories and areas of study of the mind used to further our knowledge of the mind.
Somatic theories
See also Somatic theories
Somatic theories of emotion claim that bodily responses are essential to emotions, rather than judgements. In the 1880s, William James provided the first modern version of such theories. The James–Lange theory, seen by many as his masterwork, lost favor in the 20th century, but has regained popularity more recently due largely to theorists such as John Cacioppo, António Damásio, Joseph E. LeDoux and Robert Zajonc who are able to appeal to neurological evidence. The James-Lange theory states that “Subjective emotions are the effect, not the cause, of the physiological manifestations of those emotions.”
Neurobiological theories
See also Neurobiological theories
Based on discoveries made through neural mapping of the limbic system, the neurobiological explanation of human emotion is that emotion is a pleasant or unpleasant mental state organized in the limbic system of the mammalian brain. If distinguished from reactive responses of reptiles, emotions would then be mammalian elaborations of general vertebrate arousal patterns, in which neurochemicals (for example, dopamine, noradrenaline, and serotonin) step-up or step-down the brain's activity level, as visible in body movements, gestures, and postures. This hypothesis that synaptic plasticity is an important part of the neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory is now widely accepted.
Cognitive theories
See also Cognitive theories
In cognitive psychology, the human mind is seen to be a structured system for handling information. Several theories argue that cognitive activities such as judgments, evaluations, or thoughts are necessary for an emotion to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20Punjabi%205 | ATN Punjabi 5 is a Canadian pay television channel owned by Asian Television Network. It broadcasts Punjabi-language programming from India as well as local content produced by ATN.
ATN Punjabi 5 is a cultural and spiritual channel that caters to the Punjabi/Sikh communities in Canada. Programming includes live Sikh events from around the globe, spiritual programming, and local cultural and religious events from various Sikh communities in Canada.
History
ATN Punjabi 5 originally launched on September 15, 2010 as ATN JUS Punjabi, in partnership with American-Punjabi broadcaster JUS Punjabi. Via a programming supply agreement, ATN launched a Canadian version of the American service.
In October 2014, the channel was renamed 'ATN Punjabi 5' due to a loss of programming from JUS Punjabi.
External links
References
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Punjabi-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Punjabi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20Punjabi%20Plus | ATN Punjabi Plus is a Canadian pay television channel owned by Asian Television Network. It broadcasts programming from India as well as Canadian content. Programming includes dramas, movies, music, news, spiritual programming and much more.
History
ATN Punjabi Plus originally launched on September 15, 2010 as ATN Punjjabi TV, as an exempt ethnic channel under the CRTC's Exempt Ethnic service policy.
On September 5, 2012, the channel was re-branded ATN GET Punjabi to reflect the change undertaken by GET Punjabi in India from which this Canadian service derives its programming.
In August 2014, the channel was renamed ATN Punjabi Plus, to reflect the loss of programming from GET Punjabi.
External links
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Punjabi-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Punjabi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20Sony%20Aath | ATN Sony Aath is a Canadian exempt Category B Bengali language specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). It broadcasts programming from Sony Aath and Canadian content.
Sony Aath is a premium Bengali language movie channel from India. It has the largest Bengali film library in India, with over 1000 titles in its lineup. It airs both contemporary films as well as beloved classics and features a new movie premiere every week.
External links
Sony Aath
Bengali-Canadian culture
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2010
South Asian television in Canada
Indo-Canadian culture
Indian diaspora mass media
Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario
Bengali-language television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachtronics | Zachtronics LLC is an American video game developer, best known for engineering-oriented puzzle video games and programming games. Zachtronics was founded by Zach Barth in 2000, who serves as its lead designer. Some of their games include SpaceChem, Infinifactory, TIS-100, and Shenzhen I/O. Infiniminer (2009) inspired the creation of Minecraft.
History
Zachtronics was founded by American video game designer and programmer Zach Barth in 2000. Barth started creating games early in life and further developed his programming skills at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where he joined the game development club. Barth studied computer systems engineering and computer science at RPI. He was one of three students leading the interdisciplinary team of the CapAbility Games Research Project, a collaboration of RPI with the Center for Disability Services in Albany, New York. In 2008, the team produced Capable Shopper, a shopping simulation game for players with various degrees of disability.
Barth's initial games were generally free browser games offered on his website. One of these was Infiniminer, the block-building game which inspired Mojang to create Minecraft. His earlier, non-commercial, games included twenty that were published on his old website and "five good ones" which he transferred over to the new site. Four of these use Adobe Flash to make them cross-platform, in spite of Flash's development environment. The other one is based on .NET Framework for greater programming convenience. SpaceChem also used .NET, as Barth considers C# to be his favorite programming language. For marketing reasons, Barth decided against Microsoft XNA with its capability to cross-publish to Xbox 360, and switched to OpenGL, which allowed him to target the three operating systems required for inclusion in the Humble Indie Bundle.
After completing The Codex of Alchemical Engineering and getting positive feedback from it, Barth came up with the idea of making commercial games. The first of these was SpaceChem, which he developed the Zachtronics label for. It was also the first game where he took in a number of collaborators to help. SpaceChem was critically praised, which led Barth to continue to develop more games under the Zachtronics label. A few ideas failed to come to light, and with expectations for the studio to make another game, he opted to make Ironclad Tactics, which was more a real-time based card game rather than a puzzle game. Ironclad Tactics did not do as well as SpaceChem, and Barth realized there was more a market for the puzzle games that he had previously developed, and turned back to his Flash-based games. Initially he looked to take The Codex of Alchemical Engineering to make it a full commercial release, but instead ended up producing Infinifactory and later TIS-100.
In 2015, Barth joined Valve to work on SteamVR. He worked there for 10 months before departing. Near the time he started to work at Valve, Barth had been considering shutting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20SAB%20TV | ATN SAB TV is a Canadian Category B Hindi language specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). It broadcasts programming from SAB TV as well as Canadian content.
ATN SAB TV is a family entertainment channel with a focus on comedy-themed programming. It airs various comedy programs including light hearted family shows, silent comedies and dramedies.
History
ATN SAB TV was licensed by the CRTC on February 28, 2011 as ATN Comedy Channel One. It officially launched on February 17, 2011 as ATN SAB TV.
References
External links
SAB TV
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Hindi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%20eShop | The Nintendo eShop (sometimes referred to as Nintendo eShop Channel) is a digital distribution service for the Nintendo Switch, and formerly available via the Nintendo Network for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. The eShop was first launched in June 2011 on the Nintendo 3DS via a system update that added the functionality to the HOME Menu. It is the successor to both the Wii Shop Channel and DSi Shop. Unlike on the Nintendo 3DS, the eShop was made available on the launch date of the Wii U, although a system update is required in order to access it. It is also a multitasking application, which means it is easily accessible even when a game is already running in the background through the system software, though this feature is exclusive to the Wii U and the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo eShop features downloadable games, demos, applications, streaming videos, consumer rating feedback, and other information on upcoming game releases.
A limited variant of the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS family was discontinued on July 31, 2020, for various Latin American and Caribbean markets, as well as for the Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern markets. A limited variant of the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U was also discontinued at the same day for said Latin American and Caribbean markets. As of that date, the ability to download, redownload, and update any software became unavailable, and games using the eShop were also affected.
The ability to purchase, download, and play new content on the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS was discontinued for the rest of the world on March 27, 2023, with the ability to add credit cards ceasing by May 23, 2022, followed by the inability to add funds by August 29 of the same year (except for users who linked their Nintendo Network ID with their Nintendo Account, who could add funds until March 27, 2023). Redeeming download codes for the systems were extended to April 4. Redownloading previously purchased content, updating and free themes is still available. After the Nintendo eShop for both the Wii U and 3DS closed down, the digital downloads for the respective systems became permanently unavailable to the public and are now inaccessible without the use of unauthorised software or playing them on a system that already has said games installed.
Features
Initially, the two versions of the Nintendo eShop between the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS were independent of each other. Whilst this remains largely true, after the implementation of Nintendo Network ID for the Nintendo 3DS, users that register the same ID account between both systems (currently at one time per console) can share a combined funds balance, home address, saved credit and debit card information, wish list entries, and (formerly) linked Club Nintendo accounts. With the release of the Nintendo Switch version of the Nintendo eShop, the balance stored on a Nintendo Network ID can be shared or transferred to a Nintendo Account to be spent on the Ninten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20Times%20Now | ATN Times Now is a Canadian Category B English language specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). It broadcasts programming from Times Now and Canadian content. It features live coverage of news stories with a focus on international news and breaking news.
See also
ATN NDTV 24x7
External links
Times Now
24-hour television news channels in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Digital cable television networks in Canada
South Asian television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated%20imagery | Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games. These images are either static (i.e. still images) or dynamic (i.e. moving images). CGI both refers to 2D computer graphics and (more frequently) 3D computer graphics with the purpose of designing characters, virtual worlds, or scenes and special effects (in films, television programs, commercials, etc.). The application of CGI for creating/improving animations is called computer animation, or CGI animation.
History
The first feature film to use CGI as well as the composition of live-action film with CGI was Vertigo (1958), which used CGI in the opening credits of the film. The first feature film to make use of CGI with live action in the storyline of the film was the 1973 film Westworld. Other early films that incorporated CGI include Star Wars: Episode IV (1977), Tron (1982), Golgo 13: The Professional (1983), The Last Starfighter (1984), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) and Toy Story (1995). The first music video to use CGI was Dire Straits's award-winning "Money for Nothing" (1985), whose success was instrumental in giving the process mainstream exposure.
The evolution of CGI led to the emergence of virtual cinematography in the 1990s, where the vision of the simulated camera is not constrained by the laws of physics. Availability of CGI software and increased computer speeds have allowed individual artists and small companies to produce professional-grade films, games, and fine art from their home computers.
Static images and landscapes
Not only do animated images form part of computer-generated imagery; natural looking landscapes (such as fractal landscapes) are also generated via computer algorithms. A simple way to generate fractal surfaces is to use an extension of the triangular mesh method, relying on the construction of some special case of a de Rham curve, e.g., midpoint displacement. For instance, the algorithm may start with a large triangle, then recursively zoom in by dividing it into four smaller Sierpinski triangles, then interpolate the height of each point from its nearest neighbors. The creation of a Brownian surface may be achieved not only by adding noise as new nodes are created but by adding additional noise at multiple levels of the mesh. Thus a topographical map with varying levels of height can be created using relatively straightforward fractal algorithms. Some typical, easy-to-program fractals used in CGI are the plasma fractal and the more dramatic fault fractal.
Many specific techniques have been researched and developed to produce highly focused computer-generated effects — e.g., the use of specific models to represent the chemical weathering of stones to model erosion and produce an "aged appearance" for a given stone-based surface.
Architectural scenes
Modern architects use services from computer graphic firms to create 3- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo%20Media | Woo Media was an online chat and video social network which offered a variety of interactive sites that provided live social entertainment through a computer or mobile device.
The company raised $17 million in venture capital from several investors including Index Ventures, Atomico (founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis), Mangrove Capital Partners, and Klaus Hommels. One analyst valued Woo Media at $41 million at the time it was funded. Online dating company Zoosk purchased Woo Media in November 2011. Zoosk purchased Woo Media for its properties’ commercial traction and for access to its 10 million active users.
Overview
Woo Media was created by Stephen Stokols, an American entrepreneur, technologist and executive in 2007 after a conversation with his sister about the difficulties using an online dating service. Stokols had been working on new web based video technologies and used it to launch Woo Media’s first property, WooMe.com. Previously, Stokols served as the Vice President of new revenue opportunities at BT Group where he was responsible for evaluating applications of browser-based voice and video technologies.
Upon launching the website at TechCrunch40 in 2007, the founding product, WooMe had an initial 1,000 users. The site’s user base grew to 1,000,000 users in the first twelve months. The site has since been featured in The Guardian, Financial Times, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Metro.co.uk, Times Online, Mashable, Businessweek, Wired and PC Magazine. Stokols grew the organization from 5 employees in 2007 to over 60 in 2011.
The company broadened its focus over the past 5 years and, at the time of its sale, included additional websites of various interactive video experiences including one on one online chat experience (WooMe.com), reality TV online video (WooMe.tv), peer-to-peer video chat (ShufflePeople.com), and social group video chat (MonsterChat.com). The Woo Media network had over 10 million active users with an average of 20 thousand registrants per day at the time of the sale to Zoosk.
Products and Services
WooMe
WooMe was an Adobe Flash based online dating platform, which enabled users to meet in live interactive video sessions via webcam. WooMe requires no questionnaires, profile descriptions or software download. WooMe is allows users to meet new people around any shared interest.
The original product model included online speed dating sessions which lets users create or join topical live speed video chat sessions, connecting with 3 people in 3 minutes. Currently, WooMe is a one-on-one video chatting product where individuals can meet in an online atmosphere.
WooMe offers a freemium model that is free to register and browse profiles. Within this model, the product serves ads and offers a subscription service with premium features including reading messages, viewing interested profiles, sending gifts, the ability to tag WooMe profiles, to browse and search profiles by filtering attributes including location |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom%20OS | Phantom OS is an operating system (OS) made by mostly Russian programmers (with help of some Uzbeks). It is based on a concept of persistent virtual memory, and uses a virtual machine, managed code, and bytecodes. It is one of a few OSes not based on classic concepts of Unix-like systems. Its primary goal is to achieve simplicity and effectiveness in both the operating system and application software at the same time. It is free and open-source software (FOSS) released under a GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Phantom is based on the principle that "Everything is an object", in contrast to the Unix-like approach of "Everything is a file".
Basics
Managed code – Memory protection on object level, rather than process level; absence of pointer arithmetic in managed code avoids many problems that exist and occur in unmanaged code.
Global address space – Very effective and inexpensive inter-process communication (IPC). Single (flat) address space allows transfer of objects from one process (application) to another by transferring links to that object. Security is achieved via absence of pointer arithmetic and the inability of an application to get linked to an object other than by calling a public method.
Persistence – Application code does not see OS restarts and could live forever—this makes the concept of a file obsolete and any variable or data structure could be stored forever and at the same time be available directly through a pointer. Differently from hibernation that is done in other OSs, persistence lies in the very core principles of the Phantom OS core. It is done transparently for applications; in most cases it requires no reprogramming of an application. Persistence stays even if the computer crashes.
Compatibility
Two ways to migrate code are offered:
Converter from Java virtual machine (JVM) bytecode; supposed to allow import of bytecode from Java and other programming languages that target the JVM.
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) subsystem allows porting application code from Unix and Linux, although important features of Phantom OS become unavailable.
Status
, the system exists in alpha version for x86 IA-32 processors. Porting to ARM architecture is underway (currently being tested, not yet ready for use) and porting to MIPS and x86-64 (AMD64) has begun. Kernel operation has been demonstrated at the biggest Russian IT-conferences RIT 2011, ADD 2010, CC 2010, and 2009.
The project is open for contributors to join.
See also
EROS (microkernel)
Singularity (operating system)
Notes
References
External links
Free software operating systems
Hobbyist operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Microkernels
Object-oriented operating systems
Real-time operating systems
Russian inventions
Window-based operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooky%20Nights | Spooky Nights is a Philippine television comedy horror anthology broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on March 26, 2011. It was replaced by Spooky Valentine in February 2012. On March 10, 2012, Spooky Nights returned. The show concluded on April 28, 2012.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Episodes
"Bampirella"
"The Ringtone"
"Snow White Lady and the Seven Ghosts"
"Nuno sa Feng Shui"
"Ang Manananggala: Battle of the Half-Sisters"
"Bahay ni Lolo: A Very Spooky Night"
"Da Mami"
"The Mommy Returns"
"Ang Munting Mahadera"
"Short Time of My Life"
"Sapi"
"Sumpa (The Chain Text Message)"
"Singil"
"Sanggol"
"Siyam"
"Kadugo"
"KaLAbit"
"Kalaro"
"Kaibigan"
"Panata"
"Parol"
"Perya"
"Orasyon"
"Aparisyon"
"Kalansay"
"Kasambahay"
"Korona"
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Spooky Nights earned a 20.7% rating. While the final episode scored a 17.4% rating.
Accolades
References
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2057 | National Cycle Route 57 is part of the United Kingdom's National Cycle Network. When complete, it will run west to east from Farmington, Gloucestershire near Northleach to Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.
Several sections are not suitable for road bikes.
Links to:
National Cycle Route 5 at Oxford.
National Cycle Route 6 at Harpenden.
National Cycle Route 12 at Welwyn Garden City.
Route
Farmington to Oxford
Farmington | Burford | Witney | Eynsham | Oxford
National Route 57 starts in the small village of Farmington, near Northleach. Here it meets NCR 48, which runs south to Northleach and Cirencester; the northern continuation to Bourton-on-the-Water and Stow-on-the-Wold is not yet open.
NCR 57 continues on lightly trafficked lanes along the valley of the River Windrush to Burford and Witney; this section was formerly Regional Route 47.
The route is not yet open between Witney and Oxford. Possible route options include Eynsham and a new cycle path along the B4044 to Botley, or across the Thames via a new bridge or ferry at Bablock Hythe.
Oxford to Thame
Oxford | Horspath | Littleworth | Wheatley | Waterperry | Worminghall | Shabbington | Thame
This section is largely on country lanes and is fully signposted.
This route flows from the centre of Oxford along the High Street and Cowley Road then away from traffic along paths through Marsh Park. Once out of the park there is a steep climb up Barracks Lane, which then follows a flat mainly traffic free route to Horspath passing BMW Mini site and Oxford City Athletics Club.
The route from Horspath through to Wheatley is along country roads so too is the section from Wheatley to just before Thame, which then becomes a cycle path into Thame before joining the old railway line Phoenix Trail.
Thame to Princes Risborough
Thame | Horsenden | Princes Risborough
in length, this section follows the Phoenix Trail along the route of a disused railway. The surface is a mixture of tarmac and compacted grit.
Princes Risborough to Chesham
Princes Risborough | Great Hampden | Prestwood | Great Missenden | South Heath | Chesham
This section leaves the relatively flat Oxfordshire countryside and continues on into the Chiltern Hills. Leaving Princes Risborough the route climbs up Kop Hill to the top of Whiteleaf Cross. From there it continues along small lanes to Prestwood. The short section between Prestwood and Great Missenden takes you off-road along a compacted grit path.
Chesham to Hemel Hempstead
Chesham | Hemel Hempstead
This section has never been created.
Hemel Hempstead to Welwyn Garden City
Hemel Hempstead | Redbourn | Harpenden | Wheathampstead | Welwyn Garden City
Much of this section is traffic free as it follows the Nickey Line between Hemel Hempstead and Harpenden.
However, between Harpenden and Wheathampstead there is no route owing to land ownership issues. The alternatives are either a steep climb up to the busy minor road on the ridge to the south or to follow the ver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20networks%20simulation | Gas networks simulation or gas pipeline simulation is a process of defining the mathematical model of gas transmission and gas distribution systems, which are usually composed of highly integrated pipe networks operating over a wide range of pressures. Simulation allows to predict the behaviour of gas network systems under different conditions. Such predictions can be effectively used to guide decisions regarding the design and operation of the real system.
Simulation types
Depending on the gas flow characteristics in the system there are two states that can be matter of simulation:
Steady state – the simulation does not take into account the gas flow characteristics' variations over time and described by the system of algebraic equations, in general nonlinear ones.
Unsteady state (transient flow analysis) – described either by a partial differential equation or a system of such equations. Gas flow characteristics are mainly functions of time.
Network topology
In the gas networks simulation and analysis, matrices turned out to be the natural way of expressing the problem. Any network can be described by set of matrices based on the network topology.
The network consists of one source node (reference node) L1, four load nodes (2, 3, 4 and 5) and seven pipes or branches. For network analysis it is necessary to select at least one reference node. Mathematically, the reference node is referred to as the independent node and all nodal and branch quantities are dependent on it. The pressure at source node is usually known, and this node is often used as the reference node. However, any node in the network may have its pressure defined and can be used as the reference node. A network may contain several sources or other pressure-defined nodes and these form a set of reference nodes for the network.The load nodes are points in the network where load values are known. These loads may be positive, negative or zero. A negative load represents a demand for gas from the network. This may consist in supplying domestic or commercial consumers, filling gas storage holders, or even accounting for leakage in the network. A positive load represents a supply of gas to the network. This may consist in taking gas from storage, source or from another network. A zero load is placed on nodes that do not have a load but are used to represent a point of change in the network topology, such as the junction of several branches. For steady state conditions, the total load on the network is balanced by the inflow into the network at the source node.
The interconnection of a network can produce a closed path of branches, known as a loop. In figure, loop A consists of branches p12-p24-p14, loop B consists of p13-p34-p14, and loop C consists of p24-p25-p35-p34. A fourth loop may be defined as p12-p24-p34-p13, but it is redundant if loops A, B and C are also defined. Loops A, B and C are independent ones but the fourth one is not, as it can be derived from A, B and C by el |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheesh%21%20Cab%2C%20Bob%3F | "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?" is the sixth episode of the first season of the animated television series Bob's Burgers. "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?" originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 6, 2011. The episode was written by Jon Schroeder and directed by Jennifer Coyle. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 4.91 million viewers in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Kevin Kline, Steve Agee, Andy Kindler, David Herman, Jay Johnston, Jack McBrayer and Oscar Nunez. The title of the episode is a pun on "shish kebab".
Plot
Tina's 13th birthday is coming up, and Linda suggests to Bob that they should make it extra-special since she will become a teenager. Tina wants to have a party with a smoke machine and streamers and invite people from her class and more. She also wants the party to have a romantic moment with classmate Jimmy Pesto Jr., the eldest son of Bob's business rival, nemesis, and owner of the restaurant across the street, Jimmy Pesto (Jay Johnston). Bob believes they can't afford what Tina wants, but Linda insists they must find a way. Bob asks the restaurant's landlord Mr. Fischoeder (Kevin Kline) for an extension on their rent. He refuses, instead offering Bob a temporary job as a taxi cab driver so he can earn extra money.
Bob accepts the offer. Meanwhile, Louise becomes Tina's "kissing coordinator" as a birthday present in order to prepare her for her first kiss with Jimmy Jr. On the first night of his job, Bob befriends three transgender prostitutes: Glitter (Steve Agee), Marbles (Jack McBrayer), and Cha-Cha (Oscar Nunez). Tina invites several classmates to her party, including Jimmy Jr., who needs permission from his father for the R.S.V.P. Unfortunately, Jimmy Sr. forbids his son from attending because of his rivalry with Bob. Tina refuses to have a party without Jimmy Jr. Bob tries to charge his mind, and Jimmy Sr. says he will allow Jr. to attend, on the condition that Bob shave his mustache and deliver the shorn whiskers to him as a trophy. Bob refuses, causing a rift between himself and Tina, who calls him "selfish."
After a night out with the sex workers, Bob returns to the restaurant intoxicated with alcohol, and possibly crack. Linda tells Bob that Tina has agreed to attend the party, but only for a few minutes. Bob passes out in the restaurant kitchen, waking up half an hour into the party, and finds out it is not going well: the boys and girls aren't dancing, and Mort's magician act fails to impress. Several of Bob's taxi customers arrive -- including Marshmallow (David Herman), in her first series appearance. Bob had apparently invited all of them while he was intoxicated, and subsequently forgot. Tina is mortified. Bob excuses himself to shave his mustache in order to give in to Jimmy Pesto's demand, and redeem himself to Tina. Glitter and Marbles tell Tina that Bob is a good father who worked two jobs to pay for her party. Upon Bob's return, Tina apologizes to Bob for her |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esport3 | Esport3 () is a TV channel of Televisió de Catalunya dedicated to sports programming.
Overview
Sports programming includes transmissions and sporting events, especially during prime-time on Mondays to Fridays and all weekend. The channel completes its commitment to programs that focus on the lifestyle sports, promoting emerging talents such as being in shape, health, adventure, the outdoors and extreme sports. Every Monday to Thursday nights, a sports talk-show is being broadcast and it is hosted by Lluís Canut. Since 2021 Esport3 is broadcasting American football games of the Barcelona Dragons (ELF) in the European League of Football in Catalan language.
Other important shows are Tot L'esport, Temps d'aventura, NBA.cat, Futbol Cat and Gol a Gol.
See also
Televisió de Catalunya
TV3
References
External links
Official Site
Televisió de Catalunya
Catalan-language television stations
Television stations in Catalonia
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Sports television in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Cloud%20Connect | Google Cloud Connect was a free cloud computing plug-in for Windows Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 that can automatically store and synchronize any Microsoft Word document, PowerPoint presentation, or Excel spreadsheet to Google Docs in Google Docs or Microsoft Office formats. The Google Doc copy is automatically updated each time the Microsoft Office document is saved. Microsoft Office documents can be edited offline and synchronized later when online. Google Cloud Sync maintains previous Microsoft Office document versions and allows multiple users to collaborate, working on the same document at the same time. Google Cloud Connect was discontinued on April 30, 2013, as according to Google, all of Cloud Connect's features are available through Google Drive.
Features
Google Cloud Connect could automatically or manually synchronize changes made to a Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, or 2010 document with Google Docs. Documents can be secured for private access by one user, shared with specific people for collaboration, or made public to anyone. Previous document versions can be retrieved.
Backup: Microsoft Office documents could be manually or automatically backed up to Google Docs each time they are saved locally. Video
Synchronize: Changes made to an Office document on one computer can sync when the file is opened on another computer. Video
Protect: Microsoft Office documents synced to Google Docs can be made accessible to one person.
Share: Microsoft Office documents synced to Google Docs can be made accessible only to selected people. Video
Edit: A shared document can be set to only be viewed by others or edited as well. Video
Publish: Documents synced to Google Docs can effectively be published by making them accessible to anyone.
Collaborate: Multiple users can work on the same document at the same time. Video
Notify: When one person edits a document, others sharing the document receive an email letting them know. Video
Print: Use Google Cloud Print to print to local or remote network connected printers.
Compare: Previous version are maintained allowing users to compare to older versions. Video
Roll back: Users can return to a previous version of the document.
Green: Green computing allows documents to be shared without printing or sending large files. Only links need be sent.
Mobilize: Google Sync allows synced documents to be viewed and edited with most internet connected mobile devices.
Storage: 5GB of Google Drive storage is included for free. Currently, additional storage costs per month are: 25GB-$2.49, 100GB-$4.99, etc. up to 16TB.
See also
Cloud computing security
Cloud collaboration
References
External links
Google blog re deprecation
Google blog announcement article
Google Cloud Connect Help and information for users (not working)
Google Cloud Connect Help and information for administrators (not working)
About Google Cloud Connect
Google partner in Vietnam
Cloud applications
Cloud Connect
Cloud Connect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20logic | Dynamic logic may mean:
In theoretical computer science, dynamic logic (modal logic) is a modal logic for reasoning about dynamic behaviour
In digital electronics, dynamic logic (digital electronics) is a technique used for (clocked) combinatorial circuit design
Neural net dynamic logic (neural) investigated by Leonid Perlovsky
In linguistics and philosophy of language, dynamic semantics is a formal framework in which meaning is understood as the ability of an utterance to update a discourse. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20logic%20%28modal%20logic%29 | In logic, philosophy, and theoretical computer science, dynamic logic is an extension of modal logic capable of encoding properties of computer programs.
A simple example of a statement in dynamic logic is
which states that if the ground is currently dry and it rains, then afterwards the ground will be wet.
The syntax of dynamic logic contains a language of propositions (like "the ground is dry") and a language of actions (like "it rains"). The core modal constructs are , which states that after performing action a the proposition p should hold, and , which states that after performing action a it is possible that p holds.
The action language supports operations (doing one action followed by another), (doing one action or another), and iteration (doing one action zero or more times). The proposition language supports Boolean operations (and, or, and not). The action logic is expressive enough to encode programs. For an arbitrary program , precondition , and postcondition , the dynamic logic statement encodes the correctness of the program, making dynamic logic more general than Hoare logic.
Beyond its use in formal verification of programs, dynamic logic has been applied to describe complex behaviors arising in linguistics, philosophy, AI, and other fields.
Language
Modal logic is characterized by the modal operators (box p) asserting that is necessarily the case, and (diamond p) asserting that is possibly the case. Dynamic logic extends this by associating to every action the modal operators and , thereby making it a multimodal logic. The meaning of is that after performing action it is necessarily the case that holds, that is, must bring about . The meaning of is that after performing it is possible that holds, that is, might bring about . These operators dual to each other, which means they are related by and , analogously to the relationship between the universal () and existential () quantifiers.
Dynamic logic permits compound actions built up from smaller actions. While the basic control operators of any programming language could be used for this purpose, Kleene's regular expression operators are a good match to modal logic. Given actions and , the compound action , choice, also written or , is performed by performing one of or . The compound action , sequence, is performed by performing first and then . The compound action , iteration, is performed by performing zero or more times, sequentially. The constant action or BLOCK does nothing and does not terminate, whereas the constant action or SKIP or NOP, definable as , does nothing but does terminate.
Axioms
These operators can be axiomatized in dynamic logic as follows, taking as already given a suitable axiomatization of modal logic including such axioms for modal operators as the above-mentioned axiom and the two inference rules modus ponens ( and implies ) and necessitation ( implies ).
A1.
A2.
A3.
A4.
A5.
A6.
Axiom A1 makes t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSN%20Yahala | OSN Ya Hala () is a pan-Arab Arabic language television network owned by Orbit Showtime Network (OSN). Programming includes talk shows, reality shows, lifestyle shows, dramas and comedies.
OSN Ya Hala International
In Canada, OSN Ya Hala is an Exempted Category B service operated by the Toronto-based Ethnic Channels Group (ECG). It has the same programming as the Middle Eastern/North African channel, as well as specific Canadian content. It is available in SDTV format via Rogers Cable, Cogeco and Bell Fibe TV.
It was originally launched as Dream 1 () but was subsequently re-branded as OSN Ya Hala International in August 2015.
Programming
Hindistani
Kurtlar Vadisi
Muhteşem Yüzyıl
References
External links
Official website of OSN Ya Hala International Canada
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Arabic-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20Zoom | ATN Zoom is a Canadian Category B Hindi language specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). It broadcasts programming from Zoom as well as Canadian content.
ATN Zoom is an Indian entertainment channel whose sole focus is Bollywood and the Indian entertainment industry. It features entertainment news, interviews with the top stars, movie reviews, music and more.
External links
Zoom
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Hindi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICW-FM | CICW-FM is a radio station broadcasting community radio programming and a variety of music on the frequency of 101.1 MHz in Elora and Fergus located in Centre Wellington, Ontario, Canada. The station's branding is The Grand @ 101.
History
Centre Wellington Community Radio Inc. was founded in 2009 by Scott Jensen, Vic Folliott and Bill Valedis.
On April 29, 2011, Centre Wellington Community Radio Inc. received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval to operate a community FM radio station at 92.9 MHz in Centre Wellington, Ontario. On September 12, 2011, Central Wellington Community Radio applied for a technical amendment - contours. On October 28, 2011, the CRTC approved Centre Wellington Community Radio Inc.'s application to decrease the average effective radiated power from 85 to 46 watts, decrease the maximum ERP from 200 to 150 watts, decrease the antenna's effective height above average terrain from 54.2 to 49.1 metres and relocate the antenna and transmitter site.
On September 25, 2014, the station applied to change CICW-FM's frequency from 92.9 MHz to 101.1 MHz and increase the average effective radiated power (ERP) from 45 to 750 watts (maximum ERP from 150 to 2,500 watts). The CRTC approved CWCR's application on September 10, 2015.
According to their Facebook page, the station moved to 101.1 MHz in late 2015. On March 28, 2016 at 6:00 AM, CICW became Grand 101 when the switch in frequency officially took place. The call letters remain CICW-FM.
References
External links
The Grand @ 101
ICW
ICW
Centre Wellington
Radio stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nikita%20characters | Nikita is an American spy drama which premiered on September 9, 2010, on the CW Television Network. The series is based on the French film La Femme Nikita, the film's remake: Point of No Return and a previous series La Femme Nikita. The series stars Maggie Q as Nikita Mears, the title protagonist of the series, as a rogue spy and assassin whose mission is to bring down the secret government agency called Division. Other main cast members include Shane West as Michael, Lyndsy Fonseca as Alexandra "Alex" Udinov, Aaron Stanford as Seymour Birkhoff, Ashton Holmes as Thom, Tiffany Hines as Jaden, Devon Sawa as Owen Elliot, Noah Bean as Ryan Fletcher, Dillon Casey as Sean Pierce, with Melinda Clarke as Amanda Collins and Xander Berkeley as Percival "Percy" Rose.
Main characters
Nikita Mears
Portrayed by Maggie Q, Nikita Mears, the show's main protagonist, and titular character was a waif who never knew her parents and went from one foster home to another. She later became a felony addicted teenager sentenced to death row. The secret government agency, Division, recruited her and faked her death to rescue her from death row. Following her rescue, she was trained as a spy and assassin. Her dreams of serving her country well were broken after Division, the only people she thought she could trust, betrayed her. After a three-year hiding period, Nikita now seeks retribution against Division and vowed to bring the agency down. She is Michael's main love interest throughout the series. In the season three premiere, Michael proposes to Nikita and she accepts saying "You had me at giving you the damn Glock." Maggie Q performs her own stunts.
Michael Bishop
Portrayed by Shane West, Michael is a Division operative who trained Nikita. Michael is second in command at Division surpassed only by the ruthless Percy. He is a former US Navy intelligence officer. Shane West, the actor who plays Michael, described Michael as "confused" and "torn between his loyalty to Division and his own feeling on where he should be going in his life". West also said that "Michael's not inherently a bad guy, at all. He's doing some things that I think he started off believing in, and now he's a little unsure". It is later revealed that Percy, Division's head, hired Kaseem Tariq to kill Michael, but due to an accident, Michael's wife and daughter died. It was this that Percy used to get Michael into Division saying that he could seek retribution. Michael also serves as Nikita's main love interest throughout the series. In season 2 it is revealed that Michael has a son, Max who he was unaware of. Michael proposes to Nikita in the season three premiere after a grueling first mission with the "new" Division. She happily accepts and they kiss passionately.
Alexandra Udinov
Portrayed by Lyndsy Fonseca, Alexandra "Alex" Udinov is a new recruit in Division. Udinov shares many similarities to Nikita. She is a former street kid who was arrested after a robbery. Udinov, secretly, assists Ni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor%20Courts%20of%20Israel | The Labor courts of Israel () are a network of Israeli courts established under the Law of the Labor Court, 1969. This court system is the appellate judiciary specializing in Israeli labor law and social security (National Insurance, Health Insurance etc.).
Structure
Labor courts exist in two instances:
Regional Labor Court: There are five regional courts, each situated in one of the following judicial districts: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba and Nazareth.
National Labor Court: Situated in Jerusalem, this is an appellate court hearing appeals from judgments of regional courts. Certain issues, of particular importance (e.g. collective disagreements at national level), are heard in the national court as a first instance court.
The National Labor Court is considered the high authority in the field of labor law, and as such, is often excluded from the intervention of the Israeli Supreme Court. In some cases, however, the Israeli Supreme Court may agree to entertain an appeal. A legal dispute which existed between the then-President of the National Labor Court, Menahem Goldberg and the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, the relations between the Labor Court to High Court. Goldberg and his predecessor Bar - Niv, ruled for the supremacy of the National Labor Court on the issues. Barak, however, allowed the petitions to the Supreme Court against a ruling by the National Labor Court.
National Labor Court Justices
Zvi Bar-Niv – 1969–1986
Menachem Goldberg – 1986–1997
Steve Adler – 1997–2010
Nili Arad – 2010–2013
Yigal Plitman - 2013-2018
Varda Wirth Livne - 2018-present
External links
Website
Labor in Israel
Labour courts
Israeli courts
Israeli labour law
1969 establishments in Israel
Courts and tribunals established in 1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXCC-AM | DXCC (828 AM) RMN Cagayan de Oro is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. It serves as the flagship station of RMN Networks. The station's studio is located at RMN Broadcast Center (Canoy Bldg.), Don Apolinario Velez St., Cagayan de Oro, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Taboc, Opol, Misamis Oriental.
Established on August 28, 1952, DXCC is the pioneer radio station in the city. The callsign was supposed to refer to the surnames of the business' founders (Canoy and Cui) but, according to Henry Canoy in his memoir, was actually referred as Cagayan de Oro City.
History
DXCC first went on air on July 4, 1952 as a test broadcast, coinciding with the birthday of Henry Canoy's mother. At that time, it was situated on 1560 kHz. Its 500-watt transmitter was made from surplus parts from Raon in Quiapo, Manila, with only a telescopic steel pole borrowed from the Bureau of Telecom that served as antenna, which was mounted from the pole to a coconut tree 30 meters away.
It was officially launched on August 28, 1952, coinciding with the town fiesta of San Agustin. Its station ID was: “You are tuned to Station DXCC, broadcasting with a power of 500 watts on 1560 kilocycles from Cagayan de Oro's Gateway to Mindanao!”. The station's first live broadcast included the airing of the "Anejo Rum" from Plaza Divisoria in downtown Cagayan de Oro, for which Canoy billed La Tondena executive Hugo Chan Hong the sum of P500 as payment for the radio coverage.
At present, DXCC is among the top-rated AM stations in the market.
References
Radio stations in Cagayan de Oro
Radio stations established in 1952
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio Mindanao Network stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPMP | IPMP may refer to:
IP network multipathing, a facility provided by Solaris to provide fault-tolerance and load spreading for network interface cards
Thymol, a chemical compound also known as 2-isopropyl-5-methylphenol
Isopropyl methoxy pyrazine, an aroma compound produced by the Asian lady beetle
Multipath I/O, the redundant IO technology
MPEG-4, the Intellectual Property Management and Protection
IVS Project Management Package, a Project Management Information System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady%20Volozh | Arkady Yuryevich Volozh (; born 11 February 1964) is a Russian billionaire and businessman, serial technology entrepreneur, computer scientist, investor and philanthropist. He pioneered the development of search and navigation technology as well as intelligent products and services powered by machine learning. Volozh co-founded several IT enterprises, including CompTek, Arkadia, InfiNet and Yandex. Yandex is one of Europe's largest Internet companies, operating Russia's most popular search engine. Yandex is listed in NASDAQ, and was traded at over 30 billion dollars in November 2021.
In June 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and followed sanctions imposed against him, Volozh stepped down from all his positions in Yandex and left the company. Volozh has lived in Tel Aviv with his family since 2014.
Early life
Volozh was born in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Atyrau, Kazakhstan) into a Russian-Jewish family. His father was a petroleum geologist, and his mother was a music teacher. He attended Republican School of Physics and Mathematics in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and then studied applied mathematics at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, graduating in 1986.
Career
Volozh is a serial entrepreneur with a background in computer science. After working at a state pipeline research institute, he started a small business importing personal computers from Austria. He went on to co-found several IT enterprises besides Yandex, including a Russian provider of wireless networking technology InfiNet Wireless, and CompTek International, one of the largest distributors of network and telecommunications equipment in Russia.
Volozh co-founded CompTek in 1989. He also started working on search in 1989, which led to him establishing Arkadia Company in 1990. The company was developing search software. In 1993, Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich developed a search engine for "non-structured information with Russian morphology".
Arkady co-founded Yandex in 1997, later leaving his position as CEO of CompTek International to become the CEO of Yandex in 2000.
Yandex, a Nasdaq listed company, developed, and offered a variety of technologies and services under Volozh, in the fields of Ecommerce, navigation, mobility, autonomous vehicles, payments, music, emails and more. The Yandex IPO in 2011 was the largest one until then, after the Google IPO in 2004. In November 2021 the company was valued at 30 billion dollars.
As part of a larger effort to spread machine learning, Volozh and the Yandex team established the Yandex School of Data Analysis in 2007, offering a free master's level program in data science. The program has grown to include six branches, online courses, and other learning programs through multiple partnerships. In 2018, the school opened a branch in Tel Aviv to launch a one-year career advancement program in machine learning.
Resignation from Yandex
On 3 June 2022, the European Union sanctioned Volozh as part of its package of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start%20symbol | Start symbol may refer to:
Start symbol (formal languages), the symbol in formal grammar from which rewriting of a string begins
_start symbol specifying an entry point in some formats of computer executables
▶️, a symbol used in media controls to start playing the media
Start of Heading or Start of Text symbols in C0 and C1 control codes
See also
Start button in Microsoft Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaPPA-View4 | KaPPA-View4 is a metabolic pathway database containing data about metabolic regulation from 'omics' data.
See also
Metabolic pathway
References
External links
kazusa
Biological databases
Gene expression
Metabolism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R613%20road%20%28Ireland%29 | The R613 road is a regional road in Ireland which runs west-east from the N71 near Ballinhassig to the N28 in the centre of Ringaskiddy. The road forms a vital part of the road network south of Cork City.
Part of the road between Halfway and Ballinhassig was formerly part of the N71 until this part was replaced by a new section in the 1990s.
The route is long.
See also
Roads in Ireland
Motorways in Ireland
National primary road
National secondary road
History of roads in Ireland
References
Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2006 – Department of Transport
Regional roads in the Republic of Ireland
Roads in County Cork |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banerjee%20test | In compiler theory, the Banerjee test is a dependence test. The Banerjee test assumes that all loop indices are independent, however in reality, this is often not true. The Banerjee test is a conservative test. That is, it will not break a dependence that does not exist.
This means that the only thing the test can guarantee is the absence of a dependence.
General form
For a loop of the form:
for(i=0; i<n; i++) {
c[f(i)] = a[i] + b[i]; /* statement s1 */
d[i] = c[g(i)] + e[i]; /* statement s2 */
}
A true dependence exists between statement s1 and statement s2 if and only if :
An anti dependence exists between statement s1 and statement s2 if and only if :
For a loop of the form:
for(i=0; i<n; i++) {
c[i] = a[g(i)] + b[i]; /* statement s1 */
a[f(i)] = d[i] + e[i]; /* statement s2 */
}
A true dependence exists between statement s1 and statement s2 if and only if :
Example
An example of Banerjee's test follows below.
The loop to be tested for dependence is:
for(i=0; i<10; i++) {
c[i+9] = a[i] + b[i]; /*statement s1*/
d[i] = c[i] + e[i]; /*statement s2*/
}
Let
So therefore,
and
Testing for antidependence
Then
which gives
Now, the bounds on are
Clearly, -9 is not inside the bounds, so the antidependence is broken.
Testing for true dependence
Which gives:
Now, the bounds on are
Clearly, -9 is inside the bounds, so the true dependence is not broken.
Conclusion
Because the antidependence was broken, we can assert that anti dependence does not exist between the statements.
Because the true dependence was not broken, we do not know if a true dependence exists between the statements.
Therefore, the loop is parallelisable, but the statements must be executed in order of their (potential) true dependence.
See also
GCD test
References
Randy Allen and Ken Kennedy. Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach
Lastovetsky, Alex. Parallel Computing on Heterogenous Networks
Compilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Institute%20for%20Advanced%20Studies%20in%20Systems%20Research%20and%20Cybernetics | The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (IIAS) is a non-profit educational organization registered in Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1980, the IIAS is committed to the development and promotion of Cybernetics and Systems Research and the advancement of interdisciplinary studies in the sciences, engineering, arts and humanities.
The IIAS hosts an annual conference in Baden-Baden, Germany with several interdisciplinary symposia in Baden-Baden, Germany, where researchers from around the world submit and share their papers on topics ranging from artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to risk analysis. The IIAS annual conference is known as the "InterSymp [Year] Conference" in academic circles.
External links
The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics homepage
References
Information systems
Computer science journals
Cybernetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Tech%20Sports%20Network | Texas Tech Sports Network (TTSN) is a radio network in United States dedicated to live broadcasting and live programming relating to the Texas Tech Red Raiders. It is managed by Red Raider Sports Properties, a property of Learfield Communications, Inc., which manages the multimedia rights for Texas Tech University. Texas Tech Sports Network's flagship stations are KTTU-FM, KJTV, and KLBB-FM of Lubbock, Texas.
During basketball and baseball season, Texas Tech Sports Network also produces men's and women's basketball games which would not be shown on local television otherwise. Men's basketball games are typically shown simulcast by ESPN3.
Texas Tech Sports Network consists of 40 affiliates, mainly of local radio affiliates within Texas and eastern New Mexico. Some stations with local interest broadcast football or basketball.
References
External links
Official Learfield Sports website
Official Texas Tech Athletics website
Sports radio networks in the United States
College football on the radio
College basketball on the radio in the United States
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20capability%20control | In the field of artificial intelligence (AI) design, AI capability control proposals, also referred to as AI confinement, aim to increase our ability to monitor and control the behavior of AI systems, including proposed artificial general intelligences (AGIs), in order to reduce the danger they might pose if misaligned. However, capability control becomes less effective as agents become more intelligent and their ability to exploit flaws in human control systems increases, potentially resulting in an existential risk from AGI. Therefore, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom and others recommend capability control methods only as a supplement to alignment methods.
Motivation
Some hypothetical intelligence technologies, like "seed AI", are postulated to be able to make themselves faster and more intelligent by modifying their source code. These improvements would make further improvements possible, which would in turn make further iterative improvements possible, and so on, leading to a sudden intelligence explosion.
An unconfined superintelligent AI could, if its goals differed from humanity's, take actions resulting in human extinction. For example, an extremely advanced system of this sort, given the sole purpose of solving the Riemann hypothesis, an innocuous mathematical conjecture, could decide to try to convert the planet into a giant supercomputer whose sole purpose is to make additional mathematical calculations (see also paperclip maximizer).
One strong challenge for control is that neural networks are by default highly uninterpretable. This makes it more difficult to detect deception or other undesired behavior as the model self-trains iteratively. Advances in interpretable artificial intelligence could mitigate this difficulty.
Interruptibility and off-switch
One potential way to prevent harmful outcomes is to give human supervisors the ability to easily shut down a misbehaving AI via an "off-switch". However, in order to achieve their assigned objective, such AIs will have an incentive to disable any off-switches, or to run copies of themselves on other computers. This problem has been formalised as an assistance game between a human and an AI, in which the AI can choose whether to disable its off-switch; and then, if the switch is still enabled, the human can choose whether to press it or not.
such assistance games is to ensure that the AI interprets human choices as important information about its intended goals.
Alternatively, Laurent Orseau and Stuart Armstrong proved that a broad class of agents, called safely interruptible agents, can learn to become indifferent to whether their off-switch gets pressed. This approach has the limitation that an AI which is completely indifferent to whether it is shut down or not is also unmotivated to care about whether the off-switch remains functional, and could incidentally and innocently disable it in the course of its operations (for example, for the purpose of removing and recycling a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodwings%3A%20Pumpkinhead%27s%20Revenge | Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge is a first-person shooter computer game developed by American studio BAP Interactive and published in 1995 by Electronic Arts for DOS. Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge is a PC FMV game loosely based on the movie of the same name. The game has been criticized as being a "Doom rip-off".
Gameplay
The game is a first-person shooter and includes several video clips taken from Pumpkinhead II. When the player kills an enemy, the player can collect "Tantanik Crystals" which are used to play clips from the movie where the player has to grab items from the video. Although a majority of the clips are from the film, certain videos, such as one of two men unloading stolen items in the woods, are not from the film.
Reception
The game was poorly-received. Tasos Kaiafas remarked that the game "may be the bottom of the barrel of Doom clones".
Bloodwings was reviewed in PC Gamer US, which rated the game 46% and wrote: "If I'm going to watch a horror film, I'd rather see the whole thing the way it was meant to be seen, in a theater or on my TV, rather than playing a third-rate shooter for a few minutes, then watching intermittent clips of block, grainy video. About the only good things that came out of my time with Bloodwings are that I now know how to save some money and wait for the movie's release on video - and you know not to buy this game".
Entertainment Weekly gave the game a C and complained that the game's dungeons were difficult to navigate.
The reviewer in Computer Gaming World #135 (October 1995) commented that "the action gets completely bogged down in mediocre graphics, muddy controls and hokey schmoo-looking creatures. The scary thing is, the game might be better than the movie".
A reviewer in German magazine PC Player (July 1995) called it a strange 3D action adventure, and a reviewer in German magazine PC Games (July 1995) said that only manufacturers like Bullfrog, Origin, or LucasArts could keep the genre of 3D action games alive while the market was overflowing with them.
Reviews
LeveL #9 (10/1995)
Score #21 (09/1995)
Flux (October 1995)
References
1990s horror video games
1995 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Electronic Arts games
First-person shooters
Sprite-based first-person shooters
Video games about demons
Video games based on films
Video games developed in the United States
Video games with 2.5D graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybershack | CyberShack is Australia's only television program dedicated entirely to the consumer technology and home entertainment market. It provides a wealth of content; from gadgets to games to lifestyle and entertainment products. CyberShack features relevant and updated information to a mass target audience.
It airs on the Nine Network nationally and resumed broadcasting in October, 2011.
Hosts
Kristy Hocking (2017–present)
Sara Issaka (2017–present)
Rupert Raineri (2018–present)
Christian Heath (2018–present)
Faustina Agolley (2006–2007)
Erin McNaught (2007–2010)
Charlie Brown (2006–present)
Ashley Cheadle (2010)
Janis McGavin (2010)
Josh Phillipps (2015–2018)
Courtney Dober (2017–2018)
References
Official website
Ashley joins Cybershack TV TV Tonight
Cybershack empire built on a multiplatform foundation mediaweek
Cybershack IMDb
Australian factual television series
Network 10 original programming
Nine Network original programming
2006 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%20%28computer%20programming%29 | Ch is a proprietary cross-platform C and C++ interpreter and scripting language environment. It was originally designed by Harry H. Cheng as a scripting language for beginners to learn mathematics, computing, numerical analysis (numeric methods), and programming in C/C++. Ch is now developed and marketed by SoftIntegration, Inc., with multiple versions available, including a freely available student edition and Ch Professional Edition for Raspberry Pi is free for non-commercial use.
Ch can be embedded in C/C++ application programs. It has numerical computing and graphical plotting features. Ch is a combined shell and IDE. Ch shell combines the features of common shell and C language. ChIDE provides quick code navigation and symbolic debugging. It is based on embedded Ch, Scite, and Scintilla.
Ch is written in C and runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, AIX, Solaris, QNX, and HP-UX. It supports C90 and major C99 features, but it does not support the full set of C++ features. C99 complex number, IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic, and variable-length array features were supported in Ch before they became part of the C99 standard. An article published by Computer Reseller News (CRN) named Ch as notable among C-based virtual machines for its functionality and the availability of third-party libraries.
Ch has many tool kits that extend its functions. For example, the Ch Mechanism Toolkit is used for design and analysis of commonly used mechanisms such as four-bar linkage, five-bar linkage, six-bar linkage, crank-slider mechanism, and cam-follower system. Ch Control System Toolkit is used for modeling, the design, and analysis of continuous-time or discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) control systems. Both tool kits include the source code.
Ch is now used and integrated into the curriculum by many high schools and universities to teach computing and programming in C/C++. Ch has been integrated into free C-STEM Studio, a platform for learning computing, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (C-STEM) with robotics. C-STEM Studio is developed by the UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM). It offers a curriculum for K-12 students.
Ch supports LEGO Mindstorms NXT and EV3, Arduino, Linkbot, Finch Robot, RoboTalk and Raspberry Pi, Pi Zero, and ARM for robot programming and learning. It can also be embedded into the LabVIEW system design platform and development environment.
Features
Ch supports the 1999 ISO C Standard (C99) and C++ classes. It is a superset of C with C++ classes. Several major features of C99 are supported, such as complex numbers, variable length arrays (VLAs), IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic, and generic mathematical functions. The specification for wide characters in Addendum 1 for C90 is also supported.
C++ features available in Ch include:
Member functions
Mixed code and declaration
The this -> pointer
Reference type and pass-by-reference
Function-style type conversion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIDBA%3A%20The%20Paleoindian%20Database%20of%20the%20Americas | The Paleoindian Database of the Americas (PIDBA), is a website dedicated to the compilation of projectile point and other relevant data pertaining to Paleoindian site assemblages across the Americas. As of April 2011, the PIDBA database contains information pertaining to locational data (n=29,393), attribute data (n=15,254), and image data (n= ca. 7,500) on Paleoindian projectile points and other tools in North America and also includes bibliographic references, radiocarbon dates, and maps created making use of database and GIS data. The PIDBA site provides a database that is useful in studying stylistic and morphological variability, lithic raw material usage and procurement strategies, geographic distributions of technology, and land use strategies during the Paleoindian period, which took place prior to ca. 11,450 cal year BP. The PIDBA database also serves a function as an intermediary between academic and advocational archaeologists in the collection and integration of primary projectile point data. Overall, the PIDBA project aims to compile data from multiple sources into a comprehensive database, while simultaneously seeking out and including new data.
The PIDBA website contains a large amount of primary data collected and donated by researchers and advocational archaeologists from all over the Americas ranging from metric measurements to the type of chert any particular piece is made from. It is the voluntary contributions of primary data from these researchers that makes PIDBA possible. While it is understandable that researchers would like to fully examine and publish on their data, the site's philosophy is that it is important to disseminate information freely, so that other researchers can work with it. This allows researchers to make new discoveries that they perhaps would not be possible otherwise.
History of Paleoindian Data Compilation in North America
The concept of Paleoindian data collection and compilation is not new. As early as the 1930s efforts such as those by John L. Cotter documented the distribution of fluted points across North America. Similar efforts were undertaken by Stephen Williams and James B. Stoltman in 1965. However, the first true regional synthesis would not take place for nearly twenty years, when Louis A. Brennan published his 1982 survey of 5,820 projectile points, which covered artifact finds in 17 states and 2 Canadian provinces, mostly from along the Atlantic coast. David Meltzer also conducted a survey in the mid-1980s focusing on fluted point form morphological variability using a sample of 1039 points from all over North America, in which he was able to determine that some projectile point types that were previously thought to be distinct were, in fact, the same. Meltzer was also, in some cases, better able to define geographic distributions of specific projectile point types through the data collected in his survey.
It was not until the late 1980s that current PIDBA project director |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Whincop | Thomas Whincop (2 June 1697 – 1730) was an English compiler of theatrical history.
Life
He is identified as the son of Thomas Whincop, D.D., rector of St Mary Abchurch. On that basis he was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He lost considerable sums in the South Sea bubble during 1721, and died at Totteridge, where he was buried on 1 September 1730.
Works
Posthumous was "Scanderbeg; or Love and Liberty: a Tragedy. To which is added a List of all the Dramatic Authors, with some Account of their Lives; and of all the Dramatic Pieces published in the English language to the year 1747" (London, 1747). The work was edited by Martha Whincop, the widow, who dedicated the volume to the Earl of Middlesex. The hand of compiler John Mottley was likely involved in compilation and revision. The dramatic authors are divided into two alphabetical categories, those who flourished before and those who flourished after 1660, and there are small medallion portraits engraved by N. Parr. At the end is an index of the titles of plays. The book was based for the most part on the ‘English Dramatic Poets’ (1691) of Gerard Langbaine the younger. Whincop's works were later merged in those of Benjamin Victor, David Erskine Baker, and Isaac Reed.
References
Notes
Attribution
1730 deaths
Historians of theatre
1697 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathway%20Commons | Pathway Commons is a database of biological pathways and interactions.
See also
Biological pathway
Reactome
References
External links
pathwaycommons
Biological databases
Metabolism
Systems biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Access%20Network | The Open Access Network (OAN) encourages partnerships between scholarly societies, research libraries, and other institutional partners in order to support the infrastructure of scholarly communication and support open access publishing in the humanities and social sciences. It was launched in 2015 by K|N Consultants, the not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization which authored the well-received white paper on which the OAN is based.
References
External links
Open Access Network website
K|N Consultants
Kennison, R. and Norberg, L. (2014) "Toward a scalable and sustainable approach to open access publishing and archiving for humanities and social sciences societies: a proposal"
2015 establishments in New York (state)
Open access projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GJ%203634 | Extrasolar PlanetsEncyclopaediadata
GJ 3634 (sometimes Gliese 3634) is a red dwarf star in the Hydra constellation. One planet has been discovered in its orbit, GJ 3634 b. GJ 3634 is under half the mass and size of the Sun, and is estimated to be at least a billion years younger, and lies near to Earth, with a distance of . It was targeted by astronomers during an over six-year survey of red dwarfs. The astronomers had recently changed their strategy to search for planets with extremely short orbits so they could narrow down candidates that transited, or crossed in front of, their host stars as seen from the Earth. The super-Earth GJ 3634 b was the first planet discovered using this new strategy. The planet was confirmed using Doppler spectroscopy, or the observation and extrapolation of data from a recorded Doppler effect in the star's light, but later observations found no transiting pattern. The planet was published by its discoverers on February 8, 2011.
Naming and discovery
GJ 3634 is named for its location in the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars; a later expansion of the original catalogue was compiled jointly by Gliese and Hartmut Jahreiß. The Third Catalogue, the most recent catalogue, was formed to tag all then-known stars within 25 parsecs of Earth (81.54 light years). GJ 3634 was first catalogued in 1987. The discoverers of GJ 3634 b worked through the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile for over six years in search of planets that orbited low-mass red dwarfs. After the discoveries of eleven prior planets, the researchers changed their strategy to search for planets with extremely short orbits. They would first discover the system using the radial velocity method, in which an observed Doppler shift in the star's light would be measured and interpreted; and would then follow up with a search for transits, in which the planet crosses in front of and dims its star as seen from Earth. Radial velocity measurements would help determine the most efficient and time-effective means of observing potential planetary transits.
Radial velocity measurements revealed the existence of a planet with a mass of at least 7 Earths. This planet, GJ 3634 b, became the first planet to be discovered under the new strategy. The team of astronomers then followed up with transit measurements using instruments on the Spitzer Space Telescope; they found that there was most likely no transit event present at the star, but they were able to discover its true mass. GJ 3634 b was published to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics on February 8, 2011.
Characteristics
GJ 3634 is an M-type red dwarf, a cool, small and dim star that shines with reddish light. It lies in the Hydra constellation. The star is 45% the mass of the Sun, and is 43% the Sun's size. GJ 3634, described by its discoverers as an "intermediately active star," has a luminosity of 0.02, meaning that it releases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Shiels | Robert Shiels (also Shiells or Shields) (died 1753) was an English literary compiler.
Life
He was born in Roxburghshire around the end of the seventeenth century, and came to London as a journeyman printer. Samuel Johnson approved of him as a Jacobite, and gave him a place on the team of six helpers he used on his Dictionary.
Shiels died of consumption in May's Buildings, London, on 27 December 1753.
Works
Shiels was recommended to Ralph Griffiths and employed on the Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland to the time of Dean Swift (London, 5 vols. 1753), to which the name of Theophilus Cibber was attached. The compilation was mainly based on work of Gerard Langbaine and Giles Jacob, with the help of Thomas Coxeter's. Any fresh research used was due to Shiels, with Cibber's role being revision. The later volumes are ascribed on the title-page to Cibber ‘and other hands.’
Apart from his compilations, Shiels wrote a didactic poem on ‘Marriage’ in blank verse (London, ‘at the Dunciad in Ludgate Street,’ 1748), and another piece in praise of Johnson's ‘Irene,’ called ‘The Power of Beauty’ (printed in George Pearch's ‘Collection,’ i. 186). Shiels venerated his countryman James Thomson, on whose death he published an elegy, ‘Musidorus’ (London, 1748).
References
External links
Robert Shiels at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
Attribution
Year of birth missing
1753 deaths
18th-century Scottish writers
18th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis deaths in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-O-One%20Network | Nine-O-One Network was an American bi-monthly music magazine published in Memphis, Tennessee from 1986 to 1989.
Beginnings
The magazine originated during the heralded 1986 "Class of '55" recording session in Memphis with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins. Producer Chips Moman asked James L. Dickerson, a reporter with The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis, if he would create a magazine that could be used as part of a sales package for a telemarketing campaign for the album. Dickerson agreed to do it without fee if Moman would allow him to name the magazine, copyright it, and use it to launch a bi-monthly music magazine. Moman agreed, and the magazine was named Nine-O-One Network, the name derived from Memphis's telephone area code, 901. Dickerson resigned from The Commercial Appeal to publish the magazine so that he would not have a conflict of interest.
The first subscription check to arrive in the mail came from Cash. Soon afterward a subscription check arrived from Lewis.
By the end of the first year, the full-color, slick paper magazine had newsstand circulation in fourteen states. By the end of 1987 it was sold on newsstands in all 50 states and throughout Canada, and in selected cities in Portugal, Japan, Australia and the Soviet Union. The distributor was Capital Distribution Co. of Derby, Connecticut. At its peak, the magazine had a circulation of 100,000 which made it the third-largest music magazine in the United States, behind Rolling Stone and Spin.
Initially, the magazine was financed by Dickerson, who used his savings and cashed in his life insurance policy to live on and pay start-up costs. The magazine was incorporated in the State of Tennessee and preferred common stock was offered, all of it purchased by 25 Mississippi and Tennessee investors.
The first issue featured a photograph of Cash, Perkins, Orbison and Lewis. The second issue featured Rolling Stone Ron Wood as the cover story, with inside articles about Belinda Carlisle, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Steve Wariner and Sweethearts of the Rodeo. The eclectic mix reflected the magazine's philosophy that a true American music magazine should contain articles about all the major forms of native music rock and roll, country, blues and jazz.
Covers
Issue 1 Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins
Issue 2 Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones
Issue 3 Deborah Allen
Issue 4 Aimee Mann
Issue 5 Robert Cray
Issue 6 Gregg Allman
Issue 7 Elvis Presley
Issue 8 David Bowie and Ringo Starr
Issue 9 The Bangles and B.B. King
Issue 10 Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart; Waylon Jennings
Issue 11 Dan Fogelberg, Willie Nelson and Yes
Information for music scholars
Back issues of Nine-O-One Network Magazine are available at:
Memphis, Tennessee, Public Library, Benjamin Hooks Central Library Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Magazine spin-off
In 1988, the magazine formed a spin-off company to produce a radio syndication called Pulsebeat Voice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT%20Sports | TNT Sports is a sports broadcasting brand and network owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and it may refer to:
TNT Sports (Argentine TV channel)
TNT Sports (Brazil)
TNT Sports (Chilean TV channel)
TNT Sports (United Kingdom) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd%20Berg | Bernd A. Berg is the emeritus Dirac Professor of Physics at the Florida State University. His multicanonical approach to computer simulations is popular in structural biology. He is also author of a computational physics textbook, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations and Their Statistical Analysis. In 2008, he was chosen to receive Germany's Humboldt Research Award, given to outstanding academics who are at the peak of their careers. Among other honors, Berg was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2004 and was awarded the Leibniz Professorship of Leipzig University in 2005.
References
External links
Home page
21st-century American physicists
Florida State University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%20Radio%20%28Colombia%29 | W Radio Colombia is a news/talk/adult contemporary Colombian radio network, part of Caracol Radio. It started in 1973 as adult contemporary station Caracol Estéreo. It is part of the W Radio system, with networks in Mexico, Los Angeles (United States), Panama, and transmitted as far away as Chile.
The station is best known for its morning news show La W, presented by Julio Sánchez Cristo, Alberto Casas Santamaría, and Camila Zuluaga.
History
Before 1990, FM radio in Colombia was almost exclusively devoted to music, because a 1975 decree issued by the Ministry of Communications limited to 60 minutes a day the time an FM station could dedicate to "informative, journalistic, or sports programming." These restrictions were relaxed in the early 1990s, allowing FM stations to broadcast news.
Viva FM was one of the pioneering morning news shows on the FM band, starting in 1991 on Caracol Estéreo, presented by Julio Sánchez Cristo. Sánchez Cristo left in 1996 to RCN Radio, creating La FM, a similar programme on the then newly created homonymous station. Viva FM continued with the direction of Roberto Pombo until 2003, when Sánchez came back to the then brand new W Radio.
References
External links
Official site
Radio stations in Colombia
Radio stations established in 2003
PRISA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Mottley | John Mottley (1692–1750) was an English writer, known as a dramatist, biographer, and compiler of jokes.
Life
He was the son of Colonel Thomas Mottley, a Jacobite adherent of James II in his exile, who entered the service of Louis XIV, and was killed at the battle of Turin in 1706; his mother was Dionisia, daughter of John Guise of Ablode Court, Gloucestershire. John was born in London, was educated at Archbishop Thomas Tenison's grammar school in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and obtained a clerkship in the excise office in 1708. He was compelled to resign his post in 1720, and from that time gained a precarious subsistence by his pen.
He died in 1750, having for some years previously been almost bedridden with gout.
Works
He made his debut as a dramatic author with a tragedy in the pseudo-classic style, entitled The Imperial Captives, the scene of which is laid at Carthage, in the time of Genseric, who with the Empress Eudoxia and her daughter plays a principal part. The play was produced at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in February 1719–20. At the same theatre was produced in April 1721 Mottley's only other effort in tragedy, Antiochus, based on the story of the surrender by Seleucus Nicator of his wife Stratonice to his son Antiochus. Both tragedies were printed on their production.
In comedy Mottley was more successful. In a humorous vein are his dramatic opera, Penelope, in which he was assisted by Thomas Cooke (1703–1756), a satire on Alexander Pope's Odyssey, and his farce The Craftsman, or Weekly Journalist (both performed at the Haymarket, and printed in 1728 and 1729 respectively). His comedy, The Widow Bewitched, produced at Goodman's Fields Theatre in 1730, and printed, was a successful play.
Mottley was joint author with Charles Coffey of the comic opera, The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphos'd, a ballad opera produced at Drury Lane on 6 August 1731, and frequently revived. Under the pseudonym of Robert Seymour he edited in 1734 (perhaps with the assistance of Thomas Cooke) John Stow's Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (London, 2 volumes). Under the pseudonym of Elijah Jenkins he published in 1739 the classic jest-book, Joe Miller's Jests, or the Wit's Vade-Mecum (see Joe Miller).
Mottley is also the author of two historical works: The History of the Life of Peter I, Emperor of Russia, London, 1739, 2 vols.; and The History of the Life and Reign of the Empress Catharine, containing a short History of the Russian Empire from its first Foundation to the Time of the Death of that Princess, London, 1744, 2 vols. He is the reputed author of the Compleat List of all the English Dramatic Poets and of all the Plays ever printed in the English Language to the Present Year 1747, appended to Thomas Whincop's Scanderbeg, from internal evidence it being clear he at least wrote the article on himself. A portrait is mentioned by Bromley.
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1750 de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsha%20Danilov | Kirsha Danilov (Russian: Кирша Данилов) was the supposed compiler of a collection of Russian heroic, religious and humorous folksongs that made its first appearance in print in 1804. The anthology is entitled The Ancient Russian Poems and includes 71 texts set down in manuscript in the mid-18th century, probably in the Urals. It was one of the first authentic collections of folksongs to be published in Europe. The original manuscript was owned by industrialist Prokofi Demidov and is kept in the Russian National Library in St Petersburg.
Nothing is known about Kirsha Danilov. His first name is the diminutive of "Cyril". The name is written on the manuscript, but may be fictitious. His collection proved very popular with a literate public whose patriotic feelings and interest in the national history were awoken by Napoleon's invasion and Karamzin's research. An extended edition with melodies was prepared by at the bidding of Count Rumyantsev in 1818. Several obscene songs from Kirsha's collection were not published until the 20th century.
References
Danilov
Russian folklore
National Library of Russia collection
1804 books
People whose existence is disputed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ven%20%28currency%29 | Ven (sign: VEN) is a representative digital currency. Its origin was as a community currency created by the Hub Culture social network. It claims the value of Ven is determined by backing currencies, commodities and assets. Because the currency is privately run, the true value is impossible to verify. It trades against major currencies at floating exchange rates. Ven was listed as of 2014 on the LMAX Exchange.
History
Hub Culture launched Ven on 4 July 2007. In 2009, The Wall Street Journal described the currency as being pegged to the US dollar, and used by Hub Culture's users to trade goods, services, and knowledge. One user described having been paid in Ven for making introductions and other favors.
In May 2010, carbon pricing contracts were introduced to the weighted basket that determines the value of Ven.
In April 2011 Hub Culture announced the first carbon offset credit trade priced in Ven, between American Carbon Registry (ACR), a carbon registry run by Winrock International, and Mata no Peito, an environmental coalition that includes ACR and Hub Culture as partners. In September 2011, Hub Culture announced that Ven would be available on Thomson Reuters' data network and terminals.
In November 2011, Hub Culture announced the availability of diamonds, investment grade wines and Ven Gold, a retail gold product sold in individual 1 oz. 22 karat units.
In 2012, Hub Culture announced the development of Ven Funds, derivative financial products based on the Ven, including micro-finance and commodity asset pools.
In January 2014, Ven became the first digital currency to begin trading in regulated Forex markets, on LMAX Exchange.
According to leaked emails, Stan Stalnaker pitched Ven as a fundraising tool for Hillary Clinton's campaign in May 2015. Campaign chairman John Podesta expressed interest in this offer, but no meeting was scheduled due to time constraints.
Hub Culture claims that the spread backing makes its value stable. The company also claims that as part of the basket includes carbon futures, estimated at 7%, Ven is environmentally friendly.
See also
Complementary currency
References
Alternative currencies
Digital currencies
Private currencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blusang%20Itim | (International title: Beauty Within / ) is a 2011 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a Philippine comic book by Elena Patron of the same title. Directed by Jay Altajeros, it stars Kylie Padilla. It premiered on May 16, 2011 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Alakdana. The series concluded on August 12, 2011 with a total of 65 episodes. It was replaced by Pahiram ng Isang Ina in its timeslot.
Overview
Blusang Itim was as a novel written by Elena Patron. It was serialized from 1981 to 1983. In 1986, it was adapted into a film by Seiko Films featuring Snooky Serna in the lead role.
Sarah Lahbati, Gwen Zamora and Isabelle Daza were considered for the lead role for the television adaptation. Kylie Padilla later got the role.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kylie Padilla as Jessa Escote-Soriano / Jessa Lopez-Santiago / Jessica Madrid
Supporting cast
Carl Guevarra as Melchor Reyes
Lucho Ayala as Edward Escote
Frank Magalona as Angelo Soriano
Wynwyn Marquez as Cleo Salcedo
Andrea Torres as Alison Escote
Marissa Delgado as Concha Lopez-Santiago
Maritoni Fernandez as Victoria Soriano
Rita Avila as Rhea Escote
Jackie Lou Blanco as Esmeralda Lopez-Santiago
Gary Estrada as Gerald Escote
Maureen Mauricio as Elsa Reyes
Chariz Solomon as Chiqui
Rochelle Barrameda as Camille Santos
Shirley Fuentes as Beth Sta. Maria
Rene Salud
Guest cast
Sabrina Man as young Jessa
Arkin Magalona as young Angelo
JM Reyes as young Melchor
Snooky Serna as Loleng
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 15.6% rating. While the final episode scored an 18.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Pol%20Papadakis | George Pol. Papadakis is a Greek poet, writer and mathematician who was born in Athens. He also deals with literary criticism.
Career
Papadakis is a secondary education teacher in Computer Science, and has also taught in institutes of vocational training. He is a member of the Greek Literary Society and received a prize in prose writing from the Literary Society Parnassos in 2002.
As a researcher he is engaged in the area of “Entexno” Greek popular music. He also writes verses, some of which set to music by Greek composers including Joseph Benakis and Chrysanthos Mouzakitis.
Papadakis is Associate Editor of the literary journal Pnevmatiki Zoi (Athens Academy Award – 2002).
Works
(2001) Anthologia Poiisis. (A Poetry Anthology) Athens: Pnevmatiki Zoi.
(2001) Enas Peripatos stin Amorgo tou Nikou Gatsou. (A Stroll in Nikos Gatsos's Amorgos, Essay) Athens: Pnevmatiki Zoi.
(2001) Sta Balkonia tou Ouranou. (At Heaven's Balconies, Poetry) Athens: Pnevmatiki Zoi.
(2003) Anthologia Poiisis. (A Poetry Anthology) Athens: Pnevmatiki Zoi.
(2003) To Iparchon Fos. (The Existing Light, Poetry) Athens.
(2005) Oi Dromoi tou Fantastikou. (The Roads of Fantasy Literature, Stories – Essays) Athens: Oxy.
(2007) Sto Likofos ton Kairon. (In the Twilight of Times, Poetry) Athens: Oxy.
(2007) Tromos kai Fantasia. (Terror and Fantasy, Comics on Fantasy Literature) Athens: Psichis ta Lampirismata.
(2007) “To Nekronomikon”, Apagorevmena Vivlia (Forbidden Books) Athens: Archetipo, pp. 75–81.
(2007) Akatonomastes Exomologiseis. (Unutterable Confessions, Psychological Atmospheric Horror) Athens: Oxy.
(2007) “Takis Varvitsiotis”, in Timi ston Taki Varvitsioti (A Tribute to Takis Varvitsiotis, Texts on his poetic Work), Various Authors. Thessaloniki: Bibis.
(2008) “Giati i Poiisi”, 27th symposium of poetry. Patras: Ekdoseis Peri Texnikon.
(2008) “Ti Akrivos Einai I Tetarti Diastasi” (What Exactly Does The Fourth Dimension Stand For), “Sxetika me to Apeiro” (Issues Related To The Infinity), “Poso Efikto Einai Ena Taxidi ston Xrono” (Is Travelling Through Time An Attainable Objective?), “Oi Neoteres Theories Xronometaforas”, “I Ekpliktiki Xronomixani tou Kathigiti Ronald Malett” (Professor Ronald Malett's Amazing Time Machine) (All Works on the issue of time travelling and the fourth dimension), in Tetarti Diastasi kai Taxidia ston Xrono, Various Authors. Thessaloniki: Arxetypo.
(2008) The Little Runaways and the House in the Woods (Opera for Children). Montreal and Athens: ChromaMusika and Ekdoseis Hadjilakos.
(2011) Simandro Afipnisis. (A Gong of Awakening), Poetry. Athens: Pnevmatiki Zoi.
(2011) Fos sti Siopi. (Light in Silence), Poetry. Athens: Pnevmatiki Zoi.
(2012) Matomenos Erotas. (Bloody Love), Novel. Athens: Dromon.
(2013) Mou Eipan. (They talk to me), Interviews. Athens: Dromon.
(2013) Dokimia ston Evropaiko Politismo, (Essays in European Culture). Athens: Dromon.
(2014) Nea Atrapos,(New Path). Poetry Athens: Difros.
(2015) Kostas Davourlis O P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20GameDay%2098 | NFL GameDay 98 is the third video game in the NFL GameDay series. It was developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1997. On the cover is Jerome Bettis.
Gameplay
NFL GameDay 98 is an American football game featuring polygonal football players and a 3D game engine, and is the first football video game to feature 3D polygonal graphics. It took longer for football games to adopt fully polygonal graphics than other genres because their large number of players and requisite fast pace made it difficult to do so at a reasonable frame rate.
Development
Jerome Bettis and Tim Brown served as the motion capture actors for the game.
Marketing
Sony Computer Entertainment heavily marketed the game in printed and on television, with a campaign which characterized it as the choice of real NFL players. SCE held two pre-Super Bowl XXXII events with the game, one pitting Super Bowl participants Robert Brooks and Terrell Davis against each other, and one at the PlayStation NFL players party in which sixteen NFL players participated.
Reception
Like its two predecessors, NFL GameDay 98 was met with critical acclaim. Reviewers universally applauded its pioneering use of polygonal players in a football game, and in particular, the fact that it manages to do so without noticeable slowdown. GameSpot, for example, remarked that "After two years of sprite-based 32-bit football games, many believed it wasn't possible to create a fully 3D PlayStation football game without making tremendous sacrifices in gameplay or aesthetics. NFL GameDay '98 is proof that the PlayStation is capable of accomplishing such feats." Next Generation stated that "While Madden is still trying to get old school done right in the 32-bit age, Sony has, for the third year in a row, successfully reinvented the wheel and made it spin." Some critics also noted that the use of polygons for the players enabled new moves that would not be possible with sprites.
Reviews also widely praised the game's accessibility, player animations, and sound effects. However, some still concluded that it fell second to its chief competitor, Madden NFL 98. GameSpot found the selection of moves excessive and the A.I. more vulnerable to "money plays" than that of Madden NFL 98. Electronic Gaming Monthlys Kraig Kujawa likewise found it too susceptible to "money plays" to consider it as outstanding as Madden, though his co-reviewer Dean Hager held NFL GameDay 98 to be the better of the two games. GamePro, while giving it a 4.5 out of 5 in sound and a perfect 5.0 in every other category (graphics, control, and fun factor), found it to be less realistic than Madden, likening it to stepping outside during the Super Bowl to play street football. Next Generation, however, asserted that if Madden NFL 98 were to outsell NFL GameDay 98, "then there is a serious problem with the game-buying public."
In 1997 Electronic Gaming Monthly named it the 31st best consol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20GameDay%202001 | NFL GameDay 2001 is a video game developed and published by 989 Sports and Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2 in 2000. On the cover is Marshall Faulk.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic, though the PlayStation version was better received than the PlayStation 2 version. Bill Donohue of NextGen said of the former, "This game deserves a spot in your sports line-up, but everyone we know wants the PS2 version. Is this the end of the line for the PlayStation GameDay series?" Rob Smolka of the same magazine later changed his tune and said of the latter, "Even if all of the abundant flaws were to magically disappear, GameDay 2001 still wouldn't hold up against Madden 2001, which is much better-looking, has better control, features a lot more options, and, most importantly, is actually a finished product."
The PS2 version was a runner-up for GameSpots annual "Most Disappointing Game" award among console games, which ultimately went to Shenmue. The staff called the former "lackluster" and noted that Sony was "well known for producing superior sports games".
Notes
References
External links
2000 video games
NFL GameDay video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20GameDay%202002 | NFL GameDay 2002 is the seventh video game in the NFL GameDay series. It was developed by 989 Sports and Red Zone Interactive and published Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2 in 2001. On the cover is Donovan McNabb.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic, though the PlayStation version was a little more well-received than the PlayStation 2 version. Jim Preston of NextGen said that the former console version "restores some of the shine to the franchise."
References
External links
2001 video games
NFL GameDay video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20GameDay%202003 | NFL GameDay 2003 is the eighth video game in the NFL GameDay series. It was developed by 989 Sports and published Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2 in 2002. On the cover is Tom Brady.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2002 video games
NFL GameDay video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20GameDay%202004 | NFL GameDay 2004 is the ninth video game in the NFL GameDay series. It was developed by 989 Sports and published Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2 in 2003. On the cover is LaDainian Tomlinson.
It is the last NFL GameDay to be released on PlayStation 2
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2003 video games
NFL GameDay video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animax%20%28Latin%20America%29 | Animax was a Latin American cable television channel, serving as the regional variant of the Japanese network of the same name. It was launched on 31 July 2005, replacing Locomotion, which was acquired by Sony on 18 January of the same year. Animax was divided into four feeds: three in Spanish (each centred on Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina) and one in Portuguese (Brazil).
The channel was replaced by Sony Spin on 1 May 2011, which continued airing anime until 5 March 2012.
History
Being Sony's first attempt to offer a 24-hour anime channel in Latin America, it planned to broadcast series in two formats. The majority of the series containing 25 episodes or more, would be aired on weekdays, whereas series with fewer than 25 episodes would be shown on certain days of the week, much like it's done in Japan. It is usual to find in one day a premiere episode of a series as well as a minimal of two encores. Also, at the end of every series, the channel airs a section called Animedia, which shows video clips of Japanese artists' songs, extra information about anime and other themes, summaries of events dedicated to anime and presentations about future series for the channel. In January 2007, it began to air a segment called Animax Nius (Nius = News), a teaser featuring news related to anime and other topics.
In 2011, anime was moved to late nights, as Western programming took over most of Animax's airtime. On May 1, 2011, the channel was renamed Sony Spin, and changed almost the entirety of its programming.
Programming
TV series
Anime TV series
Anime movies
Tokyo Godfathers
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Translation and dubbing teams
Several dubbing studios have participated in the translation of the aforementioned series for their premiere on Animax, and are located in key countries like Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela. After Animax's arrival in 2005, numerous series were translated and dubbed into Spanish and Portuguese languages, including Blood+, The Twelve Kingdoms, Steel Angel Kurumi, Noir, Wolf's Rain, Martian Successor Nadesico, Galaxy Angel and others.
References
Animax
Defunct television channels
Latin American cable television networks
Defunct television channels and networks in Venezuela
Defunct television channels in Brazil
Anime television
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1vik%20Awards | Slávik () was a music poll established by the FORZA company, which had been the main promoter of such poll in Slovakia. The annual awards were permitted live through one of the CME networks, Markíza (1998– 2010), and TV JOJ (2011–2012).
Winners
Major awards
Leaders
With eight awards having received within the major categories, Elán
is the most successful band in the so far history of the poll, followed by the Desmod group and Zuzana Smatanová who have accumulated a total of seven and six gold trophies, respectively.
Other categories
Successors
See also
Zlatý slavík
Český slavík
References
Culture of Slovakia
Zlatý slavík
cs:Zlatý slavík#Český slavík
sk:Zlatý slávik
pl:Zlatý slávik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAGA-220 | SAGA-220 (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 teraflops) is a supercomputer built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
It was unveiled on 2 May 2011 by Dr K. Radhakrishnan, chairman, ISRO. As of 8 January 2018, it is not the fastest supercomputer in India. It has been surpassed by the Pratyush supercomputer with a maximum theoretical speed of 4.0 PetaFlops.
Located at the Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, it was built using commercially available hardware, open source software components and in house developments. The system uses 400 NVIDIA Tesla C2070 GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core Xeon CPUs supplied by WIPRO. Each NVIDIA Tesla C2070 GPU is capable of delivering 515 gigaflops compared to the Xeon CPU's more modest contribution of 50 gigaflops. The system cost about INR 140,000,000 to build. The system consumes only about 150 kW.
The system is being used by scientists to solve complex aeronautical problems. It has been hinted that it will be used to design future space launch vehicles.
In June 2012, SAGA-220 was ranked 86th on the Top500 list. By June 2015, it was ranked 422nd.
See also
Supercomputing in India
EKA
References
GPGPU supercomputers
X86 supercomputers
Information technology in India
Supercomputing in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada%202526 | Armada 2526 is a 4X science fiction computer strategy game developed by British studio Ntronium Games, released in North America on November 17, 2009. Armada 2526 is an example of the space opera genre, and is the spiritual successor of the game Armada 2525, which was released by Interstel in 1991. Armada 2526 puts players in charge of a fledgling galactic empire, and they must attempt to explore the galaxy and expand their territory, while trying to destroy rival empires. The gameplay is a hybrid of turn-based and real-time time-keeping systems, and players can use military, diplomatic, economic and technological means to further their empires. The game received mixed reviews from critics.
Ntronium also released an expansion pack for the game, titled Armada 2526: Supernova, which enabled online multiplayer play. Supernova includes two new alien races, new hazards, an updated trade mechanic, and more researchable technologies.
Gameplay
The fundamental gameplay mechanic of Armada 2526 is 4X, an abbreviation of explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate. Players must explore the galaxy, expand their empire, exploit the various resources to be found, and exterminate their rivals. The game uses elements of both turn-based and real-time time-keeping systems, there are no set battles, and there are multiple paths that players can take to victory. Games last for an arbitrary amount of time, set at the beginning of the game; the galactic civilization with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. The conditions for victory vary depending on the race that players choose to play as. Some races focus on the happiness of their citizens, others focus on developing technology, and yet others focus on population. There are four different game scenarios that players can choose from, each with a different size of randomly generated game map. These game maps can contain anywhere from two to seventeen civilizations.
Most of Armada 2526 takes place in 2D, with the main star map and battle sequences taking place on 2D planes. However, it is also possible to view the battles from a 3D perspective. Exploration is carried out on the main star map, and players can use an Ark Ship to travel to new worlds and colonize them. As well as colonization, players can expand their empires by contacting alien colonies, by making alliances with other empires, through building, and by military means. The spaceships that the player can use in battle include small scout ships, medium-sized corvettes, destroyers, and large dreadnoughts and carriers.
Players are responsible for the economic upkeep of their colonies, and they can set the tax and migration policies for them. The population of colonies is also a concern for the player, and it is possible to supplement a colony's population by transporting more people from other worlds. These processes can also be automated. Diplomacy in Armada 2526 includes the ability to form offensive and defensive alliances; to trade in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3did | The database of three-dimensional interacting domains (3did) is a biological database containing a catalogue of protein-protein interactions for which a high-resolution 3D structure is known. 3did collects and classifies all structural models of domain-domain interactions in the Protein Data Bank, providing molecular details for such interactions. 3did uses the Pfam database to define the position of protein domains in the protein structures. 3did was first published in 2005. The current version also includes a pipeline for the discovery and annotation of novel domain-motif interactions. For every interaction 3did identifies and groups different binding modes by clustering similar interfaces into “interaction topologies”. By maintaining a constantly updated collection of domain-based structural interaction templates, 3did is a reference source of information for the structural characterization of protein interaction networks. 3did is updated every six months and is available for bulk download and for browsing at http://3did.irbbarcelona.org.
See also
protein interaction
three-dimensional structures
References
External links
http://3did.irbbarcelona.org
Biological databases
Protein structure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan%20Productions | Vulcan Productions produced documentary films, television programming and virtual reality experiences that drove awareness around environmental and social issues. The company was founded in 1997 by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen. It closed in 2021.
The company financed and co-produced films with directors such as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. Its films and TV series had aired on video on-demand services like Netflix, HBO and Hulu and across networks like The Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Films produced by Vulcan Productions won Peabody Awards and received Academy Award nominations. The company focused on raising awareness on issues like mental health, girl's education, veterans, parenting, wildlife conservation, ocean health, climate change and modern-day slavery.
History
Vulcan Productions began under the name "Clear Blue Sky Productions" and received its first critical success with the feature film Titus (1999). The company continued to produce feature films including Far From Heaven, Where God Left His Shoes, and Hard Candy. With a name change in 2011, the then-Vulcan Productions shifted its measure of success from box office numbers and critical ratings to driving social impact and world change. The company exclusively produced Social impact entertainment with a focus on topics ranging from wildlife and conservation, global health, contemporary social issues, science, technology, history and exploration.
As part of the larger Vulcan Inc. organization, Vulcan Productions’ mission was to “change minds and ignite action through the power of storytelling.”
On May 27, 2020 Vulcan Inc. announced that Vulcan Productions would be shutdown in 2021 citing the "economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis" as well as "the ongoing transition after Paul Allen's passing in 2018." A few weeks after winning top honors at the Sundance Film Festival for Summer of Soul, Vulcan Productions ceased operations.
Films
Where God Left His Shoes
Winner – The Humanitas Prize: 2008 Best Sundance Feature Film
2008 Imagen Awards
Nominated - Best Film
Nominated - Best Actor - John Leguizamo
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor - David Castro
Winner - Best Supporting Actress - Leonor Varela
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
2006 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival
Best Actress - Olivia Wilde
Hard Candy (film)
2006 Malaga Film Festival
Best Film
Best Director - David Slade
Best Actress - Elliot Page
Best Cinematographer - Jo Willems
2005 Sitges Film Festival
Best Motion Picture
Best Screenplay
Audience Award for Best Motion Picture
Coastlines
Far from Heaven
75th Annual Academy Award nominations
Best Actress in a Leading Role - Julianne Moore
Best Cinematography - Edward Lachman
Best Writing (Original Screenplay) - Todd Haynes
Best Music (Score) - Elmer Bernstein
Independent Spirit Awards winner:
Best Picture
Best Director - Todd Haynes
Best Female Lead - Julianne Moore
Best Supporting M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock%20correlation%20network | A stock correlation network is a type of financial network based on stock price correlation used for observing, analyzing and predicting the stock market dynamics.
Background
In the last decade, financial networks have attracted more attention from the research community. A study on company ownership based network showed a power law distribution with majority of companies controlled by small number of people. Another study focused on board of directors where the network was created between companies if represented by the same member on board. The board membership network thus created resulted in a power law with small number of board members representing large number of companies.
Several studies have proposed network based models for studying the stock correlation network. Stock correlation network has proven its efficacy in predicting market movements. Chakrabortia and Onella showed that the average distance between the stocks can be a significant indicator of market dynamics. Their work focused on stock market (1985–1990) that included the stock market crash of 1987 (Black Monday). Andrew Lo and Khandaniy worked on the network of different hedge funds and observed the patterns before the August 2007 stock market turbulence.
Methods
The basic approach for building the stock correlation network involves two steps. The first step aims at finding the correlation between each pair of stock considering their corresponding time series. The second step applies a criterion to connect the stocks based on their correlation. The popular method for connecting two correlated stocks is the minimum spanning tree method. The other methods are, planar maximally filtered graph, and winner take all method. In all three methods, the procedure for finding correlation between stocks remains the same.
Step 1: Select the desired time series data. The time series data can be daily closing prices, daily trading volumes, daily opening prices, and daily price returns.
Step 2: For a particular time series selected from step 1, find the cross correlation for each pair of stocks using the cross correlation formula.
Step 3: Compute the cross correlation for all the stocks and create a cross correlation matrix . The cross correlation is between stock and stock and their time series data is free of time delays.
Step 4: In case of the minimum spanning tree method a metric distance is calculated using the cross correlation matrix.
=
Where is the edge distance between stock and stock .
The minimum spanning tree and planar maximally filtered graph may cause loss of information, i.e., some high correlation edges are discarded and low correlation edges are retained because of the topological reduction criteria. Tse, et al. introduced the winner take all connection criterion where in the drawback of minimum spanning tree and planar maximally filtered graph are eliminated. In winner take all method, step 1-3 are retained. However, in step 4 the nodes are linked based |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter%20bubble | A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolation that can result from personalized searches. Personalized searches utilize website algorithms to selectively curate search results based on information about the user, such as their location, past click-behavior, and search history. Consequently, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural or ideological bubbles, resulting in a limited and customized view of the world. The choices made by these algorithms are only sometimes transparent. Prime examples include Google Personalized Search results and Facebook's personalized news-stream.
The term filter bubble was coined by internet activist Eli Pariser circa 2010. In Pariser's influential book under the same name, The Filter Bubble (2011), it was predicted that individualized personalization by algorithmic filtering would lead to intellectual isolation and social fragmentation. The bubble effect may have negative implications for civic discourse, according to Pariser, but contrasting views regard the effect as minimal and addressable.
According to Pariser, users get less exposure to conflicting viewpoints and are isolated intellectually in their informational bubble. He related an example in which one user searched Google for "BP" and got investment news about British Petroleum, while another searcher got information about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, noting that the two search results pages were "strikingly different" despite use of the same key words. The results of the U.S. presidential election in 2016 have been associated with the influence of social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, and as a result have called into question the effects of the "filter bubble" phenomenon on user exposure to fake news and echo chambers, spurring new interest in the term, with many concerned that the phenomenon may harm democracy and well-being by making the effects of misinformation worse.
Concept
Pariser defined his concept of a filter bubble in more formal terms as "that personal ecosystem of information that's been catered by these algorithms." An internet user's past browsing and search history is built up over time when they indicate interest in topics by "clicking links, viewing friends, putting movies in [their] queue, reading news stories," and so forth. An internet firm then uses this information to target advertising to the user, or make certain types of information appear more prominently in search results pages.
This process is not random, as it operates under a three-step process, per Pariser, who states, "First, you figure out who people are and what they like. Then, you provide them with content and services that best fit them. Finally, you tune in to get the fit just right. Your identity shapes your media." Pariser also reports:
Accessing the data of link clicks displayed through site traffic measurements determines that fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio%20G%27zOne%20Commando | The Casio G'zOne Commando is a smartphone which is ruggedized and runs the Android operating system. It is made by NEC Casio Mobile Communications, a joint venture of three Japanese electronics makers: NEC, Casio and Hitachi. It was first released by Verizon in the United States on 28 April 2011.
Its main selling feature is that it is ruggedized to military standard MIL-STD-810G. , it is the first retail-available smartphone so certified. Thus, it is stronger and more durable than normal consumer electronics, similar in concept to the Motorola DEFY, but certified tougher. The phone should be able to handle drops, spills and dirt that accompany physically demanding activities such as those in harsh work environments or outdoors. At one publication, technicians tested this phone and more recently, the updated model, G'zOne Commando 4G LTE. They found both models "rugged"; and describe no ill effects after randomly dropping G'zOne Commando 4G LTE, and submerging it under water for half an hour.
The phone was released with the Android 2.2.1 Froyo operating system, but an upgrade to Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread is available.
Some reviewers have criticized the phone's styling and aesthetics as unattractive.
See also
Casio
Samsung Rugby Smart
References
External links
Does not appear to be a website owned by Casio
Smartphones
Android (operating system) devices
Verizon Wireless
Mobile phones introduced in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiiti%20Wada | Eiiti Wada (和田英一, 1 June 1931) is a computer scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo and the Research Director of Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ), a computer network technology company. He is one of the creators of the Happy Hacking Keyboard.
He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics.
In 1968, the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi (WG2.1) solicited a new version of the programming language ALGOL to succeed ALGOL 60. Iwamura, Kakehi, Simauti, Wada, and Nobuo Yoneda were members of the design team of a Japanese candidate language named ALGOL N, but it was not chosen for what became ALGOL 68.
In 1972, he became a member of IFIP WG2.1, which specified, maintains, and supports ALGOL 60 and 68.
He was a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and chairperson of its National Member Body of ISO/TC97, now JTC1/SC2. There, he contributed much, especially for character encoding set standards. Later, he helped create the related Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) X 0208, 0212.
, he works on computer graphics for the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) Innovation Institute.
References
External links
Japanese computer scientists
Living people
1931 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabiri%20%28disambiguation%29 | Origin of the word from Greek Mythology, Cabeiri, a group of Grecian deities
Cabiri may also refer to:
Computing
Cabiri, a UK based E-commerce system integration company
Fiction
Cabiri, a demon lord in Dungeons & Dragons
Non-Profit Groups
The Cabiri, a Seattle-based performance troupe
Places
Cabiri, Angola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primacom | Primacom is a private cable television network operator in Germany, with around 1 million connected households and approximately 800 thousand customers.
Primacom provides services to clients primarily in Eastern Germany (Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia) and in the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.
The company sells communications products such as TV (analog, digital, IP), Internet, and phones, as well as applications for elderly care at home and smart metering/telemetry.
Primacom claims to be number 5 in Germany and a market leader in its core business in central Germany. Its corporate headquarters are in Leipzig.
History
Company History
Primacom was formed in 1998 from the merger of Kabelmedia and Süweda. After the merger, the Group was publicly listed on the New Market and the NASDAQ on 22 February 1999. Since 5 June, 2003, the stock of PrimaCom AG is listed in the Prime Standard of Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
In August 2000, Primacom acquired the Multikabel company in the Netherlands, which was sold to UPC five years later. In September 2007, Orion Cable GmbH acquired nearly 91% of the shares of primacom group, with the aim to integrate the company with Tele Columbus Group, a company Orion Cable had already acquired. Orion Cable's attempts to integrate were stopped by Primacom in 2009, due to low success estimations. The halt of the integration led to uncertainty at the banks of primacom, and in December 2009 refinancing negotiations begun.
As part of the refinancing negotiations, the operational business of the Primacom Group was acquired by Medfort SARL in July 2010. Hence, the company's operational business and the former holding, PrimaCom AG, were separated. In January 2011, Primacom completed the refinancing successfully and is now focused on the development of operating business.
The existing cable network is the main driver of the core business of the company. However, there were some changes over the years. While the core areas of the company were initially divided into two areas - Hessen / Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg on one side and areas in the east of Germany on the other, the existing networks in the western areas of Germany were sold to competitors during the following years. In 2008, the cable networks in Aachen and Wiebaden were sold to Unity Media. In 2010, the city networks in Mainz and Osnabrück were sold to Kabel Deutschland. Primacom began to relocate its headquarters to the eastern part of Germany, following the trend of cable network development. According to information provided by the company, this process will be completed by 2011.
Organisation
The Luxembourg company Medfort SARL is holding 100 per cent of shares of the Primacom group. In turn, Perseus to SA is holding 100 per cent of Medfort SARL shares .
The operational business of the Group is led by the holding Pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaggle | Kaggle is a data science competition platform and online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners under Google LLC. Kaggle enables users to find and publish datasets, explore and build models in a web-based data science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges.
History
Kaggle was founded by Anthony Goldbloom and Ben Hamner in April 2010. Jeremy Howard, one of the first Kaggle users, joined in November 2010 and served as the its President and Chief Scientist, and Nicholas Gruen was the founding chair. In 2011, the company raised $12.5 million Series A and Max Levchin became the chairman. On 8 March 2017, Fei-Fei Li, Chief Scientist at Google, announced that Google was acquiring Kaggle.
In June 2017, Kaggle surpassed 1 million registered users and, as of October 2023, it has over 15 million. The users are based in 194 countries.
In 2022, founders Goldbloom and Hamner stepped down from their positions and D. Sculley became the CEO.
In February 2023, Kaggle introduced Models which allows users to discover and use pre-trained models through deep integrations with the rest of Kaggle’s platform.
Site overview
Competitions
Many machine-learning competitions have been run on Kaggle since the company was founded. Notable competitions include one improving gesture recognition for Microsoft Kinect, making a football AI for Manchester City, coding a trading algorithm for Two Sigma Investments, and improving the search for the Higgs boson at CERN.
The competition host prepares the data and a description of the problem; the host may choose whether it's going to be rewarded with money or be unpaid. Participants experiment with different techniques and compete against each other to produce the best models. Work is shared publicly through Kaggle Kernels to achieve a better benchmark and to inspire new ideas. Submissions can be made through Kaggle Kernels, through manual upload or using the Kaggle API. For most competitions, submissions are scored immediately (based on their predictive accuracy relative to a hidden solution file) and summarized on a live leaderboard. After the deadline passes, the competition host pays the prize money in exchange for "a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free license [...] to use the winning Entry", i.e. the algorithm, software and related intellectual property developed, which is "non-exclusive unless otherwise specified".
Alongside its public competitions, Kaggle also offers private competitions, which are limited to Kaggle's top participants. Kaggle offers a free tool for data science teachers to run academic machine-learning competitions. Kaggle also hosts recruiting competitions in which data scientists compete for a chance to interview at leading data science companies like Facebook, Winton Capital, and Walmart.
Kaggle's competitions have resulted in successful projects such as furthering HIV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20neuro%20fuzzy%20inference%20system | An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system or adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is a kind of artificial neural network that is based on Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy inference system. The technique was developed in the early 1990s. Since it integrates both neural networks and fuzzy logic principles, it has potential to capture the benefits of both in a single framework.
Its inference system corresponds to a set of fuzzy IF–THEN rules that have learning capability to approximate nonlinear functions. Hence, ANFIS is considered to be a universal estimator. For using the ANFIS in a more efficient and optimal way, one can use the best parameters obtained by genetic algorithm. It has uses in intelligent situational aware energy management system.
ANFIS architecture
It is possible to identify two parts in the network structure, namely premise and consequence parts. In more details, the architecture is composed by five layers. The first layer takes the input values and determines the membership functions belonging to them. It is commonly called fuzzification layer. The membership degrees of each function are computed by using the premise parameter set, namely {a,b,c}. The second layer is responsible of generating the firing strengths for the rules. Due to its task, the second layer is denoted as "rule layer". The role of the third layer is to normalize the computed firing strengths, by dividing each value for the total firing strength. The fourth layer takes as input the normalized values and the consequence parameter set {p,q,r}. The values returned by this layer are the defuzzificated ones and those values are passed to the last layer to return the final output.
Fuzzification layer
The first layer of an ANFIS network describes the difference to a vanilla neural network. Neural networks in general are operating with a data pre-processing step, in which the features are converted into normalized values between 0 and 1. An ANFIS neural network doesn't need a sigmoid function, but it's doing the preprocessing step by converting numeric values into fuzzy values.
Here is an example: Suppose, the network gets as input the distance between two points in the 2d space. The distance is measured in pixels and it can have values from 0 up to 500 pixels. Converting the numerical values into Fuzzy numbers is done with the membership function which consists of semantic descriptions like near, middle and far. Each possible linguistic value is given by an individual neuron. The neuron “near” fires with a value from 0 until 1, if the distance is located within the category "near". While the neuron “middle” fires, if the distance in that category. The input value “distance in pixels” is split into three different neurons for near, middle and far.
References
Fuzzy logic
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBM%20Aviation | UBM Aviation was a business providing data, analytics, consulting, media and event services to the air transport industry, principally the passenger aviation, air cargo logistics, maintenance repair & overhaul (MRO) and business travel sectors. Its brands included OAG, OAG Cargo, Routes, ASM, UBM Aviation Events and UBM Aviation Media.
The company operated worldwide from offices in the UK, USA, Singapore, China, Japan and The Netherlands. It was owned by UBM plc before the OAG brand was sold in 2013. The remaining brands including Routes & ASM are now part of UBM plc.
UBM Aviation was created in December 2008 when its parent, UBM, reorganised all of its airline-related businesses into one company.
The company has evolved through a number of acquisitions, beginning with BACK Aviation Solutions and Air Cargo World acquired by UBM in mid-2006; OAG in December 2006; Aviation Industry Group in January 2007; AeroStrategy's MRO data business in 2008; and The Route Development Group and Airport Strategy & Marketing (ASM) in August 2010.
The Company provided a range of consulting services for air service development, network audits, airport marketing, airport investment and aircraft manufacturing. These services are provided worldwide by its ASM (Airport Strategy & Marketing) business. ASM received the Best Airport Consultancy award from the Airport Operators Association (AOA) in 2010.
References
Aerospace companies
Informa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate%20system | In information technology, a disparate system or a disparate data system is a computer data processing system that was designed to operate as a fundamentally distinct data processing system without exchanging data or interacting with other computer data processing systems. Legacy systems are examples of disparate data systems, as are heterogeneous database data systems. A disparate system is often characterized as an information silo because of the data system's isolation from or incompatibility with any other data systems.
Overview
Each data system may be envisioned as being composed of a software layer or applications architecture, a data layer or data architecture, and a data processing environment layer or technical architecture. Any of these three layers may contribute to forming a disparate data system.
See also
References
Information technology
Information systems
Data partitioning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing%20in%20India | Supercomputing in India has a history going back to the 1980s. The Government of India created an indigenous development programme as they had difficulty purchasing foreign supercomputers. the AIRAWAT supercomputer is the fastest supercomputer in India, having been ranked 75th fastest in the world in the TOP500 supercomputer list. AIRAWAT has been installed at C-DAC in Pune.
History
Early years
India had faced difficulties in the 1980s when trying to purchase supercomputers for academic and weather forecasting purposes. In 1986 the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) started the Flosolver project to develop a computer for computational fluid dynamics and aerospace engineering. The Flosolver MK1, described as a parallel processing system, started operations in December 1986.
Indigenous development programme
In 1987 the Indian Government had requested to purchase a Cray X-MP supercomputer; this request was denied by the United States government as the machine could have a dual use in weapons development. After this problem, in the same year, the Government of India decided to promote an indigenous supercomputer development programme. Multiple projects were commissioned from different groups including the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), and the Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group (ANURAG). C-DOT created "CHIPPS": the C-DOT High-Performance Parallel Processing System. NAL had started to develop the Flosolver in 1986. BARC created the Anupam series of supercomputers. ANURAG created the PACE series of supercomputers.
C-DAC First Mission
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) was created at some point between November 1987 and August 1988. C-DAC was given an initial 3 year budget of Rs375 million to create a 1000MFLOPS (1GFLOPS) supercomputer by 1991. C-DAC unveiled the PARAM 8000 supercomputer in 1991. This was followed by the PARAM 8600 in 1992/1993. These machines demonstrated Indian technological prowess to the world and led to export success. Param 8000 was replicated and installed at ICAD Moscow in 1991 with Russian collaboration.
C-DAC Second Mission
The PARAM 8000 was considered a success for C-DAC in delivering a gigaFLOPS range parallel computer. From 1992 C-DAC undertook its "Second Mission" to deliver a 100 GFLOPS range computer by 1997/1998. The plan was to allow the computer to scale to 1 teraFLOPS. In 1993 the PARAM 9000 series of supercomputers was released, which had a peak computing power of 5 GFLOPS. In 1998 the PARAM 10000 was released; this had a sustained performance of 38 GFLOPS on the LINPACK benchmark.
C-DAC Third Mission
The C-DAC's third mission was to develop a teraFLOPS range computer. The PARAM Padma was delivered in December 2002. This was the first Indian supercomputer to feature on a list of the world's fastest supercomputers, i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Watched%20Over%20by%20Machines%20of%20Loving%20Grace%20%28TV%20series%29 | All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a BBC television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. In the series, Curtis argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity, and instead have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us." The title is taken from a 1967 poem of the same name by Richard Brautigan. The first episode was originally broadcast at 9 pm on 23 May 2011.
Episodes
Part 1. 'Love and Power'
In the first episode, Curtis traces the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence of Alan Greenspan, who was a member of a reading group called the Collective, which discussed her work and her philosophy of Objectivism. While Rand's novels were critically savaged, they inspired people working in the technology sector of Silicon Valley, leading to the emergence of the Californian Ideology, a techno-utopian belief that computer networks could measure, control and help to stabilise societies without hierarchical political control. Rand had an affair with Nathaniel Branden, another member of The Collective, with the approval of Branden's wife, Barbara Branden. The affair would eventually end acrimoniously and the Collective disbanded. Rand's circle of friends contracted considerably, though Greenspan remained loyal to her.
Greenspan entered government in the 1970s and became Chairman of the Federal Reserve. In 1992, he visited the newly elected Bill Clinton and persuaded him to curtail U.S. government intervention in the economy, letting the markets manage themselves with the help of computer modelling to predict risks and hedge against them, a paradigm named "the New Economy". However, by 1996, production figures failed to increase, but profits were nevertheless rising. Greenspan worried that unsustainable speculative bubbles were forming, but after political attacks from all sides, Greenspan changed his reasoning and suggested that new efficiencies had emerged that his data wasn't measuring. In parallel with this, American investors began pouring large sums of money into economies in eastern Asia, though the Council of Economic Advisers, led by Joseph Stiglitz, began warning that these economies were much more fragile than they seemed. However, these warnings did not reach the president, having been blocked by Robert Rubin, who feared damage to financial interests.
The 1997 Asian financial crisis began as the property bubble in the Far East began to burst in, first in Thailand, then later in South Korea and Indonesia, causing large financial losses in those countries that greatly affected foreign investors. While Bill Clinton was preoccupied with the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Robert Rubin took control of foreign policy and forced loans onto the affected countries. However, after each country agreed to be bailed out by the IMF, foreign investors immediately withdrew their money, destroying their economies and leaving their taxpayers with enormous debts.
Alan Green |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20indication%20map | Traffic indication map (TIM) is a structure used in 802.11 wireless network management frames.
The Traffic indication map information element is covered under section 7.3.2.6 of 802.11-1999 standard.
The IEEE 802.11 standards use a bitmap to indicate to any sleeping listening stations that the Access Point (AP) has buffered data waiting for it. Because stations should listen to at least one beacon during the listen interval, the AP periodically sends this bitmap in its beacons as an information element. The bit mask is called the Traffic Indication Map and consists of 2008 bits, each bit representing the Association ID (AID) of a station.
However in most situations an AP only has data for a few stations, so only the portion of the bitmap representing those stations needs to be transmitted.
Because the bitmap is never transmitted in its entirety, it is referred to as a virtual bitmap, and the portion that is actually transmitted is referred to as a partial virtual bitmap.
The structure of the TIM is following:
element ID
(1 octet)
identifies a TIM element
length
(1 octet)
the size of the whole element (5 to 255)
DTIM_count
(1 octet)
the number of beacons remaining before a DTIM (including this frame, so 0 means that this frame is a DTIM)
DTIM_period
(1 octet)
A scaling factor indicating that only every nth beacon includes a TIM. Stations in low-power mode will remain asleep and only wake to listen for those beacons, to determine whether they should also remain awake to receive data frames.
bitmap_control.offset
(7 bits)
bitmap_control.broadcast
(1 bit)
1 when one or more broadcast or multicast frames are queued. This means that all stations should wake up.
partial_virtual_bitmap
(8 to 2008 bits)
This comprises (length-4)×8 bits, each representing a currently-associated station. The low-order bit of the first octet represents station with association ID (bitmap_control.offset×16). Bits outside the partial bitmap are implicitly zero.
Delivery Traffic Indication Message
A Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM) is a kind of TIM which informs the clients about the presence of buffered multicast/broadcast data on the access point. It is generated within the periodic beacon at a frequency specified by the DTIM Interval. Beacons are packets sent by an access point to synchronize a wireless network. Normal TIMs that are present in every beacon are for signaling the presence of buffered unicast data. After a DTIM, the access point will send the multicast/broadcast data on the channel following the normal channel access rules (CSMA/CA). This helps to have minimum collision and in effect, increased throughput. In cases where there is not much interference, or where the number of clients is limited, the DTIM interval has little or no significance. Usually a value of 1 or 2. Also see Wi-Fi as established by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
802.11 standard
According to the 802.11 standards, a Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM) period value is a number tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIMA%20%28database%29 | The Domain Interaction MAp (DIMA) is a database of predicted and known interactions between protein domains. Version 3.0 of the database was released in 2010.
See also
Protein domain
Protein–protein interaction
References
External links
http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/dima
Biological databases
Protein domains
Protein structure
Proteomics
Systems biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20iPad%20accessories | The iPad is an iPadOS-based (previously iOS) line of tablet computers designed and developed by Apple Inc.; it has a wide variety of accessories made by Apple available for it, including a screen cover specifically for the respective models of iPad called Smart Cover, as well as a number of accessories to allow the iPad to connect to other devices, some of which enable non-touchscreen input.
List of accessories by Apple
References
External links
Accessories
iPad accessories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mu%20SP-12 | E-mu SP-12 also known as the “sampling drum computer” was designed in 1985 and widely released in 1986 by E-mu Systems. Although the SP-12 was quickly superseded by the more powerful SP-1200, the SP-12 is often regarded as the first commercially successful drum machine and sampler combo.
History
The E-mu SP-12 was the spiritual successor to E-mu's Drumulator and was originally going to be produced under the name Drumulator II, however shortly before the sampler went into production its name was changed to SP-12. The name SP-12 stands for sampling percussion at twelve bits, demonstrating the power of the sampler. The E-mu SP-12 is credited with helping usher in the era of digital sampling by being one of the first digital samplers in production, which allowed musicians to take digital sampling in a completely different direction. Originally the sole purpose of digital sampling was to allow producers to implement a desired sound into a keyboard so it would be able to be replicated within a song, however the SP-12 allowed the producer to focus primarily on the rhythm through the sampling and sequencing of the sounds of a drum something which was relatively rare at this point in time. The SP-12 would sample the desired drum sound, allowing you to augment it and then sequence the sampled drum sounds in any order that the producer would like to create the rhythmic backdrop for a song. Although this process was very innovative for the SP-12's true abilities were not E-mu's original intentions. DJ's of the 80's became famous for their ability to augment the sounds of old records to produce almost an entirely new composition through the use of a record player and this same principle was applied to the SP-12. People were beginning to replace the simple sampled drum sounds with the beats of their favorite drummers and even entire melodies, allowing their digital sampler to work just like the aforementioned set of turntables. These series of innovations left musicians with almost an endless amount of possibilities. Once E-mu systems realized the potential that the SP-12 had they quickly made the “Turbo” upgrade available which quadrupled the memory and doubled the sampling time. However the SP-12's existence was short lived for after only 2 years of production it was replaced by the far superior SP-1200. Today the SP-12 is more of an antique due to the superiority of the SP-1200, but it is still highly regarded as a collector's item.
Features
The E-Mu SP-12 today is classified as lo-fi due to the fact that it samples at 12 bits at a rate of 27.5 kHz (27500 samples per 1 second of audio sound, as explained in user manual, page 59). It came preloaded with 24 drum samples in ROM that consisted of a rim shot, four toms, electronic snare, snare, bass, four electronic toms, hi hats, crash, ride, claps, and cowbell along with eight user sample positions. Internal EPROM chips that holds stock sound files can be replaced with
EPROM programmer. Audio files in ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneanectes%20reticulatus | Enneanectes reticulatus, known commonly as the network triplefin, is a species of triplefin blenny from the coastal waters of southern Baja California.
References
reticulatus
Fish described in 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails%20%28operating%20system%29 | Tails, or "The Amnesic Incognito Live System," is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity. It connects to the Internet exclusively through the anonymity network Tor. The system is designed to be booted as a live DVD or live USB and never writes to the hard drive or SSD, leaving no digital footprint on the machine unless explicitly told to do so. It can also be run as a virtual machine, with some additional security risks. The Tor Project provided financial support for its development in the beginnings of the project, and continues to do so alongside numerous corporate and anonymous sponsors.
History
Tails was first released on June 23, 2009. It is the next iteration of development on Incognito, a discontinued Gentoo-based Linux distribution. The original project was called Amnesia. The operational system was born when Amnesia was merged with Incognito. The Tor Project provided financial support for its development in the beginnings of the project. Tails also received funding from the Open Technology Fund, Mozilla, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Bruce Schneier and Barton Gellman have each said that Tails was an important tool they used in their work with National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
From release 3.0, in 2017, Tails requires a 64-bit processor to run.
Features
Tails's pre-installed desktop environment is GNOME 3. The system includes essential software for functions such as reading and editing documents, image editing, video watching and printing. Other software from Debian can be installed at the user's behest. Despite being open-source, Tails contains non-free firmware blobs.
Tails includes a unique variety of software that handles the encryption of files and internet transmissions, cryptographic signing and hashing, and other functions important to security. It is pre-configured to use Tor with multiple connection options. It tries to force all connections to use Tor and blocks connection attempts outside Tor. For networking, it features a modified version of Tor Browser with the inclusion of uBlock Origin, instant messaging, email, file transmission and monitoring local network connections for security.
By design, Tails is "amnesic". It runs in the computer's Random Access Memory (RAM) and does not write to a hard drive or other storage medium. The user may choose to keep files, applications or some settings on their Tails drive in "Persistent Storage". Though the Persistent Storage is encrypted by default, it is not hidden and detectable by forensic analysis. While shutting down, Tails overwrites most of the used RAM to avoid a cold boot attack.
Security incidents
In 2014 Das Erste reported that the NSA's XKeyscore surveillance system sets threat definitions for people who search for Tails using a search engine or visit the Tails website. A comment in XKeyscore's source code calls Tails "a comsec mechanism advocated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Gorton%20%28writer%29 | John Gorton (died 1835) was an English writer, known as a compiler of reference works.
His works include:
A translation of Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1824;
A General Biographical Dictionary (2 vols. 1828, with an appendix, 1830), new edition, with a supplement by Cyrus Redding, bringing the work as far as 1850, in 4 vols. 1851);
A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland, with Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright, and maps by S. Hall, 3 vols. 1831–3, first published in separate parts;
A poem in blank verse, Tubal to Seba, the Negro Suicide, 1797; and
A pamphlet entitled ‘A Solution of that great Scriptural Difficulty the Genealogy of Jesus … with a treatise on the Fall of Adam.’
Notes
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External links
Year of birth missing
1835 deaths
English writers
English male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clif%20Cary | Clif Cary was an Australian cricket reporter of the 1930s and 1940s. He was the "sports editor on the commercial radio network with the largest sports audience in the Commonwealth" and in 1946 he published Test Cricket and Records, "a splendid, authentic and comprehensive history of the many great Anglo-Australian matches" from 1876 to 1938. He was a cricket commentator for the radio station 2UE for the 1946–47 Ashes series. After which he wrote Cricket Controversy, Test matches in Australia 1946-47, an account of the series in which he was critical of the poor selection of the England team, Wally Hammond's uninspired leadership, Don Bradman's overeagerness to win, which Cary thought verged on gamesmanship, and the mistakes made by the Australian umpires George Borwick and John Scott. Along with Jack Fingleton he was regarded as one of Bradman's critics, even though he admired his batting.
References
Australian cricket commentators
Australian cricket writers
Year of birth missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudsoft%20Monterey | Cloudsoft Monterey was platform as a service (PaaS) software developed by Cloudsoft Corp to provide Intelligent Application Mobility across multiple Cloud computing environments. It supported vCloud, Amazon EC2 and GoGrid as well as private clouds using the Cloud API. The application was written in Java using the Equinox OSGi framework with configuration DSLs written Groovy. The main components were an Eclipse based development studio tool and plugin for developers, a management console and the Monterey management and network nodes which run the mobile application logic
See also
Platform as a service
External links
Cloudsoft Corp Web Site
References
Cloud applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zazoo%20U | Zazoo U is an American animated television series that aired on Fox Children's Network block on Saturday mornings from September 8 to December 8, 1990. The show was created by children's author Shane DeRolf.
Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide. The entire series, however, has yet to premiere on Disney+ yet.
Plot
The series follows the antics of a university college populated by different animals.
Voice cast
Michael Horton as Boink
Jerry Houser as Grizzle
Brian Cummings as Bully
Neil Ross as Logan Chomper
Tress MacNeille as Ms. Devine
Susan Silo as Tess
S. Scott Bullock as Slogo Bonito
Stu Rosen as Dr. Russell
Danny Mann as Rarf
Lee Thomas as Seymour
Dorian Harewood as Buck, Rawld-O
Crew
Stu Rosen - Voice Director
Episodes
References
External links
1990s American animated television series
1990s American college television series
1990 American television series debuts
1991 American television series endings
American children's animated adventure television series
American television series with live action and animation
Fox Kids
Teen animated television series
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television series by Film Roman
Television series by Saban Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring%20system | In engineering and physics, a spring system or spring network is a model of physics described as a graph with a position at each vertex and a spring of given stiffness and length along each edge. This generalizes Hooke's law to higher dimensions. This simple model can be used to solve the pose of static systems from crystal lattice to springs. A spring system can be thought of as the simplest case of the finite element method for solving problems in statics. Assuming linear springs and small deformation (or restricting to one-dimensional motion) a spring system can be cast as a (possibly overdetermined) system of linear equations or equivalently as an energy minimization problem.
Known spring lengths
If the nominal lengths, L, of the springs are known to be 1 and 2 units respectively, then the system can be solved as follows:
Consider the simple case of three nodes connected by two springs. Then the stretching of the two springs is given as a function of the positions of the nodes by
where is the matrix transpose of the incidence matrix
relating each degree of freedom to the direction each spring pulls on it.
The forces on the springs are
where W is a diagonal matrix giving the stiffness of every spring. Then the force on the nodes is given by left multiplying by , which we set to zero to find equilibrium:
which gives the linear equation:
.
Now, the matrix is singular, because all solutions are equivalent up to rigid-body translation. Let us prescribe a Dirichlet boundary condition, e.g., .
As an example, let W be the identity matrix then
is the Laplacian matrix. Plugging in we have
.
Incorporating the 2 to the left-hand side gives
.
and removing rows of the system that we already know, and simplifying, leaves us with
.
.
so we can then solve
.
That is, , as prescribed, and , leaving the first spring slack, and , leaving the second spring slack.
See also
Gaussian network model
Anisotropic Network Model
Stiffness matrix
Spring-mass system
Laplacian matrix
External links
The Physics of Springs
Springs (mechanical)
Elasticity (physics)
Solid mechanics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclat | Éclat, Eclat or ECLAT may refer to:
Éclat, a piece of music for 15 players by Pierre Boulez from 1965
Lotus Eclat, a car
, an algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20virtualization | User virtualization refers to the independent management of all aspects of the user on the desktop environment. User virtualization decouples a user's profile, settings and data from the operating system and stores this information into a centralized data share either in the data center or cloud. User virtualization solutions provide consistent and seamless working environments across a range of application delivery mechanisms. Although user virtualization is most closely associated with desktop virtualization, this technology can also be used to manage user profiles on physical desktops. As the range of currently used operating systems expands, and the use of multiple devices by workers to perform their jobs escalates, user virtualization can support the creation of a "follow-me" identity that will allow access to a workspace without being tied into only a single device or a single location.
User virtualization for virtual desktops
For virtualized desktop environments, user virtualization represents a fundamental change in how the corporate desktop is constructed, delivered and managed. The user’s personality is decoupled from the operating system and applications, managed independently and applied to a desktop as needed without scripting, group policies or use of user profiles – regardless of how the desktop is being delivered (physical, virtual, cloud, etc.).
User virtualization for terminal servers
For server based computing environments, user virtualization enables IT to have more control over the shared environment, optimize infrastructure needs and ensure an optimal experience for their users. With application entitlement, unauthorized applications are blocked without the need for complex scripts or high-maintenance lists, providing protection from unknown executables and ensuring compliance with Microsoft licensing.
User personality
User personality is a combination of corporate policy and user personalization. Policy is used to set up and maintain a user desktop session. Policy also ensures a user session remains compliant by controlling application access, locking down or removing operating system and application functions, as well as self-healing essential files, folders, processes, services and registry settings. Personalization constitutes any change a user makes to his or her desktop.
User persona
User persona is another term used interchangeably with user personality or user personalization.
References
Coming Together On Virtualization
Above the Cloud – User Virtualization
User virtualization; the key to successful desktop virtualization
User Virtualization, consider the user first
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Neoview | HP Neoview was a data warehouse and business intelligence computer server line based on the Hewlett Packard NonStop line. It acted as a database server, providing NonStop OS and NonStop SQL, but lacked the transaction processing functionality of the original NonStop systems.
The line was retired, and no longer marketed, as of January 24, 2011.
References
Fault-tolerant computer systems
Neoview |
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