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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated%20filtering | Iterated filtering algorithms are a tool for maximum likelihood inference on partially observed dynamical systems. Stochastic perturbations to the unknown parameters are used to explore the parameter space. Applying sequential Monte Carlo (the particle filter) to this extended model results in the selection of the parameter values that are more consistent with the data. Appropriately constructed procedures, iterating with successively diminished perturbations, converge to the maximum likelihood estimate. Iterated filtering methods have so far been used most extensively to study infectious disease transmission dynamics. Case studies include cholera, Ebola virus, influenza, malaria, HIV, pertussis, poliovirus and measles. Other areas which have been proposed to be suitable for these methods include ecological dynamics and finance.
The perturbations to the parameter space play several different roles. Firstly, they smooth out the likelihood surface, enabling the algorithm to overcome small-scale features of the likelihood during early stages of the global search. Secondly, Monte Carlo variation allows the search to escape from local minima. Thirdly, the iterated filtering update uses the perturbed parameter values to construct an approximation to the derivative of the log likelihood even though this quantity is not typically available in closed form. Fourthly, the parameter perturbations help to overcome numerical difficulties that can arise during sequential Monte Carlo.
Overview
The data are a time series collected at times . The dynamic system is modeled by a Markov process which is generated by a function in the sense that
where is a vector of unknown parameters and is some random quantity that is drawn independently each time is evaluated. An initial condition at some time is specified by an initialization function, . A measurement density completes the specification of a partially observed Markov process. We present a basic iterated filtering algorithm (IF1) followed by an iterated filtering algorithm implementing an iterated, perturbed Bayes map (IF2).
Procedure: Iterated filtering (IF1)
Input: A partially observed Markov model specified as above; Monte Carlo sample size ; number of iterations ; cooling parameters and ; covariance matrix ; initial parameter vector
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Output: Maximum likelihood estimate
Variations
For IF1, parameters which enter the model only in the specification of the initial condition, , warrant some special algorithmic attention since information about them in the data may be concentrated in a small part of the time series.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Mould | Jeremy Richard Mould (born 31 July 1949) is an Australian astronomer currently at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology.
Mould was previously Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University and the American National Optical Astronomy Observatory. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow, at the University of Melbourne.
Life
Mould was born 31 July 1949 in Bristol, England, and emigrated to Australia in 1963. He graduated from the University of Melbourne, and Australian National University with a PhD. He was research fellow at Kitt Peak National Observatory, and professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Research
Mould's work at Caltech during the early 1980s aimed to determine both the size and the age of the Universe by identifying and calibrating Standard Candles, that is, very bright stars whose Absolute Magnitude can be accurately measured when near the Earth, with more distant examples being identified by their color, spectrum, or in the case of Cepheid Variables, the period of oscillation of their brightness. Other important work included the measurement of luminous evolved red giants in star clusters of the Magellanic Clouds, which he did in collaboration with Marc Aaronson. Also in collaboration with Marc Aaronson and John Huchra, Mould undertook measurements of the Hubble Constant that would eventually extend to the use of the Hubble Space Telescope and the WFPC2 camera to study Cepheid variables and use them as standard candles. Mould was on the science team for the WFPC2 camera that helped to restore the Hubble Space Telescope's image quality, correcting spherical aberration in the primary mirror.
In collaboration with Gary DaCosta and Michael David Crawford, Mould prepared Hertzsprung Russell Diagrams of Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud Globular Clusters to determine their age, with the resulting Standard Candle being the brightest star in each cluster, with that star's absolute luminosity being derivable from its distance, with the B-R Color of the brightest cluster's star being used to determine the ages of more distant clusters by the colors of their brightest stars.
The Magellanic Clouds are small galaxies that orbit the Milky Way Galaxy, with the distance from Earth to the Large Magellanic Cloud being 157,000 light years and that of the Small Magellanic Cloud being 200,000.
During the Summer of 1983, Mould, daCosta and Crawford extended this work to a distance of 2.5 million light years by recording CCD spectrograms of Globular Clusters orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy at the Cassegrain Focus of the Five Meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Mountain Observatory, with the Standard Candle being determined by the expectation that the spectra of each cluster as a whole would be dominated by the spectrum of the brightest star in it.
Collaborators
Gary da Costa, Professor of Astronomy, Australian National University
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook | Chromebook (sometimes stylized in lowercase as chromebook) is a brand name and class of laptop and tablet computers that run the Linux-based ChromeOS as its operating system. It is a trademark of Google, who develops and markets ChromeOS.
Initially designed to rely heavily on web applications for tasks using the Google Chrome browser, Chromebooks have since expanded to be able to use Android and full-fledged Linux apps since 2017 and 2018, respectively. They are able to function offline too, with data synchronization once connected to the Internet. Chromebooks are manufactured and offered by various OEMs.
The first Chromebooks shipped on June 15, 2011 and Google has since introduced more form factors: Chromebox desktops, Chromebase, which places the computer in an all-in-one unit, an HDMI stick PC called a Chromebit. As of 2020, Chromebook's market share is 10.8%, placing it above the Mac platform; it has mainly found success in education markets.
History
The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc. and Samsung, were announced at the Google I/O conference in May 2011 and began shipping on June 15, 2011. Lenovo, Hewlett Packard and Google itself entered the market in early 2013. In December 2013, Samsung launched a Samsung Chromebook specifically for the Indian market that employed the company's Exynos 5 Dual core processor.
Critical reaction to the device was initially skeptical, with some reviewers, such as then New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, unfavorably comparing the value proposition of Chromebooks with that of more fully featured laptops running the Microsoft Windows operating system. That complaint dissipated later in reviews of machines from Acer and Samsung that were priced lower.
In February 2013, Google announced and began shipping the Chromebook Pixel, a higher-spec machine with a high-end retail price.
In January 2015, Acer announced the first big screen Chromebook, the Acer Chromebook 15 with an FHD 15.6-inch display.
By March 2018 Chromebooks made up 60% of computers purchased by schools in the United States. In October 2012, Simon Phipps, writing in InfoWorld, said, "The Chromebook line is probably the most successful Linux desktop/laptop computer we've seen to date".
Other form factors
Besides laptops, there are several other types of devices that run ChromeOS.
There are three desktop styles:
Chromebox, which is a small form-factor PC first introduced by Samsung in May 2012.
Chromebase, an all-in-one desktop PC was introduced by LG Electronics in January 2014.
Chromebit, a stick PC introduced by Asus in April 2015. However, updates to Chromebits were discontinued in November 2020.
Chromebook tablets were introduced in March 2018 by Acer, the Chromebook Tab 10. The device was expected to compete with the lower-priced Apple iPad tablet in the education market. The Tab 10's display—9.7-inch, 2048 x 1536 resolution—was the same as the iPad. The device included a stylus. Neither device included a keyboard. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20City%20Home%20Network | The Space City Home Network is an American regional sports network owned jointly by the Houston Rockets and Houston Astros.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the network broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout Southeast Texas, mainly focusing on professional sports teams based in Greater Houston, namely the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets, as well as local college teams. The Space City Home Network is available on cable providers throughout Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, parts of Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico, and nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
History
Launch of Comcast SportsNet Houston
The idea for a team-owned regional sports network in Houston was proposed in 1999, when George Postolos, then the president of the Houston Rockets, floated the idea to Fox, which passed on the offer. Four years later, in 2003, the Rockets decided to partner with the Houston Astros to launch an RSN. The first order of business was to sever ties with Fox Sports Southwest, which carried games from both teams at the time (first through the main network, and then through a subfeed called Fox Sports Houston for the Houston market launched in April 2005). This led to a protracted court battle between Fox and the two teams that was settled after 20 months, leading to a new broadcast deal with the network valued at $600 million over 10 to 15 years. However, this contract contained a clause allowing the teams to terminate the contract and negotiate with other networks starting in late 2009. Fox Sports then moved the Astros and Rockets telecasts to Fox Sports Houston, which was separated from Fox Sports Southwest into its own network on January 12, 2009.
The Astros/Rockets group held discussions with Comcast, DirecTV and AT&T about partnering to form a new network, all of which failed to garner a deal. The continuation of the Astros and Rockets broadcasts on Fox Sports Houston was on the table as the network offered $1.2 billion over 10 years. However, it was ownership in a regional sports network that the two teams wanted. This led to the teams agreeing to a $1 billion contract with Comcast, which included a 77.307% ownership interest in the network (with Comcast holding the remaining 22.693% interest), through a joint subsidiary, Houston Regional Sports Network L.P. The new network, Comcast SportsNet Houston (which operated as part of the Comcast SportsNet RSN group), launched on October 1, 2012. On October 4, three days after Comcast SportsNet Houston launched, Fox Sports Houston was shut down and its former programming moved back to parent network Fox Sports Southwest.
Carriage controversies
CSN Houston was available only on Comcast systems in Houston, along with several smaller providers. In total, as CSN Houston, it reached only around 40% of all television households in the Houston market. Upon its launch, ratings for CSN Houston's sports telecasts were competitive based on the total number of households that received the network, but |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaka | Aryaka is a company that provides wide-area software-defined networking (SD-WAN) connectivity and application delivery. Aryaka is headquartered in San Mateo, California with additional offices located in London, United Kingdom, Bengaluru, India, Beijing, China, and Singapore.
History
Aryaka was founded in 2009 by Ajit Gupta, Rajeev Bharadhwaj and Ashwath Nagaraj. Gupta previously founded Speedera Networks, a content delivery network (CDN) acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2005 for stock valued at $500 million. Bharadhwaj was previously at cloud service provider Ejasent Inc, acquired by Veritas in 2004 for $59 million. Nagaraj was previously at Allegro Systems (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2001 for $185 million) and founder of Assured Access Technologies (acquired by Alcatel in 1999 for $350 million).
Aryaka announced its service in September 2010.
Aryaka raised $50 million from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity Fund. Previously it had raised a smaller $14M Series-E and had earlier received $45 million in Series D funding in a round led by from Third Point Ventures, adding new investor Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP), and with participation from existing investors. In March 2016, it received $16 million in Series C funding from existing investors, Nexus Venture Partners. It previously received $10 million in Series C funding from Trinity Ventures, $25 million in series C funding led by Interwest Partners, $15 million in series B funding and $14 million in series A funding from Trinity Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Nexus Venture Partners. Aryaka's foundational multi-segment WAN optimization patent was granted as a US patent in July 2013.
Aryaka built a network to offer its managed wide-area network (WAN). It develops its own technology that includes WAN optimization, multi-cloud connectivity including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud, and delivers security as-a-service with partners that include Checkpoint, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler.
See also
Application delivery network
Cloud computing
References
External links
Networking companies of the United States
American companies established in 2009
Companies based in San Mateo, California
WAN optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REPAIRtoire | REPAIRtoire is a database of resources for systems biology of DNA damage and repair.
See also
DNA repair
References
External links
http://repairtoire.genesilico.pl
Biological databases
DNA repair
Systems biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Response%20Technology | In computer data storage, Smart Response Technology (SRT, also called SSD Caching before it was launched) is a proprietary caching mechanism introduced in 2011 by Intel for their Z68 chipset (for the Sandy Bridge–series processors), which allows a SATA solid-state drive (SSD) to function as cache for a (conventional, magnetic) hard disk drive (HDD).
SRT is managed by Intel Rapid Storage Technology software version 10.5 or later, and implemented both in its device driver and in the Z68 motherboard's firmware (option ROM). It is available only when the (integrated) disk controller is configured in RAID mode (but not AHCI or IDE modes) by implementing a style of RAID 0 striping. The user can select write-back (so-called maximized mode) or write-through (so-called enhanced mode) caching strategy. The maximum utilizable cache size on the SSD is 64 GB. Caching is done at the logical block addressing (LBA) level, not the file level.
Shortly before the announcement of the new chipset, Intel also introduced the Intel 311 (Larson Creek), a 20 GB single-level cell (SLC) solid-state drive, which it markets as suitable for caching. , TRIM garbage collection is not supported for SRT caching devices, so the SSD's performance is solely maintained by its own firmware.
With the release of Ivy Bridge chipsets, support for SRT was provided in a larger variety of desktop chipsets, including Z77, Q77, H77 and C216 (but not Z75, Q75 or B75) as long as an "Intel Core Processor" is used. The situation is similar for Haswell desktop chipsets, with Z87, Q87, H87 and C226 listed as supported. The Ivy Bridge-E chipset X79 did not officially support SRT at launch, but some companies like ASRock added support to their boards via BIOS updates. The arrival of Ivy Bridge also saw SRT support added to mobile chipsets: QS77, QM77, UM77 and HM77 support SRT, while HM76 does not.
In 2012, Intel also introduced the 313 (Hawley Creek) caching SSD series (20 and 24 GB), advertised as also suitable for use in Ultrabooks.
, SRT was limited to using at most 64 GB for caching, meaning that on larger SSDs the rest remains unused by the cache. The chipset exposes any excess storage space as a separate independent disk, which can be used for other purposes.
In 2014, Intel has updated the SRT supported chipset list, to include the Intel® 9 Series Chipset: H97, Z97 as well.
Next year, support wasn't added for succeeding Z170 and H170 Skylake generation chipsets. SRT support was finally discontinued one year later in 2017 once Intel's own solution, Intel Optane, became available on 16 and 32 GB capacities. It required Kaby Lake processors and chipsets with intel citing better performance over SRT. This new SSD caching method left Z170/H170 chips and skylake processors without any kind of SSD caching available.
See also
bcache, dm-cache, and Flashcache on Linux
Apple's Fusion Drive
Condusiv's ExpressCache
Hybrid array
Hybrid drive
Intel Turbo Memory
Intel Cache Acceleration So |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Aided%20Surgery%20%28journal%29 | The Computer Aided Surgery is a scientific journal covering all aspects of Computer-assisted surgery (CAS), a surgical concept and set of methods, that use computer technology for presurgical planning, and for guiding or performing surgical interventions.
The International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS) is involved in the publication of the Journal.
References
External links
The Journal at the website of ISCAS
Computer science journals
Biomedical informatics journals
Surgery journals
English-language journals
Computer-assisted surgery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowland%20Group | Knowland is a web-based software company that provides business development products and services to the hospitality industry.
History
Knowland traces its roots back to a small software engineering firm. This firm spent months developing an entirely new kind of hotel readerboard service, heavily reliant on web technology, for a client in the industry. When the client backed out, Knowland's decided to start their own hospitality field research service, and by the fall of 2004, an online readerboard service was launched.
Knowland signed its first client, the Holiday Inn in Arlington, Va., in September 2004. During 2005, the company expanded to over 20 markets, serving a diverse clientele of single and multi-property clients. By the end of 2006, Knowland had over 400 clients in 60 markets and had tracked more than 200,000 events.
In 2007, Knowland introduced Insight, a tool that generates targeted sales leads with details on each prospect's event booking history. The company also activated a 7,000 square foot call center. The Event Booking Center employs research and sales support professionals who specialize in cold calling and can become an extension of hotel clients’ sales staff.
Knowland launched Target Net, a meetings management and sales force automation platform, in 2010. In addition to managing events from start to finish, Target Net also generated sales leads and opportunities. This product was discontinued in 2015.
Today Knowland is a provider of intuitive business intelligence products for the hospitality industry and has more than 3,000 client hotels and 50,000 users globally.
Products
Target Net, Insight, and Readers are the cloud-based products offered by Knowland. These products accessible from a computer connected to the Internet.
Target Net
Target Net is a salesforce automation and meetings management tool that allows hoteliers to manage their sales funnel.
Knowland no longer sells Target Net product, but continues to offer support for clients already using it.
Insight
Insight is a search engine and sales lead-generation tool that gives hotel sales teams access to a database of groups that have held meetings at hotels and conference centers.
In 2014, Knowland released Insight's 3.0 update. Insight 3.0 included new features such as anonymous reviews of groups and their events, the ability to follow groups, properties, and people, and more detailed group profiles.
After receiving many unfavorable reviews from clients regarding the changes to Insight for the 3.0 release, Knowland launched Insight 3.1 the following year (2015). Insight 3.1 was designed almost entirely around user feedback.
Readers
Readers is an online readerboard service that offers daily reporting and data on groups that hold meetings and events at hotels' competitor properties. Readers combines an online tool with Knowland's version of a traditional readerboard report, in addition to telephone-verified contact information. Each week, approximately 400 fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranularia%20caudata | Ranularia caudata, common name the bent-neck triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.
Description
The size of a shell of an adult snail varies between 38 mm and 94 mm.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indo-West Pacific along Tanzania.
References
External links
Cymatiidae
Gastropods described in 1791 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.M.%20News | P.M. News is a daily newspaper published in Lagos, Nigeria, by the Independent Communications Network Limited (ICNL). The company also publishes the weekly TheNEWS magazine and Tempo, a tabloid.
The News was founded in 1993 by Bayo Onanuga, Babafemi Ojudu and other former staff from the African Concord who had resigned in protest over a request by M. K. O. Abiola, the publisher, to apologise to President Ibrahim Babangida over a critical story about the military regime. Ojudu was the first Managing Editor.
After harassment by the Babangida regime, there was a brief period of press freedom under General Sani Abacha during which P.M. News was launched in August 1994 as a breezy afternoon paper strongly oriented towards news but also covering fashions, sports and entertainment.
In the years that followed, P.M. News and TheNews were known for "guerrilla journalism".
They were subject to constant interference by the authorities, arrests and closures.
For example, in August 1996 Amnesty International reported that Editor-in-chief Bayo Onanuga was thought to be held by the State Security Service at their Lagos headquarters, and may have been ill-treated in custody.
Babafemi Ojudu had been released on 13 August 1996 and had required hospital treatment as a result of ill-treatment. The two men may have been arrested due to publishing articles critical to the government.
Onanuga fled from Nigeria in 1997 after hiding from state security forces for months. He returned home to resume work at ICNL in 1998, after the sudden death of Abacha and the start of the transition to democracy.
References
1994 establishments in Nigeria
Companies based in Lagos
Daily newspapers published in Nigeria
Newspapers published in Lagos
Newspapers established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Osmin | Operation Osmin is a television series produced by American cable network nuvoTV. The fitness reality show debuted on July 4, 2011 as part of the relaunch of nuvoTV from the former Sí TV. Each episode focuses on out-of-shape challengers who participate in grueling, unconventional training from fitness trainer Osmin Hernandez, who was part of an elite Cuban military unit.
On Operation Osmin, the trainer has 30 days to get his challengers into the best shape of their lives by using his signature “the world is your gym” technique. This involves training in unusual places, like busy streets or parking lots, sometimes combined with extreme weather conditions like storms. Participants are also required to maintain a diet of fish, salad and water.
The first season of Operation Osmin aired from July to August 2011 and consisted of ten episodes. Season one registered as the highest rated original series ever produced for the network.
Season 2 premiered on nuvoTV on January 13, 2012 consisting of 13 episodes.
Operation Osmin was created by Eric Evangelista and Osmin Hernandez. The program is produced by Evangelista's New York-based production company Hot Snakes Media for nuvoTV.
Seasons
Season 1
Premiered: July 4, 2011
Episode 1: "Joe"
Episode 2: "Biankha"
Episode 3: "Willy"
Episode 4: "Khalia"
Episode 5: "Adriana"
Episode 6: "Drew"
Episode 7: "Domina"
Episode 8: "Louisa"
Episode 9: "Christian"
Episode 10: "Adam"
Season 2
Premiered: January 13, 2012
Episode 1: "Lawyer In Lust"
Episode 2: "Osmin Obsession"
Episode 3: "Fire-Hot Fitness"
Episode 4: "Hot for Hollywood"
Episode 5: "Centerfold Slimdown"
Episode 6: "Family Betrayals"
Episode 7: "Pole Dancer Diet"
Episode 8: "Flabby Night Lights"
Episode 9: "Baby Mama Drama"
Episode 10: "Cheater Blues"
Episode 11: "Bikini Body Dreams"
Episode 12: "Cuffed & Stuffed"
Episode 13: "Plus Sized Sexy"
References
External links
Official Website
2011 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
Fitness reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut%20%28given%20name%29 | Orkut () is a Turkish given name composed of or ('create') and kut ('holy') so that the name means "holy city".
People
Orkut Büyükkökten, Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service Orkut
Turkish masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointBase | PointBase is relational database management system (RDBMS) written in the Java programming language.
History
In 1998, Bruce Scott, a co-founder of the Oracle Corporation (with Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates), started PointBase Inc. with Jeff Richey (an architect of Sybase) and Daren Race. It was written in pure Java, supported DCOM and CORBA, and was an object–relational database. It was designed to integrate the internet and databases. PointBase Inc. was established in San Mateo, California, then moved to Mountain View, California. Like Java, PointBase was aimed at portable devices.
In the early 2000s it was the database that was shipped for free with the Java platform.
In 2003, the database was acquired by DataMirror of Markham, Ontario.
In September 2007, IBM acquired DataMirror.
Today (2012) PointBase's SQL Engine is part of Oracle's WebLogic platform.
Applications
It has been shipped with the Oracle WebLogic Server, a Java EE server.
PointBase is supported only for the design, development, and verification of applications; it is not supported for enterprise-quality deployment. The evaluation license of PointBase has a database size limit of 30 MB.
Versions
PointBase Server Edition
PointBase Mobile Edition
See also
SmallSQL
References
External links
History of PointBase
Guide to PointBase
Oracle BEA WebLogic Pointbase Reference
Java (programming language) software
Relational database management systems
Computer-related introductions in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oommen%20%28surname%29 | Oommen is a Syrian Christian surname from Kerala corresponding to the given name Oommen. It may refer to:
John Oommen, Indian-Canadian computer scientist
Lucy Oommen, Indian gynecologist
Philip Oommen, or Philipose Mar Chrysostom (1918–2021), senior Metropolitan Bishop of the Mar Thoma Church
T. K. Oommen, Indian sociologist
Thomas K. Oommen, bishop in the church of South India
Surnames of Indian origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta-TCP | Zeta-TCP refers to a set of proprietary Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) algorithms aiming at improving the end-to-end performance of TCP, regardless of whether the peer is Zeta-TCP or any other TCP protocol stack, in other words, to be compatible with the existing TCP algorithms. It was designed and implemented by AppEx Networks Corporation.
Zeta-TCP primarily provides the following improvements:
Congestion avoidance based on both latency and loss measures.
Improved loss-detection algorithm.
Reverse control.
Congestion avoidance
Most TCP stack implementations use TCP New Reno or its variations (such as TCP SACK RFC3517) as the congestion avoidance algorithm. The New Reno-based algorithms are loss-based. Loss-based algorithms treat the packet losses as the sole indication of the congestions in the network. As the Internet has since evolved, this assumption is often an overkill today. The congestion loss is constantly descending with the advancement of technologies, while, relatively, random loss due to the properties of the media (e.g., wireless/Fading channels), wireline noises/cross-talk, connectivity flaws, software bugs, etc., is increasing. Once "congestion" is detected (or false-alarmed), New Reno shrinks the Congestion Window (CWND) sharply, causing a plunge of the sending rate. This is one of the major reasons that TCP based applications are often barely able to use a fraction of the subscribed bandwidth, especially when the round-trip delay time (RTT) is large.
TCP Vegas and its variations, most notably FAST TCP, base their congestion predications on the RTT measurement only. Such latency-based algorithms overcome the problems of the loss-based ones, and are usually a more realistic reflection of congestion in the network. However the latency-based algorithms have their own limitations.
Zeta-TCP addresses the problem by combining the strength of latency-based and loss-based algorithms. It constantly measures the RTT variation and loss rate variation, and calculates the likelihood of congestion. CWND backoff schemes are applied based on the likelihood. With the highest likelihood, it applies the backoff scheme of New Reno, which has already been proven to be effective and stable with many years of massive deployment.
Loss detection
The packet losses in the real network environment rarely spread evenly; rather they tend to happen close to each other. The TCP related RFCs (New Reno and SACK, etc.) explicitly defined how the first loss can be detected with high confidence. However, the detection of the losses after TCP enters the Fast Recovery mode with SACK permitted is not efficient in RFC3517. Some popular Operating Systems have their own implementations that are equally suboptimal.
Zeta-TCP provides a simple algorithm to calculate the loss probability on every unACK'd/unSACK'd packet. A packet is retransmitted only when its loss probability has surpassed a certain threshold. The same rule applies to the retransmission deci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NickRewind | NickRewind (formerly The '90s Are All That, The Splat, and NickSplat) was an American late night programming block that aired nightly over the channel space of TeenNick. The block showed reruns of mid-late 1980s, 1990s, and early-mid 2000s children's programming, mostly shows that aired on Nickelodeon during their original runs. Collectively under all of its various brands, TeenNick's overnight classic programming block ran from July 25, 2011 to January 31, 2022.
The block was preceded by The '90s Are All That, which debuted the night of July 25, 2011 (early July 26) and was inspired by a large amount of interest in classic Nickelodeon series from the 1990s by users of social media outlets such as Facebook. From October 7, 2011 to October 23, 2011, the block aired in an earlier time slot, from 10 p.m. to midnight. Response to the debut was very positive; hashtags pertaining to the block became trending topics on Twitter and the Nielsen Ratings for TeenNick on the debut night increased to between eight and 60 times the ratings TeenNick received in previous weeks, beating numerous higher-profile basic cable programs in the same time slot.
Beginning October 5, 2015, the block expanded to eight hours (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.) and began airing a broader variety of series. Renamed as "The Splat", the block's name and logo came from Nickelodeon's logo from 1984; a white brush-printed wordmark on an amorphous orange background (often manifested as a "splat" shape, but which was frequently rendered in many others). To align itself with Nickelodeon's cross-platform branding, the block changed its name to NickSplat on May 1, 2017. The block would adopt its final name on March 15, 2019, and discontinue broadcast on January 31, 2022, returning TeenNick to 24-hour programming. The YouTube channel for the block continues to post compilation content from past Nickelodeon shows.
History
2011–15: As The '90s Are All That
The final week of 2011, dubbed "Party Like It's the '90s", featured shows originally featured in the 1995 through 1999 incarnation of SNICK. KaBlam! and Animorphs were excluded and replaced with other SNICK programs of the era. This also included '90s Nick IDs. The December 31 edition, called "Stick Clark's New Year's Sticking Eve", featured the revival of "U-Dip," another Nick in the Afternoon feature, as an homage of the large list of objects dropped on New Year's Eve across the United States. Nickelodeon's trademark slime won the vote. The block started at 10 pm and ended at 2 am, with a re-air from 2 am–6 am, to accommodate the occasion.
2015–19: As The Splat/NickSplat
On September 11, 2015, the block's Facebook page announced a new program block called "The Splat". It was later confirmed that The Splat would launch on October 5, 2015, and run for eight hours. The same general format and program library were being used, with less repetition of series; whereas The '90s Are All That aired most of its shows five days a week, The Splat added a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20Peper | Ferdinand Peper (born 1961) is a Dutch theoretical computer scientist.
Peper obtained his PhD at the Delft University of Technology in 1989 with the thesis Efficient network topologies for extensible massively parallel computers. He currently is working in a senior research position at Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. He is best known for his research on Nanocomputing, Asynchronous systems, Cellular automaton, Reconfigurable hardware and Instantaneous Noise-based logic. His research goals are to develop next-generation computing and communication architectures and also schemes enhanced by Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics including single-electron transistors. Particular topics of his research include the reduction of energy requirement, the exploitation of noise and fluctuations for informatics,
and the features of molecular self-organization and self-assembly. He was the Chair of the Fourth International Workshop on Natural Computing (2009) and acted as a co-editor of the book Natural Computing (Springer). He is a member of editorial board of the International Journal of Unconventional Computing.
Most cited papers
Peper F, Lee J, Adachi S, et al., "Laying out circuits on asynchronous cellular arrays: a step towards feasible nanocomputers?", Nanotechnology 14 (2003) 469-485.
Peper F, Lee J, Abo F, et al., "Fault-tolerance in nanocomputers: A cellular array approach", IEEE Trans. Nanotechnology 3 (2004) 187-201.
Adachi S, Peper F, Lee J, "Computation by asynchronously updating cellular automata", J. Stat. Phys. 114 (2004) 261-289.
Peper F, Isokawa T, Kouda N, et al., "Self-timed cellular automata and their computational ability", Future Generation Computer Systems 18 (2002) 893-904.
See also
Asynchronous circuit
Natural computing
Unconventional computing
Noise-based logic
References
External links
List of publications on the DBLP server
Noise-based logic homepage
1961 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Delft University of Technology alumni
People from Hengelo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20software%20development | Android software development is the process by which applications are created for devices running the Android operating system. Google states that "Android apps can be written using Kotlin, Java, and C++ languages" using the Android software development kit (SDK), while using other languages is also possible. All non-Java virtual machine (JVM) languages, such as Go, JavaScript, C, C++ or assembly, need the help of JVM language code, that may be supplied by tools, likely with restricted API support. Some programming languages and tools allow cross-platform app support (i.e. for both Android and iOS). Third party tools, development environments, and language support have also continued to evolve and expand since the initial SDK was released in 2008. The official Android app distribution mechanism to end users is Google Play; it also allows staged gradual app release, as well as distribution of pre-release app versions to testers.
Official development tools
The Android software development kit (SDK) includes a comprehensive set of development tools. The Android SDK Platform Tools are a separately downloadable subset of the full SDK, consisting of command-line tools such as adb and fastboot. The Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a tool to run commands on a connected Android device. Fastboot is a protocol used for flashing filesystems. Code written in C/C++ can be compiled to ARM, or x86 native code (or their 64-bit variants) using the Android Native Development Kit (NDK).
Android Open Accessory Development Kit
The Android 3.1 platform (also backported to Android 2.3.4) introduces Android Open Accessory support, which allows external USB hardware (an Android USB accessory) to interact with an Android-powered device in a special "accessory" mode. When an Android-powered device is in accessory mode, the connected accessory acts as the USB host (powers the bus and enumerates devices) and the Android-powered device acts as the USB device. Android USB accessories are specifically designed to attach to Android-powered devices and adhere to a simple protocol (Android accessory protocol) that allows them to detect Android-powered devices that support accessory mode.
External hardware development
Development tools intended to help an Android device interact with external electronics include IOIO, Android Open Accessory Development Kit, Microbridge, Triggertrap, etc.
Android Emulators
BlueStacks
Genymotion
LeapDroid
MIT App Inventor
Android Studio
Android-x86
Windows Subsystem for Android
Android Developer Challenge
The Android Developer Challenge was a competition to find the most innovative application for Android. Google offered prizes totaling 10 million US dollars, distributed between ADC I and ADC II. ADC I accepted submissions from January 2 to April 14, 2008. The 50 most promising entries, announced on May 12, 2008, each received a $25,000 award to further development. It ended in early September with the announcement of ten teams that received $275,0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurrawhy | Wurrawhy is an Australian pre-school themed TV show for young children. It premiered on Network Ten on 31 January 2011, and it later aired on Eleven and aired Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 10:00 am and originally aired from 8:30 am to 9:00 am, then from 11:30 am to 12:00 pm, then back to 8:30 am to 9:00 am, then with Breakfast's cancellation in November 2012, it aired from 7:00 am to 7:30 am and on 4 November 2013, the show moved to Eleven at 9.30am to 10am, to accommodate new morning shows such as Studio 10, and its last episode was on 14 January 2016 after 5 years to make room for a new pre-school series called Crocamole.
The main character is Wubbleyoo, a computer mouse that has come to life who is inquisitive and eager. With his friend Lauren and KB the cat, they are eager to explore the world around them. A computer is used for the characters to explore the theme of each episode with icons representing "Who, What, When, Where and Why".
Cast
Michael Balk as Wubbleyoo
Lauren Porter
Lucy Flook as KB The Cat
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Australian children's television series
Network 10 original programming
10 Peach original programming
2011 Australian television series debuts
2016 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Brisbane
Australian preschool education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20year%20%28computer%20modeling%29 | The term model year in computer modeling is used for calculated equations describing one calendar year of data. If a climate model, for example, is calculating the climate from 2015 to 2020, the computer has to calculate 5 model years, however it most likely takes much less time for the computer to do so.
Numerical climate and weather models
Simulation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey%20Ideker | Trey Ideker is a professor of medicine and bioengineering at UC San Diego. He is the Director of the National Resource for Network Biology, the San Diego Center for Systems Biology, and the Cancer Cell Map Initiative. He uses genome-scale measurements to construct network models of cellular processes and disease.
Education
Ideker received Bachelor's and master's degrees from M.I.T. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Molecular Biology under the supervision of Leroy Hood.
While working with Hood, Ideker was one of the first researchers to publish an integrated computational model of a metabolic network. As of 2017, the paper describing this model has been cited over 2,200 times.
Career
Following his PhD, Ideker worked at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at M.I.T. In 2003, Ideker joined UC San Diego as an assistant professor of bioengineering. In 2006, became an associate professor of Bioengineering and adjunct professor of Computer Science. He served as Division Chief of Medical Genetics from 2009 – 2016. Since 2010, he has been a professor of Medicine and Bioengineering. Ideker has also served as adjunct professor at the Moores Cancer Center and has acted as a consultant for companies including Ideaya Biosciences, Inc. and Data4Cure, Inc.
Ideker serves on the Editorial Boards for Cell, Cell Reports, Nature, EMBO, and PLoS Computational Biology and is a Fellow of AAAS and AIMBE.
In 2013, Ideker, along with Kang Zhang, identified that the molecular aging clock could be measured by blood and tissues, and made use of epigenetic markers.
Awards
In 2005, Ideker was named as one of the top innovators in the world under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review TR35. The following year, Technology Review named him one of the Top 10 Innovators of 2006. In 2009, he was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology in recognition of his significant contribution to the field of computational biology. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.
References
Overton Prize winners
American bioinformaticians
Living people
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
Network scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Troyanskaya | Olga G. Troyanskaya is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University and the Deputy Director for Genomics at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology in NYC. She studies protein function and interactions in biological pathways by analyzing genomic data using computational tools.
Education
Troyanskaya completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Biology at the University of Richmond in 1999 and her Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University in 2003.
Awards
In 2011, she was awarded the Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). In 2014, she was awarded the Ira Herskowitz Award from the Genetics Society of America. In 2017, she was elected as a Fellow of the ISCB. In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) " for contributions to computational biology and data integration."
References
Overton Prize winners
American bioinformaticians
Stanford University School of Medicine alumni
University of Richmond alumni
Living people
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
Year of birth missing (living people)
American scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekken%3A%20Blood%20Vengeance | is a 2011 Japanese 3D computer-animated science fiction martial arts film directed by Yōichi Mōri from a screenplay by Dai Satō, based on the video game series Tekken published by Namco Bandai Games. The film places focus on the young martial artist Ling Xiaoyu, who investigates experiments involving a supernatural curse related with the Mishima family, while befriending a robot named Alisa Bosconovitch. The two meet the test subject Shin Kamiya, who is being sought by his former friend Jin Kazama and his father Kazuya Mishima, but is also being used by Heihachi Mishima to set a new family fight.
Satō was given freedom by the video game series' executive director Katsuhiro Harada to write the film, which led him to the idea of Blood Vengeance being a buddy film by two female characters from different generations of video games. Tekken: Blood Vengeance was released in the United States on July 26, 2011, and in Australia on July 27, 2011, in a special exclusive one-off screening. It was released in Japan on September 3, 2011, by Namco Pictures. The film was released on Blu-ray Disc (included on the disc of the video game collection Tekken Hybrid) in the United States on November 22, 2011, and in Japan on December 1, 2011. The 2D version of the film was also released as a standalone DVD on November 22, 2011, in the US, and December 22, 2011, in Japan. It was later included with the video game Tekken 3D: Prime Edition.
The film was praised for its visuals and fight sequences, but criticized for its short length and few characters who have little impact in the story. Nevertheless, the film attracted Western audiences upon release. It was often considered as one of the best adaptations based on the video game series.
Plot
The plot, which takes place in an alternate storyline between the events of Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, begins with Anna Williams setting up a decoy for her sister, Nina Williams, who is currently working with the new head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, Jin Kazama. Anna, on the other hand, works for Jin's father, Kazuya Mishima and its rival organization, G Corporation. Both are seeking information about a student named Shin Kamiya, and Anna dispatches a Chinese student, Ling Xiaoyu to act as a spy, while Jin sends humanoid Russian AI robot Alisa Bosconovitch for a similar purpose.
During their investigation, Xiaoyu and Alisa form a friendship, unaware that the other is working for their enemy, although they are forced to turn against one another when Shin is captured by an unknown assailant. It is here that Alisa is revealed to be a cyborg - although Alisa believes she possesses human qualities after she spares Xiaoyu's life. After coming to terms with each other, Xiaoyu is abandoned by Anna and G Corporation, and the two girls flee from their previous organizations, taking refuge in their teacher, Lee Chaolan's mansion.
Xiaoyu and Alisa eventually discover genetic experiments had been done on Shin and his classmates, and believe that the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starhawk%20%282012%20video%20game%29 | Starhawk is a 2012 third-person shooter video game developed by LightBox Interactive and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the spiritual successor to 2007's Warhawk.
Gameplay
The most notable change from Warhawk is the addition of a single-player story mode, which was intended to be included in Warhawk but was eventually removed. The gameplay is similar to Warhawk. A new system called "Build and Battle" allows players to build structures such as bunkers, defenses, and armories in the midst of battle, giving the game a real-time strategy (RTS) element while remaining a third-person shooter. The game includes flying mechs called Hawks. A player respawns into a landing craft which they can steer with in a limited range to reach the battle field. Like Warhawk, there are 32-player online battles (16 vs 16). Starhawk also has a co-operative mode similar in concept to the Horde Mode in the Gears of War franchise.
Synopsis
In the distant future, humans are colonizing other planets across the galaxy. At the same time, humans are mining a valuable energy source called Rift Energy. The Rift Energy miners, known as Rifters, began mining the Rift Energy from the planets of the Outer Spur, but some of the Rifters were exposed to the Rift Energy, which transformed them into savage-like mutants known as Outcasts. The Outcasts, protective of the Rift Energy, attacked Rifter mining sites, including an outpost on the broken planet of Sever, owned by brothers Emmett and Logan Graves. An Outcast war party destroyed their rig, and both brothers became exposed to Rift Energy. Logan, unfortunately, mutated into an Outcast, but Emmett was able to remain human thanks to his friend Sydney Cutter, who created a regulator to implant into Emmett’s spine to keep him from transforming into an Outcast. Emmett and Cutter soon become hired gunslingers who travel from planet to planet to protect the Rifter mining sites from Outcast war bands.
In the small town of White Sands on the planet of Dust, Mayor Jonas asks for Emmett and Cutter’s help to protect the town from an upcoming attack by the Outcast while they fulfill their rift energy quota for the Union, the main authority in the Outer Spur. They agree to help for a price, and are able to push back the attacking Outcasts. The two later find out that the Outcast war party was being led by the notorious Outcast known as the Outlaw, who turns out to be Emmett’s brother Logan. The Outcast appear to be retreating in their ships, and White Sands celebrates. However, the Outlaw and his Outcast group attack a Rifter freight way, resulting in the captain of the cargo ship to self-destruct the freight way. Emmett and Cutter discover that the citizens of White Sands were taken prisoners by the Outlaw to a nearby moon to be converted into Outcasts. Emmett is able to rescue Mayor Jonas, and the two head back to White Sands which is under attack. Emmett, Cutter, and the remaining White Sands folks are ab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesta%20Perdana | Pesta Perdana is a prestigious award show from Singapore, honoring the best local media talent. This yearly event draws entries from programming channels and production houses all across the island, vying for top honors, in the fiercely contested categories. The award show is televised and broadcast 'live' every year since 2001.
Pesta Perdana is produced by Mediacorp, and hence attracts large numbers of celebrities - local, regional and international. The show is aired domestically on MediaCorp Suria and internationally by Channel News Asia International.
References
Singaporean television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIKE%20%28database%29 | SPIKE (Signaling Pathways Integrated Knowledge Engine) is a database of highly curated interactions for particular human pathways.
Development
SPIKE was developed by Ron Shamir's computational biology group in cooperation with the group of Yosef Shiloh, an Israel Prize recipient for his research in systems biology, and the group of Karen Avraham, a leading researcher of human deafness, all from Tel Aviv University.
See also
Signaling pathways
References
External links
Official website
Biological databases
Cell signaling
Signal transduction
Systems biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Mini | The Samsung Galaxy Mini (GT-S5570[B/L/i]) is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the Android operating system. It was announced and released by Samsung in early 2011. In some markets it is known as Samsung Galaxy Next/Pop/NG, while it is sold in the United States as the Samsung Dart exclusively for T-Mobile. It is currently available in four different colors; steel grey, white, lime and orange. With this release, the face buttons were changed to capacitive touch, matching the rest of the Galaxy lineup.
It was succeeded by the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2, featuring better screen (480x320 high contrast type vs old 320x240), higher clocked processor (600 vs. 800 MHz), and drastically improved memory (278 vs. 384 MB of RAM; 160 vs. 1830 MB of internal storage available) over the original, as well as Bluetooth v3.0, Wi-Fi Direct & NFC support, among others.
Features
The Galaxy Mini is a 3.5G smartphone that offers quad-band GSM and was announced with two-band HSDPA (900/2100 MHz) at 7.2 Mbit/s.
The display is a -diagonal TFT LCD with a 240×320 pixels QVGA resolution supporting up to 256,000 colors.
The Galaxy Mini is presented as an entry-level smartphone, and is (as of 13 May 2011) one of the cheapest Android phones on the market.
The Galaxy Mini originally ran on Android 2.2 "Froyo", but in May 2011, Samsung announced that the Galaxy Mini (along with other Galaxy models) will get an official upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. An official upgrade to Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) was released via Samsung Kies on 9 December 2011 for some mobile operators. The Galaxy Mini can also be flashed with custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod releases (although not officially supported by Samsung) where it is codenamed tass. The officially supported version of CyanogenMod on the Galaxy Mini as of August 2012 is CyanogenMod 7.2. It will run CyanogenMod 10/10.1/10.2 and even 11, but it is not officially supported, so there may be stability or performance issues, especially in the latter case.
It can be overclocked to 800 MHz with SetCPU.
Key features
Dual-touch (two fingers)
Quad-Band GSM and dual-band 3G support
7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA
WiFi 802.11 (b/g/n)
Bluetooth technology v 2.1
USB 2.0 (High Speed)
256K-color QVGA TFT touchscreen
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 system-on-chip
ARMv6 (ARM11) 600 MHz CPU
Adreno 200 GPU
Android OS v2.2 (Froyo) with TouchWiz v3.0 UI, upgrade to v2.3.6 (Gingerbread) available in some places.
384 MB RAM (279 MB RAM available)
160 MB internal storage, hot-swappable MicroSD slot, 2 GB card included
3.15 Mpixel fixed-focus camera with geo-tagging
GPS receiver with A-GPS
FM radio with RDS and Radio Text (not available in "Dart" version.)
3.5 mm audio jack
Document editor
Accelerometer and proximity sensor
Swype virtual keyboard
MicroUSB port (charging and data transfer) and stereo Bluetooth 2.1
SNS (social networking service) integration
Image/video editor
See also
Galaxy Nexus
Galaxy Europa (2011)
Samsung Dart is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Experts%20Network | The Experts Network, also known as TXN and TXN Sports, is an interactive digital sports network consisting of sports analysts Cris Collinsworth, Boomer Esiason, Nick Faldo, Howie Long, Cal Ripken Jr. and Phil Simms.
TXN specializes in the development of digital and original programming, repurposed content, and high-end special events. TXN formulates strategic distribution partnerships with online sports networks and serves as the online "destination" sports property.
TXN Launch
The digital network launched on April 26, 2011. The presenters collaborate on digital and social media programming delivering their knowledge, opinions, and personal stories on topics in sports news and culture.
NFL Draft Preview Show
Most recently, Big Lead Sports, an independent digital sports company with more than 19 million users, partnered with TXNSPORTS.com to deliver NFL Draft content through an array of different channels.
On April 25, 2011 The Experts Network produced its first-ever sports show previewing the NFL Draft. The TXN NFL Draft Preview Show presented by Men's Wearhouse included exclusive draft breakdown by the top expert voices in NFL television. It was streamed and promoted exclusively on TXNSPORTS.com and across all of Big Lead Sports' digital platforms.
Behind the Mic
On October 1, 2010, TXN launched its first digital effort with Turner/SI.com and Allstate Insurance to produce Behind-The-Mic, a series of web-based vignettes providing analysis on news and issues in sports. The SI.com video series showcases the candid views, insights and expertise of some of the biggest names in sports broadcasting.
Each week Behind the Mic presented by Allstate features multiple 90-second video segments with the analysts offering their insights and opinions on topics impacting the sports they are most associated with, as well as responding to comments made by newsmakers that have resonated within their sport. Additional video segments are added during each sport’s respective postseasons and championships.
The collection of on-air personalities includes multiple Hall of Famers, MVPs, World Champions, All-Stars, Pro Bowlers and Emmy Award winners including Turner Sports roster of marquee on-air personalities. Featured Analysts for Behind the Mic presented by Allstate include:
Charles Barkley, 1993 NBA MVP & Basketball Hall of Famer (NBA)
Cris Collinsworth, 3-time Pro Bowler (NFL)
Boomer Esiason, 1988 NFL MVP & 4-time Pro Bowler (NFL)
Nick Faldo, 6-time Major Winner (Golf)
Doug Flutie, Heisman Trophy Winner (NCAA Football)
Howie Long, 8-time Pro Bowler & Pro Football Hall of Famer (NFL)
Kevin McHale, 7-time NBA All-Star & Basketball Hall of Famer
Reggie Miller, 5-time NBA All-Star
Cal Ripken, 19-time MLB All-Star & MLB Hall of Famer (MLB)
Phil Simms, 2-time Super Bowl Champion & Super Bowl XX MVP (NFL)
Kenny Smith, 2-time NBA Champion (NBA)
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/behindthemic/
The Experts
Cris Collinsworth is the Emmy Award-winning analyst a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%20Master | Mind Master is a 2011 Philippine television consultation reality show broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Nomer Lasala, it premiered on April 30, 2011 and ended its first season on May 21, 2011.
On June 5, 2011, the host, Nomer Lasala announced in Showbiz Central that it will return/was renewed with a second season.
The second season premiered on July 24, 2011, replacing Mel & Joey and ended on August 28, 2011 with a total of 10 episodes.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Mind Master earned an 18.2% rating. While the final episode scored a 17.6% rating.
References
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20Up%20on%20Poppy%20Hill | is a 2011 Japanese animated drama film directed by Gorō Miyazaki, written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, and Toho, and distributed by the latter company. It is based on the 1980 serialized manga of the same name illustrated by Chizuru Takahashi and written by Tetsurō Sayama. The film stars the voices of Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Jun Fubuki, Takashi Naito, Shunsuke Kazama, Nao Ōmori and Teruyuki Kagawa.
Set in 1963 Yokohama, Japan, the film tells the story of Umi Matsuzaki (Nagasawa), a high school girl living in a boarding house, 'Coquelicot Manor'. When Umi meets Shun Kazama (Okada), a member of the school's newspaper club, they decide to clean up the school's clubhouse, the 'Latin Quarter'. However, Tokumaru (Kagawa), the chairman of the local high school and a businessman, intends to demolish the building for redevelopment and Umi and Shun, along with Shirō Mizunuma (Kazama), must persuade him to reconsider.
From Up on Poppy Hill premiered on July 16, 2011, in Japan. It received positive reviews from most film critics and grossed $61 million worldwide. An English version was distributed by GKIDS; it was released to theaters on March 15, 2013, in North America.
Plot
Umi Matsuzaki is a 16-year-old high school student living in Coquelicot Manor, a boarding house overlooking the Port of Yokohama in Japan. Her mother, Ryoko, is a medical professor studying in the United States. Umi runs the house and looks after her younger siblings and her grandmother. Each morning, Umi raises a set of signal flags with the message "I pray for safe voyages".
One day, a poem about the flags being raised is published in Konan Academy's newspaper. Shun Kazama, the poem's author, witnesses the flags from the sea as he rides his father's tugboat to school. At first, Umi gets the wrong impression of Shun as he does a daredevil stunt on behalf of the "Latin Quarter", an old building housing their high school's clubs that's being threatened with demolition. Upon her sister's request, Umi accompanies her to obtain Shun's autograph at the Latin Quarter. She learns Shun and the school's student government president Shirō Mizunuma publish the school newspaper. Umi convinces Shirō and Shun to renovate the Latin Quarter, and all the students contribute, both boys and girls. Umi and Shun start having feelings for each other.
At Coquelicot Manor, Umi shows Shun a photograph of three young naval men. One of them is her deceased father, Yūichirō Sawamura, who was killed while serving on a supply ship during the Korean War. Shun is stunned to see he has a duplicate of the photograph. His father admits shortly after the end of World War II, Yūichirō arrived at their house one evening with an infant, Shun. The Kazamas had recently lost their newborn, so they adopted Shun. At first, Shun tries to avoid Umi, then h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia%20Federal%20Route%201%20%28Sabah%29 | The Sabah section of the Federal Route 1, Asian Highway Route AH150, is a 428-km federal highway in Sabah, Malaysia, which is also a component of the larger Pan Borneo Highway network. The route was formed in 1996 during the merging of two former routes A1 (northern route, from Kota Kinabalu to Kudat) and A2 (southern route, from Kota Kinabalu to Sindumin near the Sabah-Sarawak border). The merging of the former routes formed an alternate route of Route 1 within the city of Kota Kinabalu. However, most maps still use the older route numbering scheme by referring to the northern section as A1 and the southern section as A2.
Generally, the highway runs along the west coast of Sabah. The highway continues as the Federal Route 1 (Sarawak) at the Sabah-Sarawak border.
One interesting feature about this federal highway is motorists crossing the Sabah-Sarawak border through the Federal Route 1 must pass through a customs and immigration checkpoint at Sindumin, even though the two neighbouring states are part of the federation of Malaysia.
List of interchanges
Northern route (former A1 section)
Southern route (former A2 section)
See also
Pan Borneo Highway
Malaysia Federal Route 1 (Sarawak)
Malaysia Federal Route 22
Malaysia Federal Route 13 (Sabah)
References
1996 establishments in Malaysia
Highways in Malaysia
Roads in Sabah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202010 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2010, there were 22 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Muse's fifth studio album The Resistance, which was released the previous year. The first new number-one album of the year was Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, the seventh studio album by Finnish gothic rock band HIM. The final number-one album of the year was the Foo Fighters compilation Greatest Hits, which topped the chart for a total of four weeks over four separate spells in 2010.
The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2010 was Muse's 2009 release The Resistance, which spent a total of eleven weeks at number one. Led Zeppelin's 2007 compilation Mothership spent six weeks at number one in 2011, including a three-week run between 30 October and 13 November. AC/DC's Iron Man 2 soundtrack spent five weeks at number one and was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 39th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Greatest Hits by Foo Fighters and the eponymous debut solo album by guitarist Slash each spent four weeks at number one; Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns and Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare were both number one for three weeks; and Iron Maiden's The Final Frontier spent two weeks at number one in 2010.
Chart history
See also
2010 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2010
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2010 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums
2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20mapping | Mobile mapping is the process of collecting geospatial data from a mobile vehicle, typically fitted with a range of GNSS, photographic, radar, laser, LiDAR or any number of remote sensing systems. Such systems are composed of an integrated array of time synchronised navigation sensors and imaging sensors mounted on a mobile platform. The primary output from such systems include GIS data, digital maps, and georeferenced images and video.
History
The development of direct reading georeferencing technologies opened the way for mobile mapping systems. GPS and Inertial Navigation Systems, have allowed rapid and accurate determination of position and attitude of remote sensing equipment, effectively leading to direct mapping of features of interest without the need for complex post-processing of observed data.
Applications
Aerial mobile mapping
Traditional techniques of geo-referencing aerial photography, ground profiling radar, or Lidar are prohibitively expensive, particularly in inaccessible areas, or where the type of data collected makes interpretation of individual features difficult. Image direct georeferencing, simplifies the mapping control for large scale mapping tasks.
Emergency response planning
Mobile mapping systems allow rapid collection of data to allow accurate assessment of conditions on the ground.
Internet applications
Internet, and mobile device users, are increasingly utilising geo-spatial information, either in the form of mapping, or geo-referenced imaging. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have adapted both aerial photographs and satellite images to develop online mapping systems. Street View type images are also an increasing market.
Location aware PDA systems rely on geo-referenced features collated from mobile mapping sources.
Road mapping and highway facility management
GPS combined with digital camera systems allow rapid update of road maps.
The same system can be utilised to carry out efficient road condition surveys, and facilities management. Laser scanning technologies, applied in the mobile mapping sense, allow full 3D data collection of slope, bankings, etc.
Road Inventory and Asset Management
Mobile LiDAR with a digital imaging system is being used to gather data which after post-processing generates strip plan, horizontal and vertical profile, all other asset within and beyond ROW including abutting land use and deficient geometry. This also calls for riding quality of pavement, Existing Traffic Characteristics and capacity of the corridor, Speed-flow-density analysis, Road Safety Review of the Corridor, Junction, and median opening, Facilities for commercial vehicles. Thus all data being used to form a performance matrix help identifying the gaps in corridor efficiency for prioritization of interventions to improve corridor efficiency.
Digital Twins applications
Mobile mapping combined with indoor mapping are being used in creation of digital twins. These digital twins can be a single building or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20universities%20in%20Libya | This is a list of accredited public and private non-profit universities according to the data of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the National Center for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Educational and Training Institutions in the State of Libya. .
Accredited And Recognized Public Universities
Academy of Graduate Studies
Al-Mergib University
University of Al-Jabal Al Gharbi
Al Zawiya University
Azzaytuna University
Misrata University
Sabratha University
Omar Al-Mukhtar University
The Islamic University of Asaied Mohamed Bin Ali Al Sanussi
Open University of Libya
Sabha University
University of Benghazi
College of Electrical and Electronics Technology (CEET), Benghazi
University of Tripoli
University of Derna
University of Sirte
University of Aljufra
University of Fezzan
University of Tobruk
University of Bani Walid
University of Aljafara
University of Nalut
University of Al-Zintan
University of Bright Star
University of Ajdabiya
Asmarya University for the Islamic Sciences
Al-Arab Medical University
Gulf of Sidra University
Wadi Alshatti University
Accredited Private Not-For-Profit Universities
Al Rifaq University for Humanitarian and Applied Science - Tripoli City
Libyan University for Humanitarian and Applied Science - Tajora City
Africa University for Humanitarian and Applied Science - Tripoli City
Attahadi Medical Al-Ahlia University (Attahadi University) - Tripoli City
Faculty of Dentistry Khalij Libya - Janzour City
Al-Hadera University for Humanities and Applied Sciences - Tripoli City
Al-Mawakeb International College for Humanities and Applied Sciences - Tripoli City
University of Tripoli Al-Ahlia - Janzour City
Libyan International Medical University - Benghazi City
Benghazi Al-Ahlia University - Benghazi City
Berenice University of Architecture and Urbanism - Benghazi City
Al-Furat Al-Ahlia University - Ajdabiya City
Mediterranean University - Benghazi City
Benghazi Modern University - Benghazi City
University of Al-Awael - Ajdabiya City
University of Al-Awael - Tobruk City Branch
British Libyan University - Benghazi City
Assalam International University - Benghazi City
Modern American University - Benghazi City
Al-Assema Private University - Tripoli City
References
External links
Universities in Libya
List of Government Universities at the Libyan Centre for Quality Assurance and Accreditation (in Arabic)
Libya
Universities
Libya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciona%20intestinalis%20protein%20database | The Ciona intestinalis protein database (CIPRO) is a protein database for the tunicate species C. intestinalis.
See also
Ciona intestinalis
References
External links
http://cipro.ibio.jp/2.5
Biological databases
Phlebobranchia
Computer-related introductions in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPE2 | RPE2, or Relative server Performance Estimate 2, is a computer benchmark developed by Ideas International to compare the relative performance of servers built on x86, IA-64, and RISC processor architectures.
The benchmark is a composite of results, or estimated results, from the SAP SD Standard Application Two-Tier benchmark, TPC-C, TPC-H, SPECjbb2005, SPECint, and SPECfp benchmarks. The benchmark was created in 2005, replacing an earlier benchmark called RPE.
RPE2 data is incorporated into some server capacity planning tools, such as
the ATS Server Consolidation Monitor from IBM and Data Center Intelligence software from CIRBA.
See also
Benchmark (computing)
SPECint
SPECfp
Transaction Processing Performance Council
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
References
External links
Official RPE2 page
Using RPE2 for server sizing
Benchmarks (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECvirt | SPECvirt_sc2010 is a computer benchmark that evaluates the performance of a server computer for virtualization. It is available from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). It was introduced in July, 2010.
The SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmark measures the maximum number of workloads that a platform can simultaneously run while maintaining specific quality of service metrics. Each workload, called a tile, consists of a specific set of virtual machines.
In addition to generating results that show performance, the benchmark can also be used to generate performance per watt results.
The SPECvirt_sc2010 was not supported by SPEC from February 26, 2014 and its successor is SPECvirt_sc2013.
See also
Performance per watt
VMmark
References
External links
Official SPECvirt website
Benchmarks (computing)
Virtualization_software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robic%20%28disambiguation%29 | Robic or Robič may refer to:
Robic (surname)
ROBIC, an intellectual property firm based in Montreal, Canada
Robic () — programming language, created in USSR.
Robik () — ZX spectrum based home education PC, produced is USSR from 1989 to 1994.
Robič settlement under Matajur in the Slovenia. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS%20and%20environmental%20governance | Geographic information system (GIS) is a commonly used tool for environmental management, modelling and planning. As simply defined by Michael Goodchild, GIS is as "a computer system for handling geographic information in a digital form". In recent years it has played an integral role in participatory, collaborative and open data philosophies. Social and technological evolutions have elevated digital and environmental agendas to the forefront of public policy, the global media and the private sector.
Government departments routinely use digital spatial platforms to plan and model proposed changes to road networks, building design, greenbelt land, utility provision, crime prevention, energy production, waste management and security. Non-profit organizations also incorporate geospatial and web-mapping approaches into political campaigns to lobby governments, to protest against socially or environmentally harmful companies, and to generate public support. Private business, whether in land management, resource extraction, retail, manufacturing or social media for example, also incorporate GIS into overall profit-making strategies.
Citizen science and GIS
Citizen science is part of the wider emphasis upon public involvement in expert fields across Western democracies. The term is "often used to describe communities or networks of citizens who act as observers in some domain of science". Although more narrowly used to describe the shift to specifically user-generated forms of knowledge creation, it has been routinely invoked in both the public participatory GIS and environmental governance literature at large.
National Audubon Society: Gulf Spill Bird Tracker
Much of the citizen science literature is grounded in wildlife study. For example, Goodchild references the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count (CBC) as a classic case of citizen science in action. Each year over the winter period, the American conservation organization encourages volunteer bird-watchers to gather information on the number of bird species in their local area. Once field data has been collected, each volunteer is able to submit their bird sightings into an online database, for the benefit of both scientific researchers and bird enthusiasts. The eBird project – enabling the general public to explore a range of map- and chart-based bird species datasets – is a result of these yearly mass volunteer events.
Of particular interest is the Gulf Spill Bird Tracker; an interactive sightings map for ten species deemed at risk from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Gulf Coast bird watchers were encouraged (at the time when it was live) to submit their sightings of a range of at-danger birds (such as the brown pelican, roseate spoonbill and the Wilson's plover), to help aid the clean-up operation, and pin-point beaches most affected by the oil spill. The National Audubon Society has been deeply involved in the Gulf Oil Response since the disaster, and has a dedicated p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z23 | Z23 may refer to:
Z23 (computer), a computer built by Konrad Zuse in 1961
German destroyer Z23, a destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine in the late 1930s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z22 | Z22 may refer to:
Z22 (computer), the seventh computer model developed by Konrad Zuse
Z22 (handheld), a Palm, Inc.'s handheld model
German destroyer Z22 Anton Schmitt, a Type 1936 destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine in the late 1930s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20marketing%20research | Mobile marketing research is a method of data collection using functions of mobile phones, smart phones and PDAs. PDA stands for "Personal Digital Assistant." It refers to a handheld electronic device that provides functionalities like computing, organizing, and communicating. PDAs were popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s before smartphones became prevalent. They typically included features such as calendars, contact lists, note-taking applications, and basic computing capabilities. Notable examples of PDAs include the Palm Pilot, BlackBerry, and early versions of the Pocket PC. It utilizes mobile communication for research purposes.
Background
Due to the deep sociocultural changes towards digitization at the turn of the 21st century, it has become more difficult for the marketing research industry to address respondents that are both willing to participate in surveys and who are reachable via traditional media. Consumers were no longer classified, which made it harder for marketing researchers to make obvious assumptions about their behavior. Researchers had to adapt their approaches to keep up with technology and cope with these changes in order to find out who their customers were and to establish their preferences.
Definition and development
Mobile phones are practical, versatile and have already become an indispensable device for communication, being used day and night. Smartphones, in particular, offer many different kinds of applications to fulfill further technical requirements. Several mobile applications provide mobile market research through smart phones. This is the basis to allow conducting empirical research studies. Besides the number of mobile phones, the number of smartphones and PDAs is still growing. In 2006, the number of worldwide mobile phone users exceeded the number of landline users. According to a study of PEW (Internet & American Life Projects) which examined more than 1000 internet leaders, analysts, and executives, mobile devices will become the most often used instrument to connect to the internet by the year 2020. According to Pew Research’s Internet & American Life study in January 2014, 58% of adults in the US had a smartphone, up from 56% in May 2013. In other parts of the world, like Central and Latin America, many people never had a PC, but they now have a smartphone. For instance, in Chile, more than 85% of the participants of an online panel had a smartphone in 2014, whereas only around 60% had a desktop. For many people, the mobile phone is already a kind of "life-support tool”. Therefore, conducting surveys via mobile phones could help to counteract the generally declining motivation of respondents, as many potential participants enjoy using electronic devices. Particularly, it is difficult to reach the younger generation through traditional media, compared to more modern media such as cell phones. Therefore, this medium is very appropriate to address this target group. Even if some respondents dec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start%20Input/Output | In MVS/370 and successor versions of IBM mainframe operating systems, Start Input/Output (STARTIO) is a macro instruction and a "branch entry" for low-level device access, where the programmer is responsible for providing a list of device-specific CCWs, that is, a channel program, to be executed by I/O channels, control units and devices and a number of "exits", several of which may be immediate returns to the Input/Output Supervisor (IOS). Invokers of STARTIO must be in supervisor mode and key 0. STARTIO interfaces directly with the IOS component of MVS.
Differences from Execute Channel Program (EXCP)
Start Input/Output differs from EXCP (including XDAP, which is simply a DASD-only subset of EXCP) and EXCPVR in the following fundamental way: Start Input/Output is a low level facility that supports, e.g., selection of channel paths, selection of exposures while Execute Channel Program is a high level facility that supports, e.g., CCW translation, page fixing, serialization of related requests, VIO.
Callers of Execute Channel Program must be in TCB mode. While IBM documents EXCPVR as being privileged, some unprivileged access method code uses it for SAM-E processing of DASD data sets. Except for some special cases, an application may only use Execute Channel Program for a Data Control Block (DCB) that it has OPENed (that is, it has been made accessible to the application by the system's OPEN/CLOSE/END-OF-VOLUME supervisor services, SVCs 19, 20 and 55, respectively).
Callers of STARTIO must be privileged, must page fix all storage areas related to the request and must use global storage for the SRB/IOSB. They may refer to any device that has a real UCB, even if that device is not allocated to an address space, that is, the device need not be OPENed.
Initiation and Completion Sequences
STARTIO's initiation sequence, usually referred to as its "front end", may be in TCB mode or in SRB mode. STARTIO's termination sequence, usually referred to as its "back end", is always in SRB mode.
STARTIO always utilizes an SRB/IOSB pair. The SRB (Service Request Block) is utilized to schedule processor activity, as required, on any available processor, in connection with the related I/O request, as the I/O request is not necessarily run by the processor in which the caller is running (indeed, in most cases it will not be). The IOSB (Input/Output Supervisor Block) describes the related I/O request, and passes parameters to and receives responses from IOS. IOS generally calls appendages in enabled SRB mode, but in special cases calls an appendage as a Disabled Interrupt Exit (DIE).
Device dependent processing
The Unit Control Block (UCB) for each device points to a Device Descriptor Table (DDT), which identified routines needed for device dependent processing, e.g., handling of Attention interrupts, appending of RESERVE CCWs, appending of Set File Mask and Seek.
De facto Support, versus non-Support
Although use of STARTIO by customers is not supported by IBM, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z25 | Z25 may refer to:
Z25 (computer), a computer built by Konrad Zuse
German destroyer Z25, a Type 1936A destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine during World War II
New South Wales Z25 class locomotive, a class of 2-6-0 wheel arrangement steam locomotive built for and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202011 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2011, there were 25 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was the Led Zeppelin compilation Mothership, which was released in 2007. The first new number-one album of the year was The Wörld Is Yours, the twentieth studio album by Motörhead. The final number-one album of the year was Here and Now, the seventh studio album by Canadian band Nickelback, which reached number one for the week ending 3 December and remained there for five consecutive weeks until the end of the year.
The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2011 was Wasting Light, the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, which spent a total of 13 weeks at number one. This included a single run of seven consecutive weeks from 23 April to 4 June and another four-week stint between 16 July and 6 August. Wasting Light was the best-selling rock and metal release of the year, ranking 24th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Linkin Park's fourth studio album A Thousand Suns, the 2009 Foo Fighters Greatest Hits compilation and Nickelback's Here and Now each spent five weeks at number one, while the self-titled third studio album by Evanescence was number one for four weeks in 2011. One album, Mothership by Led Zeppelin, spent two weeks at number one on the chart in 2011.
Chart history
See also
2011 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2011
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2011 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums
2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish%20K.%20Tripathi | Satish K. Tripathi is an Indian-American academic, a computer scientist and academic administrator. He is the first foreign-born president of the University at Buffalo (UB), the flagship of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Previously, he served as provost of University at Buffalo from 2004 to 2011. From 1997-2004, Tripathi served as dean of the Bourns College of Engineering at University of California, Riverside.
Early life and education
Tripathi was raised in Patna in northeast India and graduated at the top of his class from Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Toronto, as well as three master’s degrees—one in computer science from the University of Toronto and two in statistics from the University of Alberta and BHU.
Career
Coming to the United States in 1978, Tripathi joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, where his 19-year tenure included serving as chair from 1988-95. While on sabbatical at the University of Maryland, he also held visiting professorships at the University of Paris-Sud in France and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. From 1997-2004, Tripathi served as dean of the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California-Riverside, where he nearly quadrupled the number of students and tripled the number of faculty at that institution and led its rise from an unranked program to a position in the upper half of the U.S. News and World Report Best Engineering Graduate Schools rankings.
Tripathi joined the University at Buffalo in 2004, serving as UB’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs until his appointment as president in 2011. As provost, Tripathi led the recruitment of many prominent faculty to the university and oversaw a significant increase in the number of faculty hired to develop and enhance strengths in key areas of research and scholarly activity. As a result, the university achieved substantial increases in research expenditures and federally awarded research grants, putting UB in league with the top national research universities in the United States.
Under Tripathi’s leadership, the academic profile of UB’s undergraduate and graduate students also has improved significantly. He led a number of efforts to enrich the educational experiences of UB undergraduate students by introducing programs designed to provide them with opportunities to engage in learning and research with UB’s top faculty. He also oversaw the development of innovative “living-learning environments” constructed as part of “Building UB,” the university’s comprehensive physical plan.
Tripathi led a strategic planning process for UB’s international programs that has led to significant expansion of the university’s international presence and the continued globalization of its three Western New York campuses. He signed a memorandum of understanding in 2005 with Indian Prime Mini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Fano%E2%80%93Elias%20coding | In information theory, Shannon–Fano–Elias coding is a precursor to arithmetic coding, in which probabilities are used to determine codewords.
Algorithm description
Given a discrete random variable X of ordered values to be encoded, let be the probability for any x in X. Define a function
Algorithm:
For each x in X,
Let Z be the binary expansion of .
Choose the length of the encoding of x, , to be the integer
Choose the encoding of x, , be the first most significant bits after the decimal point of Z.
Example
Let X = {A, B, C, D}, with probabilities p = {1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/4}.
For A
In binary, Z(A) = 0.0010101010...
code(A) is 001
For B
In binary, Z(B) = 0.01110101010101...
code(B) is 011
For C
In binary, Z(C) = 0.101010101010...
code(C) is 1010
For D
In binary, Z(D) = 0.111
code(D) is 111
Algorithm analysis
Prefix code
Shannon–Fano–Elias coding produces a binary prefix code, allowing for direct decoding.
Let bcode(x) be the rational number formed by adding a decimal point before a binary code. For example, if code(C) = 1010 then bcode(C) = 0.1010. For all x, if no y exists such that
then all the codes form a prefix code.
By comparing F to the CDF of X, this property may be demonstrated graphically for Shannon–Fano–Elias coding.
By definition of L it follows that
And because the bits after L(y) are truncated from F(y) to form code(y), it follows that
thus bcode(y) must be no less than CDF(x).
So the above graph demonstrates that the , therefore the prefix property holds.
Code length
The average code length is
.
Thus for H(X), the entropy of the random variable X,
Shannon Fano Elias codes from 1 to 2 extra bits per symbol from X than entropy, so the code is not used in practice.
References
Lossless compression algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20%C3%9Cberlingen | {
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Lake Überlingen (Standard German of Germany: Überlinger See, Swiss Standard German: Überlingersee) is the northwestern "finger" of the Obersee, the lower part of Lake Constance. The boundary of lake is defined as the ferry link from Meersburg to Constance. It extends north to Bodman-Ludwigshafen.
In contrast to the main south-eastern part of the Upper Lake, which is a condominium, Lake Überlingen is considered German territory.
The total area of Lake Obersee is about 473 km2; with its 61 km2, Lake Überlingen is about as large as the Untersee part of the lake. The elevation of the water surface is about 395 m above sea level. The maximum depth of Lake Überlingen of 147 m is significantly lower than that of rest of the Obersee with 254 m.
Mainau, the Island of Flowers, is on the Constance side of Lake Überlingen. Neighboring municipalities are Meersburg, Überlingen, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen and Sipplingen in Bodenseekreis as well as Allensbach, Bodman-Ludwigshafen and the city of Constance in the Landkreis of Constance.
The Seefeld Aach in Uhldingen flows into Lake Überlingen in Uhldingen, and the Stockacher Aach between Bodman and Ludwigshafen. Several smaller streams also flow into the lake.
The intake point of the Bodensee-Wasserversorgung is in Sipplingen, at a depth of approximately 60 m. This firm supplies about 4 million people in many parts of Baden-Württemberg with drinking water, producing about 135 million m³ annually. This represents approximately 1.25% of the discharge.
Like the rest of Lake Constance, Lake Überlingen is a popular water sports area. Because of its steep banks, it is also a popular scuba diving area. It is, however, dangerous: the banks drop off steeply to about 60 m, visibility is limited, the currents often change and the water temperature in the deeper parts is only 4-5 °C. Novice divers drown almost every year.
Geology
Lake Überlingen with its steep bank walls is a rift valley, created during the folding that created the Alps. Its final shaped emerged during the Würm ice age, when the Rhine Glacier gouged out the whole of Lake Constance from south-east. The rocky walls are made of molasse, a tertiary sandstone, which is quite soft, in accordance with its relatively young age.
During a temporarily stable withdrawal stage of the Rhine glacier (the "Constance stage"), most of the Obersee was still covered by the glacier, the Lake Überlingen was already free of ice, so it was a glacial lake at the end of a glacier; icebergs floated on the lake after breaking off from the glacier. At that time there was an outflow, and thus the source of the Rhine, at the northwest end of Lake Überlingen, near Bodman-Ludwigshafen, in the direction of Radolfzell. This created a valley that is still clearly visible between the Radolfzell districts of Stahringen and Reute.
References
External links
Limnological state |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20NanoNote | The Ben NanoNote (officially the 本 NanoNote) is a pocket computer using the Linux-based OpenWrt operating system. An open-source hardware device developed by Qi Hardware, it has been called possibly "the world's smallest Linux laptop for the traditional definition of the word.". In addition, the Ben NanoNote is noteworthy for being one of the few devices on the market running entirely on copyleft hardware.
The computer takes its name from the Chinese character běn (本), translated as "an origin or the beginning place."
History
Originally the hardware was developed by a third party as a digital dictionary. After the effort of several Qi Hardware developers, the design was freed as open source hardware while using free and open source software.
The product used to be manufactured by Qi hardware and Sharism At Work Ltd. As of 2011, more than 1,000 units had been sold.
Software
The device is shipped with the OpenWrt software stack; the custom compilation includes a graphical menu called gmenu2x, with other graphical and command line applications available from the menu.
OpenEmbedded is also available through the Jlime distribution. The Pyneo software stack, a Debian-like distribution aimed for mobiles has been ported. The MIPS architecture port of Debian Linux can be run on the NanoNote. Additionally there is NanoNixOS, a cross-compiled distribution based on the Nix package manager.
Reception
After the 2010 introduction of the Ben NanoNote, reviewers praised its small size and low cost (US$99), but also criticized the device for its initial lack of any networking capability and for its extremely modest data storage and RAM capabilities in comparison to other contemporary devices.
Product development
Because the device lacked wireless connectivity, implementing this was one of the first goals for the Qi Hardware movement. This add-on, the Ben WPAN, was developed by Werner Almesberger, and mainly consists of an IEEE 802.15.4 subsystem, made up of two boards: a USB dongle (ATUSB) connected to the computer and another card connected to the SDIO port of the device (ATBEN).
All source code, documentation and test procedures, software and hardware schematics are available under copyleft licenses.
UBB, or Universal Breakout Board, is a PCB shaped like a microSD card, focused on DIY projects and general purpose interfacing using the available MMC/SDIO port.
So far two hacks had been published: one of them, the integration with a 443 MHz RF transceiver for power sockets control purposes and later a mix of bit banging and SDIO/DMA features turning the SD card slot into a VGA port.
As the Ben NanoNote uses an Ingenic JZ4720 processor it supports booting from USB without use of the NAND flash memory.
Derivatives
The SIE board is an adaptation of the NanoNote. It has twice the memory and features a XC3S Xilinx FPGA on board. It is based on the XBurst JZ4725 SoC, which has more I/O pins available due to not having a keyboard.
Technical specific |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Lingua%20Network | The Radio Lingua Network is a Scottish company headquartered in South Ayrshire, Scotland that provides various language courses through podcasts and other Internet-based media. Radio Lingua was founded in 2006 by Mark Pentleton, a former teacher of French and Spanish. Its first podcast, Coffee Break Spanish, was released on 18 October 2006. , the company had produced 36 podcasts teaching 27 different languages.
Radio Lingua provides courses about French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Flemish, Irish, Japanese, Luxembourgish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Zulu.
Radio Lingua's podcasts have won several national and European awards.
Podcasts
French
Coffee Break French
The Coffee Break French Magazine
Coffee Break French To Go
Coffee Break French Travel Diaries
Coffee Break French Verb Fix
En Route avec Coffee Break French ("On going with Coffee Break French")
High Five French
One Minute French
On Location French
Rock Star French
School Run French
Twitter Learn French
La vérité éclate toujours ("The truth always shines")
Walk, Talk, and Learn French
German
A Flavour of German
One Minute German
Coffee Break German
The Coffee Break German Magazine
Coffee Break German To Go
Coffee Break German Travel Diaries
My Daily Phrase German
Italian
Coffee Break Italian
The Coffee Break Italian Magazine
Coffee Break Italian To Go
Coffee Break Italian Travel Diaries
My Daily Phrase Italian
One Minute Italian
Twitter Learn Italian
Walk, Talk, and Learn Italian
Spanish
Coffee Break Spanish
Coffee Break Spanish Espresso
The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine
Coffee Break Spanish To Go
Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries
En Marcha con Coffee Break Spanish ("On going with Coffee Break Spanish")
High Five Spanish
News Time Spanish
One Minute Spanish
One Minute Spanish for Latin America
Show Time Spanish
Twitter Learn Spanish
Swedish
Coffee Break Swedish
One Minute Swedish
Chinese
Coffee Break Chinese
English
Coffee Break English
Other Languages
One Minute Arabic
One Minute Catalan
One Minute Czech
One Minute Danish
One Minute Dutch
One Minute Finnish
One Minute Flemish
One Minute Gaelic
One Minute Galician
One Minute Greek
One Minute Hungarian
One Minute Icelandic
One Minute Irish
One Minute Japanese
One Minute Latvian
One Minute Luxembourgish
One Minute Mandarin
One Minute Norwegian
One Minute Polish
One Minute Portuguese
One Minute Romanian
One Minute Russian
One Minute Slovak
One Minute Turkish
One Minute Ukrainian
One Minute Zulu
References
External links
Companies based in South Ayrshire
Podcasting companies
Language-learning websites
Language education in the United Kingdom
2006 establishments in Scotland
British educational websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moosacher%20St.-Martins-Platz%20station | Moosacher St.-Martins-Platz is a railway station on the Munich U-Bahn rapid transit network which opened on 11 December 2010.
References
External links
Munich U-Bahn stations
Railway stations in Germany opened in 2010
Buildings and structures completed in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Snoeren | Alex Snoeren is a computer science professor at the University of California, San Diego. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997.
Snoeren was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "innovative approaches to measuring, managing and detecting network traffic". In 2019, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow for "contributions to management and security of networked systems."
References
Living people
Georgia Tech alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of California, San Diego faculty
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Scientists from California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose%20%28analysis%29 | Moose is a free and open source platform for software and data analysis built in Pharo.
Moose offers multiple services ranging from importing and parsing data, to modeling, to measuring, querying, mining, and to building interactive and visual analysis tools. Moose was born in a research context, and it is currently supported by several research groups throughout the world. It is increasingly being adopted in industry.
Key Features
The philosophy of Moose is to enable the analyst to produce new dedicated analysis tools, and to customize the flow of analysis. While Moose is mainly used in software analysis, it is built to work for any data.
To achieve this it offers multiple mechanisms and frameworks:
Importing and meta-meta-modeling is achieved through a generic meta-described engine. Any meta-model is described in terms of a self-described meta-meta-model, and based on this description, the import/export is provided through the MSE file format. Through this file format, Moose can exchange data with external tools.
For parsing, Moose provides a novel framework that makes use of several parsing technologies (like parsing expression grammar) and that provides a fluent interface for easy construction.
Software analysis is specifically supported through the FAMIX family of meta-models. The core of FAMIX is a language independent meta-model that is similar to UML but it is focused on analysis. Furthermore, it provides rich interface for querying models.
Visualization is supported through two different engines: one for expressing graph visualizations, and one for expressing charts. They both provide a fluent interface for easy construction.
Browsing is an important principle in Moose, and it is supported in multiple ways as well. A generic interface enables the analyst to browse any model. To be able to specify specific browsers, Moose offers a generic engine that eases the specification through a specific fluent interface.
History
1996-1999: First infrastructure, meta-model
Moose was born at the University of Bern in the context of FAMOOS, a European project that took place between Sept. 1996-Sept. 1999. FAMOOS focussed on methods and tools to analyse and detect design problems in object-oriented legacy systems, and to migrate these systems towards more flexible architectures. The main results of FAMOOS are summarized in the FAMOOS Handbook and in the Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns book.
In the beginning of the FAMOOS project Moose was merely the implementation of a language independent meta-model known as FAMIX. The parsing of C/C++ code was done through Sniff+, and the produced models were imported via the CDIF standard. Initially, Moose provided for a hard-coded importer and served as basis for simple visualization and program fact extractor (1997). Then it started to be used to compute metrics.
Later on, as the meta-model evolved, it became apparent that the import/export service should be orthogonal to the meta-model and m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20human%20phantom | Computational human phantoms are models of the human body used in computerized analysis. Since the 1960s, the radiological science community has developed and applied these models for ionizing radiation dosimetry studies. These models have become increasingly accurate with respect to the internal structure of the human body.
As computing evolved, so did the phantoms. Graduating from phantoms based on simple quadratic equations to voxelized phantoms, which were based on actual medical images of the human body, was a major step. The newest models are based on more advanced mathematics, such as non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) and polygon meshes, which allow for 4-D phantoms where simulations can take place not only 3-dimensional space but in time as well.
Phantoms have been developed for a wide variety of humans, from children to adolescents to adults, male and female, as well as pregnant women. With such a variety of phantoms, many kinds of simulations can be run, from dose received from medical imaging procedures to nuclear medicine. Over the years, the results of these simulations have created an assortment of standards that have been adopted in the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recommendations.
Stylized (first-generation) computational phantoms
The very first generation computational phantoms were developed to address the need to better assess organ doses from internally deposited radioactive materials in workers and patients. Until the late 1950s, the ICRP still used very simple models. In these calculations, each organ of the body was assumed to be represented as a sphere with an "effective radius". The radionuclide of interest was assumed to be located at the center of the sphere and the "effective absorbed energy" was calculated for each organ. Phantoms such as the Shepp-Logan Phantom were used as models of a human head in the development and testing of image reconstruction algorithms. However, scientists attempted to model individual organs of the body and ultimately the entire human body in a realistic manner, the efforts of which led to stylized anthropomorphic phantoms that resemble the human anatomy.
In general, stylized computational phantom is a mathematical representation of the human body which, when coupled with a Monte Carlo radiation transport computer code, can be used to track the radiation interactions and energy deposition in the body. The feature of stylized computational phantom is finely tuned by adjusting individual parameters of the mathematical equations, which describes the volume, position, and shape of individual organs. Stylized computational phantom has a long history of development through the 1960s to 1980s.
MIRD phantom
The MIRD phantom was developed by Fisher and Snyder at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the 1960s with 22 internal organs and more than 100 sub-regions. It is the first anthropomorphic phantom representing a hermaphrodite adult for internal dosime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadena%20Melod%C3%ADa | Cadena Melodía is a Colombian radio network, founded in 1971 by Liberal politician Efraín Páez Espitia, who owned Radio Melodía of Bogotá since 1959.
Stations
Melodía Estéreo: AM station in Bogotá, devoted to easy listening music. Until July 2012, when Cadena Melodía leased it to Caracol TV (Bluradio), it was located in the FM band.
Radio Líder: AM stations devoted to news and general programming (the Bogotá station is defunct since July 2012)
Bogotá Estéreo (defunct): tropical music. In the 1980s was sold to an evangelical group, which later would make an exchange agreement with RCN Radio. Under RCN, it would become a bolero station, and then youth-oriented station La Mega.
References
External links
Cadena Melodía
Radio stations established in 1971
Radio stations in Colombia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20L%C3%ADder | Radio Líder was the flagship station of the AM network of Cadena Melodía, a Colombian radio network. It started in 1947 as Radio Industrial. It would later be renamed to Radio Capital, until 1959 when Liberal party politician Efraín Páez Espitia bought the station and changed its name to Radio Melodía.
In 2012, Cadena Melodía rented sister station Melodía FM Estéreo to Valórem, owner of Caracol TV. Thus, Melodía FM Estéreo moved to the AM band, where Radio Líder was located.
References
External links
Radio Líder
Live streaming
Radio stations in Colombia
1947 establishments in Colombia
2012 disestablishments in Colombia
Radio stations established in 1947
Radio stations disestablished in 2012
Defunct mass media in Colombia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%20Script | Pascal Script is a scripting language based on the programming language Pascal that facilitates automated runtime control over scriptable applications and server software. It is implemented by a free scripting engine that includes a compiler and an interpreter for byte code.
Pascal Script supports the majority of Object Pascal constructs, making it partly compatible to Delphi, Free Pascal and GNU Pascal.
Initially developed by Carlo Kok as CajScript and renamed to Innerfuse Pascal Script with version 2.23, the software was taken over by RemObjects, renamed again to RemObjects Pascal Script and offered as open source software for the Delphi IDE. Beginning with version 2.07 CajScript has been ported to Free Pascal. Since 2017 Pascal Script is included as a standard component in the Lazarus IDE.
Software using Pascal Script
Pascal Script can be used by installer scripts for Inno Setup, an open source setup engine. Using Pascal Script may provide additional flexibility during installation and uninstallation, e. g. by adding new wizard pages, calling DLLs and providing custom behaviour and install conditions.
Pascal Script is also used for server-side scripting in Pascal Server Pages and maXbox, a scripter studio with an inbuild Delphi engine.
ReNamer, a batch-oriented automated file renaming tool for Windows, can be expanded by Macros written in Pascal Script.
With the release of version 1.2, the Lazarus IDE began to include the Pascal Script engine, which is now available in form of several components. Additionally, some of Lazarus' standard packages including SynEdit and TAChart support Pascal Script, and the IDE may be extended by using macros written in Pascal Script.
Increasingly reported applications of Pascal Script in Science and Technology include SCADA, robotics and education.
History
Pascal Script started out in 2000 with CajScript 1.0, which was soon superseded by CajScript 2.0 (later called Innerfuse Pascal Script 2.0).
Version 2.0 interpreted scripts while it ran them, which had the disadvantage that every piece of code had to be reparsed every time the script engine went over it.
With Pascal Script 3.0, this was changed to a new model, where the compiler and runtime were completely separated from each other and used a custom byte code format to represent the compiled script. This compiled script only contained the bare minimum that was required to execute the code.
Later, when Carlo Kok joined RemObjects, it was renamed RemObjects Pascal Script and is now being maintained by RemObjects Software. A fork of Pascal Script is maintained in the sources of the Lazarus IDE. The Lazarus and Free Pascal teams ported PascalScript from Intel processors to additional architectures including PowerPC and ARM.
References
External links
Pascal Script License
Pascal Script examples in the Lazarus wiki
A short tutorial at PP4S
Pascal (programming language)
Scripting languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HJCU | HJCU (AM 730 kHz)is a radio station in Bogotá, Colombia, part of the Cadena Melodía network. Since its inception, it has been focused on the easy listening genre, with some news on mornings and afternoons on weekdays.
The radio station ceased to broadcast on FM because the owners of the frequency decided to lease it to Grupo Valorem, a Colombian group that owns Caracol Televisión, which created Bluradio. It currently broadcasts its programming on AM 730 and it streams at cadenamelodia.com.
External links
Melodía FM Estéreo
Live streaming
Radio stations established in 1967
Radio stations in Colombia
Mass media in Bogotá |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Cloud | Google Cloud Platform offers numerous integrated cloud-computing services, including compute, network, and storage.
Products
Past and present products under the Google Cloud platform include:
Current
Google Cloud Datastore, a NoSQL database service
Google Cloud Storage, AKA Google Storage, a file-storage Web service
Discontinued
Google Cloud Connect, a former plug-in to synchronize Microsoft Office documents to Google Docs
Google Cloud Messaging, a former mobile notification service
Google Cloud Print, a service that lets users print from any device within a network cloud
See also
Google Docs Editors
Google Drive
Google Workspace, a suite of productivity tools offered by Google
IBM/Google Cloud Computing University Initiative |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious%20Tubes%20Networks | Serious Tubes Networks is an internet service provider based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company was best known for providing network connectivity for the Pirate Party of Sweden and for hosting The Pirate Bay, a major BitTorrent search engine.
In May 2011, the website of The Pirate Bay was unreachable to Comcast customers. Serious Tubes Networks later announced that it was due to a routing configuration error at Global Crossing, which was providing service for Comcast.
The company was founded in 2009. Their website was originally located at serioustubes.org, which later redirected to serioustubes.se. The site was offline from approximately August 2013 to September 2017, after which the company seems to have been relaunched.
References
Intellectual property activism
Internet service providers of Sweden
The Pirate Bay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drobe | Drobe (also referred to as Drobe Launchpad) was a computing news web site with a focus on the operating system. Its archived material was retained online, curated by editor Chris Williams until late 2020.
History
Drobe was founded in 1999 by Peter Price. In 2001, Peter handed the site over to Chris Williams as editor. After , it closed as a news site in 2009. It was retained as an historical archive until 2020 when the site went offline. A few weeks after the site's closure Williams posted articles on Micro Men, the television drama about the rivalry between Acorn and Sinclair in the 1980s. He subsequently stated that such articles may continue to appear periodically.
Main features
At launch, the site featured a news feed, POP email checker and a search facility "incorporating AcornSearch.com". , the site features archived articles, news and other media. It also hosts an online emulator for the BBC Micro, using the Java Runtime Environment.
Registered users were able to apply for user webspace in order to host their own projects. These subsites continue to be hosted by Drobe.
See also
The Icon Bar
References
Subsites
Drobe
BBC Micro emulator
File archives (mirrors of popular FTP sites, etc.)
Reference material (various /Acorn hardware)
Selected user sites
(ROLF (software), the look and feel on Linux)
External links
Diodesign (Editor/curator Chris Williams's website)
Drobe article statistics
(subdomain hosting, adopted by Drobe)
Computing websites
History of computing
Free-content websites
British news websites
RISC OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Model%20of%20the%20Atmospheric%20Radiative%20Transfer%20of%20Sunshine | The Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine (SMARTS) is a computer program designed to evaluate the surface solar irradiance components in the shortwave spectrum (spectral range 280 to 4000 nm) under cloudless conditions. The program, written in FORTRAN, relies on simplifications of the equation of radiative transfer to allow extremely fast calculations of the surface irradiance. The irradiance components can be incident on a horizontal, a fixed-tilt or a 2-axis tracking surface. SMARTS can be used for example to evaluate the energy production of solar panels under variable atmospheric conditions. Many other applications are possible.
History
The first versions of SMARTS were developed by Dr. Gueymard while he was at the Florida Solar Energy Center. The model employed a structure similar to the earlier SPCTRAL2 model, still offered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), but with finer spectral resolution, as well as updated extraterrestrial spectrum and transmittance functions. The latter consisted mostly of parameterizations of results obtained with MODTRAN.
The latest versions (2.9.2 and 2.9.5) of SMARTS are hosted by NREL. The program can be freely downloaded but is subject to a License Agreement, which limits its use to civilian research and education. For new users, an optional graphical interface (for Windows OS only) is available to ease the preparation of the input file. Program packages are available for the Windows, Macintosh, and Linux platforms.
Applications
SMARTS version 2.9.2 was selected to prepare various reference terrestrial spectra, which have been standardized by ASTM under the designations G173, G177 and G197, and by IEC under 60904-3. The latter standard represents the spectral distribution of global irradiance incident on a 37° tilted surface facing the sun at an air mass of 1.5. The integrated irradiance amounts to 1000 W/m2. This standard spectrum is mandated by IEC to evaluate the rating of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells in the absence of optical concentration. PV cells requiring concentration referred to as CPV cells are normally evaluated against the direct spectrum at air mass 1.5 described in ASTM G173. This spectrum integrates to 900 W/m2. The reasons behind the selection of the atmospheric and environmental conditions that eventually led to the development of ASTM G173 are described in a scientific paper. SMARTS version 2.9.2 is considered an adjunct standard to G173 by ASTM. Further details on the use of SMARTS for PV or CPV applications are available in other publications. In particular, the model is frequently used to evaluate real-world efficiencies of PV or CPV modules and evaluate mismatch factors.
The reference spectra in ASTM G197 have been developed to evaluate the optical characteristics of fenestration devices when mounted vertically (windows) or on structures inclined at 20° from the horizontal (skylights on roofs).
The reference spectrum in ASTM G177 is limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Landweber | Lawrence Hugh Landweber is John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 at Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1967. His doctoral thesis was "A design algorithm for sequential machines and definability in monadic second-order arithmetic."
He is best known for founding the CSNET project in 1979, which later developed into NSFNET. He is credited with having made the fundamental decision to use the TCP/IP protocol.
Publications
He is co-author of Brainerd, Walter S., and Lawrence H. Landweber. Theory of Computation. New York: Wiley, 1974. .
Awards
President, Internet Society
Fellow, ACM.
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Brooklyn College, 2009
IEEE Award on International Communication, 2005
Member of the board of Internet2 (2000–2008)
Jonathan B. Postel Service Award of the Internet Society, for CSNET, 2009
In 2012, Landweber was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.
References
External links
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lhl/ Official web page at Wisconsin
Brooklyn College alumni
Purdue University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Writers from Wisconsin
Living people
Internet pioneers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execute%20Channel%20Program%20in%20Real%20Storage | In IBM mainframe operating systems, Execute Channel Program in Real Storage (EXCPVR) is a macro generating a system call, implemented as a Supervisor Call instruction, for low-level device access, where the programmer is responsible for providing a list of device-specific CCWs, that is, a channel program, to be executed by I/O channels, control units and devices. Additionally, the programmer is expected and required to ensure that the input/output data areas are in real storage and are "fixed", either prior to invoking EXCPVR or via the page fix appendage. EXCPVR can in some situations provide improved performance compared to EXCP.
Relationship to Execute Channel Program (EXCP)
EXCPVR may be viewed, historically, as a V=R (i.e., Virtual=Real) version of EXCP. However, EXCPVR is not restricted to V=R applications. Indeed, EXCPVR may refer to non-V=R data areas provided such data areas are "fixed" and the channel command words which reference such data areas have been translated from virtual to real addresses by the programmer using the LRA [ Load Real Address ] privileged instruction, as the data channels deal only with real addresses,not virtual addresses. EXCPVR was first introduced in SVS and was continued in MVS/370.
Support for Format 1 CCWs
In the later instances of the OS, support was added for Format 1 CCWs, and, hence, for access to data areas which are "above the line" (Format 0 CCWs may only access data areas which are "below the line").
Relationship to supervisor
EXCPVR's front-end is always in TCB mode as EXCPVR is a Type 1 SVC. In MVS/370 and subsequent instances of the OS, EXCPVR invokes STARTIO to schedule execution of the channel program, hence EXCPVR's back-end is always in SRB mode, but the back-end contains emulation code which allows the appendages developed for earlier, pre-MVS instances of the OS to function largely as before and thereby to appear to be in TCB mode, for which these appendages were originally designed. This distinction can complicate conversion of certain "roll-your-own" access methods and applications to MVS.
Notes
References
IBM mainframe operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20on%20Hughes | NHL on Hughes is the de facto name of a TV program that broadcast National Hockey League games on the defunct independent Hughes Television Network during the 1979–80 season. The program aired under the title The NHL '80. Hughes broadcast Thursday night games, the All-Star Game, some playoff games, and the first five games of the Stanley Cup Finals (the final game, Game 6, was broadcast by CBS). Hughes and the USA cable network technically, used CBC's Hockey Night in Canada feeds for the American coverage of the first five games of the Stanley Cup Finals. The first broadcast involved the Atlanta Flames against the Chicago Blackhawks on January 25.
Playoff coverage
Stanley Cup Finals
Videos:
References
Hughes Television Network
Hughes
1980 American television series debuts
1980 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20logic%20programming | Functional logic programming is the combination, in a single programming language, of the paradigms of functional programming and logic programming. This style of programming is embodied by various programming languages, including Curry and Mercury. A more recent example is Verse
A journal devoted to the integration of functional and logic programming was published by MIT Press and the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems between 1995 and 2008.
References
External links
Functional logic programming at U. Kiel
"func" library for SWI-Prolog
Functional programming
Logic programming
Programming paradigms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWFA-DTV | DWFA-DTV, better known on-air as One Media TV 48 Naga, is a TV station owned by Global Satellite Technology Services and currently an affiliate of the Golden Nation Network in the Philippines. Its studios and transmitter are located at the 5th Floor, S.T. Bldg., Naga College Foundation Compound, Brgy. Peñafrancia, Naga City. It covers the whole Naga City and nearby towns.
Programs
GNN NewsBreak
Talk of the Town
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 48 (677.143 MHz)
GNN TV48 on Cable
See also
Global News Network
One Media Network
DWVN-DTV
Gateway UHF Television
Global Satellite Technology Services
DepEd TV
UHF Broadcasting
Hope Channel International
Seventh-day Adventist Church
List of TV Stations operated by Gateway UHF Television
List of TV Stations operated by Global Satellite Technology Services
Television stations in Naga, Camarines Sur
Digital television stations in the Philippines
Religious television stations in the Philippines
ceb:DZGB-TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgoNet | EgoNet (Egocentric Network Study Software) for the collection and analysis of egocentric social network data. It helps the user to collect and analyse all the egocentric network data (all social network data of a website on the Internet), and provide general global network measures and data matrixes that can be used for further analysis by other software. The egonet is the result of the links that it gives and receives certain address on the Internet, and EgoNet is dedicated to collecting information about them and present it in a way useful to the users.
Egonet is written in Java, so that the computer where it is going to be used must have the JRE installed. EgoNet is open source software, licensed under GPL.
Its creator is Professor Christopher McCarty, of the University of Florida, United States.
Features
The program allows to create questionnaires, collect data and provide comprehensive measures and arrays of data that can be used for subsequent analysis by other software.
Its main benefits are the generation of questionnaires for relational data, the calculation of relevant General measurements for the analysis of social networks and production graphs.
Components
Egonet is composed of the following modules:
EgoNetW, that allows to create formats of questionnaires for the pursuit of studies;
EgoNetClientW: used for data load - once defined the relevant questions and the structure of the questionnaires.
See also
Graphviz
GraphStream
graph-tool
JUNG
NetworkX
Tulip
References
External links
Social networking services
Data analysis software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Free science software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksar%20%28Unix%20sar%20grapher%29 | Ksar is a BSD-licensed Java-based application that creates graphs of all parameters from data collected by Unix sar utilities. Usually, Unix sar is part of Unix' Sysstat package, and runs sa1, sa2, and sadc through cron to created data files in /var/log/sa/saNN. Characteristics include:
Images can be zoomed by dragging the mouse on an image to pinpoint problems
Results can be exported to PDF or JPEG format
Syntax and options
Below is the list of CLI options supported by Ksar. Ksar's -help option will list all supported options of the applicable Ksar version.
$ java -jar kSar.jar -help
kSar version: 5.0.6
Usage:
-version: show kSar version number
-help: show this help
-[[input (computing)|input]] <arg>: [[Argument (computer programming)|argument]] must be either ssh://user@host/command or cmd://command or file://path/to/file or just /path/to/file
-graph <graph list>: space separated list of graph to be output
-showCPUstacked: will make the [[CPU]] used graph as stacked
-showMEMstacked: will make the memory graph as stacked ([[Linux]] only)
-cpuFixedAxis: will graph CPU used with fixed axis from 0% to 100%
-showIntrListstacked : will make the Interrupt List graph as stacked
-showTrigger: will show trigger on graph (disabled by [[Default (computer science)|default]])
-noEmptyDisk: will not export disk with no data
-tile: will tile [[Window (computing)|window]]
-userPrefs: will use the userPrefs for outputting graphs (last export of this host)
-showOnlygraphName: will only print graph name available for that data (to be use for -graph)
-addHTML: will create an [[HTML]] page with [[PNG]]/[[JPG]] image
-outputPDF <pdf file> : output the pdf report to the pdf file
-outputPNG <base filename> : output the graphs to PNG file using argument as base filename
-outputJPG <base filename> : output the graphs to JPG file using argument as base filename
-outputCSV <CSV file> : output the [[CSV]] file
-width <size> : make JPG/PNG with specified width size (default: 800)
-height <size> : make JPG/PNG with specified height size (default: 600)
-startdate <date> : will graph the range beginning at that time
-enddate <date> : will graph the range until that date
-solarisPagesize <pagesize in B>: will set [[solaris]] pagesize
-[[Wizard (computing)|wizard]]: open with unified [[login]] popup
-replaceShortcut <xml file>: replace all [[shortcut (computing)|shortcuts]] with those in the [[.xml]] file
-addShortcut <xml file>: add shortcut from the xml file
-startup: open window marked for opening at [[booting|startup]]
Generating SAR Text Files for Ksar Use
To begin gathering sysstat history information for use of the sar command, systat should be configured to run through cron (preferably every minute). More instructions are available on the systat web site.
Generating sar text file with all system resources information
DT="10"
LC_ALL=C sar -A -f /var/log/sa/sa$DT > /tmp/sar-$(hostname)-$DT.txt
ls -l /tmp/sar-$(hostname)-$DT.txt
Generating only disk informatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Jr.%20%28Southeast%20Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | Nick Jr. is an Asian pay television channel aimed at younger children, operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA and owned by Paramount International Networks.
On December 20, 2010, Nick Jr. was launched in New Zealand on Sky TV, almost 4 months before its official launch in Asia.
History
Nick Jr. along with MTVNHD was launched in New Zealand on December 20, 2010 and in Asia on May 18, 2011. It was promoted on Nickelodeon. The channel is available on StarHub TV in Singapore, Unifi TV and Astro in Malaysia, SKY TV in New Zealand, SkyCable, Cablelink and Cignal in the Philippines, and on myTV SUPER, Now TV and Cable TV Hong Kong in Hong Kong.
MTV Asia was broadcasting in New Zealand before Nick Jr. Nickelodeon previously broadcast in New Zealand from 2000 to 2006. Nick Jr. officially launched in New Zealand on December 20, 2010. Its high definition channel is broadcast in Southeast Asia and selected regions.
Since 2021, Nick Jr. replaces in most of its channel lineups, especially its rival channel Disney Junior that was shut down in the same year.
Programming
Current programming
Original programming
Baby Shark's Big Show!
Blue's Clues & You!
Blaze and the Monster Machines
Bossy Bear
Santiago of the Seas
The Tiny Chef Show
Acquired programming
The Adventures of Paddington
Anna & Friends
Barbapapa: One Big Happy Family!
Deer Squad
PAW Patrol
Peppa Pig
Rubble & Crew
Former programming
Original programming
The Backyardigans (2010–2015)
Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom (2012–2018)
Blue's Clues (2010–2014)
Butterbean's Café (2019–2022)
Bubble Guppies(2011–2023)
Dora the Explorer (2010–2023)
Dora and Friends: Into the City! (2015–2017)
Fresh Beat Band of Spies (2016–2017)
Go Diego Go! (2010–2016)
Nella the Princess Knight (2017-2020)
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan (2011–2016)
Ready Set Dance! (2020–2023)
Shimmer & Shine (2016–2020)
Sunny Day (2018–2019)
Team Umizoomi (2010-2018)
Wallykazam (2017–2019)
Wonder Pets (2010–2015)
Acquired programming
Abby Hatcher (2019–2021)
Julius Jr. (2014)
Kid-E-Cats (2017–2019)
Kiva Can Do! (2018–2019)
Little Charmers (2015–2018)
Louie (2011–2017)
Max & Ruby (2010–2021)
Olive the Ostrich (2011-2017)
Roary the Racing Car (2010–2016)
Rusty Rivets (2016–2020)
Tickety Toc (2013–2016)
Top Wing (2018–2021)
The Day Henry Met (2017–2018)
Wanda and the Alien (2015–2017)
Yo Gabba Gabba!
Zack & Quack (2014–2020)
See also
Nickelodeon
Nick Jr. Channel
Nickelodeon Philippines
References
External links
Official site
Southeast Asia
Children's television channels in the Asia Pacific
Mass media in Southeast Asia
Television channels and stations established in 2010
English-language television stations in New Zealand
2010 establishments in New Zealand
Television stations in Singapore
Television stations in the Philippines
Television stations in Malaysia
Television stations in Indonesia
Television channels in Brunei
Television stations in Thailand
Television stations in Taiwan
Television stations in H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Detention%20Coalition | The International Detention Coalition (IDC) is an incorporated not-for-profit organization, forming a network of more than 400 non-governmental organizations, faith-based groups, academics and individuals that provide legal, social, medical and other services, carry out research and reporting, and undertake advocacy and policy work on behalf of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. These groups and individuals from more than 50 countries, have come together to form the IDC to share information and promote good practices and the greater use of international and regional human rights standards and principles as they relate to the detention of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. This includes advocating for greater respect for the human rights of detainees, preventing and limiting the use of, seeking alternatives to, and using the least restrictive forms of, immigration detention.
The IDC Secretariat is based in Melbourne, Australia, with regional consultants based internationally.
Mission
The IDC aims to promote greater protection of and respect for the human rights of those held in detention and to raise awareness of detention policies and practices. It also aims to promote the use of international and regional human rights standards and principles as they relate to the detention of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. The Coalition reaches these objectives through networking, advocacy, raising public awareness and researching and reporting on issues worldwide relating to the detention of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
Vision and objectives
For the period 2008-2010, IDC members identified three core priorities:
Ending and limiting detention, particularly for children
Developing and promoting alternatives to immigration detention
Improving rights, conditions and monitoring of detention facilities
In light of these priorities, the Coalition has focused its work on three core strategic areas:
Coalition building
Advocacy and campaign Building
Capacity building
Background
Since the late 1990s organisations working in the field of immigration detention have discussed the need for better regional and international networking. In September 2003, several NGO representatives attending the UNHCR NGO Consultations in Geneva met to explore the formation of an international civil society coalition on immigration detention. During the 2004/05 Consultations, the process of establishing the coalition continued, and in September 2006 the International Detention Coalition was formally launched with an appointed Steering Committee.
The IDC was voluntarily run until September 2007, when the Steering Committee agreed to have the IDC hosted by another organization to help formalize it as an incorporated body. The Steering Committee received expressions of interest from five members before agreeing on a partnership with Oxfam Australia. Grant Mitchell was appointed as interim Coordinator in May 2008. In March 2009, the IDC became incorpo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn%20Arcade | Acorn Arcade is a computing resource website with a focus on the operating system and its gaming scene. It has been recognised by Acorn User magazine and was an award winner at the Wakefield Acorn Computer Show.
History
Acorn Arcade was founded in 1997 by Alasdair Bailey and Graham Crockford. It was awarded the 1998 Wakefield Acorn Spring Show Best Acorn enthusiast website and was listed in Acorn User as "the leading Web site for information on current RISC OS games developments".
Its contents were incorporated into The Icon Bar in 2006. It has been selected for inclusion by editors in at least one web directory,
Main features
The original site featured articles, news, games reviews and other media. Since its merge with The Icon Bar, the site shows that news content under its own skin, while retaining its own separate games-related areas.
References
Video game websites
RISC OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Icon%20Bar | The Icon Bar (also referred to as TIB) is a computing and technology website with a focus on the RISC OS computer operating system.
History
The Icon Bar was founded in 2000 by Tim Fountain, Alasdair Bailey and Richard Goodwin. In 2004, co-founder Richard Goodwin was nominated for the Drobe awards for keeping the "popular forum" online. It was further developed by the same people who developed Acorn Arcade, the contents of which were incorporated in 2006. At this time, it broadened its remit to also cover alternative platforms and new technologies, while still keeping abreast of the scene.
When Drobe closed as a news site in 2009, The Icon Bar was cited as a notable alternative and took over running the annual awards scheme for the scene. It has been selected for inclusion by editors in at least one web directory,
Content
The site features articles, news, forums and other media. It also hosts a Media Watch page, where users can share any relevant items they spot in the media.
References
External links
Computing websites
History of computing
RISC OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative%20Television%20Network | Narrative Television Network (NTN) makes movies, television shows and educational programming accessible to millions of blind and visually impaired people and their families. Founded in 1988 by Jim Stovall, the Narrative Television Network unobtrusively adds the voice of a narrator to the existing program between the dialogue so that blind or low vision people can hear what they can't see. The Narrative Television Network has received an Emmy Award, a Media Access Award and an International Film and Video Award for its pioneering work in making movies, television and educational programming accessible for the visually impaired. The Narrative Television Network website offers readers a “Text Only” version of its pages to increase accessibility for blind and visually impaired readers who use screen readers.
History
When Narrative Television Network creator and president Jim Stovall lost his eyesight at age 28, he initially felt that he never wanted to leave the controlled environment of his home. Shortly thereafter, Jim Stovall met Kathy Harper in a support group for blind and visually impaired individuals, and the two discussed the challenges blind and visually impaired TV and movie audience members face because of missed visual components of stories.
Jim and Kathy began to research together and discovered that 13 million people in the United States have visual impairment severe enough to limit their enjoyment of TV shows and movies. This research inspired the two to develop a plan to make programming more accessible for blind and visually impaired people, and started by borrowing equipment to record some narrative soundtracks to begin their work with the goal of adding these soundtracks to existing movie audio.
NTN now has 1,200 broadcast and cable affiliates, and is shown in eleven countries outside of the United States.
Narrators
Narrative Television Network founder and president Jim Stovall works as one of the three primary narrators, adding his voice to educational and informational programming.
Susan Crane and Beth Sharp also work as primary narrators.
Susan Crane joined Narrative Television Network in 2001 to narrate television programming and movies. Beth Sharp joined Narrative Television Network in 2002 to work as a scriptwriter and to perform programming voice work.
Awards
1990: Emmy Award
1991: Media Access Award
1993: Golden Georgi Award
1997: Evan Kemp Entrepreneurship Award from the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
1998: Blue Chip Enterprise Award
2000: International Humanitarian of the Year Award
2001: Toastmaster's International Communication and Leadership Award
2006: Reynolds Society Achievement Award, Massachusetts Eye and Ear
2007: Heartland Film Festival Award for The Ultimate Gift
2007: Dove Honor for The Ultimate Gift
2008: Movie Guide Award for The Ultimate Gift
2009: Leader of the Year from the Department of Rehabilitative Services
2011: Judges' Choice Award, New Media F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars%20in%20Los%20Angeles | Streetcars in Los Angeles over history have included horse-drawn streetcars and cable cars, and later extensive electric streetcar networks of the Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric Railway and their predecessors. Also included are modern light rail lines.
Horse-drawn streetcars (1874–1897)
Horse-drawn streetcars started with the Spring and Sixth Street Railroad in 1874. Single truck, open air cars traversed unpaved streets. Numerous companies built tracks, with some merging to form larger networks. More railroads of the era included the Main Street and Agricultural Park Railway, the Depot Railway, the City Railroad, and the Central Railroad. The last horsecars were converted to electric in 1897.
Cable cars (1885–1902)
Cable car street railways in Los Angeles first began operating up Bunker Hill in 1885, with a total of three companies operating in the period through 1902, when the lines were electrified and electric streetcars were introduced largely following the cable car routes. There were roughly of routes, connecting 1st and Main in what was then the Los Angeles Central Business District as far as the communities known today as Lincoln Heights, Echo Park/Filipinotown, and the Pico-Union district. A large viaduct over the Southern Pacific yard operated from 1889 to 1896, colloquially known as the Cape Horn Viaduct.
Angel's Flight should not be confused as a cable car because it is a funicular railway operating from Broadway up Bunker Hill.
Electric streetcar systems (1887–1963)
The use of cable traction in Los Angeles was short lived. The Los Angeles Electric Railway began operations in 1887. Electrically-powered streetcar systems were numerous, but were largely consolidated into two large networks.
In 1901, Henry Huntington bought various electric streetcar companies operating mostly within the City of Los Angeles (and not in the San Fernando Valley, Harbor area or Westside) and combined them into the Los Angeles Railway with its "yellow cars". This system operated with narrow gauge tracks and primarily provided local service along its lines. This was the most popular rail operator in Los Angeles based on passenger numbers.
In 1902, Huntington and banker Isaias W. Hellman established the Pacific Electric Railway, which would acquire other railways, providing interurban service to new suburban developments and surrounding towns in what is now Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino County and Riverside Counties). The company operated distinctive "red cars".
The explosion of the highway construction and car ownership before and after World War II reduced the demand for passenger rail services, and many lines were controversially converted to bus service by 1955. After being transferred to municipal ownership under the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, all former Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway services had ended by 1963. Elements of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit are loosely based on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling%20Name%20Presentation | Caller Name Presentation (CNAP) or Caller Name Delivery (CNAM) is used in US-based telephone networks to provide name identification of the calling party. The CNAM information is most often displayed in Caller ID. The information could be the person's name or a company name. The caller's name can also be blocked and display “restricted”, or if technical failures occur “not available”.
In Canada, the caller name information can be applied either by the client's own equipment (PBX), or by the originating carrier. The altering of caller ID information is allowed, provided it does not violate regulations in place regarding spoofing or fraud.
In the US, the caller's name, or CNAM information, is not sent during a call. Rather, the terminating carrier is responsible for providing the Caller ID information to its customer. The terminating carrier performs a database lookup using the caller's phone number to obtain the name information to display with Caller ID. If the data is with another carrier, then the terminating carrier must perform a lookup and pay a small "dip fee" to the carrier hosting the information. Wholesale rates for the fee are on the order of $0.002 to $0.006 per database dip ($200 to $600 per 100,000 calls).
Incorrect Caller ID information can be displayed under a variety of circumstances. The customer's carrier may not perform the database lookup and may supply old information. Or, the customer's carrier may perform the database lookup but get incorrect information from the database owner. In this case, the database owner has stale information (and not the terminating carrier). Or, the Caller ID information may be spoofed.
Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILEC) usually provide the most correct information. ILECs have a huge database of their own CNAM data, and ILECs are willing to pay the CNAM database dip fee to another ILEC or a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) to obtain the CNAM data.
See also
Caller ID
Line Information Database
Local number portability
Location Routing Number
Dip Fee Fraud
Signalling System No. 7
References
External links
the 3GPP, the standardisation body for GSM and UMTS
GSM standard
Telecommunications infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20management%20plan | A data management plan or DMP is a formal document that outlines how data are to be handled both during a research project, and after the project is completed. The goal of a data management plan is to consider the many aspects of data management, metadata generation, data preservation, and analysis before the project begins; this may lead to data being well-managed in the present, and prepared for preservation in the future.
DMPs were originally used in 1966 to manage aeronautical and engineering projects' data collection and analysis, and expanded across engineering and scientific disciplines in the 1970s and 1980s. Up until the early 2000s, DMPs were used "for projects of great technical complexity, and for limited mid-study data collection and processing purposes". In the 2000s and later, E-research and economic policies drove the development and uptake of DMPs.
Importance
Preparing a data management plan before data are collected is claimed to ensure that data are in the correct format, organized well, and better annotated. This could arguably save time in the long term because there is no need to re-organize, re-format, or try to remember details about data. It is also claimed to increase research efficiency since both the data collector and other researchers might be able to understand and use well-annotated data in the future. One component of a data management plan is data archiving and preservation. By deciding on an archive ahead of time, the data collector can format data during collection to make its future submission to a database easier. If data are preserved, they are more relevant since they can be re-used by other researchers. It also allows the data collector to direct requests for data to the database, rather than address requests individually. A frequent argument in favor of preservation is that data that are preserved have the potential to lead to new, unanticipated discoveries, and they prevent duplication of scientific studies that have already been conducted. Data archiving also provides insurance against loss by the data collector.
In the 2010s, funding agencies increasingly required data management plans as part of the proposal and evaluation process, despite little or no evidence of their efficacy.
Major components
"There is no general and definitive list of topics that should be covered in a DMP for a research project", and researchers are often left to their own devices as to how to fill out a DMP.
Information about data & data format
A description of data to be produced by the project. This might include (but is not limited to) data that are:
Experimental
Observational
Raw or derived
Physical collections
Models
Simulations
Curriculum materials
Software
Images
How will the data be acquired? When and where will they be acquired?
After collection, how will the data be processed? Include information about
Software used
Algorithms
Scientific workflows
File formats that will be used, justify tho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%20JTC%201/SC%2027 | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 develops International Standards, Technical Reports, and Technical Specifications within the field of information security. Standardization activity by this subcommittee includes general methods, management system requirements, techniques and guidelines to address information security, cybersecurity and privacy. Drafts of International Standards by ISO/IEC JTC 1 or any of its subcommittees are sent out to participating national standardization bodies for ballot, comments and contributions. Publication as an ISO/IEC International Standard requires approval by a minimum of 75% of the national bodies casting a vote. The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 is the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) located in Germany.
History
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 was founded by ISO/IEC JTC 1 in 1990. The subcommittee was formed when ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 20, which covered standardization within the field of security techniques, covering "secret-key techniques" (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 20/WG 1), "public-key techniques" (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 20/WG 2), and "data encryption protocols" (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 20/WG 3) was disbanded. This allowed for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 to take over the work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 20 (specifically that of its first two working groups) as well as to extend its scope to other areas within the field of IT security techniques. Since 1990, the subcommittee has extended or altered its scope and working groups to meet the current standardization demands. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, which started with three working groups, eventually expanded its structure to contain five. The two new working groups were added in April 2006, at the 17th Plenary Meeting in Madrid, Spain.
Scope
The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 is "The development of standards for the protection of information and ICT. This includes generic methods, techniques and guidelines to address both security and privacy aspects, such as:
Security requirements capture methodology;
Management of information and ICT security; in particular information security management systems, security processes, security controls and services;
Cryptographic and other security mechanisms, including but not limited to mechanisms for protecting the accountability, availability, integrity and confidentiality of information;
Security management support documentation including terminology, guidelines as well as procedures for the registration of security components;
Security aspects of identity management, biometrics and privacy;
Conformance assessment, accreditation and auditing requirements in the area of information security management systems;
Security evaluation criteria and methodology.
SC 27 engages in active liaison a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%27s%20Angels%20%28disambiguation%29 | Charlie's Angels is an American live-action television series which ran from 1976 through 1981 on the ABC television network, which revolved around three chosen women who worked for a private investigation agency founded by one man named Charlie.
Charlie's Angels may also refer to:
Charlie's Angels (franchise), a series of films and television shows
Charlie's Angels (2000 film), a modern 2000 film spin-off to the original 1976–1981 television series
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, a 2003 sequel to the 2000 film spin-off
Charlie's Angels (2019 film), a spin-off of the television series and previous films
Charlie's Angels (video game), a 2003 video game developed based upon the 2000 and 2003 film spin-offs.
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels, a 2004 television docudrama
Charlie's Angels (2011 TV series), a 2011 remake of the original 1976–1981 television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUNY%20Academic%20Commons | The CUNY Academic Commons is an online, academic social network for community members of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Designed to foster conversation, collaboration, and connections among the 24 individual colleges that make up the university system, the site, founded in 2009, has quickly grown as a hub for the CUNY community, serving in the process to strengthen a growing group of digital scholars, teachers, and open-source projects at the university.
As stated in the site's Terms of Service, members "seek to use the Academic Commons as a means of fulfilling our highest aspirations for integrating technology into our teaching, learning, and collaborating."
Information silos vs. shareable knowledge
In their case study of the CUNY Academic Commons, published in On the Horizon, Gold & Otte (2011) note that, prior to the CUNY Academic Commons, little "cross-campus communication" between like-minded faculty and graduate students existed. CUNY was a "loose federation" of campuses, largely represented by static websites. The need for a university-wide means of sharing knowledge was perceived by CUNY Committee on Academic Technology, and discussions began in early 2008 to find a solution.
Nantel (2010), Kaya (2010), and others have similarly observed how information can easily get stuck in institutional "silos". Social networks, like the CUNY Academic Commons, can "help open communications between departments" and improve knowledge transfer (Nantel). While countering the "prospect of missed connections" was a principal reason why the CUNY Academic Commons was formed, serendipitous discovery became a technological goal. Developers of the site (primarily faculty and graduate students) experimented with social media tools to see how best to connect scholars, while not being too intrusive in their daily lives.
Background
Work began in 2008 to create a repository of "learning objects" which could be easily shared and archived, and which were designed to constantly evolve. The Committee on Academic Technology reached out to the various campuses for ideas, and feedback indicated that the site should be "open and organic" and flexible enough to respond to the diverse needs of the faculty. The first beta version of the site was created in February, 2009, and after much tinkering, CUNY Academic Commons was officially launched in December of the same year. The site has seen "rapid adoption". Membership as of May 2011 was nearly 2000, while the number of blogs on the site was close to 400. By 2017, even after deleting inactive users, membership was estimated at 7900. In 2017, undergraduates were allowed to join and by 2022, membership skyrocketed to over 40,000.
From the very beginning, the site was a "space of open experimentation, open communication, and open sharing." A participatory network encourages "peer-to-peer learning among faculty members" and is "a generative platform" which makes "the professoriate of the largest urban publi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GridRPC | GridRPC in distributed computing, is Remote Procedure Call over a grid. This paradigm has been proposed by the GridRPC working group of the Open Grid Forum (OGF), and an API has been defined in order for clients to access remote servers as simply as a function call. It is used among numerous Grid middleware for its simplicity of implementation, and has been standardized by the OGF in 2007.
For interoperability reasons between the different existing middleware, the API has been followed by a document describing good use and behavior of the different GridRPC API implementations. Works have then been conducted on the GridRPC Data Management, which has been standardized in 2011.
Scope
The scope of this standard is to offer recommendations for the implementation of middleware. It deals with the following topics:
Definition of a specific data structure for arguments in GridRPC middleware.
Definition of the data type to be used in conjunction with the arguments' data structure.
Definition of the creation, destruction, lifetime and copy semantics for the arguments' data structure.
Definition of possible introspection capabilities for call arguments and attributes of remote functions (e.g. data types, counts).
Definition of mechanisms for handling persistent data, e.g., definition and use of a concept such as "data handles" (which might be the same as or similar to a grpc_data_t data type). This may also involve concepts such as lazy copy semantics, and data leases or time-outs.
Definition of API mechanisms to enable workflow management.
Evaluate the compatibility and interoperability with other systems, e.g., Web Services Resource Framework.
Desirable Properties—the Proposed Recommendation will not necessarily specify any properties, such as thread safety, security, and fault tolerance, but it should not be incompatible with any such useful properties.
Demonstrate implementability of all parts of the API.
Demonstrate and evaluate at least two implementations of the complete GridRPC middleware recommendation.
Context
Among existing middleware and application programming approaches, one simple, powerful, and
flexible approach consists in using servers available in different administrative domains through the classical
client-server or Remote Procedure Call (RPC) paradigm. Network Enabled Servers (NES) implement this model,
which is also called GridRPC. Clients submit computation requests to a resource broker whose goal is to find a
server available on the Grid. Scheduling is frequently applied to balance the work among the servers and a list of
available servers is sent back to the client; the client is then able to send the data and the request to one of the
suggested servers to solve its problem. Thanks to the growth of network bandwidth and the reduction of network latency,
small computation requests can now be sent to servers available on the Grid. To make effective use of today's scalable
resource platforms, it is important to ensu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20Four%20Russians | In computer science, the Method of Four Russians is a technique for speeding up algorithms involving Boolean matrices, or more generally algorithms involving matrices in which each cell may take on only a bounded number of possible values.
Idea
The main idea of the method is to partition the matrix into small square blocks of size for some parameter , and to use a lookup table to perform the algorithm quickly within each block. The index into the lookup table encodes the values of the matrix cells on the upper left of the block boundary prior to some operation of the algorithm, and the result of the lookup table encodes the values of the boundary cells on the lower right of the block after the operation. Thus, the overall algorithm may be performed by operating on only blocks instead of on matrix cells, where is the side length of the matrix. In order to keep the size of the lookup tables (and the time needed to initialize them) sufficiently small, is typically chosen to be .
Applications
Algorithms to which the Method of Four Russians may be applied include:
computing the transitive closure of a graph,
Boolean matrix multiplication,
edit distance calculation,
sequence alignment,
index calculation for binary jumbled pattern matching.
In each of these cases it speeds up the algorithm by one or two logarithmic factors.
The Method of Four Russians matrix inversion algorithm published by Bard is implemented in M4RI library for fast arithmetic with dense matrices over F2. M4RI is used by SageMath and the PolyBoRi library.
History
The algorithm was introduced by V. L. Arlazarov, E. A. Dinic, M. A. Kronrod, and I. A. Faradžev in 1970. The origin of the name is unknown; explain:
The second method, often called the "Four Russians'" algorithm, after the cardinality and nationality of its inventors, is somewhat more "practical" than the algorithm in Theorem 6.9.
All four authors worked in Moscow, Russia at the time.
Notes
References
. Original title: "Об экономном построении транзитивного замыкания ориентированного графа", published in Доклады Академии Наук СССР 134 (3), 1970.
Numerical linear algebra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch%20art | Glitch art is the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices. Glitches appear in visual art such as the film A Colour Box (1935) by Len Lye, the video sculpture TV Magnet (1965) by Nam June Paik and more contemporary work such as Panasonic TH-42PWD8UK Plasma Screen Burn (2007) by Cory Arcangel.
History of the term
As a technical word, a glitch is the unexpected result of a malfunction, especially occurring in software, video games, images, videos, audio, and other digital artefacts. Early examples of glitches used in media art include Digital TV Dinner (1978) created by Jamie Fenton and Raul Zaritsky, with glitch audio done by Dick Ainsworth. This video was made by manipulating the Bally video game console and recording the results on videotape.
The term glitch came to be associated with music in the mid 90s to describe a genre of experimental/noise/electronica (see glitch music). Shortly after, as VJs and other visual artist began to embrace the glitch as an aesthetic of the digital age, glitch art came to refer to a whole assembly of visual arts. One such early movement was later dubbed "net.art", including early work by the art collective JODI, which was started by artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans. JODI's experiments on glitch art included purposely causing layout errors in their website in order to display underlying code and error messages. The explorations of JODI and other net.art members would later influence visual distortion practices like databending and datamoshing (see below).
Glitch art events
2002
Motherboard, a tech-art collective, held the first glitch art symposium in Oslo, Norway during January, to "bring together international artists, academics and other Glitch practitioners for a short space of time to share their work and ideas with the public and with each other."
2010
On September 29 thru October 3, Chicago played host to the first GLI.TC/H, a five-day conference in Chicago organized by Nick Briz, Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman and Jon Satrom that included workshops, lectures, performances, installations and screenings. In November 2011, the second GLI.TC/H event traveled from Chicago to Amsterdam and lastly to Birmingham, UK. It included workshops, screenings, lectures, performance, panel discussions and a gallery show over the course of seven days at the three cities.
2013
Run Computer, Run at GLITCH 2013 arts festival at RuaRed, South Dublin Arts Centre - Dublin, curated by Nora O Murchú.
2015
/'fu:bar/ 2015
Glitch Art is Dead at Teatr Barakah in Krakow, Poland. Curated by Ras Alhague and Aleksandra Pienkosz.
reFrag: glitch at La Gaïté Lyrique in Paris, France. Organized by the School Art Institute of Chicago and Parsons Paris.
2016
/'fu:bar/ 2016
2017
/'fu:bar/ 2017
Glitch Art is Dead 2 at Gamut Gallery, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Curated by Miles Taylor, Ras Alhague and Aleksandra Pienkos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Connecticut%20Health%20Network | Western Connecticut Health Network was a non-profit group of three Western Connecticut hospitals formed in 2010 by Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital and Norwalk Hospital. In 2019, WCHN merged with Health Quest, a chain of hospitals mostly in the Hudson Valley, to become Nuvance Health. In addition to the three hospitals, Western Connecticut Health Network included:
an integrated physician practice
an agency for home care and community health services
a full-service retail pharmacy located at Danbury Hospital
emergency medical services
an occupational medicine program, providing services for business and industry
Patient Care
Danbury Hospital (est. 1885) and New Milford Hospital (est. 1921) are accredited by the Joint Commission under separate licenses, maintaining a collective 456 licensed beds and 90,000 emergency visits annually, with 24-hour access to accredited Chest Pain, Primary Stroke and Trauma centers.
Surgical Services include robotic surgery and advanced and minimally invasive techniques in a variety of surgical disciplines, including cardiothoracic, colorectal, gynecologic and breast, neurosurgery, orthopedic joint replacement, plastic/reconstructive, podiatric, spine, urologic, vascular and bariatrics (weight loss surgery).
Danbury Hospital's Praxair Cancer Center and New Milford Hospital's Regional Cancer Center are approved by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.
Additionally, Danbury Hospital operates a level IIIb Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for newborns, with both hospitals welcoming a collective 2,600 babies every year in two family birthing centers.
Academics
Western Connecticut Health Network operates comprehensive post-graduate medical education programs in anesthesiology, cardiovascular (fellowship), dentistry, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pathology, psychiatry and surgery, as well as allied health schools and training in medical records, medical technology, radiologic technology, surgical technology and dietetics.
Research
The Danbury Hospital Research Institute opened in 2010 to study a variety of illness and conditions, and to develop targeted therapies for a new era of personalized medicine. The institute is currently working to better understand the genetic basis of disease with the particular focus on women's reproductive cancers. Both hospitals also maintain active clinical research programs, offering clinical trials for patients with cancer and other health concerns.
Controversy
In 2013, Western Connecticut Health Network announced plans to lay off 116 workers in response to state budget cuts. The Danbury Nurses Union voted 96% to reject a proposal to eliminate evening and weekend shift differentials in order to save the jobs of twenty-five nurses, arguing that the hospitals should cut executive pay and use the $35m annual profit to cover the budget shortfall.
Notes
References
http://www.newstimes.com/default/photo/Dr-Edward-James-chief-of-the-neo-natal-993996.ph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riken%20integrated%20database%20of%20mammals | The Riken integrated database of mammals is an integrated database of multiple large-scale programs that have been promoted by the Riken institute.
See also
Riken
References
External links
http://metadb.riken.jp/metadb/download/SciNetS_ria254i
Biological databases
Mammalogy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Gallivan | Brian Gallivan is an American actor, writer and comedian. He gained significant attention for his Second City Network web series Sassy Gay Friend, based on a character he created in 2004 Second City mainstage revue Red Scare. The series shows events that may have transpired if famous women (and a few men) in literature, film and history had been advised by the titular character.
Career
Gallivan got his start improvising in his hometown of Boston as well as performing at the Bambi Masterpiece Theater, before moving to Chicago in 2003, where he performed at The Second City between 2003 and 2007, appearing in four mainstage revues, including the long-running Between Barack and a Hard Place. He was twice nominated for Joseph Jefferson Awards for his work while there.
Gallivan appeared in the Matt Damon film The Informant! and in the Derek Westerman web series Bad Dads alongside Michael Cera. Gallivan appeared in the feature film A Thousand Words.
Gallivan was a writer on the NBC sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? and the ABC comedy series Happy Endings.
For the 2014–15 television season, Gallivan created and produced the CBS television sitcom The McCarthys, which was cancelled in early 2015.
Filmography
Personal life
Gallivan is gay. He is from Dedham, Massachusetts.
References
External links
Living people
American sketch comedians
American male television actors
American television writers
American male television writers
American gay actors
Gay comedians
Television producers from Massachusetts
American male web series actors
21st-century American male actors
LGBT producers
Upright Citizens Brigade Theater performers
American gay writers
LGBT people from Massachusetts
21st-century American comedians
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Dedham, Massachusetts
21st-century American screenwriters
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American LGBT people
American LGBT comedians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/Output%20Supervisor | The Input/Output Supervisor (IOS) is that portion of the control program in the IBM mainframe OS/360 and successors operating systems which issues the privileged I/O instructions and supervises the resulting I/O interruptions for any program which requests I/O device operations until the normal or abnormal conclusion of those operations.
Purposes
IOS has two purposes:
To handle I/O requests, which are requests for the execution of channel programs
To handle I/O interruptions, which result from the execution of channel programs and from operator intervention
Program sections
To facilitate the handling of the I/O requests and interruptions, IOS is divided into two primary program sections (CSECTs):
Execute channel program supervisor (EXCP in PCP, MFT/MFT-II and MVT; EXCP/EXCPVR, in SVS; STARTIO in MVS/370 and later instances of the OS)
Input/output interruption supervisor
These primary sections are resident in main storage and provide control program support for the normal execution of channel programs.
The secondary program sections (also CSECTs), termed Error Recovery Procedures (ERPs), are, with but one exception, located on external storage, and are brought into main storage for recovery from the abnormal execution of channel programs. In the early instances of the OS, these sections were brought into the Input/Output Supervisor's "transient area", not unlike the OS/360 Control Program's Supervisor Call "transient areas". In post-MVT instances of the OS, these sections are located in the pageable linkpack area (PLPA) and are demand-paged.
The sole exception is, of course, the ERP for direct access storage devices, which must always remain resident in order to recover from possible I/O errors on the IPL volume and on other volumes which contain datasets which may be concatenated with certain system datasets.
Multiprogramming
IOS is designed around a multi-programming concept whereby operations on different I/O channels, control units and devices may be managed concurrently and apparently simultaneously. This concurrency and apparent simultaneity is present even in the most basic version of the OS, PCP, which otherwise supports only one user task, as the underlying hardware architecture has but one set of I/O instructions and but one I/O interruption, for accessing the devices and for accessing the resulting device status, respectively, available to support all attached I/O devices, hence all I/O device operations must be synchronously multiplexed in to the half-dozen privileged I/O instructions and asynchronously de-multiplexed out from the single I/O interruption by IOS yet this entire process, from start to finish, is made to appear to be synchronous to the application. Essentially, IOS is a hypervising operating system built on top of the OS itself, and entirely within it, not as a separable function. A very specialized hypervisor, to be sure, as the hypervisation is restricted to the several I/O instructions and the one I/O inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20Network%20Simulator-3 | Graphical Network Simulator-3 (shortened to GNS3) is a network software emulator first released in 2008. It allows the combination of virtual and real devices, used to simulate complex networks. It uses Dynamips emulation software to simulate Cisco IOS.
GNS3 is used by many large companies including Exxon, Walmart, AT&T and NASA, and is also popular for preparation of network professional certification exams. As of 2015, the software has been downloaded 11 million times.
References
External links
Free emulation software
Computer network analysis
Simulation software
Software using the GPL license
2008 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20maintenance%20training | Virtual Maintenance Training is a type of training method that includes computer-based interactive 3D simulations of virtual equipment that replicates the actual real-life vehicle or device. It safely teaches vehicle and device crewmembers the procedures to properly service, repair, and maintain equipment. It is the learning method commonly used by training schools and centers of the United States Armed Forces for the maintenance of its defense vehicles. Its integration into current training courses has continued to increase in popularity.
History
Virtual maintenance training resulted from a need to practice maintenance and repair procedures to hazardous or unavailable equipment within a safe, but realistic environment.
The earliest mention of a repair and maintenance mission, with a virtual aspect, was conducted by the NASA in December 1993. This mission used virtual environment technology to construct a model of the Hubble Space Telescope and its components that were replaced or serviced.
One of the earliest virtual maintenance trainers resulted from the work completed by American Systems Corporation and The DiSTI Corporation. DiSTI developed the first full 3-D virtual interface maintenance trainer for the U.S. Navy F/A-18C Hornet Fighter Jet, which was delivered in 2006. It was the first trainer that did not use actual hardware to train students. Titled the Simulated Aircraft Maintenance Trainer (SAMT), it contains a physical cockpit simulator and a virtual F/A-18 (including a virtual cockpit) displayed either on two 61-inch touch screens or a PC. With high fidelity 3D interactive graphics, the SAMT trainer feels like a video game and engages the student in “natural navigation” by moving in virtual space. The SAMT trainer significantly improved student throughput and was found to typically reduce overall training cost by 30 to 60 percent.
Operational Benefits
As with most training simulators, the implementation of virtual maintenance training into a training program provide benefits such as:
Reduces Cost: associated cost with hands-on training that use the real world vehicle or device, including lower life cycle costs
Ensures Safety: the student is safe from injury and the craft is safe from potential damage that may occur during physical hands-on training
Increases Student Throughput: engages the student in new interactive learning methods by mixing a game-like atmosphere
Easily Accessible: the student can always have access to the courseware
Adaptability: can train students through a wider variety of scenarios that can be easily reset
Aids Instructor Functionality: instructors can easily monitor students
Team Training Capabilities: allows students on individual computers or systems to interact with each other and simultaneously undertake a maintenance training task
Prevalence and Industries
The implementation of virtual maintenance trainers has slowly gained prevalence with the commercial airline industry, military training, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedytime%20Saturday | Comedytime Saturday is the official branding for a one-hour programming block which has aired off and on since 2011-12 television season on CBS between 8 and 9 p.m. ET/PT on Saturday nights. The branding is only listed by industry sources as a placeholder for the time slot, rather than an official on-air branding. The placeholder timeslot was also the lead-in to CBS' Crimetime Saturday lineup, which was reduced by an hour to accommodate the change. Originally conceived as a vehicle for at least one first-run sitcom (thus reviving the practice of programming entertainment programs on Saturday nights for the first time in several years), the block instead became an hour for airing two in-season or previous season reruns of CBS sitcoms from the network's Monday and Thursday night lineups.
The first half-hour of the block was originally to comprise first-run episodes of Rules of Engagement, which would have moved from the Thursday time slot it held at the end of the 2010-11 television season, mainly to allow that program to build up enough episodes for syndication (by doing so, Engagement was to have become the first scripted first-run series to air on a broadcast network on Saturday night, excluding already-canceled series, since 2005). However, Engagement's Saturday run was held back as the premiere of the new sitcom How to Be a Gentleman, which took the place of Engagement in its Thursday timeslot, struggled, and after two weeks, the network announced that Engagement would premiere and remain in that Thursday timeslot on October 20, 2011, with new episodes of Gentlemen moving to the second half-hour of the Saturday block, effectively being burned off on Saturday nights without CBS actually classifying it as a canceled program (the network traditionally does not announce any official program cancellations until the May upfronts, in contrast to other American networks). After one airing in the Comedytime Saturday block where a new episode of Gentlemen dropped half the audience of the Two and a Half Men rerun leading into it, How to Be a Gentleman was canceled with six completed episodes left unaired. Those episodes eventually aired in the same timeslot in double-run form at the end of May 2012 in a further out-of-season burn-off maneuver.
With no original programming, Comedytime Saturday consisted solely of reruns of CBS's Monday and Thursday night sitcoms (How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly, The Big Bang Theory, or Rules of Engagement). The time slot was also used for special programming in holiday periods along with a Republican presidential debate which aired in mid-November.
The block was not used during 2012-2013 television season, as the network restored the first hour of Crimetime Saturday to the schedule during its upfront presentation on May 16, 2012. During part of the season, the first hour of Saturday prime time programming was used to burn off remaining episodes of the cancelled Made in Jersey. CBS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay%20Park | Quay Park is a junction on the Auckland railway network in New Zealand. It normally links Britomart with Newmarket station for Western Line, Southern Line, and Onehunga Line services, which use a common set of tracks (the Newmarket Line) between Britomart and Newmarket. The Strand station has been closed to suburban train services since the opening of Britomart in 2003 and is now used as the terminus for the Auckland–Wellington Northern Explorer service via the North Island Main Trunk line and for chartered excursions. The junction can be switched in order to use The Strand as a backup for Britomart if required.
The Wiri to Quay Park project announced in 2017 is expected to ease congestion on Auckland rail lines, improve rail freight access from the Port of Auckland to the Westfield yards and allow more frequent passenger and freight services. It is associated with the future third mainline. Funding for the project was announced in 2020. The project is to start in 2020 and be completed in 2024. The work at Quay Park will include adding two scissor crossings and separating freight from commuter tracks.
See also
List of Auckland railway stations
References
Public transport in Auckland
Rail transport in Auckland
Rail infrastructure in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Robotics | Student Robotics is a registered charity that runs an annual robotics competition for teams of 16 to 19 year-olds. The charity aims to foster a world where engineering and artificial intelligence is accessible to young people with a stated mission "to bring the excitement of engineering and the challenge of coding to young people through robotics". The competition is free to enter and teams are provided with all of the core electronics that they need to build a robot. To encourage creative and ingenious solutions to problems, constraints on design (other than overall size) are kept to a minimum, and the students can build and fashion their robots with any materials they choose; this results in a wide range of quirky, original robots. The robots must operate autonomously; once they are switched on to compete no interference from the team is allowed.
The organisation was founded at the University of Southampton in 2006 by Robert Gilton and Stephen English. Students at the University of Bristol and Grenoble INP joined the project in 2010. In 2016 the organisation became a registered charity.
Student Robotics competition
The competition is designed, organised and managed by a team of volunteers ("Blueshirts"). Most volunteers have previously competed in an annual competition and many have gone on to study robotics, computer science or engineering at university. The competition takes place over a weekend in April/May. There are a series of league matches, spread over two half days, where each team competes against 3 other robots, to score points. On the afternoon of the second day, the points from the league table determine the rounds for the knockout stage, which eventually determines the winners of the competition.
Teams are introduced to the competition, and provided with their kit, at a "KickStart" event at the beginning of the academic year in October. Kickstart involves briefings on the competition challenge, and its rules, by Student Robotics volunteers. There is also a mini-game to introduce the teams to the kit. During the competition cycle, "Tech Days" held at various locations where teams are encouraged to work on their robot under the supervision of Student Robotics' Volunteers.
Historically the competition has been hosted on the Highfield Campus of the University of Southampton, however the 2014 and 2015 competitions were held at Newbury Racecourse Grandstand. Kickstart is also held on the Highfield Campus of the University of Southampton, but for the 2014 competition there were Kickstarts at the University of Bristol and Gresham's School, and for the 2015 competition there were Kickstarts at the University of Bristol, Facebook's office in London, and Technische Universität München. In 2017, two Kickstart events were held, at the University of Southampton and at the offices of Thread in London.
The competition rules mandate that the robots are autonomous, rather than remote controlled. The competitors may program their robot in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Result%20type | In functional programming, a result type is a Monadic type holding a returned value or an error code. They provide an elegant way of handling errors, without resorting to exception handling; when a function that may fail returns a result type, the programmer is forced to consider success or failure paths, before getting access to the expected result; this eliminates the possibility of an erroneous programmer assumption.
Examples
In Elm, it is defined by the standard library as .
In Haskell, by convention the type is used for this purpose, which is defined by the standard library as .
In Kotlin, it is defined by the standard library as .
In OCaml, it is defined by the standard library as .
In Rust, it is defined by the standard library as .
In Scala, the standard library also defines an type, however Scala also has more conventional exception handling.
In Swift, it is defined by the standard library as .
In C++, it is defined by the standard library as .
Rust
The result object has the methods is_ok() and is_err().
const CAT_FOUND: bool = true;
fn main() {
let result = pet_cat();
if result.is_ok() {
println!("Great, we could pet the cat!");
} else {
println!("Oh no, we couldn't pet the cat!");
}
}
fn pet_cat() -> Result<(), String> {
if CAT_FOUND {
Ok(())
} else {
Err(String::from("the cat is nowhere to be found"))
}
}
See also
Option type
Exception handling
Tagged union
Return type
References
Functional programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Phone%20version%20history | This page provides details for the version history of the Microsoft's Windows Phone branded mobile operating systems, from the release of Windows Phone 7 in October 2010, which was preceded by Windows Mobile version 6.x.
Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 was the first release of the Windows Phone mobile client operating system, released worldwide on October 21, 2010, and in the United States on November 8, 2010.
Table of versions
Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)
At the 2011 Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer announced a major update to Windows Phone 7 due toward the end of the year, Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed Mango. The new OS would address many of the platform's shortcomings, including a mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 that supports the same web standards and graphical capability as the desktop version, multi-tasking of third-party apps, Twitter integration for the People Hub, and Windows Live SkyDrive access. Although the OS internally identifies itself as version 7.1, it is marketed as version 7.5 in all published materials intended for end-users.
Microsoft started rolling out Windows Phone 7.5 to both the United States and International markets on September 27, 2011. The first phones that came pre-loaded with Windows Phone 7.5 were released in the last quarter of 2011.
A minor update released in 2012 known as Tango, along with other bug fixes, would also lower the hardware requirements to allow for devices with 800 MHz CPUs and 256 MB of RAM to run Windows Phone. Certain resource-intensive features are also disabled on these phones, and the Windows Phone Store will also prevent the installation of apps that are considered to be too intensive for use on weaker hardware. The lower requirements were adopted in order to allow the development of lower-cost devices, particularly to target emerging markets such as China.
Table of versions
Windows Phone 7.8
Windows Phone 7.8 is the final major release of Windows Phone 7. It consists exclusively of user interface improvements backported from Windows Phone 8, as existing Windows Phone 7 devices can not be upgraded to due to changes to its architecture and hardware requirements. These include a home screen with the ability to resize live tiles, new accent color options, and an updated lock screen with support for Bing wallpapers. Unlike Windows Phone 8, the lock screen does not allow third-party apps to display notifications on it.
Table of versions
Windows Phone 8
GDR1
General Distribution Release 1, a minor update known as Portico was rolled out in December 2012 that brought some improvements and bugfixes, including enhancements in Messaging, more efficient Bluetooth connectivity, and an "always-on" setting for WiFi connections, among other additional platform updates
GDR2
Microsoft rolled out a package of minor updates called General Distribution Release 2, beginning in July 2013 and spanning the following months, depending on the manufacturer and carrier. Along with this update Nok |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokiwa%20shrine | is a Shinto shrine adjacent to the gardens of Kairakuen in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. Founded in 1874, enshrined are Tokugawa Mitsukuni, second daimyō of the Mito Domain and compiler of Dai Nihonshi, and Tokugawa Nariaki, ninth lord and founder of the nearby Kōdōkan han school. In 1882 the shrine joined the ranks of the or Imperial Shrines. The Tokiwa Jinja Reisai or annual festival is held on 12 May. A cannon and a drum have been designated as Cultural Properties by the city.
See also
Mito Domain
Tokugawa clan
Kōdōkan
Tōshō-gū
Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines
References
External links
Tokiwa Jinja – English summary
Beppyo shrines
Shinto shrines in Ibaraki Prefecture
Mito Domain
Mito, Ibaraki
Bekkaku Kanpeisha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Arlazarov | Vladimir L’vovich Arlazarov () is a Russian computer scientist born in Moscow.
Research work
In 1965 at Alexander Kronrod's laboratory at the Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Vladimir Arlazarov co-developed the ITEP Chess Program, together with Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Anatoly Uskov and Alexander Zhivotovsky, advised by Russian chess master Alexander Bitman and three-time world champion Mikhail Botvinnik.
At the end of 1966 a four game match began between the Kotok-McCarthy-Program, running on an IBM 7090 computer, and the ITEP Chess Program on a Soviet M-20 computer. The match played over nine months was won 3-1 by the ITEP program, despite playing on slower hardware.
By 1971, Mikhail Donskoy joined with Arlazarov and Uskov to program its successor on an ICL System 4/70 at the Institute of Control Sciences, called Kaissa, which became the first World Computer Chess Champion in 1974 in Stockholm.
Arlazarov is one of the inventors of the Method of Four Russians.
Selected publications
Reprinted in Computer Chess Compendium
See also
David Levy
References
External links
Vladimir Arlazarov's ICGA Tournaments
Vladimir Arlazarov at Cognitive Technologies
The Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2 from the Russian Virtual Computer Museum
Early Reference on Bit-Boards by Tony Warnock, rec.games.chess archive, October 29, 1994
Russian computer scientists
Living people
Soviet computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Currie%20Little | Joyce Currie Little is a computer scientist, engineer, and educator. She was a professor and chairperson in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University in Towson, Maryland.
Background and education
She received a B.S. in Mathematics Education from the Northeast Louisiana University in 1957, an M.S. in applied mathematics from the San Diego State University in 1963, and a PhD in educational administration for computing services from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1984.
Career and achievements
While in graduate school in San Diego, California, Joyce Currie Little worked in the aerospace industry as a computational test engineer. From 1957 to 1960, she developed programs to analyze data from models being tested in a wind tunnel for Convair Aircraft Corporation in San Diego.
After completing her M.S., Little moved to Maryland and accepted a position at Goucher College teaching statistics and managing a computer center. She also began work on her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1967, she became the chairperson of the Computer and Information Systems Department at the Community College of Baltimore. She moved to Towson University in Towson, Maryland, in 1981, where she was named Chairperson of the Department of Computer & Information Sciences in 1984. She has been an active member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for many years, and received their Distinguished Service Award in 1992.
She received the SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community for her contributions to computing in two-year colleges, certification, and professional development.
Research interests
Dr. Little's research interests include metrics and assurance for quality in software engineering and social impact and cyber-ethics for workforce education. She has also been a strong advocate for the role of women in computing. Her current activities include a project on the evaluation of computer ethics courses in the Computer Science major at Towson University, and a project on the social impact of certification on the industry.
Memberships
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Information Technology Professionals
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
International Society for Technology in Education
Maryland Association for Educational Uses of Computers, Inc.
References
Further reading
Gurer, Denise, "Pioneering Women in Computer Science." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 34, Issue 2. ACM Press, 2002.
Little, Joyce Currie, "The Role of Women in the History of Computing." Proceedings, Women and Technology: Historical, Societal, and Professional Perspectives. IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, New Brunswick, NJ, July 1999, pp. 202–205.
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Towson University faculty
Living people
Computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20an%20Honour | The It's an Honour website is the Australian Government database of honours and awards.
The website is maintained by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
References
External links
website
Orders, decorations, and medals of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20N9 | The Nokia N9 (codename Lankku) is a flagship smartphone developed by Nokia, running on the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system. Announced in June 2011 and released in September, it was the first and only device from Nokia with MeeGo, partly because of the company's partnership with Microsoft announced that year. It was initially released in three colors: black, cyan and magenta, before a white version was announced at Nokia World 2011.
Despite a limited release, the N9 received widespread critical acclaim, with some describing it as Nokia's finest device to date. It was praised for both its software and hardware, including the MeeGo operating system, buttonless 'swipe' user interface, and its high-end features. The case would be reused for the Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 800 which was released later that year.
Background
The successor of Nokia N900, internally known as N9-00, was scheduled to be released in late 2010, approximately one year after N900 launched. Pictures of the prototype leaked in August 2010 showed an industrial design and a 4-row keyboard. A software engineer working for Nokia's device division cited the N9-00 (the product number) in the public bug tracker for Qt, an open source application development framework used in MeeGo. This would later be known as the N950. This design was dropped; then Nokia started working on the N9-01, codenamed Lankku, a new variant without a keyboard.
Nokia planned in 2010 to make MeeGo their flagship smartphone platform, replacing Symbian, whose N8 flagship launched that year. Thus effectively N9 was originally meant to be the flagship device from the company. On 11 February 2011 Nokia partnered with Microsoft to use Windows Phone 7 as the flagship operating system to replace Symbian, with MeeGo also sidelined. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop promised to still ship one MeeGo device that year, which would end up as the N9.
Nokia N9 was announced on 21 June 2011 at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore. At the time, the phone was presumed to become available to the public in September 2011. Users can get notified via e-mail of the availability of N9 in their country at the webpage of the Nokia Online Store. Since Nokia closed its Nokia Online Shop in many countries, including Poland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States on 30 June 2011, availability in those countries will be in the hands of retailers and operators.
Elop restated that the company will not be continuing development of MeeGo even if the N9 would be a success, focusing solely on the future Lumia series, something that MeeGo supporters already felt before the N9 announcement due to the Microsoft deal. They responded by creating a petition "We want Nokia to keep MeeGo". That was even more severe as MeeGo Linux was also a form of continuation of Maemo Linux, which was established with combining Nokia's Maemo with Intel's Moblin, in frames of Nokia and Intel alliance created for purpos |
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