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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20a%20Small%20World%20%28TV%20series%29 | It's a Small World is a short-lived TV travel series which aired on the DuMont Television Network from June 27 to July 27, 1953.
Episode status
One episode is in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
It's a Small World (TV series) at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1953 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markem-Imaje | Markem-Imaje is a global manufacturer and distributor of specialized traceability, variable data and product identification equipment, for customers in the
packaging industry. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Markem-Imaje is a wholly owned subsidiary of Illinois-based Dover Corporation.
History
Markem-Imaje was formed in 2007 from the merger of New-Hampshire-based Markem Corporation and the French company Imaje S.A., companies within Dover Corporation's Dover Engineered Systems.
Started in 1911 in Keene, New Hampshire, Markem Corporation established itself as a designer and distributor of hardware, software and services for product identification. The company was named one of New Hampshire's Best Companies to Work For each year between 2003 and 2005. Markem Corporation was acquired by Dover Corporation in 2006.
Founded in 1982 by industrialist Jean-Claude Millet, Imaje S.A. developed continuous inkjet technology, a printing method in which the printer makes no physical contact with the item being marked. Imaje S.A. was acquired by Dover Corporation in 1995. The combined Markem-Imaje claims to be the world's largest provider of product identification solutions.
References
External links
Markem-Imaje
2007 establishments in France
Manufacturing companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckert%20II%20projection | The Eckert II projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical map projection. In the equatorial aspect (where the equator is shown as the horizontal axis) the network of longitude and latitude lines consists solely of straight lines, and the outer boundary has the distinctive shape of an elongated hexagon. It was first described by Max Eckert in 1906 as one of a series of three pairs of pseudocylindrical projections. Within each pair, the meridians have the same shape, and the odd-numbered projection has equally spaced parallels, whereas the even-numbered projection has parallels spaced to preserve area. The pair to Eckert II is the Eckert I projection.
Description
The projection is symmetrical about the straight equator and straight central meridian. Parallels vary in spacing in order to preserve areas. As a pseudocylindric projection, spacing of meridians along any given parallel is constant. The poles are represented as lines, each half as long as the equator. The projection has correct scale only on the central meridian at latitudes 55°10′ north and south.
The projection's x and y coordinates can be computed as
where λ is the longitude, λ0 is the central meridian, φ is the latitude, and R is the radius of the globe to be projected. Here, y assumes the sign of φ.
See also
Max Eckert-Greifendorff
List of map projections
Eckert IV projection
Eckert VI projection
References
External links
Eckert II at Mapthematics
radicalcartography.net
Cartographic Projection Procedures (Pdf) by Gerald I. Evenden
Map projections
Equal-area projections |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetro | Telemetro is a television network headquartered in Panama City, Panama, with repeaters throughout the country. The station broadcasts in NTSC format and in Panama City also in DVB-T format. In 1996 Telemetro and RPC TV merged and formed Corporacion Medcom.
Main programming consists on news, novelas, and local reality shows; it has a direct rivalry with TVN since it has similar programming.
History
In 1981, Nicolas Gonzalez Revilla founded Telemetro as a metropolitan VHF scrambled pay-per-view channel, this format was not successful and was replaced with regular broadcasting, by 1983 reached Colon Province, by 1990 expanded to Central Provinces and finally in 1992, covered Chiriqui and Bocas del Toro to have national coverage. The channel in its first year was a subscription channel focused on movies and other cultural programming and broadcast for 6 hours a day without commercial breaks, but this wasn't profitable and thus it expanded its programming to include telenovelas and news shows and it also expanded its broadcasting hours to 20–24 hours a day and added commercial breaks.
Specific programming
News
Telemetro Reporta Matutino (Morning News): Delia Muñoz, Alvaro Alvarado and Virna Quintero.
Telemetro Reporta Mediodía (Noon News): Vanessa Calviño and Massiel Rodriguez.
Telemetro Reporta Estelar (Evening News): Jenia Nenzen and Jose Escobar.
Other Programming
Tu Mañana (Morning Show)
Calle 7 (Reality Show)
Various Disney TV Series
Various Disney and Other Companies' Movies
La rosa de Guadalupe
Miss Universe
Mall TV
Originally launched in 2005 as a kids programming channel under the brand of Tele 7, In 2011 the channel was relaunched as Mall TV to feature local shopping stores advertisements, real state development, health clinics and infomercials. The channel was previously only available to Cable Onda customers, which was also owned by Medcom. The channel is also available in many provinces by cable on Cable Onda. In 2017 its over-the-air signal was replaced with Oye TV, a variety channel. It closed in 2020.
References
External links
Television stations in Panama
Mass media in Panama City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%20Shadow | Tiger Shadow are an English alternative hip hop band from Leeds, composed of Jim Tycho (synthesizers, bass, guitar, backing vocals, orchestration) and Komla MC (lyrics, lead vocals, drum programming & percussion). They have also performed live with singer Lynsey Cawthra, guitarists Ser Nik and Dave Pearson, as well as drummers and percussionists Sheikh Sticks and Karim Nashar.
Komla was born in Ghana where he spent most of his childhood, and moved to England in his teenage years. Jim Tycho is originally from Southport (near Liverpool). They both met in Leeds in approximately 2001 while jamming with mutual friends and have continued to make music together ever since. The band officially formed in early 2008 and are described as a genre-crossing collective mixing electronica and jazz with hip hop, while also including elements of funk, reggae, trip hop, indie and world music.
Formation
Tiger Shadow were formed in July 2008 after Jim & Komla had entered home recordings of "Terracotta Blues" and "Star Chaser" into a competition for Sandman magazine, which they won and this gave them their first gigs as a band at Reading & Leeds Festivals for BBC Introducing on 22 & 23 August 2008. Tiger Shadow did not exist as a band when the winning email was received, so Jim & Komla looked to musicians who they were working with at the time, and some with whom they had collaborated with for the previous 10 years, to form the first version of the band specifically to play at Reading & Leeds. Karim Nashar was drafted on drums / percussion; Dave Pearson on lead guitar; Kully Manik on guitar / bass and Lynsey Cawthra on vocals. Komla MC performed vox / drums / percussion and Jim Tycho completed this line-up on guitar / bass and programmed synths. Between 18 July and 22 August 2008, the band was formed and material was written / completed for performance at the festivals.
The Rise of the Tiger Shadow
After the Leeds and Reading festivals were complete, Komla, Jim, Dave & Karim decided to record an album. September 2008 to January 2009 were spent writing and rehearsing new material. Between February and March 2009, The Rise of the Tiger Shadow was recorded at Cottage Road Studios in Headingley, Leeds by Matt Peel and Andy Hawkins. This was released through the band's own record label (Tiger Shadow Music) via AWAL, and became available on iTunes and a number of other electronic stores from 20 April 2009.
Track listing
W’Happen – 3:32
This Is the Future – 4:14
Vernacular Spectacular – 3:22
What Do You Know About It? – 4:48
Escape – 3:14
Narration – 2:58
Star Chaser – 3:58
Terracotta Blues – 3:48
Iron Filings – 3:52
That's Because It Is... - 3:32
Hold On Tightly – 4:56
Stripe 1 EP
After the first album, the band decided to experiment with their sound and this resulted in the concept of a series of EPs which would be used as test-beds for different approaches to making their music, bringing out the numerous sonic aspects of the band.
The first EP, Stripe 1, was recor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Pollution%20Map%20Database | The China Pollution Map Database has been developed by the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), a registered non-profit organization based in Beijing, China, since its founding in May 2006. Its purpose is to monitor corporate environmental performance, pinpoint geographical locations of pollution sources and to act as an informational platform on regional pollution status, such as water and air quality, and pollutant discharge rankings. This publicly available information resource brings together over 97,000 environmental supervision records from government departments, at all levels and regions, throughout mainland China. These records, dating back as far as 2004, allow for the expansion of environmental information disclosure, enabling communities to fully understand the hazards and risks in the surrounding environment, thus promoting widespread public participation in environmental governance.
With the improvements made to the IPE website and thus China Pollution Map Database, over the last two years the number of official government-sourced violation records, from all regions in China, added to the China Pollution Map Database, has grown by over 40,000, each having its own particular circumstances and need for a prompt and effective resolution.
This important publicly available resource allows stakeholders, at all levels, to be informed, providing opportunities for individual and community inclusion, as well as NGO and media engagement. The IPE hopes this societal supervision of corporate and regional environmental performance and the external pressure on government will promote greater efforts towards enforcement and compliance, and in turn will provide a safer, cleaner and healthier environment for all.
When developing and updating the China Pollution Map Database, the IPE pays special attention to the annually published, government authored, List of Key State Monitored Enterprises, which according to set selection principles and methods, identifies those companies that occupy 65% of China's industrial discharge volume, in traditionally heavy polluting industries. Through research and field visits, the IPE aims to continue the geographical positioning of the location of these companies.
See also
Pollution in China
References
External links
Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs
China Pollution Map Database
Blue Sky Roadmap
Databases in Asia
Environmental science databases
Pollution in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotopteryx%20luridata | Scotopteryx luridata, the July belle, is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in most of Europe, except Finland and the Baltic region. Further East it is found in Turkey, Georgia and Transcaucasia.
The wingspan is 32–38 mm. The ground colour of the forewing is grey, with a middle darker band between two cross lines. The discal spot is in this band. Apical streak present. Very similar to Scotopteryx mucronata but the discal spot on the forewings lies closer to the antemedian line (inner line) than in mucronata and the hindwings are slightly darker and without markings.. See Townsend et al.
The caterpillars are brightly coloured and have a brownish stripe pattern.
Adults are on wing from June to August.
The larvae feed on Genista (including Genista anglica) and Ulex species. Larvae can be found from August to April. The species overwinters in the larval stage.
Subspecies
Scotopteryx luridata luridata
Scotopteryx luridata plumbaria (Fabricius, 1775)
References
External links
Lepiforum.de
Moths described in 1767
Scotopteryx
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dileep%20George | Dileep George is an artificial intelligence and neuroscience researcher.
Career
George received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2006 and was a visiting fellow at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 2005, George pioneered hierarchical temporal memory and cofounded the AI research startup Numenta, Inc. with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky. In 2010, George left Numenta to join D. Scott Phoenix in founding Vicarious, an AI research project funded by internet billionaires Peter Thiel and Dustin Moskovitz.
The Alphabet-owned company Intrinsic acquired Vicarious in 2022. The AI and robotics divisions merged with Intrinsic, while the research division (including George) joined DeepMind. As of 2022, George is a Research Scientist at DeepMind.
References
1977 births
American neuroscientists
Scientists from Kerala
Living people
Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area
American people of Indian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTL%20Living | RTL Living is a German pay television channel operated by the RTL Group, launched on 27 November 2006. Its programming consists of television shows about trends, lifestyle, life and travel. On October 1, 2015, RTL Group announced that it was relaunching and redesigning its three pay TV channels RTL Living, RTL Crime and Passion (then RTL Passion) as of November 12, 2015. At the same time, new channel logos will also be introduced for these channels.
As part of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland’s rebranding effort, RTL Living was rebranded along with RTL Passion and the parent channel RTL on 15th September 2021, by becoming a multi-colourful logo instead of green, pink and the three colours: red, yellow and blue from the parent channel.
Logos
Audience share
Germany
References
External links
RTL Group
Television stations in Germany
Television channels and stations established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror%20Theater%20Unbalance | is a 1973 Japanese Anthology television series created by Tsuburaya and Fuji TV to air on the Fuji TV network on Monday Nights for 13 episodes.
Production originally started in 1969, but the series was 'shelved' before production was eventually completed at the end of 1972. It was then aired on Fuji TV in 1973.
Episode list
(1/8/1973)
(1/15/1973)
(1/22/1973)
(1/29/1973)
(2/5/1973)
(2/12/1973)
(2/19/1973)
(2/26/1973)
(3/5/1973)
(3/12/1973)
(3/19/1973)
(3/26/1973)
(4/2/1973)
DVD Releases
In 2007, Victor Entertainment released 6 Volume DVDs of the series, and in 2010, A Boxset that contains all 6 Volumes of the DVD set was released.
See also
Ultra Q
The Twilight Zone
Night Gallery
References
External links
Digital Ultra Series Link
1973 Japanese television series debuts
1973 Japanese television series endings
Tsuburaya Productions
Japanese science fiction television series
Thriller television series
Japanese horror fiction television series
Fuji TV original programming
Japanese anthology television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueret%C3%BA%20language | Cueretú (Curetu) is an extinct language of the Amazon basin. It is a Tucanoan language, but more recently has been left unclassified due to sparsity of data.
References
Languages of Colombia
Tucanoan languages
Extinct languages of South America
Unclassified languages of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20Drill | Disk Drill is a data recovery utility for Windows and macOS developed by Cleverfiles. It was introduced in 2010, and is primarily designed to recover deleted or lost files from hard disk drives, USB flash drives and SSD drives with the help of Recovery Vault technology. While Disk Drill was originally exclusive to the Mac, a Windows version was released in 2015.
Recovery vault
The core of Disk Drill is a Recovery Vault technology which allows to recover data from a medium that was secured by Recovery Vault beforehand. Recovery Vault runs as a background service and remembers all metadata and properties of the deleted data. Thus making it possible to restore deleted files with their original file names and location.
Supported file systems
The Mac version of Disk Drill provides recovery from HFS/HFS+ and FAT disks/partitions (only the paid Pro version can actually recover files, the Free version will only allow Previewing files).
In August 2016, Disk Drill 3 announces support of macOS Sierra.
Data backup
Disk Drill can be also used as a backup utility for creating copies of the disk or partition in DMG images format.
Version for Windows
In February 2015, CleverFiles launched a Windows version of its data recovery software for macOS. While in beta, Disk Drill for Windows is licensed as a freeware and allows to recover the deleted files from storage devices that can be accessed from Windows PC. Disk Drill for Windows also includes the Recovery Vault technology and works on any Windows XP system or newer (Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10). The software is compatible with FAT and NTFS, as well as HFS+ and EXT2/3/4 file systems.
In September 2016, CleverFiles announced the availability of Disk Drill 2 for Windows, the new version of the expert-level data recovery app.
Release history
See also
Data recovery
Data remanence
File deletion
List of data recovery software
Undeletion
References
External links
Data recovery software
Utilities for macOS
Freeware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compuverde | Compuverde AB is an information technology company that specializes in computer data storage and cloud computing.
Description
Compuverde was founded by Stefan Bernbo, Christian Melander, and Roger Persson in 2008. It is headquartered in Karlskrona; in the southeastern part of Sweden.
It markets software-defined storage, converged storage, and unified storage platform, using computer clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of data and billions of files.
The executive chairman of Compuverde is Swedish entrepreneur Mikael Blomqvist, also a board member of Blekinge Institute of Technology.
In 1990, Blomqvist founded the cable insulation producer Roxtec.
Compuverde is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association trade group.
In January 2012, Compuverde, Blekinge Institute of Technology and Ericsson received recognition from the Development of Knowledge and Competence (KK-stiftelsen) in Sweden for a joint venture project on big data storage and cloud computing.
In 2016 a product called Metro Cluster was announced for data centers.
In April 2019, Compuverde entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Pure Storage for an undisclosed amount of money.
References
Computer companies established in 2008
Computer companies disestablished in 2019
Swedish companies disestablished in 2019
Information technology companies of Sweden
Computer storage companies
2019 mergers and acquisitions
Swedish companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor%20Observation%20Service | The Sensor Observation Service (SOS) is a web service to query real-time sensor data and sensor data time series and is part of the Sensor Web. The offered sensor data consists of data directly from the sensors, which are encoded in the Sensor Model Language (SensorML), and the measured values in the Observations and Measurements (O & M) encoding format. The web service as well as both file formats are open standards and specifications of the same name defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
If the SOS supports the transactional profile (SOS-T), new sensors can be registered on the service interface and measuring values be inserted. A SOS implementation can be used both for data from in-situ as well as remote sensing sensors. Furthermore, the sensors can be either mobile or stationary.
Since 2007, the SOS is an official OGC standard. The advantage of the SOS is that sensor data - of any kind - is available in a standardized format using standardized operations. Thus the web-based access to sensor data is simplified. It also allows easy integration into existing Spatial Data Infrastructures or Geographic Information Systems.
In 2016 OGC approved the SensorThings API standard specification, a new RESTful and JSON-based standard provide functions similar to SOS. As both SensorThings API and SOS are based on the OGC/ISO 19156:2011, the two specifications have been demonstrated in an OGC IoT pilot that they can interoperate with each other.
Operations
The SOS has three so-called core operations that must be provided by each implementation. The GetCapabilities operation allows you to query a service for a description of the service interface and the available sensor data. For using the SOS, the GetObservation function is probably the most important. It can be utilized to retrieve data for specific sensors. The DescribeSensor function returns detailed information about a sensor or a sensor system and the producing processes.
Core operations (core profile)
GetCapabilities returns an XML service description with information about the interface (offered operations and endpoints) as well as the available sensor data, such as the period for which sensor data is available, sensors that produce the measured values, or phenomena that are observed (for example air temperature).
GetObservation allows pull-based querying of observed values, including their metadata. The measured values and their metadata is returned in the Observations and Measurements format (O & M).
DescribeSensor - provides sensor metadata in SensorML. The sensor description can contain information about the sensor in general, the identifier and classification, position and observed phenomena, but also details such as calibration data.
Transactional operations (transactional profile)
RegisterSensor allows to register a new sensor in an deployed SOS.
InsertObservation can be used to insert data for already registered sensors in the SOS.
Extended operations (enhanced pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20Caves | Man Caves is a home renovation reality television program hosted by former NFL defensive tackle and Super Bowl winner Tony Siragusa and licensed contractor Jason Cameron, broadcast by DIY Network.
Synopsis
In each episode, Siragusa and Cameron visit a house at which the male resident wants a particular room transformed into a male-themed hobby room, otherwise known as a man cave. Each man cave is custom-designed for the recipient based on his hobbies and likes. The rooms are then renovated to include a media center, minibar, and a lounge among other elements. Previous themes included hockey, surfing, car racing, skiing, golfing, rock-n-roll, and others. During the renovation, the hosts offer ideas and do-it-yourself instruction to help homeowners construct their own personal hangouts. At the end of each episode, the newly renovated "man cave" is revealed to the recipient, who did not see the room during its transformation.
Notable renovations
There have been several notable renovations that included celebrities or famous places.
Man caves have been created for Food Network personalities Michael Symon and Duff Goldman. The episode involving Goldman was also filmed as part of the Season 8 premiere of his show Ace of Cakes, entitled "Man Caves". Siragusa and Cameron both appeared on this cross-over episode. The season 10 premiere on January 26, 2012 featured the creation of a man cave for NBA player Kris Humphries in his Lake Minnetonka home fresh off his highly publicized divorce from Kim Kardashian just 3 months prior, creating media attention as the renovation was seen as the start of Humphries' newly single lifestyle. Other celebrities that have appeared include Snoop Dogg, Artie Lange, Gary Dell'Abate, Rainn Wilson, Jimmie Johnson, Dan Patrick, A. J. Calloway, Bert Kreischer, Charles Kelly of Lady Antebellum and Charlie Sheen.
The crew built a man cave for the United Service Organization at Camp Virginia in Kuwait, revamping one of the tents. A NASCAR-themed man cave was created at Bristol Motor Speedway for the NASCAR race weekend 2012.
The setting of the show's 100th episode was at Madame Tussauds in New York, where a man cave was built as the background set for host Siragusa's own wax figure. The actual building of the man cave was done for live public viewing in Times Square in April 2011.
The Man Caves crew also helped Nolan Ryan renovate a box suite at "The Ballpark at Arlington," and they were also called to help Michael Strahan transfer Kelly Ripa's old dressing room on Live! With Kelly and Michael.
References
External links
2007 American television series debuts
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
Home renovation television series
English-language television shows
2015 American television series endings
DIY Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20bottleneck | Internet bottlenecks are places in telecommunication networks in which internet service providers (ISPs), or naturally occurring high use of the network, slow or alter the network speed of the users and/or content producers using that network. A bottleneck is a more general term for a system that has been reduced or slowed due to limited resources or components. The bottleneck occurs in a network when there are too many users attempting to access a specific resource. Internet bottlenecks provide artificial and natural network choke points to inhibit certain sets of users from overloading the entire network by consuming too much bandwidth. Theoretically, this will lead users and content producers through alternative paths to accomplish their goals while limiting the network load at any one time. Alternatively, internet bottlenecks have been seen as a way for ISPs to take advantage of their dominant market-power increasing rates for content providers to push past bottlenecks. The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has created regulations stipulating that artificial bottlenecks are in direct opposition to a free and open Internet.
Technical details
The technical reasons for Internet bottlenecks are largely related to network congestion in which the user experiences a delay in delivering or accessing content. The bottlenecks can occur naturally, during high network use, or artificially created by owners of the network, generally considered to be ISPs, in order to prevent the network from experiencing overload.
The network demands of users continues to grow and with it so do the pressures on networks. The way current technologies process information over the network is slow and consumes large amounts of energy. ISPs and engineers argue that these issues with the increased demand on the networks result in some necessary congestion, but the bottlenecks also occur because of the lack of technology to handle such huge data needs using minimal energy. There are attempts being made to increase the speed, amount of data, and reduce power consumption of the networks. For example, optical memory devices could be used in the future to send and receive light signals working much faster and more efficiently than electrical signals. Some researchers see optical memory as needed to reduce the demands on the network routers in data transmission, while others do not. The research will continue to explore possibilities for greater network bandwidth and data transfer. As data consumption needs increase, so will the need for better technology that facilitates the transfer and storage of that data.
Deep packet inspection (DPI) may also be used to address network congestion through recognition of a specific set of protocols, services, or users. ISPs may then manipulate the bandwidth allocation for those groups by reducing it to maintain the network stability and available bandwidth for the entire network.
Network congestion or Internet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20software%20development | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to software development:
Software development – development of a software product, which entails computer programming (process of writing and maintaining the source code), and encompasses a planned and structured process from the conception of the desired software to its final manifestation. Therefore, software development may include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products.
What type of thing is software development?
Software development can be described as all of the following:
Research and development
Vocation
Profession
Branches of software development
Software engineering
Computer programming
Video game development
Web development
Web application development
Mobile application development
History of software development
History of operating systems
History of programming languages
Software development participants
Software developer
Software engineer
Consulting software engineer
Computer programmer
Software publisher
Web developer
Software development problems
Shovelware
Software bloat
Software bug
Software project management
Software project management – art and science of planning and leading software projects. It is a sub-discipline of project management in which software projects are planned, monitored and controlled.
Software configuration management
Software development strategies
Offshore software R&D – provision of software development services by an external supplier positioned in a country that is geographically remote from the client enterprise; a type of offshore outsourcing.
Software development process
Software development process
Software release life cycle
Stages of development
Pre-alpha
Alpha release
Beta release
Closed beta
Open beta
Release candidate
Release
Release to manufacturing (RTM)
General availability release (GA)
Web release (RTW)
Technical support
End-of-life – termination of support for a product
Activities and steps
Requirements analysis
Software development effort estimation
Functional specification
Software architecture
Software design
Computer programming
Software testing
Software deployment
Software release
Product installation
Product activation
Deactivation
Adaptation
Software update
Uninstallation
Uninstaller
Product retirement
Software maintenance
Software development methodologies
Aspect-oriented software development
Cleanroom Software Engineering
Iterative and incremental development
Incremental funding methodology
Rapid application development
IBM Rational Unified Process
Spiral model
Waterfall model
Extreme programming
Lean software development
Scrum
V-Model
Test-driven development (TDD)
Agile software development
Cross-functional team
Extreme programming
Iterative and incremental development
Pair programming
Self-organization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel%20G%C3%B3mez-Bassols | Isabel Gómez-Bassols is a psychologist, writer, and broadcaster in the United States. She is a radio talk show host on Univisión's nationwide Spanish-language radio network, and also appears regularly on television.
Career
Gómez-Bassols was born in Cuba; she has lived in Miami for most of her life. She has postgraduate degrees in education, psychology and psychological diagnosis. She worked as a schoolteacher, and later as a psychologist, for the public school system of Miami-Dade County, where she became head of the psychological services department. She has written five self-help books and two children's books.
Gómez-Bassols has hosted a nationwide daily talk show, Dra. Isabel, since 1998, beginning on Radio Unica. The show has been broadcast by Univision Radio since 2004. On television, she has made regular appearances as a commentator on Cristina and Sábado Gigante, and she has her own weekly television show as well. In 2002 Gómez-Bassols performed as herself (Doctora Isabel) in five episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful.
In January 2008, Dr. Isabel Gómez-Bassols participated in "Seminarios Puedes Llegar" ("You Can Reach" Seminars) created by Alberto Sardinas. Several celebrities from the Hispanic media and the world of self-help participated during its first run in, including Dr. Nancy Alvarez (psychologist) and Felipe Viel.
References
Further reading
Palacios, Ana Rosa (December 1, 2011). "El Ángel de la Radio". Nexos. (in Spanish)
External links
(English)
Living people
American talk radio hosts
American women radio hosts
American self-help writers
American children's writers
American women children's writers
Cuban emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Action%20Movies | Fox Action Movies was a Southeast Asian pay television channel centered towards broadcasting action-themed and horror-themed films. It is owned by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific. The channel's feed-in India was rebranded as Star Movies Action on 2 June 2013 while the Asian counterpart continued broadcasting. 5.1 Dolby Sound is available on HD channel only.
On 1 January 2021, Fox Action Movies ceased operations on SCTV16.
On 1 September 2021, Fox Action Movies ceased operations on Now TV.
On 27 September 2021, Fox Action Movies ceased operations on TransVision.
On 1 October 2021, Fox Action Movies and 17 other Fox/Disney-owned channels across Southeast Asia ceased broadcasting. The last film to air was Big Freaking Rat. However, the Middle East and North Africa feed is still operating.
See also
Astro (television)
Fox Movies
Fox Family Movies
References
External links
Archived official site
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021
English-language television stations
Fox Networks Group
Fox Movies (TV channel)
Defunct television channels
Mass media in Southeast Asia
Cable television in Hong Kong
Movie channels in Singapore
Movie channels in Malaysia
Movie channels in Indonesia
Movie channels in Hong Kong
Movie channels in Thailand
Movie channels in the Philippines
Movie channels in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest%20centroid%20classifier | In machine learning, a nearest centroid classifier or nearest prototype classifier is a classification model that assigns to observations the label of the class of training samples whose mean (centroid) is closest to the observation. When applied to text classification using word vectors containing tf*idf weights to represent documents, the nearest centroid classifier is known as the Rocchio classifier because of its similarity to the Rocchio algorithm for relevance feedback.
An extended version of the nearest centroid classifier has found applications in the medical domain, specifically classification of tumors.
Algorithm
Training
Given labeled training samples with class labels , compute the per-class centroids where is the set of indices of samples belonging to class .
Prediction
The class assigned to an observation is .
See also
Cluster hypothesis
k-means clustering
k-nearest neighbor algorithm
Linear discriminant analysis
References
Classification algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica | Friendica (formerly Friendika, originally Mistpark) is a free and open-source software distributed social network. It forms one part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers.
Features
Friendica users can connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Twitter, Diaspora, Pump.io, GNU social and more recently ActivityPub (including Mastodon, Pleroma and Pixelfed) into their 'newsfeed'. In addition to these two way connections, users can also use Friendica as a publishing platform to post content to WordPress, Tumblr and Libertree. Posting to Google+ was also supported until that service was shutdown. In addition, e-mail contacts and RSS feeds can be integrated. Because users are distributed across many servers, their "addresses" consist of a username, the "@" symbol, and the domain name of the Friendica instance in the same manner email addresses are formed.
Most of the functionality from major microblogging and social networking platforms are available in Friendica; for example, tagging users and groups via "@ mentions"; direct messages; hashtags; photo albums; "likes"; "dislikes"; comments; and re-shares of publicly visible posts. Published items can be edited and updated across the network. Comprehensive settings for privacy and the public visibility of posts allow users to regulate who can read which contributions, or see specific information about the user. Users can also create multiple profiles, allowing different groups of people (such as friends, or work mates) to see a different profile entirely when viewing the same page. User accounts can be downloaded or deleted, and can be imported to a different Friendica server if so required. Public forums can be created under different accounts, which can be switched between if the accounts are registered with the same email address.
Development
There is no corporation behind Friendica. The developers work on a voluntary basis and the project is run informally, the platform itself is used for the communication between the developers. There are different forums within Friendica, such as "Friendica Developers" and "Friendica Support". The source code of Friendica is hosted on GitHub.
Installation
The developers aim to make installation of the software as simple as possible for technical laymen. They argue that decentralization on small servers is a key condition for the freedom of users and their self-determination. The difficulty level is similar to an installation of WordPress. However, the installing on shared hosting is sometimes difficult because of missing PHP5 modules. Some volunteers also run public servers so that newcomers can also avoid the installation of their own software.
List of clients
Friendica implements multiple client-server API variants simultaneously. Along with endpoints needed to use enhanced Friendica features, it also implements the AP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statista | Statista is a German online platform specialized in data gathering and visualization. In addition to publicly available third-party data, Statista also provides exclusive data via the platform, which is collected through its team's surveys and analysis.
According to its own publications, Statista offers more than 1,000,000 statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources in over 150 countries and is accessed 31 million times a month (as of December 2022). The company claims to cover around 170 industries with its content. In 2022, Statista reported more than 2 million registered users, with which the company generated around 140 million euros in revenue. Statista has been owned by Ströer Media since 2015, with an 81.3% stake.
The company provides statistics and survey results, which are presented in charts and tables. Its main target groups are business customers, lecturers, and researchers. The data provided by the company covers, among other things, advertisements, buying behavior, or specific industries. In addition, the company offers reports on advertising, purchasing behavior, politics and society, and data on individual sectors of the economy and countries.
In 2020, Statista announced plans to offer subscriptions to a database of companies, thus entering into competition with Bloomberg L.P. According to its own information, the portal's data partners include the Federal Statistical Office, the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research, the OECD and the German Institute for Economic Research. Other partners include the Financial Times and Fortune.
In 2010, the initiative "Deutschland – Land der Ideen" (Germany – Land of Ideas) selected Statista as one of the winners in the category "Landmarks in the Land of Ideas 2010" and awarded the "European Red Herring Prize".
References
External links
Homepage of Statista
Internet properties established in 2007
German companies established in 2007
Online companies of Germany
Companies based in Hamburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%20Nation | DC Nation was a programming block of DC Comics series and shorts that aired on American television channel Cartoon Network on Saturday morning. It premiered on March 3, 2012, and was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Some of the shows in DC Nation include Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice (with Beware the Batman in 2013). Cartoon Network announced revived the Teen Titans animated series as Teen Titans Go!, based on the New Teen Titans shorts, in 2013; episodes began airing in April of that year.
Shows
Previous series include Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series. The final lineup includes Teen Titans Go! and Beware the Batman, along with DC Nation Shorts.
Theme songs
Skrillex – "Rock N Roll"
Richardson & Macklin & Tom Ford – "Acid Cube"
Shorts
Many short films produced by Sam Register air on the show; they are mainly comedy. In the first season, these included New Teen Titans, S.B.F.F. and DC's World's Funnest from Aardman Studios. Season two saw two additional short series: JL Animals and Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld.
Controversy
On October 13, 2012, two weeks after it had returned from a summer break and ten hours before it was supposed to air, the block was ceased from the schedule by Cartoon Network; an hour of DreamWorks Dragons was shown on Saturdays with Johnny Test on Sundays. DC Nation workers were told about the action by fans. Later that day, Cartoon Network and DC Nation's Facebook and Twitter profiles stated that the block had been put on hiatus and will resume airing in January 2013.
An online petition was started that day to bring back the block by the end of the year and reached its first goal of 10,000 signatures on October 15. The Green Lantern episode "Steam Lantern" and the Young Justice episode "Before the Dawn", episodes that had been scheduled to air, were released to the iTunes Store and became the top two television programs of that day. They also became available on Amazon.com on October 16. No official explanation has been given for the extended hiatus. As of October 13, all DC Nation consisted of Teen Titans Go! repeats and various shorts, as well as being pre-empted at least four times in 2014 for special programming (such as the HD remaster of Pokémon: The First Movie). Young Justice, Green Lantern and Beware the Batman were all canceled with little or no information given to the fans other than a rumored report that the DC parent company did not feel these shows' lack of humor appealed to kids anymore.
By 2015, the block's discontinuation was apparent with the shorts airing exclusively during Teen Titans Go! premiere episodes on Wednesday nights, until they were not.
References
External links
Cartoon Network programming blocks
Television programming blocks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimal%20Kumar%20Bose | Bimal Kumar Bose (Bengali: বিমল কুমার বসু; born 1932), also known as B. K. Bose, is an electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, scientist, educator, and currently a professor emeritus of power electronics in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
In 2017, Bose was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to advancing power electronics technology and power conversion and education.
Life and career
Bose was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. Bose received his B.E. degree (1956) from Bengal Engineering College under University of Calcutta, (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur)), M.S. degree (1960) from University of Wisconsin, Madison, and PhD degree (1966) from University of Calcutta. Bose started his career in India in 1960 and emigrated to USA in 1971 to join Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY as faculty member (1971–1976), then to GE Corporate Research and Development in (now GE Global Research Center) Schenectady, NY as research engineer (1976–1987), and then he joined the University of Tennessee as a Chaired Professor (1987–2003). Concurrently, he was the Distinguished Scientist (1989–2000) and the Chief Scientist (1987–1989) of EPRI-Power Electronics Applications Center.
Bose held the Condra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Bose organized its power electronics teaching and research program for 15 years. He is recognized as world-renowned authority and pioneer in power electronics for his many contributions that include high frequency link power conversion, advanced control techniques by microcomputers, fuzzy logic and neural networks, transistor ac power switch for matrix converters, adaptive hysteresis-band current control, etc. He also pioneered power electronics applications in environmental protection that help solving climate change problems.
He was a visiting professor in Aalborg University, Denmark (1997), University of Padova, Italy (2003), Federal University of Mato Grosso Sul, Brazil (2006), Savilla University, Spain (2008), and European PhD School on Power Electronics, Italy (2010). He was a consultant in large number of agencies/industries, i.e., National Science Foundation, Electric Power Research Institute, USDA, Research Triangle Institute, GE-CRD, Bendix Corporation, Fuji Electric, Ansaldo, General Dynamics, Lutron Electronics, PCI Ozone Corporation, American Superconductors, Emerson Electric, Kolmorgen Corporation, Delco Remy, etc.
Bose is an innovator, educator, and mentor to many members of the industry all over the world. He has been a reference for many engineers and scientists working in the area of power electronics and motor drives.
Bose has contributed to the global promotion of power electronics by his books, publications, patents, tutorials, invited seminars and keynote speeches around the worl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chic%20Milligan | Charles Campbell "Chic" Milligan (26 July 1930 – February 2020) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a defender.
References
External links
Chic Milligan at Coludata.co.uk
1930 births
2020 deaths
Men's association football defenders
Scottish men's footballers
Ardrossan Winton Rovers F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
English Football League players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy%20McLeod | Samuel Mark McLeod (4 January 1934 – 29 July 1973) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a forward.
References
External links
Sammy McLeod at Colchester United Archive Database
1934 births
1973 deaths
Footballers from Glasgow
Men's association football forwards
Scottish men's footballers
Colchester United F.C. players
Romford F.C. players
English Football League players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Kids | NBC Kids was a short-lived American Saturday morning children's television programming block that aired on NBC from July 7, 2012 to September 25, 2016. Telemundo also aired a version of the block under the "MiTelemundo" title, which featured a separate lineup of Spanish-dubbed programs until December 31, 2017. NBC Kids, which replaced the Qubo block (as a result of NBCUniversal dropping out of the joint venture, which also included Ion Media Networks), was programmed by the other Sprout preschool cable network, as they were both targeted at children ages 2 to 6.
The three-hour block featured educational entertainment series for younger children, which met programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission's Children's Television Act.
The block concluded on September 25, 2016 on NBC (December 31, 2017 on Telemundo), and was replaced the following week with a live-action E/I block from Litton Entertainment named The More You Know. This marked the end of traditional Saturday morning children's programming on broadcast television until KidsClick followed up in July 2017.
History
On March 28, 2012, NBC announced that the three-hour children's programming time period allocated by the network on Saturday mornings would be taken over by Sprout (which had become a sister television property to NBC following parent company NBCUniversal's 2010 majority purchase by Comcast; NBC later took full ownership of the network, whose owners previously included Sesame Workshop and HIT Entertainment) and launch a new Saturday morning block called NBC Kids, which was aimed at preschoolers and grade school-aged children ages 2 to 6. Sprout also produced a Spanish-language sister block for Telemundo known as MiTelemundo.
NBC Kids debuted on July 7, 2012, one week after the Qubo block ended its run on both NBC and Telemundo on June 30 (leaving Ion Television as the only network to retain a Qubo-branded children's block, as Ion Media Networks was now sole owner of the Qubo properties including the flagship Qubo Channel television service).
Cancellation
On February 24, 2016 and March 1, 2017, NBCUniversal announced that NBC Kids would be discontinued and replaced on October 8, 2016 on NBC (January 6, 2018 on Telemundo) by The More You Know, a block produced by Litton Entertainment that would feature live-action documentary and lifestyle programs aimed at pre-teens and teenagers. The move came as part of a shift by broadcast television networks towards using their Saturday morning lineup solely to comply with the educational programming requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), along with the cultural shift towards cable and online video on demand viewing of children's and animated programming. NBC Kids aired for the final time on September 25, 2016 on NBC (December 31, 2017 on Telemundo). MiTelemundo continued with its prior format until January 6, 2018, when Telemundo relaunched MiTelemundo with Spanish-language dub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20from%20accelerated%20segment%20test | Features from accelerated segment test (FAST) is a corner detection method, which could be used to extract feature points and later used to track and map objects in many computer vision tasks. The FAST corner detector was originally developed by Edward Rosten and Tom Drummond, and was published in 2006. The most promising advantage of the FAST corner detector is its computational efficiency. Referring to its name, it is indeed faster than many other well-known feature extraction methods, such as difference of Gaussians (DoG) used by the SIFT, SUSAN and Harris detectors. Moreover, when machine learning techniques are applied, superior performance in terms of computation time and resources can be realised. The FAST corner detector is very suitable for real-time video processing application because of this high-speed performance.
Segment test detector
FAST corner detector uses a circle of 16 pixels (a Bresenham circle of radius 3) to classify whether a candidate point p is actually a corner. Each pixel in the circle is labeled from integer number 1 to 16 clockwise. If a set of N contiguous pixels in the circle are all brighter than the intensity of candidate pixel p (denoted by Ip) plus a threshold value t or all darker than the intensity of candidate pixel p minus threshold value t, then p is classified as corner. The conditions can be written as:
Condition 1: A set of N contiguous pixels S, , the intensity of x > Ip + threshold, or
Condition 2: A set of N contiguous pixels S, ,
So when either of the two conditions is met, candidate p can be classified as a corner. There is a tradeoff of choosing N, the number of contiguous pixels and the threshold value t. On one hand the number of detected corner points should not be too many, on the other hand, the high performance should not be achieved by sacrificing computational efficiency. Without the improvement of machine learning, N is usually chosen as 12. A high-speed test method could be applied to exclude non-corner points.
High-speed test
The high-speed test for rejecting non-corner points is operated by examining 4 example pixels, namely pixel 1, 9, 5 and 13. Because there should be at least 12 contiguous pixels that are whether all brighter or darker than the candidate corner, so there should be at least 3 pixels out of these 4 example pixels that are all brighter or darker than the candidate corner. Firstly pixels 1 and 9 are examined, if both I1 and I9 are within [Ip - t, Ip + t], then candidate p is not a corner. Otherwise pixels 5 and 13 are further examined to check whether three of them are brighter than Ip + t or darker than Ip - t. If there exists 3 of them that are either brighter or darker, the rest pixels are then examined for final conclusion. And according to the inventor in his first paper, on average 3.8 pixels are needed to check for candidate corner pixel. Compared with 8.5 pixels for each candidate corner, 3.8 is really a great reduction which could highly improve the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20Operating%20System | A Terminal Operating System, or TOS, is a key part of a supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of various types of cargo in and around a port or marine terminal. The systems also enables better use of assets, labour and equipment, plan workload, and receive up-to-date information.
Terminal operating systems generally fall under one of two categories depending on supported cargo type, namely, containerized or non-containerized. Large container terminals typically require yard management functionality in a TOS, whereas bulk dry and liquid cargo terminals do not.
Terminal Operating Systems often use other technologies such as internet, EDI processing, mobile computers, wireless LANs and Radio-frequency identification (RFID) to efficiently monitor the flow of products in, out and around the terminal. Data is either a batch synchronization with, or a real-time wireless transmission to a central database. The database can then provide useful reports about the status of goods, locations and machines in the terminal.
The objective of a terminal operating system is to provide a set of computerized procedures to manage cargo, machines and people within the facility to enable a seamless link to efficiently and effectively manage the facility.
Terminal operating systems can be stand alone systems, managed as a service or use cloud technologies.
In its simplest form, the TOS can data track cargo in and out of a terminal.
Functions
A Terminal Operating System may be used to do some or all of the following functions:
Shipping
Terminals requiring various types of ship transport
Container terminals using Containerization for LO-LO (lift on Lift Off) operations such as these require plans for efficiently loading and unloading Container ships docked within their Terminal.
A port using RO-RO ships require plans for efficiently loading automobiles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers or railroad cars that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels.
Rail
Terminals that require the arrival and departure of cargo on trains such as container trains or bulk cargo.
Road
Handle the receival and release of Cargo for transshipment from other modes of transport or storage.
Yard management
Creating Shipping list or keeping track of Warehouse levels. Tracking machine moves around the terminal.
Invoicing/Reporting
Invoicing and providing reports for internal and external use.
Inventory
Keeping track of Inventory and storing its movements.
Cargo Type
Various types of cargo can be managed dependent of terminal type. This includes containers, dry bulk, liquid bulk, break bulk and vehicles (roll-on/roll-off).
External Clients
Terminals may wish to communicate with the following through their Terminal Operating System:
Terminal operators
Freight forwarder
Shipping line or shipping agent
Container operators
Port authority
Pilots, tugs and mooring gang
Cargo owner (e.g. oil companies)
Customs office
Vendors/Suppli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20C%2B%2B | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to C++:
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language.
What type of language is C++?
C++ can be described as all of the following:
Programming language — artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely.
Compiled language — programming language implemented through compilers (translators which generate machine code from source code), and not interpreters (step-by-step executors of source code, where no translation takes place).
General-purpose programming language — programming language designed to be used for writing software in a wide variety of application domains.
Intermediate language — language of an abstract machine designed to aid in the analysis of computer programs. The term comes from their use in compilers, where a compiler first translates the source code of a program into a form more suitable for code-improving transformations, as an intermediate step before generating object or machine code for a target machine.
Object-oriented programming language – programming language based on "objects", which are data structures that contain data, in the form of fields, often known as attributes; and code, in the form of procedures, known as methods. An object's procedures can access and modify the data fields of the objects. In object-oriented programming, computer programs are designed by making them out of objects that interact with one another.
Statically typed programming language
General C++ concepts
Name resolution
Argument-dependent name lookup — applies to the lookup of an unqualified function name depending on the types of the arguments given to the function call. This behavior is also known as Koenig lookup, named after its inventor Andrew Koenig (programmer).
Auto-linking — mechanism for automatically determining which libraries to link to while building a C or C++ program. It is activated by means of #pragma comment(lib, <name>) statements in the header files of the library.
Classes — Classes define types of data structures and the functions that operate on those data structures. Instances of these datatypes are known as objects and can contain member variables, constants, member functions, and overloaded operators defined by the programmer. The C++ programming language allows programmers to separate program-specific datatypes through the use of classes.
Exception guarantees
Header file
Inner class
One Definition Rule
Opaque pointer
Plain old data structure
Rule of three (C++ pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Sky%20Network | Blue Sky Network is a global satellite technology company headquartered in San Diego, California. Founded in 2001, Blue Sky Network offers satellite tracking solutions to support fleet managers and operators monitoring their assets on land, sea, and in the air. Blue Sky Network solutions use the satellite network from Iridium Communications to provide customers with 100 percent global coverage. The company has also been an authorized Tier 1 Iridium Communications partner since 2002.
SkyRouter
SkyRouter is Blue Sky Network’s fleet tracking and communications cloud-based web portal and mapping system. The SkyRouter web portal serves as a centralized command center for operators to track, view, communicate with and manage single field devices, or large global fleets. Features of SkyRouter include SMS support, customizable email subject formatting, alert information, and alert previews. The SkyRouter alerting system allows fleet managers to customize pertinent asset information directly to smart phones and tablets as necessary.
SkyRouter communicates with Blue Sky Network hardware to provide a secure web interface that displays positions on various overlay maps. It also handles, events, alerts, and telematic data.
SkyRouter also enables pilots and operators to communicate by sending two-way messages. Both the communications solutions and global tracking are made possible by transceivers that are installed in the asset. The transceivers both transmit and receive data signals, constantly updating the position and events associated with the assets. In aviation applications, Automated Flight Following via SkyRouter allows the transmission of satellite messages from aircraft to dispatchers on the ground in the form of special events reports, such as updates on take-offs and landings, as well as telemetric data reports, and emergency location.
Mobile App
In 2014, Blue Sky Network announced the launch of the SkyRouter Mobile App for iOS. The app allows authorized users to view, track, and communicate with any Blue Sky Network equipped aircraft, vehicle, ship, or person in their organization. Through the app, users can track assets, communicate via email, and send/receive user defined forms including trip plans. Other features of the SkyRouter Mobile App include map options and overlays, QPOS push notifications, and breadcrumbs.
Blue Sky Network Brazil
In 2010, Blue Sky Network became an official service partner of Iridium Serviçios de Satellites S.A., a subsidiary of Iridium Communications Inc. The following year, Blue Sky Network Brazil Comunicação por Satélite obtained a Non Geostationary Satellite Global Mobile Service (SMGS) license in Brazil, enabling the company to provision Iridium-based satellite services in Brazil.
In order to run the daily operations in Brazil, sister company Blue Sky Network Brazil Comunicação por Satélite was established in Alphaville, just outside São Paulo. The company currently provides GPS tracking and satellite com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20bikeways%20in%20metropolitan%20Copenhagen | Super Bikeways in metropolitan Copenhagen are a network of high quality bikeways under development to promote commuting by bicycle in metropolitan Copenhagen, Denmark. A collaboration between Copenhagen Municipality and 18 surrounding municipalities in Greater Copenhagen, the objective is to facilitate and increase commuting by bicycle.
When finished, the network will consist of 26 routes and 300 km of bikeways. The first route, from Albertslund to Copenhagen, was inaugurated on 14 April 2012.
Super bikeways completed 2016–2018
Planned routes
The routes planned are as follows (further details and maps can be found here):
Albertslund Route (17.5 km) — Albertslund, Glostrup, Rødovre, Frederiksberg and Copenhagen Municipalities
Amagerbrogade Route (4.5 km) — Tårnby and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Ballerup Route (11.1 km) — Ballerup Herlev and Copenhagen Municipalities
Birkerød Route (19.8 km) — Rudersdal, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Gentofte and Copenhagen Municipalities. Possible extension to Allerød Municipality.
Damhus Route (12.5 km) — Frederiksberg and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Dragør East Route (13.3 km) — Dragør, Tårnby and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Dragør West Route (11.2 km) — Dragør, Tårnby and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Farum Route (20.9 km) — Furesø, Gladsaxe and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Fasanvej Route (12.4 km) — Frederiksberg and Copenhagen Municipalities
Gammel Holte Route (18.8 km) — Rudersdal, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Gentofte and Copenhagen Municipalities. Possible extension to Hørsholm Municipality.
Harbour Route (4 km) — Temporary proposal, inner city
Lake Route (7 km) — Temporary proposal, inner city.
Rampart Route (5 km) — Temporary proposal inner city.
Inner Ring Route (14.5 km) — Frederiksberg and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Ishøj Route (12.3 km) — Ishøj, Vallensbæk, Brøndby, Hvidovre and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Park Allé Route (12.5 km) — Vallensbæk, Brøndby, Hvidovre and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Ring 3 Route (21 km) — Lyngby-Taarbæk, Gladsaxe, Herlev, Glostrup, Brøndby and Vallensbæk Municipalities.
Ring 4 Route (10.7 km) — Lyngby-Taarbæk, Gladsaxe, Furesø, Gerlev, Ballerup and Albertslund Municipalities.
Roskildevej Route (15.8 km) — Albertslund, Brøndby, Glostrup, Hvidovre, Frederiksberg and Copenhagen.
Vandlednings Route (2.9 km) — Gladsaxe and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Vestamager Route (7.8 km) — Tårnby and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Vestbane Route (15.7 km) — Albertslund, Brøndby, Glostrup, Hvidovre and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Vestvold Route (14 km) — Hvidovre, Brøndby, Rødovre and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Vestvold East Route (11.1 km) — Hvidovre, Copenhagen and Tårnby Municipalities.
Ørestad Route (7.8 km) — Tårnby and Copenhagen Municipalities.
Øresund Route (22.3 km) — Rudersdal, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Gentofte and Copenhagen Municipalities.
External links
about the project
References
Cycling in Copenhagen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectives%20Charter%20Schools | Perspectives Charter Schools is a charter school network in Chicago, Illinois. The organization was founded by Kim Day and Diana Shulla-Cose, two teachers at Chicago's Dyett Middle School.
In 1993, Day and Shulla-Cose established their own small school within Dyett. They chose the name "Perspectives" to reflect their hope of changing the way their students saw themselves and the world. In 1997, Perspectives became one of the first charter schools in Illinois.
The school moved several times over the years and was expanded into a network of schools, serving both elementary and high school students. The five current Perspectives schools are as follows:
The Rodney D. Joslin Campus, which is housed in a building designed by Perkins+Will
Perspectives Middle Academy
Perspectives High School of Technology
Perspectives Leadership Academy
Perspectives/IIT Math & Science Academy
Athletics
Professional basketball player Anthony Davis attended the Joslin campus.
References
External links
Perspectives Charter Schools
Public high schools in Chicago
Charter schools in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedSleeve | RedSleeve is a free operating system distribution based on the Linux kernel. It is derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution, ported to the ARM architecture.
RedSleeve is derived from the free and open-source software made available by Red Hat, Inc., but is not produced, maintained or supported by Red Hat. Specifically, this product is built from the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions, under the terms and conditions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux's EULA and the GNU General Public License. The name RedSleeve was chosen because it makes it intuitively obvious what upstream distribution it is derived from, while at the same time implying that it is for the ARM platform (we have sleeves covering our ARMs).
RedSleeve is different from other Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives such as CentOS and Scientific Linux in that it is also a port to a new platform (ARM) that is not supported by the upstream distribution.
History
The first official Alpha release was made available on February 12, 2012.
Releases
Versioning scheme
RedSleeve aims to maintain equal versioning with the upstream distribution, both in terms of distribution release numbering and the individual package release numbering. The only exception is with the packages that had to be modified from the upstream release. This is only done to either remove upstream branding as required by the upstream distributions terms and conditions, or to apply additional patches required to make the package build and work on the ARM architecture which at the time of writing the upstream distribution does not support. In such cases, .0 is appended to the package version after the distribution tag.
Media coverage
RedSleeve Linux 6 was covered on The Register on May 29, 2012.
References
ARM Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago%20cordata | Plantago cordata is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common name heartleaf plantain. It is native to eastern North America, where it is distributed throughout eastern Canada and the eastern United States. Though it has a wide distribution, it is very localized, and populations have declined almost everywhere.
Background
This type of perennial plant grows up to half a meter tall. The fleshy leaf blades are oval to heart-shaped and borne on long petioles. The plant produces smaller leaves during the winter, and larger ones during the summer. The inflorescence arises on a hollow stem and contains many flowers. Each flower has four petals and four sepals. The flowering stalks can grow up to 30 centimeters in one week. The fruit is a capsule about half a centimeter long. The capsule usually contains two seeds. The seeds are adapted for water dispersal, with buoyant fleshy parts and a sticky substance that causes them to adhere to objects.
This semi-aquatic plant can be found growing in and around running water bodies such as streams and creeks. It is most often found on dolomite. It can be found on the banks of the Hudson River in New York. It belongs to a number of plant communities and grows in several habitat types.
This species "has the lowest reproductive output of all plantain species."
This species has declined mainly because of urbanization. Its distribution has not narrowed, but so many populations have disappeared that the plant is "at considerable risk of extinction."
References
cordata
Flora of Northern America
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covilh%C3%A3%20Airport | Covilhã Airport () was an airport serving Covilhã, Portugal. The airport was demolished to give place to one of the Portugal Telecom's Data Center.
See also
List of airports in Portugal
References
Airports in Portugal
Defunct airports
Buildings and structures in Castelo Branco District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%27n%20Wrestle | Rock'n Wrestle is a professional wrestling video game released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64 8-bit home computers, and as Bop'N Wrestle in 1986 for DOS by Mindscape.
Reception
Rick Teverbaugh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Bop 'N Wrestle is a game with some stunning graphics. It is also a well-timed release now that championship wrestling is now a network staple. But, unfortunately, it is a game that tries to do too much."
Reviews
Jeux & Stratégie #39
See also
List of licensed professional wrestling video games
References
External links
http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D2166
http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=6440
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=012&page=037&thumbstart=0&magazine=zzap&check=1
http://www.the-commodore-zone.com/user/index.php?p=getitem&db_id=1&item_id=784
http://spong.com/game/11021752/Rock-n-Wrestle-C64
Review in Antic
Review in Commodore Microcomputers
1985 video games
Commodore 64 games
ZX Spectrum games
Amstrad CPC games
DOS games
Professional wrestling games
Video games developed in Australia
Mindscape games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seq%20%28Unix%29 | On Unix-like computer systems, seq is a utility for generating a sequence of numbers.
History
seq first appeared on 8th edition Research Unix in 1985, and was not adopted by other variants of Unix (such as commercial Unixes or BSD). Nevertheless, it was later adopted in Plan 9 from Bell Labs, and from there was copied into some modern BSD descendants like FreeBSD. Another version of seq was written in 1994 by Ulrich Drepper, for GNU, and is now available on all Linux distributions as part of the GNU Core Utilities. The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.
Functionality
In its most basic use case, seq N prints out all the integers from 1 to N in sequence. This was convenient as the Unix shell at the time, the Bourne shell had no primitives for iterating over numbers, and its "for" command could only iterate over a list of words. seq was therefore used to generate such a list, as in this example:
# Remove file1 through file17:
for n in `seq 17`
do
rm "file$n"
done
seq had additional options for controlling the start (not just end) of the numeric sequence, its increment (a floating point number), and the formatting of the number. GNU seq changed the name and meaning of the format option (from -p to -f) and added an option to control the separator between the numbers (-s, defaults to a newline).
With other alternatives available (e.g., expr), and with more recent shells adding builtin numeric iteration, seq is less commonly used today. In the modern Linux shell, bash, the above example can be alternatively written as:
for n in {1..17}
do
rm "file$n"
done
and more efficiently, without actually generating the whole sequence in advance, as
for ((n=1; n<=17; n++))
do
rm "file$n"
done
References
seq manual page from 8th Edition Unix
seq manual page from FreeBSD
External links
Unix software
Utility software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasant%20Dhar | Vasant Dhar is a professor at the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science at New York University, former editor-in-chief of the journal Big Data and the founder of SCT Capital, one of the first machine-learning-based hedge funds in New York City in the 1990s. His research focuses on building scalable decision-making systems from large sources of data using techniques and principles from the disciplines of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Early life and education
Dhar is a graduate of The Lawrence School, Sanawar, which he considers one of the best presents his parents gave him without realizing it. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1978 with a B.Tech in chemical engineering. He subsequently attended the University of Pittsburgh where he received an M. Phil and a Ph.D. in 1984. After he earned his doctorate, he joined the faculty at New York University. He worked at Morgan Stanley between 1994 and 1997 where he created the Data Mining Group that focused on predicting financial markets and customer behavior.
Career highlights
Dhar is an artificial intelligence researcher and data scientist whose research addresses the question, when do we trust AI systems with decision making? The question is particularly relevant to current-day autonomous machine-learning-based systems that learn and adapt with ongoing data. His research has been motivated by building predictive models in a number of domains, most notably finance, as well as areas including healthcare, sports, education and business, asking why are we willing to trust machines in some areas and not others? His view is that there is a discontinuity when we give complete decision-making control to a machine that learns from ongoing data. This discontinuity introduces some risks, specifically those around the errors made by such systems, which directly affect our degree of trust in them.
Dhar's research breaks down trust along two risk-based dimensions: predictability, or how frequently a system makes mistakes (X-axis), and the associated costs of error (Y-axis) of such mistakes. The research demonstrates the existence of a "frontier" that expresses a trade-off between how often a system will be wrong and the consequences of such mistakes. Trust, and hence our willingness to cede control of decision making to the machine, increases with increasing predictability and lower error costs. In other words, we are willing to trust machines if they do not make too many mistakes and their costs are tolerable. As mistakes increase, we require that their consequences be less costly.
The automation frontier provides a natural way to think about the future of work. With more and better data and algorithms, parts of existing processes become automated due to increased predictability, and cross the automation frontier into the "trust the machine" zone, whereas the parts with high error costs remain under human control. The model provides a way to thin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Florida%20Wildlife%20Corridor | The Florida Wildlife Corridor is a statewide network of nearly 18 million acres of connected lands and waters supporting wildlife and people. The connection between greenspace is important because many species need large ranges to hunt, breed, and maintain genetic diversity. Habitat loss and fragmentation are primary drivers of plant and animal population declines. The Florida Wildlife Corridor provides essential habitat and connectivity for many of Florida’s imperiled plants and animals.
The Florida Wildlife Corridor helps protect the habitats of Florida’s threatened and endangered species. This includes iconic wildlife such as Crested Caracara, Snail Kite, Florida Grasshopper Sparrow, Florida Scrub-Jay, Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, Whooping Crane, Wood Stork, Florida Panther, West Indian Manatee, Gulf Sturgeon, Okaloosa Darter, Sand Skink, and Eastern Indigo Snake. Of the 17.7 million acres the Florida Wildlife Corridor encompasses, 7 million acres are composed of working lands – ranchlands and timberlands. Many of these working lands are still unprotected yet are a vital component to conservation in Florida. The increasing population of Florida each day further exapands the need for the protection of native wildlife. In cases of extreme urbanization like this, action must be taken.
The Florida Wildlife Corridor boundary has been simplified for online use on iNaturalist. If you are interested in performing an analysis with the Corridor boundary, please visit http://conservation.dcp.ufl.edu/fegnproject/ or contact Dr. Tom Hoctor at the UF Center for Landscape Conservation Planning for the current, official Corridor boundary.
About the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation
The Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation’s mission is to champion a collaborative campaign to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor. The Foundation exists to ignite the Corridor vision. They align efforts to lead conservation of the Corridor’s highest priorities and accelerate connectivity by providing tools and resources that elevate other organizations working to protect these landscapes. Through expeditions, art, film, and storytelling, the organization has gained statewide support that led to the unanimous passing of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act in 2021.
In April 2022 the Corridor Foundation began hosting an annual summit to convene hundreds of conservationists, thought leaders, business and real estate experts, policy makers, state agency leaders, and elected officials for discussions, collaboration, and problem-solving all geared toward conserving the Florida Wildlife Corridor.
The Foundation’s CEO is Mallory Lykes Dimmitt and is governed by a board of directors composed of conservationists, entrepreneurs and private sector community leaders.
Economic Benefits of the Corridor
The Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation engaged McKinsey & Company to provide analytics to assess the economic impact of the Corridor and the mechanism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Gerrard%20%28artist%29 | John Gerrard, (born 20 July 1974) is an Irish artist, best known for his sculptures, which typically take the form of digital simulations displayed using Real-time computer graphics.
Education
Gerrard received a BFA from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. During this time he made his first experiments with 3D scanning as a form of sculptural photography. He undertook postgraduate studies at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Trinity College, Dublin, and in 2002 was awarded a Pépinières Residency at Ars Electronica, Linz, where he developed his first works in 3D Real-time computer graphics. In June 2009 he began a six-month guest residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. During 2012 he was Legacy Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, working on Exercise (Djibouti) 2012, a commission for Modern Art Oxford and the London 2012 Festival.
Works
Gerrard's works concern themselves with the nature of contemporary power in the broadest sense, epitomising the structures of power and the networks of energy that characterized the massive expansion and intensification of human endeavour that took place during the twentieth century. Many works have featured geographically isolated industrial facilities that are a hidden part of the global production network that makes the luxuries of contemporary life possible. As Emily Hall wrote in ArtForum:
[Gerrard's] fine balance of concept, content, and material suggest a theme and variations on the theme of the virtual. The computer-generated landscapes bring to mind, of course, virtual worlds, video games, special effects – that is, ways of producing unrealities. Here the format manifests something quite real, albeit at the periphery of most of our worlds – the discomfort of this admission is part of the work's impact – since for many of us, the arrival of food in our markets and the availability of oil are things we take on faith, if we think about them at all. Their existence remains provisional – more or less virtual – whether in life, on a gallery wall, or on a computer chip.
Gerrard's works are constructed as simulations or virtual worlds, using 3D Real-time computer graphics – a technology originally developed for military use, and now used extensively in the videogame industry (he currently uses Unigine 3D engine). Although making use of advanced digital technology, Gerrard's work has been noted for its resistance to being categorised as 'new media art'. Gerrard himself regards realtime 3D as 'a post-cinematic medium in which one can manipulate and interact with time in new ways'. He has also said that the works constitute a continuing reflection upon his own time: 'these melancholic realms are in some way a road movie of the Twentieth Century, a revisiting of the extraordinary comforts and freedoms that I've experienced.'
The eerie hyperrealism that characterises the medium, and Gerrard's choice of industrial subjects, has led some to compare his w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sertv | The Sistema Estatal de Radio y Televisión (SERTV, "State Radio and Television System"), is the public broadcaster of Panama. It operates three radio networks and the Sertv national television network, broadcast on channel 11 in Panama City.
History
In 1967, the Universidad de Panamá began operation of a closed circuit television station on the university campus. In 1971, the station began to take programming from the new Radio y Televisión Educativa, and the operation moved to new facilities in 1975.
In 1977, work began to bring the station to broadcast television, as "Canal Once Telexperimental". The first channel 11 signal went to air on January 22, 1978, and the station received final approval to operate channel 11 in 1980. The name of "Canal 11" was replaced with "RTE" (not to be confused with the Irish broadcaster) after the end of military governance, and later "RTVE". During this time period it added transmitters in other areas of the country and expanded its radio operations.
In 2004, RTVE was restructured as the Sistema Estatal de Radio y Televisión, with improved studios and programming.
In 2010, SERTV became the first station to broadcast in the DVB-T format in Panama.
Programming
Current programming is totally different as used to be in the 80s, with new studios; news, interviews and TV shows are produced locally. These shows are called "Non Toxic Programming" (Produccion No Toxica) and the most important are:
Recordar es Vivir (old music video clip show)
El Poder de la Timba (local musicians show)
Sala 11 (movies review show)
Sertv Noticias (local news)
Special Programs
Mi Cancion
Sabores de Mi Barrio
Radio Stations
Sertv also operates 3 radio stations:
Nacional FM
Crisol FM
Radio Nacional de Panamá (AM)
Radio Panamá Internacional (online stream)
References
Television stations in Panama
Television channels and stations established in 1980
Mass media in Panama City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20query%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, the range query problem consists of efficiently answering several queries regarding a given interval of elements within an array. For example, a common task, known as range minimum query, is finding the smallest value inside a given range within a list of numbers.
Definition
Given a function that accepts an array, a range query on an array takes two indices and and returns the result of when applied to the subarray . For example, for a function that returns the sum of all values in an array, the range query returns the sum of all values in the range .
Solutions
Prefix sum array
Range sum queries may be answered in constant time and linear space by pre-computing an array of same length as the input such that for every index , the element is the sum of the first elements of . Any query may then be computed as follows:
This strategy may be extended to any other binary operation whose inverse function is well-defined and easily computable. It can also be extended to two-dimensional arrays with a similar pre-processing.
Dynamic range queries
A more difficult subset of the problem consists of executing range queries on dynamic data; that is, data that may mutate between each query. In order to efficiently update array values, more sophisticated data structures like the segment tree are necessary.
Examples
Semigroup operators
When the function of interest in a range query is a semigroup operator, the notion of is not always defined, so the strategy in the previous section does not work. Andrew Yao showed that there exists an efficient solution for range queries that involve semigroup operators. He proved that for any constant , a pre-processing of time and space allows to answer range queries on lists where is a semigroup operator in time, where is a certain functional inverse of the Ackermann function.
There are some semigroup operators that admit slightly better solutions. For instance when . Assume then returns the index of the minimum element of . Then denotes the corresponding minimum range query. There are several data structures that allow to answer a range minimum query in time using a pre-processing of time and space . One such solution is based on the equivalence between this problem and the lowest common ancestor problem.
The Cartesian tree of an array has as root and as left and right subtrees the Cartesian tree of and the Cartesian tree of respectively. A range minimum query is the lowest common ancestor in of and . Because the lowest common ancestor can be solved in constant time using a pre-processing of time and space , range minimum query can as well. The solution when is analogous. Cartesian trees can be constructed in linear time.
Mode
The mode of an array is the element that appears the most in it. For instance the mode of is . In case of a tie, any of the most frequent elements might be picked as the mode. A range mode query consists in pre-processing such that we c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDS%202400 | The MDS 2400 was a small floor-standing computer manufactured by Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation. The machine was originally developed by Atron Corporation as the Atron 501 Datamanager, introduced in 1969. It was marketed primarily for remote job entry applications and promoted as The Peripheral Processor.
Two related models from Mohawk were the 1200 and the 2300.
Description
The system had a base memory of 4 KB of core memory with a 2 μs cycle time, expandable to 32 KB. It supported one to four input/output channels with up to 16 devices per channel. It offered a choice of line printers between 280 and 1250 lines per minute (lpm), a 400 cards per minute (cpm) card reader, a 160 columns per second card punch, a paper tape reader, a 2.48 MB disk storage unit, and 7 and 9-track half-inch magnetic tape drives. An optional asynchronous terminal could be attached as a console.
The system supported synchronous communications at up to 9600 baud, and usually served as a remote job entry system to a larger mainframe computer. The remote job entry software provided full support for the HASP multi-leaving protocol, among others.<ref
See also
George Cogar
References
External links
Mohawk Data Sciences at the Computer Museum History Center
MDS 2400 manuals at Bitsavers.org
Remote job entry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20data%20type | In statistics, groups of individual data points may be classified as belonging to any of various statistical data types, e.g. categorical ("red", "blue", "green"), real number (1.68, -5, 1.7e+6), odd number (1,3,5) etc. The data type is a fundamental component of the semantic content of the variable, and controls which sorts of probability distributions can logically be used to describe the variable, the permissible operations on the variable, the type of regression analysis used to predict the variable, etc. The concept of data type is similar to the concept of level of measurement, but more specific: For example, count data require a different distribution (e.g. a Poisson distribution or binomial distribution) than non-negative real-valued data require, but both fall under the same level of measurement (a ratio scale).
Various attempts have been made to produce a taxonomy of levels of measurement. The psychophysicist Stanley Smith Stevens defined nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales. Nominal measurements do not have meaningful rank order among values, and permit any one-to-one transformation. Ordinal measurements have imprecise differences between consecutive values, but have a meaningful order to those values, and permit any order-preserving transformation. Interval measurements have meaningful distances between measurements defined, but the zero value is arbitrary (as in the case with longitude and temperature measurements in degree Celsius or degree Fahrenheit), and permit any linear transformation. Ratio measurements have both a meaningful zero value and the distances between different measurements defined, and permit any rescaling transformation.
Because variables conforming only to nominal or ordinal measurements cannot be reasonably measured numerically, sometimes they are grouped together as categorical variables, whereas ratio and interval measurements are grouped together as quantitative variables, which can be either discrete or continuous, due to their numerical nature. Such distinctions can often be loosely correlated with data type in computer science, in that dichotomous categorical variables may be represented with the Boolean data type, polytomous categorical variables with arbitrarily assigned integers in the integral data type, and continuous variables with the real data type involving floating point computation. But the mapping of computer science data types to statistical data types depends on which categorization of the latter is being implemented.
Other categorizations have been proposed. For example, Mosteller and Tukey (1977) distinguished grades, ranks, counted fractions, counts, amounts, and balances. Nelder (1990) described continuous counts, continuous ratios, count ratios, and categorical modes of data. See also Chrisman (1998), van den Berg (1991).
The issue of whether or not it is appropriate to apply different kinds of statistical methods to data obtained from different kinds of measurement proced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Longin%20Zeller | Karl Longin Zeller (December 28, 1924, Šiauliai, Lithuania – July 20, 2006, Tübingen) was a German mathematician and computer scientist who worked in numerical analysis and approximation theory. He is the namesake of Zeller operators.
Zeller was drafted into the Wehrmacht, and lost his right arm on the Soviet front of World War II.
He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 1950, under the supervision of Konrad Knopp and Erich Kamke, and remained at Tübingen for most of his career as a professor and as director of the computer center. He left Tübingen in 1959 for a professorship in Stuttgart but returned to Tübingen in 1960 with a personal chair in "the mathematics of supercomputer facilities" (), making him one of the founders of computer science in Germany. He has over 200 academic descendants.
In 1993, he was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Siegen.
Selected publications
Theorie der Limitierungsverfahren, Berlin: Springer (1st edition, 1958) (2nd edition, 1970)
References
20th-century German mathematicians
German computer scientists
University of Tübingen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
1924 births
2006 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NFC-enabled%20mobile%20devices | NFC stands for Near-field communication.
Feature phones
Smartphones
A-H
I-P
Q-Z
Tablet computers
Smartwatches
Apple Watch
All Apple Watch versions, including from the original launched in 2015, are NFC-capable and support Apple Pay.
List of NFC-enabled Wear OS devices
Some Wear OS smartwatches have NFC capabilities for contactless payments via Google Pay or Samsung Pay.
Video game controllers
On 27 January 2012, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced in a briefing that the controller of the Wii U home console will have an installable NFC function. By installing this functionality, it will become possible to create cards and figurines that can electronically read and write data via noncontact NFC and to expand the new play format in the video game world. Adoption of this functionality will enable various other possibilities such as using it as a means of making micropayments.
see more
List of 3D-enabled mobile phones
Projector phone
References
Near-field communication
NFC-enabled mobile devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20predictor%20function | In statistics and in machine learning, a linear predictor function is a linear function (linear combination) of a set of coefficients and explanatory variables (independent variables), whose value is used to predict the outcome of a dependent variable. This sort of function usually comes in linear regression, where the coefficients are called regression coefficients. However, they also occur in various types of linear classifiers (e.g. logistic regression, perceptrons, support vector machines, and linear discriminant analysis), as well as in various other models, such as principal component analysis and factor analysis. In many of these models, the coefficients are referred to as "weights".
Definition
The basic form of a linear predictor function for data point i (consisting of p explanatory variables), for i = 1, ..., n, is
where , for k = 1, ..., p, is the value of the k-th explanatory variable for data point i, and are the coefficients (regression coefficients, weights, etc.) indicating the relative effect of a particular explanatory variable on the outcome.
Notations
It is common to write the predictor function in a more compact form as follows:
The coefficients β0, β1, ..., βp are grouped into a single vector β of size p + 1.
For each data point i, an additional explanatory pseudo-variable xi0 is added, with a fixed value of 1, corresponding to the intercept coefficient β0.
The resulting explanatory variables xi0(= 1), xi1, ..., xip are then grouped into a single vector xi of size p + 1.
Vector Notation
This makes it possible to write the linear predictor function as follows:
using the notation for a dot product between two vectors.
Matrix Notation
An equivalent form using matrix notation is as follows:
where and are assumed to be a (p+1)-by-1 column vectors, is the matrix transpose of (so is a 1-by-(p+1) row vector), and indicates matrix multiplication between the 1-by-(p+1) row vector and the (p+1)-by-1 column vector, producing a 1-by-1 matrix that is taken to be a scalar.
Linear regression
An example of the usage of a linear predictor function is in linear regression, where each data point is associated with a continuous outcome yi, and the relationship written
where is a disturbance term or error variable — an unobserved random variable that adds noise to the linear relationship between the dependent variable and predictor function.
Stacking
In some models (standard linear regression, in particular), the equations for each of the data points i = 1, ..., n are stacked together and written in vector form as
where
The matrix X is known as the design matrix and encodes all known information about the independent variables. The variables are random variables, which in standard linear regression are distributed according to a standard normal distribution; they express the influence of any unknown factors on the outcome.
This makes it possible to find optimal coefficients through the method of least |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwefel%20%28surname%29 | Schwefel (German for sulfur) is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hans-Paul Schwefel (born 1940), German computer scientist and professor emeritus at University of Dortmund
Harald Schwefel, German physicist
Norbert Schwefel (born 1960), German musician
German-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Marshall%20Plan%20Initiative | The Global Marshall Plan Initiative self-report as an integrative organizational platform for a "world in balance". Composed of a network of more than 5000 supporters from all levels of society, brought together from politics, economics and civil society, the Initiative is based on five core goals for fair globalization. Through its network-like character, it is organized through even hierarchies and without a center. Everyone is invited to actively participate and take action with their circles and the accompanying opportunities to implement a world in balance.
The goal of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative is to establish a framework compatible with sustainability for the global economy – a global Eco-Social Market Economy.
Origins
The idea of a Global Marshall Plan was first published in 1990 by U.S. politician, entrepreneur and environmentalist Al Gore in his book “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit”. The choice of name deliberately recalls the historical Marshall Plan after the Second World War (officially: European Recovery Program), a symbol for hope, solidarity and peace.
The idea of a Global Marshall Plan was not new but had already been endorsed in the 1990s by personalities from a variety of sectors: Kofi Annan, Al Gore, Hans Küng, Susan George, Mikhail Gorbachev, His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, George Soros, Lutz Wicke, Georg Winter and many others (Global Contract). As early as the beginning of the 1990s an ecological Marshall Plan was established by prominent personalities such as journalist Franz Alt and German Green politician Joscka Fisher. Along with many others, they called for the establishment of an eco-social market economy, 100 billion DM put towards the environment every year and a kerosene tax.
As the world increasingly finds itself in a difficult, unsustainable situation as a result of rapid globalization, both in terms of environmental issues, poverty and unequal distribution, as well as the disproportionate cultural balance, on May 16, 2003 representatives from 16 civil society organizations revived the original idea for a global Marshall Plan as a movement for world peace, sustainability and justice, and at the Frankfurt airport, the Global Marshall Plan initiative was launched. Since the initiative should be organized as a network - i.e., locally and without hierarchies - the coordination of tasks and activities was assigned to different people and institutions: the coordination of content was taken up by Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Radermacher as Head of FAW/n, politicians, and Josef Riegler, with particular importance on an EU level and the Eco-Social Forum Europe. The coordination, initiation and promotion of supporters’ activities internationally were assigned the Global Contract Foundation and Frithjof Finkbeiner. Due to the enormous positive response and the wide range of activities, this commission was soon transferred to the Global Marshall Plan Foundation.
The long |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20cache | In computing, a distributed cache is an extension of the traditional concept of cache used in a single locale. A distributed cache may span multiple servers so that it can grow in size and in transactional capacity. It is mainly used to store application data residing in database and web session data. The idea of distributed caching has become feasible now because main memory has become very cheap and network cards have become very fast, with 1 Gbit now standard everywhere and 10 Gbit gaining traction. Also, a distributed cache works well on lower cost machines usually employed for web servers as opposed to database servers which require expensive hardware.
An emerging internet architecture known as Information-centric networking (ICN) is one of the best examples of a distributed cache network. The ICN is a network level solution hence the existing distributed network cache management schemes are not well suited for ICN. In the supercomputer environment, distributed cache is typically implemented in the form of burst buffer.
Examples
Aerospike
Apache Ignite
Couchbase
Ehcache
GigaSpaces
Hazelcast
Infinispan
Memcached
Oracle Coherence
Riak
Redis
SafePeak
Tarantool
Velocity/AppFabric
See also
Cache algorithms
Cache coherence
Cache-oblivious algorithm
Cache stampede
Cache language model
Database cache
Cache manifest in HTML5
References
Cache (computing)
Distributed computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Udoh | Colin Udoh is a Nigerian journalist and sports television presenter.
Colin is currently working for Kwese Sports.
He has featured as a studio analyst for the Super Sport television network and has written for the African football magazine Kick Off. He worked for the Nigeria Football Federation as a media officer.
Udoh is married to the female Nigerian international football player Mercy Akide.
In an interview, he mentioned how working as the Nigerian national side's Media Officer was part fun, but part frustrating. Despite the frustrations, he said he wouldn't change the experience for anything.
References
External links
People from Port Harcourt
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Media people from Rivers State
Journalists from Rivers State
Television personalities from Rivers State |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPC%20and%20NPC | Usage Parameter Control (UPC) and Network Parameter Control (NPC) are functions that may be performed in a computer network. UPC may be performed at the input to a network "to protect network resources from malicious as well as unintentional misbehaviour". NPC is the same and done for the same reasons as UPC, but at the interface between two networks.
UPC and NPC may involve traffic shaping, where traffic is delayed until it conforms to the expected levels and timing, or traffic policing, where non-conforming traffic is either discarded immediately, or reduced in priority so that it may be discarded downstream in the network if it would cause or add to congestion.
Uses
In ATM
The actions for UPC and NPC in the ATM protocol are defined in ITU-T Recommendation I.371 Traffic control and congestion control in B ISDN and the ATM Forum's User-Network Interface (UNI) Specification. These provide a conformance definition, using a form of the leaky bucket algorithm called the Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (GCRA), which specifies how cells are checked for conformance with a cell rate, or its reciprocal emission interval, and jitter tolerance: either a Cell Delay Variation tolerance (CDVt) for testing conformance to the Peak Cell Rate (PCR) or a Burst Tolerance or Maximum Burst Size (MBS) for testing conformance to the Sustainable Cell Rate (SCR).
UPC and NPC define a Maximum Burst Size (MBS) parameter on the average or Sustained Cell Rate (SCR), and a Cell Delay Variation tolerance (CDVt) on the Peak Cell Rate (PCR) at which the bursts are transmitted. This MBS can be derived from or used to derive the maximum variation between the arrival time of traffic in the bursts from the time it would arrive at the SCR, i.e. a jitter about that SCR.
UPC and NPC are normally performed on a per Virtual Channel (VC) or per Virtual Path (VP) basis, i.e. the intervals are measured between cells bearing the same virtual channel identifier (VCI) and or virtual path identifier (VPI). If the function is implemented at, e.g., a switch input, then because cells on the different VCs and VPs arrive sequentially, only a single implementation of the function is required. However, this single implementation must be able to access the parameters relating to a specific connection using the VCI and or VPI to address them. This is often done using Content-addressable memory (CAM), where the VCI and or VPI form the addressable content.
Cells that fail to conform, i.e. because they come too soon after the preceding cell on the channel or path because the average rate is too high or because the jitter exceeds the tolerance, may be dropped, i.e. discarded, or reduced in priority so that they may be discarded downstream if there is congestion.
The GCRA, while, possibly, complicated to describe and understand, can be implemented very simply. While it is more likely to be implemented in hardware, as an example, an assembly language implementation can be written in as few as 15 to 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Robot | Big Robot is a UK company that specialises in developing computer games, registered in Halstead, England. The company was started by Jim Rossignol in 2010.
AVSEQ was released in 2011, Fallen City is in the final bug-testing phase prior to release, while currently under development is Lodestone (on hold). Sir, You Are Being Hunted was released in 2014.
Games
AVSEQ
The name comes from combining audio and visual (audio-visual) with "sequencer". Game play is abstract in nature, and revolves around linking "atom" structures together to gain points. This also unlocks musical notes and activates that level's audio sequencer. The developers claim that "Each AVSEQ level has 2.2300745198530623×10^43 possible audio permutations".
Fallen City
This game is about rebuilding a city which has fallen into decay, which came from an idea by Rossignol that was put to Channel 4 in 2010, and was commissioned by Channel 4 Education. The game aims to educate children, by showing them how persuading people to clean up and repair can raise morale and improve the behaviour of citizens.
The game is played in the first person, the player being able to walk through the city and persuade the citizens, who are known as "Angries", to repair it, clean it up, and rebuild. The Angries change colour according to their mood, purple being the ultimate state of anger and despair. Completing certain tasks gives the Angries extra powers, such as the ability to create street art, and certain infrastructure repairs improve the areas communications and give the community new systems for their benefit. Keith Stuart of The Guardian described some of these—"Reactivating a communications tower will get the word out about clean-up efforts, [...] the trade plaza represents commerce and a system that pumps curry into every home is a great allegory for everyday utilities."
Rossignol says that Fallen City is based around the "broken windows theory" of James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, which says that keeping an area in good-repair changes a populations outlook and so prevents further vandalism and prevents a descent into more serious crimes. In an interview in The Guardian, Rossignol states that "The reason the Angries have trashed their city is because they have been promised too much by the people in charge; the promises haven't been fulfilled and they've ended up feeling frustrated and alienated. So they've deliberately trashed the city – to get what they were promised."
Lodestone
Lodestone is an exploration game, the purpose of which is to survive a journey through magnetic islands and the game environment, populated with artificial lifeforms. The game has been put on hold while the company develops its fourth game – Sir, You Are Being Hunted.
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Created using the Unity game engine. A Kickstarter pledge drive to fund completion of the game was launched on 2 November 2012.
The Signal From Tölva
A science fiction first-person shooter made with the Unity game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27re%20Off%20%28game%20show%29 | They're Off is a game show broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from July 7 to August 18, 1949.
Premise
The 30-minute show used films of historic horse races as a basis for questions posed to contestants. Tom Shirley was the host, and Byron Field called the races.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
They're Off at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1940s American game shows
1949 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20McCandless | David McCandless (born 1971) is a British data-journalist, writer and information designer.
Education, personal life
McCandless is an alumnus of Westfield College and lives in London.
Career
McCandless is the founder of the visual blog Information Is Beautiful. Early explorations into the synergy between data visualisation and his work as a journalist led to the development of Information Is Beautiful and the subsequent publication of his book of the same name (titled A Visual Miscellaneum in the United States).
McCandless began his career writing for cult video game magazines such as Your Sinclair and PC Zone in the late 1980s and 1990s before moving on to work for The Guardian and Wired magazine. Since the publication of Information Is Beautiful in 2009, his information design work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Wired, and Die Zeit, and has also been showcased at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Wellcome Trust gallery in London, and at the Tate Britain. His second book, Knowledge Is Beautiful, was published in 2014.
Bibliography
Information is Beautiful (2009)
Knowledge is Beautiful (2014)
References
External links
Information Is Beautiful: ideas, issues, knowledge, data — visualized!
David McCandless profile & articles, The Guardian
The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions digital exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Knowledge Is Beautiful by David McCandless – Review
Alumni of Westfield College
British digital artists
English designers
Information visualization experts
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Video | New Video (stylized as NEWVIDEO) is an American entertainment distributor and collector of independent digital content. The company works with independent producers, filmmakers and television networks to curate content for many types of distribution platforms, including digital, cable, video on demand, Blu-ray, DVD, and theatrical releases.
Until 2012, New Video marketed and distributed television series and films for A&E Home Entertainment, which included A&E, History Channel, and Lifetime. New Video's library includes Major League Baseball games, films from Tribeca Film and storybook content from Scholastic and Weston Woods. New Video also previously distributed films for Arthouse Films and Plexifilm.
History
In 2011, New Video partnered with China Lion to distribute Chinese-language films across North America via various platforms. New Video was named as the exclusive aggregation partner to digital platforms for the Sundance Institute's Artist Services Initiative.
Co-presidents of New Video, Susan Margolin and Steve Savage, received the 2011 Digital 25 Award by the Producers Guild of America and Variety. The award recognizes individuals who have contributed to the advancement of digital entertainment and storytelling.
New Video was purchased by Cinedigm in early 2012.
In 2013, New Video purchased Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment, and became the successor to GoodTimes Entertainment.
Services
New Video Digital is the world's largest independent digital video distributor. It provides over 10,000 hours of film and television to download and to streaming platforms, such as iTunes, Netflix, and Hulu.
Select releases
Divisions
Docurama Films is a distributor of home video documentaries and has expanded to digital and theatrical platforms. In 2009, Docurama Films celebrated its tenth anniversary by screening special series at the IFC Center in New York City.
Select Docurama Films releases include:
The Atomic Cafe (1982)
Best Boy (1979)
Blue Vinyl (2002)
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1990)
Gasland (2010)
Genghis Blues (1999)
Hell and Back Again (2011)
Hot Coffee (2011)
The Last Mountain (2011)
Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)
Southern Comfort (2001)
The Weather Underground (2002)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005)
Flatiron Film Company is a distributor of next-generation Indian and foreign films, as well as web titles from Mondo Media, such as Happy Tree Friends. Flatiron distributed Mondo's first feature-length animated film, Dick Figures: The Movie. The company also handles US theatrical distribution for Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, Brazil's highest-grossing film.
Select Flatiron Film Company releases include:
Digimon
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
The Guild (Season 1–4)
Red vs. Blue (Season 1–16)
RWBY (Volume 1–6)
The Secret of Kells (2009)
Yu-Gi-Oh!
References
External links
Official website
1990 establishments in New York (state)
American companies established in 1990
Mass media companies established in 1990
Entertainment compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20and%20the%20Gang | Bear and the Gang is an advertising campaign for the Boston Bruins created by Arnold Worldwide and the Boston Bruins as part of the Bruins Digital Entertainment Network ('Bruins DEN'). It consists of several episodes that are approximately 60 seconds each. Each episode is centered on the activities of the Bear character from the Bruins Hockey Rules commercials (not to be confused with the bear 'Blades,' who is the Bruins official mascot), and is in the form of a 1980s television sitcom.
Each Bear and the Gang episode guest-stars other popular Bruins figures besides the Bear, including players, coaches, Jack Edwards, Rene Rancourt, and 'Holly,' the captain of the Bruins Ice Girls.
History
On March 26, 2012 the Boston Bruins offered users of the Bruins official mobile app exclusive access to the first episode of Bear and the Gang. That same day, the Bruins posted the introduction to the 'series' on their website.
Cast
Cast members of the series include (in order of appearance in the opening credits):
'The Bear'
Brad Marchand
Jack Edwards
Rene Rancourt
Tyler Seguin
Shawn Thornton
Andrew Ference
Tuukka Rask
Dennis Seidenberg
Zdeno Chara
Adam McQuaid
David Krejci
Patrice Bergeron
Johnny Boychuk
Cam Neely
Claude Julien as "Coach"
Also Starring
Bruins Ice Girl Holly
Episodes
References
External links
Boston Bruins Official Web Site
Boston Bruins
Advertising campaigns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra%20D%C3%A1n%20von%20Neumann | Klára Dán von Neumann (born Klára Dán; 18 August 1911 – 10 November 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, self-taught engineer and computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first woman to execute modern-style code on a computer. Klára made significant contributions to the world of programming, including work on the Monte Carlo method, ENIAC, and MANIAC I. She was introduced to a lot of her work through her husband, John von Neumann.
Early life
Klára Dán, known as Klári to her friends and family, was born in Budapest, Hungary on August 18, 1911, to Károly Dán and Kamilla Stadler, a wealthy Jewish couple. Her father had previously served in the Austro-Hungarian Army as an officer during World War I, and the family moved to Vienna to escape Béla Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic. Once the regime was overthrown, the family moved back to Budapest. Her family was wealthy, and often held parties where Dán would meet many different people from various stations in life.
At 14, Dán became a national champion in figure skating. She attended in Budapest and graduated in 1929.
Work
After their wedding, Dán and John von Neumann immigrated to the United States, where he held a professorship at Princeton University. Upon immigration, Klára listed her profession as "housewife". However, after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, more jobs for women opened up in the U.S. and Klára was able to secure a position at Princeton. Her title was "Head of Statistical Computing Group". In 1943, von Neumann moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to work on calculations as part of the Manhattan Project. Dán remained at Princeton until 1946, working at the university's Office of Population Research. At this time, she was sharing an office with Adele Goldstein. Dán also enrolled in calculus at Princeton in 1947. Both Goldstein and Dán were then contracted to work in Los Alamos New Mexico in early summer of 1947.
And so, after the war, Dán joined von Neumann in New Mexico to program the MANIAC I machine, which could store data, designed by her husband and Julian Bigelow. This work was entirely novel, a feat that had never been completed before. Klárá scored the job, however, due to the belief at the time that programming was menial work, similar to human computing, a job commonly held by women. For decades after this, society would devalue the work of programming, which ultimately allowed women to be a large part of the workforce. More specifically, Dán's job was to translate mathematical instructions into a language the computer could understand. To do this she would look up "codes" - numbers that correspond to instructions for the computer. This is the origin of the word "coder", and the birth of the modern code paradigm. This coding also required her to ask for sections of the machine to be rebuilt, as there was not a clear distinction between software and hardware at the time. She then worked on the ENIAC (Electronic N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20SpeedVision%20World%20Challenge | The 1999 SpeedVision World Challenge was the tenth running of the Sports Car Club of America's premier series. It was the first season that the series would be covered by the SpeedVision network. The season also marked a new format, with Touring 1 becoming Grand Touring and Touring 2 becoming Touring Car. 1999 was also the first year in which the series would have a corporate sponsor since 1991. Pontiac got its final series win this season, joining Oldsmobile and Saturn as General Motors brands gradually disappearing from the World Challenge. It was not until the rise of the Cadillac CTS-V that a GM division other than Chevrolet would see a win. This also led to the beginning of a longtime BMW-Mazda-Acura affair in touring car.
Results
References
GT World Challenge America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Schrijver | Alexander (Lex) Schrijver (born 4 May 1948 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of discrete mathematics and optimization at the University of Amsterdam and a fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. Since 1993 he has been co-editor in chief of the journal Combinatorica.
Biography
Schrijver earned his Ph.D. in 1977 from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, under the supervision of Pieter Cornelis Baayen. He worked for the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (under its former name as the Mathematisch Centrum) in pure mathematics from 1973 to 1979, and was a professor at Tilburg University from 1983 to 1989. In 1989 he rejoined the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, and in 1990 he also became a professor at the University of Amsterdam. In 2005, he stepped down from management at CWI and instead became a CWI Fellow.
Awards and honors
Schrijver was one of the winners of the Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 1982 for his work with Martin Grötschel and László Lovász on applications of the ellipsoid method to combinatorial optimization; he won the same prize in 2003 for his research on minimization of submodular functions. He won the INFORMS Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 1986 for his book Theory of Linear and Integer Programming, and again in 2004 for his book Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency. He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1986 in Berkeley and of the ICM in 1998 in Berlin. In 2003, he won the George B. Dantzig Prize of the Mathematical Programming Society and SIAM for "deep and fundamental research contributions to discrete optimization". In 2006, he was a joint winner of the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize with Grötschel and Lovász for their work in combinatorial optimization, and in particular for their joint work in the book Geometric Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization showing the polynomial-time equivalence of separation and optimization. In 2008, his work with Adri Steenbeek on scheduling the Dutch train system was honored with INFORMS' Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He won the SIGMA prize of the Dutch SURF foundation in 2008, for a mathematics education project. In 2015 he won the EURO Gold Medal, the highest distinction within Operations Research in Europe.
In 2005 Schrijver won the Spinoza Prize of the NWO, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands, for his research in combinatorics and algorithms. Later in the same year he became a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In 2002, Schrijver received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and in 2011 he received another one from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary.
Schrijver became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He became a corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet%20Genius | Sweet Genius was an American reality-based cooking television series on the Food Network. The series was hosted by pastry chef Ron Ben-Israel. The premise of the show pitted four chefs, of confectionery and pastry, against one another to compete for a chance to win $10,000 based on the creativity and taste of each dish. The first season premiered on September 22, 2011. Season two debuted on March 15, 2012. Season 3 premiered on October 18, 2012, ending on January 24, 2013.
Format
Similar to the format of the show Chopped, four chefs compete in separate rounds with mandatory ingredients. After each round, a chef is eliminated from the competition. What differentiates it from Chopped is that they also must include an inspiration. In Season 1, the rounds were divided into challenges to create Frozen, Baked and Chocolate desserts and also an electronic voice told them their inspiration and ingredients for the round. Chef Ben-Israel had a much stricter personality in this season. In the following seasons, the format was changed to Chocolate, Candy and Cake and the electronic voice was taken out, while Chef Ben-Israel became far less stricter and more cheery.
At the beginning of each round, Chef Ben-Israel reveals the first mandatory ingredient followed by an inspiration. The second mandatory ingredient is revealed at the halfway point of each round. On rare occasions, a third ingredient is introduced. The time limit goes from 40 minutes in the first round, 50 minutes in the second round, and then an hour in the final round. After each round, Chef Ben-Israel tastes and evaluates each dessert. The loser of the round is revealed when Chef Ben-Israel formally tells the contestant, "You were no sweet genius."
Series overview
Episodes
All episode titles ended with the word "Genius".
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2012-2013)
References
External links
Official Page
2011 in American television
2010s American cooking television series
2011 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Cooking competitions in the United States
Food Network original programming
2013 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Johannesburg | The Johannesburg tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Johannesburg, South Africa, for just over 70 years until the start of the 1960s.
History
Opened on 2 February 1891, the network was operated initially by horsecars. From 14 February 1906, it was converted to electrical power.
Beginning on 26 August 1936, the trams were gradually supplemented by the Johannesburg trolleybus system, which was opened on that day.
However, the tramway network lasted for several more decades, until its closure on 18 March 1961. The last scheduled trams ran on the Kensington, Bez Valley and Malvern routes on the day before, and on the day of closure special commemorative trips were run. The trams on those routes were replaced by buses.
See also
History of Johannesburg
List of town tramway systems in Africa
Rail transport in South Africa
Trolleybuses in Johannesburg
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Passenger rail transport in South Africa
Johannesburg
Transport in Johannesburg
Johannesburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output%20%28C%2B%2B%29 | In the C++ programming language, input/output library refers to a family of class templates and supporting functions in the C++ Standard Library that implement stream-based input/output capabilities. It is an object-oriented alternative to C's FILE-based streams from the C standard library.
History
Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, wrote the first version of the stream I/O library in 1984, as a type-safe and extensible alternative to C's I/O library. The library has undergone a number of enhancements since this early version, including the introduction of manipulators to control formatting, and templatization to allow its use with character types other than char.
Standardization in 1998 saw the library moved into the std namespace, and the main header changed from <iostream.h> to <iostream>. It is this standardized version that is covered in the rest of the article.
Overview
Most of the classes in the library are actually very generalized class templates. Each template can operate on various character types, and even the operations themselves, such as how two characters are compared for equality, can be customized. However, the majority of code needs to do input and output operations using only one or two character types, thus most of the time the functionality is accessed through several typedefs, which specify names for commonly used combinations of template and character type.
For example, basic_fstream<CharT,Traits> refers to the generic class template that implements input/output operations on file streams. It is usually used as fstream which is an alias for basic_fstream<char,char_traits<char>>, or, in other words, basic_fstream working on characters of type char with the default character operation set.
The classes in the library could be divided into roughly two categories: abstractions and implementations. Classes, that fall into abstractions category, provide an interface which is sufficient for working with any type of a stream. The code using such classes doesn't depend on the exact location the data is read from or is written to. For example, such code could write data to a file, a memory buffer or a web socket without a recompilation. The implementation classes inherit the abstraction classes and provide an implementation for concrete type of data source or sink. The library provides implementations only for file-based streams and memory buffer-based streams.
The classes in the library could also be divided into two groups by whether it implements low-level or high-level operations. The classes that deal with low-level stuff are called stream buffers. They operate on characters without providing any formatting functionality. These classes are very rarely used directly. The high-level classes are called streams and provide various formatting capabilities. They are built on top of stream buffers.
The following table lists and categorizes all classes provided by the input-output library.
Header files
The classes of the in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Kimberley%2C%20Northern%20Cape | The Kimberley tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, for roughly 60 years until the late 1940s. Operation started with horse-drawn trams, on 21 June 1887. Mules replaced the horses in the early 1890s. For a few years starting in 1900 tram sets hauled by steam tram engines were also operated on some lines. The first day of public service for electric trams was 25 April 1905. The first electric trams were four single-deck cars purchased from the John Stephenson Car Company, of New York. More trams were purchased later from the J. G. Brill Company and the United Electric Car Company.
Lines were gradually electrified, but not until 1914 were the last mule trams taken out of use, upon conversion of the Kennilworth route to electric trams. The last day of service was 30 November 1947, with the closure of the Kennilworth route.
Heritage tramway
A heritage tram line opened in 1985, on a line connecting City Hall with the Open Mine Museum, located on the De Beers Consolidated Mining Company premises, passing the "Big Hole" (Kimberley Mine) along the way. It was designed as an attraction for museum visitors. Service began in October 1985, using a single tram: Open-sided, four-wheel car number 1, built in 1905 for the Kimberley & Alexandersfontein Electric Railway by the John Stephenson Company. It had been converted into "tower car" (overhead wire maintenance car) No. 4 in the mid-1920s, and was reconverted into a passenger car in 1983–1985, for use on the heritage tramway. The line is entirely single-track and includes street running along Church Street and roadside running along the old Pniel Road and North Circular Road.
Service on the line was suspended from 2005 until November 2006, during renovation of the museum. Service was suspended again in 2008, when erosion of the sides of the Big Hole led city officials to close Pniel Road to all traffic, for safety reasons. There was also a need to upgrade the braking systems on the tram, along with other issues. There was a possibility that the line might never reopen, but service resumed in June 2010.
See also
History of Kimberley, Northern Cape
List of town tramway systems in Africa
Rail transport in South Africa
Transport in Kimberley, Northern Cape
References
Further reading
External links
Kimberley, Northern Cape
Passenger rail transport in South Africa
Kimberley
Transport in the Northern Cape
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in South Africa
Kimberley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS%20mitigation | DDoS mitigation is a set of network management techniques and/or tools, for resisting or mitigating the impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on networks attached to the Internet, by protecting the target, and relay networks. DDoS attacks are a constant threat to businesses and organizations, by delaying service performance, or by shutting down a website entirely.
DDoS mitigation works by identifying baseline conditions for network traffic by analyzing "traffic patterns", to allow threat detection and alerting. DDoS mitigation also requires identifying incoming traffic, to separate human traffic from human-like bots and hijacked web browsers. This process involves comparing signatures and examining different attributes of the traffic, including IP addresses, cookie variations, HTTP headers, and browser fingerprints.
After the detection is made, the next process is filtering. Filtering can be done through anti-DDoS technology like connection tracking, IP reputation lists, deep packet inspection, blacklisting/whitelisting, or rate limiting.
One technique is to pass network traffic addressed to a potential target network through high-capacity networks, with "traffic scrubbing" filters.
Manual DDoS mitigation is no longer recommended, due to the size of attacks often outstripping the human resources available in many firms/organizations. Other methods to prevent DDoS attacks can be implemented, such as on-premises and/or cloud-based solution providers. On-premises mitigation technology (most commonly a hardware device) is often placed in front of the network. This would limit the maximum bandwidth available to what is provided by the Internet service provider. Common methods involve hybrid solutions, by combining on-premises filtering with cloud-based solutions.
Methods of attack
DDoS attacks are executed against websites and networks of selected victims. A number of vendors offer "DDoS-resistant" hosting services, mostly based on techniques similar to content delivery networks. Distribution avoids a single point of congestion and prevents the DDoS attack from concentrating on a single target.
One technique of DDoS attacks is to use misconfigured third-party networks, allowing the amplification of spoofed UDP packets. Proper configuration of network equipment, enabling ingress filtering and egress filtering, as documented in BCP 38 and RFC 6959, prevents amplification and spoofing, thus reducing the number of relay networks available to attackers.
Methods of mitigation
Use of Client Puzzle Protocol, or Guided tour puzzle protocol
Use of Content Delivery Network
Blacklist of IP addresses
Use of Intrusion detection system and Firewall
See also
Internet security
Web threat
Vulnerability (computing)
DDoS
Cybercrime
Cyberattack
VPN
References
Computer network security
System administration
Cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent%20Jackpot | Talent Jackpot was an American game show broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from July 19 to August 23, 1949.
The show replaced Ted Steele's program. It was hosted by Broadway producer Vinton Freedley (1891-1969) with Bud Collyer as his assistant and announcer.
Contestants won by getting the most applause from the audience, and the top prize was $250. If a contestant won for three consecutive weeks, he or she received a one-week theater contract.
Radio
The Mutual Broadcasting System had a similar program. John Reed King was host of the radio version of Talent Jackpot, which was broadcast weekly. Applause from the audience determined each episode's winner, with a prize of $500 and "one week's engagement at a leading theatre in the country." Contestants could win no more than two weeks, receiving a maximum of $1,000 and two weeks at a theatre.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1949 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
1940s American game shows
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Lost American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%2013 | Big Brother Brasil 13 was the thirteenth season of Big Brother Brasil, which premiered January 8, 2013, and the season finale airing March 26, 2013, on the Globo television network.
The show was produced by Endemol Globo and presented by Pedro Bial. The thirteenth season was officially confirmed since March 2012 as part of a millionaire contract between international Endemol and Globo, which guaranteed seasons until 2016.
The grand prize was R$1.5 million with tax allowances, with a R$150,000 prize offered to the runner up and a R$50,000 prize offered to the 3rd placed housemate. The season was the first to be broadcast in HD and the first to be broadcast in 3D worldwide.
As part of the twist for this season, six (seven later) former housemates re-entered the Big Brother House for another chance to win the grand prize, bringing the total number of finalists to twenty-one. Fani Pacheco was the only veteran to place higher than in her original season (7th to 6th) while other returnees ranked lower.
Production
Cast
Regional applications were due from March 30, 2012 to July 30, 2012. Regional auditions were held in nine different cities over Brazil.
National applications started on July 31, 2012 until October 31, 2012. The semi-finalist interviews were held in November 2012 and the final casting interviews took place early in December 2012.
The Game
Glass House
On January 5, 2013, six housemates were locked for seven days in a Glass House located at Santana Parque Shopping in São Paulo. It was announced that Marcello received the most votes among the males, while Kamilla received the most votes among the females. Both therefore left the Glass House on January 11, 2013, and entered the main house on January 14, 2013.
Veterans vs. Newbies
For the first Head of Household (HoH) competition of the season, Big Brother divided the housemates into two teams: the Veterans and the Newbies. When a housemate from a team won the role of the Head of Household, then all members of that team were automatically immune from eviction.
Bambam's withdrawal
On January 12, 2013, Big Brother Brasil 1 winner and current HoH at the time, Bambam, walked out of the game. At the live show on the same day, the Veterans decided as a group that Fani would be the new HoH. Following that, Yuri Fernandes from Big Brother Brasil 12 entered the house as Bambam's replacement.
Power of No
Introduced in previous season, the Power of No still gives the Monday Game Night winner, the opportunity to disqualify a number of people (previously determined by the producers) from competing in the Head of Household competition alongside the previous HoH. This season however, started on week 4, the vetoed housemates could remove themselves from the block and compete for HoH if they win the Save Me Challenge, which takes place on Wednesdays nights.
Big Brother Back and Forth
On week 3, after a fake Head of Household competition, housemates were told there's gonna be a surprise eviction. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Talent%20Shop | The Talent Shop is a TV series on the DuMont Television Network which aired from October 13, 1951, to March 29, 1952. The hosts were Fred Robbins and Pat Adair. This was a talent show for young people, set in a New York City drugstore.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
The Talent Shop at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1951 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
1950s American game shows
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost American television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoalteromonas%20agarivorans | Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans is a marine bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoalteromonas%20denitrificans | Pseudoalteromonas denitrificans is a marine bacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Pseudoalteromonas denitrificans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoalteromonas%20espejiana | Pseudoalteromonas espejiana is a marine bacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Pseudoalteromonas espejiana at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saniku%20Gakuin%20College | is a co-educational, Christian, private university in Japan. The main campus is located in Ōtaki, Chiba, Japan. The college is a part of the world-wide network of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) institutions of higher education, the world's second largest Christian school system.
History
The history of the college began in 1898 when William C. Grainger, an SDA missionary, founded in Azabu, Tokyo. In 1914 the school was moved to Suginami and renamed Amanuma Gakuin. In 1926 the school was moved to Sodegaura, Chiba and renamed Nihon San’iku Gakuin. The name San’iku (), combination of (, 'three') and (, 'to nourish, to bring up'), means 'to make people whole' in physical (), intellectual () and spiritual () attributes.
In 1943, during World War II, the school was forcibly closed. The school was resumed in 1947 after the war. In 1971 the school foundation established Saniku Gakuin Junior College with one department (Department of English Language). In 1978 the college was moved to the present Otaki Campus. In 1987 the college added the Department of Nursing, which became a four-year college in 2008.
Organization
As of April 2012, the university has no graduate schools.
Undergraduate schools
Faculty of Nursing
The students study at Otaki Campus during their first 2.5 years, then move to the Tokyo Campus next to the Tokyo Adventist Hospital in Suginami. After a one-year clinical study in Tokyo, they move to Otaki Campus again.
Affiliated schools
Saniku Gakuin Junior College
Department of English Communications
Saniku Gakuin College (technical college)
Department of Theology
Department of Christian Education
See also
List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities
Seventh-day Adventist education
References
External links
Universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Private universities and colleges in Japan
Universities and colleges in Chiba Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoalteromonas%20rubra | Pseudoalteromonas rubra is a marine bacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Pseudoalteromonas rubra at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 1976 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea%20Lawson | Chelsea Lawson is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Portrayed by Melissa Claire Egan, she was created by former head writer Maria Arena Bell and made her debut during the episode airing on November 11, 2011. Egan was said to be joining the soap opera as a mystery woman involved with Billy Abbott (Billy Miller).
Introduced as a con artist and "bad girl", Chelsea developed into a loving person. She arrived in town revealing that she had become pregnant with Billy's child, later giving up all her parental rights. She then began a romance with Adam Newman (Michael Muhney) which has garnered significant fan attention. Egan's portrayal has garnered a positive response, for which she received Daytime Emmy Award nominations in 2013, 2014, and 2021.
Casting
In October 2011, it was announced that actress Melissa Claire Egan, previously known for her role as Annie Lavery on ABC's All My Children, had been cast in a contract role named Chelsea. Egan's character was to be "a mysterious woman named Chelsea who is connected to Billy’s arrest in Myanmar". On the topic of Egan working with her former co-star Billy Miller, the actress said: "We are buds from way back, of course, from our days on All My Children, and so we have been hanging out even before I came to Y&R. Now being here with Billy I get to see him double." Egan debuted on November 11, 2011.
In January 2018, Daytime Confidential reported that Egan had decided not to renew her deal with the serial and would soon vacate the role. However, the door would be left open for the actress to return. The following day, Egan announced her decision to leave the serial, citing it as a "goodbye for now" on her social media. Egan departed on March 2, 2018, episode. In April 2019, Entertainment Weekly announced that Egan would reprise her role as Chelsea. She began filming in May, and Chelsea returned at the conclusion of the June 28, 2019, episode.
Development
Characterization
Chelsea was originally portrayed as a con artist and bad girl. Egan said that she "knew some people hate her", and she finds Chelsea "fun because she's a con artist". Catherine Bach was cast in the role of Anita Lawson, Chelsea's mother, to "play a vital role in Egan's character storyline". Egan said that "you see where Chelsea gets it from because her mom is a con artist, but way worse than Chelsea", and that "Chelsea has more of a conscience than Anita". Jeffrey Bardwell (Ted Shackelford) was then revealed as Chelsea's father, after which Egan said "it came out of nowhere", though "it’s great to have so many people to be intertwined with, if you will." On the topic of her character's personality, the actress said: "The viewers met Chelsea as a schemester and pregnant with child. She did not have any friends. And now, you will be able to see her personality. We can see her finally in some hot clothes, maybe a skirt, and high heels. She is no longer the beached whale at the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRISK | QRISK3 (the most recent version of QRISK) is a prediction algorithm for cardiovascular disease (CVD) that uses traditional risk factors (age, systolic blood pressure, smoking status and ratio of total serum cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol) together with body mass index, ethnicity, measures of deprivation, family history, chronic kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, atrial fibrillation, diabetes mellitus, and antihypertensive treatment.
A QRISK over 10 (10% risk of CVD event over the next ten years) indicates that primary prevention with lipid lowering therapy (such as statins) should be considered. In the UK, current National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend using QRISK (as opposed to the Framingham Risk Score).
The algorithm has subsequently been validated by an independent team from the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (University of Oxford) using an external dataset. The results were published in the BMJ and demonstrated that QRISK performed better than Framingham . www.qrisk.org is updated annually to reflect changes in populations, data quality and national guidelines (such as a change in age range over which cardiovascular risk should be assessed). The inclusion of ethnicity and deprivation in the QRISK2 algorithm is designed to help prevent widening health inequalities. The QIntervention website combines QRISK with a similar risk prediction tool (www.qdiabetes.org) to calculate risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. www.qintervention.org also allows clinicians to assess 'what if' scenarios i.e. how risk might change with modification of risk factors such as weight loss, stopping smoking, use of statins and better blood pressure control.
QRISK has also been developed further to estimate individualised lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease.
See also
Preventive medicine
Framingham Risk Score
References
External links
The web-based QRISK2 calculator
The web-based QRISK3 calculator
Medical scoring system
Symptoms and signs: Cardiac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Pietermaritzburg | The Pietermaritzburg tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, for just over 32 years in the first half of the 20th century.
History
Opened on , the network was always operated by electricity. It was closed in .
See also
List of town tramway systems in Africa
Rail transport in South Africa
References
External links
Passenger rail transport in South Africa
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg
Transport in KwaZulu-Natal
Pietermaritzburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BareMetal | BareMetal is an exokernel-based single address space operating system (OS) created by Return Infinity.
It is written in assembly to achieve high-performance computing with minimal footprint with a "just enough operating system" (JeOS) approach. The operating system is primarily targeted towards virtualized environments for cloud computing, or HPCs due to its design as a lightweight kernel (LWK). It could be used as a unikernel.
It was inspired by another OS written in assembly, MikeOS, and it is a recent example of an operating system that is not written in C or C++, nor based on Unix-like kernels.
Overview
Hardware requirements
AMD/Intel based 64-bit computer
Memory: 4 MB (plus 2 MB for every additional core)
Hard Disk: 32 MB
One task per core
Multitasking on BareMetal is unusual for modern operating systems. BareMetal uses an internal work queue that all CPU cores poll. A task added to the work queue will be processed by any available CPU core in the system and will execute until completion, which results in no context switch overhead.
Programming
API
An API is documented but, in line with its philosophy, the OS does not enforce entry points for system calls (e.g.: no call gates or other safety mechanisms).
C
BareMetal OS has a build script to pull the latest code, make the needed changes, and then compile C code using the Newlib C standard library.
C++
A mostly-complete C++11 Standard Library was designed and developed for working in ring 0. The main goal of such library is providing, on a library level, an alternative to hardware memory protection used in classical OSes, with help of carefully designed classes.
Rust
A Rust program demonstration was added to the programs in November 2014, demonstrating the ability to write Rust programs for BareMetal OS.
Networking
TCP/IP stack
A TCP/IP stack was the #1 feature request. A port of lwIP written in C was announced in October 2014.
minIP, a minimalist IP stack in ANSI C able to provide enough functionalities to serve a simple static webpage, is being developed as a proof of concept to learn the fundamentals in preparation for an x86-64 assembly re-write planned for the future.
References
External links
BareMetal OS Google Group discussion forum
Free software operating systems
Hobbyist operating systems
Microkernels
Software using the BSD license
Assembly language software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUDN%20%28brand%29 | TUDN (formerly Univision Deportes) is a sports programming division of Univision, a Spanish language broadcast television network owned by TelevisaUnivision USA, that is responsible for the production of televised coverage of sports events and magazine programs that air on the parent Univision network and sister network UniMás, and cable channels Galavisión and TUDN TV channel. The division's premier sports properties are its broadcast rights to Liga MX, select matches involving the Mexico and United States men's national soccer teams, tournament matches from the CONCACAF Gold Cup and Copa América. The division's headquarters are at TelevisaUnivision USA's South Florida headquarters in the Miami suburb of Doral, Florida.
History
On May 7, 2019, Univision has announced that they'll form a partnership with Grupo Televisa and rename Univision Deportes to TUDN. The new branding is a combination of abbreviations TDN and UDN, but the first two letters are also pronounced as the Spanish adjective "tu" (your), allowing the name to also be read as "Tu deportes network" ("Your sports network"). TUDN will be promoted as a multi-platform brand, and there will be closer collaboration between the American and Mexican counterparts—allowing for expanded studio programming in the morning and daytime hours (to bolster its expansion into European soccer with its recent acquisition of UEFA rights, and existing content such as Liga MX soccer). The rebranding took place on July 20 with a new slate of content built around live programming. UDN and Univision Deportes Radio were also renamed in line with this rebranding.
Programs throughout the years
Current broadcast rights
Soccer
Liga MX (encompassing Univision, UniMás, Galavisión and TUDN)
América
Atlas
Atlético San Luis
Cruz Azul
Juárez
León
Mazatlán
Necaxa
Pachuca
Puebla
Toluca
Querétaro
UANL
UNAM
Liga MX Femenil
América
Cruz Azul
Juárez
Toluca
UANL
UNAM
Mexico national team
CONCACAF (2012–present)
CONCACAF Gold Cup (2000–present)
CONCACAF Champions League
CONCACAF Nations League
CONCACAF Futsal Championship
CONCACAF U-20 Championship
CONCACAF U-17 Championship
CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship
CONMEBOL
Copa América (2016, 2021)
Copa América Femenina (2022)
CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (2012–present; TUDN)
UEFA (2018–2024)
UEFA Euro 2020 (inc. qualifiers)
UEFA Nations League
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
UEFA Youth and Junior Championships (U-21, U-19, and U-17)
UEFA Men's (A-team and U-19) and Women's Futsal Championships
UEFA Champions League (2018–2024)
UEFA Europa League (2018–2024)
UEFA Europa Conference League (2021–2024)
UEFA Super Cup (2018–2023)
UEFA Youth League (2018–2024)
American football
NFL on UniMas (2013-present)
Super Bowl (2024–Present, on years when CBS airs the game in English)
Bull riding
PBR Team Series (2023-present)
Other programming
Contacto Deportivo – weeknight spo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20spam | Social spam is unwanted spam content appearing on social networking services, social bookmarking sites, and any website with user-generated content (comments, chat, etc.). It can be manifested in many ways, including bulk messages, profanity, insults, hate speech, malicious links, fraudulent reviews, fake friends, and personally identifiable information.
History
As email spam filters became more effective, catching over 95% of these messages, spammers have moved to a new target – the social web. Over 90% of social network users have experienced social spam in some form. Those doing the “spamming” can be automated spambots/social bots, fake accounts, or real people. Social spammers often capitalize on breaking news stories to plant malicious links or dominate the comment sections of websites with disruptive or offensive content.
Social spam is on the rise, with analysts reporting over a tripling of social spam activity in six months. It is estimated that up to 40% of all social user accounts are fake, depending on the site. In August, 2012, Facebook admitted through its updated regulatory filing that 8.7% of its 955 million active accounts were fake.
Types
Spam
Commercial spam is a comment that has commercial content irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Many of the old email spam content resurfaced on social networks, from Viagra ads, to work-from-home scams, to counterfeit merchandise. Recent analysis showed social spammers content preferences changing slightly, with apparel and sports accounting for 36% of all posts. Others included: porn and pills (16%), SEO/web development (23%), and mortgage loans (12%).
Social networking spam
Social networking spam is spam directed specifically at users of internet social networking services such as Google+, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, or MySpace. Experts estimate that as many as 40% of social network accounts are used for spam. These spammers can utilize the social network's search tools to target certain demographic segments, or use common fan pages or groups to send notes from fraudulent accounts. Such notes may include embedded links to pornographic or other product sites designed to sell something. In response to this, many social networks have included a "report spam/abuse" button or address to contact. Spammers, however, frequently change their address from one throw-away account to another, and are thus hard to track.
Facebook pages with pictures and text asking readers to e.g. "show your support" or "vote" are used to gather likes, comments and shares which improve the pages' ranking. The page is then slightly changed and sold for profit.
Bulk
Bulk submissions are a set of comments repeated multiple times with the same or very similar text. These messages, also called as spam-bombs, can come in the form of one spammer sending out duplicate messages to a group of people in a short period of time, or many active spam accounts simultaneously posting duplicate messages. Bulk messages can c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass | Psycho-Pass (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese cyberpunk psychological thriller anime television series produced by Production I.G. It was co-directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani and Katsuyuki Motohiro and written by Gen Urobuchi, with character designs by Akira Amano and featuring music by Yugo Kanno. The series aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block between October 2012 and March 2013. Set in a dystopia of Sibyl System's governance of Japan, the plot follows the young woman Akane Tsunemori. She is introduced as a novice Inspector assigned to Division One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division, in charge of solving crimes with latent criminals, Enforcers.
Psycho-Pass originated from Production I.G.'s interest in making a successor to Mamoru Oshii's achievements. The series was inspired by several live-action films. Chief director Katsuyuki Motohiro aimed to explore psychological themes in society's youth using dystopian storylines. Multiple books and movies influenced Psycho-Pass, the most notable being the 1982 American science fiction film Blade Runner. The series was licensed by Funimation in North America. Several manga and novels, including an adaptation and prequels to the original story, have been published. An episodic video game adaptation called Chimi Chara Psycho-Pass was developed by Nitroplus staffers in collaboration with Production I.G. New novels and another manga were serialized in 2014.
The first season of the anime garnered critical acclaim in both Japan and the West from critics praising the characters' roles and interactions set within the dystopian environment. The animation has also been praised despite issues in latter episodes which required fixing in the DVD volumes of the series.
A second season aired between October and December 2014, with a feature film titled, Psycho-Pass: The Movie released in January 2015. In 2019, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System premiered between January and March. A third season aired between October and December 2019, with a sequel film, Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector, released in March 2020. A new anime film titled Psycho-Pass Providence was released in May 2023. All of the stories take place in an authoritarian future dystopia where omnipresent public sensors continuously scan the mental states of every passing citizen in order to determine their criminal propensity.
Synopsis
Setting
Psycho-Pass is set in a futuristic Japan governed by the , a powerful biomechatronic computer network which endlessly measures the biometrics of Japanese citizens' brains and mentalities using a "cymatic scan." The resulting assessment is called a , which includes a numeric index, revealing the citizen's criminality potential, and a color-coded Hue, alerting law enforcement to other data, as well as the improvement (clearing) or decline (clouding) of said Psycho-Pass. When a targeted individual's Crime Coefficient index exceeds the accepted threshold (100), they are pursued, ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20wavelength | In the context of wavelength-division multiplexing, an alien wavelength is a "colored" optical signal that is originated from equipment not under the direct control of the transmission network operator. This technique was first mentioned in 2009.
Alien Wave transport involves transparent transmission of colored optical channels over pre-existing third-party physical infrastructure. In other words, Alien Wave transport implies an innovative spectrum utilization arrangement between an optical infrastructure owner and a bandwidth crippled customer. The fact that multiple providers co-exist and utilize the common fiber and optical layer infrastructure turns out to be a viable and cost-effective way to scale-up network capacity through minimal capital and operational investments.
A practical example of an Alien Wave implementation is one where network resources owned by one carrier are being utilized to transport optical channels that are in the control of a secondary carrier. The possibility of Alien Wave insertion without any impact to existing services has resulted in a rapid acceptance of this technology by the telecom service provider community.
References
See also
Dark fiber
Fiber-optic communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westchester%20Interfaith/Interagency%20Network%20for%20Disaster%20and%20Emergency%20Recovery | Westchester Interfaith/Interagency Network for Disaster and Emergency Recovery (WINDER) was founded in June 2007 in response to local flooding in Mamaroneck, New York, from the April 2007 nor'easter in order to coordinate long-term community and faith-based organizational assistance in response to local disasters as well as better prepare the community for future disasters. WINDER was a non-profit coalition of about a dozen local churches, community groups and charitable organizations. It focused on helping the elderly or the disabled victims who were awaiting FEMA assistance as well as those who needed physical assistance with basement cleanups. In June 2007, WINDER received a $20,000 grant from Episcopal Relief and Development, and along with private donations, enabled WINDER to aid the nearly four dozen cases it handled as well as to hire a part-time assistant that would answer its telephone hotline.
It was led by Board President and founder, Deborah G. Tammearu, the reverend of Saint Thomas Episcopal Church in Mamaroneck, as well as a member of the Episcopal Diocese of New York Disaster Response Team. Also on the board is Dave Currie of the United Way. Following the complete recovery from the flooding WINDER ceased to operate.
References
Disaster management
Disaster preparedness in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion%20%28disambiguation%29 | Recursion is the process of repeating items in a self-similar way.
Recursion may also refer to
Recursion (computer science), a method where the solution to a problem depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem
Recurrence relation, a recursive formula for a sequence of numbers
Mathematical induction, a method of proof also called "proof by recursion"
Recursion, a 2004 science fiction novel by Tony Ballantyne
Recursion, a 2019 science fiction novel by Blake Crouch
Recursive science fiction, science fiction about science fiction
See also
Recursive function (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20H.%20Westervelt | Franklin Herbert Westervelt ( – ) was an American engineer, computer scientist, and educator at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. Westervelt received degrees in Mathematics, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He attained his PhD in 1961. He was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan and an Associate Director at the U-M Computing Center. He was involved in early studies on how to use computers in engineering education.
Biography
He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan on to Herbert Oleander Westervelt and Dorothy Ulbright.
From 1965 to 1970 he was Project Director for the ARPA sponsored CONCOMP (Research in Conversational Use of Computers) Project. He was involved in the design of the architecture and negotiations with IBM over the virtual memory features that would be included in what became the IBM S/360 Model 67 computer. When IBM's TSS/360 time-sharing operating system for the S/360-67 was not available, the CONCOMP project supported the initial development of Michigan Terminal System (MTS) in cooperation with the staff of the University of Michigan Computing Center. This included David L. Mills development of the original PDP-8 Data Concentrator with its interface to an IBM S/360 Input/Output channel, the first such interface to be built outside of IBM. CONCOMP also developed the integration for the IBM 7772 based Audio Response Unit (ARU) as an MTS I/O device, the MAD/I compiler, mini-computer based graphics terminals, and the Set-Theoretic Data Structure model that was later used in ILIR:MICRO.
ARPANET program manager Larry Roberts asked Frank to explore the questions of message size and contents for the ARPANET, and to write a position paper on the intercomputer communication protocol including “conventions for character and block transmission, error checking and re transmission, and computer and user identification." Frank also served as a representative to the statewide Michigan Inter-university Committee on Information Systems (MICIS) and was involved in establishing the MERIT Computer Network.
Fred Gibbons, a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist, said that the University of Michigan College of Engineering, where he earned his BSE and MSE degrees in the late 1960s and early 1970s when computers were unknown or a novelty in most classrooms and the school didn’t even offer a formal computer major, "... was at the forefront of technology that turned out to be very important to me personally, and I got early exposure to it from a couple of great guys–professors Frank Westervelt and Bernard Galler."
U-M Vice President for Research Geoffrey Norman, writing in 1976, gave special credit to the triumvirate of Michigan computer specialists who contributed greatly to the future of computing at Michigan and in the nation as a whole. "Bartels, Arden, and Westervelt," Norman has said, "were a team that we took great care |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajai%20Chowdhry | Ajai Chowdhry (born 29 August 1950) is one of the six founding members of HCL (Hindustan Computers Limited). He is currently the Chairman-Board of Governors at National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT), Ranchi, International Institute of Information Technology, and Naya Raipur.
Early life and education
The parents of Ajai moved from Pakistan to India along with their six children, during the Partition of India. They arrived at a camp for refugees in Delhi. Later, in order to obtain the accession to the princely realms, Ajai's father took a work in Mount Abu
Ajai was born on August 29, 1950, in Mount Abu. The youngest of the seven siblings is Ajai. In 1955, his father joined Indian Administrative Service.
Ajai Chowdhry attended Christ Church School in Jabalpur for his formal education. He completed his education in 1966. A Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Telecom) degree was awarded to him later. from Jabalpur Engineering College, in 1971. He also completed a programme for executives at the University of Michigan, in 1994. Ajai was also nominated by MeitY as India Semiconductor Mission's advisory board member. Chowdhry was a member of the Consultation Group focused on Science, Technology and Innovation by the Niti Aayog
Career
Beginning his career in 1972, Ajai Chowdhry worked with Delhi Cloth & General Mills (DCM) Data Products where he was a sales trainee, hired at a compensation of INR 600 per month in the electronics division. In 1975, he quit his job to start his own company named "Micro comp".
In August 2009, the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & IT and the Government of India constituted the IT Task Force, under the leadership of Ajai Chowdhry The task force warned that the import bill of electronics will be higher than that of oil - thus shaping the electronics policy of the country.
Ajai Chowdhry was a member of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC), which is an apex body providing advisory inputs for shaping government policy.
Just Aspire
Ajai Chowdhry also authored a book titled Just Aspire in 2023 which talks about his own life and also reflects on the journey of India's IT and hardware industry. The book was published by Harper Business. Scroll published an excerpt from the book, "As one of our later print ads proclaimed, “At HCL, there’s only one thing more important than brains. Guts.” We trained our sales team in transactional analysis techniques, which call for an assessment of, and adaptation to, the potential buyer. For instance, when you meet a professor, become a student."
Awards and accolades
In 2011, the Government of India awarded Ajai Chowdhry with Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, recognising his consistent contribution to the Indian IT industry.
In 2014, Ajai Chowdhry was honoured with the Cybermedia Business ICT Award 2013 for Lifetime Achievement in ICT by Narendra Modi.
In 2014, Ajai Chowdhry was awarded Honor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled%20correlation | In statistics, scaled correlation is a form of a coefficient of correlation applicable to data that have a temporal component such as time series. It is the average short-term correlation. If the signals have multiple components (slow and fast), scaled coefficient of correlation can be computed only for the fast components of the signals, ignoring the contributions of the slow components. This filtering-like operation has the advantages of not having to make assumptions about the sinusoidal nature of the signals.
For example, in the studies of brain signals researchers are often interested in the high-frequency components (beta and gamma range; 25–80 Hz), and may not be interested in lower frequency ranges (alpha, theta, etc.). In that case scaled correlation can be computed only for frequencies higher than 25 Hz by choosing the scale of the analysis, s, to correspond to the period of that frequency (e.g., s = 40 ms for 25 Hz oscillation).
Definition
Scaled correlation between two signals is defined as the average correlation computed across short segments of those signals. First, it is necessary to determine the number of segments that can fit into the total length of the signals for a given scale :
Next, if is Pearson's coefficient of correlation for segment , the scaled correlation across the entire signals is computed as
Efficiency
In a detailed analysis, Nikolić et al. showed that the degree to which the contributions of the slow components will be attenuated depends on three factors, the choice of the scale, the amplitude ratios between the slow and the fast component, and the differences in their oscillation frequencies. The larger the differences in oscillation frequencies, the more efficiently will the contributions of the slow components be removed from the computed correlation coefficient. Similarly, the smaller the power of slow components relative to the fast components, the better will scaled correlation perform.
Application to cross-correlation
Scaled correlation can be applied to auto- and cross-correlation in order to investigate how correlations of high-frequency components change at different temporal delays. To compute cross-scaled-correlation for every time shift properly, it is necessary to segment the signals anew after each time shift. In other words, signals are always shifted before the segmentation is applied. Scaled correlation has been subsequently used to investigate synchronization hubs in the visual cortex. Scaled correlation can be also used to extract functional networks.
Advantages over filtering methods
Scaled correlation should be in many cases preferred over signal filtering based on spectral methods. The advantage of scaled correlation is that it does not make assumptions about the spectral properties of the signal (e.g., sinusoidal shapes of signals). Nikolić et al. have shown that the use of Wiener–Khinchin theorem to remove slow components is inferior to results obtained by scaled correlation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pick%20Up | The Pick Up is an Australian drive radio show with Brittany Hockley, Laura Byrne and Mitch Churi. It is broadcast on the KIIS Network from 3pm to 4pm on weekdays. Daily podcasts were available for download from the show's website.
History
In August 2011, Australian Radio Network signed Chrissie Swan and Yumi Stynes to host a national drive show across the Mix Network aimed at women, primarily mothers in the 25 to 44 age demographic picking up children from school.
In April 2012, writer and comedian Wendy Harmer joined the show as a regular on Thursday's to discuss issues pertaining to women and families.
In August 2012, Yumi Stynes was appointed breakfast presenter with Mix 106.5 in Sydney and was replaced by Jane Hall.
In December 2014, Chrissie Swan left the show due to her contract not being renewed.
In January 2015, Katie 'Monty' Dimond and Zoe Marshall were announced as the new hosts of the 3PM Pick-Up. In December 2015, Australian Radio Network announced that Meshel Laurie and Katie 'Monty' Dimond would host the show from January 2016.
In January 2017, Australian Radio Network announced that Rebecca Judd and Yumi Stynes will host the show alongside Katie 'Monty' Dimond. Meshel Laurie has left the show to focus on Matt & Meshel and other media commitments.
In November 2020, Australian Radio Network announced that Kate Langbroek will host the show and join Monty Dimond and Yumi Stynes from January 27, 2021, replacing Rebecca Judd who has decided to take a break from media.
In October 2022, Australian Radio Network announced that the show will be axed and that Kate Langbroek, Monty Dimond and Yumi Stynes will leave the KIIS Network.
In January 2023, Australian Radio Network announced the show would be rebranded to The Pick Up and it will be hosted by Brittany Hockley, Laura Byrne and Mitch Churi.
References
External links
The Pick Up
Australian talk radio programs
2010s Australian radio programs
2020s Australian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyamev%20Jayate%20%28talk%20show%29 | Satyamev Jayate () is an Indian Hindi-language television talk show aired on various channels within Star Network along with Doordarshan's DD National. The first season of the show premiered on 6 May 2012 and marked the television debut of popular Bollywood actor and filmmaker Aamir Khan. The second season of the show was aired from 2 March 2014 and the third season started from 5 October 2014.
The show focuses on sensitive social issues prevalent in India such as female foeticide, child sexual abuse, rape, honour killings, domestic violence, untouchability, discrimination, acceptance of alternative sexualities, toxic masculinity, alcoholism, and the criminalization of politics. It aims to bring the great achievements of people which often go unnoticed in order to encourage the audience to achieve their goals no matter what comes in between. It also aims to empower citizens with information about their country, and urge them to take action. While the primary language of the show is Hindi, it is simulcast in eight languages such as Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, and subtitled in English, to ensure maximum reach.
The first season of Satyamev Jayate garnered over a billion digital impressions from 165 countries, with responses from viewers in many countries, mainly Asian and African countries, including India, China, Djibouti, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Isle of Man, and Papua New Guinea. A sum of was received as donations by the NGOs featured on this season. The second season was watched by 600 million Indians. The causes raised in the second season were supported by over 30million people and the season generated more than one billion impressions online.
Production
Concept
The concept of the show was not revealed in the Indian media until the show officially went on air on 6 May 2012. There were also no get-togethers, parties or press conferences organized to discuss the content, leading up to the premiere of the show. However, various sources reported the show to be based on "the common man" rather than being fictional. Also, based on its content, it was mostly referred as a talk show discussing social issues like child labour, health problems and other issues affecting the country. Khan, who is known for keeping secrecy for his movies, was quoted saying, "I don`t want to talk much about how the show will be, and about its format. I want everyone to see it directly on TV." However, commenting on the theme of the show, he said, "The show is about meeting the common man of India, connecting with India and its people." He also added, "Through this show we understand the problem of the people, we are not here to make a change. I am no one to change anything. I don`t think I am in the position to change anything else. I feel understanding a problem and feeling it or holding one's hand or hugging is also important. I may not have the solution, but at least I can hear and understand."
Development
Uday Shankar, CEO of STAR India, sugg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming%20Home%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Coming Home is an American reality television series on the Lifetime network that premiered on March 6, 2011. The series is paired with Lifetime's drama series Army Wives.
Premise
The series focuses on the family reunions that occur as United States military personnel return home from active duty overseas, and the lengths that the returning member goes through to make the reunion a surprise.
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
References
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Lifetime (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component-oriented%20database | Component-oriented database (CODB) is a way of data administration and programming DBMS's using the paradigm of the component-orientation.
Concepts
The paradigm of component-orientation (CO) is a development of the object-orientation (OO) in programming and data modeling, leading toward the extreme the possibilities of reuse. In this model type, classes are aggregate in cells called components, that execute a role similar to the function in the structured programming, a way of processing information contemporary to the relational database model.
So the component-orientation mixes a set of features of its predecessor models. Understanding it is simpler while thinking of the visual component, that is an application which not being deployed into an executable or bytecode but otherwise turned to be linked by an icon inside another application, icon when one clicks on it implements certain tasks. Then this concepts can be extended to non-visual components.
In database activities, the component, visual or not, is an aggregate of classes, in the sense of OO, that can be linked to other ones by adapters.
As after the OO model conception data and code programming code are mixed in a cohesive body, there are some difficulties in conceiving where the CODB and CO programming are separate one from the other. Although this enigma is important in conceptual epistemological area, in practical data processing there isn't so importance in this question because of usage of mapping models to large scale used software, like the mappings called ORDBMS and CRDB (component-relational database), in which the separation of data and code are still well defined.
Implementation
In programming activity, the CO is often taken place with large-scale used OO languages (like C++, Java) with mapping adaptation. In designing the paradigm is supported by UML. In data modeling, data administration and database administration, the mapping adaptation is alike the ORDBMS paradigm. The adapted paradigm to component-based models is known as component-relational database (CRDB).
Advantages
The main advantage of the component-oriented thinking, as seen in early chapters, is the optimization of reusability of work. Going far away from the uses of OO models, the CO paradigm allows the use of ready to use applications as modules to new and bigger projects.
It is necessary to regard that these technical features are not achieved in traditional OO models, although the idea of component came up naturally from OO thinking. The basis support notions of OO like encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism not necessarily leads to the idea of reusing applications as modules of new works. The CO thinking also assures that components are fully tested, as a real application, and thus there is in this model the paroxism of reuse, as well as the feature of understandability to end users, as corollary of the app->comp way of realizing the IT works.
Even using the same software that are present in OO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Game%20Cartridges | American Game Cartridges (AGC) was an American video game developer and publisher established as a subsidiary of ShareData in 1990. Like ShareData, American Game Cartridges was headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. AGC published three video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1990.
Prior to the founding of American Game Cartridges, ShareData hired Richard C. Frick as Vice President of Product Development. Frick worked previously at Atari Games, and had some experience with their console game subsidiary, Tengen. Tengen was one of several game developers who rejected the contract terms that Nintendo imposed on its licensees. Instead, such developers published unlicensed games that defeated the NES's lockout chip. Frick was acquainted with this strategy, and applied it at ShareData's new company, American Game Cartridges. To defeat the NES's lockout chip, called 10NES, AGC licensed technology from Color Dreams.
AGC also licensed two titles from arcade game manufacturer Exidy: Chiller (1986) and Death Race (1976), which they adapted to the NES in 1990. Chiller was AGC's first game release, and was also ShareData's first title for the NES. Death Race quickly followed, as did an original work called Shockwave (1990).
Keeping with ShareData's business model of producing low-cost video games, AGC attempted to undersell their competition by as much as 30%. However, debts mounted throughout 1991, and by the fourth quarter AGC's creditors were trying to force the company into a reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States' Bankruptcy Code. ShareData itself was among the creditors pressuring American Game Cartridges, and American Game Cartridges filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 soon after. They remained in Chapter 11 until January 1994, when they finally filed their plan to reorganize.
Richard Frick left ShareData and American Game Cartridges amidst these difficulties, and started another unlicensed NES game development company called American Video Entertainment. Meanwhile, developer Keith Rupp of American Game Cartridges completed a fourth title, Wally Bear and the NO! Gang, but AGC's financial difficulties preempted its release. Frick's new company secured the rights to the game, and published it in 1992.
American Game Cartridges planned several other game releases, including a conversion of Exidy's Crossbow (1983), but was unable to complete development.
See also
Camerica
Hacker International
Home Entertainment Suppliers
List of Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video game publisher
References
Companies based in Chandler, Arizona
Video game companies established in 1990
Video game companies disestablished in 1994
1990 establishments in Arizona
1994 disestablishments in Arizona
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game development companies
Video game publishers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODB | CODB may refer to:
Component-oriented database
City of Daytona Beach, Florida, US, website name and short form on forms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution%20proof%20compression%20by%20splitting | In mathematical logic, proof compression by splitting is an algorithm that operates as a post-process on resolution proofs. It was proposed by Scott Cotton in his paper "Two Techniques for Minimizing Resolution Proof".
The Splitting algorithm is based on the following observation:
Given a proof of unsatisfiability and a variable , it is easy to re-arrange (split) the proof in a proof of and a proof of and the recombination of these two proofs (by an additional resolution step) may result in a proof smaller than the original.
Note that applying Splitting in a proof using a variable does not invalidates a latter application of the algorithm using a differente variable . Actually, the method proposed by Cotton generates a sequence of proofs , where each proof is the result of applying Splitting to . During the construction of the sequence, if a proof happens to be too large, is set to be the smallest proof in .
For achieving a better compression/time ratio, a heuristic for variable selection is desirable. For this purpose, Cotton defines the "additivity" of a resolution step (with antecedents and and resolvent ):
Then, for each variable , a score is calculated summing the additivity of all the resolution steps in with pivot together with the number of these resolution steps. Denoting each score calculated this way by , each variable is selected with a probability proportional to its score:
To split a proof of unsatisfiability in a proof of and a proof of , Cotton proposes the following:
Let denote a literal and denote the resolvent of clauses and where and . Then, define the map on nodes in the resolution dag of :
Also, let be the empty clause in . Then, and are obtained by computing and , respectively.
Notes
Proof theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packed%20to%20the%20Rafters%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of Packed to the Rafters, an Australian drama television series premiered on 17 April 2012 on the Seven Network. There were 22 episodes. The Seven network put the series on hiatus again on June 19, 2012, after 10 episodes, despite previously promising that viewers would see a full season run. The show returned on 29 January 2013 with episode 11, accompanied by an increase in viewers compared to previous episodes of the season.
Production
Packed to the Rafters was renewed for a fifth season with production on the episodes beginning from October 2011. Hugh Sheridan, who played Ben Rafter, filmed his final scenes for the fifth season in February 2012, before leaving the show. Angus McLaren, who played Nathan Rafter, took some time off during the fifth season and returned mid season in the 100th episode.
Cast
Main cast
Rebecca Gibney as Julie Rafter
Erik Thomson as Dave Rafter
Hugh Sheridan as Ben Rafter (13 episodes)
Angus McLaren as Nathan Rafter (3 episodes)
George Houvardas as Carbo Karandonis
James Stewart as Jake Barton
Ryan Corr as Coby Jennings
Hannah Marshall as Retta Schembri-Karandonis
Michael Caton as Ted Taylor
Recurring
Hannah & Sabella Storey as Ruby Rafter
Jacob Allen as Matt Jennings
Merridy Eastman as Donna Mackey (21 episodes)
Zoe Cramond as Emma Mackey (21 episodes)
Brooke Satchwell as Frankie Calasso (21 episodes)
Guest
Samantha Tolj as Sian Perry (12 episodes)
Cameron Daddo as Adam Goodman (8 episodes)
Andy Anderson as Jim Barton (5 episodes)
Kristian Schmid as Alex Barton (4 episodes)
Olivia Stambouliah as Voula Karandonis (4 episodes)
Mark Lee as Duncan Galloway (4 episodes)
Henry Nixon as Bryn Perry (3 episodes)
Holly Fraser as Elisha (2 episodes)
Lauren Clair as Saskia Clark Rafter (2 episodes)
Steve Vidler as Mark Mackey (2 episodes)
Zoe Ventoura as Mel Bannon (1 episode)
Hugh Sheridan's departure
Hugh Sheridan, who plays Ben Rafter, announced on 15 May 2012 that the fifth season would be their last season of Packed to the Rafters as a main cast member. Their final episode aired 5 February 2013, the series 100th episode. Sheridan returned for two episodes in season six.
Episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Scorpio | Jessica Scorpio (born 1987) is the founder and Former Chief Marketing Officer at Getaround, a peer-to-peer carsharing company. Scorpio previously founded IDEAL, a non-profit network for entrepreneurs and young leaders.
Biography
Jessica Scorpio was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada and grew up in Florida. She graduated from Carleton University in 2008 with an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a concentration on International Relations and a Minor in Business. Along with Sam Zaid and Elliot Kroo, she developed the concept that led to the launch of Getaround and Grand Prize Win at TechCrunch Disrupt New York in May 2011.
Awards and recognition
In August 2011, the Huffington Post picked Scorpio to be on the list of female technology founders to watch. In October 2011, Fortune Magazine recognized Scorpio as being among the top eight female entrepreneurs under the age of 25. In November 2011, CEOWorld Magazine included Scorpio on their list of the top 20 groups of female founders and entrepreneurs of technology companies. In December 2011, GE Ecoimagination recognized Scorpio, along with Vinod Khosla and Secretary Steven Chu, as one of 11 Sustainable Innovators of 2011. In February 2012, Business Insider, Inc. highlighted Scorpio as one of the 14 Incredible Women To Watch In Silicon Valley and listed her in the "Silicon Valley 100".
Public speaking
Scorpio is a speaker and panelist who leads discussions about women in business, the future of transportation, sustainable living, and collaborative consumption. She has presented at events such as Google Zeitgeist, TechCrunch Disrupt, Sustainable Brands, and SXSW Interactive.
References
Living people
1987 births
Businesspeople from St. Catharines
Businesspeople from San Francisco
Carleton University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplified%20conference | An amplified conference is a conference or similar event in which the talks and discussions at the conference are 'amplified' through use of networked technologies in order to extend the reach of the conference deliberations. The term was originally coined by Lorcan Dempsey in a blog post. The term is now widely used within the academic and research community with Wankel proposing the following definition:
The extension of a physical event (or a series of events) through the use of social media tools for expanding access to (aspects of) the event beyond physical and temporal bounds. Such amplification takes place in the context of intent to make the most of the intellectual content, discussion, networking, and discovery initiated by the event through the process of sharing with co-attendees, colleagues, friends and wider informed publics.
A paper by Haider and others illustrates how amplified conferences are becoming mainstream in a discussion on "how social media have been employed as part of the project, particularly around event amplification".
As described by Guy in the Ariadne ejournal the term is not a prescriptive one, but rather describes a pattern of behaviors which initially took place at IT and Web-oriented conferences once WiFi networks started to become available at conference venues and delegates started to bring with them networked devices such as laptops and, more recently, PDAs and mobile phones.
Different Approaches to 'Amplification' of Conferences
There are a number of ways in which conferences can be amplified through use of networked technologies:
Amplification of the audiences' voice: Prior to the availability of real time chat technologies at events (whether use of IRC, Twitter, instant messaging clients, etc.) it was only feasible to discuss talks with immediate neighbours, and even then this may be considered rude.
Amplification of the speaker's talk: The availability of video and audio-conferencing technologies make it possible for a speaker to be heard by an audience which isn't physically present at the conference. Although use of video technologies has been available to support conferences for some time, this has normally been expensive and require use of dedicated video-conferencing technologies. However the availability of lightweight desktop tools make it much easier to deploy such technologies, without even, requiring the involvement of conference organisers.
Amplification across time: Video and audio technologies can also be used to allow a speaker's talk to be made available after the event, with use of podcasting or videocasting technologies allowing the talks to be easily syndicated to mobile devices as well as accessed on desktop computers.
Amplification of the speaker's slides: The popularity of global repository services for slides, such as SlideShare, enable the slides used by a speaker to be more easily found, embedded on other Web sites and commented upon, in ways that were not possible when th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EvilleCon | EvilleCon is an annual three day anime convention held during March at the Old National Events Plaza in Evansville, Indiana.
Programming
The convention typically offers animation screenings, cosplay chess, costume contests, dancing, demonstrations, guests, karaoke, lessons, merchandise vendors, movies, music, panel discussions, tabletop games, and video games.
History
EvilleCon started in 2009 as a one-day free anime convention created by Otona no Otaku and Otaku Anonymous anime and manga clubs at the Evansville Central Library. The convention in 2010 began charging for admission, became two days, and changed locations to The Centre. For 2011, the convention moved to the Holiday Inn Evansville Airport Hotel, changed dates to April, and expanded to three days. For 2012 & 2013, the convention stayed in the same location with similar dates. The convention in 2015 was held at the Old National Events Plaza. In 2017, EvilleCon moved to the Holiday Inn Evansville Airport. EvilleCon 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. EvilleCon 2021 was also cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Event history
References
External links
EvilleCon Website
Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 2009
2009 establishments in Indiana
Annual events in Indiana
Festivals in Evansville, Indiana
Conventions in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriocrania%20carpinella | Eriocrania carpinella is a moth of the family Eriocraniidae. It is found in Japan (Honshu).
The larvae feed on hornbeam's, including Carpinus laxiflora, Carpinus cordata and Carpinus tschonoskii.
References
carpinella
Endemic insects of Japan
Leaf miners
Moths described in 2010
Moths of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureWave%20Networks | PureWave Networks was a developer of advanced, 4G LTE and WiMAX base stations. Based in Santa Clara, California, PureWave Networks is a privately held company that was founded in 2003. The company was backed by Silicon Valley venture firms including Allegis Capital, Benahmou Global Ventures, ATA Ventures, Core Capital and Leapfrog Ventures. PureWave's line of Mobile WiMAX 802.16e base stations were sold in a variety of licensed frequencies. In 2014, Purewave's Quantum WiMAX product line was acquired by one of its customers, Mercury Networks and the remaining company assets were sold to Redline Communications for a cash purchase price of US$2 million.
History
Established in 2003, PureWave specializes in developing high-performance, compact, outdoor base stations for 4G wireless networks. In 2009 PureWave introduced the PureWave Quantum family of mobile WiMAX base stations with the PureWave Quantum 1000. It was followed in 2010 and 2011 by PureWave Quantum 6600 and PureWave Quantum 2200, respectively. PureWave uses an open product architecture that allows operators to build their networks using equipment from multiple vendors, utilizing any end user device that conforms to the 802.16e standard. PureWave is developing a portfolio of 4G LTE small cell base stations that will support both TD-LTE and FDD-LTE. In 2012 the company relocated its headquarters from Mountain View, CA to Santa Clara, CA.
Products and Technology
PureWave Quantum Base Stations
The PureWave Quantum family of products consists of two product lines: PureWave Quantum 2200 and PureWave Quantum 6600. Both product lines can be deployed outdoors, and share the same enclosure, software code and functionality.
LTE Base Stations
PureWave is currently developing a portfolio of small cell 4G LTE base stations.
Current Deployments
The following is a selection of customers and deployments publicly announced by PureWave:
See also list of deployed WiMAX networks
Mercury Wireless, covering 4000 square miles of rural Kansas
AireArk - 15,000 business and residential customers in Arkansas
EMAXX Telecom, the operator has announced plans to serve 150,000 customers across Cambodia
Scarlet, 8,000 customers in Aruba, St. Maarten and Curaçao
City of Chanute, Kansas, Smart Grid Deployment, 5,400 electric and 4,400 gas and water customers, city-owned utility, Southeast Kansas
Cal-Ore, covering 200 square miles, rural California and Oregon
Awards
WISPA Product of the Year Award, 2011, PureWave Quantum 6600
4GWE Product of the Year Award, 2009: PureWave Quantum
Management
Don Meiners, CEO
Peter Carson, Senior VP of Worldwide Sales
Dan Picker, CTO
Ronen Vengosh, VP of Marketing and Business Development
Reza Golshan, VP of Engineering
Tom Scannell, CFO
References
Electronics companies of the United States
Companies based in Santa Clara, California |
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