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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelnaudia | Castelnaudia is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:
Castelnaudia cordata (Chaudoir, 1865)
Castelnaudia cyanea (Castelnau, 1840)
Castelnaudia cyaneotincta (Boisduval, 1835)
Castelnaudia eungella (Darlington, 1962)
Castelnaudia hecate (Tschitscherine, 1901)
Castelnaudia kirrama (Darlington, 1962)
Castelnaudia marginifera (Chaudoir, 1865)
Castelnaudia mixta (Darlington, 1962)
Castelnaudia obscuripennis (Macleay, 1887)
Castelnaudia porphyriaca (Sloane, 1900)
Castelnaudia queenslandica (Csiki, 1930)
Castelnaudia septemcostata Chaudoir, 1874
Castelnaudia setosiceps (Sloane, 1923)
Castelnaudia spec (Darlington, 1962)
Castelnaudia speciosa Sloane, 1911
Castelnaudia superba (Castelnau, 1867)
Castelnaudia wilsoni (Castelnau, 1867)
References
Pterostichinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernandez%27s%20method | Fernandez's method (FB) in computer science and operations research, is a method which is used in the multiprocessor scheduling algorithm. It is actually used to improve the quality of the lower bounding schemes which are adopted by branch and bound algorithms for solving multiprocessor scheduling problem. Fernandez's problem derives a better lower bound than HF, and propose a quadratic-time algorithm from calculating the bound. It is known that a straightforward calculation of FB takes O time, since it must examine O combinations each of which takes O time in the worst case.
Further reading
A Comparison of List Scheduling for Parallel Processing Systems
References
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashraf%20Habibullah | Ashraf Habibullah is a Pakistani-American structural engineer and software developer best known as the founder, president, and CEO of Computers and Structures, Inc., a structural and earthquake engineering software company based in Berkeley, California. Upon founding the privately held company in 1975, Ashraf co-created the first structural-engineering software available to the personal computer, and has since created a suite of products, and developed their capabilities. Notably, ETABS, a multi-story building analysis and design software, received recognition as one of the Applied Technology Council and Engineering News-Record Top Seismic Products of the 20th Century. Today, CSI is recognized globally as the pioneer in the development of software for structural and earthquake engineering. CSI's software is used by thousands of engineering firms and is the choice of sophisticated design professionals in over 160 countries. Ashraf has a deep personal interest in the study of human psychology and human behavior and how they can be leveraged to help people from all walks of life reach their maximum potential.
Awards and citations
Structural Engineers Association of Northern California H. J. Brunnier Lifetime Achievement Award for changing the practice of structural engineering for the better with his development of efficient and usable structural analysis programs.
American Society of Civil Engineers George Winter Award – in recognition of leading the development of highly complex software for structural analysis and design and founding the Engineers Alliance for the Arts and the Diablo Ballet.
American Concrete Institute Charles S. Whitney Medal for computer applications that have changed and modernized structural engineering practice to a level never envisioned just a few decades ago.
Structural Engineers Association of Northern California Community Involvement Award in recognition for his outstanding commitment to improve the public perception of structural engineering.
University of California, Berkeley Foundation Trustees' Citation Award for his service in campus fundraising.
Structural Engineering Institute President's Award in recognition of exemplary contributions to the success of SEI.
San Francisco Business Arts Council Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Arts Community.
Contra Costs County Arts Council Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the arts and culture of the country.
Applied Technology Council Award for Top Seismic product of the 20th Century for ETABS.
Structural Engineers Association of Arizona President's Award.
University of California, Berkeley CEE Academy of Distinguished Alumni in recognition of a distinguished professional career and lifelong dedication, support and advancement of Berkeley CEE.
Structural Engineers Association of Southern California Honorary member.
Structural Engineers Association of Northern California Honorary member.
Earthquake Engineering Resear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossignol%20ENT | The Rossignol ENT was an experimental automatic rifle of French origin from the first years of the 20th century. It was the first rifle which used the direct impingement operating system, which found later use in the Swedish Ag m/42, the French 1940 MAS and, most notably, the AR-10 and AR-15 series of rifles.
Rossignol developed the new impingement system, and modified the Friberg-Kjellman system of opposing, retractable bolt lugs for this experimental rifle. The rifle was produced under the École Normale de Tir, thus the ENT designation, and was produced in at least four variants, "ENT No. 1 or B1, B2, B4, B5".
Specifications
Cartridge: 6×60mm
Caliber: 6mm
Weight: 9.7 kg
Operation: Gas direct-impingement
References
Further reading
http://i2.guns.ru/forums/icons/forum_pictures/000643/643512.jpg
Light machine guns
Automatic rifles
Machine guns of France
Trial and research firearms of France
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1900 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Digger%20%28TV%20series%29 | American Digger is an American reality television series airing on Discovery Networks. The show follows former professional wrestler Frank Huguelet (aka Ric Savage) and his company American Savage as they search the United States for buried historical artifacts. The second season of the show was retitled Savage Family Diggers as Savage's wife Rita and son Nick join the crew.
On August 7, 2012, Spike TV announced that American Digger had been renewed for a second thirteen episode season. Filming of the new season began Fall 2012 and aired in Spring 2013.
Description
The series focuses on Savage and his crew as they travel across the United States searching for buried artifacts. Searching historical documents, the team attempts to find locations that may contain artifacts that can be located using a variety of tools including shovels, pickaxes and metal detectors. The crew has to negotiate with the various land owners for permission to dig on their land. Due to many Americans being protective of their land it can be quite harrowing trying to find locations to dig. When valuable artifacts are discovered they are taken to various collectors and sold at which time the money would be split (ratio 20:80) between the land owner and Savage's team. The show has a famous catchphrase, "Boom Baby!" which is said by Savage every time the team would find something big.
The Savage Crew
Ric Savage
Rita Savage (married Ric in 1999).
Giuseppe "G" Savage, Ric's and Rita's eldest son.
Nick Savage, their youngest son.
Rue Shumate, 43 (left the crew)
Bob Buttafuso (left the crew)
Controversies
Professor of anthropology at the University of Florida Susan Gillespie criticized American Digger as well as the National Geographic Channel show "Diggers", saying, "Our main issue is that these shows promote the destruction and selling of artifacts which are part of our cultural heritage and patrimony."
The American Anthropological Association protested the show's presentation of archaeology as a "treasure-seeking adventure, in which our collective heritage is dug up and sold for monetary gain." Ric Savage's column in American Digger Magazine was cancelled. The publisher also filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Viacom. Viacom reported that it obtained a license for the trademark.
Savage Family Diggers
In December 2012, Spike TV announced that American Digger would be renamed Savage Family Diggers for its second season premiering January 30, 2013 at 10:30pm. The name change better reflects the crew in the second season which adds Savage's wife Rita and son Nick to the dig team.
Episodes
American Digger
Savage Family Diggers
References
External links
American Digger @ TV.com
Official Website
2010s American reality television series
English-language television shows
Spike (TV network) original programming
2012 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBS%20Radio%20%28disambiguation%29 | SBS Radio is an Australian radio network.
SBS Radio may also refer to:
Seoul Broadcasting System, a South Korean radio network
SBS Love FM
SBS Power FM
SBS Radio Network, a Philippine radio network
See also
SBS V-Radio
SBS Broadcasting Group
Spanish Broadcasting System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGPL | OGPL (The Open Government Platform) is a joint product from India and the United States to promote government transparency and greater citizen engagement by making more government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available. OGPL will be available as an open source platform. The OGPL combines and expands features of the India's "India.gov.in" and the U.S. "Data.gov" sites. By making this available in useful machine-readable formats it allows developers, analysts, media and academia to develop new applications and insights that will help give citizens more information for better informed decisions.
Chair
This initiative has been chaired on the Indian side by Sam Pitroda, Adviser to Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations and on the US side by Aneesh Chopra, former Chief Technology Officer to President Obama.
Purpose
The purpose of the platform is to enhance access and use of government data to foster innovation.
In using an open source method of development, the OGPL community will provide future technology enhancements, open government solutions, and community-based technical support. OGPL has become an example of a new era of diplomatic collaborations which benefits the global community that promote government transparency, citizen-focused applications, and enrich humanity.
Features of OGPL
Initially, OGPL will provide governments the ability to
Publish government data, documents, apps, tools, and services from multiple departments within a government.
Utilize web 2.0 open-source technologies to develop low-cost, cloud-based infrastructure.
Engage citizens with open data based applications and services to improve their lives.
Create data-rich community spaces around topics of national priorities and international interest.
Empower end-users to share data via social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
In the future, provide publicly available application programming interfaces (APIs) and other tools to add external software modules for data visualization, wizards, and other purposes.
See also
My Gov
Orchard Growers
External links
OGPL brochure
OGPL release
OGPL's Webcast by Shri Kapil Sibal, Hon'ble Minister for Communications & IT and HRD
Open government
E-government in India
Open government in the United States
Open government in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Jane%20Irwin | Mary Jane Irwin is an Emerita Evan Pugh Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1977. She is an international expert in computer architecture. Her research and teaching interests include computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power and reliability aware design, and emerging technologies in computing systems.
Irwin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for contributions to VLSI architecture and automated design.
Biography
Education
Mary Jane Irwin received her B.S. in Mathematics from Memphis State University in 1971, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1975 and 1977, respectively. Her dissertation research on the topic of computer arithmetic was supervised by Dr. James Robertson.
Career
Mary Jane Irwin joined the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor in 1977. She was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1989. She retired in 2017.
Irwin has worked in the area of application-specific
architectures, including the design, implementation, and field-testing of three different board level designs---the Arithmetic Cube, the MGAP and SPARTA. With her student
Robert M. Owens they developed a suite of architecture, logic and circuit design
tools including ARTIST, PERFLEX, LOGICIAN, and DECOMPOSER.
In late 1993, Irwin worked in the area of resource constrained systems design including embedded systems that have limited battery life and limited memory space and sensor network systems that have extremely limited resources. With colleagues she developed an architectural level power simulator, SimplePower.
Irwin's recent work is in mixed technology circuits.
On October 1, 2019 the IEEE CEDA and ESD Alliance announced that Mary Jane Irwin will receive the 2019 Phil Kaufman Award, the EDA Industry's highest honor. She will be the first woman to receive the award.
Service to the Computing Community
Irwin has extensive service to the Computer Science research community. She is a member of the Board on Army Science and Technology, of ACM's Fellows Selection Committee, of Microsoft Research's External Research Advisory Board, and of NAE's Committee on Membership (Chair for the Class of 2012). Previously she served as a founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM's Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems and as Editor-in-Chief of ACM's Transactions on the Design Automation of Electronic Systems, as an elected member of the CRA's Board of Directors, of the IEEE Computer Society's Board of Governors, of ACM's Council, and as Vice President of ACM. She was also a long-time board member of CRA-W, the CRA's Committee on the Status of Women, where she is now a member emerita.
Personal life
Mary Jane Irwin was married in July 1966. She and her husband of 55 years have one son, John, who is also a computer scie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blahut%E2%80%93Arimoto%20algorithm | The term Blahut–Arimoto algorithm is often used to refer to a class of algorithms for computing numerically either the information theoretic capacity of a channel, the rate-distortion function of a source or a source encoding (i.e. compression to remove the redundancy). They are iterative algorithms that eventually converge to one of the maxima of the optimization problem that is associated with these information theoretic concepts.
History and application
For the case of channel capacity, the algorithm was independently invented by Suguru Arimoto and Richard Blahut. In addition, Blahut's treatment gives algorithms for computing rate distortion and generalized capacity with input contraints (i.e. the capacity-cost function, analogous to rate-distortion). These algorithms are most applicable to the case of arbitrary finite alphabet sources. Much work has been done to extend it to more general problem instances.
Recently, a version of the algorithm that accounts for continuous and multivariate outputs was proposed with applications in cellular signaling. There exists also a version of Blahut–Arimoto algorithm for directed information.
Algorithm for Channel Capacity
A discrete memoryless channel (DMC) can be specified using two random variables with alphabet , and a channel law as a conditional probability distribution . The channel capacity, defined as , indicates the maximum efficiency that a channel can communicate, in the unit of bit per use. Now if we denote the cardinality , then is a matrix, which we denote the row, column entry by . For the case of channel capacity, the algorithm was independently invented by Suguru Arimoto and Richard Blahut. independently found the following expression for the capacity of a DMC with channel law:
where and are maximized over the following requirements:
is a probability distribution on , That is, if we write as
is a matrix that behaves like a transition matrix from to with respect to the channel law. That is, For all :
Every row sums up to 1, i.e. .
Then upon picking a random probability distribution on , we can generate a sequence iteratively as follows:
For .
Then, using the theory of optimization, specifically coordinate descent, Yeung showed that the sequence indeed converges to the required maximum. That is,
.
So given a channel law , the capacity can be numerically estimated up to arbitrary precision.
Algorithm for Rate-Distortion
Suppose we have a source with probability of any given symbol. We wish to find an encoding that generates a compressed signal from the original signal while minimizing the expected distortion , where the expectation is taken over the joint probability of and . We can find an encoding that minimizes the rate-distortion functional locally by repeating the following iteration until convergence:
where is a parameter related to the slope in the rate-distortion curve that we are targeting and thus is related to how much we favor compr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee%20on%20Widening%20Participation%20in%20Computing%20Research | The Computing Research Association's Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) has the mission of increasing the success and participation of underrepresented groups in computing research and education at all levels. In particular, CRA-WP focuses on computer science and engineering and tries to make sure their activities have a positive impact on underrepresented groups in these areas. CRA-WP is also concerned with improving the success rate of all computer scientists and engineers in the working environment. Formerly known as the
Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), the committee changed its name and acronym in 2019.
Awards
2005: CRA-W was awarded the National Science Board's Public Service Award for its action-oriented programs aimed at increasing the number and success of women participating in computer science and engineering research and education.
2004: CRA-W co-founders Maria Klawe and Nancy Leveson were awarded CRA's A. Nico Habermann Award recognizing their role as founding co-chairs of the highly successful CRA-W Committee.
2003: CRA-W was awarded a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring for long-running work to address the underrepresentation of women in computer science and engineering.
References
External links
Official CRA-WP website
CRA webpage
Computer science organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20data%20service | Personal data services or personal datastores (PDS) are services to let an individual store, manage and deploy their key personal data in a highly secure and structured way.
They give the user a central point of control for their personal information (e.g. interests, contact information, affiliations, preferences, friends). The user's data attributes being managed by the service may be stored in a co-located repository, or they may be stored in multiple external distributed repositories, or a combination of both. Attributes from a PDS may be accessed via an API. Users of the same PDS instance may be allowed to selectively share sets of attributes with other users. A data ecosystem is developing where such sharing among projects or "operators" may become practicable.
Open Source Projects
Cloud-only
Note: Cloud-based PDSes are sometimes called personal data clouds or personal clouds.
(HAT) Hub-of-All-Things
iGrant.io, a data intermediation service provider (DISP) based out of Sweden (provided as Data Pods on Data Wallets)
Personium.io - open-source personal datastore
SOLID Project - SOLID (Social Linked Data) is an open-source web decentralization project led by Tim Berners-Lee.
Atsign - Open source end-to-end encrypted and public personal data service
Cloud or on-device
Decentralized Web Node - Data storage and message relay mechanism entities can use to locate public or private permissioned data related to a given Decentralized Identifier (DID)
Byoda - Data store supporting P2P social media services
Development Tools
Dogsheep Project - Build your own Personal Data Warehouse. Dogsheep is a collection of tools (open-source) for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette (Python).
Inactive
data.fm - an open source, PDS with a centralized underlying attribute store as well as an API to enable bi-directional attribute updates from external websites and services. The APIs are based on standards and include WebDav, SPARQL and linked data. Data formats exchanged include RDF, XML and JSON.
The Locker Project - an open source, JavaScript-based, PDS with a centralized underlying attribute store that exists on a person's personal computer as well as an API to support local applications.
openPDS/SafeAnswers - openPDS/SafeAnswers allows users to collect, store, and give fine-grained access to their data all while protecting their privacy.
Higgins - Higgins is an open source project dedicated to giving individuals more control over their personal identity, profile and social network data. Includes a personal datastore.
ID Hole - a dynamic and commercial consumer PDS that allows for the storing of personal data and the dynamic sharing of that data with other parties.
Services
For-profit
Atsign
CitizenMe
CozyCloud - based in France
Dataswift Ltd - operator of the HAT service
DigiMe
iGrant.io, a data intermediation service provider (DISP) based out of Sweden
Meeco
OwnYourInfo - a personal information storing and sharing applicat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteromonas%20addita | Alteromonas addita is a marine bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Alteromonas addita at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteromonas%20hispanica | Alteromonas hispanica is a marine bacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Alteromonas hispanica at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteromonas%20genovensis | Alteromonas genovensis is a marine bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Alteromonas genovensis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteromonas%20litorea | Alteromonas litorea is a marine bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Alteromonas litorea at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteromonas%20marina | Alteromonas marina is a marine bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Alteromonas marina at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteromonas%20simiduii | Alteromonas simiduii is a marine bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Alteromonas simiduii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteromonas%20stellipolaris | Alteromonas stellipolaris is a marine bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Alteromonas stellipolaris at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteromonas%20tagae | Alteromonas tagae is a marine bacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Alteromonas tagae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait%20of%20Alvise%20Cornaro | The Portrait of Alvise Cornaro is a portrait by the Venetian painter Tintoretto, showing the man of letters Alvise 'Luigi' Cornaro. Datable to around 1560–1565, it was acquired by Leopoldo de' Medici and is now in the Galleria Palatina in Florence. For the time between the 1698 and 1829 inventories, it was mis-attributed to Titian.
History
The earliest record of the work is its purchase by Leopoldo de' Medici. Between 1698 and 1829, it was thought that the painting was made by Titian. In the Palazzo Pitti, it is possible to track the placement of paintings in varies rooms of the ducal apartments. During one of these moves, the painting's original frame was lost. The inventories recorded it as adorned and carved. The painting's frame today, also old, originally belonged to a bigger canvas.
Description and style
Alvise Cornaro, a scholar of a noble family that lived most of his life in Padua, wrote treatises and patroned a small court of scientists and scholars. In one of his works, he praised the "sober life." In fact, Tintoretto, in portraying him, emphasized the range of his cultural interests and underlined by his more human aspects through a measured agreement of greys and blacks (the darkness of the background and his clothes) that make his face and hands stand out.
The portrait subject is seated, at half figure, and facing to the right. The right hand, resting on the armrest, displays a sign of nobility—a ring with a stone. He gazes absently out of the canvas, while his face displays his age, accentuated by the deep black shadows dug out of his cheeks and temples.
Bibliography
External links
Catalog entry
Paintings by Tintoretto
Cornaro, Alvise
1560s paintings
Cornaro, Alvise
Mannerist paintings
Cornaro, Alvise
Cornaro, Alvise
Paintings in the Galleria Palatina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samundar%20%28TV%20series%29 | Samundar (meaning "ocean" in Urdu) was a Pakistani television serial presented by the PTV network. The show was broadcast from the PTV Lahore center and was directed by Yawar Hayat and Qasim Jalali, Amjad Islam Amjad wrote the script. The drama serial is one of the most famous dramas from PTV. It is remembered to this day due to its unique story line and huge star cast.
Characters and cast
Samundar The noun "Samundar" is Amjad Islam Amjad's metaphorical reference to the world that surrounds us all. An Abyss full of unique human characteristics, frailties and triumphant human spirit. The Drama tells the story of FIVE unique friends bonded together by friendship and a common purpose in business partnership. Their lives are essentially torn apart by greed, lust for wealth, impulsive power, scandalous ambition and lack of mores. The FIVE friends also display a unique set of characteristics, personifying individuality and though a friendship bond but a unique perspective of life
Mehboob Alam as Shabaz Khan: is a feudal lord who descends from the centuries-old socioeconomically stagnant and yet dominant Agrarian Indo-Asian culture. He represents all that is historically wrong with the systemic Feudal landownership system. He is a tenacious blowhard, power-mongering, aggressive proto-businessman. He uses any means necessary to force and maintain his egotistical control over the world that surrounds him. He is the dominant of the 5 partners, more solemn and decisive in action and believes in short term solutions
Nisar Qadri as Qadeer: A meager and yet shrewd salvage business owner who brings to the partnership table a cunning extra sense, a worldly practical perspective, self-serving impulse, diabolical survival instinct, and a hobby and knack for knowing a variety of exotic poisons. He is pragmatic, and relies heavily on using lingual metaphors to memorize any listener. He is also astute negotiator and possess a skillful art of measurements and assessment
Irfan Khoosat as Ibrahim: is a self-absorbed, passive, surreptitious, petty and incredulous large person. He brings to the business partnership almost entirely an ebb of fellowship, although he can turn on a dime with absolute vengeance and surmounting hunger for gains
Bindiya as Nosheen: The effervescent socially gifted strong minded feminist first born of Khan Shabaz Khan. She carries a soft caring interior over a hard tenacious defensive shell. She represents the clan's Feudal hegemonic powerful facade. She is feisty, flirtatious and holds no grudges
Asif Raza Mir as Nasir: The prodigal eldest son of "Baqar", one of the FIVE partners. An idealist and a progressive thinker and a graduating medical doctor. He aspires to change the centuries-old traditionalism, although nearly always confines himself to a traditional upbringing as the "good son".
Waseem Abbas as Yasir: The central character in this play. The younger of the Baqar's boys who happens to kick off this titill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive%20data%20structure | In computer science a retroactive data structure is a data structure which supports efficient modifications to a sequence of operations that have been performed on the structure. These modifications can take the form of retroactive insertion, deletion or updating an operation that was performed at some time in the past.
Some applications of retroactive data structures
In the real world there are many cases where one would like to modify a past operation from a sequence of operations. Listed below are some of the possible applications:
Error correction: Incorrect input of data. The data should be corrected and all the secondary effects of the incorrect data be removed.
Bad data: When dealing with large systems, particularly those involving a large amount of automated data transfer, it is not uncommon. For example, suppose one of the sensors for a weather network malfunctions and starts to report garbage data or incorrect data. The ideal solution would be to remove all the data that the sensor produced since it malfunctioned along with all the effects the bad data had on the overall system.
Recovery: Suppose that a hardware sensor was damaged but is now repaired and data is able to be read from the sensor. We would like to be able to insert the data back into the system as if the sensor was never damaged in the first place.
Manipulation of the past: Changing the past can be helpful in the cases of damage control and retroactive data structures are designed for intentional manipulation of the past.
Time as a spatial dimension
It is not possible to consider time as an additional spatial dimension. To illustrate this suppose we map the dimension of time onto an axis of space. The data structure we will use to add the spatial time dimension is a min-heap. Let the y axis represent the key values of the items within the heap and the x axis is the spatial time dimension. After several insertions and delete-min operations (all done non-retroactively) our min-heap would appear like in figure 1. Now suppose we retroactively insert zero to the beginning of the operation list. Our min-heap would appear like in figure 2. Notice how the single operation produces a cascading effect which affects the entire data structure. Thus we can see that while time can be drawn as a spatial dimension, operations with time involved produces dependence which have a ripple when modifications are made with respect to time.
Comparison to persistence
At first glance the notion of a retroactive data structures seems very similar to persistent data structures since they both take into account the dimension of time. The key difference between persistent data structures and retroactive data structures is how they handle the element of time. A persistent data structure maintains several versions of a data structure and operations can be performed on one version to produce another version of the data structure. Since each operation produces a new version, each version thus bec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet%20the%20Boss | Meet the Boss was an American series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from June 10, 1952, to May 12, 1953. The series was hosted initially by Bill Cunningham. Marshall McNeil replaced Cunningham on October 7, 1952. Robert Sullivan also hosted the show.
Background and format
The program was a spinoff of the TV show Industry on Parade. DuMont executives asked the National Association of Manufacturers, which produced that program, to develop Meet the Boss, which was "[d]esigned to humanize industry and its executives." DuMont's program director, James L. Caddigan, developed the show.
The host of the show interviewed executives from American businesses about their own careers and about the industries in which they worked. Guests on one episode were Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Life; W. Paul Jones, president of Servel Inc.; and Joseph P. Spang, president of Gillette.
The show initially was broadcast on Tuesdays from 10:30 to 11 p.m. Eastern Time. On October 3, 1952, it moved to 10-10:30 p.m. E.T. on Tuesdays.
Episode status
A single episode survives as part of the Peabody Award collection.
Critical response
A review in The New York Times said, "The idea behind Meet the Boss is sound ... [b]ut the presentation's execution is faulty in almost every respect". It cited uncertainty on the parts of Cunningham and the show itself as two "what their point of view is to be." The review also noted that the program focused too much on praise of the companies represented ("straight press agentry"), while it failed to provide its own research about those companies. Another concern was time, with the reviewer commenting, "Any one of his guests last week was worth a half-hour by himself", in contrast to the three executives who appeared in the 30-minute episode.
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
Meet the Boss at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1952 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Secret%20Weapon%3A%20The%20Truth | Our Secret Weapon: The Truth is a public affairs program broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from October 22, 1950 to April 17, 1951 and hosted by conservative commentators Leo Cherne and Ralph de Toledano.
Production
Our Secret Weapon: The Truth had its origins in the Freedom House radio program Our Secret Weapon (1942–43), a CBS Radio series hosted by Rex Stout, which was created to counter Axis shortwave radio propaganda broadcasts during World War II.
The concept was revived during the Korean War as a weekly series that would "answer Communist lies about us" with testimony from special guests. The program featured conservative commentators Leo Cherne and Ralph de Toledano.
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
1950 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows
DuMont news programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenGIS | GenGIS merges geographic, ecological and phylogenetic biodiversity data in a single interactive visualization and analysis environment. A key feature of GenGIS is the testing of geographic axes that can correspond to routes of migration or gradients that influence community similarity. Data can also be explored using graphical summaries of data on a site-by-site basis, as 3D geophylogenies, or custom visualizations developed using a plugin framework. Standard statistical test such as linear regression and Mantel are provided, and the R statistical language can be accessed directly within GenGIS. Since its release, GenGIS has been used to investigate the phylogeography of viruses and bacteriophages, bacteria, and eukaryotes.
See also
Phylogeography
Biogeography
References
External links
GenGIS homepage
Bioinformatics software
Biogeography
Genetics software
Molecular biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METTL26 | METTL26, previously designated C16orf13, is a protein-coding gene for Methyltransferase Like 26, also known as JFP2. Though the function of this gene is unknown, various data have revealed that it is expressed at high levels in various cancerous tissues. Underexpression of this gene has also been linked to disease consequences in humans.
Gene
METTL26 is located on the short arm of chromosome 16 in humans, in the thirteenth open reading frame. There are five transcript variants of this gene, named 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7. The longest cDNA transcript (transcript variant 1) contains 854 base pairs. This transcript is composed of six exons, all of which contribute to the major superfamily included in the protein, the methyltransferases superfamily. The primary transcript of this gene is 1,919 base pairs long.
Species distribution
Using the Dotlet program, a dot plot was constructed comparing the Human gene with its Chimpanzee ortholog.
The plot indicates sequence conservation at the beginning and end of the gene, suggesting conservation and similarity in the 5' and 3' untranslated regions.
This sequence similarity in the 5’ UTR and 3’ UTR does not extend past mammalian species, and shows almost no similarity in a Dot Plot of the Human gene with distantly related species, such as Xenopus tropicalis.
A multiple sequence alignment conducted using the SDSC Biology Workbench reveals little sequence similarity among species more distantly related than primates in the upstream region of the gene. Near the start of transcription site in the human C16orf13 gene, there is high conservation among the primates in which upstream data was available, specifically the human, orangutan, and rhesus monkey C16orf13 gene orthologs. High sequence similarity among primates is evident throughout the promoter region, the 5' UTR, and the C16orf13 gene.
The graph below shows selected gene orthologs for C16orf13 transcript variant 1. These data are collected from NCBI BLAST.
Tissue distribution
The human expression profile from NCBI UniGene suggests that this gene has widespread expression in many different tissues in the body. This expression profile suggests that this gene is a “housekeeping gene,” one that has important effects in all cells, regardless of tissue. The highest levels of expression appear to be in the adrenal gland, lung, and parathyroid. There are many additional sites besides these highest three where the gene is expressed in high levels. There seems to be no real similarity in the few tissues where the gene is not expressed. This expression data does not seem to give any clues into specific function, except to suggest that the gene is involved in a “housekeeping” function of nearly all cells.
Gene neighborhood
The C16orf13 gene is located near the end of chromosome 16, potentially subject to deletion mutations.
The surrounding genes of the C16orf13 gene include hypothetical protein LOC100287175 and LOC100138285 to
the right and RAB40C and WFIKKN1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks%20Dragons | Dragons, commonly referred to as DreamWorks Dragons, is an American computer-animated television series based on the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon. The series serves as a bridge between the first film and its 2014 sequel.
Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, and David Tennant reprise their voice-acting roles from the film. Other cast members include Julie Marcus and Andree Vermeulen as Ruffnut (previously voiced by Kristen Wiig), Zack Pearlman as Snotlout (previously voiced by Jonah Hill), Chris Edgerly as Gobber the Belch (previously voiced by Craig Ferguson), and Nolan North as Stoick the Vast (previously voiced by Gerard Butler).
Dragons was announced by Cartoon Network on October 12, 2010. According to Tim Johnson, executive producer for the film, the series was planned to be much darker and deeper than DreamWorks Animation's previous television series spin-offs, with a similar tone to the film. Dragons was the first DreamWorks Animation series to air on Cartoon Network rather than Nickelodeon.
A one-hour preview consisting of two episodes aired on August 7, 2012, on Cartoon Network, with the official premiere of the series airing on September 5, 2012. A total of 40 episodes aired on Cartoon Network during the first two seasons, subtitled Riders of Berk and Defenders of Berk respectively.
Afterwards, the series was subtitled Race to the Edge, the first season of which debuted on Netflix on June 26, 2015. The second and third seasons of Dragons: Race to the Edge premiered on January 8 and June 24, 2016, respectively. The fourth season was released on February 17, 2017. The series was renewed for a fifth season, which was released on Netflix on August 25, 2017. The series (alongside the Netflix exclusive, All Hail King Julien) is syndicated as part of the newly rebranded Universal Kids on September 9, 2017. Dragons: Race to the Edge was renewed for the sixth and final season which was released on February 16, 2018.
Plot
Taking place between How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2, DreamWorks Dragons follows Hiccup as he tries to keep balance within the new cohabitation of Dragons and Norse vikings. Alongside keeping up with Berk's newest installment—A Dragon Training Academy—Hiccup, Toothless, and the rest of the Viking Teens are put to the test when they are faced with new worlds harsher than Berk, new dragons that can't all be trained, and new enemies who are looking for every reason to destroy the harmony between Vikings and Dragons altogether.
Characters
Dragon Riders
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock, III (voiced by Jay Baruchel) – An awkward and underweight Viking and son of the chief of Berk. He and his dragon, Toothless, share the strongest bond of all riders and dragons. He is the ancestor of Olivia and Thomas in Dragons: The Nine Realms.
Toothless – An extremely rare, male Night Fury befriended by Hiccup, and the dragon that lost his left tail fin in the first feature film. Toot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Real%20Housewives%20of%20New%20Jersey%20episodes | The Real Housewives of New Jersey is an American reality television series that debuted on May 12, 2009, and airs on Bravo. It is the network's fourth installation of The Real Housewives franchise. The series' thirteenth season chronicles seven women in and around several communities in northern New Jersey—Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, Dolores Catania, Margaret Josephs, Jennifer Aydin, Danielle Cabral and Rachel Fuda —as they balance their personal and business lives, along with their social circle.
Former cast members featured over the previous twelve seasons are: Dina Cantin (1-2, 6), Jacqueline Laurita (1-5, 7), Caroline Manzo (1-5), Danielle Staub (1-2), Kathy Wakile (3-5), Teresa Aprea (6), Amber Marchese (6), Nicole Napolitano (6), Siggy Flicker (7-8), and Jackie Goldschneider (9-12).
, a total of 235 original episodes of The Real Housewives of New Jersey have aired.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
Dina Cantin (then Manzo), Teresa Giudice, Jacqueline Laurita, Caroline Manzo and Danielle Staub are introduced as series regulars.
Season 2 (2010)
Cantin departed as a series regular after episode 7. Kim Granatell served in a recurring capacity.
Season 3 (2011)
Staub departed as a series regular. Melissa Gorga and Kathy Wakile joined the cast.
Season 4 (2012)
Kim DePaola served in a recurring capacity.
Season 5 (2013)
DePaola and Jennifer Dalton served in recurring capacities.
Season 6 (2014)
Laurita, Manzo and Wakile departed as series regulars. Dina Cantin (then Manzo) rejoined the cast as a series regular. Teresa Aprea, Amber Marchese and Nicole Napolitano joined the cast. Laurita and Wakile then served in recurring capacities.
Season 7 (2016)
Cantin, Aprea, Marchese and Napolitano departed as series regulars. Laurita rejoined the cast as a series regular. Dolores Catania and Siggy Flicker joined the cast. Wakile and Rosie Pierri served in recurring capacities.
Season 8 (2017–18)
Laurita departed as a series regular. Margaret Josephs joined the cast. Staub served in a recurring capacity.
Season 9 (2018–19)
Flicker departed as a series regular. Jennifer Aydin and Jackie Goldschneider joined the cast. Staub served in a recurring capacity.
Season 10 (2019–20)
Staub served in a recurring capacity.
Season 11 (2021)
Season 12 (2022)
Traci Johnson served in a recurring capacity.
Season 13 (2023)
Goldschneider departed as a series regular, whilst serving in a recurring capacity. Danielle Cabral and Rachel Fuda joined the cast. Jennifer Fessler also served in a recurring capacity.
References
External links
Real Housewives of New Jersey episodes
New Jersey episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT%20Satellite%20Messenger | SPOT is a GPS tracking device that uses the Globalstar satellite network to provide text messaging and GPS tracking (depending on the subscription type purchased). It has a coverage area that includes a large portion of the planet, with the exception of extreme northern and southern latitudes and parts of the Pacific Ocean. Depending on the product, SPOT can send and receive communications.
The device is sold by SPOT LLC, a subsidiary of Globalstar.
With the purchase of a subscription, SPOT allows short (41 character) user-defined text messages which can be sent to a list of telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. This subscription also allows users to push their location to emergency services. Users can share their location and messages based on their account preference, alerting friends and family to their whereabouts.
In early 2018, SPOT launched the SPOT X, a two-way satellite messaging device with GPS location tracking, navigational capabilities, social media linking and direct communication options to emergency services. In February 2023, Kurt Knutsson of CyberGuy Report at Fox News included Spot X in a review of "the 5 best" personal locator beacons (PLB).
To-date (2019) SPOT has successfully helped initiate more than 6,000 rescues in 100 countries.
References
External links
findmespot.com
Satellite communicators
Global Positioning System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry%20of%20Colombia | The share of the industry of Colombia in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) has shifted significantly in the last few decades. Data from the World Bank show that between 1965 and 1989 the share of industry—including construction, manufacturing, and mining—increased from 27 percent to 38 percent of GDP. However, since then the share has fallen considerably, down to approximately 29 percent of GDP in 2007. This pattern is about the average for middle-income countries.
Government policy
The spirit of the 1991 constitution led to reform of the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) in order to foster competition and protect consumer rights by strengthening its capacity to prevent monopolistic activities and promote competition and market access. Offenses against free competition, collusion, and abuses of market power were defined, and the SIC gained the capacity to sanction individuals and firms for violations. The changes also strengthened a period of trade liberalization, increasing the degree of competition in domestic markets after a long period of import-substitution industrialization and export-promotion policies.
Before 1990 it was common to have subsidized sources of credit for industries, mainly through the Bank of the Republic (Colombia's central bank), the Industrial Development Institute (Instituto de Fomento Industrial, or IFI), and the Export Promotion Fund (Fondo para la Promoción de las Exportaciones, or Proexpo). Financial subsidies declined significantly at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. Although the role of the Bank of the Republic as promoter of industry transferred to the IFI in 1992, in 2003 the IFI entered into liquidation. In 2002 the Ministry of Foreign Trade merged with the Ministry of Economic Development and became the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism. The government created Proexport Colombia, an export-promotion agency, and Proexpo became the Foreign Trade Bank of Colombia (Bancoldex), an export-import bank that now provides financing alternatives for Colombian producers of all sorts in commerce, industry, and tourism.
Trade organizations
The National Association of Industrialists (Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Colombia, or ANDI), the country's most important entrepreneurial organization, represents more than 650 member firms from a variety of sectors, including the manufacturing, financial, agro-industrial, and services sectors. Since its creation in 1944, ANDI has been actively promoting the strengthening and competitiveness of private enterprise, state-owned companies, and public organizations. In addition to taking a leading role among manufacturing organizations in Colombia, ANDI actively lobbies the executive and legislative branches of government. Besides representing its members at regional, national, and international levels, ANDI is also a leader among business organizations in Colombia.
Construction
Colombia's construction sector has represented betw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic%20Policy%20Consortium | The Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC) is a network of 42 United States and European higher education institutions that conduct education, training, and research in the field of public policy and public administration. Its mission is to promote an ongoing dialogue of students and faculty and to conduct joint research on contemporary transatlantic public policy issues. Papers written for the consortium's colloquia are published in the Transatlantic Public Policy Series with LIT Publishers in Germany. Current co-chairmen are professors Charles F. Bonser of Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Eberhard Bohne of the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.
History
The consortium developed out of colloquia on transatlantic public policy issues jointly sponsored by Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and École Nationale d'Administration since 1997. It was formally established in May 2000, and has been a grant recipient of the Bosch Foundation since 2008.
Members
California
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
USC Price School of Public Policy
Georgia
University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs
Indiana
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Maryland
University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Massachusetts
Suffolk University Law School
New Jersey
Rutgers University School of Public Affairs and Administration
New York
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Virginia
George Mason University School of Public Policy
Washington, D.C.
American University School of Public Affairs
European Union
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Danish School of Public Administration
École Nationale d'Administration
Paris-Sorbonne University
University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Federal Academy of Public Administration (Associate Member)
German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer
German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
Hertie School of Governance
Karlsruhe Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis
Max Planck Institute of Economics
Potsdam University
University of Bremen
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Zeppelin University
Delft University
Delft University of Technology
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Leiden University
Tilburg University
Utrecht University
The Polish Institute of International Affairs
Instituto Superior Técnico
King Juan Carlos University
Pompeu Fabra University
Jönköping University
University of Birmingham
University of Glasgow
References
External links
Transatlantic Policy Consortium
Public administration schools
Public policy research
Public p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Haggins | Michael Haggins is an American bassist and songwriter.
Haggins has worked and recorded with many artists while also working in the network television industry for NBC, ABC, CBS. His sound combines funk and smooth jazz, having been inspired by Stanley Clarke, Isley Brothers, George Duke, and Earth Wind & Fire.
His debut album was Daybreak followed by Traffic. In 2011 he released a new single "In Your Lifetime". Haggins records on the independent label Cuate Records.
Early life and education
Haggins got his first guitar at age 8 for Christmas and played the alto saxophone in his school band when he was 11. He eventually studied jazz at Pasadena City College and went on to major in communications at California State University, Long Beach, with a focus on radio/television. He had also worked with network television for some time, editing shows like The Cosby Show and Dr. Phil. He played with some local bands until deciding in the early 2000s to pursue his music career, after being encouraged by his uncle, Al Duncan.
Music in TV and films
Haggins' song "Daybreak" has been featured on Community, where Troy (Donald Glover), Abed (Danny Pudi), Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), and Annie (Alison Brie) have hummed it on different occasions. (Season 3, episodes 5, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 16; season 4, episodes 2, 4, 5 and 9; and season 6, episodes 6 and 11). "Be Thankful", from the same album, was used in season 5, episode 9, as well.
His music has also been featured in 2011 Twentieth Century Fox film Hall Pass, the ABC primetime series Happy Endings, MSNBC'S Wake Up With Al, the Fox Television primetime series Raising Hope, daytime and primetime television on The Weather Channel, and Los Angeles television station KTLA 5 Morning News.
Discography
2004 Daybreak
2008 Traffic
2012 World of Dreams
2015 Dare to Dream
References
American jazz bass guitarists
American male bass guitarists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male jazz musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing%20and%20artificial%20intelligence | The fields of marketing and artificial intelligence converge in systems which assist in areas such as market forecasting, and automation of processes and decision making, along with increased efficiency of tasks which would usually be performed by humans. The science behind these systems can be explained through neural networks and expert systems, computer programs that process input and provide valuable output for marketers.
Artificial intelligence systems stemming from social computing technology can be applied to understand social networks on the Web. Data mining techniques can be used to analyze different types of social networks. This analysis helps a marketer to identify influential actors or nodes within networks, information which can then be applied to take a societal marketing approach.
Artificial neural networks
An artificial neural network is a form of computer program modeled on the brain and nervous system of humans. Neural networks are composed of a series of interconnected processing neurons that function in unison to achieve certain outcomes.
Using “human-like trial and error learning methods neural networks detect patterns existing within a data set ignoring data that is not significant while emphasizing the data which is most influential”.
From a marketing perspective, neural networks are a form of software tool used to assist in decision making. Neural networks are effective in gathering and extracting information from large data sources and have the ability to identify cause and effect within tha data. These neural nets through the process of learning, identify relationships and connections between databases. Once knowledge has been accumulated, neural networks can be relied on to provide generalizations and can apply past knowledge and learning to a variety of situations.
Neural networks help fulfill the role of marketing companies through effectively aiding in market segmentation and measurement of performance while reducing costs and improving accuracy. Due to their learning ability, flexibility, adaption, and knowledge discovery, neural networks offer many advantages over traditional models. Neural networks can be used to assist in pattern classification, forecasting and marketing analysis.
Pattern classification
Classification of customers can be facilitated through the neural network approach allowing companies to make informed marketing decisions. An example of this was employed by Spiegel Inc., a firm dealing in direct-mail operations that used neural networks to improve efficiencies. Using software developed by NeuralWare Inc., Spiegel identified the demographics of customers who had made a single purchase and those customers who had made repeat purchases. Neural networks where then able to identify the key patterns and consequently identify the customers that were most likely to repeat purchase. Understanding this information allowed Spiegel to streamline marketing efforts, and reduced costs.
Forecasting
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Cianfanelli | Marco Cianfanelli (born 30 November 1970) is a South African artist who has been involved in a wide range of projects involving art, architecture and public spaces. Cianfanelli combines computer-generated, data-driven applications with human, expressive, gestural acts to create tension in his work. Cianfanelli is one of a handful of South African artists whose work successfully spans the public and domestic sphere. He began his career painting landscapes and continues to be concerned with romanticized space and that which is marginalized through the very act of romanticizing. Cianfanelli's slick, pared-down, iconographic recent works are intricately linked with the complexity of loving South Africa.
One of Cianfanelli's most recognisable works is the depiction of Nelson Mandela's head that is located at the site of Mandela's capture in Howick, South Africa.
Career
Education
In 1992, Cianfanelli received his BA/FA (painting) from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Exhibitions
2012 University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 SA’ s first Annual International Land Art Event/ Plettenberg Bay
2009 Absent Fields, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009 Contemporary sculpture in the landscape / Nirox Foundation; Johannesburg
2008 Intervention, UNISA Art Gallery, Tswane
2008 Production Marks, Grahamstown Festival, KZNSA Gallery, The Goethe Institute
2008 Heptad, The Art Space, Johannesburg
2007 Spier Contemporary, Stellenbosch, Cape Town
2007 Positive, Sun City
2007 Aardklop 10, Potchefstroom
2006 Projected Development: return to begin, Aardklop Festival artist, Potchefstroom
2005 Projected Development, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
2004 Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town
2003 ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg
2002 Once were Painters, KKNK, Oudtshoorn.
2001 We Love our customers, Hungarian Embassy, New York
2000 Tour-guides of the inner city – URBAN FUTURES Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Johannesburg
2000 Hoerikwaggo, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2000 SASOL New Signatures Revisited, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn
2000 Emotions and Relations, Sandton civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg
1999 Channel, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
2002 Joint exhibition with Stephanus Rademeyer, The Art Space, Johannesburg
1998 Atlantis, Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town
1998 ! Xoe – Site Specific, Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape
1997 Taking Stock, Co-curated and exhibited, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Johannesburg
1997 Cyst: Works in Paint, Good Hope Gallery, The Castle, Cape Town
1997 No. 4, Hillbrow Fort, Johannesburg
1996 Record, Art Space, Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg
Collections
SASOL
ABSA
DIADATA
Bloemfontein Art Museum
References
Artists from Johannesburg
South African artists
South African people of Italian descent
1970 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara%20Private%20Game%20Reserve | Samara Private Game Reserve is a 28,300 hectare private game reserve, located near Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Previously a network of 11 livestock farms, Samara was created in 1997 with the vision to restore the area to its natural state. This is being achieved by slowly rehabilitating the land and reintroducing the natural biodiversity. The South African cheetahs are at the forefront of Samara's conservation initiatives, and forms part of the Cheetah Metapopulation Programme, managed by the Endangered Wildlife Trust.
Research projects
Samara promotes research on the reserve, and is currently supporting the following research projects:
Cheetah and Jackal research, through the Centre for African Carnivore Ecology at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Vervet monkey research through the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Lethbridge.
Tracker Academy
Samara is home to South Africa's first Tracker Academy, aimed at teaching outstanding underprivileged individuals the art of tracking. Samara Volunteer Programme is also based on the property, aimed at giving individuals the opportunity to contribute to hands-on conservation.
Vuyani Safe Haven
Samara supports Vuyani Safe Haven as its community initiative.
See also
Eastern Cape Parks
Protected areas of South Africa
References
External links
Panda.org, How you can help
Game reserves of South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamon%20Entertainment | Akamon Entertainment is a developer and operator of social network games focused on the Latin-American and South European markets. The company offers multi-platform, multiplayer casino and traditional games with via portals, Facebook and mobile devices.
History
Akamon was founded in July 2011 on the basis of Mundijuegos.com, a Spanish portal of traditional and casino games with more than 6 million users at that moment, growing to 23 million users and expanding to 8 countries in 2 years and a half.
The company started its expansion across Latin America and the south of Europe in 2012. In January 2012 Akamon entered the Brazilian market with the local portal Ludijogos.com. In March 2012, the company started operating in France through the local portal Mundijeux.fr. In April 2012, Akamon announced an agreement with the Argentinean portal Taringa!, making Akamon the exclusive provider of online social games on its platform. Since its founding, the company has kept growing organically via local portals and white-label agreements with international partners (such as Spilgames, UOL, Terra, etc.) in Italy, France, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina.
Following its multi-platform strategy, since the first launch in Facebook in May 2014, the company has launched 21 Facebook and 2 mobile apps, aimed at offering a complete multi-device experience to its users.
In July 2012, Akamon won top prize in "Who's Got the Game" competition for best startup in online games. The company's growth in its first complete year received recognition in the EGR Operator Awards 2012, where Akamon was awarded "Rising Star" and best "Social Bingo Product of the Year".
In December 2012, Akamon was ranked 7th in the list of Best Workplaces SMEs Spain, compiled by the research institute Great Place to Work.
For three consecutive years (2011, 2012 and 2013), Akamon has been included in the SCi Power 25 ranking by Social Casino Intelligence Magazine, including the top players of the social casino industry.
In October 2013, Akamon was included among "Europe's 100 hottest Startups" by Wired UK Magazine.
In October 2013, Akamon joined the Social Games Association (ISGA), the industry body that acts as the voice for the global gaming industry.
In April 2014 Akamon was recognized as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe by The Next Web at Tech5 ranking
Funding
In May 2013 Akamon closed its first round of investment at $3.6 million, with which Bonsai Venture Capital and Axon Partners Group became shareholders, joining the founders of the startup.
Games
Akamon's portfolio of games consists of 41 multiplayer casino and traditional games, all of them with social features and can be played on multiple platforms (portal, mobile and Facebook).
Akamon's games:
Chinchón
Parchís
Buraco
Domino
Pool
Tarot
Belote
Tute
Mus
Brisca
Roulette Empires
Blackjack Cities
Poker
Bingo Rider
Offices
Head Office in Barcelona (Spain)
Development in Valenci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networks%20in%20marketing | Networks are crucial parts of any action taken in a marketplace. Peter Drucker even described the future economy as one of a society of networks. Companies embedded in such networks stand to gain a lot. There are a number of different network models, which have distinct relevance to customers, and marketing initiatives. A network in marketing can be formed either strategically (e.g. Business networking) or completely randomly (e.g. Referral economy). Marketing channels and business networks have been referred to, by Achrol & Kotler as:
“Interdependent systems of organizations and relations that are involved in carrying out all of the production and marketing activities involved in creating and delivering value in the form of products and services to intermediate and final customers.”
Achrol & Kotler stated that networks are not accepting of traditional mechanisms, such as authority and control. Suggesting that organizational hierarchy, power and contracts are now exchanged for instruments of relational control. Businesses such as Ford, Procter & Gamble and General Electric have evolved in much the same. It wasn't all to long ago that they were organized as classic hierarchies. Displaying central control, unified purpose, and complex management structure of many tiers.
Business and marketing networks differ in the amount of connectivity between agents. Some markets, which are more fragmented, have less connectivity between agents than others. On top of this, the level of complexity differs between various networks, some may seem ordered and rather linear, whereas other random and chaotic. As a network develops, agents or entities form relationships with others, which increases the efficiency of operations. Although, this inevitably adds complexity to otherwise simple networks, and makes them more prone to chaos.
Networks in general
A network is a web of interrelated lines, passages, or edges, intersecting at a certain points, nodes, vertices, or places, which can be interlinked with other networks and contain sub networks . Networks have been linked to branches of mathematics, electronics, biology, and biosocial fields. Studies of inter-organization relations, and its networks, can be traced to early societies.
History
In 1736, Leonhard Euler created graph theory. Graph theory paved the way for network models such as Barabási-Albert's scale-free networks, chance networks such as Paul Erdös and Alfréd Rényi, Erdős–Rényi model, which applies to random graph theory, and Watts & Strogatz Small-world network, all of which can be adapted to be representative of strategies and or relationships in the marketplace.
With respect to marketing, much of the creation of theories around systems, structure, and the management of business networks, can arguably be attributed to early economists such as John Common, Ronald Coase, and Joseph Schumpter. John Commons, in 1934, took ideas from the fields of law, economics, and psychology, and focused on tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20All-Stars%20Battle%20Royale | PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a 2012 crossover fighting video game developed by SuperBot Entertainment, in conjunction with Bluepoint Games, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It features various characters drawn from different PlayStation video game franchises competing against each other in multiplayer battles. The game was released in November 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita video game consoles.
Development of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale began in 2009 under the working title of Title Fight. The game's existence was leaked prior to its official announcement in April 2012, along with a significant number of its playable characters. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was one of the first games to be included in Sony's cross-buy program, allowing those who purchased the game for PlayStation 3 to receive a free copy of the PlayStation Vita port.
The game received mixed reviews. Critics praised the game's multiplayer components and gameplay mechanics, but the game was criticized for its lack of content and presentation.
Gameplay
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a platform fighter, similar to the style of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. series. Up to four players can battle each other using characters from various Sony franchises such as God of War, PaRappa the Rapper, Infamous, and Sly Cooper, as well as third-party franchises like BioShock. Battles take place on a 2D plane, with players able to freely move around a stage to approach or escape their opponents. Different attacks are performed by pressing one of three attack buttons in combination with a directional input. Players damage their opponents to receive "AP" orbs that build up a power meter at the bottom of the screen. Players can also find orbs scattered across the stage during the match, or can perform throw attacks to remove AP orbs from their opponents. Earning enough power allows players to use one of three levels of special attacks named "Super Moves" which can be used to defeat opponents and earn points. Level 1 super moves have the lowest AP cost but typically cover a short range and can only hit one character; in contrast, Level 3 supers require significant amounts of AP but have an extended duration time and can potentially defeat multiple opponents before they expire.
Battles take place in one of fifteen different battle arenas, with many featuring elements and stage hazards that can damage characters and cause them to lose AP. Each stage is based on a combination of two games, such as "Sandover Village" (based on Jak and Daxter and Hot Shots Golf), "Dreamscape" (based on LittleBigPlanet and Buzz!), "Stowaways" (based on Uncharted and BioShock Infinite), and "Hades" (based on God of War and Patapon). As time passes, a stage's second representation takes hold, usually introducing an additional hazard into the level. During gameplay, item pick-ups will spawn on the battlefield, such as the Hedgehog Grenade from Resistance, the Gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20diamante | Rosa diamante (, Diamond Rose) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Mexican Argos Comunicación. It is a remake of Argentinian telenovela Perla Negra, written by Enrique Torres. Carla Hernández, Mauricio Ochmann, and Lupita Ferrer are starring in this telenovela.
History
From July 10 to July 23, 2012, Telemundo aired half-hour episodes of Rosa Diamante weeknights at 8:30pm/7:30c, along with Una Maid en Manhattan. Starting July 24, 2012, Telemundo aired Rosa Diamante weeknights at 8pm/7c, replacing Una Maid en Manhattan. The last episode was broadcast on January 21, 2013, with Pasión Prohibida replacing it the following day. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
Plot
A wealthy sophisticated woman (Rosaura) abandons a newborn baby girl in a boarding school, and leaves nineteen diamonds with her. 18 of the diamonds are meant to pay for each year of her school expenses, until the baby reaches eighteen years old, and the last diamond is pink colored, and is supposed to be given to the baby girl when she grows up and is ready to leave the school. Years pass, Rosa turns into a beautiful young lady. Her biggest treasures are her boundless imagination and her friendship with Eva, who is another girl at the boarding school.
One fine day, Eva meets a boy named José Ignacio, a wealthy young man who makes fun of her and pretends his name is Adam, just to lure her in. The young Eva falls in love and ends up pregnant but Jose Ignacio leaves her. After giving birth, a terrible car accident abruptly ends Eva's life. Rosa, who was also in the accident, is mistakenly identified as Eva in the aftermath, and Rosa lets everyone believe she really is Eva so that little Eduardito will not end up in an orphanage. Rosa sets on a plan of revenge on Jose Ignacio, who just happens to be Eva's cousin, Barbara's fiancé. She also strives to give Eduardito proper love.
Cast
Main
Mauricio Ochmann as José Ignacio Altamirano
Lupita Ferrer as Rosaura Sotomayor
Carla Hernández as Rosa Andrade / Eva Sotomayor
Patricio Castillo as Eduardo Sotomayor
Claudia Ramírez as Raquel Altamirano
Begoña Narváez as Bárbara Montenegro
Sofía Lama as Andrea Fernández
Luis Xavier as Gerardo Altamirano
Manuel Balbi as Gabriel Robles
Luciana Silveyra as Margaret Bridges / Margarita Puentes
Néstor Rodulfo as Ramón Gómez
Marco de Paula as Gerardo "Junior" Altamirano, Jr.
Patricia Conde as Leticia Sotomayor
Ignacio Riva Palacio as Martín Montenegro
Heriberto Méndez as Sergio Escobar
Mariana Villalvazo Martín as Lucía Altamirano
Ofelia Guiza as Soledad "Chole"
Thali García as Eva Sotomayor
Constantino Costas as Rodolfo Montenegro
Recurring
Marco Treviño as Antonio Andrade
Julieta Grajales as Maria Corina Villalta
Roberto Uscanga as Jairo Roncancio
Miguel Garza as Leonardo Bernal
Gustavo Navarro as Federico Valenti
Iván Bronstein as H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Government%20ICT%20Network | The Local Government ICT Network, also known as LG ICT Network, is the knowledge sharing portal for information and communication technologies (ICT) in local government in South Africa. The Network is hosted by the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) and supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for International Cooperation). It has been publicly available since May 2011 as a dedicated online community for ICT practitioners in public service delivery and has members from almost all 278 municipalities of South Africa.
Its objectives include the sharing of interesting documents, the identification and promotion of best practices, the provision of regular updates about important events, jobs and news. The LG ICT Network is intended to serve as a space for free discussion and exchange.
In August 2011 a 2-day live Event ConnectIT was held in Birchwood Convention Centre, Johannesburg with over 400 participants and participation from the private and public sector.
In 2012 the Network presented its work among other occasion at the Public Participation Conference of the Gauteng Legislature and at the Tech Demo Africa 2012.
References
External links
Article about the start of the LG ICT Network on itweb.co.za
Article about the start of the LG ICT Network on SA IT News
Article about the ConnectIT Event 2011 with all presentations
Local government in South Africa
Information technology organisations based in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Services%20automobiles%20de%20la%20vall%C3%A9e%20de%20Chevreuse | The company Services automobiles de la vallée de Chevreuse commonly called SAVAC provides a network of passenger transport in Île-de-France, in the south of Yvelines dans the west of Essonne.
Bus lines
Bus lines in Essonne
Bus Lines in Yvelines
External links
Official Website of SAVAC
Map of SAVAC lines
Transport in Île-de-France
Bus companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic.net | Atlantic.Net is an American cloud computing and hosting services provider with data center presence in the United States. Founded in 1994 in Gainesville, Florida as the Internet Connect Company Computers (ICC Computers), it is headquartered in Orlando. As of 2012, the company states that it provides colocation, cloud server hosting internationally as a cloud service provider, dedicated servers and managed server hosting.
History
Founding
Atlantic.net was founded in 1994 by Manoj "Marty" Puranik and Jose Sanchez, then both students at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Since the university did not allow all students web access at that time, Puranik and Sanchez created the infrastructure to be an internet service provider so they could get online themselves. The first connection was paid for by a computer repair shop run out of Puranik's dorm room.
The company was first named Internet Connect Company Computers (ICC Computers), and within a year had eight employees serving 2,000 customers in the Gainesville area. In 1995, it launched its first commercial internet services, and expanded services to Tampa and Orlando in 1996.
Growth
By 1997, the company was expanding, acquiring First Coast Internet and Worldwide Internet, and adopting the name Atlantic.Net for its internet division. That year, its internet service became available in Jacksonville and the Space Coast, and ICC hosted the website of WRRX. Near the end of 1997, the company was officially renamed Atlantic.Net, and launched services to nine more cities.
By 1998, it had doubled its revenue and acquired three further internet service providers (ISPs). The company created a web division in 1999, completed its tenth acquisition, and expanded to Mississippi and Louisiana. It was then recognized as the 15th fastest growing private company in Florida, and was nominated for the 1999 Florida 100. Also in 1999, the company introduced webmail and became CLEC certified.
In 2000, the company launched service in Georgia and Alabama. The next year, it went national with dial-up service, began offering DSL, and also introduced "true private networks". At this point, the company was still completely self-financed, and in 2001 brought in profits of over $10 million and had 50,000 subscribers. By 2002, Atlantic.Net had acquired 13 other internet service companies.
In 2002, it opened new headquarters in Orlando, Florida, and became the first ISP in Orlando offering high speed dial-up. That year, it also started nationwide long-distance service for businesses, completed its 16th acquisition, and began working with ClearChannel Broadcasting. By early 2002, it served Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Carolinas. The company also bought a data center in Orlando in 2003, and began working with the AAA. In 2005, Atlantic.Net expanded data center services to cover VoIP systems.
Recent years
In 2009, Atlantic.Net completed SAS 70 certification, and also took on the Orlando Mag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-based%20test%20interpretation%20in%20psychological%20assessment | Computer-based test interpretation (CBTI) programs are technological tools that have been commonly used to interpret data in psychological assessments since the 1960s. CBTI programs are used for a myriad of psychological tests, like clinical interviews or problem rating, but are most frequently exercised in psychological and neuropsychological assessments. CBTI programs are either empirically based or clinically based. The empirically based programs, or actuarial assessment programs, use statistical analyses to interpret the data, while the clinically based programs, or automated assessment programs, rely on information from expert clinicians and research. Although CBTI programs are successful in test-retest reliability, there have been major concerns and criticisms regarding the programs' ability to assess inter-rater and internal consistency reliability. Research has shown that the validity of CBTI programs has not been confirmed, due to the varying reports of individual programs. CBTI programs are very efficient in that they save time, reduce human error, are cost effective, and are objective/reliable, yet limited in that they are not always used by adequately trained evaluators or are not integrated with multiple sources of data. As technology continues to transform our modern society, computer-based interpretation programs have the possibility to expand their software and even alleviate some of the current concerns with the programs' methodology.
History
Computerized testing methods were first introduced over 60 years ago. The first program able to interpret computerized assessment data was developed in 1962 at the Mayo Clinic. The program was used to evaluate MMPI data from hospital patients and generated a list of 110 possible descriptive statements which corresponded to particular scale elevations. This rudimentary computerized interpretation is not far off from the methods used today. In 1969, the first program able to generate narrative reports based on scale configurations was released. By 1985, it was estimated that as many as 1.5 million MMPI protocols had been interpreted by computer-based test interpretation (CBTI) programs. In 1987 as many as 72 separate suppliers of over 300 computer-based assessment products were in existence, nearly half which were developed for personality assessment. Since this time, the popularity and accessibility of computer-based testing and CBTI programs has increased dramatically, a trend that will continue into the future as the utilization of technology in the mental health profession increases.
Present status
Currently, CBTI programs fall into one of two categories: actuarial assessment programs or automated assessment programs. Actuarial assessment programs are based on statistical or actuarial prediction (e.g., statistical analyses, linear regression equations and Bayesian rules), which is empirically based while automated assessment programs consist of a series of if-then statements der |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDF | VDF may be an acronym for:
VHF Direction Finder
Venda Defence Force
Virginia Defense Force
Visual DataFlex a Fourth-generation programming language now known simply as DataFlex.
FAA LID for: Tampa Executive Airport (formerly known as Vandenberg Airport)
Vinylidene difluoride, see: 1,1-Difluoroethylene
Verifiable Delay Function, in Cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECybermission | eCYBERMISSION is a U.S. Army-sponsored online educational science fair for students in grades 6–9 in the United States or at US Army schools across the world. The contest is conducted entirely online—groups of 2-4 students submit "Mission Folders", which contain detailed information about their projects choosing either Scientific Inquiry or the Engineering Design Process.
The competition selects winners on state, regional, and finally national levels for each grade level. All regional winners receive a trip to attend the National Judging and Educational Event (NJ&EE). Students can win up to $10,000 in savings bonds (maturity value). The NJ&EE event includes many opportunities to meet others, physical training, various workshops and panels, as well as the DoD STEM Workshops, which is a day working with scientists and engineers from different sectors of the DoD.
eCYBERMISSION is part of the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP).
The competition is administered by the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA).
References
External links
eCYBERMISSION Official Website
RDECOM Official Website
US AEOP website
American educational websites
Science competitions
American military youth groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20inference%20in%20marketing | In marketing, Bayesian inference allows for decision making and market research evaluation under uncertainty and with limited data.
Introduction
Bayes’ theorem is fundamental to Bayesian inference. It is a subset of statistics, providing a mathematical framework for forming inferences through the concept of probability, in which evidence about the true state of the world is expressed in terms of degrees of belief through subjectively assessed numerical probabilities. Such a probability is known as a Bayesian probability. The fundamental ideas and concepts behind Bayes' theorem, and its use within Bayesian inference, have been developed and added to over the past centuries by Thomas Bayes, Richard Price and Pierre Simon Laplace as well as numerous other mathematicians, statisticians and scientists. Bayesian inference has experienced spikes in popularity as it has been seen as vague and controversial by rival frequentist statisticians. In the past few decades Bayesian inference has become widespread in many scientific and social science fields such as marketing. Bayesian inference allows for decision making and market research evaluation under uncertainty and limited data.
Bayes’ theorem
Bayesian probability specifies that there is some prior probability. Bayesian statisticians can use both an objective and a subjective approach when interpreting the prior probability, which is then updated in light of new relevant information. The concept is a manipulation of conditional probabilities:
Alternatively, a more simple understanding of the formula may be reached by substituting the events and to become respectively the hypothesis and the data . The rule allows for a judgment of the relative truth of the hypothesis given the data.
This is done through the calculation shown below, where is the likelihood function. This assesses the probability of the observed data arising from the hypothesis ; is the assigned prior probability or initial belief about the hypothesis; the denominator is formed by the integrating or summing of ; is known as the posterior which is the recalculated probability, or updated belief about the hypothesis. It is a result of the prior beliefs as well as sample information. The posterior is a conditional distribution as the result of collecting or in consideration of new relevant data.
To sum up this formula: the posterior probability of the hypothesis is equal to the prior probability of the hypothesis multiplied by the conditional probability of the evidence given the hypothesis, divided by the probability of the new evidence.
Use in marketing
History
While the concepts of Bayesian statistics are thought to date back to 1763, marketers' exposure to the concepts are relatively recent, dating from 1959. Subsequently, many books and articles have been written about the application of Bayesian statistics to marketing decision-making and market research. It was predicted that the Bayesian approach would be used widely i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Bench-Capon | Trevor Bench-Capon (born 1953) is a British computer scientist and an Honorary Visiting Professor of computer science at the University of Liverpool, where he taught from 1987 until his retirement in 2012. He is the author of work on computer science and ontology and is one of the editors in chief of the Artificial Intelligence and Law Journal.
Life
After reading Philosophy and Economics at St John's College, Oxford, Bench-Capon took the research degree of D. Phil at Oxford. He then worked in the policy and computer branches of the British Government's Department of Health and Social Security, after which he researched logic programming as applied to legislation at Imperial College London. Since 1987 he has been an academic in the Computer Science department of the University of Liverpool, first as lecturer, then from 1992 senior lecturer, from 1999 Reader, and from 2004 as Professor of Computer Science. With Kevin D. Ashley and Giovanni Sartor he is an editor in chief of the Artificial Intelligence and Law Journal.
Bench-Capon's interests are all aspects of advanced informatics systems, with a specialism in the application of such systems to law. He has been called "one of the world's recognised experts on AI and the law".
In 1975 Bench-Capon was a member of the St John's College University Challenge team, and in 1978 he married Priscilla Bradley, who had represented St Anne's in the competition earlier that year. Their sons James and Michael appeared in the University Challenge teams of Clare College, Cambridge, and Oriel College, Oxford, in 2002 and 2003 respectively.
Major publications
Trevor Bench-Capon & Marek Sergot, Towards a rule-based representation of open texture in law (1985)
T. J. M. Bench-Capon, Knowledge representation: an approach to artificial intelligence (1990)
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, ed., Knowledge-based systems and legal applications (London: Academic Press, 1991)
Gerald Quirchmayr, Erich Schweighofer & Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Database and Expert Systems Applications: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, DEXA'98, Vienna, Austria, August 24–28, 1998 (1998)
Dean Jones, Trevor Bench-Capon & Pepijn Visser, Methodologies for Ontology Development (1998)
Trevor Bench-Capon, Giovanni Sartor & A Min Tjoa, Database and Expert Systems Applications: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, DEXA'99, Florence, Italy, August 30 - September 3, 1999 (1999)
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Aspassia Daskalopulu, Radboud Winkels, Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2002 (2002)
Bench-Capon, Trevor JM. "Persuasion in practical argument using value-based argumentation frameworks." Journal of Logic and Computation 13, no. 3 (2003): 429-448.
Bench-Capon, Trevor, and Giovanni Sartor. "A model of legal reasoning with cases incorporating theories and values." Artificial Intelligence 150, no. 1-2 (2003): 97-143.
Paul E. Dunne & Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2006 (Frontie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velian | Velian may refer to:
Velian, Alborz, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
Velian Hill, a hill of Rome
Operation: Matriarchy, a computer game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Zuber | Thomas Francis Zuber (born March 25, 1972) is an American attorney, entrepreneur, and inventor. He is the creator and CEO of LawLoop.com, a cloud computing portal for lawyers, and a Co-Founder and Partner of Zuber Lawler & Del Duca, a bi-coastal law firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices in Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York, Phoenix, Arizona and Silicon Valley, California. He is also known for directing, co-writing, and producing the independent motion picture Little Athens, which was an Official Selection of the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.
Life
Zuber grew up in Piscataway, New Jersey. He received his M.P.P. from Harvard University, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He graduated with a B.S. summa cum laude in engineering from Rutgers University. Tom Zuber is admitted to the New York State Bar and the California State Bar.
Zuber began his legal career in the New York office of White & Case in 1999. In 2001, he joined the Los Angeles office of O’Melveny & Myers. Shortly thereafter, Zuber left O’Melveny & Myers to co-found Zuber & Zuber, now Zuber Lawler & Del Duca.
LawLoop.com
Zuber created LawLoop.com, a cloud-computing portal for lawyers, with offices in Los Angeles, California. LawLoop.com uses an online business-network platform to integrate front-and-back office software solutions. LawLoop.com operates completely in the cloud, and includes software application services relating to document management, contact management, client management, and matter management, among other services.
On January 30, 2012, LawLoop.com launched at LegalTech New York 2012. LawLoop.com’s launch triggered positive responses from major media outlets such as Los Angeles Business Journal, CNNMoney, Yahoo! Finance, and Corporate Counsel. Following the launch at LegalTech, competing among some 600 start-up companies, LawLoop.com won the start-up competition at IT Expo East 2012, which took place in Miami, Florida.
Zuber’s inventions relating to LawLoop.com have resulted in over 10 patents and patents pending. On February 7, 2012, Zuber received his first patent relating to LawLoop.com, U.S. Patent No. 8,112,713 B2, relating to a "Method for Providing Alias Folders in a Document Management System."
Zuber Lawler & Del Duca
With his brother Jeff Zuber, Zuber co-founded Zuber & Zuber, now Zuber Lawler & Del Duca, in 2003 as a 3rd-year associate with no clients, and served as its Managing Partner for the first 7 years of its history. During his tenure, Zuber managed Zuber Lawler & Del Duca's growth from 2 attorneys working out of a Los Angeles domestic kitchen to over 25 attorneys working in 11 different languages representing clients throughout the world from offices in Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; and San Francisco, California.
Zuber Lawler & Del Duca currently represents nine of the Fortune 100 companies, and government entities such as the Federal De |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekketsu%20Fighting%20Legend | is a 1992 tournament-style fighting game developed and published by Technōs Japan exclusively in Japan for the Family Computer on December 23, 1992. It is a spin-off of the Kunio-kun series, as well as Technōs Japan's first attempt in the genre since their port of their Double Dragon arcade game on the same platform. Technōs Japan later became better known for its Neo Geo titles, such as Double Dragon fighting game and Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer.
It is also the first fighting game to allow up to four players to play simultaneously against each other. In order for more than two players to play, a multitap (like the 4-Players Adaptor by Hori) is required.
External links
Nekketsu Kakutō Densetsu promotional flyer at Giant Bomb
Nekketsu Kakutō Densetsu at Mobygames
1992 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Kunio-kun
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Technōs Japan games
Video games developed in Japan
Fighting games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroFinance%20Institutions%20Network | Microfinance Institutions Network is an association for the microfinance sector in India. Its member organizations constitute the leading microfinance institutions in the country.
Business model
Microfinance Institutions Network was created to promote the key objectives of microfinance, which is to help economically under served communities achieve greater financial independence and build sustainable livelihoods. The network's primary objective is to work towards the robust development of the microfinance sector, by promoting responsible lending, client protection, good governance and a supportive regulatory environment. It was established in October 2009 as a society under the Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act 2001. According to its bylaws, all non-banking finance companies registered with the Reserve Bank of India are eligible for membership of the society. The Reserve Bank of India accorded recognition to the network via its letter dated 16 June 2014. Microfinance Institutions Network works closely with regulators and other key stakeholders and plays an active part in the larger financial inclusions dialogue through the medium of microfinance.
Microfinance Institutions Network is organized into four verticals, namely self-regulation, advocacy and development, communications and marketing, and state initiatives to be able to focus on the priorities of the sector in an optimum manner. While previously policy advocacy was the primary focus and continues to be so, with the evolution of the sector there are various new functions that have become part of the framework. The self-regulatory function was part of the Reserve Banks of India's remit to the network to help supervise compliance at a more granular level on behalf of the regulator. With the sector coming back into its own over the last five years, there was felt a need for greater engagement with external stakeholders and a strong communication strategy was thought to be the way ahead. With the industry growing steadily ground level issues are often key indicators of sectoral good health. With this in view the state initiative team keeps continuously engaging with industry issues at a field level to ensure smooth functioning. Microfinance Institutions Network's internal whistle-blowing mechanism tries not to charge beyond rates suggested by the Reserve Bank of India from its member microfinance institutions. This is to ensure there is no more possibilities of charging high rate of interest rates. The Reserve Bank of India has set a cap on the lending rate of microfinance institutions at 26 per cent per annum and a margin cap of 12 per cent over their cost of funds, whichever is lower.
Currently network member organizations consist of 55 of the leading non-banking financial companies and microfinance institutions whose combined business constitutes over 90% of the Indian microfinance sector excluding SHGs.
Database of borrowers
Validation of lending money beyond the clients (borrow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Public%20Archaeology%20Network | The Florida Public Archaeology Network, or FPAN, is a state supported organization of regional centers dedicated to public outreach and assisting Florida municipalities and the Florida Division of Historical Resources "to promote the stewardship and protection of Florida's archaeological resources." FPAN was established in 2004, upon legislation that sought to establish a "Florida network of public archaeology centers to help stem the rapid deterioration of this state's buried past and to expand public interest in archaeology."
Regions
The Florida Public Archaeology Network is divided into eight regions:
Northwest Region – Counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Washington, Bay, Jackson, Calhoun, and Gulf.
North Central Region – Counties of Gadsden, Liberty, Franklin, Leon, Wakulla, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, Hamilton, Suwannee, Lafayette, Dixie, Columbia, Baker, and Union.
Northeast Region – Counties of Nassau, Duval, Clay, St. Johns, Putnam, Flagler, and Volusia.
Central Region – Counties of Gilchrist, Levy, Bradford, Alachua, Marion, Citrus, Hernando, Sumter, and Lake.
East Central Region – Counties of Seminole, Orange, Osceola, Brevard, Indian River, Okeechobee, St. Lucie, and Martin.
West Central Region – Counties of Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Polk, Manatee, Sarasota, Hardee, DeSoto, and Highlands.
Southwest Region – Counties of Charlotte, Glades, Lee, Hendry, and Collier.
Southeast Region – Counties of Palm Beach, Broward, Miami Dade, and Monroe.
Projects
The Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail features 12 shipwrecks including artificial reefs and a variety of sea life for diving, snorkeling and fishing offshore of Pensacola, Destin, Panama City and Port St. Joe, Florida. The "trail offers an adventurous opportunity for heritage, recreational, and ecological tourism."
USS Oriskany
Pensacola:
The largest artificial reef in the world, this wreck was named a Top 25 U.S. Dive Site in 2014 by Scuba Diving magazine.
Depth: 80–212 feet
Sink Date: May 17, 2006
Nicknamed the "Great Carrier Reef," the USS Oriskany, also known as the "Mighty O," was sunk after serving in the Pacific and earning battle stars for service in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Located 22 miles off the coast of Pensacola and submerged in more than 200 feet of water, this shipwreck offers exploration for divers of all skills and a myriad of pelagic and sedentary marine life.
YDT-14
Pensacola:
After years of training US Navy divers, this shipwreck is now a dive destination itself.
Depth: 90 feet
Sink Date: April 2000
Gulf storms have buried this diving tender to her decks, but the upper structure around 65 feet below sea level offers boundless exploration for divers.
San Pablo
Pensacola: This ship is steeped in a history of foreign spies, espionage and secret military operations.
Depth: 80 feet
Sink Date: August 11, 1944
Launched from Belfast, Ireland, in 1915, San Pablo started her life as a fruit transport running bananas from Central A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1541%20Ultimate | 1541 Ultimate (often abbreviated 1541U) is a peripheral, primarily an emulated floppy disk and cartridge emulator based on the FPGA Xilinx XC3S250E, for the Commodore 64 home computer. It became available in 2008.
The unit is developed by Gideon Zweijtzer and is a cartridge that can emulate other cartridges such as the Commodore REU, Action Replay, The Final Cartridge III, Super Snapshot V5, Retro Replay or TurboAss with Codenet-support, and an almost fully compatible (including JiffyDOS support FPGA-cloned Commodore 1541 (including 1541, 1541C, and 1541 II models) floppy disk unit that can use Commodore 64-compatible files like .D64/.G64 disc images or .PRG files via a SD card reader. Additionally, the 1541 Ultimate is suitable for making archives of floppy disks. All units after the initial production have 32 megabytes of RAM, while the original production run only had 16 megabytes.
The 1541 Ultimate is capable of running both CP/M and GEOS.
In 2010, the 1541 Ultimate II was developed. The Ultimate II is about 30% smaller than the 1541 Ultimate, comes in a plastic case, and adds support for dual SIDs (plus a SID/MOD player), a USB host controller, tape emulation via a tape adapter (though use with a Commodore 128D requires modification), a real-time clock (for accurate file date and time), and the SD card slot is replaced by a microSD card slot. In addition, all firmware and VHDL code for the Ultimate II is available under an open source GPLv3 license, allowing hobbyists and others to freely modify all aspects of its functionality, including the FPGA-emulated hardware.
The 1541 Ultimate has an option for on-board Ethernet, while the 1541 Ultimate II supports Ethernet via a compatible USB to Ethernet adapter.
Besides being useful to retrocomputing hobbyists, it has also found use in educational laboratory settings.
In 2017 the Ultimate II+ was released with the following feature differentiation from the II:
Removal of the MicroSD slot, More USB ports, Integrated Ethernet, Dual Flash, Integrated Speaker, External power supply connector with auto-switch over circuit, Improved power supply circuits, and a slightly bigger and faster FPGA, as to control the new features.
The II and II+ share a firmware image and the software features are substantially similar.
See also
Commodore 1541
Commodore 64 peripherals
IDE64
References
External links
ultimate64.com - 1541 Ultimate homepage
1541 Ultimate source code repository (Subversion)
Collection of official and unofficial firmware
Commodore 64
Home computer peripherals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20noise | In (supervised) machine learning, specifically when learning from data, there are situations when the data values cannot be modeled. This may arise if there are random fluctuations or measurement errors in the data which are not modeled, and can be appropriately called stochastic noise; or, when the phenomenon being modeled (or learned) is too complex, and so the data contains this added complexity that is not modeled. This added complexity in the data has been called deterministic noise. Though these two types of noise arise from different causes, their adverse effect on learning is similar. The overfitting occurs because the model attempts to fit the (stochastic or deterministic) noise (that part of the data that it cannot model) at the expense of fitting that part of the data which it can model. When either type of noise is present, it is usually advisable to regularize the learning algorithm to prevent overfitting the model to the data and getting inferior performance. Regularization typically results in a lower variance model at the expense of bias.
One may also try to alleviate the effects of noise by detecting and removing the noisy training examples prior to training the supervised learning algorithm. There are several algorithms that identify noisy training examples, and removing the suspected noisy training examples prior to training will usually improve the performance.
References
Randomness
Determinism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Internet%20in%20Sweden | The history of Internet in Sweden can be considered to have begun in 1984, when the first Swedish network was connected to the Internet in Gothenburg. In the past, however, were data links between some colleges and universities with access via modem and UUCP to the European part of the Internet.
History
The Internet's predecessor ARPANET took its start around 1969 in California, USA. Patrick Falstrom was a mathematics student in Stockholm in the early 1980s when he was hired to help build and test the infrastructure for the ARPA Internet.
Although Sweden had connected to the internet in 1984, it was not until 1988 that this access was considered significant, when the higher education network SUNET was able to connect with the USA. Internet access became available to the Swedish public in 1994 when Kuai Connection and later Algonet as the first operators connected the Swedish Internet with the Swedish telephone network via modem pools.
The usage costs were made up of a fixed monthly fee and per minute charges as with any other telephone call. In 1996 Internet access became available for a flat monthly fee in Ängelholm where the local cable TV company began to offer connectivity via Cable TV modems with an Ethernet interface. A big change started in 1999 when Bredbandsbolaget concluded a Framework Agreement with housing movement HSB and a large number of condominium apartments were given access to the Internet. This led Telia to come up with a similar offer, and soon a market was created where Bredbandsbolaget and Telia were just two of several players. In 2001, ADSL was made available, in beginning only from Telia who decided over the existing copper cables.
Timeline
The timeline of the history of the Internet in Sweden:
1962 The first modem for the telephone lines was made commercially available, with a transmission speed of .
1971 Televerket (later Telia) abolished the monopoly on mobile (radio) terminals.
1978 The first electronic discussion forum (BBS) were started in Sweden by Stockholms Datamaskincentral (QZ).
1979-1993 Televerket run their Datavision service that people connected to with a modem and a special software and subscription. It was offered commercially in 1982. Many larger companies embraced the service, but it did not become widespread elsewhere. Steve Jobs declared in 1984 that the service were "too single minded". It was shutdown later. But even during their active time resistance arose to electronic alternatives: "The association of newspaper publishers to the government asserted a strong concern about the competition Videotex would entail for the newspapers. An inquiry majority proposed a ban on advertising." (But it didn't became like that) this service did anyway cost the equivalent of .
1979-1988 The network of Swedish universities (Sunet) used Televerket X.25 but did later leave this inefficient protocol behind permanently in favor of leased direct connections.
1980 The first volunteer-driven electronic di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping%20the%20Practice%20and%20Profession%20of%20Sculpture%20in%20Britain%20and%20Ireland%201851%E2%80%931951 | Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 (Mapping Sculpture) is an online database of sculptors and their works. It is the result of a three-year research programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. The project was a partnership between University of Glasgow, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Henry Moore Institute, with systems development being carried out by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute.
The project represents the first authoritative study of sculptors, related businesses and trades, art infrastructures, professional networks and cultural geographies, between the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the Festival of Britain in 1951. The database contains over 50,000 records about sculptural practice.
Mapping Sculpture was originated by Ann Compton (Institute of Art History, University of Glasgow), who served as Project Director and Editor, with Professor Alison Yarrington (University of Glasgow, now University of Hull) as Principal Investigator and Dr Marjorie Trusted (Victoria and Albert Museum) as Co-Investigator. HATII's Matthew Barr was the Systems Developer.
A special issue of the Sculpture Journal, devoted to the Mapping Sculpture project, was published in December 2012.
External links
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951
References
Online databases
Arts databases
19th-century British artists
19th-century Irish artists
20th-century British sculptors
20th-century Irish artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20East%20Local%20Health%20Integration%20Network | The North East LHIN is one of fourteen Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The North East Local Health Integration Network is a community-based, non-profit organization funded by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Services
North East LHIN plans, funds and coordinates the following operational public health care services to a population of approximately 550,000 people:
34 Hospitals - see below
42 Long-Term Care Homes
1 Community Care Access Centre (CCAC)
64 Community Support Service Agencies
48 Mental Health and Addiction Agencies
6 Community Health Centres (CHCs)
Hospitals
Geographic area
The North East LHIN services a region of across northeastern Ontario stretching from Parry Sound to the coasts of Hudson Bay and James Bay and from Sault Ste. Marie to Mattawa.
Budget
The North East LHIN has an annual budget of approximately $1.4 billion.
External links
North East LHIN - About Our LHIN
References
Health regions of Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen%20%28software%29 | Leiningen is a build automation and dependency management tool for the simple configuration of software projects written in the Clojure programming language.
Leiningen was created by Phil Hagelberg. Phil started the project with the aim of simplifying the complexities of Apache Maven, while
offering a way of describing the most common build requirements of Clojure projects in idiomatic Clojure. These aims are succinctly captured in the project's tag line, "Automate Clojure projects without setting your hair on fire".
Leiningen's features can be extended via a plugin system, and it is supplied with a command line interface that can initiate a number of actions, which include:
The generation of a simple Clojure project skeleton
Ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation
Dependency resolution (with automatic library downloading)
Start an interactive REPL that has the classpath correctly set to load project dependencies
Packaging of project code and dependencies into an "uberjar" .jar file
Leiningen is the most widely-contributed-to open-source Clojure project. It is featured in chapter 8 of the book Clojure Programming.
See also
Boot (software)
Leiningen Versus the Ants
References
External links
Build automation
Software using the Eclipse license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry%20Online | Wizardry Online was a free-to-play MMORPG developed by Gamepot, Inc, based on the classic Wizardry computer games originally created by Sir-Tech. It was released in January 2013 before being discontinued in July 2014.
Gameplay
Like many MMORPGs, players could create their own characters and explore and advance in an open world with other players that are also connected. A more dangerous addition to the gameplay was the potential for permanent death. The chance of losing your character can be reduced by sacrificing items.
Wizardry Online features five races as well as four classes. Similar to previous Wizardry games, a new character would receive bonus points they can assign to attributes. Each class has a requirement for a number of points in a one or more attributes in order to select that class. Open world player versus player (PvP) was also featured in the game. Player characters that have been killed could be looted of their belongings by other players. Wizardry Online used microtransactions to support itself. There was also a limited selection of items available for in-game gold.
Release
In October 2011, an open beta was launched in Japan. In June 2012, Sony Online Entertainment announced that it would publish Wizardry Online outside Japan. The game was released in the United States and Europe on 30 January 2013. The game's servers were shut down on 31 July 2014.
Reception
Wizardry Online received mostly mixed reviews. GameSpot praised the game's interesting combat system and use of permadeath, but criticized the graphics and user interface.
References
Role-playing video games
Fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing games
Free-to-play video games
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in Japan
Windows games
Windows-only games
Wizardry
2013 video games
Video games scored by Maki Kirioka
Inactive massively multiplayer online games
Gamepot games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration%20%28virtualization%29 | In the context of virtualization, where a guest simulation of an entire computer is actually merely a software virtual machine (VM) running on a host computer under a hypervisor, migration (also known as teleportation, also known as live migration) is the process by which a running virtual machine is moved from one physical host to another, with little or no disruption in service.
Subjective effects
Ideally, the process is completely transparent, resulting in no disruption of service (or downtime). In practice, there is always some minor pause in availability, though it may be low enough that only hard real-time systems are affected. Virtualization is far more frequently used with network services and user applications, and these can generally tolerate the brief delays which may be involved. The perceived impact, if any, is similar to a longer-than-usual kernel delay.
Objective effects
The actual process is heavily dependent on the particular virtualization package in use, but in general, the process is as follows:
Regular snapshots of the VM (its simulated hard disk storage, its memory, and its virtual peripherals) are taken in the background by the hypervisor, or by a set of administrative scripts.
Each new snapshot adds a differential overlay file to the top of a stack that, as a whole, fully describes the machine. Only the topmost overlay can be written to.
Since the older overlays are read-only, they are safe to copy to another machine—the backup host. This is done at regular intervals, and each overlay need only be copied once.
When a migration operation is requested, the virtual machine is paused, and its current state is saved to disk.
These new, final overlay files are transferred to the backup host.
Since this new current state consists only of changes made since the last backup synchronization, for many applications there is very little to transfer, and this happens very quickly.
The hypervisor on the new host resumes the guest virtual machine.
Ideally, the administrative scripts resume backup operations, the new host becomes the primary, and the previous host now receives the backup copies, readying it for a subsequent migration operation.
Note that in practice, regular maintenance operations are required to "merge down" the snapshot stack into a more manageable number of files, to improve performance and optimize storage (redundant overwrites are merged out).
Relation to failover
Migration is similar to the failover capability some virtualization suites provide. In true failover, the host may have suddenly completely failed, which precludes the latest state of the VM having been copied to the backup host. However, the backup host has everything except for the very latest changes, and may indeed be able to resume operation from its last known coherent state.
Because the operations are so similar, systems that provide one capability may provide the other.
References
Computer networking
Fault-tolerant computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Espy-Wilson | Carol Yvonne Espy-Wilson (born 1957) is an electrical engineer and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD) at College Park. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.
Early life and education
Carol Yvonne Espy was born in 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the youngest of four children born to Mattie and Matthew Espy. Espy-Wilson attributes much of her success to her family. Espy-Wilson's family had high expectations for all the children, and Espy-Wilson was expected to toe the line.
Calvin, seven years older brother, was Espy-Wilson's role model and advisor. Starting when she was five years old, Calvin would try to teach her the math he was learning in school. When Calvin graduated from Georgia Tech in Electrical Engineering, Espy-Wilson decided to major in Electrical Engineering, as well. Calvin graduated from Stanford University with his MS degree in Electrical Engineering and brought an application from Stanford home to Espy-Wilson and made sure that she filled it out when it was time for her to apply to schools. Espy-Wilson decided to attend Stanford University and majored in Electrical Engineering, she obtained her BS degree from Stanford University in 1979.
She decided to continue her studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for graduate school and obtained her MS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981. Her master's thesis was entitled, “Effects of Noise in Signal Reconstruction from its Fourier Transform Phase”. Espy-Wilson received her “Electrical Engineer (EE)” degree from MIT in 1984. She received her Ph.D. in 1987 advised by Kenneth Stevens. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled, “An Acoustic-Phonetic Approach to Speech Recognition: Application to the Semivowels”.
Career
After receiving her Ph.D., Espy-Wilson continued her affiliation with MIT, first as a post-doctoral student and then as a research scientist and visiting scientist. She was on faculty at Boston University from 1990 to 2001 and is Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She directs the Speech Communication Lab at UMD. Espy-Wilson is the "[f]irst African American woman, and first African American, in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, to achieve tenure & be promoted to Full Professor" at the University of Maryland.
Espy-Wilson's research interests include: "the integration of engineering, linguistics and speech acoustics to study speech communication. She is developing an approach to speech recognition based on phonetic features, articulatory parameters and landmarks to better address variability in the speech signal. She also conducts research in the areas of speech production, speech enhancement, speaker recognition, single-channel speaker separation and language and genre detection in audio content analysis and forensics. A major focus of her rese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of Australian reality television series The Block, titled The Block 2012, aired on the Nine Network. Both Scott Cam returned as host and Shelley Craft as "Challenge Master". John McGrath & Neale Whitaker returned as judges and introduced new judge Shaynna Blaze and guest judge Darren Palmer. The season premiered on Monday, 16 April 2012 at 7:00 pm.
Like the previous season, this season was filmed in Melbourne, with the four houses to be renovated located in the inner-city suburb of South Melbourne at 401 Dorcas Street.
At first, this season wasn't to air in New Zealand, but has now been picked up by TV3 (the channel that broadcasts the New Zealand adaption of the program). All four previous seasons have aired on Prime
This season was broadcast in the Netherlands in 2018 for the first time.
Contestants
Elimination rounds
Green: This couple won an elimination challenge and became a couple on The Block 2012.
Red: This couple failed to win an elimination challenge and did not become a Block couple.
Scores
Summary
Judges' Scores
A * indicates that the team used one or more bonus points won previously to inflate their total score.
Results
Elimination week
Elimination challenges (episodes 1-4)
The Key Challenge (episode 5)
Room Reveals
Auction
Ratings
Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the live and same day average viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).
References
2012 Australian television seasons
5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tablet%20PC%20dimensions%20and%20case%20sizes | Below is a list of currently available tablet PCs grouped by their width, depth, height, screen size, and appropriate tablet case sizes.
The most popular presently available tablet computers are compared in the following table:
See also
List of iPad accessories
Mobile phone case
List of Unique PC Cases
References
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai%20P%C4%83tra%C8%99cu%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Mihai Pătrașcu (17 July 1982 – 5 June 2012) was a Romanian-American computer scientist at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey, USA.
Pătrașcu attended Carol I National College in Craiova.
As a high school student, he won 2 gold medals and 1 silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing his thesis under the supervision of Erik Demaine in 2008.
Pătrașcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures.
Pătrașcu received the Machtey Award for the best student paper at the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science in 2008, and the Presburger Award from the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science in 2012, for breaking "many old barriers on fundamental data structure problems, not only revitalizing but also revolutionizing a field that was almost silent for over a decade."
Pătrașcu died on June 5, 2012 after being diagnosed with glioblastoma in January, 2011, and was buried in his native city.
Selected publications
Preliminary version published in FOCS 2008, .
Preliminary version published in FOCS 2006, .
Preliminary version published in FOCS 2004, . See Tango tree.
References
External links
Pătrașcu’s blog WebDiarios de Motocicleta
Mihai Pătrașcu Memorial
1982 births
2012 deaths
People from Craiova
Carol I National College alumni
Romanian emigrants to the United States
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Romanian computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Competitive programmers
AT&T people
Deaths from brain cancer in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emscripten | Emscripten is an LLVM/Clang-based compiler that compiles C and C++ source code to WebAssembly (or to a subset of JavaScript known as asm.js, its original compilation target before the advent of WebAssembly in 2017), primarily for execution in web browsers.
Emscripten allows applications and libraries written in C or C++ to be compiled ahead of time and run efficiently in web browsers, typically at speeds comparable to or faster than interpreted or dynamically compiled JavaScript. It even emulates an entire POSIX operating system, enabling programmers to use functions from the C standard library (libc).
With the more recent development of the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and WebAssembly runtimes such as Node.js, Wasmtime, and Wasmer, Emscripten can also be used to compile to WebAssembly for execution in non-Web embeddings as well.
Usage
Emscripten has been used to port a number of C/C++ code bases to WebAssembly, including Unreal Engine 3, SQLite, MeshLab, Bullet physics. AutoCAD, and a subset of the Qt application framework. Other examples of software ported to WebAssembly via Emscripten include the following:
Game engines
The Unity, Godot, and Unreal game engines provide an export option to HTML5, utilizing Emscripten.
Frameworks & toolkits
openFrameworks exports native C++ applications to HTML5 via Emscripten. emscripten-qt permits compiling applications written using the Qt application framework to WebAssembly.
Software archiving
In December 2014, the Internet Archive launched a DOSBox emulator compiled in Emscripten to provide browser-based access to thousands of archived MS-DOS and PC programs.
See also
asm.js
Google Native Client (PNaCl)
Haxe
WebAssembly
References
External links
Project page on GitHub
Emscripten Documentation
Porting Examples and Demos
A list of some WebAssembly runtimes
Compilers
JavaScript libraries
Software using the MIT license
Software using the NCSA license
Source-to-source compilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20British%20Supersport%20Championship | The 2012 Motorpoint British Supersport Championship Protected By Datatag season was the 25th running of the British Supersport Championship, the rules have stayed as they were from last year with the two race format providing some intense racing. With champion Alastair Seeley leaving for the British Superbike Championship the field should be closer than ever, Ben Wilson stays to see if he can finally capture the title. It proved to be another closely thought championship with Jack Kennedy and the returning former Supersport champion Glen Richards battling all the way to the final race of the championship, where it was down to the second and final race, in a drama packed race Richards fell at westfield on lap 2, meaning Kennedy only needed to finish to win the title, but on lap 8 Kennedy's dreams were ended with a mechanical problem for his MARtrain Yamaha forcing him to retire and hand Richards the title who was unaware of the events until arriving back in the pits.
Calendar
Championship standings
Riders' Championship
Privateers' Championship
References
External links
The official website of the British Supersport Championship
British
Supersport
British Supersport Championship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassma%20Kodmani | Bassma Kodmani (; 29 April 1958 – 2 March 2023) was a Syrian academic who was spokesperson of the Syrian National Council. She was the executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative, a network of independent Arab research and policy institutes working to promote democracy in the Arab world.
Until 2011, she was the senior advisor to the director of the academic program at the Académie Diplomatique Internationale. From 2007 to 2009, she was a senior advisor on international cooperation to the French national research council and an associate researcher at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI-Sciences Po) from 2006 to 2007. She also was a senior visiting fellow at the Collège de France from 2005 to 2006.
From 1981 to 1998, she set up and directed the Middle East Program at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI) in Paris and was an associate professor of international relations at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.
Kodmani led the Governance and International Cooperation program for the Middle East and North Africa at the Ford Foundation. She then became a senior adviser on international cooperation to the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Kodmani was also the recipient of the 2011 Raymond Georis Prize for Innovative Philanthropy established by the Mercator Fund “a prize honouring outstanding contributions to European philanthropy” for the role of her organization the Arab Reform initiative in promoting democracy in the context of the Arab Spring.
Kodmani died on 2 March 2023, at the age of 64.
Bassma Kodmani held a doctorate degree of political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. She authored multiple books, academic papers and articles in French and English on the issue of the democratization in the Arab world, the Palestinian diaspora, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the strategies of Arab states towards Islamist movements, political change in North Africa and regional security. Her last book to date is "Abattre les Murs" (Breaking the Walls) published in 2008.
Early life
Bassma Kodmani was born in Damascus, Syria in 1958. As a child she attended the "Ecole Franciscaine", a French Christian school in Damascus. Her father used to work at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a diplomat. Following the defeat of the 1967 war, he had a skirmish with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and was subsequently jailed for 6 months. This prompted him to leave Syria with his family and move to Lebanon where they stayed for 3 years from 1968 to 1971. In 1971, they moved in London where Bassma Kodmani's father had found a job at the United Nations.
Education and academic achievements
Bassma Kodmani studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris where she obtained a PhD degree in Political Science. Because of her feeling of belonging to the Arab world, she dismissed a career in French foreign service and decid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Cohen%20%28entrepreneur%29 | Stephen Cohen (born September 30, 1982) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known as a co-founder and the president of Palantir Technologies, a platform for analyzing integration and visualizing data used by governments and businesses. He is credited with creating the initial prototype of Palantir in eight weeks. Since then, he has interviewed over 4,500 candidates and continues to be actively involved in Palantir. Previously to Palantir, Cohen worked with Peter Thiel at Clarium Capital. He also served as an adviser to Backtype prior to its acquisition by Twitter in 2011.
Education
Cohen graduated from Stanford University with a BSc in computer science in 2005. While at Stanford he focused on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing and did research with professor Andrew Ng, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.
References
Stanford University alumni
American computer scientists
21st-century American businesspeople
1982 births
Living people
Jewish American scientists
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Second%20Shift | The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home is a book by Arlie Russell Hochschild with Anne Machung, first published in 1989. It was reissued in 2012 with updated data. In the text, Hochschild investigates and portrays the double burden experienced by late-20th-century employed mothers.
Summary
Coined after Arlie Hochschild's 1989 book, the term "second shift" describes the labor performed at home in addition to the paid work performed in the formal sector. In The Second Shift, Hochschild and her research associates "interviewed fifty couples very intensively" and observed in a dozen homes throughout the 1970s and 1980s in an effort to explore the "leisure gap" between men and women. Through the depictions of couples' day-to-day practices, Hochschild derived three constructs in regard to marital roles that she observed during her research: transitional, traditional, and egalitarian. The traditional woman "wants to identify with her activities at home (as a wife, a mother, a neighborhood mom)". The egalitarian female partner "wants to identify with the same spheres her husband does, and to have an equal amount of power in the marriage". The transitional woman falls in between, blending the traditional and egalitarian ideologies. Most of the chapters are dedicated to the routines of a different couple, delving into the apparent and unnoticed motivations behind their behaviors. Similar to earlier research that is cited in the book, The Second Shift found that women still take care of most of the household and child care responsibilities despite their entrance into the labor force. The "second shift" affected the couples, as they reported feelings of guilt and inadequacy, marital tension, and a lack of sexual interest and sleep. On the other hand, Hochschild shared the stories of a few men who equally shared the burden of domestic work and childcare with their wives, showing that while this scenario is uncommon, it is a reality for some couples. Hochschild's research also presented a clear division between the ideology preferences of the genders and social classes: the working class and men preferred the traditional idea; the middle class and women preferred the egalitarian one.
Reception
Reviewing the book for The New York Times in 1989, Robert Kuttner wrote that the topic is "a standard feminist plaint", but commended the book for "the texture of the reporting and the subtlety of the insights".
References
1989 non-fiction books
Sociology books
Viking Press books
Feminist books
Books about families
Books about labour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amphibians%20of%20Guatemala | This is a list of amphibians found in Guatemala. There are 158 amphibian species recorded in Guatemala, which are grouped in three orders: caecilians (Gymnophiona), salamanders (Caudata) and frogs and toads (Anura). The IUCN considers that 33 of these species are critically endangered, 27 endangered, 11 near threatened and 21 vulnerable.
This list is largely derived from the database listing of AmphibiaWeb and Campbell's checklist.
Caecilians (Gymnophiona)
Caeciliidae
Caeciliidae, or common caecilians, is a family of caecilians that are native to South and Central America, equatorial Africa and India. Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes. Although they are the most diverse of the caecilian families, the caeciliids do have a number of features in common that distinguish them from other caecilians. In particular, their skulls have relatively few bones, with those that are present being fused to form a solid ram to aid in burrowing through the soil. The mouth is recessed beneath the snout, and there is no tail. There are more than 100 caeciliids worldwide, 2 of which occur in Guatemala.
Order: Gymnophiona.
Family: Caeciliidae
Dermophis mexicanus (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
Gymnopis syntrema (Cope, 1866)
Salamanders (Caudata)
Plethodontidae
Order: Caudata.
Family: Plethodontidae
The Plethodontidae, or lungless salamanders, are a family of salamanders. Most species are native to the Western Hemisphere, from British Columbia to Brazil, although a few species are found in Sardinia, Europe south of the Alps, and South Korea.
A number of features distinguish the Plethodontids from other salamanders. Most significantly, they lack lungs, conducting respiration through their skin, and the tissues lining their mouths. Another distinctive feature is the presence of a vertical slit between the nostril and upper lip, known as the "naso-labial groove". The groove is lined with glands, and enhances the salamander's chemoreception. Due to their modest size and low metabolism, they are able to feed on prey such as collembola, which are usually too small for other terrestrial vertebrates. This gives them access to a whole ecological niche with minimal competition from other groups. They are by far the largest group of salamanders. There are about 380 species worldwide, of which 41 occur in Guatemala.
Oak forest salamander – Bolitoglossa cuchumatana (Stuart, 1943) [E]
Doflein's salamander – Bolitoglossa dofleini (Werner, 1903)
Dunn's climbing salamander – Bolitoglossa dunni (Schmidt, 1933) [EN]
Engelhardt's climbing salamander – Bolitoglossa engelhardti (Schmidt, 1936) [EN]
Yellow-legged climbing salamander – Bolitoglossa flavimembris (Schmidt, 1936) [EN]
Yellow-belly climbing salamander – Bolitoglossa flaviventris (Schmidt, 1936)
Franklin's climbing salamander – Bolitoglossa franklini (Schmidt, 1936) [EN]
Hartweg's climbing salamander – Bolitoglossa hartwegi Wake & Brame, 1969
Coban climbing salamander – Bolitoglossa hel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA%20Central%20Library | The NOAA Central Library is the flagship library of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) network of over 20 research libraries. It is also a selective federal depository library for United States federal government publications.[6]
Location
The NOAA Central Library is located on the second floor of NOAA Building III on the Silver Spring Metro Center campus, near the Silver Spring Metro station.
History
In 1970, with the formation of NOAA, the libraries of the National Weather Service, the Coast Survey, and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) merged to become the NOAA Central library.
Part of the NOAA Central library collection is from the former United States Weather Bureau library, itself descended from the United States Signal Corps library.
The library was previously located in Rockville, Maryland just northwest of Old Georgetown Road until 1993, when it moved to its current location in Silver Spring, Maryland. Its website was established in 1995.
Patrons
NOAA employees have full access to the library’s e-resources and physical holdings. Visiting scientists, contracted labor, and other NOAA affiliates can gain access through their federal supervisor. Members of the public can access the library by calling in advance. The library is open from 8:30 am through 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, and is closed on federal holidays.
Contents
The library subscribes to over one thousand peer-reviewed journals in print and electronic formats, and is the official repository of all NOAA publications. It also holds works and artifacts pertaining to the history of NOAA. Its microfilm collection includes decades of surface weather observations and surface weather analyses from the United States and Japan.
The library maintains an online photo collection of over 30,000 images taken by NOAA staff. Some of those images are also hosted on the NOAA Flickr account.
Role within data digitization
The NOAA Central Library has been active within the Climate Digital Modernization Program (CDMP), which is headquartered at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina. Projects have included digitizing foreign climate data books, the United States Daily Weather Map series, and Monthly Weather Review articles. Researchers at the library from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC, now the Weather Prediction Center or WPC) are digitizing the library's microfilm North American and Northern Hemispheric map collections, originally created by the National Meteorological Center (NMC).
Awards
In 1999 the NOAA Central Library organized over 500 NOAA websites under a single locator and created a significant digital image library of meteorological images from the 1800s to the 1950s, which won the Federal Library and Information Center Committee award.
References
External links
NOAA Central Library
NOAA photo library
NOAA photo library on Flickr
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Research librarie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20RISC%20OS%20filetypes | This is a sub-article to RISC OS.
filetypes use metadata to distinguish file formats. Some common file formats from other systems are mapped to filetypes by the MimeMap module. Such mapping was previously handled by DosMap.
The MimeMap module maps filetypes to and from MIME content types, dotted filename extensions and Apple's Uniform Type Identifiers.
Requests for new filetype allocations for all versions are handled centrally by RISC OS Open.
RISC OS filetypes
Filetypes were originally classified by Acorn into distinct ranges:
User
This range of filetypes was intended for personal use in closed systems, not for general distribution. Nevertheless, many programs using these types were distributed, especially as Public-domain software. Consequently there are many clashes.
Non-commercial software
Commercial software
Acorn reserved
Generic data
References
External links
File Types Programmer's Reference Manuals at RISC OS Open wiki
RISC OS filetypes
RISC OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini%20Wars | Gemini Wars is a 2012 space real-time strategy computer game developed and published by American studio Camel101.
History
Gemini Wars was released on June 8, 2012, and will be available on Microsoft Windows and OS X.
Story
In the game, the player controls a fleet commander and rises up through the ranks of the US Federation Forces. Players begin with a small group of frigates. Players have to control battleships, carriers and planetary bases throughout space battles and boarding actions. Players can also build space stations with orbital facilities to fortify their position, build their fleet, extract minerals and research upgrades. Players must execute all boarding actions using Marine Special Forces and will have to bombard enemies with long-range cannons.
Reception
Gemini wars received generally mixed or negative reviews, currently holding a 51.50% score on gamerankings and 53% metacritic score with a 6,5 user rating. Critics often moaned the slow pace, bugs and lack of a multiplayer mode but some praised the story. Destructoid and 4players.de called it frustrating while XGN said "Players who love RTS-games with a nice story will however enjoy Gemini Wars."
References
External links
Camel101 Official Website
2012 video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
MacOS games
Iceberg Interactive games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games set in outer space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling%20Commerce | Sterling Commerce was a software and services company providing Omni-Channel Commerce, B2B including Electronic data interchange (EDI) translation software and one of the first B2B Integration platforms and managed file transfer ("MFT") products such as Connect:Direct (originally named Network Data Mover). Sterling Commerce was headquartered near Columbus, Ohio in Dublin, Ohio. SBC Communications acquired Sterling Commerce (see "Ownership" below), then SBC merged with AT&T (renamed as Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Company), who sold Sterling Commerce to IBM. Sterling Commerce's Columbus, Ohio campus is now an IBM facility.
Previous acquisitions
In September, 2003, Sterling Commerce divests its Banking Systems Division to Thoma Cresse Equity Partners who in turn launch VectorSGI in the banking industry
In April, 2004, Sterling Commerce acquired TR2, a Boston Based Data Synchronization Software Company
In January, 2005, Sterling Commerce acquired Yantra a provider of Distributed Order Management and Warehouse Systems as part of its cross-channel supply chain execution application strategy.
In May, 2006, Sterling Commerce acquired Nistevo, a provider of on-demand transportation management products as part of its cross-channel supply chain execution application strategy.
In November, 2006, Sterling Commerce acquired Comergent, a provider of Advanced Web Selling for B2B and B2C platforms as part of its cross-channel supply chain execution application strategy.
Ownership
Sterling Commerce evolved from a company called OrderNet which was one of the first EDI-based Value Added Network companies found by William Plumb which started around 1978 and was a division of Informatics, Inc. William Plumb is often cited as one of the fathers of EDI.
In June, 1985, Sterling Software, a public company chaired by Samuel E. Wyly, made a successful tender offer for Informatics and acquired the company. Sterling Software was about 10% of the size of Informatics. Through the integration, the company sold off several divisions of Informatics but kept and invested in OrderNet, renaming it Sterling Commerce.
SBC Communications purchased Sterling Commerce in 2000.
With the merger of AT&T Corp. and SBC Communications in November 2005, Sterling Commerce became an AT&T company.
In May 2010 IBM acquired Sterling Commerce from AT&T.
References
External links
Sterling Commerce is now part of IBM
IBM acquisitions
EDI software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveProfile | LiveProfile is a messaging app and mobile social network, owned and operated by LiveProfile Inc, for Android and iOS. It allows users to the send and receive messages, photos, videos, audio, files, as well as other types of content.
History
LiveProfile was launched by Phil Karl and William Key on October 16, 2010. Initially developed as a cross-platform messaging app, LiveProfile quickly gained widespread popularity adding as many as 300,000 new user registrations per day during its peak. Its rapid growth is credited with the evolving mobile landscape at the time.
Funding
LiveProfile raised Series A financing on June 7, 2011 from notable investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and AngelList’s CEO, Naval Ravikant
Acquisition
In November 2011, BlackBerry Ltd acquired LiveProfile with the intention of integrating it with BlackBerry Messenger, to boost adoption for their cross-platform strategy shift internally known as SMS 2.0. This plan, considered by BlackBerry Co-CEOs to be a top strategic priority, deeply divided the company as opening BBM’s walled garden to LiveProfile users would cause a significant decline in device sales. Ultimately the SMS 2.0 strategy shift was cancelled during a January 2012 leadership shakeup at BlackBerry Ltd in which Co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie resigned from BlackBerry Ltd. LiveProfile was subsequently shut down in December 2013
Relaunch
The original LiveProfile team announced that they are relaunching LiveProfile as a new independent company. As of 2023 the app is available by invite only.
Features
Messaging
Delivery Confirmations: Users receive real-time notifications confirming the delivery and reading of messages, providing immediate feedback on their deliverability.
User Customization
Users can personalize their profiles with a selected display picture and a custom status message, a feature implemented to allow a level of personal expression within the platform.
Multimedia Sharing
LiveProfile enables the sharing of various multimedia content. Users can:
Share photos and videos with contacts, including options for sending to multiple recipients simultaneously.
Share files directly with others in the platform.
Friend Discovery
Contacts can be added via several methods:
Integration with Facebook friends or Twitter contacts.
Utilizing email addresses associated with the user's LiveProfile.
Adding contacts through mobile phone numbers.
Sharing unique LiveProfile PINs.
Scanning QR code.
Nearby via Bluetooth
Music Features
Users can display currently playing music on a user's device as part of their status message.
Availability
The LiveProfile app for Android and iOS are available by invite only.
References
External links
BlackBerry software
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Instant messaging clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969%20in%20Scottish%20television | This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1969.
Events
January to August
No events.
September
Reporting Scotland is integrated into the networked Nationwide strand.
October
Scottish Television starts broadcasting in colour.
Secondary studios for Scottish Television open at the Gateway Theatre on Leith Walk in Edinburgh.
November
3 November – A serious fire puts Scottish Television's main studio, Studio A, out of action.
December
No events.
Television series
Scotsport (1957–2008)
Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962–1971)
The Adventures of Francie and Josie (1962–1970)
Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
Births
28 March - Laurie Brett, actress
24 April - Rory McCann, actor
8 May - Michael E. Rodgers, actor
15 May - Craig Oliver, journalist, media executive and British government Director of Communications
10 August - Ashley Jensen, actress
5 September - Tom Vaughan, film and television director
13 November - Gerard Butler, actor
13 December - Tony Curran, actor
30 December - Kathleen MacInnes, singer, actress and television presenter
Unknown - Tom Cowan, football journalist
Unknown - Heather Reid, meteorologist and weather presenter
See also
1969 in Scotland
References
Television in Scotland by year
1960s in Scottish television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher%20Computerspielpreis | The Deutscher Computerspielpreis (, also DPC) is a prize mainly aimed at the German games industry and has been awarded since 2009. The DCP is awarded by the Cabinet of Germany and the German Games Industry Association game. In addition to awards, chosen categories receive various amounts of prize money donated by supporters of the award ceremony.
The 2023 recipient for Best German Game is Chained Echoes, while God of War Ragnarök received the award for Best International Game.
Description
The German Computer Game Award (Deutscher Computerspielpreis, DCP) was first awarded on March 31, 2009. The awards are given out by the Cabinet of Germany and the German Games Industry Association game. The ceremony includes a certain amount of prize money for specific categories. The requirement to receive the money is that the winner must prove that they will use the check to develop a new computer game that meets the DCP criteria. The distribution of the prize money is also clearly regulated: the developer receives 70 percent of the sum, while the publisher (if available) receives 30 percent. The prize money is donated by supporters and most recently amounted to a total of €800,000 in 2023.
Format
The German Computer Game Award consists of a main jury and ten specialist juries. The main jury is composed of two representatives from each specialist jury. In addition, the German Bundestag may appoint two more members. Berlin and Bavaria, as the hosting federal states, may each appoint one more member of the jury as well. Specialist juries, the Bundestag, and the hosting federal states ultimately select eleven more individuals to join the main jury. This results in a total of 35 responsible members. The main jury determines the winners of the categories "Best German Game," "Special Jury Award," and "Best International Game." The specialist juries are assembled by the two organizers, game and BMVI. The jurors come from politics, research, or a field related to gaming. This includes the DCP developer, active players, the press, media educators, and youth media protectors. On average, the specialist juries consist of four people and determine the winners of the remaining ten categories. The format includes the possibility of games being nominated after the official announcement.
Awarded games
2009
In March 2009, the nominations for the first award ceremony were announced, consisting of nine categories with the ceremony being announced to happen on 31 March 2009. The winners were set to receive a total of €600.000 in all categories except for "Best International Game". The winner in the “Best German Game” category was chosen from the winners of the other categories, with the exception of the school and student concepts and the special prize. The ceremony was held in Munich, Germany, with Drakensang: The Dark Eye receiving two awards overall.
2010
The second ceremony took place on April 29 2010, where Anno 1404 took the lead by securing two awards. The gam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario%20%282013%20TV%20series%29 | Rosario () is a 2013 Spanish-language telenovela produced by Venevisión International in collaboration with United States-based television network Univision. It is an original story written by Alex Haddad. The production started on July 31, 2012.
On April 26, 2012, it was confirmed that Alex Haddad would write Rosario. On July 24, it was confirmed that Lupita Jones will make her acting debut. Both Zuleyka Rivera and Lorena Rojas will star as the antagonists. Guy Ecker and Itahisa Machado will star as the main protagonists.
Plot
A beautiful and intelligent young woman named Rosario (Itahisa Machado) falls in love with her boss, Alejandro (Guy Ecker), a prominent lawyer twenty-one years older than she. Rosario does not know that Alejandro is the same man whose mother, Magdalena (Natalia Ramírez), was engaged to marry twenty-one years ago; Magdalena has kept her romance with Alejandro in secret. In the past, Alejandro broke his engagement to Magdalena on learning that she had become pregnant with Marcos (Leonardo Daniel) as a result of rape. Alejandro, convinced that he could never accept, nor love, a creature that was begotten by his worst enemy decides to abandon it. The irony is that years later that child, Rosario, would become the great love of his life. The love of a young woman for the man she should never have fallen in love with; the love of a man towards the woman he swore he could never love; and the conflict of a mother when she meets the man she was about to marry and who is currently her daughter's boyfriend.
Cast
Confirmed as of July 31, 2012.
Itahisa Machado as Rosario Pérez
Guy Ecker as Alejandro Montalbán
Aarón Díaz as Esteban Martínez
Lorena Rojas as Priscila Pavón
Natalia Ramirez as Magdalena Pérez
Ezequiel Montalt as Daniel Carvajal
Zully Montero as Regina Montalbán
Frances Ondiviela as Teresa Martínez
Zuleyka Rivera as Sandra Díaz
Rodrigo Vidal as Padre Bernardo
Tina Romero as Griselda
Anna Silvetti as Caridad Chávez
Gledys Ibarra as Antonia
Lupita Jones as Fabiana
Franklin Virgüez as Vicente
Alberto Salaberri as Jeronimo Guerra
Liliana Rodriguez as Ofilia Elsa
Scarlet Gruber as Cecilia Garza
Sandra Itzel as Barbara Montalbán
Greydis Gil as Silvia Villalobos
Adrián Di Monte as Ignacio "Nacho" Gómez
Christina Mason as Misericordia "Merci"
Sergio Reynoso as Manuel Pérez
Beatriz Monroy as Matilde
Carlos Garin as Guillermo Gómez
Juan Jiménez as Felipe
Fabiola Barinas as Zulema Torres
Leonardo Daniel as Marcos Miranda
Osvaldo Strongoli as Gregorio Giorgano
Lilimar Hernandez as Elenita
Samuel Sadovnik as Esteban Martínez Jr.
Nataniel Roman as Manny
Alberto Barros Jr. as the gardener
Melody Batule as Dr. Natalia
Luz Cordeiro as Sor Esperanza
Reinaldo Cruz as Renato Villalobos
Alexander Estrella as Beto
Shanik Hughes as Cynthia
Ramon Morell as Dr. Lozada
Jorge Luis Portales as Matias
Elioret Silva as Detective Evora
Soledad Esponda as Mariana
Eslover Sanchez-Baquero as David (Fabiana's producer)
Victoria Zapata as Señora Silvestre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telekom%20Networks%20Malawi | Telekom Networks Malawi plc (TNM), is a telecommunications service provider in Malawi. Established in 1995, it is the oldest telecommunications company in the country. The telco is a subsidiary of Press Corporation Limited, the largest business conglomerate in Malawi.
Location
The headquarters of the company are located on the Fifth Floor, Livingstone Towers, Glyn Jones Road, in the city of Blantyre, Malawi's business capital. The geographical coordinates of the company headquarters are:15°47'08.0"S, 35°00'26.0"E (Latitude:-15.785556; Longitude:35.007222).
Overview
Telekom Networks Malawi is a leading telecommunications network provider in the country. As of December 2020, the telco had assets worth MWK:120,528,540,000 (US$155.6 million), with shareholders equity worth MWK:43,905,850,000 (US$56.7 million). At that time, the company serviced in excess of 4 million customers, through 26 customer-service stores throughout the country.
History
Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) was established in 1995 as a joint venture between Telekom Malaysia (60 percent) and Malawi Postal and Telecommunications Corporation (MPTC) (40 percent). MPTC was owned by the government of Malawi. Later, MPTC was unbundled into (a) Malawi Posts Corporation (MPC) and (b) Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL). The shares of stock of Telekom Networks Malawi were listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange in 2008. Telekom Malaysia sold its 60% majority stake in TNM, and the enterprise is now wholly Malawian-owned.
Ownership
Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM), company number 4029, was the pioneer mobile network in Malawi, and it is listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange, where it trades under the symbol TNM. As of 31 December 2018, the major shareholders in the stock of TNM are as illustrated in the table below.
Governance
The eight-person board of directors is chaired by Ted Sauti Phiri. The chief executive officer is Michel Hebert.
Sponsorship
The TNM Super League is TNM's major sponsorship property, and it is Malawi's elite football league, competed for by 16 teams from across Malawi. TNM ventured into football sponsorship in 2007 and its current agreement runs up to 2025.
This sponsorship agreement includes the sponsorship of football equipment, awards to teams and individual players, awards to media personalities who promote the league, cash subventions to the teams in the league and administration fees to Super League of Malawi (SULOM) who are the league managers.
The league runs from April to December and relegates three bottom teams, who are replaced by those that emerge champions in the country's three regional leagues.
See also
First Capital Bank Malawi Limited
References
External links
Official Website
Telecommunications companies of Malawi
Telecommunications companies established in 1995
1995 establishments in Malawi
Companies listed on Malawi Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%20Choir | Magnus Choir is a commercial, proprietary music software synthesizer, for the Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems, written by Daniel Laiseca and developed by Syntheway Virtual Musical Instruments. The first version was released in 2005.
Overview
This software can be used to create natural and synthetic choirs, vocal textures, choral pads and sustained vowels. It may work as a VST, VST3 or Audio Unit plugin within digital audio workstation software such as FL Studio, Cubase, Logic Pro or GarageBand. Magnus Choir also is compatible with FreeVST allowing Linux users to use native Microsoft Windows VST plugins by using parts of the Wine compatibility layer.
Preset Sounds
Features 54 built-in preset sounds including a variety of choirs such as male and female mixed in classic SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) structure: women sing Soprano and Alto, while men sing Tenor and Bass. Additionally includes choir pads, spatial voices, ambient, cinematic and soundscapes.
Modulation Control
Magnus Choir includes modulation control with parameters which may be modulated such as Low-frequency oscillator, ADSR envelope generator, Filter and reverb effect emulation.
See also
Virtual Studio Technology
Audio Units
Synthesizer
Software synthesizer
Digital audio workstation
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
References
External links
Magnus Choir overview
Linux VST Compatibility: FST, Jack, Wine - Linux requirements by Paul Davis.
Syntheway Magnus Choir VST plug-in hosted on FST 1.8 by Dave Phillips (Linux Journal Contributing Editor).
VST3 for Virtual Studio Technology - VST3, New Standard for Virtual Studio Technology.
Cnet (CBS Interactive) Magnus Choir at Cnet (CBS Interactive)
Simtel Directory Magnus Choir at Simtel Digital River
Music software plugin architectures
Software synthesizers
Keyboard software synthesizers
Windows multimedia software
MacOS multimedia software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LandNet%20Rwanda%20Chapter | LandNet Rwanda Chapter is part of LandNet Africa and is a network of local Rwandan organizations and international NGO's which deals with land issues. The idea of LandNet Rwanda Chapter is to bring together academicians, policy makers and the civil society to discuss together about land issues. At the moment LandNet Rwanda is hosted by the Rwandan Initiative for Sustainable development (RISD)
Launch
LandNet Rwanda Chapter was officially launched on 21 September 2000
Land Situation in Rwanda
Rwanda is one of the poorest countries in Africa but has the highest population density of all African countries with about 370 persons/km2. The annual growth rate of Rwanda is very with 3.3% very high; the population is currently over 10 million and is expected to increase to about 13 million in 2020. Of these 10 million almost 90% are dependent on agriculture for their living, 93% of all women and 81% of all men.
80% of the land related disputes arise from community or family levels, most of the time one piece of land is claimed by multiple groups and 90% of these disputes affect vulnerable groups, like women, who are often discriminated in land disputes concerning for example inheritance cases.
Work
Currently, the government of Rwanda is exercising a nationwide land reform called the Land Tenure Regularization Program (LTRP), which is aiming at addressing land related problems and ending gender based discrimination in land access. LandNet Rwanda Chapter is monitoring the LTRP and provides data through research for policy makers from which they can conclude the success of the LTRP. Also LandNet is reviewing existing laws and policies in order to improve them.
LandNet Rwanda Chapter trains local leaders to be able to solve land disputes peacefully and fairly.
LandNet Rwanda is organizing campaigns to inform the public about relevant land issues through sharing information among members and raising the concerns of the grassroots for advocacy and inclusion in the national policies.
Members
Currently, LandNet Rwanda Chapter has 32 members. LandNet Rwanda Chapter differentiates between core members, which often attend LandNet Rwanda meetings and actively participate in the Network and members, which just wish to share experiences or ideas about land issues without being a core member.
Steering Committee Members:
CARE International Rwanda
Action Aid International Rwanda (AAIR)
BENISHYAKA
CLADHO
COPORWA
IMBARAGA
Rural Environment and Development Organization (REDO)
Rwandese Health Environment Project Initiative (RHEPI)
Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD)
UGAMA CSC
General Members:
L' Association Rwandaise Pour la Défence des Droits de l’Homme (ARDHO)
The Association Rwandaise des Ecologistes "ARECO - RWANDA NZIZA"
Association des Volontaires de la Paix (AVP)
CCOAIB
Christian Aid Rwanda
DUHAMIC-ADRI
HAGURUKA
INADES
International Gorilla Conservation Programme
The Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR)
KANYARWANDA
La Ligue Rwanda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversed%20edges%20per%20second | The number of traversed edges per second (TEPS) that can be performed by a supercomputer cluster is a measure of both the communications capabilities and computational power of the machine. This is in contrast to the more standard metric of floating-point operations per second (FLOPS), which does not give any weight to the communication capabilities of the machine. The term first entered usage in 2010 with the advent of petascale computing, and has since been measured for many of the world's largest supercomputers.
In this context, an edge is a connection between two vertices on a graph, and the traversal is the ability of the machine to communicate data between these two points. The standardized benchmark associated with Graph500, as of September, 2011, calls for executing graph generation and search algorithms on graphs as large as 1.1 Petabyte.
The ability of an application to utilize a supercomputer cluster effectively depends not only on the raw speed of each processor, but also on the communication network. The importance of communication capability varies from application to application, but it is clear that the LINPACK benchmarks traditionally used for rating the FLOPS of supercomputers do not require the same communications capability as many scientific applications.
Therefore, alternative metrics that characterize the performance of a machine in a more holistic manner may be more relevant for many scientific applications, and may be desirable for making purchasing decisions.
See also
TOP500
Graph500
HPCG benchmark
Criticism of LINPACK benchmarks
References
Cluster computing
Parallel computing
Units of temporal rate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REGLEG | REGLEG, or the Conference of European Regions with Legislative Power, is a political network of country subdivisions (regions) in European Union states. It consists of representatives of regional governments. It is not a formal EU institution, and only 73 regions of 8 member states participate.
All 9 states of the federal republic of Austria
All 5 regions and communities of the federal kingdom of Belgium
Åland, an autonomous region of Finland
All 16 states of the federal republic of Germany
All 20 regions of Italy
The two autonomous regions of Portugal: the Azores and Madeira
All 17 autonomous communities of Spain
Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the three countries of the United Kingdom with devolved power
See also
Committee of the Regions
External links
regleg.eu
Regions of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelsior%20JET | Excelsior JET is a now-defunct proprietary Java SE technology implementation built around an ahead-of-time (AOT) Java to native code compiler. The compiler transforms the portable Java bytecode into optimized executables for the desired hardware and operating system (OS). Also included are a Java runtime featuring a just-in-time (JIT) compiler for handling classes that were not precompiled for whatever reason (e.g. third-party plugins or dynamic proxies), the complete Java SE API implementation licensed from Oracle, and a toolkit to aid deployment of the optimized applications. Excelsior JET was developed by Excelsior LLC, headquartered in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Overview
Excelsior JET passed the "official" test suite (TCK) for Java SE 8, and was certified Java Compatible on macOS and a number of Windows and Linux flavors running on Intel x86, AMD64/Intel 64 and compatible hardware. (The macOS version was 64-bit only.)
The Enterprise Edition supported the Equinox OSGi runtime at the JVM level, enabling ahead-of-time compilation of Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) applications, and version 7.0 added such support for Web applications running on Apache Tomcat.
Version 10.5 introduced a new garbage collector optimized for multi-core and multi-CPU systems
Excelsior JET Embedded implements the Java SE for Embedded technology in a very similar manner. The only major differences used to be in licensing and pricing, but as of the latest version Excelsior JET Embedded also supports ARM-based platforms.
Latest Release
Version 15 introduced incremental compilation for AMD64 and ARM targets and improved application performance across all platforms.
Product EOL
On May 15, 2019, Excelsior announced discontinuation of Excelsior JET in an e-mail to their customers and next day also on their website. Support was announced to be stopped and the engineering team to leave completely within only ~2 weeks ("early June 2019") and Website for downloads announced to be offline mid of June (within only ~4 weeks). At August 7, 2019, it was announced Excelsior was acquired by Huawei.
See also
GNU Compiler for Java (removed from GCC in October 2016)
References
External links
Excelsior JET Homepage
Improve Startup Time of Java Applications
Reduce Download Size of Java Applications
Profile-Guided Optimization
Huawei acquires Russian developer Excelsior
Java development tools
Discontinued Java virtual machines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Address%20Gazetteer | The National Address Gazetteer is a database designed to provide a definitive source of publicly owned spatial address data for Great Britain. It is a culmination of Local Land and Property Gazetteers (collectively known as the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)) and other datasets: Address Layer 2 (AL2) and Royal Mail PAF data. The LLPGs, which make up a portion of the data, are created and maintained with input from all local authorities in England and Wales.
Following the setting up of GeoPlace, NLPG data has been brought together with Ordnance Survey, Valuation Office Agency and Royal Mail data into the National Address Gazetteer infrastructure. The National Address Gazetteer infrastructure is the single source from which the AddressBase products from Ordnance Survey are developed. Through agreement between Ordnance Survey and Scotland’s Improvement Service, working on behalf of Scottish Local Government, the National Address Gazetteer includes Scottish address data.
GeoPlace is an organisation (LLP) that oversees the production and maintenance of the National Address Gazetteer. GeoPlace is joint owned by the Local Government Association and Ordnance Survey.
History
At the creation of the National Address Gazetteer in autumn 2011, the dataset only included spatial address data for England and Wales. However, through agreement with Scotland's Improvement Service Company, coverage is extended to include Scotland.
References
External links
GeoPlace
Local Government Association (LGA)
National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)
National Street Gazetteer (NSG)
Gazetteers
Geographic information systems
Databases in England
Geography of England
Databases in Wales
Geography of Wales
Geographical databases in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other%20World%20Computing | Other World Computing (OWC) is an American computer hardware company and online store for upgrading Mac and accessories. MacSales.com was founded in 1988.
History
1980s
In 1988, at age 14, Larry O'Connor began LRO Enterprises, a printer ribbon reinking business, in his family's barn. A year later, LRO Enterprises reorganized into LRO Computer Sales and began selling computer memory chips via America Online. The company moved into its first facility in Woodstock, Illinois, and hired its first employees.
1990s
In 1992, LRO Computer Sales shifted focus to computers by offering hard drives to its customers. In 1993, LRO Computer Sales were incorporated in the state of Illinois under the name New Concepts Development Corporation (NCDC). The company then moved into a 2,500-square-foot office space, which expanded to about 6,500 square feet over the next eight years. In 1994, O'Connor renamed LRO Computers Sales "Other World Computing" (OWC), which operates doing business as NCDC. OWC shipped its first OWC-branded acceleration products in 1995 followed by the introduction of the Mercury G3 ZIF upgrade line in 1999.
2000s
OWC expanded and introduced the Mercury Classic Elite line of external storage and offered an iPod case. OWC announced a portable FireWire drive and a FireWire/USB combination product in 2003.
Later on, OWC launched www.fastermac.net, a Macintosh-only Internet access service that provided dial-up access throughout the U.S. specifically for Macintosh computer users in 2003.
In 2004, the company also began offering an iPod battery replacement program and introduced the miniStack line of drives to complement Apple's Mac mini. In 2006, OWC introduced the first Dual-HD external FireWire drive RAID available up to 1.5 TB and became the first third party company with memory modules and upgrade kits for the Intel-based Mac Pro. It met Apple specifications and was the first to introduce a Quad Interface external hard drive combining FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA connection options in one product – the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Quad Interface.
In January 2007, OWC announced it would be the US distributor of the Axiotron Modbook.
OWC also introduced the OWC Mercury Rack Pro line and the OWC Blu-ray internal and external drives. In April 2009, OWC expanded its storage line with the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2, a desktop hardware RAID storage product.
In 2008, OWC moved into a new corporate headquarters designed to platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards.
In October 2009, a Vestas V39-500 kW wind turbine started generating more electricity than OWC needed to run the facility. OWC said it was the first technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S. to become totally on-site wind powered.
2010s
Other World Computing was on the Inc. magazine 5000 "Fastest-Growing Privately Owned Companies" and "Computer and Electronics Top 100" list from 2007 through 2013.
In 2010, OWC announced the Mercury Extreme SS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSFIRE | COSFIRE stands for Combination Of Shifted FIlter REsponses.
COSFIRE is a trainable filter, which can be used for interest point (keypoint) detection and pattern recognition in the field of computer vision.
References
Feature detection (computer vision)
Object recognition and categorization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Comic%20Museum | Digital Comic Museum is a digital library of comic books in the public domain, established in 2010.
References
External links
Websites about comics
Digital libraries
Online comic databases
Comic book collecting
Public domain comics
Public domain databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel%20modeling%20for%20repeated%20measures | One application of multilevel modeling (MLM) is the analysis of repeated measures data. Multilevel modeling for repeated measures data is most often discussed in the context of modeling change over time (i.e. growth curve modeling for longitudinal designs); however, it may also be used for repeated measures data in which time is not a factor.
In multilevel modeling, an overall change function (e.g. linear, quadratic, cubic etc.) is fitted to the whole sample and, just as in multilevel modeling for clustered data, the slope and intercept may be allowed to vary. For example, in a study looking at income growth with age, individuals might be assumed to show linear improvement over time. However, the exact intercept and slope could be allowed to vary across individuals (i.e. defined as random coefficients).
Multilevel modeling with repeated measures employs the same statistical techniques as MLM with clustered data. In multilevel modeling for repeated measures data, the measurement occasions are nested within cases (e.g. individual or subject). Thus, level-1 units consist of the repeated measures for each subject, and the level-2 unit is the individual or subject. In addition to estimating overall parameter estimates, MLM allows regression equations at the level of the individual. Thus, as a growth curve modeling technique, it allows the estimation of inter-individual differences in intra-individual change over time by modeling the variances and covariances. In other words, it allows the testing of individual differences in patterns of responses over time (i.e. growth curves). This characteristic of multilevel modeling makes it preferable to other repeated measures statistical techniques such as repeated measures-analysis of variance (RM-ANOVA) for certain research questions.
Assumptions
The assumptions of MLM that hold for clustered data also apply to repeated measures:
(1) Random components are assumed to have a normal distribution with a mean of zero
(2) The dependent variable is assumed to be normally distributed. However, binary and discrete dependent variables may be examined in MLM using specialized procedures (i.e. employ different link functions).
One of the assumptions of using MLM for growth curve modeling is that all subjects show the same relationship over time (e.g. linear, quadratic etc.). Another assumption of MLM for growth curve modeling is that the observed changes are related to the passage of time.
Statistics & Interpretation
Mathematically, multilevel analysis with repeated measures is very similar to the analysis of data in which subjects are clustered in groups. However, one point to note is that time-related predictors must be explicitly entered into the model to evaluate trend analyses and to obtain an overall test of the repeated measure. Furthermore, interpretation of these analyses is dependent on the scale of the time variable (i.e. how it is coded).
Fixed Effects: Fixed regression coefficients may be obtained f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1plus | Alplus or A1+ () is an independent Armenian media network. Until 2002, it had a TV channel which was closed by the government of Robert Kocharyan. Now it is present online at www.a1plus.am.
See also
Media in Armenia
Television in Armenia
References
External links
Television in Armenia
Free Media Awards winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Campaign%20Against%20Fees%20and%20Cuts | The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) or Student Left Network is a membership-based organisation of activist students and education workers campaigning against tuition fees, education cuts and privatisation in the United Kingdom.
History
National student campaigns for free education in the UK have always existed; the first organised group was the Campaign for Free Education (CFE), founded in 1995 in opposition to proposals by Labour Students for the NUS to abandon its opposition to the abolition of student grants. CFE was disbanded in 2004 by NUS President Kat Fletcher, and took a year re-emerge as Education Not For Sale which was founded by left-wing anti-capitalist students. In 2009 ENS jointly organised (with Socialist Students and Socialist Workers' Student Society) the first student demonstration for free education in 5 years but with low turnout and a proposal in 2010 by UCL Free Education Society to establish NCAFC, ENS was folded into a newly established the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC).
The organisation was founded at a convention at University College London in February 2010 on a platform of campaigning for "free, fair and funded public education for all", paid for through the taxation of the rich and big business. NCAFC also has semi-autonomous campaigns in Scotland and Wales. The organisation played a role in the 2010 UK student protests, calling several days of action following the National Union of Students organised demonstration on 10 November. It was estimated that up to 130,000 students took part in the 24 November 2010 day of action across the UK. The organisation also undertakes research into education funding.
2010 UK student protests
In 2011 NCAFC organised a march through central London, supported by the National Union of Students and the University and College Union, in opposition to the government's Higher Education White Paper. As many as 15,000 students took part, with the Metropolitan Police pre-authorising the use of plastic bullets in the light of the violence after the previous year's protest against student fees. BBC reporter Mike Sergeant described the policing on the day as "quite extraordinary... It's the most tightly controlled march through London that I have ever seen". The government later withdrew the HE Bill.
In 2014, NCAFC organised another major national demonstration for free education, this time in collaboration with the Student Assembly Against Austerity and the Young Greens. Organisers claimed that the demonstration saw 10,000 students march and that the event was the largest mobilisation of students in Britain since 2010. Following the demonstration, NCAFC organised two separate nationwide days of action for free education, on 3 December 2014 and 31 January 2015. The first gained wide publicity after accusations of police violence at a student occupation at the University of Warwick and the second saw students marching in Brighton, Sheffield and Norwich among ot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s%20in%20science%20and%20technology | This article is a summary of the 2010s in science and technology.
Technology
Big data and "Big Tech" saw an expansion in size and power in the 2010s, particularly FAANG corporations. The growing influence of "Big Tech" over cyberspace drew scrutiny and increased oversight from national governments. The G20 countries began closing tax loopholes and the European Union began asserting legal guidelines over domains such as data privacy, copyright, and hate speech, the latter of which helped fuel a debate over tech censorship and free speech online, particularly deplatforming. Throughout the decade, the United States government increasingly scrutinized the tech industry, from attempted copyright regulations to threatening antitrust probes. Increased protectionism and attempts to regulate and localize the internet by national governments also raised fears of cyber-balkanization in the later half of the decade.
Communications and electronics
Smartphones maintained their strong popularity throughout the 2010s, along with the arrival of tablets. Apple Inc. launched the iPad in 2010, its first tablet computer, which offered multi-touch interaction. The iPad became an immediate bestseller and only months after its release became the best selling tech product in history. By the mid-2010s, almost all smartphones were touchscreen-only, and Android and iPhone smartphones dominated the market.
Mobile apps become commercially available in the early 2010s, along with popular app stores such as Google Play, iOS App Store, and Microsoft Store.
Throughout the early 2010s, sales for PCs declined in favor of tablet computers and laptop convertibles; in 2012, tablet and smartphone sales overtook netbooks and Samsung overtook Nokia for the first time as the largest mobile phone maker in the world; in 2013 in developed countries, smartphone sales surpassed feature phones.
In April 2019, South Korea became the first country to adopt 5G broadband. Verizon launched its 5G services in the United States just hours later, along with disputing South Korea's claim of becoming the world's first country with a 5G network. The United Kingdom's first 5G mobile network became operational on 30 May, initially covering parts of six cities.
In 2011, more than 2 billion people used the Internet, one billion mobile broadband users predicted and 4.6 billion people worldwide were subscribed to mobile phones, and Americans spent more time using mobile apps than using the World Wide Web.
Social media continuously gained prominence through the convenience of mobile apps, including the services of WhatsApp, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Tinder, Vine, and TikTok being released throughout the decade. Facebook and Twitter, both of which were released in the 2000s, were still among the most popular social media platforms in the world. Social media offered massive reach to mainstream audiences for both individuals and organizations unseen before, facilitating phenomena such as influencer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth%20Employment%20Network | Youth Employment Network (YEN) is a joint UN, World Bank and ILO initiative to address the global challenge of youth employment.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan committed to set up YEN as a personal initiative, he invited Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank to join him in this new inter-agency partnership.
External links
Official Website (capture from 2012)
International economic organizations
International Labour Organization
Organizations with year of establishment missing
World Bank
Youth employment
Youth organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2 | HTTP/2 (originally named HTTP/2.0) is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web. It was derived from the earlier experimental SPDY protocol, originally developed by Google. HTTP/2 was developed by the HTTP Working Group (also called httpbis, where "" means "twice") of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). HTTP/2 is the first new version of HTTP since HTTP/1.1, which was standardized in in 1997. The Working Group presented HTTP/2 to the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) for consideration as a Proposed Standard in December 2014, and IESG approved it to publish as Proposed Standard on February 17, 2015 (and was updated in February 2020 in regard to TLS 1.3). The HTTP/2 specification was published as on May 14, 2015.
The standardization effort was supported by Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Amazon Silk, and Edge browsers. Most major browsers had added HTTP/2 support by the end of 2015. About 97% of web browsers used have the capability (and 100% of "tracked desktop" web browsers). , 36% (after topping out at just over 50%) of the top 10 million websites support HTTP/2.
Its successor is HTTP/3, a major revision that builds on the concepts established by HTTP/2.
Goals
The working group charter mentions several goals and issues of concern:
Create a negotiation mechanism that allows clients and servers to elect to use HTTP/1.1, 2.0, or potentially other non-HTTP protocols.
Maintain high-level compatibility with HTTP/1.1 (for example with methods, status codes, URIs, and most header fields).
Decrease latency to improve page load speed in web browsers by considering:
data compression of HTTP headers
HTTP/2 Server Push
prioritization of requests
multiplexing multiple requests over a single TCP connection (fixing the HTTP-transaction-level head-of-line blocking problem in HTTP 1.x)
Support common existing use cases of HTTP, such as desktop web browsers, mobile web browsers, web APIs, web servers at various scales, proxy servers, reverse proxy servers, firewalls, and content delivery networks.
Differences from HTTP/1.1
The proposed changes do not require any changes to how existing web applications work, but new applications can take advantage of new features for increased speed. HTTP/2 leaves all of HTTP/1.1's high-level semantics, such as methods, status codes, header fields, and URIs, the same. What is new is how the data is framed and transported between the client and the server.
Websites that are efficient minimize the number of requests required to render an entire page by minifying (reducing the amount of code and packing smaller pieces of code into bundles, without reducing its ability to function) resources such as images and scripts. However, minification is not necessarily convenient nor efficient and may still require separate HTTP connections to get the page and the minified resources. HTTP/2 allows the server to "push" content, that is, to respond with data f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20view | In management, the relational view by Jeffrey H. Dyer and Harbir Singh is a theory for considering networks and dyads of firms as the unit of analysis to explain relational rents, i.e., superior individual firm performance generated within that network/dyad. This view has later been extended by Lavie (2006).
Comparison to other theories
The relational view supplements existing views. While the industry structure view explains superior returns with a firm's membership in an industry with specific structural characteristics, and the resource-based view explains superior returns with firm heterogeneity, the relational view argues that idiosyncratic interfirm linkages are a source of relational rents.
Relational rents
Dyer and Singh define a relational rent as "a supernormal profit jointly generated in an exchange relationship that cannot be generated by either firm in isolation and can only be created through the joint idiosyncratic contributions of the specific alliance partners". The achievement of rents is subject to relational risk. Later research suggested companies adopt a relational strategic orientation and design strategies to generate and extract relational rents.
Sources of relational rents
Dyer and Singh propose four sources of relational rents:
relation-specific assets,
knowledge-sharing routines,
complementary resources/capabilities, and
effective governance.
References
Business terms
Strategic management
Supply chain management
Management theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtract%20with%20carry | Subtract-with-carry is a pseudorandom number generator: one of many algorithms designed to produce a long series of random-looking numbers based on a small amount of starting data. It is of the lagged Fibonacci type introduced by George Marsaglia and Arif Zaman in 1991.
"Lagged Fibonacci" refers to the fact that each random number is a function of two of the preceding numbers at some specified, fixed offsets, or "lags".
Algorithm
Sequence generated by the subtract-with-carry engine may be described by the recurrence relation:
where .
Constants S and R are known as the short and long lags, respectively.
Therefore, expressions and correspond to the S-th and R-th previous terms of the sequence.
S and R satisfy the condition .
Modulus M has the value , where W is the word size, in bits, of the state sequence and .
The subtract-with-carry engine is one of the family of generators which includes as well add-with-carry and subtract-with-borrow engines.
It is one of three random number generator engines included in the standard C++11 library.
References
Pseudorandom number generators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verification%20and%20validation%20of%20computer%20simulation%20models | Verification and validation of computer simulation models is conducted during the development of a simulation model with the ultimate goal of producing an accurate and credible model. "Simulation models are increasingly being used to solve problems and to aid in decision-making. The developers and users of these models, the decision makers using information obtained from the results of these models, and the individuals affected by decisions based on such models are all rightly concerned with whether a model and its results are "correct". This concern is addressed through verification and validation of the simulation model.
Simulation models are approximate imitations of real-world systems and they never exactly imitate the real-world system. Due to that, a model should be verified and validated to the degree needed for the model's intended purpose or application.
The verification and validation of a simulation model starts after functional specifications have been documented and initial model development has been completed. Verification and validation is an iterative process that takes place throughout the development of a model.
Verification
In the context of computer simulation, verification of a model is the process of confirming that it is correctly implemented with respect to the conceptual model (it matches specifications and assumptions deemed acceptable for the given purpose of application).
During verification the model is tested to find and fix errors in the implementation of the model.
Various processes and techniques are used to assure the model matches specifications and assumptions with respect to the model concept.
The objective of model verification is to ensure that the implementation of the model is correct.
There are many techniques that can be utilized to verify a model.
These include, but are not limited to, having the model checked by an expert, making logic flow diagrams that include each logically possible action, examining the model output for reasonableness under a variety of settings of the input parameters, and using an interactive debugger.
Many software engineering techniques used for software verification are applicable to simulation model verification.
Validation
Validation checks the accuracy of the model's representation of the real system. Model validation is defined to mean "substantiation that a computerized model within its domain of applicability possesses a satisfactory range of accuracy consistent with the intended application of the model". A model should be built for a specific purpose or set of objectives and its validity determined for that purpose.
There are many approaches that can be used to validate a computer model. The approaches range from subjective reviews to objective statistical tests. One approach that is commonly used is to have the model builders determine validity of the model through a series of tests.
Naylor and Finger [1967] formulated a three-step approach to model val |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amphibians%20of%20Panama | This is a list of amphibians found in Panama. 205 amphibian species have been registered in Panama, which are grouped in 3 orders: Caecilians (Gymnophiona), Salamanders (Caudata) and Frogs and Toads (Anura). This list is derived from the database listing of AmphibiaWeb. 25 species are critically endangered(CR), 16 species are endangered (EN) and 6 species are vulnerable (VU). One species has recently (September 2016) gone extinct with the last individual in captivity dying, and with not a single specimen seen nor heard in the wild for over a decade. Several other species might also be extinct with no specimen found for decades.
The following tags are used to highlight specific species' conservation status as assessed by the IUCN:
Caecilians (Gymnophiona)
Caeciliidae
Order: Gymnophiona.
Family: Caeciliidae
Caecilia isthmica (DD)
Caecilia leucocephala (LC)
Caecilia nigricans (LC)
Caecilia tentaculata (LC)
Caecilia volcani (DD)
Oscaecilia elongata (DD)
Oscaecilia ochrocephala (LC)
Salamanders (Caudata)
Plethodontidae
Order: Caudata.
Family: Plethodontidae
Bolitoglossa anthracina (DD)
Bolitoglossa biseriata (LC)
Bolitoglossa bramei (DD)
Bolitoglossa colonnea (LC)
Bolitoglossa compacta (EN)
Bolitoglossa copia (DD)
Bolitoglossa cuna (DD)
Bolitoglossa gomezi (DD)
Bolitoglossa lignicolor (VU)
Bolitoglossa magnifica (EN)
Bolitoglossa marmorea (EN)
Bolitoglossa medemi (VU)
Bolitoglossa minutula (EN)
Bolitoglossa phalarosoma (DD)
Bolitoglossa pygmaea
Bolitoglossa robinsoni
Bolitoglossa robusta (LC)
Bolitoglossa schizodactyla (LC)
Bolitoglossa sombra (VU)
Bolitoglossa taylori (DD)
Oedipina alfaroi (VU)
Oedipina collaris (DD)
Oedipina complex (LC)
Oedipina cyclocauda (LC)
Oedipina fortunensis
Oedipina grandis (EN)
Oedipina maritima (CR)
Oedipina parvipes (LC)
Toads and frogs (Anura)
Bufonidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Bufonidae
Atelopus certus (EN)
Atelopus chiriquiensis (CR)
Atelopus glyphus (CR)
Atelopus limosus (EN)
Atelopus varius (CR)
Atelopus zeteki (CR)
Incilius aucoinae (LC)
Incilius coniferus (LC)
Incilius epioticus (LC)
Incilius fastidiosus (CR)
Incilius karenlipsae
Incilius melanochlorus (LC)
Incilius peripatetes (CR)
Incilius signifer (LC)
Rhaebo haematiticus (LC)
Rhinella acrolopha (DD)
Rhinella alata (DD)
Rhinella centralis
Rhinella marina (LC)
Centrolenidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Centrolenidae
Cochranella euknemos (LC)
Cochranella granulosa (LC)
Espadarana prosoblepon (LC)
Hyalinobatrachium aureoguttatum (NT)
Hyalinobatrachium chirripoi (LC)
Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum (LC)
Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni (LC)
Hyalinobatrachium valerioi (LC)
Hyalinobatrachium vireovittatum (DD)
Sachatamia albomaculata (LC)
Sachatamia ilex (LC)
Teratohyla pulverata (LC)
Teratohyla spinosa (LC)
Craugastoridae
Order: Anura.
Family: Craugastoridae
Craugastor andi (CR)
Craugastor azueroensis (EN)
Craugastor bransfordii (LC)
Craugastor catalinae (CR)
Craugastor crassidigitus (LC)
Craugastor emcelae (CR)
Craugastor evanesco
Craugastor fitzingeri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three.js | Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface (API) used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL. The source code is hosted in a repository on GitHub.
Overview
Three.js allows the creation of graphical processing unit (GPU)-accelerated 3D animations using the JavaScript language as part of a website without relying on proprietary browser plugins. This is possible due to the advent of WebGL, a low-level graphics API created specifically for the web.
High-level libraries such as Three.js or GLGE, Scene.js, PhiloGL, and many more make it possible to author complex 3D computer animations for display in the browser without the effort required for a traditional standalone application or a plugin.
History
Three.js was first released by Ricardo Cabello on GitHub in April 2010. The origins of the library can be traced back to his involvement with the demoscene in the early 2000s. The code was originally developed in the ActionScript language used by Adobe Flash, later being ported to JavaScript in 2009. In Cabello's mind, there were two strong points that justified the shift away from ActionScript: Firstly, JavaScript provided greater platform independence. Secondly, applications written in JavaScript would not need to be compiled by the developer beforehand, unlike Flash applications.
Additional contributions by Cabello include API design, CanvasRenderer, SVGRenderer, and being responsible for merging the commits by the various contributors into the project.
With the advent of WebGL, Paul Brunt was able to implement the new rendering technology quite easily as Three.js was designed with the rendering code as a module rather than in the core itself. Branislav Uličný, an early contributor, started with Three.js in 2010 after having posted a number of WebGL demos on his own site. He wanted WebGL renderer capabilities in Three.js to exceed those of CanvasRenderer or SVGRenderer. His major contributions generally involve materials, shaders, and post-processing.
Soon after the introduction of WebGL 1.0 on Firefox 4 in March 2011, Joshua Koo came on board. He built his first Three.js demo for 3D text in September 2011. His contributions frequently relate to geometry generation.
Starting from version 118 Three.js uses WebGL 2.0 by default. Older version of the standard is still available via WebGL1Renderer class.
Three.js has over 1700 contributors on GitHub.
Features
Three.js includes the following features:
Effects: Anaglyph, cross-eyed, and parallax barrier.
Scenes: add and remove objects at run-time; fog
Cameras: perspective and orthographic; controllers: trackball, FPS, path and more
Animation: armatures, forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, morph, and keyframe
Lights: ambient, direction, point, and spot lights; shadows: cast and receive
Materials: Lambert, Phong, smooth shading, textures, and more
Shaders: access to full OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza%20S%C3%A3o%20Rafael%20Hotel | The Plaza Sao Rafael Hotel is located in the city of Porto Alegre. Belongs to the Network Plaza Hotel.
The hotel is one of the most famous of Rio Grande do Sul the diversity of rooms for events, especially the Jewish community, as well as exhibitions, conferences and weddings. It also has restaurants and shops.
In addition to hosting rooms in the middle, there is the Events Center Plaza São Rafael, located across the street, Avenida Alberto Bins.
The land where the hotel is currently installed, it was the first seat of the Colégio Farroupilha.
References
External links
Official site
Hotels in Brazil
Hotel buildings completed in 1973
Hotels established in 1973 |
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