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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRFJ | WRFJ is a non-commercial radio station located in Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States, that broadcasts on a frequency of 91.5 MHz. It is owned by the Radio Training Network. Since August 2014, the station has been a repeater for RTN's Christian Contemporary Praise & Worship format, His Radio Praise.
The station broadcasts at only 140 watts from a tiny (by modern broadcasting standards) tower west of downtown Fort Mill. The modest power and short tower are mainly due to being short-spaced to WSGE in Dallas, North Carolina at nearby 91.5 FM. It can only be heard clearly in Fort Mill itself. Even in areas of Charlotte close to the South Carolina line, the signal is marginal at best; it can't be heard at all even in areas of York County close to Fort Mill, such as Rock Hill and Lake Wylie. Most of the Charlotte area has to rely on streaming for the full HIS Radio Praise schedule.
External links
RFJ
York County, South Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kaypro%20games | There were a number of games available for the monochrome Kaypro computers. There are currently 10 games on this list.
Models II, IV, 4, 10 and 2x
Aliens
Adventure
CatChum
Horse Race
Ladder
Star Trek
Star Lanes
Trivia+Plus
Trivia+Plus Baseball Edition
Wumpus, a version of Hunt the Wumpus
External links
Kaypro games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens%20%281982%20video%20game%29 | Aliens is a text-only clone of Space Invaders written for the CP/M operating system and made to be operated on the early Kaypro line of luggable computers. It was written by Yahoo Software of Los Angeles, California. Along with Star Trek, CatChum, and Ladder, Aliens was one of the games that came with the early Kaypro computers.
Gameplay
The game runs in text mode; the aliens are made of letters and punctuation marks. Each level was given a name, displayed on top of the screen, such as "Blood Bath" and "We Come in Peace."
References
CP/M games
Fixed shooters
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United States
Video games with textual graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6%20Point%20Harness | 6 Point Harness is an American animation studio based in Los Angeles that develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, commercial, music videos and web-based content. Founded by Brendan Burch in 2003, some of the studio's most notable productions include Tom Hanks' Electric City, Fox's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, MTV's Good Vibes, Nick Jr.'s Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Nickelodeon's El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Adult Swim's Apollo Gauntlet and Lazor Wulf, the animated feature The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, and the web series Dick Figures for the YouTube channel Mondo Media. 6PH also released Dick Figures: The Movie, an in-house production developed from the company's web series.
On September 19, 2016, it was announced that 6 Point Harness merged with Mondo Media.
History
Brendan Burch founded the studio in June 2003. In 2010, 6 Point Harness approached Mondo Media with a pitch for Dick Figures and arranged a partnership for the series; 6 Point Harness provided the financing and production while distribution was provided by Mondo Media.
In 2011, John Andrews came on board with the company to form 6 Point Media, the commercial branch of the studio. Six Point Harness and Titmouse, Inc. launched Rug Burn, a YouTube channel for animation, in 2012. Six Point Harness raised $313,411 through KickStarter to produce a feature-length episode of Dick Figures in 2012.
In 2013, the studio had two nominations for "Best Animated Web Series" for Dick Figures and Electric City at the Streamy Awards, with Electric City bringing the studio its first Streamy Award. That same year Dick Figures received an Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production.
Six Point Harness is most famous for providing the animation for the 2020 Oscar winning animated short Hair Love and producing an animated music video for the 2020 "Election Special" episodes of Black-ish.
Productions
Television
Films
Video games
Band Hero (cutscenes) (2009)
Dark Souls III (animated trailer) (2015)
Web
Tire Fire Films (2006)
Revisioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series ("Pre-Teen Raider") (2007)
Larry Craig's Sexy Stall Tactics (2007)
Read A Book (2008)
Ghost Town by Shiny Toy Guns (music video) (2009)
Dick Figures (2010–2015)
CollegeHumor ("Realistic Superhero Funeral" and "Pizza Quest!") (2010–2011)
The First Time I Ran Away by M. Ward (music video) (2012)
Electric City (2012)
Listing by Minus the Bear (music video) (2012)
Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program ("Austin Oliver", "Cabrito and Chewy", "Carrot and Stick" and "Bear Wrestler") (2012–2013)
Rug Burn (2012–2016)
We The Economy ("GDP Smackdown", "Taxation Nation" and "The Unbelievably Sweet Alpacas") (2014)
Ninja Sex Party: Rhinoceratops vs. Superpuma (2014)
SpindoTV (2015–2016)
DreamWorksTV ("Lizzie") (2016)
As Told By Emoji (2016–present)
Minions (2017)
HBO Backstories ("Insecure") (2019)
The Birds & T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%20Software | Yahoo Software was an early developer of computer software. During the 1980s, Yahoo Software created the games which were bundled with the early line of Kaypro "luggable" computers. These games include Ladder, CatChum, Aliens and Star Trek.
Their offices were located in Los Angeles, California.
References
Software companies based in California
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Companies based in Los Angeles
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira%20%28supercomputer%29 | Mira is a retired petascale Blue Gene/Q supercomputer. As of November 2017, it is listed on TOP500 as the 11th fastest supercomputer in the world, while it debuted June 2012 in 3rd place. It has a performance of 8.59 petaflops (LINPACK) and consumes 3.9 MW. The supercomputer was constructed by IBM for Argonne National Laboratory's Argonne Leadership Computing Facility with the support of the United States Department of Energy, and partially funded by the National Science Foundation. Mira was used for scientific research, including studies in the fields of material science, climatology, seismology, and computational chemistry. The supercomputer was used initially for sixteen projects selected by the Department of Energy.
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which commissioned the supercomputer, was established by the America COMPETES Act, signed by President Bush in 2007, and President Obama in 2011. The United States' emphasis on supercomputing was seen as a response to China's progress in the field. China's Tianhe-1A, located at the Tianjin National Supercomputer Center, was ranked the most powerful supercomputer in the world from October 2010 to June 2011. Mira is, along with IBM Sequoia and Blue Waters, one of three American petascale supercomputers deployed in 2012.
The cost for building Mira has not been released by IBM. Early reports estimated that construction would cost US$50 million, and Argonne National Laboratory announced that Mira was bought using money from a grant of US$180 million. In a press release, IBM marketed the supercomputer's speed, claiming that "if every man, woman and child in the United States performed one calculation each second, it would take them almost a year to do as many calculations as Mira will do in one second".
One of the applications
"Argonne scientists used Mira to identify and improve a new mechanism for eliminating friction, which fed into the development of a hybrid material that exhibited superlubricity at the macroscale for the first time [..] simulating up to 1.2 million atoms for dry environments and up to 10 million atoms for humid environments [..] The researchers used the LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) code to carry out the computationally demanding reactive molecular dynamics simulations. [.. A] team of computational scientists [..] were able to overcome a performance bottleneck with the code's ReaxFF module, an add-on package that was needed to model the chemical reactions occurring in the system. [.. The team] optimized LAMMPS and its implementation of ReaxFF by adding OpenMP threading, replacing MPI point-to-point communication with MPI collectives in key algorithms, and leveraging MPI I/O. Altogether, these enhancements allowed the code to perform twice as fast as before."
"The research team is in the process of seeking a patent for the hybrid material, which could potentially be used for applications in dry environments, such as computer hard dr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20Mouse | Music Mouse is an algorithmic musical composition software developed by Laurie Spiegel.
Spiegel's best known and most widely used software, "Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument" (1986) is for Macintosh, Amiga and Atari computers. The "intelligent instrument" name refers to the program's built-in knowledge of chord and scale convention and stylistic constraints. Automating these processes allows the user to focus on other aspects of the music in real time. In addition to improvisations using this software, Spiegel composed several works for "Music Mouse", including Cavis muris in 1986, Three Sonic Spaces in 1989, and Sound Zones in 1990. She continued to update the program through Macintosh OS 9 it remained available up until 2021, as of 2023, the website is no longer active and is archived on the wayback machine.
See also
List of music software
Sources
External links
"Music Mouse", The Music Mouse website.
"Music Mouse Instruction Manual", The Music Mouse Instruction Manual and Tutorial by Laurie Spiegel.
"Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument - An Emulation" Tero Parviainen, Independent Software Developer
Music software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tova%20Milo | Tova Milo () is a full Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences. She served as the head of the Computer Science Department from 2011 to 2014.
Milo is the head of the data management group in Tel Aviv University, and her research focuses on Web data management. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University in 1992 under the supervision of Catriel Beeri, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and INRIA, France, prior to joining Tel Aviv University.
Milo has co-authored over 200 papers in top database conferences and journals, as well as a book on business processes, with over 11,000 citations and H-Index 57 (computed by Google Scholar).
Milo is one of the most prolific authors in the premier Symposium on Principles of Database Systems and was the first (and only, as of 2015) woman to be a keynote speaker at this symposium.
In 2010, Milo and her co-authors Victor Vianu and Dan Suciu won the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for their paper on type checking for XML transformation languages.
Milo has served on the editorial board of top database journals (VLDB journal and TODS) and as the Program Committee Chair of (among others) the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), as well as the VLDB conference. She is a member of the ICDT Council and the VLDB Endowment.
In 2012 Milo was elected as an ACM Fellow for her "contributions to database theory and business process management".
In 2014, she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2017, she won the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences as well as the VLDB Women in Database Research award. In 2022, she was awarded the IEEE TCDE Impact award. In 2023, she received Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Zurich.
Milo is featured on the Notable Women in Computing cards.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Database researchers
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
Members of Academia Europaea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20time | Screen time is the amount of time spent using a device with a screen such as a smartphone, computer, television, or video game console. The concept is under significant research with related concepts in digital media use and mental health. Screen time is correlated with mental and physical harm in child development. The positive or negative health effects of screen time are influenced by levels and content of exposure. To prevent harmful exposure to screen time, some governments have placed regulations on its usage.
History
Statistics
The first electronic screen was the cathode ray tube (CRT), which was invented in 1897 and commercialized in 1922. CRT's were the most popular choice for display screens until the rise of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in the early 2000s. Screens are now an essential part of entertainment, advertising, and information technologies.
Since their popularization in 2007, smartphones have become ubiquitous in daily life. In 2019, 81% of American adults reported owning a smartphone, up from 64% in 2015. An American survey in 2016 found a median of 3.7 minutes per hour of screen time over a 30-day period.
All forms of screens are frequently used by children and teens. Nationally representative data of children and teens in the United States show that the daily average of screen time increases with age. TV and video games were once largest contributors to children's screen time, but the past decade has seen a shift towards smart phones and tablets. Specifically, a 2011 nationally representative survey of American parents of children from birth to age 8 suggests that TV accounted for 51% of children's total daily screen time, while mobile devices only accounted for 4%. However, in 2017, TV dropped down to 42% of children's total daily screen time, and mobile media devices jumped up to 35%.
Race, socioeconomic class, and screen time
Research has shown that race and socioeconomic class are associated with overall screen time. Younger demographics and individuals who self-identified as Black and "Other" were associated with above average screen use. Additionally, Black and Latino Americans had longer screen times because of less access to desktop computers, which thus leads to more time on phones. In children, the divide is much larger. On average in 2011, White children spent 8.5 hours a day with digital media, and Black and Latino children spent about 13 hours a day on screens. Black and Latino children were also more likely to have TVs in their rooms, which contributed to their increased use of screen time.
The discrepancy in the amount of screen time can also be attributed to a difference in income. In more affluent private schools, there has been a larger push to remove screens from education in order to limit the negative impacts that have been found from screen time. However, in public schools there is more push for the use of technology with some public schools advertising free iPads and laptops to students. Add |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo%20Kobayashi | is a Japanese researcher in the field of robotics in Waseda University. He has developed the needle insertion system, robotic surgery, computer-assisted robot and tremor suppressibility robot.
Research Interests
Robotics
Robotic surgery
Surgical Segment Navigator
Medical, rehabilitation and assistive engineering
Computer-assisted surgery
Control engineering
Intelligent mechatronics
Education
Ph.D. degree in Engineering, 2008, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Employment
Visiting research assistant, Waseda university (2005-2007)
Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007)
Assistant, Waseda university (2009-)
Instructor, Waseda university (2010-)
Membership
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Honors and awards
Best paper award Finalist of 2008 IEEE Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2008
References
External links
:ja:早稲田大学の人物一覧
Masakatsu G. Fujie
:ja:菅野重樹
:ja:高西淳夫
早稲田大学総合理工学部 教員紹介
1981 births
Living people
Japanese roboticists
Academic staff of Waseda University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Enabled%20Weapon | Network Enabled Weapons, or NEW, are a class of air-to-ground precision-guided munitions in development by a number of countries. A derivative of GPS-guided weapons, which are guided to a specific coordinate entered prior to release, NEW have the additional ability to have targeting coordinates updated in flight through the use of a common datalink, and be tracked by aircraft and other platforms logged into the same network.
Previous weapons have used datalink to provide updated target information in flight (e.g. AMRAAM), but the creation of a common datalink allows control of the weapon to be passed from one platform to another, for example from an aircraft that launches the weapons to a ground party that is in visual contact with an enemy tank formation.
The concept for network enabled weapons originated at the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command headquarters in 2003 as a solution to the problem of attacking moving targets in all-weather, high-threat environments. The Air Force's Air Armament Center refined the idea and in late 2003 declared NEW as the "single most cost effective means available for enhancing overall armament capability."
An Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration was funded in 2005 to develop the miniaturized radio that would be needed and demonstrate the feasibility of the concept,. Subsequently, the requirements for the Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) Increment 2 were modified to incorporate the capability. Later weapons incorporating this technology include the AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW C-1) and Turkish Air Force's SOM Cruise Missile.
References
Military communications
Weapon guidance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doordarshan%20Kendra%2C%20Jalandhar | Doordarshan Kendra, Jalandhar also referred as Jalandhar Doordarshan is an Indian television station in Jalandhar, owned and operated by state-owned Doordarshan, the television network of Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India). It was established in 1979, and now produces and broadcasts the 24-hour Punjabi language TV channel, DD Punjabi, which was launched in 1998 and covers most of the state of Punjab, India.
Early history
Doordarshan Kendra Jalandhar was inaugurated on 13 April 1979, after it was shifted here from Amritsar, where it was first established on 23 September 1973. Its establishment here instead of Amritsar was made possible by the efforts of then Union I & B Minister, I. K. Gujral. The station is located at Gujral Nagar, the center has elaborate programme production facilities and large studios.
The transmission was initially limited to few hours in a day. Besides the regional language Punjabi, some programmes in Hindi and Urdu were also telecast. Even programmes in Haryanvi and Himachali languages were telecast from this Kendra as these states did not at that time have their own Kendras.
With the introduction of Regional Language Satellite Services, all regional centers of Doordarshan started generating programmes in their respective regional languages. And thus, DD Punjabi came into existence along with many other channels of Doordarshan. A satellite earth station built at the cost of , was inaugurated at the station on 7 August 1998, to allow Punjabi language programs broadcast from the station, available to neighboring countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Oman, Qatar and Nepal.
DD Punjabi
Presently, Doordarshan Kendra, Jalandhar telecasts its programmes under the brand name DD Punjabi. DD Punjabi Channel was launched in 1998, and it became a 24-hour service within two years.
In its terrestrial mode DD Punjabi has near 100 per cent reach in the State of Punjab. Besides that, numerous Punjabi viewers residing in different parts of India watch the cultural programmes broadcast on DD Punjabi with interest.
Programmes
Doordarshan Kendra Jalandhar produces a wide spectrum of programmes including serials, documentaries, musical programmes, reality shows, news and current affairs programmes and utility programmes related to health, agriculture and civic issues, etc.
Doordarshan Kendra Jalandhar has, over the years, produced a number of programmes which not only have been popular among viewers, but have left long lasting impressions.
Serials-Periodicals
Supne Te Parchhaven produced and directed by Harjit Singh
Chitta Lahoo produced and directed by Gulshan Sachdev
Buniad produced and directed Ravi Deep
Aag Ka Darya produced by Raj Sharma, directed by DD Kashyap
Bhai Manna Singh produced by Durgadutt Savitoj, directed by Gursharan Singh
Lafafi produced and directed by Ravi Deep
Zindagi produced and directed by Vijay Shair
Parchhaven produced and directed by Ravi Deep
Udeekan produced and directed by Vijay S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaces%20%28social%20network%29 | Spaces is a Russian social network service that targets mobile phone users.
History
The website was launched in 2006.
In 2009, it was ranked 7th on Opera's top ten visited social networking sites.
Konstantin Vladimirovich Rak, who was sued by Epic Games for allegedly creating cheats to Fortnite, was a user of the service.
Currently, the site is going through not very good times of blocking in Russia, frequent changes of site addresses and constant DDOSS attacks. In 2022, the social network changed 7 domain names, due to tightening Internet censorship and frequent blocking in Russia.
See also
List of social networking services
VK (service)
Facebook
References
External links
2006 establishments in Russia
Internet properties established in 2006
Russian social networking websites
Social networking services
Social media companies
Social media
Mobile applications
Russian brands
Image-sharing websites
Video hosting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/256-bit%20computing | There are currently no mainstream general-purpose processors built to operate on 256-bit integers or addresses, though a number of processors do operate on 256-bit data.
Representation
A 256-bit register can store 2256 different values. The range of integer values that can be stored in 256 bits depends on the integer representation used.
The maximum value of an unsigned 256-bit integer is 2256 − 1, written in decimal as 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,935 or approximately as 1.1579 x 1077.
256-bit processors could be used for addressing directly up to 2256 bytes. Already 2128 (for 128-bit addressing) would greatly exceed the total data stored on Earth as of 2018, which has been estimated to be around 33.3 zettabytes (over 274 bytes).
History
Xbox 360 was the first high-definition gaming console to utilize the ATI Technologies 256-bit GPU Xenos before the introduction of the current gaming consoles especially Nintendo Switch.
Some buses on the newer System on a chip (e.g. Tegra developed by Nvidia) utilize 64-bit, 128-bit, 256-bit, or higher.
Hardware
CPUs feature SIMD instruction sets (Advanced Vector Extensions and the FMA instruction set etc.) where 256-bit vector registers are used to store several smaller numbers, such as eight 32-bit floating-point numbers, and a single instruction can operate on all these values in parallel. However, these processors do not operate on individual numbers that are 256 binary digits in length, only their registers have the size of 256-bits. Binary digits are found together in 128-bit collections.
Modern GPU chips may operate data across a 256-bit memory bus (or possibly a 512-bit bus with HBM3).
The Efficeon processor was Transmeta's second-generation 256-bit VLIW design which employed a software engine to convert code written for x86 processors to the native instruction set of the chip.
The DARPA funded Data-Intensive Architecture (DIVA) system incorporated processor-in-memory (PIM) 5-stage pipelined 256-bit datapath, complete with register file and ALU blocks in a "WideWord" processor in 2002.
Software
256 bits is a common key size for symmetric ciphers in cryptography, such as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Increasing the word size can accelerate multiple precision mathematical libraries. Applications include cryptography.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge use a 256-bit capability pointer, which includes capability and addressing information, on early implementations of their CHERI capability system.
SHA-256 hash function.
Smart contracts use 256- or 257-bit integers; 256-bit words for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. "We realize that a 257 bits byte is quite unusual, but for smart contracts it is ok to have at least 256 bits numbers. The leading VM for smart contracts, Ethereum VM, introduced this practice and other blockchain VMs followed."
See also
Berkeley IRAM project
Computational RAM
References
Data un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Computer%20Exchange | World Computer Exchange (WCE) is a United States and Canada based charity organization whose mission is "to reduce the digital divide for youth in developing countries, to use our global network of partnerships to enhance communities in these countries, and to promote the reuse of electronic equipment and its ultimate disposal in an environmentally responsible manner." According to UNESCO, it is North America's largest non-profit supplier of tested used computers to schools and community organizations in developing countries.
History
WCE was founded in 1999 by Timothy Anderson. It is a non-profit organization.
Its headquarters are in Hull, Massachusetts, and there are 15 chapters in the US and five in Canada.
In 2015, WCE opened a chapter in Puerto Rico.
By November 2002, the organisation shipped 4,000 computers to 585 schools in many developing countries.
By October, 2011, along with partner organizations, WCE has shipped 30,000 computers, established 2,675 computer labs. In February 2012, the Boston Chapter sent out their 68th shipment bringing their total to 13,503 computers.
Activities
WCE provides computers and technology, and the support to make them useful in developing communities. WCE delivers educational content and curriculum on agriculture, health, entrepreneurship, water, and energy. The program also ensures that teachers will know how to use the technology and content by providing staff and teacher training, as well as ongoing tech support.
Each chapter of WCE collects donated computers, refurbishes and prepares them for shipment. They also raise funds to ship the computers.
Volunteers inspect and repair each computer, then install the operating system and educational material onto each computer.
WCE calls recipients of its computers "partners." The requests of computer donations originate from the partners. Once the refurbished computers and the funds to ship the computers are fulfilled, WCE initiates shipment. When possible, WCE coordinates shipments with other organizations, such as University of the People, Peace Corps, Computers4Africa.org, ADEA (Assoc. for the development of Education in Africa) and others.
In June 2013, WCE Chicago chapter sent 400 computers to Mexico, and 300 to the Dominican Republic with help of 85 volunteers.
In November 2015, WCE sent two Spanish speakers to visit Honduras for two weeks in 2015 to pilot tech skills training for youth under a contract with World Vision.
The WCE Computers for Girls (C4G) initiative is field testing of eight tools to provide technological training and STEM education for interested teachers helping their girl students in four West African countries (Ghana, Liberia, Mali, and Zambia) and Pakistan.
In September 2016, World Computer Exchange-Puerto Rico and 4GCommunity.org, two not-for-profit corporations, have announced their alliance to improve public school and family access to technology where needed throughout Puerto Rico.
eCorps
To install computers at partn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining%20software%20repositories | Within software engineering, the mining software repositories (MSR) field analyzes the rich data available in software repositories, such as version control repositories, mailing list archives, bug tracking systems, issue tracking systems, etc. to uncover interesting and actionable information about software systems, projects and software engineering.
Definition
Herzig and Zeller define ”mining software archives” as a process to ”obtain lots of initial evidence” by extracting data from software repositories. Further they define ”data sources” as product-based artifacts like source code, requirement artefacts or version archives and claim that these sources are unbiased, but noisy and incomplete.
Techniques
Coupled Change Analysis
The idea in coupled change analysis is that developers change code entities (e.g. files) together frequently for fixing defects or introducing new features. These couplings between the entities are often not made explicit in the code or other documents. Especially developers new on the project do not know which entities need to be changed together. Coupled change analysis aims to extract the coupling out of the version control system for a project. By the commits and the timing of changes, we might be able to identify which entities frequently change together. This information could then be presented to developers about to change one of the entities to support them in their further changes.
Commit Analysis
There are many different kinds of commits in version control systems, e.g. bug fix commits, new feature commits, documentation commits, etc. To take data-driven decisions based on past commits, one needs to select subsets of commits that meet a given criterion. That can be done based on the commit message.
Documentation generation
It is possible to generate useful documentation from mining software repositories. For instance, Jadeite computes usage statistics and helps newcomers to quickly identify commonly used classes.
Data & Tools
The primary mining data comes from version control systems. Early mining experiments were done on CVS repositories. Then, researchers have extensively analyzed SVN repositories. Now, Git repositories are dominant. Depending on the nature of the data required (size, domain, processing), one can either download data from one of these sources. However, Data governance and data collection for the sake of building Large language models have come to change the rules of the game, by integrating the use of Web crawlers to obtain data from multiple sources and domains.
See also
Software evolution
Software analytics
Software maintenance
Software archaeology
Curated list of software repositories from GitHub.
References
Software engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Videotex%20Network | National Videotex Network (NVN) was an online service launched in 1992 by U.S. Videotel. The service was meant to compete with similar text-based online services such as CompuServe, Delphi and GEnie.
Following its competitors' business model, NVN offered basic and premium services that included national and global news and weather, research libraries and databases, online forums, and games including Island of Kesmai and MUD II.
NVN was hoping to attract customers by offering Internet access and relatively low rates for access through packet switching networks.
The service was abruptly terminated on June 17, 1994. At the time of its termination, NVN programmers were working on a graphical front end for the service.
References
Pre–World Wide Web online services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendez-vous%20en%20terre%20inconnue | Rendez-vous en terre inconnue (formerly En terre inconnue) is a French television program broadcast first on France 5 and then on the France 2 network. It was hosted by Frédéric Lopez (who is also the originator of the concept) for years and is now hosted by Raphaël de Casabianca, and involves taking a French celebrity to an unknown destination to live with an ethnic minority for two weeks.
The show aims to provide the viewer with a new outlook on a foreign group, whose culture and traditions are being threatened by the modern world.
Series
References
2000s French television series
2010s French television series
2004 French television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEST%20%28software%29 | NEST is a simulation software for spiking neural network models, including large-scale neuronal networks. NEST was initially developed by Markus Diesmann and Marc-Oliver Gewaltig and is now developed and maintained by the NEST Initiative.
Modeling philosophy
A NEST simulation tries to follow the logic of an electrophysiological experiment that takes place inside a computer with the difference, that the neural system to be investigated must be defined by the experimenter.
The neural system is defined by a possibly large number of neurons and their connections. In a NEST network, different neuron and synapse models can coexist. Any two neurons can have multiple connections with different properties. Thus, the connectivity can in general not be described by a weight or connectivity matrix but rather as an adjacency list.
To manipulate or observe the network dynamics, the experimenter can define so-called devices which represent the various instruments (for measuring and stimulation) found in an experiment. These devices write their data either to memory or to file.
NEST is extensible and new models for neurons, synapses, and devices can be added.
Example
The following example simulates spiking activity in a sparse random network with recurrent excitation and inhibition
The figure shows the spiking activity of 50 neurons as a raster plot. Time increases along the horizontal axis, neuron id increases along the vertical axis. Each dot corresponds to a spike of the respective neuron at a given time. The lower part of the figure shows a histogram with the mean firing-rate of the neurons.
import nest
import nest.raster_plot
J_ex = 0.1 # excitatory weight
J_in = -0.5 # inhibitory weight
p_rate = 20000.0 # external Poisson rate
neuron_params= {"C_m": 1.0, "tau_m": 20.0, "t_ref": 2.0,
"E_L": 0.0, "V_reset": 0.0, "V_m": 0.0, "V_th": 20.0}
# Set parameters of neurons and devices
nest.SetDefaults("iaf_psc_delta", neuron_params)
nest.SetDefaults("poisson_generator", {"rate": p_rate})
nest.SetDefaults("spike_detector", {"withtime": True, "withgid": True})
# Create neurons and devices
nodes_ex = nest.Create("iaf_psc_delta", 10000)
nodes_in = nest.Create("iaf_psc_delta", 2500)
noise = nest.Create("poisson_generator")
espikes = nest.Create("spike_detector")
# Configure synapse models
nest.CopyModel("static_synapse", "excitatory", {"weight": J_ex, "delay": 1.5})
nest.CopyModel("static_synapse", "inhibitory", {"weight": J_in, "delay": 1.5})
# Connect the random net and instrument it with the devices
nest.Connect(nodes_ex, nodes_ex+nodes_in, {"rule": 'fixed_indegree', "indegree": 1000}, "excitatory")
nest.Connect(nodes_in, nodes_ex+nodes_in, {"rule": 'fixed_indegree', "indegree": 250}, "inhibitory")
nest.Connect(noise, nodes_ex + nodes_in, syn_spec="excitatory")
nest.Connect(nodes_ex[1:51], espikes)
# Simulate for 100. ms
nest.Simulate(100.0)
# Plot results
nest.raster_plot.from_device(espikes, hist=True)
nest.raster_plot.show()
F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Wilson%20%28sports%20journalist%29 | Chuck Wilson (born February 8, 1954) is an American interviewer, reporter and sports talk radio host. Wilson was an original host when the ESPN Radio Network debuted on January 4, 1992 and has 20 years experience on national radio, including close to 17 years at ESPN.
In December 2009, Sports Illustrated.com named Wilson runner-up for "Best National Sports Radio Host" of the decade.
Wilson is the founder and director of Even Field ®, a nonprofit organization that promotes character through sports. In 2007.Wilson was named one of the "100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America" by the Institute for International Sport.
Early life
Wilson was born on February 8, 1954, in Massachusetts, the youngest of three sons of the late Eleanor and the late Melvin Wilson, who was a physicist and a national authority on the aurora borealis (known as the northern lights).
Wilson grew up in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and attended Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts. He lettered in football, basketball and golf. Wilson graduated in 1972 and then attended Ithaca College. In 1993, he was named a Sports Ethics Fellow by the Institute for International Sport. From 2001 to 2006, he served on the advisory panel for the Center for Sports Parenting. Chuck and his wife Nancee have three sons.
Career
Early radio/TV career in Rochester, New York
Wilson's broadcast career began in January 1976 at WBBF radio in Rochester, New York. When the station's FM sister station changed its format to all-news as WNWZ, Wilson co-anchored afternoon drive for the NBC "News and Information" affiliate. He later was named sports director, delivering 16-sports updates, six nights per week. When NBC pulled the plug on its all-news format, Wilson returned to WBBF. In May 1978, Wilson joined news talk station WROC (later to become WPXN). In August, Wilson was named sports director and full-time host of WROC’s “Sportstalk.”. In September 1978, Wilson added TV to his resume, joining WHEC-TV delivering the 6 and 11 p.m. Saturday sportscasts for the market's top-rated weekend newscast. In July 1980, Wilson left both his radio and TV jobs to join WSAY as sports director delivering drive-time commentaries and hosting a nightly sports talk show "Chuck Wilson on Sports".
Radio/TV career in Providence, Rhode Island
In July 1981, WEAN radio in Providence, Rhode Island reached out to Wilson and hired him to report sports in afternoon drive and to start a nightly sports talk show (the market was without one). "Chuck Wilson on Sports" broke twenty wire stories in its first three years. In 1985, WEAN was sold and in 1986, Wilson was among the final news staffers let go during conversion from news-talk-sports to an automated format. At the time, Wilson's show was number one on the AM dial from 5-8 p.m. with male listeners. The show returned to the air on WICE radio on October 27, 1986. In the spring of 1987 Arbitron © ratings, the show posted the station's highest-rated hours.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetware | Internetware is a term coined to describe the emerging software paradigm for the Internet computing environment. It also refers to the software exhibiting the desired properties (described below) to meet the requirements of the Internet environment.
The Internet is a dynamic, open, ever-changing environment. These characteristics impose new requirements on software over Internet. More specifically, in traditional software, the requirements of the tasks are often pre-determined and clearly stated, and the tasks are performed by pre-designed software components following fixed algorithms. On the other hand, in the Internet computing environment, more and more requirements are unclear or undetermined, and the software components that collaborates to finish a task are dynamically obtained. As an example mentioned by Mei et al., handling swine flu epidemic requires emergent cooperation among organizational and individual software and services, such as airlines, hotels, hospitals and mobile phones. We do not know what components will be involved in the collaboration nor their behaviors. We also do not know what kind of collaboration needs to occur or will occur beforehand.
History
Internetware was first proposed by Chinese researchers from Peking University and Nanjing University in 2003. Through the support from two Chinese National Basic Research Programs (also known as 973 programs) from 2002–2008 and 2009–2013, approximately 80 researchers from different Chinese universities, institutes and companies have participated in the research of Internetware, and a large number of papers have been published.
The development of Internetware soon attracted international attentions, and many researchers outside China started to work on this topic. IBM participated in the 973 program as one of the main industrial cooperators. The annual Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware started in 2009 in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT, attracted authors from US, Australia, Canada, and attendees from Japan and Korea. Articles discussing Internetware also appear in various venues by international authors.
Desired Properties of Internetware
Autonomous Software entities should be able to detect the environment changes and adapt itself.
Cooperative Software entities should be able to collaborate dynamically for specific needs.
Situational Software entities should be able to expose their runtime states for others to detect.
Evolvable The application should be able to change its structures and behaviors dynamically.
Emergent Software applications should be able to cope with random behavior and undesired effects from its entities and the environment.
Trustworthy Though individual entities may fail or behave randomly, the software application as a whole should meet a set of quality requirements.
Internetware Research
The research community of Internetware propose methodologies and techniques to develop software exhibiting the above properties. As of the year 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plants%20in%20the%20Gibraltar%20Botanic%20Gardens | This List of plants in the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens is based on data published by the gardens and updated annually. The gardens collection includes nearly 2,000 different species and over half of these are succulents. The gardens are noted for their collection of species from the African genus Aloe.
Acanthaceae
Adoxaceae
Sambucus nigra
Viburnum tinus
Aizoaceae
Amaranthaceae
Amaryllidaceae
Anacardiaceae
Annonaceae
Annona cherimola
Apiaceae
Apocynaceae
Aquifoliaceae
Ilex aquifolium
Ilex aquifolium 'Handsworth New Silver'
Araceae
Araliaceae
Araucariaceae
Araucaria araucana
Araucaria columnaris
Wollemia nobilis
Arecaceae
Aristolochiaceae
Aristolochia baetica
Aristolochia gigantea
Asparagaceae
Aspleniaceae
Asplenium billotii
Asplenium nidus
Asteraceae
Balsaminaceae
Impatiens balansae
Impatiens walleriana
Begoniaceae
Begonia 'Lucerna'
Begonia luxurians
Berberidaceae
Betulaceae
Corylus avellana
Corylus avellana 'Contorta'
Bignoniaceae
Blechnaceae
Oceaniopteris gibba (syn. Blechnum gibbum)
Boraginaceae
Brassicaceae
Bromeliaceae
Burseraceae
Boswellia sacra
Bursera frenningae
Bursera microphylla
Buxaceae
Buxus balearica
Buxus sempervirens
Cactaceae
Campanulaceae
Cannabaceae
Celtis africana
Celtis australis
Celtis sinensis
Cannaceae
Canna indica
Canna × generalis
Capparaceae
Capparis spinosa
Euadenia eminens
Caprifoliaceae
Caryophyllaceae
Casuarinaceae
Casuarina equisetifolia
Casuarina littoralis
Celestraceae
Euonymus europaeus
Chenopodiaceae
Atriplex halimus
Enchylaena tomentosa
Cistaceae
Clusiaceae
Colchicaceae
Colchicum lusitanicum
Gloriosa superba
Commelinaceae
Convolvulaceae
Coriariaceae
Coriaria myrtifolia
Cornaceae
Cornus sanguinea
Corynocarpaceae
Corynocarpus laevigata
Costaceae
Costus comosus var. bakeri
Crassulaceae
Cucurbitaceae
Ibervillea sonorae
Kedrostis africana
Kedrostis nana
Cupressaceae
Cyathaceae
Cyathea arborea
Cycadaceae
Cycas circinalis
Cycas revoluta
Cyperaceae
Cyperus alternifolius
Cyperus papyrus
Davalliaceae
Davallia humeata
Davallia canariensis
Dicksoniaceae
Dicksonia antarctica
Didiereaceae
Alluaudia comosa
Alluaudia montagnacii
Didierea trollii
Dilleniaceae
Hibbertia grossulariifolia
Hibbertia scandens
Dipsacaceae
Scabiosa atropurpurea
Drosophyllaceae
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
Dryopteridaceae
Cyrtomium falcatum
Ebenaceae
Euclea natalensis
Echinocereus
Eleagnaceae
Elaeagnus pungens
Ephedraceae
Ephedra distachya
Ephedra fragilis
Ephedra nebrodensis
Ericaceae
Escalloniaceae
Escallonia 'Donard'
Euphorbiaceae
Fabaceae
Fagaceae
Ferocactus
Frankeniaceae
Frankenia laevis
Garryaceae
Aucuba japonica
Geraniaceae
Gesnariaceae
Sinningia sp.
Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo biloba
Griseliniaceae
Griselinia racemosa
Grossulariaceae
Ribes nigrum
Ribes rubrum
Gymnocalycium
Haloragidaceae
Myriophyllum aquaticum
Hamamelidaceae
Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum
Hydrangeaceae
Hydrangea macrophylla
Hydrocharitaceae
Elodea canadensis
Iridaceae
Juglandaceae
Juglans regia
Lamiaceae
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%207.0%20Plus | The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus (GT-P6200[L]) it was a tablet computer of a series of Android-based tablet computer produced by Samsung, introduced in October 2011.
Overview
The tab belongs to the midlife first generation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab series, which consists of two 10.1" models, an 8.9", a 7.0" and a 7.7" model.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is seen to be more of an update even by Samsung rather than a successor to the original Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0.
References
External links
Galaxy A32 5G Front Panel
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Facts
Tablet computers
Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chematica | Chematica is a software that uses algorithms and a collective database to predict synthesis pathways for molecules. The software development, led by Bartosz A. Grzybowski, was publicized in August 2012. In 2017, the software and database were wholly purchased by Merck KGaA | MRK. Since the acquisition, the software has been made commercially available as Synthia.
Features
The software was designed to combine long synthesis paths into shorter and more economical paths.
The software complements other attempts such as manual searching or semi-automated search tools.
A molecule can be specified in multiple ways, including searching by Beilstein Registry Number, CAS registry number, chemical name, SMILES structure, or by drawing the molecule diagram itself. It supports optimization of reactions by cost. The program also supports 3D modeling of individual molecules, as well as labeling of functional groups.
The program also notes regulated and unregulated compounds, and uses specialized algorithms that avoid these. It also gives the classification and reasons for regulation.
References
Chemical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%2C%20baby%21 | English, baby! is a social network and online curriculum for learning conversational English and slang based in Portland, Oregon. The service is used by more than 1.6 million members, making it one of the largest, most well-established and highest rated online communities of English learners and teachers. English, baby! is most popular in China, where roughly a quarter of its users are based. Other countries in which the service is popular include Turkey, Brazil, India, Egypt, the United States, and Taiwan.
The company offers a free membership as well as a paid, premium membership and frequently uses celebrities in its English lesson videos.
Lessons
English, baby! is home to several thousand English lessons. Many of the lessons feature celebrities teaching a term or phrase and discussing how they learned English if it is not their first language. Celebrities who have taught English lessons on English, baby! include NBA All-Stars such as Steve Nash and Dwight Howard, Olympic gold medalist figure skaters Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, and musicians Sheryl Crow and Girl Talk.
The website also produces an English lesson soap opera series and reality TV style videos. Other lessons are based on MP3s instead of videos and based on improvised conversations between native English speaking actors. Most lessons include grammar instruction, quizzes, and vocabulary words. Much of the lesson content is only available to premium "Super Members" who pay $5 per month. These members also have access to a live teacher to answer questions for them.
In addition to students, ESL teachers can create lessons on English, baby! or use content from the site in their classrooms.
History
English, baby! was founded in 2000 when John Hayden returned from working for Hitachi and teaching English in Japan. He found that many students lacked a means of learning conversational English and started English, baby! to create an online experience similar to traveling in the English-speaking world or studying abroad. Hayden remains the company's CEO.
In 2005, Versation Inc., a parent company for English, baby! was created. Versation also produces alumni management and recruitment software for colleges and universities.
Following the popularity of sites like MySpace and Facebook, English, baby! introduced social networking features in 2006, enabling members to create profiles on the site. In 2009, English, baby! registered its one millionth member.
English, baby! has content-sharing partnerships with companies such Nokia in China, and HOOP Magazine in Japan.
References
External links
Versation.com
Social networking language-learning websites
Organizations based in Portland, Oregon
2000 establishments in Oregon
American educational websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doordarshan%20Kendra%2C%20Mumbai | Doordarshan Kendra, Mumbai also referred as Mumbai Doordarshan is an Indian television station in Mumbai, owned and operated by state-owned Doordarshan, the television network of Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India). It was established on 2 October 1972, and now produces and broadcasts the 24-hour Marathi language TV channel, DD Sahyadri, which was launched in 1994 and covers most of the state of [Maharashtra, India].
Early history
Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai was inaugurated on 2 October 1972. The center is located at Worli and has elaborate programme production facilities and large studios.
The transmission was initially limited to few hours in a day. Besides the regional language Marathi, programmes in Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, English, Sindhi and even Punjabi were also telecast.
With the introduction of Regional Language Satellite Services, all regional centers of Doordarshan started generating programmes in their respective regional languages. And thus, RLSS Marathi (DD10) came into existence on 15 August 1994 along with many other channels of Doordarshan. The channel was later on rechristened as DD Sahyadri.
DD Sahyadri
Presently, Doordarshan Kendra, Mumbai telecasts its programmes under the brand name DD Sahyadri. The channel was launched way back on 1 May 1985. A new studio was inaugurated on 2 June 1999. Telecast time was increased to 17 hours per day on 1 January 2000. On 5 April 2000 RLSS Marathi (DD 10) was renamed DD Sahyadri and became 24-hour channel.
Considered as the best regional TV channel of Doordarshan, DD Sahyadri Channel is Number One among all Marathi GEC available in Maharashtra as per TAM.
Programmes
Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai produces a wide spectrum of programmes including acclaimed serials, film-based programmes, documentaries, musical programmes, reality shows, cookery show, news and current affairs programmes, informative programmes, public debates and utility programmes related to health, agriculture and civic issues, etcetera. Old and new Marathi films shown on this channel are a favorite among the viewers.
Events
DD Sahyadri offers about six to eight events in a year mainly in compliance with its responsibilities as a Public Service Broadcaster.
Navaratan Awards.is an event in which achievers in different fields like literature, fine arts, social service, etc., are honored.
Hirkhani Awards is organized to felicitate specifically the women achievers of Maharashtra.
Awards to artists and technicians of Marathi Cinema are given in Sahyadi Cine Awards.
Sahyadri Manik Awards Sohla is organized to felicitate artists and technicians for meritorious contribution to Sahyadri Channel. Services of the employees of Mumbai Doordarshan are also recognized on this occasion through Sewa Awards,
Krishi Awards is the event in which farmers, scholars and experts are honored for their contribution in the field of Agriculture.
All India Robotic Contest Robocon is being organised by this Kendra since 2005. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaptos%20rosacea | Aaptos rosacea is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Suberitidae. The species was described in 1994.
References
External links
Aaptos rosacea: occurrence data from GBIF
Aaptos
Animals described in 1994
Taxa named by Patricia Bergquist
Taxa named by Michelle Kelly (marine scientist) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadi%20railway%20station | Avadi railway station is one of the major railway termini of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Avadi, a suburb of Chennai located 23 km west of the city centre. It is situated at Tirumalairajapuram locality of Avadi, with an elevation of 26.85 m above sea level. According to a railway release in 2008, there are plans to develop Avadi station as a coaching terminal (satellite terminal) for Chennai Central railway station, on the lines of Tambaram station being developed as a terminal for Egmore railway station.
History
The first lines in the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. The EMU car shed lines at Avadi were electrified on 1 February 1980. Additional lines at the station were electrified on 2 October 1986, with the electrification of the Villivakkam–Avadi section.
The electrification preliminaries, such as poles, were observed on the railway lines passing through Avadi Railway Station as early as 1977. The first broad-gauge electric EMUs were first introduced on the Madras Central–Gummidipoondi section by 1979 and in the next phase on the Madras Central–Tiruvallur section around 1980. From around 1971 to 1980, there these beastly WP steam locomotives that were hauling the Suburban trains going up to Tiruvallur and Gumidipoondi. The WDS category shuttle diesel were seen pulling the Pattabiram Military Siding trains going up to E Depot in the Avadi Air Force Station Cantonment Area. It helped identifying the trains. As for the express trains passing through Avadi, those were diesel electrics. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was probably the Baldwin Class WP steam locos that were hauling trains such as Dadar Express and Bombay Mail from Kalyan, taking over the duties from the mighty WCM DC Electrics operating on the Bombay–Kalyan route.
Layout
The station has six tracks, including two loop lines, and has four platforms. The first platform is a side platform housing the station's entrance and the ticket counter, and the second and third are part of an island platform. The fourth platform borders the northern end of the station and is the longest of all the platforms. The platforms are connected by means of a footbridge.
As of 2013, the station handles about 40,000 passengers a day.
Developments
Avadi is one of the railway stations in the Chennai Suburban Railway network that are being developed as Adarsh stations.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Avadi station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2B%20Sport%202%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Canal+ Sport 2 is a Polish-language television station broadcast by ITI Neovision and is one of nine channels available in Poland under the French Canal+ network. The channel was launched on 11 May 2015.
The Canal+ Sport 2 name already bears the channel from 13 November 2004 to 30 July 2011, which was then transformed into Canal+ Gol (until 5 April 2013), Canal+ Family 2 (until 11 May 2015) and now broadcasts as Canal+ 1.
References
External links
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2015
2015 establishments in Poland
Polish-language television stations
Mass media in Warsaw
Sports television in Poland
Canal+ Premium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambattur%20railway%20station | Ambattur railway station is one of the main railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Ambattur, a suburb of Chennai located 17 km west of the city centre. It is situated at Varadarajapuram in Ambattur, with an elevation of 19.18 metres above sea level.
History
The first lines in the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. Additional lines at the station were electrified on 2 October 1986, with the electrification of the Villivakkam–Tiruninravur section.
On 21 January 1946 at 4.15 p.m., Mahatma Gandhi visited the station, who was received by Kamaraj.
Layout
The station has Eight tracks, including four loop lines, and has three platforms. The first platform is a side platform and houses the station's entrance and the ticket counter. The second and third platforms lie on an island platform. The platforms are connected by means of a footbridge. A second footbridge built at the level crossing connects the northern and southern sides of the neighbourhood. In 2001, Southern Railways renovated the footbridge at the level crossing at a cost of 400,000.
A railway concrete sleeper manufacturing company was located at the northwestern side of the station until 2015, which is served by loop lines radiating from the station.
As of 2013, the station handles about 50,000 passengers a day. This includes commuters from areas around Ambattur such as Padi, Mannurpet, Karukku, Kallikuppam, Menambedu and Pattaravakkam. Every day, suburban trains make around 260 trips through the station.
Development
According to a railway release in 2008, there are plans to develop the station as a coaching terminal (satellite terminal) for Chennai Central railway station, on the lines of Tambaram station being developed as a terminal for Egmore railway station.
In June 2014, the station was renovated in a major way after decades of neglect. In 2019, work on the extension of platforms to accommodate 24-rake long-distance trains began.
In 2019, the construction work for a new footbridge connecting Platforms 1 and 2 began, replacing the existing one.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Ambattur station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight%20optimization | Hindsight optimisation (HOP) is a computer science technique used in artificial intelligence for analysis of actions which have stochastic results. HOP is used in combination with a deterministic planner. By creating sample results for each of the possible actions from the given state (i.e. determinising the actions), and using the deterministic planner to analyse those sample results, HOP allows an estimate of the actual action.
References
Artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Independent%20Broadcasters | The National Independent Broadcasters was an industry trade group representing the interests of for-profit, over-the-air, non-network-affiliated radio broadcasters in the United States.
It was originally created in 1939 as part of the larger National Association of Broadcasters. In 1941, it split off from that organization to become fully independent. It represented some 200 independent radio stations (out of 800 total in the nation) that were not affiliated with any network. Its activity seems to have diminished after 1943.
The president of the National Independent Broadcasters was Harold A. Lafount.
See also
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
References
Radio organizations in the United States
Trade associations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1939
Defunct organizations based in the United States
1939 establishments in the United States
Mass media companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odostomia%20chordata | Odostomia chordata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
References
Suter, H. (1908). Result of dredging for Mollusca near Cuvier Island, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 40: 344–359
Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
chordata
Gastropods described in 1908 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odostomia%20incidata | Odostomia incidata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
References
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
incidata
Gastropods described in 1908 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trium%20Mondo | The Trium Mondo is an early touchscreen smartphone designed and marketed by Trium, a Mitsubishi subsidiary, which runs the Windows Pocket PC 2000 operating system.
The product was originally announced on January 10, 2000, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and was released in the UK in August 2001. It featured dual-band GSM cellular connectivity, and was amongst the first devices released with GPRS support for data transfer.
Screen and input
The touchscreen on the Mondo is a 9.9 cm (3.9 in) passive-matrix monochrome liquid crystal display. The resistive touchscreen has a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels in 16 shades of monochrome.
There are five physical buttons on the front of the Mondo, located under the display to toggle standby, and to provide shortcuts to the phone, messages, calendar and contacts features. A jog wheel on the left spine of the phone controls volume and another button starts and stops audio recordings.
The design omits a physical keypad, instead providing a virtual keypad operated using the touchscreen while in the phone application, and a virtual keyboard where applicable in other applications.
Critical reception
Ilaria Santi writing in ZDNet concluded that the Trium Mondo is a "well-featured handheld/mobile phone" and that the price at launch was not unreasonable for the type of device. The Register believed that the compromises in the phone and PDA functionality in order to combine them was an issue, and suggested that it was "hard to see anyone replacing a PDA and a cellphone with a Mondo". In the New Straits Times, Matthew Mok highlighted the ease of having the PDA and phone features combined in one product over connecting two standalone devices but noted the lack of expansion slots compared to normal PDAs and the omission of a colour screen.
References
Mitsubishi Electric products, services and standards
Smartphones
Windows Mobile Standard devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Rivin |
Igor Rivin (born 1961 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian-Canadian mathematician,
working in various fields of pure and applied mathematics, computer science,
and materials science. He was the Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St. Andrews from 2015 to 2017, and was the chief research officer at Cryptos Fund until 2019. He is doing research for Edgestream LP, in addition to his academic work.
Career
He received his B.Sc. (Hon) in mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1981, and his Ph.D. in 1986 from Princeton University under the direction of William Thurston. Following his doctorate, Rivin directed development of QLISP and the Mathematica kernel, before returning to academia in 1992, where he held positions at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Melbourne, Warwick, and Caltech. Since 1999, Rivin has been professor of mathematics at Temple University. Between 2015 and 2017 he was Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St. Andrews.
Major accomplishments
Rivin's PhD thesis and a series of extensions characterized hyperbolic 3-dimensional polyhedra in terms of their dihedral angles, resolving a long-standing open question of Jakob Steiner on the inscribable combinatorial types. These, and some related results in convex geometry, have been used in 3-manifold topology, theoretical physics, computational geometry, and the recently developed field of discrete differential geometry.
Rivin has also made advances in counting geodesics on surfaces, the study of generic elements of discrete subgroups of Lie groups, and in the theory of dynamical systems.
Rivin is also active in applied areas, having written large parts of the Mathematica 2.0 kernel, and he developed a database of hypothetical zeolites in collaboration with M. M. J. Treacy.
Rivin is a frequent contributor to MathOverflow.
Igor Rivin is the co-creator, with economist Carlo Scevola, of Cryptocurrencies Index 30 (CCi30), an index of the top 30 cryptocurrencies weighted by market capitalization. CCi30 is sometimes used by academic economists as a market index when comparing the cryptocurrency trading market as a whole with individual currencies.
Honors
First prize, Canadian Mathematical Olympiad, 1977
Whitehead prize of the London Mathematical Society, 1998
Advanced Research Fellowship of the EPSRC, 1998
Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University, 2006
Berlin Mathematical School professorship, 2011.
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2014.
References
External links
Igor Rivin's author profile at MathSciNet
Igor Rivin's Google Scholar profile
Igor Rivin at Math Overflow
Canadian mathematicians
Jewish American scientists
University of Toronto alumni
Geometers
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Living people
1961 births
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Divinity is a private Spanish television channel owned by Mediaset España, whose programming is aimed to target women. Divinity began test broadcasts on 1 March 2011 before fully launching on 1 April 2011.
LaNueve project
With the expansion of the number of channels in 2010, before the merger of Telecinco and Cuatro, Telecinco was considering launching a free channel dedicated to women. The channel would have been launched on 1 September 2010 as "LaNueve" (The Nine) corresponding to its logical channel number on digital terrestrial television.
Its programming would have included: current affairs, entertainment, fiction series and informative spaces for women.
A month after the announcement, Telecinco announced that the project was dropped and replaced by a children's channel, Boing.
The project was finally resumed and La Nueve started broadcasting on 2 January 2013. The programmes are mainly repeats of series previously shown on the other Mediaset channels, especially Telecinco and Divinity.
Divinity
On 23 February 2011, several internet portals echoed the launch of two new channels by Telecinco, one for men and the other for women, which suggested the comeback of LaNueve.
The next day on 24 February 2011, Telecinco confirmed by a press release that a new channel aimed at women was to launch.
The new channel was named as Divinity, with programming similar to that of LaNueve.
On 1 March 2011, Telecinco began test broadcasts of Divinity, before its launch on 1 April 2011. Divinity uses the channel space previously occupied by CNN+ on digital terrestrial television (DTT): between CNN+'s closure on 28 December 2010 and Divinity's launch on 1 March 2011, Gran Hermano 24 horas took its place (see also Gran Hermano (Spanish season 12)).
References
External links
Channels of Mediaset España Comunicación
Television stations in Spain
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Women's interest channels
Spanish-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Centre%20for%20Reconnaissance%20of%20Situation%20in%20Space | The 821st Main Centre for Reconnaissance of Situation in Space () is the headquarters of the Russian military's space surveillance network, SKKP. The centre is part of the Russian Space Forces and receives intelligence from a network of reporting stations which includes the Russian missile attack early warning network as well as some stations only used for space surveillance such as Okno and Krona.
The purpose of the SKKP is to detect satellites, identify them and to discern their orbits. It maintains the Russian catalogue of space objects and provides data which could be used to support space launches, feed an anti-satellite programme and provide intelligence on hostile military satellites. It is the Russian equivalent of the United States Space Surveillance Network.
History
The centre is based in the military village of Noginsk-9 () about a kilometer to the south-west of the village of Dubrovo near Noginsk in Moscow Oblast. It was previously known as TsKKP (Цккп) from meaning 'centre for space monitoring'.
The idea of a space monitoring system originated in 1963 and the design was agreed upon in 1965. From the beginning it included civilian astronomical stations run by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The system needed to detect, identify and track satellites and create a satellite catalogue. The first satellite detection system consisted of eight Dnestr radars, four at Mishelevka in Siberia and four at Balkhash in the Kazakh SSR which provided information for the Istrebitel Sputnikov anti-satellite system.
Construction on the centre began in 1965 and in 1968 a 5E51 computer was installed. The first part of the centre was placed on alert in 1970 and became operational in 1972, as part of the Soviet Air Defences.
In 1974 plans to link up the space surveillance centre with the missile warning centre and missile defence radars were realised. There were several problems with this. One significant issue was that they used different co-ordinate systems. A drawback of linking the early warning radars to the space surveillance centre was that it caused data on thousands of routine objects to be sent to the centre, overwhelming it with data.
To counter this, a programme called "Kosmos" was implemented. This programme asked the radar stations only to send information on requested objects and launches rather than everything they identified. One concern raised with "Kosmos" was that it took the radar stations two to three minutes to do this, which disrupted their tracking of ballistic missiles. It was important that the system concentrated on the military satellites of hostile countries and filtered these out from the noise of the wider space environment.
The early warning radars could only cover satellites in low earth orbits. In the 1980s more US military satellites were placed in geosynchronous orbits. This required specialised equipment, such as Krona and Okno, which could analyse satellites at that height. In the late 1980s the centre receive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension%20model | For pensions, a reliable Pension model is necessary for system simulations and projections, so it is important to have a sound database for pension system analyses. For an example of a complex pension model see e.g. (Deloitte, 2011).
A pension system and its financing are some of the most important but also some of the most difficult roles of a modern country. Every prosperous community has a pension system at present; the citizens rely on its stability and the system provides most of them with the main part of their income in old age. The system's stability and financial sustainability are some of the key preconditions for successful operation of the state and satisfaction of its citizens.
Taxonomy of the Pension Models
The summary of the pension system taxonomy is based on a study by (Gál, Horváth, Orbán, & Dekkers, 2009), see also (Deloitte, 2011).
The chart below provides an overview of the basic types of models used in various EU countries for pension system modelling.
Source: (Gál, Horváth, Orbán, & Dekkers, 2009)
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Standard Models
Cohort Model
This type of model is based on up-to-date cross-sectional information regarding the labour activity and social security contributions by various social groups (cohorts) that can be further broken down by gender, position in the labour market and demographic characteristics (such as family status and achieved level of education). The input information is made up of averages within certain population groups, i.e. the model is based on aggregate data for the cohort concerned which are then further broken down by pension type and benefit. Geographical differences and ethnic origin are included in some countries. An important feature of cohort models is forming of subgroups (usually cohorts, groups structured by gender and, as the case may be, other criteria) and assumptions regarding their future behaviour.
Standard models of this type differentiate gender, age and type of pension, but some of them also use other data (such as ethnic origin). This type of model may come with explicit inclusion of the calculation of newly awarded pensions.
The most important outputs from a cohort model are aggregate incomes and expenditures, number of contributors to the system and number of pensioners. The key sustainability indicators are pension system deficit and e.g. implicit debt of the pension system.
“Typical Agent” Model
This model projects the lives of fictive individuals as a base for pension amount calculation. This approach provides a sophisticated estimate of the replacement ratio based on country-specific legislative parameters. The acquisition of pension entitlements can be properly modelled, because the entire history of the individual is available. This model is suitable for the evaluation of incentives regarding e.g. later retirement, for the exploration of the actuarial neutrality of the pension system, etc.
The models may differ in the key features and life characteristics of the typic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20microsimulation%20pension%20model | A dynamic microsimulation pension model is a type of a pension model projecting a pension system by means of a microsimulation and generating the complete history of each individual in a data set. The results of such model offer both the aggregate (e.g. total replacement ratio, implicit debt) and individual indicators (e.g. individual cash-flows) of the pension system. Thanks to complexity of results, there is a possibility to investigate the distribution of pensions, poverty of pensioners, impact of the changes of the pension formula, for more examples see e.g. (Deloitte, 2011). Detailed individual set of (administrative) data should serve as a model input.
Dynamic Microsimulation Pension Models
A dynamic microsimulation pension models (or a dynamic model with dynamic ageing) is a type of a pension model – see its taxonomy and also (Gál, Horváth, Orbán, & Dekkers, 2009)
.
There are two basic types of this kind of model - (i) deterministic, which is based on best estimates of input parameters and simultaneous modelling of all statuses; and (ii) stochastic, based on random simulation of one status path for the individual concerned.
Deterministic Models
Transfers between statuses (e.g. between employment, unemployment, exit from the labour market, etc.) are all modelled simultaneously. The life path of one modelled individual or group of individuals gradually branches out. The result (e.g. insurance period, newly awarded pension) is achieved by averaging across all life paths. In such case it is not possible to explore extreme life paths and it is also not possible to satisfactorily identify e.g. the number of pensioners threatened by poverty. With a large number of model points, the model is only able to identify a poverty threat caused by a low income. A poverty threat caused by interrupting the work career (insufficiently long period of insurance) cannot be modelled without additional information and adjustments made to the model.
Simplification or averaging is necessary in cases where non-linear life path dependencies occur in the pension formula (e.g. minimum pension, minimum numbers of years of work, etc.). Some extreme situations can be addressed by establishing a new status, but that makes the model more complex and again, the calculation is only approximate. With proper availability of data, it is possible to use the whole structure for selected parameters (primarily insurance period), but it is both calculation- and memory-consuming.
On the other hand, the advantage of the deterministic approach is the fact that it is easier to ensure consistency with external outputs, e.g. population projection and macroeconomic scenario of average-wage growth. Yet it may be necessary to calibrate the model even in this case. For example, to ensure consistency with an external macroeconomic projection, it is necessary to calibrate salary growth over the career.
Stochastic Models
Transfers between statuses are modelled based on random parameter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microshaft%20Winblows%2098 | Microshaft Winblows 98 is a 1998 interactive comedy video game for Windows and the Classic Mac OS. It parodies the then-upcoming Windows 98 operating system, as well as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Released by Palladium Interactive during the United States v. Microsoft Corp. case and at a time when Microsoft, Windows, and Gates were easy targets for jokes, the game offers a satirical take on this ripe subject matter.
Developed by Parroty Interactive, the self-professed National Lampoon of the interactive media industry, Microshaft Winblows 98 became the company's fourth interactive comedy video game, after Pyst which is a clone of adventure video game Myst, Star Warped which is a satire of science-fiction film series Star Wars, and The X-Fools, a spoof of supernatural TV series The X Files, respectively. Initially released on January 5, 1998 before gaining further exposure through being present at Macworld Expo, Microshaft Winblows 98 was praised by magazines and newspapers, mostly for its clever and blunt humor.
Concept and gameplay
Despite Microsoft being the target of jokes for a considerable period of its then 23-year history, Microshaft Winblows 98 was released at a specific point in time when Microsoft and Bill Gates were in the news for controversial reasons. In particular, Gates was in legal trouble with the Justice Department in terms of the court case United States v. Microsoft Corp surrounding the company's alleged unfair leveraging of its market dominance. The Buffalo News noted that the CEO had been embroiled in issues with "competitors, the feds and industry pundits". Microshaft Winblows 98 came into existence as a response to this and a way to "mock [Gates'] entire existence" in a humorous and intelligent way, serving as a parody of the "company, the software and the man". Palladium officials noted that the game was influenced by the "public's fascination with this cultural phenomenon", although they claimed that the timing of the game was "dumb luck".
Ed Bernstein, founder and CEO of Palladium Interactive had long-wanted to create works that emulated the parody found in Mad magazine, and felt this game could be his "piece de resistance", further commenting that his company would have been able to "sell the empty boxes" due to the game cover humour alone. Elizabeth Wasserman of Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News cited various examples of this including the tagline "Who does he want to own today?", a parody of Microsoft's own "Where do you want to go to today?", and the version, listed as "98 or 99 or 00 or 01".
Describing itself as "rated for teenagers" due to its "comic mischief" and "suggestive themes", the game opens with the fictitious Microsoft janitor Graham and Bill Gates' personal assistant Meg (played by J. P. Manoux and Tamara Bick respectively) with a dialogue on the program. When started, the game presents a bootsplash much like the one on the Windows 9x operating systems before presenting the user with a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wargame%20Construction%20Set%20III%3A%20Age%20of%20Rifles%201846-1905 | Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles 1846-1905 (or simply Age of Rifles) is a turn-based computer wargame for MS-DOS, written by Norm Koger. It was published in 1996 by Strategic Simulations. It is the third game in the Wargame Construction Set series, following Wargame Construction Set (1986) and Wargame Construction Set II: Tanks! (1994).
Scope
Age of Rifles simulates battles throughout the era of percussion rifles, roughly comprising the second half of the 19th century. To this end, several dozen battle scenarios are provided in the game. Most of them are set during the American Civil War, but scenarios from the Crimean War, the Anglo-Zulu War, Afghan Wars, the Prusso-Austrian and the Franco-Prussian War, and the Russo-Japanese War are also included.
Scenarios can be played individually or within the framework of a campaign, where the outcome of earlier battles influences the course of later battles. In addition, random scenarios are available as well.
There is also a scenario editor with which users can develop and share their own battles, and thereby extend the scope of the game. Scenarios as early as the Battle of Hastings have been generated this way.
Gameplay
The game can be played with two human players, or with the computer taking over one or both sides. An option for playing out battles via e-Mail is also provided.
Current Status
There is still a small community of players who develop and publish new scenarios for AoR.
Depending on the individual PC configuration, AoR may work as-is under Windows XP and Windows 7, or may require DOSBox to run.
Reception
The game was a finalist for Computer Gaming Worlds 1996 "Wargame of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Battleground 4: Shiloh.
References
External links
A collection of some 250 scenarios created by AoR fans
Yahoo group for AoR aficionados
1996 video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
DOS-only games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Motion%20%28company%29 | Local Motion, Inc. ("Local Motion") is a transportation software and hardware company that builds intelligent networks of shareable vehicles. Founded by John Stanfield and Clément Gires in 2010, the company is based in San Mateo, CA.
History
Co-founders John Stanfield and Clément Gires met at Stanford University in 2010 while pursuing master's degrees. Stanfield previously co-founded two small businesses, Perfect Shine and Veggie Wheels. As his master's thesis project for the Joint Program in Design, he and several classmates designed and built a low-speed electric vehicle, which they called the Weng (short for "Where Everyone Needs to Go"). Gires also had previous experience in vehicle design, having helped to build a 1000 mpg car in France.
After graduation, Stanfield and Gires worked together to build a second low-speed electric vehicle as part of the Lemnos Labs hardware incubator program in San Francisco. The newer version of the Weng was designed to be shareable and interactive as well as energy efficient.
In 2012, the company changed its name from Weng Motors, Inc. to Local Motion, Inc., and switched its focus from designing vehicles to building software and hardware capable of connecting existing vehicles to local transportation networks. In the summer of 2012, the company began targeting fleets on corporate campuses as an initial sales channel, launching pilot networks on several corporate campuses in Silicon Valley.
Product
Local Motion builds software and hardware designed to connect vehicles of all types to local networks. These networks are intended to increase the efficiency and usage of vehicles and facilitate fleet management and ride sharing. Local Motion aims to distinguish itself from competitors by focusing on two-way information flow and interactivity between users and vehicles. Gires defines the company's approach to transportation as providing both "information and service."
The company retrofits existing vehicles with hardware that interacts with users and other vehicles, gathers data about transportation patterns and user behavior, and transmits charge, health and location information back to the central network. The online booking platform lets users view schedules, book reservations and share rides. A separate platform allows fleet managers to monitor the status of vehicles, add or remove vehicles and users, oversee repairs, and resize or redistribute their fleets based on usage patterns.
References
External links
Local Motion - Official Website
Local Motion's electric cars target Silicon Valley HQs
Companies based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20partition | A network partition is a division of a computer network into relatively independent subnets, either by design, to optimize them separately, or due to the failure of network devices. Distributed software must be designed to be partition-tolerant, that is, even after the network is partitioned, it still works correctly.
For example, in a network with multiple subnets where nodes A and B are located in one subnet and nodes C and D are in another, a partition occurs if the network switch device between the two subnets fails. In that case nodes A and B can no longer communicate with nodes C and D, but all nodes A-D work the same as before.
As a CAP trade-off
The CAP Theorem is based on three trade-offs: consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. Partition tolerance, in this context, means the ability of a data processing system to continue processing data even if a network partition causes communication errors between subsystems.
External links
Partition of the Large Network doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.20183.06565/6
References
Hardware partitioning
Networking hardware
Decomposition methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Cloud | HP Cloud was a set of cloud computing services available from Hewlett-Packard that offered public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, managed private cloud and other cloud services. It was the combination of the previous HP Converged Cloud business unit and HP Cloud Services, an OpenStack-based public cloud. It was marketed to enterprise organizations to combine public cloud services with internal IT resources to create hybrid clouds, or a mix of private and public cloud environments, from around 2011 until 2016.
History
HP Converged Cloud was announced in April 2012. HP Converged Cloud is managed under a Hewlett-Packard business unit established in 2013 named The Converged Cloud unit, headed by Saar Gillai as Senior Vice President and general manager of Converged Cloud.
HP Public Cloud was announced on March 14, 2011, and launched as a public beta on May 10, 2012. HP Fellow and MySQL author Brian Aker announced the Relational Database Service on stage at the 2012 MySQL User's Conference. The HP Public Cloud Beta that went live in May 2012 included OpenStack technology-based storage and content delivery network (CDN) components. HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud CDN were moved into general availability on August 1, 2012. HP Cloud DNS as a Service was moved into general availability on July 1, 2013.
The two business units were merged in late 2013 and announced at the HP Discover event in Barcelona, Spain.
On May 7, 2014, HP announced the HP Helion portfolio of products and services, and stated that the company planned to invest over $1 billion in cloud. HP Helion included HP's existing cloud products, new OpenStack technology-based services, and both professional and support services to assist businesses in building and managing hybrid IT environments.
On October 21, 2015, HP announced that it would shut down the HP Cloud in January 2016. In October 2023, Amaryllo resumes HP cloud business with an introduction of HP cloud storage service through a trademark licensing agreement with HP Inc.
Cloud computing challenges
Moving between clouds
Business organizations that want to use cloud computing have a choice of using a private cloud, which is a cloud infrastructure run specifically for a single organization that it built itself or by a third-party; or a public cloud, whereby a service provider makes available applications, storage, and other resources to the general public. The decision of which to use is based on a number of factors, such as whether the company operates in a highly regulated sector, such as the pharmaceuticals industry that must comply with rules regarding the control and security of data, or if the business must bring services to market quickly, such as a web applications developer. The first would opt for a private cloud for security peace of mind, while the web developer would choose a public cloud offering. Most companies would operate a mixture the two, also known as hybrid cloud delivery.
Employing a hybrid delive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General%20for%20Traffic | The Directorate-General for Traffic (, DGT) is a component of the Spanish Department of the Interior responsible for the execution of the government's road policy in the Spanish road transport network. The DGT is both an administrative body and an autonomous agency, acting as Central Traffic Headquarters (, JCT).
Organisation
The DGT is made up 50 provincial headquarters, one for each province, two local headquarters in Ceuta and Melilla and 14 local offices (Alcorcón, Alzira, Cartagena, Fuerteventura, Gijón, Ibiza, Lanzarote, La Línea de la Concepción, Menorca, La Palma, Sabadell, Santiago de Compostela and Talavera de la Reina).
Director-general
The Director-General is a civil servant who is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the DGT. The current director-general is Pere Navarro Olivella. Navarro Olivella already served as Director-General for Traffic between 2004 and 2012.
Former directors general
Carlos Muñoz-Repiso y Vaca (1971-1974)
José Ignacio San Martín López (1974-1976)
Jesús García Siso (1976-1978)
José María Fernández Cuevas (1978-1980)
Antonio Ramón Bernabéu González (1980-1982)
José Luis Martín Palacín (1982-1986)
David León Blanco (1986-1987)
Rosa de Lima Manzano Gete (1987-1988)
Miguel María Muñoz Medina (1988-1996)
Carlos Muñoz-Repiso Izaguirre (1996-2004)
Pere Navarro Olivella (2004-2012)
María Seguí Gómez (2012-2016)
Cristóbal Cremades Rodríguez (2016-2016)
Gregorio Serrano (2016-2018)
Pere Navarro Olivella (2018–present)
References
External links
Official website
Motor vehicle registration agencies
Spain articles needing attention
Government of Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20coordinate%20descent | Adaptive coordinate descent is an improvement of the coordinate descent algorithm to non-separable optimization by the use of adaptive encoding. The adaptive coordinate descent approach gradually builds a transformation of the coordinate system such that the new coordinates are as decorrelated as possible with respect to the objective function. The adaptive coordinate descent was shown to be competitive to the state-of-the-art evolutionary algorithms and has the following invariance properties:
Invariance with respect to monotonous transformations of the function (scaling)
Invariance with respect to orthogonal transformations of the search space (rotation).
CMA-like Adaptive Encoding Update (b) mostly based on principal component analysis (a) is used to extend the coordinate descent method (c) to the optimization of non-separable problems (d).
The adaptation of an appropriate coordinate system allows adaptive coordinate descent to outperform coordinate descent on non-separable functions. The following figure illustrates the convergence of both algorithms on 2-dimensional Rosenbrock function up to a target function value , starting from the initial point .
The adaptive coordinate descent method reaches the target value after only 325 function evaluations (about 70 times faster than coordinate descent), that is comparable to gradient-based methods. The algorithm has linear time complexity if update coordinate system every D iterations, it is also suitable for large-scale (D>>100) non-linear optimization.
Relevant approaches
First approaches to optimization using adaptive coordinate system were proposed already in the 1960s (see, e.g., Rosenbrock's method). PRincipal Axis (PRAXIS) algorithm, also referred to as Brent's algorithm, is a derivative-free algorithm which assumes quadratic form of the optimized function and repeatedly updates a set of conjugate search directions.
The algorithm, however, is not invariant to scaling of the objective function and may fail under its certain rank-preserving transformations (e.g., will lead to a non-quadratic shape of the objective function). A recent analysis of PRAXIS can be found in
.
For practical applications see, where an adaptive coordinate descent approach with step-size adaptation and local coordinate system rotation was proposed
for robot-manipulator path planning in 3D space with static polygonal obstacles.
See also
Coordinate descent
CMA-ES
Rosenbrock methods
Mathematical optimization
References
External links
SOURCE CODE ACD ACD is a MATLAB source code for Adaptive Coordinate Descent
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Communications%20Network%2C%20Guyana | National Communications Network (NCN) is a national, state-owned television and radio broadcasting corporation in Guyana. It was formed in 2004 through the merger of the government radio service, Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), and the government-run television service, GTV. NCN's studios are situated on Homestretch Avenue in Georgetown.
History
NCN is the descendant of two of Guyana's first radio services: Radio Demerara, which was founded in 1951, and British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS), which was founded in December 1958. The former was a British-owned company, and its licence required the station to broadcast BBC material for 21 hours a week, and programmes provided by the UK's Central Office of Information (in London) for 10 hours a week. The latter focused primarily on sports programmes and the coverage of special events.
In 1968 (two years after Independence), the Government of Guyana took over BGBS's broadcasting facilities, which were located at the Broadcasting House on High Street in Georgetown, and the company was renamed the Guyana Broadcasting Service (GBS). In 1979, the Government of Guyana acquired Radio Demerara as well, and the merger of these two radio services resulted in the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). On 1 March 2004, GBC and the Guyana Television Broadcasting Company (GTV) combined to form NCN.
Radio Demerara
In 1935, the demand for cricket commentary motivated the development of early radio broadcasting. Two stations came about at this time, VP3BG and VPSMR, and they were eventually amalgamed into Station ZFY. Station ZFY operated from the Post Office until the building was consumed by the Great Fire of Georgetown in February 1945. After the fire it was relocated to North Road and New Garden Street. ZFY secured the first medium wave transmitter in 1945.
After being purchased by Overseas Rediffusion Ltd. in 1950, the station was renamed Radio Demerara. The station was moved to a professional studio in 1955, and in 1957 a new transmitting and receiving station was erected at Sparendaam on the East Coast Demerara. Licensing requirements included broadcasting of BBC material for 21 hours a week, and programmes provided by the Central Office of Information in London for 10 1/2 hours a week. In 1958, a second radio station by Demerara's parent company, British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS), was made with a focus on broadcasting special events and sports coverage.
Radio Demerara had regular broadcasting of Indian music since the 1950's, starting with programing by Ayub Hamid and in 1959, Eshri Singh, whose show featured local performers of Indian musical genre.
When the government of Guyana took over BGBS in 1968, additional facilities at Hadfield street Lodge were created and opened the station to technical aid from BBC’s Bush House in London.
After the official inauguration of the GBC in 1979, the Guyana government acquired all assets of Radio Demerara from Rediffusion organization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20county%20highways%20in%20Douglas%20County%2C%20Kansas | Douglas County, Kansas, maintains an extensive network of county highways to serve the rural areas and state parks of the county. It is one of a handful of Kansas counties to do so.
The major county highways are set up on a grid. East–west-oriented roads have a three-digit number beginning with the numeral "4" and ending in an even digit. The further north the road, the lower the number; the further south, the higher the number. North–south-oriented roads have a four-digit number beginning with "10" and ending in an odd digit. The further west the road, the lower the number; the further east, the higher the number.
There are also minor county roads with one or two digits that travel a short distance or serve a state park.
None of the county highways enters Lawrence, the county seat.
The maximum speed limit on all county highways in Douglas County is .
Lists
Major east–west oriented roads
Major north–south oriented roads
Minor county highways
See also
References
County highways
Lists of roads in Kansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybook%20Orizon | Cybook Orizon is a 6-inch e-Reader, specially designed for reading e-Books. It is produced by the French company Bookeen.
See also
Comparison of e-book readers
Comparison of tablet computers
References
Dedicated ebook devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCP%20array | In computer science, the longest common prefix array (LCP array) is an auxiliary data structure to the suffix array. It stores the lengths of the longest common prefixes (LCPs) between all pairs of consecutive suffixes in a sorted suffix array.
For example, if A := [aab, ab, abaab, b, baab] is a suffix array, the longest common prefix between A[1] = aab and A[2] = ab is a which has length 1, so H[2] = 1 in the LCP array H. Likewise, the LCP of A[2] = ab and A[3] = abaab is ab, so H[3] = 2.
Augmenting the suffix array with the LCP array allows one to efficiently simulate top-down and bottom-up traversals of the suffix tree, speeds up pattern matching on the suffix array and is a prerequisite for compressed suffix trees.
History
The LCP array was introduced in 1993, by Udi Manber and Gene Myers alongside the suffix array in order to improve the running time of their string search algorithm.
Definition
Let be the suffix array of the string of length , where is a sentinel letter that is unique and lexicographically smaller than any other character. Let denote the substring of ranging from to . Thus, is the th smallest suffix of .
Let denote the length of the longest common prefix between two strings and . Then the LCP array is an integer array of size such that is undefined and for every . Thus stores the length of longest common prefix of the lexicographically th smallest suffix and its predecessor in the suffix array.
Difference between LCP array and suffix array:
Suffix array: Represents the lexicographic rank of each suffix of an array.
LCP array: Contains the maximum length prefix match between two consecutive suffixes, after they are sorted lexicographically.
Example
Consider the string :
and its corresponding sorted suffix array :
Suffix array with suffixes written out underneath vertically:
Then the LCP array is constructed by comparing lexicographically consecutive suffixes to determine their longest common prefix:
So, for example, is the length of the longest common prefix shared by the suffixes and . Note that is undefined, since there is no lexicographically smaller suffix.
Efficient construction algorithms
LCP array construction algorithms can be divided into two different categories: algorithms that compute the LCP array as a byproduct to the suffix array and algorithms that use an already constructed suffix array in order to compute the LCP values.
provide an algorithm to compute the LCP array alongside the suffix array in time. show that it is also possible to modify their time algorithm such that it computes the LCP array as well. present the first time algorithm (FLAAP) that computes the LCP array given the text and the suffix array.
Assuming that each text symbol takes one byte and each entry of the suffix or LCP array takes 4 bytes, the major drawback of their algorithm is a large space occupancy of bytes, while the original output (text, suffix array, LCP array) only occupies byte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20social%20gaming%20networks | This is a list of major social gaming networks.
The list is not exhaustive and is limited to notable, well-known services.
Discontinued services
References
Social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliServ | IntelliServ is a National Oilwell Varco brand that manufactures and sells a broadband networked drilling string system used to transmit downhole information to the surface in a drilling operation.
Background
The IntelliServ network is a broadband telemetry system that allows instant transmission of data between the surface and the measurement tools positioned in the drill string bottomhole assembly near the drill bit. The invention of IntelliServ technology originated in a 1997 project on hydraulic mud hammers sponsored by the company Novatek and the United States Department of Energy. The project addressed the need for instant transmission of downhole data (data acquired within the wellhole) through drill pipe, leading to Novatek’s beginning on a networked drill pipe development project. In 2001, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) began providing funding for the drill pipe project and an additional drill pipe data transmission project.
Five years of Department of Energy and NETL-funded research resulted in the IntelliServ network and Intellipipe, a drill pipe with an embedded data cable. In 2005, Grant Prideco bought the IntelliServ technology and launched the first IntelliServ network. Grant Prideco was purchased by National Oilwell Varco (NOV) in 2008, and the NOV-IntelliServ joint venture was formed in 2009 with 55% National Oilwell Varco and 45% Schlumberger ownership.
The first commercial deployment of a drill string telemetry network occurred using IntelliServ’s product in Myanmar in December 2006.
Technology
The IntelliServ network components are embedded in drill string components, known as IntelliPipe, which transmit subsurface data at 57,000 bits per second. The IntelliServ network upgrade raised the speed to one million bits per second. The two-way data communication between downhole Measurement while drilling (MWD) and Logging while drilling (LWD) measurement tools and the operators at the surface allow the operators to command rotary-steering tools, or configure downhole tools such as the formation pressure testing tool or sonic tools.
The IntelliServ network includes measurement nodes along the full length of the drill string that allow operators to acquire data along the wellbore. The measurement nodes measure and transmit temperature and pressure data acquired along the drill string, which can improve well site efficiency and reduce risks associated with hole cleaning, such as pack offs. The transmission of information is not affected by the depth, formation resistivity, drilling fluid properties, or required flow of the well. Surface operating parameters can control items detected by the sensors, such as shock and vibration.
The networked drill pipe can transmit data acquired by most large service companies. As of March 2012, the system has been deployed on 90 wells totaling more than 1 million feet of drilling.
Notable Partners
IntelliServ partners with the following companies and organizations:
Baker H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWS | DWS can refer to:
Dallas Wind Symphony, a professional concert band
Dancing with the Stars, international reality TV franchise
Dandy–Walker syndrome, a congenital brain malformation
Data Warehouse System Electronic Surveillance Data Management System, an electronic FBI database
Davis Waldorf School, a private Waldorf school located in Davis, California
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician, former chairperson of Democratic National Committee, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida
The Decline of Western Civilization, 1981 American documentary
Deep-water soloing, a style of climbing
Denton Wilde Sapte, an international law firm
Dictionary writing system
Diffusing-wave spectroscopy, a physics method for solutions
Diplomatic wireless service
Door Wilskracht Sterk, a Dutch football club
Drinking water standard
dws, 639-3 code for the Dutton Speedwords
.dws, a drawing standard file for AutoCAD
DWS Group, German asset management company
Dynamic WAN Selection, a computer network routing technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunacloud | Lunacloud is a cloud computing infrastructure service provider based in Lisbon, Portugal.
History
Lunacloud was founded in 2011 by António Miguel Ferreira and Charles Nasser and launched its services to the general public on . It provides cloud computing infrastructure as a service, such as cloud servers and cloud storage, and Cloud Jelastic hosting.
Reception
TechWeekEurope TechRepublic and CloudSpectator have favorably rated the performance and cost of Lunacloud's services when compared to Rackspace and Amazon EC2.
Business Model
Lunacloud provides cloud servers, cloud storage, and cloud jelastic. The design, build, and workloads are operated across both environments depending on a customer's individual needs.
Cloud Servers
Cloud Servers provided scalable virtual servers using Parallels and VMware.
Cloud Storage
The API is also compatible with the Amazon S3 API.
Cloud Jelastic
Cloud Jelastic (acronym for Java Elastic) is an unlimited PaaS and container based IaaS within a single platform that provides high availability of applications, automatic vertical and horizontal scaling via containerization to software development clients, enterprise businesses, DevOps, System Admins and Developers.
Locations
Headquarters
Lunacloud headquarters is in Lisbon, Portugal.
Customer service centers
UK: London
Portugal: Lisbon
France: Paris
Spain: Barcelona
Russia: Moscow
Website
Lunacloud localized storefronts differentiated by top-level domain and country code:
See also
Cloud computing
Infrastructure as a Service
Cloud storage
References
Cloud computing providers
Companies based in Lisbon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20News%20Network | Sports News Network (SNN) (sometimes referred to as Mizlou Sports News Network) was the first 24-hour sports news cable channel, owned by Mizlou Communications. It pre-dates NewSport, launched in 1993 & owned by Rainbow Programming Holdings, a joint venture between the Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision, NBC and Liberty Media, which itself pre-dates the launch of the originally similar ESPNews in 1996.
History
In August 1989, Mizlou Communications announced the November launch of Sports News Network, a 24-hour sports news and interview basic channel. SNN moved from Washington, D. C. studios to Edison, N.J. on October 1, 1990. Mizlou in February 1990 made a private placement of securities to keep SNN going. Mizlou made another attempt before July 1990 and attempted a third placement of $15–$20 million in July 1990 for the network. SNN goes dark on December 17, 1990 as parent Mizlou Communications filed for bankruptcy. Mizlou was in talks with Landmark Communications and Telecable Corporation as a potential buyer of the channel. In January 1991, Landmark dropped plans for a sport news channel and its discussions with Mizlou for the purchases of Sports News Network due to Tele-Communications Inc.'s planned launch of Prime Sports News, an all sports news cable channel.
References
Television channels and stations established in 1989
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1990
Sports television networks in the United States
Defunct television networks in the United States
Mizlou Television Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisrael%20Medad | Yisrael Medad (born 1947) is an American-born Israeli journalist and author. He was director of Educational Programming and Information resources at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem until June 2017 and has retired from that position. He is now engaged in editing an English-language annotated anthology of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's writings.
Medad was born to a Jewish family in New York City. As a teenager, he became religious, and attended a religious high school. Medad joined the Betar Zionist youth movement, founded by the Revisionist Zionist leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1964. He graduated from Yeshiva University with a BA in Political Science in 1969. In 1970, he and his wife immigrated to Israel. Initially, he lived in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, where he served as Director of the Betar Students' Hostel. Between 1975 and 1977, he served as a Betar representative in the United Kingdom.
In 1981, Medad and his family moved to the Israeli settlement of Shilo. From 1981 to 1992, he served as a parliamentary aide to Knesset member Geula Cohen, and as an Adviser of International Affairs to cabinet minister Yuval Ne'eman.
In 2008, he completed a Master's degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in Civic and Democracy Education.
Medad is a member of the Executive Board of Israel's Media Watch.
Medad has served as Senior Assistant to the Deputy Minister for Science and as a Legislative Aide to Knesset members. He is a well-known blogger and had contributed columns to the Los Angeles Times, Jerusalem Post, International Herald Tribune and other periodicals. He has been interviewed and profiled in the BBC and Haaretz.
Medad is co-editor of a collection of the Begin-Sadat correspondence that led up to the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty.
Medad and his wife have five children.
References
External links
My Right Word blog
at Facebook
Success in politics: a view from the Right, Fathom: for a deeper understanding of Israel and the region, 21 January 2013
1947 births
Living people
Israeli political websites
People of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Politics of the Middle East
American emigrants to Israel
Israeli Jews
Israeli settlers
Israeli journalists
Israeli male writers
Journalists from New York City
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Yeshiva University alumni
Zionists
Betar members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20convertible%20tablet%20computer%20brands | Brands are ordered alphabetically.
References
Tablet PC Brands
Convertible tablet computer brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage%20of%20Bahamut | is a digital collectible card battle game developed by Cygames and published by DeNA. It was a social card game released on Mobage's mobile game network, in Japan in 2011 and worldwide in 2012.
The game exceeded three million players outside Japan on August 7, 2012. The game had over 10million players worldwide as of December 2012. Rage of Bahamut was launched worldwide in February 2012 and topped the Top Grossing Chart on US Google Play for over 16 weeks starting in April. The game had a monthly revenue of () in 2012.
The original Rage of Bahamut (Shingeki no Bahamut) is a fantasy adventure game in which players roam the world, drawing out powers from cards. After choosing between 'Man', 'Gods' or 'Demons' cards, players build and strengthen themselves as well as their teams by collecting, synthesizing and evolving a variety of unique cards.
The cards are then used in various team oriented activities such as order vs. order 'Holy Wars' or order vs. game events such as Dragon's Awakening, or Hermit in the Hood.
Three anime series have been adapted from the game, Rage of Bahamut: Genesis, Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul, and Manaria Friends.
Holy Wars
Holy Wars are periods averaging five days in length in which groups of players (orders) work to try and defeat each other. Every successful attack and defeat of an opposing player earns points for the player and the order, as well as adding one 'link' to the attack chain. Whichever order has the most points at the end of a battle period wins. Battle periods typically last 90–120 [60 min in US version] minutes. During battles order members usually utilize 'Holy Powder' to fuel their attacks and create attack chains which further multiply 'Holy War Points'. Successful player vs. player (PVP) attacks and wall/castle attacks give 'Spell Power' points as well which are used to boost the entire order's or a specific members's attack, defense, and holy war points earned.
Development
In Japan, the original Rage of Bahamut is provided as a HTML-based browser game on the domestic Mobage's network, which is operated by DeNA Co., Ltd. On Mobage's worldwide network, Rage of Bahamut is provided as smartphone app for both Android and iOS users. The English-language game was shut down on February 29, 2016.
References
External links
Rage of Bahamut at Mobage
Rage of Bahamut at DeNA
2012 video games
Card games introduced in 2012
DeNA
Cygames franchises
Mobile games
IOS games
Android (operating system) games
Digital collectible card games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20After%20Top%20Chef | Life After Top Chef is an American reality television series that aired on the Bravo television network. It premiered on October 3, 2012.
Premise
The series follows former Top Chef contestants Richard Blais (Top Chef: Chicago, Top Chef: All-Stars), Jen Carroll (Top Chef: Las Vegas, Top Chef: All-Stars), Spike Mendelsohn (Top Chef: Chicago, Top Chef: All-Stars), and Fabio Viviani (Top Chef: New York, Top Chef: All-Stars) as they pursue their post-Top Chef professional endeavors and provides insight into the chefs' private lives.
Cast
Richard Blais — Top Chef: Chicago (Runner-Up), Top Chef:All-Stars (Winner). Resides in: Atlanta, Georgia.
Jennifer Carroll — Top Chef: Las Vegas (4th), Top Chef: All-Stars (17th). Resides in: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Evangelos "Spike" Mendelsohn — Top Chef: Chicago (5th), Top Chef: All-Stars (14th). Resides in: Washington, D.C.
Fabio Viviani — Top Chef: New York (4th), Top Chef: All-Stars (8th). Resides in: Los Angeles, California.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
Bravo (American TV network) original programming
English-language television shows
Top Chef
Television series by Magical Elves
Television series by Universal Television
Reality television spin-offs
American television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andris | Andris is a Latvian masculine given name, a cognate of Andrew, and may refer to:
Andris Ambainis (born 1975), Latvian computer scientist
Andris Ameriks (born 1961) Latvian politician and economist
Andris Andreiko (1942-1976), Latvian world champion and European champion Draughts player
Andris Ārgalis (born 1944), Latvian politician
Andris Bērziņš (born 1944), Latvian politician, former President of Latvia
Andris Bērziņš (born 1951), Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
Andris Biedriņš (born 1986), Latvian basketball player
Andris Blicavs (born 1954), Australian basketball player
Andris Džeriņš (born 1988), Latvian ice hockey player
Andris Hernández (born 1982), Venezuelan track and road racing cyclist
Andris Keišs (born 1974), Latvian stage and film actor
Andris Lapsa (born 1968), Latvian footballer
Andris Liepa (born 1962), Latvian ballet dancer
Andris Misters (born 1992), Latvian basketball player
Andris Naudužs (born 1975), Latvian racing cyclist and Olympic competitor
Andris Nelsons (born 1978), Latvian conductor
Andris Ozols (born 1968), Latvian businessman and government official
Andris Piebalgs (born 1957), Latvian politician and diplomat
Andris Poga (born 1980), Latvian conductor
Andris Reinholds (born 1971), Latvian rower
Andris Reiss (born 1978), Latvian cyclist and Olympic competitor
Andris Šics (born 1985), Latvian luger and Olympic medalist
Andris Siksnis (born 1993), Latvian ice hockey player
Andris Šķēle (born 1958), Latvian politician, businessman, former Prime Minister of Latvia
Andris Smirnovs (born 1990), Latvian cyclist
Andris Teikmanis (born 1959), Latvian jurist, politician, diplomat and former Mayor of Riga
Andris Treimanis (born 1985), Latvian football referee
Andris Vaņins (born 1980), Latvian football goalkeeper
Andris Vilks (born 1963), Latvian politician
Andris Vosekalns (born 1992), Latvian road cyclist
Latvian masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alembic%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | Alembic is an interchangeable computer graphics file format developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic. It was announced at SIGGRAPH 2011, and has been widely adopted across the industry by visual effects and animation professionals.
Its primary focus is the efficient interchange of animated geometry (models) between different groups working on the same shots or same assets, possibly using different applications. Often different departments in the same company or different studios are working on the same projects. Alembic supports the common geometric representations used in the industry, including polygon meshes, subdivision surface, parametric curves, NURBS patches and particles. Alembic also has support for transform hierarchies and cameras. With the latest version comes initial support for materials and lights as well. Alembic specifically is not focused on storing the complex dependency graphs of procedural tools but instead stores the "baked" results by sampling the model data at different points along an animated scene's timeline.
Tools which support Alembic
Tools with native support
Plugins
References
External links
3D graphics file formats
Lucasfilm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Ativ%20S | The Samsung ATIV S was a touchscreen, slate smartphone manufactured by Samsung Electronics running the Windows Phone 8 operating system, upgradeable to Windows Phone 8.1. The ATIV S was Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 device, and one of the first devices under its ATIV series of Microsoft Windows-based products. It was shown at the IFA 2012 in Berlin and was the first Windows Phone 8 device to be officially unveiled, ahead of the Nokia Lumia 920.
There were three variants of the ATIV S. All feature a 4.8-inch 1280x720 HD Super AMOLED display with a pixel density of 306ppi, a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, near field communications, and support for HSPA+ networks. Specific variants include:
GT-I8750 - the globalized version of the ATIV S, with a 1.9MP front-facing camera
GT-I8370 - a version specific to the UK, Canada and Singapore but with a 1.2MP front camera instead of 1.9MP
SGH-T899M - sold in Canada, equipped with 700 MHz LTE and Bluetooth 2.1 (downgraded from 3.0)
The ATIV S was available with 16 or 32 GB of internal storage with micro SDXC expansion for up to an additional 128 GB or more. It further featured a 2300mAh removable battery and a brushed-metal look of the battery door. Overall, the hardware was very similar to the Android-based Galaxy S III.
A variant of the Samsung ATIV S, called the Samsung ATIV S Neo, was announced by Sprint on 26 June 2013 for a summer 2013 release, alongside the HTC 8XT. This phone's appearance is similar to the ATIV S, though has notable differences spec-wise, having 1.4 GHz processor speed, a 2000mAh battery, TFT LCD screen, and LTE connectivity.
Languages
Depending on the region where the device was purchased from, the following languages are available, some not being made available until later updates were released.
Azərbaycan
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Malaysia
Català
Čeština
Dansk
Deutsch (Deutschland)
Deutsch (Österreich)
Deutsch (Schweiz)
Eesti
English (Australia)
English (Canada)
English (Ireland)
English (New Zealand)
English (Philippines)
English (South Africa)
English (United Kingdom)
English (United States)
Español (España)
Español (Estados Unidos)
Euskara
Filipino
Français (Belgique)
Français (Canada)
Français (France)
Français (Suisse)
Galego
Hrvatski
Íslenska
Italiano
Latviešu
Lietuvių
Magyar
Nederlands (België)
Nederlands (Nederland)
Norsk bokmål
O‘zbek
Polski
Português (Brasil)
Português (Portugal)
Română
Shqip
Slovenčina
Slovenščina
Srpski
Suomi
Svenska
Tiếng Việt
Türkçe
Ελληνικά
Беларуская
Български
Қазақ тілі
Македонски
Русский
Українська
עברית
العربية (إسرائيل)
العربية (الإمارات العربية المتحدة)
فارسی
हिन्दी
ไทย
한국어
中文 (中華人民共和國香港特別行政區)
中文 (新加坡)
中文 (简体)
中文 (繁體)
日本語
See also
List of Windows Phone devices
Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone 8.1
Windows Phone
Samsung Ativ Odyssey
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20March | Lionel John March (26 January 1934 20 February 2018) was a British mathematician, architect and digital artist, perhaps best known for his early pioneering of computer-aided architecture and art.
Early life and education
March was born in Hove, England on 26 January 1934. As a teenager, his interests included mathematics, theatre and design. At the age of 17 he wrote an original mathematical paper generalizing the theory of complex numbers to n-dimensions, for which the computer pioneer Alan Turing wrote "you have done this research with imagination and competence".
For this, March was awarded a state scholarship to read mathematics at Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1954, with a personal recommendation from Alan Turing, where he earned a B.A. and Doctor of Science. During his studies, March was the President of the Cambridge University Opera Group, for which he designed stage sets. Early work also included illustrations, and book cover designs for Cambridge University Press.
Later life and career
March was the first director of the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies, now the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, Cambridge University. He held professorships in systems engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario; in design technology at the Open University, Milton Keynes; and from 1984 in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, where he was the chair in the period 1985–1991 and was professor emeritus in design and computation until his death.
March also experimented in serial art since the 1960s and became one of the world's first digital artists. In 1962 he held an exhibition titled "Experiments in serial art" in the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and since then he completed 50 years of art production working with the golden ratio, the Platonic solids, and geometric and mathematical principles in design.
March's biggest contribution is in architecture and computation. In 1965 he worked as an assistant of Leslie Martin for the project Whitehall: a Plan for a National and Government Centre, and as such he made one of the first computer-aided architectural investigations. After that, he devoted himself in research, writing and editing numerous books. He was the founding editor of the international research journal Planning and Design, now known as Urban Analytics and City Science, which is one of the four Environment and Planning journals. He was general editor of the 12-volume Cambridge Architectural and Urban Studies.
In some publications, he wrote in defense of the authorship of Leon Battista Alberti for the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
March's archives are located at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Personal life and death
March had been married twice. In 1960, he married Shirley Imogen Lindsay Miller, a graduate of New Hall, Cambridge, and daughter of Arthur Austin Miller (1900–1968), a notable academic of geography. In 1984, he married Maureen Vidler (d. 2013).
March die |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Jordan | Robert L. Jordan (born 1943), known as Jay Jordan, is an American business executive who most recently served as president and executive officer of OCLC, an international computer library network and conglomerate of databases and Web services. He served as president of OCLC from 1998 to his retirement in June 2013, and was succeeded in that position by Skip Prichard.
Biography
Jay Jordan earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Colgate University. He served in the US Army from March 1966 to March 1969, and was stationed in Germany. He became a first lieutenant. After working for 3M in Europe and the United States, he joined Information Handling Services, where he worked for 24 years and was president of one of its divisions, IHS Engineering. In 1998, he became president and CEO of OCLC. Jordan was the fourth president of OCLC, after Frederick G. Kilgour, Rowland C. W. Brown and K. Wayne Smith.
OCLC
At the time Jordan joined OCLC, the nonprofit organization represented around 8,300 member libraries. 14 years later technological developments had completely changed the information society and the use of libraries. During Jordan's term as president, OCLC tried to adapt to these new developments. WorldCat holdings grew during this period (to around 270 million bibliographic records), member libraries increased to around 22,500, and WorldCat.org was made available on the open web. At the same time OCLC developed new services (like QuestionPoint). OCLC made several acquisitions such as the Research Libraries Group (2006), PICA (2007), Ezproxy (2008) and OAIster (2009). OCLC sold NetLibrary in 2010. VIAF was implemented and hosted by OCLC. VIAF is a service to link identical records from different data sets together, thereby making it easier for patrons to find e.g. books from Dostoyevsky/Dostoïevski
During Jordan's presidency OCLC also created a library advocacy program ("Geek the library"). It invested in new computer infrastructure, so it could handle non-Roman scripts. OCLC introduced new initiatives to make libraries and their paper and digital holdings more visible. CONTENTdm was set up to create better and stable online visibility for special collections and art treasures.
In June 2012 Jay Jordan announced that he would postpone his retirement, which was planned for that year, and continue leading OCLC until June 2013. In May 2013 OCLC announced Skip Prichard to be the new CEO and President of OCLC as of July 2013.
References
External links
Interview with Jay Jordan by Thomas Hogan, Information Today, June 2012
1943 births
Living people
3M people
American computer businesspeople
American technology chief executives
Businesspeople in software
Colgate University alumni
Date of birth missing (living people)
OCLC people
People from Dublin, Ohio
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Army officers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIGRFAMs | TIGRFAMs is a database of protein families designed to support manual and automated genome annotation. Each entry includes a multiple sequence alignment and hidden Markov model (HMM) built from the alignment. Sequences that score above the defined cutoffs of a given TIGRFAMs HMM are assigned to that protein family and may be assigned the corresponding annotations. Most models describe protein families found in Bacteria and Archaea.
Like Pfam, TIGRFAMs uses the HMMER package written by Sean Eddy.
History
TIGRFAMs was produced originally at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and its successor, J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), but it moved in April 2018 to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). TIGRFAMs remains a member database in InterPro. The last version from JCVI, release 15.0, contained 4488 models. TIGRFAMs now continues at NCBI as part of a larger collection of HMMs, called NCBIFAMs, used in its RefSeq and PGAP genome annotation pipelines. Active curation and revision of TIGRFAMs models continues at NCBI, but the creation of TIGRFAMs models per se has ended, as newly constructed HMMs from the RefSeq group receive different designations when added to NCBIFAMs.
References
External links
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_prok/tigrfams/ - TIGRFAMs home page
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/ - InterPro home page
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protfam/?term=TIGRFAM%5Bfilter%5D - TIGRFAMs text search at NCBI
https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/hmm/current - FTP site with most recent versions of TIGRFAMs, as part of a larger collection
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doximity | Doximity is an online networking service for medical professionals. Launched in 2010, the platform offers its members curated medical news, telehealth tools, and case collaboration.
History
The company was launched in March 2011 by co-founders Nate Gross, Jeff Tangney and Shari Buck.
By 2013, it became one of the largest networks for U.S. healthcare professionals, with approximately 10 percent of U.S. doctors as members. By the beginning of 2014, 40 percent of U.S. physicians became members. In 2018, the company announced that it had reached 1 million members, accounting for more than 70 percent of U.S. physicians. Today, Doximity serves more than 2 million registered members, including over 80 percent of U.S. physicians and over 50 percent of nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
In 2016, the company was ranked #6 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list.
In November 2019, Doximity was listed on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list for the fourth consecutive year.
In May 2020, Doximity Launched Dialer Video, a video telehealth app allowing physicians to video call patients through personal smartphones.
In June 2020, Doximity Acquires THMED and launches the Curative Brand. Curative is a staffing and recruiting company offering permanent and Locum/Temporary placement services.
In May 2021, Doximity, a professional network for physicians with telehealth and scheduling tools, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) seeking to raise $100 million. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Securities were the lead underwriters for the IPO. Doximity raised nearly $606 million in its IPO.
Investors
In April 2014, the company announced it had raised a $54 million financing round led by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and the mutual fund company T. Rowe Price. Morgan Stanley Investment Management also invested. This investment brought Doximity's total funding to $81 million.
Doximity received $10.8 million in venture capital funding from Emergence Capital Partners and Interwest Partners in March 2011, and $17 million in Series B funding led by Morgenthaler Ventures in September 2012.
Products
Dialer
In 2016, Doximity built Dialer, a free communication tool for physicians to call their patients. The Doximity Dialer app allows physicians to call patients from their personal cell phone, and the patient sees the doctor's office number on caller ID.
Dialer Video
In May 2020, Doximity released Dialer Video, a telemedicine tool that allows physicians to video call their patients directly from their own smartphones.
In July 2020, Doximity said that more than 100,000 U.S. Doctors use Dialer Video, its telemedicine app.
Acquisition
In June 2020, Doximity acquired THMED, a healthcare company. Following the purchase, THMED changed its name to Curative and started concentrating on customized medical-personnel queries.
References
External links
Professional networks
Internet properties established in 2011
American soc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dapper%20ORM | Dapper is an object–relational mapping (ORM) product for the Microsoft .NET platform: it provides a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. Its purpose is to relieve the developer from a significant portion of relational data persistence-related programming tasks. Dapper is free as open source software that is distributed under dual license, either the Apache License 2.0 or the MIT License.
Feature summary
The Dapper team advertises the following features:
Speedy and high performance
Choice of static/dynamic object binding
Easy handling of SQL query
Multiple query support
Support and easy handling of stored procedures
See also
List of object–relational mapping software
.NET Persistence API (NPA)
References
External links
Dapper Homepage
NuGet Dapper package
Dapper Tutorial
Learn Dapper
Sam Saffron Blog: How I learned to stop worrying and write my own ORM
Free software programmed in C Sharp
.NET programming tools
.NET object-relational mapping tools
Object–relational mapping
C Sharp libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Heritage%20Alliance%203.3 | The European Heritage Alliance 3.3, an informal European sectoral platform composed of 30 European or international networks and organisations active in the wider field of cultural heritage, was launched in June 2011 on the occasion of the European Heritage Congress 2011 organised by Europa Nostra in Amsterdam.
On this occasion, Europe's major heritage networks agreed to work more closely together to promote the untapped potential of Europe's heritage, cultural and natural, immovable and movable. The alliance founding members bring together Europe's civil society organisations, historic cities and villages, museums, heritage professionals and volunteers, (private) owners of collections of artefacts, historic buildings and cultural landscapes, educators, town planners, etc. The "European Heritage Alliance 3.3" thus represents a very large constituency composed of tens of millions of Europe's citizens. Europa Nostra is acting as facilitator of the alliance.
The name of this alliance refers to the article 3.3. of the consolidated version of the Lisbon Treaty of the European Union which stipulates that "[The Union] shall respect its rich cultural and linguistic diversity, and shall ensure that Europe's cultural heritage is safeguarded and enhanced."
It contributed to the preparation of the European Commission communication "Towards an integrated approach to cultural heritage for Europe" published in July 2014.
Members
The members of the European Heritage Alliance 3.3 are:
ACCR (Association des Centres Culturels de Rencontres)
AEERPA (European Association of Architectural Heritage Restoration Companies)
ANCBS (Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield)
CIVILSCAPE (CIVILSCAPE – we are the landscape people!)
E.C.C.O. (European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers' Organisations)
ECF (European Cultural Foundation)
ECOVAST (European Council for the Village and Small Town)
ECTN (European Cultural Tourism Network)
ECTP-CEU (European Council of Spatial Planners)
E-FAITH (European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical Heritage)
EHHA (European Historic Houses Association)
ELO (European Landowners’ Organisation)
EMA (European Museum Academy)
EMF (European Museum Forum)
EMH (European Maritime Heritage)
ENCATC (European network on cultural management and policy)
ENCoRE (European Network for Conservation-Restoration Education)
ERIH (European Route of Industrial Heritage)
EUROCLIO (European Association of History Educators)
EUROCITIES (The Network of Major European Cities)
Europa Nostra (The Voice of Cultural Heritage in Europe)
EWT (European Walled Towns)
FEDECRAIL (European Federation of Museum and Tourist Railways)
FRH (Future for Religious Heritage – European Network for historic places of worship)
Heritage Europe – EAHTR (European Association of Historic Towns and Regions)
ICOM (International Council of Museums)
ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
IFLA Europe (International Feder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20zEC12%20%28microprocessor%29 | The zEC12 microprocessor (zEnterprise EC12 or just z12) is a chip made by IBM for their zEnterprise EC12 and zEnterprise BC12 mainframe computers, announced on August 28, 2012. It is manufactured at the East Fishkill, New York fabrication plant (previously owned by IBM but production will continue for ten years by new owner GlobalFoundries). The processor began shipping in the fall of 2012. IBM stated that it was the world's fastest microprocessor and is about 25% faster than its predecessor the z196.
Description
The chip measures 597.24 mm2 and consists of 2.75 billion transistors fabricated in IBM's 32 nm CMOS silicon on insulator fabrication process, supporting speeds of 5.5 GHz, the highest clock speed CPU ever produced for commercial sale.
The processor implements the CISC z/Architecture with a superscalar, out-of-order pipeline and some new instructions mainly related to transactional execution. The cores have numerous other enhancements such as better branch prediction, out of order execution and one dedicated co-processor for compression and cryptography. The instruction pipeline has 15 to 17 stages; the instruction queue can hold 40 instructions; and up to 90 instructions can be "in flight". It has six cores, each with a private 64 KB L1 instruction cache, a private 96 KB L1 data cache, a private 1 MB L2 cache instruction cache, and a private 1 MB L2 data cache. In addition, there is a 48 MB shared L3 cache implemented in eDRAM and controlled by two on-chip L3 cache controllers. There's also an additional shared L1 cache used for compression and cryptography operations.
Each core has six RISC-like execution units, including two integer units, two load-store units, one binary floating point unit and one decimal floating point unit. The zEC12 chip can decode three instructions and execute seven operations in a single clock cycle. Attached to each core is a special co-processor accelerator unit; in the previous z CPU there were two shared by all four cores.
The zEC12 chip has on board multi-channel DDR3 RAM memory controller supporting a RAID like configuration to recover from memory faults. The zEC12 also includes two GX bus controllers for accessing host channel adapters and peripherals.
Shared Cache
Even though each chip has 48 MB L3 cache shared by the 6 cores and other on-die facilities for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), there are 2 dedicated companion chips called the Shared Cache (SC) that each adds 192 MB off-die L4 cache for a total of 384 MB L4 cache. L4 cache is shared by all processors in the book. The SC chips are manufactured on the same process as the zEC12 processor chips, measures 28.4 x 23.9 mm and have 3.3 billion transistors each.
Multi-chip module
The zEnterprise System EC12 uses multi-chip modules (MCMs) which allows for six zEC12 chips to be on a single module. Each MCM has two shared cache chips allowing processors on the MCM to be connected with 40 GB/s links. One zEC12 chip draws in the region of 300 W and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20New%20Music%20Research | Journal of New Music Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on musicology (including music theory), philosophy, psychology, acoustics, computer science, engineering, and other disciplines. Articles deal with theory, analysis, composition, performance, uses of music, instruments, and other music technologies. The journal was established in 1972 under the title Interface and is published by Routledge. The editor-in-chiefs are Johanna Devaney (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) and David Meredith (Aalborg University).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 0.481.
References
External links
Taylor & Francis academic journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1972
Quarterly journals
Music journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsys%20Software | Arsys Software (アルシスソフトウェア), later known as Cyberhead (サイバーヘッド), was a Japanese video game software development company active from 1985 to 2001.
Overview
The company was founded as Arsys Software by former Technosoft staff members Osamu Nagano and Kotori Yoshimura on 11 November 1985. They were primarily involved in PC game development, having previously created the original Thunder Force (a 1983 free-scrolling shooter game) and Plazma Line (a 1984 space racing game considered the first computer game with 3D polygon graphics) at Technosoft. In 1986, Arsys debuted with the 3D role-playing shooter Wibarm, followed by the free-roaming adventure game Reviver: The Real-Time Adventure in 1987 and the 3D first-person shooter role-playing game Star Cruiser in 1988. When Star Cruiser was released in 1988, the company only had two employees, which grew to a dozen employees by 1991, when development began on Star Cruiser 2; by 2001, the company had reduced to three employees.
In addition to its own products, they also ported games to Japanese computer platforms, such as Prince of Persia and several SystemSoft games. Their Prince of Persia port for the NEC PC-98 featured enhanced visuals, introducing the Prince's classic turban and vest look, and became the basis for later Prince of Persia ports and games by Riverhillsoft and Broderbund. They also contributed to the development of several games from other companies, such as the Namco's 1995 combat flight simulator Air Combat and Sony Computer Entertainment's 1997 racing simulator Gran Turismo both for the PlayStation. They also released the chiptune video game music soundtrack album Arsys Best Selection (アルシス・ベストセレクション) in 1990. The company eventually closed down in 2001.
Notable releases
Wibarm
Wibarm (1986), stylized as WiBArM (ウィバーン), is an early role-playing shooter released by Arsys Software for the NEC PC-88 computer in Japan and ported to MS-DOS for Western release by Broderbund. It combines run and gun shooter gameplay with role-playing video game elements, and was also the first action role-playing game to feature 3D polygonal graphics. In Wibarm, the player controls a transformable mecha robot that can shift between walking mode, a tank, and a flying jet. The viewpoint switches between several different perspectives: a 2D top-down perspective while flying, a side-scrolling view during on-foot outdoor exploration, a fully 3D polygonal third-person perspective inside buildings, and arena-style 2D shoot 'em up battles during boss encounters.
The game features a variety of weapons and equipment as well as an automap, and the player can upgrade equipment and earn experience to raise stats. In contrast to first-person RPGs at the time that were restricted to 90-degree movements, Wibarm's use of 3D polygons allows full 360-degree movement. It won the 1986 Game of the Year award from the Japanese computer game magazine Oh!MZ, later known as Oh!X.
Reviver
Reviver: The Real-Time Adventure, also know |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-O%20Poker | Five-O Poker is a social network game that follows the same hand ranking as traditional poker.
Features
The game is played by two players, 1-on-1 (heads-up), who are dealt five alternate face-up cards each, lined up in a row. In turn, each player draws a card from the deck and places it face-up on one of the five cards that they have, building a column or a hand. In each round, players must place one card on each of their columns before continuing to build the other columns: the columns must be equal in each round. The fourth card in each hand is played face-down, and the fifth card face-up. Four of the five cards in each hand are face-up, so both players are privy to their opponent’s hands. Eventually, each player will have five hands of five cards, each.
What truly separates Five-O from other Poker variants is that competitors are playing five hands at the same time, giving an added dimension to the classic Poker game.
Once all five hands are down, there is a single round of betting. The winner is determined by matching each hand to the corresponding hand of the opponent. The player with the stronger poker hand in three (or more) out of the five columns, wins (unless a player folds on a bet that was made). If a player beats their opponent with all five hands, this is called a “Five-O” win.
Reception
Five-O Poker has 22,000 monthly active players and 4,000 daily active players.
References
2012 video games
Online games
Facebook games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Moore%20%28engineer%29 | Richard Moore (November 13, 1923 – November 13, 2012) was an American radar engineer, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas and founder of the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory Lab (RSL).
He made significant research contributions to microwave remote sensing of atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, and planetary surfaces; radar systems; and radio wave propagation.
Moore graduated with a B.S. in E.E. from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 1943 and from M.I.T. Radar School in 1945. In 1951, he earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University.
The same year Moore joined Sandia Corporation and became Section Supervisor. In 1955 he transferred to the University of New Mexico as Acting Chairman and associate professor, becoming Chairman of the EE Department and Professor the following year. In 1962 Moore became Black & Veatch Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Kansas.
The Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory Lab (RSL) was founded, with Prof. Moore as its director, in 1964. One of its early inventions was the radar radiometer and later the scatterometer. Such an instrument was flown on Skylab as the S-193 RADSCAT.
In 1994 Moore became Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
Moore died on his 89th birthday, November 13, 2012, in Lawrence, KS.
Awards
Australia Prize, for Remote Sensing, 1995
Remote Sensing Award, Italian Center, 1995
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993
Life Fellow of IEEE (Fellow in 1962)
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1989
Irvin Youngberg Award in the Applied Sciences, University of Kansas, 1989
Louise E. Byrd Graduate Educator Award, University of Kansas, 1984
IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984
Distinguished Achievement Award, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, 1982
Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Council on Oceanic Engineering, 1978
Alumni Achievement Award, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Washington University, 1978
Professional Activities
Vice-chairman, International Commission F (1990-1993), Chairman (1993-1996)
References
External links
https://cresis.ku.edu/content/news/newsletter/2371
American electrical engineers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
McKelvey School of Engineering alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
University of Kansas faculty
IEEE Centennial Medal laureates
Australia Prize recipients
2012 deaths
Sandia National Laboratories people
1923 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroid%20oracle | In mathematics and computer science, a matroid oracle is a subroutine through which an algorithm may access a matroid, an abstract combinatorial structure that can be used to describe the linear dependencies between vectors in a vector space or the spanning trees of a graph, among other applications.
The most commonly used oracle of this type is an independence oracle, a subroutine for testing whether a set of matroid elements is independent. Several other types of oracle have also been used; some of them have been shown to be weaker than independence oracles, some stronger, and some equivalent in computational power.
Many algorithms that perform computations on matroids have been designed to take an oracle as input, allowing them to run efficiently without change on many different kinds of matroids, and without additional assumptions about what kind of matroid they are using. For instance, given an independence oracle for any matroid, it is possible to find the minimum weight basis of the matroid by applying a greedy algorithm that adds elements to the basis in sorted order by weight, using the independence oracle to test whether each element can be added.
In computational complexity theory, the oracle model has led to unconditional lower bounds proving that certain matroid problems cannot be solved in polynomial time, without invoking unproved assumptions such as the assumption that P ≠ NP. Problems that have been shown to be hard in this way include testing whether a matroid is binary or uniform, or testing whether it contains certain fixed minors.
Why oracles?
Although some authors have experimented with computer representations of matroids that explicitly list all independent sets or all basis sets of the matroid, these representations are not succinct: a matroid with elements may expand into a representation that takes space exponential in . Indeed, the number of distinct matroids on elements grows doubly exponentially as
from which it follows that any explicit representation capable of handling all possible matroids would necessarily use exponential space.
Instead, different types of matroids may be represented more efficiently from the other structures from which they are defined: uniform matroids from their two numeric parameters, graphic matroids, bicircular matroids, and gammoids from graphs, linear matroids from matrices, etc. However, an algorithm for performing computations on arbitrary matroids needs a uniform method of accessing its argument, rather than having to be redesigned for each of these matroid classes. The oracle model provides a convenient way of codifying and classifying the kinds of access that an algorithm might need.
History
Starting with , "independence functions" or "-functions" have been studied as one of many equivalent ways of axiomatizing matroids. An independence function maps a set of matroid elements to the number if the set is independent or if it is dependent; that is, it is the indicator funct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbonilla%20undata | Turbonilla undata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
References
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
undata
Gastropods described in 1857 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBS%20Radio%202 | KBS Radio 2 (Hangul: KBS 2 라디오; also known by its nickname Happy FM) is a K-Pop, classical music, and entertainment network of the Korean Broadcasting System. Opened in 1933 on AM Radio, the network began utilising FM Radio frequencies 67 years later for a clearer audio reception.
Radio 2 operates daily from 5:00 am to 3:00 am of the following day. National programs originate from Seoul, with regional opt-outs as well as rebroadcasts of selected KBS 2FM programs are aired across local stations operating on FM and, if applicable, AM radio.
Stations
Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi Province
Other Provinces
Chuncheon : FM 98.7 MHz
Wonju : FM 100.5, 88.1 MHz
Gangneung : FM 102.1 MHz, FM 106.7 MHz, FM 103.9 MHz
Daejeon : FM 100.9 MHz, FM 89.5 MHz
Cheongju : FM 90.9 MHz
Jeonju : FM 92.9 MHz
Gwangju : FM 95.5 MHz
Mokpo : FM 88.1 MHz
Suncheon : FM 102.7 MHz, FM 100.9 MHz, FM 106.7 MHz
Daegu : AM 558 kHz, FM 102.3 MHz
Gimcheon : FM 88.9 MHz
Ulleung Island : FM 92.1 MHz
Busan : FM 97.1 MHz, FM 99.5 MHz
Changwon : FM 106.1 MHz, FM 99.7 MHz
Jeju : FM 91.9 MHz, FM 89.7 MHz, FM 92.7 MHz
History
1933 - Chōsen Broadcasting Corporation's Second Broadcasting(, JODB, 660 kHz) started broadcasting.
1947 - Chōsen Broadcasting Corporation Closed. Relunched as KBS Second broadcasting(, HLSA).
1972 - Frequency Moved 660 to 600 kHz.
November 1, 1978 - Frequency Moved 600 to 603 kHz.
December 1, 1980 - Renamed as KBS Radio 2. along with the launch of KBS Radio 3, KBS 2FM (Now Cool FM Formerly TBC Radio), KBS Radio Seoul (Now SBS Love FM Formerly DBS) and KBS 1FM (Now Classic FM).
July 1, 2000 - KBS 2 Radio FM repeater 106.1 MHz Launched.
October 20, 2003 - KBS Radio 2 Renamed as Happy FM. Reformated as an entertainment radio station for the middle aged.
March 3, 2005 - Viewable Radio (BORA) Broadcast launched.
April 25, 2016 - Local Radio 2 stations started cross-broadcast with KBS 2FM in order for the latter to air its selected shows nationally.
See also
KBS Radio 1
EBS FM
MBC FM4U
Traffic Broadcasting System
EBS 1TV
Far East Broadcasting Company
Radio 2
Radio stations in South Korea
Korean-language radio stations
Radio stations established in 1980
Chinese popular culture
South Korean popular culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20Panasonic%20Gobel%20Awards | The 15th Annual Panasonic Gobel Awards honoring the favorite in Indonesian television programming/production work/individual, was held on March 27, 2012, at the Djakarta Theater XXI in Jalan M.H. Thamrin, Menteng, Central Jakarta. Both of presenter Choky Sitohang and Fenita Arie was hosting for the ceremony awards. The 2012 edition of the Panasonic Gobel Awards was themed for "Yang Muda Yang Menginspirasi" (en: Inspiring Young).
The awards featured some of Indonesia's best singers such as Ungu, Kotak, Princess, Mulan Jameela and many more. The performers, both singers and nominee readers wore formal clothes designed by Indonesia's best designers and the evening peak of 2012 awards ceremony was broadcast live by TV stations under MNC Group, such as RCTI, MNCTV, and Global TV.
Vote system
The election system starts with the determination of nominations per each category by a team of verification of the Indonesian television beings composed of nine representatives of the television industry, such as broadcasters, production houses, the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission, actress/actor and others. The determination is based on ratings show the highest and determination through a poll via telephone (phone interview).
Panasonic Gobel has opened polls to the public for 30 categories on February 25 until March 24, 2012, which can then be sorted by BDO Tanubrata, to obtain data that is valid poll, is 1 ID for 1 vote. Polls can be done through 4 medium: SMS, online, letters and fliers. This year, first time of this 2012 awards ceremony add a number of premium SMS to 3 numbers, in order to reach the wider society; 6222 for Linktone, 9981 for Vivanews and 7288 for Surya Citra Media.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on February 24, 2012. The categories added the new category of "Favorite Investigation Program" and category of "Favorite Music/Variety Show Program" was separated into each. Winners are listed first and highlighted on boldface.
Program
Individual
References
External links
PGA 2012 Official Website
Panasonic Gobel Awards
2012 television awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Package%20Data%20Exchange | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) is an open standard for software bill of materials (SBOM). SPDX allows the expression of components, licenses, copyrights, security references and other metadata relating to software. Its original purpose was to improve license compliance, and has since been expanded to facilitate additional use-cases, such as supply-chain transparency and security. SPDX is authored by the community-driven SPDX Project under the auspices of the Linux Foundation.
The current version of the standard is 2.3.
Structure
The SPDX standard defines an SBOM document, which contains SPDX metadata about software. The document itself can be expressed in multiple formats, including JSON, YAML, RDF/XML, tag-value, and spreadsheet. Each SPDX document describes one or more elements, which can be a software package, a specific file, or a snippet from a file. Each element is given a unique ID, so that they can reference each other.
Version history
The first version of the SPDX specification was intended to make compliance with software licenses easier, but subsequent versions of the specification added capabilities intended for other use-cases, such as being able to contain references to known software vulnerabilities. Recent versions of SPDX fulfill the NTIA's 'Minimum Elements For a Software Bill of Materials'.
SPDX 2.2.1 was submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in October, 2020, and was published as ISO/IEC 5962:2021 Information technology — SPDX® Specification V2.2.1 in August, 2021.
License syntax
Each license is identified by a full name, such as "Mozilla Public License 2.0" and a short identifier, here "MPL-2.0".
Licenses can be combined by operators AND and OR, and grouping (, ).
For example, (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) means that one can choose between Apache-2.0 (Apache License) or MIT (MIT license). On the other hand, (Apache-2.0 AND MIT) means that both licenses apply.
There is also a "+" operator which, when applied to a license, means that future versions of the license apply as well. For example, Apache-1.1+ means that Apache-1.1 and Apache-2.0 may apply (and future versions if any).
SPDX describes the exact terms under which a piece of software is licensed. It does not attempt to categorize licenses by type, for instance by describing licenses with similar terms to the BSD License as "BSD-like".
In 2020, the European Commission published its Joinup Licensing Assistant, which makes possible the selection and comparison of more than 50 licenses, with access to their SPDX identifier and full text.
Deprecated license identifiers
The GNU family of licenses (e.g., GNU General Public License version 2) have the choice of choosing a later version of the license built in. Sometimes, it was not clear whether the SPDX expression GPL-2.0 meant "exactly GPL version 2.0" or "GPL version 2.0 or any later version". Thus, since version 3.0 of the SPDX License List, the GNU family of licenses got new na |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20manufacturing%20network |
Definition
A dynamic manufacturing network (DMN) is a coalition, either permanent or temporal, comprising production systems of geographically dispersed small and medium enterprises and/or original equipment manufacturers that collaborate in a shared value-chain to conduct joint manufacturing.
The dynamic manufacturing networks are an approach that helps to manage risks and increase benefits in the manufacturing sector. The DMNs are a proposed solution to increase the efficiency and reduce the time needed to design and operate a new manufacturing network, or to reconfigure an existing one.
Applications
Manufacturing networks have become increasingly common in applied research on manufacturing, since several manufacturing enterprises have shown interest in creating such networks and taking advantage of them both for collaborative product development and for supply chain optimization.
During the last decade,the effort is mainly focused on the dynamic management of the manufacturing networks, as proven by several studies published by Accenture, MIT
and the University of St. Gallen
References
Manufacturing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20Birmingham%20%26%20The%20West%20Midlands | Greatest Hits Radio Birmingham & The West Midlands is an Independent Local Radio station based in Birmingham, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to the West Midlands. The station forms part of Greatest Hits Radio Midlands.
History
Gold
Orion Media was formed in 2009, following the purchase of five Midlands-based radio stations – namely BRMB, Mercia, Wyvern, Beacon and Heart 106 from Global for a sale price worth £37.5 million. In early 2012, Orion announced plans to rebrand BRMB, Beacon, Mercia and Wyvern into one station as a means of generating greater revenue. They were renamed as Free on 26 March 2012. Many of these stations had previously operated an AM-based Gold service, all of which had been subsumed over time into Global's Gold network – Orion continued to run the AM stations as part of the Gold network on a franchise agreement, albeit with additional local opt-outs for extra sports coverage, including live football commentaries.
Sports coverage
Up until the rebrand of the FM stations, BRMB, Beacon and Mercia broadcast live football commentaries on Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Coventry City, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers matches, under the Goalzone strand. The commentaries were subsequently moved to Gold, six months before the launch of Free 80s, and continued until the end of the 2014–15 season.
The following season, Free 80s continued to air sports programming under The Goalzone strand, an hour-long chat show on Monday and Friday evenings. On 17 May 2016, the network's head of sport, Tom Ross, presented his final programme after 35 years working for BRMB, Xtra AM, Capital Gold and Free.
Free Radio 80s
On 24 May 2012, Orion Media announced it would relaunch its Gold West Midlands stations on AM frequencies and DAB as Free Radio 80s. Gold was replaced by test transmissions for Free Radio 80s in the final week of August, and was officially launched on 4 September 2012.
On 6 May 2016, the station's owners, Orion, announced they had been bought by Bauer for an undisclosed fee, reportedly between £40 and £50 million.
Greatest Hits Radio
On 7 January 2019, Free 80s was replaced by Absolute Classic Rock on 990, 1017 and 1152 kHz and on DAB in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Shropshire. The AM transmitters were later closed, 990 and 1017 kHz on 30 April 2020, and 1152 kHz on 30 June 2020.
Free 80s rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio West Midlands, replacing Absolute Radio on 105.2 FM. In Coventry and Warwickshire the station broadcast on 1359 kHz (although this later closed on 30 June 2020), and continues on DAB only in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, forming part of Greatest Hits Radio network.
On 23 November 2021, Bauer announced it would move GHR West Midlands from its Brindleyplace studios in the city centre to a smaller facility at 54 Hagley Road in Edgbaston at the end of 2021.
Programming
Greatest Hits Radio Birmingham & The West Midlands produces a mi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%201030 | The IBM 1030 Data Collection System was a remote terminal system created by IBM in Endicott, New York in 1963, intended to transmit data from remote locations to a central computer system.
Description
The system consisted of the following components:
1031 Input Station. The 1031 systems could contain a card reader, badge reader, or manual input device. The 1031A contained the communications logic required to transmit data to a remote computer system ("central output unit" in IBM terminology). The 1031B communicated through an attached 1031A.
1032 Digital Time Unit. This device was located at central site and provided timestamps to incoming data.
1033 Printer. This was a remote printer attached to the 1031A.
1034 Card Punch. The 1034 was located at the central site and functioned as an output device for the 1030 when the computer system was offline.
1035 Badge Reader
The 1030 had limited editing capabilities, which consisted of checking that all required data was entered before transmitting a transaction.
The 1030 originally attached to an IBM 1440 computer through a 1448 Transmission Control Unit. Later it could be attached to an IBM System/360.
References
IBM computer terminals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimeFictionCanada | CrimeFictionCanada is an online database founded in 2000 by Dr. Marilyn Rose and Dr. Jeanette Sloniowski of Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. They are co-editors of Canada's first critical book on Canadian detective fiction, Detecting Canada, which is currently in press at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Sloniowski was also a Judge for the Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime Novel in 2007 and 2008. Dr. Philippa Gates of Wilfrid Laurier University, a detective fiction researcher who was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America in the Best Critical/Bibliographical Work for her text, "Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film," joined the project in May 2005.
The database is broader than its name might suggest. Along with three specifically Canadian sources the data base includes seven lists that cover works of crime, mystery and detection written or produced in English from around the world.
The data base has several sections. There are records of primary sources: Canadian detective fiction - novels; Canadian detective fiction - short stories; crime, mystery and detection television; crime, mystery and detection films, and The Skene-Melvin Collection. The Skene-Melvin Collection of Canadian Crime, Mystery and Detective Fiction at Brock University, was donated to the university by detective fiction bibliographer David Skene-Melvin in 2001. Gates, in association with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), has also provided funding and research support for the data base.
The lists of secondary sources cover criticism of Canadian crime, mystery and detective fiction; general criticism of crime, mystery and detection; general criticism of crime, mystery and detection television; general criticism of crime, mystery and detection film; theses and dissertations on crime, mystery and detection.
The lists are fully searchable, by author, titles, publishers, and keywords. The keywords include subgenres such as the "cozy", the "police procedural", "PI", "noir", "gangster", and "heist". The site is intended both for the general public and for research scholars.
References
External links
CrimeFictionCanada
Crime Writers' Association of Canada
Internet properties established in 2000
2000 establishments in Ontario
St. Catharines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Valley%20Yokuts | Southern Valley Yokuts is a dialect network within the Valley Yokuts division of the Yokutsan languages spoken in the Central Valley of California.
Among the dialects grouped under the label Southern Valley Yokuts are Wechihi, Tachi, Telamni, Chunut, Wowol, Yawelmani, Nutunutu, Wo'lasi, Choynok, and Koyeti.
References
Yokutsan languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Marnham%20Test%20Track | The High Marnham Test Track is a linear railway test track created in 2009 and centred on Lodge Lane, Tuxford, in Nottinghamshire in the United Kingdom. It houses Network Rail's Rail Innovation & Development Centre (RIDC), originally known as the Rail Vehicle Development Centre (RVDC). The main route is approximately long and rated for speeds up to . It is primarily formed of a former section of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway running between Thoresby Colliery Junction at the western end, and High Marnham Power Station at the eastern end. Additionally a branchline diverges northwards over the Bevercotes Colliery Branch via Boughton Brake Tunnel to Bevercotes.
The main test track passes on a bridge directly over the East Coast Main Line, at the location of the former Dukeries Junction interchange station, but without a rail connection being provided. Instead the test track is accessed from the national British railway network via Shirebrook Junction on the Robin Hood Line and the existing line from there to Thoresby Colliery Junction.
Access for trains is protected by an Annett's key under the supervision of an Engineering Technical Officer. There is no signalling on the line owing to theft and vandalism, including the previous destruction of the Ollerton Colliery signal box.
Re-opening
On 10 February 2009 975025 Caroline visited the line on inspection duties prior to re-opening. Network Rail announced their intention for the reopening between Thoresby Colliery Junction and High Marnham on 10 July 2009. In August 2009 Network Rail stated that because the route of the line would now be maintained, it might increase the likelihood of being able to restore a passenger service in connection with Robin Hood Line services at a later date.
In November 2011 local people were reminded about the operational nature of the test track following acts of trespass.
During 2012 the Branch Line Society announced their intention to run a railtour covering the main test track and special steep gradients; plus the Bevercotes Branch to a distance of . Such a tour ran on 5 January 2013 and was widely reported in the railway enthusiast press.
This line has been identified by Campaign for a Better Transport as a priority 1 candidate for reopening.
Facilities
The test track includes short sections of non-energised 25 kV AC railway electrification and non-energised third/fourth rail, a W6A loading gauge, and facilities for ERA Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) noise testing.
An area of special track exists for RIS-1530-PLT testing of on-track plant, including lengths of track for brake testing at up to 1:25 and sharp reverse curves. The Lodge Lane area also contains portacabins for visiting staff, and a inspection shed for railway vehicles.
Projects
In March 2012 braking tests were undertaken for fitments of improved hydraulic brakes to 450 road-rail vehicle excavators. These excavators were all falling under class |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP%20gateway | A VoIP gateway is a gateway device that uses Internet Protocols to transmit and receive voice communications (VoIP).
Setup
A typical VoIP gateway has interfaces to both IP networks and PSTN (Public switched telephone network) or POTS (Plain old telephone service) telephone services. The gateway may be configured to use these in several ways, including:
An internal telephone instrument or nmnbm , with external game connectivity through VoIP via the Internet.
The PSTN interface to a telephone network, with IP connectivity to an in-house VoIP phone system.
Both PSTN and VoIP interfaces externally, sometimes to offer a connection at local call charges to a remote call centre.
The PSTN interface is often either duplicated as, or can act as, connections for both a foreign exchange station (FXS) and a foreign exchange office (FXO). An FXS interface connects to FXO devices, such as local analogue telephone handsets or the exchange side of a PABX. The FXO interface connects to FXS devices, such as the PSTN.
A relatively potent device is needed to use better compression formats, such as G.729a; a relatively inexpensive and simple device can easily handle a similar function using more bandwidth over G.711. Any device capable of delivering audio in G.711 via Internet in either way can be considered a VOIP Gateway, but one that is capable of sending and receiving simultaneously will perform better. One with support for more codecs will usually be able to perform better in a range of situations, such as restricted bandwidth, though doing so is not always easy to differentiate. The packets of data are quickly sent (as little as a few milliseconds between packets), most often using User Datagram Protocol (UDP). A lost packet or two will not usually result in any noticeable degradation of the signal.
Using G.711 as the codec, it is possible to use a fax machine or modem via these devices without issues. This is mostly due to G.711 being a relatively simple compression audio stream. Other codecs will not usually perform this task.
Any modern PC with a microphone and speakers (or a headset serving both those tasks) is capable of acting as a VoIP gateway. This still requires an Internet connection and a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) relay which adds to the disadvantages of VoIP. Most SIP relays are commercial and charge either pay-per-minute or a flat rate for unlimited service on a number of channels.
References
Voice over IP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korattur%20railway%20station | Korattur railway station is a railway station on the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. Located 12 km from Chennai Central railway station, the station serves the neighbourhoods of Korattur, Kolathur and Padi. It has an elevation of 12.85 m above sea level. It is situated in the western part of Chennai.
History
The first lines in the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. Additional lines at the station were electrified on 2 October 1986, with the electrification of the Villivakkam–Avadi section.
Layout
The station has four tracks, two exclusively for suburban trains. The suburban tracks are served by a side platform and an island platform. The station's entrance and the ticket counter are located on the side platform. The platforms are connected by means of a footbridge for pedestrians.
Traffic
On an average, suburban trains on the western rail route between Chennai Central and Arakkonam make about 260 trips through the station. As of 2018, more than 43,000 passengers board trains at the Korattur railway station every day. The Korattur station chiefly serves college students and industrial workers from the Ambattur Industrial Estate.
Developments
A subway to replace level crossing no. 4 at the railway station has been planned at a cost of 112.5 million, for which tenders have been finalised.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Korattur station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattaravakkam%20railway%20station | Pattaravakkam railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. Located about 14 km from Chennai Central railway station, the station serves the neighbourhoods of Pattaravakkam and Ambattur Industrial Estate and other smaller suburbs such as Karukku, Kallikuppam, and Menambedu. It has an elevation of 16.01 m above sea level. It is a suburb of Chennai City.
History
The first lines in the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. Additional lines at the station were electrified on 2 October 1986, with the electrification of the Villivakkam–Avadi section.
Layout
The station has four tracks, two exclusively for suburban trains. The suburban tracks are served by a side platform and an island platform. The station's entrance and the ticket counter are located on the side platform. The platforms are connected by means of a footbridge for pedestrians.
Facilities
The station is devoid of several basic amenities for several years now. An odd 48 sq ft room is the sole staff building in the station, which houses the only ticket counter of the station. There is no room for the station master or any other security staff in the station.
Traffic
The station handles at least 5,000 to 6,000 commuters a day, which accounts for a financial turnout of 50,000 every day.
Developments
A 1.15 km long, two-laned road overbridge with 21 spans serves the level crossing no. 5 near the station. In 2009, the government sanctioned the 350-million project, which was jointly built by the State Highways and the Southern Railway, but the construction work began in June 2011. It was opened to traffic in June 2014. It connects Aavin Dairy Road in Ambattur with Karukku Main Road.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Pattaravakkam station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musink | Musink is a scorewriting computer program for Windows. It is a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor, with automated music- and page-layout functionality. Two versions of Musink exist: Musink Lite, which is freeware; and Musink Pro, which is not free but contains additional features.
User interface
To enter notes on the score, the user Musink clicks 'guide notes' - notes which appear under the cursor but do not appear in the final score. Musink automatically determines note and rest durations. As such, Musink does not require the 'note toolbox' tool which appears in similar programs.
The user interface is WYSIWYM and displays musical notes on screen in a long ribbon. Voices of staves are separated during editing. When a score is published to PDF, music is automatically laid out on a page, voices are combined and note positions are fine tuned.
Functionality
Musink automatically takes care of many of the basic rules of music notation, such as correct stem direction and vertical alignment of multiple rhythmic values, as well as established rules for positioning of noteheads on chords. Stem directions and mark positions can also be manually adjusted. Projects can be split into unrelated sections, allowing creation of documents such as exercise books.
However, Musink does not follow standard notational rules regarding the angles of beams connecting two or more notes per beat. Instead, it renders all beams horizontally (see example), making it unsuitable for publishing.
Drum and percussion support
Musink supports a number of marks and settings specific for drummers. These include sticking marks, ghost note brackets, flam-style gracenotes, and special notehead shapes. Layout settings for staves can also be switched to 'drum default' layout rules.
MIDI
Projects can be played from Musink during editing through connected MIDI devices, including VST instruments. Project sections can be exported as MIDI files. The software will also export bars of music as MIDI loops. Musink Pro additionally supports live MIDI recording, MIDI step-input, and MIDI-file import operations.
PDF creation
Musink allows projects to be exported as PDFs, XPS documents and PNG files. Publishing to one of these formats is completely automated, including the arranging of music into rows and pages. A project can be published any number of times, and can be edited after publishing.
Templates
Musink uses 'templates' which define how scores appear when they are published. Templates define aspects of the pages such as:
Fonts and font sizes
Notation size
Page and gutter margins
Placement of titles
Title pages
Vertical spacing between rows and sections
When publishing, the user can choose which template they would like their score to be published with. Musink ships with 16 templates, including two for children. It also provides template import functionality.
See also
List of scorewriters
Comparison of scorewriters
Musical notation
List of music software
Refere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQLF | KQLF is a Christian radio station licensed to Ottumwa, Iowa, broadcasting on 88.3 MHz FM. KQLF is owned by Sound In Spirit Broadcasting, Inc.
KQLF's programming includes Christian music and Christian talk and teaching shows such as Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Focus on the Family, Turning Point with David Jeremiah, In Touch with Charles Stanley, Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll, Love Worth Finding with Adrian Rogers, and Unshackled!.
Translators
KQLF is also heard in Fairfield, Iowa through a translator at 102.3 FM.
References
External links
KQLF's official website
QLF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202012 | The Billboard Tropical Songs is a chart that ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Tropical Songs of 2011
List of number-one Billboard Tropical Songs of 2013
List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Songs of 2012
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Pop Airplay of 2012
References
United States Tropical Songs
2012
2012 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoJo%27s%20Bizarre%20Adventure%3A%20All%20Star%20Battle | is a fighting game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for PlayStation 3. Based on Hirohiko Araki's long-running manga series JoJo' s Bizarre Adventure, the game allows players to compete against each other using 40 characters taken from the first eight story arcs, as well as one guest character from another manga also created by Araki. The game was released in Japan on August 29, 2013, and was released internationally in late April 2014.
A remaster featuring additional content, titled was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Microsoft Windows via Steam on September 2, 2022.
Gameplay
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle is a 3D fighting game in which players can fight against each other using characters taken from the first eight story arcs of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series (and one from a prior work by Araki), fighting in various locations taken from the manga. Like most fighting games, the aim is to defeat your opponent by draining their stamina gauge (HP is used in a certain game mode) with various attacks and special techniques. The player wins a round by draining all of their opponent's stamina, or by possessing more stamina than their opponent when time runs out. Gameplay uses five main buttons; light, medium, and heavy attacks, a dodge button, and a "Style" button. Along with the ability to use various special attacks and techniques with different directional inputs, each character possesses a Battle Style, allowing them to utilize additional moves with the "Style" button. Styles have five main categories, consisting of Ripple, Vampirism, Mode, Stand and Mounted, in addition to character exclusive Styles such as Baoh Phenomenon and Ogre Street, each utilizing different abilities when the Style button is pressed. For example, Ripple users can use the power of the Ripple to augment the strength of their attacks, whilst Stand users can summon out their Stand, giving them additional move types whilst also making themselves more vulnerable.
Attacking and receiving damage fills up a player's which, when filled to either one or two levels, allows players to perform powerful or , depending on how much their gauge is filled and which multiple button input is chosen. Players can decrease their opponent's Heart Heat Gauge by using taunts when they are knocked down. Players can also use Flash Cancels to deplete their own Heart Heat Gauge to cancel their current combo attack and chain into a new one. The Heart Heat Gauge is also used in some Battle Styles and certain special techniques. , similar to the "Blazing Fists Match" system of Capcom's 1998 fighting game based on the series, occurs when two "Rush" attacks collide with each other, beginning a button mashing minigame. When a character's Stamina is low, the character enters one of two modes to turn the tide of the match: , which increases the character's attack strength and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villivakkam%20railway%20station | Villivakkam railway station is a railway station on the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network a city of Chennai in India. Located 9 km from Chennai Central railway station, the station serves the neighbourhood of Villivakkam, Kolathur and Padi. It has an elevation of 10.25 m above sea level.
History
The first lines in the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. Additional lines at the station were electrified on 2 October 1986, with the electrification of the Villivakkam–Avadi section.
Facilities
The station has a foot overbridge for pedestrian, a level crossing and a vehicular subway. The vehicular subway, whose construction was started on 4 December 2007 and which replaced the previous level crossing 2 (LC2), was opened to traffic on 19 June 2012 and is located on the western side of the station. The 447.50-m-long subway linking north Villivakkam with south Villivakkam was built at a cost of 390 million, which also has a 2.5-m-wide bicycle lane. The level crossing 1 (LC1), located at the eastern side of the station (between Villivakkam and Perambur Loco Works stations), is being replaced with a 460-meter-long road overbridge being built at a cost of 590 million. The level crossing is located adjacent to the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) and connects several residential areas in both Villivakkam and Kolathur. The road overbridge will be 8.5 meters wide (with a carriageway of 7.5 meters) and will have 11 pillars. The bridge connects East Seeyalam Street with Villivakkam East Railway Crossing Road in Kumaran Nagar.
About 900 tickets are issued every day at the station, of which 400 are from the northern side. In 2002, a ticket counter was opened on the northern side. However, it was closed down in 2005 owing to low patronage.
Demographics
The nearby Kolathur area has around 500,000 people residing in 54 colonies, and about 25,000 people are daily using the service of Chennai suburban railway trains. As of 2013, the station handles about 32,000 passengers a day.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Integral Coach Factory
Regional Railway Museum
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Villivakkam station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFL%20Class%202000 | CFL Class 2000 is a class of electric multiple units operated by CFL on the Luxembourg railway network. They were built in 1990-1992 by a consortium of De Dietrich, ANF and Alstom and are similar to SNCF's Z 11500 class.
History
The Z2 family of multiple units was designed by Francorail and Ateliers de construction du Nord de la France. CFL selected a variant of the Z 11500 class for their network.
Names
Four 2000s have been named after places in Luxembourg. They carry the appropriate crests on the side of the driving cab.
2001: Mersch
2003: Betzdorf
2004: Pétange
2018: Troisvierges
Between 2021 and 2024, the 2000 series will be replaced by 34 Coradia Stream railcars from the Coradia family produced by Alstom, part of which will be used to increase the CFL fleet..
Construction
The individual cars are built with steel frames.
Technical
The multiple working system allows three units to be worked as a single train with one driver.
The individual vehicles are numbered (in UIC format) as 94 82 00 20xx 1-y and 94 82 00 20xx 2-y, where 20xx is the unit number and y the check digit.
Operations
Within Luxembourg 2000s can be found on almost all lines interworking with 2200 series EMUs and push-pull services worked by 3000s & 4000s. Outside Luxembourg they are used in conjunction with SNCF Z 11500s to work the Luxemburg - Metz - Nancy services and Bettembourg - Dudelange - Volmerange-les-Mines.
Interior
References
External links
D'Serie 2000 vun der CFL op rail.lu
D'Serie 2000 vun der CFL op Spoorgroep Luxemburg
Class 2000 at the official CFL website
Alstom multiple units
2000
De Dietrich Ferroviaire
Train-related introductions in 1990
25 kV AC multiple units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20Saturday%20programming%20block | The Nickelodeon Saturday programming block, known as Gotta See Saturdays from 2012 to 2013, Nick's New Saturday Night from 2014, Nick's Saturday Night from 2015 to 2017 and A Night of Premieres from 2018 to 2021 was the program block branding of Nickelodeon's Saturday morning and Saturday evening programming on the flagship channel in the United States. The morning block (airing from 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m ET/PT) mainly features new premieres of Nicktoons programming, with the evening block (from 7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m ET/PT) consisting of the network's original live-action sitcoms. The branding launched on September 22, 2012, with season premieres of the respective series in both dayparts. The evening version of Gotta See Saturdays was a direct successor to the former Saturday night SNICK (1992–2005) and TEENick (2001–2009) blocks.
On March 31, 2018, the branding for Nick's Saturday night premieres was known as A Night of Premieres, with the premiere of the newest original series Star Falls and Knight Squad alongside season 4 of Henry Danger. In late 2020, Nickelodeon stopped premiering new episodes of animated series on Saturday mornings, instead premiering them on Friday nights. The branding was discontinued on November 20, 2021, with Nick moving its live-action comedy premieres to Thursday nights starting on January 6, 2022 (making it then first time since 1992 that Nickelodeon hasn't aired a new episode of a live-action show or an animated show on Saturdays). In its previous brandings, one of the first acquired programming to air in this format was TeenNick Top 10 from sister channel TeenNick. On February 25, 2017, Nickelodeon began promoting the Saturday morning block as The Saturday Morning Hang Zone with Lincoln Loud, themed to The Loud House. The block was discontinued on March 23, 2017.
Programming
Final programming
Live-action series
Tyler Perry's Young Dylan (February 29, 2020 – August 21, 2021)
Danger Force (March 28, 2020 – November 20, 2021)
Side Hustle (November 7, 2020 – November 20, 2021)
Power Rangers Dino Fury (February 20, 2021 – November 20, 2021)
Former programming
Animated series
SpongeBob SquarePants (May 1, 1999 – 2020)
The Fairly OddParents (March 30, 2001 – March 28, 2015)
The Penguins of Madagascar (November 29, 2008 – November 10, 2012)
T.U.F.F. Puppy (October 2, 2010 – 2012)
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (November 7, 2011 – June 29, 2014)
Robot and Monster (August 4, 2012 – December 8, 2012)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (September 29, 2012 – November 12, 2017)
Monsters vs. Aliens (March 23, 2013 – February 8, 2014)
Sanjay and Craig (May 25, 2013 – July 25, 2015)
Rabbids Invasion (August 3, 2013 – February 7, 2016)
Breadwinners (February 17, 2014 – December 11, 2015)
Harvey Beaks (March 28 – July 25, 2015; October 15, 2016)
Pig Goat Banana Cricket (July 18 – August 8, 2015)
The Loud House (October 15, 2016; November 11, 2017; 2019 – May 23, 2020)
Bunsen is a Beast (2017)
Rise of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20value | Soil value () or BWZ is a comparative assessment of soil quality used in Germany. It is determined from soil sampling data and ranges from 0 (very low) to 100 (very high).
According to the Geological Service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the soil value of arable land is based on a field assessment framework which combines an assessment of soil type, soil condition (soil development) and the parent material of which the soil is composed. The result, the soil value, expresses the relative net income that, under normal and proper management, is determined only by the profitability of the soil. Additions or deductions in this value to take account of variations in yield due to terrain and climate (e.g. average annual temperature) give the field value (Ackerzahl).
Range of values
The following colour scheme is used referring to the soil quality for certain ranges of values:
The values exhibited by different types of soil are:
Origins
As a yardstick for soil quality, a "Reich Standard Farm" was set up during the Third Reich in the parish of Eickendorf in the Magdeburger Börde, an exceptionally rich arable region. During the Reich Soil Assessment (Reichsbodenschätzung) following the Soil Assessment Act in 1934 a soil value of 100 was established in the leading Reich farm of Haberhauffe/Jäger. It was the basis of comparison for the tax rating of farms in Germany. Since this farm was no longer available for comparisons within West Germany after the Second World War, a farm in Machtsum near Harsum in the Hildesheim Börde was designated as the Federal Standard Farm. During later measurements, an even higher value of BWZ - 102.8 - was measured in Mölme, about 20 km east of Hildesheim within the municipality of Söhlde. It is the highest value ever recorded in Germany.
Another measure, the field value (Ackerzahl) is derived from the soil value, taking account of other factors such as climate and location e.g. along the edge of woodland.
See also
Soil classification
Soil quality
Soil science
Soil Use Efficiency
Crop yield
References
External links
Wertzahlen der Bodenschätzung at www.gd.nrw.de. Accessed on 2 Sep 2012.
Eickendorf
Soil science
Pedology
Agronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Centre%20for%20Research%20Data | The Norwegian Centre for Research Data () (NSD) was a Norwegian institution established to manage data for the research community of Norway. Until 1 March 2016 it was known as Norwegian Social Science Data Services. In 2022, the organization was merged together with Uninett and Unit (Norway) into Sikt, the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research.
The centre was established in 1971 as part of the Research Council of Norway. In 2003, the NSD was restructured as a limited company, with ownership retained by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. As of 2015, it was one of the world's largest archives for research data, employing a staff of 90 people in Bergen
NSD operated the Norwegian Scientific Index and the European database ERIH PLUS, the first of which continues to be provided by Sikt since the merger. ERIH PLUS is currently hosted by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills.
References
External links
Official site
Government-owned companies of Norway
1971 establishments in Norway
Business services companies of Norway
Companies based in Bergen
Business services companies established in 1971 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annanur%20railway%20station | Annanur railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. Located about 18 km from Chennai Central railway station, the station serves the neighbourhood of Annanur, which is pronounced as 'Annanoor', a suburb of Chennai located west of the city centre. It has an elevation of 24.28 m above sea level. The station also has an EMU car shed complex located on the southern side.
History
The first lines in the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. Additional lines at the station were electrified on 2 October 1986, with the electrification of the Villivakkam–Avadi section.
Layout
The station has four tracks and two platforms—a side platform and an island platform. The island platform houses the ticket counter. Unlike most other suburban stations on the network, the station lack several basic passenger amenities such as macadamised road leading to the neighbourhoods. A new footover bridge (FOB) has been constructed and now in use since May 2023. But the passengers are put to hardship as all the direct approaches to the platform has been blocked due to the running of high speed train on this route.Old people and people with luggage find it very difficult.
Traffic
As of 2016, the railway station serves around 20,000 passengers every day.
Road overbridge
In 2012, the state government approved the construction of a 200 m long two-lane road overbridge meant for two-wheelers and cars at a cost of 240 million.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Annanur station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsed%20listener%20problem | In computer programming, the lapsed listener problem is a common source of memory leaks for object-oriented programming languages, among the most common ones for garbage collected languages.
It originates in the observer pattern, where observers (or listeners) register with a subject (or publisher) to receive events. In basic implementation, this requires both explicit registration and explicit deregistration, as in the dispose pattern, because the subject holds strong references to the observers, keeping them alive. The leak happens when an observer fails to unsubscribe from the subject when it no longer needs to listen. Consequently, the subject still holds a reference to the observer which prevents it from being garbage collected — including all other objects it is referring to — for as long as the subject is alive, which could be until the end of the application.
This causes not only a memory leak, but also a performance degradation with an "uninterested" observer receiving and acting on unwanted events. This can be prevented by the subject holding weak references to the observers, allowing them to be garbage collected as normal without needing to be unregistered.
References
Software bugs
Software anomalies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20and%20Development%20Knowledge%20Network | The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) works to enhance the quality of life for the poorest and most vulnerable to climate change. CDKN does this by combining research, advisory services and knowledge management in support of locally owned and managed policy processes. It works in partnership with decision-makers in the public, private and non-governmental sectors nationally, regionally and globally.
CDKN is led by SouthSouthNorth in South Africa, in partnership with Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano in Ecuador, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia, in India, and the Overseas Development Institute in the UK.
CDKN works across Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on nine priority countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
Africa
Future Climate for Africa
CDKN collaborates and partners with the Future Climate for Africa programme's Capacity Development and Knowledge Exchange Unit. Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) aims to generate fundamentally new climate science focused on Africa, and to ensure that this science has an impact on human development across the continent. FCFA's goal is to reduce disruption and damage from climate change and to safeguard economic development and poverty eradication efforts over the long-term. In this way, FCFA aims to make new African infrastructure and urban and rural plans and investments more climate-resilient.
Climate change curriculum for Southern Africa
CDKN also supported seven universities from five southern African countries in a project led by the University of Cape Town, to develop a master's curriculum on climate change and sustainable development for the Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA).
Building Rwanda's capacity for climate compatible development
CDKN has been involved in capacity building in Rwanda through the national environment and climate change fund, FONERWA – the largest climate fund of its kind in Africa. By building capacity at national and district level to scope, develop and implement successful climate compatible development projects, the work will help support implementation of Rwanda's Green Growth & Climate Resilience Strategy and build momentum for low carbon, climate resilient economic growth in the country.
As part of continued work in Rwanda through the project, "Building resilience in Rwanda through business collaboration," a CDKN-funded research study showed that small businesses around Nyabugogo River, Gatsata and other water catchment areas in Kigali could face further losses due to flooding if no urgent actions are taken to address the problem. A survey, carried out as part of the project, looked at how small businesses in Kigali are being affected by recurrent flooding, and found that the areas experienced losses estimated at Rwf178.2 million in direct and indirect damages caused by floods.
The Minister for Disaster Management and Refugee |
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