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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20%26%20Pop%20%28Chilean%20radio%29 | Rock & Pop is a radio station located at 94.1 MHz on the FM dial in Santiago, Chile and is a member of the radio consortium Ibero Americana Radio Chile. Its musical programming consists his programmatic and musical line is conformed mainly by great successes of music from the 1960s to the present.
History
Transmissions began in Santiago on December 1, 1992, under the auspices of the Chilean Communications Company, owner of Radio Cooperativa. The first song played was "It's My Life" by Dr. Alban. Before its debut in Santiago, the station was broadcast in the city of Temuco at 93.5 FM as a sort of trial run, starting on October 1, 1992. Local programming continued in Temuco until January 1, 1998, when local facilities were closed and the signal received from Santiago was broadcast instead.
The first months of the station's life were marked by a legal dispute with an Argentinian radio station of the same name, founded in 1985. The dispute did not end in court, however there was speculation about the purchase of the Chilean station by its Argentinian namesake, or a demand to license the brand.
In 1995, the station played an influential role in the "small Chilean rock boom", which was conceived during that time. It was the main promoter of bands such as Los Tres, Lucybell, Los Tetas, Pánico, and La Ley, among others. Its success was such that it entered into television programming. The legendary Canal 2 Rock & Pop introduced personages and content from the radio to the small screen, and similarly the magazine Revista Rock & Pop brought content from the radio to print.
Direction and administration
The radio station was directed from its inception until May 2004 by Marcelo Aldunate, currently music director of Ibero Americana Radio Chile. Replacing him until October 2006 was one of the station's original presenters, Patricio Cuevas (currently on ADN Radio Chile's What's Driving). Cuevas has been succeeded by Mauricio Soto, Rodrigo Alvarez, Sergio Cancino, and currently Carlos Costas, (director of Radio Futuro and ADN Deportes).
Notable former staff
Blanca Lewin
Claudia Conserva
Jean Philippe Cretton (2013–2015)
Renata Ruiz (2013–2016)
References
External links
Rock & Pop Website
Programa: Rock & Pop Stage
Programa: Plan Maestro en Directo
Programa: Surco
Programa: Tierra Parlante
Programa: RP UK
Programa: Oh My Geek
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
Soundcloud
Instagram
Radio stations in Chile
Mass media in Santiago
Radio stations established in 1992
1992 establishments in Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife%20Fight%20%28TV%20series%29 | Knife Fight is an American reality/cooking competition television series on Esquire Network. It was set to premiere April 23, 2013, but was pushed to September 24, 2013, to coincide with rebranding of the now-defunct Esquire. Knife Fight was hosted by season 2 Top Chef winner Ilan Hall and executive produced by Drew Barrymore. The show ran for four seasons.
Synopsis
Originally set in Hall's restaurant The Gorbals in downtown Los Angeles, this secret underground happening took place during the overnight hours when restaurants close their doors to the public. This kind of competition has not been (nor meant to be) televised. In the show's premise, two talented cooks were selected to prove who's the best. They're cheered and heckled by a rowdy crowd of celebrities, restaurant critics, die-hard foodies, and sometimes each other. The chefs are given 1-3 mandatory ingredients, such as pig heads, jackfruit, and live catfish. They're given one hour to prepare at least two dishes, but may prepare more. The chefs may plate and present dishes at any time during the hour. The winner of each episode earns "bragging rights" as well as a cleaver with "I Won" written on it. The loser receives a smaller cleaver with "I Almost Won" written on it. In rare cases where picking the winner is too close to call, the 2 chefs go through a "Sudden Death" round where they make a dish in 5 minutes.
Former Top Chef contestant CJ Jacobson revealed on his podcast that the show was originally going to be named Food Fight Club after the David Fincher film Fight Club.
Series overview
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V3g | V3G AVC (Advanced Video Coding) is an open source algorithm for video compression which based on H.264 video coding, and become one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of high definition video. It is also a block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard. The last version of the standard was completed in Jan. 2013 which accomplished by a partnership called V3G.
Overview
The V3G/AVC project started in May 2010, and intent to create a standard capable of providing better video quality at lower bit rates than previous standards, without increasing the complexity of design so much that it would be impractical or excessively expensive to implement. An additional goal was to provide enough flexibility to allow the standard to be applied to a wide variety of applications on a wide variety of networks and systems, including low and high bit rates, low and high resolution video, broadcast, DVD storage, RTP/IP packet networks, and ITU-T multimedia telephony systems. The Multiview Video Coding extensions were completed in March 2012.
Further recent extensions of the standard then included adding five other new profiles intended primarily for professional applications, adding extended-gamut color space support, defining additional aspect ratio indicators, defining two additional types of supplemental enhancement information (post-filter hint and tone mapping), and deprecating one of the prior FRExt profiles that industry feedback indicated should have been designed differently.
Applications
The V3G video format has a very broad application range that covers all forms of digital compressed video from low bit-rate Internet streaming applications to HDTV broadcast and Digital Cinema applications with nearly lossless coding. With the use of V3G, bit rate savings of 52.5% or more are reported. For example, V3G has been reported to give the same Digital Satellite TV quality as current MPEG-2 implementations with less than half the bitrate, with current MPEG-2 implementations working at around 3.5 Mbit/s and V3G at only 1.6 Mbit/s. To ensure compatibility and problem-free adoption of V3G/AVC, many standards bodies have amended or added to their video-related standards so that users of these standards can employ V3G/AVC.
References
1. ^Details of v3g. June,2013
2. ^v3g Media Player. June,2013
Video compression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenonema | {{Taxobox
| name = Rhenonema
| fossil_range = Givetian
| image = Rhenonema eifeliense.jpg
| image_caption = R. eifeliense
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| subphylum = Vertebrata
| classis = Placodermi
| ordo = Arthrodira
| familia = Holonematidae
| genus = Rhenonema
| genus_authority = Obruchev, 1964
| species = R. eifeliense
| species_authority = (Kayser, 1880)
| binomial = Rhenonema eifeliense
| binomial_authority = (Kayser, 1880)
| synonyms =
Dinichthys eifeliense Kayser, 1880<ref name=Denison1>{{cite book|last=Denison|first=Robert|title=Placodermi Volume 2 of Handbook of Paleoichthyology|year=1978|publisher=Gustav Fischer Verlag|location=Stuttgart New York|isbn=978-0-89574-027-4|pages=87}}</ref>
}}Rhenonema eifeliense''' ("Rheinland thread of Eifel") is a large, extinct, high-crested holonematid arthrodire placoderm from Givetian-aged strata of Middle Devonian Gerolstein, Germany. It is known from some fragments of armor, including an anterior-lateral plate estimated to be around long, and a portion of a median dorsal plate with a very tall crest running along the median line of the dorsal surface. The ornamentation is very similar to that of Holonema, but the concentrically arranged ridges are much coarser in Rhenonema. The holotype was originally described by Kayser, in 1880, as a species of Dinichthys'', but was then redescribed in 1964 by Obruchev as a holonematid.
References
Holonematidae
Placoderms of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Getaway%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Getaway is an American travel documentary television series that aired on the Esquire Network and premiered on September 25, 2013. The Getaway was executive produced by Anthony Bourdain and followed celebrities as they have tours of their favorite or dream destinations for a quick trip.
Synopsis
The Getaway featured travel-loving celebrities, exploring and showcasing their favorite or dream vacation spots. The season premiere featured The Soup host Joel McHale in Belfast, United Kingdom. Other episodes had actor/comedian Aziz Ansari in Hong Kong; actress/comedian Aisha Tyler in Paris, France; rapper Eve in Kingston, Jamaica; and acclaimed chef José Andrés in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Broadcast
It was set to premiere April 24, 2013, on but was pushed to September 25, 2013, the same week the network re-branding took place in order for Esquire Network to have a broader range of original programs aside from this series and Knife Fight. Season 2 premiered on October 15, 2014.
Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on January 9, 2015 on Nat Geo People.
Series overview
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2010s American documentary television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Bimber | Oliver Bimber (born 1973 in Bad Marienberg, Germany) is a German computer scientist. He is professor for computer graphics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria where he heads the Institute of Computer Graphics.
Curriculum Vitae
At the age of 36, Oliver Bimber was appointed to a full university professor (2009) and became head of the Institute of Computer Graphics at Johannes Kepler University Linz. From 2003-2010 he served as a Junior Professor of Augmented Reality at the Media System Science Department of Bauhaus University, Weimar. He received a Ph.D. (2002) in Engineering from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, and a Habilitation degree (2007) in Computer Science (Informatik) at Munich University of Technology. From 2001 to 2002 Bimber worked as a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics in Providence, RI/USA, and from 1998 to 2001 he was a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Rostock, Germany. Earlier affiliations include the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (New York, USA), the Dundalk Institute of Technology (Dundalk, Ireland), and the University of Applied Science Giessen (Giessen, Germany).
Bimber co-authored the book "Displays: Fundamentals and Applications" (2011) with Rolf R. Hainich and the book "Spatial Augmented Reality" (2005) with Ramesh Raskar (MIT). From 2005 until 2015, he served on the editorial board of the IEEE Computer Magazine. The VIOSO GmbH was founded in his group in 2005. He and his students received several awards for their research and inventions, and have won scientific competitions, such as the ACM Siggraph Student Research Competition (1st place 2006 and 2008, 2nd place 2009 and 2011), and the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Final (2006) that was presented together with the Turing award.
Bimber's research interests include visual computing and optics in the context of next-generation display and imaging technologies.
References
External links
Professional Duties
Research
Teaching
Publications
Talks
Awards
Press
Living people
German computer scientists
1973 births
People from Westerwaldkreis
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elicitation%20technique | An elicitation technique is any of a number of data collection techniques used in anthropology, cognitive science, counseling, education, knowledge engineering, linguistics, management, philosophy, psychology, or other fields to gather knowledge or information from people. Recent work in behavioral economics has purported that elicitation techniques can be used to control subject misconceptions and mitigate errors from generally accepted experimental design practices. Elicitation, in which knowledge is sought directly from human beings, is usually distinguished from indirect methods such as gathering information from written sources.
A person who interacts with human subjects in order to elicit information from them may be called an elicitor, an analyst, experimenter, or knowledge engineer, depending on the field of study.
Elicitation techniques include interviews, observation of either naturally occurring behavior (including as part of participant observation) or behavior in a laboratory setting, or the analysis of assigned tasks.
List of elicitation techniques
Interviews
Existing System
Project Scope
Brain Storming
Focus Groups
Exploratory Prototypes
User Task Analysis
Observation
Surveys
Questionnaire
Story Board
References
Psychological methodology
Cognitive science
Ethnography
Linguistic research
Methods in sociology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevnica%E2%80%93Trebnje%20Railway | The Sevnica–Trebnje Railway () is one of the railway lines that form the Slovenian Railway Network. It is located in Lower Carniola, the traditional region of southeastern Slovenia. Its termini are in Sevnica and Trebnje, and it is long, non-electrified and single-tracked. It is used by both passenger and freight trains.
Course
The line crosses the Sava River and enters the Mirna Valley, where it then crosses the Mirna and the Bistrica rivers. It runs through the settlements of Dolenji Boštanj, Tržišče, Pijavice, Slovenska Vas, and Mirna. The largest structure on the line is the Sava River bridge at Sevnica, built in 1938.
History
The prime reason for the line was the coal mine in Krmelj. The section between Trebnje and Krmelj was built in 1908. Between 1936 and 1938 the route was extended from Tržišče to Sevnica. The mine was closed in 1962 and the track removed in 1996, while the line from Sevnica to Trebnje through Tržišče has remained open.
Role during the 2023 flood
Heavy rainfall on 4 August 2023 damaged the main line Ljubljana from Zidani Most in several places and made it impassable. This would have completely cut off the western part of the Slovenian railway network from the east, had it not been for the use of the alternative line from Ljubljana to Sevnica via Trebnje, which proved to be much more flood-resistant than the main line. On the morning of 5 August, the only possibility to travel between the Slovenian capital Ljubljana and the second-largest city, Maribor, was this railway line and a subsequent rail replacement bus between Sevnica and Celje.
References
Sources
Rustja, Karol. Dolenjske proge. (in Slovene) Tiri in čas, 6. Slovenske železnice - Železniški muzej. Ljubljana, 1994. .
External links
Railway lines in Slovenia
Mirna Valley
Railway lines opened in 1938 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun%20Farm | Fun Farm was an early Australian television series. It debuted on 29 October 1956, and was aired live on Nine Network Sydney station TCN-9.
Along with the likes of the Nine Network program Happy Show and the Seven Network programs Fun Fair (HSV-7),The Judy Jack Show (HSV-7), and Captain Fortune Show (ATN-7), and the ABC Children's TV Club, it represented an early example of Australian-produced children's television programming. Fun Farm ended in April 1957, at which point TCN-9 began another locally produced children series, Desmond and the Channel 9-Pins.
The series was aimed at children from ages four to twelve, compered and produced by Pat Mondel, who received more than 3000 letters from children during the first few weeks of the program.
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
1956 Australian television series debuts
1957 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
Australian children's television series
Australian live television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont%20%28surname%29 | Mont is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Christopher Mont, 16th-century English diplomat
Fiona Mont (born 1970), British fugitive wanted for questioning about computer fraud
Mia Mont (born 1989), Peruvian singer-songwriter
Tommy Mont (1922–2012), American educator, university administrator, college football coach, and National Football League quarterback
See also
Jordy Mont-Reynaud (born 1983), American chess player
Fernando Gómez Mont (born 1963), Mexican lawyer and politician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20decoupling | Dynamical decoupling (DD) is an open-loop quantum control technique employed in quantum computing to suppress decoherence by taking advantage of rapid, time-dependent control modulation. In its simplest form, DD is implemented by periodic sequences of instantaneous control pulses, whose net effect is to approximately average the unwanted system-environment coupling to zero. Different schemes exist for designing DD protocols that use realistic bounded-strength control pulses, as well as for achieving high-order error suppression, and for making DD compatible with quantum gates. In spin systems in particular, commonly used protocols for dynamical decoupling include the Carr-Purcell and the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill schemes. They are based on the Hahn spin echo technique of applying periodic pulses to enable refocusing and hence extend the coherence times of qubits.
Periodic repetition of suitable high-order DD sequences may be employed to engineer a ‘stroboscopic saturation’ of qubit coherence, or coherence plateau, that can persist in the presence of realistic noise spectra and experimental control imperfections. This permits device-independent, high-fidelity data storage for computationally useful periods with bounded error probability.
Dynamical decoupling has also been studied in a classical context for two coupled pendulums whose oscillation frequencies are modulated in time.
References
Quantum information science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Youth%20Hostel%20Association | The German Youth Hostel Association () or DJH is a not-for-profit, registered association (eingetragener Verein). It was founded in 1919 to create an organized network of affordable and safe accommodation away from home for travelling school and youth groups and individuals all over the country. Today, the 438 youth hostels in the association still cater to school and youth groups but are also open to anyone else looking for an alternative to hotels - families, backpackers, business travellers, etc. Through the state (Bundesland) associations it is the representative of the 438 youth hostels in Germany (as at 2021) and thus the largest member of the international youth association, Hostelling International (HI). The headquarters has its seat in Detmold and is divided into 14 state associations and 178 local and county volunteer associations. It has about 2,38 million members.
The German Youth Hostel Association is a member of the European Movement Germany.
DJH Membership
Membership of the German Youth Hostel Association is a prerequisite for an overnight stay in a hostel in Germany. Abroad, DJH members can stay in hostels that are associated with Hostelling International and may be entitled to discounts there. DJH membership is obtained through the state association responsible for each residence. In addition, organizations such as clubs or schools may apply for corporate membership.
The membership fee is due once a year.
History
By the end of the 1920s, there were over 2,300 Youth Hostels across Germany. These Hostels clearly didn’t compare to today’s standards. Often, they were no more than straw beds in “makeshift shelters,” located, for instance, in village schools that were closed for the holidays. Today, the German Youth Hostel Association runs about 438 hostels.
The DJH was merged into the Hitler Youth in 1933 until the end of the Second World War. In 1949 it was re-founded at Altena Castle in North Rhine-Westphalia.
As a result of the travel restrictions and accommodation bans imposed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, all DJH Youth Hostels had to cease operations in spring 2020. The only exceptions were those hostels that could accommodate guests for absolutely necessary purposes or that had been converted for temporary special use (accommodation for the homeless, fever ambulance, women's shelter, etc.). In 2019, the DJH, with its around 450 Youth Hostels in 14 DJH regional associations, was able to record around 10 million overnight stays. In 2020, it was only a little more than 3.6 million - a significant decline of 63 percent. The non-profit association was hit particularly hard by the almost complete loss of school trips and other group stays, which had previously been the largest guest groups at the DJH. The strongest guest groups in the possible travel season in 2020 were families (many of whom discovered youth hostels as holiday destinations for the first time).
Educational programmes
One of the aims behind Richa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20Diversity%20Surveys | The Nelson Diversity Surveys (NDS) are a collection of data sets that quantify the representation of women and minorities among professors, by science and engineering discipline, at research universities. They consist of four data sets compiled by Dr. Donna Nelson, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oklahoma during fiscal years (FY) 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2012 through the Diversity in Science Association. These surveys were each complete populations, rather than samples. Consequently, the Surveys quantified characteristics of the faculty which had never been revealed previously, drawing great attention from women and minorities. Furthermore, the Surveys initially came at a time when these underrepresented groups were becoming concerned and vocal about perceived inequities in academia. At the time the surveys were initiated, the MIT Study of 1999, expressing the concerns of women scientists (including Nancy Hopkins), had just been issued, and underrepresented minority (URM) science faculty noticed URM students increase among PhD recipients without a corresponding increase among recently hired professors. Data sets like the NDS, along with similar research available through the NSF, allowed URM faculty to track the progress of diversity efforts in the STEM fields. As noted by the Women's Institute for Policy Research, progress has been slow for under-represented women in the sciences.
The NDS quantified the degree to which women and minorities are underrepresented on science and engineering faculties at research universities. Because the surveys were complete populations and disaggregated, the degree of underrepresentation was revealed, in ways it had never been revealed previously. For example, the FY 2002 survey showed that there were no Black, Hispanic, or Native American tenured or tenure track women faculty in 50 computer science departments. It also revealed that there were no black or Native American assistant professors in the top 50 chemistry departments. Analogous surveys were carried out for top 100 departments in each of 15 science and engineering disciplines in fiscal years (FY) 2005, 2007 and 2012.
The Nelson Diversity Surveys made it possible for the first time to know the level and rate of faculty diversification, disaggregated by race, by rank, and by gender. Researchers in the 15 areas of science surveyed used these disaggregated faculty data, in order to compare against analogous student data, which had been available from NSF for decades. A new program to increase the representation of women and minorities among professors was implemented and PhD and MS research was based on data revealed by the NDS. The NDS were utilized by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, US Congress, Sloan Foundation, the National Organization for Women, universities, and many other organizations interested in diversity in academics.
Methodology
During 2001 to 2003, Nelson surveyed departmen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figshare | Figshare is an online open access repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos. It is free to upload content and free to access, in adherence to the principle of open data. Figshare is one of a number of portfolio businesses supported by Digital Science, a subsidiary of Springer Nature.
History
Figshare was launched in January 2011 by Mark Hahnel and has been supported by Digital Science since a January 2012 relaunch. Hahnel first developed the platform as a personal custom solution for the organization and publication of diverse research products generated in support of his PhD in stem cell biology. In January 2013, Figshare announced a partnership with PLOS to integrate Figshare data hosting, access, and visualization with their associated PLOS articles. In September 2013, the service launched a hosted institutional repository service. In December 2013, they announced integration with ImpactStory to support the collection of altmetrics.
Figshare also hosts the Reproducibility Collection as a founding member of The Reproducibility Initiative, which acts as an independent and blinded validator for replication of submitted data.
Figshare releases 'The State of Open Data' each year to assess the changing academic landscape around open research.
Concept
Researchers can upload all of their research outputs to Figshare, thus making them publicly available. Users can upload files in any format, and items are attributed a DOI. The current 'types' that can be chosen are figures, datasets, media (including video), papers (including pre-prints), posters, code, and filesets (groups of files). All files are released under a Creative Commons license, CC-BY for most files and CC0 (public domain) for datasets. Figshare allows researchers to publish negative data. The withholding of negative publications is a widely known phenomenon that leads to a significant bias, often referred to as the file drawer effect. By encouraging publishing of figures, charts, and data, rather than being limited to the traditional entire 'paper', knowledge can be shared more quickly and effectively. Figshare also tracks the download statistics for hosted materials, acting in turn as a source for altmetrics. The main hosting mechanism for the platform is Amazon S3, with CLOCKSS serving as an additional host for public content. Both of these resources support backup and preservation via a distributed cloud computing network.
Integration with other platforms
Figshare features integration with ORCID, Symplectic Elements, can import items from GitHub, and is a source tracked by Altmetric.com.
See also
Dryad
Open Science Framework
Zenodo
References
External links
List of organisations, universities and other entities using Figshare
Creative Commons-licensed works
Open-access archives
Open science
Open data
Academic publishing
Data publishing
Scholarly communication
Institutional repository softwar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chase%20%28American%20game%20show%29 | The Chase is an American television quiz show adapted from the British program of the same name. It premiered on August 6, 2013, on the Game Show Network (GSN). It was hosted by Brooke Burns and featured Mark Labbett as the "chaser" (referred to on air exclusively by his nickname "The Beast"). A revival of the show premiered on January 7, 2021, on ABC. It is hosted by Sara Haines and initially featured as the chasers Jeopardy! champions James Holzhauer (who was a contestant on the GSN version), Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter. Labbett returned as a chaser in June 2021, before stepping down in 2022 along with Jennings. In their place are Buzzy Cohen, Brandon Blackwell, and Victoria Groce.
The U.S. version of the show follows the same general format as the U.K. version, but with teams of three contestants instead of four. The game is a quiz competition in which contestants attempt to win money by challenging a trivia expert known as the chaser. Each contestant participates in an individual "chase" called the Cash Builder, in which they attempt to answer as many questions as possible in 60 seconds to earn as much money as possible to contribute to a prize fund for the team. The contestant must then answer enough questions to stay ahead of the chaser in a head-to-head competition scored on a game board; otherwise, they lose their winnings and are out. The contestants who successfully complete their individual chases without being caught advance to the Final Chase, in which they answer questions as a team playing for an equal share of the prize fund accumulated throughout the episode.
Gameplay
Cash Builder and individual chases
Three new contestants participate in each episode. Each contestant attempts to win money for their team by answering as many questions correctly as possible during a one-minute "Cash Builder" round, earning money per correct answer ($5,000 on the GSN version, $25,000 in the first season of the ABC version, and $10,000 in the second and third seasons). (During GSN celebrity episodes, each contestant is credited the value of one correct answer at the outset.)
After the Cash Builder, the contestant participates in a head-to-head "chase" against the chaser. Both sides answer a series of questions, with the contestant attempting to move the money down a game board and into the team bank without being caught. The contestant and chaser stand at opposite ends of the board, which has seven spaces, and the contestant chooses a starting position. They may begin three steps ahead of the chaser, requiring five correct answers and play for the money earned in the Cash Builder. Alternatively, they may accept one of two offers from the chaser: either start one step closer to the chaser and play for a higher amount or start one step farther away and play for a lower amount. The lower offer can be zero or even negative, depending on the result of the Cash Builder. On occasion, a contestant is presented with a "Super Offer" to play for even hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Observatory%20on%20Homelessness | The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH)—formerly named the Canadian Homelessness Research Network (CHRN)—is a Canadian non-profit, non-partisan research institute that works with researchers, service providers, policy makers, students and people who have experienced homelessness.
Research focuses
The COH focuses on the following areas: "systems responses" to homelessness; determining effective models of housing and support; Aboriginal homelessness; homelessness prevention; youth homelessness; legal and justice issues; measuring progress towards ending homelessness; knowledge mobilization and research impact.
The organization’s website, the Homeless Hub, offers information on the causes of and solutions to homelessness.
Founding and structure
The CHRN was founded in 2008, through a 7-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant. Its goals were to enhance networking amongst stakeholders in the field and to mobilize homelessness research in Canada.
Through a second SSHRC grant awarded in 2013, the CHRN was renamed the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH). The COH continues the work of the CHRN and introduces a program of research that includes local, provincial and national monitoring activities, as well as original research that addresses key issues in homelessness. The current and founding Director is Dr. Stephen Gaetz, a professor at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where the COH is also housed. Members of the COH include 28 academics from institutions across Canada, as well as 28 agencies and community organizations.
Definition of homelessness
In 2005 there was no consistent definition of homelessness. At the time, most research and programs focused on "absolute homelessness" and public policy initiatives.
In 2012, the CHRN/COH released the Canadian definition of homelessness to create a common understanding when it comes to measuring homelessness in Canada, and identifying goals, interventions and strategies to address homelessness effectively. The CHRN’s definition of homelessness, which is closely based on the European Typology of Homelessness and Housing Exclusion (ETHOS) definition, groups the homeless population into four categories: "unsheltered", "emergency sheltered", "provisionally accommodated" and "at risk of homelessness."
The new definition received a lot of support and also faced some criticism. Since then, the Canadian definition of homelessness has been endorsed by 75 scholars and community organizations.
Research and publications
The COH produces a number of resources to help service providers, researchers, policy makers etc., better understand and tackle the problem of homelessness.
In collaboration with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, the COH (then CHRN) released the State of Homelessness in Canada in 2013, what they call the first national report card on homelessness in Canada. The report card stated that 30,000 Canadians are homeless every day, 200,000 in a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20Center%20%28Apple%29 | Control Center (or Control Centre in most countries) is a feature of Apple Inc.'s iOS, iPadOS, and macOS operating systems. It was introduced as part of iOS 7, released on September 18, 2013. It gives iOS and iPadOS devices direct access to important settings for the device by swiping down from the top right corner on the iPhone X and newer, and on all iPad models starting with iOS 12 or iPadOS, with previous models using a swipe from the bottom of the screen. It is similar to the SBSettings tweak for iOS jailbreaking. Control Center was also added to Macs in macOS 11 Big Sur, released on November 12, 2020.
Usage
Control Center gives iOS users quick access to commonly used controls and apps. By swiping up from any screen – including the Lock screen (if the control center is set to be accessed from the lock screen) – users can do such things as switch on Airplane mode, turn Wi-Fi on or off, adjust the display brightness and similar basic functions of the device.
Since iOS 7, it has also included an integrated flashlight function to operate the reverse camera's flash LED as a flashlight. The flashlight feature is only available on iPhone and iPod Touch, and iPad Pro. Beginning with iOS 9.3, a Night Shift toggle became available through the Control Center on all iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad models that have an Apple A7 chip or later.
Other functions are offered, such as the ability to turn Bluetooth and Do Not Disturb on or off; lock the screen's orientation; play, pause, or skip a song, see what is playing; connect to AirPlay-enabled devices; and quickly access the clock, calculator, and camera apps. Users also have access to AirDrop, previously only available on Macs and newly added to iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch models using the Lightning connector in iOS 7, as a method of transferring files between Apple devices.
Design
In iOS 7 through iOS 9, Control Center featured a single-paged slide up panel with a blurred background, which provided a layer of translucency over the content below. The design for the most part remained the same, aside from a few small, occasional changes. Due to the intense resources needed to create a blurred effect, iPhone 4, iPad 2, and iPad 3 do not feature a translucent background, and instead feature a grey background with slight transparency without blur.
In iOS 10, Control Center morphed into a card-like design with a white background, and was separated into three separate cards accessible by swiping horizontally. The first card consisted of main device controls, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Do Not Disturb, while the second page was dedicated to media controls, and the third page for controlling HomeKit enabled devices linked in the Home application.
Control Center received a significant redesign in iOS 11, unifying its different pages into one and allowing users to 3D Touch (or long press on devices without 3D Touch) the icons for additional options, and vertical sliders allow users to adjust volume and brigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyspessa%20pallidata | Dyspessa pallidata is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Transcaucasia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Israel and northern Egypt.
Adults have been recorded on wing from May to September in Israel.
The larvae probably feed on Allium species.
References
Moths described in 1892
Dyspessa
Moths of Asia
Moths of Europe
Moths of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor%20I.%20Fossen | Thor Inge Fossen (born 3 January 1963) is a Norwegian cyberneticist. Fossen received the MSc degree in Marine Technology (1987) and PhD in Engineering Cybernetics (1991) both from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is a Fulbright alumni and he pursued postgraduate studies in Aerodynamics and Aeronautics at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the University of Washington, Seattle (1989-1990). At age 28 he was appointed associated professor of guidance, navigation and control at NTNU and two years later he qualified as full professor. He has been elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences since 1998 and elevated to IEEE Fellow (2016) for his contributions to modeling and controlling of marine craft. Fossen is one of the founders of the company Marine Cybernetics (2002), which was acquired by DNV GL in 2014. He is co-founder of the company SCOUT Drone Inspection AS (2017) and he is involved in several new high-tech companies in Trondheim. He is currently co-director of the NTNU Center for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems. He has made contributions in the areas of marine craft motion control systems, hydrodynamics, control theory, guidance systems and navigation.
Fields of research
Fossen's field of research is control theory, computer science, navigation and marine hydrodynamics. He has published approximately 400 papers on guidance, navigation and control (GNC), vehicle dynamics, and control systems for ships, underwater vehicles and unmanned vehicles. He has authored three textbooks. The first textbook has become the standard reference in marine control systems. This book was followed up by two textbooks and The mathematical models for marine craft GNC systems are based on a robot-inspired model representation first published in 1991. Fossen's marine craft and ocean vehicle models have become a standard for marine craft motion control systems design. In addition to the three textbooks, Fossen has co-authored three editorials, and
External links
References
Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1963 births
Living people
20th-century Norwegian scientists
21st-century Norwegian scientists
20th-century Norwegian educators
21st-century Norwegian educators
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20advertising%20%28social%20relationships%29 | Social advertising is advertising that relies on social information or networks in generating, targeting, and delivering marketing communications. Many current examples of social advertising use a particular Internet service to collect social information, establish and maintain relationships with consumers, and for delivering communications. For example, the advertising platforms provided by Google, Twitter, and Facebook involve targeting and presenting ads based on relationships articulated on those same services. Social advertising can be part of a broader social media marketing strategy designed to connect with consumers.
Social targeting
Since a pair of consumers connected via a relationship are more likely to be similar than an unconnected pair, information about such relationships can be used to infer characteristics of consumers useful for targeting.
For example, predictions of an individual's home location can be improved using geographic information about their peers.
Existing advertising platforms can allow advertisers to explicitly target the peers (e.g., Facebook friends, Twitter followers) of consumers who have a known affiliation with their brand. Thus, one way social advertising is expected to be effective is because social networks encode information about unobserved characteristics of consumers, including their susceptibility to adopt a product and to influence their peers to adopt.
Social advertisement targets audiences' demographics based on customers browsing histories. This helped companies understand users' interests and target a specific group of users. Whether it is location or personal interest, different categories of companies can make the consumers on social media rely heavily on their advertisements. This is one of the reasons why social advertising has grown over time. Targeting their audience to real life stakeholders generally increase the attention of the advertised deal which brings up more profits for companies. Subsequently, the psychological effects that social media gives off to its users play a huge role in advertisement companies keeping their customers online. One of the main reasons users rely on social media is because it's a source of entertainment that provides them with a feeling of inclusiveness. In making the customers feel the inclusiveness, social advertising targeting a specific group of users is presented as if these advertisements are customized for the users in their perspective making them feel the attention that they do not often feel in the real world. You can use Social signals checker tool to find more information about links. Social signals are metrics that measure how much people interact with your content on social media. From likes, to shares, to comments; each of these signals contributes to an overall number that tells search engines like Google how much people like your content. The more social signals your website gets, the more likely it is to rank higher in Google. The reason f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNDP%20Angola | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Angola is one of the 166 country offices of the United Nations Development Programme’s global network, and is located in the country’s capital Luanda. Its stated objective is to empower people's lives and help nations to become stronger and more resilient. As a part of the wider UNDP’s development efforts, the local office is responsible for the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals in Angola. Specific areas of focus for Angola are poverty reduction, democratic governance, environment and energy, and crisis prevention and recovery. Other development projects target education and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Key areas in Angola
Poverty reduction
A priority for the Angolan Government and the development organizations and NGOs operating in the country continues to be the reduction of poverty, particularly of extreme poverty. On February 11th, 2004 the government approved the “Estratégia de Combate à Pobreza” (ECP). The current version is the revised September 2005 edition, and it is still the main strategy development document for poverty reduction in Angola. It states the focus areas of intervention for government and non-governmental and global actors is reconstruction of infrastructures, increased access to education, health, and other basic services, as well as the decentralization of governance structures.
Environment
In 2013, UNDP contributed US$1.1 million to a mainly EU-funded project aimed at protecting biodiversity in Angola.
Crisis prevention and recovery
Although hostilities ended in 2002, landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) left from the conflict continue to pose threats to a large number Angolans. Black markets for firearms are a source of prolonged armed violence in communities throughout greater portions of the country. The UNDP effort to eradicate such man-made threats is mainly through the Capacity Development for the National Mine Action Authority (CNIDAH), and the creation of a Rapid Response Fund for demining efforts. Natural disasters, such as droughts pose other threats - particularly to agricultural communities.
References
United Nations Development Programme
Economy of Angola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShVSM%20Kyiv | ShVSM Kyiv () was an ice hockey team in Kyiv, Ukraine. The abbreviation stands for the School of Higher Sports Mastery (). ShVSM is a network of sports schools across Ukraine.
History
During Soviet times, the team participated in the second and third-level leagues, the Pervaya Liga and the Vtoraya Liga. After Ukraine became independent, ShVSM began participating in the Ukrainian Hockey Championship. They played in the championship for three seasons from 1993-1995, winning the title in 1994.
Achievements
Ukrainian champion (1): 1994.
References
External links
Team profile on eurohockey.com
School at the Kyiv city's website
List of all schools of Higher Sports Mastery at the website of Ministry of Sport.
Defunct ice hockey teams in Ukraine
College sports teams in Ukraine
Ice hockey clubs in Kyiv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan%20%28software%29 | Sagan is an open source (GNU/GPLv2) multi-threaded, high performance, real-time log analysis & correlation engine developed by Quadrant Information Security that runs on Unix operating systems. It is written in C and uses a multi-threaded architecture to deliver high performance log & event analysis. Sagan's structure and rules work similarly to the Sourcefire Snort IDS/IPS engine. This allows Sagan to be compatible with Snort or Suricata rule management softwares and give Sagan the ability to correlate with Snort IDS/IPS data.
Sagan supports different output formats for reporting and analysis, log normalization, script execution on event detection, GeoIP detection/alerting and time sensitive alerting.
See also
Host-based intrusion detection system comparison
References
Sagan User Manual
Sagan Resources
"Centralized and structured log file analysis with Open Source and Free Software tools" Bachelor Thesis by Jens Kühnel
IPSS.ca "Course objectives"
"Securing your Mikrotik Network" by Andrew Thrift (Presentation)
HOWTO build Sagan on FreeBSD
Sagan was one of the "top security tools" & won a "Bossie Award" from Infoworld.com.
Installing Sagan onCentOS 5/6 (Linux) for log monitoring.
IPSS.ca "Course objectives"
Champ Clark talks about Sagan on "Pauldotcom Security weekly" - December, 12th, 2013.
Linux Pro Magazine article that discusses using Sagan for log monitoring.
Article written by Champ Clark about using Kismet, Snort and Sagan to build wireless IDS monitoring device.
Champ Clark's guest posting on Rainer's (author of rsysyslog) blog about Sagan and log analysis.
Log, Log, Log Everything Remotely.
Using Sagan with Bro Intelligence feeds.
What the Sagan Log Analysis Engine Is...and What It Is Not (Aug 2016)
Easing the Compliance Burden :: Sagan Technology & PCI Compliance (Feb 2016)
JunOS/ScreenOS Vulnerability Helps to Emphasize the Importance of Remote Log Storage (Dec 2015)
Using Sagan with Netflow data.
Reference to Sagan rule options
External links
About Sagan
Official Sagan Wiki
Sagan flowbits
Using Sagan with Bro Intelligence feeds
Sagan output to other SIEMs.
Free security software
Computer security software
Linux security software
Unix network-related software
Intrusion detection systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC%20World%20Data%20System | The ISC World Data System (ISC-WDS) was created by the International Science Council's (ISC) General Assembly in October 2008.
ISC-WDS goals are to preserve quality assured scientific data and information, to facilitate open access, and promote the adoption of standards.
History
The ISC World Data System superseded the World Data Centres (WDCs) and Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical data analysis Services (FAGS) created by ICSU to manage data generated by the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958).
Governance
The ISC World Data System is governed by a Scientific Committee(SC) made up of data scientists and experts.
It is supported by the International Science Council as well as an International Programme Office (IPO), which is hosted and funded by the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology As of 2021, the International Program Office is hosted by the Oak Ridge Institute at the University of Tennessee (ORI at UT).
In 2018 WDS announced the creation of the International Technology Office (ITO) hosted by a Canadian consortium consisting of: Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria, The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre and the Canadian Cryospheric Information Network/Polar Data Catalogue at the University of Waterloo.
A notable former member of the ICSU World Data System Scientific Committee is Professor Jane Hunter, who is the director of the E-Research lab in Queensland University.
Data Sharing Principles
The ISC World Data System member organizations adopt its Data Sharing Principles.
Data, metadata, products, and information should be fully and openly shared, subject to national or international jurisdictional laws and policies, including respecting appropriate extant restrictions, and in accordance with international standards of ethical research conduct.
Data, metadata, products, and information produced for research, education, and public domain use will be made available with minimum time delay and free of charge, or for no more than the cost of dissemination, which may be waived for lower-income user communities to support equity in access.
All who produce, share, and use data and metadata are stewards of those data, and have responsibility for ensuring that the authenticity, quality, and integrity of the data are preserved, and respect for the data source is maintained by ensuring privacy where appropriate, and encouraging appropriate citation of the dataset and original work and acknowledgement of the data repository.
Data should be labelled 'sensitive' or 'restricted' only with appropriate justification and following clearly defined protocols, and should in any event be made available for use on the least restrictive basis possible
Members
Member organizations of the ISC World Data System join voluntarily in one of the four membership categories: Regular, Network, Partner, and Associate Members. Members contribute their data holdings, data services or products. The updated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20generation | In computing system generation or sysgen is the process of creating a particular unique instance of an operating system by combining user-specified options and parameters with manufacturer-supplied general-purpose program code to produce an operating system tailored for a particular hardware and software environment.
Some other programs have similar processes, although not usually called "sysgen." For example, IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS) was installed through a process called CICSGEN.
Rationale
A large general-purpose program such as an operating system has to provide support for all variations of Central processing unit (CPU) that it might be run on, for all supported main memory sizes, and for all possible configurations of input/output (I/O) equipment. No one installation requires all this support, so system generation provides a process for selecting the options and features actually required on any one system.
Sysgen produces a system that is most efficient in terms of CPU time, main memory requirements, I/O activity, and/or disk space. Often these parameters can be traded off, for example to generate a system that requires less memory at the expense of increased disk I/O operations.
See also
System Generation (OS)
References
System software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengalpattu%20Junction%20railway%20station | Chengalpattu Junction railway station is a railway junction of the southern section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network situated in the town of Chengalpattu, south-west of . The station falls in the Chennai railway division of the Southern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. Officially it bears the code CGL.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 9 January 1965, with the electrification of the Tambaram—Chengalpattu section.
Location and Layout
The Chengalpattu train station is located at the heart of the Chengalpattu city, on the banks of the Kolavai Lake. It is situated on the SH-58, and opposite to its main entrance lies the TNSTC and Mofussil bus terminals. There is also a statue in the memory of Periyar outside the train station.
The station is a part of the Chennai–Villupuram line and another line, the Arakkonam–Chengalpattu line.
The nearest airport from the station is the Chennai International Airport located at a distance of nearly 42 kilometres from the city.
Traffic
The Chengalpattu Junction being a focal point on the Chennai–Villupuram line, inevitably means that every south-bound train from Chennai has to operate via the junction thus making it one of the most crowded railway stations of the Indian Railways.
There also several suburban trains operating from and through the station towards Chennai and the station holds prime importance in the South and South-west lines of the Chennai Suburban Railway.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
References
Chennai railway division
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway junction stations in Tamil Nadu
Railway stations in Chengalpattu district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Aguascalientes | This is a list of radio stations in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats.
Notes
References
Aguascalientes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCA%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Achievement%20in%20Reality%20Programming | The TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming is an award given by the Television Critics Association for reality television formats.
Winners and nominees
Multiple winners
2 wins
The Amazing Race
Queer Eye
Multiple nominations
6 nominations
The Amazing Race
5 nominations
Survivor
Top Chef
4 nominations
The Great British Baking Show
RuPaul's Drag Race
Shark Tank
The Voice
3 nominations
Nailed It!
2 nominations
Cheer
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth
Couples Therapy
Dancing with the Stars
The Glee Project
Legendary
Making It
Queer Eye
The Real World Homecoming
Total awards by network
Netflix – 5
CBS – 2
A&E – 1
ABC – 1
Amazon Freevee – 1
Fox – 1
HBO Max – 1
Logo TV – 1
Showtime – 1
Starz – 1
References
External links
Official website
Reality Programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassonde%20School%20of%20Engineering | The Lassonde School of Engineering is the professional engineering school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lassonde incorporates crossover programming with York University’s Schulich School of Business and Osgoode Hall Law School to study and business and law, respectively, alongside the engineering program.
The Lassonde School of Engineering was established in November 2011 with funding from founding donor Pierre Lassonde, the Government of Ontario and York University. Students from the Faculty of Science and Engineering formally joined the Lassonde School of Engineering on May 1, 2013.
On April 8, 2016, Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence opened. The building, designed by Greg Woods for ZAS Architects has no lecture halls and is modelled after the flipped classroom concept. The façade was designed by Dieter Janssen in collaboration with Mesh Consultants and Blackwell Engineering.
History
The Lassonde School of Engineering was created in November 2011. In May 2013, students and faculty members in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering (both previously part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at York University) joined the Lassonde School of Engineering.
In September 2013, the first group of new first-years, comprising 397 students, joined the Lassonde School, including the first students in the new Electrical Engineering program. In September 2014, the first students in Lassonde's new mechanical engineering and civil engineering programs enrolled.
The Lassonde School of Engineering began a 50-50 initiative to have a student body that is 50% female and 50% male.
In April 2016, the Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence was officially opened. The Lassonde School of Engineering has a philosophy which focuses on creating "well-rounded" engineers.
In October 2015, the Lassonde School of Engineering accepted $1.5 million from IFlytek to create a neural computing and machine learning research laboratory. The same company was later placed on a Bureau of Industry and Security blacklist for allegedly enabling human rights abuses in Xinjiang with its technology.
Undergraduate programs
Engineering
The following programs are accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board:
B.Eng - Civil Engineering
B.Eng - Computer Engineering
B.Eng - Electrical Engineering
B.Eng - Geomatics Engineering
B.Eng - Mechanical Engineering
B.Eng - Software Engineering
B.Eng - Space Engineering
Computing
BSc, BA, iBSc, iBA - Computer Science (Accredited by the Computer Science Accreditation Council)
BSc, BA - Computer Security (Accredited by the Computer Science Accreditation Council)
BA - Digital Media (offered jointly with the Faculty of Fine Arts)
Earth & Space Science
BSc - Earth & Atmospheric Science
BSc - Space Science
Graduate programs
Civil Engineering (MASc & PhD)
Computer Science (MSc & PhD)
Electrical Engineering (MA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%27ayush | Ta'ayush (, ; lit. "coexistence" or "life in common") is a grassroots volunteer organization established in the fall of 2000 by a joint network of Palestinians and Israelis to counter the nationalist reactions aroused by the Al-Aqsa Intifada. It describes itself as "a grassroots movement of Arabs and Jews working to break down the walls of racism and segregation by constructing a true Arab-Jewish partnership. Together we strive for a future of equality, justice and peace through concrete, daily, non-violent actions of solidarity to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and to achieve full civil equality for all."
They organized convoys of food and medical supplies to Palestinians during sieges in the Second Intifada.
Activities
In January 2005, Ta'ayush activists along with Gush Shalom, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Machsom Watch, Anarchists Against the Wall and local residents of the Palestinian village Jayyous, began to plant hundred of olive saplings which they had brought with them to the plot of land where the bulldozers of the settlers had uprooted hundreds of olive trees. Advocate Wiam Shbeyta, an activist of the Ta'ayush movement said:-
"In spite of the police and army assertions, we do not recognise the ownership of the settlers over this land. This land belongs to the Jayyous villagers and the company "Geulat HaKarka" which is associated with the settlers took control of it on the false assertion that it was sold to them. The matter is still awaiting legal review, and we will not allow the settlers to dictate facts on the ground, to grab Palestinian lands and to commence establishing a new settlement on it".
In 2007, after hearing that settlers had stolen a donkey from a Palestinian boy from Tuba, Ta'ayush went to the Havot Ma'on settlement to retrieve the donkey. The police and Israeli Defense Forces stopped them on the way to Tuba and at the entrance of Havot Ma'on. Ta'ayush activists have also aided residents of the un-recognized village of Dar al-Hanun in Wadi Ara to repave the road to the village after it was dug up by Israeli Interior Ministry employees, the demolition had been ordered by the Haifa Magistrate's Court May 2006. The village of Dar al-Hanun was founded 80 years ago by the Abu Hilal family on a hill near the Wadi Ara route, on land owned by the family. In 1949, when the land was transferred to Israeli sovereignty, the Israeli authorities did not recognize the village, and the residents were asked to move to nearby villages.
The village of Yanun was abandoned in October 2004 when the harassment of the village by Avri Ran and his people became intolerable, leaving behind only two aged people who refused to accept the village decision to go. The village was re-occupied with the aid of peace activists from Ta'ayush and the International Solidarity Movement. David Nir of Ta'ayush was assaulted by Avri Ran in Yanun.
One member, David Dean Shulman, recalls the gratitude the cave-d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora | Tempora is the codeword for a formerly-secret computer system that is used by the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). This system is used to buffer most Internet communications that are extracted from fibre-optic cables, so these can be processed and searched at a later time. It was tested from 2008 and became operational in late 2011.
Tempora uses intercepts on the fibre-optic cables that serve as the backbone of the Internet to gain access to large amounts of Internet users' personal data, without any individual suspicion or targeting. The intercepts are placed in the United Kingdom and overseas, with the knowledge of companies owning either the cables or landing stations.
The existence of Tempora was revealed by Edward Snowden, a former American intelligence contractor who leaked information about the program to former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald in May 2013 as part of his revelations of government-sponsored mass surveillance programs. Documents Snowden acquired showed that data collected by the Tempora program is shared with the National Security Agency of the United States.
Operation
According to Edward Snowden, Tempora has two principal components called "Mastering the Internet" (MTI) and "Global Telecoms Exploitation" (GTE). He claimed that each is intended to collate online and telephone traffic. This contradicts two original documents, which say that Tempora is only for Internet traffic, just like the XKeyscore system of the NSA, components of which are incorporated in Tempora.
It is alleged that GCHQ produces larger amounts of metadata than NSA. By May 2012, 300 GCHQ analysts and 250 NSA analysts had been assigned to sort data.
The Guardian claims that no distinction is made in the gathering of data between public citizens and targeted suspects. Tempora is said to include recordings of telephone calls, the content of email messages, Facebook entries and the personal Internet history of users. Snowden said of Tempora that "It's not just a U.S. problem. The U.K. has a huge dog in this fight...They [GCHQ] are worse than the U.S."
Claims exist that Tempora was possible only by way of secret agreements with commercial companies, described in Snowden's leaked documents as "intercept partners". Some companies are alleged to have been paid for their co-operation. Snowden also alleged that GCHQ staff were urged to disguise the origin of material in their reports for fear that the role of the companies as intercept partners would cause "high-level political fallout". The companies are forbidden to reveal the existence of warrants compelling them to allow GCHQ access to the cables. If the companies fail to comply they can be compelled to do so.
Lawyers for GCHQ said it would be impossible to list the total number of people targeted by Tempora because "this would be an infinite list which we couldn't manage".
GCHQ set up a three-year trial at the GCHQ Bude in Cornwall. GCHQ had probes attached to more than 201 Int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Ghosts | Computer Ghosts is a 1987 Australian film. It was shot under the titles Crooksnatchers and Hold the Circus.
Cast
Nicholas Ryan
Emily Symons as Anya
Peter Whitford as Uncle Oscar
Scott Burgess as Cal
George Spartels as Pi Wratich
References
External links
Australian fantasy comedy films
Films scored by Chris Neal (songwriter)
1980s English-language films
1988 films
1980s Australian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted%20%282013%20TV%20program%29 | Wanted is an Australian crime television program. Its first episode went on air on Network Ten on 8 July 2013 at 8:30PM. Wanted was presented and produced from the Network Ten's Sydney studios in Pyrmont. The show was telecast nationally. Because of Australia's multiple time zones, Wanted was aired live on the East Coast. In South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, the show aired on a time delay of 30 minutes and 2 hours respectively.
Format
Wanted is a criminal investigation show which helps federal and state police directly to solve cold cases, homicides, disappearances and petty theft cases such as burglaries and vandalism.
Wanted is a socially interactive show which employs a broad range of social media to encourage the public to help solve crimes, with viewers being encouraged to provide immediate information anonymously that could prove an arrest or a lead to close the case.
Presenters
Wanted is presented by news presenters Sandra Sully and Matt Doran, and by a team of crime specialists including:
Dr Xanthe Mallett
Neil Mercer
Terry Dalton
Dr Xanthé Mallett
Forensic anthropologist and criminologist Xanthé Mallett investigates cold cases and finds new evidence to the cases. In 2010, Mallett made a series in the UK called History Cold Case for BBC2/National Geographic, with a team from the Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification at the University of Dundee. History Cold Case saw skeletons of everyday people from across the ages analysed in staggering detail, opening new windows on the history of our forebears. A second series was broadcast in June 2011.
Mallett also presented a piece about Jack the Ripper called National Treasures for the BBC in 2011. The live magazine-style format show put science at the heart of programming for the BBC's main entertainment channel.
Neil Mercer
Investigative crime reporter Neil Mercer goes into the field and interviews the victims' families for the main feature story. When he isn't available, Doran or Sully presents the story. Mercer has been a journalist for more than 40 years, working in newspapers and television. He has covered crime since 1981 when he reported on the shooting of criminal Warren Lanfranchi by NSW Detective Sergeant Roger Rogerson.
Terry Dalton
Former Detective Superintendent Terry Dalton brings an experience from over 30 years in the field with NSW Police. Dalton mostly presents the Petty Theft cases and brings with it a slight comedic twist to the show. Dalton once said in a case of a string of burglaries on a Sydney University that "these crooks are studying how to become a criminal... And they're failing at it" because the criminals were in full view of the security cameras.
Dalton is a recipient of the National Medal and 1st Clasp to the medal. He is also the recipient of the NSW Police Medal and 3rd Clasp to that medal. He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for service to policing in the community. Dalton was awarded the Australian Police Medal fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20County%20Closed-Circuit%20Educational%20Television%20Project | The Washington County Closed-Circuit Educational Television Project was the first closed-circuit television network in aiding elementary school teaching by the use of television. The project took place in Washington County, Maryland, and started in September 1956.
History
The person in charge of the project was William M. Brish, who was the Superintendent of Schools for Washington County. The motivation for the project was that the county school system did not have enough teachers with sufficient training. Two large institutions, the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education and the Electronic Industries Association, sponsored the project and gave almost $1,500,000 () during the course of the project. This included $200,000 per year given by the Fund and the donation of $300,000 worth of equipment from a number of manufacturers via the Association. The project was distinct from other early efforts at educational television that relied upon broadcast stations.
The project had national visibility; The Austin American newspaper in Texas referred to it as a "pioneering" effort. Several reports on the project, during and after its duration, were prepared for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and presented in that society's journals and at its conferences.
The first year of the project saw eight elementary schools, with some 6,000 students, using the television system. Then during the second year, seven more were added. From its first year in use, Brish considered the project a success; however, he emphasized that it was not a replacement of traditional methods, telling a teachers' conference that "Television is not a teaching process. It does not replace the teacher or the book."
The project that had started in 1956 progressed to provide simultaneous telecasting to some 19,000 elementary students in the 45 county schools by 1962. As described by a member of the Board of Education of Washington County as part of a series on education television published in 1962 by the Bangor Daily News in Maine (where a debate on the merits of educational television was taking place), the television production facilities that the county used were the equal of those possessed by many commercial television stations.
There were about twenty-five school lessons broadcast daily through the private closed-circuit network. A large variety of subjects were taught over television, from remedial reading and arithmetic to art and music to advanced mathematics, biology, and chemistry. The teachers who gave the presentations in the television studio were drawn from the full set of classroom teachers in the county, and they coordinated instruction with what would be going on in the classroom.
Equipment
The initial system served eight elementary schools with 6,000 total students. There were forty-five public schools in Washington County altogether, and by the time the project concluded in 1961, all of them were connected to the close |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWeatherMap | OpenWeatherMap is an online service, owned by OpenWeather Ltd, that provides global weather data via API, including current weather data, forecasts, nowcasts and historical weather data for any geographical location. The company provides a minute-by-minute hyperlocal precipitation forecast for any location. The convolutional machine learning model is used to utilise meteorological broadcast services and data from airport weather stations, on-ground radar stations, weather satellites, remote sensing satellites, METAR and automated weather stations.
The company has more than 2 million customers, ranging from independent developers to Fortune 500 companies.
The variety of weather APIs provided by OpenWeatherMap have found a significant popularity among the software developers, which resulted in the growing multitude of repositories on GitHub. The APIs support multiple languages, units of measurement and industry standard data formats like JSON and XML.
In 2021, OpenWeatherMap launched a number of initiatives to support students, researchers and developers across the world.
Products and services
OpenWeatherMap provides a range of weather-related products in a variable combination of depth and steps of measurement to millions of clients globally. The product range includes current, historical and forecasted weather data with the granularity as high as 1 minute. The length of the nowcast reaches 2 hours, short-term forecast reaches 16 days and long-term forecast can reach up to 1 year length. Historical weather data goes over 40 years deep. OpenWeather also provides a range of weather maps and weather alert services.
In 2015, Google chose OpenWeatherMap as a weather data provider for its bid-by-weather script in Google Ads, that serves the ads based on the local weather conditions, such as temperature, humidity, and cloudiness. Same year, Google published documentation on how to use OpenWeather data to display weather conditions on Google Maps.
In 2020, Samsung included OpenWeatherMap into their Galaxy Watch Studio as a weather data provider for those willing to develop applications for Galaxy Watch.
In 2020, OpenWeatherMap has released its weather application for iOS and Android.
OpenWeather provides data for weather risk management on the individual agreement basis to the industries like energy, agriculture, transportation, construction, municipalities, travel, food processors, retail sales and real estate. OpenWeather also operates under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license providing free access to the APIs that include current weather, a minutely forecast for 1 hour, hourly forecast for 48 days, 3-hour forecast for 5 days, daily forecast for 7 days, short-term history, weather maps, alerts, geocoding, air quality weather triggers and weather widgets.
See also
AccuWeather
Weather Underground
ClimaCell
DarkSky (API no longer available after being bought by Apple)
References
External links
Meteorol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pred | Pred may refer to:
Prednisolone, as a tradename, and abbreviation
Predator, as an abbreviation
Macro (computer science), as an abbreviation of "predefined"/"predefinition"
Allan Pred (1936-2007) U.S. geographer
Michele Pred, Swedish-American feminist artist
See also
Predator (disambiguation), abbreviation of several entries
Predicate (disambiguation), abbreviation of several entries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult%20%28disambiguation%29 | A catapult is a device used to throw or hurl a projectile a great distance without the aid of explosive devices.
Catapult(s) or Catapulte may also refer to:
Computing
Catapult C, a high-level synthesis tool
Catapult, codename for Microsoft Proxy Server version 1.0, precursor of Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway
Catapult, a GUI for openMSX, an open source emulator for the MSX home computer architecture
Media and entertainment
Film
Staten Island Catapult, a documentary by Gregorio Smith
Catapult, a 2009 film set in Berlin
Music
Artists
Catapult (band), a Dutch Glam rock band
Elizabeth & The Catapult, the pseudonym of singer-songwriter Elizabeth Ziman
Catapult, former name of Dutch pop duo Fantastique
Albums
Catapult, an album by American rock musician Scott Helland
Songs
"Catapult" (song), a track from the album Recovering the Satellites by American rock band Counting Crows
"Catapult", a track from the album A Picture of Nectar by American rock band Phish
"Catapult", a track from the album Gloves by Australian pop band Operator Please
"Catapult", a track from the album Humbug by English rock band Arctic Monkeys
"Catapult", a track from the album Murmur by American rock band R.E.M.
"Catapult", a track from the album Written in Scars by Italian-English singer Jack Savoretti
Catapult, an EP by British drum and bass duo Calyx
Television
"Catapult", an episode of British children's TV series Bodger & Badger
"Catapult", an episode of US TV series Doing DaVinci
"Catapulte", an episode of French TV series Minuscule
Catapult, an event in the UK TV series Gladiators
Catapult, a challenge in the US TV series Knights and Warriors
Catapulte, a game in the French TV series Fort Boyard
Games
Catapult, a Czech arcade video game
Comics
Catapult, a member of the Exiles, a Malibu Comics superhero team
Catapult, a member of the Hellenders, a DC Comics superhero team
Military
M-46 Catapult, an Indian self-propelled Howitzer field gun
Operation Catapult, a naval battle in the Second World War, also known as the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
Aircraft catapult, a steam or electromagnetic device used to launch aircraft from ships
USS Catapult (LSM-445), later reclassified (YV-1), a US Navy Landing Ship Medium of World War II
Catapulte, a French Navy Arquebuse-class destroyer of World War I
Science
Catapult effect, an effect in electromagnetics
Amusement park rides
Catapult (ride), a ride at Six Flags New England amusement park
The Catapult, a ride at Lagoon amusement park, Utah
Le Catapult, a ride at Busch Gardens Williamsburg amusement park, Virginia
La Catapulte, a ride at La Ronde amusement park, Montreal
Companies
Catapult Sports, a manufacturer of wearable technology for athletes
Catapult, a publisher and magazine founded by Elizabeth Koch
Other
Catapult, a bungee jump variation
Catapult, a crowdfunding platform set up by Women Deliver, a global reproductive health advocacy organization
Catapult, a dance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Youth%20Association%20Switzerland | The United Nations Youth Association Switzerland (UNYA Switzerland; German: Jugend-UNO Netzwerk Schweiz; French: Réseau Suisse Jeunesse-ONU; Italian: Network Svizzero gioventù-ONU) is the national network for Model United Nations teams and UN-related youth associations in Switzerland.
General
UNYA Switzerland is the umbrella organization for Swiss student and youth associations related to the United Nations. Founded in 2007 by former Federal Councillor Micheline Calmy-Rey, the network gathers twelve associations from three linguistic regions in Switzerland. The majority are Model United Nations (MUN) teams that run simulations of UN conferences and organize various activities such as panel discussions or workshops about UN related issues.
Goals
The main goals of UNYA Switzerland are:
To promote the aims and objectives of the United Nations;
To coordinate the work of local UN youth organizations, as well as Model United Nations societies within Switzerland, and maintain regular knowledge transfer between them;
To support the organization of high-level academic simulations of UN conferences, organs, agencies and any other multilateral negotiation forum for students at university level or equivalent, as well as high school level or equivalent;
To promote, alongside the objectives and aims of the UN, those of Switzerland as a place of peace and multilateral democracy, as well as cultural exchange;
To supplement the formation of its participating individuals by bringing a practical dimension to their theoretical knowledge.
Projects
At the national level, UNYA Switzerland coordinates the activities of its member associations and realizes a variety of different projects.
There are several projects that take place annually. JUNESMUN is a national Model United Nations conference that covers topics that are currently discussed in the UN. ISYFUN, the intra-Swiss Forum on the United Nations, is another major event that include a visit to the UN headquarters in Geneva. In addition, a workshop on a UN related topic, a MUN Workshop (e.g. a training on rhetoric, Rules of Procedures), a panel discussion and MiniMUN (Model United Nations conferences at high schools) are organized each year.
Besides that, UNYA Switzerland conducts various nonrecurring events. In 2011, a large youth UN General Assembly was held in the House of Parliament in Bern. This event took place in connection with the election of Joseph Deiss as the president of the UN General Assembly. The same year, a media workshop was conducted for MUN teams from across Europe. This workshop aimed to strengthen the communication skills of youth associations in order to raise awareness of UN issues more effectively. In 2013, an intercultural study project is being organized that focuses on the issue of corporate social responsibility. Several events are held in Switzerland and a study trip to Ghana in cooperation with UNYA Ghana takes places.
Collaboration
UNYA Switzerland is a member of the SNYC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Zone%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | The Zone was an Australian video game focused television program that aired on the Nine Network on Saturday mornings at 8:30AM AEST from 30 April 1994 to 1 July 1995. The show was produced by Beyond Television Productions and was hosted for the majority of its run by Adam Reilly.
Overview
The Zone took on a format similar to most magazine-style programs on television. The show generally opened with an introduction from Reilly of what would be on the show that week, followed by the latest gaming news, previews, reviews and other content such as TV show parodies or lessons in gamer jargon. The show also presented tips and cheats for current games, and held competitions for viewers. Sega Ozisoft was a major sponsor of the show, but the program covered games from several platforms popular at the time including the Super Nintendo, Sega Mega Drive, PC and arcade, as well as the 3DO.
The reviews and previews were typically presented by two people, many of whom were Sydney-based freelancers or worked on magazines such as Hyper and Gamestar. Despite being a contributor to a number of magazines, presenter Amos Wong drew the ire of many Nintendo Magazine System readers for reviewing games on Sega platforms on the show. Adam Reilly was originally brought in to do the music, but wound up being the host when a suitable candidate could not be found, and his screen test was well received. Reilly would later leave the show to pursue a music career; hosting duties would be later taken up by producer and presenter Justin "Muttlee" Mansour and actress Megan Connolly.
Each episode of the show was produced on Monday, before it aired on the following Saturday morning. Due to the show's 'G' rating and the early morning timeslot in which it aired, The Zone was unable to show gameplay footage of games with a rating higher than 'M', which many of the popular titles of the time such as Doom and Mortal Kombat II carried. Rather than simply not covering these titles, the on-screen talent of the show would act out gameplay sequences from these games instead. The Zone was notorious for its low budget; according to one member of the crew, the show was filmed in a disused storage room.
The show was cancelled in 1995, after just one year on air. The precise reasons for the cancellation of The Zone are not known. The final episode made fun of the fact that the show had gotten the axe; however two episodes remain unaired.
Legacy
Due to the aged nature of the content, the potential rights issues concerning footage and the distinct lack of a market, it is unlikely that The Zone will ever see any sort of official release on DVD or other home video formats. However some dedicated fans and former crew have posted episodes of the show on YouTube, usually captured from VHS tapes that were used to record the show on their first airing.
See also
Good Game
References
External links
Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone… on Dizrythmia.
Australian non-fiction television series
Nine Networ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS%20network | The Arab Broadcasting Services network is a broadcasting, media and news provider network that has been operating in the Middle East for over 16 years.
It currently operates around the world in Jordan (the company headquarters is located in the capital city of Amman), Iraq (in both Baghdad and Erbil), the United States (in both New York and Washington), Dubai, Beirut, Cairo and Afghanistan.
History
ABS Network was started by Jordanian media entrepreneur Mohammed Al-Ajlouni as a subsidy of his media company, Jordan Multimedia Productions (JMP). Aljouni, a former Middle East Operations' Manager for ABC, formed the broadcasting network to fill a perceived media niche in the Middle East. The network quickly earned the exclusive right to provide Uplink services to Jordan TV.
They've worked together with several major international news organizations, including Al Jazeera, BBC, and Reuters to cover major news stories such as the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the Arab Spring.
Aljouni also operates news agency Arab 24.
Services
Satellite news gathering (SNG) and electronic news gathering (ENG) technology services.
Full reporting facilities covering current events.
14 studio facilities.
Retailer for film production and satellite broadcasting equipment.
News Agency and an Archive source for the major events in the region.
Clients
Al Jazeera Network
Al Jazeera International
Al Jazeera Sports
BBC Arabic
Abu Dhabi TV
Dubai TV
Reuters
CNBC
Fox News
Alhurra TV
References
External links
ABS Website
Mass media companies established in 1993
News agencies based in Jordan
Arab news agencies
Jordanian companies established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magnificent%20Ambersons%20%282002%20film%29 | The Magnificent Ambersons is an A&E Network film for television, inspired by Booth Tarkington's novel The Magnificent Ambersons. It was filmed using Orson Welles's screenplay and editing notes of the original film. Directed by Alfonso Arau, the film stars Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Greenwood, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly, Dina Merrill and James Cromwell. This film does not strictly follow Welles's screenplay. It lacks several scenes included in the 1942 version, and contains essentially the same happy ending as Tarkington's novel.
Plot
Cast
Madeleine Stowe as Isabel Amberson Minafer
Bruce Greenwood as Eugene Morgan
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Amberson Minafer
Gretchen Mol as Lucy Morgan
Jennifer Tilly as Fanny Minafer
William Hootkins as Uncle George
Dina Merrill as Mrs. Johnson
James Cromwell as Major Amberson
Keith Allen as George - Age 9
Jane Brennan as Nurse
References
External links
2000s American films
2000s English-language films
2002 drama films
2002 television films
2002 films
A&E (TV network) original films
American drama television films
Films based on adaptations
Films based on American novels
Films based on works by Booth Tarkington
Films directed by Alfonso Arau
Films with screenplays by Orson Welles
Remakes of American films
RKO Pictures films
Television films based on books
Television remakes of films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%20Supercharger | Tesla Supercharger is a high-voltage direct current (DC) fast-charging network built by American vehicle manufacturer Tesla, Inc. for electric cars.
The Supercharger network was introduced on September 24, 2012, as the Tesla Model S entered production, with six sites in California, Nevada and Arizona. , Tesla operates a network of 5,500 Supercharger stations with 50,000 connectors. The stations are primarily deployed in three regions: Asia Pacific (over 2,000), North America (over 2,000) and Europe (over 1,000). Superchargers supply electrical power at 72 kilowatts (kW), 100 kW, 150 kW or 250 kW, with the maximum amount increasing over the years as the company improves its technology.
Usage is typically billed by the energy consumed during charging. In jurisdictions that prohibit billing by consumption, customers are instead billed by time spent charging. As a promotion, Tesla has offered to customers free supercharging for the life of the car or charging credits. Idle fees may be charged to customers who remain plugged in after charging has been completed to discourage loitering.
Technology
Tesla typically places Superchargers near major highways at locations with amenities for drivers such as restrooms, restaurants and shopping. Many stations also have solar canopies installed by Tesla Energy to offset energy use and provide drivers with protection from the elements.
When connected to a Supercharger, the alternating current (AC) to DC charger onboard the car is bypassed, and instead a much larger external charger is used, delivering high-power DC voltage directly into the vehicle.
When a vehicle is plugged in, a pin in the vehicle locks the connector in place and a controller in the vehicle begins communicating with a controller in the charge post through one of the wires in the cable, called the control pilot. A series of tests take place as power begins flowing to the vehicle. If the tests pass, the vehicle's onboard controller requests that the charge post controller increase the flow of electricity to match the optimal level needed for charging the battery at its present state of charge, and charging begins. During the entire process, the two controllers remain in communication to adjust the flow of electricity to remain at the optimal level. When a button on the connector is held down, or a command is given by another method, the flow of electricity stops, and the lock is disengaged to allow removal.
Tesla uses a "plug and charge" system where the vehicle is identified when plugged in and the cost of charging is deducted from the payment method associated with the vehicle.
The original V1 and V2 Tesla supercharging stations were built with a single charger equipment cabinet shared between two charge posts. Because of this arrangement, if two cars are connected, and both request the maximum power available (100 kW for V1 and 150 kW for V2), the charger will only deliver half the maximum power.
As an alternative to the Supercharger |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakewood%20station | Lakewood station is a commuter rail station in Lakewood, Washington, United States. It is the terminus of the S Line of the Sounder commuter rail network, operated by Sound Transit in the Seattle metropolitan area. The station, located along Pacific Highway Southwest, includes a 620-stall parking garage and several bus bays served by Intercity Transit and Sound Transit Express. Lakewood station was originally scheduled to open in 2002 as part of a Sounder extension, but plans were delayed due to funding issues and the state government's work on the Point Defiance Bypass project. Construction on the $33 million station and garage began in March 2007 and it opened for use by buses on September 18, 2008. Sounder service to Lakewood began in October 2012 and the pedestrian bridge opened a few months later.
Description
Lakewood station is located along Pacific Highway near its intersection with 47th Avenue Southwest, to the east of central Lakewood. The station consists of a single side platform along the double-tracked Point Defiance Bypass, and an adjacent bus station with six bays. A four-story parking garage with 620 parking spaces is north of the bus station and includes a pedestrian bridge over the tracks to Kendrick Street Southwest, near St. Clare Hospital. The garage also has 18 covered parking spaces for bicycles.
The station was designed by Hewitt Architects and includes one piece of public art commissioned by Sound Transit, Transpire, a cast bronze sculpture by Mark Calderon that depicts a campfire with intertwined spires. The original design of the sculpture attracted controversy for being phallic in nature, which conflicted with the city's stance against prostitution and sex businesses that had historically operated along Pacific Highway.
History
A commuter rail line serving Pierce County was first considered in the late 1980s by Metro Transit, but were limited to proposals that terminated in Tacoma. The regional transit plan published in 1993 initially excluded Lakewood, but a new regional transit authority (which would later become Sound Transit) added the city to its commuter rail studies in late 1993. The Lakewood–Seattle commuter rail line was included in a 1995 ballot measure, along with a feasibility study for an extension to DuPont, but it was defeated by suburban voters. The transit plan returned on the November 1996 ballot and was passed by voters, allocating $9 million in funding to the Lakewood commuter rail station.
The Lakewood segment of the commuter rail system was originally scheduled to open in 2002, shortly after the start of service from Tacoma to Seattle in 2000. Insufficient sales tax revenue, increased construction costs, design changes requested by Tacoma officials, and the state government's delays in planning the Point Defiance Bypass moved the projected opening date to 2007 and later 2012. Lakewood's city government selected a site on Pacific Highway Southwest near Bridgeport Way as its preferred location |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Tacoma%20station | South Tacoma station is a commuter rail station in Tacoma, Washington, United States, served by the S Line of the Sounder commuter rail network. It is located near the Tacoma Mall along South Tacoma Way at South 56th Street and consists of a single platform and a 220-stall park-and-ride lot. Construction on the station began in early 2008 and the park-and-ride lot opened in February 2009, with service from a temporary express bus that operated until Sounder service began in October 2012.
Description
South Tacoma station is located southwest of South Tacoma Way at its intersection with South 56th Street in southern Tacoma. The station's platform runs along a section of Washington Street between 56th and 60th streets and includes five passenger shelters, bicycle racks, and four bicycle lockers. The southern portion of the platform is also a one-way drop-off zone for vehicles and buses and is adjacent to a 220-stall parking lot for commuters on the west side of the track, at South 60th Street and South Adams Street. South Tacoma station is located southwest of the Tacoma Mall and is in a major heavy industrial area, with some mixed commercial and residential land uses.
The station has two sculptures by New York artist Ilan Averbuch, who was commissioned by Sound Transit through their public art program. At the north end of the platform is Landmark, a pair of upturned, cor-ten steel and granite arches that were inspired by the shape of train wheels and the dome of Union Station in downtown Tacoma. The End of the Line runs along most of the platform as a granite ribbon that emerges from the pavement in the shape of a railroad spike near the south end.
History
A commuter rail station in southern Tacoma was proposed in 1994 by the regional transit authority (later Sound Transit) as part of a line between Lakewood and Seattle. It was included in the unsuccessful 1995 ballot measure to fund regional transit and returned in the Sound Move referendum that was passed by voters in November 1996. Sound Move allocated $7 million in funding for the South Tacoma station, tentatively located at South 56th Street.
The scheduled opening of the Lakewood extension, including South Tacoma's station, was originally set for 2001, but was delayed eleven years due to planning and funding issues in the early 2000s. Sound Transit named three potential sites for South Tacoma's commuter rail station and parking lot in 2000: South 58th and Adams street, South 50th Street and Burlington Way at the site of an old Northern Pacific depot, and the intersection of South 56th and Adams streets, preferred by Sound Transit and attendees of public hearings for its proximity to the street. The South 56th and Adam site, which extended south towards 60th Street, remained the agency's preferred location and was adopted by the transit board in December 2002.
The site of the station was shifted to the southern alternative at South 58th Street to avoid longer delays for vehicles travel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Bollen | Johan Lambert Trudo Maria Bollen (born 1971) is a scientist investigating complex systems and networks, the relation between social media and a variety of socio-economic phenomena such as the financial markets, public health, and social well-being, as well as Science of Science with a focus on impact metrics derived from usage data. He presently works as associate professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics of Indiana University Bloomington and a fellow at the SparcS Institute of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands. He is best known for his work on scholarly impact metrics, measuring public well-being from large-scale social media data, and correlating Twitter mood to stock market prices.
He has taught courses on data mining, information retrieval, and digital libraries. His research has been funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In his free time, he DJs at the Root Cellar Lounge in Bloomington, Indiana. He specializes in Deep House and Techno.
Biography
Bollen received his MS in experimental psychology from the Free University of Brussels in 1993 after a master thesis "Learning to Select Activities: a Conditionable System for an Autonomous Robot that Learns to Use Drive Reduction as Reinforcement." He defended his Ph.D. in psychology from the Free University of Brussels in October 2001 on the subject of cognitive models of human hypertext navigation.
From 2002 to 2005 he was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University. He was a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005 to 2009. He is currently a professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing.
Work
Bollen's work has been extensively covered in the press and popular media and has received over 6,900 citations (2016 h-index 33). Bollen was awarded two patents: one for "Usage based indicators to assess the impact of scholarly works: architecture and method" (US 8135662 B2) and "Predicting economic trends via network communication mood tracking" (US 8380607 B2). His work has found widespread application, e.g. in systems for digital library recommendations systems (Ex Libris bX Recommender Service) and in systems that use social media information to generate financial trading signals. As a result of his work on predicting the stock market based on Twitter mood, Derwent Capital Markets started the Absolute Return fund, the worlds's first Twitter hedge fund. However, it later shut down after thirteen months.
Selected academic works
Bollen has published over 70 papers. A selection of the highly cited ones:
2011, Twitter mood predicts the stock market.
2005, Co-authorship networks in the digital library research community.
2009, Modeling public mood and emotion: Twitter sentiment and socio-economic phenomena
2006: Bollen, Johan; Ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Knowledge%20Network | National Knowledge Network (NKN) is a multi-gigabit national research and education network, whose purpose is to provide a unified high speed network backbone for educational and research institutions in India. The network is managed by the National Informatics Centre.
Details
The NKN is a hierarchical network divided into three basic layers – ultra-high speed CORE (multiples of 10 Gbit/s; Level 1), Distribution (Level 2), and Edge (speeds of 1 Gbit/s or higher; User Level). Depending on the type of connectivity required by the user organization, geographical presence, and the location of Point of Presence (PoP) of NKN, (belonging to Core and Distribution), connectivity would be provided to the institutes. NKN backbone will typically have 18 Core PoPs and around 25 Distribution PoPs across the country. The NKN backbone will be created by multiple bandwidth providers and the edges can be provided by any service provider.
The network is designed to support Overlay Networks, Dedicated Networks, and Virtual Networks. Advanced applications in areas such as Health, Education, Science & Technology, Grid Computing, Bioinformatics, Agriculture, and Governance will be an integral part of NKN. The entire network will seamlessly integrate with the global scientific community at multiple gigabits per second speed.
IP and ASn resources
National Knowledge Network has got the following resources from APNIC (Regional Internet registry for Asia-Pacific Region).
IPv6 Segment—
2405:8A00::/32
2409::/28
IPv4 Segment—
14.139.0.0/16
180.149.48.0/20
AS Numbers—
9885
55824
55847
IPv6 implementation
NKN has got 2405:8A00::/32 IPv6 block from APNIC (Regional Internet registry for Asia-Pacific Region) and allocating /48 block to every connected member institution.
/48 is allocated to connected member so that member institute can do multihoming, if required.
DNSSEC
NKN is DNSSEC enabled.
Public lectures
Annual workshops
Events
See also
National Optical Fibre Network
ERNET
National Informatics Centre
Digital India
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
References
Sources
NKN as per DEITY
NKN Concept, Design and Realization by Prof S V Raghavan
NKN to cover 1500 institutes. Business Standard
GARUDA-NKN. Gardua India
External links
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
National Informatics Centre
National research and education networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alg%C3%A9rie%20T%C3%A9l%C3%A9com | Algeria Telecommunications Corporation (, ) is a state-owned and the main telephone company in Algeria. It is the sole operator of the fixed telephony network and ADSL in the country.
Algérie Télécom is a subsidiary of after the latter's creation in 2017.
Activities
It introduced optical fiber since February 2018 to provide very high speed access.
They mainly use the traditional fixed line, possibly equipped with ADSL, and are marketed under the brands of Algérie Télécom, fixed telephony and low-speed Internet (by modem), high-speed (by ADSL) and very high-speed (by optical fiber).
On September 30, 2022, the number of fixed Internet subscribers (ADSL, FTTH and 4G LTE/Wimax) was 4.46 million (4.02 million on September 30, 2021).
Among the 4.46 million fixed internet subscribers, 2.75 million subscribed to broadband internet (ADSL), 1.35 million to fixed 4G LTE, 353,039 to optical fiber to the home (FTTH) and 320 to WiMAX technology.
Among the overall number of fixed Internet subscribers (4.46 million), 4.35 million were residential subscribers and 110,417 business subscribers. As for subscribers to the various fixed Internet offers, 85.07% had speeds between 10 and 20 Megas, 14.69% between 20 and 50 Megas and 0.19% between 50 and 100 Megas.
In October 2021, Algérie Télécom announced that it had increased the internet speed from 2 Mbps to 10 Mbps, which becomes the minimum speed in Algeria.
On November 14, 2022, Algérie Télécom reveals a new Idoom VDSL offer allowing customers and their families to take full advantage of a very high speed connection of up to 50 megabytes.
On November 15, 2022, Algérie Télécom announces the launch of its new range of IDOOM Fiber offers on higher speed levels, up to 300MB. These new offers, intended for residential customers, are as follows:
The customer with an internet subscription up to 100 MB will systematically benefit from an increase in speed up to 300 MB at the same rate, i.e. 6999 DA;
The customer with an internet subscription up to 50 MB will systematically benefit from an increase in speed up to 100 MB at the same rate, i.e. 3599 DA;
The price of the debit level up to 50 MB now goes to 2999 DA, instead of 3599 DA, i.e. a price reduction of more than 16%;
A new level of debit up to 200 MB enriches the range of offers available, with an exceptional price of 4999 DA.
On December 6, 2022, Algérie Télécom launches, with the contribution of the Algerian Center for Cinema Development (CADC), and the National Center for Cinematography and Audio-visual (CNCA), its new video on demand service called "Dzair Play".
Network coverage
Optical fiber
In 2017, Algérie Télécom claimed to have more than of optical fiber network.
As of December 31, 2021, nearly of fiber optic cables had been deployed, according to the CEO of Groupe Télécom Algérie, Khaled Zarat.
Corporate affairs
Management
Messaoud Chettih (2000-2002)
Brahim Ouaret (2002-2004)
Khireddine Slimane (2004-2006)
Mouloud Djaziri (2006-20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20McCurley | Kevin McCurley may refer to:
Kevin McCurley (cryptographer), American mathematician, computer scientist and cryptographer
Kevin McCurley (footballer) (1926–2000), English football forward |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Computational%20Intelligence%20Methods%20for%20Bioinformatics%20and%20Biostatistics | The International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB) is a yearly scientific conference focused on machine learning and computational intelligence applied to bioinformatics and biostatistics.
Organization and history
The CIBB conferences are typically organized by members of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) and the International Neural Network Society (INNS), among others. Their main themes are machine learning, data mining, and computational intelligence algorithms applied to biological and biostatistical problems.
The CIBB conference was originally started by Francesco Masulli (Università di Genova), Antonina Starita (Università di Pisa), and Roberto Tagliaferri (Università di Salerno) as a special session within other international conferences held in Italy: the 14th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (2004), the 6th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (2005), the 7th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (2006), and the 7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (2007). Because of the broad participation of researchers to the CIBB special session at the latter meeting, which included twenty-six submitted papers, the CIBB steering committee decided to turn CIBB into an autonomous conference starting with the 2008 edition in Vietri sul Mare, Italy.
During their first editions, the CIBB conferences were organized and attended mainly by Italian researchers at various academic locations throughout Italy. As international audience and importance of the conference grew, following editions moved outside Italy. The 2012 CIBB conference was held for the first time outside Europe, in Houston, Texas.
Format
The conference is a single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. It usually lasts three days in September, and traditionally includes some special sessions about the application of computational intelligence to specific aspects of biology (for example, the "Special session on machine learning in health informatics and biological systems" at CIBB 2018,) and occasionally some tutorials.
At the 2011 conference edition in Gargnano, the scientific committee gave a young researcher best paper award.
Publications
Proceedings of the conferences are published as a book series by Springer Science+Business Media, whereas selected papers are published in journals such as BMC Bioinformatics.
References
External links
CIBB conference series on WikiCfp.com
Artificial intelligence conferences
Computer science conferences
Bioinformatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Carolina%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce | The North Carolina Chamber of Commerce is a business network and advocacy organization whose chief mission is to promote business interests in the state of North Carolina. The NC Chamber is an affiliate of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Its headquarters are located in Raleigh, NC.
Priorities
The NC Chamber has identified three priorities, or "pillars of a strong future", that are critical to building a stronger economy in North Carolina:
Education and workforce development in public schools, community colleges, and universities.
A competitive business climate with business-friendly tax and regulatory systems.
Effective economic development strategies and tools, including business tax credits and incentives and infrastructure improvements.
The NC Chamber is active in numerous issues across the political, legislative, and regulatory arenas. These issues include: education & workforce development, energy, environmental & regulatory reform, health care, infrastructure, labor & workplace issues, manufacturing, taxes, tort reform & legal claim, unemployment insurance reform, and workers' compensation.
Membership
The NC Chamber comprises several local chambers of commerce from cities, towns, counties, and regions across North Carolina. Member organizations include: Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, and Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce.
Financial Support
The NC Chamber receives financial support from numerous North Carolina businesses and corporations. NC Chamber supporters and investors include: AT&T North Carolina, Bank of America, Case Farms, Coastal AgroBusiness, Food Lion, GlaxoSmithKline, Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Hillshire Farms, Hog Slat, Pilgrim's, Reynolds American, Smithfield Foods, Valley Proteins, and Wal-Mart Stores.
Activities
Awards
The NC Chamber presents annual awards to individuals who have made significant contributions to the economy of North Carolina. In 2013, the NC Chamber presented the Corning Award for Distinguished Citizenship to pork producer Wendell H. Murphy, former chairman and CEO of Murphy Family Farms, an affiliate of Smithfield Foods. The 2013 Award for Distinguished Public Service was presented to The Honorable David Hoyle, former NC Secretary of Revenue and member of the North Carolina State Senate.
Conferences
The NC Chamber coordinates numerous annual conferences, including the NC Conference on Education, Energy Conference, Environmental Management Summit, Government Affairs Conference, Health Care Summit, Manufacturing Summit, and Tax Conference.
Legislation
The NC Chamber is a lobbying organization that actively promotes business interests in the North Carolina General Assembly, the state's law-making body.
NC Commerce Protection Act of 2013
The NC Chamber, along with the North Carolina Commerce Coalition, was a major suppor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-distributed%20stochastic%20neighbor%20embedding | t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is a statistical method for visualizing high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in a two or three-dimensional map. It is based on Stochastic Neighbor Embedding originally developed by Geoffrey Hinton and Sam Roweis, where Laurens van der Maaten proposed the t-distributed variant. It is a nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique for embedding high-dimensional data for visualization in a low-dimensional space of two or three dimensions. Specifically, it models each high-dimensional object by a two- or three-dimensional point in such a way that similar objects are modeled by nearby points and dissimilar objects are modeled by distant points with high probability.
The t-SNE algorithm comprises two main stages. First, t-SNE constructs a probability distribution over pairs of high-dimensional objects in such a way that similar objects are assigned a higher probability while dissimilar points are assigned a lower probability. Second, t-SNE defines a similar probability distribution over the points in the low-dimensional map, and it minimizes the Kullback–Leibler divergence (KL divergence) between the two distributions with respect to the locations of the points in the map. While the original algorithm uses the Euclidean distance between objects as the base of its similarity metric, this can be changed as appropriate. A Riemannian variant is UMAP.
t-SNE has been used for visualization in a wide range of applications, including genomics, computer security research, natural language processing, music analysis, cancer research, bioinformatics, geological domain interpretation, and biomedical signal processing.
While t-SNE plots often seem to display clusters, the visual clusters can be influenced strongly by the chosen parameterization and therefore a good understanding of the parameters for t-SNE is necessary. Such "clusters" can be shown to even appear in non-clustered data, and thus may be false findings. Interactive exploration may thus be necessary to choose parameters and validate results. It has been demonstrated that t-SNE is often able to recover well-separated clusters, and with special parameter choices, approximates a simple form of spectral clustering.
For a data set with n elements, t-SNE runs in time and requires space.
Details
Given a set of high-dimensional objects , t-SNE first computes probabilities that are proportional to the similarity of objects and , as follows.
For , define
and set .
Note that for all .
As Van der Maaten and Hinton explained: "The similarity of datapoint to datapoint is the conditional probability, , that would pick as its neighbor if neighbors were picked in proportion to their probability density under a Gaussian centered at ."
Now define
This is motivated because and from the N samples are estimated as 1/N, so the conditional probability can be written as and . Since , you can obtain previous fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term%20support | Long-term support (LTS) is a product lifecycle management policy in which a stable release of computer software is maintained for a longer period of time than the standard edition. The term is typically reserved for open-source software, where it describes a software edition that is supported for months or years longer than the software's standard edition.
Short term support (STS) is a term that distinguishes the support policy for the software's standard edition. STS software has a comparatively short life cycle, and may be afforded new features that are omitted from the LTS edition to avoid potentially compromising the stability or compatibility of the LTS release.
Characteristics
LTS applies the tenets of reliability engineering to the software development process and software release life cycle. Long-term support extends the period of software maintenance; it also alters the type and frequency of software updates (patches) to reduce the risk, expense, and disruption of software deployment, while promoting the dependability of the software. It does not necessarily imply technical support.
At the beginning of a long-term support period, the software developers impose a feature freeze: They make patches to correct software bugs and vulnerabilities, but do not introduce new features that may cause regression. The software maintainer either distributes patches individually, or packages them in maintenance releases, point releases, or service packs. At the conclusion of the support period, the product either reaches end-of-life, or receives a reduced level of support for a period of time (e.g., high-priority security patches only).
Rationale
Before upgrading software, a decision-maker might consider the risk and cost of the upgrade.
As software developers add new features and fix software bugs, they may introduce new bugs or break old functionality. When such a flaw occurs in software, it is called a regression. Two ways that a software publisher or maintainer can reduce the risk of regression are to release major updates less frequently, and to allow users to test an alternate, updated version of the software. LTS software applies these two risk-reduction strategies. The LTS edition of the software is published in parallel with the STS (short-term support) edition. Since major updates to the STS edition are published more frequently, it offers LTS users a preview of changes that might be incorporated into the LTS edition when those changes are judged to be of sufficient quality.
While using older versions of software may avoid the risks associated with upgrading, it may introduce the risk of losing support for the old software. Long-term support addresses this by assuring users and administrators that the software will be maintained for a specific period of time, and that updates selected for publication will carry a significantly reduced risk of regression. The maintainers of LTS software only publish updates that either have low IT risk o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic%20History%20Network | The Apostolic History Network is an interdenominational and independent organization researching Apostolic church history. Apostolic History Network is a registered charity under the name of Netzwerk Apostolische Geschichte e.V. at the court of Bielefeld, Germany.
Literature
Proceedings, directly from the network Apostolic History
Die apostolischen Gemeinden im Umbruch - 1863 bis 1900. Nürtingen 2008,
Aufbau, Ausbau, Trennungen. Die Entwicklung der apostolischen Gemeinschaften im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts. Nürtingen 2009,
Kirche auf dem Weg - die apostolischen Gemeinschaften im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bielefeld 2010,
Frankfurt im Spiegel der Geschichte der Apostolischen Gemeinschaften. Steinhagen 2013,
The selection of literature or works of members of the network Apostolic History
Wissen, Volker: Zur Freiheit berufen - Ein Porträt der Vereinigung Apostolischer Gemeinden und ihrer Gliedkirchen, Remscheid 2008,
Diersmann, Edwin: An ihren Früchten sollt ihr sie erkennen - Das Erbe von F.W. Schwarz, ReDi-Roma Verlag, 10.2007,
Eberle, Mathias: Die Liturgie. - Andachtsbuch zum Gebrauch bei allen Gottesdiensten der christlichen Kirche. Hamburg, 1864. Kommentierte Neuausgabe mit den Änderungen der zweiten Auflage von 1894., Nürtingen 2008, Edition Punctum Saliens Verlag
Wissen, Volker: Theologische Entwicklungen der Vereinigung Apostolischer Gemeinden (VAG) von 1956 bis heute., Remscheid 2009,
Diersmann, Edwin: Die Kirchenspaltung in der HAZEA Edition Punctum Saliens Verlag, Bielefeld 2011,
Fadire, Peter: Das Werk des Herrn ReDi-Roma Verlag, 2011,
References
External links
apostolische-geschichte.de - Official site of Netzwerk Apostolische Geschichte
APWiki.de - Encyclopedia of the apostolic faith communities under the leadership of the Apostolic History Network
archiv-brockhagen.de - Official Site of the archive Brockhagen
apostolische-dokumente.de - online archive of freely downloadable books
Irvingism
Organizations established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20reporting | In data processing operational reporting is reporting about operational details that reflects current activity. Operational reporting is intended to support the day-to-day activities of the organization. "Examples of operational reporting include bank teller end-of-day window balancing reports, daily account audits and adjustments, daily production records, flight-by-flight traveler logs and transaction logs."
See also
Business reporting
List of reporting software
Reporting (disambiguation)
References
Business intelligence
Data processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermite%20distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the Hermite distribution, named after Charles Hermite, is a discrete probability distribution used to model count data with more than one parameter. This distribution is flexible in terms of its ability to allow a moderate over-dispersion in the data.
The authors Kemp and Kemp have called it "Hermite distribution" from the fact its probability function and the moment generating function can be expressed in terms of the coefficients of (modified) Hermite polynomials.
History
The distribution first appeared in the paper Applications of Mathematics to Medical Problems, by Anderson Gray McKendrick in 1926. In this work the author explains several mathematical methods that can be applied to medical research. In one of this methods he considered the bivariate Poisson distribution and showed that the distribution of the sum of two correlated Poisson variables follow a distribution that later would be known as Hermite distribution.
As a practical application, McKendrick considered the distribution of counts of bacteria in leucocytes. Using the method of moments he fitted the data with the Hermite distribution and found the model more satisfactory than fitting it with a Poisson distribution.
The distribution was formally introduced and published by C. D. Kemp and Adrienne W. Kemp in 1965 in their work Some Properties of ‘Hermite’ Distribution. The work is focused on the properties of this distribution for instance a necessary condition on the parameters and their maximum likelihood estimators (MLE), the analysis of the probability generating function (PGF) and how it can be expressed in terms of the coefficients of (modified) Hermite polynomials. An example they have used in this publication is the distribution of counts of bacteria in leucocytes that used McKendrick but Kemp and Kemp estimate the model using the maximum likelihood method.
Hermite distribution is a special case of discrete compound Poisson distribution with only two parameters.
The same authors published in 1966 the paper An alternative Derivation of the Hermite Distribution. In this work established that the Hermite distribution can be obtained formally by combining a Poisson distribution with a normal distribution.
In 1971, Y. C. Patel did a comparative study of various estimation procedures for the Hermite distribution in his doctoral thesis. It included maximum likelihood, moment estimators, mean and zero frequency estimators and the method of even points.
In 1974, Gupta and Jain did a research on a generalized form of Hermite distribution.
Definition
Probability mass function
Let X1 and X2 be two independent Poisson variables with parameters a1 and a2. The probability distribution of the random variable Y = X1 + 2X2 is the Hermite distribution with parameters a1 and a2 and probability mass function is given by
where
n = 0, 1, 2, ...
a1, a2 ≥ 0.
(n − 2j)! and j! are the factorials of (n − 2j) and j, respectively.
is the i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Little%20Pony%3A%20Friendship%20Is%20Magic%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, developed by Lauren Faust, originally aired on the Hub Network in the United States. The series is based on Hasbro's My Little Pony line of toys and animated works and is often referred by collectors to be the fourth generation, or "G4", of the My Little Pony franchise. Season 4 of the series premiered on November 23, 2013 on the Hub Network, an American pay television channel partly owned by Hasbro, and concluded on May 10, 2014.
The show follows a pony named Twilight Sparkle as she learns about friendship in the town of Ponyville. Twilight, who has just become an alicorn princess, continues to learn with her close friends Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. Each represents a different face of friendship, and Twilight discovers herself to be a key part of the magical artifacts, the "Elements of Harmony". The ponies share adventures and help out other residents of Ponyville, while working out the troublesome moments in their own friendships.
Development
Concept
Season 4 continues from the events of the third season finale, "Magical Mystery Cure", where Twilight, shown to have come to hone her magic skills while learning the value of friendship, has been crowned as Equestria's newest princess, becoming an alicorn in the process. Some elements of the season focus on Twilight coming to terms with her new status; lead writer Meghan McCarthy stated that "What we didn't want to do was change who Twilight is as a character, because she's certainly someone that everyone's proud to know and love", while Tara Strong, the voice actress for Twilight, claimed that the episode is "a birth of a new era for Twilight, but not the end of what makes the show so wonderful". In addition, with the directive of the letters to Princess Celestia no longer in force, the six main characters also resolve to keep a collective journal of their formative experiences for posterity's sake. According to a Twitter post from McCarthy, the season also includes a story arc that features the ponies on the hunt to find keys to open a mysterious six locked chest.
Production
Investment documents for DHX Media's 2012 financial year indicate that production for a fourth season had been financed. Before the season premiered, aspects of it were discussed by Meghan McCarthy, Tara Strong and other writers and voice actors at various fan conventions. Hasbro's vice president for international distribution, Finn Arnesen, had stated that My Little Pony is a "top-priority" brand for the company and expects the series to continue beyond the fourth season. The fourth season of the series premiered on November 23, 2013. This season marks the first time storyboard artist Jim Miller will be co-directing alongside Jayson Thiessen. This season also marks the first time to be executive produced by Thiessen and McCarthy.
Cast
Main
Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
Rebecca Shoichet as Twi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Economic%20Journal | The World Economic Journal () is a monthly business magazine published in Russian and English. The international English edition covers world economic data, dynamics, and analytics directly from Russia.
History
The magazine was established by the British not-for-profit partnership World Organization of Creditors in 2009 and is regularly published in Russia since then. It is published and distributed in the United States and Canada since 2011. Since 2013, three additional editions are available: French, German and Spanish.
Distribution
In the United States, the magazine is sold through Hudson News. In Russia, it is distributed by subscription and presented at international economic forums, conferences, and relevant organizations and structures, such as the State Duma, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the Association of Russian banks and others.
References
External links
Multilingual magazines
Magazines established in 2009
Monthly magazines published in Russia
Business magazines published in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Court%20Wars | Food Court Wars is an American competitive reality television cooking show on the Food Network that puts two teams of entrepreneurs in a shopping mall together with the teams having to battle each other in order to win a food court restaurant of their own, rent-free, for a year. Each week's show is at a different city mall in the United States. The malls want to open a new "local" eatery in the mall's food court that offer a fresh, region-specific menu. The teams test, market, then run their concept for a full day feeding shoppers. The team restaurant that makes the most profit at the end of the day wins their eatery space, which is a prize worth an estimated $100,000, and the losing team must vacate the premises. The show premiered on July 7, 2013. The first season finale, which was a rebroadcast of the pilot episode, aired on August 18, 2013. Season 2 premiered on February 23, 2014, and consisted of thirteen episodes.
Summary
Food Court Wars pits two teams of food entrepreneurs against one another as they battle to win their own food court restaurant. The team whose restaurant makes the most profit wins their eatery space—a prize worth $100,000.
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2014)
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropp | Gropp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bill Gropp, American computer scientist
Reint E. Gropp (born 1966), German economist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-stage%20programming | Multi-stage programming (MSP) is a variety of metaprogramming in which compilation is divided into a series of intermediate phases, allowing typesafe run-time code generation.
Statically defined types are used to verify that dynamically constructed types are valid and do not violate the type system.
In MSP languages, expressions are qualified by notation that specifies the phase at which they are to be evaluated. By allowing the specialization of a program at run-time, MSP can optimize the performance of programs: it can be considered as a form of partial evaluation that performs computations at compile-time as a trade-off to increase the speed of run-time processing.
Multi-stage programming languages support constructs similar to the Lisp construct of quotation and eval, except that scoping rules are taken into account.
References
External links
MetaOCaml
Programming paradigms
Type systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Mainstream%20Top%2040%20number-one%20songs%20of%20the%201990s | The Mainstream Top 40 airplay-based chart debuted in Billboard magazine in its issue dated October 3, 1992, with rankings determined by monitored airplay from data compiled by Broadcast Data Systems, a then-new technology which can detect when and how often songs are being played on radio stations. The 40-position chart was published in the print edition of Billboard through May 1995, after which it only appeared in Billboards sister publication, Airplay Monitor, and the Billboard.com website, returning to the print edition in 2003. During the 1990s, the chart was called Top 40/Mainstream alongside a second Top 40 Airplay chart, Top 40/Rhythm-Crossover. The first number-one song on both of these charts was "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men.
Mainstream Top 40 is compiled from airplay on radio stations which play a wide variety of music, not just "pure pop", which Billboard defines as "melodic, often synth-driven, uptempo fare". During the 1990s, mainstream top 40 went from R&B dominating the airwaves (and thus the charts) in the early 1990s to rock and alternative music becoming the choice of program directors in the latter part of the decade. The mid-1990s also witnessed a drastic difference between what reached the top of the Mainstream Top 40 chart and the Hot 100, when songs started being promoted to radio and receiving significant airplay without the release of a commercially available single, a requirement for a song to reach the Hot 100. Thus, number-one songs on the Mainstream Top 40 such as "I'll Be There for You", "Fly", "Don't Speak", "Lovefool", "Torn", "Uninvited", and "Iris" failed to reach or have a similar impact on the Hot 100. Hot 100 rules changed allowing airplay-only songs to chart in late 1998.
Number-one pop songs of the 1990s
See also
1990s in music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1990s
List of artists who reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart
References
External links
Current Billboard Pop Songs chart, Billboard.com.
Billboard Charts Legend, Billboard.com.
United States Mainstream Top 40
Lists of Billboard Mainstream Top 40 number-one songs
1990s in American music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimeTree | TimeTree is a free public database developed by S. Blair Hedges and Sudhir Kumar, now at Temple University, for presenting times of divergence in the tree of life. (for the meaning of the word itself, go to timetree). The basic concept has been to produce and present a community consensus of the timetree of life from published studies, and allow easy access to that information on the web or mobile device. The database permits searching for average node times between two species or higher taxa, viewing a timeline from the perspective of a taxon, which shows all divergences back to the origin of life, and building a timetree of a chosen taxon or user-submitted group of taxa. TimeTree has been used in public education to conceptualize the evolution of life, such as in high school settings. David Attenborough's Emmy Award-winning film and television program Rise of Animals used Hedges and Kumar's circular timetree of life, generated from the TimeTree database, as a framework for the production. The timetree was brought to life using animated computer-generated imagery in scenes every 10 minutes during the 2-hour movie. The original development of TimeTree, by Hedges and Kumar, dates to the late 1990s, with initial support from NASA Astrobiology Institute. Since then, it has been supported by additional grants from NASA, and by NSF and NIH. The current version (v5) was released in 2022 and contains data from 4,075 studies and 137,306 species.
Features
TimeTree users can search for the names of two species, such as cat and dog, to obtain the mean and median time estimates for their divergence, in millions of years. The results also show all individual time estimates, from each study, next to a geologic timescale, indicating geologic periods. Different aspects of the Earth's environment are shown next to the timescale for comparison, including Earth impacts, solar luminosity, carbon dioxide levels, and oxygen levels. Separately, a table lists the time estimates, downloadable as a spreadsheet, from each study along with references and links to the abstracts of the original articles. Users can download the original study data as Newick-formatted timetrees for further research. In the timeline search, users type the name of a taxon, and all divergences back to the origin of life are show with their taxon names, in a vertical ladder-like figure. Timepanels of Earth's environment also are shown next to the geological timescale, as in all three search options. The third search option, timetree search, involves building a timetree by either specifying a taxon (group) name or uploading a list of species or other taxa. After specifying a group name, the user can choose which taxonomic level they prefer to view. For example, with a family group name, either a species-level or genus-level timetree can be selected. Then, the timetree is show and can be output as a Newick file or image for publication. Times on the tree can be explored by clicking on nodes, and o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDT%20Megabite%20Cafe | IDT Megabite Cafe (also known as IDT Mega Bite Cafe) was a cybercafe and sushi bar in New York City.
History
IDT Megabite Cafe is located in New York City's Diamond District. Originally the internet café was a kosher cafe and pizza restaurant. In February 1997, the cafe restaurant was converted into a cybercafe, incorporating a new interior and a kosher sushi bar at a cost of what was about $135,000 at the time.
When the cafe reopened in 1997, it had one computer per dining table, plus two that were exclusively for checking email. In total, there were about a dozen public-use computers.
A spokesperson from the IDT Corporation, Howard Jonas, said a wider range of patrons came to the cafe because of the addition. Orthodox Jews, who worked in the Diamond District of New York city, had been the traditional customers, but now that it was a cybercafe, it began to serve a more diverse crowd. To accommodate the new clientele, the Megabite Cafe stayed open two extra hours every night, except Fridays. On Fridays, the cafe closed one hour before the sun went down and did not reopen until Sunday in observance of the Jewish Sabbath.
IDT Megabite Cafe was founded by 31-year old Gaddy Haymov who worked the cash register during active lunch times. He was from Israel and partnered with IDT Corporation to establish a kosher cafe and restaurant. Initially, a rabbi was the inspector to make sure the food on the menu coincided with both the Jewish traditions and the Jewish dietary laws. The café became popular for Orthodox weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other Jewish ceremonial events. There was a separate sushi rabbi who made sure the sushi did not contain shellfish or crustaceans.
The cybercafe's computers had to follow certain Jewish traditions, as did the cafe's menu. The Jewish ideal is a clean body and a clean mind. When the café was full at lunch time, patrons could look at a large poster behind the computers giving them a list of approved items to surf when they got access to a computer. This list included web addresses for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and Project Genesis, an educational program for those who follow the Jewish faith.
See also
List of restaurants in New York City
References
Defunct restaurants in Manhattan
Internet cafés
Jewish American cuisine
Jews and Judaism in New York City
1996 establishments in New York City
Kosher restaurants
Restaurants established in 1996
Restaurants disestablished in 1998
1998 disestablishments in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Image | Life Image is a medical evidence and image exchange network providing access to points of care and curated imaging data. Founded in 2008, Life Image's Interoperability Suite is a digital platform that uses vendor-agnostic integration standards to connect facilities, providers, clinics, and patients with life sciences, medical devices, and telehealth companies.
Network Statistics
13,000 connection points in the U.S.
160,000 providers connected
58,000 global providers
12+ million clinical encounters per month
7 billion image files exchanged
Company growth
Outside of its historical hospital network centered in academic medical centers, the company now has a number of other healthcare sectors on the Life Image network:
Telehealth (in both teleradiology and care coordination)
Health plans
Physicians and small physician groups
Imaging centers
Life sciences
Artificial intelligence
Clinical research
Direct to consumer and consumer sponsored application
A Growing Partner Network
In November 2017, Life Image announced a partnership with Google Cloud Platform to develop novel solutions in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
References
Medical imaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmeshu | Karmeshu (born May 30, 1949) is an Indian mathematician who specialises in mathematical modelling and Computer Simulation.
In 1993, Karmeshu was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category. Prof. Karmeshu has developed mathematical models for the dynamics of social and technical systems with special emphasis on their stochastic evolution. He has made contributions towards the understanding of the unity of structure and dynamics of diverse apparently unconnected systems.
His research articles have been published not only in Science Citation Index journals but also in Social Sciences Citation Index journals. He is a recipient of SSI Lifetime Achievement Award of Systems Society of India.
References
1949 births
Living people
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20with%20Big%20Data%20in%20R | Programming with Big Data in R (pbdR) is a series of R packages and an environment for statistical computing with big data by using high-performance statistical computation. The pbdR uses the same programming language as R with S3/S4 classes and methods which is used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software. The significant difference between pbdR and R code is that pbdR mainly focuses on distributed memory systems, where data are distributed across several processors and analyzed in a batch mode, while communications between processors are based on MPI that is easily used in large high-performance computing (HPC) systems. R system mainly focuses on single multi-core machines for data analysis via an interactive mode such as GUI interface.
Two main implementations in R using MPI are Rmpi and pbdMPI of pbdR.
The pbdR built on pbdMPI uses SPMD parallelism where every processor is considered as worker and owns parts of data. The SPMD parallelism introduced in mid 1980 is particularly efficient in homogeneous computing environments for large data, for example, performing singular value decomposition on a large matrix, or performing clustering analysis on high-dimensional large data. On the other hand, there is no restriction to use manager/workers parallelism in SPMD parallelism environment.
The Rmpi uses manager/workers parallelism where one main processor (manager) serves as the control of all other processors (workers). The manager/workers parallelism introduced around early 2000 is particularly efficient for large tasks in small clusters, for example, bootstrap method and Monte Carlo simulation in applied statistics since i.i.d. assumption is commonly used in most statistical analysis. In particular, task pull parallelism has better performance for Rmpi in heterogeneous computing environments.
The idea of SPMD parallelism is to let every processor do the same amount of work, but on different parts of a large data set. For example, a modern GPU is a large collection of slower co-processors that can simply apply the same computation on different parts of relatively smaller data, but the SPMD parallelism ends up with an efficient way to obtain final solutions (i.e. time to solution is shorter).
Package design
Programming with pbdR requires usage of various packages developed by pbdR core team. Packages developed are the following.
Among these packages, pbdMPI provides wrapper functions to MPI library, and it also produces a shared library and a configuration file for MPI environments. All other packages rely on this configuration for installation and library loading that avoids difficulty of library linking and compiling. All other packages can directly use MPI functions easily.
pbdMPI --- an efficient interface to MPI either OpenMPI or MPICH2 with a focus on Single Program/Multiple Data (SPMD) parallel programming style
pbdSLAP --- bundles scalable dense linear algebra libraries in double precision for R, bas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superl%C3%B3pez%20%282003%20film%29 | Superlópez contra el robot de bolsillo (translated as Superlópez Against the Pocket Robot) is a 2003 Spanish 3D computer-animated short film directed by Enrique Gato, and based on JAN's comics, Superlópez.
Gato, fan of this comic series, wanted to make a homage at JAN work with a 3-minute computer-animated film; although he tried to make a long duration film, that wasn't possible.
The plot is about a battle on the street between the main character against a giant robot.
Production
Gato tried to design the character by himself for make a few seconds animatics, although he tried making an adaptation as a designer before. When he began writing the script, Gato tried to get a story (not very complicated) what the fans would like, so he divided the movie in six steps: prologue, Superlópez appears, enemy appears, both fight, ending and epilogue.
Reception
JAN gave Gato his permission to make the project. Despite admitting that he won't make the film by selfishness, has a strong friendship with the cartoonist. After watching the short, JAN made a positive review.
Bibliography
See also
JAN
Superlópez
Comics in Spain
References
External links
2003 films
2003 3D films
2003 short films
2003 action comedy films
2003 science fiction action films
2003 computer-animated films
2000s children's comedy films
2000s children's animated films
2000s animated superhero films
2000s action comedy films
2000s science fiction comedy films
2000s superhero comedy films
2000s animated short films
2000s Spanish-language films
Spanish 3D films
Spanish animated short films
Spanish computer-animated films
Spanish children's films
Spanish action comedy films
Spanish science fiction comedy films
Spanish animated science fiction films
Animated superhero comedy films
3D animated short films
Animated short films based on comics
Films based on Spanish comics
Animated films about robots
2000s Spanish films
Spanish superhero films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20Rhythm%20Albums | Latin Rhythm Albums is a record chart published by Billboard magazine. Like all Billboard album charts, the chart is based on sales, which are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on sales data from merchants representing more than 90 percent of the U.S. music retail market. The sample includes sales at music stores, the music departments of electronics and department stores, direct-to-consumer transactions, and Internet sales of physical albums or digital downloads. A limited array of verifiable sales from concert venues is also tabulated. The chart is composed of studio, live, and compilation releases by Latin artists performing in the Latin hip hop, urban, dance and reggaeton, the most popular Latin Rhythm music genres. It joins the main Latin Albums chart along with its respective genre components: the Latin Pop Albums, Tropical Albums, and Regional Mexican Albums charts.
History
It appeared every other week in Billboard magazine, rotating with the Tropical Albums chart and was updated weekly on Billboard online websites. The chart launched with the issue dated May 21, 2005 and its respective airplay component, the Latin Rhythm Airplay chart was also later launched on August 19, 2005. Following the installation of the Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, it and the Latin Rhythm Albums chart now rotate bi-weekly with both the Tropical Albums and Tropical Songs charts in magazine, however are all updated weekly online. With the launch of the main Latin Rhythm Albums chart, reggaeton albums were no longer eligible for appearance on the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts. Likewise, banda rap albums no longer appear on the Regional Mexican Albums chart. Latin hip hop and dance albums were also withheld from appearing on the Latin Pop Albums chart.
Daddy Yankee's Barrio Fino (2004) was the first album to reach number-one on the chart. According to Geoff Mayfield, the goal of the chart was not to be a reggaeton-only chart, despite the inaugural listing having all fifteen slots taken up by reggaeton titles. By moving reggaeton albums from the respective Tropical and Reggae Albums charts, it opened slots for re-entries and debuts, on those charts. American bachata group Aventura claimed the top spot on the Tropical Albums chart, which marked the first time since the issue dated November 6, 2004 that a reggaeton album was not at the number-one spot. Wisin & Yandel are the duo with the most number-one albums and entries on the chart. Daddy Yankee is the male artist with the most solo number-one albums and entries on the chart. Ivy Queen is the only female artist to have a number-one album on the Latin Rhythm Albums chart. She currently has two number-one and five top ten albums on that chart. Likewise, she is one of the few female artists to rank in the top ten of the Latin Rhythm Airplay chart along with Nina Sky, Shakira, RBD, Beyoncé Knowles, Cassie, and Keyshia Cole. Ana Tijoux's 2012 album La Bala reached number two on the chart. The record label Mac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party%20Tricks | Party Tricks was an Australian television political drama/comedy series starring Asher Keddie and Rodger Corser. It premiered on Network Ten on 6 October 2014 at 8:30pm.
On 3 October 2014 along with Offspring, John Edwards confirmed that Party Tricks would not return for a second series in 2015, due to Ten's production division running out of money.
Plot
Kate Ballard (Asher Keddie) is facing her first re-election as State Premier. Committed and rigorous, her victory seems assured until the opposition announce a shocking new candidate: David McLeod (Rodger Corser), a popular media personality, and a man Kate had a secret, tumultuous affair with several years ago. To the world at large, David and Kate present as compelling, evenly-matched adversaries but a paranoid Kate fears that their complicated history is a trump card waiting to be played. Told in six parts, building to an election-night finale, this is a cat-and-mouse game, played out on a grand scale.
Conception
On 26 July 2013, Network Ten announced a new drama project from Endemol Australia named Party Tricks, a six-part drama series by the producers of Offspring, Puberty Blues, The Secret Life of Us and Tangle; John Edwards and Imogen Banks.
Producer, Imogen Banks stated, "Politics, power and sex – what better elements for a big, juicy story? I cannot wait to make it. We're grateful to the country's politicians for living a reality that is far stranger than anything we could dream up. But it's our enormous pleasure to try."
Production
Ten's head of drama, Rick Maier stated, "Imogen Banks and John Edwards have brought together the best of the best for this exciting new series, while Michael Lucas has created the perfect star vehicle for Asher and Rodger."
Filming for the first season began on 5 May 2014 and wrapped on 27 June 2014.
The six-part series produced by Imogen Banks and John Edwards for Endemol Australia and Network Ten with the assistance of Screen Australia and Film Victoria. It is created by Michael Lucas.
Cast
Asher Keddie as Kate Ballard, Labor Premier of Victoria and Member of Parliament for Richmond. Former Minister for Planning, Education, and Deputy Premier. Succeeded Rob Hutchens as Premier a year and a half prior to the start of the series.
Rodger Corser as David McLeod, Victorian Liberal Party Leader, Liberal Candidate for Premier, and Candidate for Mount Waverley. Succeeded Neil Thorby as Leader of the Liberals in Victoria. Ultimately succeeds Ballard as Premier.
Adam Zwar as Trevor Bailey, Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party and Interim Opposition Leader
Angus Sampson as Wayne Duffy, Press Secretary and Spin Doctor to the Premier
Colin Moody as Geoff Ballard, the Premier's Husband
Kaiya Jones as Matilda McLeod, McLeod's Daughter
Oliver Ackland as Tom Worland, State Political Reporter and Ollie's boyfriend
Doris Younane as Paula Doumani, Deputy Premier and Minister for Transport
Charlie Garber as Oliver Ollie Parkham, the Premier's Sp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoraea%20pnomenusa | Pandoraea pnomenusa is a Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Pandoraea.
References
External links
Type strain of Pandoraea pnomenusa at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Burkholderiaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covisint | Covisint was an American information technology company that was purchased by OpenText, a Canadian company for US$103 million in July, 2017. The OpenText Business Network mission is "Integrate, manage and securely exchange data across people, systems and things to gain an information advantage".
The roots of Covisint were in a program funded by General Motors to simplify supply chain led by Phil Abraham. General Motors was joined by Ford, and DaimlerChrysler to create a single B2B Supplier Exchange in 2000. They were also joined by Nissan, Renault and Peugeot as participants. In February 2004, Compuware Corporation acquired Covisint. Compuware completed a spin-off of Covisint on October 31, 2014. Covisint was fully independent of Compuware until its purchase by OpenText.
Initially focused in the automotive industry, they have expanded into the healthcare, oil and gas, government, and financial services. Covisint has offices in Southfield, San Francisco, Shanghai, Coventry and Frankfurt.
References
External links
Official site
Software companies based in Michigan
Companies based in Southfield, Michigan
Software companies established in 2000
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
2013 initial public offerings
2017 mergers and acquisitions
Corporate spin-offs
American subsidiaries of foreign companies
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance%20%28company%29 | Allegiance, Inc is a voice of customer (VoC) and enterprise feedback management (EFM) technology platform that let organizations collect and analyze consumer data in real time. The company was recognized for providing large companies and government agencies with a range of big data mining tools, and it was listed as one of the GSA’s approved vendors. Allegiance’s clients include VMware, Citi, AeroMexico, Nalco, Ameriprise, Adobe and Dell, and it was ranked as one of Inc. magazine’s fastest-growing companies.
The company was headquartered in South Jordan, UT.
History
Allegiance was founded in 2005 when the ethics compliance firm SilentWhistle merged with Allegiance Technologies (founded in 2000), a provider of online feedback tools. Adam Edmunds founded the company to provide organizations with more advanced tools for analyzing customer data in real time.
In 2009, Allegiance acquired Inquisite, a provider of online survey software. In 2012, the company raised $12 million in a Series B round of venture financing, which included investors El Dorado Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and Allegis Capital.
In December 2012, Allegiance announced its appointment of Carine Clark as President and CEO. Formerly SVP and CMO for Symantec, Clark has a long career of building successful software companies.
In November 2014, Allegiance announced it would be acquired by Maritz Holdings, Inc. and merged with Maritz Research to form a new independent company called MaritzCX. MaritzCX announced the closing of the deal on January 14, 2015.
Products
Allegiance provided large organizations with tools for collecting and analyzing customer feedback and translating it into business insights in real-time. The company’s flagship product, the Engage platform, is a feedback management platform that generates "customer intelligence" by drawing insights from multiple channels a client organization uses to connect with customers. The Engage platform is used by several organizations with large customer feedback databases, including JetBlue and AT&T. MaritzCX still offers this platform though it's now simply referred to as the MaritzCX platform.
Now as MaritzCX, the company continues to provide several other products and services, including text analytics, survey engines, online feedback forms, social media feedback, as well as those services offered by Maritz Research including market research and consulting services.
Awards and recognition
Allegiance claims to have won or been nominated for several awards, including:
Ranked as a 2013 Service leader by CRM Magazine
Won the TMC Innovation Labs award for the Allegiance Spotlight platform in 2012
Won the Communications Solutions Product of the Year award for the Engage platform in 2011
CEO Adam Edmunds was selected as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010
Ranked as one of Inc. magazine’s fastest-growing companies in 2009
Won the Communications Solutions Product of the Year award in 200 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evntlive | Evntlive is an interactive digital concert venue that allows music fans worldwide to stream concerts to their computer, tablet, or phone. Based in Redwood City, CA, EVNTLIVE Beta launched on April 15, 2013. EVNTLIVE provides users with the ability to switch camera angles, view All Access interviews and clips from artists, buy music, and chat with other online concert-goers in the in-app feature. Users can watch live and on-demand concerts with both free and pay-per-view concerts offered.
In its first two months, EVNTLIVE has streamed live performances of popular artists ranging from Bon Jovi to Wale, as well as music festivals such as Taste of Country and Mountain Jam; including performances by The Lumineers, Gary Clark Jr., Phil Lesh & Friends, Primus, and more.
About the Platform
EvntLive is an HTML5, web-based platform available on laptops, iPads, and mobile devices. Users must register for a free account on Evntlive’s website in order to reserve tickets and access live and on-demand content. Once they reserve tickets, they can view All Access features from their favorite artists or bands, purchase music, and interact with other online audience members using Buzz. Users can also switch between alternate camera angles as though they are on the concert floor - sharing the experience with their friends online in real-time.
EvntLive was acquired by Yahoo in December 2013
Artists
Bon Jovi
Wale
Escape the Fate
The Parlotones
Taste of Country Music Festival
Trace Adkins
Willie Nelson
Justin Moore
Montgomery Gentry
Craig Campbell
Blackberry Smoke
Gloriana
Dustin Lynch
LoCash Cowboys
Rachel Farley
Parmalee
Joe Nichols
Mountain Jam Music Festival
The Lumineers
Primus
Widespread Panic
Gov't Mule
Phil Lesh
The Avett Brothers
Dispatch
Rubblebucket
Michael Franti
Jackie Greene
Deer Tick
Gary Clark Jr.
ALO
The London Souls
Nicki Bluhm
Amy Helm
The Lone Bellow
The Revivalists
Swear and Shake
Roadkill Ghost Choir
Michael Bernard Fitzgerald
Michele Clark 's Sunset Sessions
Semi Precious Weapons
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
DigiTour Media
Pentatonix
Allstar Weekend
Tyler Ward
Launch Music Festival
References
External links
Company profile
Web applications
American music websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%20Street%20Journal%20Dollar%20Index | The Wall Street Journal Dollar Index (WSJ Dollar Index) is an index (or measure) of the value of the U.S. dollar relative to 16 foreign currencies.
The index is weighted using data provided by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) on total foreign exchange (FX) trading volume. The index rises when the U.S. dollar gains value against the other currencies, and falls when the U.S. dollar loses value against the currencies.
The methodology and data used for the index set it apart from several existing metrics, such as the ICE U.S. Dollar Index, Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index and FTSE Curex USD/G8 Index. The WSJ Dollar Index is a trade weighted index but unlike some of the other metrics, the WSJ Dollar Index captures the impact of capital flows on currency volumes, a significant determinant of currency market activity.
History
The WSJ Dollar index was created in 2012 with the aim of improving on the previous US Dollar indices by using a different calculation and more currencies. The Wall Street Journal issued a press release for the index on July 18, 2012.
The index was developed by Stephen Bernard and Vincent Cignarella, at the time members of the news team for Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal and DJ FX Trader, a joint product of Dow Jones & Co. and The Wall Street Journal. Bernard and Cignarella discussed the index launch on WSJ.com's Markets Hub. The pair also wrote about the index for The Wall Street Journal and WSJ.com.
Components and methodology
The triennial foreign exchange turnover survey published by the BIS provides the basis for weighting the WSJ Dollar Index.
The BIS includes data on major currency pairs as defined by the organization's most recent triennial report (currency pairs they break out as individual pairs, which has grown in each successive report). Each dollar pair that constitutes at least 1% of global currency turnover is included in the index, and weighted based on their proportion of volume within the group of currency pairs used in the index.
The index was updated in December 2013 with the release of the latest survey. The index now includes 16 dollar currency pairs, up from seven in the previous iteration. Mexico's peso, China's yuan, Russia's ruble, Turkey's lira, South Korea's won, South Africa's rand and New Zealand's, Hong Kong's and Singapore's dollars are now all included in the index for the first time.
The 16 currencies used in the index accounted for 80% of the $5.3 trillion daily trading in global foreign exchange markets.
Initially at launch, the WSJ Dollar Index currently tracked seven foreign currencies, including the euro (EUR), yen (JPY), pound sterling (GBP), Australian dollar (AUD), Swiss franc (CHF), Canadian dollar (CAD), and Swedish krona (SEK). All seven currencies remain in the current version of the index. Combined the seven currency pairs accounted for more than two-thirds of daily global foreign exchange trading volume at the time the index was initially launched.
The index is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Nieves | Michael D. Nieves is the president and CEO of Hispanic Information Television Network (HITN), the largest non-commercial, Spanish language television network in the United States. Since taking the role in 2015, HITN has added over 10 million new Latino households to its viewing audience and secured a partnership with Sprint Communications that will support HITN’s mission for at least the next 30 years.
Prior to HITN, Nieves was a senior political adviser to Democratic elected officials throughout New York State, and the deputy chief of staff to three successive New York City Council Speakers.
Amongst those he has counseled and represented are City Council Speakers Christine Quinn, Gifford Miller and Peter Vallone; City Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera; Assemblyman and Bronx Democratic leader José Rivera; Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields; and Assemblyman Nelson Denis.
HITN
Since taking the role in 2015 Mr. Nieves has pushed the boundaries of HITN’s commitment to provide its viewers with educational and entertaining content by working with some of the most important producers in the world from BBC, Discovery, NatGeo, and CNET to create a carefully curated list of programs for its viewers. Also, under his stewardship, HITN has added 10 million new households to its viewing audience to now reach more than 44 million households nationwide. HITN has even received three Emmy nominations in 2016—its first time since HITN’s inception in 1981.
During the 2016 election, Nieves conceived the HITN original production, Tu Momento, a Spanish language television program explaining the US electoral process from state primaries and caucuses, to Inauguration Day. The program was awarded the Social Good Leader Award of 2016 by Cynopsis Media, publisher of trade publications for the television, media, digital, and sports TV industries. Since Nieves' arrival, HITN has received three Emmy nominations, its first nominations since its inception in 1981.
Early life
Nieves’ parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico (Puerto Ricans were American citizens from 1915). His father, Candido Nieves, worked many years at Interboro Hospital in Brooklyn. His mother Andrea was an active member of St. Barbara's Parish in Bushwick, and also the East Brooklyn Churches.
For nearly thirty years, since the mid-1980s, Nieves was also active in St. Barbara's Parish in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Nieves graduated from the competitive Brooklyn Technical High School and York College, and founded the management consulting firm of Nieves Associates.
Nieves and his wife have a daughter named Daniela.
Community and educational work
His community involvements include the boards of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in Chicago, National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, SOMOS New York, New York City Public Schools Community School Board #32, and the New York Puerto Rican Day Parade. Mr. Nieves was listed as an honoree of City and State’s 50 over Fifty and was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside%20risk | In investing, upside risk is the uncertain possibility of gain. It is measured by upside beta. An alternative measure of upside risk is the upper semi-deviation. Upside risk is calculated using data only from days when the benchmark (for example S&P 500 Index) has gone up. Upside risk focuses on uncertain positive returns rather than negative returns. For this reason, upside risk, while a measure of unpredictability of the extent of gains, is not a “risk” in the sense of a possibility of adverse outcomes.
Upside risk vs. Capital Asset Pricing Model
Looking at upside risk and downside risk separately provides much more useful information to investors than does only looking at the single Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) beta. The comparison of upside to downside risk is necessary because “modern portfolio theory measures risk in terms of standard deviation of asset returns, which treats both positive and negative deviations from expected returns as risk.” In other words, regular beta measures both upside and downside risk. This is a major distinction that the CAPM fails to take into account, because the model assumes that upside beta and downside beta are the same. In reality, they are seldom the same, and making the distinction between upside and downside risk is necessary and important.
See also
Cost of capital
Dual-beta
Macro risk
References
External links
Risk Arbitrage: An Investor's Guide
Financial Enterprise Risk Management
Financial risk modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Show%3A%20Mordecai%20and%20Rigby%20in%208-Bit%20Land | Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land is a video game based on the Cartoon Network series Regular Show. It was developed by WayForward Technologies and was released exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS in North America on October 29, 2013; Europe on November 8, 2013; and Australia on November 12, 2013. The game was delisted from Nintendo eShop some point between 2017 and 2019, most likely due to an expiring license.
Gameplay
Based on the two-part fourth season premiere "Exit 9B", Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land depicts Mordecai and Rigby noticing the arrival of a video game console, which distracts them from lawn mowing work commanded by their boss Benson. Once they boot it up, they are sucked into the television screen, the titular 8-bit land, as the game's playable characters. The two traverse four worlds, each consisting of four levels, to stop the son of Garrett Bobby Ferguson, also known as Giant Bearded Face, from creating an entrance to the underworld via the park Mordecai and Rigby work at.
Players act Mordecai and Rigby and have to switch between both characters and gameplay modes within stages, of which there are three throughout: platform, top-down shooter, and side-scrolling shooter. In the platform sections, Modercai can double jump and Rigby, due to his shorter size, can crawl into small areas; the side-scrolling shooter sections have Modercai morphed into a spaceship, while the top-down shooters involves the player controlling Rigby.
Development
On April 8, 2013, Regular Show creator J. G. Quintel announced on his Twitter page that an official video game was in development based on the show. On May 14, 2013, Cartoon Network and D3 Publisher announced three video games based on Cartoon Network properties that would be released in the fall: Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land, Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!, and Ben 10: Omniverse 2; High Voltage Software developed the Ben 10: Omniverse title, and WayForward Technologies was responsible the Adventure Time and Regular Show games. On June 26, 2013, Quintel tweeted the game's cover, revealing the title, the publisher, and the system. It was released on October 29, 2013, a launch trailer also published online the same day.
Quintel had a passion for both video games and animation as a child. He stated in a 2013 Polygon interview that he had just as much of a probability of working game development as animation, and only chose the latter because he found storytelling more interesting than programming. The main characters' love of video games are based on Quintel's experience playing Master System titles with his brother, and is a major part of the series. References to retro gaming are also prevalent in the show, and Quintel was very committed to keeping them as true as possible. For example, he directed the storyboard artists to make the TV and console look as much like the ones he grew up with as possible.
For Regular Show: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20S.%20Fox | Mark Stephen Fox (born 1952) is a Canadian computer scientist, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering at the University of Toronto, known for the development of Constraint Directed Scheduling in the 1980s and the TOVE Project to develop an ontological framework for enterprise modeling and enterprise integration in the 1990s.
Biography
Fox received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1975, and his PhD in Computer Science from the Carnegie Mellon University in 1983 with the thesis "Constraint-directed search: a case-study of job-shop scheduling."
Fox started his academic career at Carnegie Mellon University as Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, where he also headed the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Systems of The Robotics Institute. In 1991 he returned to the University of Toronto, where he was appointed Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is also Senior Fellow in the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto.
He is elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and elected fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advance Research.
Work
Fox's current research interests concern smart cities, in particular "ontologies for modelling cities and their performance, causal analysis of crowd sourced data (e.g., analysis of reports provided by citizens to the city), and process mapping and analysis of city services (e.g., social services)."
In the past he has been particularly interested the fields of "enterprise engineering (i.e., information technology for business process engineering), constrained-directed reasoning, a unified theory of scheduling, enterprise modelling (i.e., TOVE) and coordination theory."
TOVE project
The TOVE project, acronym of TOronto Virtual Enterprise project is a project to develop an ontological framework for enterprise integration (EI) based on and suited for enterprise modeling. In the beginning of the 1990s it was initiated by Mark S. Fox and others at the University of Toronto . Initially the project had defined four goals:
provides a shared terminology for the enterprise that each agent can jointly understand and use,
defines the meaning of each term (aka semantics) in a precise and as unambiguous manner as possible
implements the semantics in a set of axioms that will enable TOVE to automatically deduce the answer to many "common sense" questions about the enterprise, and
defines a symbology for depicting a term or the concept constructed thereof in a graphical context.
The TOVE framework wants to support reasoning about enterprises, and therefore "provides a characterisation of classes of enterprises by sets of assumptions over their processes, goals, and organization constraints." It has been further developed in the fields of concurrent engineering, supply chain management and business process re-engineering.
Enterprise mode |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72%20Hours%20%28TV%20series%29 | 72 Hours is an American television reality competition series produced by Lighthearted Entertainment that premiered on Turner Network Television (TNT) on June 6, 2013. 72 Hours is hosted by actor and TV host Brandon Johnson who formerly co-starred as dance show host Gary Wilde on the Disney Channel original series Shake It Up. The series is executive produced by Howard Schultz, Brady Connell and Rob LaPlante. Jeff Spangler serves as the co-executive producer of the series.
In each episode of 72 Hours, three new competing teams of strangers are dropped in the complete wilderness where they are given very few essential items to survive. The teams must travel through harsh environments, such as dangerous wildlife or insect infestations for 72 hours to find a hidden briefcase that contains $100,000. The team that finds the briefcase is the winner of the competition and they receive the $100,000 cash prize.
Premise
Each episode in the series introduces new groups of strangers who are dropped off in a remote location. Each episode has a different location. For example, one episode takes place in the American Southwest and another episode takes place in the island of Hawaii. Once the teams are dropped at a location, they are supplied with only a single bottle of water and a GPS tracking device. The goal of the competition is to survive and travel through harsh and dangerous environments, such as dangerous wildlife or insect infestations to find a hidden briefcase containing $100,000. The team that finds the briefcase is the winner of the competition and they receive the $100,000 cash prize.
Episodes
Reception
72 Hours has received mixed reviews from critics. The series currently has a score of 48 out of 100 on Metacritic, citing mixed or average reviews. Entertainment Weekly critic Adam Carlson stated "Like other snackable television like this, 72 Hours isn't afraid of delivering everything you want, including not just a few reality competition tropes — but all of them."
The show was awarded 3 stars by Common Sense Media reviewer Melissa Camacho. Melissa praised that "the show's primary focus on the actual race, rather than personal drama, makes it a fun viewing choice."
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
2010s American game shows
English-language television shows
TNT (American TV network) original programming |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkview%20Medical%20Center | Parkview Medical Center is a private, non-profit teaching hospital located in Pueblo, Colorado. The hospital has 370 licensed beds. In the last year with available data, the hospital had 14,617 admissions, 69,023 emergency department visits, performed 5,963 inpatient surgeries, and 6,657 outpatient surgeries. Parkview Medical Center is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.
History
Parkview Medical Center was established in 1923. The hospital is the largest employer in the city of Pueblo, with 3,000+ employees. In 2023, construction on the Parkview Cancer Center was completed, which is a 45,000 s.f. building that includes a Varian Linear Accelerator.
Graduate medical education
The hospital operates a number of residency and fellowship programs. Each program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Fellowships include pulmonary/critical care, gastroenterology, and cardiology.
References
External links
Parkview Medical Center homepage
Hospital buildings completed in 1923
Hospitals established in 1923
Hospitals in Colorado
Buildings and structures in Pueblo, Colorado
1923 establishments in Colorado
Trauma centers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20223001%E2%80%93224000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20224001%E2%80%93225000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20Class%204900 | The ATM Class 4900 is a series of articulated trams used by the ATM on the Milan urban tramway network.
They were built from 1976 to 1978 in two series, by Fiat Ferroviaria and Stanga, respectively, and were intended to be used on the future light rail lines, like the proposed circular line that should substitute the existing circular trolleybus line.
However such lines were never built, and the 4900 were used on the existing network.
Bibliography
Carlo Marzorati: Le nuove elettromotrici ATM 4900. In: ″Italmodel Ferrovie″ Nr. 202 (March 1977), p. 156–160.
Giovanni Klaus Koenig: Il tram a pianale ribassato: storia e sviluppi. In: ″Ingegneria Ferroviaria″, May 1985, p. 223–241.
Giovanni Cornolò, Giuseppe Severi: Tram e tramvie a Milano 1840-1987., Azienda Trasporti Municipali, Milan 1987.
External links
Tram vehicles of Italy
Light rail vehicles
Transport in Milan
Fiat Ferroviaria
600 V DC multiple units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20Class%207000 | The tramway Class 7000 are a series of articulated trams ordered by the ATM to be used on the Turin light rail network.
A quantity of 100 was ordered in 1981 from Fiat Ferroviaria (then in Savigliano), to be fitted with AEG electrical equipment, and the first car was delivered in February 1983.
However, the building of the five light rail lines originally planned was stopped after the opening of the first line (No. 3) in 1987. As the 7000s could not be used on the traditional tram lines because of their dimensions and weight, the order was truncated at 51 units, and the other units were substituted by the 5000 series.
At the beginning of December 2013, GTT announced the planned withdrawal of these trams, due to their high maintenance costs and the lack of spare parts on the market, to take effect on 7 December.
References
External links
Tram di Torino - Tram serie 7000
Tram vehicles of Italy
Light rail vehicles
Transport in Turin
Fiat Ferroviaria
600 V DC multiple units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings%20events | This is a list of mixed martial arts events held and scheduled by the Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts and professional wrestling promotion.
Past events
See also
Fighting Network Rings
Fighting Network Rings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimbleby%20%28surname%29 | Thimbleby, with its variant Thymbleby, is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:
Harold Thimbleby (born 1955), English computer scientist
Neil Thimbleby (born 1939), New Zealand rugby union player
Stephen Thymbleby (died 1587), English politician
English-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined%20data%20center | Software-defined data center (SDDC; also: virtual data center, VDC) is a marketing term that extends virtualization concepts such as abstraction, pooling, and automation to all data center resources and services to achieve IT as a service (ITaaS).
In a software-defined data center, "all elements of the infrastructure — networking, storage, CPU and security – are virtualized and delivered as a service."
SDDC support can be claimed by a wide variety of approaches. Critics see the software-defined data center as a marketing tool and "software-defined hype," noting this variability.
In 2013, analysts were divided into three different groups, those who think it is "just another software-defined hype", those who think most of the components are already available and those who see a potential future market. There was no unified agreement about the direction of SDDC. For some areas like the software-defined networking a market value of about US$3.7 billion by 2016 was expected, compared to US$360 million in 2013. (software-defined networking was expected to reach US$18.5 billion in 2022) IDC estimates that the software-defined storage market is poised to expand faster than any other storage market.
Description and core components
The software-defined data center encompasses a variety of concepts and data-center infrastructure components, with each component potentially provisioned, operated, and managed through an application programming interface (API). Core architectural components that comprise the software-defined data center include the following:
computer virtualization, - a software implementation of a computer
software-defined networking (SDN), which includes network virtualization - the process of merging hardware and software resources and networking functionality into a software-based virtual network
software-defined storage (SDS), which includes storage virtualization, suggests a service interface to provision capacity and SLAs (Service Level Agreements) for storage, including performance and durability
management and automation software, enabling an administrator to provision, control, and manage all software-defined data-center components
A software-defined data center differs from a private cloud, since a private cloud only has to offer virtual-machine self-service, beneath which it could use traditional provisioning and management. Instead, SDDC concepts imagine a data center that can encompass private, public, and hybrid clouds.
Origins and development
Data centers traditionally lacked the capacity to accommodate total virtualization. By 2013, companies began laying the foundation for software-defined data centers with virtualization. Ben Cherian of Midokura considered Amazon Web Services as a catalyst for the move toward software-defined data centers because it "convinced the world that the data center could be abstracted into much smaller units and could be treated as disposable pieces of technology, which in turn could be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%20228001%E2%80%93229000 |
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|-id=029
| 228029 MANIAC || || MANIAC was an early computer, based on the von Neumann architecture. ||
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228101–228200
|-id=110
| 228110 Eudorus || || Eudorus, from Greek mythology. He was one of the captains of Achilles' fierce Myrmidon troops. ||
|-id=133
| 228133 Ripoll || || Andrés Ripoll (born 1933) was involved in the Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz and Skylab space programs. He was the founder and manager of the Villafranca del Castillo tracking station (Spain) and the European Astronaut Centre (Germany). He has received awards for his extensive professional and research activities. ||
|-id=135
| 228135 Sodnik || || Zoran Sodnik (born 1957), manager of the ESA's Optical Ground Station. ||
|-id=136
| 228136 Billary || || William Griffith (born 1956) and Hillary U. Galkin (born 1956), avid amateur astronomers from southern California. ||
|-id=158
| 228158 Mamankei || || Ma Man-kei (1919–2014) was a Chinese educator and benefactor who devoted his life and finances to running schools and hospitals. He also made contributions to the development of Chinese education and medical treatment in Macao. ||
|-id=165
| 228165 Mezentsev || || Andrey Georgievich Mezentsev (born 1949), a Russian astronomer, solar physics expert, coronal holes researcher, lecturer in Petrozavodsk State University and astronomy popularizer. ||
|-id=180
| 228180 Puertollano || || Puertollano, Spanish industrial city. It is located in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha. ||
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| 228883 Cliffsimak || || Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988), an American science-fiction writer ||
|-id=893
| 228893 Gerevich || || Aladár Gerevich (1910–1991), a fencer from Hungary, who is regarded as the greatest Olympic swordsman ever ||
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-SVD | In applied mathematics, k-SVD is a dictionary learning algorithm for creating a dictionary for sparse representations, via a singular value decomposition approach. k-SVD is a generalization of the k-means clustering method, and it works by iteratively alternating between sparse coding the input data based on the current dictionary, and updating the atoms in the dictionary to better fit the data. It is structurally related to the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm. k-SVD can be found widely in use in applications such as image processing, audio processing, biology, and document analysis.
k-SVD algorithm
k-SVD is a kind of generalization of k-means, as follows.
The k-means clustering can be also regarded as a method of sparse representation. That is, finding the best possible codebook to represent the data samples by nearest neighbor, by solving
which is nearly equivalent to
which is k-means that allows "weights".
The letter F denotes the Frobenius norm. The sparse representation term enforces k-means algorithm to use only one atom (column) in dictionary . To relax this constraint, the target of the k-SVD algorithm is to represent signal as a linear combination of atoms in .
The k-SVD algorithm follows the construction flow of the k-means algorithm. However, in contrast to k-means, in order to achieve a linear combination of atoms in , the sparsity term of the constraint is relaxed so that the number of nonzero entries of each column can be more than 1, but less than a number .
So, the objective function becomes
or in another objective form
In the k-SVD algorithm, the is first fixed and the best coefficient matrix is found. As finding the truly optimal is hard, we use an approximation pursuit method. Any algorithm such as OMP, the orthogonal matching pursuit can be used for the calculation of the coefficients, as long as it can supply a solution with a fixed and predetermined number of nonzero entries .
After the sparse coding task, the next is to search for a better dictionary . However, finding the whole dictionary all at a time is impossible, so the process is to update only one column of the dictionary each time, while fixing . The update of the -th column is done by rewriting the penalty term as
where denotes the k-th row of X.
By decomposing the multiplication into sum of rank 1 matrices, we can assume the other terms are assumed fixed, and the -th remains unknown. After this step, we can solve the minimization problem by approximate the term with a matrix using singular value decomposition, then update with it. However, the new solution of vector is very likely to be filled, because the sparsity constraint is not enforced.
To cure this problem, define as
which points to examples that use atom (also the entries of that is nonzero). Then, define as a matrix of size , with ones on the entries and zeros otherwise. When multiplying , this shrinks the row vector by discarding the zero entries. Simil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PatchMatch | The core PatchMatch algorithm quickly finds correspondences between small square regions (or patches) of an image. The algorithm can be used in various applications such as object removal from images, reshuffling or moving contents of images, or retargeting or changing aspect ratios of images, optical flow estimation, or stereo correspondence.
Algorithm
The goal of the algorithm is to find the patch correspondence by defining a nearest-neighbor field (NNF) as a function of offsets, which is over all possible matches of patch (location of patch centers) in image A, for some distance function of two patches . So, for a given patch coordinate in image and its corresponding nearest neighbor in image , is simply . However, if we search for every point in image , the work will be too hard to complete. So the following algorithm is done in a randomized approach in order to accelerate the calculation speed.
The algorithm has three main components. Initially, the nearest-neighbor field is filled with either random offsets or some prior information. Next, an iterative update process is applied to the NNF, in which good patch offsets are propagated to adjacent pixels, followed by random search in the neighborhood of the best offset found so far. Independent of these three components, the algorithm also use a coarse-to-fine approach by building an image pyramid to obtain the better result.
Initialization
When initializing with random offsets, we use independent uniform samples across the full range of image . This algorithm avoids using an initial guess from the previous level of the pyramid because in this way the algorithm can avoid being trapped in local minima.
Iteration
After initialization, the algorithm attempted to perform iterative process of improving the . The iterations examine the offsets in scan order (from left to right, top to bottom), and each undergoes propagation followed by random search.
Propagation
We attempt to improve using the known offsets of and , assuming that the patch offsets
are likely to be the same. That is, the algorithm will take new value for to be .
So if has a correct mapping and is in a coherent region , then all of below and to the right of will be filled with the correct mapping. Alternatively, on even iterations, the algorithm search for different direction, fill the new value to be .
Random search
Let , we attempt to improve by testing a sequence of candidate offsets at an exponentially decreasing distance from
where is a uniform random in , is a large window search radius which will be set to maximum picture size, and is a fixed ratio often assigned as 1/2. This part of the algorithm allows the to jump out of local minimum through random process.
Halting criterion
The often used halting criterion is set the iteration times to be about 4~5. Even with low iteration, the algorithm works well.
Conclusion
This is an efficient algorithm since it only takes a few second on a testing computer wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdnjs | cdnjs is a free and open-source software (FOSS) content delivery network (CDN) hosted by Cloudflare. As of May 2021, it serves 4,013 JavaScript and CSS libraries, which are stored publicly on GitHub. It is included in millions of websites, or 12.4% of the websites on the Internet, making it the second most popular CDN for JavaScript.
History
In January 2011, Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis created the service, launching it on GitHub on February 25, 2011. It initially served content through Amazon CloudFront. On June 15, 2011, cdnjs partnered with Cloudflare, who provided the CDN and subdomain cdnjs.cloudflare.com for the project.
On November 1, 2019, the founders turned over control of cdnjs to Cloudflare, citing "technical and commercial reasons." According to the community maintainers, the project was difficult to manage because of limited access to the GitHub repository, inactive founders, and a small budget. It is estimated the annual budget at the time was approximately $50/yr.
Operation
The service is maintained by the community and Cloudflare. As of May 2021, there have been 1,443 contributors to the main GitHub repository, and 88 contributors to the newer package configuration GitHub repository.
It is also sponsored by DigitalOcean, Algolia, Heroku, Atlassian, Sentry, and Lean20.
There is a public JSON API for developers to query cdnjs library metadata.
Resources on cdnjs can be loaded using a number of connection protocols – HTTP/2, HTTP, HTTPS or SPDY.
The cdnjs.cloudflare.com domain is part of the HSTS preload list.
There exist websites that host clones of cdnjs libraries on their own servers:
Wikimedia Tool Labs
cdnjs.net
References
External links
Github Organization
Content delivery networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20Sciences%20in%20Oncology%20Network | The Physical Sciences in Oncology Network (PS-ON) is a network of centers and projects set up by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) to link the physical sciences with the study of cancer.
The program was launched in 2009 with Physical Sciences in Oncology Centers (PS-OCs) investigating complex and challenging questions in cancer research from a physical sciences perspective. To explore how the NCI could continue to support the integration of physical sciences and cancer research, a Think Tank and series of Strategic Workshops were held in 2012. These meetings served to update opportunities at the interface of physical sciences and cancer research and guided the development of the second phase including Physical Sciences in Oncology Projects (PS-OPs).
Centers (PS-OCs)
Arizona State University. Principal Investigator: Paul Davies, Scientific Investigator: William M. Grady.
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. Principal Investigator: Franziska Michor, Scientific Investigator: Eric C. Holland.
Johns Hopkins University. Principal Investigator: Denis Wirtz, Scientific Investigator: Gregg L. Semenza.
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Principal Investigator: Mauro Ferrari, Scientific Investigator: Steven A. Curley.
Princeton University. Principal Investigator: Robert H. Austin, Scientific Investigator: Thea D. Tlsty.
Stanford University Principal Investigator: Jan Liphardt Scientific Investigator: Valerie M. Weaver.
Cornell University Principal Investigator: Michael L. Shuler, Scientific Investigator: Barbara L. Hempstead.
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Principal Investigator: Robert A. Gatenby Scientific Investigator: Robert J. Gillies.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Principal Investigator: Scott Manalis, Scientific Investigator: Tyler Jacks.
Northwestern University Principal Investigator: Thomas V. O'Halloran, Scientific Investigator: Jonathan D. Licht.
The Scripps Research Institute Principal Investigator: Peter Kuhn, Scientific Investigator: Kelly J. Bethel.
University of Southern California Principal Investigator: W. Daniel Hillis, Scientific Investigator: David Agus.
Projects (PS-OPs)
City of Hope project on Information Flow and State Transitions at the System and Multi-Dimensional Scales in Leukemia Progression. Principal Investigators: Russell C. Rockne, Ya-Huei Kuo, and Guido Marcucci.
Georgia Institute of Technology project on Exploiting the Mechanobiology of PD-1 for Cancer Immunotherapy. Principal Investigator: Cheng Zhu and Rafi Ahmed.
Georgia Institute of Technology project on Mechanisms of Impaired T-Cell Mechanosensing of Melanoma Antigens. Principal Investigators: Cheng Zhu and Michelle Krogsgaard.
Harvard University project on Epithelial Layer Jamming in Breast Cancer Cell Migration. Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Fredberg.
Houston Methodist Research Institute project on Biophysical Roles of Pre-Metastatic Niche Evolution on Transport of Circulating Tumor Cells. Princ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramway%20Museum%20Graz | The Tramway Museum Graz is a transport museum in the Austrian city of Graz, specialising in the history of the Graz tramway network. It is located in the former tram depot at the Mariatrost terminus of Graz tram route 1.
The museum houses a collection of some 30 rail vehicles, including motor trams, trailers, works cars, horse cars and funicular cars. While most vehicles are from Graz, there are also exhibits from Vienna, Innsbruck, Dubrovnik and New York.
The building housing the museum was originally the depot of the Kleinbahn Graz–Mariatrost, a metre gauge electric railway that was subsequently regauged to standard gauge and incorporated into the Graz tramway system. It is near to the Mariatrost Basilica, a much visited pilgrimage church.
The museum is only open on occasional open days, of which there were four in 2013, or by appointment.
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Tramway Museum Graz – official site
Museums in Graz
Transport museums in Austria
Tram museums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%20%28disambiguation%29 | Tar is a viscous organic black liquid.
Tar or TAR may also refer to:
Science and technology
Tar (tobacco residue), the partially combusted particulate matter produced by smoking
tar (computing), a computer archive file format and a program used to handle such files
Target acquisition radar
Transverse aeolian ridges, a feature on Mars
Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Medicine
Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital or General Hospital, a government tertiary hospital in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia
Thrombocytopenia with Absent Radius or TAR syndrome, a genetic disorder
Tissue-to-air ratio, used in radiation therapy treatment system calibration
Traumatic aortic rupture, an emergency injury in which the aorta is torn, usually after an impact
Trans-activation response element, a genetic element bound by Tat protein during HIV transcription
Music
Tar (band), a 90s indie rock band
Tar (drum), a drum from North Africa and the Middle East
Tar (string instrument), a lute of Persian origin used in Iran and the Caucasus
Tar (Azerbaijani instrument), a long-necked string instrument
"Tar" (song), by Visage, 1979
Places
Tar, Hungary, a village
Tar (Tar-Vabriga), village in Istria County, Croatia
Tar, Iran (disambiguation), several villages
Tar River, North Carolina, United States
Tar (Kyrgyzstan), a tributary of the Kara Darya in Kyrgyzstan
River Tar, County Tipperary, Ireland
Tar Rocks, Isle of Portland, Dorset, England
Tar Island, Ontario, Canada
Tar Township, Akto County, Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
Tibet Autonomous Region, a region of the People's Republic of China consisting of most of traditional Tibet
Tuvan Arat Republic (or the Tuvan/Tuvinian Arat Republic), i.e. the Tuvan People's Republic, a former state in North Asia
Publications
Teen-Age Romances, a 1949 comic book series
IPCC Third Assessment Report, a 2001 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Tar: A Midwest Childhood, a 1926 fictionalized memoir by American author Sherwood Anderson
Transport
Tar, a common name for asphalt concrete pavement
TAR Aerolineas, a Mexican airline
Taranto-Grottaglie Airport (IATA airport code TAR), an airport in Province of Taranto, Italy
Trans-Asian Railway, a UN project to create an integrated freight railway network across Europe and Asia
Tunisair (ICAO code TAR), an airline, the flag carrier of Tunisia
Film and television
Taar, a 2020 Marathi language film
The Color of Time, also known as Tar, a 2012 film
Tár, a 2022 film starring Cate Blanchett as a composer-conductor
The Amazing Race, a reality television series around the world
The Amazing Race (U.S. TV series)
People
Pál Tar (born 1931), Hungarian businessman and diplomat
Zsolt Tar (born 1993), Hungarian footballer
TAR, nickname of T. A. Robertson (1909-1994), Scottish MI5 intelligence officer
Other uses
Jack Tar or Tar, an English synonym for sailor
Time at risk, a risk measure for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PE | PE may refer to:
Science and technology
Computing and telecommunication
P/E cycle of flash memory
Phase encoding, another name for Manchester code
Portable Executable, a computer file format
Windows Preinstallation Environment, a lightweight version of Microsoft Windows
Progressive enhancement, a strategy for web design
Protocol encryption, a feature of some peer-to-peer file-sharing clients
Provider edge router, a router between computer networks
Project Euler, a problem solving website
Medical conditions
Pectus excavatum, a structural deformity of the anterior thoracic wall in which the sternum and rib cage are shaped abnormally
Pleural effusion, excess fluid accumulation in the pleural cavity, the fluid-filled space surrounding the lungs
Pre-eclampsia, a disorder of pregnancy
Premature ejaculation
Pulmonary embolism, a blockage of the pulmonary artery
Medical interventions
Penis enlargement
Phenylephrine, a common over-the-counter decongestant
Phenytoin equivalent, used to measure doses of fosphenytoin
Physical exercise
Prolonged exposure therapy, a form of behavior therapy designed to treat posttraumatic stress disorder
Organic chemistry
Pentaerythritol, a polyol
Phenylephrine, a common over-the-counter decongestant
Phenytoin equivalent, used to measure doses of fosphenytoin
Phosphatidyl ethanolamine
Phycoerythrin, a water-soluble protein used as a fluorescent marker in microscopy and flow cytometry
Polyethylene, a common plastic polymer
Physics
Positron emission, a type of radioactive decay
Potential energy, the energy stored in a body or in a system due to its position in a force field or due to its configuration
Proton emission, a type of radioactive decay
Protective earth, a type of electrical protective system
Reduction potential, the negative logarithm of electron activity
Other uses in science and technology
AEG PE, a German World War I armored ground-attack aircraft
Population equivalent, a concept used in sanitary engineering
Present Era, a year numbering system commonly used in archaeology that uses 1950s as the epoch marker
Professional Engineer, a post-nominal suffix indicating such a certification
Primary energy, an energy form found in nature that has not been subjected to any human engineered conversion process
Arts and media
"P.E." (Cow and Chicken), a 1998 television episode
Parasite Eve (video game), on the original PlayStation
Pineapple Express (film), a 2008 American action-comedy film starring Seth Rogen
Power electronics (music), a type of noise music
The Press-Enterprise, a newspaper serving the Inland Empire in Southern California
Private eye, a character class in the MMORPG Neocron
Public Enemy (group), a hip hop group from Long Island, New York
Minecraft: Pocket Edition, the mobile version of the video game
In business and economics
P/E ratio, or price-to-earnings ratio
Performance Evaluation, a journal
Professional Engineer, a post-nominal suffix indicating such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Couples%20Therapy%20episodes | This is a list of episodes from the reality television series Couples Therapy, which aired on the cable network VH1.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Specials
References
External links
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus%20University%20Department%20of%20Computer%20Science | Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University is with its 1000 students the largest Computer Science Department in Denmark. Earlier, the department abbreviation was 'DAIMI’, but after a restructure and internationalization, the abbreviation of the department became CS AU, short for Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University.
History
Originally, Department of Computer Science was a section within Department of Mathematics at Aarhus University. Here, the department was abbreviated DAIMI, short for Datalogisk Afdeling i Matematisk Institut, and by 1998 the name DAIMI had become so well known that it was kept, when the department became an independent department.
The computer science course started at Aarhus University in 1971 as part of Department of Mathematics. During the period 1993-1998 the computer scientific subject area underwent rapid growth, and at the department the total number of staff members rose from 80 to 160, primarily because of an increase in external funding.
An independent Department of Computer Science was founded in 1998. In the coming 5–6 years the department continuously moved more sections to new buildings as part of Aarhus University's plan to concentrate IT activities within the IT City Katrinebjerg. Close working relations to other organizations within the IT City have been established, i.e. with Department of Aesthetics and Communication and the Alexandra Institute.
Well-known computer scientists from Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University include:
Bjarne Stroustrup (inventor of C++)
Jakob Nielsen (expert in usability)
Lars Bak (inventor of the V8 JavaScript Engine)
Education
Educations at Bachelor level:
Bachelor in Computer Science
Bachelor in IT (Information Technology)
Educations at Master level:
MSc in Computer Science
MSc in IT Product Development
MSc in Information Technology
Additionally, the department offers a number of continuing and further education courses.
Research
Algorithms and Data Structures
Bioinformatics
Complexity Theory
Computer Graphics and Scientific Computing
Cryptography and Security
Human Computer Interaction
Modelling and Validation of Distributed Systems
Object-Oriented Software Systems
Programming Languages and Formal Models
Professors
Lars Arge
Susanne Bødker
Lars Birkedal
Ivan Bjerre Damgård
Kaj Grønbæk
Christian S. Jensen
Kurt Jensen (CPN Tools)
Morten Kyng
Ole Lehrmann Madsen
Brian H. Mayoh
Peter Bro Miltersen (P/poly)
Mogens Nielsen (Petri net)
Michael I. Schwartzbach
The IT City Katrinebjerg
The department is located in the Aarhus region named Katrinebjerg. The area also hosts many IT companies as well as other institutes of education and is known as the IT City Katrinebjerg.
External links
Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University
Magazine about the Dept. of Computer Science, Aarhus University (2009)
Research areas at CS
Founded: 1971 (section) / 1998 (department)
Head of Department: Lars Birkedal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20execution%20environment | A trusted execution environment (TEE) is a secure area of a main processor. It helps code and data loaded inside it to be protected with respect to confidentiality and integrity. Data integrity prevents unauthorized entities from outside the TEE from altering data, while code integrity prevents code in the TEE from being replaced or modified by unauthorized entities, which may also be the computer owner itself as in certain DRM schemes described in SGX. This is done by implementing unique, immutable, and confidential architectural security such as Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) which offers hardware-based memory encryption that isolates specific application code and data in memory. Intel SGX allows user-level code to allocate private regions of memory, called enclaves, which are designed to be protected from processes running at higher privilege levels. A TEE as an isolated execution environment provides security features such as isolated execution, integrity of applications executing with the TEE, along with confidentiality of their assets. In general terms, the TEE offers an execution space that provides a higher level of security for trusted applications running on the device than a rich operating system (OS) and more functionality than a 'secure element' (SE).
History
The Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) first defined TEE in their "Advanced Trusted Environment:OMTP TR1" standard, defining it as a "set of hardware and software components providing facilities necessary to support Applications" which had to meet the requirements of one of two defined security levels. The first security level, Profile 1, was targeted against only software attacks and while Profile 2, was targeted against both software and hardware attacks.
Commercial TEE solutions based on ARM TrustZone technology, conforming to the TR1 standard, were later launched, such as Trusted Foundations developed by Trusted Logic.
Work on the OMTP standards ended in mid 2010 when the group transitioned into the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC).
The OMTP standards, including those defining a TEE, are hosted by GSMA.
Details
The TEE typically consists of a hardware isolation mechanism, plus a secure operating system running on top of that isolation mechanism – however the term has been used more generally to mean a protected solution. Whilst a GlobalPlatform TEE requires hardware isolation, others such as EMVCo use the term TEE to refer to both hardware/software and only software-based solutions. FIDO uses the concept of TEE in the restricted operating environment for TEEs based on hardware isolation. Only trusted applications running in a TEE have access to the full power of a device's main processor, peripherals and memory, while hardware isolation protects these from user installed apps running in a main operating system. Software and cryptographic isolation inside the TEE protect the trusted applications contained within from each other.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina%20St%20Johnston | Dina St Johnston (née Aldrina Nia Vaughan, 20 September 1930 – 30 June/1 July 2007) was a British computer programmer credited with founding the UK's first software house in 1959.
Early life and education
Born Aldrina Nia Vaughan in south London, St Johnston was educated at Selhurst Grammar School for Girls before leaving school at 16 or 17 (accounts vary) to work for the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association. St Johnston worked and studied part-time, studying at Croydon Polytechnic and later Sir John Cass College before gaining an external London University degree in mathematics.
Early career
In 1953, St Johnston left the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association and joined Borehamwood Laboratories of Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd, where she worked in the Theory Division. The company was an early computer company and had produced its first computer in 1950. St Johnston learned to programme at the company and also at the 1954 Cambridge Summer School on Programming and, showing a real flair for programming, began working on EDSAC and the Elliott 400 and 800 series computers. By 1954, St Johnston was responsible for the programming of the Elliott 153 Direction Finding (DF) digital computer for the Admiralty and soon after for programming Elliott's own payroll computer; her work was said to have been inventive and structured, but also very accurate, hardly ever requiring 'de-bugging'.
Vaughan Computers
Shortly after her marriage to Andrew St Johnston – head of the Elliott computing department – in 1958, St Johnston (born Vaughan) founded Vaughan Programming Services (VPS) in Ware, Hertfordshire in 1959, performing software contracts, training and hiring additional programmers as needed. On its tenth anniversary in 1969, company literature stated that "VPS was the first registered independent Software unit in the UK (February 1959), that was not a part of a computer manufacturer, not a part of a computer bureau, not a part of a users' organisation and not a part of a consultancy operation."
Significant contracts came to St Johnston and VPS, such as programming early nuclear power stations, but in 1970 she branched out into hardware, producing her own computer, the 4M, and the company changed its name to Vaughan Systems and Programming in 1975 to reflect the new area of work. One of the 4M Vaughan computers is in The National Museum of Computing.
St Johnston and her company, Vaughan, produced software for companies like the BBC, Unilever, and GEC, flight simulators for the RAF and software that provided real-time information for passengers on British Rail, the type of work for which the company became most well known. The company became well known for transport signalling and display systems.
Later life
In 1996, Vaughan Systems and Programming was sold to Harmon Industries, an American railway signalling company.
St Johnston continued programming until the mid-1990s. She retired in 1999 and died on 30 June/1 July 2007.
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