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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivisi%C3%B3n | Multivisión, styled as multivisión, is the fifth national network of Cuba, established in 2008 and operated by the ICRT. Its programming primarily consists of imports from other countries.
History
The channel began broadcasting in 2008 from the five national telecentros, or regional production centers, at hours in which no local programs were being broadcast. However, this forced changes to other stations' schedules, and in the summer of 2009, Multivisión moved to its own TV channels.
Programming
Multivisión's programming includes a mix of telenovelas, series, documentaries (chiefly from National Geographic Channel and DW-TV), music videos and imported children's programs, as well as movies on Sunday nights and American primetime shows in the evenings.
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television in Cuba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican%20Communist%20Network | The Republican Communist Network is a communist political organisation in Scotland. It was a founding member of the Scottish Socialist Party in 1998, though formally disaffiliated from the party in 2012. It is an active participant in the Radical Independence Campaign.
The party publishes a journal called Emancipation and Liberation.
References
External links
Website of the Republican Communist Network
Communist parties in Scotland
Republican parties in the United Kingdom
Scottish republicanism
Political campaigns in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo%20Wing%20Thye | Woo Wing Thye (Chinese name: 胡永泰) is a Malaysian-American economist. He is currently Vice President for Asia of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network; Distinguished Fellow of the Penang Institute in George Town, Malaysia; National Distinguished Fellow in the Thousand Talents Program of China; Changjiang Professor in China; and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of California, Davis. He is also Director of the East Asia Program within the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and a member of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE); and holds academic positions Fudan University in Shanghai, Henan University in Kaifeng, Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics in Urumuchi, Peking University in Beijing, and Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur.
Professor Woo is an expert on East Asian economies, particularly China, Malaysia and Indonesia. He has written extensively on the middle-income trap, as well as on transition economics, growth and development, globalization, exchange rate economics, and regional economic disparity.
He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1982 with a thesis entitled 'Exchange rate determination under rational expectations: a structural approach'. The University of Cambodia awarded Professor Woo an Honorary Doctorate in Sustainable Development in 2020.
Biography
Woo was born in 1954 in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. Following undergraduate study in economics and engineering at Swarthmore College, he took an MA in Economics at Yale and later an MA and PhD at Harvard (1982). Woo has been a member the economics faculty at the University of California, Davis, since 1985. He has also worked at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., at different stages of his career, starting as a Research Assistant in 1976-77, then as a Research Associate in 1982-1985, and finally as the New Century Chair in International Trade and Economics from 2006-2009.
Woo has worked as a consultant on tax and exchange rate reform for China's Ministry of Finance and, between 1994 and 1996, led an international team, which included Leszek Balcerowicz, Boris Fyodorov, Fan Gang and Jeffrey Sachs to study the reform experiences of centrally planned economies. From 1997-1998, he was a special advisor to the U.S. Treasury.
In 2001, Woo helped establish the Asian Economic Panel (AEP), a forum of about 80 specialists on Asian economies, which meets three times a year to discuss issues of importance to the region's economies. Selected proceedings of the AEP are published in the Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press.
From 2002 until 2005, Woo was a special advisor for East Asian Economies to the United Nations Millennium Project. In July 2005, he was appointed to the International Advisory Panel for Malaysia's then-Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and he was an economics advisor to the State of Penang in 2008-2018. He was Executive Director of the P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20of%20the%20City | Beat of the City is a 1975 Australian TV series based on the novel by H.F. Brinsmead.
References
External links
Beat of the City at IMDb
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
1970s Australian drama television series
1975 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaris%20Phillips | Damaris Lennon Phillips (born December 8, 1980) is an American chef and television personality. In 2013 she won the ninth season of the Food Network television series Food Network Star. She hosted the Food Network show Southern at Heart for five seasons from 2013 to 2016. In 2018, she began co-hosting The Bobby and Damaris Show on Food Network with Bobby Flay.
Personal life
Phillips was born in Lexington, Kentucky. On June 13, 2015, she married Darrick Wood in Louisville, Kentucky.
Education
Damaris Phillips graduated from Jefferson Community and Technical College, where she earned a degree in Culinary Arts. She has stated that she decided to attend culinary school because she "didn't know what to do in life". Phillips later went on to become a culinary instructor.
Food Network
Food Network Star
In early 2013, Phillips was a contestant on the ninth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star. As one of the final three contestants, she filmed a pilot for a potential series called Eat, Date, Love. Phillips was announced as the winner of the competition on August 11, 2013.
Southern at Heart
As a reward for winning Food Network Star, Phillips got her own show on Food Network, Southern at Heart. The show premiered on October 27, 2013. The first season aired on Sundays at 10:30 am/9:30c and consisted of six episodes. The show ultimately ran for five seasons, from 2013 to 2016, with most seasons consisting of 13 episodes. Phillips posted regular show reviews and updates to her Facebook page. An episode airing on April 19, 2015, was watched by 816,000 viewers.
The Bobby and Damaris Show
Since September 2017, she has co-hosted The Bobby and Damaris Show on Food Network with her former Food Network Star co-judge Bobby Flay.
Southern and Hungry
In October 2017, she began co-hosting Southern and Hungry with Rutledge Wood (her brother-in-law) on Cooking Channel.
Guy's Grocery Games
Damaris frequently appears on Guy's Grocery Games as both a judge and as a competing chef.
She often raises money for charity when competing, most frequently for the story program in Louisville, Kentucky.
References
External links
1980 births
American television chefs
Food Network chefs
Food Network Star winners
Jefferson Community and Technical College faculty
Living people
Television personalities from Louisville, Kentucky
American women chefs
Chefs from Kentucky
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20a%20Woman%20Be%20a%20Woman | "Let a Woman Be a Woman" is a 1969 song by Dyke and the Blazers. The song was written by bandleader Arlester Christian.
Chart performance
Sampling
According to the sampling website database WhoSampled.com, "Let a Woman Be a Woman" is on the Sampled in More Than 100 Songs list and was on the Most Sampled Tracks list at #100 with more than 180 songs sampling, until being knocked off by the Fairlight CMI digital synthesizer sampled for the "ORCH5" orchestra hit sample, itself sampling the Philharmonia Orchestra's Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky. Nonetheless, it is one of the most sampled singles primarily due to the breakbeat after the line "Some people don't like the way Sally walk" which lined up to the sound effect of a firetruck, giving it its unique sound. The songs sampling include "If My Homie Calls" by 2Pac (1991), "Rusty" by Tyler, the Creator ft. Earl Sweatshirt and Domo Genesis (2013), "Sally" by Stetsasonic (1988), where the entire song centers around the "Sally" line and sample, "Welcome to the Terrordome" by Public Enemy (1989), and even outside of hip-hop with "Jack-Ass" by Beck (1996) and "How You Like Me Now?" by The Heavy (2009).
References
1969 songs
1969 singles
Funk songs
American rhythm and blues songs
American pop songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft%20%28algorithm%29 | Raft is a consensus algorithm designed as an alternative to the Paxos family of algorithms. It was meant to be more understandable than Paxos by means of separation of logic, but it is also formally proven safe and offers some additional features. Raft offers a generic way to distribute a state machine across a cluster of computing systems, ensuring that each node in the cluster agrees upon the same series of state transitions. It has a number of open-source reference implementations, with full-specification implementations in Go, C++, Java, and Scala. It is named after Reliable, Replicated, Redundant, And Fault-Tolerant.
Raft is not a Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) algorithm: the nodes trust the elected leader.
Basics
Raft achieves consensus via an elected leader. A server in a raft cluster is either a leader or a follower, and can be a candidate in the precise case of an election (leader unavailable). The leader is responsible for log replication to the followers. It regularly informs the followers of its existence by sending a heartbeat message. Each follower has a timeout (typically between 150 and 300 ms) in which it expects the heartbeat from the leader. The timeout is reset on receiving the heartbeat. If no heartbeat is received the follower changes its status to candidate and starts a leader election.
Approach of the consensus problem in Raft
Raft implements consensus by a leader approach. The cluster has one and only one elected leader which is fully responsible for managing log replication on the other servers of the cluster. It means that the leader can decide on new entries' placement and establishment of data flow between it and the other servers without consulting other servers. A leader leads until it fails or disconnects, in which case a new leader is elected.
The consensus problem is decomposed in Raft into two relatively independent subproblems listed down below.
Leader election
When the existing leader fails or when the algorithm initializes, a new leader needs to be elected.
In this case, a new term starts in the cluster. A term is an arbitrary period of time on the server for which a new leader needs to be elected. Each term starts with a leader election. If the election is completed successfully (i.e. a single leader is elected) the term keeps going with normal operations orchestrated by the new leader. If the election is a failure, a new term starts, with a new election.
A leader election is started by a candidate server. A server becomes a candidate if it receives no communication by the leader over a period called the election timeout, so it assumes there is no acting leader anymore. It starts the election by increasing the term counter, voting for itself as new leader, and sending a message to all other servers requesting their vote. A server will vote only once per term, on a first-come-first-served basis. If a candidate receives a message from another server with a term number larger than the candidate's curr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azoarcus%20buckelii | Azoarcus buckelii is a bacterium from the genus Azoarcus.
References
External links
Type strain of Azoarcus buckelii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodocyclaceae
Bacteria described in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline24 | Deadline24 was an annual programming competition organised by a Polish company for software developers and students from all over the world. The finals of the contest last 24 hours and are held in extreme conditions. It is always organised in the venues closely related to the industrial tradition of the Silesia Province (Poland). Competition tasks are prepared by programmers working at a Gliwice-based company, Future Processing. The marathon was free of charge.
The 10th and final edition of Deadline24 took place at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów, Poland.
History
First edition of Deadline24 was organised by Tomasz Łakota and Mateusz Brzeszcz, and it first took place in 2009 in Gliwice when it was the only challenge of this type in Poland. In 2013 it became an international competition. Popularity of the competition increased with 1,479 players signed up for the first stage of the competition in 2016 with the qualifying round attended by representatives of: Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Great Britain, Spain, Slovakia, Estonia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, and India.
Contest parameters
The contest consists of 2 rounds:
An elimination round, where entrants have to complete a five-hour challenge via the Deadline24 website.
The finals, which lasts 24 consecutive clock hours.
The qualifying round lasts 5 hours and is conducted via the Internet. The teams receive tasks and necessary input data. The objective is to find the solution (in any way) and to transfer it to the verification server within a given time. The best 20-30 teams qualify for the final. The qualifying round is open for all the teams who have registered via Deadline24 website before the registration deadline.
The final task of the contest consists of an appropriate interaction with the contest server under the terms and conditions specified in the task. Communication with the server is conducted using TCP/IP protocol.
Participants work on their own equipment (the organiser provides one 230 V power outlet and one LAN RJ-45 jack or a plug-in cable for each team) and are allowed to choose any working environment and programming language. They may use any materials and auxiliary devices they bring with them, except for any devices providing access to external support. The access to any external help is strictly forbidden.
Comparable competitions
Unlike the International Collegiate Programming Contest Deadline24 does not set problems where there is an exact solution.
Organizer
The competition is organised by Future Processing, a software development company from Gliwice, Poland. It operates in the global market and specialises in producing software for industry, international trade, and services.
See also
List of computer science awards
References
External links
Computer science competitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari%20Greenberg | Ari David Greenberg (born April 1, 1981 in Malibu, California) is an American world junior champion in contract bridge. A Stanford computer science graduate, Greenberg was previously employed Bridge Base, Google, and Facebook. He currently resides in Menlo Park, California.
Bridge accomplishments
Awards
ACBL King or Queen of Bridge 1999
Wins
Grand National Teams Flight B 2001
World Junior Teams Championship 2005, 2006
South American Junior Championships 2007
Runners-up
World University Team Cup 2006
References
External links
1981 births
American contract bridge players
Living people
People from Malibu, California
Stanford University alumni
Google employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET%20Bio | .NET Bio is an open source bioinformatics and genomics library created to enable simple loading, saving and analysis of biological data. It was designed for .NET Standard 2.0 and was part of the Microsoft Biology Initiative in the eScience division.
History
.NET Bio was originally built and released by Microsoft Research under the name Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) and was later repackaged and released by the Outercurve Foundation as a fully public and open source project under the Apache License 2.0.
Capabilities
The library consists of a set of object-oriented classes written in C# to perform common bioinformatic tasks such as:
Read and write standard alignment and sequence-oriented data files such as FASTA and GenBank.
Access online web services such as NCBI BLAST to search known databases for sequence fragments.
Algorithms for local and global alignments.
Algorithms for sequence assembly, including a parallel DeNovo assembler implementation.
Even though the library itself is written in C#, it may be used from any .NET compatible language and has samples of various usages including from IronPython scripting.
See also
Genome Compiler
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
BioJava, BioPerl, BioPython, BioRuby
Bioclipse
References
External links
.NET Bio Website
Original MBF Website
Microsoft Biology Initiative
.NET software
Software that uses Mono (software)
Bioinformatics software
Free and open-source software
Microsoft free software
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak%20D.%20Mayergoyz | Isaak D. Mayergoyz is the Alford L. Ward Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.
He received his master and PhD degrees in the former Soviet Union, where he was a senior research scientist at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences before emigrating to the US in 1980. In the next year, he was appointed full professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland. In 1987, he received the Outstanding Teacher Award of the university's College of Engineering. In 1988, he was selected as a visiting Research Fellow of the Research and Development Center of General Electric after having consulted for the same center and having participated in the development of MRI systems. In the same year (1988), he became a Fellow of IEEE. In 1994, he became a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society as well as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of the University of Maryland, College Park. He received the Achievement Award, the highest award of the IEEE Magnetics Society, in 2010. In 2018 he was named a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland.
His areas of research have included plasmon resonances in nanoparticles, nonlinear magnetization dynamics induced by spin polarized currents, fluctuations in nanoscale semiconductor devices, mathematical modeling of hysteresis and stochastic analysis of systems with hysteresis, drive independent recovery and forensics of hard disk data, computational electromagnetics and power engineering.
Books
"Analysis of three-dimensional electromagnetic fields", (with O. Tozoni), Kiev, Tehnika, 1974, pp. 1–352.
"Iterative methods for the calculation of static fields in inhomogeneous anisotropic nonlinear media", Kiev, Naukova Dumka, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1979, pp. 1–210.
"Mathematical Models of Hysteresis", (I. D. Mayergoyz), Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp. 1–232.
"Méthods numériques en électromagnétisme", (A. Bossavit, C. Emson, I. D. Mayergoyz), publisher "Collection de la Direction des Études et Recherches d’Électricité de France," 1991.
"Basic Electric Circuit Theory", (I. D. Mayergoyz, W. Lawson), Academic Press, 1996, pp. 1–439.
"Basic Electric Circuit Theory", (I. D. Mayergoyz, W. Lawson), Italian Translation, Publisher UTET, 2000, pp. 1–493.
"Nonlinear Diffusion of Electromagnetic Fields (with Applications to Eddy Currents and Superconductivity)", (I. Mayergoyz), Academic Press, 1998, pp. 1–412.
"Mathematical Models of Hysteresis and Their Applications", (I. D. Mayergoyz), Academic Press-Elsevier, 2003, pp. 1–475.
"The Science of Hysteresis", (Three-volume treatise) (Editors G. Bertotti and I. Mayergoyz), Academic Press-Elsevier, 2006, pp. 1–2019.
Analysis of Fluctuations in Nanoscale Semiconductor Devices, Chapter 6 in vol. 5 of "Handbook of Semiconductor Nanostructures and Nanodevices" (I. D. Mayergoyz and P. Andrei), American Scientific Publishers, 2006, p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield%20mapping | Yield mapping or yield monitoring is a technique in agriculture of using GPS data to analyze variables such as crop yield and moisture content in a given field. It was developed in the 1990s and uses a combination of GPS technology and physical sensors, such as speedometers, to track crop yields, grain elevator speed, and combine speed.
This data produces a yield map that can be used to compare yield distribution within the field from year to year. This allows farmers to determine areas of the field that, for example, may need to be more heavily irrigated or are not yielding any crop at all. It also allows farmers to show the effects of a change in field-management techniques, to develop nutrient strategies for their fields, and as a record of crop yield to use in securing loans or renters.
References
Agricultural terminology
Precision agriculture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M104%20railway%20%28Croatia%29 | The Novska–Tovarnik railway (), officially designated as the M104 railway, is a long railway line in Croatia that connects Novska to the Serbian railway network east of Tovarnik, continuing to the city of Belgrade. It is electrified double-track railway. Its route follows the Sava river valley making it the primary railway line of Slavonia. It is an integral part of railway Pan-European Corridor X running from Salzburg and Ljubljana towards Skopje and Thessaloniki. It is electrified and double-tracked. Until 2014, the railway was classified as M105.
History
It was the route of the Orient Express service from 1919 to 1977.
As part of the Zagreb–Belgrade railway, electrification was finished in 1970. It was the first fully electrified line in Croatia with 25 kV 50 AC system (Zagreb-Rijeka was electrified earlier, but with older 3 kV DC system).
Reconstruction of the Vinkovci - Tovarnik section (2008 - 2012)
From 2008 to 2011, the section of the track between stations Vinkovci and Tovarnik was reconstructed.
The reconstruction of the section Vinkovci - Tovarnik - state border was the first project in Croatia that was financed from the pre-accession funds of the European Union and the first in which investments in railway infrastructure were co-financed from EU funds. It is also the largest infrastructure project financed by the pre-accession aid model, both in financial and physical terms. The completion of the works was solemnly celebrated on January 19, 2012.
The subject of the project was the section on the international corridor in the east of Croatia, from Vinkovci to Tovarnik, that is on a route 33.48 km long. Since it is a two-track railway, 67 kilometers of tracks were renewed. The axle load allowed on this part of the corridor is now 22.5 tons per axle and 8.0 tons per meter of length. The maximum operating speed on the section was raised from 50 to 160 km/h following the end of the reconstruction.
As part of the reconstruction of the section Vinkovci - Tovarnik - state border with Serbia, works were carried out in stations and stops, on tracks and railway crossings, and a new system of traffic signaling and traffic management was installed.
Seven existing stations were modernized, where new platform areas were built with all the necessary infrastructure, such as ramps for disabled people, platform canopies, lighting, parking areas and more. Two stations (Jankovci and Đeletovci) were reconstructed, and two new stops were built as part of their reconstruction.
Reconstruction of the Novska - Okučani section (2012 - 2016)
From 2012 to 2016, section of the track between stations Novska (excluded) and Okučani was reconstructed.After the reconstruction, the maximum permitted operating speed for trains on the section was raised to 160 km/h.
The project included following:
renovation of the double-track railway (upper and lower track structure) between Okučani and Novska (about 16.8 km)
renovation of Okučani station (installation of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb%20Roy | Deb Roy is a Canadian scientist, tenured professor at MIT, and the director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. Roy received a bachelor of applied science in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. He previously was the executive director of the MIT Media Lab and directed the Cognitive Machines group at the Media Lab, and the Laboratory for Social Machines.
Roy conducts research on language, games, and social dynamics at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. An author of over 150 academic papers in machine learning, cognitive modeling, and human-machine interaction, his TED Talk, Birth of a Word (based on the 2006–2009 Human Speechome Project), has been viewed over 2.8 million times.
In 2008, he co-founded and was the founding CEO of Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics company, which MIT Technology Review named as one of the 50 most innovative companies of 2012. Bluefin was acquired by Twitter in 2013, and Roy served as chief media scientist of Twitter from 2013 to 2017. He is also co-founder and chairman of Cortico, a nonprofit media technology company whose Local Voices Network aims to foster constructive public conversations across political and cultural divides.
The Laboratory for Social Machines started in 2014 with an investment of $10 million from Twitter over a five-year period. The agreement also gives the lab access to all historical Twitter data and access to the firehose of all real-time tweets. The lab aims to "create new platforms for both individuals and institutions to identify, discuss, and act on pressing societal problems."
In 2018, Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral published "The spread of true and false news online" in Science. The paper examined "~126,000 stories tweeted by ~3 million people more than 4.5 million times," and found that "Falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information, and the effects were more pronounced for false political news than for false news about terrorism, natural disasters, science, urban legends, or financial information." Additionally, the authors found that "Contrary to conventional wisdom, robots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate, implying that false news spreads more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it."
See also
Human Speechome Project
References
External links
Deb Roy's MIT home page
"The birth of a word" (TED2011)
Bluefin Labs home page
BIF Summit talk by Deb Roy
American computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Living people
MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty
MIT Media Lab people
Scientists from Manitoba
Twitter, Inc. people
University of Waterloo alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20analytics | Cloud analytics is a marketing term for businesses to carry out analysis using cloud computing. It uses a range of analytical tools and techniques to help companies extract information from massive data and present it in a way that is easily categorised and readily available via a web browser.
Cloud analytics is term for a set of technological and analytical tools and techniques specifically designed to help clients extract information from massive data.
Cloud analytics is designed to make official statistical data readily categorized and available via the users web browser.
Cloud analytics tools
AWS Analytics products:
Amazon Athena runs interactive queries directly against data in Amazon S3.
Amazon EMR deploys open source, big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Spark, Presto, HBase, and Flink.
Amazon Redshift fully manages petabyte-scale data warehouse to run complex queries on collections of structured data.
Google Cloud Analytics Products:
Google BigQuery Google's fully manages low cost analytics data warehouse.
Google Cloud Dataflow unifies programming models and manages services for executing a range of data processing patterns including streaming analytics, ETL, and batch computation.
Google Cloud Dataproc manages Spark and Hadoop service, to process big datasets using the open tools in the Apache big data ecosystem.
Google Cloud Composer fully manages workflow orchestration service to author, schedule, and monitor pipelines that span across clouds and on-premises data centers.
Google Cloud Datalab is an interactive notebook (based on Jupyter) to explore, collaborate, analyze and visualize data.
Google Data Studio turns data into dashboards and reports that can be read, shared, and customized.
Google Cloud Dataprep is a data service for visually exploring, cleaning, and preparing structured and unstructured data for analysis.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a serverless, large-scale, real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications.
Related Azure services and Microsoft products:
HDInsight provisions cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters.
Data Lake Analytics distributes analytics service that makes big data easy.
Machine Learning Studio easily builds, deploys, and manages predictive analytics solutions.
References
Cloud computing
Analytics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Test | Google Test (also known as gtest) is a unit testing library for the C++ programming language, released under the BSD 3-clause license and based on the xUnit architecture. Google Test is able to be compiled for a variety of POSIX and Microsoft Windows platforms, allowing unit-testing of C sources as well as C++ with minimal source modification.
Projects using Google Test
Besides being developed and used at Google, many other projects implement Google Test as well:
Android Open Source Project operating system
Chromium projects (behind the Chrome browser and ChromeOS)
LLVM compiler
Protocol Buffers (Google's data interchange format)
OpenCV computer vision library
Robot Operating System
Gromacs molecular dynamics simulation package
Related tools
Google Test UI is a test runner that runs test binary, allows to track progress via a progress bar, and displays a list of test failures. Google Test UI is written in C#. Additionally, a feature-complete Visual Studio extension exists with Google Test Adapter.
See also
List of unit testing frameworks
CppUnit
References
Further reading
External links
Google Test
Google Test Primer documentation
Gtest C/C++ Conan package
A quick introduction to the Google C++ Testing Framework, Arpan Sen, IBM DeveloperWorks, 2010-05-11
The Google Test and Development Environment, Anthony Vallone, 2014-01-21
C++ libraries
Extreme programming
Freedesktop.org
Unit testing frameworks
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azoarcus%20toluvorans | Azoarcus toluvorans is a bacterium from the genus Azoarcus.
References
External links
Type strain of Azoarcus toluvorans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodocyclaceae
Bacteria described in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingles | Bingles is an Australian sitcom which screened on the Ten Network in 1992 and 1993.
The series was set in a suburban smash repair workshop called Bingles, playing on the word bingle, which is also Australian slang for a minor crash or upset. Network Ten commissioned a second series of 13 episodes before the first series had gone to air, however the series was not very successful.
References
External links
Bingles at IMDb
Network 10 original programming
Australian television sitcoms
1992 Australian television series debuts
1993 Australian television series endings
Australian workplace comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20business%20angel%20networks | According to the Angel Capital Association, an angel group or angel network is individual angel investors joining together with other angel investors to evaluate and invest in entrepreneurial companies. These angels typically pool their capital to make larger investments. Some characteristics of angel networks are: meeting regularly to review business proposals, deciding collectively whether to invest or not, and working together to conduct due diligence to validate the plans, statements and history of the companies founding team, Between 10,000 and 15,000 angels are believed to belong to angel groups in the U.S. Angel groups also sometimes co-invest with other angel groups, individual angels and very early-stage venture capitalists to make larger, aggregate investments.
Types of angel networks
There are three types of Angel Networks.
Non- profit Business Angel Associations : Association of Angels facilitating Angel's investments in local Companies for a stake in the company
Incubators- Group of Angel hosting companies in exchange for a stake in the company
For Profit Angel Networks - Networks enabling Entrepreneurs to Meet Business Angels. They often work on a Success Fee and Entrance Fee basis.
Types of fees
Equity Fee- Proportional stake of the amount invested in the company concerned.
Registration Fee- Fee paid by Entrepreneurs in order to have access to the Angel Network.
Success Fee- Percentage of the investment paid to the Network.
Comparison table
See also
Angel Investors
Incubator
References
Angel investors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjona%20%28plant%29 | Arjona is a genus of flowering plants in the family Schoepfiaceae. They are hemiparasites.
Taxonomy
, the following six species were recognized by the Plants of the World Online database:
Arjona longifolia Phil. – northwest and south Argentina
Arjona megapotamica Malme – Brazil (Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul)
Arjona patagonica Hombr. & Jacquinot ex Decne. – Argentina, central and south Chile
Arjona pusilla Hook.f. – Peru, Bolivia, south Chile, northwest and south Argentina
Arjona schumanniana Pilg. – south Brazil, Uruguay
Arjona tuberosa Cav. – Argentina, Uruguay, south and central Chile
The Flora del Conosur does not accept A. schumanniana, which was synonymised with A. megapotamica by the Brazilian botanist João Rodrigues de Mattos in the Santalales volume of the Flora Ilustrada Catarinense of 1967.
A 2019 study of the genetics of the mainly Andean species of this genus was not able to include Arjona megapotamica (of which Arjona schumanniana was treated as a synonym). The results suggested that there are only one to three highly morphologically variable species, similar to the related genus Quinchamalium or the mistletoe species Tristerix corymbosus. Arjona megapotamica may be a separate valid species. The samples sequenced could be broadly placed in two regional groups, but these appear to be very closely related. Because the morphology of individual plants is so variable, it is difficult to identify a particular sample to a species, and the phenotypes exhibited by the individuals do not appear to be correlated to genetic clades. Nonetheless, a 1977 Ph.D. dissertation by Feur found diverse heteropolar pollen distinguishing species of Arjona.
Description
The species all have tubers. These tubers are rhizomes, underground stems, not roots. The roots do not sprout exactly from the tuber itself, but from its uppermost part (the tubers may grow upside down, with the stems arising from the bottom), where it becomes the vegetative stems. In some species, such as Arjona pusilla, the rhizomes can branch and grow laterally, forming an underground mat of sorts. Others have napiform tubers, and others more long and thin tubers. The actual roots are small and thin, and have organs called 'haustoria', which are used to parasitise upon surrounding plants. All species grow a tuft of unbranched or weakly branched stems, topped eventually by an inflorescence.
Distribution
The five or six species are found in southern South America, stretching from Tierra del Fuego in the south, north to Peru in the west, and southeastern Brazil in the east. Assuming A. schumanniana is not a valid species, Argentina has four species, Chile has three, Bolivia, Peru and Uruguay have a single species. Brazil has a single endemic species.
Ecology
All species are found in open, not forested situations. Arjona patagonica and A. tuberosa appear to have broad habitat adaptability, but may prefer sandy soils. A. tuberosa var. tandilensis only appears to grow upon solitary h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20Vojnovic | Milan Vojnovic is a professor of data science with the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics, where he is also director of the MSc Data Science Programme. Prior to this, he worked as a researcher with Microsoft Research from 2004 to 2016.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Technical Sciences from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2003, and both M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Split, Croatia, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He undertook an internship with the Mathematical Research Centre at Bell Labs in 2001. From 2005 to 2014, he was a visiting professor at the University of Split, Croatia. From 2014 to 2016, he was an affiliated lecturer at the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Research
His research interests include data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, game theory, multi-agent systems and information networks. He has made contributions to the theory and the design of computation platforms for processing large-scale data.
He received several prizes for his work. In 2010, he was awarded the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Researcher Award, and in 2005, the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award. He received the IEEE IWQoS 2007 Best Student Paper Award (with Shao Liu and Dinan Gunawardena), the IEEE INFOCOM 2005 Best Paper Award (with Jean-Yves Le Boudec), the ACM SIGMETRICS 2005 Best Paper Award (with Laurent Massoulie) and the ITC 2001 Best Student Paper Award (with Jean-Yves Le Boudec).
Vojnovic authored the book Contest Theory: Incentive Mechanisms and Ranking Methods.
References
Computer scientists
Croatian engineers
Living people
Academics of the London School of Economics
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20Shark | Ghost Shark is a 2013 American supernatural monster film directed for the Syfy television network by Griff Furst. With Furst joined by Paul A. Birkett and Eric Forsberg for screenwriting, the film premiered on Syfy on August 22, 2013.
Despite being panned critically, the film had some success attracting attention from social media due to its fantastical premise. Websites such as Vulture.com commented on moments from the film. An unofficial sequel, Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws, was released on 1 July 2015. The two films are unrelated in terms of narrative, other than both being films featuring killer sharks.
Plot
When a great white shark eats the potential catch of a sport fisherman, the man and his daughter violently retaliate by sadistically torturing and killing the shark. The shark's corpse then sinks to the bottom of an underwater cave. It is subsequently resurrected as a ghost shark due to the cave's mysterious paranormal properties.
Now hungry for revenge, the ghost shark eats his redneck killers, along with the captain of their boat. It eventually sets its sights on the rest of the local community in the seaside town of Smallport, Florida. Due to the great white's new spectral form, it can attack and kill anyone as long as there is even the smallest amount of water nearby. This allows it to emerge from a swimming pool, a bathtub, a bucket, a metal pipe and even a drinking cup. It kills many people in several unexpected locations.
Though the terror is seemingly out of control, a group of young people trying to find answers end up having their pleas ignored. The local mayor is in the midst of his re-election campaign, and other authorities are unwilling to believe in the ghost. The teenager Ava Conte (Mackenzie Rosman) vows to put an end to the specter, after it devours her father and several friends. She teams up with a local lighthouse keeper, named Finch (Richard Moll). Finch is a drunken figure who claims to know the secrets to the shark's new-found form. Reportedly, when the cave was still above water, it was where a dying African-American slave put a voodoo curse on the entire town.
After being arrested, harassed, threatened, and otherwise impeded in their struggles, the group then finally manages to lay the creature to rest once and for all.
Cast
Mackenzie Rosman as Ava Reid
Dave Randolph-Mayhem Davis as Blaise Parker
Lucky Johnson as Mayor Frank Stahl
Shawn C. Phillips as Mick
Richard Moll as Finch
Sloane Coe as Cicely Reid
Jaren Mitchell as Cameron Stahl
Tim Taylor as Deputy Hendricks
Thomas Francis Murphy as Chief Martin
Reception
Critical reception for Ghost Shark has been predominantly negative. The film holds a rating of 29% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on seven reviews. For example, critic Jim Vorel, writing for Paste, blasted the film as "a mind-numbing movie", featuring severe problems "[f]rom its performances to its horrendous execution in the editing room". He concluded, "the film viola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schildt | Schildt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Göran Schildt (born 1917), Finnish-Swedish author and art historian
Herbert Schildt (1951–2009), American musician and computing author
Melchior Schildt (1592 or 1593 – 1667), German composer and organist
Peter Schildt (born 1951), Swedish actor
Runar Schildt (1888–1925), Swedish-speaking Finnish writer
Wolmar Schildt
Wolmar Onni Schildt (1851–1913), Finnish politician
Wolmar Styrbjörn Schildt :fi:Wolmar Schildt, Finish doctor and translator, and linguist, developer of Finnish vocabulary
See also
Mike Shildt (born 1968), American baseball manager
Schild |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party%20Central | Party Central is a 2013 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Kelsey Mann. It premiered on August 9, 2013 at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California and was shown in theaters with Muppets Most Wanted on March 21, 2014. Party Central is the second short in the Monsters, Inc. franchise and takes place shortly after the events of Monsters University. The short involves Mike and Sulley helping their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers make their party a success. It is the only Monsters, Inc. production to be rated PG by the MPA.
Plot
Mike and Sulley are visiting Monsters University for the weekend to see how their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers are doing. The group is throwing its first party, but no one has shown up. Fortunately, Mike and Sulley have a plan to liven up the house. Using a couple borrowed door stations, they sneak into a party at the Roar Omega Roar fraternity and steal all of its food and guests to fill the Oozma Kappa house. The supply runs take them through the closet doors of a married couple's bedroom, repeatedly disturbing their sleep.
Once they have the party fully stocked, Scott "Squishy" Squibbles' mother Sherri walks in on it while doing a load of laundry. She is angry with the fraternity, but only because they did not invite her. After lighting a bonfire on the lawn, Sherri introduces the crowd to "door jumping"/"door jamming", involving jumping from the roof with the help of two doors to land safely on the lawn. The guests congratulate the Oozma Kappas for throwing a great party, and many of them decide to pledge the fraternity.
In a post-credits scene, the husband and wife wake their son Timmy up and ask if they can sleep with him, saying that there are monsters in their closet. Timmy vehemently replies, "That's what I've been trying to tell you!".
Voice cast
Billy Crystal as Mike
John Goodman as Sulley
Peter Sohn as Squishy
Julia Sweeney as Sherri
Charlie Day as Art
Nathan Fillion as Johnny
Dave Foley as Terry
Sean P. Hayes as Terri
Bobby Moynihan as Chet
Joel Murray as Don
Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Mom
James Kevin Ward as Dad
Cristina Pucelli as Timmy
Production
According to the short's writer/director Kelsey Mann, "When you first meet the Oozma Kappas, they go to their fraternity house and the first thing they say is, 'Welcome to Party Central! We haven’t thrown a party yet, but when we do we’ll be ready,'... I kept telling [director] Dan [Scanlon], 'I really want to see their party. We have to do it in the credits or something.' Then when the idea of doing a short came up, we were like, 'That could be the party!'" The short took around eight months to make, to which the voices were recorded near end of production of Monsters University. Mann stated "We would do a couple of pickup lines with Billy Crystal and the other actors for the movie and then we’d get the stuff we needed for the short." Party Central was initially conside |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RacoWireless | RacoWireless is a provider of wireless products and services focusing on the machine to machine (M2M) industry. The company delivers wireless data and provides a platform for companies to build and support wireless M2M applications.
In November 2014, RacoWireless was acquired by a private equity backed, competing M2M MVNO KORE Wireless Group.
History
RacoWireless was initially formed as a subsidiary of RACO Industries LLC in Cincinnati, Ohio. The parent organization RACO Industries was founded in 1988 by current CEO Rob Adams as a value-added reseller of barcoding hardware and data-collection services. The company also partnered with network carriers to provide vehicle-tracking solutions.
In 2005, the company shifted its focus towards data aggregation and began building a data aggregation platform. The following year, the company was approached by T-Mobile with the concept of becoming a data aggregator in the M2M space, and RacoWireless was officially founded in 2006.
RacoWireless developed its Omega Management Suite as a web-based platform to provide customers with an M2M device management and monitoring system. The company worked with T-Mobile and their M2M solutions team, which was led by national director of M2M John Horn.
In 2011, RacoWireless announced that Horn had left T-Mobile to become President of RacoWireless. As part of the move, RacoWireless signed a deal to become T-Mobile's preferred partner for new M2M business and operational support.
In 2011, RacoWireless and T-Mobile partnered with Audi to offer Audi Connect – an in-car service that allows users access to news, weather, and fuel prices while turning the vehicle into a secure mobile Wi-Fi hotspot allowing passengers access to the Internet.
In recent years, RacoWireless has formed partnerships with other international mobile network carriers including EE in the UK, Rogers in Canada, Sprint, and Telefonica out of Spain and Latin America.
In October 2012, Inverness Graham Investments, a private equity firm out of Philadelphia, announced a controlled recapitalization of RacoWireless. In July 2013, RacoWireless announced the acquisition of Position Logic, a provider of B2B location-based services with operations in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
In November 2014, RacoWireless was acquired by a private equity backed, competing M2M MVNO KORE Wireless Group.
Company
RacoWireless provides products and services for the machine-to-machine (M2M) world. Additionally, it offers the Omega Management Suite, an information tool that provides web-based M2M management, reporting, and alerting features; SIM activation, maintenance, and management; web-based billing solutions; consulting, carrier device certification, application hosting, and virtual LAN solutions.
RacoWireless services markets including: fleet management, asset tracking, healthcare, monitoring & control, and point-of-sale transaction processing. The Company has operations in 60 count |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alafia%20caudata | Alafia caudata is a plant in the family Apocynaceae.
Description
Alafia caudata grows as a climbing shrub or liana. Its fragrant flowers feature a white or yellowish corolla. The fruit is grey with paired follicles, each up to long.
Distribution and habitat
Alafia caudata is native to an area of tropical Africa from Cameroon to Mozambique. Its habitat is mixed forest.
References
caudata
Plants described in 1894
Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of South Tropical Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20language%20bindings%20for%20wxWidgets | As shown in the table below, wxWidgets has a range of language bindings for various programming languages that implement some or all of its feature set.
See also
List of language bindings for GTK+
List of language bindings for Qt 4
References
WxWidgets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Database%20of%20Happiness | The World Database of Happiness is a web-based archive of research findings on subjective appreciation of life, based in the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The database contains both an overview of scientific publications on happiness and a digest of research findings. Happiness is defined as the degree to which an individual judges the quality of his or her life as a whole favorably. Two 'components' of happiness are distinguished: hedonic level of affect (the degree to which pleasant affect dominates) and contentment (perceived realization of wants).
Aims
The World Database of Happiness is a tool to quickly acquire an overview on the ever-growing stream of research findings on happiness Medio 2023 the database covered some 16,000 scientific publications on happiness, from which were extracted 23,000 distributional findings (on how happy people are) and another 24,000 correlational findings (on factors associated with more and less happiness). The first findings date from 1915.
Technique
The World Database of Happiness is a ‘findings archive’, which consists of electronic ‘finding pages’ on which separate research results are described in a standard format and terminology. These finding pages can be selected on various characteristics, such as population studies, the measure of happiness used and observed co-variates. All finding-pages have a specific internet address to which links can be made in scientific review papers or policy recommendations. This allows a concise presentation of many findings in a table, while providing readers with access to detail.
Scientific use
The Database has been cited in 254 scientific papers, for example to access under what conditions economic growth enhances average happiness
or to show that rising mean happiness at first raises happiness inequality, but further rise will diminish these differences, or that healthy eating is associated with more happiness, even after controlling for the effect on health Another finding is that relative simple happiness training techniques raise happiness by some 5%
Popular use
The World Database of Happiness is often used by popular media to make lists of the happiest countries around the globe. An example is the Happy Planet Index, which aims to chart sustainable happiness all over the world by combining data on longevity, happiness and the size of the ecological footprint of citizens.
Strengths and weaknesses
The database has a clear conceptual focus, it includes only research findings on subjective enjoyment of one's life as a whole. Thereby it evades the Babel that has haunted the study of happiness for ages. The other side of that coin is that much interesting research is left out. The findings are reported with technical details about measurement and statistical analysis. This detail is welcomed by scholars, but makes the information difficult to digest for lay-persons. Still another limitati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas%20%28GUI%29 | In computer science and visualization, a canvas is a container that holds various drawing elements (lines, shapes, text, frames containing others elements, etc.). It takes its name from the canvas used in visual arts. It is sometimes called a scene graph because it arranges the logical representation of a user interface or graphical scene. Some implementations also define the spatial representation and allow the user to interact with the elements via a graphical user interface.
Library support
Various free and open-source canvas or scene-graph libraries allow developers to construct a user interface and/or user-interface elements for their computer programs.
Examples of free and open-source scene-graph canvas options include:
in C, Evas (in EFL) from the Enlightenment project
in C, Clutter, associated with the GNOME project
in C, GTK Scene Graph Kit (GSK)
in C++ or optionally in Qt's own markup language QML: Qt Quick, provides a scenegraph associated with the Qt project
in C++, OpenSceneGraph, a 3D graphics API using OpenGL
in C++, the OGRE engine, based on a scene graph, supports multiple scene managers
in C++, OpenSG, a scene-graph system for real-time graphics, with clustering support and multi-thread safety
in C++, the FlightGear Flight Simulator uses a custom Canvas system (LGPL'ed via SimGear) that is hardware-accelerated using OpenSceneGraph/OpenGL, OpenVG/ShivaVG: The FlightGear Canvas system
in Java, the Java FX scene graph with 2D and 3D functionality
in Tcl and other languages such as Perl, Python (Tkinter), and Ruby, the Tk toolkit provides a canvas widget for 2D graphics
in Tcl and other languages such as Perl and Python, TkZinc is an extended replacement for the Tk canvas, which adds support for hierarchical grouping, clipping, affine transformations, anti-aliasing, and specific items for air traffic control.
Some canvas modules within various libraries do not provide the power of a full scene-graph - they operate at a lower level which requires programmers to provide code such as mapping mouse-clicks to objects in the canvas. Examples of libraries which include such a canvas module include:
in C++, KDE Plasma Workspaces Corona canvas
the Canvas element in HTML5
for Java, the AWT library Canvas
for Java, the Java FX library Canvas
for Java, the Swing library Canvas
for Java, the SWT library Canvas, associated with Eclipse
for Java-like JavaScript, the GWT library Canvas
in C++, the papyrus Canvas library which renders using the Cairo (graphics) library
in C, crcanvas, a GTK canvas widget which renders using the Cairo (graphics) library
in C, GooCanvas, a GTK canvas widget which renders using the Cairo (graphics) library
Proprietary canvas libraries include, for example:
the Microsoft Windows Win32 Canvas
References
Graphical user interface elements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20backscatter | Ambient backscatter, also known as RF backscatter, uses existing radio frequency signals, such as radio, television and mobile telephony, to transmit data without a battery or power grid connection. Each such device uses an antenna to pick up an existing signal and convert it into tens to hundreds of microwatts of electricity. It uses that power to modify and reflect the signal with encoded data. Antennas on other devices, in turn, detect that signal and can respond accordingly.
Initial implementations can communicate over several feet of distance, even if the transmission towers are up to away. Transmission rates were 1k bits per second between devices situated apart inside and apart outside, sufficient to handle text messages or other small data sets. Circuit sizes can be as small as 1 sq. mm. Later implementation uses Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM radio and LoRa transmissions. There exists technology to extend backscatter communication range up-to 3.4 kilometers while consuming 70 μW power at the backscatter tag.
This approach would let mobile and other devices communicate without being turned on. It would also allow unpowered sensors to communicate, allowing them to function in places where external power cannot be conveniently supplied.
In 2021, researchers integrated RF backscatter with Li-Fi to achieve greater range via PassiveLiFi.
See also
Backscatter
References
External links
Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air
Turbocharging Ambient Backscatter Communication
Ambient Backscatter
Survey of Ambient Backscatter
Wireless networking hardware
Wireless sensor network
Energy harvesting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Invasive%20Species%20Network | The North American Invasive Species Network (NAISN) is an American non-profit organization formed in 2010 by a group of government scientists and universities in North America. The network integrates various invasive species institutes, centers, laboratories and networks from the US, Canada and Mexico to help meet the needs of public conservation land and waterway resource managers.
Membership is targeted toward regional centers and institutes, research labs, and/or other groups and individuals with invasive species interests and qualification. Because invasive species are not restricted by jurisdictional boundary lines, it was formed as a single international network. Currently there are eight invasive species organizations in collaboration with NAISN.
Overview
In 1997, a letter o-written by Don C. Schmitz, Dr. James T. Carlton, Dr. Daniel Simberloff, and Dr. Phyllis N. Windle, and signed by more than 500 scientists, resource and agriculture officials, urged the U.S. government to form a commission to recommend new strategies to prevent and manage invasive species. One of its recommendations was to form a center analogous to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help coordinate the multi-jurisdictional aspects of invasive species management in the U.S. The letter resulted in Executive Order 13112 on February 3, 1999, calling for the establishment of a national plan and creating the National Invasive Species Council.
As a result of a November 2010 workshop, led by Don C. Schmitz and Dan Simberloff, seven invasive species centers or institutes and one federally funded Canadian research network agreed to become part of the North American Invasive Species Network (NAISN). Since then, NAISN has added another Canadian member
In 2013, eight invasive species centers and institutes, and one regional network, are part of the North American Invasive Species Network (NAISN) either as a hub (1) or a node (2).
In 2011, NAISN was established as a non-profit organization in the United States (501(C)3) to unify and connect these existing invasive species efforts into a single network, . Participating member organizations, groups, or individuals can participate as Hubs1, Nodes2, or Affiliates3.
In April 2012, the third NAISN workshop was held to develop a five-year business strategic plan It is envisioned that, as NAISN grows and expands, the Network will work to enhance information exchange among scientists, government agencies, and private landowners through the use of a comprehensive website modeled after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, and the aggregation of information from over 250 current databases that contain information of invasive species . NAISN will also begin to track invasive species expenditures through annual surveys of federal, provincial, state, municipal and tribal governments and oversee a comprehensive analysis of economic impacts of invasive species; such information could re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2Fsd | Ext2Fsd (short for Ext2 File System Driver) is a free Installable File System driver written in C for the Microsoft Windows operating system family. It facilitates read and write access to the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems.
The driver can be installed on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2. Support for Windows NT was dropped in version 0.30.
The program Ext2Mgr can optionally be installed additionally to manage drive letters and such. Since 2017 the application has effectively been abandonware as its author seemingly disappeared in August, 2020.
Reception
The German computer magazine PC-WELT reported frequent program crashes in 2009. The program was not able to access ext3 partitions smoothly. This often led to a blue screen. Crashes of this type can lead to data loss, for example if there is not yet permanently stored data in the main memory. The program could only access ext2 partitions without errors. In 2012, Computerwoche warned that access to ext3 partitions was "not harmless". Data loss may occur.
Features
Feature matrix
Supported Ext3/4 features
flexible inode size: > 128 bytes, up to block size
dir_index: htree directory index
filetype: extra file mode in dentry
large_file: > 4G files supported
sparse_super: super block backup in group descriptor
uninit_bg: fast fsck and group checksum
extent: full support with extending and shrinking.
journal: only support replay for internal journal
flex_bg: first flexible metadata group
symlink and hardlink
Mount-as-user: specified uid/gid supported
Unsupported Ext3/4 features
64BIT mode (to support 2^64 blocks)
journal: log-based operations, external journal
Extended file attributes (EA), Access control list (ACL) support
Features to be implemented in future
Extents management improvement
EA and ACL security checking
Critical Bug
On November 2, 2017, a warning was issued with the release of version 0.69:
Don't use Ext2Fsd 0.68 or earlier versions with latest Ubuntu or Debian systems. Ext2Fsd 0.68 cannot process EXT4 with 64-BIT mode enabled, then it could corrupt your data. Very sorry for this disaster issue, I'm working on an improvement.
While it is not very clear whether v0.69 corrects this deficiency, users have reported that Windows 10 prompts them to format the ext4 drive even with the 0.69 version. The known solution is to convert the said ext4 drive to a 32 bit version.
Fork
A fork was created by Bo Brantén and is currently at 0.70b3.
See also
explore2fs
Ext2IFS
GParted
GNOME Disks
dm-crypt
FreeOTFE
References
External links
Old website
Fork Version
Free software programmed in C
Utilities for Windows
Windows disk file systems
Free storage software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism%20and%20technology | Feminism and technology may refer to:
Feminist technoscience, a transdisciplinary field that is an amalgamation of the study of feminism and science, technology and society
Cyberfeminism, a range of theories, debates, and practices about the relationship between gender and digital culture
Networked feminism, the online mobilization and coordination of feminists in response to sexist acts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20van%20Vliet | Johannes Cornelis (Hans) van Vliet (born 12 September 1949, Mijdrecht) is a Dutch computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of Software Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for his work in quantitative aspects of software engineering.
Van Vliet received his MA in Mathematics at the Vrije Universiteit, and in 1979 his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam. After 1979 he started his career as researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science), and in the year 1983-84 was visiting scientist at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose. Since 1987 he is professor of Software Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit. Since 2007 he is member of the IFIP WG 2.10, and chaired the ESEC/FSE conference on Software Engineering in 2009 in Amsterdam.
Publications
Books, a selection:
Hans van Vliet. Software engineering. Stenfert Kroese, 1988 (in Dutch)
Hans van Vliet. Software Engineering: Principles and Practice Wiley, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2007.
Articles, a selection:
Hans van Vliet, Jaap Gordijn and Hans Akkermans. "Business modelling is not process modelling." in: Conceptual modeling for e-business and the web. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2000. p. 40-51.
Hans van Vliet, Hans de Bruin. "Scenario-based generation and evaluation of software architectures." in: Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001. p. 128-139
Hans van Vliet, PerOlof Bengtsson et al. "Architecture-level modifiability analysis (ALMA)." in: Journal of Systems and Software Vol 69 (1), 2004. p. 129-147.
Greefhorst, Danny, Henk Koning, and Hans van Vliet. "The many faces of architectural descriptions." Information Systems Frontiers 8.2 (2006): 103–113.
Hans van Vliet, Philippe Kruchten and Patricia Lago. "Building up and reasoning about architectural knowledge." in: Quality of Software Architectures. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. p. 43-58.
Hans van Vliet, Remco C. de Boer. "On the similarity between requirements and architecture". in: Journal of Systems and Software Vol 82 (3). 2009. p. 544-550.
References
External links
1949 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni
University of Amsterdam alumni
People from De Ronde Venen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverton%20%28surname%29 | Silverton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kate Silverton (born 1970), English journalist, newsreader, and broadcaster
Michael Silverton, American computer scientist
Nancy Silverton (born 1954), American chef, baker, and author |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Earth%20System%20Preservation | The International Expert Group on Earth System Preservation is a global network of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and political administrators. IESP's public goal is to contribute to the further development and practical application of the concept of Earth system science and sustainability.
Activities
IESP organizes thematic-based conferences, workshops, seminars, lectures, and publications. It serves as a liaison between experts, decision-makers, and the public to promote a mutually, beneficial exchange of concerns and knowledge, and to provide scientifically sound recommendations for action. Its activities support policy debates by providing a platform for reflection on the sustainable development of economic and societal systems in mutual relation to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. IESP aims to take responsibility for human impacts on the earth system, fostering the resilience of societies, economies, and ecosystems. It searches for holistic and sustainable methods that counteract threatening shortcomings in energy, water, and food supply, medical services and education.
IESP's working definition for the earth system is the considered sum of the planet’s interacting physical, chemical, biotic and societal processes.
History
In 2002, the Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability (IoS) was founded as a center of excellence in the field of environmental sciences and technology of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). It is a registered non-profit organization at the magistrate court of the City of Munich, Germany.
Following the workshop “The Art of Dealing Wisely with the Planet Earth,” IoS established the International Expert Group on the Preservation of the Functionality of the Earth System as part of its activities in 2008. Discussions are summarized in the Zugspitze Declaration. Since then, IESP is associated with the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) of the Technical University Munich (TUM) in Garching.
Organization
IESP is a registered nonprofit association and a collaborating institute of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). An elected executive board legally represents IESP, its general assembly functions as the decision-making body, its members are from the European Union, US, China, and Russia.
References
Earth system sciences
Sustainability organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20InterTV | The Rede InterTV (InterTV Network) is a network of television stations affiliated with the Brazilian network, TV Globo. It operates in three states of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Norte, reaching 505 municipalities and 11 million viewers.
History
In 2003, TV stations TV Alto Litoral in Cabo Frio, TV Serra+Mar in Nova Friburgo and TV Grande Minas in Montes Claros joined together to form the Rede InterTV. Before that, the stations were "independent", i.e. not formed a regional network.
In 2004, InterTV bought TV Planície of Campos dos Goytacazes, which had an affiliation to SBT.
In 2005, TV Cabugi in Natal joined the Rede InterTV.
In 2008, TV Dos Vales of Coronel Fabriciano, Minas Gerais joined the network.
In 2009, InterTV launched its website.
In 2012 local versions G1 and Globoesporte.com for InterTV TV stations were launched.
Broadcasters
Rio de Janeiro
InterTV Serra+Mar is based in Nova Friburgo, broadcasting to 19 cities in the mountainous region of the state, some important cities covered by InterTV Serra+Mar are Petrópolis and Teresópolis.
InterTV Alto Litoral based in Cabo Frio, transmits to the municipalities of Região dos Lagos (Maricá, Saquarema, Araruama, Rio Bonito, Silva Jardim, São Pedro da Aldeia, Iguaba Grande, Armação dos Búzios and Arraial do Cabo) and the Norte Fluminense (Conceição de Macabu, Casimiro de Abreu, Rio das Ostras, Macaé and Quissamã).
InterTV Planície is based on Campos dos Goytacazes, covering 16 municipalities in the North-West of the state as São Francisco de Itabapoana, São Fidélis, São João da Barra and Itaperuna.
Minas Gerais
InterTV Grande Minas based in Montes Claros, covers the North of Minas Gerais.
InterTV Dos Vales is based in Coronel Fabriciano, covers the East and North of Minas Gerais.
Rio Grande do Norte
InterTV Cabugi is based in Natal, covers the east, and parts of the South and Central Rio Grande do Norte.
InterTV Costa Branca is based in Mossoró, covers the West and Central Rio Grande do Norte.
References
TV Globo affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starmind%20International | Starmind is an AI software company based in Zürich, Switzerland. The Starmind software builds custom knowledge networks within large organizations to connect employees with the information and knowledge they're looking for in real-time.
Product & Technology
The Starmind software was developed with the intention to provide employees answers from top experts within their company, on any subject. The Software uses self-learning algorithms to build company expertise networks.
These algorithms use neuroscientific principles, such as Hebbian Learning. Founder Pascal Kaufmann has stated his goal is to create machines which work like the human brain.
The software identifies experts within a network and connects them to employees in need of that expertise via a text based interface.
History
Starmind was founded by Pascal Kaufmann and Marc Vontobel at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich in 2010. The algorithm was developed using insights from Artificial Intelligence and neuroscientific research from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and is based on virtual neural tissue and self-learning neural networks studies.
In 2012, Siemens Awarded Starmind with the title “company to watch”, which resulted in extensive media coverage.
In 2013, Starmind was nominated for various awards in Switzerland as well as abroad.
Offices
Starmind has offices in Switzerland, Germany and the United States of America. The company is headquartered in Küsnacht, Switzerland.
References
Software companies of Switzerland
Companies based in Zürich
Swiss companies established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.I.N.%20Theory | S.I.N. Theory (abbreviation for social insurance number theory) is a 2012 Canadian science fiction drama film about a mathematics professor creating an algorithm capable of predicting an individual's future. The film was written and directed by Richie Mitchell, and stars Jeremy Larter and Allison Dawn Doiron. S.I.N. Theory was produced on a shoestring budget and makes notable use of existing mathematical theories to affirm the concept's plausibility. The film has been screened at science fiction film festivals in Canada and the US, whereas it has been picked up for distribution by MCTV with an anticipated release Fall 2013.
Plot
Michael, a mathematics professor having dedicated his career to creating the ultimate game theory, is finally let go for being a long time black mark of the faculty. Despite becoming a laughing stock, Michael continues his work from home and is now free from legal parameters the faculty has enforced. Determined to prove all naysayers wrong, and to reclaim if not heighten his name, Michael gives the go-ahead to his anonymous colleague, a hacker, to obtain access to the populous’ full credit and health report information. This illegal database proves to be the last piece of the puzzle, and with it, Michael is able to accurately calculate and therefore predict the outcome to nearly any situation. As it was initially thought to be of use for stock markets and political predicaments, Michael however curiously formulates the life span of his favorite student, a young woman he loves, and finds out she only has days to live. The further he unravels the possibilities and dangers the algorithm beholds, his morality, its proper use, and reporting of it comes into question. Each time he uses the algorithm, he taps into the credit report database and his illegal presence becomes vulnerable, and ultimately discovered by a competing-dirty corporation, hell bent on the same goal for monetary purposes. Michael must choose what to do with this illegal and very powerful equation; either to publish it for his own glorious demise, or save the woman he loves and risk annihilation by the threatening competitor.
Cast
Jeremy Larter as Dr. Michael Liemann
Allison Dawn Doiron as Evelyn Palmer
Farid Yazdani as David
Richard Guppy as Sean
Stephen Jacob Hogan as Thug 1
Ed Lewis as Thug 2
Kevin Stonefield as The Dean
Production
In writing the script, a contained sci-fi written explicitly for the accommodation of the budget, Mitchell wished to incorporate existing mathematical theories to showcase the plausibility of such an equation, and how to a certain extent, already exists today. In a viral video interview posted on the film's website, Mitchell talks of drawing comparisons to observing human behavior to the study of fluid behavior, as depicted by the Navier–Stokes equations, an attribution to Mitchell's engineering education.
Having undergone development hell on a couple other of his projects, Mitchell decided to finance the film alo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Gotta%20Eat%20Here%21 | You Gotta Eat Here! was a Canadian food television series that aired from January 2012 until December 2016 on Food Network Canada. Produced by Lone Eagle Entertainment, the program was hosted by comedian John Catucci.
The show featured Catucci on a tour to discover great restaurants (three per episode). He visited restaurants ranging from greasy spoons to legendary locations to taste the food that made them famous and to meet the characters that make them institutions. Catucci also explored the kitchens to reveal their signature recipes. Most episodes focused on restaurants in Canada or the United States, although Catucci also sometimes visited restaurants in Europe for special themed episodes.
The series won two Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Lifestyle or Talk Program or Series and Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Program or Series, at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. It also garnered nominations at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 for Best Lifestyle or Talk Program or Series and Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Program or Series.
On June 15, 2017, Food Network Canada announced the cancellation of the series after five seasons.
References
External links
You Gotta Eat Here! at Food Network Canada
2010s Canadian reality television series
2012 Canadian television series debuts
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Food travelogue television series
Canadian travel television series
Television series by Corus Entertainment
2010s Canadian cooking television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20Text%20Framework | eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a programming and data representation framework created and maintained by the California Digital Library (CDL) based on XML data, XSLT 2.0, and Java.
It has primarily been developed and used to present Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids that describe analog and digital archival collections.
External links
XML
Software frameworks
Archival science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parla%20Tram | The Madrid city of Parla has a circular tram line which provides transportation within the city as well as to the rest of the metropolitan area. This network is standard gauge which facilitates compatibility and vehicle interchangeability with other lines built or planned in the Community of Madrid. The main shareholder of the company is Globalvia (a Spanish private infrastructure company) with 85%, and then CCM with 15%.
The tram is integrated in the Metro Ligero system as ML Line 4.
Project
This is a project promoted by the local administration of Parla. Opened on 6 May 2007 (Phase I), and 8 September 2007 (Phase II), can be the journey between the stations Plaza de Toros to Parla Industrial City until completion of the works of the station North Parla (which is still to be opened and will house a railway interchange with Cercanías Madrid).
It consists of a circular line of 15 stations with stops every , a total length of (similar to the Montpellier tramway). It connects the city center with new urban developments (Parla Este among them) and points of interest in the city such as the Commissioner of Police, health and cultural centers, shopping centers, etc. There is a connection with the Parla station of Cercanías Madrid located in downtown Parla and in future with a new station in the north of the city. Along with the construction of the tram, there have been "park and ride" facilities built throughout the city to promote the use of public transport.
Extensions
There were plans to eventually build two more lines, also circular.
"Line 2" would run to PAU-5, located on the banks of the A-42, to aid in the development of the Parla industrial park.
"Line 3" would serve the future developments of southern Parla and the hospital and the new commuter train station to be located in the south of the city.
Given the financial crisis facing the city there are many questions about the economic feasibility of extending the system. , Parla Tram remains a single line.
Ticketing
The ticket price is similar to urban bus lines in the city. Madrid regional travel passes are valid (at least B2 zone).
Capacity
Parla Tram uses the Alstom Citadis 302, with a maximum capacity of 220 passengers, being the same amount as three buses. This model is the same used in Trambaix and Trambesòs in Barcelona, Tenerife Tram, Murcia Tram and Metro Ligero de Madrid.
Criticism
During the first year of operation the tram recorded 2,350,000 passengers and 3,800,000 passengers in the second, coming in 2011 to 5,000,000 passengers, with a weekday average utilization of nearly 20,000 passengers. The satisfaction rate in the survey conducted in 2012 was an 8.64 out of 10.
The project has been criticized, because Parla remains a dormitory community of Madrid, and most workers commute to work in neighboring towns due to the small industrial base offered by the city, so improved external connections are critical. In addition, the alignment does not connect to key parts of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Alliance%20on%20Health%20and%20Pollution | GAHP (Global Alliance on Health and Pollution) is a network of international and national level agencies committed to a collaborative, multi-sectoral approach to address the global pollution crisis and the resulting health and economic impacts. GAHP’s overall goal is to reduce death and illness caused by all forms of toxic pollution, including air, water, soil and chemical wastes especially in low and middle-income countries.
History
GAHP is a collaborative body made up of more than 60 members and dozens of observers that advocates for resources and solutions to pollution problems. GAHP was formed because international and national level actors/ agencies recognize that a collaborative, multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral approach is necessary and critical to deal with the global pollution crisis and resulting health and economic impacts.
In 2012, Pure Earth initiated the alliance with representatives from the World Bank, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO, Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, and Ministries of Environment and Health of many low and middle-income countries to formulate strategies to address pollution and health at scale. GAHP incorporated as a foundation in 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.
GAHP focuses its efforts in two main areas: advocacy and awareness raising and country-specific support. GAHP builds public, technical and financial support to address pollution globally by promoting scientific research, raising awareness and tracking progress. GAHP assists low- and middle-income countries to prioritize and address pollution and problems through Health and Pollution Action Plans.
In October 2017, GAHP published the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health in collaboration with The Lancet. The commission "addresses the full health and economic costs of air, water, and soil pollution. Through analyses of existing and emerging data, the Commission reveals pollution’s severe and underreported contribution to the Global Burden of Disease. It uncovers the economic costs of pollution to low-income and middle-income countries. The Commission will inform key decision makers around the world about the burden that pollution places on health and economic development, and about available cost-effective pollution control solutions and strategies."
The report's findings were distributed widely through media outlets, reaching over 2 billion people and counting. The work of the Commission was also covered extensively through special partnerships with high-profile media organizations.
In addition, GAHP updates findings from The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, and provides a ranking of pollution deaths on a global, regional and country level with Pollution and Health Metrics: Global, Regional and Country Analysis reports.
Pollution remains the world’s largest environmental threat to human health, responsible in 2017 for 15% of all deaths globally, and 275 million Disability-Adjusted Life Years. The 2019 report, which uses the most rece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNIST%20database | The MNIST database (Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology database) is a large database of handwritten digits that is commonly used for training various image processing systems. The database is also widely used for training and testing in the field of machine learning. It was created by "re-mixing" the samples from NIST's original datasets. The creators felt that since NIST's training dataset was taken from American Census Bureau employees, while the testing dataset was taken from American high school students, it was not well-suited for machine learning experiments. Furthermore, the black and white images from NIST were normalized to fit into a 28x28 pixel bounding box and anti-aliased, which introduced grayscale levels.
The MNIST database contains 60,000 training images and 10,000 testing images. Half of the training set and half of the test set were taken from NIST's training dataset, while the other half of the training set and the other half of the test set were taken from NIST's testing dataset. The original creators of the database keep a list of some of the methods tested on it. In their original paper, they use a support-vector machine to get an error rate of 0.8%.
Extended MNIST (EMNIST) is a newer dataset developed and released by NIST to be the (final) successor to MNIST. MNIST included images only of handwritten digits. EMNIST includes all the images from NIST Special Database 19, which is a large database of handwritten uppercase and lower case letters as well as digits. The images in EMNIST were converted into the same 28x28 pixel format, by the same process, as were the MNIST images. Accordingly, tools which work with the older, smaller, MNIST dataset will likely work unmodified with EMNIST.
History
The set of images in the MNIST database was created in 1994 as a combination of two of NIST's databases: Special Database 1 and Special Database 3. Special Database 1 and Special Database 3 consist of digits written by high school students and employees of the United States Census Bureau, respectively.
The original dataset was a set of 128x128 binary images, processed into 28x28 grayscale images. There were originally 60k samples in both the training set and the testing set, but 50k of the testing set were discarded. Refer to for a detailed history and a reconstruction of the discarded testing set.
Performance
Some researchers have achieved "near-human performance" on the MNIST database, using a committee of neural networks; in the same paper, the authors achieve performance double that of humans on other recognition tasks. The highest error rate listed on the original website of the database is 12 percent, which is achieved using a simple linear classifier with no preprocessing.
In 2004, a best-case error rate of 0.42 percent was achieved on the database by researchers using a new classifier called the LIRA, which is a neural classifier with three neuron layers based on Rosenblatt's perceptron principles.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodel%20%28company%29 | Yodel is a delivery service company based in Liverpool, England. It was originally known as the Home Delivery Network, until it acquired the B2B and B2C operations of DHL Express UK and thereafter, rebranded itself as Yodel in May 2010. It is privately owned by the billionaire Frederick Barclay.
History
Home Delivery Network operated as the logistics division of The Very Group, until it demerged in June 2008. It was formed by the merger of Business Express and Reality, the former Littlewoods and Shop Direct delivery companies respectively. Yodel has sorting hubs at Shaw, Hatfield and Wednesbury, and over 45 delivery depots across the UK.
In December 2011, the London Evening Standard carried a story on reports of packages from Yodel being lost or not delivered on time for Christmas. Yodel said that there had been a great increase in December deliveries over the previous two years and that Yodel had delivered over twenty million packages that month, with 999 out of 1000 being delivered on time.
In March 2012, the BBC's Watchdog consumer programme broadcast a segment highly critical of Yodel. In January 2014, Yodel was voted as the worst delivery service in the United Kingdom for the second consecutive year. BBC Watchdog says that it continued to regularly receive reports of bad service after the re branding to Yodel.
In January 2014, Yodel was named the "worst parcel delivery firm" in a poll by MoneySavingExpert.com, of 9,000 people, with 78% of customers rating their experience negatively. Despite this, Yodel continues to be the delivery company of choice for many major retailers in the United Kingdom, largely due to the company's low prices.
The company apologised in November 2015, after one of the firm's couriers had left a parcel on the roof of a customer's home. In February 2016, Yodel was featured in a Dispatches investigation, which aired on Channel 4. The investigation was entitled Where's My Missing Mail?. The programme sent an undercover reporter to work at Yodel’s Shaw depot as a sorter. The investigation highlighted how parcels had been thrown onto conveyor belts and even thrown between staff members.
In June 2023, in order to reduce the environmental impact of its delivery operations, Yodel invested £14.5m on its fleet, consisting of 45 new DAF XF 450 tractor units and 120 new solar powered double-decker trailers.
Collect+
In February 2011, Collect+ a parcel sending and collection service, was launched as a joint venture between PayPoint and Yodel. This service is available through almost 6,000 of the PayPoint retail network in the UK and allows customers to collect and send packages at their local convenience store. In April 2020, PayPoint announced an agreement with Yodel to take full ownership of 'Collect+.
References
External links
Logistics companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evogene | Evogene is a computational biology company based in Israel. Evogene Ltd. (NASDAQ:EVGN) has developed a unique computational predictive biology "CPB" platform, which leverages big data with advanced algorithms such as machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI), while adding a deep understanding of biology and advanced biological technologies. Evogene is using its proprietary CPB platform to computationally design and develop next-generation life-science products based upon three core components: microbes, small molecules, and genetic elements.
Evogene's computational platform allows it to substantially increase the probability of successful life-science product development, increase the efficacy and reduce the toxicity of its life-science products while reducing time and cost to development. Its strategic partners include BASF (OTCQX:BASFY), Bayer (OTCPK:BAYZF), Corteva (CTVA), ICL Group Ltd. (ICL) as well as various academic and medical institutions.
References
Companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Biotechnology companies of Israel
Rehovot
Israeli companies established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20de%20Hoog | Bryan de Hoog (born 29 August 1988) is a Dutch former darts player who played in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
External links
http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?playerKey=3546
1988 births
Living people
Dutch darts players
Sportspeople from Rotterdam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Birman | Kenneth P. Birman (born November 18, 1955) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He currently holds the N. Rama Rao Chair in Computer Science.
Education
Birman received his B.S. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.
Research and publications
Birman's research is mainly concerned with scalability of distributed systems, security technologies, and system management tools employed in cloud computing.
An ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, Birman was Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems from 1993-1998. He is also the author of several books, most recently Reliable Distributed Computing: Technologies, Web Services, and Applications, published by Springer-Verlag in May 2007.
Virtual Synchrony, Derecho, and the Isis Toolkit
He is best known for developing the Isis Toolkit, which introduced the virtual synchrony execution model for multicast communication. Birman founded Isis Distributed Systems to commercialize this software, which was used by stock exchanges, for air traffic control, and in factory automation. The Isis software operated the New York and Swiss Stock Exchanges for more than a decade, and continues to be actively used in the French air traffic control system and the US Navy AEGIS warship.
The technology permits distributed systems to automatically adapt themselves when failures or other disruptions occur, to securely share keys and security policy data, and to replicate critical services so that availability can be maintained even while some system components are down.
Birman's research group at Cornell has created a series of open-source systems. Most recent among these is Derecho, a C++ library that provides Paxos in a form particularly well suited to modern datacenter networks, which run at very high speeds and can have extremely low node-to-node latencies. In such systems, it is important to adopt a protocol design that streams data as asynchronously as possible, and Derecho is unusual among data replication options in this respect: it uses a new "receiver-driven opportunistic batching" approach, whereby senders rarely need to pause when streaming high volume data.
Other research
Other results of Birman's Cornell research effort include Bimodal Multicast, a probabilistically reliable broadcast protocol, which uses the gossip paradigm; and Astrolabe, a scalable tool for monitoring, data mining and managing large systems.
Selected publications
Sagar Jha, Jonathan Behrens, Theo Gkountouvas, Matthew Milano, Weijia Song, Edward Tremel, Robbert Van Renesse, Sydney Zink, and Kenneth P. Birman. Derecho: Fast State Machine Replication for Cloud Services. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 36, 2, Article 4 (April 2019), 49 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3302258
Birman, Kenneth P. Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems: Building High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Services. Textbook, 2012, 730p. 138 illus. (Springer Verlag)
Birman, Kenneth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler%20College%20Preparatory%20High%20School | Butler College Prep (formerly known as Pullman College Prep) is a public four-year charter high school located in the Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. It shares its campus with Corliss High School. It is named after John and Alice Butler, who provided the funding necessary to open the school. It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. Butler College Prep is a Level 1 school, based on CPS school quality rankings. Butler College Prep opened in 2013.
Enrichment and After-School Programming
Butler offers a variety of programs and athletics outside of the school day and during the summer. Butler College Prep is a member of the Noble League athletic conference. Leaders receive enrichment credit during the school year through playing sports and participating in on-campus enrichment opportunities such as the Debate Team, Student Government, Marching/Pep Band, Step Team, Yearbook, and Yoga. Butler College Prep students have the option of participating in the Summer of a Lifetime program, where they are provided funding and support to participate in life-changing, summer academic enrichment programs on college campuses nationwide.
Awards, Accolades, and Recognition
In 2016, Butler College Prep was recognized by Chicago Magazine as the best charter high school in Chicago. The previous year, In 2015, the Illinois Network of Charter Schools recognized Butler College Prep as the state’s highest-performing charter school (in terms of test growth) with a predominantly black student body. Butler College Prep has also been recognized by Ebony Magazine for its commitment to diversity in itsteaching staff. In 2016, Fusion Media Group spotlighted a teacher and a student with cerebral palsy from Butler College Prep.
References
External links
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Educational institutions established in 2013
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Public high schools in Chicago
2013 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell%20B.%20Dale | Nell B. Dale is an American computer scientist noted for her work in computer science education and computer science introductory programming textbooks. She was on the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Board from 1981–85, and from 1987–93, and was Chair of SIGCSE from 1991–93. She was Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 1991 and Co-Chair of the SIGCSE
Symposium in 2000.
Biography
Dale received a B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Houston in 1960. She received a M.A. in Mathematics from University of Texas at Austin in 1964 and a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Texas in Austin in 1972.
She joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin as an instructor in 1975, then a lecturer in 1977, a Senior Lecturer in 1981, and retired in 2000.
Dale wrote 16 textbooks on Pascal, C++, Visual Basic, Java and Ada.
Bibliography
(with John Lewis) Computer Science Illuminated (5th Edition 2012). Jones and Bartlett.
Awards
In the year 2009
she was named an ACM Fellow.
Her other notable awards include:
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Educator Award (2001)
IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Award (2013)
SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education (1996)
References
External links
University of Texas at Austin: Nell B. Dale, Department of Computer Science
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
Computer science educators
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20G.%20Ryder | Barbara G. Ryder is an American Computer Scientist noted for her research on programming languages and more specifically, the theoretical foundations and empirical investigation of interprocedural compile-time analysis.
Biography
Ryder received an A.B. in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1969. She received a M.S. in computer science from Stanford University in 1971 and a Ph.D in computer science from Rutgers University in 1982.
She then joined the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University as an assistant professor in 1982. While there she was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and to professor in 1994. In 2008, she moved to Virginia Tech as head of the Department of Computer Science. She retired in 2016.
Awards
In 1998
she was named an ACM Fellow.
Her other notable awards include:
ACM Presidential Award (2008)
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award (2001)
PLDI'92 paper selected for Best of PLDI Collection 1970–1996 in April 2003. The paper was titled: A Safe Approximate Algorithm for Interprocedural Pointer Aliasing.
References
External links
Virginia Tech: Barbara Ryder, Department of Computer Science
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Virginia Tech faculty
Rutgers University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
Brown University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Rutgers University alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Braunschweig | The Braunschweig tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Braunschweig, a city in the federal state of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Opened in 1879, the network has been operated since its inception by the company now known as Braunschweiger Verkehrs-AG, and is integrated in the (VRB).
These lines originally had the letter M before the number, however this was stopped.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Track plan of the Braunschweig tram system
Braunschweig
Transport in Braunschweig
1100 mm gauge railways in Germany
600 V DC railway electrification
Braunschweig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20previously%20broadcast%20by%20Intercontinental%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | This is a list of programs previously aired by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation. For the current shows of this network, see List of programs broadcast by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation.
Original/station-produced defunct programs
IBC News and Public Affairs
Newscasts
The 11 O'Clock News (1990–1992)
Balita sa IBC (1986–1989)
Balita sa IBC Huling Ulat (1986–1989)
Balita sa Tanghali (1986–1989)
Bantay Balita (1989–1990)
Chinese News TV (2019–2020)
CNN News Update
CTN Midnite (1997–1998)
Daily Info (2020) (several times)
Eight o' Clock Newsbreak
Final Edition News
Headline Trese (1989–1992, 1997)
IBC Balita Ngayon (1998–2000)
IBC Headliners (1994–2011, 2021)
IBC News 5 O'Clock Report (1992)
(1992–1995)
IBC News 11 O'Clock Report (1992–1995)
IBC News Tonight (2002–2011)
IBC NewsBreak (1992–1994, 2014–2018)
IBC TV X-Press (1995–1997)
International News Report (1992–1993)
Islands Newsbreak (1991–1992)
Mid-day Report (1984–1986)
News @ 1 (several times)
News @ 6 (several times)
News and Views with Abel Cruz (2009–2011)
News Team 13 (2011–2019)
News Team 13 @ 11PM/10PM (2011–2015)
Newsday (1975–1986)
PNA Newsroom (2019–2022, produced by Philippine News Agency)
PSE Live: The Stock Market Today (1996–1997)
PTV News (2020) (several times)
PTV Sports (2022-2023)
PTV Sports Weekend (2022-2023)
Public Briefing: #LagingHandaPH (2020, 2022–2023, 2023; simulcast on PTV and Radyo Pilipinas)
RadyoBisyon (2014–2017)
Ronda Trese (2000–2002)
Public affairs programs
30/30
Agring-Agri (1990–1991)
Ang Paghahatol (Impeachment Trial of Joseph Estrada): The IBC 13 News Coverage (2000)
Asenso Pinoy (2006–2011)
AutoVote 2010 (2010)
Bagong Barangay ng Mamamayan in Action (2023)
Bagong Maunlad na Agrikultura (2010–2011)
Bahay at Bahay (1991–1998)
Bet to Serve (2022)
Botong Wais (2001)
Buhay Pinoy (2005–2008, 2008–2011)
Business and Beyond (2016)
COMELEC Hour (1980)
Consumers Desk (2019–2020)
Dial M (2010)
DU30 on Duty (2019–2022)
Entrepinoy Start-Up (2002–2005)
The Estrada Presidency (1998–2001)
Export... Made in the Philippines (1986–1993)
Extra Express (2010–2011)
For God and Country (1995)
FVR Up Close (1992–1998)
Gen EleXions: The Comelec Time '98 (1998)
Good Take (2000–2005, 2009)
Hanep Buhay
Hotline sa Trese (1990–1992)
I-Barangay Mo! (2003)
Ikaw ang Humatol (1991–1997)
Iskoolmates (2019, produced by People's Television Network, 2019)
Kapihan sa Media ng Bayan (2015)
Kapihan sa Nayon
Konsumer Korner (1995–1996)
LGU
Laging Handa Dokyu (2020–2022, produced by Presidential Communications Operations Office)
Linawin Natin (2001–2007)
Lingkod Bayan ni Tony Falcon (1999–2000)
Look Up with Evelyn Atayde (1990)
Mag Agri Tayo (1990)
Magandang Umaga Ba? (1995–1998)
Malacañang Press Conference
Meet The Press
Metro Magazine (1980)
Mike Abe Live (2022–2023; simulcast on PTV and Radyo Pilipinas)
Morning Brew (1990–1992)
Nation's Peacekeepers (2010–2011)
Network Briefing News (2020–2022)
No Nonsense! (1991–1995)
One Morning Cafe (2007–2010)
One on One (1994)
OOTD: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20sbandata | La sbandata is a 1974 commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Alfredo Malfatti (supervised by Salvatore Samperi). According to several sources the film was actually directed by Samperi but signed by his assistant director for contract issues.
It is an adaptation of the novel Il volantino (1965) by Pietro A. Buttitta and was filmed in Acireale and Sant'Alfio, Province of Catania.
Plot
Salvatore Cannavone (Domenico Modugno) is a Sicilian cobbler-cum-shoe salesman who has worked for thirty years in New York City. He returns to his hometown where, although of modest means in America, he is considered a wealthy man and becomes the centre of attraction. He begins to live with his brother Raffaele (Pippo Franco), his wife Rosa (Luciana Paluzzi), and his stepdaughter Mariuccia (Eleonora Giorgi) and, starting from their first meet, he and Mariuccia get busy with games of seduction. Raffaelle notices Salvatore's interest in Mariuccia and attempts to make use of it to have him stay at their house and to exploit his wealth. On the other hand, Salvatore also has an eye on voluptuous Rosa and both Mariuccia and Rosa begin to see Salvatore's passion as a means to secure the economic benefits he provides, which eventually leads to a peculiar ménage à trois. Things get even more complicated when Mariuccia is betrothed to another man.
References
External links
1974 films
Commedia sexy all'italiana
1970s Italian-language films
1970s sex comedy films
Films set in Sicily
Films based on Italian novels
Titanus films
Films directed by Salvatore Samperi
1974 comedy films
1970s Italian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity%20propagation | In statistics and data mining, affinity propagation (AP) is a clustering algorithm based on the concept of "message passing" between data points.
Unlike clustering algorithms such as -means or -medoids, affinity propagation does not require the number of clusters to be determined or estimated before running the algorithm. Similar to -medoids, affinity propagation finds "exemplars," members of the input set that are representative of clusters.
Algorithm
Let through be a set of data points, with no assumptions made about their internal structure, and let be a function that quantifies the similarity between any two points, such that iff is more similar to than to . For this example, the negative squared distance of two data points was used i.e. for points and ,
The diagonal of (i.e. ) is particularly important, as it represents the instance preference, meaning how likely a particular instance is to become an exemplar. When it is set to the same value for all inputs, it controls how many classes the algorithm produces. A value close to the minimum possible similarity produces fewer classes, while a value close to or larger than the maximum possible similarity produces many classes. It is typically initialized to the median similarity of all pairs of inputs.
The algorithm proceeds by alternating between two message-passing steps, which update two matrices:
The "responsibility" matrix has values that quantify how well-suited is to serve as the exemplar for , relative to other candidate exemplars for .
The "availability" matrix contains values that represent how "appropriate" it would be for to pick as its exemplar, taking into account other points' preference for as an exemplar.
Both matrices are initialized to all zeroes, and can be viewed as log-probability tables. The algorithm then performs the following updates iteratively:
First, responsibility updates are sent around:
Then, availability is updated per
for and
.
Iterations are performed until either the cluster boundaries remain unchanged over a number of iterations, or some predetermined number (of iterations) is reached. The exemplars are extracted from the final matrices as those whose 'responsibility + availability' for themselves is positive (i.e. ).
Applications
The inventors of affinity propagation showed it is better for certain computer vision and computational biology tasks, e.g. clustering of pictures of human faces and identifying regulated transcripts, than -means, even when -means was allowed many random restarts and initialized using PCA.
A study comparing affinity propagation and Markov clustering on protein interaction graph partitioning found Markov clustering to work better for that problem. A semi-supervised variant has been proposed for text mining applications. Another recent application was in economics, when the affinity propagation was used to find some temporal patterns in the output multipliers of the US economy between 1997 and 2017.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beer%20Factor | The Beer Factor is an Australian late-night talk show television series aired on GO! on 1 September 2012. It is hosted by Tom Gleeson.
References
9Go! original programming
2010s Australian comedy television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Callinan%27s%204x4%20Adventures | Pat Callinan's 4x4 Adventures is an Australian Adventure television series airs on Network Ten on 11 October 2008 later on One since 2009. Pat Callinan visits iconic 4x4 destinations in Australia in his "trusty" Volkswagen Amarok.
See also
4WD 24/7
Overlanding
Off-roading
External links
Official Website
Official Website Network 10
Network 10 original programming
10 Bold original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
2008 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoverComputers | The RoverComputers Group is an independent group of companies based in the Russian capital, Moscow. The principal activity of the group is the manufacture and distribution of consumer and commercial electronics and technology under several brand names including RoverBook, RoverMate, RoverPC, RoverShot, and RoverLight.
History
RoverComputers dates back to the early 1990s. In 1991, RoverComputers was established as a PC service and repair facility. By 1995 RoverComputers had released its first laptop computer based on the Intel 486 CPU, establishing the RoverBook brand as well as producing Russia's first ever Russian-made line of notebooks. During this process RoverComputers became OEM partner of the Intel Corporation in Russia. Today, it remains the only Russian manufactured Laptop available on the Russian market.
Products
In 2010, RoverComputers announced a line of tablet computers under the brand name RoverPad. The line includes five models: RoverPad Air G70, RoverPad Go G50, RoverPad Go G72, RoverPad TegA W70 and RoverPad 3WG70. RoverPad Air G70 runs Windows CE 6.0, while the others run Google Android.
References
External links
Official website
Goodreader.com
Electronics companies of Russia
Manufacturing companies based in Moscow
Mobile phone manufacturers
Computer hardware companies
Russian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Undo is a command in many computer programs.
Undo or UNDO may also refer to:
Music
"Undo" (Rush of Fools song), a 2007 song by American contemporary Christian band Rush of Fools
"Undo" (Sanna Nielsen song), a 2014 song by Swedish singer Sanna Nielsen
"Undo", a song by Icelandic singer Björk on her fourth studio album Vespertine
"UNDO", a song by Japanese rock band Cool Joke, the theme from Fullmetal Alchemist
Others
Undo magazine, a Mexican visual design magazine
Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance, the largest Ukrainian political party in the Second Polish Republic
Undo (company), a software debugging company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R1%20King%20George%20Blvd | The R1 King George Blvd is an express bus service with bus rapid transit elements in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Part of TransLink's RapidBus network, it travels along King George Boulevard and 104 Avenue in Surrey and connects Guildford, Whalley / City Centre, and Newton. The service replaced the 96 B-Line on January 6, 2020. It is operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company and funded by TransLink.
All articulated buses used on this route are hybrid and air-conditioned. Although articulated buses are mainly assigned, standard buses may be assigned instead.
History
Origins of what became the 96 B-Line can be traced back to 2008–2009, when the route was known as the 399 in planning stages. Originally planned for a 2010 implementation using resources from the 98 B-Line, which was slated to be discontinued, implementation of a south of the Fraser River B-Line did not happen until four years later due to a funding shortfall.
The line began service on September 2, 2013. Continuous queue jumping lanes were subsequently added at major intersections along King George Boulevard and the City of Surrey proposed expanding bus-only lanes along King George Blvd to improve travel times.
, passengers with a Compass Card or proof of payment are allowed to board from any of the three doors on the bus. Passengers who are paying cash must board through the front door.
On January 6, 2020, the 96 B-Line service was replaced by new R1 King George Blvd RapidBus, which featured upgraded passenger amenities such as improved bus shelters and a new passenger information system.
Route description
Departing from Guildford Exchange, the R1 travels west along 104 Avenue towards Surrey Central station and King George station (both on the SkyTrain Expo Line). It then continues south along King George Boulevard towards Newton Exchange.
Stops
Guildford Exchange – serves Guildford Town Centre and Guildford Recreation Centre. It is a major transfer point for other routes serving Surrey, Langley, and White Rock.
148 Street
144 Street – serves Hawthorne Rotary Park
140 Street
Whalley Boulevard
Surrey Central station – connects to the Expo Line and also serves Central City, SFU Surrey, KPU Civic Plaza, the Surrey City Centre Public Library and Surrey City Hall. Also a major transfer point for other routes serving Surrey, Langley, Aldergrove, Delta, and White Rock.
King George station – connects to the Expo Line and serves Holland Park and King George Hub
96 Avenue – serves Surrey Memorial Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Secondary School
88 Avenue – serves Bear Creek Park and the Surrey Arts Centre
80 Avenue
76 Avenue – serves Kings Cross shopping plaza as well as other retail
Newton Exchange – serves Newton Town Centre and is a major transfer point for other local services to Surrey, Langley and White Rock and express service to Richmond
Notes
See also
97 B-Line
98 B-Line
99 B-Line
Surrey LRT
List of bus routes in Metro Vancouver
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20instant%20messaging | Secure instant messaging is a form of instant messaging. Both terms refer to an informal means for computer users to exchange messages commonly referred to as "chats". Instant messaging can be compared to texting as opposed to making a mobile phone call. In the case of messaging, it is like the short form of emailing. Secure instant messaging is a specialized form of instant messaging that along with other differences, encrypts and decrypts the contents of the messages such that only the actual users can understand them.
Instant messaging background
Instant messaging has existed in some form or another for decades. Generally, it is a process by which users on a computer network can quickly communicate with one another using short text-based sentences rather than using email. Each user has a piece of software that communicates with a common server that connects the chat sessions. Over the past few years, two distinct settings for the use of instant messaging have evolved.
The first is the corporate or institutional environment composed of many potential users but who are all under the same organizational umbrella.
The second setting is individual users "after work" or at home who do not have a mission-oriented commonality between them, but are more likely family and friends.
In the corporate setting, security risks are apparent from the outset. What stops a disgruntled employee from messaging some sensitive company data to a colleague outside the enterprise? The reverse of that would be the example disgruntled employee downloading some virus or spyware onto his machine inside the corporate firewall to release as desired. Accordingly, organizational offerings have become very sophisticated in their security and logging measures. Typically, an employee or organization member must be granted a login and suitable permissions to use the messaging system. This creating of a specific account for each user allows the organization to identify, track and record all use of their messenger system on their servers.
The specialized requirements of the organizational messaging system, however, run almost completely contrary to what an individual user may need. Typically non-organizational use instant messengers advertise their availability to the Internet at large so that others may know if that person is online. The trend has been too that manufacturers of instant messaging clients offer interoperability with other manufacturer's clients.
This competitive edge grew out of the heretofore use of proprietary communications protocols used by the client manufacturers. Compatibility between clients is likely to become almost universal, as a unified messenger protocol (the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)) is being adopted by more and more manufacturers. The XMPP has been, at least in part, formalized by the Internet Engineering Task Force as RFC 6120, RFC 6121 and RFC 6122 which will further the trend towards instant messaging standardization. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ITV%20regions | The ITV television network of the United Kingdom is divided into a number of geographical regions.
Since 2002, all regions share the same programming except for regional news, weather, advertising and some local political content. Before then, the regions were independent stations, each with its own schedule and branding.
Current regions
The table below lists the current 14 regions and 23 sub-regions for ITV and its two associated channels, the timeshifted ITV +1 and the high-definition ITV HD.
While the main SD channels (ITV1, UTV, and STV) on the Freeview platform provide a service for all 23 sub-regions, some sub-regional services are not available on some of the other channels and platforms, and another service is substituted instead, as indicated in the table.
Most Freeview transmitter areas overlap to some extent, so ITV regional services can often be received beyond the service areas indicated. Regional and sub-regional news and weather coverage may extend to include overlap areas.
The other ITV channels such as ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4, are not divided into regions, and each broadcasts a single service across the country.
History
Regional branding 1955–2006
Independent Television began as a franchised network of independently owned regional companies that were both broadcasters and programme makers. Each regional station was responsible for its own branding, scheduling and advertising, with many peak-time programmes shared simultaneously across the whole network. The companies serving London, the Midlands, North West England and Yorkshire (which were the first to start broadcasting in 1955 and 1956) were responsible for making or commissioning the majority of nationally networked programmes; these companies were known as the "Big Four" before 1968 and the "Big Five" afterwards (reflecting the number of companies). Every company made its own regional programmes.
The network began with companies serving London in 1955, and gradually grew until all companies were on air by 1962, and continued to grow as more transmitters were provided for existing companies during the 1960s and 1970s. Over time, some companies lost their franchises and were replaced by others, and the regions covered by some franchises were changed. From 1993, mergers between ITV companies became possible; as a result, companies began to take each other over to increase efficiencies and to expand. By 2004, all of the ITV franchises in England and Wales were owned by the newly formed ITV plc, the four other franchises being Scottish TV, Grampian TV, UTV and Channel.
Regional continuity branding
The list below indicates the on-air brand names predominantly used by each regional company, which may differ from the official company name or franchise name. Each company used its own branding:
as station identification in continuity announcements and programme trailers in its own region;
within its own regional news programmes;
as production logos on every programme that i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigada%20Mass%20Media%20Corporation | Brigada Mass Media Corporation (BMMC) is a newspaper company and media network in the Philippines. It is the first-ever local Tri-media organization to have emerged from the Soccsksargen area as a national network with its array of Brigada News FM stations. BMMC is part of Brigada Group of Companies of entrepreneur Elmer Catulpos which also maintains three newspaper editions in Mindanao, one TV station, distribution of herbal food supplements, medicines, cosmetics and engine care products, a drug pharmacy, a garden resort and two private security agencies.
Its main Brigada Complex is located at NLSA Road, San Isidro, General Santos, Philippines while its National Broadcast Center is located at the 5th floor, Jacinta Building II, EDSA, Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati.
History
It all started with the publication of Brigada News Philippines, first named as Brigada Tolendoy News and Tips, an internet café-based, one-color, 6-page and comic-sized tabloid on October 18, 2005, with a circulation in General Santos. The tabloid had generated approximately 1,000 printed copies of its maiden issue.
It was founded by then Bombo Radyo General Santos regular anchor; independent news publisher; and now Brigada News Philippines President and Chief-Executive Officer Elmer Catulpos.
Its main office is in General Santos, but the company also has offices in Davao and Cagayan de Oro, with its own edition each. It has a combined daily circulation of 21,000 copies sold, practically covering the entire Mindanao region. As of October 18, 2023, the newspaper has stopped its circulation.
In April 2007, 2 years after the birth of Brigada News Philippines, Brigada Healthline Marketing was established as distributor of health products that the company advertised in its daily newspaper and block time radio programs.
In October 2009, it expanded its media operations to radio by acquiring 89.5 from Baycomms Broadcasting Corporation and reformatting it to 89.5 Brigada News FM, the first-ever radio station in General Santos with an AM & FM format. After a short period of time from its inception, it already became the Over-All #2 radio station, both AM and FM stations combined in General Santos and neighboring areas, according to the then latest AC Nielsen Survey. Subsequently, in early 2013, it obtained the Over-all #3 spot, according to the KBP-RRC Survey.
In January 2012, it expanded its operations once more to television with Brigada News TV 46 (now on Channel 39), Eye of Mindanao, acquired from Asian Multimedia and Productions, which is the first-ever local television station which devotes 70-80% of its programs to local issues and concerns. Given its still very short stint in the television industry, it has already eaten up a big slice of the pie of viewership especially its news and public affairs programs in the prime time slots in the morning and afternoon. Since December 2015, Brigada News TV moved to UHF channel 34, until September 2019 when it moved to its present Channe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Graphics%20International | Computer Graphics International (CGI) is one of the oldest annual international conferences on computer graphics. It is organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). Researchers across the whole world are invited to share their experiences and novel achievements in various fields - like computer graphics and human-computer interaction. Former conferences have been held recently in Geneva (virtually), Calgary, Canada, Bintan, Indonesia and Yokohama, Japan.
Awards
Starting in the year of 2013, CGI has given yearly a Best Paper Award and a Career Achievement Award.
Venues
Computer graphics
Human–computer interaction
Computer graphics conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDOS | RDOS may refer to:
Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, a regional district of British Columbia
Data General RDOS, a real-time operating system by Data General since 1972
Cromemco RDOS, the resident operating system on some Cromemco S-100 cards
RDOS (Microsoft), a name sometimes used for the Russian versions of MS-DOS 4.01 and 5.00
RDOS (Ekblad), a 32-bit DOS-compatible operating system by Leif Ekblad since 1988
See also
DOS (disambiguation)
ROS (disambiguation)
RTOS, real-time operating system
REAL/32 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS%20386 | DOS 386 or DOS/386 may refer to:
Concurrent DOS 386, a Digital Research CP/M- and DOS-compatible multiuser multitasking operating system variant since 1987
FlexOS 386, a Digital Research FlexOS operating system variant since 1987
PC-MOS/386, a DOS-compatible multiuser, multitasking operating system produced by The Software Link since 1987
See also
DOS 3 (disambiguation)
DOS 286 (disambiguation)
DOS (disambiguation)
DOS/360 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehab%20Al%20Shihabi | Ehab Al Shihabi (born 1970) is a Jordanian-American media professional, advisor to the Director General at Al Jazeera Media Network. He was the network's former executive director of international operations, chief executive officer of Al Jazeera America, and deputy managing director of Al Jazeera English. Shihabi is an Edward R. Murrow Center Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and writes opinion pieces for The Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine, and other outlets.
Early life and education
Shihabi was born in Amman, Jordan in 1970. He is both an American and Jordanian citizen. He earned his BSc in Management from the University of Jordan in 1993. He then went on to earn his MBA from the University of Jordan in 1996 before earning his MSc in Leadership and Strategy from Georgetown University in 2006.
Career
Ehab Al Shihabi started his career as a management consultant at Andersen Consulting in 1997. He later worked for KPGM and Deloitte.
Shihabi was hired by Al Jazeera Media Network in 2009 to be the Deputy Managing Director at Al Jazeera English. In 2011 he was named the Executive Director of international operations Al Jazeera Media Network. He was one of the principal people involved in the process of buying Current TV for $500 million and setting up Al Jazeera America (reaching 60 million homes), as well as Al Jazeera Türk and Al Jazeera Balkans. Shihabi stated in regards to the launch of Al Jazeera America: "It's going to be run by American talent and staff for the American audience", adding there would be "less opinion, less yelling and fewer celebrity sightings". He defined the channel as providing "accurate, in-depth, unbiased news stories". Bob Meyers, president of the National Press Foundation, titled that Jazeera's launch as "transformative".
Shihabi had been largely involved in the business aspects of Al Jazeera America such as the budget for the channel and helping in securing carriage agreements with television carriers and making the channel available on different platforms such as carrier TV Everywhere platforms, in other words continuing its branding and awareness campaigns, while expanding its cable distribution and online presence. Since January 2013, 900 people were hired for the new venture, a great part from other networks such as CNN and ABC, including John Seigenthaler and Kate O'Brian.
During his tenure, Al Jazeera America's ratings grew for three continuous quarters, and topped at three million unique viewers in the first two weeks of July 2014. The medium also became available to 60 million households under Al Shihabi, which is below the 100 million mark other cable broadcasters count with. The broadcaster amassed a number of journalism awards as well, including two Peabody Awards. This, however, was not enough according to some, describing its 30 thousand daily viewers as too low, or even "minuscule", and stating its online presence as deficient, even though some praised its content's quality.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 1998 is the fourth year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 1998 Fighting Network Rings held nine events beginning with, Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1997 Final.
Title fights
Events list
Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1997 Final
Rings: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1997 Final was an event held on January 21, 1998.
Results
Rings Holland: The King of Rings
Rings Holland: The King of Rings was an event held on February 8, 1998 at Sporthallen Zuid in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Results
Rings Russia: Russia vs. Holland
Rings Russia: Russia vs. Holland was an event held on April 25, 1998 in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Results
Rings: Third Fighting Integration
Rings: Third Fighting Integration was an event held on May 29, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings Holland: Who's the Boss
Rings Holland: Who's the Boss was an event held on June 7, 1998 at Vechtsebanen Sport Hall in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Results
Rings: Fourth Fighting Integration
Rings: Fourth Fighting Integration was an event held on June 27, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings Australia: NR2
Rings Australia: NR2 was an event held on September 13, 1998 in Australia.
Results
Rings Holland: The Thialf Explosion
Rings Holland: The Thialf Explosion was an event held on October 24, 1998 at Thialf Stadion in Heerenveen in Friesland, the Netherlands.
Results
Rings: World Mega Battle Tournament
Rings: World Mega Battle Tournament was an event held on December 23, 1998 in Japan.
Results
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
1998 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20in%20Guatemala | This is a list of ecoregions of Guatemala as defined by the World Wildlife Fund and the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World database.
Terrestrial ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Central American Atlantic moist forests
Central American montane forests
Chiapas montane forests
Petén–Veracruz moist forests
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forests
Yucatán moist forests
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Central American dry forests
Chiapas Depression dry forests
Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests
Central American pine-oak forests
Deserts and xeric shrublands
Motagua Valley thornscrub
Mangroves
Belizean Coast mangroves
Northern Honduras mangroves
Northern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves
Freshwater ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
Grijalva - Usumacinta
Quintana Roo - Motagua
Chiapas - Fonseca
Tropical and subtropical upland rivers
Upper Usumacinta
Marine ecoregions
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
Western Caribbean (includes the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef)
Tropical East Pacific
Chiapas-Nicaragua
See also
List of ecoregions in Belize
List of ecoregions in El Salvador
List of ecoregions in Mexico
References
Ecoregions
Guatemala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant | Qwant () is a French search engine that launched in February 2013. Qwant claims to respect the privacy of its users by not tracking them for advertising purposes or reselling their personal data, as well as being impartial in the display of results.
The search engine is available as an app on iOS and Android, and as a browser extension.
History
Creation
Qwant was founded on May 25, 2011 in Nice by investor Jean-Manuel Rozan, by Patrick Constant via his company Pertimm (which developed other search engines for retail and other commercial services), and by Éric Léandri. The name Qwant is, according to its creators, a combination of the letter Q from the word Quantities (or possibly Quantique)—evoking the mass of data that the indexing robot scans daily—and the English word want.
The metasearch engine was launched in beta in 15 countries and 35 languages on February 16, 2013 then in final version on July 4, 2013 in its French localization after a year and a half of research and development.
Development
In 2013, the creators of Qwant recognized and minimized the use of Bing’s programming interfaces before switching to their own indexing (supplemented by other sources), a process which would begin in February 2013, but lacking personnel and technology. They advertised using their own engine for indexing social media accounts and the "shopping" part of search results but they still used external APIs.
Since then, and until early 2019, Qwant is considered to be completely based on Bing Web and Images searches, insofar as we can see a first passage of their Qwantify bot only from the end of 2014: they provided results based 100% on a Bing API, since they then had neither a crawler nor indexer, without saying this dependence on the Bing API, as imposed by the API CGUs.
The German publishing group Axel Springer entered the capital in June 2014 with 20%, to initiate the development of an indexing robot specialized in the field of news ("News") in French to try to compete with Google News.
On April 14, 2015, Qwant unveiled a new version of its search engine with an updated graphical interface and is put under the spotlight by the Minister of Economy Emmanuel Macron, calling Qwant "Google French on the move."
In October 2016, the European Investment Bank announced an investment in the company in the form of a €25 million loan over 5 years to expand its offer in Europe.
In May 2016, the site claimed million visits with 50% of visits coming from France and 30% from Germany.
On July 4, 2016, Qwant announced a global partnership with the Mozilla Foundation. A new version of the Firefox web browser results from this partnership, specifically optimized for the use of Qwant. On August 2, 2016, a mobile version is also made available. On this occasion, Qwant said it wanted to reach “5% to 8% market share on the continent by 2018-2019” and “achieve €2.5 million in sales” in 2016. Continuing this partnership, a Qwant app for Android and iOS smartphones was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlyExpress | FlyExpress is a free database that collects the expression patterns of Drosophila melanogaster in embryogenesis via a series of images submitted from BDGP, Fly-FISH and publications from other researchers, containing over 100,000 images of over 4,000 genes. It is currently available freely both online and as an iPhone application.
History
FlyExpress was developed by the Center of Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics of the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University and was released in 2011 with funding and support from an NIH grant.
Features
The primary images available in FlyExpress are GEMs, or Genome-wide Expression Maps, that display the spatial patterns of genes during a state of fly development via heat maps. These not only give a visual clue as to where these genes are expressed, but also how many of them are expressed in the same vicinity, as the darker regions of the heat map correlate to a higher expressed gene count.
Upon searching for images (with a gene name, PubMed ID, image ID or certain keywords), a series of GEMs are displayed from the two databases of the gene’s inclusion in descending stages and views of the embryo. Various details, such as the source and experimental protocol of the embryo, are also shown. All expression patterns reflect the wild-type allele for the gene.
Categorizing genes as images does not only allow for visualization in understanding the influence of the gene, but also contrasting the patterns between multiple different genes. FlyExpress has a primary function of searching between images for similar expression patterns using a specified spatial profile via the Basic Expression Search Tool for Images (or BESTi), bringing up all images and genes that fit the criteria of the pattern. Certain classifications and locations of expression of genes can also be searched within the BDGP and Fly-FISH databases to gain similar results without specifying a particular gene to begin with. Searching between GEMs tends to give better results than searching genes through text criteria, which may not always contain all-encompassing text annotations and labeling and thus list a fewer number of overlapping genes upon searches.
References
External links
FlyExpress Homepage
Insect developmental biology
Model organism databases
Bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O%20System | I/O System may refer to:
DOS BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), a low-level component in DOS operating systems, including PC DOS and DR-DOS
I/O System (86-DOS), the DOS-BIOS specifically in 86-DOS
I/O System (MS-DOS), the DOS-BIOS specifically in MS-DOS
See also
BIOS, Basic Input/Output System
XIOS, Extended Input/Output System
CP/M BIOS, the BIOS in the CP/M family of operating systems
BIOS (disambiguation)
IOS (disambiguation)
IOCS, Input/Output Control System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusto | Kusto may refer to:
Kustö, the Swedish name of Kuusisto (island), Finland
Marek Kusto (born 1954), Polish football player
Microsoft Kusto, a query language used in Azure Data Explorer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Bulls%20College%20Prep | Chicago Bulls College Prep (CBCP) is a public four-year charter high school located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. It is named after the Chicago Bulls basketball team, which endowed the school.
Chicago Bulls College Prep is a level 1+ school, based on CPS rankings.
The building was formerly known as McKinley High School - one notable attendee in 1917 was Walt Disney.
The school opened in August 2009.
Academics
The school has an average graduation rate of 82%.
In 2017, it was reported that all students in the senior class that year and since 2013 had been accepted to colleges and 50% of them dropped out.
Athletics
The school is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA).
Discipline and controversy
As with other Noble Charter schools in Chicago, in 2012-13 Chicago Bulls College Prep expelled and suspended a larger proportion of students than public schools in Chicago. The school expelled 1.75% of its students in the year, compared to 0.05% of students in Chicago public schools, and suspended 38.5% of students compared to 9% of students in public schools.
The school has been criticised for charging parents for their children's disciplinary offences.
In 2016, a parent reported that the school had discouraged her son from applying to an historically black college.
References
External links
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Public high schools in Chicago
2009 establishments in Illinois
Educational institutions established in 2009
Chicago Bulls |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCS%20%28disambiguation%29 | FOCS is an abbreviation for the annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science.
It may also refer to:
Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
Fiber optic current sensor
FOCS, a flight scheduling product from Flygprestanda
Friends of Clayoquot Sound
See also
FOC (disambiguation), some of whose expansions may be pluralized as FOCs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Animation%20and%20Social%20Agents | Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) was founded in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland and it is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world.
Venues
References
CASA 2012 CFP on EuroVR Portal
CASA 2012 CFP on UUID
Proceedings CASA 2003 on IEEE Xplore
External links
Past Conferences organized by IMI
Computer animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20Fellwock | Perry Fellwock (born 1947) is a former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst and whistleblower who revealed the existence of the NSA and its worldwide covert surveillance network in an interview, using the pseudonym Winslow Peck, with Ramparts in 1971. At the time that Fellwock blew the whistle on ECHELON, the NSA was a nearly unknown organization and among the most secretive of the US intelligence agencies. Fellwock revealed that it had a significantly larger budget than the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Fellwock was motivated by Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers. Today, Fellwock has been acknowledged as the first NSA whistleblower.
ECHELON is the name popularly given to the signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states (so called "Five Eyes" FVEY) to the UKUSA Security Agreement. According to information in a European Parliament document "On the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system)", ECHELON was ostensibly created to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War in the early 1960s.
Because of the Fellwock revelations, the U.S. Senate United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities ("Church Committee" as it was chaired by Frank Church) introduced successful legislation in 1973 to stop the NSA from spying on American citizens.
Speaking about ECHELON, Frank Church said:
"...[T]hat capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such [is] the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology ... I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."
The Church Committee hearings and other congressional hearings into abuses by the Nixon Administration by a committee chaired by Sam Ervin helped lead to the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("FISA") , in 1978. FISA prescribes procedures for the physical and electronic surveillance and colle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maponics | Maponics is a Pitney Bowes company headquartered in White River Junction, Vermont, United States. It produces geographic boundary data that is used in mapping applications and other services that utilize location-based data. Maponics works by defining boundaries at the local level by offering GIS (Geographic Information System) boundary products - such as neighbourhood boundaries, school attendance zones, shopping locations, ZIP codes, and other real-life geographies.
History
Maponics was founded in 2001 by Darrin Clement. Maponics specializes in creating pre-defined geofences and other geographic boundaries that are meaningful to consumers. Maponics' location data is used by many of the world's largest organizations, including Foursquare, Realtor.com, Trulia, ZipRealty, and Fannie Mae.
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Privately held companies based in Vermont
Software companies based in Vermont
Geomarketing research
2001 establishments in Vermont
American companies established in 2001
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Software companies established in 2001
Companies established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic4android | Basic4Android (currently known as B4A) is a rapid application development tool for native Android applications, developed and marketed by Anywhere Software Ltd.
B4A is an alternative to programming with Java. The language itself is similar to Visual Basic and Visual Basic .Net though it is adapted to the native Android environment.
B4A is an object-based and event-driven language.
B4A includes a visual designer that simplifies the process of building user interfaces that target phones and tablets with different screen sizes. Compiled programs can be tested in AVD Manager emulators or on real Android devices using Android Debug Bridge and B4A Bridge.
B4A generates standard signed Android applications which can be uploaded to app stores like Google Play, Samsung Apps and Amazon Appstore. There are no special dependencies or runtime frameworks required.
Since February 2020, the full version is 100% free (donationware).
Applications
B4A supports all types of applications such as games, databases, connectivity, sensors and hardware.
Libraries
B4A interacts with the native API through Java libraries. B4A libraries consist of two files: the Java jar file and a XML file that is produced by a tool provided with B4A.
Community
In 2013, there were about 100,000 registered developers in the online community.
Documentation
A Basic4Android book was written by Wyken Seagrave and published by Penny Press Ltd in October 2013.
See also
Mono for Android
Comparison of programming languages
References
External links
Basic4android site
BASIC programming language family
BASIC compilers
Programming tools for Windows
Windows integrated development environments
Windows-only freeware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resogun | Resogun is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. It was originally released in North America and PAL regions in November 2013, while ports for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita developed by Climax Studios were released in December 2014. Resogun: Heroes, the first downloadable content (DLC), was released in North America on June 24, 2014, while the second DLC, Resogun: Defenders was released on February 17, 2015. Resogun draws heavily from the games Defender and Datastorm, and is considered the spiritual successor to Housemarque's previous shoot 'em up games Super Stardust HD and Super Stardust Delta.
In the game, the player battles enemies and rescues trapped humans in a cylindrical, voxel-based world. The game was well received by video game journalists, who lauded its graphical prowess, fast-paced gameplay, and soundtrack. The game was criticized for its short length and lack of tutorials or explanations for several gameplay elements. Resogun won several awards, and was nominated for Action Game of the Year at the 2014 DICE Awards, and also appeared at the 2014 GDC Choice Awards.
Gameplay
In Resogun, the player battles phases of enemies on five distinct, cylindrical, voxel-based levels: Acis, Ceres, Decima, Febris, and Mefitis. Each level is separated into three phases and includes a unique boss enemy. Although the primary goal of each level is to eliminate all enemies, including the boss, humans can be saved in order to gain a bonus score towards the player's final score. In order to save a human, it must first be released from its chamber by killing a set of "keepers." Upon release, the player can pick up the human and bring it to one of two safety points.
Three ships (Nemesis, Ferox, and Phobos) are available for selection; each ship has different levels of agility, boost, and overdrive. In addition, various upgrades and powerups are available to the player throughout each level. Overdrive, once charged, produces a powerful beam of energy that is capable of taking out large quantities of enemies. Boost acts as a speed boost and allows the player to escape from enemies, as well as destroy enemies by colliding with them. The nova-bomb produces a large explosion that clears all enemies currently on the level. These are limited in quantity but can be obtained through pickups. Ship upgrades and extra lives can also be obtained through pickups, or by saving humans. You can also choose from a selection of custom made skins for your ship made by other people online.
Upon completion of each level, the player will receive a bonus score. The amount of bonus score depends on various factors, including the number of humans saved and the number of nova-bombs preserved, to name a few. In addition, the game features two game modes: Single Level and Arcade. In Single Level mode, the player selects one single level and attempts to complete that level for a single high scor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmeen%20Manzoor | Jasmeen Manzoor is a Pakistani journalist and news anchor working at Bol Network, Pakistan.
Early life and education
She earned her Master's in International Relations and started her career as an anchor on Pakistan Television in 1999. She worked as producer and talk show host on private TV channels. In March 2010, Jasmeen started hosting SAMAA TV's current affair program Tonight with Jasmeen.
Jasmeen made documentaries receiving four awards, one of which was the Benazir Excellence Award for Best Female Anchor in Pakistan in 2009.
Controversy with MQM
In July 2013, Manzoor claimed that she was receiving death threats from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and she decided to leave Karachi. Jasmeen attacked the Karachi-based political party, avoiding naming the MQM directly. After hearing her story, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that he would review the law and order situation in the metropolis.
References
1964 births
Pakistani women journalists
Living people
Pakistani television talk show hosts
Journalists from Karachi
Hindkowan people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helldivers | {{Infobox video game
| title = Helldivers
| image = Helldivers art.jpg
| developer = Arrowhead Game Studios
| publisher = Sony Computer Entertainment
| director = Johan Pilestedt
| designer =
| artist =
| programmer =
| composer = Johan Lindgren
| engine = Bitsquid
| released = Super-Earth Ultimate Edition (PS4)WindowsDecember 7, 2015
| genre = Shoot 'em up
| modes = Single-player, multiplayer
| platforms = PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows
}}Helldivers is a top-down shooter game developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita with cross-play, on March 3, 2015 in North America and on March 4, 2015 in Europe, respectively. A version for Microsoft Windows was also released via Steam on December 7, 2015, making it the first game Sony published for PC.
It features both couch and online co-op, up to four players. Helldivers takes inspiration from military science fiction such as Aliens and Starship Troopers. While solo play is possible, it is often beneficial to play cooperatively, as this allows the players distribute the requirements effectively. This comes with its own risks, however, most notably friendly fire.
Helldivers received positive reviews from critics. A sequel, Helldivers 2, was announced in May 2023 and is scheduled to release on February 8, 2024.
Gameplay
In Helldivers, the player needs to coordinate their actions during chaotic combat in order to complete objectives and to avoid friendly-fire casualties. The game pits the player against three different enemy species and tasks them with ensuring the survival of Super Earth. Gameplay takes place on procedurally-generated missions where players must accomplish a series of objectives. At the start of each mission, the player can choose their loadouts and deployment positions, as well as using the game's unique stratagem mechanic to assist additional options to best suit the map or the player's preferred playstyle. For example, the player may choose stratagems that focus on providing additional firepower or mobility, or give themselves supportive abilities like calling in an airstrike on parts of the map.
The game features a single difficulty option, though the player can then choose a hard or easy planet for their missions. This had changed over the course of development.
In each mission, the player must fight or sneak through enemy-controlled territory to complete the given objectives, then escape via a dropship. It is possible to fail some of the given objectives without immediately losing. It often benefits the player to avoid direct combat if possible, as the enemy has infinite reinforcements, and there are no in-game rewards for simply killing enemies.
The game keeps many of the mechanics common to the genre, like Fog of War and a map that shows any enemies the player(s) can currently see. The enemy will patrol their territory, imp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAR-Wyoming%20Supercomputing%20Center | The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) is a high-performance computing (HPC) and data archival facility located in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that provides advanced computing services to researchers in the Earth system sciences.
NWSC provides researchers’ needs for computing, data analysis, and scientific visualization resources combined with powerful data management capabilities to support finer Earth system model resolution, increased model complexity, better statistics, more predictive power, and longer simulation times. The data storage and archival facility at NWSC holds unique historical climate records and a wealth of other scientific data. Scientists at U.S. universities and research institutions access NWSC resources remotely via the Internet from desktop or laptop computers.
History
The NWSC data center is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the State of Wyoming, and is operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. It was created through a partnership of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the State of Wyoming, the University of Wyoming, Cheyenne LEADS, the Wyoming Business Council, and Cheyenne Light Fuel and Power Company (now named Black Hills Corporation). Consistent with NCAR’s mission, this supercomputing center is a leader in energy efficiency, incorporating the newest and most efficient designs and technologies available. Planning for this data center began in 2003, groundbreaking at the North Range Business Park in Cheyenne took place in June 2010, and computing operations began in October 2012.
Sustainability and energy efficiency
The facility design is based on modular and expandable spaces that can be adapted for computing system upgrades. Its sustainable design makes it 89% more efficient than a typical data center and up to 10% more efficient than state-of-the-art data centers operating in 2010. Almost 92% of the energy it uses goes directly to its core purpose of powering supercomputers to enable scientific discovery. Part of its efficiency comes from the regionally integrated design that uses Wyoming’s climate to provide natural cooling during 96% of the year and local wind energy that supplies at least 10% of its power. The main energy source used is coal. The NWSC achieved LEED Gold certification for its sustainable design and construction. In 2013 it won first place for Facility Design Implementation in the Uptime Institute’s Green Enterprise IT awards. This award recognizes pioneering projects and innovations that significantly improve energy productivity and resource use in information technology. In June 2013, the NWSC won the Datacenter Dynamics North American ‘Green’ Data Center award for demonstrated sustainability in the design and operation of facilities.
The center currently has a total of 153,000 square feet with 24,000 square feet of raised floor modules for supercomputing systems in its expandable design. It incorporates numerous resource conserv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Stoppelman | Jeremy Stoppelman (born November 10, 1977) is an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, which he co-founded in 2004. Stoppelman obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1999. After briefly working for @Home Network, he worked at X.com and later became the VP of Engineering after the company was renamed PayPal. Stoppelman left PayPal to attend Harvard Business School. During a summer internship at MRL Ventures, he and others came up with the idea for Yelp Inc. He turned down an acquisition offer by Google and took the company public in 2012.
Early life
Stoppelman was born in Arlington, Virginia, in 1977. His mother, Lynn, was an English teacher, and his father, John, was a securities lawyer. Stoppelman is Jewish. He attended Langley High School and a Reform temple as a child and had a Bar Mitzvah. As a child Stoppelman had an interest in computers and business and began investing in stocks at the age of 14. Stoppelman aspired to be a video game developer and took computer programming classes, where he learned the Turbo Pascal software programming system. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering in 1999. After graduating he took a job with @Home Network.
Career
After four months of working for @Home Network, Stoppelman accepted a position as an engineer at X.com, which later became PayPal. It was here that Stoppelman met businessman Max Levchin, who later became an investor in Stoppelman's company, Yelp Inc. Stoppelman became the V.P. of engineering at PayPal, and is one of a group of PayPal's early employees sometimes referred to as the PayPal Mafia.
Stoppelman left PayPal after its 2003 acquisition by eBay and attended Harvard Business School for one year. During Stoppelman's school break Levchin persuaded Stoppelman to do an internship at the business incubator, MRL ventures.
Yelp
In the summer of 2004, Jeremy Stoppelman got the flu and had a hard time finding recommendations for a local doctor. He and former PayPal colleague, Russel Simmons, who was also working at MRL Ventures, began brainstorming on how to create an online community where users could share recommendations for local services. Stoppelman and Simmons pitched the idea to Levchin who provided $1 million in initial funding. Under Stoppelman's leadership, Yelp grew to a market capitalization of $4 billion and hosted 138 million user reviews.
Steve Jobs called Stoppelman in January 2010 in an effort to persuade him to turn down an acquisition offer by Google and in March 2012 Stoppelman rang the bell for the New York Stock Exchange after Yelp went public. According to Stoppelman, the biggest challenge at Yelp has been "the same problem Google faces in its rankings." Business owners have been suing reviewers that leave negative reviews and raising allegations that Yelp tampers with reviews to favor companies that advertise, le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%20Bellisio | Jules A. Bellisio is the Principal of his own consulting practice, Telemediators, LLC. Previously, he was Chief Scientist and Executive Director of Emerging Networks Research at Telcordia Technologies, where he remains a Telcordia Fellow. Currently, he consults on the system and physical layer aspects of digital communications and related emerging technologies with a focus on mobility and wireless.
Dr. Jules A. Bellisio started his lifetime electrical engineering career at Bell Telephone Laboratories. At Bell System divestiture he transferred to Bellcore (later renamed Telcordia, then Ericsson) to establish the Digital Signal Processing Research Division. He retired as Executive Director of Emerging Networks Research, Chief Scientist, and Fellow of the Corporation. Following retirement, he was the Principal of his own consulting practice, Telemediators LLC.
Bellisio was born in Brooklyn, New York, received the B.S.E.E. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, the S.M.E.E. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was awarded the Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the originator (US Patents) of the "sliding payload" concept central to SONET/SDH transmission systems, invented the phase-frequency locked timing extractor widely used in baseband digital repeaters, and was the designer and managing engineer of the digital television lightwave system used for virtually all of the worldwide contribution quality TV feeds at the 1984 Olympic Games, the first compressed digital TV system ever accepted by a prime TV network for program contribution. Bellisio and his staff were the original advocates of Broadband/ATM standardization, HDTV, and video compression. They were the first to propose the ADSL (Asymmetrical digital subscriber line). All of these innovations have developed into massive worldwide profitable industries.
Dr. Bellisio is a Telcordia Fellow, a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for contributions to and leadership in the conception and realization of digital television systems for current and emerging telecommunications networks, a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and a member of the Internet Society. He was the President and Chairman of the Board of DAVIC (the Digital Audio Visual Council), and is currently Executive Director of the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council (FCC TAC). He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences Intelligent Transportation Systems Standards Review Committee, the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee), the Software Defined Radio Forum, and the TV-Anytime Forum.
References
1941 births
Living people
Engineers from Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locu | Locu was a publishing platform used by restaurants, local merchants, and other companies to create and distribute product and price lists, hours of operation, addresses and other data to Yelp, Foursquare, TripAdvisor, and OpenTable. The company claimed that 30,000 businesses were using the service as of August 2013.
Locu was founded by a group of MIT students in 2011 and raised $600,000 in angel funding. Go Daddy acquired Locu for a reported $70 million in 2013.
References
Digital press
2013 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchaiyan%20%28Pakistani%20TV%20series%29 | Parchaiyan is a Pakistani drama television series presented by the PTV network. It was the first Pakistani drama series in colour.
It was translated and adapted by the writer Haseena Moin and directed by Mohsin Ali and Shirin Khan.
Parchaiyan was an adaptation of the Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady. The ensemble cast featured Rahat Kazmi, Sahira Kazmi, Shakeel, Talat Hussain, Khursheed Shahid, Azra Sherwani, Begum Khursheed Mirza, Mohammad Yousaf.
Plot
The story revolves around Najia (Sahira Kazmi) and the men in her life. After passing away of Najia's parents, her mother's sister takes her to her house where she encounters her cousin Adeel (Rahat Kazmi) and his friend Masood (Shakeel). Due to her dynamic personality and beauty, Masood instantly falls for her and shows his intentions to marry her but Najia refuses. On the other hand, she is not aware of the love Adeel has in his heart for her. Through a distant acquaintance of the family, she is introduced to Shiraz (Talat Hussain) who wins her hand despite the fact that he is only interested in her money. When Najia finally leaves Shiraz to return to Adeel, who has blood cancer, she finds that he is on the verge of death.
Cast
Sahira Kazmi
Rahat Kazmi
Shakeel
Khursheed Shahid
Talat Hussain
Begum Khursheed Mirza
Azra Sherwani
Lubna Aslam
Mehar Rizvi
Mohammad Yousaf
Javed Sheikh (Cameo)
References
Pakistani drama television series
Pakistan Television Corporation original programming
Television shows set in Karachi
Urdu-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic%20art | Cybernetic art is contemporary art that builds upon the legacy of cybernetics, where feedback involved in the work takes precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. The relationship between cybernetics and art can be summarised in three ways: cybernetics can be used to study art, to create works of art or may itself be regarded as an art form in its own right.
History
Nicolas Schöffer's CYSP I (1956) was perhaps the first artwork to explicitly employ cybernetic principles (CYSP is an acronym that joins the first two letters of the words "CYbernetic" and "SPatiodynamic"). The artist Roy Ascott elaborated an extensive theory of cybernetic art in "Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision" (Cybernetica, Journal of the International Association for Cybernetics (Namur), Volume IX, No.4, 1966; Volume X No.1, 1967) and in "The Cybernetic Stance: My Process and Purpose" (Leonardo Vol 1, No 2, 1968). Art historian Edward A. Shanken has written about the history of art and cybernetics in essays including "Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s" and "From Cybernetics to Telematics: The Art, Pedagogy, and Theory of Roy Ascott"(2003), which traces the trajectory of Ascott's work from cybernetic art to telematic art (art using computer networking as its medium, a precursor to net.art.)
Audio feedback and the use of tape loops, sound synthesis, and computer generated compositions reflected a cybernetic awareness of information, systems, and cycles. Such techniques became widespread in the 1960s in the music industry. The visual effects of electronic feedback became a focus of artistic research in the late 1960s, when video equipment first reached the consumer market. Steina and Woody Vasulka, for example, used "all manner and combination of audio and video signals to generate electronic feedback in their respective of corresponding media."
With related work by Edward Ihnatowicz, Wen-Ying Tsai and cybernetician Gordon Pask and the animist kinetics of Robert Breer and Jean Tinguely, the 1960s produced a strain of cyborg art that was very much concerned with the shared circuits within and between the living and the technological. A line of cyborg art theory also emerged during the late 1960s. Writers like Jonathan Benthall and Gene Youngblood drew on cybernetics and cybernetic. The most substantial contributors here were the British artist and theorist Roy Ascott with his essay "Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision" in the journal Cybernetica (1976), and the American critic and theorist Jack Burnham. In "Beyond Modern Sculpture" from 1968 he builds cybernetic art into an extensive theory that centers on art's drive to imitate and ultimately reproduce life.
Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts curated by Jasia Reichardt at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England in 1968 is attributed at being one of the first exhibition of cybernetic art.
Composer Herbert Brün participated in the Biological Com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthShare | InterSystems HealthShare is a healthcare informatics platform for hospitals, integrated delivery networks (IDNs) and regional and national health information exchanges (HIE).
About
HealthShare includes health information exchange, data aggregation, workflow, text analysis, and analytics technology. It connects to internal and external systems for HIE, and offers an integrated, universal view of all the data. HealthShare enables healthcare professionals to leverage their existing systems and the vast amounts of untapped health information contained within them to support secure data exchange and messaging and connections to other HIEs. The software also offers a real-time analytics component, called Active Analytics, that continuously collects, aggregates, normalizes, and presents data from across and beyond the organization. Because it is designed as a series of components that work securely together, HealthShare can be configured in a variety of ways, from clinical document sharing to fully integrated private or public health information exchange. HealthShare components include:
Foundation
Composite Health Record
Clinician Viewer
Patient Index
Provider Directory
Terminology Engine
Consent Management
Clinical Message Delivery
Active Analytics
InterSystems HealthShare has been implemented in the State of Missouri, State of Illinois, State of Rhode Island, New York eHealth Collaborative, Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX) HealthIX, Health Information Xchange of New York (Hixny), Beaumont Health System
Architecture
The HealthShare standards-based interoperability framework provides a scalable, foundation for health information exchange. It connects data, applications, processes, and users internally and externally of an organization.
Supported standards include:
HL7
FHIR
IHE
CDA
CCD
DICOM
X12
NwHIN Direct
ITK (United Kingdom)
NEHTA (Australia)
DMP (France)
Competitors
The main competitors are vendors of other integration engines for healthcare such as Optum, eClinical Works, dbMotion, and MEDecision.
References
External links
InterSystems HealthShare
InterSystems HealthShare Case Studies
Business software
Proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devicetree | In computing, a devicetree (also written device tree) is a data structure describing the hardware components of a particular computer so that the operating system's kernel can use and manage those components, including the CPU or CPUs, the memory, the buses and the integrated peripherals.
The device tree was derived from SPARC-based computers via the Open Firmware project. The current Devicetree specification
is targeted at smaller systems, but is still used with some server-class systems (for instance, those described by the Power Architecture Platform Reference).
Personal computers with the x86 architecture generally do not use device trees, relying instead on various auto configuration protocols (e.g. ACPI) to discover hardware. Systems which use device trees usually pass a static device tree (perhaps stored in EEPROM, or stored in NAND device like eUFS) to the operating system, but can also generate a device tree in the early stages of booting. As an example, Das U-Boot and kexec can pass a device tree when launching a new operating system. On systems with a boot loader that does not support device trees, a static device tree may be installed along with the operating system; the Linux kernel supports this approach.
The Devicetree specification is currently managed by a community named devicetree.org, which is associated with, among others, Linaro and Arm.
Formats
A device tree can hold any kind of data as internally it is a tree of named nodes and properties. Nodes contain properties and child nodes, while properties are name–value pairs.
Device trees have both a binary format for operating systems to use and a textual format for convenient editing and management.
Usage
Linux
Given the correct device tree, the same compiled kernel can support different hardware configurations within a wider architecture family. The Linux kernel for the ARC, ARM, C6x, H8/300, MicroBlaze, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, OpenRISC, PowerPC, RISC-V, SuperH, and Xtensa architectures reads device tree information; on ARM, device trees have been mandatory for all new SoCs since 2012. This can be seen as a remedy to the vast number of forks (of Linux and Das U-Boot) that have historically been created to support (marginally) different ARM boards. The purpose is to move a significant part of the hardware description out of the kernel binary, and into the compiled device tree blob, which is handed to the kernel by the boot loader, replacing a range of board-specific C source files and compile-time options in the kernel.
It is specified in a Devicetree Source file (.dts) and is compiled into a Devicetree Blob or device tree binary (.dtb) file through the Devicetree compiler (DTC). Device tree source files can include other files, referred to as device tree source includes.
It has been customary for ARM-based Linux distributions to include a boot loader, that necessarily was customized for specific boards, for example Raspberry Pi or Hackberry A10. This has created proble |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC%20Network | SEC Network (SECN) is an American multinational sports network owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and Hearst Communications (which holds the remaining 20% interest). The channel is dedicated to coverage of collegiate sports sanctioned by the Southeastern Conference (SEC) including live and recorded event telecasts, news, analysis programs, and other content focusing on the conference's member schools. The network is estimated to have 70 million subscribers, more than any other dedicated sports network.
The network's coverage serves as the successor to an eponymous syndication package (later renamed SEC TV), which was produced by its syndication arm ESPN Regional Television. SEC Network is operated out of ESPN facilities in Charlotte, North Carolina, shared with ESPN Events, some operations for the ACC Network, and formerly ESPNU. While Charlotte is not an SEC market itself, it is in close proximity to universities that are members of the conference and shares a television market with the northern part of South Carolina, which is part of the South Carolina Gamecocks' television market.
The network's digital platform, SEC Network+ (SECN+), streams on ESPN.com and the ESPN app for SEC Network subscribers, and carries SEC events not broadcast on television. SECN+ broadcasts are simulcast on ESPN+.
History
On May 2, 2013, SEC Commissioner Michael Slive and ESPN president John Skipper formally announced that as part of a long-term, 20-year agreement lasting through 2034, ESPN would launch SEC Network, a network devoted to the conference and an accompanying digital platform, in August 2014. The network would aim to provide "unparalleled content from one of the most competitive conferences in the country with the highest quality, most innovative production partner in the sports industry", and joins the Big Ten Network and Pac-12 Network as cable television networks devoted entirely to a single college athletics conference.
During the announcement of the SEC's football schedule for the 2014 season, Michael Slive officially announced that SEC Network would launch on August 14, 2014. Its first live regular season football games aired on August 28, 2014, between Texas A&M and South Carolina, and Temple and Vanderbilt.
SEC Network officially launched on August 14, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. ET with the premiere of its news program SEC Now, which featured live broadcasts from each SEC school, highlights from football training camps, and live look-ins of an exhibition women's soccer game between the Arkansas Razorbacks and Creighton Bluejays (which was broadcast in its entirety via WatchESPN as the first live event produced by SEC Network).
On August 14, 2019, the network's fifth anniversary, a new on-air presentation was introduced along with redesigned sets for the network's shows.
Programming
SEC Network airs events across the 21 sports that are sanc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsbytes%20News%20Network | Newsbytes News Network, called "an Associated Press for tech-information junkies" was founded in May, 1983 in San Francisco, California by broadcast journalist Wendy Woods Gorski, who remained editor in chief for the 19 years. Continually published from 1983 to 2002, Newsbytes covered breaking news in consumer technology including computing, interactive media, telecommunications and cybersecurity, spanning the formative years of Silicon Valley and the advent of personal computers.
The Washington Post Company acquired Newsbytes in 1997. The archive of Newsbytes stories is currently on the Lexis-Nexis research database under the code NWSBYT
Predating the Internet, Newsbytes News Network came to be considered a “boot camp“ for online journalism. Its alumni have gone on to work for CNet, ZDNet, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and The New York Times.
At the height of its popularity in the mid-1990s, Newsbytes was published by over 180 media outlets and produced almost 100 technology news reports daily. Its success was buoyed by enthusiasm for news about emerging technologies. Newsbytes was able to offer instantaneous delivery of technology information before the invention of the Internet.
History
Wendy Woods Gorski had the idea to create an online publication out of what she was already writing daily for her broadcast news position in San Francisco. As a reporter and editor working under the name "Wendy Woods," she compiled news leads for her assignment editors at CNN (San Francisco Bureau) and KGO-TV (ABC) in 1982 and realized these news story ideas could be of interest to the general public. These summaries included contact information for the sources.
Newsbytes officially launched in 1983 as a "user publishing" feature on an online service called The Source, owned by Reader’s Digest, based in McLean, Virginia. "Newsbytes", began to earn royalties and an audience.
In its first few years, the weekly stories were written with a style that reflected television writing: succinct stories with an irreverent flair. "(Newsbytes) reflected her personality. It was, in some ways, the very first blog. It was infused with her being and when I joined her in 1985 I took that lesson to heart, putting my personality into my own work from Atlanta", said Dana Blankenhorn, one of the service’s early writers.
By the end of the first year Steve Gold, a journalist in Sheffield, England, joined the company and contributed European technology news. Gradually the service evolved from summaries to fleshed-out stories and included the work of multiple reporters in different US cities and countries.
Newsbytes stories were aimed at a broad cross-section of both business and consumer users of information technology, which contributed to the service’s wide appeal. Newsbytes was advertiser-free which gave it the added advantage of public trust and objectivity in a niche industry.
Newsbytes News Network soon developed a team of 19 journalists in San Francisco, Denver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-resolved%20mass%20spectrometry | Time-resolved mass spectrometry (TRMS) is a strategy in analytical chemistry that uses mass spectrometry platform to collect data with temporal resolution. Implementation of TRMS builds on the ability of mass spectrometers to process ions within sub-second duty cycles. It often requires the use of customized experimental setups. However, they can normally incorporate commercial mass spectrometers. As a concept in analytical chemistry, TRMS encompasses instrumental developments (e.g. interfaces, ion sources, mass analyzers), methodological developments, and applications.
Applications
An early application of TRMS was in the observation of flash photolysis process. It took advantage of a time-of-flight mass analyzer.
TRMS currently finds applications in the monitoring of organic reactions, formation of reactive intermediates, enzyme-catalyzed reactions, convection, protein folding, extraction, and other chemical and physical processes.
Temporal resolution
TRMS is typically implemented to monitor processes that occur on second to millisecond time scale. However, there exist reports from studies in which sub-millisecond resolutions were achieved.
References
Analytical chemistry
Biochemistry
Laboratory techniques
Mass spectrometry
Scientific techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Hund | Gerhard Friedrich Hund (born February 4, 1932 in Leipzig) is a German chess player, mathematician and computer scientist.
Biography
He is the oldest son of physicist Friedrich Hund (1896–1997) and mathematician Ingeborg Seynsche (1905–1994). He studied at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (1950–1951) and at the Goethe University Frankfurt (1951–1955). In 1955 he met his wife Juliane Hund (née Meyer). They had four daughters Susanne van Kempen (b.1958), Barbara Hund (b.1959), Isabel Hund (b.1962) and Dorothee Lampe (b.1966). After graduation, he was collaborator of Alwin Walther at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt.
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See also
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
Chess of the Grandmasters
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%20JTC%201/SC%2038 | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms is a standardization subcommittee, which is part of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 serves as the focus, proponent, and systems integration entity on Cloud Computing, Distributed Platforms, and the application of these technologies. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 provides guidance to JTC 1, IEC, ISO and other entities developing standards in these areas. The Subcommittee is addressing the demand pull from users, especially governments, for standards to assist them in specifying, acquiring and applying Cloud Computing and distribute platform technologies and services.
History
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 was formed at the October 2009 ISO/IEC JTC 1 Plenary Meeting in Tel Aviv via approval of Resolution 36. The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), located in the United States. The first meeting of the subcommittee took place in Beijing, China in May 2010. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 approved its scope, established three working groups and developed terms of reference for each at this inaugural meeting.
Established to address three related areas of technology - Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Cloud Computing - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 was initially titled Distributed Application Platforms and Services (DAPS). Meeting in Plenary 2 times per year during its first 6 years, with interim electronic and face-to-face meetings of its Working Groups, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 completed work in Web Services and SOA and increased its focus on Cloud Computing. To reflect this evolution in focus, the JTC 1 2014 Plenary Meeting in Abu Dhabi approved a revised scope and new title for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38, Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms.
Scope and mission
The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 is the “Standardization in the area of Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms”. This includes:
Foundational concepts and technologies,
Operational issues, and
Interactions among Cloud Computing systems and with other distributed systems
Structure
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 is made up of two working groups (WGs). Each working group carries out specific tasks in standards development within the field of Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms, where the focus of each working group is described in the group’s terms of reference. The two active working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 are:
WG 3 - CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS (CCF)
Terms of Reference:
Projects related to Cloud Computing Service Agreements
Projects related to fundamental concepts, terminology and definitions for Cloud Computing
Projects related to guidance on use of international standards in the development of policies that govern or regulate cloud service providers and cloud services, and policies that govern the use of cloud services in en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMPLEAT%20%28Bioinformatics%20tool%29 | Protein Complex Enrichment Analysis Tool is an online bioinformatics tool used to analyze high-throughput datasets (or small-scale datasets) using protein complex enrichment analysis. The tool uses a protein complex resource as the back end annotation data instead of conventional gene ontology- or pathway-based annotations. The tool incorporates several useful features in order to provide a comprehensive data-mining environment, including network-based visualization and interactive querying options.
COMPLEAT may be used to analyze RNAi screens, proteomic datasets, gene expression data and any other high-throughput datasets where protein complex information is relevant.
Applications
COMPLEAT has been successfully applied to identify:
Dynamic protein complexes regulated by insulin and epidermal growth factors signaling, including a role of Brahma complex in the cellular response to insulin.
Evolutionarily conserved molecular complexes that regulate nucleolar size when the complex constituents were targeted by RNA interference.
Novel role of endocytosis and vesicle trafficking complexes in Hippo Signaling Pathway.
References
External links
COMPLEAT
Data analysis software
Systems biology
Bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20City%20%28song%29 | is a song recorded by Japanese girl group Perfume for their first greatest hits compilation, Perfume: Complete Best (2006). It was written, composed, arranged, and produced by Japanese musician and Capsule member Yasutaka Nakata. The single also included the B-side track "Perfume", which appeared on the parent album. It premiered on January 11, 2006 as the second single from the album in Japan. It was also released on June 19, 2013 through European and Oceanic regions, and June 25 in North America. Musically, "Computer City" is a technopop song, influenced by electronic music.
Upon its release, the track garnered generally favourable reviews from music critics. Some critics highlighted the song as one of Perfume's best singles, and commended the composition. It achieved minor success in Japan, peaking at number 45 on the Oricon Singles Chart and 35 on TBS' Count Down TV chart. An accompanying music video was shot by Kazuaki Seki; it features the girls performing the song in a black room. With additional promotion through Japanese commercials, the song has been performed on several concert tours by Perfume, including their 2007 Seventh Heaven tour and 2008 Game Tour.
Background and composition
"Computer City" was written, composed, arranged, and produced by Japanese musician and Capsule member Yasutaka Nakata. Alongside this, it was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Nakata. The song was recorded in 2005 at Contemode Studios, Shibuya, Tokyo by Nakata. Alongside the album's remaining material, "Computer City" has partial rights by Nakata through Yahama Music Communications. The single also included the B-side track "Perfume", which also appeared on the parent album. It premiered on January 11, 2006 as the second single from the group's first greatest hits compilation, Perfume: Complete Best (2006). The single was also released on June 19, 2013 through European and Oceanic regions, and June 25 in North America.
The CD single contains both "Computer City" and "Perfume". The artwork features Perfume, posing for the song's music video; Perfume member A-Chan is sitting down, Nocchi is leaning behind A-Chan, and Kashiyuka is standing behind them both. The maxi CD features an extra lyric booklet, printed on plain white paper. Musically, "Computer City" is a technopop song, influenced by electronic music. A staff editor from Amazon Japan noted that the song contained elements of technopop and 8-bit music. Ian Martin from AllMusic stated that the song, alongside their back catalogue from Tokuma Japan Communications, "adopt[ed] a vocoder-heavy production style strongly influenced by European electro and house". Similarly, a staff editor at CD Journal labelled the song's composition as "addictive technopop".
Critical response
"Computer City" received generally favourable reviews from most music critics. A writer from CD Journal complimented the "tight" composition, and praised the production and songwriting by Yasutaka Nakata. Another reviewer from the same |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%20Simpson | Ant Simpson is an Australian screenwriter and radio host best known for his time as co-host of the national Drive programme on the Australian Radio Network with co-hosts Anthony "Becks" Toohey and Sami Lukis.
Career
Simpson started his radio career in 2006 while completing his law degree at the University of Melbourne. His first break in radio was a breakfast show on Star FM in Gippsland which he co-hosted with Anthony "Becks" Toohey. In 2007 the show was networked nationally as the Southern Cross Network drive program The Benchwarmers with Ant & Becks. The show was named "Best Network Program" two years in a row at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAS).
In November 2009, Simpson & Toohey were poached by the Australian Radio Network to present Drive and commenced broadcasting in January 2010. In April 2012, Toohey announced that he had resigned from the show to pursue overseas projects. The show continued with Simpson and new co-host Sami Lukis.
Ant is a successful voice over artist who has voiced campaigns for 20th Century Fox, Mazda, McDonald's, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Foxtel and the Nova network of radio stations.
References
http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/tv--radio/off-the-bench-into-the-fray/2009/10/31/1256835186203.html
http://www.rmk.com.au/ant_simpson/
Australian radio personalities
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOCN | The National Open College Network (NOCN), formerly known as the Open College Network (OCN), is a United Kingdom organisation developed to recognise informal learning achieved by adults.
History
The first organisation of this type was created in 1981 in Manchester: the Manchester Open College Federation. Later as more organisations formed across the UK, the term Open College Network was adopted, each distinguished by its home geographical area.
By 2000, there were 31 OCNs that worked in collaboration with NOCN (National Open College Network) that had been setup in 1991 as a formal membership organisation for the regional OCN's. In 2005, the 31 OCNs were merged to form 11 larger OCNs (nine in England, one in Wales - now Agored Cymru - and one in Northern Ireland) with NOCN acting as an advocate with government.
The OCNs were the first accreditation bodies to use credit as the basis of the award system. Credit was established as the common currency for all OCNs and consistent definitions of four levels of achievement were established. The OCNs continue to offer credit-bearing courses and work-based learning programs, in various centres including schools, colleges, voluntary organisations, community centres, trades unions, prisons, training providers, and employers.
The OCNs in England and Wales are all Access Validating Agencies recognised by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) for award of Access to Higher Education diplomas.
In 2010/2011 all of the OCNs also became Awarding Organisations recognised by Ofqual. Some have adopted new, replacement names including Open Awards, Aim Awards, Apt Awards and Laser Learning Awards. Others, including OCN London, Open College Network West Midlands (previously OCNWMR), OCNER, OCNYHR, have retained their historic OCN title in their names.
In 2008, the Welsh OCN, Agored Cymru, ceased to be members of NOCN and in 2013 the majority of English OCNs decided not to renew their agreement with NOCN who had legally changed their company name from the National Open College Network.
In 2017, NOCN acquired CSkills from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), becoming one of the largest UK construction Awarding Organisations. The current NOCN Group also includes the organisations NOCN India Skills Foundation, NOCN Job Cards, CPCS, and NOCN Cymru.
References
External links
NOCN website
1981 establishments in the United Kingdom
Distance education institutions based in the United Kingdom
Education in Sheffield
Organisations based in Sheffield
Vocational education in the United Kingdom |
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