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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Walker%20%28executive%29 | Patrick Walker is the CEO at Rightster, a London-based Multi Channel Network. Formally he worked at Base79 as Chief Content Officer after serving 8 years with Google and YouTube as the Senior Director of Content Partnerships, where he was responsible for launching and managing YouTube in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Walker has also worked at RealNetworks, IMG, Intel, and the BBC as a foreign news journalist in Japan and Southeast Asia. He began his career in media and technology as a TV producer and director with NHK in Tokyo, Japan.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Drama%20Serial | The Hum Award for Best Drama Serial or Hum Award for Best Drama Serial Jury is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually since the awards debuted in 2013, by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to production company of their producers working in the television industry and is the only category in which every member is eligible to nominate for. Best Drama Serial is considered the most important of the Hum Awards, as it represents all the directing, acting, music, writing, and other efforts put forth into a drama. Consequently, Best Drama is the third last final award besides Best Actor and Actress and the conclusion of the annual Hum Awards ceremony. As of 3rd Hum Awards, there have been 22 dramas nominated for the Best Drama Serial award. This category is the equivalent to the Hum Award for Best Drama Serial - Popular, decide by public voting.
History
Category name and changes
The best drama category originates with the 1st Hum Awards ceremony since 2013. This category has been given to the best drama of previous year to the ceremony held. Since Hum Awards has been just started, this category has not a brief history. The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:
2012 to 2013: Hum Award for Best Drama Serial
2014 to present: Hum Award for Best Drama Serial Jury
From second year ceremony the drama serial was categorized into two different categories, one being awarded by the jury's decision and other being awarded by public voting. Though drama serial was being awarded on jury decision and Hum membership, the official acknowledgment was developed in second year ceremony.
Recipients
Originally the producers were presented the award until first ceremony (2012), where all credited producers were able to receive the award. But as of second year ceremony (2013) the award is presented to production company and is usually received by the owner of the production and those who share screen credits with the production company. , all recipients are eligible for the award if they meet the following conditions.
those with screen credit of "producer" or "produced by" or "production"
those three or fewer producers who have performed the major portion of the producing functions
For the first time three producers was nominated at 3rd Hum Awards for drama serial Sadqay Tumhare under production company MD Productions for Momina Duraid and two individuals Samina Humayun Saeed and Tariq Ahmed Shah who independently served as executive producers.
Best Drama Serial and Best Director
The Hum Awards for Best Drama Serial and Best Director Drama Serial have been very closely linked throughout their inception. Of the 22 drama serials that have been nominated for Best Drama Serial, 21 have also nominated for Best Director Drama Serial. Only Zindagi Gulzar Hai won both Best Director and Best Drama award, at 2nd Hum Awards in 2014. Only Shehr-e-Zaat and Bunty I Love You won the Best Drama Serials awards for their produc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Director%20Drama%20Serial | The Hum Award for Best Director Drama Serial is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to directors working in the drama industry. While nominations for Best drama Director are made by members in the Hum's Directing branch, the award winners are selected by the Hum membership as a whole.
History
As of 1st Hum Awards Ceremony, HTNEC presented awards to directors. At 1st Hum Awards there were ten nominations for different dramas serials. The Hum Awards for Best Director and Best Drama Serial have been very closely linked together. At 2nd Hum Awards, Sultana Siddiqui became the oldest and first female recipient of Best Directing Award.
Rules
As per rule declared by Direction Guild of Pakistan only one individual may claim screen credit as a Drama's director. (This rule is designed to prevent rights and ownership issues and to eliminate lobbying for director credit by producers and actors.) However, the DGP may create an exception to this "one director per drama" rule if two co-directors seeking to share director credit for a drama qualify as an "established duo".
Winners and Nominees
Each Hum Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Hum Award for Drama Directing and the drama associated with the award. In the column next to the winner of each award are the other nominees for best director. For the first ceremony to onwards, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized dramas that were released between January 2012, and December 2012, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. However this rule was subjected to change when two (Sadqay Tumharae and Digest Writer) of nominated drama serial were still airing when nominations were announced. Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year column shows the dramas year in which they were telecast, and the ceremony column shows the ceremony number for which the nominees are awarded, for example; actually an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.
20100s
See also
List of Asian television awards
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Pakistani television awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Thomas%20%26%20Friends%20voice%20actors | Thomas (the Tank Engine) & Friends is a British children's television series, first broadcast on the ITV network on 9 October 1984. It is based on The Railway Series of books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry.
Until 2008, all characters were voiced by the narrator. Voices were given to the characters following the switch to full CGI animation in 2009 until 2021.
Cast
Voices
Thomas and the Magic Railroad voices
Narrators
Timeline
Seasons
Specials and films
A green cell indicates the narrator who officially narrated the series.
An orange cell indicates the narrator who re-narrated the series.
A red cell indicates seasons and movies for which a narrator's role was cancelled.
* Pierce Brosnan narrated the original cut of Series 12, but withdrew from the series, and his narrations left unreleased.
References
External links
Official websites
Awdry Family Site
Other sites
Thomas & Friends
Thomas & Friends |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Pettifer | Stephen Robert Pettifer (born September 21, 1970) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in England.
Education
Pettifer completed his Bachelor of Science degree and PhD in the Department of Computer Science, and work on virtual reality under the supervision of Adrian West in 1999.
Research and career
Pettifer's research interests are centred on the design of advanced interfaces for computer systems, in particular: scientific visualisation, scholarly publishing, and virtual reality. His main research project revolves around Utopia Documents, a novel tool for interacting with the scientific literature.
He is a co-author of the bioinformatics textbook Bioinformatics Challenges at the Interface of Biology and Computer Science: Mind the Gap with Terri Attwood and Dave Thorne.
Pettifer teaches on part of the Advanced Computer Graphics course and Fundamentals of Distributed Systems.
References
Academics of the University of Manchester
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Living people
1970 births
Alumni of the University of Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hum%20Awards%20ceremonies | This is a list of Hum Awards ceremonies. This list is current as of the 4th Hum Awards ceremony held on April 23 while the televising date is to be announced.
Venues and networks
Venues
2013 - 2014: Expo Center, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
2015: Dubai World Trade Center, Dubai, UAE.
2016–present: Expo Center, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Networks
2013: Hum Network Limited, Hum TV and Hum Europe
Ceremonies
All award times local (PST/UTC+5).
Notes
Hosts of ceremonies
Hum Awards are presented by a pair of hosts for each segment including Television, Music and Fashion who called presenters to give away the awards. However for special category or Honorary awards only one individual represents the segment. Host of First Segment are considered as main hosts, while others regarded as co-hosts.
Co-Hosts
Following is the list of Hosts that co-hosted the ceremonies with main host.
Multiple Ceremonies Hosted
The following 3 individuals have hosted (or co-hosted) the Hum Awards ceremony on two or more occasions.
Nominated Hosts
The following individuals have hosted (or co-hosted) the Hum Awards ceremony for the same year in which the individual was also a nominee.
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
Hum Award for Best Drama Serial
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Other resources
5th Hum Awards QMobile HUM Style Awards 2017
Hum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20East%20Broadcasting%20Networks | The Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) is a U.S.-government-funded American Arabic-language non-profit media organization broadcasting news and information across the Middle East and North Africa region.
MBN comprises two television networks, (Alhurra and Alhurra-Iraq), Radio Sawa, and several digital properties (Alhurra.com, RadioSawa.com, Irfaasawtak.com, MaghrebVoices.com, and Elsaha.com). MBN is financed by the U.S. government through a grant from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency that serves as a firewall to protect journalists from political influence. Including MBN, there are four other networks under the USAGM umbrella: Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Television Marti, and Radio Free Asia. Former U.S. diplomat, Ambassador Alberto Fernandez was appointed as head of MBN in 2017. On November 4, 2018, MBN relaunched and introduced innovative new programming across all platforms.
MBN's mission is to provide accurate and objective information on the MENA region, American policies, and Americana, as well as in-depth analysis focusing on topics not found in other Arab media outlets to encourage transparency and democracy. After airing an investigative report alleging corruption within Iraq's Sunni and Shiite religious establishments, Iraqi authorities suspended the license of MBN's Alhurra television channel for three months.
History and funding
The purpose of launching MBN and its networks was to counter perceived anti-American bias promoted by the leading Arab and international television networks and the effect these channels were having on Arab public opinion regarding the U.S. MBN and its networks are intended to serve as an alternative to these channels by presenting the news in a more balanced and objective manner in an effort to improve the image of the United States in the Arab world.
Norman Pattiz, founder and chairman of mass-media company Westwood One, was the driving force behind the launch of Radio Sawa in 2002, a USAGM-administered Arabic-language radio network that broadcasts a mix of music and news. Pattiz served as a board member of the then BBG, currently the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the U.S. independent federal agency that oversees all foreign non-military radio and TV broadcasts.
The idea to launch Alhurra in 2004 stemmed from the success of Radio Sawa in reaching young audiences in the Middle East. Pattiz believed that Arab audiences' views of the United States were being negatively influenced by existing Arab news networks’ focus on coverage of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He envisioned that by presenting a wider range of perspectives on these conflicts and other U.S. policies, as well as coverage of a broader variety of regional and global issues of interest to Arab audiences, a U.S.-funded satellite TV channel could help improve America's image in the region. In pursuit of Pattiz's vis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV%20advertising%20operations | The ITV network of the United Kingdom began in 1955 as a network of independent broadcasters, each responsible for its own advertising. When the Channel 4/S4C network arrived in 1982, each regional ITV company also provided the content of advertising breaks for the new network, covering the same transmitter area as itself.
As each station had a monopoly over TV advertising in its own area, many stations were able to charge high prices for slots. Over the course of the 1980s an increase in competition from cable and satellite systems and even Channel 4 from January 1993 (when it became independent of ITV), began a decrease in advertisement revenue for many ITV stations.
In 1989, two ITV companies, Central Independent Television and Anglia Television, became the first to have a joint sales team via a single organisations to deal with advertising, which allowed for reduced operational costs while offering a larger number of potential customers. By 1992, areas with "sales house" were reported in having the best areas for advertising revenue.
From January to July 1993, the remaining ITV companies (Scottish Television, HTV, Grampian and Westcountry as well as S4C) which were not initially part of "sales house" created their own joint operations to help improve their sales operations, before moving to other more established sales groups within ITV.
Television Sales and Marketing Services Ltd
In 1989, Central Independent Television sales managing director, Dick Emery, and Anglia Television sales managing director, Tim Wooton, established Television Sales and Marketing Services Ltd (TSMS), the first joint venture (sales house) which provided airtime sales and programme sponsorships. The company was created to deal with contracting advertising sales for the two companies and to provide better resources to overcome the problems and reduce costs.
In 1991, TSMS acquired the airtime sales operation of Ulster Television and Border Television. Dick Emery then left the company to join the board of ITN as its first commercial director. In September 1992 the advertising share and revenue of Central (5%) and Anglia (1.4%) both increased, which drew praise from the advertising sector and companies.
In July 1993, a new joint advertising company, Merlin, was created by Meridian Broadcasting, HTV, Westcountry Television, Channel Television, and S4C, mainly run by Meridian and HTV. In March 1994, Anglia acquired Central's 43% stake and Tim Wooton's 14% stake in the company to take full control of operations. Central left the company and moved over to Carlton Communications's sales house operations, while TSMS merged with Merlin, which had only been trading between the beginning of January and the end of July. In October 1994, TSMS took over the responsibility of Scottish Television's and Grampian Television's sales operations. TSMS acted as a consultant to international broadcasters such as BBC Select, Nederland 1 in the Netherlands.
In January 1997, Tim Wooton bec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilite | The Utilite is a small, fanless nettop computer manufactured by the Israeli company CompuLab. It was announced in July 2013 and is based upon the Freescale i.MX6 SoC.
It is available in Utilite Value, Utilite Standard and Utilite Pro models.
The Utilite is delivered with:
Ubuntu 12.04 (soft-float or armel version) pre-installed.
Other available operating systems:
Android 4.x
Arch Linux ARM (hard-float or armhf version)
Gentoo Linux source based distribution
Kali Linux (armhf Debian 7 based - focused on security testing)
There exists also three Linux based operating systems specialized on media playback:
XBMC
GeeXbox
Volumio (armhf Debian 7 based)
Both the Bootloader (U-Boot) and the Kernel are Open Source
and can be found on Gitorious and GitHub.
See also
Industrial PC
References
External links
Github
Computer-related introductions in 2013
Linux-based devices
Computers and the environment
Nettop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Security%20and%20Information%20Systems%20Information%20Analysis%20Center | Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC) sponsored by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). The CSIAC is a consolidation of three predecessor IACs: the Data & Analysis Center for Software (DACS), the Information Assurance Technology IAC (IATAC) and the Modeling & Simulation IAC (MSIAC), with the addition of the Knowledge Management and Information Sharing technical area.
CSIAC, one of three IACs sponsored by DTIC, performs the Basic Center of Operations (BCO) functions necessary to fulfill the mission and objectives applicable to the DoD Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) and Acquisition communities’ needs. These activities focus on the collection, analysis, synthesizing/, processing,and dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information (STI).
The BCO functions, specifically the collection and dissemination of STI, produce several valuable resources (e.g., reports, tool databases, data collections, etc.) in the CSIAC's core technology areas (Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, Software Engineering, Modeling & Simulation, and Knowledge Management/Information Sharing).
CSIAC's mission is to provide the DoD with a central point of access for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity to include emerging technologies in system vulnerabilities, R&D, models, and analysis to support the development and implementation of effective defense against information warfare attacks.
The CSIAC is chartered to leverage best practices and expertise from government, industry, and academia on cyber security and information technology.
History
The United States may be vulnerable to Information Warfare attacks due to the dependence of various infrastructures on timely and accurate information services. This is further complicated by the reliance of DoD information systems on commercial or proprietary networks that are accessible to both authorized users and potential adversaries. Identifying critical paths and vulnerabilities within the information infrastructure is a complex undertaking, and recent advances in information technology have made information systems easier to use, less expensive, and more available to a wide spectrum of potential adversaries.
The security of the nation depends on the survivability, authenticity, and continuity of DoD information systems. These systems are vulnerable to external attacks, due in part to their necessary dependence on commercial systems and the increased use of the Internet. The survivability, authenticity, and continuity of DoD information systems are crucial for the Warfighter. With the increasing amount of concern and Information Warfare activities requiring rapid responses, it is challenging to ensure that all appropriate agencies and organizations have the knowledge and tools to protect from, react to, and defend against Information Warfare attacks. CSIAC has been establ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Rodriguez%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Pablo Rodriguez (; born 17 April 1972) is a Spanish computer scientist and researcher, who is best known for his research in the mid-2000s on peer-to-peer file sharing and user-generated content. After working for technology and communications companies AT&T and Microsoft Research, Rodriguez returned to Spain in 2006 to become the research director for telecommunications provider Telefónica. In 2010 took a position as an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York.
Rodriguez has been a frequent guest speaker at technology conferences in Europe, such as the International World Wide Web Conference, TEDx Barcelona and the Wired Conference in London. He has collaborated with chef Ferran Adrià of the restaurant elBulli to develop Bullipedia, and in 2014 with football team FC Barcelona to analyze their strategies.
Early life and education
Rodriguez was born in Oviedo, in the Asturias region of Spain. After studying for his Bachelor and Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (1990–1995), Rodriguez continued his Master's in computational physics at King's College London, studying electro-optical sensors and collaborating on the research paper Advances in high-resolution distributed sensing using a time-resolved photon counting technique.
Travelling to Switzerland and France, Rodriguez studied communication systems at a postgraduate level, and gained a PhD in Computer Science in 2000 from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. During his doctorate studies, Rodriguez worked as an intern at AT&T Labs in New Jersey, and researched scalability at the Institut Eurécom. At AT&T, Rodriguez filed his first patents, TCP transparent proxies. His dissertation in 2002, Scalable content distribution in the Internet, focused on scaling existing Internet architecture to perform content distribution to millions of users. As part of his doctorate, he designed parallel download algorithms to improve download times and resilience in peer-to-peer file swarming systems.
Career
In the early 2000s, Rodriguez worked as a software architect for Silicon Valley companies such as search engine Inktomi, and network equipment company Tahoe Networks. In 2002, Rodriguez returned to AT&T to work at Bell Labs, where he researched many of the early concepts of peer-to-peer networks and mobile computing. Following this, Rodriguez returned to England to begin working at Microsoft Research Cambridge in their systems and networking research group. By 2004, Rodriguez had already having ten patents. In 2005, Rodriguez co-designed Avalanche, a peer-to-peer client for legal files proposed to improve download efficiency and copy protection, which was released in 2007 as Microsoft Secure Content Distribution. In addition to Avalanche, Rodriguez researched content distribution, wireless systems, and complex networks, while conducting studies assessing Windows Update, FolderShare and Xbox Live. Rodriguez further researched low-po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20of%20medians | In computer science, the median of medians is an approximate median selection algorithm, frequently used to supply a good pivot for an exact selection algorithm, most commonly quickselect, that selects the kth smallest element of an initially unsorted array. Median of medians finds an approximate median in linear time. Using this approximate median as an improved pivot, the worst-case complexity of quickselect reduces from quadratic to linear, which is also the asymptotically optimal worst-case complexity of any selection algorithm. In other words, the median of medians is an approximate median-selection algorithm that helps building an asymptotically optimal, exact general selection algorithm (especially in the sense of worst-case complexity), by producing good pivot elements.
Median of medians can also be used as a pivot strategy in quicksort, yielding an optimal algorithm, with worst-case complexity . Although this approach optimizes the asymptotic worst-case complexity quite well, it is typically outperformed in practice by instead choosing random pivots for its average complexity for selection and average complexity for sorting, without any overhead of computing the pivot.
Similarly, Median of medians is used in the hybrid introselect algorithm as a fallback for pivot selection at each iteration until kth smallest is found. This again ensures a worst-case linear performance, in addition to average-case linear performance: introselect starts with quickselect (with random pivot, default), to obtain good average performance, and then falls back to modified quickselect with pivot obtained from median of medians if the progress is too slow. Even though asymptotically similar, such a hybrid algorithm will have a lower complexity than a straightforward introselect up to a constant factor (both in average-case and worst-case), at any finite length.
The algorithm was published in , and thus is sometimes called BFPRT after the last names of the authors. In the original paper the algorithm was referred to as PICK, referring to quickselect as "FIND".
Motivation
Quickselect is linear-time on average, but it can require quadratic time with poor pivot choices. This is because quickselect is a divide and conquer algorithm, with each step taking time in the size of the remaining search set. If the search set decreases exponentially quickly in size (by a fixed proportion), this yields a geometric series times the factor of a single step, and thus linear overall time. However, if the search set decreases slowly in size, such as linearly (by a fixed number of elements, in the worst case only reducing by one element each time), then a linear sum of linear steps yields quadratic overall time (formally, triangular numbers grow quadratically). For example, the worst-case occurs when pivoting on the smallest element at each step, such as applying quickselect for the maximum element to already sorted data and taking the first element as pivot each time.
If o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybermed | Cybermed Inc. (Korean: 사이버메드), located in Seoul, South Korea, has been active in the field of 3D image processing and dental software since its conception in 1998. Its U.S. counterpart, OnDemand3D Technology Inc., is currently headquartered in Irvine, California.
History
Cybermed was founded by Kim Cheol-Young in 1998 in Seoul, South Korea. Since its founding, Cybermed has become the first in the world to introduce cone beam CT image processing software as well as first in Korea to develop a rapid prototyping system, 3D medical imaging software and an implant planning software. The company introduced OnDemand3D, a diagnostic imaging software used for 2D/3D diagnosis in 2007, and In2Guide, an implant planning add-on to OnDemand3D as a stand-alone package, with surgical stent/template ordering capabilities in 2010. EasyRiter, a software for generating reports and referrals from CBCT results was introduced in 2013 with the help of Dr. Robert Danforth and Dr. Dale A. Miles.
Software
OnDemand3D
Having had popular predecessors such as V-Works (2000) and CB-Works (2004), OnDemand3D was introduced in 2006 as a 'complete dental imaging solution'. It is a 3D image processing software written in C/C++ on MFC available in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese. It is a module-based software, where the user can customize according to their diagnostic or research needs.
OnDemand3D is sold in two main packages; one being OnDemand3D App and the other being OnDemand3D Dental. The difference is in the modules included, briefly summarized in the table below.
In2Guide
Originally an optional add-on to OnDemand3D, In2Guide was introduced as stand-alone In2Guide Pro and In2Guide Planner at the end of 2009. It is built on the same platform and also still available as an add-on. In2Guide's main function is the planning of a surgical stent or template to be used for guided implant surgery.
Guided implant surgery is implant surgery performed with the help of a 'guide' or surgical template that is designed by combining patient CT scans with careful planning on a 3D imaging software such as In2Guide. In2Guide is used to virtually place implants and assess the prosthetic results before surgery. Research suggests that computerized planning can help ensure that the implant is placed in the best bone volume, leading to the 'best possible restorative outcome'. The surgical template that is designed with the planned images then allows for a precise reproduction of that positioning with the use of custom sleeves that dictate both the angle and depth of the needed drilling.
On In2Guide, after the surgery is planned, users fill out a form for template fabrication. The 'planning images' are uploaded by the user and a fabricated template with the appropriate sleeves and drilling instructions is shipped out, usually to reach the customer within a few days.
In2Guide Pro is intended for advanced users such as clinics, labs, and imaging cente |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfin%20worm-eel | The redfin worm-eel (Scolecenchelys laticaudata, also known as the pearlbelly snake-eel) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by James Douglas Ogilby in 1897, originally under the genus Myropterura. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific and southeastern Atlantic Ocean, including the Red Sea, East and South Africa, Ducie Island, and Lord Howe Island. It dwells at a depth range of , and inhabits lagoons and reefs, forming colonies in sand sediments in confined areas. Males can reach a maximum total length of .
References
Fish described in 1897
Scolecenchelys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticular%20theory | Reticular theory is an obsolete scientific theory in neurobiology that stated that everything in the nervous system, such as the brain, is a single continuous network. The concept was postulated by a German anatomist Joseph von Gerlach in 1871, and was most popularised by the Nobel laureate Italian physician Camillo Golgi.
However, the theory was refuted by later observations of a Spanish pathologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, using a staining technique discovered by Golgi, which showed that nervous tissue, like other tissues, is made of discrete cells. This neuron doctrine turned out to be the correct description of the nervous system, whereas the reticular theory was discredited.
The proponents of the two contrasting theories, Golgi and Ramón y Cajal were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906, "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system".
Development
In 1863 a German anatomist Otto Friedrich Karl Deiters described the existence of an unbranched tubular process (the axon) extending from some cells in the central nervous system, specifically from the lateral vestibular nucleus. In 1871 Gerlach proposed that the brain is composed of "protoplasmic network", hence the basis of reticular theory. According to Gerlach, the nervous system simply consisted of a single continuous network called the reticulum. In 1873 Golgi invented a revolutionary method for microscopic research based on a specific technique for staining nerve cells, which he called "la reazione nera" (the "black reaction"). He was able to provide an intricate description of nerve cells in various regions of the cerebro-spinal axis, clearly distinguishing the axon from the dendrites. He drew up a new classification of cells on the basis of the structure of their nervous prolongation, and he criticized Gerlach's theory of the "protoplasmic network". Golgi claimed to observe in the gray matter an extremely dense and intricate network, composed of a web of intertwined branches of axons coming from different cell layers ("diffuse nervous network"). This structure, which emerges from the axons and is therefore essentially different from that hypothesized by Gerlach, appeared in his view to be the main organ of the nervous system, the organ that connected different cerebral areas both anatomically and functionally by means of the transmission of an electric nervous impulse. Although Golgi's earlier works between 1873 and 1885 clearly depicted the axonal connections of cerebellar cortex and olfactory bulb as independent of one another, his later works including the Nobel Lecture showed the entire granular layer of the cerebellar cortex occupied by a network of branching and anastomosing nerve processes. This was due to his strong conviction in the reticular theory.
Decline
In 1877 an English physiologist Edward Schäfer described the absence of connections between the nerve elements in the mantles of the jellyfish. The Norwegian zoologist F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Poison%20No%20Paradise | No Poison No Paradise is the fifth studio album by American rapper Black Milk. The album was released on October 15, 2013, by Fat Beats and Computer Ugly Records. The album was primarily produced by Black Milk himself, and includes guest appearances from artists such as Mel, Ab, Dwele, Black Thought, Quelle Chris, Tone Trezure and Robert Glasper.
Track listing
Charts
References
2013 albums
Black Milk albums
Fat Beats Records albums
Albums produced by Black Milk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Thalmann | Prof. Daniel Thalmann is a Swiss and Canadian computer scientist and a pioneer in Virtual humans. He is currently Honorary Professor at EPFL, Switzerland and Director of Research Development at MIRALab Sarl in Geneva, Switzerland.
Biography
After a master's degree in Nuclear Physics (1970) and a combined Certificate in Statistics and Computer Science (1972) both from the University of Geneva, he earned a PhD in Computer Science (1977) also from the University of Geneva. In his PhD, he worked very early on the concept of abstract machines for portable compilers and operating systems. From 1977 to 1989, he was Professor at the University of Montreal, in Canada, where he started to work on computer graphics and animation. Then, he came back to Switzerland and founded the virtual reality lab (VRlab) at EPFL, Switzerland. He has been Visiting Professor/ Researcher at CERN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Tokyo, and National University of Singapore. From 2009 to 2017, he was Visiting Professor at the Institute for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, and member of the editorial board of six other journals. Thalmann has published more than 650 papers in graphics, animation, and virtual reality. He is coeditor of 30 books, and coauthor of several books including Crowd Simulation (second edition 2012) and Stepping Into Virtual Reality (2007), published by Springer.
Research
In the 1980s, Thalmann together with Nadia Magnenat Thalmann became interested in the realistic computer modelling and rendering of the human form, in motion. In 1988, they directed the short film Rendez-vous in Montreal, which is widely regarded as the first computer film to employ synthetic actors, in this case Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe.
In the 1990s, Thalmann focused his research on behavioural animation of Virtual Humans, introducing the concept of synthetic vision for autonomous virtual humans, and developing methods for realistic gait modelling. In the late 1990s, he launched the first project on crowd simulation of virtual humans, initiating a new field of animation that now attracts many researchers. Rendering of tens of thousands of agents, collision detection and generation of varieties of individual people became important issues. He also introduced, with Marcelo Kallmann, the concept of smart objects as objects that describe their own possible interactions. He recently extended his research from virtual humans to social robots, working in the team on Nadine Social Robot.
Thalmann is also recognized in the area of Virtual Rehabilitation, a term he coined with Professor Grigore Burdea of Rutgers University (US). He has also created with him the International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation and is a founder of the International Society of Virtual Rehabilitation.
Awards and honors
Thalmann received an Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Caus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Erich%20Wolter | Franz-Erich Wolter is a German computer scientist, chaired professor at Leibniz University Hannover, with research contributions especially in computational (differential) geometry and haptic/tactile Virtual reality.
He currently heads the Institute of Man-Machine Communication and is the Dean of Studies in Computer Science at Leibniz University Hannover.
He is the founder and actual director of the Welfenlab research laboratory.
Research
Wolter's early contributions were in the area of Differential Geometry dealing with the Cut Locus characterizing it as the closure of a set, where the shortest geodesics starting from a point (or a general source) set intersect or equivalently where the distance function is not directionally differentiable implying that a complete Riemannian manifold M must be diffeomorphic to R^n if there is a point p on M s.t. the (squared) distance function wrt. to p is (directionally) differentiable on all M. His Ph.D. thesis (1985) transferred the concept of Cut Locus to manifolds with and without boundary.
In 1992, essentially a specialisation of the latter works lead to his paper presenting a mathematical foundation of the medial axis of solid objects in Euclidean space. It showed that the medial axis of a solid body can be viewed as the interior Cut Locus of the solid`s boundary and the medial axis is a deformation retract of the solid. Therefore it represents the homotopy type of a solid thus including the solid's homology type. Furthermore the medial axis can be used to reconstruct the solid. Later on since 1997 the subject of the medial axis received a rapidly growing attention in computational geometry but also wrt. its applications in vision and robotics. A Voronoi diagram of a finite point set A in Euclidean space can be viewed as Cut Locus of that point set. In 1997, Wolter apparently pioneered computations of geodesic Voronoi diagrams and geodesic medial axis on general parametrized curved surfaces. In the surface case the length of a shortest geodesic join defines the distance between two points. In 2007, Wolter extended the computations of geodesic Voronoi diagrams and geodesic medial axis (inverse) transform to Riemannian 3D-manifolds.
Wolter's early works on computing Riemannian Laplace Beltrami spectra for surfaces and images lead to a patent application in (2005) for a method using those spectra as Shape DNA for recognizing and retrieving surfaces, solids and images from data repositories.
His works used the heat trace of a Riemannian Laplace Beltrami operator wrt. a surface patch to numerically compute area, length of boundary curves and Euler Characteristic of the patch. All this later on stimulated research in the area of spectral shape analysis wrt. shape retrieval and shape analysis, including applications in biomedical shape cognition and especially using the heat kernel more precisely the heat trace for partial shape cognition and the global point signature.
Wolter was responsible for creatin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraalVM | GraalVM is a Java VM and JDK based on HotSpot/OpenJDK, implemented in Java. It supports additional programming languages and execution modes, like ahead-of-time compilation of Java applications for fast startup and low memory footprint. The first production-ready version, GraalVM 19.0, was released in May 2019. The most recent version is GraalVM , made available in .
Major differentiators of GraalVM compared to the base JDK are:
GraalVM Compiler, a JIT compiler for Java
GraalVM Native Image, allowing the ahead-of-time compilation of Java applications
Truffle Language Implementation framework and the GraalVM SDK, to implement additional programming language runtimes
LLVM Runtime and JavaScript Runtime
Project goals
To improve the performance of Java virtual machine-based languages to match the performance of native languages.
To reduce the startup time of JVM-based applications by compiling them ahead-of-time with GraalVM Native Image technology.
To enable GraalVM integration into the Oracle Database, OpenJDK, Node.js, Android/iOS, and to support similar custom embeddings.
To allow freeform mixing of code from any programming language in a single program, billed as "polyglot applications".
To include an easily extended set of "polyglot programming tools".
History
GraalVM has its roots in the Maxine Virtual Machine project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories (now Oracle Labs). The goal was to write a Java virtual machine in Java itself, hoping to free the development from the problems of developing in C++, particularly manual memory management, and benefit from meta-circular optimizations. Upon realizing that writing everything in Java was too ambitious as a first step, the decision was taken to focus on the compiler only and hook it into Hotspot, to reuse as much as possible the Hotspot runtime. The GraalVM compiler was started by manually converting the code of the Hotspot client compiler (named "C1") into Java, replacing the previous Maxine compiler.
Graal was included in HotSpot-based Java VM releases like OpenJDK from Java 9 through 15, in order to support experimental ahead-of-time compilation. The option also allowed JIT use as a C2 replacement. It was removed in Java 16 as maintaining both the version in the JDK and the standalone GraalVM release caused duplicate effort. A similar functionality to create native executables from Java projects is provided by the native-image tool of standalone GraalVM releases.
Releases
GraalVM is available as Community Edition for an open-source license and as Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible by accepting the "OTN License Agreement Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition Including License for Early Adopter Versions". Oracle Corporation announced the release of Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition on 8 May 2019. GraalVM can substitute a default JDK on Linux and macOS platforms on x86 64-bit systems.
GraalVM 19.0 is based on top of JDK version 8u212. The support on Windows is currently un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo%20in%20the%20Nest | Cuckoo in the Nest is a 1978 Australian television sitcom starring Jeannie Little.
References
External links
Cuckoo in the Nest at IMDb
Seven Network original programming
1970s Australian drama television series
1978 Australian television series debuts
1979 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFLAP | JFLAP (Java Formal Languages and Automata Package) is interactive educational software written in Java
for experimenting with topics in the computer science
area of formal languages and automata theory, primarily intended for use at the undergraduate level or as an advanced
topic for high school. JFLAP allows one to create and simulate structures, such as programming a finite state machine, and
experiment with proofs, such as converting a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) to a
deterministic finite automaton (DFA).
JFLAP is developed and maintained at Duke University, with support from the National Science Foundation since 1993. It is freeware and the source code of the most recent version is available, but under some restrictions. JFLAP runs as a Java application.
History
Before JFLAP, there were several software tools related to automata theory developed by Susan H. Rodger and her students starting around 1990
in the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1992, the first published paper at a DIMACS 2012 workshop described a related tool called NPDA
(the paper was published later in 1994 in a DIMACS series).
NPDA then evolved into FLAP, including also finite state machines and Turing machines.
In 1993, a paper on Formal Languages and Automata Package
(FLAP) was published
. At that time, the tool was written in C++ and X Window. Around 1994, Rodger moved to
Duke University and continued tool development. Around 1996, FLAP was converted to
Java and the first paper mentioned JFLAP was published in 1996
Along the way, other tools were developed as stand alone tools and then later integrated into JFLAP.
For example, a paper in 1999 described how JFLAP now allowed one to experiment with construction
type proofs, such as converting an NFA to a DFA to a minimal state DFA, and as another example,
converting NPDA to CFG and vice versa. In 2002 JFLAP was converted to Swing. In 2005-2007 a study was run with fourteen institutions using
JFLAP. A paper on this study in 2009 showed that students using JFLAP thought JFLAP made them feel more engaged in the
class, and made learning the concepts easier.
The history of JFLAP is covered on the jflap.org site, and includes
over 35 students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Duke University who have worked on
JFLAP and related tools since 1990.
A paper by Chakraborty, Saxena and Katti entitled "Fifty years of automata simulation: a review"
in ACM Inroads magazine in December 2011 stated the following about JFLAP:
"The effort put into developing this tool is unparalleled in the field of simulation of automata. As a result, today it is the most sophisticated tool for simulating automata. It now covers a large number of topics on automata and related fields. The tool is also the best documented among the tools for simulation of automata." and "The tool uses state of the art graphics and is one of the easiest to use. The tool is undoubtedly the most widely |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ed-touchables%20and%20Nagged%20to%20Ed | "The Ed-touchables" and "Nagged to Ed" are the two segments that make up the series premiere episode of the Canadian animated television series Ed, Edd n Eddy. It premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on January 4, 1999, although it had originally been scheduled to air on November 7, 1998.
The series follows Ed (voiced by Matt Hill), Edd (called "Double D" and voiced by Sam Vincent), and Eddy (voiced by Tony Sampson), three adolescent boys collectively known as "the Eds" and unofficially led by Eddy, who live in a suburban cul-de-sac. During "The Ed-touchables", the trio tries to earn money by hunting down the "serial toucher", who has been stealing the cul-de-sac children's belongings. "Nagged to Ed" chronicles the Eds' first encounter with the obsessive Kanker Sisters, after they lure the Eds' into their trailer park home.
Series creator Danny Antonucci directed both episodes, co-writing "The Ed-touchables" with Jono Howard and "Nagged to Ed" with Howard and Mike Kubat. The score was composed by Patric Caird, who went on to compose the scores for all of the series' episodes. Although Ed, Edd n Eddy was one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows ever since its premiere and was largely well received, its pilot was met with mixed reviews. The episodes can be bought as part of various season home media releases.
Plot
"The Ed-touchables"
While organizing his room, Edd (called "Double D" and voiced by Sam Vincent) notices that his magnifying glass is missing. Convinced that it was stolen, he begins to have a panic attack but is calmed down by Eddy (voiced by Tony Sampson). The two then go to Ed's (voiced by Matt Hill) house. Not long after they arrive, Ed's younger sister Sarah (voiced by Janyse Jaud) comes barging into his room, accusing him of stealing her doll. Ed denies having done so, and Eddy concludes that there is a "serial toucher" on the loose. The Eds spread the word to the other cul-de-sac children, who offer them money if they catch the thief.
The three then form a plan, which has Ed sitting alone on a bench in the playground with a "Don't Touch!" sign around his neck. Jonny (voiced by David Paul Grove) soon walks by, carrying his imaginary friend Plank, who is a board of wood. Impressed with Ed's hair cut, Jonny ignores the sign and rubs Plank against Ed's head. Eddy and Double D then jump out from behind a nearby bush and capture Jonny, accusing him of being the serial toucher. Eddy interrogates Jonny and Plank after tying them to chairs in Double Dee's garage and hooking them up to a homemade lie detector. However, when they give him no answers, he resorts to using Chinese water torture on Plank. This makes Jonny need to use the bathroom and in his desperation, he falsely confesses to the crime. The Eds then collect their money and punish Jonny by trapping him in a tire.
While on their way to buy jawbreakers at the candy store, the Eds are stopped by Sarah who claims to have found her doll under her bed. Double D then |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20Engineering%20Object | Neural Engineering Object (Nengo) is a graphical and scripting software for simulating large-scale neural systems. As the neural network software Nengo is a tool for modelling neural networks with applications in cognitive science, psychology, artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
History
Some form of Nengo has existed since 2003. Originally developed as a Matlab script under the name NESim (Neural Engineering Simulator), it was later moved to a Java implementation under the name NEO, and then eventually Nengo. The first three generations of Nengo developed with a focus on developing a powerful modelling tool with a simple interface, and scripting system. As the tool became increasingly useful the limitations of the system in terms of speed led to development of a back-end agnostic API. This most recent iteration of Nengo defines a specific Python-based scripting API with back-ends targeting Numpy, OpenCL and Neuromorphic hardware such as Spinnaker. This newest iteration also comes with an interactive GUI to help with the quick prototyping of neural models.
Nengo uses a custom license which allows free personal and research use, but a paid license is required for commercial purposes.
Theoretical Background
Nengo is built upon two theoretic underpinnings, the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF) and the Semantic Pointer Architecture (SPA).
Neural Engineering Framework
Nengo differs primarily from other modelling software in the way it models connections between neurons and their strengths. Using the NEF, Nengo allows defining connection weights between populations of spiking neurons by specifying the function to be computed, instead of forcing the weights to be set manually, or use a learning rule to configure them from a random start. That being said, these aforementioned traditional modelling methods are still available in Nengo.
Semantic Pointer Architecture
To represent symbols in Nengo, SPA is used. Many aspects of human cognition are easier to model using symbols. In Nengo, these are presented as vectors with a set of operations associated to them. These vectors and their operations are called SPA. SPA has been used to model human linguistic search and task planning.
Applications
Notable developments accomplished using the Nengo software have occurred in many fields, and Nengo has been used and cited in over 100 publications. An important development to note is Spaun, a network of 6.6 million artificial spiking neurons (a small number compared to the number in the human brain), which uses groups of these neurons to complete cognitive tasks via flexible coordination. Spaun is the world's largest functional brain model, and can be used to test hypotheses in neuroscience.
References
Further reading
Neural network software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20algorithm | A hybrid algorithm is an algorithm that combines two or more other algorithms that solve the same problem, either choosing one based on some characteristic of the data, or switching between them over the course of the algorithm. This is generally done to combine desired features of each, so that the overall algorithm is better than the individual components.
"Hybrid algorithm" does not refer to simply combining multiple algorithms to solve a different problem – many algorithms can be considered as combinations of simpler pieces – but only to combining algorithms that solve the same problem, but differ in other characteristics, notably performance.
Examples
In computer science, hybrid algorithms are very common in optimized real-world implementations of recursive algorithms, particularly implementations of
divide-and-conquer or decrease-and-conquer algorithms, where the size of the data decreases as one moves deeper in the recursion. In this case, one algorithm is used for the overall approach (on large data), but deep in the recursion, it switches to a different algorithm, which is more efficient on small data. A common example is in sorting algorithms, where the insertion sort, which is inefficient on large data, but very efficient on small data (say, five to ten elements), is used as the final step, after primarily applying another algorithm, such as merge sort or quicksort. Merge sort and quicksort are asymptotically optimal on large data, but the overhead becomes significant if applying them to small data, hence the use of a different algorithm at the end of the recursion. A highly optimized hybrid sorting algorithm is Timsort, which combines merge sort, insertion sort, together with additional logic (including binary search) in the merging logic.
A general procedure for a simple hybrid recursive algorithm is short-circuiting the base case, also known as arm's-length recursion. In this case whether the next step will result in the base case is checked before the function call, avoiding an unnecessary function call. For example, in a tree, rather than recursing to a child node and then checking if it is null, checking null before recursing. This is useful for efficiency when the algorithm usually encounters the base case many times, as in many tree algorithms, but is otherwise considered poor style, particularly in academia, due to the added complexity.
Another example of hybrid algorithms for performance reasons are introsort and introselect, which combine one algorithm for fast average performance, falling back on another algorithm to ensure (asymptotically) optimal worst-case performance. Introsort begins with a quicksort, but switches to a heap sort if quicksort is not progressing well; analogously introselect begins with quickselect, but switches to median of medians if quickselect is not progressing well.
Centralized distributed algorithms can often be considered as hybrid algorithms, consisting of an individual algorithm (run on e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Ajmal%20Khan | M. Ajmal Khan was an Urdu lexicographer and parliamentarian. He was nominated as a member of Rajya Sabha in 1964 and served till 1972.
Sources
Brief Biodata
Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarBEF%20Data%20System | MarBEF Data System (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning) was a project of the European Union's Network of Excellence which served as a platform to integrate and disseminate knowledge and expertise on marine biodiversity, with informative links to researchers, industry, stakeholders and the general public. The program was funded by the EU and formally ended in 2009. The data system's online Register of Resources (RoR) includes the details of over 1,000 European marine biology experts and their affiliated institutions and publications.
MarBEF consisted of 94 European marine institutes and the work done was published in 415 scientific articles. While the initial MarBEF project has ended, work continues through numerous projects within the MarBEF "umbrella" including, the European Ocean Biogeographic Information System, the European Register of Marine Species, the European Marine Gazetteer, and includes a related Marine Biodiversity Wiki and MarBEF Open Archive.
Organization history
Founding
The program was funded by the European Union (EU), with €8,707,000 coming from the European Commission and having a total cost of €8,782,025. The program was a framework for marine entities, intended to integrate and disseminate the knowledge on marine biodiversity. It was funded by the Sixth Framework Programme of the EU. MarBEF consisted of 94 European marine institutes from 24 countries and was coordinated by the Dutch Institute for Ecology (NIOO).
To accomplish its goals MarBEF participated in and/or supported multiple conferences and workshops to educate and strengthen collaboration between members of the scientific community.
Recent years and end
The program formally ended in 2009.
While the initial MarBEF project has ended, work continues through numerous projects within the MarBEF "umbrella" including, the European Ocean Biogeographic Information System, the European Register of Marine Species, the European Marine Gazetteer, and includes a related Marine Biodiversity Wiki and MarBEF Open Archive.
Related projects
European Ocean Biogeographic Information System
This project continued after the end of MarBEF in 2009.
European Marine Gazetteer
European Marine Gazetteer was the MarBEF database of geographic locations (names, information, maps), made available for download by the public.
European Register of Marine Species (ERMS)
The European Register of Marine Species (commonly known by the acronym ERMS) is an authoritative taxonomic list of species occurring in the European marine environment. The ERMS was founded in 1998 by grant from the EU's Marine Science and Technology Programme and the project covers species of the kingdoms Animalia, Plantae, Fungi and Protoctista occurring in the marine environment over a wide geographic range. The marine area within the scope of the ERMS includes the continental shelf seas of Europe as well as the Mediterranean shelf, Baltic Seas and deep-sea areas. The database contains the records of tens of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei%20Ascend%20G330 | Huawei Ascend G330 is a budget smartphone made by Huawei. It went on sale in October 2012.
It runs the Android 4.0.4 operating system. It has a 1 GHz dual core processor with 4GB internal storage with 2.5GB available for the user and 512MB of internal memory (RAM). The phone also has a 4.0 inch display and a 5.0MP rear camera.
References
Android (operating system) devices
G300
Mobile phones introduced in 2012
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20realism%20%28philosophy%20of%20perception%29 | In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that some of our sense-data (for example, those of primary qualities) can and do accurately represent external objects, properties, and events, while other of our sense-data (for example, those of secondary qualities and perceptual illusions) do not accurately represent any external objects, properties, and events. Put simply, critical realism highlights a mind-dependent aspect of the world that reaches to understand (and comes to an understanding of) the mind-independent world.
Some precursors
Locke
According to Locke—following a tradition which can be traced back to the ancient (Democritus) and modern (Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton) atomism—some sense-data, namely the sense-data of secondary qualities (i.e. colours, tastes, smells, sounds), do not represent anything in the external world, even if they are caused by external qualities (primary qualities). By its talk of sense-data and representation, this theory depends on or presupposes the truth of representationalism.
Descartes
René Descartes developed the theory that, since we could not definitely prove anything we experienced, the only thing which is sure to exist is our mind. He explains this by stating that in order to experience anything—real or fake—we first have to exist at all. That led to his famous saying "Cogito, ergo sum." (I think, therefore I am.).
American critical realism
The American critical realist movement was a response both to direct realism, as well as to idealism and pragmatism. In very broad terms, American critical realism was a form of representative realism, in which there are objects that stand as mediators between independent real objects and perceivers. Prominent developers of American critical realism are Roy Wood Sellars and his son Wilfrid Sellars, and Maurice Mandelbaum.
One innovation was that these mediators are not ideas (British empiricism), but properties, essences, or "character complexes".
British critical realism
Similar developments occurred in the UK. Major figures included Samuel Alexander, John Cook Wilson, H. A. Prichard, H. H. Price, and C. D. Broad.
German critical realism
Nicolai Hartmann renewed the interest in the critical realist theory in Germany.
See also
Anti-realism
Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences)
New realism (philosophy)
Subtle realism
Notes
Further reading
Coelho, Ivo, 2010. "Critical Realism." ACPI Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Johnson J. Puthenpurackal. (Bangalore, ATC).1:341–344.
Philosophy of perception
Metaphysical realism
Epistemological theories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroliotia%20saxa | Austroliotia saxa, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.
The database of Seashells of New South Wales considers this species a synonym of Austroliotia scalaris (Hedley, 1903) as the specimen, on which Laseron based its description of this species, was worn and had poorly developed spines and axial lamellae.
Description
The height and width of the shell attains 8 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off New South Wales, Australia.
References
Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the Liotiidae of New South Wales. The Australian Zoologist 12(1): 1–25, figs 1-49a [2, figs 2-2a
Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. (1962). A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum. 11 : 1–109
Wilson, B. (1993). Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing. Vol.1 1st Edn pp. 1–408.
External links
Australian Faunal Directory: Austroliotia darwinensis
saxa
Gastropods described in 1954 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sankoff | David Sankoff (born December 31, 1942) is a Canadian mathematician, bioinformatician, computer scientist and linguist. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Genomics in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at the University of Ottawa, and is cross-appointed to the Biology Department and the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He was founding editor of the scientific journal Language Variation and Change (Cambridge) and serves on the editorial boards of a number of bioinformatics, computational biology and linguistics journals. Sankoff is best known for his pioneering contributions in computational linguistics and computational genomics. He is considered to be one of the founders of bioinformatics. In particular, he had a key role in introducing dynamic programming for sequence alignment and other problems in computational biology. In Pavel Pevzner's words,
"[ Michael Waterman ] and David Sankoff are responsible for transforming bioinformatics from a ‘stamp collection' of ill-defined problems into a rigorous discipline with important biological applications."
Education
Sankoff published his first paper in 1963 while he was an undergraduate student in Mathematics at McGill University. Starting with his doctoral research, he developed mathematical formulations to a number of pivotal concepts in socio- and historical linguistics, including glottochronology, variable rules analysis (with Henrietta Cedergren), the linguistic marketplace and code switching.
Career and research
After completing his Ph.D. in Mathematics, Sankoff began his academic career at the University of Montreal in 1969. In 1971, Sankoff became interested in molecular sequence comparison and devised the first quadratic-time variant of the Needleman–Wunsch algorithm for pairwise sequence alignment.
In 1973, Sankoff and Robert Cedergren developed a joint estimation method for phylogeny and multiple sequence alignment of 5S ribosomal RNA, laying the algorithmic foundations of comparative genomics. In 1975, Sankoff and Václav Chvátal studied the behavior of the longest common subsequence problem on random inputs; the constants of proportionality arising in this study have come to be known as the Chvátal–Sankoff constants.
In 1980, Robert Cedergen and David Sankoff created the first research group in bioinformatics at the University of Montreal. Sankoff's work in bioinformatics addresses RNA secondary structure, genome rearrangements, sequence alignment, genome evolution and phylogenetics.
Awards and honors
Inaugural recipient of the International Society for Computational Biology's Senior Scientist Award in 2003.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1995)
Elected an ISCB Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology in 2009
Marcel-Vincent Prize (1977)
Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award (2002)
Weldon Memorial Prize (2004)
University of Ottawa Excellence in Research Award (2013)
Honorary doctorate, Tel Aviv Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putlur%20railway%20station | Putlur Railway Station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Putlur, a suburb of Chennai, and is located 39 km west of Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 44 m above sea level.
Putlur is a halt station and not a full-fledged one.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
References
External links
Putlur halt station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROV | PROV may stand for:
Public Record Office Victoria
W3C's PROV family of data provenance specifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLinuXino | OLinuXino is an open hardware single-board computer capable of running Android or Linux designed by OLIMEX Ltd in Bulgaria.
The project's goal was to design DIY friendly industrial-grade Linux board which everyone can reproduce at home.
It leverages widely-available hand-solderable components which are reasonable to purchase in low quantities, housed in TQFP packages.
The project's CAD files are hosted on GitHub, allowing everyone to study and customize them according to their needs.
Initially OLinuXino was designed with EAGLE.
In March 2016 the first boards designed with KiCad became available as OLIMEX Ltd announced plans on switching development to Open Source CAD tools.
iMX233
A13
The Chinese company Allwinner released in April 2012 Cortex-A8 SoC in TQFP package, this was spotted immediately by OLinuXino developers and they start working on OLinuXino board based on A13
Three OLinuXino boards with A13 processor were released:
A10S
In November 2012, Allwinner released a new A10S processor with HDMI and Ethernet and dual-core A20 processor.
The A13 has no native Ethernet capability, so the A10S processor was chosen for new OLinuXino boards.
A20
A64
Operating systems
Officially supported:
Debian
Android
Third party:
Armbian
Arch Linux ARM
See also
List of open-source hardware projects
References
External links
OLinuXino web site
SUNXI: OlimexA64-OLinuXino
OLinuXino looks to take on the Raspberry Pi
Meet the iMX233 OLinuXino Nano
Element14 Olimex A10S/A20-OLinuXino boards quite BBB-like
Linux Sunxi Community Open Source Hardware
Hackaday article - OLinuXino booting Android
CNX-Software OLinuXino unboxing and review
Slashdot Fully open OLinuXino computer
PC Magazine - PC like the Raspberry Pi but faster and fully open
Dangerous Prototypes - OLinuXino single board computer
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard-MIT%20Data%20Center | The Harvard-MIT Data Center (HMDC) provides multi-disciplinary information technology support for social science research and education at Harvard and MIT. Established in the early 1960s the HMDC was meant to be the original data center for political and social science at Harvard University, and over time it has evolved into an information technology service provider that transcends many educational fields.
Services
The HMDC offers the following services:
Powerful, usable research computing tools
Cluster computing power
Application and server hosting
On-site computer labs
Statistical workshops and classes
User friendly desktop support
History
In the early 1960s the HMDC, originally known as the Government Data Center, was established as part of a national movement for all universities to collect, consolidate, and share social science research data. This movement eventually became known as the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the largest collection of social science data in the world. In the early days associates of the Government Data Center were responsible for managing the distribution of ICPSR tapes housed in Harvard's Office of Information Technology. In 1987 all holdings within the facility were transferred to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Government (located in Harvard's Littauer building) and in recognition of the widespread use of the facility's data by Harvard scholars the name was changed to the Harvard Data Center. At this time some of the earliest local computer networks, which contained statistical software and computing resources, were established; in addition, associates began transitioning the facility's holdings from tape to more modern media. In the early 1990s associates of the Harvard Data Center played a major role in a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that established a research training program in political economy for various educational institutions. Later on, in 1996, facility associates entered into an agreement with MIT to extend services to MIT users, thus changing the name to the Harvard-MIT Data Center (HMDC). In 1999 HMDC associates were awarded a multimillion-dollar grant by the NSF and five other funding agencies to create an open-source, digital library for quantitative research data; associates of the facility continue to receive additional grants and funding support from vendors, such as the NSF and the Library of Congress, to continue their research and development projects. In 2005, after the facility was transferred into Harvard's new Center for Government and International Studies complex, the HMDC became a founding member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), and in 2007 HMDC associates launched their new online data center, the Dataverse Network repository. Today, the HMDC continues to serve the social science community by providing technology support for research, education, and administration.
External links
"HM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%20College%20Prep | Johnson College Prep is a public 4–year charter high school located in the Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Johnson is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools and Chicago Public Schools. Opening in 2010, The school is named for John H. Johnson and his wife Eunice Johnson.
References
External links
Max Preps: Johnson College Prep
TheCharterSCALE: Johnson College Prep
Free After-School Meals Offer Healthier Foods To Noble Students
Educational institutions established in 2010
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Public high schools in Chicago
2010 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulina%20Borsook | Paulina Borsook is an American technology journalist and writer who has written for Wired, Mother Jones, and Suck.com. She is perhaps best known for her 2000 book Cyberselfish, a critique of the libertarian mindset of the digital technology community. As an artist-in-residence at Stanford University, in 2013 she began work on My Life as a Ghost, an art installation based on her experiences living with the traumatic brain injury she suffered due to a gunshot when she was 14 years old.
Biography
Paulina Borsook was born in Pasadena, California. In 1969, when she was 15, she ran away from home and stayed at Rochdale College in Toronto, Canada. She later attended UC Santa Barbara where she ran a radio show on KCSB. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in psycholinguistics and a minor in philosophy. She then attended graduate school at the University of Arizona before transferring to Columbia University where she earned her MFA.
Beginning in 1981, Borsook took a job at a Marin County, California software company. She later worked for the New York-based Data Communications publication in 1984 before returning to San Francisco in 1987.
Borsook has written extensively about the culture surrounding technology, including Silicon Valley, cypherpunks, bionomics, and technolibertarianism. Her first short story, "Virtual Romance", was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She became a contributing writer at Wired in the 1990s and her short story about an email romance, "Love Over The Wires", was the first fiction published by the magazine. She has also written for Mother Jones and Suck.com, where she wrote under the name "Justine".
Cyberselfish
Borsook wrote the book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, which was published by PublicAffairs in 2000. The book was based on an essay that appeared in Mother Jones in 1996 and traces the origins of technolibertarianism. In the book, she characterizes the culture of the digital technology community as predominately libertarian, anti-government, and anti-regulation. Cyberselfish criticized the lack of philanthropy in digital technology circles and questioned how an industry birthed through government funding could be so vehemently anti-government. The book also includes Borsook's experiences as a woman at Wired magazine and in Silicon Valley. Open-source software advocate Eric S. Raymond criticized Borsook's take in an article he wrote for Salon in 2000.
My Life as a Ghost
As a 14-year-old, Borsook suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after being shot in the head. In 2013, after attending a meeting of people with TBI, Borsook realized that some others with TBI had the same experiences of disconnection she had always felt, a "ghostly" feeling that "[s]omething gets dislocated in the sense of knowing that you belong to yourself and your life". From this epiphany, she conceived the project “My Life as a Ghost,” an art installation that combines video, audio, per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus%20Academy | Pegasus Academy (formerly known as Holly Hall School and Holly Hall Maths and Computing College) is a mixed secondary school located in the Holly Hall area of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Situated by the Scotts Green roundabout near the Russells Hall Estate, it was originally opened in 1968 to replace an earlier, smaller building several hundred yards further along the road towards Brierley Hill.
It was originally a secondary modern school until adopting comprehensive status in September 1975, three years after the entry age was increased from 11 to 12. The school reverted to being an 11-16 comprehensive in September 1990. The school had grant-maintained status in the 1990s, before receiving Mathematics and Computing College specialist status in September 2002.
In December 2007, plans were unveiled by Dudley council for the school to be rebuilt and change to academy status, which would have made it the first school of its kind in the borough. The plan also included taking in some pupils from Pensnett High School, which was earmarked for closure with other pupils also transferring to The Crestwood School at Kingswinford. However, these plans were scrapped by the local council in March 2008 as the school was deemed "too successful" for academy status. However the school was converted to academy status in 2011.
In September 2017 the academy joined The Dudley Academies Trust, under the sponsorship of Dudley College. It was renamed the Pegasus Academy the following September.
References
Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
Academies in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
Educational institutions established in 1968
1968 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIC%20College%20Prep | UIC College Prep is a public. four-year Charter high school located in Chicago, Illinois. It is operated by the Noble Network of Charter Schools. The school has a partnership with the University of Illinois Chicago.
Background
History
UIC College Prep, the LSV Campus of the Noble Network of Charter Schools was founded in 2008. It is named for LSV Asset Management support of Noble's expansion. A close partnership with the University of Illinois at Chicago lends its name to the school.
Partnership with the University of Illinois at Chicago
UIC's partnership with UICCP is governed by a formal memorandum of understanding. The high school's day-to-day operations are the responsibility of UICCP and Noble Network staff. UIC's major responsibility is to coordinate support from UIC faculty and staff for UICCP's academic and co-curricular programs and to support student success initiatives for both current UICCP students and UICCP graduates who have matriculated to UIC.
References
External links
Max Preps: UIC College Prep
UIC Office Of High School Development: UIC College Prep
TheCharterSCALE: UIC College Prep
2008 establishments in Illinois
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Educational institutions established in 2008
Public high schools in Chicago
University of Illinois Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranur%20railway%20station | Paranur railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It is situated at a distance of 55 km south of Chennai Beach terminus and has an elevation of 42 m above sea level. It serves the neighbourhood of Paranur and the Mahindra World City at New Chennai.
The station is noted for its maintenance by a public–private partnership between Mahindra World City Developers (MWCD) and the Indian Railways, reportedly the first of its kind in the country. MWCD gave the station a makeover after Mahindra World City, an integrated business zone, was developed in the neighbourhood.
History
The lines at the station were electrified on 9 January 1965. On 15 January 1967, all the lines were converted to 25 kV AC.
The station
MWCD developed the station at a cost of 15 million. It also maintains the station. The project includes building and maintenance of the main structure including the ticket counter, waiting room and toilets, fountains, platforms, foot over-bridge, and landscaped stretches of land around the station and near the tracks.
The station was designed by Sheila Sri Prakash of Shilpa Architects.
Traffic
The station serves around 20,000 commuters every day. About 40 percent of MWCD's workforce uses the station.
See also
Railway stations in Chennai
Chennai Suburban Railway
References
External links
Paranur railway station on IndiaRailInfo.com
Project details of Paranur railway station
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chengalpattu district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20School%20of%20Business%20and%20Management%20in%20Settat | The National School Of Business and Management of Settat (in French ENCG Settat) is a public business school, founded in 1994 in Morocco. The school is the first school of the ENCG network. Under the sovereignty of Hassan First University of Settat, it aims to train qualified senior managers with high technical expertise in the areas of commerce, management science, and business administration.
It is ranked best business school in Morocco alongside ISCAE.
Process of admission
The school can be integrated directly after obtaining the Baccalaureate. There is a preliminary selection of the applicants based on their grades. Candidates with grades equal to or above the fixed threshold are then required to pass an exam called TAFEM in four categories: reading, math, French and general culture. The top students will be assigned to their school of choice based on their scores.
Curriculum
The first three years are common root, meaning they are intended to teach freshmen about business in general, accounting, management, etc. The fourth year is when the students are asked to choose their major. The primary majors are Finance and Accounting, Auditing and Management Accounting and Marketing.
School life
Students can choose to enroll in one of these five year programs: "Business School Programme Marketing & communication", "Business School Programme Finance & accounting management", and "Business School Programme: Audit & management control". Students also have the option to partake in the "Executive MBA" course, which requires bi-weekly attendance and lasts for eighteen weeks.
References
External links
Encg-Settat in the ministry of higher education website (Morocco).
The school's website.
Business schools in Morocco
Casablanca-Settat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prinsesa%20ng%20Buhay%20Ko | (International title: My Girl / ) is a Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dondon Santos, it stars Kris Bernal and Aljur Abrenica. It premiered on September 23, 2013 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Binoy Henyo. The series concluded on January 24, 2014 with a total of 90 episodes. It was replaced by Paraiso Ko'y Ikaw in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kris Bernal as Princess "Cess" Inocencio-Grande
Aljur Abrenica as Niccolo "Nick" Grande
Supporting cast
Renz Fernandez as Louise Grande
LJ Reyes as Kate Napoleon
Carmi Martin as Eliza Montes-Grande
Maritoni Fernandez as Tess de Leon
Susan Africa as Alicia Salazar
Ping Medina as Steve Amador
Marco Alcaraz as Waldo Salazar
Lian Paz as Violet Salazar
Vincent Magbanua as Vicvic
Guest cast
Ryza Cenon as Selena Monteverde
John Feir as Johnny Napoleon
Julie Lee as Trina Zaragosa
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Benedict Bautista
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned an 18.2% rating. While the final episode scored a 14.9% rating.
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar%20Mascetti | César Alberto Mascetti (9 December 1941 – 4 October 2022) was an Argentine journalist and television news host. He worked for Channel 13 starting in 1971 and presented the network's Telenoche program until his retirement in 2003.
Early life
Mascetti was born in San Pedro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 9 December 1941. His father, César Sr., headed the San Pedro newspaper El independiente, having succeeded Mascetti's grandfather, Alejandro, who established the paper in 1892. Mascetti studied journalism at the National University of La Plata, before starting his career in his home town.
Career
After working for his family's paper, Mascetti was hired by Clarín in 1965 to work in graphics, and consequently relocated to Buenos Aires. He joined La Razón three years later. He transitioned to television in 1971, when he successfully applied for the position of outdoor reporter with Channel 13.
During his tenure with the network, Mascetti interviewed politicians such as Salvador Allende, Juan Perón, Arturo Umberto Illia, Raúl Alfonsín, Carlos Menem, as well as cultural figures including Jorge Luis Borges, Atahualpa Yupanqui, and Marcel Marceau. He was the first journalist from Argentina to interview a member of the Beatles, when he talked to a naked George Harrison in 1977 on a beach in Rio de Janeiro with Emerson Fittipaldi acting as translator.
Mascetti also reported on the 1972 Uruguayan flight disaster in the Andes, Peron's return to Argentina the following year, the Nicaraguan Revolution and overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and the death of Francisco Franco in 1975.
He won his first Martín Fierro award in 1974 for best journalistic work and went on to share 15 more Martín Fierro with fellow correspondents. Mascetti began presenting the Telenoche news program in 1993 with Mónica Cahen D'Anvers, who later became his wife. They both received the Golden Martín Fierro award in 2000 in recognition of their work. After retiring from Telenoche in 2004, they worked together on the radio program Mónica y César on Radio del Plata.
Personal life
Mascetti married Mónica Cahen D'Anvers in June 2003. They first met in 1971 when they were working for El Trece together and were in a domestic partnership in the 25 years prior to their marriage. They remained married until his death. They did not have children together; Cahen D'Anvers had two children from her previous marriage. After retiring from journalism in 2015, he went back to San Pedro and established a rural tourism centre called La Campiña de Mónica y Cesar.
Mascetti died on 4 October 2022 in San Pedro. He was 80, and had bile duct cancer prior to his death.
References
1941 births
2022 deaths
Argentine radio presenters
Argentine television journalists
Mass media people from Buenos Aires
Golden Martín Fierro Award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elen%20Willard | Elen Willard (born November 19, 1935) is an American retired character actress who worked in American network dramatic television series from 1960-66. Her first aired performance was a supporting role in a 1960 episode of the short-lived CBS detective series, Markham.
Background
Collectively, over a six-year period, Willard portrayed twenty-four characters in twenty different dramatic television series consisting of various featured guest star and supporting performances, including most notably Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, Perry Mason, Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Combat!, Gunsmoke, Whispering Smith, and Have Gun - Will Travel.
Willard may be best-known for her standout portrayal of the character Ione Sykes in the gothic-themed western episode of the science fiction/fantasy/horror anthology series The Twilight Zone entitled "The Grave", with a cast that included Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin, James Best, and Stafford Repp.
Career
Early years
She had a guest starring role in the "The Bleymeir Story" episode of the Western series Wagon Train in the role of Belle Bleymier in 1960. It was aired on 16 November, 1960. She appeared in "The Contenders" episode of the drama series, Alcoa Premiere which was aired on December 6 1962. The episode also featured Fred Astaire, Edward Asner, Robert Christopher and Suzanne Pleshette.
Final years
During the final two years of her career, she guest starred in four episodes of the ABC/Quinn Martin World War II based series Twelve O'Clock High.
Her last aired appearance was in a December 1966 Christmas-themed episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. entitled "The Jingle Bells Affair".
Post career (later years)
Actor Earl Holliman, who guest starred opposite Willard in the second of her four appearances in Twelve O'Clock High, said in an interview for a book on that series published in 2005 that he had "... heard she had quit acting because it was such an emotionally painful experience for her."
References
External links
1941 births
Living people
American television actresses
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRACE%20%28computer%20program%29 | TRACE is a high-precision orbit determination and orbit propagation program. It was developed by The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. An early version ran on the IBM 7090 computer in 1964. The Fortran source code can be compiled for any platform with a Fortran compiler.
When Satellite Tool Kit's high-precision orbit propagator and parameter and coordinate frame transformations underwent an Independent Verification and Validation effort in 2000, TRACE v2.4.9 was the standard against which STK was compared.
As of 2013, TRACE is still used by the U.S. Government and some of its technical contractors.
References
Astrophysics
Mathematical software
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLUIDEX | FLUIDEX is an online bibliographic database that covers fluids behavior, applications, and engineering in civil engineering and process engineering. It is published by Elsevier.
Indexing includes more than 900,000 past and current records pertaining to relevant trade magazines and scientific journals from 1966–present. Further topical coverage includes research and technology in fluid dynamics, separation processes, offshore platform issues, and new hydraulic and pneumatic equipment applications and operations. Abstracts summarize 98% of all documents.
Global literature coverage includes over 400 trade and peer-reviewed publications. Additionally, archives contain several hundred cataloged trade, peer-reviewed, and book titles. The database is annually updated with more than 40,000 abstracts and citations. OVID and Dialog are online access points. This database is also published in a printed paper format. Hence, the print counterparts are "Fluid Abstracts: Process Engineering" (), and "Fluid Abstracts: Civil engineering" ().
References
External links
Fluid Abstracts: Process Engineering. Elsevier. 2013.
Fluid Abstracts: Civil Engineering. Elsevier. 2013.
FLUIDEX. Elsevier
FACEBOOK. Facebook
Bibliographic databases in engineering
Elsevier
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevoree | Kevoree is an open source project that aims at enabling the development of reconfigurable distributed systems. It is built around a component model, and takes advantage of the Models@Runtime approach to provide efficient tools for the development, live adaptation and synchronization of distributed Software Systems.
History
The Kevoree project has been initiated by the University of Rennes / IRISA and INRIA Bretagne Atlantique. Started in 2010, Kevoree is now a mature solution to develop distributed software systems.
See also
Kevoree Modeling Framework
References
External links
Kevoree sources on GitHub
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 1999 is the fifth year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 1999 Fighting Network Rings held 12 events beginning with, Rings Holland: Judgement Day.
Title fights
Events list
Rings Holland: Judgement Day
Rings Holland: Judgement Day was an event held on February 7, 1999, at The Sport Hall Zuid in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Results
Rings: Final Capture
Rings: Final Capture was an event held on February 21, 1999, in Japan.
Results
Rings Australia: NR 3
Rings Australia: NR 3 was an event held on March 7, 1999, at The Alexandra Hills Hotel in Australia.
Results
Rings: Rise 1st
Rings: Rise 1st was an event held on March 20, 1999, in Japan.
Results
Rings: Rise 2nd
Rings: Rise 2nd was an event held on April 23, 1999, in Japan.
Results
Rings: Rise 3rd
Rings: Rise 3rd was an event held on May 22, 1999, in Japan.
Results
Rings Holland: The Kings of the Magic Ring
Rings Holland: The Kings of the Magic Ring was an event held on June 20, 1999, at The Vechtsebanen Sport Hall in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Results
Rings: Rise 4th
Rings: Rise 4th was an event held on June 24, 1999, in Japan.
Results
Rings: Rise 5th
Rings: Rise 5th was an event held on August 19, 1999, in Japan.
Results
Rings: Rings Georgia
Rings: Rings Georgia was an event held on October 8, 1999, in Georgia.
Results
Rings: King of Kings 1999 Block A
Rings: King of Kings 1999 Block A was an event held on October 28, 1999, at The Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings: King of Kings 1999 Block B
Rings: King of Kings 1999 Block B was an event held on December 22, 1999, at The Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan.
Results
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
1999 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%20Civil%20Defense%20Seismic%20Network | The Panama Civil Defense Seismic Network collects and studies ground motion from about 60 seismometers throughout Panama. These stations monitor volcanoes, tectonic activities, rivers, and tsunami to give fast, real-time information and warnings about these potential hazards.
Earthquake and seismic risk mitigation
Geology of Panama
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Schirmbacher | Peter Schirmbacher (born 1951) is a German information scientist. He heads the Computer and Media Services department (computer center) of Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin and he is a professor of Information Management at Berlin School of Library and Information Science.
Career
After studying economics at the Humboldt-Universitaet, Schirmbacher went on to work for the university's data center and that of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin (GDR). He received his doctorate in applied computer science for his thesis Die Struktur und Grundsätze der Gestaltung von rechnergestützten Leitungsinformationssystemen an Universitäten und Hochschulen (structure and principles for designing a computer-assisted information infrastructure for universities and colleges) in 1989. Since 1990 he has been the head of the Computer and Media Services department of the Humboldt-Universitaet. He has also been a professor at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science since 2006.
Professional work
Schirmbacher gained recognition for innovative projects in the fields of Electronic publishing and Digital preservation. His work received support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) and the European Union. Among the projects he has led or contributed to are:
"Dissertationen online",
"Scope",
"LuKII"
"LAUDATIO" (2011-2014)
"MetaImage" (2009-2011)
"CARPET" (2008-2012)
"OA-Statistik" (2008-2013)
"DOARC" (2009-2011)
"OA-Policies" (2008-2009)
"OA-Netzwerk" (2007-2012)
"HyperImage" (2006-2008)
"e-KoKon – e-Kompetenz im Kontext" (2005-2008)
"DissOnline Tutor" (2005-2007)
EU project "reUSE" (2004-2006)
"Nestor (archiving network) - Aufbau eines Kompetenznetzwerkes zu Langzeitarchivierung (2003-2006)
Projects on "Aufbau eines Multimedia Lehr- und Lernzentrums" (2002-2006)
"Open Archives Forum" (2001-2003)
"XML-Portal für multimediale Objekte..." (2001-2003)
"ProPrint" (2000-2002)
"Sicher vernetzte Universitätsverwaltung" (1999-2001)
"Elektronische Publikation von Dissertationen der Humboldt-Universität" (1997-2000)
"Firewall - Kernstück des Verwaltungsnetzes" (1997-1999)
Professional Involvement
Schirmbacher is involved in the following professional bodies and organizations:
Since 2011 spokesman for Nestor - CoE digital preservation
Since 2011 chair of the CoE "Bibliometrie für die deutsche Wissenschaft"
Since 2003 board of directors "Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)"
Since 2003 advisory board "DissOnline" of the German National Library
Since 1999 founding member and currently steering committee member Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI)
Since 1991 member of "Arbeitskreis der Leiter wissenschaftlicher Rechenzentren", now: "Zentren für Kommunikation und Informationsverarbeitung in Forschung und Lehre e.V." (ZKI)
Since 1990 "Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes" (DFN-Verein), representing the Humbol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS%20Power%20and%20Sample%20Size | PS is an interactive computer program for performing statistical power and sample size calculations.
Program description
The P program can be used for studies with dichotomous, continuous, or survival response measures. The user specifies the alternative hypothesis in terms of differing response rates, means, survival times, relative risks, or odds ratios. Matched or independent study designs may be used. Power, sample size, and the detectable alternative hypothesis are interrelated. The user specifies any two of these three quantities and the program derives the third. A description of each calculation, written in English, is generated and may be copied into the user's documents. Interactive help is available. The program provides methods that are appropriate for matched and independent t-tests, survival analysis, matched and unmatched studies of dichotomous events, the Mantel-Haenszel test, and linear regression.
The program can generate graphs of the relationships between power, sample size and the detectable alternative hypothesis. It can plot graphs of any two of these variables while holding the third constant. Linear or logarithmic axes may be used and multiple curves can be plotted on each graph. Graphs may be copied and pasted into other documents or programs for further editing.
Reviews
Reviews of this program have been published by McCrum-Gardner, Thomas and Krebs, Stawicki and Pezzullo.
Web version
A web-based version of the program is also available at https://statcomp2.app.vumc.org/ps/.
References
External links
PS Webpage
P3G : Public Population Project in Genomics and Society
CTSpedia
UCSF Biostatistics
Software Informer
Statistical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boondocks%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth and final season of the animated television series The Boondocks premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on April 21, 2014, with "Pretty Boy Flizzy", and ended with "The New Black" on June 23, 2014, with a total of ten episodes. The season was produced without any involvement from series creator Aaron McGruder nor from executive producer Carl Jones. This is the only season produced and animated by the South Korean studio Mir. The season received generally negative reviews from both critics and fans.
Episodes
Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the fourth season holds a rating of 36% based on 8 reviews.
References
The Boondocks (TV series) seasons
2014 American television seasons
Studio Mir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barringtonia%20reticulata | Barringtonia reticulata is a plant in the family Lecythidaceae. The specific epithet reticulata means "like a network", referring to the leaf veins.
Description
Barringtonia reticulata grows as a shrub or small tree up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . The bark is grey.
Distribution and habitat
Barringtonia reticulata is native to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines. Its habitat is heath, swamp and beach forest.
References
reticulata
Flora of the Andaman Islands
Flora of the Nicobar Islands
Flora of Malesia
Plants described in 1851
Taxa named by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray%20ripper | A Blu-ray ripper is a computer program that facilitates copying a Blu-ray disc or HD DVDs to a hard disk drive.
Applications
System support/minimum-requirements
Software tagged as "no longer available" is due to New York federal court by AACS group legal action in later March, 2014. Remaining existing US software have disabled the decrypt / unencrypt / de-lock feature that allows bypass the Blu-ray disc protections. As from October, 2014 MakeMKV, MyBD and AnyDVD (AnyDVD is like a driver for decrypt purposes only) are able to decrypt Blu-ray disc protection as being are freeware applications.
Disabling DRM
See also
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc authoring
Blu-ray Disc recordable
List of Blu-ray player manufacturers
List of Blu-ray disc manufacturers
DVD ripper
References
Blu-ray Disc
Ripping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro%20Worldview | Afro Worldview (previously ANN7, African News Network 7) was a 24-hour satellite TV news channel that operated from August 2013 to August 2018 in South Africa. It was established and owned by the Gupta family. The channel was broadcast on the DStv satellite television service owned by Multichoice.
History
The channel's launch in August 2013 was initially met with public mockery when numerous technical issues and mistakes made by untrained presenters went viral online.
In 2017, the channel was sold to Afrotone Media Holdings, a holding company owned by former Tiger Brands group executive Mzwanele Manyi.
In January 2018, It was announced that ANN7 will shut down on 20 August 2018 due to failure contract renewal with DStv. However, the channel was renamed Afro Worldview on 30 April 2018, but still ceased to air on the platform.
Ownership
Prior to August 2017, ANN7 was primarily controlled by Infinity Media Networks which was owned jointly by Essel Media (35%), Oakbay Investments, the Gupta family’s investment vehicle (35%), Mabengela Investments (21%). Mabengela Investments is a Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment company of which Duduzane Zuma -the son of President Jacob Zuma- held a 45% stake, with other shareholders including Rajesh Kumar Gupta (25%), Aerohaven Trading (15%), Fidelity Investments (10%), Mfazi Investments (3%) and Ashu Chawla (2%). In August 2017, ANN7 and The New Age were sold to Mzwanele Manyi.
Format
Programming provided by ANN7 included news segments, sports highlights, political and news-based talk-shows with round-table discussions, nationwide weather reports, and lifestyle, entertainment and special interest news
The ANN7 studios, operated out of their purpose-built Midrand studio, employed a team of 76 journalists. According to its website, Africa News Network 7 (ANN7) focused on "constructive, nation-building stories in the interests of building a culture of unity and pride."
Accusations of propaganda
In March 2017, during the run-up to President Jacob Zuma's firing of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan — who had previously actively resisted the pro-Zuma Gupta family's continued and repeated attempts at state capture of the Treasury, Eskom and other state-owned companies — ANN7 ran repeated and aggressive propaganda campaigns to discredit the minister, often using incomplete or fabricated evidence. The channel was fiercely criticised for spreading partial, biased and fake news in a bid to undermine the Finance Minister, and paint the President in a more favourable light.
The international news broadcaster Al Jazeera English reported that Zuma's close relationship with the Guptas has "translated into friendly coverage in the outlets they own," such as ANN7 and The New Age newspaper.
During the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture in June 2019 former ANN7 editor, Rajesh Sundara, testified that then president Jacob Zuma was actively involved in running the station and dictating its content and message |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.11ah | IEEE 802.11ah is a wireless networking protocol published in 2017 called Wi-Fi HaLow (pronounced "HEY-Low") as an amendment of the IEEE 802.11-2007 wireless networking standard. It uses 900 MHz license-exempt bands to provide extended-range Wi-Fi networks, compared to conventional Wi-Fi networks operating in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. It also benefits from lower energy consumption, allowing the creation of large groups of stations or sensors that cooperate to share signals, supporting the concept of the Internet of things (IoT). The protocol's low power consumption competes with Bluetooth, LoRa, and Zigbee, and has the added benefit of higher data rates and wider coverage range.
Description
A benefit of 802.11ah is extended range, making it useful for rural communications and offloading cell phone tower traffic. The other purpose of the protocol is to allow low rate 802.11 wireless stations to be used in the sub-gigahertz spectrum. The protocol is one of the IEEE 802.11 technologies which is the most different from the LAN model, especially concerning medium contention. A prominent aspect of 802.11ah is the behavior of stations that are grouped to minimize contention on the air media, use relay to extend their reach, use little power thanks to predefined wake/doze periods, are still able to send data at high speed under some negotiated conditions and use sectored antennas. It uses the 802.11a/g specification that is down sampled to provide 26 channels, each of them able to provide 100 kbit/s throughput. It can cover a one-kilometer radius. It aims at providing connectivity to thousands of devices under an access point. The protocol supports machine to machine (M2M) markets, like smart metering.
Data rates
Data rates up to 347 Mbit/s are achieved only with the maximum of four spatial streams using one 16 MHz-wide channel. Various modulation schemes and coding rates are defined by the standard and are represented by a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) index value. The table below shows the relationships between the variables that allow for the maximum data rate. GI (Guard Interval) : Timing between symbols.
2 MHz channel uses an FFT of 64, of which: 56 OFDM subcarriers, 52 are for data and 4 are pilot tones with a carrier separation of 31.25 kHz (2 MHz/64) (32 µs). Each of these subcarriers can be a BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM or 256-QAM. The total bandwidth is 2 MHz with an occupied bandwidth of 1.78 MHz. Total symbol duration is 36 or 40 microseconds, which includes a guard interval of 4 or 8 microseconds.
MAC Features
Relay Access Point
A Relay Access Point (AP) is an entity that logically consists of a Relay and a networking station (STA), or client. The relay function allows an AP and stations to exchange frames with one another by the way of a relay. The introduction of a relay allows stations to use higher MCSs (Modulation and Coding Schemes) and reduce the time stations will stay in Active mode. This improves battery life of st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notholca | Notholca is a genus of rotifers known from Holocene lake deposits as well as the present day.
Species
Notholca acuminata (Ehrenberg, 1832)
Notholca bipalium (Müller, 1786)
Notholca caudata Carlin, 1943
Notholca foliacea (Ehrenberg, 1838)
Notholca hollowdayi Dartnall, 1995
Notholca ikaitophila Sørensen & Kristensen, 2000
Notholca japonica (Marukawa, 1928)
Notholca labis Gosse, 1887
Notholca marina Focke, 1961
Notholca psammarina Buchholz & Ruhmann, 1956
†Notholca salina Focke, 1961
Notholca squamula (Müller, 1786)
Notholca striata (Müller, 1786)
Notholca verae Kutikova, 1958
Notholca walterkostei José de Paggi, 1982
Notholca longispina is a synonym of Kellicottia longispina (Kellicott, 1879).
References
Rotifer genera
Brachionidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal%20Storm | Goal Storm, known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven in Japan, is a football sports video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami. It was released in late 1995 in North America and in early 1996 elsewhere for the PlayStation. It is the first installment of the Winning Eleven franchise, later known as Pro Evolution Soccer internationally. Gameplay-wise, the player controls one of thirty six national teams over two different game modes, which both simulate association football matches and/or tournaments.
Goal Storm was well-received critically. A Sega Saturn version was also announced for North America, but it was never released. The sequel International Superstar Soccer Pro, known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven '97 in Japan and Goal Storm '97 in North America, was released in 1997 for the PlayStation.
Gameplay
The game modes available are: Hyper Cup Mode, Exhibition Mode, Key Configuration and Options mode; it is possible to change the difficulty level and the conditions of the playfield. The game has 26 National teams to play. Critics generally praised the game for its smooth polygonal graphics and intuitive controls.
Teams
Reception
A reviewer for Next Generation was mostly pleased with the smooth polygonal players graphics, the intuitive control, and the announcer, though he noted that the animation is somewhat sluggish and the use of the same button for both defensive tackles and offensive goal shots results in players kicking the ball away as soon as they gain possession until they get the hang of the game. He concluded that "Goal Storm is slower and oddly less involving than FIFA, but only slightly, and it's easily the best soccer game for PlayStation - OK, it's the only one, but it's still going to be tough to beat." The sports reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly expressed strong approval for the polygonal players, the opponent AI, the camera angles, and the interface, which they said is "so user-friendly that an instruction manual isn't needed." GamePro also praised these elements, particularly the handling of the polygonal graphics, and summarized that the game "plays as well as FIFA, but looks more realistic."
Next Generation reviewed the game and stated that "The interchangeable camera views, extensive replay features, and realistic gameplay are some of the other impressive factors that go into making this one of the finest soccer games to date." Maximum commented that "Goal Storm seems to have it all: huge polygon players, replays from every conceivable viewpoint, and an array of bicycle kicks and diving headers. Sadly, it also has a simple way of scoring virtually every time and extremely limited playability." They elaborated that the player can score repeated goals by performing a bicycle kick or header from the penalty area, since the goalie never stops such shots.
See also
eFootball PES
FIFA Soccer 96
References
1995 video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon%20Island%20%28TV%20series%29 | Falcon Island is a 1981 Australian children's television series set in Western Australia which screened on the Nine Network. The series also aired in the United Kingdom on the ITV network in 1984, and was repeated on Channel 4 in 1986.
Cast
Alan Cassell as Jack Brady
Bill Kerr as Madden
Francesca Shoesmith as Kate Ellery
Greg Duffy as Paul Ellery
Justin Hollyock as Jock Dixon
Bevan Lee as Vim Van Dorn
Maurie Ogden as Frank Ellery
Michael Loney as Constable Harris
Joan Sydney as Mrs. Yates
Merrin Canning as Vicky Fitzgerald
Barrie Barkla as Jarvis
Ian Fletcher as Alan
References
External links
Falcon Island at Australian Television
Nine Network original programming
Australian children's television series
1981 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Shafiq%20Hamdam | Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam (Pashto: ډاکټر محمد شفیق همدم) is a writer, a leader in information technology and cybersecurity, and a political analyst from Afghanistan. He worked as a Deputy Senior Advisor to The President Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, a Senior Analyst/ Advisor to NATO and the Chairman of the Afghan Anti-Corruption Network (AACN).
Early life and education
Hamdam was born in January 1981 in the Alishing village in Laghman Province of Afghanistan. In 1986 he enrolled in Lam-e-Shahid High School in Kabul. In 1999 he graduated from Shahid Muhammad Arif High School in Jalalabad. In the same year, he enrolled in the Political Science Faculty of Nangarhar Universitybut was forced by the Taliban to leave the University. In 2002 he earned his undergraduate in Health Sciences from the Nangarhar Institute of Health Sciences. In 2003 he rewarded Advance Diploma in Administration and Economics from The Swiss College of Administration and Economy. In 2010 he graduated from George C Marshall Center, European Center for Security Studies in Germany, where he studied advance security and international relations. He graduated from the Executive Program John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He also earned a Master of National Security from The Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. He is a Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity graduate at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at George Washington University. He is fluent in several languages, including Dari, Pashto, Urdu, and English.
Career history
Hamdam works as a senior consultant for Deloitte, where he advises and assists a few Fortune 100 companies on cybersecurity and information technology. Before this, he worked as a Sr. Program Manager for the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. Back in Afghanistan, he worked as a Deputy Senior Adviser to The President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in international affairs at The Senior Advisory Office of The President on U.N. Affairs (SAOP UN-Affairs). The SAOP UN-Affairs worked on One U.N. for Afghanistan, a strategic framework that has replaced The United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for Afghanistan. The advisory also successfully drafted a mutual accountability framework between the government of Afghanistan and the United Nations. The One U.N. or Delivering As One (DAO) was one of the most challenging tasks for the U.N. family and the Afghan government, but the SAOP was able to do it successfully. Under the new framework, the U.N. has to align its programs and projects based on Afghanistan's national strategies and priorities.As a Senior Advisor and Senior Analyst, Hamdam closely worked with and advised senior NATO, the U.S. and international policymakers on political and development affairs of Afghanistan, South and Center Asia. He serves as the Chairman of Afghan Anti-Corruption Network (AACN), the largest and leading network of civil society organizations fighting agains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatives%20Concerned%20About%20the%20Death%20Penalty | Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (CCATDP) is a national network of conservative Republicans and Libertarians calling for a re-examination of the American system of capital punishment.
Organization
CCATDP engages in advocacy, education, and outreach to conservative, Republican, and Libertarian leaders and organizations. CCATDP provides a national forum for them to express their concerns about the death penalty.
CCATDP is a project of Equal Justice USA, a non-profit organization working on criminal justice issues.
Activities
CCATDP officially debuted at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2013. Since that time, its national coordinators have been meeting with conservative, Republican, and Libertarian leaders across the country and they have exhibited and spoken at the national meetings of the Republican Liberty Caucus, the Young Republican National Federation, Young Americans for Liberty, the Liberty Political Action Conference, State Policy Network, CPAC St. Louis, CPAC, and the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference. They have also attended several evangelical conferences.
Since CCATDP's launch in early 2013, several states began forming their own state-level Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty groups, including Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, North Carolina, Nebraska, Washington, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana, and Utah.
History
CCATDP was first created in Montana in 2009 when individual Republican legislators realized that they were not alone in having concerns about the death penalty. As word spread outside of Montana, there was interest in forming a national group.
March 14–16, 2013 CCATDP attended the first of eight consecutive Conservative Political Action Conferences.
In August 2013, Ron Paul supported CCATDP's efforts.
October 2013, CCATDP formed a strategic partnership with Young Americans for Liberty.
April 15, 2015, the Nebraska CCATDP held a news conference at the capitol in Lincoln with several Republican state senators to announce they would support a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty. On May 27, 2015 Nebraska’s unicameral legislature voted 32-15 in favor of LB-268 to override the governor’s veto and eliminate the death penalty. In a November 2016 referendum Nebraskans voted to reverse the repeal measure.
January 19, 2017, the Georgia CCATDP was launched in a news conference at the state capitol in Atlanta.
June 14, 2017, the Florida CCATDP was launched during a news conference in Orlando.
February 19, 2019, CCATDP’s national manager testified before the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on HB455, a bill to end the death penalty in the state. On March 26 CCATDP’s national manager returned to The Granite to testify in favor of the same bill before the state Senate Judiciary Committee. On May 30 both houses of the New Hampshire Legislature voted to override the governor’s veto of the bill (40% of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YOLO%20%28The%20Simpsons%29 | "YOLO" is the fourth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons and the 534th episode of the series. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 10, 2013. The episode was written by Michael Nobori and directed by Mike Frank Polcino.
In the episode, Marge invites an old pen pal to stay with Homer and cross items off his "to-do" list from when he was 10 years old, so that Homer can embrace his "You-Only-Live-Once" spirit. Meanwhile, Lisa starts an honor code for the school to combat cheating.
Plot
Kirk Van Houten is going through a poorly-concealed midlife crisis and Homer is left in his own depression when Marge inadvertently ruins his mood by cheerfully telling him he will have the same job, family and experiences until he dies. Homer then shows Marge letters from his old Spanish pen pal, Eduardo, whom the young Homer wrote to for a school project because foreign pen pals required fewer letters from him than area prisoners. To cheer up Homer, Marge invites Eduardo to stay with the family. Eduardo arrives and helps Homer fulfill his childhood dreams, such as riding in the back of a fire truck, fighting The Pirates of Penzance, and re-enacting the battle of Captain Kirk and the Gorn from Star Trek using props from Comic Book Guy's store.
Homer decides to fulfill his last childhood dream: flying like Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Homer and Eduardo fly on a wingsuit and, after panicking, Homer is able to control his flying. Unfortunately, Homer crashes on the tallest building in Springfield and falls to the ground.
Meanwhile, Kent Brockman reveals that Springfield Elementary students are engaged in widespread cheating. Lisa proposes creating an honor code that will make the student not to cheat and turn any cheater in. Although every student declines at first, Lisa manages to get every student to sign the honor code by getting the most influential students to sign the honor code such as Nelson (the strongest kid), Martin (the smartest kid) and Milhouse (the class nerd), and after a few days Lisa's code begins to work as the students are studying much harder. Lisa accidentally grabs Bart's backpack and realizes that Bart is cheating. Lisa threatens to turn Bart in, but Bart checkmates her by smugly stating that if he gets caught cheating it will confirm her system is not working and destroy it.
Lisa plans to force Bart to turn himself in. Bart quickly declines and replies that the only thing that will make him turn himself in is a sign from God. Seconds later, Homer falls (following his earlier crash) and lands on Bart (followed by Homer's scream, since Homer himself landed faster than the speed of sound). Bart and Lisa see this as a sign from God, and Bart turns himself in, using the time to add more sections to the Detention Quilt.
As a thanks for helping him rediscover his spirit, Homer promises to drive Eduardo to the airport. After asking Eduardo where he wants to be d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor%20Pains%20%28The%20Simpsons%29 | "Labor Pains" is the fifth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons and the 535th episode of the series. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 17, 2013. It was written by Mitch Glazer and Don Payne and directed by Matthew Faughnan.
In the episode, after a night of playing poker with Moe, Lenny, and Carl, Homer finds himself in an elevator with a young mother named Gretchen, who is in labor and needs someone to help her keep calm. Meanwhile, Lisa helps the local football cheerleading team unionize and negotiate for better wages and working conditions.
Plot
While playing poker one night with Moe, Barney, Lenny and Carl, Homer has a run of good luck and decides to leave the game with his winnings. A pregnant woman, Gretchen, enters the elevator with him to ride down to street level, but it gets stuck between floors, and she goes into labor. Based on what he can recall of the childbirth classes he took with Marge, Homer manages to deliver the baby himself, a healthy son. Later, after another poker night, Homer comes across Gretchen again and learns that she named her child after him. He begins to spend time with her, bringing baby items that he and Marge never used for their children, instead of going to the poker game.
Marge, thinking that Homer has sneaked out of work in favor of the game, discovers that he is in Gretchen's apartment and thinks at first that he is being unfaithful to her. However, she eventually learns the whole truth, and Homer takes his children and Homer Jr. to the zoo. Homer Jr. keeps eating Maggie's ice cream, so she smacks him out of the stroller. In a fit of anger, Homer Jr. pushes Maggie's stroller toward a prairie dog exhibit, but she manages to stop herself before she can roll into it. Marge forbids Homer to see Gretchen ever again, and he takes Homer Jr. back to the apartment, where he returns the baby to Gretchen and her husband - recently returned from a military deployment overseas. A dejected Homer returns home, where Maggie gives him a doll to nurture and quickly forgives him for not paying attention to her, and Homer Jr. surprises his father with his ability (learned from Homer) to open and pour a beer.
Meanwhile, Lisa taunts Bart with the fact that Milhouse has invited her to a Springfield Atoms football game. During the halftime show, the team's cheerleaders, the Atomettes, invite Lisa onto the field to take part in one of their routines. Lisa enjoys herself, but after the game, she discovers that the Atomettes are poorly paid. She persuades them to go on strike in order to force the team owner to grant them a better contract; the strategy succeeds, but in the meantime they begin to endorse many bizarre products and services, to Lisa's surprise and dismay. As the credits begin, several Atomette-sponsored items are shown.
Production
In April 2013, Vulture reported that Elisabeth Moss would guest star as a pregnant woman. Exec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal%20This%20Episode | "Steal This Episode" is the ninth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons and the 539th episode of the series. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 5, 2014. The episode was written by J. Stewart Burns and directed by Matthew Nastuk. The title is a takeoff of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book (1971).
In the episode, to combat the poor quality of today's movie theaters, Homer and Bart team up to illegally download movies and exhibit them in a makeshift theater in the backyard, but Homer ends up arrested by the FBI when Marge sends Hollywood a check and an apology note.
Plot
Homer is getting frazzled over hearing spoilers about the current blockbuster films but his rushed trip to see a new one ends with him decrying the smartphone-laden atmosphere and being thrown out of the movie theater by ushers. Bart later cheers him up by showing him how to download the movie illegally. Homer then decides to open a backyard theater to show movies downloaded from the Internet. Marge starts to feel guilty after watching the movie and sends a check along with an apology letter to Hollywood to repay the money for the tickets she should have bought. A manager in Hollywood receives the letter and alerts the FBI after using the rolled-up check to snort cocaine.
The FBI raids the Simpsons' house and arrests Homer for movie piracy. Marge feels guilty for getting him in trouble; however, during dinner the next night, Marge defensively maintains the belief that she did the right thing, even though Bart and Lisa side with Homer (as Bart notes, being a movie pirate isn't even the worst kind of PIRATE Homer has ever been). Homer's bus to Springfield Penitentiary gets taken over by the prisoners who all consider copyright infringement to be much worse than robbing a bank or trafficking drugs and plan to kill him for his actions. The bus crashes and falls onto a ledge, where Homer is rescued by a passing train after the prisoners abandon the bus. He returns home and refuses to turn himself in after Marge asks him to give himself up.
Lisa takes the family to a Swedish consulate, since downloading movies is not illegal in Sweden. The FBI waits outside the consulate for Homer to leave, unsuccessfully trying to force him out by playing Judas Priest music at high volume. While in hiding, Marge confesses to Homer that she turned him in. Homer, feeling betrayed, sadly surrenders to the FBI and is taken into custody.
During his trial at a U.S. Federal Court, Homer makes no attempt to defend himself and is found guilty of illegal reproduction and distribution of copyrighted material. Before he is sentenced, and with some encouragement from Marge, he delivers a speech about his movie piracy. The Hollywood filmmakers who attend the trial are impressed by Homer's story and they drop all the charges, intending to buy the rights to Homer's story to turn it into a movie, with Homer asking to sign with whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20War%20of%20Art%20%28The%20Simpsons%29 | "The War of Art" is the fifteenth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons and the 545th episode of the series. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 23, 2014. It was written by Rob LaZebnik and directed by Steven Dean Moore.
The episode was met with generally positive reviews, and was met with much critical analysis over the episode's themes. Upon airing, the episode was watched by 3.98 million American viewers.
Plot
After Lisa's new pet guinea pig destroys the Simpsons' living room art, Marge falls in love with a beautiful painting at the Van Houtens' yard sale, which Homer purchases for $20. Marge removes the frame and finds that the painting bears the signature of Johan Oldenveldt, an artist of some renown. An art appraiser estimates that it could bring between $80,000 and $100,000 at auction. Marge wants to share the sale proceeds with the Van Houtens, but Homer disagrees, saying that the Simpsons should look after their own financial security first and keep the sale a secret from them. Milhouse eavesdrops on the conversation from Bart's treehouse and tells his parents. The Van Houtens publicly shame the Simpsons for their secrecy, prompting a town-wide division of opinion.
As the auction begins, Dawn, a former lover of Kirk's, arrives and claims that he took the painting from her. The auction is suspended until its ownership can be established. Kirk tells Homer that he bought the painting on the island of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, home to an artists' community. Homer and Lisa travel to the café at which Kirk made the purchase in order to corroborate Kirk's account and the legality of Homer's purchase. The café owner confirms that she sold the painting to Kirk, but as Homer starts to celebrate, one of the customers interrupts. This man is Klaus Ziegler, an art forger who created the painting; he has fooled art galleries around the world by flawlessly imitating other painters' techniques. Although Lisa objects to Ziegler's practices, he convinces her that his forgeries have brought pleasure to the people who see them. Homer pays him to create three new paintings: a family portrait for the Van Houtens, a new sailboat picture for the Simpsons' living room, and a garish picture of a jukebox for Homer.
The episode ends with a brief documentary (narrated by Ziegler) on the history of Strupo, a foul-smelling, hallucinogenic, highly addictive alcoholic beverage brewed on Isla Verde.
Analysis
The episode centers around the theme of the intrinsic value of art and the issue of art forgeries. It also questions the notion of ownership over a "worthless" product that was bought off a friend, which is subsequently deemed worthy; is one required to split the money with the original owners? Tony Sokol of Den of Geek noted that the episode brings out the "beauty of forgery". The article pondered this: "What is ownership? What is commerce? What is art? Art is a mirror held up to re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-set%20registration | In computer vision, pattern recognition, and robotics, point-set registration, also known as point-cloud registration or scan matching, is the process of finding a spatial transformation (e.g., scaling, rotation and translation) that aligns two point clouds. The purpose of finding such a transformation includes merging multiple data sets into a globally consistent model (or coordinate frame), and mapping a new measurement to a known data set to identify features or to estimate its pose. Raw 3D point cloud data are typically obtained from Lidars and RGB-D cameras. 3D point clouds can also be generated from computer vision algorithms such as triangulation, bundle adjustment, and more recently, monocular image depth estimation using deep learning. For 2D point set registration used in image processing and feature-based image registration, a point set may be 2D pixel coordinates obtained by feature extraction from an image, for example corner detection. Point cloud registration has extensive applications in autonomous driving, motion estimation and 3D reconstruction, object detection and pose estimation, robotic manipulation, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), panorama stitching, virtual and augmented reality, and medical imaging.
As a special case, registration of two point sets that only differ by a 3D rotation (i.e., there is no scaling and translation), is called the Wahba Problem and also related to the orthogonal procrustes problem.
Formulation
The problem may be summarized as follows:
Let be two finite size point sets in a finite-dimensional real vector space , which contain and points respectively (e.g., recovers the typical case of when and are 3D point sets). The problem is to find a transformation to be applied to the moving "model" point set such that the difference (typically defined in the sense of point-wise Euclidean distance) between and the static "scene" set is minimized. In other words, a mapping from to is desired which yields the best alignment between the transformed "model" set and the "scene" set. The mapping may consist of a rigid or non-rigid transformation. The transformation model may be written as , using which the transformed, registered model point set is:
The output of a point set registration algorithm is therefore the optimal transformation such that is best aligned to , according to some defined notion of distance function :
where is used to denote the set of all possible transformations that the optimization tries to search for. The most popular choice of the distance function is to take the square of the Euclidean distance for every pair of points:
where denotes the vector 2-norm, is the corresponding point in set that attains the shortest distance to a given point in set after transformation. Minimizing such a function in rigid registration is equivalent to solving a least squares problem.
Types of algorithms
When the correspondences (i.e., ) are given before the optimizatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Western%20and%20Northern%20Railroad | The Florida Western and Northern Railroad was a subsidiary of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad that expanded their network in the 1920s by building a rail line from Coleman, Florida (near Wildwood) all the way to West Palm Beach via Auburndale and Sebring (near Lake Okeechobee), a distance of 204 miles. The line would be extended to Miami by the Seaboard-All Florida Railway, another Seaboard Air Line subsidiary, shortly after with the full line from Coleman to Miami becoming the Seaboard Air Line's Miami Subdivision. The line is still in service today from Auburndale to West Palm Beach and is now operated by Seaboard successor CSX Transportation as their Auburndale Subdivision.
Route description
The Florida Western and Northern Railroad began in Coleman, which was located on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's main line about five miles south of Wildwood (where the Seaboard Air Line operated a major yard). It branched off the main line in Coleman and proceeded south through wetlands of north Central Florida in a nearly straight line down to Auburndale, where it crossed the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's main line (the current CSX A Line). From here, it continued through southern Central Florida, passing through Winter Haven, West Lake Wales, Avon Park, and Sebring. Between Auburndale and Sebring, the line's trajectory closely paralleled the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's Haines City Branch, which at one point ran from Haines City to Everglades City.
After Sebring, the line turned into a more southeast trajectory towards Okeechobee. From here, it continued southeast near the northern edge of Lake Okeechobee in a nearly straight line southeast to Indiantown and to its terminus in West Palm Beach.
History
The Seaboard Air Line Railroad first chartered the Florida Western and Northern Railroad in April 1924 and construction began shortly after. The line was beginning of Seaboard president S. Davies Warfield's ambitious plan to connect the Seaboard network to the South Florida region, which for almost thirty years had been the exclusive domain of the Florida East Coast Railway. The line's final spike was placed on January 21, 1925, and four days later, a special section of the Seaboard's Orange Blossom Special ran to West Palm Beach officially inaugurating service. President Warfield was on board with around 500 guests.
To accommodate large amounts of traffic bound for Miami, the Seaboard Air Line also double-tracked its main line from the junction in Coleman to Wildwood Yard.
The line only briefly terminated in West Palm Beach before Seaboard organized another subsidiary, the Seaboard-All Florida Railway, to extend it to Miami which was completed in January 1927. The Seaboard would designate the line from Coleman to Miami as their Miami Subdivision.
The Seaboard Air Line ran a number of intercity passenger services on the line including the Orange Blossom Special, Silver Meteor, Silver Star, the Sunland, and the Palmland. The Cross State |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanstalk | Beanstalk may refer to:
Beanstalk, the stem of a bean plant
Beanstalk, 1994 film directed by Michael Davis
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, a part of Amazon's cloud computing platform
Space elevator, also referred to as a beanstalk
See also
Jack and the Beanstalk (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormitoryo | (International title: The Dormitory / ) is a 2013 Philippine television drama thriller series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jun Lana, it stars Lauren Young, Joyce Ching, Enzo Pineda, Ruru Madrid and Wynwyn Marquez. It premiered on September 22, 2013. The series concluded on December 22, 2013, with a total of 13 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Lauren Young as Hazel "Haze" Mendoza / Hazel Benitez
Enzo Pineda as Barney "Burn" Chavez
Joyce Ching as Margarita "Airiz" de Ocampo
Ruru Madrid as Charlie Chavez
Wynwyn Marquez as Maika "Mykee" Benitez / Danica Benitez
Recurring cast
Mayton Eugenio as Weng Dimaguiba
Ashley Ortega as Rose Angeles
Mel Kimura as Rona Sancuevas
Yassi Pressman as Sophie
Julian Trono as Kobe
Sanya Lopez as Thea
Gabbi Garcia as Gemma
Production
Development
The idea for the series was conceived when GMA Network wanted to put "something new" on their Sunday-afternoon block, which traditionally dominated with either teeny bop series or showbiz-oriented talk shows. And so, the network's drama department decided to "try something different on that block." Jun Lana wanted a show that represent "Generation X" and explore some relevant issues faced by the youth today, including bullying, peer pressure, dysfunctional relationships, infidelity, sibling rivalry, vague sense of morality, dishonesty and even crime. So he decided to come up with an edgy teen series with mystery-filled plot, twists and turns, wherein the lead characters deal with the controversial death of a colleague and peel away secrets that link them with each other. Lana presented the concept and the network found it to be interesting. The show is set in the fictional dormitory—the Holy Spirit Manor. The series creator had to decide on whether the setting should be inside a school or outside of it. It went through the approval and timeslot matching stages.
Casting
The cast was announced during the story conference held in August 2013, with the main cast being Lauren Young together with Joyce Ching, Enzo Pineda, Ruru Madrid and Wynwyn Marquez. The lead role Hazel Mendoza was originally intended for singer-actress Julie Anne San Jose, but the network pulled her out for another TV project. Lauren Young was chosen to replace San Jose for the said role, while the antagonist Airiz de Ocampo, the role which originally intended for Young, went to Joyce Ching. Enzo Pineda and Ruru Madrid were cast as Burn and Charlie Chavez, brothers and Hazel's love interests.
Filming
The series was supposed to premiere in August but it needed some "fine-tuning" before getting the go-signal to tape the pilot episode. Production began on September 4, 2013. The entire series was shot in Tagaytay. The dormitory, (as well as the school) used in the show is actually Divine Word Seminary—a seminary retreat house located also in Tagaytay. The series premiered on September 22, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. timeslot. Dormitoryo is slated to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thauera%20chlorobenzoica | Thauera chlorobenzoica is a bacterium from the genus of Thauera.
References
External links
Type strain of Thauera chlorobenzoica at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodocyclaceae
Bacteria described in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GotoBLAS | In scientific computing, GotoBLAS and GotoBLAS2 are open source implementations of the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) API with many hand-crafted optimizations for specific processor types. GotoBLAS was developed by Kazushige Goto at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. , it was used in seven of the world's ten fastest supercomputers.
GotoBLAS remains available, but development ceased with a final version touting optimal performance on Intel's Nehalem architecture (contemporary in 2008).
OpenBLAS is an actively maintained fork of GotoBLAS, developed at the Lab of Parallel Software and Computational Science, ISCAS.
GotoBLAS was written by Goto during his sabbatical leave from the Japan Patent Office in 2002. It was initially optimized for the Pentium 4 processor and managed to immediately boost the performance of a supercomputer based on that CPU from 1.5 TFLOPS to 2 TFLOPS. , the library was available at no cost for noncommercial use. A later open source version was released under the terms of the BSD license.
GotoBLAS's matrix-matrix multiplication routine, called GEMM in BLAS terms, is highly tuned for the x86 and AMD64 processor architectures by means of handcrafted assembly code. It follows a similar decomposition into smaller "kernel" routines that other BLAS implementations use, but where earlier implementations streamed data from the L1 processor cache, GotoBLAS uses the L2 cache.
The kernel used for GEMM is a routine called GEBP, for "General block-times-panel multiply", which was experimentally found to be "inherently superior" over several other kernels that were considered in the design.
Several other BLAS routines are, as is customary in BLAS libraries, implemented in terms of GEMM.
As of January 2022, the Texas Advanced Computing Center website states that Goto BLAS in no more maintained and suggests the use of BLIS or MKL.
See also
Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)
Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL)
References
Numerical linear algebra
Numerical software
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Shenyang | Shenyang, a major industrial city on the Hun River in northeast China has returned its tramway as a modern tram system. Shenyang once had a standard steel wheeled tramway network. Unlike other Chinese towns & cities, Shenyang's tram system was not opened directly as an electric tram. The tram service was completely stopped in 1973. On 15 August, 2013 Shenyang opened a modern tram system in Hunnan New District south of central Shenyang.
History
A horse tramway was opened at Shenyang in 1907. The Japanese - who operated the railways - started electrification in March 1924 even before the creation of the Manchukuo puppet state, and finally the electric tramway opened in October 1925 from Huaiyangmen via Taiqinggong to Xiaoxibianmen. In November 1925, the section between Xiaoxibianmen to Xita started operating. In 1926 Sino-Japanese joint venture opened a tramway, starting at Mukden Railway Station to Xiaoxibianmen. From 1920s to 1945 a total of six tram routes was put into operation in Shenyang.
The Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War had great impact to tramway operations with power shortages and bombing causing the tram service to be suspended numerous times. By December 12, 1948, all six routes were fully rebuilt. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Shenyang had 170 tramcars, making it the largest in the country. The number of private cars greatly increased leading to major traffic congestion and delays to tram services. With the emergence of the first trolleybus line in Shenyang, the development of the tram gradually gave way to the trolleybus. On August 1, 1974, the last tram lines from Shenyang Railway Station to Taiqinggong were removed.
History
1925 - Electric tram started running from 15 March.
1945 - Total six routes opened as a maximum extension of the network.
1974- The last tram ran.
2013 - Tram returned as modern system.
Fleet
Shenyang's tram was one of the modern tram in Asia. There were two closed type coaches. Electricity were drawn by bow collectors. However, after that tramway had very little upgrade and basically the 1930s electric cars were still running in the 1970s.
Depots & termini
Huai door, Taiqinggong, West Gate Mukden Railway Station was some of the termini.
See also
Shenyang Modern Tram - The second generation tram in Shenyang
Shenyang Metro
Shen Fu Intercity Railway
Changchun Tram
Dalian Tram
Hong Kong Tram
Qingdao Tram
References
External links
Old photos of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang & Tianjin tram
Shenyang
Transport in Shenyang
Shenyang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Oprah%20Winfrey%20Network | This is a list of television programs formerly and currently broadcast by the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Original programming
Drama
Co-productions
Continuations
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Talk shows
Acquired programming
Syndicated
227
Benson
Insecure
Talk shows
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Dr. Oz Show
Dr. Phil
The Nate Berkus Show
Rachael Ray
Tamron Hall
News magazine
20/20 on OWN
Dateline on OWN
Reality
Couples Court with the Cutlers
Upcoming programming
In development
Former programming
Drama
Greenleaf (2016–2020)
Queen Sugar (2016–2022)
Love Is (2018)
Ambitions (2019)
David Makes Man (2019–2021)
Delilah (2021)
Comedy
For Better or Worse (2011–2017)
Love Thy Neighbor (2013–2017)
The Paynes (2018)
Soap operas
The Haves and the Have Nots (2013–2021)
If Loving You Is Wrong (2014–2020)
Unscripted
2 Fat 2 Fly
6 Little McGhees
10 Kids 2 Dads
Addicted to Food
All My Children
The Ambush Cook
America's Money Class with Suze Orman
Are You Normal, America?
Ask Oprah's All Stars
Behind Every Man
Belief
Beverly's Full House
Beyond Belief
The Big Holiday Food Fight
Black Love
Black Women OWN the Conversation
Blackboard Wars
The Book of John Gray
Breakthrough with Tony Robbins
Carson Nation
Checked Inn
Commander in Heels
The Customer is Always Right?
Deion's Family Playbook
Deliver Me
The Diamond Collar
The Doc Club with Rosie O'Donnell
The Dr. Laura Berman Show
Don't Tell the Bride
Extreme Clutter with Peter Walsh
Extreme Weight Loss
Fear Not with Iyanla Vanzant
Finding Sarah
Flex & Shanice
Food Fantasies
For Peete's Sake
The Gayle King Show
Girlfriends Check In
Golden Sisters
Help Desk
Home Made Simple
Home Takeover with Simon & Tomas
Houston Beauty
In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman
In Deep Shift with Jonas Elrod
It's Not You, It's Men
Iyanla: Fix My Life
The Judds
Kidnapped by the Kids
Knight Life with Gladys
Life with La Toya
Lindsay
Lives on Fire
Livin' Lozada
Lost and Found
Love in the City
Love Goals
Lovely Bites
Lovetown, USA
Married to the Army: Alaska
Mind Your Business with Mahisha
Miracle Detectives
Mom's Got Game
My Life Is A Joke
Mystery Diagnosis
NY ER
One Life to Live
Operation Change
Oprah Builds a Network
Oprah Prime
Oprah: Where are They Now?
Oprah's Favorite Things
Oprah's Lifeclass
Oprah's Master Class
Our America with Lisa Ling
OWN Documentary Club
Party at Tiffany's
Police Women of Broward County
Police Women of Cincinnati
Police Women of Dallas
Police Women of Maricopa County
Police Women of Memphis
Raising Whitley
Real Life: The Musical
Released
The Rob Bell Show
Rollin' With Zach
The Rosie Show (2011–12)
Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals
Searching For...
Season 25: Oprah Behind The Scenes
Shocking Family Secrets
Staten Island Law
Super Saver Showdown
Super Soul Sessions
Super Soul Sunday
Swell Life
T.D. Jakes
Tanya's Kitchen Table
Time of Essence
To Have & To Hold: Charlotte
Tregaye's Way
Trouble Next Door
TV Guide Magazine's Top 25 Best Oprah Show Moments
The Tyler Perry Show
Undercover Boss
Unfaithful: Storie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Pop%20%28American%20TV%20channel%29 | This is a list of programs formerly and currently broadcast by Pop, an American cable network previously known as Prevue Guide/Channel, TV Guide Channel/Network, and TVGN.
Current programming
Acquired programs
Former programming
Original series
Scripted
Nightcap (2016–17)
Hollywood Darlings (2017–18)
Return of the Mac (2017)
Let's Get Physical (2018)
Florida Girls (2019)
One Day at a Time (Season 4) (2020)
Scripted co-productions
Schitt's Creek (2015–20)
Flack (2019)
Others
Look-a-Like (2004–10) – Makeover program involving people wanting to look like certain celebrities.
InFANity (2005–10) – One-hour program devoted to a detailed history and interviews with stars of one primetime series. Hosted by Lisa Joyner.
Sushi TV (2005–07) – a comedy clip show showing obscure moments from Japanese game shows, such as bizarre eating contests, physical challenges or people's scary and interesting talents.
Idol Chat & Idol Tonight (2006–09) – Official discussion of the week's events on American Idol. Hosted by Kimberly Caldwell and Justin Guarini (Rosanna Tavarez was a former co-host from 2006–08, and Manny Streetz was a guest correspondent in 2007)
Reality Chat (2006–09) – Discussion show about reality television. Hosted by Rosanna Tavarez and Sadie Murray (Kimberly Caldwell was a former co-host from 2006–08)
Square-Off (2006–07) – A weekly series presenting news and views about television. Included are panel discussions of TV issues.
The Fashion Team (2006–11) Hosted by Lawrence Zarian, is a 30-minute weekly series that focuses on red carpet styles and beauty secrets. The show also gave fans a peek inside celebrities' closets and the hottest boutiques.
TV Watercooler (2006–09) – A weekly recap of TV's noteworthy shows and moments. Hosted by John Fugelsang and Teresa Strasser (Debra Wilson was a former co-host in 2006)
America's Next Producer (2007) – Competition series where the winner received a $100,000 prize and development deal with TVGC.
Making News: Texas Style (2007–08) – Follows news anchors at TV stations in the state of Texas. During the first season, the anchors of Odessa, Texas, CBS affiliate KOSA were featured (some episodes also featured an anchor at the market's NBC affiliate, KWES). The second season followed anchors at the duopoly of WJCL and WTGS, the ABC and Fox affiliates (respectively) in Savannah, Georgia, as well as long-dominant CBS affiliate WTOC and NBC affiliate WSAV, from time to time. The second season was called Making News: Savannah Style.
Celebrity Says! (2008) – Man on the street game show where interviewees attempted to guess what a celebrity said during a red carpet interview. Hosted by Dave Holmes.
Hollywood 411 (2008–11) – Entertainment newsmagazine program hosted by Chris Harrison; varied over the years between a daily and weekly presentation.
Hollywood 411 on Set (2009) – Set visits and behind-the-scenes info on the latest movies, profiling three each show.
FashioNation (2011) – Matthew Hoffman hosts a comedic t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Uncle%20Grandpa%20episodes | This is a list of episodes for Uncle Grandpa, an American animated TV series created by Peter Browngardt and airing on Cartoon Network. The pilot episode was created in 2008 but was aired on Cartoon Network Video in 2010 as part of the show project The Cartoonstitute, while the series premiered on September 2, 2013. On July 25, 2014, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on March 5, 2015.
On March 30, 2016, it was reported that the series had been renewed for fourth and fifth seasons by Cartoon Network, but in a different mode: they decide to split in half the already-ordered 52 episode-long second season, rebranding the first half as "season two" and the second half as "season three." The already-ordered third season likewise was divided into the newly ordered "season four" and season five".
The series concluded on June 30, 2017 after the series finale "Uncle Grandpa: The High School Years" with 5 seasons and a total of 153 episodes.
During the course of the series, 153 episodes of the series aired over five seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilot and precursors (2008–12)
Season 1 (2013–15)
Season 2 (2015)
Season 3 (2015–16)
Season 4 (2016)
Season 5 (2016–17)
Shorts
Crossover special
References
Uncle Grandpa
Uncle Grandpa
Uncle Grandpa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Actor | The Hum Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the Television industry. The 1st Hum Awards (for 2012) was held in 2013 with Noman Ejaz winning the award, who was honored for his role in Bari Aapa.
The award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Actor Jury or Best Drama Actor Jury. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote, within the actors and jury branch of HTNEC; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Hum. This awards is equivalent to the Hum Award for Best Actor Popular, which is given in the ceremony but winners are solely selected by viewers votings. Multiple nominations for an actor in same category but for different work is eligible.
Since its inception the award has been given to three actors, while Noman Ejaz has received the most awards in this category with two consecutive Hum Awards. Ahsan Khan, Meekal Zulfiqar and Adnan Siddiqui were nominated each year more than any other actors. As of 2015 ceremony, Ahsan Khan is the most recent winner in this category for his role as Hashir in Mausam.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. Following the hum's practice, the dramas below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the drama's year of release. As of the first ceremony, six Actors were nominated for the award. For the following years, five to six actors will be nominated for the award. In first ceremony six dramas nominated for category while all of the six nominee were also included for best director category with additional four extra nominees which were not included in best drama serial category.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized actors of dramas that were released between January, 2012, and December, 2012, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. However, this rule was subjected to change when at third year ceremony two (Sadqay Tumhare and Digest Writer) of seven nominated drama serials were running on TV at the time when nominations were announced. Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the dramas year in which they were telecast, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
Lux Style Award for Best TV Actor
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Netw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20HANA | SAP HANA (HochleistungsANalyseAnwendung or High-performance ANalytic Application) is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP SE. Its primary function as the software running a database server is to store and retrieve data as requested by the applications. In addition, it performs advanced analytics (predictive analytics, spatial data processing, text analytics, text search, streaming analytics, graph data processing) and includes extract, transform, load (ETL) capabilities as well as an application server.
History
During the early development of SAP HANA, a number of technologies were developed or acquired by SAP SE. These included TREX search engine (in-memory column-oriented search engine), P*TIME (in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) Platform acquired by SAP in 2005), and MaxDB with its in-memory liveCache engine.
The first major demonstration of the platform was in 2011: teams from SAP SE, the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University demonstrated an application architecture for real-time analytics and aggregation using the name HYRISE. Former SAP SE executive, Vishal Sikka, mentioned this architecture as "Hasso's New Architecture". Before the name "HANA" stabilized, people referred to this product as "New Database". The software was previously called "SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance".
A first research paper on HYRISE was published in November 2010. The research engine is later released open source in 2013, and was reengineered in 2016 to become HYRISE2 in 2017.
The first product shipped in late November 2010.
By mid-2011, the technology had attracted interest but more experienced business customers considered it to be "in early days".
HANA support for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) was announced in September 2011 for availability by November.
In 2012, SAP promoted aspects of cloud computing. In October 2012, SAP announced a platform as a service offering called the SAP HANA Cloud Platform and a variant called SAP HANA One that used a smaller amount of memory.
In May 2013, a managed private cloud offering called the HANA Enterprise Cloud service was announced.
In May 2013, Business Suite on HANA became available, enabling customers to run SAP Enterprise Resource Planning functions on the HANA platform.
S/4HANA, released in 2015, written specifically for the HANA platform, combines functionality for ERP, CRM, SRM and others into a single HANA system.
S/4HANA is intended to be a simplified business suite, replacing earlier generation ERP systems. While it is likely that SAP will focus its innovations on S/4HANA, some customers using non-HANA systems have raised concerns of being locked into SAP products. Since S/4HANA requires an SAP HANA system to run, customers running SAP business suite applications on hardware not certified by SAP would need to migrate to a SAP-certified HANA database should they choose the features offered by S/4HANA.
Ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verto%20Studio%203D | Verto Studio 3D is a computer graphics program for 3D modelling, targeted at mobile content generation for touch devices. It is written using the Cocoa Touch API for iOS and using Cocoa for macOS. The product was initially released in 2011 for the iPad shortly after the device was released.
3D graphics software
2011 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVX | NVX may refer to:
N-version execution environment (NVX) used for N-version programming
Yamaha NVX, several motorscooters in the Yamaha Aerox lineup
Novavax, a pharmaceutical company which uses the product code "NVX-"
Invoxia, an electronics company which uses the model code "NVX"
See also
1NVX, a protein configuration for HRAS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe%20%28cable%20system%29 | Circe is a submarine communications cable that connects network switches in the United Kingdom with those in Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. It was built at a cost of US$1 billion by Viatel in the late 1990s and measures up to 8,700 km in total length. According to a 1998 Bloomberg Businessweek article, Circe is one of the first cross-border fibre-optics networks in Europe.
In 2013, media reports revealed that communication passing through Circe is being secretly monitored by the British intelligence agency GCHQ as part of its ongoing surveillance project.
See also
List of international submarine communications cables
References
Submarine communications cables in the English Channel
1990s establishments in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajesh%20P.%20N.%20Rao | Rajesh P. N. Rao (born 2 July 1970 in Madras, India) is the Director of the NSF Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) and the Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dr. Rao is a researcher in the fields of computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and brain-computer interfacing. With Dana Ballard, he proposed the predictive coding model of brain function in 1999. He has contributed to Bayesian models of perception and decision making. In brain-computer interfacing, Prof. Rao and his collaborators were the first to demonstrate direct brain control of a humanoid robot in 2007.
In the first demonstration of human brain-to-brain communication in August 2013, Rao wearing an electrical brain-signal reading cap triggered the movement of his colleague Andrea Stocco's hand via the Internet, allowing their brains to cooperate to solve a computer game. The demonstration was subsequently replicated across other pairs of humans, and extended to other tasks, and to a BrainNet for more than two brains.
Rao also works on the decipherment of the Indus script. By comparing the entropy of the Indus script with entropies of linguistic scripts such as those for Sumerian and Old Tamil, and nonlinguistic sequences such as DNA and a programming language, his work suggested that the Indus script behaves more like a linguistic script than nonlinguistic sequences.
He has also given a TED talk on this topic where he backed the Dravidian hypothesis put forward by Iravatham Mahadevan.
Rao is the author of the book Brain-Computer Interfacing (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-editor of two volumes, Probabilistic Models of the Brain (MIT Press, 2002) and Bayesian Brain (MIT Press, 2007). He has given a TEDx talk on "Brain co-processors: When AI meets the Brain."
With Prof. Adrienne Fairhall, Rao offered the first massive open online course in computational neuroscience in 2013. The course continues to be offered on Coursera.
Rao graduated summa cum laude from Angelo State University in 1992 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science/Mathematics. He then attended the University of Rochester where he earned his Master's degree (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in Computer Science. He was a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies before joining the University of Washington faculty in 2000.
Awards
Sloan Faculty Fellowship, 2001
Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, 2002
NSF CAREER Award 2002
ONR Young Investigator Award, 2003
Guggenheim Fellowship 2016
References
External links
Home page and publications
fusione mentale
TED talk: A Rosetta Stone for a lost language (TED2011)
TEDx talk: Brain Co-Processors: When AI Meets the Brain (TEDx Berkeley 2020)
University of Washington faculty
Angelo State University alumni
University of Rochester alumni
1970 births
Living people
Place of birth missin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Alai | Robert Alai, HSC is a Kenyan blogger and cyber-activist. Alai, who used to run the now defunct information technology weblog at Techmtaa.com has earned notoriety for his stream of social rants. He has been sued and briefly incarcerated for his highly opinionated political and sometimes personal attacks on politicians, government officials and business leaders.
Notable incidents
On 17 June 2019 Robert Alai was arrested in Nairobi and detained for 14 days for sharing gory photos of police officers who were killed by an IED attack in Wajir. In the wake of the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi where over 65 people were killed, Alai was praised, both by local and international media for his timely and creative use of social media, mainly Twitter, to provide updates of what was happening at the mall. His accounts were considered as being more accurate than - and sometimes contradicting - the updates provided by the authorities.
Controversy and arrests
In December 2014, Ndegwa Muhoro, the Kenya CID Chief, ordered the arrest of Robert Alai for allegedly sharing President Uhuru Kenyatta's contacts on Twitter. He was consequently charged "with undermining Uhuru". Alai's Twitter handle @robertalai was suspended on 18 December 2014, but was later reinstated.
References
External links
Techmtaa.Com
Kenyan bloggers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%20Society | The Networked Society is a type of future ecosystem in which widespread internet connectivity drives change for individuals and communities. The concept has been popularized by the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company Ericsson. Connectivity means a device can digitally communicate with and transfer data to other systems through a real-time communication network (typically the internet). It is expected that people living in the Networked Society will be able to use connectivity to improve their lives and businesses. New services in e-health, for example, will be driven by connectivity, mobility and cloud computing in the Networked Society.
Origins
The Networked Society was first presented by Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg in a YouTube video on August 26, 2011. The Networked Society concept has been discussed further in other videos, animations, infographics and articles.
On July 16, 2013, The Guardian published a video interview from the Activate London Summit 2013, where Vestberg explained how increasing connectivity will create access to information, services and communication that will transform society, business and the way we live our lives.
More recently, Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson described his vision of the Networked Society in a video interview with presenter Andrew Keen on the information technology website TechCrunch on August 6, 2013.
References
Ericsson
Internet terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbase | Transbase is a relational database management system, developed and maintained by Transaction Software GmbH, Munich. The development of Transbase was started in the 1980s by Rudolf Bayer under the name "Merkur" at the department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Transbase largely conforms with the SQL standard "SQL2 intermediate level" (SQL-92) and supports various features of SQL2 follow-on versions (SQL:1999, SQL:2003 etc.).
History
As a professor of the computer science department of the Technical University of Munich, Rudolf Bayer
developed a database management system called "Merkur" in the 1980s. The development involved a larger number of diploma and PHD students and resulted in 1987 in a new company, called Transaction Software GmbH, founded by Rudolf Bayer and several co-workers of his institute at TUM. In 1989 "Merkur" was renamed and called "Transbase".
The wide use of Transbase, especially as basis for repair part management and documentation systems in the automobile industry soon led to a considerable number of ports to diverse operating systems, such as UNIX derivatives, Linux, Windows, VMS, and Mac OS. Major steps in the further development of Transbase were the integration of functions for distributed queries to several databases in parallel, the fulltext-search extension and the support of foreign languages, ("Myriad") such as Chinese and Japanese,
as well as the support of data warehouse functions ("Transbase Hypercube")
and the dynamic, parallel execution of queries.
Properties and functions
Standard SQL properties
Transbase supports all important functions of the SQL standard:
Extensive transaction concept
Complex queries with included subqueries
Referential integrity (primary keys, foreign keys, check constraints and others)
Set operations
Updatable views
Trigger
Interface for C, C++, Java/JDBC, PHP, ODBC
Export and import of data as well as database schema
Integrated programming language based on PSM (Persistent Stored Modules), from version 8.4
The database is extensible via additional functions and custom data types.
Extensions
ROM-Operation
The TransbaseCD database option can use read-only storage media such as CD, DVD or Blu-ray Discs. In addition, a persistent disk cache can be utilized to store data for performance improvement and/or for updates of data supplied originally as read-only media. Optionally, TransbaseCD pages can be compressed. This saves half of storage requirement and response times, typically.
Hypercube search
Transbase Hypercube supports Relational Online Analytical Processing (ROLAP), which is primarily used in data warehouse applications. The search function for OLAP data cubes („hyper cubes“) is accelerated dramatically through the use of UB-Trees (in comparison to queries using standard indices).
Encryption
Transbase offers optional encryption of data stored on disk, using the Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm, as well as encryption of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite%20%28software%29 | Graphite is a free open-source software (FOSS) tool that monitors and graphs numeric time-series data such as the performance of computer systems.
Graphite was developed by Orbitz Worldwide, Inc and released as open-source software in 2008.
Graphite collects, stores, and displays time-series data in real time.
The tool has three main components:
Carbon - a Twisted daemon that listens for time-series data
Whisper - a simple database library for storing time-series data (similar in design to RRD)
Graphite webapp - A Django webapp that renders graphs on-demand using Cairo library.
Graphite is used in production by companies such as Ford Motor Company, Booking.com, GitHub, Etsy, The Washington Post and Electronic Arts.
See also
Grafana
References
External links
Latest documentation
Screenshots, FAQ and outdated documentation
Tools That Work With Graphite, mentioning and describing e.g. Grafana, a Graphite dashboard replacement
Free software
Time series software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gronkh | Erik Range, better known as Gronkh (born 10 April 1977), is a German YouTube personality, computer games developer, computer and video game journalist, musician and entrepreneur. Range marketed games through the company PlayMassive GmbH, which runs a computer games website, but stepped back on 1 January 2018. Gronkh is the most popular representative of the Let's Play genre in Germany and the fourth biggest YouTuber in Germany.
Life and work
Erik Range was born to a German father and a Russian mother in Braunschweig in 1977. He first gained recognition in the computer games industry as the guide for Bard characters that featured in the online role playing game Meridian 59. This is where he first used the gamer-tag "Gronkh", which he still uses today. Range said his pseudonym is a portmanteau of the name "Gregor Onkh". He has been managing partner and co-founder of PlayMassive GmbH since 2009. Fellow co-founder of the company is Valentin Matthias Rahmel, whose online pseudonym is Sarazar. Rahmel collaborates with Range on YouTube.
Since 2010, Range has regularly published Let's Play videos, in which he talks about his progress in various games. He published his first video on 1 April 2010; a test recording for the online game Allods Online. Since then, he has become one of the most popular German-speaking providers of these formats. His YouTube channel has had over 4 million subscribers and over 1.7 billion video views, and is one of the most successful channels on the website. He is one of the first commercial German creators and providers of related videos. Range's work is supported by game manufacturers that want to promote for their own products through cooperation. The game developers of Daedalic Entertainment reported an increase in sales of Edna & Harvey: The Breakout after the game was promoted on Range's channel. Since early 2012, Gronkh was registered as a trademark to PlayMassive GmbH at the German Patent and Trademark Office.
Range has been in a relationship with Tatjana Werth (alias Pandorya) since December 2012.
In 2018 Range left the PlayMassive GmbH and took the Gronkh trademark with him. He founded his own company Gods of Gaming GmbH. Some gamers formerly employed by the PlayMassive GmbH followed him and are now employed by his new company.
Range personally holds a German broadcasting license for GronkhTV and Gronkh broadcasting 'stations', although he considers the license to be useless. In 2017 Range was one of several high-profile YouTubers / live streamers who were targeted by a German authority (the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW) that their online-activities require a broadcasting license. He is of the opinion that his activities don't require such an expensive license. But to avoid a long and costly legal struggle he applied for a broadcasting license in October 2017 and was granted one in January 2018. He was criticised for giving in to the demands instead of fighting them in court, setting a bad example. Some of the ot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Tropical%20Cyclone%20Forecasting%20System | The Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System (ATCF) is a piece of software originally developed to run on a personal computer for the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) in 1988, and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in 1990. ATCF remains the main piece of forecasting software used for the United States Government, including the JTWC, NHC, and Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Other tropical cyclone centers in Australia and Canada developed similar software in the 1990s. The data files with ATCF lie within three decks, known as the a-, b-, and f-decks. The a-decks include forecast information, the b-decks contain a history of center fixes at synoptic hours, and the f-decks include the various fixes made by various analysis center at various times. In the years since its introduction, it has been adapted to Unix and Linux platforms.
Reason for development
The need for a more modernized method for forecasting tropical cyclones had become apparent by the mid-1980s. At that time Department of Defense was using acetate, grease pencils, and disparate computer programs to forecast tropical cyclones. The ATCF software was developed by the Naval Research Laboratory for the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) in Monterey, California beginning in 1986, and used since 1988. During 1990s the system was adapted by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) for use at the NHC, National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. This provided the NHC with a multitasking software environment which allowed them to improve efficiency and cut the time required to make a forecast by 25% or 1 hour. ATCF was originally developed for use within DOS, before later being adapted to Unix and Linux.
System identification
Systems within ATCF are identified with the basin prefix (AL – North Atlantic Ocean, CP – Central North Pacific Ocean, EP – North-East Pacific Ocean, IO – North Indian Ocean, SH – Southern Hemisphere, SL – South Atlantic Ocean, WP – North-West Pacific Ocean) and then followed by two digit number between 01 and 49 for active tropical cyclones, which becomes incremented with each new system, and then the year associated with the system (e.g. EP202015 for Hurricane Patricia). Numbers from 50 through 79 after the basin acronym are used internally by the basin's respective Tropical Cyclone Warning Centers and Regional Specialized Meteorological Center. Numbers in the 80s are used for training purposes and can be reused. Numbers in the 90s are used for areas of interest, sometimes referred to as invests or areas of disturbed weather, and are also reused within any particular year. Their status is listed the following ways within the associated data file:
DB – disturbance,
TD – tropical depression,
TS – tropical storm,
TY – typhoon,
ST – super typhoon,
TC – tropical cyclone,
HU – hurricane,
SD – subtropical depression,
SS – subtropical storm,
EX – extratropical systems,
IN – inland,
DS – dissipating,
LO – low,
WV – tropic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homography%20%28computer%20vision%29 | In the field of computer vision, any two images of the same planar surface in space are related by a homography (assuming a pinhole camera model). This has many practical applications, such as image rectification, image registration, or camera motion—rotation and translation—between two images. Once camera resectioning has been done from an estimated homography matrix, this information may be used for navigation, or to insert models of 3D objects into an image or video, so that they are rendered with the correct perspective and appear to have been part of the original scene (see Augmented reality).
3D plane to plane equation
We have two cameras a and b, looking at points in a plane.
Passing from the projection of in b to the projection of in a:
where and are the z coordinates of P in each camera frame and where the homography matrix is given by
.
is the rotation matrix by which b is rotated in relation to a; t is the translation vector from a to b; n and d are the normal vector of the plane and the distance from origin to the plane respectively.
Ka and Kb are the cameras' intrinsic parameter matrices.
The figure shows camera b looking at the plane at distance d.
Note: From above figure, assuming as plane model, is the projection of vector along , and equal to . So . And we have where .
This formula is only valid if camera b has no rotation and no translation. In the general case where and are the respective rotations and translations of camera a and b, and the homography matrix becomes
where d is the distance of the camera b to the plane.
Affine homography
When the image region in which the homography is computed is small or the image has been acquired with a large focal length, an affine homography is a more appropriate model of image displacements. An affine homography is a special type of a general homography whose last row is fixed to
See also
Direct linear transformation
Epipolar geometry
Feature (computer vision)
Fundamental matrix (computer vision)
Pose (computer vision)
Photogrammetry
References
Toolboxes
homest is a GPL C/C++ library for robust, non-linear (based on the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm) homography estimation from matched point pairs (Manolis Lourakis).
OpenCV is a complete (open and free) computer vision software library that has many routines related to homography estimation (cvFindHomography) and re-projection (cvPerspectiveTransform).
External links
Serge Belongie & David Kriegman (2007) Explanation of Homography Estimation from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
A. Criminisi, I. Reid & A. Zisserman (1997) "A Plane Measuring Device", §3 Computing the Plane to Plane Homography, from Visual Geometry Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.
Elan Dubrofsky (2009) Homography Estimation, Master's thesis, from Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia.
Richard Hartley & Andrew Zi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thauera%20phenylacetica | Thauera phenylacetica is a bacterium from the genus of Thauera.
References
External links
Type strain of Thauera phenylacetica at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodocyclaceae
Bacteria described in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief%20%28feature%20selection%29 | Relief is an algorithm developed by Kira and Rendell in 1992 that takes a filter-method approach to feature selection that is notably sensitive to feature interactions. It was originally designed for application to binary classification problems with discrete or numerical features. Relief calculates a feature score for each feature which can then be applied to rank and select top scoring features for feature selection. Alternatively, these scores may be applied as feature weights to guide downstream modeling. Relief feature scoring is based on the identification of feature value differences between nearest neighbor instance pairs. If a feature value difference is observed in a neighboring instance pair with the same class (a 'hit'), the feature score decreases. Alternatively, if a feature value difference is observed in a neighboring instance pair with different class values (a 'miss'), the feature score increases. The original Relief algorithm has since inspired a family of Relief-based feature selection algorithms (RBAs), including the ReliefF algorithm. Beyond the original Relief algorithm, RBAs have been adapted to (1) perform more reliably in noisy problems, (2) generalize to multi-class problems (3) generalize to numerical outcome (i.e. regression) problems, and (4) to make them robust to incomplete (i.e. missing) data.
To date, the development of RBA variants and extensions has focused on four areas; (1) improving performance of the 'core' Relief algorithm, i.e. examining strategies for neighbor selection and instance weighting, (2) improving scalability of the 'core' Relief algorithm to larger feature spaces through iterative approaches, (3) methods for flexibly adapting Relief to different data types, and (4) improving Relief run efficiency.
Their strengths are that they are not dependent on heuristics, they run in low-order polynomial time, and they are noise-tolerant and robust to feature interactions, as well as being applicable for binary or continuous data; however, it does not discriminate between redundant features, and low numbers of training instances fool the algorithm.
Relief Algorithm
Take a data set with n instances of p features, belonging to two known classes. Within the data set, each feature should be scaled to the interval [0 1] (binary data should remain as 0 and 1). The algorithm will be repeated m times. Start with a p-long weight vector (W) of zeros.
At each iteration, take the feature vector (X) belonging to one random instance, and the feature vectors of the instance closest to X (by Euclidean distance) from each class. The closest same-class instance is called 'near-hit', and the closest different-class instance is called 'near-miss'. Update the weight vector such that
Thus the weight of any given feature decreases if it differs from that feature in nearby instances of the same class more than nearby instances of the other class, and increases in the reverse case.
After m iterations, divide each eleme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby%20register | A Lobby Registry, also named Lobbyist Registry, Register for Lobby Transparency or Registry of Lobbyists is a public database, in which information about lobbying actors and key data about their actions can be accessed.
Its aim is to gain transparency about possible influences of interest groups on Parliamentarians and their staff. Several studies indicate that lobby transparency leads to a decrease of corruption.
Registers exist for political committees of several countries. Their effectiveness is rated differently, strongly depending on their exact regulations. Many non-mandatory registers do not include powerful lobbyists.
Positions and considerations
Register opponents mainly argued in a survey that there would be no need for regulations, since it would be self-regulating and that they would fear a barrier of free exchange of views.
Different from the US, West European countries had only weak lobby regulations for a long time.
Authors of a study interpreted that the early West-European politic was not focusing the concept of lobby transparency to gain public confidence into political processes, but rather on promoting economic development by enabling undisturbed communication between politics and economy. This setting of priorities is currently changing due to scandals and public pressure.
Regulation details
Many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) see means of controlling and sanction to handle missing or wrong entries as a central prerequisite for a working register. In many cases there are complains that this has not been put into practice.
Making an entry only mandatory if a certain threshold of money or time is spent on lobbying should prevent an inappropriately high bureaucratic burden for small actors (for example) in the US. Similar mechanisms are popular among supporters of a register.
Implementation as a database is favored over a list format since it allows not only searches but also enables data analysis and graphical representations.
Contained data
Most registers contain at least the following data:
Identity of the lobbyist
contracting entity
motivations/goals
financial means
A survey among lobbyists conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) revealed, that a majority of them would support a mandatory register and publication of the data above (excluding financial information).
Some registers, for example the Canadian, require much more data.
Lobby registers in different countries
United States
A mandatory, publicly accessible and processable lobby register with enforced financial disclosure and theoretical high punishments exists on federal level, as well as in every state besides Pennsylvania.
A register was introduced in the US in 1946 with the Lobbying Act. Loopholes in the regulation lead to the fact that only 4 000 of 13 000 lobbyists were registered, before the rules of disclosure were substituted by the stricter Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. In 2007 this was extended by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seja%20online | Seja Online is a Brazilian e-commerce company that was founded in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was founded in 2007 for Computer Science students. In 2010 it has passed the mark of 40,000 registered stores and more than 1,500 active e-commerces.
References
Online retailers of Brazil
Web hosting
Companies based in Minas Gerais
Internet properties established in 2007
Mass media companies established in 2007
2007 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderlist | Wunderlist is a discontinued cloud-based task management application. It allowed users to create lists to manage their tasks from a smartphone, tablet, computer and smartwatch. Wunderlist was free; additional collaboration features were available in a paid version known as Wunderlist Pro, released April 2013.
Wunderlist was created in 2011 by Berlin-based startup 6Wunderkinder (Engl.: 6Prodigies). The company was acquired by Microsoft in June 2015, at which time the app had over 13 million users.
In April 2017, Microsoft announced that Wunderlist would eventually be discontinued in favor of Microsoft To Do, a new multi-platform app developed by the Wunderlist team that has direct integration with the company's Office 365 service.
On December 6, 2019, Microsoft announced that it would shut down Wunderlist on May 6, 2020. After this date, the application would no longer sync but users could still import their content into Microsoft To Do.
History
In 2009, Wunderlist's CEO Christian Reber called on the social network platform XING for business partners to create a new to-do app. Frank Thelen responded and together Reber and Thelen developed first concepts for Wunderlist. The necessary seed funding was granted by High-Tech Gründerfonds and e42 GmbH.
The first version of Wunderlist was launched on November 9, 2010. Initially, the program was created for desktop PCs and platforms such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. In December 2011, the app received approval for the iPhone. Subsequently, the developers released a version prepared for the iPad with the name Wunderlist HD.
In September 2012, the developers announced a shutdown of their service Wunderkit. Instead they wanted to focus on creating a new version of Wunderlist, which was later on released in December 2012 under the name Wunderlist 2. In September 2013, the company announced it had over 5 million users. In July 2014, a new major update was released under the name of Wunderlist 3, with a new real-time sync architecture. Wunderlist reached 10 million users in December 2014.
On June 1, 2015, it was announced that Microsoft had acquired 6Wunderkinder, makers of Wunderlist, for between US$100 million and US$200 million (~$ in ). Following its acquisition of the app, Microsoft announced in April 2017 a preview of To-Do, a multi-platform task management app developed by the Wunderlist team that was intended to eventually replace Wunderlist and incorporate most of its features. As of January 2019, To-Do had not yet reached feature parity with Wunderlist, with its team citing that the service had to be completely re-written to use Microsoft Azure instead of Amazon Web Services.
Frustrated by the perceived lack of roadmap, in September 2019, Reber began to publicly ask Microsoft-related accounts on Twitter whether he could buy Wunderlist back. Shortly afterward, however, Microsoft unveiled updates to To-Do that make it more closely resemble Wunderlist.
In December 2019, Microsoft announced tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Supporters%20Europe | Football Supporters Europe (FSE) is a football fan network formally established as a non-profit member association and claiming to have members from more than 48 UEFA member countries. Founded in July 2008 at the first European Football Fans Congress, it is considered as a legitimate partner for fan issues by institutions like the UEFA, the Council of Europe or European Professional Football Leagues.
History
FSE can trace its history back to the international collaboration by fans’ organisations under the former name of Football Supporters International to provide “Fans’ Embassy” advice, information and support services to fans of national teams at international tournaments.
But the real story of FSE as it now exists began in July 2008, when the UK's Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) hosted in London the first European Football Fans’ Congress.
The London meeting, held at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, discussed the issues which concerned fans across Europe, and gave a great impetus to the development of the network. The following year, in Hamburg, the second European Football Fans’ Congress (EFFC) was held, and alongside the workshops on issues such as discrimination, policing, ticket pricing and commercialisation, the decision was taken to adopt statutes and formally establish the network.
Structure
The FSE member basis consists of individual football supporters as well as locally, nationally and transnationally active fan groups and initiatives members (allegedly from more than 48 UEFA member countries). FSE claims to represent around 3 million football fans overall and therefore to be the world’s biggest fan organisation.
The highest body of the organisation is the “Bi-Annual General Meeting” (BGM) of Football Supporters Europe (FSE). The BGM is held every two years during the EFFC and it is here that the members decide with their vote about the aims, objectives and future actions of the network, approve changes to its statutes and elect the members of the FSE Committee from within the FSE membership for the following two years.
The FSE Committee is the main management board of the network, consisting of the FSE Coordination, the directors of the on-topic divisions and the elected members. Its members are responsible for the overall running of the European football fans’ network. The FSE Committee members take the most important decisions, develop activities together with the wider membership and represent FSE at various activities, events and meetings such as the Annual Meeting with the UEFA President in Nyon / Switzerland.
The elected FSE Committee members for the seasons 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 are:
Pierre Barthélemy, Association Nationale des Supporters, France.
Kevin Miles, Football Supporters Federation (FSF), England.
Robert Ustian, CSKA Fans Against Racism, Russia.
Stefanie Dilba, Bündnis Aktiver Fußballfans, Germany.
Hüseyin Emre Ballı, 1907 ÜNIFEB, Turkey.
Paul Corkrey, Fans Embassy Wales, Wales.
Herjan Pullen, S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 2000 is the sixth year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2000 Fighting Network Rings held 18 events beginning with, Rings Holland: There Can Only Be One Champion.
Title fights
Events list
Rings Holland: There Can Only Be One Champion
Rings Holland: There Can Only Be One Champion was an event held on February 6, 2000 at The Vechtsebanen Sport Hall in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Results
Rings: King of Kings 1999 Final
Rings: King of Kings 1999 Final was an event held on February 26, 2000 at The Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings Australia: NR 4
Rings Australia: NR 4 was an event held on March 19, 2000 at The Alexandra Hills Hotel in Brisbane, Australia.
Results
Rings: Millennium Combine 1
Rings: Millennium Combine 1 was an event held on April 20, 2000 at The Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings Russia: Russia vs. The World
Rings Russia: Russia vs. The World was an event held on May 20, 2000 at The Yekaterinburg Sports Palace in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.
Results
Rings Russia: Russia vs. Bulgaria
Rings Russia: Russia vs. Bulgaria was an event held on May 21, 2000 in Tula, Russia. This card featured the MMA debut of future Pride Heavyweight Champion and MMA superstar, Fedor Emelianenko.
Results
Rings Holland: Di Capo Di Tutti Capi
Rings Holland: Di Capo Di Tutti Capi was an event held on June 4, 2000 at The Vechtsebanen Sport Hall in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Results
Rings: Millennium Combine 2
Rings: Millennium Combine 2 was an event held on June 15, 2000 at The Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings USA: Rising Stars Block A
Rings USA: Rising Stars Block A was an event held on July 15, 2000 at The McKay-Dee Hospital Center in Orem, Utah.
Results
Rings USA: Rising Stars Block B
Rings USA: Rising Stars Block B was an event held on July 22, 2000 at The Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Results
Rings: Russia vs. Georgia
Rings: Russia vs. Georgia was an event held on August 16, 2000 at The Tula Circus in Tula, Russia.
Results
Rings: Millennium Combine 3
Rings: Millennium Combine 3 was an event held on August 23, 2000 at The Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan.
Results
Rings: Battle Genesis Vol. 6
Rings: Battle Genesis Vol. 6 was an event held on September 5, 2000 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings USA: Rising Stars Final
Rings USA: Rising Stars Final was an event held on September 30, 2000 at The Mark of the Quad Cities in Moline, Illinois.
Results
Rings: King of Kings 2000 Block A
Rings: King of Kings 2000 Block A was an event held on October 9, 2000 at The Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings Lithuania: Bushido Rings 1
Rings Lithuania: Bushido Rings 1 was an event held on October 24, 2000 at The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Results
Rings Australia: Free Fight Battle
Rings Australia: Fre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homography%20%28disambiguation%29 | A homography may refer to
homography, a type of isomorphism of projective spaces,
homography (computer vision), a mapping relating perspective images of the same scene,
homograph, a word written the same but with different meaning, or
heterography and homography, a measure of phonetic consistency in language. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton%20Lintorn-Catlin | Hampton Lintorn-Catlin (né Catlin; born 1982) is an American computer programmer, programming language inventor, gay rights advocate, and author, best known as the creator of the Sass and Haml markup languages. Hampton was a Vice President of Engineering at Rent the Runway, and has previously held similar roles at Moovweb, Wordset, and at the Wikimedia Foundation. He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Thriveworks.
Creations
Haml
He created a lightweight markup language called Haml which he intended to be a radically different design for inline page templating systems like eRuby in Ruby. Since its initial release in 2006, Haml has been in constant development and has been ported to over 10 other languages. It's the second most popular templating language for the Ruby on Rails framework and has inspired many other templating languages.
Sass
In 2007, Catlin created a style sheet language to expand on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), used to describe presentation semantics of web pages. Catlin continued to work on Sass with co-designer Natalie Weizenbaum through 2008. Sass is now bundled as part of Rails.
In 2011, he co-wrote with his husband the book Pragmatic Guide to Sass, published through The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Wikipedia Mobile
Catlin wrote several applications for iOS and other mobile platforms, including Dictionary!, a popular dictionary application, and a Wikipedia browsing client which was later purchased by the Wikimedia Foundation. He was subsequently hired by Wikimedia and given the role as mobile development lead for the Foundation, launching the official mobile website in June 2009. The backend for the site was developed using Ruby and the Merb framework.
Personal life
Catlin was born in 1982 in Jacksonville, Florida and currently resides in New York with his husband and collaborator, Michael Catlin.
The couple made headlines in late March, 2014, for removing a simple puzzle game they had built together from the Mozilla Marketplace after Brendan Eich was appointed CEO of Mozilla. They called for a boycott of Mozilla, pledging "We will continue our boycott until Brendan Eich is completely removed from any day to day activities at Mozilla...." Eich had previously been the center of controversy surrounding his support for Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that banned marriage equality in California, which was re-ignited by his promotion to CEO. After a large public outcry and several Mozilla Foundation employees publicly calling for him to step down, Eich voluntarily stepped down only a week after taking his new position. When asked if he'd donate again, Eich responded "I don't want to answer hypotheticals." In a follow-up blog post, Catlin explained meeting Eich to find middle ground and expressing dismay at the response, calling the outcome a "sad victory".
See also
List of inventors
List of LGBT rights activists
List of Wikipedia people
References
External links
American computer programmers
American male non |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha%20and%20the%20Bear | Masha and the Bear ( ) is a Russian preschool comedy computer-animated series created by Oleg Kuzovkov and produced by Animaccord Animation Studio, loosely based on the oral children's folk story of the same name. The show focuses on the adventures of a little girl named Masha and her caring friend, the bear (miška) that always keeps her safe from disasters.
Masha and The Bear is the most watched preschool series in the world, with 36 times more requests than the average. It is also the fifth most-watched youth series (0–18) worldwide, just ahead of Peppa Pig.
Many of the episodes have been successful on YouTube. In particular, the Russian-language version of the episode "Маша плюс каша" ("Maša plûs kaša" or "Recipe for Disaster") has almost 4.5 billion views as of April 2022, making it the site's twelfth most viewed video of all time, and the most viewed video on YouTube that is not a music video.
The show was first launched 2016 of June. It was the first Russian-produced animated TV show to be released in 4K.
Plot
Masha is a four-year-old girl who lives in the forest with her pig, goat, and dog. In the first episode, it is shown that all the animals in the forest are afraid of her, as she is constantly forcing them to play with her. Then Masha sees a butterfly and inadvertently follows it inside the home of the Bear, who has gone fishing. While playing there, she makes a big mess. When he returns, he sees the disaster caused by Masha. The Bear tries to get rid of Masha but after multiple failed attempts, the unlikely duo become friends.
In each episode of the show, Masha is portrayed as a bright little girl who loves exploring the world around her. Masha's shenanigans result in unexpected but entertaining situations that are at the heart of the show's episodes. The kind-hearted Bear is always trying to keep Masha out of trouble. There are several supporting characters in the series, including Masha's cousin Dasha, a penguin adopted by the Bear, a young panda cub from China (the Bear's cousin), two wolves who live in an old UAZ ambulance, a tiger that used to work with the Bear in the circus, and a Female Bear that is the object of the Bear's affections. Characters also include a hare, squirrels and hedgehogs, a pig called Rosie, a goat, and a dog who all live in Masha's front yard.
Characters
Main
Masha
Masha (a diminutive form of Maria) is a 4-year-old girl who is portrayed as naughty and hyperactive, and always thinks about playing. She lives in a house near a railway station; near her house there is a path that leads to the Bear's house. Masha loves the bear very much, but in her games she tends to create problems for him. In the series, neither Masha's parents nor the parents of her friends are shown. She loves sweets, jumping in a bucket, and looking at drawings of her and Bear. Masha's character combines the characteristics of 4-year-old (making grammatical errors when speaking, crying when she is not given what she wants) with a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Footy%20Show%20%281957%20TV%20program%29 | The Footy Show is an Australian television program which was broadcast on the Seven Network, Melbourne television station HSV-7. It was broadcast on Fridays from 12 April 1957 to 20 September 1957, and again from 4 April 1958 to 19 September 1958.
Broadcast
The program was presented by Australian footballers Doug Elliot and Jack Dyer, along with fellow VFL football players. It was a 30-minute program.
It is unlikely (though not impossible) that any of the episodes exist as Kinescope recordings.
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Seven Network original programming
1957 Australian television series debuts
1958 Australian television series endings
Australian sports television series
English-language television shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose%20language | A general-purpose language is a computer language that is broadly applicable across application domains, and lacks specialized features for a particular domain. This is in contrast to a domain-specific language (DSL), which is specialized to a particular application domain. The line is not always sharp, as a language may have specialized features for a particular domain but be applicable more broadly, or conversely may in principle be capable of broad application but in practice used primarily for a specific domain.
General-purpose languages are further subdivided by the kind of language, and include:
General-purpose markup languages, such as XML
General-purpose modeling language such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
General-purpose programming languages, such as C, Java, PHP, or Python
References
External links
Programming language classification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional%20neural%20network | Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a regularized type of feed-forward neural network that learns feature engineering by itself via filters (or kernel) optimization. Vanishing gradients and exploding gradients, seen during backpropagation in earlier neural networks, are prevented by using regularized weights over fewer connections. For example, for each neuron in the fully-connected layer 10,000 weights would be required for processing an image sized 100 × 100 pixels. However, applying cascaded convolution (or cross-correlation) kernels, only 25 neurons are required to process 5x5-sized tiles. Higher-layer features are extracted from wider context windows, compared to lower-layer features.
They have applications in:
image and video recognition,
recommender systems,
image classification,
image segmentation,
medical image analysis,
natural language processing,
brain–computer interfaces, and
financial time series.
CNNs are also known as Shift Invariant or Space Invariant Artificial Neural Networks (SIANN), based on the shared-weight architecture of the convolution kernels or filters that slide along input features and provide translation-equivariant responses known as feature maps. Counter-intuitively, most convolutional neural networks are not invariant to translation, due to the downsampling operation they apply to the input.
Feed-forward neural networks are usually fully connected networks, that is, each neuron in one layer is connected to all neurons in the next layer. The "full connectivity" of these networks make them prone to overfitting data. Typical ways of regularization, or preventing overfitting, include: penalizing parameters during training (such as weight decay) or trimming connectivity (skipped connections, dropout, etc.) Robust datasets also increases the probability that CNNs will learn the generalized principles that characterize a given dataset rather than the biases of a poorly-populated set.
Convolutional networks were inspired by biological processes in that the connectivity pattern between neurons resembles the organization of the animal visual cortex. Individual cortical neurons respond to stimuli only in a restricted region of the visual field known as the receptive field. The receptive fields of different neurons partially overlap such that they cover the entire visual field.
CNNs use relatively little pre-processing compared to other image classification algorithms. This means that the network learns to optimize the filters (or kernels) through automated learning, whereas in traditional algorithms these filters are hand-engineered. This independence from prior knowledge and human intervention in feature extraction is a major advantage.
Architecture
A convolutional neural network consists of an input layer, hidden layers and an output layer. In a convolutional neural network, the hidden layers include one or more layers that perform convolutions. Typically this includes a layer that pe |
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