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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Geo%20Entertainment | Independent Media Corporation launched Geo Entertainment in October 2002. It is an entertainment channel in Pakistan that airs Lollywood movies and TV dramas.
The following is a list of programming currently being broadcast, and formerly broadcast, on Geo TV, a television channel in Pakistan. It airs dramas throughout the day, with reruns of popular ended serials airing in the morning and nighttime.
Current programming
Original programming
Jannat Se Aagay
Mannat Murad
Mujhay Qabool Nahi
Pyari Nimmo
Baylagam
Upcoming broadcast
Zabt
Irada
Yahya
Maa Nahi Saas Hoon Mein
Former programming
This is a list of original programming first broadcast by Geo TV.
Anthology
Abdullah
Aik Aur Munafiq
Ain
Dikhawa
Libaas
Maamlaat
Makafaat
Nisa
Talluq
Zindagi Udaas Hai Tu
Comedy/Sitcom
Baraat Series
Azar Ki Ayegi Baraat
Dolly Ki Ayegi Baraat
Takkay Ki Ayegi Baraat
Annie Ki Ayegi Baraat
Chaudhry and Sons
Dolly Aunty Ka Dream Villa
Dolly Darling
Heer Da Hero
Hum Sab Umeed Se Hain
Ishq Jalebi
Jalebiyan
Khala Surraya
Kis Din Mera Viyah Howay Ga
Ladies Park
Main Mummy Aur Woh
Mannchali
Miss Fire
Nadaaniyaan
Paanch Saaliyan
Romeo Weds Heer
Shahrukh Ki Saliyaan
Shashlik Xtra Hot
S.H.E
Shokhiyaan
Sitara Jahan Ki Betiyaan
Tere Aany Se
Ulta Seedha
Zamani Manzil Kay Maskharay
Drama
Aao Laut Chalein
Aadha Din Aur Poori Raat
Aap ki Kaneez
Aasmanon Pay Likha
Ab Dekh Khuda Kya Karta Hai
Adhoora Bandhan
Adhoori Aurat
Aik Nayee Cinderella
Aik Thi Raniya
Alif
Ali Ki Ammi
Amma Aur Gulnaz
Ana (2004)
Anaya Tumhari Hui
Ashk
Aye Musht-E-Khaak
Baba Jani
Badzaat
Bandhay Aik Dor Say
Bashar Momin
Bedardi Saiyaan
Behkawa
Bewafai Tumhare Naam
Bholi Bano
Bikhra Mera Naseeb
Bojh
Bol Meri Machli
Chaand Parosa
Chaar Chaand
Chain Aye Na
Chemistry
Choraha
Daraar
Darr Khuda Say
Deemak
Deewangi
Dekho Chaand Aaya
Dhaani
Dilfareb
Dil-e-Gumshuda
Dil-e-Momin
Dil-e-Nadan
Dil Awaiz
Dil Hai Chota Sa
Dil Ishq
Dil Kiya Karay
Dil Muhallay Ki Haveli
Dil Tou Bhatkay Ga
Do Qadam Door Thay
Doraha
Dour
Duaa
Ehraam-e-Junoon
Ek Hatheli Pe Hina Ek Hatheli Pe Lahoo
Ek Kasak Reh Gayi
Ek Nazar Meri Taraf
Farq
Fitoor
Ghaao
Ghar Titli Ka Par
Haasil
Hadsa
Hari Hari Churiyaan
Hazaron Saal
Heer
Hiddat
Hina Ki Khushboo
Hum Tum
Iqraar
Ishqaaway
Ishq Aatish
Ishq Ibadat
Ishq Ki Inteha
Iss Khamoshi Ka Matlab
Izn-e-Rukhsat
Jahez
Jal Pari
Jannat Se Nikali Hui Aurat
Jhoom
Jo Bichar Gaye
Jo Chale To Jaan Se Guzar Gaye
Joru Ka Ghulam
Judaai
Kaanch Ki Guriya
Kabhi Socha Na Tha
Kahan Tum Chalay Gye
Kahin Deep Jaley
Kaif-e-Baharan
Kaise Huaye Benaam
Kaise Kahoon
Kalmoohi
Kam Zarf
Kasa-e-Dil
Khaali Haath
Khaani
Khalish
Khan
Khuda Aur Muhabbat
Khuda Aur Muhabbat (season 1)
Khuda Aur Muhabbat (season 2)
Khuda Aur Muhabbat (season 3)
Kinara
Kuch Dil Ne Kaha
Kuch Kami Si Hai
Ladoon Mein Pali
Laut Ke Chalay Aana
Mahnoor
Main Akeli
Majazi Khuda
Makan
Malika-e-Aliya
Malkin
Mannat
Manchahi
Man Jali
Mann Ke Moti
Manto
Maryam
Marzi
Meharposh
Meray Dost Meray Yaar
Meray Humnasheen
Mera Khuda J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon%20Dumas | Marlon Gerardo Dumas Menjivar (born 22 August 1975) is a Honduran computer scientist, and Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Tartu in Estonia, known for his contributions in the field of Business Process Management.
Born in Honduras, Dumas received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Grenoble in France in 2000. From 2000 to 2009 he was Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. In 2007 he was appointed Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Tartu in Estonia.
In 2004 and 2007 Dumas was awarded the Queensland Government Fellowship to "undertake research on service-oriented software architectures in collaboration with SAP AG."
Dumas is married to an Estonian, whom he has a daughter with.
Publications
Dumas authored and co-authored numerous publications in the field of computer science. Books:
Marlon Dumas, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede (Editors), Process-Aware Information Systems: Bridging People and Software Through Process Technology, John Wiley & Sons, September 2005.
Marlon Dumas, Marcello La Rosa, Jan Mendling, Hajo A. Reijers. Fundamentals of Business Process Management, Springer, February 2013
Articles, a selection:
Zeng, L., Benatallah, B., Dumas, M., Kalagnanam, J., & Sheng, Q. Z. (2003, May). Quality driven web services composition. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web (pp. 411–421). ACM.
Zeng, Liangzhao, et al. "QoS-aware middleware for web services composition." Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 30.5 (2004): 311-327.
References
External links
Marlon Dumas at University of Tartu
1975 births
Living people
Honduran academics
Honduran scientists
Computer scientists
Grenoble Alpes University alumni
Academic staff of Queensland University of Technology
Academic staff of the University of Tartu
Honduran expatriates in Estonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipment%20of%20Strategic%20Air%20Command | Strategic Air Command equipment includes weapon systems and ordnance (e.g., strategic weapons such as ICBMs), ground radars and computers (e.g., at SSN 1979-82), and other Cold War devices of the USAF major command.
Special Weapons Emergency Separation System
This system (SWESS), also known informally as the dead man's switch, was a nuclear bomb release system that the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command built into bombers such as the B-52 Stratofortress. The system's purpose was to ensure that an aircraft's payload of nuclear weapons would detonate in the event of the crew becoming debilitated by enemy defences such as missiles. Once armed, the system would ensure that the onboard nuclear weapons detonated if the aircraft dropped below a predetermined altitude.
SAC Equipment
See also
Permissive Action Link
Fail-deadly
References
Cold War military equipment of the United States Air Force
Equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias%20Weske | Mathias Weske (born 1963) is a German computer scientist, and Professor of Business Process Technology at the University of Potsdam, known for his contributions in the field of business process management and as a founder of the business Signavio.
Weske received his PhD in 1993 at the University of Koblenz, and his habilitation in 2000 at the University of Münster. In 2000-01 he was associate professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and in 2001 he was appointed Professor of Computer Science at the Hasso Plattner Institut of the University of Potsdam.
Publications
Weske authored and co-authored numerous publications in the field of Business Process Management and Computer Science. Books, a selection:
Van Der Aalst, Wil MP, Arthur HM Ter Hofstede, and Mathias Weske. Business process management: A survey. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003.
Weske, Mathias. Business process management: concepts, languages, architectures. Springer, 2012.
Articles, a selection:
van der Aalst, Wil MP, and Mathias Weske. "The P2P approach to interorganizational workflows." Advanced Information Systems Engineering. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001.
Van der Aalst, Wil MP, Mathias Weske, and Dolf Grünbauer. "Case handling: a new paradigm for business process support." Data & Knowledge Engineering 53.2 (2005): 129-162.
Decker, G., Kopp, O., Leymann, F., & Weske, M. (2007, July). "BPEL4Chor: Extending BPEL for modeling choreographies". In Web Services, 2007. ICWS 2007. IEEE International Conference on (pp. 296–303). IEEE.
References
External links
Mathias Weske at the University of Potsdam
1963 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Academic staff of the University of Potsdam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees%20van%20Hee | Kees Max van Hee (born 1946) is a Dutch computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, known for his development of the process modelling tool ExSpecT, and his seminal work on workflow management.
Biography
Van Hee studied Mathematics and Informatics at Eindhoven University of Technology, where in 1978 he received his PhD cum laude with a thesis entitled "Bayesian control of Markov chains", under supervision of Jaap Wessels and Fred W. Steutel.
From 1985 to 2011, Van Hee was Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty for Mathematics and Informatics, Eindhoven University of Technology.
He supervised 20 doctoral students, among them Jan L.G. Dietz (1987), Geert-Jan P.M. Houben (1990), Ágoston E. Eiben (1991), Wil van der Aalst (1992), Peter Massuthe (2009), and Christian Stahl (2009).
He was also research fellow of the Econometric Institute at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
From 1994 to 2004, Van Hee was also a director at Bakkenist Management Consultants, and after it was incorporated by Deloitte, at Deloitte.
Throughout his career, much of his research, university teaching, and consultancy centered on business process modeling, often with the aid of Petri net-based modeling techniques.
As Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer science at the Eindhoven University of Technology Van Hee had initiated an own investigation, asking among other Andries Brouwer and Gerard 't Hooft for a second opinion, which led to the cancellation of the PhD graduation of Marcoen Cabbolet in 2008. Afterwards a Committee for Scientific Integrity initially ruled that the Dean of the University and Deans of the Faculties had failed to apply the principle of audi alteram partem in the process, but in the appeal case Van Hee and others were acquitted.
In 2011 Van Hee was appointed Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his exceptional contributions to science and society.
Publications
Books a selection:
1978. Bayesian control of Markov chains. Doctoral thesis Eindhoven University of Technology. Amsterdam : Mathematisch Centrum.
1993. Systems engineering : a formal approach. Eindhoven : Eindhoven University of Technology.
2004. Workflow management: models, methods, and systems. With Wil van der Aalst. The MIT press, 2004.
References
External links
Kees van Hee at tue.nl
1946 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Eindhoven University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lazer | David Lazer is a distinguished professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University, as well as the co-director of the NULab of Texts, Maps, and Networks.
Life
Early life and education
David Lazer obtained a bachelor of arts in economics in 1988 from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He subsequently received his Ph.D. in political science in 1996 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Career
Lazer's first academic position after graduate school was as a lecturer at Princeton University's Department of Politics, where he taught from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 he became an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and was promoted to associate professor in 2003. Lazer left Harvard in 2009 to join the faculty at Northeastern University, where he received dual-appointments in the Department of Political Science and the College of Computer and Information Science. Lazer was promoted to full professor in 2012 and to distinguished professor in 2014.
Areas of research
Lazer is particularly well known for his research on computational social science, stemming from his 2009 article "Life in the network: the coming age of computational social science".
Lazer has published numerous articles on elections in the United States. One study he co-authored in 2010 found that Americans are more willing to deliberate with congressional leaders than had previously been expected.
References
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gMndACUAAAAJ&hl=en
American computer scientists
Northeastern University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Michigan alumni
Network scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20to%20the%20White%20House | Road to the White House is an American television series on the C-SPAN network that periodically follows campaign-related activities of official and potential Democratic, Republican, third party and independent presidential candidates during the quadrennial United States presidential election cycles.
References
External links
Road to the White House, C-SPAN Video Library
1987 American television series debuts
1980s American television news shows
1990s American television news shows
2000s American television news shows
2010s American television news shows
2020s American television news shows
C-SPAN original programming
English-language television shows
United States presidential campaigns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton%20Swisher | Clayton E. Swisher is an American former journalist and author, who now works as a geopolitical risk analyst. Formerly the Director of Investigative Journalism for the Al Jazeera Media Network in Doha, Qatar, he now heads Swisher Empirical Studies LLC, headquartered in Doha.
He is the author of two non-fiction books on the Arab–Israeli conflict.
Early life and education
Swisher is the son of Mary Swisher and James Swisher Jr. He grew up in Michigan and later in New Castle, Pennsylvania, where he played football for Neshannock High School. After high school, Swisher attended the University of Pittsburgh. In 1999 he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Administration of Justice. In 2003 he graduated from Georgetown University with a Master's in Islam & Muslim-Christian Relations.
In 2018 Swisher received a PhD in Middle East Politics from Exeter University under the supervision of notable Israeli Professor Ilan Pappe.
Background
Swisher served in the US Marine Corps reserves and later as a Special Agent with the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, investigating passport fraud and internal corruption.
Swisher also performed close protection officer duties as a bodyguard for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell, as well as foreign dignitaries, including Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Between 2005 and 2007, Swisher transitioned to the think tank and research industry and worked as the Director of Programs with the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., where he hosted televised debates concerning US foreign policy toward the Arab world. He was also affiliated with the Council on Foreign Relations as a 5-year term member.
Swisher is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighter who competes internationally at the rank of Blue Belt. In 2022, he won a gold medal at the IBJJF European Championship in Rome and later took two bronze medals at the IBJJF Campeonato Brasileiro in Sao Paolo, the sports largest annual competition in Brazil.
Journalism and awards
Swisher joined Al Jazeera English in 2007. As a producer and roving reporter, he covered the 2008 US Presidential elections, the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, ethnic fighting in Kyrgyzstan and between 2009-10 the conflict in Afghanistan.
In 2011, Swisher led the team which produced the "Palestine Papers", described by The Guardian newspaper as "the biggest documentary leak in the history of the Middle East conflict." The late esteemed correspondent Robert Fisk said the Palestine Papers "blew open the secret and scandalous American-led negotiations between Israelis and the Palestinian Authority between 2000 and 2010." The Palestine Papers led to the temporary resignation of Dr. Saeb Erekat, Chief PLO Negotiator, who accused Swisher in a live Al Jazeera interview of orchestrating the leak as part of a CIA plot. However, after investigating formal complaints made by Erekat and the PLO, against Swisher and Al Jazeera, the British media regulator Ofcom rejected their claim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20storage | Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a computer data storage that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks. Each object typically includes the data itself, a variable amount of metadata, and a globally unique identifier. Object storage can be implemented at multiple levels, including the device level (object-storage device), the system level, and the interface level. In each case, object storage seeks to enable capabilities not addressed by other storage architectures, like interfaces that are directly programmable by the application, a namespace that can span multiple instances of physical hardware, and data-management functions like data replication and data distribution at object-level granularity.
Object storage systems allow retention of massive amounts of unstructured data in which data is written once and read once (or many times). Object storage is used for purposes such as storing objects like videos and photos on Facebook, songs on Spotify, or files in online collaboration services, such as Dropbox. One of the limitations with object storage is that it is not intended for transactional data, as object storage was not designed to replace NAS file access and sharing; it does not support the locking and sharing mechanisms needed to maintain a single, accurately updated version of a file.
History
Origins
In 1995, research led by Garth Gibson on Network-Attached Secure Disks first promoted the concept of splitting less common operations, like namespace manipulations, from common operations, like reads and writes, to optimize the performance and scale of both. In the same year, a Belgian company - FilePool - was established to build the basis for archiving functions. Object storage was proposed at Gibson's Carnegie Mellon University lab as a research project in 1996. Another key concept was abstracting the writes and reads of data to more flexible data containers (objects). Fine grained access control through object storage architecture was further described by one of the NASD team, Howard Gobioff, who later was one of the inventors of the Google File System. Other related work includes the Coda filesystem project at Carnegie Mellon, which started in 1987, and spawned the Lustre file system. There is also the OceanStore project at UC Berkeley, which started in 1999 and the Logistical Networking project at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, which started in 1998. In 1999, Gibson founded Panasas to commercialize the concepts developed by the NASD team.
Development
Seagate Technology played a central role in the development of object storage. According to the Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA, "Object storage originated in the late 1990s: Seagate specifications from 1999 Introduced some of the first commands and how operating system effectively remov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20XD%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney XD (formerly Fox Kids Network, Fox Kids and Jetix) was a British and Irish pay television channel. First launching in October 1996, it originated from the United States block of the same name, and was operated under a joint-venture between Fox Television Entertainment and Saban Entertainment before moving along to the Euronext-operating Fox Kids Europe, and then rebranding itself to Jetix in January 2005 after The Walt Disney Company's prior-purchase of Fox Family Worldwide in October 2001. and then reaching to its final name in August 2009 after Disney acquired Jetix Europe.
The British version of Fox Kids was the first European variant before being expanded to other European countries during the late 1990s.
History
Fox Kids
Pre-Launch
In November 1995, Fox Broadcasting Company announced a strategic partnership with Saban Entertainment to launch branded Fox Kids channels in all regions apart from North America. This followed up with an attempt by Fox to acquire a 49% stake in TCC from owners Flextech in 1996, which in turn would allow for extra programmes from Saban to be added, but this deal fell through in August, with Fox still planning to branch off and launch their own network.
On September 27, 1996, it was announced that the British version of the Fox Kids Network would launch on October 19. This announcement was made a week after Fox announced to spin-off the US Fox Kids Network block into a joint-venture with Saban, known as Fox Kids Worldwide. On September 30, Viacom announced they may file a lawsuit against BSkyB, citifying that the launch of Fox Kids Network would breech their existing contract to operate Nickelodeon UK which prevented Sky from operating any rival children's networks to Nickelodeon. The reason being was that Sky was at the time, 40% owned by News Corporation. However, the Fox Kids Worldwide formation with Saban prevented this.
Launch
The channel launched as planned on October 19, 1996. Broadcasting between the hours of 6am to 7pm, it was the first Fox Kids channel to launch in Europe. It also became the second channel to launch under the Fox Kids name, only following the Australian version. Fox Kids time-shared originally with Sky 2 and later National Geographic Channel, before extending its hours to 10pm. Fox Kids consisted of live-action and animated comedy, drama, and action-adventure programmers for children of all ages, Fox Kids also programmed up to seven hours of advertisement-free educational series each week.
In October 1997, Fox Kids Network debuted on cable television being added to Comcast, and on Comtel in March 1998. Both would eventually be purchased by NTL. On October 5, 1998, Fox Kids was added to Cable & Wireless, replacing TCC Nordic. In December 2000, the channel was added to NTL's digital cable platform.
In early 2001, Fox Kids claimed one million children watched the channel every week. Fox Kids also restructured its operations into two divisions, content and commercial. In June 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda%20Monastery%20%28France%29 | Nalanda Monastery (Fr: le monastère Nalanda, f. 1981) is the first Western monastery of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), an international network of Gelugpa dharma centers. Named for Nalanda Monastery in ancient India, the French institution is located near Lavaur, about forty kilometers from Toulouse, and not far from another FPMT center, the Institut Vajra Yogini.
History
The site was purchased by Elizabeth Drukier, then director of the Institut Vajra Yogini, with the intention of using it as the European headquarters of the International Mahayana Institute (IMI), a group of Western monks following FPMT co-founders Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa. The monastery opened in a converted farmhouse, with Geshe Jampa Tegchog as its first abbot (served 1981-1994, afterwards abbot of Sera Je) and Ven. Adrian Feldman as its first director. Since 2000, its abbot has been Geshe Losang Jamphel.
Activities
Nalanda offers the FPMT Basic Program and (from 2013) FPMT Masters Program as well as various pujas (worship ceremonies) and one-off events. The current Abbott is Geshe Losang Jamphel, and the second teacher is Geshe Jamphel Gyaltsen.
In 2019, former Nalanda teacher Geshe Tashi Tsering was awarded the British Empire Medal (Civil Division) for services to Buddhism in the UK. He taught at Nalanda Monastery for several years before going on to become the guiding Tibetan teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London.
Links
Official site
References
Tibetan Buddhist monasteries
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4Linux | {{DISPLAYTITLE:L4Linux}}
L4Linux is a variant of the Linux kernel for operating systems, that is altered to the extent that it can run paravirtualized on an L4 microkernel, where the L4Linux kernel runs a service. L4Linux is not a fork but a variant and is binary compatible with the Linux x86 kernel, thus it can replace the Linux kernel of any Linux distribution.
L4Linux is being developed by the Dresden Real-Time Operating System Project (DROPS) to allow real-time and time-sharing programs to run on a computer in parallel at the same time.
L4Linux also allows setting up a virtualized environment vaguely similar to Xen or Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), but a few significant differences exist between the intent of Xen and L4Linux.
L4Android
L4Android is a fork of L4Linux which encompasses the modifications to the main-line Linux kernel for Android. It is a joint project of the operating systems group of the Dresden University of Technology and the chair for Security in Telecommunications of the Berlin Institute of Technology.
See also
Wombat (operating system)
MkLinux, a similar port of the Linux kernel, but to a Mach microkernel
References
Linux kernel variant
Virtualization software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehler%20reaction | The Mehler reaction is named after Alan H. Mehler, who, in 1951, presented data to the effect that isolated chloroplasts reduce oxygen to form hydrogen peroxide (). Mehler observed that the formed in this way does not present an active intermediate in photosynthesis; rather, as a reactive oxygen species, it can be toxic to surrounding biological processes as an oxidizing agent. In scientific literature, the Mehler reaction often is used interchangeably with the Water-Water Cycle to refer to the formation of by photosynthesis. Sensu stricto, the Water Water Cycle encompasses the Hill reaction, in which water is split to form oxygen, as well as the Mehler Reaction, in which oxygen is reduced to form and, finally, the scavenging of this by antioxidants to form water.
Beginning in the 1970s, Professor Kozi Asada elucidated that oxygen can be reduced by electrons emerging from ferredoxin of photosystem I, to form superoxide, which is then reduced by superoxide dismutase to form . This photochemical is then reduced by the action of ascorbate peroxidase to form water and oxidized ascorbate. Asada argued that oxygen presents an important sink for excess excitation energy acquired during plant exposure to bright light. He would often begin seminars by asking: 'Why aren't plants sunburnt despite being exposed to light?'.
How much of a photoprotective role the Water Water Cycle plays has been occasion for some debate. In terrestrial plants, transfer of electrons to oxygen from ferredoxin at PSI accounts for easily less than 10% of total photosynthetic electron transport. In algae and other uni-cellular photosynthetic organisms, however, this amount can account for 20 to 30% of total electron transport. It is possible that the reduction of oxygen by free electrons emerging from PSI prevents components of the electron transport chain from becoming over-reduced.
The Water Water Cycle is not related to photorespiration, as it comprises different reactions and results in no net oxygen consumption.
References
Photosynthesis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Security%20Classifications%20Policy | The Government Security Classifications Policy (GSCP) is a system for classifying sensitive government data in the United Kingdom.
GPMS
Historically, the Government Protective Marking Scheme was used by government bodies in the UK; it divides data into UNCLASSIFIED, PROTECT, RESTRICTED, CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET and TOP SECRET. This system was designed for paper-based records; it is not easily adapted to modern government work and is not widely understood.
Current classifications
The GSCP uses three levels of classification: OFFICIAL, SECRET and TOP SECRET. This is simpler than the old model and there is no direct relationship between the old and new classifications. "Unclassified" is deliberately omitted from the new model. Government bodies are not expected to automatically remark existing data, so there may be cases where organisations working under the new system still handle some data marked according to the old system.
Information Asset Owners continue to be responsible for information. The new policy does not specify particular IT security requirements – IT systems should be built and used in accordance with existing guidance from CESG.
Everybody who works with government – including contractors and suppliers – is responsible for protecting information they work with, regardless of whether it has a protective marking.
Aggregation does not automatically trigger an increase in protective marking. For instance, a database with thousands of records which are individually OFFICIAL should not be relabeled as a SECRET database. Instead, information owners are expected to make decisions about controls based on a risk assessment, and should consider what the aggregated information is, who needs to access it, and how.
OFFICIAL
OFFICIAL includes most public-sector data, including a wide range of information on day-to-day government business. It is not subject to any special risks. Personal data would usually be OFFICIAL. The data should be protected by controls based on commercial best practice instead of expensive, difficult specialist technology and bureaucracy. There is no requirement to mark every document as "OFFICIAL" – it is understood that this is the default for government documents.
Organisations may add "descriptors" to highlight particular types of official data, for instance commercially sensitive information about contracts, or diplomatic data which should not be seen by locally hired embassy staff. These descriptors do not automatically require special controls. "OFFICIAL" will usually include the kinds of data that were previously UNCLASSIFIED, RESTRICTED, or CONFIDENTIAL; but this may vary.
The threat model for OFFICIAL data is similar to typical large private-sector organisations; it anticipates that individual hackers, pressure groups, criminals, and investigative journalists might attempt to get information. The threat model does not guarantee protection against very persistent and skilled attacks, for instance by organised cr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted%20Tales%20for%20Wicked%20Kids | Haunted Tales for Wicked Kids (Portuguese: Historietas Assombradas para Crianças Malcriadas), or Haunted Tales, is a Brazilian animated television series produced by Cartoon Network Brazil. The series chronicles the adventures of Pepe and his friends in a dark world filled with sinister creatures and monsters.
The series was based on a stop-motion short film of the same name created by Victor-Hugo Borges in 2005.
Synopsis
The series revolves around the adventures of Pepe, a wicked boy who lives in a dark mansion with his grandmother, a witch who works selling artifacts and magic potions on the internet. She always send her grandson to deliver them. In each episode, Pepe and his friends (Marilu, Roberto, Guto and Gastón) undergo supernatural adventures facing various monsters in the city.
Characters
Main
Peperoni Von "Pepe" Kittenberg III (voiced by Charles Emmanuel) - A troublemaker and rude boy with spiky red hair who works as a delivery boy for his grandmother. He is always getting into mischief and causing problems, facing all the monsters and mythical beings that appear in his town, almost always through his fault. Pepe's friends are Marilu, Guto, Gastón and Roberto who often follow in the supernatural adventures.
Ramona Bravaria de Lemornio "Vó" Peperonito (voiced by Nádia Carvalho) - Pepe's grandmother with whom he lives in his dark mansion. She is a wicked old witch who lives experimenting with their cats and sells potions using his grandson as a delivery boy. In one episode it is revealed that she is the older sister of Lady Death.
Maria Lourdes "Marilu" da Silva (voiced by Iara Riça) - Pepe's best friend and partner. She assists Pepe in his supernatural adventures, often getting the group into more trouble before saving the day. She has a crush on Pepe and Mario.
Guterico "Guto" Flores and Gaston de la Fleur (voiced by Oberdan Junior and Luis Sérgio Vieira) - Conjoined twin brothers who have two heads together on the same body. Guto tends to be nicer while Gaston is mean and rude.
Beto "Roberto" Massa (voiced by Charles Emmanuel and Rodrigo Antas) - A tall, muscular boy. He studies in the same room with Pepe and his friends despite being slightly larger than them. He is always dressed in a varsity jacket and has a quiff.
Recurring
Ramirez - Pepe's pet dog. Ramirez lives with Pepe and Grandma in the mansion, sometimes coming to be of aid to Pepe. Ramirez is black with a white face that resembles the members of the band Kiss.
Mario (voiced by Luis Sérgio Vieira) - A classmate of Pepe who normally behaves like an opposite of him. He is a smart and polite boy, but his classmates never take him seriously.
Ritinha - Another classmate of Pepe and his friends. She is a poor, short-sighted girl who has huge glasses and is quite naive.
The Cats - They are Pepe's grandmother's servants. They work helping her or serving as guinea pigs in the preparation of potions and sometimes they are butlers.
The Mayor - The mayor of the city w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacavei | Cacavei is a village (suco) in East Timor. It is located in Lospalos sub-district and Lautem district.
This village is in between Lospalos town and Iliomar sub-district.
Data
Surface 50.50 km ² [1]
Population 864 (2.01 thousand)
Chefe de Suco José Marques (2009 election)
Places Position Height
Cacavei ♁ 8 ° 34 ' S, 126 ° 53 ' O 303 m
Choquiro ♁ 8 ° 34 ' S, 126 ° 55 ' O 252 m
Laiara ♁ 8 ° 34 ' S, 126 ° 53 ' O 303 m
Maluro ♁ 8 ° 34 ' S, 126 ° 53 ' O 313 m
Paihira ♁ 8 ° 34 ' S, 126 ° 53 ' O [4] 303 m
Tcharano ♁ 8 ° 36 ' S, 126 ° 53 ' O 285 m
Vatalara ♁ 8 ° 34 ' S, 126 ° 54 ' O 261 m
Cacavei (East Timor)
Cacavei ( Cacaven, Cacavem, Kakavei, Kakaven, Cacuvem ) is an osttimoresisches village in Suco Cacavei (subdistrict Lospalos, District loud ).
The place
The village Cacavei is in the northwest of the Sucos at an altitude of 303 m. In the immediate vicinity of the settlements are Cacavei Laiara, Maluro and Paihira . The village center has a primary school and a health center.
Cacavei has 864 inhabitants (2010 2004: 879 ). Almost 95% of the population speaks Fataluku as their native language. Other languages include Sa'ane, Makasae, Tetum Prasa, Tetum Terik and Makalero.
Location
The village is located the west part of the sub-district Lospalos and has an area size of 50.50 km ². To the north it borders Suco Leuro and on the northeast the Suco Souro. To the southeast is Suco Lore I.
To the southwest lies the subdistrict Iliomar with the village Fuat and to the northwest the Suco Maina II. Across the village is the Paunara river which flows from north to south. Its sources is in the Suco Souro. From the west, here ends the originating within Cacavei flow Ainarauteu. At the southern boundary of the Paunara river it travels to the southeast and represents the border to Suco Fuat. After hitting the Pirusoro on the border river from Fuat, it changes its name to Namaluto. The southern part of the border between Cacavei and Souro forms the river Vahurau. Once the border of Lore I reaches it, it opens into the river Tchino, which then flows along the border to the west and finally empties into the Namaluto.
East of the Cacavei's village center are Choquiro and Vatalara, south of the city Tcharano (Charano). The places are above the provincial road linking the capital district Lospalos with the district Iliomar. East of Paunara there are no more major settlements.
In Cacavei are the four aldeias Laiara, Paihara, Sole Para and Tcharano.
Politics
In the elections of 2004/2005 José Marques was elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections José Marques won again.
See also
Ulurapa, a mountain in the village
References
External links
Results of the census 2010 for the Suco Cacavei ( Tetum, PDF, 8.6 MB)
Populated places in East Timor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Distributed%20Ethernet | Virtual Distributed Ethernet (VDE) is a set of programs to provide virtual software-defined Ethernet network interface controllers (NICs) across multiple devices, typically computers, which are either virtual or physical. It forms part of the Virtual Square project from the Italian Bologna University whose code is available on public servers using free software licenses, mostly GPLv2. Researchers at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Xavier University, Cincinnati OH, US are also working on the project.
It is one of the available networking methods for the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and forms part of some Linux distributions such as Ubuntu Precise (12.04 LTS) and Debian
Overview
Software-defined networking is the dynamic creation of virtual network infrastructure that is completely decoupled and independent of any physical network hardware.
Structure
VDE (Virtual Distributed Ethernet) comprises 5 main components:
VDE switch
A virtual ethernet switch is equivalent of a physical switch with multiple virtual ports supporting connections from VDE devices. Supports telnet and a web interface for monitoring and configuration.
VDE plug
Simulates a plug on the end of a physical ethernet cable such as the 8P8C. It forms the connection point between the host and the virtual VDE wire.
VDE wire
Receives the data from a VDE plug and transports it to another VDE plug. Obviously performing the same function as the wires within normal ethernet cabling.
VDE cable
The combination of 2 VDE plugs and 1 VDE wire is called a VDE cable.
VDE cryptcab
A connectionless protocol that encrypts the data before transmitting it and that decrypts the data on the other side. Informally known as VDE Encrypted Cable.
References
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282001%29 | Home and Away is an Australian soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 2001, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's then executive producer John Holmes. The 14th season of Home and Away began airing on 15 January 2001 The first introduction of the year was Alex Poulos in February. Sam Atwell joined the cast as Kane Phillips on 9 April, Kane's brother Scott debuted in the following episode. June saw the respective arrivals of Seb Miller and Flynn Saunders. Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen began playing doctor Charlotte Adams in September. November saw Daniel Collopy join the cast as Josh West and two births occurred; VJ Patterson and Lily Smith.
Alex Poulos
Alexi "Alex" Poulos', portrayed by Danny Raco, made his first on screen appearance on 26 February 2001 and departed in 2004. Raco returned for a brief guest stint in 2007 and made his final appearance on 19 June 2007. Raco joined the cast in 2001 and his first scenes began airing on 26 February 2001. He quit the serial in late 2003 to pursue a career in directing and his final scenes aired in early 2004. For his portrayal of Alex, Raco was nominated for Most Popular New Male Talent at the 2002 Logie Awards.
Kane Phillips
Scott Phillips
Scott Phillips, played by Nathaniel Dean, made his first appearance on-screen during the episode airing on 10 April 2001. When the character returned in 2003, Josh Rosenthal took over the role and Scott made his final appearance on 23 February 2005.
Scott is Kane Phillips' (Sam Atwell) older brother. He begins menacing Nick Smith (Chris Egan) when he damages his motorbike and demands $200. When Jude Lawson (Ben Steel) is accused of beating Kane up for harassing his girlfriend Shauna Bradley (Kylie Watson), Scott attacks him. Scott and Kane then kidnap Shauna and a police siege ensues and Shauna is freed and Scott is jailed.
Two years later, Scott is released and returns to Summer Bay. It emerges that he and Kane were involved in a service station robbery and held Tasha Andrews (Isabel Lucas) hostage.
When Scott comes to reclaim the money, Kane tells him it burned up in the Drop-in centre fire but he refuses to believe him and threatens to harm Tasha. Scott then attempts to kidnap Tasha
but is quickly foiled. He then holds Flynn Saunders (Joel McIlroy) at gunpoint in his surgery but Flynn overpowers him. Scott then trashes the old Hunter farm and flees the Bay.
Scott reappears in February 2005 when Kane visits him in prison after learning their father Gus (Peter Lamb) visited Scott, revealing details of the robbery he framed Kane for. Scott refuses to tell him anything at first but agrees as long as Kane's lawyer Morag Bellingham (Cornelia Frances) helps him with his own upcoming appeal. Kane stands trial and Scott is called as a witness but immediately lies on the stand, claiming Kane asked him to lie under oath, destroying Kane's defence.
S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Murray%20%28journalist%29 | Joan Murray (November 6, 1937 – December 18, 2021) was the first African-American woman to report the news on a major network show. She was employed by CBS in 1965 after writing a letter to CBS-TV requesting they hire her as a news broadcaster.
Early life and career
Murray was born November 6, 1937, in Ithaca, New York. She began her professional life as a court reporter, later becoming a secretary in the Press Department of CBS-TV in New York City, and then a secretary to Allen Funt of Candid Camera. She also worked as a writer for Women on the Move, an NBC daytime program hosted by television personality Kitty Carlisle. Joan and her twin sister appeared in both print and television commercials targeting the African-American consumer.
Murray's impact as a professional African-American woman was significant. In April 1965, she became the first African-American newswoman employed by a major television station, WCBS (Channel 2, New York City) and the only African-American woman ever to sit on the panel of the CBS game show What's My Line?. An accomplished aviator, she was the first African-American woman pilot to participate in the famed All Woman Transcontinental Air Race, or Powder Puff Derby, which each year flew a different route across the country. She also won many awards throughout her professional life, including the Mademoiselle Award for Outstanding Achievement, the Urban League's Certificate of Merit, and the Mary McLeod Bethune Achievement Award from the National Council of Negro Women.
In 1969 Murray left WCBS to co-found one of the first African-American advertising agencies, the Zebra Agency, which had numerous national advertisers. In 1967, Pepsi, determined to open a market that had been largely overlooked by rival Coca-Cola, sponsored The Joan Murray Show on radio, which was produced and nationally syndicated in the U.S. by Hartwest Productions, Inc.
Ebony magazine
Murray was mentioned in Ebony several times. She was featured in a 1966 article called "TV News Hens" about black women who were breaking into television reporting. The other two women profiled were Trudy Haynes of KYW-TV and Edith Huggins of WCAU-TV.
Retirement and death
In her retirement, Murray lived in upstate New York. She donated her archival materials to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem, New York City. She died on December 18, 2021, at the age of 84.
References
1937 births
2021 deaths
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
American television journalists
American women television journalists
People from Ithaca, New York
Aviators from New York (state)
New York (state) television reporters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halide%20%28programming%20language%29 | Halide is a computer programming language designed for writing digital image processing code that takes advantage of memory locality, vectorized computation and multi-core CPUs and GPUs. Halide is implemented as an internal domain-specific language (DSL) in C++.
Language
The main innovation Halide brings is the separation of the algorithm being implemented from its execution schedule, i.e. code specifying the loop nesting, parallelization, loop unrolling and vector instruction. These two are usually interleaved together and experimenting with changing the schedule requires the programmer to rewrite large portions of the algorithm with every change. With Halide, changing the schedule does not require any changes to the algorithm and this allows the programmer to experiment with scheduling and finding the most efficient one.
Sample source code
The following function defines and sets the schedule for a 3×3 box filter defined as a series of two 3×1 passes:
Func blur_3x3(Func input) {
Func blur_x, blur_y;
Var x, y, xi, yi;
// The algorithm - no storage or order
blur_x(x, y) = (input(x-1, y) + input(x, y) + input(x+1, y))/3;
blur_y(x, y) = (blur_x(x, y-1) + blur_x(x, y) + blur_x(x, y+1))/3;
// The schedule - defines order, locality; implies storage
blur_y.tile(x, y, xi, yi, 256, 32)
.vectorize(xi, 8).parallel(y);
blur_x.compute_at(blur_y, x).vectorize(x, 8);
return blur_y;
}
Use
Google used Halide and TensorFlow for its Pixel 2 Pixel Visual Core. Adobe Photoshop also uses Halide. Both Google and Adobe have been involved in Halide research.
See also
Cuneiform (programming language)
Algorithmic skeleton
Parallel programming model
References
External links
http://halide-lang.org/
Decoupling Algorithms from Schedules for Easy Optimization of Image Processing Pipelines
Image processing
Functional languages
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20de%20Magos%20Solidarios | Red de Magos Solidarios (Red Maso, Solidarity magicians Network) is and nonprofit organization based in Buenos Aires, Argentina where magicians of all country make solidarity with their favorite art, magic. The organization hosts a self-named "Twittermagia" conference every year, where magicians compete for "Best of" categories.
Red Maso is part of the American Federation of Magic Societies (FLASOMA) and Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques (FISM ).
Objectives
The main objective of Red Maso is to provide magical shows solidarity to people who otherwise would not have access to the cultural moment in question. It was declared of cultural interest by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires and received numerous awards from provincial and municipal governments in Argentina.
Activities
Red de Magos Solidarios' performs the following activities:
Shows at different places of public interest such as prisons, schools, hospitals and other places.
Red Maso at championships
Different representatives Solidarity Network Wizards traveled to international competitions to compete in tournaments of magic.
In World XXIV organized by the FISM magic in 2009 in Beijing, Tony Montana won third prize in the category of Mentalism.
Links
Federación Latinoamericana de Sociedades Mágicas
Sitio oficial
Red Maso en FISM
References
Magic organizations
Organizations established in 1999
Non-profit organisations based in Argentina
1999 establishments in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise%20Getoor | Lise Getoor is a professor in the computer science department, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Her primary research interests are in machine learning and reasoning with uncertainty, applied to graphs and structured data.
She also works in data integration, social network analysis and visual analytics. She has edited a book on Statistical relational learning that is a main reference in this domain.
She has published many highly cited papers in academic journals and conference proceedings.
She has also served as action editor for the Machine Learning Journal, JAIR associate editor, and TKDD associate editor.
She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, her M.S. from UC Berkeley, and her B.S. from UC Santa Barbara.
Prior to joining University of California, Santa Cruz, she was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park until Nov 2013.
Recognition
Getoor has multiple best paper awards, an NSF Career Award, and is an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow.
In 2019, she was elected as an ACM Fellow "for contributions to machine learning, reasoning under uncertainty, and responsible data science",
was selected as a Distinguished Alumna of the UC Santa Barbara Computer Science Department,
was awarded the UCSC WiSE Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity,
and was selected to give the UC Santa Cruz Faculty Research Lecture 2018-19, one of the highest recognitions given to UC faculty.
She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2021, "for contributions to machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty". In October 2022, Getoor was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Personal life
Getoor's father was mathematician Ronald Getoor (1929–2017).
References
Living people
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
Artificial intelligence researchers
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Logic programming researchers
Women logicians
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Women systems scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2day%20FM%20%28disambiguation%29 | 2Day FM 104.1 (2DAY) is a radio station in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2day FM or Today FM may also refer to:
Today Network, a network of radio stations flagshipped by 2Day FM
2day FM (Fiji), a radio station in Fiji
CJED-FM 105.1 and CFLZ-FM 101.1, radio stations in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada that use the 2day FM branding
Today FM, a radio network in Ireland
Today FM (New Zealand), a defunct radio network in New Zealand
Today (BBC Radio 4), a radio programme on BBC Radio 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20crate%20electronics | Modular crate electronics are a general type of electronics and support infrastructure commonly used for trigger electronics and data acquisition in particle detectors. These types of electronics are common in such detectors because all the electronic pathways are made by discrete physical cables connecting together logic blocks on the fronts of modules. This allows circuits to be designed, built, tested, and deployed very quickly (in days or weeks) as an experiment is being put together. Then the modules can all be removed and used again when the experiment is done.
A crate is a box (chassis) that mounts in an electronics rack with an opening in the front facing the user. There are rails on the top and bottom of the crate that extend from the open (user) end to the back end of the crate. The back end of the crate contains power and data connectors that modules connect to. Electronics modules slide into the crate along the rails and plug into the power/data connectors at the back. Modules have signal connectors, controls, and lights on their faceplate that are used to interact with other modules.
Some modules just draw power from the backplane connectors and have all of their data inputs and outputs on the front plate. Other modules take inputs or controls to and from the backplane or have their behavior controlled from the backplane. Some types of modules have active circuitry inside them, and act almost as small computers; others are not stateful at all and are only dumb single components.
Types of crate systems
There are number of types of modular crate electronic systems used on particle physics experiments.
RENATRAN
The very first standard for crate electronics was Renatran, which itself was derived from the Esone Standard published in 1964. This standard was in use mainly in France in nuclear research.
The Renatran system consisted of a 5U rackable crate that could accept up to 8 single-width or up to 4 double width plug-in units, with the backplane supplying several power rails, as well as serial and parallel communications between modules, and between the rack and external equipment such as printers and computers.
Each plug-in units had the dials, indicators and connectors on the front, and a single screw-mated 24 pin connector (Souriau 8196-17, no longer produced) on the rear to connect to the back-plane. Certain units had additional connectors on the rear, either doubled from the front panel for a more permanent installation, or extra ports for specific purposes, such as daisy chaining counting modules or linking level comparators together. A plug-in unit generally accomplished a single task, such as giving out a clock signal, inverting signal polarity, attenuating or amplifying signals, and more.
NIM
The simplest and one of the earliest crate module standard is the NIM (Nuclear Instrumentation Module) standard. A NIM crate only has power on the backplane, there is no data bus or data connectors. The NIM backplane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eje%20vial | The system of ejes viales (singular: eje vial, lit. "road axis") in Mexico City is a large network of wide arterial roads with coordinated traffic signals. They are mainly directed in one-way with a single lane going in the opposite direction used exclusively by public transportation. The network was a project of Mexico City mayor Carlos Hank González and the first part of the network, after extensive construction and demolition of buildings and removal of trees, opened in 1979. With the exception of the Eje Central, a south-to-north eje passing through the historic center of Mexico City, the ejes are numbered with cardinal directions, for example going north from the center: Eje 1 Norte, then Eje 2 Norte, and so forth. In addition to the Eje number and directional, the streets retain their individual names, with one eje thus consisting of multiple sequential individually named streets.
List of Ejes Viales
Central
Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas
(Mostly south-to-north with counterflow lane)
Avenida Aztecas (From Av. Antonio Delfín Madrigal to Eje 10 Sur (Av. Pedro Henríquez Ureña))
Monserrat (Norte - Sur) & Candelaria (Sur - Norte)(From Eje 10 Sur to División del Norte)
División del Norte (To Circuito Interior Río Churubusco, No es parte del Eje Central)
Ajusco (From Circuito Interior to Lázaro Cárdenas)
Lázaro Cárdenas (From Ajusco to Paganini / Circuito Interior Rio Consulado)
Av. de los 100 Metros (From Circuito Interior to Anillo Periférico Acueducto de Tenayuca)
North (“Norte”)
Eje 1 Norte
(Mostly west-to-east with counterflow)
José Antonio Alzate (From Circuito Interior Paseo de las Jacarandas to Insurgentes)
Mosqueta (De Insurgentes a Paseo de la Reforma and Eje Central)
Ignacio López Rayón / Avenida Héroe de Granaditas (De Eje Central to Eje 1 Ote (Vidal Alcocer))
Av. del Trabajo (De Eje 1 Ote Eje 2 Ote (Congreso de la Unión))
Albañiles (De Eje 2 Ote to Oceanía)
Norte 17 (From Oceanía to Circuito Interior Blvd. Puerto Aéreo)
Hangares Aviación / Fuerza Aérea Mexicana (From Circuito Interior to Av. Santos Dumont)
Manuel Lebrija (From Santos Dumont to Eje 4 Ote (Canal de Churubusco))
Talleres Gráficos (From Canal de Churubusco to Calle 4)
Avenida Xochimilco (De Calle 4 Anillo Periférico Calle 7)
Avenida Pantitlán (Not considered part of the Eje Vial, in Nezahualcóyotl and Los Reyes, State of Mexico)
Eje 2 Norte
(East-to-west with counterflow lane)
Transvaal (De Circuito Interior Rio Consulado Oceanía and Oceanía to Gran Canal)
Canal del Norte (De Gran Canal to Paseo de la Reforma)
Manuel González (From Paseo de la Reforma to Insurgentes)
Profr. Eulalia Guzmán (De Insurgentes a Calzada de Camarones)
Biólogo Maximino Martínez (No longer considered Eje Vial, from Camarones To Av. Cuitláhuac (Two-way))
Eje 3 Norte
(Mostly two-way)
Super-Avenida Lomas Verdes / Hacienda de la Guaracha / La Cima (Not considered Eje Vial, from La Cúspide Lomas Verdes to Calzada de las Armas, in the State of Mexico)
Calz. San Isidro Tecpatl (From Las |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolittle%20%28programming%20language%29 | Dolittle (Japanese ドリトル doritoru) is a programming language developed at the Osaka Electro-Communication University . Unlike the majority of programming languages it uses keywords based on Japanese and is written in Japanese script. It is named after the character Dr. Dolittle. It is easier for learners whose native language is Japanese to make early progress in understanding programming.
Features
The language uses Japanese keywords, although Korean and English-based versions of the language also exist. The syntax is based on Japanese word order (Subject Object Verb), which is unnatural in English. The language is prototype-based and object-oriented.
The language has native facilities for Turtle graphics, including easy-to-use collision detection, and musical output using the Sakura library and notation to generate Midi. The language has been ported to Arduino for robotic systems.
The language is implemented in Java, and so runs on a range of systems. It is distributed for free, and in an online version
Example program
This example creates two turtles and two buttons for controlling them.
かめ太＝タートル！作る。
カメ＝タートル！ 作る。
時計＝タイマー！ 作る 0.1秒 間隔 500回 回数。 時計！ 「かめ太！ １０ 歩く」 実行。
左＝ボタン！”左”作る。 左：動作＝「かめ太！ ２０ 左回り」。
右＝ボタン！”右”作る。 右：動作＝「かめ太！ 10 右回り」。
This page includes text from Japanese Wikipedia :ja:ドリトル (プログラミング言語)
Non-English-based programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Sonico | is a fictional character created by Tsuji Santa for the Japanese computer and video game software company Nitroplus, first appearing as a mascot for a Nitroplus-sponsored music festival in 2006. Nitroplus has since developed the character into a media franchise that includes music products, manga series, computer and video games, toy figurines, and other merchandise. An anime television series by White Fox based on the character aired in Japan between January and March 2014.
Characters
Super Sonico
Super Sonico is a fictional character created by Tsuji Santa of Nitroplus. Her debut appearance was on October 14, 2006, as the mascot for Nitroplus' annual live music festival event "Nitro Super Sonico", which took place at Shiba Park in Minato-KU. Nitroplus was initially focused on computer games based on visual novels, but every year since 2000, they have also held a music festival.
Sonico appears in various media as an eighteen-year-old college student. She is depicted as an attractive young adult woman with light peach skin, large red eyes, and straight, light pink hair. She keeps her hair long in the back and in the front. She is always shown wearing her signature headphones on her head. Her depictions show much variation in her facial features and body proportions between the different artists, while always keeping her trademark traits: headphones, pink hair color, and large bust. She also appears as a popular gravure idol as well as the vocalist and guitarist of the fictional band . Sonico also studies marine biology at Musasaka University and lives in Mushashino-shi, Tokyo. She is prone to sleep a lot, often requiring help to wake up, and her favorite foods are macarons. Her bandmates refer to her as "Nico".
Sonico plays a heritage cherry red Gibson SG electric guitar with a batwing pickguard and black pickup covers named "Daydream." An older piece of official art incorrectly shows the guitar with a Gretsch logo on the headstock.
Associated characters
The young female founder and bassist of the band First Astronomical Velocity. She has light green eyes and straight, long black hair. She is of average height and build but appears thin next to Fuuri and Sonico. She is often seen wearing a pink nurse's uniform and often attempts to dress up Sonico in dubious outfits.
The young female drummer of the First Astronomical Velocity band. She has a full figure, violet eyes, and short, wavy brown hair. She is shy and good-natured and is usually seen either eating or sleeping when not playing in the band. She and Suzu first appeared in Nitroplus' 2010 visual novel computer game Axanael.
Sonico's manager, a tall man with orange-yellow flame-styled hair who is always wearing a hannya mask and carrying a katana on his back under his coat. He is particularly protective of Sonico, ready to strike at anyone threatening or attempting something inappropriate with her. When not defending Sonico, he is friendly. Despite his demon mask, he is sociable, tal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Jean%20Harrold | Mary Jean Harrold (March 12, 1947 – September 19, 2013) was an American computer scientist noted for her research on software engineering. She was also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She was on the boards of both CRA and CRA-W and was Co-Chair of CRA-W from 2003 to 2006.
Biography
Harrold received a B.A. in Mathematics in 1970 and a M.S. in Mathematics in 1975, both from Marshall University. Harrold taught secondary mathematics in West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1982. She then attended graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. She received a M.S. in Computer Science in 1985 and a Ph.D in Computer Science in 1988, both from University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation adviser was Prof. Mary Lou Soffa.
She stayed at the University of Pittsburgh as a visiting assistant professor. Then in 1990 she started at Clemson University as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 1995. In 1996 she started as an assistant professor at Ohio State University and was promoted to associate professor in 1998. In 1999, she moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology as an associate professor, and was promoted to professor in 2003.
Harrold was involved with the SIGSOFT community. She was General Chair of the conference SIGSOFT in 2008.
Awards
Mary Jean Harrold was named an ACM Fellow in 2003.
In 2004, as a current CRA-W co-chair, Harrold (along with Prof. Carla Ellis and Dr. Jan Cuny) accepted the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) award on behalf of CRA-W, for "significant achievements in mentoring women across educational levels".
Her other notable awards include:
In 2011, she was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to software systems".
She is currently listed as the third top software engineering author of all time.
In 2007, ACM named her the top ranking software engineering researcher in the world.
References
External links
Georgia Institute of Technology: Mary Jean Harrold, School of Computer Science
1947 births
2013 deaths
Marshall University alumni
University of Pittsburgh alumni
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Software engineering researchers
Georgia Tech faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American scientists
American women academics
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Clemson University faculty
Ohio State University faculty
21st-century American women
Software testing people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireflies%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | Fireflies are rendering artifacts resulting from numerical instabilities in solving the rendering equation. They manifest themselves as anomalously-bright single pixels scattered over parts of the image.
Fireflies need to be distinguished from noise (overall graininess in the image), which can be reduced by simply increasing the number of rendering samples (amount of computation) per pixel. Fireflies tend to be harder to get rid of.
Fireflies tend to be confined to particular parts of the image, where they are caused by interactions between particular material and lighting settings that only affect certain objects in the scene.
Curing Fireflies
Sometimes fireflies can be reduced by various tweaks to renderer settings, for example clamping the maximum intermediate amplitude during pixel calculations, or disabling the calculation of caustics if these are not needed. Another option is application of a despeckle filter as part of rendering post-processing, or manually removing the fireflies with the brush or clone tool in an image editor.
References
Why are there bright little specks still in my render?, indigorenderer.com
Reducing noise in Blender Cycles, wiki.blender.org
Dealing with Fireflies in Cycles, Blender 3D: Noob to Pro Wikibook
Fireflies, LuxRender wiki
3D graphic artifacts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supratik%20Chakraborty | Supratik Chakraborty is an Indian computer scientist. He is currently Bajaj Group Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Supratik completed his undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1993, where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. Subsequently, he completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995 and 1998 respectively, working on the design of polynomial time approximate algorithms for timing analysis of asynchronous systems. He worked for a year in the Advanced CAD Research group at Fujitsu Laboratories of America before joining Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1999.
His current areas of research include both theoretical and practical aspects of formal methods, including formal verification of software and hardware systems, constrained counting and sampling and their applications, automated synthesis, automata theory, logic, and systems biology. In the past, he has also worked on design and analysis of asynchronous systems and on cellular automata.
He is an elected fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, a Distinguished Member of Association for Computing Machinery, a Senior Member of IEEE and is a Distinguished Alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
References
Indian computer scientists
Formal methods people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Academic staff of IIT Bombay
Stanford University alumni
People from Kharagpur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20thinking | Data thinking is a product design framework with a particular emphasis on data science. It integrates elements of computational thinking, statistical thinking, and domain thinking. In the context of product development, data thinking is a framework to explore, design, develop and validate data-driven solutions. Data thinking combines data science with design thinking and therefore, the focus of this approach includes user experience as well as data analytics and data collection.
Data thinking is a mindset that promotes data literacy and encourages both organizations and individuals to make data-driven decisions. By incorporating data thinking into the product development process, organizations can create more user-centered products that are informed by data and insights, rather than intuition. Meanwhile individuals can make data-based conclusions and avoid external bias.
Major Components of Data Thinking
According to Mike et al.:
Data thinking is the understanding that a solution to a real-life problem should not be based only on data and algorithms, but also on the domain knowledge-driven rules that govern them.
Data thinking asks whether the data offer a good representation of the real-life situation. It also addresses how data were collected and asks, “Can the data collection be improved?”.
Data thinking is the understanding that data are not just numbers to be stored in an adequate data structure, but that these numbers have a meaning that derives from the domain knowledge.
Data thinking is understanding that any process or calculation performed on the data should preserve the meaning of the relevant knowledge domain.
Data thinking analyzes the data not only logically but also statistically, using visualizations and statistical methods to find patterns as well as irregular phenomena.
Data thinking is understanding that problem abstraction is domain-depended, and generalization is subject to biases and variance in the data.
Data thinking is understanding that lab testing is not enough, and that real-life implementation will always encounter unexpected data and situations, and so improving the models and the solution for a given problem is a continuous process that includes, among other activities, constant and iterative monitoring and data collection.
Data thinking is the creative process of understanding the problem from different levels of abstraction, which always involves being stack
Data thinking involves understanding that the analysis of data could have multiple meanings and that it requires proper thinking to have valid representations.
Data thinking is a process of creating the most suitable way to analyze the inputting data and make conclusions about it.
Data thinking is the creative way to assess the problem, analyzing all available data using modern technology and get the wanted solution 5 times quicker, than it was before.
Data thinking is the process of processing available data in a meaningful way while also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Province%20Railway | The Southern Province Railway was a narrow gauge rail network in Tanzania, which was operated only for a few years in the middle of the 20th Century. It ultimately comprised about 275 route kilometers. The central line of the railway network was Mtwara - Nachingwea. The isolated network operated without connection to the national network. Because of the failure of the Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme the rail system was deprived of its economic existence. After the independence of Tanzania, operations were ceased in February 1963 and the line was abandoned.
Construction
The main reason for the construction was the Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme, as part of the former British colonial rule. The project, whose core component was peanut cultivation on a gigantic scale, ultimately failed. In order to transport the crops, in 1949 the Overseas Food Cooperation put the line Ruo - Nachingwea in operation, it was extended a year later to Lindi on the Indian Ocean. This extension was partly laid on a former 18 km long feldbahn, constructed in 1921, which ran from a sisal plantation in Lindi to Narunyu.
When the Overseas Food Cooperation ran into financial difficulties in 1952, the railroad was merged with the East African Railways and expanded to a network. As of 1954, the newly built harbor and the port city of Mtwara was connected with Mikindani. In 1958 the route Chilungula-Masasi was constructed.
Rolling stock
Both steam (the series RV/21, G and NZ) and diesel locomotives were used (the series 80 and 81). Passenger traffic existed between Mtwara and Nachingwea for which a second hand Diesel Motorized Units of the former Kenya and Uganda Railways was used.
See also
History of rail transport in Tanzania
References
2 ft gauge railways in Tanzania
Railway lines in Tanzania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20video%20games%20developed%20in%20the%20Czech%20Republic | This is an incomplete list of video games developed in the Czech Republic, both released and upcoming.
Games developed in the Czech Republic
References
External links
Database of Czech and Slovak video games
Czech and Slovak video game database
List of commercial Czech and Slovak PC Games with added information
Czech Republic
Czech entertainment-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSv | OSv (stylized OSv) is a cloud computing focused computer operating system released on September 16, 2013. It is a special-purpose operating system built to run as a guest on top of a virtual machine, thus it does not include drivers for bare-metal hardware. It is a unikernel, designed to run a single Linux executable or an application written in one of the supported runtime environments (such as Java). For this reason, it does not support a notion of users (it's not a multiuser system) or processes - everything runs in the kernel address space. Using a single address space removes some of the time-consuming operations associated with context switching. It uses large amounts of code from the FreeBSD operating system, in particular the network stack and the ZFS file system. OSv can be managed using a REST Management API and an optional command-line interface written in Lua.
References
External links
Slides introducing the basic concept
OSv—Optimizing the Operating System for Virtual Machines—paper presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in 2014
Original announcement
Computing platforms
Free software operating systems
Free software programmed in C++
Software companies of Israel
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZFS | OpenZFS is an open-source implementation of the ZFS file system and volume manager initially developed by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris operating system and now maintained by the OpenZFS Project. It supports features like data compression, data deduplication, copy-on-write clones, snapshots, and RAID-Z. It also supports the creation of virtual devices, which allows for the creation of file systems that span multiple disks.
One of the unique features of OpenZFS is its self-healing capabilities. The file system can detect and correct errors on the fly, without the need for a dedicated file system checker, which means it can be used in mission-critical applications requiring high availability.
OpenZFS is widely used in enterprise and data center environments, as well as in consumer devices like network-attached storage (NAS) devices. It is available for many operating systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows (through third-party solutions). OpenZFS is licensed under the CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), which allows for both open-source and commercial use.
Founding members of OpenZFS include Matt Ahrens, one of the main architects of ZFS. , OpenZFS (on some platforms such as FreeBSD) is gradually being pivoted to be based upon ZFS on Linux, which has developed faster than other variants of OpenZFS and contains new features not yet ported to those other versions. The merged code-base will include a number of new features, performance enhancements, and is proposed to be known as OpenZFS 2.0.
History
The ZFS file system was originally developed by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris operating system. The ZFS source code was released in 2005 under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) as part of the OpenSolaris operating system, and it was later ported to other operating systems and environments.
The following is a list of key events to the development of ZFS and its various implementations, leading to the creation of OpenZFS as an umbrella project:
2001: Closed-source development of ZFS started with two engineers at Sun Microsystems.
2005: ZFS source code was released as part of OpenSolaris.
2006: Development of a FUSE ZFS port for Linux started.
2007: Apple started porting of ZFS to Mac OS X.
2008: A port to FreeBSD was released as part of FreeBSD 7.0.
2008: Development of a native ZFS Linux port started, known as ZFS on Linux.
2009: Apple's ZFS project closed, and the MacZFS project continued to develop the code.
2010: OpenSolaris was discontinued, resulting in the further development of ZFS on Solaris being no longer open-source.
2010: illumos was forked from OpenSolaris as its open-source successor, and continued to develop ZFS in the open. Ports of ZFS to other platforms continued pulling in upstream changes from illumos.
2012: Feature flags were introduced to replace legacy on-disk version numbers, enabling easier distributed evolution of the ZFS on-disk format to support new featu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangeen%20Zadran | Mullah Sangeen Zadran (1976 or 1979 − 5 September 2013) was an Afghan militant and shadow governor of Paktika province. Zadran was an operational commander of the Haqqani network, an Islamist insurgent group. He was held responsible for the capture of American soldier Bowe Bergdahl. In 2011, he was added to the list of specially designated global terrorists by the United States of America. According to the U.S. military, Zadran was the leader of one of the most resilient militant groups based in Afghanistan. He was killed in a CIA drone strike on 5 September 2013. His younger brother, Bilal Zadran, was nominated as the new official commander of the Haqqani group. A photo of Sangeen's corpse was published on a jihadist forum in October 2013.
References
1970s births
2013 deaths
Afghan al-Qaeda members
Deaths by drone strikes of the Central Intelligence Agency in Pakistan
Pashtun people
Afghan expatriates in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20software | Software is a set of programmed instructions stored in the memory of stored-program digital computers for execution by the processor. Software is a recent development in human history, and it is fundamental to the Information Age.
Ada Lovelace's programs for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in the 19th century is often considered the founder of the discipline. However, the mathematician's efforts remained theoretical only, as the technology of Lovelace and Babbage's day proved insufficient to build his computer. Alan Turing is credited with being the first person to come up with a theory for software in 1935, which led to the two academic fields of computer science and software engineering.
The first generation of software for early stored-program digital computers in the late 1940s had its instructions written directly in binary code, generally written for mainframe computers. Later, the development of modern programming languages alongside the advancement of the home computer would greatly widen the scope and breadth of available software, beginning with assembly language, and continuing through functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms.
Before stored-program digital computers
Origins of computer science
Computing as a concept goes back to ancient times, with devices such as the abacus, the Antikythera mechanism, Astrolabes, Mechanical Astronomical clocks and Mechanical Calculators. The Antikythera mechanism is an example for a highly complex ancient mechanical Astronomical device.
However, these devices were pure hardware and had no software - their computing powers were directly tied to their specific form and engineering.
Software requires the concept of a general-purpose processor - what is now described as a Turing machine - as well as computer memory in which reusable sets of routines and mathematical functions comprising programs can be stored, started, and stopped individually, and only appears recently in human history.
The first known computer algorithm was written by Ada Lovelace in the 19th century for the Analytical Engine, to translate Luigi Menabrea's work on Bernoulli numbers for machine instruction. However, this remained theoretical only - the lesser state of engineering in the lifetime of these two mathematicians proved insufficient to construct the Analytical Engine.
The first modern theory of software was proposed by Alan Turing in his 1935 essay Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem).
This eventually led to the creation of the twin academic fields of computer science and software engineering, which both study software and its creation. Computer science is more theoretical (Turing's essay is an example of computer science), whereas software engineering is focused on more practical concerns.
However, prior to 1946, software as we now understand it programs stored in the memory of stored-program digital computers did not yet exist. The ver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Information%20Database | Scientific Information Database (SID) of Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research () is an Iranian free accessible website for indexing academic journals and access to full text or metadata of Academic publishing.
Features
Institute for Scientific Information indexed articles
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
Notes
Citation indices
Science and technology in Iran
Official website not in Wikidata
Scholarly search services
Online databases
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Iranian websites
Iranian online encyclopedias |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jblas%3A%20Linear%20Algebra%20for%20Java | jblas is a linear algebra library, created by Mikio Braun, for the Java programming language built upon BLAS and LAPACK. Unlike most other Java linear algebra libraries, jblas is designed to be used with native code through the Java Native Interface (JNI) and comes with precompiled binaries. When used on one of the targeted architectures, it will automatically select the correct binary to use and load it. This allows it to be used out of the box and avoid a potentially tedious compilation process. jblas provides an easier to use high level API on top of the archaic API provided by BLAS and LAPACK, removing much of the tediousness.
Since its initial release, jblas has been gaining popularity in scientific computing. With applications in a range of applications, such as text classification, network analysis, and stationary subspace analysis. It is part of software packages, such as JLabGroovy, and Universal Java Matrix Library (UJMP). In a performance study of Java matrix libraries, jblas was the highest performing library, when libraries with native code are considered.
Capabilities
The following is an overview of jblas's capabilities, as listed on the project's website:
Eigen – eigendecomposition
Solve – solving linear equations
Singular – singular value decomposition
Decompose – LU, Cholesky, ...
Geometry – centering, normalizing, ...
Usage example
Example of Eigenvalue Decomposition:
DoubleMatrix[] evd = Eigen.symmetricEigenvectors(matA);
DoubleMatrix V = evd[0];
DoubleMatrix D = evd[1];
Example of matrix multiplication:
DoubleMatrix result = matA.mmul(matB);
See also
NumPy
SciPy
ND4J: NDArrays & Scientific Computing for Java
References
Java (programming language) libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Computing%20Education%20Accreditation%20Council | The National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC) is an accreditation body under the administrative control of Higher Education Commission (Pakistan). NCEAC grants accreditation to institutes of Pakistan regarding different computing degrees including Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunication and Networking, Bioinformatics and Information Systems.
See also
List of computing schools in Pakistan
References
External links
NCEAC official website
Educational organisations based in Pakistan
Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)
Computer science institutes in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan%20Dzi%C8%9Bac | Ioan Dzițac (14 February 1953 – 6 February 2021) was a Romanian professor (of Ukrainian descent) of mathematics and computer science. He obtained his B.S. and M.Sc. in Mathematics (1977) and PhD in Computer Science (2002) from Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. He was a professor at the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and part of the leadership of Agora University in Oradea until his sudden death in 2021.
Education and career
Dzițac was born in Poienile de sub Munte, Maramureș County. After attending elementary school in Repedea (1960–1968), he studied at the Dragoș Vodă High School in Sighetu Marmației (1968–1972) and then at the Faculty of Mathematics, Babeș-Bolyai University (1972–1977). In 2002 he obtained his PhD in computer science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Babeș-Bolyai University with thesis "Methods for parallel and distributed computing in solving operational equations" under the supervision of Grigor Moldovan.
Between 1977 and 1991, Dzițac taught mathematics in pre-university education, obtaining a permanent teacher certification on all levels (1980), second grade teacher certification (1985), and first grade teacher certification (1990). In 1986 he received the title of Distinguished Professor.
Since 1991, he accessed through competition in the higher education system the position of Lecturer (1991–2003) and associate professor (2003–2005) at the University of Oradea, associate professor (2005–2009) at Agora University, and then Professor (2009–2021) at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. At Agora University he founded, together with Florin Gheorghe Filip and Mișu-Jan Manolescu, the International conference on Computers, Communications & Control (ICCCC) and the International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control (IJCCC) journals which, in less than two years, have been covered by Thomson ISI. Since 2006 he was the associate editor-in-chief of the IJCCC journal until his sudden death in 2021.
Dzițac was a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science (2013–2016), as well as a consulting member of the Hoseo University in South Korea.
Management positions
In 1996, Dzițac was elected Vice President of the Romanian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ROMAI), a position he occupied until 2011 (he was re-elected in 1999–2009). In April 2004, he was elected as Director of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Oradea, a position he occupied for a year, and in October 2005 he was elected Head of Department at Agora University. Since October 2009 he was the Director of the Centre "Agora Research & Development".
As of 2012, Dzițac was Rector of Agora University.
Awards
In recognition of his merits, Dzițac was awarded the following degrees and titles (see [1])
Title of “Distinguished Professor” accorded by the Romanian Ministry of Education (1988)
The Award for Young Researcher accorded by the Romanian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (2003)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beny%20Tchaicovsky | Beny Tchaicovsky (1954–2009) was a painter, musician and a multimedia computer artist. Tchaicovsky's paintings have been exhibited internationally in museums such as the Luxembourg Museum in Paris with the 1989 show "Les Trois Amériques à Paris", as well as in exhibitions in Germany, Brazil
and the United States. Tchaicovsky's numerous awards include The Visionary, awarded first place for the best cyberposter on International Multimedia Day at the 49th Cannes Film Festival in 1996.
Career
In the early 1990s, after two decades of a career as a painter and musician living in Europe, Tchaicovsky moved to Marin County in California and began expanding his 2D art into 3D and 4D.
In 1989 Tchaicovsky won a gold medal for his paintings at the International Connection Brazil-Japan Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro and First Place award with his painting "The Last Crusade" in a competition at the Natzoula Naveles Gallery in Davis, California.
In 1993 he established "ZOE Productions" a 3D computer animation company based in his studio in Fairfax, California. In 1994, segments of Tchaicovsky's animation were included in the VHS compilation The Gate to the Mind’s Eye, It featured, among others, his 3D animation titled "Quantum Mechanics", which included segments of his short 3D animations titled "Modus Vivendi", "Delirium Tremendus" and "House of Mirrors". "Out of Step," "The Traveller" and "Intelligent Life", segments from Tchaicovsky's Cyberscape, were seen in the 1996 compilation Odyssey into the Mind's Eye, a 45-minute program and latest addition to the Mind’s Eye series distributed by Sony Music Video.
In 1997, after three years, Zoe Productions released its first full feature 3D computer animation project, Cyberscape: A Computer Animation Vision. The sound track was co-produced with Odyssey Productions and distributed by Sony Music Video. Cyberscape'''s original 3D animation was conceptualized and produced by Tchaicovsky.
In 2001, Tchaicovsky released three more DVDs: the Morning Star Trilogy titled The Call (46:00 min), Caught Between Worlds (49:00 min) and Dimensional Connections (52:37 min). In 2005, Tchaicovsky completed two more 3D feature works, Memoirs of a Shadow (72 min) and Luz Oferenda (40 min). Tchaicovsky's last work, ZyconX1'' was unfinished.
Discography
Explorer (Album, 1983)
Style & Exploration of 3D tools as an art form
At an early age, Tchaicovsky started with black ink sketches before progressing to acrylic paintings. His canvasses depict surrealistic visions.
Tchaicovsky's style of expression has been described as surrealist art, fantastic art, metaphysical art and visionary art.
Death
In 2005, he returned to Rio de Janeiro and in 2007, after spending some time in Israel, he moved to the south of France where he spent the last two years of his life painting abstract images and photographing nature. Tchaicovsky passed away in his studio in Gassin in November 2009.
References
External links
"The Esoteric Realism of Ben |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Networks%20Australia | Energy Networks Australia (formerly Energy Networks Association) is the national industry body representing Australia’s electricity transmission and distribution and gas distribution networks. Energy Network Australia members provide more than 16 million electricity and gas connections to almost every home and business across Australia.
Energy networks are the lower pressure gas pipes and low, medium and high voltage electricity lines that transmit and distribute gas and electricity from energy transmission systems directly to households, businesses and industry.
Energy Networks Australia provides governments, policy-makers and the community with a single point of reference for major energy network issues in Australia. These issues include the national and state government policy and regulatory environments under which energy networks must operate and key technical issues such as network safety and security of supply, reliability and power quality, the management of peak energy demand and energy efficiency.
Most energy network businesses are subject to an independent economic regulation regime similar to that applying to other utility sectors such as water and telecommunications. State and Territory regulators have undertaken this task in the past, but for states and jurisdictions in the National Electricity Market, this role is undertaken by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER). In WA and the Northern Territory, state regulation continues.
Energy Networks Australia commenced operations as the Energy Networks Association in January 2004 and started trading as Energy Networks Australia on 10 November 2016.
Energy Networks Australia's Chairman is Tim Rourke, Chief Executive Officer CitiPower and Powercor, and its Chief Executive Officer is Andrew Dillon.
References
External links
Energy Networks Australia
Energy business associations
Electric power in Australia
Natural gas in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Networks%20Association%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | The Energy Networks Association (ENA) is the industry body funded by UK gas and electricity transmission and distribution licence holders. Its current Chief Executive is Lawrence Slade.
History
ENA was formed in October 2003 from the dissolution of the Electricity Association into three separate industry bodies:
Energy Networks Association
Association of Electricity Producers
Energy Retail Association
Following the demerger of the Gas Distribution Network operations of British Gas Transco, they also joined ENA.
The ENA announced in April 2022 that it had a new 3-step action plan to moderninse the process of connecting assets to the UK power grid. In December 2022, Lawrence Slade was appointed as Chief Executive.
In March 2023, the ENA called on the UK government to develop an energy storage strategy by the end of the year.
Structure
ENA member companies are:
National Grid
National Grid ESO
UK Power Networks
Western Power Distribution
Scottish and Southern Energy
Northern Powergrid
Scottish Power
Electricity North West
Northern Ireland Electricity
GTC
Cadent Gas
SGN
Northern Gas Networks
Wales & West Utilities
ESB Networks
Northern Ireland Electricity
Fulcrum
Inexus
(list last updated April 2018).
Function
ENA's role is to provide a strategic focus for the energy networks sector by communicating key messages. All its work is underpinned by technical expertise—more than half the association's staff are specialist engineers. ENA's online catalogue contains hundreds of reference documents relating to cables, contactor gear, electrical and mechanical composites, overhead transmissions and distribution lines, switchgear, engineering recommendations and other information. The association also records faults, defects and safety information on behalf of the networks industry.
See also
Association of Electricity Producers
Energy Retail Association
Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
References
External links
ENA
Energy business associations
Energy in the United Kingdom
Trade associations based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in the London Borough of Southwark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibGDX | libGDX is a free and open-source game-development application framework written in the Java programming language with some C and C++ components for performance dependent code. It allows for the development of desktop and mobile games by using the same code base. It is cross-platform, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, BlackBerry and web browsers with WebGL support.
History
In the middle of 2009 Mario Zechner, the creator of libGDX, wanted to write Android games and started developing a framework called AFX (Android Effects) for this. When he found that deploying the changes from Desktop to Android device was cumbersome, he modified AFX to work on the Desktop as well, making it easier to test programs. This was the first step toward the game framework later known as libGDX.
In March 2010 Zechner decided to open-source AFX, hosting it on Google Code under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). However, at the time he stated that "It's not the intention of the framework to be used for creating desktop games anyway", intending the framework to primarily target Android. In April, it got its first contributor.
When Zechner created a Box2D JNI wrapper, this attracted more users and contributors because physics games were popular at the time. Many of the issues with Android were resolved because of this.
Because many users suggested switching to a different license due to LGPL not being suitable for Android, libGDX changed its license to the Apache License 2.0 in July 2010, making it possible to use the framework in closed-source commercial games. The same month its phpBB forum was launched.
Due to issues with Java Sound the audio desktop implementation switched to OpenAL in January 2011. Development of a small image manipulation library called Gdx2D was finished as well, which depends on the open source STB library.
The rest of 2011 was spent adding a UI library and working on the basics of a 3D API.
At the start of 2012 Zechner created a small helper library called gdx-jnigen for easing the development of JNI bindings. This made it possible for the gdx-audio and gdx-freetype extensions to be developed over the following months.
Inspired by Google's PlayN cross-platform game development framework that used Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to compile Java to JavaScript code, Zechner wrote an HTML/JavaScript backend over the course of several weeks, which allowed libGDX applications to be run in any browser with WebGL support. After Google abandoned PlayN, it was maintained by Michael Bayne, who added iOS support to it. libGDX used parts of this work for its own MonoTouch-based backend.
In August 2012 the project switched its version control system from Subversion to Git, moving from Google Code to GitHub. However, the issue tracker and wiki remained on Google Code for another year. The main build system was also changed to Maven, making it easier for developers with different IDEs to work together.
Because of issues with the Mon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20home%20phone | A wireless home phone service is a service that allows a regular wired telephone to connect to a cellular network, as if it were a mobile phone. It is an example of a wireless last mile connection to the public switched telephone network, also known as a wireless local loop.
A small device, about the size of a home wireless router, contains the necessary electronics which allow plain old telephone service to be provided to one or two telephone jacks on the back of the unit, as well as having a small radio antenna and a transceiver for the wireless side of the connection. LED indicator lights on the front typically show signal strength and voicemail messages waiting. The devices usually cannot provide enough ringing current for more than one phone and one externally powered device, such as a telephone answering device or the base station for a cordless phone. For this reason, it is not recommended to connect these devices to a home's wiring (which also requires the disconnection of the wiring at the network interface device, just as when a cable telephone or other whole-home VoIP service is installed). A rechargeable battery backup is normally provided to run the device during a power outage lasting no more than a few hours, significantly less standby time than a true mobile device.
Wireless home phone services provide far more alternatives to existing phone companies than other competitors have been able to provide where local loop unbundling has occurred. Where secondary lines on a cellular plan are inexpensive, the WHP line may cost as little as 10 dollars per month, using the airtime (mobile phone) minutes which are not used by the mobile phones on the plan. Unlimited plans typically run around 20 dollars per month, far less than unlimited plans for actual mobile devices, and significantly less than an unlimited landline, and comparable to measured service with low usage. This has led users to port their existing telephone numbers to their mobile plans, although monthly prepaid service is also available. This also allows for physical portability of home phone service, either temporarily (such as when spending a summer or winter traveling in a recreational vehicle), or when making a permanent relocation to another area code. WHP may also be combined with a mobile hotspot in a single device, which also typically has a less-expensive data plan than a smartphone or a dedicated hotspot device, though still far more per gigabyte than wired broadband Internet.
Disadvantages include being dependent on a single source for telephony, such that if the nearest cell tower experiences an outage, there is no landline to use as a backup for anything except emergency calls. The companding, audio level compression, and audio data compression used in mobile telephony also ruin any data signals used by modem-based devices, including fax machines, medical monitoring devices, and even set-top boxes for satellite TV, preventing their use for anything e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%202 | Surface 2 is a Surface-series Windows RT hybrid tablet computer created by Microsoft. It was unveiled on September 23, 2013, and released on October 22, 2013 and is the successor to the original Surface. As of January 2015, Microsoft no longer manufactures Surface 2, and provided security updates for the device until January 2023. Microsoft's next attempt at a Windows-on-ARM tablet would be the Surface Pro X, released in 2019, six years after the Surface 2.
History
Pre-orders for the Surface 2 were opened on September 24, 2013, and the device was released on October 22, 2013. As value-added services, the Surface 2 includes 200 GB of additional OneDrive storage for 2 years, 1 year of free Skype calls to landlines, and access to Skype WiFi hotspots.
In January 2015, after its stock sold out on Microsoft Store online, Microsoft confirmed that it had discontinued further production of Surface 2. After Surface 2, the Nokia Lumia 2520 was the only remaining Windows RT device on the market, before that being discontinued as well just a week later.
Features
Hardware
Made of magnesium alloy and toughened glass, the outer shell of Surface 2 maintains a similar design to its predecessor, but in a "bare metal" silver color scheme with a black bezel. Surface 2 is also slightly thinner and lighter than the previous model. Surface 2 uses a 1.7 GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 4 chipset with 2 GB of RAM; Microsoft claimed that the new chipset and other improvements to its internal hardware made the Surface 2 three to four times faster than the original Surface, and that it had 10 hours of battery life playing videos. Unlike the original Surface (which used a 1366 x 768 display), the Surface 2 uses a 1080p display, the same as in Surface Pro 2. This display is claimed to have almost 50% better color than the previous version, as well as the lowest reflectivity among competing tablets.
The device also includes a full-size USB 3.0 port, 32 or 64 GB of internal storage, and a MicroSD slot. The Surface 2 ships with Windows RT 8.1.
The 4G LTE model of Surface 2 was launched on March 18, 2014, and comes as a 64 GB model only. AT&T is the Microsoft cellular partner and Surface 2 4G LTE comes with AT&T "All Access" app pre-installed but the device actually ships unlocked. The 4G models also come with GPS, Assisted GPS, and GLONASS. The Surface 2 includes what Microsoft calls a silver-magnesium color that is more scratch resistant compared to the original Surface.
Software
The Surface 2 ships with Windows RT 8.1 and Office 2013 RT, unlike the original Surface which launched with Office 2013 RT Beta (but which later received the final release version). Other bundled apps include Mail, Calendar, People (contacts), Bing apps including Food and Drink, Health and Fitness, Weather, Travel, Stocks, and Sports. These apps were later renamed to be MSN apps. Just like its predecessor, desktop apps other than those already bundled with the OS are forbidden to run on the Surface |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20Warning%20Corps | The Aircraft Warning Corps (AWC) was a World War II United States Army Air Force organization for Continental United States air defense. The corps' information centers networked an area's "Army Radar Stations" which communicated radar tracks by telephone, and the information centers also integrated visual reports processed by Ground Observer Corps filter centers. The AWC notified air defense command posts of the First Air Force, Second Air Force, Third Air Force, and Fourth Air Force. These command posts would deploy interceptors which used command guidance to achieve ground-controlled interception.
Background and deployment
United States electronic attack warning began with the 1929 Air Corps "experimenting with a rudimentary early-warning network at Aberdeen Proving Ground" in Maryland, a 1939 networking demonstration at Twin Lights station (New Jersey), and 2 SCR-270 radar stations during the August 1940 "Watertown maneuvers" (New York). When "Pearl Harbor was attacked, [there were 8 CONUS] early-warning stations" (Maine, New Jersey, and 6 in California), and Oahu's Opana Mobile Radar Station had 1 of 6 SCR-270s.
CONUS Army Radar Station deployments after Pearl Harbor were primarily for anti-aircraft coastal defence, e.g., L-1 at Oceanside, California, B-30 at Lompoc, California, and J-23 at Tillamook Head (Seaside, Oregon). California's B-78 Mount Tamalpais Radar Station, subsequently became a Cold War station of the Lashup, Permanent, SAGE, and JSS radar networks. Aircraft Warning Battalions included: 551st at tbd, 555th at tbd, 558th, and 599th (Drew Field, Tampa: 30 March 1944).
Phaseout
The USAAF inactivated the aircraft warning network in April 1944. By June 1944 AWC volunteers "assigned to filter centers serve[d] on the same days that ground observers are on duty" (information centers continued processing radar information 24 hours a day, e.g., plotting radar tracks).
By 1946, post-war considerations were for '"development of radar equipment for detecting and countering missiles of the German A-4 type" (part of Signal Corps' Project 414A contracted to Bell Laboratories in 1945), and by 1947 March Field had one of the remaining World War II AC&W radar stations. The AAF announced in late May 1947 plans to move "its Radar School from Boca Raton, Florida, to Keesler [which] officially opened on 14 November 1947" (originally at Scott Field, then Morrison Field from February to 1 Jun 42). In 1948, the CONUS "five-station radar net" included the Twin Lights established in June 1948 and Montauk's "Air Warning Station #3 on July 5, 1948
References
Ground-based air defence observation corps
Branches of the United States Army
Military units and formations of the United States Army Air Forces
1941 establishments in the United States
Military units and formations established in 1941
Agencies of the United States government during World War II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo%20%28season%207%29 | This is a list of episodes from the seventh season of Columbo.
Broadcast history
Although NBC had brought an end to the Mystery Movie series that Columbo had been a part of since 1971, the network decided to keep the series in production and ordered five new telefilms. The first two aired on Monday nights, the first on November 21, 1977, and the second on January 30, 1978. After that, the remaining three films were broadcast on Saturday nights beginning on February 25, 1978, and concluding with the final film of the original Columbo series on May 13, 1978.
DVD release
The season was released on DVD by Universal Home Video along with season six.
Episodes
References
Columbo 07
1977 American television seasons
1978 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20in%20Belize | This is a list of ecoregions in Belize as defined by the World Wildlife Fund and the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World database.
Terrestrial ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Petén–Veracruz moist forests
Yucatán moist forests
Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests
Belizian pine forests
Mangroves
Belizean Coast mangroves
Belizean Reef mangroves
Mayan Corridor mangroves
Freshwater ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
Quintana Roo - Motagua
Marine ecoregions
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
Western Caribbean (includes the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef)
See also
List of ecoregions in Guatemala
List of ecoregions in Mexico
References
Ecoregions
Belize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo%20Morales%20grounding%20incident | On 1 July 2013, president Evo Morales of Bolivia, who had been attending a conference of gas-exporting countries in Russia, gave an interview to the RT television network in which he appeared predisposed to offer asylum to Edward Snowden. The day after his TV interview, Morales's Dassault Falcon 900 FAB-001, carrying him back to La Paz from Moscow, took off from Vnukovo Airport, flew uninterrupted over Poland and the Czech Republic, but then unexpectedly landed in Vienna, Austria.
According to Bolivia, the flight was rerouted to Austria when France, Spain and Italy denied access to their airspace, allegedly due to suspicions that Snowden was on board.
Forced landing
According to Austrian statements, the pilots requested emergency landing due to issues with fuel level indicators causing inability to confirm there was sufficient fuel to continue flight. Austria's deputy chancellor, Michael Spindelegger, said that the plane was searched, although the Bolivian Defense Minister denied a search took place, saying Morales had denied entry to his plane. The refusals for entry into French, Spanish, and Italian airspace ostensibly for "technical reasons", strongly denounced by Bolivia, Ecuador, and other South American nations, were attributed to rumors disseminated by the US that Snowden was on board. Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José García-Margallo, publicly stated that they were told he was on board but did not specify as to who had informed them.
The President of Austria, Heinz Fischer, later clarified that an airport officer did board the aircraft to find out why it had landed in Vienna reporting technical problems, but "there was no formal inspection". The following morning, President Fischer went to greet President Morales in his plane and shared breakfast with him.
Fourteen hours later, after officials worked to resolve the dispute, the aircraft took off again for the Canary Islands passing over France, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
Aftermath
France apologized for the incident immediately. The Spanish ambassador to Bolivia apologized two weeks later, citing inappropriate procedures. The Italians and Portuguese sent official explanations to the Bolivian Government.
On 3 July, Jen Psaki, spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, acknowledged that the U.S. had been "in contact with a range of countries across the world who had any chance of having Mr. Snowden land or even transit through their countries".
On 20 September, President Morales announced a lawsuit against the U.S. government for "crimes against humanity" for repeatedly blocking presidential flights, after an incident in which authorization for an overflight of Puerto Rico by President Maduro of Venezuela was delayed. U.S. authorities said that they were entitled to three days' advance notice. Maduro had been en route to arrive in Beijing for bilateral talks with the People's Republic of China.
In the aftermath of the incident, seven Latin American countries – Bolivia, A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effi%20Wizen | Efraim "Effi" Wizen (born October 29, 1956, in Israel) is an Israeli computer animator and visual effects specialist.
Biography
Wizen graduated from ORT Israel, having studied architecture. He also earned a B.Sc. in architecture and city planning from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is one of the first specialists in computer animation and visual effects, founding the first 3D animation company in Israel, “Dad_Pro”, in 1984.
In 1987, Wizen created one of the first film digital compositing systems, called Toccata. Wizen used the system in one of the first digitally composed movie Taxandria in 1989 and Neverending Story III in 1994. He worked on both films as Digital Effects Supervisor. Also in 1994 he founded the post production house "Gravity VFX and Design", serving six years as the co-CEO. He then opened Gravity VFX in Canada, aligning with "RhinoFX", and now known as "Gravity". In 1998, Wizen created the consortium that was composed of Digital Domain, Kushner-Locke Company, Capitol Films of the United Kingdom, Israeli Financial Banking firm DLIN Ltd., and Israeli post-production facility Gravity VFX and Design (a VFX boutique with offices in Canada and Israel, of which he is CEO and creative director).
In 1997, he handled digital effects for The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field. In 2000/2001, he shared the Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award for Visual Effects – Digital nomination for Planet Storm.
In 2010, he was the head of visual effects for São Paulo-based Estudios Quanta, a major regional film industry company. In 2011, he combined with Brazilian producer Roberto d’Avilla and entrepreneur Perival Palesela to acquire Imarion, a Toronto visual effects and animation post-production company.
References
1956 births
Computer animation people
Special effects people
Visual effects supervisors
Living people
Israeli animators
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Lankhorst | Marc Martijn Lankhorst (born 1968) is a Dutch computer scientist, researcher and consultant, known for his publications on enterprise architecture, and as key developer of ArchiMate, a modelling language for enterprise architecture.
Biography
Born in Naaldwijk, Lankhorst received his MS in computer science in 1991 at the University of Twente, and his PhD in 1996 at the University of Groningen with a thesis entitled "Genetic algorithms in data analysis" under supervision of Nicolai Petkov.
After graduation Lankhorst started his academic career as faculty member at the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science of the University of Groningen. In 1996 he started working at the Telematica Instituut as Member of Scientific Staff, in 2000 he became Manager Application Engineering, in 2006 Expertise Group Leader, and in 2009 Principal Advisor. By then the Institute had changed its name to Novay. From 2003 to 2007 he was also Module Manager at the Delft TopTech, School Executive Education of the Delft University of Technology. In October 2013, he left Novay and joined BiZZdesign.
At the Telematica Instituut between 2002 and 2004 Lankhorst managed the development of enterprise architecture modeling language ArchiMate, in cooperation with representatives from government, industry and academia.
In 2013 Lankhorst is representative of the Netherlands Architecture Forum at the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations.
Publications
Lankhorst has authored and coauthored numerous publications in his field of expertise. Books, a selection:
Marc Lankhorst. Genetic algorithms in data analysis Doctoral thesis University of Groningen, 1996.
Marc Lankhorst et al. Enterprise Architecture at Work - Modelling, Communication and Analysis. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2005.
Marc Lankhorst. Agile Service Development - Combining Adaptive Methods and Flexible Solutions. With others (ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2012.
Articles, a selection:
Jonkers, H., Lankhorst, M., Van Buuren, R., Hoppenbrouwers, S., Bonsangue, M., & Van Der Torre, L. (2004). "Concepts for modeling enterprise architectures." International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 13(03), 257−287.
Marc Lankhorst, Roel Wieringa and Henk Jonkers. et al. "Enterprise architecture: Management tool and blueprint for the organisation." Information Systems Frontiers 8.2 (2006): 63−66.
References
External links
Marc Lankhorst Photography at lankhorst.com
1968 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Enterprise modelling experts
University of Twente alumni
University of Groningen alumni
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
People from Naaldwijk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwina%20Bartholomew | Edwina Louise Christie Bartholomew (born 5 July 1983) is an Australian journalist and television presenter.
Bartholomew is currently news presenter on the Seven Network's breakfast television program Sunrise. She has previously been a co-host of Dancing with the Stars and Australian Spartan.
Career
Bartholomew completed her journalism degree at Charles Sturt University and also completed a Masters of International Studies in 2006 at Sydney University. She won a Sunrise Intern competition, where she progressed from making coffee to producing the show.
She also worked as a reporter on 2GB and covered the Beijing Olympics for the Seven Network.
She later returned to Australia and continued to work as a reporter for Seven News before signing on as Sunrise's Sydney correspondent in 2011. She also filed stories for Sunday Night.
In July 2013, Bartholomew was appointed weather presenter on Sunrise, replacing Grant Denyer.
In September 2013, Bartholomew was appointed co-host of Dancing with the Stars.
In January 2016, Bartholomew announced that she would be leaving her role as weather presenter on Sunrise after three years to become the show's entertainment presenter, and primary fill-in news presenter. She was replaced by Sam Mac.
In 2018 and 2019, Bartholomew co-hosted Australian Spartan alongside Hamish McLachlan.
In March 2021, Bartholomew was appointed news presenter on Sunrise replacing Natalie Barr who was promoted to co-host following Samantha Armytage's resignation.
Personal life
Bartholomew was born in Whyalla, South Australia. She spent her early years living in Japan and Malaysia. She later boarded at Abbotsleigh School in Wahroonga, Sydney, where she completed her Higher School Certificate and featured in the Distinguished Achievers List.
Bartholomew lives in Sydney and is married with two children.
In August 2021, Bartholomew announced that she was pregnant with her second child, which is due in February 2022.
References
1983 births
Australian television journalists
Charles Sturt University alumni
Weather presenters
People from Whyalla
Living people
People educated at Abbotsleigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20287001%E2%80%93288000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayadeque%20Music%20Player | Guayadeque was a free and open-source audio player with database written in C++ using the wxWidgets toolkit. Guayadeque uses gstreamer. On September 29, 2023, it was announced on the Guayadeque forums that development had ceased.
Features
A simple, intuitive user interface
Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 music playback support
Automatic album-cover fetching
Support for embedded ID3v2 album images
ReplayGain support
Support for multiple artist and performer tags per song
A system tray icon
Plugin support
Translations into many languages
Player controls
The Equalizer
Now Playing playlist
Player filters
Library
Radio
Last.fm
Lyrics
Playlists
Browser
File browser
Podcasts
Jamendo
Magnatune
Portable media devices
Track editor
Cover downloader
Label editor
Save to playlist
See also
Software audio players (free and open-source)
References
External links
Audio player software for Linux
Free audio software
Free media players
Free software programmed in C++
Linux media players
Software that uses GStreamer
Software that uses wxWidgets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Security%20Policy%202013 | National Cyber Security Policy is a policy framework by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) It aims at protecting the public and private infrastructure from cyber attacks. The policy also intends to safeguard "information, such as personal information (of web users), financial and banking information and sovereign data". This was particularly relevant in the wake of US National Security Agency (NSA) leaks that suggested the US government agencies are spying on Indian users, who have no legal or technical safeguards against it. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India) defines Cyberspace as a complex environment consisting of interactions between people, software services supported by worldwide distribution of information and communication technology.
Reason for Cyber Security policies
India had no Cyber security policy before 2013. In 2013, The Hindu newspaper, citing documents leaked by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, has alleged that much of the NSA surveillance was focused on India's domestic politics and its strategic and commercial interests. This sparked a furore among people. Under pressure, the government unveiled a National Cyber Security Policy 2013 on 2 July 2013.
Vision
To build a secure and resilient cyberspace for citizens, business, and government and also to protect anyone from intervening in user's privacy.It mentioned a five year target of training five lakh cyber security personnel by 2018.
Mission
To protect information and information infrastructure in cyberspace, build capabilities to prevent and respond to cyber threat, reduce vulnerabilities and minimize damage from cyber incidents through a combination of institutional structures, people, processes, technology, and cooperation.
Objective
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India) define objectives as follows:
To create a secure cyber ecosystem in the country, generate adequate trust and confidence in IT system and transactions in cyberspace and thereby enhance adoption of IT in all sectors of the economy.
To create an assurance framework for the design of security policies and promotion and enabling actions for compliance to global security standards and best practices by way of conformity assessment (Product, process, technology & people).
To strengthen the Regulatory Framework for ensuring a SECURE CYBERSPACE ECOSYSTEM.
To enhance and create National and Sectoral level 24x7 mechanism for obtaining strategic information regarding threats to ICT infrastructure, creating scenarios for response, resolution and crisis management through effective predictive, preventive, protective response and recovery actions.
-To improve visibility of integrity of ICT products and services by establishing infrastructure for testing & validation of security of such product.
To create workforce for 500,000 professionals skilled in next 5 years through capacity building skill development and training.
To provide fis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetGenie | NetGenie is a wireless router that offers security and protection against internet and network threats. It is a part of the Cyberoam's product portfolio and was launched in 2011.
Product Range
Considering the product range, NetGenie offers 4 basic products, two for HOME users and two for SOHO users. The appliance available for the HOME users are NG11VH and NG11EH and the appliance available for the SOHO users are NG11VO and NG11EO.
NG11VH
NG11VH is a Wireless VDSL2 /ADSL2+ Modem Router and Supports VDSL2, ADSL2+, Cable Internet, 3G USB modem connections.
NG11EH
NG11EH model is a Multi-Device Wi-Fi Security, parental control, Security, 3G ready, Threat-free Wi-Fi, Reports, Remote Management etc. NG11EH have in-depth parental control that comprises facility for blocking Unsafe/Adult Internet Control (under lists of pornography, Spyware, nudity), security coverage for all connected devices (Including laptops, desktops, iPads, iPhones), Age-Appropriate Internet Access for Kids, List of pre-categorized websites and applications with regular updates, Customizable Internet Access and Reports on Online Activities for all relevant information about security on kids’ /users Internet activities such as – websites visited, online applications used, attempts to visit blocked websites and more – with its logs and reports.
NG11VO
NG11VO is a Wireless VDSL2/ADSL2+ Integrated Security Appliance for small offices. It supports VDSL2, ADSL2+, Cable Internet, 3G USB modem connections. NG11VO have advanced Internet controls to manage employees’ time and productivity. NG11VO preconfigured security against unauthorized access and misuse of office Wi-Fi network protecting users against legal liabilities and data loss.
NG11EO
NG11EO is for small or home offices which can be managed through a web-based GUI, available over any Internet-access device within the office network. The appliance have features like Security, VPN, 3G ready, Internal controls, Pre-configured Wi-Fi Security, Reports, and Remote Management.
See also
Wireless router
Unified Threat Management
Network Security
References
External links
NetGenie - Official Website
Cyberoam - Official Website
Networking hardware
Wireless networking
Routers (computing)
Computer storage companies
Content-control software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo%20Bemelmans | Theodore Aloysius Maria (Theo) Bemelmans (born 24 February 1943) is a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus Professor of Administrative Information Systems and Automation at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Biography
Born in Heerlen, Bemelmans in 1962 started to study Econometrics at the Tilburg University, where he received his MA in 1968. Later in 1976 there he also received his PhD with a thesis entitled "Researchplanning in de Onderneming" (Research Planning in the Company) under supervision of Piet A. Verheyen and Wim van Hulst.
In 1968 Bemelmans started his academic career as faculty member at the Department of Business economics of the Tilburg University. From 1973 to 1978 he worked in the industry at Océ in Venlo, initially as information manager, later as comptroller in the management team of the division Drawing Office. Since 1978 he is employed at the Technical University of Eindhoven, first as a lecturer and later until March 1, 2004 as Professor of Accounting Information Systems and Automation at the Faculty of Technology Management. Since his retirement he is part-time associated to the Stichting Het Expertisecentrum in The Hague.
Bemelmans held numerous executive positions, both inside and outside the university. In 1978 he founded the Department of Strategic Information Systems and Automation. Later he was vice-dean and dean of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technology management, where he co-founded the study of Informatics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He was scientific director of the Institute for Perception Research (IPO), and one of the founders of the design program "User System Interaction". He was also a board member of the Nederlands Genootschap voor Informatica (Dutch Society for Informatics), and board member of the Stichting Informatica Onderzoek Nederland (Science Research Foundation Netherlands). He was curator at the Mathematical Centre Amsterdam and at the Royal Military Academy in Breda.
From 1986 to 1995 Bemelmans has been part-time partner at Twijnstra Gudde. Since 2002 Bemelmans was involved in the Radboud Foundation, first as member and chairman of the Advisory Council for the scientific work, and later as member of the Executive Committee.
Bemelmans supervised more than thirty doctoral students, and was involved in many other promotions as a committee. Among his doctoral students were Eero Eloranta (1981), Jacques Theeuwes (1985), Jan Dietz (1987), Maarten Looijen (1988), Jan Grijpink (1999), and Rini van Solingen (2000). In 2004, in his farewell speech at the Eindhoven University of Technology Bemelmans was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Work
Bemelmans' main areas of interest are information strategy and policy, methods for systems development, cost/benefit analysis, project management and quality of information .
Technical University of Eindhoven
Early 1970s the study of computer science at the Technical University of Eindhoven had been allocated in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20of%20argumentation | The logic of argumentation (LA) is a formalised description of the ways in which humans reason and argue about propositions. It is used, for example, in computer artificial intelligence systems in the fields of medical diagnosis and prognosis, and research chemistry.
Origin of term
Krause et al. appear to have been the first authors to use the term "logic of argumentation" in a paper about their model for using argumentation for qualitative reasoning under uncertainty, although the approach had been used earlier in prototype computer applications to support medical diagnosis. Their ideas have been developed further, and used in applications for predicting chemical toxicity and xenobiotic metabolism, for example.
Implementations
In LA, arguments for and arguments against a proposition are distinct; an argument for a proposition contributes nothing to the case against it, and vice versa. Among other things, this means that LA can support contradiction – proof that an argument is true and that it is false. Arguments supporting the case for and arguments supporting the case against are aggregated separately, leading to a single assessment of confidence in the case for and a single assessment of confidence in the case against. Then the two are resolved to provide a single measure of confidence in the proposition.
In most implementations of LA the default aggregated value is equal to the strongest value in the set of arguments for or against the proposition. Having more than one argument in agreement does not automatically increase confidence because it cannot be assumed that the arguments are independent when reasoning under uncertainty. If there is evidence that arguments are independent and there is a case for increased confidence when they agree, this is sometimes expressed in additional rules of the form "If A and B then ...".
The process of aggregation and resolution can be represented as follows:
T = Resolve[Max{For(Ca,x, Cb,y, ...)}, Max{Against(Ca,x, Cb,y, ...)}]
where T is the overall assessment of confidence in a proposition; Resolve[] is a function which returns the single confidence value which is the resolution of any pair of values; For and Against are the sets of arguments supporting and opposing the proposition, respectively; Ca,x, Cb,y, ..., are the confidence values for those arguments; Max{...} is a function which returns the strongest member of the set upon which it operates (For or Against).
Arguments may assign confidence to propositions that themselves influence confidence in other arguments, and one rule may be undercut by another. A computer implementation can recognize these interrelationships to construct reasoning trees automatically.
See also
Argumentation framework
Argumentation theory
Logic and dialectic
References
Logic
Arguments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20in%20Honduras | This is a list of ecoregions in Honduras as defined by the World Wildlife Fund and the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World database.
Terrestrial ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Central American Atlantic moist forests
Central American montane forests
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Central American dry forests
Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests
Central American pine–oak forests
Miskito pine forests
Mangroves
Gulf of Fonseca mangroves
Mosquitia–Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves
Northern Honduras mangroves
Freshwater ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
Chiapas–Fonseca
Quintana Roo–Motagua
Mosquitia
Estero Real–Tempisque
Marine ecoregions
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
Western Caribbean (includes the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef)
Southwestern Caribbean
Tropical East Pacific
Chiapas-Nicaragua
References
Honduras
Ecoregions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20algorithm | A local algorithm is a distributed algorithm that runs in constant time, independently of the size of the network.
References
Distributed algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20in%20El%20Salvador | This is a list of ecoregions in El Salvador as defined by the World Wildlife Fund and the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World database.
Terrestrial ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Central American montane forests
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Central American dry forests
Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests
Central American pine-oak forests
Mangroves
Gulf of Fonseca mangroves
Northern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves
Freshwater ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
Chiapas - Fonseca
Marine ecoregions
Tropical East Pacific
Chiapas-Nicaragua
See also
List of ecoregions in Guatemala
List of ecoregions in Nicaragua
References
El Salvador
Ecoregions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20in%20Nicaragua | This is a list of ecoregions in Nicaragua as defined by the World Wildlife Fund and the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World database.
Terrestrial ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Cayos Miskitos–San Andrés and Providencia moist forests
Central American Atlantic moist forests
Central American montane forests
Costa Rican seasonal moist forests
Isthmian–Atlantic moist forests
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Central American dry forests
Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests
Central American pine–oak forests
Miskito pine forests
Mangroves
Gulf of Fonseca mangroves
Mosquitia–Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves
Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves
Rio Negro–Rio San Sun mangroves
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
Chiapas–Fonseca
Mosquitia
Estero Real–Tempisque
San Juan (Nicaragua/Costa Rica)
Marine ecoregions
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
Southwestern Caribbean
Tropical East Pacific
Chiapas–Nicaragua
References
Nicaragua
Ecoregions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis%20%28TV%20series%29 | Genesis is a 2013 Philippine television drama science fiction series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Joyce E. Bernal and Mark A. Reyes, it stars Dingdong Dantes. It premiered on October 14, 2013 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on December 27, 2013 with a total of 55 episodes. It was replaced by Carmela: Ang Pinakamagandang Babae sa Mundong Ibabaw in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dingdong Dantes as Isaak Macalintal
Supporting cast
Rhian Ramos as Racquel Hernandez-De Guzman
Lorna Tolentino as Sandra Sebastian-Trinidad
TJ Trinidad as Paolo De Guzman
Jackie Lou Blanco as Ramona Escalabre
Lauren Young as Sheila Sebastian-Santillian
Ronnie Henares as Emil Trinidad
Irma Adlawan as Fely Hernandez
Betong Sumaya as Lito "Tolits" Dimagiba
Luane Dy as Jill Galvez
Carlo Gonzales as Waldo Calderon
Sasha Baldoza as Osie Macalintal
Rainier Gison as MJ Trinidad
Annette Samin as Summer Trinidad
Guest cast
Angel Aquino as Genesis' voice
Isabelle Daza as Helen
Snooky Serna as Elena Santillian
Laurice Guillen as Rosario Macalintal
Lito Legaspi as Leandro Macalintal
Robert Arevalo as Eduardo Sebastian
Gardo Versoza as Ka Andoy
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Joel
Ervic Vijandre as Fredo
Daria Ramirez as Linda
Juan Rodrigo as Lazon
Derrick Monasterio as Randy
Barbie Forteza as Faith
Sharmaine Arnaiz as Donna Dimaano
Rolly Innocencio as Jeffrey
Mike Lloren as Alberto
Art Acuña as a policeman
Archie Adamos as a policeman
Edwin Reyes as a policeman
Pauleen Luna as young Sandra
Timothy Chan as young Isaak
Jillian Ward as young Racquel
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Genesis earned a 22.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 22.1% rating.
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine science fiction television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20in%20Panama | This is a list of ecoregions in Panama as defined by the World Wildlife Fund and the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World database.
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Chocó–Darién moist forests
Eastern Panamanian montane forests
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests
Isthmian-Pacific moist forests
Talamancan montane forests
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Panamanian dry forests
Mangroves
Bocas del Toro–San Bastimentos Island–San Blas mangroves
Gulf of Panama mangroves
Moist Pacific Coast mangroves
Freshwater ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers
Chiriqui
Isthmus Caribbean
Santa Maria
Chagres
Rio Tuira
Marine ecoregions
Tropical Northwestern Atlantic
Southwestern Caribbean
Tropical East Pacific
Nicoya
Panama Bight
References
Panama
Ecoregions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted%20interventions | Computer-assisted interventions (CAI) is a field of research and practice, where medical interventions are supported by computer-based tools and methodologies. Examples include:
Medical robotics
Surgical and interventional navigation
Imaging and image processing methods for CAI
Clinical feasibility studies of computer-enhanced interventions
Tracked and guided biopsies
Alignment of pre-procedure images with the patient during the procedure
Intraoperative decision supports
Skill analysis and workflow studies in CAI
Clinical studies of CAI showing first-in-man or early efficacy results
User interfaces and visualization systems for CAI
Surgical and interventional systems
Novel surgical devices and sensors
User performance studies
Validation and evaluation of CAI technology
The basic paradigm of patient-specific interventional medicine is a closed loop process, consisting of
combining specific information about the patient with the physician's general knowledge to determine the patient's condition;
formulating a plan of action;
carrying out this plan; and
evaluating the results.
The experience gathered over many patients may be combined to improve treatment plans and protocols for future patients. Computer-based technology assists medical professional in processing and acting on complex information .
Methods
Medical robotics
Robotic and telerobotic interventions
Surgical and interventional navigation
Alignment of pre-procedure images with the patient during the procedure
Imaging and image processing methods for CAI
Intraoperative decision support
Surgical process modeling and analysis
In order to gain an explicit and formal understanding of surgery, the field of analyses and modelling of surgical procedures has recently emerged. The challenge is to support the surgeon and the surgical procedure through the understanding of Operating Room (OR) activities, with the help of sensor- or human-based systems. Related surgical models can then be introduced into a new generation of Computer-Assisted Interventions systems to improve the management of complex multimodal information, improve surgical workflows, increase surgical efficiency and the quality of care in the OR. Models created by these different approaches may have a large impact in future surgical innovations, whether for planning, intra-operative or post-operative purposes.
This idea of describing the surgical procedure as a sequence of tasks was first introduced by MacKenzie et al. (2001). and formalised in Jannin et al., 2001. The term Surgical Process (SP) has been defined as a set of one or more linked procedures or activities that collectively realise a surgical objective within the context of an organisational structure defining functional roles and relationships. This term is generally used to describe the steps involved in a surgical procedure. A Surgical Process Model (SPM) has been defined as a simplified pattern of an SP that reflects a predefined subset of interest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODISC | MODISC may refer to:
Magneto-optical disc, a computer storage medium introduced in 1985
M-DISC, an archival type of recordable DVD or Blu-ray disc media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20HDX | The Fire HDX, formerly named Kindle Fire HDX, was a high-end model in Amazon Fire line of tablet computers. It was announced on September 25, 2013, and was available in two models, 7 inch and 8.9 inch. The 7 inch WiFi model was released on October 18, 2013, and the 8.9 inch WiFi model was released on November 7, 2013, in the United States.
In September 2014, Amazon released the second generation of the Fire HDX 8.9 model that has a faster processor and a more powerful graphics processing unit. In addition, the name "Kindle" was removed from all of the Fire tablets' names.
The Fire HDX tablets were discontinued, and the Fire HD tablet line now includes the most powerful versions of Amazon Fire devices.
Design
Hardware
Both the 7 inch and 8.9 inch LCD models contain a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor that has an Adreno 330 GPU. The models also have a 1.2 megapixel front camera that shoots 720p HD video. The 8.9 inch model has an 8 megapixel rear camera that shoots HD 1080p video. The exterior surface has angular, raised plastic edges with the power and volume buttons located on the backside. The Fire HDX features Dolby Digital Plus audio engine powering the two attached speakers. A normal user will get about 12 hours of battery life from a full charge.
The Fire HDX 8.9" refresh in 2014 uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor with an Adreno 420 GPU. The sound system features Dolby Atmos speaker technology and the Wi-Fi version weighs .
Software
Both models use Fire OS 3 which is a proprietary fork of Android 4.2.2. It features "Mayday", a button for free tech support available any time, "Silk", a cloud-accelerated browser, the Amazon Appstore for games and apps and Amazon.com services for media content purchases. The tablets can send video content to a supported TV, game console or through a device like a Wireless Display HDMI adapter wirelessly using "Second Screen", but cannot send content via a HDMI cable like its predecessor, the Kindle Fire HD.
The 2014 refresh uses Fire OS 4 "Sangria", which features profiles so each user on the tablet can have their own settings and apps.
Mayday feature
Sascha Segan of PC Magazine mentioned: "Press the Mayday button, and within 15 seconds, a live Amazon operator appears in a video chat window on your screen to answer all of your Kindle Fire questions. He or she will even tell you what apps to download. I've never seen anything else like it on a tablet." In his review of the Kindle Fire HDX 7" he called the Mayday remote video support feature as "revolutionary" and "Amazon's most exciting feature".
In June 2018, however, Amazon "quietly" discontinued the Mayday feature.
Fire OS UI
The Fire HDX's UI has a "Carousel" which contains the most recent apps used and ones that have been updated or purchased recently. The Carousel also holds documents, videos, music, and books. The Fire HDX also has a favorites tab in which the user can access the users apps from any other application.
Models
Overvie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingit | () is a 2013 Philippine television docudrama anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Rico Gutierrez and Lem Lorca, it premiered on September 21, 2013 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up. The show concluded on November 16, 2013 with a total of 9 episodes. It was replaced by Out of Control in its timeslot.
Format
The forty-five-minute "human drama" centers on the comprehensive re-enactment of the chain of events leading to the actual accidents or life-threatening circumstances as told by the person involved. Using the elements of interview, dramatization, actual footage, and photos, the television program magnifies how one's decision, coupled with the power of the human spirit, can overcome any situation.
Production and development
According to the show's program manager, Enri Calaycay, the concept of the show started not to tell stories literally about the "near-death" experiences but to show what happens when a person comes to a tipping point of his life that would make him realize that he has to make a decision.
Calaycay further stated "[...] when we presented the concept, there was an input that to make it easier for viewers to understand, because the initial concept was quite 'general'. [So] they said why not use literally the "bingit", after all, near-death stories are interesting too." Thus, the production team wasted no time pulling together stories that are interesting and remarkable. The production also decided not to hire presenter as they wanted to highlight [and for the audience to focus] more on the featured stories.
The show is slated to run for one season, comprises nine episodes. The show premiered on September 21, 2013, with the episode "Sulyap ng Kamatayan" (lit. Glimpse of Death), which featured the story of Sr. Insp. June Paulo Abrazado, the aide-de-camp of the late Department of the Interior and Local Government secretary Jesse Robredo. Abrazado is the lone survivor in the plane crash that killed Robredo, pilot Capt. Jessup Bahinting and co-pilot Kshitiz Chand when the private plane owned by Bahinting crashed in the waters off Masbate in August 2012. According to Calaycay, it is the first time that Abrazado shares his story on television after the accident and death of Robredo. Calaycay also stated that they really wanted to kick off the program, with Abrazado's recollection of the actual happening of what can be considered as "a hair's breadth away from death" moment for him, in time for the annual feast day of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, wherein Robredo and Abrazado are both devotees.
Actor Mark Herras plays Abrazado while Vaness del Moral plays Abrazado's wife Lourvila.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 9.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 10% rating.
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Netw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Control%20Architecture | The Open Control Architecture (OCA) is a communications protocol architecture for control, monitoring, and connection management of networked audio and video devices. Such networks are referred to as "media networks".
The official specification of OCA is the Audio Engineering Society (AES) standard known as AES70-2015, or just AES70.
AES70 is an open standard that may be used freely, without licenses, fees, or organization memberships.
Applicability
AES70 is intended to support media networks that combine devices from diverse manufacturers. Targeted for professional applications, AES70 is suitable for media networks of 2 to 10,000 devices, including networks with mission-critical and/or life-safety roles.
AES70 is for device control, monitoring, and connection management only. It does not provide transport of media program material. However, AES70 is designed to work with virtually any media transport scheme, as the application requires.
AES70's parts are separable and may be used independently. For example, a device may implement AES70 connection management, but use other means for operational control and monitoring.
AES70 is termed an "architecture" because it provides the basis for definition of multiple control protocols. These protocols all share a common programming model, but vary in signalling detail, depending on the form of the underlying data transport mechanism. An AES70 application will use whichever AES70 protocol is appropriate for the communications method available.
Background
OCA, the architecture of AES70, was developed by the OCA Alliance, trade association, beginning in 2011. OCA was based on an existing control protocol named OCP, which had been created by Bosch Communications Systems in 2009 and 2010. OCP was in turn based on an embryonic control protocol standard named AES-24
developed by the AES in the early 1990s.
From the outset, it was the intention of all involved to have OCA rendered into an open public standard. The Alliance completed OCA development in the Fall of 2014, and transferred the specification to the AES for rendering into a formal standard. AES70, the formal standard, was published on January 4, 2016.
Today, the OCA Alliance works to develop and enhance the functionality of AES70 and to promote AES70's adoption throughout the professional media systems industry. The Alliance promotes understanding and adoption of AES70, facilitates the creation of AES70 implementations and related tools and technologies, and develops future functional enhancements of the AES70 standard.
Structural Overview
Scope
AES70 defines the control interface that a media device presents to a network to which it is connected. Thus, AES70 is concerned with the representation of device functions in a systematic way, and with the control and monitoring of those functions via a well-defined family of protocols.
Media networks normally include one or more devices called "controllers" with user interfa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui%20Lambie | Jacquiline Louise Lambie (born 26 February 1971) is an Australian politician who is the leader and founder of the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN). She is a Senator for Tasmania since 2019, and was previously a Senator from 2014 to 2017.
Lambie, an Aboriginal Tasmanian, grew up in public housing in Devonport before serving as a corporal in the Australian Army. Attempting to seek Liberal preselection after joining the party in 2011, and previously working as a staff member of Labor senator Nick Sherry, Lambie joined the Palmer United Party (PUP), led by Australian billionaire Clive Palmer. She was elected to the Senate at the 2013 federal election. Her term began in July 2014. Lambie received national prominence for her intense grassroots campaign and subsequently her display of aggressive and vociferous parliamentary behaviour, championing issues concerning foreign affairs, veterans' affairs, youth unemployment, and criticism of Islam. After persistent internal divisions, in November 2014, Lambie resigned from the Palmer United Party to sit in the Senate as an independent.
In May 2015, she formed the Jacqui Lambie Network political party with herself leader. She was elected to a six-year term in her own right at the 2016 federal election (a double dissolution). In November 2017, she was revealed to hold Australian-British dual citizenship, having inherited British citizenship from her Scottish-born father. As part of the parliamentary eligibility crisis, she announced her resignation on 14 November 2017. After a recount, she was expected to be replaced by Devonport Mayor Steve Martin, who had been second on the JLN ticket in the 2016 federal election. He survived a challenge to his own eligibility, on a different constitutional ground, but refused to step down so as to create a casual Senate vacancy to which Lambie could be appointed. She expelled him from the party for disloyalty.
Lambie was re-elected to the Senate at the 2019 election, and became a Senator for the second time on 1 July 2019.
Early life
Lambie, a Palawa woman, was born in the town of Ulverstone in north-western Tasmania. Her parents separated when she was 13, and she was raised in a public housing estate in Devonport, attending Devonport High School until she left at Year 11.
Lambie was one of just four members of the 46th Parliament of Australia who did not graduate from high school, the others being Julie Collins, Llew O'Brien and Terry Young.
Military career
Australian Army (1989–2000)
Lambie enlisted in the Australian Army in 1989. She completed her recruit training while unknowingly pregnant with her first child. Her pregnancy was not recognised until four months later; army medical officers had attributed her menstruation stopping to the stress of training.
After basic training, she was assigned to the Royal Australian Corps of Transport in 1990. She remained with the Transport Corps for five years before being transferred to the Royal Australian Corps of Military Poli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20Quest%20Overdrive | Soul Quest Overdrive is an American adult animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. Soul Quest Overdrive is a spin-off of the Adult Swim series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It was created by Aqua Teen Hunger Force creators Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis. It made its formal debut and ended on May 24, 2011, leaving two episodes unaired. The series is about the misadventures of four anthropomorphic pieces of sports equipment.
Premise
The series is about the misadventures of four anthropomorphic pieces of sports equipment: Mick, Mortimer, Bert, and Tammy, who live together in a mobile home. Despite being Evangelical Christians, they are also hedonistic drug addicts prone to extremely impulsive and destructive behavior.
Characters
Bert (David Cross) – an impulsive bowling pin.
Mortimer (H. Jon Benjamin) – a baseball glove who seems more grounded than the rest of the group.
Tammy (Kristen Schaal) – an abused basketball.
Mick (Gavin McInnes) – a wild energetic Scottish soccer ball.
Production
Soul Quest Overdrive was created by Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis. It was picked up for six episodes in 2010.
The series is a spin-off of the Adult Swim series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which was also created by Maiellaro and Willis. The characters originated as one-time characters from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force season five episode "Bible Fruit", which originally aired on March 23, 2008. "Bible Fruit" features the main characters from Soul Quest Overdrive (with the exception of Mick) in the form of anthropomorphic fruits. The fruit characters from "Bible Fruit" were changed to pieces of anthropomorphic sports equipment in Soul Quest Overdrive, but maintained similar personalities and their original names. In "Bible Fruit" the fruit versions of the characters were voiced by the same voice actors who would go on to voice their respective sports equipment counterparts in Soul Quest Overdrive.
The character Mick does not appear in the pilot episode and did not have a counterpart in "Bible Fruit". Gavin McInnes, who provided the voice of Mick, was personally approached by Adult Swim and asked to play the voice of Mick, who has a thick Scottish accent on the show (McInnes himself is Canadian, of Glaswegian ancestry, but does not speak with a Scottish accent in real life).
Broadcast history
"Meals on Wheels" was originally released online in early 2010, as part of a pilot contest in which viewers could watch several different pilots and vote on which would be best to air. It ultimately lost to the pilot of Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge, which aired on March 29, 2010. Although Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge won the contest it was never picked up for a full series, unlike Soul Quest Overdrive.
Three episodes from the first season originally premiered in Adult Swim's "DVR Theater" on May 24, 2011, alongside the television debu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlineHPC | The OnlineHPC was a free public web service that supplied tools to deal with high performance computers and online workflow editor. OnlineHPC allowed users to design and execute workflows using the online workflow designer and to work with high performance computers – clusters and clouds. Access to high performance resources was available as directly from the service user interface, as from workflow components.
The workflow engine of the OnlineHPC service was Taverna as traditionally used for scientific workflow execution in such domains, as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, medicine, astronomy, social science, music, and digital preservation.
History
OnlineHPC was started at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems in 2012 as a project for the institute’s researchers whose work need access to computer clusters and who are not professional programmers.
The project motivation is that there is a gap between researcher skills and competence level needed to run high performance computing. There are at least three barriers on the way to HPC:
Researcher needs to find HPC provider and go through procedures to get access;
Researcher needs to install and configure numerous low-level software applications and deal with digital certificates to proceed;
Researcher needs to get familiar with such technologies and tools as MPI, batch task managers or even web services.
The last requirement stops majority of even the stoutest researchers that passed first two levels. The service aims to reduce the barriers by providing a complete pre-configured set of tools required for work with computer clusters: in-browser terminal emulator, files system browser, credentials manager and massive task tool.
After a while, it became obvious that engineering and scientific tasks require a more elaborate tool suit that enables researchers to execute the flow of tasks – workflows. Unless there is a number of scientific workflow implementations, they are almost all desktop applications and thus the aim was creating an online environment with a focus on simplicity and enhanced user experience.
The project was in use in bioinformatics, human health, telecommunications and other domains.
As of 2016-05, http://onlinehpc.com/ was unavailable.
Capabilities
OnlineHPC had a workflow designer available online using major browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer) on desktops and tablets.
Workflows in OnlineHPC included components for:
Running massive computations on computer clusters
SOAP/WSDL and REST Web services, special component for the BioMart web service.
R statistical service
Beanshell script (Java-like script language)
External tools on remote machines (via ssh)
XPath xml data extraction
Importing data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
The service also had basic tools to prepare and run massive computational tasks on clusters - in-browser terminal emulator, file system browser and cluster status viewer.
Users could choose to operate existing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics%3A%20Or%20Control%20and%20Communication%20in%20the%20Animal%20and%20the%20Machine | Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine is a book written by Norbert Wiener and published in 1948. It is the first public usage of the term "cybernetics" to refer to self-regulating mechanisms. The book laid the theoretical foundation for servomechanisms (whether electrical, mechanical or hydraulic), automatic navigation, analog computing, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and reliable communications.
A second edition with minor changes and two additional chapters was published in 1961.
Reception
The book aroused a considerable amount of public discussion and comment at the time of publication, unusual for a predominantly technical subject.
"[A] beautifully written book, lucid, direct, and, despite its complexity, as readable by the layman as the trained scientist, if the former is willing to forego attempts to understand mathematical formulas."
"One of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Cybernetics has been acclaimed as one of the 'seminal works' comparable in ultimate importance to Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill."
"Its scope and implications are breathtaking, and leaves the reviewer with the conviction that it is a major contribution to contemporary thought."
"Cybernetics... is worthwhile for its historical value alone. But it does much more by inspiring the contemporary roboticist to think broadly and be open to innovative applications."
The public interest aroused by this book inspired Wiener to address the sociological and political issues raised in a book targeted at the non-technical reader, resulting in the publication in 1950 of The Human Use of Human Beings.
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Newtonian and Bergsonian Time
2. Groups and Statistical Mechanics
3. Time Series, Information, and Communication
4. Feedback and Oscillation
5. Computing Machines and the Nervous System
6. Gestalt and Universals
7. Cybernetics and Psychopathology
8. Information, Language, and Society
Supplementary chapters in the second edition
9. On Learning and Self-Reproducing Machines
10. Brain Waves and Self-Organising Systems
Synopsis
Introduction
Wiener recounts that the origin of the ideas in this book is a ten-year-long series of meetings at the Harvard Medical School where medical scientists and physicians discussed scientific method with mathematicians, physicists and engineers. He details the interdisciplinary nature of his approach and refers to his work with Vannevar Bush and his differential analyzer (a primitive analog computer), as well as his early thoughts on the features and design principles of future digital calculating machines. He traces the origins of cybernetic analysis to the philosophy of Leibniz, citing his work on universal symbolism and a calculus of reasoning.
Newtonian and Bergsonian Time
The theme of this chapter is an exploration of the contrast between time-reversible processes governed by Newtonian mechanics and time-irreversible processes in accord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%20Chromosome%20Haplotype%20Reference%20Database | The Y Chromosome Haplotype Reference Database (YHRD) is an open-access, annotated collection of population samples typed for Y chromosomal sequence variants. Two important objectives are pursued: (1) the generation of reliable frequency estimates for Y-STR haplotypes and Y-SNP haplotypes to be used in the quantitative assessment of matches in forensic and kinship cases and (2) the characterization of male lineages to draw conclusions about the origins and history of human populations. The database is endorsed by the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG).
By May 2023 about 350.000 Y chromosomes typed for 9-29 STR loci have been directly submitted by worldwide forensic institutions and universities. In geographic terms, about 53% of the YHRD samples stem from Asia, 21% from Europe, 12% from North America, 10% from Latin America, 3% from Africa, 0.8% from Oceania/Australia and 0.2% from the Arctic. The 1.406 individual sampling projects are described in about 800 peer-reviewed publications
Submission and registration
YHRD is built by direct submissions of population data from individual laboratories. Upon receipt of a submission, the YHRD staff examines the originality, relevance, plausibility and validity of the data and assigns an accession number to the population sample if these criteria are met. The submissions are then registered to the public database, where the entries are retrievable by Search for haplotypes, contributors or accession numbers. All population data published in forensic journals as FSI: Genetics or International Journal of Legal Medicine are required to be validated by the YHRD custodians and are subsequently included in the YHRD.
Database structure
The database supports the most frequently used haplotype formats (e.g. Minimal (), Powerplex Y12, YFiler, Powerplex Y23, YfilerPlus and Maximal () for which differently-sized databases exist.
Because strong correlations exist between geographic areas and Y chromosomal variants, the YHRD population database was structured to display the geographic, linguistic and phylogenetic relationship of searched haplotype profiles. Currently the YHRD database recognizes four separate "metapopulation" structures: national, continental, linguistic/ethnic and phylogenetic affiliation with several categories within. In population genetics the term metapopulation describes discrete spatially distributed population groups which are interconnected by geneflow and migration. By analogy, the term metapopulation is used in forensic genetics to describe a set of geographically dispersed populations with shared ancestry and continuing geneflow. Thus, the population groups are more similar within the metapopulation than to groups outside the metapopulation.
National
The concept of pooling data to build "national databases" has a very straightforward explanation: law enforcement agencies and forensic services rely on their national population to build reference databases. In most instances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicPlot | MagicPlot is a technical plotting, curve fitting and data analysis application. It provides a wide usage of the graphical user interface for data exploration as well as various statistical analysis tools, peak fitting options, raster or vector formats of publishable plots.
MagicPlot is a commercial software. The limited functional trial version is also available.
References
External links
2008 software
Data analysis software
Plotting software
Regression and curve fitting software
Java (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina-X%20Studios | Retina-X Studios is a software manufacturer company that develops computer and cell phone monitoring applications, focused on computers, smartphones, tablets and networks. The company is founded in 1997 and it is based in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.
History
The company was founded in July 1997 primarily as a web consulting and design company. In 2003, after a period of developing monitoring products for outside companies, the company began creating monitoring software products using its own brand name. The first software product, named AceSpy, was released on April 28, 2003.
In May 2007, the company developed and released the first monitoring software for mobile phones, named Mobile-Spy, particularly for Windows Mobile.
Products
Mobile-Spy – monitoring software for mobile internet and cell phone activity.
PhoneSheriff – parental monitoring software that allows multiple time restrictions and filtering.
SniperSpy and SniperSpy Mac – monitoring software for Windows & Mac.
AceSpy and AceSpy Mac – similar to SniperSpy, but doesn't have a live control panel.
PeekTab – tablet monitoring software for iPad and Android tablets.
Net Orbit - computer monitoring software for network.
Usage
Target audiences for Retina-X Studios are parents and employers.
Legal
Parents and employers use legal monitoring software to check their teens' and staff's internet use. This is legal since juveniles are the responsibility of their parents. Company markets its products as spy applications as parents can review child's messages and call details without the child's knowledge. In some cases ethical issues can arise if employees are not made aware of monitoring tools, if personal emails are intentionally accessed and if managers are involved directly in evaluating the contents of logging activities as they can be/become biased towards the person whose email is being reviewed.
Illegal
Using cell phones for spying has also increased due to multiplication of smart phones and compromising one's information is very possible with spy apps. People can stalk each other easily with company software. All they need is a onetime access to the gadget and then such software would run invisibly. The wrong use of the software should not be overlooked. The hackers can access the online information that is parsed to the customer's account and this can lead to privacy issues.
See also
Phone surveillance
Employee monitoring software
Keystroke logging
References
External links
Software companies based in Florida
Computer security software companies
Mobile technology companies
Defunct software companies of the United States
Stalkerware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20justice%20movement | The global justice movement is a network of globalized social movements demanding global justice by opposing what is often known as the “corporate globalization” and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.
Movement of movements
The global justice movement describes the loose collections of individuals and groups—often referred to as a “movement of movements”—who advocate fair trade rules and are negative to current institutions of global economics such as the World Trade Organization.
The movement is often labeled the anti-globalization movement by the mainstream media. Those involved, however, frequently deny that they are anti-globalization, insisting that they support the globalization of communication and people and oppose only the global expansion of corporate power. The term further indicates an anti-capitalist and universalist perspective on globalization, distinguishing the movement from those opponents of globalization whose politics are based on a conservative defence of national sovereignty. It is, however, argued by some scholars of social movements, that a new concept of justice, alongside some old notions, underlies many critical ideas and practices developed in this movement. S. A. Hamed Hosseini coins this new mode of conceptualizing justice accommodative justice and argues that both the unique nature of the movement and the global complexities of the post-Cold War era can be accounted for the rise of such notion. According to him, "this new concept of justice has emerged from many activists’ experiences of and reflections on the complexities of globalization".
Important organizational pillars of the movement are Via Campesina, the family farmers' international; Peoples' Global Action, a loose collection of often youthful groups (NB the apostrophe correctly indicates involvement of peoples, rather than people); Jubilee 2000, the Christian-based movement for relieving international debt; Friends of the Earth, the environmentalist international; and some think-tanks like Focus on the Global South and Third World Network, as well as some large internationalist and transnational trade union organisations.
Participants include worldwide student groups, NGOs, trade unions, faith-based and peace groups, and publications such as New Internationalist. A loose coordination of the movement is taking place on the Social Forums. However, although formal power is often situated in the global South, the resources of North-based NGOs give these disproportionate power to often informally marginalize popular organizations from the South.
International solidarity
The global justice movement claims to place a significant emphasis on transnational solidarity uniting activists in the global South and global North. While the World Social Forum is supposed to promote an example of this emphasis, bringing activists together from around the world to focus on shared philosophy and campaigning, others, like South African politician Andile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Optimus%20Vu%20II | The LG Optimus Vu II (Also known as LG Vu 2 in South Korea) is an Android smartphone/tablet computer hybrid ("phablet"), released in September 2012 and noted for its 5.0-inch screen size—between that of conventional smartphones, and larger tablets. It is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core Krait CPU with Adreno 225 GPU and runs on Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich which is upgradable to Android 4.4.2 KitKat
See also
LG Optimus
LG Vu series
List of LG mobile phones
Comparison of smartphones
References
LG Optimus Vu II Specifications GSMArena
Android (operating system) devices
LG Electronics smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2012
Discontinued smartphones
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20Machine%20%28computer%29 | Steam Machine was a series of small form factor gaming computers by Valve, designed to operate SteamOS to provide a game console-like experience. Several computer vendors were engaged with Valve to develop their own versions of Steam Machines for retail, offering additional options atop Valve's requirements such as dual-booting options with Microsoft Windows and the ability to upgrade the computer. Consumers could digitally purchase video games on their Steam Machine through Valve's namesake Steam storefront.
To support the Steam Machine and SteamOS, Valve released the Steam Controller, a customizable game controller with touchpad-based haptic feedback, and the Steam Link, a device that allows consumers with Steam software to stream content to a monitor. Following a two-year testing period, Steam Machines and its related hardware were released on November 10, 2015. By 2018, many Steam Machines models were no longer offered on the Steam store.
History
Steam, a digital video games storefront offering many third-party game publishers' titles, was developed by Valve primarily for Microsoft Windows and accounted for an estimated 75% of digitally purchased games on that platform in 2013. Valve has indicated displeasure with the approaches that both Microsoft and Apple are taking with their respective operating systems, limiting what applications could be run, and upon the release of Windows 8 in 2012, Valve's CEO Gabe Newell called it "a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space", and discussed the possibility of promoting the open-source operating system Linux that would maintain "the openness of the platform". Newell recognized that games would need to be a significant part of the push for Linux. An official Linux client for Steam was released in July 2012, along with developer tools to help port games to the platform. Valve worked to assure that users' game libraries would be portable, including offering Steam Play whereby purchase of a title for one platform automatically allows that user to play the title on other supported platforms, and cross-platform multiplayer features.
Prior to Valve's official announcement of Steam Machines, rumors of Valve's plan to get into the hardware market developed in the industry throughout 2012, based on aspects such as the emphasis on the Linux operating system and the introduction of features like the 10-foot user interface "Big Picture Mode" for Steam which would be a necessary feature for a video game console. Valve formally announced that it was considering developing a video game console near the end of 2012. Industry journalists tentatively called the hardware a "Steam Box". It would function as a dedicated unit running Steam to allow players to launch games, media, and other functions that the client already provides. The unit's hardware was expected to be tightly controlled in a similar manner to other video game consoles. The software side was expected to remain open; for example, the unit is expected |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS | SteamOS is a Linux distribution developed by Valve. It incorporates Valve's popular namesake Steam video game storefront and is the primary operating system for Steam Machines and the Steam Deck. SteamOS is open source with some closed source components.
SteamOS was originally built to support streaming of video games from one personal computer to the one running SteamOS within the same network, although the operating system can support standalone systems and was intended to be used as part of Valve's Steam Machine platform. SteamOS versions 1.0, released in December 2013, and 2.0 were based on the Debian distribution of Linux with GNOME desktop. With SteamOS, Valve encouraged developers to incorporate Linux compatibility into their releases to better support Linux gaming options.
In February 2022, Valve released the handheld gaming computer Steam Deck running SteamOS 3.0. SteamOS 3 is based on the Arch Linux distribution with KDE Plasma 5.
Features
SteamOS is designed primarily for playing video games away from a PC (such as from the couch in one's living room) by providing a console-like experience using generic PC hardware that can connect directly to a television. It can run games natively that have been developed for Linux and purchased from the Steam store. Users are also able to stream games from their Windows, Mac or Linux computers to one running SteamOS, and it incorporates the same family sharing and restrictions as Steam on the desktop. Valve claims that it has "achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing" through SteamOS. The operating system is open source, allowing users to build on or adapt the source code, though the actual Steam client is closed.
Since SteamOS is solely for playing games without a mouse or keyboard, it does not have many built-in functions beyond web browsing and playing games. Users can, however, access the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and perform tasks such as installing other software. The OS natively supports Nvidia, Intel, and AMD graphics processors.
Valve stated that it has added support for movies, television, and music to SteamOS. However, video content is only available from Steam's store, which has a small number of films. Music playback only supports local music collections. In October 2015, an update allowed Netflix and other DRM protected content to function in the native built-in browser.
The current system hardware requirements for default SteamOS 2.0 installations include:
Intel or AMD 64-bit capable processor
At least 4 GB of RAM
At least 200 GB on one's hard disk
NVIDIA (Fermi graphics cards (GeForce 400 series and GeForce 500 series) or newer), Intel, or AMD graphics card (RADEON 8500 or newer)
USB port for installation
UEFI boot support
A custom installer method is also available, which can require additional configuration steps. This method allows for smaller hard-disk sizes. There is also an ISO image installer that supports legacy BIOS motherboard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Wardingham | Paul Wardingham is an English-born Australian musician. Self-described as "instrumental cyber metal" his style can be categorized as a hybrid mix of rock, progressive metal with electronic elements. He is currently signed to Enigmatic Records
As of February 2018 Paul is endorsed by Kiesel Guitars.
Biography
Paul Wardingham was born in the UK where he learned guitar and became exposed to blues and jazz fusion. He currently resides in Launceston, Australia where he performed in "The Collins/Wardingham Project", a progressive metal fusion band. In 2006, the group released the album Interactive.
Paul later contributed guitar instrumentals for "Aeon Displacement" in the 2011 Mortuus Machina album by the Australian melodic death metal band Universum.
As of 2010, Paul has operated as a solo artist, releasing four albums as of October 2018: Assimilate Regenerate, The Human Affliction, Spiritual Machines and Electromancer
Assimilate Regenerate (2011)
Released in 2011, the instrumental concept album Assimilate Regenerate was inspired by "science fiction, future technology and the effect it has on society".
Sputnikmusic awarded the album a rating of 4.5, noting that the "album is extremely solid from beginning to end, and is definitely one of the best records of 2011 so far."
The Human Affliction (2015)
Released during July 2015, The Human Affliction is an instrumental cyber metal concept album, based on a story Wardingham wrote.
The album features guest solos by Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry) on the track ‘Burning Chrome’, Stephan Forte (Adagio) on ‘Digital Apocalypse’ and Andy James (Wearing Scars) and Christian Muenzner (Necrophagist) on the a bonus track ‘Day Of The Droids.
Spiritual Machines (2016)
On 14 March 2016, it was announced on Wardingham's website that he had begun work on a third solo album titled Spiritual Machines. Spiritual Machines was released on 21 November 2016.
Electromancer (2018)
On 30 November 2017, Paul Wardingham revealed on his website the cover artwork, track listing and release date for his fourth self-produced solo album titled Electromancer set for release 12 March 2018 on Enigmatic Records.
Like Wardingham’s sophomore effort The Human Affliction, Electromancer is a concept album inspired by an original story set on Earth in the year 2217.
Electromancer features cover artwork by Light The Torch (ex-Devil You Know) and former All Shall Perish guitarist Francesco Artusato.
Electromancer was released 10 April 2018.
On 1 September 2018, Paul Wardingham announced on his website that recording had begun on a follow-up release to his cyber metal concept album Electromancer, titled "Electromancer:Corrupted".
Day Zero: Rise Of The Horde (2020)
On 30 June 2020, Paul Wardingham released his 5th solo album Day Zero : Rise Of The Horde. Described as a “Mad Max meets Resident Evil inspired futuristic thrash metal thriller”. The album is the first in a 2 part album series.
Equipment
Guitars
Kiesel Vader (VX7) 7 string
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20OS | Fire OS is a mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). It is developed by Amazon for their devices. Fire OS includes proprietary software, a customized user interface primarily centered on content consumption, and heavy ties to content available from Amazon's storefronts and services.
History
Amazon began referring to the Android derivative as Fire OS with its third iteration of Fire tablets. Unlike previous Fire models, whose operating system was described as "based on" Android, Fire OS 3.0 was described as "compatible with" Android.
Fire OS 5
Based on Android 5.1 "Lollipop", it added an updated interface. The home screen has a traditional application grid and pages for content types, as opposed to the previous carousel interface. It also introduced On Deck, a function that automatically moves content out of offline storage to maintain storage space for new content; the Word Runner speed reading tool; and screen color filters. Parental controls were enhanced with a new web browser for FreeTime mode featuring a curated selection of content appropriate for children, and an Activity Center for monitoring children's usage. It removed support for device encryption, which an Amazon spokesperson stated was an enterprise-oriented feature that was underused. In March 2016, after the removal was publicized and criticized in the wake of the FBI–Apple encryption dispute, Amazon announced it would restore the feature in a future patch.
Fire OS 6
Based on Android 7.1.2 "Nougat", its main changes and additions include:
Adoptable storage, allowing users to format and use their SD card as internal storage
Doze/App standby, aiming to improve battery life by forcing devices to sleep when not actively used, adding restrictions to apps that would normally continue to run background processes
MediaTek exploits (2019)
In early 2019, security exploits for six Fire Tablet models and one Fire TV model were discovered that could allow temporary root access, permanent root access, and bootloader unlocking due to security vulnerabilities in multiple MediaTek chipsets.
Fire OS 7
Based on Android 9.0 "Pie", it was released in 2019 for all 8th-11th generation Fire tablets.
In February 2022, Amazon announced that the Docs app would be replaced (in August 2022) by document creation functionality in the Files app; and introduced an improved home editing system.
Fire OS 8
FireOS 8 is the latest release of FireOS for 12th generation fire tablets, based on Android 11, information about the release became available via Amazon developer documentation around May 2022.
FireOS 8 incorporates changes from Android 10 and Android 11 such as, TLS 1.3 support enabled by default, High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) support, Dark mode, One-time permissions, Sharing improvements, Device auto backups (user needs to opt-in to device backups), etc.
Although it is noted in the Amazon developer documentation that some Android 11 features such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Vu%203 | The LG Vu 3 is an Android smartphone/tablet computer hybrid ("phablet"), released in September 2013 and noted for its 5.2-inch screen size—between that of conventional smartphones, and larger tablets. It is powered by a 2.26 GHz quad-core Krait 400 CPU with Adreno 330 GPU and runs on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. Android 4.4.2 KitKat was also announced for update on 14 March, 2014.
See also
LG Optimus
LG Vu series
List of LG mobile phones
Comparison of smartphones
References
LG Optimus Vu 3 Specifications GSMArena
LG Vu 3 with 5.2-inch display, Snapdragon 800 processor unveiled NDTV Gadgets
Android (operating system) devices
LG Electronics mobile phones
LG Electronics smartphones
Phablets
Discontinued smartphones
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AuthenTec | AuthenTec, Inc. was a semiconductor, computer security, mobile security, identity management, biometrics, and touch control solutions company based in Melbourne, Florida. Founded in 1998 after being spun off from Harris Semiconductor, AuthenTec provided mobile security software licenses to mobile manufacturing companies and biometrics sensor technology, such as fingerprint sensors and NFC technology to mobile and computer manufacturers. On 27 July 2012, AuthenTec was acquired by Apple Inc. for $356 million.
History
In 1998, AuthenTec was spun off from parent company Harris Semiconductor.
On 27 June 2007, AuthenTec became a publicly traded company.
On 2 May 2008, AuthenTec acquired EzValidation.
On 14 July 2009, AuthenTec acquired Atrua Technologies for $5m.
On 26 February 2010, AuthenTec acquired SafeNet's Embedded Security Solutions division.
On 7 September 2010, AuthenTec merged with UPEK.
On August 2, 2011, AuthenTec began collaborating with NXP Semiconductors and mobile payment software firm DeviceFidelity to provide a combination of wireless chips, sensors, mobile applications and micro-SD cards to manufacturers and mobile network carriers of Android devices to support NFC mobile payments and transportation check-ins.
On 27 July 2012, AuthenTec was acquired by Apple Inc. for $356M.
Products and services
TruePrint smart sensors
TrueSuite identity management software
TrueProtect embedded security products (formerly SafeNet Embedded Security Solutions)
Touch ID
References
Access control
Biometrics
Computer companies established in 1998
Computer security companies
Data security
Companies based in Brevard County, Florida
Melbourne, Florida
Corporate spin-offs
Defunct semiconductor companies of the United States
Fabless semiconductor companies
Identity management
Apple Inc. acquisitions
2007 initial public offerings
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
2012 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrock | Skyrock may refer to:
Skyrock (social network site), a French social network site
Skyrock (radio), a French radio station |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.F.%20Schouten%20School%20for%20User%20System%20Interaction | J.F. Schouten School for User System Interaction is a research institute of the Eindhoven University of Technology dedicated to user interaction with man-made systems, including Human Computer Interaction.
The institute is named after the Dutch physician Prof.dr. Jan Frederik Schouten (1910-1980), who was Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology from 1958 to 1978 to It is established by the Department of Technology Management and the Department of Industrial Design at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
The institute maintains research programs and provides a Ph.D program, with a mission to develop and maintain a research program in the area of user-system interaction, and to offer an education program to PhD students who have entered the field.
References
Human–computer interaction
Research institutes in the Netherlands
Eindhoven University of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20nanotube%20computer | Carbon nanotube computers are a class of experimental computing processors constructed from carbon nanotube field-effect transistors, instead of from conventional silicon-based field-effect transistors.
In a carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNTFET), the conduction channel is made from carbon nanotubes, rather than from doped silicon. In theory, CNTFETs are more efficient than silicon FETs: CNFETs require less energy to turn them on and off, and the slope between on/off states is steeper. These factors contribute to an energy–delay product (an energy efficiency metric) that is an order of magnitude better than with silicon-based transistors. Moreover, carbon is an excellent conductor of heat, and carbon-based transistors can therefore dissipate heat much faster than silicon-based ones. This factor, combined with better heat tolerance, could theoretically allow carbon nanotube transistors to be packed more densely together, which in turn could reduce material and electrical losses.
These characteristics suggest that carbon nanotubes are a potential substitute for silicon with regards to CNTFETs and logic circuits. But CNTFETs cannot (yet) be mass manufactured, and therefore carbon nanotube processors cannot either, and both are currently limited to research facilities where they are manually assembled. The first carbon nanotube computer was built in 2013 by Max Shulaker and coworkers at Stanford University. This one-bit processor, named Cedric, ran at 1KHz and contained just 178 transistors. Since then, many research teams have built increasingly complex processors with CNTFETs. In 2019, a team of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Analog Devices created a programmable 16-bit, ~15,000-transistor processor called the RV16X-NANO.
Major milestones
Cedric
Carbon nanotubes are difficult to position accurately on a substrate, but in 2012 IBM researchers discovered that carbon nanotubes could be made to chemically self-assemble themselves into patterned arrays in which the nanotubes stick in some areas of the surface while leaving other areas untouched.
In 2013, a team of researchers at Stanford University refined the technique discovered at IBM such that misaligned nanotubes could be destroyed on the wafer, leaving only the aligned ones intact. To destroy the misaligned nanotubes, the researchers subjected them to high voltage, which vaporized them. The researchers used the same method to eliminate transistors in which the carbon nanotubes were unswitchable conductors (thus nicknamed "metallic" nanotubes).
The researchers applied these refinements to a wafer with 197 8-micrometer (8,000 nanometer) carbon nanotube based transistors on a silicon oxide substrate, leaving 178 usable transistors. With these, the researchers created a one-bit, single-instruction, Turing-complete processor. Named 'Cedric', the only operation the computer could perform was SUBNEG, short for "subtract and branch if negative". With SUBNEG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Exam%20%28video%20game%29 | Final Exam is a side-scroller video game developed by Mighty Rocket Studio for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Microsoft Windows. Up to 4 players can work together to survive the outbreak. Many compared the game to a 2D version of Resident Evil Outbreak or Left 4 Dead.
Reception
Initial pre-release feedback of the game was mixed due to the fact that Mighty Rocket Studio originally intended the game as a reboot of the survival horror game Obscure. The negative feedback caused the developer to change the name of the game to Final Exam.
Upon full release, the game received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Matt Beaudette of Hardcore Gamer said of the game, "There are better options available for those simply looking for a cheap sidescroller to play once and forget about. Those who can get invested in learning and mastering a deep combat system, however, will find a lot to like in Final Exam" Smooth Town wrote, "This is a fine starting point for whatever future holds for the Obscure franchise"; however, they noted the problems with repetitiveness and cheap boss fights.
References
External links
2013 video games
Cooperative video games
Hack and slash games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Run and gun games
Side-scrolling video games
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
Video games developed in France
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games with 2.5D graphics
Focus Entertainment games
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niphad%20railway%20station | Niphad railway station is a railway station in the state of Maharashtra, India, on the Central Railway network, 32 km from . It is a small and not very busy station.
Important trains
Some of the important trains that pass through Niphad are:
13201/02 Rajendranagar Express
12139/40 Sewagram Express
12117/18 Godavari Superfast Express
References
Railway stations in Nashik district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokken%20scale | The Mokken scale is a psychometric method of data reduction. A Mokken scale is a unidimensional scale that consists of hierarchically-ordered items that measure the same underlying, latent concept. This method is named after the political scientist Rob Mokken who suggested it in 1971.
Mokken Scales have been used in psychology, education, political science, public opinion, medicine and nursing.
Overview
Mokken scaling belongs to item response theory. In essence, a Mokken scale is a non-parametric, probabilistic version of Guttman scale. Both Guttman and Mokken scaling can be used to assess whether a number of items measure the same underlying concept. Both Guttman and Mokken scaling are based on the assumption that the items are hierarchically ordered: this means that they are ordered by degree of "difficulty". Difficulty here means the percentage of respondents that answers the question affirmatively. The hierarchical order means that a respondent who answered a difficult question correctly is assumed to answer an easy question correctly.<ref name="Crichton">Crichton, N. (1999) "Mokken Scale Analysis" Journal of Clinical Nursing 8, 388</ref>
The key difference between a Guttman and Mokken scale is that Mokken scaling is probabilistic in nature. The assumption is not that every respondent who answered a difficult question affirmatively will necessarily answer an easy question affirmatively. Violations of this are called Guttman errors. Instead, the assumption is that respondents who answered a difficult question affirmatively are more likely'' to answer an easy question affirmatively. The scalability of the scale is measured by Loevinger's coefficient H. H compares the actual Guttman errors to the expected number of errors if the items would be unrelated.
The chance that a respondent will answer an item correctly is described by an item response function. Mokken scales are similar to Rasch scales, in that they both adapted Guttman scales to a probabilistic model. However, Mokken scaling is described as 'non-parametric' because it makes no assumptions about the precise shape of the item response function, only that it is monotone and non-decreasing. The key difference between Mokken scales and Rasch scales is that the latter assumes that all items have the same item response function. In Mokken scaling the Item Response Functions differ for different items.
Mokken scales can come in two forms: first as the Double Monotonicity model, where the items can differ in their difficulty. It is essentially an ordinal version of Rasch scale; and second, as the Monotone Homogeneity model, where items differ in their discrimination parameter, which means that there can be a weaker relationship between some items and the latent variable and other items and the latent variable. Double Monotonicity models are used most often.
Monotone homogeneity
Monotone homogeneity models are based on three assumptions.
There is a unidimensional latent trait on which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlan | Arlan may refer to:
Arlan, Krasnokamsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan
Aironet ARLAN, a family of wireless networking technologies
Mount Arlan, a mountain in Turkmenistan
Arlan Kokshetau, a Kazakhstani hockey club
Arlan's, an American discount store chain
Aralan, a village in northern Iran
Given name
Arlan Andrews (born 1940), American engineer and science fiction author
Arlan Hamilton, American venture capitalist
Arlan Lerio (born 1976), Filipino boxer
Arlan Meekhof (born 1959), American politician from Michigan
Arlan Richardson, American medical professor
Arlan Stangeland (1930– 2013), American politician from Minnesota
See also
Arland (disambiguation)
Arleen, a feminine name, also spelled Arlene
Arlen (disambiguation)
Arlyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E88 | European route E 88 is part of the international E-road network.
Route
: Ankara ( )
: Ankara — Sivas — Refahiye ()
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
88
E088 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager%20%28disambiguation%29 | A pager is a telecommunications device similar to a beeper, SMS client, or email appliance.
Pager may also refer to:
Computers
Pager (GUI), the graphical user interface feature
Terminal pager, a computer program used to view the contents of a text file
People
Antal Páger (actor) (1899–1986), Hungarian actor
Devah Pager (1972–2018), American sociologist
Antal Páger (canoeist), Hungarian canoer
Pappu Pager, fictional character played by Satish Kaushik, in the Indian film Deewana Mastana (1997)
Other uses
PAGER (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response), an earthquake monitoring system run by the US Geological Survey
"The Pager", an episode of the American series The Wire
Pager (company), an American mobile healthcare technology company
Pager Publications, Inc., an American medical education literary organization
Pager River, the river in northern Uganda
See also
Page (disambiguation)
Paging, a computer memory management scheme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment-free%20sequence%20analysis | In bioinformatics, alignment-free sequence analysis approaches to molecular sequence and structure data provide alternatives over alignment-based approaches.
The emergence and need for the analysis of different types of data generated through biological research has given rise to the field of bioinformatics. Molecular sequence and structure data of DNA, RNA, and proteins, gene expression profiles or microarray data, metabolic pathway data are some of the major types of data being analysed in bioinformatics. Among them sequence data is increasing at the exponential rate due to advent of next-generation sequencing technologies. Since the origin of bioinformatics, sequence analysis has remained the major area of research with wide range of applications in database searching, genome annotation, comparative genomics, molecular phylogeny and gene prediction. The pioneering approaches for sequence analysis were based on sequence alignment either global or local, pairwise or multiple sequence alignment. Alignment-based approaches generally give excellent results when the sequences under study are closely related and can be reliably aligned, but when the sequences are divergent, a reliable alignment cannot be obtained and hence the applications of sequence alignment are limited. Another limitation of alignment-based approaches is their computational complexity and are time-consuming and thus, are limited when dealing with large-scale sequence data. The advent of next-generation sequencing technologies has resulted in generation of voluminous sequencing data. The size of this sequence data poses challenges on alignment-based algorithms in their assembly, annotation and comparative studies.
Alignment-free methods
Alignment-free methods can broadly be classified into five categories: a) methods based on k-mer/word frequency, b) methods based on the length of common substrings, c) methods based on the number of (spaced) word matches, d) methods based on micro-alignments, e) methods based on information theory and f) methods based on graphical representation. Alignment-free approaches have been used in sequence similarity searches, clustering and classification of sequences, and more recently in phylogenetics (Figure 1).
Such molecular phylogeny analyses employing alignment-free approaches are said to be part of next-generation phylogenomics. A number of review articles provide in-depth review of alignment-free methods in sequence analysis.
The AFproject is an international collaboration to benchmark and compare software tools for alignment-free sequence comparison.
Methods based on k-mer/word frequency
The popular methods based on k-mer/word frequencies include feature frequency profile (FFP), Composition vector (CV), Return time distribution (RTD), frequency chaos game representation (FCGR). and Spaced Words.
Feature frequency profile (FFP)
The methodology involved in FFP based method starts by calculating the count of each possible k-mer (possible |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20Controller | The Steam Controller is a discontinued game controller developed by Valve for use with personal computers running Steam on Windows, macOS, Linux, smartphones or SteamOS. The controller was designed not only for games developed for controller users, but also for games traditionally played with keyboard and mouse controls so that they can be played through the controller. It was released in November 2015 along with Valve's Steam Machine and discontinued in November 2019.
Features
The Steam Controller features two clickable trackpads (as opposed to the more typical thumbsticks on modern console controllers), and fourteen buttons, including face, shoulder, and undergrip buttons. The trackpads include haptic feedback; Chris Kohler of Wired described using the controller while playing Civilization V at a Valve press event, and noted that as he used the trackpad to move the mouse cursor, electromagnets within the controller created audio and tactile feedback as if he were using a trackball. Although the controller is designed for the Steam Machine platform, it can also be used with Steam on existing PCs. The controller also included gyroscopic sensors to detect the relative orientation of the controller.
The controller is presently designed to be used within Steam's Big Picture mode; this enables the player to access detailed options for setting up the various features of the controller on a per-game basis including button/trackpad mapping and sensitivity as well as accessing other users' shared controller configuration to use themselves. The Steamworks API provides means for developers to provide more detailed settings for the Steam Controller when in Big Picture mode. Outside of Big Picture mode, the controller otherwise behaves as a standard two-stick controller, though Valve does plan on updating Steam to allow retaining the previously set Big Picture mode per-game settings.
Development
The original design of the controller was to include a touchscreen in the center of the unit. The touchscreen would have acted like a mousepad and allow players to perform actions that typically are not capable on controllers, operating directly with Steam or SteamOS and overlaying the touchscreen display onto the players' screens to allow manipulation of the game without diverting attention from the screen. However, at the January 2014 Steam Dev Days event, Valve revealed they had since dropped the touchscreen concept from the controller, rearranged existing face buttons to be more compatible with existing games.
Valve went through several iterations for a controller that would be able to mimic keyboard and mouse controls, using prototypes made with 3D printing to test ergonomics. Early versions of the controller design included a trackball embedded in the controller to simulate mouse functionality but opted eventually for trackpads to give more customization functionality to developers including the ability to simulate the motion of trackball by tracking a fin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Santillan | Oscar Santillán (born 1980, Ecuador) is a visual artist, cybernetician, and writer who lives between The Netherlands and Ecuador. His practice emerges from the notion of 'Antimundo' which he understands as "a way of identifying and generating realities that do not fit in the world". For this purpose he has resorted to forms of knowledge production and imaginaries overlooked by mainstream Western thinking such as cybernetics, science-fiction, Andean and Amazonian cosmologies, a more inclusive history of science, and plant intelligence. This 'Antimundo' toolbox is complemented by emerging fields, currently disrupting modern paradigms, such as AI and synthetic biology.
Santillán's 'Antimundo' can be perceived in projects such as 'Baneque' (2016); 'Solaris' (2017), which mixes Soviet sci-fi and Andean cosmology; 'A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History' (a series started in 2018); 'Spacecraft' (2018); 'How Rivers Think' (2019); and, 'Chewing Gum Codex' (2020).
A work of Santillán, 'The Intruder' (2015), stirred a heated controversy in England as the artist claimed to have shrunk the country by one inch after (allegedly) taking away the top inch from its highest mountain.
In early 2021 Santillán was announced as one of the five artists commissioned by the Holt/Smithson Foundation to create a new project for an island acquired by Robert Smithson in 1972. The other four artists are Tacita Dean, Renée Green, Sky Hopinka, and Joan Jonas.
Early life and academics
Santillán began as a self-taught artist and writer in Guayaquil, Ecuador. In 1999 he joined the longstanding writing workshop of Miguel Donoso Pareja where, for a period of three years, Santillán focused on short stories. In 2002 he held his first solo exhibition Art for Dogs at the Galería Madeleine Hollaender, in the same city. There is no documentation of this first solo show since the exhibition was exclusively aimed at dogs and no humans were allowed to step inside the gallery. That same year, in collaboration with other young artists, Santillán co-created the 'Lalimpia' collective, which exhibited at the Biennial de Cuenca of 2003 and 2007, and the Havana Biennial of 2009. In 2004 Santillán studied at the Instituto de Artes del Ecuador (ITAE), however his Bachelor's degree, in Design and Audiovisual Production, was obtained at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), also in Guayaquil, with a thesis on screenwriting for cinema.
In 2008 Santillán received a fellowship from Indiana University to pursue a Sculpture MFA. The following year, however, he had the opportunity to restart his Master's at the Sculpture + Extended Media Department, VCUArts, in Richmond, where he graduated in 2011. Santillán has attended residencies at Skowhegan, Jan van Eyck Academie, Fondazione Ratti, Delfina Foundation, Leiden Astronomical Observatory, and NIAS. He has taught at the University of the Arts (UArts), Instituto de Artes del Ecuador (ITAE), and currently at AKV St. Joost.
Antimundo
Scifi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syman | SYMAN is an artificial intelligence technology that uses data from social media profiles to identify trends in the job market. SYMAN is designed to organize actionable data for products and services including recruiting, human capital management, CRM, and marketing.
SYMAN was developed with a $21 million series B financing round secured by Identified, which was led by VantagePoint Capital Partners and Capricorn Investment Group.
References
See also
Workday
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