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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicloud | Multicloud (also written as multi-cloud or multi cloud) refers to a company utilizing multiple cloud computing services from various public vendors within a single, heterogeneous architecture. This approach enhances cloud infrastructure capabilities and optimizes costs. It also refers to the distribution of cloud assets, software, applications, etc. across several cloud-hosting environments. With a typical multicloud architecture utilizing two or more public clouds as well as multiple private clouds, a multicloud environment aims to eliminate the reliance on any single cloud provider and thereby alleviate vendor lock-in.
For instance, an enterprise may use separate cloud providers for infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), software (SaaS) and container (FaaS) services. In the latter case, they may use different infrastructure providers for different workloads, deploy a single workload load balanced across multiple providers (active-active), or deploy a single workload on one provider, with a backup on another (active-passive).
Advantages and challenges
There are several advantages to using a multicloud approach, including the ability to negotiate better pricing with cloud providers, the ability to quickly switch to another provider if needed, and the ability to avoid vendor lock-in. Multicloud can also be a good way to hedge against the risks of obsolescence, as it allows you to rely on multiple vendors and open standards, which can prolong the life of your systems.
Additional benefits of the multicloud architecture include adherence to local policies that require certain data to be physically present within the area/country, geographical distribution of processing requests from physically closer cloud unit which in turn reduces latency and protect against disasters.
Various issues and challenges also present themselves in a multicloud environment. Security and governance is more complicated, and more "moving parts" may create resiliency issues.
Difference between multicloud and hybrid cloud
Multicloud differs from hybrid cloud in that it refers to multiple cloud services from different vendors rather than multiple deployment modes (on-premises hardware, and public and private, cloud hosting). However, when considering a broad definition of multi-cloud, hybrid cloud can still be regarded as a special form of multi-cloud.
See also
Cloud computing
Serverless computing
References
Cloud computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-20%20longitudinal%20data%20systems | P-20 longitudinal data systems are state-level educational databases in the United States created to "capture, study and use student data from preschool into future workforces.”
Description
These databases are developed on different models in different states.
Twelve elements are required:
A special pointer for every student that does not give permission to a student to be individually identified (except by giving special permission by federal and state law);
The school enrollment history, demographic traits and program participation record of every student;
Information on when a student enrolls, transfers, drops out, or graduates from a school;
Students' scores on tests required by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act;
Information on students who are not tested, by grade and subject;
Students' scores on tests measuring whether they're ready for college;
A way to identify teachers and to match teachers to their students;
Information from students' transcripts, specifically courses taken and grades earned;
Data on students' success in college, including whether they enrolled in remedial courses;
Data on whether K-12 students are prepared to succeed in college;
A system of auditing data for quality, validity, and reliability;
The ability to share data from preschool through post-secondary education data systems.
Privacy and data mining concerns
Under the Obama Administration, over 1 billion dollars were spent developing databases designed for improving the educational system, including P-20 longitudinal data systems. Although these databases do contain extensive personally identifiable information, much of this information is "not kept in a format that allows officials to easily extract the complete file on a specific child." , parents started protesting at the state level against the data mining being done on student's privacy & information, saying:
"We don't know what they're tracking, and we don't know what the implications are going to be for these children in the future... Going for jobs in the future, trying to get into college — we're in uncharted territory and we just don't know the implication it's going to have for the children. We need to slow down."
See also
Longitudinal study
Liability and Student Records
Common Education Data Standards
Data Quality Campaign
References
External links
Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems, National Center for Educational Statistics
Education in the United States
Education reform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heads%20of%20Medicines%20Agencies | The Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) is a network of both the human and veterinary
medicines agencies of the European Economic Area.
The HMA co-operates with the European Medicines Agency and the European Commission (Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety) in the operation of the European medicines regulatory system. The network provides a forum for the co-ordination and the exchange of views and proposals on issues concerning the European regulatory system and the role of the national authorities within that system.
The HMA, initially known as the Heads of Agencies, was established in 1995 with a first full meeting taking place in Amsterdam in February 1996. Initially the network comprised only agencies responsible for the regulation of medicines for human use. In February 1998, a parallel group bringing together the heads of agencies responsible for medicines for veterinary use held its first meeting. The two groups started organising joint meetings in 2000 and since 2004 these activities have been integrated under the umbrella of the HMA.
Membership
The HMA comprises 46 national competent authorities responsible for the regulation of human and/or veterinary medicines. These 46 national authorities represent the 28 EU member states as well as the three additional European Economic Area members, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
Of the 46 NCAs, 15 have responsibility only for human medicines; 14 are purely veterinary agencies; 17 are joint veterinary and human agencies; and some veterinary agencies are integrated with their respective national food safety agencies or respective ministries. Some have responsibility for pricing and reimbursement of human medicines. 22 have joint responsibility for medicines and medical devices. All are accountable to their national governments.
Together with the European Medicines Agency and the European Commission, these national authorities form the European medicines regulatory system.
Main activities
Medicines can be authorised in Europe through a number of ways:
The centralised procedure, which is the responsibility of the European Medicines Agency
National procedures, which are the responsibility of the national authority of each country
Non-centralised procedures, co-ordinated by the HMA:
The decentralised procedure
Mutual-recognition procedures.
The initial focus of the network in 1995 was the operation of a Mutual Recognition Facilitation Group which was given full legal status in 2003 as the HMA mandated Co-ordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures (CMD). In 2012, new European pharmacovigilance legislation added to the role and decision-making powers of the CMD in respect of human medicines.
Over the years, the HMA has added to its coordination activities to include clinical trials authorisation, worksharing of safety aspects, pediatric indications, interpretation of legal provisions and product testing. It has also established a number of shared initiat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Tail%20Story | was a free-to-play online social role-playing game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco for Android and iOS. It is the third title in the company's Little Tail Bronx series, acting as a spiritual successor to Tail Concerto and Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, and the first to appear on mobile devices. The project was headed by CyberConnect2's company president Hiroshi Matsuyama, and features music by Chikayo Fukuda with vocals by Tomoyo Mitani, who both previously collaborated on Solatorobo.
The game features a cast of anthropomorphic dogs and cats who must work together to battle monsters and obtain items, with its developer giving it the customized genre name . It was released exclusively in Japan on March 25, 2014, and shut down on October 30.
Gameplay
Little Tail Story is a 3D role-playing game presented from an overhead view where players undergo quests that involve exploring areas and battling monsters to obtain treasure. Players construct a party consisting of eight members, choosing from a variety of dog and cat species as well as a job class for each. During battle, enemies are arranged on a 3-by-3 grid, with each class having a specific attack radius. Only three party members may fight on the front lines at a time, but the player may rotate them in a circular fashion to change their positions, allowing them to hit enemies on certain panels. By defeating foes and completing quest objectives, items are obtained that may be crafted into stronger weapons and armor.
The original classes include , who deal heavy damage to a single opponent; , who use lances to hit in a straight line; , who carry shields and attack in a horizontal line; , who use hammers to attack a circular area; and who can hit all enemies for light damage. Since the game's launch, three more classes were added: who uses hand-to-hand combat to attack a single enemy; who can target all enemies with a bazooka; and , who strikes all enemies in a straight line.
Development
Since the release of Solatorobo: Red the Hunter in 2010, Cyberconnect2 had expressed interest in creating more games in the Little Tail Bronx series despite the low sales of its two previous titles. In January 2014, Namco Bandai Games published a Japanese trademark for Little Tail Story, along with the genre "Dogs and Cats in RPG", followed by a teaser website promising an upcoming mobile game between the company and CyberConnect2. On January 30, a trailer was released officially announcing the title, as well as a projected release date of Spring 2014 in Japan.
Little Tail Story was headed by CyberConnect2 company president Hiroshi Matsuyama, with Ryo Mito of Bandai Namco Games acting as producer. Matsuyama explained that he wanted the game to be a "casual" and "friendly" experience, and developed the title for smartphones to expand the series to a larger audience, both male and female. Music for the game was handled by composer Chikayo Fukuda and vocalist Tomoyo Mitani, collectively kno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development%20of%20Deus%20Ex | An approximately 20-person team at Ion Storm developed Deus Ex, a cyberpunk-themed action-role playing video game, over the course of 34 months, culminating in a June 2000 release. Team director and producer Warren Spector began to plan the game in 1993 after releasing Ultima Underworld II with Origin Systems and attempted the game both there and at Looking Glass Technologies before going into production with Ion Storm. Official preproduction began around August 1997, lasted for six months, and was followed by 28 months of production. Spector saw their work as expanding on the precedent set by Origin, Looking Glass, and Valve.
In preproduction, six people from Looking Glass's Austin studios focused on the setting ahead of the game mechanics, and chose a story centered around prominent conspiracy theories as an expression of the "millennial madness" in The X-Files and Men in Black. Spector felt that the development process's highlights were the "high-level vision" and length of preproduction, flexibility within the project, testable "proto-missions", and Unreal Engine license. Their pitfalls included the team structure, unrealistic goals, underestimating risks with artificial intelligence, their handling of proto-missions, and weakened morale from Daikatana bad press. The game was published by Eidos Interactive and released on June 23, 2000 for Windows 95 and later versions, whereupon it earned over 30 "best of" awards in 2001.
Preproduction
After Warren Spector released Ultima Underworld II with Origin Systems in January 1993, he began to plan Troubleshooter, the game that would become Deus Ex. Noting his wife's fascination with The X-Files, he connected the "real world, millennial weirdness, [and] conspiracy stuff" topics on his mind and decided to make a game about it that would appeal to a wider audience. He also considered cyberpunk influences that came from around 1978 when he was participating in a themed Dungeons & Dragons campaign created and led by Bruce Sterling, who had adapted that campaign based on the choice Spector and the other players made. Troubleshooter, in contrast to the other games he had been making at Origin, would have been a "real-world role-playing game", relying more on player choices and assuring that every player could reach the end of the game but in the manner they choose.
In his 1994 proposal to Origin, he described the concept as "Underworld-style first-person action" in a real-world setting with "big-budget, nonstop action" starring an ex-cop "security specialist". He described the project as "high" risk for its "technological unknowns" as "probably the toughest project on his wish list". It failed to get to production. He later left Origin for Looking Glass Technologies near the time that they were producing Thief: The Dark Project, but kept the idea in mind. For Thief, he tried to suggest buffing the character more so that the player could opt to fight through levels instead of sneaking, the original int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Health%20Observatory | The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is a public health observatory established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to share data on global health, including statistics by country and information about specific diseases and health measures. The GHO tracks important information like "Response to the Millennium Development Goals".
History
The GHO was formed in around 2010 from the ashes of the WHO Statistical Information System, which was "upgraded... to provide you with more data, more tools, more analysis and more reports."
In December 2012, the WHO announced that it was making improvements in its GHO to improve its accessibility and usability by "specialists such as statisticians, epidemiologists, economists and public health researchers as well as anyone with an interest in global health."
Themes
The GHO website is organized around themes. For each theme, key statistics are presented on the associated webpage, and more detailed data and reports are available for download. The themes include:
Millennium Development Goals
Estimates of mortality and global health
Health systems
Public health and environment
Health Equity Monitor
International Health Regulations Monitoring framework
Urban health
Women and health
Noncommunicable diseases
Substance use and mental health
Infectious diseases
Injuries and violence
Reception and impact
The GHO has been listed by many libraries and dataset listings as a go-to source for information on health statistics. The GHO has also been cited in work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States.
GHO data has also been cited in academic studies on various aspects of global health, particularly for cross-country comparisons.
See also
The World Bank data sets
Gapminder, which compiles data on a number of indicators, including health indicators, from a variety of sources
Human Mortality Database, which includes information on mortality and causes of mortality, but is restricted to data built from official records
References
External links
World Health Organization
Scientific databases
Health informatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20%28radio%20network%29 | Evolution is a radio station platform on iHeartRadio and on Clear Channel's HD2 & HD3 radio and FM translators across the United States that plays commercial free dance/EDM music 24/7, operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. The primary station for the platform is WFLZ-HD3 Tampa.
History
Evolution was launched on November 19, 2012, as a platform on iHeartRadio, replacing the previous Dance platform Club Phusion, which was phased out on March 31, 2013. The format and its content was programmed by legendary British DJ, producer, record executive, and radio personality Pete Tong, who also did an air shift until his departure in 2017. After the platform was launched, it would be adopted as the first over the air format at Clear Channel's newly acquired property WEDX-Lynn/Boston in December 2012, where it would last until June 2014 when it flipped to Country. Since then the format has expanded to Clear Channel's other properties as a HD2 sub channel or as an FM translator with customized liners for each market.
As of June 2019, Evolution's HD2 and HD3 affiliates were replaced by iHeart's "Pride Radio" format targeting the LGBTQ community. The expansion was in response to rival Entercom's launching of the similar-formatted Channel Q platform. At the same time, Evolution 101.7 has since stopped broadcasting and it moved Evolution's flagship station from KBKS-HD2/Tacoma to KZZP-HD2/Mesa (its Adult Top 40 sister KMXP already airs Pride on their HD2 sub channel). It has since moved Evolution's flagship station to WFLZ-HD3 Tampa when Evolution 93.3 stopped broadcasting as an individual station.
Programming
A majority of Evolution's programming tends to feature a heavy amount of EDM product but at times will play other Dance genres and an occasional classic. During the pre-midnight (10pm to 1am Sunday-Thursday) and weekend hours mix shows from influential performers in the world of EDM/Dance are featured.
In addition to being available 24/7, a supplemental syndicated weekly program companion, Evolution with Pete Tong, was available to Top 40/CHR and Rhythmic stations in the United States and in key countries worldwide, distributed by Premiere Networks in a 2-hour format. The program ended its run in December 2016.
In January 2018, Evolution introduced a new countdown program, America's Dance 30, hosted by Evolution PD Brian Fink. The program countdown the 30 most popular Dance/Electronic songs based on airplay from Dance-centric radio stations. The program airs twice on weekends on Evolution, along with two other internet stations, and Miami, FL's WZFL.
Other programs include UMF Radio, CYB3RPVNK Radio with R3hab, Hexagon Radio with Don Diablo, and Jacked Radio with Afrojack.
Affiliates
Current affiliates
The following station carries Evolution programming as an HD Sub-channel. Evolution can also be heard on the iHeartRadio app:
WFLZ-HD3: Tampa
Former affiliates
WFLZ-HD2: Tampa (As Evolution 93.3, broadcasting as an individual station) (switched to Pride Ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharfside%20tram%20stop | Wharfside is a Metrolink tram stop on the Trafford Park Line of Manchester's light rail network. It is located on Trafford Wharf Road, next to the Manchester Ship Canal and close to Manchester United's Old Trafford football stadium. It was originally proposed that the station be named Manchester United. It opened on 22 March 2020.
Services
From this stop a service runs generally every 12 minutes towards Deansgate-Castlefield and towards The Trafford Centre.
to The Trafford Centre
Monday - Thursday = 05:36, then every 12 minutes until 00:00 (next day)
Friday - Saturday = 05:36, then every 12 minutes until 01:00 (next day)
Sunday = 06:32, then every 12 minutes until 23:47
to Deansgate-Castlefield
Monday - Thursday = 06:12, then every 12 minutes until 00:36 (next day)
Friday - Saturday = 06:12, then every 12 minutes until 01:36 (next day)
Sunday = 07:08, then every 12 minutes until 00:23 (next day)
References
Tram stops in Trafford
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2020
Salford Quays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous%3A%20A%20Space%20Shuttle%20Simulation | Rendezvous: A Space Shuttle Simulation, is a space simulator published 1982 by Edu-Ware, and developed by Titan Computer Products and NASA scientist Wesley Huntress.
Description
Accompanied by a thick "Spacecraft Operations" manual with a chapter on use in the classroom, this flight simulator was marketed as being as educational as it was fun to play.
The simulation is centered on a typical Space Shuttle mission to service a space station. Mission phases include Earth Lift-Off, Orbital Rendezvous, Approach and Alignment and Docking.
It was released for the Apple II in 1982, receiving positive feedback from reviewers.
Reception
Stanley Greenlaw reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Rendezvous is educational while being entertaining. Teachers will find it a valuable teaching tool in the areas of General Science, Earth Science, and Physics. As entertainment the simulation will appeal to gamers who enjoy mental challenges (such as those involved in setting up the orbital rendezvous) as well as to gamers who enjoy hand-eye co-ordination challenges (such as will be faced in the approach and docking segments). Rendezvous is a welcome addition to the educational and entertainment software field."
Reviews
Electronic Games
Byte
Computers & Electronics
Softalk
See also
Space Shuttle: A Journey into Space
References
1982 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Edu-Ware games
Realistic space simulators
Single-player video games
Space flight simulator games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20Gregg | Lucius Perry Gregg, III (born January 8, 1960) is an American computer scientist and American tennis coach.
Early life
He was the first African American alumnus to be admitted early admission to Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a B.A. in mathematics and in computer science from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of California, Davis. He is the son of Wendell Phillips Academy High School notable alumnus Lucius Perry Gregg, Jr.
Career
He holds mobile device patents for a system for multipath contactless transactions, allowing businesses to accept credit and debit cards without a card terminal reader.
In 2019 Gregg was nominated as the Tim Gullikson ATP Touring Coach of the Year for his work as a professional tennis coach on the ATP Tour.
In 2021 Gregg declared candidacy for the Democratic Party (United States) primary August 23, 2022 U.S. House of Representatives Florida’s 8th Congressional District.
References
1960 births
Living people
Evanston Township High School alumni
American computer scientists
American tennis coaches
Harvard University alumni
UC Davis School of Law alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hunters%20%28book%20series%29 | The Hunters is a book series written by Chris Kuzneski, an American author. The series follows the adventures of a team of renegades – an ex-military leader, a historian, a computer whiz, a weapons expert and a thief – financed by a billionaire philanthropist who are tasked with finding the world's most legendary treasures. The series also ties in with Kuzneski's other series, Payne & Jones, by featuring the character Petr Ulster, a historian and curator of the Ulster Archives in Küsendorf, Switzerland, and mentioning a number of minor characters and events from the Payne & Jones universe. The third book in the series, The Prisoner's Gold, won the Thriller Award for the 2016 Book of the Year at a gala hosted by the International Thriller Writers (ITW) in New York City on July 9, 2016.
Books
The Hunters series follows the adventures of a team of renegades – an ex-military leader, an historian, a computer whiz, a weapons expert, and a thief – financed by a billionaire philanthropist. The team is tasked with finding the world's most legendary treasures.
The Hunters movie
The rights to The Hunters were optioned in 2016; John Moore has signed on to direct The Hunters, and the screenplay is being written by Robert Kamen. On July 1, 2014, Reg Poerscout-Edgerton was announced as casting director for the film.
Recurring Characters
Jack Cobb is an ex-military commander, whose role is to lead the renegades on their missions across the globe. His experience, strength, and resilience is crucial to the mission, and the reason why he was chosen as the Hunters' leader.
Sarah Ellis is a former CIA operative, focusing on the role of a thief for the Hunters.
Hector Garcia is the team's computer genius. Socially inadequate, but unparalleled at his job, Hector is regarded as one of the best hackers in the world.
Josh McNutt is a decorated US Marine sniper, focusing on being the Hunters' weapon and demolition expert.
Jasmine Park has an exhaustive knowledge of ancient cultures and world religions, fluent in several languages, and is the team's historian. She is featured only in the first two books.
Jean-Marc Papineau, a Frenchman with innumerable wealth at his disposal to fund the Hunter's activities and seemingly unlimited amount of resources and connections to help them in their quests.
Petr Ulster, historian and curator of the Ulster Archives in Küsendorf, Switzerland.
Maurice Copeland, a billionaire who is Papineau's boss and is the person behind their search.
References
Treasure hunters
Series of books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra%20Mutzel | Petra Mutzel is a German computer scientist, a University Professor of computer science at the University of Bonn. Her research is in the areas of algorithm engineering, graph drawing and combinatorial optimization.
Education and career
Mutzel earned a diploma in 1990 from the University of Augsburg, in mathematics with computer science. She then earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of Cologne in 1994 under the supervision of Michael Jünger, and her habilitation in 1999 from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. She held a professorship at the Vienna University of Technology beginning in 1999, moving to the Technical University of Dortmund in 2004 and then to the University of Bonn in 2019.
Contributions
In graph drawing, Mutzel has contributed in work on planarization, crossing minimization in layered graph drawing, and SPQR trees, and co-edited a book on graph drawing. She was both the program chair and organizational chair of the 9th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, in Vienna in 2001.
Mutzel's other contributions include works on the Ising model, steganography, and Steiner trees. In 2012, she was program committee co-chair of the Meeting on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX).
Selected publications
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
University of Augsburg alumni
University of Cologne alumni
Academic staff of TU Wien
Academic staff of the Technical University of Dortmund
Graph drawing people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSA%20Network | GSA Network is a nonprofit organization that assists students with starting gay–straight alliances (GSA) to fight homophobia and transphobia in schools. GSA Network originally focused on supporting youth in California, and still has its headquarters in Oakland, California, but is now active nationwide.
History
GSA Network was founded by Carolyn Laub in 1998 working with 40 GSA clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization expanded and in 2001 GSA Network became a statewide organization. In 2005, GSA Network began operating programs nationally. In 2008, GSA Network incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Prior to that, GSA Network was a fiscally sponsored project of The Tides Center.
In 2015, Ginna Brelsford and Geoffrey Winder assumed the roles of co-executive directors of GSA Network.
In the spring of 2016, GSA Network changed its name from "Gay Straight-Alliance Network" to "Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network" to better reflect the diverse range of identities of the youth participating in its programming. At the same time, the organization adopted its current tagline of "trans and queer youth uniting for racial and gender justice."
GSA Network currently has staff based in Oakland, Fresno, and Los Angeles, California, as well as New Orleans, Louisiana, and Chicago, Illinois.
Programs
GSA Network activities and programs currently active include:
Supporting GSAs
Helps students start GSA clubs and provides resources and opportunities for GSAs to network and receive support. As of 2012, there are over 880 GSA clubs in California alone.
Student leadership training
Provides students with training on most effective ways to operate a GSA club.
Safe schools advocacy
Helps GSA clubs become activist clubs that can educate teachers and students to improve the school climate.
Public policy advocacy in California
Youth-led advocacy of non-discrimination laws. The organization supports the youth by providing resources to help address issues related to creating safer schools.
Supporting the national GSA movement
Helps build the capacity of organizations in the United States to network and support GSAs in states other than California. As of 2012, 37 states have organizations in the National Association of GSA Networks.
#GSAs4Justice campaign
Supports student advocacy for school districts to adopt recommendations around restorative justice and push back against punitive discipline policies that create a "school-to-prison pipeline" for youth of color, youth with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth.
See also
LGBT rights in the United States
List of LGBT rights organizations
References
LGBT youth organizations based in the United States
1998 establishments in the United States
LGBT political advocacy groups in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyler%20Page | Skyler Dale Page (born October 13, 1989) is an American former animator, writer, storyboard artist, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the Cartoon Network animated series Clarence, as well as for his tenure as a writer and storyboard artist on the series Adventure Time.
Page was fired in 2014 after allegations that he had sexually assaulted female co-workers. In 2021, Page admitted that the allegations were true and issued a public apology.
Early life
Page was born in Phoenix, Arizona on October 13, 1989.
Career
Page is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts. He created two short films entitled Crater Face and Girl Wallet. He then became a writer and storyboard artist and revisionist for Cartoon Network's series Adventure Time and Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. Page is the creator of the show Clarence, where he also voiced the eponymous character. The idea for the series was conceived by Page, along with creative director Nelson Boles, while they were still students at CalArts. The concept was put into further consideration upon Page landing a job at the studio. The series' pilot episode earned Page a nomination for a Creative Arts Emmy Award at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, hosted on September 15, 2013.
In June 2014, Emily Partridge, a storyboard artist on Adventure Time that had worked with Page, made a series of tweets alleging that he had sexually assaulted her. This was after rumors had surfaced on Twitter claiming that Page was "known to grope women without their consent." Page was fired from Clarence in July, and days after his firing, Jeff Rowe stated in a Tumblr post that Page had bipolar I and claimed he had been suffering a manic episode. Emily Quinn, production coordinator on Adventure Time, corroborated the claims about Page's illness, but said that it was not an excuse for his behavior. Spencer Rothbell, one of the writers on Clarence, began to voice Page's character for the remainder of the series.
On June 21, 2021, Page spoke publicly for the first time on the allegations and issued an apology. He stated in a blog post he "was on a power trip from 2012 to 2015" and admitted that he had been "inappropriate towards women". Page ended the post by saying, "Should I be fortunate enough to work alongside you good folks once again you can be sure to expect the utmost respect and dignity out of me."
Filmography
References
Notes
External links
Skylerdalepage.com
1989 births
Living people
American animators
American animated film directors
American male voice actors
California Institute of the Arts alumni
People with bipolar disorder
Adventure Time
Cartoon Network Studios people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORPLAN | FORPLAN, short for FORest PLANning, is a computer program developed by K. Norman Johnson and others that uses a linear programming model to estimate land management resource outputs pursuant to the National Forest Management Act of 1976. FORPLAN was developed to bridge the gap between functional resource planning and integrated land-use planning. Its primary usefulness was for the heavily timbered forests in the Pacific Northwest and the Southeastern United States. It is available in two versions.
FORPLAN is the outgrowth of a series of LP systems developed and used by the United States Forest Service, including Resource Capability System (RCS), Resource Allocation Analysis (RAA), Timber Resource Allocation Method (Timber RAM), Multiple Use Sustained Yield Calculation Technique (MUSYC), ADVENT (a system used for program budgeting), and Integrated Resource Planning Model (IRPM). As part of its growing centralization, the Forest Service directed all forests to use FORPLAN rather than competing computer models. FORPLAN allowed planners to enter information about the forest into the computer and then inquire as to, e.g., the maximum amount of timber that could be cut or how much timber could be cut in a decade if the forest were managed to earn maximum profits. FORPLAN allowed planners to break forests up into different zones based on factors such as vegetation, age of timber, wildlife habitat, steepness of slope, or whether the zone had roads.
One criticism of FORPLAN is that it is unable to incorporate emotions, preferences or attitudes that are spatially dependent. Another criticism is that it includes nonuse values, such as protecting watersheds, preserving endangered species, and improving aesthetics, only as constraints on production rather than as goals. Other criticisms are its large size and complexity and problems with documentation and verification. It is also limited by its requirements for massive amounts of data on ecological interactions and for market prices for all resource uses and outputs. Randal O'Toole noted that much of the data in FORPLAN was based on outdated inventories and that average FORPLAN timber prices were often two or three times actual prices.
It was praised by the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment for its enormous analytical capacity, its focus on important issues, and its common language for analysts.
The Australian PREPLAN, or Pristine Environment Planning Language and Simulator, was derived partly from FORPLAN.
References
United States Forest Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th%20Golden%20Melody%20Awards | The 24th Golden Melody Awards () ceremony for popular music category was held on July 6, 2013. The SET network broadcast the show live from the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan. The ceremony recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, which runs from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012.
Nominees and winners
Winners are highlighted in boldface.
Vocal category – Record label awards
Song of the Year
"The Great Artist" (from Muse) – Jolin Tsai
"Retrospection" (from Eternity, Promise) – Kay Huang
"Wordless Song" (from Gaia) – Sandy Lam
"Coastline" (from Coastline) – Yonlon Chen
"Rose-colored" (from Games We Play) – Deserts Chang
Best Mandarin Album
Gaia – Sandy Lam Opus 12 – Jay Chou
Ghetto Superstar – MC HotDog
Back to Wonderland – Khalil Fong
Muse – Jolin Tsai
Best Taiwanese Album
Tainan – Hsieh Ming-yu The Ninth Album – New Formosa Band
1st Album – Gigi Wu
Love – Sasha Lee
What's Happening? – Kou Chou Ching
Best Hakka Album
The Way Home – Dark White Collar Walking – Huang Zhen-xin
Antipodes – Tito Tang
Jazz, Tang Dynasty – Hsieh Yu-wei
Hold Your Hands – Grace Huang
Best Aboriginal Album
A Cappella – O-kai A Beautiful Prediction – Resres
Dalan – Sangpuy
Amis – Suming
Sun and Moon – Ado Kaliting Pacidal
Calisi – Dakanow
Best Music Video
Muh Chen – "Cheers" (from Second Round (No Where Edition)) Bill Chia – "Increase Power" (from Moment)
Bill Chia – "Wordless Song" (from Gaia)
Muh Chen – "Super Girl" (from Super Girl)
Ken Huang, Eric Chen – "O La La Hu Hu" (from Guitar)
Muh Chen – "The Great Artist" (from Muse)
Vocal category – Individual awards
Best Composition
Kay Huang – "Retrospection" (from Eternity, Promise) JerryC – "Captain S.V" (from Fiction)
Ellen Loo – "You're Nothing to Me" (from You Hide Silently)
Lee Tsz-hang – "Coastline" (from Coastline)
Best Lyrics
Deserts Chang – "Rose-colored" (from Games We Play) Ayugo Huang, Bobby Chen – "Is Diesel Oil" (from The Ninth Album)
Michael Li – "Alzheimer" (from Love, After All)
MC HotDog – "Ghetto Superstar" (from Ghetto Superstar)
Lee Tsz-hang – "Coastline" (from Coastline)
Deserts Chang – "Rose-colored" (from Games We Play)
Best Music Arrangement
Chang Shilei – "Gaia" (from Gaia) Baby Chung – "Milihuwan" (from Dalan)
Skot Suyama – "Runaway Mama" (from Fiction)
Jason Huang – "A Larger Cello" (from Opus 12)
Michele Weir – "Sakalima" (from A Cappella)
Producer of the Year, Album
Sandy Lam, Chang Shilei – Gaia
Chen Zhu-hui – Dalan
Jay Chou – Opus 12
Baby Chung – Eternity, Promise
Lai Jia-ching, Tim Wang – A Cappella
Producer of the Year, Single
Luantan Ascent – "Different Friends" (from Unforgettable)
Gideon Su – "I Can Believe" (from Miss Non-Rock)
Peng Hsueh-bin – "Love in Heart" (from Love in Heart)
Chris Hou, Winnie Hsin – "Soundless Love Song" (from Meet Happiness)
Best Mandarin Male Singer
Jam Hsiao
Yoga Lin
Jay Chou
Xiao Yu
Khalil Fong
Best Taiwanese Male Singer
Hsieh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Hotline | Love Hotline is a Philippine television tabloid talk show broadcast by GMA News TV and GMA Network. Hosted by Jean Garcia, it premiered on GMA News TV from September 23, 2013, and ended on February 14, 2014. It was moved to GMA Network in May 2014. The show concluded on April 29, 2016, with a total of 206 episodes.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of Love Hotline scored an 8.6% rating.
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA News TV original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20GET%20affiliates | The following is a list of current and pending affiliates of GET, a digital multicast television network owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, focusing on classic television shows from the 1960s through the 2000s.
Current affiliates
Former affiliates
References
External links
www.get.tv/get-the-channel – Official list of GetTV affiliates (includes information on cable channel placements)
GetTV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Women%27s%20Funds | The International Network of Women's Funds (INWF) is a membership organisation bringing together women's funds from around the world, in order to promote "philanthropy with a feminist perspective". INWF was founded in 2000 with nine members, including the oldest international women's funds Mama Cash and the Global Fund for Women, and in 2014, had 42 members globally. From 2010, the Executive Director has been Emilienne de León (also known as Emilienne de León Aulina).
History
In 1999, the Global Fund for Women and Mama Cash brought together six women's funds from around the world for a brainstorming session. In 2000, the first meeting of INWF was held, with nine members. According to Shirley Waters, founder and chair of the Women's Hope and Education and Training Trust, "these international women's funds provide[d] an easily identifiable way to support the work of women's groups in other countries." Similarly, while discussing women's funds and the history of the INWF in 2013, Musimbi Kanyoro (CEO of the Global Fund for Women) said, "Organized philanthropy can make a difference if the funding is targeted towards addressing the root causes of women’s vulnerability."
References
External links
Official International Network of Women’s Funds website
International women's organizations
Philanthropic organizations
Women's rights organizations
Women's organizations based in Mexico
Charities based in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astragalus%20pendulus | Astragalus pendulus, synonym Astragalus coelestis, is a species of milkvetch native to Iran, the Transcaucasus and Turkey.
Conservation
Astragalus coelestis was assessed as "data deficient" in the 2006 IUCN Red List, where it is said to be native only to Armenia, occurring on Mount Bug-Dag in the Sevan area on slopes at about 2,200 m elevation. , A. coelestis was regarded as a synonym of Astragalus pendulus, which has a wider distribution, including Iran and Turkey.
References
pendulus
Flora of Iran
Flora of the Transcaucasus
Flora of Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Sports%20%28East%20Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | Star Sports was an East Asian pay television sports channel broadcast to Mainland China and South Korea, operated by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia). It was previously part of the Fox Sports operations in East and Southeast Asia, but this version retained Star Sports name; ESPN Mainland China was instead renamed Star Sports 2.
History
Hong Kong-based Star TV launched Prime Sports (later renamed Star Sports) in partnership with American company TCI, which owned Prime-branded regional sports channels. The channel was broadcast across Asia, as with the footprint of AsiaSat 1. Star TV have since regionalised the channel with a number of versions, including a dedicated version for Taiwan. Later, ESPN have joined in the region as a competitor to Star Sports.
In October 1996, ESPN and Star Sports have agreed to combine their operations across Asia. As a result, a joint venture named, ESPN Star Sports was formed, to be headquartered in Singapore.
In June 2012, it was announced that News Corporation would buy ESPN International's share in ESPN Star Sports. Following the News Corporation take over, ESPN all over Asia would be relaunched as Fox Sports but the relaunch of ESPN Star Sports as Fox Sports did not affect much of East Asia, as Star Sports continued to broadcast in Mainland China and South Korea kept the brand, and instead, the version of ESPN for Mainland China was renamed as Star Sports 2 on 10 January 2014.
Alongside 16 other channels owned by Disney, the two Star Sports channels was shut down on October 1, 2021, after which the channel spaces created by Prime Sports Asia in 1991 and ESPN Asia in 1992, both folded and ceased to exist.
Channels
Star Sports 1
Star Sports 2: This channel was not available in South Korea only in Mainland China.
Programming
Sporting events covered by Star Sports include:
Australian Rules Football
Australian Football League
Baseball
Major League Baseball:
Select spring training and regular season games (home games only and select road games)
ESPN Major League Baseball (Sunday Night Baseball and select special games, tie-breaker and Home Run Derby)
MLB All-Star Game (MLB International feed)
Postseason (wild card, Division Series and Championship Series)
World Series (MLB International feed)
World Baseball Classic
Korea Baseball Organization (ESPN feed)
Basketball
US NCAA Men's College Basketball (Fox College Hoops)
BIG3
Boxing
Versus
World Boxing Matches
Bull Riding
Professional Bull Riders events
Cricket
ICC
Cricket World Cup
Under-19 Cricket World Cup (all matches available on Fox+, highlights and live coverage of final on television)
Women's Cricket World Cup
Football
AFC Champions League (from play-offs, for West Zone play-offs until quarter finals)
AFC U-19 Championship
AFC U-16 Championship
AFC Futsal Championship
AFC Futsal Club Championship
Danish Super League (one match per week, 2019–2021 (originally from June 202 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucha | Deucha is a village and a gram panchayat in Mohammad Bazar CD Block in Suri Sadar subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
History
According to a government data had given in 1845, there had 30 i.e. iron melting furnaces existed at Deucha. In 1855, Mackcey and Co. established Birbhum Iron Works Company and in 1875 Messers Burn and co. had done the same job there.
There are many old decorated bricks found every where, which shows old glory of Deucha.
Salui is a Hindu workers caste who are living at Deucha. Saluis were the head of 'saal' i.e. home-made iron-furnace. Sontsaal is a nearby village where Muslim 'saal' workers had lived.
At the time of King Ram Pal, Deucha was under 'Kujabati' state.
Geography
Location
Deucha consists of a gram panchayat, 'Deucha Gram Panchayat'. The name Deucha is a mysterious word. Deucha has its burnt soil and a lot of signs of previous iron ore melting industry.
The village is situated near the Dwarka River. An eco park is situated at Deucha on the bank of Dwarka River near Sahapara.
Deucha barrage is situated on the Dwarka river with a capacity of .
Demographics
As per the 2011 Census of India, Deucha had a total population of 1,772 of which 894 (50%) were males and 878 (50%) were females. Population below 6 years was 266. The total number of literates in Deucha was 1,066 (70.78% of the population over 6 years).
Economy
Coal
Deucha Pachami coal block is to be developed by Bengal Birbhum Coal Company Limited.
Government of India has allocated 17 coal blocks with estimated reserves of 85,000 million tonnes of coal to public sector undertakings under MMDR act. Deucha Pachami coal block is estimated about 9.7 km2.
Transport
NH 14 (old no. NH 60) passes beside Deucha. There is an old laterite road connecting Deucha with 'Boliharpur' and then with Jharkhand. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Mahavir had walked through this road.
Culture
Ram Navami is held at Saluipara Ramji temple. Poush Sankranti fair is held at Dwarbasini near Deucha.Ratha yatra fair is held at Deucha rathtala. Every year during Ram navami, the song of Ramayana and kirtana are performed. This Ramji temple was established by Sitaram Das Mohanta, a saint probably from Uttar Pradesh, and the first priest of the temple was Satkari Bandopadhaya from nearby Chondrapur village.
Dharma pujo is held at Deucha on the occasion of Buddha Purnima.
Every year at Makar Sankranti a one-day fair is held at Dwarbasini-temple near Chondrapur.
There are many ruined Shiva temples near Sahapara. Some of these temples were reconstructed by Ananta Majumdar, a former policeman with the help of other people.
Near Deucha there is a Jain religious place "Jogi Pahari Tirth" where Bhagwan Mahavir stayed for three night because of serious illness by snake bite. Many pilgrims come here from around the world.
References
Villages in Birbhum district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMX%20Mouse | AMX Mouse was a 1985 computer mouse sold by the British company Advanced Memory Systems. The 3 button mouse was sold with a dedicated interface, and usually with some accompanying software such as AMX Art (MacPaint clone), AMX Pagemaker, AMX Palette, AMX Control and Icon Designer.
Market
The AMX Mouse product was sold for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro computers, along with the Acorn Electron (through Advanced Computer Products), these being popular home computers at the time. As such, it allowed modern user interfaces to be present in common household machines.
It was compatible with art software such as OCP Advanced Art Studio or Max Desktop. The game Starglider is also listed as being compatible.
Other software
Other available software from the manufacturer was:
AMX 3D Zicon which took 3D vector drawings and converted them to AMX Art format. Also allowed sketching in 2D and converting to 3D;
AMX Database which was a database with a graphical user interface;
AMX XAM which created multiple choice exams with pictures from AMX Art;
AMX Paintpot which coloured pictures produced with AMX Art.
References
External links
Computer mice
Legacy hardware
Home computer peripherals
ZX Spectrum
Acorn Computers
Amstrad CPC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra%20Linux | Astra Linux is a Russian Linux-based computer operating system (OS) that is being widely deployed in the Russian Federation in order to replace Microsoft Windows. Initially it was created and developed to meet the needs of the Russian army, other armed forces and intelligence agencies.
In the course of 2010s, as Russian authorities and industry were trying to lower dependence on Western products ("import substitution industrialization"), Astra Linux became widely used by Russian civilians as a universal operating system for personal computers. Aside from army and police, it is now being supplied to educational, healthcare and other state institutions, as well as in industry giants such as RZD, Gazprom, Rosatom and others. Server versions of Astra Linux are certified to work with Huawei equipment.
Specifications
The creator of the OS is the Scientific/Manufacturing Enterprise Rusbitech which is applying solutions according to Russian Government decree No.2299-р of 17/10/2010 that orders federal authorities and budget institutions to implement Free Software use.
There are two available editions of the OS: the main one is called "Special Edition" and the other one is called "Common Edition".
The main differences between the two are the fact that the former is paid, while the latter is free; the former is available for x86-64 architecture, ARM architecture and Elbrus architecture, while the latter is only available for x86-64 architecture; the former has a security certification and provides 3 levels of OS security (which are named after Russian cities and which from the lowest to the highest are: Oryol, Voronezh and Smolensk), while the latter doesn't have the security certification and only provides the lowest level of OS security (Oryol).
Rusbitech also manufactures a "soft/hardware trusted boot control module" MAKSIM-M1 ("М643М1") with PCI bus. It prevents unauthorized access and offers some other raised digital security features. The module, besides Astra Linux, also supports OSes with Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 5.x.x, as well as several Microsoft Windows OSes.
It is declared the Astra Linux licenses correspond with Russian and international laws and "don't contradict with the spirit and demands of GPL license". The system uses .deb packages.
Astra Linux is a recognized Debian derivative. Rusbitech has partnership relations with The Linux Foundation. It was part of the advisory board of The Document Foundation, but was suspended on 26 February 2022 because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Use
The Special Edition version (paid) is used in many Russian state-related organizations. Particularly, it is used in the Russian National Center for Defence Control.
There are talks to deploy mass use of Astra Linux in many state institutions of the Republic of Crimea – legitimate use of other popular OSes is questionable because of international sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Also there were plans on cooperation of Rusbitech and Huaw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraScale | TerraScale may refer to:
Intel Tera-Scale
AMD TeraScale (microarchitecture)
TerraScale (company), a green data centre company. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientozeuzera%20caudata | Orientozeuzera caudata is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1916. It is found in New Guinea. There are also records for Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Solomon Islands, but these refer to Orientozeuzera rhabdota. The habitat consists of lowland areas.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Zeuzerinae
Moths described in 1916 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scality | Scality is a global technology provider of software-defined storage (SDS) solutions, specializing in distributed file and object storage with cloud data management. Scality maintains offices in Paris (France), London (UK), San Francisco and Washington DC (USA), and Tokyo (Japan) and has employees in 14 countries.
History
Scality was founded in 2009 by Jérôme Lecat, Giorgio Regni, Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, and Brad King.
Scality raised $7 million of venture capital funding in March 2011. A C-round of $22 million was announced in June 2013, led by Menlo Ventures and Iris Capital with participation from FSN PME and all existing investors, including Idinvest Partners, OMNES Capital and Galileo Partners. Scality raised $45 million in August 2015. This Series D funding was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from all existing investors and one new strategic investor, BroadBand Tower. In 2016, HPE made a strategic investment in the company. In April, 2018, the company announced a $60 million round of funding.
Scality announced a refreshed brand, along with a distribution agreement with Hewlett-Packard in October 2014. Scality added Dell and Cisco Systems as resellers in 2015.
Products
RING
Scality's released the first version of its principal product, RING, in 2010. The object storage software platform is a multitiered architecture and can scale up to thousands of servers and up to 100 petabytes under a single namespace. Ring product depends on a keyspace calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation at install, spread across all of its node servers. While the company aims for the Ring to function without the need of any external management process, a Supervisor server is functionally required to kick-off data integrity operations and keep track of node state, while also providing a single source of truth for data about the ring itself. The Supervisor process is relatively lightweight and can be installed on a node server if required, but the company recommends it run separately from the Ring's constituent storage servers.
The Ring employs erasure coding schemes in multiples of six, which is the minimum number of storage nodes required to install a Ring. The underlying filesystem formatted on the storage drives is transparent to the Ring and it does not interact with filesystem operations directly. The Ring installer was originally written in Python for Saltstack, but then re-implemented closed-source.
Object storage was covered by trade press in 2017.
Zenko
In 2017, Scality released Zenko, an open source multi-cloud data controller. In 2018, Scality released a commercially supported version of Zenko. Zenko integrates data managed on-premises with services available in public clouds.
Zenko CloudServer (formerly Scality S3 Server) is an Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service-compatible open source object storage server. The code is written in Node.js. It is a single instance running in a Docker container, and it uses Docker volumes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genolier%20Swiss%20Medical%20Network%20SA | Swiss Medical Network SA (officially Swiss Medical Network SA) is a Swiss group of private hospitals. At present, it holds 21 private health care facilities in Switzerland with a total of 2,229 consultants and 4,154 employees (2023). The group is a subsidiary of AEVIS VICTORIA SA.
History
The group was founded in 2002. Its historical name (Genolier Swiss Medical Network) derives from the Clinique de Genolier, a private hospital founded in 1972, located in the municipality of Genolier in the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
Following its foundation, the group has acquired a number of private hospitals in several parts of Switzerland in order to create a national network of private health care facilities:
2002 : Acquisition of the Clinique de Genolier by five main shareholders and creation of AGEN Holding, later renamed into Genolier Swiss Medical Network SA
2003 : Acquisition of the Clinique de Montchoisi in Lausanne, Canton of Vaud (opened in 1923)
2005 : Acquisition of the Clinique Valmont in Montreux, Canton of Vaud (opened in 1905) and the two hospitals Sainte-Anne and Garcia in Fribourg (the two latter ones were then merged in order to become the Clinique Générale Ste. Anne)
2007 : Inauguration of the Centre d’oncologie des Eaux-Vives, the only private radio-oncology centre in Geneva
2008 : AGEN Holding becomes Genolier Swiss Medical Network SA.
2009 : Acquisition of the Centre médico-chirurgical des Eaux-Vives in Geneva.
2010 : Acquisition of Privatklinik Bethanien in Zurich (opened in 1912)
2011 : Partial acquisition (49%) of Privatklinik Lindberg in Winterthur (opened in 1906) and affiliation of Klinik Pyramide am See in Zurich.
2012 : Acquisition of Privatklinik Obach in Solothurn (opened in 1922), Clinica Ars Medica (opened in 1989) and Clinica Sant’Anna (opened in 1922) in Lugano, Canton of Ticinio and full acquisition of Privatklinik Lindberg.
2013 : Acquisition of the Clinique de Valère in Sion, Canton of Valais (opened in 1920), Hôpital de la Providence in Neuchâtel (opened in 1859) and Privatklinik Villa im Park in Rothrist, Canton of Argovia (opened in 1984)
2014 : Acquisition of Schmerzklinik Basel (opened in 1978)
2015 : Acquisition of the Clinique Montbrillant in La Chaux-de-Fonds
2015 : Genolier Swiss Medical Network changes its name to Swiss Medical Network in order to claim the maturity of the Group and to better reflect its national status as well as its federating role for its 15 clinics.
2016 : Acquisition of Clinique Générale-Beaulieu in Geneva
Primary sources
References
Hospitals in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOFF | The GOFF (Generalized Object File Format) specification was developed for IBM's MVS operating system to supersede the IBM OS/360 Object File Format to compensate for weaknesses in the older format.
Background
The original IBM OS/360 Object File Format was developed in 1964 for the new IBM System/360 mainframe computer. The format was also used by makers of plug compatible and workalike mainframes, including the Univac 90/60, 90/70 and 90/80 and Fujitsu B2800. The format was expanded to add symbolic records and expanded information about modules, plus support for procedures and functions with names longer than 8 characters. While this helped, it did not provide for the enhanced information necessary for today's more complicated programming languages and more advanced features such as objects, properties and methods, Unicode support, and virtual methods.
The GOFF object file format was developed by IBM approximately in 1995 as a means to overcome these problems. The earliest mention of this format was in the introductory information about the new High Level Assembler. Note that the OS/360 Object File Format was simply superseded by the GOFF format, it was not deprecated, and is still in use by assemblers and language compilers where the language can withstand the limitations of the older format.
Conventions
This article will use the term "module" to refer to any name or equivalent symbol, which is used to provide an identifier for a piece of code or data external to the scope to which it is referenced. A module may refer to a subroutine, a function, Fortran Common or Block Data, an object or class, a method or property of an object or class, or any other named routine or identifier external to that particular scope referencing the external name.
The terms "assembler" for a program that converts assembly language to machine code, as well as as the process of using one, and as the process of using a "compiler," which does the same thing for high-level languages, should, for the purposes of this article. be considered interchangeable; thus where "compile" and "compiler" are used, substitute "assemble" and "assembler" as needed.
Numbers used in this article are expressed as follows: unless specified as hexadecimal (base 16), all numbers used are in decimal (base 10). When necessary to express a number in hexadecimal, the standard mainframe assembler format of using the capital letter X preceding the number, expressing any hexadecimal letters in the number in upper case, and enclosing the number in single quotes, e.g. the number 15deadbeef16 would be expressed as X'15DEADBEEF'.
A "byte" as used in this article, is 8-bits, and unless otherwise specified, a "byte" and a "character" are the same thing; characters in EBCDIC are also 8-bit. When multi-byte character sets (such as Unicode) are used in user programs, they will use two (or more) bytes.
Requirements and restrictions
The format is similar to the OS/360 Object File Format but adds ad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleitman%E2%80%93Wang%20algorithms | The Kleitman–Wang algorithms are two different algorithms in graph theory solving the digraph realization problem, i.e. the question if there exists for a finite list of nonnegative integer pairs a simple directed graph such that its degree sequence is exactly this list. For a positive answer the list of integer pairs is called digraphic. Both algorithms construct a special solution if one exists or prove that one cannot find a positive answer. These constructions are based on recursive algorithms. Kleitman and Wang gave these algorithms in 1973.
Kleitman–Wang algorithm (arbitrary choice of pairs)
The algorithm is based on the following theorem.
Let be a finite list of nonnegative integers that is in nonincreasing lexicographical order and let be a pair of nonnegative integers with . List is digraphic if and only if the finite list has nonnegative integer pairs and is digraphic.
Note that the pair is arbitrarily with the exception of pairs . If the given list digraphic then the theorem will be applied at most times setting in each further step . This process ends when the whole list consists of pairs. In each step of the algorithm one constructs the arcs of a digraph with vertices , i.e. if it is possible to reduce the list to , then we add arcs . When the list cannot be reduced to a list of nonnegative integer pairs in any step of this approach, the theorem proves that the list from the beginning is not digraphic.
Kleitman–Wang algorithm (maximum choice of a pair)
The algorithm is based on the following theorem.
Let be a finite list of nonnegative integers such that and let be a pair such that is maximal with respect to the lexicographical order under all pairs . List is digraphic if and only if the finite list has nonnegative integer pairs and is digraphic.
Note that the list must not be in lexicographical order as in the first version. If the given list is digraphic, then the theorem will be applied at most times, setting in each further step . This process ends when the whole list consists of pairs. In each step of the algorithm, one constructs the arcs of a digraph with vertices , i.e. if it is possible to reduce the list to , then one adds arcs . When the list cannot be reduced to a list of nonnegative integer pairs in any step of this approach, the theorem proves that the list from the beginning is not digraphic.
See also
Fulkerson–Chen–Anstee theorem
References
Graph algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20transport%20in%20Athens | Public transport in Athens comprises a bus network, various rail systems, funiculars, and maritime services to serve the more than 4 million inhabitants of the city spread over an area of 2928 km2.
Rail transport
Metro
The Athens Metro is operated by Stasy S.A (Statheres Sygkoinonies S.A) which is a subsidiary company of OASA (Athens urban transport organisation) and provides public transport throughout the Athens Urban Area. While its main purpose is transport, it also houses Greek artifacts found during construction of the system. The Athens Metro has an operating staff of 387 and runs three metro lines; namely the Line 1 (Green), Line 2 (Red) and line 3 (Blue) lines, of which the first was constructed in 1869, and the other two largely during the 1990s, with the initial sections opened in January 2000. The line 1 for the most part runs at ground level and the other two (lines 2,3) routes run entirely underground (except the Doukisis Plakentias-Airport section) and a fleet of 42 trains consisting of 252 cars operate within the network, with a daily occupancy of 1,353,000 passengers.
Line 1
Line 1 (the Green Line) serves 24 stations, and forms the oldest line of the Athens metro network. Runs from Piraeus station to Kifissia station and covers a distance of 25.6-kilometre (15.9 mi). There are also transfer connections with the Blue (line 3) at Monastiraki and Piraeus station and with Red (line 2) at Omonia and Attiki stations.
Line 2
Line 2 (the Red Line) runs from Anthoupoli station to Elliniko station with a total number of stations being 20 and covers a distance of 17.5 km (10.9 mi).[116] The line connects the western suburbs of Athens with the southeast suburbs, passing through the center of Athens. The Red line has transfer connections with the Green (line 1) at Attiki and Omonia Square stations. There are also transfer connections with the Blue (line 3) at the Syntagma Square station and with the Tram at Syntagma Square, Syngrou-Fix station and Neos Kosmos station. There is a planned expansion of this line from Anthoupoli to Ilion, and the estimated completion date is 2028.
Line 3
Line 3 (the Blue Line) runs from the western suburbs, namely the Dimotiko Theatro metro station, through the central Monastiraki and Syntagma stations to Doukissis Plakentias avenue in the northeastern suburb of Halandri, covering a distance of 23 stations and , then ascending to ground level and reaching Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport with a total of 27 stations, using the Suburban Railway infrastructure and extending its length to . The spring 2007 extension from Monastiraki westwards, to Egaleo, connected some of the main night life hubs of the city, namely the ones of Gazi (Kerameikos station) with Psirri (Monastiraki station) and the city centre (Syntagma station). The line extension westwards towards Piraeus was completed in 2022.
Suburban Railway (Proastiakos)
The Athens Suburban Railway, referred to as the Proastiakos, connects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s%20Whose | Who's Whose is a panel quiz television game show that ran on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television network. It premiered as a TV series on June 25, 1951, and is noted for being one of the first television series to be dropped after one episode.
Host and panelists
Who's Whose was hosted by long-time comedian and radio game show host Phil Baker. His on-air assistant was a man in a turban, dubbed "Gunga". The three regular celebrity panelists for the show were Robin Chandler, Art Ford, and Basil Davenport. They were joined by guest celebrity panelist Emily Kimbrough. The show was broadcast live and a kinescope was produced for stations that aired it on a delayed basis.
Game play
A round began with the "panel of experts" facing a group of either three men or three women. Through questioning, the panel tried to determine which of the three was the spouse of the person sitting with Phil Baker. In an additional separate round, the panel attempted to pick out the spouse of a noted celebrity.
Background
Who's Whose was brought in to replace The Goldbergs, which was dropped by its sponsor (General Foods) when its creator Gertrude Berg refused to fire the blacklisted actor Philip Loeb. The last episode of The Goldbergs ran on June 18, 1951. The official explanation given by the sponsor for dropping the show was that it was for "economy reasons". Who's Whose was slated to run in The Goldbergs''' old timeslot during the summer and then be replaced in the fall.
Audition show (pilot)
The concept for Who's Whose was tested in May 1951. An audition show (nowadays known as a pilot) was produced, but it was created in a unique, cost-saving way. The sound from the test program was recorded on audiotape in a radio studio, while the visuals were recorded by taking a series of still camera photographs of the proceedings. The show's concept was then demonstrated by playing back the audio while flipping through the still photos. This technique was dubbed a "two-bit kine". After the show was sold to CBS, a standard kinescope was produced to further develop the concept of the show.
Packaging and sponsorshipWho's Whose was brought into existence as a "package" deal by the advertising agency Young & Rubicam (Y&R). Packaging was the common practice dating back to the days of network radio, whereby an outside entity such as an advertising agency would assemble the various production elements, including a commercial sponsor, which are needed to bring about a show. The proposed show would then be presented to a network as a "complete package". (The similar concept of movie packaging is still fairly common.) Actual production of the show was handled by independent packager Lester Lewis.
General Foods picked up sponsorship of the show in order to advertise its Sanka coffee brand, which it was already selling on The Goldbergs. General Foods was able to place the show in the same timeslot as The Goldbergs because it basically "controlled" the timeslot in which the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Geodetic%20Reference%20Frame | The African Geodetic Reference Frame (AFREF) is a project designed to unify the many geodetic reference frames of Africa using data from a network of permanent Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) stations as the primary data source for the implementation of a uniform reference frame.
See also
European Terrestrial Reference System 1989
References
Geodetic datums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar%20Anthony%20Haywood | Gar Anthony Haywood is an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Los Angeles in 1954, and worked as a computer technician for over a decade before he started publishing novels.
Fear of The Dark (1988) won the Shamus Award for best first private investigator novel. It also spawned a long-running series that featured the protagonist Aaron Gunner. The Aaron Gunner books are hardboiled detective fiction, inspired by Ross Macdonald's Los Angeles novels. Haywood has also written several standalone thrillers, as well as a pair of light, comic mysteries.
Haywood has also written numerous screenplays for television, including an episode of New York Undercover and the TV movie adaptation of Bad As I Wanna Be, the autobiography of basketball player Dennis Rodman.
Aaron Gunner mystery novels
Good Man Gone Bad (Prospect Park, 2019) is Heywood's seventh mystery novel, featuring Aaron Gunner, 60-year-old African-American private investigator.
References
1954 births
American crime fiction writers
Living people
American male novelists
Novelists from Los Angeles
American male screenwriters
American male television writers
American television writers
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Screenwriters from California
Anthony Award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagit%20Attiya | Hagit Attiya is an Israeli computer scientist who holds the Harry W. Labov and Charlotte Ullman Labov Academic Chair of Computer Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. Her research is in the area of distributed computing.
Education and career
Attiya was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a B.S. in mathematics and computer science in 1981, a master's degree from the same university in 1983, and a doctorate in 1987, under the supervision of Danny Dolev. After postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the Technion faculty in 1990.
She has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Distributed Computing since 2008.
Awards and honors
Attiya became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2009 for "contributions to distributed and parallel computing".
In 2011, Attiya and her co-authors Danny Dolev and Amotz Bar-Noy won the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their work on implementing shared memory using message passing, published in the Journal of the ACM in 1995. She was also the recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from Yad Hanadiv in 2011.
Selected publications
Research papers
Books
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cobra%20video%20games | There are several video games based on Buichi Terasawa's manga series Cobra. The games have been released on home and handheld consoles, as well as on personal computers, mobile phones and pachinko. The first games to be released from the Cobra series were Space Cobra Professional and The Psychogun, which were published in 1982, and the latest release is Cobra the Drum, which was released in 2014. Amidst the several games released—most of them are Japan-exclusive products—Cobra and Cobra II were developed by French company Loriciels while The Space Adventure is the only Japanese game published in North America and Europe.
Video games
Notes
Japanese
References
video games
Cobra
Cobra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20anthracitis | Cuspidata anthracitis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1960
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20bidens | Cuspidata bidens is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1960
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20castanea | Cuspidata castanea is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1960
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20ditoma | Cuspidata ditoma is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.
Subspecies
Cuspidata ditoma ditoma
Cuspidata ditoma peratra Diakonoff, 1973
References
Moths described in 1960
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20hypomelas | Cuspidata hypomelas is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1960
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20leptozona | Cuspidata leptozona is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1960
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20viettei | Cuspidata viettei is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1960
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20oligosperma | Cuspidata oligosperma is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1960
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20obscura | Cuspidata obscura is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1970. It is found on Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1970
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata%20micaria | Cuspidata micaria is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1973
Archipini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20VSP%208000%20Series | The Avaya Virtual Services Platform 8000 Series, or VSP 8000, is a standalone Ethernet Switch, manufactured by Avaya and intended for use in Campus network and Data Center deployment scenarios.
The VSP 8000 is new category of high-performance Ethernet Switches developed by Avaya to leverage the latest generation application-specific integrated circuit chipsets. The Virtual Services Platform 8284XSQ is the first product in the VSP 8000 Series and is a fixed, compact form-factor Ethernet Switch designed to satisfy mainstream Campus Core Switch requirements.
The VSP 8284XSQ is an 84-port Ethernet Switch, supporting a mix of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Network operators may choose to deploy it either in conventional IP Routed network topologies or as part of a network virtualization solution using the Avaya VENA Fabric Connect technology. Fabric Connect is an extended implementation of the IEEE 802.1aq standard for Shortest Path Bridging (SPB), and the VSP 8200 will be interoperable with third party products that also implement this Standard.
The product is typically positioned as the Core Switch in mid-market and small-to-medium Enterprise networks, or as an Aggregation/Distribution Switch in larger networks. Due to its ability to support both conventional and virtualized networking technologies – and operate both concurrently the VSP 8000 is suitable in deployment scenarios that require high-availability, network segmentation, and dynamic provisioning. Additionally, the high-density of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (80 ports), plus support for 40 Gigabit Ethernet (4 ports), makes the VSP 8284XSQ model suitable for use as a Data Center Middle/End-of-Row Switch.
History
In November 2010, Avaya introduced "Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture" (VENA) as its overarching solution set of networking technologies. The role of VENA is to concentrate development activity on a set of key enabling technologies that will be made available, individually or collectively, across multiple hardware platforms. In this way, it is Avaya’s intention to at least partially abstract software functionality from hardware capability; certain considerations remain – processing and memory capacity - but, in general, VENA technologies would largely become hardware-independent.
An important foundational element to VENA was the release of the Fabric Connect technology, an implementation of the IEEE 802.1aq SPB, extended and enhanced by Avaya to integrate Layer 3, IP Routing, and IP Multicast capabilities, in addition to the topology, loop-avoidance, multi-path, and Layer 2 functionality native to SPB. Fabric Connect also conforms to the IETF Standard for IS-IS extensions to support SPB.
In April 2014, Avaya announced the VSP 8000 Series as part of its participation in the Interop trade event in Las Vegas. Following on from 2013, Avaya was again selected to be the provider of the InteropNet network backbone, delivering an end-to-end virtualized n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Seleznev | Roman Valerevich Seleznev (or Seleznyov, ; born 1984), also known by his hacker name Track2, is a Russian computer hacker. Seleznev was indicted in the United States in 2011, and was convicted of hacking into servers to steal credit-card data. His activities are estimated to have caused more than $169 million in damages to businesses and financial institutions. Seleznev was arrested on July 5, 2014, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison for wire fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and identity theft.
Early life
Seleznev is the son of Valery Seleznev, a member of Russia's Duma.
Hacking career
He began his activities in early 2003 on the credit card fraud site CarderPlanet, providing paid Social Security numbers and criminal-history research using (among others) stolen LexisNexis accurint.com accounts. Seleznev's employee later created a scanner which allowed a user to scan the internet for MSRDP open ports (3389 by default). Default configurations provided poor protection at the time, and many administrator accounts were not secured by passwords. Exploiting this vulnerability, Seleznev and his partner accessed many remote computers, including those with financial and credit-card data.
He contacted BadB, another hacker, to gain more experience in exploiting financial systems. BadB, a cybercriminal identified in 2009 as Vladislav Horohorin, provided Seleznev with an automated script to look for credit card traces in systems and networks. With this script, Seleznev obtained his first credit-card dumps, which he resold to Horohorin. He became dissatisfied with Horohorin, and decided to begin his own credit-card-dump operation using the nickname nCuX (from , "psycho").
Seleznev expanded his operations in 2008 from scanning MSRDP with default (or no) passwords to developing sophisticated malware which could intercept network traffic and search network shares, distributing it through flaws in Internet browsers by injecting malicious code into advertising traffic. He infected many computers, primarily in the United States.
By May 2009, USSS believed they had collected enough information to come to the conclusion that nCuX was probably the identity of Roman Seleznev. They had a meeting with the Russian intelligence agency FSB in which they shared information from their investigation and their belief that nCuX was Seleznev. Shortly after this meeting, in June 2009, nCuX closed all of his accounts and disappeared from the Internet; USSS suspected FSB had tipped Seleznev off.
After shutting down nCuX, Seleznev created two other names (Track2 and Bulba) and used them to operate his own automated stolen-credit-card shops. He bought advertising space in the "Dumps" section of the illegal carding forum carder.su, which was shut down in a 2012 Department of Homeland Security operation. Horohorin's advertising campaign on carder.su was also shut down, and a denial-of-service attack ensued. He was arrested by USSS in August 2010, leaving S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Lizard%20Lick%20Towing%20episodes | Lizard Lick Towing is an improvised American reality television series. It is filmed in the style of cinéma vérité, and the network behind the show, truTV, state that their series "feature real-life situations," unlike other reality shows "which often involve contests or other highly staged events." The show is a spin-off of the truTV series All Worked Up, and follows Ron Shirley, his wife Amy, Bobby Brantley, and their team of repossession agents in Wendell, North Carolina (the town that has jurisdiction over the Lizard Lick unincorporated area).
, 91 episodes of Lizard Lick Towing have aired, the most recent season ending in late 2014.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2011–12)
Season 3 (2013)
Season 4 (2013–14)
References
External links
Lizard Lick Towing on TruTV
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Sturgeon | Nicholas Sturgeon (ca. 1380s – between 31 May and 8 June 1454) was a Canon of Windsor from 1442 to 1454, a composer and a compiler of the Old Hall Manuscript.
Career
Sturgeon was educated at Winchester College, where he was elected a scholar in 1399, and New College, Oxford. He accompanied King Henry V as chaplain whilst on campaign in France in 1415. He held several canonries, and served as a member of the Royal House Chapel.
He was appointed:
Rector of Fulham 1439 - 1452
Rector of Allerton, Somerset
Rector of Wraxall, Somerset
Rector of Avening, Worcestershire
Custos of the Free Chapel, near Weare (Allerton)
Prebendary of Reculverland in St Paul's 1440 - 1452
Prebendary of Kentish Town in St Paul's 1452 - 1454
Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral 1442 - 1454
Prebendary of Hasilbury in Wells
Prebendary of Exeter
He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1442 and held the canonry until 1454.
References
1380s births
1454 deaths
Canons of Windsor
English composers
Alumni of New College, Oxford
People educated at Winchester College |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa%20Emirbayer | Mustafa Emirbayer is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his theoretical contributions to social network analysis, and is "one of the most vocal advocates of the relational approach in the social sciences." In 2009 he won the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting from the American Sociological Association.
Career
Emirbayer was born in Detroit, Michigan, to parents of Turkish and Crimean Tatar descent. He also spent part of his childhood in Santa Barbara, California, and his high school years in Mexico City, Mexico. He attended the University of California, Davis and received his BA in psychology (with minors in English and History) in 1980. He originally enrolled in the graduate program in psychology at the University of Michigan, where he first took coursework from the sociologist Charles Tilly. He soon realized that he wanted to study sociology as he felt psychology at the time neglected culture, institutions and history. Emirbayer went on to receive his MA in 1985 and PhD in 1989 from Harvard University, both in sociology. His dissertation was "Moral Education in American, 1830–1990" under the direction of Nathan Glazer (chair), Daniel Bell, David Riesman, and Theda Skocpol.
Emirbayer attended Harvard shortly after the "revolution" in social network analysis, and later at The New School, along with colleagues Charles Tilly and Harrison White, he played a key role in The New York School of relational sociology. In 2015, he became the editor-in-chief of the journal Sociological Theory.
Major contributions
When he was at the New School for Social Research, along with co-author Jeff Goodwin, Emirbayer won the 1994 Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article in Cultural Sociology for the article “Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency”.
Inspired by discussions at a series of mini-conferences organized by Harrison White at the Lazarsfeld Center, Emirbayer began to write a systematic statement regarding the "relational turn" he felt was necessary for sociology. In 1997 he published the Manifesto for Relational Sociology in the American Journal of Sociology, which brought various social theorists together under one label.
His most-cited publication, with Ann Mische, is their 1998 article "What is Agency?" In the article, the authors apply "relational pragmatics" to demonstrate the "dynamic interplay" of routine, purpose and judgement in explaining human agency.
In 2009 he was elected to the Chair of the Sociological Theory Section of the American Sociological Association. Also in 2009 he won the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting.
In 2014, Emirbayer was a keynote speaker at Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology special conference on "Advancing Cultural Sociology".
References
Sociology of culture
Scientists from Detroit
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American sociologists
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Scienc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteAb | CiteAb Ltd is a life science data company located in Bath, England that offers an antibody, biochemicals, experimental models, kits and protein search tool to aid biomedical scientists in their research.
History and operations
CiteAb started in 2013 as an academic project by Dr Andrew Chalmers, a senior lecturer at the University of Bath. The resource was established to help scientific researchers find suitable antibodies for their experiments - such antibodies can be helpful in context of screenings, therapeutic development, and drug discovery.
CiteAb ranks antibodies by citations, making it possible for researchers to find reagents that have been successfully used in past research papers. The accompanying citations are listed, so the data contained within the publications can also be checked. The CiteAb platform was built in collaboration with technology company Storm Consultancy, in Bath, in 2012. A trial website was soft-launched in September 2012 before the full website was publicly launched in September 2013. In June 2013, the number of antibodies listed by CiteAb reached the one million mark. In July 2014 the company announced it had 2 million antibodies in its database. In 2018 CiteAb added a biochemical search to its platform.
The company spun out from the University of Bath in January 2014, and CiteAb Limited was formed.
Awards and Funding
Initial funding was provided as part of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) ‘Knowledge Transfer Account' and the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s ‘Innovation Fund’ – with funds administered by the University of Bath’s Research Development and Support Office – to enable the growth and development of CiteAb prior to its spin-out.
CiteAb was winner of the Best Startup at the 2013 Bath Digital Festival. It was awarded funding from the West of England Growth Fund, administered by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership.
In August 2014, CiteAb was shortlisted for the Bath Business Awards in the category 'Innovative Startup Business of the Year'. On 11 September 2014 the company was named as the winner of the Bath Business Awards 'Innovative Startup Company' category.
In March 2018 CiteAb won the 'Export' category in the Medilink South West awards - at that point the company's products and services are used by between 50k and 100k individuals per month from 196 countries and 1,400 institutions.
References
External links
Biotechnology companies of the United Kingdom
2014 establishments in England
Companies based in Bath, Somerset |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka%20Polytechnic | Shaka Polytechnic in Benin City, Nigeria, is a privately owned tertiary institution which was established on 6 February 1986 as the Nigerian Institute of Computer Science.
Background
The school was founded by Late Donaldson Shaka Momodu. It has its main campus at Evbo-Ewedo, Egba Way, along Benin-Auchi Road and the first campus at 1, Prince Shaka Momodu Street, Ogiso Quarters, Benin City. The institution became accredited as a Polytechnic by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) in 2013. The polytechnic is under the leadership of Henrietta Shaka Momodu.
Academic programmes
The institution runs four schools/faculties with a total of nine academic programmes for the award of National Diploma(ND) and Higher National Diploma(HND);
School of Business and Management
Accountancy
Business Administration and Management
Marketing
Mass Communication
School of Applied Science
Computer Science
Statistics
School of Engineering
Electrical/Electronics Engineering
Computer Engineering
School of Environmental Science
Estate Management
See also
List of Polytechnics in Nigeria
References
External links
Official website
Polytechnics in Nigeria
Education in Benin City
Educational institutions established in 1986
1986 establishments in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LargeNetwork | LargeNetwork (formerly Largeur.com) is a Swiss media agency and custom publisher.
History
LargeNetwork was created by the founders of the on-line magazine Largeur.com, which was launched in 1999. The agency soon expanded its activities into two main areas: supplying editorial content to various media organizations and creating magazines, books and websites for companies and other institutions (custom publishing). Over time, it developed a specialization in information strategy and design.
Journalists at LargeNetwork write original articles for Swiss publications such as L'Hebdo (of the Ringier group), the Tribune de Genève (Tamedia group) and PME Magazine (Axel Springer AG). Since 2003, the agency also produces magazines in collaboration with various companies and institutions.
Since 2009, LargeNetwork produces Le Renard sur la Lune, an annual guide to Geneva, for the city's public-transportation consortium Unireso. Geneva Public Transport subsequently adopted the guide's visual look for its own communications. In 2010, LargeNetwork began producing a daily page for the Swiss newspaper Tribune de Genève. Called "Aujourd'hui" ("Today"), the page targets active urban readers, offering ideas for daily activities each weekday.
Magazines
Reflex (2006-), magazine of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (published in French and English).
On Air (2009-), magazine of World Radio Switzerland (published in English).
Swissquote (2010-), magazine of the on-line bank Swissquote (published in French and German; in English since 2013).
Hémisphères (2011-), magazine of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (published in French).
In vivo (2013-), magazine of the University Hospital of Lausanne (published in French and English).
Technologist (2014-), for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, the Technische Universität München, the Technical University of Denmark and the Eindhoven University of Technology (published in English, French and German).
Awards
Grand prix romand de la création 2010 in the "graphic design" category for On Air, the magazine of World Radio Switzerland.
Grand prix romand de la création 2010 in the "photography" category for the work of the photographer Fred Merz for Le Renard sur la Lune.
Best financial magazine at the Best of Corporate Publishing Awards 2010 for the Swissquote magazine.
Chuard Prize 2011 of the "Centre romand de formation au journalisme et aux médias" for Geneviève Ruiz, a journalist at LargeNetwork.
Gold medal in the "magazine" category of the European Design Award 2012 for the Hémisphères magazine.
Notes and references
See also
List of magazines in Switzerland
External links
1999 establishments in Switzerland
Organisations based in Geneva
Magazines established in 1999
Mass media in Geneva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Space%20Network%20%28disambiguation%29 | A Deep Space Network is a communication network that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions; several instances exist, such as:
NASA Deep Space Network, a worldwide network of large antennas and communication facilities, located in the United States (California), Spain (Madrid), and Australia (Canberra), that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions
Chinese Deep Space Network, a network of large antennas and communication facilities that supports the lunar and interplanetary spacecraft missions of China
European Deep Space Network
Japanese Deep Space Network
Indian Deep Space Network, an Indian network of large antennas and communication facilities that supports the interplanetary spacecraft missions of India
Russian Deep Space Network, a Russian managed network of large antennas and communication facilities that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions, and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datarpur | Datarpur is a village situated in Mukerian Tehsil, Hoshiarpur District, Punjab (India). Datarpur State was a small precolonial Indian hill state in the Lower Himalayas. The state was founded around 1550 and was annexed by the Sikh Empire in 1818.
Nearest city to the village is Talwara, famous for a hydro power project owned by BBMB. From ancient times Datarpur has been the center of business and education in the area.
Datarpur is famous for its spiritual centers, ancient Dushera Festival and market.
Spiritual places
Datarpur has spiritual centers including:
1) Darbar Shri Bawa Lal Dyal ji (one of 22 ancient gaddis of bawa lal ji)
2) Mandir Shri Sesh Nag ji (4 km from datarpur in Bindraban Village )
3 ) Prachin Sankatmochan Hanuman ji Mandir .
4) Darbar Baba Dayalu Ji Maharaj (6 km from datarpur in Fatehpur Village )
5) Baba Ishwar Das ji (3 km from Datarpur in Repur Village) & more
History
Datarpur State was founded in the middle of the sixteenth century by Raja Datar Chand, a scion of the princely families of Siba and Guler who named the state after himself. From 1786 the state was a feudatory of Kangra State until Raja Govind Chand made an alliance with the Gurkha invaders from Nepal in 1806, securing his complete independence.
Govind Chand was succeeded by his son Jagat Chand when Datarpur was conquered by Ranjit Singh of Lahore in 1818 and annexed to the Sikh Empire of Pañjab (Punjab), although a jagir was granted to Jagat Chand as compensation. In 1848, Jagat Chand joined a rebellion against the British and was deposed, dispossessed and exiled to Almora. The territory of Datarpur was added to Siba State and annexed by the British Raj in 1849 as Dada-Siba. The descendants of Jagat Chand were given no jagir, but the royal house still exists.
Rulers
They bore the title 'Raja'.
Rajas
ca. 1550 – ... Datar Chand
... – ... Ganesh Chand
... – ... Chatar Chand
... – ... Udai Chand
... – ... Prithi Chand
... – ... Jai Chand
... – ... Dalel Chand
... – ... Ugar Chand
... –1806 Nand Chand
1806–1818 Govind Chand
1818–1848 Jagat Chand - in rebellion (died 1877)
See also
List of Rajput dynasties
Siba State
References
External links
Datarpur location
States and territories established in the 1550s
Princely states of India
History of Punjab
Hindu dynasties
Hindu states
Hoshiarpur district
Rajputs
1550s establishments in India
1849 disestablishments in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20City%20algorithm | Atlantic City algorithm is a probabilistic polynomial time algorithm that answers correctly at least 75% of the time (or, in some versions, some other value greater than 50%). The term "Atlantic City" was first introduced in 1982 by J. Finn in an unpublished manuscript entitled Comparison of probabilistic tests for primality.
Two other common classes of probabilistic algorithms are Monte Carlo algorithms and Las Vegas algorithms. Monte Carlo algorithms are always fast, but only probably correct. On the other hand, Las Vegas algorithms are always correct, but only probably fast. The Atlantic City algorithms, which are bounded probabilistic polynomial time algorithms are probably correct and probably fast.
See also
Monte Carlo Algorithm
Las Vegas Algorithm
References
Randomized algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blobby%20Volley | Blobby Volley is a free and open-source sports computer game series in which two blobbed shaped entities play volleyball against each other. There are multiplayer and single-player modes.
Game Rules
The rules used in Blobby Volley are derived from the standard volleyball rules. Unlike real volleyball, the movements of the players are limited to the two-dimensional space of the screen. The borders of the screen acts as an invisible wall which the ball bounces off, which is completely legal to use. Since there is only one player on each side of the field, it is permitted (unlike standard volleyball) for the player to touch the ball several times in a row.
The protagonists, blob like creatures without arms, can move left and right, jump and interacting with the ball by hitting it with their "head", therefore resembling a Header like gameplay.
The game ends when one of the two players reach 15 (or more) points and also there is a two-point lead over the other. Points may only be achieved by the player that serves the ball. Therefore, each of the players tries to make the other one commit a fault so they can serve and score points. A player can commit the following faults:
The ball touches the ground in their own field
A player touches the ball more than three times in a row (the initial serve also counts as a touch)
Features
Network games are possible in Blobby Volley where you can play against another human opponent. Locally, you can also play with another human opponent on the same system or against the AI. Blobby Volley allows you to configure keyboard and mouse controls, the colors of the blobs and the background image. Blobby Volley is available in three languages (German, English and French) and also gives an insight into a history of game statistics (wins, losses).
There are community made mods available for the game. For instance Quick Game which is a modification for Blobby Volley which speeds up the game and reduces the winning number of points to 10.
History
Blobby Volley was originally written in Delphi by Daniel Skoraszewsky with graphics by Silvio Mummert. Version 1.0 was released in November 2000 on the authors' homepage as Freeware for PCs with Windows. Development ended around 2005 with version 1.8.
Blobby Volley 2
Started in 2007 on SourceForge under the GPLv2 license, Blobby Volley 2 is the official continuation written by new programmers and based on the original assets. The continuation is programmed in C++ (gcc) instead of Delphi. This new version uses OpenGL/SDL for rendering which allows cross-platform ports for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The game is offered as freely downloadable and shareable Freeware, while also asking for donations for further development and server funding, which makes the game also donationware.
This version has several improvements over the first iteration of the series, for instance better bots, by using the Lua scripting language. There is now the ability to store multiple settings, wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosea%20lathyri | Bosea lathyri is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria from the genus of Bosea.
References
External links
Type strain of Bosea lathyri at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20gemunu | Cnemaspis gemunu is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=gemunu
http://www.srisalike.com/Founa/Reptiles/Endemic/Cnemaspis%20gemunu.aspx
https://web.archive.org/web/20141004183323/http://www.srilankanreptiles.com/TetrapodReptiles/Gekkonidae.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20140714231021/http://www.vanwisse.nl/srilanka/fauna/Gecko-Cnemaspis-Gemunu
gemunu
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20kallima | Cnemaspis kallima is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=kallima
https://web.archive.org/web/20141004183323/http://www.srilankanreptiles.com/TetrapodReptiles/Gekkonidae.html
kallima
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20latha | Cnemaspis latha is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=latha
http://www.srisalike.com/Founa/Reptiles/Endemic/Cnemaspis%20latha.aspx
http://slendemics.net/easl/reps/Geckos.html
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007
latha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutropis%20longicaudata | Eutropis longicaudata, the longtail mabuya or long-tailed sun skink, is a species of skink. It is found in southern China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Peninsular Malaysia.
Some populations have been found to exhibit paternal care in response to predation by egg-eating snakes.
References
External links
Flickr Photo from Taiwan by Liang Ching Hou
Flickr Photo from Thailand by Michael Cota
Eutropis
Reptiles of Cambodia
Reptiles of China
Reptiles of Hong Kong
Reptiles of Laos
Reptiles of Malaysia
Reptiles of Taiwan
Reptiles of Thailand
Reptiles of Vietnam
Reptiles described in 1857
Taxa named by Edward Hallowell (herpetologist) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling%20stock%20of%20Network%20SouthEast | Network SouthEast (NSE), the sector of British Rail which ran passenger services in London and southeast England between 1986 and 1994, operated a wide variety of rolling stock during its existence. The majority of the network was electrified, and further electrification schemes took place during the 1986–1994 period; and the 7,000 vehicles owned by NSE in 1986 consisted of a mixture of electric, diesel-electric and diesel multiple units, diesel locomotives and the coaches they hauled.
Network SouthEast inherited a large fleet of electric multiple units (EMUs), smaller numbers of diesel (DMU) and diesel electric (DEMU) multiple units, and some diesel locomotives and coaching stock. Much of the fleet was introduced after the 1955 Modernisation Plan; stock was old (some dated from before World War II) and in variable condition, giving a "drab" and "uninspiring" appearance, and was difficult to convert to driver-only operation. Accordingly, the sector invested in many new vehicles during its eight-year history. After initial problems, the Networker range of units proved very successful and is still used across southeast England on the privatised rail network. The same applies to the innovative Class 319 dual-voltage units, built for NSE's new Thameslink service which operated on two incompatible types of electrified line.
Overview
The London & South East Sector (L&SE) was created in 1982 when British Rail underwent the process of sectorisation. During the four-year life of this sector—Network SouthEast's immediate predecessor—the number of passenger-carrying vehicles allocated to it was reduced steadily as timetables were adapted in response to a decline in demand caused by the recession. In May 1984 L&SE operated 7,465 vehicles, which was to be reduced to 7,050 by the start of 1986. The NSE era started in June 1986 when the LS&E sector was rebranded, at which point it owned 7,004 vehicles. Of these, the great majority (6,080) were EMU coaches: about 68% of the network's 2,000 route mileage was electrified. There were 489 DMU/DEMU coaches, 57 locomotives and 435 coaches hauled by locomotives. Public address systems and power-assisted sliding doors were available on 51% and 23% of vehicles respectively, and the fleet had a mean age of 24 years. NSE's investment in new coaching stock, refurbishment of existing stock and electrification of routes changed all of these figures over the course of the sector's eight-year existence. By 1990, NSE had nearly 100 more EMU coaches but fewer DMUs and a near-halving of locomotive-hauled stock; and 80% of carriages had a public address system and 33% featured sliding doors.
By the end of the NSE era in 1994, the sector had acquired 3,020 new coaches and had overhauled a further 2,578. Refurbishment ranged from the "small but important" work undertaken on the Class 487 Waterloo & City line units, funded by City of London-based firm Allied Lyons, to the £17 million spent on the 1,570-coach Class 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20pava | Cnemaspis pava is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=pava
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/Cnemaspis_pava
https://web.archive.org/web/20141004183323/http://www.srilankanreptiles.com/TetrapodReptiles/Gekkonidae.html
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007
pava |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20phillipsi | Cnemaspis phillipsi is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=phillipsi
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007
phillipsi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20pulchra | Cnemaspis pulchra is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=pulchra
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007
pulchra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20punctata | Cnemaspis punctata is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=punctata
http://slendemics.net/easl/reps/Geckos.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20141004183323/http://www.srilankanreptiles.com/TetrapodReptiles/Gekkonidae.html
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007
punctata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20retigalensis | Cnemaspis retigalensis, also known as the Retigala day gecko, is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=retigalensis
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Cnemaspis_retigalensis/classification/
retigalensis
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20samanalensis | Cnemaspis samanalensis, also known as the Samanala day gecko, is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=samanalensis
samanalensis
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemaspis%20silvula | Cnemaspis silvula is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cnemaspis&species=silvula
https://web.archive.org/web/20141004183323/http://www.srilankanreptiles.com/TetrapodReptiles/Gekkonidae.html
http://biodiversityofsrilanka.blogspot.com/2011/01/forest-daygecko-cnemaspis-silvula.html
silvula
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20transport%20in%20the%20Netherlands | With 139,000 km of public roads, the Netherlands has one of the most dense road networks in the world – much denser than Germany and France, but still not as dense as Belgium. In 2013, 5,191 km were national roads, 7,778 km were provincial roads, and 125,230 km were municipality and other roads. Dutch roads include 3,530 km of motorways and expressways, and with a motorway density of 64 kilometres per 1,000 km2, the country also has one of the densest motorway networks in the world. In Dutch a motorway is called "autosnelweg" or simply "snelweg"; other expressways are just called "autoweg" (literally: "car road"). According to a 2004 estimate, some 12,500 km of road remain as yet unpaved.
Mobility on Dutch roads has grown continuously since the 1950s and now exceeds 200 billion km travelled per year. With a population of 16.8 million people, this comes down to an average of per person per day. Around half of all trips in the Netherlands are made by car, making up three quarters of all passenger kilometres travelled, meaning that while Dutch roads are numerous, they are also used with one of the highest intensities of any road network. Car ownership in the Netherlands is high but not exceptional, and slightly lower than in surrounding countries. Goods vehicles make up 20% of total traffic, and road transport accounts for 40% of all freight movements registered, including overseas shipping.
The busiest Dutch motorway is the A13 between The Hague and Rotterdam, with a traffic volume of 140,000 motor vehicles per day. The province of Utrecht in the centre of the country however, has the busiest motorways on average (almost 100,000 vehicles a day), with major motorways A1, A2, A12, A27 and A28 running through it. The busiest 4-lane motorway in the Netherlands is the A10 in the Coen Tunnel in Amsterdam with 110.000 vehicles per day. The widest Dutch motorway is the A15/A16 just south of Rotterdam with 16 lanes in a 4+4+4+4 setup.
History
The Netherlands' first centrally planned highway system dates back to the early 19th century, when Napoleon was emperor of France, and the Kingdom of Holland was annexed into the French empire. In 1811 Napoleon decreed that a network of 229 paved imperial roads () would be created, extending from Paris to the borders of his empire. In addition to systematic paving, the roads were all numbered, an innovation at the time. Construction of several imperial highways through the Netherlands commenced. Amsterdam was connected to Paris by Route Impériale no. 2 - a section between Amsterdam and Utrecht is today still a part of the A2 motorway.
After the liberation in 1813, the Netherlands' new king continued the project, but with Amsterdam at the centre. The plan was expanded several times. In 1821 it projected 42 Rijksstraatwegen (literally: "Imperial paved roads"), which were built up to 1850. Since 1927 this network was transformed into today's system of Rijkswegen (national highways) in the Netherlands.
The first mot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utimaco%20Atalla | Utimaco Atalla, founded as Atalla Technovation and formerly known as Atalla Corporation or HP Atalla, is a security vendor, active in the market segments of data security and cryptography. Atalla provides government-grade end-to-end products in network security, and hardware security modules (HSMs) used in automated teller machines (ATMs) and Internet security. The company was founded by Egyptian engineer Mohamed M. Atalla in 1972. Atalla HSMs are the payment card industry's de facto standard, protecting 250million card transactions daily (more than billion transactions annually) as of 2013, and securing the majority of the world's ATM transactions as of 2014.
Company history
1970s
The company was originally founded in 1972, initially as Atalla Technovation, before it was later called Atalla Corporation. The company was founded by Dr. Mohamed M. Atalla, the inventor of the MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor). In 1972, Atalla filed for a remote PIN verification system, which utilized encryption techniques to assure telephone link security while entering personal ID information, which would be transmitted as encrypted data over telecommunications networks to a remote location for verification.
He invented the first hardware security module (HSM), dubbed the "Atalla Box", a security system which encrypted PIN and ATM messages, and protected offline devices with an un-guessable PIN-generating key. He commercially released the "Atalla Box" in 1973. The product was released as the Identikey. It was a card reader and customer identification system, providing a terminal with plastic card and PIN capabilities. The system was designed to let banks and thrift institutions switch to a plastic card environment from a passbook program. The Identikey system consisted of a card reader console, two customer PIN pads, intelligent controller and built-in electronic interface package. The device consisted of two keypads, one for the customer and one for the teller. It allowed the customer to type in a secret code, which is transformed by the device, using a microprocessor, into another code for the teller. The Identikey system connected directly into the ATM without hardware or software changes, and was designed for easy operation by the teller and customer. During a transaction, the customer's account number was read by the card reader. This process replaced manual entry and avoided possible key stroke errors. It allowed users to replace traditional customer verification methods such as signature verification and test questions with a secure PIN system.
A key innovation of the Atalla Box was the key block, which is required to securely interchange symmetric keys or PINs with other actors of the banking industry. This secure interchange is performed using the Atalla Key Block (AKB) format, which lies at the root of all cryptographic block formats used within the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and American National |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample%20complexity | The sample complexity of a machine learning algorithm represents the number of training-samples that it needs in order to successfully learn a target function.
More precisely, the sample complexity is the number of training-samples that we need to supply to the algorithm, so that the function returned by the algorithm is within an arbitrarily small error of the best possible function, with probability arbitrarily close to 1.
There are two variants of sample complexity:
The weak variant fixes a particular input-output distribution;
The strong variant takes the worst-case sample complexity over all input-output distributions.
The No free lunch theorem, discussed below, proves that, in general, the strong sample complexity is infinite, i.e. that there is no algorithm that can learn the globally-optimal target function using a finite number of training samples.
However, if we are only interested in a particular class of target functions (e.g, only linear functions) then the sample complexity is finite, and it depends linearly on the VC dimension on the class of target functions.
Definition
Let be a space which we call the input space, and be a space which we call the output space, and let denote the product . For example, in the setting of binary classification, is typically a finite-dimensional vector space and is the set .
Fix a hypothesis space of functions . A learning algorithm over is a computable map from to . In other words, it is an algorithm that takes as input a finite sequence of training samples and outputs a function from to . Typical learning algorithms include empirical risk minimization, without or with Tikhonov regularization.
Fix a loss function , for example, the square loss , where . For a given distribution on , the expected risk of a hypothesis (a function) is
In our setting, we have , where is a learning algorithm and is a sequence of vectors which are all drawn independently from . Define the optimal riskSet , for each . Note that is a random variable and depends on the random variable , which is drawn from the distribution . The algorithm is called consistent if probabilistically converges to . In other words, for all , there exists a positive integer , such that, for all , we have
The sample complexity of is then the minimum for which this holds, as a function of , and . We write the sample complexity as to emphasize that this value of depends on , and . If is not consistent, then we set . If there exists an algorithm for which is finite, then we say that the hypothesis space is learnable.
In others words, the sample complexity defines the rate of consistency of the algorithm: given a desired accuracy and confidence , one needs to sample data points to guarantee that the risk of the output function is within of the best possible, with probability at least .
In probably approximately correct (PAC) learning, one is concerned with whether the sample complexity is polynomial, that is, wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd%20Bruegge | Bernd Bruegge () (born 1951) is a German computer scientist, full professor at the Technische Universität München (TUM) and the head of the Chair for Applied Software Engineering. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh.
Biography
Born in 1951, Bruegge received a bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Hamburg in 1978, a master's degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and a PhD degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985.
Bruegge has been a professor at the Technische Universität München in Munich since 1997. From 2000 to 2003, he was a member of the Deutsche Telekom research committee. He has been a member of the research committee of Munich district (), a nonprofit association, since 2003 and member of the CIO Colloquium scientific advisory board since 2009. Bruegge is also the liaison professor for the German National Academic Foundation ().
Work
His principal research areas are Modeling and semantics, Computational intelligence and Machine learning, Knowledge Management and representation, Process support and human factors, and Process models and methodologies
Publications
Bernd Bruegge is the author of the following books:
Bernd Bruegge, Allen Dutoit: Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Using UML, Patterns and Java (Third Edition). Prentice Hall, 2009. .
Eva-Maria Kern, Heinz-Gerd Hegering, Bernd Brügge: Managing Development and Application of Digital Technologies. Sringer. 2006. .
He is also the author of many academic papers, for example:
Stephan Krusche, Dora Dzvonyar, Han Xu and Bernd Bruegge. Software Theater — Teaching Demo Oriented Prototyping. Transactions on Computing Education. ACM Journal. 2018
Stephan Krusche, Bernd Bruegge, Irina Camilleri, Kirill Krinkin, Andreas Seitz and Cecil Wöbker. Chaordic Learning: A Case Study. 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'17), Software Engineering Education and Training, pages 87–96. ACM. Buenos Aires - Argentina, May 2017
Stephan Krusche, Andreas Seitz, Jürgen Börstler and Bernd Bruegge. Interactive Learning – Increasing Student Participation through Shorter Exercise Cycles. 19th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE'17), pages 17–26. ACM. Geelong - Australia, January 2017
Bernd Bruegge, Stephan Krusche and Lukas Alperowitz. Software Engineering Project Courses with Industrial Clients. Transactions on Computing Education 15(4), pages 17:1-17:31. ACM Journal. 2015
Bernd Bruegge, Allen Dutoit, Timo Wolf. Sysiphus: Enabling informal collaboration in global software development. In the proceedings of the International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) 2006.
Martin Bauer, Bernd Bruegge, et al. Design of a component-based augmented reality framework. In the Proceedings of IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality. 2001.
Bernd Bruegge, Allen Dutoit, et al. Transatlantic project courses in a universi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOX | eTOX is a temporary consortium established in 2010 to share and use toxicology data. It is a pre-competitive collaboration which main goal is to create and distribute tools to predict drug side-effects based on pre-clinical experiments. Aims are a better in silico predictability of potential adverse events and a decrease of the use of animals in toxicological research. eTOX is funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI).
Goals
The official title of the consortium is "Integrating bioinformatics and chemoinformatics approaches for the development of expert systems allowing the in silico prediction of toxicities (eTOX)". eTOX aims at creating in silico tools to predict the toxicity of small molecules during early stages of the drug development pipeline. The consortium is assembling predictive model based on a set of toxicology reports curated by pharmaceutical companies who joined the consortium. In the spirit of the IMI, eTOX bring together private companies producing preclinical data and academic partners experts on cheminformatics, bioinformatics and natural language processing. Contribution to public domain of algorithms, software and ontologies is part of the road-map.
Organization
To achieve these goal, a consortium bringing together 25 pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies and university was created. The project was started in 2010, it was originally funded for 5 years by consortium partners and the European Union. The consortium did benefit from an ENSO extension and will continue until end of 2016. Overall estimated budget is 18.7 million Euros.
Partners
eTOX is collaborating with OpenPHACTS, another IMI consortium to reuse publicly available clinical data. In 2014, the IMI iPiE (Intelligence-Led Assessment of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment) consortium was started, goals are similar to eTOX, but raw data are from chemical substances collected to comply with REACH European regulation. It was agreed that a close collaboration for database development, predictive systems and intellectual property issues will take place.
Outcome and dissemination
The eTox project is currently running and is scheduled to finish in December 2016. Internal work is slowly becoming visible externally: as of August 2014, 3046 reports from 4291 animal studies were manually curated and stored in a database. Two thousand more are being processed, and seventy-four models were built and validated, mostly based on public data. The consortium has started to disseminate information and a review article about the project has been published.
The list of scientific publications (including articles and talks) is accessible at the eTOX public website.
An external newsletter is released every 3 months with the main advances in the project, since November 2011.
The future
The United States Food and Drug Administration is going to ask for electronic submission of raw data from animal studies using the Standard for Exchange of Non-clinical Data in future |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5test | HTML5test is a web application for evaluating a web browser's accuracy in implementing the web standards HTML5 and Web SQL Database (developed by the World Wide Web Consortium), as well as the WebGL standard (developed by the Mozilla Foundation and the Khronos Group).
The test suite was developed by Dutch web programmer Niels Leenheer, and published in March 2010. To test a web browser, the user must visit the home page of the website which is located at html5test.com. The application returns an integer score out of a possible 555 points. The point total has changed multiple times through the evolution of the software; Leenheer introduced the present scoring system as part of a major redesign of the test introduced in November 2013.
HTML5test evaluates the browser's support for Web storage, the W3C Geolocation API, HTML5-specific HTML elements (including the canvas element), and other features. It does not evaluate a browser's conformance to other web standards, such as Cascading Style Sheets, ECMAScript, Scalable Vector Graphics, or the Document Object Model. Conformance testing for those standards is within the purview of Acid3, an automated test published by Ian Hickson in 2008. Similarly, Acid3 does not evaluate a browser's HTML5 conformance. The test scope of HTML5test and the test scope of Acid3 are mutually exclusive.
As of July 2020, the maximum score is 555 and Google Chrome scores 535, Microsoft Edge 84 scores 532, Falkon 3.1.0 scores 528, Opera 45 scores 518, Mozilla Firefox 112 scores 515, GNOME Web 3.36 scores 432 and Internet Explorer 11 scores 312.
See also
Acid1
Acid2
Acid3
XHTML
References
External links
Computing websites
Dutch websites
HTML5
Internet properties established in 2010
Web 2.0
Web software
Software testing tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azteca%20M%C3%A9xico | Azteca México was an American subscription channel that carried a combined schedule of TV Azteca's three domestic Mexican networks at the time (Azteca 7, Azteca Trece and adn40) in the United States. The network was exclusive to DirecTV viewers, carried on its channel 442 next to the default national feed of Azteca América after June 2, 2008. Its scheduling was often live with the domestic Mexican networks it shared programming with, compared to Azteca América's different scheduling to compete against its American competitors. It also carried no sports programming outside of highlight and sports talk shows.
Azteca removed the channel on October 4, 2016, upon Estrella TV acquiring carriage on the service and assuming channel 442 in its place. The oncoming end of a competitor MundoMax and Azteca América finding new steam as it reacquired former affiliates from that network (and recruited new stations) likely also played a role in the discontinuation of Azteca México.
References
Companies based in Los Angeles
Defunct television networks in the United States
Grupo Salinas
TV Azteca broadcast television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Television networks in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Vermont | Free Vermont was a network of communes and collectives throughout the state of Vermont. It existed from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. It encompassed over a dozen communes and hundreds of people. They put out their own newspaper called "Free Vermont!" and they had their own flag. They laid the groundwork for food co-ops, health clinics, free schools, organic farms, and alternative institutions throughout Vermont. Some of the Free Vermont initiators were members of the radical film group "Newsreel".
Some Free Vermont collective members helped to create and promote the Liberty Union Party which launched the career of Vermont senator Bernie Sanders.
References
Further reading
Vermont society
Communalism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity%20Information%20Sharing%20Act | The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA 113th Congress, 114th Congress) is a United States federal law designed to "improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes". The law allows the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. government and technology and manufacturing companies. The bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate on July 10, 2014, and passed in the Senate on October 27, 2015. Opponents question CISA's value, believing it will move responsibility from private businesses to the government, thereby increasing vulnerability of personal private information, as well as dispersing personal private information across seven government agencies, including the NSA and local police.
The text of the bill was incorporated by amendment into a consolidated spending bill in the U.S. House on December 15, 2015, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 18, 2015.
History
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act was introduced on July 10, 2014, during the 113th Congress, and passed the Senate Intelligence Committee by a vote of 12–3. The bill did not reach a full senate vote before the end of the congressional session.
The bill was reintroduced for the 114th Congress on March 12, 2015, and the bill passed the Senate Intelligence Committee by a vote of 14–1. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempted to attach the bill as an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act, but was blocked 56–40, not reaching the necessary 60 votes to include the amendment. Mitch McConnell hoped to bring the bill to senate-wide vote during the week of August 3–7, but was unable to take up the bill before the summer recess. The Senate tentatively agreed to limit debate to 21 particular amendments and a manager's amendment, but did not set time limits on debate. In October 2015, the US Senate took the bill back up following legislation concerning sanctuary cities.
Provisions
The main provisions of the bill make it easier for companies to share personal information with the government, especially in cases of cyber security threats. Without requiring such information sharing, the bill creates a system for federal agencies to receive threat information from private companies.
With respect to privacy, the bill includes provisions for preventing the sharing of personal data that is irrelevant to cyber security. Any personal information that does not get removed during the sharing procedure can be used in a variety of ways. These shared cyber threat indicators can be used to prosecute cyber crimes, but may also be used as evidence for crimes involving physical force.
Positions
Indemnification
Sharing National Intelligence threat data among public and private partners is a hard problem, and one that many care about. The National Intelligence Threat Sharing (NITS) project is intended as an innovative solution to this har |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonfloor | CommonFloor.com is an Indian real estate portal founded in 2007 by three computer science graduates from IIT Roorkee and JSSATE. On 8 January 2015, CommonFloor received funding from Google Capital. On 7 January 2016, the classifieds advertising platform Quikr announced that they have acquired CommonFloor.com.
History
The company initially started as an apartment management solution provider and went on to be a real estate platform that combines property search, apartment management, and vendor management.
CommonFloor has raised 4 rounds of funding from three investors. The most recent one being of around $10M from Google Capital, just three months after receiving $30 million funding from Tiger Global.
After 8 years and 4 rounds of funding, CommonFloor is providing property search services in more than 120 cities across India. CommonFloor is listed in 33 startups by Tech in Asia.
CommonFloor links neighbors who live in apartments by its CommonFloor Apartment Management System. Many apartments use this service for getting connected to the apartment community. CommonFloor launched its Mobile App for seekers in March 2013 to provide the facility to search properties and also provide facility to list properties. CommonFloor launches National Consumer Sentiment Index a survey of 600 consumers in six metros and 15 tier-two cities across the country in October 2013.
Real estate portal CommonFloor.com launches apartment management offering CommonFloor Groups, which provide apartment communities across the country better communication, management, and coordination amongst residents, owners (residents or non-residential landlords), and Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs).
As of 25 April 2016, CommonFloor ranks as the top 9 startup for India in the StartupRanking.
Acquisitions
In June 2015, CommonFloor invested $2.5 million in the seed funding round in Flatchat, an app to find roommates.
In January 2015, CommonFloor acquired Bakfy, an app.
In April 2014, CommonFloor acquired Flat.to, a startup that helps bachelors find a home for rent.
External links
References
Indian real estate websites
Indian companies established in 2007
Companies based in Bangalore
Online financial services companies of India
2007 establishments in Karnataka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%20Generator%20Test | Idaho National Laboratory ran the Aurora Generator Test in 2007 to demonstrate how a cyberattack could destroy physical components of the electric grid. The experiment used a computer program to rapidly open and close a diesel generator's circuit breakers out of phase from the rest of the grid, thereby subjecting the engine to abnormal torques and ultimately causing it to explode. This vulnerability is referred to as the Aurora Vulnerability.
This vulnerability is especially a concern because most grid equipment supports using Modbus and other legacy communications protocols that were designed without security in mind. As such, they do not support authentication, confidentiality, or replay protection. This means that any attacker that can communicate with the device can control it and use the Aurora Vulnerability to destroy it.
Experiment
To prepare for the experiment, the researchers procured and installed a 2.25 MW (3000 horsepower) generator and connected it to the substation. They also needed access to a programmable digital relay or another device capable of controlling the breaker. Although such access can be through a mechanical or digital interface, in this case the latter was used.
A generator unit consists of a diesel engine mechanically linked to an alternator. In many commercial-industrial settings, multiple generators need to operate together in tandem, in order to provide power to the desired load. A generator that is operating normally is synchronized with either the power grid or with one or more additional generators (for example in an "islanded" independent power network as might be used in a remote location or for emergency backup power). When generators are operating in synchronicity, effectively their alternators are magnetically locked together.
In the Aurora experiment, the researchers used a cyberattack to open and close the breakers out of sync, in order to deliberately maximize the stress. Each time the breakers were closed, the torque induced in the alternator (as a result of the out-of-synchrony connection) caused the entire generator to bounce and shake. The generator used in the experiment was equipped with a resilient rubber rotating coupling (located between the diesel engine and the alternator, thus indirectly connecting the engine's steel crankshaft to the alternator's steel shaft).
During the initial steps of the attack, black rubber pieces were ejected as the rotating coupling was incrementally destroyed (as a result of the extremely abnormal torques induced by the out-of-synchronization alternator on the diesel engine's crankshaft). The rotating rubber coupling was soon destroyed outright, whereupon the diesel engine itself was then quickly ripped apart, with parts sent flying off. Some parts of the generator landed as far as 80 feet away from the generator. In addition to the massive and obvious mechanical damage to the diesel engine itself, evidence of overheating of the alternator was la |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel%20One%20Touch%20Fire | The Alcatel One Touch Fire is one of the first generation of smartphones preinstalled with Firefox OS, an open-source mobile operating system developed by Mozilla.
The phone was developed and marketed by Alcatel Mobile Phones as a lower-cost, entry-level smartphone for specific Latin American and European countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela in Latin America; and Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, and Serbia in Europe. Mobile network operators who have carried the phone include Congstar (Germany), Cosmote (Greece), Movistar (Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela), T-Mobile (Hungary, Montenegro, Macedonia), Telcel (Mexico), Telenor (Serbia and Montenegro), Telecom Italia Mobile (Italy), and Vivo (Brazil).
The One Touch Fire is a variation of an earlier, Android-based smartphone, the Alcatel One Touch T'Pop. Unlike the One Touch Fire, the One Touch T'Pop uses an ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and a PowerVR SGX531 GPU; it also incorporates "home" and "back" push-buttons, distinct cosmetics, and other differences. The One Touch Fire is sold in three color schemes: Mozilla Orange, Apple Green, and Pure White.
There are two model numbers for the One Touch Fire: 4012A and 4012X, which support different cellular network standards and frequency bands for different countries. The 4012A has a quadband GSM radio that can communicate at 850, 900, 1800, or 1900 MHz; and a UMTS radio capable of 850, 1900, and 2100 MHz communication. The 4012X has only a UMTS radio that communicates at 900 or 2100 MHz. Consequently, the 4012X has a lower specific absorption rate.
The 4012A and 4012X are succeeded by the One Touch Fire C, One Touch Fire E, and One Touch Fire S.
As of 2022, the Alcatel One Touch Fire still has very little resale value worldwide, due to discontinuation of Firefox OS of which was not fared very well and hardly can be considered a collector item.
See also
Comparison of Firefox OS devices
References
Firefox OS devices
Linux-based devices
Mobile Linux
Open-source mobile phones
Smartphones
Alcatel mobile phones
Mobile phones introduced in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s%20Simpath%20algorithm | Simpath is an algorithm introduced by Donald Knuth that constructs a zero-suppressed decision diagram (ZDD) representing all simple paths between two vertices in a given graph.
References
External links
Graphillion library which implements the algorithm for manipulating large sets of paths and other structures.
, A CWEB implementation by Donald Knuth.
Computer arithmetic algorithms
Donald Knuth
Graph algorithms
Mathematical logic
Theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-world | star-world, StarWorld, Starworld, Star world, or variant, may refer to:
Star World, Hong Kong-based English-language TV network
Star World India, TV network
Star World Premiere, Indian TV channel
Star World Philippines, TV network
Starworld, apparel brand
star world, star-world navigation in robotics
Star World Championships or Star Worlds, sailing world championships for the Star-class
Starworld (1981 novel), novel by Harry Harrison in the To the Stars
Starworld Casino, casino located in the Malaysian First World Hotel
Exoplanet, "star world" in poetic language
Twelve Colonies, location in Battlestar Galactica elliptically referred to as the Star World.
See also
Star TV (disambiguation)
WorldStar, hiphop vlog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20Night%20Football%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | Sunday Night Football is an Australian rules football sports broadcast television program that aired on the Seven Network on 28 April 1991 until 9 April 2000. It was returned to broadcast on Seven from 6 April 2014 until 29 June 2014 in VIC, SA, WA, TAS, and on 7mate from 6 April 2014 to 29 June 2014 in NSW & QLD.
See also
Friday Night Football
Saturday Night Footy
Seven Sport § Australian rules football
References
1991 Australian television series debuts
2000 Australian television series endings
2014 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings
Australian Football League
Australian sports television series
Seven Network original programming
Simulcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified%20Payment-Card%20Industry%20Security%20Implementer | Certified Payment-Card Industry Security Implementer (CPISI) is a certification in the field of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) manages the standard and certifies training organizations. PCI SSC is a collective formed by MasterCard, Visa, American Express, JCB and Discover.
See also
Certified Payment-Card Industry Security Auditor
External links
PCI SSC
SISA
PISM
Payment systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing%20Facility%20for%20Bioinformatics%20and%20Computational%20Biology | Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, also known as SCFBio IIT Delhi, is a center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology in Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. This facility was established in 2002 under the aegis of the Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi. It is recognized as a center of excellence in Bioinformatics by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India.
History
The Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, (SCFBio), IIT Delhi, was established in July 2002 with funding from Department of Biotechnology under the guidance of Prof. B. Jayaram. It aims at developing novel scientific methods and new software for genome analysis, protein structure prediction, and in silico drug design. The facility was inaugurated by the Honorable Minister of Science and Technology and Human Resource Development Shri Murli Manohar Joshi, IITD adopted SCFBio as a Central Facility of National importance in March 2003.
SCFBio was upgraded to a multi-tera FLOP facility under the Programme support from DBT and inaugurated in September 2009 by honorable secretary DBT, Dr M K Bhan. The aggregate computational power of the facility is over 50 teraFLOPS with data storage of over 150 Terabytes and a modern data center. The facility is connected via 100 Mbit/s dedicated line.
Vision
"Genome to Drug" (Dhanvantari) envisages delivering drug molecules to society from genomic/proteomic information. It consists of mainly three stages:
Interpreting the language of genomic DNA and identifying a druggable protein-coding gene (Chemgenome) for diseases/disorders,
Determining the three-dimensional structure of the protein target ( Bhageerath-H) and
Creating small molecules (drug) that can bind with high affinity and specificity to the protein/DNA target but with the least toxicity to humans (Sanjeevini).
To develop novel scientific methods and highly efficient algorithms, combining principles of Chemistry and Biology with Information Technology for Genome analysis, Protein structure prediction, and target-directed Drug Design pursuing the dream of delivering GENOME to DRUG to the society.
In-house software
Publications
Human resource training
23 Ph.D. students have completed their Ph.D. Currently, 2 students are pursuing Ph.D. in areas of genomics, proteomics, and drug design. Over 1056 participants have been trained in various aspects of bioinformatics through short-term training programs. SCFBio has organized several workshops and international conferences including InCoB 2006.
Two start-up companies have evolved (Leadinvent and Novoinformatics) so far from SCFBio. It also had a fruitful collaboration with Dabur, HCl Life Sciences, and NIIT. It forms the computational backbone to School of Biological Sciences, IIT Delhi creating a strong collaboration between computational and experimental biology.
External links
SCFBio, IIT Delhi
School of Biological Sciences, IIT Delhi
IIT Delhi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softeq | Softeq Development Corporation is a privately-held, full-stack development company focusing on low-level programming (drivers, firmware,) hardware, (from PCBs to full-scale devices), and software apps for web, desktop, and mobile. Softeq builds end-to-end IoT and cloud infrastructure solutions, and provides technology business consulting services, and is an ISO 13485:2016 company with certified partnerships with Amazon, Microsoft, and Xamarin. Softeq serves Fortune Global 500 companies: Verizon, Epson, Purple Innovations, Microsoft, Lenovo, AMD, Disney, Intel, NVIDIA, and Halo by PAWS. From 2018 to 2021 Softeq appeared in Inc. 5000, the annual rankings of the fastest-growing privately-held companies in the United States. Softeq company is headquartered in Houston, TX with development centers in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Monterrey, Mexico with offices in Munich, Germany, and London, United Kingdom. Softeq has over 500 employees globally.
History
Softeq was founded by Christopher A. Howard in Houston, Texas, the United States, in 1997. The name “Softeq” is a combination of the terms "software" and "technical". That year, the company secured Compaq as its first client. The Compaq PC Theater was developed by Softeq during the early days of the convergence of computers and television technology. Softeq was involved in app development for the HP iPAQ handheld PDA. In 2001, Compaq was acquired by Hewlett Packard.
In 2005, in partnership with Hewlett Packard and the Walt Disney Company, Softeq developed the DURATEQ 3100 which is a ruggedized handheld device for assistive listening and closed-caption delivery. The system is installed in all Disney theme parks globally. Additional installations include over 50 US National Parks, the World of Coca-Cola museum, New England Patriots Hall of Fame, and the Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium.
In 2007, Softeq deployed a team of engineers to SanDisk to create advanced flash firmware and hardware visualization tools, technology that is present in cameras, PCs, laptops, PDAs, memory sticks, and other electronic devices.
In 2008, the company opened a full-stack research and development (R&D) center in High Tech Park located in Minsk, Belarus, which became its development center, and now has 300 employees.
In 2011, Softeq worked with NVIDIA for Bluetooth driver development, NVIDIA SHIELD streaming device, and an app for internal business operations. They also partnered with Intel Corporation for the development of software, firmware, hardware, and low-power wireless chipsets and SOCs.
In 2018, Softeq acquired NearShore Solutions GmbH. which was rebranded as Softeq Development GmbH and became Softeq's European sales office in Munich, Germany.
In 2020, Softeq established a sales office in London, United Kingdom. In November 2020, Softeq Innovation Lab was launched, which is a virtual lab with online boot camps for corporate executives and product teams.
In February 2021, Softeq opened a full-stack development cente |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkered%20Past | Checkered Past may refer to:
Checkered Past (album), a 2021 album by L.A. Guns
Checkered Past (EP), an EP by Save Ferris
Checkered Past (TV programming block), a TV programming block on Adult Swim
Checkered Past Records, a record label
Checkered Past, a 1995 album from The Bob & Tom Show |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tor%20Project | The Tor Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization based in Winchester, New Hampshire. It is founded by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and five others. The Tor Project is primarily responsible for maintaining software for the Tor anonymity network.
History
The Tor Project was founded in December 2006 by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) acted as the Tor Project's fiscal sponsor in its early years, and early financial supporters of the Tor Project included the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau, Internews, Human Rights Watch, the University of Cambridge, Google, and Netherlands-based Stichting NLnet.
In October 2014, the Tor Project hired the public relations firm Thomson Communications in order to improve its public image (particularly regarding the terms "Dark Net" and "hidden services") and to educate journalists about the technical aspects of Tor.
In May 2015, the Tor Project ended the Tor Cloud Service.
In December 2015, the Tor Project announced that it had hired Shari Steele, former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as its new executive director. Roger Dingledine, who had been acting as interim executive director since May 2015, remained at the Tor Project as a director and board member. Later that month, the Tor Project announced that the Open Technology Fund would be sponsoring a bug bounty program that was coordinated by HackerOne. The program was initially invite-only and focuses on finding vulnerabilities that are specific to the Tor Project's applications.
On May 25, 2016 Tor Project employee Jacob Appelbaum stepped down from his position; this was announced on June 2 in a two-line statement by Tor. Over the following days, allegations of sexual mistreatment were made public by several people.
On July 13, 2016, the complete board of the Tor Project – Meredith Hoban Dunn, Ian Goldberg, Julius Mittenzwei, Rabbi Rob Thomas, Wendy Seltzer, Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson – was replaced with Matt Blaze, Cindy Cohn, Gabriella Coleman, Linus Nordberg, Megan Price and Bruce Schneier. A new anti-harassment policy has been approved by the new board, as well as a conflicts of interest policy, procedures for submitting complaints, and an internal complaint review process. The affair continues to be controversial, with considerable dissent within the Tor community.
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tor project's core team let go of 13 employees, leaving a working staff of 22 people.
Funding
, 80% of the Tor Project's $2 million annual budget came from the United States government, with the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the National Science Foundation as major contributors, "to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states". The Swedish government and other organizations provided the other 20%, including NGOs and thousands of individual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinophis%20zigzag | Rhinophis zigzag or the zigzag shield-tail snake is a species of snake in the family Uropeltidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Rhinophis&species=zigzag
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110522/News/nws_10.html
https://www.academia.edu/3336826/Rhinophis_goweri_-_new_shieldtail_snake_from_Eastern_Ghats
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215565299_Two_new_species_of_Rhinophis_Hemprich_(Serpentes_Uropeltidae)_from_Sri_Lanka
zigzag
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Reptiles described in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Until%20the%20End%20%28EP%29 | Until the End is the third EP by Japanese rock band Coldrain, released on June 18, 2014 in Japan.
Track listing
Personnel
– lead vocals, producer
– lead guitar, steel guitar, programming, producer
– rhythm guitar, backing vocals
– bass guitar, backing vocals
– drums, percussion, steel drum
Charts
References
2014 EPs
Coldrain EPs
Albums produced by Masato Hayakawa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20381001%E2%80%93382000 |
381001–381100
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleseed%20Alpha | Appleseed Alpha (also styled as Appleseed α) is a computer-animated military science fiction cyberpunk film. The English version's voice cast includes Luci Christian (Deunan Knute), David Matranga (Briareos) and Wendel Calvert (Two Horns). It was announced on February 11, 2014, that Sony Pictures Worldwide and Lucent Pictures Entertainment would making a new CG-animated film. This film does not follow the previous Appleseed movie canon; it is an alternate version of the story's origins. Briareos, for example, is already a cyborg and did not become separated from Deunan to be later reunited in Olympus to join ESWAT. A 2 volume prequel manga by Iou Kuroda was published in Morning Two in 2014.
Appleseed Alpha had an advance digital release on July 15, 2014.
Plot
In the 22nd century, after a devastating world war, veterans Deunan Knute and Briareos are living in the ruins of New York doing jobs for a cyborg despot named Two Horns, with Deunan hoping that once they've paid off their debt to him for fixing Briareos' war injuries, they can go find the legendary utopic city of Olympus, though Briareos is more pessimistic. However, whenever they are close to finishing a job, they are sabotaged.
One day, while eliminating rogue combat drones, Deunan and Briareos meet Olson, a cybernetics-equipped soldier, and a young girl named Iris. Though initially reserved around each other, Olson discovers that Two Horns' mechanic Mattews has been deliberately crippling Briareos' systems to keep him and Deunan under Two Horns' thumb. Soon after, two cyborgs named Talos and Nyx, who are trailing Olson and Iris, appear, forcing Deunan and Briareos to depart with their new friends. After questioning Two Horns, and then attempting to kill him, Talos puts Deunan and Briareos on his target list as well. After recovering, Two Horns follows them to capture Iris and use her as a bargaining chip against Talos.
As they travel together, Iris and Olson gradually reveal that they are from Olympus, on a mission to dispose of leftover weapons from the war. Talos is also an agent from Olympus who has developed a messiah complex and wants to use Iris to take control of these weapons. When Two Horns finds and attacks them, Iris and Olson are captured by Talos. After brutally extracting the location of a prototype superweapon from Olson's memories, Talos murders him and takes Iris with him. Briareos and Deunan find Olson's body, recover the information they need and follow Talos and Iris to the weapon's location.
In a secret underground bunker, Talos activates the superweapon - a giant, heavily armed mobile fortress - using Iris' retinal pattern. Deunan and Briareos fight their way into the complex, supported by Two Horns, who is now out for revenge against Talos, and Mattews, who presents Deunan with a power amor suit. Briareos duels and kills Nyx, but Deunan is too late to save Iris; the fortress makes its way to the surface, but instead of following Talos' commands, it is hardwi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Practice%20PLC | The Practice PLC is one of the largest providers of Primary Care in the English NHS.
The Practice was established in 2004 - then called Practice Networks - by Dr Jeremy Rose and Dr Ajit Kadirgamar in Amersham. It now runs over 50 GP surgeries and GP-led Health Centres. In February 2014 it had the biggest list of about 174,000 registered patients of any provider in England.
In February 2012 the company closed down the Camden Road Surgery – a long-standing GP practice previously taken over by US health company UnitedHealth in 2008 - less than a year after taking over the contract because the surgery's landlord refused an extension for the premises lease beyond April 2012. Camden Road was one of six practices taken over from UnitedHealth when the American firm decided to refocus its UK business to concentrate solely on commissioning support, and exploit the opportunities presented by the Government's NHS reforms.
In February 2018 its practices had a registered population of more than 200,000. Since 2016 it has been majority owned by the Centene Corporation. In 2016 it set up TPG Complex Care, which is focused on care at home for patients with complex needs. In March 2016 it had 517 staff - 188 clinical and 331 in administration. It ran five surgeries in Brighton but gave them up in 2016.
References
External links
The Practice
Private providers of NHS services
Primary care
2004 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20TP%20series | The Sony Vaio TP series was a series of living room PCs part of Sony's Vaio line that sold from 2007 through 2008.
Models
References
TP
Computer-related introductions in 2007
Consumer electronics brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Bonn | The Bonn tramway network () forms part of the public transport system in the city Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, along with the Bonn Stadtbahn with which the tramlines are heavily integrated. The tram network consists of three tram lines which makes Bonn's tramway relatively small, as it comprises only of route. The tramway is operated by 24 low-floor tramcars.
The system is operated by SWB Bus und Bahn, a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Bonn, and integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS).
Operations
Lines
In addition to the Stadtbahn, Bonn is served by three Straßenbahn () lines, covering of route, that remain in service. Two of the tram lines (Lines 61 and 62) are regular routes, while the third line (Line 65) is a limited service route:
History
Horse trams
The first trams in Bonn were opened on 19 April 1891 as horsecar tramlines. The tramway was built by the Havestadt, Contag. & Cie. company, with which the city of Bonn had concluded an agreement on 22 and 25 August 1890. The operator of this first tramway was the AG Rheinische-Westfälische Bahngesellschaft, which was founded on 19 November 1889 by the master builder Christian Havestadt and several banks in Berlin.
The Havestadt, Contag & Cie. company initially opened two lines. The first traveled from the intersection Koblenzer Straße/Reuterstraße (today Bundeskanzlerplatz) to Markt, then on to Münsterplatz and Poststraße to the train station and from there to Poppelsdorf. On the return trip, the tramway ran from the train station through Wesselstraße back to Markt. The second tramline ran from Markt to Wilhelmplatz.
After the routes were sold to AG Rheinische-Westfälische Bahngesellschaft on 27 October 1899, a final extension of the horse-drawn tramway followed in 1903, when it was extended from the Poppelsdorfer Allee to Jagdweg in Endenich.
Under an agreement dated 15 and 17 October 1904, the horse-drawn trams passed into the possession of the city of Bonn.
Except for the Pützstraße–Koblenzer Straße line, all the horse tramlines were eventually electrified. The depots for the horse trams lay next to the Villa Loeschigk (the Palais Schaumburg today).
Steam tramline Bonn-Godesberg Mehlem
A steam tramline was started on 22 May 1892 that connected Bonn with Godesberg Mehlem. As with the horse tramlines, this steam tram line came into the possession of the city of Bonn on 15 and 17 October 1904, thought this line was co-owned with the city of then-independent city of Godesberg. The steam operation in 1911 was revamped in three stages, and converted to a standard gauge electrified tramline; at the same time, the terminus was also relocated to Kaiserplatz in Bonn.
The route to Bad Godesberg is now a light rail (Stadtbahn) line, though the section between Bad Godesberg and Mehlem was shut down in 1976.
City of Bonn tramlines
In parallel to the horse trams of the Havestadt, Contag. & Cie. company, the city of Bonn continued its own plans to build trams. After recei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%20Twist | Mind Twist was an Australian children's game show series aired on Network Ten from 1992 to 1993. It was hosted by Maynard.
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's game shows
1992 Australian television series debuts
1993 Australian television series endings
1990s Australian game shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20intelligence%20operations%20abroad | The United States is widely considered to have one of the most extensive and sophisticated intelligence network of any nation in the world, with organizations including the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, amongst others. It has conducted numerous espionage operations against foreign countries, including both allies and rivals. Its operations have included the use of industrial espionage, cyber espionage. and mass surveillance.
Many of these operations have generated public criticism as being unethical; examples include the overthrow of foreign governments, nonconsensual human experiments, extraordinary rendition, torture, targeted killings, assassinations, and the funding and training of militants who would go on to kill civilians and non-combatants. Through a combination of hacking and secret court orders against American technology companies, the United States has also employed mass surveillance of ordinary individuals, both American and foreign nationals alike.
Edward Snowden disclosures on global surveillance
A cache of top secret documents leaked in 2013 by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who obtained them while working for Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the largest contractors for defense and intelligence in the United States., revealed operational details about the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its international partners' global surveillance of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens. In addition to a trove of U.S. federal documents, Snowden's cache reportedly contains thousands of Australian, British and Canadian intelligence files that he had accessed via the exclusive "Five Eyes" network. In June 2013, the first of Snowden's documents were published simultaneously by The Washington Post and The Guardian, attracting considerable public attention. The disclosure continued throughout the entire year of 2013, and a significant portion of the full cache of the estimated 1.7 million documents was later obtained and published by many other media outlets worldwide, most notably The New York Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Der Spiegel (Germany), O Globo (Brazil), Le Monde (France), L'espresso (Italy), NRC Handelsblad (the Netherlands), Dagbladet (Norway), El País (Spain), and Sveriges Television (Sweden).
These media reports have shed light on the implications of several secret treaties signed by members of the UKUSA community in their efforts to implement global surveillance. For example, Der Spiegel revealed how the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) transfers "massive amounts of intercepted data to the NSA", while Sveriges Television revealed the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) provided the NSA with data from its cable collection, under a secret treaty signed in 1954 for bilateral cooperation on surveillance. Other security and intelligence agencies involved in the practice of global surveillance include those in Australia (ASD), Brita |
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