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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldie%20and%20the%20Boxer | Goldie and the Boxer is a made-for-television film starring O. J. Simpson. The production was broadcast on the NBC television network on December 30, 1979.
While being panned by critics, it was a solid ratings hit and led to a sequel, Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood (1981).
Plot
Joe Gallagher is a down-on-his luck boxer whose life and career undergo a change when an orphaned, little girl named Goldie is left in his care.
Cast
O. J. Simpson - Joe Gallagher
Melissa Michaelsen - Goldie Kellog
Vincent Gardenia - Diamond
Phil Silvers - Wally
Ned Glass - Al Levinsky
Gordon Jump - Alex
Judyann Elder - Bernette Wilson
Judy Landers - Bonnie
Madlyn Rhue - Marsha
Annazette Chase - Anne
Claude Earl Jones - Willie
Fran Ryan - Cook
References
External links
1979 television films
1979 films
1979 drama films
American boxing films
American drama television films
Films about race and ethnicity
Films scored by Jimmie Haskell
NBC network original films
1970s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash%20TV | Nash TV is an American video on demand television network owned by Cumulus Media, building on Cumulus' Nash FM and Nash Icon brand. The channel launched January 26, 2015.
Details
Nash TV is an extended platform of Cumulus' Nash FM and Nash Icon brand, with an emphasis on the country music genre. The network began expanding its platform to television in November 2014 in a deal with multi-platform music network Music Choice by providing NASH programming for MC's Music Channels, VOD and digital Video Channel. On January 20, 2015, Cumulus announced the launching of Nash TV with a preview of twelve shows that incorporates the modern-day Country lifestyle.
It was announced on June 18, 2015, that Nash TV will become available on Mobile Devices which include Apple TV, Android TV, Roku, PlayStation 3 and 4, Xbox 360 and 1, Google Chromecast, Samsung and Sony smart TV's, and all smartphone platforms.
It was then announced on August 11, 2015, that Nash TV would expand into the Film & Movie Industry by creating Nash TV Films
List of Nash TV Programs
America's Morning Show
Nash Nights Live
Kickin' It With Kix
Grits & Hits
Red Carpet Live
Nash Lash
Real Live Performances
Proud:Everyday American Heroes
Picks From The Sticks
AMO: American Music Overseas
BBQ Tricks
HickXtreme
References
External links
2015 establishments in the United States
Television networks in the United States
American country music
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Video on demand services
Cumulus Media radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bar%20Rescue%20episodes | Bar Rescue is an American reality TV series that premiered on Paramount Network (formerly Spike) on July 17, 2011. It stars Jon Taffer (a long-time food and beverage industry consultant specializing in nightclubs and pubs), who offers his professional expertise, access to service industry experts, and renovations and equipment to desperately failing bars in order to save them from closing.
It is commonly believed that Taffer takes a percentage of the businesses he rescues; however, this is totally untrue. All renovations and improvements are paid for by sponsors, with no cost to the businesses. Additionally, the businesses featured on Bar Rescue are under no obligation to follow any of the rescue protocols or keep any of the changes. Throughout the show's history, multiple bars have restored their original name or motif after filming wraps. Episodes are shot in real-time for 5-day stretches, however, considerable planning happens ahead of time.
249 episodes, including 1 removed episode (unintentionally aired), have aired as of June 11, 2023.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2013–14)
Season 4 (2014–16)
Season 5 (2016–17)
Season 6 (2018–19)
Season 7 (2020)
Season 8 (2021-23)
Specials
Notes:
References
Notes
External links
Bar Rescue Updates – Unaffiliated site that keeps track of bars being open or closed and has updates for each bar
Episodes
Lists of reality television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tushar%20Tyagi | Tushar Tyagi born on 27 December 1989 (Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India), is an Indian film Director.
Early life
Tyagi completed his schooling in Meerut, India and graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering from College of Engineering Roorkee. He later obtained a diploma in Mass communication & Radio Management program from Salam n Namaste Radio, IMS Noida India. He also pursued courses in filmmaking from the New York Film Academy and AAFT, Noida India.
Notable works
Lying is done with words, and also with silence (June, 2013)
This film shows how a man, who is unknown starts convincing a woman to get intimate, causes relationship with her sister to ruin.
Inception of a lost Art (Aug, 2013)
This 147-minute film presents a mysterious man, who challenges a woman for his art. It is a story of unseen world, which can only be answered by initiating like-minded thoughts.
Behind a Woman's Eyes (September, 2013)
A journey of a woman to find the true meaning of love, whose relationship is dying, has been presented in this film. But, sometimes, we have to lose something in order to appreciate it in the later years.
Gulabee (November, 2013)
Tushar Tyagi directed the movie Gulabee with the collaboration of Audacity Innovative, a motion picture company based in America. For the film Gulabee, Gujarat-based actress Avani Modi, who worked as a sex worker, created headlines for her powerful acting. She coped with unprecedented circumstances of life as a prostitute and showed courage to fight with the challenges of her past. The film was rewarded with a Royal Reel award at Canada International Film Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Films as a director and writer
Films as an actor
Film as an assistant director
Awards and recognition
Awards
Indian Cine Film Festival 2014 – Best Screen Play award -
Canada International Film Festival, Royal Reel Award in 2014 (Foreign Film Competition)
Universal Film festival – Best Cinematography i a Film 2014
Recognitions
Louisville's International Festival of Films in Louisville (2014)
New York Indian Film Festival, 2014
Richmond International Film Festival in 2015
GNARL Fest of the United Kingdom 2014
On The Judges’ Panel for 48 Film Project Beverly Hills, La based Film Festival
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Film directors from Uttar Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skymningssagor | Skymningssagor was a children's programming originally airing over SVT's SVT 1 between 24 October 1988 – 16 November 1998. Every episode includes a story-tale told usually told by silent pictures and narrator. Among the stories were the Sven Nordqvist books about Pettson and Findus. The intro and outro scenes showed a model-landscape with a town and a rural district at twilight, and a model train travelling across model railway tracks. The picture would them zoom in and out the location where the story was set. It was accompanied by a melody played on the piano.
Among the narrators were Nils Eklund, Lennart R. Svensson, Jan Nygren, Lena Söderblom, Anita Ekström and Mikaela Nygren.
References
External links
The programme at SVT's open archive
Sveriges Television original programming
1988 Swedish television series debuts
1998 Swedish television series endings
Swedish children's television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202015%20%28South%20Africa%29 | The South African Airplay Chart ranks the best-performing singles in South Africa. Its data, published by Entertainment Monitoring Africa, is based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
List of number-one singles of 2015
Number-one artists
See also
2015 in music
Entertainment Monitoring Africa
References
South Africa
Number-one singles
2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%2010%20Mobile | Windows 10 Mobile is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft. First released in 2015, it is a successor to Windows Phone 8.1, but was marketed by Microsoft as being an edition of its PC operating system Windows 10.
Windows 10 Mobile aimed to provide greater consistency with its counterpart for PCs, including more extensive synchronization of content, Universal Windows Platform apps, as well as the capability, on supported hardware, to connect devices to an external display and use a desktop interface with mouse and keyboard input support (reminiscent of Windows on PCs). Microsoft built tools for developers to port iOS Objective-C apps with minimal modifications. Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones are eligible for upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile, pursuant to manufacturer and carrier support. Some features vary depending on hardware compatibility.
Windows 10 Mobile was designed for use on smartphones and phablets running on 32-bit ARM processor architectures. Microsoft also intended for the platform to be used on ARM tablets with screens 9 inches or smaller in size, but such devices were rarely commercially released. Windows 10 Mobile entered public beta for selected Lumia smartphones on February 12, 2015. The first Lumia smartphones powered by Windows 10 Mobile were released on November 20, 2015, while eligible Windows Phone devices began receiving updates to Windows 10 Mobile on March 17, 2016, pursuant to manufacturer and carrier support.
The platform never achieved any significant degree of popularity or market share in comparison to Android or iOS. By 2017, Microsoft had already begun to downplay Windows 10 Mobile, having discontinued active development (beyond maintenance releases) due to a lack of user and developer interest in the platform, and focused on serving incumbent mobile operating systems as part of its software and services strategy. Support for Windows 10 Mobile ended on January 14, 2020. , Windows 10 Mobile had approximately a 0.01% share of the mobile operating system market.
Development
Microsoft had already begun the process of unifying the Windows platform across device classes in 2012; Windows Phone 8 dropped the Windows CE-based architecture of its predecessor, Windows Phone 7, for a platform built upon the NT kernel that shared much of the same architecture with its PC counterpart Windows 8 including file system (NTFS), networking stack, security elements, graphics engine (DirectX), device driver framework and hardware abstraction layer. At Build 2014, Microsoft also unveiled the concept of Universal Windows Apps. With the addition of Windows Runtime support to these platforms, apps created for Windows 8.1 could now be ported to Windows Phone 8.1 and Xbox One while sharing a common codebase with their PC counterparts. User data and licenses for an app could also be shared between multiple platforms.
In July 2014, Microsoft's then-new CEO Satya Nadella explained that the company was planning to "streaml |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Mixed%20Reality | Windows Mixed Reality is a platform introduced as part of the Windows 10 and 11 operating system, which provides augmented reality and virtual reality experiences with compatible head-mounted displays.
Its flagship device, Microsoft HoloLens, was announced at the "Windows 10: The Next Chapter" press event on January 21, 2015. The HoloLens provides an augmented reality experience where a live presentation of physical real-world elements is incorporated with that of virtual elements (referred to as "holograms" by Microsoft) such that they are perceived to exist together in a shared environment. A variant of Windows for augmented reality computers (which augment a real-world physical environment with virtual elements) Windows Mixed Reality features an augmented-reality operating environment in which any Universal Windows Platform app can run.
The platform is also used for virtual reality headsets designed for use on the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which are built to specifications implemented as part of Windows Mixed Reality, but lack support for augmented-reality experiences.
Products
Microsoft HoloLens
The premier device for Windows Mixed Reality, Microsoft HoloLens is a smart-glasses headset that is a cordless, self-contained Windows 10 computer running Windows 10 Holographic. It uses various sensors, a high-definition stereoscopic 3D optical head-mounted display, and spatial sound to allow for augmented reality applications, with a natural user interface that the user interacts with through gaze, voice, and hand gestures. Codenamed "Project Baraboo", HoloLens had been in development for five years before its announcement in 2015, but was conceived earlier as the original pitch made in late 2007 for what would become the Kinect technology platform.
Microsoft has targeted HoloLens for release "in the Windows 10 timeframe", with the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition to begin shipping March 30, 2016, available by application to developers in the United States and Canada for a list price of US$3000. Although the Development Edition is considered to be consumer-ready hardware, as of February 2016 Microsoft has not set a time frame for consumer availability of HoloLens, with HoloLens chief inventor Alex Kipman stating that HoloLens will have a consumer release only when the market is ready for it. Companies such as Samsung Electronics and Asus had expressed interest in working with Microsoft to produce their own mixed-reality products based on HoloLens. Intel made a direct competitor called Project Alloy with its system called "Merged Reality"; however, it has been cancelled as of September 22, 2017.
Immersive headsets
In October 2016 during a hardware event, Microsoft announced that multiple OEMs would release virtual reality headsets for the Windows Holographic platform, based on Microsoft reference designs enabling room-scale virtual reality without external sensors or components. In January 2017, prototypes were presented at Consu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland%20%28season%203%29 | The third and final season of the Australian drama television series Wonderland, began airing on 4 February 2015 on Network Ten. The series concluded on 20 May 2015
Production
On 22 January 2014, it was announced that Network Ten had ordered another 22 episodes of Wonderland. Of the 22 episodes, only 16 would be aired as the third season.
Rick Maier, the head of Drama at Ten stated, "All power to the cast and crew who delivered such a fun show for us last year. We are looking forward to more stories of love, lust and intrigue from the busiest and most romantic block of flats in the country." Filming for the third season was back-to-back with the second season - it commenced in March 2014 and wrapped in December 2014.
Of the third season, Tim Ross stated, "[Season three] gets intense. A lot of things happen to the characters, but we don't know if it [season three] will be the last. We would love to do another season."
Plot
Set in an apartment building on the doorstep of one of Australia's most beautiful beaches, Wonderland is a warm, light-hearted and engaging relationship drama revolving around four very different couples as they navigate the pitfalls of love, meet the challenges life presents head on, and pursue their dreams.
With an idyllic beachside as the backdrop, the residents of Wonderland show that holding down a dream relationship, an attractive career and maintaining solid friendships is sometimes anything other than plain sailing.
Cast
Main
Anna Bamford as Miranda Beaumont
Michael Dorman as Tom Wilcox
Emma Lung as Collette Riger
Tracy Mann as Maggie Wilcox
Glenn McMillan as Carlos Dos Santos
Ben Mingay as Rob Duffy
Tim Ross as Steve Beaumont
Brooke Satchwell as Grace Barnes
Jessica Tovey as Dani Varvaris
Recurring
Simone Kessell as Sasha Clarke (10 episodes)
Les Hill as Max Saliba (10 episodes)
Martin Sacks as Callan Beaumont (9 episodes)
Michael Booth as Harry Hewitt (6 episodes)
Peter Phelps as Warwick Wilcox (5 episodes)
Guest
Mia Pistorius as Jade (5 episodes)
Sandy Winton as Liam (3 episodes)
Christie Whelan Browne as Kristen (1 episode)
Elise Jansen as Ava McGuire (1 episode)
Mirko Grillini as Trent Morris (1 episode)
Claire Lovering as Rebecca Morris (1 episode)
Gia Carides as Helena (1 episode)
Kate Raison as Katharine Barnes (1 episode)
Episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal%20Telegraph%20Company | Postal Telegraph Company (Postal Telegraph & Cable Corporation) was a major operator of telegraph networks in the United States prior to its consolidation with Western Union in 1943. Postal partnered with Commercial Cable Company for overseas cable messaging.
Postal was founded in the 1880s by John William Mackay, an entrepreneur who had made a fortune in silver mining in the Comstock Lode. Mackay's original purpose was to provide a domestic wire network to directly link with the Atlantic Cable. Mackay built the Postal network by the purchase of existing insolvent firms. The company was initially called The Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Co. Under president Albert Brown Chandler, the Postal network was able to achieve sufficient economy of scale to compete with Western Union, occasionally controlling as much as 20% of the business.
By 1893, the company's rate of growth had allowed it to become the only viable competitor to Western Union. It had grown so large that management had to move out of the company's New York City headquarters to accommodate more operations staff. Chandler oversaw the design and construction of the Postal Telegraph Company Building, a new headquarters at Broadway and Murray Street.
References
External links
Clarence H. Mackay, Harbor Hill and the Postal Telegraph
Gallery
Telecommunications systems
Western Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Stone%20%28professor%29 | Peter Stone is an American computer scientist who is the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, AAAI Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar.
Educational background
He received his Ph.D. in 1998 and his M.S. in 1995 from Carnegie Mellon University, both in Computer Science. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1993.
Career
Stone continued at Carnegie Mellon as a Postdoctoral Fellow for one year. From 1999 to 2002 he was a Senior
Technical Staff Member in the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department at AT&T Labs - Research. He then joined the faculty of Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2007 and full professor in 2012. Stone was an adjunct professor at NYU in AY 2001-02, and a visiting professor at Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University in AY 2008-09.
Stone co-authored the papers that first proposed the robot soccer challenges around which Robocup was founded. He is President of the international RoboCup Federation since July 2019 and was a co-chair of RoboCup-2001 at IJCAI-01. Peter Stone was a Program Co-Chair of AAMAS 2006, was General Co-Chair of AAMAS 2011, and was a Program Co-Chair of AAAI-14. He has developed teams of robot soccer agents that have won RoboCup championships in the simulation (1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), in the standard platform (2012) and in the small-wheeled robot (1997, 1998) leagues. He has also developed agents that have won auction trading agents competitions (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013).
Research
Stone describes his research interest as understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents. His research focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics. Application domains have included robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, autonomic computing, and social agents.
Honors and awards
1997, Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research
2003, CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his research on learning agents in dynamic, collaborative, and adversarial multiagent environments.
2004, named an ONR Young Investigator for his research on machine learning on physical robots.
2007, awarded the prestigious IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, given once every two years to the top AI researcher under the age of 35.
2008, Fulbright Award
2008, Guggenheim Fellow
2012, AAAI Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
2013, awarded the University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.
2014, inducted into the UT Austin Academy of Distinguished Teachers
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Carnegie Mellon U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLano%20Award%20for%20Computational%20Biosciences | The DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences is a prize in the field of computational biology. It is awarded annually for "the most accessible and innovative development or application of computer technology to enhance research in the life sciences at the molecular level".
The prize was established by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) in memory of Warren Lyford DeLano, an American bioinformatician. DeLano developed the PyMOL open source molecular viewer software and was an advocate for the increased adoption of open source practices in the sciences. DeLano died unexpectedly in 2009.
Laureates include the Nobel Prize winner Michael Levitt, who was given the Delano Award in 2013 for his work in computational bioscience.
Laureates
2023 - Eytan Ruppin
2022 - Tatyana Sharpee
2020 - Yang Zhang
2019 - Brian Kuhlman
2018 - Chris Sander
2017 - Brian K. Shoichet
2016 - Todd O. Yeates
2015 - Vijay S. Pande
2014 - Michael Levitt
2013 - Helen M. Berman
2012 - Barry Honig
2011 - Axel T. Brunger
See also
List of biology awards
List of awards in bioinformatics and computational biology
References
Bioinformatics
Biology awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Junior%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney Junior is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment which launched on December 1, 2015. It is a localized version of the U.S. network owned by The Walt Disney Company, broadcasting animated programming aimed at children and preschoolers ages 2 to 8.
History
Prior to September 2015, DHX Media (now WildBrain) operated Disney Junior-branded television services in Canada in the English and French languages as spin-offs of Family Channel since May 6, 2011. In April 2015, Corus acquired Canadian rights to Disney Channel's programming and associated brands. Upon the announcement of the rights deal, Corus stated that it would launch "select Disney branded kids linear television offerings" in the future, after the launch of a Canadian version of Disney Channel.
In August 2015, television provider VMedia stated on its website that Corus would launch Disney Junior and Disney XD channels on December 1, 2015. Upon its launch on September 1, 2015, Disney Channel aired a programming block featuring Disney Junior programs. DHX's Disney Junior services were re-branded as Family Jr. and Télémagino on September 18.
Corus's Disney Junior channel officially launched on December 1, 2015 alongside their Disney XD channel. DHX's rights to broadcast Disney Junior programming expired on January 1, 2016.
On September 1, 2017, the channel obtained a discretionary service licence; it had been operating as an exempt channel before then.
There is no French-language counterpart, however, Disney La Chaîne offers the morning programming block Disney Junior sur La Chaîne Disney to carry network programming in the French language.
On April 21, 2018, the network aired its first film, The Lion King (1994), and has continued to air films since then, such as Cars, Cars 2, and Finding Nemo.
Programming
As of September 2023:
Current
Original programming
Animated series
Acquired programming
Acquired from Treehouse TV
Reruns of ended series
Original programming
Acquired programming
Upcoming
Original programming
Animated series
Former
Original programming
Animated series
Live-action series
Acquired programming
Notes
References
External links
Children's television networks in Canada
Corus Entertainment networks
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Digital cable television networks in Canada
English-language television stations in Canada
2015 establishments in Canada
Canada
Commercial-free television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XtraDB | Percona XtraDB is a storage engine for the MariaDB and Percona Server databases, and is intended as a drop-in replacement to InnoDB, which is the default engine in MySQL.
Up until version 10.1, MariaDB used Percona XtraDB in place of InnoDB as the default storage engine. As of MariaDB 10.2, InnoDB is the default again.
XtraDB incorporates InnoDB's ACID-compliant design and MVCC architecture, and allows for a greater degree of tuning and scalability. The engine is also better suited to multi-core processing, which addresses some of the issues known to InnoDB.
References
External links
Database engines
MySQL
MariaDB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanocomposite%20hydrogels | Nanocomposite hydrogels (NC gels) are nanomaterial-filled, hydrated, polymeric networks that exhibit higher elasticity and strength relative to traditionally made hydrogels. A range of natural and synthetic polymers are used to design nanocomposite network. By controlling the interactions between nanoparticles and polymer chains, a range of physical, chemical, and biological properties can be engineered. The combination of organic (polymer) and inorganic (clay) structure gives these hydrogels improved physical, chemical, electrical, biological, and swelling/de-swelling properties that cannot be achieved by either material alone. Inspired by flexible biological tissues, researchers incorporate carbon-based, polymeric, ceramic and/or metallic nanomaterials to give these hydrogels superior characteristics like optical properties and stimulus-sensitivity which can potentially be very helpful to medical (especially drug delivery and stem cell engineering) and mechanical fields.
Nanocomposite hydrogels are not to be confused with nanogel, a nanoparticle composed of a hydrogel.
Synthesis
The synthesis of nanocomposite hydrogels is a process that requires specific material and method. These polymers need to be made up of equally spaced out, 30 nm in diameter, clay platelets that can swell and exfoliate in the presence of water. The platelets act as cross-links to modify molecular functions to enable the hydrogels to have superior elasticity and toughness that resembles closely that of biological tissue. Using clay platelets that do not swell or exfoliate in water, using an organic cross-linker such as N,N-methylenebisacrylamide(BIS), mixing of clay and BIS, or preparing nanocomposite hydrogels in a method other than cross-link, will be unsuccessful.
Despite all the specifications, the process of synthesizing nanocomposite hydrogels is simple and because of the flexible nature of the material, these hydrogels can be easily made to come in different shapes such as huge blocks, sheets, thin films, rods, hollow tubes, spheres, bellows and uneven sheets.
Properties
Mechanical
Nanocomposite hydrogels are tough, and can withstand stretching, bending, knotting, crushing, and other modifications.
Tensile
Tensile testings were performed on nanocomposite hydrogels to measure the stress and strain it experiences when elongated under room temperature. The results show that this material can be stretched up to 1000% of its original length.
Compression
Hysteresis is used to measure the compression properties of nanocomposite hydrogels, which shows that this material can withstand around 90% compression. This data shows that nanocomposite hydrogels exhibit superior strength relative to conventionally-made hydrogels, which would have broken down under less compression.
Swelling and stimulus sensitivity
Swelling, de-swelling
The porous network of clay particles enable nanocomposite hydrogels to swell in the presence of water. Swelling (and de-swelling) distinguis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energica%20Motor%20Company | Energica Motor Company is an Italian manufacturer of electric motorcycles. The Energica project was started in 2010 in Modena, Italy, by CRP Group, an international company involved in computer numerical control machining and additive manufacturing with advanced selective laser sintering materials. Energica Motor Company was officially founded in 2014 with the aim of creating high-performance sustainable motorcycles.
On 28 March 2022, Energica Motor Company was delisted from the Milan Stock Exchange. The company was privatized and delisted by Ideanomics, Inc. Ideanomics gained a 72.42% stake in the company. The Cevolini family retained 17.62% ownership in Energica. This transaction was pioneered by FirstEurope Investment Bank, a private firm based in New York, NY.
Name
Energica is, in Italian, the feminine form of the adjective "energetic".
Concept
The Energica concept comes from the eCRP 1.4, the runner-up world champion and European champion electric racing motorcycle.
The eCRP team realized in just 6 months a high-performed electric racing motorcycle. Energica benefits from the close relationship and consultation with parent company CRP Group. Energica first prototypes were manufactured using 3D printing and F1 technologies.
Racing
In 2010 CRP designed and built the eCRP, the electric racing motorcycle. The eCRP 1.0 was presented during the "Cleaner Racing Conference" in Birmingham on January 13, 2010.
It was introduced by Lord Paul Drayson, UK's former Minister for Science and Innovation, with the support of the Motorsport Industry Association.
The eCRP, unlike most other electric racing motorcycles which were usually only a conversion of traditional combustion engines into electric vehicles, was created from the ground up as a real electric racing motorcycle, specifically designed for 100% electrical power.
In later 2010 the eCRP 1.2 made its debut on the track at Assen, in the TTXGP EU with the professional rider Alessandro Brannetti.
The eCRP 1.2 was the first competition version of the electric motorcycle made in CRP. On October 2 and 3 2010, the eCRP 1.2 competed at Brands Hatch and won the title of European Champion TTXGP 2010. The team went on the podium at the World Final Albacete, taking second place.
In 2011 CRP developed a new version of the Italian electric racing motorcycle, the eCRP 1.4.
The use of Additive Manufacturing and the innovative materials of the Windform product line represented a crucial stage in the construction of the electric racing motorcycle, carried out in collaboration with CRP Technology.
The chassis of the electric racing motorcycle eCRP 1.4 featured a cast aluminum frame, welded aluminum swingarm and racing suspension.
The eCRP 1.4 was also equipped with a data logger and sensors with built-in GPS, a new racing dashboard, dual DC motor and integrated air cooling.
The eCRP 1.4 was ideally suited for the two new classes of TTXGP, Formula 75 and Open Formula GP, as widely demonstrated by eCRP 1.2. A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOTV | SPOTV is a South Korean pay television network, which features sports programming and some sports-related talk shows. Founded in 2010, the network is the fourth premium sports network in South Korea following by KBS N Sports, MBC Sports+ and SBS Sports (the latter two of which were previously founded under a joint venture with ESPN International in the early 2000s and 2010s respectively).
On December 1, 2015, The Daily Dot reported that SPOTV may be acquiring the rights to broadcast League of Legends Champions Korea from OnGameNet (now called as OGN) for its sister channel SPOTV Games, which mostly aired eSports tournaments, before it was rebranded as STATV in March 2020, which focus on athletes and celebrities. They also got SPOTV ON, which aired sports that didn't usually air on SPOTV & SPOTV2, along with SPOTV Golf & Health for golf and wellness. SPOTV NOW, a sports-dedicated streaming service similar to DAZN and ESPN+, has also launched, not just in South Korea, but also recently in Japan and Southeast Asia.
In May 2020, the U.S. television network ESPN began showing Korea Baseball Organization games with video feed from SPOTV following the lack of live sports programming in the United States due to the pandemic.
On September 14, 2021, Eclat Entertainment announced that they will bring SPOTV to 13 Southeast Asian countries. SPOTV will take over the role of recently closed Fox Sports Asia in those countries, awhile to promoting other sporting events which has been aired in the respective Asian countries. SPOTV were also responsible to covering the remaining 2021 MotoGP World Championship where Fox Sports abruptly concluding the coverage following the shutdown announcement.
Broadcasting rights
South Korea
Football
England: Premier League (until 2025), FA Cup, FA Community Shield
Italy: Serie A, Coppa Italia, Supercoppa Italiana
Germany: DFB-Pokal (2022 final)
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Professional League
UEFA: UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League (from 2021-22), UEFA Nations League, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA European Qualifiers
EAFF: EAFF E-1 Football Championship & EAFF E-1 Football Championship (women) (from 2017)
Other:
Football at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games – Men's tournament
Finalissima 2022
Baseball
KBO League
Major League Baseball
Basketball
NBA
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
KBL
WKBL
Tennis
ATP
WTA
Wimbledon (from 2022)
U.S. Open (from 2022)
Motorsports
Asia Road Racing Championship
Formula E
MotoGP
Moto2
Moto3
MotoE
NASCAR Cup Series
NASCAR Xfinity Series
IMSA SportsCar Championship
IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge
Michelin Pilot Challenge
Superbike World Championship
Volleyball
CVL
Golf
Japan Golf Tour Organization
Ladies European Tour
Ryder Cup
LIV Golf
Icon Series
Rugby
World Rugby Sevens Series
Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Macau
Football
Football Australia
Australia women's internationals
Saudi Pro League
A-Lea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzr | Buzzr is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Fremantle North America, a unit of the Fremantle subsidiary of RTL Group. The network serves as an outlet for the extensive library of classic game shows owned by Fremantle. Buzzr marks Fremantle's entry into North American television broadcasting; parent company RTL currently operates numerous TV channels in Europe.
Buzzr's digital subchannel is seen in 62 U.S. television markets, cable television and is available as a channel on streaming services Pluto TV, Stirr, Amazon Freevee (formerly IMDB TV), and Sling TV. The network is also available nationwide on free-to-air C-band satellite via Galaxy 19 in the DVB-S2 format.
The brand is named after the game show buzzer, which contestants use on certain game shows to signal their readiness to give an answer.
History
The Buzzr brand was first used by Fremantle for a YouTube channel created and produced by its digital content studio Tiny Riot, which debuted in late 2014. The Buzzr YouTube channel features classic clips, and short-form adaptations of its game show properties (such as Family Feud and Password), with internet celebrities as contestants, primarily aimed towards millennials.
On January 20, 2015, FremantleMedia (as it was known then) announced that it would launch Buzzr, a digital multicast network that would serve as an extension of the brand; the network, with the Fox Television Stations as its charter station group. Buzzr features classic game shows from the company's programming library. Thom Beers, former CEO of FremantleMedia North America, stated his interest in launching a network centered on its game show content after he joined the company in 2012, calling such a project a "top priority" for Fremantle as a way to help monetize the value of its library. The company intended to focus Buzzr toward older adults, with Beers citing that the "old-format game shows are really, really hard [for the younger viewership that the Buzzr YouTube channel targets] to watch."
The Buzzr television network debuted on June 1, 2015, with the launch preceded by a preview reel outlining its initial programming that aired in an eight-hour continuous loop, starting at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone. The network formally launched that evening at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time with the 1963 pilot episode of Let's Make a Deal as the first show to be broadcast.
In 2016, to celebrate the upcoming 75th year of the genre, the network created a story arc of the game show with new episodes of favorable classics, along with additional promotions and special marathons all year long. Additionally, that fall, FremantleMedia began leasing select episodes of Card Sharks with Bill Rafferty and Family Feud with Louie Anderson for weekend airings on their affiliates' main channels, though this practice ended after a single season.
In October 2016, FremantleMedia and Canadian video game company Ludia teamed up to create a slot machine app based on Buzzr's program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e%20fran%C3%A7ais%20Victor%20Hugo | Lycée français Victor-Hugo (LFVH), also known as Französische Schule Lycee Victor Hugo in German, is a French international school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, which belongs to the AEFE network of schools. The school serves students from "maternelle" (kindergarten) up to the "lycée" (sixth form college/senior high school) level. The French school is located in the district of Praunheim, to the northwest of Frankfurt. Students are taught the French national curriculum and they can choose to prepare the Baccalauréat or the Abibac. The current head of the school is M. Nicolas Commenville.
History
In 1949 the first classes were taught to French students living in Frankfurt. In the 1960s the initiative developed into a school with different classes, an official status and more than 150 students. With 550 students in 2000 the school opened at its current location in Praunheim. The primary school obtained Ersatzschule status in 2007 and the middle school in 2012. By 2014 enrollment had reached 1,000 students, divided into 48 classes.
About the school
The LFVH is a French school with an international recruitment: over 35 different nationalities are typically represented.
The school moved to its current premises in 2000. The building was designed by architect Michel Regembal (also known for his contribution to the Stade de France).
After being run by parents' associations for decades the school came under AEFE control in 2000.
In 2007 the primary school obtained Ersatzschule status and so did the middle school in 2012.
The German Staatliches Schulamt Frankfurt supervises the school's German component of the curriculum and the delivery of the Abitur.
In September 2014 there were 1004 students registered in the school.
LFVH is a whole-day school, including in the primary section.
Studying at the LFVH
The French national curriculum is demanding and exhaustive. Like all French schools in France and abroad, LFVH adheres to it.
If parents and students choose the bilingual (French-German) track, this curriculum is supplemented by essential teachings which fit the German educational requirements. These students usually go on to sit the Abibac, a combination of the French and the German end-of-secondary-education diplomas, allowing them direct access to both French and German universities and colleges.
The foreign languages students can learn at the LFVH: German, English, Spanish (as a first, second or third foreign language), and Latin.
Extra-curricular activities include: chess club, sports club, arts club, drama club, music club, the Students' Council, and many others. Students participate in competitions in mathematics, language arts, sciences and sports in Germany, France and across Europe. Trips are organised on a regular basis to sites around Germany, Austria, France and the UK.
A study time (Aide aux devoirs) is organised for middle school students who need support for their homework.
Students with special needs also receive specifi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20awarded%20to%20Al%20Jazeera%20English | Al Jazeera English has received prestigious awards from organisations across the globe. The network has been honoured for overall excellence in achieving its mission, in addition to praise for Al Jazeera's individual reporters and their work.
2015
New York Film Festival Gold for 101 East's The Return of the Lizard King, The Dolphin Hunters and Stray Bullets.
New York Film Festival Gold Award for Steve Chao as Best News Reporter/Correspondent
Mohamed Amin Awards Best Documentary Africa Investigates – Liberia: Living with Ebola'''
Online Media Awards Outstanding Digital Team: Palestine Remix, Al Jazeera English OnlineOnline Media Awards Best Technical Innovation Palestine RemixOnline Media Awards Best Use of Photography Portrait of an YogiOne World Media Awards Best Digital Media Award: Pirate Fishing
One World Media Awards Women's Rights in Africa Award: Witness - Casablanca Calling
Native American Journalists Association TV Best Feature Story to Shihab Rattansi & Anar Virji for Havasupai water story
Native American Journalists Association TV Best News Story to Shihab Rattansi and Anar Virji for Tar Creek
2014
Women's Empowerment Journalism Broadcast Story Of The Year: 101 East: Nepal's Slave Girls
The George Foster Peabody Award Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera
The George Foster Peabody Award Fault Lines: Made in Bangladesh
Webbys Award for Best Online Film in the News and Politics category: The Stream, Meme-ifying Black Interviewees
Hong Kong Human Rights Awards Al Jazeera English took home the highest number of awards this year, with four for 101 East programmes, and for Witness’s Wukan: Flame of Democracy.
ChopShots Documentary Film Festival Best International Documentary: Wukan
Monte Carlo TV Festival Golden Nymph for Best News Documentary: Identity and Exile
Online Media Awards Simon Hooper - Best Freelance Journalist
Online Media Awards for Outstanding Digital Team Commendation: AJE Interactives
Peabody Awards Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera, and Made In Bangladesh.
International Emmys Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera
World Media Summit award 101 East for ‘Exemplary News Team in Developing Countries’.
New York Festivals Gold for 101 East: It’s a Man’s World, 101 East: Murder in a God’s Name, and Everest 60th Anniversary.
2013
CINE Golden Eagle Award "What Killed Arafat" for Best Investigative Journalism
CINE Golden Eagle Award "Syria: Songs of Defiance" for Best Investigative Journalism
CINE Golden Eagle Award "So Close So Far Away" for Best Television Documentary
Gracie Award for Outstanding News Talk Show: The Stream
EMMY Award for Outstanding Investigation: "Fault Lines: Haiti In a Time of Cholera"
Peabody Award :Fault Lines: Haiti In a Time of Cholera"
Peabody Award Fault Lines: Made In Bangladesh
Webbys People Voice Award for Best News (Tablet), in the Mobile Apps category: Al Jazeera English Online Magazine
Grierson Awards|Grierson – Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme: "Law of the Jungle"
The George F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316%20Brazilian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2015–16 network television schedule for the four major Brazilian Portuguese commercial broadcast networks in Brazil covers primetime hours from April 2015 to March 2016.
The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series or telenovelas (soap operas), and series canceled after the 2014–15 season.
Legend
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times are in Brasília time. Add one hour for Atlantic islands time, subtract one hour for Amazon time and two hours for Acre time.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
By network
Band
Returning series:
Agora é Tarde
New series:
Masterchef Junior
Binbir Grace
Fatmagül
Not returning from 2014–15:
Sabe ou Não Sabe
Series going into hiatus:
CQC: Custe o Que Custar
Globo
Returning series:
The Voice Brasil
Na Moral
Amor & Sexo
Tá no Ar: A TV na TV
Superstar
New series:
Chapa Quente
Tomara Que Caia
Verdades Secretas
New telenovelas:
Além do Tempo (July 13)
A Regra do Jogo (August 31)
Totalmente Demais (November 2)
Not returning from 2014–15:
A Grande Família
Record
Returning series:
Prova de Amor (aired 2005)
Dona Xepa (aired 2013)
Chamas da Vida (aired 2009)
Domingo Show
Hora do Faro
Programa da Sabrina
Legendários
New series:
Xuxa Meneghel
New telenovelas:
Os Dez Mandamentos
Escrava Mãe
Not returning from 2014–15:
Me Leva Contigo
SBT
Returning series:
Máquina da Fama
Cozinha Sob Pressão (Hell's Kitchen)
New series:
Bake-Off Brasil: Mão na Massa
Acelerados
Cúmplices de Um Resgate
A Dona
Turismo & Aventura
Sabadão com Celso Portiolli
Mundo Disney
Pequenos Campeões
Not returning from 2014–15:
Esse Artista Sou Eu
Supernanny
Patrulha Salvadora
Vrum
Planeta Turismo
De Frente com Gabi
Arena SBT
Menino de Ouro
RedeTV!
New Series:
Melhor Pra Você
Sensacional com Daniela Alburquerque
Chega Mais
Documento Verdade
Mariana Godoy Entrevista
Ongoing Shows:
Encrenca
A Tarde é Sua
Mega Senha
Você na TV
Super Pop
Luciana By Night
Te Peguei
Te Peguei na TV
Ritmo Brasil
Programa Amaury Jr.
Leitura Dinâmica
Operação de Risco
Viagem Cultural
É Notícia
Not Returning from 2014-15:
The Bachelor: Em Busca do Grande Amor
TV Kids
Teste de Fidelidade
References
Television in Brazil
2015 in Brazilian television
2016 in Brazilian television
Brazilian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20Valley%20Days%20%28radio%20program%29 | Death Valley Days is a radio Western in the United States. It was broadcast on the Blue Network/ABC, CBS, and NBC from September 30, 1930, to September 14, 1951. It "was one of radio's earliest and longest lasting programs." Beginning August 10, 1944, the program was called Death Valley Sheriff, and on June 29, 1945, it became simply The Sheriff.
Format
Death Valley Days
Radio's first Western, Death Valley Days "dramatized pioneer life in the United States." The program has been described as "the most successful of [the] early western dramas." It was said to present true stories of the old West, with "CBS [asserting] that because of its reputation for accuracy in broadcasting the dramatic history of the development of the West, Death Valley Days was recommended by teachers to their students wherever it was heard to supplement their studies at school." Radio historian John Dunning commented, "By 1940, the show's reputation for historical accuracy was well-established." That accuracy was attested to by the recognition received by the program. "Death Valley Days won awards from the Governors of California, Nevada, and Utah and historical societies including the Native Daughters of the Golden West, and from the University of Washington."
Each episode began with a bugle call, followed by an announcer's introduction of The Old Ranger ("a composite character who had known the bushwhackers, desperados, and lawmen of the old days by first name"). For nearly six years, the program also included Western songs by John White, known as "The Lonesome Cowboy."
Death Valley Sheriff and The Sheriff
Beginning in 1944, a modernized version of Death Valley Days was presented with the title Death Valley Sheriff, which the following year was changed to simply The Sheriff. Instead of "The Old Ranger," the host/narrator was Sheriff Mark Chase of Canyon County, California.
Personnel
Host/narrator
As an anthology series, Death Valley Days had no continuing cast of characters other than The Old Ranger, who introduced and narrated each episode. Over the years, The Old Ranger was played by Jack MacBryde, Tim Daniel Frawley, George Rand, and Harry Humphreys. In the later versions (Death Valley Sheriff and The Sheriff) Sheriff Mark Chase was portrayed by Robert Haag, Donald Briggs, and Bob Warren. Announcers were George Hicks, Dresser Dahlstead, and John Reed King.
Creator/writer
Ruth Cornwall Woodman was a writer for McCann Erickson when that advertising agency's executives decided to launch Death Valley Days. As one of the few agency employees who wrote for radio, Woodman was assigned to write the scripts for Death Valley Days. "The program's sponsor, Pacific Coast Borax Company, stipulated that the writer should have a first-hand knowledge of the Death Valley region," so for 14 years Woodman went to Death Valley each summer to gather information that she could use in her scripts. Each summer's trip provided enough material for Woodman to write scripts for the next se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement%20W.%20H.%20Lam | Clement Wing Hong Lam () is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in combinatorics. He is famous for the computer proof, with Larry Thiel and S. Swiercz, of the nonexistence of a finite projective plane of order 10.
Lam earned his PhD in 1974 under Herbert Ryser at Caltech with thesis Rational G-Circulants Satisfying the Matrix Equation . He is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal.
In 2006 he received the Euler medal. In 1992 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award for the article The search for a finite projective plane of order 10. The eponymous Lam's problem is equivalent to finding a finite projective plane of order 10 or finding 9 orthogonal Latin squares of order 10.
See also
Experimental mathematics
References
External links
Homepage
search on author CWH Lam from Google Scholar
Canadian mathematicians
Combinatorialists
California Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Concordia University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palpita%20candidata | Palpita candidata is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Hiroshi Inoue in 1996. It is found in Taiwan.
References
Moths described in 1996
Palpita
Moths of Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20ab%20Isselt | Michael ab Isselt (1530/40–1597), sometimes cited in the German form von Isselt, was a Dutch Catholic exile in Cologne and a chronicler of the late 16th century. He is best known as the compiler (under the pseudonym "D. M. Jansonio") of the first Mercurius Gallobelgicus, a semi-annual overview of important current events.
Life
Isselt was born between 1530 and 1540 in Amersfoort in the Lordship of Utrecht. He studied at the University of Leuven and became a priest. During the Dutch Revolt he went into exile in Cologne, where he became an active writer, recording contemporary events from a Catholic perspective. He died in Hamburg on 17 October 1597. He also edited the works of Louis of Granada for publication in Cologne, translating some from Spanish or Italian into Latin.
Works
Belli Coloniensis libri quinque (Cologne, Gottfried von Kempen, 1586)
Histoire de la guerre de Cologne, French translation by Joseph de Cantarel (Paris, Raulin Thierry, 1589)
Commentarius brevis rerum in orbe gestarum, a capta antwerpia, hoc est, ab augusto mense anni 1585. usque ad septembrim anni 1586 (Cologne, Gottfried von Kempen, 1586)
Kurtze chronick oder historische beschreybung der furnembsten hendel so sich beyde in religions und weltlichen sachen fast durch die gantze welt zugetragen haben im jar 1585. Vom Augstmonat an biß auff den September anno 1586 (Cologne, Heinrich Nettesheim, 1587)
Mercurius Gallobelgicus (Cologne, Gottfried von Kempen, 1592–1597). September 1592 edition on Google Books.
References
Year of birth unknown
1597 deaths
Old University of Leuven alumni
16th-century writers in Latin
People from Amersfoort
Spanish–Latin translators
Italian–Latin translators
16th-century German historians
Year of birth uncertain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGS%20Entertainment | PGS Entertainment is a French-Swiss privately owned investment family group dedicated to the financing and brand management of independent producers' children's television programming. PGS' broadcast and media partners include Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, and free-to-air broadcasters such as Super RTL, RAI, ABC, Pop, and Neox.
In 2022, PGS co-founded the French production company Gemma Pictures along with film producer Stéphane Célérier, assistant producer of the 94th Academy Awards winning best film CODA.
History
PGS Entertainment was formed in 2008 by brothers Philippe and Guillaume Soutter. The company distributed Method Animation's reboot of Iron Man from Marvel in 2009. In 2010, PGS was named as the distributor for Method Animation's The Little Prince, based on the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry novella of the same name. PGS gained distribution rights to the Chaplin & Co TV series in 2011.
Since January 2013, PGS has owned the global distribution and licensing rights to the series The Jungle Bunch, produced by TAT productions, which includes TV specials, series, and movies. The series was successful at the Emmy Awards. The company launched PGS H.K. Ltd, a Hong-Kong based company to represent its animation catalogue in Asia in August 2013. In October 2013, PGS acquired the global distribution rights, excluding the U.S and France, for the ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks TV series with Bagdasarian Productions and Technicolor Animation. The show is produced and owned by Bagdasarian Productions and created by Janice Karman.
In 2014, the company partnered with Zagtoon and Bandai on Miraculous Ladybug, Zak Storm, and Ghost Force. That same year, PGS was named as the distributor for the Super 4 TV series based on Playmobil characters and produced by Method Animation and Morgen Studios.
PGS signed a deal with the Mattel toy company to create a full line of toys for ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks in October 2016.
Recognition
PGS won Best Distributor of the Year by TV France International in 2011 for The Little Prince, in 2013 for The Jungle Bunch, and in 2015 for Alvinnn!!! & the Chipmunks.
Productions
Alpha and Omega (TV movies based on film franchise)
ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks (co-production with Bagdasarian Productions and OuiDo! Productions)
Chaplin & Co
The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk
Gees
GhostForce
Iron Man: Armored Adventures
I.J.L.: Heroes United (co-production with Zagtoon, Method Animation, Bandai America, OLM, Inc., Sprite Animation Studios and Nickelodeon Productions)
The Jungle Bunch
Leon
The Little Prince
Marsupilami
Miraculous Ladybug
Miss Moon
Moominvalley
Monchhichi
Robin Hood: Mischief in Sherwood
Sly Cooper
Spike
Super 4
The Dragon Prince
Zak Storm
References
External links
2008 establishments in France
2008 in French television
Companies based in Paris
Mass media companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20reduction%20algorithm | Domain reduction algorithms are algorithms used to reduce constraints and degrees of freedom in order to provide solutions for partial differential equations.
References
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News4 | NEWS4 or News4 or News 4 may refer to:
Philipplines
News on 4 (1987-1995), a program of People's Television Network, of the Philippines
in the United Kingdom
Channel 4 News, British television, produced by ITN
More4 News
in the United States
News 4 Tucson, also known as KVOA, NBC affiliate of Tucson, Arizona
K04QP-D (channel 4), KVOA's translator in Casas Adobes, Arizona
WJXT, also known as News 4 Jax, Jacksonville, Florida
News 4 (Reno), also known as KRNV-DT, of Reno, Nevada
News 4 New York, or WNBC, of New York City, the flagship station of NBC
News 4 San Antonio, or NEWS4SA, of San Antonio, Texas
News4Utah, also known as ABC-4, of Salt Lake City, Utah
WRC-TV, also known as NBC4, of Washington, D.C.
See also
4chan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranston/Csuri%20Productions | Cranston/Csuri Productions (CCP) was an American computer animation company based in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded in 1981 by artist Chuck Csuri and investor Robert Cranston Kanuth to commercially exploit computer animation technology created by Ohio State University's Computer Graphics Research Group (CGRG). Several of the CGRG researchers recruited into the company went on to notable VFX and animation careers, including John Berton and Steve Martino.
CCP and CGRG shared a single facility on campus, and were intended to work collaboratively: CGRG developed and maintained tools for character animation, procedural effects, modeling, and rendering that CCP used in approximately 800 groundbreaking animated television and advertising projects. Some of these were maintained as de facto open source projects, like the GRASS programming language and the animation system Twixt, and found wider popularity outside CCP itself.
CCP's business operations shut down late in 1987 following the collapse of promising initial efforts to license its software, which ran only on expensive, refrigerator-sized minicomputers. By the late '80s, computer animation production had begun to switch from minicomputers to cheaper microcomputers (desktops) with 3D graphics capabilities, such as SGI workstations running retail software like Alias Wavefront. This change not only launched many new competing production houses, but also rapidly eliminated the market for minicomputer-based graphics products. That same year, CCP and CGRG became part of Ohio State's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), which as of 2022 remains in operation.
References
External links
Computer Graphics and Computer Animation: A Retrospective Overview: 6.6 Cranston/Csuri Productions
American animation studios
Computer animation studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emode | Emode may refer to:
Early Modern English, abbreviated EModE
Emode, a locality associated with the Komedes as known in Antiquity
Emode, a computer architecture used by the Burroughs large systems
Emode.com, a media company
See also
Imode (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20proportional%20computing | In computing, energy proportionality is a measure of the relationship between power consumed in a computer system, and the rate at which useful work is done (its utilization, which is one measure of performance). If the overall power consumption is proportional to the computer's utilization, then the machine is said to be energy proportional. Equivalently stated, for an idealized energy proportional computer, the overall energy per operation (a measure of energy efficiency) is constant for all possible workloads and operating conditions.
The concept was first proposed in 2007 by Google engineers Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle, who urged computer architects to design servers that would be much more energy efficient for the datacenter setting.
Energy proportional computing is currently an area of active research, and has been highlighted as an important design goal for cloud computing. There are many technical challenges remaining in the design of energy proportional computers. Furthermore, the concept of energy proportionality is not inherently restricted to computing. Although countless energy efficiency advances have been made in non-computing disciplines, they have not been evaluated rigorously in terms of their energy proportionality.
Background in energy sustainability
Sustainable energy is the ideal that society should serve its energy needs without negatively impacting future generations, and which various organizations, governments, and individuals have been advocating. To meet this ideal, efficiency improvements are required in three aspects of the energy ecosystem:
Energy generation
Energy storage
Energy consumption
Since our need for energy generation and storage are driven by our demand, more efficient ways of consuming energy can drive large improvements in energy sustainability. Efforts in sustainable energy consumption can be classified at a high level by the three following categories:
Recycle: Capture and recover wasted energy to do more work, that would otherwise be lost as heat.
Reuse: Amortize the cost of energy generation, storage, and delivery by sharing energy and its infrastructure among different loads.
Reduce: Reduce demand for energy by doing more work with less energy (improve consumption efficiency), or not doing the work at all by changing behavior.
Many efforts in making energy consumption more sustainable are focused on the "reduce" theme for unpredictable and dynamic workloads (which are commonly encountered in computing). This can be considered as power management. These efforts can be lumped into two general approaches, which are not specific to computing, but commonly applied in that domain:
Idle power-down: This technique exploits gaps in workload demand to shut off components that are idle. When shut down, components cannot do any useful work. The problems unique to this approach are: (1) it costs time and energy to transition between active and idle power-down states, (2) no work can be d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20streaming%20tracks%20of%202014%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Streaming Chart ranks the best-performing streaming tracks of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collects music data for the weekly ARIA Charts.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2014 in music
List of number-one singles of 2014 (Australia)
References
Australia Streaming
Streaming 2014
Number-one Streaming Songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chit-Chat%20%28TV%20program%29 | Chit-Chat is an Australian morning television program which aired 1967 on Melbourne station ATV-0 (now ATV-10 and part of Network Ten). It was a daytime interview program. It aired at 10:30AM, and aired against a test pattern on ABV-2, Lincoln Land (including Here's Humphrey) on GTV-9, and no programming on HSV-7.
References
External links
1967 Australian television series debuts
1967 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
Australian television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Winquist | Erik Winquist (born January 2, 1975) is an American New Zealander visual effects supervisor. He is best known for his work on three prominent film franchises featuring large computer generated animal effects: Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), Planet of the Apes prequel films, and Rampage (2018).
Erik Winquist was nominated at the 87th Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual Effects. He was nominated for an Academy Award, along with Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joe Letteri, for the film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. They led a team of roughly 850 people who designed and created all the apes, the digital set extensions, environments, and the effects for the film. Winquist handled pre-production and second-unit photography.
He also received a BAFTA nomination for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in the same year.
References
External links
http://www.thelandofshadow.com/visual-effects-supervisor-erik-winquist-at-weta-digital-talks-the-creation-of-furry-apes/
Living people
1975 births
Special effects people
People from Evanston, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Sanders%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Peter Sanders (born 1967) is a German computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research concerns the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms and data structures, and he is particularly known for his research on suffix sorting finding shortest paths in road networks.
Sanders earned his Ph.D. from Karlsruhe in 1996,
and worked for seven years at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken (completing his habilitation there in 2000) before returning to Karlsruhe as a professor in 2004.
Sanders was one of the winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2012.
Selected publications
Books
Research papers
.
.
.
.
References
External links
Google scholar profile
1967 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaliy%20Kilchytskyy | Vitaliy Kilchytskyy (born 17 June 1988) is a Ukrainian biathlete.
References
External links
Biathlon.com.ua
IBU Datacenter
1988 births
Living people
People from Novoyavorivsk
Ukrainian male biathletes
Universiade medalists in biathlon
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Ukraine
Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine
Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade
Sportspeople from Lviv Oblast
21st-century Ukrainian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xputer | The Xputer is a design for a reconfigurable computer, proposed by computer scientist Reiner Hartenstein. Hartenstein uses various terms to describe the various innovations in the design, including config-ware, flow-ware, morph-ware, and "anti-machine".
The Xputer represents a move away from the traditional Von Neumann computer architecture, to a coarse-grained "soft Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)" architecture. Parallelism is achieved by configurable elements known as reconfigurable datapath arrays (rDPA), organized in a two-dimensional array of ALU's similar to the KressArray.
Architecture
The Xputer architecture is data-stream-based, and is the counterpart of the instruction-based von Neumann computer architecture.
The Xputer architecture was one of the first coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures, and consists of a reconfigurable datapath array (rDPA) organized as a two-dimensional array of ALUs (rDPU). The bus-width between ALU's were 32-bit in the first version of the Xputer.
The ALUs (also known as rDPUs) are used for computing a single mathematical operation, such as addition, subtraction or multiplication, and can also be used purely for routing.
ALUs are mesh-connected via three types of connections, and data-flow along these connections are managed by an address generation unit.
Nearest neighbour (connections between neighbouring ALUs)
Row/column back-buses
Global bus (a single global bus for interconnection between further ALUs)
Programs for the Xputer are written in the C language, and compiled for usage on the Xputer using the CoDeX compiler written by the author. The CoDeX compiler maps suitable portions of the C program onto the Xputer's rDPA fabric. The remainder of the program is executed on the host system, such as a personal computer.
rDPA
A reconfigurable datapath array (rDPA) is a semiconductor device containing reconfigurable data path units and programmable interconnects, first proposed by Rainer Kress in 1993, at the University of Kaiserslautern.
Instead of FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) having single bit configurable logic blocks (CLBs), rDPAs have multiple bits wide (for instance, 32 bit path width) reconfigurable datapath units (rDPUs).
Each rDPU can be configured to perform an individual function. These rDPUs and interconnects can be programmed after the manufacturing process by the customer/designer (hence the term "reconfigurable") so that the rDPA can perform whatever complex computation is needed. Because rDPUs are multiple bits wide (for instance, 32 bits), we talk about coarse-grained reconfigurability - in contrast to FPGAs with single-bit wide configurable logic blocks, called fine-gained reconfigurable.
rDPAs are structurally programmed from "config-ware" source code, compiled into pipe-networks to be mapped onto the rDPA. rDPAs are not instruction-stream-driven and have no instruction fetch at run time. rDPUs do not have a program counter.
References
Computer architecture
Reconfigurable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development%20of%20The%20Last%20of%20Us | The development of The Last of Us, an action-adventure game, began after Uncharted 2: Among Thieves release in October 2009. Sony Computer Entertainment published The Last of Us for PlayStation 3 on June 14, 2013. The three-year development, led by studio Naughty Dog, was kept secret for the majority of development. In the game, players assume control of Joel, a middle-aged smuggler tasked with escorting a 14-year-old girl named Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States in an attempt to create a potential cure against the world-ending infection to which Ellie is immune. Creative director Neil Druckmann was inspired to include the Infected as a main enemy in the game after discovering the Cordyceps fungi. Set 20 years after the outbreak has destroyed much of civilization, the game explores the possibility of the fungi infecting humans.
Though Ellie was initially intended to be Joel's daughter, the team found this to be too limiting in terms of further character development. The team chose Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson to portray Joel and Ellie, respectively. Providing both the voice and motion capture of the characters, Baker and Johnson assisted the team to develop the characters and help refine the story. The relationship between Joel and Ellie was the central focus of the game, and all other elements were developed around it. Various other characters were influenced by the story progression, ultimately becoming completely different from the initial vision.
The Last of Us features an original score composed by Argentine musician Gustavo Santaolalla. Known for his minimalist approach to composing, Santaolalla was contacted early in development. Naughty Dog took a similar minimalist approach to other elements of the game, including the action, sound design, and art design. In order to achieve the best work possible, the sound department began working early on the sound of the Infected. A similar direction was taken by the art department, whose designs influenced other elements of development. Naughty Dog overhauled their game engine for some elements, particularly lighting and animations.
The Last of Us was officially announced in 2011; it was heavily promoted and widely anticipated. Naughty Dog missed the original release date, delaying the game for further polishing. Naughty Dog marketed the game through video trailers and press demonstrations, announcing specific details about the game as development continued. Various special editions of the game were released, along with a comic book featuring characters from the game.
Production
Preliminary work on The Last of Us, under the codename "Project Thing" or "T1", began after the release of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves in October 2009. For the first time in the company's history, developer Naughty Dog split into two teams to work on projects concurrently; while one team developed Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011), the other began work on The Last of Us. In order to run the two teams smo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20The%20Last%20of%20Us | The music for the 2013 action-adventure survival horror video game The Last of Us, developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, was composed by musician Gustavo Santaolalla. Supplementary music for the game's downloadable content The Last of Us: Left Behind was composed by Santaolalla, Andrew Buresh, Anthony Caruso and Jonathan Mayer. Both soundtracks were produced by Santaolalla, Mayer, and Aníbal Kerpel, with separate segments recorded in both Los Angeles and Nashville. Santaolalla, known for his minimalist approach to composing, was excited to work on the soundtrack due to the game's focus on the characters and story. He began composing the music early in the game's development, with few instructions from the development team on the tone that they intended. In collaboration with each other, the team and Santaolalla aimed to make the soundtrack emotional, as opposed to scary. Santaolalla used various instruments to compose the score, including some that were unfamiliar to him.
The soundtrack album for The Last of Us was released on iTunes in June 2013. Additional compositions, including some composed for Left Behind, were released on a second soundtrack in February 2014. Critical reception to the soundtracks was positive, as reviewers felt that the music connected appropriately with the gameplay. In particular, critics felt that the minimalist approach of the soundtrack's composition matched the gameplay. The game's music was nominated for numerous awards. Several tracks became popular and begot cover versions and live performances.
Production and composition
During the initial development of The Last of Us, creative director Neil Druckmann and game director Bruce Straley compiled musical tracks that they found inspirational. When searching for a composer to work on the game's music, they realised that Gustavo Santaolalla composed many of their compiled tracks. Straley described Santaolalla's music as "organic instrumentation, minimalist, dissonance and resonance with the sounds". The composer agreed to work on the game's soundtrack when contacted by Sony. After hearing the game's pitch, Santaolalla was excited to work on the game; he had previously wanted to compose for video games, but refused to work on those without a focus on story and characters.
Santaolalla began work on The Last of Us early in its development. Druckmann did not give him specific directions but offered him the game's stories and themes. Santaolalla appreciated this freedom and felt it assisted his process. He felt the need to "go into some more dark place, more textural and not necessarily melodic", when composing. The composer prefers to compose as he records, as he has little knowledge of reading and writing sheet music. To challenge himself, Santaolalla used a variety of unique instruments that were new to him, giving "an element of danger and innocence". For some tracks, he used a detuned guitar, producing deep noise. To produce unique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd%20Kr%C3%A4mer | Bernd Johann Krämer (born 22 July 1947, in Berlin) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.
Biography
Bernd Krämer studied electrical engineering and computer science at the Technical University of Berlin where he also obtained his doctorate in engineering. From 1975 to 1989 and again from 1990 to 1992 he was a scientist and project leader at the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, the German National Research Center of Computer Science, which later became part of the Fraunhofer Society. From 1989 to mid 1990 he was an adjunct professor in the Computer Science department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
In April 1992 he was appointed full professor at FernUniversität in Hagen. He is a co-founder, past president, fellow, and Board Member of the Society for Design & Process Science (SDPS). From 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the first University Council of FernUniversität in Hagen.
He has been a visiting professor at a number of prestigious international universities, including the Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane and Monash University in Melbourne, both in Australia, McGill University in Montreal, the University of California, Berkeley and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
He is a co-founder of two non-profit research associations, the Scientific Academy for Service Technology and edu-sharing.net. ServTech conducts EU-funded research projects in the areas ofSmart Manufacturing, Product Customization,’’ and Smart Healthcare and is the main sponsor of the annual International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC). Since mid-2009, the association edu-sharing.net has been developing one of the first distributed repositories for digital learning content, which was developed by the DFG-funded project CampusContent, under the new name edu-sharing. It forms the basis of several repositories for Open Educational Resources and has been rolled out in several German states as an infrastructure for networking schools to provide them with broad access to digital learning materials and codified methodological knowledge through a single portal and to enable the exchange and joint development of such content.
Krämer co-founded the open access journal e-learning and education and was its first editor-in-chief.
He received the C. V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Scholar Award In 2003 and the Raymond T. Yeh Life Time Achievement Award in 2006, both from the SDPS.
Selected books
Software Service and Application Engineering - Festschrift Dedicated to Bernd Krämer on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceAdvances in Collective Intelligence (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Vol. 113) by Jörn Altmann, Ulrike Baumöl, Bernd Krämer (2012)On Collective Intelligence (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Vol. 76) by Theo J. Bastiaens, Ulrike Baumöl, Bernd Krämer (2011) Contributions to Ubiquitous Comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxbin%20%28darknet%29 | Doxbin was an onion service. It was a pastebin primarily used by people posting personal data (often referred to as doxing) of any person of interest.
Due to the illegal nature of much of the information it published (such as social security numbers, bank routing information, and credit card information, all in plain-text), it was one of many sites seized during Operation Onymous, a multinational police initiative, in November 2014.
History
Doxbin was established by an individual known online as "nachash" to act as a secure, anonymous venue for the publication of a dox. Dox being a term in Internet culture which refers to personally identifiable information about individuals, including social security numbers, street addresses, usernames, emails, and passwords, obtained through a variety of legal and illegal means.
In November 2012, Doxbin's Twitter handle @Doxbin was attributed to an attack on Symantec, coordinated with Anonymous' Operation Vendetta.
It first attracted attention in March 2014 when its then-owner hijacked a popular Tor hidden service, The Hidden Wiki, pointing its visitors to Doxbin instead as a response to the maintenance of pages dedicated to child pornography links. In June 2014, their Twitter account was suspended, prompting the site to start listing the personal information of the Twitter founders and CEO. In October 2014, Doxbin hosted personal information about Katherine Forrest, a federal judge responsible for court rulings against the owner of Tor-based black market Silk Road, leading to death threats and harassment.
Doxbin and several other hidden services were seized in November 2014 as part of the multinational police initiative Operation Onymous. Shortly thereafter, one of the site's operators who avoided arrest shared the site's logs and information about how it was compromised with the Tor developers email list, suggesting it could have either been the result of a specialized distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) or exploited mistakes in its PHP code. However, the site could still be restored easily by setting up a new domain.
See also
Cyberstalking legislation
Internet privacy
Privacy law
References
Defunct Tor hidden services
Internet privacy
Internet properties disestablished in 2014
Internet services shut down by a legal challenge
Domain name seizures by United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayanaswamy%20Balakrishnan | Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan is an Indian aerospace and computer scientist. He is a Professor of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Supercomputer Education Research Centre of Indian Institute of Science and a visiting professor of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. Balakrishnan was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri
Biography
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, hailing from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was born on 1 July 1950. He graduated (BE Hons) in Electronics and Communication in 1972 from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology, University of Madras and obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru in 1979. He started his career as an assistant professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering of IISc and continues his service there as an associate director and professor. He also works as a visiting professor of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and the Institute for Software Research International, Carnegie Mellon University and is a director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Industrial Finance Corporation of India, Bharat Sanchar Nigam and the Data Security Council of India. Currently he is heading the National Supercomuting Mission of India approved by Government of India as 7-year project with a budget of 4,500 cr. He held the Satish Dhawan chair professorship of the Division of Information Sciences of IISc from 2003 to 2006 and is a former member of the National Security Advisory Board and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. He is a former Deputy Managing Director of El Forge Ltd, and has held the posts of a director at C-DOT Alcatel Lucent Research Centre and Bharat Electronics. He has also served as a director of the Central Bank of India from where he retired in January 2015.
Balakrishnan is known to have contributed to the establishment of the National Centre for Science Information and Supercomputer Education Research Centre, in 1984 and 1994 respectively, at the Indian Institute of Science. He is involved with the Million Books to the Web Project (MBP), an initiative of the Digital Library of India. On the scientific front, his contributions are reported in the areas of monopulse array antennas and polarimetric Radars. His scientific achievements and observations have been recorded in over 230 articles published in many peer reviewed national and international journals, Google Scholar, an online repository of scientific articles, listing 216 of them.
He was on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2016 to 2018.
Awards and recognitions
Balakrishnan received the UNESCO/ROSTSCA Young Scientist Award in 1985 followed by the J. C. Bose Memorial Award of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) in 1987. Sri Hari Om Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award reached hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PlayStation%20applications | This is a list of PlayStation applications currently planned or released via the PlayStation Network.
Applications
Mobile & PC
Entertainment services
Assorted
Virtual Reality
Archaic
License regions
References
PlayStation applications
Applications
Applications
Applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro%20Rusinov | Dmytro Rusinov (born 26 February 1990) is a Ukrainian biathlete.
References
External links
Biathlon.com.ua
IBU Datacenter
1990 births
Living people
Ukrainian male biathletes
Universiade medalists in biathlon
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Ukraine
Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine
Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine
Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis%20of%20parallel%20algorithms | In computer science, the analysis of parallel algorithms is the process of finding the computational complexity of algorithms executed in parallel – the amount of time, storage, or other resources needed to execute them. In many respects, analysis of parallel algorithms is similar to the analysis of sequential algorithms, but is generally more involved because one must reason about the behavior of multiple cooperating threads of execution. One of the primary goals of parallel analysis is to understand how a parallel algorithm's use of resources (speed, space, etc.) changes as the number of processors is changed.
Background
A so-called work-time (WT) (sometimes called work-depth, or work-span) framework was originally introduced by Shiloach and Vishkin
for conceptualizing and describing parallel algorithms.
In the WT framework, a parallel algorithm is first described in terms of parallel rounds. For each round, the operations to be performed are characterized, but several issues can be suppressed. For example, the number of operations at each round need not be clear, processors need not be mentioned and any information that may help with the assignment of processors to jobs need not be accounted for. Second, the suppressed information is provided. The inclusion of the suppressed information is guided by the proof of a scheduling theorem due to Brent, which is explained later in this article. The WT framework is useful since while it can greatly simplify the initial description of a parallel algorithm, inserting the details suppressed by that initial description is often not very difficult. For example, the WT framework was adopted as the basic presentation framework in the parallel algorithms books (for the Parallel random-access machine PRAM model)
and,
as well as in the class notes
. The overview below explains how the WT framework can be used for analyzing more general parallel algorithms, even when their description is not available within the WT framework.
Definitions
Suppose computations are executed on a machine that has processors. Let denote the time that expires between the start of the computation and its end. Analysis of the computation's running time focuses on the following notions:
The work of a computation executed by processors is the total number of primitive operations that the processors perform. Ignoring communication overhead from synchronizing the processors, this is equal to the time used to run the computation on a single processor, denoted .
The depth or span is the length of the longest series of operations that have to be performed sequentially due to data dependencies (the critical path). The depth may also be called the critical path length of the computation. Minimizing the depth/span is important in designing parallel algorithms, because the depth/span determines the shortest possible execution time. Alternatively, the span can be defined as the time spent computing using an idealized machine with a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20%26%20Friends%3A%20Sodor%27s%20Legend%20of%20the%20Lost%20Treasure | Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure is a 2015 British computer-animated fantasy adventure comedy film and the ninth feature-length special movie of the British television series, Thomas & Friends. The film is produced by HIT Entertainment and animated by Arc Productions.
The film stars the voices of Joseph May and John Hasler as the voice of Thomas in the US and UK dubs respectively. It stars the voices of Olivia Colman, Keith Wickham, Tim Whitnall, Rob Rackstraw, William Hope, Kerry Shale, Christopher Ragland, Glenn Wrage, Joe Mills, Teresa Gallagher, Jules de Jongh, Steven Kynman and Tom Stourton in supporting roles.
Eddie Redmayne, Sir John Hurt, Jamie Campbell Bower and Nathan Clarke join the series’ voice cast, although only Bower and Clarke would continue to be involved in future projects. The film marks the screen debuts of Rex, Bert and Mike, the Arlesdale Railway engines, the central characters of the Reverend Wilbert Awdry's book, Small Railway Engines. The three characters, based on real locomotives from the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, had previously only appeared in The Railway Series and had been omitted from the TV show. Several characters who had been absent from the television series for many years also make their return.
The film also features a cameo appearance from a fictionalized version of Wilbert Awdry, the author of the original books. The film received a theatrical release in the UK during July 2015 and in Australia during August, and was released on DVD on September 19. It was met with mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised the direction and solid plot but one critical of the film's somewhat dark undertone.
Plot
It is a bright sunny day on Sodor, as Thomas chuffs along his branch line with Annie and Clarabel. When he sees Bertie, he decides to race with him, but nearly gets into trouble along the way, narrowly avoiding rail work and nearly having a head-on collision with Toby when he passes a red signal. Bertie believes that he will win, due to him being in first place for the majority of the race, but his chances of winning become slim when he has to slow down for Oliver the excavator, who is slowly trundling along the small countryside road. Thomas gets the upper hand in the race and Bertie finally gets past Oliver, who takes a shortcut, passing by a familiar man on a bicycle. When Thomas stops at Ffarquhar, he is very pleased with himself for winning, but Annie and Clarabel are not and scold him for racing, but he just ignores their scolding, remarking he has raced on his branch line for years. Bertie arrives at the station, cross that he has lost, remarking that ever since the new branch line's construction site, he has been held up by construction vehicles. Annie and Clarabel fear their branch line will be closed in favour of the new one, but Thomas dismisses it.
Meanwhile, Marion is on her way to the construction yard, fascinated by the enchanting scenery of the forest at Arles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Reavers | was a free-to-play multiplayer online game developed and published by Bandai Namco for the Wii U. The game was distributed via Nintendo eShop, and took advantage of the Nintendo Network. A public beta test was being held in Japan from 3 September until 13 September, followed by the title's commercial release on 2 December 2015. The game also released internationally on 28 April 2016. As of 30 May 2019, the game’s servers have been shut down.
Gameplay
At any given session, four players assume the roles of four characters - Sayuri, Dwayne, Victoria, and ShadowStalker - working cooperatively in missions to raid multi-roomed maps and recover treasure known as Relics. Players face against waves of various undead monsters, including giant bosses, in order to clear rooms, solve various puzzles, and move Relics to a certain point. Whilst recovering a Relic, one player taking the responsibility will be vulnerable, and has to depend on the team for protection. There is a play style system in defeating and defending from monsters called a "Multi-View Action System", including melee attacks, third-person shooting (trailing and over-the-shoulder), and first-person shooting. In the case one or more player falls, they can depend on their teammates for recovery, otherwise if all four players fall, then it is a mission failure. To clear any mission, the Relic must reach a certain point on the map. Or the players must defeat a boss.
The game also features events like most free-to-play games, such as getting higher EXP for finishing missions for the first 2 weeks.
Development
The game was announced on 14 January 2015, under its tentative title Project Treasure, via that month's Nintendo Direct presentation in all major regions. Producer Harada was featured in a segment opening up about a game they were working on exclusively for Wii U. The game is a free-to-play online, four-player co-operative action title which any Wii U owner with a Nintendo Network ID could download and join in, provided their console is always online. According to Harada, "four players could work together to complete varied stages" and "[the] basic aim is to clear traps, rout enemies, and seize treasure." Harada then concluded he was unable to disclose the game's official title or release date at that time, but he gave away the tentative title being "Project Treasure" and confirmed "[they are] working very hard on it." The segment closed hinting the game was coming soon.
Throughout the announcement segment, an array image featuring four different characters was teased, and no actual footage of the game was shown. On 31 May 2015, during the Japanese Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo released a gameplay trailer, featuring four unique characters fighting zombies in fast-paced melee combat within a labyrinth to find the treasure. The trailer concluded teasing that more information on the game would be revealed in the vague summer window of 2015. A day later, Nintendo of America released |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriza%20Youth | Syriza Youth () is the youth organisation of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) in Greece. Founded in 2013, it was a member of the European Network of Democratic Young Left (Endyl).
Formation
The Syriza Youth was founded when the largely bottom-up structure of Young Syriza () groups and the Synaspismos Youth united forming a nationwide organisation.
At the founding conference on 19–22 December 2013, 522 delegates of the 128 local groups both in Greece and abroad convened in Kerameikos, Athens. The four-day conference was also attended by a number of Syriza leaders including party secretary Dimitris Vitsas and parliamentary spokesman Panagiotis Kouroumplis.
On 22 December, the delegates ratified the final text of the founding declaration on the first ballot. Inner-organisational tensions however culminated when the "Left Platform" opposed the final text arguing that it lacked a clear political position as a government of the Left should not accept any compromise with its creditors. The "Left Movement" voted blank after their "Charter of the Rights of Youth" had been rejected as an amendment by a majority of the delegates.
The delegates concluded with the election of 67 members of the organisation's first Central Council with the more pragmatic factions winning a clear majority. Four additional members remained to be appointed as honorary members.
Founding Declaration
By its founding declaration the organisation defines itself as being part of the radical left that participates in the class struggle striving to abolish all kinds of exploitation and aiming at a Socialism of the 21st century. The organisation's manifesto includes ten positions:
Young peoples' rights
Anti-fascism
Alternative, non-commercial culture
Feminism and opposition to the patriarchy
Democratic and social rights
Anti-racism and opposition to "Fortress Europe"
Green politics
Public space appropriation
Free access to amateur sports
A solidarity economy.
Syriza Youth upholds a quota of one third for young women to participate in all organisational bodies.
Local and international branches
Apart from branches all over Greece, the Syriza Youth also has a number of international branches in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Dissolution
On 1 September 2015, 38 out of 71 members of the Syriza Youth central council, including the national secretary Elias Panteleakοs, resigned, withdrawing their support for Syriza in the forthcoming elections.
References
External links
Youth wings of political parties in Greece
2013 establishments in Greece
Syriza
Youth wings of Party of the European Left member parties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothing%20%28disambiguation%29 | Smoothing is the reduction or elimination in the roughness or unevenness of a surface or other thing.
Smoothing may refer to:
Smoothing, a type of statistical technique for handling data
Smoothing (phonetics)
Image smoothing
Relaxation (iterative method), iterative smoothing of solutions and errors in computational science
The Smoothing problem in stochastic processes. See Smoothing problem (stochastic processes)
See also
Smooth (disambiguation)
Polishing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaranda%20Software | Jacaranda Software was an Australian developer and publisher of educational computer games for children. It was based in Brisbane, Australia and published under the leadership of John Collins. The team worked as a department of Jacaranda-Wiley; the Australian imprint of American publishing company, Wiley. While it was considered initially as an experimental venture, it proved to be profitable from its first year through to its closure in the early 1990s. Jacaranda Software released titles for a range of computer systems, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, Macintosh, Microbee and BBC Micro.
After the department closed, former employees David Smith, Bruce Mitchell, and Steve Luckett continued to write software for schools, under the name Greygum Software. They bought remaining stock, rights, and equipment from Jacaranda. Popular Jacaranda titles included Goldfields, Kraken: a deep sea quest, Desert Quest and Crossing the Mountains.
Greygum Software closed in 2018 due to the retirement of its owners.
Releases
External links
Greygum Software - stockists of several former Jacaranda Software titles
Using Computers in the Primary School by Rosemary Guttormsen (1987 Apple Computer Australia) - Apple educational handbook mentions Jacaranda Software among others
References
Educational games
Defunct technology companies of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindara%2C%20Gujarat | Pindara, also known as Pindaraka or Pindataraka is a village near Dwarka, on the shoreline of Gulf of Kutch, in Devbhoomi Dwarka district of Gujarat, India.
History
In literature
In the Mahabharata (3.82), Pindaraka is described as "One should proceed with subdued senses and regulated diet to Dwaravati, whereby bathing in the holy place called Pindaraka, [where] one obtain the fruit of the gift of gold in abundance". Anushasanaparva (25.57) of Mahabharata also mentions Pindaraka as a pilgrim site.
It is situated Ujjyantha Parva, and also described in Mahabharatha as "Ujjayantaparvata, this mountain is situated in Saurashtra near Pindaraka temple. This mountain is said to have mystic powers as per Mahabharata Vanaparva Chapter 21." The temple was submerged in sea at the end of Dwaraka's Yadava clash among them.
This is the place where the saints (rishis) cursed Yadava clan, which resulted in the clan's destruction.
Archeology
The site was occupied in Early Paleolithic. An excavation had found Red Polished Ware and pieces of amphorae which suggested an early settlement with sea connection to Mediterranean. The site was a place of pilgrimage as early as 8th century.
There is a group of five temples and a mandapa near the village dated 7th to 10th century. They are protected monuments.
The National Institute of Oceanography, Goa discovered a submerged temple complex along the coast of Pindara. An onshore exploration on the northwestern Saurashtra revealed the remains of a temple complex currently in the tidal zone.
References
Locations in Hindu mythology
Mahabharata
Archaeological sites in Gujarat
Villages in Devbhoomi Dwarka district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensygnia | Ensygnia is a UK-based technology company. They aggregate across identity management, mobile payments and cyber security acting as an interaction gateway. Ensygnia's primary product is Onescan, a transaction and identity management platform.
History
Ensygnia operations began in 2012. In 2013 the company secured $3.3 million in seed funding and successfully applied for and received two UK patents. Ensygnia was also one of 17 start-ups accepted into the London-based Telefonica funded Wayra Academy for the year 2013. At the end of 2013, Ensygnia acquired Mustard Digital and its retail site Snaptaps.
In 2014, Ensygnia won 'Best Software Solution' at the Mobile Industry Awards, reached the final on the Innotribe start-up challenge and became a start-up in residence at BBC labs.
In June 2015, Ensygnia was listed as one of the best funded (B2B) Commerce Enablers in Europe.
See also
Computer security
Mobile payments
Identity management
References
Financial services companies established in 2012
Mobile payments
Electronic funds transfer
Information technology companies of the United Kingdom
Security companies of the United Kingdom
Financial technology companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplachne | Diplachne is a genus of plants in the grass family, widespread over much of the world.
Species
Diplachne cuspidata Launert - Namibia
Diplachne fascicularis (Lam.) P.Beauv. - North America, West Indies, South America
Diplachne festuciformis H.Scholz - Libya
Diplachne fusca (L.) P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. - North America, West Indies, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia
Diplachne gigantea Launert - Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Botswana
Formerly included
over 100 species once considered part of Diplachne but now considered better suited to other genera: Bewsia Catapodium Cleistogenes Disakisperma Enteropogon Eragrostis Festuca Gouinia Leptocarydion Leptochloa Neyraudia Odyssea Orinus Pogonarthria Psilolemma Trichoneura Tripogon Triraphis Verticordia
References
Chloridoideae
Poaceae genera
Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCID%20%28protocol%29 | CCID (chip card interface device) protocol is a USB protocol that allows a smartcard to be connected to a computer via a card reader using a standard USB interface, without the need for each manufacturer of smartcards to provide its own reader or protocol. This allows the smartcard to be used as a security token for authentication and data encryption, such as that used in BitLocker. Chip card interface devices come in a variety of forms. The smallest CCID form is a standard USB dongle and may contain a SIM card or Secure Digital card inside the USB dongle. Another popular interface is a USB smart card reader keyboard, which in addition to being a standard USB keyboard, has an built-in slot for accepting a smartcard. However, not all CCID compliant devices accept removable smartcards, for example, select Yubikey hardware authentication devices support CCID, where they play the role of both the card reader and the smartcard itself.
Hardware implementation
According to the CCID specification by the USB standards work group, a CCID exchanges information through a host computer over USB by using a CCID message that consists of a 10-byte header followed by message-specific data. The standard defines fourteen commands that the host computer can use to send data and status and control information in messages. Every command requires at least one response message from the CCID.
Software driver
CCID driver support has been natively supported by Microsoft beginning with Windows 2000. Apple has included some form of native CCID support since Mac OS X, with support evolving alongside Common Access Card and Personal Identity Verification specifications set by the US Federal Government. On Linux and other Unixes, CCID and CT-API devices are usually accessed with user-space drivers, for which no special kernel adaptation is required.
List of CCID providers
Advanced Card Systems
ActivIdentity
Baltech
Bit4id
Blutronics srl
Elyctis
Gemalto
Giesecke & Devrient
HID Global
JaCarta
rf IDEAS
SafeNet
SecuTech Solutions
SpringCard
Verisign
Yubico
Reiner Kartenlesegeräte
DUALi
References
Computer access control
Microsoft Windows security technology
Smart cards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo%20Sapiro | Guillermo Sapiro (born 1966) is an Israeli-Uruguayan computer scientist, electrical engineer and professor who has made notable contributions to image processing. He worked at The University of Minnesota for 15 years before becoming a professor at Duke University. He has also worked at Hewlett Packard Labs (HP Laboratories) researching image processing and is known for being one of the people who originally developed the LOCO-I Compression Algorithm for lossless image compression (that was used in NASA's ICER image file format for various Mars rover expeditions) while he was working there. He has also made significant contributions towards the development of the rotobrush tool in Adobe After Effects, which has been included in After Effects since version CS5. Adobe makes use of his research in various projects like Photoshop and also frequently hires his students. He also teaches a massive open online course through Coursera on image and video processing. The title of the course is "Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital." He lives with his wife, older son, younger daughter, and a golden doodle named Inti.
References
1966 births
Living people
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli electrical engineers
Uruguayan computer scientists
Duke University faculty
University of Minnesota faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undiagnosed%20Diseases%20Network | The Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) is a research study that is funded by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund. Its purpose is to bring together clinical and research experts from across the United States to solve the most challenging medical mysteries using advanced technologies.
UDN was established in 2014 with seven clinical sites located at medical institutions across the United States. As of 2019, twelve clinical sites are open. Shared resources include a central biorepository, sequencing core, metabolomics core, and animal research centers.
History
In 2008, the National Institute of Health (NIH) established the Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP), with the intent to provide medical care to patients with rare diseases seeking a diagnosis and to discover new pathways and mechanisms involved in disease. At the time, ongoing genomic research and advances in DNA sequencing strengthened the potential for successes in precision medicine, providing a stimulus to the objectives of the UDP. The UDP, initially founded within the NIH Intramural Research Program, has now evolved into the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) and is funded by the NIH Common Fund. Upon its launch, the UDN consisted of the UDP, six additional clinical sites around the nation, a coordinating center, two DNA sequencing cores, a model organisms screening center, a metabolomics core, and a central biorepository. In seven years, the UDP received 2954 complete applications and evaluated 863 individuals.
In September 2015, the UDN opened an online portal for patient applications, signifying the official launch of the UDN. By December 2019, 4077 patients had been referred to the UDN, and around 40% of the cases were accepted. 374 patients have received a diagnosis.
Institutes and locations
Clinical sites
At clinical sites, accepted UDN participants undergo comprehensive medical examinations, family history studies, physical examinations, collection of biological specimens, laboratory tests, consultations, and imaging studies. Evaluations are typically conducted over a five-day period, with follow-up visits scheduled if necessary.
As of 2019, twelve clinical sites are open; the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD), Harvard Medical School, Duke University in collaboration with Columbia University, Baylor College of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Miami, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, University of Washington, Washington University in St. Louis.
Central Biorepository
The UDN Central Biorepository (UDNCB) receives roughly 1,200 biological samples each year from the combined clinical sites. Through the UDN online portal, clinical sites can view, submit, and request samples, as well as review contact information for the UDNCB. Biological samples prioritized by the UDNCB include DNA, serum, plasma, urine, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfields%20%28video%20game%29 | Goldfields is a computer game for children which simulates 'life on the diggings' during a 19th-century gold rush. Beginning with a concept by Trevor Jacob, it was developed and published by Jacaranda Software in Australia in 1986. It was first released for Apple II, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and IBM compatible systems. The first Macintosh version was later developed using Hypercard. The original Goldfields package contained a disk, teacher's guide, four black-line masters and a copy of A Goldfields Journal or A Guide to Prospective Gold Seekers. A review in Australian Educational Computing magazine described it as 'a particularly useful package, adaptable to a number of levels in both upper primary and secondary social science classes.' The game also received a favourable review from the Australian Journal of Reading in 1986. Despite its age, Goldfields remains well regarded as a mining-themed economic simulator with integrated action sequences.
Due to its ongoing popularity with children and educators, it was rewritten from scratch for Windows XP and Macintosh OSX by Greygum Software in 2007, who bought the rights to the title after Jacaranda Software's closure in the early 1990s.
An emulated version is available to play on archive.org.
References
Simulation video games
Educational games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranacoleia%20cuspidata | Paranacoleia cuspidata is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Xi-Cui Du and Hou-Hun Li in 2008. It is found in Fujian, China.
References
Moths described in 2008
Spilomelinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe%20Direct | Europe Direct is a European information network designated by the European Commission. The target group is all citizens of the European Union.
Network
Europe Direct includes EUROPE DIRECT Centres, European Documentation Centres (EDC), the EU Team EUROPE DIRECT speakers bureau and the call centre Europe Direct Contact Centre. The network was created in 2005 and restructured in February 2009.
Costs
All European Direct offers are free of charge. Team Europe may require travel costs and a fee.
Mission
The main aim of Europe Direct is to provide European citizens with general information on the European Union. Other aims include the answering of questions on political activities of the European Union and promoting European integration. Advice and practical tips on rights entitled to Union citizens are provided.
Inquiries to the Europe Direct Contact Centre, in any of the current 24 official languages, are processed in a central contact point and answered in the same language. The customer service staff must be fluent in at least three languages and have a university degree.
Europe Direct support is available via telephone (free of charge within the EU and on a uniform number), e-mail or web-chat. The EU-wide network of 424 EUROPE DIRECT centres (including 7 in Ireland, 3 in Malta and one in Curaçao (launched in May 2021) ) are open to the public. The current generation of EUROPE DIRECT centres started its activities on 1 May 2021 and will continue until 2025. These centres are run by national or private organisations under a public contract. They are co-funded by the European Commission.
References
External links
Europe direct
European Commission |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talpa%20TV | Talpa TV (formerly SBS Broadcasting B.V.) is a Dutch commercial broadcasting company owned by John de Mol's Talpa Network.
History
The network was launched by SBS Broadcasting in 1995 with the introduction of SBS6, the third commercial channel of The Netherlands after RTL 4 and RTL 5. A second channel was added on 1 March 1999 with the launch of NET5, with this channel the network wanted to challenge the dutch public broadcasting system. In 2001 the group bought Fox from News Corporation and renamed it V8, the channel was shared with Fox Kids during the daytime. They initially bought the channel for Veronica, because Veronica left the Holland Media Groep and were looking for a new network. Veronica considered various options, such as returning to the public broadcasting system, but reached an agreement with Viacom to broadcast in the evening on TMF. This arrangement didn't work out and the trust behind Veronica made a deal with SBS Broadcasting. In the deal V8 would be transformed to Veronica and their publishing house would transfer to SBS Broadcasting, in exchange for a 10% share in the Dutch branch of SBS Broadcasting and a licensing fee for their name.
In 2005 SBS Broadcasting SA, the international company to which SBS Broadcasting B.V. partially belonged, was acquired by investors Permira and KKR for € 2,1 billion. That same year the new owners struck a deal with Telegraaf Media Group (27%) and Vereniging Veronica (10%) the other owners of the Dutch branch, in which both would sell their share. The entire global network of SBS Broadcasting was acquired in 2007 by ProSiebenSat. 1 for € 3,3 billion. The Dutch branch was taken over in 2011 by the Finish publisher Sanoma and John de Mol’s Talpa Holding, holding a 67% and 33% stake respectively. The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets agreed to the acquisition on the condition that John de Mol would sell his 26% stake in RTL Nederland, which he acquired when he sold them his channel Tien. With the new owners SBS Broadcasting launched a video on demand service called KIJK in 2013 and a fourth channel called SBS9 in 2015.
Sanoma left the enterprise in 2017, when they sold their 67% share for € 237 million to John de Mol’s Talpa Holding. Sanoma would completely acquire the Veronica Publishing house in this deal. With the acquisition John de Mol wanted to create a strong Dutch media empire with his other assets. This resulted in the creation of Talpa Network in 2017 and the renaming of SBS Broadcasting B.V. to Talpa TV, the channels were placed as a vertical in the Talpa Network empire.
Proposed merger with RTL Nederland
After the complete acquisition of SBS Broadcasting in 2017, John de Mol sought a partnership with RTL Nederland. In his opinion there wasn’t enough space in the Dutch market for two major networks, RTL shut down his offer. However in June 2021 RTL Nederland and Talpa Network announced plans for a merger, pending approval by the European Commission and the Netherla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20Mamdani | Muhammad Mamdani is a Canadian professor, pharmacist and epidemiologist, known for contributions to pharmacoeconomics, drug safety and application of data analytics and artificial intelligence to medical systems.
Biography
Mamdani is a professor in the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine at the University of Toronto. He completed a master of arts degree at Wayne State University, followed by a PharmD at University of Michigan and a master of public health degree at Harvard University.
He is the Vice-President of Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Unity Health Toronto, and the founder and Director of the Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM). He also is the Director and founder of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Healthcare Analytics Research and Training (LKS-CHART), a healthcare data analytics program based at Unity Health Toronto. He founded the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN), a collaboration between policy makers and investigators in Ontario that serves to inform the province and the country on policy that affects system efficiency, quality of care and health outcomes. He also founded the Applied Health Research Centre, an academic research organization in Ontario, which has managed over 100 multi-site clinical studies since its inception 10 years ago. He has published over 500 peer reviewed manuscripts in his career (over 40,000 citations), including in the areas of drug safety, pharmacoeconomics, and application of machine learning to clinical and policy problems.
References
Canadian medical researchers
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Wayne State University alumni
University of Michigan College of Pharmacy alumni
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni
Canadian pharmacists
Canadian epidemiologists
Canadian people of Indian descent
Khoja Ismailism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J73%20%28disambiguation%29 | J73 could refer to:
General Electric J73, a type of jet engine
HMS Niger (J73), A British minesweeper
Johnson solid J73, a geometric shape
JOVIAL J73, a computer programming language
LNER Class J73, a class of British steam locomotives
TransMilenio J73, a Colombian bus rapid transit route |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Cost%20Coding%20System | A Standard Cost Coding System is a system of cost classification that can be used for benchmarking cost and quantities data. In the Norwegian oil and gas industry, NORSOK Z-014 developed as part of the NORSOK standards. ISO is also developing a Standard Cost coding System as an extension of NORSOK Z-014 under ISO 19008.
Typically a Cost Classification system would be used to classify, activities, resources and product structure. In NORSOK Z-014, these classification taxonomies are called Standard Activity Breakdown (SAB), Code of Resources (COR) and Physical Breakdown Structure (PBS).
References
Trade and industrial classification systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JsSIP | JsSIP is a library for the programming language JavaScript. It takes advantage of SIP and WebRTC to provide a fully featured SIP endpoint in any website. JsSIP allows any website to get real-time communication features using audio and video. It makes it possible to build SIP user agents that send and receive audio and video calls as well as and text messages.
General features
SIP over WebSocket transport
Audio-video calls, instant messaging and presence
Pure JavaScript built from the ground up
Easy to use and powerful user API
Works with OverSIP, Kamailio, and Asterisk servers
SIP standards
Standards
JsSIP implements the following SIP specifications:
— SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
— SIP Update Method
— The Reason Header Field for SIP
— SIP Extension Header Field for Registering Non-Adjacent Contacts (Path header)
— SIP Extension for Instant Messaging (MESSAGE method)
— Session Timers in SIP
— Managing Client-Initiated Connections in SIP (Outbound mechanism)
— Essential Correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI Comparison in RFC 3261
— Correct Transaction Handling for 2xx Responses to SIP INVITE Requests
— The WebSocket Protocol as a Transport for SIP
Interoperability
SIP proxies, servers
JsSIP uses the SIP over WebSocket transport for sending and receiving SIP requests and responses, and thus, it requires a SIP proxy/server with WebSocket support. Currently the following SIP servers have been tested and are using JsSIP as the basis for their WebRTC Gateway functionality:
FreeSWITCH
FRAFOS ABC WebRTC Gateway
OverSIP
Kamailio
Asterisk
reSIProcate and repro
WebRTC web browsers
At the media plane (audio calls), JsSIP version 0.2.0 works with Chrome browser from version 24.
At the signaling plane (SIP protocol), JsSIP runs in any WebSocket capable browser.
License
JsSIP is provided as open-source software under the MIT license.
References
External links
JavaScript libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20members%20of%20the%20Virginia%20House%20of%20Delegates%20%28A%29 | This is a complete list of former members of the Virginia House of Delegates whose last names begin with the letter A.
External links
The Virginia Elections and State Elected Officials Database Project, 1776-2008
A History of the Virginia House of Delegates
Former members of the Virginia House of Delegates (A)
Members of the Virginia House of Delegates
House of Delegates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%20Schwartz | Jules I. Schwartz (June 26, 1927 – June 6, 2013) was an American computer scientist chiefly known for his creation of the JOVIAL programming language.
He served in the United States Army in both World War II and the Korean War. He attended graduate school at Columbia University, where he received a Master of Arts in Mathematics in 1961. At Columbia Schwartz became acquainted with some early computers at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. In 1954 he joined RAND Corporation where he developed utility software for the JOHNNIAC computer and worked on PACT compiler for the IBM 704. In 1955 he joined the MIT Lincoln Laboratory to work on the SAGE computer.
Schwartz went with System Development Corporation (SDC) when it was spun off from RAND in 1957. At SDC he helped develop the JOVIAL programming language in 1959-1960 —the acronym standing for Jules Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language, although Schwartz claimed this was originally a joke.
After this he worked on the AN/FSQ-32 computer system and other projects, eventually becoming director of technology at SDC. In 1970 he began working at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
References
External links
Oral history interview with Jules I. Schwartz (1989). Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
1927 births
2013 deaths
American computer scientists
United States Army personnel of World War II
United States Army personnel of the Korean War
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
RAND Corporation people
MIT Lincoln Laboratory people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Datapalooza | The Health Datapalooza is an annual conference which exists to promote access to open data in the United States for the purpose of improving public health. Since its inception in 2010, Health Datapalooza has become the gathering place for people and organizations creating knowledge from data and pioneering innovations that drive health policy and practice.
History
The first Health Datapalooza was a meeting organized in 2010 as the Health Data Initiative Forum in response to the newly established website and database HealthData.gov. The Obama administration invited 45 people to gather to consider 30 data sets and develop some prototype application using them within 30 days.
Datapalooza 2012
At Health Datapalooza 2012, the first time that name was used, a call was made for innovators to use data related to health and nutrition.
Datapalooza 2013
In giving the keynote address at the fourth Datapalooza, Jonathan S. Bush of athenahealth said "Data scientist may be the sexiest career in the 21st-century!" 1900 attendees and 80 companies joined the event.
Datapalooza 2014
A topic of discussion was the Republican Party's criticism of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's authority to create a health IT safety center.
Datapalooza 2016
Current Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden gave a keynote address and discussed his family's struggles with cancer.
References
External links
Medical conferences
Data storage conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaterialCenter | MaterialCenter is a materials data management system designed to capture data from integrated processes for traceability across the enterprise during the entire product life cycle.
It serves as the single point of entry for materials related activities such as physical test data entry and reduction, multi-scale materials modeling, approval work flow, and the export of simulation ready data to analysis. MaterialCenter supports commercial CAE products including MSC Nastran, MSC Fatigue, Marc, and e-Xstream Digimat.
See also
MSC Software
References
External links
MSC Software
Manufacturing software
Computer-aided manufacturing software
Computer-aided engineering software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM2 | TM2 or Tm2 may refer to:
Soyuz TM-2, the spacecraft used to launch a long duration crew to the Soviet space station Mir
Thermal Monitor 2, a computer central processing unit thermal control
TM2, a Rolls-Royce Marine Olympus gas turbine
Square terametre (Tm2), a multiple of the SI unit of surface area, the square metre
Tm^2, a metric unit equal to a weber
Twisted Metal 2, a 1996 video game
See also
5857 Neglinka (1975 TM2), a main-belt asteroid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kan%20H%C3%A5kansson | Håkan Håkansson (born 1947) is a Swedish organizational theorist, and Professor of International Management at the BI Norwegian Business School, known for his work on business networks.<ref>Freeman, Christopher, and Luc Soete, eds. The economics of industrial innovation. Psychology Press, 1997.</ref>Henneberg, Stephan C., Stefanos Mouzas, and Peter Naudé. "Network pictures: concepts and representations." European Journal of Marketing 40.3/4 (2006): 408-429.
Biography
Håkansson attended the Technical High School in Örebro, where he graduated as engineer in 1967. He obtained his BS in Business Administration in 1970 at the Uppsala University, where in 1975 he also obtained his PhD in Business Administration with the thesis, entitled "Studies in Industrial Purchasing with special reference to Determinants of Communication Patterns."
In 1970 Håkansson started his academic career at the Department of Business Studies of the University of Uppsala as Lecturer, and got promoted Associate Professor in 1976. In 1983 he moved to the Stockholm School of Economics, where he taught for three years. He held a Special Research Position at the Social Science Research Council back in Uppsala from 1986 to 1993, and then was appointed Professor of Business Studies, especially Industrial Marketing at the University of Uppsala. In 2000 he moved to the BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo (BI Oslo), where he was Professor in Marketing for a year, and is Professor in International Management since 2001 at the Department of Innovation and Economic Organisation.
Håkansson has been Visiting Researcher and/or Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1978; the University of Stanford in 1991; the Kellogg Graduate School, Northwestern University in 1991; the Norwegian School of Technology, Trondheim in 1993; Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg in 1994; the Norwegian School of Technology, Trondheim since 1997, at MIT in 1998, the Twente University since 1998, the University of Bath in 1999.
In 1976 Håkansson was one of the co-founders of the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP Group) and became one of its most noted representatives. In 1994 Håkansson is elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and in 2010 he received the Herbert Simon Award.
Work
Håkansson's research interests are in the field of "inter-organisational business relationships and business networks with particular focus on innovation and economic development."
Business networks
The central concept in the theory of business networks is the network concept. Håkansson and Snehota (1995) defined this as follows:
A network has no clear boundaries, nor any centre or apex. It exists as an ‘organization’ in terms of a certain logic affecting the ordering of activities, resources and actors.
Business networks evolve over time, according to Håkansson and Ford (2002):
The history of a business network is the proce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20network%20%28disambiguation%29 | A business network is a complex network of companies, working together to accomplish certain goals. Other uses are:
Specific companies
Fox Business Network
Global Business Network
Russian Business Network
See also
Business networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bangladeshi%20films%20of%201974 | A list of Bangladesh films 1974
See also
1974 in Bangladesh
References
External links
Bangladeshi films on Internet Movie Database
Film
Bangladesh
1974 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarifverbund%20Nordwestschweiz | The Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz, also known by its initialisation TNW, is a Swiss public transport tariff network covering the whole of the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, together with parts of the cantons of Aargau, Jura and Solothurn.
The TNW network offers various kinds of tickets, from single tickets to annual season tickets, which are valid on the buses, trams and trains of the operators that are members of the network. Tickets are only valid within the TNW area, and prices are based on zones, with 48 zones covering the whole of the TNW area.
One section of Baselland Transport's tram line 10 crosses through France, and this section of the route is included in the TNW network. However this does not apply to the extension of Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe's tram line 8 to Weil am Rhein in Germany. Instead, the TNW is itself a member of the triregio integrated fares network, which also covers the adjoining areas of France and Germany.
Operators
The operators which make up the network are:
Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB)
Baselland Transport (BLT)
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
PostBus Switzerland
Autobus AG Liestal (AAGL)
Waldenburgbahn (WB)
References
External links
TNW web site (in German)
TNW web site (English subset)
Transport in Basel-Stadt
Transport in Basel-Landschaft
Transport in Aargau
Transport in the canton of Jura
Transport in the canton of Solothurn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikerie%20railway%20line | The Waikerie railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network.
Route
The Waikerie railway line branched from the Barmera railway line at Karoonda, which was also the junction for the Peebinga railway line on the other side of the main line. It extended north, north-east, and north again to Waikerie, on the cliffs above the Murray River.
History
Before construction started on the Waikerie railway, there was active discussion about where it should branch from the Barmera or Adelaide-Wolseley line. Eventually, the decision was made that it should branch from Karoonda at the 30-mile siding from Tailem Bend. Other possible branching points at that stage included the 40-mile (Borrika) and 58½ miles (Mindarie) from Tailem Bend. There was also a proposal to branch from the 20-mile mark (Wynarka). The line opened on 23 September 1914.
The Waikerie line was part of a significant expansion of the railways in South Australia in the early part of the 20th century to facilitate greater development of the rural areas of the state. The estimated cost of the Karoonda-Waikerie line, including rolling stock, was £251,350, with expected revenue of £10,000 per annum, working expenses of £10,820, and interest costs of £10,054. It was anticipated by the Railways Commissioner that the loss here would be £10,874 per annum. The area to be served was estimated at . The contract for the first was accepted for £16,220 in January 1914. The Galga to Waikerie section closed on 14 March 1990, followed by the Karoonda-Galga section on 4 March 1994.
See also
Rail transport in South Australia
References
Closed railway lines in South Australia
Railway lines opened in 1914
Railway lines closed in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20App%20Runtime%20for%20Chrome | Android Runtime for Chrome (ARC) is a compatibility layer and sandboxing technology for running Android applications on desktop and laptop computers in an isolated environment. It allows applications to be safely run from a web browser, independent of user operating system, at near-native speeds.
Overview
The Android Runtime for Chrome is a partially open-sourced project under development by Google. It was announced by Sundar Pichai at the Google I/O 2014 developer conference. In a limited beta consumer release in September 2014, Duolingo, Evernote, Sight Words, and Vine Android applications were made available in the Chrome Web Store for installation on Chromebook devices running OS version 37 or higher.
, the development by Google is taking place behind closed doors with individual repository commits, code reviews and most issue tracking being kept internal to the company. The open sourced parts of ARC are licensed under a BSD-style license.
Development
In a limited beta consumer release in September 2014, Duolingo, Evernote, Sight Words, and Vine Android applications were made available in the Chrome Web Store for installation on Chromebook devices running OS version 37 or higher.
In October 2014, three more apps were added: CloudMagic, Onefootball, and Podcast Addict.
In March 2015, Anandtech reported that VLC media player should be added in the coming months.
On April 1, 2015, Google released ARC Welder, a Chrome Packaged App providing the ARC runtime and application packager. It is intended to give Android developers a preview of the upcoming technology and a chance to test their Android apps on the Chrome platform.
Architecture
ARC builds upon the Google Native Client. The Native Client platform is being extended with a POSIX-compatible layer on top of the NaCl Integrated Runtime and Pepper APIs which emulate the Linux environment in the foundation of an Android phone. This then allows running an almost unchanged Dalvik VM in a sandboxed environment.
ARC uses the Chrome permission system, not the Android one.
Security
According to a security evaluation by Meng Xu, ARC apps may communicate with other installed Chrome Extensions and the files stored on the underlying operating system which might open avenues to various attacks. These threats are mitigated by the heavily sandboxed environment of ARC.
Community efforts
During the second half of 2014, before any developer tools or documentation was released by Google, several community efforts about ARC appeared.
Vlad Filippov maintains ARChon, an unofficial distribution of the ARC runtime which can be installed to non-Chromebook computers. The same developer also maintains a JavaScript (nodejs) tool to automate packaging Android apps for use with ARC.
Other developers created more user-friendly tools beyond chromeos-apk to simplify packaging applications for the ARCon runtime. The first of them is a Chrome Packaged App called twerk and the other is an Android application ARCon Pack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Roberts | Dr Nigel Roberts FIoD FBCS FRSA is a British computer scientist.
Early life
Dr Roberts was born in Liverpool and grew up in Lancashire.
Education
Educated at Wigan and Prescot Grammar Schools, he received his first degree in Computer Science from Essex University. Whilst at Essex, he was one of the group of students who conceived and developed the world's first multi-user computer game (MUD) along with Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle. In 2008 he was awarded a First in law from the Open University and the College of Law (now known as the University of Law).
Honours
On 7 June 2022 it was announced that he would be awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Essex. The degree of Doctor of the University was conferred at the University's commencement ceremony on 18 July 2022.
Career
His first job was with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) as a software engineer, where (among other projects) he subsequently worked on the pioneering ALL-IN-1 email and office automation system.
In 1996 he founded the Island Networks group of companies, including CHANNELISLES.NET, the registry operator of the .gg and .je top level domains for Guernsey and Jersey.
In 2005 he became the first person in the UK to obtain damages in court in a lawsuit against a sender of unsolicited email.
ICANN
In 1999, Dr Roberts was one of the original members of the ICANN DNSO Names Council, representing the ccTLD constituency. and has been an active participant at ICANN since its foundation. He was one of the participants in the US Government's International Forum on the White Paper (IFWP) in 1997–1998, which led to ICANN's creation.
He later served as one of three elected councillors representing Europe on ICANN's ccNSO Council, one of the two successor bodies to the Names Council between 2013 and the end of June 2018.
In September 2017 he was proposed to the ICANN board of directors by .pr (Puerto Rico), .ci (Côte d'Ivoire) and .be (Belgium). In the subsequent world-wide poll, he was elected receiving 67% of the vote. He served as a director on the ICANN board between October 2018 and October 2021
Politics
He ran as a Liberal Democrat for the UK Parliament in the Ipswich Constituency in the 1997 General Election and later served as an elected member of the Alderney legislature (the States of Alderney) during 2002–2003.
Radio &c
He was a board director and council member of the Radio Society of Great Britain between 1991 and 1996. He holds the amateur radio callsign GU4IJF. He presents an occasional music programme on Channel Island local FM and DAB radio station QUAY-FM and serves as a director of its owner, not-for-profit Alderney Broadcasting Co. Ltd. In November 2021 he joined the board of the Royal Connaught Residential Home.
Professional societies
He has been a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society since 2005.
He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2016 and became a Fellow of the Institute of Directors in 2019. He is a Cha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Balter | Ben Balter is a United States-based lawyer who works for GitHub as their "evangelist" to government agencies.
Balter has said that he works in a field where demand for data and access to repositories is sharply increasing in all sectors.
In 2012 Balter was a "Presidential Innovation Fellow" overseen by Todd Park.
In March 2013 Balter began working for GitHub.
References
External links
video interview by FedScoop
text interview with Fierce Government IT
Businesspeople in information technology
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cas%20Cremers | Casimier Joseph Franciscus "Cas" Cremers (born 1974) is a computer scientist and a faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbruecken, Germany.
Career
Cremers received his PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2006, under the supervision of Sjouke Mauw and Erik de Vink. Between 2006 and 2013, he worked at the Information Security Group at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, until joining the University of Oxford in 2013. He was made full professor of Information Security in 2015.
His research focuses on information security, in particular the formal analysis of security protocols. This work ranges from developing mathematical foundations for protocol analysis to the development of analysis tools, notably the Scyther and Tamarin tools. Recently his research expanded into directions such as protocol standardisation, including the improvement of the ISO/IEC 9798 standard, and applied cryptography, leading to the development of new security requirements and protocols. His joint work with Marko Horvat, Sam Scott, and Thyla van der Merwe led to a not insignificant change to the TLS 1.3 specification.
In 2018 Cremers moved from Oxford University to the Cispa Helmholtz Center for Information Security at Saarbrücken.
Cremers previously worked in MSX computer game development, initially working for the Sigma Group before founding his own group Parallax; he is credited for work on nine different games, and many other demos, in a combination of roles including programmer, designer, composer, and writer. He was interviewed by blog "Distrito Entebras" on the history of his career working in MSX games development.
Publications
Cremers' publications cover security, cryptography, ISO standards, automated verification of security protocols, and formal methods.
His thesis was entitled "Scyther - Semantics and Verification of Security Protocols", and was supervised by Sjouke Mauw and Erik de Vink. Also published with Sjouke Mauw is their book Operational Semantics and Verification of Security Protocols.
References
External links
Cas Cremers' personal web-page
Cas Cremers' publications
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Video of Blade Lords (MSX)
1974 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Fellows of Kellogg College, Oxford
Formal methods people
Eindhoven University of Technology alumni
People from Geleen
Dutch computer programmers
Computer security academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragnet%20Nation | Dragnet Nation: A quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance is a 2014 book on Computer and network surveillance by Julia Angwin. Angwin said that she was motivated to write the book when she learned of data scraping.
Reception
Various commentators have reviewed the book. It has received generally good reviews.
References
External links
video interview of the author and Bill Moyers
Works about privacy
2014 non-fiction books
Times Books books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Naud%C3%A9 | Peter Naudé (born 1950s) is a British organisational theorist and Professor of Marketing at the Manchester Business School, known for his work on business networks.
Life and work
Naudé obtained his Phd in Marketing 1992 at the Manchester Business School.
In the 1980s Naude had started his academic career at the University of Cape Town, where he taught at its Graduate School of Business until 1988, when he joined the University of Manchester for his graduate study. After his graduation he continued to lecture at the Manchester Business School until 1999. From 1999 to 2005 he was Professor of Marketing at the University of Bath School of Management and since 2005 he is Professor of Marketing back at the Manchester Business School.
Since the 1990s Naudé is affiliated with the North European Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group.
Selected publications
Naudé, Peter, and Peter W. Turnbull. Network dynamics in international marketing. Pergamon Press, 1998.
Articles, a selection:
Naudé, Pete, and Francis Buttle. "Assessing relationship quality." Industrial Marketing Management 29.4 (2000): 351-361.
Berthon, P., Ewing, M., Pitt, L., & Naudé, P. (2003). Understanding B2B and the web: the acceleration of coordination and motivation. Industrial Marketing Management, 32(7), 553-561.
Henneberg, Stephan C., Stefanos Mouzas, and Pete Naudé. "Network pictures: concepts and representations." European Journal of Marketing 40.3/4 (2006): 408-429.
References
External links
Professor Pete Naude profile, Manchester Business School
Living people
British business theorists
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Academics of the University of Manchester
Academic staff of the University of Cape Town
Academics of the University of Bath
1950s births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Berg | Alexander C. Berg is an American Assistant Professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in web mining as well as machine learning and computer vision.
He obtained his master's and bachelor's degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1994 and then got his PhD at University of California, Berkeley in 2005 under Jitendra Malik. He stayed at Berkeley as a postdoc from 2006 to 2007, and in February 2007 he became both research scientist and visiting professor at the same place and then became Yahoo! Researcher at Yahoo! where he worked till May 2008. Currently he is at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As a Yahoo! Researcher, Berg teamed up with Subhransu Maji and Jitendra Malik of University of California, Berkeley to develop kernelized SVMs.
In October 2011 he and colleagues developed two kinds of face recognition software called FaceTracer and PubFig.
Berg is married to fellow computer vision researcher Tamara Berg.
References
External links
Living people
20th-century births
American computer scientists
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Stony Brook University faculty
Columbia University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chazelle | Chazelle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bernard Chazelle (born 1955), French computer scientist
Celia Chazelle (born 1954), Canadian historian and author
Damien Chazelle (born 1985), American screenwriter and film director
French-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonge%20Street%20Rapidway | The Yonge Street Rapidway is a bus rapid transit corridor on Yonge Street in York Region, Ontario, Canada. Construction of the Yonge Street portion of the network began in 2014. The Rapidway is primarily used by the Viva Blue service.
The Yonge Street Rapidway is central to the Vivanext transport masterplan and will eventually extend from the Richmond Hill/Langstaff Urban Growth Centre at Highway 7 to Green Lane in East Gwillimbury.
In February 2010, a public open house was held for the first segment of the Yonge Street Rapidway, which will extend from Mulock to Davis Drive in Newmarket.
The first segment from the Newmarket Bus Terminal on Davis Drive to Mulock Drive opened in January 2020. The second segment, from 19th Avenue to the Richmond Hill Centre Terminal at Highway 7, opened in December 2020.
The corridor was originally intended to continue south of Richmond Hill Centre Terminal towards the regional bus terminal at subway station in Toronto. However, with the anticipated northward extension of the Yonge–University subway, Richmond Hill Centre will remain the Rapidway's southern terminus.
Stations
Excluding the terminals, there will be up to 19 Rapidway stations between Newmarket and Richmond Hill. Ten stations were open by the end of 2020.
References
Viva Rapid Transit
Bus rapid transit in Canada
The Big Move projects
Busways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meung%20Yum%20language | Meung Yum is a Waic language spoken by about 8,000 people in Kunlong Township, Shan State, Myanmar.
Comparing Meung Yum data from Namt Yoke, Loi Yang, Pang Wan, and Pan Tang villages, has determined Meung Yum to be a variety of Wa.
Names
Other names for Meung Yum include Kon Loi, Loi, Wa Chu, Wa, Awa, and La.
Demographics
Meung Yum speakers live in Kunlong Township (with 21 Meung Yum villages) and Hopang Township (with 30 Meung Yum villages), with each township having about an equal number of speakers.
Nine villages have only Meung Yum people:
Kunlong Township
Namt Yoke
Pang Khaw
Pang Wan
Man Pein
Pa Paw
Kaung Sang
Man Kan
Wa State
Meung Yum
Noat Awng
Meung Yum dialects are Kaung Sar, Pan Tan, Man Kyu, Man Phan, Namt Yoke, Man Pein, Kaung Sang, and Man Kan. also lists Loi Yang, Pang Wan, and Pan Tang.
See also
Savaiq language
References
Works cited
Palaungic languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPL%20Research | VPL Research was one of the first companies that developed and sold virtual reality products. It was founded by computer scientist Jaron Lanier in 1984. "VPL" stood for "Virtual Programming Languages". In 1990, VPL Research filed for bankruptcy and in 1999 all of its patents were bought by Sun Microsystems.
Products
The DataGlove
This device originally started as an input system for computers. It was later used for virtual reality systems. Thomas Zimmerman invented the prototype of the DataGlove and began looking for other people to help work on it. The device used 6502 microcontrollers. Zimmerman met Mitch Altman and asked him to join VPL part-time because Altman knew how to program the microcontrollers.
The system was wired to a computer. It was interactive and contained fiber-optic bundles to track movements and orientation. That data would then be transmitted to the computer so that the information could be duplicated virtually. It allowed for people to manipulate and re-orient virtual objects. Applications for this wearable device centered on input computer control, gaming, and also the potential for remote surgery.
The EyePhone
This was a head mounted display (HMD) that was meant to immerse users into a computer simulation. It could track head movements. The headset used Fresnel lenses.
The DataSuit
The DataSuit was a full-body outfit with sensors for measuring the movement of arms, legs, and trunk.
Team members
R&D team
Jaron Lanier
Mitch Altman
Thomas Zimmerman
Chuck Blanchard
Steve Bryson
Young Harvill – In his spare time, Harvill created a program called Swivel 3D which was used for creating computer art. It gave the users the ability to generate virtual worlds on a Macintosh computer. He licensed that software to VPL. Shortly after, Harvill joined VPL as their fourth employee in 1985. During his time there, he worked on a project called "Reality Built for Two (RB2)" which was the first VR system at that time. He also helped with the Data Glove as well.
Jeff Wright – Worked with Lanier and Blanchard on the Embrace visual programing language from 1988 to 1991. In his Dec. 1989 Computer Graphics World article "Altered States: a software developer's vision of the future of virtual reality" he asked, "What would it mean for people to be able to choose and create their own reality?" speculating that it would "... make people aware of the fact that they already do that, whether or not they realize it, in the natural construction of ordinary reality."
David Levitt
Marc deGroot
Mark Oberman
Management
Jaron Lanier
Jean-Jacques Grimaud - Co-founder, President, VP of Engineering
Associated people
Timothy Leary – When Leary got out of jail, he was interested in finding legal ways to explore consciousness which led him to working with individuals at VPL.
In popular culture
The Data Suit and EyePhone were featured in the 1992 science fiction film The Lawnmower Man.
Based on VPL's $10,000 Data Glove, Mattel rushed its $90 Power G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC%20%28processor%29 | ARC (Argonaut RISC Core) embedded system processors are a family of 32-bit and 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) central processing units (CPUs) originally designed by ARC International.
ARC processors are configurable and extensible for a wide range of uses in system on a chip (SoC) devices, including storage, digital home, mobile, automotive, and Internet of things (IoT) applications. They have been licensed by more than 200 organizations and are shipped in more than 1.5 billion products per year.
ARC processors employ the 16-/32-bit ARCompact instruction set architecture (ISA) that provides good performance and code density for embedded and host SoC applications.
History
The ARC concept was developed initially within Argonaut Games through a series of 3D pipeline development projects starting with the Super FX chip for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
In 1995, Argonaut was split into Argonaut Technologies Limited (ATL), which had a variety of technology projects, and Argonaut Software Limited (ASL).
At the start of 1996, the General Manager of Argonaut, John Edelson, started reducing ATL projects such as BRender and motion capture and investing in the development of the ARC concept. In September 1996 Rick Clucas decided that the value of the ARC processor was in other people using it rather than Argonaut doing projects using it and asked Bob Terwilliger to join as CEO; Rick Clucas then took on the role of CTO.
In 1997, following investment by Apax Partners, ATL became ARC International and fully independent from Argonaut Games. Before their initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange, underwritten by Goldman Sachs and five other investment banks, three related technology companies were acquired: MetaWare in Santa Cruz, California (development and modeling software), VAutomation in Nashua, New Hampshire (peripheral semiconductor IP), and Precise Software in Nepean, Ontario (RTOS).
In 2009, ARC International was acquired by Virage Logic. In 2010, Virage was acquired by Synopsys, and ARC processors became part of the Synopsys DesignWare series.
In April 2020 Synopsys released the ARCv3 ISA with 64-bit support.
Design configuration
Designers can differentiate their products by using patented configuration technology to tailor each ARC processor instance to meet specific performance, power and area requirements.
Configuration of the ARC processors occurs at design time, using the ARChitect processor configurator. The core was designed to be extensible, allowing designers to add their own custom instructions that can significantly increase performance or reduce power consumption.
Unlike most embedded microprocessors, extra instructions, registers, and functions can be added in a modular fashion. Customers analyse the task, break down the operations, and then choose the appropriate extensions, or develop their own, to create their own custom microprocessor. They might optimise for speed, energy efficiency, o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kitchen%20Rules%20%28series%206%29 | The sixth season of the Australian competitive cooking competition show My Kitchen Rules premiered on the Seven Network on Monday 2 February 2015.
For the first time since 2012, My Kitchen Rules was beaten by MasterChef Australia in the 'Winner Announced' TV ratings.
Format changes
New Instant Restaurant Rounds
Colin's Secret Round — For the first time, six teams competed in a third group of instant restaurants with judge, Colin Fassnidge. It is the first time Colin has made an appearance in the instant restaurant round.
Redemption Round — The teams who placed 4th and 5th in their respective instant restaurant groups were combined and competed in another instant restaurant round.
Challenge Round Format — After the People's Choice challenge, two teams are sent directly into Sudden Death, skipping the past process of a kitchen cook-off to determine the second team. As a result, teams who pass the People's Choice are deemed safe and the winner becomes safe from two eliminations.
Judging Panel Changes — For the off-site People's Choice challenges, Colin Fassnidge joined Pete Evans as a co-judge for the teams cooking, while Manu is present for cook-offs held in Kitchen Headquarters. During Sudden Death Cook-Offs, Colin continues to be a part of the blind tasting panel, along with the regular three guest judges.
Teams
Elimination history
Competition details
Instant Restaurants
During the Instant Restaurant rounds, each team hosts a three-course dinner for judges and fellow teams in their allocated group. They are scored and ranked among their group, with the lowest scoring team being eliminated.
Round 1
Episodes 1 to 6
Airdate — 2 February to 10 February
Description — The first of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 1. The lowest scoring team at the end of this round is eliminated.
Round 2
Episodes 7 to 12
Airdate — 11 February to 18 February
Description — The second group now start their Instant Restaurant round. The same rules from the previous round apply and the lowest scoring team is eliminated.
Round 3: Colin's Secret Round
Episodes 13 to 18
Airdate — 19 February to 2 March
Description — A new group of 6 teams entered the competition and competed in a 'secret round' of instant restaurants. This round was not judged by Pete and Manu, but instead by Colin Fassnidge. The same rules applied and the lowest scoring team is eliminated. Since Colin was the only judge for this round his Scores were doubled.
Round 4: Redemption Round
Episodes 19 to 24
Airdate — 3 March to 11 March
Description — The 4th and 5th placed teams from the previous three groups must cook again in a redemption round. Pete and Manu return as the judges, and the lowest scoring team is eliminated.
Top 14
People's Choice 1: Camping Challenge
Episode 25
Airdate — 12 March 2015
Location — The Basin, New South Wales
Description — The teams headed into the first challenge to serve a breakfast dish for 200 hungry camper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Match | Operation Match was the first computer dating service in the United States, begun in 1965. The predecessor of this was created in London and was called St. James Computer Dating Service (later to become Com-Pat) started by Joan Ball in 1964. Users filled out a paper questionnaire that they mailed with a $3 fee. The questionnaire was geared to young college students seeking a date, not a marriage partner. Questions included "Do you believe in a God who answers prayer?" and "Is extensive sexual activity in preparation for marriage part of 'growing up?'" The questionnaires were transferred to punched cards and processed on an IBM 7090 computer at the Avco service bureau in Wilmington, Massachusetts. A week or two later, the user received an IBM 1401 print out in the mail listing the names and telephone numbers of their matches.
Operation Match was started by Harvard University undergraduate students Jeffrey C. Tarr, David L. Crump and Vaughan Morrill, with help from Douglas H. Ginsburg, then a student at Cornell University. Tarr, Crump and Ginsburg formed a company named Compatibility Research, Inc. and rolled out the service in several cities.
References
History of human–computer interaction
Online dating services of the United States
1965 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilen%20School | The Ilen School and Network for Wooden Boat Building is a charitable organisation based in Limerick in Ireland. The school provides work-based learning and therapy for students with a range of backgrounds, abilities and needs.
History
The school was formed in 2000 and was based in the Limerick Enterprise Development Partnership (LEDP) building in Roxborough. It was initially an exploratory programme, funded as part of regeneration initiatives in deprived parts of the city. Over time, its reputation has grown and alternative donors have come forward to support its work.
Activities
A wide range of traditional Irish boats are constructed by the students, including the gandelow, currach and dory. In addition, the school was involved in the rebuilding of the A. K. Ilen (re-launched in May 2018 and from which the school gets its name) which was designed by Edward Conor Marshall O'Brien and built near Baltimore, County Cork in 1926.
The school has had a significant role in building, documenting and (re)educating Irish fishing communities who have lost the expertise to build traditional Irish boats. Courses on currach building have taken place on the Aran Islands and the gandelow is being reintroduced on the Shannon estuary.
See also
Alternative pathways in education
Boat Building
References
External links
Ilen School website
Big Boat Build at hegarty's boatyard, Old Court, Skibbereen, Ireland
Traditional Boats of Ireland
Education in Limerick (city)
2000 establishments in Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZCBN-FM | ZCBN/92.3 is an F.M. radio station broadcasting from the British Virgin Islands, owned by the Caribbean Broadcast Network. It broadcasts a variety of different kinds of music, described on its website as a mix of "pop, classic country, classic rock & easy listening...blended with reggae & calypso". Its sister station is ZBTV.
References
External links
FCC's list of stations on 92.3 MHz. ZCBN is at the bottom without a callsign.
Radio stations in the British Virgin Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZBVI | ZBVI 780 is an A.M. radio station broadcasting from Tortola, British Virgin Islands. Listed in the F.C.C. database with the callsign of ZBV, the station calls itself ZBVI on-air. Although the station is located in the British Virgin Islands the broadcast reach extends to Anguilla, the United States Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico's islands Culebra and Vieques. In 1971 the United States banned cigarette radio advertising resulting in ZBVI having a category of niche advertising clients.
References
External links
Radio stations in the British Virgin Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeadGenius | LeadGenius is a privately held software as a service, marketing automation, and demand generation startup located in Berkeley, California. The company uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human computation to identify and communicate with targeted sales leads. The company's crawlers comb through websites, business directories, government filings, and credit data to train a machine learning system for business-to-business sales.
LeadGenius is the first crowdsourcing company to set a minimum wage for its workers tied to the cost of living in the country they are working in.
The company launched in Y Combinator’s Summer 2011 class under the name MobileWorks. It has since raised $6 million in venture funding from investors such as Sierra Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Alexis Ohanian, Mitch Kapor, Dave McClure, and Sam Altman.
References
Privately held companies based in California
Companies based in Berkeley, California
Companies established in 2011
2011 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Pitaya%20%28computer%29 | Red Pitaya is a project intended to be alternative for many expensive laboratory measurement and control instruments. It is known as open-source, though the hardware design is proprietary.
Description
It has two 125MS/s RF input and two 125MS/s RF outputs, with 50 MHz analogue bandwidth and 14 bit analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog converters. The software includes oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, LCR meter (the LCR add on costs an additional 400 euros), and 50 MHz 2x2 MIMO PID controller. It can be re-programmed to become other devices, as all the IO ports are connected to a common field-programmable gate array (FPGA). There are also auxiliary ADC (250kS/s) and digital IO.
It has three USB 2.0 ports, Wi-Fi, Ethernet connector. Internally, it uses Linux as operating system. The mass storage device for the operating system is a micro-SD card.
Due to the wide bandwidth of the ADC and DAC, the Red Pitaya can be used as a software-defined radio receiver and transmitter and in other radio frequency applications. HAMLAB, a fully featured SDR HF transceiver with an output power of 10 W based on the Red Pitaya board is released in the amateur radio market in October 2016.
Although the software (including HDL source code) for this project is made freely available, the device is not a fully Open Source Hardware project, because the device's electrical schematics are not made openly available.
See also
ARM Cortex-A9
Raspberry Pi
Arduino
References
External links
RedPitaya STEMLab 125-14 specifications
ARM-based single-board computers
Educational hardware
Linux-based devices
Single-board computers
Products introduced in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quraish%20%28video%20game%29 | Quraish: The game is a 2005 real-time strategy 3D computer video game produced by Syrian video game production, Afkar Media. It is the second Arabic language-based game and a third person strategy game based on the early battles of Islam, primarily focusing on the Rashidun Caliphate's successful campaigns against the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanid dynasty of Persia.
References
External links
Official website
2005 video games
Android (operating system) games
Real-time strategy video games
War video games set in Asia
Video games developed in Syria
Video games set in the Byzantine Empire
War video games set in Europe
Windows games
Cultural depictions of Muhammad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20OpenCL%20applications | The following list contains a list of computer programs that are built to take advantage of the OpenCL or WebCL heterogeneous compute framework.
Graphics
ACDSee
Adobe Photoshop
Affinity Photo
Capture One
Blurate
darktable
FAST: imaging Medical
GIMP
HALCON by MVTec
Helicon Focus
ImageMagick
Musemage
Pathfinder, GPU-based font rasterizer
PhotoScan
seedimg
CAD and 3D modelling
Autodesk Maya
Blender GPU rendering with NVIDIA CUDA and OptiX & AMD OpenCL
Houdini
LuxRender
Mandelbulber
Audio, video, and multimedia
AlchemistXF
CUETools
DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design
FFmpeg has a number of OpenCL filters
gr-fosphor GNU Radio block for RTSA-like spectrum visualization
HandBrake
Final Cut Pro X
KNLMeansCL: Denoise plugin for AviSynth
Libav
OpenCV
RealFlow Hybrido2
Sony Catalyst
Vegas Pro by Magix Software GmbH
vReveal by MotionDSP
Total Media Theatre by ArcSoft
x264
x265
h.265/HEVC possible
Web (including WebCL)
Google Chrome (experimental)
Mozilla Firefox (experimental)
Office
Collabora Online
LibreOffice Calc
Games
Military Operations, operational level real-time strategy game where the complete army is simulated in real-time using OpenCL
Planet Explorers is using OpenCL to calculate the voxels.
BeamNG.drive is going to use OpenCL for the physics engine.
Leela Zero, open source replication of Alpha Go Zero using OpenCL for neural network computation.
Scientific computing
Advanced Simulation Library (ASL)
AMD Compute Libraries
clBLAS, complete set of BLAS level 1, 2 & 3 routines
clSPARSE, routines for sparse matrices
clFFT, FFT routines
clRNG, random numbers generators MRG31k3p, MRG32k3a, LFSR113, and Philox-4×32-10
ArrayFire: parallel computing with an easy-to-use API with JIT compiler (open source),
BEAGLE, Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood phylogenetics library
BigDFT
BOINC
Bolt, STL-compatible library for creating accelerated data parallel applications
Bullet
CLBlast: tuned clBlas
clMAGMA, OpenCL port of the MAGMA project, a linear algebra library similar to LAPACK
CP2K: molecular simulations
GROMACS: chemical simulations, deprecated OpenCL with Version 2021 with change to SYCL
HiFlow3: Open source finite elements CFD
HIP, CUDA-to-portable C++ compiler
LAMMPS
MDT (Microstructure Diffusion Toolbox): MRI analysis in Python and OpenCL
MOT (Multi-threaded Optimization Toolbox): OpenCL accelerated non-linear optimization and MCMC sampling
OCCA
Octopus
OpenMM: Part of Omnia Suite, biomolecular simulations
PARALUTION
pyFAI, Fast Azimuthal Integration in Python
Random123, library of counter-based random number generators
SecondSpace, simulation software for waves in 2D space
StarPU, task programming library
Theano: Python array library
UFO, data processing framework
VexCL, vector expression template library
ViennaCL and PyViennaCL, linear algebra library developed at TU Wien
Cryptography
BFGMiner,
Hashcat, password recovery tool
John the Ripper,
Scallion, GPU-b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gila%20River%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | The Gila River Broadcasting Corporation (GRBC) is a television network serving the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) in south-central Arizona, United States. It is owned by the Community through tribal enterprise Gila River Telecommunications.
GRBC broadcasts on two low-power UHF stations near the Community's major population centers: KGRQ-LD (channel 21, previously channel 29) at Stotonic Village and KGRF-LD (channel 21, previously channel 19) at Maricopa Village. Both stations use virtual channel 29.
In addition, Gila River Telecommunications owns two additional stations licensed to the Community, KGRX-LD and KGRY-LD (channels 19 and 28). These stations, broadcasting from South Mountain and built in 2021, do not carry GRBC programming; they are instead broadcast in the ATSC 3.0 (Next Gen TV) format and support Evoca, a forthcoming subscription TV service.
History
GRBC launched in December 2014, 2½ years after the GRIC filed for the new television stations with the FCC. However, when Gila River Telecommunications was founded in 1989, a television station was planned but found to be cost-prohibitive. Its official launch occurred on April 6, 2015.
Programming includes public service announcements and tribal content. Local programming, including news and children's shows, was planned.
Master control for GRBC is located at the Gila River Telecommunications facility on the northern edge of the Community, with a Chandler postal address.
On November 30, 2018, GRBC took a third transmitter, KGRY-LD at Blackwater, silent, as its channel was needed to repack KGRQ. Gila River Telecommunications requested cancellation of KGRY's license on June 5, 2019. It then assigned the call letters KGRY-LD to K28MO-D, a construction permit for a transmitter on South Mountain, and KGRF-LD to the former K19JV-D, a construction permit also at that site.
References
External links
Television stations in Phoenix, Arizona
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Gila River Indian Community
Native American television
2015 establishments in Arizona
First Nations Experience affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Trieste | Trieste's urban tramway system was operational from 1876 until 1970.
History
The horse-drawn network
After the creation of the first horse-bus routes in 1860, mostly by the firm "Cimadori", the first horse-drawn tram followed in 1876, organized by “Società Triestina Tranway (STT)”, a Belgian-owned society, also known as “Triester Tramway Gesellschaft” or “Societé de Tramways de Trieste”. The first route, the “via Torrente-corsia Stadion-Boschetto” route, was inaugurated on March 30, 1876. In the later 1800s, the horse-drawn tram network was significantly increased. In 1900, its maximum expansion, the following routes were in service:
Central RR Station (Südbahnhof)-Boschetto
Central RR Station (Südbahnhof)-Sant'Andrea
route to Barcola
route to Barriera Vecchia
route to Giuseppina Square
route to Punto Franco
route to Bagno Fontana
Electrical operations begin
The STT, in competition with other proposers, won a public tender to realize a network of electric trams in Trieste based on “Sprague system”, collecting electricity from overhead wires. The gauge of the track was of 1445 mm (4 ft, 8 7⁄8 in); the electricity supply was 600 V direct-current.
Consequently, on October 3, 1900, the first route between Barcola (a seaside resort near the famous Miramar Castle of Maximilian of Austria) and Boschetto (a densely populated district of Trieste) was inaugurated: curiously, almost of the same itinerary of the first horse-drawn tramway.
Fourteen years after, at the onset of the First World War, the STT managed the following routes:
Electric lines:
Boschetto – Servola
Via Kandler – Sant'Andrea (K.K.st.B. Station)
Barcola – Piazza Tommaseo
Roiano – Via Sette Fontane
Circle line
Horse-drawn line:
Stazione Meridionale (Suedbahn Station) – Porto Vecchio
The routes were marked only by colored schedules with name of destination, with no number or letter; different colors identified the different routes. This was done to allow the illiterate to be able to read the map. Every car carried a “train number”, that distinguished any vehicle on the same route (this system – by little dox-matrix indicators – is still valid today, on the buses of “Trieste Trasporti”).
The Municipality enters tramway business
Verify the success obtained by electric trams, the Municipality of Trieste decided to realise and to manage directly further routes, but the licensee STT taken a legal action in order to stand up for oneself. The Supreme Court of Vienna (until 1918, Trieste was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire), however, issued on May 19, 1910 a sentence in favour of Municipality. Therefore, on June 7, 1913 got under way the new route Piazza Goldoni-San Sabba, identified by the number “1” and managed directly by Municipality.:
Finished the World War I as a consequence of Rapallo Treaty (November 1920), Trieste became an Italian town. The new Administration of the Municipality, in order to raise the decent profit resulting from public transportation, de |
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It generates a good reconstruction in just one iteration and it is superior to standard algebraic reconstruction technique (ART).
As a measure of its popularity, researchers have proposed various extensions to
SART: OS-SART, FA-SART, VW-OS-SART, SARTF, etc. Researchers have also studied how SART can best be implemented on different parallel processing architectures. SART and its proposed extensions are used in emission CT in nuclear medicine, dynamic CT, and holographic tomography, and other reconstruction applications. Convergence
of the SART algorithm was theoretically established in 2004 by Jiang and Wang. Further convergence analysis was done by Yan.
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References
Radiology
Medical imaging
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What is the expression pattern for gene SAA4 in normal tissues?
Differential Atlas
The Differential Atlas allows users to identify genes that are up- or down-regulated in different experimental conditions.
See also
Human Protein Atlas
References
Further reading
External links
Genetics databases
Genomics
Open science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Almaty | Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan, operated a modest tram network between 1937 and 2015. It was one of the four tramways of Kazakhstan which continuously operated from their opening dates. The network went into decline starting in the late 20th century, with most of its former routes closed by 2010. Operation of the remaining tram network was halted and indefinitely suspended on 31 October 2015.
History
Like other Kazakh towns and cities, Almaty's tram system was also opened directly as an electric tram. It never ran horse or steam trams. Many changes of rolling stock occurred, and recently new modern low floor trams were introduced. The first tram ran here on 1 December 1937.
The electric tramway began operation in 1937 with four routes, which included one ring line. The tram network reached at peak ten routes in 1990. The decline of the network began in 2000, when 8 routes were phased out through 2010. Operation on the final two tram routes was indefinitely suspended on 31 October 2015 due to accidents, required network maintenance, and the unprofitability of the tramway.
Tram routes
Previous to 1991, there had been 10 tram routes in operation. But like many Asian cities, most of the routes were closed between 1991 and 2010. Before the indefinite suspension of service in October 2015, there were two remaining operational tram routes:
4 – Zhetysuyskaya–Aksay
6 – Zhetysuyskaya–Orbita
Fleet
Most tramcars were Tatra models. These were KT4Ds from Berlin and T4Ds from other German cities. Older models used a bow collector, but newer models used a pantograph. While the city of Almaty earlier reported having 28 trams, by the time of the network's closure in 2015 there were only 12 remaining trams (of which only 7 were operational).
Character of network
Both of Almaty's remaining tram lines ran on unreserved tracks and middle of the roads with automobiles.
Passenger numbers
In 2003 the system carried 19.7 million passengers. This number fell to 12.9 million in 2006, 4 million in 2009, to just 1.3 million in 2013. It briefly increased afterwards and in 2015 the number was 4 million. The passenger turnover per kilometer also dramatically dropped and was just 1/10th the value in 2013 than it was in 2003.
Criticism
Before the indefinite suspension of service, trams in Almaty were no longer an important means of transport within the city. Most tram routes had been closed during 1991 to 2010 due to construction and opening of metro network, though Line 1 of the metro opened only in 2011. However, the two tram routes that had remained in operation had gotten new fresh rolling stocks for a speedier service in 2013. For that reason there was much criticism from the public for suspending the service entirely after the recent purchase of new stock.
See also
Almaty Metro
Almaty Light Rail
Trolleybuses in Almaty
References
External links
Some good photos of Almaty's various trams
Transport in Almaty
Passenger rail transport in Kazakhsta |
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